The Hesperia City Council on October 19 gave initial approval to an ordinance that imposes several hundred dollar licensing fees on businesses selling cigarettes and other tobacco products.
“Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States,” the staff report on the ordinance, written by Assistant City Manager Rachel Molina and Management Analyst Jamie Carone and provided to the city council by City Manager Nils Bentsen, stated. “Tobacco use is responsible for the premature death of more than 480,000 people each year and typically begins during adolescence. Youth often fall victim to deceptive and clever advertising created by tobacco companies.”
The council heard from people who said that smoking and tobacco use in general is unhealthful and that smoke shops have been and are continuing to sell their products to minors.
That was affirmed by Councilman Larry Bird, who is the principal at Sultana High School. He said vaping by students was widespread on campus.
The ordinance bans the advertising of candy flavored tobacco products or ones packaged to appeal to children, and prohibits the sale of single cigarettes and cigars or sales via coupon discounts intended to lure in children.
In addition to the tobacco sales licenses, such purveyors are also required to secure normal business licenses.
The pricing schedule on the licenses was somewhat confusing, with different types or levels of permits specified in the report, the distinctions between which are unclear.
“The cost for a tobacco retail license will be $210.00,” the staff report states. “A combination license fee will be available for retailers who fall under the city’s deemed approved program. The cost of this license will be $485. This fee is comprised of the deemed approved fee of $325 plus an additional $160 to cover the costs of the additional code enforcement inspections upon license application and throughout the year. If necessary, a reinspection fee may be charged for an additional $60 for each inspection.”
The report did not explain the difference between a retail license and a combination license, nor elaborate on what the deemed approved program is or the benefits or advantages it offers retailers.
The report, however, did spell out the consequences of not securing a license or of being caught selling tobacco or tobacco products to minors.
A violation of any existing state or federal law will constitute a violation of the tobacco retail license. Violations will trigger a suspension of the city license. Without a city license, retailers cannot sell tobacco or tobacco products in Hesperia at all.
City attorney Eric Dunn indicated that the possession of a tobacco sales license would not serve as a loophole to allow for the sale of marijuana or cannabis products.

By Gail Fry & Mark Gutglueck
An advisory issued by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department on Thursday, October 28 stated that the human remains located on October 9, 2021 in an area described as “open desert” in Yucca Valley have been confirmed as those of Lauren Cho, who went missing four months ago.
“The San Bernardino County Coroner’s Division has positively identified the human remains to be Lauren Cho, 30-year-old resident of New Jersey,” the advisory states. “The cause and manner of death is pending toxicology results. No further information will be released on this case until such time toxicology results are available and new information is discovered as a result.”
An individual close to the search and investigation told the Sentinel it appears there was no foul play involved, and that Cho perished after she ill-advisedly walked off into the desert alone on a summer afternoon with very bright, indeed blinding, sun and temperatures in excess of 100 degrees. She did not have with her any water or her cell phone, and it appears she became disoriented and could not find her way back to where she was staying or a less unforgiving location.
According to information provided by the sheriff’s department on October 10, the previous day, October 9, 2021, “unidentified human remains were located in the rugged terrain of the open desert of Yucca Valley.”
Cho, a musical, visual and vegetarian culinary artist who withdrew from her position as a music teacher in New Jersey early this year to go on a road trip with her boyfriend, Cody Orell, had visited several artists’ communities before alighting at the bed & breakfast inn dubbed “The Whole” owned by filmmaker/musician Tao Ruspoli, located in the 8600 block of Benmar Trail just outside the westerly Yucca Valley town limits. Cho and Orell had obtained a decommissioned school bus which they were working to transform into a mobile diner, from which Cho was hoping to feature meals to customers while continuing to travel up and down the Pacific Coast. They were engaged in the makeover of the bus while staying on the grounds of the Whole.
Based upon information available to the Sentinel from a variety of official and unofficial sources, Cho, who was in a state of mental/emotional agitation, at around 2 p.m. in the afternoon of June 28, 2021, wearing casual attire and Doc Martens hiking boots, headed off from the Whole into the desert generally in the direction of Hoopa Road and the hilly terrain separating Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley. When after three hours she had not returned, Orell phoned the sheriff’s office around 5:10 p.m., after which a search for Cho was initiated but proved unsuccessful.
The sheriff’s department’s nomenclature for the Cho matter bears the case numbers 092101115 and H#2021-114.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2125667
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  BRIAN GAZCON GUTIERREZ  filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
BRIAN GAZCON GUTIERREZ to  BRIAN GAZCON
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 16, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM
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.
Dated: 9/8/2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/08, 10/15, 10/22 & 10/29, 2021.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2122384
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  ALEXIS NOUR KHALAF filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
ALEXIS NOUR KHALAF to  ALEXIS NOUR BOCANEGRA
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 4, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM
Department: S16
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.
Dated: 9/21/2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/08, 10/15, 10/22 & 10/29, 2021.

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
[Probate Code Sec. 103OO]
Case No.: PROPS2100264
In Re: THE ESTATE OF FRED EDWARD CARLSON
Notice is given that Lilian Black and Ruth Dysart, as Personal Representatives of the
Estate of Fred Edward Carlson will set at private sale subject to confirmation by the Superior Court of San Bernardino, on or after November 10, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. at Superior Court of San Bernardino 247 W. Third Street, San Bernardino CA, Department S36P, the following real property of the Estate: 406 N. 6th Avenue, Upland, CA 91786.
The terms and conditions of sale are: All cash, the amount of the sale is $510,000.00. The required amount of the first overbid is $526,500.00. At least ten percent (l0%) of the amount bid must be paid with the offer, and the balance must be paid on close of escrow after confirmation of sale by the Court. Bids or offers for this property must be made to the Court at the time and date shown above.
The sale is subject to confirmation of the Court.
A hearing on the petition will be held NOVEMBER 10, 2021 2021 at 9:30 a.m. in Dept. No. S36 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
S/ / Lilian Black, Personal Representative
S/ Ruth Dysart, Personal Representative
S/ James Lee, Esquire, Attorney for Lilian Black and Ruth Dysart
Dated: October 7, 2021
James Lee, Esq. SBN: 110838
LA W OFFICE OF MARC E. GROSSMAN
100 N. Euclid Avenue
Second Floor
Upland, CA 91786
Jim@wefight4you.com
Tel: (909)608-7426
Fax: (909)949-0119
Attorney for Lilian Black and Ruth Dysart
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/08, 10/15, 10/22 & 10/29, 2021.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GAUDELIA OCHOA aka BLANCA OCHOA
CASE NO. PROSB2100545
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of GAUDELIA OCHOA aka BLANCA OCHOA :
A Petition for Probate has been filed by JACOB WAYNE STAHL in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO,
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JACOB WAYNE STAHL 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 OCTOBER 26, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Dept. No. S36 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
August 25, 2021
Selyna Razo, Deputy
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 25, 2021
Attorney for Jacob Wayne Stahl
R. SAM PRICE SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
300 E STATE STREET SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
(909) 328 7000
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel September 10, 17 & 24, 2021.

FBN 20210010241
The following person is doing business as: FILM AND FLORALS 8246 KINLOCK AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 BRIGITTE N SUMMERS 8246 KINLOCK AVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/04/2021
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/ BRIGITTE N SUMMERS
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/06/2021
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 I1327
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 10/08, 10/15, 10/22 & 10/29, 2021.

FBN 20210010330
The following person is doing business as: CAFE WANG 2316 D ST LA VERNE, CA 91750 F W MINGLI, INC. 2316 D ST LA VERNE, CA 91750
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The state of incorporation is California. Registration Number: C3620494
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/01/2016
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/ FANG WANG
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/08/2021
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 I5199
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 10/08, 10/15, 10/22 & 10/29, 2021.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
Marina Eugenia Polanco
Case NO. ProsB2100620
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Marina Eugenia Polanco
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Pamela A. Hernandez in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Pamela A. Hernandez 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. S36 at 9:00 a.m. on 21-Oct-21 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, 247 West 3rd St. San Bernardino, CA 92415-0212, San Bernardino District – Probate
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 Petitioner:
Cicely T. Ray
4740 Green River, Suite 314
Corona, CA 92880
Telephone No: 951-735-2488
Published in the San Bernardino Sentinel on:
10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2122384
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  Alexis Nour Khalaf filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Alexis Nour Khalaf to Alexis Nour Bocanegra
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: 11/4/2021
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S16
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.
Dated: 9/21/2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/14/2021, 10/21/2021, 10/28/2021, 11/4/2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
ANTON TONI KUDJER, JR.
NO. PROSB 2100751
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ANTON TONI KUDJER, JR.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PATRICIA JEAN KUDJER in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PATRICIA JEAN KUDJER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedents wills 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.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S35 at 9 a.m. on NOVEMBER 9, 2021 at Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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: SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Jennifer Saldana, Court Deputy Clerk
Attorney for Patricia Jean Kudjer:
Jennifer 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 October 15, 22 & 29, 2021

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ VILLALPANDO aka RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ, CASE NO. PROPS 2000851
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ VILLALPANDO aka RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ, and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ, JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO, requesting that RAMIRO RODRIGUEZ, JR. be appointed administrator to administer the estate of the decedent.
The petition requests that 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.
The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. S35 at SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT – PROBATE DIVISION 247 W. 3rd STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 on November 9, 2021 at 09:00 AM
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 deceased, 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 subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code.
Filed: July 23, 3021
Sabrina Felix, Deputy
Attorney for the Petitioner: MARY M. BADER 9227 HAVEN AVENUE, SUITE 368 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 Telephone: (909) 945-2775 Fax: (909) 945-2778
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/`15, 10/22, 10/29, 2021.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2126021
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: NAOMI RUTH DANIEL filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
NAOMI RUTH DANIEL to RUTH NAOMI DANIEL
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: 11/22/21
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S16
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.
Dated: September 9, 2021
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 & 11/5, 2021

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB2126022
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: CHRISTINA MARIA PICAR CANIO filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
CHRISTINA MARIA PICAR CANIO to CHRISTINA MARIA PICAR TAN
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: 11/23/2021
Time: 9:00 AM
Department: S16
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.
Dated: 9/9/2021
John M. Pacheco
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/22, 10/29, 11/05 & 11/12, 2021
FBN 20210010365
The following person is doing business as: GUZMAN DESIGN BUILD 1027 W JACARANDA ST ONTARIO, CA 91762 JONATHAN GUZMAN 1027 W JACARANDA 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: 10/01/2021
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/ JONATHAN GUZMAN
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/12/2021
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 I5199
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 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 & 11/05, 2021.

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) CVMV2028105
NOTICE TO CAROLYN ZHU
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons is served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entreque una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulano que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corta le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conace a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de referencia a abogados. Si no peude pagar a un a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratu de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendoso en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación da $10,000 o mas de vaior recibida mediante un aceurdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corta antes de que la corta pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West 3rd St, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0212, Branch Name: San Bernardino Justice Center
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demendante que no tiene abogado, es):
MORANI STELMACH, Esq., (State Bar No. 296670)
SILVERMAN THEOLOGOU, LLP
11630 CHAYOTE STREET, SUITE 3, LOS ANGELES, CA 90049  213-226-6922
DATE (Fecha): 12/3/2020
Clerk (Secretario), by Melissa Perez
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 10/22, 10/29, 11/05 & 11/12, 2021
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JON OLIVER MANSFIELD aka JON O. MANSFIELD aka JON MANSFIELD
Case No. PROSB2100801
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JON OLIVER MANSFIELD aka JON O. MANSFIELD aka JON MANSFIELD
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Margo Quinn in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Margo Quinn 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 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 on Dec. 1, 2021 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. S35 located at 247 W. Third St., San Bernardino, CA 92415.
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 petitioner:
JACK B OSBORN ESQ
SBN 230447
BROWN WHITE & OSBORN LLP
300 E STATE STREET
STE 300
REDLANDS CA 92373

FBN 20210010528
The following entity is doing business as: AT THE RIDGE RETREAT 33159 HOLCOMB CREEK DR GREEN VALLEY LAKE, CA 92341: RYAN M MCCARTY 1378 WATSON AVE. COSTA MESA, CA 92626 [and] KAITLYN J MCCARTY 378 WATSON AVE. COSTA MESA, CA 92626
Mailing Address: 1378 WATSON AVE. COSTA MESA, CA 92626
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/ Ryan M. McCarty
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/15/2021
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 I5199
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 10/29, 11/05, 11/12 & 11/19, 2021.

FBN 20210009982
The following entity is doing business as: BROWN & BROWN ATTORNEYS AT LAW 1152 N. MOUNTAIN AVENUE, SUITE 210 UPLAND, CA 91786: BROWN & BROWN, INC. 1152 N. MOUNTAIN AVENUE, SUITE 210 UPLAND, CA 91786
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California as C3984252
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 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/ TYLER BROWN
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/30/2021
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 I5199
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 10/29, 11/05, 11/12 & 11/19, 2021.

FBN 20210009649
The following person is doing business as: UNALIKE DETAILING. 7739 SOMERSET LN HIGHLAND, CA 92346; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); RICKY D VAN 7739 SOMERSET LN HIGHLAND, CA 92346; TIANA S VAN 7739 SOMERSET LN HIGHLAND, CA 92346.
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/ RICKY D VAN, HUSBAND
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/23/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202113MT

FBN 20210009753
The following person is doing business as: A.K.A GENERAL CONSTRUCTION. 15678 SAN JOSE AVE CHINO HILLS, CA 91709; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); GUSTAVO ESPINOZA RUEDA 15678 SAN JOSE AVE CHINO HILLS, CA 91709.
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/ GUSTAVO ESPINOZA RUEDA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/24/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202111IR

FBN 20210009743
The following person is doing business as: BEAM’S AUTO SERVICE. 1863 W LADDS CT #B SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO
NICHOLAS L COLEMAN 1863 W LADDS CT #B SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411.
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/ NICHOLAS L COLEMAN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/21/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202110MT

FBN 20210009683
The following person is doing business as: COZY STAY 1890 W 13TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); GERALD D CAROLINA 1890 W 13TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411
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/ GERALD D. CAROLINA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/23/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202109MT

FBN 20210009642
The following person is doing business as: SUPERIOR FORKLIFT TRAINING 1235 E. FRANCIS ST SUITE #G ONTARIO, CA 91761; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); AMANA INTERNATIONAL, INC. 1235 E. FRANCIS ST SUITE #G ONTARIO, CA 91761
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOV 17, 2016
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/ IBRAHEEM A. SALIM, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/22/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202107MT

FBN 20210009643
The following person is doing business as: LOLAH’S BARBER AND BEAUTY 731 W HIGHLAND AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); LOLAHS B&B LLC 731 W HIGHLAND AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405
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/ PAOLA GONZALES, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/22/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202106MT

FBN 20210009589
The following person is doing business as: DIVINE LIFE. 30245 FRONTERA DEL SUR HIGHLAND, CA 92346; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARINO );
RESHMI S. KAPPATTIL 30245 FRONTERA DEL SUR HIGHLAND, CA 92346.
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/ RESHMI S. KAPPATTIL, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/22/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202105MT

FBN 20210009609
The following person is doing business as: ARCHES & BEAUTY. 3116 ACACIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); EVELYN GONGORA 3116 ACACIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405.
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/ EVELYN GONGORA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/22/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202104CH

FBN 20210009576
The following person is doing business as: AIZE PRINCESS IDEMUDIA. 800 E. WASHINGTON ST. APT 740 COLTON, CA 92324
; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ) ; AIZE P IDEMUDIA 800 E. WASHINGTON ST. APT 740 COLTON, CA 92324.
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/ AIZE P IDEMUDIA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/21/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202103IR

FBN 20210009629
The following person is doing business as: ZEBASTIAN’S CAR WASH. 17312 FOOTHILL BLVD. UNIT A FONTANA, CA 92335; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); [ MAILING ADDRESS 8181 PALMETTO AVE. APT 115 FONTANA, CA 92335]; JUAN C PARDO ARIZA 8181 PALMETTO AVE. APT 115 FONTANA, CA 92335; JOHANNA A YEPES OVALLE 8181 PALMETTO AVE. APT 15 FONTANA, CA 92335.
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/ JUAN C PARDO ARIZA, HUSBAND
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/22/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202102IR

FBN 20210009372
The following person is doing business as: SPARTAN TOWING L.L.C. 2155 ½ OGDEN ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 2407; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); SPARTAN PAINTING L.L.C. 2155 ½ OGDEN ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92407
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 24, 2021
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/ EMMANUEL PALOMARES, OWNER/ MANAGER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/15/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB38202101MT

FBN 202100010081
The following person is doing business as: FVA CLEANING SERVICES. 775 E. FOOTHILL BLVD. SPC 26 RIALTO, CA 92376;( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); ANGELICA M VIRAMONTES-DORADO 775 E. FOOTHILL BLVD. SPC 26 RIALTO, CA 92376.
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/ ANGELICA M VIRAMONTES-DORADO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/04/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202107IR

FBN 2021000831
The following person is doing business as: JOHNSON’S TRANSPORT SERVICES. 3107 CRYSTAL LAKE RD ONTARIO, CA 91761; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); JOHNSON’S TRANSPORT SERVICES, LLC 3107 CRYSTAL LAKE RD ONTARIO, CA 91761; 3107 CRYSTAL LAKE RD ONTARIO, CA 91761; .
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/ KAMISHAN N. JOHNSON, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/28/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202106IR

FBN 20210009960
The following person is doing business as: ERIK’S BARBER COMPANY. 2587 W. ESPERANZA ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); ERIK PEREZ 2587 W. ESPERANZA ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410.
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/ ERIK PEREZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/30/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202105IR

FBN 20210009909
The following person is doing business as: RHINO TEX, INC. 15080 HILTON DR FONTANA, CA 92336; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO) ; RHINO TEX, INC 15080 HILTON DR FONTANA, CA 92336; 15080 HILTON DR FONTANA, CA 92336; .
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/ RUSSELL A. COLEMAN, PRESIDENT
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/29/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202104MT

FBN 20210009840
The following person is doing business as: PIGFORD LANDSCAPING. 11428 KEYON WAY RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ): CHRISTOPHER PIGFORD 11428 KENYON WAY 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: 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/ CHRISTOPHER PIGFORD, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/28/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202103MT

FBN 20210009473
The following person is doing business as: ALICE DARLENE DESIGNS. 5375 WALNUT AVE #1573 CHINO, CA 91708; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); ALICE D BILLS 5375 WALNUT AVE #1573 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/ ALICE D BILLS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/30/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202102MT

FBN 20210009826
The following person is doing business as: J. CERVANTES ROAD SERVICE, INC. 15957 RANDALL AVE #3 FONTANA, CA 92335; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); J. CERVANTES ROAD SERVICE, INC 15957 RANDALL AVE #3 FONTANA, CA 92335 .
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/ JAVIER CERVANTES LANDA, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/28/2021
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 10/08/2021, 10/15/2021, 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021 CNBB39202101IR
FBN 20210010422
The following person is doing business as: NEW WEST UPHOLSTERY. 7046 CENTRAL AVE HIGHLAND, CA 92346; [ MAILING ADDRESS 26978 CYPRESS ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346]; (PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); ALBERTO VALENCIA DAMAS 8046 CENTRAL AVE HIGHLAND, CA 92346.
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/ ALBERTO VALENCIA DAMAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/14/2021
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 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021 CNBB41202105IR

FBN 20210010635
The following person is doing business as: JG AUTO WHOLESALE. 3116 N ACACIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA 92405; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); JOSE GONGORA 3116 N ACACIA AVE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92405.
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 GONGORA, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/19/2021
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 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021 CNBB41202104CH

FBN 20210009696
The following person is doing business as: CUTTY’S BARBERSHOP. 220 WEST B STREET ONTARIO, CA 91762; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); MATTHEW S JENSEN 220 WEST B STREET 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: 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/ MATTHEW S JENSEN, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 09/23/2021
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 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021 CNBB41202103FA

FBN 20210010424
The following person is doing business as: SUGAR BABY NAILS. 26951 13TH ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346; [ MAILING ADDRESS 311 W CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92701 ]; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); CARINA M CHAPPLE 26951 13TH ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346.
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/ CARINA M CHAPPLE, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/14/2021
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 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021 CNBB41202102CV

FBN 20210010621
The following person is doing business as: SB EXPRESS ONE, LLC. 205 E HOSPITALITY LANE SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); SB EXPRESS ONE, LLC 222 EAST GLENARM ST B1 PASADENA, CA 91106
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/ KALPESH SOLANKI, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/19/2021
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 10/22/2021, 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021 CNBB41202101MT
FBN 20210010424
The following person is doing business as: SUGAR BABY NAILS. 26951 13TH ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346;[ MAILING ADDRESS 311 W CIVIC CENTER DR STE B SANTA ANA, CA 92346 ]; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); CARINA M CHAPPLE 26951 13TH ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346.
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/ CARINA M CHAPPLE, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 14, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202110FA

FBN 20210010366
The following person is doing business as: STYLIN’ BONITA HAIR SALON. 948 N MOUNTIN AVE STE #143 ONTARIO, CA 91762; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); JOANNA SOTELO 948 N MOUNTAIN AVE STE #143 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: 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/ JOANNA SOTELO, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 12, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202109MT

FBN 20210010329
The following person is doing business as: THE FITTED PLUG. 8314 BELLA VISTA DR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); C GOMEZ LLC 8314 BELLA VISTA RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701; 8314 BELLA VISTA DR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701; .
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/ CESAR GOMEZ, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 08, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202108CH

FBN 20210010271
The following person is doing business as: C&M CONCRETE PUMP. 1171 HANCOCK ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ): CARLOS A ASENCIO LLAMAS 1171 HANCOCK ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92411.
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 ASENCIO LLAMAS, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 07, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202107IR

FBN 20210010249
The following person is doing business as: 247 HOUSE OFFERS. 222 N. MOUNTAIN AVE. SUITE B109 UPLAND, CA 91786; [ MAILING ADDRESS 12150 CASPER CT RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739]; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); INLAND ASSET HOLDINGS 1030 N MOUNTAIN AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762
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/ MICHAEL S. MARTINEZ, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 6, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202106IR

FBN 20210010704
The following person is doing business as: GALICIAS WATER N ICE. 861 N RANCHO AVE COLTON, CA 92324; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); JOSE R SALAMANCA JOVEL 861 RANCHO AVE COLTON, CA 92324.
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 R SALAMANCA JOVEL, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 21. 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202105IR

FBN 20210010329
The following person is doing business as: THE FITTED PLUG. 8314 BELLA VISTA DR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); C GOMEZ LLC 8314 BELLA VISTA RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701; 8314 BELLA VISTA DR RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
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/ CESAR GOMEZ, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 08, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202104CH

FBN 20210010716
The following person is doing business as: OP FITTEDS. 6580 KAISER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); BRIAN AGUILAR FERNANDEZ 6580 KAISER AVE FONTANA, CA 92336.
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/ BRIAN AGUILAR FERNANDEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 21, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202103IR

FBN 20210010719
The following person is doing business as: BJ & J WINDOW TINT. 283 W FOOTHILL BLVD STE A RIALTO, CA 92376; ( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO ); OFELIA SUALES VILLAREAL 283 W FOOTHILL BLVD STE A RIALTO, CA 92376.
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/ OFELIA SUALES VILLAREAL, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 21, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202102MT

FBN 20210010525
The following person is doing business as: ROCKY’S NEW YORK STYLE PIZZERIA. 4990 HOLT BLVD MONTCLAIR, CA 91763;( PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS SAN BERNARDINO); SHAHRZAD NAFISSI 4990 HOLT BLVD MONTCLAIR, CA 91763.
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/ SHAHRZAD NAFISSI, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: OCTOBER 15, 2021
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 10/29/2021, 11/05/2021, 11/12/2021, 11/19/2021 CNBB42202101MT

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Sentinel 10-22-21

By Mark Gutglueck
The City of Upland this week gave official indication that Michael Blay, the former assistant city manager in Hesperia, will become the City of Gracious Living’s city manager for what is anticipated to be the next three years.
Blay’s selection comes after an uncommonly secretive executive recruitment effort, one which was marred by the withholding of information pertaining not only to Blay but others competing with him for the position. Those from whom the information was withheld included members of the public as well as at least two of the members of the city council, the body that ultimately signed off on Blay’s hiring and which is scheduled on Monday, October 25 to make that hiring official with its vote on an item to be considered at that evening’s regularly scheduled city council meeting.
In the last two weeks, after word leaked out that the council was moving toward offering Blay a contract, an examination of Blay’s work history, including his five years in Hesperia and the twenty years he served in the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department turned up that he narrowly avoided being fired from the sheriff’s department, having escaped that fate only by taking, at the age of 44, a disability retirement, and that he was earlier this year forced to leave Hesperia in lieu of being ignominiously terminated by the city manager there.
In both cases, the Sentinel has learned, a major factor in the move toward firing Blay consisted of his inappropriate interactions with women in the workplace, which led to further complications in his ability to carry out his function as a supervisor of lower ranking personnel. Blay’s departure from Hesperia was further entangled with indications of his involvement in graft, wherein he was provided with gratuities by businesses and/or the owners of businesses it was his role as either assistant city manager and/or development services director to regulate.
On Monday, October 25, the Upland City Council is scheduled to vote on ratifying a three-year contract with Blay that confers upon him an annual salary of $251,407.01 and benefits of roughly $85,000 for a total annual compensation of approximately $336, 407.
The march toward installing Blay as Upland’s top administrator began earlier this year when, for reasons that have not been officially disclosed, the city council grew dissatisfied with the performance of City Manager Rosemary Hoerning. Hoerning was put on administrative leave on March 31, 2021, at which point the city council elevated Assistant City Manager Steven Parker to the position of acting city manager. On April 26, the city council working with Parker and City Attorney Steven Deitsch came to an accommodation with Hoerning, agreeing that neither side would bad mouth one another or pursue any legal claims against the other, and that the city would confer on Hoerning a $235,903 severance payout.
Informed sources in and outside City Hall have told the Sentinel that a primary factor in the city council’s decision to be rid of Hoerning related to action taken last year by Hoerning under the guidance of then-Mayor Debbie Stone.
Hoerning as city manager possessed authority over the entirety of city staff, including all of the city’s department heads, including the police chief. Despite her senior status to Police Chief Darren Goodman, Hoerning was paid less in her role as city manager than was Goodman paid for his work, a circumstance that had come about because of a combination of factors. A majority of the council put a high premium on Goodman and his guidance of the police department. It was known that Goodman had expressed an interest in jumping ship to Riverside, a larger city than Upland which is also the county seat in Riverside County with a police department nearly four times the size of Upland’s, and that there was a possibility he might be recruited elsewhere. The city council in early 2020 had upped Goodman’s salary and benefit package to $383,315.90 on the low end and to as much as $423,000 on the high end, depending on add-ons he might earn over the course of a given year. In March 2020, when the city council had finalized the city’s contract with Hoerning to serve as city manager, her salary and benefits had been set at $230,000.04 and 113,026.70 respectively, for a total annual compensation of $343,026.74.
In June 2020, Hoerning was in receipt of a complaint lodged against Goodman by the police department’s executive secretary, whom he had demoted. Hoerning during a specially-called closed session of the city council sought clearance to suspend Goodman on the basis of the accusations against him in the complaint as a first step toward potentially terminating him. The council, however, balked at taking that action, whereupon Hoerning, with the lone assent of then-Mayor Debbie Stone, placed Goodman on administrative leave. A firestorm of protest ensued, as a spontaneous showing of support for Goodman manifested from a cross section of Upland residents. Goodman was reinstated as police chief in short order, and later that year, Stone was voted out of office and replaced with Councilman Bill Velto, a member of the city council at the time who had opposed Goodman’s suspension.
Hoerning’s relationship with Goodman never recovered. Exacerbating the situation was that in November 2020, in the municipal election in which Velto displaced Stone, two others who think highly of Goodman were elected to the city council, Shannan Maust in the First District and Carlos Garcia in the Third District. Lingering in some minds was the concern that with Hoerning remaining in place, the likelihood that Goodman would bolt was increased. By the turn of spring 2021, additional issues of contention or dissonance had developed between the council and Hoerning, leading ultimately to her departure.
If there was any thought among some members of the council that the city might turn to Assistant City Manager Steve Parker and prevail upon him to move up into the city manager’s position on more than a temporary basis, Parker soon put the kibosh on that. First off, he was mindful that in recent decades in Upland the longevity of city managers has been severely limited. While he may not have articulated that realization out loud, he did let the council and others know that he would not be a replacement for Hoerning because with the young children he and his wife are raising and his dedication to his family, he was unwilling to sacrifice the time that would be demanded of him to serve as city manager on anything more than the stopgap basis he had just taken on, after which he intended to go back to the less time-and-stress-intensive assignment of assistant city manager, in which he, presumably, would have far greater job security than if he took the city manager’s job.
Indeed, as some of the members of the council and many more members of the Upland population had come to perceive, it was the inveterate lack of stability and continuity in Upland’s city management that was at the root of many of its problems. From 1943, when the city manager’s position was first defined and unofficially created, until 1989, Upland had three city managers; those three in place over the course of 46 years had an average tenure of over 15 years in the role. Thereafter, from 1989 until the present, 13 individuals – eleven men and two women – served in the role of city manager or interim city manager. One of those, former Upland Police Chief Martin Thouvenell, on three separate occasions filled the role of interim city manager. Thus, over the last three decades, city managers have lasted in their capacities at the head of municipal operations just over two years on average.
It appeared that a collective will on the part of the council to take the opportunity to at last address the issue of managerial discontinuity in Upland had formed, and that this time the city would get it right by doing an exhaustive search to find and hire a city manager capable of overseeing the myriad of civic operations and provisions of municipal services on a day-to-day basis in the here-and-now and who also had the ability to think long term and had a clear, workable, insightful and acceptable vision of the city’s future. The council seemed set on finding a good man or good woman with the desire to, orientation toward, training for and experience in public administration, someone with a proven capability in the arena of municipal operations, yet an individual not so advanced in age he or she was at the end of his or her career, such that the city would not be left rudderless after only a few years.
The city council resolved to find that individual, without much fanfare. While city officials let it be known that a search for a new city manager was under way, little more than that was disclosed, and virtually nothing about the recruitment and selection process was revealed. So secretive, in fact, was the council about how it was to go about bringing in a new municipal staff leader, that it appears to have violated the Brown Act, California’s open public meeting law, in hiring the consulting firm that assisted it in the recruitment. The city retained the executive headhunting outfit Ralph Andersen & Associates to conduct a comprehensive search for city manager stealthily, doing so without any disclosure of the retention of the company or open public vote of the council on the contract.
The Sentinel did an exhaustive search of the Upland City Council’s agendas from March, the month during which Hoerning was placed on paid administrative leave, April, the month in which the city council and Hoerning forged a separation agreement, May, June and July, at which point the acceptance of applications for the city manager position closed. There was no mention whatsoever in those agendas of the city entering into a contractual agreement with Ralph Andersen & Associates for the recruitment of candidates for Upland city manager. City officials have been unwilling or unable to produce the contract with Ralph Andersen & Associates. There is an indication that internally at City Hall the city’s relationship with Ralph Andersen & Associates was hidden from key employees. No one in the city clerk’s office could identify when an item relating to the city contracting with Ralph Andersen & Associates had been brought before the city council. To complete a more thorough search of the city clerk’s records relating to a contractual relationship with Ralph Andersen & Associates, the city clerk’s office instructed the Sentinel to submit a formal public records request for that information. The Sentinel did so, but had not received a response by press time. Most tellingly, Theresa Doyle, Upland’s human resource manager who would logically be within the loop in relationship to the city’s hiring of a city manager, was unable to identify the date the city entered into a contract with Ralph Andersen & Associates to undertake the city manager recruitment, whether such a contract existed, whether the contract was for a standard recruitment or confidential recruitment or whether it was possible for the city council to enter into a contract with Ralph Andersen & Associates in an arrangement through the city attorney or acting city manager that would bypass her and her office.
In his public utterances with regard to the city’s effort to find a city manager over the last several months, Parker did not refer to Ralph Andersen & Associates by name but rather as “the city’s consultant.”
When the Sentinel made inquiries with Parker and members of the city council about the city manager recruitment effort, it was provided both public and private assurances that the city was intent on casting as wide of a net as possible to ensure that a field of highly qualified candidates would apply, ensuring that ultimately Upland would land a “top drawer” city manager who would be the best fit for the city and its residents, and who would end the city’s three-decade long tradition of lurching from one short-lived manager to the next. Confidentiality was required, the Sentinel was told, because the city had already attracted and yet hoped to attract more applicants who were employed with cities elsewhere whose positions with their current employers would be put in jeopardy if their applications in Upland became known. Patience with the process and the secrecy surrounding it, the Sentinel was promised, would redound to the city’s benefit once a new city manager is in place.
In July, the application deadline for the Upland city manager’s post elapsed. The city has not disclosed how may applications it received.
The Sentinel has learned that Fred Wilson, a Ralph Andersen associate who was formerly the city manager of San Bernardino and Huntington Beach, and Heather Renschler, the chief executive officer with Ralph Andersen & Associates, whose stock-in-trade is confidential headhunting, were assigned to manage the recruitment drive for Hoerning’s ultimate replacement as Upland city manager. By the first week of August, the Sentinel has learned, Wilson and Renschler had begun to winnow the field of applicants for the Upland job, with Wilson doing much of the heavy lifting, examining and evaluating résumés, conducting telephone interviews, eliminating applicants from the list of those to eventually be considered by the city council and writing up recommendations/reports with regard to those who advanced to the next stage.
On Tuesday, August 24, the city council held a specially scheduled meeting, one that was conducted electronically and remotely, with a closed session during which a first round of finalists for the position were interviewed sandwiched between a brief open public introduction to the meeting and an open public conclusion of the meeting, at which point it was announced that no reportable action had been taken.
On September 13, the city council met at its regularly scheduled first meeting of the month. Thereafter, it was disclosed that the field of candidates for the city manager appointment had been reduced to two.
The city council maintained its silence on the city manager recruitment effort over the next several weeks. On October 12, the Sentinel learned that a decision to hire Blay as city manager had been arrived at. Immediate inquiries to confirm Blay’s appointment were initiated with city officials. No official confirmation was forthcoming.
The Sentinel sought to augment its knowledge of Blay’s history with further research. The Sentinel’s findings include:
* Blay obtained a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Cal Poly University Pomona in 1988. More than two decades later, in 2009, he achieved his master’s degree in business administration from Mississippi State University.
* In 1989, Blay was hired by then-San Bernardino County Sheriff Floyd Tidwell as a deputy.
* Based on both his educational level and his ability, Blay advanced through the ranks at the sheriff’s office throughout the 1990s and early 2000s at a faster-than-average rate than most of the department’s personnel, achieving by 2005 the rank of sergeant.
* In 2005, Blay was given an assignment overseeing the traffic patrol division in Victorville.
* In 2007, Matt Linderman, who had been supervised by Blay while he was a patrol deputy in Victorville, was charged with sexual battery on a woman who was “unlawfully restrained”; two counts of soliciting lewd conduct in a public place; soliciting oral copulation from a woman he threatened to arrest; and four counts of soliciting bribes. Subsequently those charges were augmented with further ones relating to his conduct as a patrol deputy in Victorville in 2005, 2006 and 2007, as more and more victims came forward. Ultimately Linderman was charged with crimes against 11 women he had encountered in the field while he was in uniform and under the supervision of Blay. Linderman in 2011 was convicted by a jury of sexual battery by restraint, oral copulation under the color of authority, 11 counts of soliciting a bribe and two counts of solicitation to engage in lewd conduct involving the 11 women. He was sentenced to a 20-year prison term. Linderman subsequently appealed his convictions. The appeals court reversed one of the solicitation to engage in lewd conduct convictions, finding it was barred by the statute of limitations, but upheld the remainder of the case against him.
* In the meantime, Blay had been promoted from the patrol supervision role into a more prestigious position in the department’s special weapons and tactics [SWAT] detail, which at that time was supervised by Lieutenant Nils Bentsen.
* After the prosecution of Linderman was under way, an internal sheriff’s department investigation into the matter was begun, at which time, Blay was removed from the SWAT detail and sent back to a patrol station pending the outcome of the investigation. The investigation determined that Blay knew about Linderman’s activity through complaints and observation. A contributing factor to Blay’s failure to act, investigators found, was that Blay had inappropriate verbal exchanges and interaction with women he encountered in the field himself, including what were taken by some women as unwanted sexual advances, which inhibited him from deterring Linderman in his known behavior before the situation grew beyond control.
* Blay was brought up on multiple charges before a discipline board relating to his failure to provide proper supervision of the deputies in his unit and making misrepresentations up the chain of command. After the presentation of what was characterized as “overwhelming evidence,” it was determined that his own indiscretions were a contributing factor into Blay not taking action on Linderman. Blay’s discipline hearing concluded with a recommendation of termination.
* Before that recommendation was acted upon by the department, Blay, who was working patrol at the time, made a disability claim relating to having hurt his shoulder and went out on medical leave, and never came back to duty, retiring thereafter. At that point, he was 44, six years younger than minimum retirement age.
* Blay languished after leaving the sheriff’s department, obtaining a security and loss control job with a shipping company that paid roughly one quarter of what he was making as a police sergeant, eventually augmenting that with a part-time position as an adjunct professor at Victor Valley College, teaching in the field of the administration of justice, for which his highest single year’s compensation in pay and benefits totaled $19,382.59.
* Nils Bentsen, the lieutenant in the SWAT division who had commanded that unit when Blay was briefly there in 2008 and who had been one of Blay’s closest friends from shortly after both were hired as deputies by Sheriff Tidwell in the late 1980s, had continued his promotional rise in the department, and was given the assignment of captain of the Hesperia Sheriff’s Station, in which assignment he was the de facto Hesperia police chief, as Hesperia contracted with the sheriff’s department for the provision of law enforcement service. In December 2015, the Hesperia City Council, impressed by Bentsen’s performance as police chief, poached him from the sheriff’s department, hiring him to serve as city manager upon the retirement of Hesperia’s previous city manager, Mike Podegracz. Bentsen moved into the city manager’s post in January 2016.
* In March 2016, Bentsen hired Blay, who was drawing a $55,748.70 yearly pension based upon his 20 years with the sheriff’s department, to serve as Hesperia’s development services director. Blay had no previous municipal or public administration experience. Despite that, he was hired into the development services director post, which paid him a $143,156 annual salary, another $8,081 in additional pay and $26,635 in benefits for a total annual compensation of $177,872.
* In 2017, Blay as development services director played a major role in overseeing the city’s consideration and the city council’s ultimate approval of the massive 15,663-dwelling unit Tapestry subdivision at the extreme south end of Hesperia near the mouth of Summit Valley. The Tapestry project was built on the same property as, and was a revival of, the 9,100-home Rancho Las Flores project that had been proposed for construction roughly a year after the city’s 1988 incorporation. The Rancho Las Flores project was derailed in 1992 after revelations that then-City Manager Robert Rizzo was routing money from developmental interests involved in the Rancho Las Flores undertaking to then-councilmen M. Val Shearer and Percy Baker and then-Planning Commissioner Donna Roland. The allegations of graft together with the consideration that a development of that size would overwhelm the city’s ability to provide adequate accompanying infrastructure resulted in the abandonment of the plan to urbanize the rustic property long known as Las Flores Ranch. A quarter century later, the project had been reconstituted and expanded by more than 160 percent when it came before the city for approval in 2017. Despite similar concerns relating to overbuilding and the city’s inability to provide adequate infrastructure, in particular roads and flood control, Blay, who had no previous experience or expertise with regard to land use and development issues before being hired in Hesperia, recommended approval of the project, and the city council voted 4-to-1 to ratify the development agreement for it. That action revived long dormant accusations of graft pervading Hesperia City Hall.
* Hesperia, which had traditionally prohibited any cannabis-related commercial activity within its city limits, in 2017 moved to allow companies delivering marijuana or cannabis-related products to operate within the city. Blay, as development services director, had a hand in this liberalization of the city’s policy. Bentsen entrusted Blay with the city’s regulatory activity pertaining to the commercial marijuana and cannabis activity within the city, including the entrepreneurships meeting all licensing, permitting and operational protocols specified in the city’s ordinances and the inspection regime for such.
* In 2018, Bentsen convinced the city council to allow him to promote Blay to assistant city manager, upping Blay’s annual salary to $179,807 with another $9,081 in add-ons, $31,023 in benefits and a $10,282.86 contribution toward Blay’s pension plan for a total yearly compensation of $230,193.86.
* The responsibility for regulating commercial cannabis-related operations in the City of Hesperia and enforcing the city’s ordinances relating to the marijuana/cannabis industry remained with Blay when he transitioned from development services director to assistant city manager.
* City employees working under Blay and eventually Bentsen became concerned that Blay was uneven in the enforcement of the rules and regulations relating to the marijuana/cannabis product distribution businesses, as Blay appeared to be or actually was closer to some of the marijuana purveyors than he was to others, being lax with regard to a handful of the businesses while strictly regulating the rest. Reports drifted in that Blay had developed a substance abuse problem, which involved him getting free cannabis-laced edibles from some of the cannabis companies he was charged with regulating. When reports of that reached Bentsen, the Sentinel is told, he put Blay on temporary administrative leave, but did not fire him. Bentsen removed cannabis regulation authority from Blay, giving that duty to another city employee before reinstating Blay.
* Subsequently, Bentsen was made aware of specifics that made him question Blay’s work ethic, and learned that his assistant was socializing or fraternizing with city employees both during and after work hours to excess, and that assignments Blay was given were not being completed expeditiously or were inordinately delayed. Moreover, the Sentinel was informed, “He was often gone from work for long periods of time with no explanation. Important projects were not getting done on time because Mike was often absent.”
* Early this year Bentson, who is described by those who worked with him at the sheriff’s department as “a straight arrow” and “a boy scout,” found out Blay had been having an affair with more than one of the women who work for the city. There followed a shouting match between the two at City Hall that was overheard by multiple employees. A few months later, Blay had departed the city. His discharge papers were creatively worded, the Sentinel was told, to disguise that Blay had been forced to leave as the city’s second highest ranking administrator.
At some point as Upland’s recruitment for a city manager progressed either late in the spring or early in the summer, a tilt in favor of Blay developed. Whereas city officials early on and well into the recruitment drive insisted that the city was looking for a highly qualified and seasoned municipal management professional, there is evidence suggesting that efforts to bypass or eliminate applicants who had far more substantial résumés than Blay’s slender curriculum vitae were made, and that it occurred relatively early in the process of winnowing the field of competitors.
The Sentinel has spoken with one such candidate, who requested anonymity because of his/her current employment with another Southern California city. That applicant’s résumé, by any and all reasonably applicable objective standards, is superior in depth, breadth and length of experience when compared to the résumé Blay had earlier this year provided to the social and professional networking service Linked-In. What is more, that applicant is younger than Blay, and would therefore be very likely able to remain in the post of city manager for a longer time, ensuring the continuity of management that is, at least by some, so valued. Significantly, that applicant was eliminated from the running prior to the city council’s interviewing session with the remaining applicants that took place on August 24.
“I’m okay with it,” the rejected candidate said. “If those are the standards they apply, I probably would not have been any good to them. It’s probably a blessing in disguise.”
The Sentinel was provided with information to the effect that Councilwoman Janice Elliott became aware prior to the August 24 interview session that at least one candidate with far more impressive municipal credentials on paper than what Blay possessed had been purged from the roster of remaining candidates for the city manager’s job. It is not known what inquiry Elliott made with regard to that circumstance.
An individual who had access to the list of applicants and their curricula vitarum a few weeks prior to the application deadline at that time told the Sentinel, without spelling out specifics, that there were numerous applicants with highly impressive work histories within the municipal management field who had applied for the Upland city manager’s post, and that those individuals possessed a professional gravitas that far exceeded the experience and skillset which it is now recognized Blay brings to the table. It is not known how many of those were interviewed on August 24 and how many were rejected prior to that.
Earlier this week, after it was publicly confirmed by the city clerk’s office through its posting of the agenda for next week’s city council meeting that Blay has been selected as Upland’s next city manager, Blay removed his résumé from the LinkedIn website, such that those who lost out in the Upland city manager sweepstakes cannot compare their résumés with his.
Of relevance is the withholding of information about several of the city manager candidates, Blay among them, from some of the members of the city council.
There is evidence to suggest that even before the application deadline for the Upland post elapsed there was an effort to tilt the selection process in favor of Blay, and that information that had come to Ralph Andersen & Associates and the current city management suite pertaining to several of the candidates including Blay was selectively dealt with, such that not all members of the city council received that information in its entirety unaltered and unredacted. It appears that information relating to Blay’s departures from the sheriff’s department and the City of Hesperia was withheld from both Councilman Rudy Zuniga and Councilwoman Shannan Maust. It is less clear how much of that information Councilwoman Janice Elliott and Councilman Carlos Garcia were provided. Both Mayor Bill Velto and acting City Manager Steven Parker knew about the issues pertaining to Blay having been forced into leaving the positions he held with the department and the city. Because of the confidentiality restrictions surrounding the recruitment process, it is not publicly known what format or means of conveyance Fred Wilson of Arthur Andersen & Associates used to pass the raw information pertaining to each of the applicants  on to the city, and whether his reports on each of the candidates containing his research, analysis and evaluation went directly to the council or indirectly through Parker. Wilson did not respond to either of two emails sent to him inquiring into what he had learned about Blay and the issues pertaining to his exits from the sheriff’s department and the City of Hesperia and whether or not that information was provided to the city council.
Neither did Upland Human Resources Director Theresa Doyle respond to inquiries with regard to what information obtained by her department pertaining to the candidates for the city manager’s job had been made available to the city council.
Had city officials been truly interested in churning up potentially derogatory information with regard to any and all of the candidates they were evaluating, they could have requested that Police Chief Goodman utilize agency-to-agency privilege to request from the police departments or sheriff’s departments that serve or served as the law enforcement agencies in the jurisdictions that employed the city manager position candidates for information in their files pertaining to those applicants. It is not clear whether that request was made of Goodman or whether he complied with it.
Goodman was employed by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department from 1991, when he was hired as a deputy under then-Sheriff Dick Williams, until 2018, by which time he had promoted to captain and was the commander of the Chino Hills Sheriff Station, at which point he was hired by Upland as police chief. Thus, Goodman had been Blay’s colleague for 18 years – from 1991 until 2009 – while they were both rising through the sheriff’s department ranks. Goodman may or may not have known about the circumstances under which Blay was on the verge of being drummed out of the department before he elected to take a disability retirement. There were and are a number of sheriff’s employees and former employees who knew of the issues surrounding the Linderman case and Blay’s connection to it.
Nevertheless, it is possible that Goodman, who was stationed elsewhere in 20,105-square mile San Bernardino County at the time, was not privy to what had befallen Blay.
Indeed, there are suggestions that Blay’s having been able to beat out several other applicants for the job who had far more impressive city management credentials than he does can be attributed to Goodman and Blay being members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department fraternity, and Goodman having put a good word in for him with the Upland City Council. An individual close to Velto related to the Sentinel the mayor’s determination to pair Blay and Goodman as a “one-two punch” in running the city.
Mayor Velto and the other four members of the city council are acutely aware of the unpleasant go-round Goodman had with Hoerning, and installing someone with whom Goodman has long been familiar and has a preexisting comfort level would seem to be a way of ensuring that Goodman remains in the role of Upland police chief and is not tempted to stray to greener pastures elsewhere.
That would explain why so many seemingly more qualified candidates for the job were overlooked and why Velto and Parker, the architects of Blay’s selection, were militating so hard on Blay’s behalf, and kept the details with regard to the faux pas he involved himself in during his closing days with both the sheriff’s department and the City of Hesperia under wraps.
Even as word was spreading throughout Upland last week that Blay was to be the city’s next city manager, city officials declined to make any confirmation of his selection. Nevertheless, residents rapidly made inquiries into who Blay was and his professional history. Though he started out for most of those residents as an unknown quantity, details of his work history, including elements of it that Parker, Velto, Wilson, Doyle, Renschler and Wilson had kept totally hidden from Maust and Zuniga and had only revealed in part to Elliott and Garcia, were uncovered and being discussed openly among Upland residents verbally and on social media by last weekend. In that dialogue, points of concern about Blay manifested.
Perhaps foremost of those concerns were the repeated hints of graft that attended Blay’s tenure in Hesperia. Large numbers of Hesperia and High Desert residents have inhaled the air of public corruption that hangs over the 2017 expansion of the already massive Rancho Las Flores proposal into the even larger Tapestry undertaking that found approval under Blay’s watch as development services director. That chapter of Hesperia’s history played out against a backdrop of pay-for-play politics involving several members of the Hesperia City Council and the echoes of the bribery-tainted first go-round of the project that ended with the cashiering of Hesperia’s first city manager.
Velto’s and Parker’s calculation that a natural informational firewall existed between Hesperia and Upland proved to be wrong.
Moreover, the accusations of petty graft against Blay involving his trading of lenient treatment of/regulation enforcement against some commercial cannabis enterprises in Hesperia in return for free merchandise did nothing to allay the suspicions of those who had disquiet concerning Blay over the Tapestry situation. In Upland, conflicts of interest and bribery on the part of city officials are an especially sensitive issue, as former Mayor John Pomierski a decade ago was convicted following his federal indictment on a bribetaking charge, and Pomierski’s handpicked city manager, Robb Quincey, was charged with public corruption and ultimately convicted on perjury stemming from the charges against him.
Additionally, whether bribery was or was not a factor in the approval of the Tapestry project, the manner in which Blay facilitated the expansion of residential units and the intensification of density at that massive subdivision has given pause to those in Upland who consequently believe that he will be incapable of pushing back against pressure the city is under by the State of California to construct a total of 6,456 dwellings within the city by 2029 to meet the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s expectations expressed in what is called that agency’s Regional Housing Need Allocation. A cross section of Upland residents feel that if the city complies with that mandate, the intensification of density and the burden on infrastructure in the City of Gracious living will significantly impact their quality of life and that of their fellow and sister residents. Other governmental jurisdictions in Southern California have initiated action to contest the imposition of the Regional Housing Need Allocation on their communities. Some Upland residents have suggested Blay’s performance in Hesperia as development services director and assistant city manager indicates he will not be inclined to support an effort by Upland to stand up to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
Other Upland residents have expressed misgivings over Blay’s history with women in the workplace, including his failure to protect civilians preyed upon by a deputy he oversaw when he was with the sheriff’s department and his personal entanglements with women employed with the City of Hesperia when he was in a position of authority there.
Others find troubling that Blay, who spent more than twenty years in the sheriff’s department during an era in which marijuana possession, use and trafficking was illegal and he therefore was directly, indirectly, tangentially or as a supervisor of deputies involved in the arrests, incarceration, the eventual imprisonment and in general the interruption of the lives of thousands of marijuana offenders, has now incorporated cannabis use into his own lifestyle.
The Sentinel was unable to make contact with Blay through any of several West Coast offices for Stanley Black & Decker, the company with which he landed a job as the regional head of corporate security after he was let go from the assistant city manager’s post in Hesperia. The Sentinel’s request of the City of Upland to ask Blay to contact the Sentinel did not produce any results.

Felix G. Diaz, a Victorville civic leader and educator going back six decades, has died.
Diaz passed into eternity in the city in which he lived virtually his entire life save his infancy, time in the military and two years in college.
A tuberculosis and polio survivor who made a rare full recovery, he led an existence that was, he insisted, in equal measure physical, intellectual, political and spiritual.
Born in Hesperia in 1934, he was the youngest of four brothers born to Porfirio and Carmen Diaz, undocumented immigrants from Mexico. His family moved to Victorville in 1935, where his father worked in the Southwest Portland Cement Company factory, and the family lived on the north side of Union Pacific Railroad tracks from Old Downtown Victorville in the E Street Barrio. He wore hand-me-down pants from his older brothers and his mother fashioned for him shirts made out of cement bags. He attended segregated classes at Eva Dell Elementary School.
In 1941, when he was seven years old, Diaz observed that one of his father’s coworkers at the cement plant, a man he remembered only as Mr. Riles, smoked cigarettes as he walked to work. The second grader made a habit of collecting as many of Riles’ cigarette butts as he could find each day, re-rolling the tobacco they contained in paper, and smoking the makeshift cigarettes. Unknown at the time, Riles, from working in the cement plant that was rife with limestone dust, had contracted tuberculosis. From smoking the remnants of Riles’ cigarettes, young Felix contracted tuberculosis.
He was placed in a TB ward that was segregated, one reserved for blacks and Hispanics, but at the same tuberculosis asylum where Riles, who ultimately succumbed, was being treated. Diaz assumed, like virtually all of the patients he was with, he would die. The final stage of the disease, he recalled, consisted of blood spraying from the mouths of the tubercular victims. The nurses, he said, would announce that a patient was “hemorrhaging,” and place a screen around the moribund invalid’s bed, at which point death invariably descended to make its claim.
While he was ensconced in the asylum, the seven-year-old was brought his schoolwork, and he made a desultory effort to keep up with his classmates, not sure why he was bothering, since he was convinced he was going to die.
Inexplicably and fortuitously, he recovered, and a year later, in 1942, Diaz was back at Eva Dell elementary school, a third grader, in Miss Appleberry’s class. Diaz did not remember Miss Appleberry’s first name, but he said his impression was she was new to the teaching profession, and had been assigned to a classroom of third and fourth grade students. Despite her having been put into a teaching environment where most of her students, with the exception of a few African-Americans, were Hispanic, she did not speak Spanish. Functioning in that environment, over the course of her first several months in that classroom, Appleberry grew more and more frustrated.
According to Diaz, Appleberry was accustomed to referring to the classroom collective as “you Mexicans,” with an occasional “you stupid Mexicans.” Her outbursts would include “What’s wrong with you Mexicans?” and “I’m sick and tired of you Mexicans” and “You lazy Mexicans won’t even try” or “What is the problem with you people?”
Appleberry armed herself with a paddle, which she at first utilized to redress behavioral problems. The students, for the most part, Diaz said, accepted the employment of the paddle against them when Appleberry’s stated purpose was for disciplinary issues, although, he said, her conception of what constituted misbehavior was somewhat questionable. It was when Appleberry ratcheted things up to employing the paddle as an educational tool that Diaz drew the line, he recollected.
To improve her students spelling performance, Appleberry hit upon a strategy of dissuading her pupils from misspellings through negative reinforcement in the form of one swat for every incorrectly spelled word on spelling tests. After the tests were graded, Appleberry called the students from their desks, taking each into the hallway, where she would administer a single whack of the paddle per orthographic error. After several of his classmates were provided with such lessons, it was Diaz’s turn for a private tutoring session in the hallway. He refused to budge from his desk, however, even when the larger and older Appleberry attempted to make him do so forcefully, inflicting some visually apparent scratches on his arm with her fingernails in doing so. She was unable to get him to take his educational medicine, though the eight-year-old did consent to going with her to the office of the principal, identified by Diaz as a Mr. Mullen, where Miss Appleberry made a case that her student was being intransigent and Felix protested the use of corporal punishment as an instructional methodology. In a 1942 version of the timeout, Diaz, for his transgression, was obliged to be removed from Miss Appleberry’s classroom for the remainder of the day, and instead relegated to a desk in the corner of the school’s sixth grade classroom, where Mr. Mullen was the teacher.
Upon going home, Diaz found himself in the position of having to explain to his parents how it had come about that he had a multitude of bloody scratches on his arm. He explained what had happened to his skeptical father, who sought to verify that version of events with one of Felix’s classmates, identified by Diaz as a kid named Leo.
Porfirio Diaz, unsure of whether his son was telling the truth or perhaps seeking to mislead him about what had actually occurred or minimize his misbehavior, resolved to accompany his youngest son to the school to actually determine what had occurred. Mr. Diaz, like his son, did not think it appropriate that Felix should be physically disciplined by his teacher for academic shortcomings.
Nevertheless, Porfirio was taking a risk, indeed a serious one. He was, after all, in the country illegally. So was his wife. Confronting Mr. Mullen, an authority with the school, could result in scrutiny he did not want, such as the sheriff’s office and ultimately customs officials, which conceivably might lead to deportation. Porfirio marched down to Eva Dell Elementary School. When he arrived, he found that more than a dozen other parents of students in Miss Appleberry’s class had beaten him there, none of whom spoke English. Porfirio translated for Mullen what the other outraged parents were saying, and he added an expression of his disapproval of the way in which Appleberry had treated his son and her students in general.
Mullen relieved Appleberry of her position as an instructor, and when Felix next showed up for school, she was gone, never to return. Diaz said he shed no tears over her departure.
What occurred was for Diaz a crucial life lesson. Despite the disadvantage he was at, a kid at odds with an adult, a student going up against the authority of a teacher in a society or community where Hispanics had to play on a tilted playing field with their goal line at a level above their heads while behind and below them the privileged white population’s goal line was situated, he learned that you could still stand up, or as was literally his case sit down, for yourself and fight the injustice you perceived, and it was possible to win, even with the odds against you.
While yet in his childhood, Diaz was afflicted with polio. He weathered that storm, however, and it did not impact the use of his legs or limbs, though it seemed to have stunted his growth, and manifested later in life, he believed, by compromising his immune system, leaving him vulnerable to colds and other routine maladies. At five foot six inches, he was somewhat smaller than his brothers. Nevertheless, he was athletic, and at Victorville High School, he was a running back on the football team, and he lettered in basketball and excelled at track. He graduated from Victorville High School in 1953.
He attended Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, driving out treacherous and undulating Palmdale Road regularly from Victorville to attend classes. In 1957, he was drafted into the Army, something he was not enthusiastic about at the time, but which he later described as an important formative experience in his life. He served two years at various bases around the country.
He was discharged in 1959.
Diaz graduated with an associate’s degree from Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria in 1961.
He immediately went to work as a teacher with the Adelanto Elementary School District in the fall of 1961, using an emergency teaching credential. He remained a student himself, attending night courses at California State University Los Angeles, earning a bachelor of arts degree in 1967. Subsequently, he received a masters degree from Chapman College in Orange in 1971.
In total, he taught for 46 years, 23 of those in the Victor Union School District, the Victor Union School District and the Adelanto Elementary School District from kindergarten to grade school, junior high including an extended period at Victor Valley Junior High School and high school, as well as another 23 years teaching at Victor Valley College.
He was a football and track coach at Victor Valley High School for eight years and a basketball coach at Victor Valley College for eight years.
As important as the subject matter he taught, Diaz said, were some basic approaches to life he sought to instill in his students. “I would tell them, ‘Shut up and keep your eyes and ears open, and you will probably learn something.’ I told them to be proud of who they were, and that they should respect themselves and others,” he said.
He was an appointee to the San Bernardino County Fair Board and a member of the Victor Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
As an Army veteran, he was a volunteer with the California Cadet Corps, a youth organization aimed at providing elementary school through college age students with a glimpse of and options relating to military service. Diaz was the founder of the Old Town Victorville Veterans Memorial, located at the corner of Seventh Street and Forrest Avenue, which since 1996 has celebrated the military service of local servicemen. He was active in the American G.I. Forum, a veterans organization.
Diaz was a prime mover with the Lord’s Table, a program that provided food to impoverished families, senior citizens and shut-ins.
From 1981 until 1985 he was on the Victor Valley Union High School District Board of Trustees. In 1992 he was elected to the Victorville City Council. He served a single four-year term in that capacity.
Diaz was raised as a Catholic, attending St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Victorville. As a child, when he was afflicted with polio, Diaz said he feared he would be rendered crippled. He prayed, telling God he would not take his physical faculties for granted and he would remain virtuous if the use of his legs could somehow be preserved. When he came through his bout with polio in the same way he had shaken off tuberculosis, Diaz lived up to his commitment to be as physically active as possible, and he participated in sports as much as he could, in junior high, at the high school level as a Victor Valley High Jackrabbit and as an Antelope Valley College Marauder. For a time during his adulthood, Diaz freely acknowledged, he lost his faith and had become an apostate Catholic. “I fell away,” he said, “but in time, I found myself inspired by the Virgin of Guadalupe, who reunited me with my lord, Jesus Christ. I will never lose faith again.” He was active in the church through the Diocese of San Bernardino, and successfully importuned the diocese to initiate a mass celebrated in Spanish at St. Joan of Arc on Sundays.
A raconteur of the first order, he was prevailed upon to reproduce in writing the stories he was constantly telling, whereupon he buckled down, setting pen to paper to produce the book Footprints from the Barrio, his account of life in Victorville in the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s, told from the perspective of a kid and very young man running the streets of the E Street Barrio.
Diaz proudly proclaimed himself an “outspoken Democrat,” stating that if he had ever voted for a Republican it was “out of ignorance or by mistake.”
In 2015, he put on the first annual Felix G. Diaz Mariachi Music Festival, held at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds & High Desert Event Center, dedicated, he said, to what he called “Mexican soul” music.
Victor Valley College Board Member Joe Brady said of Diaz, “He was a true leader of our community, who fought for everything he believed in. He never backed down.”
Diaz left this life on October 15. He was 87.
His passing represents a loss to members of the community interested in the history of Victorville, in particular newspaper reporters, who will no longer be able to rely upon his encyclopedic recall of events, personages, locations, relationships and the lay of the land in Victorville from the late 1930s, 1940s, most of the 1950s, the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the first two decades of the Third Millennium. Gone from this firmament is his irrepressible spirit.
Diaz is survived by his wife, Margaret, the founder and retired executive director of A Better Way Domestic Violence Shelter & Outreach program, and his children Angie Hamm, Michael Diaz, Tony Diaz, Monique Diaz, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Diaz is to be interred at Victor Valley Memorial Park, from which there is a view of the old E Street Barrio.
–Mark Gutglueck