George Laase

After all the long hours and hard work they put into their summer practices, going undefeated in Ocean League play, receiving the top-seed in the CIF Southern Section’s Division 3AA and making it to the semi-finals, Culver City High School’s girls volleyball team hopes to have its season extended. Our Lady Centaurs, not ready to rest on this season’s accomplishments, hope their efforts will be rewarded with...

Culver City High School’s road to a CIF volleyball championship ended last night in the semi-finals at Windward School. As the Lady Centaurs came out of the locker room, they received a rousing ovation from their supporters. Students and parents acknowledged a thrilling ride through the Southern Section Division 3AA playoffs that became a straight set loss to the Wildcats, 25-20, 25-19, 25-22.

One thing you can count on when you read a Gary Abrams. He never will let the facts get in the way of his writing. If they do, he will re-envision it his own way! You don’t have to read very long before arriving at his first exaggeration. At the end of his first paragraph, he says 70 percent of our Title One students are receiving subsidized lunches. If only that were true.

Startled on Election Night when the entire three-person slate by United Parents of Culver City won seats on the School Board, I was curious about the answer to two questions, I posed during the campaign. Would Sue Robins ultimately turn out to be grateful to the UPCC? Or would the UPCC be grateful to her for accepting their endorsement?

Culver City High School’s girls volleyball team advanced to Tuesday’s semifinals at Windward by sweeping three consecutive sets from Valley View on Friday. None was close, 25-19, 25-13 and 25-18.

Here is dessert for those who enjoy plunging deeply into the data of last week’s School Board election, probing for reasons their favorite candidates succeeded.

Gaining a perspective on last week’s School Board election when Dr. Steve Levin and Sue Robins claimed seats, and Kathy Paspalis was re-elected for a second term.

More than $68K was raised cumulatively by the seven candidates for this week’s three-seat race for the School Board. That figures out to about $17 per ballot of the 4,018 total that were mailed in early and cast on Election Day.

Yesterday’s election was the first time in our community we have had two distinct slates of candidates, one by United Parents of Culver City and one led by School Board member Karlo Silbiger.

If Mr. Silbiger doesn’t finish at the top of the polls, it would be like a political tsunami going through Culver City. The youngest, most politically savvy educator ever to sit on our School Board, he is finishing up his doctorate in education at UCLA. He understands education policy, front and back. For that alone, he deserves to be re-elected.