LOCALmotion by Jozelle Smith
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
The Culver City After School Recreation Program (CCARP) began its recycling contest on Earth Day, April 22, 2013. All of the after-school programs are competing in a contest to see which site can collect the most CRV recyclable plastic bottles and aluminum cans. CCARP - Linwood Howe Elementary has taken an early lead with 315 recyclables collected. CCARP students have collected recyclables from [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
The Culver City Chamber of Commerce’s “Good Morning, Culver City,” a network connection breakfast held monthly, takes place this Wednesday, May 15 from 7:44 - 9:00 a.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5990 Green Valley Circle. Participants (Chamber members only, please) have a great opportunity to build their network, market themselves and their business, hand out brochures and flyers, [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
Even with working down to the last minute on this Saturday’s “Cruisin’ Back to the ‘50’s” Car Show, the Culver City Exchange Club still managed have past president Earl Eskridge conduct the election for the 2013-2014 Club Officers. Congratulations go to President – Michelle Ford; President Elect – Dr Jay Shery; Vice President – Dr. Vince Punturere; Sergeant at Arms – Mike [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
Get ready for the Tenth Annual “Cruisin’ Back to the 50’s” Culver City Car Show, coming up on Saturday, May 11 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in Downtown Culver City. More than 400 classic cars and hot rods will be on display and it’s not just a “guy thing” (well…you will see a lot of car dudes of all ages there); there will be lots of vendors plus live music throughout Downtown. [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
History in the making! City Historian Julie Lugo Cerra is a proud grandmother for the second time with the April 11 birth of Miss Samantha Cerra Lachoff, daughter of Michele and Kevin Lachoff, and little sister to Nicholas Lachoff. Samantha has a special connection to a lot of grandfathers - Her great grandfather was Sam Schultz, her grandfather was Sam Cerra, she also had a great grandpa Sol and [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
It’s this Monday, April 8th! That’s the monthly meeting of the Culver City Rock and Mineral Club, set for 7:30 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Veterans Memorial Building (enter from the rear). This month’s program, “Buying Minerals,” can be more accurately described as “Everything you needed to know – but your mother wouldn’t tell you – about buying mineral specimens!” [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
The Culver City Exchange Club’s 5K raffle is this Tuesday evening, April 2nd, at 6:00 p.m. at the Elks Lodge --the club will be dark for lunch that day. Always a lot of fun – and profitable for the winners – the event features dinner plus a silent auction with lots of terrific prizes. Past President Mike Fate’s birthday is coming up and it must be a big one – wife Francia’s having a [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
Oh, yum – the Culver City Chamber of Commerce’s March “Business After Hours” Mixer will be at Copenhagen Pastry. Owner Karen Hansen offers an authentic taste of Denmark (translation: butter, sugar and flour) in recipes that the Danes have been baking for centuries. We know locals who were born in Denmark who rave over Karen’s products, so they must be good! Chamber members can look [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
It was an especially boisterous crowd that turned out at Boulevard Music’s Open Mic Night on last Sunday. Who were all those noisy folks? The crowd was overrun with Culver-Palms Family YMCA members there to cheer on Mallory Lowe, who has worked as a Fitness Counselor for the Y for nearly seven years. Mallory, who has many music and TV credits to her name, performed three numbers to whistles and [...]
LOCALmotion – Jozelle Smith
Is it possible that Spring Break is almost here? Parents, if you’d like to have your offSPRING have something fun , interesting and educational to do while school is out, how about Spring Day Camp at the Culver-Palms Family YMCA? Week 1, ‘Spring Fling Swing,’ will run March 25–29 at the Y’s Palms Elementary School site. Week 2, ‘Time Machine’ will meet April 1-5 at the Culver-Palms [...]
