ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2322236
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Gurleen Bedi filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Gurleen Bedi to Gurleen Leena Bedi, 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: 11/29/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S24
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBCS ? Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 10/18/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on 10/27/2023, 11/03/2023, 11/10/2023, 11/17/2023

NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PAULINE ERLINDA DUARTE

FBN 20230010342
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
P & C REAL ESTATE GROUP 8047 DAY CREEK BLVD, SUITE 100 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: LYNN M PERRY 8626 BUGGY WHIP ROAD ALTA LOMA, 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/ LYNN M. PERRY, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/12/2023
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 I8090
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 October 27 and November 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

CASE NO. PROSB2200267
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PAULINE ERLINDA DUARTE
AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ERNEST JOSEPH DUARTE, JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
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 AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ERNEST JOSEPH DUARTE, JR. be appointed as personal representatives 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. F-1 at 9:00 a.m. on November 27, 2023
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
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 Ernest Joseph Duarte, Jr.:
ANTONIETTE JAUREGUI (SB 192624)
1894 S. COMMERCENTER WEST, SUITE 108
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408
Telephone No: (909) 890-2350
Fax No: (909) 890-0106
ajprobate@gmail.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on November 3, 10 & 17, 2023.

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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, in an effort to get ahead of the retail theft curve that accompanies every holiday gift buying season but which has grown particularly acute in recent years, intensified its anti-shoplifting program in Rancho Cucamonga earlier this year.
With its Victoria Gardens shopping venue, Rancho Cucamonga for more than a decade has made a bid to become the epicenter of San Bernardino County commercial activity, facing off against The Shoppes at The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, in an effort to get ahead of the retail theft curve that accompanies every holiday gift buying season but which has grown particularly acute in recent years, intensified its anti-shoplifting program in Rancho Cucamonga earlier this year.
With its Victoria Gardens shopping venue, Rancho Cucamonga for more than a decade has made a bid to become the epicenter of San Bernardino County commercial activity, facing off against The Shoppes at Chino Hills, The Mills in Ontario, the Outlets at Barstow in Lenwood off the 15 Freeway, the Mall of Victor Valley and Montclair Place, the vestige of the once grandly successful Montclair Plaza. As a consequence, the sheriff’s department, which serves as the contract police department with Rancho Cucamonga, chose that city to make its most determined statement yet to those who have signed on to two of the fastest-growing trends in criminal activity throughout the country – swarm thefts and smash and grab robberies.
In a typical swarm theft, a significant number of participants – a dozen or more and, in some, multiple dozens or scores of of thieves – will enter a business and spend several minutes collecting and/or pocketing merchandise and then, upon a prearranged signal, walk out en masse without paying for any of it. By their sheer numbers, they overwhelm the clerks or store personnel and their ability to prevent what is occurring. Continue reading →

Nick DePrisco Jr., the first mayor of Apple Valley whose adherence to the vision of the community as a place with a less-hurried and more rural atmosphere than the citified environment of Queens, New York where he was raised set the tenor for the town he co-founded, has died.
DePrisco, 75, passed away on September 29 in Laguna Woods from the complications of the pancreatic cancer he suffered from.
Born in New York on March 17, 1948, DePrisco was the son of Nicholas DePrisco and Gloria DePrisco. He spent his youth in Queens, attending Smithtown High School on Long Island.
As a young man, he came to California. He attended and graduated from California State University East Bay, also known as Cal State Hayward, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in sociology.
Out of college, DePrisco worked as a teacher for a time. He gravitated toward a career in law, attending Western State College of Law in San Diego and obtaining his juris doctor degree from Thomas Jefferson College of Law in 1977. He worked in private practice for nearly three years and in 1980, San Bernardino County Public Defender Charles Ward hired him as a deputy public defender.
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Prompted by the death of longtime City Clerk Carolina Padilla-Barrera eight months ago, the Colton City Council this week voted to put a measure on the March 2024 ballot to convert Colton’s city clerk position from an elected to an appointed one.
Padilla-Barrera succeeded Helen Ramos, who subsequently became a councilwoman, as city clerk. She was reelected in 2004, but was defeated in 2008 by Eileen Gomez and fell short once more in challenging Gomez in the 2012 election.
In 2014, however, Gomez elected to go to work in Laguna Niguel as city clerk there, when Rod Foster departed as city manager from Colton to take on the job in that Orange County city. Padilla-Barrera, who was then 70, was selected by the city council to replace Gomez. Padilla-Barrera was reelected without opposition in 2016 and again in 2020.
Little fanfare attended her death in March. Deputy City Clerk Stephanie M. Vargas is filling the city clerk’s position at present.
City officials, following a trend among cities to move toward having hired/appointed city clerks in recent years, this week had the council consider transforming the city clerk’s post from one that is elected to one chosen by the city manager and ratified by the city council. Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
Twentynine Palms officials are wrestling with the dilemma of whether to make good on a previous commitment to locate a wastewater treatment facility in the vicinity of Two Mile Road and Utah Trail, west of Sunmore Estates, while using a $50 million grant from the State of California approved last month to defray a major portion of the project’s cost or whether they should return that money and seek to build the plant at a more remote location.
In determining whether it will be prudent to look the state’s gift horse in the mouth, city officials are examining not only the prospect that the undertaking will have a deleterious impact on the immediate vicinity around where it is to be located but what public expense would be entailed in paying to move it to another spot or, alternately, paying to relocate those whose homes or businesses are to be severely impacted by its presence.
At issue is concern among owners of residences and businesses near the proposed plant that it will expose to the open air raw sewage that will render the area, if not inhabitable entirely, then so unpleasant that residency and commercial operations there will prove unviable. Continue reading →

A San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy who was celebrated in his hometown of Fontana as an upstanding law enforcement type was arrested on Monday on suspicion of being under the influence of methamphetamine while on duty.
Samuel Espinoza, 35, who has been employed as a deputy with the department for five years, was taken into custody at his work site, the West Valley Detention Center located at 9500 Etiwanda Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga, at 5:28 pm on November 6.
According to a summary of the incident provided by the sheriff’s department, “Samuel Espinoza was …assigned to the transportation division. While on duty, Espinoza’s supervisor recognized him to be under the influence of a narcotic controlled substance. Additionally, Espinoza was found to be in possession of a suspected narcotic controlled substance. Espinoza did not operate department vehicles occupied by inmates during his shift.”
According to the summary, “Though this is an active and ongoing investigation, it does not appear Espinoza furnished narcotics to any inmates or other staff members. Espinoza was subsequently placed under arrest for HS11550 (E) – Possession of a Narcotic Controlled Substance While Armed and PC4573.5 – Bringing Narcotics into a Jail Facility, both felony charges.” Continue reading →