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San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and Southern California Regional Energy Network recently named 16 cities “energy champions” for their reduction in energy usage, education and public outreach, energy efficient project implementation, and environmental policy advancement.
In July 1963 — 60 years ago this month — the brand new Claremont Friends Meeting House at 727 Harrison Ave. welcomed Friends for the first time. Previously the Friends had been worshipping in a room at Scripps College. Now they had their own building designed by renowned Claremont architect Fred McDowell, whose wife Emily was a member of the congregation.
The Webb Schools sophomore Eric Gu recently played a violin solo at Carnegie Hall in New York during a concert with Classical European Music Academy Los Angeles, an all-ages orchestra and violin academy, for the Symphonic Series for Bands and Orchestras.
Claremont High School’s class of 1961 is reuniting from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, August 5 at Cannery Seafood of the Pacific, 3010 Lafayette Ave., Newport Beach, CA 92663.
Harvey Mudd College students Ryan O’Hara and Lucien Tsai were recently named astronaut scholars by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The pair were chosen among 68 undergraduate juniors and seniors from 46 universities and colleges around the nation based on “their exemplary academic performance, ingenuity and unique aptitude for research,” a news release read.
Express Workforce Foundation presents “Grease” at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 29 at 10871 Central Ave., Ontario. Tickets are $10 at eventbrite.com, search “Lifetime Day Program.” For more details visit ewffoundation.org/lifetime-adult-day.
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church’s free country fair and community picnic takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 22 at 830 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont.
The Friends of the Claremont Library invite the community to a free and open to the public children’s book festival at the Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 29. The event includes books, crafts, and librarians reading stories.
Marisa Nicely, author of “Ezer the Bagel: The Rescue,” will launch the second book in her children’s series, “Ezer the Bagel and Friends,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 12 at Claremont Chamber of Commerce, 205 Yale Ave. For more information or to RSVP visit business.claremontchamber.org/events.
Nonprofit thrift store the Economy Shop, 325 W. First St. is closed, but the public is invited to donate goods during its offseason. Staff are looking to build up the store’s inventory ahead of its 90th anniversary reopening on Wednesday, August 30.
Ophelia’s Jump Productions’ 2023 Midsummer Shakespeare Festival lineup includes “Measure for Measure” and “The Pirates of Penzance” and runs Thursday, July 13 to Sunday, July 23 at Pomona College’s Sontag Greek Theater, near 300 E. Bonita Ave., Claremont.
This year’s Monday night concert series, hosted by the City of Claremont and Kiwanis Club of Claremont at Memorial Park, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., begins July 10 with a performance by 1970s and top 40 cover band Cold Duck.
Pomona Concert Band will perform its 76th annual summer concert series at G. Stanton Selby Bandshell in Ganesha Park, 1575 N. White Ave., on select Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. All performances are free, open to the public and sponsored by the City of Pomona.
Cinzia Fissore, an associate professor of environmental science at Whitter College with more than 15 years of research experience in soil science, headlines Sustainable Claremont’s July sustainability dialog, “Why Should You Care About Soil?” a free and open to the public webinar at 7 p.m. Monday, July 17 via Zoom. Go to sustainableclaremont.org for details.
Patient and friendly adult volunteers are needed for Claremont Senior Computer Club’s monthly technical assistance program at the Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave. The next free, drop-in course is set for 1 p.m. Friday, July 7. If you are comfortable with your device or devices and can help others understand theirs for a few hours each month, call (909) 399-5488 for volunteer information.
Three men entered the Diamond Center with hammers and shattered numerous display cases at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 29, stealing an unknown amount of jewelry from the 147 Yale Ave. store. This was followed by a similarly brazen robbery in La Verne two days later.