The Needles Planning Commission on July 7 put the kibosh on Armen Ghadimian’s proposal to convert the long-dormant Imperial 400 Motor Inn on Broadway Street into an apartment complex.
Ghadimian, who represents for NAAR Capital, LLC, acquired the property, which has been vacant for over a decade after a fire gutted five of its units, and the entire building was red-tagged. Ultimately, Ghadimian’s intent was to refurbish all 32 units and augment each with a kitchenette and a single bedroom. Those units would entail approximately 240-to-280 square feet each, he said. Ideally, they would be living quarters for veterans, either living alone or with a single partner, similar to another project Ghadimian has completed in Needles, the reclamation of the Sage hotel.
The 10,288-square-foot Imperial 400 Motor Inn is located at 644 West Broadway Street.
The major renovations to the motel would have been the construction of the kitchenettes, the replumbing for all of the bathrooms and the major reconstruction of the units destroyed by fire. In addition, the apartment complex was to have two laundry rooms, an office and reception area. Continue reading →

Yesterday, House Resolution 1435, sponsored by Congressman Jay Obernolte and three other Republican lawmakers, was passed by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
H.R.1435, which is known as the Preserving Choice for Vehicle Purchases Act, was introduced by Pennsylvania Congressman John Joyce, Ohio Congressman Bob Latta, Florida Congressman Gus Bilirakis and Obernolte. It will will next be considered by the full U.S. House of Representatives.
H.R.1435, would amend federal law to block attempts to eliminate the sale of vehicles with internal combustion engines. Further, the legislation would restrict the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing any waivers that would ban the sale or use of new motor vehicles with internal combustion engines. The Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act was introduced in response to the California Air Resource Board’s decision to effectively ban the sale of new, internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, in an effort to force automakers to cease the development and production of new gas-powered motor vehicles. Continue reading →

Because of poor communication and a lack of coordinated customer service, some mountain community residents and landowners have been left vulnerable to grifters and burglars seeking to victimize them.
IN accordance with state legislation, Senate Bill SB-1383, and a recently revamped franchise agreement between Big Bear Disposal, Inc. and the City of Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Disposal has been, since mid-to-late June, providing its customers with new 96-gallon gray carts for trash and 96-gallon blue carts for recyclables.
Senate Bill 1383 was passed several years ago and requires requires all jurisdictions in California to provide organic waste – essentially food waste – collection services to all residents and businesses. The implementation of SB 1383 has been delayed several times, and in multiple areas it is now being actuated. The gray trash carts supplied by Big Bear Disposal are intended to accept all non-recyclable solid waste including food waste.
In the mountain communities, particularly in Big Bear, many who own land there have dwellings or cabins as second homes or vacation homes, such that they are absent from them for a good deal of time.
In many, though certainly not all, cases, those absentee owners are present more during the winter or even the spring or autumn months than they are during the summer. In some cases, they may not be present for week or months on end.
As in the more urban environments down the hill, trash service in the mountain communities is weekly. Most mountain residents who are present set their trash out the night before or the very early morning of the day of collection and retrieve the empty bins shortly after the collection has occurred, usually in the afternoon or early evening of the same day.
With Big Bear Disposal’s delivery of the new bins, those properties where there are absentee owners have now become easy to discern because at the front of the driveways leading to those residences are two long neglected new trash bins.
Burglars can now conveniently drive through the mountain community neighborhoods and note with ease where there are homes that are vulnerable to burglary because there is no one home to watch over the property or the valuables that are contained within them.
In some Big Bear Lake neighborhoods, as many as four out of five homes are empty during most summer weekdays.
Moreover, the proliferation of trash bins along the street are for many people an eyesore.

FBN 20230006813
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
SMARTHIRE, A DIVISION OF KROUT & SCHNEIDER, INC. 4650 ARROW HWY, #E2 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763: KROUT & SCHNEIDER, INC. 4650 ARROW HWY, #E2 MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered with the State of California under the number CO535332.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: December 8, 2020.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 17913. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ MARK A. MCCLAIN, Vice President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 7/6/2023
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 J6748
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023.

FBN 20230005436
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
MY PRO FRESH CHEF 12207 CENTRAL AVE CHINO, CA 91710 MY PRO FRESH CHEF 2575 THUNDER MOUNTAIN ROAD UPLAND, CA 91784 26444 SILVERADO CT MORENO VALLEY, CA 92555: TERESITA GARCIA SAPIEN 26444 SILVERADO CT MORENO VALLEY, CA 92555
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 31, 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/ ISAAC SANDOVAL, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/25/2023
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 J5473
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023.

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The Ontario City Council this week imposed on its constituents a 6.67 percent water rate hike despite outstanding questions over whether it has adequately addressed diversions of what is reported to be $127.6 million from the city’s water operating and capital improvement/facilities maintenance funds for the years running between 2008 and 2021. Over the last five weeks, as they were moving toward upping the amount of money Ontario residents and businesses will pay for the elixir of life, Ontario city officials have assiduously avoided explicitly addressing precisely how much of the money within the city’s water utility division was loaned or otherwise transferred to the city’s operating budget during the 13 years in question. This week, when confronted directly with requests to quantify the amount of water division money that was used to shore up the city’s general fund for well over a decade and how much of that money had been returned, despite Mayor Paul Leon’s promise Tuesday evening that City Hall would make that clarification, by press time today city officials have not yet done so.
The issue at hand is not entirely the interfund transfers, which while significant, are not unheard of. Rather, it is that city officials are unwilling to fully acknowledge or quantify them, particularly in a situation in which they are calling upon the city’s residents and the consumers of the water provided by the municipal utility department to essentially pay for the upkeep of the system that otherwise would have been provided for by the money which has been diverted. Continue reading →

The razor sharp philosophical and political divide within the country over transgenderism, gender dysphoria, tolerance and acceptance thereof, compassion that should be shown to those dealing with such issues in their own makeup, the degree to which the community should and will allow those realities to intrude into the lives of those wishing to remain aloof from such influences and the extent to which long extant and traditional norms conflict with society’s changeover in this regard loomed into sharp focus in Chino this week at the Don Lugo High School multi-purpose room on Thursday evening.
The Chino Unified School District Board of Education held its meeting there in anticipation of an oversized crowd, which indeed turned out for an item on the agenda that requires faculty at the district’s schools to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender or insists on using a name, pronoun or facilities other than those traditionally intended for an individual as identified on that student’s birth certificate.
The district took up the issue after Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli with the introduction of Assembly Bill 1314 in March sought, unsuccessfully, to impose statewide a requirement that school officials not keep information pertaining to the gender reidentification that students insist upon within a school setting from the parents of those children. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino City Unified School District has sustained a $4.348 million judgment in a lawsuit brought against it by a woman injured in a traffic accident when the district’s assistant police chief, Stephen Donahue, rear-ended her.
According to proof presented at trial in June, LaWanna Martin-Brown had to undergo a total knee replacement when a department-issued car driven by Donahue in after-work hours, while he was either driving home or to a baseball game, slammed into her vehicle.
Donahue was deemed to be at fault in the accident.
In nineteen days of trial proceedings before Judge Corey Lee, including scheduling and jury selection in May and June, Michael Geoola, Chantly Geoulla and Marine Khachoyan represented Martin-Brown while Ryan Miller represented both the San Bernardino City Unified School District and Stephen Donahue and Jeffrey Haynes provided additional representation for the San Bernardino City Unified School District.
It took until May 25, the eighth day of proceedings, to impanel a jury.
Opening statements for the plaintiff were presented on the ninth day of trial on May 30.
There was testimony or presentation of evidence, including the playing of video depositions, on May 31, June 1, June 5, June 6, June 7, June 8, June 12, June 13 and June 14, with the Jury engaging in deliberations on June 15 and again on June 20. Continue reading →