Fiesta Bowl Charities teamed up with DICK’s Sporting Goods and Fighter Country Foundation to spread holiday cheer Dec. 3 with a shopping spree for 51 children from Luke Air Force Base with an …
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Fiesta Bowl Charities teamed up with DICK’s Sporting Goods and Fighter Country Foundation to spread holiday cheer Dec. 3 with a shopping spree for 51 children from Luke Air Force Base with an active, deployed parent.
In the eighth annual Operation Santa partnership with Fighter Country Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the community on base, each child received a $300 DICK’s Sporting Goods gift card to spend at the Arrowhead Towne Center store in Glendale.
Fiesta Bowl staff and volunteers accompanied the children. The evening also included dinner provided by Rudy’s BBQ and holiday craft activities.
“The holidays are the best time of year and Operation Santa makes the holidays brighter for children who are having to celebrate without selfless family members admirably serving our country,” stated Fiesta Bowl Chief of Staff and Vice President of Community Investment Kristina Chumpol, in a press release.
Since its inception in 2006, Fighter Country Foundation has been the primary support and advocacy group for families on base.
"Our Partnership with Fiesta Bowl Charities goes back decades,” Ron Sites, president & CEO of Fighter Country Foundation, stated in the release. “It extends from the Fiesta Bowl Parade, where hundreds of Airmen and FCF reps hand out flags along the parade route, to Fiesta Bowl Charities providing a new football field to Luke AFB,.”
DICK’s Sporting Goods’ contribution aims to alleviate financial burdens and support those who serve by allowing children to select holiday gifts.
“We are so grateful for the partnership we have developed over the years with Fiesta Bowl Charities and Fighter Country and can’t thank both of these organizations enough for their dedication and support of our local military families,” Ryan Polosky, field marking manager at DICK’s Sporting Goods, stated in the release.
Business and community leaders in Maricopa County founded Fighter Country Partnership (1993) and Fighter Country Foundation (2006) to support the men, women, families and mission of Luke Air Force Base.
