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Optimism Can Turn Failure into Success

(Editor’s note: Every year, Optimist International hosts an essay contest and students in Pacific Palisades are invited to participate. The winning entry is then sent to the District contest. Keira Wood, an eighth grader at Corpus Christi, read her winning...

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Rotary Club Helps Palisades High Students with Internet “Hot Spots”

Palisades High technology director Jeff Roepel approached the Palisades Rotary Club with an unusual request: $3,600 for internet hotspots. Once the request was explained, the Rotary Foundation Board voted unanimously to grant the money. Incoming President Trish Bowe presented a check to Roepel in front...

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Seven Arrows Uses 3D Technology to Make Masks 

Seven Arrows, a private kindergarten through sixth-grade school located in Pacific Palisades, has now made 45 visors and strap locks for face shields and dozens of HEPA filter masks to aid in the coronavirus fight. The school (located on La...

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Palisades High School Parents Asked to Run for Board of Trustees

(Editor’s note: Current Palisades High School Board of Trustee member Reeve Chudd sent the following letter to Circling the News on April 7.) I’m writing to you with a request that perhaps you’ll find space in CTN to invite parents...

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Groza and PaliSkates: Two Ways to Help with Home Schooling

Groza Recommends Activities: Groza Learning Center in the 881 Alma Real building sent an email with a list of activities to cure home schooling boredom. One was baking. The easiest way to teach kids fractions, which then leads to learning...

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Palisades High School Students Will Continue Education via Online/E-learning

At a special meeting on March 14, the Palisades High School board of trustees implemented a two-week (and possibly longer) plan for students to continue distance learning, while the campus is closed because of coronavirus. “This is historic,” PaliHi Principal...

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Revere’s Library Is a Mecca for Students under New Librarian Gabriela Gualano

By LAUREL BUSBY Special to Circling the News Until last year, many LAUSD middle schools and high schools lacked librarians. Paul Revere Middle School was no exception. At Revere, volunteers and teachers tried to fill in the gap, but without...

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Rotary Awards the First PaliHi Entrepreneur Award

Malia Mitchell, a Palisades Charter High School junior, was awarded the 2019 fall semester inaugural Entrepreneur Award by the Pacific Palisades Rotary Club. The bi-annual award was established by Rotary to honor and to recognize the more than 100 PaliHi...

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‘Hot Tamales Live’ Will Help Raise Funds for Palisades High School at March 14 Gala

This year, the Palisades High Booster Club is upping the fun with comedy, dancing and samba at its annual auction and fundraiser from 6 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, at the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club. The festivities...

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Revere Will Present a Free Showing of ‘LIKE,’ A Documentary about the Impact of Social Media 

Paul Revere Middle School will screen “LIKE,” an IndieFlix original documentary about social media, at 7 p.m. this Thursday, November 21, in the Auditorium, 1450 Allenford Drive. The community is invited, admission is free. Please RSVP: bit.ly/LikeTheMovie. All Revere students will...

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