Early in the process of selecting a replacement for Upland Third District Councilman Ricky Felix, it appears that Carlos Garcia has the inside track.
In 2018, when Upland held the first by-district elections of its then-112-year history, Felix won the three-way race in the city’s newly formed Third District, which covers the southwestern quadrant of the city. Felix, a political newcomer, managed to pull in 1,517 votes or 39.39 percent, slightly better than another political neophyte, Irmalinda Osuna, who captured 1,354 votes or 35.16 percent. Finishing a distant third was then-two-term city council incumbent Gino Filippi, with 980 votes or 25.45 percent.
Filippi had been a member in good standing of what at that time was the city council’s four-member ruling coalition, headed by Mayor Debbie Stone. The Stone-led council, acting with the support of some influential Upland institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio Hospital and Lewis Homes, had engaged in a number of actions that proved highly unpopular with the city’s electorate. That entailed selling 4.631 acres of Memorial Park, including a Little League baseball diamond, to San Antonio Hospital to be converted to a parking lot and trading 16-acre Cabrillo Park on 11th Street within the Third District to Lewis Homes for acreage in an abandoned gravel quarry near the 210 Freeway. Stone and then-Councilwoman Carol Timm joined with Filippi in supporting that action and then-Councilman Sid Robinson went along with the council majority. Robinson, sensing the community’s displeasure at what had been done, opted out of running for office in 2018 altogether. Timm, like Filippi, was defeated in the 2018 election, replaced by current Councilman Rudy Zuniga.
Irmalinda Osuna and Carlos Garcia were among a group of residents in the city’s southwest sector, joined by activists from elsewhere in the city, who opposed the trade of Cabrillo Park to Lewis Homes, one of the most successful corporations based in the city. Lewis Homes intended to convert the park acreage to a residential development. Osuna and Garcia also opposed the city’s sale of the 4.631 acres of Memorial Park, located within the southeast corner of the city in what is now the Fourth District. That sale was approved by the city council in March 2018, but was successfully contested in court by a coalition of city residents, legal action which forced the hospital to seek a citywide referendum in the upcoming November election to get permission for that sale to be finalized.
The 2018 election cycle, which ended with Stone’s firm council allies Filippi, Timm and Robinson out of office, seemingly disenfranchised Stone politically. But gradually, over the ensuing year, she reassembled a voting block that included Felix; and Bill Velto, who was appointed to the Council in January 2019. With the on-again, off-again support of Zuniga, Stone in recent months reasserted herself as the city’s political leader.
This galvanized a significant cross section of the Upland community, in particular the coalition of residents opposed to the city’s abandonment of its parkland. Even in the face of that sentiment, Felix appeared to be rather insensitive to the intensity of zeal the park desecration issue engendered. Nor did he seem to recognize the degree to which he had politically benefited in the 2018 race from the antipathy toward Filippi that was a consequence of his affiliation with Stone.
As Spring 2020 advanced, an apparently unrelated development rendered Felix politically irrelevant in Upland. A heating ventilation and air conditioning technician by trade, Felix was offered a more lucrative entrepreneurial opportunity in Utah than his business based in Upland, one that required his presence in the Beehive State by early June. On May 11, Felix announced that he was resigning from the city council after being in office for 17 months, effective May 30 to move with his wife and three daughters to Utah.
A furious round of discussion, speculation, debate and intrigue followed, as Stone sought to maintain the fragile council alliance she had only recently reestablished. In particular, her goal was to fill the vacancy Felix’s exit created with her old council ally, Filippi. It was Stone’s hope that the stars would align just enough for her to carry that off. Velto and Filippi were childhood friends. Velto had endorsed Filippi when he ran for city council in 2010. They had endorsed each other in 2012 when Filippi unsuccessfully vied for mayor and Velto, then a planning commissioner, made an equally unsuccessful run for city council. Velto endorsed Filippi when he successfully sought reelection to the council in 2014. Since Councilwoman Janice Elliott had been a consistent dissenter during the heyday of the council coalition that included Stone, Filippi, Timm and Robinson, Mayor Stone recognized that the prospect of getting Elliott to support the appointment of Filippi was dim, at best. Stone, nevertheless, saw a possibility that Zuniga, whose tenure on the council began just as Filippi’s ended, might be prevailed upon to support her in her effort to reinitiate Filippi’s political career.
Ultimately, however, Filippi’s political comeback was dashed as a consequence of, ironically, Velto’s ongoing political ambition. Jeff Burum, a deep-pocketed developer with several actual, tentative, potential or contemplated projects in Upland, has emerged as Velto’s most likely political sponsor going forward, whether he is to run for the First District city council seat in November or reach for the brass ring and run for mayor. Burum has a pronounced enmity toward Filippi and, as a consequence, Velto found it politic to not support appointing Filippi.
Conventional wisdom dictated that the next most logical candidate to replace Felix was therefore Osuna, who ran a relatively narrow 163 votes or 4.23 percent behind Felix in the 2018 election. Osuna at this point, however, has both professional and familial commitments that she told the Sentinel would preclude her from devoting the time she considers necessary to master the agenda items she would be called upon to vote on as a member of the city council. For that reason, she said, she is not available to serve on the council.
On June 8, the city council took up the issue of what it was going to do about the council vacancy created by Felix’s resignation. Among its options were making an appointment of a Third District resident immediately to fill the post until the next regularly scheduled Third District election in 2022; making an appointment of a Third District resident immediately to fill the post for five months until the upcoming November election, at which point an election to fill the post for the next two years would be held; making no immediate appointment and thus leaving the position unfilled until an election to fill the position for the next two years can be held in November; scheduling an election to be held at the earliest possible date; or postponing a decision on the matter until a later meeting.
The council made its decision on June 8 against a backdrop of some city residents and some Third District residents calling for the council to make an immediate appointment and others calling for the city council to ensure that the Third District’s residents have a final say in the matter through an election process. Some residents specifically advocated against the council appointing Filippi.
Among those who addressed the council that evening were Garcia and Osuna. They did so telephonically, as the meeting was one that was not conducted publicly but rather by a video conference involving members of the city council and audio connections which allowed certain city staff to participate. The meeting was conducted electronically as a precaution taken because of the coronavirus crisis.
Carlos Garcia said, “As a resident of District 3, I would like for the council to allow us to choose who will represent us in filling the current empty seat. I am keeping a positive outlook that we do not consider previous representatives for our district. We in District 3 would like the opportunity to move forward and have our area thrive, which in turn will continue to build upon our City of Gracious Living. I am hoping that you will listen to the residents in District 3 and not be distracted by all the negative chatter from people outside of our district. At the end of the day, our votes are the ones that are going to count for the seat. If you decide to appoint someone, I would like to formally be considered to represent our District 3.”
Irmalinda Osuna told the council, “I want to remind you that two years ago I actually ran for city council for this very district. I ran on an unprecedented campaign of knocking on thousands of doors and bringing people together as one, making sure that we increase civic participation, protecting our parks, and making our city more inclusive. I am reminding you of this because my message resonated with the community. I came in a very close second place against Mr. Felix, and Mr. Filippi was rejected by the voters here by a whopping 73 percent. I’m sharing this to remind you all that the election was a referendum from our community that wanted new leadership. We need to take this into account as we move forward into filling this vacancy.”
Osuna continued, “I’m here to publicly let everyone know that I endorse Mr. Carlos Garcia. Carlos and I have been working over the last few years on issues and advocating for our community. We teamed up to oppose the selling of part of our Memorial Park. Carlos and I are very passionate about increasing community engagement. He has demonstrated that time after time. We came back and facilitated the grassroots workshop to educate and raise awareness of the Amazon warehouse and the impact, and opening up a dialogue with the community. If you’ve seen Carlos, he’s been in action, live streaming and at city meetings to boost city participation. Mr. Garcia and I come from different political spectrums, as many of you know, but we both believe in the importance of respectful dialogue. Putting politics aside, he is a strong collaborator, very diplomatic and he’s always ready to focus on the issues. He’s ready to roll up his sleeves and do the hard work. He’s not afraid to challenge the system because he has a very strong backbone. Mr. Garcia is a family man. He is deeply rooted in this community, and I urge all the voters, please support Mr. Carlos Garcia, and let’s work together. I’m personally concerned that as we face economic challenges, our public parks will be on the chopping block, and I’m really concerned about the fate of our public resources. Carlos has committed to continue to support and protect our parks, and continue the community engagement. I am so looking forward to teaming up with him and collaborating to represent our district.”
The council decided to leave the District 3 council position unfilled and to include a special election on the November ballot to replace Felix for the final two years of his term.
-Mark Gutglueck

The police response to the activity in the City of San Bernardino that began on May 31 as a requiem for the death of George Floyd and a protest against the common police practice of employing brutality in particular against African-Americans which thereafter transitioned into a full-blown riot and looting that raged into the early morning of June 1 cost the city more than a half million dollars, it was disclosed this week.
The measured reaction of the city police department in conjunction with personnel from 11 other law enforcement agencies concluded without any major physical confrontations with the rioters and no deaths or significant injuries to the rioters or the police.
San Bernardino Police Chief Eric McBride gave the city council an accounting of his department’s largely ineffective presence which failed to stem the widespread damages sustained by property owners and thefts from many retail establishments.
According to a report authored by McBride and provided to the San Bernardino City Council by City Manager Teri Ledoux on Wednesday, July 1, “On May 31, 2020, the City of San Bernardino experienced significant civil unrest in various parts of the city. Originally, the incident was scheduled as a protest in the downtown corridor in response to a national conversation on race and policing. The previous day, information was received that there were several potential protests being planned downtown. The Police Department assigned 48 personnel to work the event. An executive manager, along with lieutenants, sergeants, and additional personnel were assigned” and “all surrounding agencies were also made aware of the potential need for mutual aid,” McBride wrote.
According to McBride, “The police department has adopted a philosophy over the years to allow groups to peacefully assemble to exercise their First Amendment Rights” and “The plan for this event was to ensure the police department was in position to closely monitor the protesters and the crowd dynamics but also to be in position to deploy if the protest began to become destructive.”
After “a crowd formed in front of City Hall” around 4 p.m., McBride said, its ranks swelled from around 300 to between 500 and 600 “and was now in front of police department headquarters. The crowd ascended the front steps of the police station and began banging on the glass doors leading to the front lobby. The crowd appeared hostile, but no property was being damaged. Several members from a local church were among the group. They engaged the group, asking them to remain calm, which ultimately led to the crowd leaving the police department without damaging any property. After leaving the front steps of the police station, the crowd broke up with a group heading back downtown and another eastbound on 5th Street from D Street.”
McBride’s narrative stated that “As one faction of the crowd moved eastbound on 5th Street, they encountered approximately 15 California Highway Patrol officers. The CHP officers were providing security for a state-owned facility, and they immediately formed a skirmish line to confront the crowd. The crowd immediately became hostile towards the officers and began throwing items. The CHP had about 75 officers on standby in the city. They requested their assistance and also asked for mutual aid from our agency and others. Up to this point, the crowd, while at times aggressive, had not damaged any property and had not been provided the confrontation with law enforcement that they may have wanted. The CHP skirmish line appeared to have provided the confrontation many of the aggressive protesters were seeking, and immediately, the crowd began to become destructive. Almost immediately, the crowd began to disperse and travel in different directions and was no longer a cohesive group. While smaller bands headed back downtown, others began heading to the area of 9th and Waterman Avenue. Due to the destructive nature of certain elements of the crowd and its growing size, mutual aid was immediately requested. Officers deployed to the Waterman Discount Mall and utilized the sheriff’s helicopter to provide a dispersal order. The crowd quickly grew to over 2,000 and was becoming very destructive. Additionally, the crowd was bombarding the officers with rocks, bottles, bricks, fireworks, and anything that could be hurled to injure an officer.”
McBride related that, “Since our regional law enforcement partners were on standby to provide mutual aid, we were quickly augmented by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, and the Fontana, Ontario, Montclair, Colton, Rialto, Upland, Chino, Riverside, and Redlands Police Departments. The deployment of officers at 9th and Waterman grew to about 250 officers very quickly and the crowd continued to grow and become more aggressive. As the officers worked to disperse the crowd, the police department began to receive information of looting across the entire 60 square miles of the city. This dynamic had not occurred elsewhere in the region and required the department to send split resources across the city to combat the issue. Some areas being targeted were the Inland Center Mall, both Walmart stores, Target, Big 5, and Harbor Freight on Highland Avenue along with various other locations across the city both small and large. We continued to gather information, live as it was being posted, that individuals were attempting to rally other looters to target additional locations throughout the city and in the neighboring communities of Redlands and Highland. Both of these cities began to experience instances of looting and it also spread to the high desert communities. This necessitated some assets to return to their jurisdictions to combat the growing problems in their communities. Eventually, the major group of protesters at 9th and Waterman were dispersed. The department and allied agencies were left to provide asset protection to major retail locations to prevent looting and respond to calls of active looting. One issue that arose was the reluctance of businesses to send out board up crews to secure their locations against additional theft. This caused multiple calls back to the same locations as they were left unsecured. By approximately 0230 hours [2:30 a.m.], all mutual aid units had been released from the city. By the end of the night, 32 arrests were made on subjects involved in the events. Twenty-two of the suspects were not residents of San Bernardino. Additionally, there were 1,284 calls for service between May 31 and June 1, which is an exponential increase. Following the night of the incident, the department assembled a task force to follow-up on the crimes that occurred. As a result, we have arrested a number of suspects and have obtained arrest warrants for many others. Stolen property has been recovered and returned to the property owners.”
According to McBride “The city manager declared a local emergency and established a city-wide curfew from 1800 hours [6 p.m.] to sunrise. In response, the department developed a temporary modified staffing plan to increase the number of available resources to respond to protests, unlawful assemblies, or other incidents requiring a significant police response. Emergency staffing remained in place until June 5, 2020, at 0700 hours [7 a.m.].
McBride said that based upon the county fire department’s property damage assessment report from what had occurred on May 31st and June 1st, 127 properties sustained damage or had to be boarded. He said 24 were boarded with no damage; 89 buildings were impacted with 1-to-9 percent damage; 11 sustained minor 10-to-25 percent damage; three suffered major 26-to-50 percent damage and no buildings were destroyed or experienced damage greater than 50 percent.
According to McBride, “The fiscal impact as of June 25, 2020, in reported overtime, salaries, and materials/supplies costs for this event totaled $488,603.40. In addition, costs to replenish less lethal supplies are $13,221.60.”

Multiple eyes are upon Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe and her staff after the Democratic candidate in the 8th Congressional District had one of her on-line campaign events hacked, during which those taking part were subjected to Nazi, Ku Klux Klan and pornographic images.
Chris Bubser is the Democratic candidate seeking to succeed 8th District Congressman Paul Cook. She is engaged in a race against Jay Obernolte, a Republican and the incumbent Assemblyman in California’s 33rd Assembly District. Both Cook and Rowe, who are Republicans, have endorsed Obernolte, and are engaged in the effort to ensure his election. Cook who has been a member of Congress since his election in 2012, opted out of running to remain in the U.S. House of Representatives this year to instead seek election to join Rowe on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors as supervisor in the county’s First Supervisorial District. Both Rowe and Cook were successful in their election campaigns that culminated with the March 3 California Primary Election.
Rowe was formerly a member of Cook’s congressional staff.
Rowe employs two of the San Bernardino County governmental structure’s resident dirty tricksters, Matt Knox, who is her chief of staff, and Dillon Lesovsky, her policy advisor. Both Knox and Lesovsky were formerly members of Cook’s congressional staff, serving in those capacities simultaneously and along with Rowe.
Knox and Lesovsky were famously, or perhaps infamously, the architects of the “Dirty Donnelly” attack, which targeted 8th Congressional District candidate Tim Donnelly in 2018 when the two political operatives were working on behalf of Cook’s campaign. Of note is that both Donnelly and Cook are Republicans, who had captured first and second place in California’s open primary in 2018, thus qualifying for the November runoff despite the fact that they are members of the same political party.
Cook is a retired Marine Corps colonel whose political career is grounded in his representation of himself as a rock-ribbed conservative Republican. His electoral pedigree included a stint as Yucca Valley mayor and time in the California Assembly before he moved on to Congress.
Cook and his political advisers had reason to consider Donnelly a formidable opponent. Donnelly’s political persona was anchored to his identification as the most conservative politician in California and one who is unrelentingly faithful to bedrock ultra-right principles, which matched perfectly with a solid plurality if not an outright majority of the voters in the overwhelmingly right wing 8th Congressional District.
Donnelly had taken a diamond-hard stance against illegal immigration, going so far as founding the California Chapter of the Minuteman to patrol the border with Mexico. Even more pointedly, Donnelly is a die-hard Second Amendment advocate, and he lived up to the principle he espoused. While he was yet a member of the California Assembly, he would routinely carry a concealed gun onto the floor of the statehouse while the legislature was in session. He took an aggressive stand against a 2011 bill restricting the open carrying of handguns in California by labeling the measure “a form of tyranny.” He topped that when, on the way back to Sacramento after the Christmas and New Year holidays for the first state legislative session in 2012, he was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Ontario Airport for having a Colt .45 handgun loaded with four rounds of ammunition and five additional rounds in his carry on baggage.
The gun was taken from him and he was cited for possession of a loaded firearm. It turned out that Donnelly, who had purchased the gun roughly five years before the incident, had never registered it in his name. He was not charged with failing to purchase the gun through a licensed dealer, which is prosecutable as misdemeanor under California’s gun laws. Ultimately, Donnelly pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of carrying a loaded firearm in public without a concealed weapons permit and possessing a gun in an airport. He was fined $2,125 and placed on probation for three years, but was not prohibited from carrying a concealed weapon thereafter, as long as, under the terms of his probation he did not “use, own or possess any firearm that is not registered to him.” Donnelly maintained he had done nothing wrong, going on record as saying, “I didn’t do anything other than exercise my Second Amendment rights as a free American.”
His action did not hamper him politically, as he was seen by gun owners as having stood up to unreasonable liberal efforts to restrict gun ownership, and he was handily reelected in the November 2012 General Election.
Of particular concern to the Cook political machine were the large numbers of gun-toting constituents in the 8th District, which covers a large swath of the Mojave Desert and the San Bernardino Mountains, where gun ownership is a way of life for a majority of those living in isolated rural areas.
Knox and Lesovsky set about undoing Donnelly’s candidacy by constructing a website, dirtydonnelly.com, attacking Donnelly and augmenting it with signs to promote the website. Dirtydonnelly.com utilized doctored photos to paint Donnelly in the most negative of light, and dwelt at length on a number of derogatories relating to the former assemblyman, including that he had a criminal record, which was an unspecified reference to his gun-carrying conviction; accusations that he was scamming senior citizens; allegations that he had deserted his family; assertions that he had engaged in “political fraud,” which was again unspecified; and insinuations that he stole from his own wife. All that was punctuated by the contention that Donnelly was unemployed. In violation of state law, the website had no identifying California Fair Political Practices registration number nor any indicia required under California law for campaign literature and materials to show what entity, organization, committee or campaign paid for the website. The campaign on behalf of Cook, which was directed by Knox as Cook’s campaign manager, and the hit perpetrated by Knox and Lesovsky proved highly effective, as Cook trounced Donnelly in the November 6, 2018 election, 108,414 votes or 61.33 percent to 68,370 votes or 38.67 percent.
After Third District Supervisor James Ramos was elected to the California Assembly in the same November 2018 race in which Cook defeated Donnelly, Ramos was obliged to resign as supervisor to accede to the Assembly position. The remaining members of the board of supervisors, three of whom – Curt Hagman, Robert Lovingood and Janice Rutherford – are Republicans, in December 2018 voted to appoint Rowe, who once served on the Yucca Valley Town Council, to serve out the Democrat Ramos’s remaining two years on the board of supervisors.
Very shortly after Rowe moved into the position representing the Third District, which covers the cities of Grand Terrace, Loma Linda, Highland, Redlands, Yucaipa, Big Bear, Barstow, Twentynine Palms, the eastern portion of San Bernardino, the town of Yucca Valley and the unincorporated communities of Bryn Mawr, Mentone, Angeles Oaks and Forest Falls, she hired Knox and Lesovsky to serve on her staff. There have been indications that Knox, in his capacity as Rowe’s chief of staff, and Lesovsky, as Rowe’s policy advisor, were or are running multiple 2020 election campaigns from inside of Rowe’s office, including Rowe’s electoral effort for Third District supervisor, Cook’s campaign for First District supervisor, Obernolte’s campaign for Congress and Thurston Smith’s effort to capture the 33rd Assembly District position that Obernolte is abandoning in vying for the House of Representatives.
Those indicators have been ignored by the county’s chief executive officer, Gary McBride, and the county’s chief operating officer, Leonard X. Hernandez, as well as Curt Hagman, the current chairman of the board of supervisors. McBride and Hernandez, the county’s two top staff members, serve at the pleasure of the board of supervisors. Hagman, who was formerly the chairman of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee, has made no objection to Knox’s and Lesovsky’s activities, which have consistently been, since their employment with the county began, in favor of Republican officeholders or candidates.
While the use of public and/or governmental resources, personnel, facilities and equipment for political or partisan activity is prohibited under the law, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson, a Republican, is not inclined to prosecute Rowe, Knox or Lesovsky, and his office has not looked into the activity carried out by Rowe’s office.
The county’s information technology division can recover from the hard drives of county employees’ computers the history of their activity utilizing those devices.
The underhanded methodology that Knox and Lesovsky have developed and employed against political candidates they oppose, in the parlance of political operatives, is referred to as “ratfucking.”
Chris Bubser’s campaign in the 8th Congressional District was ratfucked on June 27, during a Zoom teleconferencing event involving roughly three dozen participants. Less than 30 minutes into that forum, which at that point featured 9th Congressional District Congressman Jerry McNerney fielding questions, there was an interruption of the proceedings by an individual who claimed to be a member of the Zoom technical support staff. Thereafter, swastikas, images of a Ku Klux Klan gathering, graphic sexual depictions and other photos flashed across the participants’ viewing screens.
In short order, the conference was curtailed.
Given Knox’s and Lesovsky’s history and the consideration that Bubser is in a political battle against Obernolte, whose candidacy is supported by Rowe, suspicion at once fell open Rowe and her two political henchmen.
Though Knox and Lesovsky had the motive, means, expertise and opportunity to have perpetrated the hacking of Bubser’s campaign event, no evidence implicating them has emerged. The county, including Rowe, Knox and Lesovsky, is steadfastly refusing to comment upon the political activity Rowe’s office is involved in.
-Mark Gutglueck

Next Monday night will mark the 45th anniversary of Virgil “Sonny” Scott’s shooting of San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriff Frank Pribble.
The shooting took place at the now defunct rest stop off the westbound I-10 Freeway between Citrus and Cherry avenues in Fontana.
Fate, including the dissolution of Scott’s one-time idyllic-seeming marriage and the sheriff’s department’s utilization of the 6-foot-7-inch Pribble as a peacekeeper in the often highly volatile environment of Fontana, resulted that evening within one hour of each other the deaths of the 41-year-old Scott and the 39-year-old Pribble.
Virgil Scott was five years old when he moved with his parents from Oklahoma to Fontana in 1939. Ten years later, at the age of 15, he joined the National Guard. After eight months, when it was realized he was only 16, he was given an honorable discharge. In 1952, at the age of 18, he went to work for Kaiser Steel, eventually settling into a job as a machinist. He proved to be a particularly accomplished and competent machinist. He was promoted early on to a supervisory role and he remained at Kaiser for the rest of his life.
In 1954, he married Diane Strand, whom he had met after she came to Southern California from Minnesota. The couple settled into a home on Redwood Avenue in the unincorporated, agriculturally zoned county area west of Fontana, where they raised their two children, Steven and Sharon.
Virgil and Diane purchased property in the area around their home, over time amassing 13 rental units located on Cottonwood, Redwood and Randall avenues.
In the 1960s, the ambitious Virgil set up a weekend business in the community of Crestline, located in the San Bernardino Mountains, which rented Honda 55 dirt bikes by the hour to tourists during those months of the year when the ground was no longer covered with snow, usually from April until November. While he ran the rental business, Diane and the children would take the family boat out onto Lake Arrowhead. The family would spend Friday and Saturday nights in a rustic cabin in Crestline before returning to Fontana on Sunday night.
In the same timeframe, Virgil obtained a position as an instructor at San Bernardino Valley College in its industrial arts division, teaching machine shop courses at night.
Frank Pribble came to bestride Fontana as something of a colossus after he arrived there in the late 1960s, just as he had virtually everywhere else that he had been. The epitome of a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy, Frank Pribble, at 6-foot-7-inches tall and 310 pounds, was as oversized of a man as San Bernardino County, at 20,105 square miles, is an oversized jurisdiction, the largest county in the lower 48 states. The department assigned him to various spots around the far-flung territory, but eventually determined that he was best employed at the Fontana Sheriff’s Substation.
When Fontana had incorporated as a city in 1952, nearly half of the expanse of ground traditionally considered as the community of Fontana was left as unincorporated county land. Fontana was a hard city. In the 1920s and 1930s it was a haven for the Mafia, where the bootlegging mobster Al Capone had established his West Coast hideaway at 8775 Tamarind Avenue. Well into the 1980s, vestiges of gangsterism remained a part of Fontana life. Fontana’s unincorporated expanse was host to the Kaiser Steel Mill, which employed hardworking, grisly men, many of whom were family men, like Virgil Scott, while others were hard charging, hard living and hard drinking. Fontana bears the distinction of being the place where not one but two outlaw motorcycle gangs – the Hells Angels and the Devils Diciples – were founded. The American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan, led by George Pepper, had active local chapters in Fontana throughout the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s. Into this mélange strode Frank Pribble, inserted there by the sheriff’s department. His size alone gave him the command presence ideal in an officer of the law and which was doubly desirable in a place like Fontana. Frank thought nothing of going into Fontana’s taverns, bars, drinking establishments and brothels to quell fights that had broken out. It was said that the denizens of the bars often sensed his arrival without looking up because his height and girth cast a huge shadow.
Consistent with this size, Pribble was known to possess sheer strength, indeed what came across as superhuman strength, which he was not reluctant to use if he were challenged, as inevitably he was in a place like Fontana, applying what was in those days referred to as “necessary” and by today’s standards what is referred to as “excessive” force to keep such situations from getting out of hand. He was looked up to throughout the department as an icon, and many credited him as the inspiration for the department’s unofficial motto, “One riot, one deputy.”
Virgil Scott put his machining skill to work, acquiring a used U-Haul truck, a 1965 Ford one-and-a-half-ton flat bed, which he converted into a camper. This allowed the Scott Family to take extended road trips. Virgil and Diane Scott, with the assistance of their children, would collect bags of clothes from around the neighborhood and then drive to Tijuana and distribute the clothes to the impoverished people living in cardboard boxes on the side of the hill there.
In early 1975, after 25 years of marriage, the relationship between Virgil and Diane soured. Things deteriorated, and by late spring, Diane insisted on a separation.
The change in his life was hard on Virgil. He was reduced to living in one of his sparsely furnished rental units or in his converted camper. Though he was not physically distant, he was cut off from his family. Things grew worse still after Diane, using her maiden name Strand, contacted an attorney, Lawrence H. Freeman, to have him prepare divorce papers for her.
There is some indication that the family physician, to whom Virgil at one point turned, may have prescribed for him medication to reduce his anxiety and mental discomfort. Virgil Scott had never before been a drinking man. Indeed, he had a reputation as a teetotaler. After his separation, however, he began to seek solace in the bottle, at least sporadically.
July 6, 1975 was a Sunday. Virgil Scott had spent the previous couple of days at the Colorado River, where he had gone in what was an ultimately futile attempt to find consolation over his domestic situation. His inability to effect a reconciliation with the mother of his children had left him morose and in despair. He drove back to Fontana that afternoon, intending to speak with his wife. When he arrived in Fontana, however, she was gone. At the Scott home, however, was his mother-in-law, Lila Strand. The exchange between the two did not go well. Lila was unable to offer Virgil any hope or even glimmer of a prospect that her daughter would end her separation from him.
According to Virgil’s and Diane’s daughter, Sharon, “I never saw my father being violent toward my mother, ever.” Nevertheless, Sharon said, it is clear that on the night of July 6, 1975, “My father went off his rocker. He broke the picture tube out of the family television set. He smashed all the light bulbs in the home, using his bare hands, cutting one of them in the process. He broke every one of the house’s windows.”
Still fuming, Virgil then went into a closet and retrieved several guns, a .300-caliber Savage rifle among them. As he was doing this, he told Lila that if anyone tried to stop him, he would kill him. Lila left, walking to a neighbor’s home, from which she called the sheriff’s department. Virgil headed off, but before departing the neighborhood, drove to one of the rental units on Randall Avenue he owned with his wife, the tenant of which had purportedly recently failed to make a $50 rental payment to Diane. He fired several rounds into the house. Fortunately, no one was injured.
The two deputies scheduled to work the Sunday evening shift in the west Fontana patrol area out of the Fontana substation on July 6, 1975 were Frank Pribble and Bill Brown. They would have normally been driving alone in their own separate units, but the brakes on Deputy Brown’s patrol car were faulty and Frank Pribble was summoned to return to the substation to retrieve Brown, and they subsequently “doubled up” in Frank’s car.
A call came in reporting the mayhem that had occurred at the Scott home and the firing of shots into the nearby residence on Randall Avenue. Based upon Lila Strand’s call, Virgil Scott was described as the suspect and that he was driving a yellow 1965 Ford one-and-a-half-ton flat bed truck with a chassis-mounted camper. The substation’s watch commander, John Futscher, considering that Scott was in a camper, suggested that Pribble and Brown check the rest area on I-10 between Citrus and Cherry avenues to see if Scott might be there.
Upon arriving there, the deputies drove through the section reserved for trucks and spotted the suspect vehicle parked near several motor homes. Bill Brown notified dispatch and requested backup and the assistance of the department’s helicopter. Frank Pribble parked at an angle behind the truck on the right side, and both officers began walking to the truck. According to the official sheriff’s department report of the incident, Bill Brown went to the rear of the camper and attempted to look inside while Frank Pribble walked toward the right-side door of the camper. Brown later stated that from his position as he looked to the side of the truck, he saw the barrel of a rifle come out of the camper’s window a few feet behind Deputy Pribble. Frank Pribble was positioned with his back to the gun, according to Bill Brown, who said he shouted a warning to his fellow deputy. As Frank turned his head toward Bill, according to the report, the rifle discharged and Frank fell onto the hood of the truck. He then slipped to the ground, falling to his knees. Brown responded by firing a single shot into the converted camper. He then hastened to the patrol car and radioed the dispatch center.
Brown’s call broadcasting “999: officer down” came in at 8:21 p.m.
Edith Cain was inside her motor home when she heard the shots. When she stepped outside and saw Frank Pribble lying on the asphalt parking lot, she said he looked up at her and told her “Get out of the way. I don’t want you people to get hurt.” His sidearm was still in his holster.
Within minutes, sheriff’s deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and regional agencies converged on the scene. With the assistance of a CHP officer, Bill Brown forced entry into the camper and found Virgil Scott lying in a bunk. Brown’s single shot had struck Virgil Scott on the left side of his body, penetrating his liver, aorta and left kidney. The sheriff’s helicopter, known by its department nomenclature as 40 King, landed at the rest area with pilot Don Belter at the controls and observer Jim Benson next to him. Recognizing at once the gravity of Frank Pribble’s condition, they decided to transport him to the nearest hospital without waiting for an ambulance. Officers quickly carried Frank to the waiting helicopter and laid him across the rear floorboard. Frank Pribble’s height, however, would not allow the helicopter door to close. With Frank Pribble’s legs dangling outside the cockpit, Belter put the helicopter into full throttle and lifted off, with Benson standing outside the airship on the skids. As they flew to Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, Benson, yet poised outside the cockpit, held the door open and, buffeted by the wind blasts, cradled Frank Pribble’s legs between his.
There was no helipad at Kaiser Hospital in 1975. Don Belter radioed ahead, informing hospital personnel he would be landing near the ambulance entrance and they would need to clear the area. Within a few minutes, Belter adroitly landed the helicopter between the trees and within a few feet of the emergency room. Doctors and nurses were waiting and rushed Pribble into surgery. Deputy Sheriff Frank Pribble died in surgery at 9:09 p.m. He was 37 years old. Virgil Scott was eventually transported to the county hospital in San Bernardino, where he, too, expired on that 6th day of July, 1975.
Within hours, Frank Pribble’s death was widely known throughout the county. His passing was mourned by those who knew him directly and those who knew him only by reputation. At his funeral there were significant numbers of bikers from the Fontana area, the same element he had kept in line and sometimes clashed with during his tours of duty out of the Fontana substation. So commanding was his presence, so much larger than life, that in death even those who did not particularly like him felt it fitting to give him one last token of respect. In 2001 he was honored again when his name was enshrined on the “Officer Down” memorial statues, commemorating the San Bernardino County law enforcement officers who had died in the line of duty, one of which was placed at the county administrative building and a duplicate in the West Valley Courthouse in Rancho Cucamonga. Then in 2009, the stretch of the I-10 Freeway near the rest stop that was the scene of the deadly confrontation between him and Virgil Scott was renamed the Frank Pribble Memorial Freeway.
Virgil Scott’s memory, in contrast, has not been honored. He is remembered, widely, as the man who shot and killed Frank Pribble. The last hours and minutes of his life, a very short duration during which the emotional devastation of the loss of his wife and family overcame him and he acted violently and foolishly, became his legacy. Members of his family, including his brother, children, nephews, and grandchildren and grandnephews, have been subjected to abusive treatment by local law enforcement officers because of what he did, despite the consideration that one of those relations, his nephew Sam Scott, later served as Fontana’s police chief.
-Mark Gutglueck

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200004595
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Rodriguez Courier Services, 1473 Randy St, D, Upland, CA 91786, Jose R. Rodriguez, 1473 Randy St. #D, Upland, CA 91786,
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/ Jose R Rodriguez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/15/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 06/23/15
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).
6/12/20, 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
CHERYL LYN SCOTT
NO. PROPS 2000131
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of CHERYL LYN SCOTT
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JEFFREY SCOTT, in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JEFFREY SCOTT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The wills and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S35 at 8:30 a.m. on JULY 15, 2020 at the San Bernardino Justice Center, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for the Petitioner:
R. SAM PRICE, ESQ.
SBN 208603
300 E. STATE STREET, SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 475-8800
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 6/19, 6/26 & 7/03, 2020
FBN 20200004634
The following entity is doing business as: GRAND TERRACE HAPPENINGS 21712 VIVIENDA AVE GRAND TERRACE, CA 92313 JEFFREY E MCCONNELL 21712 VIVIENDA AVE GRAND TERRACE, CA 92313
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/ JEFFREY MCCONNELL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/18/2020
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
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 6/12, 6/19, 6/26 & 7/3, 2020.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVDS2009782
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TORI TAN filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
TORI FENGZHUO TAN to TORI TAN
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: 07/23/2020
Time: 10:30 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: May 29, 2020 By Justin Manassee, Deputy
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 6/19, 6/26, 7/03 & 7/10, 2020.

FBN 20200004767
The following entity is doing business as: ALLIES’S CRAFT HOUSE 3898 SCARLET OAK CT SAN BERNADINO, CA 92407 ALEXANDRA J BECKER 3898 SCARLET OAK CT SAN BERNADINO, CA 92407
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/ ALEXANDRA BECKER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/21/2020
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
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 6/19, 6/26, 7/3 & 7/10, 2020.

FBN 20200004634
The following entity is doing business as: GROOVE’S KITCHEN 12838 YORBA AVE CHINO, CA 91710 JOAQUIN FLORES 2838 YORBA AVE CHINO, CA 91710
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/ JEFFREY MCCONNELL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/29/2020
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: May 16, 2020
County Clerk, Deputy
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 6/19, 6/26, 7/3 & 7/10, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005319
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Kwang Construction Service, 5670 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763, Whole Home Project Resource LLC, 5670 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763
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/ Wen Chih Shen
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/11/20
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/ 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 Bernadino County Sentinel 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005118
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: US China Properties Group, 12736 N. Bend Ct, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3358, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729, Carlton Premier Realty, Inc,12736 N. Bend Ct, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
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/ Laura Zhang
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/5/20
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/ V0956
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 Bernadino County Sentinel 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LENA MASON, AKA: LENA
MAJORS-MASON CASE NO. PROPS2000144 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of LENA MASON, AKA: LENA MAJORS-MASON and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by WINSTON
LAMAR MASON in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO, requesting that WINSTON LAMAR MASON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of LENA MASON, AKA: LENA MAJORS-MASON. Decedent died intestate. (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. S36 at SUPERIOR
COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT – PROBATE DIVISION 247 W. 3rd STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 on July 30, 2020 at 08:30 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.
Attorney for Petitioner: BERL HILLEL SELSKI, ESQ., SBN 54531 24832 ELENA DR.
LAGUNA HILLS, CA 92653 Telephone: (714) 404-3104
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 26, July 3 & July 10, 2020.

FBN 20200005391
The following entity is doing business as: GRIFFIN FITNESS 1900 PROFORMA AVENUE, UNIT G-2 ONTARIO, CA 91761 PARALLEL VENTURES LLC 1900 PROFORMA AVENUE, UNIT G-2 ONTARIO, CA 91761
This 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/ NANCY LI
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/15/2020
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
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 6/26, 7/3, 7/10 & 7/17, 2020.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005444
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Side by Side Services, 5505 Moreno St. Unit #100, Montclair, CA 91763, Lawrence C. Beggs, 5505 Moreno St. Unit #100, Montclair, CA 91763
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/ Lawrence Beggs
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/17/20
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/ 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).
6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005574
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Careone Plumbing, 1433 South Jasmine Ave, Ontario, CA 91762, Paul Robert Ramirez, 1433 South Jasmine Ave, Ontario, CA 91762
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/ Paul Robert Ramirez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/18/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Began Transacting Business: 6/22/14
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).
6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVDS2009782
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Tori Tan filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Tori Fengzhuo Tan to Tori Tan
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: 07/23/2020
Time: 10:30 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: May 29, 2020
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) 1 9STCV22549
SHORT NAME OF CASE: SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG vs. GERARDO DELUNA
NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS (AVISO DEMANDADO): GERARDO DELUNA; COMMERCIAL ROCK CO., INC.; HOLLIDAY ROCK CO., INC.; AND DOES 1 TO 25, INCLUSIVE
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entreque una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulano que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corta le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conace a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de referencia a abogados. Si no peude pagar a un a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratu de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendoso en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación da $10,000 o mas de vaior recibida mediante un aceurdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corta antes de que la corta pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
CENTRAL DISTRICT-SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 312 N. SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
The name, address and telephone number of cross-complainant’s attorney, or cross-complainant without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del contrademandante, o del contrademandante que no tiene abogado, es):
STEVAN COLIN (State Bar No. 110360)
GABRIEL & ASSOCIATES 801 PACIFIC AVENUE, LONG BEACH, CA 90813 (562) 436-9292
DATE (Fecha): JUNE 27, 2019
SHERRIR. CARTER EXECUTIVE OFFICER/CLERK OF THE COURT
Clerk (Secretario), by RICARDO PEREZ, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published in San Bernardino County Sentinel: 6/26, 7/03, 7/10 & 7/17, 2019

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES
CASE NUMBER: 1 9STCV22549
Personal Injury or Wrongful Death)
PLAINTIFF: SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
DEFENDANT: To (name of one defendant only): DEFENDANT: GERARDO DELUNA
Plaintiff (name of one plaintiff only): Complainant SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows:
General damages:
PAIN SUFFERING AND INCONVENIENCE [of] $30,000.00
EMOTIONAL DISTRESS [of] $5,000
Special Damages:
MEDICAL EXPENSES (to date) [of] $2,905.00
1 9STCV22549
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
STREET ADDRESS: 312 N. SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
BRANCH NAME: SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE
ATTORNEYS FOR(name): PLAINTIFF SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
STEVAN COLIN (State Bar No. 110360)
GABRIEL & ASSOCIATES 801 PACIFIC AVENUE, LONG BEACH, CA 90813 (562) 436-9292
Date: JULY 11, 2019
s/ STEVAN COLIN
Published in San Bernardino County Sentinel: 6/26, 7/03, 7/10 & 7/17, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200004595
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Rodriguez Courier Services, 1473 Randy St, D, Upland, CA 91786, Jose R. Rodriguez, 1473 Randy St. #D, Upland, CA 91786,
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/ Jose R Rodriguez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/15/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 06/23/15
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).
6/12/20, 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
CHERYL LYN SCOTT
NO. PROPS 2000131
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of CHERYL LYN SCOTT
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JEFFREY SCOTT, in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JEFFREY SCOTT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The wills and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S35 at 8:30 a.m. on JULY 15, 2020 at the San Bernardino Justice Center, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for the Petitioner:
R. SAM PRICE, ESQ.
SBN 208603
300 E. STATE STREET, SUITE 620
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Telephone No: (909) 475-8800
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel 6/19, 6/26 & 7/03, 2020
FBN 20200004634
The following entity is doing business as: GRAND TERRACE HAPPENINGS 21712 VIVIENDA AVE GRAND TERRACE, CA 92313 JEFFREY E MCCONNELL 21712 VIVIENDA AVE GRAND TERRACE, CA 92313
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/ JEFFREY MCCONNELL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/18/2020
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
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 6/12, 6/19, 6/26 & 7/3, 2020.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVDS2009782
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TORI TAN filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
TORI FENGZHUO TAN to TORI TAN
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: 07/23/2020
Time: 10:30 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: May 29, 2020 By Justin Manassee, Deputy
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 6/19, 6/26, 7/03 & 7/10, 2020.

FBN 20200004767
The following entity is doing business as: ALLIES’S CRAFT HOUSE 3898 SCARLET OAK CT SAN BERNADINO, CA 92407 ALEXANDRA J BECKER 3898 SCARLET OAK CT SAN BERNADINO, CA 92407
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/ ALEXANDRA BECKER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/21/2020
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
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 6/19, 6/26, 7/3 & 7/10, 2020.

FBN 20200004634
The following entity is doing business as: GROOVE’S KITCHEN 12838 YORBA AVE CHINO, CA 91710 JOAQUIN FLORES 2838 YORBA AVE CHINO, CA 91710
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/ JEFFREY MCCONNELL
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 5/29/2020
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: May 16, 2020
County Clerk, Deputy
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 6/19, 6/26, 7/3 & 7/10, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005319
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Kwang Construction Service, 5670 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763, Whole Home Project Resource LLC, 5670 Arrow Hwy, Montclair, CA 91763
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/ Wen Chih Shen
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/11/20
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/ 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 Bernadino County Sentinel 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005118
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: US China Properties Group, 12736 N. Bend Ct, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739, Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3358, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91729, Carlton Premier Realty, Inc,12736 N. Bend Ct, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
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/ Laura Zhang
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/5/20
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/ V0956
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 Bernadino County Sentinel 6/19/20, 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LENA MASON, AKA: LENA
MAJORS-MASON CASE NO. PROPS2000144 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of LENA MASON, AKA: LENA MAJORS-MASON and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both: A petition has been filed by WINSTON
LAMAR MASON in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO, requesting that WINSTON LAMAR MASON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of LENA MASON, AKA: LENA MAJORS-MASON. Decedent died intestate. (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. S36 at SUPERIOR
COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO DISTRICT – PROBATE DIVISION 247 W. 3rd STREET SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92415-0212 on July 30, 2020 at 08:30 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.
Attorney for Petitioner: BERL HILLEL SELSKI, ESQ., SBN 54531 24832 ELENA DR.
LAGUNA HILLS, CA 92653 Telephone: (714) 404-3104
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on June 26, July 3 & July 10, 2020.
FBN 20200005391
The following entity is doing business as: GRIFFIN FITNESS 1900 PROFORMA AVENUE, UNIT G-2 ONTARIO, CA 91761 PARALLEL VENTURES LLC 1900 PROFORMA AVENUE, UNIT G-2 ONTARIO, CA 91761
This 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/ NANCY LI
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/15/2020
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
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 6/26, 7/3, 7/10 & 7/17, 2020.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005444
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Side by Side Services, 5505 Moreno St. Unit #100, Montclair, CA 91763, Lawrence C. Beggs, 5505 Moreno St. Unit #100, Montclair, CA 91763
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/ Lawrence Beggs
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/17/20
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/ 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).
6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005574
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Careone Plumbing, 1433 South Jasmine Ave, Ontario, CA 91762, Paul Robert Ramirez, 1433 South Jasmine Ave, Ontario, CA 91762
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/ Paul Robert Ramirez
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/18/20
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Began Transacting Business: 6/22/14
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).
6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER CIVDS2009782
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Tori Tan filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Tori Fengzhuo Tan to Tori Tan
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: 07/23/2020
Time: 10:30 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: May 29, 2020
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 6/26/20, 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) 1 9STCV22549
SHORT NAME OF CASE: SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG vs. GERARDO DELUNA
NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS (AVISO DEMANDADO): GERARDO DELUNA; COMMERCIAL ROCK CO., INC.; HOLLIDAY ROCK CO., INC.; AND DOES 1 TO 25, INCLUSIVE
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):
SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entreque una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulano que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corta le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conace a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de referencia a abogados. Si no peude pagar a un a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratu de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendoso en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación da $10,000 o mas de vaior recibida mediante un aceurdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corta antes de que la corta pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
CENTRAL DISTRICT-SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 312 N. SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
The name, address and telephone number of cross-complainant’s attorney, or cross-complainant without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del contrademandante, o del contrademandante que no tiene abogado, es):
STEVAN COLIN (State Bar No. 110360)
GABRIEL & ASSOCIATES 801 PACIFIC AVENUE, LONG BEACH, CA 90813 (562) 436-9292
DATE (Fecha): JUNE 27, 2019
SHERRIR. CARTER EXECUTIVE OFFICER/CLERK OF THE COURT
Clerk (Secretario), by RICARDO PEREZ, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published in San Bernardino County Sentinel: 6/26, 7/03, 7/10 & 7/17, 2019
STATEMENT OF DAMAGES
CASE NUMBER: 1 9STCV22549
Personal Injury or Wrongful Death)
PLAINTIFF: SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
DEFENDANT: To (name of one defendant only): DEFENDANT: GERARDO DELUNA
Plaintiff (name of one plaintiff only): Complainant SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG seeks damages in the above-entitled action, as follows:
General damages:
PAIN SUFFERING AND INCONVENIENCE [of] $30,000.00
EMOTIONAL DISTRESS [of] $5,000
Special Damages:
MEDICAL EXPENSES (to date) [of] $2,905.00
1 9STCV22549
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
STREET ADDRESS: 312 N. SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
BRANCH NAME: SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE
ATTORNEYS FOR(name): PLAINTIFF SOPHIA MINGYEUN YEUNG
STEVAN COLIN (State Bar No. 110360)
GABRIEL & ASSOCIATES 801 PACIFIC AVENUE, LONG BEACH, CA 90813 (562) 436-9292
Date: JULY 11, 2019
s/ STEVAN COLIN
Published in San Bernardino County Sentinel: 6/26, 7/03, 7/10 & 7/17, 2019

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
JOANNE BOLTON
NO. PROPS 1901197
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JOANNE BOLTON
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JAMES PAUL PRIOR, in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JAMES PAUL PRIOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The wills and codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S-37 at 1:30 P.M. on AUGUST 11, 2020 at the San Bernardino Justice Center, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for the Petitioner: MICHAEL C. MADDUX, ESQ.
1894 COMMERCENTER WEST, SUITE 108
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408
Telephone No: (909) 890-2350
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/3/, 7/10, 7/17, 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:
LORENCE RAY HUBLER
NO. PROPS 2000364
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LORENCE RAY HUBLER
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by JEFFREY SCOTT, in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JEFFREY SCOTT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will be held in Dept. No. S-36 at 1:30 P.M. on AUGUST 6, 2020 at the San Bernardino Justice Center, Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino District.
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 decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for the Petitioner: MICHAEL C. MADDUX, ESQ.
1894 COMMERCENTER WEST, SUITE 108
SAN BERNARDINO, CA 92408
Telephone No: (909) 890-2350
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/3/, 7/10, 7/17, 2020.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BETTY L. CORY
Case No. PROPS2000352
To all heirs, benefi-ciaries, creditors, con-tingent creditors, and persons who may other-wise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of BETTY L. CORY
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Frank Butske in the Superior Court of Cali-fornia, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Frank Butske be ap-pointed as personal representative to admin-ister the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for exami-nation in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal rep-resentative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very im-portant actions, however, the personal representa-tive will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the pro-posed action.) The in-dependent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 4, 2020 at 1:30 PM in Dept. No. S35 located at 247 W. Third St., San Bernardino, CA 92415.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the peti-tion, 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 contin-gent creditor of the decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and legal au-thority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledge-able in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
JAMES B CHURCH ESQ
SBN 170772
JAMES B CHURCH &
ASSOCIATES
PO BOX 9030
REDLANDS CA 92375
CN970399 CORY Jul 3,10,17, 2020
SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO) CIVDS 1923157
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO DEMANDADO): JOHN SULLIVAN
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL CONTRADEMANDANTE):
NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una repuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entreque una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulano que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corta le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conace a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de referencia a abogados. Si no peude pagar a un a un abogado, es posible que cumpia con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratu de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendoso en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación da $10,000 o mas de vaior recibida mediante un aceurdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corta antes de que la corta pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y la direccion de la corte es):
Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, San Bernardino Justice Center.
The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s  attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del contrademandante, o del contrademandante que no tiene abogado, es):
REA STEIMACH, Esq., (State Bar No. 296671)
SILVERMAN THEOLOGOU, LLP
11630 CHAYOTE STREET, SUITE 3, LOS ANGELES, CA 90049  213-226-6922
DATE (Fecha): AUGUST 2, 2019
Clerk (Secretario), by Melissa Perez, Deputy (Adjunto)
Published in San Bernardino County Sentinel: 7/3, 7/10, 7/17 & 7/24, 2020
SUMMONS
(CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso):
CIVDS1928059
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): GWAY INVESTMENTS, a partnership; JEFF J GWAY, an individual and partner of GWAY INVESTMENTS; LILLIAN GWAY, an individual and partner of GWAY INVESTMENTS AND DOES 1 TO 10, INCLUSIVE
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): PAC-VAN, INC.
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.
Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF San Bernardino, SAN BERNARDINO, CENTRAL, 247 West 3rd Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415-0210
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Law Offices of Gary A. Bemis APC, Gary A. Bemis 92508, 3870 La Sierra Ave., Suite 239, Riverside, CA 92505
DATE (Fecha): SEP 18 2019
Debra Pedrosa, Clerk (Secretario)
(SEAL)
7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24/20
CNS-3375598#
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SENTINEL

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER  CIVDS2010780
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Leonidas Norca Gomero Zevallos filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Leonidas Norca Gomero Zevallos to Norca Gomero
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
Notice of Hearing:
Date: 08/05/2020
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Department: S16
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: June 10, 2020
Lynn M. Poncin
Judge of the Superior Court.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on 7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20, 7/24/20
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO-20200005724
The following person(s) is(are) doing business as: Quick Call Notary, 919 W H St, Ontario, CA 91762, David M. Coronado, 919 W H St, Ontario, CA 91762, Denise A. Vega, 919 W H St, Ontario, CA 91762
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/ David Matthew Coronado
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 6/25/20
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/ 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).
7/3/20, 7/10/20, 7/17/20, 7/24/20
FBN 20200005769
The following person is doing business as: NEEDLES PIONEER CEMETERY MUSEUM 417 F STREET (AKA NO 1 GRANDVIEW) NEEDLES, CA 92363 ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION – AHA 417 F ST NEEDLES, CA 92363
DLN: 26053745001669 CCN:
Mailing Address: 420 E ST NEEDLES, CALIF 92363
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/ RUTH MUSSER LOPEZ
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/26/2020
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 7/03, 7/10, 7/17 & 7/24, 2020.
FBN 20200005185
The following person is doing business as: DRUM SYNC ACADEMY 9559 CENTER AVE STE A RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730 KYLE M SCHWEIKHARD 10350 BASELINE RD SPC 25 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 90701
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/ KYLE SCHWEIKHARD
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/09/2020
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Began Transacting Business: 1/06/2011
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 7/03, 7/10, 7/17 & 7/24, 2020.
FBN20200004994
The following person is doing business as: INLAND PHYSICIANS MEDICAL GROUP, 9655 MONTE VISTA AVENUE, SUITE 402, MONTACLAIR 91763; ELBERT CHANG M.D. INC; 1131 COOKE AVENUE, CLAREMONT, CA 91711; JOSE A.M. SANTIAGO MD INC , 2772 ARBOR LANE, ONTARIO, CA 91762, GENE S. HONG, M.D .,INC, 794 VIA ESPIRITO SANTOS, CLAREMONT, CA 91711; ALI SALEM MD INC. JOHN KIM D.O. INC., 9043 SALEM MD INC., 9043 SYCAMORE AVE., MONTACLARE, CA 91763; RICK SIRIRATSIVAWONG MD INC, 9043 SYCAMORE AVE., MONTACLARE, CA 91763; NICOLAAS GROBLER, JR., M.D., INC; 7833 SIERRA VISTA STREET, RANCHO, CA 91730; SHAHRAM KHORRAMI, M.D. INC, 3219 SILVER MAPLE DRIVE, YORBA LINDA, CA 92886; ATIF QADEER, MD INC, 5554 ALMADA ST., CHINO HILLS, CA 91709, JOHN KIM D.O., INC. 3196 MARIGOLD CIR., DIAMOND BAR, CA, 91765
The business is conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: JAN. 21, 2020
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130. I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
s/ ELBERT CHANG, GENERAL PARTNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/01/2020
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 06/19/2020, 06/26/2020, 07/03/2020 & 07/10/2020 CNBB25202001MT

FBN20200004994
The following person is doing business as: TM ROOFING, 26405 APACNETL TRAIL, RIM ROREST, CA 92378; P.O. BOX 4176, BLUE JAY, CA 92317 LUIS A. MARTINEZ, 26405 APACETL TRAIL, RIM ROREST, CA 92378
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: NOT APPLICABLE
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 A. MARTINEZ, OWNER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/04/2020
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 06/19/2020, 06/26/2020, 07/03/2020 & 07/10/2020 CNBB25202001MT

FBN20200004994
The following person is doing business as FLIP MASTER; 6315 COMPTON AVE., RIALTON, CA 92377; HIGH HORIZONZ, LLC. 6315 COMPTON AVE., RIALTO, CA 92377
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: NOT APPLICABLE
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/ ALEXANDER AYALA, MANAGING MEMBER
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 06/08/2020
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 06/19/2020, 06/26/2020, 07/03/2020 & 07/10/2020 CNBB25202003MT

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Sentinel 06-26-20

By Mark Gutglueck
Former Upland Police Chief Martin Thouvenell engaged in orchestrating the attempted firing of Upland’s current police chief, Darren Goodman, after Goodman proved unamenable to a power sharing arrangement suspending normal municipal protocol that would have made Thouvenell the de facto commander of the police department, information surfacing in the wake of Goodman’s suspension has revealed.
Thouvenell had lain in wait for Goodman for more than 20 months, at which point a Trojan horse whom Thouvenell had planted in the police chief’s office recently unleashed a key element of the plan to effectuate Goodman’s removal as chief, information provided to the city council this week indicates.
While the stratagem, once fully hatched by Thouvenell earlier this month, failed to fully persuade three of the city council’s members that there were adequate grounds to terminate Goodman, Mayor Debbie Stone was convinced by Thouvenell that she could use her authority to unilaterally direct City Manager Rosemary Hoerning to suspend Goodman. On Monday, Stone and Hoerning did so.
The power alliance binding Stone with Thouvenell is a curious one. Thouvenell was Upland’s police chief from 1994 until 2005, during which time he had been called upon to briefly serve in the capacities of acting city manager and acting fire chief when those top tier administrative posts had been vacated. In 2011, he sought political empowerment in the city as well. That year, a special election to fill a void on the city council was held after the resignation and indictment of then-Mayor John Pomierski resulted in then-Councilman Ray Musser leaving his council post to move into the mayoralty, to which his council colleagues had appointed him. Eleven candidates vied for the open position that Musser had resigned from. Those eleven included Stone and Thouvenell. Stone, who was backed by the city’s firefighters union, whose members were willing to walk precincts on her behalf, captured first place in the race with 3,589, or 34.92 percent of the 10,278 votes cast. Thouvenell, who was backed by the city’s police officers’ union, whose members were generous with political donations but reluctant to go door-to-door to advocate on behalf of the former police chief, ran in second place with 2,897 votes or 28.19 percent. Nearly five years later, in the summer of 2016 when a bare-3-to-2 majority of the city council resolved to terminate then-City Manager Rod Butler, Stone went along with the council majority to bring in Thouvenell to serve as acting or interim city manager. Thouvenell was originally supposed to remain in that capacity for only a brief interlude while a full-fledged city manager was being recruited, but as it turned out, he remained in that post for 18 months, a duration in place that was actually longer than the tenures of the two city managers who served before him and the two who served after him.
Thouvenell was thus city manager during what turned out to be Stone’s successful campaign for mayor in 2016 and beyond that. Indeed, Thouvenell would remain in the role of city manager throughout all of 2017, leaving that position only when Bill Manis took on the role of city manager on January 2, 2018. Thouvenell’s managerial authority did not end at that point, however, as the council which Stone then headed as mayor had conferred upon Thouvenell a one-year duration contract as a management consultant that was to go into effect upon Manis becoming city manager.
Indeed, very early in Thouvenell’s tenure as acting city manager in 2016, prior to Stone being elected mayor, it was apparent to all that the two had buried the political hatchet from 2011, and that Thouvenell was exercising a Svengali-like hold on Stone. After she became mayor, Stone grew absolutely dependent on Thouvenell not only for guidance with regard to how she was to comport herself in her mayoral duties, but in how the city was to be run.
There were a bevy of challenges facing Upland at that juncture, the foremost of which were financial ones, as the city was still struggling to generate sufficient revenue to cover the cost of providing the standard range of municipal services and meet its ballooning pension debt obligations, a legacy of generous commitments that former Mayor Pomierski had made in the past to the city’s municipal employees in employment contract negotiations. These were coupled with managerial issues, as the city was experiencing a continual drain of its department heads. One such issue that came to a crisis point during Stone’s second year as mayor was that relating to its police chief, one-time Los Angeles Police Captain Brian Johnson, who had been hired in 2015, at which time he was hailed as someone who would improve what was widely considered to be an incestuous culture in the Upland Police Department, which had been promoting from within to fill its police chief position for decades. After two years in the position, however, Johnson was finding it impossible to bend the department’s personnel to his will, and he was faced with a near mutiny in May 2017. That convulsion came about when Johnson suspended Sergeant Marc Simpson, who was the president of the Upland Police Management Association, and Captain Anthony Yoakum, then the department’s second-highest ranking officer, after Simpson and Yoakum moved to back Detective Lon Teague when Johnson called Teague on the carpet for having sought to redress concerns he and other officers had with regard to department policy. Teague had done so by going outside the confines of the department’s senior staff. A 21-year department veteran and then the Upland Police Officers Association president, Teague approached staff at City Hall, including the city’s human resources director, with those concerns rather than seeking to have the matter discussed up the immediate department chain of command, which ultimately would have meant it would reach Johnson. As the issue Teague was seeking to address had originated with Johnson, Teague calculated that approach would have little chance of succeeding.
In October 2017, after the Upland Police Officers Association called for a referendum on the police chief’s performance and competence, 78 percent of the association indicated they had “no confidence” in Johnson. Ten percent voted that they yet had “confidence” in Johnson’s leadership of the department. The balance, some 12 percent, rendered a verdict of “undecided.” Johnson tendered his resignation as of October 30, 2017.
Thouvenell, as city manager, headed the effort to find Johnson’s replacement, convincing 70-year-old Douglas Millmore to take the temporary chief’s assignment in Upland while the search was ongoing. Millmore, as a captain with the Upland Police Department, had served as second-in-command during Thouvenell’s first year as chief. In 1995, Millmore had departed Upland to become police chief in Murrieta, where he concluded his career in law enforcement at the age of 50 in 1998. The recruitment effort lasted several months, into Manis’s tenure as city manager. Thouvenell, as the city’s managerial consultant, continued to head that search effort, which in June 2018 ended with the decision to hire Goodman, who at that point had been with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department for 27 years, most recently in the capacity of the captain overseeing the Chino Hills station.
Goodman moved into the police chief’s position with Upland, effective July 16, 2018, the first African-American to achieve the rank of police chief in Upland, and one of only a handful of African-American officers to have ever served with the department. Goodman qualifies as the most highly educated police chief in Upland’s 114-year history. In addition to holding a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California, Goodman has also attained a doctorate at USC’s Rossier School of Education. In addition, he had graduated from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2015, where he studied local and state government executive management.
Despite Thouvenell’s recognition that Goodman had both extensive operational experience in an executive capacity as well as a level of education and training that fully familiarized him with the standard protocol of local governmental operations, he pressed Goodman to accept the suspension of the standard arrangement of administrative lines of authority at City Hall in which the city council functions in the capacity of the city’s elected leadership that sets policy and delegates the authority to execute that policy to the city manager, who is responsible then for directing the city’s various department heads to implement that policy. In a California general law city such as Upland, the authority of the mayor and city council members extends solely from their capacity to act as collective body, and no single member of the city council, including the mayor, is empowered to dictate policy unilaterally and without a consensus vote of his or her council colleagues.
Thouvenell, however, was intent on establishing Stone as an executive mayor, having her assume what was essentially dictatorial power she did not possess, expanding her political status to that of an administrator, making her a co-regent of the city, equal to or in some respects preempting the city manager. Stone would then defer to him, Thouvenell knew, for direction on how she should use the sway she possessed. As Stone’s vicar, Thouvenell in this way was seeking to extend his own authority, expropriating the power of the city manager for himself, as well.
According to Stephen Larson, a former federal judge who is representing Goodman, “Bill Manis was the city manager at the time that Chief Goodman became chief of police. Almost immediately, however, Marty Thouvenell directed Chief Goodman not to communicate with Manis and to report only to Thouvenell and Jeannette Vagnozzi, who was deputy city manager at the time. Thouvenell directed Chief Goodman to break the chain of command and call Mayor Stone every day to keep her informed as to what happened in the city and in the department. To be clear, the chief’s job is to report to the city manager and keep him/her informed. Chief Goodman maintained the chain of command, rather than report behind the city manager’s back.”
Simultaneous with his efforts to cut Manis out of the line of authority and communication between the mayor and the police department, Thouvenell further overstepped his authority as the city’s managerial consultant to himself encroach on Goodman’s function as the head of the police department, according to Larson.
“Thouvenell would consistently come into the Upland Police Department using a key card that he was not authorized to have and had no reason to possess,” according to Larson. “Thouvenell would then interfere with the various officers’ and staffs’ daily tasks and assignments, asking them for information about police department activities. Thouvenell even went so far as to call police department personnel directly and request or order them to send patrol units to various locations, including to remove campaign signs. Upon learning about this interference with the police department’s operations, Chief Goodman requested that Thouvenell refrain from acting as if he was still the chief of police. Chief Goodman then took possession of Thouvenell’s keycard.”
According to Larson, Thouvenell tried to usurp Goodman’s management of the department by inserting himself into the personnel decisions that are normally the exclusive province of the police chief, who exercises autonomy with regard to hirings, discipline of employees and firings.
“Thouvenell also attempted to interfere with personnel decisions within the department,” Larson maintains. “For example, he directed Chief Goodman not to promote Lieutenant Cliff Matthews because he was ‘lazy’ and ‘worthless.’”
Larson said Thouvenell’s estimation of Matthews clashed with the police chief’s observations of Matthews’ performance and “Chief Goodman refused to be swayed by this attempted interference; instead, he promoted Matthews to captain, finding him to be intelligent, professional, and someone who consistently went beyond what was required.”
At this point, as a consequence of Goodman’s suspension, Matthews is running the department as the interim police chief.
From shortly after her election as mayor in 2016 and over the next two years, Stone headed a solid ruling coalition on the city council that consisted of herself; Councilman Gino Filippi, who was first elected in 2010 and reelected to the council in 2014; Carol Timm, a longtime member of the city’s planning commission who had been elected to the city council in 2014; and Sid Robinson, who narrowly lost in his bid for the city council in 2016 against Janice Elliott and was then appointed to the council to complete the two years remaining on the council term to which Stone had been reelected in 2014 after she was obliged to resign that position to assume the mayoralty upon her 2016 victory. With Thouvenell in place as acting city manager at the close of 2016 and throughout 2017, the four-to-one voting block on the city council consisting of Stone, Filippi, Timm and Robinson consistently politically outmuscled Elliott, who represented the lone dissident on the panel. The Stone/Thouvenell team dominated Upland for two years, having its way on virtually every substantive as well as the routine matters that were the purview of City Hall.
The already drawn-out process of settling on a permanent replacement for Butler as city manager continued to languish throughout 2017, at least partially by design as Thouvenell quarterbacked the city’s move to shutter its then 111-year old municipal fire department and transfer responsibility for the provision of fire-prevention, fire-safety, firefighting and emergency medical response to the County of San Bernardino’s fire department. That takeover proved less than popular with a significant cross section of the city’s residents, but the council majority and the San Benardino County Local Formation Commission fashioned a process to have the city’s voters “approve” the move by utilizing a “protest vote” to have the city’s residents sign off on the change. The city’s voters and landowners were invited to lodge a protest against the county’s appropriation of the Upland Fire Department. Those who sent in such a letter were registered as a vote against the takeover. All those who did not send a letter were deemed to have voted in support of the city’s annexation into the county’s fire protection district. In this way, a majority of the city’s residents were consigned to accepting the municipal fire department closure without even knowing it was occurring. Only Elliott among the members of the council opposed the plan, which garnered her the enmity of her colleagues and especially Stone and Thouvenell. Together, in May 2017, just five months into Elliott’s tenure as councilwoman, Thouvenell orchestrated a vote of censure by the council against Elliott.
The closure of Upland’s municipal fire department, a move in large measure formulated by Thouvenell and done with Stone’s support, illustrated the degree to which Stone had reoriented herself politically and into a power-sharing alliance with Thouvenell. The firefighters union which had backed Stone in her original 2011 run for the council was opposed to the shuttering of the fire department and the county takeover. Yet Stone, at that point highly dependent upon Thouvenell’s guidance, was willing to break with what had been her political base in going along with the game plan Thouvenell was intent upon executing.
In the fall of 2017, more than a year had elapsed since the search for a city manager replacement had begun in earnest. Among those aspiring to the post all along had been Jeannette Vagnozzi, who in August of 2015 had been persuaded by Butler to leave the position she held as the assistant to the city manager of La Verne to come to Upland and serve in the capacities of assistant city manager, city clerk, administrative services director, human resources director and risk manager. Thouvenell, however, felt Vagnozzi, if empowered as city manager, might prove unwilling to defer to the direction he had in mind, and he continued the search.
In December 2017, Thouvenell at last made a recommendation that the city hire Manis, then the city manager in Rosemead, to move into the city manager’s position. Thouvenell was satisfied that Manis’s experience, which included a stint as deputy city manager in San Bernardino where he had overseen the economic development, community development, public works and housing departments, time in the City of Banning as the economic development and redevelopment director, and his tenure as the economic development director in the City of Cypress prior to his work in Banning, together with previous municipal experience with the cities of Corona, Santa Ana, and Cerritos provided him with the adequate background and expertise to serve as Upland city manager.
Unstated was that Thouvenell figured that the 57-year old Manis, who at that point had 30 years invested in being a public employee and 30 years in the public employees retirement system, would be content to serve three more years as a caretaker city manager in Upland at an annual salary before benefits beginning at $238,000 per year, which would boost the annual pension he would be eligible to receive at age 60 to $196,350 per year. By accepting his role as a caretaker manager, Manis would essentially surrender his authority to Thouvenell, who would remain as Upland’s shot caller.
Once in place, Manis acted as the city’s official top administrator, though in reality, Thouvenell yet remained in charge. Virtually all of the major decisions that took place while Manis was city manager were ones in which he had only limited input, such as the city’s move to sell 3.631 acres of Memorial Park to San Antonio Hospital for use as a parking lot, arranging a trade of the entirety of Cabrillo Park to Lewis Homes in exchange for property in a gravel quarry near the 210 Freeway and the hiring of Goodwin as police chief. Placated by the prospect of seeing his annual pension zoom to near $200,000 per year, Manis acquiesced in Thouvenell maintaining control over the city, at least initially. But as city residents registered increasingly strident protests over the city’s surrendering of parkland and Thouvenell’s treatment of Goodman drove home that Thouvenells megalomaniacal designs on the city included not just serving as the city’s shadow city manager but its shadow police chief and shadow community development director as well, Manis began to rethink the wisdom of allowing Thouvenell and Stone, who had no formal training or experience in municipal management, commit the city to courses of action that might rebound to its detriment and to that of the city’s residents and taxpayers, while the responsibility for those decisions was being ascribed to him, potentially tarnishing whatever reputation and legacy he had. Late that summer, the 2018 Annual Conference & Expo of the League of California Cities was held in Long Beach, spanning three days from September 12 to September 14. Manis, who was there ostensibly in his capacity as Upland city manager to take in as many of the seminars and expositions on current municipal governance issues, new legislation and what are considered “best practices” in running a city as time and the crush and conflict of the schedule would permit, visited those booths where recruitment for other municipal positions throughout the state was ongoing, and he picked up applications for some of those positions. A few weeks later, with the 2018 election approaching, it was announced that he was departing as city manager, officially as of November 2. In fact, by the end of September Manis departed Upland City Hall, never to return. Put into his place as acting city manager was Vagnozzi, conditional upon her recognition that she was to consult with Thouvenell before taking action on anything.
In the November 2018 election, the first in the city’s then-112-year history to feature by-district elections, Elliott, despite having two years remaining on her at-large term to which she had been elected in 2016, vied for election to represent District Two covering that fourth of the city to the northeast, wherein she resided. She was victorious. Robinson, Timm and Filippi, who had provided three of the four votes needed to perpetuate the Thouvenell/Stone program, did not fare as well. Robinson, sensing the voters’ growing hostility, opted against seeking reelection. Filippi, in southwest-lying District Three, was defeated, as was Timm in the city’s southeastern electoral ward, District Four. Stone, who was not up for election in 2018, remained in office. But her hold on the city, as was Thouvenell’s, had been significantly attenuated with the election of Ricky Felix in Filippi’s stead and Rudy Zuniga over Timm.
Less than a month after the election, in what would come to be seen as a desperate ploy by Thouvenell and Stone to structure some form of continuing leverage over city operations, Thouvenell induced the lame duck members of the council – Timm, Filippi and Robinson – to join with Stone to approve the hiring of Vagnozzi as city manager on a three-year contract. That action was taken at the council’s November 26, 2018 meeting, the last opportunity for Timm, Robinson and Filippi to act in their official capacities in elected office.
Elliott voted against the eleventh hour hiring of Vagnozzi, and sought to convince her colleagues that saddling their successors with Vagnozzi without knowing whether the new members of the council would be favorably disposed to her was shortsighted and vindictive.
Behind the scenes, Thouvenell and Stone were seeking to line up support for Vagnozzi, hopeful that she would remain grateful for them helping her achieve the city manager’s post she had long coveted, and would evince loyalty to them down the road.
According to Larson, “Thouvenell directed Chief Goodman to publicly vocalize support for Vagnozzi as acting city manager solely because Mayor Stone liked Vagnozzi. In other words, if Chief Goodman wanted to remain on the mayor’s good side, he needed to publicly support her friends in city positions. Chief Goodman refused to voice support simply because it would please the mayor. In short, Thouvenell has repeatedly sought to pressure Chief Goodman into supporting the political agenda of Thouvenell and his allies, including Mayor Stone, and to do Thouvenell’s bidding rather than independently serving the city as chief of police. To his credit, Chief Goodman has consistently resisted this pressure, as he was and is adamant that he remain uninfluenced by city politics and instead continue to operate independently from the well-known Thouvenell crew. This independence is critical to Chief Goodman’s ability to adhere to his oath to serve all citizens of the City of Upland. Unfortunately, true to both Thouvenell’s and Vagnozzi’s warnings, because of Chief Goodman’s unwillingness to play Thouvenell’s political games and simply be a figurehead, he has not ‘won favor,’ and instead a campaign to undermine him has been launched.”
Thouvenell’s and Stone’s plan to maintain a degree of control over City Hall by having Vagnozzi installed as city manager was dashed in May 2019, slightly less than six months into her tenure as city manager. At that point, Elliott, Zuniga, Felix and the council’s newest member, Bill Velto, who had been appointed to assume the at-large council position Elliott had resigned from to take on representation of the city’s District Two, formed a consensus that Vagnozzi had to go. This development created a circumstance wherein the municipal areas into which Thouvenell yet had reach were diminishing. There were still vestiges of Thouvenell’s presence and clout within city operations. The most significant of these was that municipal department from which he had arisen to such prominence in the city originally, and within which he still had contact and some degree of influence. In a power play that took more than a year to fully effectuate, he was yet able to place a shot that would shake the city and demonstrate he is yet a force in Upland to be reckoned with.
According to Larson, Thouvenell and Stone manipulated a circumstance within the police department that had been in part set in place by Thouvenell to bring about Goodman’s current suspension and what Thouvenell and Stone hope will be seen by the remainder of the council as adequate grounds to cashier Goodman. Present within Goodman’s office was a police department civilian employee whose loyalty to Thouvenell had been formerly tapped into by both Stone and Thouvenell to monitor the police department. That employee now is the prime mover in the scheme to remove Goodman from the department, Larson maintains.
“This retaliatory campaign has now come to a head with the city’s response to the recent complaint submitted by Executive Assistant Luz Barrett,” Larson wrote in a letter to the city council dated June 24. “Barrett began working for the police department when Thouvenell was chief of police. It is well-known that Barrett maintains a close relationship with Thouvenell – or, the ‘Godfather,’ as she calls him – and provides information to him about what is going on within the department. Shortly after his arrival to the department, Chief Goodman promoted Barrett to executive assistant at the insistence of certain colleagues who felt that the length of her time with the department warranted her promotion. Barrett’s probationary period expires in July 2020. After working closely with Barrett, however, Chief Goodman quickly realized that Barrett lacked necessary skills to fulfill the role. As a result, Chief Goodman took it upon himself to encourage better performance and provide constructive criticism because that is the role of a manager. Recognizing that Barrett was not improving, Chief Goodman began working with the human resources department in March 2020 to return Barrett to her former classification upon the termination of her probationary period. Barrett’s performance issues are well documented. The day before Chief Goodman was to inform Barrett about her return to her former classification, Barrett went out, unexpectedly, on leave. Chief Goodman believes that Barrett overheard his conversation with the human resources representative about the final plans to implement the demotion and may have gone through papers for her demotion that were left out on his desk – the papers had been shuffled through even though the chief locked his office, and Barrett has the only other key. Two weeks later, Barrett submitted a draft civil complaint to the city, threatening to file it in state court. This draft complaint includes a litany of false accusations of misconduct against Chief Goodman.”
Larson’s letter states, “To be clear, not one allegation would hold any water in a fair and impartial investigation, let alone warrant a finding that Chief Goodman has subjected Barrett to a hostile work environment under the law. Given the city’s swift conduct against Chief Goodman after his initial interview, in which he was ambushed with different and new information not previously provided to him, and given that a second interview has not been scheduled, as required under the Government Code, only one conclusion can be drawn – the city’s goal is not to vet the truth of the allegations, but create a narrative that allows it to terminate Chief Goodman. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that the city is apparently ignoring that Ms. Barrett’s credibility has been undermined in ongoing litigation between the city and other police officers for wrongful discharge.”
Larson thereupon dealt directly with the accusation of misappropriation of department assets that forms the basis of Goodman’s current suspension and which Thouvenell and Stone are hopeful will convince the city council it has grounds to terminate the police chief.
“Apart from the baseless allegations of harassment, there is a lone allegation that Chief Goodman sent Barrett on a personal errand on department time,” Larson’s letter states. “It is important to note that since Barrett worked as the chief’s executive assistant, Chief Goodman recognized the benefit in developing a friendly relationship with Barrett. A friendly relationship assists in ensuring that constructive criticism is interpreted as just that, and it is important that the chief of police develops trust with his executive assistant for obvious reasons. To that end, Chief Goodman and his family assisted Barrett with certain personal matters on numerous occasions, including giving her money to help her when she was surprised with unexpected expenses. We will not disclose all these instances here. This friendly relationship appeared to be reciprocal. On one occasion, Barrett even offered to assist the chief in translating what Chief Goodman was trying to convey to his Spanish-speaking housekeeper. Barrett told the chief that she would be willing to help out and translate whenever he needed it. Seeing this as friendly and generous offer, Chief Goodman did in fact ask Barrett to translate a number of times over the phone. Barrett’s conversations with Chief Goodman’s housekeeper occurred sparingly over only four months of Barrett’s and Chief Goodman’s working relationship. To avoid any perception of impropriety or a violation of department policy, Chief Goodman compensated Barrett via Zelle payments for her telephonic translations.”
Zelle is a digital payment network owned and operated jointly by Bank of America, BB&T, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, US Bank and Wells Fargo. It enables bank customers to electronically transfer money from their bank account to another registered user’s bank account using a mobile device or the website of a participating banking institution.
“At no time did Chief Goodman indicate that Barrett was required to translate as a condition of her employment,” according to Larson. “Barrett’s complaint submitted to the city, however, alleges that Barrett was required to travel to San Diego on department time to translate with the housekeeper in person. The date identified in the complaint was a Sunday. Chief Goodman does recall a Sunday in which he asked Barrett to meet him down in San Diego to meet with the housekeeper and translate for him. As a thank you, Chief Goodman provided her a week-stay at his vacation home free of charge.”
That arrangement, Larson said, obviates the contention that Goodman allowed the city to pay for the translation service that Barrett provided him and his family. Further, Larson stated, the suggestion in Barrett’s complaint that the police chief evinced guilt by seeking to keep her translation work for him a secret misrepresents the circumstance.
“Chief Goodman asked Barrett not to tell anyone at the department about this because he did not want others to know that he was allowing anyone to use his vacation home free of charge; Chief Goodman does not even let family members stay free of charge,” Larson asserted. “He also wanted to protect Barrett from coworkers becoming jealous.”
Goodman had withstood investigators’ efforts to trip him up by making a factual misrepresentation to him, when he recognized at once the misrepresentation and corrected his interrogators, Larson maintained.
“During his interview, Chief Goodman was provided an incomplete text chain, without a date, and was told that the date of the alleged incident was different than the date alleged in the complaint,” Larson told the city council in the June 24 letter. “Being surprised with and questioned about this information violated Chief Goodman’s rights. Chief Goodman nonetheless insisted that the day that Barrett went down to San Diego was a Sunday, which he based on his review of his wife’s notes regarding the vacation home, and that he did not recall ever asking her to go down during the week to help translate a conversation with his housekeeper. Regardless, Chief Goodman would not have had Barrett go down on department time. And, assuming she did go down during the week upon his request, he would have expected her to ‘schedule adjust,’ which she commonly did.”
Barrett’s contention that she forged a timecard to obtain city payment for her translation work for Goodman at the police chief’s behest is controverted by demonstrable facts and evidence, Larson said.
“Barrett now alleges that she forged a time card for this alleged incident at Chief Goodman’s directive,” Larson wrote. “However, Chief Goodman never once told Barrett to misrepresent her time on her timesheet, and he certainly would not have signed off on such a timesheet. As evidence, Barrett somehow gained possession of her timesheet, and presented it to the investigator. Notably, however, the signature on the timesheet is a stamp of Chief Goodman’s signature – not his physical signature. Chief Goodman has made it his practice to personally review and sign Barrett’s timesheets. The use of his signature stamp demonstrates that he did not review and sign the timesheet in question – which would only be consistent with a scenario in which Barrett avoided showing him the timesheet and instead added his stamped signature so that he would not know that she failed to schedule adjust for the alleged San Diego trip. To be clear, Chief Goodman did not and would never direct a subordinate to violate department policy, nor did he or would he ever violate department policy by requiring his executive assistant to run his personal errands.”
Larson intimated that there are further details to support Goodman’s position that he did not engage in any impropriety in allowing Barrett to facilitate his communication with his housekeeper.
“What is clear based on these facts alone is that the city manager and mayor’s placement of Chief Goodman on administrative leave, and the referral of his file to the district attorney based on the petty and false allegations brought by Barrett, is nothing more than the city using Barrett’s false allegations to retaliate against Chief Goodman for refusing to do the mayor’s and Thouvenell’s political bidding. It is imperative that the city councilmembers closely examine the claims above and root out the corruption that is infesting the city ranks.”
Yesterday, Thursday June 25, the city council held a special meeting, called with only 24 hours notice. The agenda for the meeting referenced a “closed session” discussion of “significant exposure to litigation.” No further description of the matter was given, and the council’s substantive exchanges at the meeting all took place outside the scrutiny of the public.
On a relatively regular basis, the city council undertakes during its regularly scheduled meetings closed session discussion of issues of potential litigation. Because of confidentiality privilege extending to legal matters involving the city, there was no explicit explanation of what prompted the need for yesterday’s special meeting, nor was there confirmation that the substance of Larson’s letter, delivered to the city on Wednesday, prompted the meeting. That, nonetheless, was the widespread assumption of many in the community, and a rally involving over 100 Upland residents was held at City Hall starting roughly a half hour before the special city council meeting commenced at 2:30 p.m. Because of social distancing precautions imposed as a result of the coronavirus crisis, only a limited number of people were allowed into the council chamber at a time. In the public comment portion of the meeting before the council adjourned into its closed session, more than 20 speakers expressed support for Goodman.
Thereafter, the council retreated to an internal City Hall conference room for its discussion, during which some members of the public openly speculated about the likelihood that the council would move to reinstate Goodman as police chief. That expectation was not immediately met, however. Upon the conclusion of the closed session, it was reported that the council had taken no reportable action.
Neither Mayor Stone nor Thouvenell responded to emails sent to them requesting their version of events and a response to Larson’s assertions in his letter to the mayor and city council.
A phone message left at the police department for Barrett had elicited no response by press time.

With San Bernardino County’s known COVID-19 infection rate rising in a geometric progression beyond the initial stage of the virus’s spread in the late winter and early spring, the lion’s share of the safeguards which state and local authorities had imposed to “flatten the curve” of contagion have been lifted, even as signs that the peril that had prompted the unprecedented safety measures is about to manifest.
As of today, 11,290 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed within the county, along with 248 deaths.
On a bi-hourly basis, an examination of statistics shows, the potentially deadly condition is compounding in the county population nearly on a par with what was taking the virus a whole week to accomplish in March.
In the last seven days, there have been 2,576 new cases of the coronavirus detected in the county, equal to 15.33 cases per hour. By comparison, as of March 13, there were no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in San Bernardino County. On March 27, the county had logged 64 known cases of the malady, and three deaths.
With the outset of June, the State of California and the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health began to progressively dismantle the regime that had been put in place to slow the coronavirus from spreading. Stay-at-home orders, closures of restaurants and service business entailing direct or close human contact, requirements that individuals wear masks in public, and both park and school closures were dispensed with.
Though the scale of testing has increased, indications are that the disease is on the march, increasing on a trajectory that will overwhelm hospitals and medical facilities within two to three weeks if as little as five percent percent of the infected population becomes critical. Meanwhile, even as authorities have begun to prepare makeshift hospitals at certain locations around the county that resemble those from the American Civil War or World War I, governmental authorities are unwilling, out of fear of provoking public unrest and protest, to reinstitute the safety mandates imposed on the public three months ago.
Public health officials declined to discuss with the Sentinel the prospect that the escalation in the number of known cases and the ending of citizen constraints will result in a full-blown contagion overwhelming the county’s medical capability.
-Mark Gutglueck