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By Dennis J. Freeman The city of Culver City will be celebrating National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 6. The annual event that is recognized all over the country highlights community policing and interaction between law enforcement with the communities and neighborhoods they serve in. "We need our residents and citizens," said Culver City police officer Marissa Yabko. "It (National Night Out) is to create awareness of community policing." The Culver City National Night Out event will take place f...
Before the 2019-2020 school year begins, CCUSD Superintendent Leslie Lockhart has announced the following changes within the district: The Department of School and Family Support Services (SFSS) will expand its services, adding a coordinator position in order to boost district-wide support for CCUSD's Whole Child Initiative. With the California School Accountability Dashboard system focusing on annual academic, social-emotional and behavioral growth, this expansion will allow the district to...
CCUSD Superintendent Leslie Lockhart today announced the appointment of Dr. Amy Hodge as principal of El Rincon Elementary School. A 13-year veteran of CCUSD, Dr. Hodge most recently served as interim principal of Farragut Elementary School. Prior to that she was at El Rincon as a Cotsen Mentor and as a Teaching and Learning Partner, where she provided support for teachers in CGI math, and in Readers Workshop. Her first CCUSD assignment was as a special education teacher and resource specialist...
Last season, Los Angeles Football Club played to a 1-1 draw against a mediocre New England Revolution team at Banc of California Stadium in the first-ever meeting between the two MLS clubs. LAFC squandered a 1-0 lead by allowing the Revs to tie the match late in the second half. The failure to hold onto leads ultimately was the Black and Gold's Achilles' heel in their inaugural season. This Saturday LAFC will take on the Revolution at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts this Saturday,...
The Culver City high school girls' varsity volleyball team will start preseason play at the end of this month. The Centaurs graduated 11 players from last years' team so they are going to have to find some new team leaders and their younger players will have to step. The last three years have been nothing short of spectacular. In 2016 they had a record of 27-9 and that included a CIF Championship and a trip to the State Playoffs. In 2017 they won another CIF Championship and another trip to...
In 2011, former Culver City High quarterback Lukas O'Connor lead the Centaurs to the CIF championship game. It was the first time in over 30 years that the Centaurs played in the championship game. Culver City lost the game, but O' Connor carried on with his football career. But it's been a roller-coaster ride for the 6-foot-4 quarterback. After turning down several Division 1-AA schools, O'Connor packed his bags to attend a prep school on the East Coast. When that didn't work out, O'Connor...
In celebration of their 60th anniversary Dinah's Fried Chicken rolled back prices to 1959 last Tuesday, Bacon or sausage with 2 eggs and pancakes went for $1.25, Dinah's burgers for 75 cents. The chicken plate was $1.60 with fries along with coffee, tea, milk and soft drinks were available for 15 cents each. They also had a display of classic cars along with "Star Fire" a live band....
Another NFL season has begun, with the opening of NFL training games in the past week. The Los Angeles Chargers opened training camp on July 24th, with the goal of returning to the playoffs and ultimately winning their first Super Bowl Championship. Expectations have never been higher for the Chargers. The national newspaper USA Today recently picked the Chargers to win the Super Bowl next February, beating the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL coaches like to divide the season into quarters. With a...
The Los Angeles Rams kicked off their 2019 Training Camp this past weekend at U.C. Irvine. Thousands of fans filled the perimeter of Crawford Field on the north side of campus to get the earliest glimpse of the 2018 NFC Champions start preparing for their second consecutive shot at the Super Bowl. Head coach Sean McVay and staff put the players through multiple drills, in synch with the field clocks on site. On Saturday, opening day, the players divided into various groups: offensive and defensive starters, second-team, special teams, position...
On August 2 at The Rose in Pasadena and August 17 in Santa Clarita, legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean will be "driving his chevy to the" stage on his 2019 concert tour. He is best known for his magnum opus, "American Pie," an impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The song popularized the expression "The Day the Music Died" in reference to this event. It reached number one...
The offices of the Culver City Observer have relocated. Our new location is 5512 S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City. We are next to Sorrento Italian Market. The move was necessitated by the sale of the Observer Building. Readers can still pickup a copy of the Culver City Observer on the corner of Sepulveda Blvd. and Lindblade Street at the site of the former Observer Offices. The new offices will open on Tuesday June 6. Fictitious Business Name (DBA) customers are urged to call and make an appointment. Our phone number remains the same (310)...
It was a ritual for the late Dave Gold, the founder of 99 Cents Only Stores to have his vendors there before the Culver City store opened the first time. I was Publisher of the Culver City News then. Dave had me and other vendors stocking shelves and preparing the store for customers who were waiting in line. As I recall the first 9 customers could by a television for 99 cents. The next 99 customer could buy another expensive item for 99 cents, and so on and so on. The line of waiting customers...
