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CCUSD Names Kim Indelicato Principal of Linwood E. Howe The Culver City Unified School District Board of Education announces that it has selected former Culver City High Assistant Principal Kim Imdelicato to serve as Principal of Linwood E. Howe Elementary School. The Board will officially vote on Indelicato's hiring at its September 11 meeting. Indelicato has spent the past six years as Assistant Principal at Culver City High, where she has overseen discipline, athletics, attendance, student activities, curriculum and guidance. She also...
The Culver City Historical Society will host noted anthropologist and archeologist Dr. Charles Rozaire at a special meeting on Saturday, August 18 in the society’s Archive and Resource Center (ARC) from 1-3 p.m. Dr. Rozaire grew up in Culver City, attended Culver City Grammar School, and received his BA, MA and PhD at UCLA. He will share his perspective on Native Americans and the early history of the land that became Culver City. During his career, Dr. Rozaire served as Curator for the Southwest Museum, Curator of Archeology for the Los A...
After teaching Drama and English during her first year at Culver City High,, Jill Novick has accepted the position of Creative Director of Theatre for AVPA for the 2012-13 school year. Current Creative Director Justin Lujan will be stepping down from the position, but will still be involved in teaching and directing with AVPA Theatre during the next year. Jill began acting as a child, and was fortunate enough to have been nurtured by a program very similar to AVPA at Mamaroneck High in New York. There she learned what it was like to bond with...
Last fall the Culver City Education Foundation launched an ambitious fundraising operation. CCEF is proud to announce the distribution of the funds raised by the 2011 All for One campaign. Technology: all five elementary schools will receive $5,500 and the remaining three school sites, CCMS CCHS, and Culver Park will receive $5,000 each to purchase needed technology. Success Maker Software: all five Elementary Schools will receive $2,000 each and CCMS will receive $4,000. Odyssey Software: CCHS and Culver Park will each receive $2000 Recorders...
I wanted to add my concerns to Cary Anderson's regarding following the rules where it regards traffic incursion into the residential neighborhoods. For myself, it is not a matter of a rare instance of an organization holding a charitable event that brings outside traffic into my neighborhood. My block has had permit parking since 1982. The hours for enforcement were expanded about 15 years to match the hours of continued outside incursion. After all of these years I continue to request Parking Enforcement several times a week because drivers fe...
Baseball Youth Summer Camp Grades 3-8 at Culver City High Baseball Field Fundamentals of Baseball Summer Camp is managed by the CCHS Head Varsity Baseball Coach. Camp Coaches are current and former CCHS Varsity Baseball Players. The camp will cover the basics skills in throwing, catching, fielding, hitting, bunting, base running, and instructional games. The low Coach/Player ratio ensures that each player will receive personal attention while having fun improving their baseball skills. Camp hours are 9 am to 2 pm. Cost for five- day session is...
AVPA Art Students Tour, “In Wonderland….” at LA County Museum of Art It’s the best time of the year for AVPA Art’s five high school interns at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Emily Wood, Edna Vogel, Marilyn Liu, Michelle Bac, and Azalie Welsh have all been working on designing their own interactive tours for the past few months, focusing on an special exhibition of surrealist art created by women artists from Mexico and the United States. Now that April is upon us, the Culver City students are leading groups of high school and middle sc...
The Culver City Historical Society will feature the history, music, songs and stories from the MGM Broadway Melody musical movies produced between 1929 and 1944 at its general meeting on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Building’s Multipurpose Room, 4117 Overland Avenue. The program, presented by tenor Winston Gieseke (CCHS Webmaster), and pianist Stephen Fry (CCHS Vice President, Programs) will offer a musical and narrative review of original songs from the immensely popular series of Broadway Melody film productions m...
City Tavern, located at 9739 Culver Blvd., will celebrate its first anniversary on Tuesday and has invited the Culver City Historical Society (CCHS) to be the beneficiary of the celebratory evening. City Tavern has pledged to give the CCHS a generous donation, and in addition after 7 pm, the CCHS will benefit from 10% of all dinner bills. Ken Kaufman and Brian McKeaney, the Rush Street guys, created City Tavern a year ago as an old school tavern with distressed brick walls, reclaimed wood floors and walls, warm wood tables and chairs, and a...
Culver City High School's boys' and girls' track and field teams continued to have outstanding performances. The latest addition of outstanding performances happened last Friday and Saturday at the California Relays at Long Beach Wilson High. Both varsity teams are in pursuit of winning multiple races and championships in the CIF Southern Section Division and CIF-State Meet. The Centaurs once again have enough talent to be able to compete with the top track and field teams in Southern...
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is a nation-wide arts competition open to all high school students across the nation. Culver City High students from the CCHS Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) have been recognized for their exceptional talent in the visual arts. Edna Vogel Amezcua, Michelle Bac, Camille Clair, and Ahin Ju have earned “Gold Key” awards, the highest level of achievement, for their individual work in visual art. Edna Vogel Amezcua has won one of five top awards called, “The American Visions Award” for her unique...
March 2, 2012 • Costco Wholesale – A permit has been issued for a 2,100 square feet addition to existing building for storage, and a new dairy cooler, located at 13463 Washington Boulevard. • 600 Corporate Pointe - A permit has been issued to Cerner for a tenant improvement. • Westfield Culver City - Plans have been submitted by Dippingo which is a new chocolate fondue kiosk. • Chipotle Mexican Grill - Plans have been submitted for a new restaurant located at 4114 Sepulveda Boulevard. • eBAY -...
This year’s annual Culver City Historical Society Picnic and meeting on Wednesday, July 20 will be catered by the city’s Santa Maria Barbeque Restaurant. A dinner will be cooked in the picnic area in Veterans Memorial Park by the restaurant’s owner, Jim Rodrigues, who will demonstrate the special techniques that have made his Downtown Culver City eatery so popular. Dinner will be served from 6:30 pm to 7:30. The price is $25 per person, and reservations are required. All CCHS members, their family and friends, and the public are invited to atte...
A new non-profit “Friends of the Culver City Scout House” organization has been launched designed to preserve, maintain and operate the Culver City Scout House for the benefit of youth groups and other community organizations. The well-used building has served as a meeting place for numerous scouting organizations since the early 1940s and was moved to its current location, 10866 Culver Blvd., around 1950. The Culver City Scout House, currently home to Boy Scout Troop 113, along with an annex used as the Culver City Rock & Mineral Club’s works...
Warming up summer with birthday candles are Karen Fowler, Linda Thieben, Hayden O’Brien, William Sick, David Olson, Colin Tidwell, Doris MacGregor, Eleanor Brown, Elisa Adeff, Cynthia Leavitt, Joan Steever, Ana Maria Kowalski, Rosa Idalia Giron, Gary Bethel, Alfred Reyes, Lorette Herman, Shannon Gaulding, Joseph Beachy, Lindy Smith, Robert Chancellor, Tina Kaufman, Cherylann Grasso, Cottalango Leon, Kristin Giannantonio, Wrennie Laundau, Ruth McKnight, Stephanie Taylor, Jacqueline Aispiro, Norma Lazcano, Erik Matsubayashi, Jenny Garcia, M...
Students from Culver City High School 's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) Film Department, along with their parents, are sponsoring a Giant Garage Sale from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 21, at the corner of Garfield and Elenda, across the street from Culver City High School . For information about how to donate items to the Garage Sale or to make a monetary contribution to the AVPA Film Program, contact AVPA Foundation Film Rep Jean Ballantine at 310-398-4200 or j.ballantine@ca.rr.comj.ballantine@ca.rr.com, or the Film...
Top education, law enforcement, traffic safety leaders and others joined each other at Culver City High last week to announce steps to reduce teen deaths from distracted and reckless driving through the Impact Teen Drivers awareness and education program. It includes a new contest for teens and schools, called Create Real IMPACT grants, that encourages teens to create meaningful messages for other teens about being safe behind the wheel. Commissioner Joe Farrow of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) notes, "Our officers tell us one of the most...
On Saturday, September 19, 15 students from Culver City High School's (CCHS) Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) Film Department met at the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, where they won top prize in the High School Film category. The student film, “The Harry Hastings Method,” was directed by 2009 graduate Josh Blake and produced by current Culver City High senior Duncan Ballantine, who was also the film’s cinematographer. The film was created during the 2008-2009 school year and premiered at Culver City High Schoo...
You’re wanted for the best look-alike Rhett Butler, Scarlett O’Hara or Wizard of Oz character contest at the Culver City Historical Society’s Celebration of the Movies II. The event willhonor the 70th anniversary of many classic 1939 movies made in “The Heart of Screenland,” including Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 at The Culver Studios, 9336 West Washington Blvd. in Culver City, and at the landmark Culver Hotel at 9400 Culver Blvd. Celebrity judges for the look-like contest are: Academy Award winning c...
