With 17,000 people displaced from Altadena by the Eaton fire , some trickle back to the burn-scared community and hold impromptu meetings in the middle of the town’s deserted streets.

For Ian White, the rebuilding of the Altadena park named after his father, Charles White Park, complete with a community building, could be that healing space for the town’s people.

“I do believe folks need to come back to the community and re-energize and to discuss challenges that everybody is having,” said White. “I am thinking about the global community. We are all part of it.”

White was all smiles on Thursday, Nov. 21, in the restored Loma Alta Gymnasium, where Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and other county officials announced White Park was one of five parks, plus a golf course, th

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