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Category Archives: Parks
Will Rogers State Historic Park Reopens November 8 with Tours, Coffee, Ice Cream
By LAUREL BUSBY Special to Circling the News After 10 months of closure due to extensive damage from the Palisades Fire, Will Rogers State Historic Park will open its gates to the public Saturday morning with free coffee and ice … Continue reading
Posted in News, Palisades Fire, Parks
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George Wolfberg Park Bathrooms Not Working, Again
Although the Wolfberg Park is open for hikers after the Palisades Fire, the bathrooms are not – and this not the first time. There is no timeline when the only ADA restrooms in the park and at the Recreation Center … Continue reading
The Department of Recreation and Parks Doesn’t Head the City Library
It has been a real puzzler why Recreation and Parks City Manager Jimmy Kim has been pushing for a library at the Palisades Recreation Center. The Palisades City Library, which burned in the Palisades Fire, was adjacent to the Rec … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Parks
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Letter: Mr. Kim, Stop Pitting Tennis Community Against the Library
(Editor’s note: After last nights Park Advisory Board meeting, Mikael Kuhn, penned and sent this letter Rec and Parks General Manager Jimmy Kim. It is shared with permission.) I’m writing today as a Board Member and Secretary of the Palisades … Continue reading
Posted in Parks, Sports
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Native Plants Produce Fruit in Potrero Canyon
After hearing reports that the fence was being replaced in George Wolfberg Park, CTN took a walk in Potrero Canyon yesterday to see. Yes, the black wire fence that surrounded the perimeter of the canyon was being taken down and … Continue reading
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Plans for New Recreation Center Met with Enthusiasm
Plans for a new Recreation Center was presented last night, October 7, in the “old gym” to a standing room-only crowd. The meeting was summed up by a resident today in an email to CTN. “It was a powerful reminder … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Parks
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Mental Institution Will Open … with an Ocean View
Palisades resident and Santa Monica commercial business owner, John Alle wrote to CTN about the mental health facility that is slated to open in Santa Monica at 413 and 425 Ocean Avenue and has ocean views. “Forty-seven units are … Continue reading
Posted in L.A. County Supervisors, News, Parks
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Plans to Be Unveiled for New Rec Center: Tennis Court News
A community meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7 at the Palisades Recreation Center gym, 851 Alma Real. This meeting will be the first look that the community will have of the proposed redesign … Continue reading
Posted in City, Community, Palisades Fire, Parks
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Astute Reader Points out Money Available for Rec & Parks
Resident Lynn Miller, who has been one of three people who headed the building of the Pacific Palisades Dog Park, and also sat for many years on the Pacific Palisades Park and Recreation Board wrote Steve Lopez regarding his September … Continue reading
Posted in Parks
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Bocce Season Opening, Town Celebrates
By CHAZ PLAGER Eight months on the dot after the fire that ravaged our community, nearly 200 Palisadians gathered at the edge of Palisades Rec Center to celebrate the re–opening of the bocce ball courts and to participate in a … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Palisades Fire, Parks, Sports
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