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By David W. Myers Contributing Editor The Culver City Elks Lodge has given a check for more than $6,000 to the California-Hawaii Elks Association to help provide vision-screening and physical therapy to children with a broad range of disabilities. The contribution increases the amount of money the two-state group has raised through the annual fund-raising effort to over $100 million since the yearly drives began in the 1950s. Donations from Elk members in the two states totaled more than $2.5 million in the fiscal year that recently ended....
I wanted to add my concerns to Cary Anderson's regarding following the rules where it regards traffic incursion into the residential neighborhoods. For myself, it is not a matter of a rare instance of an organization holding a charitable event that brings outside traffic into my neighborhood. My block has had permit parking since 1982. The hours for enforcement were expanded about 15 years to match the hours of continued outside incursion. After all of these years I continue to request Parking Enforcement several times a week because drivers fe...
City Manager’sUpdate June 8, 2012 City Manager’s Office Community Development Department • Chipotle Mexican Grill – Plans have been approved for a new restaurant located at 4114 Sepulveda Boulevard. • Continental Development Group - Plans have been approved for construction of building B, a new commercial building (core/shell only), located at 4130 Sepulveda Boulevard. • Westfield Culver City - A permit has been issued to Olive Garden, a new restaurant located in the mall. • Sony Pictures Entertainment – Plans have been approved for a...
Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie has set the 2012-2013 season at the CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In a season of contrasts – of surprising comedy and startling drama, the 2012-2013 season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre will include the magical and mystical hi-jinks of the CTG-commissioned “Elephant Room” by Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle and Steve Cuiffo;the acclaimed Gate Theatre Dublin production of the Beckett classic “Krapp’s Last Tape” withone of Britain’s greatest actors, John Hurt; the comic genius of The...
The Latino Family Literacy Project is a parent involvement and literacy program designed to establish and nurture family reading routines for bilingual families. Beautiful children's literature books written in both English and Spanish are used to teach parents how to share the process of reading with their children. All reading selections reflect the experiences of the Latino culture and are anchored around universal themes. The program has an evaluation process to measure the benefits of what is being learned in class and includes home...
By Martin Zucker Special to the Observer Relationships between major religious movements have a history characterized by conflict, bloodshed, and intolerance. The negative past and present, however, has not stopped one longtime Culver City resident from trying to overcome deep-rooted mistrust and enmity between faiths and to build bridges of understanding one person at a time. For more than two decades, Ruth Sharone, an award-winning filmmaker and internationally-recognized interfaith activist, has taken her one-woman mission to all corners of...
Mobster, Former Culver Resident, Dead at 69 Mobster turned FBI informant and former Culver City resident Henry Hill has died at the age of 69. Hill, who lived for a time on Clarmon Place near Raintree Plaza, was made infamous in the movie Goodfellas. Ray Liotta played the part of Hill in the movie. Hill was once associated with the Lucchese crime family in New York and was involved in such criminal acts as the Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 1978, during which a record $5 million as well as $875,000 in...
By Gabrielle Bon Durant Special to the Observer With the expansion of the Metro Expo Line to Culver City, several local bus lines will change their regular schedules in order to accommodate the Expo Line’s opening on Wednesday. The new routes will take effect on Sunday. The Metro Line 217 route that goes from Hollywood and Vine to the Culver Transit station at Fairfax and Washington will have select trips extended south along former route 439 and will travel down Jefferson past the Expo Lines’ Jefferson/La Cienega Station. Line 220, which tra...
Culver City Police arrested a sixth grader at his home in Culver City after they received reports that he brought a gun to Culver City Middle School. A parent of another student called and told police their child noticed another student with a gun at school that day. The student allegedly brandished the gun in one of the restrooms and pointed it at another student. Officers from the juvenile detective division responded to the home of the alleged student on Tuesday. After searching the house, police found a handgun and arrested the child. The...
Workshop Yields Angry Feedback Outside Culver City Hall on Tuesday evening protesters carried signs and cars honked at the protesters in support. The signs had slogans like “Ban Fracking Now” and “Frack Off.” Someone dressed as a skeleton carried a sign that read “I (Heart) Fracking.” When the doors of City Hall opened, people flooded into the Mike Balkman Chambers, filling the auditorium to standing room only. All this for a state-organized but locally hosted workshop to gauge the public sent...
Police Blotter June 5 through 11 Attempt Commercial Burglary: On June 5 at 3:35 pm, officers responded to the 3900 block of Sawtelle Boulevard regarding a burglary investigation. The officers met with the victim who told them the following; she said her husband responded to the location to retrieve his car at 7:30 am which was parked in the rear lot. As he arrived he saw that the rear door was ajar he checked the door and discovered the door had been forced open, but the interior security was still locked and secured and the suspect(s) were...
Culver City High senior pitcher Tyler Mark has been named Ocean League Player of the Year. Mark, who made all-league in four straight seasons, led the Centaurs to a 10-0 league record, the first time in school history a Culver High baseball team has gone undefeated in league games. Mark had a 9-2 record and 2.13 ERA. He was also a prolific hitter, batting .338. Also named to the all-league first team were Culver’s Brian Ibarra, Jon Kocker, Skyler Blocker and freshman Jay Steiner. Adrian Perez a...
The Culver City High football team annually prepares for its upcoming season by participating in summer passing tournaments. Although tackling isn’t permitted, coaches learn about their players, particularly passers and receivers who are getting their timing together in the seven against seven competition. In the Pierce College Tournament Culver City defeated Oaks Christian, 34-18 as sophomore Steve Funches threw two touchdown passes to Julio Wilson and Tahj Mines had an interception. Culver then defeated Grant, 44-28 as Funches threw six t...
The Kings, competing in their 44th NHL season since joining the league in 1967-68, finally captured their first Stanley Cup by defeating the Devils, 6-1, in Game 6 at Staples Center. For a team that had trouble all season scoring on the power-play, the Kings took advantage of a Devils’ Steve Bernier five-minute major penalty and game misconduct, which led to the Kings scoring three goals in a span of 3:58 in the first period while having a five-on-four man-advantage. Kings’ Dustin Brown scored t...
My journalism career was launched at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where a brilliant sports editor named Bud Furillo taught us the business. We were young, fresh out of college and eager. What a thrill it was to have a job where we’d go to baseball, football and basketball games , write about them and see our names in print. Hockey wasn’t a big deal in LA then, and most of us ignored the sport. But Allan Malamud, probably the most talented writer among us, was the exception. He was pas...
