April 30, 2021

April 30, 2021

View the April 30, 2021 issue (Vol. 2, No. 8) in PDF format.

View the April 30, 2021 issue (Vol. 2, No. 8) in online format.

Thinking Out Loud

Families and Friends

This is the last, but not least of our month-long poetry slam, to which we’ve dedicated three pages. The response from our local poets was so prolific that we’ll continue ...(Read More)

Flavia Potenza

By Flavia Potenza

Community News

Topanga Town Council Report—February and March

Undergrounding on the way soon! LA Fire Department gets more aerial fire-fighting power! And the library is due to open…soon! Town Council President Carrie Carrier and Vi ...(Read More)

Annemarie Donkin

By Annemarie Donkin

Topanga Historical Society Zoom Event: ‘Messenger Photos’

When Topanga’s longest-running newspaper, the Topanga Messenger, closed in 2016, publisher Mary Colvig donated its 40 years of accumulated photos to the Topan ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Where Are They Now?

Treasure

Teachers look for treasure. Not the typical chests filled with gold, but the gems found within their students. Children enter kindergarten as diamonds in the rough and as the ...(Read More)

Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

Schoolhouse Scoop

Welcome Back to Campus!

It has been a long wait for the Return to Campus. In-person instruction ended over a year ago but on April 20 and 21, there was a staggered re-opening of Topanga Elementary Ch ...(Read More)

Arts

Selected Poems 2021, Topanga, California Part 3, April 30

Dress Pink in Drama Never use pink in a poem was a loving teacher’s only rule. What’s uncool about mauve sunsets often modulate to pink? Pink tulips, blush on pea ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Poetry

The Poetry of Samuel Irving Bellman

It was a surprise when Joel Bellman and his brother, Jonathan, discovered that his father not only wrote but published poems in his lifetime that they knew nothing about. It i ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Earth Day

Earth Day Activities at TECS

Earth Day is a celebrated day in Topanga and continues to be celebrated at Topanga Elementary Charter School (TECS), even with Covid restrictions. As we return to school in pe ...(Read More)

Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

By Amy Weisberg, M.Ed.

Topanga Historical Society

Topanga Before Today

Confederacy Daughters April 4, 1912, Los Angeles Times—Mrs. Anna Eckenberger, at the Peeler ranch in Topanga Canyon, will entertain the Wade Hampton Chapter, United Daughte ...(Read More)

All Things Connected

EMR—Electronic Medical Records

Remember when the wall behind the doctor’s office receptionist was lined with paper charts? Yours was filed there with everyone else’s medical records until pulled for you ...(Read More)

Paula Labrot

By Paula Labrot

Upcoming Events

MOMentum Place

A Mother’s Day spectacular like no other! Join us for MOMentum Place on Zoom Mother’s Day, May 9, 2 p.m. PST as Lexi Pearl hosts an afternoon of astounding aerial performa ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

FREE Theatricum Jazz Brunch

Theatricum Jazz Brunch is coming up May 22, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. PST on Zoom. Bring your own brunch and enjoy an afternoon of improvisational jazz music featuring an ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Healing with the Horse Retreat

Healing with the Horse will hold an all-inclusive retreat on the weekend of May 15-16 at Rituel Nature Refuge in Topanga, an opportunity for you to push the res ...(Read More)

The Canyon Chronicle

By The Canyon Chronicle

Thinking Out Loud

Where Are They Now?

Schoolhouse Scoop

Topanga Historical Society

All Things Connected

Upcoming Events

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