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Baseball and softball tryouts for boys and girls interested in playing in the Culver City Little League will be held this Saturday and Sunday. All players who want to join must attend at least one of the tryouts, unless they are ill or have another valid excuse, a Little League official said. Hours of the tryouts at Bill Botts Field, 9710 Jefferson Blvd., vary based on the age of the youngster and experience. A full schedule can be found at the league’s web site, www.culvercitylittleleague.org, or kids and their parents can get the i...
At the school board meeting on December 11 CCEF Executive Director Leslie Adler and music teachers Paul Witt (CCMS) and Tony Spano (CCHS) announced two extraordinary new grant awards from The Fineshriber Family Foundation. The first grant is for over $36,000, and demonstrates The Fineshriber Family Foundation’s continuing commitment to the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra program in our elementary schools. This program introduces youngsters to the joyful variety of musical elements, styles, forms, and instruments. Now in it’s sixth year at CCUSD sch...
Centaurs' Young Makes All-CIF Again Culver City High defensive lineman Deon Young has been named all-CIF for the second straight year. Young is a 285-pound senior who has made a non-binding verbal commitment to Northern Arizona. Teammates Julius Wilson and Stanley Norman were also named all-CIF. Norman is the first sophomore in school history to earn that honor. Young was named Ocean League defensive player of the year. The league’s offensive player of the year was Santa Monica receiver Jason K...
January 7, 2013 City Clerk’s Office · Recruitments - Recruitment for the Finance Advisory Committee will close at 5 pm on Thursday, January 17. Also, the recruitment for the newly-formed Fiesta La Ballona Committee will be officially opened on Thursday, January 10. Information on both of these open recruitments can be found on the City’s website. Community Development Department · Tilden Terrace – The Tilden Terrace project continues to make good progress toward completion. The project is now 55.5% complete, with an expected completion date of...
Jack Stubbs, a resident of Culver City since 1951, died on December 22. Born in Missouri on March 17, 1926 Stubbs served his country in the Counter Intelligence unit of the United States Army. He was stationed in the Philippines during World War II. Following his service he worked for Douglas Aircraft and Hughes Aircraft and knew Howard Hughes personally when Hughes ran the company. He retired from Boeing. He traveled to all 50 states where he took many pictures and was and accomplished painter of the places he visited. He met his future wife M...
Timely and topical, PROMISED LAND speaks to your heart; it speaks to your mind; it opens your eyes to “the big environmental picture”; and although honing in on the one issue of fracking as a means to obtain natural gas, it takes all the environmental and energy movies and economically themed movies and brings it all together on one page that connects the dots of life. PROMISED LAND is tacitly and thoughtfully powerful and a “Must See” for everyone. Right here in Culver City, “fracki...
December 21, 2012 Community Development Department • City Dog Club – Work has been completed on an 8,600 square foot tenant improvement for a new dog boarding/grooming kennel located at 3940 Higuera Street. • Which Wich? - Plans have been submitted for a new sandwich shop located at 3849 Main Street. • Starbucks Coffee Co. – Located at 4114 Sepulveda Boulevard is now open. • Pei Wei Asian Restaurant – The restaurant, located at 4114 Sepulveda Boulevard is now under construction. • Enjoeat – Plans have been submitted for a new café and bakery lo...
First, the words of President Obama: “There's only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child's embrace, that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves and binds us to something larger, we know that's what matters. We know we're always doing right when we're taking care of them, when we're teaching t...
Bandai Foundation Funds 10 New Scholarships for Local Seniors The Culver City Community Scholarship Fund will give 20 new scholarships in 2013, thanks to a $5,000 grant from The Bandai Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Bandai, the Japanese toy and video game company, as a way to give back to the community that has made its products successful in the United States. The Culver City Community Scholarship Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, seeks out and maintains funds to be given as scholarships to graduating seniors from...
Hundreds of Los Angeles residents turned out for an informational “Unity in the Community Roundtable” held at USC on December 8 featuring renowned Harvard legal scholar Charles Ogletree as the moderator. Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. , whose district includes Culver City, invited Professor Ogletree and a host of other distinguished experts who assembled to discuss health and education issues related to the minority communities in Los Angeles. The event was hosted by USC Dornsife, Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. Concerned citizens and com...
Culver Teens Named LA’s Emerging Leaders Two Girl Scouts who are residents of Culver City have been named Emerging Leaders by Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles in recognition of their outstanding extra-curricular and academic accomplishments. On December 5, Kennedy Green and Isabella Pando joined nearly 100 additional Emerging Leaders and hundreds of the most accomplished women in Los Angeles for a luncheon and day of mentorship at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. The event concluded a year of celebration honoring the 100th anniversary o...
November 26, 2012 City Clerk’s Office · Addition of CCTV 35 to AT&T U-verse - Staff has been working to prepare the City’s Audio/Visual Room pursuant to specifications provided by AT&T to allow U-verse to carry CCTV 35. Preparations are nearing completion and, subject to confirmation of AT&T’s installation schedule, staff expects CCTV to be added to the U-verse channel lineup shortly. Staff will continue to update the City Council as this project moves forward. · Finance Advisory Committee Application Period Now Open - The first newspap...
The Elks National Foundation gives $ 2,296,000 to high school seniors each year who are college bound. Five hundred scholarships are award at the National Level. These range from $1000 a year for four years to $ 15,000 each year for four years. Half of these are boys and half are girls. Applications are awarded on Scholarship, Leadership and Financial need. Each application is judged at the lodge level, then to the district level and on to State. Awards are given to all completed and qualified applications at the all levels. The detail and appl...
Proposition 30 Money Provides Help Maybe it was because a number of high school students were present to cover the Tuesday night Culver City School Board meeting for their civics requirement, but Mike Reynolds’ presentation on the 2012-2013 budget and how newly passed Prop 30 will affect it was remarkably easy to understand. Reynolds, who became the Culver City School District’s Assistant Superintendent for Business Services last month, outlined the history of the District’s budget in terms that...
It’s a new season and a new era for the Culver City High boy’s basketball program. Jon Chapman, the Centaurs’ head coach the last seven years, has given up the position to concentrate on being the school’s assistant principal. Adam Eskridge, Chapman’s assistant, moves up to head coach. Culver began its season in a 79-65 loss to Brentwood Monday in the Mira Costa Pacific Shores Tournament. Culver fell far behind early in the game, relied on its pressing defense to get closer, but couldn’t...
Just in time for the holidays the Friends of the Culver City Youth Health Center is pleased to host an exhibit and sale of the work of Culver City resident, artist and author Francia Turner Fate. The event will be on Saturday from 2 pm to 4 at 5502 Sawtelle Blvd. Francia will donate 25% of sales to the Friends group to help support the services provided by the Health Center. For the past 10 years Francia has donated a selection of her fine art to the Health Center’s annual fundraiser. The children of Culver City have benefited from her c...
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...
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...
Sip for Our Schools, Culver City Education Foundation’s fourth annual wine tasting event, was a huge success. The entire evening was a sampling of music, wines and beer tastings accompanied by appetizers and desserts. More than 200 people were in attendance. Upon entering the event held at The Redd Collection in Culver City, attendees were greeted by the music of the Culver City High AVPA Jazz Combo. Viewing the room you saw a microcosm of the larger Culver City community mixing and enjoying each other’s company. City Council members and the...
Realizing the import of Measure Y, more than 225 concerned residents came to Vet’s Park for the Yes on Measure Y Walk this past Saturday. Mayor Andy Weissman got things started with an inspirational talk and Vice Mayor Jeff Cooper explained the importance of Measure Y, saying “Measure Y is the half-cent city sales tax on the ballet in November. If it passes, Measure Y will help maintain essential Culver City services such as 911 emergency responses, paramedics, police and fire protection. While adding just five cents to a $10 purchase, Mea...
Focus Will Be On Measure Y Funds Last week the City Council rejected the idea of a citizens’ advisory committee on fracking. But Monday night the Council approved the formation of another citizens’ committee--a finance advisory committee that would primarily have the responsibility of overseeing the use of funds accruing from the sales tax that will be enacted if Measure Y passes. The Council’s direction to city staff is to create a committee of no more than nine members. Three members will...
Bob, born April 27 1931, passed away September 24 in Oceanside. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, and was a former member of the El Segundo Police Department. He retired as Sergeant on the Culver City Police Department, followed by a term as Chief of Security for Culver City High School. Bob was a 40-year member of the Culver City Exchange Club who loved life and loved Culver City. He leaves behind his wife, Darlene Wassertheur, three sons, Robert, Randy and Jim and granddaughter Audrey as well as stepsons Dan and Michael and...
September 28, 2012 City Manager’s Office · Measure Y - Despite the City’s best efforts, since the 2008 recession, Culver City has lost $4.5 million in state funding, an additional $6 million in local revenues, and $40 million annually through Sacramento’s elimination of local redevelopment agencies, leaving the City unable to fund essential public services at the levels necessary to meet current and future needs. · · Additionally, at a time when revenues were declining, the City was experiencing an increase in expenses. This situation is not u...
The Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) All For 1 campaign has been running full force for over a month. All for 1 is designed to bring in funds at the beginning of the school year so that the Foundation can be ready to donate to the programs our schools need most, when they need it most. When directing AFO donations, CCEF wants to be responsive to community concerns. The survey we conducted last June was a part of that process. On the basis of that input, All For 1 funding this year will be targeted at math, science, technology and the...
Culver City High Girls Volleyball will benefit from a car wash on Saturday Oct. 6 from 10 am to 4 pm in front of Culver City High School. The suggested donation is $7 for one car or two cars for $12. There will be a plethora of snacks, treats, finger-foods, coffee, tea, water, etc. for waiting participants. There will also be about 40 parents helping with the activities. Culver City High has three Girls Volleyball teams, Frosh/Soph, Junior Varsity, and Varsity, coached by Joe Manzo. There are approximately 40 girls on all of the girls VB teams...
