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Alex Kurihara, a recently-graduated midfielder for Culver City High School’s lacrosse team, has become its first player to be selected as a U.S. Lacrosse High School “Academic All-American.” Kurihara, a top-scorer for the Centaurs’ squad, was able to maintain an A-plus grade average while also enduring a rigorous practice and game schedule during after-school hours. “Alex is great, not just as an athlete but, more importantly, as a student,” said Culver High Lacrosse Coach Casey Chabola. “H...
Culver City Exchange Club members “old” (just a figure of speech) and new really enjoyed their Annual Lame Duck Meeting in June. There were Past Presidents in attendance who covered the history of the Club from 1954-2008, and all openly shared their feelings. They included Bill Fecho, Earl Eskridge, Ken Owens, Dick Brundo, Mike Fate, Mike Snell, Larry Burns, Jeff Cooper, Dr. Jay Shery, Don Chandler and Scott Malsin. Needless to say the remainder of the meeting was dedicated to the Annual 4th of July Fireworks Show this Sunday evening at Cul...
The Academy of Visual & Performing Arts at Culver City High School recognizes the following 50 program graduates on their achievements and scholarly pursuits. The Academy operates after school and is open to all high school students, not only those enrolled in Culver City High School. AVPA Theatre Senior Graduates Joey Guthman ~ Emerson College, Boston; Jeanette Carl Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Angie Harvey ~ Santa Monica College; El Rincon PTA Scholarship Sarah Hattem ~ American University DC Ben Klemes ~ New York University; Culver City...
The Exchange Club of Culver City announces that two students from Culver City High School, Yi Lim Choi and Seth Bronstein were honored as the April Youth of the Month recipients. The Youth of the Month Award is an opportunity to honor outstanding students in the community who have exhibited excellence in academic and leadership promoting good citizenship, a desire for greater scholarship achievement and the development of well-rounded personalities to other young adults in the community....
The following is the complete text Of Mayor Andy Weissman’s speech at Culver City’s 30th Annual Mayor’s Luncheon. The Luncheon was held on Wednesday March 24th, 2010 at Veteran’s Auditorium. Mayor Weissman: Thank you all for coming. Like many of you, I have attended many of these lunches over the years. In truth, and probably unlike you, this is the first Mayor’s lunch that I’ve actually paid attention to. Each year, our annual Mayor's Lunch affords us an opportunity to look back on the past year, reflect on the current year and look forwar...
Mayme Clayton Library Plans Soft Opening This Year First of two parts What if there were a city where teachers could bring their students to see artifacts found nowhere else in the world? What if esteemed scholars descended on a city for its treasure trove of knowledge? What if entire families could trace their ancestry and culture? Could it be Alexandria, Egypt, London, Paris or Culver City? Yes, it is Culver City when the Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum (MCLM) opens at 4130 Overland...
The Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) will welcome young filmmakers from around Los Angeles County to participate in the 12th Annual Frost Film Festival. The festival runs Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m. to 10 in the Sony Black Box Theatre, Room 9 in Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda Street, Culver City. General Admission each night is $10 and $8 for ASB/Seniors/ Children/Faculty. Seating is very limited; we recommend that you purchase tickets prior to the screening. Tickets can be purchased online at avpa.org or in person...
The Exchange Club of Culver City and Culver Park High School announce the December 2009 Accepting the Challenge of Excellence (A.C.E.) Award recipients. The ACE Award is an opportunity to recognize those students who had a slow start but are finishing their educational race as winners. The winners are Hugo Villanueva and Desiree Hess for spectacular achievement. The Culver City Exchange Club ACE Award recipients will be considered for regional competition which includes scholarship funds in the amount of $2,500 if successful...
In his documentary,. Culver City resident, actor, author and cartoonist Darrell Fusaro returns to his hometown of Clifton, NJ to give a benefit performance of his play, The Basement at his alma mater, Clifton High School. That’s where the plot becomes very interesting. And here’s the behind the scenes of The Basement. Jeff Trujillo joined Darrell on the journey back to his hometown of Clifton, New Jersey, simply to record the benefit performance of The Basement, as a keepsake for the high school. It wasn’t until reviewing the footage that Truji...
Every year the Southern Region of CETA (California Educational Theatre Association) holds a High School Theatre Festival. The festival showcases four mainstage shows which have been selected from each of the four regions of Southern California: Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire, and San Diego County. This year CETA selected Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) cast and crew of Nicholas Nickleby as the first place winners in all of Los Angeles County. Nicholas Nickleby, directed by Sheila Silver,...
Culver City High School 's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) presents "Music for the Holidays" on Tuesday, December 15 at the Robert Frost Auditorium ( 4401 Elenda Street ). Doors open at 6:30 pm with pre-concert entertainment by the Chamber Singers and Jazz Combo. The concert will begin at 7:00 pm . Admission is a suggested donation of $5 and up, but no one will be turned away. The annual winter concert, directed by Dr. Tony Spano and Lisa Michel, will feature the AVPA Chamber Singers and Jazz Ensemble, along with the Culver City...
The performance by the Get-Lit Players, teen poets, is another unique and stellar offering from The Actors” Gang and co-sponsored by LA Weekly in the WTF?! Series. The troupe studies and recites classic poems and then writes responses, which are showcased in explosive, live shows. It is a writing program for at-risk teens from 13 to 19 years-old in Los Angeles with 75% of these teens being Title 1, who face school dropout rates of up to 70%. In 2008 in Washington, D. C. they scored in the Top T...
If only his mother, Artermease Jenkins, and his father, Vernon Ward Morgan, were alive to see Joey Morgan now. They would see a man who has overcome alcohol, drugs, gambling and poverty. They would see a hard-working man who loves his job, has his own apartment and is the proud owner of two trucks. While Morgan isn't living in the lap of luxury, he is finally rid of the demons and poor choices that have dragged him down most of his life. "I don't have to be ashamed of the fact of who I was before I evolved into the person I am today," says the...
It was the next to last meeting of the lineup that has been the Culver City School Board for the last two years and there seemed to be a sense that old business should not hang over for the new Board that convenes on December 8. One such issue is the validity of student assessment tests, which came up Tuesday night during a presentation by El Rincon Elementary Principal Dr.Tom Tracy. Tracy was “taking [the Board] on a tour of [his] school,” with a PowerPoint presentation showing the typical cha...
The Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) Theatre Department presents their first production of the season production calendar: Nicholas Nickleby, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and directed by Sheila Silver, AVPA’s new Creative Director of Theatre. The show opened to a full house on Thursday, November 12, and continues through November 22 with 7 p.m. performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 1:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday at the Sony Pictures Theatre (The Blackbox), behind the Robert Frost Auditorium,...
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...
Tonight at 7 p.m. Culver City CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) meets in the Rotunda Room at the Veterans’ Memorial Building.. On the agenda will be CERT business and announcements, update on the December 7 and the Sony drills, and guest speaker Jee Kim, MPH, County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Program. For additional information contact Perry Waldow, President, Culver City CERT Coordinator, Disaster Awareness Training at (310) 349-6575. Happy (but it doesn’t feel like) winter bir...
A troop of young actors from Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) attended the DTASC Fall Theatre Festival (Drama Teachers Association of Southern California) on Saturday, October 24 at Carson High School. Actors Jesse Pilchin, Conor Murphy and Kevin Mitchell, directed by Louie Chavez, won a first place trophy for their performance in a scene from The Lonesome West by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. All first place winners will perform at "Salute to the Winners" on Sunday, November 15 at the Barnsdall...
The Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) Theatre Department presents their first production of the season production calendar: Nicholas Nickleby, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and directed by AVPA’s new Creative Director of theatre, Sheila Silver. The show runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, November 12 to November 21 at 7 p.m. with 1 p.m. matinees Sundays, November 15 and 22 at the Sony Pictures Theatre (The Blackbox), behind the Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda Street in Culver City. Tickets a...
The progress of La Ballona Elementary School, and an energy analysis update were major topics at the Culver City School Board meeting Tuesday night. It was a very crowded Board room, as this was the last meeting before the November 3 election for School Board members. Candidates Patricia Siever, Robert Zirgulis, Karlo Silbiger, and Alan Elmont were all in attendance, but Board president Jessica Beagles-Roos began the meeting with a caveat that everyone should respect the meeting as a meeting...
Drake Myers of Culver City Boy Scout Troop 113 led a group of 20 fellow scouts and 40 more volunteers on Saturday to plant several dozen trees in the Stinson Ranch area of Sylmar, a semi-rural community about 35 miles northwest of downtown that was devastated by a wildfire last year. Myers, a 15-year-old sophomore at Culver City High, said he organized the project “to help restore the area’s natural habitat” and maybe even “bring some more hope” to the 500 families who lost their homes when the so-called Sayre Fire swept through the foothills...
A world series of birthdays are being celebrated by Ken Owens, Joanne Scheding, Kevin Richardson, Clint Ehlers, Setsuko Tsuji (Cohn), Michael Riban, Belinda Blom, Susan Porter, Kent Seeberger, Angeles Hernandez, Carol Auslander, Inez Bush, Marjorie Joy, Holly du Rivage, Rosalie Odell-Rummelsburg, David Rodriguez, Juan Sosa, Robert Lund, Michelle Weiner, John Giba, James Gikas, John Rosenfeld, Greg Wood, Judith Torres, Janis Nathan, Anthony Farrari, Gloria Sanchez, Rick Shaffer, Jane Morton, Steven Dover, Janet Hoult, Richard Edley, and Percy...
The GED test will be given at the Culver City Adult School on November 4 and 6 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. A California ID or US passport is required at the time of registration. You must be at least 18 years old to take this test with a few exceptions. Pre-testing, advisement and test preparation are available on site. Registration closes on November 2. Call Counselor Nikki Mc Breen at (310) 842-4300 for more information. The GED test is used to issue equivalency certificates for American and foreign-born students who need a high school diploma for...
Recent statistics show that the number of children who are overweight in America has tripled since 1980. According to a recent Obesity in America study this condition significantly increases the risk of a number of life-threatening conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and some types of cancer. OBA statistics also reflect a dramatic rise in the number of people – approximately 65% – who are now overweight. The data also shows that 31% of the population now suffers from obesity, compared with “only” 23% in...
In this time where "change" is the word of the year, artist Elana Mann and 30 art students from the Culver City High School Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) program will be throwing "Retirement Bash," an interactive performance event, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). AVPA art students will present, "Retirement Bash," on Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 at The Culver City Senior Center located at 4095 Overland Avenue in Culver City. The event is free and open to the public. During a ten-week...
