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Nominations are now being accepted for the 28th Annual City of Claremont Architectural Commission Excellence in Design Awards. The awards program recognizes recently completed building projects in Claremont that best exhibit the City's standards of design excellence.

Awards are presented in several categories including new construction, signs, adaptive reuse, rehabilitation, sustainability, landscaping, and etc. In order to be eligible, the project must be in Claremont and have been completed prior to December 31, 2008. Projects completed in years prior to 2008 are eligible as well. Projects involving interior alterations only will not be considered for an award.

Anyone may nominate a project that they feel is worthy. Nomination forms are available at Claremont City Hall, 207 Harvard Avenue, and online by clicking the link below. The deadline for submitting nominations is January 30, 2009.

Questions about the awards or the nomination process can be answered by calling the City's Planning Division at (909) 399-5470.

The City of Claremont will be collecting holiday trees for recycling between Monday, December 29, 2008 and Friday, January 9, 2009.

Be sure to remove everything from the tree including the stand. Place the bare tree at the curb by 6 a.m. on your regular collection day. Do not bag the tree. Trees over 6 feet tall must be cut in half.

For more information, please contact the Community Services Department at (909) 399-5431.

Claremont artists of all ages and skill levels are invited to enter a competition to design and create banners to be displayed on lampposts in the Village. Entrants must live or attend school in Claremont, kindergarten through college, to be eligible.

Artists wishing to be considered must submit a proposed design based on the theme "Enjoy Claremont." The City's Banner Committee, based on visual appeal, creativity, and how well the design conveys the theme, will select fourteen winning entries.

Selected artists will be given a blank banner on which to paint their design. A cash award of $250 will be given to each artist upon completion of his or her banner.

All entries must be accompanied by a completed entry form, which can be obtained from the City's Arts Coordinator, Francine Baker, by calling her at (909) 399-5391 or sending an e-mail message to her at fbaker@ci.claremont.ca.us. Ms. Baker can also be contacted to obtain more information about the contest's rules and requirements.

Deadline for submitting designs and entry forms is January 8, 2009. Winning artists will be notified January 29, 2009 with the banners scheduled for installation in the Village on April 1, 2009.