FBN 20230000267
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as RANCHO CUCAMONGA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 10050 WILSON AVENUE ALTA LOMA, CA 91737: ALAN R TIBBETTS 10050 WILSON AVENUE ALTA LOMA, CA 91737 [and] PHILO BIANE 6 GOOSENECK ROAD ALTA LOMA, CA 91737
Mailing Address: 492 W FOOTHILL BLVD CLAREMONT, CA 91711
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: SEPTEMBER 25, 1979.
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/ ALAN R TIBBETTS, General Partner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/11/2023
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 J3108
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 January 20 & 27 & February 3 & 10, 2023.

FBN 20230000342
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as VENDIES VENDING 8320 VICARA DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA 91701: VENDIES OFFICIAL LLC 8320 VICARA DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA 91701
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202253219069
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOVEMBER 11, 2022.
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 CHENG, Managing Member
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/13/2023
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 J3108
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 January 20 & 27 & February 3 & 10, 2023.

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By Mark Gutglueck John Magness, who played a key role in the civilian use conversion of Norton Air Force Base into San Bernardino International Airport has died on February 4 at the age of 57. As the senior vice president and West Coast director of Hillwood Enterprises, LP, the real estate and development arm of Dallas, Texas-based Perot Companies which he had joined in 1997, Magness came to Southern California in 2002 and transformed the floundering efforts of two governmental joint powers authorities to use the shuttered air base for beneficial economic effect into success through a public-private partnership involving his company. Magness, who was a prime mover in Hillwood’s activity at San Bernardino International Airport as well as with the company’s activities in five other locations in Southern California, lost his life in a bold misadventure in Argentina, as he was taking part in a three-man team effort involving former U.S. military personal attempting to scale the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, 22,838-foot elevation Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
The fentanyl overdose death of an Upland High student last weekend entailed elements that virtually all of those involved in the fatality, even at the most removed and indirect levels, are loathe to have fully explored for a variety of reasons, from potential criminal culpability to political correctness to philosophical discomfort to deep personal grief. Simultaneously, family members, school district officials and police investigators are all stymied by questions about what occurred, what responses are appropriate and socially acceptable and how much information can and should be released. Consideration extends to the balance between the courtesy of being respectful to family members grieving their loss versus the necessity of making efforts to prevent the victim’s misfortune from being visited upon others.
At once the victim in this case was similar and profoundly different from others, one who was born female but in the last several years had become persuaded that he was more properly identified as male. With the apparent concurrence of her parents, she began a transition as early as the fifth grade to being a man, using a variety of hormones and chemicals, including testosterone, to suppress her female traits and adopt or take on male characteristics. Continue reading →

A wide cross section of the fewer than the 1,200 residents of the 75-square mile expanse of Wonder Valley and its outlying environs is adamantly opposed to the general concept of converting the 4,407-square foot former Southern California Edison facility most commonly known by locals as “the pink building” near the southwest corner of Gammel and Amboy Road into a year-round resort to be dubbed the Wonder Valley Inn.
No Wonder Valley residents contacted by the Sentinel and no Wonder Valley residents contacting the Sentinel are in favor of the project.
Greenberg and Landver in November 2021 applied for a conditional use permit, including a rezoning request for 21.22 of the acres on the site which are currently zoned for low density housing under the county’s RL-5 zoning designation, to CS, or commercial service use, to allow the project as proposed to proceed. The current RL-5 designation allows single family homes on lots no smaller than five acres. Greenberg and Landver either own outright or have tied up approximately 134.6 acres at the Amboy/Gammel corner, which bears the address of 78201 Amboy Road. The 3.18 acres closest to the two roads is already zoned for commercial service use. Continue reading →

After More Than A Decade During Which Valdivia & Bankruptcy Devastated The City

After a nearly 11-year absence, Charles McNeely is back in the position of San Bernardino city manager.
In December, in the final weeks of John Valdivia’s tenure as mayor, Robert Field was persuaded to resign as the county seat’s city manager. The following month, with Helen Tran having supplanted
Valdivia as mayor, she and the council agreed on having McNeely, who had served as San Bernardino city manager from 2009 until 2012, return to the position of top administrator on an interim basis.
Some have observed that San Bernardino, at 62.45 square miles and a population of 222,101, simply wasn’t big enough for both Valdivia and McNeely.
It certainly appears that Valdivia’s tenure in the capacity of an elected official in San Bernardino was incompatible with McNeely’s service in the capacity as that city’s administrator.
In 2009, McNeely was the city manager of Reno, Nevada, the self-styled Biggest Little City in the Word, when he was lured to take on the city manager’s post in San Bernardino.
Coming into that position, McNeely recognized he faced a challenge, as San Bernardino was struggling to overcome stiff financial headwinds, ones that were an outgrowth of the decision by the Department of Defense a decade-and-a-half previously to shutter Norton Air Force Base in 1994. In the intervening time, the local economy had contracted, such that throughout the first decade of the Third Millennium San Bernardino was engaging in deficit spending with each annual budget, depleting the reserves the municipality had built up over the course of nearly a century. Continue reading →

Those living within even distant proximity to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Wonder Valley, Desert Heights, Landers, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Johnson Valley and the Morongo Basin will need endure the rolling sound of thunderous cannons, mortars, impacting shells, gunfire and explosives as well as aircraft while the Marine Corps conducts a series of training events known as service level training exercises throughout February.
The service level training exercises are highly realistic combat simulations utilizing live ammunition and actively engaged armament to prepare Marines and other U.S. and allied participating forces to deliver “rapid, powerful and sustainable response on a global scale,” according to the Marine Corps. “Critical training performed by Marines and sailors aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center prepares them for combat. They must train as they would fight — using the mortars, artillery, tanks, aircraft and guns they would use in combat.” Continue reading →

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department investigators are struggling to get a fix on the motive and possible suspect or suspects in the murder of three family members discovered in a residential home on a cul-de-sac in the West End on January 30.
The victims have been identified as Sonia C. Ramirez, 68; her husband, George M. Ramirez, whose age was given as 66 but was actually 72, having been born on April 30, 1950; and their son, David Ramirez, also known as David Renteria, 43. The three were found shot to death in the home located at 4804 Ramona Place, in the unincorporated county area north of Chino, south of Montclair, west of Ontario and east of Pomona and the Los Angeles County line.
The sheriff’s department was called to the 1,350-square foot, two-story three-bedroom home at 9:09 p.m. by an unidentified individual, believed to be one of the three other residents of the house, who came upon the bodies shortly before the call was made.
Deputies working out of the Chino Hills Sheriff’s Station, which is roughly 6.4 miles from the home, were dispatched to the scene, arriving there after a driving time of about 11 minutes.
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The San Bernardino City Council this week declared the city it oversees to be in a state of emergency based on the housing and homelessness crisis that has beset it.
Making the declaration furthered the council’s administrative authority to implement a series of measures to meet the dire consequences of homelessness among what has exceeded half of one percent the city’s population.
The 220,101-population city at present has some 1,350 residents who are officially homeless.
After hearing a staff report on the matter that was presented by Cassandra Searcy, who was hired nearly seven months ago as the city’s deputy director of housing and homelessness, the council voted to expedite the develop of shelters and interim housing, work with landlords to rent available vacant apartments to those who are unhoused and speed up the permitting processes on new housing construction.
Searcy gave an overview of efforts the city has made generally over the past fifteen years and specifically more recently in dealing with the crisis. She said that in some measure, “the city has done things right.”
According to Searcy, “Homelessness is a national issue. It is negatively impacting the city it is true, but it’s not only affecting the unhoused population, it’s also affecting those who are housed. It’s affecting our neighbors. It’s affecting the community. It’s affecting everyone. For years, the city has partnered with multiple service agencies to provide shelter to provide care and assistance, but unfortunately, with those efforts, it doesn’t really seem to be having an impact. So, we need to shift gears and we need to identify what are the gaps and what programs and services do we need to put in place. It is true that housing ends homelessness, but we can’t negate the fact that we still need to have some level of interim housing and shelters to help people stabilize so they can successfully transition into permanent housing.” Continue reading →