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  • Palisades Optimist Club Delivers $30,000 to Local Nonprofits
    During the Will Roger 5/10K, the Pacific Palisades Optimist Club assists the Will Rogers Foundation, by volunteering before and during the race. In return the Foundation gives that organization funds, which the club then donates to local nonprofits.
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  • Oedipus’ Fate Redeemed in Musical Revival at Getty Villa
      By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Getty Museum Director Tim Potts greeted the sold out, opening night audience for the 17th  season of the Villa Outdoor Classical Theater with a promise. “This is going to be a really good time,”
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  • CRIME—Reported Crimes in Palisades September 3 to 8
    Pacific Palisades Senior Lead Officer Brian Espin released the crime map for September 3 to 8. He reminded residents, “I want to encourage everyone to please continue to call the police when you see a crime occurring. “The main complaint I hear from
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  • Sunset Traffic Snarled: Two Southbound PCH Lanes Closed
    In the second time in a few weeks, traffic was snarled in Pacific Palisades in the morning as drivers tried to avoid Pacific Coast Highway by taking Sunset Boulevard. Two southbound lanes of PCH were closed near the California incline in Santa
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  • Ice Cream and Music This Saturday
    It has been a few tough years. First, Covid and now ongoing political shenanigans. What to do? Relax, take the afternoon off and enjoy music and ice cream at the Oceanaires first public performance since the pandemic. This Saturday, September 23, at
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  • Coastal Cleanup Day Scheduled for September 23
    “Our beaches are a repository of the city’s trash, which harms our marine habitat and wildlife,” Councilmember Traci Park wrote in her newsletter. Westside residents have a chance to make a difference, by joining with the Councilmember’s officer,
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  • OBITUARY – Ann Lewis, 104, Actress, Mother, Long-time Resident
    Anne Lewis who was born on January 25, 1919, in Columbus, Ohio. She passed away on September 8 at her condo on Sunset Boulevard. She was 104. Lewis, who grew up in White Plains, New York, met her husband Herbert at a resort in upstate New York. She
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  • PaliHi Students Hold Climate Protest Rally on Sunset
    By CHAZ PLAGER Palisades Charter High School students stood up for the Earth and the environment on Friday, September 16, holding a Youth Climate Rally adjacent to the Village Green. “We refuse not to act,” protest leader Carter Yean said to the
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  • Nonprofit Venice Community Housing Wants to Add to Land/Building Real Estate
    (Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current on September 13 and is reprinted with permission. CTN thought readers should know how some nonprofits are profiting from pushing developments that largely benefit the nonprofit,
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  • Restaurant Club Enjoys Local Offerings
    Like to eat? Join the International Dinner Club, whose members went to Armav, the local Armenian + Mediterranean restaurant in August. The Club was formed last year by four locals, Wendy Anderson, Jean Sharp, photographer Rich Schmitt and wife
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