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Three women were arrested in downtown Los Angeles this week on charges of selling counterfeits. Not fake leather products or art forgeries or faux designer watches. The counterfeited items were contact lens. The suspects operated and sold counterfeit contact lenses out of stores located within the downtown area and were caught for allegedly "selling counterfeit contact lenses to undercover officers." LAPD said in a statement. Detectives also confiscated counterfeit make-up and illegal fireworks...
In a victory for Culver City and Los Angeles, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that the FAA violated key environmental laws when it changed flight patterns for aircraft coming into Los Angeles International Airport over Westside communities, federal court officials announced this week. As a result of the decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the FAA must undertake a proper environmental analysis that should have taken place prior to implementing the changes in 2018,...
At about 5:40Thursday morning a body of a man was found din Media Park, at the corner of Venice and Culver Blvd. The park being within the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles the Los Angeles Police Department Pacific division is handling the investigation. They did not name any suspects and have no one in custody at this ti. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of the family....
Half a dozen motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and another handful were cited for driving without a driver's license at a checkpoint last Friday, Culver City police said. The DUI and driver's license checkpoint was conducted in the 11400 block of Washington Boulevard on July 16, according to Culver City Police Department. "The checkpoints are an important traffic safety enforcement detail that provides for the safety of all motorists on the road," said police in...
The Culver City Woman's Club is hosting a sale of Clothing and Household items to raise money for a variety of local charities on Friday and Saturday, July 30 and 31. from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at 9516 Cattaraugus Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034. There will be all types of clothing in all sizes and functional, decorative, and fun household items for every part of your house. The Culver City Woman's Club is a non-profit philanthropic and social organization that supports a number of local charitable causes such as Meals on Wheels, Food Pantries,...
A draft petition has been filed and approved on 07July 13 for circulation to recall Mike Bonin Los Angeles City Councilmember. In accordance with Charter Section 431(a RECALL), to qualify for presentation to the City Council, the petition must contain 27,317* valid signatures of qualified registered voters of Council District 11 in the City of Los Angeles. The deadline for filing the petition is November 10, 2021. website: https://clerk.lacity.org/elections or by contacting the Election...
Students in the Culver City Unified School District will have the option to eat school meals for free in the upcoming school year, regardless of their family's income. Flush with an unexpected budget surplus, California announced on Monday it will offer free school meals to all 6.2 million public school students this fall. The undertaking will be the largest free student lunch program in the country, state officials said. CCUSD officials have not yet commented on the free lunch program. Many sch...
To the Editor: I am surprised at my apathy towards the change to R1 zoning that is being proposed by the Culver City Council. Since I skew conservative, I thought about how I arrived at this indifferent attitude. It started in 2010 when Megan Sahli-Wells became active in city affairs. In November 2010 I wrote a letter to the editor stating my hope that she would never be on the city council. Seventeen months later she won her first term and then was reelected in 2016. This was the first step...
Los Angeles Football Club was suddenly taking form, but they ran into a roadblock last Wednesday night when they played the Portland Timbers at Provident Park. They lost the game 2-1 in the final minutes of overtime. LAFC was riding a three-match winning streak, its longest since the summer of 2019. LAFC knew the Portland game was going to be a fight to the finish. "They're (Portland) a team that has experience and you know that when you play them, guys like (Diego) Valeri and Diego Chara will...
The 2021 Pac-12 Football season gets going on Tuesday, July 27 with the league's kickoff event, Pac-12 Football Media Day, presented by 76®, live from the W Hollywood Hotel. All 12 head coaches and two student-athletes from each Pac-12 team are set to take part, with the Pac-12 announcing today all 24 student-athletes headed to Hollywood. Coverage of the day-long event will be available across Pac-12 Networks, Pac-12 Insider, Pac-12.com and the Pac-12 Now app. The day-long event will begin with opening remarks from Commissioner George...
A total of 50 current or former UCLA students have made Olympic rosters for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo – 40 competitors, three alternates and seven coaches/staff. The 2020 Games begin July 21 with soccer and softball games two days ahead of the Opening Ceremonies and will conclude on Aug. 8. UCLA will be represented by 17 countries in Tokyo, with the majority from the United States (31). The other countries represented by Bruins are Canada (3), Australia (2), Great Britain (2), Colombia, France, Grenada, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, N...
USC will be represented by an astounding 61 past, present and future students competing at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, far more than any school in the nation this Olympics and the Trojans’ most ever in a single Olympics. USC’s current total of 61 competitors is more than 162 of the 206 National Olympic Committee delegations competing in Tokyo. It is the sixth consecutive Summer Games with at least 40 Trojan Olympians. Fans can go to olympics.usctrojans.com to follow USC’s Tokyo Olympians. The site will include a daily schedule of event...
The girl's lacrosse team also picked up several post season honors when they placed seven Lady Centaurs on the All-Ocean League team. Senior goalie JoJo de la Trinidad was the Defensive Player of the Year after she recorded 131 saves on 224 shots on goal. Senior Valarie Garcia made the second All-League team scoring nine goals and recording 18 assists. Junior Larissa Andrick was placed on the first team after she scored 26 goals with 10 assists. Her twin sister Vanessa Andrick also made the...
The USC track and field program has added transfers Johnnie and Alyssa Blockburger to its 2021-22 roster, it was announced by Director of Track & Field Quincy Watts today (July 21). The sophomore twins competed at Arizona during the 2020-21 season. Johnnie Blockburger was the 2021 Pac-12 400m dash champion with a time of 45.57 and was named the Pac-12 Men’s Freshman of the Year. He set the Arizona school record and posted a personal-best time of 44.71 to win the 400m title at the Jim Click Shootout on April 10. He also had PRs of 10.28 in t...
Santa Monica High School has announced another Covid case among its students attending one of its summer programs. The text of the email is below. While 60% of adults in Los Angeles County have been vaccinated and are not at risk for Covid-19, many younger people are not vaccinated. Opinions vary about how much risk teenagers have with respect to Coronavirus. Text of the email from SamoHi follows. Dear Samohi Summer School families, You're receiving this email because your child was enrolled or is currently attending one of the summer programs...
The Broad Stage announces three live and in person attractions for fall 2021 – starting with the West Coast Premiere of the new opera Birds in the Moon, co-commissioned by The Broad Stage, for four outdoor performances in Santa Monica September 1 through 4. Presented in partnership with Downtown Santa Monica at the corner of Arizona and 5th Avenue (Lot 27), Santa Monica. Birds in the Moon is supported by an Art of Recovery grant from the City of Santa Monica. Birds in the Moon, a mobile, t...
By Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff Writer Catalina Island, 26 miles off the California coast, is still struggling to attract visitors with yet another "reopening" announcement. The island shut down in March 2020 until mid-June of that year in an attempt to stop the spread there of Covid-19. But its June 2020 reopening to tourism was hampered by the public health guidelines set in place by Los Angeles County and the State of California. Out-of-county visitors were supposed to quarantine upon...
By Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude After hearing a brief history of the long journey to demolish Parking Structure 3 in downtown Santa Monica, the city council voted 4-0-2 to demolish the structure and replace it with affordable housing. Phil Brock and Oscar de la Torre abstained. Lana Negrete, just appointed to the council last week, was out of town at a conference and did not attend the meeting. The demolition will not take place until December 31, 2021 at the earliest and will take an...
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer Legislation to address the growing epidemic of hate crimes has just passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill, AB 1126, authored by Assembly member Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), would establish the first statewide commission in California to not only accurately monitor and track hate crimes and incidents, but to formally recommend policy to the Governor and State Legislature. Bloom previously sat on the Santa Monica City Council for 13 years, serving as mayor three times and mayor pro tempore twice....
Bruce Thomson was a much loved track and cross country coach and teacher at San Pedro High School. After graduating from Hamilton High School in 1978, Bruce was trained to be a coach and teacher by the legendary University High School Coach, Richard Kampmann. He taught government, health, history, track and cross country for 30 years at San Pedro High School. He was a favorite of students at SPHS. Bruce suddenly collapsed during a jog on Tuesday morning July 6, 2021, and died of uncertain...
Los Angeles County reinstated a mandate requiring residents to wear masks while indoors, regardless of vaccination as the county has continued to see an increase in COVID-19 transmission, county health officials said Thursday. The county previously only recommended mask-wearing indoors. The new mandate will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Los Angeles County on Thursday reported another 1,537 COVID-19 cases and three additional deaths. The number of people hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Los Angeles County topped 400 Wednesday, while...
11 Outage Santa Monica’s 911 system failed due to a software glitch. For 24 hours, some residents were not able to call Police, fire department or ambulances through 911. They were instead directed to call the non emergency number for the SMPD. Residents were informed of both the outage and its resolution, through the City’s text message system. There is no information that any residents were injured by not being able to call 911. Sewage Spill Closes Beaches 17 million gallons of waste were released one mile offshore Sunday, due to an exc...
A pilot program calling for the closure of a portion of Main Street during summer weekends will begin next weekend, July 24-25, city officials announced today. The “Sharing an Open Main Street” program – called by many area residents a “hare-brained scheme” that will negatively impact their neighborhoods – will continue on the weekends of August 21-22, September 18-19 and October 16-17, the city also said. During these “Open Main” weekends, two blocks between Hill and Kinney streets will be closed to traffic and become a “pedestrian plaza where...
‘ By Jack Simon The Santa Monica City Council voted this week to establish a pilot program that will give priority on the city’s affordable housing waitlist to the households who were displaced by the Civic Auditorium or I-10 Freeway projects in the 1950s and 1960s. It is unclear how the City plans to identify such people. Documents from the 1960’s may be rather scarce. At its Tuesday night, meeting, the Council approved changes in priority to the city’s Affordable Housing Production Program “in response to historic zoning practices and land...
Rachel Newton Broome passed away peacefully with her children by her side on July 5, 2021 in Santa Monica. She was 89 years old Born in Denmark, South Carolina in 1931, Rachel grew up in Charleston, and graduated from Memminger High School in 1949. As a teenager, Rachel won numerous local beauty pageants and was featured in magazines and brochures promoting the area. A photo of Rachel on the Folly Beach Pier in 1946 was featured on the cover of Charleston Magazine's July 2007 edition. Rachel married Richard Broome in 1953, and together they...
