The musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band and the Chuck and Patti Pfister Family are proud to present “What The World Needs Now: The Music of Burt Bacharach” on Monday September 18, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.  The concert will be held in historic Gardiner Spring Auditorium on the campus of Chaffey High School, 1250 N. Euclid Ave. in Ontario.  The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital in the auditorium lobby at 7:00 p.m.  Complimentary coffee and cookies will be served in the lobby prior to the concert.  The performance is free to the public.

The concert represents the start of the Show Band’s 38th season of providing quality musical performances for the concert goers of the greater Ontario community.  The program features a repertoire of hit songs from renowned composer/songwriter Burt Bacharach.  Bacharach, who passed away on February 8, 2023 at the age of 94, is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.  His music has been recorded by over 1,000 recording artists, most notably Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, Elvis Costello, and Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.

The show band’s special guest artist will be jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, and educator Aimee Nolte.  Aimee has made a name for herself with her extensive YouTube channel that boasts nearly a thousand educational and entertaining videos.  With over 250,000 subscribers, Aimee is in high demand as a clinician, and performer.  She just returned from teaching at Victor Wooten’s Theory Camp in Tennessee and is thrilled to be in the company of the show band once again.  Aimee will perform four Bacharach hit songs; “Close To You,” “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head,” “The Look of Love,” and “That’s What Friends Are For.”

Also highlighting the concert program is Assistant Director Pat Arnold who will perform a tenor saxophone solo on the beautiful ballad “Here I Am” from the film score of What’s New Pussycat.  Show Band Director Gabe Petrocelli is featured on the keyboard in “A House Is Not A Home.”  The outstanding musicians of the Show Band will highlight the evening with their performances of “Do You Know The Way To San Jose,” “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again,” and “What The World Needs Now.”  In addition, they will perform several medleys of Bacharach tunes that include “What’s New Pussycat,” “Alfie,” featuring a saxophone solo by Francisco Mowatt, the theme song from the film “Casino Royale,” the title song from the musical “Promises, Promises,” “Make It Easy On Yourself,” “I Say A Little Prayer,” and “Arthur’s Theme: The Best That I Can Do.”

The performance will be narrated by newspaper columnist David Allen, and Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner.

Support for the show band can be shown by visiting and feeding the Hungry Tuba located in the lobby.  The concert will be broadcast on local Ontario cable Channel 3.  Check your cable listings for the date and time.

The Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band was founded in 1985 by R. Jack Mercer and is now under the direction of Dr. Gabe Petrocelli and assistant directors David Schaafsma and Pat Arnold.  Band members represent at least two dozen communities throughout Southern California.  Adult musicians and students are invited to participate.  Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings from 7 to 9:00 p.m. at the Chaffey High School Jack Mercer Band Room.  The band performs monthly concerts on the campus of Chaffey High School as well as at other venues throughout the community.  All performances are free to the public.

For more information about the concert visit the Show Band website at www.showband.net or contact Dr. Petrocelli at gabe@showband.net.  The “Friends of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band” is a registered charity under Internal Revenue Code Section 501 (c)(3); EIN # 46-1422958.  Donations are welcomed.  Checks may be made out to:  Friends of the OCCSB, P.O. Box 1512, Ontario, CA 91762.  Concert goers interested in being included on the Show Band mailing list are encouraged to fill out an information card at our events.  Be sure to follow the Show Band on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or its website at www.showband.net.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Deborah Marlane Spencer
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By Mark Gutglueck
Leonard Hernandez, the librarian who vaulted to the top of San Bernardino County’s governmental chain of command and reigned for close to three years as one of the most feared and dominating personages in the county’s 130-year history, has resigned from his $599,400.55 total annual compensation post.
Hernandez’s once-untouchable administration imploded in scandal over a compacted period of less than three weeks’ duration while he was out of the office on vacation earlier this summer. The progression toward his demise, however, had been brewing for some time, as the personality traits that had allowed him to take such dynamic charge of the county governmental apparatus and left so many literally quaking in his presence ultimately engendered a seemingly spontaneously concerted resistance to the continuation of his autocracy.
His departure, nonetheless, has raised a number of questions about what arrangements were made to effectuate his leaving and the fate of a cabal of assistant and deputy administrators and department heads he installed in the county’s executive suite to assist him in his preeminence over the county.
Hernandez was a 20-year-old student at California State University in Fullerton when he originally went to work for the county in 1998 reshelving books at the Chino branch library. After obtaining a history degree, he began working for the county library system full time, simultaneously pursuing his master’s degree in library science through Clarion University’s online learning program and promoting into the position of the Fontana Branch Library manager. In 2008, he jumped at the opportunity to become the director of libraries with the City of Riverside, but returned to San Bernardino County in 2010, anticipating the retirement of San Bernardino County Librarian Ed Kieczykowski. In 2011, upon Kieczykowski’s departure, Hernandez moved into the position of San Bernardino County librarian. In 2013, Hernandez took on a secondary assignment as the director of the San Bernardino County Museum. In 2015, then-San Bernardino County Chief Executive Officer Greg Devereaux promoted Hernandez to the position of county deputy executive officer overseeing the community services group. In 2017, he was made first the interim and a few months later the full-fledged county chief operating officer. Continue reading →

The California Supreme Court’s decision to let the Fourth District Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding 2020’s Measure K stand raises a question over whether current and past members of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will be required to refund some $380,000 each they have been paid in excess of what the political reform initiative specified.
In the November 2020 election, a supermajority of San Bernardino County’s voters approved Measure K, which was sponsored by the government reform advocacy coalition the Red Brennan Group. The measure called for deeming the county’s five supervisors part-time legislators and reducing each of their individual total annual compensation, which ranged, depending on the number of their familial dependents covered under their benefit plans, from $242,941.27 to $280,905.92 annually, to $60,000. Measure K further limited the supervisors to a single four-year term. It passed by a more than two-thirds margin, with 516,184 votes or 66.84 percent in favor to 256,098 or 33.16 percent in opposition.
The county, using its office of county counsel, retained three attorneys – Bradley Hertz, James Sutton and Nicholas Sanders of the Los Angeles-based Sutton Law Firm – and authorized them to sue in San Bernardino County Superior Court the supervisors’ own immediate employee, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors Lynna Monell, in a legal petition to keep her from implementing Measure K. Then-County Counsel Michelle Blakemore and San Bernardino County Chief Executive Officer Leonard Hernandez arranged to have the lawsuit maneuvered into the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Don Alvarez, who was known to be both beholden and sympathetic to the county’s governmental hierarchy. The filing of the lawsuit put Measure K into abeyance while it was subject to legal challenge, preventing the salary reductions from going into effect until such time as the matter was adjudicated. Continue reading →

In an effort to avert what some were predicting would soon manifest into a managerial disaster and public funding misdirection/diversion scandal and public relations nightmare, the Ontario City Council this week made a public show of appreciation toward City Manager Scott Ochoa, a little more than five-and-a-half years after he arrived in the city.
Ochoa had gone for more than three years without a substantive raise, even as the city council was conducting multiple reviews of his performance while city operations were expanding and complexifying in parallel with a massive increase in the city’s finances.
In October 2017, Ochoa, then the city manager of 203,054 population Glendale, had been lured to 172,996-population Ontario to serve as city manager. Ontario offered him a roughly $45,000 raise over the $274,901 annual salary Glendale was then paying him along with some benefit enhancements.
Ochoa made an earnest effort to fit in and made no waves during the first two to two-and-a-half years of his tenure in Ontario.
Nevertheless, there were elements of the situation Ochoa had walked into in Ontario about which he had no inkling when he signed on for the city manager assignment which would turn out to be highly problematic for him personally. Among those were the venal motivations and deep-seated personality flaws of several of his political masters on the city council, the accompanying accommodations throughout the municipal structure that had been made over the years and a lack of financial discipline that had beset the city.
Hands down, Ontario is San Bernardino County’s wealthiest municipality. For a variety of reasons – historical, geographical, jurisdictional, administrative and plain serendipitous, Ontario has for the last three decades and more had revenue that dwarfs that of every other city in the county and roughly double to that of the second best financially-fixed of the other 23 cities and incorporated towns. Ontario had annually budgeted for some of its single departments – the police department and fire department among them – more money than some of San Bernardino County’s cities and towns used for the entirety of their operations in a single year. Continue reading →

What have been characterized as long-existent serious problems at the City of Hesperia’s animal shelter have grown even worse in recent weeks, individuals with access to the facility have told the Sentinel.
Those conditions are so bad that the city has instituted measures to prevent citizens or outsiders from coming into the facility in an effort to prevent the public at large from seeing the deteriorating conditions. Nevertheless, photographs that appear to document the accounts of abuse and neglect have been taken and made available to the Sentinel and other media outlets.
The untoward condition of the shelter was a talked-about reality as early as 2013. In 2016, the city commissioned Surprise, Arizona-based Animal Shelters Services, LLC to carry out an examination and evaluation of the shelter. Some of the conditions that Tim Crum, the chief executive officer of Animal Shelter Services, LLC and the company’s other employees encountered were of such a disturbing nature that the report they generated, which was provided to the city in June 2016, was deemed confidential and an attorney/client work product so that the city did not have to release it publicly. Instead, the glimpse the public did get of the conditions documented by Animal Shelter Services, LLC came through a staff report by the city’s then-director of development services, Michael Blay, to the city council that month. The Sentinel, more than seven years later, has obtained a copy of the Animal Shelter Services report. Continue reading →

A heavily intoxicated off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed by a fusillade of bullets fired from the guns of at least four Fontana police officers on the grounds of the Sierra Lakes golf course Tuesday afternoon.
Alejandro Diaz, 45, a 19-year Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department veteran and resident of the north Fontana neighborhood immediately adjacent to the Sierra Lakes golf course, discharged his gun inside the home he shared with his family in the 16600 block of Colonial Drive around 3:50 p.m. August 15.
Diaz, who was visibly upset, then left his house. At least two members of his family attempted to restrain him and pull him back into the house’s garage, at which point the three of them tripped or fell on the driveway. Diaz got to his feet and continued walking toward the golf course. A call came into the Fontana Police Department’s dispatch center at 3:55 p.m. from Diaz’s wife, who related that her husband had fired a gun at a wall inside their home. Several others called the police to report a man walking through their neighborhood with a gun in hand. Continue reading →

The National Park Service has selected Jane Rodgers to serve as the superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park.
She began as the head honcho of 140-employee park staff on August 13.
Rodgers is a 1990 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry there before she joined the U.S. Peace Corps and was posted to the Republic of Niger.
After having returned stateside, in January 1994 Rogers went to work for the National Park Service, specializing in restoration ecology and landscape-scale conservation. From 1994 to 2003, she worked as a biologist at Joshua Tree National Park. From February 2003 until October 2008, she was an ecologist at Point Reyes National Seashore. She was the deputy chief for science and resource management at Grand Canyon National Park from October 2008 until October 2016. She returned to Joshua Tree in October 2016 as the chief of science and resource stewardship, remaining in that post until February, when she was made the acting superintendent upon Superintendent David Smith’s departure. Continue reading →