{"id":355012,"date":"2025-11-04T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355012\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:53:29","slug":"hands-across-north-phoenix-aims-to-promote-community-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands Across North Phoenix aims to promote community ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2014 Coming together to celebrate a sense of community – that’s the goal behind a brand new event in the Valley.<\/p>\n

It’s called Hands Across North Phoenix, and it’s being held Saturday, November 8, starting at 11 a.m. at Paradise Valley Park in Phoenix, near Union Hills Drive and State Route 51.<\/p>\n

Blair Ballin is the event organizer and founder of the Facebook group, “Living North Phoenix,” which now has more than 37,000 members.<\/p>\n

Ballin says he started the group when he wanted to get recommendations for Indian food in his neighborhood and also wanted to get a group of people together to play basketball – and in recent years, the group has really blossomed and exploded in size!<\/p>\n

Ballin says the hope behind Hands Across North Phoenix – which shares a similar name to “Hands Across America” in May 1986 – is to get rid of what divides us and remember instead what unites us.<\/p>\n

“I wanted a place for people to come together for a very small amount of time and know we are all together and just be there with no agenda or anything else other than to bring the community together,” explains Ballin.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Living North Phoenix or Hands Across North Phoenix, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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