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Coordinating Council looking for volunteers

The Burbank Coordinating Council is looking for volunteers and donations to get its 69th annual Holiday Basket Program going this year.

The council will put together gift baskets of donated food, gifts and toys for needy families in the city.

Volunteers will help to prepare the gift baskets. They will also be enlisted to deliver them on Dec. 15.

For more information or to volunteer, call Janet at (818) 843-3699.

District providing staph information

The Burbank Unified School District has released information on its website, www.burbank.k12.ca.us, about how parents can prevent and recognize Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a highly resistant strain of staph infection transmitted on the skin.

Tips include washing hands frequently before and after athletics, after sneezing, coughing, blowing or touching the nose, after using toilets and before preparing food.

The information on the district’s website also provides a photo of what the infection can look like and where the most typically infected areas are.

People need to have direct skin-to-skin contact with someone infected or touch surfaces that have been infected with staph to contact it.

Metrolink offering low holiday fares

Metrolink is running a Thanksgiving weekend sale by which passengers will receive a 25% discount on tickets purchased on Thursday through Sunday.

Trains running on the Antelope Valley Line through Burbank will run on its Saturday schedule on Thanksgiving Day.

Trains will resume running on a normal schedule Friday, and their regular weekend schedule Saturday and Sunday.

For more information, go to www.metrolinktrains.com.