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Documentary filmmaker Kerry Candaele’s latest, “Love & Justice: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Rebel Opera,” screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 16 at the Laemmle Claremont 5. Tickets, $15, are at beethovenopera.eventbrite.com. The event is hosted by Claremont Film Festival.
As part of Southern California Edison’s wildfire prevention and mitigation program, SCE drones and helicopters will be flying above Claremont to inspect equipment from difficult angles over the next few weeks.
The Ontario Museum of History and Art, 225 S. Euclid Ave., unveils its new permanent exhibit, “Built on Water: Ontario and Inland Southern California,” Saturday, August 19 in a free and open to the public reception in conjunction with the quarterly Ontario Art Walk.
The City of Claremont released the La Puerta/Trumark Homes Draft Environmental Impact Report July 25 and is asking for residents’ feedback on the document until Friday, September 8. View the DEIR at ci.claremont.ca.us.
The next session of Claremont Graduate University’s Authors at Drucker is set for 10 a.m. Thursday, August 17, featuring American writer Seth Godin who will discuss his latest book, “The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams.” Register for this Zoom talk at cgu.zoom.us/meeting/register.
The Los Angeles Times announced winners and finalists for its 2023 Best of the Southland San Gabriel Valley/Inland Empire reader survey this week, and several locals made the cut, including Claremont, which was selected as a finalist for best city.
I ask, couldn’t the $270,000 plus have been spent on our children’s education, rather than wasted for the satisfaction of a minority of election losers? When we refuse to lose, when we reject election results, we weaken our democracy. Most of us care about that. Others, I’m not so sure.
Preparations have begun for the 75th annual Pilgrim Place Festival, set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11.
A volunteer rally will be held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 13 at Pilgrim Place’s Decker Hall, at the east corner of Alden and Avery roads in Claremont. The evening will include music and an ice cream social.
Vineyard Touring Opera Company, a nonprofit company based in Claremont, presents “Opera From the Movies and More” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 3 at the Woman’s Club of Claremont clubhouse, 343 W. 12th St. The free and open to the public event features music from “The Godfather III,” “Mission Impossible,” “Ruby Sparks,” “Bad Santa,” “A Room with a View,” and others.
Adults in good health up to 69-years-old and weighing at least 110 pounds are invited to donate plasma from Monday, July 31 to Sunday, August 6 during a drive at Biomat USA Upland, 1405 E Foothill Blvd., Upland.
Call (909) 608-0022 to make an appointment with the code “MYP.” Walk-in appointments will also be taken. Visit grifolsplasma.com to learn more.
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