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We Soon Will Turn 100. You Not Only Are Invited –...
[Editor’s Note: The City Councilman, in the second month of his first full term, is energized to launch Culver City’s centennial celebration.] Early Tuesday morning, my colleagues on the City Council approved the establishment of the Culver City Centennial Celebration Committee (a 501c3 non-profit organization) to help with the planning, carrying out and coordinating of projects, events and activities for our city's centennial. It will culminate on Sept. 20, 2017. The first business is to ...
Harry Culver’s I Have a Dream Speech
Editor’s Note: Emulating Harry Hazel Culver on the 100th anniversary of his I Have a Dream-style speech that Culver City’s Founding Father gave to the California Club, downtown Los Angeles, City Councilman Jim Clarke was sterling last evening. As the Los Angeles Times once described July 22, 1913, “smooth-talking Harry H. Culver plunked down $2,000 for 93 acres of barley fields between Los Angeles and the seashore and started a city. Culver, a real estate developer, saw the area where the old train tracks crossed Washington Boulevard as ‘the neck of the bottle where everything had to come through,’ according to a local history.”
Bond Delay Will Harm Perception and Reality of Culver Schools
As a candidate for the City Council last year, I made a point of talking to residents, whether door-to-door or at candidate forums and coffees, about the advantages Culver City offers, and why it is such a great place to live and work. We have...
Councilman Clarke’s CicLAvia Letter for All Residents
Editor’s Note: Here is the letter City Councilman Jim Clarke is circulating to residents after volunteering to help fundraise for a unique street event coming to Culver City five weeks from Sunday.