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El Marino Language School received the spotlight at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting, as principal Tracy Pumilia gave a presentation on student achievement for the 2008-2009 school year. Overall, El Marino is doing very well, with exceptionally high scores on assessment tests. At the state level, El Marino students scored at or above proficient in 2008 and 2009, with 77.3 per cent of students at or above proficiency levels in English Language Arts in 2009, and 83.5 per cent of students at o...
The long awaited remodel and redevelopment of Westfield Culver City was held last Thursday to the delight of residents, city officials and Westfield staff and executives. Nineteen months after breaking ground the $180 million makeover produced a spectacular edition to the mall where a Robinsons-May store and a multistory office building once stood. At the confluence of the 405 and 90 freeways the center now sports over one million square feet of retail shopping and dining space. The new anchor s...
All six candidates for the Culver City School Board were on hand for the candidates’ forum at City Hall October 8. Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Culver City PTA, the two-hour forum featured questions collected from audience cards and from Facebook. The pace was rapid, with questions quickly asked and answered within a one-minute time limit. Each candidate was asked to describe how he/she differed from the other ones. Robert Zirgulis declared “I am very outspoken-some wou...
Upward Bound, a nonprofit organization, assists families with minor children and seniors who are experiencing housing crisis. An emergency shelter for families is planned to open in Culver City in the near future. Culver City Exchange Club is helping that effort by donating funds to support the center. Tracy Woodbury, Director for Upward Bound, is pleased that the Exchange Club has offered its assistance to families in crisis. President Bob Montgomery explains that the Culver City Exchange Club’s primary mission is the prevention of child a...
The Culver City Friends of the Library will show their appreciation for members by holding an Ice Cream Social this Saturday from 3 p.m.to 4. at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library, 4975 Overland Avenue, Entertainment will be provided by the barbershop quartet “The Oceanaires.” This will be a great opportunity to meet the current Friends Board, the library staff, and fellow members. You can also join the friends or renew your membership for next year at the Social....
A Measure EE fundraiser will be held Saturday October 17 2009 from 6 p.m. to 9 at P.J.’s Pinball Museum, 4350 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. A donation of $20 gives attendees the chance to play for up to three hours, no need to bring quarters. . The event will be limited to the first 35 paid supporters. Please contact Scott Zeidman (310-925-8207) to confirm attendance and make arrangements for payment....
At the risk of having an even harder time finding a parking space, we’d like to talk about the great Sunday morning services held at Agape International Spiritual Center under the leadership of Reverend Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith. Services begin at 6:25 a.m. for Early Bird Meditation followed by the 6:55 a.m.Early Bird Service; Second Service begins with 8:30 a.m.Meditation followed by the 9 a.m.Service; and the Third Service commences at 11with Meditation followed by the 11:30 a.m.Service. From our 10-year perspective, the message, music and...
“Not so Looney Tunes: A Century of Live Musical Entertainment in Culver City” will be presented by guest speaker Stephen M. Fry at the Culver City Historical Society’s fall general meeting on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. Fry will offer a descriptive survey of how music developed in Culver City and its surrounding areas. Well-known for his jazz group, The Melody Masters, Fry has lived in Culver City since 1975. He is also a pianist who performs in several other jazz ensembles and as a solo artist. In 2001, he retired from UCLA where he se...
Culver City Board of Education candidate Professor Patricia G. Siever is holding the second in a series of “Meet, Greet and Share Ideas” events on Sunday from 3 p.m. to 6 in Blair Hills – 5814 Vicstone Court, Culver City. Refreshments will be served. Invited guests include Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Patricia is currently professor of history and has served in many faculty leadership positions within the Los Angeles Community College District for more than 30 years. She has held leadership positions in Sacramento on sever...
Senior citizens 65 years old and older can vote YES on Measure EE without being taxed. Measure EE is the parcel tax measure on the ballot this November 3. It will raise an estimated $1.2 million per year for Culver City public schools over the next five years. Culver City seniors can exempt themselves from paying the $96 annual tax on their primary residence by completing and submitting a short application. If Measure EE passes by the required 2/3 vote, senior exemption forms will be made conveniently available at a variety of locations around...
Ku mon Math & Reading Center of Culver City-North held its Grand Opening last week at 10401 Venice Blvd. Suite #107 (at Motor Ave. Kumon has over 50 years of expertise in teaching children the fundamentals of learning. Steve and Rachel Kim (2nd and 4th from the left) recently opened the newest Kumon Center. For information call Sarah at (310) 204-1064 or go to Kumon.com on the WEB....
By Robert Zirgulis Last Friday I decided to visit the “ anti-oil drilling” camp to gain some perspective and hear their point of view on the oil drilling issue. The Citizen’s Coalition for a Safe Community was showing “Split Estate” a boring propaganda/”documentary” film about people living near oil and gas production facilities in Colorado and New Mexico. Before the film began I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people and I told them about my idea to sell the Culver City High School swimming pool known as the Natatorium to investors. I exp...
CCUSD has 6,000 doses of H1N1 nasal mist vaccines, which should be enough to vaccinate CCUSD students, staff and some families. According to school nurse Dianna Castro, "Our goal is to offer the vaccines first to students and staff and then offer them to families and the community. The H1N1 nasal mist vaccines will be available to students and adults up to age 50. We should have some injections of H1N1 within the next week or two for those people 50 years old and up." The District is currently working on setting dates for the vaccination...
On October 2, Best Buy celebrated the grand opening of its 45,000 square foot flagship store in the Westfield Culver City Shopping Mall by giving back to the community. In July members of the Best Buy staff delighted Culver-Palms Family YMCA Preschoolers by donating several hours to paint the four Preschool Classrooms, each in a bright and different color. This was followed up on October 2 by Best Buy General Manager Noel Jiminez – accompanied by Magic Johnson -- presenting a check to the branch for $3,000 to support the programs and s...
Students can learn how to sew their own clothes in a Culver City Adult School beginning class that begins October 26 at 6:30 p.m. for five sessions. An intermediate class is also offered. It begins October 27 for five sessions. For information call (310) 842-4300....
TENACIOUS D LIVE w/ Special Guests- Jack Black and Kyle Gass display the gifts bestowed upon them by Beelzebub as they kick off the WTF?! Arts Festival Saturday Night Benefit Concert Series, curated by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. The bar opens at 7 p.m. and the concert is at 8:30. There are only 100 seats. All proceeds benefit The Actors' Gang's community outreach programs. Other scheduled events include Documentary Tuesdays, Film Wednesdays, Theater Thursdays, Fun Fridays, and Music Saturdays. Visit the website at...
On October 2 representatives from faith communities nationwide met with Reverend Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, to voice concern about the conflict in Sudan. Members of the Interfaith Sudan Working Group delivered a letter to President Obama, signed by 1,410 Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy, including Pastor Heidi Gamble and Pastor Daniel Manley from Culver City. The letter emphasized the decades of war, famine, and marginalization inflicted upon the Sudanese, and urged the...
There’s a perception nationally that the Pac 10 is a weak football conference beyond USC. \But I don’t think that’s right. Sure USC has won the championship the last seven years, I can understand the reasoning. Then I watch the games and know I’m seeing some quality competition. Stanford beats UCLA in a meaningful game, but then Oregon State wallops Stanford. Oregon opens with a loss to Boise State but now looks good. I recall that a couple of years ago Oregon was headed to the BCS champio...
With the Culver City High football team facing its second straight loss last Friday, Marquel Carter stepped up to save the day. The Centaurs’ senior quarterback had a record performance, completing 33 of 51 passes for 532 yards and three touchdowns, and threw the winning touchdown pass with eight seconds left as Culver City rallied from a 12-point fourth-quarter deficit for a 35-33 non-league victory over Redondo. The completions, attempts and passing yards are all school records. Carter also ran for two touchdowns as he continued to be the l...
It’s the Dodgers and Phils again in the National League Championship series, but some of the main players have changed from a year ago. The Dodgers lost that best-of-seven series, 4-1. They started a righthanded pitcher in all five games – not an enviable position to be in against a team featuring superb lefthanded hitters Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. This time the Dodgers will start lefthanders Randy Wolf and Clayton Kershaw. Chad Billingsley, a righthander who lost two games in last yea...
