Monthly Archives: January 2022

VIEWPOINT: The Problem with Community Forums

Local community forums are handy – especially in locating and finding lost dogs and alerting neighbors that a road may be closed. These forums have a problem, however, when more complicated issues are involved, such as politics and science. These...

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Park Advisory Board Addresses Tennis Lights, Parking Lot Paving and Baseball

The Palisades Park Advisory Board’s quarterly meeting on January 19 addressed tennis lights, Potrero Park, repaving of the parking lot and 5-pitch baseball. Elijah (Asia) Cooper, the Rec Center acting director, noted that about 40 percent of the landscaping in...

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Five Political Leaders to Address Democratic Club This Sunday

  The Pacific Palisades Democratic Club will hold its 2022 annual meeting, via Zoom, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 30. Five Democratic office holders will speak and answer questions from the audience. The scheduled speakers are State Senator Ben Allen,...

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Legal Fight Over DWP Billing: Officials Arrested

(Editor’s note: This is the second part of the story “LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay.” Yesterday CTN examined how the City is dependent on DWP for part of its annual budget. ) In 2013,...

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Astronomer John Mulchaey Talks Telescopes/Aliens at Optimist Club Meeting

John Mulchaey, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, was the guest speaker for the January 18 Pacific Palisades Optimist Club virtual meeting. One of the first questions that Optimists wanted to know:  Did he believe in UFOs? “I don’t...

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LADWP Water Rates to Rise: City Has Legal Bills to Pay

(Editor’s note: this is the first of a two-part story about the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and why customer rates are so high.) The biggest question is not whether your water bill is going to raise, it...

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Local Historian Randy Young Donates $11,000 to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center

At the January 20 meeting, the L.A. Department of Recreation and Parks acknowledged Randy Young, a life-long Pacific Palisades resident and esteemed historian, for his $11,000 donation to Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. “Thank you to Mr. Young for his donation,”...

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Alan Eisenstock’s Playlist: Here’s the Cost

(Editor’s note: Palisadian Alan Eisenstock’s 19th book “Redeeming Justice” co-written with Jarrett Adams was named the Best Book of September by Amazon. “A consuming tale of a broken legal system, its trail of ruin and the fortitude needed to overcome...

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Historians & Foresters Plant an Oak to Honor the Town’s 100th Birthday

  The Historical Society and the Palisades Forestry Committee teamed up last Friday, January 14, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Pacific Palisades. Gathering at Founders Oak Island on Haverford (across from the Pierson Playhouse), the two...

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Palisades Civic League Meets Monday

The Pacific Palisades Civic League will meet via Zoom on Monday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m. because of the current stay-at-home, social distancing edicts. (The meetings are generally held the fourth Monday of each month.) This is a perfect opportunity...

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