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CCMS Adds to Recycling Program with Educational Labels
What goes where? Can that be recycled? What's garbage and what's gold? Recycle Across America and sponsoring company Kiehl's started a program today at Culver City Middle School to donate more than 60,000 standardized recycling labels to more than 1,000 public schools in the Los Angeles area, including Culver City Unified School District and the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles. The labels, [...]
New Column! Ruth’s Truths – Ruth Morris
My mother died seven months from the age I am right now. That event of twenty-seven years ago caused some radical changes in my life that have continued to this day. I developed an urgency to see and do as much as possible while on this earth. Mom got sick just before a planned trip together to Hong Kong. She never made it to Hong Kong. In 2008, a year before my father died without visiting [...]
Leimert Park to Get Metro Stop
Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. lauded the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s approval Thursday of $80 million for the construction of a rail stop in the historic Leimert Park Village on the Crenshaw Line. “The construction of the Leimert Park Station will be an additional tool for economic revitalization in this historic neighborhood in South Los Angeles,” said Senator [...]
Looking Up – Bob Eklund
Look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. “Here’s a beautiful chance to see three planets all together,” says Alan MacRobert, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. “Add the Earth under your feet, and you’re [...]
Culver City Chamber Wins State Honor for Fifth Consecutive Year
In Sacramento on Wednesday, May 22 the California Chamber of Commerce recognized your Culver City Chamber with the President's Circle award for the fifth consecutive year. This award, first presented in 2009, recognizes chambers for excellence in business advocacy and helping their members comply with California employment laws. President's Circle award recipients published vote records of [...]
AVPA Music Offers Two Concerts to End the Year on a Great Note
On Thursday, May 30th, at 7pm in the Robert Frost Auditorium, the Collage Concert will feature smaller ensembles and student soloists. The Flute Ensemble, Jazz Combo(pictured at left,) Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Singers, and Chamber Music ensembles will present music that covers a diverse range of styles and genres. There will be music from Bach and Mozart, to that of contemporary composers [...]
Don’t Let the Oil Companies Write the Fracking Laws – Sarah Rose
Fracking. Hydraulic Fracturing. Frankly? I've had it. I'm so completely fed up with Big Oil writing the rules on fracking in California, and I know you've also been outraged about this for quite a while. So look, this is what we need to do: First, stop the bad fracking bill. It's absolutely necessary to defeat AB 7 – the industry-backed bill that would allow oil companies to continue to [...]
“Five Months to Parent Victory” – Talent Show and Fundraiser
United Parents of Culver City (UPCC) will officially announce its school board candidate endorsements for the November 2013 Culver City Unified School District election on Sunday June 9. The announcements will coincide with a fundraiser entitled "Five Months to Parent Victory Party." The event, which will feature live music and entertainment by parents in the Culver City Unified School District, [...]
Kickstart the Culver City Orchestra (and Save the Date June 8)
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to present concerts of beloved works. We honor and revere the long tradition of these masterworks. They also venture out of the standards to explore music which we feel needs performances. The June 8, 2013, concert is just that - American Beat/African Influences. Africans, forced into the horrors and inhumanity of the slave trade, were stripped of [...]
CCPD Goes Tech – Live Links to Updates
The Culver City Police Department uses Nixle to notify users of missing persons, evacuate residents or businesses in times of an emergency, capture dangerous criminals, and more. The alerts are sent out very much like a Twitter post or text. Option #1- If you are only interested in receiving messages from the Culver City Police Department , text CCPD to 888777 Option #2- If you would like [...]
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