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Today we launch a new feature, “Where Am I?” Does this location look familiar? If so, tell us where you think the photo was taken in an email to contest@claremont-courier.com. We will pull a random entry from the correct answers at noon Wednesday, March 27, and publish the winner’s name in next week’s edition, along with a new “Where Am I?” Every winner will be entered into an end of year drawing to win a copy of our new book of photography, “Timeless Claremont.” Courier photo/Tom Smith

Claremont Courier event calendar: March 22-30, 2024

The City of Pomona hosts free and open public egg hunts at Ganesha Park, 1575 N. White Ave.; Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 800 W. Lexington Ave.; Ted Greene Park, 2105 N. Orange Grove Ave.; and Philadelphia Park, 700 E. Philadelphia St., from 9 a.m. to noon.

Springlike conditions took hold Tuesday, with temperatures hitting 70 degrees, billowing clouds, and bright sunshine, as seen here looking north from Cable Airport in Upland on Monday. The forecast calls […]

On March 20, the Dodgers opened their 2024 campaign in Seoul, South Korea against the San Diego Padres. The game’s location is part of the effort by Major League Baseball to build international interest in the game. Fittingly, it will feature baseball’s top global star, Shohei Ohtani, in his Dodgers debut.

Los Angeles is famously teeming with great guitarists of every stripe, but when you separate out those who are also master songwriters and compelling performers, the pool gets much less congested. Among these rare few are Rick Shea and Tony Gilkyson, veteran singer-songwriters and guitarists who have teamed up for what amounts to an artistry rich “two-fer” show at the Folk Music Center, 220 Yale Ave., Claremont, on Saturday, March 23. Photo/courtesy of Rick Shea

It was winter, and though nighttime temperatures dropped to -10F, we only had summer clothes. My father caught a cold and had a high fever. My mother and I sewed jackets for my children and father from blankets. The bathrooms were very dirty, the food barely edible. In the first 24 hours, I ate only a boiled egg. After five days and nights, we boarded a plane headed to America. Forty-eight hours later we arrived at Philadelphia International Airport. It was August 30, 2021. Exhausted and hungry, we were ready to start our new lives. Photo/courtesy of Nabila Painda

Longtime Claremont resident and University of La Verne professor Richard Rose is about to take a big idea to South Africa’s 2024 Ubuntu Festival, a four-day global conference held in conjunction with South Africa’s Human Rights Day. Rose, 64, and his daughter Rochelle will show a video they made, “Building the beloved community,” at the festival on March 22. The video describes a curriculum he is building, “the beloved course.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

The Claremont City Council approved a motion Tuesday to enter into a joint legal defense agreement with neighboring La Verne. The move allows the cities’ shared general liability insurance carrier to retain a law firm to represent them in the claims process and any potential lawsuits resulting from groundwater seepage in the Stone Canyon neighborhood in April 2023. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Though it didn’t end as he’d hoped, six-year Claremont City Council member Jed Leano is nonetheless grateful for the lessons learned and coalitions built during his yearlong campaign to represent District 41 in the California Assembly. “It was amazing,” Leano said about the campaign. “It was remarkably beautiful.” Leano finished fourth in last week’s Super Tuesday Democratic primary election, which was won by John Harabedian, who will face Republican Michelle Del Rosario Martinez in the November 5 general election. Courier photo/Peter Weingberger

The grandmother related how the granddaughter had attended very conservative schools, where she was told such “lifestyles” were sinful. As a gay man who came out in the 1990s when same-sex relationships were beginning to be accepted and same-sex marriage was about to be a hotly contested issue here in loosey-goosey California, I could relate. As a severely disabled person used to being stared at and sometimes made fun of, and who people constantly make the wrong assumptions about, I could relate. A bit. At least enough so that my eyes began to well up.

Ramadan is a special month for Muslims around the world in which prayer, fasting, and charitable giving are paramount. Each day of fasting begins with sunrise and concludes with sunset. It is a holy month and one in which some Muslims come together joyfully at sunset to break the fast (iftar) at the local mosque and to pray communally and recite/read the Qur’an. The Prophet Muhammad set a precedent when he nibbled on dates to break his daily fast, and Muslims everywhere follow that today. Photo/courtesy of CGU

Claremont Graduate University president Len Jessup announced this week that he will retire on or about June 30. In an email to the Claremont Graduate University community Jessup sung the praises of current and past students, faculty, staff, trustees, donors, and partners. Jessup took over as CGU’s 12th president in summer 2018. More info is at cgu.edu/news. The Courier will follow up on Jessup’s retirement, and CGU’s plans for his replacement, in a future edition. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff

Bamboo Dart Press, a Claremont-based publishing collaboration between Pelekinesis and Shrimper Records, is being honored Sunday, March 17 at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, 900 Harrison Ave., Pomona. The event, in conjunction with the Gardens’ “For the Love of Books” program, is sold out. Authors Margot Hover, Brown Lethem, and Allen Callaci will be reading, and Bamboo Dart Press impresarios Dennis Callaci and Mark Givens will speak about local literature.

Claremont Courier event calendar: March 15-23, 2024

Tomato varieties such as better boy, early girl, green zebra, Cherokee purple, and many more will go on sale Saturday, March 16, at Cal Poly Pomona Farm Store, 4102 S. University Dr., as part of the school’s annual “tomatozania” sale.