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By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Culver City has some financial issues to work out after being hit with a difficult appeal decision by the California Department of Finance (DOF) on October 31. The Superior Court had ordered the Los Angeles County auditor-controller’s office to make a payment of $10,473,745 to the city on October 27. But the DOF’s filed appeal stayed the execution of that payment, resulting in the Successor Agency being $1.7 million short of being able to pay into the cit...
The Culver-City High girls basketball team won their opening game of the 2014-15 season against Crossroads School, 38-25, in the first round of the Inaugural Culver City / St. Mary's Tip-Off Classic on Monday night, November 24. The current CIF Division 2AA champion Centaurs are co-sponsoring the week-long tournament with St. Mary's Academy of Inglewood featuring 12 local teams that will run through Saturday, November 29 with the finals held at Culver High's Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The...
The Culver City High girls basketball team improved their season record to 3-0 after beating St. Bernard High 77-36 at home in the third round of the Culver City / St. Mary's Tip-Off Classic on Wednesday night, November 26. Katie Lin lit up the scoreboard for 28 points with pin-point accuracy as she nailed nine three-pointers. Kailey Tooke hit eight baskets for 18 points. Megan Yoon added 10, Kate Suyetsugu and Alex Arancibia each contributed six points. Billie Crichton, Lindsey Tanita and Gwen...
For the 11th consecutive year Cadets at Army and Navy Academy will support Scripps Memorial Hospital in its annual "Disaster Drill" on November 20. Cadet volunteers will act out different roles as Scripps personnel test their emergency response skills. Student volunteers, including Ahmed Tawfik of Culver City were selected to participate based on high grade achievement in both academics and citizenship. The disaster drill is state-mandated and designed to test the hospital's response both in terms of healthcare and family care. According to...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist As you all know, I have for the longest time been advocating that the Culver City Board of Education phase out Japanese and instead teach Chinese. Another fact we can all chew on – China’s GDP will top $10 trillion this year and is growing fast. If the district doesn’t want to teach the language of the future maybe the parents could join forces and hire a tutor for an hour a day and divide the costs. It shouldn’t be that much and the kids partici...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Out of all the major league baseball players on teams throughout the land the MVPs have been chosen and they both play in Southern California. If you're a baseball fan here you can join me in congratulating Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers and Mike Trout of the Angels. Neither one was able to lead their team to much playoff success in the 2014 season, but their individual accomplishments could not be questioned in the regular season, and these awards are based on r...
The Dodgers will open the 2015 season with a three-game series against the San Diego Padres April 6-8. The Dodgers will then conclude the first week with three games at Arizona....
Global real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson has negotiated a 10-year retail lease for Panera Bread, a bakery-café chain with locations nationwide. Located at 10990 Jefferson Blvd. within the Studio Village Center, the 5,100-square-foot property will house the first Panera Bread in Culver City. The location is the former home of Roll’n Rye. Matt Adamczyk, vice president of Kennedy Wilson’s Brokerage Group, represented the tenant, Panera Bread, in the transaction. “Culver City is a target market for Panera Bread’s expansio...
For more than 30 years the Culver City Senior Citizens Association, Inc. has worked to spread the spirit of goodwill during the holidays through the Annual Holiday Food Certificate Program. Each year this program helps hundreds of needy people throughout the Culver City area by providing grocery gift cards to those in need. Qualifying families and individuals in need will have the comfort of holiday meals thanks to generous donations of cash, checks, money orders, and grocery gift cards. Checks or money orders can be made payable to Culver...
Governor Jerry Brown announces the appointment of Hector E. Gutierrez, Colin P. Leis, Lillian Vega Jacobs, Rob B. Villeza, Shirley K. Watkins and Michael E. Whitaker to judgeships in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Whitaker, 47, of Culver City, has served as supervising deputy attorney general at the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General since 2006, where he served as a deputy attorney general from 1998 to 2006. He was an associate at the Law Offices of Richard...
The Lakers’ injury problems continued when reserve forward Ryan Kelly suffered a torn right hamstring in a loss to the Golden State Warriors last week. Kelly is expected to miss at least six weeks....
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks “faced-off” in the always much-anticipated “Freeway” rivalry at Staples Center on Saturday. The Ducks were playing without an injured Corey Perry, one of their premiere players and also missing was a retired Teemu Selanne. The game took on a strange feel without Selanne out there on the ice. He was such a force for many years and one of the greatest poster-boys that the NHL ever had. Selanne retired after the Ducks l...
Jennifer Kessy, a 2012 Olympic silver medalist and the winner of 29 beach volleyball tournaments worldwide, announces that she will return to the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour for the 2015 season. Kessy, who missed the 2014 season for the birth of her first child, will partner with rising star Emily Day. Kessy played at USC, Day at Loyola-Marymount. “I can’t overstate how excited I am to come back,” Kessy said. “Volleyball has always been a huge part of my life, and while it’s been a major milestone to experience the birth of my first bab...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The Los Angeles Master Chorale, a cultural icon heralded around the globe for its exceptional artistry, presented its “Renaissance: Reawakened” performance on Sunday at the acoustically-sound Walt Disney Concert Hall where the Chorale has been residing since 2003. Not only did Artistic Director/Conductor Grant Gershon conduct the chorus, but so did his associate Lesley Leighton, and she did so very capably. “Rebirth: Music of the Spirit” is how Gershon...
MCLM in association with the BADWest St. Clair Bourne 4th Monday Documentary Series will present a free screening of Shola Lynch's film: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners. The screening will be held on Monday, November 24 at 7 pm at the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum, 4130 Overland Avenue, Culver City. Free parking is available. Free Angela is a feature length documentary about Angela Davis. The high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 year-old newly...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter "Six or seven rallies back and forth over the net for a point is incredible. It wasn't like it was free ball. It was straight down hit, dug, transition, block, cover, pull back up, hit back over, diving dig. "It was all kinds of amazing plays. Both teams just played incredible. It's sad that one team had to lose. When you watch a match like that, all you can say is: "Wow." The words of Culver City High head coach Joe Manzo were spot on but it certainly felt...
Malibu Pacific will be installing bicycle racks for Phase 1 of the Citywide Bicycle Rack Installation Project (see attached Phase 1 locations) beginning Wednesday, November 19. Phase 1 will entail installation of bicycle racks at predetermined locations, based on the work performed as part of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan (BPMP), public requests to date, and at public transit locations. The bicycle rack is U shaped and made of steel. It is coated in green thermoplastic paint and meets...
