Category Archives: Health
Pot Can Affect Developing Youth Brains: Not Safe for Expectant Moms
Although pot is now legal in California for recreational use, it does not mean it is safe for teen or for pregnant woman. Most women are aware that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can result in fetal alcohol syndrome, which causes...
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Opportunity to Help “Beat” Cancer at Pink Party
During Covid, diagnoses for six major cancer types dropped by nearly 50 percent and about 43 percent of current patients missed routine appointments. In 2022, more than 600,000 Americans died of cancer. Statistics are grim, but the American Cancer Society’s...
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Your Blood Is Desperately Needed!
Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood. And it could be you or a member of your family. There are two opportunities to give blood in the next few weeks in Pacific Palisades. The requirements to give...
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Health Fair this Saturday Sponsored by PALIBU and the YMCA
A Community Health and Wellness Fair will be held Saturday, August 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Simon Meadow, 15551 Sunset Boulevard. This free fair is co-hosted by the Malibu Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce and the Palisades-Malibu...
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Hands Only CPR Session Offered at the Library
The LA County Department of Public Health is coming once a month, through December, to provide a Hands-Only CPR training. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple...
Programs and Events of Interest: Mentoring, Painting and Happy Hour
Mentoring and Befriending In March, CTN printed an emotional story about the bonding between Palisades High School students and local residents, 60+ (click here.) Sages and Seekers pairs a high school teen with a senior citizen. They listen and share...
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Supervisor Horvath Addresses Harm Reduction and the $15 Million Returned
At the Democratic Club “garden party” fundraiser at a private residence in the Riviera section of the Pacific Palisades on August 6, each of the five public officials in attendance made brief remarks, before taking questions from the audience. L.A....
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Hornish Volunteers with Music Mends Minds
By ALISON BURMEISTER In Tennessee William’s play “The Glass Menagerie, the son says “The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic. In memory everything seems to happen to...
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Funds Needed to Research Teen Cancer Raised at Will Rogers
Teen Cancer America held a successful polo fundraiser at Will Rogers Historic State Park on June 10. It was an amazing event, not only raising funds but awareness. A teen or young adult cancer diagnosis differs from an older individual...
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Officer Espin Does Double Duty as Junior Lifeguard Instructor
(Editor’s note: My three adult children participated in L.A. County Junior Life Guard program. When the YMCA pool was still in upper Temescal and my children were young, a wise mother told me about Guards. She said that her kids,...
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