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In November vote for our firefighters, our paramedics and our police and against the power-grabbing politicians who just want their $250,000 salaries and $200,000 pensions. It seems as though in every area of the human experience ladies are making headway. More and more jobs are becoming available and the salary gap is narrowing. Why, even the U.S. Navy SEALS will have females next year. So why is it that in the Culver City fire house in the past 100 years no progress has been made? That’s r...
The Culver City Centaurs beat Torrance High in Friday nights football gam 49-14. Read the full story this week from Sports Reporter Fred Altieri...
Saturday morning at approximately 11am officers from the Culver City Police Department attempted to stop a vehicle with no license plates. The police determined the vehicle was stolen. The suspect vehicle accelerated through the intersection of Washington Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd. against a red light and then colliding with another vehicle. One occupant of the other vehicle died at the scene and another was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. CCPD officers were n...
• Culver City Chamber Vice President Retires – Culver City Chamber of Commerce Vice President Barbara Brody retired on August 31. In honor of her retirement, Council Member and former Chamber of Commerce Chair Göran Eriksson presented a City Council Commendation to Ms. Brody at a Chamber event held on August 25. Fire Department • Water First Program – Dr. Ira Diamond, Culver City resident, and Christine Parra, the City’s Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, were invited to give a presentation to the Los Angeles County Public Health Department...
Culver City Police reported a carjacking of a medical marijuana delivery van in the Watseka Parking Garage on Thursday afternoon at 12:24pm. According to Lieutenant Sam Agaiby of the Culver City Police Department the driver of the van was downtown having lunch and was confronted by the suspect. Shots were fired and the suspect drove off with the van. The van was recovered on a nearby street. The suspect is still at large. It is the first carjacking in Culver City in many years....
The Culver City Democratic Club’s general meeting on Wednesday. September 14 swill start at 7 pm. The topic will be four propositions left over from the August meeting. Council members Meghan Sahli-Wells and Thomas Small will provide their prospective on the Culver City Charter amendments that will also be on the November ballot. The meeting will take place in the Rotunda Room at Veteran’s Auditorium at the corner of Overland Avenue and Culver Boulevard....
“If you Take a Mouse to School” September Storytime with Office of Child Development Program Director Claudia Arreola Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. Join Program Director Claudia Arreola to see what funny things happen when you take a mouse to school! Fun arts and crafts project to follow. Admission is Free! Culver City Julian Dixon Library,4975 Overland Ave., Culver City Culver City Friends of the Library www.ccfol.org (310) 559-1676 for ADA Accommodation. Call (310) 830-0231 (voice) or (310) 830-4532 (TTY) Monday-Friday at lea...
The Chamber has a long history of supporting their local school districts over the last 70 years. This includes their longtime support in every parcel tax and school bond issue, as well as it’s involvement in a multitude of other school programs. On September 7 the Culver City Chamber met for its Issues and Eggs Forum where Dr. Josh Arnold, the new superintendent of Culver City Unified School District, spoke on his plans for each school in the district. During this event, Dr. Arnold was the recipient of 24 centennial history books, also the C...
According to reports in the Los Angeles Times IndieCade, the gaming industry's top festival, is leaving Culver City and moving to USC. The move was due to the final stages of developing downtown Culver City. The festival will move to USC's School of Cinematic Arts and be held from Oct. 13 to 16. Richard Lemarchand, a game designer and associate professor at USC, told the Times, “IndieCade is vitally important to the vibrant Los Angeles game development scene for the community that it provides — not just for developers in L.A., but for the peopl...
The Culver City Parks and Recreation Department has announced the registration for Fall 2016 recreation classes and activities is now open for resident customers. You can check out the Fall 2016 edition of the Culver City Living recreation brochure at http://www.culvercity.org/live/community-neighborhood/parks-recreation-culture/recreational-activities or enroll online at https://apm.activecommunities.com/culvercity. The department offers a wide variety of programs and activities for all ages and interests. Call (310) 253-6650 for more...
The Culver City Unified School District announces that Tracy Pumilia has become the District's new Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, effective immediately. Tracy brings 26 years of service as a Bilingual Educator, Coordinator, Elementary Principal, and most recently, Director of Curriculum And Instruction to her new CCUSD role; and during her nine years as principal of El Marino Language School, Tracy helped to transition the school from a foreign immersion to a dual language imm...
The following local residents have received their degree from Western Governors University. The university held its 31st semi-annual commencement ceremony in Salt Lake City on July 16 and celebrated the graduation of more than 8,000 graduates. * Eli Latham of Culver City has received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. * Russell Parry of Culver City has received his MBA in IT Management degree. These new graduates join more than 65,000 alumni who have advanced their careers by earning a degree at WGU....
Picture yourself on New Year's Day, making resolutions. You look back, asking, "Why did I do that?" or think, "I should never have done that." You know how we think about what we could have done, and we feel bad? And we wish we'd done it differently? Now imagine it's January 1 and you can change things, get the time back. Would you go for a redo? There are 82 weekdays till New Year's, and 33 weekends. That's 2,760 hours. Instead of looking backward come New Year's Day you might try looking...
Dear Editor I was quite saddened to see another article of more of downtown Culver City restaurants closing in the August 19-24th paper. It seems just as soon as they open these days, their gone. By the sounds of it we have yet another “Italian” restaurant to go in its place. I feel bad for the struggling restaurants left that are contending with the dilemma of raising prices to meet rent or close. But even worse when the Downtown Business Association doesn’t attempt to really help with encou...
Dear Editor: At the September 12, 2016 City Council meeting will the City Council express shock, like Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca when he discovered that there was gambling in the backroom? It could. After all, the City Council members are learning from us that: (1) in 1996, the City adopted a Code of Ethics; (2) a copy of the Code of Ethics is not posted on the City’s award-winning website; (3) the Ethics Advisory Committee exists on paper only; (4) Culver City has pothole and graffiti...
Yasiel Puig is back with the Dodgers. Possibly a new, improved Yasiel Puig. After careful consideration the Dodgers decided to bring the controversial 25-year-old outfielder back from their Oklahoma City farm club. The announcement was made on Friday, September 2. As a result Puig will be eligible to be with the Dodgers for the October playoffs the same as several other players who were brought up when roster limits were increased to 40 for the season's stretch drive. The Dodgers received...
The Culver City High football team was on the verge of engineering an impressive fourth quarter comeback with about eight minutes remaining in the game. However, a first-and-goal at the West High five-yard line only resulted in a 23-yard field goal that left the visiting Centaurs one point shy victory as they lost to Warriors, 34-33. With playoff-like intensity the momentum swung mightily several times on opening night of CIF Football at Fred Peterson Stadium in Torrance on Friday night,...
The UCLA Bruins and the USC Trojans hope to get on the winning track when the Bruins face UNLV and the Trojans battle Utah State on Saturday. Both teams will be looking for their first win of the 2016 season. The Bruins were beaten in overtime against Texas A&M 31-24 and the Trojans were whipped by Alabama 52-6. Is Alabama that good, are the Trojans that bad? Time will tell but the Trojans are hoping the Crimson Tide is really that outstanding. If USC, which plays one of the toughest schedules i...
The 2016 NFL regular season is suddenly staring the new Los Angeles Rams right in the face. Summer training and preseason games are now distant memories along with the HBO sports reality series "Hard Knocks." The real hard knocks are about to begin. The Rams' season opener is not only against the divisional rival San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium, it's the second game of a Monday Night Football package on September 12 starting at 7 p.m. Beginning the season on the road against a team that's...
The 3-3 USC women’s volleyball team hopes to have better results in the state of Texas than the football team did against Alabama last Saturday. The women of Troy will play in the Rice Adidas Invitational in Houston on Friday and Saturday. On Friday they face Sam Houston State and Saturday Oakland and Rice. The then No. 7 Trojans started their season with three losses two weeks ago but they came back with three wins in a row last weekend at the USC Raddison Classic at the Galen Center on the USC...
West Los Angeles College started the 2016 football season off with an offensive explosion when they beat rival Santa Monica College 47-34 last Saturday on the West Los Angeles campus. "We battled hard and I like the way we competed," said West Los Angeles head coach Marguet Miller after the win. "We beat a good team but we also need to make sure we don't beat ourselves. We have to improve on not turning the ball over." West Los Angeles' next home game will be Saturday, September 17 at 1 p.m....
The Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA are trying to recapture the magic that allowed them to be the best team in the league before the Olympic break last month. After the break they are 3-3 at Press Time. The Sparks are currently 24-6 and have three important games remaining on their regular season schedule. Right now the Sparks are a game behind Minnesota for the best record in the league. Whoever has the best record will have home court advantage throughout the playoffs. "After the Olympic break...
Boxing in Los Angeles has been flying under the radar at best in recent years but this may be the punch that ends up cold-cocking the region's sports landscape even when it pretends it's paying attention. This is a must-see event that many may undoubtedly claim they were there. The 2016 "fight of the year" in Southern California takes center stage at the Fabulous Forum in revitalized Inglewood this Saturday night, September 10. Barring a draw the loser will suffer his first professional career...
The City of Culver City will have a remembrance ceremony to honor the men, women, children and first responders who lost their lives as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Fire and Police Departments will host memorial services at each of the three City Fire Stations on Sunday, September 11, 2016. Members of the public are cordially invited to attend. Below is the ceremony schedule and address of each fire station: 6:55 a.m. Crews assemble in front of flag 6:59 a.m. Time of the South Tower collapse 7:00 a.m. One minute of complete...
For everyone who has already seen "Hell or High Water", you know the Oscar race has begun thanks to an award-worthy performance by Jeff Bridges, a powerhouse script from Tayler Sheridan and stunning cinematography by Giles Nuttgens. This film has Best Picture contender written all over it. (And if you haven't seen "Hell or High Water", get thee to a theatre now!) But this week another contender in the acting race steps into the Oscar ring with Jonathan Jakubowicz' HANDS OF STONE and two knockout...
