For today’s column, you get news and notes from not only Ontario, but Pomona too. Now how much would you pay?

Ontario Report

• Norma Burleson, who helps confused passengers at the Travelers Aid desk at LA/Ontario International Airport, was named Ontario’s volunteer of the year on Friday. Burleson, 76, has logged more than 4,700 hours since 1998 and puts in regular shifts on Mondays and Wednesdays. “It’s amazing how many people going to Canada end up in California and we have to reroute them,” Burleson told me.

• One of the other three nominees, Darrell Carpenter of the library, turned out to be Burleson’s brother. The two didn’t realize they’d both been nominated until the day before the ceremony, when Burleson called Carpenter to request that he attend the ceremony and he replied he was already going. Carpenter’s wife volunteers for the Upland Senior Center and two other siblings who live out of state volunteer as well. “I think it must be in our blood,” Carpenter told me.

• Stanley McCloskey, the Ontario cop said to have helped arrest Frank Zappa in Cucamonga in 1965, died May 16 at age 84. He spent 30 years with the Ontario Police Department before his 1990 retirement, but his brush with Zappa as part of a pornography sting put his name in the history books. Wish I could have interviewed him.

• Vintage cars will line Euclid Avenue downtown as the 21st annual Inland Valley Street Rods Rally and Cruise takes place Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., starting with a pancake breakfast in Town Square.

• Some 225 children showed up Monday to the Ovitt Family Community Library for the first day of its participation in the Ontario-Montclair School District’s summer nutrition program. More than 135 children ate a free lunch of hamburger sliders, fresh vegetables, roasted chickpeas and milk and were entertained by humorous magician Arty Loon. Open to any child in the district up to age 18, the program takes place from noon to 2 p.m. weekdays through July 31.

• Mystery writer Steph Cha, whose three novels about Juniper Song, a Korean-American sleuth in modern-day L.A., have been acclaimed as worthy heirs to Raymond Chandler, will talk about the writing life at 7 p.m. June 10 at the library, 215 E. C St.

Book sale

Used bookstores are a rare sight these days. Dwain Kaiser opened Magic Door Books in 2005 at 155 W. Second St. in Pomona and this month is marking 10 years in business. And he’s marking it in a way book lovers will appreciate: a sale. Everything in the store is 30 percent off for the month of June.

He’s got 12,000 books on the shelves and would like to end the month with less. I can’t blame him: So many books have piled up that he’s almost wedged in behind his desk.

Trivia note

One year after a Bulletin team bombed out at the Pomona Public Library Trivia Bee, our reconstituted team (myself, Pete Marshall and Beatriz Valenzuela) placed a strong third in last week’s contest.

Did you know an elephant has 40,000 muscles in its trunk? We didn’t either. But we knew, among other things, that Louisiana is “the Pelican State,” that Elvis Presley’s “It’s Now or Never” is based on the aria “O Sole Mio” and that the color of the crayon wielded by the children’s book character Harold is purple.

First place went to the Pomona Rotary Club, while second was claimed by Pomona City Management, a team consisting of the city manager, community development director and assistant city attorney.

Pomona citizens can rest easy knowing that city officials not only see the big picture, they know a lot of useless facts.

Speaking of which, David Allen writes Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Contact david.allen@langnews.com or 909-483-9339, visit insidesocal.com/davidallen, like davidallencolumnist on Facebook and follow @davidallen909 on Twitter.