Though it is too early to determine with certainty, it appears the effort to censure San Bernardino City Councilwoman Kimberly Calvin may be running out of steam.
On April 17, a sharply divided city council voted to initiate the process of issuing a public reprimand to Calvin, accentuating the displeasure some of its members had with the manner in which Calvin had conducted herself over the previous year.
A week earlier, at a specially called meeting of the city council on April 10 from which Councilman Ben Reynoso was absent, City Attorney Sonia Carvalho announced the council met in closed session and voted 4-to-2, with Calvin and Councilmember Damon Alexander opposed, to consider Calvin’s censure. The staff report relating to the censure proposal generated by then-City Manager Charles Montoya for the April 17 meeting was vague in identifying what grounds there were for Calvin’s censure. The closest that document came to doing so was a nonspecific assertion that doing so would “align with” what was identified as “Key Target No.1e” within the city’s “2021-2025 Strategic Targets and Goals,” which pertained to the city’s intent to “Minimize risk and litigation exposure.” Continue reading →

Free to the public, the musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band and the Bescoby Family will present Hot Summer Nights on Monday June 17, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held at Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium located on the campus of Chaffey High School at 1245 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario.
The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital in the auditorium lobby at 7:00 p.m.
Highlighting the June concert will be guest vocal soloists Jana “Gigi” Garner and Brian Detwiler, along with trumpet soloist Steve Collins and the student dance troupe from the Inland Pacific Ballet.
Garner, a former voice-over artist and radio announcer and co-founder of the T Street Band, she will sing 99 Red Balloons, Down Under, Pride, and Wind Beneath My Wings.
Detwiler will sing the Gershwin Brothers 1930 song Embraceable You and Goin’ Out of My Head, a hit song recorded by Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1964.
Collins will be featured on flugelhorn in a ballad composed by Show Band Director Gabe Petrocelli entitled Your Smile.
Dancers from the Inland Pacific Ballet, which under the leadership of executive and artistic director Zaylin Cano is committed to the nurturing of new talent and providing an essential training ground for serious young dancers, will be featured in Be Our Guest, Pure Imagination, and Arabian Nights.
The musicians of the Show Band will perform two concert selections entitled Candide Suite, Movement 2 and A Day In Branch Brook Park, to be narrated by Chaffey Adult School Assistant Superintendent Dr. Kern Oduro and Pastor Gary Keith.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2411873,
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner: Terri A Parker, filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows: TERRI A PARKER to ELDER TJ LIPPENSKI, 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: 06/11/2024, Time: 08:30 AM, Department: S31The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, San Bernardino District-Civil Division, 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga in San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Dated: 04/30/2024
Judge of the Superior Court: GILBERT G OCHOA
Published in the SBCS Rancho Cucamonga on 05/10/2024, 05/17/2024, 05/24/2024, 05/31/2024

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIVSB2413259
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOYCE CHEONG filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
JOYCE CHEONG to JOYCE JOKO CHEONG FU
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: 06/18/2024
Time: 08:30 AM
Department: S28
The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino San Bernardino District-Civil Division 247 West Third Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order be published in the San Bernardino County California, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing of the petition.
Filed: 05/07/2024
Mariah Mora, Deputy Clerk of the Court
Judge of the Superior Court: Gilbert G. Ochoa
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2024.

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