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Claremont nonprofit Shoes That Fit’s Every Step Matters campaign is reaching out to the community in hopes of reaching its $200,000 fundraising goal before the end of 2024. The campaign is at $192,006. Donations can be made at shoesthatfit.org/everystep. “When kids don’t have shoes that fit them, they miss out on important steps in childhood […]

The Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1951 opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” at Bethel Congregational Church, 536 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario, at 4 p.m. Sunday, January 5. Doors open at 3 and a reception will follow after the show. Michal Dawson Connor directs and plays Balthazar. Sylvia Lee Mann conducts. The […]

The Woman’s Club of Claremont’s Wednesday, January 8, gift exchange and lunch meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 343 W. 12th St., Claremont, is $20 for members, $25 guests. Reservations are required by Friday, January 3 at womansclubofclaremont.com/luncheons.

Claremont’s reforestation season, with the city offering free trees to qualified homeowners from November through April 2025, has begun, with more than 70 trees already planted.

Registration is open for Ontario International Airport’s third annual 5K at the Runway, set for Saturday, February 8 at the National Guard Hangar, 2180 E. Avion St., Ontario. The 5K begins at 8 a.m. and the one-mile family walk/run is at 9. A free community event with booths, food trucks, and face painters is open from 9 to 11. 

by John Fensterwald A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the United Teachers Los Angeles and the organization that created a controversial ethnic studies curriculum adopted by at least two dozen school districts in California. U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin’s scathing November 30 ruling criticized what he concluded was a lack of evidence and […]

The Friends of the Claremont Library’s On the Same Page Committee recently announced its 2024-2025 community read, “Hollywood Park,” a memoir by author, journalist and singer/songwriter for The Airborne Toxic Event, Mikel Jollett. The Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave., has copies of “Hollywood Park” available for check out. Lawn signs are also available.

Fairplex and Running Legacy Inc. host the annual holiday Penguin Waddle kid’s run at 7 a.m. Saturday, December 14, and a holiday half marathon at 7 a.m. Sunday, December 15 at 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona.

Montclair Place is asking for support for its giving tree and gift drop initiative, which benefits children in need this holiday season.

Pilgrim Congregational Church’s annual Christmas marketplace, with Christmas gifts, jewelry, handcrafted items, and food, takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, December 15 at 600 N. Garey Ave., Pomona.

Claremont Symphony Orchestra’s 72nd season continues with a free and open to the public 3:30 p.m. Sunday, December 1 program highlighting the works of Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Doppler, Richard Wagner, and Felix Mendelssohn at Pomona College’s Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont. The program will be led by guest conductor Alan Medak, […]

The public is invited to a free 6 p.m. lecture, “The November Election Results: The Potential for Ending the School Cultural Wars Across the Country and Here in California,” led by Carl Cohn, Professor Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Educational Studies, at Albrecht Auditorium, 925 N Dartmouth Ave., Claremont, on Monday, December 2. […]