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The public is invited to attend a welcome picnic for exchange students from Iksan City, Culver City's Korean Sister City. The picnic is Free, and it will be held on Saturday, July 19 from noon until 3 pm at Culver Park, Bill Botts Field near the sundial. Please join the Culver City community and meet our high school visitors and their chaperones. Feel free to bring Frisbees, soccer balls or anything else to contribute to a fun afternoon. The students in the photo participated in last year's...
By Fred Altieri Observer Sports Reporter Part 1 of 2. Part 2 will appear in next week's edition of the Culver City Observer Tom Salter is entering for his third year as athletic director for Culver City High School. He and the 22 head coaches of the school's sports programs and their staffs are already hard at work as they prepare for another challenging year in the Ocean League beginning this September. He took time out of his demanding schedule to review the past 2013-14 school year and gave...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The hazards involved in examining the finances of Culver City were avoided on June 23 when the City Council, without much ado, approved the 2014-2015 budget. However, the Council took some time to discuss the potential hazards posed by the planned Fourth of July fireworks display at West Los Angeles College. The fireworks issue was raised during public comment by a speaker who was concerned that the fireworks were set to be detonated close to gas and...
The annual Fourth of July Fireworks show will be held at West L.A. College for the first time this year Last year, for the first time in 47 consecutive celebrations of our nation's birthday, the skies over Culver City fell dark. Construction at Culver High prevented the Exchange Club from hosting its annual fireworks show. Because construction continues at the high school, this annual local and family tradition has been moved to the football field at West Los Angeles College. "Our fireworks...
By John Nachbar City Manager • 4th of July Fireworks Show – The Culver City Exchange Club’s annual 4th of July Fireworks Show will resume at West Los Angeles College on the evening of Friday, July 4th. Gates open at 4:00 pm, and fireworks begin at dusk. The City is a co-sponsor of this event. For more information visit: http://culvercityfireworksshow.com/ • Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival - The first of six free concerts will take place on Thursday, July 10th at 7:00 pm in the Ci...
Boulevard Music presents 6 free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7pm from July 10 through August 14 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Curated by producer Gary Mandell, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival offers something for everyone: Cajun, world music, country, Brazilian, Charanga, swing and more. Escape to downtown Culver city, featuring a wonderful mix of historic buildings, boutiques, theaters, galleries, and unique restaurants all within walking distance. What's coming up: • July 10- Cajun/Zydeco from And...
Can it be 60 plus years since the first class graduated from Culver City High School in 1953? Yes, the class often called "the first class in and the first class out" is the topic for the next general meeting of the Culver City Historical Society on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room in the Veterans Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Ave. in Culver City. A trip down memory lane to the early 1950s in a PowerPoint presentation will illustrate the creation of Culver City...
Culver City Little League Pitches Hard-Fought Season This season, the Culver City Little League 9-10 year old All Star team showed the city, and themselves, what they could do. They started out with 14 boys of varying abilities. The players came from two different levels and nine different teams. They had different coaching experiences and demonstrated different skill sets. Only four had ever participated in a Little League All Star tournament. Their competition included nine other teams, most...
Loraine Jeannett Dunn Norvell (nee Troendly), 91, went home to be with the Lord on June 6, 2014. Born in Lincoln, NE on June 19, 1922, Loraine moved to Southern California with parents Ray and Marie Troendly, and brother Dean, when she was four years old. Loraine graduated from Venice High School in 1940, and soon after married Harry Dunn, of Culver City. Harry and Loraine, with their children Leonard and Carla, moved into their home in Culver City in 1956, where she resided until just late...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist The North Korean government has officially approved 18 hairstyles for women and 10 for men in an effort to clamp down on Western influences by trimming their hair in accordance with the Socialist lifestyle. INC., in the March 2014 issue, mentioned a Culver City company I never heard of. It’s Media Temple that started in 1998 and does IT services. In 2013 it had 207 employees with almost $50 million in revenue (2012). This company increased head count e...
Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD) has a new school, known as CCUSD iAcademy, that offers a solution to the educational dilemma that “one size doesn’t fit all.” The CCUSD iAcademy is an online school, with a different structure, learning philosophy, and academic emphasis for different student needs while honoring the unique needs of the community. Its goal is to serve students in grades K-12, offering both a full-time program and supplemental instruction. Principal Veronica Monte...
City Manager’s Update By John Nachbar City Manager • 2nd Annual Culver City 5K/10K Run - The 2nd Annual Culver City 5K/10K Run, will take place on Father's Day, Sunday, June 15, 2014. The event will benefit both Train 4 Autism and the Culver City Education Foundation to support students with special needs and is a City-sponsored event. The Culver City Run starts at Media Park with a free Fitness Expo and Family Fun Zone at 7:00 AM. The run takes place on Culver and Washington Boulevards fro...
The youth health center reports that this year has brought an extraordinary amount of positive attention to the Culver City Youth Health Center which was recently renamed, and to those who make it possible for our middle and high school students to receive free physical and mental health care. The Center opened in 1986 due in great part to the efforts of the school nurse at the time, Sandy Segal, who saw the need for increased health care services in the district. She was instrumental in the formation of the fundraising arm of the Center named...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist As a longtime member (since 1977) on May 14, 2014 I attended the monthly meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club, held the second Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Rotunda Room of Veterans Auditorium. The speaker was Bob Stern AKA “the godfather of modern political reform in California,” who discussed the many reforms over the past 30 years he had been involved with. We can all be pleased. Councilman Jim Clarke is actively pursuing my sug...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Measure CC, Culver City’s bond measure that would provide funds for improvements to educational facilities, passed by a wide margin in the June 3 election. The mail-in ballots showed a 76 per cent margin of “yes” even before official returns came in. Later returns showed that 3,677 votes were cast in favor and 1,171 against the measure. Although these numbers are evidence of the uniformly low turnout all over Los Angeles County, they were enough to take...
Quartz Hill lies on a patch of a dusty plain with a constant flow of dry-afternoon wind in the southwestern portion of the High Desert just east of the Antelope Valley Freeway, otherwise known as the 14, that connects the ever-growing Palmdale and Lancaster area. That's where the Culver City High baseball team ended their season just as the sun was preparing to fade behind the San Gabriel Mountain range stretching westward towards the elusive Pacific Ocean. Last Friday, Culver High lost to host...
United Parents of Culver City Issued the following press release in support of Measure CC school bond. United Parents of Culver City, the all-volunteer parent group dedicated to promoting the interests of students in the Culver City Unified School District, strongly urges you to vote YES on Measure CC, the school bond on our June 3rd ballot. Culver City schools have received statewide and national recognition for the caliber of the education they provide. That's not only a positive for each and...
While I usually vote against anything that increases my taxes, I'm voting FOR Measure CC. It's a NECESSARY bond measure to ensure our Culver City schools don't fall into disrepair. I've witnessed firsthand dangerous electrical issues, asbestos issues, seismic problems, rain falling into classrooms, puddles that don't go away, rusty water coming out of drinking fountains, ceiling tiles falling down during class, a library with rain damage to paneling from 5 years ago that has not been repaired at...
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that Culver City is home to some pretty remarkable people, one being Judith Love Cohen, who is on the Astronautical Advisory Board for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. As an electrical engineer she worked for aerospace companies on many high-profile NASA projects, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Lunar Excursion Module. Glass ceilings aren't safe around this woman, "Mine was made of concrete," she said. Thrusting a rocket through...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter It was a bittersweet week for Culver City High baseball when their 2014 Ocean League season ended just as it had the previous year: finishing in second place behind archrival Santa Monica High but easily qualifying for the CIF Southern Section Division III baseball tournament. The Centaurs will have to motor north to the desert area of Lancaster / Palmdale to take on the Quartz Hill High Rebels this Friday afternoon in first round action. Their quest for the lea...
Internationally known muralist and street artist Fintan Magee, whose larger-than-life work has graced walls from Colombia to Denmark to Australia, will soon be putting his handiwork up on the side of a Culver City building at Lindblade and Sepulveda. Magee will spend approximately five days painting the mural, after which he will move to Culver City High, where he will paint a second mural on the campus and work mentoring students from the school’s Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) as they paint their own mural. He will also teach a...
By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter At its 16th annual "Tribute to the Stars" awards banquet on May 3, the Culver City Education Foundation honored volunteers who made a difference for the Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD). Among those honored as a See's Candy Volunteer of the Year was a Los Angeles poet, Brendan Constantine, who taught a writing workshop for students at Culver Park High. Constantine is arguably one of the busiest poets around. In addition to doing readings around...
One of the most marvelous movie-going experiences of the year, with WORDS AND PICTURES screenwriter Gerald Di Pego and director Fred Schepisi create a film that wafts over you, making the heart smile. The dialogue is smartly written and constructed, as well as intelligent and witty. And watching leads Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche is like looking at a magical meld of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in "Notorious" with the loving needling they then brought decades later with "Indiscreet". The...
Hundreds of Cars and thousands of visitors flocked to downtown last weekend to see the cars at the 11th annual George Barris "Cruisin' Back to the 50's Culver City Car Show....
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter The time is now for Culver City High baseball 2014 as it prepares for its annual two-game Ocean League series with archrival Santa Monica High in the league's final week of play. Once again the league championship will go to the victor as it has been for the greater part of the past two decades-plus. Only this time the Centaurs, with a current 7-1 league record, need to win both games as they trail the Vikings, undefeated at 8-0, by 1/2 game in the standings....
