Food assistance has been a top news story of late. Something about this holiday season always brings that topic forward, but this year it was compelled by additional forces.
Refreshments, of course, are an asset to any gathering — from weekly sales meeting to corporate retreat to after-hours party … to a family dinner.
Food banks are a community asset. They uplift the people they support and the people and businesses that support them.
And they started here in Phoenix.
The brainchild of John van Hengel, the first food bank was opened in 1967. St. Mary’s Food Bank continues to be an asset to our community and has provided a model for the countless food banks that now exist here and across the country.
St. Mary’s Food Bank
2831 N. 31st Ave., Phoenix
(602) 242-3663
