In a startling development, the implication of which has yet to be fully determined, two of Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren’s key council allies broke with her on the issue that has come to define her tenure in office more than any other when they voted in league with her longtime primary political rival this week to prevent the approval of three warehouse projects at the south end of the city.
On Tuesday night July 5, Warren, voting in tandem with District 1 Councilman Phil Cothran Jr, failed to prevail in a 2-to-3 vote to alter the land use designation and zoning on 29.4 acres between Citrus and Oleander avenues, north of Santa Ana Avenue, and south of Jurupa Hills High School from residential to industrial.
Warren and Cothran were turned back by the votes of opposition cast by District 2 Councilman Jesse Sandoval, District 4 Councilman John Roberts and District 3 Councilman Pete Garcia, who banded together in a first ever alliance to prevent Newport Beach-based developer Acacia Real Estate Group from constructing three industrial commerce center buildings totaling 540,849 square feet on that land.
Essentially, the industrial commerce center buildings were to have been warehouses/distribution centers.
Fontana has been so aggressive in building warehouses over the last dozen years that Warren is known by those who both oppose and favor warehouse development as “Warehouse Warren.” Fontana’s favoring of that land use has occurred in the larger context of a general accommodation of that particular land use within the Inland Empire and San Bernardino County, which is located along the 10, 210 and 215 freeways and the Union Pacific/Santa Fe/Burlington Northern railroad line and its general position within Southern California, which involves large port facilities in San Pedro and Long Beach that land massive amounts of merchandise from manufacturers in Asia brought across the Pacific Ocean by ship.
There is more than 930 million square feet of warehousing in San Bernardino and Riverside counties at present, with more being built. That includes 3,034 warehouses in San Bernardino County. In Ontario alone, there are 289 warehouses larger than 100,000 square feet. Reportedly, there are 142 warehouses in Fontana larger than 100,000 square feet. In Chino there are 118 warehouses larger than 100,000 square feet, 109 larger than 100,000 square feet in Rancho Cucamonga and 75 larger than 100,000 square feet in San Bernardino. Since 2015, 26 warehouse project applications have been processed and approved by the City of San Bernardino, entailing acreage under roof of 9,598,255 square feet, or more than one-third of a square mile, translating into 220.34 acres. After Ontario, Fontana, Chino, Rancho Cucamonga and San Bernardino, the city in San Bernardino County with the next largest number of warehouses of more than 100,000 square feet is Redlands, with 56, followed by Rialto with 47. In addition to those 47 larger warehouses, Rialto has another 125 warehouses of under 100,000 square feet. Continue reading →

More than a decade after he left city officials in the lurch there, Henry Garcia has returned, at least for an interim, as Rialto’s acting city manager.
Garcia has taken up the position six months after the abrupt departure of City Manager Marcus Fuller, who at no time during his 20-month stint as city manager established an even relationship with all five of the members of the city council, some of whom are known for their explosive temperament. By January, all sides acknowledged, managerial differences were too pronounced for him to remain, and he departed. Garcia relieves Assistant City Manager Arron Brown, who temporarily assumed the acting city manager from Fuller and has now returned to his original capacity as assistant city manager.
Garcia, who obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Riverside in 1979 and later obtained his master’s degree in political science from UCLA, applied his education by going into government work, finding positions of progressively greater responsibility with the cities of Fontana, Riverside and San Jacinto.
In 1991, he was hired as city manager in Azusa, where he remained for six years, at which point he jumped to Colton. Thereafter, in 2001, he opportunistically left for neighboring Rialto, remaining in that post for ten years. In 2011, he once again pulled up stakes to become the city manager of Moreno Valley, a post he remained in for three years, his stay being punctuated by another unexpected departure in 2014. That knelled his essential retirement, although he served, for a short period of time last year, as the interim city manager in Eastvale. Continue reading →

Shocked outrage has descended and begun to fester in certain quarters in Hesperia upon the discovery of the terms provided just departed City Manager Nils Bentsen during the last seven months of his tenure in Hesperia, coupled with the raise he was given in October of last year and the simultaneous redundancy of a second city manager’s salary being paid to his successor throughout that span.
It appears that since December 9, 2022 running through June 18, the city was paying Bentsen $47,451.25 per month before benefits.
That arrangement was made, apparently, to secure what the city referred to as the “mentoring” of the city manager who succeeded him, Rachel Molina. Continue reading →

The Needles Planning Commission on July 7 put the kibosh on Armen Ghadimian’s proposal to convert the long-dormant Imperial 400 Motor Inn on Broadway Street into an apartment complex.
Ghadimian, who represents for NAAR Capital, LLC, acquired the property, which has been vacant for over a decade after a fire gutted five of its units, and the entire building was red-tagged. Ultimately, Ghadimian’s intent was to refurbish all 32 units and augment each with a kitchenette and a single bedroom. Those units would entail approximately 240-to-280 square feet each, he said. Ideally, they would be living quarters for veterans, either living alone or with a single partner, similar to another project Ghadimian has completed in Needles, the reclamation of the Sage hotel.
The 10,288-square-foot Imperial 400 Motor Inn is located at 644 West Broadway Street.
The major renovations to the motel would have been the construction of the kitchenettes, the replumbing for all of the bathrooms and the major reconstruction of the units destroyed by fire. In addition, the apartment complex was to have two laundry rooms, an office and reception area. Continue reading →

Yesterday, House Resolution 1435, sponsored by Congressman Jay Obernolte and three other Republican lawmakers, was passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
H.R.1435, which is known as the Preserving Choice for Vehicle Purchases Act, was introduced by Pennsylvania Congressman John Joyce, Ohio Congressman Bob Latta, Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis and Obernolte. It will will next be considered by the full U.S. House of Representatives.
H.R.1435, would amend federal law to block attempts to eliminate the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines. Further, the legislation would restrict the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing any waivers that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines. The Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act was introduced in response to the California Air Resource Board’s decision to effectively ban the sale of new, internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, in an effort to force automakers to cease the development and production of new gas-powered motor vehicles. Continue reading →

Because of poor communication and a lack of coordinated customer service, some mountain community residents and landowners have been left vulnerable to grifters and burglars seeking to victimize them.
IN accordance with state legislation, Senate Bill SB-1383, and a recently revamped franchise agreement between Big Bear Disposal, Inc. and the City of Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Disposal has been, since mid-to-late June, providing its customers with new 96-gallon gray carts for trash and 96-gallon blue carts for recyclables.
Senate Bill 1383 was passed several years ago and requires requires all jurisdictions in California to provide organic waste – essentially food waste – collection services to all residents and businesses. The implementation of SB 1383 has been delayed several times, and in multiple areas it is now being actuated. The gray trash carts supplied by Big Bear Disposal are intended to accept all non-recyclable solid waste including food waste.
In the mountain communities, particularly in Big Bear, many who own land there have dwellings or cabins as second homes or vacation homes, such that they are absent from them for a good deal of time.
In many, though certainly not all, cases, those absentee owners are present more during the winter or even the spring or autumn months than they are during the summer. In some cases, they may not be present for week or months on end.
As in the more urban environments down the hill, trash service in the mountain communities is weekly. Most mountain residents who are present set their trash out the night before or the very early morning of the day of collection and retrieve the empty bins shortly after the collection has occurred, usually in the afternoon or early evening of the same day.
With Big Bear Disposal’s delivery of the new bins, those properties where there are absentee owners have now become easy to discern because at the front of the driveways leading to those residences are two long neglected new trash bins.
Burglars can now conveniently drive through the mountain community neighborhoods and note with ease where there are homes that are vulnerable to burglary because there is no one home to watch over the property or the valuables that are contained within them.
In some Big Bear Lake neighborhoods, as many as four out of five homes are empty during most summer weekdays.
Moreover, the proliferation of trash bins along the street are for many people an eyesore.

FBN 20230006813
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
SMARTHIRE, A DIVISION OF KROUT & SCHNEIDER, INC. 4650 ARROW HWY, #E2 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763: KROUT & SCHNEIDER, INC. 4650 ARROW HWY, #E2 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number CO535332.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: December 8, 2020.
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 17913. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MARK A. MCCLAIN, Vice President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/6/2023
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 J6748
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 July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023.

FBN 20230005436
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MY PRO FRESH CHEF 12207 CENTRAL AVE CHINO, CA 91710 MY PRO FRESH CHEF 2575 THUNDER MOUNTAIN ROAD UPLAND, CA 91784 26444 SILVERADO CT MORENO VALLEY, CA 92555: TERESITA GARCIA SAPIEN 26444 SILVERADO CT MORENO VALLEY, CA 92555
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 31, 2018.
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/ ISAAC SANDOVAL, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/25/2023
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 J5473
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 July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023.

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