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Part 1 of 2 By Greg Goodyear Special to the Observer Last year Culver City High School football was the Ocean League champs when they beat Santa Monica in overtime and went 5-0 in league play. This was their first league championship since 2009, but they were frustratingly close in 2010, 11, and 12. The Centaurs have a good nucleus of returning starters on both offense and defense, but several of their top players transferred to other schools. Although this will make it tougher the coaches feel...
• Passing of Parks, Recreation and Community Services (PRCS) Commission Chair Rick Hudson - On August 9, PRCS Commission Chair Rick Hudson passed away unexpectedly at the age of 61 while at his family’s ranch in New Mexico. In addition to being the successful owner of Culver Glass, Chair Hudson was a tireless advocate for the young people of Culver City. He was a volunteer high school athletics coach and an active member of the Culver City Exchange Club. He also served the Culver City Com...
Culver City has a new chief of police, Scott Bixby, and a new fire chief, Dave White. The double appointments of Bixby and White, both of whom had been serving as interim heads of their departments, was announced at last week's City Council meeting and drew enthusiastic applause. New Police Chief Scott Bixby was born in Culver City, attending El Rincon Elementary School, Culver Junior (middle) School and Culver High School. His first involvement with the Culver City Police Department was as an...
Everett Hale Van Tassel was born on December 5, 1921, in Kasson, Minnesota and graduated from Amboy High School where he was active in sports and lettered in basketball. After graduation, he drove west to job search. He landed in West Hollywood and worked in different machine shops. The rest of his family joined him and he lived with his parents, sharing a room with his Grandma. His brother's family shared their duplex. He lived in Culver City since 1959. Everett enlisted in the United States...
The family of former Culver City Council member Ed Little announced his passing this past weekend. Little, who was 87, died of natural causes at his home in Mechanicsville, Virginia, where he and his wife Helen had recently relocated. Until May of this year, Little had served as director of the West Basin Municipal Water District, a post he resigned due to health reasons. He also owned and operated Ed Little Auto Service from the early 1950s until his retirement a few years ago. Born in Los...
By Fred Altieri Observer Sports Reporter One thing is for certain, this fall edition of the Culver City High girls tennis team will be swinging into the unknown as it takes on not only two perennial Ocean League powerhouses but also opens the season against very tough competition from familiar South Bay tennis programs. This past week, led by head coach Phil Rothenberg and assistant coach Seth Lewkow conducting drills and instruction, the girls were practicing as they have been for practically...
A memorial service and a Celebration of Life will be held Saturday August 16, at the Little League field located in Culver City's Bill Botts, honoring Rick Hudson. Hudson passed away unexpectedly on August 9 while at his family ranch in New Mexico. The salutation to Mr. Hudson starts at 6:30 pm, followed directly afterward by refreshments and further remembrances at Garden Room at Culver City's Veteran's Auditorium located at the corner of Culver Boulevard and Overland Avenue. In addition to...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Douglas Lydic, 29, escaped from a police car in December 2013 in Commodore, Pennsylvania while handcuffed. Prosecutors declined to charge him with fleeing since he was merely being “detained” at the time. However, they did charge Lydic with the theft of the handcuffs. This fall for the first time the freshman class at the University of California’s nine undergraduate campuses will have more Latino (17,589) than white (16,378) students admitted. Thanks to a f...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Tyler Skaggs, the Angels’ 23-year-old starting pitcher, will undergo Tommy John surgery and will miss the rest of this season and most likely all of next season. Skaggs has a 5-5 record and 4.30 earned run average. He was injured in a July 31 game and given the choice of surgery or a long rehabilitation process. “I want to get this taken care of so I’ll be ready for the 2016 season,” he said. Skaggs was a star at Santa Monica High and was the 40th selecti...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Beginning in 2016 students at California community colleges must maintain a 2.0 or C average to be eligible for a waiver to exempt them from paying tuition. Now that we are in a super duper drought, can we return to an ancient garden practice? Try burying a narrow-neck unglazed pot up to the neck, place plants close by, fill the pot with water, cover the pot hole with a stone and the pot (called an olla) will seep water to the plants’ roots without losing a...
The newly elected Board of Directors of the Culver City Woman’s Club met recently to discuss plans for the upcoming year which include events to fund the club’s philanthropies. The club awards scholarships to Culver City High School students annually. Other recipients include the Culver Palms YMCA, Meals on Wheels and the Bob Hope USO at LAX. Among the fund raisers will be the popular Ice Cream Social and the traditional Christmas Wrapping Booth at the Westside Pavilion. The club also sponsors a number of social events throughout the year. Of...
By fred Altieri Observer reporter The time tested beaten paths coming and going through Culver City have become a bit more beaten during these dog days of summer 2014. There are more teenagers running the streets, parks and hills... and that's a good thing. Cross country running at Culver City High is enjoying a renaissance as the girls and boys teams prepare for the upcoming 2014 fall season. Head coach Tom Fritzius touched on the training and potential of his current teams and the renewed...
B City Manager City Clerk’s Office • Baldwin Hills Conservancy Board of Directors Position Announcement - The City Clerk’s Office announces the application period for the City Council’s three nominees for the Governor’s appointment of one voting member to the Baldwin Hills Conservancy (BHC) Board of Directors. The Board consists of 13 voting members and seven nonvoting members. This BHC appointment will serve a two year term, which will begin as early as September 2014. Please visit the City’s w...
The Venice Japanese Community Center presented scholarship winner at the 2014 Nisei Week Court during the annual VJCC Summer Festival on June 21. VJCC President Hiro Harada presented $600 scholarships to four outstanding high school graduates including three from Culver City High School Logan Kim plans to attend UCLA. Her parents are Vickie and Nobbie Kim. Kelli Tademaru plans to attend USC. Her parents are Arlene and Dave Tademaru. Kelsey Ueda plans to attend UCLA. She is the daughter of Julia and Dean Ueda....
By Fred Altieri Observer Sports Reporter Culver City High will have two new Ocean League opponents to contend with for the approaching athletic school year due to league realignments within the South Bay Athletic Association: El Segundo High and Lawndale High. And that means only one thing... across the board the competition just got tougher. Opportunely, it's the shot in arm the Ocean League needed as it seeks to improve upon its recent resurgent athletic success within the CIF Southern...
By Fred Altieri Observer Sports Reporter Part 2 of 2. Part 1 appeared in last week's Culver City Observer. Both Part 1 and Part 2 are available for viewing online at www.culvercityobserver.com The school's student sports medicine trainers won the CIF competition for the second year in a row at the Southern Section Championships at St. Francis High School. Marcos White does an unbelievable job. He's our head trainer in charge of all of our teams. He runs the student training program during the...
The public is invited to attend a welcome picnic for exchange students from Iksan City, Culver City's Korean Sister City. The picnic is Free, and it will be held on Saturday, July 19 from noon until 3 pm at Culver Park, Bill Botts Field near the sundial. Please join the Culver City community and meet our high school visitors and their chaperones. Feel free to bring Frisbees, soccer balls or anything else to contribute to a fun afternoon. The students in the photo participated in last year's...
By Fred Altieri Observer Sports Reporter Part 1 of 2. Part 2 will appear in next week's edition of the Culver City Observer Tom Salter is entering for his third year as athletic director for Culver City High School. He and the 22 head coaches of the school's sports programs and their staffs are already hard at work as they prepare for another challenging year in the Ocean League beginning this September. He took time out of his demanding schedule to review the past 2013-14 school year and gave...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The hazards involved in examining the finances of Culver City were avoided on June 23 when the City Council, without much ado, approved the 2014-2015 budget. However, the Council took some time to discuss the potential hazards posed by the planned Fourth of July fireworks display at West Los Angeles College. The fireworks issue was raised during public comment by a speaker who was concerned that the fireworks were set to be detonated close to gas and...
The annual Fourth of July Fireworks show will be held at West L.A. College for the first time this year Last year, for the first time in 47 consecutive celebrations of our nation's birthday, the skies over Culver City fell dark. Construction at Culver High prevented the Exchange Club from hosting its annual fireworks show. Because construction continues at the high school, this annual local and family tradition has been moved to the football field at West Los Angeles College. "Our fireworks...
By John Nachbar City Manager • 4th of July Fireworks Show – The Culver City Exchange Club’s annual 4th of July Fireworks Show will resume at West Los Angeles College on the evening of Friday, July 4th. Gates open at 4:00 pm, and fireworks begin at dusk. The City is a co-sponsor of this event. For more information visit: http://culvercityfireworksshow.com/ • Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival - The first of six free concerts will take place on Thursday, July 10th at 7:00 pm in the Ci...
Boulevard Music presents 6 free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7pm from July 10 through August 14 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Curated by producer Gary Mandell, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival offers something for everyone: Cajun, world music, country, Brazilian, Charanga, swing and more. Escape to downtown Culver city, featuring a wonderful mix of historic buildings, boutiques, theaters, galleries, and unique restaurants all within walking distance. What's coming up: • July 10- Cajun/Zydeco from And...
Can it be 60 plus years since the first class graduated from Culver City High School in 1953? Yes, the class often called "the first class in and the first class out" is the topic for the next general meeting of the Culver City Historical Society on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room in the Veterans Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Ave. in Culver City. A trip down memory lane to the early 1950s in a PowerPoint presentation will illustrate the creation of Culver City...
Culver City Little League Pitches Hard-Fought Season This season, the Culver City Little League 9-10 year old All Star team showed the city, and themselves, what they could do. They started out with 14 boys of varying abilities. The players came from two different levels and nine different teams. They had different coaching experiences and demonstrated different skill sets. Only four had ever participated in a Little League All Star tournament. Their competition included nine other teams, most...
Loraine Jeannett Dunn Norvell (nee Troendly), 91, went home to be with the Lord on June 6, 2014. Born in Lincoln, NE on June 19, 1922, Loraine moved to Southern California with parents Ray and Marie Troendly, and brother Dean, when she was four years old. Loraine graduated from Venice High School in 1940, and soon after married Harry Dunn, of Culver City. Harry and Loraine, with their children Leonard and Carla, moved into their home in Culver City in 1956, where she resided until just late...
