Monthly Archives: December 2021
Playing the Holy Family – and the Magic of Christmas
My second born had colic. During the day he was the sweetest child, but at night just like Jekyll, he turned into a screaming stranger. The crying went on for three to four hours every night and doctors couldn’t offer...
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City Overrules the Palisades Design Review Board
Back on September 22, the Pacific Palisades Design Review Board unanimously voted to disapprove plans for The Hydration Room on Antioch at Swarthmore. But on December 14, the City’s Director of Determination at the Planning Department wrote that the department...
December 22, 2021, Musings
Musings PALISADES LIBRARY WILL REOPEN ON MONDAY By Sue Pascoe · December 22, 2021 Peter Persic, Director of public relations and marketing for the Los Angeles Public Library, has made it official. “We are planning to reopen on Monday, December...
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LAUSD to Begin $10 Million Construction Project at Palisades High
According to a flyer sent to residents who live near Palisades Charter High School, the LAUSD will soon begin to remove and replace the underground utility piping serving the entire campus and replace the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in the competition...
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John Lennon’s Rainbow Mittens Offered in Magical New York
When I was twenty-in, I loaded up a suitcase with all my worldly possessions, two hundred dollars, and took a Greyhound bus from South Dakota to New York City. I was too naïve to realize the folly of what I...
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December 21, 2021, Musings
Musings AMAZING NIGHTSHIRTS FROM A DELLA DRESS By Sue Pascoe · December 21, 2021 Many people in Southern California, and throughout the United States, like to sleep in cool bedrooms. In the winter, there’s nothing better than a cozy, flannel...
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“It’s a Wonderful Life,” a Wonderful Celebration at Theatre Palisades
We now can enjoy two annual Christmas celebrations in Pacific Palisades. One, the revived Ho!Ho!Ho! in Temescal Canyon, provides a warm community event. This year, family and children gathered with Santa at Simon Meadow on a Saturday. The second event...
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Netflix/Bay Theater Receives Positive Reviews
On December 16, Circling the News noted that the Bay Theater at 1035 Swarthmore had reopened and was showing numerous films daily. Although CTN’s editor has not yet made it to a movie there, she reached out to readers about...
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Angels Whispering Messages of Peace
(Editor’s note: this was first printed in December 2004, when my children were 13, 11 and 8. ) Since the time I was a baby, every Christmas I heard the song “It came upon a midnight clear. . ..” I’ve...
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December 20, 2021, Musings
Musings LAST-MINUTE GIFT IDEA By Sue Pascoe · December 20, 2021 For the person who has everything, or to find a different kind of hostess gift, visit the town’s nursery, Standard Design Group, on Temescal Canyon Road across from Palisades...
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