ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CIV SB 2500716
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
Petitioner JULIA STEPHAN, also known as JULIA PEREZ OR JULIA KRAMER, filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JULIA STEPHAN to JULIA CLAIRE
JULIA PEREZ to JULIA CLAIRE
JULIA KRAMER to JULIA CLAIRE
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: MARCH 17, 2025
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Department: S22
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Gilbert G. Ochoa
Judge of the Superior Court.
Filed: February 3, 2025 by
Stephanie Garcia, Deputy Court Clerk
Attorney for Julia Stephan
Jennifer M. Daniel
220 Nordina St.
Redlands, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 792-9244 Fax No: (909) 235-4733
Email address: team@lawofficeofjenniferdaniel.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on February 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV SB 2500119,
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Valentina Nichole Hernandez filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Valentina Nichole Hernandez to Valentina Nichole Zolnikov.
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: 02/27/2025, Time: 09:00 AM, Department: S23The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the  SBCS ? Ontario in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 01/16/2025
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Published in the SBCS  Ontario on 02/07/2025, 02/14/2025, 02/21/2025, 02/28/2025

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—The Democratic Luncheon Club of San Bernardino is pleased to present its 31st Annual Banquet and Installation of Officers featuring Congressman Pete Aguilar, set for March 1st, 2025, at noon. The event will occur at the Elks Lodge #836, 2055 Elks Drive, San Bernardino, CA. Doors will open at 11:30 AM.

Pete Aguilar represents the 33rd Congressional District of California. He was most recently re-elected in 2024. In the 118th Congress, Rep. Aguilar holds the leadership position of Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the third ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives.

“This event is always the San Bernardino valley’s much anticipated premier political event of the year. We honor officers and celebrate the club’s achievements over the past year. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Congressman Pete Aguilar, who is expected to share insights on the new Administration’s drastic budget actions and legislative issues affecting our community,” said Tim Prince, President of the Democratic Luncheon Club.

Other speakers include a representative of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, newly elected San Bernardino City Councilmember Treasure Ortiz and Frank Reyes, speaking on behalf of State Senator Eloise Reyes, who is undergoing treatment for cancer.

To secure any of the few remaining seats at this important event, RSVP immediately to Roxanne Rios (909) 961-4250.

The Democratic Luncheon Club of San Bernardino holds regular meetings most Fridays at Juan Pollo Restaurant, 1258 West 5th St., San Bernardino. Each meeting features a distinguished guest speaker who addresses significant local issues and news. For more information, visit the website at sbdems.com.

For additional information, please visit our website at sbdems.com or contact us via email at democraticluncheonclub@gmail.com.

About the Democratic Luncheon Club of San Bernardino

Founded in 1993, the Democratic Luncheon Club of San Bernardino is the premier Democratic club in the Inland Empire.

It appears that the legal battle that California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his political allies in Sacramento have waged against a four-fifths majority of the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees over a policy the district put in place in the Summer of 2023 mandating that district teachers notify parents when their children assume a gender different from the one assigned them at birth has been decided in a way that, essentially, allows the policy to be applied.
Ultimately, the question of whether the parents of students in California’s public schools have a right to know whether their children are manifesting gender incongruence in a classroom setting and if teachers are at liberty, or can be constrained by the state, to prevent parents from learning they are donning a sexual identity at a variance with their biology is a matter that will be decided in a separate but somewhat related lawsuit brought against the State of California by the district.
On July 20, 2023, with Board President Sonja Shaw and board members James Na, Andrew Cruz and Jon Monroe prevailing and Board Member Don Bridge dissenting, the board voted to adopt that policy, doing so over the objections of both California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who had flown down from Sacramento to attend the meeting, and Bonta, who had expressed his opposition to the policy in a letter.
Thurmond and Bonta both consistently asserted that students have privacy rights which allow them to prevent their parents from knowing the identity they assume in a public school setting. Because some parents are unaccepting of any deviation from heterosexuality on the part of their offspring and some of those might or would engage in physical, psychological or emotional abuse of their children upon learning of their gender incongruence, Bonta and Thurmond maintain that revealing to parents how their children are comporting themselves at school, if that behavior includes a reidentification of gender, would be, in Bonta’s words, “discriminatory and downright dangerous.” Asserting that “nearly half of students who identify as being LBGTQ+ [lesbian, bisexual, gay, transsexual, queer plus other non-heterosexual orientations] are considering suicide,” Thurmond suggested that students alone had the right to determine when and to whom they were to disclose their gender reidentification. Continue reading →

Late today, the San Bernardino City Council voted to hire recently retired Brea City Manager Fred Gallardo as its seventh top administrator/city manager in 25 months or eighth such entity in 26 months.
Officials expressed hope that the ongoing effort to select a full-time and full-fledged city manager and provide the city with administrative stability will reach fruition soon.
Since the election of Helen Tran as mayor in 2022, there has been a cascade of intensified changeability in city’s executive suite, which was already prone to impermanence.
Not since Fred Wilson served as city manager from 1996? until 2008 has the city had a top staffer in place for anything approaching even half of a decade. Wilson’s successor, Charles McNeely remained in place from 2009 to 2012 before returning in 2023 to serve nine months in an interim capacity and Alan Parker lasted from 2013 to the end of 2015. Both rode herd over municipal operations in the county seat only a fraction of the time that Wilson was in charge, yet their tenures were virtually interminable compared to most of the rest of San Bernardino’s city managers in the last decade.
Robert Field, the last city manager before Tran took office, lasted two years and three months before he resigned out of concern that his service to the mayoral administration of the politician Tran had displaced, John Valdivia, would not sit well with her. Field had replaced Teri Ledoux, whose tenure as city manager lasted a mere 15 months. Ledoux had replaced Andrea Travis-Miller, whose slightly more than 18 months as city manager ended in May 2019 and had begun in October 2017, some four-and-a-half years after she had served in an interim city manager capacity between McNeely’s first tour of duty and that of Parker. Continue reading →

In what one district employee called a “nonsensical resolution that resolves nothing” the Rialto Unified School District Board of Trustees this week terminated Superintendent Cuauhtémoc Avila, who was put on paid administrative leave more than nine months ago over suspicions of professional misconduct that have never been specified or articulated.
The board cited no cause in the action taken against Avila on Wednesday in its 4-to-0 vote, which involved two of Avila’s supporters turning the page on a chapter that had at its center a mystery which continues to confound virtually everyone who knows anything about it other than the members of the school board, one or two of the district’s top administrators, the district’s legal counsel and a limited set of lawyers with a law firm retained to look into the matter involving Avila.
Simultaneously, some of the district’s teachers, some parents of students in the district and a few students are suggesting that the only explicable reason for the otherwise inexplicable behavior on the part of the involved district officials is that they are seeking to bury a sex scandal that upon exposure would potentially result in tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in liability that would bankrupt the district.
The circumstance involving Avila, the board, and less than a dozen other district higher-ups entails a handful of facts that are known and some of which are hinted at or can be partially inferred and even more that lapse off into the province of the unknown. Continue reading →

What was originally believed to be the shooting death of a woman during a purse snatching gone awry at the Burger Point restaurant on Mill Avenue about five minutes before noon on January 10 was actually an elaborate murder for hire commissioned by the dead woman’s husband, the San Bernardino Police Department revealed on Tuesday.
At a news conference held at the San Bernardino Police Department on February 18, San Bernardino Police Chief Darren Goodman, together with the lead investigator on the case, Detective Dominick Martinez, and District Attorney Jason Anderson revealed the series of events by which authorities were able to determine in short order that the killing of Yesenia “Jessica” Torres, a successful businesswoman from Highland with assets valued in the eight figures was not a random robbery but the work of her husband and four accomplices he had employed to knock her off to further his financial interests in the midst of a bitter divorce.
On January 10, it was reported that a woman, later identified as Torres, was shot and killed by an armed male who had forcefully taken her purse as she was getting into her vehicle, a late model Mercedes Benz, parked in front of the restaurant located at 444 W. Mill Street in San Bernardino at about 11:55 a.m.
Paramedics were summoned and they pronounced the victim dead at the scene shortly after noon.
It was reported at the time that the suspect had fled by foot and homicide investigators were investigating the incident, which was being compared to a similar occurrence at the McDonalds on Second Street in downtown San Bernardino on January 2. Continue reading →

A 15-year-old Redlands resident who is suspected of engaging in a spree of robberies and burglaries in Los Angeles and San Diego counties was taken into custody by Redlands police on February 9.
The youth was taken into custody after he fled from officers in a stolen vehicle in an apparent effort to avoid being arrested. In his headlong pursuit to avoid capture, he crashed and wrecked the car he was in, collided with two others and injured himself and two others.
Because of his age, the miscreant’s name is not being released. Despite his youth, he has a demonstrated talent for interrupting the lives of others in ways that are generally not considered pleasant.
The youth’s developed mode of operation seems to involve engaging in strongarm and armed robberies or burglaries in places well removed from where he lives, a sophistication of his criminality rather uncharacteristic of sociopaths his age.
It appears that in this case, despite not having a driver license, he stole a Kia in Redlands and then used it to drive first to San Diego, where he engaged in an armed robbery and then drove to East Los Angeles, where he again robbed a victim at gunpoint. He drove eastward to West Covina, abandoning the car there. He then sole a 2017 Hyundai Elantra, which he drove back to Redlands.
Between the time he had stolen the second car and his arrival in Redlands, however, the vehicle had been reported stolen, with its description and license plate numbers/characters having been disseminated to multiple Southern California law enforcement agencies.
A Redlands Police patrolmen spotted the car, with the suspect in it, in the parking lot of the Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant in the 1400 block of West Lugonia Avenue on Sunday, February 9.
When the patrol car approached the Hyundai, the driver hastily pulled away, according to a police report of the incident. A chase was then on, with the driver accelerating and taking evasive action. The car was consistently exceeding 55 miles an hour and reached a speed exceeding 70 miles per hour during the pursuit.
While moving at a high rate of speed, the Hyundai ran a red light at the intersection of Fern Avenue and Cajon Street, hitting two vehicles and then a curb, rolling over multiple times.
The suspect was injured but not critically. He was taken into custody. The drivers of the other vehicles sustain light to medium injuries.

Outspoken and high-stepping LaVar Ball, the patriarch of one of basketball’s most celebrated families, underwent the amputation of his right foot recently in the aftermath of what was characterized as a “serious medical issue.”
The Chino Hills resident, who has parlayed his status as the father two current NBA stars and another professional basketball player who has played internationally into a lucrative sports apparel business, has a flare for making controversial and attention-grabbing comments on topical matters or those pertaining to the sports world, basketball in particular.
Upon his eldest son Lonzo submitting to the NBA draft after his freshman year at UCLA and turning pro in 2017 by signing with and playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, LaVar Ball immediately capitalized on the notoriety he had, boosting attention to himself, and ultimately his business ventures by making a series of outrageous statements. Included among these was his boast that in his prime hew would have beaten Michael Jordan in a one-on-one game.
He parlayed the notoriety and attention into the creation of a new basketball league in which two of his sons briefly played and the clothing/sports shoe line Big Baller Brand. Continue reading →