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THE SEASON TO CARE FOR KIDS
Maggie Beltran gives Santa a hug before choosing a

gift at the KidPak Christmas Party sponsored by Kidcare International at Granite Creek Community
Church on Tuesday. Story on page 5.
Landscaping
problems at the
post office/PAGE 3
CHS girls soccer

is on a winning
streak....Go, Pack!
SPORTING LIFE/
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Claremont author publishes

book of short stories/PAGE 16
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one hundred and eighth year, number 52
Now youre stealing
Dear Editor:
This is an open letter to the children who
frequent Rosa Torrez Park after school.
The screaming, fighting and dashing out
in front of our cars, we tolerate.
You are kids and need to blow off some
steam after school, we get it.
The littering, smoking, inappropriate sexual behavior and the destruction of propertywell, youve heard us yell out our windows at you, which does little good. But now
you are stealing from us.
The Christmas decorations you stole
from my neighbor are family heirlooms,
meant to be handed down to the next generation in that family.
They weren't yours. You should not have
taken them. She saw you, asked you to stop
it, could not chase you because she was caring for her two small children. But you ran
away with them. And the rest of you did nothing to stop it and would not help us.
I know most of you are good kids and you
are just trying to fit in, have fun and grow up.
But this is unacceptable. Now, more than
ever, it is important that we take care and respect each other. The future of our community and our country is up to you.
To the rest of the Claremont community,
two vintage plastic figures (the kind you put
a light in) shaped like a tree and a gingerbread
man were stolen from a home on First Street.
If you see them, please contact the Claremont
Police Department.
Andrea Bennett
Claremont
Rethink the water decision

Dear Editor:
Moving forward with the eminent domain
proceedings against Golden State Water
Company is not in the citizens best interest.

I sat through the citys presentation a few
years ago and saw that the breakeven for
when our bills might be lower as a result of
the takeover could easily be 18 years from
now. Those calculations were done before the
massive movement in California to reduce
our water usage.
The past few years, just about every
Claremont water user has either made capital investments and/or taken actions to reduce water consumption. Personally, I had
no idea that we could lower our water bill by
over 30 percent and not have our landscaping die by being much more strategic with
our watering patterns. Even if the drought was
declared over, I would never return to my old
ways. I just dont want the expense.
I am confident that thousands more people within the community would behave in
the same manner. They certainly are not going to tear out their new xeriscape and replant
their lawns. As a result, most of the citys past
water calculations are wrong.
Unfortunately, there are way too many
people in this process who have a vested interest in continuing despite the recent ruling
against Claremont. Lawyers, consultants, city
staff, council and past proponents of the water bond all have huge incentives to continue just to save face. Its okay to be wrong.
One of my favorite economic concepts is
that of Sunk Costs. This means that a decision should not be made based upon what
has already been invested, but decisions
should be made only if going forward is still
the right thing to do. We should consider ourselves lucky that the drought happened and
we were forced into water conservation
mode before we owned the water company. Otherwise, the residents would be stuck
paying for the water company spread across
ADVENTURES
IN HAIKU
When the sun goes down

The temperature goes down.
Wait, the sun will come.
Nancy Arce
Haiku submissions should reflect upon life
or events in Claremont. Please email entries
to editor@claremont-courier.com.
substantially less water usage.

The city needs to substantially analyze the
new data and be truthful to determine if it
makes sense to move forward. My gut is the
answer is no, but I am willing to be wrong.
I believe our citys leadership would be much
more impactful to stop this process and invest substantially greater resources each time
Golden State applies to the Public Utilities
Commission for a rate increase.
Lets hire great consultants and lobbyists
at great cost and fight back against the increases.
Although Claremont has fought in the
past, it has never been with remotely close
to the zeal that the city has pursued the acquisition of the water company.
I would much rather see the city drop
$250,000 into lobbying the PUC than
spend the rest of our lives paying the costs
of a water system we likely should not own.
Lets keep conserving water so we can
keep our bills down relative to Golden
States other consumers. Lets not keep going down a road that might end with us going over a fiscal cliff just because we already
decided to go down this road. Its okay to
turn around.
Brad Umansky
Claremont
READERS COMMENTS/page 7
CITY NEWS
Lack of maintenance, drought takes toll on post office
he Claremont Post Office is looking a little

worse for the wear. For
some time now, the drought
has taken its toll on the City of
Trees. However, seeing natures crushing effect on a governmental building, seemingly
exacerbated by lack of maintenance, has left some residents
scratching their heads.
City Manager Tony Ramos said the

distressed landscape across the street
which now showcases dead shrubbery
and barren plantershas not gone unnoticed by city staff.
We have been in constant communication with the regional director of
the United States Post Office. Weve
even been in contact with our Congresswoman Judy Chu, he said.
The city has asked the US Postal
Service to submit plans for sprucing up
the Village corner for several months
now. The USPS response so far has
been that they are trying to get to it but
that theyve been very busy, he said.
Its federal property, so the city cannot landscape or allow city staff to provide maintenance, Mr. Ramos said.
If city staff isnt permitted to clean it
up, what about our local post office employees?
I have no idea, Mr. Ramos said. I
dont know what their employment
agreements say.
In a town like Claremont, it seems
like a simple fixperhaps a weekend
project for a girl scout troop or an enterprise to be taken on by energetic volunteers at Sustainable Claremont.
Sue Schenk, board member of Sustainable Claremont, believes that given
the small size of the property on the
corner of Harvard and Second Street,
club members could tackle the project
with ease.
They just let it die, basically, and
havent done anything, Ms. Schenk
said. The city and Sustainable Claremont have been working together with
the Green Crew on several project this
year. Im sure that if the plants were
provided, it could be done as a work
project if we had the authority to do it.
COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff

The Claremont Post Office landscaping has been mostly dead for more than a year and now the city, and some residents,
want postal authorities to replant and maintain the property.
Claremont resident and contractor

Bernard Karmatz has been puzzled by
the condition of the landscaping for
some time. He and some residents have
been trying to draw attention to the
conditions of the post office grounds
for more than a year and half. Finally,
hes seeing the light at the end of the
tunnel.
A number of [contractors] had a
meeting a week or so ago on a Monday
morning [with USPS representatives]
and met with three or four contractors
to review a statement of work, Mr.
Karmatz explained.
Warren Davis, the regional director
of the postal service, asked the contractors to attend last weeks tour. No landscape designers were asked to submit
bids. Mr. Davis did not respond to multiple voice mails left by the COURIER
this week.
A statement of work, which specifies

details of a project and what is expected
from contractors, is typically the first
step in the request for bid process by a
governmental agency.
I understand they have certain steps
they have to take and they have to be
mindful of how they allocate funds, but
its been a long time, Mr. Karmatz said.
Some expectations in the statement
of work by the USPS included removal
of shrubbery, grading, changing irrigation, replacing plants in front of the
post office and taking plants out along
the ramp and parkway.
Mr. Karmatz noted that although
there was a general outline of what
needed to be done, it wasnt very specific in terms of a plant palette or overall budget for the project.
Mr. Ramos said city staff hopes to
see drought-tolerant landscaping in-
stalled in the near future. As of

Wednesday, the USPS had received one
bid for the landscaping work and, according to city staff, the postal service
is waiting on two more. Bids, which
should include design and physical
landscape work, are due today, Friday,
December 23.
We are waiting for them to submit
plans on what they are going to do to
make it look like city hall, he said.
In the meantime, the city says it has
been patient with the post office, but
the accommodation can only last so
long.
We can impose code enforcement
on them like anyone else, Mr. Ramos
said. Im giving them some time and if
after the first of the year they fail to
submit plans, well look at alternatives.
Kathryn Dunn
editor@claremont-courier.com
Are Claremonts commissions an effective system?
resignation letter from a member of

the architectural commission has
sparked a conversation about the
role commissions play in Claremont.
Marta Perlas noted in her letter, drafted November 6,

that determinations of approval are made before the
commission can vote on a project, thereby making her
position superfluous.
I joined the Architectural Commission with much
enthusiasm and the idea that my contributions could
make a difference in preserving and adding to Claremonts rich architectural and cultural legacy, she wrote
in the letter. However, the Community Development

Department and Planning Department both prioritize
development over quality, thereby reducing the role of
the AC to a minimum.
When reached by the COURIER in a phone interview, Ms. Perlas shied away from singling out the planning and community development departments, noting
that it is a more complex issue than one that can be
blamed solely on certain city entities. But Ms. Perlas
maintained she felt diminished in her role as a commissioner.
I came into the commission thinking it was possible
to keep Claremont being what it is, which is a very
beautiful city, and there a plenty of good examples of
good architecture, she said. And after two years, I approved projects that I absolutely did not approve of.
Those projects included the Serrano II housing development and the upcoming Hampton Inn, which was
vociferously opposed by commissioners like Ms. Perlas and Mark Schoeman but were eventually pushed
through and approved.
I could have voted no, but at that point I felt that
voting yes or no made no difference, she said.
Mr. Schoeman maintained that there isnt a system
in place in Claremont where development is given
favor, but noted there are loopholes in the process.
Those loopholes, Mr. Schoeman said, involve getting
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CITY NEWS
COMMISSIONS/from the previous page
vital components of a development,

such as a track map, approved in the
planning commission before the developer goes to the architectural commission. Once these components are
approved, its harder for the commission to judge the architectural quality of
the project itself.
Mr. Schoeman said the process was
very normal in other cities.
By the time we see the project in the architectural commission, a lot of decisions
have been made and approved that dictate
the outcome of the project, he said. Its
hard to look a person in the face that spent
$100,000 for a year and say this is too big
to be approved.
Mr. Schoeman called this process the
good enough syndrome, and likened the
solutionsin which the commission may
issue a non-recommendation, after which
the developer appeals and the project goes
before the city councilto putting lipstick
on a pig.
So [the commission says], No, this isnt good enough, and here are the reasons
why, and [the developers] go right back

and say, Well, wed actually rather have a
denial than a continuation, so they can go
to the city council and plead their case, he
said.
Ms. Perlas said when the city council
overrules a negative recommendation from
the commission on appeal from a developer, the power of the commission to make
decisions gets diminished.
She also noted that the council usually
looks at the minutes of the commission
meeting, rather than having the chair of the
commission speak on their behalf, when
making a decision.
I may not like it, but thats the way the
law works, and I have to accept that, she
said. So I felt like I could not contribute
anymore. Its no ones fault in particular,
its just the process.
On the other side of the coin, Ms. Perlas said, the city cant be seen as anti-development.
I think that the city itself is in the same
position at times about what to do, Ms.
Perlas said. If they negate every development then the city will self-kill, not grow
or be what it is. I guess I didnt want to take
part in that.
Mr. Schoeman also put the onus on the

community for not speaking out against
controversial projects, such as the upcoming Hampton Inn.
When we are looking at a four-story
hotel on the 10 Freeway, not one person
spoke up about it for or against, and there
were people in the audience, he said.
They could have said, This is a piece of
crap. I cant believe you would allow this
in this city.
Sue Schenk, who was an architectural
commissioner herself for eight years, noted that the commissions hold a bit of heft
in city hierarchies, but need to have more
of an equal footing with the city.
I think [commissions] are very valuable
but I think that they need to have more
power than they do and I think that staff
needs to work with them more, she said.
That work includes training incoming
commissioners to be able to adequately
make judgment calls on big projects, such
as the myriad components relating to the
upcoming Pomona College Museum of
Art. She referenced her letter in the
COURIER two weeks prior, which outlined the confusion among the commissions in what their jobs actually entail.
Golden State Water releases

statement on trial decision
n last weeks edition of the COURIER,

an article about the final decision
against Claremont in the citys right-totake trial over the water system did not include a statement from Golden State Water
Company. The full statement is below.
Golden State Water Company is proud
of its record of service in Claremont and is
pleased that the Hon. Richard L. Fruin Jr.s
(Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court) Final
Decision recognizes our commitment to the
community and rejects the city of Claremonts attempt to take over the water system. The ruling notes that evidence was
Wednesday, December 14
Two Xbox systems and a MacBook
Pro were among items stolen from a
home on the 2200 block of Navarro. The
burglary happened between 2 p.m. and
3:30 p.m., when the thieves entered
through an unlocked front door and stole
and Xbox One, an Xbox 360, a MacBook Pro, various video games and controllers and a Nikon camera. The total
value of the lost goods is around $2,650,
according to Lt. Mike Ciszek. Anyone
with information is urged to contact the
Claremont Police Department at (909)
399-5411.
Thursday, December 15
Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to a woman at the Claremont Colleges. The incident occurred at
10 a.m. near the intersection of Columbia
Avenue and Eighth Street, when a man
in a red four-door compact car gestured
to the victim to approach the car under
the guise of asking for directions. When
the woman approached, she noticed the
man masturbating. He then left the scene.

He is described as a Hispanic male wearing a dark-colored, short-sleeved shirt.
Anyone with information should call the
Claremont Police Department.
Friday, December 16
Christmas got a little less cheery for
one Claremont household when four inflatable Santas were stolen from their
front lawn. The theft occurred between 9
p.m. on December 15 and 8 a.m. on December 16 on the 300 block of Miramar,
when an unknown thief stole the four
decorationsdescribed as a 4-foot-tall
Santa in a red fire truck, a 4-foot-tall
Santa in a blue race car, a 10-foot-tall
Santa in a rocket ship and a 6-foot-tall
standing Santa, according to Lt. Ciszek.
No suspect information is available, but
whoever is responsible for the Santanapping should be getting coal in their stocking this year.
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Two men were arrested on drunk and
disorderly charges after one of them was
She also noted that commissioners who

dont have any skin in the game in regards
to upcoming developments should be chosen, noting the lack of architectural commissioners present during the approval of
the site map for the relocation of the Renwick House on November 30. Oftentimes,
commissioners have recused themselves
due to their association with a developer or
an applicant.
The way the commissioners are chosen
needs a little work, because not enough attention has been paid to making sure that
the majority of the commission can actually vote on things, she said. And so
when the architectural commission had to
discuss the relocation of Renwick House,
there were only four people who could
discuss it. Thats ridiculous.
Ms. Perlas noted that she accepted a position on the architectural commission to
save Claremont from becoming too much
like its neighbor cities in terms of architectural quality. She wanted Claremont, in
her words, to continue to be unique.
And I see it going in an opposite direction, she said.
Matthew Bramlett
Arrest made in commercial burglaries
clear, convincing and indisputable that the

citys eminent domain lawsuit was without
merit.
Our focus has always been on delivering quality water and great customer service, and we look forward to continuing to
serve Claremont. We recognize the trial has
been divisive, but we will work diligently
to rebuild trust and strengthen relationships
with customers and community leaders. We
value the opportunity to serve Claremont
and are proud to provide safe, reliable
drinking water to current and future generations.
POLICE BLOTTER
Claremont police arrested Colton resident Daniel Negrete, 18, for commercial burglary after his involvement in incidents at Kazama Sushi and Casa
Moreno in Claremont last week. Mr. Negrete posted bond and was released. Detectives are currently working to locate three other suspects in this case.
On Wednesday, December 14, Claremont police responded to Kazama Sushi
(101 N. Indian Hill Blvd.) and Casa Moreno (101 N. Indian Hill Blvd.) regarding a window smash and burglary of the restaurants. The suspects made off
with the cash registers, which were later found in the parking lot of Claremont
High School and returned to the owners.
Detectives reviewed video surveillance from the Public Plaza and saw that
four suspects were involved in the burglaries. Video from the high school identified a possible suspect vehicle. Through investigation, a vehicle, which had
been reported stolen, was later located in the Ontario Mills parking lot. Three
people, including Mr. Negrete, returned to the car and were taken to the Claremont Police Department for questioning. During questioning, Mr. Negrete admitted to the burglary but the other two individuals were released without
charges.
spotted stumbling in front of Walters.

Police noticed the man, identified as 28year-old Steven Rahling Jr. of Chino,
walking shirtless with an unsteady gait
around 10:30 p.m., according to Lt.
Ciszek. There was a large abrasion on
Mr. Rahlings left eyebrow, and he told
officers he had just been in a fight. Police determined that Mr. Rahling was too
drunk to be in public. While police were
checking Mr. Rahling out, another man,
Jesse Rahling, showed up. Police also
determined the other Rahling was too
drunk to be outside, and both men were
arrested and released without charges
after sobering up.
****
An Ontario man was arrested for DUI
after reportedly crashing his car into a
tree and leaving the scene. Sean Evans,
23, crashed into a tree at the intersection
of Indian Hill Boulevard and Harrison
Avenue and fled on foot south on Indian
Hill, Lt. Ciszek said. Officers ran the registration on the car, and Mr. Evans
brother arrived at the scene a short time
later. The brother was able to call Mr.
Evans and urge him to return, which he
later did. Mr. Evans was determined to

be too drunk to drive and refused to submit to a blood test, and he was arrested
and transported to CPD jail.
Sunday, December 18
A Highland Park man was arrested
after reportedly getting into a fight at a
home on the 1600 block of Rutgers. Police were called to the house around 1:20
a.m. on a report that 28-year-old Justin
Ouellette was fighting numerous people
at the residence, Lt. Ciszek said. Police
determined he was intoxicated and Mr.
Ouellette was arrested and released without charges after sobering up.
****
Another man was arrested on a drunk
and disorderly charge after stumbling
into a strangers back yard and passing
out. Lief Frederick, 40, was found
conked out in the yard of a home on the
900 block of north Towne Avenue
around 2:30 a.m., Lt. Ciszek said. Mr.
Frederick was found to be highly intoxicated, and he was arrested and sent to
CPD jail.
Matthew Bramlett
EDUCATION
Christmas party brings smiles, festivity to local children
hristmas came early this yearon

Tuesday afternoon, to be exact
for some 200 kids in need of a little extra cheer.
Granite Creek Community Church was the venue
for a KidPak Christmas Party, hosted each year by
KidCare International.
KidCare, a Claremont-based nonprofit with the aim
of assisting desperately disadvantaged children,
helps provide food, clothing and education to kids in
places across the globe, including Tanzania, Haiti,
Russia and Mexico.
A few years back, however, KidCare founder and
president Larry Kapchinsky realized there is quite a bit
of need right in his backyard. The Christmas party was
born.
Staff at each Claremont school and a couple of
Pomona schools are asked to identify economically
disadvantaged students who could use a Yuletide
boost. They are then adopted by community members who create a KidPak for them. This entails filling
a brand-new backpack with socks, toiletries, school
supplies and gifts appropriate for their age and gender.
A peek at one of the backpacks, designated for a
boy aged five through seven, revealed books, a drawing pad, a plush monster truck and a set of Play-Doh,
among other swag.
As the students invited to the shindig entered a
Granite Creek banquet room, their anticipation was
palpable. They were handed jingle bells and a raffle
ticket before being directed to tables bedecked with a
Christmas tree centerpiece, candy canes and a tray
heaped with homemade cookies.
The families then settled in, enjoying the baked
goods and all the lemonade they could drink, while
event organizer Erica Alanis took to the mic.
Ms. Alanis led the guests in Christmas carols, invited children to visit with Santa Claus and called off
raffle numbers for some big-ticket toys donated for the
affair.
Several lucky kids won items like a Bluetooth-controlled robot, bicycles and no less than seven scooters.
Every kid was a winner, however.
Along with being called up to receive their KidPak,
they each got the chance to pick two toys from tables
full of donated goodies.
The toys were collected by the Claremont Police
Department, in partnership with the city and the nonprofit organization Keeping Good in the Neighborhood (KGNH).
Claremont police officers were on hand throughout
the festivities, as were local firefighters. Sergeant
Robert Buzz Ewing and his fellow officers say they
look forward to events like the KidPak Party.
Its absolutely awesome. Its all about the kids this
time of year, Sgt. Ewing said.
Mingling with the Claremont first responders
proved to be inspirational for Tristen Franklin, 10, so
much so that he choose a model of a Ford F-150 police truck for his toy.
I want to be a police officer when I grow up, he
said. Out there, they had a police truck. I got in it. It
was coola fun experience.
Every toy at the event makes its way to an owner,
KGNH founder Betty Crocker noted.
The extra toys we take to the kids at the local motels, she said, referring to a small but significant number of CUSD students who make their home at places
like the Claremont Lodge.
All you have to do is connect with one kiddo, Ms.
Crocker said. They look at you and their eyes really
light up.
The eyes of Lisette Ayalas children certainly brightened at the sight of the holiday bounty. Ms. Ayala is
the mother of four children, including a three-year-old,
ABOVE:Margot Mercado looks

to her family for guidance as
she selects a gift during the
KidPak Christmas Party sponsored by KidCare International
on Tuesday at Granite Creek
Community Church. Margot
was the first to win the raffle for
one of the special gifts. The
choice was pretty hard, but she
eventually settled on a computer tablet.
ATLEFT: Liliana Lopez and her
mom Lauren Gonzalez hear the
Claremont police cruisers
siren during the KidPak Christmas Party.
COURIER photos/
two Vista students and a 13-year-old at El Roble.

Things can get tight around the holidays, because
bills come first, she said. So Ms. Ayala, now in her
second year of attending the KidPak Party, called the
event a blessing.
Its a great opportunity to get gifts but also to see
the community get involved, she said. I give my respect to the CPD and the fire department. Tis the season to make children happy, but also to make adults
come together.
Ms. Alanis notes that the event takes a lot of work.
KidCare volunteers get the backpacks from Los Angeles in August and then reach out to the school sites in
September, looking for prospective guests. They begin
to distribute the backpacks by October.
She emphasized what a collective effort the holiday
party is. Citizens Business Bank in Ontario provides a
lot of support, Ms. Alanis said. And given that KidCare International has office space at Granite Creek,
its a natural that church members would pitch in.
Women from the congregation baked the cookies
and children, mostly girls, were on hand to help orchestrate the event. Its organized chaos, but its something Ms. Alanis looks forward to.
I keep coming back because of these kids, she
said. You see their happy faces, and their families are
so grateful.
Ms. Alanis said she used to hear that the KidPak

Party might be the only Christmas participants get. At
one time, she thought that might be a bit of an overstatement.
I find out its true. It captures your heart, she said.
KidCare International is not connected to Granite
Creek, per se. Mr. Kapchinsky was pastor of the
church for a number of years, however, and his son
Joshua Kaphchinsky is now pastor.
Mr. Kapchinsky founded the organization in 1991
after a visit to Russia. While many people internationally were celebrating the fall of Communism, he saw
little glee at a Siberian orphanage he visited. The children, he learned, were living on a half-cent daily allowance of food money.
When the director informed him that the kids didnt
have shoes for the winter, Mr. Kapchinsky was inspired to act: I said, I promise you Ill be back before
wintertime with shoes for the kids.
Mr. Kapchinsky made good on his promise, and he
and his wife Janice began to build KidCare International. More on this remarkable local organization will
be included in a future edition of the COURIER.
To learn how to donate or contribute to KidCare Internationals efforts, visit kidcare.org.
Sarah Torribio
storribio@claremont-courier.com
Take action now to sustain, regenerate urban forest

by Mark von Wodtke, FASLA
laremonts urban forest

needs your help. Challenges from drought,
insects and disease are decimating this common resource.
We are losing beautiful trees,
which are part of our cultural
heritage, add value to our properties and provide many natural services that help sustain
our community and improve
our quality of life.
By using OpenTreeMap, you can
help protect this common resource and
hopefully avoid a tragedy of the commons. With funds from the Cool California Challenge, Sustainable
Claremont purchased a license for
everyone in Claremont to access OpenTreeMap, acloud-based software program that enables us to monitor our
urban forest.
The Tree Action Group (TAG) has
volunteered to manage the use of this
tool in collaboration withthe city of
Claremont. Ashanti Smalls,co-chair of
TAG of Sustainable Claremont, will coordinate this initiative tohelp sustain
and regenerate our urban forest. Please
participate in this endeavor by visiting
opentreemap.org/Claremont to gain access.
OpenTreeMap lets you log on to
Claremont's tree inventory with your
smart phone, tablet, notebook or desktop computer to view information about
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a tree. You can add informationsuch
as reporting diseased or damaged trees.
You can even post photographs of
them. It lets you adopt a tree and provide stewardship. OpenTreeMap offers
20/20 vision of our whole urban forest
and an understanding of its ecological
benefits. By adding trees virtually, we
can envision what Claremont could become in the 2020s. Lets use this software to protect and provide for the
future of the City of Trees. Working together as a community, we could help
Claremont sustain and regenerate our
urban forest.
It takes a group of people who will
commit to accomplishing specific tasks
such as monitoring diseases in trees.
Citizen Foresters are successfully
greening Detroit. Palo Alto has a tree
canopy program that uses this same
software, as do some eastern cities
which monitor shade trees. People in
Australia are raising public consciousness by writing letters to trees, and the
Tree People, based in LA, are using this
software for OpenTreeLAan effort to
monitor a million trees in our region.
Here is what we can do here in
Claremont:
Access the Claremont Tree Inventory online: Load this app in your mobile device or computer, and you will
have access to a map showing all the

street trees in Claremont. You can select any tree and find out its genus,
species and more, if we add more information.
OpenTreeMap relates to Ben Wises
vision of The Claremont Urban Arboretum. As reported previously in the
Courier, Pomona College students have
already demonstrated the potential of
that project.
Claremont Heritage and TAG of Sustainable Claremont are using this software to help develop a Heritage Tree
Preservation Program.
Crowdsource information: You can
contribute information to our tree inventory. Identify trees that are droughtstressed and diseased. Adopt trees you
would like to help care for. The software enables you to use yoursmart
phone or tablet to take and submit a
photograph of a tree and report on its
condition.
This could help Claremont deal with
the polyphagous shot-hole borer. The
disease is now threatening trees in
Claremont. Early detection will help
deal with it. We need more people looking for the shot holes from bores that
appear on the bark of Sycamores, Oaks
and other smooth-bark trees. You can
report them using OpenTreeMap to
help the city protect our urban forest.
The tree inventory needs to be continually updated to provide proper
stewardship for maintaining trees and
budgeting for replacing the ones we
lose.
Collaborative planning online: The
software can show sites for future trees
that will visually enhance Claremont

and provide ecological benefits, as well
as sustain species and age diversity to
regenerate a healthy urban forest. It
would allow us to visualize the placement of city trees before they are
planted, providing an interactive way to
do urban forest master planning for our
city. We may even be able to simulate
the growth of trees and calculate the future benefits of their natural services.
By using OpenTreeMap here in
Claremont, people could play a Pokmon GO-like game and go out and visualize the trees of our future city.
Hopefully, this will stimulate interest to
collaboratively participate in the urban
forest master planning process.
Crowdfunding: You can provide
funds to help plant and nurture specific
trees in your own neighborhood by donating to the Claremont Tree Fund.
These funds could pay for nurturing existing trees as well as adding and maintaining new trees that enhance property
values and provide the natural services
we all benefit from. This software calculates the value of the ecological services trees provide including greenhouse
gas absorption benefits, water retention
benefits, energy conservation benefits,
and air quality improvement benefits.
For guidance on how to use this software, email otm@sustainableclaremont.org. YouTube also has helpful
OpenTreeMap tutorials. Be on the
lookout for the shot hole borer and report what you see. Working together we
can plan for our common good, and
avoid a tragedy of our commons.
Reject campaign finance riders

Dear Editor:
The League of Women Voters
strongly urge citizens to oppose all
campaign finance riders and other poison pill riders to any CR or omnibus
bill to be considered in the remaining
days of this Congress.
Last year, poison pill campaign finance riders were enacted in the Omnibus Appropriations bill to prevent the
IRS from doing any work on new regulations to govern the political activities
of section 501(c)(4) organizations, and
to prevent the SEC from issuing any
final regulations to require public corporations to disclose their political activities to shareholders. In September
2016, Congress passed a CR that extended the SEC rider.
Unsuccessful efforts also were made
last year during the FY 16 Omnibus bill
negotiations to add other campaign finance riders. This included riders to do
away with the presidential public financing system and checkoff fund, to
repeal the longstanding limits on the
amounts parties can spend in coordination with their candidates, and to prevent the Obama Administration from
issuing an executive order requiring
government contractors to disclose
their political spending.
The presidential public financing
system served the American people and
READERS COMMENTS
presidential candidates well for more

than two decades until it became outdated. The system needs to be repaired,
and not eliminated as the rider would
have done.
The unprecedented role played by
the super-rich and outside spending
groups in the 2016 election has made
an overwhelming case for providing
candidates with incentives to raise
small contributions from millions of ordinary Americans. Candidates need an
alternative means to finance their presidential campaigns without becoming
obligated to big money funders. It is
essential to keep the presidential financing system in law to provide the
framework for updating and repairing
the system in time for the next presidential election.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a vital role to play in
ensuring corporate transparency for
shareholders. More than 1.2 million investors and members of the public petitioned the SEC to create a rule
requiring uniform corporate political
disclosure, the most signers to a petition in agency history. The congressional rider, however, would prevent
the SEC from issuing such a regulation.
We urge that this rider be dropped.
Congress also has blocked the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue
Service from issuing new regulations
regarding the political activities of
501(c) groups. This prevents revised
regulations from being issued that
would provide nonprofit groups with a
clear definition of political activities
and would provide increased disclosure
of secret money contributions being
spent in our elections.
In preventing a rule-making, Congress is leaving in place a chronically
broken IRS definition that allows those
willing to game the system to pour millions of dollars of secret contributions
into our elections. At the same time,
Congress is leaving nonprofit groups
without a clear definition of what constitutes political activities, thereby making it difficult for groups to determine
the nonpartisan civic activities that are
allowable.
We urge that this rider be dropped.
Any effort to rewrite the nations campaign finance laws and to restrict related campaign finance measures must
be done by regular order and through
the legislative process. This should not
be done by a back-door misuse of the
appropriations process.
Ellen Taylor
VP for Advocacy
Claremont LWV
Proposition 54
Dear Editor:
So let me see if I understand this.
The voting public of California passed
a Constitutional amendment to require
72-hour notice before a bill is passed.
This would supposedly give time to interested parties to review and/or take
exception to the bill before it is jammed
down our throats by a self-absorbed
legislature and signed into law by an
overzealous governor.
Since the legislature didnt like this
particular restriction, they interpreted
it as only applying to any future legislation when it goes to the final body, Senate or Assembly, for approval or change
before being presented to the governor
for signature, rather than when the first
body is about to approve it.
This shortens the publics chance to
review and respond and is especially
important at the end of any session
when the majority of bills are passed in
haste, thus overwhelming the public
with no time toreact before another bad
bill or group of bills is passed into law.
It is time to apply pressure to the legislature to change the way the amendment is written and interpreted by
them and give the public a maximum,
rather than minimum time for review.
Hayden Lening
Claremont
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Van Keith Hainline
OBITUARIES
Veteran, professor, crossword aficionado

Van Keith Hainline, a longtime
Claremont resident, died on December
10, 2016. He was 90.
He was born January 17, 1926 in
Maxwell, Kansas. He was a World War
II veteran, having joined the US Navy
at 17. He got his training in San Diego
at Miramar and then served as a medical specialist in the South Pacific.
After his service, Mr. Hainline went
to Occidental College on the GI Bill,
earning his Bachelor of Science in
1952. He received his masters degree
in zoology from the University of Colorado in 1963. He taught at Citrus College for 35 years in the biological
science department.
Van lived in Claremont for more than
40 years and for 10 years in Upland.
His interests included gardening, biking, sailing, reading and doing the Los
Angeles Times crossword puzzle with
his best friend, Frank OKelly.
He is survived by his wife of 35
years, Leila; niece Lani Jordon of
Washington; grandson Sean Hainline
and his wife Heather; great-granddaughters Ava and Mikayla of Maryland; step-daughter Ellen Weissbuch of
Spain; and brother-in-law Eugene Majerowicz of Los Angeles. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Dr.
Susan Sigleo.
Per his request, no service will be
held. Donations may be made to Shoes
That Fit, 1420 N. Claremont Blvd., Ste.
204A, Claremont CA 91711 or by visiting shoesthatfit.org.
Adam Cave
Adam Arthur Cave, a Claremont resident who
graduated from The Webb Schools and Pitzer
College, died on December 6, 2016 in a motorcycle accident in Marina del Rey. He was 22.
A service will be held on Saturday, January 14
at 11 a.m. at Claremont Presbyterian Church,
1111 N. Mountain Ave. in Claremont. A reception
will follow. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests
that donations be made in Adams name to Pitzer
College Need Based Scholarships (visit
pitweb.pitzer.edu and select Giving for information) or to The Webb Schools (visit webb.org
and select Give Now.)
A full account of his life will be included in a
future edition of the COURIER.
Nancy Truitt Arce
OBITUARIES
Teacher, public servant, poet

Nancy Arce, a longtime Claremont
resident, died on December 7, 2016.
She was 86.
She was born in Texas on August 12,
1930 and grew up in Oakland. At just
16, she went to Stanford University.
There she studied to become a teacher
and met her future husband, a returned
soldier named William Bill Arce. The
couple married in 1950 and a year later
Nancy graduated cum laude from Stanford and took a job as a teacher.
Mrs. Arce moved to Claremont in
1956 when her husband joined the athletic department at Pomona College and
shortly after became the founding athletic director at Claremont McKenna
College, then Claremont Mens College.
Three areas meant much in Nancys
life: her family, her work in education
and her wide range of public service activities. She had a long and distinguished career as a teacher in
Claremont. She started as a substitute,
but found her real interest in teaching
learning-disabled students. She earned
a Master of Special Education at Cal
State San Bernardino and ended up
working for 25 years in the Claremont
Unified School District, mentoring generations of young students at El Roble
and La Puerta intermediate schools
through the 70s and 80s.
Mrs. Arce quickly realized the importance of a students whole support
system in learning success. Never one
to let a good idea drop, she developed a
program in 1985 called Supportive Parents Are Necessary (SPAN) to help parents understand how best to support
their special needs children. For the
next 10 years, she ran this program for
the district. Meanwhile her family

grew, in 1953 with a son, Jim, in 1955
with a daughter, Judy, and in 1958 with
a son, Jeff.
Mr. Arces career also took off, but in
an unusual direction as he began to
combine his job at CMC with a role
that he created for himself to build links
with people overseas through working
with baseball. In 1961, the Arce family
moved to the Netherlands for 18
months when Bill was hired to work
with and improve the developing Dutch
baseball program. Nancy took it all in
stride, living in a small village and
learning to speak Dutch. She had a gift
for making and keeping friends, and
several people became lifelong friends
that they visited many, many times in

the coming years.
Over the following decades, Nancy
supported Bill as he took baseball to
the world. In 1982, even before official diplomatic relations had been established, they spent some cold winter
months in Kunming, China at the invitation of the Chinese government. Mr.
Arce taught the Little Red Book (of
Baseball) to Chinese coaches, while
Mrs. Arce shared her knowledge of
special education and taught English.
This was the first of five visits to China
through the 80s and 90s. Over the following decades, in the many, many
countries that she visited with Bill
thanks to baseball, Mrs. Arce tasked
herself with exploring the role of
women in these different cultures. Her
interviews led to many friendships, and
often to presentations to societies.
Even with all the work and travels
that Nancy undertook in supporting Bill
and raising their three children, she still
found time to be very active in the
Claremont community. She was president of the Claremont Presbyterian
Womens Association and active in the
Campus Womens Association, becoming treasurer and then president. At just
30 years old, she became the second
woman to be an Elder in the Claremont
Presbyterian Church, a post she held
several times.
She started the first Mission Fair, to
inform the community about mission
activities in the world. She was president of the Parent Faculty Associations
for three different schools. For 10
years, Mrs. Arce was chair of the board
for Recording For the Blind and
Dyslexic/Learning Ally, where she also

exhibited her fundraising skills by organizing and leading their annual art
auction fundraiser for 20 years. Mrs.
Arce was active in PEO and also led a
Christian meditation group for many
years at Mt. San Antonio Gardens,
where she and Mr. Arce lived.
She said goodbye to her husband earlier this year when he passed away on
March 7, 2016. Her surviving family
share that they are happy Bill and
Nancy can be together again, but she
will still be sadly missed by her many
friends in Claremont; her sister Jody
Stringer; her brother Ed Truitt; and her
two sons and daughter, as well as nine
grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Nancy loved writing poetry and was
a frequent contributor to the Adventures
in Haiku column in the COURIER. The
following is one of her haikus, published Friday, September 4, 2015:
Night time in Claremont/Notice the
full, glowing moon/It lit up the sky.
A service will be held on Wednesday,
January 4, 2017 at 2 p.m. at Claremont
Presbyterian Church, 1111 N. Mountain
Ave. in Claremont.
In lieu of flowers, her family suggests donations be made to the William
B. Arce Scholarship Fund c/o Office of
Development, Claremont McKenna
College, 400 N. Claremont Blvd.,
Claremont CA 91711
(online.cmc.edu/ArceGiftPage) or the
Mt. San Antonio Gardens Scholarship
Fund, c/o Mt. San Antonio Gardens,
Att: Accounting Dept., 900 E. Harrison
Ave. Pomona, CA 91767.
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Council, city needs to provide clarity for commissions

by Susan Schenk
ne of the best features of our city

is the broad citizen involvement
in commissions and committees.
Combining the planning and architectural commissions so that a smaller number of people have a lot more power to
make decisions for the citizens of Claremont does not strike me as a move in the
right direction.
I have seen what happens in nearby cities when
that is done. Each commission has a different focus
and quite a lot of information to absorb during the decision-making process. Adding more to do means it
would be less well done. We need to create better understanding of the roles of the commissions and city
staff, and make sure that all members of these bodies
know what their roles are and stick to them.
The first thing to understand is that the role of the
commissions is not to make development easier for
individuals, companies and institutions, but to make
sure development occurs in ways that maintain the
unique character that makes our city such a soughtafter place to live. Commissioners should not feel
their first priority is to represent special interests, and
the city staff should not feel that their role is to support any particular developer.
During my eight years on the architectural commission (AC), it was clear that steps needed to be taken
to clarify the roles of the commissions and city staff.
They were to a certain extent. Staff was given the
power to approve a range of less critical requests or to
direct these to the AC if they were in doubt. The AC
retained the responsibility of reviewing large, sensitive, commercial, institutional or unusual projects,
ones in historic Claremont or specific plans, and ones
that require an environmental impact report. The ap-
VIEWPOINT
proval process was streamlined by eliminating subcommittees and instituting preliminary reviews by the
whole commission instead. These were good changes
but we need more.
Better reports: In order for the commissions to
make intelligent decisions, city staff needs to provide
them with reports that are as accurate, complete and
unbiased as possible and which do not push hard in
any particular direction, even when the report makes
a recommendation. This is especially true of environmental impact reports which, as a whole, do the city
no good if they are written in ways that favor the developer rather than set out a complete analysis.
Better training: Commissions cannot work optimally if the members arent clear about the rules. It is
imperative that they have adequate training before
they start making decisions. They need to be familiar
with the general plan, the municipal code, the Village
Design Plan, the rules about the various specific plans
in the city and especially about what CEQA and environmental impact reports require. Commissioners
need to know what criteria have to be met in order to
approve or reject a proposal. They need to realize that
they do not have to say yes to everything, and that
they can do more than just tweak a proposal. Some
training is given now, but commissioners should be
given more and it should be within the first couple of
weeks after being appointed.
More careful appointments: Commissioners are
proposed by a subcommittee of two city council
members. This subcommittee needs to have better
rules for choosing appointees. Recently, only four of
the AC commissioners were able to vote on the proposed relocation of Renwick House because of conflicts of interest. More care should be taken about
limiting the number of architects, contractors, college-affiliated people and others likely to have financial conflicts to prevent this sort of problem. The city
council has a responsibility to appoint commissioners
who, first and foremost, support the interests of the
city as a whole and who will be able to vote on most
issues.
A cautionary tale: Although Pomona College, as a
successful developer, says otherwise, the Pomona
College Master Plan process illustrated many of the
problems mentioned abovethe lack of alternatives
in the EIR, which the city staff should have addressed; the dismissive response of the museum architect to the few comments the AC felt able to make
and the small changes to the museum design that resulted; the lack of application of the citys general
plan goals and Village Design Plan guidelines; and
the misunderstanding of the role of the AC as evidenced by a comment from a commissioner who
wondered why they were bothering about a college
building. Take a look at the actual EIR, successive
museum plans, citizen comments and the AC minutes
and the problems will be clear.
A better partnership: The commissions need to
know they have the ability to take a stronger stand
and that the staff will act as partners and back them
up. One AC member recently resigned, saying the
community development and planning departments
prioritize development over quality, thereby reducing the role of the AC to a minimum and that projects are often, to all intents and purposes, approved
even before they get to the AC.
The system isnt broken, but it is not at 100 percent. We need strong commissions and we owe it to
ourselves to make sure that the people who volunteer
so much of their time to help maintain Claremonts
character have the assistance and information that
they need to do it properly. The city council should
address this issue and do it soon.
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Athletes
from Claremont High
School basketball team,
including
varsity, JV
and freshman players,
pose for a
photo during
their service
project helping the
House of
Ruth.
Photos courtesy of Pat Bell/House of Ruth

Claremont High School basketball players help
other volunteers sort food for the House of Ruths
annual Holiday Store on Sunday in Claremont.
BOYS BASKETBALL
The Pack is off to a strong start with a 7-2 record,
including a comfortable win over Hesperia on Saturday.
Top scorer was Kyle Scalmanini with 31 points and
a field goal percentage of 63. Tyler Risher had 12
points and seven rebounds, while Davis Haley had 11
points and two rebounds. The Pack will play in the
Damien Holiday Classic all next week.
BOYS SOCCER
Claremont defeated South Hills 1-0 on Friday in an
early Palomares League game in Covina. The Pack is
now 3-2 overall and 1-0 in league.
WEBB SCHOOLS
Vivian Webb water polo defeated West Covina 20-3.
Top performances included Lindsay Jung with six goals,
Maya Fassler with five goals and Mary Davis with four
goals. West Covina goalkeeper Nikki Preciado had an
impressive 11 saves. Vivian Webb are now 10-1 and will
play in Diamond Bar Tourney January 13-14.
Webb soccer defeated Samueli 4-0, with goals by
Liam Gerken and Luke Gonzalez. The team is now 71-2 and hosts Tarbut VTorah on January 12.
CHS boys basketball teams lend a

hand to House of Ruth
he Claremont High School boys

basketball program, including varsity, JV and freshman players,
were at the House of Ruth on Sunday to
sort donations, assemble food bags and
assist in the preparation for the organizations annual Holiday Store.
The Wolfpack basketball players have been involved in the Holiday Store service project for the
past four years.This year about 55 people volunteered, including students, their parents and the basketball coaches.
We are very grateful for the help.The players
move quickly and can get through sorting and setting
up donations in a few hours, which would normally
take our staff members several days to complete.Its
been a tremendous help, House of Ruths Director of
Development Pat Bell said.
The students also learn about teen dating violence
and had a brief discussion about healthy relationships
led by Ms. Bell.Coach Stan Tolliver also spoke to the

boys about being leaders in the community and learning how to give to those that are in need. Coach Tolliver is dedicated to bringing the boys back year after
year to help with the Holiday Store, Ms. Bell said.
The Holiday Store provides new toys and gifts to
victims of domestic violence and their children at no
cost. Adult clients are able to shop for their children
and vice versa.
House of Ruth will serve up to 500 people during
the event, helping to ensure that they have a joyous
holiday season, thanks to generous donations from
community members.For many families rebuilding
violence-free lives, the House of Ruth Holiday Store
may be their only source of gifts and food.
If you are interested in donating to the House of
Ruth Holiday Store, donations should be new, toys
must be non-violent, and all gifts must remain unwrapped. Clients range in age from newborn to seniors. Cash and gift card donations are always
welcome. For gift ideas, visit houseofruth.org.
SPORTS
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CHS girls soccer at top of their game in winning season
Claremont sophomore Sophie Jones battles for control of the ball on Monday at CHS. Jones did her part
by contributing to the Packs 5-0 victory.
laremont High School girls soccer

certainly came out to play this year,
racking up a solid 7-0-1 record just
in the first couple weeks.
Monday was no exception, as the Wolfpack blanked visiting Walnut High School 5-0 on a chilly night at CHS.
Right from the start it was clear that the Mustangs were
in trouble when, scarcely a minute into the game, sophomore Janelle Gutierrez booted one in from about 30 yards
out. It was a really pretty goal to be sure, but also a bit of
a Hail Mary that many goalkeepers could have batted away.
Savannah Beans earned the unofficial MVP prize for
three goals including the games second, which came at
about the five-minute point as Beans outran a defender to
take on the keeper one-on-one. She also racked up the
games two final goals, which sealed the Mustangs fate.
Sophie Jones has been the Packs top scorer so far this
year, and she added another one to her tally with a nice
play shortly after the start of the second half off a pass from
teammate Mackenzie Boulware.
In another telling stat, Claremonts goalkeeper junior
COURIER photos/Steven Felschundneff

Claremont junior Hope Hyland leaps over Walnut sophomore Kaitlyn Wong after the two got tangled up on
Monday during the Packs 5-0 victory in the non-league game.
Hollyn Carlton had only one save, the exact same number of serious shots on goal that Walnut mustered.
CHS played a solid tactical game with aggressive play
and excellent passing. The girls seem to gel well as a team
which is important particularly when the competition gets
tough as league gives way to CIF tournament play.
After the match, Coach Tim Tracey told his team that
he was proud of the way they played saying, They came
out strong at the start of the second half but you did not
panic. He also noted that the team did a good job of capitalizing on great opportunities.
Were strong as we have ever been up top, Coach
Tracey said. Our system will make the difference. We have

multiple people who can work in multiple positions. We
dont have any one individual who is going to be our goto person.
Sophie has, of course, scored the most goals and other teams are looking at her as a target, but others can get
the job done.
The Pack will have two games Friday in the annual
Claremont Holiday Classic tournament and then will start
back up with Palomares League games on January 11,
when they take on Bonita in La Verne.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER
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SPGT! Bona-fide local indie-rock legends Wckr Spgt bring their live show to
The Press, 129 Harvard Ave., tonight at
10 p.m. in what is billed as Wckr Spgt
Hometown Holiday Show. Every performance from Spgt brings something
new and unique to the fore. The band is
always up to something interesting and
with the seemingly innocuous descriptor of Hometown Holiday Show, one
can only guess as to the brainy shenanigans they will bring to The Press. The
show is free and starts at 10 p.m. More
info is at thepressrestaurant.com.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER
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FINAL HOLIDAY MUSIC IN THE

VILLAGE THIS SEASON Festive
Sounds Saturdays concludes its December run today with Tim Rotolo playing
holiday music on the piano at the Claremont Chamber office from 10 a.m. to
noon. More info is available via email at

claremontvillageinfo@gmail.com or
online at claremontvillage.org.
FIDDLER SINGALONG Join Temple
Beth Israel for a Fiddler on the Roof
sing-a-long with Cantor Paul Buch at
7:30 p.m. at the Laemmle Claremont 5
Movie Theatre. Guests are invited to
Rock the Shtetl-songs, trivia and costumes at this special celebration on the
first night of Chanukah. Call the TBI Office at (909) 626-1277 for information.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER
25
CHRISTMAS JAZZ ON THE

PATIO The free weekly Jazz at College
Center series continues from 2 to 5 p.m.
today. The concerts take place at 665 E.
Foothill Blvd., Claremont, in the patio
in front of Blue Fin Sushi.
MONDAY, DECEMBER
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DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS DAY
To have an event listed,

email Mick Rhodes at
calendar@claremont-courier.com.
Mick Rhodes covers the calendar, arts and entertainment. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday,
one week before publication. Please include date,
time, address, phone, web address, email address
and cover charge (if applicable).
The Day after Christmas is a public holiday in some states, including Kansas,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Government offices, educational institutions
and many businesses are usually closed
in these states. Claremonts city offices
are closed today as well.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER
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ITS RAINING TACOS! Had enough

ham sandwiches, turkey pot pie, ham
and eggs and turkey tortellini? We say
cleanse the palate with tacos! The
Claremont area sports several restaurants and bars that honor the ancient tradition of Taco Tuesday, wherein
discounts are applied to the diminutive
savory delicacies. Among them are Espiaus at 109 Yale Ave.; Rincon Azteca
at 586 E. Base Line Rd.; Casa Moreno,
101 N. Indian Hill Blvd. and our old favorite the Black Watch Pub at 497 N.
Central Ave. in Upland.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER
28
HOLIDAY ZOO LIGHTS The Los

Angeles County Zoos annual LA Zoo
Lights event is happening nightly
through January 8 from 6 to 10 p.m. If
youre lucky, youll catch a glimpse of a
sleeping animal among the thousands of
holiday lights adorning the zoos displays. The zoo is at 5333 Zoo Dr., Los
Angeles. Tickets are $14 for adults and
$11 for children. More info is available
at lazoolights.org or (323) 644-4200.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND PIXAR

Looking for something fun to do with
the kids over the school holiday? If your
kids are like mine, they might be interested in a new exhibit at the California
Science Center, The Science Behind
Pixar. Technicians and artists will exNINE-DAY CALENDAR/next page
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plain how Buzz Lightyear, Mike and

Sully, Dory and Nemo made it to the
big screen in this event, which runs
every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
through April 9 at CSC, located at 700
Exposition Park Dr., Los Angeles. The
exhibit is co-organized by Pixar Animation Studios and Museum of Science, Boston. It includes eight
interactive sectionsModeling, Rigging, Surfaces, Sets and Camera, Animation, Simulation, Lighting and
Rendering. Pixar employees and cast
members will also be on hand to provide information and answer questions.
More info is at californiasciencecenter.org or (323) 724-3623.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER
30
ART MART Claremont hosts Art

Mart today from 5 to 9 p.m. The free
eclectic display and sale of local artisans wares happens monthly at the
Packing House, 532 W. First St. Shopping, art classes and dining are all part
of the fun. More information is available via email at
audsandends.sa@gmail.com.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER
31
YAY! 2016 IS OVER! Its the beginning of a new year, where all things are
fresh and new and everything is possible. Thank God! If youre looking to
get out and maybe put 2016 behind
you and hear some live music, the
Black Watch Pub, at 497 N. Central
Ave. in Upland, celebrates British New
Year with Paddys Pig at 3 p.m. Jonny
Come Lately brings its revved up
garage/ska/ rockabilly to the Press
Restaurant, 129 Harvard Ave., at 10
p.m. Both shows are free.
A BIG BAND NEW YEAR Big
Band is back at the Candlelight Pavilion. From the classic crooning of The
Blue Note Orchestra to the contemporary hits of Night Shift, celebrate a rich
era of Big Band music while ringing in
the New Year. Tickets are $99 for the
main floor or $125 for the terrace. The
Candlelight is at 455 W. Foothill Blvd.
Visit candlelightpavilion.com for more
information.
NEW YEARS EVE AT WALTERS
Walters restaurant will host four full
bars and three fire pits on its patios and
indoor section for New Years Eve
from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Two live DJs
Shanwow and Westcrackinwill play
top 40, hip-hop and EDM. Drink specials and a photo booth will round out
the night. Guys get in free before 10
p.m., $25 cover charge after that. Girls
get in free before 11:30 p.m. with a
$15 cover charge afterwards. Bottle
service starts at $125 and includes entrance for four people. For information, email Dawoud at
events@waltersrestaurant.com.
NIGHT LIFE
THE BLACK WATCH PUB: 497 N.

Central Ave., #B, Upland. Live music at
9 p.m. Friday, Saturday and occasional
Sundays. No cover. Info: theblackwatchpub.com or (909) 981-6069.
Saturday, December 31: British New
Year with Paddys Pig, 3 p.m.
EUREKA CLAREMONT: 580 W.
First St., Claremont. Open from 11 a.m.
to midnight, Sunday through Thursday;
closed at 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Hoppy Hour daily from 2 p.m. to 6
p.m. Information: (909) 445-8875.
THE FOLK MUSIC CENTER: 220
Yale Ave., Claremont. Info: folkmusiccenter.com or (909) 624-2928.
Open mic night, last Sunday of every
month. Sign-up at 6 p.m., performances
6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. $2.
FLAPPERS COMEDY: 540 W. First
St., Claremont. Show times: Friday at 8
p.m., 10 p.m.; Saturday at 7 p.m., 9:30
p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets can
be purchased online or at the door. 18
and over. Info: flapperscomedy.com or
(818) 845-9721.
Friday, December 23: Rob Rasner, 8
and 10 p.m., $20.
Saturday, December 24: Closed.
Sunday, December 25: Closed.
Thursday, December 29: Rodrigo
Torres and the Homies, 8 p.m., $12;
Open mic, 10 p.m., free.
THE GLASS HOUSE: 200 W. Second
St., Pomona. Info: glasshouse.us or
(909) 865-3802.
Thursday, December 29: Cherry
Glazerr, Slow Hollows, The Regrettes, 8
p.m., all ages, $13-$15.
HOTEL CASA 425: 425 W. First St.,
Claremont. Live music Wednesdays 6 to
15
8:30 p.m., Saturdays 7 to 10 p.m. Information: casa425.com or (909) 624-2272.

LAST NAME BREWING: 2120
Porterfield Way, Upland. Performances
run from 6 to 9 p.m. unless otherwise
noted. Info: lastnamebrewing.com or
(909) 579-0032.
Friday, December 23: Blue Hwy.
Friday, December 30: The Fallen
Electric.
THE PRESS RESTAURANT: 129
Harvard Ave., Claremont. Live music
Thursday through Saturday, open until 2
a.m. DJ every Thursday at 11 p.m. 21
and over after 9 p.m. Standing room
only after 9:30 p.m. No cover unless
noted. Info: thepressrestaurant.com or
(909) 625-4808.
Friday, December 23: Wckr Spgt
Hometown Holiday Show, 10 p.m.
December 24 and 25: Closed.
Monday, December 26: Boxing Day
Bathroom Lambada-thon, 11 p.m.
Wednesday, December 28: Chill
Beats with Patrick Vargas, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, December 29: Baldy
Mountain Jazz Band, 8:30 p.m.; DJ
Goodnuff, 11 p.m.
TUTTI MANGIA: 102 Harvard Ave.,
Claremont. Late night happy hour Friday, Saturday from 9 to 11 p.m. Bar
menu available until 10:30 p.m. featuring $2 oyster shooters and $3 caprese
sliders. Info: tuttimangia.com or (909)
625-4669.
Fridays: Kip Noble (keyboards). 5 to
11 p.m.
WALTERS RESTAURANT: 310
Yale Ave., Claremont. VIP and fire pit
lounge open from 7 to 10 p.m. Happy
hour specials are only valid in the bar
and lounge areas. Info: waltersrestaurant.com or (909) 767-2255.
Thursdays: Michael Ryan, Ken
Soderlund, Hai Muradian.
16
Claremont author hits stride with short story collection
iterary history is lousy with writers

who hit their stride later in life: Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler,
James Michener, Laura Ingalls Wilder and
the Marquis de Sade, to name a few.
Count Claremonts Sam Silvas, 52, among them.

Mr. Silvas debut book, a 174-page collection of short
stories, Stanton, California, was published November
5 by Silver Birch Press. And recently one of its stories,
Buck Stew, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, which
celebrates the best writing of the year from small presses worldwide.
The fact that the book exists is both an accident and the
result of many long years of toiling at the keyboard.
Id actually given up on having any collection of short
stories published, Mr. Silvas said. I began writing this
25 years ago.
The final story was completed in 2014.
So Id given up on them, because obviously Id written them so long ago. I always felt they were good, but
I just couldnt get them published.
By chance, Mr. Silvas had a friend who had published some poetry through Silver Birch Press. Mr. Silvas contacted the publisher and asked if they accepted
unsolicited manuscripts. They did. He first sent a onepage synopsis. They liked it, and asked him to send a
complete story. Again, thumbs-up. He then was asked to
send the entire collection. After months of this back-andforth courtship, Silver Birch offered Mr. Silvas a publishing deal in October 2015, much to his delight. Stanton, California was released just over a year later.
In the book, Mr. Silvas examines the claustrophobia
that comes from growing up in a small town and the enigmatic search for happiness inside and outside of it, according to Silver Birch. Its a collection of six linked short
stories and a novella, all based in Mr. Silvas hometown
of Lincoln, California. That small townStanton, in the
bookis about 30 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Writing wasnt a path that seemed plausible when he
was growing up in suburban northern California.
I was one of the few in my family to go to college,
Mr. Silvas explained. So when I went I didnt know
what you could do with an English degree other than
teach, and I knew I didnt have the patience for that, so
COURIERphoto/Steven Felschundneff
Claremont resident Sam Silvas recently published
Stanton, California a book of short stories about
the Northern California town where he grew up. It is
the first book Mr. Silvas has published and a dream
come true for the longtime writer.
I was a business major.

He graduated from Cal
State Chico in 1987. About
a year after that, he began
reading for pleasure again,
which led to his first forays
into writing. He ended up
getting his masters degree
in English from Saint
Marys College in the East
Bay in 1997.
Since then, its just been
writing and working, he
shared. Mr. Silvas day job
is in the retail food industry.
He met his partner Tamra
Horton in the late 1990s. Their daughter Hadley Silvas
named after Ernest Hemingways first wife Hadley
Richardson, to whom The Sun Also Rises was dedicatedfollowed in 2003.
The demands of family at first left little time for writing, Mr. Silvas recalled. There were a couple years in
there where I just flat-out gave up writing. I have to write
frequently. Im not one of those people that can say, Im
going to write Sunday. That first day is wasted for me.
Ive got to prime that pump. Then the second day is good
and the third days better.

Finding three consecutive days to dedicate to writing
was difficult. He moved around northern California for
about a decade after graduating from Chico. He and Ms.
Horton then shifted gears radically, moving to Baton
Rouge, Louisiana in 1999 so that his partner could complete her PhD at Louisiana State University. A move to
Claremont followed in 2000, when Ms. Horton was
hired as a professor at Mt. San Antonio College.
As I moved around to these different places and met
different people, I would tell them these stories about my
hometown and they would say Thats what you should
be writing about, Mr. Silvas said. Growing up there,
Lincoln just seemed like any town USA. It didnt seem
all that funny or all that crazy. It was just very small and
insular, and it has a tendency to produce really quirky,
unique characters.
So that kind of shifted my focus from the stories I was
writing into that, he added. He decided on a book of
linked stories, where place was a major character.
Lincoln was founded in 1859 as the railroads expanded west. When Mr. Silvas was a boy, the town was
a sleepy suburb far from the main highway leading to
Sacramento. Its population was 7,484 in 1990, when he
was in his 20s. The eccentricities of the small, rural
town permeate Stanton, California. Some of the characters are based on childhood friends and family, a fact
that left some of Mr. Silvas hometown acquaintances
wondering if they were in the book.
I was just home for the holidays, and everywhere I
went it was a parlor game of whos so-and-so in the
book, and did such-and-such really happen, he recalled. Im going to fall back on that old line: Its fiction, so it must be true.
He has a few readings set up near Lincoln after the holidays, and hes looking to arrange some southern California readings soon as well, hopefully one at the Claremont Library.
His overarching goal, he said, was to be able to give
up his day job and make his living in the literary world.
Thats the holy grail for me, to give all my time and
energy to writing, he said.
Stanton, California is available online at Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, Silver Birch Press and as a Kindle ebook.
Mick Rhodes
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CINEMA
LAEMMLES CLAREMONT 5 THEATRE:

450 W. Second St., Claremont. Information is available at laemmle.com or (909) 621-5500. General admission, $11; students with ID, $8.50; children under 12, $8; seniors 62 and older, $8; bargain price
$8, Monday through Friday for all shows before 6
p.m. and Saturday, Sunday and holidays before 2
p.m. Call or check the website for showtimes.
Now playing: Elle [subtitled]; Manchester by
the Sea; Miss Sloane; Passengers; Rogue One: A
Star Wars Story; Sing; Fences (opens Sunday).
Weekend morning screenings: Otherwise Engaged; The Three Rachels; The Eagle Huntress
(on Saturday); 20th Century Women (on Sunday).
THEATER
BRIDGES AUDITORIUM: 450 N. College Way,

Claremont. Box office hours: Monday through Friday, 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: pomona.edu/bridges or (909) 607-1139.
CANDLELIGHT PAVILION: 455 W. Foothill Blvd.,
Claremont. Info: candlelightpavilion.com or (909) 6261254.
Through December 24: A Time for Christmas. Admission (including dinner) is $58-$73.
Saturday, December 31: A Big Band New Year. Admission (including dinner) is $99-$125.
Friday, January 13 through February 5: Beauty and
the Beast. Admission (including dinner) is $58-$73.
CHS FRUECHTE THEATRE: 1601 N. Indian Hill
Blvd., Claremont. Info: chstheatre.cusd.claremont.edu

or (909) 624-9053, ext. 30463.
THE GROVE THEATER: 276 E. Ninth St., Upland.
Information: grovetheatre.com or (909) 920-4343.
Friday, December 23: The Nutcracker, 8 p.m.,
call box office for prices.
Saturday, January 7: Elvis Birthday Bash, 3 to 9
p.m., call box office for prices.
LEWIS FAMILY PLAYHOUSE: 12505 Cultural
Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga. Information: lewisfamilyplayhouse.com or (909) 477-2752.
Saturday, January 7: Wilson Phillips, 8 p.m. all ages,
$58-$65.
Sunday, January 8: Stars of Doo-Wop and Rock n
Roll, 2 p.m., all ages, $33-$40.
THE THEATRE COMPANY: 1400 N. Benson, Upland. Information: opheliasjump.org or (909) 380-2753.
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13. Diminishes
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25. Hot spot of Sicily
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be less than the total debt NOTICE TO PROPERTY
OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may
be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of
the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made
available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those
not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the
rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property,
you may call (866)-960-8299 or visit this Internet Web
site http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx using the file
number assigned to this case 2013-02338-CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale
may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to
verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Western Progressive, LLC, as Trustee for
beneficiary C/o 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 Irvine,
CA 92606 Sale Information Line: (866) 960-8299
http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx Date: November
29, 2016
___________________________________
Trustee Sale Assistant
WESTERN PROGRESSIVE, LLC MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO
COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
PUBLISH: December 9, 16 and 23, 2016

CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: Mack Lavell Griffin, A Single Man And Marshe Rendetta Smith, A Single Woman, As Joint Tenants Duly Appointed Trustee:
Western Progressive, LLC Recorded 08/24/2005 as Instrument No. 05 2029538 in book ---, page--- and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of Sale: 01/10/2017 at
11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN
LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400
CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges:
$ 454,695.10 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL
SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER
FOR CASH, CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A
STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN
BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS
ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN
SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND
AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE:
All right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by
the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and
pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 20509 Schoenborn
Street, (Canoga Park Area) Los Angeles, CA 91306
A.P.N.: 2780-023-015 The undersigned Trustee disclaims
any liability for any incorrectness of the street address
or other common designation, if any, shown above. The
sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the
note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust. The total amount
of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the
property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $ 454,695.10. If the Trustee
is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust has executed and delivered
to the undersigned a written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default
and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where
the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL
BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You
should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may
be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to
investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting
the county recorders office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should
be aware that the same lender may hold more than one
mortgage or deed of trust on this property. NOTICE OF
23, 2016
___________________________________
T.S. No.: 2016-01394-CA A.P.N.:2425-002-040 Property Address: 3944 Kentucky Drive #11, Los Angeles,
CA 90068
OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A
DEED OF TRUST DATED 09/08/2006. UNLESS YOU
T.S. No.: 2015-03837-CA A.P.N.:2780-023-015 Prop- THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD
erty Address: 20509 Schoenborn Street, (Canoga Park CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: Arthur A Venturina, An Unmarried Man Duly Appointed Trustee: WestArea) Los Angeles, CA 91306
ern Progressive, LLC Recorded 09/21/2006 as InNOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3(a), THE strument No. 06 2101802 in book ---, page--- and of OfSUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED ficial Records in the office of the Recorder of Los AnTO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE geles County, California, Date of Sale: 01/11/2017 at
RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT 11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN
ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400
TRUSTOR. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766
THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AT- Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges:
TACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY $ 618,087.53 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL
OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER
DEED OF TRUST DATED 08/16/2005. UNLESS YOU FOR CASH, CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN
IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAV-
Claremont COURIER Classifieds/Friday, December 23, 2016

INGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS
pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 3944 Kentucky
Drive #11, Los Angeles, CA 90068 A.P.N.: 2425-002040 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for
any incorrectness of the street address or other common
designation, if any, shown above. The sale will be made,
but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied,
regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the
remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the
Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance
of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and
reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the
time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is:
$ 618,087.53. If the Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to
the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
has executed and delivered to the undersigned a written
request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned
caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be
recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are
considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does
not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership
of the property. You should also be aware that the lien
being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the
highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the
property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence,
priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county recorders office
or a title insurance company, either of which may charge
you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these
resources, you should be aware that the same lender may
hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on this property. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Note: Because
the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale
the opening bid may be less than the total debt NOTICE
TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on
this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times
by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public,
as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish
to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and,
if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale
of this property, you may call (866)-960-8299 or visit this
Internet Web site http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx
using the file number assigned to this case 201601394-CA. Information about postponements that are
very short in duration or that occur close in time to the
scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the
telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The
best way to verify postponement information is to attend
the scheduled sale. Western Progressive, LLC, as
Trustee for beneficiary C/o 30 Corporate Park,
Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 Sale Information Line:
(866) 960-8299 http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx
Date: November 24, 2016
___________________________________
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unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property

to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and
advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $ 559,688.94. If the Trustee is unable
to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders
sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies
paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall
have no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed
of Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned
a written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell
to be recorded in the county where the real property is
located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you
are considering bidding on this property lien, you
should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien,
not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a
trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free
and clear ownership of the property. You should also be
aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior
lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are
or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to
the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear
title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate
the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that
may exist on this property by contacting the county
recorders office or a title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for this information. If you
consult either of these resources, you should be aware
that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage
or deed of trust on this property. NOTICE OF
29, 2016
___________________________________
PUBLISH: December 23 and 30, 2016, and January 6,
2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

File No. 2016286103
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as 1.)
HUIE MINIATURES, 2.) TRAFFIC DESIGN
SERVICES, 3.) COTTAGE PLACE PROPERTIES, 4.) GANESHA JUNCTION GROUP, 5.)
GANESHA JUNCTION RAILWAY, 2304 Coalinga
Court, Claremont, CA 91711. Registrant(s): John C. Huie,
2304 Coalinga Court, Claremont, CA 91711.
This business is conducted by an Individual.
Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed above on 04/1970. I declare
that all information in this statement is true and correct.
/s/ John C. Huie Title: Owner
T.S. No.: 2016-02449-CA A.P.N.:6004-011-004 & This statement was filed with the Registrar6004-011-005 Property Address: 6111 - 6113 Menlo Ave, Recorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on
Los Angeles, CA 90044
11/28/16. NOTICE- In Accordance with subdivision (a)
of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generalPURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3(a), THE ly expires at the end of five (5) years from the date on
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, exTO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE cept, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920,
RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set
ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than
TRUSTOR. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF a change in the residence address of a registered ownTHE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AT- er. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be
TACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the
OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accomDEED OF TRUST DATED 07/26/2007. UNLESS YOU panied by the Affidavit Of Identity Form. The filing of
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this
IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the
NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see
THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: David Lee Lake and PUBLISH: December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2016
Carrie May Lake, Husband and Wife as Joint Tenants. Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive,
LLC Recorded 08/01/2007 as Instrument No.
File No. 2016296317
20071818950 in book ---, page--- and of Official The following person(s) is (are) doing business as 1.)
Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles HOT YOGA CLAREMONT, 2.) CLAREMONT
County, California, Date of Sale: 01/19/2017 at 11:00 HOT YOGA, 150 West San Jose, Claremont, CA
AM Place of Sale: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LO- 91711. Mailing address: 736 South Inman Road, West
CATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC Covina, CA 91791. Registrant(s): BIKRAMS YOGA
CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766 Estimated COLLEGE OF INDIA CLAREMONT, INC., 736
amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $ 559,688.94 Inman Road, West Covina, CA 91791.
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL SELL AT This business is conducted by a Corporation.Registrant
PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR has not yet commenced to transact business under the
CASH, CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE fictitious business name or names listed herein.I declare
OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A that all information in this statement is true and correct.
STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A /s/ Anne Ebele Title: President
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAV- This statement was filed with the RegistrarINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS Recorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on
ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED IN 12/07/16.NOTICE- In Accordance with subdivision (a)
SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE AND of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally
AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE: expires at the end of five (5) years from the date on which
All right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as
the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully de- pires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the
scribed in said Deed of Trust. Street Address or other com- statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change
mon designation of real property: 6111 - 6113 Menlo Ave, in the residence address of a registered owner. A new FicLos Angeles, CA 90044 A.P.N.: 6004-011-004 & titious Business Name Statement must be filed before the
6004-011-005 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affiliability for any incorrectness of the street address or othdavit Of Identity Form.The filing of this statement does
er common designation, if any, shown above. The sale not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious
will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed Business Name in violation of the rights of another under
or implied, regarding title, possession, or encum- federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq.,
brances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) Business and Professions Code). PUBLISH: December
secured by the Deed of Trust. The total amount of the 16, 23, 30, 2016 and January 6, 2017
LEGAL TENDER

File No. 2016290101
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as
J.E.T. AQUATICS, 3175 Bolling Avenue, La Verne,
CA 91750. Mailing address: 6663 Brissac Place, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737. Registrant(s): 1.) Victoria A. Hodge, 1764 Simmons Ct., Claremont, CA
91711. 2.) Elaine C. Hodge, 1764 Simmons Ct., Claremont, CA 91711.
This business is conducted by Copartners. Registrant
has not yet commenced to transact business under the
fictitious business name or names listed herein. I declare that all information in this statement is true and
correct.
/s/ Victoria A. Hodge Title: Partner
This statement was filed with the RegistrarRecorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on
12/01/16. NOTICE- In Accordance with subdivision
(a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five (5) years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk,
except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920,
where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts
set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement
must be accompanied by the Affidavit Of Identity
Form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq.,
Business and Professions Code). PUBLISH: December
9, 16, 23 and 30, 2016
File No. 2016298083
NUEAGLE CO., 2735 Westfield Place, Claremont,
CA 91711. Registrant(s): Yang Li, 2735 Westfield
Place, Claremont, CA 91711.
This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed above on 12/2016. I declare that all information in this statement is true and
correct.
/s/ Yang Li Title: Owner
(a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement
generally expires at the end of five (5) years from
the date on which it was filed in the office of the
County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b)
of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant
to section 17913 other than a change in the residence
address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious
Business Name Statement must be accompanied by
the Affidavit Of Identity Form. The filing of this
statement does not of itself authorize the use in this
state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of
the rights of another under federal, state, or common
law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code). PUBLISH: December 16, 23, 30,
2016 and January 6, 2017
T.S. No.: 2016-01994-CA A.P.N.:4265-019-142
Property Address: 11965 Gorham Ave # 501, Los Angeles, CA 90049
RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT
BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO
THE TRUSTOR. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY
OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT
ATTACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER
A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/07/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor:
Michael Drell and Mary Duignan Drell, Husband and Wife, each as to an Undivided one-half
Interest as Tenants in Common Duly Appointed
Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC Recorded
10/31/2005 as Instrument No. 05 2615157 in book --, page--- and of Official Records in the office of the
Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of
Sale: 01/25/2017 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND
THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER
PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA,
POMONA, CA 91766 Estimated amount of unpaid
balance and other charges: $ 566,883.38 NOTICE
OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH,
CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR
NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A
STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED
IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE
AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS
STATE: All right, title, and interest conveyed to and
now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described
property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust.
Street Address or other common designation of real
property: 11965 Gorham Ave # 501, Los Angeles, CA
90049 A.P.N.: 4265-019-142 The undersigned Trustee
disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street
address or other common designation, if any, shown
above. The sale will be made, but without covenant
or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust.
The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the
$ 566,883.38. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and
exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid
to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have
no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of
Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned
a written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to
Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks in-
volved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the
highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible
for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned
off, before you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county recorders office or a title insurance company, either of which may
charge you a fee for this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you should be aware that the
same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed
of trust on this property. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S
SALE Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right
to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that
at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than
the total debt NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of
not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether
your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable,
the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (866)-960-8299 or visit this Internet Web site http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx
using the file number assigned to this case 2016-01994CA. Information about postponements that are very
short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best
way to verify postponement information is to attend
Suite 450 Irvine, CA 92606 Sale Information
Line: (866) 960-8299 http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx Date: December 2, 2016
___________________________________
WESTERN PROGRESSIVE, LLC MAY BE
ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR
THAT PURPOSE. PUBLISH: December 23 and 30,
2016, and January 6, 2017

off, before you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on
this property by contacting the county recorders office or a title insurance company, either of which may
charge you a fee for this information. If you consult
either of these resources, you should be aware that the
same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed
___________________________________
T.S. No.: 2015-05716-CA A.P.N.:8640-014-007

Property Address: 205 West Linfield Street, Glendora, CA 91740
RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT
T.S. No.: 2016-01041-CA
A.P.N.:5512-021-025 BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO
Property Address: 140 South Poinsettia Place, Los THE TRUSTOR. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT
Angeles, CA 90036
ATTACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPNOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
PURSUANT TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3(a), THE ERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED A DEED OF TRUST DATED 10/17/2006. UNTO BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC
BUT ONLY TO THE COPIES PROVIDED TO SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE
THE TRUSTOR. NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU,
OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor:
ATTACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROP- JESUS PINA, AN UNMARRIED MAN Duly ApERTY OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER pointed Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC RecordA DEED OF TRUST DATED 04/07/2006. UN- ed 10/20/2006 as Instrument No. 06 2332579 in book
LESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR ---, page--- and of Official Records in the office of the
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of
SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE Sale: 01/20/2017 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER
YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: Al- PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA,
lan N. Lowy, an Unmarried Man Duly Appointed POMONA, CA 91766 Estimated amount of unpaid
Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC Recorded balance and other charges: $ 403,064.14 NOTICE
04/14/2006 as Instrument No. 06 0820583 in book - OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC
--, page--- and of Official Records in the office of the AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH,
Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, Date of CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR
Sale: 01/18/2017 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: BEHIND NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A
THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVPOMONA, CA 91766 Estimated amount of unpaid INGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS ASbalance and other charges: $ 1,899,688.12 NOTICE SOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED
OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL SELL AT PUBLIC IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE
AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS
CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE OR STATE: All right, title, and interest conveyed to and
NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described
STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust deCHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAV- scribed as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust.
INGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS AS- Street Address or other common designation of real
SOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK SPECIFIED property: 205 West Linfield Street, Glendora, CA
IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL CODE 91740 A.P.N.: 8640-014-007 The undersigned
AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness
STATE: All right, title, and interest conveyed to and of the street address or other common designation, if
now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described any, shown above. The sale will be made, but withproperty under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust de- out covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, rescribed as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust. garding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the
Street Address or other common designation of real remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the
property: 140 South Poinsettia Place, Los Angeles, Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance
CA 90036 A.P.N.: 5512-021-025 The undersigned of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and
Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at
of the street address or other common designation, if the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale
any, shown above. The sale will be made, but with- is: $ 403,064.14. If the Trustee is unable to convey
out covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, re- title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and
garding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid
remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have
Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of
of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned
reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at a written request to commence foreclosure, and the unthe time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale dersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to
is: $ 1,899,688.12. If the Trustee is unable to con- Sell to be recorded in the county where the real propvey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole erty is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDand exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies DERS: If you are considering bidding on this proppaid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall erty lien, you should understand that there are risks inhave no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed volved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidof Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned ding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the
a written request to commence foreclosure, and the un- highest bid at a trustee auction does not automaticaldersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to ly entitle you to free and clear ownership of the propSell to be recorded in the county where the real property. You should also be aware that the lien being aucerty is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BID- tioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest
DERS: If you are considering bidding on this prop- bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible
erty lien, you should understand that there are risks in- for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned
volved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bid- off, before you can receive clear title to the property.
ding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the You are encouraged to investigate the existence, prihighest bid at a trustee auction does not automatical- ority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on
ly entitle you to free and clear ownership of the prop- this property by contacting the county recorders oferty. You should also be aware that the lien being auc- fice or a title insurance company, either of which may
tioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest charge you a fee for this information. If you consult
bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible either of these resources, you should be aware that the
for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed
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___________________________________
File No. 2016289622
COMMUNITY BRAINS, 158 W. Third St., Pomona,
CA 91766. Registrant(s): Thomas B. Hill, 158 W. Third
St., Pomona, CA 91766.
This business is conducted by an Individual.
Registrant commenced to transact business under the
fictitious name or names listed above on 11/2016.
I declare that all information in this statement is true
and correct.
/s/ Thomas B. Hill Title: Owner
(a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five (5) years from the date
on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk,
except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920,
set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement
must be accompanied by the Affidavit Of Identity
Form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business
Name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14411 et seq.,
Business and Professions Code). PUBLISH: December
23 and 30, 2016, January 6 and 13, 2017
16, January 6 and 13, 2017
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF:
SUE ANN SERDENGECTI
CASE NO. 16STPB05677
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in
the WILL or estate, or both of SUE ANN SERDENGECTI. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been
filed by ALYSA M. SERDENGECTI in the Superior
Court of California, County of LOS ANGELES.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that
ALYSA M. SERDENGECTI be appointed as personal
representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any
codicils are available for examination in the file kept
by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration
of Estates Act with limited authority. (This authority
will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking
certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows
good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court
as follows: 01/26/17 at 8:30AM in Dept. 79 located at
111 N. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 IF YOU
OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your
appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF
YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of
the decedent, you must file your claim with the court
and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed
by the court within the later of either (1) four months
from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the
California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date
of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your
rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an
attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY
EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court
a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of
any petition or account as provided in Probate Code
section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner:
GEORGE W. YOUNG - SBN 73249 YOUNG &
YOUNG 790 E. COLORADO BLVD. STE 900
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SERVICES
CONTACT US
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Ph: 909.621.4761 Fax: 909.621.4072
Business Hours: Mon-Thurs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. / Fri 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Acoustical
Concrete
Electrician
Gardening
House Cleaning
Landscaping
QUALITY Interiors. Acoustical contractor, specializing in

acoustic removal, texture,
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909-624-8177.
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Veteran, Mt. Sac, Cal Poly
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Call 909-599-9530 now
Cell 626-428-1691
Claremont area
30 years!
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Lic.922000
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909-621-7770
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STEVES HEATING
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909-985-5254
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approved
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Kevin's
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Kitchen Bath Office
Closet Garage
Entertainment Centers
Mantles Crown Molding
Can Lights
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Lic.#787647
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SEMI-RETIRED rough to finish
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ANDERSON Carpet Service.
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Gash Chimney Sweep
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Veteran
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909-599-9530
Serving Claremont
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Lic.323243
REX ROMANO
BUILDERS
Excellence in building
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Lic.763385
909-626-3019
KOGEMAN
CONSTRUCTION
OVER 30 YEARS
EXPERIENCE
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909-946-8664
Lic.B710309
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Lic.846995. 951-237-1547.
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12 years of experience.
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Limited Space
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Class of 2018, 2019, 2020
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www.RandlesEducational
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Serving Claremont
Since 1995. Residential,
Commercial.
Recessed lighting and
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replacement, service panel
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and LED lighting.
Free estimates. 24-hours
emergency service.
References.
909-900-8930
909-626-2242
Lic.806149
Haydens Services Inc.
Since 1978
Bonded Insured
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Old home rewiring
specialist.
24-hour
emergency service.
909-982-8910
909-767-0062
* Senior Discount *
Lic.359145
MOR ELECTRIC &
HANDYMAN SERVICES
Free estimates
and senior discounts.
909-989-3454
909-767-0062
Residential Industrial
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24/7 emergency services.
Reasonable and reliable.
Lic.400-990
30 years experience.
Fences & Gates

ADVANCED
DON DAVIES
Veteran
New, repairs.
ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!
909-599-9530
Cell: 626-428-1691
Lic.323243
Fictitious Name
A FICTITIOUS Business
Name Statement (D.B.A.) is
required if you're in business.
You must file and publish a
DBA in the local newspaper
and renew your FBNS every
five (5) years. If your business
is located in LA COUNTY,
The COURIER can help you
file your FBNS with L.A.
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The finest split-wood
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Lengths cut to order.
909-524-8000
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G27Lic.#373833.
John Cook, 909-231-8305
Girl Friday
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28 years in business.
Office/residential.
No job too small.
Free estimates.
We do spring cleaning!
909-730-8564
CAROUSEL Quality Cleaning. Family owned for 26 years.
Licensed, insured. Senior
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Irrigation
Handyman
Handyman with
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Reasonable prices.
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909-695-6355
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HANDYMAN SERVICE
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909-921-6334
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Everything for all
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Over 18 Years Experience
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909-257-4997
*Unlicensed
I take care of your Home
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Honest & Reliable
Contact Travis at
909-485-9514
Free Estimates
HOME Repair by Ken. Electrical, plumbing, lighting, irrigation, tankless maintenance.
Local and experienced. 12
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A-HANDYMAN
New and Repairs
Inside, outside, small,
large, home, garage, yard.
ONE CALL DOES IT ALL!
909-599-9530
Cell: 626-428-1691
Lic.323243
30 years experience!
Claremont area.
Hauling
ADVANCED
DON DAVIES
Same Day
One call does it all!
Garage, yard, home,
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909-599-9530
House Cleaning
20 YEARS experience. Free
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Service
Established, detailed,
upbeat, licensed house
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upon request. 28 years
of experience.
909-224-1180
909-803-0074
Expert Repairs
Retrofit Experts
Ask us how to save water.
Allen Cantrall Landscape
909-224-3327
Lic.861685
Serving the area
since 1983.
Since 1978
Bonded Insured
24-hour emergency
service.
909-982-8910
* Senior discount *
Lic.359145
ADVANCED
DON DAVIES
Veteran, Mt. Sac, Cal Poly
New, repairs. Professional.
All sprinkler repairs.
Call 909-599-9530 Now
Cell: 626-428-1691
Landscaping
Sunset Gardens
Landscaping
Specializing in
water-saving desert
landscapes.
Design. Install. Maintain.
John Cook
909-231-8305
C-27Lic.#373833
Dale's Tree &
Landscape Services
Drought tolerant planting
and design. Drip irrigation.
Maintenance specials.
Over 30 years experience.
909-982-5794
Lic#753381
ADVANCED DON DAVIES
Mt. Sac, Cal Poly
New, refurbish or repair.
Design, drainage,
concrete, slate, flagstone,
lighting, irrigation,
decomposed granite.
909-599-9530
Cell: 626-428-1691
Claremont area 30 years!
Lic.323243
DLS Landscaping and Design. Claremont native specializing in drought tolerant

landscaping, drip systems
and lighting. Artistic solutions
for the future. Over 35 years
experience. Call: 909-2258855, 909-982-5965. Lic.
585007.
Drought tolerant and

California native design.
Water conserving irrigation.
Lighting and maintenance.
Allen Cantrall Landscape
909-224-3327
Lic.861685
Serving the area
since 1983.
DANS GARDENING
SERVICE
Sprinklers/drip
installed, repaired.
Lawn removal.
Cleanup, hauling.
Drought landscapes,
planting, sod, lighting,
drainage. Insured.
References. Since 1977.
Lic.508671.
Sustainable Landscape
& Design
Zero emission
maintenance
QWEL-Certified personal
specialized drip irrigation
Native plant specialists
Artistic hardscapes
Award-winning
landscapes
From the creators of the
Pomona College
Organic Farm
909-398-1235
www.naturalearthla.com
Lic. 919825
Learn Japanese
TAUGHT by Sumi Ohtani at

the Claremont Forum in the
Packing House. Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday afternoons/evenings. All levels welcome. Excellent brain exercise
for seniors! 909-626-3066.
Masonry
Stone Age Masonry
Brick, Block, Stone
Concrete and Tile.
Repairs and restoration.
High-pressure wash
and seal.
909-262-0472
Lic#919942
Painting
Plastering & Stucco
D&D
Custom
Painting.
Bonded. Lic.423346. Residential, commercial. Interior or
exterior. Free estimates. 909982-8024.
PLASTERING by Thomas.
Stucco and drywall repair
specialist. Licensed home improvement. Contractor Lic.
614648.
909-984-6161.
www.wall-doctor.com.
STEVE LOPEZ
PAINTING
Extensive preparation.
Indoor, outdoor, cabinets.
Offering odorless green
solution. 33-year master.
Lic.542552
Please call
909-989-9786
COLLINS Painting & Construction Company, LLC. Interior, exterior. Residential

and commercial. Contractors
Lic.384597. 909-985-8484.
ACE SEVIER PAINTING

Interior/Exterior
BONDED and INSURED
Many references.
Claremont resident.
35 years experience.
Lic.315050
Please call:
909-624-5080,
909-596-4095.
KPW PAINTING
Older couple painting,
40 years experience!
Competitive rates.
Small repairs.
No job too small.
References available.
We work our own jobs.
Carrie or Ron
909-615-4858
Lic.778506
Plumbing

Since 1978
Bonded Insured
NO JOB TOO BIG OR
SMALL!
24-hour
emergency service
909-982-8910
* Senior discount *
Lic.359145
STEVES PLUMBING
24-hour service Low cost!
Free estimates.
All plumbing repairs.
Complete drain cleaning,
leak detection,
water heaters.Your local
plumber for over 25 years.
Senior discounts. Insured,
Lic.744873.
* 909-985-5254 *
EXCEL PLUMBING
Family owned & operated.
30 plus years experience.
Expert plumbing repairs and
drain cleaning. Water
heaters, faucets, sinks,
toilets, disposals,
under slab lead detection,
sewer video inspection.
Licensed, bonded and
insured. Lic.917874.
909-945-1995
Custom Construction
Reroof Specialist
All types of roofing.
Dry rot, flat roof,
tile repairs.
Insured and bonded.
Lic.630203.
Mark 909-996-2981
RESIDENTIAL/Commercial.
Quality work at reasonable
prices. Free estimates.
Lic.541469. 909-622-7994.
Patio & Decks
Pet Services
CERTIFIED vet assistant. Pet
sitting, dog walking, all basic
pet needs. References available. Clegg 909-908-0507.
SERVICES
RENES Plumbing and AC.

All types residential repairs,
HVAC, new installation,
repairs. Prices to fit the
working familys budget.
Lic.454443. Insured
professional service.
909-593-1175.
Roofing
ADVANCED DON DAVIES

New, refurbish and repair.
Concrete, masonry,
lighting, planters and
retaining walls.
909-599-9530
Cell: 626-428-1691
Claremont area 30 years!
Lic.323243
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909-621-5626
Options In-Home Care is built on integrity and compassion. Our friendly

and professional staff provides affordable non-medical home care service, tailored care for our elderly clients, including personal hygiene,
Alzheimer & dementia care, meal prep, bathing and light house keeping.
For your convenience our Operators and Case Managers are available
24/7! Now offering VA benefit support assistance.
Office #: 909-621- CARE(2273) Fax #: 909-621-1114
Website: www.optionsinhomecare.com
Tile
GORDON Perry Roofing.

Reroofing, repairs of all types.
Free estimates. Quality work.
Lic.C39975540. 909-9443884.
Sprinklers & Repair

DURUSSEL Sprinklers. Install,
repair, automate. Since 1982.
Free estimates. Lic.540042.
Call 909-982-1604.
ADVANCED DON DAVIES

Veteran,
Mt. Sac, Cal Poly
New, repairs. Professional.
All sprinkler repairs.
Call 909-599-9530 now
Cell: 626-428-1691
Tile
MASTER tile layer. Quick and
clean. Showers, tubs, back
splashes and commercial.
Lic.830249. Ray, 909-7313511.
LEGAL TENDER

File No. 2016290186
THAT ONE BLOND KID CORP., 2.) THAT ONE
BLOND KID, 3.) THATONEBLONDKID, 326 Westpoint Dr., Claremont, CA 91711. Mailing address: 30 Dudley Ave., Unit 9, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA 90291.
Registrant(s): THAT ONE BLOND KID CORP., 326
Westpoint Dr., Claremont, CA 91711.
This business is conducted by a Corporation. Registrant
commenced to transact business under the fictitious name
REGROUT, clean, seal, color

grout. 909-880-9719, 1-888764-7688.
Tree Care
TOM Day Tree Service. Fine
pruning of all trees since 1974.
Free estimate. 909-629-6960.
Dale's Tree Service

Certified arborist.
Pruning and removals.
Drought tolerant planting
and design. Maintenance
specials. Over 30 years
experience.
909-982-5794
Lic#753381
Tree Care
Weed Abatement
Window Washing
MANUELS Garden Service.

General cleanup. Lawn maintenance, bush trimming, general maintenance, tree trimming and removal. Low
prices and free estimates.
ADVANCED DON DAVIES

Veteran
Weed eating, mowing,
tractor fields,
manual slopes, hauling.
909-599-9530
Cell: 626-428-1691
NACHOS Window Cleaning.

For window washing, call
Nacho, 909-816-2435. Free
estimates, satisfaction guaranteed. Number one in LA
County.
Johnny's Tree Service

Tree trimming
and demolition.
Certified arborist.
Lic.270275, insured.
Please call:
909-946-1123
951-522-0992
JOHNNY'S Tree Service.

Weed abatement/land clearing. Disking and mowing.
Please call 909-946-1123,
951-522-0992. Lic.270275.
SERVICE AD RATES
Wallpaper
TIRED of dealing with weed

problems on your lot or field?
Help control the problem in
an environmentally safe manner. To receive loads of quality wood chips. Please call
909-214-6773. Tom Day Tree
Service.
WALLPAPER hanging and removal by Andrea. Environmentally friendly. 30 years local experience. Free estimates.
Lic.844375. 951-990-1053.
Published for 3 months

DIRECTORY LISTINGS
Up to 15 words $75
Up to 20 words $85
Up to 25 words $95
Up to 30 words $105
Up to 35 words $115
Up to 40 words $125
BUSINESS CARD ADS
(includes free ad design)
$300
To place an ad, call
Rachel Fagg at
(909) 621-4761
or names listed above on 10/2016. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
/s/ Jeremiah B. Davis Title: President
This statement was filed with the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 12/01/16. NOTICEIn Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a
Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end
of five (5) years from the date on which it was filed in the
office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days
after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pur-
suant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence

address of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business
Name Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name
Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit Of Identity Form. The filing of this statement does not of itself
authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name
in violation of the rights of another under federal, state,
or common law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and
Professions Code). PUBLISH: December 9, 16, 23 and
30, 2016
ABANDONMENT OF USE OF
FILE NO: 2014242035
Current File No: 2016292327
The following person(s) has/have abandoned
the use of the fictitious business name PAINT
AND PADDLE, located at 218 Foothill Blvd.,
Claremont, CA 91711. The fictitious business
name referred to above was filed on 08/26/2014
in the County of Los Angeles.
Registrant(s): Michelle Flint, 1746 Vallejo Way,
Upland, CA 91784. The business was conducted

by an Individual. This statement was filed with
the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 12/02/16. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.
(A registrant who declares as true information,
which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a
crime.)
/s/ Michelle Flint Title: Owner
Publish: December 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2016
Friday 12-23-16
REAL ESTATE
M ALKA RINDE REAL ESTATE
1876 Morgan Avenue, Claremont CA 91711
EXPERIENCE MATTERS...
Celebrating Over 25 Years
Selling Real Estate in the Area
MALKA RINDE
Broker - Owner
Bus: 909-238-9928
Fax: 909-621-2842
www.malkarinde.com
BRE# 00545647
REALTOR
Mason Prophet, Voted Top Local Realtor

in the COURIERs Best of the Best Contest 2013
Broker Associate, CRS, GRI, ABR, e-PRO, SRES
909.447.7708 Mason@MasonProphet.com
www.MasonProphet.com DRE# 01714034

Read what my clients are saying.Visit
www.MasonProphet.com and click on "Testimonials,"
or find me on www.Yelp.com.
(909) 260-5560
www.callMadhu.com
500 West Foothill Boulevard Claremont
BRE#00979814
Now representing...
Call me for a FREE Market Analysis

of your home. I have many buyers
looking for homes in Claremont.
It was a pleasure working with Mason. He was

very responsive to our requests and sensitive to
our needs. His follow-through was excellent. He
helped take the stress out of a stressful process.
Thank you, Mason!
S. Wittwer
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Home for the Holidays

Claremont Realtors Offer Seasons Greetings
Laura Dandoy
RE/MAX Resources
Carol Curtis
www.LauraDandoy.com
(909) 228-4383
Curtis Real Estate

curtisrealestate.com
(909) 626-1261
Sending my warmest thoughts and

best wishes for a Holiday Season
filled with happiness. May the
coming year fill your home with joy,
your heart with love, and your life
with laughter.
Tim Harrison
Broadview Mortgage
HLCteam.com
(909) 920-5252
Susan Emerson
Wheeler Steffen
Sothebys International Realty
susan@susanemerson.biz
(909) 447-7710
Wishing all of you a beautiful

Holiday Season and a New Year
filled with peace and happiness.
We look forward to working with
you in the future for all your real
estate needs. With the very best
wishes from our family to yours.
Nancy Telford
Sally Tornero
Century 21 Beachside
Telford@Telford.com
(909) 575-8411
May this holiday season bring you

and your loved ones an abundance
of joy and happiness into 2017,
God bless!
Kathleen Magnaye
Re/Max Resources
Kathleen@Lauradandoy.com
(626) 736-5884
Dear friends and neighbors, Its been

an excellent year in real estate and
for that I am truly grateful. Thank
you for your support, recommendations
and referrals. Wishing you and
your family a safe and happy Holiday
Season and a New Year filled
with peace and prosperity.
Wheeler Steffen Sothebys
International Realty
sallytornero.com (909) 445-3203
Wishing everyone a very

Merry Christmas and prosperous
New Year!
Twas the night before Christmas,

when all want a house, not a
creatures without one, not even
a mouse! Wishing you home
enjoyment and prosperity in 2017!
A special thank you to all of our

clients who have helped make 2016
such a wonderful year
Happy Holidays!
Wishing you and your loved ones a

very blessed Holiday Season and a
prosperous New Year!
Lety Guerrero
Re/Max Resources
LaLetyC@aol.com
951-545-1763
Happy Holidays from your COURIER family!

We appreciate each and every one of you and
wish you our best for the new year!
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Rachel Fagg
Claremont COURIER
Classified & Real Estate Advertising
Merry Christmas to our clients,

friends and all! May the New Year
be one of Happiness and Peace!
Ellie Goritz
I would like to take this time to

wish you Happy Holidays and all
the best in the New Year. I will
continue to offer you the highest
quality of service for all your real
estate needs in 2017!
Goritz Real Estate

etgoritz@aol.com
(909) 624-8165
Geoff Hamill
Wheeler Steffen
Sothebys International Realty
Geoff@GeoffHamill.com
(909) 621-0500
Bernadette Kendall

bernadette.kendall@sothebysrealty.com
(909) 322-2100
Sharon Fagundes
Aileen and Joli Gordien

Gordien & Associates Real Estate
gordien@gordienandassociates.com
(909) 621-3944

sharonfagundes9@gmail.com
(909) 447-7701
Wishing you and your family a

wonderful Holiday Season! Thank
you Claremont for your friendship
and business referrals.
Yolanda Maldonado
Realty One Group
yo4homes@gmail.com
(909) 720-5652
Wishing everyone at the Courier and

in Claremont a happy holiday season
and a prosperous New Year!
The CG Realtors Team

CG Realtors
cgrealtors.com
(909) 821-3269
May all of your homes be filled with

the true joy of family, friends and
laughter this holiday! Im thankful
for amazing clients, friendships and
the opportunity to advise you and
yours in your real estate needs
again in 2017.
Peace, love and happiness to all

at Christmas and always.
Through the years we have been

blessed with loyal friends who
appreciate our completely honest and
dedicated service, and for this we are
truly grateful. Celebrate your faith
this holiday season. May it be
peaceful and full of joy.
May your homes be filled with

warmth and your hearts filled
with love this Christmas, with a
New Year blessed with peace.
Kristin Balalis
Century 21 Peak
kbalalis@yahoo.com
(909) 771-8040
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RYAN R
ZIMMERMAN
Trust the experience of your native Claremont Realtor

Broker Associate, ABR, GRI, SRES, e-Pro. DRE# 01801354.
G oing Above and Beyond
Professional Photography,
Highest Quality Marketing, Extensive Listing Exposure, Proven Results
Voted #1 Claremont Realtor in
Claremont Courier Best of the Best 2016
909.447.7707
Ryan@RRZimmerman.com
Top 3 Producing Claremont Agent: 2011-2015

#1 Rated Claremont Realtor on Yelp.com
www.Facebook.com/ClaremontRealEstate
www.RRZimmerman.com
LEGAL TENDER
T.S. No.: 2015-03541-CA A.P.N.:1031-181-03-0000 Property Address: 15371 Turquoise Circle North,
Chino Hills, CA 91709
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO
BELOW IS NOT ATTACHED TO THE RECORDED COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT BUT ONLY TO
THE COPIES PROVIDED TO THE TRUSTOR.
NOTE: THERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF
TRUST DATED 10/26/2006. UNLESS YOU TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT
MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED
AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE
PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD
CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: Joung Ae Choi Duly
Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive, LLC
Recorded 11/06/2006 as Instrument No. 2006-0756441
in book ---, page--- and of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of San Bernardino County, California, Date of Sale: 01/04/2017 at 01:00 PM Place
of Sale: NEAR THE FRONT STEPS LEADING UP
TO THE CITY OF CHINO CIVIC CENTER,
13220 CENTRAL AVENUE, C HINO, CA 91710
Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges:
$ 531,257.40 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST
BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN
ON A STATE OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK
DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT
UNION, OR A CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR
FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION,
A SAVINGS ASSOCIATION OR SAVINGS BANK
SPECIFIED IN SECTION 5102 OF THE FINANCIAL
Wheeler
Steffen
Sothebys
INTERNATIONAL REALTY
CODE AND AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN
THIS STATE: All right, title, and interest conveyed to
and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described
property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described
as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust. Street
Address or other common designation of real property: 15371 Turquoise Circle North, Chino Hills, CA
91709 A.P.N.: 1031-181-03-0-000 The undersigned
Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of
the street address or other common designation, if any,
shown above. The sale will be made, but without
covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding
title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed
of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the
obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the
$ 531,257.40. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidders sole and
exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid
to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have
no further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of
Trust has executed and delivered to the undersigned a
written request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to
Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You
should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off
may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the
auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off
all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before

you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size
of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by
contacting the county recorders office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee
for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may
hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on this
property. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than
the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the
sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown
on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times
by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The
law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public,
as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish
to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and,
if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale
of this property, you may call (866)-960-8299 or visit
this Internet Web site http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx
using the file number assigned to this case 2015-03541CA. Information about postponements that are very short
in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled
sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone
information or on the Internet Web site. The best way
to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Western Progressive, LLC, as Trustee for
CA 92606 Sale Information Line: (866) 9608299http://www.altisource.com/MortgageServices/DefaultManagement/TrusteeServices.aspx Date: November 24, 2016
___________________________________
WESTERN PROGRESSIVE, LLC MAY BE ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PUBLISH: December 9, 16 and 23, 2016
File No. 2016282427
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as WINE
& LIQUOR MARKET, 750 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #A,
Claremont, CA 91711. Registrant(s): Jamal Y. Dahi, 14053
Sea Shell St., Fontana, CA 92336.
This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant
commenced to transact business under the fictitious
name or names listed above on 02/2003. I declare that all
information in this statement is true and correct.
/s/ Jamal Y. Dahi Title: Owner
This statement was filed with the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk of Los Angeles County on 11/21/16. NOTICEIn Accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five
(5) years from the date on which it was filed in the office
of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision
(b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any
change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to
section 17913 other than a change in the residence address
of a registered owner. A new Fictitious Business Name
Statement must be filed before the expiration. Effective
January 1, 2014, the Fictitious Business Name Statement
must be accompanied by the Affidavit Of Identity Form.
The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the
use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under federal, state, or common
law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions
Code). PUBLISH: December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2016

File No. 2016288733
EMERSON CONSULTING GROUP, INC. 2.)
EMERSON CONSULTING, 3.) ECG INC. 4.)
ECGI, 1084 Lake Forest Dr., Claremont, CA 91711.
Mailing address: 140 N Harvard Ave., #1952, Claremont,
CA 91711. Registrant(s): EMERSON CONSULTING
GROUP, INC., 1084 Lake Forest Dr., Claremont, CA
91711.
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious name or names listed above on 08/2016.
I declare that all information in this statement is true and
correct.
/s/ Parker G. Emerson Title: President
11/30/16. NOTICE- In Accordance with subdivision (a)
of section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five (5) years from the date on
which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920,
set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered
owner. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must
be filed before the expiration. Effective January 1, 2014,
the Fictitious Business Name Statement must be accompanied by the Affidavit Of Identity Form. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use
in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation
of the rights of another under federal, state, or common
law (see Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions
Code). PUBLISH: December 23 and 30, 2016, January
6 and 13, 2017.
Claremont Recent Sales

Address
719 Alamosa Dr
434 W 12th St
714 W 12th St
670 W 1st St
730 W 1st St
1127 Alma Ct
383 Andover Dr
915 W Arrow Hwy #5
107 Avila Way
252 Blaisdell Dr
1481 Briarcroft Rd
1932 Chapman Rd
832 Citrus Ct
532 Clark Ave
657 Colgate Pl
660 S College Ave
730 Earlham Dr
1031 Fuller Dr
240 S Indian Hill Blvd
222 Lamar Dr
792 Lander Cir
1904 Lassen Ave
1903 Lockhaven Way
1618 Mankato Ct
449 Marygrove Rd
1016 Moab Dr
1691 N Mountain Ave
2965 N Mountain Ave
2106 Oxford Ave
611 Purdue Dr
444 Redlands Ave
2903 Rhodelia Ave
1826 Roanoke Rd
1419 Rust Ct
1247 Shepherd Way
2149 W Silver Tree Rd
2735 Sweetbriar Dr
1360 Tulane Rd
579 Wayland Ct
1504 Webster Ave
1521 Webster Ave
652 W Winthrop Ave
Total sq. ft.

2,960
1,660
2,025
1,658
1,605
1,770
1,681
1,555
1,785
2,271
1,792
1,911
1,384
1,654
1,144
1,025
1,432
4,807
602
2,543
1,469
2,179
1,499
1,786
1,601
2,678
1,667
1,856
2,792
2,674
2,243
1,952
1,947
1,854
1,636
1,908
2,160
1,832
1,499
1,432
1,432
2,377
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November 2016
Price
$ 862,000
$ 788,000
$ 820,000
$ 620,000
$ 567,500
$ 676,000
$ 620,000
$ 400,000
$ 726,000
$ 780,000
$ 581,000
$
36,000
$ 400,000
$ 554,000
$ 430,000
$ 405,000
$ 530,000
$ 1,815,000
$ 345,000
$ 660,000
$ 400,000
$ 640,000
$ 480,000
$ 475,000
$ 492,000
$
10,000
$ 594,000
$ 650,000
$ 669,000
$ 770,000
$ 655,000
$ 540,000
$ 705,000
$ 565,000
$ 560,000
$ 619,000
$ 710,000
$ 737,500
$ 354,000
$ 530,000
$ 520,000
$ 767,000
Information provided by Geoff Hamill, Wheeler Steffen Sothebys International Realty.

The broker associate providing the content herein may or may not have been the selling
agent. For more information, contact Geoff at geoff@geoffhamill.com or call 909.621.0500.
LEGAL TENDER
T.S. No.: 2016-00576-CA A.P.N.:5157-015-001 Property Address: 460 Rosemont Ave, Los Angeles, CA
90026
OWNER: YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED
OF TRUST DATED 11/27/2006. UNLESS YOU
CONTACT A LAWYER. Trustor: Rodolfo Cornel Sr.
and Rose Cornel, Husband and Wife, As Joint Tenants Duly Appointed Trustee: Western Progressive,
LLC Recorded 12/07/2006 as Instrument No.
20062718853 in book ---, page--- and of Official
Records in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles
County, California, Date of Sale: 01/11/2017 at 11:00 AM
Place of Sale: BEHIND THE FOUNTAIN LOCATED IN CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, 400 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, POMONA, CA 91766 Estimated
amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $ 370,391.21
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE WILL SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR
CASH, CASHIERS CHECK DRAWN ON A STATE
OR NATIONAL BANK, A CHECK DRAWN BY A
STATE OR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, OR A
CHECK DRAWN BY A STATE OR FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, A SAVINGS
pursuant to a Deed of Trust described as: More fully described in said Deed of Trust. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 460 Rosemont Ave,
Los Angeles, CA 90026 A.P.N.: 5157-015-001 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation,
if any, shown above. The sale will be made, but without
covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding
title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining
principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust.
The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation
secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is:
$ 370,391.21. If the Trustee is unable to convey title
for any reason, the successful bidders sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to
the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no
further recourse. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
has executed and delivered to the undersigned a written
request to commence foreclosure, and the undersigned
caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be
recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are
considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee
auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does
not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership
of the property. You should also be aware that the lien
being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the
highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being
auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this
property by contacting the county recorders office or a
title insurance company, either of which may charge you
a fee for this information. If you consult either of these
resources, you should be aware that the same lender may
hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on this property. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Note: Because
the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the to-
tal debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the
opening bid may be less than the total debt NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the
mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to
Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements
be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy
to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether
your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the
28, 2016
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NOTICE OF LIEN SALE|
StorQuest Claremont / Baseline
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the California Business and Professional Codes #21700-21716, Section
2328 of the UCC of the Penal Code, Section 535, the
undersigned, StorQuest Self Storage, will sell at public sale by competitive bidding the personal property
of:
Rina B Bentanjado
Rina B Bentajado
Property to be sold: misc. household goods, furniture,
vehicles, clothes, toys, tools, boxes & contents. Auction Company: www.storagetreasures.com. The sale
will commence at 12:30 p.m. on or after Thursday, January 12th, 2017 at the property where said property has
been stored and which is located at StorQuest Self Storage, 454 W. Baseline Road, Claremont, CA 91711.
Goods must be paid for in CASH and removed at time
of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event of
settlement between owner and obligated party.
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