 This holiday season, many cities across the country are encouraging people to shop local. Businesses in Crosby are offering free homemade soup as a way to get people in the door. Community members can visit the 22 different businesses that will be serving homemade soup as part of Crosby's 10th annual soup walk. The soups are free to try and there are some bragging rights between the businesses on the line. You'll go sample the soup and then you cast your vote for your favorite. So there's some recognition our businesses get with a People's Choice Award and then a Judges' Choice Award. So we have a traveling trophy wooden soup bowl that goes around to all the businesses that win. Tomorrow the soup walk goes from 11 until two or until supplies last and for a full list of the businesses participating in this year's soup walk you can visit that story on our website lpcv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.