Alexander Ovechkin's signed plate to bring food for the hungry

Here are news from our field reporter Emily:

A pottery studio in Brandon (Manitoba) has a charity auction planned. Different celebrities paint a ceramic plate, then the shop glazes and fires the plates for the auction for a food charity.

Ovi's is the one with the bright red ring around it.

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Reporting from the field,
Emily

P.S. Actually he just signed the plate and maybe gave some ideas about plate design to the studio.

It seems like Ovechkin's plate is not shown though, the one with red ring around it is marked as Arlene Dickinson's. In any case, thank you, Emily!


Here's more about the event from Montreal Gazette...
The Gazette: "Celebrities create collection plates for Mazon":

Mazon Canada, a grassroots organization working to alleviate hunger, has raised more than $8 million for more than 170 food banks, community kitchens and school-meal programs across Canada since Montrealer Dodo Heppner established it 25 years ago. In Quebec, Mazon funds more than 75 food programs and feeds more than 100,000 people.

For this year's fundraiser, Mazon Canada's Montreal chapter added a new element: an auction of paper plates on which such notable people as the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra and Pinchas Zukerman had drawn or doodled.

It took organizers months to recruit the celebrities who designed the plates. "But when we started talking to people in the community, we found that they had connections we could use," as Sara Heppner-Waldston told the Jewish Daily Forward. She and Jayne Schneider-Lisak co-chaired the event.

Heppner-Waldston, for instance, approached the Dalai Lama at a conference to ask him to participate - and he agreed immediately. "Can you believe it? Here was the Dalai Lama saying to me, 'Thank you for doing such important work for hungry people,' " she recounted.

Those who agreed to participate received packages containing several paper plates, art supplies, a disposable camera and a prepaid return envelope. They had a picture snapped of them holding the plate once they had decorated it - and then sent the photo and the plate to organizers. The plates were then matted and framed for the auction by Renwill, free of charge.

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