'Tis the season: December 2011 Archives

Is your living room covered with needles? If so, it might be time to get rid of that Christmas tree.

Burrtec Waste will collect them on collection day through Jan. 10. Leave the tree on the curb and don't forget to remove all ornaments and lights.

Information: 909-987-3717

Happy holidays AND Merry Christmas!

How's that for covering my bases?

Wishing merry readers a wonderful holiday. May Santa bring you all that you deserve.

The city's newest restaurant, Ra Pour, serves up dishes created by executive chef Greg Stillman, formerly of Los Angeles' famed Patina. For Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, the Victoria Gardens restaurant will offer Stillman's prix fixe menus for $39 and $49 respectively.

Christmas Eve menu
Peppermint eggnog shooter
Gougeres
Choice of: Apple and parsnip soup, Hiramasa crudo
Choice of: Honey-roasted ham, roasted beef prime rib
Loup de mer
Choice of: Warm persimmon cake, chocolate ganache, sticky toffee pudding

New Year's Eve menu
Beet spheres with lemon ice
Choice of: Chestnut agnolotti, Bigeye tuna
Choice of: Bacon-crusted Loch Duart salmon, Roasted hand-carved New York strip steak
Choice of: Satsuma mandarin sorbet, chocolate fondant

Information: 909-899-7999

 

Assemblyman Mike Morrell will host an open house tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. at his office, 10604 Trademark Parkway Suite 308. Bring an unwrapped toy for the toy drive benefiting the Children's Fund of San Bernardino.

Information: 909-466-9096

Here's another business participating in the Toys for Tots drive. Universal Surveillance Systems, 11172 Elm Ave, has a toy drop-off site for the Marine Corps Reserves program. New and unwrapped toys will be collected 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday from now until Dec. 19.

A couple of community groups are selling See's candy as a fundraiser.

The Assistance League of the Foothill Communities, 8593 Archibald Ave., will sell the candy through Christmas Eve. The nonprofit is open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day but on Christmas Eve, they will close 3 p.m. Information: 909-484-1215

Over at the JCPenney furniture outlet, on Haven and Arrow, the Rancho Cucamonga Kiwanis Club will sell See's candy from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday through Christmas Eve. Information: 909-660-0951

 

Charter school Operation New Hope will host a toy drive to benefit the less fortunate children in the community. Drop off any new and unwrapped toy appropriate for youth 18 years or younger to the Rancho Cucamonga Family Resource Center, 9791 Arrow Route, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 13.

Toys can also be dropped off at the Operation New Hope campus before 9 a.m. Dec. 16 at 8520 Archibald Ave. Building 20 Suite A.  

Supervisor Janice Rutherford and Sen. Bob Dutton will host a holiday open house at their offices tomorrow from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served and the Department of Veterans Affairs will collect gift cards to be donated to U.S. troops and their families.

Rutherford's office is on 8575 Haven Ave., Suite 110. Dutton's office is on 8577 Haven Ave., Suite 210.