John and Carmel Flynn, the HHBD coordinators, present a check for $1,600 to Leanne Leonard, the executive director of the Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank.
Suzanne Rambach
The Irish American Club held its 37th Home Hosted Benefit Dinner in April. These Irish traditional dinners are held to support the Agua Fria Food Bank. Members open their homes and make a delicious meal while sharing good times and talking with new and old members. It is a chance to socialize with one another while helping a good cause in the community. The Agua Fria Food and Clothing Bank is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that provides services to families and individuals in the West Valley that are hungry, poor or facing crisis. They offer emergency food boxes, senior food boxes, daily food and showers for the homeless, baby care programs, school uniform programs and holiday programs. The Avondale location served 42,734 people in 2015 and 5,214 were children under the age of five.
These benefit dinners have raised over $10,100 for the Agua Fria Food Bank since they began in January 2009. Just this year the five Home Hosted Benefit Dinners resulted in a generous donation of $1,600.