Author Archives: Sue Pascoe

Community Effort: YMCA, Seven Arrows and Residents Provide Backpacks

Members of the Palisades-Malibu YMCA joined with the Antelope Valley YMCA in Lancaster to hand out school backpacks filled with school supplies and snacks to local elementary school children and their families on December 18. Palisades-Malibu YMCA Board members Dr. Anita...

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“Holly Jolly Christmas” Can Come Any Day

  “Holly Jolly Christmas,” sung by Burl Ives, was echoing through the house – his singing just seemed to make everything happy. The kids were decorating Christmas cookies, the tree was trimmed, the tiny little Dickens village was set up,...

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Another Day at the Illegal RV Encampment on Jefferson

There were screams and then a woman was sobbing, saying, “He took my dog. He took my dog.” The woman said the man came into her van, hit her and hit her friend – another woman, threatened them with a gun...

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Playing the Holy Family – and the Magic of Christmas

My second born had colic. During the day he was the sweetest child, but at night just like Jekyll, he turned into a screaming stranger. The crying went on for three to four hours every night and doctors couldn’t offer...

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City Overrules the Palisades Design Review Board

  Back on September 22, the Pacific Palisades Design Review Board unanimously voted to disapprove plans for The Hydration Room on Antioch at Swarthmore. But on December 14, the City’s Director of Determination at the Planning Department wrote that the department...

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LAUSD to Begin $10 Million Construction Project at Palisades High

According to a flyer sent to residents who live near Palisades Charter High School, the LAUSD will soon begin to remove and replace the underground utility piping serving the entire campus and replace the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in the competition...

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John Lennon’s Rainbow Mittens Offered in Magical New York

When I was twenty-in, I loaded up a suitcase with all my worldly possessions, two hundred dollars, and took a Greyhound bus from South Dakota to New York City. I was too naïve to realize the folly of what I...

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“It’s a Wonderful Life,” a Wonderful Celebration at Theatre Palisades

We now can enjoy two annual Christmas celebrations in Pacific Palisades. One, the revived Ho!Ho!Ho! in Temescal Canyon, provides a warm community event. This year, family and children gathered with Santa at Simon Meadow on a Saturday. The second event...

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Netflix/Bay Theater Receives Positive Reviews

On December 16, Circling the News noted that the Bay Theater at 1035 Swarthmore had reopened and was showing numerous films daily. Although CTN’s editor has not yet made it to a movie there, she reached out to readers about...

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Angels Whispering Messages of Peace 

(Editor’s note: this was first printed in December 2004, when my children were 13, 11 and 8. ) Since the time I was a baby, every Christmas I heard the song “It came upon a midnight clear. . ..” I’ve...

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