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King Fahad Mosque Honored By Culver Exchange Club The Exchange Club of Culver City, which puts on the annual Culver City Fireworks Show at Culver City High with the sponsorship and support of the City of Culver City and the Culver City Unified School District, recently presented the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City with an award for the Mosque’s outstanding contributions of major prizes for the past several years to the raffle which is an integral part of that annual fundraising event. Riyaz Kadri, Rauf Patel, and Mohammed Khan accepted the a...
Academics, Athletics Are Important At Culver (EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 2 of an interview with Tom Salter, Culver City High Athletic Director) Jerry Chabola hired me to coach golf and I’ve been doing it for 14 years with Bruce Unoura. Bruce is a retired Culver City police officer. He has been with the golf program for 25 years and we have a great working relationship. Bruce is a very good technician and basically he lets me help him out. We graduated a lot of players from two years ago so las...
CCHS Students Honored At its June 25th board meeting, Ballona Creek Renaissance (BCR) presented Awards of Excellence to three Culver City High students: Emma Kurihara, Priya Patel, and Yvonne Ball. A fourth, Zacky Ezedin, received his award on June 13. Honored for their long-time high quality volunteer contributions to BCR’s work on behalf of community and environment, each received a personalized, illustrated and framed certificate and a $250 check. Because Zacky was leaving to begin a summer program at Cornell University in New York, B...
Athletic Director Proud of Culver Sports Programs (EDITOR’s NOTE: This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview with Tom Salter, Culver City High Athletic Director) I began coaching at Culver City High School in 1999. I was the head football coach for 10 years. In 2012, I worked with the previous athletic director Jerry Chabola through the last semester of 2012 and this year I took over as the athletic director. My dad did it for 25 years at Arcadia High School. He was the head football coach and a...
Centaurs Progress In Summer Football Handler Excels At Quarterback The Culver City High School football program advances with summer passing league completion. The Centaurs recently reached the consolation bracket championship game in the Bonita High Air Assault Tournament involving 30 teams. Culver lost the title game, 38-18 to Santiago High of Corona. David Handler, the 6-foot-5 quarterback who previously played for Palisades High, excelled for the Centaurs. Among other accomplishments he...
Dear Editor, As a candidate for Culver City Council last year, I made a point of talking to residents, whether door-to-door or at candidate forums and coffees, about the advantages Culver City offers and why it is such a great place to live and work. We have fabulous weather, a thriving downtown, great parks, close-knit residential neighborhoods, outstanding cultural and recreational activities, safe streets, close access to public transit and excellent response times from our police and fire services. But equally important is the quality of...
Here’s The 10th Season At Kirk Douglas Theatre The Center Theatre Group will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the Kirk Douglas Theatre with a season that encapsulates the variety and artistry that has filled the first nine seasons. Since the theatre’s birth in late 2004 more than 70 productions, workshops and readings have been presented – new, edgy, boundary-pushing pieces along with the best of American classics and of international fare. Twenty of these productions were world premieres. “I’m really looking forward to the premiere of the ro...
Players Honored At Culver Softball Awards Banquet The Culver City High Softball team held its 2013 awards banquet on Wednesday, June 19 in the school cafeteria. It was a true grass roots, family affair with parents, players, coaches and school staff all contributing to the success of the event. A number of junior varsity players volunteered to show up early and transform the large room into a Centaur showcase complete with white table covers and blue balloons. The menu was a feast of homemade...
CCUSD Deficit Shrinks Like Culver City’s own budget, the 2013-2014 budget for the Culver City School Board, approved at the Board’s meeting Tuesday night, is a much better-looking budget than in recent years, especially in regard to the deficit. “Give [CCUSD Superintendent] David LaRose some credit,” said Assistant Superintendent of Finance Mike Reynolds. “He locked us into a room and wouldn’t let us out until [our efforts] had borne some fruit.” Reynolds noted that CCUSD began the fiscal ye...
Sports Columnist Five years ago a vision and insight awakened in Coach Mika's mind. Slowly, with trepidation, and humility, he slowly built the routine and practice of the game in Ocean Park, Venice Beach. He attracted players from Pepperdine, Santa Monica College, Harvard and Stanford. This was all possible thanks to his determination to sustain old school techniques which were established in the 1980's and 1990's, back in the days when the whole world knew the center of international beach vol...
Fireworks Show Cancelled Because of renovation of the football stadium at Culver City High School the 48th annual fireworks show has been cancelled for this year. Sponsored by the Culver City Exchange Club the club has already announced it will be back next year with a bigger and better show. Locally, fireworks can be viewed over the water in Marina Del Rey....
City Manager's Update June 21, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Culver City's Boulevard Music Summer Festival – Co-sponsored by the City of Culver City and curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’s Boulevard Music, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival will feature: A cappella Doo Wop from the Mighty Echoes and acoustic blues with Doug MacLeod on July 11th; an eclectic mix of country, bluegrass, rock and jazz with Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand on July 18th; jazz and blues diva Barbara Morrison on July 25th; hot country, rock and blue...
SoCalGas Awards Scholarhips To Culver Students Southern California Gas Co. has awarded college scholarships totaling $2,000 to two Culver City-area high school seniors and community college graduates. Among the recipients to be awarded $1,000 scholarships are: Tracy Tran and Diego Rodas, graduates of Culver City High. “The scholarships recognize the students for academic achievement and other important signs of character,” said Krista Phipps, public affairs manager at SoCalGas. “We’re awarding scholarships to 150 high school seniors and com...
Culver Prepares For Next Baseball Season (EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 2 of Fred Altieri’s interview with Coach Rick Prieto regarding the Culver City High baseball program) Rick Prieto – Culver City High Baseball Head Coach Our program for the 2014 baseball season starts in the summer. We do everything in stages. What we try to do in the summer is continue playing baseball and the good things we just finished doing in the spring season and keep building from there. We are obviously going to sp...
Coach Prieto Explains Benefits of His Baseball Camp (EDITOR’s NOTE: Observer reporter Fred Altieri interviewed Culver baseball coach Rick Prieto regarding his annual off-season baseball camp. Here is the first of this two-part interview Rick Prieto – Culver City High Baseball Head Coach Our baseball camp, which is called ‘The Fundamentals of Baseball,’ is now in its 16th year at Culver City High. We established it so we could develop a good relationship and have a better communication with th...
Athletic Complex Progressing On Schedule By George Laase On a gray, overcast day I rode over to the high school to see how the athletic field project was progressing. It looked quite different than the last time I came to take pictures, as you can see by my up-dated photos. The foundation for the Snack Bar/Ticket Booth/Restrooms was being poured as we spoke, some of the trenches for drainage were being cut and the power and communication lines for coaches and the track timers were already laid. Gary Nendadal, the supervisor of the project, said...
Garden Club To Celebrate 60th Annual Show The Culver City Garden Club will host its 60th Annual Show & Sale on Saturday, June 22 from, 10 am to- 5 pm,at Star Education, 10117 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City. The event as always is free and there is free parking in the area. They will celebrate the anniversary with an Exhibition of homegrown plants, flowers and edibles. There will also be a Club Sales table and a raffle. All are welcome. The first Show was probably held in the Culver City National Guard Armory in 1953. Eisenhower was the new U.S....
City Manager's Update June 7, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Cultural Affairs Commission Special Meeting: The City Manager and Assistant City Manager met with the Cultural Affairs Commission on June 5 as part of a Special Meeting of the Commission. The City Manager provided a presentation to the Commission on the state of the City’s finances. He also announced his assignment of the Assistant City Manager to coordinate Cultural Affairs Staffing/Programming from the City Manager’s Office as part of the City Manager’s creation of the Long-Ter...
Culver Baseball Has Awards Banquet The Culver City High Baseball 2013 Banquet and Awards Night was held at the American Legion Hall on Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City on Wednesday, June 5. Coach Rick Prieto related the night’s proceedings. “We thanked our administration, Principal Dylan Farris, Vice Principal Dr. Jon Chapman and Athletic Director Tom Salter. We especially honored our great parents for all they did this year for the baseball program, from transporting our players to games, the...
The Inside on Culver Sports Facilities (EDITOR’S NOTE: George Laase recently interviewed former Culver City High athletic director Jerry Chabola about athletic facilities at the school) By George Laase Jerry Chabola, a now-retired teacher and the former Athletic Director of Culver City High, was asked about his thoughts on seeing that all his hard work on getting the track and field resurfaced is finally coming to pass. Jerry Chabola--I’m excited. I’m happy that the work we have done over the many past years is finally coming to fruit...
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL 2013: MUST SEE FESTIVAL FILMS I’m so excited, literally and figuratively, as it’s time for the 19th Annual Los Angeles Film Festival! Running from June 13th to 23rd, setting the exciting tone for this year’s Fest, LAFF takes to the skies opening night with the North American premiere of Pedro Almodovar’s I’M SO EXCITED! What could be more appropriate! A high-flying comedy of hilarious proportion, you’ll find yourself wishing you were flying the friendly skies of Peninsu...
Fourth Of July Fireworks Show Cancelled (EDITOR’s NOTE; The Fourth of July fireworks show in Culver City won’t be held next month. The Observer’s Fred Altieri interviewed Earl Eskridge of the Exchange Club, who explains the situation) This really would have been our 49th year instead of our 48th year. We started to create patriotism at the time that we started, which was 49 years ago. Patriotism was down so we thought should instill patriotism by starting up this fireworks show. And we got the idea from the Pasadena Fire Department and the L...
City Manager's Update June 7, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Cultural Affairs Commission Special Meeting: The City Manager and Assistant City Manager met with the Cultural Affairs Commission on June 5 as part of a Special Meeting of the Commission. The City Manager provided a presentation to the Commission on the state of the City’s finances. He also announced his assignment of the Assistant City Manager to coordinate Cultural Affairs Staffing/Programming from the City Manager’s Office as part of the City Manager’s creation of the Long-Ter...
The Inside On Culver Sports Facilities (EDITOR’S NOTE: George Laase recently interviewed former Culver City High athletic director Jerry Chabola about athletic facilities at the school) By George Laase Jerry Chabola, a now-retired teacher and the former Athletic Director of Culver High, was asked about his thoughts on seeing that all his hard work on getting the track and field resurfaced is finally coming to pass. Jerry Chabola--I’m excited. I’m happy that the work we have done over the many past years is finally coming to fruition. The stude...
Serra Wins CIF Baseball Title Serra High is the CIF Division 3 baseball champion this season, a distinction Culver City sought. After Mira Costa eliminated Culver City, Serra defeated Mira Costa, 8-1 in the championship game last Friday at Dodger Stadium. Serra, a perennial power in football and basketball, won its first baseball championship in school history....
