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Big Bridges/

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Claremonter Dorothy Finerty poses for a photo

with Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp as her son

Tom Finerty snaps a pic on Wednesday before

the start of the game against the Washington

Nationals at Dodger Stadium. Dot, who will

celebrate her 100th birthday on September 29,

was selected to throw out the first pitch on

Senior Day at Chavez Ravine.

A true BLUEDodger dreamcome true/PAGE 12

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Water is not a commodityDear Editor:

Why should Claremont have controlof its water supply?

As a community, we are responsiblefor preserving our life-sustaining envi-ronment. Not just for ourselves, but also

for those who will live here after us, andfor the wildlife, trees and plants thatmake Claremont a wondrous place.

Thats why Claremont residentsshould vote YES on Measure W. All ofus should support the city council, whichis acting responsibly on our behalf inseeking public control of the Claremontwater system.

Corporations claim that private owner-ship and management of water resourceswill be more efficient and less costly thanpublic control. Yet, paying high returns tostockholders and sky-high compensationto executives confirms that corporateownership of water is all about profit.

Corporations that sell commodities,such as cars and coffee, provide a publicservice even as they make a profit. Com-peting with other commodity sellers en-courages efficiency and keeps the pricedown.

But a corporation with exclusive

rights to a communitys water supplylacks the competition that keeps costsand prices low. And without competition,theres no incentive to be more efficient.A corporation with exclusive rights to acommunitys water can simply claimthat rising costs justify higher rates.

Private ownership of a communityswater supply is wrong, because water isnot a commodity. Water is natures price-less gift and the life-sustaining pulse of acommunity. Public control of the Clare-mont water system will allow us to con-serve and share this treasure responsibly.

Robert Traer

Claremont

Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 5, 2014

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ADVENTURESI N H A I K U

Black and yellow swarms

Fuzzy little bumble bees

Ouchy, they stung me

Jessica Gustin Pfahler

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Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 5, 20 14CITY NEWS

Sustainability planning is a globalconcern and Pomona Colleges ef-forts toward becoming a more sus-

tainable campus continue to inspire.Projects such as the Solar Rover, a mobile solar sta-

tion used to power campus events and activities as

well as programs like Clean Sweep/ReCoopwhichinvolves collecting unwanted items at the end of theschool year and reselling them at discounted pricesaim to promote responsible living within the PomonaCollege community.

Over the course of the summer, that green sensibil-ity was expanded with a much-needed renovation tothe 40-year-old lighting system at the Mabel ShawBridges Auditorium.

The process began a little over a year ago, ex-plains Kurt Beardsley, production manager at BridgesAuditorium. We needed to replace a $5 piece on ourdimmer and we started talking about how hard it isfind the parts to replace it. That one conversation setoff a chain of conversations that turned into a milliondollar renovation.

Built in 1931 at a cost of $600,000, the more than

60,000-square-foot auditorium was designed by archi-tect William Templeton Johnson and its stage hashosted the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodmanand President Bill Clinton. Now, gone are the out-dated house lights, replaced by energy-efficient LEDlights and tape light systems that not only showcasethe beauty of this architectural gem but will save theinstitution that envelopes it thousands of dollars peryear.

Pomona College puts green effort into overdrive at Bridges Auditorium

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneBridges Auditorium Production Manager Kurt Beardsley oversaw the transformation of the electric lighting the historic theater from incandescent to LED over the last year. He estimates that the switch will save PomonCollege thousands of dollars a year in energy bills.

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Wednesday, August 27Homebuilder DR Horton became the

victim of grand theft when more than$5,600 in framing materials were takenfrom the Serrano construction site. Theunknown suspects forced their way intothe gated lot located on the 2000 blockof Mountain Avenue. Thieves comman-deered a forklift, moving large concretepillars for better access to the 4-by-8 and2-by-4-foot pallets. The suspects madeoff with the goods undetected.

Thursday, August 28Home burglars continue to target

Claremonters, and residents continue tohelp them by leaving their windows anddoors unlocked. Unknown suspects en-tered a home on San Benito Courtthrough an unlocked bedroom windowand made off with various items includ-ing a television, laptop, jewelry, clothesand books as well as other items totalingmore than $10,000. The suspects remainat large.

* * * *Chino resident Kandee Lewis was ar-

rested after she was spotted driving a U-Haul reported stolen out of Pomona onAugust 22. A traffic stop was conductedaround 11 p.m. and the 51-year-oldwoman was arrested without incident.According to Lieutenant Mike Ciszek,officers conducted a search of the vehi-cles cab and discovered a locked safe. Akey to the safe was found in the suspectswallet and, once opened, stolen propertyincluding personal mail, bank statementsand a crack pipe were found. Ms. Lewiswas placed in a jail cell where she pro-ceeded to vomit on the bed and floor,telling officers she was going to have astroke. She was later released on $25,000bail and transported to Pomona ValleyHospital to be treated.

Friday, August 29An elderly driver caused minor dam-

age at the Joslyn Center when his vehicleunexpectedly drove onto a grassy em-bankment. The 82-year-old man told of-ficers that something was wrong with thecars accelerator, however, neither the of-ficers nor the tow truck driver could find

anything wrong with the car. The driverwas given a DMV re-examination formand released.

* * * *Thieves with a serious case of the late-

night munchies raided Claremont HighSchool and left quite a mess in theirwake. The unknown suspects entered thecampus and forced their way into thewater polo snack shack by prying open asecurity shutter on the west side of theshed. Once inside, the sneaky snackershelped themselves to $40 worth of vari-ous food items and sodas and then ran-sacked the place before fleeing over thesouth fence.

* * * *Pianos werent the only things dueling

at a favorite Claremont hangout when averbal altercation between siblings esca-lated into a bloody battle betweenfriends. Suspect Christian Deleon, 24,was drinking with his sister and somebuddies at PianoPiano around 11:15 p.m.when he wanted to leave the location andthe others didnt. The West Covina manbegan arguing with his party in the Dou-bleTree parking lot when things turnedphysical. During the course of the fight,Mr. Deleon allegedly picked up a rockand struck a male friend of his sister. The

victim suffered two half-inch laceratioto the head. Mr. Deleon was arrested fassault causing great bodily injury anreleased on $30,000 bail.

Saturday, August 30A big, red sign with the word

STOP just wasnt enough to detthieves from taking it. Around 11:3p.m., unknown suspects broke a woodpost displaying the reflectorized sto

sign on the corner of Bucknell anDoane Avenues. The cost to repair thpost and replace the sign is $300.

Monday, September 1A Claremont resident was arreste

after his stepdaughter alerted police thhe had been video recording her nudwithout her permission. The 20-year-ovictim had just taken a shower and rturned to her bedroom when she foundhidden cell phone, belonging to her stefather, recording her every move. Shwent through the phone and discovereprior videos taken in her room, showinthe man setting up the camera. The 4year-old suspect was arrested and r

leased on $25,000 bail.Angela [email protected]

Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 5, 2014CITY NEWS

POLICE BLOTTER

Claremont Kids defend Disneyvillains, impress COURIER staff

Congratulations to Julia Lopez, who won first placein a COURIER newspaper contest in which kids wereasked to defend a Disney villain.

For her eloquent defense of Jafar from Aladdin,she has won a 4-pack of tickets to go see "DisneyLive! Mickey's Music Festival" with her family onFriday, September 19 at the Dolby Theatre in Holly-wood. Her essay and accompanying drawing will be

featured in the October 17 installment of the paper'smonthly Claremont Kids section.

Kudos also go to the runners-up, Tatyana Lacklindefending Sharp from High School Musical 2 andGabriella Ayala defending Ursula from The LittleMermaid. Tatyana's and Gabriella's essays will alsorun in October's kids pages.

Each of the girls is in fifth grade at Vista del ValleElementary School. In acknowledgement of their fineefforts, the newspaper will also be presentingCOURIER T-shirts to the students.

Congratulations to all three talented ClaremontKids. And thanks to their teacher, Danita Slaughter,for encouraging them to enter the contest!

Police promotions, public art

master plan highlight Tuesdayscouncil meeting

Its back to business for Claremonts city councilmembers as meetings resume on Tuesday, September9 at 6:30 p.m.

Among the items listed on the agenda are the intro-duction of new commissioners and promotions withinthe Claremont Police Department as well as publichearings on the Public Art Master Plan and the Ser-rano II residential project.

The city council meets the second and fourth Tues-day of each month in the council chamber, located at225 Second St. An agenda for the meeting is posted72 hours in advance of the meeting on the citys web-site. A public comment period is held at the beginningof each meeting for the public to discuss any item not

on the agenda. Angela [email protected]

City participates in pre-hearingconference at PUC for waterrate increases

The city of Claremont has filed a protest in the2016-2018 Golden State Water General Rate Case,according to a release posted on the citys website.

As a party in the case, Claremonts legal counsel at-tended a pre-hearing conference on September 2 be-fore the Public Utilities Commission in SanFrancisco. Also attending the pre-hearing conferencewere representatives from Golden State Water Com-pany and the Office of Ratepayer Advocates.

At the pre-hearing conference, city representativesrequested a public participation hearing to be held inClaremont, to which the administrative law judgeagreed. The city of Ojai has also requested a public par-ticipation hearing and filed a notice of protest in theGeneral Rate Case proceedings, which typically take atleast 18 months before a decision is made.

Claremont staff and legal counsel will participate inthe rate case proceedings, according to the press re-lease, which states they will represent Claremontresidents, businesses and educational institutions,which depend on Golden State Water for water serv-ice. The city has filed protest letters in the last fiverate cases filed by Golden State Water.

City approves demolition permitfor residential development

The city of Claremont issued a demolition permitthis week for the residential development planned byWilliam Lyon Homes, at the southwest corner of BaseLine Road and Towne Avenue.

The demolition will include the removal of an ex-isting abandoned concrete and stone water tank lo-cated towards the easterly side of the site, fencingsouth of the tank, a chain link fence along the westernedge of the property along Towne Avenue, several or-namental trees on the eastern portion of the site andpavement leading to the former location of the straw-berry shed. The strawberry shed has already been re-moved.

No grading or other construction will take placeuntil after the remaining elements of the project areapproved by the citys architectural commission, whowill review the plan at their meeting on Wednesday,

September 10. Until then, construction fencing willbe installed to secure the site, control dust and deterpotential on-site dumping, according to city staff.

Residents with questions or comments or those seeking additional information should contact Luke Seiberby email at [email protected] or by calling(909) 399-5483.

Last chance to play it cool instatewide challenge

The 2014 CoolCalifornia City Challenge is comingto a close at the end of the month and your contributiohas never been more important. The City of Trees hasslipped into second place behind Riverside, yet again,but theres still time on the clock to take the lead.

Claremonters have until Monday, September 29 a11:59 p.m. to log on and earn points towards winnina portion of the $50,000 to be distributed betweencities based on the number of points accumulated.This is the last opportunity to enter energy and vehi-cle data for August.

As of Thursday, September 4, Claremont residentparticipating in the challenge have racked up1,597,368 points, gaining almost 90,000 points in thsix days since our last update. As previously reportedon August 29, Riverside had taken the lead last weekand continues to lead the pack with 1,692,861 points

Second place isnt bad, but first place is definitelybetter. Claremont has traded the top spot with River-side several times over the course of the challenge dspite the fact that Riverside has almost twice thenumber of residents participating in the program.With its 381 participants, Claremont took the leadfrom the city of Riverside in July after logging morethan 45,000 points in four days.

The city with the most points at the end of the fivemonth challenge period will be crowned the CoolesCalifornia City for 2014 at an awards ceremony atthe Air Resources Board meeting in October. In addition, two runner-up cities will each earn the title ofCool California City, and be awarded second andthird place prizes. All cities will receive prize moneybased on the percentage of overall points earned byparticipants in their city during the competition.

For details, visit www.coolclimate.berkeley.edu/challenge. Angela [email protected]


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The last time the lights were replaced was in1971, explains Mr. Beardsley. By swapping out the175 incandescent for LED, were dropping from42,800 watts to about 12,000 watts, which will saveus about $10,000 a year on our electrical bill.

In addition to the house lights, 16 new LED stagelights were recently installed, all of which will be op-erated by a new state-of-the-art touch screen dimmingand lighting control system.

We went from 60 dimmers to 384 dimmers, saysMr. Beardsley. Replacing the control system from the1970s gives us much more control over the lighting.

Not only is the new system cost-effective, it alsoenhances the aesthetics throughout the auditoriummore so than incandescent lighting could ever do.

A demonstration of just how much control is af-forded by the new lighting system was displayed onBig Bridges ceiling, which depicts the signs of thezodiac in blue, silver and gold. With a mere touch of abutton, Giovanni Smeraldis 22,000-square-footmural was instantly transformed into a breathtakingnighttime sky.

What LED can afford you is the red, green andblue light. Were playing with some blue and makingthe gold and silver dome almost come to life; they re-ally showcase the architectural detail, says Mr.Beardsley.

Installed by ANC Productions located in Burbank,the LED lighting project will provide better and moreflexible lighting options for productions and events inthe auditorium. The new dimmers will also allow formore varied lighting options and will require less out-side equipment to be brought in for major concertssuch as the taping of Taylor Swifts VH1 Story-tellers special in 2012.

Once you go down the road of creating sustainabil-ity in a building constructed in the early 1930s, itseasy to look ahead to future projects. Everyone isaware of the lack of air conditioning in Bridges, sowed like to tackle that one day. Perhaps a new soundsystem to meet the needs of all the different con-certsnew drapes for the stage. The list could goon, says Mr. Beardsley.

According to Mark Kendall of Pomona CollegesDepartment of Communications, the $858,000 up-grade at Bridges Auditorium is part of the collegesongoing effort to install more energy-efficient lightingand promote sustainability. Newly-installed LEDlights and a dimming control station in Lyman Hallwill reduce lighting wattage use to less than 20 per-cent of what it was previously. Pendleton Dance Cen-ter will also be receiving new LED lights in the nearfuture.

In a testament to the colleges investment and com-mitment to sustainability, Pomona has taken its questoutdoors as well.

Last summer, the college removed a parking lot justoutside Bridges and replaced it with primarily nativeand drought-tolerant landscaping, adding special per-meable pathways that still allow rainwater to reachthe soil. In what was once the paved Bridges parkingarea, theres also a 50-foot deep drywell for stormwater reclamation, allowing rainwater that doesntsoak into the soil to flow into the well to reach theaquifer.

Green building also plays a significant role inPomona Colleges sustainability plan.

In 2005, the college began implementing greenbuilding standards, requiring all new construction andmajor renovations be built to at least LEED silver orequivalent standards. In 2006, those standards wereupdated to require all new construction to be built toat least LEED Gold standards.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesign) is a set of rating systems for the design, con-

struction, operation, and maintenance of green buildings, homes and neighborhoods. Developed by theUS Green Building Council, LEED is intended tohelp building owners and operators be environmen-tally responsible and use resources efficiently.

To date, Pomona College has eight buildings certified under LEED guidelines: Pomona Hall and Son-tag Hall (LEED Platinum), Lincoln Hall andEdmunds Hall plus three in the Buildings andGrounds complex on First Street (LEED Gold) andRichard C. Seaver Biology Building (LEED Silver).

Their dedication to green building continues with

the upcoming addition of the Studio Art Hall and Milikan Science Hall, which are currently under con-struction. Both projects have been designed to a meeat least LEED Gold standards.

If youd like to take a Sustainability Tour ofPomona Colleges campus and see its achievementsfirsthand, log on to: www.pomona.edu/administra-tion/sustainability/resources/publications/susttour.pd

Angela [email protected]

BIG BRIDGES/continued from page 3

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneThe majestic interior of the historic 1931 Bridges Auditorium has retained all of its grandeur, even with the transformation from incandescent to new low-energy LED lights. Almost all of the lighting at the theater has beeconverted to LED with the exception of the spotlights, which will be changed as the technology advances.

Claremont Lincoln University gains two new masters programs

The Western Association

of Schools and Col-leges has granted full

approval to Claremont LincolnUniversitys new masters de-gree program in interfaith ac-tion as well as its mastersdegree program in social im-pact, the university announcedthis week.

Final approval for the two programswas granted by the WASC Senior Col-lege and University Commission lastFriday. Claremont Lincoln Universitysmasters degree program in ethical

leadership was approved earlier.This is great news for the university

and for our students, said EileenAranda, who was named president of

Claremont Lincoln University in Au-gust. The WASC committee reviewedand examined each degree programcarefully and put its full institutionalsupport behind them. It proves thatthese are rich, rigorous graduate-levelprograms on par with any other WASC-approved program in the nation.

The Master of Arts in interfaith ac-tion is a 30-unit graduate degree pro-gram designed to equip participantswith the knowledge and skills neces-sary to succeed as leaders in religiouslydiverse, multi-cultural contexts.

Coursework leading to completion ofthis degree is offered entirely onlinethrough the universitys learning man-

agement system. Curriculum consistsof graduate-level studies in religious lit-

eracy and awareness, civic engagement,interfaith entrepreneurship, public life

and research models and methodolo-gies taught by top scholars and practi-tioners in these fields.

The Master of Arts in social impactequips emerging entrepreneurial leaderswith the knowledge and skills neces-sary to implement change in a dynamicworld. Coursework involves a uniqueseries of 10 rigorous online coursestaught by thought-leaders and expertpractitioners in their respective fields.Students integrate the foundational ca-pacities taught in the Claremont Coreaimed at helping students developawareness of self and others, engage indialog and collaboration across differ-ences and craft effective strategies for

organizational and community transfor-mationwith graduate-level studies in

foundational practices, action-orientedstrategies, resource models, personaldevelopment and storytelling to com-municate vision and inspire change.

In addition to these two new pro-grams, Claremont Lincoln Universityalso offers a Master of Arts in ethicalleadership. The MEL program offers aintegrated approach to leadership de-velopment that teaches working profesionals to approach challenges as morethical leaders in a diverse, globalizedworld. The program includes a uniqueseries of online courses that integratepersonal awareness, professional proficiencies and global consciousness formore mindful, compassionate leader-ship in any organizational context.

Visit www.claremontlincoln.org for

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There were lots of choices. Red.Blue. Green. Purple. Purple, Isaid.

Then I thought for a minute. Would purple go withmost of what I wear? I do wear mismatched high-

tops, not to mention rainbow laces, but I can and dochange them everyday.

Green. I changed my mind. Green would still becolorful and interesting, not boring, but it would fit inwith more of my outfits. Green goes with both blueand brown, right? After all, I wasnt picking out ashirt or some pants or another pair of high tops. No,Id be stuck with this for a while.

Who knew that casts were now a fashion accessory,coming in a variety of bright, exciting colors? I re-member when they were all white, except whenfriends painted and signed them. And who knew Iwould be having a cast put on my right foot, muchless being asked what color I wanted it to be? (It actu-ally turned out that my cast is more of a nice, coolcoral.)

Maybe this was appropriate, with summer ending

and all that. Im sure there are a few students in Clare-mont returning to school with a broken foot or arm.Summer is all about adventure, at least for students,and broken bones sometimes come with adventure.Breaking a bone is almost a rite of passage whengrowing up.

But I have never broken or fractured a bone, andIm a long way from being a student. Maybe I stillhave some growing up to do, even now.

And I wasnt on an adventure when I brokeactu-ally fracturedmy right foot. Whats more, I didntknow for a while that my foot had a fracture.

I was just out, as usual, and barely a block from myhouse, when I hit my right foot as I was going up a

curb. So much for adventure. My foot hurt for a dayor two and then was fine. I thought I had sprained it,as I have more than enough in the past, and that it hadgotten better nice and quickly, just in time for a camp-ing trip (now, theres some adventure, especially sinceit was the weekend of the freak rain storm). It was notuntil two weeks later that I found I couldnt handlepressure on my foot, and it swelled up like a MacysThanksgiving Day parade float.

It was a few days before I could get this lovelygreen coral cast put on. Its much more comfortableand really just more of an inconvenience than any-thing. Imagine dragging around a five-pound weight.But, although this is probably something a good num-ber of people know about and dont have to imagine,

even if it might not be an unusual part of the end-of-summer/back-to-school experience, breaking (or frac-turing) a bone isnt something Id recommend. Iwould rather have lived my life without this experi-ence.

I never thought Id see school in Claremont start inlate August in my lifetime and have returning toschool be old news by early September. And evenClaremonts start was late, with schools in Pomonaand Los Angeles beginning two weeks earlier. Sure,this has been the case for several years, but this is stilla strange new world where Labor Day is just anotherholiday (and an odd one, with school just underway)and not the last blast of summer vacation.

Labor Day no longer means that it is time to get

ready for school to start. And what about white shoeIs it now okay to wear them before Labor Day? Ordoes anyone still wear white shoes?

It also turns out that my palate has changed. Eithethat or school food is still school food. Which is thecase is tough to say. I have remarked before that the

college students menus on the campuses here isworlds away from what I had to choose from in thedormitory dining hall when I was at UC Riverside.Not only is the range of choices eye-popping, with atractive vegetarian and vegan options, the food is nobad. A long way from mystery meat.

Still, when I went to the school food tasting fair atEl Roble Junior High a few weeks ago this was be-fore I found out my foot was fracturedI was re-minded that, sometimes, things stay the same even athey change. I had heard in previous years about thisannual opportunity to taste and rate the food to beserved in Claremonts schools and decided to check out.

It was exciting, at least at first, to see the line up ovendors around the school auditorium. But I have tosay that the potato tacos tasted not unlike the burrito

served when I was a kid in school, and the mac andcheese was just mac and cheese. Some of the granolbars were better than others but yogurt is yogurt. Anno, I wasnt interested in the Round Table Pizza.

Jaded palate? Mature palate? I dont know but, as said, it was still school food. As if I was expectingsomething else.

No, the thing the struck me about the Wednesdaymorning event was how festive it was, with familieson an outing and costumed characters and face painting in the mix. Two weeks before classes started, itwas a nice, gentle nudge for going back to school.

Perhaps its the new Labor Day. Its certainly easiethan a fractured foot.


observerobserver

Back to school and a young mans gameby John Pixley


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Check your own billDear Editor:

I recently assigned myself a chal-lenge: eview my Golden State waterbill and see if I can make sense of all ofthe various charges. In other words, seeif I can come up with the same bill totalas Golden State.

First off, theres a Service Charge.Well, thats pretty self-explanatory.

Then, the water usage by tier. So, I

multiplied my usages by the listed tierrates. Okay, that checks out.

And now its on to that ever-mysteri-ous grouping Surcharges, Fees &Credits, which includes such well-known line items as CARW,WRAM, MCBA, and the ever-ubiquitous-and-not-to-be-overlookedOther.

Fortunately(?), on their website,Golden State furnishes a guide to helpus called Surcharges and Surcredits(yes, you read that correctly)all 14pages of it. So, I launched into it, confi-dent that I could unscramble this wholemish-mash.

Alright, CARW, usage times the

rate. Thats okay.WRAM/MCBA? Yes, MCBA, the

old Modified Cost Balancing Account,how could I forget? The calculation forWRAM checks out, but Im still $5.08short of the total for this line, and un-able to find any help in the 14 pagesonline.

And last but not least, $5.18 inOther surcharges/credits. For thisitem as well, I found no aid or guidancein the 14 pages online.

So, in total, that's $10.26 that I cantexplain or verify, which leaves me withthe thought that if Golden State is going

to screw us, the least they could do isexplain the detailsfor the sake oftransparency, dont you know. Or, thenagain, perhaps they just dont want to,so I cant find mistakes or figure outwhat is keeping my water bill is sohigh. Douglas Lyon

Claremont

Too many unknownsDear Editor:

I want to thank Marilee Scaff for herreply (Inaccurate Assumptions, Au-gust 29) to my earlier letter, in which Ihad outlined a number of significantobstacles to the citys takeover of thewater system via eminent domain.

I believe that Claremont is long over-due for a serious discussion that fo-cuses in detail on the particular costsand risks of this venture.

Ms. Scaff is incorrect in her con-tention that the city has the right to takeover the water system merely by ap-

proving a resolution of necessity. Un-like ordinary eminent domain seizures,where the resolution is a mere formal-ity, the proposed taking of utility prop-erty can be challenged in court. I amsure that the city attorney would bepleased to verify this for anyone whocares to ask.

As I mentioned in my letter, there isno precedent for such a legal challenge.In the Felton case, the utility waived itstrial rights and voluntarily agreed to sellthe system to the local water district.Golden State has made it clear that itwill oppose Claremonts resolution of

necessity in court, and neither Ms.Scaff nor anyone else can predict theoutcome.

Ms. Scaff is undoubtedly correct thatany figures of value are merely guess-work, which was the point of my let-ter. The bond measure is on the ballot

precisely because our city officials un-derstand that the ultimate price can andprobably will be much higher than thecitys $55 million appraisaland quitepossibly more than we can afford topay. The only thing we can say withcertainty is that it will cost us millionsof dollars just to find out how high thejurys verdict will be.

As to Ms. Scaffs assertion that in-vestors will be eager to buy our revenuebonds, I would note that the CasitasMunicipal Water District (which is try-ing to take over the Ojai water systemfrom Golden State) decided not to userevenue bonds due to cost, timing andtax issues, all of which are equally ap-

plicable to our situation.The acquisition attempt will fail if in-

vestors refuse to buy our bonds on fa-vorable terms, but so far the city hasnot even bothered to seek the opinionof qualified underwriters and ratingagencies as to their prospective mar-ketability.

Having said all that, I have no doubtthat Ms. Scaff sincerely believes, as shesaid in her letter, that we cannot af-ford not to own our water system. Butaccording to the citys own projections,the status quo would actually be a farmore favorable outcome for resi-dentsas the immense cost of repaying

$135 million of debt will immediatelyand significantly raise our rates for thenext 30 years.

I am not affiliated with or supportedby Golden State or any other group ororganization. I am simply a longtimeresident who appreciates the uniquecharms of Claremont and cares deeplyabout its future.

For the past two years, I have pa-tiently and persistently urged the coun

cil and staff to take a hard look at all othe things that can go wrong with thisventure, and the serious consequencesif they do. Unfortunately, this hasntbeen done. In fact, at the town hallmeeting last November, the city staffexplicitly warned the council that wecannot afford to spend millions of dollars from the general fund to pursue thventure. They went ahead and did itanyway.

There is not a single example of aCalifornia city that has successfullyconsummated a hostile takeover of awater utility, but there is a long list ofcities that have blown up their budgetand credit ratings pursuing poorly

thought-out schemes. I dont think weshould take the chance of that happening here. Jim Beln

Claremo

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READERS COMMENTS

CORRECTIONIn an August 22 article about

CUSDs new Service Center, dis-trict locksmith Brian Howland wasmisidentified in a caption. TheCOURIER apologizes for theerror.


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Water is lifeDear Editor:

The Pomona Valley Chapter of Pro-gressive Christians Uniting (PCU) votedunanimously at its June meeting to sup-port the effort of the citizens of Clare-mont to take ownership of their watersystem. For those of us representing dif-ferent expressions of the faith commu-nity, water has significant andmultifaceted meanings.

Through the water of the womb weall come into this life. Water is the out-ward and visible sign of new life as inthe sacrament of baptism and rites ofpurification. In the desert wilderness,water used in the act of foot washing isa sign of hospitality. Indeed, water is ametaphor for life itself in the sacredtexts and practices of many of our reli-gious traditions.

Water is a part of the commons we allshare. Like the village green of a NewEngland community, water belongs toall. Water, like grace, is freely givenfrom the heavens, flowing pure and

clear, bringing the verdant spring and theautumn harvest. Like the air we breathe,it ought not to be owned for profit byanyone.

Now, the city of Claremont seeks toreclaim this vital resource from a privateconcern whose major responsibility is tobenefit a select group of stock ownersand fund an outrageously overpaid man-agement. We wish to say unequivocallythat we stand with the people of Clare-mont as they seek to reclaim this publicresource for the commons. Water oughtnot to be treated as a commodity to besold to the highest bidder.

We of the Pomona Valley Chapter ofProgressive Christians Uniting wish togo on record as supporting the represen-tatives of Claremonts City Council intheir efforts to secure this vital resourcefor the future generations of their citi-zens. We wish them Godspeed. And we

urge a yes vote on Measure W on No-vember 4.

Karen SapioPomona Valley Chapter Convener, PCU

John C. ForneyPomona Valley Chapter Organizer, PCU

As the wells run dryDear Editor:

In the city of Claremont, immigrantgardners and landscapers weave in andout of city streets unnoticed as waterratepayers and the city council pound thedrums of a November election battle in atakeover effort of Golden State WaterCompany while the rest of California isin a severe drought. Once the battle isover, perhaps things can get back tobeing normal in affluent Claremont.

The superintendents in Los Angelestook drastic measures to deal with thewater crisis in California and on July 22

took steps to impose mandates handeddown from water officials in Sacra-mento. Fines of $500 will be enforcedfor those caught red-handed using ex-cess water. Its a step being taken to getthings back to normal after being misinformed by Metropoltan Water Districtand member agencies that water conservation efforts were a sucesss these pasttwo years but turned out to be apompous lie.

In the LA region, where there aremore water districts then Jimmy Carterhas peanuts, there is a water shortage oa different kind. Water agency boardseats are not being challenged, while awatered down water bond measure setfor November has caught the deaf ear oGovernor Jerry Brown.

Meanwhile, back in affluent city ofClaremont, the city council pinched thecitys general fund $1 million for cam-paign purposes in a water takeover ofGolden State Water Company as thewells in the hills run dry.

John MendozPomon


READERS COMMENTS

With nearly eight in 10 California voters supporting im-provements to the states initiative process that increasesclarity and provides voters more information, SB 1253(Steinberg) was approved by the California senate.

SB 1253, the Ballot Initiative Transparency Act(BITA), will create clearer initiatives, simpler ballots andbetter information for California voters. Introduced bySenate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, BITA is supported bya broad and diverse group of organizations that includesthe League of Women Voters of California, CaliforniaCommon Cause, California NAACP and the CaliforniaAARP, among others. These organizations, with morethan 60 civic groups, spent the past year sharing ideas andopinions for changes to determine what would make the

greatest improvements and enjoy the most support.Although voters greatly value the voice that the initia-tive process provides them, increasingly they also feel likeit no longer works as well as it should and that too oftenspecial interests highjack the process.

BITA keeps what voters like most about the processbased on polls and focus groups, as well as PPICs pollingand discussions with dozens of civic organizationswhile making improvements to the parts they feel workleast well.

What BITA will ensure is that the information votersreceive will be better, Helen Hutchison, president of theLeague of Women Voters of California said. Voters de-serve clear and straight-forward information about whatinitiatives do. This bill creates guidelines to ensure thatthe information voters receive is written in clear andstraightforward language.

The main elements of BITA would:

Give voters more useful information about initiativesso they can make informed decisions;

Enhance the Secretary of States website and use ofdigital channels, giving voters one-stop access to infor-mation about individuals and groups behind each initiativeand exposing the sources of funding;

Allow voters to request an email version of the voterguide, reducing the costs of printing and mailing theguides;

Create ballot materials that are drafted in clear and

straight-forward language. Voters overwhelmingly wantvoter-friendly, understandable ballot statements and ar-guments.

Require ballot statements to make it clear if they raiseor impose a tax or repeal an existing law and avoid tech-nical jargon;

Identify and correct mistakes in an initiative before itappears on the ballot. Now, initiative backers have fewoptions to correct or withdraw initiative language, evenwhen legal flaws are identified. This law would give vot-ers an opportunity to comment on initiatives before theyare circulated for signature;

Require the legislature to hold earlier public hearingsto review initiatives;

Allow the authors of an initiative to withdraw it afterpetitions and signatures are certified, but before ballotsare printed, simplifying the ballot.

BITA would address California voters greatest con-

cerns about the current initiative process. According torecent PPIC survey, 83 percent of Californians agree thinitiative wording is too complicated and confusing, percent favor increasing public disclosure of fundinsources for both signature-gathering and initiative campaigns. Almost as many, 77 percent, support a revieprocess to help avoid legal problems and drafting error

BITA attempts to alter the opinion of most Californiathat the initiative process has been dominated by bimoney special interests that are able to spend more th$10 million and rely heavily on paid signature gatherifirms. Californias initiative process began in 1911 by thGovernor Hiram Johnson in order to bring issues to tpeople rather than have special interests make the laws.

short, BITA will return voting power to the people.Proponents of the act believe potential voters will taa renewed interest in participating in the initiative proceas complicated language that leads to voter apathy will clarified. This will support a more participatory demcratic process and enable the voters of California to empowered so our system of democracy can function efectively. Voters will receive more information so that thcan make informed decisions. It will also advance meaingful reform by allowing initiative backers to machanges to their proposals.

Under the proposal, backers of an initiative would lono power and have nothing taken away from themfact, they would gain added power. Currently, initiatibackers cant make corrections and changes and canwork out a better proposal with the Legislature that woupotentially save themselves money and taxpayers mon

down the road.

VIEWPOINT

Changes to the initiative process moving forward in SacramentoBy Ellen Taylor, VP for Advocacy, League of Women Voters of the Claremont Area


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Ilove church. I absolutelylove Sunday morning wor-ship services, Tuesday

evening city council meetings,

even the annual budgetprocess, which continues tosurprise me.

For years and years, I was deeply bit-ter about church, angry at people in myfaith tradition. I was suspicious of peo-ple who spoke in the name of God, everwaiting for judgment and a fight. As agay person, even just as a woman, thereseemed to be no room for me, let aloneaffirmation, in Christianity. Whichdidnt stop God.

Christianity as a religion, a literallyman-made system, could not control ho-liness. To borrow Dorothy Days im-agery, I fell in love with God. God

courted me in my heart and soul and Ifell in love outside of any institution andwith a lifesaving passion. Unbelievably,I found myself on my knees praying,reading scripture, shyly asking friendsof faith how they reconciled their faithwith the troubles of religion.

Eventually, I found my way back intoChristian worship, the language I wasmost familiar with, and ordained parishministry in the United Church of Christ(UCC). And I am back as all of who Iam, all of who I am before God: a gaymarried woman, a white American con-stantly engaging my unearned advan-tages, a critical reader of scripture. Inthe UCC, God and I found a community

to weather the inevitable ups and downsof our love, a community of support andconstant learning.

And it is because of those values ofsupport and constant learning that my

local church, Claremont UCC, asks meto serve on the Claremont InterfaithCouncil.

A core value of the UCC is that Godis still speaking (which is why our pri-mary logo is a comma). Meaning, justas I experienced in my own life, God isbound neither by scripture nor contem-porary cultural practices. We affirmmany Christian testimonies to faith likethe Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed,and our own formal faith statement. Butwe do not use them as tests. Professingany one of them is not required for entryor standing before God.

Engaging with seekers and believersof other faith traditions, then, comesnaturally to us. How is God speakingthrough other scriptures, hymns and lan-guages? How do other forms of dia-logue with the divine reveal Godsnature? How have our Jewish cousins,whose scripture we adopted/co-opted,understand that shared scripture?

Which isnt to say that in answeringthose questions everything goes. Ourposture of engagement and curiosity isalways grounded in our location asChristians. We are intentional followersof Jesus Christ. But interfaith engage-ment helps us to clarify our position(s)and how we come to adopt them, withintegrity.

Interfaith relationships help us under-stand what characteristics of God wetake for granted and what we have ig-nored so that we can be clearer andstronger in our Christian confession.And, along the way, be better Christiansfor actively practicing genuine and re-

spectful love of our neighbors.A colleague recently commented,

after spending a Sunday leading wor-ship with me, that you really put it outthere for each and every person youmeet. Meaning, when I am in the re-ceiving line or just standing around, shesaw me genuinely greet each person,hopefully by name and with some men-tion of events or people in their lives. Ihave often had people also comment onhow much energy I have when I am onour campus, how happy I seem.

We live in a saturated marketplace.The opportunities for how to spend ournon-working hours (if we are fortunateto be able to be employed) are vast.And, frankly, video games, movies,swimming pools, coffee shops andtheme parks are a whole lot more com-pelling than worship services, commit-tee meetings and budget spreadsheets.

We also live in a polarizing era inwhich issues and positions are consis-tently framed as either/or and black orwhite. Inundated by data, room to bethoughtfully in the grey is drowned andcrowded out.

So how could I be anything but de-lighted when people show up on a Sun-day morning? How could I not beenergized when I am in love?

For as much as I love church, my trueadoration and affection is for the sa-cred more-than that sought me out be-yond church. The holiness that freed meof my pain and anger at the human insti-tutions constructed in Gods name thatthen allowed me to return to that sameinstitution and find an unending source

of resilience and joy. It is that deepsource, speaking through chaos and distraction, that drives me to honor allseekers and all traditions, while livingwith my own with spiritual and reli-gious integrity.

Maybe you dont love church. Maybyou really loathe or disdain it or aresimply uninterested. But are you drivento address inequalities? Have you experienced burn out or bitterness towardothers? If so, I invite you to exploreClaremonts many faith-based communities. God is calling out to youmaybe you just need to find the rightlanguage for your own hearts respons

Eileen Gebbie is the Senior Pastor atClaremont United Church of Christ.

Her previous experience includes teaching, community organizing and non-

profit administration at a low-incomehousing agency.

Inter-FaithfullySPEAKING

Exploring spirituality in a faith-based communityby Eileen Gebbie, Senior Pastor at Claremont United Church of Christ

COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneby Eileen Gebbie, Senior Pastor aClaremont United Church of Christ


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CHS grad completes Air Forcebasic military training

Air Force Airman Jonathan T. Baldwin graduatedfrom basic military training at Joint Base San Anto-nio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-weekprogram that included training in military disciplineand studies, Air Force core values, physical fitnessand basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four

credits toward an associate in applied science degreethrough the Community College of the Air Force.

Mr. Baldwin is a 2010 graduate of Claremont HighSchool.

Abrolat earns scholarship toattend University of the Pacific

Jessica Abrolat, a Claremont High School graduateand standout girls basketball player, has been selectedas one of ten freshman Powell Scholars at Universityof the Pacific in Stockton. Established in 1851, theUniversity of the Pacific is the states first university.

This program, named in honor of two former uni-versity regents, comes with a $35,000 yearly scholar-ship, extensive enrichment and career preparationopportunities, and funding for undergraduate research

projects and study abroad.Ms. Abrolat, who plans to pursue a major in engi-

neering physics, was selected out of hundreds of ap-plicants from around the world for this extremelycompetitive program.

Project Series 49: Sam Fallspresented by Pomona CollegeMuseum of Art

Project Series 49: Sam Falls will be on viewthrough December 19 at the Pomona College Mu-seum of Art, 330 N. College Ave., Claremont. The ex-hibition represents the first solo museum exhibition ofthe Los Angeles and New York-based artist. The artistwill present new work, including several of his signa-ture weather-driven paintings and a new site-specificoutdoor sculpture composed of an altered pickuptruck filled with succulents.

A public reception will be held tomorrow, Satur-day, September 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. and an artists talkwill be held Tuesday, September 9 at 1:30 p.m. Bothevents will take place at the museum and are open tothe public. There is no cost to attend.

In his work, Mr. Falls investigates the mutability ofperception, examining entropy, the artistic process,and the natural processes of decomposition and dete-rioration, particularly the long-term effects of sunlight

and weather. His newest rain-works, on display in theexhibition, expand his exploration of the shifting ter-rain between nature, place, and duration. By usingsun and rain instead of a paintbrush or camera, theworks echo Mr. Fallss interests in process art and thedialogue between abstraction and representation.

While influenced by 1970s art historical move-ments, including Minimalism, Earth art, Process art,and Los Angeles-centric Finish Fetish and Light andSpace, Mr. Falls also embraces the very contemporaryintersection of the digital, historical and natural. Hisstudy of various photographic processes has guidedhis thinking about light, time, place, and elements.

The Sam Falls exhibition is the 49th in the PomonaCollege Museum of Arts Project Series, which pres-ents southern California artists in focused exhibitionsand is curated by Rebecca McGrew. A catalogue, de-signed by Nicholas Gottlund, accompanies the exhibi-tion and includes essays by Ms. McGrew and writerDavid Pagel. The Project Series is supported in part bythe Pasadena Art Alliance.

The Pomona College Museum of Art is open to thepublic, free of charge, Tuesday through Sunday from

noon to 5 p.m., and Thursday from noon to 11 p.m. Formore information, call (909) 621-8283 or visit the mu-seums website at www.pomona.edu/museum.

Pomona Valley Hospital Med-ical Center receives high marks

Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (PVHMC)has been ranked as one of the best hospitals for 2014-15 in the Los Angeles metro area by US News & WorldReport. The annual US News Best Hospitals rankings,now in their 25th year, recognize hospitals that excel intreating the most challenging patients.

PVHMC ranked 32nd in California and 17th in theLos Angeles metro area. Additionally, the hospital wasrecognized as high-performing in cancer, nephrology,pulmonology and urology.

The rankings are available atwww.health.usnews.com/best-hospitals and will appearin the US News Best Hospitals 2015 guidebook,which is available now.

Claremont resident named toboard of end-of-life advocacyorganization

Rev. Dr. Ignacio Castuera, a Mexican-Americancivil and human rights leader, has joined the board of

directors and southern California advisory board forthe nations leading end-of-life choice organization,Compassion & Choices.

A resident of Claremont, Rev. Castuera will advo-cate for the recently launched Compassion &Choices campaign to allow death with dignity for teminally ill, mentally competent adults in California.

A dedicated activist, Rev. Castuera has championenumerous causes that have grown quickly into wideracceptance. He was the national chaplain for PlannedParenthood for six years, married gay couples on na-tional and international television, and has been astrong voice in the movement to legalize the medicapractice of aid in dying for terminally ill adults. Fivestates currently allow it: Oregon, Washington, Mon-tana, Vermont and New Mexico.

I am very excited for this opportunity to get moredeeply involved in the end-of-life choice movementduring this critical moment in its history, said Rev.Castuera. As a co-author of Oregons first in the nation death-with-dignity law, Compassion & ChoicesPresident Barbara Coombs Lee is a leader on thisissue. I know we will make a great team because I cahelp this great organization with outreach to the His-panic, religious, civil and human rights communi-ties.

Born and raised in Puebla, Mexico, Rev. Castuerahas been a pastor in Mexico, Hawaii and California.Currently, he is the director of the Latin America Proect of the Center for Process Studies at the ClaremonSchool of Theology. He also holds a doctor of reli-gion degree from Claremont School of Theology andtaught Contemporary Theology at SouthernMethodist Universitys Perkins School of Theologyfor 25 years.

Claremont COURIER/Friday, September 5, 2014 1

OUR TOWN LiberiaJosephineSetlich

Liberia Josephine Setlich, a former Claremontresident, died on August 25, 2014 in MissionViejo.

A visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Fri-day, September 5 at Funeraria del angel PierceBrothers Griffith, located at 13002 S. Central Ave.in Chino. A funeral mass will be held Saturday,September 6 at 9 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes(10191 Central Ave. in Montclair), followed by in-terment at Bellevue Cemetery in Ontario.


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Claremont resident andsoon-to-be centenarianDorothy Dot Finerty

set out on a sunny Wednesdayafternoon to check off another

item on her bucket list. Afterweeks of preparation, the life-long Dodger fan got called upfrom the bullpen to throw outthe first pitch at Dodger Sta-dium on Senior Day.

My son asked what I wanted for mybirthday, and I wondered if itd be pos-sible to throw out the first pitch at agame, Dorothy said. It looks likethats going to happen.

Making Mrs. Finertys wish cometrue was no small feat, but with the helpof some truly caring friends with onecommon goal, Finerty was on the

team roster for the Dodgers vs. Nation-als game on September 3. Team Dotwas finally born.

I had no idea if it would be possi-ble, Dorothys son Tom said. But howdo you turn down that kind of request?We needed to make it happen and wedid. Its really exciting!

From Brooklyn to Los AngelesDots affinity for the Dodgers started

at an early age and has spanned overnine decades. In that time, the team hasseen a lot of changesincluding amove from Brooklyn to Los Angelesbut for this die-hard fan, little else haschanged.

I dont think the game of baseballhas changed that much, she says. Justthat new rule about instant replay.

As a child growing up in New Yorkin the 1920s, Dorothy and her sixyounger siblings would sit, huddledaround their father A.J., as he called thelive action during the BrooklynDodgers games. My dad built a crys-tal set with earphones, it had no speaker.This was before most people had ra-dios, she says. He would listen to thegame and give the play-by-play to uskids. That was my introduction to theDodgers.

In 1941 and fresh out of nursingschool, Dot and her friend loaded up the

Ford and made the move across thecountry to Los Angeles where she latermet the love of her life, utilities man-ager Fred Finerty. The couple marriedin 1943, started a family and built theirlife together in southern California.

Roughly 10 years later, the BrooklynDodgers followed her out to Los Ange-les and Dots love affair with Dodgerblue was solidified. Even Fred, an Okla-homa native, became a Dodger fan.

When the Dodgers moved out here,I was just thrilled because I could go tothe games, says Dorothy. We wouldgo and meet up with friends at the topwith a view of the beautiful city. Andafter the game wed take our folding

chairs, sit back and enjoy the lights.The moon would be out and wed drive

off with no problems. Everyone wouldbe gone.

Although the Finerty family lived inseveral cities throughout the Los Angeles area, in their later years Mr. and MrFinerty settled in Claremont. Their oldest daughter, Molly, now a special education teacher at Claremont HighSchool, attended Pomona College andthe City of Trees left an impression onthe couple.

We always thought this was a loveltown and when we retired we thoughtwed look into it. Look into it they didand when they found a house to rent onthe corner of 12th and College Avenuethey were hooked. We liked it so wellwe just stayed there.

After 59 years of marriage, Mr. Fin-erty passed away in 2001 and Dorothyremained in Claremont where she con-tinues to live independently in an apartment near the Village. I live here bymyself with a little help a few hours aweek, and I think thats keeping megoing, Dot says. Two years ago, Ifractured my hip so that keeps me on awalker, but otherwise I get along fine.

Pre-game trainingWith her pitching debut fast ap-

proaching, Dot recruited longtimefriend and former Stanford Universitypitcher Maurice Coach Mo Leblancto help work on her technique. Wearingher Dodger ball cap and with a MLBball in hand, the pair worked togetherevery week for a month, perfectingDots right-handed pitch for the big day

Im going to throw overhand be-cause most everyone throws under-hand, Dot said during a final practice

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Claremonter shows true colors as longtime Dodger fan

COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneThirty-year Claremont resident Dorothy Finerty chats with the COURIER staff during her last day of training before she headeto Dodger Stadium for the first pitch ceremony. Below, Mrs. Finerty practices her toss with her coach Maurice Leblanc aClaremonts Village Green senior apartment complex.

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session Tuesday afternoon. Im nerv-ous about the pitchthat I wont makeit right, that it will go on the ground.

You know what, Mom, even Ker-shaw warms up. Youre better todaythan you were yesterday, said her sonTom, cheering her on from the sideline.She doesnt want to quit until sheworks up a sweat.

Game dayOn Wednesday morning, Team

Dotincluding friend Patricia Dillon,Coach Mo, son Tom and Dorothydecked themselves out in Dodger blueand hopped in the car to caravan toChavez Ravine.

Upon their arrival, Team Dot wasgreeted by a dozen friends and a mem-ber of the Dodger Blue Crew escortedDot and her Doterage down to thefield. But not before presenting her withher official uniform: a Dodger jerseywith Finerty emblazoned across theback, followed by the number 100.

Well, isnt that something, said Dotwith a smile as she put on the jersey.

Isnt that just something!On the field, Dot was the star, posing

for photos and giving interviews tonews stations interested in her majorleague journey. I cant believe Imhere, she said. Ive seen it on TV, Iwatch every game, and Ive sat in theseats, but Ive never been down here.

She even met one of her favoriteplayers, Matt Kemp, who took a fewmoments to introduce himself prior tothe game and wish Dot luck on her cere-monial pitch.

At 12:07 p.m., Dot took to the moundand, with Drew Butera behind homeplate, she threw the first pitch like a bigleague closer. The crowd in the stands

went wild with cheers and Dots Dodgerdream was realized.

It was a good pitch, said Coach Mowith his contagious smile. Sometimespitchers, they throw underhand and tothe side, but not Dot. Practice makesperfect.

I wasnt as nervous as I thought Iwould be, said Dot, leaving thefield. Even Butera said it was a goodpitch.

After the pitch, Dot made her way upto section 134 where she would join herTeam Dot rooting section of more than30 family members and friends whocame out to support her. Fans stoppedher mid-path, asking for autographs.

Im really impressed by her, saidHilary Vongerlech, who asked Dot tosign her Dodgers jersey. She has a truelove of the game and to see her out there

on the field today was just really inspir-ing.

Dot is a remarkable woman, sayslongtime friend and former backdoorneighbor Patricia Dillon. Shes a natu-ral athlete, completely without preten-sions, and loves everything. Shes justhappy. The older I get, I have a greaterappreciation for our friendship and allthat she has accomplished. Shes a won-der.

Post-game agendaWith her big Dodger day behind her,

Dot looks forward to finishing out the

season with her boys in blue.It is my daily routine. I watch everygame, from Spring Training through theend of the season, says Dot. I pourmyself a glass of wine and enjoy thegame. I just love Vin Scully. I hope Isurvive another year so I can listen tohim next year.

Asked who her favorite players are,I think I have two favorites, Kershawand A.J. Ellis, because my Dads namewas Arthur Julius (A.J.) I dont thinkEllis gets enough notoriety.

When shes not watching Dodgerbaseball, Dot keeps herself busy withvarious activities including a knittinggroup at the Joslyn Center and a weekly

game of Skip-Bo.That also keeps me young. We put

in a quarter each time. Weve neverdone thatwe just started this year. Itwill make it a little more interesting,

she says with a giggle.On September 27, Dot will be cele-brating her 100th birthday with a bigbash, including family and friends whowill be traveling from as far away asKorea and Rome to celebrate the mile-stone.

My 97-year-old little sister will bethere, and I have a lot of friends com-ing, says Dorothy. Im looking for-ward to it.

Dots longevity may very well besummed up in her description of Skip-Bo. A lot of it is the luck of the cardsand a lot of it is strategy.

Heres to a hand well-played, Dot.Happy 100th! Angela Baile

[email protected]


DODGER BLUE/from previous page

COURIER photos/Steven FelschundneTelevision crews interview Dorothy Finerty just before she takes the mound to throw out the first pitch on Wednesday atDodger Stadium. Mrs. Finerty, who turns 100 later this month, has become quite the media darling since she was selecteto throw the ceremonial first pitch on Dodger Senior Day.

Dot Finerty gets some last-minute tips from her pitching coach Maurice Leblanfollowing their practice session on Tuesday in Claremont. Mr. Leblanc, who wascollegiate baseball player, has been getting Mrs. Finerty ready for her big day Dodger Stadium.

Dot celebrates with her friends and family after returning to the stands followingher successful toss to Dodger catcher Drew Butera. She had a large group of fansincluding her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


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Natalie Taylor stepped in as Moun-tain Views interim principal lastFebruary after the schools former

head, Clara Dehmer, moved on to a postas assistant principal of student servicesat Claremont High School.

This year, its official.As Ms. Taylor becomes Mountain Views perma-

nent principal, she will likely have less of an adjust-ment period than most new administrators. Its not

just because she had several months last year to gether feet wet. Ms. Taylors previous post was adecade-long stint as a classroom teacher at OakmontElementary School.

We often resist following in our parents footsteps,and Ms. Taylor is no exception. When she enrolled atClaremont Graduate University after earning her bach-elors degree at Azusa Pacific University, she was ini-tially focusing on womens studies and religion.

I didnt want to teach, because my mom was ateacher, she said.

She began substitute teaching on days she didnthave class, thoughexclusively in the Claremont Uni-

fied School Districtand was immediately smitten.I loved it, she said.Things fell into place quickly for Ms. Taylor, who

switched courses and got a teaching credential. Whileshe was a substitute, she covered Kevin Wards classat Oakmont Elementary School. Mr. Ward was im-pressed with the way she handled his students and sothe next year, when he became Oakmonts principal,Ms. Taylor was one of the first teachers he hired.

She was a teacher at Oakmont for several yearsunder the leadership of Mr. Ward. After Mr. Ward be-came CUSDs assistant superintendent of humanservices, Ms. Taylor taught for three years under theguidance of current Oakmont principal Stacey Stew-art. She feels fortunate to have worked with both ad-ministrators, whom she considers mentors.

Mr. Ward is the consummate relationship-builder,

Ms. Taylor said. She has learned from his examplehow important it is to connect with every stakeholderat a school, from teachers to students to parents. Hertime with Ms. Stewart brought other lessons.

Stacy is the most intense instructional leader. Sheis so knowledgeable when it comes to instructional

leadership, Ms. Taylor said. I learned so muchabout good teaching from her. Between what Ilearned from Kevin and what I learned from Stacey, Ilike to think Ive become a pretty good balance of thetwo.

She has not only become good friends with Ms.Stewart but also with her husband Dave Stewart, theprincipal at Vista del Valle Elementary School. Onereason she feels a connection with the Stewarts is theyall have a keen interest in outdoor activities.

Ms. Taylors family includes her husband Heath,her 3-year-old daughter Clare and her 6-year-old sonMax (who just happens to be best friends with hisOakmont classmate, the Stewarts son Matthew).

The Taylors spend as much of their time outdoorsas possible, snowboarding, waterskiing, wakeboard-ing and racing cars in the desert. Ms. Taylor, whogrew up in Alta Loma, has enjoyed racing since she

was a kid because her dad builds racecars for a livingShe has already begun to emulate the way the

Stewarts incorporate athletics into their schools. Lasyear, she instituted lunchtime leagues where studentgot to compete in sports like soccer and basketballduring their break, and she plans to do that again thiyear. Ms. Taylor will also be following the example Oakmont and Vista in bringing Project Championprogram where students of all ages log miles of run-ning during the school yearto Mountain View.

Ms. Taylor is also an advocate for taking care of thoutdoors. She began the recycling program at Oak-mont years ago and worked diligently with Mr. Wardto transform the campus into the Oakmont OutdoorSchool.

I was always known as the green teacher, shesaid.

This year, Ms. Taylor will initiate the Grades ofGreen program at the school, where students work toreduce lunchtime trash and engage in recycling andcomposting. Last year, Vista del Valle won the organizations Trash Free Lunch Challenge and an accompanying $1,000 prize by reducing the schools waste by95 percent. Now, Mountain View students will be embracing the less-is-more environmental philosophy.

Ms. Taylor is looking forward to serving as principal for a school with a remarkable amount of diver-sity. Students come from a wide variety ofsocio-economic backgrounds, their parents havevastly differing education levels and the schoolsmany English language learners speak everythingfrom Spanish to Arabic at their homes.

For Ms. Taylor, understanding Mountain Views dversity includes having expectations for the studentthat are not cookie-cutter but relate to their circum-stances. She also firmly believes that it takes team-work to help everyone reach their best. With this inmind, Ms. Taylor, along with her staff, have crafted new, streamlined mission statement: Mountain Viewbelieves all learners can reach individual academicsuccess through critical thinking and collaboration.

We want kids to understand we want them toreach THEIR best, Ms. Taylor explained.

Even as she moves into administration, Ms. Tayloconsiders herself foremost a teacher.

Anytime anyone needs someone to cover a class

Im like, Ill do it! Sarah [email protected]

CUSD veteran brings enthusiasm as Mountain View principal

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneCUSD has named Natalie Taylor the next principal at Mountain View Elementary School. Ms. Taylor, who taugfor 10 years at Oakmont, has been the interim principal at Mountain View since February.

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Claremont Colleges events offer artistic, intellectual stimulation

Last month, Princeton Re-view put out Best 379Colleges for 2015, its

annual publication ranking in-stitutions in categories ranging

from academic rigor to the rich-ness of their extracurricular of-ferings.

Schools across the nation vie for recog-nition in the Princeton Review listings,which are based on surveys of 130,000college students, because they are hugelyinfluential in the college selection process.

Claremont McKenna College is proudto have ranked second this year in a par-ticularly telling category: Happiest Stu-dents.

According to students polled, CMCsrecipe for satisfaction includes phenom-enal academics, brilliant professors, anamazing career services center andperfect weather.

It also doesnt hurt that the college ishome to a venue that garners top-notchspeakers, allowing students and faculty togather for intellectual discourse in an in-timate and relaxed setting and integratetheir social lives.

From Monday through Thursday dur-ing the school year, CMCs Marian MinerCook Athenaeum (385 E. 8th St. in Clare-mont) hosts a variety of fascinating anddistinguished speakers. This falls lineupis no exception, with guest speakers ex-pounding on topics ranging from trans-gender issues to institutionalized racism.

The following is just a selection of talksslated for the coming weeks. All presen-tations start at 6:45 p.m. unless otherwisenoted, and are free and open to the public.For more information, call (909) 621-8244 or visit the CMC website.

LGBT rightsTransgender activist Janet Mock will

speak at the Athenaeum on Monday, Sep-tember 15. She is a contributing writer forMarie Claire, the former editor of Peo-ple.com and an advocate for LGBT rightsand social justice.

In 2011, Ms. Mock came out as trans-gender in an article in Marie Claire, shar-ing what it is like to be born in the body ofa boy but feel female from the beginning.

As a teen, I felt I was given the wrongcocktail of hormones during puberty

happy hour. she wrote in Marie Claire.I wanted to hold hands with a boy, towear a miniskirt without being called intothe principals office, and go on with mydays without worrying about the genderstuff.

Throughout it all, Ms. Mock main-tained an unwavering certainty that hertrue gender was female. She began hor-mone replacement therapy at 15 and trav-eled to Thailand for sex reassignmentsurgery at age 18 in the middle of herfreshman year in college.

In February, Ms. Mock released hermemoirs, Redefining Realness: MyPath to Womanhood, Identity, Love &So Much More, which became aNew

York Times bestseller. Among her manyefforts to help empower trans women, she

has launched a social movement called#GirlsLikeUs.

Looming electionOn Tuesday, September 23, CMC pro-

fessor of politics John J. Pitney, Jr. will ap-pear at the Athenaeum to discuss Whatsat Stake in the Mid-Term Election?

Mr. Pitney, a leading expert on Ameri-can politics, will weigh in on the upcom-ing elections that will determine controlof Congress. Mr. Pitneys talk is particu-larly timely because, with the rampantgrowth in absentee ballots, an estimatedthird of all votes will be cast before theNovember 4 election day, according to arecentNew York Times article.

Mr. Pitney has published myriad schol-arly papers and essays and contributed to

numerous newspapers and magazines aswell as being routinely featured on newsprograms such as NPR. He is the authoror co-author of many books on Americanpolitics, including After Hope andChange: The 2013 Elections and Amer-ican Politics, The Art of Political War-fare, Congress Permanent Minority?,Republicans in the US House andAmerican Government: Deliberation,Democracy and Citizenship.

Along with having taught governmentat Claremont McKenna for nearly threedecades, Mr. Pitney was acting directorfor the Research Department of the Re-publican National Committee from 1990to 1991 and has served as the senior do-

mestic policy analyst for the US HouseRepublican Research Committee.

Slam poetry sensationOn Wednesday, September 24, Anis

Mojgani, spoken word poet, visual artistand musician, will take his torrent ofwords to the Athenaeum podium.

The audience should expect some ver-bal fireworks, because he is arguably thebest-known slam-poet of his generation,whose works mark him as heir to poetrypioneers such as Alan Ginsberg.

In poems like Shake the Dust, Mr.Mojgani seeks to remind the misfits of theworldthe fat girl, the milk-crateballplayer, the retired elderly Walmart

store front door greeter and the menwho have to hold down three jobs simply

to hold up their children of their vastpotential: Do not let one moment go by

that doesnt remind you that there areenough gallons of blood to make everyone of you an ocean.

Among his many achievements, Mr.Mojgani is the two-time winner of the Na-tional Individual Poetry Slam and Inter-national World Cup Poetry Slam.

He has also put words to the page withthree noted collections, Songs FromUnder The River, The Feather Room andOver the Anvil We Stretch and has beenfeatured in a variety of poetry anthologies.

Mr. Mojgani has taught at DartmouthCollege as the Guest Writing WorkshopFacilitator and, along with poets DerrickBrown and Buddy Wakefield, is founderof a touring theater experience called The

Poetry Revival.In 2013, Mojgani partnered with the

depression awareness nonprofit,TWLOHA, for his nationwide Heavy andLight tour dedicated to raising awarenessfor depression, suicide, self-harm and ad-diction.

A voice for justiceOn Thursday, September 25, Charles

Ogletree, one of the countrys leading ac-ademic voices on race, justice and the law,will speak at the Athenaeum on Race,Racism and Discrimination in America.

Mr. Ogletree is a professor of law atHarvard Law School, where he served asan instructor for both Barack and

Michelle Obama. He has remained closeto President Obama throughout his polit-ical career.

Over the years, Mr. Ogletree has been ago-to media commentator on issues rang-ing from the O.J. Simpson trial to StandYour Ground laws and the killing ofTrayvon Martin, as well as on the proteststhat took place this summer in Ferguson,Missouri after the fatal shooting ofMichael Brown.

He is the author of a variety of books,including The Presumption of Guilt:The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.and Race, Class and Crime in America,and All Deliberate Speed: Reflectionson the First Half-Century of Brown v.

Board of Education.

Classical theaterOn Friday, September 5, Saturday, Se

tember 6 and Sunday, September 7, thPomona College Department of Theatand Dance will collaborate with the Clarmont-based theater company OpheliaJump to present Moises Kaufmans 3

Variations. The play, which debuted oBroadway in 2009, was inspired by Luwig van Beethovens eponymous worPerformances will also be held on FridaSeptember 12, Saturday, September and Sunday, September 14.

Show times are 8 p.m. on Fridays,and 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 4 p.m. oSundays in the Allen Studio Center Pomona College, 300 E. Bonita Ave. Claremont. Tickets are $25 general amission and $22 for students and seniorThey can be purchased online www.opheliasjump.org. For more infomation, call (909) 624-1464.

Sweet musicMusic will be resounding at the Clar

mont Colleges this month during severfree performances.

These include an outdoor gig by thindie artists SHELset for Friday, September 19 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the BowlinGreen at Scripps College, 1030 ColumbAve. SHEL features siblings Sarah, Hanah, Eva and Liza, who have formedsister act that is described as a vocgroup with outstanding instrumental cpabilities and an instrumental group wia thrilling vocal attack.

The performance is part of ScrippLevitt on the Lawn concert series. Snacand desserts will be available for purchafrom a variety of local Claremont restarants beginning at 6 p.m. and picnic diners are also welcomed.

The Los Angeles Quartet will presean evening of global guitars on FridaSeptember 19 at 8 p.m. in Bridges Hall Music at Pomona College (150 E. FourSt. in Claremont). The quartet will peform works by William Count BasiJohn Coltrane, Aaron Copland and other

Bridges Hall will host the Mojave Tron Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m. Thtriowhich includes violinist SaParkins, cellist Margaret Parkins and panist Genevieve Feiwin Leewill performusic by Beethoven, Brahms and Flaher

On Sunday, September 28, violinRachel V. Huang and pianist Tatiana Thbodeaux will present a concert of musby 20th century Russian composers, icluding Kapustin, Prokofiev and Washauer. The performance will take plaat 3 p.m. in the Boone Recital Hall in thScripps College Performing Arts Centat Scripps College, 241 E. 10th St.

And on Sunday, September 28 at p.m., keyboard artists Genevieve FeiwLee and Nadia Shpacheno-Gottesmawill present a program called Music forNew Baktun, also at Bridges Hall. Twomen will perform selections by ToFlaherty, James Matheson, AdaSchoenberg and Peter Yates.

These are just a sampling of happeings scheduled at the Claremont CollegeTo learn more, visit www.collegescaledar.org. Sarah Torrib

[email protected]

COURIER photo/Steven FelschundneffOrientation Adventure counselors cheer the incoming class of freshmen as theyrun down College Avenue during orientation week at Pomona College. The eventis intended to officially welcome the new students to Pomona.


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The Claremont Uni-fied School Districtis pleased to wel-

come Lisa Yamashita asthe new principal of Chap-arral Elementary School.

Ms. Yamashita spent the lastschool year as an adjunct facultymember at CalState Northridge,teaching EnglishLanguage Devel-opment standards and supervisingmultiple subject student teachers.Previously, she spent five years asan elementary school teacher inOregon.

Before that, Ms. Yamashitawho graduated from USC andearned her masters degree inreading and language arts fromCal State Los Angeleswas anelementary school teacher withthe Glendale Unified School Dis-trict for eight years. She also spenttwo years as assistant principal atan elementary school in the LosAngeles Unified School District,with the supervision of special ed-ucation students as one of her primaryresponsibilities.

Kevin Ward, assistant superintendentof human resources, noted that Ms. Ya-ma

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