Category Archives: Holidays
Register for the 5/10K Will Rogers 4th of July Race
It’s back!! The annual 4th of July 5/10K Will Rogers Race will be held this year in Pacific Palisades. In 2025, the race was a 5K held and it was held in Venice. It was only six months after the...
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Mother’s Day Brunch Done Perfectly
The Lowe Family YMCA in Pacific Palisades hosted a Mother’s Day Brunch in Simon Meadow on May 9. More than 70 mothers, children, grandmothers and residents enjoyed the beautiful Saturday in the meadow located at Sunset Boulevard and Temescal Canyon...
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Palisadian Composer Philip Springer Celebrates 100th
Acclaimed American composer, songwriter and Palisadian Philip Springer, will celebrate his 100th birthday, tomorrow May 12. Daughter Tamar Springer said, “I am making a birthday tribute video for him – I will show him and post it on social media...
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Viewpoint: Mother’s Day 2026
By JIMMY DUNNE Life has a way of sometimes showing us its deepest truths in the smallest frames. Not in speeches. Not in monuments. Sometimes just in an old photograph—a mother holding a child. This Mother’s Day, I found three...
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Mother’s Day Brunch Hosted in Simon Meadow
The busiest restaurant day of the year is Mother’s Day. Here’s one great alternative, join the Lowe Family YMCA for a Mother’s Day Brunch on Saturday, May 9, from 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 at Simon Meadow, 15551 Sunset Boulevard (corner...
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Resilient Palisades Holds Earthday Event on April 19
Resilient Palisades will hold an EarthDay and VegFest from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, at the Palisades Village Green, at 15280 Sunset Boulevard. Organizers write “We are bringing Earth Day and Veg Fest back to the...
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“Paw It Forward Campaign Beyond Thee”
Retired Coast Guard Member Spring de Haviland presented the awards, for the “Paw it Forward Campaign Beyond Thee” on March 20 at the Santa Monica Pier. Officer Jacob Holloway, a Santa Monica Police Office and Marine veteran received a “Beyond...
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Special Guests Visit Simon Meadow
If one was anywhere near Simon Meadow, at the corner of Temescal Road and Sunset Boulevard on March 28, the excitement was contagious as children gathered with Easter baskets, waiting to hunt for eggs. Nearly 150 people gathered for the...
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YMCA Spring Festival and Egg Hunt Saturday
The Palisades Lowe Family YMCA will hold a spring festival and an egg hunt in Simon Meadow on Saturday, March 28. The morning will include crafts, snacks and a photo opportunity with a special guest. It’s rumored the Easter Bunny...
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Cupid’s Arrow Hit Me in the Heart
By HANK WRIGHT I received a Valentine’s party invitation “Do you want to join us Friday night?” It sounded good, but then they said it was for the elderly. I don’t like thinking of myself as an elder. ....
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