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Page 4 Palisades News March 18, 2015 Pfannkuche (Continued from Page 1) Coastal Commission okayed the Y’s right to exercise its option on a 4-acre parcel in Temescal Canyon, at the entrance off Sunset. Pfannkuche told the News that her subsequent accomplishments in Temescal were all part of a “relay” race. “It was because Corwin Davis, Everett Maguire, Duke and others had been fighting for the right for the Y to buy the property.” She also credits the Simon family. “Certainly Simon Meadow would not be what it is without Bill and Cindy feeling strongly about a place for families to get together,” and making a major donation towards that goal. Pfannkuche also remembers reaching out to several individuals, including Kelly Comras, Rob Lowe, Randy Young and Volunteers Sought At Village Green The monthly Village Green “spruce up” will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, at the triangular park located between Sunset Boulevard, Swarthmore Avenue and Antioch Street. Residents who have never volunteered before are welcome to join the “regular” Village Green crew. Those participating are asked to bring clippers and gloves. High school students can receive community service hours. YMCA Executive Director Carol Pfannkuche with board member and contributor Everett Maquire in Simon Meadow. Photo: Shelby Pascoe David Card, in order to achieve effective landscaping at Simon Meadow. She was asked about the Temescal Pool, which closed during her watch. “The facility was 50 years old and the pipe structure needed to be replaced. We were willing to raise the money to do it, but our contract [with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy] only allowed for routine repairs and maintenance. We asked if we could do the repairs, but we were declined.” Pfannkuche said that several members of the pool committee wanted to sue for the right to make the repairs, but the legal costs and the possible ill will resulted in a decision not to go ahead. When Pfannkuche arrived at the Y, the exercise equipment was mismatched and not of professional grade. State-of-the-art equipment is now leased and renewed on a regular basis. “What the Y offers, in addition to top equipment, is a personal relationship,” she said. “It’s those relationships that help people become successful in fitness programs. My staff is friendly and knows everyone— it’s hard to find that anywhere else.” While serving as director, Pfannkuche has looked at other possibilities to build a new facility in town, but that quest remains elusive. “Every Y has to ask what the community needs,” she said. “This community is short of playing field space for kids and Simon Meadow has turned out to be great for that.” She believes that bringing in a new director will help “give the Y a new perspective” on what to do about acquiring or building a larger facility. Pfannkuche, who starts full-time downtown April 1, is currently working at both locations. She and her husband Tony, a management consultant in the health field, have two daughters. Molly is working on a graduate degree in clinical exercise physiology at the University of Wisconsin and Katie is majoring in psychology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Although the Pfannkuches might like to move downtown in the future, Carol is grounded here with an 18-month-old golden retriever named Princess Bella Samantha Cupcake (her girls couldn’t decide on the name), and presidency of the Palisades Rotary Club, starting in July.
March 18, 2015 Palisades News Page 5 Stress Can Provide Insight By LAUREL BUSBY Staff Writer Earlier this year, stress expert Amanda Enayati asked an assembly of about 500 Marquez Elementary School students to say “bad” if stress could be really bad. “The entire assembly erupted,’” she said. “I then asked the kids to say ‘good’ if stress can be really good. Nobody said anything.” And yet, Enayati, who has written on the subject for CNN, NPR and the Washington Post, has found that stress can actually be beneficial on many levels, and it’s our cultural view that stress is always bad that is the problem. In her new book, Seeking Serenity: The 10 New Rules for Health and Happiness in the Age of Anxiety” (Penguin Publishing Group), Enayati discusses ways to help people take advantage of stress and turn life’s challenges into growth experiences. “There is good stress. Stress helps you be more creative. It helps you recover from wounds better,” said Enayati, who moved to Pacific Palisades two years ago. It is important that “we try to see stress in the right way as a path to evolution, a path to growth.” Enayati became an expert on stress in part through her own life experience. She was flooded with adversity. At nine years old, while growing up in Iran, she lost her home during the Iranian Revolution and for five years became a refugee living in various parts of Europe without her parents. In September 2011, she was in New York City and saw the World Trade Center collapse, which caused severe post-traumatic stress disorder owing to her childhood experiences. Most recently, when her children were toddlers, she developed cancer, which she has fought successfully. Strangely enough, the latter event put Enayati on the path that led her to her current jobs—writing about stress for CNN Health and PBS Media-Shift. In the process, she became an expert on the role stress plays in our lives, which resulted in book. “Seeking Serenity” is full of fascinating insights about stress. For example, in one section, Enayati talks about post-traumatic growth—”the ability not only to bounce back from adversity, but also to flourish.” As an example, she describes the experience of Major Rhonda Cornum, a young flight surgeon who survived a Black Hawk helicopter crash with two broken arms and a bullet in her back only to be sexually assaulted and imprisoned, but who then triumphed through the adversity and is now a brigadier general who has helped de- Amanda Enayati velop a program to teach resilience skills to other soldiers. Statistically, the human response to extreme stress tends to lie on a bell curve, according to Dr. Martin Seligman, whose work Enayati describes. On one end are people who have an intense, long-lasting reaction and may suffer from depression, anxiety and PTSD with a higher risk for suicide. In the middle are those who are mostly resilient and may have a hard time for several months, while on the far end are those who emerge from the trauma even stronger than before it—experiencing post-traumatic growth. This skill for resilience is not necessarily in-born; it can also be learned, and Enayati provides readers the tools to develop it themselves. Drawing from scientific studies, philosophy and individual stories, she also details other ways to enhance positive reactions to stress. Her book has chapters on the power of belonging, the benefits of giving to others, and the importance of creativity. She describes skills using meditation and mindfulness that can help with handling every day stresses, such as traffic and the demands of our modern world. In addition, she delineates the physiology of stress and the stories that we tell ourselves about the inevitable stresses of life. “What can make stress dangerous is the way you see stress,” said Enayati, who has two children, Mina, 10 and Rohan, 8, with her husband Jaime Uzeta. “It’s those stories that pave the way for whether we evolve and learn and grow instead of saying ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why is this adversity happening to us?’” (Amanda Enayati’s tips for helping kids handle stress can be read on Page 3 of the camp section in today’s paper.) Solar Estates Director & Westside Specialist Since 1988 SOLD IN 2014 Electricity from the Sun 1000 Fiske St. Listed at $3,695,000 717 Toyopa Dr. Listed at $3,750,000 866 Muskingum Ave. Listed at $5,850,000 FOR DYNAMIC REPRESENTATION, CALL JOAN! www.joansather.com • joan@joansather.com 310.740.0302 CalBRE #00575771 Lighten Your Electric Bill with Solar! Your own Palisades Solar Company Free Quote (310) 459-7062 Joyce Brunelle (310) 459-7062 Joyce@solarsuntricity.com www.solarsuntricity.com Licensed, Bonded, Insured 35 yrs in CA Lic #369267, B1, C10, C46
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