Musings
HANDS ONLY CPR
By Sue Pascoe · July 28, 2024
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is coming to provide drop-in hands-only CPR training from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, at the Palisades Library, 861 Almar Real. Come anytime between 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., it only takes about 10 minutes to complete the training. No documents are required from anyone who would like to be trained. Note: This is not a certified CPR course, you will not receive a certificate. If you need CPR certification, you must take a different course offered by a certified provider.
This training is:
A life-saving skill that will help you feel more confident to respond in an emergency
CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths
Only to be used on teens or adults
SANTA MONICA BLUFFS FIRE
Pacific Coast Highway was shut down for northbound and Southbound traffic around 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, in the 800 block (at the Montana Avenue stairs) for a brush fire. It was reopened at 7:50 p.m. The Santa Monica Coalition has long asked for the drug paraphernalia that is given out by Los Angeles County Public Health officials (via the Venice Family clinic) to be stopped in the park that abuts the bluffs. Many residents feel the fire is “most probably homeless caused.” Another resident asked “wonder if they (firefighters) found meth pipes or evidence of what started it.”
THANK GOODNESS FOR OLYMPICS
Taking a well-needed break from USA political drama, the Olympics have arrived just in time for at least a two-week reprieve. Let’s recite the Olympic Creed:
The important thing in life
is not the triumph,
but the fight;
the essential thing
is not to have won,
but to have fought well.
Sue Pascoe
Editor, Circling The News ·
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