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October events to benefit Valley single mothers group

Former Phoenix Sun Tom Chambers speaks at an event for Helping Hands for Single Moms. This year’s celebrity roast will feature 2023 Phoenix Suns Ring of Honor inductee — Shawn Marion, and roast invitees include: former Suns forwards Amar’e Stoudemire and Kurt Thomas, the group’s website said.

Helping Hands For Single Mothers

Iris Ortega was no stranger to relying on government help.

As a kid, Ortega, a Phoenix resident, remembers when her and her siblings would comb her apartment complex looking for two shiny quarters in the summer sun to take her brothers and sister to the public pool.

She is the oldest of five children and often stepped in as a caretaker for her siblings while her mother was working a minimum-wage job.

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