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During my junior year of high school, I took AP Environmental Science and it changed my view on the amount of responsibility I have toward the condition of our planet. One thing my teacher always mentioned, is that for the AP Exam, on the FRQ, Free Response Question, if you can’t think of an answer, you can always write that “we can educate.” For example, if the question asks “How can we reduce the amount of smog in our metropolitan cities?” and a student can’t think of an answer, the best wa...
The Culver City Firefighters Association will hold their 2nd Annual Golf Classic on Monday, Nov. 18 at the prestigious and private Mountain Gate Country Club. The Culver City Firefighters Association is actively involved in the community through many fundraising events that allow us to support various non-profit organizations throughout our community including the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Movember Foundation, Revlon UCLA Breast Cancer Center, the Culver City High School Football Program and several others. The association is...
After a successful ascending 3-0 start to the 2019 football season on the road, Culver City High will entertain perennial power Palos Verdes Sea Kings, in the Centaurs' home opener this Friday, September 20. The defending CIF Division 7 champions are entering the contest on the heels of a convincing 56-28 victory over the Warren High Bears last Friday in Downey. Last season the Centaurs failed to hold onto a fourth quarter lead against the Sea Kings, giving up two touchdowns in the final...
Abel Lezcano, from Culver City, is a member of the Colgate University Class of 2020, has earned the spring 2019 Dean's Award with Distinction. Lezcano is a graduate of Culver City High School. Students who receive a term grade point average of 3.6 or higher while completing at least three courses during the spring 2019 semester earn the Dean's Award with Distinction. Colgate is a leading American university for students who want classes with rigor, faculty with passion, and confidence in knowing they will learn how to thrive in work and life....
The Culver City High School Centaurs beat Waren High School of Downey by a score of 56 - 28 Friday night. It was the third non-conference game of the new season that Culver City has won. Read the full story in this week's Culver City Observer by Sports Reporter Fred Altieri or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
The beautiful South Bay hills in the Palos Verdes Peninsula has some terrific views of Los Angeles. In this semi-rural setting, it almost seems like the last place you would look to find a football game between two 2018 playoff schools. But that was the setting when the Culver City Centaurs brought their offensive juggernaut to Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. On Friday afternoon, Zevi Eckhaus completed 23 of 27 passes for 474 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Culver City Centaurs to an...
Gerhardt Walther Riedel, 95, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, at Avalon Health Care in San Andreas of natural causes. He was born on April 30, 1924, in Hankow, China, to Erhard and Carmelia Riedel, where his father worked as a Lutheran missionary, one of the first in China. Gerhardt ("Gary") was the fifth of eight siblings, and the family moved back to Orange County, Calif., when he was a young teenager. Gary served in the Merchant Marines as a Second Lieutenant during World War II, in...
Culver City High School Defeated Peninsula High Friday night by a score of 60-21. Culver faces Warren High School at an away game in Downey this Friday Read the full story by Sports Reporter Fred Altieri in this week's Culver City Observer or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
Late August means one thing at Culver City High School... Centaur football is back. Last season's CIF Division 7 Champions began the 2019 season with a 56-36 road win at West High in Torrance last Friday night, Aug. 30. This Friday, they venture a few miles further south to Rolling Hills Estates to take on the Peninsula High Panthers. The Centaurs have had success against Peninsula over the past decade, winning eight of nine games while scoring over 40 points in every single contest except for...
UCLA and USC football teams go into their respective games on Saturday with a lot of questions marks. The main questions are can USC win with a backup quarterback and can UCLA get their first win after looking like the same team that won only three games last year? UCLA will face San Diego State at the Rose Bowl on Saturday at 1:15 p.m. and USC will open their Pac-12 season when they play Stanford at 7:30 p.m. at the United Airlines Field at the Memorial Coliseum. UCLA 's 24-14 loss to...
Dear Editor: To judge from Mr. George Laase’s August 22nd commentary, “CCUSD Salaries Skyrocket,” he has three worrisome concerns. First: He worries that the District spends too much on the salaries of its employees. But this seems not to be so worrisome: The 2019-’20 Proposed Budget of the CCUSD projects spending 85% of restricted and unrestricted funds for salaries and benefits for certificated teaching faculty and classified non-teaching staff. For unrestricted funds only, the total for the...
The Lucky Duckies are back! The Lucky Ducky Swim will again be at the Fiesta La Ballona, Saturday, August 24, and Sunday, August 25. At 3:00 pm on Sunday, August 25, the rubber ducks will "swim" across the Culver City Plunge. There will be a number of Lucky Ducky winners. The top prize is $500 with the second prize of two tickets to a Dodgers game and more prizes to be announced at a later date. The proceeds from the Lucky Ducky Swim will benefit Culver City children and youth programs. The...
Nine Culver City High School students and two chaperones, sponsored by the Culver City Sister City Committee (CCSCC), visited our sister city, Iksan, South Korea and surrounding areas from Saturday, July 27 to Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Culver City Students were placed with nine Iksan students and their families, who welcomed them into their homes. Iksan students study English and American students were given brief Korean language instruction prior to the trip. With this knowledge students were able to successfully communicate, resulting in...
Defending CIF Division 7 Football Champion Culver City High is currently preparing for the 2019 season, beginning next Friday, August 30. They romped to their second title last November, beating San Jacinto High on the road, 61-21. With many of the players returning under 10-year head coach Jahmal Wright, the Centaurs eagerly look for a repeat performance this season. Culver City will play five non-league games before they settle into Ocean League action for their last five of the regular season...
The Culver City Fiesta La Ballona will be held August 23-25, 2019 at Veterans Memorial Park which is located at 4117 Overland Avenue. This spectacular summer festival features live performances, carnival rides and games, a beer and wine garden, food trucks and a food court, and a vendor village showcasing local groups and artisan wares. New this year are "Plunge Into Fiesta" at the Culver City Municipal Plunge, Silent Disco at the Entertainment Tent, Imagine: Zero Waste World's sustainability...
Dr. Sarah Carpenter, an Icon in the community and the loving wife and mother of two, passed away on August 19 at the age of 66. Sarah (Sally) was born in 1952, She graduated from Stanford in 1975 and went on to receive her medical degree from Yale in 1979. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at UCLA and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital. Sarah worked for more than 20 years in the Teen Health Center at Kaiser in Panorama City. In 1981, she married...
Five Culver City High School teenagers were attacked Friday night at approximately 10 pm as they rode the Expo line home from the beach in Santa Monica. A second group of 15 teenagers also boarded the eastbound train and the two groups began chatting and dancing to music. The five Culver City teenagers exited the train at the Culver City station and with the larger group following them. The second group allegedly attacked the Culver City group, stealing their belongings. Robbery appears to be...
Culver City High School football team opened fall camp this Wednesday. They are concentrating on conditioning and basics in their offense and defense. Head coach and Culver City Jahmal Wright want the team is still accepting student walk-ons. If anybody is interested, they should come by the school field house or contact the athletic office to get more information. The Centaurs will put on pads on Saturday. The Centaurs will have their traditional Blue/White game. The junior varsity will...
Fall sports will start in a few weeks at Culver City High School, and that means it's a great opportunity for the Culver City community to support their local teams and at the same time be able to watch high school sports at an elite level. Culver City high school has some of the best teams and coaches in Southern California. The majority of their teams battle for league and CIF championships. This fall will give fans a chance to watch cross country, football, girls' volleyball, boys' water...
Before the 2019-2020 school year begins, CCUSD Superintendent Leslie Lockhart has announced the following changes within the district: The Department of School and Family Support Services (SFSS) will expand its services, adding a coordinator position in order to boost district-wide support for CCUSD's Whole Child Initiative. With the California School Accountability Dashboard system focusing on annual academic, social-emotional and behavioral growth, this expansion will allow the district to...
The Culver City high school girls' varsity volleyball team will start preseason play at the end of this month. The Centaurs graduated 11 players from last years' team so they are going to have to find some new team leaders and their younger players will have to step. The last three years have been nothing short of spectacular. In 2016 they had a record of 27-9 and that included a CIF Championship and a trip to the State Playoffs. In 2017 they won another CIF Championship and another trip to...
In 2011, former Culver City High quarterback Lukas O'Connor lead the Centaurs to the CIF championship game. It was the first time in over 30 years that the Centaurs played in the championship game. Culver City lost the game, but O' Connor carried on with his football career. But it's been a roller-coaster ride for the 6-foot-4 quarterback. After turning down several Division 1-AA schools, O'Connor packed his bags to attend a prep school on the East Coast. When that didn't work out, O'Connor...
"The most important thing is to be kind," said Martha Sternbach, a Culver City resident. "Never judge people by their color or religion." Having learned the tragic opposite of that message firsthand as a Holocaust survivor, she is committed to keeping the memory of that reprehensible time alive because "knowledge is power." She shares her story with groups at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (www.lamoth.org) in Pan Pacific Park, 100 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90036, (323) 651-3704....
Football season is around the corner. Culver City High School and other high school teams finished their passing leagues last weekend and now they are getting ready for fall training camps which start the first week of August. College football media days are taking place all over the nation. The Pac-12 media day is set for Wednesday, July 24 in Hollywood. Media days are designed to introduce top players from different schools and it allows the coaches to talk about their upcoming seasons. The...
Despite the 2019-20 school year not starting until late August, Culver City High baseball players continue to workout throughout the summer. The players participate in travel and summer programs while others prepare for upcoming high school Fall Ball and later CIF Ocean League ball in the Spring. Over the past four years a number of Culver City baseball players have tried out, developed and competed in the Playa Vista Orioles baseball program and training camps. The program was designed for...
