Friday's column has items on a traveler who flew into the wrong Ontario and the 40th anniversary of Glendora's Donut Man, as well as cultural notes and a few vignettes from around the valley,

Pho N Mor, 3233 Grand Ave. (at Peyton), Chino Hills

The Albertsons center in Chino Hills reflects the city's growing Asian population: There are Japanese, Chinese and Korean restaurants and a foot massage business, and now there's Pho N Mor, which has Vietnamese food and opened in late 2011. I haven't done a comprehensive survey, but there may be only one other Vietnamese restaurant in Chino Hills.

I had lunch at Pho N Mor recently with a friend. It's decorated in modern style, making the most of a small space, and surrounded by windows on two sides, letting in plenty of natural light. Service was friendly and many tables were occupied.

It was a hot day and I wasn't in the mood for a bowl of pho, the popular Vietnamese soup, so I opted for broken rice with barbecued pork ($6.75, pictured), plus a mango smoothie ($3.25). My friend opted for pad Thai with chicken ($8).

I liked my dish, but they used regular rice, not the variety known as broken rice. The mango smoothie was a mango freeze, made with crushed ice, not milk. The pad Thai looked good, but of course, that's Thai, not Vietnamese.

So, a mixed verdict: As a sort of entry-level Vietnamese experience, this was fine, but aficionados would probably want to head to Diamond Bar, Chino or Pomona.

Two readers, Jaime and Don, separately told me a CiCi's Pizza commercial was filmed in downtown Pomona, Don after observing the filming in January and Jaime after watching the finished product on TV weeks later. I'd never heard of CiCi's Pizza and barely watch TV anyway, so this news didn't do much for me.

But eventually I decided to look for the commercial online. It's clearly in downtown Pomona. As one commenter says on YouTube: "I saw this being filmed. We were wondering why a pig was hanging out of the sunroof and window. They filmed all day. It was at 3rd and Main in Pomona CA."

You can see the full commercial here, but all the Pomona stuff is in the embedded video above. So now I sort of know what CiCi's Pizza is, but I still don't think I've ever seen one.

Wednesday's column is about the St. Peter and St. Paul Ladies Bowling League, which ended its 40th season at a crossroads due to dwindling membership.

Above is Lucy Herber. In a trivia note, this was the first time I ever managed to get a rolled bowling ball in a photo with my pokey point-and-shoot (which lags behind the action by a second). Thankfully Herber, 77, doesn't bowl too quickly.

On Saturday afternoon I attended journalist Gustavo Arellano's talk at Upland's Carnegie Cultural Center, the repurposed original library (after lunch at Molly's Souper across the street). About 100 people attended the talk.

Arellano, author of the new book "Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America," traced the history of Mexican food in the United States. Did you know salsa has outsold ketchup for 20 years? That was one of the memorable factoids.

He ran out of books to sell long before the line ended and instead presold a few, which he promised to sign and mail to the customers. I had him sign my copy of "Orange County: A Personal History." While I was in line, one woman had me sign a copy of my Friday column about Arellano, which she'd already had him sign. Another had me pose for a photo with her. Ego-wise, I made out all right.

(I assumed the librarians took Arellano out for dinner afterward, but no. "Sadly, we encouraged him to go to Bakers. He had never been there. But we weren't able to go with," principal librarian Shawn Townsend reports.)

That evening, I went to the Ebell Club building in Pomona for a dinner for Pilgrim Congregational Church's 125th anniversary. I was seated by Charles Phoenix, which was a treat. He gave a well-received and amusing slide show about Pomona Valley iconic buildings. It was a neat event and I got to meet some new people and say hello to some longtime friends.

So, not a bad Saturday at all. Hope you enjoyed yours.

Our RC Now blogger Wendy Leung used to print the occasional email or voice mail transcript of a reader comment under the heading "Your two cents." What the heck, I'll try it too. This was an emailed comment from a Lemon Festival official about my column last Wednesday on an Upland council meeting. The email was also sent to 20 other people, many of them at City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce or Fairplex, which certainly put me in distinguished company.

"Dear Mr. Allen;

"Mark Hill
Founder Upland Lemon Festival"

Personally I think Mark read more into what I wrote than was there. I never said anything about "safety," for instance, and don't believe I cast anybody in a "villainous role." (I also doubt that what I wrote sold any newspapers, although the idea that I did is flattering.) But what do you think? Was my commentary misleading or unfair?