Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

MARTHA HUNTER – Best of the Best

This editor can think of at least five individuals or groups that should have been honored by the town/community council but have not. Either they have been overlooked or people were unaware of the contributions made. These people should still...

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Posted in Arts, Community | 4 Comments

Ongoing Sagas Continue in 2024 – DOG PARK

One of the top headlines in February 2004 was “Dog Fight over the Dog Park.”  It was one of several articles that ran that year as residents fought over a proposed dog park site. There was overwhelming support for a...

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Councilmember Park Hosts PCH Meeting

When movie producer Michel Shane (Catch Me if You Can and I, Robert), did his 58-minute documentary 21 Miles in Malibu, he noted that in 2016, there were 617 traffic collisions along Pacific Coast Highway between McClure Tunnel and the northernmost...

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Posted in Accidents/Fires, City Councilmember Traci Park | Leave a comment

VIEWPOINT-Caltrans Lacks Safety Measures on PCH

(Editor’s note: Michel Shane, the producer of the documentary “21 Miles on Malibu,” sent CTN an email on December 25, 2023. Last night, another person was killed on PCH; I wrote this as an opinion piece. The man killed was...

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Storms Provide High Surf/Rainfall

  Pacific Palisades rainfall season starts on July 1 and runs through June 30. The annual average in Pacific Palisades is 13.78 inches of rain. The area is well on its way to making its average after the December 22...

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Kalberg/Young to Assume Co-President Role for Homeless Task Force

Whenever this editor sees a homeless individual in the Village or along Temescal Canyon Park, a photo is taken and instantly sent to the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH). When this homeless woman (pictured) was walking down to...

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Posted in Community, Homelessness | 1 Comment

What Is It? #9

This is a prayer chair (in French: Prie Dieu). When walking on the Grand Place in Brussels in 1969 with Daniele and my friend Ken Weinstein, we spotted a pile of “wood junk” on the plaza in front of the...

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News and People from 2023

Saying goodbye to 2023 and watching the sun rise on 2024. JANUARY: Actor Joe Mantegna emceed the renaming of American Legion Post 283 to the Ronald Reagan Post. The large pool of water on PCH, resulting from rain was eventually...

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Tom Hanks Offered the True Spirit of Giving

  BY BOB VICKREY When my friend Katie owned Village Books in Pacific Palisades, local resident Tom Hanks was a regular customer and visited the store often. One year during the Christmas holidays, Katie told him that the store was...

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Posted in Community, Vickrey | 3 Comments

‘The Polar Express’ Christmas Classic Nears 40

  (Editor’s note: CTN received a December 22 email from Bob Vickrey, who wrote: “In keeping with the Holiday spirit, I’m sending along a story I wrote about the publication of the magical Christmas story The Polar Express which our...

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Posted in Books, Holidays, Vickrey | 2 Comments