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2 weeks ago | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
Under the Oaks and Gan Malibu Preschool defy the flames — preserving generations of learning, love, and communityShe stood in the warmly embracing, cheerful room whose walls have witnessed generations of Malibu’s wee wanes singing, dancing, listening to stories, and learning. Those walls also witnessed the Palisades Fire ravaging all around them, and how Under the Oaks Malibu Preschool miraculously survived the unrelenting conflagration.
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2 weeks ago | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
This writer clearly remembers standing in the corn fields of central Minnesota when I was a child, marveling at all the worms wriggling and writhing within a fistful of brown, moist soil I had scooped into my hands. Farm life teaches one that such healthy soil full of abundant organisms is the most productive and, importantly, that it must be tended to tenderly.
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2 months ago | 
citylifestyle.com | Barbara Burke
As busy mothers and their loving families celebrate Mother’s Day, it’s the perfect time to explore Conejo Valley Med Spa’s offerings, including specialized aesthetic medicine modalities to help women illuminate their inner beauty by discovering how luxurious and simple it is to indulge in a variety of popular treatments.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
citylifestyle.com | Barbara Burke
“Dr. Carissa has been a blessing—I don’t know what we would have done without her!” shares Kristin Young, owner of Louie, a 6-year-old French bulldog treated by Dr. Carissa Hoffman of California Integrative Veterinary Services in the Young’s home post-surgery.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
As policymakers consider a fire czar to oversee all rebuilds, residents push for their own rebuild managerAs the city opens a new rebuild center and hires consultants to address the needs of those seeking to rebuild the approximately 700 Malibu homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire, neighborhood advocates seek to have representatives to formally interface with city staff and its rebuild consultants.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
citylifestyle.com | Barbara Burke
A loving, experienced, highly qualified staff warmly and supportively embraces residents at Laurel Heights, a boutique independent, assisted and senior memory care community in Moorpark. “We are an intimate, family-owned community that values strong relationships and is dedicated to providing services and amenities of the highest caliber to our residents,” says Laurel Heights’ Memory Care Director Carthel Mercado.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
“Let’s love our Malibu restaurants even more and support locally-owned businesses!” Pastor Andy Vom Steeg admonished parishioners, visitors, and all those who follow Malibu Pacific Church on social media. “We are playing blackout Bingo!”Since it’s Bingo, of course, there are both prizes and a lot of fun. Complete a square on your Bingo card. Share it with @GoLocalMalibu. You can do this with a physical card or with a screenshot on your phone.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
PCH closure and fires devastate local economy, forcing businesses to fight for survival“We need some angels to help,” said Yvonne Delarosa Green, proprietor of Malibu’s 99 High Tide Collective, a recreational cannabis and marijuana dispensary that is approaching its 10-year anniversary.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
Rosemarie Ihde and her son valiantly defended their Big Rock home from the Palisades FireShe steadfastly stood her ground. She was very prepared. She told the Palisades Fire to stand down — and, amazingly, it did. She’s Rosemarie Ihde, 80, who, along with her son, Thomas Ihde, managed to save the family home in the Big Rock neighborhood — the home that Rosemarie and her husband bought in 1975. The home where they raised their family. The home where they made 50 years of memories.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
malibutimes.com | Barbara Burke
Although insurance availability will increase, premiums may well skyrocket even further New California Insurance Commission rules will require insurers to write more homeowners insurance policies in wildfire-prone areas. Most likely, insurance consumers reading this will think that is heartening news. However, there is a wrinkle — although the regulations giveth via their mandates that insurers write policies in […]
