Saundra Davis, unchallenged as the fashion leader of the School Board for the past six years, made a striking return to good health at last night’s meeting.
The combination of her vividly cranberry suit and natural good looks set her apart from the swarms of people squeezing into the Board Room at School District Headquarters for the new member Installation Ceremony.
Intriguingly, a question looms as to how long Ms. Davis will serve with the newly constituted Board.
Last night’s Installation Ceremony at the regularly scheduled School Board meeting was one of those Who’s Who occasions when Culver City’s luminous lights came to celebrate.
When candidates for public office are in the audience, you can believe this is the place to be, and to be seen.
Park Century School will break ground on its new campus at a ceremony beginning at 1:30 on Friday, at the site, 3939 Landmark St., Culver City.
The non-profit, independent, co-educational day school, founded in1968 is converting an existing 37,000-square-foot warehouse-style building into a campus that includes 11 classrooms, nine group rooms, 13 independent study rooms and a gymnasium.
The sudden death last weekend of Rudy Valverde, a much loved parent, soccer aficionado and booster of Culver City High School, still has the campus reeling.
Funeral services are pending, according to officials.
Mr. Valverde was a father of three children, two in college and one a student at the high school.
Friends say the family can use monetary donations, and the high school is pitching in directly.
Checks may be made out to “Katherine Valverde,” the widow.
They should be sent to:
Culver City High School
Attn. Ms. Margaret Fujisawa
44011 Elenda St.
Culver City 90230
In the words of City Councilman Scott Malsin, a blanket prohibition on smoking “is not a burning issue in Culver City.”
Further, said Vice Mayor Carol Gross, the matter is so inconsequential to residents that not a single one bothered to stop by last night’s City Council meeting to comment.
Garnering the highest honor in the past five decades to a Culver City real estate agent by a regional realtor association, Dannie Cavanaugh received the William May Garland Award last week at the annual Beverly Hills-Greater Los Angeles Board of Realtors Induction Banquet.
The Deputy District Attorney prosecuting a National Guard soldier for the late-summer murder of Joanne Crystal Harris at the Culver City Armory announced this morning he had filed an additional “special circumstances” charge.
In one of today’s two major developments in the homicide, this will change everything for Sgt. Scott Alan Ansman if he is found guilty.
In the process of explaining how Culver City climbed one of its most elusive mountains a week ago today, gaining the needed $50 million in funding for an elevated light rail station, Steve Cunningham made an eye-catching observation.
[Editor’s Note: Second of two parts. See “Inspecting the Hayden Project from the Builders’ Perspective,” Nov. 29.]
“Even though there are people in the Hayden Tract who support our project, we want the rest of the neighbors to know that we are definitely listening to the criticism,” says Greg Reitz, a Culver City developer who is planning a four-story office building at the end of Hayden Place, 8665.
[Editor’s Note” Second of three parts. See “Cunningham, the Optimist on How and Why Metro Board Got the
Vote Right,” Dec. 4.]
Seeking to deflect credit that has been sprayed on him by appreciative colleagues since last Thursday’s Metro Board vote on funding for an elevated light rail station, Culver City Transportation Director Steve Cunningham said this week the bouquets should be shared.
