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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL:Find your way from home to school.
Dont be late!Maze
Welcome back, students!
Welcome to ClaremontKids, the newest sec-tion of the
COURIER.
From now on, you can look for akid-sized portion of news and
funon the third Friday of each month.
For some time, the COURIER has beenlooking for a way to connect
with ouryoungest readers, and we hope ClaremontKids fits the bill.
Were going to need yourhelp, though.
First, wed love your feedback. What doyou like about our new
kids section?Whats not in there that youd like to see?
Keep in mind that this is a work in progress.Second, wed like
help with creativecontent. Feel free to email us jokes andstory
ideas youd like to share with kids inyour community. For instance,
you mightwant to send us a photograph of your fa-
vorite pet with a caption describing whyhe or she is so special.
Please include yourname, age and school. As with anythingyou do
online, make sure its okay withyour parents first.
You can send your submissions to me, Sarah
Torribio, at [email protected],with the phrase
Claremont Kids in the sub-ject line. Lets have some fun with this.
Wellsee you next month on Friday, September 20.
Sarah Torribio
[email protected]
Hello, Claremont!
Join the crowdThe kids music group The
Happy Crowd will be per-forming a free childrens con-cert on
Tuesday, August 20 atthe Memorial Park Bandshell.
The show, which will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., will
featurefunny, upbeat songs that make you want to sing along, like
IWish I Was Little Again, Pop! and Wonderful Day.
Your family might want to show up early, and should beprepared
to get comfy with blankets and low chairs.Guests can bring a picnic
or buy food and snacks fromThe Kiwanis Club, like burgers, hot
dogs, ice cream,candy and drinks.
Give this family event a try. Youll be happy you came!
Whats in a name?Anyone who has visited Sea World, watched the
movie
Flipper or tuned into the Discovery Channel is familiarwith the
squeaky, high-pitched noises made by bottlenosedolphins.
But did you know each dolphin answers to a specialcombination of
sounds known as its signature whistle?Each creature develops a
distinct chirp for itself, which it
broadcasts to fellow dolphins, according to a report by
Stephanie King and Vincent Janik of the University of St.Andrews
in Scotland. To find out if they actually answerto their names, the
scientists recorded wild dolphins asthey chirped their signature
whistle and then played thesound back to them.
When a dolphin heard its signature whistle, it whistledit back,
Ms. King and Mr. Janik reported in the June edi-tion of
theProceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences. This amazing
discovery gives new meaning to the
phrase name that tune!
Let it glowLooking for an amazing place to top your One day Ill
go
there list? New Zealands Glowworm Grotto Cavern is abright
beacon of beauty for adventuresome travelers.
You have to travel through a series of caves by boat or
inner
tube to get to the grotto, but its worth it. The grottos
ceilingis full of fungus gnats that shine like countless tiny
stars.The flies, which grow to be a little more than an inch
long,
glow brightest in their larval stage and use their light to
attractmoths and other insects to eat. If you ever get to this
far-out
place, make sure you keep quiet, because the brilliant bugslose
their shine at any hint of danger.
To get a glimpse of the Glowworm Grotto, have your momor dad
search for The Underground glories of Waitomo onYouTube.
Claremont will be fair game this fallThe LA County Fair, which
opens the end of this month, will
celebrate Claremont on Thursday, September 26, 2013. Haveyour
parents visit the Claremont Day page on the LA CountyFair website
to download a coupon for $5 admission. (www.la
countyfair.com/2013/educationcommunity/Claremont.asp)Special
events include a high school marching band com-petition, a
Community Hero awards ceremony and a Com-munity Days parade
starting at 5 p.m.
What might you want to see at the fair?Theres Star Trek: The
Exhibition, a galaxy-sized display
of Trekkie memorabilia. Another attraction sure to draw acrowd
is Pencils 2 Pixels, an exploration of the art of ani-mation with
interactive activities, sponsored by companieslike Walt Disney
Animation Studios. Beneath the Sea: AnUnderwater Adventure includes
Sea Lion Splash, a 5,000-gallon tank with sharks, stingrays, crabs
and starfish, plusMelissa the Mermaid and a Sea Monsters Traveling
Exhibit.
You can also stop by Esmereldas Traveling Circus andWilderness
Ridge, where bears and lumberjacks take you on atrip back to the
1900s, when everything was a bit more on thewild side. And young
bookworms wont want to miss Amer-
icas Kids: A Living Library of Fun, featuring 8-foot-tall
books,fictional characters come to life and a place you can show
yourlove for the written word without having to whisper.
The fair is open on Thursdays from noon to 11 p.m.Parking is
$12.
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Back to school
Assignment
Backpack
Chaparral
Condit
CrayonDanbury
Fall
Homework
MountainView
Oakmont
Paper
Pen
Pencil
Recess
Ruler
Student
SumnerSycamore
Vista
Q. What flies around the kindergarten room at night?
Q. Why doesn't the sun go to college?
Q. Why did the boy eat his homework?
Q: Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
A.Thealpha-BAT.
A.Becauseithasamilliondegrees!
A.Becausetheteachersaiditwasapieceofcake.
A:Toreachthehighnotes.
When you picture aroom filled with 13dogs, the phrase
low-key doesnt exactly cometo mind. But at Hair of theDog, a
Claremont dog groom-
ing business, the groomerskeep their customers lookingnice and
feeling happy.
Julie Hines, the owner, has workedthere since 1988 and bought
the busi-ness in 2007. She first started as a batherwhen she went
to school at CHS.
I have always loved dogs since I wasin kindergarten, Ms. Hines
said. I havea passion to help dogs.
When an owner brings their pet in, thedog will get whatever the
owner wouldlike to have done to their dog. Oneowner would like
their dogs hair to belong. Another owner likes to have theirdogs
hair short. A dog might leave with
a bandana on their chest; another might
have a Mohawk in its hair. Others havethe cutesy hairdo:
pigtails or a bow.
When a dog first goes to thegroomers, the workers rough the
dogdown by taking some of the hair offbefore the cleaning. The
workers alsoclean the dogs nails.
The next stop is going in the back toget a bath. On Tuesday
morning, onebather was air-drying a Pomeranianwhile the other
bather was washing apoodle in a human-sized bathtub.
Kailani Pence, who was busy sham-pooing the poodle, has been a
dog bather
since she got out of the military.Its a fun job, Ms. Pence said.
Thepersonality of the dogs are fun. On mybreaks, I get to play ball
with the dogs. Whowouldnt want to play all day at work?
Just like every dogs hairstyle is dif-ferent, so are the dogs
themselves.
Some of the dogs like to be in theirown area, others are in
cages becausethey might not play nice, and some justlike to be
around people.
Boo Boo, a friendly Australian shep-herd, gets groomed every
week. He al-ways gets foxtails stuck in his fur, andMs. Hines takes
time to take out the fox-tails. Kathy Darchuck, whose mom ownsBoo
Boo, also has 2 of her own that shetakes to Hair of the Dog.
Julie is fantastic with my dogs, Ms.Darchuck said. I feel she
treats thedogs like her own.
Hair of the Dog, a professional doggrooming salon, is located at
1420 N.Claremont Blvd., Suite 107A behindArmstrong Garden Center.
For infor-mation, call 626-5066 or
visitwww.hairofthedogclaremont.com.
Mae Key-Ketter
Every pet is special at Hair of the Dog
COURIER photo/Nick WrightGroomer Lynsey Chambers cuts Edna the
Malteses hair on Tuesday at Hair of the Dog groomersin Claremont.
Ms. Chambers, who is the owners niece, has worked at Hair of the
Dog for 8 years.
Student photographer Nick Wright takes photos of dog groomer
Lynsey Chambers onTuesday at Hair of the Dog. Nick, an eighth
grader at El Roble, spent the afternoonlearning how to shoot photos
for the COURIER. Ms. Chambers is grooming a Pomeran-ian named
Precious.
COURIER photos/Peter WeinbergerSycamore Elementary School
student MaeKey-Ketter takes notes while working on astory about
Hair of the Dog groomers onTuesday in Claremont. After the
interview,she returned to the COURIER where she
wrote a story for the paper.
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