[Editor’s Note: Dr. Hoult spoke these words at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.] Honorable Mayor O’Leary and City Council members, This past weekend as we celebrated Memorial Day, Charley and I walked through our neighborhood and into Carlson Park. As we looked at the sign and the marker on the corner, we thought about the man in whose memory our … Read More
Hold Me? Hold You? It’s Toddler Time
Dateline Boston — I am a nanny in charge of a 6 ½-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. I love my job. It’s fun, entertaining, and never dull. Most of the time, I’m with my 2-year-old, Theo. I don’t need a gym membership — I run around constantly chasing after Theo, lugging the stroller up and down stairs, lifting him … Read More
Goldberg Pessimistic About Air Solution
Mr. Reynolds with Nancy Goldberg, former School Board member.
Re: “Cleansing the El Marino Air – Not” School Board President Nancy Goldberg seemed exasperated. “This discussion can go on forever,” she said after Chapter 398 played out at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting in the community debate over the filthy 405 Freeway air that silkily slides onto the adjacent El Marino Language School campus. And contaminates. Safety breathing measures … Read More
This Is a Risky Business
Is this what the air around El Marino feels like? Photo: Tammy Sue / publicdomainimages.net
I have heard our superintendent, Mr. LaRose, say many times that the health and safety of our students is the School District’s No. 1 priority. I believe him. And yet, our School Board does not seem too concerned over the time El Marino Language School students are spending outside playing, even while toxic particulates continue to rain down on them from … Read More
Trapped in Prison for 12 Years
This used to be a signal day in our home, Pop’s birthday. For all of his softly aimed periodic bluster, Pop was a gentleman of modesty, a characteristic he, the oldest in his family, failed to convey to his eldest child. I kept resisting until it was too late. Six years ago this month we lost Pop, and I do … Read More
Daily Breaks School Record in CIF Finals
With additional reporting by George Laase. The Culver City High School track and field teams capped a banner year last Saturday when senior Joylyn Daily set a school record in the girls 200 meter dash at the CIF Finals at Cerritos College, Norwalk. Her time, 24.24, placed her third in the Division 2 of the finals. Of 36 runners in … Read More
Darla Pulliam Is Rewarded
Darla Pulliam
Re: “Darla Pulliam, Pre-School Teacher of Year – Second Time” The Los Angeles Universal Preschool yesterday honored Darla Pulliam of Culver City as one of five Preschool Teacher of the Year award winners. The countywide preschool teacher recognition acknowledges the quality, creativity and hard work of those who teach children during a time when, according to researchers, rapid brain development … Read More
Cleansing the El Marino Air — Not
They wrestled with the dreaded speckled air that engulfs and troubles El Marino Language School at last night’s School Board meeting, and the air won. Or at least it did not lose. Further talk about potentially difficult breathing for students and grownups who are on campus, near the dirt-spewing San Diego Freeway every day. But no further decisions. “As I … Read More
Poetry: Lotus Pond – 1. The Secret of Crossroads
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
[Author’s Note: Poetry is in the air and, as a lapsed poet, it seems like an opportune moment to reconnect with an art form that has felt rather distant from me over the past few years. This is the first in a series of poems, still in progress.] Lotus Pond 1. The Secret of Crossroads Silvered stillness; ruin paints … Read More
UCLA Prof Makes It a Clean Sweep
Prof. Saree Makdisi
Re: “You Never Are Right. I Never Am Wrong” UCLA Prof. Saree Makdisi awkwardly applied rhetorical schizophrenia yesterday in a Los Angeles Times essay on the incendiary subject of when or if criticism of Israel amounts to anti-Semitism. He reminded me of the practicing thief who visits your home under the guise of public service and demonstrates how to protect … Read More