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Culver City Friends of the Library and the Culver City Julian Dixon Library will be participating as a giving site for World Book Night on Tuesday, April 23. On this date 25,000 volunteers from Berkeley to Boston and Sitka to Sarasota will give away half a million free books in more than 6,000 towns and cities across the country. Volunteer book lovers help promote reading by going out into their communities and sharing free copies of books they love. The Culver City library will be holding a pre-World Book Night reception the week before April...
Eco-friendly Asparagus for Earth Day Get out the party hats and blow up the balloons because it’s time to celebrate Earth Day’s 43rd birthday on Monday. Blazing new trails to promote a clean and healthy planet, Earth Day was born April 22, 1970. Although Earth Day’s unofficial beginnings are a bit older than its years, the founder, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson was well aware of environmental degradation and its impact. Best known as ‘The Founder of Earth Day,’ the Wisconsin senator and environme...
Farragut Elementary’s Artworks! Online Auction is open for business until Wednesday, April 24 at 10pm. With nearly 400 items available a purchase would help provide a high-quality arts curriculum to the school’s 550 students. To get to it, visit the school booster club’s website, FarragutFanClub.org, and click on the “Online Auction” link. The Artwork! 10th Anniversary Fundraising Soiree will be held at Fresh Paint Art Gallery in Culver City on Saturday, April 20. Dinner, drinks, strolling entertainers, a DJ and live jazz will be available...
. As the Chair of the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee, Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. (D-Culver City) sent a strongly-worded letter to Sharon Levine, President of the Medical Board of California (MBC), questioning their enforcement of regulations that protect consumers from dangerous physicians. The letter, co-authored by Assemblyman Richard S. Gordon, Chair of the Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committees, was sent to the MBC to emphasize “the critical importance” of addressing the iss...
The late and greatly admired John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, not only lived but also wrote the definitive book on success. He stated, “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” The Culver City High baseball team respectively began to defend its Ocean League title with a two-game sweep of Beverly Hills, a 5-0 shutout in their home opener on Tuesday and a 7-4 victory in 10 innings Thursday at La Cienega Park, Bev...
West LA College Wins AMT Event The Aviation Mechanics team from West Los Angeles College took first place in the “Turbine Engine Event” at their very first appearance at the Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Society's Maintenance Skills Competition. At the March event held in Las Vegas, the college also took fourth out of 11 teams in the School Category. The AMT competition drew students and professionals from around the world including Australia, Canada, China and the United States who competed in 5 categories: Commercial Aviation, Gen...
The Culver City High softball team won its Ocean League home opener in convincing fashion, 15-0, over Inglewood High on Thursday, April 11. The victory followed a league loss on the road against a strong Hawthorne team two days earlier, 9-3. Centaur Coach John Sargent acknowledged his young team’s positive response, “I’m very proud of the girls whether they’re up or down. They come back on Wednesday and they have a great practice. They relax and that’s what we’re trying to do, that one element...
