818 Roundup: Local donations bolster Operation Christmas Child international charity efforts

Good morning, 818. Today is Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 63 and a low of 44 with a slight chance of showers, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• This week, after collecting donations in Burbank, Glendale, La Crescenta and throughout the Los Angeles area, volunteers with Operation Christmas Child packed up a new batch of shoe boxes to send to deserving children in more than 150 countries.

• The signs outside promised “Everything must go” and counted down the days to the Burbank store’s last, which was Wednesday — its doors closed as a Haggen store at 6 p.m. When it opens again, it could be a Smart & Final Extra.

• A 36-year-old La Crescenta woman was killed in Napa Monday night after she was struck by a box truck on State Route 221, officials said.

• The Montrose Barber Shop recently celebrated 70 years in business — 47 of those owned by Jack Roscher, who plans to pass the shop on to his granddaughter.

• Glendale is hosting a nightly winter shelter for the homeless for the first time in two years and ahead of heavy rains expected to be brought on by El Niño storms.

• A California appeals court sided with the city in a case involving a Burbank police officer who sued on allegations of racial and gender discrimination, along with pregnancy harassment.
  

• Two Glendale Community College professors and marine biologists, who direct a program that takes students to Baja to study marine life, recently spoke to students about the importance of conservation efforts surrounding whales, dolphins and sharks.

• A 27-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting a Target employee with pepper spray after trying to steal a shopping cart full of merchandise, police said.

• The Planning Commission unanimously approved two historic La Cañada Flintridge properties — 2102 Cross Street and 758 Flintridge Ave. — for Mills Act contracts on Tuesday night.

• The Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA recently completed a $20-million capital campaign called the Campaign to Save Lives, which funded the animal shelter’s Animal Care Center, a 35,000-square-foot addition to the society and SPCA that opened last year.

• A grand-opening ceremony was held recently for the Brand, a 401-unit, mixed-used apartment building located at 120 W. Wilson Ave., Glendale.

• A meeting that helped kick off the start of work to study the potential environmental impacts of a proposed replacement terminal at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank may have given airport officials a glimpse of the challenges they face in convincing the public about the need for the new terminal.

• La Cañada Unified elementary school students hit the ground running for a good cause last week, participating in the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation’s 18th Annual Jog-A-Thon fundraiser.

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Ryan Fonseca, ryan.fonseca@latimes.com

Twitter: @RyFons