PHOENIX — After three days of service wrapped up on Wednesday afternoon, St. Mary’s Food Bank supplied a record number of families food for the Thanksgiving holiday, the nonprofit announced.
Around 12:45 p.m. the last car left the distribution center in Phoenix with meal essentials — “a turkey, holiday food box and produce bag” — and 11,876 families were served at the food bank’s Phoenix and Surprise locations.
Adding in the other centers’ haul across Arizona, St. Mary’s and its 250 employees, plus, more than 2,000 volunteers, served a record 25,523 families…