Category Archives: General

Please help Pacific Palisades Residents Association (PPRA) in an important community effort. The LA County Blue Ribbon Commission is proposing a “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” that could take local control away from Pacific Palisades residents and put our land in the...

Pacific Palisades Veterinary Center opened on Monday, July 7 – but this editor was not aware. Our dog Shadow, a client of Pali Vet, had come down with an awful cough. It had been ongoing for about two weeks. Over...

The late Kurt Toppel , a former Citizen of the Year has to be smiling. With wife Haldis, they had advocated for a LAPD stop-in center for the community, possibly at the new gym for decades. During the Public Safety...

  BY HENRY KAMER Our town, the beloved Palisades, was forever changed by the devastation experienced during the Palisades Fire that raged from January 7th onwards. Almost everything that defined the Palisades was destroyed, and the people that made the...

This year, Pacific Palisades 4th of July, sponsored by the Palisadian Americanism Parade Association, will be held at Paul Revere Middle School. The event is limited to Palisades families (and friends) who were impacted by the Palisades Fire. Gates will...

For first responders, police and firefighters, every time they go to work, there’s a chance they won’t be coming home. They do the job; many exceeding expectations and requirements. They seek no recognition other than a job well done, a...

There are six homes on Coal Canyon Road in Malibu.  Four and part of another were lost in fire. Homeowners had tried several avenues to obtain funding to update the road to make it safe for firetrucks. “We know that in...

The Palisades Fire destroyed homes and hearts, but it can never take away the Pacific Palisades iconic 4th of July celebration. This year the Will Rogers 5K and the Children’s Run will take place because Palisadians are too strong to...

It has been shown that well-hydrated plants and lawns stop fires. Just ask yourself why don’t golf course fairways burn? But after the Palisades and Eaton Fires, it was decided that yard vegetation next to homes was one of the...

Immediately after the Palisades Fire, checkpoints at Sunset and Chautauqua went into place to keep out looters and looky-loos. Residents were allowed in with a pass, as were the companies aiding the Army Corp of Engineers with debris removal. Although...