Claremont Tidbits

The City of Claremont is holding a hazardous materials drop-off tomorrow from 9am to 3pm at the Claremont Corporate Yard, located at 1616 N. Monte Vista Ave.

The drop-off is open to all Los Angeles County residents.

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The City is also warning of possible power outages between 9pm Sunday, February 8th and 7am Monday, February 9th due to work by Edison crews:

Power Outage Notification

A planned outage by SCE will affect service in the southwest area of the Village between 9:00 p.m. Sunday, February 8 and 7:00 a.m. Monday, February 9, 2009.

SCE will be performing maintenance to change out 2 ram switches, and will impact the following:

• City parking structure on First Street.
• Traffic signals at Arrow Hwy. and Indian Hill Blvd.
• Local businesses in southwest section of the Village.
• Even numbered addresses (100-400 blocks) on south side of W. First Street.
• 100 and 200 blocks S. Indian Hill Blvd.
• Peppertree Square on the southeast corner of W. Arrow Hwy. and Indian Hill Blvd.

Power may be off for the whole period or may be turned off more than once. This planned outage may not begin exactly at the stated start time. Some conditions may cause this planned outage to be postponed.

For outage status, please visit www.sce.com/outage or call 1-888-759-6056 and reference the planned outage number 331677 and/or 361666.

The Inland Valley Humane Society will be holding a series of pet vaccination clinics and low-cost spay/neuter clinics throughout the year, the City's website says:

Humane Society Hosts Low-Cost Vaccination and Spay/Neuter Clinics

The Inland Valley Humane Society is hosting a series of low cost clinics on a first come, first serve basis. The clinics are very well attended and the lines can be very long.

For information about the vaccination clinic call the Humane Society at (909) 623-9777 or for the spay/neuter clinics, call the Humane Society's Spay/Neuter Hotline at (909) 623-9777 x 696.

You can view of schedule of the clinics here.

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Poetry fans will be interested to learn that the Claremont Graduate University has named this year's winners of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards. The Los Angeles Times carried a small blurb about this:

Matthea Harvey, a Brooklyn, N.Y., resident who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University.

The prize, established in 1992 to honor work by a mid-career poet, was given for her book "Modern Life."

Matthew Dickman, a Portland, Ore., writer, was selected by the Claremont judges to receive the $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his book "All-American Poem."

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Also, Pomona College's Tournées Festival begins tonight at 6:30pm. We got this information from Claremont City Manager Jeff Parker's weekly newsletter last Friday:

POMONA COLLEGE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Pomona College will host a film series with the Tournées Festival, a French language
film festival every Friday evening at 6:30 p.m., beginning February 6 in the Pomona College Rose Hills Theatre, in the Smith Campus Center, 170 E. Sixth St. (College Avenue & Sixth Street). The films are free to the public. The schedule includes:

February 6 - Heading South (35 mm format)
February 13 - Flight of the Red Balloon (35 mm format)
February 20 - Before I Forget (DVD)
February 27 - Her Name Is Sabine (DVD)
March 6 - Persepolis (35 mm format)