Residents in Bloomington, concerned that a 213-acre project slated for their community will displace more than 200 families now living there, have formed a coalition to halt the proposal.
Howard Industrial Partners has filed an application with the San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department for approval of a specific plan relating to the construction of an industrial business park involving a mixture of land uses that include warehousing, manufacturing facilities, offices, and a business park with a limited commercial component over an estimated 20-year buildout. The specific plan for the approximately 213-acre site, which is intended to serve as a management tool to guide the development, is divided into two parts. The first phase covers an initial approximately 141-acre development area. The second outlines the game plan for construction to take place on what is designated as an approximately 72-acre future development area.
The initial development area would allow for highcube/manufacturing/warehouse/office space at a maximum development potential of approximately 3,070,983 square feet, based on a proposed floor area ratio of 0.5:1. The future development area would allow for the same land uses at a maximum development potential of approximately 156,816 square feet based on a proposed floor area ratio of 0.05:1.
Floor area ratio is the relationship between the total amount of usable floor area that a building has, or has been permitted to have, and the total area of the lot on which the building stands.
A maximum development potential of up to approximately 3,227,799 square feet could be constructed under the specific plan. Adoption of the specific plan will require amendments to the county’s general plan and its zoning map.
The land use designation of the specific plan area would change from very low density residential use and low density residential use the property in question currently falls under to what is referred to as a special development land use designation. The current zoning of the property stipulates some of the property being slated for conversion into single residential units with one-acre minimum lots allowing some agricultural applications and the rest of the property being developed as single residential units with 20,000-square foot minimum lot sizes. Under Howard Industrial Partners’ request, the property is to be given a specialized zoning in the specific plan.
Since the area to be subject to the specific plan’s zoning would change from residential to a non-residential use, a net loss of future housing units in Bloomington could result. As a consequence, in conformance with Senate Bill 330, also known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, which requires replacement capacity for any displaced residential unit potential at the time of a project’s approval based on the zoning of the site in effect on January 1, 2018, the project includes the rezoning of a residentially-zoned site, referred to as the upzone site, to a higher residential density zone that would offset the loss of residential unit capacity in the area covered by the specific plan. Residential zoning at the specific plan area would allow up to 213 residential units, and the upzone site would allow a total of approximately 53 residential units based on the zoning in effect at both sites on January 1, 2018. The specific plan for the project would amend the land use designation for the upzone site from low density residential to medium density residential and amend the zone from single-family residential with 20,000 square foot minimum lots to multiple residential. As a result of the designation and zone change, the upzone would allow a total of approximately 480 residential units, thereby avoiding an overall net loss of residential unit capacity from rezoning the specific plan area to a non-residential land use.
Documents on file do not explicitly say so, but seem to indicate most if not all of those 480 units will consist of apartments.
Aron Liang, of the San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department, had not, by press time, responded to the Sentinel’s questions relating to whether the specific plan will place the 480 residential units into proximity to light industrial or medium industrial operations or warehouses which will expose those future residents to vehicle exhaust, production process emissions, chemicals or hazardous materials.
The project will involve a general plan amendment. The county has determined that an environmental impact report will be required for the project to be given clearance to proceed.
The group that is forming to lodge a protest with the San Bernardino County Land Use Services Department, the San Bernardino County Planning Commission and the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors is going by the name of Concerned Neighbors of Bloomington.
The draft environmental impact report for the project, which should provide more detail, will likely be available in April.
-Mark Gutglueck

The County of San Bernardino and the Town of Yucca Valley have qualified under an arrangement with the State of California and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to issue permits for the removal of Western Joshua trees under specified circumstances.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff members, in reaction to an environmental group’s assertion that Western Joshua trees have been brought closer to extinction by development, climate change, drought and increasing numbers of wildfires, recommended in April 2020 that the department’s board of commissioners take action to give the desert-specific yucca brevifolia, as the Joshua tree is known scientifically, protection.
A monocotyledonous tree, one with seeds typically contained in only one embryonic leaf or cotyledon, the Joshua tree is native to the arid southwestern United States, specifically California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert between 1,300 feet and 5,900 feet in elevation.
According to the Center For Biological Diversity, an environmental group, scientists have projected that the Joshua tree will be largely gone from its namesake national park by the end of this century.
In 2019, the Donald Trump Administration denied federal protection for the species. Environmentalists have told state officials that they must fill the void created by the federal government’s inaction, and lead efforts to ensure the Joshua tree’s survival.
The removal of Western Joshua trees is now highly restricted, permitted only under rigorously monitored conditions while the California Department of Fish and Wildlife studies whether to place the trees on its endangered or threatened species lists.
On December 10, 2020, the California Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to convey to certain qualified governmental entities the authority to okay the removal of Joshua trees, pursuant to state standards. The town and the county were required by the Fish and Wildlife Commission to pay $10,000 to the California Western Joshua Tree Mitigation Fund prior to those two governmental entities being granted leave to issue removal permits.
Developers, landowners and residents over the last nine months have sought from the county and town permission to remove Joshua trees from their own property or property they have tied up or otherwise secured. The grounds for the removal requests range from constructing multiple structures to constructing a single structure to making improvements to removing dying or dead trees. Neither the county nor the town had the authority to grant that permission. Until December 10 last, any removals had to be cleared with the state. Some of those looking to remove the trees have persisted in their requests of the county and the town.
Under the action by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission and the county’s and town’s efforts to claim that authority, those two entities are now in a position to consider and potentially grant removal requests.
Nevertheless, removing a Joshua tree even for those with relatively deep pockets is an expensive proposition.
Based on fees determined and set by the state, the cost to relocate a Joshua tree 13.123 feet tall or smaller on developed property will cost $175. To remove the same size tree from developed land will cost $525. To relocate a Joshua tree taller than 13.123 feet from developed property will cost $700. To remove a tree taller than 13.123 feet from developed property will cost $2,100.
Relocating a Western Joshua that is 13.123 feet tall or taller that is on undeveloped land will cost $2,425. Removing a tree that is 13.123 feet tall or more from undeveloped property will cost $4,175.
A Joshua trees that is less than 13.123 feet high growing on undeveloped land can be relocated for $625 and removed for $1,050.
In addition to those state-mandated charges, the Town of Yucca Valley will bill permit applicants $500 more to cover town staff time for processing the permit.
It is undetermined if the county will levy a processing charge or what the amount will be.
In addition to county or city employees examining the permit application, the information provided by the applicant will also be run by state officials during the process. This means a state employee will have veto power over the issuing of the permit, despite what the decision is by the local official considering the application.
According to the state, permits can be issued so a sewer line can be laid or sewer connection made; to facilitate the construction of a residence or accessory structure, such as a garage, swimming pool or storage shed; to make room for a public structure or road; or to remove trees determined to be dead by a licensed arborist.
Permits cannot be issued to facilitate substituting cultivated landscaping for natural landscaping.
The county and town are required to survey all properties where a removal or relocation permit is issued, and to take a count of the Joshua trees on those properties.
The Yucca Valley Town Council earlier this month adopted an urgency ordinance codifying the standards for granting a relocation or removal permit and setting the fee schedule.
-Mark Gutglueck

Kenneth Willis, who succeeded in serving three terms as an Upland City Councilman and rose to a position of prominence representing the construction profession, has died.
Born on November 26, 1946, Willis was a decorated Vietnam War veteran who had been recognized for his intrepid service when he was with the U.S. Army’s field artillery branch at the age of 19, 20 and 21, from 1966 to 1968. Willis returned to civilian life as a young man, obtained a college education and achieved success in the business world. After locating in Upland, where he raised a family and involved himself in community and civic issues, Willis gravitated toward a political role. Though he sustained himself in elected office for three terms, his political legacy will be forever tainted by the alliance he formed with disgraced Upland Mayor John Pomierski.
Willis helped inspire the city’s involvement in the Blue Star banner program, which celebrated the service of active members of the military raised in Upland. He said he felt showing support for servicemen and servicewomen was important, given the obloquy and disrespect he endured when he returned stateside from Vietnam in the late 1960s.
Blue Star banners were originally popularized during what is now referred to as World War I and which was then called the Great War. In 1917 and 1918, the banners featured a single blue star and the name of the doughboy being honored against a background of white trimmed in red. The banners went out of vogue during the Vietnam Conflict, but when Willis and others revived the practice in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the banners included a photo of the soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or Coast Guardsman along with his or her name and the blue star against a red-trimmed white field.
“As Vietnam vets, when we got home, there were people who insulted us if they saw us in our uniforms,” Willis said at the time. “I think it is important that we support those who are fighting for our country. They are putting their lives on the line, and I hope the banners remind people of that.”
Another community betterment program Willis involved himself with was Upland’s after school program, one that was aimed at so-called latchkey kids, whose single parents or both parents were at work when school ended in the early afternoon, leaving them on the streets. The program offered tutoring, educational, mentoring and recreational opportunities.
Willis, a member of the Southern California Building Industry Association, ultimately rose to the position of that organization’s executive vice president.
Willis was first elected to the city council in 2000.
Initially, he was not a John Pomierski supporter. Rather, in the 2000 election, he had supported then-Councilwoman Sue Sundell in her mayoral bid. That race took place in the aftermath of then-Mayor Bob Nolan’s decision not to seek re-election. Sundell was vying against then-Councilman Tom Thomas and Pomierski, who at that time was the chairman of the city’s housing commission. Sundell had last been elected to the council in 1996, and as such she was risking her position on the council, as she was due to stand for reelection that year. Thus, Willis, one of Sundell’s key supporters who would not have considered running for city council if she was in the race, was vying to replace her on the council. Thomas, who had last been reelected to the city council in 1998, was not hazarding his position on the dais by running for mayor, as his term as councilman was not set to expire until 2002.
Ultimately, Pomierski prevailed, garnering 45.2 percent of the vote. Sundell finished in second, with 33.4 percent. Thomas garnered 21.3 percent.
In the council race, Willis proved to be the top vote-getter among five candidates. He claimed, like Sundell, 33.4 percent of the vote, ahead of his closest competitor, Don “Bert” Osberg, who polled 30.8 percent.
In short order, the beguiling and manipulative Pomierski, who had been backed by deep-pocketed developmental interests, came to dominate the city council, forging an alliance with all of the council’s members, including Thomas, whom he had bested in the race, and Willis, whose political ally Sundell had been consigned to political retirement by Pomierski. In his initial years in office, Pomierski also formed a bond with Ray Musser and Michael Libutti, both of whom had first been elected to the council in 1998.
Early on, Pomierski was shaking down those with interests in the decision-making process at City Hall, and pocketing bribes. Despite widespread whispering about what was going on, Pomierski held his unanimous political coalition together, which initiallyu consisted of himself, Thomas, Willis, Musser and Libutti. In May 2002, Libutti, a prosecutor with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, was elevated by Governor Gray Davis to the bench as a replacement for retiring Judge Lou Glazier. Thereafter, the support network around Pomierski promoted another attorney, Brendan Brandt, who was the son of Barry Brandt, another establishment attorney from Upland, to replace Libutti.
Developmental interests had united behind Pomierski because of his readiness and ability to force, cajole or simply invite the other members of the Upland City Council, who collectively held the city’s ultimate land use authority, to accommodate those developers’ designs with regard to obtaining building entitlements. Pomierski served as a conduit of political donations originating with those developmental interests to other politicians. This formed the basis of and strengthened the bonds of Pomierski’s coalition.
That Pomierski counted among the members of his coalition a deputy district attorney who would subsequently become a judge and another accomplished lawyer lent the political machine that Pomierski had constructed around himself an air of invincibility, enabling him in his ability to demand payments, payoffs, kickbacks, quid pro quos and bribes from those dependent upon arrangements being made at City Hall to get their contracts, franchises or projects approved.
By 2004, Ray Musser, who had been reelected in 2002 with support from Pomierski’s fundraising team, had come to fully understand the ethos that Pomierski embodied, and he broke with the mayor, challenging him for reelection that year. Musser put on a spirited contest, making issue of the depredations Pomierski was engaged in, the pay-for-play nature of his politics and his bribetaking in exchange for votes. Musser’s campaign appealed to a significant cross section of the Upland electorate, and he had the solid support of members of the community who recognized what Pomierski was doing. Musser came relatively close to unseating Pomierski, capturing 46.08 percent of the vote. But Pomierski’s substantial fundraising superiority allowed him to run an energetic campaign, which gave him 53.72 percent of the votes cast, with 0.2 percent going to write-in candidates.
Willis, on the strength of his incumbency and aided by the campaign funding and other assistance provided by Pomierski and those with an interest in keeping the mayor’s machine intact, was reelected in 2004 as well, defeating his single opponent, Wendy Gladney Brooks. Willis’s margin of victory – 58.28 percent to 41.58 percent with 0.14 percent going to write-in candidates  – while enough to win was less than convincing for an incumbent. A sizable percentage of the city’s electorate had taken stock of Willis’s affiliation with Pomierski, and had voted against him largely on that basis.
It registered loudly with the Pomierski political machine how close of a shave the mayor and his council ally had that year. Four years later, it was not taken for granted that Pomierski and Willis would be shoo-ins, and in 2008, more concerted and aggressive electioneering on their behalf was carried out.
In the aftermath of Musser emerging as the sole opposition on the council to the direction Pomierski was taking the city in, Willis became Pomierski’s pit bull, snapping at Musser whenever he took a position contrary to the mayor’s.
Pomierski after the 2004 election moved to consolidate his position of power, forcing then-City Manager Mike Milhiser, on whom he conferred a $200,000 severance package, and then-Police Chief Marty Thouvenell out in the late winter and early spring of 2005. He hired into their places, respectively, Robin Quincey and Steve Adams, whom he could absolutely control. Because he had concerns that knowledge about his bribetaking and other illegal activities, already recognized for what they were by key players at City Hall and in the police department, would grow beyond containment, Pomierski engaged in a bit of bribery himself. He induced the council to confer upon Quincey a contract which provided him with a guarantee that he would receive the same percentage increase in his salary and benefits that were provided to the members of the police department. Thereafter, he arranged to have Quincey designated to represent the city in its negotiations with the police officers’ union. During the slightly more than five years that he served as city manager, Quincey was provided with eight raises that boosted his combined salary and benefits from less than $260,000 per year to $425,000 per year, making him the second-highest paid city manager in California. Meanwhile, the members of the police department saw their salaries and benefits escalate significantly, such that their silence and investigative inactivity with regard to Pomierski’s activities was secured. Willis was passively and actively involved in these arrangements.
A major development that occurred in Upland during Pomierski’s and Willis’s tenure on the council was the advancement of the Colonies at San Antonio residential subdivision in northeastern Upland, which took place on property formerly owned by the San Antonio Water Company, which served as a recharge field for the water table, and which had been categorized previously as open space. The Upland City Council, led by Pomierski, whose political career had been bankrolled in large measure by the Colonies Partners and many of its investors, allowed that project to proceed without a clear indication of which entity would be responsible for the provision of infrastructure, in particular flood control facilities. When a dispute developed between the Colonies Partners on one side and San Bernardino County and its flood control district on the other, that contretemps descended into litigation. Thereafter, the county filed an indemnification lawsuit against Upland, contending that Upland should reimburse the county for any money it would have to pay out to the Colonies Partners it any potential settlement or judgment granted against it as a consequence of the litigation. In 2006, San Bernardino County settled that lawsuit with a $102 million payout to the Colonies Partners. Willis, whose votes were critical to allowing the Colonies at San Antonio project to proceed without any firm understanding between the involved parties as to which one would defray the cost of a massive flood control basin and its appurtenances which were needed for the project to proceed, publicly stated that he was “outraged” at the city being hauled into court over the matter.
While he was on the city council, Willis’s one means of visible financial support was the position he held with the League of California Homeowners, an entity he had created and which was based in Upland, in an office little more than a stone’s throw from City Hall. Willis was the president of the League of California Homeowners, the primary function of which was to provide its members, who paid $100 membership dues to belong to the organization, a list of various professional service providers – plumbers, painters, electricians, roofers, dry wall installers, masons, glaziers, concrete pourers, construction laborers, heating ventilation and air conditioning system serviceman and the like – whose quality of work could be relied upon. Southern California Edison and the Southern California Gas Company provided a modicum of the League of California Homeowners’ operational funding. There was some degree of conjecture that the League of California Homeowners was a mechanism by which bribes and kickbacks were being delivered to Willis. Despite suggestions to that effect, no official action or prosecution was ever initiated against Willis.
Both Pomierski and Willis endorsed District Attorney Mike Ramos in his reelection effort in 2006, when he ran unopposed, and 2010, when he faced two opponents. In return, Ramos endorsed Pomierski in 2004 and 2008 and Willis in 2008. The Pomierski team’s  political affiliation with the district attorney further solidified the aura of invulnerability that attended Pomierski throughout the majority of his tenure as mayor.
Additionally, Pomierski sought and obtained, during both of his candidacies for reelection, the endorsement of more than two dozen other local politicians in San Bernardino County. Willis rode on Pomierski’s coattails in both the 2004 and 2008 elections. In 2008, Musser once again challenged Pomierski in the mayor’s race, and Mark Creighton ran against Willis. Unlike in 2004, when both had been caught flatfooted by the Musser and Gladney Brooks candidacies, Musser and Willis were prepared, and both spent a significant amount of money on well-planned and well-executed electioneering efforts. Musser failed to come as close to Pomierski as he had four years previously, polling 42.6 percent to the incumbent mayor’s 57.4 percent of the vote. With Pomierski and his supporters determined to keep Willis in office to ensure that Pomierski would have adequate support on the council to take care of those who were bankrolling his political machine, Willis was extremely well-funded in his 2008 reelection bid, and he trounced Creighton 74.95 percent to 25.05 percent.
Over the next 19 months, Pomierski continued to ride high, maintaining his Svengali-like hold on Willis, Thomas and Brandt. On June 11, 2010, the FBI served a series of search warrants at Upland City Hall, Pomierski’s home and the business office for his company, JP Construction, as well as at the homes and business offices of three of Pomierski’s associates, John Hennes, Jason Crebs and Anthony Orlando Sanchez. In addition to his business ties to Pomierski, Hennes was a member of the Upland Building Appeals Board, having been appointed to that post by Pomierski and confirmed by a majority of the city council, including Willis. On February 26, 2011, Pomierski quietly resigned as mayor and on March 3, 2011, an indictment naming him and Hennes that had been handed down by a federal grand jury was unsealed.  Pomierski was charged with taking bribes from and extorting businesses and business owners with projects or contracts under consideration at City Hall. Hennes was charged with acting as a go-between in the schemes.
Ultimately, in April 2012, Pomierski pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in federal prison.
At that point, the writing was on the wall, and Willis opted out of seeking reelection later that year. That was probably a wise move, as in October 2012, just before the November election, Robb Quincey, who had departed as Upland city manager as Pomierski was losing his grip on the city, was arrested and charged by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office with three felonies consisting of unlawful misappropriation of public money, gaining personal benefit from an official contract, and giving false testimony under oath. He would later work out a plea deal with prosecutors.
Ray Musser, who replaced Pomierski as Upland mayor and remained in that position until 2016, was charitable in his assessment of Willis. Musser spoke positively of Willis, despite his role as a major player in the Pomierski political machine who had fought Musser at virtually every turn during most of the dozen years the two were in public office together.
“He was quite a man,” Musser said. “Ken was given some hefty responsibilities. Mayor Pomerski asked him to head up the city water program, and in that capacity he was the city’s watermaster. In addition to its own water assets, which includes wells and reservoirs, the city has a 93 percent shareholder interest in the West End Consolidated Water Company and a 68 percent shareholder interest in San Antonio Water Company. Ken did an excellent job in that position, overseeing the water resources and delivery systems the people of Upland rely on.”
Musser said that “He was a firm believer in the after school program. Ken supported that very strongly, He took the lead on that, along with [Upland Unified School District Board Member] Linda Angona. He was very serious about helping children.”
Willis was, Musser pointed out, “respected by the residents of the city, who elected him three times. He was the executive vice president of the BIA [Building Industry Association].”
Musser did acknowledge, “He was the one person on the council who probably gave me the most difficult time. He would always say, ‘You never stop campaigning. You are always running. Every time the phone rings, you are out their looking for votes.’ And I would say back to him, ‘That’s true. I am always looking to help my constituents, doing whatever I can for them. Their problems give me an opportunity to campaign. That’s the way you stay in office.’”
Musser went on, “After Ken went off the council, one day I was up at the Hallmark Store, looking for a card. He was there, like I was, looking for a card. Ken came over and said to me, ‘I am so sorry. I had no idea what the mayor [Pomierski] was doing, everything he was into. I just didn’t know.’
“I said,” Musser continued, “‘Ken, you’re forgiven. That’s all in the past.’ That was the character of Ken Willis. He admitted he was wrong and accepted responsibility. He was a great guy.”
Sue Sundell said of Willis, “He was all about good government. He was a professional. He was the nicest man I’ve ever known. He was very respectful to everyone. He did not get upset. He never flew off the handle.”
In a January 23 posting, the Southern California Building Industry Association stated, “Ken Willis was devoted to his family, community and served with distinction on the city council.”
-Mark Gutglueck

The cities of Ontario and Chino are working in concert with San Bernardino County and the county’s flood control division to construct a $23.36 million regional storm drain.
The facility is to be located on San Antonio Avenue, running northerly from the existing Sultana-Cypress storm drain in the City of Chino to Phillips Street and easterly on Phillips Street to Oakland Avenue in the City of Ontario.
The City of Ontario, which is the most financially stable of San Bernardino County’s 24 municipalities, will front the money for the project, but will over time be reimbursed for 75 percent of the project cost by the county and presumably 12.5 percent of the cost by the City of Chino.
The proposed project is a component of the county flood control district’s priority project list and ten-year construction funding program.
The shared drainage master plan for Ontario and Chino addresses the need to construct a storm drain along San Antonio Avenue that will safely convey the flows generated by a 100-year storm, that is, the most intensive amount of rain that will fall statistically in one sustained deluge, based on the historical meteorological record for the local area over the last century.
The Ontario Chino area sustained heavy rains and flooding in 1938, 1964 and 1969.
The City of Ontario will act as the lead agency and will advance all funding for the San Antonio Avenue Storm Drain project. The total estimated cost of the undertaking is $23,360,000, including inspection, materials testing, construction management, environmental permitting, utility relocation, and construction. The San Bernardino County Flood Control District’s share is approximately 75 percent of that amount, $17,520,000. Due to the magnitude of the project, an additional 25 percent or $4,380,000, is being included by the county as additional spending authority
to fund any pre-approved contingencies, bringing the total potential county contribution toward the project cost to a not-to-exceed amount of
$21,900,000 which will be funded by property tax revenue.
It is estimated that the flood control district will not have the full funding available for its share of the project cost until fiscal year 2024-25. The City of Ontario has agreed to allow the county and its flood control district to submit reimbursement when funding is available.
Upon completion of the project, Ontario and Chino are to own, operate, and maintain the facility and all the local drainage improvements, including all catch basins, lateral connections to the mainline, and all manhole covers and appurtenances for the project.

Former Grand Terrace Mayor Byron Matteson was laid to rest on Sunday, January 10 at Montecito Memorial Park in Colton.
Byron Roger Matteson, who was born on January 7, 1937 in Hartford, Wisconsin to Floyd and Martha Matteson, passed away peacefully at his Grand Terrace home on December 14, 2020, surrounded by his loving family and a few close friends. He was 83.
Matteson as a child relocated with his family to Grand Terrace in the 1940s. He attended Grand Terrace Elementary School and Colton High School, where he graduated with the class of 1955. After graduation, he attended San Bernardino Valley College, obtaining his associate’s degree. Years later, in the early 1970s, after having fully immersed himself in the professional world, he continued his education at Cal State San Bernardino.
In 1961, he married Patricia Walker, with whom he had two children, Tammy and Mark. After more than twenty years of marriage, Byron and Patricia divorced in 1982. In 1987 Byron met Barbara Mindham and they enjoyed a lasting and loving relationship right up until the end.
Tammy and Mark had a remarkable childhood and remember their father as a witty and generous man who cared deeply for his family. He maintained his clever sense of humor until his final days. He was pleasant company and enamored many with his charm.
Matteson was a hard worker and dedicated entrepreneur who founded several businesses during his time on Earth. Shortly after he graduated from high school, he worked for the Southern California Gas Company for the better part of a decade. In 1965, he opened Jiffy Boy Restaurant, the first of what would be several businesses he founded. He owned and operated the restaurant until he sold it and became a salesman for Moore Business Forms in Colton. In 1978, he left Moore Business Forms and founded a dual enterprise, Allstate Business Forms and Instant Printing. He owned and operated those ventures until he sold the print shop in 1998. Prior to that, in 1990, he invested in Little Sister’s Truck Wash, which expanded to five locations, all of which remain in business. In the 1980s, he co-founded Inland Community Bank and individually founded Bear Tanning and Bear Elegance hair salons.
In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, Matteson was deeply involved in his community. He was elected to the Grand Terrace City Council and served for fourteen years from 1984 to 1998; twelve of which he served as the mayor. During his tenure as mayor, he served as both the president and secretary of the League of California Cities.
Throughout his adult life, Matteson was a member and a leader of several professional organizations, including the Rotary Club, the Traders Club of the Inland Empire, the Colton Jaycees of which he was president and the Business Forms Distributors Association. He was also a member of the Grand Terrace, Colton and San Bernardino chambers of commerce.
He was active in many charitable organizations, including the Lions Club, the 20-30 Club of which he was president, Rolling Start, Grand Terrace 4-H of which he was secretary and Guide Dogs of the Desert.
Matteson’s accomplishments, passion, zest for life and dedication to hard work during the course of his life left a deep impression on his children and grandchildren.
The last seven years of Matteson’s life were acutely difficult. In 2013, he developed a MRSA-based infection that he battled for six months. He recovered from the infection but it had caused long-term damage to his body, resulting in him being bedridden for the remainder of his life. He fought hard to maintain his relevance to the world and those he loved, and his family is forever thankful for the additional time they had with him after his 2013 health crisis. His family expressed grateful appreciation to his caregivers for their attention, dedication, and tenderness during his final years.
Byron is survived by his children Tamara (Tammy) Matteson and Mark Matteson, his sister Donna McFarland, as well as his significant other, Barbara Mindham. He had six grandchildren: Harry Atwood IV, Cierra Rounds, Brittney Johnson, Robert Johnson, Amanda Matteson and Emily Matteson. In addition, he had three great-grandchildren whom he absolutely adored. Byron rejoins his five brothers, William Matteson, Luke Matteson, Harvey Matteson, John Matteson and Maurice Matteson in eternity.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME
CASE NUMBER CIVSB 2026957
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MAURICE DAVIS filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MAURICE DAVIS
to DONALD MAURICE DAVIS
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: 2/2/2021
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Department: S17
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District – Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, Same as above, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210, San Bernardino
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: NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021.

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Began Transacting Business: MAY 6, 2006
County Clerk, Deputy A8608
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011233

The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Bravo’s Store & More, 127 N. Euclid Avenue (First Floor), Ontario, Ca 91762, Mailing Address: 127 N. Euclid Avenue (First Floor), Ontario, Ca 91762, Jorge Bravo-Bautista, 323 N. Marin Privado, Ontario, CA 91764, Freida J. Ortega, 323 N. Marin Privado, Ontario, CA 91764
Business is Conducted By: A Married Couple
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Jorge Bravo-Bautista
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/10/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 11/04/20
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011780
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: BB’s Brims, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIF 91764, Bridgette A. Bentley, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIFO 91764
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Bridgette A Bentley
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/28/20
County Clerk, s/ D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO
CASE NO. PROPS2100012
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE L. CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE CASTRO, aka LARRY CASTRO and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO, requesting that EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of LAWRENCE LEON CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE L. CASTRO, aka LAWRENCE CASTRO, aka LARRY CASTRO.
The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This will avoid the need to obtain court approval for many actions taken in connection with the estate. However, before taking certain actions, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or have consented to the proposed action. The petition will be granted unless good cause is shown why it should not be.)
The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. S35 at SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT – PROBATE DIVISION 247 W. 3rd STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 on February 23, 2021 at 09:00 AM
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 deceased, 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 subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code.
The Attorney for Petitioner EILEEN CASTRO HERSHKOWITZ is:
LEAH LARKIN SB 231329
LAW OFFICES OF LEAH LARKIN, A PROFESSIONAL LEGAL CORPORATION
873 BEAUMONT AVENUE
BEAUMONT, CA 92223
Telephone: (951) 845-5930
FAX: (951) 845-5407
leah@inlandlaw.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29, 2021

FBN 20210000227
The following person is doing business as PROTECTION 1 FIREARMS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739: JESSE EMBREY J7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
Mailing Address: 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JESSE EMBREY
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/08/2021
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy D511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 & 2/05, 2020.
FBN 20200011781
The following person is doing business as JASON’S ELECTRIC 770 WEST ORANGE STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410: JASON R ORTIZ 770 WEST ORANGE STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JASON R. ORTIZ
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/2020
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 1/01/2005
County Clerk, Deputy D511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/15, 1/22, 1/29 & 2/05, 2020.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011780
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: BB’s Brims; Don’t B Flat Vocal Coaching, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIF 91764, Bridgette A. Bentley, 950 N Dusenberg Dr., 08208, Ontario, CALIFO 91764
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Bridgette A Bentley
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/28/20
County Clerk, s/ D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011781
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Jason’s Electric, 770 West Orange Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410, Jason R. Ortiz, 770 West Orange Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Jason R. Ortiz
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/01/2005
County Clerk, s/ D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011794
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Mirror Mirror By “Hairdesigner-B”, 5404 Moreno St. #J, Montclair, CA 91763, Mailing Address: 4803 Prairie Run Rd., Jurupa Valley, CA 91752, Mirror Mirror By “Hairdesigner-N” LLC, 4803 Prairie Run Rd., Jurupa Valley, CA 91752
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Bianca Simmons-Hale
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/29/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 11/16/20
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000187
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Nubiyah Skincare, 14191 Redondo Court, Fontana, CA 92336, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3594, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729, Gail A. Maldonado, 14191 Redondo Court, Fontana, CA 92336
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Gail A. Maldonado
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/07/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200011576
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Venegas Painting And Drywall, 460 Julie St., Colton, CALIF 92324, Camilo Venegas, 460 Julie St., Colton, CALIFO 92324
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Camilo Venegas
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/21/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/15/20
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/15/21, 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21
FBN 20210000336
The following person is doing business as: DANK WAYZ 2800 E RIVERSIDE DR. APT 356 ONTARIO, CA 91761 BRIAN J PATTISON 2800 E RIVERSIDE DR. APT 356 ONTARIO, CA 91761
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ BRIAN J. PATTISON
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/14/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: JANUARY 8, 2021
County Clerk, Deputy I2443
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 & 2/12, 2021.
FBN 20210000075
The following person is doing business as AH, LOVE 7174 BODEGA ST FONTANA, CA 92336: HELEN HONG 7174 BODEGA ST FONTANA, CA 92336
This Business is Conducted By: AN INDIVIDUAL
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ HELEN HONG
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/5/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: AUGUST 17, 2017
County Clerk, Deputy I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2021.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000035
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Qualis Life, 4847 Arrow Highway, #418, Montclair, CA 91763, Mailing Address: 16125 Upland Ave, Fontana, CA 92335, Bryan A. Esquivel, 16125 Upland Ave, Fontana, CA 92335
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Bryan A. Esquivel
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/4/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 12/29/20
County Clerk, s/ DD5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).

01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000418
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Foothill Motel, 2512 W. Foothill Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92410, Foothill Motel LLC, 2512 W. Foothill Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92410
Business is Conducted By: A Limited Liability Company
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Jagdish Patel
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/15/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/01/21
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO20200011028 The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Orthopedic Sport & Spine Medical Group, 330 E. 7th St 2nd Floor, Upland, CA 91786, Hamid U. Rahman M.D. a Medical Corp., 781 N. Redo Cir, Orange, CA 92869 Business is Conducted By: A Corporation Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Hamid U. Rahman M.D. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/03/20 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: 04/01/2010 County Clerk, s/E4004 NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). 12/25/20, 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21 & Corrected on: 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

FBN 20200010183 The following person is doing business as: JOSEPH W. BRADY, INC. [and] ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT GROUP [and] BARSTOW REAL ESTATE GROUP 240 E WILLIAMS ST BARSTOW, CA 92311 JOSEPH BRADY, INC., 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 Mailing Address: PO BOX 2710 VICTORVILLE, CA 92311 This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JOSEPH W. BRADY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: DECEMBER 4, 1989 County Clerk, Deputy A9730 NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 11/13/20, 11/20/20, 11/27/20 & 12/04/20. Corrected on 12/25/20 and 1/1, 1/8 & 1/15, 2021 & 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

FBN 20200010182 The following person is doing business as: JOSEPH W. BRADY, INC. [and] THE BRADCO COMPANIES [and] BRADCO HIGH DESERT REPORT [and] THE SHOPS AT SPANISH TRAIL [and] THE SHOPPES AT SPANISH TRAIL [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY REAL ESTATE GROUP [and] BRADCO COMMERCIAL LEASING GROUP [and] BRADCO DEVELOPMENT [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE [and] BRADCO MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC REPORT [and] HIGH DESERT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY ECONOMIC GROUP [and] HIGH DESERT SURVEY (which began transacting business 08/01/2019) [and] MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY SURVEY (for which no date for commencing service is provided) 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 JOSEPH BRADY, INC., 12138 INDUSTRIAL BLVD., SUITE 250 VICTORVILLE, CA 92395 Mailing Address: PO BOX 2710 VICTORVILLE, CA 92393-2710 This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JOSEPH W. BRADY This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/30/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Began Transacting Business: DECEMBER 4, 1989 County Clerk, Deputy A9730 NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 11/13/20, 11/20/20, 11/27/20 & 12/04/20. Corrected on 12/25/20 and 1/1, 1/8 & 1/15, 2021 & 01/22/21, 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21

CITATION — PROBATE *
Case Number: TRUPS2000076
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 W. 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino Justice Center
ESTATE OR TRUST OF (Name): BOBBIE JEAN DAVIS LIVING TRUST, established April 10, 2019 Other
1. TO: CHRISTIAN RADLEY NICHOLSON, an individual
2. You are hereby cited and required to appear at a hearing in this court on:
a. Date: 05/13/2021, Time: 9:00 A.M., Dept.: S56
b. Address of court: same as noted above
3. At this hearing you are required to give any legal reason why the relief re-quested in the verified petition attached to and served with this citation, and filed with this court, should not be granted.
Assistive listening systems, computer-assisted real-time captioning, or sign language interpreter services are available upon request if at least 5 days notice is provided. Contact the clerk’s office for Request for Accommodations by Persons With Disabilities and Order (form MC-410). (Civil Code section 54.8.)
Date: JAN 11, 2021 (SEAL)
NANCY CS EBERHARDT, Clerk
By: AMY GAMEZ-REYES, Deputy
CN974959 DAVIS Jan 22,29,
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on January 22, 29 and February 5 & 12, 2021
FBN 20210000613
The following person is doing business as THE PRINTWORX 1160 DEWEY WAY, STE B UPLAND, CA 91786: MANNING & MANNING LITHOGRAPHY, INC 2528 LAKE AVE ALTA DENA, CA 91001
This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION
Registered with the State of California CI275199
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ SEAN MANNING
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/22/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: JANUARY 1, 2021
County Clerk, Deputy D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 & 2/19, 2021.
FBN 20210000017
The following person is doing business as BEL AIR BLVD 14762 SHADOW DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92337 JASMINE HENDERSON [and] JANAYA HENDERSON 14762 SHADOW DRIVE FONTANA, CA 92337
This Business is Conducted By: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ JASMINE HENDERSON
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/22/2021 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, Deputy D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/29, 2/5, 2/12 & 2/19, 2021.
FBN 20200011671
The following person is doing business as GLOBAL TRANSPORTERS INC 786 N GAREY AVE POMONA, CA 91767: GLOBAL TRANSPORTERS INC 786 N GAREY AVE POMONA, CA 91767
This Business is Conducted By: A CORPORATION
Registered with the State of California C3732557
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ TERRENCE OSBORNE MORRIS
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/23/2020 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: OCTOBER 15, 2018
County Clerk, Deputy D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code). Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, & 2/12, 2021.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000417
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Tres Art Co; Tres Co, 5728 Newcomb Ct, Fontana, CA 92336, Mailing Address: 5728 Newcomb Ct, Fontana, CA 92336, Nelly Avila Porras, 5728 Newcomb Ct, Fontana, CA 92336
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Nelly Avila Porras
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1/15/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/05/21
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).

01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000506
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Prestige Accounting & Tax Services, 14043 El Camino Pl C, Fontana, CA 92337, Norma Y. Hernandez, 14043 El Camino Pl, Fontana, CA 92337
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Norma Hernandez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 06/03/20
County Clerk, s/ M0597
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000120
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: The Sheet Metal Works, 491 Wildrose Ave., Unit J, Colton, CA 92324, Helen M. Wittman, 491 Wildrose Ave., Unit J, Colton, CA 92324
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Helen M Wittman
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/06/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: N/A
County Clerk, s/ I1327
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20210000604
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Diordash, 13002 High Vista St., Victorville, CA 92395, Marcus S. Medina, 13002 High Vista St., Victorville, CA 92395
Business is Conducted By: An Individual
Signed: BY SIGNING BELOW, 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/ Marcus S. Medina
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/22/21
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 01/05/21
County Clerk, s/ D5511
NOTICE- This fictitious business 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 name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see section 14400 et. Seq. Business & Professions Code).
01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21

FBN 20200010102 The following person is doing business as: FONTANA SMOG CHECK TEST ONLY 8171 SIERRA AVE UNIT R FONTANA, CA 92335 S MARTINEZ LLC, 8171 SIERRA AVE UNIT R FONTANA, CA 92335 The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 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/ SERGIO MARTINEZ Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 10/28/2020 D5511 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 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 11/27/2020, 12/04/2020, 12/11/2020, 12/18/2020 & Corrected on: 01/01/21, 01/08/21, 01/15/21, 01/22/21 & 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21

ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
Your registered FBN No. is 20200008985 and was filed in San Bernardino County on 09/30/20. Your related FBN No. is 20170000154 and was filed in San Bernardino County on 01/05/2017. The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the business name(s) of:
AMERICAN CHECK CASHING, 8001- ARCHIBALD AVE. STE B, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730, ISWA, INC., 8001- ARCHIBALD AVE. STE B, RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
BY SIGNING BELOW, 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 misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand ($1,000) (B&P Code 17913). I am also aware that all information of this statement becomes Public Record upon filing pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Gov. Code 6250-6277).
s/ASMA ZAHID
This business was conducted by: A CORPORATION
Began transacting business on: 01/09/07
County Clerk/s: D5511
Published: 10/09/20, 10/16/20, 10/23/20, 10/30/20 & Corrected on: 01/29/21, 02/05/21, 02/12/21, 02/19/21
FBN 20000011392
The following person is doing business as: AMERIPRIDE MORTGAGE FUNDERS 3333 CONCOURS ST SUITE 4102 ONTARIO, CA 91764; AMERIPRIDE PROPERTIES, INC. 9377 HAVEN AVE. SUITE 110 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ JFFREY FOHT, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/15/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202101MT

FBN 20200011389
The following person is doing business as: DONE RIGHT DRIVING SCHOOL 6787 COLE AVE #236 HIGHLAND, CA 92346;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 3093 HIGHLAND, CA 92413]; RAYMOND J LASSANCE 6787 COLE AVE #236 HIGHLAND, CA 92346
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/ RAYMOND J. LASSANCE, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 1215/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202102MT

FBN 20200011513
The following person is doing business as: MB COMPANY 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324; SHELLEY M GENNARO 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324; MIRANDA V MARTINEZ 1455 MILLER DR COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
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/ SHELLEY M. GENARO, GENERAL PARTNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/18/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202103MT

FBN 20200011627
The following person is doing business as: CHRONIC TACOS 806 S TIPPECANOE AVE STE B SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408; LW TIPPECANOE GAS INC. 58314 JOSHUA LN YUCCA VALLEY, CA 92284
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ SHUNDER SINGHPRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/22/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202104MT

FBN 20200011617
The following person is doing business as: UNITED M EXPRESS 1019 N. VERDE AVE RIALTO, CA 92376; DANIEL MONTALVO VILLA 1019 N. VERDE AVE RIALTO, CA 92376
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/ DANIEL MONTALVO VILLA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/22/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202105MT

FBN 20210000061
The following person is doing business as: IE JUNK.COM 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359; JEFFREY M ORDAZ 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359; BRANDI L ORDAZ 2281 MENTONE BLVD MENTONE, CA 92359
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
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/ BRANDI L. ORDAZ Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/05/2021
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202106IR

FBN 20210000258
The following person is doing business as: K.O. PRINTING GRAPHIX 954 W. 9TH STREET UPLAND, CA 91786;[ MAILING ADDRESS 15584 SESAME SEED AVE FONTANA, CA 92336]; JOSE R RODRIGUEZ 15584 SESAME SEED AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 07/17/2015
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/ JOE R RODRIGUEZ, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202107IR

FBN 20200011862
The following person is doing business as: DIVINE 1642 E WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324; ANDREA D OSORIO 1642 E WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/08/2015
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/ ANDREA D. OSORIO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202108MT

FBN 20200011884
The following person is doing business as: ROSA LA MICHOACANA 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786; JORGE GUTIERREZ 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786; ROSALINA GUTIERREZ 1473 E. FOOTHILL BLVD UPLAND, CA 91786
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/06/2016
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/ JORGE GUTIERREZ, HUSBAND Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202109MT

FBN 20200011883
The following person is doing business as: LOKA CHORES, LLC 25586 STATE STREET LOMA LINDA, CA 92354; LOKA CHORES, LLC 25586 STATE STREET LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
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/ LORI BURNS, MANAGER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 12/30/2020
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202110MT

FBN 20210000371
The following person is doing business as: ROSAS UPHOLSTERY 778 E BASELINE ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1924 VIA DEL RIO ST CORONA, CA 92882]; KENIA ROSAS 1924 VIA DEL RIO ST CORONA, CA 92882
The business is conducted by: AN INIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2021
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/ KENIA ROSAS, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/14//2021
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202111MT

FBN 20210000313
The following person is doing business as: HIGH LIMITZ TOWING 519 S. CYORESS AVE. ONTARIO, CA 9762; HIGH LIMITZ TOWING LLC 519 S. CYPRESS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/11/2021
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/ FERNANDO VIZCARRA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/13/2021
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202112IR

FBN 20210000244
The following person is doing business as: SHADES OF TINT 1409 W HOLLT BLVD ONTARIO, CA 91762;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1409 W HOLT BLVD ONTARIO, CA 91762
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2021
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/ JOSE A. LUNA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/15/2021, 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021 CNBB02202113CV

FBN 20210000227
The following person is doing business as: PROTECTION 1 FIREARMS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739;[ MAILING ADDRESS 7262 CUMBERLAND PL RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91739]; JESSE EMBRY 7262 CUMBERLAND PL 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: 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 EMBRY, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202101IR

FBN 20210000089
The following person is doing business as: IGOR LAPIN ENTERPRISES 15904 STRATHERN ST STE #20 VAN NUYS, CA 91406; IGOR LAPIN 15904 STRATHEN ST STE #20 VAN NUYS, CA 91406
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/ IGOR LAPIN, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/06/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202102MT

FBN 20210000101
The following person is doing business as: BODY SHAPEZZZ 2550 S ARCHIBALD AVE #F ONTARIO, CA 91761; YASMEEN G CHOUDRY 2550 S ARCHIBALD AVE #F ONTARIO, CA 91761
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/ YASMEEN G. CHOUDRY, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/06/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202103MT

FBN 20210000156
The following person is doing business as: GEM’S 1200 E WASHINGTON ST SUITE F4 COLTON, CA 92324; MARIA F OSORIO-LOPEZ 1200 E WASHINGTON ST COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 02/08/2016
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/ MARIA D. OSORIO-LOPEZ, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/07/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202104MT

FBN 20210000272
The following person is doing business as: CUTS OF RUBY BARBER AND BEAUTY 8901 FONTANA AVE UNIT B FONTANA, CA 92335; ARISBE L CORRALES 8901 FONTANA AVE UNIT B FONTANA, CA 92335
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/ ARISBE L. CORRALES, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202105MT

FBN 20210000271
The following person is doing business as: AK-PLUMBING 923 CREST FIELD DR DUARTE, CA 91010; MATTHEW R FRACASSO 923 CREST FIELD DR DUARTE, CA 91010
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/ MATTHEW R. FRACASSO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202106MT

FBN 20210000220
The following person is doing business as: YEYO’S SMOG & TIRE 607 W 9TH ST SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410; REDLANDS SMOG INC 24565 REDLANDS BLVD LOMA LINDA, CA 92354
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ HECTOR CHAVEZ, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202107MT

FBN 20210000273
The following person is doing business as: ROYAL CROWNS CLEANING SERVICES 7860 SAN BENITO ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346; ROYAL CROWNS CLEANING SERVICES 7860 SAN BENITO ST HIGHLAND, CA 92346
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ ROBERTO LARA, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202108MT

FBN 20210000221
The following person is doing business as: ARTISTRY IN MOTION DANCE & FIT 10557 JUNIPER AVE UNIT J FONTANA, CA 92337; MIGUEL A LIMON-RODARTE 10557 JUNIPER AVE UNIT J FONTANA, CA 92337
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/ MIGUEL A. LIMON-RODARTE, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202109MT

FBN 20210000313
The following person is doing business as: HIGH LIMITZ TOWING 519 S. CYPRESS AVE ONTARIO, CA 91762; HIGH LIMITZ LLC 13657 LUNA RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/31/2019
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/ FERNANDO VIZCARRA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/13/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202110IR

FBN 20210000431
The following person is doing business as: EL BOTANERO LOCO 1371 W. 2ND ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410; MICHELE J HERNANDEZ ALVARADO 1371 W. 2ND ST. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92410
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/ MICHELE J. HERNANDEZ ALVARADO, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202111IR

FBN 20210000452 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing business as: 909 TOWING 6183 SIERRA AVE FONTANA, CA 92354;[ MAILING ADDRESS 1634 ROGERS LN SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404]; BRYAN A BOQUIN 6183 SIERRA AVE FONTANA, CA 92336
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino County on 03/20/2019. Original File# 20190003444
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 03/20/2019
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/ BRYAN A. BOQUIN, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202112IR

FBN 20210000463
The following person is doing business as: WWW.LEGALPROCESSSERVICES.COM 1266 N MT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324; CREATIVE PRIVATEEYE LLC 1266 N MT VERNON AVE COLTON, CA 92324
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
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/ ABEL SILVA, MANAGING MEMBER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/15/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202113IR

FBN 20210000398
The following person is doing business as: MARIBEL’S CATERING 12754 COBALT RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392; MARIBEL SOLARES 12754 COBALT RD VICTORVILLE, CA 92392
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/ MARIBEL SOLARES, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/14/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202114IR

FBN 20210000518
The following person is doing business as: REAPER OFFROAD 9908 PRADERA AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763; JOHN C GARCIA 9908 PRADERA AVE MONTCLAIR, CA 91763
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/ JOHN C. GARCIA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202115IR

FBN 20210000269
The following person is doing business as: GREASKULL TATTOO ALLEY 130 S MOUNTAIN AVE UNIT F UPLAND, CA 91786; GREASKULL TATTOO ALLEY 723 S HARBOR BLVD FULLERTON, CA 92832
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ LUIS E. OLIVO, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/11/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202116IR

FBN 20210000218
The following person is doing business as: DIVERSIFIED TRANSPORT 305 N 2ND AVE #399 UPLAND, CA 91786; THREE POINT ENTERPRISES, INC., WHICH WILL DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA AS THE T.P. COMPANY 1500 E TROPICANA AVE #132 LAS VEGAS, NV 89119
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ TADD G. WYATT, PRESIDENT Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202117IR

FBN 20210000222
The following person is doing business as: KECKI CLEANING SERVICES 16689 FOOTHILL BLVD #108 FONTANA, CA 92335; ELIZABETH GONZALEZ 16689 FOTHILL BLVD #108 FONTANA, CA 92335
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/ ELIZABETH GONZALEZ , OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/08/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202118IR

FBN 20210000503
The following person is doing business as: PURE & DRINKING WATER 1640 E. HIGHLAND AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404;[ MAILING ADDRESS 2185 W. COLLEGE VIEW AVE. APT 3065 SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404]; FRANCISCO L GARCIA 1640 E. HIGHLAND AVE. SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92404
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/ FRANCISCO L. GARCIA, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202119IR

FBN 20210000504
The following person is doing business as: TAZ.GURU2315 STATE LN BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314;[ MAILING ADDRESS P.O BOX 416 BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314]; KYLER J BULLOCK 2315 STATE LN BIG BEAR CITY, CA 92314
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/03/2019
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/ KYLER J. BULLOCK, OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202120IR

FBN 20210000516
The following person is doing business as: MALU CREPES 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376; MAYRA P REYNA 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376; LUIS F SUAREZ JIMENEZ 600 S. RIVERSIDE AVE. APT 204 RIALTO, CA 92376
The business is conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE
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/ MAYRA P. REYNA, WIFE Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/19/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202121IR

FBN 20210000431
The following person is doing business as: SOLYART BARBERSHOP 800 E. LUGONIA AVE. SUITE D REDLANDS, CA 92374; SLEIMAN I MOUSSA 800 E. LUGONIA AVE. SUITE D REDLANDS, CA 92374
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: SEP. 11, 2015
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/ SLEIMAN I. MOUSSA OWNER Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/21/2021
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 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 01/22/2021, 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021 CNBB03202122IR

FBN 20210000640
The following person is doing business as: FR BUILDERS 4617 PILGRIM CT CHINO, CA 91710; FR GENERAL CONTRACTOR INC 4617 PILGRIM CT CHINO, CA 91710
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION
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/ ISRAEL RAVELO, CEO Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 01/22/2021
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 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 01/29/2021, 02/05/2021, 02/12/2021, 02/19/2021 CNBB04202101IR

FBN 20210000555
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Sentinel 01-22-21

Chancing potentially costly legal challenges, the City of Redlands more than seven months ago instituted, and this week signaled it intends to persist in, a policy of preventing its residents from directly participating in its city council meetings.
Awareness of City Hall’s exclusion of members of the public from taking an active part in the municipal decision-making process, formerly limited to city officials and a relatively small circle of civically active citizens, has now spread beyond the confines of the 36-square mile, 72,000 population city, raising the prospect that what legal authorities say is a clear violation of California’s open government laws will invite lawsuits relating not just to the policy itself but challenges of the actions the council took at various points since June 2020 when the current policy went into effect.
In March 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom, in an effort to prevent the coronavirus contagion from raging out of control, mandated throughout California the discontinuation of large-scale public gatherings, including traditional meetings of the governing boards of public agencies, such as city and town councils, county boards of supervisors and school district and water district boards. His order waived certain elements of the Brown Act, California’s open public meeting law, specifically those which required that a legislative body meet at a given location, such as the council meeting chamber at City Hall, within the jurisdiction wherein that body has authority. This was intended to allow governing board members to attend meetings remotely, and participate by electronic means.
Most California cities, counties or incorporated townships responded to the order by orchestrating a meeting forum involving a video/audio hookup allowing an interchange between and among the governing board members and the senior managerial and administrative staff of that governmental entity, and providing for an accommodation of resident or citizen input by electronic means as well, most commonly telephonically.
Redlands, like most cities, responded to the COVID-19 crisis and the governor’s mandate by arranging for teleconferencing involving the council and key staff members, allowing them to use their shared video/audio feed to work their way through the agenda, interacting with one another, discussing the items and taking votes. The proceedings are broadcast or otherwise streamed, so they can be viewed in real time and thereafter by the public. Unlike the vast majority of other cities, however, Redlands has not allowed direct and immediate real time public participation to be incorporated into its council meetings. While most other cities arranged to take phone calls during the public comment/citizen input portion of the council meetings, Redlands initially, up until its May 19 meeting, accepted, up until 4 p.m. on the day of the city council meeting, written comments submitted by the public, primarily via email but also including letters written on paper. Regular council meetings commenced at 5 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. As of the June 2 meeting, however, the city council required that those written comments be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on the Monday before the city council meeting.
Thus, since June, the city has required that all communication from the public with regard to items on the agenda which are to be voted upon by the city council be submitted 24 hours in advance of the meeting. During the meeting, the comments are read aloud by a city official and the statements are attributed by name to the person making the submission. These statements thus are part of the discussion of the agenda items before they are voted upon. In this way, the in-writing public comments become a part of the public record relating to the consideration of the items discussed and voted upon. If someone wishing to comment on any item on or not on the agenda misses the 24-hours-prior-to-the-meeting deadline, the comments are not read aloud during the meeting, although city officials have indicated that the comments are put into an email that is sent to the council members prior to the meeting. The comments that miss the 24 hours-in-advance deadline, according to Redlands City Manager Charles Duggan, are not considered to be part of the record of proceedings related to each agenda item.
Over the more than seven months that the policy has been in place, disenchantment with the way in which it has abridged public input has festered and grown.
In response to questions posed by the Sentinel, Duggan said the city and city council desire to hear and consider input from the public and Redlands residents.
“We are trying to encourage citizen comment,” Duggan said. “The council wants to hear what our citizens think and have to say. That is why we have the means for them to make written comment in place. Those written comments will be read as part of the proceedings when the council holds its meetings.”
Duggan insisted that the policy the city has developed is a reasonable one that is intended to facilitate the council being able to obtain input with regard to local issues and the items it is voting upon from the city’s residents. He defended the city requiring that the public get comments to the city 24 hours in advance of a meeting by stating that the city had previously provided a much more generous deadline, but that on one occasion there was such an overwhelming number of comments relating to one specific issue that the council decision set to take place that evening had to be postponed because of the time consumed.
“The council’s decision had to be delayed because of that,” he said. “We were overwhelmed with comments. That is why we have gone to requiring the comments by 5 p.m. the day before the meeting.”
The Sentinel queried Duggan with regard to those elements of the Brown Act contained within California Government Code Section 54953 and California Government Code Section 54954.3, asking if he was certain that the policy the city had in place was in compliance with the Brown Act.
Government Code Section 54953(a) states, “All meetings of the legislative body of a local agency shall be open and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the legislative body of a local agency.”
Government Code Section 54953(b) (1) holds “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the legislative body of a local agency may use teleconferencing for the benefit of the public and the legislative body of a local agency in connection with any meeting or proceeding authorized by law. The teleconferenced meeting or proceeding shall comply with all requirements of this chapter and all otherwise applicable provisions of law relating to a specific type of meeting or proceeding.”
Government Code Section 54953(b) (4) states “For the purposes of this section, ‘teleconference’ means a meeting of a legislative body, the members of which are in different locations, connected by electronic means, through either audio or video, or both. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a local agency from providing the public with additional teleconference locations.”
Government Code Section 54854.3(a) provides that “Every agenda for regular meetings shall provide an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the legislative body on any item of interest to the public, before or during the legislative body’s consideration of the item, that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the legislative body.”
Duggan rejected a suggestion that the city’s policy of requiring that the public’s comments be submitted in writing ran afoul of Government Code Section 54953(a) and Government Code Section 54854.3(a).
“We have reviewed the council meeting rules and we have complied with the rules the State of California has in place,” Duggan said.
With specific regard to the Brown Act provision requiring that members of the public be provided an opportunity “to directly address the legislative body,” Duggan said the opportunity the City of Redlands was extending to citizens to submit a comment in writing 24 hours in advance rather than during meetings met that requirement.
Of issue in the controversy is that when a citizen legally challenges a governmental decision after it is taken, the courts have established that the matter being legally contested must have been raised prior to or at the time of the government’s action. By instituting a set of requirements that are contrary to the open government principles in the Brown Act, the ability of residents to engage in a timely raising of those issues is hampered. There is a real question as to whether the City of Redlands would be able to engage in a defense against any future lawsuits brought by a citizen or resident challenging a specific city council action by asserting that no a priori challenge of the city’s action was made, given that the city is strewing obstacles in the way of members of the public who are trying to raise such issues in the forum of a city council meeting. Of crucial interest to a court or judge hearing a lawsuit brought against a governmental entity such as a city relating to action it took is whether the public record of the city’s proceedings reflects that anyone protested or in some fashion objected to the action at the heart of a legal action at the time the legislative body’s vote on the matter took place.
In this regard, the Sentinel asked Duggan whether the public record relating to an issue considered and voted upon by the city council would include the comments submitted prior to the meeting but after the 24-hours-in-advance-of-the-meeting deadline.
Duggan said it would not, even though such late comments “would be put into an email to the council members given to them prior to the meeting. Those comments would not be part of the public record for the meeting. It would be considered the same as when someone wanted to comment but missed the meeting and came in the next morning, after the decision was made and the vote taken. That would be a late statement and would not be part of the record of the meeting.”
Duggan said there is minimal discontent with the policy, as evinced by the consideration that only two Redlands residents have complained about it.
The City of Redlands’ policy with regard to public participation in the hearing process before the city council violates the Brown Act on multiple points, according to David Snyder, at attorney with the First Amendment Coalition in Sacramento.
The city’s imposition of the requirement that comments be made in writing in advance of the meeting is out of keeping with California law relating to open public meetings, Snyder said.
“One requirement of the Brown Act is the public has the right to directly address the legislative body, and that means talking to the legislative body at issue in real time,” Snyder said.
Snyder said it appears that what Redlands has done is taken Governor Newsom’s relatively narrow waiver of elements of the Brown Act to facilitate the holding of remote meetings and widened it to obviate parts of the Brown Act that remain intact.
“All legislative bodies, including the legislative body at issue here, have traditionally had to have a quorum in a physical location within their respective jurisdiction, so when the Redlands City Council’s members were meeting, the council or a quorum thereof had to actually be in Redlands or at City Hall,” Snyder said. “The governor’s executive order waived that requirement so all members could be at home and still conduct their meetings remotely. The governor’s order made it easier to hold meetings remotely, but it did not waive the requirement that the public has the right to address the body.”
Snyder continued, “The governor’s order allows for the holding of teleconference meetings and waived some of the Brown Act’s provisions relating to having a quorum present in a single location in order to hold a meeting. The waivers were very limited. That has nothing to do with the public directly addressing a city council or school board. The governor’s order does not change that right. The city cannot limit the public’s right to directly address the council by requiring the comments to be in writing 24 hours before the meeting takes place. Direct access to a legislative body was not one of the public’s rights that was waived by the governor.”
What Redlands is engaged in, Snyder said, is a carryover of what many of the state’s cities attempted to do in the immediate aftermath of Governor Newsom’s mandate last March, but ultimately failed in doing, which was to dispense with complying with the Brown Act wholesale by claiming hardship.
“City after city made the claim that transitioning to remote meetings meant they could not comply with the Brown Act’s provisions because in dealing with the limitations of the pandemic, compliance logistically could not be pulled off,” Snyder said. “That argument is not persuasive ten months in.”
Requiring Redlands residents or the public in general to submit input to the city council on action it is considering in writing in advance “does not meet the requirements of the Brown Act. The public has a right to directly address the legislative body. That is the opportunity the public has to tell the city council or school board in person what they think about what that body is doing. Direct interaction is critical, I think, to the operation of local government. When they disallow real time questions and comments and force the public to have to put its thoughts in writing, it makes it much easier for those elected leaders to disregard those comments. They don’t even have to pretend they are paying attention. The public’s input is much more powerful and clear when words are heard directly from those who have come forward to have their positions known. That is not just a technical requirement but foundational to the right to speak to the legislative body in real time. It is the responsibility of city councils and school boards to figure out how to conduct meetings where that direct interchange can take place despite the pandemic.”
Snyder said, “I don’t discount that there are logistical headaches with transparency. It is not always convenient. The Brown Act itself has requirements that have always been logistically difficult. There has always been a need for transparency, which is sometimes very challenging for elected officials to achieve, but it is something the law requires government to deal with.”
Adherence to the Brown Act is not an abstract principle, Snyder said.
The Brown Act, as embodied in the Government Code Sections from Section 54950 through Section 54963, carries with it the weight of law, Snyder said. Government Code Section 54959 states “Each member of a legislative body who attends a meeting of that legislative body where action is taken in violation of any provision of this chapter, and where the member intends to deprive the public of information to which the member knows or has reason to know the public is entitled under this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.”
Criminal prosecutions under the Brown Act, while not absolutely unheard of, are rare, as most district attorneys are reluctant to criminalize public officeholders for action or lack thereof taken in the course of public service. Generally, prosecutors will seek to cure any misdeeds by means of a notation of the offending action and a stern directive to cure the transgressions in the future. Still, the existence of the law gives those wishing to pursue civil action recourse against any officials or bodies which can be demonstrated to have violated the Brown Act.
“Every member of the public has a right to be heard on any matter to be considered that is the subject of a city council’s decision,” Snyder said. “The City of Redlands is definitely exposing itself to legal liability and the possibility of a lawsuit when it does not allow someone to comment. If such a suit were to be filed, the city could be found to be in violation of the Brown Act. That would form the basis of a judgment against the city.”
Snyder said the city’s assertion that it can dispense with public comments being taken during a meeting because at one meeting or another there was what some city officials deemed to be an excessive number of people seeking to participate in the process by offering comment to the city council would never hold up if it were legally challenged.
“Long lines of residents filing in to offer their comment to a legislative board happen all the time,” Snyder said. “City council meetings often run late. It is the city council’s obligation to figure out a way to both conduct meetings in as expeditious of a manner as possible and still honor the rights the public has under the Brown Act. These are challenges cities have had before the COVID pandemic. If city officials have 200 people who want to comment, they have to deal with that. The courts have upheld speaking limits of two or three minutes for a single person. If there are too many people to accommodate, a legislative body might have to hold a second session. A legislative body might not be bound to accommodate every person in allowing everyone unlimited comment, but a legislative body cannot take allowing people to comment or provide input off the table because it was a hassle in one instance. A city has to provide people with the ability to comment in real time. Those are obligations the city has to work out. This practice of requiring written comments be submitted before the meeting does not meet the letter of the law and it does not allow members of the public to address their concerns directly to the body.”
The Sentinel has received, but has not been able to verify, reports that Redlands city officials changed, altered, edited or redacted portions of the written submissions prior to their being read during the course of some of the council’s meetings. The justification for the alterations given, the Sentinel was told, was that some of the written statements contained inaccuracies and the city did not want to put city staff members reading those statements in the position of uttering falsehoods publicly.
If that occurred, Snyder said, “It highlights the problem with the city’s policy. There is no requirement that comments to a legislative body or governing board be 100 percent factually accurate or non-offensive to the legislative body. If they are editing and censoring what residents are telling them, that illustrates why this is an illegal process. It is not the place of the government to censor its citizens when they say something the government considers to be inaccurate. Requiring the public to submit its statements in advance of an open public meeting presents the opportunity for the city to censor and change comments, which city officials are not entitled to do.”
The cure Redlands should apply at once, Snyder said, is to “have people call in by phone. There are hundreds of legislative bodies that are doing that now. The burden is on them to figure out a way to handle the logistical issues. They are not entitled to wipe out the public’s ability to comment because allowing for that comment to take place is a hassle.”
The Sentinel this week sought to contact Redlands’ elected city clerk, Jeanne Donaldson, to determine if she was involved in the derivation of the city’s current policy relating to how citizen input on issues discussed an/or voted on by the city council is dealt with. She was not available at City Hall this morning.
The city council agenda, which is a product of Donaldson’s office, implies but does not explicitly state that the policy is Duggan’s brainchild.
“Following public health recommendations to limit public gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic, City Manager Charles M. Duggan Jr., acting as the City of Redlands’ emergency services director, has directed that city council/successor agency meetings be closed to the public until further notice or until the current local state of emergency has been lifted,” the agenda reads. “The council chamber will not be open to the public during the city council/successor agency meetings.”
Set off in the next paragraph, the agenda continues, “In order to have your public comment read into the public record at the meeting, members of the public are asked to submit comments up until 5 p.m. the day before the city council/successor agency meeting by email at publiccomment@cityofredlands.org or through the public comment form on the city’s website at https://www.cityofredlands.org/public-speaker-form.”
The Sentinel phoned and then sent an email to Redlands City Attorney Dan McHugh, seeking to learn from him if he was the architect, or one of the architects, of the policy that requires that citizens, residents or anyone else seeking to have input with regard to matters the city council is considering and is to vote upon provide their comments and/or questions in writing 24 hours prior to the meeting.
The Sentinel asked McHugh if it was his position that the city can deny citizens who want to provide input verbally the ability to participate in the council meetings, and whether he considered the 24-hours-prior-to-the-meeting submission deadline for public comments to be a reasonable one that is in compliance with the Brown Act and all applicable law.
The Sentinel inquired of McHugh what his confidence level was as to the city’s ability to legally defend excluding that input from the public record if it is submitted to the city after the 24-hours-in-advance-of-a-council-meeting deadline. McHugh was further asked why the city does not allow for telephonic contact between members of the public and the council during meetings, and whether that policy had evolved out of an effort to prevent prolonging the meetings or because doing so would entail some order of logistical complication.
The Sentinel asked if the city maintains that Governor Newsom’s order restricting the parameters of public meetings justifies the policy of having the public submit its comments on city council items in writing 24 hours in advance and if he could cite anything in the governor’s order which waives that element of the Brown Act requiring governing boards/legislative bodies to provide for direct interaction with the public during their meetings.
McHugh was asked to respond to Snyder’s contention that the city is misinterpreting the spirit of the governor’s order to limit public participation in a way that the governor did not intend and which goes beyond the purpose of the mandate intended to protect the public from the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
McHugh did not respond.
Councilman Eddie Tejeda told the Sentinel that the city council had been guided in implementing the city council’s policy with regard to public participation in the city council meeting proceedings “by the city manager and city attorney. We have been following their advice.”
Asked if he was confident that the city’s policy would pass legal muster if a citizen or residents were to challenge the city in court, Tejeda said, “I’m not an attorney. I have no idea.”
Told that some city residents objected to the policy and that the First Amendment Coalition’s legal counsel maintained the practice was contrary to the Brown Act, Tejeda said, “I would like to talk to the city manager and city attorney about it. I have not heard anything to suggest the way we are doing this is a problem. I think the city council should look at this to consider whether we should change the policy.”
-Mark Gutglueck

The San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee has changed its leadership, a move which signals internal political divisions that have manifested over the last several years as the county party, which is yet retaining its edge over its rival Democrats despite voter registration numbers trending against it, is looking toward substantial challenges to its local primacy in the years ahead.
Committee members have elevated Fontana businessman Phil Cothran to the chairmanship of the central committee, replacing Jan Leja. Leja’s tenure as the county party chairwoman came during a time when the fissures in the once-entirely dominant local Republican political machine began to show and have since deepened. Leja failed to bridge the growing gap in the county party, as personality, philosophical and strategic differences between the factions hardened in recent years. Cothran’s ascendancy, however, does not presage a rapprochement but instead seems a harbinger of equally strident contention over the direction of the party to come.
At least since 1966, the governmental structure at most levels of San Bernardino County has been in the hands of the Republicans. That year, Ronald Reagan was elected governor, and a shift away from the Democratic Party in San Bernardino County began in earnest. With only a few notable exceptions over the next 55 years, Republicans have held the majority of political offices at the local agency, municipal, county and state level in San Bernardino County. There have been sporadic exceptions to that pattern in the Central San Bernardino Valley area, stretching from Fontana through Rialto, Bloomington, Colton and into San Bernardino, a largely blue collar district with an historically significant enough concentration of Democratic Party and union-affiliated voters to elect Democrats off-and-on. In most other areas of the far-flung 20,105 square mile county, the political leadership has largely consisted of Republicans. Throughout the late 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and most of the first decade of the Third Millennium, there were more, and for much of that time far more, registered Republican than registered Democrats in San Bernardino County. In 2009, that statistical edge for the GOP ended, and for the first time in more than four decades, the number of Democrats in the county eclipsed the number of Republicans. That trend has continued, such that at this point, 459,422 or 40.8 percent of the county’s 1,126,096 total voters are registered as Democrats, while 334,876 voters or 29.7 percent affiliate with the Party of Lincoln.
Remarkably, however, the Republicans despite the registration disadvantage they face, have succeeded in holding onto most of the county’s elective offices they controlled in their heyday. This has largely occurred because Republicans turn up to vote in far higher percentages than do Democrats nationally, statewide and particularly locally. In San Bernardino County, as well, the party structure the Republicans have has proven far more energetic, efficient and engaged than the local Democratic Party. The Republicans have proven far more effective at raising money than the Democrats and have more experience and are therefore more accomplished in employing the money they have to run convincing and targeted campaigns to drive Republican voters to the polls and wage efforts against their Democratic opponents. At present, four of the five members of the county board of supervisors are Republicans and in 16 of the county’s 24 municipalities there are more Republican members of the city or town councils than Democratic members. Historically, the Republicans have done a far better job at hitching all of their horses up to one side of the wagon and pulling the load in a concerted direction than the Democrats, who have a pattern of working at cross purposes to one another. Until quite recently, the Republicans have lived by the 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”
Beginning in 2013, however, a minor rift in the county GOP opened when Curt Hagman, then a member of the California Assembly who was to be termed out of the statehouse after what was to be the end of his sixth year in state office in 2014, settled on perpetuating his political career by running for Fourth District county supervisor, representing Chino Hills, Chino, Ontario, Montclair and south Upland. The Fourth District supervisorial post he coveted was at that time occupied by another Republican, Gary Ovitt. Refusing to honor Ovitt’s incumbency, Hagman threatened to challenge him for the supervisor’s seat. To strengthen himself for that run, Hagman in late 2013 moved to depose Robert Rego as the chairman of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee and assume the position himself. Rego had done yeoman’s work for the county Republican Party, raising funds and creating a well-oiled and maintained political machine to promote the candidacies of Republican candidates throughout the county. By pushing Rego out, Hagman was able to seize command of local party operations and cut Ovitt off from party support, and instead direct that assistance to his own campaign. Ovitt opted out of seeking reelection. Hagman achieved victory in 2014, running successfully for Fourth District supervisor against Gloria Negrete-McLeod, then an incumbent Democratic congresswoman.
Despite his personal success, Hagman planted seeds of dissension within the local Republican Party. Whereas previously there had been an ethos of party loyalty among Republicans that essentially held individual personal ambition in check, Hagman’s willingness to cut Ovitt off at the pass became a model for other Republicans thereafter. Since that time there have been multiple examples of one Republican moving to challenge another incumbent Republican, efforts which have met with varying degrees of success and failure. One upshot of all of this is that it appears to be gradually weakening the local Republican Party. In 2016, four Republicans – Angela Valles, Rick Roelle, Paul Russ and Bill Holland – challenged incumbent Republican First District San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood. The four challengers lost. That same year, Republican stalwart Tim Donnelly angled at unseating incumbent Republican 8th Congressional District Congressman Paul Cook. Donnelly failed. In 2018, Donnelly again took an unsuccessful run at Cook. Then-incumbent Republican 40th District Assemblyman Marc Steinorth challenged incumbent Republican Second District San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford. Steinorth narrowly lost. John Valdivia, then an incumbent Republican San Bernardino City Councilman, challenged Carey Davis, the incumbent Republican mayor of San Bernardino. Valdivia defeated Davis in the November 2018 San Bernardino mayoral runoff election. In the summer of 2018, incumbent Republican Hesperia Mayor Bill Holland and incumbent Republican Hesperia Councilman Paul Russ were instrumental in appointing Republican Jeremiah Brosowske to fill a vacant position on the Hesperia City Council. Later that year, when all three had to stand for election/reelection, they endorsed one another. But after a falling out, Holland and Brosowske went to war against one another as the election approached and they retracted their endorsements of each other. Russ sought to remain neutral in the dispute, but Holland withdrew his endorsement of Russ as well. Holland and Brosowske won, while Russ lost. Brosowske then supported an effort to recall Holland from office. That failed. Holland in September 2019 voted with two of his Republican colleagues on the council, Larry Bird and Cameron Gregg, to remove Brosowske from office. In 2019, incumbent West Valley Water District Board Member Greg Young had to stand for reelection. Two of his Republican board colleagues, Michael Taylor and Kyle Crowther, militated against him by persuading a Fontana resident, Angel Ramirez, to rent a residence in Bloomington to be able to run against Young. Taylor and Crowther then supported Ramirez in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Young.
As 2020 approached, a head of steam was building within Republican circles toward an effort to elect a Republican in the overwhelmingly Democratic San Bernardino County Fifth Supervisorial District, where Democrat Josie Gonzales was to be termed out after holding that position since 2004. It was believed that a concerted Republican effort could potentially succeed in electing a Republican to the Fifth District supervisor’s slot, despite a substantial Democratic registration advantage. Some believed Clifford Young, who is also a West Valley Water District board member, might be the best standard bearer for the Republicans. Another faction of Republicans, however, instead promoted Fontana City Councilman Jesse Armendarez as the GOP’s best shot at claiming the post long occupied by Gonzales. Those supporting Armendarez, who included many if not all of those who were opposing Greg Young in his reelection bid, moved simultaneously to undercut Clifford Young, who is no blood relation to Greg Young. The pro-Armendarez faction of the party in 2019 maneuvered to deny Greg Young the endorsement of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee in his water district board reelection effort, despite the consideration that Greg Young was an incumbent, was himself a member of the central committee and had for years demonstrated himself as a loyal and tireless campaigner for Republican candidates and Republican causes. Ultimately, despite the intrigue against him, Greg Young, who was Clifford Young’s ally, prevailed in his 2019 reelection bid.
Of note is that Armendarez was part of Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren’s ruling coalition on the Fontana City Council, which consisted of her, Armendarez and Republicans John Roberts and Phil Cothran, Jr. The 4-to-1 advantage the Republicans have on the Fontana City Council is remarkable because Fontana’s voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, with 51,264 or 49.4 percent of the city’s 103,822 total voters registered as Democrats and 20,635 or 19.9 percent identifying as Republicans.
Warren is allied with both Clifford Young and Greg Young. Warren was in favor of the Republican Party backing Clifford Young in the 2020 race for Fifth District supervisor. She did not look gladly upon the Republican faction which consisted of Armendarez, Taylor, Crowther, Ramirez and Phil Cothran, Sr., the father of Fontana Councilman Phil Cothran, Jr., moving to oppose Greg Young’s reelection and blocking Clifford Young’s effort to run for Fifth District supervisor by rigging the central committee’s endorsement of Armendarez in his run for supervisor. It did not sit well with her that the Armendarez/Taylor/Crowther/Ramirez/Phil Cothran faction finagled getting Ramirez the Republican Central Committee endorsement over Greg Young in the race for West Valley Water District board member in 2019.
In last year’s race for Fifth District supervisor, after the contest between four candidates in the March 2020 Primary boiled down to a runoff between Armendarez and then-Rialto Councilman Joe Baca, Jr., a Democrat, the Armendarez campaign found itself in trouble for multiple reasons. For one, it was in an uphill battle because of the overwhelming voter registration numbers that favored Baca, such that more than half of the district’s voters – 50.4 percent – were registered Democrats and 18.9 percent were Republicans. Every bit as problematic was that the tactics those supporting Armendarez had used in which they ruthlessly sought to wound both Greg Young and Clifford Young greatly offended a number of Republicans. Consequently, those Republicans failed to line up, or line up enthusiastically and effectively, with Armendarez.
As the 2020 Fifth District supervisor race wound toward a conclusion, polling the Armendarez camp did indicated that the numbers were running against the Fontana councilman and in favor of the Rialto councilman. In a desperate ploy, those affiliated with the Armendarez campaign attempted to use hit pieces, mailers sent from what was ostensibly represented as an independent expenditure committee, the California Taxpayers Alliance, to move Democratic voters away from Baca. The mailers, which were sent exclusively to high propensity Democratic voters, attempted to link Baca with then-President Donald Trump. “Right-Wing Super PACs Spent Millions For Trump And Have Supported Career Conservative Joe Baca, Jr.,” read one mailer’s all capital letter headline. The mailer’s summary stated, “Keep the Trump Team Off Our Board of Supervisors. We need to defeat conservative Joe Baca, Jr.”
The tactic failed, as an insufficient number of the district’s Democratic voters found it credible that Baca was affiliated with the Republican president while he was engaged in an electoral contest against the Republican Armendarez.
The attack on Baca by way of President Trump had further complications. Mayor Warren is a close Trump ally. Depicting the now-former president in negative terms perturbed her.
Armendarez, who opted not to run for reelection to the Fontana City Council to instead run for supervisor, is now out of office. Warren has privately said she does not regret no longer having him as a member of her coalition.
Phil Cothran, Sr., a successful insurance agent in Fontana, has over the last 30 years become a major behind-the-scenes political player. He has donated substantial amounts of money to local candidates for elected office, primarily Republicans. He is a major donor to politicians in Fontana, and one of Warren’s primary political sponsors. One of the rewards he has reaped from that is the advancement of his son’s political career.
Nevertheless, his identification with a faction of the local Republican Party that has militated against other Republicans, including Armendarez against Clifford Young and Ramirez against Greg Young, represents a schism in the Republican Party that was unthinkable in years past. Cothran’s status as the head of the county party raises the prospect that elements of the Republican Party which were so cohesive in recent decades have now been fractured to the point that the Democrats, if they can overcome their own disarray, might end the GOP’s domination of San Bernardino County.
-Mark Gutglueck