EIGHT years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him godspeed. Gallaher had got on. You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and fearless accent. Few fellows had talents like his and fewer still could remain unspoiled by such success. Gallaher’s heart was in the right place and he had deserved to win. It was something to have a friend like that.

Little Chandler’s thoughts ever since lunch-time had been of his meeting with Gallaher, of Gallaher’s invitation and of the great city London where Gallaher lived. He was called Little Chandler because, though he was but slightly under the average stature, he gave one the idea of being a little man. His hands were white and small, his frame was fragile, his voice was quiet and his manners were refined. He took the greatest care of his fair silken hair and moustache and used perfume discreetly on his handkerchief. The half-moons of his nails were perfect and when he smiled you caught a glimpse of a row of childish white teeth.

As he sat at his desk in the King’s Inns he thought what changes those eight years had brought. The friend whom he had known under a shabby and necessitous guise had become a brilliant figure on the London Press. He turned often from his tiresome writing to gaze out of the office window. The glow of a late autumn sunset covered the grass plots and walks. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures — on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed to him.

He remembered the books of poetry upon his shelves at home. He had bought them in his bachelor days and many an evening, as he sat in the little room off the hall, he had been tempted to take one down from the bookshelf and read out something to his wife. But shyness had always held him back; and so the books had remained on their shelves. At times he repeated lines to himself and this consoled him.

When his hour had struck he stood up and took leave of his desk and of his fellow-clerks punctiliously. He emerged from under the feudal arch of the King’s Inns, a neat modest figure, and walked swiftly down Henrietta Street. The golden sunset was waning and the air had grown sharp. A horde of grimy children populated the street. They stood or ran in the roadway or crawled up the steps before the gaping doors or squatted like mice upon the thresholds. Little Chandler gave them no thought. He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered. No memory of the past touched him, for his mind was full of a present joy.

He had never been in Corless’s but he knew the value of the name. He knew that people went there after the theatre to eat oysters and drink liqueurs; and he had heard that the waiters there spoke French and German. Walking swiftly by at night he had seen cabs drawn up before the door and richly dressed ladies, escorted by cavaliers, alight and enter quickly. They wore noisy dresses and many wraps. Their faces were powdered and they caught up their dresses, when they touched earth, like alarmed Atalantas. He had always passed without turning his head to look. It was his habit to walk swiftly in the street even by day and whenever he found himself in the city late at night he hurried on his way apprehensively and excitedly. Sometimes, however, he courted the causes of his fear. He chose the darkest and narrowest streets and, as he walked boldly forward, the silence that was spread about his footsteps troubled him, the wandering, silent figures troubled him; and at times a sound of low fugitive laughter made him tremble like a leaf.

He turned to the right towards Capel Street. Ignatius Gallaher on the London Press! Who would have thought it possible eight years before? Still, now that he reviewed the past, Little Chandler could remember many signs of future greatness in his friend. People used to say that Ignatius Gallaher was wild Of course, he did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time. drank freely and borrowed money on all sides. In the end he had got mixed up in some shady affair, some money transaction: at least, that was one version of his flight. But nobody denied him talent. There was always a certain… something in Ignatius Gallaher that impressed you in spite of yourself. Even when he was out at elbows and at his wits’ end for money he kept up a bold face. Little Chandler remembered (and the remembrance brought a slight flush of pride to his cheek) one of Ignatius Gallaher’s sayings when he was in a tight corner:

“Half time now, boys,” he used to say light-heartedly. “Where’s my considering cap?”

That was Ignatius Gallaher all out; and, damn it, you couldn’t but admire him for it.

Little Chandler quickened his pace. For the first time in his life he felt himself superior to the people he passed. For the first time his soul revolted against the dull inelegance of Capel Street. There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin. As he crossed Grattan Bridge he looked down the river towards the lower quays and pitied the poor stunted houses. They seemed to him a band of tramps, huddled together along the riverbanks, their old coats covered with dust and soot, stupefied by the panorama of sunset and waiting for the first chill of night bid them arise, shake themselves and begone. He wondered whether he could write a poem to express his idea. Perhaps Gallaher might be able to get it into some London paper for him. Could he write something original? He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched him took life within him like an infant hope. He stepped onward bravely.

Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life. A light began to tremble on the horizon of his mind. He was not so old — thirty-two. His temperament might be said to be just at the point of maturity. There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried weigh his soul to see if it was a poet’s soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy. If he could give expression to it in a book of poems perhaps men would listen. He would never be popular: he saw that. He could not sway the crowd but he might appeal to a little circle of kindred minds. The English critics, perhaps, would recognise him as one of the Celtic school by reason of the melancholy tone of his poems; besides that, he would put in allusions. He began to invent sentences and phrases from the notice which his book would get. “Mr. Chandler has the gift of easy and graceful verse.” … “wistful sadness pervades these poems.” … “The Celtic note.” It was a pity his name was not more Irish-looking. Perhaps it would be better to insert his mother’s name before the surname: Thomas Malone Chandler, or better still: T. Malone Chandler. He would speak to Gallaher about it.

He pursued his revery so ardently that he passed his street and had to turn back. As he came near Corless’s his former agitation began to overmaster him and he halted before the door in indecision. Finally he opened the door and entered.

The light and noise of the bar held him at the doorways for a few moments. He looked about him, but his sight was confused by the shining of many red and green wine-glasses The bar seemed to him to be full of people and he felt that the people were observing him curiously. He glanced quickly to right and left (frowning slightly to make his errand appear serious), but when his sight cleared a little he saw that nobody had turned to look at him: and there, sure enough, was Ignatius Gallaher leaning with his back against the counter and his feet planted far apart.

“Hallo, Tommy, old hero, here you are! What is it to be? What will you have? I’m taking whisky: better stuff than we get across the water. Soda? Lithia? No mineral? I’m the same Spoils the flavour…. Here, garcon, bring us two halves of malt whisky, like a good fellow…. Well, and how have you been pulling along since I saw you last? Dear God, how old we’re getting! Do you see any signs of aging in me — eh, what? A little grey and thin on the top — what?”

Ignatius Gallaher took off his hat and displayed a large closely cropped head. His face was heavy, pale and cleanshaven. His eyes, which were of bluish slate-colour, relieved his unhealthy pallor and shone out plainly above the vivid orange tie he wore. Between these rival features the lips appeared very long and shapeless and colourless. He bent his head and felt with two sympathetic fingers the thin hair at the crown. Little Chandler shook his head as a denial. Ignatius Galaher put on his hat again.

“It pulls you down,” be said, “Press life. Always hurry and scurry, looking for copy and sometimes not finding it: and then, always to have something new in your stuff. Damn proofs and printers, I say, for a few days. I’m deuced glad, I can tell you, to get back to the old country. Does a fellow good, a bit of a holiday. I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin…. Here you are, Tommy. Water? Say when.”

Little Chandler allowed his whisky to be very much diluted.

“You don’t know what’s good for you, my boy,” said Ignatius Gallaher. “I drink mine neat.”

“I drink very little as a rule,” said Little Chandler modestly. “An odd half-one or so when I meet any of the old crowd: that’s all.”

“Ah well,” said Ignatius Gallaher, cheerfully, “here’s to us and to old times and old acquaintance.”

They clinked glasses and drank the toast.

“I met some of the old gang today,” said Ignatius Gallaher. “O’Hara seems to be in a bad way. What’s he doing?”

“Nothing, said Little Chandler. “He’s gone to the dogs.”

“But Hogan has a good sit, hasn’t he?”

“Yes; he’s in the Land Commission.”

“I met him one night in London and he seemed to be very flush…. Poor O’Hara! Boose, I suppose?”

“Other things, too,” said Little Chandler shortly.

Ignatius Gallaher laughed.

“Tommy,” he said, “I see you haven’t changed an atom. You’re the very same serious person that used to lecture me on Sunday mornings when I had a sore head and a fur on my tongue. You’d want to knock about a bit in the world. Have you never been anywhere even for a trip?”

“I’ve been to the Isle of Man,” said Little Chandler.

Ignatius Gallaher laughed.

“The Isle of Man!” he said. “Go to London or Paris: Paris, for choice. That’d do you good.”

“Have you seen Paris?”

“I should think I have! I’ve knocked about there a little.”

“And is it really so beautiful as they say?” asked Little Chandler.

He sipped a little of his drink while Ignatius Gallaher finished his boldly.

“Beautiful?” said Ignatius Gallaher, pausing on the word and on the flavour of his drink. “It’s not so beautiful, you know. Of course, it is beautiful…. But it’s the life of Paris; that’s the thing. Ah, there’s no city like Paris for gaiety, movement, excitement….”

Little Chandler finished his whisky and, after some trouble, succeeded in catching the barman’s eye. He ordered the same again.

“I’ve been to the Moulin Rouge,” Ignatius Gallaher continued when the barman had removed their glasses, “and I’ve been to all the Bohemian cafes. Hot stuff! Not for a pious chap like you, Tommy.”

Little Chandler said nothing until the barman returned with two glasses: then he touched his friend’s glass lightly and reciprocated the former toast. He was beginning to feel somewhat disillusioned. Gallaher’s accent and way of expressing himself did not please him. There was something vulgar in his friend which he had not observed before. But perhaps it was only the result of living in London amid the bustle and competition of the Press. The old personal charm was still there under this new gaudy manner. And, after all, Gallaher had lived, he had seen the world. Little Chandler looked at his friend enviously.

“Everything in Paris is gay,” said Ignatius Gallaher. “They believe in enjoying life — and don’t you think they’re right? If you want to enjoy yourself properly you must go to Paris. And, mind you, they’ve a great feeling for the Irish there. When they heard I was from Ireland they were ready to eat me, man.”

Little Chandler took four or five sips from his glass.

“Tell me,” he said, “is it true that Paris is so… immoral as they say?”

Ignatius Gallaher made a catholic gesture with his right arm.

“Every place is immoral,” he said. “Of course you do find spicy bits in Paris. Go to one of the students’ balls, for instance. That’s lively, if you like, when the cocottes begin to let themselves loose. You know what they are, I suppose?”

“I’ve heard of them,” said Little Chandler.

Ignatius Gallaher drank off his whisky and shook his had.

“Ah,” he said, “you may say what you like. There’s no woman like the Parisienne — for style, for go.”

“Then it is an immoral city,” said Little Chandler, with timid insistence — “I mean, compared with London or Dublin?”

“London!” said Ignatius Gallaher. “It’s six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. You ask Hogan, my boy. I showed him a bit about London when he was over there. He’d open your eye…. I say, Tommy, don’t make punch of that whisky: liquor up.”

“No, really….”

“O, come on, another one won’t do you any harm. What is it? The same again, I suppose?”

“Well… all right.”

“Francois, the same again…. Will you smoke, Tommy?”

Ignatius Gallaher produced his cigar-case. The two friends lit their cigars and puffed at them in silence until their drinks were served.

“I’ll tell you my opinion,” said Ignatius Gallaher, emerging after some time from the clouds of smoke in which he had taken refuge, “it’s a rum world. Talk of immorality! I’ve heard of cases — what am I saying? — I’ve known them: cases of… immorality….”

Ignatius Gallaher puffed thoughtfully at his cigar and then, in a calm historian’s tone, he proceeded to sketch for his friend some pictures of the corruption which was rife abroad. He summarised the vices of many capitals and seemed inclined to award the palm to Berlin. Some things he could not vouch for (his friends had told him), but of others he had had personal experience. He spared neither rank nor caste. He revealed many of the secrets of religious houses on the Continent and described some of the practices which were fashionable in high society and ended by telling, with details, a story about an English duchess — a story which he knew to be true. Little Chandler as astonished.

“Ah, well,” said Ignatius Gallaher, “here we are in old jog- along Dublin where nothing is known of such things.”

“How dull you must find it,” said Little Chandler, “after all the other places you’ve seen!”

Well,” said Ignatius Gallaher, “it’s a relaxation to come over here, you know. And, after all, it’s the old country, as they say, isn’t it? You can’t help having a certain feeling for it. That’s human nature…. But tell me something about yourself. Hogan told me you had… tasted the joys of connubial bliss. Two years ago, wasn’t it?”

Little Chandler blushed and smiled.

“Yes,” he said. “I was married last May twelve months.”

“I hope it’s not too late in the day to offer my best wishes,” said Ignatius Gallaher. “I didn’t know your address or I’d have done so at the time.”

He extended his hand, which Little Chandler took.

“Well, Tommy,” he said, “I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that’s the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?”

“I know that,” said Little Chandler.

“Any youngsters?” said Ignatius Gallaher.

Little Chandler blushed again.

“We have one child,” he said.

“Son or daughter?”

“A little boy.”

Ignatius Gallaher slapped his friend sonorously on the back.

“Bravo,” he said, “I wouldn’t doubt you, Tommy.”

Little Chandler smiled, looked confusedly at his glass and bit his lower lip with three childishly white front teeth.

“I hope you’ll spend an evening with us,” he said, “before you go back. My wife will be delighted to meet you. We can have a little music and—-”

“Thanks awfully, old chap,” said Ignatius Gallaher, “I’m sorry we didn’t meet earlier. But I must leave tomorrow night.”

“Tonight, perhaps…?”

“I’m awfully sorry, old man. You see I’m over here with another fellow, clever young chap he is too, and we arranged to go to a little card-party. Only for that…”

“O, in that case…”

“But who knows?” said Ignatius Gallaher considerately. “Next year I may take a little skip over here now that I’ve broken the ice. It’s only a pleasure deferred.”

“Very well,” said Little Chandler, “the next time you come we must have an evening together. That’s agreed now, isn’t it?”

“Yes, that’s agreed,” said Ignatius Gallaher. “Next year if I come, parole d’honneur.”

“And to clinch the bargain,” said Little Chandler, “we’ll just have one more now.”

Ignatius Gallaher took out a large gold watch and looked a it.

“Is it to be the last?” he said. “Because you know, I have an a.p.”

“O, yes, positively,” said Little Chandler.

“Very well, then,” said Ignatius Gallaher, “let us have another one as a deoc an doruis — that’s good vernacular for a small whisky, I believe.”

Little Chandler ordered the drinks. The blush which had risen to his face a few moments before was establishing itself. A trifle made him blush at any time: and now he felt warm and excited. Three small whiskies had gone to his head and Gallaher’s strong cigar had confused his mind, for he was a delicate and abstinent person. The adventure of meeting Gallaher after eight years, of finding himself with Gallaher in Corless’s surrounded by lights and noise, of listening to Gallaher’s stories and of sharing for a brief space Gallaher’s vagrant and triumphant life, upset the equipoise of his sensitive nature. He felt acutely the contrast between his own life and his friend’s and it seemed to him unjust. Gallaher was his inferior in birth and education. He was sure that he could do something better than his friend had ever done, or could ever do, something higher than mere tawdry journalism if he only got the chance. What was it that stood in his way? His unfortunate timidity He wished to vindicate himself in some way, to assert his manhood. He saw behind Gallaher’s refusal of his invitation. Gallaher was only patronising him by his friendliness just as he was patronising Ireland by his visit.

The barman brought their drinks. Little Chandler pushed one glass towards his friend and took up the other boldly.

“Who knows?” he said, as they lifted their glasses. “When you come next year I may have the pleasure of wishing long life and happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Ignatius Gallaher.”

Ignatius Gallaher in the act of drinking closed one eye expressively over the rim of his glass. When he had drunk he smacked his lips decisively, set down his glass and said:

“No blooming fear of that, my boy. I’m going to have my fling first and see a bit of life and the world before I put my head in the sack — if I ever do.”

“Some day you will,” said Little Chandler calmly.

Ignatius Gallaher turned his orange tie and slate-blue eyes full upon his friend.

“You think so?” he said.

“You’ll put your head in the sack,” repeated Little Chandler stoutly, “like everyone else if you can find the girl.”

He had slightly emphasised his tone and he was aware that he had betrayed himself; but, though the colour had heightened in his cheek, he did not flinch from his friend’s gaze. Ignatius Gallaher watched him for a few moments and then said:

“If ever it occurs, you may bet your bottom dollar there’ll be no mooning and spooning about it. I mean to marry money. She’ll have a good fat account at the bank or she won’t do for me.”

Little Chandler shook his head.

“Why, man alive,” said Ignatius Gallaher, vehemently, “do you know what it is? I’ve only to say the word and tomorrow I can have the woman and the cash. You don’t believe it? Well, I know it. There are hundreds — what am I saying? — thousands of rich Germans and Jews, rotten with money, that’d only be too glad…. You wait a while my boy. See if I don’t play my cards properly. When I go about a thing I mean business, I tell you. You just wait.”

He tossed his glass to his mouth, finished his drink and laughed loudly. Then he looked thoughtfully before him and said in a calmer tone:

“But I’m in no hurry. They can wait. I don’t fancy tying myself up to one woman, you know.”

He imitated with his mouth the act of tasting and made a wry face.

“Must get a bit stale, I should think,” he said.

Little Chandler sat in the room off the hall, holding a child in his arms. To save money they kept no servant but Annie’s young sister Monica came for an hour or so in the morning and an hour or so in the evening to help. But Monica had gone home long ago. It was a quarter to nine. Little Chandler had come home late for tea and, moreover, he had forgotten to bring Annie home the parcel of coffee from Bewley’s. Of course she was in a bad humour and gave him short answers. She said she would do without any tea but when it came near the time at which the shop at the corner closed she decided to go out herself for a quarter of a pound of tea and two pounds of sugar. She put the sleeping child deftly in his arms and said:

“Here. Don’t waken him.”

A little lamp with a white china shade stood upon the table and its light fell over a photograph which was enclosed in a frame of crumpled horn. It was Annie’s photograph. Little Chandler looked at it, pausing at the thin tight lips. She wore the pale blue summer blouse which he had brought her home as a present one Saturday. It had cost him ten and elevenpence; but what an agony of nervousness it had cost him! How he had suffered that day, waiting at the shop door until the shop was empty, standing at the counter and trying to appear at his ease while the girl piled ladies’ blouses before him, paying at the desk and forgetting to take up the odd penny of his change, being called back by the cashier, and finally, striving to hide his blushes as he left the shop by examining the parcel to see if it was securely tied. When he brought the blouse home Annie kissed him and said it was very pretty and stylish; but when she heard the price she threw the blouse on the table and said it was a regular swindle to charge ten and elevenpence for it. At first she wanted to take it back but when she tried it on she was delighted with it, especially with the make of the sleeves, and kissed him and said he was very good to think of her.

Hm!…

He looked coldly into the eyes of the photograph and they answered coldly. Certainly they were pretty and the face itself was pretty. But he found something mean in it. Why was it so unconscious and ladylike? The composure of the eyes irritated him. They repelled him and defied him: there was no passion in them, no rapture. He thought of what Gallaher had said about rich Jewesses. Those dark Oriental eyes, he thought, how full they are of passion, of voluptuous longing!… Why had he married the eyes in the photograph?

He caught himself up at the question and glanced nervously round the room. He found something mean in the pretty furniture which he had bought for his house on the hire system. Annie had chosen it herself and it reminded hi of her. It too was prim and pretty. A dull resentment against his life awoke within him. Could he not escape from his little house? Was it too late for him to try to live bravely like Gallaher? Could he go to London? There was the furniture still to be paid for. If he could only write a book and get it published, that might open the way for him.

A volume of Byron’s poems lay before him on the table. He opened it cautiously with his left hand lest he should waken the child and began to read the first poem in the book:

Hushed are the winds and still the evening gloom,

Not e’en a Zephyr wanders through the grove,

Whilst I return to view my Margaret’s tomb

And scatter flowers on tbe dust I love.

He paused. He felt the rhythm of the verse about him in the room. How melancholy it was! Could he, too, write like that, express the melancholy of his soul in verse? There were so many things he wanted to describe: his sensation of a few hours before on Grattan Bridge, for example. If he could get back again into that mood….

The child awoke and began to cry. He turned from the page and tried to hush it: but it would not be hushed. He began to rock it to and fro in his arms but its wailing cry grew keener. He rocked it faster while his eyes began to read the second stanza:

Within this narrow cell reclines her clay,

That clay where once…

It was useless. He couldn’t read. He couldn’t do anything. The wailing of the child pierced the drum of his ear. It was useless, useless! He was a prisoner for life. His arms trembled with anger and suddenly bending to the child’s face he shouted:

“Stop!”

The child stopped for an instant, had a spasm of fright and began to scream. He jumped up from his chair and walked hastily up and down the room with the child in his arms. It began to sob piteously, losing its breath for four or five seconds, and then bursting out anew. The thin walls of the room echoed the sound. He tried to soothe it but it sobbed more convulsively. He looked at the contracted and quivering face of the child and began to be alarmed. He counted seven sobs without a break between them and caught the child to his breast in fright. If it died!…

The door was burst open and a young woman ran in, panting.

“What is it? What is it?” she cried.

The child, hearing its mother’s voice, broke out into a paroxysm of sobbing.

“It’s nothing, Annie … it’s nothing…. He began to cry…”

She flung her parcels on the floor and snatched the child from him.

“What have you done to him?” she cried, glaring into his face.

Little Chandler sustained for one moment the gaze of her eyes and his heart closed together as he met the hatred in them. He began to stammer:

“It’s nothing…. He … he began to cry…. I couldn’t … I didn’t do anything…. What?”

Giving no heed to him she began to walk up and down the room, clasping the child tightly in her arms and murmuring:

“My little man! My little mannie! Was ‘ou frightened, love?… There now, love! There now!… Lambabaun! Mamma’s little lamb of the world!… There now!”

Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffused with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight. He listened while the paroxysm of the child’s sobbing grew less and less; and tears of remorse started to his eyes.

By James Joyce
MRS. MOONEY was a butcher’s daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father’s foreman and opened a butcher’s shop near Spring Gardens. But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr. Mooney began to go to the devil. He drank, plundered the till, ran headlong into debt. It was no use making him take the pledge: he was sure to break out again a few days after. By fighting his wife in the presence of customers and by buying bad meat he ruined his business. One night he went for his wife with the cleaver and she had to sleep a neighbour’s house.

After that they lived apart. She went to the priest and got a separation from him with care of the children. She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff’s man. He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache white eyebrows, pencilled above his little eyes, which were veined and raw; and all day long he sat in the bailiff’s room, waiting to be put on a job. Mrs. Mooney, who had taken what remained of her money out of the butcher business and set up a boarding house in Hardwicke Street, was a big imposing woman. Her house had a floating population made up of tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and, occasionally, artistes from the music halls. Its resident population was made up of clerks from the city. She governed the house cunningly and firmly, knew when to give credit, when to be stern and when to let things pass. All the resident young men spoke of her as The Madam.

Mrs. Mooney’s young men paid fifteen shillings a week for board and lodgings (beer or stout at dinner excluded). They shared in common tastes and occupations and for this reason they were very chummy with one another. They discussed with one another the chances of favourites and outsiders. Jack Mooney, the Madam’s son, who was clerk to a commission agent in Fleet Street, had the reputation of being a hard case. He was fond of using soldiers’ obscenities: usually he came home in the small hours. When he met his friends he had always a good one to tell them and he was always sure to be on to a good thing-that is to say, a likely horse or a likely artiste. He was also handy with the mits and sang comic songs. On Sunday nights there would often be a reunion in Mrs. Mooney’s front drawing-room. The music-hall artistes would oblige; and Sheridan played waltzes and polkas and vamped accompaniments. Polly Mooney, the Madam’s daughter, would also sing. She sang:

I’m a … naughty girl.
You needn’t sham:
You know I am.
Polly was a slim girl of nineteen; she had light soft hair and a small full mouth. Her eyes, which were grey with a shade of green through them, had a habit of glancing upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made her look like a little perverse madonna. Mrs. Mooney had first sent her daughter to be a typist in a corn-factor’s office but, as a disreputable sheriff’s man used to come every other day to the office, asking to be allowed to say a word to his daughter, she had taken her daughter home again and set her to do housework. As Polly was very lively the intention was to give her the run of the young men. Besides young men like to feel that there is a young woman not very far away. Polly, of course, flirted with the young men but Mrs. Mooney, who was a shrewd judge, knew that the young men were only passing the time away: none of them meant business. Things went on so for a long time and Mrs. Mooney began to think of sending Polly back to typewriting when she noticed that something was going on between Polly and one of the young men. She watched the pair and kept her own counsel.

Polly knew that she was being watched, but still her mother’s persistent silence could not be misunderstood. There had been no open complicity between mother and daughter, no open understanding but, though people in the house began to talk of the affair, still Mrs. Mooney did not intervene. Polly began to grow a little strange in her manner and the young man was evidently perturbed. At last, when she judged it to be the right moment, Mrs. Mooney intervened. She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind.

It was a bright Sunday morning of early summer, promising heat, but with a fresh breeze blowing. All the windows of the boarding house were open and the lace curtains ballooned gently towards the street beneath the raised sashes. The belfry of George’s Church sent out constant peals and worshippers, singly or in groups, traversed the little circus before the church, revealing their purpose by their self-contained demeanour no less than by the little volumes in their gloved hands. Breakfast was over in the boarding house and the table of the breakfast-room was covered with plates on which lay yellow streaks of eggs with morsels of bacon-fat and bacon-rind. Mrs. Mooney sat in the straw arm-chair and watched the servant Mary remove the breakfast things. She mad Mary collect the crusts and pieces of broken bread to help to make Tuesday’s bread- pudding. When the table was cleared, the broken bread collected, the sugar and butter safe under lock and key, she began to reconstruct the interview which she had had the night before with Polly. Things were as she had suspected: she had been frank in her questions and Polly had been frank in her answers. Both had been somewhat awkward, of course. She had been made awkward by her not wishing to receive the news in too cavalier a fashion or to seem to have connived and Polly had been made awkward not merely because allusions of that kind always made her awkward but also because she did not wish it to be thought that in her wise innocence she had divined the intention behind her mother’s tolerance.

Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George’s Church had stopped ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven: she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then catch short twelve at Marlborough Street. She was sure she would win. To begin with she had all the weight of social opinion on her side: she was an outraged mother. She had allowed him to live beneath her roof, assuming that he was a man of honour and he had simply abused her hospitality. He was thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, so that youth could not be pleaded as his excuse; nor could ignorance be his excuse since he was a man who had seen something of the world. He had simply taken advantage of Polly’s youth and inexperience: that was evident. The question was: What reparation would he make?

There must be reparation made in such case. It is all very well for the man: he can go his ways as if nothing had happened, having had his moment of pleasure, but the girl has to bear the brunt. Some mothers would be content to patch up such an affair for a sum of money; she had known cases of it. But she would not do so. For her only one reparation could make up for the loss of her daughter’s honour: marriage.

She counted all her cards again before sending Mary up to Doran’s room to say that she wished to speak with him. She felt sure she would win. He was a serious young man, not rakish or loud-voiced like the others. If it had been Mr. Sheridan or Mr. Meade or Bantam Lyons her task would have been much harder. She did not think he would face publicity. All the lodgers in the house knew something of the affair; details had been invented by some. Besides, he had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant’s office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job. Whereas if he agreed all might be well. She knew he had a good screw for one thing and she suspected he had a bit of stuff put by.

Nearly the half-hour! She stood up and surveyed herself in the pier-glass. The decisive expression of her great florid face satisfied her and she thought of some mothers she knew who could not get their daughters off their hands.

Mr. Doran was very anxious indeed this Sunday morning. He had made two attempts to shave but his hand had been so unsteady that he had been obliged to desist. Three days’ reddish beard fringed his jaws and every two or three minutes a mist gathered on his glasses so that he had to take them off and polish them with his pocket-handkerchief. The recollection of his confession of the night before was a cause of acute pain to him; the priest had drawn out every ridiculous detail of the affair and in the end had so magnified his sin that he was almost thankful at being afforded a loophole of reparation. The harm was done. What could he do now but marry her or run away? He could not brazen it out. The affair would be sure to be talked of and his employer would be certain to hear of it. Dublin is such a small city: everyone knows everyone else’s business. He felt his heart leap warmly in his throat as he heard in his excited imagination old Mr. Leonard calling out in his rasping voice: “Send Mr. Doran here, please.”

All his long years of service gone for nothing! All his industry and diligence thrown away! As a young man he had sown his wild oats, of course; he had boasted of his free-thinking and denied the existence of God to his companions in public- houses. But that was all passed and done with… nearly. He still bought a copy of Reynolds’s Newspaper every week but he attended to his religious duties and for nine-tenths of the year lived a regular life. He had money enough to settle down on; it was not that. But the family would look down on her. First of all there was her disreputable father and then her mother’s boarding house was beginning to get a certain fame. He had a notion that he was being had. He could imagine his friends talking of the affair and laughing. She was a little vulgar; some times she said “I seen” and “If I had’ve known.” But what would grammar matter if he really loved her? He could not make up his mind whether to like her or despise her for what she had done. Of course he had done it too. His instinct urged him to remain free, not to marry. Once you are married you are done for, it said.

While he was sitting helplessly on the side of the bed in shirt and trousers she tapped lightly at his door and entered. She told him all, that she had made a clean breast of it to her mother and that her mother would speak with him that morning. She cried and threw her arms round his neck, saying:

“O Bob! Bob! What am I to do? What am I to do at all?”

She would put an end to herself, she said.

He comforted her feebly, telling her not to cry, that it would be all right, never fear. He felt against his shirt the agitation of her bosom.

It was not altogether his fault that it had happened. He remembered well, with the curious patient memory of the celibate, the first casual caresses her dress, her breath, her fingers had given him. Then late one night as he was undressing for she had tapped at his door, timidly. She wanted to relight her candle at his for hers had been blown out by a gust. It was her bath night. She wore a loose open combing- jacket of printed flannel. Her white instep shone in the opening of her furry slippers and the blood glowed warmly behind her perfumed skin. From her hands and wrists too as she lit and steadied her candle a faint perfume arose.

On nights when he came in very late it was she who warmed up his dinner. He scarcely knew what he was eating feeling her beside him alone, at night, in the sleeping house. And her thoughtfulness! If the night was anyway cold or wet or windy there was sure to be a little tumbler of punch ready for him. Perhaps they could be happy together….

They used to go upstairs together on tiptoe, each with a candle, and on the third landing exchange reluctant goodnights. They used to kiss. He remembered well her eyes, the touch of her hand and his delirium….

But delirium passes. He echoed her phrase, applying it to himself: “What am I to do?” The instinct of the celibate warned him to hold back. But the sin was there; even his sense of honour told him that reparation must be made for such a sin.

While he was sitting with her on the side of the bed Mary came to the door and said that the missus wanted to see him in the parlour. He stood up to put on his coat and waistcoat, more helpless than ever. When he was dressed he went over to her to comfort her. It would be all right, never fear. He left her crying on the bed and moaning softly: “O my God!”

Going down the stairs his glasses became so dimmed with moisture that he had to take them off and polish them. He longed to ascend through the roof and fly away to another country where he would never hear again of his trouble, and yet a force pushed him downstairs step by step. The implacable faces of his employer and of the Madam stared upon his discomfiture. On the last flight of stairs he passed Jack Mooney who was coming up from the pantry nursing two bottles of Bass. They saluted coldly; and the lover’s eyes rested for a second or two on a thick bulldog face and a pair of thick short arms. When he reached the foot of the staircase he glanced up and saw Jack regarding him from the door of the return-room.

Suddenly he remembered the night when one of the musichall artistes, a little blond Londoner, had made a rather free allusion to Polly. The reunion had been almost broken up on account of Jack’s violence. Everyone tried to quiet him. The music-hall artiste, a little paler than usual, kept smiling and saying that there was no harm meant: but Jack kept shouting at him that if any fellow tried that sort of a game on with his sister he’d bloody well put his teeth down his throat, so he would.

Polly sat for a little time on the side of the bed, crying. Then she dried her eyes and went over to the looking-glass. She dipped the end of the towel in the water-jug and refreshed her eyes with the cool water. She looked at herself in profile and readjusted a hairpin above her ear. Then she went back to the bed again and sat at the foot. She regarded the pillows for a long time and the sight of them awakened in her mind secret, amiable memories. She rested the nape of her neck against the cool iron bed-rail and fell into a reverie. There was no longer any perturbation visible on her face.

She waited on patiently, almost cheerfully, without alarm. her memories gradually giving place to hopes and visions of the future. Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.

At last she heard her mother calling. She started to her feet and ran to the banisters.

“Polly! Polly!”

“Yes, mamma?”

“Come down, dear. Mr. Doran wants to speak to you.”

Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.

By Jack London
It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.

On one side, beginning at the very lip of the pool, was a tiny meadow, a cool, resilient surface of green that extended to the base of the frowning wall. Beyond the pool a gentle slope of earth ran up and up to meet the opposing wall. Fine grass covered the slope–grass that was spangled with flowers, with here and there patches of color, orange and purple and golden. Below, the canyon was shut in. There was no view. The walls leaned together abruptly and the canyon ended in a chaos of rocks, moss-covered and hidden by a green screen of vines and creepers and boughs of trees. Up the canyon rose far hills and peaks, the big foothills, pine-covered and remote. And far beyond, like clouds upon the border of the slay, towered minarets of white, where the Sierra’s eternal snows flashed austerely the blazes of the sun.

There was no dust in the canyon. The leaves and flowers were clean and virginal. The grass was young velvet. Over the pool three cottonwoods sent their scurvy fluffs fluttering down the quiet air. On the slope the blossoms of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist against the coming aridity of summer. In the open spaces on the slope, beyond the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of trembling into flight again. Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. Creamy white were these bells, shaped like lilies-of-the-valley, with the sweetness of perfume that is of the springtime.

There was not a sigh of wind. The air was drowsy with its weight of perfume. It was a sweetness that would have been cloying had the air been heavy and humid. But the air was sharp and thin. It was as starlight transmuted into atmosphere, shot through and warmed by sunshine, and flower-drenched with sweetness.

An occasional butterfly drifted in and out through the patches of light and shade. And from all about rose the low and sleepy hum of mountain bees–feasting Sybarites that jostled one another good-naturedly at the board, nor found time for rough discourtesy. So quietly did the little stream drip and ripple its way through the canyon that it spoke only in faint and occasional gurgles. The voice of the stream was as a drowsy whisper, ever interrupted by dozings and silences, ever lifted again in the awakenings.

The motion of all things was a drifting in the heart of the canyon. Sunshine and butterflies drifted in and out among the trees. The hum of the bees and the whisper of the stream were a drifting of sound. And the drifting sound and drifting color seemed to weave together in the making of a delicate and intangible fabric which was the spirit of the place. It was a spirit of peace that was not of death, but of smooth-pulsing life, of quietude that was not silence, of movement that was not action, of repose that was quick with existence without being violent with struggle and travail. The spirit of the place was the spirit of the peace of the living, somnolent with the easement and content of prosperity, and undisturbed by rumors of far wars.

The red-coated, many-antlered buck acknowledged the lordship of the spirit of the place and dozed knee-deep in the cool, shaded pool. There seemed no flies to vex him and he was languid with rest. Sometimes his ears moved when the stream awoke and whispered; but they moved lazily, with, foreknowledge that it was merely the stream grown garrulous at discovery that it had slept.

But there came a time when the buck’s ears lifted and tensed with swift eagerness for sound. His head was turned down the canyon. His sensitive, quivering nostrils scented the air. His eyes could not pierce the green screen through which the stream rippled away, but to his ears came the voice of a man. It was a steady, monotonous, singsong voice. Once the buck heard the harsh clash of metal upon rock. At the sound he snorted with a sudden start that jerked him through the air from water to meadow, and his feet sank into the young velvet, while he pricked his ears and again scented the air. Then he stole across the tiny meadow, pausing once and again to listen, and faded away out of the canyon like a wraith, soft-footed and without sound.

The clash of steel-shod soles against the rocks began to be heard, and the man’s voice grew louder. It was raised in a sort of chant and became distinct with nearness, so that the words could be heard:

“Turn around an’ tu’n yo’ face
Untoe them sweet hills of grace
(D’ pow’rs of sin yo’ am scornin’!).
Look about an’ look aroun’,
Fling yo’ sin-pack on d’ groun’
(Yo’ will meet wid d’ Lord in d’ mornin’!).”

A sound of scrambling accompanied the song, and the spirit of the place fled away on the heels of the red-coated buck. The green screen was burst asunder, and a man peered out at the meadow and the pool and the sloping side-hill. He was a deliberate sort of man. He took in the scene with one embracing glance, then ran his eyes over the details to verify the general impression. Then, and not until then, did he open his mouth in vivid and solemn approval:

“Smoke of life an’ snakes of purgatory! Will you just look at that! Wood an’ water an’ grass an’ a side-hill! A pocket-hunter’s delight an’ a cayuse’s paradise! Cool green for tired eyes! Pink pills for pale people ain’t in it. A secret pasture for prospectors and a resting-place for tired burros, by damn!”

He was a sandy-complexioned man in whose face geniality and humor seemed the salient characteristics. It was a mobile face, quick-changing to inward mood and thought. Thinking was in him a visible process. Ideas chased across his face like wind-flaws across the surface of a lake. His hair, sparse and unkempt of growth, was as indeterminate and colorless as his complexion. It would seem that all the color of his frame had gone into his eyes, for they were startlingly blue. Also, they were laughing and merry eyes, within them much of the naivete and wonder of the child; and yet, in an unassertive way. they contained much of calm self-reliance and strength of purpose founded upon self-experience and experience of the world.

>From out the screen of vines and creepers he flung ahead of him a miner’s pick and shovel and gold-pan. Then he crawled out himself into the open. He was clad in faded overalls and black cotton shirt, with hobnailed brogans on his feet, and on his head a hat whose shapelessness and stains advertised the rough usage of wind and rain and sun and camp-smoke. He stood erect, seeing wide-eyed the secrecy of the scene and sensuously inhaling the warm, sweet breath of the canyon-garden through nostrils that dilated and quivered with delight. His eyes narrowed to laughing slits of blue, his face wreathed itself in joy, and his mouth curled in a smile as he cried aloud:

“Jumping dandelions and happy hollyhocks, but that smells good to me! Talk about your attar o’ roses an’ cologne factories! They ain’t in it!”

He had the habit of soliloquy. His quick-changing facial expressions might tell every thought and mood, but the tongue, perforce, ran hard after, repeating, like a second Boswell.

The man lay down on the lip of the pool and drank long and deep of its water. “Tastes good to me,” he murmured, lifting his head and gazing across the pool at the side-hill, while he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. The side-hill attracted his attention. Still lying on his stomach, he studied the hill formation long and carefully. It was a practised eye that travelled up the slope to the crumbling canyon-wall and back and down again to the edge of the pool. He scrambled to his feet and favored the side-hill with a second survey.

“Looks good to me,” he concluded, picking up his pick and shovel and gold-pan.

He crossed the stream below the pool, stepping agilely from stone to stone. Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan. He squatted down, holding the pan in his two hands, and partly immersing it in the stream. Then he imparted to the pan a deft circular motion that sent the water sluicing in and out through the dirt and gravel. The larger and the lighter particles worked to the surface, and these, by a skilful dipping movement of the pan, he spilled out and over the edge. Occasionally, to expedite matters, he rested the pan and with his fingers raked out the large pebbles and pieces of rock.

The contents of the pan diminished rapidly until only fine dirt and the smallest bits of gravel remained. At this stage he began to work very deliberately and carefully. It was fine washing, and he washed fine and finer, with a keen scrutiny and delicate and fastidious touch. At last the pan seemed empty of everything but water; but with a quick semicircular flirt that sent the water flying over the shallow rim into the stream, he disclosed a layer of black sand on the bottom of the pan. So thin was this layer that it was like a streak of paint. He examined it closely. In the midst of it was a tiny golden speck. He dribbled a little water in over the depressed edge of the pan. With a quick flirt he sent the water sluicing across the bottom, turning the grains of black sand over and over A second tiny golden speck rewarded his effort.

The washing had now become very fine–fine beyond all need of ordinary placer-mining. He worked the black sand, a small portion at a time, up the shallow rim of the pan. Each small portion he examined sharply, so that his eyes saw every grain of it before he allowed it to slide over the edge and away. Jealously, bit by bit, he let the black sand slip away. A golden speck, no larger than a pin-point, appeared on the rim, and by his manipulation of the riveter it returned to the bottom of tile pan. And in such fashion another speck was disclosed, and another. Great was his care of them. Like a shepherd he herded his flock of golden specks so that not one should be lost. At last, of the pan of dirt nothing remained but his golden herd. He counted it, and then, after all his labor, sent it flying out of the pan with one final swirl of water.

But his blue eyes were shining with desire as he rose to his feet. “Seven,” he muttered aloud, asserting the sum of the specks for which he had toiled so hard and which he had so wantonly thrown away. “Seven,” he repeated, with the emphasis of one trying to impress a number on his memory.

He stood still a long while, surveying the hill-side. In his eyes was a curiosity, new-aroused and burning. There was an exultance about his bearing and a keenness like that of a hunting animal catching the fresh scent of game.

He moved down the stream a few steps and took a second panful of dirt.

Again came the careful washing, the jealous herding of the golden specks, and the wantonness with which he sent them flying into the stream when he had counted their number.

“Five,” he muttered, and repeated, “five.”

He could not forbear another survey of the hill before filling the pan farther down the stream. His golden herds diminished. ” Four, three, two, two, one,” were his memory-tabulations as he moved down the stream. When but one speck of gold rewarded his washing, he stopped and built a fire of dry twigs. Into this he thrust the gold-pan and burned it till it was blue-black. He held up the pan and examined it critically. Then he nodded approbation. Against such a color-background he could defy the tiniest yellow speck to elude him.

Still moving down the stream, he panned again. A single speck was his reward. A third pan contained no gold at all. Not satisfied with this, he panned three times again, taking his shovels of dirt within a foot of one another. Each pan proved empty of gold, and the fact, instead of discouraging him, seemed to give him satisfaction. His elation increased with each barren washing, until he arose, exclaiming jubilantly:

“If it ain’t the real thing, may God knock off my head with sour apples!”

Returning to where he had started operations, he began to pan up the stream. At first his golden herds increased–increased prodigiously. ” Fourteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-six,” ran his memory tabulations. Just above the pool he struck his richest pan–thirty-five colors.

“Almost enough to save,” he remarked regretfully as he allowed the water to sweep them away.

The sun climbed to the top of the sky. The man worked on. Pan by pan, he went up the stream, the tally of results steadily decreasing.

“It’s just booful, the way it peters out,” he exulted when a shovelful of dirt contained no more than a single speck of gold.

And when no specks at all were found in several pans, he straightened up and favored the hillside with a confident glance.

“Ah, ha! Mr. Pocket!” he cried out, as though to an auditor hidden somewhere above him beneath the surface of the slope. “Ah, ha! Mr. Pocket! I’m a-comin’, I’m a-comin’, an’ I’m shorely gwine to get yer! You heah me, Mr. Pocket? I’m gwine to get yer as shore as punkins ain’t cauliflowers!”

He turned and flung a measuring glance at the sun poised above him in the azure of the cloudless sky. Then he went down the canyon, following the line of shovel-holes he had made in filling the pans. He crossed the stream below the pool and disappeared through the green screen. There was little opportunity for the spirit of the place to return with its quietude and repose, for the man’s voice, raised in ragtime song, still dominated the canyon with possession.

After a time, with a greater clashing of steel-shod feet on rock, he returned. The green screen was tremendously agitated. It surged back and forth in the throes of a struggle. There was a loud grating and clanging of metal. The man’s voice leaped to a higher pitch and was sharp with imperativeness. A large body plunged and panted. There was a snapping and ripping and rending, and amid a shower of falling leaves a horse burst through the screen. On its back was a pack, and from this trailed broken vines and torn creepers. The animal gazed with astonished eyes at the scene into which it had been precipitated, then dropped its head to the grass and began contentedly to graze. A second horse scrambled into view, slipping once on the mossy rocks and regaining equilibrium when its hoofs sank into the yielding surface of the meadow. It was riderless, though on its back was a high-horned Mexican saddle, scarred and discolored by long usage.

The man brought up the rear. He threw off pack and saddle, with an eye to camp location, and gave the animals their freedom to graze. He unpacked his food and got out frying-pan and coffee-pot. He gathered an armful of dry wood, and with a few stones made a place for his fire.

“My!” he said, “but I’ve got an appetite. I could scoff iron-filings an’ horseshoe nails an’ thank you kindly, ma’am, for a second helpin’.”

He straightened up, and, while he reached for matches in the pocket of his overalls, his eyes travelled across the pool to the side-hill. His fingers had clutched the match-box, but they relaxed their hold and the hand came out empty. The man wavered perceptibly. He looked at his preparations for cooking and he looked at the hill.

“Guess I’ll take another whack at her,” he concluded, starting to cross the stream.

“They ain’t no sense in it, I know,” he mumbled apologetically. “But keepin’ grub back an hour ain’t goin’ to hurt none, I reckon.”

A few feet back from his first line of test-pans he started a second line. The sun dropped down the western sky, the shadows lengthened, but the man worked on. He began a third line of test-pans. He was cross-cutting the hillside, line by line, as he ascended. The centre of each line produced the richest pans, while the ends came where no colors showed in the pan. And as he ascended the hillside the lines grew perceptibly shorter. The regularity with which their length diminished served to indicate that somewhere up the slope the last line would be so short as to have scarcely length at all, and that beyond could come only a point. The design was growing into an inverted “V.” The converging sides of this “V” marked the boundaries of the gold-bearing dirt.

The apex of the “V” was evidently the man’s goal. Often he ran his eye along the converging sides and on up the hill, trying to divine the apex, the point where the gold-bearing dirt must cease. Here resided “Mr. Pocket”–for so the man familiarly addressed the imaginary point above him on the slope, crying out:

“Come down out o’ that, Mr. Pocket! Be right smart an’ agreeable, an’ come down!”

“All right,” he would add later, in a voice resigned to determination. “All right, Mr. Pocket. It’s plain to me I got to come right up an’ snatch you out bald-headed. An’ I’ll do it! I’ll do it!” he would threaten still later.

Each pan he carried down to the water to wash, and as he went higher up the hill the pans grew richer, until he began to save the gold in an empty baking-powder can which he carried carelessly in his hip-pocket. So engrossed was he in his toil that he did not notice the long twilight of oncoming night. It was not until he tried vainly to see the gold colors in the bottom of the pan that he realized the passage of time. He straightened up abruptly. An expression of whimsical wonderment and awe overspread his face as he drawled:

“Gosh darn my buttons! if I didn’t plumb forget dinner!”

He stumbled across the stream in the darkness and lighted his long-delayed fire. Flapjacks and bacon and warmed-over beans constituted his supper. Then he smoked a pipe by the smouldering coals, listening to the night noises and watching the moonlight stream through the canyon. After that he unrolled his bed, took off his heavy shoes, and pulled the blankets up to his chin. His face showed white in the moonlight, like the face of a corpse. But it was a corpse that knew its resurrection, for the man rose suddenly on one elbow and gazed across at his hillside.

“Good night, Mr. Pocket,” he called sleepily. “Good night.”

He slept through the early gray of morning until the direct rays of the sun smote his closed eyelids, when he awoke with a start and looked about him until he had established the continuity of his existence and identified his present self with the days previously lived.

To dress, he had merely to buckle on his shoes. He glanced at his fireplace and at his hillside, wavered, but fought down the temptation and started the fire.

“Keep yer shirt on, Bill; keep yer shirt on,” he admonished himself. “What’s the good of rushin’? No use in gettin’ all het up an’ sweaty. Mr. Pocket’ll wait for you. He ain’t a-runnin’ away before you can get yer breakfast. Now, what you want, Bill, is something fresh in yer bill o’ fare. So it’s up to you to go an’ get it.”

He cut a short pole at the water’s edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.

“Mebbe they’ll bite in the early morning,” he muttered, as he made his first cast into the pool. And a moment later he was gleefully crying: “What’d I tell you, eh? What’d I tell you?”

He had no reel, nor any inclination to waste time, and by main strength, and swiftly, he drew out of the water a flashing ten-inch trout. Three more, caught in rapid succession, furnished his breakfast. When he came to the stepping-stones on his way to his hillside, he was struck by a sudden thought, and paused.

“I’d just better take a hike down-stream a ways,” he said. “There’s no tellin’ what cuss may be snoopin’ around.”

But he crossed over on the stones, and with a “I really oughter take that hike,” the need of the precaution passed out of his mind and he fell to work. .

At nightfall he straightened up. The small of his back was stiff from stooping toil, and as he put his hand behind him to soothe the protesting muscles, he said:

“Now what d’ye think of that, by damn? I clean forgot my dinner again! If I don’t watch out, I’ll sure be degeneratin’ into a two-meal-a-day crank.”

“Pockets is the damnedest things I ever see for makin’ a man absent-minded,” he communed that night, as he crawled into his blankets. Nor did he forget to call up the hillside, “Good night, Mr. Pocket! Good night!”

Rising with the sun, and snatching a hasty breakfast, he was early at work. A fever seemed to be growing in him, nor did the increasing richness of the test-pans allay this fever. There was a flush in his cheek other than that made by the heat of the sun, and he was oblivious to fatigue and the passage of time. When he filled a pan with dirt, he ran down the hill to wash it; nor could he forbear running up the hill again, panting and stumbling profanely, to refill the pan.

He was now a hundred yards from the water, and the inverted “V” was assuming definite proportions. The width of the pay-dirt steadily decreased, and the man extended in his mind’s eye the sides of the “V” to their meeting-place far up the hill. This was his goal, the apex of the “V,” and he panned many times to locate it.

“Just about two yards above that manzanita bush an’ a yard to the right,” he finally concluded.

Then the temptation seized him. ” s plain as the nose on your face,” he said, as he abandoned his laborious cross-cutting and climbed to the indicated apex. He filled a pan and carried it down the hill to wash. It contained no trace of gold. He dug deep, and he dug shallow, filling and washing a dozen pans, and was unrewarded even by the tiniest golden speck. He was enraged at having yielded to the temptation, and cursed himself blasphemously and pridelessly. Then he went down the hill and took up the cross-cutting.

“Slow an’ certain, Bill; slow an’ certain,” he crooned. “Short-cuts to fortune ain’t in your line, an’ it’s about time you know it. Get wise, Bill; get wise. Slow an’ certain’s the only hand you can play; so go to it, an’ keep to it, too.”

As the cross-cuts decreased, showing that the sides of the “V” were converging, the depth of the ” V ” increased. The gold-trace was dipping into the hill. It was only at thirty inches beneath the surface that he could get colors in his pan. The dirt he found at twenty-five inches from the surface, and at thirty-five inches, yielded barren pans. At the base of the “V,” by the water’s edge, he had found the gold colors at the grass roots. The higher he went up the hill, the deeper the gold dipped.

To dig a hole three feet deep in order to get one test-pan was a task of no mean magnitude; while between the man and the apex intervened an untold number of such holes to be. “An’ there’s no tellin’ how much deeper it’ll pitch,” he sighed, in a moment’s pause, while his fingers soothed his aching back.

Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill. Before him was the smooth slope, spangled with flowers and made sweet with their breath. Behind him was devastation. It looked like some terrible eruption breaking out on the smooth skin of the hill. His slow progress was like that of a slug, befouling beauty with a monstrous trail.

Though the dipping gold-trace increased the man’s work, he found consolation in the increasing richness of the pans. Twenty cents, thirty cents, fifty cents, sixty cents, were the values of the gold found in the pans, and at nightfall he washed his banner pan, which gave him a dollar’s worth of gold-dust from a shovelful of dirt.

“I’ll just bet it’s my luck to have some inquisitive cuss come buttin’ in here on my pasture,” he mumbled sleepily that night as he pulled the blankets up to his chin.

Suddenly he sat upright. “Bill!” he called sharply. “Now, listen to me, Bill; d’ye hear! It’s up to you, to-morrow mornin’, to mosey round an’ see what you can see. Understand? Tomorrow morning, an’ don’t you forget it!”

He yawned and glanced across at his side-hill. “Good night, Mr. Pocket,” he called.

In the morning he stole a march on the sun, for he had finished breakfast when its first rays caught him, and he was climbing the wall of the canyon where it crumbled away and gave footing. From the outlook at the top he found himself in the midst of loneliness. As far as he could see, chain after chain of mountains heaved themselves into his vision. To the east his eyes, leaping the miles between range and range and between many ranges, brought up at last against the white-peaked Sierras–the main crest, where the backbone of the Western world reared itself against the sky. To the north and south he could see more distinctly the cross-systems that broke through the main trend of the sea of mountains. To the west the ranges fell away, one behind the other, diminishing and fading into the gentle foothills that, in turn, descended into the great valley which he could not see.

And in all that mighty sweep of earth he saw no sign of man nor of the handiwork of man–save only the torn bosom of the hillside at his feet. The man looked long and carefully. Once, far down his own canyon, he thought he saw in the air a faint hint of smoke. He looked again and decided that it was the purple haze of the hills made dark by a convolution of the canyon wall at its back.

“Hey, you, Mr. Pocket!” he called down into the canyon. “Stand out from under! I’m a-comin’, Mr. Pocket! I’m a-comin’!”

The heavy brogans on the man’s feet made him appear clumsy-footed, but he swung down from the giddy height as lightly and airily as a mountain goat. A rock, turning under his foot on the edge of the precipice, did not disconcert him. He seemed to know the precise time required for the turn to culminate in disaster, and in the meantime he utilized the false footing itself for the momentary earth-contact necessary to carry him on into safety. Where the earth sloped so steeply that it was impossible to stand for a second upright, the man did not hesitate. His foot pressed the impossible surface for but a fraction of the fatal second and gave him the bound that carried him onward. Again, where even the fraction of a second’s footing was out of the question, he would swing his body past by a moment’s hand-grip on a jutting knob of rock, a crevice, or a precariously rooted shrub. At last, with a wild leap and yell, he exchanged the face of the wall for an earth-slide and finished the descent in the midst of several tons of sliding earth and gravel.

His first pan of the morning washed out over two dollars in coarse gold. It was from the centre of the “V.” To either side the diminution in the values of the pans was swift. His lines of crosscutting holes were growing very short. The converging sides of the inverted “V” were only a few yards apart. Their meeting-point was only a few yards above him. But the pay-streak was dipping deeper and deeper into the earth. By early afternoon he was sinking the test-holes five feet before the pans could show the gold-trace.

For that matter, the gold-trace had become something more than a trace; it was a placer mine in itself, and the man resolved to come back after he had found the pocket and work over the ground. But the increasing richness of the pans began to worry him. By late afternoon the worth of the pans had grown to three and four dollars. The man scratched his head perplexedly and looked a few feet up the hill at the manzanita bush that marked approximately the apex of the “V.” He nodded his head and said oracularly:

“It’s one o’ two things, Bill; one o’ two things. Either Mr. Pocket’s spilled himself all out an’ down the hill, or else Mr. Pocket’s that damned rich you maybe won’t be able to carry him all away with you. And that’d be hell, wouldn’t it, now?” He chuckled at contemplation of so pleasant a dilemma.

Nightfall found him by the edge of the stream his eyes wrestling with the gathering darkness over the washing of a five-dollar pan.

“Wisht I had an electric light to go on working.” he said.

He found sleep difficult that night. Many times he composed himself and closed his eyes for slumber to overtake him; but his blood pounded with too strong desire, and as many times his eyes opened and he murmured wearily, “Wisht it was sun-up.” Sleep came to him in the end, but his eyes were open with the first paling or the stars, and the gray of dawn caught him with breakfast finished and climbing the hillside in the direction of the secret abiding-place of Mr. Pocket.

The first cross-cut the man made, there was space for only three holes, so narrow had become the pay-streak and so close was he to the fountainhead of the golden stream he had been following for four days.

“Be ca’m, Bill; be calm,” he admonished himself, as he broke ground for the final hole where the sides of the “V” had at last come together in a point.

“I’ve got the almighty cinch on you, Mr. Pocket, an’ you can’t lose me,” he said many times as he sank the hole deeper and deeper.

Four feet, five feet, six feet, he dug his way down into the earth. The digging grew harder. His pick grated on broken rock. He examined the rock. “Rotten quartz,” was his conclusion as, with the shovel, he cleared the bottom of the hole of loose dirt. He attacked the crumbling quartz with the pick, bursting the disintegrating rock asunder with every stroke.

He thrust his shovel into the loose mass. His eye caught a gleam of yellow. He dropped the shovel and squatted suddenly on his heels. As a farmer rubs the clinging earth from fresh-dug potatoes, so the man, a piece of rotten quartz held in both hands, rubbed the dirt away.

“Sufferin’ Sardanopolis!” he cried. “Lumps an’ chunks of it! Lumps an’ chunks of it!”

It was only half rock he held in his hand. The other half was virgin gold. He dropped it into his pan and examined another piece. Little yellow was to be seen, but with his strong fingers he crumbled the rotten quartz away till both hands were filled with glowing yellow. He rubbed the dirt away from fragment after fragment, tossing them into the gold-pan. It was a treasure-hole. So much had the quartz rotted away that there was less of it than there was of gold. Now and again he found a piece to which no rock clung–a piece that was all gold. A chunk, where the pick had laid open the heart of the gold, glittered like a handful of yellow jewels, and he cocked his head at it and slowly turned it around and over to observe the rich play of the light upon it.

“Talk about yer Too Much Gold diggin’s!” the man snorted contemptuously. “Why, this diggin’ ‘d make it look like thirty cents. This diggin’ is All Gold. An’ right here an’ now I name this yere canyon ‘All Gold Canyon,’ b’ gosh!”

Still squatting on his heels, he continued examining the fragments and tossing them into the pan. Suddenly there came to him a premonition of danger. It seemed a shadow had fallen upon him. But there was no shadow. His heart had given a great jump up into his throat and was choking him. Then his blood slowly chilled and he felt the sweat of his shirt cold against his flesh.

He did not spring up nor look around. He did not move. He was considering the nature of the premonition he had received, trying to locate the source of the mysterious force that had warned him, striving to sense the imperative presence of the unseen thing that threatened him. There is an aura of things hostile, made manifest by messengers refined for the senses to know; and this aura he felt, but knew not how he felt it. His was the feeling as when a cloud passes over the sun. It seemed that between him and life had passed something dark and smothering and menacing; a gloom, as it were, that swallowed up life and made for death–his death.

Every force of his being impelled him to spring up and confront the unseen danger, but his soul dominated the panic, and he remained squatting on his heels, in his hands a chunk of gold. He did not dare to look around, but he knew by now that there was something behind him and above him. He made believe to be interested in the gold in his hand. He examined it critically, turned it over and over, and rubbed the dirt from it. And all the time he knew that something behind him was looking at the gold over his shoulder.

Still feigning interest in the chunk of gold in his hand, he listened intently and he heard the breathing of the thing behind him. His eyes searched the ground in front of him for a weapon, but they saw only the uprooted gold, worthless to him now in his extremity. There was his pick, a handy weapon on occasion; but this was not such an occasion. The man realized his predicament. He was in a narrow hole that was seven feet deep. His head did not come to the surface of the ground. He was in a trap.

He remained squatting on his heels. He was quite cool and collected; but his mind, considering every factor, showed him only his helplessness. He continued rubbing the dirt from the quartz fragments and throwing the gold into the pan. There was nothing else for him to do. Yet he knew that he would have to rise up, sooner or later, and face the danger that breathed at his back.

The minutes passed, and with the passage of each minute he knew that by so much he was nearer the time when he must stand up, or else–and his wet shirt went cold against his flesh again at the thought–or else he might receive death as he stooped there over his treasure.

Still he squatted on his heels, rubbing dirt from gold and debating in just what manner he should rise up. He might rise up with a rush and claw his way out of the hole to meet whatever threatened on the even footing above ground. Or he might rise up slowly and carelessly, and feign casually to discover the thing that breathed at his back. His instinct and every fighting fibre of his body favored the mad, clawing rush to the surface. His intellect, and the craft thereof, favored the slow and cautious meeting with the thing that menaced and which he could not see. And while he debated, a loud, crashing noise burst on his ear. At the same instant he received a stunning blow on the left side of the back, and from the point of impact felt a rush of flame through his flesh. He sprang up in the air, but halfway to his feet collapsed. His body crumpled in like a leaf withered in sudden heat, and he came down, his chest across his pan of gold, his face in the dirt and rock, his legs tangled and twisted because of the restricted space at the bottom of the hole. His legs twitched convulsively several times. His body was shaken as with a mighty ague. There was a slow expansion of the lungs, accompanied by a deep sigh. Then the air was slowly, very slowly, exhaled, and his body as slowly flattened itself down into inertness.

Above, revolver in hand, a man was peering down over the edge of the hole. He peered for a long time at the prone and motionless body beneath him. After a while the stranger sat down on the edge of the hole so that he could see into it, and rested the revolver on his knee. Reaching his hand into a pocket, he drew out a wisp of brown paper. Into this he dropped a few crumbs of tobacco. The combination became a cigarette, brown and squat, with the ends turned in. Not once did he take his eyes from the body at the bottom of the hole. He lighted the cigarette and drew its smoke into his lungs with a caressing intake of the breath. He smoked slowly. Once the cigarette went out and he relighted it. And all the while he studied the body beneath him.

In the end he tossed the cigarette stub away and rose to his feet. He moved to the edge of the hole. Spanning it, a hand resting on each edge, and with the revolver still in the right hand, he muscled his body down into the hole. While his feet were yet a yard from the bottom he released his hands and dropped down.

At the instant his feet struck bottom he saw the pocket-miner’s arm leap out, and his own legs knew a swift, jerking grip that overthrew him. In the nature of the jump his revolver-hand was above his head. Swiftly as the grip had flashed about his legs, just as swiftly he brought the revolver down. He was still in the air, his fall in process of completion, when he pulled the trigger. The explosion was deafening in the confined space. The smoke filled the hole so that he could see nothing. He struck the bottom on his back, and like a cat’s the pocket-miner’s body was on top of him. Even as the miner’s body passed on top, the stranger crooked in his right arm to fire; and even in that instant the miner, with a quick trust of elbow, struck his wrist. The muzzle was thrown up and the bullet thudded into the dirt of the side of the hole.

The next instant the stranger felt the miner’s hand grip his wrist. The struggle was now for the revolver. each man strove to turn it against the other’s body. The smoke in the hole was clearing. The stranger, lying on his back, was beginning to see dimly. But suddenly he was blinded by a handful of dirt deliberately flung into his eyes by his antagonist. In that moment of shock his grip on the revolver was broken. In the next moment he felt a smashing darkness descend upon his brain, and in the midst of the darkness even the darkness ceased.

But the pocket-miner fired again and again, until the revolver was empty. Then he tossed it from him and, breathing heavily, sat down on the dead man’s legs.

The miner was sobbing and struggling for breath. “Measly skunk!” he panted; “a-campin’ on my trail an’ lettin’ me do the work, an’ then shootin’ me in the back!”

He was half crying from anger and exhaustion, He peered at the face of the dead man. It was sprinkled with loose dirt and gravel, and it was difficult to distinguish the features.

“Never laid eyes on him before,” the miner concluded his scrutiny. “Just a common an’ ordinary thief, damn him! An’ he shot me in the back! He shot me in the back!”

He opened his shirt and felt himself, front and back, on his left side.

“Went clean through, and no harm done!” he cried jubilantly. “I’ll bet he aimed right all right, but he drew the gun over when he pulled the trigger–the cuss! But I fixed ‘m! Oh, I fixed ‘m!”

His fingers were investigating the bullet-hole in his side, and a shade of regret passed over his face. “It’s goin’ to be stiffer’n hell,” he said. “An’ it’s up to me to get mended an’ get out o’ here.”

He crawled out of the hole and went down the hill to his camp. Half an hour later he returned, leading his pack-horse. His open shirt disclosed the rude bandages with which he had dressed his wound. He was slow and awkward with his left-hand movements, but that did not prevent his using the arm.

The bight of the pack-rope under the dead man’s shoulders enabled him to heave the body out of the hole. Then he set to work gathering up his gold. He worked steadily for several hours, pausing often to rest his stiffening shoulder and to exclaim:

“He shot me in the back, the measly skunk! He shot me in the back!”

When his treasure was guise cleaned up and wrapped securely into a number of blanket-covered parcels, he made an estimate of its value.

“Four hundred pounds, or I’m a Hottentot,” he concluded. “Say two hundred in quartz an’ dirt–that leaves two hundred pounds of gold. Bill! Wake up! Two hundred pounds of gold! Forty thousand dollars! An’ it’s yourn–all yourn!”

He scratched his head delightedly and his fingers blundered into an unfamiliar groove. They quested along it for several inches. It was a crease through his scalp where the second bullet had ploughed.

He walked angrily over to the dead man.

“You would, would you?” he bullied. “You would, eh? Well, I fixed you good an’ plenty, an’ I’ll give you decent burial, too. That’s more’n you’d have done for me.”

He dragged the body to the edge of the hole and toppled it in. It struck the bottom with a dull crash, on its side, the face twisted up to the light. The miner peered down at it.

“An’ you shot me in the back!” he said accusingly.

With pick and shovel he filled the hole. Then he loaded the gold on his horse. It was too great a load for the animal, and when he had gained his camp he transferred part of it to his saddle-horse. Even so, he was compelled to abandon a portion of his outfit–pick and shovel and gold-pan, extra food and cooking utensils, and divers odds and ends.

The sun was at the zenith when the man forced the horses at the screen of vines and creepers. To climb the huge boulders the animals were compelled to uprear and struggle blindly through the tangled mass of vegetation. Once the saddle-horse fell heavily and the man removed the pack to get the animal on its feet. After it started on its way again the man thrust his head out from among the leaves and peered up at the hillside.

“The measly skunk!” he said, and disappeared.

There was a ripping and tearing of vines and boughs. The trees surged back and forth, marking the passage of the animals through the midst of them. There was a clashing of steel-shod hoofs on stone, and now and again an oath or a sharp cry of command. Then the voice of the man was raised in song:–

“Tu’n around an’ tu’n yo’ face
Untoe them sweet hills of grace
(D’ pow’rs of sin yo’ am scornin’!).
Look about an, look aroun’,
Fling yo’ sin-pack on d’ groun’
(Yo’ will meet wid d’ Lord in d’ mornin’!).”

The song grew faint and fainter, and through the silence crept back the spirit of the place. The stream once more drowsed and whispered; the hum of the mountain bees rose sleepily. Down through the perfume-weighted air fluttered the snowy fluffs of the cottonwoods. The butterflies drifted in and out among the trees, and over all blazed the quiet sunshine. Only remained the hoof-marks in the meadow and the torn hillside to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on.

In a masterful orchestration of political forces that transcended both administrative and judicial action, San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee Chairman Phil Cothran, Sr. over the last several weeks manipulated the machinery of county and local government and two superior court judges to limit the chances that the greatest threat to his continued domination of the local GOP will be elected to public office during the current election cycle.
Phil Cothran Sr., who has proven to be Fontana’s most successful insurance broker over the last 40 years, as that city has transition from being a gritty steel mill town that was the eighth largest among what were then the county’s 18 cities to what is now the second largest of 24 cities, acceded, in 2021 to the chairmanship of the San Bernardino County Republican Central committee, a post he had firmly held for more than three years.
Cothran had constructed his political empire initially by rudimentary involvement in Fontana city politics, somewhat ironically through his support and association with Democratic politicians, that initially being Dave Eshleman in Eshleman’s maiden run for the city council, and by extension, Mayor Nat Simon. Eshleman would eventually graduate from the council position he held to being Fontana mayor, whereby Cothran’s political reach and influence was extended. Cothran at heart, however, was a Republican, and it was through his association with Fontana’s Republican officeholders – Councilman John Roberts, one-time Fontana Police Chief and later Councilman Ben Abernathy, one-time Police Chief and later Councilman and Mayor Frank Scialdone, Councilman and later Mayor Mark Nuami, one-time Councilwoman and now Mayor Acquanetta Warren, one-time School Board Member, later Councilman and now-San Bernardino County Supervisor Jesse Armendarez, Cothran’s son, Fontana City Councilman Phil Cothran, Jr. and Fontana Councilman Peter Garcia – that Phil Cothran, Sr. has been able to establish a political machine that has made him arguably the most powerful, and certainly one of the two or three most powerful, political figures in San Bernardino County.
In the decade prior to the 2021 redistricting that followed the 2020 Census San Bernardino County’s Second District was composed of the northern portion of Upland, San Antonio Heights, Mt. Baldy Rancho Cucamonga, Lytle Creek, western Fontana,  Agua Fria, Crestline, Grass Valley, Fredalba, Enchanted Forest, Deer Lodge Park, Green Valley Lake, Lake Arrowhead, Rim Forest, Running Springs, Valley of Enchantment, Sky Forest, Twin Peaks and Smiley Park. Prior to the 2011 redistricting, all of Upland had been a part of the Second District.  Going back two and three generations, the Second District had been dominated by Upland, which had been the primary population center in the Second District in the 1950s, 1960s and well into the 1970s, and Rancho Cucamonga, which had come into its own in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Four straight supervisors from the Second District – Joe Kamansky, Cal McElwain, Jon Mikels and Paul Biane – had originated as Upland/Rancho Cucamonga social and business figures, in which Fontana existed in many ways as an afterthought in planning and the apportionment of governmental resources and largesse in the management of county operations. When Janice Rutherford had been elected in 2010, she was a member of the Fontana City Council. It was thought that her election presaged a shift toward a more prominent consideration of the issues impacting Fontana and an inclusion of Fontana in the overall application of county authority in the provision of services and attention by county departments with regard to the carrying out of mandated state programs to assist the elderly, the impoverished, the mentally ill, the societally disadvantage and in, in general, those needful of a hand up. Shortly after Rutherford had been elected supervisor, however, she moved from Fontana to an upscale neighborhood in Rancho Cucamonga, distancing herself from her previous constituency, and lessening the degree to which Fontana was to increase its influence over the county’s governmental decision-making process.
In 2020, the Republican political machinery, which included Mayor Acquanetta Warren’s very powerful municipal political machine, the Republican Central Committee, which was then headed by its chairman at that time, Jan Leja, multiple political action committees and independent expenditure committees controlled by Republicans, including Phil Cothran, Sr., had rally to support Armendarez in his run for county supervisor in the county’s Fifth Supervisorial District, which then consisted of the eastern portion of Fontana, all of Rialto, Bloomington, Colon and Muscoy and the western portion of San Bernardino. Despite the well-financed Republican network’s effort in support of Armendarez against Democrat Joe Baca, Jr., the Fontana Councilman was unable to match Baca, a Rialto councilman and the son of one-time California Assemblyman, State Senator and Congressman Joe Baca, Sr., in vote gathering that year, particularly given that Baca, a Democrat, had the benefit of competing in a district that was heavily Democratic, with roughly 47 percent of the voters registered as Democrats, 21 percent registered as Republicans, almost 23 percent of the voters having no party affiliation and roughly nine percent affiliated with more obscure political parties. Baca prevailed in the 2020 race.
In 2021, in the county political subdivision redistricting that followed the 2020 Census, San Bernardino county’s Second District borders were redrawn. While upper Upland, Mount Baldy, San Antonio Heights and Rancho Cucamonga remained in the Second District, as did the western portion of Fontana, the district gave up Lytle Creek, Agua Fria, Crestline, Grass Valley, Fredalba, Enchanted Forest, Deer Lodge Park, Green Valley Lake, Lake Arrowhead, Rim Forest, Running Springs, Valley of Enchantment, Sky Forest, Twin Peaks and Smiley Park. In return, the eastern portion of Fontana, which was previously in the Fifth Supervisorial District, was folded into the Second District.
Overnight with the 2021 redistricting, all of Fontana fell within the Second District. In this way, Armendarez, who in 2020 as a resident of eastern Fontana was able to run in the Fifth District, in 2022 was eligible to run in the Second District.
In the meantime, Phil Cothran, Sr. had further solidified his control over the Republican political hierarchy in San Bernardino County, having been elected to the leadership of the Republican Central Committee.  For well over two decades at that point, Cothran had made his mark as a member of the San Bernardino County Workforce Development Board, on which he had served since 2000, having three times served as that board’s chairman as well as heading its numerous subcommittees. Having already established himself as a political force to be reckoned with, he was determined to extend Fontana’s might as the region’s expanding socio-political entity, together with his own sway over the political and governmental landscape of San Bernardino County. Having been thwarted in getting his man – Armendarez – elected to the board of supervisors representing the Fifth District in 2020, he moved on to getting Armendarez onto the board by having him elected in 2022 to represent the Second District.
In Armendarez’s way were three lesser candidates – Eric Coker, Nadia Renner and Dejoae Shea – and one more substantial one: Luis Cetina.
Cetina, a Republican from Rancho Cucamonga, had garnered Rutherford’s endorsement to succeed her and he had a respectable modicum of funds with which to campaign. The immediate size-up of the pending contest was that there was to be slugfest to determine whether it was going to be the traditionalist GOP set from Rancho Cucamonga or the surging Fontana-based Republicans who would prevail. Recognizing that with five candidates in the race to split the vote, there was little likelihood any single candidate could win outright with a majority of the vote in the June primary, Armendarez’s backers relied on the name recognition he had established two years previously to run a solid but not over-the-top campaign. While Armendarez’s campaign and the support network spent enough money in the spring to ensure that Armendarez would pull in enough votes for a strong enough finish to qualify for the November runoff, the idea was not to put Cetina away entirely but to merely remain within striking distance of him. Indeed, when the votes in the June 7 primary were counted, that is what occurred, with Cetina having captured first place with 16,532 of the 50,082 votes cast or 33.01 percent, a slightly better than marginal victory over Armendarez, with his 15,280 votes or 30.51 percent. The primary eliminated Shaw, who had managed a relatively strong third-place finish, with 10,616 or 20.2 percent of the vote, along with Coker and his 4,030 votes or 8.05 percent and Renner, who claimed 3,624 votes or 7.24 percent. The focus then turned to the main event, the November 8, 2022 general election, in which Cetina and Armendarez were to tilt at one another, head to head.
Cothran, Team Fontana and their allies set to work, pulling out all the stops, allowing nothing to stand it the way of Armendarez claiming the San Bernardino County Second District seat. Out the window was the 11th Commandment, which which enjoins members of the Party of Lincoln: “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” Indeed, speaking ill of Centina became the central element of the second prong of the effort to establish Armendarez as Second District supervisor. The first prong was the official Armendarez electioneering [effort], which consisted primarily of informing the Second District’s voters of all of Jesse Armendarez’s positive attributes and accomplishments as a member of the Fontana School Board and Fontana City Council, his success as a businessman, along with glimpses into his personal life as a husband and father.
Rallying to support Armendarez as well were the members of Team Fontana, Warren and the three members of her ruling coalition on the city council – John Roberts, Phil Cothran, Jr. and Peter Garcia, Republicans all. Simultaneously, Cothran utilized his control the politicking machinery of the Republican Central Committee along with the political action committees and independent expenditure committees at his beck and call to carry out one of the more well-funded opposition campaigns in county history targeting Cetina.
The money Cothran expended in this effort – limited to the Second District which is essentially one-fifth of San Bernardino County in terms of the number of voters – was only slightly less expensive than the attack campaign Bill Postmus mounted on the incumbent Donald Williamson in the countywide 2006 campaign for county assessor. It was unprecedented in San Bernardino County in terms of its ferocity and the outright depth of its scurrility, making attacks that were personal, political, and philosophical, ones that dwelt on interpretations made in the most negative of light with regard to often routine governance votes made by Cetina as a member of the Cucamonga County Water District board of directors, ones that in fair comparison were indistinguishable from votes on routine governance matters made by Armendarez in his capacities as a school board member or city council member. Using cheap but clever shots that were unrelenting right up to the week before the election and sent from political action committees or attributed to independent expenditure committees which were, ostensibly, unrelated to the Armendarez campaign so that the candidate could publicly and plausibly make a claim of being above the fray of dirty politics, the attack campaign demonized Cetina so thoroughly that it erased the 1,252 and 2.5 percent advantage he had registered over Armendarez in the primary contest.
When the smoke cleared after the November 8, 2022 balloting and the votes cast at the Second District’s 320 precincts were tallied along with the mail ballots that came in over the next week-and-a-half, Armendarez had prevailed, with 48,104 or 53.64 percent of the 89,677 votes cast, outdistancing Cetina who managed to bring in 41,573 or 46.36 percent.
By vanquishing Cetina and elevating Armendarez, Cothran had achieved his goal of advancing the personal political machine he has created for himself and ultimately for his so. Nevertheless, he had done so at great risk. Under the bylaws of the central committee and the rules of the California State Republican Party, a member who actively campaigns against another Republican can be expelled from the state party structure or the central committee or both. Had the central committee moved to take stock of Cothran’s destruction of a Republican candidate within the context of an organization that is devoted to the promotion of Republicanism and Republicans, his chairmanship would have been on the line. During the 2022 political season, the imperative to get Armendarez elected trumped the party’s rules or Cothran’s need to abide by them. Cothran calculated that his being held to account for what he had done would be extremely unlikely, as that would require someone with standing in the party or the central committee to make an issue of it and bring the matter to a vote, either before the central committee as a whole or its internal executive committee. Since he was chairman of the central committee, few members would be willing to openly question his authority or judgment. If someone did, he could utilize his control of the committees parliamentarian to extinguish the effort, he figured. Moreover, since as chairman he held tremendous sway over the composition of the executive committee and he had stacked it with his allies, most of whom who had assisted him in undercutting Cetina themselves, he would be able to face down any such motion to examine the eithics or rectitude of what he had done to Cetina.
Bad blood remains between Cothran and Cetina. Any hope Cothran had that the loss Cetina was handed in 2022 would have devastated him and convinced him to simply fade out of the San Bernardino County Republican picture was misplaced. In the March 2024 Primary Election, Cetina ran for and was elected to one of the seven positions on the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee from the Second District. Cetina remains a viable force in the party, and Cothran now considers it propitious to prevent Cetina, who forsook his position on the Cucamonga County Water District Board of Directors to run for supervisor in 2022, from capturing any elected position from which he might politically militate against him or undercut his current authority within the Republican Central Committee beyond what he can already do as a central committee member.
In 2022, following the death of Rancho Cucamonga Councilman Sam Spagnola, Cothran and the remainder of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee supported Ashley Stickler in her bid to succeed the late councilman and serve out the remaining two years on his council term. Ross Sevy, who is the deputy chief of staff for Republican Congressman Jay Obernolte, the second vice chairman of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee and who ran on a slate for the central committee with Cothran, served as the manager of both the Armendarez and Stickler campaigns. In addition to giving Stickler his own personal money for her campaign, Cothran has vectored money from his political action committee to her and induced Mayor Warren to provide her money as well.
To remain as First District Rancho Cucamonga Councilwoman, Stickler is due to stand for reelection on November 5. When the election filing period opened in July, Stickler pulled papers to seek reelection and Centina, a resident of Rancho Cucamonga’s District 1, pulled papers as well.
Concerned that Cetina represents an irresistible political force, the suddenly panicked functionaries within the Cothran and Warren political machines began to case about for a way to neutralize Cetina’s candidacy, lest he oust Stickler in November and then use the catbird seat on the Rancho Cucamonga City Council to militate against them in future campaigns. Stickler completed her candidacy filing paperwork rapidly and turned it into the Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk’s Office, which ran it by the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office, which certified on July 29 that she had a sufficient number of valid signatures to qualify her for the November 5 ballot. Similarly, Cetina made quick work of completing the paperwork, and his candidacy was declared qualified by the registrar of voters office on August 5.
The Sentinel is informed that Cothran and his coterie of political strategists hit upon the idea of preventing the Rancho Cucamonga First District race from materializing as a straight head-to-head contest between Cetina and Stickler in which it was felt Cetina would have, despite Stickler’s incumbency, an advantage. The plan was to get another Hispanic candidate into the race to split the Latino vote to attenuate Cetina’s advantage and boost Stickler’s odds of victory. A logical stand-in would be Erick Jimenez, a District 1 resident who had five previous runs for the city council under his belt. His consistent string of losses, however, appeared to have dimmed his political ambition and more than two weeks into the candidate filing period, he had not taken out papers to do so.
Seemingly out of nowhere, with less than a week in the filing period remaining and both Cetina and Stickler having qualified their candidacies, Jimenez pulled papers. Having waited so far along in the filing window to act, however, and needing to complete the paperwork including getting no fewer than 20 valid signatures of endorsement from residents living within the First District, Jimenez was unable to act with sufficient alacrity to complete his application and get it together with sufficient signatures to turn it into the Rancho Cucamonga city clerk’s office by the August 9 deadline to qualify his candidacy.
The following day, however came the announcement from the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Office that eight different city council candidates from around the county whose candidacies were previously declared as qualified for the November 5 ballot had in fact failed to qualify their candidacies. What was suggested, though not explicitly stated, was that at least some of the signatures endorsing those candidacies were determined to be invalid.
Curiously, three of those eight cases involved the relatively rare circumstance where the incumbent in the race had not filed for reelection, extending the deadline for the submittal of candidate papers by five days, giving those three unqualified candidates the opportunity to amend their submissions, i.e., obtain enough additional valid signatures, to salvage their electoral bids.
The registrar of voters office had issued to each of the disqualified candidates notice that they could file a legal challenge to request relief from the courts and that any legal challenges had to be resolved by August 29, at which point the final version of the ballot was to be set and no no changes to it could be made.
What ensued with regard to the Rancho Cucamonga District 1 race came across as if it had been scripted by Cothran.
Stickler’s failure to have qualified her candidacy was deemed grounds to extend the filing period another five days, which as it turned out, proved sufficient time for Jimenez to revive the effort that had on August 9 ended with too few endorsement signatures. On the day of the deadline, August 14, he handed over to the city clerk’s office paperwork that was complete enough in all of its particulars to satisfy both the city clerk and the registrar of voters that he was eligible to compete for the District 1 position on November 5.
Simultaneously, though Stickler’s candidacy had been disqualified, the Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk’s Office extended her the courtesy of issuing her time to remedy the signature deficiency that had been identified over the weekend of August 10 & 11.
On the City of Rancho Cucamonga’s website, its posted list of qualified candidates for the November included Cetina, Stickler and Jimenez, with an asterisk next to Stickler’s name. The notation for asterisk stated: “Amended 8/13/2024: After reevaluation by the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters (ROV) of the Nomination Paper on 8/10/2024, the candidate did not have the number of valid signatures. The filing period is hereby extended to August 14, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.”
Not directly stated but certainly implied by the Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk’s Office was that the filing period was extended for non-incumbents. Stickler took the statement more broadly and she submitted a new set of signatures on August 13.
The Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk’s Office, on August 15, posted the notice that Jimenez’s candidacy for the District 1 position had been qualified. That posting further listed both Stickler and Cetina as qualified candidates, with the notation that Stickler’s submissions were “Reevaluated by ROV [and she] may not be qualified.”

This created a logical legal absurdity. Under California Elections Code § 10220, candidates seeking local office have until on or before the 88th day before the election to submit nomination papers to which are affixed at least 20 and no more than 30 valid signatures of voters within the jurisdiction where the office is being sought. Under California Elections Code, § 10225, “if nomination papers for an incumbent officer of the city are not filed by or on the 88th day before the election, during normal business hours, as posted, the voters shall have until the 83rd day before the election during normal business hours, as posted, to nominate candidates other than the person who was the incumbent on the 88th day, for that incumbent’s elective office.”
Thus, the extension of the filing period for the November 5 election beyond the August 9 deadline by which it was made possible for Jimenez to collect a sufficient number of signatures to qualify his candidacy came about based upon Stickler having missed the August 9 deadline to submit at least 20 valid signatures of District 1 residents endorsing her candidacy. It was the registrar of voters office’s contention that only 17 of the signatures she submitted were valid. In this way, she had missed the deadline to qualify her candidacy, which cleared the way for Jimenez to act to obtain the signatures he needed and qualify his candidacy. Under the dual requirements of California Elections Code § 10220 and California Elections Code, § 10225, Jimenez could be qualified for the ballot only if Stickler was not qualified for the ballot. Conversely, if Stickler was qualified for the ballot, the filing extension that allowed Jimenez to qualify his candidacy could not have legally taken place. Under the rules, Cetina was in the race, either against Sticker or against Jimenez, but not against both.
On August 15, the day following the final deadline of August 14, in San Bernardino Superior Court, attorneys Brian Hildreth and Katherine Jenkins filed the petition for a writ of mandate on behalf of Stickler.
Hildreth and Jenkins did so, according to the petition, “on the grounds that respondents, after the last day for filing for Rancho Cucamonga City Council, declared that petitioner has not submitted the sufficient number of valid signatures on her nomination papers for her candidacy to the Rancho Cucamonga City Council, District 1, despite having been previously informed by the Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk that she had submitted enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. On Saturday, August 10, 2024, late in the evening, Respondent Registrar of Voters informed the City that it had reevaluated all nomination petition signatures and that Petitioner did not, in fact, meet the nomination requirements because there were not enough valid voter signatures on her nomination petition. On Monday, August 12, 2024, the Rancho Cucamonga City Manager informed petitioner of this finding and forwarded her the updated statistics by email. By this date, it was too late for petitioner to cure any deficiency in her nomination papers. Typically, if a nomination paper is determined to be insufficient, or a candidate fails to obtain the correct number of valid signatures on his or her nomination paper, the elections official issues a supplemental signature petition to the candidate on which the candidate may collect additional nomination signatures. (Elec. Code, § 10221(b.) This supplemental petition must be filed no later than the last day for filing for that office. The last day of filing for petitioner’s office was Friday, August 9, 2024. (Elec. Code, § 10220.) However, petitioner was not made aware of the purported deficiency issue until Monday, August 12, 2024, after the deadline for filing supplemental nomination papers pursuant to Elections Code section 10221. Therefore, petitioner had no time to collect and submit additional valid signatures t0 Respondent City Clerk before the legal deadline to do so. Immediately upon learning of the issue, petitioner did quickly obtain a supplemental nomination paper from the city, and on August 13, 2024, submitted 9 additional valid nomination signatures to respondent city clerk. However, without an order of this court, respondents will be unable to verify and accept these supplemental signatures, so that Petitioner’s name will be included as a qualified candidate for Member of the City Council, District 1, in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, at the November 5, 2024 general election. This Petition seeks to correct any error, omission, or neglect of duty that has or is about to occur. Petitioner therefore seeks an expedited order of this Court requiring Respondent City Clerk to verify and accept the supplemental nomination paper submitted 0n August 13, 2024, and to include petitioner’s name as a qualified candidate for Member 0fthe City Council, District l, in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, at the November 5, 2024 general election”
Hildreth is counsel for the National Republican Congressional Committee, the California Republican Party, and the Republican National Committee.
In reaction, the Rancho Cucamonga City Clerk’s Office posted on the city’s website a notification of the “List of Candidates” which featured in the District 1 race Stickler, Cetina and Jimenez. Affixed to Stickler’s name and her initial qualification date of July 29 were two asterisks, one of which referenced the encapsulation “Reevaluated by ROV: May not be qualified.” The other asterisk offered the clarification “Amended 8/13/2024: After reevaluation by the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters (ROV) of the Nomination Paper on 8/10/2024, the candidate did not have the number of valid signatures. The filing period is hereby extended to August 14, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.”
Tim Prince, an attorney in San Bernardino, filed similar petitions for writs of mandate for two of the other five candidates whose candidacies had been disqualified, Jose Nikyar, running for election in Ontario’s District 4 and Rachel Arzu, running in Highland’s District 3 contest.
While the matter relating to Nikyar and Arzu was assigned to Superior Court Judge Charlie Lee Hill Jr. in the San Bernardino Justice Center in downtown San Bernardino, Stickler’s matter was heard by Judge Winston Keh at the Victorville District Court in Victorville.

Rick Herrick, who has been a dominant political force in Big Bear Lake for the greater part of the last two decades, is facing the most serious challenge yet to that primacy as the California Fair Political Practices Commission is now conducting an examination of what some contend are conflict-of-interest issues between his ownership of property in one of the city’s most exclusive lakefront neighborhoods and votes he has made in his capacity on the city council and a local joint powers authority.
At the heart of the matter is whether Herrick, who occupies a key decision-making position within the community, has merely become involved in evaluating and determining whether the City of Big Bear Lake and the Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency should or should not proceed with a project of significant import to the community that would normally fall to someone of his elected and appointed station or whether his judgment with regard to the project has become tainted by the consideration that he will, at least potentially, derive a benefit from the project over and above what a large number of his constituents will enjoy.
Having obtained substantial notoriety and community positioning since taking up residence in Big Bear in 1994, Herrick is the closest approximation of a media mogul as there is in Big Bear as the co-owner, with his wife, of Parallel Broadcasting Inc, the parent company of KBHR 93.3 and 102.5 FM radio. He was the president of the Big Bear Chamber of Commerce, a board member of the Big Bear Valley Recreation and Park District and, from 1999 until 2005, a commissioner on the board of the Big Bear Lake Department of Water. Continue reading →

Upland municipal officials, including the mayor, city council and City Attorney Stephen Deitsch argumentatively and deceptively sought to mislead the city’s residents and voters with both the language contained in the Measure N, the ballot measure seeking approval of an additional one-cent sales tax, and what they tried to pass off as Deitsch’s “impartial analysis of the proposal” that was to be included in the sample ballot and other materials sent to voters prior to the election, a Superior Court Judge ruled on Wednesday.
In a last-minute move, the members of the Upland City Council on August 8 arranged to have the Upland city clerk schedule a “special” meeting of their body for August 9 at 12 noon, just five hours before the deadline for submitting an application to place a measure on the November 5 ballot. At the August 9 meeting, the city council rescinded action it had taken on July 22 asking the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters to place a measure before the city’s voters in November asking them to revamp the city’s business licensing ordinance and its business tax schedules. The measure proposed on July 22 would have provided, if passed by the city’s voters, the city with additional revenue in the $3.5 million range. The measure the city council voted to spring on the county elections office later that day and on the voters in the upcoming election called for a one cent per dollar sales tax override which, city officials said, would result in revenue well above the $3.5 million mark, that being somewhere in the $20 millio to $21 million range annually. Continue reading →

Within the last several days there has been substantial commotion in Ontario over what many in the community perceive as Councilman Alan Wapner’s effort to infest a council hopeful and her campaign with the pay-to-play ethos that has typified much of Wapner’s approach to politics in the nearly three decades he has been in office.
This year, after 133 years in which its city council members were elected in an at-large process, Ontario is transitioning to district elections. While the city’s mayor will still be selected by voters throughout the city, going forward from this year, the city’s four council members will represent a single district in the city in which each resides and be chosen by voters who live exclusively within his or her district. The city’s four districts include the most densely populated District 1, the smallest district geographically, positioned in the northwestern corner of the city; the slightly less densely populated District 2, which is the second-smallest district geographically, located in middle west side of the city; District 3, which is comprised by the city’s most recently annexed property in the former Chino Agricultural Preserve at the south end of the city referred to as Ontario Ranch; and District 4, the least dense portion of the city population-wise, involving all of the northeast portion of the city and the land at its southern and western peripheries, much of which is industrial or commercial in nature and including Ontario International Airport. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2423583
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner DARON THEAPHOLIS WILLIS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
DARON THEAPHOLIS WILLIS to DARON THEAPHOLIS RANSOM
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: September 17, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S33
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
San Bernardino District-Civil
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: August 6, 2024 by
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Court Clerk
Daron Theapholis Willis
11201 5th Street #D102
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
(909) 549-4507
trimblemarilyn@yahoo.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2423591
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner DANA MOTIKA WILLIS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
DANA MOTIKA WILLIS to DANA MOTIKA RANSOM
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: September 17, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S36
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
San Bernardino District-Civil
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: August 6, 2024 by
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Court Clerk
Dana Motika Willis
11201 5th Street #D102
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
(909)-549-4061
danawillis24@yahoo.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2423711
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner JESSICA VANESSA AVILA filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JESSICA VANESSA AVILA to JESSICA VANESSA ROJAS
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: September 18, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S17
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: August 7, 2024 by
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Court Clerk
Jessica Vanessa Avila
12376 Sonoma Ct
Chino, CA 91710
(909) 363-6372
jesavila89@yahoo.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2423679
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner DOMENICK ASAEL CUEVAS-VILLEGAS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
DOMENICK ASAEL CUEVAS-VILLEGAS to DOMENICK ASAEL CAMPOS
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: September 18, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S33
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: August 7, 2024 by
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Court Clerk
Dominick Asael Cuevas-Villegas
1430 Chaffee Street APT 245
Upland, CA 91786
(909) 757-4060
domenickcampos17@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2423481
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner NARELI NANETTE CUEVAS-VILLEGAS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
NARELI NANETTE CUEVAS-VILLEGAS to NARELI NANETTE CAMPOS-VILLEGAS
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: September 16, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S33
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.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: August 5, 2024 by
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Court Clerk
Nareli Nanette Cuevas-Villegas
9874 Arrow Route Unit 1
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
(909) 912-9828
narelicuevas@yahoo.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2423167.
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Pyung Kang Choi, filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Pyung Kang Choi to James Pyungkang Choi.
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: 09/16/2024, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S31The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the  SBCS ? Montclair in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 07/29/2024
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Published in the SBCS Montclair on 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024
FBN 20240006484
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
IVY DAY SPA 12031 5th ST. UNIT D YUCAIPA, CA 92399: THOUSAND MILES BODY AND FOOT MASSAGE, INC 12031 5th ST. UNIT D YUCAIPA, CA 92399
Business Mailing Address: 12031 5th ST UNIT D YUCAIPA, CA 92399
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered in California under the number 6255054.
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/ RONG HU, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/15/2024
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 J7527
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 August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

FBN 20240006544
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
EMD CLEANING SERVICE 1004 W RALSTON ST ONTARIO, CA 91762: DIANA M VARGAS JAIMES
Business Mailing Address: 1004 W RALSTON ST ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: June 1, 2014.
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/ DIANA M VARGAS JAIMES, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/18/2024
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 D9865
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 August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

FBN 20240006728
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
JOULE CONSULTING 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: JOULE ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
Business Address: 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202462212175.
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/ KYLE W URRUTIA
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/25/2024
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 D9865
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 August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

FBN 20240005515
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
BRIGHT ROAD INSURANCE SERVICES LLC AND AUTO REGISTRATIONS 5153 HOLT BLVD A5 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763: BRIGHT ROAD INSURANCE SERVICES LLC 5153 HOLT BLVD A5 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
Business Mailing Address: 10021 BEL AIR AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered in California.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: June 14, 2024.
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/ JAZMIN NERI GARCIA, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/14/2024
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 D9865
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 21 & 28 and July 5 & 12, 2024. Corrected on August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BRIAN KIRK RAYMOND
CASE NO. PROVVA2400343
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of BRIAN KIRK RAYMOND: a petition for probate has been filed by JUSTIN RAYMOND in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JUSTIN RAYMOND be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests full authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held September 24, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Victorville District
Department V12 – Victorville
14455 Civic Drive suite 100
Victorville, CA 92392
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: 8/9/2024
By: Branden Arenas. Deputy Court Clerk
Attorney for Brian Kirk Raymond:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

FBN 20240007353
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS 2500 MOUNTAIN LANE UPLAND, CA 91784: NURIA FORTIER
Business Mailing Address: 2500 MOUNTAIN LANE UPLAND, CA 91784
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JANUARY 18, 2014.
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/ NURIA FORTIER, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 8/13/2024
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 K3379
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 August 16, 23 & 30 and September 7, 2024.

FBN 20240006702
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
DIGITAL DEALS CLUB 473 E CARNEGIE DRIVE, SUITE 200 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408: GRANITE HEAD PRODUCTION, LLC 473 E CARNEGIE DRIVE, SUITE 200 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408
Business Mailing Address: 16731 SANTA ANA DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92337
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202104710536
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/ ERIC EARL SCOTT, Manager
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/25/2024
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 K1583
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 August 16, 23 & 30 and September 7, 2024

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
CYNTHIA ANNE LINTON Case NO. PROVA2400725
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of CYNTHIA ANNE LINTON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Romona Lea Linton in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority., Romona Lea Linton be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. F3 at 09:00 AM on 09/23/2024 at Superior Court of California, County of Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, , San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District-Probate Division
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
GRACE LIM-AYRES ESQ:
P.O. Box 86308 Los Angeles CA 90086
Telephone No: (213) 346-0033
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on:
08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KATHY IRENE WHALEN
CASE NO. PROVA240071
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of KATHY IRENE WHALEN: a petition for probate has been filed by LINA WHALEN in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LINA WHALEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.”
THE PETITION requests full authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held September 10, 2024 at 9:00 am at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F2 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Lina Whalen:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 23, & 30 and September 6, 2024.

FBN 20240006728
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
JOULE CONSULTING 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: JOULE ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
Business Address: 7252 ARCHIBALD AVE. #1022 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 202462212175.
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/ KYLE W URRUTIA
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/25/2024
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 D9865
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 August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

20240007487
MC KITCHEN GRANITE 18189 VALLEY BLVD  BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316
MARCO A PEREZ CONTRERAS  [and] GLADYS M CISNEROS
Business Address:  18189 VALLEY BLVD  BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316
A MARRIED COUPLE
Began Transacting: June 24, 2024
GLADYS M CISNEROS
J3256
8/16/2024

FBN 20240007487
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MC KITCHEN AND GRANITE 18189 VALLEY BLVD  BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316: MARCO A PEREZ CONTRERAS  [and] GLADYS M CISNEROS
Business Address:  18189 VALLEY BLVD  BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: June 24, 2024.
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/ GLADYS M CISNEROS
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 8/16/2024
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 J3256
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 August 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: IDA BELL HOWARD
CASE NO. PROVA2400701
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of IDA BELL HOWARD: a petition for probate has been filed by CARLTON MICHAEL HOWARD in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CARLTON MICHAEL HOWARD be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests full authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held September 16, 2024 at 9:00 am at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F2 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Filed: August 28, 2024
By Brenda Perez-Cordero, Deputy Court Clerk
Attorney for Carlton Michael Howard:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on August 30 and September 6 & 13, 2024.

FBN 20240007216
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MEDCOVE URGENT CARE 1202 E 20TH ST SUITE E UPLAND, CA 91784: TAP MEDICAL PARTNERS 1202 E 20TH ST SUITE E UPLAND, CA 91784
Business Mailing Address: 1202 E 20TH ST SUITE E UPLAND, CA 91784
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number 5815287.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JULY 1, 2024.
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/ JASMINE ISEL HURTADO, Secretary
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: August 9, 2024
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 K1583
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 August 30 and September 6, 13 & 20, 2024.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2425218,
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Jefferey Dion Acquah, filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Jefferey Dion Acquah to Jefferey Dion Acquah-Moore, 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: 10/04/2024, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S23The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBCS ? Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 08/23/2024
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert Ochoa
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

FBN 20240007007
The following person is doing business as: LA MICHOACANA ICE CREAM SHOP. 12135 CENTRAL AVE CHINO, CA 91710;[ MAILING ADDRESS 12135 CENTRAL AVE CHINO, CA 91710];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ESPAND CONSTRUCTION 12135 CENTRAL AVE CHINO, CA 91710 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 6280122
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUL 11, 2024
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/ CARLOS ANDRADE-OROZCO, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 05, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202401IF

FBN 20240006977
The following person is doing business as: SUGAR SUGAR IS CREATIVE. 1456 W 6TH ST #A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1456 W 6TH ST #A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SUGGARSUGAR IS CREATIVE LLC 1456 W. 6TH ST. A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAY 05, 2024
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/ MAIIA CARRINGTON, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 05, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202402MT

FBN 20240006926
The following person is doing business as: CSEN AUTO WHOLESALE. 11012 GOLDEN HILLS DR YUCAIPA, CA 92399;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11012 GOLDEN HILLS DR YUCAIPA, CA 92399];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
CARLOS A MEZA
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/ CARLOS A MEZA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 01, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202403MT

FBN 20240007020
The following person is doing business as: GENEROUS BRANDS. 7200 E. BRUNDAGE LANE BAKERSFIELD, CA 93307;[ MAILING ADDRESS 7200 E. BRUNDAGE LANE BAKERSFIELD, CA 93307];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
EVOLUTION FRESH, LLC 7200 EAST BRUNDAGE LANE BAKERSIFELD, CA 93307 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202462719548
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 29, 2024
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/ ERICA M HAUSE, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 06, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202404MT

FBN 20240007073
The following person is doing business as: SUGOI SUSHI. 34428 YUCAIPA BLVD #B&C YUCAIPA, CA 92399;[ MAILING ADDRESS 34428 YUCAIPA BLVD #B&C YUCAIPA, CA 92399];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
OH SUGOIDAY, INC. 34428 YUCAIPA BLVD B&C YUCAIPA, CA 92399 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 07, 2024
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/ JONGSUK LEE, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 07, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202405MT

FBN 20240007084
The following person is doing business as: MR. T’S TOWING. 997 E EIGHT ST UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 997 E EIGHT ST UPLAND, CA 91786
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO];
MR. T’S TOWING, INC. 997 E EIGHT ST UPLAND, CA 91786 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION C1773459
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN 01, 2019
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/ MIZYED MUSHARBASH, CFO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 07, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202406MT

FBN 20240006974
The following person is doing business as: LALO’S MOBILE TRAILER REPAIR. 634 E H ST ONTARIO, CA 91764;[ MAILING ADDRESS 634 E H ST ONTARIO, CA 91764];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOSE E MALDONADO
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/ JOSE E. MALDONADO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 05, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202407MT

FBN 20240006971
The following person is doing business as: CABANA BOY POOL SVCS. 1670 WEST ARROW ROUTE APT #173 UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1670 WEST ARROW ROUTE APT #173 UPLAND, CA 91786];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SERGIO A ROJAS PUENTES
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/ SERGIO A ROJAS PUENTES, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 05, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202408MT

FBN 20240007206
The following person is doing business as: READYLEND MORTGAGE 580 W 33RD ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405;[ MAILING ADDRESS 580 W 33RD ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JEFFREY SANDEZ; LEONARDO CALDERA
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP.
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/ JEFFREY SANDEZ, PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 09, 2024
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
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 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024 CNBB32202409MT

FBN 20240005563
The following person is doing business as: MAN3 AUTO LLC. 1274 S WATERMAN AVE STE 121 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408;[ MAILING ADDRESS 411 SURREY CIR CORONA, CA 92879];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MAN3 AUTO LLC 411 SURREY CIR CORONA, CA 92879 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202359410314
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ MOHAMED ABULGHANI, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JUNE 20, 2024
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
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 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024, 07/12/2024 CNBB25202405MT CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240005410
The following person is doing business as: STOP 5 MARKET. 1505 ½ W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1505 ½ W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DFFM, INC. 1505 1/2 W 9TH STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 3748377
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
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/ DANI MHANA, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JUNE 11, 2024
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
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 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024, 07/12/2024 CNBB26202402MT CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240005372
The following person is doing business as: APUU MASONRY & TILE. 2873 N PERSHING AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2873 N PERSHING AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOSE SANCHEZ NEGRETE
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/ JOSE SANCHEZ NEGRETE, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JUNE 01, 2024
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
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 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024, 07/12/2024 CNBB26202403MT CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240000630
The following person is doing business as: JJ’S CLEANING. 1883 E VICTORIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1883 E VICTORIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JANETH A AVENDANO-RUBIO
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/ JANETH A AVENDANO-RUBIO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JANUARY 22, 2024
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
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 02/16/2024, 02/23/2024, 03/01/2024, 03/08/2024 CNBB7202405MT CORRECTION DATES 06/07/2024, 06/14/2024, 06/21/2024 & 06/28/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240002999
The following person is doing business as: EMPIRE LANDSCAPE & LAWNCARE. 1075 W 11TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1075 W 11TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411];
COUNTY OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO
VICTOR A MARQUEZ
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/ VICTOR A MARQUEZ
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: MARCH 26, 2024
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
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 03/29/2024, 04/05/2024, 04/12/2024, 04/19/2024 CNBB13202406MT CORRECTION DATES 06/07/2024, 06/14/2024, 06/21/2024 & 06/28/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240001522
The following person is doing business as: NEW FORM CREATIVE. 1350 ALDERWOOD LN MENTONE, CA 92359;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1350 ALDERWOOD LN MENTONE, CA 92359];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DARIO R PEREZ 1350 ALDERWOOD LN MENTONE, CA 92359; NICOLE A PEREZ 1350 ALDERWOOD LN MENTONE, CA 92359.
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE.
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/ DARIO R PEREZ, HUSBAND
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: FEBRUARY 16, 2024
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
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 03/01/2024, 03/08/2024, 03/15/2024, 03/22/2024 CNBB9202407MT CORRECTION DATES 04/19/2024, 04/26/2024, 05/03/2024, 05/10/2024 CORRECTION DATES 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024 & 07/12/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240000641
The following person is doing business as: MOBILE LIVE SCAN SOLUTIONS & NOTARY. 18224 DAMIANA LN SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1101 S MILLIKEN AVE STE E #10005 ONTARIO, CA 92407];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
WIGGINS EXPRESS LIVE SCAN LLC 18224 DAMIANA LN SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202358816175
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ KINISHIA L CLARK, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JANUARY 23, 2024
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
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 02/02/2024, 02/09/2024, 02/16/2024, 02/23/2024 CNBB5202408MT CORRECTION DATES 04/19/2024, 04/26/2024, 05/03/2024, 05/10/2024 CORRECTION DATES 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024 & 07/12/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024

FBN 20240007217
The following person is doing business as: M & M TIRE SHOP. 3292 N H ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405;[ MAILING ADDRESS 3292 N H ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MIGUEL DE LA LUZ ZAMORA; MARIA SANTOS GARCIA MINDIOLA.
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE.
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/ MIGUEL DE LA LUZ ZAMORA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 09, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202418MT

FBN 20240007535
The following person is doing business as: YEYO’S TIRES & SMOG. 607 W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410;[ MAILING ADDRESS 607 W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
YEYO’S LLC. 24564 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202253516472
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ VALERIA J ESPINOLA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 20, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202417MT

FBN 20240007652
The following person is doing business as: VANESSA CARE CONNECT. 12561 KUMQUAT PLACE CHINO, CA 91710;[ MAILING ADDRESS 12561 KUMQUAT PLACE CHINO, CA 91710];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
VANESSA CARE CONNECT, LLC 12561 KUMQUAT PLACE CHINO, CA 91710 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202462815447
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ RECECCA FERRER TRAN, SECRETARY
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202416NW

FBN 20240007510
The following person is doing business as: CONFLUX UNITED DISTRIBUTION. 6779 FLORENCE PLACE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701;[ MAILING ADDRESS 6779 FLORENCE PLACE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DEEPIKA CHOUDHARY
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 09, 2024
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/ DEEPIKA CHOUDHARY, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 19, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202415MT

FBN 20240007501
The following person is doing business as: THE BOOKMARK; BOOKMARK. 4975 APPLEWOOD AVENUE FONTANA, CA 92336;[ MAILING ADDRESS 4975 APPLEWOOD AVENUE FONTANA, CA 92336];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
NYLAH DAVIS
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 16, 2024
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/ NYLAH DAVIS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 19, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202414MT

FBN 20240007556
The following person is doing business as: TRAILER BY DESIGN. 10837 LAUREL STREET SUITE 200 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730;[ MAILING ADDRESS 10837 LAUREL STREET SUITE 200 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOYSKY GROUP 10837 LAUREL STREET SUITE 200 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA.
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 13, 2024
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/ ANN CHI YUEH, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 21, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202413MT

FBN 20240007589
The following person is doing business as: MAZZO VENDING COMPANY. 24573 HORST DR CRESTLINE, CA 92325;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 871 CRESTLINE, CA 92325];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MAZZO VENDING COMPANY LLC 24573 HORST DR CRESTLINE, CA 92325 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ AKIRA F ACCOMAZZO, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202412MT

FBN 20240007020
The following person is doing business as: GENEROUS BRANDS. 11655 JERSEY BLVD. RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11665 JERSEY BLVD. RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
EVOLUTION FRESH, INC. 11655 JERSEY BLVD RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 STATE OF INCORPORATION DELAWARE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 3289516
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAR 01, 2024
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/ MATTHEW AYRES, SECRETARY
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 06, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202411MT

FBN 20240007044
The following person is doing business as: BEAUTY STUDIO PLUS. 1651 WEST FOOTHILL BLVD SUITE D UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1651 WEST FOOTHILL BLVD SUITE D UPLAND, CA 91786];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
R & J GLOBAL MANAGEMENT, LLC 16969 SANDOVAL LANE FONTANA, CA 92336 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202114710331The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ ROBERT ACUNA JR, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 06, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202410MT

FBN 20240007272
The following person is doing business as: STAY READY CLOTHING. 3015 N MAYFIELD AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405;[ MAILING ADDRESS 3015 N MAYFIELD AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOSEPH G VILLA
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/ JOSEPH G VILLA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202409MT

FBN 20240007276
The following person is doing business as: THECINNAMAN. 11100 E FOURTH ST APT #B207 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11100 E FOURTH ST APT #B207 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 9173];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
THECINNAMAN LLC 10740 BROOKFIELD DR RIVERSIDE, CA 92505 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202461612962
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ KAMARI B. JACKSON, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202408MT

FBN 20240007350
The following person is doing business as: SALON LE FUR. 2850 FOOTHILL BLVD STE #400 RIALTO, CA 92376;[ MAILING ADDRESS 569 E CORNELL DR RIALTO, CA 92376];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SALON LE FUR L.L.C. 596 E CORNELL DR RIALTO, CA 92376 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202461711545
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ LAURA L IRROBALI, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202407MT

FBN 20240007356
The following person is doing business as: USA THREADING SALON. 2536 S GROVE AVE ONTARIO, CA 91761;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2536 S GROVE AVE ONTARIO, CA 91761];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SUKHJEET K GILL
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/ SUKHJEET K GILL, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202406MT

FBN 20240007320
The following person is doing business as: A-1 ELECTRICAL; A1 ELECTRICAL 1475 N MONTE VERDE AVE UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1475 N MONTE VERDE AVE UPLAND, CA 91786];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
RAMON PANDO JR
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: FEB 22, 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/ RAMON PANDO JR, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202405MT

FBN 20240007338
The following person is doing business as: TOUCHPOINT SOLUTIONS. 13247 FOOTHILL BLVD #2108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739;[ MAILING ADDRESS 13247 FOOTHILL BLVD #2108 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
GABRIELLE K WILSON
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/ GABRIELLE K WILSON, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 13, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202404MT

FBN 20240007221
The following person is doing business as: YUCCA VALLEY GO #397. 57200 29 PALMS HWY YUCCA VALLEY, CA 92284;[ MAILING ADDRESS ];500 BANTA CT IMPERIAL, CA 92251
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
J&M GROCERS 500 BANTA CT IMPERIAL CA 92251 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 4835894
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
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/ MARCO RIVERA SERRANO, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 09, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202403MT

FBN 20240007212
The following person is doing business as: SAMI’S IIII MARKET & LIQUOR. 61 E ARROW HWY UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 61 E ARROWY HWY UPLAND, CA 91786];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
BASEL SALHAB; FAYEK J SALHAB .
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP.
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/ BASEL SALHAB, PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 09, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202402MT

FBN 20240007405
The following person is doing business as: ADVENT CHURCH. 31862 YUCAIPA BLVD YUCAIPA, CA 92399;[ MAILING ADDRESS 31862 YUCAIPA BLVD YUCAIPA, CA 92399];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
KARI L LUORANEN
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/ KARI L LUORANEN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 14, 2024
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
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 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CNBB34202401MT

FBN 20240006635
The following person is doing business as: CASTANEDAS MEXICAN FOOD. 18790 VALLEY BLVD. STE F BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1090 3RD AVE STE #19 CHULA VISTA, CA 91911];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
A M CASTANEDA, INCORPORATED 1090 3RD AVE STE #19 CHULA VISTA, CA 91911 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 2649213
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 30, 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/ LIZBETH CASTANEDA, CFO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 23, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202404MT CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024

FBN 20240002617
The following person is doing business as: DL DENTAL CERAMICS. 164 W HOSPITALITY LN STE 14A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408;[ MAILING ADDRESS 164 W HOSPITALITY LN STE 14A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DAMON D LE 164 W HOSPITALITY LN STE 14A SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408.
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/ DAMON D LE, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: MARCH 15, 2024
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
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 03/22/2024, 03/29/2024, 04/05/2024, 04/12/2024 CNBB17202414MT CORRECTION DATES 04/26/2024, 05/03/2024, 05/10/2024, 05/17/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024

FBN 20240002343
The following person is doing business as: J & J TOWING 10417 CALABASH AVE FONTANA, CA 92337;[ MAILING ADDRESS 311 E CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92701];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
C & S TRUCKING LLC 2908 N MACY SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 201929710551
The business is conducted by: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MAY 05, 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/ JUAN LUIS GONZALEZ, MANAGER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: MARCH 08, 2024
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
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 04/26/2024, 05/03/2024, 05/10/2024, 05/17/2024 CNBB1720215SN CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024

FBN 20240003774
The following person is doing business as: JC SERVICES. 535 E NEVADA ST NUM 1 ONTARIO, CA 91761;[ MAILING ADDRESS 311 W CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92701];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JILBERTO CERVANTES 535 E NEVADA ST NUM 1 ONTARIO, CA 91761.
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/ JILBERTO CERVANTES, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: APRIL 18, 2024
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
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 04/26/2024, 05/03/2024, 05/10/2024, 05/17/2024 CNBB17202405CV CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024

FBN 20240005368
The following person is doing business as: MONARCA LAWN CARE. 16379 E PRESERVE LOOP UNIT 1903 CHINO, CA 91708;[ MAILING ADDRESS 311 W CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92701];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MARIA ALICIA GUTIERREZ TORRES 16379 E PRESERVE LOOP UNIT 1903 CHINO, CA 91708.
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/ MARIA ALICIA GUTIERREZ TORRES, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JUNE 10, 2024
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
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 06/21/2024, 06/28/2024, 07/05/2024, 07/12/2024 CNBB25202401CV CORRECTION DATES 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024, 08/23/2024 & 08/30/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024

FBN 20240007769
The following person is doing business as: COLE HOME. 6996 COLE AVE HIGHLAND, CA 92346;[ MAILING ADDRESS 6996 COLE AVE HIGHLAND, CA 92346];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ANGEL CARE ENTERPRISES, INC. 7231 BOULDER AVE #269 HIGHLAND, CA 92346 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOV 10, 2003
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/ JOSEPHINE SAXE, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 27, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202401MT

FBN 20240007590
The following person is doing business as: EL PARAISO SINALOENSE. 1498 N MOUNT VERNON AVE #A COLTON, CA 92324;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1498 N MOUNT VERNON AVE #A COLTON, CA 92324];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
EL PARAISO SINALOENSE LLC 1498 N MOUNT VERNON AVE #A COLTON, CA 92324 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202463112806
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ BRENDA G. MEZA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202402MT

FBN 20240007660
The following person is doing business as: BP CAD. 2130 N ARROWHEAD AVE UNIT 205B-9 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 9801 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92427];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
BLUE POINT CAD, LLC 2130 N ARROWHEAD AVE UNIT 205B-9 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION 202357716579
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
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/ JOSUE C HERNANDEZ, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202403MT

FBN 20240007697
The following person is doing business as: GAMES4US. 144 RIVERSIDE AVE RIALTO, CA 92376;[ MAILING ADDRESS 7715 ELM ST HIGHLAND, CA 92410];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ERICK A HORTA
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/ ERICK A HORTA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 26, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202404MT

FBN 20240007645
The following person is doing business as: JBS NURSERY. 11205 SPRUCE AVE BLOOMINGTING, CA 92316;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11205 SPRUCE AVE BLOOMINGTING, CA 92316];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JOSE A SUAREZ
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 21, 2017
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/ JOSE A SUAREZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202405MT

FBN 20240007634
The following person is doing business as: SANMIR ENTERPRISES. 11090 MOUNTAIN VIEW DR 44 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11090 MOUNTAIN VIEW DR 44 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
VIRGINIA MIRANDA MIRANDA
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 22, 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/ VIRGINIA MIRANDA MIRANDA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 22, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202406MT

FBN 20240007708
The following person is doing business as: CALIFORNIA HARD MONEY LENDER. 8608 UTICA AVE STE 220MM RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 7614 REDLANDS, CA 92375];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
SUSAN E FUENTES
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/ SUSAN E. FUENTES
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 26, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202407MT

FBN 20240007706
The following person is doing business as: IZZY’S GRANITE. 968 W 9TH ST UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 968 W 9TH ST UPLAND, CA 91786];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ISRAEL CORONA
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUN 30, 2009
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/ ISRAEL CORONA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 26, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202408MT

FBN 20240007692
The following person is doing business as: URCARE. 35612 BARTON ROAD /316 LOMA LINDA, CA 92354;[ MAILING ADDRESS 35612 BARTON ROAD /316 LOMA LINDA, CA 92354];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
URCARE LTD. LIABILITY CO. 35612 BARTON ROAD /316 LOMA LINDA, CA 92354 STATE OF ORGANIZATION CA
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: AUG 19, 2024
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/ EDNA Q MEDES, MANAGER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 26, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202409MT

FBN 20240007755
The following person is doing business as: PRINTED T-SHIRTS AND ACC.. 17565 VALLEY BLVD BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2857 NORTH DAVIDSON AVENUE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
LUIS M HERRERA
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/ LUIS M HERRERA, SELF PROPRIETOR
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: AUGUST 27, 2024
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
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 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024 CNBB35202410MT

FBN 20240006635
The following person is doing business as: CASTANEDAS MEXICAN FOOD. 18790 VALLEY BLVD. STE F BLOOMINGTON, CA 92316;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1090 3RD AVE STE #19 CHULA VISTA, CA 91911];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
A M CASTANEDA, INCORPORATED 1090 3RD AVE STE #19 CHULA VISTA, CA 91911 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 2649213
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: APR 30, 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/ LIZBETH CASTANEDA, CFO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 23, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202404MT CORRECTION DATES 08/23/2024, 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024 CORRECTION DATES 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

FBN 20240006679
The following person is doing business as: RAINBOW GUEST HOME; RAINBOW GUEST HOME II. 11205 DAYLILLY STREET FONTANA, CA 92337;[ MAILING ADDRESS 11205 DAYLILLY STREET FONTANA, CA 92337];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
MARIO P. MENCIAS
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUL 05, 2002
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/ MARIO P. MENCIAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 24, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202402MT CORRECTION DATES 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

FBN 20240006586
The following person is doing business as: ANGELUS OAKS REALTY. 5961 LAKE DR. ANGELUS OAKS, CA 92305;[ MAILING ADDRESS PO BOX 91 ANGELUS OAKS, CA 92305];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ALIRAM INC 5961 LAKE DR ANGELUS OAKS, CA 92305 STATE OF INCORPORATION CA ARTICELS OF INCORPORATION 6308763
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JULY 22, 2024
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/ RAMON ACERETO, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 22, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202406MT CORRECTION DATES 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

FBN 20240006568
The following person is doing business as: BIRRIERIA FIGUEROA. 2990 DEL ROSA AVE STE F SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2990 DEL ROSA AVE STE F SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
JUAN C. FIGUEROA
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JUL 19, 2024
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/ JUAN C. FIGUEROA
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 19, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202407MT CORRECTION DATES 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

FBN 20240006436
The following person is doing business as: E M M TRANSPORT. 17425 ARROW BLVD APT #23 FONTANA, CA 92335;[ MAILING ADDRESS 17425 ARROW BLVD APT #23 FONTANA, CA 92335];
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
ENRIQUE MUNOZ
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/ ENRIQUE MUNOZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: JULY 15, 2024
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
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 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024, 08/09/2024, 08/16/2024 CNBB30202408MT CORRECTION DATES 08/30/2024, 09/06/2024, 09/13/2024, 09/20/2024

Sensitive data, extending to credit card information and other customer account identifiers on some 49,000 individuals and business entities has fallen into the possession of cyberpirates who successfully hacked into the Cucamonga County Water District’s computer system.
The data compromise involved all of the district’s more than 49,000 paying customers who live, or have businesses located, within the district’s 47-square mile service area.
The FBI, the Sentinel is informed, is attempting to trace out the individual or individuals involved in the electronic purloining of the data.
-Mark Gutglueck