Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

World Premieres of Works by Conte and De Silva at St. Matthew’s

St. Matthew’s Music Guild will conclude its 2022-2023 season at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 2, with a concert that features The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s and Choir of St. Matthew’s Church under the direction of Dwayne S. Milburn...

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Memorial Day Weekend Update: In and around Pacific Palisades

Memorial Day Service: More than 300 Boy Scouts placed 90,000 flags at grave sites of the West L.A. VA . One Vet said, “There was one flag at each grave. It was very cool.” At a ceremony this morning, L.A....

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PPBA Playoffs Underway: Championships This Week

(Editor’s note: Photographer Rich Schmitt takes excellent photos of all the PPBA action and offers them for sale to parents and grandparents. He then donates some of the proceeds back to PPBA. A photo might make a great Father’s Day...

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Supervisor Lindsey Horvath Opens Link of Bike Trail

L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath opened the newly constructed .6-mile path of the Marvin Braude Bike Trail to the public on May 24 at a ceremony held by Will Rogers Beach Lifeguard Headquarters. Prior to construction, Palisades residents know that...

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Driver in Hospital in Critical Condition after Crash on Chautauqua

There was a single vehicle accident on Wednesday, May 24, around 10:15 p.m., in the 300 block of Chautauqua. A driver, who was driving downhill on Chautauqua (between Vance Street and La Cumbre Drive), had to be extricated from the...

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Hosted by Blake Arnet, Dunk MS 2023 Raises More Than $70,000

Blake Arnet, who played basketball at UCLA from 2008-2011, created Dunk MS, a fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It was personal. His mother, Brigitte Renae DeRouen-Venclik, 47, died from the disease when Arnet was a sophomore in college in 2009....

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Little Library Rededication, Leads to Marquez Kindergarten Reunion

(Editor’s note: Rich Schmitt’s photos are copyrighted and cannot be used without permission. To view other photos of the event contact [email protected].)   The year was 2011 when parents Melissa Appelbaum-Schwartz and Jodi Lynne Steiner started Girl Scout Troop 12805....

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Give Yourself a Me–Treat on June 4

It is the end of the school year, which means parties, graduations, planning vacations and camps and STRESS. Alison Burmeister of Balanced Beauty and Kathy Katims of Saved by a Story, are offering a me–treat, as a way to destress,...

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Chautauqua Medians Will Be Redone by PRIDE

A resident wrote Circling the News: “Do you know anything about why and by whom the plants in the planting strip on Chautauqua where it meets Sunset were dug up, twice? “The space is now empty except for some weeds.  The...

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PaliHi Teen, Jack Schwartz, Hosts After-Prom Parties

BY CHAZ PLAGER Six months ago, Circling the News ran a story (“Pali Teen Entrepreneur Produces My Plots, a Party App”) about up-and-coming teen entrepreneur Jack Schwartz, founder of Loonar clothing and creator of the MyPlots app. The concept was...

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