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Stratford Road Holds Empty Bowls Charity Night

Guests sample local soups from clay bowls made by elementary students.

Plainview's Stratford Road Elementary School recently hosted their third annual Empty Bowls festival.

Students made homemade clay bowls for the event with the help of artist-in-residence Cliff Mendelson at the school’s ‘Day in Clay,’ The event helps raise awareness of hunger on Long Island and collects donations for Island Harvest, the largest hunger relief organization on Long Island.

Students, staff members and parents all participated in this school-wide event. With the direction of their art teacher, Debbie Mittleman, each fourth grader made a clay bowl which was then painted and fired by a different fourth grader. This was done to emphasize the true communal spirit of this event.

The bowls were used to serve food at the festival. The Empty Bowls Project is a grassroots project designed to help feed the hungry and do away with hunger. Stratford Road teachers, administrators and staff began planning the event in Fall 2012


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