Stimulating enthusiasm for problem-solving and mathematics, a retired UCLA professor leads 48 Linwood Howe School students into the last of five national problem-solving rounds this week in the Mathematics Olympiad.
The top 12 local students will advance, May 3, to the County finals.
Some 150,000 fourth through eighth grade students from 5,000 teams worldwide have participated in the competition, which has been held monthly since November.
With the City Council campaign for three open seats about to enter its final month, Andy Weissman, the pole-to-pole favorite, unofficially has raised more than twice as much money as his nearest of eight rivals.
Factoring in the $8,000-plus that Mr. Weissman took in at a fundraiser last Saturday night, he has raised more than $35,000 in the race that climaxes on Election Day, Tuesday, April 8.
Officially, Mr. Weissman counted $27,507 in donations at the Feb. 23 deadline for the latest financial filing period that started on Jan. 1.
Dutton’s — the hottest name in Los Angeles bookstores — days away from closing down permanently on San Vicente Boulevard, may yet be resuscitated and re-open in Culver City.
That is a heavy “may,” Culver City says.
“We are hopeful,” Todd Tipton, Redevelopment Administrator for the Community Development Dept., told the newspaper this afternoon.
Promising the first true debate of the election season, the Culver Crest Neighborhood Assn. has invited all nine of the City Council candidates to a forum next week.
All nine have accepted, and they said they plan to attend.
The debate will be at the Crest Association’s next general meeting, on Thursday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m., at El Rincon School in the Cafetorium.
City Clerk Christopher Armenta, a candidate for the City Council, is delighted that Karen Bass has been elected California’s new Speaker of the Assembly.
Ms. Bass has endorsed him in the April 8 election.
Ms. Bass, who has been a strong supporter of Armenta’s campaign since the beginning last year, now will have one of the most important positions in the state’s government.
The ghost of City Councilman Gary Silbiger must have been roaming the Radisson Hotel Thursday night when all nine candidates for the City Council assembled for a forum sponsored by the Fox Hills Neighborhood Assn.
Odd and narrow-specialty questions — on subjects that only and vociferously have been championed by Mr. Silbiger — dominated the gentle interrogation of the office-seekers.
They answered formfully in most cases. Hardly any differences were detected among them in the final forum until March 13.
Resembling undertakers more than anything else, the development team that thought up the hotly disputed Entrada Office Tower building at the southern edge of Culver City, dramatically filed into Council Chambers — as a body, so to speak — Wednesday evening.
Was it a psychological game intended to intimidate?
There were about 15 of them.
They looked uncommonly imposing, especially because the room was empty.
Following tonight’s 6:30 Candidates Forum at the Radisson Hotel, here is where you will find five of the City Council contenders — Cary Anderson, Jeff Cooper, Andy Weissman, Loni Anderson and Christopher Armenta — in the next few days:
Cary Anderson
On Saturday afternoon, the blue-collar candidate Mr. Anderson will host his first Meet and Greet session at his home, 4214 Irving Pl., just south of Towne Plaza, between 12 noon and 3 o’clock.
The entire Anderson family — his wife Tina and 11-year-old daughter Jacqueline — will welcome visitors, who will be served coffee and other refreshments.
William Yates stood tall last Monday night and confidently spelled the word c-o-l-l-a-b-o-r-a-t-e to take home the third annual School District Spelling Bee title at Robert Frost Auditorium.
A fifth-grader at El Marino Language School, young Yates finished atop 23 other spellers — four students from each of the District's five elementary schools and the Middle School competed.
William took home a first-place trophy and a $250 savings bond courtesy of Westfield Fox Hills, which sponsored the event.
At the request of city officials, we are announcing that there will not be a candlelight march down Culver Boulevard this evening honoring Fidel Castro. The information in the first paragraph of the Editor’s Essay below (“Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You, All Hail Caesar Castro”) is merely a spoof.
