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COMMUNITY

Food drive garners

support for St. Mary’s
The staff at Abrazo Arizona Heart
Hospital in June pitched in to help
feed hungry kids over the summer by
donating more than 7,700 servings of
cereal to St. Mary’s Food Bank
through Abrazo’s Healthy Over
Hungry Cereal Drive.
The annual drive, which ran from
June 7-14, collects donations of cereal
and money to help feed hungry chil-
dren as they head into summer months
without the benefit of the breakfast that
often is provided at school. According
to St. Mary’s Food Bank, one in four
children in Arizona grow up in poverty
with food insecurity, which is the lack
of consistent access to adequate food.
“The community has been support-
ive of our health care heroes during the
ered in two equal allocations.
The council’s plan, which focuses
on the first allocation, will include $10
million for workforce training and
wrap-around services for job seekers;
$8 million for assisting small business-
es that are still struggling and an addi-
tion $2 million for helping small oper-
ations find, train and retain employees;
and $2.75 million for arts and culture
organizations. The plan also allocates
nearly $29 million for education-relat-
ed programs for children and youth;
$28 million for families struggling to
pay rent, mortgage and utilities; $31.5
million to provide services for individ-
uals, families and veterans experiencing
The Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital staff rallied in June to collect donations of cereal for St. homelessness; and $5 million for
Mary’s Food Bank through Abrazo’s Healthy Over Hungry Food Drive. The staff donated COVID-19 vaccination programs.
more than 7,700 servings of cereal to help feed hungry children (submitted photo). “This plan takes care of our resi-
For more information, visit $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan dents, from the youngest to the most
AbrazoHealth.com. senior,” said Mayor Kate Gallego.

City approves plan

passed by Congress and signed by
pandemic, and the cereal drive is a way “Businesses are still hurting from the
President Joe Biden in March, will dis-

for federal funds

we can show gratitude and give back to
families in need,” Abrazo Arizona Heart
Hospital President Phil Fitzgerald said.
“Many families are facing food insecuri-
ty, and during the summer children
may not have access to nutritious meals
through school lunch programs.”
The Phoenix City Council has
approved a plan for spending $198 mil-
lion in federal American Rescue Plan
Act of 2021 (ARPA) funding. ARPA, a
tribute federal monies to states, tribes
and cities to help lessen the damage
done over the previous year by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Phoenix will
ultimately receive approximately $396
million over the next two years, deliv-
effects of the COVID recession. We
will help them get back on their feet.
Older adults will be able to receive
healthy food and dementia care, and
children will have access to technology
to help them learn and activities to
keep them engaged after school.”


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