{"id":38363,"date":"2017-10-02T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=38363"},"modified":"2021-02-11T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T04:08:45","slug":"politics-goes-with-home-made-soup-in-ward-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/10\/02\/politics-goes-with-home-made-soup-in-ward-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics goes with home-made soup in Ward 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he great Ward 8 soup debate at the Killarney Glengarry community hall on Sept. 30 brought out a big crowd to taste the candidates’ soup and sample their election pitches.<\/p>\n

I<\/span>ncumbent Evan Woolley, candidate Chris Davis, and candidate Carter Thomson were all present, but candidate Karla Charest was ill and couldn\u2019t attend.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the debate was to have a healthy discussion about the issues that candidates will be facing if they are elected as councillor in the Oct. 16 civic election.<\/p>\n

The idea was to see if \u201cyour taste buds match your political tastes,\u201d said organizer and Killarney visual artist, Melisa Centofanti during her opening remarks.<\/p>\n

Centofanti thought it is important to bring a little bit of art into the political world.<\/p>\n

She looks at the soup being an art form, and it intrigued a lot more people by bringing in light-heartedness to the \u201cserious\u201d event.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Centofanti proposed to the Killarney Glengarry Community Association<\/a> to start adding the food element into the political forums they hosted.<\/p>\n

It started out with \u201cPie for PC candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event\u2019s inspiration was an activist who tried to throw a pie in a PC candidate\u2019s face in 2007. Centofanti said she added that in her speech in 2011 to kick off the idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re better off around the table discussing issues than trying to be aggressive,\u201d said Centofanti.<\/p>\n

She said the \u201cpolarization is not productive\u201d and having a discussion or being engaged with each other is in the participants’ better interest.<\/p>\n

Centofanti said food is a great way to be engaged.<\/p>\n

The different soups that the candidates brought included: chicken vegetable with Killarney vegetables, potato bacon, and chicken cabbage vegetable.<\/p>\n

Davis and his stepmother made his soup the night before, with vegetables from his mother in law\u2019s garden in Killarney.<\/p>\n

Woolley made a potato bacon soup, which was his grandmother\u2019s recipe, with his mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a family favourite,\u201d said Woolley.<\/p>\n

He also said his grandmother would have never added bacon to it, and it is a \u201cpoor man\u2019s soup.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that bacon added to anything just adds more \u201cdeliciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was completely fun,\u201d said Thomson.<\/p>\n

He could smell his soup with the cabbage while it was being heated up.<\/p>\n

He got his soup from the convenience store he runs, One Way Foods and Deli, in Sunalta.<\/p>\n

\u201cCooking is not really my forte,\u201d said Thomson.<\/p>\n

(See if) your taste buds match your political tastes. – Melisa Centofanti<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Centofanti said people usually look to sculptures or other visual pieces as a form of art, but soup is more of a \u201cpublic art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Public art is important locally, to engage community members, and Centofanti sees this as part of her \u201cartistic social practise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The great soup debate of ward 8 at the Killarney Glengarry community hall, on Sept. 30, brought out a big crowd to taste the candidate\u2019s soup. [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":38400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"SCWard8Debate","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-city","8":"category-life","9":"category-news","10":"post_format-post-format-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40782,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38363\/revisions\/40782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}