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Jessie Vallejo, an associate professor of music at Cal Poly Pomona, has been selected as one of “40 Under 40” music teachers celebrated for “music education excellence” by Yamaha Music USA.

Surrounded by friends and family, Kim Patterson, center, a licensed vocational nurse and health assistant at Claremont High School, was announced as the 2024-2025 classified employee of the year at Thursday’s Claremont Unified School District Board of Education meeting. She has been with CUSD since 1992. Photo by Elaine Kong/CUSD

Barbara Gonzalez, board president for Claremont Meals on Wheels, clearly had a lot to say to the 80 people at Wednesday’s annual recognition dinner at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Claremont.

On Thursday, 350 California publishers (including the Claremont Courier) reaffirmed their support of the California Journalism Protection Act after Google announced it would stop showing news to some California residents in its search results. This is an undemocratic and unprecedented attack on journalism.

Sustainable Claremont’s annual Earth Day celebration runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at Shelton Park, at the corner of Bonita and Harvard avenues.

Claremont High School students Katie Truttmann and Mayo Ou were recently awarded all-expense paid scholarships for a language education and cultural immersion program at the Goethe Institut in Karlsruhe, Germany. The program runs from June 30 to July 20.

Shoes That Fit Chief Executive Officer Amy Fass and Claremont Unified School District’s Julie Olesniewicz were recently named as 2024 Women of Distinction for the 41st Assembly District, which encompasses much of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, including Claremont.

Claremont Graduate University hosted Paisley Rekdal, pictured left, and Jacqui Germain Thursday for its 2024 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading and Reception. Rekdal, a 53-year-old University of Utah professor and director of the school’s American West Center, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her 2023 book, “West: A Translation.” Kate Tufts Discovery Award honoree Jacqui Germain, 33, won for “Bittering the Wound.” Courier photos/Andrew Alonzo

In a unanimous closed session vote, Claremont City Council extended City Manager Adam Pirrie’s employment contract through February 23, 2028, and awarded him a merit bonus of $15,218. Pirrie’s annual salary is $240,000. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff

So “Where Am I” this week? Please email your answers — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith

State and local officials, housing advocates, and representatives from Jamboree Housing Corporation were in town Wednesday for the groundbreaking of Larkin Place, Jamboree’s long debated 33-unit supportive housing development at 731 Harrison Ave., which is due to be complete in 2025. Courier photo/Matt Weinberger

Pitzer College President Strom C. Thacker announced plans to veto a Pitzer College Council resolution that, if approved, would permanently shut down the college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa in Israel. Photo/courtesy of Pitzer College

Claremont Courier event calendar: April 19-27, 2024

“Getting away has become a necessary regular thing for my wife and I. In today’s parlance, it’s our ‘self-care.’ We both need the time to reset/reboot. I’ve been beat up and battered ‘round, as George Harrison wrote, and time far away from the battle is my prescription for remaining somewhat sane. It remains to be seen whether this 10-day regimen will have the same palate cleansing effect of last year’s near three week ‘green dream’ tour of Ireland. I’ll let you know.”

Alexander Vance, an eighth grader at El Roble Intermediate School and life scout in Boy Scout Troop 407, held “The Battle of the Genres” concert on March 16 at Claremont Community School of Music’s William J. Huff recital hall in order to update the storage shelves within CCSM’s keyboard lab and to renew the school’s aging pianos.

The days are getting longer. The elms on Indian Hill are beginning to leaf out along with the sycamores in Memorial Park. Spring has arrived and with it the metaphors that the season promulgates.