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PHOENIX<\/strong> – St. Mary’s Food Bank received a donation on Monday morning from Earnhardt Auto Centers. The donation helps to commemorate the auto center’s 75th anniversary by giving back to their community during the shelter’s busy summer months.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “It couldn’t come at a better time, especially for the water with temperatures hitting 100 degrees this week,” Jerry Brown of St. Mary’s Food bank explained.<\/p>\n To honor Earnhardt Auto Centers’ 75th anniversary, the auto center is donating enough money to cover 75,000 meals and 75,000 bottles of water.<\/p>\n Owner Derby Earnhardt said the goal is “…to tie in 75 and be able to help so many families in need.” Brown noted that Earnhardt Auto Centers is marking a major milestone.<\/p>\n “They’re celebrating their 75th anniversary. We’ve been here almost 60 years, so long time Arizona<\/strong><\/a> companies are partnering together in honor of their 75th anniversary,” he said.<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Brown says St. Mary’s Food Bank needs donations to keep things running smoothly.<\/p>\n “We’re seeing an awful lot of people, we’re up 15 percent over last year, which was a record number, so we’re seeing more than 2,200 families a day. With rising gas prices, inflation, we’re seeing more people and more first-timers than we have in a long time, and at the same time, we’re getting less food from the government compared to this time last year, so we’re purchasing a lot of food, so these kinds of donations really help us keep up with the amount of people that we’re seeing,” Brown said.<\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n This donation will go a long way toward helping those in need right here in Arizona.<\/p>\n “It’s important to give back to this community. We’ve been here 75 years doing business \u2013 important for us to give back to where our roots are,” Earnhardt explained.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> FOX 10’s Irene Snyder interviewed Jerry Brown of St. Mary’s Food Bank and Derby Earnhardt.<\/p>\n Heartwarming News<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – St. Mary’s Food Bank received a donation on Monday morning from Earnhardt Auto Centers. The donation…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,56761,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-874760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-heartwarming","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116768496911569240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}