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The setting sun illuminates the American and California flags on a cold evening in Claremont. Followinglast weeks rain, it has remained clear but cool in Claremont with no additional precipitation in sight. Theweekend temperatures are expected to hit the high-70s, with a warming trend next week.

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Lex to the rescueDear Editor:

In my line of work, I regularly respondto collisions involving bicycles. They canbe traumatic. On a recent solo bicyclecollision (rider vs. pavement), the rider

sustained significant facial injuries.Upon my arrival, Mellissa Martinez

(Lex in the City) was providing supportand basic first aid to the downed rider.She was at the scene before first respon-ders and did everything right. She is anevery-day hero.

Officer Nick MartinezClaremont Police Department

[Editors note: Mellissa Martinez and NickMartinez are not related. KD]

Whats with the water?Dear Editor:

I would like to poll COURIER readersto learn if anyone else in Claremont isexperiencing a bad taste in their water?

I contacted Golden State Water over amonth ago, and they indicated that theyhave no other complaints but sent out arep to take a sample.

The results indicated there was noproblem, however, the results did notshow a test for the taste I was getting andstill am. Golden State suggested it wasmy house pipes, which have been com-pletely updated. I spoke to immediate

neighbors and they indicate they are alsogetting a strong taste.

I am purposely not describing the ac-tual taste so no one is influenced. But, Iam curious if any one else is having thisissue. Debbie Pass

Claremont

A packed houseDear Editor:

The Claremont Symphony 2016 Con-cert for Youth on January 23 had ourlargest childrens concert audience ever,with well over 500 adults and children ofall ages.

The hall was full with very few vacantseats, as Little Bridges was full with chil-dren and their families.

I know that both the listing in your cal-endar section and the Claremont Kidssection news brief, along with the HarryPotter owl puzzle, contributed signifi-cantly to this years impressive increasein attendance.

As a nonprofit totally dependent uponindividual contributions, we operate on alimited budget and really appreciate thecommunity service aspect of your publi-cation. Thank you very, very much.

Cecilia CloughlyPresident

Claremont Symphony Orchestra

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READERS COMMENTS

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Agendas for city meetings are avail-able at www.ci.claremont.ca.us

GOVERNING

OURSELVES

Tuesday, February 9City CouncilCouncil Chamber, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 11City Council CommunityBudget Workshop 1Hughes Center, 6:30 p.m.1700 Danbury Road

ADVENTURESI N H A I K U

Claremont photograph

white mountain peaks, cobalt sky

snow at a distance.

Naomi Howland

Haiku submissions should reflect upon lifeor events in Claremont. Please email entriesto [email protected].

READERS COMMENTSSend readers comments via email to edi-

[email protected] or by mail orhand-delivery to 1420 N. Claremont Blvd.Ste. 205B, Claremont, CA 91711. The dead-line for submission is Tuesday at 5 p.m.Let-ters are the opinion of the writer, not areflection of the COURIER.

Removal of tree watering bagsWith the arrival of wet weather conditions, the watering

bags distributed to Claremont residents for the new ordrought-stressed trees can now be removed.

Residents should save their watering bags and be prepared

to reinstall the bags when drier conditions return. The water-ing bags should be reinstalled and filled if Claremont goesmore than one month without significant precipitation, ormore than a quarter-inch of rain for a month.

For more information, contact the Community Services

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Claremont COURIER/Friday, February 5, 201 6 3

Years after water leaksbegan springing up onTulane Road, the city

seems to be working on a solu-tion to fix the problem.

Jim Gingrich, whose property has suf-fered a slow leak for more than threeweeks, received a letter from the city onJanuary 28 outlining plans to work withGolden State Water Company (GSW) torelocate the water main further into theroad while saving the oak trees that linethe street.

Per the agreement with the city, theletter reads, Golden State Water willwork with the Citys Engineering De-partment to secure the required permitsto make certain that public property, in-cluding oak trees, traffic flow and publicaccess, are appropriately protected dur-ing construction and completion of theproject.

Ben Lewis, general manager ofGSWs Foothill district, said the project iscurrently out for bid, meaning contrac-tors are being evaluated for the project.Mr. Lewis hopes to get the bids back inthe next week.

We hope to have a contractor outthere by the end of this month, he said.

The city has been embroiled in a stale-mate with GSW amid its claim of emi-nent domain over the ownership ofClaremonts water system. Several resi-dents across the city have told theCOURIER that leaks have gone unre-paired due to the ongoing litigation.

A judge will hear the eminent domaincase on March 7.

Claremont Public Information OfficerBevin Handel confirmed that engineersfrom the city met with representativesfrom Golden State Water on January 28,but was unaware of a timetable for the

water main relocation.Ms. Handel said the city is waiting for

GSW technicians to draft up the plans,which will then be given the okay fromcity engineers, for construction to begin.

Meanwhile, leaks are still springing uparound the city, including a gusher on the500 block of Twelfth Street that sent asmall river of water down the street.

The leak emerged on Saturday, Janu-ary 30, but GSW technicians were unableto get to it until the following Mondaydue to inclement weather, according to

Mr. Lewis. Crews were seen slicing upconcrete sidewalks on Monday to get tothe source of the rupture.

The new leak is on the same block asan older leak on the corner of Twelfth andOxford Avenue, which has remained un-addressed since November 2015 and ismarked by orange pylons. Mr. Lewis saidthat leak would be more difficult to repair

without damaging or removing the treeon top of it.

We understand people want to pre-serve the tree, and we try what we can,

Mr. Lewis said. But in some cases withthe timing and the severity, sometimesyou have to take down the tree.

Meanwhile, the leak in front of MrGingrichs property continues to flow.

Its still leaking and they cant fix ituntil they get the new water main in, MrGingrich said.

But he is happy about the progress be-

tween the city and GSW. Its a goodthing, he said. Matthew Bramlett

[email protected]

Log-jam on leaks cleared, water main to be relocated

CITY NEWS

Proposed museum site to receive zone change

An inadvertent oversight by city staffduring the adoption of the citysgeneral plan in 2006 has resulted

in the need to update zoning for a numberof city properties, including the parcel onCollege Avenue that may house the pro-

posed Pomona College Museum of Art.A public hearing is set for Tuesday, February 16 whenthe planning commission will review an ordinance thataims to provide consistency between the citys GeneralPlan land use map and the separate zoning map.

There were seven sites left off when our general planwas adopted, Brian Desatnik, the citys community de-velopment director, explained. We have an obligationto make them consistent.

The ordinance will change the current zoning ofmedium-density residential at the College Avenue prop-erties to institutional educational, a designation previ-ously sought by Pomona College.

Pomona College staff went before the planning com-mission on April 7, 2015 to request the zone change forproperties at 211 and 239 N. College Avenue, but a pos-itive recommendation from the commission was nar-

rowly denied in a split 3-3 vote.A second attempt by the college was set for the April

28, 2015 council meeting, but Pomona staff pulled theitem from the agenda on the day of the meeting.

If the current ordinance is approved, the zoningchange would eliminate at least one hurdle for PomonaCollege as staff works toward the final okay to beginconstruction on the proposed museum.

Some residents and local organizations have lockedhorns with college officials over their desire to build themuseum on the west side of College Avenuea plan

some say only exacerbates the perceived evolution ofCollege creep.

Much of the public comment on the proposed mu-seum has shown overwhelming support of the concept,with location being a common point of contention.

Critics argue that the museum should stay on the eastside of College Avenue, rather than being located be-hind the citys library, a move that some say would cre-ate a divide between the Colleges and civic life. PomonaCollege and museum supporters assert the future mu-seum would serve as a bridge and allow for greater in-teraction between the business district and the schools.

For now, this change in zoning will do very little tospeed along the colleges plan to put the museum on thewest side of College. A number of steps in the processremain before ground can be broken.

Pomona still has to get their master plan approved,

Mr. Desatnik said. That is a completely separateprocess. The museum design, location and size will still

be based on review and approval by the commissionsand city council. This ordinance only seeks to correctthe zoning issue.

The planning commission will take a final review ofPomona Colleges master plan on Tuesday, March 15.At that meeting, commissioners will provide their rec-ommendation on the master plan to go before councilon April 12. If Pomonas final master plan puts the mu-seum on the west side of College, and council approves

it on April 12, Pomona can then move forward to seekcity approval on the final design.

The February 16 meeting will also include a reviewof zone changes to six other properties in the city in-cluding a portion of the Stone Canyon open space at theWilderness Park, property west of Live Oak CanyonRoad adjacent to Base Line, the flood control basin onCollege Way, part of the Hughes Center parking lot, aPomona Water District well site at Chaparral School anda former railroad right-of-way at Claremont Boulevardand First Street.

Residents and businesses within a 300-foot radius ofeach site received notice of the meeting, according toMr. Desatnik. The meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. in thecouncil chamber, will allow for public comment.

Questions should be directed to Kim Wolfinbarger [email protected] or by calling (909)

399-5470. Kathryn [email protected]

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneffWorkers with Golden State Water Company cut a hole in the sidewalk to address a water leak in the 500 block of TwelfthStreet on Monday in Claremont. The leak is one of several throughout the city, some of which have gone unrepaired.


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Youth programs and sustainabilitywere the main topics of discussionduring the annual joint meeting

between the city council and the Clare-mont Board of Education on Monday,

February 1.The atmosphere in the Richard S. Kirkendall Edu-

cation Centers boardroom was easygoing, as city of-ficial heard updates on the Youth Activity Center andgreen endeavors from the city and the school board.The school board also took the opportunity to intro-duce the districts new Parent Involvement Liaison.

School Board Superintendent Jim Elsasser intro-duced Rosa Leong, whose job includes engaging withClaremont families to become more involved inschool activities, supporting workshops that help par-ents understand school services and providing inter-pretation and translation services. She previouslyworked for nine years as the bilingual community as-sistant with the Rowland Unified School District inRowland Heights.

I look forward to working with all of our Clare-

mont families and their students, Ms. Leong said.Parent involvement and parent engagement is a keycomponent to students success, and so I look forwardto working with all the students and Claremont fami-lies.

Councilmember Joe Lyons heaped praise on Ms.Leong and her new job.

Claremont COURIER/Friday, February 5, 2016 4CITY NEWS

Tuesday, January 26A woman narrowly avoided getting

hit by a car in the Village Tuesdaymorning. The incident occurred at theeastern edge of Yale and Bonita at ap-proximately 8:26 a.m., when the 39-year-old female driver made a left turnwhile driving south on Yale, accordingto Lt. Mike Ciszek. Unbeknownst toher, a 49-year-old female pedestrian wasin the middle of the crosswalk. Thepedestrian leaped out of the way of theoncoming vehicle, missing the car, butsuffered an abrasion to her left arm andpain in her knee. She was transported toPomona Valley Medical Center fortreatment.

Wednesday, January 27Claremont police arrested a Pomona

man fur a DUI after he left Buca diBeppo at about 12:30 a.m. Eder Castro,22, was observed by witnesses exitingthe restaurant and arguing with awoman in another car. When thewoman left, Mr. Castro got in his carand attempted to leave the parking lot,but was quickly pulled over by policeofficers. The officers determined he wastoo drunk to drive, and Mr. Castro wasarrested and transported to CPD jail,where he was booked, held for detoxand released.

* * *An unknown burglar broke into a

womans car and stole a Michael Korspurse in the parking lot of Kiddie Acad-emy on the 600 block of Foothill Boule-vard. The incident happened atapproximately 4:23 p.m., when the vic-

tim parked and locked her car. Whenshe returned seven minutes later, hercars front passenger window wassmashed and her purse was missing.The purse was valued at around $400.

Two days later, on January 29, an-other car was broken into, this time infront of the Claremont McKenna Chil-drens School on the 600 block of SixthStreet. Witnesses observed a white,newer model Acura TL drive up next toa white Toyota Camry at approximately12:33 p.m. The driver exited the Acuraand smashed the front passenger win-dow of the Camry, stealing a wallet anda diaper bag.

Claremont police believe the sameman is responsible for both burglaries.He is described as Hispanic, wearing ablack hooded Nike sweatshirt with dark

jeans and black shoes. Anyone with in-formation is urged to contact the Clare-mont Police Department at (909)399-5411.

Saturday, January 30A Pomona man was picked up for

DUI after attempting to leave the sceneof an accident without giving out his in-formation early Saturday morning. Theaccident occurred at the corner ofLehigh Drive and San Jose Avenue,when a car driven by 27-year-old Vi-cente Ortiz collided with another car atapproximately 3:34 a.m., according toLt. Ciszek. There were no injuries, butMr. Ortiz attempted to flee the scene in-stead of giving the other driver his info.Police later noticed his car, completewith extensive front-end damage, a flat

driver-side tire and a large cloud ofsmoke surrounding it, traveling west-bound on La Verne Avenue and north onCarrie Lane. Mr. Ortiz then exited thevehicle, and police could smell a strongodor of alcohol on him. Mr. Ortiz re-fused all sobriety tests and was taken in

to CPD jail, where a search warrant hadto be obtained to conduct a blood test onMr. Ortiz. He also had a warrant for hisarrest for another DUI, and Mr. Ortizwas held for bail/court due to the possi-bility of it happening again.

* * *An after-wedding melee unfolded at

the DoubleTree Hotel, with as many as10-15 people involved. The incidenthappened at the hotel around 11:30 p.m.When officers arrived, one person whowas allegedly involved in the fight waslocated in a restroom with about a two-inch laceration on his forehead. He wastreated and airlifted to County USCMedical Center. Nobody has been ar-

rested, but Lt. Ciszek said the depart-ment is waiting on a judgment from theDA on possible charges in the incident.

Sunday, January 31The body of a man was found in a car atEvey Canyon and Mt. Baldy Road Sun-day morning. Police responded to thescene around 9 a.m. and found the bodyin the car with a charcoal barbecue inthe back seat, according to the police re-port. The coroner has not released acause of death, pending an autopsy, butClaremont police are treating it as a pos-sible suicide. If you or anyone youknow is experiencing suicidal thoughts,call the National Suicide PreventionLifeline at 1 (800) 273-8255.

Matthew [email protected]

POLICE BLOTTER

School board, city set course in annual joint meeting

JOINT MEETING/continues on page12

Aman fell 1,500 feet to

his death while hik-ing in Mt. Baldy on

Tuesday morning.The man was identified as 23-year-

old Daniel Nguyen of Westminster,according to the San BernardinoCounty Coroners Office.

Mr. Nguyen was hiking with afriend along the Devils Backboneportion of Mt. Baldy. The friendcalled 911 at 7:41 a.m. stating that Mr.Nguyen slipped and fell.

When a sheriffs department heli-copter arrived at 9:05 a.m., they foundMr. Nguyen 1,500 feet down themountainside. He was pronounced

dead on scene at 5:16 p.m., accordingto a release from the coroner.Chris Brookhart of the Mt. Baldy

Fire Department said recent seasonswith bad ice have claimed manylives over the years.

When you slip, youre slidingpretty fast and youre covering a lotof ground pretty fast, Mr. Brookhartsaid.

Mr. Brookhart suggests hikersplanning to trek through Mt. Baldyduring the winter should use properequipment such as ice axes and cram-pons, which are sharp metal pointsthat mount to boots.

The incident is under investigation.


Westminster hikerfalls to his death atMt. Baldy

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneffCouncilmember Opanyi Nasiali, Boardmember Hilary LaConte, Councilmember Joe Lyons and Board Vice Pres-ident Dave Nemer listen to a presentation on Monday during a joint meeting of the Claremont City Council andthe Claremont Unified School District Board of Education.


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Louise Glck is in a cat-egory so rare as to benearly oxymoronic.

Shes a successful poet.Shes published 10 books of poetry,

plus a celebrated book of essays. Her

collected works, Poems 1962-2012, isconsidered a must-have for the seriouspoetry reader.

Her accolades include a 2003 stint asthe US Poet Laureate and receipt of thePulitzer Prize for her 1992 book TheWild Iris as well as the National BookAward for her latest collection of poetry,Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014).

Ms. Glck appears to have the Midastouch when it comes to literary endeav-ors butas she shared during an ap-pearance at Claremont McKennaColleges Marian Miner CookAthenaeum on Monday nightshes nostranger to self-doubt. As a result, sheprefers working as a teacher and writing

in her spare time to spending her lifewith fingers poised over the keyboard.

For some, the answer to art is a duti-ful sojourn at the desk, so the poetrygods can see youve consecrated yourlife to their service, she told the crowd.I tried that during a very bleak and in-fertile period, and it made me crazywith terror. I thought, This is the worstscenario. Im not an artist.

Then, Ms. Glck attended a booze-lu-bricated after-party following a readingat Goddard University. Several facultymembers told her she needed to teachthere, and she pursued the post. I fig-ured Im not a writer, Id better trysomething.

Ms. Glck, who currently holds ad-junct professorships at Yale and BostonUniversity, found the day job benefittedher writing process.

Having obligations in the worldwith its irritants, frustration and pleas-ure was certainly at that point of lifefar more stimulating than all these hope-less hours at the desk, she said.

Before a Q&A session, Ms. Glck

read a sampling of work from herdecades-long career.

Her poems arent intended to standalone, she cautioned; rather, each is asmall building block helping to con-struct an overarching theme. I dontthink in terms of poems. I think in termsof books, she explained.

Still, the audience of CMC studentsand faculty and community memberswas able to get a sense of her style asshe read works ranging from 1968sMock Orange to poems written in re-cent months.

Ms. Glcks repertoire is anything buthappy-go-lucky. She writes about the

ephemeral nature of life and its smallconsolations. She covers things likedeath, dying and broken love. Occasion-ally, such topics are addressed in apoint-blank confessional style. Moreoften, she approaches them through al-legory, drawing on sources like Greekmythology and the Bible as well as as-sumed personas.

What keeps Ms. Glcks work from

being a slog through the sloughs of de-spair is her emphasis on dry-eyed re-portage rather than self-pity. And justwhen her poetry hovers on the edge ofabstraction, she hits readers with lines ofneon-bright imagery.

In An Adventure, a poem from hermost recent collection, she writes, I be-came a glorious knight riding into thesetting sun, and my heart became the

steed underneath me. In A Work ofFiction, she writes, instinctively I lit acigarette. In the dark, the cigaretteglowed, like a fire lit by a survivor.

And then theres that wry sense ofwit. In the 1986 poem Siren, shespeaks as the other womanwho onceblithely hoped for the destruction of herlovers marriage but now understandsthe ravages of infidelity. I became acriminal when I fell in love. Before thatI was a waitress, she said.

Then Ms. Glck was ready to fieldsome questions. The students, manypondering a career in writing, wereeager to find out what makes an accom-plished writer tick.

Her favorite poet is T.S. Elliot. WhenMs. Glck is mired in abstraction and

in danger of floating off the planet,her prescription is the more accessiblepoems of imagist writer William CarlosWilliams. Williams most famous poemfeatures one sentence in four stanzas:so much depends upon/a red wheelbarrow/glazed with rain water/beside

the white chickens.Those venerable writers provide atouchstone for the poet, but she has an-other potent source of inspiration. Ms.Glck, sporting a gray bob and a blackturtleneck with cutouts revealing hershoulders, said shes enlivened by read-ing books by poets shes never heard of.I feel as though the young are the peo-ple who keep my synapses moving andopen, she said.

Shes not one to mislead her studentsby depicting the writing life as easy. Inher book of essays, Proofs and Theo-ries, she doesnt mince words: Mostwriters spend much of their time in vari-ous kinds of torment: wanting to write,

being unable to write, wanting to writedifferently, being unable to write differ-ently.

She has some tricks up her sleeve,though. One student asked how sheknows when work is good. She doesnt,Ms. Glck admitted. But if you keeppoking at [a poem] and keep beingpleased, its a good indication.

Ms. Glck then looks to a higherpower, that of the well-measured cri-tique. I show my work to a couple offriends who are discriminating and hardcritics, she said. Ive had friends whohave told me the truth but their ideaswere catastrophically bad. Its aboutfriends who hear the intention that you

werent even able to form.She also relies heavily on intuition.I work on a typewriter often. If Im

typing and I get to place where my fin-gers hesitate, I know its a place wherethe poem has gone bad, she said.

One student wondered if all of Ms.Glcks poems are autobiographical,considering that so many of them centeron loss.

Earlier, the writer read a poem aboutthe death of her father. He was not, shetold the audience afterwards, dead at thetime she wrote it.

Theres an assumption that whenyou write about family matters, youresimply writing down that which has oc-curred, she said. In this case, I wassetting down an imaginary construct inwhich my father would be more effec-tive if he were dead.

So no, Ms. Glck emphasized, not allof her poems stem from real trauma.

My God! If I had that many individ-ual losses, how could I be standing be-fore you? Loss happens to be apreoccupation of mine. It haunts me.When it happens to me, it happens big,she said.

Its a big thing, but its not a bigthing because I keep having losses,Ms. Glck continued. I dont keepbuying goldfish and wait for them todie.

Sarah Torribio

[email protected]

Claremont COURIER/Friday, February 5, 201 6 5EDUCATION

Poet offers worldly advice for students at CMC Athenaeum

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneffPoet Louise Glck answers a students question following her poetry reading on

Monday at Claremont McKenna Colleges Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum.

Pitzer College appoints new presidentMelvin L. Oliver, a noted expert on

racial and urban inequality and theexecutive dean of the College of Let-

ters and Science at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara, has beennamed Pitzer Colleges sixth presi-dent following a unanimous vote bythe Colleges Board of Trustees. Heassumes office on July 1.

Mr. Oliver is also the SAGE SaraMiller McCune Dean of Social Sci-ences and a professor of sociology atUC Santa Barbara. He has served asthe dean of social sciences at UCSBsince 2004.

Among his numerous accomplish-ments during his 12-year tenure hasbeen his championing of increasedaccess for underrepresented studentsat both the undergraduate and gradu-

ate levels as well as faculty diversity.Mr. Oliver earned his bachelors at

William Penn College and his mas-ters and PhD from Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis. Washington

University awarded him the Distin-guished Alumni Award, Arts and Sci-ences in 2002 and theSesquicentennial Celebration Distin-guished Alumni Award in 2003.William Penn University honoredhim with the Distinguished CareerAward in 2012.

This appointment concludes a 13-month search by a committee that in-cluded Pitzer faculty, students, staff,alumni and trustees.

Mr. Oliver succeeds Laura Skan-dera Trombley, who began her tenurein July 2015 as the president of TheHuntington Library, Art Collectionsand Botanical Gardens.

A feature on Mr. Oliver will appearin a future edition of the COURIER.


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It came right on time. Like clockwork.Not only that, but the rain waited untilwe were ready. Or at least until it was-

nt too much of a damper.It didnt come on New Years Day. The sky was left

picture-perfect clear for the Rose Parade, just as itshould be and everyone expects. And it waited anothertwo days, giving us blue skies for the last weekend ofthe holidays.

The rain came on that Monday, the first Monday inJanuary, right when the holidays were over and most ofus were back to business as usual. It was here. Indeed,rain was going to be business as usual.

El Nio was here, just as we had been told it wouldbe. All the reports said we would be getting a remark-able amount of rain with the unique weather systemthis winter. It would bring some relief, if not completerelief, to the states troubling four-year drought. Itwould also bring problems, like flooding. And it wouldmost likely come in January not December when, as itwas explained, the rain we got was normal rain, notEl Nio rain.

Well, it was January, and El Nio was here. The firstworkweek of the month included several days ofrainunusual for this area, at least in recent years.There were also all the news stories, about floodedroads and freeways, about feet of snow in the localmountains, about the efforts to get homeless people outof the rain.

There were articles about how to prepare for a lot ofrain. One article mentioned the two Pomona Collegestudents who were killed when a big tree fell on themon College Avenue during the last big El Nio in 1998.Steve Lopez had a column on the front page of theLos

Angeles Times the day after the first day of rain about ahomeless man who had a bed set upcomplete withbox springs and a comforter and a dining area with asmall Christmas tree under a freewayonly to see itall float away when a downpour came. After refusing

an offer of lunch, the man was proudly serving up bur-ritos to the columnist when the water came.

El Nio was here, with all its promise and danger,with all its drama, just liked it was predicted. And thenit wasnt.

When it looked like it would rain the next Saturdayduring the dedication celebration for the new Clare-mont Lincoln University Community PerformanceStage and the renovated Shelton Park in the Village, I

thought we caught a lucky break when it didnt. Ithought it was just fortunate that there was a break inthe rain that weekend.

Except it wasnt a break. It was, it turned out, theway it was. That was it for all the rain. Other than a dayof rain to close out the month and a brief shower andsome sprinkling now and then, the storms stopped afterthat first week of January. And the storms during thatweek really werent, in general, that dramatic and ex-traordinary.

So much for El Nio. Or was it? Is it?Did we get lucky and escape the ravages of a mon-

ster El Nio? Were we safe from giant sinkholes andfrom random trees falling on us? Look, we didnt haveto deal with extreme weather, like the folks on the EastCoast who had two feet of snow in one weekend. New

York City got just .2 inches less than the largest amountof snow that it ever got in a storm, which was almost acentury ago. Not to mention the gorgeous, clear dayscomplete with snow-capped mountains as a backdropthat weve been having.

But did this also mean that we are also in for anotherdry year, a fifth year of drought? Did it mean anotheryear of cutting back on water, another year of brownlawns and dying trees and wondering if fountains andswimming pools are cool? Not necessarily. At least,thats what were being told.

Apparently, we havent escaped the ravages of ElNio, and we still may have to live with drought condi-tions.

For one thing, we are told that the biggest part of ElNio is yet to come. Just as it was explained that therain in December was normal and that El Nio most

likely wouldnt hit until January, the explanation nowis that it wont really hit until February and could evenlast into April or May.

When it was discovered last year that a big El Niowas on tap for this winter, we were cautioned that itwouldnt end the drought. We were told that ending thedrought would take an unprecedented or maybe impos-sible amount of rain. It was almost enough to make usthink that this big El Nio is no big deal.

It was also explained at the time that the El Niorains would hit us here in southern California and prob-ably wouldnt reach northern California and that, evenif they did, because of the warming, there wouldnt bemuch snow. Snow, it was explained, is whats criticalin ending the drought since it melts off slowly and al-

lows the water to be more easily captured and not justdrained into the ocean.In an average year, melting snowpack provides

roughly a third of the water used by California citiesand farms. But something different has been happen-ing. At least it was happening last month. The El Niorains, with all their drama, have been hitting up north.In Pacifica, south of San Francisco, cliffs have beeneroded by pounding surf, and people have been evacu-ated from apartments. Or have those rains been theusual storms from Alaskajust more than usual? Inany case, most of the storms have been wrung out bythe time they reach us. Whats more, there has beenmore than the usual amount of snow.

Even with the storms here only during the first weekof January, there has been more snow on Mt. Baldythan weve seen in more than a year. There have been

articles about the unusual snow here and people flock-ing to it.Whether all the rain up north and all the snow is

from El Nio or not, the question remains: Is itenough? Yes, there has been a higher-than-usualamount of snow so farthe deepest in five yearsbutwe keep being told that April 1 is the critical date. It alldepends on how much snow there is on the statesmountains, mainly up north, on that day. In someplaces, there is 115 percent of the normal amount ofsnow, but it is said that the average amount needs to be150 percent. And as a recentLos Angeles Timesarticlepointed out, Water levels in the states reservoirs haverisen since December 1, but storage is still far belowhistorical averages.

That goes right along nicely with the other now-all-too-familiar refrains in the same article: a modest yet

encouraging milestone in a period of extendeddrought and it is too early to determine whether win-ter rains will be enough to make any major dent in Cal-ifornias drought.

Is this all good news or bad news? Maybe we shouldtake whatever rain we get and make it better news.That is, until it gets to be worse news.

Watching and waiting for the rain and the dramaby John Pixley

observerobserver

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Time and placeDear Editor:

I moved to Claremont in 1948 at theage of four-and-a-half years. Mymother, Nadine, graduated fromScripps College and my dad, Paul,taught and became head of the Scrippsart department.

I graduated from CMC, took classesat Pomona College and my sister gother degree from Pitzer. My mom, my

sister and I all attended the ClaremontGraduate School. The City of Trees isalso the City of Colleges.

In the late 1940s, there were grovesaplenty, the city closed down at 5:30p.m. and there was no alcohol servedinside the city limits. It was a greatplace to grow up, both safe and se-cluded. As the years passed, the acresof groves were replaced by homes, thecolleges grew, both in size and number,and the small-town atmosphere beganto change.

Those who were still in the knowkept the Village aspect alive, but soonmajor building began to happen in thedowntown area. First it was the tall

structures along the tracks surroundingthe train station. Next, the Village Westwas built and then we had a mall. Thesmall town feel was still there, but itwas waning fast.

As new people moved into Clare-mont and the old timers died off, less

was thought about keeping the small-town attitude alive.

Claremont is a wonderful place tolive and the aspects are bright for thefuture. However, I feel that building thenew Pomona College Museum of Art atthe southwest corner of Bonita and Col-

lege Avenue would be one more way oftaking the historical value away fromthe downtown area.

There are many other sites availablethat would keep the Colleges and thedowntown area the same, but still up-graded. I believe there is a solution thatwould be better for the big picture andstill keep the historical aspect alive andwell.

College Avenue is a dividing line be-tween the Colleges and the downtownarea. Taking down historic buildingsand building on the west side of thestreet would have a great impact ontraffic, and parking and would over-crowd downtown Claremont.

I am in favor of Pomona College re-considering its choice and building thenew museum somewhere else on theeastern side of College Avenue. Themuseum is not a bad idea, I just feel thatthe placement choice is a wrong one.

Chris Darrow

Claremont

Town and gownDear Editor:

John Pixley got it right! First, Johnlisted many of the donors to the CLUCommunity Performance Stage comingtogether to show their support for thisexciting project from not only the Clare-

mont Village but the citizens of Clare-mont and the Claremont Collegestrulytown and gown.

As John put so beautifully, It wasalso a thing of beauty to see that the Col-leges have been integral in the buildingof the stage. John also pointed out thattown-gown is a core value or at least acore ideal in our Claremont.

In the almost 30 years since I movedto Claremont, town and gown has trulybecome not just that value but the coreideal that John speaks of.

On Saturday, January 9, Claremontcelebrated not only the stage projectcoming to fruition but another step in thecoming together of town and gown.

Town and gown worked together notonly on the Shelton Park project, apiece of art, but town is looking to sup-port Pomona Colleges proposed Mu-seum of Art on the southwest corner ofCollege and Bonita Avenues, kitty-cor-ner from the new performance stage.

When I moved to Claremont, the Vil-lage was pretty sleepy with the phar-macy closing on Saturdays at 2 p.m. dur-ing the summer. In 2016, the Collegesare busy all year long with many proj-ects being held at the campuses duringthe summer months; the Village isbustling all year long with concerts, thewesterly plaza with incredible newshops and restaurants; the old Village

is quaint and warm, with independentshop owners and restaurants.

As we look to continuously improveand grow our little town, we also seekto grow the vibrant relationship be-tween town and gown, each supportingthe other.

With the approval of Pomona Col-leges new world-class museum at thesouthwest corner of College and BonitaAvenues, we could see the frosting on

the cake for not only Claremont in gen-eral but the Village businesses specifi-cally. Each new museum visitor couldwalk out the front entrance, head weston Bonita and visit Rio de Ojas thenwalk over to the library and past city hallto Sacas for a great lunch, continuing toYale to visit one of the clothes shops orthe Diamond Center. Heading back up toBonita and toward the museum, a visitorcould stop at Shelton Park to finish theice cream cone they bought at Bert andRockys.

We want to thank John Pixley for hisclear visioning of the new stage in Shel-ton Park and what it means for bothtown and gown, and for putting that vi-

sion on paper for all to see and under-stand. He has added to and given us theperspective that is so necessary whenone looks at the additions at the park.

The park and stage are not separatefrom the whole that is becoming the Vil-lage for the town of Claremont. With theaddition of Pomona Colleges Art Mu-seum, we could become a whole that isgreater than the sum of its parts, and anexample of what happens when peoplecome together to make a thing happen. Ittakes a village and we have the village intown and gown that truly gives beautyand truth to that oft-quoted remark.

Diana Miller and Catherine T. Curtis

Claremont


READERS COMMENTS


8/32

Oftentimes, when Im thinkingabout something, or in a conver-sation or when something hap-

pens, a song title or lyric pops into my

head. So, I am researching the history ofClaremont Heritage for its 40th, and JoniMitchells Big Yellow Taxi pops intomy consciousness:

Dont it always seem to goThat you dont know what youve gotTil its goneThey paved paradise

And put up a parking lot

Big Yellow Taxi was released in 1970, aroundthe time that the preservation movement was gainingtraction, not only in Claremont but across the nation.In 1966, congress passed the National HistoricPreservation Act. The National Trust for HistoricPreservation created the Preservation Services Fundin 1969 to provide assistance to communities. The

first field office was opened in 1971 in San Francisco.Certainly, during the late 1960s and into the 1970s,awareness of historic preservation was coming to theforefront. The same was true for Claremont.

The historic preservation movement in Claremontwas the outgrowth of the loss of three distinct historicbuildings. The Claremont Inn at Bonita and Collegewas demolished in 1968, the Claremont Library atHarvard and Second Street in 1974 and the WoodfordHouse at Seventh and Yale shortly thereafter. Theseactions prompted an active group of citizens to workto establish the Claremont Historic District in 1971,and for a revision of the ordinance governing the dis-trict in 1976.

Claremont Heritage was founded in 1976, and itwas through the efforts of Heritage that the first his-toric resources survey was conducted. At that time,

the historic resources survey was limited to the Clare-mont Historic District and a few outlying historicstructures throughout the city, mostly represented bythe stone, grove houses and the historic ranches of thecitrus industry.

The city of Claremont was also involved in preser-vation efforts in the 1970s. City hall was renovatedand the post office was saved. These two acts ofpreservation were critically important to the eco-nomic health and viability of the Village, especially in

light of the demolition of the Claremont Inn. Down-towns require one important thingpeople. Withoutthe employees of city hall to use the services andwithout the foot traffic generated by a post office,coupled with the loss of the Claremonts gatheringplace the Claremont Inn, it could have spelled the be-ginning of the end for the Village as we know it.

From 1979 through 1984, and under the leadershipof the late Judy Wright, the Claremont Historic Re-sources Center worked on the Historic PreservationElement for inclusion in the Claremont General Plan,an element that remains largely the same today aswhen it was developed.

The center coordinated the survey of historic build-

ings, staffed Claremont Heritage, wrote historic pol-icy documents for the city and published the firstedition of Judy Wrights book, Claremont: A Picto-rial History.

While Ms. Wright was doing all of this, she alsoserved on the citys planning commission and chairedthe general plan committee for the third general plan,adopted in 1981. She later went on to serve on thecity council for 13 years and as mayor for three years.She was also the chief preservation advocate for sav-ing the Santa Fe Depot on First Street.

Since 1976, Claremont Heritage has been an inte-gral part of Keeping Claremonts history alive.Many of the founding members have been active inseveral preservation efforts such as oral histories, his-toric Claremont zoning, establishing a collections li-brary and home tours. It was because of Claremont

Heritage and the city of Claremont that the State Of-fice of Historic Preservation awarded a grant for thesurvey of the citys historic resources in 1977.

Today, Claremont Heritage carries on that tradition,having just submitted a list of 40 structures to the cityto be included in that same historic resources survey

that began 40 years ago. And as soon as that list of 40is acted upon, Heritage is ready to submit another list.

The preservation movement was the impetus forthe creation of Claremont Heritage. The movementhelped to create the local historic register, the Preser-vation Element of the General Plan and the Village

Design Guidelines. The preservation movement, aprogressive city government and subsequent commu-nity effort, created the climate necessary in 2014 forthe city of Claremont to receive an A+ on thePreservation Report Card from the Los Angeles Con-servancy.

Preservation attracts people to our city. It hashelped create a unique business and residential envi-ronment. Preservation attracts investment and revital-izes aging structures and neighborhoods. It hascreated for Claremont what is known as CulturalHeritage Tourism. It is one of the drivers of our eco-nomic engine. Preservation is sustainability. It is envi-ronmentally responsible.

Judy Wright said it best: To stand in Bridges Hallof Music, a house in the Russian Village, or in Deni-son Library is to stand in the same physical environ-

ment as those who lived before us. We may think thatsuch items as the stone curbs, the levees in thePomona Valley Protective Association acreage, themural in the post office, or one of our last original eu-calyptus trees are insignificant, but these are parts ofour culture that accumulate to create the essence ofour existence. These things tell us their stories.

Claremont Heritage kicks off its 40th year with thetheme, Claremont Matters. This theme, with its in-tended double-meaning, is meant to inspire citizens todiscuss those things about Claremont that matter tothem, and to also initiate discussion about develop-ment and historic matters that affect us all.

The preservation movement reminds us not to re-peat the mistakes of the past, like those that tookplace in the 60s and 70s. Preservation is a one-waystreet, because once an historic site is gone, it is gone

forever. And once it is gone, we can only lament,Dont it always seem to go, that you dont knowwhat youve got til its gone.


Claremont Heritage celebrates 40 yearsby John Neiuber


9/32

The CoolCaliforniaChallenge, a competi-tion between California

cities to motivate and rewardresidents for reducing their car-

bon footprints and to buildmore sustainable communities,

just got a little more competi-tive.

Claremont is currently in first place,but the lead is narrowing. Our friends atSustainable Claremont encourage resi-dents to help us stay ahead and in-crease our share of the $150,000 purse.Its easy, interesting and takes just afew minutes.

Every household and business inClaremont can join the CoolCaliforniaChallenge by registeringat www.CAChallenge.org. As one ofthe smaller cities in the competition, the

points earned will be doubled for Clare-monts overall city points as a popula-tion adjustment.

With 22 cities vying for the title ofCoolest California City, nine mayorsand city officials upped the stakes byfilming rousing videos to promote thechallenge and encourage participationamong residents.

Mayor Corey Calaycay did his partto get Claremont residents riled up ashe gave suggestions of ways to improvesustainability in Claremont. To see Mr.Calaycays video, simply google CoolCalifornia Challenge Corey Calaycay.

At the end of the challenge on March

30, the city with the highest sustainabil-ity points will be crowned CoolestCalifornia City. The winning city willbe recognized during Earth Week, April21.

All participating cities will receive aportion of a $150,000 prize to supportlocal sustainability projects. The prizemoney will be given to SustainableClaremont, our local nonprofit commit-ted to helping Claremont become amore sustainable city.

This years participating cities in-clude Claremont, San Mateo, Buellton,Indio, Burlingame, Long Beach, ElkGrove, San Carlos, Lynwood, Mar-tinez, South Pasadena, Redwood City,

Huntington Beach, San Pablo, Benicia,Corte Madera, Mill Valley, Sausalito, ElCerrito, Fairfax, Larkspur and Rich-mond. Current standings of the citiescan be found by visiting the challengewebsite at www.CAChallenge.org.

To get started, visit www.cachal-lenge.org and click sign up now.

When you sign up, you will be asked

to enter your name and Claremont ad-dress. Be assured that this informationwill be used only for the challenge andnot shared with others. You will also beasked for your email address and apassword. Internet Explorer sometimesdoesnt work for sign-ups. Browsers

such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari havenot had this problem.

Participants earn 250 points just forsigning up. Gas and electricity use canbe entered immediately after signing upor the information can be entered later.You will need the therms and kilowatthours used and bill dates for eachmonth reported from October 2015through March 2016.

You can also enter the type of vehi-cles you have and odometer readings. Ifyou dont do that at the time of sign up,the option will be gone when you log inlater. It can be restored later by clickingthe Update My Basic Info tab.

Here are some steps residents and

businesses can take to gather up quickpoints:

1. Report gas and electricity used,and car mileage each month throughMarch 2016. Participants can enter in-formation retroactively to October2015.

When you log in, you will be taken

to the My Dashboard page and a boxshowing Claremonts rank and the indi-vidual points you have earned. Underthat box, click on Update My UsageInfo to enter monthly dates and thermsof gas used, kilowatt hours of electric-ity used and vehicle odometer readings

(not miles driven during the period).2. The easiest way to earn lots of

points quickly is to Make an ActionPlan. The Things You Can Do taboffers ways to earn lots of points. Thereare more than 140 things to do, andyoull earn you 50 points for each onechecked Completed. Some are easythings everyone can do, like vowing totake shorter showers. Or you can clickon Review and write about an actionto earn 150 points for each review. Up-loading pictures will get you 75 pointsfor each image.

There are many steps to registeringbut once you get used to the websitelayout, its quite simple to participate.

For help in registering, call (909)625-8767 ext. 238 or email [email protected]. A vol-unteer at Sustainable Claremont wouldbe more than happy to walk youthrough the process.


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Jean L. Cobb died on January 13, 2016 after a longbattle with Alzheimers disease. She was 90.

She was born on April 20, 1925 in Newnan, Geor-gia to Mildred and Clifford Loftin, who worked, re-spectively, as a teacher and a structural steel salesmanand inventor. Young Jean spent her earliest years in a

house with three generations of women, which pro-vided a lifelong lesson in female strength.

When the feminist movement came along, shewanted nothing to do with it because she felt, Whywould you want to get down on a level with men?her husband John B. Cobb joked.

She attended elementary and high schools in New-nan and graduated from LaGrange College in La-Grange, Georgia in 1946 with highest honors and abachelors degree. While there, she served as presi-dent of the student body, among other leadership po-sitions. Her classmates wrote fondly of her in thecolleges yearbook, the Quadrangle.

We know that important things may be in smallpackages; so may important people be small instature. There is certainly an example on the Hill, theentry reads. Jean, president of the student govern-

ment this year, is very important to all of us. Quiet,modest and very efficient, Jean showed us long agothat she can always be relied upon to come through.

In 1947 she was married to John B. Cobb, Jr.,whom she first met when they were 6 years old. Thecouple moved to Chicago where Mr. Cobb was at-tending the University of Chicago and where theirfirst son Theodore was born. Mrs. Cobb provided sig-nificant support during her husbands time at the uni-versity, even typing his doctoral dissertation. Uponcompletion of his PhD, they moved to Young Harris,Georgia where their second son Clifford was born.

Three years later, they moved to Atlanta where Mr.Cobb taught at Emory University for five years. Theirtwin sons, Andrew and Richard, were born during thisperiod.

Mr. Cobb joined the faculty of the ClaremontSchool of Theology (CST) in 1958, and the familymoved to California. In an online tribute, ElaineWalker, CSTs circulation librarian and resident histo-

rian, said Mrs. Cobb will be remembered for her in-telligence, wit, warmth and hospitality.

Her gracious invitations assured that many stu-dents, especially international students, had a place toenjoy holiday gatherings, Ms. Walker recalled.

In 1965, Jean and the children joined John as heundertook a Fulbright Fellowship at Johannes Guten-berg University in Mainz. During the year the familylived in Germany, they took the opportunity to tourthrough Europe. Upon their return, Mrs. Cobb startedworking as a secretary at the Claremont UnitedMethodist Church, later becoming office manager. By

the time the twin sons graduated from high school,she decided to return to school. She completed a mas-ters degree at the University of Hawaii in 1973 andwas elected to the library honor society, Beta Phi Mu.

Upon the Cobbs return to Claremont she beganworking in the library of the Claremont School of

Theology, first as a cataloguer and later as a referencelibrarian.

She always reminded students that there are nodumb questions, Ms. Walker shared. Jean workedhere before the Internet became a major factor inscholarly research, and she had a vast knowledge ofthe print resources that supported course work at CSTHer knowledge of all things Methodist was especiallyvaluable.

In her spare time, Mrs. Cobb was an avid reader.She had a knack for art, which she exhibited whenshe took classes in Japanese and Chinese brush paint-ing, and she played music in a recorder ensemble.Jean also enjoyed traveling and journeyed with Mr.Cobb when work took him to Japan, China and Spain,among other locales.

Mrs. Cobb continued as reference librarian until

her retirement in May 1990. She and Mr. Cobb subse-quently moved to Pilgrim Place, where she enjoyedthe strong sense of community and faith.

A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, Febru-ary 7 at 3 p.m. in Decker Hall at Pilgrim Place.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations bemade in memory of Jean L. Cobb to the EmployeeChristmas Fund at Pilgrim Place, 625 MayflowerRoad, Claremont CA 91711, or to Claremont Schoolof Theologys Center for Process Studies, 1325 N.College Ave., Claremont CA 91711.

Jean CobbLoving wife and mother, librarian


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I think this is one of the characteristics of theClaremont way of doing things, Mr. Lyons said. En-gaging parents and our community in activities thatare for the betterment of either segment and the entirecommunity.

Katie Distelrath, Claremont youthprogram supervisor, was also onhand to give the board members

and city council members an update onthe YAC as well as the Teen Activity Cen-ter.

Ms. Distelrath presented staff with a report on whatthe YAC and TAC have done in the past year, includ-ing repainting the YAC room and a focus on job andcollege preparation. Free tutoring for El Roble Inter-mediate students will also be available at the YACfrom 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 1:45to 2:45 p.m. in the library, according to Ms. Distel-rath.

Ultimately, programs like these benefit our youthand our families beyond measure, she said.

Ms. Distelrath was also proud to announce the TeenCERT program, a collaboration with the ClaremontPolice Department that saw 18 students complete theFEMA-certified, 21-hour Community Emergency Re-sponse Team (CERT) training. The program aims toprepare students and train them in the event of a dis-

aster during school hours, with more training for fac-ulty and staff coming in the future.

Other notable events facilitated by the YAC andTAC in the past year includes feeding the homeless,trips to the Griffith Observatory and a hiking to theHollywood sign.

Without the partnership and support of the districtand city, all of these amazing programs and opportu-nities for our youth would not be possible, Ms. Dis-telrath said, while holding back tears.

The council and board members praised Ms. Dis-telrath and the programs she spearheaded during dis-cussion, highlighting the importance of suchundertakings.

Ive been very impressed by the new program ofhelping students applying to get into college, Coun-cilmember Opanyi Nasiali said. I think that is one ofthe most impressive things, to me at least, that stu-dents can be helped, especially if they dont have themeans or the ways to be able to apply to get into col-lege. So thank you for that.

Mayor Corey Calaycay praised the Teen Commit-tee, which offers local teenagers the opportunity to getinvolved in the city government progress. He notedmany city leaders who grew up in Claremontin-cluding Ms. Distelrath and Assistant City ManagerColin Tudorwho were part of similar programswhen they were younger.

Last on the agenda was a joint sustainability reportby Principal Planner Chris Veirs, representing the cityand Assistant Superintendent Lisa Shoemaker, repre-senting the school board.

Mr. Veirs described two competitions the city isheavily involved in. The Claremont Energy Challengeis the citys campaign to reduce energy use and createsustainable programs over a two-year period to winthe $5 million Georgetown Energy Prize. The Cool-California Challenge is a state-wide competitionwhere cities gain points by reducing energy usage, ve-hicle mileage and gas usage for a $150,000 prize andstatewide bragging rights.

A forthcoming plan unveiled by Mr. Veirs includesconverting streetlights in the city from high-pressuresodium light bulbs to more energy-efficient LEDbulbs. Mr. Veirs intends to change out all 1,300 bulbsin the city. Southern California Edison (SCE) ownshalf of the lights, but the effort includes purchasingthem and converting the bulbs to LED.

The reduced costs pay for the purchase of the

lights, Mr. Veirs said.Mr. Nasiali questioned Mr. Veirs on why the city

needs to purchase the streetlights from SCE for theLED conversion.

SCE is not all that interested in saving energy,Mr. Veirs replied, adding that many cities are in themiddle of the same purchase in order to reduce thecitys carbon footprint and reduce costs.

Mr. Veirs also mentioned the city has consistentlymet the states drought restrictions, decreasing wateruse by 39.5 percent in December 2015. He noted re-landscaping City Hall and Shelton Park and removingturf on Indian Hill medians as other city accomplish-ments toward sustainability.

Ms. Shoemaker highlighted a December 17 agree-ment with PFMG Solar to install solar canopies at alldistrict locations. The project is expected to be com-

pleted by the end of 2016, and will provide somecredit toward the Claremont Energy Challenge, ac-cording to Ms. Shoemaker.

The school board is also using funds from Proposi-tion 39, also known as the California Clean EnergyJobs Act, for projects throughout the city that improveenergy efficiency.



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COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneffHuman Services Supervisor Katie Distelrath gives apresentation about the progress of youth programsin the city of Claremont during a joint meeting of theClaremont City Council and the CUSD Board Of Ed-ucation on Monday in Claremont.


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Be Our Valentinedinner, dance

Join us for a fun-filled evening com-plete with dinner, dancing and live en-tertainment by DJ Topo. Sponsored byInter Valley Health Plan. The event willbe held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday,February 11 at the Joslyn Center. Tick-ets are $5 and must be purchased in ad-vance at claremontrec.com.

E-waste event tobenefit CHS choirs

Free electronics recycling with pro-ceeds to benefit Claremont High Schoolchoirs will be held on Saturday, Febru-ary 20 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at theClaremont High School parking lot onIndian Hill.

Drop off working or non-workingcomputers, monitors, televisions, cellphones, microwaves and all other elec-tronics. Cables, wires, ink and tonercartridges are welcome, too!

Crime-free training pro-gram open to landlords

Did you know that the rate of crimein the 30 largest Claremont apartmentcommunities has dropped more than 52percent in the past nine years?

Any owner or manager of a rentalproperty who wants to limit apartmentcrime is invited to attend a crime-freetraining program from 8:30 a.m. to12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 10in the Padua Room at the Hughes Cen-ter, 1700 Danbury Rd.

A previous session was held onWednesday, February 3.

The program is sponsored by the

Claremont Police Department and theCommittee for Safe and Healthy Hous-ing. Among topics covered are screen-ing tenants, vehicle related crime and

legal updates. Speakers include localpolice, code and fire officials, as well asan experienced attorney and housingrights and apartment association staff.

The program is free. Light refresh-ments are served. RSVP to Bob Kernby leaving a message at (909) 399-5498

or email [email protected]

Join the Pilgrims on thejourney forward, onebrick at a time

There is a lot of activity in front ofPorter Hall at Pilgrim Place these days.Bricks will soon be placed along thepath leading to the halls front doors.Residents still have time to support Pil-grim Place by purchasing a brick for$250 for 4 x 8 or $500 for 12 x 12.

Visit www.pilgrimplace.org for moreinformation.

Learn about Revolu-tionary women at DARThe Claremont Chapter of the Na-

tional Society Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution will hold its monthlymeeting on Saturday February 6 at 11a.m., at Claremont Manor in the Execu-tive Dining Room, 650 W. HarrisonAve., Claremont.

Member Shirley Vanderbeck willpresent the next installment in the on-going series, Great Women of theAmerican Revolution. Guests are al-ways welcome. For more information,contact Chapter Regent Mary Yonan at(909) 482-0852.

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Rabbi Brant Rosen willvisit Pilgrim Placelater this month to dis-

cuss his book, Wrestling in

the Daylight, a frank explana-tion of the evolution of histhinking from a liberal Zionistto an outspoken critic of Is-raels unjust treatment ofPalestinians.

His views put him at the center of agrowing tension among American Jewsand also non-Jews who seek social jus-tice.

Rabbi Rosen will travel fromChicago to speak at Decker Hall, 665Avery Rd., on Sunday, February 28 at 7p.m.

Rabbi Rosen is currently the Mid-

west Regional Director of the AmericanFriends Service Committee. In August2015, he founded Tzedek Chicago, anew non-Zionist synagogue inChicago. He previously served as therabbi of the Jewish ReconstructionistCongregation in Evanston, Illinois from1998 to 2014.

He is a former president of the Re-constructionist Rabbinical Associationand is the co-founder and co-chairper-

son of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rab-

binical Council.In 2009, Rabbi Rosen co-founded the

Jewish Fast for Gaza, or TaanitTzedek, with Rabbi Brian Walt. He isregarded as an excellent speaker, hav-ing been named one of the Top 25 Pul-pit Rabbis in America by Newsweekmagazine in 2008.

Wrestling in the Daylight: ARabbis Path to Palestinian Solidar-ity will be available for sale and sign-ing on February 28.

In his preface, Rabbi Rosen writes,Ive come to believe that too many ofus have been wrestling in the dark onthis issue for far too long. I believe wesimply must find a way to widen the

limits of public discourse onIsrael/Palestine, no matter how painfulthe prospect. It is my fervent hope thatthe conversations presented here mightrepresent, in their small way, a step to-ward the light of day.

The presentation is sponsored byFOSNA, the Claremont Area Group ofFriends of Sabeel North America. Pil-grim Place resident Chuck Rassieurwill serve as facilitator and convener.

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Photo courtesy of Pilgrim PlaceRabbi Brant Rosen will discuss his book, Wrestling in the Daylight, at PilgrimPlace later this month.


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Claremont AreaLeague exploreshigher education

A panel of statewide leaders fromeach level of higher educationcom-munity colleges, California State Uni-versities and the University ofCalifornia systemswill be speakerson a panel discussing Is CaliforniaHigher Education Working? spon-sored by the Claremont Area League ofWomen Voters at their Food forThought public meeting.

Geraldine Perri, PhD, has served assuperintendent/president of CitrusCommunity College since 2008. Herexperience includes 20 years as an ad-ministrator in several Southern Califor-nia community colleges. She holds adoctorate in human and organizationaldevelopment from the Fielding Gradu-ate University of Santa Barbara.

Representing state universities on thepanel is Shanthi Srinivas, PhD, associ-ate vice president for academic plan-ning, policy and faculty affairs at CalPoly Pomona. She leads the univer-sitys eLearning team responsible fortechnological advances in teaching andlearning. She has served in shared gov-ernance on the Faculty Senate. HerPhD from Pennsylvania State Univer-sity is in business administration.

Paul DAnieri, PhD., provost and ex-ecutive vice chancellor of the Univer-sity of California, Riverside willdiscuss the UC college system. AtUCR, he is responsible for implemen-

tation of the campus strategic plan,UCR 2020: The Path to Preemi-nence. He came to UCR from theUniversity of Florida as dean of thecollege of liberal arts. He is also the au-thor of the textbook, InternationalPolitics: Power and Politics in Inter-

national Affairs. He was also a Full-bright Scholar as a visiting scholar atLviv University, Ukraine. His doctorateis in government from Cornell Univer-sity.

This public Food for Thoughtpanel discussion is offered in conjunc-tion with the League of Women VotersStatewide Study of Public Higher Edu-cation. Sue Keith, president of the Cit-rus College Board of Trustees, andleader of the local League study willmoderate the discussion.

The meeting will be held on Satur-day, February 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. inthe Padua Room at the Hughes Com-munity Center, 1700 Danbury Rd.Light refreshments will be served. Ad-mission is $20. To confirm attendanceand pay, visit eventbrite.com/lwvclare-mont or simply pay at the door.

This meeting will be followed byfurther study sessions on March 17 andApril 14 when LWV members will re-spond to consensus questions to worktoward the development of a stateLWV position on higher education.


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Photo courtesy of Tim SunderlandRyan Hart, at left, and David Cisneros, moderator of Claremont United Churchof Christ, share a moment after Rev. Harts ordination last Sunday at thechurch, making him a minister in that denomination, after being called as As-sociate Pastor to that congregation. Rev. Hart and his family are no strangersto Claremont United Church of Christ. They have been members for sixyears, with Rev. Hart on staff for five of those years in various youth ministryroles. In total, Rev. Hart has been in pastoral roles in various churches for 14years.

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FRIDAY NOON CONCERT Trio Lykosfeaturing Rachel V. Huang (violin), RogerLebow (cello) and Gayle Blankenburg(piano), will perform Brahms Trio inB Major, Op B. 12:15 p.m. ScrippsColleges Balch Auditorium, 1030Columbia Ave., Claremont. [email protected] or (909) 607-3266.ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVALComprised of two evening concerts and alecture/demonstration held at 3 p.m. inThatcher Music Building, 340 N. CollegeAve., Claremont. All the events are freeand open to the public. Concerts will beheld Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. inLyman Hall.THEATEROphelias Jump Productionsopens its fourth season with ChristopherDurangs 2013 Tony Award-winning play,Vanya and Sonia and Masha andSpike, directed by company co-founder,Caitlin Lopez. The production plays Feb-ruary 5 through 21 at The Theatre Com-pany Performing Arts Studio, 1400 N.Benson, Upland. Visit opheliasjump.orgfor more information.

LECTURE Brendon Randall-Myers andmembers of Invisible Anatomy. 3 p.m. FreeAdmission. Pomona Colleges BryantHall, 340 N. College Ave., Claremont.SERENADES OF LOVEA romantic af-ternoon of music from great operas, op-erettas and musical theater celebrating loveperformed by the stars of Repertory OperaCompany. Selections include music fromCarmen, Carousel, Romo et Julitette,Phantom of the Opera, Gigi and La Bo-heme. 4 p.m. Tickets are $25. The per-formance will be held at First ChristianChurch, 1751 N. Park Ave., Pomona. Visitrepoperaco.org or call (909) 230-4949.ART WALK Visit art exhibit opening re-ceptions in the Claremont Village between6 and 9 p.m. See claremontartwalk.comfor details.A CAPPELLA COMETITION Inter-national Championship of Collegiate ACappella Southwest Quarterfinal and thesecond round of competition. At this event,collegiate a cappella groups from acrossCalifornia will perform their best set, andthe top two placing groups will advance tothe ICCA Southwest Semifinal. All agesare welcome. 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for

Claremont Colleges students, teens andchildren and $20 general admission.Bridges Auditorium, 450 College Way,Claremont. pomona.edu/bridges.ANAANYADANCE THEATREAnanya

Chatterjea draws on the dance and aesthetictraditions of eastern India and the tactics ofstreet theater to forge a unique connectionbetween dance and social issues. Ms. Chat-terjea is the artistic director of AnanyaDance Theatre, a company of womenartists of color who are diverse in age, race,nationality and sexual orientation. She isalso director of dance and associate pro-fessor in the department of theater arts anddance at the University of Minnesota. 7:30p.m. Scripps Colleges Garrison Theater,1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont.CONCERT Music by Brendon Randall-Myers. Performed by Invisible Anatomy:Samuel Adams (bass), Ian Gottlieb (cello),Paul Kerekes (keyboards), Brendon Ran-

dall-Myers (guitar), Daniel Schlosberg(keyboards), Ben Wallace (percussion)and Fay Wang (voice). 8 p.m. Free admis-sion. Pomona Colleges Lyman Hall, 340N. College Ave., Claremont.

FARMERS MARKET Rain or shine

every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in theClaremont Village.

SHAKESPEARE CLUB OF POMONAVALLEYA discussion by Caitlin Lopez,co-founder of Claremonts OpheliasJump and director of Twelfth Night at theShakespeare Festival last summer. Hertalk is titled Record Rain and Impro-vised Crutches: The Trials and Triumphsof Outdoor Shakespeare, about the chal-lenges and opportunities of stagingShakespeare plays, indoors and out. Gaininsight into such backstage business astext-cutting and staging possibilities.Light refreshments will be served. 2 p.m.Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave.,Claremont. (909) 717-1109.

SYRIA & CURRENT REFUGEECRISIS The speaker is Dr. Adnan Aswad.The University Club meets Tuesdays at11:30 a.m. at the Hughes Community Cen-ter, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont. $13

CALENDARPerforming artsTheater family comes full circle whensecond-generation actress takes stage.

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meeting fee includes buffet lunch.THE BEST KIND OF COLLEGE TheSocial Science Research Confab hostsprofessors Susan McWilliams and JohnSeery (politics department) as they dis-cuss their new edited volume about lib-eral arts institutions, The Best Kind ofCollege. Noon. Pomona Colleges FrankDining Hall, 260 E. Bonita Ave., Clare-mont. Contact Colin J. Beck at (909) 621-8510 or [email protected] SENIOR COM-PUTER CLUBLaw Library: How to useit for research presented by ChristineLangtau. The Claremont Senior ComputerClub meets on Tuesday evenings at theHughes Community Center at 1700 Dan-bury Rd., Claremont. Meetings begin at7:30 p.m., with social time beginning at 7p.m. Newcomers are always very welcome.For more information visit cscclub.org.

CLAREMONT GARDEN CLUB LizParkinson, CEO and founder of GardeningSquared, will address garden planning, whyto design a modified raised bed to fit yourneeds and the benefits of soil amendments,companion planting, crop rotation and dripsystem irrigation. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. PilgrimPlace Napier Center, 660 Avery Rd., Clare-mont. Free and open to the public.

FUNNY GIRL Her career spanned tur-bulent years from comedienne to Vaude-ville star. In The Ziegfeld Follies, inHollywood films and on the radio, FannyBrice was one of the most celebrated en-tertainers of her time. As talented as shewas, she deserved to be loved by every-one, audience and husband alike. Thisshow is her story. Musical numbers in-clude Im the Greatest Star, Dont Rain

On My Parade, as well as the iconicPeople. Amanda Minano, 2011 CHSalumni, will portray the role of FannyBrice in between her national tour of TheLittle Mermaid. Candlelight Pavilion,455 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. Per-formances run from February 10 through24. Tuesdays and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.One matinee at 2:30 p.m. on February 24.Dinner is not served. Visit the Inland Val-ley Repertory Theater website for ticketsat ivrt.org, or call (909) 859-4878.

LITERARY SERIES Dorothea Lasky,poet and professor at Columbia Univer-sity, will read from some of her work inPomona Colleges Crookshank Hall, 140W. Sixth St., Claremont. 4:15 p.m. Con-tact [email protected].

CONCERTAlumnipalooza, eight alumni

return to campus to help Pomona Collegecelebrate Bridges Hall of Musics centen-nial in a very special concert. Alumni in-clude Lucy Shelton 65 and HaydenEberhart 07, sopranos; Katharine Rawdon82, flute; Lucas Harris 96, plucked strings;Kathy Supov 73 and Raj Bhimani 82,piano; Brendon Randall-Myers 09, com-poser/guitar, and Noah Dietterich 09,singer/songwriter. These illustrious alumni

will share an evening concert with musicby Debussy, Dietterich, Dutilleux, Faur,Kohn, Purcell, Randall-Myers, Rossini andStravinsky. Free admission with open seat-ing; no tickets. Doors open approximately30 minutes prior to performance. 8 p.m.Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St.,Claremont. Contact Elizabeth Champion [email protected] NEW PLAY FESTIVALEach year, all members of the ClaremontColleges community are invited to submitnew plays around acommon theme for the10-Minute New Play Festival. In this sea-son the theme is Self Discovery. Winnersare selected in December and the depart-ment produces the plays with student di-rectors and performers. Open seating, notickets. 4 p.m. Seaver Theatre, 300 E.Bonita Ave., Claremont. Contact MicheleMiner, [email protected].

RE-DO GENEALOGY RESEARCHHal Horrocks is a professional genealo-

gist, teacher, author and lecturer and hasbeen doing family research for 15 yearsHe is a member of several professionalgenealogical associations and is the cur-rent president of the Orange County Cal-ifornia Genealogical Society (OCCGS)headquartered at the Huntington BeachCentral Library. The program, which isopen to the public, will be held in theCommunity Room of the Pomona Public

Library, 625 S. Garey Ave., Pomona,from 2 to 4 p.m.THEATERCelebrate Valentines Daywith a special pre-show improv basedon an audience members love storyfollowed by Christopher Durangs TonyAward-winning play, Vanya and Soniaand Masha and Spike, directed bycompany co-founder, Caitlin Lopez.Tickets for this weekends shows in-clude a glass of wine, beer or non-alco-holic beverage and a triple chocolatebrownie or salted caramel apple cheese-cake. $32-$35. Saturday and Sunday,February 13 and 14. The Theatre Com-pany Performing Arts Studio, 1400 NBenson, Upland. Visit opheliasjump.org

for more information.PLETHORA OF PLUCKED STRINGSJack Sanders, Jason Yoshida and LucasHarris perform solos, duos and trios onlutes, baroque guitars and 19th centuryand modern classical guitars. The pro-gram features the music of Antoine deLhoyer and Brendon Randall-Myers. 8p.m. Free admission. Bridges Hall ofMusic, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.

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AUGIES COFFEE HOUSE/ LAMINUTE: 536 W. First St., ClaremontPacking House. Open daily. (909) 798-2255.

Through March 31: Claremont nativeKris Wimberly is a storyboard artist work-ing on popular TV shows at studios like

Nickelodeon, Disney and Warner Bros.and is also creator/host of The AnimationNetworkpodcast. Opening reception:Saturday, February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.

BUDDHAMOUSE EMPORIUM:

134 Yale Ave., Claremont. Open dailyfrom 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. bud-dhamouse.com. (909) 626-3322.

Through February 28: Mosaic byJeff Buckwell. His vibrant, hyper-hy-drated swirl painting style, confinedwithin a dark grout-like construct, pro-vides a bold ancient mosaic appear-ance. Opening reception: Meet the artiston Saturday, February 6 from 6 to 8 p.m.Refreshments will be provided.

CLAREMONT COMMUNITYFOUNDATION ART GALLERY: 205Yale Ave., Claremont Chamber of Com-merce. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to4 p.m. (909) 398-1060.

Through February 26: Love Letter to

Claremont by Terry Givens. Mr. Givenshas enjoyed a 28-year teaching career ofvisual art and photography and has workedwith a variety of media. Mr. Givens currentwork depicts a personal view of Claremontin sketches and drawings. Opening recep-tion:Saturday, February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.

CLAREMONT FORUM BOOK-SHOP & GALLERY: 586 W. First St.,Claremont Packing House. Sunday throughThursday, noon to 7 p.m.; Friday and Sat-urday, noon to 9 p.m. (909) 626-3066.

Through March 2: The Prison LibraryProject presents A Prisoner and ParoleeArt Show. Opening reception: Saturday,February 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. with special

presentation: Conversation with a Liferat 7:30 p.m.; learn the realities of prison

from a former life inmate.

CLAREMONT MARKET PLACE:206 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont Har-vard Square.

Through March 31: Bella Italia pre-sented by Pamela J. Photography. Worksfocus on observation, nature and the humancondition, culture and architecture. Com-

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