Category Archives: Parks
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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PaliHi Plead for Tennis Courts: Library to Go on Tennis Courts
Palisades High School varsity tennis player Remy made a plea to Los Angele Recreation and Parks officials for courts and said, “parks are meant for kids to play.” Unfortunately, RAP General Manager Jimmy Kim did not seem to understand the...
Posted in Palisades Fire, Parks, Schools, Sports
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Viewpoint: New Playground Should Be Appreciated
At the Park Advisory Board meeting several people objected to the theme of the new playground, which opened at the beginning of July with a few panels of first responders. The first responder panels included a pretend police motorcycle, a...
Posted in Kids/Parenting, Parks
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Fun Returns to Pacific Palisades Sunday
The one thing this little community needs and hasn’t had in a long time is a big party in the park. That will change this Sunday with a Town Party and Booce Opening Day, hosted by the man who knows...
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Park Advisory Board Meeting: Taking Away Park Green Space
Well, the Palisades burned and there is little green space left, except for the Village Green and the north lawn at the Rec Center. Now the City in an effort to “help” rebuild infrastructure has decided to place a portable...
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