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Rick Hudson, Chairman of the Culver City Parks and Recreation Commission died Friday. Hudson coached football and softball at Culver High. He was an active member of the Culver City Exchange Club. Rick and his wife Terri owned and operated Culver Glass. Full story and more details will appear in this week’s Culver City Observer and online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
On Friday The Culver City Police Department announced that Ronald Jay, 62 a resident of Culver City had been found safe. Jay was reported missing on Wednesday . He had been seen near his home in the 4200 block of Jackson Ave in Culver City just before he disappeared. He suffers from Alzheimer's and is known to frequent the area of Venice Beach. CCPD did not disclose where he was located....
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas visited Brotman Medical Pharmacy, a local independent pharmacy in Culver City, on July 30. Ridley-Thomas spoke with pharmacist/owner Dr. Sapan Bhakta about laws and regulations that affect independent and retail pharmacies. The two discussed the benefits derived when local businesses keep money in the community to create good-paying jobs. Dr. Bhakta called attention to insurance requirements that mandate prescription drug fulfillment via mail-order pharmacies...
For a month this summer, The Actors' Gang, the renowned Los Angeles based ensemble theatre company, is will performing A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Actors' Gang Theater in Culver City. Tickets for performances can be purchased anytime at www.theactorsgang.com, by calling the box office: (310) 838-4264 or by visiting The Actors' Gang theatre in Culver City (9070 Venice Boulevard). The box office is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Actors' Gang has returned from a...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor When Pauley Pavilion was modernized two years go the UCLA basketball team played its home schedule primarily at the Sports Arena. Due to heavy flooding last week which included the Pauley Pavilion playing court being warped, the possibility existed the Bruins would again have to find an alternate site for the upcoming season. However, that isn't likely. UCLA officials have determined there's no structural damage to Pauley Pavilion due to the flooding. However,...
Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calf.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement following the passage today of House Concurrent Resolution 107: "I joined my colleagues today in supporting a resolution expressing our condolences to the families of the innocent victims on both sides of the conflict. I strongly support Israel's right to defend itself, and I am hopeful that both sides will soon move towards peace and an immediate ceasefire."...
Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’ measure to enable the California Department of Justice to accurately cross-reference records from the Armed & Prohibited Persons System (APPS) and the Consolidated Firearms Information System (CFIS) databases has been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Assemblymember Ridley-Thomas said, “When guns are in the hands of persons who’ve been prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm Californians are placed at greater risk of serious injury or death from a firearm. The APPS and CFIS system work...
Rachael Dodd of Culver City received the Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics - Carleton 4-track, Magna Cum Laude, from Carleton College during its 140th Commencement ceremony, held on Saturday, June 14. Dodd is the daughter of Li-E Ho and Chi-Ming Ho. Carleton also presented an honorary degree during the commencement ceremony to Professor David R. Loy '69, a prolific author and a Zen teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. Loy briefly addressed the graduating class, as...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Beginning in 2016 students at California community colleges must maintain a 2.0 or C average to be eligible for a waiver to exempt them from paying tuition. Now that we are in a super duper drought, can we return to an ancient garden practice? Try burying a narrow-neck unglazed pot up to the neck, place plants close by, fill the pot with water, cover the pot hole with a stone and the pot (called an olla) will seep water to the plants’ roots without losing a...
The National Basketball Association announced that the Salary Cap has increased by 7.5% to an all-time high of $63.065 million for the 2014-15 season. The tax level for the 2014-15 season increased by 7.1% to $76.829 million. The Salary Cap and tax level went into effect on July 10, when the league’s “moratorium period” ended and teams could begin signing free agents and making trades. The minimum team salary, which is set at 90% of the Salary Cap, is $56.759 million for the 2014-15 season. The current Collective Bargaining Agreement provi...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor With the college football season coming up, Lane Kiffin is my topic for the day. A brief resume: Kiffin has been head coach with the Oakland Raiders and with Tennessee and USC. The Trojans fired him last season after they got off to a slow start. Now Kiffin has become offensive co-ordinator at Alabama on Nick Saban's staff. "Considering everything I'm veryhappy to have this job before I reach 40," said Kiffin. "I thought this would be a great opportunity if it...
dee-Lightful Productions will present 4 performances of "Once on This Island, Jr." featuring talented local performers ages 7-17. Tickets are available to the public for this powerful musical which won the 1995 Olivier Award for Best new Musical and which tells the story of a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes. Show dates and times are: Thur Aug 14th @ 7pm, Fri Aug 15th @ 7pm and Sat Aug 16th at 3pm and 7pm at the...
The newly elected Board of Directors of the Culver City Woman’s Club met recently to discuss plans for the upcoming year which include events to fund the club’s philanthropies. The club awards scholarships to Culver City High School students annually. Other recipients include the Culver Palms YMCA, Meals on Wheels and the Bob Hope USO at LAX. Among the fund raisers will be the popular Ice Cream Social and the traditional Christmas Wrapping Booth at the Westside Pavilion. The club also sponsors a number of social events throughout the year. Of...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw got off to a rocky start in the second game of the two-game homestand against their “I-5” rival Angels, but thanks to closer Kenley Jansen striking out all three batters he faced in the ninth, and then pinch-hitter Andre Ethier sealing the deal with a walk-off hit, the Dodgers got the win, 5-4. It was Ethier’s 12th career walk-off hit and the Dodgers fifth of the season. With five Angel players defending the infield, Either hit a...
The Venice Historical Society (VHS) has scheduled a classic evening focusing on the legendary amusement park piers of our Pacific – Venice-of-America and Ocean Park Piers, including Fraser’s Million Dollar Pier and Pickering Pleasure Pier, also the little-known Crystal Pier. Once they graced our beaches from Santa Monica to Playa del Rey. Amazingly some of these piers started before the 1900s, but only a few lasted for a significant amount of time. Domenic will be talking about those legendary amusement park piers, the movies filmed there, the...
Beginning Monday, August 4 and extending through Saturday, September 20 drivers can expect delays due to the street widening and roadway improvements. work crews will conduct sidewalk/roadway reconstruction, installation of storm drains, catch basins, traffic signals and street lighting, and the realignment and restriping of traffic lanes on the south side of Venice Boulevard, between Culver Boulevard and National Boulevard. Additional street improvements on the north side of Venice Boulevard will follow. Traffic Impacts are expected as follows...
Fiesta La Ballona 2014 which will be held August 22-24 at Vets Park has announced that Haynes Building Service will return as a sponsor. This year Haynes is the lead Zero-Waste Partner for FLB, along with the support of Delamo Green Clean. Without Haynes support it would be difficult for FLB 2014 to be 100% Zero-Waste event-something great for the environment, the City and residents. Haynes Building Service is a facilities services company based out of Monrovia, Ca. For years, Haynes has been a...
From a 1925 Alfa Romeo to Jacki Weaver draped in $2.9 million in diamonds to period perfect 1920's French couture to the ethereal elegance of Cap d'Antibes and Mouans Sartoux to the ever dashing Colin Firth (*sigh*), Woody Allen steeps us in old world beauty and classic glamour touched with a bit of whimsy and all bathed in the MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT. Sparkling and twinkling like the bubbles in a glass of pink champagne or dancing like points of light on a moonbeam, with subtext, humor and...
