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Author Archives: Sue Pascoe
Common Ground Meeting Focuses on Drug-Related Issues and Coronavirus Threat to Homeless
By LAUREL BUSBY CTN Contributor Many issues, ranging from needle safety to the coronavirus, were considered at a presentation by Common Ground on March 11 at lifeguard headquarters on PCH (across from Potrero Canyon). Carol Newark, a prevention advocate at Venice Family Clinic’s...
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Pacific Palisades Recreation Center Will Help House the Homeless in Citywide Response to Coronavirus
This afternoon (March 20) Councilman Mike Bonin sent the following email to constituents in Council District 11: “Dear Friends, “As part of a continuing effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Eric Garcetti has ordered the use of...
Posted in Homelessness, Parks
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Viewpoint: The Homeless, the Coronavirus and City Response
Three things happened at about the same time this past week: 1) my adult daughter, who drives by the 405 underpass at Venice, sent a photo of porta-potty hand-washing station for the homeless that the City had placed at the...
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Hope Is a Good Thing—And Always Check One’s Sources
I received the following letter from a reader, who said that we are not alone, that F. Scott Fitzgerald suffered a like fate during the the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, that infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third...
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Phase I Begins for the Controversial Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project
By MARISSA PIANKO Circling the News Contributor Almost 20 years after California State Parks purchased the 1,659-acre property at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Topanga Canyon Road, Phase 1 of the Topanga Lagoon Restoration Project has begun. Impassioned...
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Coronavirus Updates via L.A.Times and Wall Street Journal
Pacific Palisades is so beautiful with the Pacific Ocean on one side of the area and the Santa Monica Mountains on the other, that coronavirus and death from the virus seem far off and surreal. The self-quarantine policy still seems...
We Have a Winner in Alaska! Waerner, a Norwegian, Captures the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Norwegian Musher Thomas Waerner won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 18, finishing at 12:37 a.m. with a team of 10 dogs. According to Alaska Public Media, this is Waerner’s first Iditarod win and only his second try....
PCH Task Force Meeting: Caltrans Official Addresses Four Projects Affecting Pacific Palisades
What’s the most dangerous move a driver can make on Pacific Coast Highway? At the Wednesday quarterly PCH Task Force meeting in Malibu, an L.A. County Sheriff and a California Highway Patrol representative agreed that it’s “a U-turn on Pacific...
Updating the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska
As of March 17, at 11:05 a.m., Thomas Waerner was still in first place after reaching the White Mountain checkpoint (953 miles from Anchorage). In second was Mitch Seavey, 60, who also reached White Mountain and moved up from fourth...
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A Global Medicine Doctor’s New Take on Covid-19: Information for Citizens
(Editor’s Note: I’ve received many emails from readers who are passing along coronavirus advice from someone they claim is a credible expert in the medical field. Many of the emails I’ve received, contain bogus information such as “this new virus...