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It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our mother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week. Along with a lifetime's work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly. She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with...
The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for the Los Angeles region, including Culver City set to begin at 11 a.m. on Wednesday and continue through 8 p.m. on Friday, September 6. Temperatures are expected to peak between 95 and 110 degrees, with the hottest days forecasted for Thursday and Friday. Warm overnight lows will offer little relief from the intense heat. The warning covers all valleys, mountains, deserts, and inland coastal plains of Los Angeles County, includ...
The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning as high temperatures have been forecast for the following areas: · Eastern Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024 through Monday July 08, 2024 · Western Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024 through Monday July 08, 2024 · Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024 through Monday July 08, 2024 · Western San Gabriel Mountains/Hwy 14 Corridor: Tuesday July 02, 2024 through Monday July 08, 2024 · Northwest LA County Moun...
The tables finally turned on Riviera Country Club, and a player delivered a devastating gut punch to the tournament. Unfortunately, it was not a golf shot that laid the course low, and the playing dealing the unexpected damage was Tiger Woods, who withdrew from the tournament Friday afternoon after hitting his tee shot on the seventh hole. Play continued, and Long Beach's Patrick Cantlay, who learned Riviera as a player on UCLA's golf team, stretched his lead. Much like Joaquin Niemann, now-depa...
Hy The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued a heat advisory as high temperatures have been forecast for the following areas: · Santa Susana Mountains:Tuesday, July 25, 2023, through Friday, July 28, 2023. · Calabasas/Agoura Hills: Tuesday, July 25, 2023, through Friday, July 28, 2023. · West Santa Monica Mountains: Tuesday, July 25, 2023, through Friday, July 28, 2023. · East Santa Monica Mountains: Tuesday, July 25, 2023, through Friday, July 28, 2023. · Santa Clarita Valley: Tues...
Thursday, March 16th — The Alzheimer’s Association 2023 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report finds the burden on California Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers remain significant. The new report released yesterday shows there were an estimated 1,374,000 dementia family caregivers across the state in 2022, providing 1,864,000,000 hours of unpaid care valued at $44,277,000,000. The new report also reveals that California caregivers and those across the country face significant emotional, physical and health-related challenges as result...
From commuters to apartment dwellers and everyone in between. Folding electric bikes are both the best and most cost-effective way to get around efficiently while keeping the environment healthy. The benefits of owning a folding e-bike are endless, but here are six of the top benefits we think every rider should know about it. Owning a folding electric bike can be convenient for many different lifestyles, especially those who are always on the go or are tight on space. Individuals who live in ap...
California Nurses Association (CNA) condemned today's announcement by California Department of Public Health (CDPH) that mask and vaccine requirements would be lifted April 1 in the state's health care settings, just eight days after California reached the grim toll of 100,000 Covid-19 deaths. "In no uncertain terms, this is a failure of public health leadership," said Bonnie Castillo, RN and executive director of California Nurses Association. "Abandoning these standards is a counterproductive...
The Genesis Invitational, The Riviera Country Club and Pacific Palisades delivered perfect once again for the PGA Tour last week. Spaniard Jon Rahm battled to win for the third time in his last five attempts to punctuate the 2023 West Coast Swing and retake the top of the OWGR standings. The magnitude of the win wasn't lost on Rahm, increasing his No. 1 world ranking to 44 total weeks and tied for 11th on the all-time list. "That putt on 14 was huge. A great par putt on 15 and that shot on 16...
The Genesis Invitational, The Riviera Country Club and Pacific Palisades' perfect weather delivered once again for the PGA Tour. Spaniard Jon Rahm battled to win for the third time in his last five attempts to punctuate the 2023 West Coast Swing and retake the top of the OWGR standings. The magnitude of the win wasn't lost on Rahm, increasing his No. 1 world ranking to 44 total weeks and tied for 11th on the all-time list. "That putt on 14 was huge. A great par putt on 15 and that shot on 16...
Riviera Country Club will be the site of the Genesis Invitational (originally Los Angeles Open) for the 60th time in its illustrious history, February 16-19. Since 2017, hosts Tiger Woods and Genesis USA have officially teed up the event by announcing the recipient of the Charlie Sifford Memorial Exemption during their annual pre-tourney Media Golf Outing. Last week, Marcus Byrd was awarded the 2023 exemption given for the advancement of diversity in the game of golf. "Marcus has shown...
The inaugural 2022 Palos Verdes Championship was an instant success. Marina Alex emerged from a field of at least two dozen contenders during Sunday's final round to win her second LPGA title. The 11-year Tour veteran from New Jersey rallied from three strokes down to finish at -10, one stroke better than the world's top-ranked golfer Jin Young Ko of South Korea. "It's been a tough couple years, so still haven't really probably processed everything yet. It's been amazing. PV has been great, the...
Moving Day under the Hollywood Sign lived up to its billing as Nasa Hataoka, Jin Young Ko and Hannah Green attacked from tee-to-green during Round 3 of the 2022 DIO Implant LA Open. Hataoka emerged as the clear-cut favorite with a 4-stroke lead at 11-under par going into Sunday's final round. But the sub-plot was provided by the barranca that rolls throughout Wilshire Country Club. The par-4 17th green is protected on its the side by a prominent wall above and along the barranca. Ko collapsed wi...
Nasa Hataoka tamed the challenging Wilshire Country Club greens with a pair of 67's over the weekend to walk away with a 5-stroke victory at the 2022 DIO Implant LA Open. It was the sixth LGPA Tour victory for the 23-year old Japanese golfer. Hataoka was also the only player to shoot in the 60's for all four rounds in the tournament. "My goal set for today was 15-under. My plan was to birdie as much as possible on the first nine holes, and I feel like I was able to do that. So that helped me a l...
It was a volatile leaderboard but the cream rose to the top during the 2nd Round of the 2022 DIO Implant LA Open at the Wilshire Country Club on Friday. The world's No. 1 player, Jin Young Ko of South Korea, shot 64 for low round of the tournament to share the lead with Japan's Nasa Hataoka at 7-under par, both with a two-stroke lead over Hannah Green of Australia. "I wasn't expecting to play really well today because in the afternoon it's always hard to play this course," said Ko. "But my...
Picture perfect conditions at Riviera Country Club once again set the tone at the Genesis Invitational on Thursday in Pacific Palisades (97th edition of the Los Angeles Open). Losing no time drafting off the L.A. sports momentum in wake of the Rams' Super Bowl victory, 23-year old Joaquin Niemann from Chile shot a record-tying opening round 63 (-8), to take a three-stroke lead over a low-scoring field. "It's got to be one of my best days on the golf course, especially in a place like this with...
Chants of "Ole, Ole, Ole, Joaquim Niemann!" could be heard moments after the 23-year-old Chilean golfer holed his final shot at the renowned Riviera Country Club to win the 2022 Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades. Niemann's historic two-stroke wire-to wire victory over Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa was only the fourth time in the tournament's history that a player lead after all four rounds. The late great Charles Sifford of Los Angeles was the last golfer to accomplish the feat in...
By Robert Butchko, Observer Sports Writer Midway through the second round, it looked like the 2022 Genesis Invitational was going to turn into the Joaquin Neimann Run Away and Hide. Chile's best-known PGA tour member-and, other than Mito Pereira, its only one-opened the tournament with a record-tying first round score and promptly broke the rule that the hardest thing to do was follow up a great round with a good one. Neimann's second round was not better than his first round, but it was exactly...
September is Pedestrian Safety Month and Culver City, through a grant from the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), is conducting a month-long celebration of active transportation with a focus on safety. Featuring free workshops and community events including group walks and rides, the goal is to encourage people of all ages to walk and bike more often and increase safety awareness between August 29 and September 26, 2021. The Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Walk 'n Rollers will implement...
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer Santa Monica Fire Chief Bill Walker announced on Tuesday he will be departing his post on June 4 to head up the City of Bedford Fire Department in Texas. A Southern California native, Walker has served as head of the Santa Monica Fire Department since 2016, guiding it through a period of transformation with new technology, four new fire engines, the new Fire Station 1, and Fire Station 7 at the beach, the city said in a press release. "Santa Monica could not...
The clear winners on late Saturday afternoon under the Hollywood sign were Brooke Henderson and her fellow LPGA members. Henderson shot a pair of 67's on the weekend to win the 2021 LPGA Premia LA Open Hugel-Air at the very challenging Wilshire Country Club golf course in the heart of Hancock Park. It was Henderson's 10th career victory on the LPGA Tour against a field worthy of a Hollywood script as the leaderboard kept rewriting itself in the final round. The 10th victory also gave Henderson m...
Fred Segal, whose clothing boutiques became an emblem of Los Angeles cool by selling form-fitting jeans and chambray shirts to the likes of Bob Dylan, Farah Fawcett and the Beatles, died on Feb. 24th in Santa Monica. He was 87. The cause was complications of a stroke, a spokeswoman for his family said. Mr. Segal became one of the West Coast's best-known designers and retailers in the 1960s as he helped shape the image of Southern California fashion as breezy, sexy and relaxed. His namesake...
For sure, the only constant is change. COVID-19 certainly proved that. We never completed last year's Intergenerational Writers Workshop because of the shutdown. I saw its theme as dealing with three questions: "Who am I? How do I see myself? How do others see me?" We were delving into concepts of community and identity when the pandemic hit. The workshop is an annual collaboration that takes place on several Wednesday mornings during the first quarter of the year. It started in 2010 between...
Culver City Observer Newspaper Publisher Steve Hadland suffered a stroke on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. "Steve took his dog, Zenni, for a walk Tuesday evening," explains Michelle, Steve's girlfriend. "Zenni came to the front door half an hour later without Steve. 'Where's papa?' I asked her. She barked, and led me right to him," Michelle said. Steve is now in rehab, and hopes to return to his job in a week or two. He is 69 and has 4 adult children, and I'm not actually sure how many grandchildren...
Riviera Down Under! 39-year old Australian star, Adam Scott, christened the inaugural 2020 Genesis Invitational tournament by holding off a half dozen golfers in the final round to win the last leg of the West Coast Swing. Scott won his 14th PGA Tour event and the first in four years at the renowned Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades. "It's incredibly satisfying to win a tournament of this stature on a golf course of this stature. It was a wonderful week," said Scott. "It was incredibly...
