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By Sandra Coopersmith Feature Writer If reincarnation exists and the universe is listening, consider this my bid to come back as a student at Turning Point School in Culver City. Please. In 2010 the Intergenerational Writers Workshop, comprised of the school's Level 6 students and volunteers from Culver City Senior Center, first convened. Having been lucky enough to participate from Day One, it has become my annual rite, and this year's recently concluded fifth workshop was certainly one to...
If you are a property owner in Culver City you should read this. The Culver City Unified School District Board is placing a Bond Measure on the ballot in June that will increase property taxes for the next 25 years. If passed, this measure will add a total of $217 million to the cost of owning a home over the next 25 years. Academically our schools are performing admirably and many of them have significantly improved their API scores over the last few years. The school board argues however,...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Darius Banks, one of the most talented quarterbacks in Culver City High history, is planning to resume his career at Bethany College in Kansas next season. Banks has received a full scholarship, which is unusual at an NAIA school. Banks’ last year at Culver City was in 2008. He played two successful years at Fullerton College and also attended Central Washington. Banks may have former Centaur teammate Ijumaa Armstrong on the Bethany team. Armstrong, a receiver a...
The Republican Party County Central Committee 54th Assembly District Board (which includes Culver City) meets every second Tuesday of the month. The next meeting is March 11 at Lenny's Deli, 2379 Westwood Blvd. from 7 pm to 9. For further information contact Tyler Koteskey (tylerk65@gmail.com) or call (323) 251-5682. Please visit the website at: www.cagop54thad.com...
City Clerk’s Office • City Commissions, Committees, and Boards Applications - Applications for current vacancies on various City Commissions, Committees, and Boards are currently being accepted! More information and the online application form can be accessed here: https://www.culvercity.org/Government/Misc/Commissions.aspx. The first deadline is March 11. Please call (310) 253-5851 for more information. Community Development Department • Southern California Hospital – The Watseka Parking...
Elli Christina Papadopoulos of Culver City and Seth Dionne Burroughs of New York City have announced their engagement. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Shelly Papadopoulos of Culver City and Petros Papadopoulos, of Thessaloniki, Greece. A graduate of Culver City High, she holds a bachelor's degree in business from the USC and is employed as a loan officer for Grow America Fund in New York City. The bridegroom-to-be is the son of Ida Dionne Burroughs, of Plainfield, the late Robert A....
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist March is upon us and many of my friends are wondering where can I go that is new and different, close by and reasonable. Try these. Story time at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, 3:30 p.m. Saturdays. Adults $5, children under 13 free. See healthebay.org. Santa Monica Conservancy Walking Tours of downtown Santa Monica, Saturdays at 10 a.m. For two hours and in six blocks one can discover 130 years of Santa Monica history. Public $10. Phone: (310) 496-3146....
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter The Culver City High girls basketball team gallantly fought for and secured its second consecutive invitation to the CIF Southern Section, Division 2AA championship game. The Centaurs eliminated another powerhouse on the road, Norco High of Riverside County Tuesday night. The 68-55 final score was the Centaurs’ sweetest victory of the season and especially considering that Norco was the scene of the team’s semifinal heartbreaking loss two years ago by four poi...
The Culver City Sister City committee invites the public to welcome two delegates from our sister city of Kaizuka, Japan, who will be here to participate in the Los Angeles Marathon. Hidekazu Matoba and Masako Okazaki will be spending a week in Culver City, during which they’ll be touring, shopping and meeting with city officials. The visit is part of an program in which Culver City and Kaizuka have sent runners to each other’s annual marathon for more than two decades. A potluck welcome dinner is being held on Friday, March 7, and local res...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Grace, poise, execution and team defined the Culver City High girls basketball team at Del Goodyear Gymnasium last Saturday night as the they went toe-to-toe with perennial Orange County power Foothill High. And the Centaurs delighted the intimate but boisterous home crowd in a third round CIF Southern Section, Division 2AA playoff thriller by seizing victory in the final crucial minutes, 57-49. Only four days earlier the Culver girls took a nice long bus ride...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Based on my actions of the last 30 years or so, I made a startling decision last Friday. Without question, if the Lakers were playing that night I’d go there. It’s been my work. I need to know what’s going on with the team. But reality set in. The story wasn’t at the Lakers’ game. They’re out of playoff contention and they were playing the Sacramento Kings, a similarly awful team. No, I needed to spend the day at the Clippers’ training facility, where there w...
Life is a story and you are the main character. Your first chapters will help for the next times we must write and live.) Time is running out and the world is getting smaller, but there is enough time to make the world a better place by uniting ourselves as one, working together as one, one people, one voice. I have a dream that every human being will greatly value himself and herself, not with arrogance but with a self-respect that will engender valuing and respecting every other human being. That is my dream, for someday for every kid to...
Under threat of rain and cover of tents, emotions and energy were as high and as raging with fun and comaraderie as the wild surf on the beach at Santa Monica. While dodging raindrops and even seeing a peak of the sun throughout the afternoon, by the time big name winners Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey and 12 Years a Slave, took to the stage, the skies opened and thundered roared as if the gods themselves were applauding and crying tears of joy for the celebration of indie spirit and...
At the request of Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Culver City), the Senate has established a new Senate Select Committee titled Women and Inequality: Strategies to Promote Opportunity, which she will chair. "Women have not shared equally in the emerging recovery," noted Senator Mitchell, whose district includes much of South Los Angeles. "Recent budget actions have targeted programs that low-income women rely on to support their families and acquire the education and skills they need to find and...
The Culver City Unified School District Board voted Tuesday to place a $106 million School Bond on the June 2014 California General Election. Dave LaRose, Superintendent of Schools, will be presenting the issues facing Culver City Schools and the proposal to solve many of the issues at the Culver City Chamber's "Issues & Eggs Forum" Thursday, March 13. The program at the Doubletree by Hilton, 6161 W. Centinela Blvd. begins at 7:45 am following registration at 7:30. He will discuss the list of...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter At their meeting Tuesday night, the Culver City Board of Education unanimously approved an election set for June 3 to pass bonds that would fund renovations and installation of new equipment for school buildings and campuses in the Culver City school district. The election will decide whether the district can issue and sell bonds in the aggregate amount of $106,000,000 to raise money for the repairs that so many parents, teachers, employees, and community mem...
This week brings us two delectable works that embrace and celebrate film noir and all the deliciousness of the genre. One, THE BAG MAN, inspired by "The Cat", a work by Jungian scholar Marie-Louse von Franz, is set in present day and filled with slick saturated hyper-realistic color and frenetic yet controlled emotion. The other, IN SECRET, set in 1897 Paris, is based on Emile Zola's scandalously lust-filled novel "Therese Raquin". Both films are filled with murder, guilt, lust and madness, not...
