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COURIER photo/Peter WeinbergerIt was a big day for Claremont Saturday when the Claremont Community Performance Stage was of-ficially blessed by the many people whose hard work made it all possible. Heres the ribbon-cuttingwith Maureen Aldridge, left, Corey Calaycay, David Lincoln, Diana Miller, Paul Wheeler and MarylouFerry from Pomona College.

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Claremont COURIER/Friday, January 15, 2016 2

T he Claremont City Council tackled anumber of topics at its Tuesday, Jan-uary 12 meeting including an ordi-nance on the citys cannabis code,enhancing the Monte Vista and Base Line

intersection and taking a first look at theMetro Gold Line extension through the city.At the start of the gathering, Claremonts newest po-

lice officer, T.J. Robinson, was introduced and sworn inby Claremont Police Chief Paul Cooper.Officer Robinson joined the Los Ange-les County Sheriffs Department in2013. He was previously the athletic director at Our Ladyof Assumption Church and an emergency medical tech-nician for Cole-Schaefer.

Officer Robinsons badge was pinned on by his father,Ted Robinson.

I would like to thank everyone for allowing me towork in the city of Claremont and for a very, very gooddepartment, Officer Robinson said.

The Claremont City Council passed an ordinancethat bans dispensaries, manufacturers, cultivation anddelivery of marijuana within the city, with exceptionsmade for residents who use it for medical purposes.

Local governments have until March 1 to pass suchordinances to keep medical marijuana under local controlor face regulation from the state.

The Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act(MMRSA) was passed by the state in October of 2015.MMRSA includes three billsAB 266, AB 243 and SB465which aim to regulate medical marijuana in Cali-fornia, including its sale, manufacturing and distribution.

The citys municipal code prohibited only the sale anddistribution of marijuana within residential zones, ac-cording to Director of Community Development BrianDesatnik, but did not address cultivation or growing.

During discussion at the council meeting, City Attor-ney Sonia Carvalho pointed out that the March 1 dead-

linemandated within AB 243was an erroraccording to the writer of the bill, Assemblymember JimWood. An extension was in the works to alleviate pres-sure to local governments to meet the deadline, but morelegislative delays eliminated that possibility.

Today we learned that there are some complicationson that. Some people are saying that extension may notbe approved before March 1, Ms. Carvalho said.

Ms. Carvalho was very clear on what this ordinancestipulates, preserving the status quo of the citys rightto ban growing marijuana in warehouses or large plots,

as well as the commercialization of marijuana until theproper policies are created.

By adopting this tonight, youre going to preserveyour rights, Ms. Carvalho said. If you did not prohibitcultivation, youre going to be subject to state laws whichare going to allow cultivation in the warehouses or openfields and whatnot. So youre just preserving your rightstonight.

Claremont codes stipulate that an individual who hasa valid medical marijuana card may grow between six toeight plants for personal or caregiver use.

During comment, Councilmembers Joe Lyons, SamPedroza and Larry Schroeder all reiterated that the ordi-nance is just to keep local control, and that it leaves thedoor open for reconsideration in the future.

I hate to sound like a clich, and I think Gavin New-som got busted for saying this, but, folks, its going tohappen, Mr. Pedroza said to applause from some au-dience members. Marijuana is going to be legal at onepoint, and what were trying to do is have that local con-trol.

Mr. Pedroza noted that cultivation would still be anissue even if marijuana were fully legalized, citing sim-ilar regulations with alcohol.

We have breweries in town and we have certain rulesthat they have to abide by, Mr. Pedroza said.

The ordinance passed unanimously.The council also took a first look at the proposed

Metro Gold Line extension that will one day make itsway through Claremont.

Habib Balian, the CEO of the Foothill Gold Line Ex-tension Construction Authority, presented the proposalfor an elevated bridge across Indian Hill Boulevard. Thebridge will be built to alleviate traffic and to reduce gate-

Marijuana, Gold Line and a new cop highlight council meeting

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Photo courtesy of Bevin HandelClaremonts newest police officer, TJ Robinson, hashis badge pinned on by his father Ted.

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Plan BDear Editor:

Some suggestions for the police sta-tion:

1. Explore the acquisition of morecentrally located properties, such as thenow-vacant Hibbard Chevrolet property.

2. Use the existing property more effi-ciently by moving the existing parkingoff-site and expanding the current build-ing. There is excess parking available atchurches within a few blocks of the po-lice station, especially St. Ambrose andClaremont Presbyterian Church. Perhapsan arrangement could be made to parkstaff and police vehicles on off-site prop-erties. Dick Johnson

Claremont

Naming namesDear Editor:

I throughly enjoy the Police Blottersoften tongue-in-cheek ridicule of bum-

bling burglars, dubious drunks and itin-erant crack heads, and the publication of those peoples names usually seems likea fitting part of the punishment for theircrimes. If my first bad decision on a Fri-day night is to go to Piano, Piano andmy last is to try to punch a cop, Ill de-serve it when the COURIER publishesmy name along with the gruesome de-tails. But couldnt there be an exceptionto that rule, like in the case of a personwho is suffering from severe mental ill-ness or in the midst of a psychoticbreak?

Recently, when I read about a well-known Claremont transient in a schaden-freude-riffic drunk-in-public account, I

wished (not for the first time) that notevery arrest was fair game. Was it reallynecessary to publish his name? Anyone

who spends much time in the Villageknows this person and knows his strug-glespossible public intoxication beingthe least of them.

We would have known who the storywas about, whether hed been identified

or not. For anyone else, his name is irrel-evant anyway, unless theres someoneout there who knows how to help him (Isure dont).

Perhaps Im risking my own embar-rassment by sending you this letter, towhich I will sign my name for all to see.But I guess Id rather suffer the conse-quences of outing myself in defense of aguy whose luck ran out a long time agothan suffer the feeling of being complicitin a crime after reading the Police Blot-ter. Sarah Barnes

Claremont

[Editors note: Thank you, Sarah, foryour thoughtful letter. We dont always

know who people are, as in this case, buteven when we do, our policy is to treateveryone the samewhether they are acouncilmembers cousin, the son of alocal business owner or, in this case,someone whose luck ran out. Were hereto cover the news, good or bad, and wefrequently suffer the consequences of this often-tough business. When you liveand work in a community your entirelife, not a day goes by that you arentasked to make an exception, Just thisone time. We have to be steadfast onour policies or the exceptions becomethe norm and the objectivity our readersdeserve will be lost. Still, youve cer-tainly given us something to consider

here. You have my word, I most sin-cerely will. KD ]

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Claremont COURIER/Friday, January 15, 2016 4CITY NEWS

Tuesday, January 5Claremont police arrested a Pomona

woman after she was seen harassingdrivers in the Trader Joes parking lot.Officers arrived to the 400 block of WestFoothill Boulevard at approximately9:11 p.m. after witnesses claimed 30-year-old Misti Honea was banging onwindows of passing cars, according toLt. Mike Ciszek. Officers ran her recordand discovered she had three outstand-ing warrants through Claremont and LaVerne. Ms. Honea was arrested and sentto the Claremont jail where she wasbooked and held for court.

Wednesday, January 6A Victorville man was arrested twice

within the span of nine hours. BenjaminHill, 43, was first arrested after he stum-bled into the AM/PM on Foothill Boule-vard, showing signs of being under theinfluence. When officers arrived at about2:15 a.m., they determined Mr. Hill wasunder the influence of methampheta-mine. He was arrested and sent to CPD

jail, where he was released at 9 a.m.Claremont police dispatch then re-

ceived a call at 11:11 a.m. from someonewho said he needed to go to the policestation, and was under the influence of narcotics, according to Lt. Ciszek. Whenofficers arrived to the source of the callon Arrow and Indian Hill, they againfound Mr. Hill. A records check revealeda warrant out of San Bernardino Countythat did not show up when Mr. Hill waspreviously arrested. He was taken inagain and transferred to West Valley De-tention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Friday, January 8Claremont police arrested a Pomona

man after witnesses saw him tagging inEvey Canyon. Eddie Parada Jr., 25, wasapprehended at 3:38 p.m. on Mt. BaldyRoad after a records check revealed hehad a warrant out for his arrest. Mr.Parada and two of his friends were al-legedly tagging a street guard rail in thearea. Mr. Parada was transported to CPD

jail where he was booked.* * * *

Gilbert Armendarez thought it wouldbe a great idea to walk into Norms andtry to get a free meal. At about 7:32 p.m.,the Ontario resident, 57, attempted a

classic dine and dash, walking outwithout paying. The staff at Norms werequick to react and placed him under aprivate persons arrest. When police ar-rived, they discovered Mr. Armendarezhad five outstanding warrants. He wasarrested and booked at CPD jail.Sunday, January 10

Claremont police are looking for aman who pointed a handgun at a womanafter she caught him breaking in to herhusbands truck. The incident happenedat the Knights Inn at 7 a.m., when thewoman saw the man gaining entry to theGMC truck. When the woman con-fronted the burglar, he fled into an await-ing car whose driver was pointing a gunat her as the car sped away. The car is de-scribed as a black Honda or Toyotasedan. Nothing was stolen from thetruck, according to Lt. Ciszek. Anyonewith information should contact the po-lice department at (909) 399-5411.

* * * *Two women were arrested Sunday

morning after one was caught in posses-sion of a pair of metal knuckles. The in-cident happened at about 10 a.m. on the3300 block of Yankton Avenue, where

Elizabeth Pazos, 41, of Rancho Cuca-monga was the passenger in a car pulled

over for a defective brake light and tintedwindows. The male driver of the car wason probation through San BernardinoCounty, according to police. A furthercheck of the car, which belonged to Ms.Pazos, revealed the knuckles on the frontpassenger floorboard. Ms. Pazos was ar-rested for being in possession of metalknuckles. She told police she had just leftthe house where Ondina Cota, 54, wasstaying. Ms. Cota was well-known to theofficer. A records check revealed that Ms.

Cota had a warrant out for her arrest forburglary and petty theft, so officers wentto the house, where she was arrested. Ms.Pazos was released with a notice to ap-pear. Ms. Cota was held for bail/court.Monday, January 11

A witness saw 26-year-old DanielHuerta trying to steal a bike from thebike rack at the Claremont Depot at ap-proximately 5:43 a.m., according to Lt.Ciszek. When police arrived, they foundburglary tools in Mr. Huertas posses-sion. Mr. Huerta was also under the in-fluence of methamphetamine. Thewould-be bike thief was arrested by po-lice and sent to CPD jail, where he waslater released with a citation for allcharges. Matthew Bramlett

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down time caused by the Metrolink and other trains.The Indian Hill crossing will be the only grade separa-

tion to be constructed in the city. The rest of the stretch isproposed to be at grade, or street level, according to MetroGold Line Director of Public Affairs Lisa Levy Buch.

The proposed Gold Line plans will be available forpublic input at two separate meetings in the comingweeksone on Monday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in thecouncil chamber and a second during the Village Mar-

keting Group meeting on Wednesday, February 3 at 8a.m. in the council chamber.The city will take the input from those meetings and

work with the Gold Line Construction Authority to pro-vide direction, Mr. Pedroza said.

The Glendora to Montclair section of the Gold Line,which will stretch 12.3 miles, is estimated to cost $1.2billion, the majority of which may be funded through anew sales tax in LA County that will appear on the No-vember 2016 ballot, according to Metro. If the tax passes,the Gold Line will break ground in 2017 and is expectedto take six years to complete.

A plan to overhaul the busy intersection of Monte VistaAvenue and Base Line Road was presented by City En-gineer Loretta Mustafa.

Ms. Mustafa explained that the plan includes the cre-ation of one extra left-turning lane on the westbound sideof Base Line and the installation of protected left turnsignals, or a signal without the permissive green dot, tocut down on the number of accidents involving west-bound turning cars and eastbound cars.

Contracts were awarded to a number of constructionfirms, including $60,214 to Pavement Coatings Com-pany; $18,707 to PTM General Engineering Services tocover the traffic signal modification; and $27,339 to Traf-fic Management, Inc. for traffic control installations.

The city will use $15,292 received from Taylor Mor-rison, the developer of the Citrus Glen on Padua and BaseLine. An additional $90,968 will come from Transporta-tion Impact Fees, money collected from developers of residential projects that are earmarked for work that im-proves traffic conditions, according to city documents.

The total cost to the city for the project is $106,260.Construction will begin on February 15.

The next city council meeting is January 26.Matthew [email protected]

CITY COUNCIL/ from page 2 Police station ad hoc committeetries to put the past behind them

I n what could also be called an airing of grievances, the first official meeting of the ad hoc committee for a new policestation convened Wednesday.The meeting is the first step in the journey towardbuilding a new facility for Claremont. The 15-membercommittee was joined in the Citrus Room by MayorCorey Calaycay, City Manager Tony Ramos and As-sistant to the City Manager Brian McKinney, as well asClaremont Police Chief Paul Cooper, Captain ShelleyVander Veen and Police Commissioner Ed Reece.

The committee emerged from the ashes of MeasurePS, which failed by a nearly three-to-one margin in No-vember 2015. Mr. Calaycay began the meeting by put-ting the issue to bed.

As we begin, we can recognize two things havingcome out of PS: First, without sugarcoating it, PS lostmiserably, Mr. Calaycay said. The second thing, atleast for those appointed here who did not support PS,is that there is a recognized need for a new facility.

The new committee is a mixture of Claremonterswho supported PS and those who did notmajor PSproponents Betty Crocker, Frank Bedoya and MichaelShea are among the group, as well as vocal opponentsMark Sterba and Sally Seven.

Mr. Shea was encouraged to serve as chair of thecommittee, however, he said he wasnt the right per-son for the job.

After a vote, Mr. Sterba was selected as chair, withMarci Horowitz chosen as vice-chair. Mr. Sterba useda medical analogy to describe the kind of work thatneeds to be done to craft a winning proposal.

I think for this committee to be successful, medica-tion is not going to fix it, Mr. Sterba said. Its goingto require surgery.

The lone public commenter at the meetingwhich istechnically not under the rules of the Brown Act but is

set up in a similar way for the sake of orderwas DougLyon, who urged the committee to remember past mis-takes and use what they learned to move forward.

Members of the committee submitted questions and

concerns regarding the previous measure and sharedwhat ideas they had for the potential new facility. Ques-tions included the financial feasibility of certain ameni-ties, size, location and how to package the initiative toskeptical voters. Many committee members offeredideas about contracting out certain costly details, suchas a jail, an impound lot and a community room.

Ms. Horowitz began the question session by offer-ing up a possible combo facility, noting that she hadonce seen a police station merged with a senior center.Can we meet more than one need, to give us the mostvalue for the dollar spent? she asked.

Helaine Goldwater noted she had an issue with a 40-year bond paying for technology that could be obsoletein a fraction of that time. She also lamented the lack of educating the public on PS.

This is a community that thrives on education, Ms.Goldwater said. Unfortunately, we did not have thetime to do a good job on education.

Hal Hargrave wanted to know if there were anypieces of land that may have come up since 2013, whenparcels were initially mapped for PS locations. JimKeith wondered why a police station couldnt be builtsouth of the railroad tracks.

Mr. Hargrave went on the offensive early in the meet-ing, telling Claremont University Consortium CEO StigLanesskog that the $1 million donation from the CUCwas a joke. Mr. Lanesskog, an ad hoc committeemember, explained that it was city staff who hadreached out and asked him for the $1 million.

We did not come up with that number, he said.Dissatisfied with the response, Mr. Hargrave pressed

further. Can you give 10 [million]? he asked.The former Claremont Golf Course currently owned

by the CUC also came up in conversation as a potentialsite. But Mr. Lanesskog reiterated what the Collegeshave said all along: it is not for sale.

It is for future growth of the Colleges, he said.Throughout the meeting, questions were logged by

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C het and Eileen Jaeger celebrated alandmark anniversary on Wednes-day.The Claremonters have been married for 70 years,

sharing a life that revolves around music and family andis firmly rooted in the City of Trees.

The COURIER caught up with the venerable pair thispast Monday at their Alamosa Drive home, which theybuilt on a half-acre of land in 1964.

Like every home, it tells a story.Jazz memorabilia, a living room-adjacent stage and Mr.

Jaegers collection of cornets and clarinets point to his ca-reer as a musician, including his longtime leadership of the Dixieland jazz group the Night Blooming Jazzmen.

In the kitchen youll find Chets enormous collectionof frog figurines, which is only rivaled by Eileens gar-gantuan giraffe collection, signs of the quirky sense of hu-mor that has helped the couple weather lifes roughpatches.

And in the hallway theres a display of family Christ-mas cards dating from 1948. The first features a photocontaining just Mr. and Ms. Jaeger and their first child.This years edition, by contrast, shows the exponential

power of love. The number of subjects in the annual photohas ballooned to include 46 family members, includingfive children, 14 grandchildren and eight great-grand-children as well as their respective spouses.

Mr. Jaeger is a decided extrovert. He did most of thetalking as he and his wife sat side-by-side, a fire crack-ling in the fireplace, discussing a relationship that was ini-tially taboo.

It was World War II and Chet, a member of the USArmy Air Corps, had been transferred for three monthsto Asheville, North Carolina where he was trained to en-code weather data and transmit it via Morse code.

He was at the local USO hall, playing his cornet withan impromptu jazz ensemble, and needed someone tohold his sheet music. A pretty young USO hostess namedEileen obliged.

The hostesses werent supposed to date the servicemen,

just keep them company for the duration of the dance.However the couple, both 19, were smitten and set a ren-dezvous. Neither remembers what movie they went tosee, but their attraction was so strong they were engageda week later.

Things have to move fast in wartime. Shortly after-wards, Chet was sent overseas for 14 months whileEileen waited impatiently at home.

Mr. Jaeger was briefly stationed in India before spend-

ing 10 months at a remote Wilderness Weather Station inChinas Hunan province. Mr. Jaegers station was so re-mote that he and his colleagues didnt find out the warwas over until two weeks after V-E Day.

His time in China was a peaceful experience. Afterstudying the clouds and thermometers and transmittingthe conditions to a nearby air base, Chet was free to passthe time as he wished. He spent a lot of time playing cor-net.

An Irving Berlin tune was popular at the time, and itslyrics reminded him of his bride-to-be: I left my heart atthe stage door canteen/I left it there with a girl namedEileen.

If his service was tranquil, his return was tumultuous.Mr. Jaeger boarded a World War I-era cruiserset to bescrapped upon arrival to the United Statesand traveledfrom Sri Lanka to New York. He expected to be home byChristmas. Instead, he and his fellow passengers hit a his-toric squall. At times he suspected he would die on thewave-tossed and wind-battered ship, whose log oncenoted negative-nine miles progress in nine days.

It was the longest Atlantic crossing since Colum-bus, Mr. Jaeger said.When he finally arrived in Asheville on New Years

Eve, there was a surprise waiting for him. His parents haddecided it was high time they met his fiance and her fam-ily. They traveled to North Carolina and were ensconcedat Eileens house when Chet arrived.

The family suggested they go ahead and get marriedwhile everyone was there. They were wed less than twoweeks later, on January 13, 1946. The groom wore hisdress uniform. Eileen bought a pretty suit.

Mr. Jaeger was a Claremont boy. He went throughSycamore School, then called Claremont ElementarySchool, and attended junior high and high school in theold Claremont School House. After his 1942 gradua-tion, he had gotten in a year at Pomona College before be-ing inducted into the Army Air Corps.

After a brief honeymoon in the local mountains, he andhis wife climbed into a 1932 Chevy, which they boughtfor $800, and traveled west across the country. The bat-tered automobile barely survived the trip, but they madeit to California.

Thanks to funding from the GI Bill, Mr. Jaeger wasable to complete his studies at Pomona College as wellas earn a masters degree from Claremont GraduateSchool. He took his first job teaching at Citrus HighSchool, followed by a move to Chaffey High, from whichhe retired in 1985. Veterans benefits helped again whenhe and Eileen purchased their first home, on Green Streetin Claremont, via a loan through the California VeteransAssociation.

Once the oldest of the Jaegers five children was inkindergarten, Ms. Jaeger went back to school and earnedher teaching credential. She took a job teaching at Moun-tain View Elementary School in Claremont, staying therefor 24 years before retiring in 1986.

Through it all, Mr. Jaeger performed with numerous

jazz ensembles, helping earn extra money for his familywhile pursuing his passion for music. Asked if she likes

jazz as well, Eileen laughed. Id better like it, she said.Chets folks were practical when they urged him to get

married while the family was gathered together. He andEileen decided to pursue the same course this holiday sea-son. Seeing as the kids, grandkids and great-grandkidswere going to gather in Claremont for Christmas, they de-cided to celebrate their anniversary then.

They assembled to toast Chet and Eileen, and to posefor the ever-expanding annual Christmas photograph, onDecember 27.

When someone has been married seven decades, itbegs the question: How do two people stay together solong and so happily?

Mr. Jaeger attributes his success to two all-importantwords: Yes, maam.

Things are generously harmonious between he andEileen. He can only recall one big spat, which took placein the early 80s. Ms. Jaeger had been watching the TVshow Knight Rider and took it into her head that shewanted to buy a Pontiac Trans Am. Chet had read that thecar was poorly-made and was dead-set against it.

I said, Its not going to talk to you. Its not going tofly, he recalls.

Ms. Jaeger prevailed and, as it turned out, they drovethat Pontiac 100,000 miles with no trouble at all. Yes,maam, indeed.

The Night Blooming Jazzmen, featuring Mr. Jaeger oncornet, will perform their annual Jazz Service on Sunday,February 7 at 10 a.m. at Claremont Presbyterian Church,located at 1111 N. Mountain Ave. All are welcome.

Sarah [email protected]

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Couple celebrates love, happiness and all that jazz

Photo courtesy of Chet JaegerThe Jaeger clan gather in front of Chet and Eileens Claremont home on Alamosa Drive. The family includesfive children, 14 granchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

When Mr. Sterba proposed thenext meeting be held in three

weeks, the city manager ex-plained he needed at least 45 days torespond fully to every query the com-mittee raised.

Mr. Ramos indicated the city wanted to hit theground running to draft up a new police station pro-posal as soon as possible.

I dont want this [committee] to last more thansix months, he said.

After the meeting, Mr. Reece expressed optimismat what the committee could accomplish in themonths ahead.

I have high confidence that this group will makeit work, he said.

The next meeting will be on March 9 at 6 p.m. inthe Padua Room at the Hughes Community Center.

Matthew [email protected]

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T rains. They continue to be an inte-gral part of the American experi-ence. They are the stuff of history,of folklore and of nearly everyones per-sonal experience. My first encounter wastaking the Santa Fe Super Chief to Chicagowith my family in the 1950s.

I have vivid recollections of the dining car, the sleep-ers and especially of the Vista-Dome observation car thatbecame cemented in my memory when, the followingChristmas I received the Lionel Super Chief train set.

A few weeks ago, my wife organized a trip withfriends into LA via the Metrolink to visit the newly re-opened Cliftons Cafeteria. And just before Christmas,we took our six- and four-year-old grandchildren toWilliams, Arizona to take The Polar Express train ride tothe North Pole.

These recent train encounters started me thinkingabout how railroads have played such an important rolein the history of Claremont. In reality, if it were not forthe Santa Fe Railroad, there would be no Claremont. Hadit not been for the routing of the railroad along the north-ern route, rather than to the south near the Southern Pa-cific tracks, Claremont would have become part of Pomona.

The Southern Pacific arrived in southern California afull 11 years before the Santa Fe. It had a monopoly onroutes and fares in southern California and it was relent-less in wrangling financial incentives from the towns itfavored. Failure to provide the subsidies requested by theSouthern Pacific could leave a town bypassed and sub-

ject to economic stagnation.The owners of the Southern Pacific, also known as the

Big FourMark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, CharlesCrocker and Collis P. Huntingtonhad fought to main-tain their monopoly. When San Bernardino refused tosubsidize the Southern Pacific, the tracks were laid to thesouth through what is now Colton, because the city hadgiven the railroad a square mile of property in payment.San Bernardino struggled economically for a decade

until the Santa Fe arrived. The Southern Pacific con-trolled large areas of land that it had been granted by thegovernment. Its power was resented by local citizens andgovernments alike. It had become the sole arbiter of which areas of the state were developed.

The only solution was competition that came in theform of the Santa Fe Railroad. The Santa Fe had built asfar as Albuquerque in 1873, and to Needles in 1883.There, on the border of California, the Santa Fe con-fronted the Southern Pacific. The Santa Fe had three al-ternatives: construct a line parallel to the SouthernPacific; stop at Needles and end its quest to reach the Pa-cific Ocean; or purchase the Mojave division of theSouthern Pacific and enter into terms for use of its tracksto reach the coast. Santa Fe chose the latter and, aftermuch negotiation, reached an agreement with the South-ern Pacific.

Santa Fe then purchased two local lines, the Califor-nia Southern that ran from National City in San DiegoCounty to San Bernardino and the Los Angeles and SanGabriel Valley Railroad that ran from Los Angeles to theSan Gabriel River. All that remained was to link theserailways to together.

Enter Henry A. Palmer, the father of Claremont andthe president of the Pomona Land and Power Company,who convinced the Santa Fe Railroad that a route northof the Southern Pacific would result in the developmentof more speculative towns. Joining Palmer was I.W. Lordof Lordsburg, now La Verne, who had developed thattown in hopes of railroad access. With much negotiation,Mr. Palmer and Mr. Lord convinced nine other land own-ers along the route to grant right-of-way access. Finally,the Santa Fe was able to reach the Pacific Ocean.

The Santa Fe through Claremont was also important

for the growth of the citrus industry. The first orange treeswere planted in Claremont in 1888. Profits were slim, sothe growers formed a cooperative, the Claremont Cali-fornia Fruit Growers Association, which was the stimu-lus and model for the development of other exchanges insouthern California. The associations formed a larger co-operative that banded together to send California citrus

all around the world. The first carload that left the Clare-mont Santa Fe Depot in early 1893 was the beginning of the statewide Sunkist marketing system. The importanceof the citrus industry to the early prosperity of Claremontwas aided by the arrival of the Santa Fe.

The railways today remain important to the commerceof the country and the movement of goods across the na-tion, although travel by rail has declined significantlysince the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, the tracksthat were laid by the Santa Fe through Claremont andother communities have become the railways of the com-muter trains of Metrolink. These, however, were not thefirst commuter railways to run through Claremont.

The second rail line to come to Claremont was TheOntario and San Antonio Heights trolley, strictly a com-muter line. It ran just north of the Santa Fe tracks, downthe middle of First Street. Later, Henry Huntingtons Pa-

cific Electric Railroad came to Claremont and used thetracks on First Street. The big red cars of the Pacific Elec-tric were a common site in Claremont. The Pacific Elec-tric built a station and a maintenance yard in Claremont,where service continued until 1941. The median on FirstStreet between Indian Hill and College Avenue is whatremains after the tracks were removed in the 1970s.

And now another railway is in the future of Claremont.Just as Metrolink brought back the passenger train, theMetro Gold Line that runs from Union Station in LosAngeles to Pasadena and soon to Azusa, will link toClaremont in the not-to-distant future. Claremont willbecome an even more sought after locale to live and play.

Trains. For Claremont there will always be the SantaFe Railroad. For me, there will always be the SuperChief. And now, for my grandchildren, there will alwaysbe The Polar Express.

The railways that made Claremont by John Neiuber

INTERFAITHFULLY SPEAKING page 14

They are called balls. We throw them and hiteach other and fall down. Its called gravity and

gravitational pull. We all have it.


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I attended Wednesdays in-augural meeting of MayorCorey Calaycays policefacility ad hoc committee, con-ceived to resurrect some planfor an improvement to the po-lice station from the ashes of Measure PS.

It seemed to me that the committee isgoing to have to wrest control of thisproject from city staff to be at all suc-cessful.

This committee was selected by themayor using his own criteria, and at leasteight or nine of the 14 members werepublic supporters of Measure PS or for-mer police commissioners. Only a few,

two or perhaps three, had participated inopposition to the measure. Given thedrubbing suffered by the police facility inthe November election, the committeeseemed a bit stacked against the ex-pressed will of the people.

It seemed odd that, before any discus-sion, the first order of business was to se-lect committee leadership. But that wasthe city staffs agenda.

After two-sentence self-introductionsby each member, Mark Sterba, an oppo-nent of Measure PS, was elected chair.There seemed to be little heart among themembers to take the reins of the commit-tee. Even Mr. Sterbas nominated oppo-

nent, Michael Shea, voted for him.The vice-chair, proponent Marci

Horowitz, was nominated by acclama-tion. There wasnt exactly a scramble forthe leadership posts. Several nomineesdeclined the honor.

In the roundtable discussion that fol-lowed, it was surprising to hear so manyarguments in opposition raised, even byproponents of the measure.

The common theme was that this proj-ect needed to go back to the drawingboard, not just back to the table. Somespecific issues raised included: The im-pound lot as a profit center. Is it worth itgiven the land required? The public meet-ing room and parking required for it. Isthat necessary in a community with somany meeting rooms? The jail facility.Are there better alternatives? What aboutpartnerships with other local law en-forcement?

What about making use of other cityfacilities, such as the built but unfinishedsecond floor of the city yard building and,generally, the underutilized space there?

Surprisingly, for Claremont, even useof the prevailing wage was questioned(adds 30 percent to construction costs), aswas the expensive LEED premium.

The Monte Vista location was univer-sally panned. There seemed to be senti-ment for keeping the main police stationin the center of town, probably at its cur-rent site, and working harder to make useof the existing building.

If I were a betting man, Id bet the cur-rent building is not so unusable as theMeasure PS proponents would like us tobelieve. Even an architect on the com-mittee voiced that idea, and there wasnothing in the two three-inch binders of

material to refute it.Given the urgency continually cited by

proponents to do something, I was a bitsurprised by the business-as-usual atti-tude of city staff. When Mr. Sterbawanted to set the next committee meet-

ing in three weeks, the city manager tookcharge of the schedule and said he neededat least six and a half weeks to respond toquestions brought up at the meeting. Inthe end, a long date was selected for thenext meeting: March 9, nearly twomonths out. It will be interesting to see if Mr. Sterba and the vice-chair Ms.Horowitz can shake city staff and themayorwho did not intervene at thispointout of their complacency.

Mr. Sterba expressed some frustrationat not wanting to lose all that time, andoffered at least one idea to get some workdone in parallel while city staff meandersalong; he probably has some others.

The city manager seems to have some

kind of six-month timeline in mind,which may be oriented to attempting toget a measure on the ballot by November2016. That is a pipe dream, given theheavy lifting that will have to be done be-fore the election deadline in August.

Not only does this committee and thecity have to ruthlessly scrub the MeasurePS proposal, they have a formidable sales

job to do with the voters if the projectgoing forward requires any voter-ap-proved financing.

If this committee is to meet the heavyexpectations for it, its going to have toup its game.

Mr. Trozpek served as treasurer for thecampaign committee opposing MeasurePS.


Public safety facility: the committee has to up its gameby Ludd A. Trozpek

VIEWPOINT

Gregory Andrew Toliver, a professor,writer and local activist, died on Janu-ary 12, 2016 at Pomona Valley Hospitalafter a three-year battle with vasculardementia. He was 63.

Funeral services will be held on Sat-

urday, January 16 at 1 p.m. at ChristChurch Parish, located at 1127 N. SanAntonio Ave. A full account of Mr. To-livers life will be included in a futureedition of the COURIER.

Gregory Toliver


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Patti Mattison Livingston, a residentof Claremont for more than 70 years,died at her home in Upland on Decem-ber 14, 2015. She was 92.

She was born in Medford, Oregon onMarch 12, 1923, the only child of

Helen and Allen Mattison. She grew upin Medford and in several towns in Cal-ifornia. Her father was an engineer whohelped construct high power linesacross the western United States. Thefamily often moved with him as hechanged job sites, and Patti had tochange schools almost every year. Shewas blessed with wonderful socialskills, which she attributed to learningto make friends during her itinerantchildhood.

While living in Pomona, Patti mether future husband, Clarence DocLivingston, a pilot in the Marine Corpsduring WWII. The couple married in1943. Being an only child led her to

dream of having a large and active fam-ily. After the war, they settled in Clare-mont and lovingly raised their fourchildren on a 40-acre lemon grove.

Mrs. Livingston was involved inmany school and scouting organiza-tions as well as the Junior WomensClub. She was also a proud founding

member of the Claremont Friends of the Library in 1957. She took a pro-posal to the Junior Womens Club and,after much planning and numerousmeetings, the organization took shape.

Patti and Doc were avid swingdancers and jazz aficionados. Theyspent countless weekends followingtheir favorite bands across southernCalifornia, often developing lasting

friendships with them. They also spenthours practicing their amazingly fluidand graceful dance moves in the familyliving room with their children as an al-ternately fascinated and bored audi-ence. Mrs. Livingston loved creativewriting and took writing classes whenher children were small. She sometimestook work designing print ads for vari-ous local businesses. When the childrengot older she worked as the manager of Fosters Jewelers in Claremont.

In 1980, the Livingstons moved toCairo, Egypt to work on a project forUS AID. They lived in Cairo for sevenyears and found the abrupt change of culture very exhilarating. Mrs. Liv-ingston wrote long and evocative lettershome to friends and family describingtheir experiences. When they returnedfrom their Egyptian adventure, Docshealth was failing and Patti devotedherself to being his tireless and loving

caregiver. This nurturing greatly en-hanced his final years, and capped atruly unique and enduring marriage.

In 1994, Mr. Livingston passedaway. In 2003, Mrs. Livingston sold thefamily home in Claremont and movedinto a cottage at Claremont Manor. Atthe Manor, Patti was able to return to

her writing, and she devoted herself totelling the story of their experiences inEgypt. She also joined a creative writ-ing class and wrote many short storiesabout various subjects including mem-ories from her childhood. She had sev-eral of these stories published invarious anthologies and also the Manornewsletter. She made numerous friendsat the Manor with her inimitable socialacumen.

Patti spent her last years at GraciousLiving in Upland near her daughterMargaret. No matter what her physicalchallenges were, she faced them withgrace and a positive outlook. She wasgrateful for everything her caregiversdid for her.

Patti is survived by her childrenRosemary Livingston, Victor Liv-ingston, Marilyn Livingston and Mar-garet Weiss; her grandchildren Tracy,Kenneth, Trish, Victoria and Dominick,

and her great-grandchildren Lily,Joshua and Grant. She was loved bymany younger friends who called hertheir other mother.

A memorial service will be held onFriday, January 22 at 1 p.m. at ToddMemorial Chapel, located at 325 N. In-dian Hill Blvd. in Claremont.

Patti LivingstonDancer, storyteller, loving matriarch

Ruth Elaine Dare, a longtime resi-dent of Pomona, died peacefully in her

home on December 1, 2015. She was just 18 days shy of her 101st birthday.She was born in Crawford, Nebraska

on December 19, 1914 to George andFlorence Soester. She grew up on afarm, helping with all of the chores andriding a horse to school from the fifththrough eighth grades. Ruth took pianolessons and then, when she was in highschool, bought a clarinet from SearsRoebuck and taught herself to playusing the instruction booklet.

She graduated from Crawford HighSchool in Nebraska and went on to geta degree from Greely State TeachersCollege. She married and moved toCalifornia where she began teaching atthe elementary school level. She con-tinued to teach school, mostly in theWest Covina School District, while sheraised her three children, Dennis, Arlanand Janice.

After her 1975 retirement, she em-barked on a second career. In 1980, sheopened the Ruth Dare Studio, teachingpiano at her home in Pomonas historicLincoln Park district. She was stillteaching piano at 100, and was playingthe piano the day before she died.

Ruth was in the choir at the PilgrimCongregational Church and played

clarinet in the Pomona CommunityConcert Band for more than 30 years,beginning in 1952.

She can be seen on YouTube dis-cussing the concert bands history andplaying Cole Porters Dont Fence MeIn on clarinet. The video is part of thePomona Public Librarys I Am Cali-fornia of the Past project. Ms. Darealso celebrated local history throughher membership in the Pomona Histori-cal Society.

Ms. Dare was also active in PEO in-ternational, an organization devoted to

the educational advancement of women, and the Music Teachers Asso-ciation of California (MTAC). Sheserved as president of the former organ-ization for a time.

Ms. Dare relished going to operasand other music performances, and justthis summer attended each of Clare-monts Concerts in the Park. She lovedreading, especially biographies, andkept her mind sharp by doing the In-land Valley Daily Bulletins crosswordpuzzle each day.

She was also an avid traveler, jour-neying over the years to China, Japan,Australia, Ireland, Mexico, Peru,Guatemala and Israel. When her kids

were young, she took them on roadtrips back to the family farm in Ne-braska. She also twice bought VWcampers and drove them across Europe.She attended all of the MTAC confer-ences held in California and, just twoyears ago, flew to San Jose on her ownto take part in another.

While there was undoubtedly a ge-netic component, Ms. Dares longevityalso stemmed from a healthy diet, in-cluding lots of tofu, and an activelifestyle. She enjoyed practicing yogaat her home and, up until age 95, at-

tended dances at venues like PalomaresPark as often as three or four nights a

week.Ms. Dares musical legacy will liveon through the many students shetaught and inspired. These include herstar pupil Vanessa Garcia, with whomRuth would often give joint recitals andwho now has piano students of herown.

She is survived by her son anddaughter-in-law, Arlan and LeanneDwyer of Lake Arrowhead; her daugh-ter and son-in-law, Janice and DickTakemoto of Rancho Cucamonga; hergrandchildren, Steve Dwyer, Carrie(Rick) and Jamison Edwards (Helen);and great-grandchildren Whitney andSidney.

The family would like to thank thecaregivers who helped keep Ruthhappy and healthy, including ClaudiaBermeo, Morys Tejada, Valerie John-son and Arron Baker.

A memorial service will be held onSaturday, January 16 at 2 p.m. at thePilgrim Congregational Church, lo-cated at 600 N. Garey Ave., in Pomona.A reception held in the fellowship hallwill follow the service.

Ruth DareTeacher, musician, centenarian


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Jocelyn Lyon, a longtime Claremontresident, died on December 8, 2015 atMount San Antonio Gardens, two monthsto the day after her 88th birthday.

Known to all of her friends as Joce,she was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania onOctober 8, 1927 to Ronald and MabelFoulke. Early on, she moved with her par-ents to Illinois where she grew up in Au-rora, a city west of Chicago.

After graduating high school in Au-rora, she studied two years at PrincipiaCollege in Missouri. Taking one year off for some work experience, she trans-ferred to Purdue University for her jun-ior and senior years, graduating there in1950 with a Bachelor of Arts in Educa-tion. Her first jobs following graduationwere in accounting and teaching in theChicago area. Then in 1952, her lifechanged. While vacationing with herbest friend at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,she met her friends cousin WilliamLyon, who would become her first hus-band. For their first date they went sail-ing on Lake Geneva in Bills familys Eboat, a particular type of inland lake sail-boat. Joce never tired of sailing on thelake, as they always called it.

Jocelyn and William had four sons to-gether while Bill worked as an assistanthospital administrator in Cleveland, Pitts-burgh and Gary, Indiana. The familymoved to Bradbury, California in 1966after Bill received a job offer from theCity of Hope. A year and a half afterthat, the family found a permanent homein Claremont, where Jocelyn spent therest of her life.

Once her four sons were all in school,Mrs. Lyon began a 27-year career with theClaremont Unified School District. Shestarted in the district in 1969 as a teacherat Oakmont Elementary, becoming in-terim principal for a brief time there before

being named principal at Mountain ViewElementary. In her role as principal atMountain View, she embraced the fami-lies. She was dedicated to all the childrenand supportive of the parents within theentire school. Despite working as a full-time district employee, she somehowfound the time to get her Master of Edu-cation from Cal Poly, Pomona in1979. Later in her career, she moved intoleadership roles within the district, con-tributing actively within the District Staff Development Program and the English asa Second Language Program (ESL), aswell as serving as program specialist in ad-ministering local, state and federal fundingprograms.

Mrs. Lyon was an avid traveler,once ambitiously taking three of her sonson a camping trip around Europe in 1974in an Audi they bought through the com-panys European delivery program. Shecounted membership in the local Leagueof Women Voters, where she served asco-president alongside Carole Harterfrom 1999 to 2001, among her civic in-

volvements.Ultimately, William and Jocelyn di-

vorced. She remarried for the first time toErnest OByrne, who was also a very avidtraveler. They took many trips together,one of the more adventurous being a jour-ney on the Trans-Siberian railway fromEurope to China. Later, at the robust ageof 81, Joce and her son Jim traveled to theIncan capital of Machu Picchu in Peru,hiking up, down and around the moun-tains while there.

Sadly, Ernie predeceased Joce by 20years in 1995. Fortunately for her, though,while walking in Claremonts botanic gar-den one day, Thomas Burdick introducedhimself to her. Tom became Joces thirdhusband when the two of them married in1999. In 2002, Jocelyn and Tom movedinto the Mount San Antonio Gardens re-tirement center in Claremont, where they

both enjoyed the rest of their lives.Jocelyn is survived by her four sons,

Douglas of Claremont, Kilbourne of Ari-zona, Donald of Glendora and James of La Jolla; her three grandsons, Fredrik, Jo-han and Samuel of Claremont; her daugh-ter-in-law Carina of Claremont, and herbrother Edward Foulke of Naples, Florida.

A memorial service for Mrs. Lyon willbe held on Saturday, January 23 at 3p.m. at the Claremont Friends Quakermeeting hall, located at 727 W. Harri-son Ave. in Claremont. All are invited.There will be a casual reception after-ward.

In lieu of flowers, please send donationsto the Claremont Educational Foundation,112 Harvard Ave., #191, Claremont, CA91711, or to the Cure Alzheimers Fund,34 Washington St., Suite 200, WellesleyHills, MA 02481.

Jocelyn LyonEducator, mother, avid traveler

Sydney Lynn Blanton, a longtimeClaremont resident and owner of theVillage clothing boutique Amelie, diedat home on January 6, 2016, sur-rounded by family. She was 55.

A memorial service will be held onSaturday, January 30 at 11 a.m. in theKingman Chapel at Claremont UnitedChurch of Christ, located at 233 W.Harrison Ave. in Claremont. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that dona-

tions be made to the American CancerSociety.A full account of Ms. Blantons life

will appear in a future edition of theCOURIER.

SydneyBlanton


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Gerald M. Ackerman, a distinguishedart historian, died peacefully at his Clare-mont home on Friday, January 1, 2016.He was 87.

He was born in Alameda, Californiaand grew up in Santa Cruz, the son of

Alois and Eva Sadler Ackerman. He grad-uated from the University of California,Berkeley in 1952 and studied at the Lud-wig Maximilian University in Munich,Germany. He earned his doctorate in arthistory and architecture at Princeton Uni-versity.

Mr. Ackerman taught for six years atBryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania andthen returned to California to teach as as-sociate professor at Stanford Universityfor five years. He moved to Pomona Col-lege in 1970, where he became chairmanof the department of art and art historyand was professor emeritus.

He was the driving force within thedepartment throughout the 1970s, and we

will always be grateful to him for estab-lishing such a strong institutional presencefor art history, Frances Pohl, current de-

partment chair and close friend, said.

Mr. Ackerman was a premiere scholarof 19th century art and renowned for hisbook on the French painter and sculptor

Jean Lon Grme, whom he helped re-introduce to the art world.

He published many other books and ar-ticles on American and European art andacademic theory and is recognized espe-cially for his Bargue-Grme Drawing

Course . The book, which he wrote withthe help of artist Graydon Parrish, is soldin museum book stores and assigned read-ing in many art and drawing classes atschools across the country. His last work,yet-to-be published, was on the JohnNava tapestries at the Our Lady of AngelsCathedral in Los Angeles.

Mr. Ackerman was honored with theexclusive Order of Arts and Letters fromFrance for exceptional achievement, andin 2012 received a medal from the FrenchMinister of Culture. In 2011, he wasawarded Fine Art Connoisseur Maga-

zines Trailblazer Award. Publisher B. EricRhodes said of him, He was one of thefinest art historians of our time and his in-

fluence will be felt for generations.He spoke six languages and traveled allover Europe and the Middle East. He was

passionate about the opera, especiallythose by Wagner, classical music andreading the numerous books he cherished.Jerry will be remembered not only forhis intellect and scholarship, but also forhis quick wit and his generosity.

He was preceded in death in 2014 byhis husband and life-partner of 52 years,the actor and art historian Leonard R. Si-mon, who produced four plays Jerry hadwritten. He was also preceded in death byhis parents, his sister Shirley AckermanSpencer and his niece, Maria SpencerRowe.

Mr. Ackerman is survived by his sisterLois Ackerman Lawson and brother AloisM. Ackerman; nieces Brennie Small,Anusuya StarBear and Laurel Del Pozoand nephews Robert G. Spencer, TracyJohnson, Barry Spencer, Clay Johnson,Steven Spencer and Derek Johnson. Healso leaves 15 great-nieces and nephewsand five great, great-nieces and nephews.

Memorial services in Claremont andSanta Cruz are pending.

Gerald M. Ackerman Art historian, author, professor

June Huston Frink died peacefully onDecember 22, 2015 at the Taylor Houseat Mt. San Antonio Gardens. She had

just celebrated her 99th birthday.She was born in San Dimas on Octo-

ber 16, 1916. She graduated fromBerkeley in 1938, following in the foot-steps of her older sister Evelyn Huston,

and later earned a Master of Arts fromClaremont Graduate School.While teaching high school English in

Oceanside, June met her future husbandLester Frink, who was teaching journal-ism and Spanish at Oceanside-CarlsbadJunior College, now MiraCosta College.In 1941 she and Les, who was the loveof her life, were married.

During World War II, Mr. Frinkserved in Brazil in the Intelligence

Service of the US Army Air Corps.After the war, he took a position atSanta Monica College where he taughtSpanish and Latin American history.June became a guidance counselor atSanta Monica High School and servedin this capacity for 26 years. They builttheir home and lived in Pacific Pal-

isades for 43 years.For many years, they shared a con-suming interest in photography andtravel, using every vacation as an op-portunity to explore various parts of theworld and keep a photographic recordof their experiences. After her hus-bands death in 1986, Mrs. Frink re-mained in their Pacific Palisades homeuntil coming to the Gardens in 1994where she served as chair of the Visual

Aid Committee. She also received cer-tification from the Library of Congressas a Braille transcriber.

Her life at the Gardens was a happyone. She made many friends, whoshared her interest in traveling. Her

love for reading was well-knownamong family and friends. Her niece,Diane Turner, remembers June havingthree or four books on her end tablethat she was reading at the same time.She didnt need glasses to read! Shemade friends with the staff, encourag-ing them in their academic pursuits.

She sent Christmas cards to her friendsevery year, never wanting to removeanyone from her long list.

She was preceded in death by her sis-ters, Evelyn Huston and Ida HustonNagel, and her brother Leonard Huston.She is survived by her nieces JanetHyuck, JoAnn Timmons, Cathy Bellowand Diane Turner, her nephews Johnand Craig Huston and many great- andgreat-great nieces and nephews.

According to her wishes, there wasno memorial service. To honor her life,donations may be made to the Scholar-ship Fund at Mt. San Antonio Gardens,900 E. Harrison Ave., Pomona, CA91767.

June Huston FrinkGuidance counselor, traveler, reader


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Learn the history of Cable Air-port with Active Claremont

Stephen Dunn, manager of Cable Airport in Up-

land, will give a historical overview of the airport atthe next meeting of Active Claremont. The talk willtake place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 21 in theSanta Fe Room at the Hughes Center, 1700 DanburyRd., Claremont. The public is invited to attend. Formore information, call (909) 621-1235.

AYSO spring soccer sign-upsnext week

Claremont AYSO spring co-ed soccer registrationis underway. Walk-in registration will be held in themulti-purpose room of Chaparral Elementary Schoolon Thursday, January 21 and Friday, January 22 from6 to 9 p.m. Players should be registered in advance byvisiting www.eayso.org. Bring proof of payment, andproof of age for first-time new players. Cost for the

spring season is $70. Those who played the fall 2015season pay $50. The spring season runs from March 1to May 14. Visit www.claremontayso.org for more in-formation.

Claremont League to addressmoney in politicsSally Seven will discuss Money in Politics at the

next meeting of the Claremont League of WomenVoters. Ms. Seven, a board member of the League,will base her talk on the national review of theLeagues position on campaign finance. Memberswill then work toward consensus on how campaignfinance should be regulated. The first talk will takeplace at 9:30 a.m. at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, Build-ing D, fourth floor, 875 E. Bonita Ave., Pomona. Thepresentation will be repeated at 7 p.m. at the GarnerHouse Exhibition Center at Memorial Park, 840 N.Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. All are welcome.

City embarks on tree trimming

in north ClaremontThe city will undertake mass tree trimming in northClaremont for the next four to six weeks. The area in-cluded is north of Pomello, east of the ThompsonCreek Trail to the north eastern city line.

City staff emphasized that all city trees are prunedon a regular basis using only the highest profession-ally accepted standards, and in a manner that will en-courage good development while preserving their

health, structure and natural appearance.During this time, traffic control will be in place andminor traffic delays may occur. The activity may re-sult in some noise and extra traffic during this period,so the city asks for patience and understanding.

For more information, contact the CommunityServices Department at (909) 399-5431

Ptanque moves to Larkin ParkPtanque players will now meet each Sunday at 2

p.m. at Larkin Park on Mountain and Harrison Av-enues, at the northeast side of the park. For informa-tion, email [email protected] or call(909) 399-5488.


Mary Ann Clesceri, a longtime resi-dent of Phillips Ranch, died of heartdisease on December 10, 2015 She was65.

She was born on March 6, 1950 atGarfield Hospital in Montebello to An-gelina and George Clesceri, followedthree minutes later by her twin brotherRaymond. With her platinum blondehair and winning smile, she grew intoquite a beauty, modeling for a time andwinning the title of Ms. Monterey Parkwhen she was 18.

Ms. Clesceri worked at grocerystores like Market Basket and Ralphsbefore going back to school to becomea dietician. She worked in that capacity

for 25 years, mainly with senior citi-zens. She lived for 28 years in PhillipsRanch, where she raised her daughterNikole. She was a parishioner at St.Paul the Apostle Church in Chino Hillswhere she served as an usher.

Mary Ann was a Lakers fan and oc-casionally enjoyed going to theirgames, decked out head-to-toe in teammerchandise. She was also a music afi-cionado and had the chance to seemany of her idols in concert over theyears, including Elvis, Frank Sinatra,Dean Martin and Neil Diamond. Sheloved shopping and adored animals, al-ways making sure to have at least onedog to keep her company.

She leaves her daughter NikoleClesceri, her niece Treena Clesceri andher wonderful friends, Tony Burckhardand Mark Maldonado. Shes survivedby her dogs Riley, Chloe and Giovanni,who have found a loving forever homewith Nikole.

There will be a ceremonial mass onSaturday, January 23 at 10 a.m. at St.Paul the Apostle Church, located at14085 Peyton Drive in Chino Hills. Areception will follow. In lieu of flowers,the family suggests that donations bemade to Paws 4 A Cause Rescue in SanBernardino or your favorite charityaimed at helping animals.

Mary Ann ClesceriDietician, Lakers fan, mother

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COURIER photo/ Jenelle Rensch

Claremont residentJenssery ChangsteinMills gets up todance with the BearBrass band at theCLU Community Per-formance Stage atShelton Park on Sat-urday.

Lifes a stage at Shelton Park

COURIER photo/Peter WeinbergerThere was plenty of entertainment Saturday as the Bear Brass bandentertains the audience before the beginning of the stage dedication.

COURIER photo/Peter WeinbergerDiana Miller pulls down the curtain covering one of three plaquesthis one for the Village Mar-keting Grouppresented during the dedication of the CLU Community Performance Stage.

Diana Miller of the Village Marketing Group celebrates the endof a long journey. She credits the stellar community volunteereffort, which includes delicious food and drink donated byClaremont Village businesses Bardot, Hendrix Pharmacy,Some Crust and the Last Drop Caf.

AT LEFT: Donations from residents and local organizationswere made for bricks.


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Support CEF at the Blues andBros Craft Beer Festival

To celebrate its 13th anniversary, Dale Bros Brewerywill host the Brews and Bros Craft Beer Festival onSaturday, January 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Cable Airportin Upland. Net proceeds from this event will benefitthe Claremont Educational Foundation (CEF).

Featuring more than 80 craft beverages from 35 mi-crobreweries, three wineries and two cider-makers, thisevent provides a fun-filled afternoon with live reggaefrom Upstream, a vintage and custom bicycle showand food from local gourmet vendors and food trucks.The family-friendly event will include kids games andcraft sodas.

Advance purchase price for general admission is $45per person and VIP admission is $60 per person. VIPadmission includes early admission (noon), a keepsakeglass and bottle opener, preferred parking and access toa rare beer hour from noon to 1 p.m.

Ticket prices go up at the door on the day of theevent. Children 12 and under are free, while those un-der 21 or a designated driver enter at a reduced rate of $10. Advance tickets are available online atwww.brewsandbrosfest.org or at Dale Bros Brewery,2120 Porterfield Way, Upland.

CEF supports the Claremont Unified School Districtthroughout the year by raising funds to support en-hanced educational opportunities for students. Lastyear, CEF gifted nearly $200,000 to CUSD, raisedsolely through fund raising efforts in the communitywith partners like the Dale Bros.

Additional event sponsors are BAM Landscape De-sign, Ford of Upland, Laemmle Theaters, the OntarioReign, Coates Cyclery, Cable Airport, the Inland ValleyDaily Bulletin, Claremont Dental Institute, Fagen,Friedman & Fulfrost, LLP, Kimmel & Associates,CPA, Rhino Records and Route 66 Self Storage.

While primarily benefitting CEF, the festival willalso feature a friendly Brew Crew Tipping Competi-tion to raise donations for other nonprofit organiza-tions. Representatives from local nonprofits will bepouring beer for the craft breweries to garner tips fortheir favorite local charity. The Brew Crew pourer withthe largest number of tips will get bragging rights onstage at the end of the afternoon, and all tips will thenbe donated to CEF or to the chosen charities.

For information, visit the event website atwww.brewsandbrosfest.org. For information aboutCEF, visit the CEF website at www.supportCEF.com

Claremont Lincoln Universityappoints new Claremont Coredirector

Claremont Lincoln University (CLU) has announcedthe appointment of Victor Manalo as director of theClaremont Core.

The Claremont Core is an integrated sequence of ad-vanced coursesmindfulness, dialogue, collaboration

and changein which students develop awareness of self and others, use dialogue and collaboration acrossdifferences and develop effective strategies for organi-zational and community transformation. It is a corecompetency of all CLU masters degree programs.

We are so pleased to have a person of Dr. Manaloscaliber coming to join us as a member of our team, saidCLU President Eileen Aranda. His experience embod-ies the values of the Claremont Core and Claremont Lin-coln University as a whole. As someone who has spenthis career promoting organizational and communitychange and transformation, we are excited to see the im-pact he has on our programs and our students.

As director, Mr. Manalo will serve as an administra-tor with teaching responsibility and will provide leader-ship and oversight of the program and its faculty. Mr.Manalo is a longtime university professor, socialworker and member of the Artesia City Council, withmany years of experience drawing from the principlesof the Claremont Core to bring about change.

He has taught and worked in administrative capaci-ties for many years for the masters in social work pro-grams at Cal State Los Angeles and Cal StateDominguez Hills and has lectured at the University of Southern California and Cal State Long Beach. He isalso an active member of the National Association of Social Workers, having served in a variety of leader-ship positions at the local, state and national levels.

Mr. Manalo has a PhD in Social Work from the Uni-versity of Southern California and a masters in SocialWork from Cal State Long Beach.

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I t is January and, despite thecold weather, we are only acouple of months awayfrom the start of spring. Andspring means flowers. So let us

talk about flowers.When speaking of flowers, most city-dwellers think of roses, carnations, gladi-oli, orchids or similar popular (and ex-pensive) flowers. Country folk are perhapsmore likely to think of daisies, pansiesand forget-me-nots. Actually, though, al-most all fruit trees, and many other plantsas well, bear flowers. And flowersmostof them, anywayare among the mostbeautiful of Gods creations.

From ancient times people knew thatfruit trees, nut trees, berry shrubs andmany vegetables burst into blossom in thespring or early summer. After the blos-soms fade and die, fruits and nuts andberries appear in their place, at first tiny,

but gradually growing to full size andripeness. So people knew that fruits, nutsand certain vegetables were the productsof flowers, though they did not really un-derstand the process by which it happened.

When early humans saw the prettyflowers in the fields, woodlands, meadowsand mountain slopes, they could think of no reason for their existence except thatthe Creator formed them for our pleasure,that we might feast our senses on theirbeautytheir many colors, their extraor-dinary shapes and forms and, not least,their exquisite fragrance. Little did ourearliest ancestors know that the colors,shapes and fragrances were vitally impor-tant also to the flowers themselves.

Only about the end of the 17th centurydid botanists realize that plants reproducethemselves in much the same way as do

animals. They realized then that someflowers were males and some were fe-males, that they produced tiny cells called,respectively, pollen and ovules, and thatthe pollen (a Latin word meaning finedust) had to fall on the ovules (the part of a plant which develops into seeds) in or-der to produce seeds or seed-bearing fruits.This process is called pollination.

But it took another hundred years be-fore botanists realized the importance of colors, shapes and odors to the flowersthemselves. They finally came to under-stand that a wonderful partnership existedbetween flowers and certain birds as wellas bees, butterflies, moths and other insectsfor whom the flowers provide food in theform of sweet-smelling liquid nectar.

In return for this food, these wingedmessengers carry the pollen to other flow-ers on the same plant or to other plants.Without their help, many plants could notproduce seeds or fruits. Now the mysterywas solved! Certain flying creatures are at-tracted by certain colors and odors. Manyflowers, especially in tropical countries,have long flower tubes and are bright redor orange in color. They attract hum-mingbirds and long-tongued moths. Otherflowers, like mints and forget-me-nots,have different shades of purple or blue,which are especially attractive to certaintypes of bumblebees.

Some flowers open only at night, orbecome fragrant only at night, becausetheir partnership is with night-flying in-sects. They are often white or pale in color,in order to be seen by the night-insects inthe dark. Some flowers even have a dis-agreeable odor to attract insects that feed

on decaying matter!The importance of shape and form is

best illustrated by the example of the or-chid family. Some species, such as thelady-slipper, are formed so that a heavy in-sect must force its way into the top of theflower to obtain the nectar. But to get outagain it must leave through a passage un-derneath, so small that the pollen clings toits body.

Strange and wonderful and many arethe methods of pollination among the dif-ferent kinds of flowers. But all point to thewonderful design and plan which Godimplanted in Nature; all proclaim the infi-nite wisdom of the Creator.

Not all flowers depend on winged mes-sengers for pollination. Some depend onthe wind to carry the pollen; water flow-ers are helped by the water and waves.Since wind and water have no stomachs,no eyes, and no sense of smell, flowersthat depend on them do not require fra-grance or nectar or particularly bright col-ors. God does not waste anything, and sothese flowers are comparatively colorlessand odorless.

Where would you expect to find aflower the size of a washtub? In the sameplaces where you would find giant spidersand bats and elephantsthe dense jun-gles, natures own hot-houses. The Raf-flesia, the largest flower of all, is a gigan-tic flower, without leaves or stems. It is aparasite growing upon the exposed rootsof a certain kind of vine. Its own roots areburied entirely within the tissues of theplant on which it grows, so all that is vis-ible of the Rafflesia is its enormous cab-bage-like bud and, later, its gigantic blos-

som, which often exceeds three feet inwidth.

When fully open, its thick, fleshy,curled-back petalsfive in numberlieflat upon the ground. In their midst lies theshallow, bowl-shaped bloom, containingthe pollen sacs. This bowl can hold two

gallons of water. The weight of the wholeblossom may reach 15 pounds!This monstrous blossom is colored

blood-red, and it exhales a most disagree-able odor, like the stench of carrion. Itconsequently attracts a large number of flies and insects, who obligingly carry itspollen from one blossom to another. Butthe ripened seeds must be sown, and not

just anywhere in the soil but in the tissueof one particular vine. How is this done?The Creator has provided a way, you maybe sure. God made the seeds very sticky,and they stick to the feet of elephants, rhi-noceroses and other animals that roam the

jungles. These beasts carry the seedsaround until, eventually, they bruise the

roots of the vine which is to serve as host,and then they leave a seed of Rafflesia inthe damaged tissues, where the seed takesroot and grows into another fantasticbloom.

Oh, God, how glorious is Thine handi-work throughout the world!

Rabbi Feyer earned his masters in reli-gion from Claremont School of Theologyand is a member of the National Advisory

Board of the Jewish Peace Fellowshipand the Council of Elders of the ShomerShalom Institute for Jewish Non-Violence.

He also serves on the board of thePomona and Inland Valley Martin LutherKing, Jr., Program. He was and remains

a founding member of OHALAH, the As-sociation of Rabbis for Jewish Renewal.

Inter-Faithfully SPEAKINGFlowers by Rabbi Zev-Hayyim Feyer


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M ourners gathered infront of ClaremontCity Hall on Wednes-day to hold a prayer vigil fortwo local homeless men whodied last month.The vigil was for Dave Red Merrittand Todd Watts, two local transients whowere well-known to many Claremonters.Local business owners and members of CHAP were on hand to pay their respects,as well as Mayor Corey Calaycay, Coun-cilmember Sam Pedroza and ClaremontPolice Captain Shelley Vander Veen.

Local activist Al Villanueva opened thevigil by reciting a traditional Native Amer-ican chant to send the two men into thespirit world.

The most vulnerable population in thecity of Claremont is the homeless, Mr.Villanueva said.

Mourners held hands and formed a cir-cle around a tiny display of candles, flow-ers and a picture of Mr. Merritt, whopassed away from congestive heart failureat a home in Fontana on December 10. Mr.Watts died on December 17 at CountyUSC Medical Center from a heart attack,according to Mr. Villanueva.

While Mr. Villanueva grieved the pass-ing of the two men, he called it a bless-ing that they both died in some kind of shelter.

The goal of the advocates here is to getthem off the streets, Mr. Villanueva said.

One by one, attendees shared their sto-ries about the men, describing special mo-ments and anecdotes. Kenneth Chris-tensen, who knew Mr. Merritt since highschool, described him as a fan of heavymetal music and a virtuoso on the guitar.

He had a lot of anger in him, but hewas angry about things that needed anger, Mr. Christensen said. What upset him

was the lack of community.Friend and local transient David Fierro,

who knew both Mr. Merritt and Mr. Watts,fought back tears as he talked about hisfriends.

Its a big deep pit in my heart, I dontknow how to explain it, Mr. Fierro said.Being homeless in Claremontits thebest place, because we all have each other.

Mr. Pedroza spoke about the epi-

demic of homelessness and desire manycommunity members have to help out fel-low residents in need.

We have organizations and residentswilling to step up, Mr. Pedroza said. I

hope their passing does not go unnoticed.We have to do more.

Mr. Calaycay told a story about Mr.Merritt that elicited a few chuckles fromthe somber crowd. At a city council meet-ing a few months prior, Mr. Merritt took tocheering on the councilmembers as theydid their business, according to Mr. Calay-cay.

Mr. Calaycay also talked about how

Mr. Merritt met with City Manager TonyRamos to get into programs in an effort toget his life back on track.

Unfortunately, it didnt work out, Mr.Calaycay said. Red is now a face for me,as hopefully we can reach out to those in-dividuals and speak out and help others.

Mr. Merritts friend Jason Procsallpainted a picture for him, which showed alikeness of Mr. Merritt with a guitar and ahaunting black figure in the background.

We lost three rockstars, Mr. Procsallsaid. Scott Weiland, David Bowie andRed. Red was a rockstar to me.

Matthew [email protected]


Memorial vigil at city hall honors local homeless men

COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneffLocal citizens and dignitaries join hands at the start of a prayer vigil for two homeless men, Dave Merritt and Todd Watts,on Wednesday evening in the Village. The men, both longtime members of the community died a few days apart last month.

Al Villanueva opens the prayer vigil withthe assistance of Jason Procsall. Dur-ing the vigil, local residents eulogizedthe men, Dave Merritt and Todd Watts,who both died in the last month.


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ART MART Arts and crafts vendorsfill the Claremont Packing Houseatrium from 5 to 9 p.m. 532 W. FirstSt., Claremont.

FREE BICYCLE DEMO Bicycledemos between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. SunsetCycles, 532 W. First St. #219, upstairs inthe Claremont Packing House.ASIAN AMERICAN EXPO 2016Celebrating its 35th anniversary at

Pomona Fairplex on Saturday, January16 and Sunday, January 17. Kick off the year of the monkey with the largestAsian trade show with more than 1,000vendor booths, six large exhibition

halls, three unique food courts featur-ing over 100 food vendors and eightnon-stop performance stages. Hosted atthe beginning of every year to celebratethe Lunar New Year Festival, join at-tendees from all different backgrounds

both locally and internationally. Satur-day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sun-day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. PomonaFairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave.,Pomona. Presale price is $11, generaladmission is $12 and seniors and chil-dren may attend for $10. Visitasianamericanexpo.com for more in-formation.

CERAMICS & PAINTINGS JohnFassbinder: Earth + Sky opening recep-tion from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight. Show willrun through January 29. Open Mondaythrough Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or

by appointment. Ginger Elliott Exhibi-tion Center at the Garner House in Me-morial Park, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd.,Claremont.

FARMERS MARKET Rain or shineevery Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. inthe Claremont Village.OPEN-AIR BICYCLE DEMO Free

bicycle demo hosted by Sunset Cycles between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at BonelliPark, 120 Va Verde, San Dimas. RockyMountain will have mountain bikes totry out and there will be leisure bikes

from Linus and Fairdale.CLAREMONT YOUNG MUSI-CIANS ORCHESTRA The soloist will

be Thomas Hooten, principal trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

performing the Bohme Trumpet Con-certo in F minor, conducted by ClydeMitchell. 7 p.m. Admission is free.Pomona Colleges Bridges Hall of Music,located at 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.

ISRAELI FOLK DANCE A fun way to

exercise with music of Israeli folk dance.Beginners group at 6:45 p.m., followed byopen dancing. $6. Masonic Lodge, 227 W.Eighth St., Claremont. (909) 921-7115.

PILGRIM PLACE, THE FIRST 100YEARS The speaker is Ginger Elliot,Pilgrim Place Chairman of the Board.The University Club meets Tuesdays at11:30 a.m. at the Hughes CommunityCenter, 1700 Danbury Rd., Claremont.$13 meeting fee includes buffet lunch.CANDLELIGHT VIGIL in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event in-

cludes a symbolic March on Selma tothe campus Peace Pole. It is sponsored by the Black Student Union, BrothersForum, Shades of Essence, Alpha Schol-ars, Latino Student Forum, CommonGround and the Office of Religious andSpiritual Life. 4:30 p.m. University of La Vernes Interfaith Chapel, 1950 ThirdSt., La Verne.

CALENDARCOURIER CrosswordCheck out this weeks puzzleby Myles Mellor.

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NightlifeMick Rhodes and the HardEight tour the Inland Empire.

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YOUR WEEK IN 9 DAYS

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JanuarySunday 17

JanuaryFriday 15

JanuaryMonday 18

JanuaryTuesday 19

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LECTURE Dr. Marcus Goodloe pres-ents An Evening Fit for a King, from 5to 7 p.m. Mr. Goodloe, the first AfricanAmerican to be awarded a PhD fromDallas Baptist University, has focusedhis research on leadership and the legacy

and influence of Dr. King. He mentors professional and collegiate athletes, en-tertainers, entrepreneurs, educators andfaith community leaders on a range of is-sues, including culture and interpersonalrelationships, leadership and spirituality.University of La Vernes Morgan Audi-torium, 1950 Third St.

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