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April 26, 2013 Community Development Department · Hillside Memorial Park & Mortuary – Building plans have been submitted for new two-story garden mausoleum building, a new one-story maintenance building and a new burial garden located at Hillside, located at 6001 Centinela Avenue. · Conjunctive Points Property II, LP – A Building Permit has been issued for a minor alteration and improvements of the existing two-story commercial space located at 3960 Ince Boulevard. - City of Culver City Dog Park (“The Boneyard”) – A Building and Electrical...
Culver-Palms United Methodist Church’s annual yard sale will be held from 9 am to 3 pm on Saturday, June 1. Now is the time to look around for clean, usable shoes, clothing and household goods and donate them for the sale. The following items are all needed for the sale: toys, clothing, shoes, books, CDs, DVDs, housewares, linens, decorative items, gadgets, crafts, jewelry, sporting goods, furniture, electronics, tools, luggage, and large & small appliances in working condition. Receipts for tax-deductible donations will be issued. Donated i...
Honoring Albert and Ursula Vera The city is currently developing plans to rename Bush Way next door to Sorrento Market to honor the memory of Albert and Ursula Vera. Prior plans to name the Culver City Senior Citizens Center after the Veras appears to have been scuttled. This is a nice start but does not begin to honor them in a way that fully represents all they did for Culver City, and humanity. Ursula was not a political figure. She did for people out of the goodness of her heart. No one ever left Sorrento Market hungry even if they...
By David W. Myers Contributing Editor Six local high-schoolers, including three from Culver City High, have won the Culver City Elks’ annual “Most Valuable Student” scholarship contest. Three of the six scholarships went to young women, and the other half to young men. All six will head to college this fall, pursuing degrees ranging from engineering to medicine and law. “It’s a privilege for the Culver City Elks to honor these outstanding students,” said C. Michael Melton, who chaired the Elks’ Scholarship Committee and hosted the awards ce...
Mitchell’s Fracking Moratorium Bill Wins Key Vote Three bills that would halt fracking in California won key votes last week in Sacramento, passing the Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources despite intense pressure from the oil industry. One of the three bills, A.B. 1323, was authored by Assembly Member Holly Mitchell, whose 54th District includes Culver City. Local residents opposed to fracking had met with and educated her for more than a year. Assembly Member Mitchell’s bill, as well as bills by Assembly Member Richard Bloom...
On Monday, May 13, at the Culver City Council meeting, there will be a proclamation presentation made for Historic Preservation. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. At the May 14, Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission meeting, City Historian Julie Lugo Cerra will offer an illustrative PowerPoint presentation focusing on Culver City's distinctive historic structures and local efforts in historic preservation. Issues like "Does Historic Preservation Pay?" and "How can we achieve our goals in these difficult economic times?" will offer opportunity for...
A Journey Back in Time If you haven’t seen the newly renovated landmark Culver Hotel then it would be an excellent place to take Mom this Mother’s Day. Founded by Harry Culver in 1924, the iconic triangle-shape property located in the heart of downtown, the historic Culver Hotel recently went through a massive multi-million dollar makeover, which was completed at the end of 2011. General Manger Seth Horowtiz calls the hotel a “true gem.” Mother’s Day brunch will be served in the Grand Lobby with it’s 22-foot ceilings and towering windows pro...
French Toast for The World’s Best Mom As kids navigate their way through the annual celebration this Sunday making mom “belle of the ball,” one of the best gifts she can get is a well-deserved day off from her usual routine. This Sunday the world stops to say “Happy Mother’s Day.” It’s the day in which mom is honored and showered with extra doses of love, gratitude and probably some much needed rest. The 99-year old official observance of Mother’s Day began in 1914 when President Woodr...
Students in Culver City Middle School’s AVID program had the experience this past year of hearing members of the Chamber of Commerce talk about their businesses and the job potential of those businesses. The guest speaker talks, courtesy of the Chamber’s Education Committee, were part of the AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination) program. Designed to help high potential students who would be the first in their families to go to college, to be college ready, AVID is an elective cla...
Every year, West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) conducts one of its signature water education program: the Water is Life Student Art Contest. The goal of the program is to encourage third through twelfth grade students to create a water conservation message and illustrate it with original, hand-drawn artwork. This year, young artists submitted more than 390 pieces of artwork from 43 public and private schools from West Basin’s service area, making it a challenge for the judges to select the winning pieces. Winning art pieces w...
Next: Showdown With Santa Monica Talent alone is not enough to make it to the Big Dance. It takes leadership, understanding, preparation, practice, patience and execution to secure such a date with destiny. Defending Ocean League baseball champions Culver City High walked the walk once again by high-stepping Morningside High with two more league victories last week by scores of 16-0 and 11-1. And this week, for the fourth year in a row, they will have faced arch rival Santa Monica in a two-game...
It was all there for the Clippers – the opportunity of a lifetime. After playing in the shadow of the Lakers ever since they moved to Los Angeles in 1984 the Clippers had at long, long last overcome their misery. They won 56 regular season games, beat the Lakers in all four meetings, won their first Pacific Division championship and drew sellout crowds for every home game. Meanwhile the Lakers floundered, barely made the playoffs and then lasted only one round, losing four straight games to t...
The Los Angeles Kings will host the Anaheim Ducks at Dodger Stadium in a regular season National Hockey League game on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 as part of the Coors Light NHL Stadium Series. The unusual outdoor game will start at 7 pm. Part of the previously-announced 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series™, a group of games planned for outdoor locations next season, the event will be the first outdoor regular-season NHL game played in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River, the southern-most outdoor NHL game ever and the first-ever in C...
Culver City lost to Santa Monica Tuesday, 3-1 in a game between two teams undefeated in Ocean League baseball. The teams played again on Thursday and at press time in the 6th inning Santa Monica lead by a score of 5-2. A detailed account of both contests will appear in next week’s Observer....
For two years Chris Paul has been a model of what every NBA franchise would like to have. Actually he’s been that guy much longer. But I’m only talking about his time in Los Angeles as the dynamic point guard of the Clippers, who badly needed his leadership following countless mistake-plagued years as an underdog franchise. Paul played brilliantly, ignoring the Clippers’ past problems and never talked about leaving when he became a free agent. But he’s a free agent now. Why would he leave?...
The Ocean League showdown baseball game between Santa Monica and Culver City Highs played Tuesday at Culver will be shown on Time Warner Cable television Friday and several times thereafter. The delayed telecast will be a showcase for both programs. Parents and volunteers last weekend helped prepare the field. Both teams began the week with 8-0 league records. They played a second game Thursda...
