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  • Students Help Residents “Super Clean” the Community
      By CHAZ PLAGER Forty Palisades High School students, representing the PaliHi Ambassadors, came out on Saturday morning to pick up trash and litter in Pacific Palisades. “We’re happy to give back to our community, even if in a small way,” said
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  • Update on Pacific Palisades Post Office and Homeless Sleeping Inside
    With the cold weather and lack of homeless shelters, the local Post Office has become a place for a few people seeking shelter during the rains. On March 2, CTN posted a letter from a resident that said “I was on my way home from work, mailing a
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  • ROCA’s Pizza Will Open , March 6, Monday
    After having lunch in the village today, writers Bill Bruns and Kenny Turan were walking on Swarthmore when they noticed activity in ROCA Pizza. “Let’s see when they’re going to start serving pizza,” Turan said. Several
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  • Two Homeless Encounters: Letter and a Cleanup
    Letter: Encounter in the Post Office I was on my way home from work, mailing a stack of letters around 10:53 p.m.. There were two men sleeping inside the Post Office. One guy was my size, 6′ 3″ and charged me, but I stayed calm and
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  • Lives Well-Lived: Organists Retire after 68 and 69 Years of Playing
    Daily News columnist Dennis McCarthy wrote (“Church Organ Player Says Poignant Goodbye,” January 28) that Canoga Park Lutheran Church’s Christine Benich is retiring. At 97, she has been playing the organ for services since they joined the
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  • Women Should Not Wait until 40, if They Want a Child
    Nationally recognized fertility specialist Dr. Ingrid Rodi says that women who are under 35 who have tried to get pregnant for a year with no results or women who are 35 or over and tried six months with no results, should seek a specialist. Rodi,
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  • Storytelling with John Truby
      By: ALISON BURMEISTER If you have ever thought about writing a book or screenplay, your first step might be consulting John Truby, author of The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works, which was published in
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  • More True Lies and More Arnold, but Not Together
      By: BERNICE FOX Nearly three decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger saved America and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, the box office smash is being turned into a TV series. Like actors who play James Bond have changed through the years, there are
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  • Time for a Community Spring Cleaning on Saturday
    A community-wide cleanup is being held this Saturday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to noon. Those participating can pick up gloves and trash bags at the Village Green, 15280 Sunset Boulevard, and then find an area of Pacific Palisades that needs some
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  • On Your Mind – Readers Write
    REGARDING DOGS AT THE FARMERS MARKET: Circling the News joked on February 27, that the latest dog park was the Palisades Farmers Market, because so many dogs are with their owners on Sunday. A reader sent a copy of the California Health and Safety
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