Circling The News

On April 5, the Pacific Palisades Community Council executive committee sent a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Mike Bonin and L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl opposing the proposed homeless shelter at the Palisades Recreation Center.

Longtime Pacific Palisades resident Joe Halper, an L.A. Recreation and Parks board commissioner, sent the following message to Circling the News. “I suggest you alert your constituency of the opportunity to share their concerns and suggestions on

 (Editor’s note: Many Pacific Palisades residents know Laurel Busby from her frequent stories while working for the Palisadian-Post under editor Bill Bruns, and in recent years for the Palisades News and Circling the News. We join Laurel in

Thanks to Donna Fol for sending this video to Circling the News. The goats “ate” performed brush clearance on the El Medio bluffs from about Sunday through Thursday.

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

When I was refereeing at an AYSO soccer tournament for my son’s all-star team about 10 years ago, another mom on the team, a professor at L.A. City College, also refereed. Between games we would talk about various topics and one day the Taj Palace

The Pacific Palisades Task Force on Homelessness (PPTFH) is reaching out to local organizations and individuals for aid that will go to the homeless during this coronavirus crisis. The Rotarians voted via email on March 28 to give $1,800 which was

(Editor’s note:  Dr. Ben LaBrot, who is the founder and CEO of Floating Doctors, a professor in the Keck School of Medicine Dept. of Global Medicine at USC and a Pacific Palisades Optimist sent the article to his fellows Optimists on March 30 that

When Palisadian Nina Madok spoke to several local business owners who are struggling during the coronavirus shutdown, and then read about Toppings Yogurt and its dire financial situation on Via de la Paz, she asked herself, “What can I do to give

I gave myself a simple reporting task. The media and residents have been told that sheltering the homeless in about a dozen City of L.A. recreation centers has been a success and the program most likely will be expanded to include the Palisades