The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men

Danny Lopez was taken into custody Saturday night after a dispute with his brother escalated into a full-blown siege involving heavily-armed police officers at his home on Saturday night.
-Mark Gutglueck 

The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band will present their final performance of their 2022-2023 season with rousing patriotic and popular music for the close of the Ontario All-States July 4th Parade that will march down Euclid Avenue. We invite you to come out and bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets to have a grand old time celebrating the 4th of July. As soon as the parade is over there will be lots of room for everybody to find a spot on the grass in front of the Bandshell at the beautiful Ontario Town Square located one block East of Euclid Ave. at the corner “B” Street and Euclid. Just a very short walk from the end of the parade, just south of the Wells Fargo Bank building. Come join in the fun and sun for Independence Day! Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB 2311219
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JESUS RICARDO ALVAREZ filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JESUS RICARDO ALVAREZ to JESSE RICARDO ALVAREZ
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: 06-29-2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S14
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
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.
Dated: 05/05/2023
BRIAN S. MCCARVILLE
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 06/02/2023, 06/09/2023, 06/16/2023, 06/23/2023

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB 2311834
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: DAISY BUSTAMANTE filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
ISIAH KORDAI MURRIN to ISIAH KORDAI GONZALES BUSTAMANTE.
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: 08/23/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S27
The address of the court is Superior Court of California,County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBC Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 05/25/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Brian S. McCarville
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2023.

FBN 20230005574
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
DEFABULOUS ESTATES 9483 HAVEN AVE SUITE 100 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: JENNIFER J DEFABIIS 5580 VIA ESCALANTE RIVERSIDE, CA 92509
Mailing Address: 5580 VIA ESCALANTE RIVERSIDE, CA 92509
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/ JENNIFER J DEFABIIS
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/31/2023
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 June 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2023.

FBN 20230005576
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
BFMA DANCE STUDIO 993 W VALLEY BLVD SUITE 222 BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316 MARTHA L HERNANDEZ 2237 E FOOTHILL DR SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
Mailing Address: 2237 E FOOTHILL DR SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAY 1, 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/ MARTHA L HERNANDEZ
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/31/2023
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 J5065
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 June 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2023. Continue reading →

Ontario city officials raided the city’s water enterprise fund for more than $120 million from 2008 until 2021, the Sentinel has learned.
Fifteen years after the city initiated a repeated practice of diverting specific money to purposes other than those to which under California law it must be devoted, the money has not been returned.
Nevertheless, city officials in October 2021 boosted the average rates city residents and businesses pay for water by 3.6 percent and hiked the rates by another 5 percent in July 2022. The Ontario City Council is scheduled next month, on July 18, to consider increasing those rates by 6.67 percent, and is further on track to up them by 5.23 percent in July 2024. Thus, over the course of two years and eight months, the city will have raised its water rates by 22.14 percent.
As the city’s officials ready themselves to make those increases, a growing number of city residents are questioning why they are being subject to the rate increases, given what has been characterized as the city’s inappropriate looting of the water fund. Specifically, those residents say, the city ran afoul of Proposition 218, which was passed by the state’s voters in 1998.
Proposition 218 put in place strict rules for raising fees and taxes in California. Under its provisions, a municipality cannot shift the cost of providing services under its general fund to utility ratepayers. Continue reading →

Conflating homelessness with mental illness, the board of supervisors this week unanimously voted to enact the provisions of Assembly Bill 1976 and Senate Bill 507, commonly known as Laura’s Law, clearing the way for the San Bernardino County Department of Mental Health to track down homeless, take them into court and have them declared mentally ill, and force them to participate in involuntary “assisted outpatient treatment.” That assisted outpatient treatment is to consist of administering them anti-psychotic medication.
Laura’s Law grew out of the action of Scott Harlan Thorpe, a paranoiac who reportedly was not taking the anti-psychotic medication he had been prescribed when he murdered three people during a shooting spree in 2001, including Laura Wilcox, a 19-year-old high school valedictorian and college sophomore who was working at the Nevada County Department of Behavioral Health as a receptionist. The following year, Assembly Bill 1421, the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002 was passed, allowing, on a trial, the imposition of a requirement that mandated treatment – the use of medication – for individuals deemed to be mentally ill, even if those subject to the mandate had no criminal record and it was merely presumed they might prove violent. Once assisted outpatient treatment was demonstrated as workable and successful under the auspices of Assembly Bill 1421, the requirement was permanentized with Assembly Bill 1976. Subsequently Senate Bill 507 created a requirement that for the law to go into effect in any given county, the county’s board of supervisors must enact an ordinance permitting outpatient commitment programs under the provisions of the act to take place in that particular county.
According to the county, the board’s approval of that ordinance will result in providing “assistance” to those in the county suffering from mental illness, while simultaneously promoting public safety and quality of life and reducing the level of homelessness. Continue reading →

Having reached the point where he will receive as much by collecting his pension as he currently makes in salary, Hesperia city manager Nils Bentsen is officially retiring as of Sunday.
Bentsen will be replaced by Assistant City Manager Rachel Molina.
Bentsen was the Hesperia Station commander with the sheriff’s department for slightly less than three years when the Hesperia City Council in January 2016, faced with the retirement of City Manager Mike Podegracz, selected Bentsen as his replacement. Bentzen at that point had 27 years’ experience in law enforcement, but no real experience or training in municipal management.
One of the things that did recommend Bentsen to the post was his intimate familiarity, as a native son, with the Hesperia community. He attended Hesperia Christian School and Victor Valley College. In his capacity as the Hesperia sheriff’s station commander, a position tantamount to being police chief in Hesperia insofar as Hesperia contracts with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department for law enforcement services, he was less aloof than many of those who had previously held the station commander’s post and he had engaged regularly with residents, city employees and elected officials.
During his tenure as city manager, the city faced some challenges beyond what were already difficult issues in the City of Progress.
When Bentsen took on the post of city manager, the city had long been dealing with the legacy of Penn Phillips, the founder of modern Hesperia, who had created a residential community after purchasing the entire Township of Hesperia for $1.5 million in 1954, and then installed infrastructure that was inferior and inadequate to support the population that came to inhabit what was eventually incorporated into a city in 1988. The first several generations of the city’s political leadership, in some cases because of natural inclination and in other cases as a consequence of graft and corruption, were virulently pro-development in their orientation toward running and managing the city, opting to allow the building industry to proceed with project after project that was accompanied by inadequate infrastructure, thereby perpetuating and exacerbating the infrastructure deficit that had characterized the community from the time before Phillips abandoned it to pursue his “get rich quick” scheming elsewhere. The situation in Hesperia was not enhanced by the consideration that its first city manager was Robert Rizzo, who militated with investment and development interests in Orange County to commit the city’s governmental structure to facilitating and having the city’s taxpayers subsidize elaborate developmental schemes in which the cost of infrastructure was to be underwritten by the public rather than the entities that profited by the residential and commercial subdivisions that were popping up all over the more-than-70-square-mile city. Continue reading →