Category Archives: General

A Different Palisades Outing: Bubbles & Blooms

This opportunity does not present itself often in Pacific Palisades, but if one loves fashion and champagne, put Bubbles & Blooms on your calendar. This perfect hump-day activity will occur on Wednesday, May 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. at...

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Arnie Wishnick Honored by Katie O’Neill

Marilyn Crawford, who worked at the Chamber with its former executive director, Arnie Wishnick wrote Circling the News. “Have you seen the portrait of Arnie in the old Chamber window on Antioch? Katie O’Neill put it in her studio window,...

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Summary of the CD 11 Forum and Candidates’ Positions

BY JAMIE PAIGE WESTSIDE CURRENT EDITOR In a 90-minute forum in Venice on April 6, Council District 11 (CD11) candidates were united in advocating for a safer community as well as the need to build relationships and consensus. Westside Current...

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Homeless Task Force Now Can Afford Mental Health Officer

Anyone purchasing a chicken sandwich or a beer by the fairway on Hole 18 at the Genesis Golf Tournament in February would have been surprised by the cheerfulness and the amount of work that the volunteers manning the concession stand...

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Groza Care Foundation to Help Ukrainian Children

Groza Learning Center, located at 881 Alma Real, has offered tutoring, test prep, private schooling, assessments and summer programs for students in kindergarten through college, since 2002. Groza Learning Center Director Tatyana Yukhtman was born and raised in the Ukraine....

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Circling the News: Hodge Podge

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Maggie, an elder at the Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, wrote that they want to hire a new director of children and family ministry to work 30 hours per week to develop and supervise the children, youth and family...

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Woman’s Nightmare Relived: Convicted Santa Monica Rapist Gets Four Consecutive Life Sentences

(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on April 8 and is reprinted with permission.) It was a moving day in the Airport Courthouse in Westchester Friday when sentencing was handed down to convicted rapist Dylan James...

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“Think Pink” Will Offer Women Health Advice

The Irene Dunne Guild, a support group of Saint John’s Health Center Foundation, created “Think Pink” more than 17 years ago as a way of educating women on important health issues. This year the annual event will be held from...

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Viewpoint: Homeless Count May Have Unexpected Results for Residents

A Westchester resident told the group assembled by the illegally parked RV’s on Jefferson, next to the Ballona Wetlands, on Saturday, “I can only live where I can afford and that should be the same for everyone.” Although many homeless...

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CD 11 Candidate Forum Will Be Held April 6

A CD 11 Candidate Forum will be held with an invited audience and also via Zoom, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6. Hosted by the Westside Current and Circling the News, the editors have some great questions and also...

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