ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2428772
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner JUDITH LEE HOFMANN filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JUDITH LEE HOFMANN to JUDITH LEE HOFMANN WADE
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: NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S32
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 29, 2024 by
Alyssa Leber, Deputy Court Clerk
Attorney for Judith Lee Hofmann
Jennifer M. Daniel
220 Nordina St.
Redlands, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 792-9244 Fax No: (909) 235-4733
Email address: team@lawofficeofjenniferdaniel.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on October 11, 18 & 25 and November 1, 2024.

FBN 20240008979
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
C S M WATERWORK 12323 MEADOWLARK AVE OAK HILLS, CA 92344: ELAINA Y LEYVA
Business Mailing Address: 12323 MEADOWLARK AVE OAK HILLS, CA 92344
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/ ELAINA Y LEYVA, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 4, 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 J6638 Hesperia
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 October 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 2024.

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By Mark Gutglueck
BlueTrition Brands’ lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s order that the company discontinue the diversion of water out of Strawberry Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in August, must be heard in Riverside Federal Court, a federal judge ruled this week.
For more than 90 years, BlueTriton and its corporate predecessors, including Nestlé Waters of North America, Inc., Nestlé, Perrier, BCI-Arrowhead Drinking Water Company, Beatrice Foods, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles, Rheem, Arrowhead® Mountain Spring Water Company, California Consolidated Water, Arrowhead Water Corporation, Arrowhead Springs Corporation and Arrowhead Hot Springs Company, diverted water from Strawberry Creek and one of its tributaries located between the 5,200-foot and 5,600-foot elevation in the San Bernardino National Forest, using the water for their bottling operations. That diversion began in August 1930, originally involving water taken from a single “bedrock crevice” spring along Strawberry Creek at an elevation of 5,600 feet. Subsequently, in 1933 and 1934, California Consolidated Waters developed three springs using adits – horizontal borings – and then added 10 further horizontal borehole wells to tap spring water aquifers in the mountainside, thereupon transporting the forest spring water through a pipeline down the mountain, giving twenty percent to half of the water thus obtained to the Arrowhead Springs Hotel and then bottling and selling the rest, marketing it under various names, including Arrowhead, Puritas, Arrowhead and Puritas, Arrowhead Puritas, Arrowhead® Spring Water and Arrowhead® Mountain Spring Water among them.
Because a private entity cannot claim water rights on federal forest land that did not exist prior to the dedication of the forest as a national asset, the companies in question had to apply on a continuous basis for a water drafting permit to take the water, renewing it on an annual basis for a $524 fee.
While the Arrowhead Puritas Water Bottling operation was yet under BCI’s control in the mid-1980s, Arrowhead Puritas’s U.S. Forest Service-issued water drafting permit in Strawberry Canyon expired, and the BCI-Arrowhead® Drinking Water Company applied to extend the permit. In 1987, while that application was yet being processed, Perrier purchased the BCI-Arrowhead® Drinking Water Company.
The then-pending water extraction permit renewal required a U.S. Forest Service review of the water drafting arrangement and its environmental/ecological impact, which the U.S. Forest Service then did not have the immediately available resources to carry out. In a gesture of compromise, Perrier was allowed, pending the eventual Forest Service review, to continue to operate in Strawberry Canyon by simply continuing to pay the $524-per year fee to perpetuate the water extraction under the terms of the expired permit. In 1992, Nestlé acquired the Arrowhead brand from Perrier. Nestlé continued to pay the $524 annual fee without renewing the Strawberry Canyon operation permit, which at that time existed under the name of the “Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water Co,” one that was never listed legally in corporate filings, but which operated under Nestlé and then what became Nestlé Waters of North America, Inc. Continue reading →

Gigi Hanna is venturing into Yucaipa politics, she said, to spur the interest of the city’s residents in civic affairs and ensure that their opinions and perspectives are taken into consideration by the city’s leaders.
“I am committed to public participation in the government, and I have spent more than 30 years working to help link people to their elected leadership,” Hanna said. She did this, she told the Sentinel, “first, as a newspaper reporter, then in public agency communications, and as a city clerk – the citizens’ main connection to their government.”
Part of her involvement in government evolved from her roots. Her father was a firefighter whose specialized skills in fire science were in demand with different agencies, including ones inside and outside California and inside and outside the United States.
“I come from a public service-oriented family,” Hanna said. “The youngest of four children, I was born in Illinois, spent part of my childhood in Samoa and graduated from high school in Pasadena. I have an undergraduate degree in journalism and completed my master’s studies in communications from Cal State Fullerton. I spent the first 16 years of my professional life as a journalist, then transitioned into public agency publicity and government relations, working for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. I was appointed associate director of the Water Resources Institute at Cal State University San Bernardino, where I earned a master’s degree in public administration.”
At that point, she entered into the arena of elective office.
“I was the elected city clerk for the City of San Bernardino, taking office in 2012, just three months before the city entered into what was to become the longest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history,” she said. “It was a challenging time, one that saw budget cuts that took my office staff from 17 to 3, at the same time there was a ten-fold increase in public records requests. Despite that, our on-time fulfillment rate was better than both my predecessor and successor.” Continue reading →

A major factor in Yucaipa’s current political/governmental climate stems from what was unanticipated action by the city council majority barely two months after the last election.
On November 8, 2022 two newcomers were elected to the council. Matt Garner managed a narrow victory with 35.59 percent of the vote over Sherilyn Long and her 33.96 percent of the vote in the four-person District 1 council race which also involved third-place finisher Mark Taylor and Erik Sahakian, who came in fourth. In the District 2 contest, Chris Venable, with 62.11 percent, convincingly outdistanced Nena Dragoo, with 37.89 percent of the vote, to capture a seat at the council dais.
Both Garner’s and Venable’s victories had been set up by the decision of two longtime council members – David Avila in District 1 and Greg Bogh in District 2 – not to seek reelection that year.
Garner and Venable were sworn in during a largely ceremonial council meeting held on December 12, 2022. In Yucaipa, the mayor is not directly elected by the city’s voters. One of the handful of matters taken up by the newly installed council at that December 12 meeting was the council’s selection of which member would serve as mayor and which would be given the secondary honorific of mayor pro tem, what is essentially the vice mayor.
Justin Beaver, who had been in office only since 2020, was selected mayor. Councilman Bobby Duncan, who had been mayor in the past, was made mayor pro tem. With the December holiday season coming thereafter, the second council meeting for December 2022, which would have been held on December 26, was canceled.
On January 9, 2023, at what was the second public meeting of the newly composed city council and the first council meeting of the year, the vast majority of the Yucaipa community was blindsided when Garner joined with Mayor Beaver and Duncan in confronting City Manager Ray Casey during the closed session that precedes the open public session of council meetings. Beaver and Duncan informed Casey, who had originally been hired as Yucaipa’s city engineer in 2003 and was promoted to its top administrator in 2008, that if he did not tender his resignation immediately, he would be fired on the spot, as they had Garner’s vote to hand him a pink slip. With no better option available, Casey, reluctantly, resigned. Continue reading →

Fair Political Practices Commission Signs Off On Near
Record Local Fine Of Adelanto Councilman Ramos

After an interminable delay, the California Fair Political Practices Commission last month finalized the action it initiated against Adelanto City Councilman Daniel Ramos years ago, imposing on him one of the largest fines the watchdog agency has ever applied against a local politician.
In making its findings and assessing the penalty, the officials noted the length of time Ramos had allowed the case against him to go unresolved and his incalcitrance and repeated misrepresentations, the latter of which it was noted had required the expenditure of hundreds of hours of investigative work to fathom.
The case the California Fair Political Practices Commission brought against Ramos relates to a litany of reporting violations that were committed not just by the Committee to Elect Daniel Ramos Adelanto City Council 2020, which funded at least in part a campaign in which he was successful, but his Ramos for City Council 2018 committee, a separate entity that was related to his unsuccessful run six years ago for the Victorville City Council.
After more than five years of trying to get Ramos to acknowledge the gaps and flaws in his campaign finance report filings from his Victorville campaign and three years of seeking a similar sign of recognition from Ramos with regard to his Adelanto campaign, the Fair Political Practices Commission in May issued a default notice to Ramos and two individuals involved in his campaigns, Ricardo Ramos and Arley Arsineda, calling for the levying of a $57,500 fine on the councilman and/or his various campaign operations.
All told, it is estimated that Ramos collected and then spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $57,000 on both the 2018 and 2020 electoral efforts. An exact figure is not available because he has not filed the State Form 460 documents, the State Form 410 documents and other documents used to itemize donations to, expenditures from, loans to and from and nonmonetary contributions to, or in-kind payments relating to his electioneering efforts. Nor has he accurately delineated the bank accounts into which donations were deposited and from which expenditures were made. Continue reading →

The elections office in San Bernardino County, known as the registrar of voters, is allowing early voting to take place at five locations around its far-flung 20,105-square mile jurisdiction.
At present, county residents can vote at the registrar’s headquarters, located at 777 East Rialto Avenue in San Bernardino, Monday through Friday through November 4, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Voters can also cast ballots there on Saturday, November 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. On election day, November 5, the registrar’s office will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
There are to be four other early voting sites around the county beginning on October 29 and running until November 4 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the exception of Sunday, November 3.
The locations and addresses for the additional early voting sites are:
• The Apple Valley Recreation Center, 14955 Dale Evans Parkway, Apple Valley
• The Joshua Tree Community Center, 6171 Sunburst Street, Joshua Tree
• The Ontario Conference Center, 1947 East Convention Center Way, Ontario
• Victorville City Hall, 14343 Civic Drive, Victorville
“Early vote sites are ideal for voters to request and vote a replacement mail ballot prior to Election Day and avoid the lines of voters that may occur at polling places on election day,” said San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Stephenie Shea. “Choosing when to vote is up to you and we feel that it’s important to give voters the opportunity to cast their ballot when it’s most convenient for their schedules.”
Further information, including the locations where mail ballots can be dropped off, can be had by calling the registrar’s office at (909) 387-8300.

Nearly two years after Ontario residents approved Measure Q, raising sales tax in the city by one cent per dollar, and the same night that the Ontario City Council approved placing special assessments on 343 properties within the city limits, the mayor and three of the council’s four members voted Tuesday to give themselves a pay raise.
Already the highest remunerated city council in San Bernardino County, the quintet’s action taken October 22 was the second boost in pay the five have received in 18 months.
Prior to April 2023, four of the council members were receiving $1,884.50 per month and Mayor Paul Leon was provided with $4,761.08 per month. At that time, the council together bestowed upon themselves an increase to $2,405.13 monthly, equivalent to $28,861.56 per year. Since Leon is considered to be a council member as well, he received that increase along with the others, in addition to the stipend he is provided for serving as mayor. That moved him up to a yearly salary of $67,680.96, all told.
Recently, it was realized that under California’s Senate Bill 329, which went into effect just before the close of fiscal year 2022-23, council members in cities with populations exceeding 150,000 but less than a quarter of a million are eligible for an annual salary of $30,600 or $2,550 per month. Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
Slightly more than four years after Yucaipa’s voters soundly rejected Measure E, a one-cent sales tax override, city officials this year have returned with an identical proposal, once more calling upon the city’s residents to consent to increasing the tax they will pay on all goods, with the exception of food and medicine, purchased within the 28.3-square mile confines of the city.
There have been a number of developments in the city of 53,733 in the last four years, ones which compelled the current municipal leadership to press forth with the tax proposal, even though there is questionable prospect that the city’s residents have changed their attitudes toward City Hall and the officials who run it sufficiently to give this year’s initiative, which has been designated as Measure S, any significantly greater odds of passing than in the last go-round. Indeed, a good deal of what occurred, particularly in the last two years, has deepened the distrust many city residents feel toward their civic leaders.
Among those events were the voluntary departures of two of the city council’s long-serving members, Greg Bogh and David Avila, who both opted out of running for reelection in November 2022. That led to the voters installing two newcomers to the council, Matt Garner in the city’s First District and Chris Venable in the Second District. Thereupon, in short order, less than a month after the two newest city fathers were sworn in, a newly-formed ruling coalition on the council, consisting of Garner and Fourth and Third district council members Justin Beaver and Bobby Duncan, made its move. Beaver and Duncan, who had been selected by their colleagues in December 2022 to serve as mayor and mayor pro tem respectively, at the January 9, 2023 council meeting used the threat of a vote to fire Ray Casey, who had been city manager for nearly 15 years, to get him to agree to resign his managerial post during a closed-door executive session of the council.
There ensued outrage among a wide cross section of the city’s residents over Casey’s forced departure, leading to an ultimately unsuccessful effort supported by 193 Yucaipa residents to remove Beaver, Duncan and Garner from office. With chaos and unrest settling over City Hall, Chris Mann, the city manager with the City of Canyon Lake, whom the council had installed as Casey’s replacement, at once began work on preparing Yucaipa’s 2023-24 budget, which was to run from July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2024. Despite Mann’s best efforts, he was not able to conform the city’s planned spending for what was to be the upcoming fiscal year to an amount less than the projected revenue. Ultimately, to cover what was to be expended for city operations, referred to in governmental parlance as the general fund, Mann had to utilize all of the money coming into the city from sales tax, property tax, other money passed along to the city in what are called subventions, along with available grants and he still had $2 million less in revenue than he had in planned expenditures. To make the city’s books balance, he had to dig into the city’s reserves – the amount of money it had accumulated or saved since its 1989 founding – to plug that gap. Continue reading →