Soup'r Sundae Attracts 600

The seventh annual Soup‘r Sundae fundraiser for Grassroots attracted 600 attendees for an afternoon of family fun, soup prepared by area restaurants and all the ice cream you could eat. M&T was the Platinum Sponsor.

The annual event was hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Howard County and Wilde Lake High School and featured 80 volunteers from Howard County high schools, who helped with everything from dishing up ice cream to dancing with the young guests. Over 20 different soups were served.

Grassroots provides Howard County’s only emergency shelter and 24-hour crisis intervention services.

“Main Street” in Wilde Lake High School was filled with families attending the 7th Annual Soup’r Sundae fundraiser for Grassroots. Twenty-one different soups were available from area restaurants and the Wilde Lake High School Culinary Program.

Among the attendees were Greg and Cris Fitchitt and their young children. Greg Fitchitt is Vice President, Development, Howard Hughes Corporation, one of Soup’r Sundae’s sponsors.

Greeting the attendees at Soup’r Sundae were Grassroots staff members (from l.) Lynn Messick, Assistant Director of Shelter Services; Executive Director Andrea Ingram and Business Director Anna Katz.

County Executive Allan Kittleman chatted with the volunteers and sampled the soups at the 7th Annual Soup’r Sundae, which attracted 600 guests.

Vantage House Administrator Brian Lenehan stops by the soup station to check out the retirement community’s Lobster Bisque.