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Splish, splash at citywading pools

Claremont parents and kids 5 andunder have a bonus way to stay coolthis summer. The community wadingpools reopen for the summer season be-ginning this Monday, June 17.

The pool at El Barrio Park is open onTuesdays and Thursdays, the pool atWheeler Park is open Mondays,Wednesdays and Fridays while the Me-morial Park pool is open Mondaythrough Friday. Operating hours are11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. through Friday,August 23.

For more information, includingweekend rentals, call 399-5490.

Camp Claremont atWheeler Park

Camp Claremont kicks off this Mon-day, June 17 at Wheeler Park, 626 VistaDr., and continues through August 9.

Camp Claremont is held at the localpark on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.Participants will engage in team-build-ing exercises, arts and crafts and sports.The curriculum also includes escapingthe summer heat with some watergames.

The city-funded program requires aone-time registration fee of $10, in ad-dition to the $15 cost per week/perchild. The price includes a camp shirtand breakfast and lunch provided bythe Claremont Unified School District.For more information, call 399-5490.

Drop in and get fit atthe Hughes Center

Claremonts Community and Human

Services Department is offering a vari-ety of drop-in exercise classes in addi-tion to the typical summer offerings at

the Hughes Center. Classes include anaerobics and Pilates combo on Monday,Wednesday and Saturday mornings at8:30 a.m. and Wednesday evenings at7:15 p.m. and Super Fit on Tuesdayand Thursday mornings at 9 a.m.

Additional drop-in classes includeStroller Strides, Jazzercise and Zumba.The drop-in fee is $10 to $12 per class.The Hughes Center is located at 1700Danbury Rd. For more information,call 399-5490.

Self-defense class forteens and adult women

A course on self-defense for womenwill take place this Saturday, June 15from noon to 2 p.m. at the Hughes Cen-ter, 1700 Danbury Rd.

Hosted by the Community andHuman Services Department, the pro-gram will provide a comprehensive

course of practical self-defense tipsgeared towards teen and adult women.This class is based on the psychologyof victim-avoidance combined withthrowing, grappling, striking and othertechniques typically found in Judo.Cost for the workshop is $25 per per-son.

Hey, teens: Get social,play games

The Claremont Library will host freeteen game days every Tuesday fromJune 25 through July 30 from 1:30 p.m.to 3:30 p.m. Locals aged 12 to 18 areinvited to socialize over new and clas-

sic board games. For more information,call 621-4902 or visit the librarys web-site at colapublib.org.

Claremonter graduateswith honors

Lauren Heminger of Claremont justreceived her bachelors degree in lib-eral arts with department honors andsumma cum laude from the Universityof La Verne. She will return to ULV inthe fall to begin studies toward earningher masters degree.

Ms. Heminger attended Condit, ElRoble and Claremont High schools.She has also traveled to Ireland andLondon and will be going to Budapest,Hungry with her sister and ReviveChurch on a mission trip this July.

Two Pilgrim Placeresidents honored forachievements

At its commencement on May 21,the Claremont School of Theologyawarded an honorary doctorate to Dr.John Cobb Jr., PhD. Dr. Cobb is arenowned process theologian andUnited Methodist. Dr. Cobb has writ-

ten, co-written, or edited more than 50books, including Christ in a Pluralis-tic Age, God and the World, and Forthe Common Good (with HermanDaly), which was the co-winner of theGrawemeyer Award for Ideas Improv-ing World Order.

Dr. Cobb was the Ingraham professorof theology at CST, Avery professor atthe Claremont Graduate School, Full-bright professor at the University of

Mainz in Germany and visiting profes-sor at Vanderbilt, Harvard and ChicagoDivinity Schools. He pioneered a theol-ogy that is both Christocentric as wellas accepting in its approach to otherfaiths, and includes ecological concernsas an essential and interrelated part ofthat theology, for the sake of futuregenerations.

Pilgrim Place resident Paul Minus, aretired educator and later involved inseveral nonprofits linking ethics andeconomics, received the Social Respon-sibility Award from LeadingAge Cali-fornia, the states leading advocate forquality, not-for-profit senior living andcare.

The most recent achievement of Mr.Minus involved raising funds for a re-modeled resident activity center at Pil-grim Place called the Napier Center forCreative Change, in honor of deceasedresidents Davie and Joy Napier.

Mr. Minus realized that the potentialfor the program extended further andspearheaded the effort to create theNapier Awards, a fellowship programthat brings together students from theClaremont Colleges interested in proj-ects reflecting various aspects of socialresponsibility, and matching them withmentors and elders at Pilgrim Placewith experience in similar programs.

Mr. Minus was recognized at theLeadingAge California Annual Confer-ence, held earlier this month in Mon-terey, California.

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