The 2022 election cycle brought about a fair number of changes in the local political landscape in San Bernardino County.
Generally, an advantage accrues to incumbents in political races, such that most officeholders who seek to remain in office do so. In most cases, the name recognition and positive name identification an incumbent has, combined with the fundraising capability that naturally falls to someone who holds a decision-making position that will impact local businesses gives a member of the political establishment a leg up over challengers. Such donations infuse a candidate’s electioneering war chest, and if a candidate’s team spends that money judiciously and skillfully on polling, billboards, campaign signs, handbills, mailers, radio and television spots and newspaper advertising, he or she can be hard to beat by a challenger who does not have such means at his or her disposal. Continue reading →

Whether Winn Williams is a conscientious public servant who has been unfairly persecuted by his fellow elected officeholders or is an egocentric blowhard with a contrary attitude who has consistently prevented his colleagues from ensuring that the public interest is properly attended to, people won’t have him to kick around for at least another two years.
Williams, a former firefighter and an incumbent Chino Valley Fire District board member, in November vied for reelection to that post and also ran for a board position on the Inland Empire Utilities Agency.
He came up short in both contests.
Williams over five decades has singularized himself within the Chino Valley in association with the Chino Valley Fire District in both positive and negative ways. Continue reading →

He is in a tavern in Damascus and as he is about to take a draught he looks up and sees Death sitting at a table across the room, regarding him. He cries out, ‘No. It is not my time. It cannot be.’ He sets his glass down and flees from the tavern at once.
He mounts his steed and rides, rides like the devil himself, out into the desert in the direction of Samara.
The sun and the sand are unrelenting. He presses on. The desert is endless, as if he has inserted himself and the beast he is upon into an eternal channel of desolation. Continue reading →

The Justice Department announced today it has secured a settlement agreement with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to resolve the department’s investigation into the district’s educational program for English learners.
The department investigation, conducted jointly by the United States Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, concluded that the district was not providing English learners with the necessary services and supports to become fluent in English, or to meaningfully participate in core content classes like math, science or social studies.
The district has agreed to improve its services so that English learners have access to the same crucial educational opportunities as their peers. Continue reading →

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NOTICE
FBN 20220010440
The following person(s) is(are) doing business in SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY as:
BRIGHT SPOT HOME SOLUTIONS
[and]
LEGACY 1 HOLDINGS
9375 ARCHIBALD AVE SUITE 110 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: C & R INVESTMENT GROUP 11812 SILVER LOOP MIRA LOMA, CA 91752
Mailing Address: 11812 SILVER LOOP MIRA LOMA, CA 91752
Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California as 4673871
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ AMANDA MEZA, Chief Executive Officer
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of SAN BERNARDINO on: 11/10/2022
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: November 1, 2022.
County Clerk, G8420
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 11/25, 12/02, 12/09 & 12/16, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NOTICE
FBN 20220010691
The following person(s) is(are) doing business in SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY as:
VINCIMUS PERFUME 6658 MONTRESOR PLACE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737: JOSE G RAIMONDO 6658 MONTRESOR PLACE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737
Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JOSE G RAIMONDO, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of SAN BERNARDINO on: 11/21/2022
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: October 31, 2022.
County Clerk, J2108
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 11/25, 12/02, 12/09 & 12/16, 2022.

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San Bernardino County’s dispossessed appear to be in for a rough go of it this winter of 2022-23, which is likely to be colder than 2021-22, if the weather and storm patterns of November and early December are an accurate indication.
Moreover, a significant factor with regard to the region’s homeless is that San Bernardino County’s current sheriff, Shannon Dicus, appears to be every bit as indulgent of the more sadistic element of his department’s deputies who have been given license to persuade those who are living on the streets, beneath railroad trestles, in the nooks and crannies of freeway overpasses, beneath bridges and along the banks of the Mojave and Santa Ana rivers to simply move along.
Under the guise of “helping” the homeless in Barstow, Cajon, Chino Hills, Loma Linda, Ludlow, Mentone, Muscoy, Victorville, Yucaipa and other locations over the past two weeks, sheriff’s officers have gone into homeless encampments and shanty towns, insisting that layers of cardboard used as insulation from the ground as well as blankets, bedding, sleeping bags and tents which those who are destitute use to make it through the night are declared, in their words, “debris,” and discarded. Continue reading →

The Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree has been designated as a level IV trauma facility.
At its November 15 meeting, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approved a $25,000 annual contract between the Hi-Desert Medical Center and Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency, conferring the level IV designation, the lowest level of trauma center licensing, on the hospital.
The designation allows Hi-Desert Medical Center staff to evaluate injured patients and initiate treatment if in their professional judgment the care needed falls within the medical center’s capability. In most cases, patients will require a greater degree of treatment than Hi-Desert Medical Center can provide, and the subjects will be transferred to a higher-level trauma center.
The designation allows doctors to stabilize patients before they are transported to a larger hospital.
The Hi-Desert Medical Center is the most comprehensive medical care venue in the neck of the woods involving Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley and the Morongo Basin. Continue reading →