{"id":5169,"date":"2014-01-15T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:18:33","slug":"gregorys-fresh-market-expands-holiday-food-drive-for-seniors-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/gregorys-fresh-market-expands-holiday-food-drive-for-seniors-by-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory\u2019s Fresh Market Expands Holiday Food Drive for Seniors By 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holiday Food Drive for Seniors Expands by 50%\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Gregory\u2019s Fresh Market (GFM), a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the nutritional health and well-being of seniors, hosted its third annual holiday food program for seniors at 15 locations in the Greater Phoenix Area from November 11 to December 23.\u00a0 For the third consecutive year, the organization announced another milestone in its nutritional food giveaway program for seniors.<\/p>\n

\"GFM<\/a>“We\u2019re very grateful to ONECare by Care1st Health Plan of Arizona for their support as presenting sponsor for the GFM seniors holiday food drive program,\u201d said Diana Gregory, president of Gregory\u2019s Fresh Market.\u00a0 \u201cThey started by sponsoring our annual Senior Awards luncheon in October, which raised funds that allowed us to expand the food program this year to 15 locations.\u00a0 As a result, we delivered packages of fresh fruits and vegetables to 1,200 seniors, a 50% increase over last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Studies conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and other health care organizations document the nutritional benefits of eating recommended daily amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 Beneficiaries of the GFM food drive program received packages\u00a0filled with zucchini squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, oranges, apples, bananas, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, and other items.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many senior citizens are nutritionally at risk because they don\u2019t consume enough fresh produce.<\/p>\n

In addition to ONECare, other sponsors who supported the annual GFM Awards Luncheon and holiday food program include Walgreens, Southwest Gas Corporation, Southwest Airlines, Cox Communications, Majerle\u2019s Sports Grill, Girl Scouts, ArizonaCactus-Pine, SRP African American Cultural Committee, and the Arizona Informant.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe thank all of our sponsors and individual supporters, who so generously partner with us to expand healthy eating options to more seniors in the Greater Phoenix area,\u201d said Ms. Gregory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holiday Food Drive for Seniors Expands by 50%\u00a0 Gregory\u2019s Fresh Market (GFM), a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the nutritional health and well-being of seniors, hosted its third annual holiday food program for seniors at 15 locations in the Greater Phoenix Area from November 11 to December 23.\u00a0 For the third consecutive year, the organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,105],"tags":[18,28,33,34,131],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hcyF-1ln","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianagregory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}