Re: “Centennial’s Opening Day”
The Centennial Committee intends to reverse the hands of the clock for Opening Day of Culver City’s Centennial Year, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016.
“We are planning to kick off that day with a parade,” says Jim Clarke, the City Councilman who is at the top of the Centennial Committee.
Parades in Culver City are as common today as horse-drawn wagons delivering milk.
“We will be encouraging every organization that provides services or is located in culver City to have people march in the parade,” said Mr. Clarke, who is an old-fashioned, and traditional, kind of guy.
“This will provide two advantages: One, it will showcase all of the great organizations that exist here in Culver City. Two, it creates a crowd for us for the opening ceremony because then the people will finish at the parade.
“As for the route, it either will be from City Hall down to The Culver Hotel, or it might be a longer route, something that would start at Media Park and go down Washington Boulevard, past the Kirk Douglas Theatre.”
Mr. Clarke said that specially invited guests will include the four mayors from Culver City’s four Sister Cities, Gov. Brown, the two U.S. senators, “whatever dignitaries we can get.”
Meanwhile the Centennial Committee will meet at 7 this evening in the ground-floor Dan Patacchia Room at City Hall.
