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Ballona Creek Clean Up – Save the Date
We have a unique and amazing resource in Culver City, and your support makes all the difference. Join with the Ballona Creek Renaissance to keep good things happening along the creek and throughout its watershed--the 130-sq.-mi. Westside area that drains through the creek from the hills to the bay. Ballona Creek Cleanup will be Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9am-noon. Once again, BCR will be [...]
Malsin Warns Against Benefit Shift
One of the greatest distinctions between Culver City and surrounding areas is the quality of service we enjoy. That quality of service is being jeopardized by a policy the City is pursuing that can - and should - be changed. The City has offered its current retiree medical benefit plan for years. In an effort to reduce a financial liability created over several decades, the City Council is [...]
Rotary Club Gives Supplies to Schools
With classroom budgets being trimmed more every day, Culver City Rotarians have stepped up to the plate. The club obtained a wish list from each school and donated more than $1,000 worth of copy paper, pens, pencils, glue, protractors, rulers, crayons, markers, notebooks and scissors. The supplies will be divided among the five elementary schools in the Culver City Unified School District. The [...]
Just A Thought – A Moment on the Shore
I love to fly into Los Angeles at night. As my plane approaches, the gorgeous grid of lights and colors, it feels as if I’m coming into something so vast and so magical that I become larger and more enchanted just by arriving. The beauty of this vision from the windows rarely carries me through the terminal, the baggage claim or the cab-stand, but it’s a moment I love. The post-vacation [...]
CSA Needs a New Home- You Can Help
You love fresh produce? You love being part of a community that cares about the planet ? South Central Farmers CSA (Community Sustainable Agriculture) is in need of a new distribution venue. The CSA has a temporary location for September, but needs a long-term new home. They are looking for someone who would allow the CSA to leave veggie boxes on their porch or driveway every Saturday morning for [...]
Zeidman Goes Bowling for a Fun-raiser
As part of the Re-Elect Zeidman to the Culver City School Board campaign, there will be a bowling party that will double as a small fundraiser. Gardena Bowl (it’s really not that far) is hosting the event. (Incidentally, there are no bowling centers in Culver City, as Mar Vista Lanes is in Los Angeles, and Jefferson Bowl closed two decades ago, or Zeidman certainly would have picked a CC [...]
Crime Blotter – Alarms Ring
Crime Blotter for August 16th through August 22nd. Stolen Car: On August 16, 2011 at 8:20 pm, a victim called the police department to report his 1993 Honda was stolen. The victim said he parked and locked his vehicle in the 3400 block of Helms Avenue on August 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm. He returned the next day at 10:00 am and discovered his vehicle missing. Commercial Burglary: On August 17, [...]
CCEF Launches Million Dollar Campaign
Public schools are free. Great public schools are not. Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) is launching a $1 million dollar fundraising campaign, “All for 1”, kicking off this weekend at Fiesta La Ballona, August 27th and 28th. The campaign goal is to unite the community of Culver City to raise $1 million dollars to benefit all Culver City schools in 30 days. In 2009, the [...]
Culver Chamber of Commerce Celebrates 90 Years
It's all here in black and white- The Culver City Chamber of Commerce is celebrating its first 90 years of promoting commerce in Culver City. This Wednesday, August 24 there will be a special event at Westfield Culver City. Sony Pictures Entertainment has agreed to be the name sponsor. Dress is "business" (always fashionable with the Chamber) in your finest black or white attire. Eight [...]
Fresh From the Farm – Katie Malich
Zucchini is available at Southern California farmers market year round, thanks to our temperate climate. But anyone with a backyard garden knows that August is the peak season for zucchini and other summer squash varieties. Shoppers at the Culver City farmers market can find round “8-ball” zucchini, a variety developed in the 1990's, and pattypan (scallop) squash. Yellow zucchini retains the [...]
