Hermosa Engine No. 10 brings the Clauses to Hermosa for Holiday Tree Lighting
A weekend of holiday music, workshops, store sales, and carnival rides in downtown Hermosa Beach culminated Sunday evening with Santa and Ms. Clause arriving aboard Los Angeles Fire Department Engine No. 10 for the annual Pier Plaza holiday tree lighting ceremony. Saturday evening, the annual Jeremy Buck Band Rock For Tots concert raised over $6,000, […]
Rain can’t extinguish Manhattan Beach Holiday Lighting Tree Ceremony
Despite early evening rain, crowds filled downtown Manhattan Beach for its annual Holiday Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration on Wednesday, November 16. After children at Metlox Plaza told Santa their holiday wishes, the gathering of an estimated 1,000 people walked in the rain down to the pier to listen to the Manhattan Beach Middle School, and […]
‘Rose rustlers’ inspire Palos Verdes Peninsula garden
by Stephanie Cartozian The “rose rustlers” of the days of “Southern cemeteries” were the inspiration for a half acre sustainable, woodland garden tucked away in Palos Verdes Estates. “Rose rustlers” are rosarians who study, collect and cultivate rare, and oftentimes forgotten rose varieties by taking rose clippings from old Southern cemeteries and abandoned properties, and […]
Ask Dr. Allen: Releasing youth inheritances
Releasing youths has been the theme of Freedom4U, our youth organization for the past 21 years. We are often asked what “releasing youths’ mean? Some have asked if we work exclusively with incarcerated youth. The answer is that we work with all youth to release them from things that hold back their ability to find […]