This upcoming year, running from July 1, 2023 until June 30, 2024, a number of San Bernardino County’s cities will be throwing caution to the wind by moving away from the fiscally conservative practice of operating on balanced budgets.
Exuberant confidence with regard to the expanding economy was a hallmark of the late 1990s and first couple of years of the Third Millennium, as investors and public officials alike believed that a booming economy based upon a well-established financial system would last forever, or at least the duration of their lifetimes.
But the bursting of the so-called dotcom bubble followed a few years later by the economic downturn of 2007 that proceeded from the real estate collapse which had its roots in predatory lending practices reinstilled a sense of discipline in the public sector and county and local governments, as they were forced to contract their operations and either lay off employees or seek givebacks from the unions representing those employees with regard to salaries and benefits that had been promised in employment contracts derived during collective bargaining sessions prior to the downturn.
The economy remained sluggish for six years, and municipal governments, particularly in California, resolved to set conservative yearly budgets that were balanced in terms of revenue equaling or exceeding expenditures. Continue reading →

With state legislation that would have mandated that school officials within three days of learning that a student is identifying as a gender other than that indicated on his or her birth certificate inform the child’s parents having collapsed from its own weight in the Democrat-dominated legislature in Sacramento, a question now stands whether the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education, which endorsed the legislation by a supermajority in April, will use their authority to impose that requirement on district educators this summer before the opening of the 2023-24 school year.
For roughly a decade, the Chino Valley Unified School District had fallen under the heavy influence of Christian fundamentalists, in particular those aligned with the Chino Hills Calvary Chapel, a church led by the Reverend Jack Hibbs. Hibbs evinces a denominationalist attitude, which holds that Christians have a duty to take over public office and promote their religious beliefs.
Hibbs made an object demonstration of the impact his brand of evangelism can effectuate when in 2010, through an extension of his church known as the Watchman Industry and with Board Member James Na’s and then-Board Member Sylvia Orozco’s assistance, he successfully lobbied the school board to include Bible study classes as part of the district’s high school curriculum.
Hibbs’ grip on the district was strengthened when another member of his church, Andrew Cruz, joined Orozco and Na on the board. Continue reading →

San Bernardino County is pushing forward with two arrangements with Bio-Fuels San Bernardino Biogas, LLC to allow that company to capture methane produced at the county’s Rialto and Colton landfills despite progression toward compliance with a state law aimed at radically reducing methane production at all of the state’s landfills.
In June 2022, the solid waste management division of the San Bernardino County Public Works Department entered into agreements with Bio-Fuels San Bernardino Biogas, LLC that involve selling landfill gas from the Mid-Valley Sanitary Landfill and the Colton Sanitary Landfill.
At the Mid-Valley Landfill, the landfill gas will be processed and turned into renewable natural gas, known by the acronym RNG. This renewable natural gas will be sold and delivered to the nearby SoCal Gas pipeline, which is a system for distributing natural gas. The gas will be processed to meet the standards set by SoCal Gas for accepting RNG into their pipeline. Continue reading →

FBN 20230005798
The following entities are doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
HEAVY HITTERS BARBER COLLEGE 15329 PALMDALE RD, UNIT A VICTORVILLE, CA 92392: HEAVY HITTERS BARBER COLLEGE LLC 15329 PALMDALE RD, UNIT A VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered in California under the number 202354611289.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: MARCH 14, 2023.
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/ JOSHUA BANDY, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/06/2023
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 I1287
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 June 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER 2311466
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Emily Kieffer filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Emily Grace Kieffer to Emily Grace Kieffens, 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: 08/16/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S30
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 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: 04/06/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Brian S McCarville
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 06/09/2023, 06/16/2023, 06/23/2023, 06/30/2023

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The Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, the main campus of San Bernardino County’s county hospital, has been certified as a Level 1 trauma center.
According to the American Trauma Society, a Level I trauma center is a comprehensive regional resource that is capable of dealing with severely injured patients. A Level I trauma center is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury – from prevention through rehabilitation. Elements of Level I trauma centers include 24-hour in-house coverage by general surgeons, and prompt availability of care in specialties such as orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, internal medicine, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial, pediatric and critical care, as well as referral resource for communities in nearby regions. Level 1 trauma centers provide leadership in prevention, public education to surrounding communities and provide continuing education of the trauma team members, while incorporating a comprehensive quality assessment program. Level 1 trauma centers are also required to operate an organized teaching and research effort to help direct new innovations in trauma care, make available a program for substance abuse screening and patient intervention and meet minimum requirements for accommodating a set annual volume of severely injured patients based upon the population being served. Continue reading →

A half of a year after the Redlands City Council raised the ire of a cross section of the community there by increasing the speed limit on 45 spans of roadway in that 36.43-square mile city because well over three quarters of drivers in that jurisdiction were exceeding the previously posted limits in those areas, the Fontana City Council resisted doing the same this month.
At issue is a statewide law and speed enforcement policy which calls upon cities to use a standard of the 85th percentile of the average speed along a given road as the speed limit that is to be posted. Cities are required to do a several-day long survey of speeds driven along its streets and roads at least once every seven to eight years. Under a law that has been in effect for decades, along with multiple court interpretations of that law over that period of time, if more than 15 percent of drivers surveyed along a particular stretch of road exceed the posted speed limit by more than ten miles an hour, anyone cited for excessive speed along those roads who cite the survey can have their speeding citations automatically dismissed. Continue reading →