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Last Saturday morning, at La Ballona Elementary School, a group of local volunteers from the various local service clubs, including, the Exchange Club, the Lions Club, the Culver City Rotary, the Kiwanis Club, the Women's Club, Friends of the Library, the Club Rotario de Latino Unidos, the Interact Club and the La Ballona PTA descended upon the school site to help revitalize the school's gardens with fresh new plantings and to install a new wooden, picnic style table in the school's garden...
Last Friday, all four Varsity teams beat the Hawthorne Cardinals to sweep the competition. Boys Basketball won 88-22 and are now in sole-possession of first-place as Santa Monica beat Beverly 76-64 in Ocean League action. The Lady Centaurs won their basketball game 52 to 34 and are now 3-1 in league and pulled their overall record even at 9-9. The varsity Boys and Girls soccer teams beat their much-improved Cardinal competition by the same score: 6-0. In the Boys match, striker, Hayden Brown had a hat-trick; scoring the first three goals of...
Culver City leaders drew the ire of residents this week following the deadly shooting at a homeless encampment on Venice Boulevard. Culver City and Los Angeles police received a call shortly before 1 p.m. last Saturday that a man with a gun had just exited a tent at the homeless encampment under the 405 Freeway at Venice Boulevard. LAPD was first on the scene and a supervisor confronted the suspect. A shooting ensued and the suspect was shot, police said. Culver City and Los Angeles City...
Culver City will remember and celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr this weekend on what would have been his 91st birthday. Entitled Remembering King the event begins on Monday, January 20 at 4 pm with a breathtaking performance from Actor, Gerald C. Rivers as he reenacts a Dr. King speech at City Hall’s main gates. Followed by a candlelight ceremony to honor Dr. King lead by the Culver City Inter Faith Alliance. Mr. Rivers has dedicated his life’s work to keeping alive the spirit and...
The Culver City Homelessness Committee is seeking volunteers for the 2020 Homelessness Count, which will place Wednesday, Jan. 22 beginning at 8 p.m. Culver City’s Homeless Count is being conducted in coordination with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), which conducts the count annually. Karlo Silbiger, the Committee’s Chair, added: "Once a year, it is important for us as a community to take stock of the housing issues in our community and of the people affected by it. With your help, we can ensure an accurate count so tha...
In the United States the number of deaths from drug overdoses has more than doubled in the last 16 years. Prevention magazine published a report October 2017 stating more than 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2015, that figure is 211 percent higher than the 16,849 in 1999. Drug overdoses now kill more people than suicide, homicide, car crashes or firearm deaths. States with the most auto fatalities for 2015 Texas 3516 California 3176 Florida 2939 Georgia 1430 North Carolina 1379...
While much of the early off-season discussion regarding the Los Angeles Chargers has involved quarterback Philip Rivers, there needs to be an equal amount of discussion revolving around the defensive unit of the Chargers, which regressed last season under defensive coordinator Gus Bradley. In 2019, the Chargers ranked last in the NFL in takeaways at 14. As a comparison, the Pittsburgh Steelers led the NFL in takeaways with 38. The New England Patriots were second with 36. The Chargers ranked...
Talented players and good coaching creates a winning combination most of the time. In the case of the USC men's basketball team it appears that combination is putting the Trojans in a position to stay near the top of a very talented Pac-12 league. At press time (Tuesday)10 of the 12 Pac-12 teams had winning records and the other two teams, UCLA and California were 8-8. USC was 13-3 at press time and they have the talent to continue to battle the best teams in the Pac-12. Stanford, Oregon, Colora...
After winning two down-to-the-wire games in the opening week of the 2019-20 Ocean League, Culver City High boys basketball is tied for first place with defending champion Beverly Hills High. The Centaurs edged out Santa Monica High, 43-41, last Wednesday night at home before going on the road to defeat Lawndale High, 69-66, in double overtime on Friday. "We were coming off a hard preseason. Coming into league we wanted to get off on the right foot. Our kids saw that themselves as we had a lot...
Tight end Antonio Gates of the Chargers has announced his retirement from the NFL. Gates played 16 years with the Chargers, starting in 2003 and ending in 2018. Gates sat out the 2019 season as an unrestricted free agent. Gates is the NFL all-time leader from the tight end position in touchdown receptions with 116. Gates joined the Chargers as an undrafted free agent out of Kent State, having never played college football. At Kent State, Gates played basketball, averaging 18.1 points per game...
Culver City Police have arrested Joshua Ebow of Los Angeles in connection with 2 recent stabbings at the Westfield Culver City Mall. Ebow was booked last week on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. He is being held at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles on $135,000 bail. On December 29, Culver City police officers were flagged down outside of Five Guys Restaurant at the Mall by patrons who reported a man had just been stabbed. Officers located the victim but the suspect...
Dear Editor, I just want to put this on paper, how I was cheated out of $189. on my property tax for this year, 2019, which I already paid in full. I live in a condo; on my garage cork board was an elaborate write-up about K, saying that old persons could opt-out if done by June 2019. The notice first appeared to me there about 17 Nov 2019!! A couple of days later was a replacement brochure relating to 2020. I traced the persons and organizations, and was told that a post card notice was mailed...
Culver City high school's football program has been successful for many years and especially the last few years. The football team has reached three consecutive CIF semifinal games and they won the CIF championship last year. During that time many great players have played inside the Jerry Chabola Stadium on the Culver City campus. One of those players is Alex Smith. Last Wednesday Smith played for the University of Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. "It feels great," said Smith at the Lawry's Beef...
The Culver City Jewish War Veterans Post 617 mentioned in a recent newsletter the USS Arizona is in a bad state of repair and will remain closed indefinite. Have you ever head of Cloud Break Communities? Well, neither have I; they claim to have affordable Housing at every location, Supportive Housing Developments and continual partnerships with area non-profits. VASH/Vouchers accepted, utilities included, kitchens available in studio/one bedroom units, priority leasing to qualified homeless vete...
