MARYVALE, AZ — It’s a Thursday morning at the Watts Family Maryvale YMCA, and the attendees of a workout class are making one last pit stop before they head out.
“It’s crazy how expensive things are,” Angelica said in Spanish, through a translator. “Prices will only get worse.”
Y members, like Angelica, are grabbing a blue bag filled with food at the location’s first-of-its-kind food pantry. She says it will help feed not only herself, her husband, and their four kids, but her parents who are staying with them as well. It’s a common living arrangement for those living in this West Valley neighborhood…