Musings
REMEMBRANCE:
By Sue Pascoe · May 8, 2026
A reader wrote that “We just noticed the shredded US flag flying from the CVS parking lot right above the American Legion. It is surprising that no one has offered to buy a new one.
I will pay for the flag! We tried to find a manager at CVS without success and the Legion was closed.”
The Legion knows the flag is tattered. On the morning of January 8, after the fire, the flag, you see, was flying, tattered, but flying. A decision was made to keep it flying to remember what everyone had gone through in the Fire. Like the flag, many of us have survived, shredded, but are forever changed. When you walk by the Legion look up and remember. If the flag can survive, we can survive.
REGARDING CRIME:
CTN wrote that a police officer said that there were no police up here because Palisadians don’t report the crime. Many responded and it appears that what people report is not recorded. A resident wrote, “I hear about work site thefts on a regular basis. Dr. Scott and Robin Warner have been victims of work site thefts at least twice and one site had all of their lumber stolen. Every time I ask if they reported the theft they say yes and yet we are told there is not enough criminal activity to trigger an increased police presence.
“It is impossible to believe that the high crime neighborhoods report incidents at a higher rate than the palisades considering the stories saying they avoid the LAPD like a turd on a lawn.”
Another reader wrote “LAPD makes filing a police report not easy. Our home rebuild was broken into and they attempted to steal copper. I was unable to file a police report online and had to call the number only to learn that they would try to come out when they could and could not give me notification when they would be there. I told them they had to let me know because we weren’t living at the house because the house was being rebuilt after being burned down. I then got a voicemail from a number I could not call back saying they tried to go by the house, but no one was there.” The reader said the police stopped by a house under construction and were shocked that no one was there.
Missing addresses is also a problem, there are no homes with street addresses and the numbers on the curb are mostly missing, so trying to call in 911, 311 or even LAPD is a problem because there are no addresses to reference.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
To my beautiful mom, who had six children, worked as a seventh-grade math teacher helping hundreds of other children, you have had a greater impact on the world than you will ever know or that people will ever appreciate. There’s no such thing as “just a mom.”
Sue Pascoe
Editor, Circling The News ·
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