Calendar for the Week of June 28

THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Pacific Palisades Community Council meeting, 7 p.m. in the Palisades Branch Library meeting room, 861 Alma Real. Public invited. Join explorer and author John Haslett at 7:30 p.m. for a slide show and adventure tales highlighting two expeditions he led in the late 1990s, at Village Books on Swarthmore. In his new book, ‘Voyage of the Manteno: The Education of a Modern-Day Expeditioner,’ Haslett, a Pacific Palisades resident, recalls how he built a series of giant rafts, then sailed them on the open Pacific. Photo cap: Expeditioner John Haslett launched his primitive raft, the Illa-Tiki, in 1995. Photo by Sandra Sykes. FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Theatre Palisades production of ‘A Few Good Men,’ 8 p.m. in Pierson Playhouse, corner of Haverford and Temescal Canyon Road. Plays Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 8. Ticket reservations: (310) 454-1970. TUESDAY, JULY 3 Husband and wife Karl and Anne Taylor Fleming, both acclaimed journalists and writers, will appear at 2 p.m. at the Palisades Branch Library, 861 Alma Real. (See story, page 13.) Tuesday Night Hikes with the Temescal Canyon Association will start from Trippet Ranch and explore the Musch Trail in Topanga. Meet at 6 p.m. in the Temescal Gateway parking lot. Please, no dogs. Expect to be back between 8 and 9 p.m. Visit temcanyon.org or call (310) 459-5931. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 * Fourth of July festivities begin in the Palisades with the 10 K and 5 K runs, 8:15 a.m.; Kids’ 1K run, 9:15 a.m. and youth triathlon, 10 a.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, 851 Alma Real. * Palisades Americanism Day Parade begins, 2 p.m. at Via de la Paz and Bowdoin. * Fireworks display, 9 p.m. at Palisades High School stadium, 15777 Bowdoin. THURSDAY, JULY 5 Zenon Neumark discusses and signs his memoir ‘Hiding in the Open,’ 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Zenon chronicles his escape from a Nazi slave labor camp and his experiences as a Jewish fugitive under false Polish Catholic identity, first in Warsaw where he lived a double life working for opposing resistance groups, and later in Vienna, Austria.