Mike Cohen

Supporting the growth of youth volleyball participation in Culver City, Marty Siegal, former Centaur volleyball head coach and athletic director, is recruiting volleyball coaches...

A longstanding resident of Culver City, where she raised five children on Wagner Street in the Vets Park neighborhood, Betty Gutierrez died fittingly on...

On Thanksgiving Day, Culver City Lions Club members and their families served free meals to 250 senior citizens, at the Senior Center. Lion officer Elliot Heffler chaired the annual charitable event, and club President Dick Sharpe prepared ...

Enjoy entertainment and fare from local restaurants when you dust off your red shoes and click your heels at the Senior Center, Friday, March 22, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., to Follow the Yellow Brick Road, presented by the Culver City Rotary Club for youth-serving programs.

Stimulating enthusiasm for problem-solving and mathematics, a retired UCLA professor leads 48 Linwood Howe School students into the last of five national problem-solving rounds this week in the Mathematics Olympiad.

The top 12 local students will advance, May 3, to the County finals.

Some 150,000 fourth through eighth grade students from 5,000 teams worldwide have participated in the competition, which has been held monthly since November.

Garnering the highest honor in the past five decades to a Culver City real estate agent by a regional realtor association, Dannie Cavanaugh received the William May Garland Award last week at the annual Beverly Hills-Greater Los Angeles Board of Realtors Induction Banquet.

Thirty elementary students at Linwood Howe School earned solid scores and special designations as ‘Mathletes’ in the first round of the Mathematics Olympiad held recently on their Irving Place campus. The international competition attracts 150,000 students, fourth graders through eighth graders, from 5,000 worldwide teams. Dr. Jason Frand, a recently retired professor and assistant dean at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is the volunteer coach and coordinator of the program. “For their first ever competition, these youngsters performed beyond our expectations,” said Prof. Frand, a Culver City resident. Explaining that the objective of the project is to demonstrate that math can be fun and exciting, the professor added that “we are proud of their achievement.” The overall goals of the program are to stimulate enthusiasm for problem- solving and for mathematics, to deepen understanding of mathematical concepts, and to explore concepts that might not otherwise be encountered, Prof. Frand said. Significantly, the focus is on critical thinking, not arithmetic skills.