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Planet Granite may be facing an uphill battle in its efforts to bring indoor rock climbing to Culver City. Wednesday night, Culver City officials informed the Karagozian family, who are the property owners where the Culver City Ice Arena is located, and Planet Granite, the new lessee that the property is zoned strictly for ice skating and no other commercial purposes. Any rezoning will require City Council approval and may take many months to accomplish. Changes in zoning will also be reviewed...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor It's official. Culver City High football star Stanley Norman has transferred to Serra High in Gardena. Serra football coach Scott Altenberg confirmed the speculation that began last week that Norman had taken out transfer papers. Norman then enrolled in classes at his new school in Gardena. Altenberg also said the player's family has moved into the Serra area. The Observer was among the media outlets that had gathered information leading to the likelihood Norman...
The frontpageonline.com has reported that former Culver City Mayor and Councilmember Scott Malsin has been named as a field representative for newly elected Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas. Malsin, flipped-flopped during the election pulling his support from another former mayor Christopher Armenta and then backing Ridley-Thomas for the assembly seat. Malsin was serving his second term on the council when he opted to resign in December 2011 to preserve lifetime health benefits for...
One of Culver City Unified School's District's brightest ideas will begin to shine on Tuesday, when the switch is flipped on the new photovoltaic panels at Farragut Elementary School. The District's new solar power system, which includes similar installations at Culver City Middle School and Culver City High, will provide as much as 750kW of energy. The system will officially be turned on in a special ceremony beginning at 9 a.m. on February 4 and will feature elected officials, students and...
Jean Louise Montgomery Frick passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 4 at her assisted living home in McLean, VA. She lived in Culver City for 20 years until moving to an assisted living home in 2006. Jean was born in Atchison, Kansas on March 27, 1926, daughter of Russell James Montgomery (WWI Army Veteran, Packard Electric/GM;1896 - 1980) and Eunice Katherine Lake (D.A.R., Warren Women's Book Club; 1898 -1989). Her parents moved to Warren in her youth, Jean graduated from Warren G. Harding...
Culver City Friends of the Library Present Story Time Featuring Celia Carroll on Tuesday, February 4 at 7 pm. The Freinds welcome back renowned storyteller Celia Carroll who will read Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino and Quick As a Cricket by Audrey Wood, perform a puppet show based on You're Just What I Need by Ruth Krauss. A fun craft will follow. Admission is Free. The reading will be held at Culver City Julian Dixon Library, 4975 Overland Avenue. For more information visit...
January 14 through 20 Car Burglary: On January 14 at 4 pm a victim came to the station to report that her 2004 Volkswagen was burglarized. The victim said she parked and locked her car in the area of Jefferson Boulevard and Hetzler Road on January 14 at 10 am. When she returned at noon she discovered her car’s passenger side window was opened and her property missing. Vandalism: On January 16 at 7:50 am a victim called the police department to report his 2005 Chevrolet had been vandalized. T...
Sandra, a Culver City resident since 1983, moved from Canada to Los Angeles when she was 12 and became a U.S. citizen at 18. Her lengthy career in real estate finance commenced with residential loan closing and soon segued into commercial loan closing and servicing. At the time of her retirement from Keystone Mortgage Corporation in 2001, she was Senior Vice President and held California Escrow Association's professional designation of Certified Senior Loan Escrow Officer. She is a past...
Barvona Abellera, a resident of Culver City and majoring in Sociology, was among 2,033 students from Tennessee State University who were named to the Fall 2013 Dean's List. The honor list names all students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or higher in 12 or more semester hours taken for a letter grade during the spring semester. With nearly 9,000 students, Tennessee State University is Nashville's only public university, and is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational, land-grant...
Is there a teacher who does even more than most to help your student understand difficult concepts? Perhaps someone who works long hours demonstrates exceptional insight or just makes your daughter or son excited about coming to school? Is there someone who helped you access resources you didn't know existed? Nomination forms are now available for CCUSD Sony Pictures Entertainment Teacher of the Year and Rotary Club of Culver City Classified Employee of the Year, and the Culver City Education...
Martin Beer, a sophomore majoring in Political Science from Culver City, has been named to the fall 2013 Dean's List at Hofstra University. Students who began their studies before fall 2012 must earn at least a 3.4 grade point average to qualify. Those who entered the university after fall 2012 must earn a grade point average of 3.5. Hofstra University is a nationally ranked private university 25 miles from New York City and all its cultural, recreational and professional opp...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter A self-imposed wakeup call was made as a sense of urgency fell upon the Culver City High boys basketball team late in the fourth quarter of Friday night's game at Hawthorne High. Looming in the background was the Centaurs previous two losses, also due to not securing the fourth quarter. And a sigh of relief went up after the Centaurs withstood a valiant comeback attempt by the host Cougars, 77-66. Culver had a 65-47 lead with seven minutes remaining in the...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporteri The Culver City High girls basketball team put an exclamation point on its week after Saturday's non-league victory against Ridgeview High, 53-32, in the MLK Extravaganza tournament hosted by Narbonne High. The win followed two more Ocean League successes days earlier on the road at Inglewood and Hawthorne. Coach Julian Anderson was succinct in describing the game, "We played Ridgeview from Bakersfield and we won. Right now we're doing a good job at staying...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The NHL’s 2014 Coors Light Stadium Series made a stop at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night which featured the Southland rival Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks in the first-ever regular season outdoor hockey game in league history on the West Coast. Even though the Ducks shut out the Kings 3-0 in front of a sellout crowd of 54,099, it was the experience that mattered most. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman summed it up best after the historic game when he said...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The Los Angeles Master Chorale, a cultural icon heralded around the globe for its exceptional artistry, pulled out the stops for their 50th anniversary weekend celebration. The program featured two performances of Bach’s B Minor Mass - the choral masterpiece that founding music director Roger Wagner inaugurated in 1965 at the just-opened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Chorale’s home for 37 years. This time, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the residence of the Mas...
The Metro Board of Directors voted to set a public hearing on proposed fare restructuring for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 29 at Metro headquarters, One Gateway Plaza in downtown Los Angeles. The public will be asked for input on two fare restructuring options. Both would eliminate the cost of transferring from one bus or train to another -- something that has been requested by many Metro customers. Both options also would raise fares gradually over the next eight years and help avoid a budget...
William L. Schulze, Jr., of Playa del Rey died in an accident on Monday, November 25, 2013, in Lancaster, California. Bill was born on August 5, 1957 to William Louis Schulze, Sr. and Barbara Ann Thornton Schulze in Covington, Kentucky, the middle of three children. He attended San Mateo High School, and graduated (1975) from Avon High School in Avon, Ct. He later attended University of Southern Colorado. An ad regional sales manager, he was a robust outdoorsman. He knew no stranger – he was e...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor The most interesting part of the remaining NBA regular season games involve teams driving toward favorable playoff position. There’s a big difference between having home court advantage and not having it. There’s a big difference from playing a powerhouse opponent right away or getting a series first to work your way in. I’ve traveled with great Laker teams with players who understood this. Shaquille O’Neal used to emphasize to me the Lakers had to finish...
Christopher Patrick "CPK" King's campaign team (CPK4CC) rocked the Helms District in Culver City this on January 25. More precisely, they rocked it with the help of four local bands ranging from a community jazz band, Captain Dan and the Del Rey Community Jazz Band; Samantha Ahdoot with special guests Garry Corman and Paul McCarty, hip hop artist Spliff Hemmingway, and headliner rock sensation, Satellite Sky. Many young Culver City voters filled the Bar Nine Collective on Helms Avenue in Culver...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Congress, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that those men and women who served honorably and faithfully sometime between 1961 and 1978 would forevermore be considered Vietnam veterans. Those troopers could have served in the North Atlantic on a Coast Guard cutter doing iceberg duty or in Europe flipping pancakes in the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment mess hall, or in Pearl Harbor with the Navy or with the Marines at Camp Pendleton, as long as it was sometime...
At theJanuary 14 CCUSD School Board meeting the Culver City Education Foundation presented a $155,000 check for a two-year grant from the California Community Foundation. $125,000 of this grant will support the ART of TEACHING program over the course of two years, providing professional development training in mathematics for nine teachers and creating mentor teachers in two CCUSD schools. Each of these teachers will receive approximately 130 hours of training to further develop their...
Kentwood Players presents "Becky's New Car" by Steven Dietz which began on Jan. 10 and will continue until February 15, 2014 for a six-week run on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm with Sunday matinees at 2pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue, Westchester. The production is directed by Susan Stangl and produced by Larry Jones by special arrangement with Dramatist's Play Service, Inc. "Becky's New Car" is a thoroughly original and contemporary comedy about love, loss, choices and what...
Community Development Department • Building Safety Division – Revenues have exceeded $2.3 million during the first six months of the 2013/14 fiscal year with technology surcharge fees totaling nearly $120,000. • East Borough – Next week, East Borough, a new Vietnamese-French restaurant, will open at 9810 Washington Boulevard. The menu will include flame-grilled Lemongrass Pork and Pork Belly, a Pho Baguette, pork and shrimp spring rolls, and Bánh Xèo (a crêpe with shrimp fried in a turmeric-c...
The following statement was posted by Planet Granite on its website in response to the outpouring of support for the Culver Ice Arena. Planet Granite makes it clear skating is not part of its plans for the future of the property. Readers responded to Planet Granite. You can read the responses at: http://www.planetgranite.com/news/2014/01/20/new-planet-granite-location-in-culver-city-addressing-the-skating-communitys-concerns/ New Planet Granite Location in Culver Addresses skating community's...
The Culver City Senior Citizens Association will be hosting a candidate's forum on Wednesday, February 5 from 12:30 pm to 2 pm. Candidates running for the Culver City Council seats will be there to introduce themselves and to answer your questions. The meeting is open to the public. The forum will be held at the Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Avenue....
