Your Two Cents’ Worth

Thank You

I’ve been in this town since 1960, so you can understand how anti-young people with SUVs that I am. I recently fell at a local restaurant and after being helped out, I would like to apologize and say I appreciate our Pacific Palisades people.

Tree Trauma

Thank you for highlighting the “missing tree” trauma. I know it’s different in different parts of the Palisades but in the Alphabet Streets, it’s just terrible. In some streets, trees have been ripped out wholesale and never replaced, with builders saying they are being eaten by fungus and mold—but that is just an excuse to get their trucks in over the sidewalks more easily. It’s a very cynical world, but they do not live here. They are just leaving us with dust and rubble.

More Flags

I do not know who from the Alphabet Streets complained to Bruce Schwartz about his flags, but they are just being silly. I have met Bruce and know people who have bought homes from him, and he is a fine and considerate man. We need more Bruces in the Palisades, not just mean small people, licking their book of rules and being angry all the time. And more flags.

Palms

The palms you were writing about last week were not planted in the 1970s, but in the 1940s. Get your history right.

(Editor’s note: There are several recorded dates in archives but it now appears more likely, said the Pacific Palisades Historical Society, that the majority of the palms went into Swarthmore around 1929.)

Sex Education

You used the headline words “sex ed and horseback riding” on your front page about Sue Kohl. Why did you do that, except to sell more newspapers? The article says that Mrs. Kohl, a respected Realtor, used to teach sex education at school and likes horseback riding, but what had got to do with anything? You are in the gutter.

Pali High

Instead of employing night guards or building a fence around Pali High, which would just make it more of a game for the intruders, why not rig up more CCTV? It’s cheaper and safer, day and night, and in the Palisades everyone wants to be on camera.

Cluck

Your headline on Jennifer Garner: “Celebrity chicken?” Really?