ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2520496
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: EDWARD JOSE ESTRADA filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: EDWARD JOSE ESTRADA to EDWARD JOE ESTRADA
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: 09/05/2025, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S 37
The 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 San Bernardino County Sentinel, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 07/23/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Shuai Zhou, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 25 and August 1, 8 & 15, 2025.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2520102
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: JANET ELIZABETH ZEDAN filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: NICHOLAS ANTHONY DELGADO to NICHOLAS ANTHONY ZEDAN-DELGADO
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: 09/08/2025, Time: 01:30 PM, Department: S 14
The 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 San Bernardino County Sentinel, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 07/21/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Gilberto Villegas, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 25 and August 1, 8 & 15, 2025.

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By Richard Hernandez
Characterizing the Donald Trump Administration’s effort to round up and deport those in the United States who are unregistered aliens from foreign countries as “extreme and overreaching,” senior California U.S. Senator Alex Padilla announced this week that he is introducing legislation that will transform a substantial number of those who have been in the country for over seven years into U.S. citizens.
If the measure Padilla is sponsoring is passed into law and overcomes what most assuredly will be a veto by President Donald Trump, approaching 96,000 of the 127,681 unregistered aliens in San Bernardino County would not only be provided with permanent residency status but have the opportunity to obtain full rights as U.S. citizens, including the ability to participate in the voting process.
On August 5, Padilla appeared on the CBS Late Show, which was being taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. Padilla decried the Donald Trump Administrations “Obsession with this massive deportation agenda,” which he characterized as being cruel and unpopular and involving indiscriminate enforcement unprecedented militarization, which he said came in response to overwhelmingly peaceful protests in Los Angeles.
According to Padilla, the administration’s anti-immigrant actions are stoking fear in communities across the county, most particularly in California. He told Colbert he was offering a better path forward under a program that would modernize the United States’ “outdated” immigration system, including his bill to update the existing immigrant registry statute and expand a pathway to permanent lawful residency for, in the words of his office, “millions of long-term U.S. residents.” Continue reading →

In a significant reversal of an unpopular 2022 move, Redlands city officials are lowering the speed limits along 55 stretches of city streets, effective in September.
City officials at all levels in Redlands, from the city council down through city management to various department heads that included the police chief, the fire chief and the head of the city’s public works division, sustained uniform black eyes when in the immediate aftermath of raising the speed limit on 45 spans of road throughout the 36.4-square mile city, a 16-year-old on a bicycle in close proximity to Moore Middle School ended up dead, after being run down by a car.
To duck their collective responsibility, Redlands officials, rather than rescind the speed limit increases, elected to wait “a decent interim” in an effort to save face, waiting until now, 32 months later, to restore the safer speed limits.
In accordance with California Vehicle Code and standards outlined in the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the Redlands public works division in early 2022 had an outside consultant initiate a traffic study that is generally required to be completed in most California municipalities every seven to fourteen years under the supervision of those cities’ engineering divisions.
Conceptually and in accordance with state standards, those surveys monitor the average speed of vehicles along specific spans of roadway, such that, corresponding to those speed averages, a determination of the appropriate speed limit along those roadways at those points is set. Although the average speed of cars measured during the survey period is not the sole criterion used in ascertaining the appropriate speed limit along a given span of roadway, the application of elements of the vehicle code, jurisprudence standards used in California traffic courts, case law and other considerations have resulted in those cited for exceeding the posted speed limit having their citations dismissed upon a demonstration that the posted speed is below the 85th percentile of the actual free-flow collective average speeds of vehicles measured passing along that particular corridor. Thus, a loose standard among traffic engineers and cities has evolved where cities use a standard of the 85th percentile of the average speed along a given road as the speed limit that is to be posted. Continue reading →

An effort to impose a 45-day moratorium on the planning, consideration, approval and construction of gas stations and car washes in Yucaipa while the planning division arrives at a new set of standards for such projects fell two votes short when the city council took up the matter at its last meeting in July.
According to a staff report dated July 28, 2025, prepared for that evening’s city council meeting by Fermin Preciado, Yucaipa’s director of development services and city engineer, and Benjamin Matlock, the deputy director of community development and city planner, “Within the city’s approximately 28 square mile jurisdiction, there are currently 14 fuel station facilities in operation and an additional four that have been entitled, three of which are under construction. In combination, a total of 18 fuel stations could be in operation in the near future. In addition, there are currently 10 existing carwash facilities, with two that are under construction. These car facilities include a mix of accessory washes to to a fuel station, several ‘full service’ carwashes, several express carwash tunnels, or coin operated washes. The City of Yucaipa has a current population of approximately 55,000 people, and a general plan buildout of approximately 80,000 people Due to the relatively high sales margins of these specific, uses, the City has seen a proliferation of these businesses.”
According to Preciado and Matlock, during discussion by city officials, “[I]t was recognized that the city has seen substantial growth with these two land uses, and that community members have expressed concern over the saturation of those uses. In addition, [the] council has recognized that the oversaturation of car washes in the city provides minimal economic benefit to the city or city residents, as that use results in low sales tax revenues, and does not hire a significant number of employees. The city council also recognized that the development of these saturated uses would result in the loss of commercially zoned land in prime areas of the community that could otherwise be developed to provide a significant benefit and revenue to the community “ Continue reading →

The disagreement over what constitutes free speech, which in Redlands has not really gone away or come close to being resolved, revived with pulsating intensity in recent weeks.
According to those who fly, have donned or in some manner embraced the progressive banner, the Redlands establishment is dominated by a coterie of close-minded, intolerant bigots and bullies who are muzzling anyone with whom they disagree or who hold views that register anywhere other than on the extreme right side of the political scale.
Meanwhile, those claiming to be conservatives point to the cancellation strategy used by the political left in Redlands to intimidate and silence anyone who does not sign on to the liberal agenda, asserting that those advocating for LBGTQ+ community are the new-age fascists.
For years, the educational system in California has trended leftward, as a Republican has not held the post of superintendent of public instruction in California since Max Rafferty in January 1971, while the California Teachers Association, which is closely associated with the Democratic Party, has come to play an ever more dominant role in education trends in California’s public schools.
This was no less of a reality in the Redlands Unified School District than anywhere else. That changed significantly with the election of Candy Olson and Jeannette Wilson, who came into office as the consequence of intensive electioneering assistance efforts by so-called conservative activists during the course of the 2024 election.
Remarkably, in the face of Olson’s and Wilson’s elections, more than a dozen of what has since been characterized as the community’s radical leftists, instead of reaching out to Board Member Michelle Rendler to see if she could be brought into an alignment with the board’s two progressives, Patty Hollohan and Melissa Ayala-Quintero, in a series of politically tone-deaf gyrations, pressed both personal and deliberative attacks, in some case using vulgar and pointed terms, against her. Continue reading →

The tentative contract agreement reached on Wednesday between Stater Bros and the United Food and Commercial Workers representing over 12,000 of the stores’ employees will benefit employees but result in an increase in the prices shoppers will pay at San Bernardino-based grocery chain’s supermarkets.
There has been agitation among grocery store workers in Southern California for months. Earlier this summer, there were threats of labor actions against Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions by the 45,000 employees with those companies throughout Southern California. On July 27, Stater Bros employees who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers voted to authorize a strike, after negotiations between Stater Bros and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 Stater Bros. Bargaining Committee, representing Stater Bros 12,000 workers, broke down, as issues relating to wages, benefits, working conditions, and job security had not been resolved.
The strike, though authorized, had not yet begun, while the union was seeking to organize consumer boycotts of certain State Bros. stores before the employee walkout. A back channel of communication between the bargaining committee and Bros. Stater Bros. Chief Executive Officer Peter Van Helden was maintained.
On August 6, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 reported a tentative agreement with Stater Bros had been reached and scheduled boycotts of stores set to start on August 7 were canceled.
The 26th largest grocery-store chain in the United States, Stater Bros. Is a San Bernardino County institution. The first of the markets was founded in Yucaipa in 1936 by Cleo and Leo Stater. The corporation has experienced steady growth, and was for more than four decades headquartered with its warehouse located in Colton. It has since shifted its base to San Bernardino, on the grounds of the now-shuttered Norton Air Force Base. The chain has expanded to 171 stores, with 51 of those in San Bernardino County. Those include one in Adelanto, two in Apple Valley, one in Barstow, one in Big Bear, one in Bloomington, three in Chino, one in Chino Hills, two in Colton, four in Fontana, one in Grand Terrace, three in Hesperia, three in Highland, one in Lake Arrowhead, one in Loma Linda, one in Montclair, one in Oak Glen, four in Ontario, one in Phelan, two in Rancho Cucamonga, three in Redlands, two in Rialto, five in San Bernardino, Two in Yucca Valley, one in Twentynine Palms, two in Upland, two in Victorville, one in Yucaipa and two in Yucca Valley. Continue reading →

Jon Monroe, on whom some in the Republican Party were pinning their future hopes, is departing San Bernardino County and the State of California altogether in the face of some recent fast-moving developments.
Monroe, who retired from the Chino Police Department in 2022, at that point immediately initiated his political career, running for the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees.
On the strength of his conservative, professional law enforcement, Republican Party and Christian fundamentalist associations and values, he picked up the endorsement of the Reverend Jack Hibbs. Hibbs, the pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has tremendous sway over the school district, over the past 19 years, he has actively sought to place members of his congregation on the district’s school board. Beginning in 2006, Calvary Hills congregants Sylvia Orozco, James Na, Andrew Cruz and Sonia Shaw have served on the board. In nine of the years, they constituted board majorities. With Hibbs’ endorsement, Monroe was elected in 2022, such that four of the district’s five board members – Na, Cruz, Shaw and Monroe – thereafter were in synchronicity with Hibbs’ call for the district to embody conservative Christian family values.
In the interim, the district has adopted a parental notification policy relating to informing parents if there children are assuming a gender identity different from the one assigned them at birth, adjust the district’s flag and banner policy such that the display of homosexual/gay pride flags and any others other than U.S., state, county, and military flags were banned from classrooms and school campuses and revised its library policy to exclude books with “sexually obscene,” pornographic or otherwise inappropriate content from schools’ bookshelves. Most recently, it has revived a previous effort which was successfully challenged in the courts to allow prayer in, first, the forum of school board meetings, and, second and ultimately, in classroom settings. Continue reading →