Rick White

Blanca and Ofelia giggled with their children on Thursday as they enjoyed a plate with the usual Thanksgiving fixings at the Salvation Army Glendale. The pair share an unfortunate bond: They are both victims of domestic violence and reside in a...

With hardly a week before Thanksgiving, Lora Young counted just four frozen turkeys in a freezer at the Loaves & Fishes, a nonprofit food pantry in Glendale. That’s not nearly enough to help feed hundreds of low income clients who she said visit...

With its safety record, bustling business environment and “perfect night-to-day activities” — as a recent Sunset magazine article described it — you can't find too much to complain about in the self-sustaining suburb of Glendale....

The percentage of local school-age children living in poverty is increasing even as programs designed to meet their needs erode amid ongoing federal and state budget cuts. The poverty rate among children ages 5 to 17 living within Burbank Unified...

With Thanksgiving just days away and donations down, local food pantries are scrambling to fill the shelves to feed thousands of needy families. A protracted recession has forced some organizations that typically provide a bounty of holiday supplies to...

The Glendale Salvation Army has been feeding the community a Thanksgiving meal for more than 15 years, and on Thursday, they continued that tradition. Dozens of people lined up inside the Salvation Army from midday to enjoy a hot holiday meal with...

Summer break provides a respite from coursework and testing, but for some school-age children it can also mean more than two months without a nutritious meal. During the recent school year, Burbank and Glendale schools provided free and reduced-price...

SOUTH GLENDALE — With fewer donations coming in and demand continuing to rise, local food pantry operators say their supplies have reached dangerously low levels. In recent weeks, Salvation Army Glendale has seen the shelves of its food bank...

GLENDALE — With the holiday season coming to a close, local food pantry operators are looking nervously to their stock shelves. In the months surrounding Thanksgiving and Christmas, churches, service groups and other organizations typically host...

CITY HALL — Local nonprofits will now have a shot at roughly $850,00 in federal grants after the City Council this week opened the application period. For the 2011-12 fiscal year, Glendale is expecting to receive about $3.8 million in Community...

With demand for food assistance remaining high, local food pantries and service providers say they have seen increased demand in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. "When our pantry manager told us last week we had given out 120 Thanksgiving baskets...

Feeding 250 people is no easy task, especially when they say their favorite Thanksgiving food is "everything." Preparations for Thanksgiving lunch at the Glendale Salvation Army started early and Director of Social Services Rick White was hard at work...