Athletics Chips in on Million Meals Marathon

The Lancers sports teams are doing their part to fight hunger in Los Angeles by participating in the Second Annual Million Meals Marathon Food Drive. Pasadena City College is holding the campus-wide food drive on November 22 and 23 in Lot 1 (on the corner of Hill Avenue and Colorado Boulevard) with hopes of reaching its goal of collecting over 2,000 pounds of nonperishable human and pet food.

Department of Athletics staff members and student-athletes alike have contributed to this goal with donations of their own in order to help the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ensure that “no one goes hungry in Los Angeles County.” Pet food donations will be donated to the Pasadena Humane Society Pet Food Bank.

“It has been estimated that over 1.7 million people (400,000 of them children) experience hunger in Los Angeles County making the work of food banks more critical than ever before,” according to a statement from Barbara Freund, Dean of the School of Health Sciences at PCC. “Hunger affects not only the people in our community but also pets that belong to individuals and families struggling to make ends meet.”

Donations are being accepted in the Department of Athletics office in GM-201 until November 20.