Our country is in the midst of an incredible political upswing.
A record number of people chose to vote in the last presidential election, and many are choosing to pay close attention to the political issues of the day, especially the war in Iraq.
However, Culver City must have missed the memo.
During the 2005-2006 election season, 6 municipal offices were on the ballot (2 City Council seats, 3 School Board seats, and the City Clerk’s office).
[Editor’s Note: After Pfc. Andrew Smith, son of one present and one former Culver City police officer, was shot and wounded last week in Iraq, his uncle a lifetime military man, penned this loving tribute.]
Like most of the young, you had to wonder if he would ever make it to adulthood.
So poor is the reputation of the multi-property-owning Woo brothers in the Washington-Centinela neighborhood that:
One resident accused them of making up a story in order to duck even a cameo appearance last night in Council Chambers.
It was explained that the matriarch of the Woo family, the brothers’ mother, is hospitalized. The Council Chambers’ crowd was told that all 4 of the brothers were visiting their mother’s sick bed.
Instead of facing a sure chorus of bitter critics, the brothers dispatched 2 proxies.
During fierce urban combat fighting last Thursday in Iraq, U.S. Army Pfc. Andrew Smith, whose father is a Culver City police officer and whose mother formerly was an officer, suffered 3 gunshot wounds.
Not seriously injured, he is listed in “stable condition” in an Iraqi hospital as he recuperates from wounds believed to have been caused by an AK-47.
The Redevelopment Agency tonight will be asked to take the first ominous step toward dramatically rearranging the face of the Washington-National triangle.
In anticipation of the arrival, some years from now, of the light rail complex from downtown Los Angeles to Culver City the Agency will vote tonight on awarding a demolition contract to a City of Industry firm, ATE Environmental, for $294,500.
[Editor’s Note: See 3 earlier stories, “Night-time Gas Routs Crest Residents,” Jan. 19, ’06, and 2 from this year, “PXP Has Angered Culver Crest Residents Once Again,” Jan. 4, and “PXP, Pleading Innocence, ‘Apologizes Profusely’ to Culver Crest Residents,” Jan. 5.]
Fed up with the latest act of alleged deception by an oil drilling company that has become its chief antagonizer, the board of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Assn. yesterday threatened legal action.
For the past 60 days, said board President Mark Salkin, Crest leaders have been pressing a state agency to compel the oil company to pass rigid environmental tests before unleashing its next nearby expansion project.
The sun was grinning puckishly above Metal Art at 8829 Exposition Blvd., late yesterday afternoon when a visitor approached the front door.
Before knocking, the visitor presumed the heavily pressured proprietor, Patrick Vorceak, would reflect the smile from the sky.
It was announced last Monday in thefrontpageonline.com, by the city’s attorney, that City Hall had agreed to pay the owner his price for seizing and closing down his business to accommodate light rail plans by MTA sometime in the future.
Attempting to be culturally and religiously sensitive about which day will be reserved for Culver City’s 90th birthday party at the end of summer, City Hall staffers identified Sunday, Sept. 23.
They are planning a film festival illuminating Culver City’s rich role in motion picture history.
Susan Obrow, the professional maven of the Cultural Affairs Dept., said at last night’s City Council meeting that Sunday the 23rd seemed to be a propitious choice. It is the day after Yom Kippur.
