Here’s how to conserve in drought days of summer
Research shows that Californians use up to 50 percent more water than they need to maintain healthy, beautiful gardens. In fact, Armstrong Garden Centers experts suggest that gardens and landscapes would actually be healthier if they were watered less, but more effectively.

Harvest time is here at vineyards again
“This is certainly the earliest harvest that I have seen in my career, but quality has been very good, and I feel that the warm winter and warm spring just accelerated vine growth and ripening to the point where we are 18 to 20 days ahead of sched.

Upland’s Cooper Museum: Appreciating our past
Twenty-five years ago, as part of an oral history project celebrating the sesquicentennial of the planting of the Mother Vineyard, Rancho Cucamonga Chamber of Commerce volunteers brought together some of the region’s most historically significant residents to reminisce about the early days of the region.

Check for help reducing home water use
The Residential Landscape Retrofit program provides outdoor irrigation evaluations and retrofits of landscaping devices for residential customers who have been identified within the top 10 percent of the participating retail water providers’ customer base.

Know your water conservation rules
The recently enacted mandatory water conservation regulations target both individual water users and local water suppliers to reduce water demand. The regulations prohibit each of the following, except in case of health or safety needs or to comply with a term or condition in a permit issued by a state or federal agency:.

Group need a fundraiser? Look no further than Rounds
Rounds has launched a new campaign and plans to host 50 fundraisers, such as school dineout nights, during this upcoming school year. With a fast-casual, buildyour-own concept, you can have exactly what you are craving while supporting a great cause..

AAIE celebrates 50 years of art with juried exhibit next month
Highlights of the 50th AAIE exhibit include the awards ceremony and reception from 7:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 5; a chalk festival featuring local junior high students on Saturday; and a video presentation reflecting on AAIE’s 50 years of promoting the visual arts in the Inland Valley.

“Project Series 49: Sam Falls” exhibit examines the beauty o
The exhibition represents the first solo museum exhibition of the Los Angeles and New York-based artist. For this exhibition, the artist presents new work, including several of his signature weather-driven paintings and a new sitespecific outdoor sculpture composed of an altered pickup truck filled with succulents.

ARTS CALENDAR
ONTARIO Aug. 17 ‘Spice’ Noon, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, 217 S. Lemon Ave. Chaffey Community Museum of Art South Gallery is featuring an exhibit, titled “Spice.” The watercolors exhibit will feature JoAnn Formia, a CCMA 2014 Artist of the Year, according to the Chaffey Community Museum of Art South Gallery.

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
PRICE: N/A BUYER/SELLER: Sharif Duuring (trustee), Tyrone Duuring (trustee), Ronald M. Podojil (trustee), the 12th Street (trust) and Mamoun Yaghchi (trustee)/ Ronald M. Podojil (trustee) and the Ronald M. Podojil (revocable trust) BED/BATH/SQ. FT.: 3/1/ N/A.

303 Alamosa Drive, Claremont
This custom home was listed at $1.75 million and sold for $1.815 million after 12 days on the market. It features 4,631 square feet with five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, a guest house and resort-like yard with a beach entry pool and waterfall. The home was built in 2011 on a 53,976-square-foot lot and includes a four-car garage.

Cool trends in pool design
A beach entry is a slope from the edge of the pool that gradually gets deeper, mimicking the gentle slope of a sandy beach. It’s good for small children and toddlers who aren’t yet strong swimmers because it gives them a place for supervised play without the sudden drop-off of a Baja shelf.