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Late PRSRT STD The San Bernardino County Final ECRWSS Edition U.S.POSTAGE News of Note PAID from Around the EDDM Retail Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, April 9, 2021 A FortunadoSentinel Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (951) 567-1936 Supervisors Approve Bloomington Truck Stop Project Without H2O Safeguards Water Rights By Mark Gutglueck regional water table. east corner of Cedar and amendment altering the Chandi Enterprises main- Questions Left This week, the San In the months and Santa Ana Avenue in the residential land use to tained, to involve some Bernardino County weeks before approval unincorporated county commercial. retail units, two fast food Unresolved With Board of Supervisors was ultimately given to community of Bloom- In the more than two outlets and a gas station. Nestlé’s Sale overrode the concerns of that project, the county in ington, three-quarters of years that the project Multiple versions and re- Of Arrowhead local residents, local wa- lockstep with the devel- a mile south of the I-10 has been on the drawing drafts followed, until at ter district members and oper hid from the public Freeway. boards and under consid- present an opposition to The ownership of officials with the Colton information relating to The property is cur- eration by the San Ber- the project has formed. the Arrowhead Water Joint Unified School Dis- how stormwater at the rently zoned for low nardino County Land Use According to those proj- Bottling Company has trict by giving a deep- site will be handled. density residential use, Services Department, its ect opponents, the facil- changed, and with it the pocketed campaign donor The project in ques- in which the minimum character and intensity ity is most accurately de- identity of its parent com- go-ahead on a develop- tion is Chandi Enterpris- density is to be no great- has significantly changed. scribed as a truck stop. pany. Unclear yet is how ment plan that will allow es’ proposal to construct er than a single unit per Initially it was repre- Trucking in the unin- or if the ownership shift contaminant-tainted wa- what has essentially acre, with agricultural sented as a commercial corporated county com- will change the compa- ter run-off from his proj- evolved into a truck stop uses permitted on the center with a large restau- munity of Bloomington is ny’s controversial draft- ect in Bloomington to be to be located at 10951 Ce- property. The project pro- rant as its centerpiece. It a sensitive issue. With its ing of water from the San injected directly into the dar Avenue, at the south- posal called for a zoning was at that time intended, current number See P 2 Bernardino National For- est. Upland Staff Hid Development Restrictions From Council Before Villa Serena Vote Last month, Nestlé Upland municipal em- 9.2 acres of a now-dor- of Fish & Wildlife raise aside as wetlands at the The passage of time S.A., a Swiss multination- ployees falsified and hid mant flood control basin the possibility, indeed the insistence of the Califor- and the changeover in al food and drink process- documentation and data lying between 15th Street likelihood, that the proj- nia Department of Fish & city personnel resulted in ing conglomerate corpo- indicating a portion of the and 16th Street, roughly a ect approval given by the Wildlife, formerly known the restrictions contained ration headquartered in site for the Villa Serena quarter of a mile east of city council in April 2020 as the Department of Fish in the city’s pact with the Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland project was off limits to Campus Avenue in the will be rendered null and & Game, in accordance state being forgotten or shed its Nestlé Waters development pursuant to northeastern quadrant of void. with a 25-point “stream- ignored at several cru- North America division, a covenant with the State Upland, a neighborhood Events extending back bed alteration agreement” cial points when the city selling that portion of its of California, documents often referred to as Foot- more than two decades the City of Upland en- took action relating to the operations pertaining to obtained by the Sentinel hill Knolls. resulted in 7.1 acres in the tered into with the state. basin property. It is now bottling drinking water show. Discrepancies between city’s northeastern quad- The property in question becoming clear how the in the Unitied States and Villa Serena is a pro- the city’s arrangement rant upon which a por- is intended to serve as city’s contradictory ac- Canada to One Rock posal by Frontier Homes with a local developer and tion of the Villa Serena habitat for a multitude of tions and decisions have Capital Partners, LLC, to construct a 65-residen- its agreement with the Project is now proposed species indigenous to the created complications in partnership with Met- tial unit subdivision on California Department to be located being set area. that will require See P 5 ropoulos & Company in what was represented as Obernolte Recognizes Hug As Former Redlands City Manager’s Lawsuit To Get a $4.3 billion transaction. Lifetime Medical Coverage For His Family Fails One Rock and Met- CA-08 Teacher Of The Month ropoulos obtained from U.S. Representative By Amanda Frye and sought an adjustment to from Texas Tech Univer- said. “She has gone above Nestlé Waters North Jay Obernolte (CA-08) Mark Gutglueck his employment contract sity at the age of 32 in and beyond for her stu- America its American/ has named Lorena Hug San Bernardino Coun- put in place while Mar- 1979, he doubled down on dents — even paying out Canadian water portfolio of Henderson Elementary ty Superior Court Judge tinez was city manager his educational commit- of pocket to buy school including everything but School as April’s teacher Gilbert G. Ochoa has shut in Redlands called for ment, obtaining a mas- supplies for those who the North American mar- of the month. the door on a lawsuit by the trio to be guaranteed ter’s degree in public ad- could not afford them. keting rights to Perrier. Ms. Hug, a resident former Redlands City health benefits at the ministration from Texas Ms. Hug is an inspiring Now in the possession of of Yermo, teaches first Manager Nabar Martinez city’s expense for the en- Tech in 1981. That same example of the unwav- Poland Spring® Brand grade general education alleging the City of Red- tirety of their lives, that year, he obtained a posi- ering devotion that our 100% Natural Spring and serves as coordinator lands and its taxpayer are provision was “illegal and tion as a budget analyst teachers have for our chil- Water, Deer Park® Brand of the English language contractually bound to cannot be enforced.” with the City of Dallas. In dren, particularly during 100% Natural Spring learners program. provide him and his two Martinez was hired 1984 he was promoted to this challenging past Water, Ozarka® Brand “Ms. Hug is the type of children with lifetime as city manager in Red- the position of manager of year, and a true example 100% Natural Spring Wa- teacher who is invested in medical and dental ben- lands in April 2007. He administration. In 1986, of a teacher devoted to ter, Ice Mountain® Brand her students’ success well efits. was experience and well- he left Dallas to become making her classroom 100% Natural Spring Wa- beyond their time in her On March 29, Ochoa traveled as a city admin- the assistant city manag- and community a better ter, Zephyrhills® Brand classroom,” Obernolte entered a finding that istrator. After graduating er of Lubbock, place.” See P 3 100% Natural Spring Wa- County Moving Toward Allowing Residents To Operate Restaurants Out Of Their Homes ter, Arrowhead® Brand Mountain Spring Water, Despite opposition microenterprise home portunity to gauge the can operate what are passing a test. Kitchens Pure Life® and Splash, from eleven of its 24 kitchen operations, or impact home eateries will referred to as microen- must pass an on-site in- One Rock and Metro- municipalities, San Ber- MEKHOs, would tem- have in multiple respects, terprise home kitchens, spection in order to be poulos have consolidated nardino County is inch- porarily be permitted including that on public which can earn up to permitted. Under AB those holdings under the ing toward allowing throughout the county. health and the restaurant $50,000 in revenue per 626, prepared food can be name BlueTriton Brands. county residents to essen- The program is to be industry. year by cooking meals picked up or sent out, as "I am very excited to tially convert their homes a temporary one that will California Assem- or items at their homes’ well as consumed at the join with my One Rock into outdoor restaurants, not go into effect until the bly Bill 626, authored kitchens. Meal sales are home. partners and lead this and cook and sell food out supervisors approve it at by Assemblyman Edu- capped at 30 meals per Under Assembly Bill company as we begin a of their premises. a future meeting, which ardo Garcia and known day, or 60 meals per week 377, a homeowner can new chapter together as The board of supervi- is to take place at some as the Homemade Food So-called homecooks prepare and sell food from BlueTriton, building on sors on Tuesday unani- point within the next Act, was signed into law must obtain California a place of residence if the the rich heritage of our mously voted to direct three months.