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  • What is it #40?

    In 1968, I was on a short vacation from the Army hospital, where I was working. My parents and my wife Danielle had joined me. We  were in our old Volvo, as we drove by the
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  • Former LAPD Beach Detail Head Rusty Redican Honored

    A special celebration luncheon was held at Kay’s on September 25, to laud former beach detail Head Officer John E. Redican III, “Rusty.” He officially retired from the Los
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  • Pot Shots #27

    What are Pot-Shots? Ashleigh Brilliant writes: WHAT EXACTLY IS A “POT-SHOT” OR “BRILLIANT THOUGHT?” Pot-Shots are epigrams, composed according to the
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  • Santa Catalina Island: Aztecs Are Gone and So Is Sugarloaf Rock

    By STEWART SLAVIN Did you know the birthplace of the Aztec civilization was Santa Catalina Island where the buffalo roam? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t. In September 1899,
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  • Commercial Building on Sawtelle Destroyed by Fire

    The Los Angeles Fire Department responded at 6:13 a.m. September 23, to a fire reported at a vacant and boarded 53,500 square foot two-story commercial building at 2050 S
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  • Money Sought to Restore the Temescal Canyon Mural

    Cathy Salser spoke to the Pacific Palisades Community Council on July 25 about the mural on Temescal Canyon Road that needs restoration. To refurbish the nearly 500-foot
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  • Crazy Horse Monument Still Being Sculpted

    “My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know that the red man has great heroes also.” Chief Henry Standing Bear The giant sculpture in a mountain that
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  • What’s Old Is New . . . Politically Speaking

    By HENRY KAMER Deeply divided political parties, national tension, name calling and the question of whether or not there will be a peaceful transfer of power. Sounds like the
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  • Class of ’64 View Remains of Yacht Fire

    By STEWART SLAVIN The Palisades High School Class of 1964 Spartans went on a reunion dinner cruise on September 20. That evening they saw the spectacular aftermath of an
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  • Measure A: Tax Hike Proposed. Officials Say Its Needed to Fund Homeless Programs

    (Editor’s note: This first appeared in the Westside Current on September 19 and is reprinted with permission.) By TIM CAMPBELL Scanning recent headlines about local nonprofit
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