Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of Assemblyman James Ramos’s AB 349 into law has earned plaudits while sparking expressions of concern that the marriage of multiple social solutions into a single facility designed for the specific purpose of incarcerating the criminally mentally ill will result in untoward outcomes.
Beginning operation in 1893 as the Southern California State Asylum for the Insane and Inebriates, Patton State Hospital was renamed in 1927 in honor of Harry Patton, a member of the facility’s first board of managers.
The state hospital was designed in keeping with the Kirkbride Plan, which called for a central administration building flanked by long wards to separately house male and female “inmates.”
Throughout its existence, the hospital has served as a treatment center for alcoholics, drug addicts, violent delusional criminals, sexually violent predators, those found not guilty by reason of insanity and epileptics, along with those suffering from mental and genetic disorders such as Down-syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, and dementia. Over the years, thousands of those deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial have been remanded to custody there.
It has held some very violent criminals, including Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian at Fullerton State University who killed seven students and professors on a shooting spree at his workplace in 1976; David Attias, who purposefully ran down five pedestrians, killing four and critically injuring the other, in Isla Vista in 2001; Serial killer Nathan Nicholas Trupp, who murdered five known victims; Richard Turley, a Boy Scout leader who had molested youths in the troops he led; Chris Clarke, who in 1985 killed his fiancee after becoming convinced “she was trying to lead me into the devil’s brigade.” Continue reading →

County Chief Executive Officer Luther Snoke has appointed Pete Mendoza as the permanent director of purchasing following a competitive recruitment process. Mendoza is a 32-year county employee who has served as interim director of county purchasing since 2021.
“Under Pete’s leadership, the purchasing department has not only received the Excellence in Procurement Achievement Award from the National Procurement Institute in both 2022 and 2023, but also a total of four NACo (National Association of Counties) Achievement Awards in 2023,” Snoke said. “His team successfully supported the management of donations during the 2023 snowstorm and has participated in outreach efforts to educate and assist small businesses to become a registered vendor with the county. Purchasing has furthermore made improvements to the mail services and surplus divisions to enhance efficiency in support of county operations.”
“It has been an honor to lead the great team of professionals serving in the county purchasing department for the past two years,” Mendoza said. “I look forward to continuing the outstanding work we’ve been doing while growing our skills to meet the ever-evolving needs of the county and the communities we serve.” Continue reading →

A coalition of local municipalities and governmental agencies and entities and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, as the largest single landowner in the environs of the long-shuttered Norton Air Force Base, are engaging in an overt and concerted effort to promote commercial, industrial and some residential development in a 700-acre expanse north of the aerodrome now known as San Bernardino International Airport. At the same time, local residents, advocates for the financially distressed, environmental activists and organizations and entities and individuals as powerful as the California Attorney General and his office are sounding out opposition to the wholesale conversion of that land to a productivity that will have what they say will be a consequent destructive impact on the currently present residents who will be displaced and those who will remain.
In 1994, the Department of Defense as part of its nationwide military asset and priority conversion program closed down Norton Air Force Base, which was first established as a 900-acre Army Air Corps facility two miles east of downtown San Bernardino and had spent the major duration of its existence mainly as an Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command and then as a Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command installation. The U.S. Military’s presence had become a major element of the local economy, representing a substantial infusion of capital into Highland, Redlands, Loma Linda, Grand Terrace, Colton and, of course, San Bernardino. Those six municipal entities entered into discussions about the civilian reconversion of the base property. The San Bernardino International Airport Authority, known by its acronym, SBIAA, dedicated to transforming the base itself into an airport, and the Inland Valley Development Agency, called IVDA, which was intended to redevelop the land around the airport, were formed. After initial activity in which all of the nearby cities and the county were involved in both joint powers authorities, the San Bernardino International Airport Authority was chartered with the County of San Bernardino and the cities of San Bernardino, Colton, Loma Linda, and Highland as participants. The Inland Valley Development Agency was created under the aegis of the County of San Bernardino and the Cities of Colton, Loma Linda, and San Bernardino. Continue reading →

After an interminable 14-year delay in proceeding with its proposed 28-home housing development in Carbon Canyon, Coto de Caza-based Stonefield Development has given up on the project, which was originally approved by the Chino Hills City Council in 2009.
Stonefield, beginning in 2016, had requested and was granted multiple extensions on the undertaking, a subdivision covering 34.73 acres of vacant land northwest of Carbon Canyon Road and east of Fairway Drive, over the years. Previously, Chino Hills officials granted those extension requests and was once again this year set to grant the company another.
Since 2009, the traffic flow on Carbon Canyon Road has increased substantially. Recently, the California Department of Transportation, known by its acronym Caltrans, sought to impose a requirement that the developer do major improvements for the Fairway Drive/Carbon Canyon Road intersection. Among those improvements are either or both the addition of acceleration and deceleration lanes on Carbon Canyon Road and traffic signalization at the intersection. Continue reading →

NOTICE OF PUBIC LIEN SALE
Notice is hereby given that personal property in the following units will be sold at public auction pursuant to Sections 21701-21716 of the California Self-Service Storage Facility Act. A public lien sale will be conducted by www.storagetreasures.com on the 27th day of October 2023, at or after 9:00 am. The property is stored by All American Storage Ontario located at 505 S. Mountain Avenue, Ontario, CA 91762. Purchases must be made in CASH ONLY. Items are sold AS IS WHERE IS and must be removed at the time of sale. All American Storage Ontario reserves the right to refuse any bid or cancel auction. The items to be sold are generally described as follows: miscellaneous personal and household goods stored by the following persons:
Unit Name
C002 Ricky Alvarez
C162 Guadalupe Hernandez
D038 Oreste Leyva Monagas
E082 Lashea Mccraw
E049 Philecia E Patterson
E008 Jorge G Sanchez Segura
D062 Jamie Hoffman
C075 Joseph Bustillos
B024 Juanita A Cabrera
B052 Reynaldo Aguilar
E036 Desiree Brannon
D011 German D Baldizon
D109 Jason Arenas
D090 Soledad Martinez
E005 Carla D Johnson
Dated: 10/4/2023
Signed: Garrett Gossett
storagetreasures.com
Sales subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and obligated party.
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel October 6 & 13, 2023.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB 2322988
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: SERINA ROSE KO filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
SERINA ROSE KO to SERINA ROSE
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: 11/2/2023
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S22
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBC Sentinel in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 09/21/2023
Judge of the Superior Court: Brian S. McCarville
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on September 22, 29 and October 6 & 13, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PHILIP YU-HONG WONG
CASE NO. PROVA2300060
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PHILIP YU-HONG WONG has been filed by JOSEPHINE T. WONG in the Superior Court of California, County of SAN BERNARDINO.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JOSEPHINE T. WONG 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 OCTOBER 16, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at
San Bernardino County Superior Court Fontana District
Department F1 – Fontana
17780 Arrow Boulevard
Fontana, CA 92335
Filed: AUGUST 29, 2023
AMY REYES, Deputy Court Clerk.
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 Josephine T. Wong:
R. SAM PRICE
SBN 208603
PRICE LAW FIRM, APC
454 Cajon Street
REDLANDS, CA 92373
Phone (909) 328 7000
Fax (909) 475 9500
sam@pricelawfirm.com
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on September 29 and October 6 & 13, 2023.

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