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By Stephen Hadland Observer Publisher Mayor Jim Clarke and Councilwoman Meghan Sahli-Wells debated an amendment introduced by Clarke to the ban on plastics and polystyrene. The ban is modeled on the ordinance currently in place by the City of Manhattan Beach. The ban would include plastic lids and other plastic items. Exemptions would be subject to review every year. The amendment expands options for exemptions to the ordinance based on economic hardships with an annual review of the hardships...
December 25, 1951 – February 12, 2017 Mary Kathleen "Katie" Shery was the oldest daughter of Roger W. O'Mara and Mary G. O'Mara. A native of Culver City, she graduated from Notre Dame High and Cal State Northridge with a teaching degree. She taught for the Los Angeles Unified School District for 40 years, the last 38 at Shenandoah Street Elementary School. She loved teaching, especially 3rd grade. She was loved and respected by everyone, students, staff, and parents, some of whom were in her c...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor I had covered the Lakers for several years before Mitch Kupchak came along. Kupchak told the media to call him Mitchell. "That's because Mitch Chortkoff was here first," he said. "Mitch is taken, I'll be Mitchell." Now Mitchell has been fired after 30 years with the organization. Jim Buss, Jeanie Buss' brother, has been fired too. And John Black, the Lakers' publicist for the last 27 years, has been fired. It's a very sad time for key members of this once-great...
Culver City movie fans can warm up for the Oscars on Wednesday, February 22 at a legendary site that’s been a favorite hangout for studio folks and locals for 80 years: the Backstage Bar & Grill! From 5 –7pm you can enjoy handmade hot hors d'oeuvres and an open bar (beer, wine, and cocktails) for just $20.00 per person or $35.00 per couple. The Backstage is located at 10400 Culver Boulevard in Culver City. It’s directly across from Sony Studios. You must be 21 to attend. Proceeds help fund the Culver City Centennial....
The Culver City Police Department has reported that they are experiencing temporary technical difficulties with their non-emergency phone line (310) 837-1221. Please call the front desk at 310) 253-6208 for all non-emergency police services until further notice. CCPD gave no reason for the outage. As always, call 911 for emergency services....
A film eloquently crafted and visualized. A unique story structure. A visual style best described as painterly beauty with strong framing and use of color. A story seen through the eyes of an 11-year old girl in middle America farm country in the 1982 Reagan Era. This is AMERICAN FABLE, the feature debut of writer/director Anne Hamilton. Lawyer turned filmmaker, one look at the film and you immediately see Hamilton's legal background come into play with the balance within her storytelling....
Am I gullible? Am I naïve? But why, I ask, do people believe they can mess up the system and not get caught? VW, Takata air-bags and Wells Fargo Bank are just a few examples of the leaders who went over the edge. Many believe the Department of Justice should not only fine the companies but put their leaders in cell block C. Do you remember Sears and Roebuck on Manchester and Hillcrest in Inglewood? It was so popular they had a lady on the roof with a mic directing drivers to parking stalls. We...
It was a shot that brought the house down on Senior Night. With the score suddenly tied and 10 seconds left on the game clock the Culver City High girls basketball season was literally on the line. A home loss to Beverly Hills would deny the Centaurs an invitation to the 2017 CIF Playoffs for the first time in seven years. On Thursday, February 9, the Norman girls managed to claw their way from a seven-point deficit in the final minutes of the final Ocean League game of the season against...
A team of Cal Poly mechanical engineering students ----- including Kota Osawa of Culver City ----- won first place and $4,000 at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2016 Student Design Competition on Nov. 13 in Phoenix. Cal Poly's five-member team displayed a battery-powered, model-sized manufacturing system that fired paper projectiles through the air. Judges assigned scores based on the total distance traveled by the projectiles, among other criteria. In addition to Ozawa, team...
Rams Head Coach Sean Mcvay has announced that his 18-member coaching staff is complete. “We have a great group of talented coaches that I’m very excited to work with this year,” McVay said. “They have a vast array of experiences and the qualities we are looking for as we build this staff. Their unique insight to the game will collectively make this team better as we prepare for the 2017 season.” McVay previously announced Wade Phillips as defensive coordinator. Joining him as coordinators are Matt Lafleur who will oversee the offense and John...
Every Thursday morning at 9 am women from the Culver City Woman's Club meet at the Westfield Culver City mall to walk and talk. Sometimes there are a few, sometimes there are many, but it's always fun. We meet outside of the Target store on the third level and walk for an hour. Everyone walks at their own pace ... some slowly, some moderately, some briskly. And then at 10 we gather for drinks and snacks at the Coffee Bean on the first level. Anyone is welcome to walk with us, even if you're not...
The number five will be a key number when UCLA battles USC in men’s basketball on Saturday. USC is looking to be victorious over the Bruins for the fifth time in a row and UCLA wants to extend their winning streak to five games. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. inside Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. The No. 6 ranked Bruins are 23-3 overall and 10-3 in the Pac-12 conference. USC is 21-5 and 8-5. The Bruins have been highly ranked all year but the Trojans have rarely cracked the top 25. With five r...
Emma Angel Castro of Culver City has been named to The University of Alabama's President's List. A total of 11,758 students enrolled during the 2016 fall semester at UA were named to the Dean's List with an academic record of 3.5 (or above) or the President's List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A's). The UA Dean's and President's lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or undergraduate students who take less than a full course load. The University of Alabama, the state's oldest and...
City Manager’s Office Interagency Communication Interoperability (ICI) System On February 2 Mayor Jim B. Clarke, Fire Chief Dave White and staff participated the ICI System Strategic Planning Session and Annual State of the Network Meeting in Glendale. The ICI system is shared radio system with components purchased and constructed by individual cities and linked together through a microwave network in order to provide regional coverage. Each city maintains its own network components. The ICI S...
By Cameron Shields Age 13 I received a text message from my mom asking if I wanted to go to Washington D.C. to report on President Obama honoring the Chicago Cubs with their trophy for winning the 2016 World Series. I answered with an immediate yes, but honestly I thought she was pulling a prank on me. Later that night we received a message from Kids Scoop Media wanting us to confirm our willingness to participate in this opportunity. The prank had quickly become a reality, we were actually going to Washington D.C. We immediately started...
By Henry Jamrok, age 7 On January 16, 2017 I went to the White House as a Reporter for Kid Scoop Media. I went there to write an article about President Obama and the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs had won the World Series for the first time in 108 years and they were there to celebrate with the President! This was President Obama’s last event at the White House. The celebration took place in the East Room, which is the biggest room in the White House. When I walked in the room, there were tons of people blocking my view. They were reporters and p...
MOM’s Club of Culver City East recently made a donation of $500 cash and a slew of age-appropriate toys to the CCUSD Office of Child Development. “We are so lucky to have the support of so many people in the Culver City community,” said Claudia Arreola, director of the Office of Child Development. “These toys will make the children we serve very happy, and I know that as moms themselves, the members of the MOM’s Club know how important it is to engage young minds.” The Office of Child Development offers the highest level of safe and educati...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor I’ve been around Magic Johnson through all the years since he came to the Lakers. He’s been fantastic as a basketball player and then a businessman. He fought HIV a long time ago and he’s still living and accomplishing. But if he intends to make the Lakers great again he’s got another tough battle ahead. I have so much respect for him and I’d never say he can’t do something he wants to do. But frankly I don’t see how he can defeat the reality that a new NBA rul...
Legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean will be "driving his chevy to the" Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on February 25 on his 2017 concert tour. He is best known for his magnum opus, "American Pie," an impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The song popularized the expression "The Day the Music Died" in reference to this event. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in...
As if the world isn't already drinking in enough Technicolored musical cheer with "La La Land", hot on its heels is an animated musical treat to make your Christmas or Hanukkah brighter than bright - SING! Move over Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and DreamWorks, there's a new kid on the block who's climbing the charts - Illumination Entertainment. The folks who brought us "Despicable Me" and "The Secret Life of Pets" now ventures into the world of the animation musical with an engaging story,...
Quick, when is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday? When is George Washington's birthday? Every schoolchild in America used to know these dates. Now we celebrate "President's Day". I wonder if anyone knows which Presidents the day is celebrating. (I suspect our current President thinks it's about him). (And it may be...keep reading). Is it President's *Day* or President's *Weekend*? Or does that depend on what stores say in ads? The spelling itself is an issue. But we'll get to that. When I started t...
