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The Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center will have their annual meeting on Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. in the Culver City School District Board Room, 4034 Irving Place. The featured speaker will be Stephanie Stillings, Project Manager at the Venice Family Clinic, who will talk about the new Venice Family Clinic Lou Colen Health and Wellness Center. The Center will provide high quality pediatric care for babies, children and teens in the Mar Vista area located next to Culver City. This area is home to thousands of low income...
For CCHS soccer players, the focus is competing and winning at every turn. This year, they’re learning about the importance of giving back and helping developmentally disabled athletes succeed as part of the Prime Time Games program. Created in 2004, the Prime Time Games is a full-inclusion, peer-mentor sports program wherein the students coach and play alongside children with developmental disabilities. The games, the centerpiece of the non-profit Team Prime Time leadership component, give students the opportunity to give back to their c...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor The reason Culver City High is suddenly close to becoming the 2015 Ocean League football champion is that Lawndale High has forfeited four victories, including league wins over Culver City and Santa Monica. Coupled with Culver’s victory over Hawthorne last Friday the Centaurs prevail in tiebreakers. With a win over Beverly Hills this Friday Culver would become the champion and most likely would receive a first round playoff home game. The South Bay Daily B...
Just in time for the holidays the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center is pleased to host a holiday boutique sale at the Francia Turner Fate Studio located at 5502 Sawtelle Blvd., Culver City. It will be on Saturday, November 14 from 2 pm to 4. Free parking is located across the street at US Bank. The boutique will include exquisite glasswork, unique paintings, and fashion jewelry by internationally renowned author and artist Francia Turner Fate. This sale features her award-winning children’s books and “Journeys Through Ame...
City Clerk’s Office • IndieCade - The 2015 IndieCade Games Festival took place last weekend. Included were newly developed, free games • • Asian World Film Festival – This Festival will take place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Culver City October 26 through November 2, featuring films from countries all across Asia. The festival provides a unique opportunity to showcase Asian films to the Oscar® Academy, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure and awards con...
Throughout this school board campaign one of the primary questions about Kelly Kent is Who is she? and What is her experience working with our Culver City schools? These are questions I am uniquely positioned to answer, and I believe that my perspective may be of benefit to the electorate, who are being asked to select candidates in our upcoming local election. For well over a year I have worked with Kelly day in and day out to jointly create the new Spanish language program at Lin Howe. From a...
City Clerk’s Office • IndieCade - The 2015 IndieCade Games Festival took place last weekend. Included were newly developed, free games • • Asian World Film Festival – This Festival will take place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Culver City October 26 through November 2, featuring films from countries all across Asia. The festival provides a unique opportunity to showcase Asian films to the Oscar® Academy, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure and awards con...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The Culver City High football team dominated archrival Santa Monica High, 49-0, on Friday, October 23 as the Centaurs rallied around their new starting quarterback. The Centaurs spoiled the Vikings' homecoming game played at Santa Monica College on another warm autumn evening. Santa Monica, usually a strong opponent, has an 0-8 record this season. "It was a team effort. It was great to get a shutout. To give up zero points while scoring 49 is a great...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The second Culver City School Board's candidates' forum on October 14 had quite a different tone from the first one. It seemed a lot simpler to understand and much friendlier than most candidates' forums. Maybe that was because the questions lobbed at the candidates came from the stakeholders with the biggest concerns about school conditions-the students. The forum, held at West L.A. College's Fine Arts Auditorium, was produced by "Ask 2 Know," a program...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The second Culver City School Board's candidates' forum on October 14 had quite a different tone from the first one. It seemed a lot simpler to understand and much friendlier than most candidates' forums. Maybe that was because the questions lobbed at the candidates came from the stakeholders with the biggest concerns about school conditions-the students. The forum, held at West L.A. College's Fine Arts Auditorium, was produced by "Ask 2 Know," a program...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter "We left the game with a positive feeling about our team and how far we've come in a short amount of time," said Jahmal Wright, Culver City High head football coach. The Centaurs drove up the coast on Friday, October 2, to Port Hueneme to completely overwhelm Channel Islands High 54-30 with speed, line strength, big-play offense and another stellar defensive night from Mekhi Ware and company. Wright continued: "It was a long road trip and our goal was to go up...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist I am voting for Kelly Kent for Culver City Unified School District Board of Education on November 3. Kelly is the most qualified and has the best plan to formulate guidelines to benefit the students. Another asset she has is the ability to be an independent thinker who can ask the right questions. If you want the best choice, please join me with your friends and neighbors and vote for Kelly Kent. Just a reminder, the 10th Annual Taste of Soul Family...
Last spring CCEF helped the Culver City High School Green Thumbs Club obtain a grant for $5,500 from the Richard B. Seigal Foundation. The grant made it possible for the Green Thumbs to put an automated drip watering system into their garden so that it's watered efficiently even when school is not in session. The grant also enabled them to install a new fence, which the students are staining themselves and new raised-bed garden boxes. The old boxes have been turned into tables and benches by...
Here is a way for all of us to obtain some great bargains planning for the holidays and help the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center in their fundraising efforts. Log on to Bidding For Good which is an online auction site for nonprofit groups and bid on the variety of available items. Selections include Hello Kitty items, restaurants, whale watching, comedy entertainment, auto repair, jewelry, dinner at a fire station and much more. The proceeds of the auction will support the free ongoing medical and mental health programs at the...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The 2015 Culver City High football team traveled to San Pedro High on Friday night, September 18, as decided underdogs to the South Bay power currently ranked sixth in the CIF Los Angeles city section. A high-scoring battle of contrasting styles ensued into the fourth quarter and despite losing the game, 44-33, the Centaur players and coaches came away excited about the future of the program. "There's not too many times as a coach that I'm happy with the team for...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 526-West Los Angeles meets on the first Thursday of each month at the American Legion Hall, 5309 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City, 7:30 p.m. For more information contact John Hamilton, President at (310) 429-4512 or Post Office Box 1442, Culver City, California 90232-1442. I just bet our fire chief doesn’t want any of his engineers to hear about the three openings next year in Cobb County, Georgia. Please don’t tell the...
Volleyball tryouts and skill instruction for girls ages 10-14 at the Culver City Middle and High School gyms will be conducted by the Culver Volleyball Club for the upcoming season. Skills instruction and workouts to prepare for tryouts will be held Sep. 13 and Sep. 27, 1 pm to 3 at Culver High, and Sept. 30, 6 pm to 8 at Culver Middle. Fees are $25 ($60 for all three sessions). Tryouts will be held Oct. 2, 6 pm to 8 at Culver High, Oct. 3, 10 am to noon at Culver High, and Oct. 4, 9 am to 11 am at Culver High. Makeup tryout will be held Oct....
Kelly A. Kent, Ph.D., will kick-off her campaign for CCUSD School Board on Sunday, September 20, 4 pm to 7 at the home of Amy Thiel and Patrick Meighan, 4174 Higuera Street, in Culver City’s Rancho Higuera neighborhood. Kelly Kent is running for one of two open seats on the school board, and invites anyone interested to attend the event and find out more about her campaign. A respected neuroscientist, Dr. Kent’s campaign slogan is A Brain for Education. Kelly Kent is a professor, parent volunteer, and Culver City Commissioner with a lifelong pa...
Kelly A. Kent, Ph.D., will kick-off her campaign for CCUSD School Board on Sunday, September 20, 4 pm to 7 at the home of Amy Thiel and Patrick Meighan, 4174 Higuera Street, in Culver City’s Rancho Higuera neighborhood. Kelly Kent is running for one of two open seats on the school board, and invites anyone interested to attend the event and find out more about her campaign. A respected neuroscientist, Dr. Kent’s campaign slogan is A Brain for Education. Kelly Kent is a professor, parent volunteer, and Culver City Commissioner with a lifelong pa...
By Sandra Coopersmith Features Writer If your exercise program consists of dragging your feet, sidestepping responsibility and pushing your luck, Culver City’s House of Fitness (“HOF”) at 4130 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite E can be a real life-changer. Call (310) 773-9484, email info@houseoffitnessla.com or visit www.houseoffitnessla.com to jumpstart your transformation. Adam Nisenson, its marketing director, started out as a client about a year and a half ago. “At that time I was pretty close to 200...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter Culver City High girls volleyball has won the Ocean League title the past two years. But they are not resting on their laurels as they prepare for the 2015 fall season. Confident, eager and hungry, the Centaurs have their sights set on a CIF division championship. Under the three-year guidance of head coach Joe Manzo, the team has improved its won-loss record each season while compiling an overall record of 68-28. Equally impressive, they have won 21 of 24 league...
It's Game, Set, Match for BREAK POINT! For many, the game of tennis can be as boring as watching paint dry, or a ball endlessly bounce. For others, it’s an exciting, riveting, emotionally charged sport with nuance, intelligence and skill. What that means is that making a film set in the world of tennis is pretty much going to align with one of those perceptions. In the case of BREAK POINT, it’s definitely the latter as co-writers Jeremy Sisto and Gene Hong together with director Jay Karas del...
Scott: Kathy Paspalis has been on our school board for 5 ½ years. She has two kids who are coming into their junior year at the high school. They were at the Culver City middle school and at El Marino previous to that. SCHOOL BOARD RELATIONS Scott: Things seem to be going really well in the district and on the board. That hasn’t always been the case but I feel the board is really working well together right now. What’s going right with the board right now? Kathy: There aren’t a lot of personalities who are more concerned with their next office,...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist The Armed Forces History Museum in Largo, Florida is well worth a visit when you are in the Tampa Bay area. See www.armedforcesmuseum.com. The Justice Department collected $24 billion in criminal and civil penalties from banks and financial companies in the budget year ending in September 2014. Culver City has a ban on plastic bags, so why not have a ban on plastic food containers? The Chinese government confirmed 358 billionaires in China as of last...
Last year Culver City High had a rare down year. It was the first time they missed the playoffs since 2001. Head coach Jahmal Wright feels we should turn it around this year. Although the Centaurs are young this year they do have some experienced seniors on the O-line and D-line. Every coach knows that a good football team lives and dies by how well their offensive and defensive lines do. Coach Wright and his O-line coach Ralph Oliver and D-line coach Brandon Patterson feel that they have a good group of quick footed, athletes that should play...
