October 27 SBC Sentinel Legal Notices

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Venturi

FBN 20230009381
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
BASKET CASE [and] GIGI’S BLESSED BASKET 35231 AVENUE C YUCAIPA, CA 92399: GEORGEANN HANNA 35231 AVENUE C YUCAIPA, CA 92399
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ GEOREGANN HANNA
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/15/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J55748
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2023.

FBN 20230009328
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
P & C MORTGAGE 8047 DAY CREEK BLVD, SUITE 200 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: LYNN M PERRY 8626 BUGGY WHIP ROAD ALTA LOMA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ LYNN M. PERRY, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 9/12/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J2523
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2023.

FBN 20230009992
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
V NAIL SALON 275 E 9TH STREET STE F SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410: KHOA Q NGUYEN 27458 CYPRESS STREET HIGHLAND, CA 92346
Mailing Address: 27458 CYPRESS STREET HIGHLAND, CA 92346
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: SEPTEMBER 15, 2023.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ KHOA Q NGUYEN, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/02/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J6733
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DENISE MARIE VOSS
CASE NO. PROSB2300229
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DENISE MARIE VOSS has been filed by CARLOS VOSS in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CARLOS VOSS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held DECEMBER 7, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
Filed: MAY 5, 2023
BRITTNEY SPEARS, Deputy Court Clerk.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Carlos Voss:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 13, 20 & 27, 2023.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY REMAINING ON VACATED PREMISES OF FORMER TENANT
[Civil Code §1988] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 2, 2023 at 10:30 a.m., at 10350 Baseline Rd., Space 96, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701, the undersigned will sell at public auction the personal property left by Edward A. Mathews and Lisa Y Villarreal when they vacated the premises commonly known as 10350 Baseline Rd., Space 96, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701. This property consists of: two (2) couches, one (1) flat screen television, two (2) IPods two (2) IPod speaker sound systems, two (2) coffee makers, four (4) vacuums, one (1) dining room table with four (4) chairs, one (1) dryer, one (1) queen size bed frame with mattress and box spring, one (1) credenza, one (1) portable A.C Unit, one (1) coffee table, one (1) side table, miscellaneous tools, miscellaneous small tool boxes, miscellaneous pillows, miscellaneous blankets, miscellaneous laundry baskets with clothes, miscellaneous socks, miscellaneous electrical wires/cables throughout home in boxes and drawers, closet full of clothes and shoes, miscellaneous cans of paint, two (2) air mattresses, one (1) blue cooler, one ( 1) barbecue, one (1) brown bean bag, miscellaneous rugs, miscellaneous pictures on walls, miscellaneous decor on walls, miscellaneous personal memorabilia, eleven (11) old baseballs, five (5) watches, three (3) gold plated Pokémon cards, four (4) fans, miscellaneous lamps, miscellaneous dishes, pots and pans, two (2) 1996 Coca Cola sealed bottles, one (1) gold chain bracelet, one (1) printer, one (1) computer monitor, two (2) clothes racks, one (1) bike, two (2) nightstands, one (1) television stand, one (1) wooden DVD case, miscellaneous books, box of DVDs, box of CDs, five (5) televisions outside home (unknown if they are broken) This auction will be made in accordance with the provisions of Civil Code § 1988. Dated: October 10, 2023 GREGORY BEAM & ASSOCIATES, INC. By: Gregory B. Beam Authorized agent for Alta Vista Mobile Home Park (TS# 2381-024 SDI-27984) Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2324814
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GALINA MEDVEDEV on behalf of her son ARTUOM IDIMECHEV REZAYEV filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
ARTUOM IDIMECHEV REZAYEV to ARTUOM DANILOVICH IDIMECHEV
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 12/5/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S17
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Judge Gilbert G. Ochoa
Dated: 10/10/2023
Paola Iniquez, Deputy Court Clerk
Galina Medvedev, In Pro Per
Phone: (909) 374-8100
rock.nstyle@aol.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 13, 20, 27 and November 3, 2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2321839
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SELENA LIZABETH MORENO filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
SELENA LIZABETH MORENO to SELENA LIZABETH CISNEROS
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 11/20/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S33
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Judge Gilbert G. Ochoa
Dated 9/26/2023
Priscilla Saldana, Deputy Court Clerk
Selena Lizabeth Moreno, In Pro Per
Phone: (909) 477-0189
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 13, 20, 27 and November 3, 2023

FBN 20230008921
The following entity is doing business, primarily in San Bernardino County, as:
KAUSA PERUVIAN RESTAURANT 8880 ARCHIBALD AVE UNIT E RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: ADELA LUNA 7531 EXBURY PLACE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
Began Transacting Business: SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
BY SIGNING BELOW, I DECLARE THAT ALL INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT. A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime. (B&P Code 17913) I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
S/ ADELA LUNA, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 9/01/2023
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. County Clerk, Deputy J7550
NOTICE- This fictitious business name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 13, 20, 27 and November 3, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: STELLA CARDENAS MORENO
CASE NO. PROVA2300119
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of STELLA CARDENAS MORENO
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ARMIDA CABRAL in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ARMIDA CABRAL be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. F-1 at 9:00 a.m. on November 15, 2023
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Armida Cabral:
ANTONIETTE JAUREGUI (SB 192624)
1894 S. COMMERCENTER WEST, SUITE 108
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408
Telephone No: (909) 890-2350
Fax No: (909) 890-0106
ajprobate@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: WILLIE C. HARRIS aka WILLIE CALVIN HARRIS
CASE NO. PROSB2201656
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of WILLIE C. HARRIS aka WILLIE CALVIN HARRIS has been filed by MARY E. TURCOTTE in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARY E. TURCOTTE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held NOVEMBER 27, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Mary E. Turcott, In Pro Per
P.O. Box 3292
Landers, CA 92285
Phone (760) 886 -0852
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3, 2023.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
Notice is hereby given that personal property in the following units will be sold at public auction pursuant to Sections 21701-21716 of the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act. A public lien sale will be conducted by www.storagetreasures.com on the 10th day of November 2023, at or after 10:00 am. The property is stored by AAA All American Storage Fontana located at 14918 Foothill Blvd, Fontana, CA 92335. Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY. Items are sold AS IS WHERE IS and must be removed at the time of sale. AAA All American Storage Fontana reserves the right to refuse any bid or cancel auction. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: miscellaneous personal and household goods stored by the following persons:
Unit Name
A11 Thomas Patterson
D76 Abraham Chagolla
E97 Kenneth McCord
E107 Gerardo Gutierrez Cerrato
E112 Jesus Flores Gonzalez
F81 Dorian Sade Thompson
F104 Charlie Juarez
F106 Joe Silva
F183 Taryn Gonzales
F193 Norma Arteaga
G05 Gilbert Zuniga
G06 Gilbert Zuniga
Dated: 10/23/2023
Signed: Jonathan Gossett
storagetreasures.com
Sales subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and obligated party.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 27 and November 3, 2023.

NOTICE OF PUBIC LIEN SALE
Notice is hereby given that personal property in the following units will be sold at public auction pursuant to Sections 21701-21716 of the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act. A public lien sale will be conducted by www.storagetreasures.com on the 10th day of November 2023, at or after 9:00 am. The property is stored by All American Storage Ontario located at 505 S. Mountain Avenue, Ontario, CA 91762. Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY. Items are sold AS IS WHERE IS and must be removed at the time of sale. All American Storage Ontario reserves the right to refuse any bid or cancel auction. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: miscellaneous personal and household goods stored by the following persons:
Unit Name
B029 Alicia Chavez
C011 Betzabeh Magana Reyes
C055 Gloria Estrada Martinez
C058 Marlene M Cadena
D028 Gary J Lopacinski
D037 Kyle Langmaack
D040 Marlene M Cadena
D046 Marlene M Cadena
D104 Caludia Drochak
E031 Jimi Reynaldo
E042 Rhiannon Dominguez
Dated: 10/26/2023
Signed: Garrett Gossett
storagetreasures.com
Sales subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and obligated party.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 27 and November 3, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2325595
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CYRUS ANTHONY MELCHOR filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
CYRUS ANTHONY MELCHOR to CYRUS ANTHONY BARRAZA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 11/30/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S33
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Judge Gilbert G. Ochoa
Dated: 10/19/2023
Abriana Rodriguez, Deputy Court Clerk
Cyrus Anthony Melchor, Pro Per
11620 Mount Miriah Dr
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737
Phone: (747) 256-2458
cyrusbarraza@icloud.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3 & 10, 2023.

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2325280
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TROY JOHNSON filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
– – WILLIAMS to TROY LAMONT JOHNSON JR
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 11/29/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S31
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Judge Gilbert G. Ochoa
Dated: 10/18/2023
Matthew Stutle, Deputy Court Clerk
Troy Johnson, In Pro Per
16605 Terrace Lane Apartment D
Fontana, CA, 92335
Phone: (909) 401-6177
msbilliewilliams76@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3 & 10, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2325169
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GALINA MEDVEDEV on behalf of her son ALEKSANDR DANILOVICH REZAYEV filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
ALEKSANDR DANILOVICH REZAYEV to ALEKSANDR DANILOVICH IDIMECHEV
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 12/06/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S29
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the court’s website. To find your court’s website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Galina Medvedev, In Pro Per
9613 Enclave Dr.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737
fromusa777@gmail.com
Phone: (909) 374 -8100
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3 & 10, 2023.

FBN 20230010629
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
BARKER SERVICES 82532 2ND STREET TRONA, CA 93562: SHAWN BARKER CONSTRUCTION INC 82532 2ND STREET TRONA, CA 93562
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 681 TRONA, CA 93592
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number 5649820.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: OCTOBER 10, 2023.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ SHAWN BARKER, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/20/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J5842
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 20 & 27 and November 3 & 10, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PHILIP MARION TOSCANO
CASE NO. PROSB2300635
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PHILIP MARION TOSCANO has been filed by LUCILLE MARIE TOSCANO in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LUCILLE MARIE TOSCANO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held NOVEMBER 14, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F3 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
Filed: MAY 18, 2023
VALERIE GOLDSTEIN, Deputy Court Clerk.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Lucille Marie Toscano:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 27 and November 3 & 10, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2322236
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Gurleen Bedi filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Gurleen Bedi to Gurleen Leena Bedi, THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 11/29/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S24
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBCS ? Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 10/18/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023

FBN 20230010342
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
P & C REAL ESTATE GROUP 8047 DAY CREEK BLVD, SUITE 100 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: LYNN M PERRY 8626 BUGGY WHIP ROAD ALTA LOMA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ LYNN M. PERRY, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/12/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy I8090
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 27 AND November 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

FBN 20230009769
The following person is doing business as: 279 MOBILE REPAIR. 9532 EVERGREEN LN FONTANA, CA 92335
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DAMIAN C MENDEZ 9532 EVERGREEN LN FONTANA, CA 92335.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ DAMIAN C MENDEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202301MT

FBN 20230009836
The following person is doing business as: FAST QUALITY LUMPERS SERVICE. 18584 8TH ST BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
NORMA G FARIAS 18584 8TH ST BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ NORMA G FARIAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202302MT

FBN 202300010013
The following person is doing business as: SANTIAGO’S APPLIANCE. 273 WEST E ST COLTON, CA 92324
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
FILIBERTO RODRIGUEZ 273 WEST E ST COLTON, CA 92324; AGUSTIN RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ 273 WEST E ST COLTON, CA 92324.
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ FILIBERTO RODRIGUEZ, GENERAL PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 02, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202303MT

FBN 20230009909
The following person is doing business as: DUCTH MOTEL. 25252 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
NEO’S HOSPITALITY, INC. 25252 REDLANDS BLVDL LOMA LINDA CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ PRIYADERSHINI Y. PATEL, SECRETARY
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202304MT

FBN 202300010007
The following person is doing business as: A&J INTERIOR TILE. 2549 N QUINCE AVE RIALTO, CA 92377
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
A&J BUILD & DESIGN, INC 2549 N QUINCE AVE RIALTO, CA 92377
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ALEX C. ARREOLA, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 02, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202305MT

FBN 20230009972
The following person is doing business as: SAVE MONEY AUTO SALES. 822 W VALLEY BLVD RIALTO, CA 92376
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
AUTO CENTER SALES INC 822 W VALLEY BLVD RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ KHALID E. FAKHOURY, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202306MT

FBN 20230009941
The following person is doing business as: ACE SOLAR CARE. 7996 JUNIPER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ACE SOLAR CARE, LLC 7996 JUNIPER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ FERNANDO MENDOZA SANTANA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202307MT

FBN 20230010134
The following person is doing business as: PERFORMANCE ALIGNMENT THERAPY. 12727 E 13TH ST YUCAIPA, CA 92399
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
PATRICIA J NORDSTROM 12727 13TH ST YUCAIPA, CA 92399.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: OCT 03, 2023
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ PATRICIA J NORDSTROM, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: october 04, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202308MT

FBN 202300010098
The following person is doing business as: NOSTRA FORTS AUTO GROUP. 560 NORTH ARROWHEAD AVE. SUITE 5 A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92401
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
CHRISTIAN A STEFFENS 23905 CLINTON KETH RD #420 WILDOMAR, CA 92595.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ CHRISTIAN A STEFFENS,
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 04, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/06/2023, 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023 CNBB40202309MT

FBN 20230010250
The following person is doing business as: A+ DELIVERIES SUPPER LOADS HIGH DAMAND SUPPLY GROWTH; 4 STAR HIGH DEMAND OUTO DELERSHIPS; APOLLO 11 SPACE UNIVERSE PRODUCTS; NON TOLERANCE POTENTIAL HARM PROTECTION; NO BILLS EXECUTIVE BRANCH; APOLLO 10 SPACE UNIVERSE PRODUCTS; INVESTING MYSELF MR AMBITOUS EXECUTIVE. 483 NORTHPARK BLVD SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 90813 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92427];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
L.M.R. IDEAS UNLIMITED LLC 483 NORTHPARK BLVD SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ LAVON MARKES ROUNTREE, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 10, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202301MT

FBN 20230010275
The following person is doing business as: YE OLDE LAMPLIGHTER. 255 E 40TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404;[ MAILING ADDRESS 25717 MESA COURT SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
LISA A MELLOR 25717 MESA COURT SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404; DAVID A MELLOR 25717 MESA COURT SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404.
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: OCT 09, 2023
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ LISA A MELLOR
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 10, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202302MT

FBN 20230010271
The following person is doing business as: FOUNTAIN BLU EXPRESS CAR WASH. 10159 CITRUS AVE FONTANA, CA 92335
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
VALLEY BLVD PROPERTY INC 3325 W 6TH STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90020
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ SAEED KOHANOFF, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 10, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202303MT

FBN 20230010273
The following person is doing business as: VALLEY BLVD GAS. 16111 VALLEY BLVD FONTANA, CA 92335;[ MAILING ADDRESS 16111 VALLEY BLVD FONTANA, CA 92335];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
VALLEY BLVD PROPERTY INC 3325 W 6TH STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90020
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ SAEED KOHANOFF, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 10, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202304MT

FBN 20230010173
The following person is doing business as: ROSEANN. 870 EAST 25TH STREET UPLAND, CA 91784
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
EMILY A HUNT 870 EAST 25TH STREET UPLAND, CA 91784; KATIE R HUNT 870 EAST 25TH STREET UPLAND, CA 91784.
The business is conducted by: COPARTNERS.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ EMILY A HUNT, GENERAL PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/05/2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202305MT

FBN 202300010168
The following person is doing business as: IFIXANDREPAIR. 1333 N MOUNTAIN AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SULEMAN AMIRZADA 1333 N MOUNTAIN AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ SULEMAN AMIRZADA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 05, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202306MT

FBN 20230010009
The following person is doing business as: MARISCOS PURO SINALOA. 16250 HOMECOMING DR UNIT 1088 CHINO, CA 91708
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MARIE A LEON LEON 16250 HOMECOMING DR APT 1088 CHINO, CA 91708.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: SEP 07, 2023
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MARIE A LEON-LEON, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 02, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202307RC

FBN 20230009784
The following person is doing business as: PASSTHEBRUSH. 1220 W TROPICANA ST ONTARIO, CA 91762
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
VANESSA D ROMERO 1220 W TROPICANA ST ONTARIO, CA 91762.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ VANESSA D. ROMERO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202308MT

FBN 20230010016
The following person is doing business as: ALONZO-ESPANA, LLC. 1697 GENEVIEVE ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ALONZO-SPANA, LLC 812 W 129TH ST GARDENA, CA 90247
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ELSA MIRANDA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 02, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/13/2023, 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023 CNBB41202309MT

FBN 20230010323
The following person is doing business as: JD LUMPER SERVICES. 18158 MCCAULEY STREET FONTANA, CA 92335
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JACQUELINE PEDROZA MORONES 18158 MCCAULEY STREET FONTANA, CA 92335.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JACQUELINE PEDROZA MORONES, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 12, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023 CNBB42202301MT

FBN 20230010324
The following person is doing business as: TRAVEL TEAM CALIFORNIA. 11838 RAMONA AVE CHINO, CA 91710
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
TOMAS VAZQUEZ 11838 RAMONA AVE CHINO, CA 91710.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ TOMAS VAZQUEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 12, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023 CNBB42202302LD

FBN 20230010329
The following person is doing business as: AZ ENTERPRISE. 7396 KAISER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
EDWIN R AZURDIA 7396 KAISER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ EDWIN R AZURDIA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 12, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023 CNBB42202303MT

FBN 20230001423
The following person is doing business as: UPLAND COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE. 530 E. 9TH ST. UPLAND, CA 91786
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
GERARDO ALMAGUER SANTILLAN 530 E. 9TH ST. UPLAND, CA 91786.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ GERARDO ALMAGUER SANTILLAN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 16, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023 CNBB42202304MT

FBN 20230009767
The following person is doing business as: GOOD HAIR BEAUTY BAR; SMILEY HAIR EXTENSIONS. 25051 REDLANDS BLVD STE B LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
GOOD HAIR BEAUTY BAR LLC 25051 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ BRITTANY CANDICE DAWSON, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: SEPTYEMBER 26, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/20/2023, 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023 CNBB42202305MT

FBN 20230010449
The following person is doing business as: TOMATEROS SMOG CHECK. 24564 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
YEYO’S LLC. 24564 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ VALERIA J. ESPINOLA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 17, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202301MT

FBN 20230010424
The following person is doing business as: J & J COLLECTABLES. 1650 S CAMPUS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91761
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JAMES P LOPEZ 1650 S CAMPUS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91761.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JAMES P LOPEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 16, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202302MT

FBN 20230010481
The following person is doing business as: ALLIANCE AUTO GROUP, INC. 4923 MISSION BLVD SUITE C MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ALLIANCE AUTO GROUP, INC. 502 SOUTH HARBOR BOULEVARD FULLERTON, CA 92832
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ FADY YOUSSEF, CFO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 18, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202303MT

FBN 20230010425
The following person is doing business as: SAN PEDRO RECYCLING. 1349 NORTH MOUNT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
GARRY VEGAN HOUSE THAI BRISTO 1349 NORTH MOUNT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ GARRY VEGA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 16, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202304MT

FBN 20230010391
The following person is doing business as: NEW CHINA EXPRESS. 1211 N WATERMAN AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1211 N WATERMAN AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
WAHJIE EXPRESS INC 1211 N WATERMAN AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ KANGJIE CHEN, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 16, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202305MT

FBN 20230010428
The following person is doing business as: ON TAP BARBERSHOP. 1520 N MOUNTAIN AVE. STE 124 ONTARIO, CA 91762
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ANTHONY J SANTOSCOY 1520 N MOUNTAIN AVE STE 124 ONTARIO, CA 91762.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 29, 2023
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ANTHONY J SANTOSCOY, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 16, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202306MT

FBN 20230010648
The following person is doing business as: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VIPASSANA CENTER; SCVC 68561 29 PALMS HIGHWAY TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA 92277;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 486 JOSHUA TREE, CA 92252];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SAYAJI BA KHIN VIPASSANA ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 68561 29 PALMS HIGHWAY TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA 92277
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUL 15, 2005
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ RATI SINGH, SECRETARY
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 20, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202307MT

FBN 20230010770
The following person is doing business as: CARPET CLEANING BY JESUS. 436 PINE VIEW BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 126 BIG BEAR LAKE, CA 92315];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOSE J PACHECO ROJAS 436 PINE VIEW BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314.
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN 01, 2005
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ JOSE J PACHECO ROJAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 24, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202308MT

FBN 20230010802
The following person is doing business as: TEDDY’S LAUNDRY. 16980 FOOTHILL BLVD #CD FONTANA, CA 92335
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
BIG GORILLA LLC 18907 CROP ROAD RIVERSIDE, CA 92504
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ DANIEL KONG, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 24, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202309MT

FBN 20230010813
The following person is doing business as: ALL KIDS DENTAL CARE; ALL KIDS DENTAL; ALL KIDS DENTAL CARE & BRACES; HOPES FAMILY DENTIST. 17185 ARROW BLVD FONTANA, CA 9233513340 HAWTHORNE BLVD FONTANA, CA 90250
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SOROUS DENTAL OFFICE CORPORATION 6633 ATLANTIC AVE BELL, CA 90201
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: OCT 23, 2023
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ HANY SUROOR, VICE PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 25, 2023
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023 CNBB43202310MT

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Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

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Reform Group Again Qualifies Vote To Rescind Fire Tax

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

Nearly a year-and-a-half after San Bernardino County residents voted to rescind the application of a fire service tax to cover 95 percent of the county’s 20,105-square mile expanse only to see that measure invalidated by the county government’s legal challenge of the initiative, the public interest group that sponsored it has again qualified another ballot measure to prevent the county from continuing to impose the assessment.
Fire Protection District Service Zone Five, known by its acronym FP-5, was originally formed in 2006, as a construct for the county fire department to provide the communities of Silverlakes and Helendale, an area of 5.6 square miles with a current population of 6,347 located in the Mojave Desert between Victorville and Barstow approximately five-and-a-half miles west of the I-15 Freeway, with firefighting and emergency medical service. The creation of FP-5 carried with it the annexation of Silverlakes and Helendale into a fire service assessment zone, which required that landowners within those two communities’ confines pay yearly assessments to defray the cost of the fire department’s operations therein. Continue reading →

Honesty & Courage Or Lack Thereof Among Toro, Echevarria & Smith Will Control Flow Of Colton’s Millions To CR&R

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

Twenty-seven years after Colton entered into a corruption-encrusted franchise arrangement with its current trash hauler’s corporate predecessor that prompted the firing of a former city manager and indirectly led to the federal indictments of four of its former council members, it is uncertain whether the current city manager and city council majority will consent to a competitive bid process for the franchise when the contract expires after its third decade in 2026 or whether they will submit to a combination of pressure and temptation to extend the exclusive franchise contract until 2036.
With the matter steeped in pay-to-play implications, City Manager Bill Smith, who is said to privately favor putting the franchise out to bid, has so far receded from making such a recommendation because three of the current members of the council may be disposed toward renewing CR&R’s contract to provide trash service to the 54,911-population, 16.06-square mile city’s residential, commercial and industrial customers. Councilwoman Kelly Chastain, who 18 years ago went along with extending the franchise as it approached its ten-year anniversary, is widely considered to be in the pocket of CR&R and is again militating toward a franchise extension without any bidding process. Councilman David Toro in 2015 acquiesced in the extension of CR&R’s contract and appears to be leaning toward doing so once again. Councilman John Echevarria has assiduously avoided engaging in any discussion with regard to the franchise extension and his silence on the matter is interpreted by many that he will support foreclosing, as early as later this year, the city’s solicitation of bids in 2024 or 2025 for the franchise to run from 2026 to 2036, and instead join with Chastain and Toro in allowing CR&R to retain the exclusive right to haul trash in Colton for another decade. Continue reading →

Mann Refutes Suggestions That As Yucaipa City Manager He Is A Shill For Developers

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

Yucaipa City Manager Chris Mann this week derided perceptions that his status as a developer and his role as a representative of the building industry undercuts his ability to fulfill the commitments he has assumed to safeguard Yucaipa residents’ interests in his vaunted position overseeing the myriad operations at City Hall, including ones pertaining to land use decisions and enforcing regulations relating to construction and the provision of infrastructure to accommodate growth in the community.
Mann found himself at the center of a maelstrom of controversy and adversity created by the manner in which he was put into the Yucaipa city manager position.
His hiring in January followed by little more than two months the November election of two new members of the city council – Matt Garner, who replaced David Avila in the First District, and Chris Venable who replaced Greg Bogh in the Fifth District. That hiring came in the immediate aftermath of the forced departure of longtime City Manager Ray Casey.
In October 2022, the council as it was then composed – comprised of Bogh, Avila, Justin Beaver, Bobby Duncan and Jon Thorp – had voted to extend Casey’s contract until June 2024. On January 9, 2023, the first substantive meeting of the Yucaipa City Council with Garner and Venable as members, was held. After adjourning into a closed session conducted outside the scrutiny of the public shortly after the meeting began, Beaver, Duncan and Garner pressured Casey into resigning and moved to conduct a vote to terminate City Attorney David Snow. The vote to accept Casey’s resignation was 3-to-2, with Beaver, Duncan and Garner prevailing and Thorp and Venable dissenting. The council then voted 5-to-0 to fire Snow. At that point, Steven Graham, the city attorney with the City of Canyon Lake in Riverside, materialized and began functioning as Yucaipa’s City Attorney. The council then voted 4-to-1, to offer the position of city manager to Mann, who at that time was the city manager of Canyon Lake, a member of the Yucaipa Water District Board of Directors, and the principal in Mann Communications. Mann, like Graham, had been present on the civic center grounds throughout the meeting.
Nearly two score Yucaipa residents who had been alerted at the last minute that something was in the offing, had shown up at the meeting, several of whom had hoped to be able to talk the council out of getting rid of Casey, a Princeton-educated civil engineer with extensive public works experience in governmental and municipal settings and construction experience in the private sector. He had served as Yucaipa’s city engineer/director of public works for five years beginning in 2003 before he was promoted to the position of city manager in 2008. The crowd’s efforts at intercession had been to no avail, and Casey abruptly joined the ranks of the unemployed or retired or both.
With Mann and Graham on hand for the meeting and Graham assuming the role of city attorney on the spot without any forewarning, there were immediate accusations that a violation of The Ralph M. Brown Act, California’s open public meeting law, had taken place. The Brown Act prohibits a quorum of an elected governmental body or an appointed governmental body with decision-making authority from meeting, discussing any matter to be decided or voted upon or coming to a consensus in any way about a matter to be voted upon outside of a public forum. The Brown Act allows less than a quorum of an elected body – as in the case of the five-member Yucaipa City Council, two members – to meet and discuss some contemplated action to be voted upon, but it prohibits either of those two members from engaging in a “serial” meeting of a quorum, whereby one of those members then separately meets with another member to discuss the upcoming action or vote.
Residents who were opposed to what was tantamount to Casey’s sacking reasoned that a Brown Act violation had to have taken place, as Graham was on hand for the meeting before he was hired as city attorney and, likewise, Mann was immediately present, in anticipation of the action the council ultimately took.
Beaver, Duncan, Garner, Mann and Graham had anticipated nothing more than mild objections among the public to jettisoning Casey, which they believed would blow over in short order. That proved a gross miscalculation. Beaver, Duncan and Garner put out a press release justifying their action, asserting that “the voters of Yucaipa elected two new members to the city council” and that “the council is taking decisive action to move Yucaipa forward” by “making changes to the city’s executive leadership team,” simultaneously celebrating the talents of Mann and Graham. For a large number of Yucaipa residents, that rang hollow. The newly elected Venable had not gone along with firing Casey, residents noted, and less than three months previously, Beaver and Duncan had voted to keep Casey in place for another year-and-a-half. When the city conferred a severance package on Casey which essentially guaranteed him the salary he would have received had he remained in the capacity of city manager for the duration of his contract and provided Mann with an extremely generous employment contract, such that the city and its taxpayers were put in the position of paying to employ two city managers for sixteen months, the outrage among a growing contingent of Yucaipa citizens was contagious. Beaver, Duncan and Garner, who to begin with had not anticipated the outrage or its depth, initially assumed it would diffuse rapidly. It did not, and, as more and more residents learned of what had occurred, it intensified.
One public relations misstep followed another as the three members of the council sought to evade the growing wrath of their constituents. Consequently, Beaver, Duncan and Garner turned to Mann, the principal in Mann Communications, which according to the company’s website, assists its clients to “effectively communicate with the public… effect change at the ballot box… delivering… messages through both traditional and innovative means… identifying supporters one by one.” As Mann headed a team of “practiced political strategists,” according to his company’s website, and “the experts at Mann Communications have a track record of success utilizing strategies and tactics such voter targeting, direct mail, live and automated phone banks, opposition research, earned media, polling, issues management, and grassroots mobilization including door-to-door outreach,” Beaver, Duncan and Garner were ready to accede to the city manager’s guidance.
Mann instructed them to seek to have the public move past the loss of Casey as a steady guiding hand at City Hall and instead focus on the talents of the new management team they were installing. Accordingly, Beaver, as mayor, took a bold stab at explaining why the trio had settled on Mann as city manager to replace Casey, alluding to Mann’s status as the president of the Yucaipa Valley Water District Board of Directors, referencing Mann’s knowledge of the community based upon his residence in the city and asserted Mann “has the right relationships to help our city work collaboratively throughout the region for the benefit of Yucaipa residents.”
Paradoxically, however, when the mayor or councilmen Duncan and Garner, whose public communication skills had never been their strong suit, brought Mann’s skill at shaping public opinion to bear, it served only to alarm the city’s already animated residents further, who came to believe that Mann was a puppet master, manipulating the troika over whom he had taken control, to promulgate what was an unabashedly pro-development agenda.
Mann, through Mann Communications, according to the firm’s website, functions in the main as a representative of developers and development interests seeking to move building proposals past the planning process and get them approved. Mann Communications specializes in, the firm’s website states, making sure that “elected officials are… provided the political cover they need in order to support good projects” to “provide our clients with a wealth of knowledge and experience and a winning approach to land use entitlement. Mann Communications Principal Chris Mann has been an active partner in numerous development projects in California, Nevada and Arizona. Having worked both as an elected official and as a developer, he uniquely understands the development process from both the public and private perspectives. Understanding the practices and motivations of each side better than most, he is able to provide tremendous value to the entire development process, making Mann Communications an invaluable member of any project team.”
A good cross section of Yucaipa residents – and others in the know, as well – found troubling that Canyon Lake and Yucaipa would hire Mann into their respective city manager posts, in which they oversaw and oversee the regulatory processes of those cities’ land use decision-making and planning functions, given his ownership of a company in major portion dedicated to working on behalf of developmental interests, the very entities he was supposed to be regulating. Yucaipa residents needed to go no further than Mann Communications’ website to glimpse those development interests – residential developers Lennar, Pardee, Meritage Homes, Richmond American, Holland Development, the Golshan Group, Rotkin Real Estate Group as well as Jacobsen Family Holdings, Turner Dale, Carlton Properties, Preferred Business Properties Real Estate Services and Oakmont Industrial Group.
Whereas previously it was widely recognized among Yucaipa residents that Duncan was a real estate agent, a majority of the community did not perceive as problematic allowing the real estate industry a seat at the table among individuals from a variety of professional classes serving in the capacities of city council members in their roles as the arbiters of how the city’s character was to be maintained or allowed to evolve. What it looked like at that point, however, was that Duncan had put Mann in place to boost the prospect of more and more development in Yucaipa, in turn increasing his ability to sell houses and make money.
It was widely recognized that Casey had an intense and intimate understanding of the need for matching any incoming development with adequate infrastructure, the cost for which had to be defrayed either by the developer or the city’s taxpayers, and that he was capable of serving as not only an honest broker between pro-development and anti-development forces and sentiments within the community but advocating for and insisting that project proponents be financially responsible for the infrastructure and off-site improvements that must accompany their development efforts. Casey, it seemed, had gotten into somebody’s, or several somebodies’, way. With his forced exit, there arose an instantaneous perception that Beaver, Duncan and Garner had ditched him in favor of Mann, who would have the city adopt an absolute open-door planning and development process by which the city’s largely rural nature would come under increasing threat and the balance that had long been maintained between its Old West, worldly, agricultural, mercantile, semi-rural and urban influences was to be discarded and replaced by subdivision after subdivision that would make Yucaipa indistinguishable from scores or even hundreds of other cities in Southern California that are now composed, practically, of wall-to-wall houses.
Uncharitable word spread to the effect that Beaver, Duncan and Garner were in the pocket of the development industry and that they were on the take.
Throughout February and into March and then April, a core group of Yucaipa residents who were caught flatfooted in January when Casey’s resignation materialized as a fait accompli, began coordinating a response that they were hopeful might reverse the momentum that was threatening to slide the entirety of the city into what was for them a deep and dark abyss.
On April 24, Sherilyn Long representing residents in District 1, Steve Maurer, representing residents in District 3, and George Sardeson, representing residents in District 4, came to Yucaipa City Hall, where they filed a notice of intention to circulate recall petitions against Garner, Duncan and Beaver. George Sardeson, Cheryl Sardeson, Frances Fields, Frances Finely Fields, Debra Wilson, Robert Otto, Daniel Wilson, Bonnie Farris, Edwin Morgan, William Cooper, Sara Cooper, Debra Studley, Dennis Studley, April Klein, William Klein, Jean Kielhold, Jamie Peterson, Kenneth D. Rolf Jr., Janis Waltman, Lori S. Waltman, Jimmy Distler, Jennece Distler, Rickey Chanter, Lawrence Anderson, Helen Anderson, Kent Miller, Lloyd Rekstad, Patricia Smoll, Donald Saenz, Cheryl Saenz, Thomas Powell, Bonita Powell, Katina Mohler, Kristine Mohler, John Mohler, Robert Henderson, Sandra Henderson, Frank Jubala, Patricia Jubala, Thomas Ziech, Timothy Ryan, Elizabeth Grimes, Scott Smith, Lois Crosby, Gayle Crosby, Lyndi Norkin, Sergey Norkin, Valarie Peterson, Margaret Padron, Baltimore Padron Jr, Jim Peterson, Susan Wamsley, David Knopp, Brenda Knopp, Johanne Dyerly, Stephen Dyerly, Patricia Teeters, Kali Spillmann, Kent Spillmann, Marissa Ryan, Brynn Hoffman and Christopher Hoffman, as residents of District 4, signed the notice of the intention to circulate the recall petition against Justin A. Beaver.
Steven Maurer, Randy Bogh, Chelsey Lauren Bogh, Edmer Salazar, Mana Manasuk, Linda Simpson, Judith Fink, Nelson Fink, Carol Price, Robert Price, Garold Beecham, Robert Montee, Steve C. Martin, Steve A. Martin, Elizabeth Martinez, Telesforo Martinez, Virginia Flores, Willam Crosby Mecham, Quentin Ray Leenstra, Bryan Jovanny Acencio Munoz, Charles Howard Hopson, Patricia Alice Meads, Veronica Anne Carrillo, Vincent Mart Willingham, Lawrence Contla, Brittany Oosterbroek, David Oosterbroek, Joseph Foglio, Ashley Foglio, Marina Ortiz-Corral, Bonnie Hopson, Mark Allen, Gina Allen, Kevin O’Connor, Sabrina Mendel, Bradley Namil, George Ewan, Linda Ewan, Jorge Valenzuela, Elizabeth Corn, Mary Breslin, Robert Andrews Jr, Cheryl Nelson, Kimberly Juarez, Chuck Marrs, Kimberly Marrs, Diana Williams, Amy Gehrke, William Gehrke, Daniel Morales, Mary Sandoval, Nancy Bruins, Seth Bruins, Allison Proffitt, Catherine Proffitt, Kevin Allison, Robert Walker, Pamela Walker, Roberto Corral, Kristen Wheatley, Edward Wheatley, Joseph Phillips, Trevor Miller, Norma Salazar, Wayne Challis, Diane Elmore and Perry Thompson, as residents of District 3, signed the notice of the intention to circulate the recall petition against Bobby Dean Duncan.
Sherilyn Long, David Long, Kathleen Sellers, William Sellers, Robert Huddleston, Wanda Huddleston, Jeanette McKovich, James McKovich, Jay Bogh, Kari Bogh, Brian Bleyenberg, Jennifer Bleyenberg. Benjamin Bleyenberg, Kenneth Jackson, Mark Etheredge, Ramona Etheredge, Jason Bender, Colleen Wang, Matthew Vanderwood, Lynda Underwood, Mary Marsh, George Marsh, Gwendolyn Waters, Travis Waters, Joshua Waters, Jeffrey Bohner, Barbara Bohner, Gillian Bohner, Gillian Skinner, Pierre Assaf, Ivelisse Assaf, Lynette Hirsch, Phillip Philson, Kendall Taylor, Jean Taylor, Katelyn Taylor, Teri Boon, Suzanne Eshleman, James Eshleman, Rebekah Pedersen, Joe Pedersen, Sherry Todd, Heather Dent, Dwayne Brinks, Lucinda Brinks, Patrick Aguirre, Marlin Feenstra, Victoria Feenstra, Nino Valmassoi, Valerie Aguirre, Ruben Aguirre, Denise Aguirre, Wesley Feenstra, Carol Griffin, Christy Garcia, Donice Griffin, Chris Griffin, Cristobal Garcia, Linda Witham, Douglas Witham, Jamie Hillwig, Alan Hillwig, Paul Bolock and Julie Bolock, as residents of District 1, signed the notice of the intention to circulate the recall petition against Councilmember Matthew Gabriel Garner.
Reasons given for seeking the recall against each of the three were that they had acted to terminate Casey and had violated the Brown Act in doing so.
Initially, city officials were caught off guard by the boldness of the recall effort. A first reaction by Beaver’s, Duncan’s and Garner’s supporters was to warn residents against signing the petition. Statements circulated that those signing the petition ran the risk of having their personal information compromised.
In the aftermath of Casey’s departure and the hiring of Mann, Mann replaced the city clerk who had been in place under Casey, Kimberly Metzler, with his own choice, that being Ana Sauceda, whom he had previously promoted to city clerk when she was employed at the City of Canyon Lake.
To protect his political masters on the city council, Mann formulated a strategy of hiring the Los Angeles-based Sutton Law Firm, which had already established a reputation in San Bernardino County of being able to thwart the expressed will of the electorate when it had filed suit on behalf of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in 2020 to prevent Measure K, which had been passed by a supermajority of the county’s residents to convert the board of supervisors into part-time legislators and reduce their $250,000 total annual compensation positions to ones paying a total of $60,000 in salary and benefits, an amount the backers said mirrored the average annual income of the county’s residents. Ultimately, the State Appellate Court had rejected the Sutton Law Firm’s lawsuit, but not before the supervisors were able to use it to postpone the pay reduction aspect of Measure K and substitute another measure reestablishing their approximate quarter-of-a-million-dollar-per-year salary and benefit packages.
Utilizing taxpayer money, Mann arranged to have two of Sutton Law Firm’s attorneys, Bradley W. Hertz and Eli B. Love, draw up a lawsuit challenging the recall effort on the basis that the recall proponents could not prove their allegation that a Brown Act violation had occurred with the forced departure of Casey and that the recall proponents’ separate accusations against Beaver, Duncan and Garner that each had acted toward terminating Casey and Snow was not true since no single one of them had such authority and that the actions to relieve Casey of his city manager’s post and fire Snow were ones taken collectively by the entire city council body. The lawsuit was presented to Sauseda, who consented to acting as the plaintiff in the suit, which referenced her authority as Yucaipa’s chief elections officer under the auspices of a recently passed law, AB 2584, allowing her to contest the accuracy of the stated grounds for a recall. Sauseda’s suit, was filed against all 194 of the recall proponents.
To augment that effort, Mann had Joseph Pradetto, whom he had hired to serve as Yucaipa’s director of governmental affairs and official spokesperson, intensify the intimidation level against the recall proponents. Pradetto, in trumpeting to the Yucaipa community that the recall proponents were being sued by the city clerk, publicly stated, “In addition to the provisions of AB 2584, Sauseda also cautions recall proponents that, ‘Per Elections Code section 18600, it is a misdemeanor offense to circulate or obtain signatures on a recall petition that intentionally misrepresent or make false statements.’”
Faced with the distraction of the lawsuit and stood off by Pradetto’s threat to have them jailed for persisting with the recall effort, recall proponents fell far short of gathering, by the August 16 deadline, the minimal 1,826 valid signatures from among District 1’s 7,303 registered voters to qualify a ballot item on recalling Garner, the minimal 1,478 valid signatures of the 5,912 registered voters in District 3 to qualify a ballot item on recalling Duncan and the minimal 1,623 valid signatures from among the 6,492 registered voters in District 4 to qualify a vote on recalling Beaver.
Mann’s masterful use of the governmental machinery at his command to protect the three members of the city council who had conferred upon him a $240,000 salary, perquisites and pay add-ons of roughly $23,000 and approximately $80,000 in full benefits for a total annual compensation of around $343,000 was positively perceived, indeed admired, by the establishment and political insiders in San Bernardino County and the Inland Empire.
Among a wide swath of those in Yucaipa, however, Mann is seen as a pariah, a corrupting and corrosive influence who is ushering in an ambiance, era, ethos and principle of pay-to-play politics in which the development industry is buying off politicians and turning the offices at City Hall intended to protect the city’s residents from the avarice of real estate speculators and builders seeking to profit from the destruction of their quality of life and the character of Yucaipa’s existing neighborhoods by the imposition of ever denser “stack and pack” housing.
Several residents told the Sentinel that Mann, who was elected to the position of Division 1 representative on Yucaipa Water District Board of Directors in 2016 against a single opponent with 54.2 percent of the vote, returned to the board in 2020 without opposition, served as the board’s president from January 2019 to January 2023 and resigned from the water board upon assuming the city manager’s post in January, would draw stiff opposition if he were to attempt to return to the board, such that it is virtually impossible that he would be reelected.
In September and earlier this month, scores or even hundreds of Yucaipa residents saw what they perceive to be further evidence of what Mann is up to when, at the urging of Mann, Director of Development Services Fermin Preciado, Deputy Director of Community Development Benjamin Matlock and Associate Planner Madeline Jordan, the planning commission recommended and ultimately the city council passed Ordinance 429, which superseded Ordinance 344. Passed in 2016, Ordinance 344 had set 16 dwelling units per acre as the maximum density permitted on property in the city converted from existing mobilehome parks. Ordinance 429 upped the number of residential units that can be built on such converted property to 24.
At present, 27.8-square mile, 55,495-population Yucaipa has the highest concentration of mobilehome parks of any city in San Bernardino County. The action taken by the city council with the passage of Ordinance 429 applies to seven of the city’s 42 mobilehome parks – Westwind, Mountain View, Melody Lane, Hide-A-Way, Hitching Post, Las Casitas and Holiday Mobile Rancho. Some residents of those facilities, many of whom are elderly, retired and living on fixed incomes, have expressed their belief that Mann has embarked on a program by which the lion’s share of the mobilehome parks will be supplanted by residential housing, primarily condominiums and apartments, within the next generation, activity which will make land speculators and developers spectacularly wealthy.
A recurrent expression among Yucaipa residents is that Mann’s focus is not on managing – i.e., planning, organizing, directing and controlling – operations at Yucaipa City Hall to benefit the city’s current and future residents but rather to advance the fortunes of the development industry, which is his actual constituency.
Mann this week told the Sentinel that those who are critical of his stewardship of municipal operations in Yucaipa have it all wrong, that there is no conflict whatsoever between his role as city manager and his ownership of Mann Communications and status as an advocate for the building industry and development community and that the criticisms and attacks against him are built upon misinformation, misrepresentations, dishonesty and outright lies.
“Let’s start from the beginning,” Mann said. “Prior to the city council elections in November of last year, a group of residents from a particular area of the city had formed a group to oppose a proposed residential development project.”
Mann’s reference was to the Serrano Estates project.
“This group supported a candidate in that election who shared their views, but that candidate was not successful,” according to Mann. His reference was to Sherilyn Long, who was one of the four candidates and the second-place finisher in the 2022 First District race won by Garner.
“As a result of the outcome of that election, a shift occurred on the city council and a new majority was formed,” according to Mann. “Distrustful of the new council majority, this group of residents began attacking members of the city council during public comment at council meetings and in letters to the editor in the local weekly newspaper. When the previous city manager suddenly retired and I was hired, this group made some incorrect assumptions as to the reasons for the change and as to my motivations. They incorrectly assumed that I was part of a grand conspiracy to usher in a new era of intense development in the city. Unfortunately, this group decided to not just voice their opinions on development projects and city policies, but also to launch vicious personal attacks on members of the council and on me. When Mr. Casey resigned and I was hired, a small number of city insiders, including several former city councilmembers, who had close personal relationships with Mr. Casey and were upset with his departure, joined with this group in criticizing the city council and me. The attacks against me began immediately upon my appointment, before even starting in the position, have been entirely inaccurate or misleading, and have only served to divide the community. It appears that this group formed their inaccurate theories by misinterpreting information gained primarily through Google searches. They then presented their speculations as facts, without being able to present a single shred of evidence. They have submitted complaints based on these unsupported theories and speculations to any and every government entity they could think of, including the San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office, the civil grand jury, the Fair Political Practices Commission, County Supervisor Dawn Rowe’s office, State Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh’s office, etc. Not even one of these complaints has resulted in a determination that wrongdoing occurred. There is no evidence to back up their accusations because their conspiracy theories are simply inaccurate. While this group represents a fraction of 1 percent of the 55,000 or so residents of the city, they have been so loud and persistent that their efforts have caused turmoil, have attracted media attention, and have negatively impacted the professional reputations of council members and staff. Some of their very public attacks have been so intentionally dishonest and malicious that they may rise to the level of defamation, even though that is a high bar when applied to public figures; a question that a court may ultimately have to answer.”
Mann maintains that he is being scapegoated, unfairly and maliciously, for developmental trends set into motion by Casey, well before his advent as Yucaipa city manager.
“Ironically, all of the projects and policies this group has opposed were initiated by the previous city manager and city council,” Mann asserted. “Examples include the Serrano Estates single family residential project, the Fallbrook apartment project, the Wine Country Specific Plan, the 6th Cycle Housing Element Update, which included the streamlined process for mobile home park conversions. Despite this fact, the integrity and motives of the previous city manager were never called into question by this group; nor was the previous city council accused of being in the pockets of developers. Even though I had nothing to do with these projects/policies being brought forward, some in this group have disingenuously attempted to attribute them to me.”
The public’s perception of him as advocate for aggressive development is wrong, Mann said.
“I flatly deny accusations that I have in any way pushed for increased housing density,” he proclaimed. “Again, all of the projects and policies pointed to as examples of this by critics were inherited by me from the previous administration.”
Moreover, he said, he and the city are caught up in the State of California’s push to have the state’s cities accommodate denser and denser residential subdivisions to overcome the ongoing housing shortage.
“Unfortunately, future residential projects that seek to increase density will have to be evaluated based on current state law, which in many ways ties the hands of cities when it comes to the development of housing,” Mann said. “I do not have the ability to block these projects from going through the process and having their day at the planning commission and/or city council. However, I will look for every way possible to encourage projects that will enhance the community, while discouraging the approval of projects that would adversely impact the current feel of the community.”
Mann went so far as to suggest he represents a bulwark against intensified growth.
“In reality, I am incredibly particular about the types of development that I’d like to see in Yucaipa,” he claimed. “In fact, I have received feedback from multiple applicants that I am quite a bit tougher on developers than was my predecessor.”
In marshaling evidence to that effect, Mann latched onto his efforts to eighty-six certain types of commercial projects in the city.
“For instance,” Mann said, “in April I asked the city council to adopt a moratorium on certain types of development, including car washes and gas stations. Developers were not happy about this, but it is what I thought was best for the community.”
He is particularly partial to Yucaipa, where he lives, he said, and he is not about to foul his own nest.
“Why am I so picky about how our community develops?” Mann asked. “Because my family and I live here. We love Yucaipa and want nothing but the best for it. I want my 2-year-old son and soon-to-be-born baby, due November 1st, to grow up in a Yucaipa that is safe and friendly and that has maintained its rural, small-town feel.”
His critics and the Sentinel, with its patented fourth-rate journalism, have, Mann said, “publicly misrepresented my professional background and motives. I believe the reasons for this can be almost exclusively attributed to a misunderstanding of my former public relations consulting business, Mann Communications. The Sentinel, in several stories now, has falsely published that I concurrently serve as a city manager and consult for developers or perhaps am a developer myself. This is factually inaccurate and printing it as fact is irresponsible. Even the slightest investigative journalism would have revealed the truth, which is that I have not consulted for developers or any other private business interests since well before becoming city manager in the City of Canyon Lake in 2019. It would absolutely be a conflict of interest for me to consult for a client doing business in a city where I am serving as city manager. Thus, I have never done so. A simple look at my financial reportings, which are public record, and readily available for all to see, would have dispelled this false accusation.”
Mann said, “It is true that I once ran a public relations company specializing in helping businesses interface and do business with local government, and helping local government agencies more effectively communicate with the public. It is also true that I had real estate development companies as clients, along with public agencies, non-profits, community organizations, labor unions, political action committees, etc. I even once represented a grassroots community group in opposition to development and helped that group expose corruption in a city in Riverside County. However, that is only one part of my professional background, which is quite diverse. In addition to running a successful public relations company for many years, I have been a mayor, city councilman, water board director, deputy chief of staff and analyst for a member of the board of supervisors, and now a city manager. I have never hidden from my professional background, evidenced by the fact that I have not taken down my old Mann Communications website. I am proud of it, and I believe it is what has made me an effective city manager.”
Mann said, “”[T]here have been multiple stages to my career. I now devote my professional time entirely to the vocation of city management. When I became a city manager for the first time in 2019, it was the realization of long-held career goal of mine. The city council in the City of Canyon Lake was looking for someone who was well-versed in local government, but who came primarily from the private sector. I was chosen for that position from a field of approximately 35 applicants. From that point forward, I committed myself entirely to the profession. With the exception of providing limited logistical support to one remaining small client, not related to development or any other private business, I ceased all other business activity. My annual financial reporting forms will verify this. In fact, I am so committed to the profession and to the concept that a city manager should be impartial in the provision of public services to all within the community, that less than a year after becoming a city manager I changed my voter registration to ‘no party preference.’ I truly believe that I am now doing what I was called to do professionally. My professional reputation is incredibly important to me, as is my ability to serve out the rest of my career in the city management profession. Therefore, I continually strive to conduct myself ethically, with integrity, and in the best interests of the community.”
Mann was unable to give a comprehensive justification for, or explanation of why, the city council – or more accurately three of its members – had jettisoned Casey in favor of him.
As to how it was that Beaver, Duncan and Garner worked themselves and the city into a position where the city’s residents are paying for two city managers while receiving the services of just one, Mann said, “Much has been made of the fact that Mr. Casey’s contract was amended and extended just a few months prior to his departure, and that two of the councilmembers who ended up voting to accept his resignation had also voted in favor of his contract amendment/extension. I cannot go into the reasons for Mr. Casey’s resignation. However, I can speculate with some level of certainty that the two members of the council in question likely voted in favor of the contract amendment/extension because they were, at that point, in the minority on the issue and saw no reason to rock the boat by publicly voting against someone with whom they would then have to continue working. When Mr. Casey resigned, he and the city council negotiated and entered into a separation agreement. Section 8 of that agreement reads, ‘Employer and employee will work together to prepare a joint press release announcing employee’s retirement. Employee shall provide an initial draft for employer’s review. Employer and employee agree that no member of the city council or city management shall make any written, or electronic statement to any member of the public or the press, concerning employee or employee’s separation from employer, except as contained in the press release. The substance of the press release may be repeated in response to any inquiry.’ As a result of this clause in the agreement, the city council has been legally bound not to discuss or explain the circumstances/reason behind Mr. Casey’s resignation. I understand that this is frustrating for some members of the public, and it has been frustrating for me as well. I would like nothing more than to be able to publicly discuss the issue and thus ease any concerns. That being said, this is a common clause in separation agreements.”
Mann did not explain why he was willing to come into such a situation in which the circumstances surrounding his hiring was fraught with so many negative implications and insinuations relating to his new employers and the prospects and expectations with regard to the assignment he was taking on.
Mann offered a justification for the way in which he had stacked City Hall with his own loyalists. He suggested, without stating explicitly, that it was Casey’s choice to abruptly resign as city manager in January, just two-and-a-half months after he had agreed to a contract that was to keep him in place for at least 20 months.
“Also exceedingly common in municipal government is for a newly seated city council majority to bring in a new city manager who shares their vision and desired approach,” he said. “Examples of this can be seen multiple times after every election cycle in cities throughout California and the United States. It just happens to be something new for the City of Yucaipa, which has historically enjoyed long-tenured city managers. Mr. Casey had served as city manager for over 14 years and had publicly been flirting with retirement for at least the last two years of his tenure. The average tenure for a city manager is just under five years. Mr. Casey served almost three times the average term. Thus, what is unusual is not the change in city managers, but that the change did not happen sooner. That being said, it is admittedly my hope that the trend of long tenures in Yucaipa continues.”
Mann controverted the widespread perception of impropriety in the way he was sprung on the community as the new city manager without any warning or effort to openly invite applications from candidates as part of a recruitment drive to find someone to succeed Casey and conduct a competition to find a pool of qualified contenders to select from.
“Also not uncommon is the manner in which the city council selected me as their new city manager,” Mann said. “While extensive search processes are sometimes utilized, that is certainly not always the case. Examples can be found close to home. Mr. Casey was hired in a similar manner. There was not an extensive search, nor was public input in the decision sought. Then-Mayor Dick Riddell decided that he wanted Mr. Casey and was successful in convincing his colleagues on the council. While Mr. Casey was an internal hire, he was not the assistant city manager, and was therefore not the presumed successor. As the public works director, Mr. Casey was appointed over then-Assistant City Manager Greg Franklin. This was apparently quite controversial within City Hall at the time. Fortunately, Mr. Franklin’s response was professional and he did not attempt to rile up the community over the council’s decision. Other examples may be found at the County of San Bernardino. While admittedly different in that it was an internal hire, the county’s new CEO Luther Snoke was recently hired without a search. Former CEO Greg Devereaux was an external hire and was the only candidate interviewed for the job. In all of these examples, and I could give many more, the council/board knew who they (sic) wanted and so they proceeded with hiring that individual without going through the motions of an extensive search and without seeking direction from the public. Many would argue that, if a council/board knows who they (sic) want, it would be a waste of taxpayer dollars and applicants’ time, not to mention a little dishonest, to go through the motions of a search, just to say that a search was conducted.”
Mann propounded, “It is also important to point out that the city council has every right to determine who to hire as city manager and city attorney, and to use any process they (sic) so desire. The city manager and city attorney work directly for the city council. In fact, these are the only two positions that the council gets to hire and that report directly to the council. All other employees and consultants are hired by and report to the city manager. The only requirement for the job is that a majority of the council wants that person to work for them (sic) in the position. Thus, it is not a decision in which most cities involve the public. The public elects the members of the city council, thus the members of the council answer to the public. The council hires the city manager, who then answers to the council. All other staff report to the city manager. If the city manager and/or his staff are not effective, then public services will suffer, and ultimately the public may hold the council accountable, but the public is not typically involved in the hiring of the city manager or other city staff. I believe that some members of the community have not fully understood this.”
Despite there having been no mention whatsoever of either him or Graham on the agenda for the January 9 city council meeting, Mann offered a somewhat different personal recollection of what occurred that evening from those of dozens of Yucaipa residents and the official record as it was originally memorialized by then-City Clerk Metzler. He said, many Yucaipa “have mistakenly believed that they were somehow robbed of the opportunity to take part in the hiring process. They were, however, given numerous opportunities to speak to the matter during the public comment portion of three separate city council meetings, at which the item was property agendized.”
Mann offered a refutation of the assertion that Beaver, Duncan and Garner had engaged in a violation of the Brown Act.
“One of the false accusations that has consistently been made since January 9th is that there must have been a violation of the Brown Act,” he said. “After all, how could a majority of the city council, at its first full meeting after new councilmembers were sworn-in the previous month, have the votes to accept Mr. Casey’s resignation and already have his successor picked out and famously waiting in the parking lot to be called into closed session? The Brown Act prohibits a majority of the elected body from discussing city business outside of properly agendized public meetings. So, in the case of Yucaipa, which has a five-member city council, no more than two city councilmembers may privately discuss any issue that will come before the council for a vote. What I think the critics are missing is that the Brown Act applies to seated elected officials. It does not apply to candidates for office. It is a legal gray area whether or not it applies to a candidate who has won election but has not yet been sworn-in. In an abundance of caution, it may be wise for successful candidates to assume that Brown Act restrictions apply as of the date of the election, once it becomes apparent that they will be on the city council. Thus, two members of the city council would be entirely within their legal rights to seek out and support candidates who share their views, and to discuss actions the council might consider taking should those candidates succeed in their elections and ultimately be seated on the city council. As long as such discussions do not take place after the election, they are clearly not in violation of the Brown Act. This happens frequently and is common practice at all levels of government. It is not remotely unusual for elected officials of cities, counties, the state legislature or Congress, to support candidates who share their views in an effort to gain a majority and effect change.”
Essentially, what Mann was asserting was that both Beaver and Duncan were free to discuss at any time prior and up to January 9 shedding Casey and Snow as city manager and city attorney and that any discussions of the same either or both had with Garner before he was elected in November were absolutely permissible under the Brown Act.
Mann did acknowledge that discussion, at the least involving Beaver and Duncan and possibly involving Beaver, Duncan and Garner prior to Garner’s election, pertaining to Casey’s exit as city manager and his hiring to replace him took place.
“As to why I was at City Hall waiting to be called in to closed session on the night of January 9th, I was there at the request of the mayor,” Mann said. “The mayor had asked me to be available in case the city council wanted to bring me in to discuss the city manager position. I would also like to point out that the vote to appoint me city manager was 4-1, and my contract would later be approved by a unanimous 5-0 vote. Thus, this was not a decision made by a slim three-vote majority of the council.”
The closest Mann came to explicating why the council majority in January felt it necessary to force Casey out as city manager consisted of his explanation of “why… the council was interested in hiring me as their next city manager” and his listing of issues he had been tasked to address by the city council.
“First, it was an opportunity to have a city manager who is incredibly invested in the community, because I live here,” Mann said of the council’s rationale for his hiring. “Members of the council expressed excitement at the fact that there was someone with city management experience living and raising a family right here in Yucaipa. Second, I believe the council was impressed with what I was able to accomplish in my previous position as city manager for the City of Canyon Lake. Third, I believe the council placed a high value in the fact that I had spent six years serving on the board of directors of the Yucaipa Valley Water District, most of that time as board president. Fourth, as was the case with the Canyon Lake City Council, I believe the Yucaipa Council found value in having someone as the administrative head of the city who has significant public sector experience, but who spent much of his career in the private sector and thus brings a business-minded approach to local government. Lastly, I believe that the city council felt that I understand, and share a devotion to, the things that make Yucaipa unique, and that we have a common vision for protecting and enhancing quality of life here.”
Mann said, “Upon my appointment, members of the city council identified a number of areas that were of concern to them and on which they wanted me to focus. Many of these are reflected in the city council goals, which were adopted in April. At the top of that list were bolstering public safety and tackling the city’s growing homeless problem. Next in importance was to take a more aggressive approach to road maintenance. There were also concerns about looming budget challenges, the practice of loaning general fund dollars to development impact fee accounts, and possible overspending on large capital projects. Micromanagement within City Hall and low staff morale were also mentioned as areas that needed to be turned around. Once on the job, many more issues became apparent. The city’s municipal code is terribly outdated, in many cases no longer in compliance with state law. The city’s development code is vague and does not clearly define expectations and guidelines for projects; it also requires far too many routine applications to go to the planning commission that in most other cities are handled administratively. Development projects were given too much leeway if the project was supported by the previous administration. For example, planning department staff had been instructed to push through a project that was submitted as senior housing, presumably to avoid triggering traffic mitigation, but the proposed project contained only a few designated senior units and therefore did not meet the legal requirements to be considered a senior project. City committees were being classified as, and treated like, ad hoc committees, although in practice they were actually standing committees and should have been publicly noticed accordingly. Transparency was not where it should have been for a public agency; prime examples being that city council meetings were not broadcast in video and some documents that are legally required to be posted on the city’s website were not there. In many cases, basic requests from members of the city council were ignored.”
Mann said, “Since March 1st, staff has been working hard to correct all of these issues.”
As for the city council’s selection of Graham as city attorney, Mann said, Graham’s status as city attorney in Hemet, Canyon and Indio and as general counsel for the Idyllwild Fire Protection District and the Yucaipa Valley Water District impressed them.
“Thus, when two members of the city council separately asked me for a city attorney reference late last year, I could think of no one better than Mr. Graham,” Mann said. “My understanding is that Mr. Graham was interviewed by two members of the council initially, and then by the entire council on January 9th. At the time I entered closed session that evening, Mr. Graham had already been appointed to the position of city attorney. I should also note that the council’s dissatisfaction with their previous city attorney was well known. The vote to terminate that contract was 5-0, as was the vote to contract with… and appoint Mr. Graham. Conspiracy theories aside, engaging the services of a city manager and a city attorney who have a built-in relationship and a history of success working together is a rare opportunity and one that provides tremendous benefits to the city.”
Omitting reference to Snow, Mann said, “Although no city employees were terminated as a result of the transition, there was a slight restructuring and a number of vacant positions were filled. It is not at all unusual or inappropriate for a newly appointed city manager to restructure the organization in order to prepare it for new tasks ahead. Newly appointed city managers regularly bring in professionals they know and trust to fill senior management positions, as this provides a level of certainty that those jobs will be performed satisfactorily. I have hired three such individuals, two of which worked for me in Canyon Lake. This is a small percentage of the city’s 83 full-time employees. As the city manager will ultimately be held accountable by the city council for the successes and failures of the organization, the city manager has every right to build and organize the team as he/she sees fit. I will not discuss the reasons for any particular staffing changes, as they pertain to confidential personnel matters. Suffice it to say that, upon evaluating the organization following my appointment, it was clear to me that there were a number of deficiencies in critical areas.”

Battery Storage Project Proposal In Sycamore Hills Raises Residents’ Concern

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

An issue has manifested in northwest Upland that carries with it the potential of dividing the community in the City of Gracious Living.
There are multiple elements to what is occurring. One of those is the emphasis by the State of California on society making a conversion from its dependence on fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Another factor is northeast Upland’s show of tangible process toward achieving that conversion. Also at play is Upland’s adherence to the political division imposed on it by an outside attorney who forced it into ward system voting starting with the 2018 election cycle. Another is the social-economic division between the city’s north and south sides and the short shrift historically accorded to the south side. Playing a part is the strong emphasis city officials have been making on what they consider to be economic development.
Afoot is an effort by GridStor, in conjunction with Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC, to complete the 120-megawatt Upland Reliability Project in the Sycamore Hills district in North Upland.
GridStor is a Portland, Oregon-based company focusing exclusively on large-scale, standalone battery energy storage projects.
In September 2018, then-Governor Jerry Brown’s put his signature onto Senate Bill 100, which was passed by both houses of California’s legislature the previous month. That legislation required California to meet 50 percent of its energy needs with clean power by 2025 and 60 percent by 2030 before reaching the goal of 100 percent of the state’s energy coming from renewable, non-fossil fuel sources by 2045. In May 2023, despite the state not being anywhere near on track to meet those goals, Governor Gavin Newsom renewed the commitment for the state to reach the 100 percent carbon-free energy threshold by 2045.
Standalone battery energy storage projects are intended to play a central role in assisting the State of California in meeting, if not the ultimate goal of becoming 100 percent reliant upon renewable energy, then progressing toward that ideal. What large scale energy storage facilities are intended to do is serve as a repository for the energy being produced by day by solar power – in all of its forms from single roofs covered with panels to medium-sized solar farms using hundreds of solar panels to industrial-size solar plants utilizing thousands of photovoltaic panels or solar-to-thermal energy conversion plants in which concentrated heat from the sun is used to convert water to steam to run turbines producing electricity by the megawatt. Battery stored energy, produced during times of peak solar energy generation, can enhance the reliability of California’s electrical grid. During periods of peak energy demand, the batteries can be discharged directly into the grid to prevent brownouts, rolling blackouts or outright blackouts. Alternatively, at night, late at night when the electricity demand has dropped because air conditioners and household appliances are dormant and most nighttime lights have been turned off or severely dimmed as the vast number of people are asleep and fossil fuel power plants are passive or sidelined, the energy from those batteries can be loaded onto the state power grid.
In June 2021, the California Public Utilities Commission issued an order directing load-serving entities like Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric to procure additional energy sources. A number of companies, including GridStor, are moving to create the temporary energy storage capacity that will allow the state mandates and the Public Utilities Commission orders to be met.
With technical progress, however, come challenges. Those challenges include hazards from battery storage facilities.
Illustrations of that hazard occurred in two separate incidents in Arizona, one on April 19, 2019 in Surprise and another three years and two days later in Chandler on April 21, 2022. The battery systems involved in those mishaps are similar in design but on the order of about one-tenth the size of what is planned for Upland. The failures with both resulted in explosions and fires of near-catastrophic proportion.
The battery system in Surprise that exploded in 2019 was storing energy for Arizona Public Service Company, and exploded when it was smoldering and fire crews opened a door to ventilate the facility.
The facility in Chandler had been constructed beginning in 2018 and held electricity in reserve for the Arizona Power Grid, with a capacity to store four hours of electricity with an output of 10 megawatts of power, enough to power 2,500 homes.
Safety issues with the current design of standalone battery energy storage facilities are manifold. The three primary concerns are explosiveness, excessive heat resulting in fire and consequent soil and groundwater contamination that can occur when the ingredients of the lithium-ion batteries used in such power vaults pour out and onto the concrete floors and either migrate through the concrete or wash out of the facilities and onto bare land or ground when they are propelled by massive amounts of water used to douse fires.
In Upland, the GridStor 120-megawatt Upland Reliability Project to be located on the property tied up by Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC in the Sycamore Hills district is on a trajectory to be considered and rubberstamped by the Upland City Council without a hitch.
A problem, however, is that many homeowners in that neck of the woods – stretching from San Antonio Heights in the unincorporated area north of Upland, down through the neighborhoods in Upland below 24^th Street, which is the demarcation between the county and Upland, and further south through many of Upland’s grandest and most established neighborhoods and ultimately into the still-upscale but newer and not-yet-fully-completed Sycamore Hills District just north of 16^th Street and east of Benson Avenue – have had difficulty getting, or in many cases cannot purchase at any price, fire insurance. The entirety of that area which is not part of San Antonio Heights lies in Upland’s First District. The prospect that the Upland Reliability Project, one that is to consist of batteries that are demonstrably prone to explosions and fire, which are at the same time something on the order of ten times the size of the batteries that exploded and caught fire in Surprise, Arizona and Chandler, Arizona, has alarmed those residents. In particular, those who have no fire insurance and no prospect of getting it, are concerned that if a disaster hits and their residences burn to the ground, they will be left homeless and without any recompense for the million-dollar homes they will have lost.
The residents of Upland’s Sycamore Hills District, closest to the proposed project, find themselves in a particularly bad way.
Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC, a Delaware Corporation, exists for one reason and one reason only, which is to ensure that land for the location of the Upland Reliability Project is secured. Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC has settled on that location being in the Sycamore Hills District. Situated in Upland’s 1st District, Sycamore Hills, pursuant to a decision made by the Upland City Council as it was then composed in 2016, has only a single representative on the city council other than the mayor, who is elected at large to represent everyone in the city and all of its districts. In 2016, Malibu-based attorney Kevin Shenkman, using provisions of the California Voting Rights Act that would pay him $45,000 for alleging racially polarized voting had occurred in Upland historically, threatened the city with a lawsuit if it did not switch from at-large elections for its council members to electing them by district. The city, in response, responded by agreeing to go to a ward representation and electoral system and paying Shenkman the $45,000, at which point he went away. The city created the four wards using the relatively straight formula of bifurcating the city north and south generally along Foothill Boulevard and then bifurcating each of those north and south halves east and west, generally, with a few deviations, along San Antonio Avenue. Thus, the city has come to exist and be divided into the northwest quadrant 1st District, the northeast quadrant 2nd District, the southwest quadrant 3rd District and the southeast quadrant 4th District.
Traditionally, the area of Upland above Foothill Boulevard – Historic Route 66 – has been the most affluent section of the city, indeed, one of the more upper-scale districts in the entirety of San Bernardino County, consisting primarily of residential neighborhoods involving, for the most part, high quality homes built, in most cases, on quarter-acre or larger lots. The commercial areas of north Upland confine themselves, generally, to the northwest corner of 16th Street and the mercantile district along Campus Avenue near the 210 Freeway at the city’s northeasternmost extension. That portion of the city below Foothill Boulevard is a mixture of commercial and industrial uses intermixed with residential sections that are decidedly less impressive than the resplendent homes, estates, mansions and occasional manors to the north. The neighborhoods on the south side of the city in many spots involve apartments and in others densely-packed, compact abodes on much smaller or minuscule lots, in some cases teeming with denizens of Upland’s underbelly yearning to be free of the poverty that envelopes them. Many of those in the less comfortable circumstance below Foothill have come to envy, resent and despise the more fortunate Uplanders who live further upland, closer to the mountains.
Earlier this year, controversy broke out when the Tesla dealership that has been established in Upland’s 2nd District at 1018 East 20th Street, just west of the confluence of the 210 Freeway and Campus Avenue along the northern periphery of the Colonies Crossroads commercial subdivision, with the collusion of city officials and without any public disclosure entered into a silent lease agreement with the city for 2.07 acres of city-owned property in the Sycamore Hills District, where it began constructing an open-air parking storage lot for its vehicles. The land in question, comprising a 300-foot by 300-foot square approximately 80 feet east of Park View Promenade and set back from the residential dwellings to the south by approximately 145 feet and within the vicinity of other residential dwellings to the west, was zoned as open space. To many Sycamore Hills residents, the unannounced parking lot project which had not yet been given formal official approval by the city seemed to involve city officials in what appeared to be a bootleg operation. This, they feared, presaged the transformation of the open area around their homes into a semi-industrialized/semi-commercialized zone, which they considered to be incompatible with their neighborhood. The contretemps that ensued resulted in the city cancelling the lease with Tesla and making arrangement with the company to lease acreage at its corporate yard to store the cars.
Now, with the land in the Sycamore Hills area being considered as the site of the Upland Reliability Project, nearby residents sounding objections to that proposal and their representative on the Upland City Council, First District Councilwoman Shannan Maust, find themselves isolated.
Second District residents are doing their part in the effort to make a conversion from reliance on fossil fuels to the use of renewable energy by hosting the Tesla dealership. Residents in the Sycamore Hills District, specifically, and the First District more generally rejected the Tesla dealership’s parking lot and are now turning their noses up at the Upland Reliability Project. Residents of the 3rd and 4th districts for generations have put up with factories and foundries and other industrial uses proximate to their homes. Many of those are asking why 2nd District Councilman James Breitling and Third District Councilman Carlos Garcia and 4th District Councilman Rudy Zuniga should assist Maust in trying to protect Sycamore Hills residents from what they say will be an onerous land use when the residents of the 3rd District and the 4th District are not being afforded any such protection.
Mayor Bill Velto, it so happens, is a resident of the 1st District. Whether, however, he is inclined to come to the assistance of the residents of Sycamore Heights who are objecting to having the Upland Reliability Project camped down in their midst, remains to be seen.
For Upland’s mayor, the relative merits of allowing the Upland Reliability Project to proceed to completion outweigh any liabilities. Velto lives more than a mile from the site where the Upland Reliability Project is to be located, such that any fire that might break out at the facility would need to progress through the entirety of two residential subdivisions and jump two major streets to present a threat to him and his family. By endorsing the project and seeing to its approval by the council, he will put himself and Upland into synchronicity with the state’s clean energy goals and priorities and undo some of the damage he did to himself and Upland when last year he publicly called for San Bernardino County to secede from California, by so doing landing himself on Governor Gavin Newsom’s political hit list. Velto’s advocacy against Sacramento’s mandates, while popular with at least a portion of his constituency and useful in securing from a subset of Republican donors funding for his future elective efforts, has burned the city’s bridges with key members of the Democratic delegation in the Democrat-controlled California Legislature, in addition to alienating Newsom. Welcoming the Upland Reliability Project would begin to lay the foundation for his rehabilitation as a representative of the state’s 111th most populous city among the controlling powers in Sacramento, clearing the way for funding that has been cut off from Upland in the last state budgetary cycle to be restored. Velto’s willingness to saddle the 2nd District with a land use some of its residents find undesirable might also be of assistance to him closer to home. Those in the city’s Second District who are doing their part to bring about energy independence for California by hosting the Tesla showroom and dealership would be heartened to know that another section of the city is joining with them in what many believe should be a concerted collective effort toward achieving a worthwhile goal. And the residents of the 3rd and 4th districts, who have had to live with not one but dozens, indeed scores of commercial, semi-commercial/industrial, light industrial and even medium industrial uses in the midst of their neighborhoods, might experience some measure of social justice and satisfaction in seeing that the wealthy residents of Sycamore Hills, ones capable of plunking down $800,000, $900,000, $1 million or $1.1 million to purchase a home, are not immune from having the city and its zoning and development codes intrude upon the tranquility and livability of their neck of the woods. And while Velto might lose some votes from those in the Sycamore Hills District by presiding over a decision-making panel that approves placing a high-intensity energy storage facility in their midst, he is likely to gain as many votes from elsewhere in the 1st District further removed in distance from the site.
1st District Councilwoman Shannan Maust is for those opposed to the project their last and best hope that the project can be arrested in its tracks. Still, that Maust will go to bat for them is by no means certain. She could elect to jump on the Upland Reliability Project bandwagon.
Even if Maust leaps into the breach, preventing the project from coming to fruition remains a dicey prospect. She prevailed in May by having Tesla’s car storage lot moved to the city’s corporate yard, but this will be the second time she has come to the well, asking her colleagues to spare her constituents the inconvenience of having to put up with a facility intended to assist in promoting a carbon-free energy model. Given all the considerations relating to the issue, that may prove a tall order.
Of paramount importance is Maust’s political status. For many months, there have been recurrent reports that she will not seek reelection in 2024. This is the problematic, at least from the standpoint of the project opponents.
Going into that battle as a lame duck – a councilwoman who will not be around beyond her current term – would not auger well for her or the cause. If her council colleagues recognize that they will not need to put up with her presence among them beyond November of 2024, they will have no reason to listen to Maust’s entreaties on behalf of the residents of Sycamore Hills and the other areas of the First District who have reason to be concerned about the explosiveness of those massive batteries and the fire hazard they represent. If Maust is to take a stand against the Upland Reliability Project, it is important that she maintain a position of strength on the council, remain as someone who is there to stay, and remain beyond the term she was elected to in 2020.
Perhaps the best argument to be made against the project is that, given the current state of the science when it comes to large-scale, standalone battery energy storage facilities, the most prudent thing to do is to delay the project until design improvements on such voltage repositories are made.
Something quite similar has been ongoing in Santa Fe Springs. Twice city officials in that Los Angeles County city were scheduled to consider a standalone battery energy storage facility in their jurisdiction. Twice that proposal was removed from the council’s agenda at the last minute over concerns that the hazard of such a facility is an unacceptable risk to that community.
Instead of rushing forward and allowing GridStor to build the facility as it is proposing and allowing the residents of Sycamore Hills to serve as guinea pigs, Maust may simply suggest that Upland hold off and wait, wait until the design flaws in standalone battery energy storage facilities are addressed and corrected. Velto and the other members of the council might prove amenable to such an appeal. After all, they are Uplanders themselves.
If Maust indeed intends to stand and fight, to wage a dual-pronged battle in which she seeks to halt the Upland Reliability Project and to remain in office past 2024, she should expect some opposition. If such a scenario plays out and a resident of the First District challenges Maust, that candidate will likely be heavily backed by GridStor and Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC.
Prime movers with GridStor are its CEO, Chris Taylor; its vice president of finance, Anna Astretsova; its project development manager, Corey Barnes; its executive assistant and office manager, Maylin Brennan; its vice president for policy and strategy, Jason Burwen; its senior manager for procurement and contracts, Nicole Carrigan; its controller, Steve Caspell; its manager of finance, Joshua Chandy; its project finance associate, Michaela Copenhaver; its engineering, procurement, construction and technical operations manager, Daniel Dedrick; its vice president for business operations, Anne Emig; its program development manager, Matrell Everett; its transmission and interconnections manager, Ayesha Fareedi; its senior financial planning and analysis manager, Nathan Fjeldahl; it director of development, Matthew Gilliland; its engineering, procurement and construction project manager, Adam Horvath; its director of analytics, Will Jolley; its solutions architect, Alex Krall; its general counsel and chief compliance officer, Ben Lackey; its project development manager, Jarred McGhee, its vice president of development, Kathryn Meyer, its vice president of mergers and acquisitions, Jack Murray; its senior manager of market analytics, Brett Rudder; its vice president of transmission and interconnection, Esteban Santos; its project engineering manager, Kaushik Seshadri; its vice president of marketing, Jacob Steubing; its vice president for human resources, Patricia Wortham; its senior associate for commercial and business operations, Tony Ye; its vice president for asset management, Paul Zovesoff; and its director of market operations, Zhechong Zhao.
Upland Reliability Project Holdings, LLC has taken advantage of its status as a Delaware Corporation to refrain from publicly disclosing its ownership and management.

Fontana Passes Street/Sidewalk Vending Restriction Ordinance

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

At its October 10 meeting, the Fontana City Council gave unanimous passage to an ordinance giving city code enforcement officers or that division’s contracted consultants far wider latitude and authority in dealing with unlicensed street vendors.
To demonstrate it is serious about driving unlicensed street vendors out of the 43.07-square-mile city of 214,718 population, the city council augmented the new ordinance with a contract with a private company that will be paid roughly $100,000 a month for the next six months to cite the sidewalk vending offenders and seize their merchandise and means of doing business if they violate the ordinance a second time.
After years in which street vendors have encroached on public property within those areas of the city’s commercial areas, the city conducted a workshop on September 12, 2023 in which the council and community were briefed by Fontana code compliance inspectors on the difficulties that they and contracted staff are facing when dealing with non-permitted street vendors.
Large numbers of those conducting sidewalk business do not have licenses and city employees reported that they were “taking a proactive approach by providing education to street vendors on how to obtain a San Bernadino County health permit/City of Fontana business license,” according to a city staff report. Nevertheless, according to the report, “street vendors continue to operate illegally.” As a consequence, according to the staff report, “Fontana Code Compliance Inspectors and contracted staff are confiscating all perishable items, but the non-permitted street vendors are still returning to operate throughout the City of Fontana. This ordinance will grant authority to city staff to confiscate and impound all non-permitted street vendors’ equipment to further the city’s effort to mitigate health risks and maintain accessible pathways.” Continue reading →

Ramirez Appointed To MWA Seat 6

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

The Mojave Water Agency Board of Directors has selected Jesse Ramirez to fill the vacancy created within its ranks by Jeanette Hayhurst’s resignation as the agency’s Division 6 representative.

The directors made the appointment on October 9.

“Mr. Ramirez’s 44 years of experience in the water industry, combined with his longevity in the Barstow community, gives him valuable insight and perspective on the water needs in this region,” said Board President Mike Page.

Ramirez is a water industry professional, having extensive experience as a water distribution specialist. Since 2005, he was a water operations superintendent with Golden State Water Company. Golden State Water Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American States Water Company and provides water service to approximately 263,400 customer connections throughout 10 counties in Northern, Coastal and Southern California. In San Bernardino County, Golden State Water has been a primary water service provider in Barstow since 1929 and delivers water to approximately 8,800 customers there, utilizing groundwater pumped from the Mojave River Basin-Centro Subbasin, which lies, roughly, in the center of the Mojave Basin extending northwesterly and southeasterly from the Mojave River. Golden State provides water as well to roughly 2,900 customers in both Apple Valley Desert View, Lucerne, North Apple Valley and South Apple Valley, using groundwater pumped from the Mojave River Basin-Alto Subbasin, which lies in the upper portion of the Mojave River. Golden State Water provides water to approximately 11,000 customers in the Claremont customer service area, which includes portions of Montclair and Upland in San Bernardino County, deriving 60 percent of that water from local groundwater supplies which Golden State Water maintains, and imports around 40 percent from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California via Three Valleys Municipal Water District.

Ramirez currently holds Grade-5 water distribution operation certification as well as Grade-3 water treatment operator certification.

“Jesse brings with him an accomplished career in water utility operations and will undoubtedly provide the agency with important perspectives as we tackle the coming water management challenges,” said General Manager Adnan Anabtawi.
“I’m looking forward to tapping into my many years in the water industry to help the agency navigate challenges now, and in the future,” said Ramirez, who cited more stringent water quality standards and availability of water in general among the upcoming issues.

A Barstow native, Ramirez graduated from Barstow High School. He has served as a Barstow College Foundation Board member since 2019 and on the Barstow Cemetery Committee since 2020. He is a member of the Barstow Kiwanis Club and was that group’s past president in 2018-2019 year.

Ramirez will attend his first board meeting on October 26.

Second Judge Suspends CVUSD Parental Notification Policy

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Venturi

A second San Bernardino Superior Court judge has entered a ruling blocking the Chino Valley Unified School District’s policy, put into place this summer, requiring the notification of parents whose children are assuming an identify that deviates from the gender on their birth certificates.
On October 19, San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs granted the California Attorney General’s Office’s request for a preliminary injunction that prevents the Chino Valley Unified School District from implementing the essential elements of the parental notification policy the school board passed by a 4-to-1 vote on July 20.
The policy, which was strongly endorsed by parents in the district and passionately opposed by advocates of the lesbian-gay-bisexual-transsexual-queer community, mandated that the district’s faculty notify the parents of a child in writing within three days if he or she reidentifies his or her gender, which is defined by the student changing pronouns, names or seeking to use a gender-based changing room, locker room or restrooms for a gender different than the one assigned that child at birth. The policy further requires parental notification when a student tells faculty or a counselor about any violence he or she has experienced or of any contemplation of suicide. Continue reading →

Bowden Back As 29 Palms City Manager

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Venturi

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Bowden Back As 29 Palms City Manager