Category Archives: Palisades Fire

PaliHi School Design Meeting August 11

Posted on August 8, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Los Angeles Unified School District will hold a Palisades High School Design Community Meeting at 6 p.m. on Monday, August 11 via zoom. The community is invited to attend. The LAUSD team will present and lead a discussion on Design … Continue reading →

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EVACUATONS: Fire Deaths Should Be Atoned – Future Ones Prevented

Posted on August 7, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Insufficient evacuation routes and often no warning for residents of the approaching flames during the Eaton and Palisades Fires. Thirty-one people were killed.  Read the list below and a common factor emerges. ALTADENA Oswald Altmetz, 75 Carolyn Burns, 56 Edwin … Continue reading →

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Help Palisades Bowl Residents: Sign the Petition

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

The remains of the Palisades Bowl, a once thriving mobile home community of about 350 residents, continue to rust across from the Pacific Ocean. The Palisades Fire torched the homes along Pacific Coast Highway between Temescal Canyon Road and the … Continue reading →

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FireAid Update: Donation Clarification Asked

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Circling the News asked FireAid media spokesperson Chris Wallace on August 3, “On the FireAid website it notes that in Round 1, $500k in grants went to the restoration of Community Recreational Spaces, and that $5m in grants went to Community … Continue reading →

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Thomas James Homes Building in Palisades

Posted on August 4, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

It turns out that Jeffrey Sandorf, Vice President of Division Sales, Southern California Division at Thomas James Homes has a long history in Pacific Palisades. His mother had entire chapter devoted to her “cheerleader” in “What Really Happened to the … Continue reading →

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Amazing Design for Potrero Pedestrian Crossing Submitted for Clas Project

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Kaylie Ward  grew up in Pacific Palisades and attended Santa Monica Catholic High School. She played club volleyball at UCLA, while attending college. After graduating, she took a temporary job at the Bay Theater in Caruso’s Palisades Village when it … Continue reading →

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Maryam Zar Leads Recovery Coalition

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

By CHAZ PLAGER Maryam Zar has a long history of activism in Pacific Palisades, from serving on school booster clubs, to working with the Design Review Board, to sitting on the Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Board, to chairing the first … Continue reading →

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Friends of Pacific Palisades Library Hosts Nature Workshop

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Annually, the Friends of Pacific Palisades Library hosts a summer writing contest that is open to all students, grade 1 through high school seniors. The winners usually receive a gift certificate to a bookstore, and their stories are read aloud … Continue reading →

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New Power Poles in the Palisades Highlands

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

A resident wrote in a July 30 email, “I live in the Highlands and I am often on the Temescal Ridge trail and always looking at those vulnerable wooden poles.” But today?  “You can imagine my astonishment when I saw those … Continue reading →

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FIREAID-California Community Foundation Nonprofit Sends Corrected Information

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: Initially, CTN wrote that California Community Foundation allowed nonprofits, who had not yet received a nonprofit number to use their number. In writing about CCF I went to their website and listed a few nonprofits that had received aid. … Continue reading →

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