Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

Enter the Holiday Ho!Ho!Ho! Pet Photo Contest

The annual Pacific Palisades Pet Photo Contest is underway on Nextdoor. According to Santa’s Head Elf Rosalie “This year’s Holiday Pet Photo Contest starts now! It’s time to put your pet in front of the camera – dog, cat, rabbit,...

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Problems with Pharmaca Stem to Medly Bankruptcy

More than one reader has contacted this editor about Pharmaca, the pharmacy, which also offers natural supplements, cards and gifts that is  located at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and La Cruz Drive. “I was just in Pharmaca and the...

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Posted in businesses/stores | 4 Comments

Purchase a Chance to Ride with Santa Claus on Station 69 Fire Truck

Ho!Ho!Ho! organizers are offering  residents a chance to ride with Santa Claus on the Station 69 Fire Truck on Saturday, December 17. Raffle tickets are $40 and can be purchased at the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, 821 Via de la Paz, by...

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Traci Park Sworn in as CD Councilmember

Venice resident Traci Park was sworn in as the new councilmember for Council District 11 at a ceremony on December 10 at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester. More than 600 people watched as former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa performed the...

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Traci Park Inaugural Speech, December 11, 2022

  Thank you all for being here on this glorious winter afternoon. And special thanks to LMU, my alma mater, for holding this ceremony and to Antonio Villaraigosa for doing the honors today and for the wonderful introduction. I also...

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Post 283 Auxiliary Donates 50 Hygiene Kits for the Homeless

Post 283 Auxiliary learned that the Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH) was running low on hygiene kits.  On December 6, members presented PPTFH co-president Sharon Kilbride with 50. “Thank you, guys,” said Kilbride, a former Citizen of the...

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Local News Can Make a Difference, But Needs Help

Circling the News congratulated the Westside Current for its paper’s continuing coverage of Councilman Mike Bonin’s systematic approach to take away all semblance of a normal life in Venice, by allowing policies that made the town a public safety nightmare....

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Letters: Potrero Opening on December 10

(Editor’s note: Unlike a small-town newspaper, that publishes once a week and goes to a limited number of homes, Circling the News is on the internet and has wide readership. This editor made a decision when the website` was first...

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Councilman Mike Bonin’s Final Goodbye to the Community: F You

The George Wolfberg Park at Potrero is a 46-acre passive park, with no lights or fields, which will open this Saturday. Residents learned that proposed park signs would allow people to be there from 5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. year-round....

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Resilient Palisades Helping Gardeners Go Electric

“We won’t rest until every gas blower is out of the Palisades,” said Resilient Palisades co-founder Ryan Craig. This coming Friday, December 9, RP is hosting a demonstration of top-of-the-line electric commercial blowers. Palisades residents are urged to ask gardeners...

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