By Mark Gutglueck
Following the investment of approaching $8 million and more than 10,000 man-hours of effort by members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department over the last 17 months, there are unmistakable signs that a corner has been turned on the effort to eradicate the bootleg marijuana cultivation activity that had proliferated in many of the vast outreaches of 20,105-square mile San Bernardino County since 2017.
A milestone in that effort was reached in March, when a division of the sheriff’s department’s task force unexpectedly came upon a vast subterranean “industrial-sized” farm in the remote desert community of Newberry Springs, one with ties, the Sentinel is told by reliable sources, to an international tong which has sponsored the erection of literally hundreds of other greenhouses in the desert in the past five years. The takedown of that operation sent a signal, one louder and clearer than any delivered before, to the Continue reading →

Rancho Cucamonga’s city council will remain at four-fifths strength until December in the aftermath of Councilman Sam Spagnolo’s May 2 death.
The city council had the option of appointing someone who lives within the city’s First District to fill the vacancy.
Potential replacements included Tim Johnson, Luis Cetina and Tony Guglielmo.
Johnson was a protégé of former Rancho Cucamonga City Councilman and Second District San Bernardino County Supervisor Paul Biane. In 2002, Johnson served as Biane’s deputy campaign manager. In 2010, before Biane was defeated for reelection as Second District supervisor in that year’s race and after a falling out occurred between Biane and Matt Brown, who was both Biane’s chief of staff and his Continue reading →

Taxpayer and government reform advocates will not be given a fighting chance to repeal a special fire district tax imposed on all landowners in the county’s unincorporated areas, San Bernardino Superior Court Judge David Cohn ruled on May 31.

This marks the third time the Red Brennan Group has been prevented from undoing the tax.

The Red Brennan Group, which was named after the late government efficiency and fair taxation advocate Kiernan “Red” Brennan, took up cause against the expansion of the Fire Protection District Service Zone Five (FP-5) assessment that was imposed on all of the landowners within the county’s unincorporated areas by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in 2018, seeking to overturn the tax after the county used a protest validation to put it in place. Continue reading →

Gary and Miriam Keith will present the musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band in the performance of “Rhapsody in Blue: The Music of George Gershwin” on Monday June 20, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium.
The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital in the auditorium lobby at 7:00 p.m.
Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium is located on the campus of Chaffey High School at 1245 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario.
The concert will be narrated by David Allen, newspaper columnist for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, and Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Continue reading →

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
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The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: NIEVES EL KEVIN, 1115 1/2 WILSON ST, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
LUCIA E ONOFRE, 1115 1/2 WILSON ST, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411, AMANDO DIAZ OLAGUIVER, 1115 1/2 WILSON ST, SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
Business is Conducted By: A MARRIED COUPLE Signed: 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. Continue reading →

Almost a year ago, June 4, 2021, the Liberty Sculpture Park in Yermo introduced the CCP Virus Sculpture. A little over a month later in July, agents of the Chinese Communist Party with ties to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, repeatedly attacked the sculpture, eventually burning it to total destruction July 23^rd, according to charges unsealed in March 2022 by federal prosecutors.

Weiming Chen, sculptor of the piece, immediately vowed to rebuild. With the support of donations from those angered by the attack, including the Human Rights Foundation, the CCP Virus II Sculpture was created using the original molds as the guide to build a metal frame. Sculptor Weiming Chen, welder Qien Yan, assistant Jonas Yuan, and David Jen spent seven months using rebar, sheet metal, cement, and paint to make the replica of the giant coronavirus molecule head with Communist Hammer and Sickle attachment and the face and skull of Xi Jinping, President of China and Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The installation is the largest depiction of Chairmen Xi in the world that firmly holds his leadership accountable for the CoVid-19 pandemic’s worldwide impact and devastation.

An event to unveil the CCP Virus II Sculpture will be held Sunday June 5^th starting at 3 p.m. The park entrance is 37570 West Yermo Rd. Speakers will be in English and Chinese languages. A period of silence to honor the victims of CoVid-19 is a planned portion of the unveiling ceremony. The unveiling will be followed by a memorial observance of the 33^rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (estimated to begin 6PM) in front of the giant Six Four monument. Speakers for the memorial will be mostly Cantonese and Mandarin dialects.