Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

Visiting the Disaster Recovery Center Helpful

A Disaster Recovery Center was opened  at UCLA Research Park (formerly Westside Pavilion 10850 W. Pico) last week and operates from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Saturday. This editor, whose home on Radcliffe has been reduced to ashes...

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Police Escort Offered to Highlands Palisades Residents

Residents of the Palisades Highlands, where the Palisades Fire started will be the first back in the Palisades. They will be allowed an escort to retrieve necessary items from their homes. About 20 percent of the residences in the Highlands...

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Officials Offer Aid and Try to Appease Those Who Lost Homes

By LAUREL BUSBY Contributing Writer   Hundreds of suffering residents of Pacific Palisades and other communities affected by the Palisades Fire convened on Thursday with officials from the LAPD, city, county, and state fire departments, FEMA, and state and federal...

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Some Palisades Residents Allowed Back in Home

Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin sent email that as of noon on Friday, January 17,  some residents would be allowed back in the evacuation zone that was set up during the Palisades Fire. Only the areas on the Southern/Eastern...

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Odds and Ends From Evacuees and from Palisades

LETTER TO SM MAYOR: One resident sent a letter that he had sent to Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete: I wanted to give the city of Santa Monica a heads up that a very dear friend was getting a parking...

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Rams Hosting Essentials Distribution Tomorrow

Palisadian Sam Lagana, the SoFi Stadium “voice” of the L.A. Rams sent Circling the News information about a essentials distribution event to support victims of the  Los Angeles Wildfires. With the devastating impact of the recent wildfires and to support...

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If I Rebuild, What Happens to Assessed Value?

A reader sent the following query to Circling the News: “We owned a condo on Via de la Paz. The building is insured through the California Fair Plan. The property taxes are covered under Prop 13. “My question is: ‘would...

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Theatre Palisades Youth Carry on Despite Obstacles

Theatre Palisades Youth (TPY) includes aspiring singers and performers from ages 8 to 14. The young thespians generally perform twice a year, and despite the Palisades Fire and the loss of the theater (Pierson Playhouse), the spring show Crazy for...

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Town Meeting to Explain the Vicious Cycle of Shit

Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin sent an email that there will be a community town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, January 16, regarding the Palisades Fire. It will be held at Sinai Temple 10400 Wilshire Boulevard, L.A....

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FEMA Certified Pet Rescue Not Allowed in Palisades Fire. Why?

Those of us who were home when the evacuation notice was given for the Palisades Fire on January 7, were able to put our pets in the car and drive off. We were the lucky ones. Other residents who were...

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