Despite a series of stunning victories in its cultural war with the State of California’s entrenched liberal political establishment, a committed core of conservative activists in Chino Valley yet face implacable opposition in the long twilight struggle to reestablish what they celebrate as traditional values in their educational system.
One of the more fascinating social and political phenomena at play in California at present first tangibly manifested in 2006, though it had been gestating prior to that, with the election of Sylvia Orozco to the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees.
Orozco was a harbinger of what was to come, as she was a parishioner of the Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Congregation. The pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills is Jack Hibbs, a denominationalist, who holds that Christians have a duty to stand up for their beliefs by either running for election to public office themselves or supporting other Christians who do run, and then, upon taking office, Christianize public policy. Hibbs was deceptively sophisticated in his approach, as he realized that political change of the type he envisioned would need to be effectuated gradually and without shock to the existing social order, and he exhibited the disciplined patience to execute his strategy. Rather than zooming to the top of political hierarchy and targeting offices such as governor, U.S. Senator, state legislators or city council members, he started at the low end of the political pecking order as well as within the area of his immediate reach, that being the school board. Continue reading →

The Fontana Planning Commission on August 4, 2026 approved the construction of a 108-townhome subdivision with a density of 16.12 units to the acre on property at the northwest corner of Baseline and Palmetto Avenues.
The project proponent was Monte Vista Homes, which has proven very aggressive in seeking from the City of Fontana entitlements to proceed with high density projects. In the subject case, the parcel on which the homes are to be built is 6.7 acres.
The planning blueprint under which the development is taking place – the Walnut Village Specific Plan – is 46 years old, having first been derived in 1980. Throughout that time, no serious proposals for the development of the 6.7 acres had been filed with the city’s planning division. In 2024, the city adopted an updated version of the specific plan which upped the permissible density on the property to a range of 12 to 24 units to the acre.
In 1980 in Fontana, the average number of units permissible under its then-extant specific plans were eight units to the acre. Continue reading →

Officers with the California Highway Patrol collared two suspects in the shooting death of a homeless man and the wounding of a homeless woman that occurred on Sunday, August 16. 5280
According to the San Bernardino Police Department, well into the midnight hour Sunday morning, there was audible gunfire in the area of the 210 Freeway and Del Rosa Avenue, some 1,500 feet or just over 0.28 of a mile from the campus of St. Thomas Aquinas High School and roughly 1,200 feet or almost 0.23 of a mile from an island of unincorporated county property surrounded by city property on San Bernardino’s northeast side.
After a call to its dispatch center reporting those shots came in, San Bernardino Police Department patrol units were dispatched to the scene, arriving at around 1 a.m.
Officers arrived at a homeless encampment on the south side of the freeway near Del Rosa Avenue, where they encountered a woman who had been shot and a man who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. The woman was transported to a hospital. The California Highway Patrol became involved in the investigation into the incident because the shooting apparently took place on state property. Continue reading →

A 92-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, was killed on Saturday, August 15, 2026 while he was operating a golf cart on Twentynine Palms Highway.
While the man’s name is known to authorities, as is his address in Yucca Valley, that information is yet being withheld as the Sentinel goes to press on Friday.
According to the sheriff’s department at 05:47 p.m., the San Bernardino County Sherrif’s Department responded to Twentynine Palms Highway and Mohave Trail in Yucca Valley to a report of a traffic collision.
According to the department, the man was severely injured when he drove the golf cart into oncoming traffic.
The speed limit on Twentynine Palms Highway, also known as State Route 62, at that point is 45 miles per hour. Moving vehicles at that point are potentially moving at rates reaching 50 to 55 miles per hour.
The man was transported to Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree and pronounced deceased at 8:02 p.m.

After the Chino Hills City Council voted on July 14, 2026 to place a one-cent per dollar sales tax override before their constituents on the November 3 ballot, there was no shortage of residents ready to make an argument opposing the measure.
One of those Chino Hills residents aggressively challenged City Hall, stating straight out that city employees are overpaid and that city residents should not be put into the position of subsidizing a bloated and profligate city workforce. Not surprisingly, city employees made a decision not to include that argument in the election materials to be considered by the city’s voters before they make their decision on whether to approve the tax increase.
If approved, the initiative, which has now been provided with the label “Measure J,” would raise the sales tax collected within the 44.7 square mile Chino Hills City Limits from its current 7.75 percent to 8.75 percent. In California, the state levies a 6 percent sales tax. Local governments are at liberty to ask their residents to voluntarily burden themselves with a levy beyond that tacked onto the cost of goods purchased within their jurisdictions. Continue reading →

FBN20260006907
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
RIZO TECH REFRIGERATION 6327 OPAL ST RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: SALVADOR RIZO
Business Mailing Address: 6327 OPAL ST RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 2026.
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 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ SALVADOR RIZO, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/24/2026
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 K7325
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 31 and August 7, 14 & 21, 2026.

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The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
INFERNAL COFFEE 13495 QUAIL CT FONTANA, CA 92336: ANTHONY D HERNANDEZ [and] ADRIAN R HERNANDEZ
Business Mailing Address: 13495 QUAIL CT FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: COPARTNERS.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: August 31, 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 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ ANTHONY D HERNANDEZ, General Partner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 07/09/2026
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 F3010
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 31 and August 7, 14 & 21, 2026.

FBN20260005152
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
DJ MOTORS LLC 12520 RECHE CANYON COLTON, CA 92324: DJ MOTORS LLC 12520 RECHE CANYON COLTON, CA 92324
Business Mailing Address: 2097 E WASHINGTON ST STE 1E PMB 309
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered under the number B20260247559.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 26, 2026.
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 17913). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ DIEGO A MACEDO CAMACHO, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/03/2026
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 July 17, 24, 31 and August 7, 2026.

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By Mark Gutglueck
(ONTARIO–August 11) An attorney for Carol Plowman, a senior vice president and founding principal of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services in Ontario, this week characterized as “categorically false” reports linking her to an effort by Alan Wapner, the president of the Ontario International Airport Authority Board of Directors, to force airport staff to undertake the sale of 198 acres of airport property to a consortium consisting of Lee & Associates and Sares Regis at a price far below the actual market price of that land.
“Ms. Plowman did not participate in the proposed acquisition of the airport property, provide campaign funds in exchange for governmental action or any business benefit, or enter into any bribe, payoff, or quid pro quo with Wapner or any other public official,” Theodore Stream, of the law firm Stream Kim Hicks Wrage & Alfaro, which represents Plowman told the Sentinel in a letter dated August 11.
The letter was precipitated by the Sentinel’s July 28 coverage of developments in the FBI’s nine-year ongoing investigation into activity involving the Ontario International Airport Authority that had taken place that day in the form of FBI and other federal agents serving search warrants at the homes and offices of Wapner, who in addition to being the president of the airport authority is also an Ontario city councilman; San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor Curt Hagman, who is also a board member with the airport authority; Frank Lizarraga, a one-time Ontario planning commissioner who is Wapner’s personal attorney; James Su, the owner of EDI Media; the business office of Andy Sehrmelis, a major campaign donor to Wapner, Hagman and other local elected officeholders; and at a mansion in the 600 block of North Canon Drive of Beverly Hills. The day of those raids, the FBI also served subpoenas for the production of documents at Ontario City Hall and the administrative offices of the Ontario International Airport and the Ontario International Airport authority.
Stream’s registering of objections with the July 28 article, which ran in the July 31 edition of the Sentinel, extended to a passage within it that chronicled the experiences of Kelly Fredericks, who served as the first executive director of the airport authority and manager of the airport following the transference of ownership and management of the airport to the City of Ontario/the Ontario International Airport Authority from the City of Los Angeles in 2016, and Mark Thorpe, who succeeded Fredericks as the airport authority’s executive director in 2017. The Sentinel article cataloged how Wapner, shortly after the local takeover of the airport, began pressuring Fredericks to inventory airport property to ascertain what parcels might be classified as “surplus,” and be sold off to interested buyers. The article related how Fredericks was reluctant to have the airport/airport authority divest itself of property, even it was not at that time being put to aviation-related use, in that it might be later needed for operational expansion, and described how Fredericks’ resistance to Wapner’s demands ultimately resulted in his being pushed out of the executive director/airport managerial role by the board, essentially at Wapner’s insistence. Continue reading →

Next Tuesday, it is anticipated that the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will come through with a final $11 million installment to allow the City of San Bernardino to proceed with the San Bernardino Hope Campus.
The navigation center is intended to serve as an effective remedy to the unending proliferation of homelessness in and around the county seat.
Considerable effort and tens of millions of governmental dollars have gone into continuous but most uncoordinated homeless relief efforts locally. While a few of those have proven effective, there has been extensive criticism of those efforts overall, which their critics have blasted as vehicles for the diversion of funds into the pockets of individuals exploiting an unregulated system.
San Bernardino municipal officials say they are committed to finding a real solution to the challenge of homelessness in their city, which is more acute than it is anywhere else in the county. They say that if entrusted with funding, they will not squander it and the programs they will put in place will consist of tangible buildings in which people will be able to reside and not have to be on the streets.
In February 2023 the San Bernardino mayor and city council declared homelessness a local emergency and three months later announced plans to create the 200-bed San Bernardino Hope Campus on the site of the former School of Hope, formerly an educations center for special needs students located at 796 East 6th Street in San Bernardino that had closed down in 2022 and had been purchased by the city.
The city forthrightly pursued tapping into various forms of revenue to complete the project and fund its operations, including seeking state and federal grants, some which entailed matching funds to be put up by the city. This activity was carried out, despite substantial chaos in the city at the administrative level because of the November 2022 resignation of former City Manager Robert Field in the aftermath of Mayor Helen Tran’s election earlier that month and the city’s seeming inability to land a permanent city manager replacement. Continue reading →

(ONTARIO–August 12) Electing to jump rather than being shoved, Ontario City Councilman is resigning all of his appointive assignments growing out of his status as a city councilman. That will include his beloved position[s] as both a member of the Ontario International Airport Authority Board of Directors and that panel’s president. He will also walk away from his membership, as the City of Ontario’s representative, on the board of directors of Omnitrans, which oversees local rapid transit operations consisting essentially of bus lines and of which he is the current president; the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, of which he was formerly the president; the San Bernardino County Council of Governments, of which he was formerly the president; the Southern California Association of Governments, of which he was a past president; the National Association of Regional Councils; the California Association of Councils of Government.
He dropped his letter of resignation off at the Ontario City Clerk’s Office unsigned on Tuesday, saying he would return on Friday, August 14, to sign it and make it official and binding. Thus, at present, he retains his status as a member of all of the boards, commissions, committees and governmental adjunct positions conferred upon him, most of which came as the result of a voted by the city council, of which he remains a member.
The crisis which has forced the resignations materialized on July 28, when the FBI served search warrants at Wapner’s home, the home and office of San Bernardino County Fourth District Supervisor Curt Hagman, who is also a board member with the airport authority; Frank Lizarraga, a one-time Ontario planning commissioner who is Wapner’s personal attorney; James Su, the owner of EDI Media; the business office of Andy Sehrmelis, a major campaign donor to Wapner, Hagman and other local elected officeholders; and at a mansion in the 600 block of North Canon Drive of Beverly Hills. The day of those raids, the FBI also served subpoenas for the production of documents at Ontario City Hall and the administrative offices of the Ontario International Airport and the Ontario International Airport Authority. Continue reading →