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COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneffThe street trees that have become critically stressed include a handful that are adjacent to vacant lots, such as this one on Wagner Drive. The lack of rain, exces-sive heat and state-mandated water restrictions have challenged the more than 24,000 city and park trees throughout Claremont, with 1,606 trees in some form ofdrought-stress and another 147 that have already lost their fight to stay alive. How can residents keep Claremont’s urban forest healhty while adhering to Califor-nia’s water conservation guidelines? See page 15 for a special tree supplement to the COURIER, where we offer tips on watering and outline the city’s plan.

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Discrediting Dollar TreeDear Editor:

I read Jeffery Auerbach’s Dollar Tree let-ter several times, trying to determine if itreflected his true feelings or was intendedto be some sort of satire. I’m still not sure.

In the ultimate compliment that vice

pays to virtue, the letter barely disguises arather nasty contempt for those at the “ab-solute bottom of the consumer market”with a critique of Dollar Tree’s operatingpractices. Business critiques—even validones—notwithstanding, I can’t help butthink that Mr. Auerbach’s real fear is thatClaremont’s “uniqueness” will be pollutedby the presence of souls who only earn“half of Claremont’s median household in-come” by people from our “neighbor to thesouth” who will spend “only $11 per visit.”

Humility can be a rare virtue in a city of PhDs, but most people with this degree of hubris usually have the good sense to flyunder the radar. Not so, Mr. Auerbach.Does his opinion “align closely with the

special character of this community?” Ihope not. Bruce Dane

Claremont

The La Puerta flipDear Editor:

In response to Tony Nelipovich, Sr.’sViewpoint in the August 28 COURIER inwhich some of the issues surrounding theso-called “La Puerta Park flip” were dis-cussed, his detailed analysis was most in-formative and I certainly appreciate theresearch.

I’m a 25-year Claremont resident wholives near the subject property and whowalks on Forbes Avenue nearly every day.

I decided to ask a few of my fellow Forbeswalkers and neighbors what they thought.No one likes the idea of greatly increased

vehicular traffic, but not everyone thinksparking and noise will be that big of a dealwith a sports park.

From my experience with the current LaPuerta Park, there wouldn’t be big gamesthere anything like every day, after all. Sev-eral thought bright lights would be irritat-

ing, and that’s a good point. They wouldneed a plan for that.But most importantly, all of us agreed

that any kind of park—even a popularsports park—would be significantly lesspainful in terms of traffic, parking, noise,etc. than a bazillion new two-story homeswith the main entrance on Forbes, as pre-viously proposed, and as may yet be pro-posed again if there is that much oppositionto this “flip.” Change is inevitable, people!We all know there can’t be a big empty lotthere forever. We’ve been lucky to have theopen space this long. A sports park onForbes Avenue could well be the lesser of many evils. Think about it.

Anne Stoll

Claremont

Museum mix-upDear Editor:

While I do not wish to join the ranks of those who too endlessly pursue ongoing ar-guments ad infinitum in the Readers’ Com-ments section of the COURIER, I do wantto make an exception regarding what I be-lieve to be some misinformation providedby another reader, regarding the develop-ing plans for the Pomona College Museumof Art.

In response to a statement by PomonaCollege President David Oxtoby thatPomona College has “been west of CollegeAvenue for many, many years,” the readerclaims that “There are no other college

projects of this scale on the west side of College Avenue, south of the formerCarnegie Library.” He appears to have

overlooked the group of Pomona Collegbuildings south of Sixth Street and north oFourth Street, between Harvard Avenue the west and College Avenue to the easThese large buildings include CrookshanHall on Sixth Street, Mason Hall and HahHall on Harvard, and Pearson Hall and thCarnegie Building on College Avenue.

I believe that, if anything, the relocatioof the new museum to the site proposed bPresident Oxtoby to the space currentholding the unattractive bungalows, whichave no true historical value, will greatenhance our already beautiful city. As prviously stated, I am hoping Claremont Heitage and the city of Claremont wembrace President Oxtoby’s plan, and th

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Reminiscent of Novem-ber 2014, Claremontresidents will once

again be called to the polls as thecity places a measure on the bal-

lot asking them to approve a par-cel tax to fund a new $50 millionpublic safety facility. Similar toMeasure W, the measure will re-quire a two-thirds approval bylocal voters on November 3.

The ballot measure calls for voter ap-proval so that the Claremont City Councilmay adopt an ordinance levying a newspecial parcel tax of $286 per parcel, peryear, commencing on July 1, 2016 andending on June 30, 2056.

The city council opted for a 40-yearparcel tax as its preferred method of fi-nancing during their meeting on March 24,

2015. The special tax would generate ap-proximately $3 million annually to be usedto pay for debt issued to fund the pro-posed police station.

While many residents may balk at the$50 million price tag for a new 47,000-square-foot police station, Claremont Po-lice Chief Paul Cooper isn’t one of them.He is, however, conscious of cost.

After the Northridge earthquake, Chief Cooper explains, the California legisla-ture determined that buildings housing es-sential services—like fire and police de-partments—should be designed tominimize fire hazards and to resist theforces of earthquakes, gravity and winds.Public safety facilities must essentially be“one and-a-half” times more structurallysound than a typical office building, Chief Cooper said.

“Then, when you add in the two mostexpensive components to a police sta-tion—your communications center andyour jail—it’s not the regular office spacethat costs the most, it’s those because of the components that make those up,” hesaid.

New regulations for jail cells are an-other factor driving up costs.

“Jails don’t use bars anymore, becausepeople hang themselves or throw thingsthrough the bars,” the chief said. “Thosereinforced steel facilities, on a square-footbasis, make those more expensive thanthe rest of the station. We have reducedsome of the evidence storage in the plans.Large bulk items don’t have to be under anessential services roof making those build-ings cheaper. That’s one way we’re re-ducing our costs.”

As showcased in a recent video featur-ing Chief Cooper and released by the city,the current Claremont police station is a9,762-square-foot concrete structure thathas been operating on its existing 1.8-acresite since 1972. Outdated and lacking theinfrastructure needed for technology up-grades, the station suffers from over-crowding, with female lockers located ina trailer outside, an older six-cell jail com-prised of bars and insufficient space forstaff meetings.

Following the city’s use of grant fund-

ing in 2001 to study the needed improve-ments to the police station, various citycommittees and external consultants con-ducted assessments and feasibility studiesfocused on the most appropriate and cost-effective locations to replace the BonitaAvenue station.

Then-mayor Larry Schroeder assem-bled a Police Facility Feasibility and SiteAnalysis Ad Hoc Committee in October2012. The committee reviewed all prior re-search, architectural and engineering con-sulting studies, assessment data and re-ports, beginning from 2002 when the cityfirst opened the discussion.

The committee determined that the cur-rent police facility does not meet the Es-sential Services Buildings Seismic SafetyAct of 1986, which requires that the build-

ing be constructed to resist the forces of earthquakes. Additionally, the station does-n’t comply with the Americans with Dis-abilities Act as doorways are too narrowfor wheelchair access.

A new station location for Claremont’s38 full-time sworn officers, three reserveofficers and numerous support staff hasbeen selected: 3.24 acres from HollidayRock adjacent to the city yard, with all po-lice functions to be built on the acquiredland.

The design includes a main headquar-ters constructed to meet safety require-ments, as well as a separate, free-standingsupport building to house evidence storageand other records that are not consideredessential during a state of emergency.

Opponents to the parcel measure have

set up a website, www.abetterpolicesttion.com, urging residents to vote “No” othe police station parcel tax. Neither indvidual in charge of the website wanted speak on record.

By comparison, the city of Montclair rvealed its new, 45,342-square-foot polistation in 2008 at a cost of $24 millioThe station—designed by famed arch

tect Randall Stout to match the mountaibehind it—features an indoor shootinrange and currently houses 53 sworn offcers and 35 staffers who serve the city36,664 residents.

Chief Cooper says that although thproposed Claremont public safety faciliwill be comparable in size, it won’t hathe bells and whistles of Montclair’s poliheadquarters.

“The only thing that’s on the booright now is an 800-square-foot physicfitness area, with the police officers’ assciations putting in the money to instequipment,” Chief Cooper says. “Therenothing right now in the plans for an idoor range or anything like that. “

A large portion of the funding, if aproved, will be directed to updating thClaremont jail to current California Staof Correction standards.

“We don’t have intox cells, which abasically rubber rooms so you can taksomeone who is intoxicated that may fadown. You don’t want them to fall on thconcrete,” he says. “When this station wdeveloped, if you’ve been arrested andetectives want to interview you, thhave to actually take you out of the jail. you were smart enough to see the exsigns, you could bolt. Now, jails are buwith the interview rooms within a secuarea so you’re not within earshot of pehaps the two other people you were a

rested with.”

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New police station is needed, but will residents foot the bill?

Systems administrator Kent Ong works on the Claremont PD’s many computersystems from his office in a converted supply closet. The change in technologyover the years has increased the need for computer systems to do police work,however, finding space at the current station for the servers has been a challenge.

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COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneCiting outdated jail cells and a structure that doesn’t meet California’s disaster safety standards, Claremont police and thcity council support voter approval for funding bonds to pay for constructing a new police facility. The site north of Claremont’s current city yard off Monte Vista has been selected as the future location of the Claremont Police Department.


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Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 11, 2015CITY NEWS

Tuesday, September 1An Internet predator taking on the per-

sona of a Claremont resident is wanted bypolice after luring a Santa Clarita teen intoan online relationship. According to De-tective Lieutenant Mike Ciszek, an un-known female has been impersonating a19-year-old woman from Claremont byusing her personal information and photosfrom various social media forums for sev-eral months. The “catfisher” started send-ing inappropriate photos to a 17-year-oldSanta Clarita boy, striking up a relation-ship. When the teen became suspiciousthat he was the victim of catfishing—thephenomenon of Internet predators thatfabricate online identities to trick peopleinto emotional/romantic relationships—he traveled to the Hollins Street home of the Claremont woman in search of an-swers, then discovered she wasn’t the onecommunicating with the minor online.Claremont police continue to investigate.

****Claremont officers recovered a stolen

vehicle and put away a bad guy followinga traffic stop on the west side of town. Atapproximately 5:20 p.m., police spottedCesar Barajas driving a ’92 Honda Ac-cord near Foothill Boulevard and TowneAvenue. A records check revealed the ve-hicle had been reported stolen from Mont-clair on August 31. Officers conducted atraffic stop and arrested the 23-year-olddriver for grand theft auto. Mr. Barajaswas booked at Claremont jail, where hewas held pending court. On September 3,the Pomona resident was convicted of hiscrimes and remains in custody in Men’sCentral Jail with a scheduled release dateof February 23, 2016.

****A Claremont resident witnessed a gal

steal a package from her home on the 100block of Sequoia Court and then pursuedthe thief until police arrived. At approxi-mately 4 p.m., a female suspect picked upa package from the front porch of the res-idence before entering the passenger sideof a white sedan and fleeing the scene.The vigilant homeowner got in her carand followed the suspects to Uplandwhere police conducted a traffic stop of

their vehicle. Claremont police made con-

tact with the driver, 37-year-old EdwardTomcavage of West Hollywood, as wellas both passengers, 30-year-old ZoeyHernandez and 26-year-old Joseph Bren-klin from Los Angeles. A search of the ve-hicle revealed stolen packages and mailfrom multiple residents in Claremont andUpland. The three amigos were arrestedand booked at Claremont jail for pettytheft, identity theft and conspiracy to com-mit theft and held for court.

Thursday, September 3Tom Bodett may have to do more than

“leave the light on for you” at the Motel 6in Claremont if he wants guests to feelsafe following this arrest. Claremont offi-cers conducted a welfare check at Motel 6at approximately 8:06 p.m. and observeda black Honda Civic without licenseplates backed into a parking space in frontof one of the rooms. After learning the ve-hicle had been stolen from Ontario on Au-gust 31, police made contact with41-year-old Danny Vasquez and 30-year-old Patricia Luaa as they exited a motelroom near the parked car. A records checkrevealed Mr. Vasquez had an outstandingwarrant for a previous arrest and the Indioresident was taken into custody. Ms. Luaaadmitted to driving the stolen car and,after searching her, police found a methpipe in her bra and two keys to the car inher shorts. A search of the room offered afew more gems—a loaded shotgun, ahandgun and several rounds of ammuni-tion underneath the mattress as well as nu-merous altered debit cards, gift cards andfalse California ID cards and drivers li-censes. Mr. Vasquez was charged withidentity theft, felony possession of afirearm by a felon, felony possession of ammunition and various fraud charges.He remains in custody at Men’s CentralJail pending court. Ms. Luaa was arrestedfor grand theft auto, identity theft and pos-session of drug paraphernalia and wasconvicted as charged. She will remain atthe Century Regional Detention Facilityin Lynwood until April 24, 2016.

Friday, September 4An Alta Loma resident was arrested

after allegedly grabbing a woman in a

local nightclub and then taking to thestreets in a drunken run. Just after mid-night, Michael Valdez was partaking infestivities at Piano Piano when he al-legedly grabbed a female customer beforeexiting the building. Officers arrived at theClaremont hot spot and discovered the 27-year-old man leaning against a utility box,unable to care for himself. He deniedgrabbing the female. According to a wit-ness, Mr. Valdez had too much to drinkand had been running through the openlanes of traffic on Foothill Boulevard andfalling into bushes before police arrived. Arecords check by police revealed Mr.Valdez had an open warrant for his arrest.

He was taken into custody for being drunkin public and the warrant and was booked

at Claremont jail. The battery victim dnot desire prosecution.

****The parent of a Claremont High Scho

student was arrested after meeting wipolice to address an attendance issue wiher child. According to Lt. Ciszek, offcers arrived at CHS just before noon discuss a possible truancy violation withstudent. After meeting with the teen anher mother, a records check by police rvealed mom had two warrants for arresout of Compton and San BernardinCounty. The 45-year-old Pomona residewas taken into custody and booked Claremont jail, where she was later r

leased with two tickets. —Angela [email protected]

POLICE BLOTTER

COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneClaremont police arrest a man suspected of burglarizing homes on Wednesdaynear Base Line Road in Claremont.

Police received a call about suspicious activity north of Base Line around noon oWednesday, September 9. As officers arrived, they witnessed two individuals climbing a wall on the south side of Base Line. A perimeter was immediately set up. Onsuspect, a juvenile, was caught immediately while an adult hid in the backyard ofhome on Drury Court. With the assistance of a helicopter from Ontario and K-9 unfrom Chino. police surrounded the yard and gave the suspect verbal commands tsurrender. When he did not comply, police entered the backyard with the K-9 antook the adult suspect into custody. Police continued to search the area for additionsuspects, although they believe they apprehended everyone involved.

Anyone with additional information should contact the Claremont Police Dpartment Detective Bureau at (909) 399-5411.

Families and staff at Sycamore Elemen-tary School were greeted Tuesday morningby a police presence after school officialsfound some disturbing graffiti on three dif-ferent parent/teacher conference sign-upsheets posted at the school.

According to a message sent out bySycamore Principal Amy Stanger, the writ-ing on the sheets included comments like, “Iam going to shoot up the school” and “I amgoing to shoot up the school in seven days.”

The Claremont Police Department in-vestigated and determined that the graffitiwas not a credible threat. Claremont policeofficers and CUSD Human Resources Su-perintendent Kevin Ward were on campus

before school Tuesday morning, along wireporters from local news television sttions. Sycamore parents were notified the incident on Monday.

Additional information has not yet beereleased by the police or the school, but th

principal reassures the Sycamore community that all precautions are being taken ensure the safety of staff and students.

“We will be having a meeting with CPDand I will share another message with yofollowing that meeting,” Ms. Stanger sai“I am confident CPD will be present needed.” —Kathryn Dun

[email protected]

Sycamore staff, police take precautionsafter threatening graffiti found at school


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Also, if a female has been arrested andshe is in earshot of a male detainee,Claremont police have to close off thatcellblock.

“The designs of the jails now allowone-way glass for the jailer looking in in-stead of the people looking out. They arenow separated by block walls so theycan’t hear or see each other,” he says.“Now you can use that mixture more toyour advantage.”

Unlike the proposed financing inClaremont, the construction of Mont-clair’s police facility was funded using aspecial .25 percent city sales tax, a viableoption for a city with an abundance of re-tail options.

At 40 years, a parcel tax will leaveClaremont residents with principal andinterest payments totaling $119,500,000,according to abetterpolicestation.com.Residents will be paying $8,185 per dayfor a police station that will be ready to bedemolished the day it is paid off, thewebsite purports.

Such concerns aside, Claremont citycouncilmembers are all in agreement:the city needs a new public safety facil-ity sooner rather than later.

“Doing nothing is going to bring abigger number down the road,” OpanyiNasiali said. “I hope the public will payattention.”

As previously reported, residents arestill paying off the $12.5 million generalobligation bond approved in 2007 to pur-chase Johnson’s Pasture, as well as the$48.9 million in general obligation bondsfor CUSD’s Measure Y. With the ap-proval of up to $135 million to pay foracquisition of the Claremont water sys-tem from Golden State Water, it will be upto the voters to determine if the time isright for this project.

—Angela Bailey

[email protected]

NEW POLICE STATION/ from page 3

COURIER photoSteven Felschundne

Claremont Police Captain Shelly VandeVeen stands in the women’s lockerroom, which can only accommodatetwo people at a time and is so small thecity had to bring in a portable to accommodate all of the female employees.

AT LEFT: Claremont police hope voterwill pass a bond measure to build amodern police station similar to theMontclair police station shown above.The city of Montclair funded construc-tion of its 45,342-square-foot police st

tion in 2008 through a .25 percent saletax, at a construction cost of $24 mil-lion.

For the third consecutive month,Claremont has exceeded its man-dated water conservation goal of 32

percent, with July being the most conserva-tive month to date. Residents decreasedwater use by 48 percent compared with July2013.

Even Golden State Water Company is pleased.“I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Clare-

mont in responding to and exceeding the state’s goal,”Foothill District Manager Ben Lewis wrote in an email.

Water use data collected by the State Water Re-sources Control Board shows Golden State Water Com-pany Claremont used 234.3 million gallons in July, withresidential use making up 63 percent of total water con-sumption.

On average, each Claremont resident used 128 gal-lons of water a day, a measurement referred to as resi-dential gallons per capita daily. While Claremont’sgallons per day is down from 137 in June, it’s still abovethe state average of 98 gallons a month.

Previous conservation was equally impressive, with

Claremonters reducing water use by 40 percent in Mayfollowed by a 42 percent reduction in June.Despite the fact that Claremont residents are limited

to irrigating their lawn just two days per week, the dis-trict issued four warnings but assessed no penalties.

Statewide, the savings in July 2015 amounted to justover 31 percent compared to July 2013. The conserva-tion rate of the South Coast hydrologic region, whichincludes the city of Claremont, was at 28 percent, anumber lower than the state average but still exceedingGovernor Jerry Brown’s target rate of 25 percent.

The city of La Verne also exceeded its target rate of 32 percent. with a 36 percent drop in use from July2013. Residential water use makes up 51 percent of LaVerne’s total water consumption, using on average, 107gallons of water a day.

Unlike Claremont’s two-day-per-week wateringschedule, La Verne residents can water lawns sevendays a week. but for no more than 20 minutes total perweek. There are no restrictions on watering with re-claimed water, a properly-operating drip irrigation sys-tems or hand-held devices.

In July, Upland reached its 36 percent goal for thefirst time. Residential use makes up a whopping 71 per-cent of the city’s total water consumption, with resi-dents using 158 gallons per day on average.

State water officials judge compliance with conser-vation orders based on a district’s overall total water

consumption, which, in addition to residential use, in-cludes commercial and industrial consumption as well

as water lost to leaks and firefighting.While Claremonters have stepped up to the pla

when it comes to water conservation, the effects owater deficiency are being felt throughout the city. Ogolden lawns and dying trees beg the question: Are wbeing drip-wise and water-foolish?

Parks—with their browning sports fields and fomerly green passive play-spaces—are now receiving

bit of relief, with the city increasing its watering schedule from two days to three days per week.

Golden State announced a program of it’s own laweek, awarding residents who’ve allowed their lawnto take on a lovely shade of gold with the “GoldeLawn Contest,” designed to promote outdoor watconservation by highlighting customers who have limited or stopped irrigating lawns.

“The majority of California’s residential water usefor outdoor irrigation, and this contest is a great oppotunity to both recognize customers who are using watresponsibly and embrace lawns that have gone goldDenise Kruger, senior vice president for Golden Statsaid in a press release. “We applaud our customers whhave taken steps to limit or stop lawn irrigation, as weas those who have converted to drought-tolerant lanscapes to reduce their outdoor water use.”

—Angela [email protected]

Claremont meets water conservation target for third month in a row


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Labor Day is a curious holiday. Itwas officially established in 1887by Grover Cleveland and dedi-

cated to the social and economic achieve-ments of American workers, but most

folks today think of it as a three-dayweekend accompanied by big markdownson patio furniture.

It is always celebrated on the first Monday of Sep-tember so that, over the years, it has also taken on sig-nificance as a child’s last, desperate moments of freedom before schools starts. And, just FYI, LaborDay is (or was) considered the last day of the yearwhen it is fashionable to wear white or seersucker.

In our little town, Labor Day is brought to a closeby the final concert in a summer-long series of Mon-day night performances. These weekly jam-sessionsfeature all manner of composition, from country toblues-and-soul to classic rock. Community membersgather on the lawn in Memorial Park to picnic, partyand partake of the offerings of the dedicated Kiwanisvolunteers who staff the food concession.

With a bouquet of grilled hamburger waftingthrough the air, the evening kicks off with the StarSpangled Banner. And then folks retire to their chairsand blankets to enjoy the evening’s entertainment.Well, not all the folks though our town lacks anArthur Murray Dance School, there are a number of citizens who “cut-a-rug” at the foot of the band shell.This year’s drought conditions have caused the“dance floor” to conjure dust bowl conditions evok-ing a smoky dance hall. But our citizens are unde-terred. There are line dancers, swing dancers and whatI would categorize as free-movement/modern-dancedancers.

The beauty of these concerts is that they not onlybring the community together, they introduce listenersof all ages and predilections to music in all its forms.My children spent their early years clapping their

hands to Motown and Beatles classics and my momwho still attends nearly every concert with me, hap-pily taps her feet to ’70s disco or big band swing.

The Night Blooming Jazzmen, a group founded in1975, usually plays every summer. Their leader, CheJaegar, started playing the coronet in 1937. Through-out the evening, Chet happily provides historical illu

minations on the pieces the band is playing—littleknown numbers such as “I’m Gonna Lock My Heartand Take Away the Key” and old-timey favorites like“It's a Long Way To Tipperary.” And many of thedancers are in their teens and early 20s, learning aboa musical genre they may have otherwise never beenintroduced to.

This Labor Day, we enjoyed the sounds of classicrock. And as little children ran through the crowdwith glow sticks and neighbors enjoyed the fruits of their Coleman coolers, we wistfully said goodbye tosummer. Well, kind of. On the walk home, my mominformed me that it was going to be 104 degrees bythe end of the week with no let-up in sight.

Thank goodness Target has Halloween candy forsale in California. That’s the only way we actuallyknow it’s autumn!

Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 11, 2015

Summer’s end by Debbie Carini

I wonder if it would help my game if I deflated my golf ball?

Claremont’s Sustainable City Plan,adopted in 2008, included estab-lishing a community organization

to work closely with the city on sustain-ability education and implementation.

The Sustainable City Plan delegated more than 50 re-sponsibilities to what became Sustainable Claremont,incorporated in 2009, for the purposes of promoting en-vironmental, social and economic sustainability inClaremont and beyond.

Sustainable Claremont has done quite well. Amongmany accomplishments are the annual Claremont EarthDay celebration, the Water Action Group that leadsstrategies such as the recent Low-Water LandscapeExpos to combat our drought, an active Energy Group

including the expansion of the CHERP program, cre-ation of the Claremont Energy Challenge and leadingthe competition for the Cool California Challenge.

A schools group, led by School Green Teams in sus-tainability curriculum and labs, was also created to helpestablish school gardens and reclamation/reuse centers.The Claremont Garden Club emphasizes water-wiselandscaping appropriate for our area and the Tree Ac-tion Group has championed Heritage Tree preservationand an Urban Forest Master Plan.

Sustainable Claremont maintains an active social

presence as well with monthly Demystifying Sustaiability articles, monthly Sustainability Dialog presetations and discussions, an active website, monthe-newsletters and regular updates on social media.

Sustainable Claremont was recognized as the Oustanding Community Organization of the year by th2012 Independence Day Committee.

This past year, Sustainable Claremont—with geneous donations from the city of Claremont and publutilities, as well as extensive fundraising—opened thSustainability Resource Center in space donated by thRancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The center has suported sustainability initiatives throughout the city bproviding energy and environmental information, aswering questions, making referrals, facilitating publ

News from Sustainable Claremont, and an opportunity

DEMYSTIFYING SUSTAINABILITYpage

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Peppertree Square Dollar TreeDear Editor:

As a Claremont resident and theowner of the firm responsible for leasingPeppertree Square, I want to respond toMr. Auerbach’s September 4 letter andprovide further information to Clare-mont residents regarding Dollar Tree,the ownership of Peppertree Square andthe leasing process.

First, the center has been largely va-

cant for the past five years. In today’ssubstantially-changed retail world, thereare very few potential businesses that arewilling to lease the larger spaces at Pep-pertree Square. We have aggressivelysought many independent businesses aswell as chain tenants.

Due to the fact that the property is notlocated at a freeway, nor in the Village,nor on Foothill Boulevard, most usershave shied away from this neighborhoodlocation. I concur that it is great to haveindependent users in Claremont (or any-

where else), but most of these users, if they have any interest in the trade area,want to be in the Village and not at Pep-pertree Square.

Second, Dollar Tree is a store thatcaters to all people. Mr. Auerbach’s im-plication that they cater to the “absolute

bottom of the consumer market” is anincredibly insulting statement to manypeople who are just trying to save sometime and money.

Dollar Tree is located in most of theFoothill communities and frequently inclose proximity to their higher-incomehousing. They have an outstandingbrand and with over 13,000 stores theymust be doing something right for theircustomers. To clarify, Mr. Auerbachmentioned 99 Cents Only stores previ-ously being in the center. They neverwere located in the center. There was anindependent discount store that was pay-ing very low rent and they failed due totheir inability to properly operate thestore.

Third, regarding all of Mr. Auerbach’sstatements about Dollar Tree’s corporatepractices, I have not researched all of these facts, but I am sure with a little re-search we can find something wrongwith just about every retailer or every re-tail use. Should we ban all restaurantsthat sell alcohol since we know that al-cohol can be harmful? What about ban-ning movie theaters because they show

violent movies that may promote vio-lence. Or how about banning all bakeriessince they sell foods that can cause peo-ple to be fat. I don’t believe any of thesearguments, but obviously it does not takemuch googling to make an argumentagainst just about any business.

Finally, regarding Mr. Auerbach’sxenophobic views about foreign in-vestors, being domestic or foreign doesnot make a difference. We work forsome great foreign investors and somehorrible domestic investors.

The ownership of Peppertree Squarehas invested millions of dollars into Pep-pertree Square with virtually no returnon this investment. They have hired theleading retail leasing firm in the region,a well-respected city architect, a qualitygeneral contractor and highly profes-sional legal counsel to guide them.

Our goal is to bring to Peppertree re-tailers that want to be at the center, usersthat will be a benefit to residents in thetrade area and businesses that can affordto pay a fair rent while also having a rea-sonable likelihood of succeeding.

We continue to work to attract and ne-gotiate with other businesses, both inde-pendent and national, with a goal of filling the center with such businesses assoon as possible. Brad Umansky

ClaremontPresident of Progressive

Real Estate Partners

End climate pollutionDear Editor:

It is time for each of us to tell our statassembly member to vote yes on SB 32and SB 350. SB 32 by Senator FranPavley and SB 350 by Senators Kevinde León and Mark Leno will be votedon by the full Assembly soon. It’s timeto write your assembly member askingthat they vote yes on these critically-important bills.

The oil industry is pushing hard toblock this breakthrough legislation,spending millions on advertising andlobbying hard to oppose the passage othese bills. We must counter their ef-forts and ensure that California remaina leader in addressing climate change.

SB 32 will set an enforceable limiton climate pollution that continues thereductions required by California’slandmark AB 32 of 2006. It will requia greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levof 80 percent below the 1990 level by2050.

SB 350 will set three goals for 2030that cut GHG emissions: 50 percent ofour electricity from renewable energy

sources, 50 percent reduction in oil usin the transportation sector and a dou-bling of energy efficiency in buildings

Help us see that these important cli-mate change bills are passed by thestate assembly. Ellen Tayl

League of Women Voteof the Claremont Are


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etters and opinion

pieces in local newspa-pers last week gave theimpression that the localLeague of Women Voterschapter and others have beenbending Claremont city staff’sears, lobbying to roll back theparking restrictions for the areaaround the Claremont HillsWilderness Park.

Unfortunately, those interest groups ig-nored the area’s past CHWP-related traf-fic and parking issues, all of which led tothe current restrictions. Even withoutrolling back the restrictions, people nowoften ignore the area’s “No Parking” signs.

In my neighborhood, Los Angeles

County recently installed such signs on theeast side of Via Padova, which was one of the CHWP draft master plan recommen-dations. These complement the signs al-ready up on the west side, the city side, of the street. Still, this past Saturday morning,cars were parked on both sides of ViaPadova, right under the very signs tellingthem not to park there. I took several pho-tos, which I’m forwarding to the city.

The city’s done a good job of trying tobalance Wilderness Park use and neigh-borhood needs, and staff has acknowl-

edged that most of the neighborhood com-plaints would disappear if the parking is-

sues were solved. But rolling back parkingrestrictions would return us to where wewere five years ago, and would undo thegoodwill and trust city has earned from theworst-affected park neighbors.

Moreover, the League of Women Vot-ers’ concern about “privatizing” publicstreets by creating neighborhood parkingzones is baseless. Many cities regulateparking in exactly the same way.

If you’re in Los Angeles looking forweekday parking on residential streetsaround Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile or otherparts of LA, you’ll find limited non-resi-dent parking. And Santa Monica, one of the most progressive cities in SouthernCalifornia, has similar residential parking

areas, as does Pasadena.Just last year, KCET ran a story about

those same preferential parking zones,pointing out that they were upheld in 1977by a US Supreme Court considerablymore liberal than the current one:

“These districts—born out of the demands of Westwood home-owners tired of dealing with UCLAstudents and mall rats parking on theirstreets—began popping up when thecity council passed its preferentialparking ordinance in 1979.

Two years prior, the US SupremeCourt upheld the constitutionality of preferential parking districts, and theybegan spreading across the country.

Preferential parking districts in thecity of Los Angeles address ‘intru-sive parking’ by non-residents andcommuter vehicles, according to theLos Angeles Department of Trans-

portation, while allowing residentswith permits—and their guests, if theresident applied for a guest permit —to park. Annual permits cost $34.

The department says districts ad-dress ‘negative impacts’ of non-resi-dent parking on residential neighbor-

hoods, and encourage carpoolingwhile reducing noise, traffic hazardsand litter.”Weekend and holiday mornings on re

idential streets surrounding the CHWP anot much different from weekdays in LoAngeles. In fact, Saturday it was worsPeople just ignored the signs on VPadova.

I’ll leave it to people in other neighbohoods to speak to the their own parking isues. However, for Mt. Baldy Road anfor Mills Avenue from the county fire sttion to the CHWP entrance, the city has aready been put on notice as to the haardous driving conditions park usecreated.

Before the restricted parking in mPadua Hills neighborhood, parked calining both sides of Mt. Baldy Road anpedestrians walking in traffic lanblocked sight lines for drivers crossing turning onto Mt. Baldy from Via Padov

Neighbors may or may not show ufor upcoming CHWP master plan meeings. Unlike the League of Women Voterthey don’t know how this process workor how to bend it to their will. They simply expect Claremont to act in a fair anhonest way, as it has so far. They simpassume they’ve already spoken up, and thcity listened. They assume the city wmaintain existing parking restrictions.

We know from the experience of se

eral years of public meetings that thnumbers of neighbors outnumber thoadvocating rolling back the parking, anthey will certainly hold the city accounable if the old problems return.


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outreach, interacting with other sustain-ability-oriented entities, in addition toproviding support for Sustainable Clare-mont’s programs.

These donations also provided for alandmark change. For the first time in itsexistence, Sustainable Claremont wasable to hire an employee to support thecenter and operations of Sustainable

Claremont.

Though working only part-time,as the newly-hired sustainabilitycoordinator, Alexis Reyes did an

exemplary job helping shepherd thevarious action group projects, keepingthe board activities moving and build-ing the Sustainability Resource Center,literally from nothing.

She was so fantastic at her job thatshe was recently hired as the full-timeSustainability Program Manager forHarvey Mudd College, necessitatinganother search for a sustainability coor-dinator.

If you have a keen interest in sustain-ability, enjoy working with volunteers

passionate about all things sustainable,would enjoy helping plan and grow theSustainability Center and have the en-ergy and excitement necessary to helpgrow our organization in Claremont,then this currently part-time positionmay be the opportunity you have beenlooking for.

Requirements: BA or BS preferred;demonstrated organizational skills; anability to interact effectively with thepublic and in public speaking; mediaand computer proficiency in programslike Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as online media tools.Some knowledge of accounting andQuickBooks desirable.

Responsibilities include preparingand managing outreach and public in-terest information; responding to publinquiries; supporting Sustainable Clarmont activities; fundraising; staffingthe Sustainability Resource Center andproviding operational support to theSustainable Claremont board includinMeeting preparations, agendas, min-utes and documentation.

Applications will be accepted untilSaturday, September 26. Please provida resume and cover letter by email [email protected]. Forfurther information, contact BarnabasPath, chairperson, Sustainable Clare-mont, at [email protected].

Demystifying Sustainability is a project Sustainable Claremont (sustainableclarmont.org), email address [email protected]. Follow them on Facebook a

facebook.com/sustainableclaremont and oTwitter @GreenClaremont, and considbecoming a member.

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Kristeen LynchKristeen V. Lynch, a Claremont

resident of 29 years, died in Red-

lands on September 8, 2015. Shewas 77.

A Rosary and Mass will be cele-brated on Monday, September 14 at

10 a.m. at Our Lady of the Assump-tion Church, 435 N. Berkeley Ave. in

Claremont. In lieu of flowers, thefamily asks that donations be madeto the Alzheimer’s Association,www.alz.org.


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Joan Giles, a 40-year Claremont resident, died onJune 2, 2015 at Mt. San Antonio Gardens. She was95.

She was born Jeanne Rosalind Epperson in thesmall, picturesque town of Neosho, Missouri on May22, 1920. After graduating from Neosho High School

in 1937, she attended Joplin Community College andthe University of Missouri, graduating with a bache-lor’s degree in journalism in 1944.

Her adventurous spirit took her to New York in1944 after earning a spot as editor-in-chief of Made-moiselle magazine’s annual college edition. Shestayed in New York to work in advertising, both atGimbels department store and the Jay Thorpe adver-tising agency. She was featured in the October 1,1945 issue of Lifemagazine as part of a story entitled“Small-Town Girls Make Good in Big CityStore.” She and her roommate were describedby Life as “witty and pretty,” and the article featuredJoan working as a Gimbels copywriter and entertain-

ing in her small New York apartment.She met Jim Giles in New York soon after he re-

turned from the war. They married in 1946, with hersister Tirzah as maid of honor. After marriage, thecouple moved first to Boston, where Mr. Giles earned

an MBA at Harvard and Mrs. Giles earned her mas-ter’s degree in English at Boston University. Theylater moved to the Philadelphia area for Jim’s job, aneventually to California in 1961.

When Mr. Giles joined the faculty at ClaremontGraduate School, they settled in Claremont in 1975.

Mrs. Giles earned her PhD in English literature at thUniversity of Southern California in 1979 and taughEnglish at several of the Claremont Colleges.

Among her many talents was her ability to playany song on the piano without sheet music by simplhearing the tune. She played occasionally duringearly-morning mass at Our Lady of the Assumptionchurch and frequently at gatherings at Mt. San Antonio Gardens.

Joan was a loving and doting mother who will bemissed by her three children, Chris, Eppy and Allie,by her 10 grandchildren and her three great-grand-children. She was predeceased in 2003 by her hus-band of 57 years, Jim Giles.


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Daniel “Danny” Warren Gale Jr., alongtime Claremont resident, died Au-gust 28, 2015 at Pomona Valley Hospi-tal following an extended illness. Hewas 75.

Born March 12, 1940 in Chicago, Illi-nois to Daniel Warren Gale Sr.and Betty Gale, Danny moved with hisfamily to Claremont when he was fiveyears old. Some of his favorite memo-ries of early life in Claremont revolvearound his time at the Gale family ranchon Gale Mountain Way. The ranch hasbeen in the Gale family since the 1870s.

He graduated in 1960 from Clare-mont High School, where he was aWolfpack swim team and baseball team

member. He remained active with hisclass reunion committee throughout hislife. Following high school, Mr. Galeserved as a volunteer fireman with theCity of Claremont and worked on USForest Service fire crews in addition tovarious truck driving jobs in the area.He spent his last 12 working years incustomer service at Ontario Interna-tional Airport.

Following his retirement in 2012,Danny continued his lifelong interest inhunting and fishing and became activein the local classic car community, earn-

ing a number of awards with his restored1964 Impala, “The Green Machine.”

He is survived by his wife of 27

years, Trudy Kay Gale of Claremont,two step-children, Mandi Lockwoodand Cory Mitchell, and seven step-grandchildren.

He also leaves his sister, Libby GaleMacklin of Blanchard, Idaho; niece annephews Shelly Nave, Rob and MikeMacklin and their six grandchildrenand four great grandchildren; andcousins Chuck Gale of La Verne andCharlie Gale of Claremont, as well asRon Gale, George and Richard Hilesand June Gale Bartell.

No services are planned. In lieu of

flowers, donations may be made to theUS Forest Service through www.na-tionalforest.org.

Daniel GaleOutdoorsman, muscle car aficionado

Roger AndersenRoger Andersen, a longtime

Claremont resident, died on Septem-ber 5, 2015. He was 73.

A funeral service will be held onSaturday, September 12 at 11 a.m. atSan Dimas Methodist Church, lo-cated at 114 W. 2nd St. in San

Dimas. A reception will follow im-mediately afterwards at Walter’sRestaurant in Claremont.

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Longtime Claremont resident LindaChristina Vertal, known to family andfriends as Tina, died peacefully at homeon September 2, 2015 in the companyof her husband and daughter, after along battle with pancreatic cancer. Shewas 66.

She was born in Buttonwillow, Cali-fornia on July 31, 1949, and graduatedfrom Pitzer College with a degree inanthropology and art. The fine arts, de-sign and international travel alwaysplayed an integral part in her life. Tinamoved to Claremont in 1973 with herdaughter Rina. She was a photographicartist with a local advertising agencybut quickly moved on to Millard SheetsDesigns as a mosaic artist, workingwith Millard Sheets on numerous mo-saic murals that decorate many publicbuildings in California today.

She met the love of her life, LarryVertal, in 1977 while trying to rent aspace for an art studio. He said he was-n’t renting to an artist, since “all artistsare flakes.” Five months later, theywere married in Machu Picchu, Peruafter Mr. Vertal completed a climbingexpedition in the high Andes, and therest was history. The couple was mar-ried for 37 years. They were blessed tospend many of those years traveling

and exploring the world in a style thatincluded quite a few narrow escapes inthe face of rebels, thugs and ThirdWorld coup d’états.

Always one with a strong sense of justice, Ms. Vertal was very involved inthe efforts to save Sycamore Schoolfrom closure in the late ‘70s, and felt agreat sense of pride when the closurewas averted. Concurrently, as a residentof the Arbol Verde neighborhood, her

activist interests turned to working withresidents, the city and then ClaremontMen’s College, now ClaremontMcKenna, to save the neighborhoodfrom being developed by the colleges.

Ms. Vertal, working with RichardPetterson, was the key figure in the cre-ation of the Petterson Museum of Inter-cultural Art at Pilgrim Place in 1984.She served as its founding director until1994, and she and Mr. Petterson re-mained close until his death. Duringthat time she also served as a lecturer, aguest curator at other museums and asassistant director for the 1985 China Ex-hibition at the Los Angeles County Fair.

The Vertals moved to Columbia,South Carolina in 1994 due to Larry’swork. Tina immediately immersed her-self in the local historical preservationsociety of the capital city and startedher own design business, which servednumerous private and commercialclients in the capital. She worked withtwo successive governors of South Car-olina on cultural and arts initiatives.She served on the board of directors of the South Carolina Philharmonic, theboard of the AIDS Benefit Foundationof South Carolina, the steering commit-tee of the Cultural Council of Richlandand Lexington counties and the Colum-

bia Museum of Art’s Taylor Society.While the couple loved South Car-

olina, they moved back to Claremont i2002 to be closer to their daughter Rinand grandson Cole. From that time onMs. Vertal became a fixture in thestands watching her grandson playsports. Her highlight this last year waswatching Cole play his last baseballgame of his junior season at ClaremonHigh. She said she was leaving behind“the best family anyone could ask for.

“Tina lived large with a pure heart,and died knowing she was loved,” thefamily shared.

She leaves behind her husbandLarry; her daughter and son-in-law,Rina and Paul Cooper; her grandsonCole Prentice; her mother MaryFletcher; her sisters, Patti Ruth andJulie Doud, and her brother DonaldFletcher.

There will be a private memorialservice. In lieu of flowers, the familyasks that contributions be made to Cityof Hope, 1500 E. Duarte Road, DuarteCA 91010. Attn: Joe Komsky. Pleasenote on the check or in an enclosednote that the gift is in memory of Christina Vertal in support of pancreatcancer research.

Tina VertalArtist, designer, museum director

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John Pedroni died quietly and peace-fully on December 31, 2014, with hisfamily at his side. He was just sixmonths shy of his 100th birthday.

He was born on June 24, 1915 atJohns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,

Maryland. His parents, Victor andTheresa Pareti Pedroni, had just immi-grated from Italy. The family moved toEdmonton, Alberta where John helpedhis father, a bridge designer and engi-neer, build a one-room log cabin inwhich all the Pedroni family lived. Therewas no running water, and it was so coldin the winter they had to set an alarm towake up every two hours to put wood onthe fire so they wouldn’t freeze at night.

His father got a job in Detroit, wherehe died of pneumonia. In 1925, the fam-ily moved to New York City. When Johnentered school at the age of 7, he wasimmediately moved up to the thirdgrade. It was in junior high school where

he completed 7th grade in one semes-ter and 8th grade in another semester. Heentered DeWitt Clinton High School inthe Bronx at age 12, graduating at16. DeWitt Clinton High was consideredan “intellectual incubator to some of thenation’s finest names” in science, engi-neering, the military, the arts, politics,publishing and education.

Mr. Pedroni was employed at Lowen-stein Piece Goods operating a comp-

tometer, which was the first commercialkey-driven mechanical calculator. Hewent on to Sam Gompers High Schoolat night and studied machine shop prac-

tice. He was later hired in Brooklyn atSperry Gyroscope working in the jig-boring department in the tool room. Hehad to use his knowledge of trigonome-try to calculate everything by hand andhead.

He later moved west, following hismother and sister who had moved toCalifornia, and was hired at Cal Tech inthe astrophysics machine shop. Thislater became NOTS (Naval Ordinance

Test Station). Here, he tested rockets inwhat is now known as the Jet PropulsionLaboratory. Mr. Pedroni was given thetask of designing and machining the im-plosion devices of the atomic bomb. Hewas given top security clearance for his

part in the Manhattan Project and hiscontribution to this project, which isrecorded in the Library of Congress, wasunknown to family and friends untilmany years later.

While working at NOTS he met MaryCatherine Pride, called Kay. They weremarried in June of 1946 and welcomedthree daughters, Candy in 1949, Chris-tine in 1952 and JoAnn in 1958. Familysummers were filled with camping in theSequoias and National Parks and visitsto Kay’s brother and his family in Madi-son, Wisconsin where they rented cabinson the lake. In 1962, the family movedto Claremont where all three girls gradu-ated from Claremont High and then

went on to college.Once their daughters were old enough

John and Kay began traveling on theirown, taking cruises and vacationing inCanada, Hawaii and Europe where theyhad a special love for Switzerland andPrague. Mr. Pedroni loved the outdoors,and many weekends could be found out-side pruning his fruit trees or building anaddition to the Pedroni home in Clare-mont.

Mr. and Mrs. Pedroni moved to theClaremont Manor in 2003. They wereinitially reluctant to downsize, but afterabout three weeks in their new digs,John said, “Why did we wait so long?This is like living at a country club.” H

had a beautiful tenor voice and joinedthe choir while living at the Manor,singing at many events. He is fondly remembered for his quiet brilliance, hisability to recall any event or any detail,his charming wit and sense of humor.

Mr. Pedroni was preceded in death in2008 by his wife, Mary Catherine PridePedroni, whom he missed until the dayhe died. He is survived by his threedaughters, Candy Pedroni Northrop(Roger), Christine Pedroni and JoAnnPedroni Stehly (Jeff). He also leaves hisix grandchildren who he dearly loved,Graham Northrop, Jared Malan, KatieNorthrop Arnold, Kyle (Brittany) andAlyson and Rachel Stehly as well as

four great-grandchildren, Natalie andAndrew Northrop and Eliana and MicaArnold.

A celebration of life was held in January at the Claremont Manor, with over100 family and friends in attendance. Itwas Mr. Pedroni’s desire to have his cremated remains placed next to his wife’sin Appleton, Wisconsin. The inurnmenwill take place on October 3, 2015, witeach of his daughters present.

John B. PedroniEngineer, loving patriarch

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Community meeting tounveil draft of Wilder-ness Park master plan

The city of Claremont and ClaremontHills Wilderness Park Master Plan con-sultants MIG will host a communitymeeting to discuss the draft master planon Monday, September 28 from 6 to 9p.m. at Taylor Hall, located at 1775 N.

Indian Hill Blvd. The meeting will in-clude a presentation followed by an op-portunity for participants to exploreexhibit tables. For information or ques-tions, contact Anne Turner, director of human services, at (909) 399-5490 or byemail to [email protected]

All Aboard for Art at theClaremont Depot

The Claremont Museum of Art willhold its fall gala, All Aboard for Art, onSaturday, September 26 beginning at5:30 p.m.

Against the backdrop of the historicClaremont Depot, guests can enjoy an

evening of art and entertainment by theJazz Doctors, accompanied by wine andfood by Spaggi’s. The event, benefitingthe Claremont Museum of Art’s educa-tion programs, will include a silent andlive auction of art objects by Jean Ames,Lucette Bourdin, Harrison McIntosh,Chris Toovey, Maureen Wheeler andMilford Zornes.

Gala tickets are $100 for members and$125 for non-members. To request an in-vitation, call Marilyn Ray at (909) 941-4437. Visit www.claremontmuseum.orgfor membership information.

Local collectors are asked to considercontributing a piece or two for the auc-tions. Organizers are especially inter-

ested in works by regional artists. To do-nate, conatct Peggy Carlson at (909) -374-1491 or Barbara Brown at (909)624-7435 for additional information.

KGI-Technip submit

proposals for two four-story buildings

Several projects are being proposedfor the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI)campus, as well as properties owned bythe college (KGI office facility at 215York Place and the Technip facility at555 W. Arrow Highway).

Project proposals were presented tothe architectural commission on Wednes-day night. The commission conducted apreliminary review of the conceptualplans, but no formal action was taken atthe meeting. The applicant will be givendirection by the commission that mayhelp shape future design plans. It is an-

ticipated that future public meetings be-fore the traffic and transportation, andarchitectural commissions will occurwhen the project is ready for formal re-view.

The proposal includes two, new four-story buildings to be located on the ex-isting vacant land at the southwest cornerof Bucknell Avenue and WhartonDrive/Santa Fe Street. The buildingswould contain 292 residential units (forgraduate students and staff/faculty), aca-demic space and a café/lounge.

A parking expansion would add ap-proximately 257 new spaces to the area.One of these new parking expansionareas is for Technip and would be located

on a western portion of the existing largegrass area along Arrow Highway. Thepreliminary plans are on file for review atcity hall. Contact Senior Planner MarkCarnahan at (909) 399-5322 or at [email protected] for informa-tion.

Local professor to talkmagic of math

Arthur Benjaminwill give a presenta-tion on Sunday, September 13 at 2 p.m.at Barnes & Noble, 5183 Montclair PlazaLane in Montclair. Mr. Benjamin, amathematics professor at Harvey MuddCollege, is promoting his new book, TheMagic of Math.

He is a sought-after speaker at eventsaround the country, and his TED talk on“mathemagic” has been viewed online

more than seven million times. He’s beon television, with interviewers liStephen Colbert and Queen Latifah asing him about his refreshing take onsubject that’s dreaded by many studenbut integral to our society.

In The Magic of Math, Mr. Benjamuses an assortment of examples—froice cream scoops and poker hands measuring mountains and making magsquares—to empower readers to see th

beauty, simplicity, and truly magicproperties behind the formulas and equtions that often leave our heads spinninCovering the key ideas of classic areof mathematics like arithmetic, algebrgeometry, trigonometry and calculus, halso shows readers how to have fun fooing around with Fibonacci numbers, ivestigating infinity and marveling ovmathematical magic tricks.


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COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneffThis tree on the corner of San Jose Avenue and Colgate Place in Claremont isone of the 101 street trees the city has identified as being critically stressed andin danger of dying. An effort was launched last week by the city of Claremontand Sustainable Claremont’s Tree Action Group to organize a group of volun-teers to go door-to-door and provide residents with either a soaker hose or wa-ter bag to facilitate appropriate watering.

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A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE CLAREMONT COURIER

We all want to keep ourstreet and garden treesalive during the

drought, but how to do it?Some info would be helpful!

What affects the amount ofwater a tree needs?

Where it evolved —streamside trees likesycamores need more water than nativeoaks, and Japanese maples more thanmesquites. Google your tree to get an ideaof its water needs.

Microclimate—water is lost morequickly in sunny, windy or bare areas.

Weather—more is needed in hotweather, less in winter.

Soil type—water moves down faster andspreads out less in sandy loam than in clay.

Groundcover—organic mulches help re-tain water; gravel can increase heat andevaporation; groundcover plants use waterbut their shade can cool the soil.

Watering depth—constant shallow wa-tering encourages roots to grow close to thesurface where water is rapidly lost due toevaporation, so more frequent watering isneeded.

Size of area available for watering—trees whose root area is largely covered byimpermeable surfaces will need more fre-quent watering.

Where should you water?The majority of the roots on an estab-

lished tree are in the top two to three feet inthe area starting near the trunk and contin-uing at least to the edge of the canopy (theend of the branch spread), and often wellbeyond that.

Roots need to be given water in the areafrom the trunk to the canopy edge, even if that is now covered with dead grass or low-water plantings.

How much water does a tree need?For established ornamental trees, a rule

of thumb is 10 gallons per inch of trunk di-ameter at knee height each time you water;

if the trunk is 12 inches thick, that wouequal 120 gallons.

Fruit trees need about 15 to 20 gallonper foot of canopy spread, so for a 10 focanopy, that would be about 150 to 20gallons.

How often does the tree need to gethis amount of water?

More rules of thumb:Well-established ornamental trees—

once or twice a month. New trees—every week.Fruit trees—every two weeks April

September. Native oaks—no more than once

twice in the whole summer, keeping watsix feet away from the trunk.

Roots need access to air in the soil, sless frequent but deeper watering is whwill keep them healthiest.

If a tree looks stressed and the soil isn

Trees in June Vail Park have lost most otheir leaves as the city of Claremont cuback on watering parks.

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it probably needs water right away. Wilted and/or curling leavesa sure sign your tree needs immediate watering.

How can you water efficiently?or new trees, make a short wall with soil two feet away from thek. Use a bucket or hose to fill this basin several times until you’ven the tree 15 to 20 gallons of water. Water bags can be helpful, but only for new trees with a small root area and only if they ared frequently enough.

Use a hand-held hose with a shut-off nozzle until enough has beenvered. Move the spray back and forth over the root area to allowsink in and avoid runoff.ay a soaker hoseor one with inline emitters to cover the area andch it to your garden hose when you plan to water. Cover the hoseh mulch to reduce evaporation. Use a timer.

Make sure automatic sprinklers don’t spray hardscape or run longerneeded.

How can you tell how much water you are giving?Garden hose—use a bucket to see how long it takes to deliver aain amount of water. For example, if it takes 30 seconds to providegallons, then that is four gallons per minute or 240 gallons per

r. If the tree needs 120 gallons, 30 minutes of watering should beicient.oaker hose—check the package for info. Many provide two gal-per minute over a 50-foot length, so in one hour that length of

e would deliver about 120 gallons.

rip with inline emitters—amount is the number of emitters timesrate, so 60 one-gallon-per-hour emitters would take roughly twors to deliver 120 gallons.utomatic sprinklers—place four identical, straight-sided cans be-en irrigation heads in a zone. Operate zone for 15 minutes. Com-

water into one can and measure depth. A depth of one inch isut six gallons per square yard per hour.

What should be avoided?unoff —break up watering period as needed to prevent this.ailing to check that the irrigation is working properly.

Watering too long—usually water that goes below two feet or son’t be available to the tree.onstantly soggy soil, which will cause roots to drown and rot.

Watering only near the trunk or only near the canopy edge—thisses most of the roots.

Mulch that absorbs too much heat , prevents air movement into theor touches the trunk.ertilizing or pruning (more than dead and diseased wood) assed tree.

ow can you tell if your trees are getting enough water?ook for signs of stress: wilting, yellowing, graying, browning,ing leaves.n hot days, healthy plants may lose water faster than they can

orb it—they look wilted but are actually fine, so check in thening to see if they have recovered before watering.

Water and then, several hours later, dig down to see how far theer went. If not about 18 inches deep, water longer.uy a soil moisture meterto check the upper foot of soil.

f your tree looks happy, then whatever you are doing is probably—situations differ, and, though helpful, rules of thumb don’t sub-te entirely for keeping a close eye on a tree!

—Sue SchenkPresident Claremont Garden Club

EE CARE/ from previous page

The drought continues to take its toll on the City of Trees as the surrounding leafscape begins to lookmore like a branchscape.

In an effort to revive and preserve the city’s ailing urban forest, Clare-mont City Council took action on Tuesday night and considered a series of six recommendations presented by Assistant City Manager Colin Tudor,which they passed, in memory of the late Linda Heilpern.

The recommendations included approval of funds for the removal and re-placement of dead trees, the purchase of tree care toolkits for residents to at-tend to their city trees, a drought assessment of park trees, public outreach, acontract with an outside agency for right-of-way tree watering and the re-classification of a part-time city arborist bringing the city’s total to two full-time licensed tree specialists.

The council unanimously approved each recommendation, with the ex-ception of Councilmember Opanyi Nasiali, who voted against moving thearborist from part-time to full-time.

At a cost of $250,895 from the general fund via the Landscape and Light-ing District monies, the effort put forth by the city to save the drought-stressed trees doesn’t come cheap. But many consider it a drop in the bucketcompared to the importance of saving the community’s $84 million assetknown as Claremont’s urban forest.

“I’d like to greatly thank the city staff for the recommendations thatthey’re making for our drought-stressed trees,” said Sustainable Clare-

mont’s Susan Schenk. “I agree with many of them but I do have one con-cern about the tree care toolkit section, particularly thewater bags.”

The botanyprofessor toldcouncil that thewater bagswere de-signed for

trees with trunks less than 12 inches in diameter, newly-planted trees ortrees in the Village that need to get water somehow. Since water bags onlyhold about 20 gallons, even two bags would need to be filled three times todeliver enough water to satisfy a tree with a trunk larger than 12 inches indiameter.

“Even if you did that, most of the water in our sandy loam moves downrather than out and so the water in the water bags is going to do that, mean-ing it’s only going to irrigate a small area of the root system of the trees.The tree won’t be able to reach the rest of it.”

City trees began showing signs of distress early last year. In the summerof 2014, Inland Urban Forest Group was retained by the city to conduct aseries of visual inspections of the city’s street trees and identify those show-ing signs of drought-stress.

In June 2014, the consultants identified 470 trees as drought-stressed,with 425 of those trees within the city’s easement on private property andthe remaining 45 located in city-maintained areas.

By September that same year, 688 trees were identified as in crisis duringa follow-up assessment only a few months later. Now, nearly a year later,1606 trees have been identified as drought-stressed, and 147 trees are deaddue to drought.

Once the trees were identified, the consultants left a door hanger at theresidence, notifying the homeowner of the drought-stressed condition of thetrees and requesting that they immediately provide adequate water. That ac-tion was followed up by a letter from the city’s community services depart-

ment, notifying the resident of the condition of the tree and proper wateringtechniques while still conserving water. By fall 2014, the city estimated that40 percent of property owners began watering their trees effectively, but ithasn’t been enough. The city has issued a call-to-action for residents whoseproperty houses one of these trees.

Last week, volunteers equipped with tree care toolkits went door-to-doorin an effort to spread the word and gain residents’ compliance in the care of their street tree. Most were successful in their quest and greeted warmly.However, the process wasn’t without a hiccup or two.

“Of the five houses I went to, two residents were already notified by thecity months ago that their trees were dead due to disease and they weregoing to be removed. So they stopped watering it,” said one volunteer. Thecity might want to cross-check their lists.”

Claremont currently has 281 trees recommended for removal, 147 of which are dead due to the drought. The remaining 134 trees were recom-mended for removal prior to the drought assessment because they are dis-eased or hazardous. The trees are scheduled for removal at the end of September, with replanting scheduled in the winter months. The total cost to

remove and replace all 281 trees is $140,145.City street trees are in desperate need of help. To date, 101 streettrees have been categorized in critical drought-stress requiring ac-tion within 30 days. There are 535 trees in severe drought-stress thatrequire action within the next 180 days, and 803 that are moderatelystressed, requiring action within the next six to nine months.

A decline in the health of many of Claremont’s park trees has notgone unnoticed by city staff, but an assessment of those trees hasnot yet been conducted. With the council’s approval Tuesday night,staff has scheduled an assessment to take place in mid-September at

a cost of $8,000. City staff are hopeful that an increase to the parks’watering schedules from two days to three days a week will offer thetrees some relief.

—Angela [email protected]

Claremont is a community that rec-ognizes its trees as one of the city’smost valuable public resources, and

preserving this urban forest is one of resi-dents’ highest priorities.

With over 24,000 city street and park trees valued atmore than $84 million, the community forest not onlyadds to property values but provides environmentalbenefits while enhancing the quality of life for all citi-zens residing in the City of Trees.

Unfortunately, Claremont’s trees are not only deal-ing with the rigors of urban life, including air pollution,limited growth space and compacted soils. Now theyare faced with the consequences of an ongoing droughtthat has already claimed the life of 147 city-ownedtrees, many of which are located on the city’s easementthat is generally located 10 feet from the face of thecurb on a homeowner’s property.

City staff and residents must work together to save asmany trees as possible, creating a valuable partnershipthat will enable Claremont’s trees to not only survivethe added stress of drought but also thrive in the years

to come. Cooperation between the city andessential in maintaining a community knbeautiful tree-lined streets.

The city of Claremont has put together erence list of Dos and DON’Ts for residefor city-owned trees:

• DO—Deep water, on a regular basis, aabutting your property.

• DO—Protect your city tree from strinlawn mowers and similar equipment.

• DO—Report anyone harming a city tretree in need of attention. Call (909) 399-548 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through ThurClaremont Police Department at (909) 39hours.

• DON’T—Trim, prune or remove a cit• DON’T—Plant a tree in the city’s easem

property.• DON’T—Affix anything to a city tree o

icals or equipment that might harm it.• DON’T—Put materials such as bric

concrete near the base of a city tree or dtrenches near it.

Volunteer effort a key factor witClaremont tree care

COURIER photos/Steven FeTree Action Group co-founder Barnabas Path removes toolkits from his vehicle last week while caClaremont neighborhood as a volunteer for the city. The bags contained either soaker hoses or trewere given free of charge to homeowners whose street trees are critically stressed.

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According to Section 12.26.040 of thecity municipal code, it is the duty of pri-

vate property owners to accept, protectand provide adequate water to any citytree planted in the public easement overhis or her property, and not to interferewith the city’s provision of water to trees,whether by water truck or other means.Residents must notify the communityservices department of any suspectedtree hazards or maintenance needs of acity tree on their property. It’s also theirresponsibility to remove any vines, fallenleaves and other deadfall from city streettrees planted in the easement.

Enforcement

In the past, letters have been sent toproperty owners notifying them of thewater requirements and proper watering

techniques for city trees, including a fol-low-up date for re-inspection of the tree.

If the tree is still in need of water afterre-inspection, the property owner willbe notified that the matter will be turnedover to code enforcement and penaltiesmay be imposed if the tree is not wa-tered as requested.

Currently, no enforcement actions arebeing taken for property owners notsupplying water to city trees as re-quired, but that’s all about to change.The council recently directed city staff to begin proactive enforcement, andthey are now working on changes to themunicipal code for recovery of replace-ment costs and the value of the tree.

Claremont Municipal Code Section12.26 allows for a penalty not to ex-ceed $1,000 for anyone not adhering tothe duties of proper tree care. The city’scode enforcement officers and arboristhave citing authority to impose apenalty.

For more information about how tocare for the city trees in Claremont,contact the Community Services De-partment at (909) 399-5431.

—Angela Bailey

[email protected]

TREE VOLUNTEERS/ continued from the previous page

COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneffMr. Path, at right, speaks with Claremont resident Bill Archer about watering thestreet tree in Mr. Archer’s front yard. Mr. Archer remarked that the tree had beenslowly dying for years, and no amount of water was going to save its life.


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DEMOCRATIC CLUB “Protecting and Ex- panding Social Security.” Ernie Powell will dis-cuss the need to protect Social Security as aguaranteed social insurance program. He willalso argue that Social Security ought to be ex- panded. Mr. Powell has experience as a public policy advocate and campaign consultant. Theluncheon is the first following the Club’s sum-mer recess. Cost of luncheon is $17. Program isfree. All ages welcome. Luncheon is at noonwith speaker at 1 p.m. Darvish Restaurant, 946W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont. (909) 626-8122.SOCIAL GROUP Many people nearing or in retirement find their social structure chang-ing. Individuals or couples might find theneed for new or more friends to travel with,walk with, dine with, go to the theater with,dance with, etc. “Mingle & Munch” will pro-vide a pleasant Friday evening of music, re-freshments and conversation to inspire newfriendships. For ages 50 and over. Free andopen to the public. 6 to 8 p.m. Garner House,840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. (909)399-5488.

THE COMMODORES One of the mosticonic funk and soul bands to ever hit the

music scene brings its signature hits to theLewis Family Playhouse for a special one-night-only performance. 8 p.m. 12505 Cul-tural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga.Tickets are $65 for general admission and

are available online at lewisfamilyplay-house.com or through the box office at(909) 477-2752.

CELLIOLA & FRIENDS Celliola members Cynthia Fogg, viola, and Tom Flaherty,cello, are joined by Peter Yates, guitar,Gwendolyn Lytle, soprano, and Joti Rock-well, mandolin, to perform music by JasonBarabba, Tom Flaherty, Forrest Pierce,Mark Winges and more. Free admissionwith open seating, no tickets. Doors openapproximately 30 minutes prior to perform-ance. 3 p.m. Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E.Fourth St., Claremont. (909) 607-2671.

LECTURE Toshia Shaw is the founder of Purple WINGS (Women Inspiring NobleGirls Successful

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