October 2015 City of San Dimas Western Days and Music Festival ...

October 2015

City of San Dimas Western Days and Music Festival Coming October 2nd, 3rd and 4th

Fifty-five years ago, the City of San Dimas was incorporated and soon thereafter, Western Days was born. On October 3 and 4, the 48th rendition of this traditional event will take place in San Dimas’ downtown near City Hall, at the corner of Bonita and Walnut – 245 W. Bonita Ave. in San Dimas.

The San Dimas Western Days and Music Festival consists of vari-ous activities for the entire family including free movie night, pan-

cake breakfast, games and rides for the kids, learning activities for the kids, historical demonstrators, food trucks and vendors, beer gar-den, live entertainment, crafters, business and vendor displays, a community parade, Little Miss competition, gold panning, bingo, best dressed dog contest, citrus label and coloring contest, public safety displays, community non-profit displays, military displays, li-brary book sale, and so much more.

SATURDAY: Gates open at 11:00 a.m. with the pre-show starting 1:00 p.m. PRCA Rodeo events start at 2:00 SUNDAY: Gates open at 11:00 a.m., with Challenged Buckaroos Rodeo at 1:00 p.m. PRCA Rodeo events start at 2:00 p.m.

Both days we kick off the PRCA Rodeo with a patriotic grand entry including the LA County Sheriffs' Sky Diving Team landing inside the arena with a giant American Flag. We finish the day with

our most exciting event, Bull Riding. RODEO LOCATION

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Schedule, program and times are subject to change without notice. Free drawing subject to entry rules. Kid’s Fun Zone slides, bull ride, and bouncers are free. Some activities may require a minimal fee to participate. Visit the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce Western Days Information Booth for more in-formation or call 909-592-3818 for additional information.

‘Living Wild’ Wildlife & Landscape Art Show

It’s that time of year when the Festival of Arts presents their ‘Liv-ing Wild’ Wildlife & Landscape Art Show and Sale. This art/cultural/environmental and family-fun event has been a staple in San Dimas Community for 19 years.

Featured in this show are an impressive 21 artists, photographers and sculptors who specialize in creating artworks that depict wildlife and their habitats. Artist will be in attendance and their original art and prints for sale.

This event kicks-off on Friday, at 6 pm, with an opening night recep-tion and dinner. It’s a perfect time to meet the artists, their patrons and Festival board members. Reservations and tickets are required for the dinner and may be purchased at the Festival office.

* Keep your eyes open for our Scavenger Hunt Special event for par-ents and kids. This special program is designed to get you thinking and looking at art in a while new way. Schedule of EventsFriday, October 16, 20155:50 pm Reception & Dinner, Gallery opens.9 pm Gallery closes

Saturday, October 17 (High School Drama performance on Sunday)9 am Gallery opens9 am Student Art Gallery Opens10:45 – 11:45am Plant Rehab 12:00 – 1 pm Art Seminar5 pm Gallery closed

Sunday, October 1810 am Gallery opens10 am Student Art Gallery opens10:15 – 11:15am Planet Rehab1- 2 pm Richard Myer “Play with Clay” workshop3:00 pm Student Art Awards3:30 pm People’s Choice Awards4:00 pm Close of show

The 19th Annual ‘Living Wild’ Landscape and Wildlife Show & Sale begins, Friday, October 16th through Sunday, October 18th, 2015, at the Civic Center Plaza, 245 E. Bonita Avenue, San Dimas. For more information or dinner tickets and reservations please call the Festival office at (909) 588-5374 or email [email protected].

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In addition, we are also bring-ing back the exciting and fun Free Saturday Night Music Festival Dance featuring the Silverado’s for everyone to enjoy. There is also a new Sharp Shooter Photo Contest which has been added this year. For all event details visit www.sandimaschamber.com for the lat-est news.

Don’t miss out on this thrilling event. Join the fun and enjoy the activities, music, and games.

Photos courtesy of James McCants

Photos courtesy of James McCants

Cal Poly Pumpkin Festival to Feature New AttractionsTickets Available Now at Farm Store and Online for October Event

The annual Pumpkin Festival is returning to Cal Poly Pomona this fall with all new attractions, games and entertainment.

Among the new attractions are a new “Ag Discovery Lane” with free exhibits, displays and demonstrations from farmers and growers that are entertaining and educational. It will include a chil-dren’s activity zone with fun stuff for the younger ones, like squash tunnels and a hay pyramid.

In addition, the corn maze will now incorporate a treasure hunt. A stage centered on the gazebo will also feature pumpkin-themed contests throughout the festival, including pie eating, pumpkin carving, seed spitting and pump-kin costume contest for kids 2 and under. And, of course, visitors can choose from 100,000 pumpkins in the festival’s patch.

“We want the Pumpkin Festi-val to have the theme of ‘Celebrat-ing California Agriculture,’ help-ing families discover agriculture in fun and exciting ways,” says Craig Walters, event director. “To do that, we’ve incorporated some attractions from traditional ag-riculture fairs and some that are educational.”

The 23rd annual Pumpkin Festival will take place on the

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Award-winning artist, Keith Batcheller, worked for 30 years as an illustrator with the top tier clients such as Disney, Sea World, Mattel, and the NFL. However, when the recession came to a grinding halt in 2008, he, along with most everyone else, accessed his future and redefined his cre-ative endeavors from illustration to fine arts.

With his arsenal of skills and experience, Keith transitioned into painting wildlife art and dis-covered a new passion and free-

dom from his work that he never experienced before. He explains, “As an illustrator, I work for the client. But in fine arts, painting wildlife and landscapes is so free-ing and rewarding.”

Keith likes to paint all sorts of mammals but they must be “handsome and elegant” so that he does not grow bored while painting them for long, arduous hours. Keith seeks to understand the animal, first by studying how it might pose; then he begins to create an active ‘visual story’. Keith explains, “The beauty and character of the animal is impor-tant to the overall picture but I begin to wonder how the animal feels in different situations be-cause I must be able to tell a story in the painting.” Sometimes this story is as simple as painting the animal’s inquisitive stare.

It appears that Keith has al-ways been drawing. He grew up in Covina and while in elemen-tary school, Keith began to draw the cartoon characters from The Flintstones. He was so successful at it that he was able to charge his friends .25 cents for each drawing they commissioned. By the time Keith was in junior high school, he had won $25.00 in an art con-test for his watercolors. As a teen-ager at Covina High, Keith never

stopped painting and merged it with his love of sports by painting baseball heroes. He entered Mt Sac to develop a portfolio strong enough to win him acceptance into the Art Center; College of De-sign. All the while Keith worked and honed in his skills with his first commercial art job as a por-trait artist at Disneyland. Work-ing there allowed him to pay for his tuition to the Art Center!

As a graduate student with honors from Art Center, Keith was fortunate to study and forge friendships with the best and most acclaimed illustrators of this generation. These masters include: Bob Peak, Mark English, Bernie Fuchs, and Bob Heindel. While he continues to work with major clients in advertising, pub-lishing and the movie industry, he also gives back to his students while teaching painting and illus-tration at Mount Sac.

In Keith’s busy life as an art-ist, he remains dedicated to his passion of wildlife, landscapes and western arts. His fine art work is featured in major galler-ies and shows throughout the United States such as: The Cattle-man’s Western Art Show, Paso Robles, CA; Cheyenne Museum Show, WY; Bosque Art Classic and Center, Clifton; MT; Oyster Club Show, Tucson, AZ; Seaside Gallery/Slo Poke Western Show, Pismo Beach, CA.

Keith Batcheller believes that an artist never stops learning or challenging oneself. Most impor-tant, Keith knows how lucky he is to do what he does and “feels so very, very blessed.”

Come and see Keith and his new work at the Festival of Arts Wildlife & Landscape show. For more information on Keith look at www.keithbatcheller.comor http://artofkeithbatcheller.blog spot.com

Spot light Technique:Scratchboard by Sue Kroll

Remember when you were a kid and you colored on a piece of paper then covered it with black paint. Once the paper dried, you scratched the black surface off with a pin and made some pretty interesting art!

Today, scratchboard is consid-ered a fine art form with clubs, societies, and organizations up-lifting this medium to new levels of sophistication. Sue Kroll, one of the featured artists in Wildlife and Landscape show, discusses how Scratchboard art is achieved today. She states, “Scratchboard is an old art form that is re-emerg-ing as Fine Art. Initially it was just scratches into rocks and clay tablets. Over the centuries it de-veloped into a style of engraving for printing, such as newspaper illustrations in the early 1900s, up to the style you now see in galler-ies and shows.”

Sue expands her thoughts on techniques, “Today (the Scratch-board) is a flat surface such as pa-

per, or a thin board, that is coated with a thin layer of white clay then covered in ink. A design is ‘etched’ or scratched through the ink exposing the white clay under-neath. If you wish to add color it is done as washes as you continue to scratch, or all at once when it is finished.”

For more information, come and visit Sue as she demonstrates her scratchboard techniques dur-ing the Wildlife & Landscape show. Also visit, http://sues-art.com, http://suekroll.blogspot.com or, visit the Scratchboard Society at http://scratchboardsociety.com

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JR Remembers San Dimasby Linda Nelson, San Dimas Historical Society

Hello .... I’m JR! This was my introduction to one of San Dimas’ very interesting citizens. Sitting on his screened front porch in the home that his grandfather Robert built in 1908 we talked about his memories of San Dimas. This is his story.

“Those two big palm trees in my front yard were planted by my grandfather in 1925. Over there is the Walker House and over there is where the Troutman family lived in a two story home across the street. As a young child I remember that the Troutman family loved to go fishing. As I recall, one week when the family was away a man who was renting an upstairs room killed himself in the home. It cause quite a stir in the neighborhood, maybe in the town. I think this was the home of Leslie and Eleanor Troutman and I don’t know what became of their family.

I was born in Pomona (the nearest hospital at that time) when my parents lived in the 100 block of west Second Street. When WW2 began my family had blackout curtains to keep lights from attracting enemy planes. I have fond memories of attending the San Dimas Grammar School. Some of my best friends lived in the Mexican Colony - just behind the school. I remember visiting their homes and being struck by the fact that, while their floors were made of hard-packed dirt, they were kept swept, neat and as clean as was my own home! My school friends and I would often visit the Drug Store, downtown on Bonita Avenue, where they served the best 25¢ malts I ever tasted!

My father moved our family from Second Street to a ranch at Gladstone and Lone Hill, in the area where Costco is now. I hated to leave my friends from Gram-mar School and Second Street, but made new friends out at the ranches. There were lots of lemon and orange trees in the area and some avocado trees. One little gal loved to ride her pony over to our place. I didn’t have a pony, but I had a burro named Whirlygig. We would race each other and Whirlygig would put on a bit of speed when her pony was in the lead. Once when we were racing through the groves I broke 5 ribs when Whirlygig dove through a tree! I guess by today’s standards our family was poor, but we al-ways had everything we needed.

My Dad taught me how to shoot a rifle and I could always get a deer from South Hills up at the end of Sunflower Avenue. He passed away when I was only 12, but I still remember everything he taught me!

We raised rabbits, goats, sheep

and a few cows. Our family al-ways had about 3,000 rabbits and markets kept a steady order for our stock. Across Lone Hill, where the Chevron Station is, was Mar-vin’s Ranch. They had thousands of chickens and they seemed to stretch all the way to where Glad-stone Elementary School is now.

Across Lone Hill, where Home Depot is now, there was a Japa-nese family that operated a com-mercial flower-growing business. They had beautiful flowers grow-ing all over that corner - all the way north to the railroad tracks. Near the tracks was a water res-ervoir or pond. I don’t know if it was maintained by the Japanese family, but we kids liked to fish in it for Bluegill. One day I noticed that no one was tending the flow-ers. My father, who also had a job at the Los Angeles County Fair-grounds told me that the flower grower family had been taken away to a concentration camp at the fairgrounds. I remember folks talking about a rumor that the flower growing family had secret radio broadcasting equipment set in a shack that they used to send reports back to Japan, but I never saw it myself.”

(Linda’s note: I remember see-ing the vacant property on the northwest corner of Gladstone and Lone Hill and wondering what had been there before Home De-pot, Best Buy and the other stores were built. Starting on May 9th, 1942, Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced to abandon their homes and businesses. Such rumors of subversion were often used as a way to allow people to overlook the injustice done to their fellow citizens. The “temporary de-tention camp” or “assembly center” in Pomona reached a peak popu-lation of 5,434 imprisoned Ameri-cans before closing on August 24, 1942. Most San Dimas and other local residents were transferred to Heart Mountain in Wyoming. Charles Kishimoto, 89, of San Di-mas, was interviewed about his experience in 2005 by the Seattle Times. The site remained in use for the duration of the war, first housing U.S. troops, and then Ger-man and Italian prisoners of war. Today, the site serves today as the Fairplex parking lot. There is no plaque or other marker to recog-nize the former “assembly center”.)

“On the other corner, where the Toyota dealership is now, was a huge gravel mine. Gravel from this mine, or pit, was in such de-mand that the railroad built a special spur line to enable cars to load gravel at the site. I remem-ber that the mine owner was of Greek ancestry and a recent vet-

eran of fighting in the war. His family lived in railroad box cars that had been converted into liv-ing quarters. It was great! Once, during the war, the army moved a lot of equipment down Gladstone toward Los Angeles. It took more than 2½ hours for the caravan of vehicles to pass through. Shortly thereafter the Army held tank maneuvers in the San Dimas gravel pit and us kids climbed all over the tanks once the soldiers had gone. This experience had a long-lasting impact on my life and I later joined the California National Guard, serving for 8 years and leaving as a Sergeant and tank commander. I liked the mechanisms of the tanks and made my living as a precision ma-chinist.”

“After graduating from Bonita High School I was looking for a job – along with the rest of my class. I heard talk of a new type of road being built that would pass close to San Dimas. They called it a “Freeway” and it would be built from Los Angeles clear to San Bernardino. This was I-10 and when I went to the construction office they told me that they were looking for an agile young man to work as a “guinea hopper”. I didn’t know what that was, but I came to love the job amid all of the big construction machines.”

“I remember riding the Red Car from San Dimas to Temple City, changing to the car to Los Angeles and am hopeful that the new Metrolink will have a station in San Dimas.

Probably one of the most excit-ing events in our neighborhood oc-curred on July 8th 1956, just east of our ranch, on Allen Avenue, over where Milton Frame had a dairy. That was the day that an Air Force F-86 Sabre Jet crashed in the street near the dairy at 210 West Allen in San Dimas.”

“Today I’m retired. I enjoy liv-ing in my grandfather’s home that he built in San Dimas in 1908. I like our town’s Western heritage and I spend as much time in the great outdoors as my health will allow. It is great to see that the San Dimas Historical Society has a gift shop in the Walker House and I have some items that I’d like to see displayed there!”

Linda’s Note: Does anyone re-member what JR remembers? Are the families of Charles Kishi-moto or Leslie and Eleanor Trout-man still in the area? Where were you during this time? Did your grandparents live in San Dimas? Do you have any early photos of San Dimas? What do you remem-ber about your early years in our town? I’d like to hear your story! Give me a call or email. (909) 592-1322 or LNelsoncpa at aol.com. —


News from the Bonita Unified School DistrictSuperintendent’s Message

Grow Your MindsetThe first portion of our school

year has been remarkable. I firmly believe an integral part of our early success has been the manner in which students and staff members have approached challenging endeavors. Un-derstanding and utilizing the proper attitude or mindset with challenges during the months ahead will help us experience continued progress.

It brings me joy when I see a student with a look of “I love a challenge” or “I was hoping this would stretch my think-ing” on his or her face. I find it so gratifying when a staff mem-ber shares with a colleague, “I am curious about learning how I can incorporate more technol-ogy into my classroom routines” or “I am bound and determined to work through obstacles with

this new lesson to get better re-sults.”

These examples illustrate a growth mindset that is based on the belief that your basic abili-ties are things you can cultivate through your ongoing efforts. It is the belief that everyone can change and grow through hard work and persistence. This is far different than believing that your abilities and skills are carved in stone. In other words, taking the fixed mindset approach is counter productive and places more emphasis on if you succeed or fail, look smart or dumb, or will be accepted or rejected.

The Bonita Unified School District continues to maintain an outstanding reputation as we adhere to our mission of pro-viding a comprehensive learn-ing environment for all students that will shape character, nur-ture intellect, and build skills for success in an ever-changing world. Moreover, I want to en-courage parents, community members, and teachers to en-gage in meaningful conversa-tions with students about how they can get smarter by tapping into the growth mindset and be-lieving that success is about the learning that takes place daily in our classrooms throughout the District.

Sincerely,

Kurt MaddenSuperintendent of Schools

Kurt Madden

District sends 75 to Educational Technology Conference in Covina

Soroptimists Sponsors Back to School Shopping for Students in Need

The San Dimas/La Verne chapter of Soroptimist Inter-national sponsored a shopping spree at Target in La Verne on September 15 to purchase back to school clothes for 100 students in need.

Soroptimist International im-proves the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empower-ment. Over the last 27 years The San Dimas/La Verne club has provided scholarships for high school seniors, teacher grants to enhance learning opportunities in the classroom, financial sup-port for San Dimas Library and the La Verne Library Literacy Outreach Program, and dressed over a thousand children in the community for back to school.

LVH Selected as Golden Bell Finalist

The California School Board Association (CSBA) has select-ed La Verne Heights Elemen-tary School as a finalist for the 2015 Golden Bell Awards. The school’s Accelerated Reader (AR) program attracted the Board’s attention.

“The AR program at LVH has seen tremendous success, cul-minating in many national hon-ors,” Principal Patrick McKee wrote in the award application. During the last couple of school years, Renaissance Learning, the parent organization for AR, has recognized all of the teach-ers, the library, and the school as a whole for outstanding achieve-ment. “LVH is the only school in the Bonita Unified School District to have eighteen staff members honored as Empow-ered Educators, which is also the highest number of staff mem-bers to be recognized for any school in the State of California,” McKee continued. “More impor-tantly, though, our students are achieving.”

In 2012-2013, only 80% of the students were achieving 85% or higher on their quizzes, which has increased to 91.4% in 2014-2015. In addition, the number of books read as a school for the year has increased from 55,462 to 64,109.

The school had an on-site visit from the CSBA. Final selections for Golden Bell Awards will be announced at a luncheon in San Diego in early December. Con-gratulations, La Verne Heights!

Schools in the Spotlight

Gladstone Elementary School

Pride Stride Fundraiser Underway

Campus Happenings

Gladstone’s Back to School Night was Wednesday, August 26, which was a wonderful start to the year as parents got to visit classrooms and get a taste of what their students will accomplish this school year.

The PTA sponsored an ice cream social on Friday, August 28, where more than 200 people

La Verne Heights Elementary SchoolReading, Reading, Reading

La Verne Heights Elementary School kicked off the school year on August 28 with the annual Renaissance Rally. Students cel-ebrated reaching their summer reading goals, and set new goals for 2015-2016. Over 160 students received Be a Star Awards and

La Verne Day at the Los Angeles County Fair

Campus Improvements Include a New Mural

La Verne Heights Elementary School alumni Zoe and Allie Tucker pose in front of the school’s new mural—a gift from the Class of 2015.

Bonita Unified School Dis-trict is sponsoring the registra-tion fee for 75 attendees from all of the District’s 13 schools to attend the San Gabriel Valley CUE Tech Fair on October 17. This event is an educational technology conference orga-nized by the SGVCUE affiliate. CUE, which originally stood for Computer Using Educators, inspires innovative learners by fostering community, personal-izing learning, infusing tech-nology, developing leadership, and advocating educational op-portunities for all.

“This local opportunity al-lows us to send a large group to participate in professional development,” Director of Edu-cational Technology Kris Bo-neman said. “It continues the learning that was kicked off at Bonita Educational Technology Adventure 2015, or BETA15, an all-District technology training before the school year started.”

Bonita is participating in the San Gabriel Valley CUE Tech Fair in order to continue the professional development in educational technology throughout the District. “The influx of new technology into our classrooms is offering ad-ditional opportunities for the integration of technology and transformation of classroom experience,” Boneman contin-ued. “Technology provides an opportunity to scaffold and dif-ferentiate the learning of our students to meet their individ-ual needs.”

In order to take full advan-tage of these new tools, the District will concentrate efforts into learning the pedagogical changes that must take place in the classroom. Opportunities to participate in this professional development and others that focus on the integration of tech-nology are critical to the teach-ers and students being success-ful with the new tools.

were honored by librarian Sarina Bellomo, Principal Patrick McK-ee, and the school mascot Dandy Lion. As a part of their College Bound Accelerated Reader pro-gram, each classroom also shared a college cheer for the university their classroom adopted.

On September 10, 488 students and their teachers participated in their annual trip to La Verne Day at the Los Angeles County Fair. La Verne Heights Student Coun-

cil participated in the La Verne-San Dimas Days Parade by riding on a float designed by the ASB students, their families, and advi-sor Lauren Konrad.

Thanks to the generous dona-tion from the La Verne Heights PTA and the support of the Boni-ta Unified Facilities Department, the make-over of the front of the school became complete. A new walkway and seating area was added, as well as drought friendly landscaping that mirrors that of the original California missions.

The school also saw the addition of new signage, playground fencing, and a new portable classroom. The most significant improve-ment seen at La Verne Heights is the new mural on the playground. The mural was donated by the Class of 2015 and features the La Verne Heights logo.

The Annual Pride Stride fund-raiser occurred on September 30, but at the time of this writing, students had collected almost $5,000 in donations during the first week of the fundraiser. The overall goal is $40,000, which will help the school purchase tech-nological devices, fund field trips

and special assemblies, and pay for campus beautification projects. Teachers Tracy Pang and Kris-tina Vitale organized the event this year alongside the PTA. This year’s theme is “A Walk on the Wildside!” If you wish to make a donation, visit http://gl.bonita.k12.ca.us/ or visit the school.

gathered to celebrate the begin-ning of the school year. Thanks to PTA for sponsoring this fun event!

Students in grades 1-5 visited the LA County Fair on September 25, where they learned about agri-culture and animals in California with hands-on activities. Special thanks to the dozens of parents who chaperoned our Griffins throughout the day.


News from the Bonita Unified School DistrictEkstrand Elementary School

Ekstrand Elementary School Welcomes Five New Teachers

Ekstrand Elementary School welcomes 5 new teachers. From left to right: Stephanie Waterman, Ronalea Freeth, Jeremy Gibbons,

Brittany Adams and Kendall Kraiss.

Annual Walk-A-Thon Raises Funds for Campus BeautificationOn October 8, 2015, the

students, staff and parents of Ekstrand Elementary School will come together for the annual Walk-A-Thon to raise funds for

technology, the library, and cam-pus beautification. While families raise money for the cause, the school is also seeking donations from local businesses.

“We have set a goal of $10,000—support from local busi-nesses would make such a differ-ence in reaching that goal,” Prin-cipal Lucinda Newton said. “We are working toward a 1:1 student to technological device ratio, and Walk-A-Thon funds will help us get there. We also want to pur-chase new books for our library and complete some beautification projects for our campus.”

With a $75 donation, business donors will have a direct link to

Anticipating a blast: Ekstrand Elementary School held a kickoff event on September 1 for the Annual Walk-A-Thon on October 8.

Teachers and students participated in water balloon toss and hula hoop contests. Pictured left to right: Teachers Roberta Negrette,

Kendall Kraiss, Stephanie Waterman, Chelsea Wyrick, Diana Di Ioli, and Diona Johnson.

San Dimas High School Recognizing Positive Behavior at San Dimas High SchoolSan Dimas High School

launched a Positive Behavior In-terventions and Supports (PBIS) program last school year. PBIS is a system of proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate behavior to maintain a positive school environment.

“Rather than only punishing bad behavior, we feel that it is im-portant to recognize and reward good behavior,” Principal Michael

Kelly said. The school has adopted a Code

of Conduct that includes Respect, Responsibility, and being Ready to Learn. When a staff member recognizes a student following the Code of Conduct, they assign a merit. Students that have been given a merit are put into a draw-ing for prizes, many of which have been donated by community lead-ers and business owners.

Jeremy Gibbons recently moved from the Bay Area, having taught for 14 years in Cuper-tino. He is energetic and excited to be at Ekstrand, and can’t wait to get the fitness program up and running at full speed. He’s an avid tennis player, bowler, and loves spending time with his wife (also a teacher) and his two daughters, ages 5 and 2. Brittany Adams is excited about joining the Ekstrand team and fulfilling a lifelong calling to teach. She has a Master of Arts in Digital Teaching and Learn-ing and is passionate about students utilizing technology to create and contribute instead

of to consume. She worked in the District previously as a long term substitute for fifth grade and kindergarten at a neighbor-ing school. Brittany lives with her husband and two dogs.

Kendall Kraiss is new to the Ekstrand team as she begins her first year teaching. Af-ter growing up in Huntington Beach, she made her way to the University of La Verne where she played volleyball and track and field. She developed her love for teaching and met her fiancé there. She loves spend-ing time outside, but most of the time you will find her in the classroom planning new and ex-

citing lessons for her 5th grad-ers!

Ronalea Freeth attended Bo-nita Unified schools from kin-dergarten to high school and is a proud Saint. She graduated from Washington State Uni-versity with her bachelors in Business Administration and has since earned her Master’s degree in Special Education and Reading and Literacy. She loves to travel with her husband and spend time with their dogs. Ronalea is thrilled to be a part of the amazing Ekstrand team and looks forward to a wonder-ful year full of learning in first grade.

Stephanie Waterman is a teacher who is passionate about actively engaging students in the learning process. Her first job in Bonita Unified was over twelve years ago, as a Kin-dergarten Instructional Aide. Stephanie lived in Alaska for six years, where she went back to school and obtained her de-gree and teaching credential. She began her teaching career as a third grade teacher in An-chorage, Alaska, and recently taught Transitional Kindergar-ten at Allen Avenue Elemen-tary. This school year, she is thrilled to be starting a new ad-venture teaching first grade at Ekstrand Elementary.

their website from the school’s website with a thank you for being a school supporter. With a $150 donation, business donors will re-ceive a direct link to their website

plus a beach ball attached to the front of the school advertising the business. This will be visible to our community and will reach over 450 families for a full year. With a $250 donation, business donors will receive everything included in the $150 donation thank you, plus the business name listed on the Walk-A-Thon t-shirts provided to students, as well as an opportu-nity on the evening of October 30, 2015, to set-up a Sponsor’s Table at our annual “Pumpkin Night” attended by Ekstrand families.

Donations can be made from http://home.ekstrand.us/ using the PayPal Walkathon link on the right side.

San Dimas High School Garden Project

Students from three Special Education classes at San Dimas High School work together to prep a raised bed for the school’s new garden.

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Brittany Clarke, a senior at San Dimas High School, recently graduated from the Summer Academy of Mathe-matics and Science (SAMS) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. SAMS is a rigorous six-week experience designed to increase the num-ber of outstanding students from diverse backgrounds who pursue education in sci-ence, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines at the nation’s top colleges and universalities. Rising high school juniors and se-niors across the United States apply to the highly competi-tive program, which provides students an opportunity to take courses and complete hands-on research projects with Carnegie Mellon faculty members. Clarke was selected as one of only 2 from Califor-nia from a total of 962 nation-al applicants. Clarke’s project at the camp included design-ing, building and implanting a heart pump.

New Special Education class-es on the SDHS campus have worked together to plan, build, paint, and plant a school gar-den. The Functional Academic Skills Training (FAST) class, the Autism (ASD) class, and Adult Transition class for 18 to 22 year old students each par-ticipated.

Donations from the commu-nity made the garden project possible, providing multiple teaching and learning opportu-nities. Students purchased ma-terials, used tools to build and measure garden boxes, painted,

discovered how seeds grow, ob-served growth of plants, learned what to plant for the season, and harvested and cooked the produce.

“Planning and building a garden was the perfect activ-ity to bring everyone together,” Education Specialist Julie Ste-vens said. “With the support of the SDHS administration and the financial help of a gener-ous donation, the garden is now thriving and students and staff have enjoyed the healthy and delicious vegetables that they have grown.”

CRTA Awards ScholarshipsPomona Valley Division 13,

CA Retired Teachers Association, announces 4 Citrus and MSAC scholarships for the 2015-16 aca-demic year. Students must be in good standing academically in the Teacher Preparation Program and demonstrate financial need.

Nancy Campos, MSAC, will major in Psychology and Social Behavior. Her goal is to become a Psychology Professor at a public Community College. Nancy em-phatically states, “Psychology is a science!” Given that scientists forge ahead to map the human brain, Nancy has a strong under-standing of her subject.

Nadele Mutya, MSAC, has a strong background in multime-dia and technology, sorely needed in the classroom. She currently works in the Child Development Center at MSAC while complet-ing prerequisites for her Teaching Credential and Graduate School. She is eager to promote under-

standing of Filipino/American culture.

Alicia Landis, Citrus College, firmly states “I love kids!” To that end she volunteers at Sutherland Elementary in Glendora helping students and teachers in all as-pect of the school day. Alicia en-joys being with children, watching them grow and mature.

Dulce Alvaro, Citrus College, says emphatically “The truth is I always wanted to be a teacher! It is my calling.” She is pursuing a Child Development major with a Teaching Credential. Dulce wants to lift the self-esteem of students and motivate them with well-planned lessons and lots of patience.

The members of Div. 13 CA Retired Teachers Association is proud to present scholarships to these promising students and wishes them success on the road to becoming effective teachers.


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Library HighlightsSan Dimas LibraryCounty of Los Angeles Public Library145 N. Walnut Avenue, San Dimas, CA, 91773Telephone (909) 599-6738Monday–Tuesday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMWednesday–Thursday 12:00 PM – 8:00 PMFriday–Saturday 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMLibrary Website http://www.colapublib.org/libs/sandimas/

All Library programs are FREE!The Library will be closed on October 12, 2015 for Columbus Day.

THE KIDS’ CORNERBOOKMARK CONTEST

Do you love books, reading, and drawing? The 36th Annual Book-mark Contest is here! This year’s theme is Ticket To Adventure! – Visit our library or website to get your entry form and return to your County Library by October 31, 2015. Artists must be in Kindergarten through 12th grade, or between the ages of 5 and 18 years old.PRESCHOOL STORYTIME

Fridays, October 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th at 10:30 AM. We will enjoy songs, finger plays, nursery rhymes, and flannel board stories. An art activity will be offered in keeping with our reading theme. Preschool aged children are welcome, as well as those younger who can sit quietly and listen to the stories. On October 30th, we will offer our “Read and Play” format, and kids will have an opportunity to engage in education-al play after the stories. Kids, wear your Halloween costumes on October 30th!ARTIST TRADING CARD CLUB

Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 3:00 PM. Join us for our Artist Trading Card Club to learn about and create artist trading cards. These cards, the size of a baseball or football trading card, are small works of art. They may be painted, collaged, stamped or colored with crayons. Use your imagination to create these small gems! Once you create your cards, it’s fun to swap with others! So, make two, keep one and trade one. All supplies will be provided. A prize drawing for art materials will take place. Ages 5 years old and up.PERSONAL SAFETY WORKSHOP

Saturday, October 24th, 2015 at 2:00 PM. Learn to be more aware of your surroundings to increase personal safety. Learn tech-niques for dealing with unsafe situations and what to do during an un-welcome approach. Workshop is designed to help participants identify risks and evaluate options for dealing with threats of violence. This is for kids ages 4 to 10 years old with their parents. An art activity is part of the program.HALLOWEEN ART ACTIVITY

Saturday, October 31st, 2015 at 3:00 PM. Create a shadow pup-pet using our templates and decorate with glitter, crepe paper, ribbons and more! Use them as window decorations or put on a puppet show!

Parents: Please be aware that refreshments will be served at some of these programs. A list of ingredients will be available.

TEEN HANGOUTSCARY STORY CONTEST

Entries due by Saturday October 10, 2015. Gear up for Hal-loween by writing your own scary story. Entries must be legible and are limited to 1 page front and back, and entries must mention the San Dimas Library. Come back Saturday, October 17th to read your story out loud to other teens. Prizes will be awarded, winners must be pres-ent to collect prize. Open to grades 7-12.YARNOLOGY

Wednesday, October 14th & 28th at 6:00 PM. Share your proj-ects and patterns while learning from and teaching others; bring your own supplies. Ages 10 and up, all levels of experience are welcome.

ADULT ACTIVITIESBOOK PARTY BOOK CLUB

Wednesday, October 7th, at 10:30 AM. Join us as we discuss In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson. The Book Party is held at the San Dimas Senior Center, 201 E. Bonita Ave., in San Dimas.THIRD THURSDAY BOOK CLUB

Thursday, October 15th, at 6:30 PM. Join our Thursday eve-ning book club. This month’s selection is The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell. Copies of the book are available for check out at the San Dimas Library.

FRIENDS OF THE SAN DIMAS LIBRARYANNUAL BOOK SALE

October 2-4. Come to the library during San Dimas Western Days and shop the big book sale of the Friends of the San Dimas Library. On Friday and Saturday, the sale hours will be from 10 AM to 4 PM and Sunday from 11 AM to 3 PM. On Sunday, October 4th, will be a Buck-A-Bag Sale.JOIN FRIENDS OF SAN DIMAS LIBRARY!

Meetings are usually held on the third Tuesday of every month in the Library Meeting Room at 9:30 a.m.

San Dimas HEROES To Hold Veterans Day Event

Mark your calendars for Wednesday November 11, 2015 at 4:00PM. A special service will be held honoring our Veterans at Freedom Park (corner San Dimas Ave. and Commercial St.) in San Dimas.

Join us in appreciation of our Veterans

Happy (Healthy) HalloweenTina L. Kerrigan MS, RDN

When we think of Halloween evening we visualize groups of happy, ghoulishly dressed chil-dren scouring our neighbor-

hoods look-ing for sweet “ t r e a t s ” . Since there is seldom justification for “tricks”, most parents

find themselves dealing with mounds (literally and figura-tively) of high sugar candy, both in bags and, unfortu-nately, a lot that has already been gobbled down during the nights festivities.

How can parents allow their children to enjoy a fun Hal-loween evening and still have some control over excessive consumption of sweets?

Make sure to have dinner before the trick or treating be-gins. A typical meal of poultry, fish or lean meat, grains and vegetables will limit the sweet cravings and avoid over indul-gence.

Before the evening begins also set up guidelines; if your child wants a particular toy, agree to trade an amount of candy for the toy. He or she can keep a certain amount of their loot but, if they want this item, they have to part with what-ever amount of candy has been agreed upon (Always make sure to sort through anything brought home to weed out sus-picious items).

It is also important to set limits ahead of time for how much candy is allowed to be eaten on Halloween. When looking over what has been brought home, allow a few fa-vorite items and put the rest away. The old adage, “out of sight, out of mind” is applicable here. Put the remainder of the candy away. You can take it to work, dole it out over time in small quantities or discard it, but, if it is around the house and visible, it will more than likely be eaten.

The other side of this is what to offer when the “trick or treat-ers” show up at your door.

Sure, we are all going to offer some sweets, but also include some non candy items. Experts recommend small inexpensive toys, crayons, stickers, book-marks, whistles, pencils, eras-ers or other school supplies.

What’s the last thing to do?Remember to set a goal of

eating seven to nine combined servings of fruits and vegeta-bles every day!

Enjoy a safe and fun HAL-LOWEEN!

Tina Kerrigan is the owner of DietitianSmart and Jobs In Dietetics of San Dimas.

She can be reached at [email protected] for ques-tions, comments or ideas for future columns.

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Metrolink to Enhance Safety and Performance by Adding Locomotives Metrolink will add second locomotive to each train set

Los Angeles — Metrolink has made the proactive deci-sion to add a second locomotive to each train set beginning as soon as possible. Beginning this month, in a collaborative effort using BNSF Railway locomo-tives, Metrolink will soon have a locomotive on either end of each train to compliment the passenger rail’s existing fleet.

“We are taking this addition-al step as a redundancy to keep our riders safe, while a second locomotive will address some of our recent mechanical delays,” Metrolink Chief Executive Of-ficer Art Leahy said. “I want to reassure all Metrolink riders we continue to be dedicated to be the safest railroad in the na-tion.”

In 2010, Metrolink intro-duced its Hyundai-Rotem cab and passenger rail cars to its fleet. Hyundai-Rotem cab cars are positioned on the opposite end from the locomotive in Metrolink’s current configura-tion of train sets. A BNSF loco-motive will soon be positioned in front of each cab car.

A review of the Hyundai-Rotem cab cars began earlier this year. On Feb. 24, an unoc-cupied truck and trailer on the tracks was struck by Metrolink Ventura County Line Train 102 near the Rice Avenue rail cross-ing in Oxnard, Calif. Train 102 was led by a Hyundai-Rotem cab car. The accident is still under investigation by the Na-tional Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and all questions relating to the accident need to be directed to NTSB personnel.

For more information about service, passengers can con-tact Metrolink at 800-371-5465 (LINK) or go to www.metro-linktrains.com.

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Metrolink is Southern Cali-fornia’s regional passenger rail service in its 23rd year of operation. The Southern Cali-fornia Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA), a joint powers au-thority made up of an 11-mem-ber board representing the transportation commissions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, governs the service. Metrolink operates over seven routes through a six-county, 512 route-mile network, which includes a portion of northern San Diego County. Metrolink is the third largest commuter rail agency in the United States based on directional route miles and the eighth largest based on annual ridership.


2nd Story Mini Show Winners2nd Story Gallery held their first annual Mini Show in August. It

was a tough call to pick winners from such a unique array of art no larger than 8” x 10”. Never the less, the work by each of the winners was remarkable.

First Place, Oil, Cat on a Window Sill, Linda Garcia Dahle Second Place, Oil, Chuck, Russell HomboThird Place, Oil, Civic Center Plaza, Linda Garcia DahleHonorable Mention, Collage, Secret Garden, Karen LopezHonorable Mention, Acrylic, Garden Chair, Jennifer McCartney

Special thanks to the volunteers who put this show on, especially Pauline Hodgson Lucien van Oosten, and photographer, Ray Green, who allowed 2nd Story Gallery to show his fine wildlife photography.

1st place winner

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New Children’s Book Offers Educational Look At The Other Side Of BullyingCharlie’s Birthday Wishby Rene Micka

October is National Bullying Pre-vention Month and, as children head back to school after another sum-mer, this serious issue is once again a main focus and concern. However, not many of us have ever thought about the topic of bullying from the other side of the situation: the bully’s point of view. Educator and mom Rene Micka has and, through her debut children’s book Charlie’s Birth-day Wish, she aims to help children understand the consequences of be-ing a bully.

Written from the viewpoint of Charlie, the story’s antagonist, Char-lie’s Birthday Wish teaches children to consider how bullies can be mis-understood, remorseful, and even forgiven. It also explores the conse-quences faced by those who choose to be unkind. The story uses rhyme to open an age-appropriate conversa-tion about unkindness and its impli-cations, not only for the oppressed, but also for the oppressor himself. Charlie bullies his way into a crisis when he alienates his friends with his unkindness, just as his birthday quickly approaches. Realizing he may find himself alone at his own party, he sets out to change his fate. In the end, Charlie experiences the power of forgiveness and learns that friendships must be earned.

“At a time when the subject of bullying is gaining unprecedented momentum, Charlie’s Birthday Wish provides a tool for helping par-ents, caregivers, and teachers deliver an anti-bullying message to young children,” says Micka.

Reflecting on themes related to Charlie’s Birthday Wish, Micka is available for interviews to discuss:• Teaching children that friend-ships are not a right and must be earned• The short and long-term conse-quences of being a bully• Teaching children ways to be a good friend• The importance of forgiveness, and how parents, teachers and guardians can act as role models• And much more!

Rene Micka is a parent and an

educator who has worked with chil-dren of all ages for 15 years. She spends a great deal of time volunteer-ing at her children’s Catholic school, where she runs many of the pro-grams. Character education is a fo-cus of all her efforts in the classroom. As a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Program, Micka’s experi-ences have led her to have a greater understanding of the issues affecting children in distressed situations. Al-though she is no longer teaching, she has made it her mission to see to it that children get the better life they deserve. Charlie’s Birthday Wish is her debut children’s book.

Connect with Rene Micka at www.betterdaybooks.net and on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, and Shelfari.Linda Garcia Dahle

Linda Garcia Dahle

Chuck Russell Hombo


weekend of Oct. 17-18 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Farm Store at Cal Poly Pomona, 4102 S. University Drive, off Temple Avenue.

The Pumpkin Festival has be-come so successful and popular over the years that it has become necessary to charge admission for the first time to ensure the event remains safe and family friendly.

Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children between the ages of 2 and 12. Children under 2 can get in free. Tickets will be sold online, at the Farm Store, and at the gate on festival weekend.

Credit cards will be accepted for payment, and guests are en-couraged to purchase their tick-ets in advance. Discounts will be offered on many pre-sale ticket packages. Proceeds will go to sup-port student clubs and Cal Poly Pomona’s farm operations.

Parking is free in lots C, F, and the university parking structure. Handicapped parking is available in Lot B. A free shuttle will run from the parking lots and struc-ture to the Farm Store.

To purchase tickets or for more information, visit http://pumpkin-festival.cpp.edu.

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Golden State Water Partners With Save Our Water To Launch Golden Lawn ContestContest to highlight customers who have let their lawns ‘go golden’ for chance to win up to a $100 credit

SAN DIMAS — Golden State Water Company (Golden State Water) and its conservation part-ner Save Our Water, California’s statewide conservation education program, are teamed up to host a “Golden Lawn Contest” during the month of September. Given the drought emergency in Califor-nia, the “Golden Lawn Contest” was designed to further promote outdoor conservation by highlight-ing customers who have limited or stopped irrigating their lawns to help preserve water supplies depleted by four consecutive dry years.

The contest encourages Golden State Water customers to share photos of their golden lawns through Sept. 29 for a chance to win up to a $100 bill credit to-ward their water bill. Photos were submitted via email at [email protected] or sent to @Golden-StateH2O on Twitter using the #GoGoldCA hashtag.

“The majority of California’s residential water use is for out-door irrigation, and this contest was a great opportunity to both recognize customers who are us-ing water responsibly and em-brace lawns that have gone gold,” said Denise Kruger, Senior Vice President of Regulated Utilities for Golden State Water. “We ap-plaud our customers who have taken steps to limit or stop lawn

irrigation, as well as those who have converted to drought-tol-erant landscapes to reduce their outdoor water use.”

All photos submitted were eligible to be highlighted on the Golden State Water (gswater.com) and Save Our Water (saveo-urwater.com) websites, as well as the organizations’ Twitter and other social media channels. Prizes were awarded on Sept. 30 for the top two photos submitted, with bill credits rewarded for first ($100) and second place ($50).

“We are excited to partner with Golden State Water to pro-

mote conservation and the Golden Lawn Contest, which ties in with Save Our Water’s efforts to en-courage Californians to let their lawn go and fade to gold,” said Jennifer Persike, Deputy Execu-tive Director of External Affairs and Operations for the Associa-tion of California Water Agencies. “As Californians, we really need to change the way we think about water use. Letting our lawns go gold or converting to drought-tol-erant landscapes are easy steps we can take that will significantly reduce the amount of water we use everyday.”

For contest updates and in-formation about the drought and conservation, follow Golden State Water (@GoldenStateH2O) and Save Our Water (@SaveOurWa-ter) on Twitter.

The Greatest Rivalry in College FootballBy Craig Jeong

It’s not every year that USC and UCLA football teams are both great and in the Top 25. With all the penalties that were sanc-

tioned from Reggie Bush era served and completed , the Trojans can now com-pete with its best recruiting class in a long time. These two teams will

create a great and entertaining game full of bragging rights and excitement.

My father, Dr. Bennett Jeong, my cousin, Dr. Kimberly Foon, and our hygienist Marla Guttman are all graduates of USC. It is their alma mater for their undergradu-ate, hygiene and dental studies. There is a lot of USC pride. I often tell people that I am also a USC fan who grew up in a USC family. I, however, am a University of the Pacific (UOP) alum and fan, root-ing for our main sport: Men’s Bas-ketball and Women’s Volleyball, both sports of which we are most competitive. Just like Los Angeles’ professional football, UOP’s foot-ball program ended in 1995.

The competitive spirit of col-lege football has carried into the dental chair. The number of pa-tients who are fans of UCLA or USC are split. We might actually have more UCLA patients, we just don’t know, because some of them don’t want to tell us due to the USC lineage. Don’t be afraid UCLA fans! We treat all equally. A couple years ago, we used to have a USC Trojan floor mat that lay at the base of the front coun-ter. Our USC patients loved it! And our UCLA patients loved to

Dr. Craig Jeong

step on it. There was one fateful morning though when a scheming UCLA fan came in for her recare appointment. She hid something underneath her arm and quietly placed it on the ground. She then went about her business normal-

ly. It was not until that afternoon when someone noticed something different about the lobby. There was no longer a cardinal and gold color mat. There was a blue colored mat with a funny look-ing bear placed right on top! The mat was not met with anger and angst, but laughter and confusion. We had found out that our lovely friend, avid UCLA fan, and USC hater, Mary gifted the UCLA mat. Instead of immediately throwing the UCLA mat into the dumpster, we decided to place the mat side by side with the USC one. Both our UCLA fans and USC fans were delighted to see their respec-tive teams represented. The only ones that felt left out were the Notre Dame fans. We didn’t leave anything for them.

We all love our sports espe-cially our college football since we don’t (yet) have a professional football team. We enjoy talking about our Dodgers, Lakers and

Kings. We have a lot of Angels and Ducks fans as well. And then there’s always those questionable Clippers fans. Talking trash is all part of the fun. We happily open our doors to everyone no matter where you came from whether

it was protecting the Bruin Bear or Tommy Trojan before rivalry week.

Candy Buy Back Program for the Troops! We are hoping to bring smiles to our troops overseas with our Candy Buy Back Program! We are taking the candy out of our children’s hands and giving the troops something to snack on this Fall. So for every pound of candy you, your children, or grandchil-dren bring, we will give a dollar to the lucky kid. That’s about 500% more than I ever got as a kid!

Dr. Craig Jeong is one of three dentists at Via Verde Dental. He is the son of Dr. Bennett Jeong and the cousin of Dr. Kimberly Foon. They are located across the street from Vons at 1075 Via Verde Ave, San Dimas, CA. For more information contact us! ViaVerdeDental.com1075 Via VerdeSan Dimas, CA 91773(909) 599-8331

Another Successful Golf Tournament For San Dimas Heroes

On Monday, September 14, 2015, more than 110 golfers at-tended the 5th Annual San Dimas HEROES (Helping Establish a Remembrance Of Every Servicep-erson) Golf Tournament.

“It was a fantastic tournament for the golfers and the HEROES organization,” said Gary Enderle, President and Co-Founder of San Dimas Community Foundation/HEROES . “It was great seeing everyone coming together to help support our Veterans Monument and our Veterans,” Enderle add-ed.

This year’s tournament, as in the past, was held at Via Verde Country Club in San Dimas. VVCC was one of their major sponsors along with Majestic Re-alty, the LA County Fair and Cus-tom Cooler of San Dimas.

The HEROES Organization would like to thank everyone in-volved in this year’s event for their contribution. Next year’s tourna-ment will be held on Monday, September 12, 2016. Come join us.

Mt. SAC Art Gallery Opens Season with “Color” By Mike Taylor

Walnut — The Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery kicked off its 2015-16 season with a painting exhibition, “Moving in Color,” on Sept. 17. The ex-hibit will run through Dec. 3, at the Art Gallery and Exhibit is free and open to the public.

“Moving in Color” is an exhibit of Los Angeles-based artist and educator Mar-garet Lazzari’s paintings. She is an art

professor and associate dean at USC, co-author of art textbooks, and part of a public art team with commissions in Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Hun-tington Beach.

A special opening reception was held Thursday, Sept. 17 in the Art Gallery, building 1B. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Tuesday nights, 5 to 7:30.


In addition to being used to pre-vent pregnancy, oral contracep-tives may be prescribed to treat

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They also may be used to control abnormally heavy, pain-ful, or irregu-lar menstrual periods or premenstrual

dysphoric disorder (also known as PMD).

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Oral contraceptives work by several methods. For one, they contain hormones that prevent fertilization by blocking the re-lease of an egg from an ovary each month. They also work by thickening the mucus in the cer-vix, which helps block sperm from reaching an egg. In addition, these hormones alter the lining of the uterus so that a fertilized egg can-not become attached and develop in the womb.

Types of Oral ContraceptivesSeveral forms of oral contra-

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Most of these products contain estrogen and progestin compo-nents. There are also some com-bination products that contain an estrogen and drospirenone, a syn-thetic progesterone that is linked to an increased risk of serious side effects.

Oral contraceptives are usually taken for 21 days each month, fol-lowed by 7 days without the drug, during which time most women have withdrawal bleeding similar to a light period.

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SAN DIMAS SENIOR ADVENTURESBy Jay Pace

Our own Miss Prudie just celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday on Sept. 12th. She was honored at the Los Angeles Fair and rode on a float with her proud family. She is our “2015 San Di-mas Hero” ….AND Nancy Wil-son was honored as “2015 San Dimas Older American” and rode in a car driven by Erica with friends cheering her on. Two very special people who deserve the honors.

Wow, wasn’t that rain RE-FRESHING? I was going to write wonderful BUT for one thing…when they put my pool in my back yard they pitched everything to-ward my patio and this time I only had to empty my carpet cleaner seven times. Sometimes it’s more. One time it went into my living room. I guess I shouldn’t complain [even though I am]. BUT….I can see GREEN spots in my front yard. I bragged about it when my friend, Maria, brought me home one night. I guess it doesn’t take much to make me happy…I bet the neighbors are starting to count the green clumps of grass, right?

Before I forget it, because I did last month, I told Pete that I would mention his name in my article and remembered af-ter the fact. Pete works for San Dimas. Our table usually stays after Thursday B-I-N-G-O/lunch to catch up. Well, in walked Pete with gads zoots, a 15’ ladder [or more] to fix the lights that were out. We thanked him and I men-tioned that my kids don’t want me to climb a 10’ ladder when I’m working on the trees. So I only use an 8’ ladder. He told me I shouldn’t be on a ladder at all. And I had to make a smart come back about not being old, right? We all laughed. Thank you Pete for all you do for us and all the rest of the staff that make our lives more comfortable when we go to the senior center.

Friday night, Sept. 18th, there was a Safari Adventure at the cen-ter. My neighbor Sandy, down the street, had so much fun when we

went to the FLOWER POWER dinner that she joined me again. Yep, we were in costume both times. Saw a lot of club members there both times all in costumes, too! Food and entertainment were both fantastic!!! Can’t wait to see what we come up with for the Hal-loween dinner. We never want to grow up, let alone grow old.

By the time this article comes out we have already been to the Griffith Park Observatory, en-joyed the Western Days [made a donation to the Western Days for $500.00, and enjoyed the Music Festival on Oct. 3rd and 4th and great time riding on Sander’s low bed in the parade. “THANKS SANDERS” played B-I-N-G-O at the Plummer Building and en-joyed the rest of September with senior friends.

This month Jo Ann has the Crime Stoppers coming on the 6th. Following Tuesday, we have our business meeting. Third Tues-day will be a program on “Norman Rockwell the artist”. Oh and last but not least…B-I-N-G-O cele-brating birthdays. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU ALBERTSON’S for making sure the seniors enjoy those delicious birthday cakes.

Oh my gosh, I hope I got this right Nancy, you now have 120 MEMBERS?? Never too late to join the fun.

Sue is busy selling 50/50 tick-ets and setting things up for the Holiday luncheon again this year. If you have anything NEW that you’d like to donate so that every-one gets a raffle prize, please see Sue. The price of lunch is accord-ing to how many meetings you have attended this past year.

Happy hour will be celebrated in the lobby on Oct. 8th, Bunko will be held in the lunch area on the 22nd and Halloween dinner is 23rd. [check out Silver times for more info]

Come join us, talking about the Silver Times it’s full and I do mean FULL of fun things to do each month. PARKS & REC-REATION DEPARTMENT

has sixteen pages jammed packed with so much I don’t want you to miss anything. Erica has a fan-tastic staff and keeps us busy.

The Center will be closed No-vember 11th, 26th and 27th. Club will have a silent auction November 17th, so please bring those treasures for others to buy and take home and enjoy. Money is collected by Linda and put into treasury.

Don’t forget about coming to the Crazy Hats meeting, we have so much fun. Diane, Crazy Hats President, has been announcing time and dates.

If you would like to serve on the San Dimas Senior Club board in 2016, please see the commit-tee who is in charge so that Erica can make up the ballot cards. It doesn’t seem possible 2015 is al-most over. I just wanted to take this time to once again tell you it has been a pleasure being part of the board. You have all made it very easy and full of fun. Thank you for ALL THE HUGS….AND HUGS TO COME…

The senior club really ap-preciates Carol, Debbee and volunteers for making B-I-N-G-O such a success each Tues-day. And thanks to all the B-I-N-G-O players because without you we wouldn’t be able to send mon-ey to organizations or have snow for the kids in December. It’s a family outing that you provide for them which club members vote on each year.

San Dimas is a city full of fantastic families having fun together all through the year…. AND I’M SO HAPPY I’M PART OF THE FANTAS-TIC FAMILY…

I was talking to Roy G. about quotes people tell me which help me through the day. Joy, who works behind the desk at lunch, told me this one that I love… “Be yourself because everyone else has been taken.” IF you have a saying that makes you happy.

I’ll put it at the end so we can ALL enjoy…until next month…many hugs, Jay

The News Capsule BIRTH CONTROL PILLSRick Reggio Pharm.D

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every day for 12 weeks, followed by 1 week of either estrogen alone or no drug. This type of pill results in four menstrual periods per year. The mini pill, another type of oral contraceptive, contains only progestin and is used by women who experience side effects from estrogen or who are breastfeed-ing. The minipill is slightly less effective than the combination product.

Usage and Side EffectsOral contraceptives are pack-

aged in special containers that make it easy to take them once a day. The pill should be taken about the same time each day. Many women take their pill with breakfast or dinner or at bedtime. It is very important to read the specific directions for taking the pills correctly. When first begin-ning oral contraceptives, be sure to follow your prescriber’s recom-mendation on how long to use another birth control method in order to be fully protected.

Common side effects of oral contraceptives include nausea, spotting between periods, weight gain, tender breasts, and changes in mood. Serious side effects are less likely, but should be reported to a doctor. These include swelling or aching legs or thighs, headache or blurred vision, chest pain, and abdominal pain. Women who have a history of blood clots, heart disease or high blood pressure, migraine headaches, or breast or uterine cancer should not use oral contraceptives. Tell your doctor, pharmacist, and other healthcare professionals if you are taking oral contraceptives. The hormones in these pills can interact with many other drugs and herbal supple-ments, rendering either the oral contraceptive or the other medi-cine less effective. Be sure to ask your pharmacist if you have any questions about how to take the oral contraceptives prescribed for you. If you have any questions you can reach me at Via Verde Phar-macy at 909-599-3444.

BackPainFree.orgIf you twist your back I’ll get you back on your feet in 5 days

By Yu Chen, L.Ac.

Last month was an interesting month for my clinic. I had a number of patients who came in with mi-

graine head-aches. Most of them have suffered with migraine for years and tried all different types of medi-cations. No

medication seemed to help them.They also had a common concern

that the medication can be addict-ing. Another interesting common-ality among these patients is that their migraine all started from the rear of their heads. Rear headache is an indication of a potential cervi-cal spine problem. It’s highly pos-sible the headaches were triggered from the cervical spine. It also ex-

plained why none of the migraine medication worked on them. After I checked their necks, I found they all had cervical spine problems. People often mistake the symptom of cervi-cal spinal problem with headaches or migraines.

Once I found the root cause of the migraine, I estimated they would be completely healed with a couple of weeks of treatments.

There was another interesting case I had in the last month. A pa-tient came to see me with Bells Palsy Syndrome. Here are the symptoms she had for Bells Palsy Syndrome: numbness on half of her face, no more wrinkles on her forehead, an awkward smile, and difficulty blink-ing and eating. The good thing was she visited my clinic right after she had the symptoms. I gave treatment to her every other day. Within two

weeks, she got her beautiful smile back. She was so happy with the speedy recovery she asked me to treat her shoulder problems as well. She received treatments for another two weeks, and I was able to fix her shoulder problem which had both-ered her for months.

The majority of my patients come in with back pain. The worst type of back pain is Sciatica which is unbearable and takes longer to cure, especially for those patients who have had back surgery. All of the patients who had back surger-ies declared that the surgery helped them a lot initially. However, they felt there was an expiration date to the surgery and that the problem came back after a while. Acupunc-ture has been helpful for back pain patients regardless of whether or not they had surgery.

One of my patients, who luckily survived a horrible accident, was to-tally healed after four weeks of treat-ments at my clinic. The pain in his legs and hips had bothered him for a long time after he had surgery on his back. Now he comes back every two weeks for maintenance.

Another patient of mine had back surgery as a result of a terrible ac-cident. She had metal implanted in her back. The heaviness and the ex-tra weight of the metal led to sciatica. She was also cured from the sciatica after four weeks of treatment in my clinic. Since she can’t get rid of the metal, she needs to come back every week for the maintenance. Most of my back-pain patients don’t need to come back after they are cured, un-less they have continues physical or professional stress.

Back Pain & Sports Injury:

Acupuncture Center has been spe-cializing in back pain, sports injury, headache, heel pain and a lot of difficult diseases for more than 40 years. My father, Dr. Chao Chen, developed the theory, “I Ching Acu-puncture”. In our clinic data, more than 60% of my patients visited due to back pain. 80-90% of them expe-rienced great relief after 3-12 treat-ments on average, even if the back pain was caused from surgery.

Don’t worry if you have back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain or any sports injury, I can heal it in days or weeks. 40 years Sports Injury & Back Pain Specialist Contact Yu Chen L.Ac. at:412 W Carroll Ave. #205Glendora CA 91741 (626)852-0688 or (626)852-0988 www.IChingMedicine.com

Dr. Yu Chen


San Dimas Chamber of Commerce

CRUNCH FRANCHISEE ANNOUNCES GRAND OPEN-ING OF CRUNCH SAN DIMAS On Saturday, October 24th, the renowned gym chain best known for making serious fitness fun through innovative group fitness programming and cutting-edge training will open the doors of its newest location in San Dimas, California. To celebrate its grand opening, Crunch San Dimas in-vites the public to join them on Saturday, October 24th from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. for food, prizes, give-aways, free workouts and more at the club’s location, 192 Village Ct., San Dimas, CA. Patrons will have the opportunity to take ad-vantage of membership specials. Crunch San Dimas offers top-notch amenities at an incredible value including access to state-of-the-art cardio and strength train-ing equipment, full-service locker rooms, tanning, HydroMassage® and a range of Crunch’s signature group fitness classes including Zumba®, Yoga Body Sculpt, Fat Burning Pilates, Cardio Tai Box, BOSU® Bootcamp and more.

The San Dimas Chamber of Commerce, City Council and Chamber Members came out to celebrate the Grand Opening and Ribbon

Cutting Celebration for Crunch Fitness and UFC Gym to San Dimas.

Chamber Welcomes Crunch Fitness and UFC Gym to San Dimas

New Discover San Dimas Council Working To Promote All Things San Dimas And Grow Tourism

San Dimas Holiday Shop Local Campaign Top Things the San Dimas Chamber Has Been Doing for Business

San Dimas Chamber of Commerce kept the heat on during Sep-tember and forged ahead into the Fall Season. Here’s a brief over-view of what we have been doing this month:

Chamber worked tirelessly to prepare for the San Dimas Western Days and Music Festival, which is the biggest City of San Dimas event for the year. This is a great event to promote your business or organization. It’s coming October 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Chamber hosted a free Boost Your Business Facebook workshop to over 120 attendees. Facebook is just one of the many San Dimas Chamber partners.

Chamber promoted the Google “Let’s Put San Dimas On the Map” Campaign to give Members an opportunity to increase their online exposure for free. Google is another San Dimas Chamber partner.

Chamber and Palace Pet Salon hosted monthly Coffee Hour to give members opportunity to network.

Chamber hosted a ribbon cutting for Crunch Fitness/UFC Gym and showcased their new facility located in San Dimas.

Chamber hosted their monthly lunch and learn with ADP giving humane resource information to help businesses understand the im-portant of employee relations and compliance requirements.

Chamber promoted plans to start a new Small Business Market-ing Hour.

Chamber partnered with the City of San Dimas and the Los An-geles County Fair to present San Dimas Day at the Fair.

Chamber kicked off plans for New Young Professionals program and conducted a survey to get input for the creation of this new pro-gram.

Chamber promoted development opportunities and asked for community input with New Build Up Our Community One Busi-ness At A Time campaign. This is in addition to the new San Dimas Business Locator and Resource Guide we created as a way of pro-viding information about our different Shopping Centers and Down-town and where there are potential areas for new businesses.

Partnered with Chamber Explorations to offer a Treasures of Ire-land tip in March of 2016 as a way of promoting networking and tourism. The trip is open to the public.

The San Dimas Chamber of Commerce works hard to ensure we are working to help build a better local economy, help businesses and support a strong community. We encourage everyone to check out the Chamber’s website and see all of the things we have been doing, including the new Tools for Business section. We are proud to serve our community and encourage all businesses to be members of the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce. Visit www.sandimaschamber.com for more information about the San Dimas Chamber of Com-merce and see how we are always working to help businesses and the community grow.

Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer Is Coming To Ontario – Visit The San Dimas Chamber Booth for Chance to Win

The San Dimas Chamber sup-ports local business by helping pro-mote the importance of shopping local throughout the year and es-pecially during the holidays. This year’s Holiday Shop Local Cam-paign will begin October 5th and end December 16, 2015. We are planning to give away over $1,000 in cash and prizes. Promote your business and donate a prize to help us celebrate Shop Local and generate holiday sales.

In addition, we are teaming up again with American Express as a neighborhood champion dedi-cated to promoting our small busi-nesses on Small Business Satur-day - November 28, 2015. Is your small business interested in join-ing a movement that brings mil-

lions of Americans to small busi-nesses across the nation during the busiest weekend of the Holi-day season? If so, contact the San Dimas Chamber by calling us at 909-592-3818 and learn how you can help make business happen.

Here’s how it works:

Shop San Dimas for the holi-days and have a chance to win over $1,000 in great prizes. Shop any San Dimas Chamber of Com-merce Member and double your chances to win.

Beginning October 5, 2015 through December 16, 2015 bring your receipts to the San Dimas Chamber Office. For every $150 in receipts spent in the local com-munity and submitted to the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce, you will receive an entry for the Free Holiday Shop Local Cam-paign Drawing. If any receipts are from a San Dimas Chamber of Commerce Business Member, located in San Dimas or a sur-rounding city, you will receive an extra entry. Residents and non-residents, ages 18 and older, may

participate. As a community we need to

support our local businesses. We can do this by embracing, nour-ishing and always supporting the local businesses that help create jobs and financially help make San Dimas a better place. If not, it will be our local businesses that won’t be here tomorrow, which means our community won’t be able to offer the quality of life in which we have chosen to live, have our families and grow old in.

During the campaign, the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce encourages everyone to visit the Chamber’s website at www.san-dimaschamber.com for additional information about the campaign and to learn how your local tax dollars benefit the San Dimas community and you. In addition, there will also be special Hot Deal discounts offered to help your dol-lars go a little further. Contact the San Dimas Chamber of Com-merce at [email protected] or call 909-592-3818 if you would like additional information.

Plus, members will have access to the CAMP CRUNCH program which includes signature small group training, personal train-ing and nutrition programs for all fitness levels. Expert personal

trainers will work one-on-one with members to deliver person-alized fitness and nutrition plans, helping them to meet their fitness goals. For more information visit CrunchSanDimas.com.

Join Inland Empire chambers and business organizations for the ultimate business networking event! On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at the Ontario Conven-tion Center, mix and mingle with business people representing hun-dreds of industries and companies

in and around the Inland Empire. Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer® is a great opportunity to reach small to large companies, meet new clients and learn how the dif-ferent chambers of commerce and business organizations can make your business grow.

Visit the San Dimas Cham-ber of Commerce table while you are there. We’ll have chamber information and share with you the benefits of being a chamber member. If you are interested in participating, please go to www.iemixer.com.

The San Dimas Chamber of Commerce has created a new Committee/Council to help pro-mote San Dimas and Tourism.

First, they are looking at new ways to welcome new residents and businesses to San Dimas. Work is already underway to collect information around the city that relates to tourism. This will include everything from great destination and en-tertainment spots to walking trail maps and even all of our local hotel information. With so many wonderful things to see and do in and around San Di-mas - we truly are a great tour-ist spot.

In addition to tourism, the Discover San Dimas Council is looking at updating our current New Resident Packets and New Business Packets. The goal is to expand our outreach efforts by getting more businesses and organizations to include there information in the welcome

packets as a way of promoting more of what San Dimas has to offer locally. On top of all of the new resident information being collected, the Chamber is work-ing on updating their business assistance information guide, which would be included in the New Business Packets as a way to share with businesses all of the great tools the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce has to offer to help get business up and running and expanding. If you would like to volunteer with the Discover San Dimas Council and or you would like to learn more about providing your busi-ness or organization informa-tion in any of these outreach packets, please call the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce at 909-592-3818 or email us at [email protected].


Through the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce’s Discover San Di-mas Campaign and Economic Development efforts we are working to bring awareness to business opportunities in San Dimas. In addition, we are showcasing different areas where opportunities are available for new businesses to get started and or relocate to. The following are just some of the locations available.

San Dimas Second Floor Office Space Available

Location: 650 W. Cienega, San Dimas Type: Entire Second Floor Available for Office Space Size: 24,500 square feet (approx.) Contact: 310.643.5100

This 24,500 second floor space is located in the ITT Technical In-stitute Building, which is located just south of Arrow Hwy and close to the 57 freeway. Do you know a business looking to get started and or relocate in San Dimas? Be sure to share this information and help us continue to build our beautiful San Dimas community.

GIVE US YOUR INPUT: What type of business would you like to see here? Your input will help us potentially bring in the types of businesses you would like to see located in this part of San Dimas and possibly in this specific location. Email your business locator suggestions to [email protected].

San Dimas Chamber of Commerce

Chamber’s Economic Development Council Works To Attract Business And Retain Business In San Dimas

A few years ago the San Di-mas Chamber of Commerce created an Economic Develop-ment Committee to help pro-mote business attraction and retention by providing resourc-es necessary to help promote and foster business growth and business location opportuni-ties. Last year, the Committee created a Business Locator and Resource Guide. They started the project in phases. The first phase has been completed and shows different shopping cen-ters in San Dimas along with pertinent information about each center in addition to traffic counts and contact information for the leasing and or manage-ment company of the centers. With the first phase done, the Committee is sectioning off por-tions of San Dimas with the sec-ond phase covering areas along Arrow Highway.

In addition to the San Dimas

Locator Guide, the committee is also working on updating the San Dimas Small Business Guide. The guide offers busi-ness start-up information in a step-by-step format including who to contact for everything from getting your business li-cense to business insurance and more.

The committee is also prepar-ing new content for the San Di-mas Chamber’s website to help welcome new businesses to San Dimas and provide information to connect them to the resources they need to get started and or expand in San Dimas.

Do you have an interest in helping make business happen? Contact the San Dimas Cham-ber of Commerce and volunteer to be on our Economic Develop-ment Council. For more infor-mation, call us at 909-592-3818 or email us at [email protected].

Economic Development And Showcasing San Dimas Top Priority For San Dimas Chamber of Commerce - Give Us Your Input

Spook-Tacular Networking Planned at San Dimas Chamber Mixer – October 15 Member Mixers Offer Business Networking Opportunities

Nothing starts off the fall sea-son better than an After Hours Networking Mixer at Atria Ran-cho Park Retirement. Atria is located at 801 Cypress Way, San Dimas.

Join us on Thursday, October 15 to mix and mingle with fellow Chamber Members. The mixer starts at 5:30 p.m. and offers door prizes and our Pot O’ Gold where one lucky winner is guaranteed to win $25 in Lucky Lottery Tickets. Members are encouraged to bring door prizes to promote their busi-ness and also bring lots of busi-ness cards to share with new con-tacts. There is no charge for our mixers and prospective members are always welcome and encour-aged to come by.

The San Dimas Chamber of Commerce is always striving to help people connect. Mixers offer members the opportunity meet new people and expand their net-work of friends, business contacts and possibly even new clients. Visit us at www.sandimascham-ber.com for more information.

Speed Networking planned for October Lunch and Learn

Treasures Of Ireland Trip Departs March 28, 2016 - Only $3295*pp Price Goes Up at the End of October

Fitness Center On Arrow Highway - Spaces Available

The Fitness Plaza located at the southeast corner of Arrow Highway and Lone Hill Avenue, west of the Route 57/I-210 Freeway, The Plaza, constructed in 1990 sit on approximately 4½ acres. The neighborhood shopping center is anchored by Walgreen’s, located at the west end of the Plaza. The Plaza have three (3) freestanding pads primarily for eat-ing establishments; Boston Market, Starbuck’s, and El Pollo Loco. The center also has a number of small, in-line retailers, services and eating-places that makes the Fitness Plaza a successful center.

Anchor and Retailer/Service In-Line Tenants: Walgreens, Maple Ridge Mobile Home Sales, Angelique Beauty, and Clientrainers

Eating Establishments and Freestanding Pads: El Pollo Loco, Star-bucks/Salon Blush, Boston

Total Building Area: 50,000 +/- GLA Parking: 750 +/- spacesAverage Daily Traffic Counts: 36,200 on Arrow Highway and 20,900

on Lone Hill Avenue. The Arrow Highway off-ramp from the Route 57/I-210 Freeway has an 8,000 ADT count.

Property/Information Representative: Coreland 714.573.7780 Do you know a business looking to get started and or relocate in San

Dimas? Be sure to share this information and help us continue to build our beautiful San Dimas community.

GIVE US YOUR INPUT: What type of businesses would you like to see here? Your input will help us potentially bring in the types of busi-nesses you would like to see located in this part of San Dimas and pos-sibly in this specific shopping center. Email your business locator sugges-tions to [email protected].

Looking for a little more Irish in your March next year? The San Dimas Chamber of Com-merce has partnered with Cham-ber Explorations to visit Ireland featuring Dublin, Limerick, and Killarney and we are inviting chamber members and communi-ty members to join us on this once in a lifetime experience.

The 9 day trip includes a 1 Night Castle Stay, 2 Nights in Dublin, 2 Nights in Killarney,

Dublin City Tour, Trinity College - Book of Kells, Old Jameson Whis-key Distillery, Cliffs of Moher, Ring of Kerry, Bunratty Castle Medieval Banquet, Glendalough & St. Kevin’s and more. The trip includes Roundtrip Airfare – LAX, 11 Meals: 7 - Breakfasts & 4 – Dinners, Tour Director, Motor-coach Transportation, Admissions per Itinerary, Comprehensive Sightseeing and Baggage Han-dling.

Space is limited, so act fast. Save $200 per person and pay only $3295 and take advantage of the early discount booking offer when you register with your de-posit on or before October 31 2015.

For more information about this amazing trip, please call the San Dimas Chamber of Com-merce at 909-592-3818, visit us at www.sandimaschamber.com or email us at [email protected].

It’s time to meet new peo-ple and learn how network-ing and offering referrals can not only help you build your business – but can also help build another person’s busi-ness. In addition to the speed networking program, attend-ees will learn how to take the

next step in networking with tips on how to follow-up, how to refer, and how to grow that new contact.

The monthly member lun-cheons are held at the San Dimas Canyon Golf Course on the 4th Wednesday of every month except in November

and December, due to holi-day scheduling. The next lun-cheon is scheduled for October 28. For more information or to make a reservation, please call the San Dimas Chamber of Commerce at 909-592-3818 or visit us online at www.san-dimaschamber.com.


Understanding and Programming High Intensity Fitness TrainingJordan Nichols, CSCS

There is a perceived misconcep-tion out there that there is only one way to work out and that is train-ing so hard that by the end of the session your head is in a trash can throwing up your breakfast. High Intensity training is all the craze

these days. This type of “give me 1 more horrible rep” or “jump up and down to complete exhaustion” work out rou-

tines are a train wreck approach. I would challenge anyone to find an educated, experienced, fitness spe-cialist who would agree with this model as a long-term approach to increase one’s fitness. When you take a sedentary person and train that person hard for 2-3 months, of course, they are going to get good results but by no means does that mean they would not yield good re-sults training at lower intensities, which also would reduce the risk of injury and burnout. High Intensity is not a bad thing. The problem is it is being used way too often by uneducated trainers and facilities. It is also the number one factor behind a client hitting a plateau and not progressing in their fit-ness program. True high intensity training takes place at 95-100% maximum effort/heart rate. You need your body to perform maxi-mal efforts in order to drive your heart rate up that high. These types of efforts take a full 72 hours to recover from and there lies the problem. With most high intensity training programs these efforts are done day in and day out! Your body never fully recovers. You end up not giving your best effort and constantly working out at 80% heart rate or what I like to call the path to nowhere zone. When you train with your heart rate between 80-90% you’re not training your high threshold fibers. You’re not developing your nervous system and you’re certainly not produc-ing maximum force. Rather you are just going to become fatigued which will lead to poor results.

There a really only two training zones the average person should be focused on training at above 95 % or below 75% intensity (active recovery). What I’m seeing on a grand scale is that people are tak-ing their fitness classes that are deemed high intensity 4-5 days a week. It is physiologically impos-sible to exercise more than twice a week at intensity levels above 95%. By doing so the average per-son never fully recovers and ends up exercising at intensity levels that will not allow them to improve their overall fitness. Yes, short term you will see better results but eventually there will come a point where your body will not take on more high intensity training and you will hit a plateau or over train.

One way to manage this is con-trolling how hard of an effort you give the following day. Don’t waste your time with heart rate formulas but rather focus on complete nasal breathing on your easier training days. If you can’t maintain nasal

breathing (no inhalation/exha-lation what so ever with your mouth) you need to slow down your intensity level until you can manage it. You have two ner-vous systems that handle stress which are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous sys-tem. When you exercise at very high levels of intensity you’re re-lying solely on your sympathetic nervous system, think “fight or flight”. After a punishing work-out your body, in order to keep you alive, will immediately shift over to its parasympathetic ner-vous system; think “repair and healing” your body needs to de-crease stress. But in this case it takes a couple days to fully re-charge the batteries before you can truly tap into another bout of intense training. What’s great about nasal breathing is that by not mouth breathing you tend to stay in this relaxed parasympa-thetic state while still managing to achieve a quality workout. This forced recovery allows you to achieve a much higher qual-ity training session when your next hard workout comes along, thus, taking your fitness level to a higher level. I know people like to do hard stuff, but the right hard stuff at the right time is what improves performance and decreases injury. Lastly, the number one goal in any respect-able program should be to take away one’s pain and not deliver it on a daily basis. For free re-search based fitness and pro-gram design advice, check out our YouTube channel at heart-fitfmt.com.

At Heart Fit, our results driv-en approach covers every aspect necessary to achieve your goals, whether they involve weight loss, sports performance or a healthier lifestyle. If you are looking to lose weight or need a jump-start to get back into shape our highly qualified trainers will provide the knowledge and the means to help you become fit and stay that way. We are offering a free functional movement screen and one free personal training session to those that are looking to improve their quality of life.

Heart Fit-Functional Move-ment Training 821 E. Route #66 Glendora, CA (626) 914-3000 www.heartfitfmt.com

Jordan Nichols

When Investing, Put Time On Your Side Submitted by Cindy Bollinger, Edward Jones Financial Advisor

Now that we’re well into au-tumn, the days are getting no-ticeably shorter. The change in seasons reminds us that time is passing – and it’s important to use that time wisely. When used well, in fact, time can be your greatest gift in many walks of life – and that’s certainly true when you in-vest.

To illustrate the importance of time, let’s look at a scenario. Suppose you start saving for re-tirement when you are 25. If you invest $3,000 per year in a tax-deferred vehicle, such as a tradi-tional IRA, and you hypothetically earn a 7% annual return, you will have accumulated more than $640,000 after 40 years, when you reach 65 and are ready to retire. (Keep in mind that you will be taxed on withdrawals.)

Now, though, suppose you wait until you’re 55 before you start saving seriously for retirement. If you put that same $3,000 per year in that same IRA, earning that same hypothetical 7% return, you’d only end up with slightly more than $44,000 after 10 years, when you reach 65. And to accu-mulate the $640,000 you would have gotten after 40 years by con-tributing just $3,000 per year, you would have had to put in about $43,500 per year for the 10 years between ages 55 and 65.

Clearly, it’s a lot easier to come up with $3,000 per year than $43,500. So, to accumulate the re-sources you need for a comfortable retirement, you’ll help your cause greatly by saving and investing as early in your working life as pos-sible – and then continue to save and invest right up to, and even during, your retirement years.

The ability to potentially grow your portfolio sizably is the key benefit of using time when you in-vest – but it’s not the only benefit. You can also use time as a target, or a way to frame a specific invest-ment goal.

For example, suppose you have an 8-year-old child whom you want to send to college in 10 years. When that day arrives, wouldn’t it be nice to know that you’ve been saving money for a decade? One popular college savings vehicle is a 529 plan, which has high con-tribution limits and allows tax-free withdrawals, provided the money is used only for qualified higher education expenses. (With-drawals for other purposes will be taxed and may be subject to an ad-ditional penalty.)

You can also use time as a signal to adjust your investment strategy. If you’re going to retire in, say, two or three years, you might want to shift some – but certainly not all – of your assets from growth-oriented invest-ments to income-producing ones. As you know, the market will al-ways fluctuate, so you don’t want to be in a position where, once you retire, you need to start taking sig-nificant withdrawals – i.e., selling investments –when the market is down. Remember the time-hon-ored rule of investing: “Buy low, sell high.”

When you invest, make the best possible use of time – remem-ber, it’s the one asset that can’t be replenished.

This article was written by Ed-ward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

Shepherd’s Pantry is taking a Gamble!

The annual fall fundraiser for the Shepherd’s Pantry has turned into a Casino Night, Saturday, November 7, 2015. The festivities will take place at the Avalon Ballroom, Sheraton Fairplex from 6:00p.m.- 10:00 p.m., for those ready to win!

The evening will include crap ta-bles, Blackjack, Roulette and a Wheel of Fortune. Along with a no-host bar, first class buffet and dessert auction, guests will enjoy a fun evening while supporting their community.

For over a dozen years The Shep-herd’s Pantry has provided free ser-vices to the communities of Azusa, Baldwin Park, Claremont, Covina, Glendora, Hacienda Heights, La Pu-

ente, La Verne, San Dimas and West Covina. Year-round, the pantry pro-vides resource counseling, food, cloth-ing, haircuts and reading/math tutor-ing. Helping individuals and families become self-sufficient is the goal of the over 150 volunteers it takes to run the operation. The Shepherd’s Pantry is located at 657 E. Arrow Highway in Glendora.

100% of the proceeds from the Ca-sino Night will go to purchasing food for those in need. For more informa-tion on the Shepherd’s Pantry or the Casino Night, visit their website at www.shepherdspantry.com or call them at (626) 852-7630.

Celebrate Inland Valley Humane Society’s 66th Anniversary!You SAVE $79 on Adoption Fees!

Any dog or cat that has been at the shelter for 2 weeks or more will be $66 in honor of Inland Val-ley Humane Society’s 66th An-niversary*. The discounted adop-tion fees still covers: • The first set of shots (4-in-1 for dogs, and FVRCP for cats)• Rabies vaccination, deworm-ing, spay and neutering costs, mi-crochip, and• Free two week follow-up care visit with VCA Animal Hospital in Upland

*Adoption fees are normally $145. You SAVE $79. An annual registration fee may apply accord-ing to the city of residence.

Pet Adoption Day is the collab-orative effort of the two Assembly Districts, which cover much of the San Gabriel Valley and Inland areas and the Inland Valley Hu-mane Society, which contracts an-imal care services to Chino, Chino Hills, Claremont, Diamond Bar, Glendora, La Verne, Montclair, Ontario, Pomona, San Dimas and the unincorporated areas of San Bernardino County including West End, San Antonio Heights and Mt. Baldy.

The event is open to any per-son looking for the perfect furry or feathered friend and is not limited to those living within the Inland Valley Humane Society’s service area or Assemblymembers’ dis-trict boundaries.

Pet Adoption DayHosted by the Inland Val-ley Humane Society and Assemblymembers Holden and Rodriguez Friday, October 9, 201510 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Inland Valley Humane Society 500 Humane WayPomona, CA 91766

Parking is available on site Go to www.ivhsspca.org for details on adoptions and to view animals that need a home.

Adult Bereavement Support Groups

Inland Hospice offers bereave-ment support groups open to any-one struggling to adjust after the loss of a loved one, or involved in the grieving process. Including a group specific to suicide loss. These groups are open to the general public and free of charge. Each group is led by experienced facilitators who have extensive training, as well as personal ex-perience with the grief process. All groups are ongoing and new members are welcome to join any-time. Call (909) 399-3289 for addi-tional information.


The Bernini Express makes its way back to St. Moritz.

Cathédrale de Lausanne.

Remember, Swiss trains are always on time.

Thanks to its geographical loca-tion, Switzerland always has been a travel destination — whether for merchants, Roman Pilgrims, or, since the latter part of the 19th cen-

tury, nature-loving tourists.In this age of terrorism and post

9/11, Switzerland’s neutrality makes it one of the safest places to visit.

The health factor is a great rea-

son to visit Switzerland, but the chocolate and wine get me every time. To taste the Swiss wine you have to travel to Switzerland. They keep it all to themselves. If You Go

For information about where to stay and how to get there, go to www.myswitzerland.com.

All information is accurate at the

time of publication but prices, dates and other details are all subject to change. Confirm all information before making any travel arrange-ments.

Travel Editor Stan Wawer is a

La Verne resident, a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and editor of his own travel blog, www.travelwithstan.blogspot.com. Address all travel related questions to his blog. His travel Facebook page is www.facebook.com/ TravelWith-Stan.

The Matterhorn, towering above Zermatt, is the king of the Swiss

Alps.

Switzerland: Take a deep breathStory & Photos By Stan Wawer

What’s not to like about Swit-zerland — the incomparable vistas, the air, the water, the chocolate, and the wine.

The cheese is good but so is California cheese. Swit-zerland swears its cows are the happiest on Earth, but

California makes the same claim, as does Wisconsin. In my opinion, cows pretty much go along with the flow. They are not the Phi Beta Kappas of the animal kingdom.

The salubrious climate makes for healthy people. The azure sky makes you squint. The mountains

leave an indelible impression and the trees and grass give off the aura of an emerald wonderland.

When I’m in Switzerland, my runny nose stops running; my itchy eyes stop itching and my morning sneezes take a holiday.

On my last visit to Switzerland, I ran, hiked and cavorted at altitudes above 13,000 feet. I spent time in Geneva, Lausanne, Vevy, St. Mori-tz, Maienfeld, Zurich and Zermatt. Some Swiss cities have graffiti — especially Zurich — but the hill and mountain regions are squeaky clean.

“Graffiti is something new to us,” said Henriette Eckland of Lausanne

Tourism. “We’re still learning how to deal with it.”

The Matterhorn, at 14,691 feet, is the king of the Swiss Alps. It stands guard over the resort village of Zer-matt. The Matterhorn was first climbed on July 14, 1865 by a team headed by Englishman Edward Whymper.

No trip to Switzerland is com-plete without a stay in Zermatt and a gondola ride up the Klein Matter-horn where an ice grotto greets you with sculptures and a wine bar.

The car-free resort is in the south-west area of Switzerland. The idyllic Valais village in the Matter Valley

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nestles amidst an impressive land-scape of mountains and glaciers and enjoys a panorama of 38 13,000-foot peaks.

“You can drink the water right out of the tap or out of a stream any-where in the Swiss mountains,” said Daniel Luggen, marketing director for Zermatt Tourism.

St. Moritz, the playground of the rich and famous, is on the south side of the Alps, in the Engadine Valley (6,000 feet above sea level). The high-est mountains of the eastern Alps are the Upper Engadins (Mt. Ber-nina at 13,000 feet).

St. Moritz originally rose to im-portance because of its healing min-eral springs, which have been ap-preciated for more than 3,000 years. In the Middle Ages, visitors came to St. Moritz to take the waters in

summer. In fact, in 1519, Pope Leo X promised full absolution for every visitor of the Christian faith who came to the spa of St. Moritz. Not a bad deal.

In 1830, St. Moritz had 200 resi-dents; in 1864, the first winter guests arrived and led the way to the rapid development of the village as a re-sort. St. Moritz was the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and 1948.

Today, St. Moritz has almost 6,000 residents plus about 3,000 em-ployees in season. Almost 60 percent of the hotels are in the four- and five-star categories.

Switzerland’s train travel — Swiss Rail — is an easy and efficient way of getting around the country.

Lake Geneva and downtown Geneva.

A tranquil valley in Maienfeld, the home of the Heidi Village.

What is Hospice?Hospice Care Part IBy Jennifer True

Many people have heard the word “hospice”, but are unsure of exactly what hospice means or how it works

Hospice, from the word Hos-pitality, has been found back in medieval times when it was used to mean a place of shelter and rest for tired or ill travelers dur-ing their journeys. The modern concept of hospice began in 1967 when Dr. Cicely Saunders opened a hospice house near London to care for the dying.

Today’s hospice is designed to care for patients whose illness or injuries are no longer responding to curative measures. The hos-pice professionals care for all the symptoms of the disease but the focus is on controlling the patient’s pain and any discomfort. With hospice care , the patient can re-main at ease in their own homes surrounded by family and friends or they may choose a care facility.

The hospice team consist of physicians, nurses, aides, social workers, spiritual care givers, counselors, and volunteers. The teams is specially trained to pro-vide holistic care not only to the patient but to the patient’s family. The team not only addresses the patients physical symptoms, but the emotional, social and spiritual needs.

The soul of the hospice program is to provide dignity and comfort to a patient’s last months, weeks

or days of life. It is important to remember that hospice care does not assist the dying process but rather allows the patients and their families live as fully as pos-sible. The focus is on compassion-ate care.

Each and every patient and their families are unique. A hos-pice professional meets with the patient and /or the family to deter-mine these particular needs. The hospice team then develops a spe-cialized care plan to meet the need of that patient.

The hospice team comes to the patient - whether in their own homes, in a care facility, nursing home, assisted living, or residen-tial care.

Cost is normally a major con-cern for those facing end of life issues. As a rule, hospice care is fully covered by insurance or Medicare. The hospice social worker can assist you in making the right choices.

Community Care Hospice has been in Glendora since 2003. We are proud to be a small, local hos-pice that has given care in our community. If you have questions about hospice care, give us a call or stop by. We are at 222 W. Foot-hill Blvd, telephone 626-335-9759. We would be happy to talk to you or provide a speaker for your club or organization.

Carol Wawrychuk Book SigningTaking Nana HomeA granddaughter’s desire to take her beloved Nana home resulted in more than she expected and the discovery that the destination WAS the Journey!Sunday, October 25, 4 PM

Pasadena — On Sunday, Oc-tober 25, at 4 p.m., Vroman’s Bookstore hosts a talk and book signing for author Carol Wawry-chuk, longtime resident of La Cañada Flintridge and retired teacher from the city’s Paradise Canyon Elementary School. Her book, Taking Nana Home, is the true account of her search for her grandmother’s grave decades after Nana’s death.

In 2004, thirty-five years after she died while a patient in the mental hospital at Las Vegas, New Mexico, Nana came to her granddaughter in a vision. “Take me home, Carol. Take me home”. Little did Carol know, Nana was apparently speaking for over 2,000 souls in need of a final rest-ing place.

Ducking under barbed wire fencing to enter the cemetery grounds, Carol combed through sagebrush and knee high weeds in search of clues to Nana’s burial place. Instead of serene surround-ings with beautiful headstones, she found cement slabs with dates and names crudely etched by hand, mangled metal markers stamped with patient numbers, and human remains that had eroded to the surface. Carol was standing in a throwaway cem-etery.

Thus began the two-year jour-ney to find Nana. From confront-ing the bureaucracy of a state gov-

ernment, to interviews with news media, to doggedly pursuing the hospital administration, Carol’s search pushed her out of the safe-ty net of her comfortable life as a wife, mother and teacher.

Taking Nana Home is not only the story of a cemetery clean-up, it is a love story of a grand-daughter looking back at her family and especially her Nana, with a new set of lenses, and it is a story of faith. It is in reclaiming her past that Carol finds the desti-nation WAS the journey.

Carol has a passion for Spiri-tual Formation. She facilitates small group spiritual direction, leads silent retreats, and does in-dividual spiritual mentoring. She is currently involved as a group leader in the Vocation & Forma-tion Program at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California.

In addition to Taking Nana Home, she has authored Mir-acles Happened There, Tsu-nami in the Desert, co-authored a series of early childhood curricu-lum books, and is a regular con-tributor to La Canada Flintridge Neighbors Magazine. Carol and her husband Bill have lived in La Cañada Flintridge, CA for thirty-four years.

For more information, contact Vroman’s at (626) 449-5320. Vro-man’s Bookstore is located at 695 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.

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