The Inland Empire's Greatest Athlete contest, described as "the single largest youth athletic contest in the I.E.," will take place March 5 at Claremont High School track and football field.
Athletes from Claremont, Ontario, Pomona, Montclair, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Chino, La Verne and San Dimas are wanted.
The free event runs from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and is for ages 10, 11, 12 and 13.
Limited to the first 300 athletes, the event will feature awards and prizes, youth football scholarships and food.
For more information and/or to register, contact 909-993-3363 or www.claremontjaafc.com or www.emspeedtraining.com
Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College are presenting comedian Demetri Martin at 8 p.m. March 1 at Bridges Auditorium.
Martin, known for his Comedy Central sketch comedy show "Important Things with Demetri Martin," has been a frequent contributor to "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart and is known for his comedy specials including 2007's "Demetri Martin. Person."
Tickets are $15 for students with Claremont Colleges identification or $27 for general admission.
The auditorium is at 450 N. College Way.
Tickets can be purchased through the auditorium box office from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or calling 909-621-8032.
Tickets are also available through www.ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000.
Considered one of the top collegiate men's choruses in the country, the 141-year-old Virginia Glee Club from the University of Virginia, will perform March 7 at Bridges Hall of Music.
The free concert in collaboration with Pomona College's Men's Blue and White will take place at 8:15 p.m. at Bridges, 150 E. 4th St.
Glee Club classis, University of Virginia songs, sacred music, Glee Club classics, spirituals and folk songs will be performed.
Featured composers include Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Biebl and more.
For more information, head to www.virginiagleeclub.org and www.hoosonline.virginia.edu/gleeclub.
Rebecca Walker, considered a founder of third-wave feminism and named as one of Time Magazine's "50 Future Leaders of America," will discuss "Black Cool: Language of Survival, Survival of Language" at 4:15 p.m. Thursday inside Crookshank Hall Room 108, 140 W. Sixth St.
The talk is in connection with the just released "Black Cool - One Thousand Streams of Blackness" book she edited.
Contributors to the book include feminist scholar bell hooks and MacArthur winner and artist Kara Walker.
Walker has previously written "One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love" in 2010 and she was a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine.
For more information, contact vthomas@pomona.edu.
Here's the exact wording Kiplinger's Best Values in Private colleges used in dropping Claremont McKenna College from its list because the college gave phony SAT scores.
UPDATE: Kiplinger's has learned that Claremont McKenna College unfairly earned its place as 18th-ranked private liberal arts college in our college rankings by reporting inflated SAT scores. We have dropped the college from our 2011-12 rankings of best values in liberal arts colleges and moved schools 19-100 up one slot. Bennington College has been added to the top 100. For more information, see http://www.claremontportside.com/cmc-office-of-admission-cheated-on-sats/
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Comedian Samuel Comroe, who has Tourette's Syndrome, will perform this weekend at Flappers Comedy Club.
Comroe, who has performed at Pasadena's The IceHouse and Los Angeles venues the Laugh Factor and The Comedy Store, discusses his trials and tribulations about living with Tourette's Syndrome during his act.
He will perform at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Flappers Comedy Club.
Host is comedian Dusty Rhoads along with comedians Adam Feuerberg and Jesse Popp.
Tickets are $17. There is a two-drink minimum.
Flappers Comedy is at The Packing House, 532 W. First St., Unit 218.
For more information, call 818-845-9721 or www.flapperscomedy.com
The Claremont City Council is looking for input on its 2012-14 budget and is holding interactive community workshops on Feb. 6 and Feb. 13.
The first workshop takes place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Blaidell Community Center, 440 S. College Ave.
The second workshop takes place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd.
The second workshop takes place at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd.
An online budget participation tool will be available at www.ci.claremont.ca.us from Feb. 7 through March 4.
The city council will review a report on the workshop results and give a budget update at 6:30 p.m. March 27 at City Hall, 207 N. Harvard Ave.
The Richard Hibbard Auto Center will host its second annual American Red Cross Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
A free barbeque lunch will be held for blood donors and to anyone bringing their vehicle in for service.
The auto center, at 191 S. Indian Hill Blvd., will showcase the Wheego line of electric vehicles for test drives, according to the news release.
The auto center, at 191 S. Indian Hill Blvd., will showcase the Wheego line of electric vehicles for test drives, according to the news release.
For more information, contact the auto center at 909-624-4541 or go to www.richardhibbardautocenter.com.
The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works and the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts will host a household hazardous waste and E-waste roundup Saturday.
The roundup takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the city of Claremont Corporate Yard, 1616 Monte Vista Ave.
According to a city news release, the one-day, drive-through event is open to all residents of Los Angeles County.
There is a transportation limit of 125 pounds or 15 gallons of hazardous waste per trip per vehicle.
For more information, contact 1-888-CLEAN-LA or head to the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works website at www.ladpw.org.
The Claremont Unified School District selected the Laguna Beach firm David Long and Associates to select its next superintendent on Monday in a special session meeting at the district offices.
"We limit the number of searches we are working on," said David Long representatives William Diedrich. "And we don't recruit a person we've placed."
District board members met with Rosemont, Ill. search firm, Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, but they were not selected.
David Long representatives Diedrich and Patricia Novotney met with board and said the fee to conduct the search was $23,450 but school officials said the fee would be closer to $30,000 similar to the HYA
proposal.
proposal.
Another firm, the Cosca Group, dropped out of the meeting to select the superintendent.
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