Local children receive clothes MEDIA CITY CENTER...

Local children receive clothes

MEDIA CITY CENTER -- About 30 Burbank children from low-income

families participated in Mervyn’s 11th annual ChildSpree from 7 to 9

a.m. Saturday before the store opened to the public.

The event, co-sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club of Burbank,

gave each child $100 to shop for back-to-school clothes. Each

purchase thereafter received a 10% discount.

Mervyn’s Burbank store, at 245 E. Magnolia Blvd., was one of the

chain’s 266 sites in 14 states that took part in the event. The

company estimated that nearly 15,000 children participated.

Chamber luncheon on Thursday

HILLSIDE DISTRICT -- Susan Bowers, the chairwoman of Leadership

Burbank and the executive director of the Burbank Chamber of

Commerce, will be the guest speaker at Thursday’s Business Connection

Luncheon sponsored by the chamber.

A networking session begins at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon starts

at noon at The Castaway, 1250 Harvard Road. Office Depot will sponsor

the event.

Admission is $22 for members and $27 for nonmembers. For

information, call the chamber at 846-3111.

Compiled by Jackson Bell