Category Archives: Environmental
What Are You Doing to Celebrate Earth Day?
Since 1970, the United States has celebrated Earth Day on April 22. The day marks the anniversary of the birth of the environmental movement. This movement led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean...
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Malibu Orchid Society Features the Four Seasons of Cattleyas
Even if a resident doesn’t know what Cattleyas are, it is bound to be an informative, and beautiful, meeting as speaker Carlos Lopez describes “The Four Seasons of Cattleyas.” The Malibu Orchid Society (MOS) meeting will be held at 7...
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Cease and Desist Order for Temescal Trailhead Restrooms and Parking Lot
The Coastal Commission will vote on a Cease-and-Desist Order at its April 13 meeting regarding the Temescal Trailhead bathrooms and parking lot located at the top of the Palisades Highlands Summit. If approved, Wooster Street LLC (owner Henri Levy) would...
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California SB 884 Specifies Overhead Utility Wires Should be Put Underground
Update on Power Lines, SB 884, DWP Overtime and “Clean Energy” On March 29, Circling the News carried the following musing: One reader, a 35-year resident wrote, “I am appalled that we are allowing a company to hang hordes of...
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Succulent Gardening Demonstrated by Emi Carvell on April 8
UC David Master Gardener Emi Carvell will provide a class on succulents at noon on Saturday, April 8, at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. After the program, participants will receive a small succulent to take home. Space...
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Palisades Garden Club: Theodore Payne Garden Tour: Santa Barbara Flower Show
Almost everyone has heard the phrase “April Showers Bring May Flowers.” Historians believe this phrase may date back to a 1610 poem, which contained the lines “Sweet April showers, do spring May flowers.” A longer phrase, “March winds and April...
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March Rain Totals in Pacific Paliades Are Above Normal
The rain fell “gently” on the plain is in several well-known songs—but starting on the evening of March 28 through March 30, rain fell along the Pacific Ocean Coast and into the Santa Monica Mountains. When the rain stopped, another...
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Two Homes Red-Tagged, One Home Yellow-Tagged
A 20,000-sq-ft. piece of the hillside, off Las Lomas Avenue, slid into a home below at 949 Los Lomas. The slide was reported at 7:50 p.m. March 26, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Nicholas Prange. “There were...
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Los Leones Historical Hike This Saturday
Sign Up for Hike: Enjoy Refreshments and Talk After the predicted rains are over this week, it will be the perfect time to take a moderate-level hike at 8:45 a.m. in Los Leones Canyon (near Fire Station 23), on Saturday,...
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Graffiti and Rain, Both “Hit” Pacific Palisades
Graffiti Issues Ongoing: When this editor first moved to Pacific Palisades in 1994, she was climbing the stairs below the Methodist Church between Haverford Avenue and the church parking lot. An elderly woman with a rag and some sort of...
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