A Metrolink train came to an emergency stop at the Depot last night in order to attend to medical issues for the train’s conductor.
Claremont Police and the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department responded to the Depot at 200 W. First St. around 7:15 p.m. to help the train’s conductor, who was feeling ill. The conductor was transported to the hospital for an unknown medical reason, according to Sergeant Jason Walters with the Claremont Police Department.
Award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith will perform and discuss her one-woman show On the Road: A Search for American Character on Wednesday, February 29 at 7 p.m., as part of Pomona College’s Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, to be held at Pomona College’s Bridges Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
Ms. Smith’s show presents a collection of excerpts from 25 years of interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. Known for her acclaimed one-woman plays exploring American character and national identity, Ms. Smith has won numerous awards, including 2 Obies, 2 Tony nominations, a Drama Desk Award, the USA Susan V. Berresford Award from United States Artists and a MacArthur fellowship. She was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for her play Fires In the Mirror. She has been hailed as creating a new form of theater, combining the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. The New York Times called her “the ultimate impressionist, she does people's souls.” Her television and movie credits include Nurse Jackie, The West Wing, The American President, Philadelphia and others.
Ms. Smith is also the founding director of Anna Deavere Smith Works, a nonprofit that convenes socially-committed artists whose work addresses the world's most pressing problems and brings them into dialogue with scholars, scientists, activists, students and politicians. She the founder of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, a center for artistic excellence addressing social change. Smith teaches at New York University.
She is the author of Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind (2006) and Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines (2000), among others.=
Bridges Auditorium is located at 450 N. College Way, Claremont. The free tickets are available at the Bridges Auditorium box office, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Limit 2 tickets per person.
Congratulations to Claremont-based RD Photo Services, selected as one of 10 businesses across the country to participate in Project Rev 2012, a yearlong program to help small business owners improve their marketing, find more customers and grow sales.
RD Photo Services, owned by portrait and action photographer Robin A. Driscoll, was selected from more than 1200 applicants to receive $15,000 worth of free marketing tools from Deluxe and yearlong access to marketing advisors, mentors, products and services. RD Photo Services will also receive guidance from a local chapter of SCORE, a national nonprofit dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and helping small businesses start, grow and succeed.
“I didn’t think I could afford a marketing plan, so I began promoting myself by word of mouth,” Driscoll said. “Word of mouth marketing is great, but my business growth is slower than I would like.”
Growth of small businesses like RD Photo Services is critical to an economic recovery. In the United States, small businesses represent 98 percent of businesses, employ over half of the workers and produce over half of the gross domestic product. United States Small Business Administration
“Last year’s Project REV participants collectively doubled their sales despite the economy,” said Laura Radewald, vice president of brand and media relations with Deluxe. “Deluxe selected RD Photo Services as a 2012 program participant because, like so many small businesses across America, it needs marketing tools that will increase the reach of its message beyond what word of mouth and referrals can provide.”
Through Project REV, she hopes to grow her brand with a social media presence, blog, direct mail process and more.
For more information on Project REV 2012 visit www.projectrev2012.com.
The city’s online budget survey is once again open to residents.
The survey— originally slated to open last week—was made temporarily unavailable as city staff worked to make changes to the content following its community budget meetings.
The survey will be available online at www.ci.claremont.ca.us until Sunday, March 4. Information will then be compiled and sent to the city council members as Claremont prepares for its next 2-year budget cycle.
For more information call city hall at 399-5460.
