Restaurants May Qualify for Resilience Grant

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

There are $10,000 LA Fire Recovery Grants available through the Restaurants Care Resilience Fund because “Restaurants are the heart of LA’s neighborhoods.” The grants may be made to more than 200 independent restaurants and food trucks in LA County impacted…

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Rick Caruso Address Rebuilding and Undergrounding Wires

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

“Palisades is going to come back,” said Rick Caruso, who was featured on the 1Pali webcast on Monday night, April14, that attracted nearly 1,000 virtual attendees. Caruso emphasized that the Palisades has to bring back places for families to gather….

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“Rising From Ashes” Installed at the Legion

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Artist Tom Bakker said that he and his wife were watching television on January 7 as the Palisades Fire was covered on every channel. “We were distraught,” he told a small group of people gathered at the Ronald Reagan American…

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Rats and Other Vermin Call Palisades Home

Posted on April 14, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Corners of the Pacific Palisades commercial areas are littered with trash. Main and side streets of the town have become a site of advertising for contractors. Jeff Ridgway, who manages an apartment building on Haverford, and has lived in the…

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Saying Goodbye to a Place of Dreams

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Every house has a soul. The walls absorb the sounds of a family, the laughter, the fun, the franticness, the sorrow. A house is filled with vibrations and is a member of the family that inhabits it. It offers places…

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Looting in the Ashes. Who Is Guarding?

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

By KARI WEAVER I was just up in the Palisades with my 17-year-old son, visiting our property in the Alphabet Streets. I was shocked to find that several things had been disturbed since my last visit on April 7. It…

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First Commercial Property Sold after the Palisades Fire

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

The four storefronts at 15326 Antioch were sold to 15326 Antioch LLC on March 6 for $1,526,000. This is the first known commercial property sold after the January 7 Palisades Fire. That property included: UPS, Katie O’Neill’s Fine Art, Hilites…

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The Fire Crisis: Talking to Your Kids

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

Psychotherapist Robert Cohen answered some of the difficult questions that parents are asking about how to help their children through the aftermath of the Palisades Fire. The devastation turned a community upside down, forcing nearly 28,000 people to evacuate, the…

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Days Are Filled with Everything Fire

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: Teddy Ray a resident, is chronicling his life after the fire. This is his second piece – and no matter where someone has “evacuated” or moved, life still revolves around decisions based on the fire.) By TEDDY RAY…

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Project Homekey Sites Aren’t Helping Homeless

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: This story “At L.A.’s Homeless Housing Sites, 911 Calls Reflect a Crisis Within a Crisis” first appeared in Westside Current on April 11. It is reprinted with permission. Even as more money is targeted for the homeless, this…

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