Briefs: Ceremony held for Food for Thought Pantry

By Mark Kellam

Oct. 18, 2016 5:01 PM PT

A dedication ceremony was held on Tuesday for the new Food for Thought Pantry at Glendale Community College in the San Rafael Plaza.

The pantry will supply food and hygiene items to students in need. Donations and volunteers are needed for the pantry to be a success, according to college officials.

The new pantry is the result of work by the Glendale Community College Food Pantry Task Force, which was formed this past July to gauge the food needs among students at the college, increase awareness of hunger and poverty issues among the school’s community and provide information about food and hygiene supplies to students in need, college officials said.

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For more information, visit glendale.edu/foodpantry.

Free flu clinic scheduled

USC Verdugo Hills Hospital will host a free flu clinic for adults from 8 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday in the council rooms at the hospital, 1812 Verdugo Blvd., Glendale.

Free parking is available.

For more information, call Cecilia Pyzow at (818) 952-4729 or email at cecilia.pyzow@med.usc.edu.

Mark Kellam, mark.kellam@latimes.com

Twitter: @LAMarkKellam

Mark Kellam

Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.