Ninth District City Council candidate Dan Pressburg participated in a weekend event at Long Beach City College to help tsunami victims in Samoa.
Pressburg joined the Pacific Island Club, The Krigars of the Honorary Order of Thane -- also a club -- and members of his campaign in gathering five stacked pallets of dried and canned goods and clothing and tools to help the disaster victims. The group also raised $200.
The LBCC effort to help American Samoa and the Samoan Islands will continue through Oct. 31 in parking lot H at the Liberal Arts Campus, 4901 East Carson Street.
A financial consultant, Pressburg has pulled papers to run against his former boss, Vice Mayor Val Lerch, who is mounting a write-in campaign for a third term. Also running are Steve Neal, a social worker who lost to Lerch by 132 votes in 2006, and Brad Shore, a therapist and airline employee.
