Monthly Archives: December 2021
PCH Closed Between Temescal and Chautauqua; Debris Closes Lanes on Sunset
Pacific Coast Highway has been closed in both directions between Temescal and Chautauqua, after a utility line fell across the highway early this morning. A tree slid off the hill near the Lifeguard headquarters on PCH, below the Huntington...
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Pacific Palisades Resident Arrested After Viral Video Shows Her Slapping Delta Passenger
(Editor’s note: The story, which ran on December 28, on the Westside Current, is reprinted with permission.) A Pacific Palisades woman was arrested for a wild mid-flight tirade that went viral on social media. Patricia Cornwall, whose stage name is Patty...
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December 30, 2021, Musings
Musings BE NICE By Sue Pascoe · December 30, 2021 When one of my sons played on an AYSO all-star soccer team, one of the moms was just the most pleasant person to be around. She was generally cheerful, didn’t...
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Hebron Marching Band from Texas Practices at PaliHi
Much like in “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” on Monday, December 27, this editor “had just settled down for a long winter’s nap – when out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to...
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December 28, 2021, Musings
Musings MORE SWIM HOURS ADDED By Sue Pascoe · December 28, 2021 The Maggie Gillbert Aquatics Center has added more last-minute a.m. lap swim hours for Thursday December 30. In order to make a reservation, visit: https://palihigh.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/palihigh/eventRegistration.jsp?event=617&mc_cid=6dd52d039d&mc_eid=877de85d52 RAIN UPDATE According...
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The Challenging, Heartbreaking Story of One Homeless Woman in Our Midst
“I feel badly about the situation,” the woman’s sister told neighbors during a Zoom call arranged by Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin on Wednesday. “We’ve tried to help her. We can’t get her to take help. We don’t know...
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Community Effort: YMCA, Seven Arrows and Residents Provide Backpacks
Members of the Palisades-Malibu YMCA joined with the Antelope Valley YMCA in Lancaster to hand out school backpacks filled with school supplies and snacks to local elementary school children and their families on December 18. Palisades-Malibu YMCA Board members Dr. Anita...
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“Holly Jolly Christmas” Can Come Any Day
“Holly Jolly Christmas,” sung by Burl Ives, was echoing through the house – his singing just seemed to make everything happy. The kids were decorating Christmas cookies, the tree was trimmed, the tiny little Dickens village was set up,...
December 23, 2021, Musings
Musings COVID TESTS AT CVS By Sue Pascoe · December 23, 2021 100 for 100? Tom Adams, whose obit just appeared in a local paper, celebrated the USA centennial in 1976, by running 75 laps at the Palisades High School...
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Another Day at the Illegal RV Encampment on Jefferson
There were screams and then a woman was sobbing, saying, “He took my dog. He took my dog.” The woman said the man came into her van, hit her and hit her friend – another woman, threatened them with a gun...
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