Archive for February, 2013
Meeting In a Minute – Council Votes from Feb. 25
Ciclavia to CulverCity - April 21 Here are the highlights from the City Council meeting of February 25, 2013. At this meeting, the City Council: • Approved the Final Plans and Specifications and Authorization to Advertise for Bids for the Citywide Sidewalk Repair Project, P-428. • Adopted a Resolution approving an Encroachment Agreement with Time Warner Cable for Use of the Public [...]
Crime Blotter – Check Forger Drains Bank Account
Crime Blotter for February 19th through the 25th. Residential Burglary: On February 19, 2013 at 12:00 am, officers responded to the 6000 block of Canterbury Drive regarding a burglary investigation. The officers met with the victim who told them the following; she left her residence at 4:00 pm and when she returned at 10:30 pm and discovered her living room window was opened and her property [...]
Dear Editor – Remembering Dave Sanchez as a Game Changing Teacher
Dear Editor, There are some teachers who play such a central role in your life that you remember them 20, 30, even 40 years later. When you look back at the trajectory of your life, you can imagine everything turning out completely different, but for that person’s influence. It is one of the reasons why I choose a teacher. When I was in elementary school at El Rincon here in Culver City, [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
(Steve Rose didn’t say this, but we will) The Backstage Bar & Grill, located at 10400 Culver Blvd. will be hosting the Culver City Chamber of Commerce February Business After Hours Mixer on Wednesday, February 27. But did you know that the Backstage is known as one of the best dive bars in the area? Ben Myron, owner of the Backstage, invites all Culver City Chamber members and guests to [...]
Weissman Working With Redevelopment Projects Still on Deck
With Tilden Terrace under way, the next affordable housing project in line for Culver City will be the Globe Avenue site, but without Redevelopment funding, it's a game of chess that the city must strategize. CaliforniaCityNews.org reports in their recent update,“Cities Continue to Struggle in Shutting Down Redevelopment.” Just over a year after the state shut down local redevelopment [...]
State Recommends Disbarment for Local Lawyer
The State Bar of California has recommended disbarment for Culver City attorney Gregory Stannard concluding that the amount of money he took from clients outweighed the emotional problems he was suffering at the time. The bar's appeals department, in two February 7 opinions, found both that Gregory Fulton Stannard, a solo practitioner in Culver City, Calif., and Karl Werner Schoth, formerly at [...]
LaRose to Read Seuss for a Birthday Storytime on March 5
Superintendent Dave LaRose will help the Culver City Friends of the Library celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss by reading "The Cat in the Hat" at a special storytime event. The event will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5 at Culver City Julian Dixon Library at 4975 Overland Avenue. Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do . . . until a giant [...]
Muddy Leek Opening for Brunch Feb. 22
One of Culver City’s newest culinary destinations, the Muddy Leek is debuting their brunch menu. Kicking off this Saturday, February 22nd from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Chef Whitney Flood will now be serving up a “from scratch” menu (read: farm-to-table) to please even the pickiest of LA brunchers. Some standouts include: Quiche with Leeks, Spinach and Fontina Fried Chicken & Waffles [...]
Spelling Bee Champ Komatsu Will Advance to County Competition
Cooper Komatsu stood tall and confidently spelled the word L-E-X-I-C-O-L-O-G-Y to take home the Eighth Annual Culver City Unified School District Spelling Bee title on February 20 at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School. The fifth-grader from El Marino Language School finished atop 23 other spellers – four students from each of the district’s five elementary schools and Culver City Middle School [...]
CCEF Gives Out the Goodies and Thanks the Givers
The Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) is pleased to announce the following grant awards to fund eight CCUSD projects at our elementary, middle and high schools. Eno Interactive Whiteboard Technology for CCHS geometry classes A digital piano to enhance music education at El Marino Books for Linwood Howe as part of their library renovation project Expenses for two of our CCMS teachers [...]
