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PHOENIX - St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix is making a final push for donations to ensure thousands of families have a Thanksgiving meal.

The food bank is appealing to the public for help, as Thanksgiving is two weeks away.

What they're saying:

"We're still well over 9,000 turkeys short of our goal, and we have less than two weeks and really a week and a half before distribution starts," said St. Mary's spokesperson Jerry Brown.

The food bank's goal is to collect 24,000 turkeys, which would help provide dinner for an estimated 125,000 people.

St. Mary's has been running at full capacity due to people losing SNAP benefits and other recent economic pressures.

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