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The Culver-Palms United Methodist Women will hold their Annual Christmas Bazaar from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 3. Find all the items you need for Christmas including handmade gifts, jewelry, Christmas decorations, dish towels, needlecraft, home baked goodies, Santa's mistakes and much, much more. Lunch is available while you shop. The Culver-Palms United Methodist Church is located at 4464 Sepulveda Boulevard, one block south of Braddock in Culver City. The phone is (310) 390-7717....
Mark O’Brien was - and through his writings, still is - a powerful voice not only within the “disabled” community, but for humanity as a whole. Contracting polio at a very young age, O’Brien thereafter spent his entire life, but for a few hours each day living in an iron lung. None of his muscles worked. His body was contorted into unspeakable disfigurement and although “immobile”, unlike many who may suffer paraplegia or quadriplegia due to spinal cord and nerve injuries, O’Brien’s n...
The Culver City Art group will present a multi-media art exhibition of original artwork by its members at their 17th annual holiday show at the Playa Vista CenterPointe Club, 6200 Playa Vista Drive, Playa Vista on Saturday, November 10 from noon until 6pm. Artists’ reception will be from 3:30pm to 6. The exhibit will run for one day only. It is free and is open to the public. The Culver City Art Group is an organization of local artists that embraces all visual arts from traditional to computer-generated, two-dimensional and t...
Culver City resident Joey Guthman, majoring in Design/Technology at Emerson College, is part of Emerson Stage's production of The Grapes of Wrath as Associate Lighting Designer/Projections Engineer. In this adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck, the Joad family has lost everything: their home, livelihood, dignity, and nearly all hope for a better future. With what little remains, the family leaves the Dust Bowl fields of Oklahoma for the fertile lands promised in California. Expecting the land of milk and honey, the...
“Third graders at Farragut learn to play the recorder. Students learn basic notes and music notation throughout the year. They also give concerts in front of an audience. This music program is offered to all third graders and is their opportunity to try music lessons to see if it is something they wish to continue in the following years. The Culver City Education Foundation made this program possible this year using some of their All For 1 funds to purchase recorders for all of 3rd grade students. Please support music in our schools by s...
Visual instruction is key to learning. So just imagine the power of sharing a math strategy with manipulatives, viewing pages of a book, illustrating a diagram, or presenting a science investigation so all students can see it clearly. This is now accomplished with ease using our document camera. This device instantly projects the image of any object placed under the lens. It can also take a digital photograph, which can then be transmitted to a computer. Funded by a grant sponsored by CCEF, the document camera is a tool that is...
You don’t need 20/20 vision to see the concerns citizens have with their local government. This paper in the last few weeks has printed examples of individual salaries and benefits over $300,000 and annual pensions that were more than their annual wages. Many received annual pensions of over $120,000. We have many more examples. There is more to consider than just voting in November on a ½ cent increase on the sales tax. The council should, in my opinion, hire a non-biased reputable MBA-loaded company to look at our 40,000 population city and d...
I want to express the appreciation of the Farragut Staff and parent community for the generous support given to our school by the Culver City Education Foundation. Funds from the All for 1 campaign afforded our school the opportunity to obtain equipment and instruments to enrich the educational experience at Farragut Elementary School. Chris Collins Interim Principal Farragut Elementary School...
Mayor Andy Weissman and councilmember Jim Clarke finished their city-wide tour by sitting down with residents of Raintree to discuss Measure Y. Measure Y, the half-cent City sales tax to maintain essential Culver City services such as 911 emergency responses, paramedics, police and fire protection, as well as funding for sidewalk and street repairs, parks, senior and after-school programs, is on the November 6 ballot for Culver City residents. “Measure Y is absolutely the most important item on the November ballot,” said Weissman. “Ma...
Council Considers Bike Sharing Program Monday’s City Council meeting seemed as green as the paper used for its agenda, with green transit the main focus. Topics ranged from speakers in public comment talking about walking to school to ease traffic, to Council member Mehaul O’ Leary giving a brief report on a group opposed to the building of Phase Two of the Expo Line, to the Council’s consideration of participating in the Westside Cities Council of Government Bike Share Program (WSCCOG). Bike sh...
Trick-or-treat? It’s that time of year to get in touch with your inner ghost, when the Halloween spirit fills the air with spooky little ghouls, goblins and witches trick-or-treat their way through the neighborhood, navigating glimmering jack-o-lanterns, draping cobwebs, errant bats and other haunting decorations. Second in popularity to Christmas and secular in nature, Halloween originally was referred to as Old Hallows Eve. Celebrated on October 31, the day before All Saints Day, which was c...
State Supreme Court Reviews Case By Stephen Hadland Observer Publisher Neighbors for Smart Rail (NFSR), a coalition of Westside homeowners, has filed for a stay on construction of Metro’s light rail's extension from Culver City to Santa Monica. In opposing the stay Metro’s response to the California Supreme Court claimed, “A one-year stay will cause damages to the public of $90 million or more, have enormous adverse effects on the residents of Los Angeles.” They went on to say the stoppage would cost “thousands of jobs.” The homeowners...
I live on a Culver City street where the arrival of emergency vehicles alerted the neighborhood to a sexual assault in broad daylight. Within a couple of minutes walking distance of my home are the sites of an armed robbery, at least one murder, and as I remember, a drive-by shooting. I live on a Culver City street where two pedestrian versus vehicle accidents have occurred involving school children. A third accident occurred around the corner on Elenda Street. Traffic was detoured through the neighborhood following an accident on Overland...
The Lakers didn’t draft Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Wilt Chamberlain. All three came to the Lakers after they hsd established themselves with other teams. Combined, they won nine NBA championships with the Lakers. Today, Dwight Howard is the Lakers’ center and he similarly has arrived from elsewhere. Following a soap opera stretch in which Howard demanded a trade from the Orlando Magic, changed his mind and opted to stay there another year, then agreed to a trade with the Laker...
Loss To Santa Monica Mars Hopes Instead of getting better, it seems as if the Culver City High football team’s offense is getting progressively worse. And the Centaurs’ playoff hopes are progressively getting bleaker. In one of its worst offensive performances in years, Culver City was stifled last Friday night in a 17-3 loss to Santa Monica, as the Centaurs were held under 200 yards and fell to fourth place in the Ocean League. The Centaurs fell to 4-4 overall, but even worse fell to 1-2 in league, and have to win their final two reg...
After all Laker exhibition games didn’t become available on Laker-sponsored television, more of the same looks likely as the regular season begins. The Lakers’ season opener Tuesday night against the Dallas Mavericks at Staples Center will be nationally televised on TBS, which is available on most local cable outlets. But starting with the next night’s game at Portland fans who used to watch on Channel 9 will be shut out. Time Warner owns the new station that will televise the majority of Laker...
