The City Council last week unanimously passed an upgrade of security cameras in the city.
The project will bring all video cameras in the city under one system. Images will be transmitted to the Police Department.
The city will use money from the Community Orientated Police Services technology grant program to buy software for the video camera system for $244,682.
According to Councilman Peter Yao in an e-mail: "The Claremont Video project is a video camera system with multiple cameras mounted on a police vehicle. As the vehicle is driven down a street, parking lot, etc., it reads and enters license plate numbers into a computer. The computer compares the plate number with a state database and instantly identifies problem vehicles (parking tickets, outstanding warrants, stolen vehicle).
"The officer in charge can impound the vehicle, wait and arrest the driver, boot clamp the tires, etc.
"Other features include 'remembering' where a vehicle was previously detected and if the vehicle was newly reported as having been involved in a crime, officers may look for the suspect at previous known parked sites."
An earlier staff report said the system "shall not be used to arbitrarily view citizens, nor shall cameras be utilized to invade the privacy of anyone in a non-public place."
The video systems will look over:
• Wilderness Park
• city yards
• Oak Park Cemetery
• Metrolink parking lot and platform
• Claremont High School
• Cahuilla Park
• City Hall
• the downtown parking structure
• Village Plaza
• the Police Department's jail, communications and interview room
• Alexander Hughes Community Center.
The 14th annual SCAMfest, formerly the Southern California A Cappella Music Festival, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Pomona College.
Representing the Claremont Colleges are the Claremont Shades, Women's Blue and White, Men's Blue and White, MoodSwing, Midnight Echo, After School Specials, Kosher Chords.
Visiting groups include the UCLA ScatterTones, USC's SoCal Vocals and USC Reverse Osmosis.
In 2006, the Claremont Shades released its latest album, "Random Play," and were on two a cappella compilation CDs.
In 2006, they were nominated to the International Championship of A Cappella Berkeley competition.
Organizers expect more than 1,000 people for the event. Tickets are $8 at the door.
SCAMfest will be held at Bridges Auditorium, 450 N. College Way.
Information: Claremont Shades at claremontshades@ gmail.com or visit www.claremont.edu/org/shades.
Claremont High School's hip-hop team Wolfgang will host the second annual Battle of the Beat at 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Claremont Club.
The event will take place in the center court grand pavilion and feature dance, hip-hop, cheer and drum lines from Claremont High School and El Roble Intermediate School.
The Claremont High School varsity football team will also put together a hip-hop dance performance.
According to a news release, "Battle of the Beat" is best described as spirit teams performing against one another to determine which has the loudest cheering section and the most spirit.
Each team will be performing two routines in a tournament format. To determine a winner, a professional noise meter will be used.
Winning teams will earn $1,000 in prize money.
Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door. They are available in the main office at Claremont High, El Roble and at the Claremont Club, 1777 Monte Vista Ave.
Poet Matthea Harvey will have a free public reading today at 6 p.m. at the Claremont Public Library at 208 N. Harvard Ave.
Harvey will also have a free reading at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Hip Kitty, 502 W. First St.
The events are open to everyone.
State Sen. Bob Huff, R-Walnut, will address the University Club of Claremont at noon Tuesday in the Padua Room of the Alexander Hughes Community Center.
Huff, who represents District 29, which includes Claremont, is a former mayor of Diamond Bar. From 2004 to 2008, he represented the 60th Assembly District. He was elected to the Senate in 2008.
Huff, whose professional and business experience has been in the agricultural industry, is a Republican caucus chairman and vice chairman of the San Gabriel Valley Caucus.
He is vice chairman of the Education and Transportation and Housing Committees and is a member of the Budget, Public Safety
and Natural Resources and Water committees.The meeting is open to the public. The center is at 1700 Danbury Road.
A full buffet lunch at 11:45 a.m. is available for $12, but for those who only want dessert and coffee the fee is $5. It's free for just the program.
Other University Club programs to come:
• Donald Gould, adjunct faculty member in finance at the Drucker School of Management, speaking on "Bernard Madoff: Anatomy of a Fraud" at noon on Nov. 17.
• Bill Forti, a member who will have attended three days of briefings from the State and Defense departments and the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., speaking on "Barack Obama's Foreign Policy" at noon on Nov. 24.
Both programs will be held in the Hughes Center.
"Zen: Japanese Paintings From The Sanso Collection" continues through Dec. 6 at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, 11th Street and Columbia Avenue.
The hours for the collection are from 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
University of Pittsburgh's Mae Smethurst will give a lecture at 4:15 p.m. Thursday comparing Japanese Noh theater to Greek drama at the Clark Humanities Museum.
University of Pittsburgh's Richard Smethurst will discuss Tsukioka Kogyo and his vision of Noh at 8 p.m. at the Clark Humanities Museum.
Information: (909) 607-3397 or www.scrippscollege.edu/williamson-gallery
Luis M. Jaurez, former Three Valleys Municipal board member, was appointed to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District board Wednesday morning.
The seat was vacated Oct. 1 when Alvarez was sentenced to five years in state prison for defrauding the district.
Three Valleys Municipal serves Inland Valley cities, including Claremont, Diamond Bar, La Verne, Pomona and San Dimas.
The other applicants for the seat that represents southern Pomona were Joe Romero, former Pomona police chief and Nancy A. Mataritta, Pomona Unified School District Board of Education candidate.
The seat was vacated Oct. 1 when Alvarez was sentenced to five years in state prison for defrauding the district.
Three Valleys Municipal serves Inland Valley cities, including Claremont, Diamond Bar, La Verne, Pomona and San Dimas.
The other applicants for the seat that represents southern Pomona were Joe Romero, former Pomona police chief and Nancy A. Mataritta, Pomona Unified School District Board of Education candidate.
Looks like photographer Gabriel Fenoy is no longer with the Claremont Courier and there could be questions about what happened exactly from an e-mail sent to my paper and the Courier.
Below is the Courier post and then below that the e-mail.
http://couriercitybeat.blogspot.com/2009/10/staff-changes-at-courier.html
We are sad to report that COURIER staff photographer Gabriel Fenoy is no longer with the paper. Mr. Fenoy started here as an intern in 2005, and has been on staff for the past 3 years. His photographs gave us all a real sense of the people and places in our community. He will be missed, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
In the interim, Davis Barber and on occasion myself, will provide the excellent photography coverage you have come to expect. Mr. Barber has worked at the COURIER before, currently owns a photography and video business, and has taught photojournalism courses at several colleges in the area. You have already seen his images for the CHS homecoming coverage.
We will keep you posted on further developments. You can also email me at pweinberger@claremont-courier.com.
Peter Weinberger, publisher
Then I received this e-mail on Friday night ...
Dissapoint
Mr. Weinberger,
Is there any readers who know more about this?
Below is the Courier post and then below that the e-mail.
http://couriercitybeat.blogspot.com/2009/10/staff-changes-at-courier.html
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Staff changes at the COURIER
We are sad to report that COURIER staff photographer Gabriel Fenoy is no longer with the paper. Mr. Fenoy started here as an intern in 2005, and has been on staff for the past 3 years. His photographs gave us all a real sense of the people and places in our community. He will be missed, and we wish him well in his future endeavors.
In the interim, Davis Barber and on occasion myself, will provide the excellent photography coverage you have come to expect. Mr. Barber has worked at the COURIER before, currently owns a photography and video business, and has taught photojournalism courses at several colleges in the area. You have already seen his images for the CHS homecoming coverage.
We will keep you posted on further developments. You can also email me at pweinberger@claremont-courier.com.
Peter Weinberger, publisher
Then I received this e-mail on Friday night ...
Dissapointed
Mr. Weinberger,
I am sorely dissapointed in your recent dismissal of Mr. Fenoy
from the Claremont Courier staff. While the City Beat blog says that he
will be missed, I have to wonder if that is the truth for you.
In the current economy, to fire a staff photographer who has
chronicled the Claremont Community so well, who exhibits such talent,
and has shown a genuine commitment to the Courier over the past five
years (including his likely unpaid internship) is a shame.
I think that the Courier has lost its heart. You have sold out;
placing advertisement for your graphics company in spaces where photos
and stories should go. Your ability to hide the truth- that Gabriel
Fenoy was let go because of petty office politics- shows your lack of
integrity, even if it just in a blog.
Whatever staff hires Mr. Fenoy in the future will be lucky to have
him, and chances are, you may never find another photographer who
takes that caliber of images.
Sincerely,
sfwIs there any readers who know more about this?
A city council priorities workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The workshop takes place at City Council Chambers, 207 Harvard Ave.
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