By WENDY PRICE ANDERSON Special to the Palisadian-Post Pacific Palisades is dear to my heart for many reasons, dating back to 1960, when my parents, Joan and Guy Price, moved our family here from Beverly Hills. They built a home on La Cumbre in the Huntington Palisades and later built a second home on Dulce Ynez Lane in the Marquez Knolls neigborhood. After attending ninth grade at Paul Revere, I was part of the first graduating class to go straight through Palisades High School, in 1964. (My sister, Robyn, was in the famous Class of ’65. I also have a brother, Kevin.) Believe it or not, fellow classmates, the school will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year, and our 50th class reunion is just a few years away! I have volunteered to work on PaliHi’s reunion committee and I’m looking forward to the planning of numerous exciting events. I attended Santa Monica College for a year, followed by Willis Business School. I married young and had two children. My daughter, Jamie’and her family live in Redmond, Oregon and have Rachel, age 16, and Ryan, age 10. My son, Andy and his family live in Yorba Linda and have one daughter, Amanda, age 8.’ Over the years I was a secretary for’an insurance company, clerk of a church and co-owner of PrintCrafters with my second husband, Dick Anderson, until he passed away in 1997 after 22 years of marriage. Then I’had two homecare businesses: Wendy’s Personal Popourri Service and Peace of Mind Home Care, where I took care of senior citizens in their home, drove them to appointments, and did errands. As longtime residents know, Pacific Palisades is a quaint, ocean-front community with all the charm of a small town. The friendly people that know your name in the stores and the neighbors who care about each other’that is why I’love’living’here. Every day, weather permitting, I enjoy hiking up our canyons, walking along the beach or riding on the bike path that starts (or ends) just across Pacific Coast Highway from my home in Tahitian Terrace. I take my camera everywhere I go, because you never know where or’when you can catch that perfect photo! As a retired and busy ‘lady of leisure,’ I enjoy photography, lunch dates with friends, field trips with the Palisades Historical Society, and traveling with my kids and grandchildren. My front and back’license plate holders reflect my serenity: ‘Life Is Good…At the Beach’ and ‘Happiness Is…Sunsets and Ocean Views.’ And my license plate says it all: ‘PaliGrl’.
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