Culver Citizen

Elkay-Medallion plant boasts upgraded facility, new production horizons

March 2, 2013

Chances are, most Culver residents drive with some regularity by the Elkay (Medallion, if you're looking at the sign) factory at the corner of West Mill Street and State Road 17, oblivious to the fact that the plant churns out some 650 cabinets -- some custom made -- each day for national vendors like Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, and Sears, employing some 260 workers. They're also one of the few plants in American which can run both traditional and frameless cabinets on the same line, at the level they do, thanks to an "extreme assembly makeover" at the factory last July.

Meet Culver park’s new activities director

February 26, 2013

After much planning and discussion over the past year or more, Culver's parks and recreation department now boasts a programming director, in addition to the role of park superintendent Kelly Young.

Already on the job and conceiving programs, activities, and events is Donna McKee, who arrived in Culver seveen years ago along with her family when husband David's job relocated them from Michigan. The McKees have two sons, Dylan (3rd grade) and Derek (1st grade) in the Culver Elementary School, who Donnas says "keep me very active."

Chamber hears proposal to combine Culver museum, visitor’s center

February 20, 2013

Members of a Culver museum steering committee shared a vision they hope will address two of what they feel are Culver's needs -- that of a dedicated center to act as a "one stop shop" for visitors to the community seeking any and all information about Culver, and that of a center preserving the stories of Culver's past -- with the Culver Chamber of Commerce last week.

Williams was among first black students at CMA

February 10, 2013

The first African-American students to attend Culver Academies enrolled in 1965, when a student from Gary, Ind., and a gifted scholarship student from Watts (Los Angeles) enrolled as a sophomore and freshman, respectively.

Then-superintendent Gen. Delmar T. Spivey, according to an article in the summer, 1987 Culver Alumni magazine on the school's black student history, had said prior to the 1965 school year, "Our policy has always been that when a qualified black student applies, he will be admitted," and without fanfare, added the superintendent -- which was just what happened.