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Centaurs Progress In Summer Football Handler Excels At Quarterback The Culver City High School football program advances with summer passing league completion. The Centaurs recently reached the consolation bracket championship game in the Bonita High Air Assault Tournament involving 30 teams. Culver lost the title game, 38-18 to Santiago High of Corona. David Handler, the 6-foot-5 quarterback who previously played for Palisades High, excelled for the Centaurs. Among other accomplishments he...
Dear Editor, As a candidate for Culver City Council last year, I made a point of talking to residents, whether door-to-door or at candidate forums and coffees, about the advantages Culver City offers and why it is such a great place to live and work. We have fabulous weather, a thriving downtown, great parks, close-knit residential neighborhoods, outstanding cultural and recreational activities, safe streets, close access to public transit and excellent response times from our police and fire services. But equally important is the quality of...
Players Honored At Culver Softball Awards Banquet The Culver City High Softball team held its 2013 awards banquet on Wednesday, June 19 in the school cafeteria. It was a true grass roots, family affair with parents, players, coaches and school staff all contributing to the success of the event. A number of junior varsity players volunteered to show up early and transform the large room into a Centaur showcase complete with white table covers and blue balloons. The menu was a feast of homemade...
CCUSD Deficit Shrinks Like Culver City’s own budget, the 2013-2014 budget for the Culver City School Board, approved at the Board’s meeting Tuesday night, is a much better-looking budget than in recent years, especially in regard to the deficit. “Give [CCUSD Superintendent] David LaRose some credit,” said Assistant Superintendent of Finance Mike Reynolds. “He locked us into a room and wouldn’t let us out until [our efforts] had borne some fruit.” Reynolds noted that CCUSD began the fiscal ye...
Fireworks Show Cancelled Because of renovation of the football stadium at Culver City High School the 48th annual fireworks show has been cancelled for this year. Sponsored by the Culver City Exchange Club the club has already announced it will be back next year with a bigger and better show. Locally, fireworks can be viewed over the water in Marina Del Rey....
City Manager's Update June 21, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Culver City's Boulevard Music Summer Festival – Co-sponsored by the City of Culver City and curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’s Boulevard Music, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival will feature: A cappella Doo Wop from the Mighty Echoes and acoustic blues with Doug MacLeod on July 11th; an eclectic mix of country, bluegrass, rock and jazz with Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand on July 18th; jazz and blues diva Barbara Morrison on July 25th; hot country, rock and blue...
SoCalGas Awards Scholarhips To Culver Students Southern California Gas Co. has awarded college scholarships totaling $2,000 to two Culver City-area high school seniors and community college graduates. Among the recipients to be awarded $1,000 scholarships are: Tracy Tran and Diego Rodas, graduates of Culver City High. “The scholarships recognize the students for academic achievement and other important signs of character,” said Krista Phipps, public affairs manager at SoCalGas. “We’re awarding scholarships to 150 high school seniors and com...
Coach Prieto Explains Benefits of His Baseball Camp (EDITOR’s NOTE: Observer reporter Fred Altieri interviewed Culver baseball coach Rick Prieto regarding his annual off-season baseball camp. Here is the first of this two-part interview Rick Prieto – Culver City High Baseball Head Coach Our baseball camp, which is called ‘The Fundamentals of Baseball,’ is now in its 16th year at Culver City High. We established it so we could develop a good relationship and have a better communication with th...
Garden Club To Celebrate 60th Annual Show The Culver City Garden Club will host its 60th Annual Show & Sale on Saturday, June 22 from, 10 am to- 5 pm,at Star Education, 10117 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City. The event as always is free and there is free parking in the area. They will celebrate the anniversary with an Exhibition of homegrown plants, flowers and edibles. There will also be a Club Sales table and a raffle. All are welcome. The first Show was probably held in the Culver City National Guard Armory in 1953. Eisenhower was the new U.S....
City Manager's Update June 7, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Cultural Affairs Commission Special Meeting: The City Manager and Assistant City Manager met with the Cultural Affairs Commission on June 5 as part of a Special Meeting of the Commission. The City Manager provided a presentation to the Commission on the state of the City’s finances. He also announced his assignment of the Assistant City Manager to coordinate Cultural Affairs Staffing/Programming from the City Manager’s Office as part of the City Manager’s creation of the Long-Ter...
The Inside on Culver Sports Facilities (EDITOR’S NOTE: George Laase recently interviewed former Culver City High athletic director Jerry Chabola about athletic facilities at the school) By George Laase Jerry Chabola, a now-retired teacher and the former Athletic Director of Culver City High, was asked about his thoughts on seeing that all his hard work on getting the track and field resurfaced is finally coming to pass. Jerry Chabola--I’m excited. I’m happy that the work we have done over the many past years is finally coming to fruit...
Fourth Of July Fireworks Show Cancelled (EDITOR’s NOTE; The Fourth of July fireworks show in Culver City won’t be held next month. The Observer’s Fred Altieri interviewed Earl Eskridge of the Exchange Club, who explains the situation) This really would have been our 49th year instead of our 48th year. We started to create patriotism at the time that we started, which was 49 years ago. Patriotism was down so we thought should instill patriotism by starting up this fireworks show. And we got the idea from the Pasadena Fire Department and the L...
City Manager's Update June 7, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Cultural Affairs Commission Special Meeting: The City Manager and Assistant City Manager met with the Cultural Affairs Commission on June 5 as part of a Special Meeting of the Commission. The City Manager provided a presentation to the Commission on the state of the City’s finances. He also announced his assignment of the Assistant City Manager to coordinate Cultural Affairs Staffing/Programming from the City Manager’s Office as part of the City Manager’s creation of the Long-Ter...
The Inside On Culver Sports Facilities (EDITOR’S NOTE: George Laase recently interviewed former Culver City High athletic director Jerry Chabola about athletic facilities at the school) By George Laase Jerry Chabola, a now-retired teacher and the former Athletic Director of Culver High, was asked about his thoughts on seeing that all his hard work on getting the track and field resurfaced is finally coming to pass. Jerry Chabola--I’m excited. I’m happy that the work we have done over the many past years is finally coming to fruition. The stude...
Serra Wins CIF Baseball Title Serra High is the CIF Division 3 baseball champion this season, a distinction Culver City sought. After Mira Costa eliminated Culver City, Serra defeated Mira Costa, 8-1 in the championship game last Friday at Dodger Stadium. Serra, a perennial power in football and basketball, won its first baseball championship in school history....
It’s not like it used to be in high school football, when kids from a neighborhood took on kids from another neighborhood. Through the years competition intensified, rules changed and parents began looking for greater opportunities for their sons. Transferring became the way to go for many and the CIF loosened its rules to halt the practice. The practice of looking elsewhere, seeing which school might need someone at your position became prevelant. Last season the quarterback at Culver City H...
Culver City native Michelle Bernardin has been named president of the Culver City Historical Society upon the resignation of former president Louise Coffey-Webb. Bernardin’s roots in Culver City go back to her father, Roger, whose family moved from Santa Monica to the west side of Culver City in 1956. She attended St. Augustine’s School and then followed her dad’s steps to Culver City High. She studied art history at UCLA, and continued her graduate work in art history and museum studies at Tufts University in Massachusetts. She has been at Loy...
Culver City News Vol 106 NO. 22 May 30th. 2013...So the United Parents of Culver City have endorsed their candidates for school board. They have endorsed a rocket scientist. Hey you can't go wrong with a rocket scientist right!? He's an award-winning volunteer and a great listener. Wait what?? A great listener that sounds like something out of a personal ad. Nothing against the rocket scientist this is directed at the United Parent of Culver City Scott Kecken who never responded to my email and the application for endorsement I filled out. I...
By David W. Myers, Contributing Editor The Culver City Elks Lodge last week gave a check for $5,500 to the California-Hawaii Elks Association to help provide care for a prematurely-born boy and the medical help that other disabled children need. The contribution by the Culver Elks pushed the amount of money that the California-Hawaii Elks Association, commonly called CHEA, has raised through its annual fund-raising efforts to nearly $110 million since the yearly drives began in the 1950s. In all, the Culver Elks contributed $7,250 to the...
COMMENTARY Here’s Another View Of Fracking By Jack Cox, President of The Communications Institute There has been a great deal of coverage in the news media in southern California about the use of the 60-year-old oil production technology in our state, hydraulic fracturing. Nearly all the coverage in urban media has focused on proposed legislation by state legislators in urban southern California to ban the use of the technology until more studies are undertaken. The use of this technology has enriched states and communities around the n...
Film students at Culver City High were recently invited to screen their short documentary in the highly competitive Los Angeles Film Festival. Their film “Bod Mod” explores the taboo world of underage body modification, including piercings and tattoos. In the short film, high school students discuss the motivation and reasoning behind their tattoos and piercings. They speak frankly and honestly since it is a high school crew that is asking the questions. Guided by a single camera, the documentary approaches the subject without bias and str...
Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.) announces the winner of the 37th Congressional District’s 2013 Congressional Art Competition, "An Artistic Discovery." Culver City High student Ariana Pacino won first place with her pencil art piece "Secrets." As the winner of the competition, Pacino's artwork will be displayed in the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for a year. She will also receive two free round-trip airline tickets to Washington, D.C. to attend the unveiling ceremony with Congresswoman Bass, members of Congress and other award w...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Charles Dickens’ opened in his 1859 novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. It could easily have characterized the series that decided the 2013 Ocean League baseball title. Culver City High, the defending champs, lost both games to Santa Monica High by scores of 3-1 and 7-4, relinquishing the title back to their archrivals. Samohi was crowned with a perfect 10-0 record while the Centaurs finished second in league play with an 8-2 record. Culver was...
By David W. Myers Contributing Editor Six local high-schoolers, including three from Culver City High, have won the Culver City Elks’ annual “Most Valuable Student” scholarship contest. Three of the six scholarships went to young women, and the other half to young men. All six will head to college this fall, pursuing degrees ranging from engineering to medicine and law. “It’s a privilege for the Culver City Elks to honor these outstanding students,” said C. Michael Melton, who chaired the Elks’ Scholarship Committee and hosted the awards ce...
Mitchell’s Fracking Moratorium Bill Wins Key Vote Three bills that would halt fracking in California won key votes last week in Sacramento, passing the Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources despite intense pressure from the oil industry. One of the three bills, A.B. 1323, was authored by Assembly Member Holly Mitchell, whose 54th District includes Culver City. Local residents opposed to fracking had met with and educated her for more than a year. Assembly Member Mitchell’s bill, as well as bills by Assembly Member Richard Bloom...
