Garth Sanders

The Culver City Little League 11-12-year-old All-Star team had a successful start in their “Road to Williamsport” quest, defeating rival Beverly Hills, 9 to 5, on Sunday afternoon before a capacity crowd at Bill Botts Field.

The Culver City 11-12-yearold Little League All Star team begins “The Road to Williamsport” with the District 25 All-Star championship tournament, starting this weekend at Bill Botts field.

Along the same lines as the 1969 New York Mets World Series victory over the Baltimore Orioles and heavyweight Buster Douglas’s knockout of Mike Tyson, comes Ian Drummond and his double victory on Saturday evening in the third annual Culver City High School Booster Club Bowling Tournament.

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The Culver City Democratic Club is sponsoring a four-person panel to explore energy alternatives at Wednesday’s 7 o’clock monthly meeting in the Rotunda Room at the Vets Auditorium.

Making the biggest splash of the year across Downtown, the eighth annual edition of George Barris’s “Cruisin’ Back to the Fifties” Car Show opens Saturday morning at 9 with classic, historic automobiles on display.

Farragut Elementary School's annual Artworks! fundraiser netted $34,000 for arts programming at the school, making a significant amount over last year’s net revenue. Farragut Elementary School is designated as the arts and technology school within the Culver City Unified School District. Funds raised this year will provide all Farragut students next school year with a continuation and expansion of visual, music and theater arts programming.

Since Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s voluminous health reform law, two Los Angeles Democratic Congresspersons, Henry Waxman and Karen Bass, are scheduled to headline a self-congratulatory program this morning at Cedars-Sinai.

A funeral mass celebrating the life of Jacqueline Gay McCandless will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Augustine Catholic Church with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Jackie Hawkins, a medical technologist for 40 years at the Brotman Medical Center and the wife of the journalist Ross Hawkins, died on Monday. She was 73 years old.