Rural Metro to host toy drive

Cave Creek, Arizona – Rural Metro will host toy drives at the Cave Creek Walmart to benefit Foothills Food Bank and Resource Center. The drives will take place on November 27, 28 and 29 and December 5 and 6, 2020 from 10 AM to 2 PM.

According to food bank executive director Pam DiPietro, every year, Rural/Metro hosts a toy drive to benefit the food bank. Carefree and Cave Creek Rural/Metro firefighters will collect toys and cash donations at the Walmart located at 34399 N. Cave Creek Road. In particular, the food bank is in need of family games and $25 or $50 Walmart or Visa gift cards for its annual Adopt-a-Family program. Cash donations will be placed in a fire boot. Donations of games will be accepted at the Cave Creek and Carefree fire stations.

Foothills Food Bank provides emergency food, financial assistance and other life necessities and resources to individuals and families in the desert foothills, which encompasses a 180-square mile area that includes Black Canyon City, Cave Creek, Carefree, Anthem, Desert Hills, New River, north Scottsdale, Rio Verde, Mayer, Spring Valley, Cordes Lakes and north Phoenix.