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Navy Seaman Recruit Matthew F. Mohagen, son of Daniel F. and Elizabeth J. Mohagen of Culver City, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Mohagen completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness. The capstone event of boot...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist From the "hard to believe" file: It was on Feb. 15, 2013, slightly more than a year ago, that an asteroid crashed into Russia with a force estimated to be about 500 kilotons of TNT, 25 times more powerful than the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima. Am I the only one old enough to remember when tobacco companies could advertise in magazines? Then the government got on a medical kick (and rightly so) and prohibited my pal, Joe camel, from the printed world. Y...
There are several events coming up in March through the Friends of the Library. Tuesday, March 4 will be a special story time at 7 pm, with Culver City's Dr. Janet Hoult. She will be sharing her book, Where Did the Sun Go? Janet will be donating copies to the J. Dixon Library, and is also donating all proceeds to her book sold on March 4 to the Griffith Park Friends of the Observatory (FOTO). Saturday, March 8 will be a book sale. As usual, the sale will run from 9 am to 3 pm. Volunteers are...
By Sandra Coopersmith Features Writer Culver City's Turning Point School (pre-K through 8th grade) and Babytalk LA, two child-focused organizations, were a winning team on Feb. 4 when they partnered to present a dynamic 90-minute panel at the school: "Kids & Sports: Team, Esteem, & The Athletic Dream." Zachary Hinkle, Turning Point's Director of Auxiliary Programs, explained that the two are philosophically aligned: "Understanding the heart of each learner is paramount to success, as is setting...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Defying the odds, the Culver City High boys basketball team has made the CIF Southern Section playoffs. Despite losing their final six Ocean League contests, most of them in the last agonizing minutes of each game, the playoff committee felt the Centaurs earned an invitation. And for added respect, the committee rewarded the team a favorable matchup against a 14th seeded team. Head coach Adam Eskridge gave a rundown on what he learned this past Sunday...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Let the games begin. Having taken care of business during the regular season the Culver City High girls basketball team began preparing this week for the CIF Southern Section playoffs. The team will host a Division 2AA first round match with Elsinore High from the Sunbelt League this Saturday night at 7 p.m. in Del Goodyear Gymnasium. The Centaur girls were given an indifferent seventh seed despite having swept the Ocean League for the third year in a row. Last...
On January 28 the Culver City School Board awarded certificates to students who created art based on the theme Believe, Dream, Inspire. The art competition is sponsored by the National PTA. Students were judged at each school then the first place winners in each category were judged again at the Culver City Council level and the first place winners at Council were judged at the 33rd District PTA level. Winners in each category are as follows: Culver City Council Winners Primary Visual Arts – Min...
Those of you who attended, or have children who attended Culver schools will recognize the name Sandy Segal. Sandy was the school nurse at the secondary sites in the District from 1974 until her retirement in 2005. For more than 40 years she cared for the physical and emotional needs of students. The Culver City Youth Health Center located on the grounds of the Middle School and High School would not exist without Sandy. In recognition of her dedication to the well-being of our children, her...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter It wasn't the kind of Senior Night ending the Culver City High boys basketball team had dreamt about. The team was on the verge of having staged an against-all-odds comeback when Wes Dixon buried a clutch three-pointer from the left corner that tied the score at 77-77 with 7.3 seconds left in regulation. The Centaurs clearly had the momentum on their home court in Del Goodyear Gymnasium as their fans went wild in celebration. But the tides were not with them as...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter Senior Night was fittingly special for the Culver City High girls basketball team as it captured the Ocean League championship while cruising in the second half over Hawthorne High, 61-41. It was the Centaurs' third straight league title and the girls have won 29 straight league games. They play their last league game of the season this Thursday, February 13, at Beverly Hills High, the last team to beat them in league. The Centaur girls took a 23-12 first quarte...
Four City Council candidates spoke about their positions on a number of issues at a candidates' forum held at the Culver City Senior Center on February 5. The candidates included incumbents Jim Clarke and Jeff Cooper, newcomer Christopher Patrick King, and frequent City Council and School Board candidate Gary Abrams. Sharon Hyland-Elstein, new president of the Culver City Senior Center Association, introduced the candidates to an audience of seniors during the lunchtime hour at the Center, and...
City Manager’s Office • 2014 General Municipal Election (April 8, 2014): The City Clerk’s Office maintains a website with up-to-the-minute information about the upcoming election. That webpage can be accessed here: https://www.culvercity.org/en/Government/CityClerk/ElectionInformation.aspx Transportation Department • Tokyo Gas Visits Culver City Transportation: On January 9 the Equipment Maintenance & Fleet Services Division hosted a Japanese delegation at the Transportation Department. The del...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter It's beginning to play like a broken record but it certainly sounds like a finely tuned instrument. The Culver City High girls basketball team won two more 2013-14 Ocean League contests to retain sole possession of first place with a 6-0 record. And they did it rather handily once again compliments of pin-point shooting from three-point range. Even head coach Julian Anderson has been impressed with the team's recent exploits, "We're shooting the ball...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter It's back to the fundamentals after the Culver City High boys basketball team took two more Ocean League hits the hard way. And it's become apparent the fourth quarter is the Centaurs' Achilles heel this season in the consecutive four-point losses. The first came at home against Beverly Hills, 60-56. Two nights later host Morningside High in Inglewood added to the pain, 68-64. The team returned to Monday's practice with a renewed commitment and determination to...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. recently brought charges against 72 police officers, eight firemen and five corrections officers among others who filed disability claims as a direct result of 9/11, for allegedly claiming mental health disorders. The investigation is ongoing and many others could be prosecuted. Perhaps you recall a recent article where the IRS sent hundreds of phony tax refunds to one address in Europe and one in China. Not to be fooled...
By Paul Walsleben Special to the Observer When you think of youth sports, many people only think of AYSO soccer and Little League baseball. Local sport parents are discovering that besides the two favorites, Culver City has a growing reputation as a center for Lacrosse. Lacrosse is played with netted sticks, and a solid rubber ball on a soccer-sized field. As a youth game, lacrosse has the appeal of a contact sport such as football, but with the agility and running elements from soccer. Players...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor It's official. Culver City High football star Stanley Norman has transferred to Serra High in Gardena. Serra football coach Scott Altenberg confirmed the speculation that began last week that Norman had taken out transfer papers. Norman then enrolled in classes at his new school in Gardena. Altenberg also said the player's family has moved into the Serra area. The Observer was among the media outlets that had gathered information leading to the likelihood Norman...
One of Culver City Unified School's District's brightest ideas will begin to shine on Tuesday, when the switch is flipped on the new photovoltaic panels at Farragut Elementary School. The District's new solar power system, which includes similar installations at Culver City Middle School and Culver City High, will provide as much as 750kW of energy. The system will officially be turned on in a special ceremony beginning at 9 a.m. on February 4 and will feature elected officials, students and...
Jean Louise Montgomery Frick passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 4 at her assisted living home in McLean, VA. She lived in Culver City for 20 years until moving to an assisted living home in 2006. Jean was born in Atchison, Kansas on March 27, 1926, daughter of Russell James Montgomery (WWI Army Veteran, Packard Electric/GM;1896 - 1980) and Eunice Katherine Lake (D.A.R., Warren Women's Book Club; 1898 -1989). Her parents moved to Warren in her youth, Jean graduated from Warren G. Harding...
Sandra, a Culver City resident since 1983, moved from Canada to Los Angeles when she was 12 and became a U.S. citizen at 18. Her lengthy career in real estate finance commenced with residential loan closing and soon segued into commercial loan closing and servicing. At the time of her retirement from Keystone Mortgage Corporation in 2001, she was Senior Vice President and held California Escrow Association's professional designation of Certified Senior Loan Escrow Officer. She is a past...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporter A self-imposed wakeup call was made as a sense of urgency fell upon the Culver City High boys basketball team late in the fourth quarter of Friday night's game at Hawthorne High. Looming in the background was the Centaurs previous two losses, also due to not securing the fourth quarter. And a sigh of relief went up after the Centaurs withstood a valiant comeback attempt by the host Cougars, 77-66. Culver had a 65-47 lead with seven minutes remaining in the...
By Fred Altieri Observer Reporteri The Culver City High girls basketball team put an exclamation point on its week after Saturday's non-league victory against Ridgeview High, 53-32, in the MLK Extravaganza tournament hosted by Narbonne High. The win followed two more Ocean League successes days earlier on the road at Inglewood and Hawthorne. Coach Julian Anderson was succinct in describing the game, "We played Ridgeview from Bakersfield and we won. Right now we're doing a good job at staying...
William L. Schulze, Jr., of Playa del Rey died in an accident on Monday, November 25, 2013, in Lancaster, California. Bill was born on August 5, 1957 to William Louis Schulze, Sr. and Barbara Ann Thornton Schulze in Covington, Kentucky, the middle of three children. He attended San Mateo High School, and graduated (1975) from Avon High School in Avon, Ct. He later attended University of Southern Colorado. An ad regional sales manager, he was a robust outdoorsman. He knew no stranger – he was e...
Christopher Patrick "CPK" King's campaign team (CPK4CC) rocked the Helms District in Culver City this on January 25. More precisely, they rocked it with the help of four local bands ranging from a community jazz band, Captain Dan and the Del Rey Community Jazz Band; Samantha Ahdoot with special guests Garry Corman and Paul McCarty, hip hop artist Spliff Hemmingway, and headliner rock sensation, Satellite Sky. Many young Culver City voters filled the Bar Nine Collective on Helms Avenue in Culver...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist Congress, in its infinite wisdom, mandated that those men and women who served honorably and faithfully sometime between 1961 and 1978 would forevermore be considered Vietnam veterans. Those troopers could have served in the North Atlantic on a Coast Guard cutter doing iceberg duty or in Europe flipping pancakes in the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment mess hall, or in Pearl Harbor with the Navy or with the Marines at Camp Pendleton, as long as it was sometime...
