In what was for a number of Ontario residents the seeming disintegration of the Ontario City Council played out right in front them Tuesday night as three-fifths of the panel’s members made an eleventh-hour effort to officially rebuke their colleague who has assumed the mantle of the community’s lead dissident.
The hurried nature of the effort, including the failure of the city clerk to provide timely public notice of the contemplated action and a corresponding failure of the city council, city staff and the city attorney to provide any text or written resolution of censure with attendant documentation resulted in the matter not being consummated, such that it was deferred to an unspecified date in the future.
What did emerge is a somewhat vague and inexact description of the transgression Ontario city officials are alleging Councilman Ruben Valencia had engaged in, relating to his recent sojourn to Mexico and social interaction with some politicians there.
At Tuesday night’s meeting, while Valencia did recuse himself from the discussion relating to his censure, his supporters made their presence known, presaging the likely response the council and city management will be subjected to if the effort to discipline Valencia for what they consider to be a non-issue persists. They hinted at a deeper motivation for tarring and discrediting Valencia than the Ontario political establishment is letting on, and insinuated that they will push for an open public discussion in which they will make the exposure of that motivation a part of the presentation of the evidence to support or oppose the resolution of censure and the deliberative procedure for its approval. Continue reading →

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FBN 20230000824
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as ZYNTEC 2314 CALLE BIENVENIDA CHINO HILLS, CA 91701: MEI DU 2314 CALLE BIENVENIDA CHINO HILLS, 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: JANUARY 11, 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/ MEI DU
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/30/2023
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 J3108
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 February 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2023.

FBN 20230000778
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as MASI TECHNIKS 243 W. VERNON DR APT B UPLAND, CA 91786:
JAIME MORA 243 W. VERNON DR APT B UPLAND, CA 91786
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/ JAIME MORA
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/27/2023
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 J3108
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 February 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2023.

FBN 20230000215
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as H & E HOIST AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES 12720 AMBER LANE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: EDER ESQUIVEL MAJESTY RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 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/ EDER ESQUIVEL, Owner
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/09/2023
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 J3108
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 February 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2023.

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By Mark Gutglueck
Leonard Hernandez, whose tenure as San Bernardino County’s chief executive officer started out with so much promise, at least for him, has lost considerable traction in recent months as he has fallen victim to his own vaunting ambition and the ruthless formula he had previously so successfully utilized in seeking to fulfill it.
As little as a year ago, the smart money was that Hernandez, who was selected in September 2020 and officially hired the following month to replace Gary McBride, his predecessor as the county’s chief executive officer, was on a trajectory to last another decade-and-a-half in the county’s top staff position.
In recent months, however, he and the county have encountered some rough sledding that is threatening to dislodge him from the pinnacle of government in the nation’s largest geographical county outside of Alaska. Continue reading →

By Anthony Serrano & Mark Gutglueck
After discussions that have gone on for more than four years, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, now known as the Yuhaaviatam Nation, is on the brink of swapping seven parcels consisting of 1,533.92 acres it owns in the San Bernardino National Forest at various altitudes ranging from approximately 5,200 feet to 7,000 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains for two parcels of federal land consisting of 1,475.90 acres located near the Arrowhead Springs Hotel at the approximate 2,000 foot elevation in the San Bernardino Mountain foothills.
The land the tribe will acquire under the agreement lies at a crucial juncture in the foothills above the San Bernardino and Highland city limits, from which it could divert to its own use much of the Inland Region’s water resources.
According to Dave Anderson, the special uses and lands program manager for the San Bernardino National Forest, “The tribe initially approached the forest with a proposal for the land exchange. At some time before 2019 the tribe was advised by the Forest Service to first acquire (or acquire the option to purchase) properties that had previously been identified by the United States Forest Service as high-value parcels with respect to location and resources within our congressional boundary. The tribe did so and returned to the forest with a more complete proposal.” Continue reading →