Soup and Bread Night Fundraiser at UWEC Produces $4,030 for Local Food Bank

 

Blugold Dining raised $4,030 during its Soup and Bread Night on Feb. 24 at Riverview Cafe East at the Hilltop Center, thanks to the generosity of UWEC students.

The money has been donated to Feed My People Food Bank in Eau Claire, benefiting senior citizens, single parents, the working poor, the homeless, the mentally ill and others across the Chippewa Valley. More than 14,500 people each month – 38 percent of them children – rely on food from Feed My People programs.

Students selected soups and breads as the only menu items on Feb. 24 at Riverview Cafe East in place of the regular entrees and sides inside the all-you-care-to-eat cafeteria. Sixty volunteers from student organizations served 252 gallons of soup, and the money that Blugold Dining saved in labor and food costs went to Feed My People. Soup and Bread Night has generated more than $23,000 for Feed My People since 1995.

Blugold Diner’s Club Bonus Day on March 8!

Our second Blugold Diner’s Club bonus day of the spring semester is Tuesday, March 8. For any deposit you make of $100 or more that day, you’ll receive a 10 percent bonus on funds deposited. Deposits can be made in person from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Blugold Card Services office on the first floor of Davies Center, at value transfer stations around campus or online.

 

Bonus funds are awarded on a Blugold Dining gift card. On March 8, we’ll have a table set up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. inside the Blugold Card Services office for Blugold Diner’s Club members to pick up their gift cards. If you can’t pick up your gift card on March 8, your gift card must be picked up at the Blugold Dining office on the second floor of Davies Center by Tuesday, March 15 at 5 p.m. To receive your gift card, please provide any of the following:

• A deposit receipt from Blugold Card Services

• A receipt from the value transfer station

• A printed copy of an emailed receipt for an online deposit, showing your name, the deposit amount and the date

Also, check out our weekly members-only specials for the spring semester! Make sure to mention the specials to your cashier to take advantage of your savings!