ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB 2316335
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JOSE JAIME GODINEZ JR filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JOSE JAIME GODINEZ JR to JOSEPH JAMES MARTINEZ.
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: 09/01/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S24
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: 07/21/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Brian S. McCarville
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 21, 28 and August 4 & 11, 2023.

FBN 20230007087
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
HOUSE OF PACKAGING 14880 MONTE VISTA AVENUE CHINO, CA 91710: UNIVERSAL CONTAINER & PACKAGING, LLC 14880 MONTE VISTA AVENUE CHINO, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 199817510112
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUNE 19, 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/ JOSEPH TOMA, Vice President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/14/2023
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 I8806
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 14, 21, 28 & August 4, 2023.

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Nearing his three-year anniversary as San Bernardino County’s top staff member, Leonard Hernandez appears to be on the brink of being deposed.
A concerted move, timed for maximum effectiveness by the county’s largely disaffected mid-level staff while Hernandez has temporarily loosened his grip on the reins of power by going on vacation, is in play now. The well-coordinated series of events, if effectuated as planned, will culminate in a decision by the board of supervisors at its August 8 meeting, at which a review of Hernandez’s job performance was previously scheduled, to hand him a pink slip.
There yet remains the possibility that Hernandez can actuate a career-saving maneuver, but such a development would likely entail a crippling mid-level executive suite bloodletting that would carry with it the potential of paralyzing the county for months and creating a schism on the board of supervisors where at present a civilized decorum in which Dawn Rowe is functioning as the board chairwoman without challenge prevails. Continue reading →

By Amanda Frye & Mark Gutglueck
Amid unresolved questions over the legality and propriety of the Arrowhead Spring Water Bottling Company’s use of water taken from the San Bernardino Forest, the United States Forest Service is, at least temporarily, refusing to renew the water drafting permit that has provided the procedural basis for allowing those diversions to take place for the last 36 years.
Over the last several decades, environmentalists and local activists concerned about the preservation of the San Bernardino National Forest have challenged the massive scale removal of water from Strawberry Canyon, located within the National Forest primarily above the 5,000-foot elevation in the San Bernardino Mountains.
For more than nine decades, several companies bottling water under brands incorporating the Arrowhead name have taken water out of Strawberry Canyon without any validly established rights to that water.
In the late 1920s, Charles Anthony, then the general manager and vice president of Arrowhead Springs Corporation and the acting president of the Arrowhead Springs resort property and its associated water bottling company, entered into talks with California Consumers Co., the parent company of California Consolidated Waters Co., regarding the sale of the Arrowhead water bottling operations. The California Consolidated Waters Company was formed in 1929 for the purpose of purchasing the Arrowhead Water bottling operation from the Arrowhead Springs Hotel. The purchase merged three Los Angeles-based companies that bottled and distributed “Arrowhead Water,” “Puritas Water” and “Liquid Steam.”
At that point, the Arrowhead Springs Corporation’s legitimate water rights extended only to water that company drew from a spring near the privately-owned historic Arrowhead Hotel as well as from the Arrowhead Springs on the east side of Arrowhead Mountain and in Coldwater Canyon at the 2,000-foot elevation below the San Bernardino National Forest. In exchange for a $100,000 commission, Anthony executed a deal with California Consolidated Waters Co. relinquishing those rights along with further rights to water the Arrowhead Springs Corporation had no claim or legal title nor any right under state or federal law to. In supplying to California Consolidated Waters Co. a warranty title of water rights, Anthony relied upon Arrowhead Springs’ attorney, former California Assemblyman Byron Waters. Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
A month-and-a-half after Rachel Molina’s elevation to the position of Hesperia city manager was finalized, making her the second of the county’s current 24 municipal managers, questions are emerging about whether her skill set is adequate to the task.
Intrinsic to that question is not only the nature of the Hesperia managerial assignment – one that is considered, arguably because of the size of Hesperia and a host of its historical, geographical and jurisdictional aspects, to be the most challenging such municipal management job in the county – but the unseemly circumstance that precipitated her positioning to promote into the city manager’s post.
At present, Hesperia, at 73.209 square miles, is, among San Bernardino County’s 24 cities and incorporated towns, its third largest geographically, ranking behind neighboring Apple Valley and Victorville, at 77.08 square miles and 74.01 square miles, respectively. More than its sheer size, Hesperia faces a host of difficulties.
Hesperia is dealing with multiple negative legacies, some of which came into existence with or after its 1988 incorporation and others which accompanied or were a consequence of the community’s creation.
The first such legacy is the Santa Fe railroad’s bifurcation of the city.
In the 1880s, the California Southern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, undertook the construction of the rail system between Barstow and Colton, entrusting oversight of that effort to civil engineer Jacob Nash Victor. Victor laid that line through what is today Hesperia, in so doing creating the community. The township of Hesperia grew up around the rail line, rather than to one side of it, and in the fullness of time, that rail line became a division in the city, a very real physical barrier. Continue reading →

The discontinuation of any known overt business activity on the part of a company Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner has operated for nearly a quarter of a century is an outgrowth of his wife’s medical condition, the councilman told the Sentinel this week.
Alan Wapner & Associates was founded in November 1998, according to documents on file with the State of California. Within the last two months, the company’s website went dormant.
Wapner, who has been on the Ontario City Council since 1994, is the third longest serving local official in San Bernardino County after Mayor Eunice Ulloa in Chino and Councilman John Roberts in Fontana.
Wapner possesses a degree in political science from USC and juris doctorate from Whittier Law School. He was a police officer with the Ontario Police Department for 16 years, reaching the rank of sergeant. In his capacity as a city councilman, he served as an appointed representative to multiple regional joint powers authorities, including the Southern California Association of Governments, known by its acronym SCAG; the San Bernardino Associated Governments, the county’s transportation agency formerly known by its acronym SanBAG and now known as the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority or SBCTA; the Ontario International Airport Authority, of which he has been the continuous chairman since its inception more than a decade ago and other joint powers authorities, committees and boards. His perspective and knowledge of how governmental agencies work and articulate with one another and their policies and procedures are deemed valuable to some individuals or businesses, particularly ones that must deal with governmental entities for project or contract approval or getting a franchise or seeing success with some program or other. Continue reading →

Richard Kerr, the former Adelanto mayor who embarked on a mission in 2015 to transform the city he led into the “marijuana capital of California” to, he and his cronies maintained, save it from financial perdition, all the while taking money on the not-so-sly from those seeking lucrative cannabis-related business operating licenses, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison this morning.
Kerr was a political neophyte who in November 2014 was elected as an alternative candidate in a “clean sweep” of three incumbents under whom efforts to redress dwindling municipal revenues in Adelanto had failed, leading the city to make a declaration of fiscal emergency in 2013, what was seen as a prelude to a filing for bankruptcy protection.
Using the city’s dire financial situation as a pretext, Kerr joined with John “Bug” Woodard, who was elected with him in 2014, and Jermaine Wright, who had been elected to the council in 2012, to push for allowing marijuana cultivation operations within a circumscribed area of the city’s industrial zone.
The trio at first indicated that the liberalization was to be a limited one that would confine itself to the growing of marijuana to be sold to dispensaries located outside the city and that no retailing of the drug would take place in the city. Continue reading →

Two San Bernardino County nine-year-olds teed off yesterday as competitor in the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship at the Pinehurst Golf Course in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
As of today, three 9-hole rounds in that competition had been completed, with John Paul Fewell of Yucca Valley tied for 52nd place after having shot what would be for an adult 17 over par on the 27 holes and London Martin of Redlands, at 27 over adult par, tied for 95th place among 121 competitors in their age class.