Not many 21 year olds buy a one-way plane ticket to Milan, Italy, but Lori Jones found herself doing just that.
“Back in the 1980’s when you were first starting out as a model, they put you on a plane to Europe almost immediately,” she says. “And it’s new, and exciting, and truly is an entirely different world than you have ever known.”
Less than half a decade shy of its centennial, the Vanderlip Ranch House – also called the Old Ranch Cottage –remains richly saturated in the eclectic design aesthetic of its original owners and their descendants.
Chris Adlam is a principal at Peninsula Sotheby’s International Realty and has been selling “Palos Verdes’ Finest Homes” for 25 years.
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Neither admits to being on the lookout for a new spouse, and neither remembers exactly how that first meeting occurred, but one thing Marylyn Ginsburg and Chuck Klaus agree on is they were at the same place at the same time.
Last year at this time I was very concerned – stock valuations were high and we had already had an unbelievable run that began in March 2009.
An Italian artist blooms far from home
The world is truly interconnected, and chance events play out in remarkable ways.
When Lauren Spiglanin realized she couldn’t get pregnant, she and her husband, Tom, decided to adopt a child from an orphanage in Armenia.
The opportunity to pair wine with community blooms with Peninsula couple
by Frank Brown
“Wait until you see the legs on this one,” says Bill Glantz to visitors at his Rancho Palos Verdes home.
Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook are happier from helping people
The rewards of helping others are well known to Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook, who are among the volunteer angels of the 40-year-old Community Helpline, one of the Peninsula’s enduring and well-known altruistic organizations.
When an accident in the bathroom was mistaken for her suicide attempt, Jenna Hamilton, 15, went from being invisible to being one of the most popular girls in school – but not for the reasons most teens probably seek popularity in high school.
