THURSDAY, MAY 24 Citizen of the Year Dinner, sponsored by the Palisadian-Post in conjunction with the Community Council, 6:15 p.m. (social hour) in the American Legion Hall on La Cruz. The event is sold out. Photographer Herman Leonard signs ‘Jazz, Giants and Journeys,’ 7:30 p.m., Village Books on Swarthmore. This is the only book in print containing Leonard’s iconic jazz portraits of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and more. TUESDAY, MAY 29 Tuesday Night Hikes with the Temescal Canyon Association will take the trail from Temescal to Rivas Canyon and on to Will Rogers. Meet at 6 p.m. in the Temescal Gateway parking lot. Please, no dogs. Expect to be back between 8 and 9 p.m. Contact: temcanyon.org. The Fourth of July parade organizing committee, representing the Palisades Americanism Parade Association, meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce office on Antioch. The public is invited. THURSDAY, MAY 31 Palisades resident Ann Kerr, who serves as a board member for the American University in Beirut and has just returned from a visit to Lebanon and Kuwait, will speak at the Rotary Club breakfast meeting on ‘A View from the Middle East,’ 7:15 a.m. at Gladstone’s restaurant on PCH at Sunset. Contact: (310) 482-2006. Susan Straight discusses ‘A Million Nightingales,’ 7:30 p.m. at Village Books on Swarthmore. Haunting and beautifully written, this novel of 19th-century Louisiana is the tale of a slave girl’s journey’emotional and physical’from captivity to freedom. THURSDAY, JUNE 7 Pacific Palisades resident Bob Jeffers will update plans for renovating and upgrading the football field and running track at Palisades High School this summer, 7:15 a.m., Palisades Rotary Club breakfast meeting at Gladstone’s. Information: (310) 482-2006. He creates advertising for the film industry and has done so for over 400 films. He has spearheaded the project to bring Pali Hi’s track and field into the 21st century.
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