Category Archives: General
Promised to Fix Sidewalks in 2016 in $1.37 Billion Lawsuit: Instead City Is Settling ADA Lawsuits
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current June 11 and is reprinted with permission. CTN added Pacific Palisades information.) By RACHEAL GAUDIOSI The City of Los Angeles settled a massive lawsuit over crumbling sidewalks in 2016. The...
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LETTER: FireAid Money Should Go to Victims
Thank you for your ongoing coverage to hold FireAid’s designate, the Annenberg Foundation, accountable for the over $100 million raised in January. During one of our community’s darkest hours, the outpouring of generosity from around the world illuminated our shared...
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California to Launch Cal Assist Mortgage Fund
Starting June 12, California is launching the CalAssist Mortgage Fund to provide $105 million in grants, with up to $20,000 going to homeowners whose homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable in recent fires and floods. The program offers: 3 months...
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Theatre Palisades “Alive” and “Acting”
Theatre Palisades, the much beloved community theater based in Pierson Playhouse between Temescal Canyon Road and Haverford Avenue, was ready to open the comedy Jest a Second, on January 10. Then the January 7 Palisades Fire destroyed the theater, which...
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Take a Breath, Pose
Palisades residents Alison Burmeister of Balanced Beauty, Michelle Bellamy of Bellamy Properties, in conjunction with professional home organizer Meryl Starr are offering a free yoga event, Zen Den, on Wednesday, June 4. The session will be held at the Bruce...
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FIREAID: Shame on L.A. County over FireAid Funds
Of the $100 million raised for fire victims in Eaton and Pacific Palisades, some of that FireAid money went to L.A. County. Along with various nonprofits, at least four County Departments received money from the funds. 1.) County Relief Fund,...
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Farmer Schwartz Plants a Pumpkin Patch
Palisades resident Bruce Schwartz, annually gave pumpkin plants to residents who were willing to grow them in their yard. Once they were grown, and some were enormous, they were taken to the YMCA Simon Meadow pumpkin patch and sold to...
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Memorial Day in Pacific Palisades Celebrated
Memorial Day was celebrated in Pacific Palisades today, to remember all of those who died serving the United States in peacetime and war. This was the second annual observance sponsored by the Ronald Reagan American Legion Post 283. It was...
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Park Advisory Board Meeting: Playground, Bathrooms, DWP and Baseball
The Palisades Park Advisory Board met via Zoom on May 20. Members were updated about the status of the playground. Construction began on April 28, and it appears it will be finished by the end of June or the beginning...
City Leaders Asked to Justify Homeless/Money Spent
During World Warr II, the US Senate created a committee on war production chaired by then-Senator Harry Truman. The Truman Committee, as it came to be known, was charged with ensuring manufacturers were providing top-quality equipment to the armed forces...
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