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Culver City is urging all residents to attend a special meeting June 20 to update and review what's happening with the Inglewood Oil Field Project. This oil field is the largest urban oil field in the United States. 10% of the oil field is in Culver City; 90% is in unincorporated LA County. While Culver City residents may be deeply concerned about the oil field plans, the city's control is limited. The plan and processes have been acted upon by previous City Councils. After April's City Council...
I suppose Facebook can be good for something.... even though my parents say it's good for nothing. My mom belongs to a group where an opportunity went out to looking for a kid interested in being a Kid Scoop Media reporter for the day covering an event with President Trump and NASCAR Champion Martin Truex Jr. at the White House. My mom showed me the article and said it probably wasn't going to happen because it was all the way in Washington DC., and we live outside of Sacramento, CA. Little did...
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Let me share my day of poetry With you . . . September 20, 2017 marked 100 years from the day the Culver City city charter was issued. Several special community events occurred during our Centennial year, including poetry readings that culminated in a book launch and reading at the Culver City Senior Center on Saturday, June 9th at 10 a.m., celebrating the publication of "Culver City's Centennial Poetry Collection," a labor of love that was initiated and edited...
How one LA firefighter turned a $90,000 salary into $1.6 million over four years. Overtime pay that was at least triple his regular salary in each of the past four years allowed Los Angeles firefighter Donn Thompson to collect a combined $1.6 million in total earnings from 2014-2014-2017 – according to an analysis of newly released pay data from Transparentcalifornia.com. Such outsized overtime pays allowed Thompson to clear over $400,000 in cash earnings for each of the past four years – des...
Fresh off a solid victory in last week’s statewide primary elections, the assemblywoman who now represents Culver City and surrounding areas in the state Legislature is already preparing several proposals to tackle issues ranging from education to poverty and criminal justice reform. Fewer than 48 hours after the June 5 election that Democrat Sydney Kamlager-Dove won with nearly 55 percent of the vote, she also introduced her very first piece of legislation in Sacramento—a bill to fas...
Jerry Maren, the last surviving Munchkin from the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" that was filmed at MGM in Culver City, had died at the age of 99. In the film, Maren played the green-garbed member of the Lollipop Guild – which included Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich and Harry Earles -- who handed an oversized lollipop to Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) and welcomed her to Munchkin Land. At that time, he was 18 years old and stood 3 feet six inches. Maren and the other Munchkins were reportedly paid l...
More than 150 residents of Culver City and surrounding communities turned out for local Boy Scout Troop 113's annual spaghetti dinner last Saturday at Culver High. Guests dined on all-you-can pasta, garlic bread and fresh salad. They also had the opportunity to bid on about a dozen large gift baskets, many of them filled with items donated by local grocers and other retailers. Many of the diners there were courtesy of Troop 113 itself, which donated several tickets to the Culver City Senior...
Special to the Observer By Greg Goodyear and Larry Weiner Over the years, Culver City has been a traditionally strong program in the summer passing tournaments, but they have generally not won many of these events. The Centaurs usually participate in four or five a summer and last summer had some success winning one and going to the finals in another. In the Centaur’s first passing tournament of this summer, they entered into a new tournament they had not participated in before played at Western High School in Anaheim. The biggest question t...
Training and drilling like a pro became a reality for a number of lucky Los Angeles Rams fans. The Rams teamed up with 24 Hour Fitness to host the 'Sideline Challenge' on Saturday morning, June 9, at the NFC West Division defending Champions' practice facility in Thousand Oaks. Ram personnel, players, members of the team's training staff, and 24 Hour Fitness personal trainers tested the fans' athletic skills and agility with fitness stations including a few NFL Combine drills. Rams team...
There's a chance, if you dare, to see films you might never see; films at film festivals hope to nab distributors, yet most won't make it. You might get lucky enough to find them, one day, somewhere... That's what film festivals do; they curate, they cherry-pick, they create one splendid moment where their unusual finds come to you before their distribution hopes are crushed, or more likely, may get to join that heap of films you could never unearth. You have the prospect to see things that may...
The official leaders for the 2018 MLB All-Star Ballot were released today and Matt Kemp is sitting in third place among all NL outfielders! Justin Turner and Cody Bellinger have also made their way into the top 5. Keep the votes coming and you'll see Matt Kemp and your favorite Dodgers in Washington, D.C. on July 17th!...
