Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

“Think Pink” Will Offer Women Health Advice

The Irene Dunne Guild, a support group of Saint John’s Health Center Foundation, created “Think Pink” more than 17 years ago as a way of educating women on important health issues. This year the annual event will be held from...

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The Remarkable Lee Calvert Keeps in Shape

  By ALISON BURMEISTER Palisadian Lee Calvert, 97, does 15 push-ups every night before bed. “Push-ups are something everyone can do, but not everyone keeps doing them,” she said. I last saw Lee at a “Fall Prevention” event I hosted...

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Viewpoint: Homeless Count May Have Unexpected Results for Residents

A Westchester resident told the group assembled by the illegally parked RV’s on Jefferson, next to the Ballona Wetlands, on Saturday, “I can only live where I can afford and that should be the same for everyone.” Although many homeless...

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Garden Club Will Feature Speakers on Japanese Flower Arranging

Patricia Ziegler and Gabriel Pacheco will give a presentation on the Sogetsu School of Ikebana for the Palisades Garden Club at 7 p.m. on April 4, via Zoom. Ikebana means “living flowers” in Japanese and is a term used to...

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CD 11 Candidate Forum Will Be Held April 6

A CD 11 Candidate Forum will be held with an invited audience and also via Zoom, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6. Hosted by the Westside Current and Circling the News, the editors have some great questions and also...

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Wen Chen Addresses Chinese Propaganda, Persecution of Falun Gong and Organ Harvesting

Wen Chen told the Palisades Rotary Club in February that she initially believed that the Tiananmen Massacre never happened. Born and raised in China, she came to Cal Tech as a graduate student in 1995. “My friends asked me about...

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Oversized Business Signs Invoke Community Concern

(Editor’s note: I wrote this story in June 2017 and I’m reprinting it for people who may have not followed the sign issue, that was raised when the Palisadian-Post, which occupies one office in the 881 Alma Real Building, was...

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PaliHi Students Robbed in Alley by Methodist Church

A resident wrote Circling the News that a “couple of Palisades High School students” were robbed around 5 p.m. on March 21, in the alleyway next to the Methodist Church. According to the teens, a car with three black males stopped...

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Asking the Wrong Question, Can Give the Wrong Answer: Housing First Doesn’t Help the Mentally Ill

Los Angeles can never take care of its homeless population unless it starts asking the correct question: how many people have mental issues?  Is there an institutional setting in which they can be helped? Jimmy Dean, a homeless woman, who...

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Simon’s “Prisoner of Second Avenue” Reverberates to Today’s World

By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Despite all the challenges of the last two years, Theatre Palisades’ stalwart cast and crew prevailed and reopened last Friday night with Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue.” Thanking the full house,...

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