Culver Citizen

Culver businesses hope to enhance shopping local with 3/50 initiative

May 16, 2012

Jeff Kenney

Several local Culver business owners gathered at the Culver Coffee Company last week to discuss -- and hopefully plan for formal launch of -- a nationwide initiative to enhance, support, and strengthen small, local businesses, many of which are the backbone of the Culver community.

Julie Brooks, co-owner (with Julie Workman) of Civvies on Main Street, said she first learned of the "3/50 Project" (the350project.net) while researching best practices for a small business, during the planning stages of Civvies.

Culver 6th graders' brush with the bard

May 16, 2012

Jeff Kenney

A longtime Monterey Elementary School tradition continued recently at Culver Elementary School when students performed in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” onstage in the gymnasium. Directed by 6th grade teacher Todd Shafer, in his first year at Culver Elementary from MES, the play continued the annual pattern of an “updated” and shortened version of the play, punctuated by humor and narration explaining the story.

Crowd favorites, says Shafer, included Cody Rieckhoff as Sir Toby Belch, Caleb Sheridan as Malvolio, and Payton Lowry as the jester, Feste.

Culver's Hanselman talks iPads at Apple California

May 14, 2012

Culver Citizen

Culver Comm. High School principal Albert Hanselman was invited by the Apple company to its world headquarters in Cupertino, California, from April 10 through 12, to present to the company as well as educators from Illinois and Minnesota about the school's work with the iPad 2 computer device.

"Albert was very excited about the opportunity for this experience," notes CCHS secretary Sandy Thomas. "He presented on Tuesday evening, our time, and again Thursday morning before returning home."

Crittendon updates Kiwanians on band uniforms

May 13, 2012

Jeff Kenney

Culver Comm. High School band director Jason Crittendon stopped by Culver's Kiwanis Club recently to update members on his efforts to secure funding for a mass replacement of band uniforms currently a quarter-century old.

Crittendon, director at the school since 2007, and the former band director in Logansport -- where the winter drum line made it to state-level competition ten times under his leadership -- noted band uniforms are typically replaced after 15 years.

Mitzell receives Morehead-Cain Scholarship

May 13, 2012

Culver Citizen

Culver Academies senior Channing “Jack” Mitzell has been awarded a Morehead-Cain Scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall. Mitzell is Culver’s 46th recipient and the first since 2006. He is the son of Channing and Sallie Jo Mitzell, of Westfield, Ind.

Culver Citizen

Culver businesses hope to enhance shopping local with 3/50 initiative

May 16, 2012

Culver 6th graders' brush with the bard

May 16, 2012

Culver's Hanselman talks iPads at Apple California

May 14, 2012

Crittendon updates Kiwanians on band uniforms

May 13, 2012

Mitzell receives Morehead-Cain Scholarship

May 13, 2012

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