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CCEF Receives Funding From Rotary Club The Rotary Club of Culver City has successfully led a collaborative effort with its Sister Club in Manningham, Australia, the Doncaster Club, District 9810 and The Rotary Foundation to grant $17,350 to Culver City Education Foundation and the Culver City Unified School District for the El Rincon Elementary School Computer Project. The Rotary grant provides more than half of the $33,500 needed to fully equip the school’s computer lab with 26 iMac computers, 26 iMac security kits and 26 HP office jet p...
The Culver City Friends of the Library is having their annual Book Sale and Craft Fair on Saturday, November 17, from 9 am to 3 pm at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library. Thousands of titles including gently used children's books, comic books, mass market paperback and coffee table books will be available for sale. In addition, a variety of local artisans will be selling handmade gifts and holiday decorations from 9 am to 2 pm. Volunteers are needed. Set up starts at 7:30 a.m. and officials start breaking the sale down at 2:30 p.m. Sign up...
Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday morning the Los Angeles City Fire Department responded to reports of a body on the tracks on an elevated section of Expo Line tracks at the Culver City Station. The Los Angeles County Coroner has identified the man Bernard Bettis, a 48 year old resident of Long Beach. Bettis was declared dead at the scene by the firefighters. While it is the first reported fatality on the Expo Line the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Transit Bureau released a statement saying the death was not caused by a train or electrocution. The...
Health Center Friends’ Annual Meeting/The Terrible Teens? The Friends of the Culver City Youth Health Center will have their annual meeting on Thursday, November 15th from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Culver City School District Board Room. The program features a discussion of The Terrible Teens? by Sarah Carpenter, M.D. Dr. Carpenter is an Adolescent Specialist at Kaiser Permanente and a volunteer doctor at the Culver City Youth Health Center. She will address a variety of issues that families of teenagers encounter and also take questions from the a...
Despite rumors making the rounds in Hollywood circles, Culver City’s Sony Pictures Entertainment is not going on the block, according to Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai. "There is absolutely no truth to rumors that Sony's entertainment businesses are for sale," Hirai’s October 30 statement said. Rumors had been fueled by news stories about Sony making cutbacks to production and by a recent interview with CBS CEO Les Moonves in The Wall Street Journal, in which Moonves stated that he was looking at the pos...
Like last year, Centaurs Barely Qualify With its collective back against the wall, the Culver City High football team responded with one of its best efforts of the 2012 season. Facing a must-win situation to make the CIF-SS playoffs, the Centaurs routed rival Beverly Hills, 41-0 in their final regular-season game last Friday night to keep their season alive. Culver City will begin the Western Division playoffs this Friday night at Goleta against Dos Pueblos, the second-place team from the Channel League. That’s the definitive part. What’s mor...
I’m impressed by the way the Clippers built their roster for this season. Recently, I was explaining to a friend that the Clippers could be a championship contender. I made a strong case. I pointed out the Clippers have the best set of guards in the NBA with Chris Paul, Chancey Billups and reserves Eric Bledsoe, Jamal Crawford and Willie Green. I said Blake Griffin is close to becoming a superstar, Caron Butler is a pure marksman, DeAndre Jordan has improved, Ryan Hollins is a 7-foot backup c...
