Monthly Archives: December 2020

Pam Bruns, Longtime Palisades Education Activist, Wins a National Human Rights Award

Pam Bruns, founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force (STF), has received the 2020 O’Brien Award for Individual Achievement from the national Human Rights Educators USA. Established in 2015 in memory of Edward O’Brien, a pioneer...

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OBIT–Self-Realization Fellowship Sister Parvati

Sister Parvati, a long-time nun with the Self-Realization Fellowship, passed away on December 11. Sister Parvati came to study and work under Paramahansa Yogananda at age 13 and was a direct disciple. She took formal vows of renunciation and was...

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DRB Holds Final Hearing for Exterior Look of the Historic Business Block Building

  Surprisingly, there was no public comment as the Palisades Design Review Board held a final review regarding the town’s historic Business Block Building on December 9. The Zoom meeting was held to discuss the proposed new awnings, lighting and...

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Designer Stacy Johnson Produces Her First Children’s Book, ‘Mabel the Fashion Muse”

Although Stacy Johnson started her fashion career as a teen model for Seventeen magazine, she knew early on it was designing that interested her most. She grew a successful company, Stacia, that started in Brooklyn in 1998, and now she’s...

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Palisades Service Clubs Aid Others

Two of the nationally recognized service clubs in Pacific Palisades–Rotary and the Optimists–continue to help others. The Rotarians have held a toy drive and the Optimists raised money for the Salvation Army. Historically, most national service clubs are community-based and share...

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Circling the News Readers React AND Inform: Library, Composting and Jack-in-the-Development

LIBRARY BOOK DROP: Palisades Branch Librarian Gail Kim notified Circling the News that the book drop at this location will be locked starting at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 23 and will not reopen until 10 a.m. on Monday, January...

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Brian Midwin Addresses Possible 2021 Tax Changes

Brian Midwin, a managing partner with the CPA firm Midwin Vogel & Nathanson, spoke to the Palisades Rotary Club about possible changes in next year’s tax laws. He said he’s still recovering from the “stampede” in April when the government...

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40 Families Receive YMCA Christmas Trees

Forty families that recently gained housing through Project Homekey received Christmas trees from the Palisades-Malibu YMCA lot in Temescal Canyon. Y Executive Director Jim Kirtley and Lionnel Zaragoza (Mid Valley Y senior branch executive) thought of different ways they could...

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Dr. O’Day Informs Optimists about Next Steps for Combating Covid-19

Dr. Steven J. O’Day, executive director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute and Cancer Clinic, and Director of Providence Los Angeles Regional Research, spoke at the Optimist Club’s Zoom meeting on December 1. Recognized as one of the preeminent melanoma specialists...

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CRIME: Reported in Pacific Palisades through December 11

CRIME: The following crimes were reported in Pacific Palisades through December 10. Senior Lead Officer Michael Moore sends this report every week. These are the reported crimes and residents are reminded to file police reports. Regarding thefts of delivered boxes...

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