To-Do List for 4th of July

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

Memorial Day 2023 is behind us. Graduations from elementary, middle and high school are on the calendar for the next week. Pacific Palisades Baseball Association playoffs conclude on Saturday, June 3. What does that mean? Time to start planning for…

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Blood Drive Hosted by Palisades Woman’s Club June 7

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

The Red Cross posted on its website: “Immediate need for donors: 37,000 fewer Red Cross donation appointments have been made in May than what’s necessary to ensure patients have the blood they need in the coming weeks. Help can’t wait.”…

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Ancient, Unsanitary Rec Center Playground Needs to be Replaced

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

The playground at the Palisades Rec Center is close to 30 years old. The base of the playground is sand, which serves as a bathroom for feral animals, making it unsanitary and potentially unsafe. Many Palisades parents send their nannies…

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Community Council Does Not Have Standing with City: New Officers Announced

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

Joe Halper, who served for close to five years on the Board of Commissioners for L.A. Recreation and Parks and for seven years on the West L.A. Planning Commission, dropped a bombshell at the Pacific Palisades Community Council (PPCC) meeting…

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World Premieres of Works by Conte and De Silva at St. Matthew’s

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

St. Matthew’s Music Guild will conclude its 2022-2023 season at 8 p.m. on Friday, June 2, with a concert that features The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s and Choir of St. Matthew’s Church under the direction of Dwayne S. Milburn…

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Memorial Day Weekend Update: In and around Pacific Palisades

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

Memorial Day Service: More than 300 Boy Scouts placed 90,000 flags at grave sites of the West L.A. VA . One Vet said, “There was one flag at each grave. It was very cool.” At a ceremony this morning, L.A….

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PPBA Playoffs Underway: Championships This Week

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

(Editor’s note: Photographer Rich Schmitt takes excellent photos of all the PPBA action and offers them for sale to parents and grandparents. He then donates some of the proceeds back to PPBA. A photo might make a great Father’s Day…

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Supervisor Lindsey Horvath Opens Link of Bike Trail

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath opened the newly constructed .6-mile path of the Marvin Braude Bike Trail to the public on May 24 at a ceremony held by Will Rogers Beach Lifeguard Headquarters. Prior to construction, Palisades residents know that…

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Driver in Hospital in Critical Condition after Crash on Chautauqua

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

There was a single vehicle accident on Wednesday, May 24, around 10:15 p.m., in the 300 block of Chautauqua. A driver, who was driving downhill on Chautauqua (between Vance Street and La Cumbre Drive), had to be extricated from the…

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Hosted by Blake Arnet, Dunk MS 2023 Raises More Than $70,000

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Sue Pascoe

Blake Arnet, who played basketball at UCLA from 2008-2011, created Dunk MS, a fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). It was personal. His mother, Brigitte Renae DeRouen-Venclik, 47, died from the disease when Arnet was a sophomore in college in 2009….

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