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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 [email protected] 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...
City Manager’s Office • • Catch the Last of the Free Summer Concerts - Boulevard Music is presenting the final two concerts of the summer on Thursday evenings at 7 pm on August 6 and 13 in the City Hall courtyard. The concert series is sponsored by the City and numerous generous individuals and businesses. Produced by Gary Mandell of Boulevard Music, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival offers something for everyone! On Thursday, August 6 you won’t want to miss the band Venice fo...
The Culver City Unified School District Board of Education announces that it has selected Dr. Shannon Garcia to serve as Principal of El Rincon Elementary School. The Board voted unanimously to approve Garcia’s hiring at its August 3 meeting. Since 2014 Garcia has been principal of Bobier Elementary School in the Vista Unified School District, where she has overseen a school that has taken a leading role in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) education. Under her direction the school established a Genius Engineering L...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist The 54th Assembly District Democratic Club Annual Award Luncheon at the Proud Bird Restaurant was held on June 7. Those in attendance were in a very festive mood as Reverend Bilson Davis II gave a very eloquent invocation. Mayor James Butts of Inglewood was the first of three to be saluted with the Distinguished Democrat Award. The mayor served for 19 years in the Inglewood Police Department, rising to the rank of Deputy Chief, with 15 years as Chief of...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The summer of 2015 has not been a vacation for the Culver City High School athletic department and its athletic facilities. And that's a good thing... for the administration, the hundreds of Centaur student athletes as well as the middle school programs and outside permitted clubs. The new synthetic lacrosse and multi-purpose field is finally complete and has been in use since June. The fall teams and most other programs have been practicing throughout the campus...
“Girlfriend” opens at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City Sunday, July 19 at 6:30 p.m. Featuring a book by Todd Almond and music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet, the rock musical about first love will continue through August 9. Previews began on July 12. Reprising their roles from the 2013 Actors Theatre of Louisville production of “Girlfriend” are Ryder Bach (Randy Newman’s “Harps and Angels” at the Mark Taper Forum) and Curt Hansen (“Parade” at the Taper and “Next to Normal” at the Ahmanson). The director is Les Waters, w...
By John Nachbar City Manager City Manager’s Office • Culver City Welcomes Iksan City Mayor – A delegation from Culver City's Sister City of Iksan City, Republic of Korea, including Mayor Park Kyung-chul, recently visited Culver City. On June 5 Mayor Micheál O’Leary greeted the Mayor and gave him a tour of City Hall. The City Council also honored Mayor Kyung-chul at the June 8 City Council Meeting. To learn more about the Culver City Sister City Committee, please go to: http://w...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter "My mom was sleeping so I woke her up and told my dad to turn on the TV. Then it came on: "With the first pick of the sixth round the Arizona Diamondbacks select Tyler Mark." "It was easily the best feeling in my life." It was the moment of truth for former Culver High right-handed pitcher Tyler Mark as he described being chosen in the recent Major League Baseball draft on Tuesday, June 9. He was the 166th player selected overall. The ace of the staff, Mark played...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist So you think you have tax problems and perhaps you do, but it’s nothing like McDonald’s. Gabby Hayes would say, “No Siree, Bob.” I’m sure it was purely an oversight that the hamburger company supposedly shorted the European tax collectors by more than $1.1 billion from 2009 to 2013. Nobody should be misled when they hear the legislators are scraping by on only $97,196 per year. However, when all the benefits are factored in, I just bet it’s more than double...
