SPRING

03/17/16 — LAPD arrested two Palisades Charter High School students after racist graffiti was painted in front of the school and on the mural on the opposite side of Bowdoin Street. The teenagers were caught on CCTV. Around 300 PaliHi students refused to attend classes and held a “respectful” sit-down demonstration in unity with the targets of the slurs.   

03/17/16 — A female hiker with a broken ankle was hoisted by helicopter from the Temescal Gateway Park waterfall trial, the first of around a dozen similar rescues during 2016 that involved Los Angeles Fire Department Station 69

03/17/16 — Ten veterans were awarded the French Legion of Honor—the highest honor France can bestow on citizens and foreigners—at the American Legion Post 283 for their valor during World War II. Among the honorees was Agia Harada, a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was mostly composed of Japanese-Americans. It suffered the most casualties of any unit in the war while unit members’ families were still being held in U.S. internment camps.

03/31/16 — Chrysalis, which fosters job opportunities for low-income and homeless individuals, organized by Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce and Business Improvement District leaders, revealed its new orange safety vests. They are worn by teams cleaning up Village sidewalks.

04/07/16 — Hundreds of mourners joined a memorial service for Bill Rosendahl, the CD11 councilmember who was remembered as much for his larger-than-life personality as his city politics. Rosendahl, a lifelong civil rights campaigner who was at the Ambassador Hotel when Robert Kennedy was shot, died after a four-year battle with cancer.

04/14/16 — Kharl Stuart, 32, barricaded himself in a Via Bluffs garage after allegedly crashing a stolen Honda Civic and firing shots at pursuing police cars and a helicopter. Stuart was arrested after a six-hour standoff and is awaiting trial on charges, including attempted murder.