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College Corps members substituted for National Guard to keep Inland Empire food banks running; Pasadena City College partners on fire recovery

January 15, 2026
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An unidentified speaker said College Corps members from College of the Desert replaced National Guard personnel to keep large Inland Empire food banks operational during COVID; Pasadena City College has launched a private partnership to place College Corps on campus for fire recovery in Altadena.

An unidentified speaker said College Corps members from the College of the Desert took on roles previously filled by the National Guard to keep large Inland Empire food banks operating when volunteers vanished during the COVID surge.

"We had to deploy the national guard in order to keep our food banks operational," the speaker said, describing an early-pandemic…

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