Upcoming Events

Some of the events happening this week in our fair city:

THURSDAY NIGHT WATERWORKS

Speaking of cartels, Claremont's water supplier, Golden State Water Co., is holding an open house tomorrow evening at the new Claremont University Consortium Administrative Campus Center.   Here's your chance to hear the latest GSWC propaganda in support of their most recently requested rate hikes.   You can get an earful about how all that extra money you're paying for water is going straight into the pockets of water company shareholders improving Claremont's water supply infrastructure.

Here's what the City's website has to say about the event:

Golden State Water Family Open House (Nov 1, 2011)

Golden State Water will host an open house on November 3, 2011 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Claremont University Consortium Administrative Campus Center. This is your opportunity to learn more about your water provider's plans for your area. Golden State Watr employees will staff booths about its general rate case application, water use efficiency, planned improvements, water costs, and water quality. The Campus Center is located a 101 South Mills Avenue.

WEEKEND BOTANIC GARDEN PLANT SALE

The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is holding its fall plant sale this weekend.  Saturday morning until 11am is reserved for RSABG members.  After that, anyone can get in.

RSABG is located at 1500 N. College Ave. in Claremont.  That's on the north side of Foothill Blvd. between Indian Hill and Mills Ave.  Here's what RSABG's website has to say:

Fall Plant Sale

November 5 and 6

Join us for this spectacular annual event featuring the largest and most exciting collection of California native and California appropriate plants around!

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden's 33nd annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011. Autumn is the best time to plant California native perennials, shrubs, bulbs and wildflower seeds. Shop thousands of beautiful plants and water-wise solutions for your home landscape and get the expert advice you’d expect from California’s native garden.

Members-only

Saturday, November 5, 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. Memberships (starting at $45 individual and $75 family) may be purchased at the sale. For information, contact our membership team at (909) 625-8767 ext 222.

VETERANS DAY

The annual Veterans Day observance in Memorial Park will be a week from Friday.  Again, from the City's website:

Veterans Day Ceremony at Memorial Park (Nov 1, 2011)

The City of Claremont and American Legion Post 78 proudly announce the annual Veterans Day Ceremony in Memorial Park (840 N. Indian Hill Blvd), on Friday, November 11 at 11 a.m. This ceremony honors veterans of all wars including living, deceased, killed in combat, prisoners of war (POW's), and missing in action (MIA's).

The ceremony will include comments from members of American Legion Post 78, Mayor Pro Tem Larry Schroeder, and various community members. The ceremony will also feature Taps performed by the El Roble Marching Band.

For more information about the City of Claremont's Veterans Day Ceremony, log onto the City website at www.ci.claremont.ca.us or call (909) 399-5490.

Bernard Field Station News

The Claremont Courier also had a Kelsy McDonald article yesterday about the Claremont University Consortium's (CUC) plan to develop part of the Bernard Field Station.

The article (also not online yet) said:

Opponents of the development claim that the land is important as one of the last intact native Californian ecosystems of coastal sage scub and vernal pools, an academic resource, and sacred land for the Native American Tongva tribe.

A lawsuit brought against CUC by the Friends of the Bernard Field Station in 2000 resulted in an agreement to preserve the central 40 acres of the 90-acre land for 50 years. Since then, the preserved area has been the only parcel officially dubbed the "Temporarily Restricted Robert J. Bernard Field Station," while CUC refers to the entire 90 acres still used as a field station and other lands north of Foothill s the "north campus property."

The article states that CUC wants to build several administrative buildings and a parking lot on the unpreserved north campus property. As you might expect, the Friends of the Bernard Field Station, and there may be a reprise of the protests and litigation that happened back in 2001.