Meetings and Events Around Town

There are a couple upcoming meetings the civic-minded among you might want to attend.

• The City Council will hold a goal-setting workshop this Saturday beginning at 9am.  Come on out and tell the council what you think our top priorities should be:
  
  (from the City's website):
  Council Workshop
  9:00 AM
  City Council Chambers
  225 W. Second Street
  Claremont
  (909) 399-5460
  
  The City council will meet to discuss projects and priorities to allow staff to draft a work plan. This workshop is open to the public.
  
  
  
• On December 6, the California Public Utilities Commission pays a visit to Claremont's Taylor Hall to hear public comment on Golden State Water Co.'s application for a rate increase.  There will be an afternoon and an evening session:
  

  Public Hearing on Water Rate Increase on December 6

  The California Public Utilities Commission will hold a Public Hearing on the Golden State Water Company proposed rate increase on December 6 at 2pm and 6pm at Taylor Hall. An Administrative law judge will preside over the hearing and all comments will be included in the General Rate Case.
  
  Golden State Water has filed for a 27% rate increase for 2012 with smaller increases in 2013, and 2014. The public may comment or protest the rate increase at the public hearing, by e-mail, or writing to the Public Advisor's Office. All public comments are provided to the CPUC Commissioners and Administrative Law Judge assigned to the proceedings.

  
  Please send all comments to:
  
  Public Advisor's Office
  320 West 4th St. Ste. 500
  Los Angeles, CA 90013
  or via e-mail to public.advisor.la@cpuc.ca.gov
  
  Visit the Golden State Water Website
  
  
  
• The first weekend in December brings us Claremont's annual Christmas Holiday Promenade and Tree Lighting:
  
  Holiday Promenade & Tree Lighting 2011
  
  The City of Claremont invites you to an evening filled with live music, festive storefronts, a magnificent tree lighting ceremony and more. The Claremont Village, the area's ultimate shopping destination, will transform into a holiday wonderland where the young and young at heart can enjoy the festivities. The Holiday Promenade will include live entertainment throughout the Village as well as an opportunity to take a photo with Santa Claus.

  
  

  You won't want to miss this magical Claremont event. Please join us Friday, December 2nd, from 5-8 p.m. at the Claremont Village Holiday Promenade and Tree Lighting. Enjoy the festive atmosphere and remember to shop Claremont this holiday season.

  
  

  For more information please contact us at (909) 399-5490 or visit us at www.ci.claremont.ca.us.
  
  
  
• And, also in December, the Gypsies Sisters Art Show, having found a new home, will hold their December sale the same weekend as the tree lighting:
  
  THE GYPSY SISTERS ART SHOW has finally found a home and will be pulling up and parking at the UCC church on Harrison and Harvard Aves. in Claremont. The 31 Gypsies complete with their wonderfully creative art will be settling in down in the basement which faces Harrison Ave. on Friday, December 2 from 4-9, on Saturday, December 3 from 10-8 and on Sunday, December 4 from 10-5. Their wide variety of arts and crafts include quilts, weavings, dolls, clothing, ceramics, jewelry, glass, paintings, handmade books, collages, photographs, prints, purses, metal sculptures, paper sculpture, artistic boxes and bowls and a psychic.  The Gypsy Sisters and their brothers have been coming to Claremont twice a year for more than 18 years.  Please join them for a relaxing visit and some exciting shopping.