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The city council plans to adoption of the Coyote Study and Management Program and awarding of a Contract on Monday night May 13. The meeting begins at 7pm at City Hall in the Mike Balkman Council Chambers. The City Council agenda item report will be available online no later than 72 hours prior to the meeting date. Coyotes have become a growing problems with coyotes roaming local neighborhoods, with pets being attacked and killed by them. "We documented 50 deaths of animals where there were still enough of the remains so that we could identify...
The 16th annual Culver City Car Show returns to Veteran's park on Saturday May11, 8am until 6pm. Presented by the Culver City Exchange Club will present the event is family friendly and features classic autos, auto-related vendors, food trucks, a beer garden and live music. The show will go on rain or shine and admission is free to the public. The annual show raises money to fund the prevention of child abuse, support local youth programs like the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center, the Y.M.C.A,...
Pierre Joujon Roche of Culver City died after a long illness. Pierre was active in the community serving on the Culver City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors he was active in the sister city committee. And owned King’s Hallmark in the old Fox Hills Mall. His wife Nancy reported the news on Facebook The Observer will publish news of any services on its website....
Don't fall prey to predators! With May being Older Americans Month, this warning to seniors is timely. Fortunately, the con artists and scammers are up against a hardy band of superheroes. Adrienne Omansky's Stop Senior Scams Acting Program ("SSSAP"), founded in 1998, is actively involved at senior centers, libraries, community centers and other venues, offering presentations that use skits to entertainingly inform older adults about senior fraud and ways to prevent it. Be sure to check them...
My good friend Maria AKA “The Wild Gypsy Lady” told me about the good work the Stentorians are doing at Dorsey High School. The Stentorians is a Black firefighter organization with members in L.A. City Fire Department, as well as L.A. County Fire, and teach skills and physical conditioning to those transitioning from being a regular citizen into the fire service twice a week, they stress self-discipline to persevere to be motivated, and how to work as a team. In a recent program there were 24...
The number of school districts facing insolvency is probably far higher than what is being shown by California’s most recent state-wide annual data, and the reason for this is the districts’ swelling pension costs. According to the survey by Pivot Learning and the California School Boards Association, nearly sixty percent of California's school districts may be forced to deficit spend before this school year ends. The Pivot Learning research—with help from the University of Missouri—sought to explore the degree in which pension costs were un...
Annual La Ballona Valley Bromeliad Society (LBVBS) show and sale Saturday is being held this weekend, May 4&5, in the Garden Room at the Veterans Memorial Hall located at 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City. The show hours are 10am until 5pm on Saturday an 12pm until 5pm on Sunday. Sale hours 10am until 5pm on Saturday only. Admission and parking are free. For more information call (310)487-3367. The LBVBS for short is a group of bromeliad enthusiasts and plant lovers from Los Angeles and...
The Culver City Woman's Club recently held their now annual walk around the lake at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills to raise money for the California Penny Pines Reforestation program. This program was started in 1941 by a women's organization in San Francisco. Seedlings could be purchased for a penny each, hence the name "Penny Pines". At that time, the forest service paid for the cost of site preparation and planting, while donations paid for the seedlings to be planted....
Silent Torment was written by an Air Force veteran and stars military veterans who are wrestling with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). It is being presented at the Blue Door Theater in Culver City. Steven, an injured U.S. Marine returns home to find that his life and reality have changed drastically, his physical injuries are only superficial compared to the pain he carries in his heart and mind. As he struggles to cope with his emotions and bitterness the relationships, he cherishes...
There was plenty of gold awaiting Culver City High track and field. But the big surprise of the 2019 Ocean League Finals was the Centaur varsity girls upset loss to El Segundo High by a single point, 144-143. Yet not to be denied, the Culver City boys varsity and girls frosh/soph teams defended their respective league titles. The Culver varsity girls dominated in the sprints, hurdles and relays but failed to win the League Championship for the first time in five years. El Segundo excelled in...
The Los Angeles Rams spent three days of the 2019 NFL Draft trading away their first-round pick, swapping draft choices and adding selections. Safety Taylor Rapp became the Rams top choice at No. 29 in the Second Round and 61st overall. Eventually the Super Bowl finalists settled on three third-rounders, one fourth, one fifth and two seventh picks. We didn't feel like we would get him, but through it all we're always like, 'Wow, Taylor Rapp,' because of his rare instincts, short area...
The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2019 NFL draft with just a few holes to fill and filled them quite nicely in the three-day draft that started on April 25th and ended April 27th. Despite having a top ten defense in 2018, there were a few holes to be filled in the middle of the defense. The Chargers used Notre Dame and a relative of NFL football royalty to help fill the key areas on defense. Here are the seven round results of the 2019 Charger draft: Round 1 - Jerry Tillery, Defensive...
In a preview of the Pac-12 Championships this weekend, two of the top track & field programs in the nation faced off on Sunday when UCLA took on USC at Loker Stadium on the campus of USC. In a split decision, the UCLA men soundly defeated the USC men’s track team, 102-60, while the USC women sprinted past the UCLA women, 90-69. Both UCLA and USC will participate in the PAC-12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Tucson, Arizona, this weekend - May 4th and 5th. On the men’s side, UCLA was led...
Five teams of deaf and hard-of-hearing students from Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf went head-to-head March 28 during The Next Big Idea business competition. Judges from the competition's sponsor, ZVRS, a video-relay service headquartered in Clearwater, Fla., reviewed projects of the team finalists, asked questions and selected first-, second- and third-place winners. Karina Baker of Culver City was part of the second-place team Thinking Hands. Thinking Hands is an online educational platform that...
