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By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Cody Kessler compiled impressive statistics last season as the USC quarterback. Impressive enough that you’d think NFL teams would want him. But the NFL was only lukewarm on Kessler. Maybe he wasn’t tall enough. Maybe they found faults. For whatever reason Kessler didn’t declare for the NFL draft and returned to USC for his senior season where’s he’s regarded as a candidate to win the Heisman trophy. That alone gives the Trojans reason to be optimistic about the...
Culver City based Antioch University Los Angeles (AULA) welcomes new member Kathy Mackinnon to its board of trustees. A longtime, successful creative life coach and presenter with an office in Los Angeles and international clientele, Mackinnon will serve an initial three-year term on the 16-member board. “I'm honored and excited to join such a vibrant team of men and women on the board of trustees,” said MacKinnon. “I look forward to serving Antioch University Los Angeles’ students, faculty and staff.” Since 2003 Mackinnon, who holds a master'...
What would you do if you had only five hours’ notice that your employer was closing his place of business and that you would be out of a job? In honor of Labor Day, Culver-Palms United Methodist Church will present workers being helped by CLUE-LA (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice) at its Sunday, September 6, morning service. Hear what it is really like to work for Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, and learn about working conditions for the people who prepare meals for the nation’s largest airlines. The service begins at 10:30...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter With a light late summer agenda, the City Council’s August 24 meeting took care of some less noticed but still essential matters by filling appointments to two city boards. The Council appointed two at-large members to the Landlord-Tenant Mediation Board and a Culver City representative to the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County West Vector and Vector-Borne Disease Control Unit. The two Members-At-Large are Olga Vaysberg and Reverend Leonardo W...
Scott: Kathy Paspalis has been on our school board for 5 ½ years. She has two kids who are coming into their junior year at the high school. They were at the Culver City middle school and at El Marino previous to that. SCHOOL BOARD RELATIONS Scott: Things seem to be going really well in the district and on the board. That hasn’t always been the case but I feel the board is really working well together right now. What’s going right with the board right now? Kathy: There aren’t a lot of personalities who are more concerned with their next office,...
USC football coach Steve Sarkisian has apologized for his inappropriate comments and lewd jokes at a Salute to Troy event Saturday night on campus. He said at a Tuesday press conference he mixed medication and alcohol and has begun treatment although he says he is not an alcoholic. “I won’t drink any more this season,” he added. “This will not happen again.” Some players said they were embarrassed by the coach’s behavior, including his remarks about Pac-12 conference opponents. USC is ranked eighth nationally in the first AP poll for the sea...
By Jim Shanman, Culver City Safe Routes to School Coordinator Welcome back everyone. This week begins another school year and like everyone, the Culver City Walk & Rollers are super excited! We are happy to see that more kids throughout the district are walking and biking to school than in years past and we are hoping to continue that trend. Walking and biking to school helps our kids on so many levels, including adding activity to kids' days, reducing traffic and pollution around the school, building community awareness and providing...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist The Armed Forces History Museum in Largo, Florida is well worth a visit when you are in the Tampa Bay area. See www.armedforcesmuseum.com. The Justice Department collected $24 billion in criminal and civil penalties from banks and financial companies in the budget year ending in September 2014. Culver City has a ban on plastic bags, so why not have a ban on plastic food containers? The Chinese government confirmed 358 billionaires in China as of last...
Fiesta La Ballona, Culver City’s annual “Party in the Park”, will be held beginning this week --- August 28-30 at Veterans Park located at 4117 Overland Avenue in Culver City. The weekend will feature live performances, carnival rides and games, over 100 booths showcasing local groups, artisan wares, and other vendors, pony rides and two petting zoos, a beer and wine garden, a farmers market, food trucks and a food court, sustainability activities and other special activities. Admission is free. Fiesta La Ballona event hours are 4:30 p.m....
The Los Angeles School of Gymnastics, a USA National and Olympic Team Training Center are proud to be part of the Olympic movement in Los Angeles. Established in 1975 by world-famous National & Olympic Coach Mrs. Alla Svirsky has served over 1,000,000 families since its doors opened over four decades ago. The Los Angeles School of Gymnastics is LA’s largest after-school program for boys and girls ages 18 months-teens. Programs include the Award-Winning Parent & Me Classes (18 mo-3 years), Recreational Gymnastics (Boys & Girls) {5-16yrs.}, P...
Culver City’s annual Fiesta La Ballona August 28-30 at Veteran’s Park promises a weekend of free musical entertainment, a beer garden and a bit of shenanigans from local Rotarians. Traditionally, the Culver City Rotary is on hand as one of the local sponsors, an event produced by the City of Culver City. Once again, Rotary is resurrecting the “Pokey,” Stop by and visit local Rotarians, learn about the Club, and if you’re lucky, you won’t end up in the Pokey. The Culver City Rotary folks will be next to the music stage and beer garden. You...
I can’t remember the last time there was a weekend with two action films opening that had me this excited. The first, NO ESCAPE, solidifies what I first suspected back in 2001; that Owen Wilson does some of his best work when he goes “behind enemy lines”. The second, UNSULLIED, marks the directorial debut of former NFL star, Simeon Rice, and proves he is a winning force to be reckoned with both on and off the gridiron! NO ESCAPE Stepping out of their known comfort zone, with NO ESCAPE the Broth...
