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Buckmasters and KOXE Partner for Big Buck Contest

New GSM Food Resources Manager Ric Hardin embraces frenetic pace of the season

Fall brings busiest time of year to GSM with Tackle Hunger Month, Christmas Boxes, Deer Project

Rainy Empty Bowls drive-through raises nearly $8K for hunger Brownwood Bulletin Community members responded on a rainy Thursday to Good Samaritan Ministries’ Empty Bowl Project, generating nearly $8,000 in the drive-through event for the organization’s seven hunger ministries. That amount did not include the additional funds that would be raised at Saturday’s special sale at the Good Samaritan Ministries (GSM) Resale Store. For $10 donations, participants in Thursday’s event received a ceramic campfire bowl and chose coupons from one of 14 area restaurants. GSM Executive Director Lees...

Good Samaritan Ministries volunteers distribute restaurant coupons to donors who picked up a bowl during Thursday Empty Bowls event. [Photo by Derrick Stuckly]Rain did not dampen the enthusiasm nor the turn out for Good Samaritan Ministries’ 12 th annual Empty Bowls Project, which for the second year in a row is being held as a drive-through event. “When we started right before 11 a.m. we had cars lined up so the rain did not deter a lot folks,” GSM Executive Director Leesa Stephens said Thursday morning. “In Texas we never turn down rain. You plan an outdoor event and it’s usually...