3/4s San Antonio H2O Share Available
ids are being taken on ¾ shares of San Antonio Water Stock previously owned by contractor Earle Townsend Casler, a World War II Army Air Corps veteran and later a general contractor who was responsible for development in the Upland and San Antonio Heights areas.
Those interested in submitting bids, which start at $50,000, should contact Mark Gutglueck at (951) 567-1936.

FBN 20250003826
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
PRECISION PROPERTY SERVICES, INC 1400 SERENATA ST COLTON, CA 92324: PRECISION PROPERTY SERVICES, INC 1400 SERENATA ST COLTON, CA 92324
Business Mailing Address: 1400 SERENATA ST COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: March 1, 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 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ KARYM CARDENAS, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 4/21/2025
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 K4616
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 it-self 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 May 23 & 30 and June 6 & 13, 2025.

FBN 20250003796
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
SKYFOREST TECH SERVICES 523 SUNDERLAND CT LAKE ARROWHEAD 92352: JESSE R DACRI
Business Mailing Address: P O BOX 3277 LAKE ARROWHEAD 92352
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/ JESSE R DACRI, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 4/21/2025
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 K4616
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 it-self 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 May 23 & 30 and June 6 & 13, 2025.

FBN20250004246
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
PACKED ACAI BOWLS 6636 BRINDISI COURT RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701: JOSEPH SLMANI 6636 BRINDISI COURT RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91701
Business Mailing Address: 6636 BRINDISI COURT 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: June 21, 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/ JOSEPH SLMANI, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 05/02/2025
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 it-self 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 May 23 & 30 and June 6 & 13, 2025.

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The Upland City Council will revisit the Villa Serena Specific Plan Project on Monday, June 9.
The reconsideration comes more than five years after the project was first approved. The project was suspended after it became mired in controversy and legal challenges.
While the project proponents and city officials say those issues have been hashed out and resolved, there remain some Uplanders and in particular the residents of the immediately adjoining properties, who believe the intensity of the proposed development is too intense and therefore incompatible with the surrounding area.
On April 13, 2020, during a teleconferenced meeting in which the public participated remotely and electronically rather than in a physical forum, the Upland City Council voted 4-to-1 to give Frontier Homes an entitlement to construct 65 single family detached residential units on 9.14-acres owned by the Colonies Partners within the footprint of the defunct flood control detention basin north of 15th Street.
The residential area of Upland south of 15th Street and north of the commercial corridor on the north side of Foothill Boulevard between Campus Avenue on the West and running to Grove Avenue on the east is referred to as Foothill Knolls.
Project opponents asserted that in the run-up to the project’s consideration and approval, Upland municipal employees falsified and hid documentation and data indicating a portion of the site for the Villa Serena project was off limits to development pursuant to a covenant with the State of California.
Documentation upon which the city relied in evaluating the property contained discrepancies that were not satisfactorily resolved, those opponents said. Continue reading →

Despite having the rug pulled out from under them two years ago when their city made a major stride toward establishing a landmark homeless assistance program, Redlands officials have recommitted themselves and the Redlands community to redirecting the destitute toward a more normalized existence.
Two years ago, the city applied with Sacramento for money to be used for the specific purpose of addressing the housing crisis that had left 213 people living on the streets of Redlands in 2024 and 146 so situated this year. At its June 3 meeting, the city council signed off on passing along to ten different entities engaged in homeless assistance efforts the $4.1 million the city successfully pulled down from the state government as the result of that application.
According to Assistant City Manager Chris Boatman, “On November 27, 2023, the California Interagency Council [gave] notice of funding availability for the Encampment Resolution Funding Round Three Program, which seeks to fund actionable, person-centered local proposals that resolve the experience of unsheltered homelessness for individuals residing in encampments. On April 30, 2024, the Homeless Solutions Division Program Manager of the Facilities and Community Services Department submitted an Encampment Resolution Funding Round Three (ERF-3-R) Program grant application in response to the notice of funding availability for a comprehensive plan to implement a multi-faceted approach addressing ongoing homelessness challenges in the city.” Continue reading →

The City of San Bernardino has settled upon installing Eric Levitt as its city manager, the 13th individual to hold that post in 16 years, including two who twice served in the role and one who resigned after he was chosen but before he accepted the commission.
The appointment was accompanied by confident pronouncements that with the hiring of Levitt the city has turned the corner on an extended period of managerial dysfunction, one that echoed such predictions in the not so distant past with regard former city managers Charles Montoya, Robert Field, Andrea Travis-Miller, Mark Scott and Allen Parker, none of whom was able to remain in place longer than two-and-a-half years.
Indeed, both the dean of the city council, whose support of Levitt was crucial to his hiring and resulted in a coalition of seven votes to put him into San Bernardino’s municipal management suite, and one of the three newest members of the city council elected last year who was the one vote in opposition to turning the keys of the city over to Levitt, were in rare agreement when each stated their misgivings about Levitt’s prospect for longevity in the post.
San Bernardino’s last sustained era of municipal administrative stability came to a close in late 2008, when the City of Huntington Beach lured Fred Wilson, who had been San Bernardino’s city manager for a dozen years, to take on command of municipal operations there. Initially, at least, the city appeared to have more than overcome that setback when it was able to convince Charles McNeely, the city manager in Reno, Nevada, to head 453 miles south and serve as Wilson’s replacement. After three years of dealing with the same challenges Wilson had been struggling with – most predominantly the 1994 closure of Norton Air Force Base, which had brought in its wake a mushrooming local economic downturn – San Bernardino was drawn closer and closer to the brink of a financial abyss. McNeely found himself at the helm of a city that had engaged in deficit spending in eight of its previous 11 years and where a majority of the city’s elected leadership having come into office with the support of government employee unions. Most of McNeely’s political masters were thus resistant to his warnings that the city could not sustain continuing to increase staff salaries and benefits. In May 2012 McNeely resigned, just three months before the city filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, citing $56 million in general fund arrearages, a pending unpaid $50 million pension bond, an additional $195 million in unfunded pension obligations, $61 million in unfunded retiree healthcare and $40 million of workers compensation debt and general liabilities. Continue reading →

As a Vietnam War Veteran, Allen Bartleman said he takes exception to the manner in which the Trump Administration is conflating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army and President Donald Trump’s birthday with a joint celebration involving a parade and fireworks display in the nation’s capital on June 14. In a show of protest, Bartleman intends to travel across the continent to be in Washington on the day of parade and make a show of disapproval.
When the portion of the parade intended to commemorate the president’s birthday, which falls on June 14, Bartleman said he will turn his back on the proceedings.
“I will make my protest peacefully and respectfully,” Bartleman said.
Trump and Bartleman are almost, but not quite contemporaries, born roughly a year apart. Both came of age as the war in Vietnam was gearing up.
Donald Trump, born on June 14, 1946, was subject to the Vietnam War draft, which required that able-bodied men between the ages of 18-26 had to serve in the military for 21 months. That requirement was subject to suspension, known as a deferment. Ultimately, Donald Trump avoided serving in the military altogether and he pointed avoided serving in the military during the Vietnam War because he obtained, while he was attending college until 1968 for college deferments. Upon his graduation, he obtained a medical deferment.
Bartleman is a United States Marine Corps Vietnam veteran. Continue reading →

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has arrested two of the victim’s contemporaries in the shooting death of 19-year-old Keneth Xiong, which occurred either late on Frirday May 30 or early Saturday, May 31 in Yucaipa.
Xiong, who had been shot multiple times, was found by sheriff’s deputies on Saturday at the Oak Glen Wash near Avenue D at approximately 6:40 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Xiong resided in Fresno. The reason he ended up dead in Yucaipa, 242 miles as the crow flies or 288 miles by car from his home, and what he was doing in San Bernardino County and with whom he was in contact, was a story to be pieced together by investigators. That narrative and what investigators believe was the motive in the case have not yet been publicly disclosed. On Sunday, June 1, 21-year-old Dennis Wright, of Yucaipa, was arrested on suspicion of murder. Wright thereafter was subjected to the third degree by homicide investigators. Handcuffed and subjected to relentless and ruthless interrogation by detectives who grilled him like steak on an open flame barbecue, Wright ultimately implicated Kyle Heller, 20, also of Yuciapa in Xiong’s murder.
After seeking to verify several of the particulars in Wright’s statements, on Wednesday, June 4, sheriff’s department investigators, accompanied by at least three deputies, arrested Heller.
Based on the behavior of the homicide detectives of the sheriff’s department’s specialized detectives bureau assigned to the Xiong case, it appears that Wright and Heller are the only suspects in the case, as no further investigative action in the matter is being pursued. Investigators have not specified a motive for the shooting.

A report disbelieved by virtually everyone who has heard it holds that the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, June 3 interrupted a marijuana cultivation operation being run out of a home in Apple Valley in which an astonishing 10,000 plants were growing.
According to those familiar with the situation, residents in the Apple Valley neighborhood that included a portion of the 13300 block of Tioga Road, the 27000 blocks of Eyota and the 13300 block of Iroquois noted last month a heavy aroma of unburnt marijuana. After the sheriff’s department, which serves as the contract police department in Apple Valley was alerted, the source of the smell was localized to the four-bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2,398 square foot single family residence that self-contains a three-car garage at 13350 Tioga Road.
Investigators connected seven individuals as being associated with the property, those being Gracie Grey, age unknown; 38-year-old Jeremy Elwell; 80-year-old Ali Moein; 37-year-old Bianca Evans; 71-year-old Bruce Evans; 69-year-old Francesca Evans; 33-year-old Jonathan Evans; 75-year-old Leonard J Megliola JR; 36-year-old Marissa M Robbins; and 37-year-old Shane Grey.
On the strength of an affidavit that relied upon information provided by nearby residents, referred to as “informants,” and sheriff’s detectives, a search warrant was issued.
According to the sheriff’s department, “On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, detectives from Apple Valley Police Department and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Marijuana Enforcement Team served a search warrant at a residence in the 13300 block of Tioga Road in the Town of Apple Valley. During the search warrant service, a large marijuana grow was located along with an operation for sales of marijuana. Large amounts of illegal marijuana were seized, to include over 10,000 plants, 286 illegal THC vapes, 716 grams of concentrated marijuana wax and 91 pounds of processed marijuana. Continue reading →

Some Reflection On
American Elections

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”
–-attributed to Edmund Burke, English statesman and philosopher in the 1700s

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people keep voting for the lesser of the two.” –-Phill Courtney

Last year I don’t recall having been that down about a presidential election since my first vote for president in 1972, when teenagers could participate for the first time, and I watched in utter disbelief as millions of Americans, exercising their apparent inability to judge character (or perhaps even care about it), handed Richard Nixon, one of the least honest men to occupy the White House, a historic landslide over George McGovern, one of the most.
Less than two years later, after he’d resigned before being impeached (in the days when Republicans would actually convict a criminal heading their party), it was difficult to find anyone who’d voted for Nixon. Then, in 1977, during interviews with English journalist David Frost, Nixon uttered one of his most memorable lines: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
Sadly, after Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, saying that our “long national nightmare is over” (actually, Ford was only extending the nightmare as the Supreme Court now has), since then Nixon’s comment has proven quite prescient, as the Trump era continues to put Nixon’s assertion on steroids.
Of course, many presidents from both ruling parties have often violated both international and national laws with absolutely no accountability, from George’s W.’s massive war crimes, to the most egregious recent example: Biden’s continued funding of the Gazan genocide, and one reason I’ve remained with the Green party is because it always opposes these parties when they back atrocities.
So, the question remains: how to change course? In 1998 and 2002, I ran for Congress in Riverside County not because I thought I could win and change that course (I may be idealistic, but I’m not delusional), but because we need choices. If we’re going to claim that we have a “representational democracy,” then we need officeholders in our nation’s capital with other values represented, and not just brushed aside by a two-party duopoly fine-tuned to dismiss them.
After Lincoln’s election, the two major parties solidified this “lock” on power which continues to this day, with absolutely no countervailing forces able to check them. And what’s been the result? An ability to continue committing crime after crime, with, for me, the most disturbing being the war crimes that the U.S. government has committed basically since our founding. And for those who might need it, here’s a quick refresher course on some of those crimes, starting in the 1960s:
Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) and the war in Vietnam, with millions of civilian deaths and a landscape drenched in deadly, defoliant chemicals that continue to take a toll even today. Then Richard Nixon (Republican) continuing the war to satisfy his thirst for power, followed by Ronald Reagan (Republican) and his many war crimes in Latin America committed in concert with various despots. George H. W. Bush (Republican) with the war crimes of his Gulf War, some of the worst being the incineration of some 400 civilians in a Baghdad bomb shelter, and the massive slaughter of Iraqi troops trying to retreat on the “Highway of Death.”
Next came Bill (“I feel your pain”) Clinton (Democrat) with his war crimes in Bosnia and elsewhere. Then the crimes of the second President Bush (Republican) and his illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, along with torture; an occupation which Barack Obama (Democrat) kept in place, while also allowing some torture, of, among others, the whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and launched more predator drone missile than W., killing, in some cases, not just terrorists, but entire wedding parties.
Finally, and more recently, we’ve had the massive war crime of genocide committed in Gaza by Israel, funded in large part by the Biden administration, an atrocity which has been bookended by the two separate terms of Trump, who has also continued that funding, with yet more civilians bombed during his virtual “side show” in Yemen; deaths which have mostly gone unnoticed by many Americans.
So, there’s a quick review of a horrible history—a review which actually just scratches the surface of what’s gone on—all enabled by the two-party duopoly, which has either thwarted almost all attempts by other voices who speak out, for instance, in behalf of international laws and the U.N. charter, yet remain unable to enter the halls of power, or, when they do from time to time, have been either silenced or marginalized.
Right now, the U.S. also suffers from a two-party chokehold not only on elections, but on those who can get elected, with a federal body composed primarily of the rich—by the rich—and for the rich—(Trump’s two cabinets have basically been filled with billionaires)—because, as Bernie Sanders points out, many American work paycheck to paycheck and who can afford to run for office unless you already have a secure financial foundation for your run because campaigns don’t earn you, but cost you money—unless you win.
By now it’s become abundantly clear that we need far more people in Congress who work for a living—people who understand the problems of everyday Americans because they are everyday American. Unfortunately, these are the same people who can’t get elected because they don’t have the money—and until we have publicly financed elections to elect people whom we say should be public servants, corruption will remain baked into the system.
Of course, at this point I can hear the objections of many (including my wife), who say: yes Phill, all of this makes sense and should happen, but the way you’re doing it is just too slow. In other words: it’s too little and too late. We need ways to stop what’s happening now—right now! We can’t afford the slow incrementalism of electoral reform. And to them I say (including my wife): you’re right.
But I’ve also said this: that there is a way to change all of this virtually overnight if people simply refused to vote for the corrupt two-parties and began to support alternatives. There’s no reason why that can’t happen, except we’ve seen that it hasn’t, with perhaps the “closest call” being the campaign of Ross Perot in 1992 (yes, another billionaire), who might have made it if only he hadn’t been given to conspiratorial thinking and paranoia.
Another case in point was when I ran for Congress twice in 1998 and 2002 with the Green party (putting my feet where my mouth was) against my fellow Corona High Class of ’71 grad, Republican Ken Calvert, who first took office in 1993 and continues a corrupt grip on his congressional district to this day, where he now functions as a reliable “rubber stamp” for Trump and all his crimes.
Again, citizens in that district could have elected an honest man (and I know him quite well, since it’s me) but instead chose to continue “rubber stamping” Ken’s runs, in another example of the multi-faceted power of the incumbency; the two-party duopoly; and the overwhelming influence of corporate cash shoveled to candidates they approve of.
So, the question remains: how to stop this? Well, one way is what I’ve been working on for years with an organization called Californians for Electoral Reform with our push for instant run-off voting to eliminate the “spoiler” effect of the “lesser of two evils” system.
Despite the skeptics, it’s now being used in a number of other countries and in many American cities, as well as the entire states of Maine and Alaska, where it spared us the return of Sarah Palin. For more details on how it works, check out the entry about instant run-off voting on Wikipedia.
If that sounds appealing to you, please see Californians for Electoral Reform, or some of the many other electoral reform organizations on the internet for further details. In the meantime, while I recognize the realities of our current system and will continue to vote accordingly, that doesn’t mean that I’m giving up. True democracy needs all the help it can get.
Phill continued teaching high school English during both times he ran for Congress. His email is: pjcourtney1311@gmail.com