A local non-profit that helps fight hunger in the area will host its biggest event of the year next week.
Community Cooperative will hold its 23rd annual Sam Galloway, Jr. & Friends Soup Kitchen Benefit on Thursday, March 5, from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Each year, local restaurants prepare and serve a southern-style dinner to several hundred guests at the event held in the service garages of Sam Galloway Ford in Fort Myers. About 150 volunteers, along with 20 area restaurants, help contribute to the event’s success with more than 750 attendees, and supports its mission of ending hunger and homelessness in Southwest Florida…