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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 -...
Middle and High School students are rarely included in political forums because only a small portion are old enough to vote, and their turnout at the polls is usually less than robust. That changes when City Council candidates answer students’ questions at the ‘Ask 2 Know’ event Wednesday, March 14 at 6:45 pm at The Actors’ Gang at the Ivy Substation. Only students will be allowed to ask questions -- they will write some beforehand in their classes and put others directly to the candidates live at the forum. A mystery celebrity guest will mo...
AVPA Hosts Gay Men’s Chorus : The Culver City High Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) hosted the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles on Friday, February 10. As part of their “Alive Music Project,” the GMCLA performed for more than 500 students, including a dozen classes and nearly 200 AVPA students. The chorus performed several songs, including “Imagine” and “True Colors.” The presentation included personal stories from several members of the chorus, sharing their experiences as gay men, overcoming prejudice, and how much joy they get fro...
By John Nachbar February 17, 2012 Community Development Department • Westfield Culver City - Plans have been approved for a Tenant Improvement for Foot Locker/Champs Sports. Plans have also been submitted by Angl, Inc. and Footaction, Inc., two new retail stores. • Harlan Hugh & Shelley Hayduk - Plans have been submitted for a Tenant Improvement located at 11520-11522 Washington Boulevard. • Washington/Centinela - On February 13 the City Council approved entering into a Commitment Letter with...
Linwood Howe Participates In "Green" Campaign On February 15 Culver City Unified School District and Community Sustainability USA, a California-based nonprofit organization, launched a pilot project at Linwood E. Howe Elementary to build awareness of sustainability in the school community and inspire behavior changes at school and at home. Two back-to-back morning assemblies with a “CooltheEarth.org” skit performed by a group of Culver City High students kicked off the campaign. “The sustainable transformation of Linwood E. Howe is truly excit...
District PTA Honors Reflections Winners Three students from the Culver City Unified School District have been recognized at the 33rd District PTA level for their artistic achievements while participating in the 2011-2012 PTA Reflections Program. This year's theme "Diversity Means..." challenged students to display their talents while exploring variety found in all aspects of their daily life. This year's entries found diversity (and ultimately common unity) through color, geography and musical styles in a variety of different artistic styles...
Chabola to Retire From Teaching Only Plans to Continue As Culver Athletic Director Jerry Chabola, who has been at Culver City High for 22 years, has announced he will retire from teaching classes. Around town, there’s been a misconception that he’s also retiring as athletic director. “That’s not correct,” Chabola told The Observer on Tuesday. “I’m going to be the athletic director, but without the teaching duties I won’t have quite as rigid a schedule. “When I do something I put everything in...
Not having to search far for the candidate to lead the charge to academic excellence, there was no doubt in the mind of the Culver City Unified School District’s Board of Education about who the next principal of Culver City High was going to be. The venerable veteran educator Dylan Farris was named the new principal in July of 2011, after serving two years as assistant principal for guidance and counseling at the school. Farris replaced Pamela Ann Magee, Ed.D., after six exceptional years as p...
NICE TRY CULVER CITY Centaurs Lose In CIF Finals The remarkable playoff run put together by the Culver City High football team didn't have the happy ending the Centaurs were hoping for. After stunning No. 1 seed Serra on the road in its playoff opener, then rolling past Righetti and Santa Monica at home to reach the CIF-Southern Section Western Division championship game, the Centaurs ran into a determined Arroyo Grande team on the road last Friday night, and while Culver City hung tough for a little more than a half, Arroyo Grande proved to...
Culver To Play At Arroyo Grande Five weeks ago, when the Culver City High football team was beaten by Santa Monica on its home field, the Centaurs’ season was hanging by a thread. But since then, the Centaurs have stitched together an improbable CIF-Southern Section playoff run that now has Culver City one victory away from a championship. Avenging that loss to the Vikings, the Centaurs (10-3) routed Santa Monica in a rematch 37-6 last week in a Western Division semifinal game, and advance to Friday’s championship game against Arroyo Gra...
Culver Eliminates Top-Seeded Serra It didn’t seem like this was possible. Not with the Culver City High football team facing the No. 1 seed in the CIF-Southern Section Western Division playoffs, on the road. Not with the Centaurs facing a Serra team that had gone 50-4 and won two CIF titles since the start of the 2008 season. And certainly not facing a 14-0 first-quarter deficit in front of a hostile crowd. But in a season that has gone anything but according to plan, Culver City got up off the deck after being flattened early and delivered a...
Narbonne To Visit Friday Night So far, Culver City High football coach Jahmal Wright likes what he sees from his team. The Centaurs are 4-0 this season after a 52-0 rout of Leuzinger last week, and they are averaging more than 40 points a game while allowing an average of just under 15. But Wright admits that Culver City’s toughest test so far is yet to come. After an easy win last week over the Olympians, this Friday the Centaurs host city power Narbonne (2-2), which is coming off a 26-20 v...
• Abraxis Bioscience (9920 Jefferson Boulevard) – Plans were submitted for an existing two-building site and surface parking to be repurposed and developed into an office campus. Components of the new project include replacement of existing windows, roofing and additional skylights. The project will also have the removal of some areas of the second floor framing to allow natural light into the first floor. The project will have enhanced or replaced landscape materials. The existing parking str...
With the school year over, business at the Culver City School Board at its meeting Tuesday night was mostly concerned with the budget and safe routes to school. The budget presentation by Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Ali Delawalla, gave a view of the budget that although serious, offered some positives. This is the fourth year in a row that Culver City Unified School District’s (CCUSD) budget has been impacted by the economy. The state budget had just been signed on the afternoo...
Community Development Department • RETHINK Development – Plans have been submitted for 8665 Hayden Place. • Thomson Reuters Elite – Plans have been approved for a 26,523 square foot tenant improvement at 800 Corporate Pointe and construction has begun. • 101 Noodle Express - A new restaurant in Westfield Culver City is near completion. • O’Reily Automotive - Plans have been submitted for a 6,098 square foot tenant improvement at 3899 Overland Avenue. • Bastion Culver – The permit has been i...
By Melanie Trup Special to the Observer How good is Culver City High’s football team this year? If their performance in Saturday’s passing tournament at West LA College was any indication, the Centaur faithful have a lot to look forward to. The Centaurs were led in the field of six teams (Washington Prep, Fairfax, Cabrillo of Long Beach, the host Wildcats- who fielded a team of their incoming freshmen, and University) by quarterback Lukas O’Connor, who recently played an important role on the baseball team that advanced to the CIF semi final...
After winning three CIF baseball playoff games, Culver City High was one victory away from reaching the Division 3 championship game at Dodger Stadium. However, the Centaurs’ season ended Tuesday in a semi-final 2-1 loss to Woodbridge High of Anaheim. The win qualified Woodbridge to oppose another Anaheim school, Beckman, today at 4:30 in Dodger Stadium. Both teams are members of the Pacific League. The loss was a close call for Culver City, which won two playoff games in Orange County and was p...
A packed Board room cheered loudly Tuesday night as the Culver City School Board voted to amend the interim superintendent agreement with Patricia Jaffe, enabling her to be considered for the permanent superintendent post. The 3-1-1 vote (Karlo Silbiger voted against the amendment and Patricia Siever abstained) came after numerous emails, phone calls, and comments by a number of speakers who gave their enthusiastic support to Jaffe. But not everyone thought the amendment was the right thing to...
The Culver City High School Booster Club will present its annual “Casino Night” fundraiser on Saturday, February 26. The event will be held at Vets Auditorium from 6:30 .m. to 11:30. Advanced ticket sales are now available for $20/person and can be purchased from any booster club member, school athletic coach, or on-line (www.cchsboosters.com). The ticket price will increase to $25/person at the door. All money raised from this occasion goes towards Culver High clubs and athletics. The historic auditorium will be transformed into a Las Vegas ca...
The roller coaster ride that has been the Culver City High football team’s 2010 season is on the rise. The Centaurs, who have been up and down all season, hit a high point last Friday when they defeated Beverly Hills 49-34 in their regular-season finale to clinch a CIF playoff spot. It was a game they had to win to make the postseason, and Culver City came up with one of its best offensive performances of the season when it needed it most. Culver City’s defense also came up big, as the Centaurs built a 36-7 lead and held off a rally by Bev...
Non-Member - $2195 (Cash/Check Price), $2245 (Standard Price). Prices are based on double occupancy. For more information, attend the Culver City Chamber of Commerce Spain Orientation get together next Monday, November 15, 2010 – 6:00 p.m. in the Iksan Room of the Veterans Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Ave. or email your questions to jaylon@culvercitychamber.comjaylon@culvercitychamber.com. Aargh! Something new for harried parents and bored kids! Shiver me timbers – the pirates are invading! LAUSD has three furlough days coming up prior to T...
Shake it Out! Beginning this year Culver City will combine its former December 7 City-Wide Disaster Drill with California’s Great Shake Out, set for October 21. Now we will join millions of other Californians at 10:21 a.m. to Drop, Cover and Hold On, plus display our “OK” signs prominently in a window or on the front door by 7 p.m. when first responders will travel the neighborhoods counting them. (In a real disaster if your family was not all right, you’d of course eliminate the sign and call 911.) Get more info by going to www.cul...
Are language immersion programs working? That was the question School Board President Steven Gourley had for Tracy Pumilia, principal of El Marino Language School and project director for FLAP (Foreign Language Assistance Program), which gives grants to schools’ language programs. Pumilia and FLAP Grant coordinator Mina Shiratori gave a presentation on CCUSD’s language immersion programs at the School Board’s meeting Tuesday night Pumilia noted that CCUSD only received one FLAP grant last year,...
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...
