The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, NovemberSentinel 15, 2013 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (909) 628-8436 Public Employee Union Contract Negotiation Issue Widens Warren Conflict Pneumonia conflict-of-interest con- her role as Fontana may- in the eye of a political Threatening troversy rising out of her or, which is complicated storm as a result of her dual roles as an elected by her status as a mem- recommendation, pro- Mojave Desert municipal official and ber of a public employee vided at the September Bighorn status as a municipal em- union, an entity that has 30 meeting of the Up- ployee. been and continues to be land Finance and Eco- Previously the con- impacted by her votes on nomic Development flict questions that beset the city council, includ- Committee, that the city Warren pertained to her ing ones that have been council approve a fran- role as assistant public secretly cast in closed- chise contract exten- Acquanetta Warren works director with the Jeffrey Ballinger door meetings beyond sion for Burrtec Waste Acquanetta Warren city of Upland brought date based in Fontana. In the scrutiny of the pub- Industries, Upland’s this week found herself on by her receipt of mon- the most recent case, the lic. trash hauler since 2000. Biologists survey- Warren found herself immersed in another ey as a political candi- conflict impinges upon That extension See P 7 ing the Mojave Desert’s mountains for the Na- Starr Projects Quarter Million Savings From Initial Phase Of Fire Merger tional Park Service and city councils, the merger The cities of Up- be possible reluctance the California Depart- could take place as early land and Montclair in Upland at the politi- ment of Fish and Wildlife as January. A previously should achieve an initial cal level, where one city have noted a significant contemplated accompa- $260,000 combined an- councilman has said he decline in the bighorn nying dissolution of the nual savings by merging wants further figures sheep population in a service boundaries be- the administrative func- and assurance that the substantial portion of the tween the two agencies tions of their current fire change will represent region. will be postponed until departments, Montclair cost savings to his city. Scouts for Fish and July 1, Stark said. City Manager Ed Stark The finalized proposal Wildlife, utilizing heli- There is marked en- told the Sentinel this that has taken shape for copters, since late Oc- thusiasm for the limited week. Rick Mayhew the partial merger of the tober visually scoured That consolidation is Edward Starr merger of the two de- over 75,000 acres on and cities. The one potential fire departments entails to be considered by the at its December 2 meet- partments among the around Old Dad Moun- roadblock appears to current Upland Montclair City Council ing. If ratified by both managerial ranks of both See P 8 tain, the Marble Moun- tains, and the Kelso, Accomplishment And Controversy Continuation Of Key Elements In Colonies Bristol, Clipper, Soda, Attend Petre’s ARMC Departure Case Now Up To State Supreme Court Providence, Granite, Hackberry and Woods former San Bernardino allow a defendant who larities in the running of ranges in a concentrated County political figures has allegedly offered a the facility over the last effort to spot bighorn, will proceed to trial now bribe to a public offi- several years, is leaving which have been deci- hinges on the California cial from being charged his position at the hospi- mated by pneumonia Supreme Court’s deter- with abetting the alleged tal today. His resignation since earlier this year. mination of a highly ar- recipient in having re- was announced Novem- Scouts were able to cane legal issue. More ceived the bribe. ber 11. spot fewer than half the than a week after hear- In February 2010, a Known as Arrowhead number of bighorn than ing oral arguments, the grand jury indicted for- Regional Medical Cen- they typically see during state’s highest court is mer county supervisor/ ter, the county hospital similar flyovers. now engaged in deter- county assessor Bill made several strides Wildlife officials are Jeff Burum mining whether the cir- Postmus and one of his Patrick Petre during Petre’s time as concerned that the pneu- cumstances in the case political associates, Jim Patrick Petre, whose director, which began in Whether a landmark monia outbreak among are sufficiently different Erwin, who had been tenure as the top admin- 2007. Those included an political corruption what was considered from several decades-old the head of the county istrator of the county 83 medical/surgical bed case against Rancho one of the hardiest of bribery cases to override sheriff’s deputies union hospital was marred by expansion on the sixth Cucamonga developer the state’s herds, which Jeff Burum and three legal precedents that dis- before he was accusations of irregu- floor and the See P 7 See P 2 killed as many as 45 big- Advisory Group Steering County Away From Massive Desert Solar Projects horn sheep in the Mojave Desert between May and MORONGO BASIN areas of the desert that fine its regulations with August, is persisting and — A self-styled commit- have already been devel- respect to solar fields. could result in a cata- tee devoted to evaluating oped. A Catch-22 situation strophic die-off. options and guidelines In June, the county has developed with re- Pneumonia is a per- for the development of board of supervisors gard to renewable en- nicious condition with renewable energy in the passed a 45-day mora- ergy projects, which, respect to bighorn. It can middle and eastern Mo- torium on commercial according to one school incubate in the animals jave Desert that has been solar projects in the of environmentalists, for months with little or adopted by Third 3rd county’s unincorpo- represent an ecologi- no outward indication sual blight on the natural of certain species. They District San Bernardi- rated areas. On July 23 cal advance over tra- for weeks and then strike landscape massive solar want to prevent any fu- no County Supervisor the board approved a ditional conventional the animals dead in a power or wind power ture renewable energy James Ramos’ as an ad- 10-month extension of power sources, such as short time after it mani- projects impose, includ- projects from being lo- visory panel is recom- the ban on new com- fossil fuels. Other envi- fests. Sick animals are ing their disturbance or cated in pristine or un- mending that wind and mercial solar projects to ronmentalists decry the highly contagious and solar fields be built in allow county staff to re- ecological havoc and vi- destruction of the habitat disturbed areas. See P 6 the disease can See P 3 Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 Referendum On Wal•Mart In Apple Valley Tuesday The San Bernardino County APPLE VALLEY – store on Highway 18. Choice, in late 2010. City The town of Apple Val- Wal•Mart Corporation Mail ballots have al- officials, who believe the ley will hold a referen- since February 2011. ready gone out to Apple new store will boost the Sentinel dum next Tuesday on The committee, and Published in San Bernardino County. Valley voters. Polls will city’s sales tax receipts, Wal•Mart’s proposal to Wal•Mart, working The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic open at 7 a.m. on Nov. are supporting Measure Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 put in one of its super- through the law firm 19. D. They have been able A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with stores at the corner of of Bell, McAndrews & After a vocal oppo- to sustain a brisk cam- Countywide News Service Dale Evans Parkway and Hiltachk have put up sition to the new store paign designed to con- Mark Gutglueck, Publisher Thunderbird Road. $50,000 toward defray- formed, Wal•Mart spon- vince town residents the A yes vote on Mea- ing the town’s costs for Call (909) 628-8436 sored the formation of new store will be advan- sure D will give go- holding the election. to learn of locations where the Sentinel a committee to stump tageous to the communi- ahead to the project, re- Wal•Mart and its sup- for the new project’s ap- ty largely on the strength is available or to provide news tips sulting in the shuttering porters are intent on hold- proval, known as Apple of $715,000 provided 10808 Foothill Blvd., Suite 160-446 of Wal•Mart’s existing Valley Consumers for to the committee by the Continued on Page 8 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 [email protected] 909-276 5796 Colonies Case Be- were identified as un- was controlled and man- alleged that Erwin, who named co-conspirators then-board colleague rum rewarded Postmus, fore Supreme Court aged by Burum and Dan was working as a con- in that indictment, which Richards. sultant for the Colonies Paul Biane before Post- Biane, Erwin and Ovitt’s from front page charged Postmus with a Erwin, who had been Partners in 2006, threat- mus, Biane and a third chief of staff, Mark Kirk, appointed by Postmus host of crimes, includ- instrumental in vector- member of the board, with $100,000 each in ing conspiracy, solicit- ing monetary support Gary Ovitt, voted to ap- contributions to political ing bribes, accepting from the sheriff’s depu- prove the $102 million action committees they bribes, perjury, filing ties’ union to Postmus’s settlement of the lawsuit controlled. falsified documents and supervisorial and asses- the Colonies Partners Initially Postmus and other violations of the sor campaigns and was had brought against the Erwin both pleaded not public trust. The charges subsequently appointed county over flood control guilty to those charges. were filed in connection to one of two assistant issues at the company’s But in March 2011, Post- with his November 2006 assessor positions Post- Colonies at San Antonio mus pleaded guilty to vote, while he was still mus established after his residential and Colonies all fourteen counts con- chairman of the county election as assessor, was Crossroads commercial tained in the indictment board of supervisors, to charged with conspiracy, projects in northeast against him along with approve a $102 million extortion and bribery, Jim Erwin Upland. After the settle- one other unrelated drug Bill Postmus legal settlement between perjury, filing falsified ened to disclose damag- ment was approved in possession count and to serve as assistant the county and the Col- public documents and ing information relating November 2006, accord- agreed to turn state’s ev- assessor. Five others onies Partners, which tax evasion. Prosecutors to both Postmus and his ing to prosecutors, Bu- idence. He was the star witness before a newly- impaneled grand jury that heard evidence in April 2011. In May 2011, that grand jury handed down a superseding indictment that collec- tively charged Erwin, Burum, Biane and Kirk with conspiracy relat- ing to the alleged brib- ery scheme. Erwin was hammered with multiple counts, including receiv- ing a bribe, acting as Burum’s agent, perjury, filing falsified docu- ments and tax evasion. Biane was charged with soliciting and receiving a bribe in exchange for his vote. Kirk was charged with receiving a bribe in exchange for influencing his boss, Ovitt, to vote to approve the settlement. Burum was charged with extorting Postmus and Biane but was not charged with bribery. Rather, prosecutors fash- ioned charges against him that alleged aiding and abetting Postmus, Biane and Kirk in receiv- ing bribes. The defen- dants were also charged with conflict-of-interest and misappropriating

Continued on Page 4 Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 3 GLIMPSE OF SBC’S PAST Thanksgiving: Sometimes Friendly, Sometimes Deadly true that by 1637 Massa- By Ruth Musser-Lopez and is “at the heart of pronunciation is close They prized furs and the tional property along the chusetts Gov. John Win- The annual Thanks- American myth-build- to what they call them- woman wore rabbit and Colorado River. The throp was proclaiming a giving holiday was set ing” but instead should Mojave welcomed these thanksgiving for the suc- aside by George Wash- be set aside as one when “American Mountain cessful massacre of hun- ington in 1789 to com- “we should atone for the Men” as potential trad- dreds of Pequot Indian memorate all that is genocide that was incit- ing partners, but con- men, women and chil- friendly about the histor- ed – and condoned – by sidered brutal a certain dren, part of the long and ic relationship between habit they engaged in— bloody process of open- America’s original in- that was to take only the ing up additional land digenous population and pelts, wasting the meat to the English invad- Euro-American immi- and leaving carcasses to ers. The pattern would grants; but most of us rot on the banks of the repeat itself across the now know it has been a river. continent,” according neglectful misrepresen- The next year, 1827, to Jensen. Indeed, it did tation in our national when a party of trap- repeat itself here in San elementary history les- pers led by James Ohio Bernardino County. sons to fail to mention Pattie ignored Mojave Mojave woman wear- Fray Francisco Garces the deadly atrocity of demands for a horse in ing traditional art, clan reported the very first cultural clashing here trade for the beaver they tattoo patterns and meeting of our county’s in the portion of North were taking from the beaded necklace. indigenous Mojave Indi- America that became the river, a skirmish broke ans by Euro-Americans United States. We also the very men we idolize out with two of the Pattie after he parted paths had our share of deadly as our ‘heroic founding party. Sixteen Mojaves with the second expedi- cultural conflict in the fathers.’” Jensen claims lay dead four days later. tion of Juan Bautista de region that we now call that from an early age in When Jedediah Smith Anza's in 1776, the lat- Two Mojave men by the Colorado River in 1871. San Bernardino County our lives “we Americans returned for his second ter of whom was leading when Euro-Americans, hear a story about the selves now “Aha Macav.” beaver skin capes. This trapping season, he was a party of colonists on a first given a friendly re- hearty Pilgrims, whose Garces described them description is important attacked, losing nine of previously established ception, then failed to search for freedom took as eager to trade and as later Euro-American his men. According to route to Mission San Ga- honor traditional Native them from England to friendly… “the female trappers beginning with the Fort Mojave Indian briel. Garces referred to American decorum and Massachusetts. There, sex is the most comely Jedediah Smith in 1826 Tribe, (http://www.nps. the Mojave as “Jamajab” property rights. aided by the friendly along the river, the males began trapping on prized which in the Spanish University of Texas at Wampanoag Indians, very healthy and robust." Mojave Indian tradi- Continued on Page 5 Austin professor, Robert they survived in a new Jensen in his article “No and harsh environment, Thanks to Thanksgiv- leading to a harvest feast Pneumonia Threat- Bighorn are particu- and the direct contact ing to the Society for the ing” (AlterNet.org) sug- in 1621 following the Pil- ening Bighorn larly vulnerable to pneu- with the sheep, which in Conservation of Big- gests that Thanksgiving grims first winter. Sheep from front monia and can contract it several instances includ- horn Sheep, surveys that Day is one of various “Some aspects of the page from domestic goats and ed taking blood samples group had completed in patriotic holidays used conventional story are sheep or cattle, which and nasal swabs, was recent years in conjunc- spread quickly to other for “taming history” true enough. But it's also have a greater resistance the observation that the tion with the California members of the heard. to the disease. Once hit pneumonia outbreak is Department of Fish and The disease has in- with a full blown case, most serious in the envi- Game and the Forest fested an unknown num- the sheep become ex- rons of Old Dad Moun- Service showed steady ber of a herd of more tremely lethargic and tain. increases in the bighorn than 300 of the sheep their air passageways Bighorn sheep can be sheep population locally. near Old Dad Mountain coated with mucous, inoculated against pneu- Those entities, which after first showing up in making respiration diffi- monia but the result- have conducted surveys some of the desert ru- cult. Upwards of 80 per- ing immunity lasts only for bighorn sheep in the minants around nearby cent of an infected herd about four weeks. San Gabriel range an- Kelso Peak. can die as a result of the Herds of bighorn nually since 1979, said Wildlife officials were contagion. sheep south of San Ber- the San Gabriel Moun- initially put on alert that In August, wildlife nardino County in Riv- tains, which lie south of there was a pneumonia officials were contem- erside, Imperial and San the westernmost portion outbreak among the big- plating wholesale killing Diego counties were sig- of the Mojave Desert, horn in May, when three and removal of animals nificantly depleted from once held an estimated dead rams turned up at confirmed to be infected a pneumonia outbreak 740 sheep, making the guzzlers – man-made as a means of bettering that ranged all the way San Gabriel population watering founts – near the odds of survival for down to the Mexican the largest population Old Dad Mountain. Tests those yet uninfected. At border in the 1980s. A of desert bighorn sheep performed on the dead least ten suspected big- strategy that was some- in California. The big- animals by UC Davis’s horn sheep were shot. what successful in that horn population declined extension Animal Health All but one was indeed episode consisted of iso- over 80 percent through Laboratory in San Ber- infected. lating the healthy sheep the 1980s but appeared nardino confirmed they The helicopter survey and removing feral ani- in 2011 to be on the in- had succumbed to pneu- was augmented with ef- mals, including cattle, crease. Estimates at that monia. Biologists have forts to fit a large number from the area in which time postulated approxi- speculated that pneumo- of the bighorn with radio they roamed. mately 400 animals. nia was introduced into beacon collars so their The situation in the There is no indication the herd when a hunt- movements can be close- Mojave Desert comes that the pneumonia out- ing guide felled a feral ly monitored. More than less than two years after break has extended into angora goat near Marl 222 N. Mountain Suite 102 70 such beacons were biologists had reported the mountain population Springs, a dozen miles Upland, CA 91786 successfully affixed to an uptick in the number of bighorn at this time. (909) 202-4330 http://www.icrshop.com east of Old Dad Moun- the sheep. The upshot of bighorn in San Ber- tain. of the helicopter survey nardino County. Accord- Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 4 Supreme Court of the Clapp Case, relat- Having failed to bring indictment and that even Considering Colo- bribery counts against ited to a simple one-to- ed to the case of Russell Burum that had been one relationship between timely charges against if the court were to re- nies Prosecution Wolden, the one-time as- Burum, Larson wrote verse more than 90 years Case from page 2 tossed, and also threw the offerer of a bribe and sessor of San Francisco out a conflict-of-interest the receiver, but involve in his answering brief to of standing case law, the public funds. No sub- County who was indicted count McCarville had let Mandel’s argument filed applicability of that in- stantive counts of extor- on 10 counts of accept- stand. The appeals court with the state Supreme terpretation to Burum at tion were charged in the ing bribes and one count did, however, reinstate Court, the prosecution is this point would amount superseding indictment of conspiracy to accept the misappropriation now seeking to eviscer- to an improper ex post and the extortion counts bribes. One bribery of public funds charge ate the law and the long- facto prosecution, i.e., against Erwin in the Feb- count was dismissed and against Burum that Mc- standing interpretation the retroactive applica- ruary 2010 indictment the jury failed to reach a Carville had dismissed. of it. tion of a law to action were dispensed with, al- verdict upon another and Prosecutors then “The people ask this prior to the law being though extortion allega- found him guilty of the made a last-minute ap- court to overturn over in effect, which is ex- tions were wrapped into conspiracy charge and peal of the Fourth Dis- a century of precedent pressly forbidden by the the broad conspiracy eight counts of accept- trict’s ruling to the Cali- precluding their im- United States Constitu- count contained in the ing bribes. Upon appeal, fornia Supreme Court proper attempt to charge tion in Article 1, Section Melissa Mandel May 2011 indictment. it was determined that on December 10, 2012. Mr. Burum, the alleged 9, Clause 3. Defense attorneys the giver and receiver Led by Deputy Cali- agents acting on behalf bribe-giver, under deriv- Mandel, faced with filed demurrers on behalf of a bribe are not guilty fornia Attorney Gen- of Burum, and thus, Da- ative theories of liability the task of convincing of their clients, motions of a conspiracy, because eral Melissa Mandel, the vis, Clapp and Wolden for the crime of receiving which called into ques- the two crimes require prosecution’s petition are inapplicable. bribes,” Larson wrote. tion the legal sufficiency different motives or pur- On November 5, Just as the prosecution of the charges against poses and that the giver Mandel, representing the had failed to act in time of the bribe is not an ac- prosecution, and Stephen to properly charge Bu- complice in the “sepa- Larson, a former federal rum with bribery, it also rate and distinct crime” judge who is represent- blew the statute on the of bribe taking. ing Burum, made oral extortion and blackmail In August 2011, Judge arguments of their re- elements it has attempted Brian McCarville grant- spective positions before to weave into the case, ed several of the defen- the State Supreme Court Larson said. What the Stephen Larson dants’ demurrers in what prosecution is asking for, Dan Richards in Sacramento. the Supreme Court that has become known as Larson said, amounted Larson, in his presen- existing statutes and the Colonies Lawsuit maintains that Califor- to a “do over” of its inad- tation and answers to case law are unequal to Settlement Public Cor- nia bribery law is stale equate original filing. As the justices’ questions, the circumstances and Paul Biane ruption Prosecution, rul- and dated, having not such, Larson maintains, reiterated his previ- actions alleged in the ing that a defendant such kept pace with changes it is asking the Califor- the defendants. Cited in ous assertions in court indictment, found her- as Burum who was es- with regard to bribery nia Supreme Court to those demurrers were documents that the pros- self faced with questions sentially accused of giv- and other public officer make a contrary inter- the cases of People v. Da- ecution is engaged in an from the justices indicat- ing bribes cannot also be crimes in other states pretation of its own case vis, People vs. Clapp and impermissible charging ing at least a modicum of charged with aiding and as well as at the federal law pertaining to the in- People vs Wolden, all of scheme and that it was skepticism with regard to level and is inconsistent ability to charge a bribe which bore upon the in- engaging in an elabo- her novel legal theories. with other related court giver with aiding and ability of prosecutors to rate stretching of the law She attempted to blend decisions. Moreover, ac- abetting the bribe taker charge a defendant with in seeking to overcome together the overt acts cording to prosecutors, in receiving the bribe. conspiracy or aiding and having failed to charge alleged in the indictment the circumstances in the Larson pointed out that abetting a crime when his client with giving or with the action of Erwin, Colonies Lawsuit Settle- there were no second- that individual stands offering bribes before who was described in the accused of a crime that ment Public Corruption the expiration of the stat- ary acts alleged against necessarily involves the Prosecution are not lim- ute of limitations. Burum in the original Continued on Page 11 involvement of another individual. In the case of People Mark Kirk v. Davis, the court ruled that “the giver and re- abetting the receipt of ceiver of a bribe are no bribes, and he dismissed longer accomplices one all four bribery counts to the other.” and one of misappro- The Clapp case, from priation of public funds 1944, pertained to three against Burum, leaving women accused of in- only two of the original volvement in an abor- seven charges against tion, which at that time the figure at the center of was illegal, and the con- the case intact. McCar- viction of the woman on ville further dismissed whom the abortion was one felony count of mis- performed. The court appropriation of public held the woman sub- funds for each of the mitting to an abortion other defendants. The was not punishable as a prosecution, consisting principal under one sec- of both the California tion of the penal code Attorney General’s of- because her conduct was fice and the San Ber- prohibited under another nardino County District section. As such she was Attorney’s office, ap- deemed not to be an ac- pealed McCarville’s rul- complice in the crime of ing to the Fourth District the other parties. Court of Appeal in Riv- The case of People v. erside, which in October Wolden, which in itself 2012 upheld McCarville relied upon the precedent with regard to the four Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 5

ported, thus reserving they were in favor of the their lives were spared Glimpse from page across the desert of San a fort to guard the river carrying capacity for railroad route through when they were traded 3 Bernardino County and crossing on Whipple’s trade items. their Colorado River val- to Mojaves who cared for gov/moja/historyculture/ he was guided by several survey route. That However, the kind ley near present day Nee- them. The youngest died mojave-early-history. Mojave guides and also year Lt. Edward Beale gesture shown Garces in dles, California because but the other, Olive, was htm) violence between Sabastiin Tarabal, a run- and his troops along 1776 turned tragic when it meant the opportunity returned to her family in the trappers and the Pipa away from Mission San with 12 camels cleared over the next 100 years for trade. Meanwhile, 1856. Aha Macav, People of Gabriel. and opened an emigrant it was returned with during the 1850s, wagon The story brought na- the River, was experi- The Mojaves wagon road to Califor- Euro-American greed, trains were forging their tional attention, but the enced for 20 years there- were kind to Fr. Garces nia that closely followed insensitivity and intoler- way across the continent Mojave were misunder- after reaching a peak and looked forward to the Mojave Trail route of ance of cultural diversity in various places and one stood and blamed along when trappers from the Garces with the cross- culminating in the Mo- was attacked by Tonto with the Apaches who Canadian Hudson Bay ing at the river becom- jave being removed from Apaches in Arizona in had become known for Company killed 26 Mo- ing known as “Beale’s their native richly wa- 1851. Two little Oat- practicing torture. By jave. Crossing.” The “Old tered river bottom land man girls were survivors 1858 plans were being The trapping era was Government Road” also on the Colorado River and fortunately for them formulated for installing a period of conflict but previously known as and onto reservations. It paled in comparison to “Beale’s Camel Road” happened like this: Af- what came next in the was intended for use ter the trappers, came Battle of Beale’s Cross- by Euro-American im- the 1849 Gold Rush and ing in 1857 with the Gold migrants to California. the U. S. Army and the Rush in progress and the The road is for the most railroad interested in es- huge influx of immi- part now still a dirt road Mohave Indians by H. tablishing routes, then grants wanting to enter variably known as the B. Molhansen, 1856. the flood of immigrants California. Digressing “Mojave Road” or “Mo- wanting to get to the Cal- back about 100 years to the potential of new jave Trail.” ifornia gold fields and Garces, he left the Anza trading partners since The Rose Party wag- the newly annexed state entourage at the river they were, by tradition, on train with dozens of of the Union—the trail and traveled north to the eager to engage in com- women and children plus was being used, but im- vicinity of present-day merce and trade. Using armed men came from migrants wanted to bring Needles which was in the trail, Mojave run- the east through the riv- their belongings and de- the valley considered to ners were able to cross er valley that summer sired a wagon trail. be the heart of Mojave the desert on foot to the of 1858 with their live- Of the two transconti- Indian territory…Mo- coast in less than a week stock, reportedly tram- nental route expeditions, have Valley. From there and often traded with pling over the fields of Capt. L. Sitgreaves sur- he turned west and was coastal tribes, their dis- crops planted by the Mo- veying a route through guided on this journey tant relatives. The so- jave. They also cut for the area in 1851 was following what became called Mojave trail was rafts numerous valuable perceived to be a stern known as the “Mojave actually a travel corri- cottonwood trees that regimentarian by the Trail” to San Bernardino dor, a network of trails belonged to the Mojave, Mojaves, but Lt. Amiel Valley enroute to Mis- linking springs and nat- who prized them for use Weeks Whipple in 1854 sion San Gabriel. He was ural water tanks. The in building and clothing, was perceived as “amia- the first Euro-American straight shot was an ef- Southern Paiute woman and girl wearing tradi- as well as for providing ble” and gained the con- we know of who was fective thoroughfare for tional Paiute basket hats. Baby swaddled in rabbit shade. The Rose Party fidence of the Mojave. shown this prehistoric foot travel where very robes in cradleboard tarried on the river at Many of the Mojave said Native American trail little water needed to be Continued on Page 6 FUNDRAISER FOR PHILLIPINE TYPHOON VICTIMS Show Compassion For Your Unfortunate Broth- ers & Sisters In the Phil- lipines And Look Good Doing So! Salon Teez will be having a Re- lief Fundraiser, Wednesday No- vember 20 9:30 a.m. til 6 p.m., for the victims of Typhoon Hai- yan in the Philippines.

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Sunday 10 am - 6 pm Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 6 Advisors Steer- braced by Supervisor requiring California to cal water resources, and dividuals, companies, Ramos as sapient guides meet the 33 percent re- boosting the local econ- corporations and inves- out as long as you have, ing County Away with regard to the coun- newable energy portfolio omy.’’ tors interested in pursu- you have really… devas- From Large So- ty’s forthcoming renew- standard by 2020 and the Basin Energy Assess- ing solar development tated us,” he told county lar Projects from able energy development Desert Renewable En- ment Team members are are growing impatient, land use services staff at front page policy, are prodding ergy Conservation Plan, attempting to steer Ra- losing money, contem- a county workshop two county and local officials which calls for the ap- mos, and by extension plating taking their pro- months ago. That work- But county residents to adopt codes that would proval of 10,000 mega- the entire county, into posals elsewhere or have shop was hosted by the living in proximity to restrict energy develop- watts of non-hydropower adopting policies that already pulled up stakes land use services divi- where several solar proj- ment to those portions of renewable energy gener- will attenuate the more and moved outside of the sion to gather input from ects have been approved the desert environment ation on public lands by aggressive elements of county. residents with regard to or are proposed have that have already been 2015. In the face of this, the Desert Renewable Noting that Desert the guidelines they want complained the solar developed or which are the Basin Energy As- Energy Conservation Solar long ago commit- instituted in the county farms are a too-intensive inhabited. sessment Team is calling Plan and will impose ted heavily toward the code relating to solar use that clashes with the At its most recent for a far less aggressive strict water use regula- concept of establishing projects. nature of their rural resi- meeting on November development of renew- tions on solar projects, medium and large scale Mazzola said Desert dential neighborhoods 1, the Basin Energy As- able energy. prohibit solar projects solar projects throughout Solar had been forced and represent unre- sessment Team, which A case in point is the that would have a del- the Mojave Desert and to abandon its San Ber- solved land-use and zon- now boasts more than a online brief the group eterious impact on the that “We’ve spent several nardino County projects ing conflicts. Thus, the dozen members, voiced has put together called area’s tourism industry years investing time, re- in favor of seeking ap- places where large solar the perspective that solar the Desert Renewable and place restrictions on sources, money to make proval in other Southern or wind projects can be and wind projects should Energy Conservation projects that would hurt these projects work,” California jurisdictions located anywhere in San be placed in industrially Resources. On that site, the environment, scenic Mazzola complained where there is less un- Bernardino County’s zoned areas and should the group advocates the views, wildlife and natu- the moratorium and its certainty as to the stan- vast desert outback with- incorporate pre-existing use of solar panels and ral resources. extension has now upset dards and restrictions his out triggering some level infrastructure and struc- solar film on existing While many desert his company’s timetable company will encoun- of protest are virtually tures as part of their structures as the most residents hail the mora- and cost it a considerable ter. “We have literally non-existent. projects to the extent efficacious way of ex- torium and the cautious amount of money as well moved two $70 million In the Route 62 Cor- possible. ploiting solar power, approach Ramos, the as projected future rev- projects from San Ber- ridor, stretching from On a very real level, rather than building so- board of supervisors enue. nardino County to other Morongo Valley to the group’s advocacy lar fields. On that site, and the county’s land “By extending this locations,” he said. Twentyine Palms, in the runs counter to the flow the group says that it of- use services division communities of Moron- of things at both the fers “a library of analyti- are taking with regard go Valley, Yucca Valley, Indians & Thanks- federal and state levels, cal writings that demon- to the consideration of wagon train parties and Joshua Tree, and Twen- where renewable energy strate the economic and solar and wind projects, giving from page 5 for concern that proper- tynine Palms, as well as development is being conservation benefits of solar project proponents ty and resources would in other remote desert Beale’s Crossing and encouraged. The state point-of-use renewable say the county is losing a continue to be wrongly areas such as Pioneer the Mojaves learned that of California is pushing energy generation in the vast economic opportu- taken. In the end, sev- Town, Landers, Black another wagon train, the for the streamlining of already built environ- nity by kowtowing to the enteen Mojave/Huala- Lava Butte & Flat Top Bailey Party was just a the permitting of renew- ment. Point-of-use in- opponents of large scale pai were killed, while Mesa, residents have few days coming through able energy projects and stallation is the cleanest solar and wind projects. among the immigrants proven resistant to solar the mountains east of the meeting its own Renew- and least expensive way Scott Mazzola, vice only one was killed and and wind farms being river. Both wagon par- able Portfolio Standard, to ramp up renewable president of Apple Val- 11 wounded. But they built in their environs. ties were attacked and the provisions of Sen- energy generation im- ley-based Desert So- had lost livestock and the Nevertheless, mem- this was said to be by a ate Bill 11-2X, signed mediately, all while cre- lar, said that while the wagon trains were dam- bers of the Basin Energy joint effort between the into law by Governor ating the highest number county and its land use aged enough that the de- Assessment Team, the Mojaves and their dis- Edmund Brown, Jr. on of local jobs, preserving services division dither cision was made to turn aforementioned group tant relatives and allies, April 12, 2011, as Public and improving property over the zoning issues around and go back to of residents recently em- the Hualapai who insti- Resources Code § 25740, values, protecting lo- and standards to be ap- gated it in retaliation for New Mexico. plied to solar fields, in- the property taken by the Still reeling from the perceived Oatman kidnapping, furor was increasing among Euro- Advertise in the Sentinel Americans. Incited over the Rose and Bailey Party attacks, a public campaign was waged to Reach 34,000 Readers Throughout San Bernardino County Weekly. "Wipe out the Mojave!" Between January and Our Reasonable Rates Make Advertising Affordable. April of 1859, skirmishes broke out along the Mo- jave Road as attempts were made to cross the desert to establish an in- Quarter Page Three Columns by Half Page $300 fantry camp on the river. Altogether 10 to 15 Mo- Half Page Three Columns by Full Page $400 javes were reportedly killed by musket fire. Half Page Six Columns by Half Page $400 The war department re- inforced the troops with over 600 infantry, caval- Full Page Six Columns by Entire Page $500 ry, and artillery, “Indian fighters” led by Col. Wil- liam Hoffman, 6th U. S. Infantry, rode from San All rates weekly Black and White in our print edition Color in our Francisco and used the Mojave Road to cross on-line version the desert. On April 19, Continued on Page 9 Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 7

Widening Conflict ing a personal financial made by them in their California Govern- Mendenhall, Warren’s that no “legal” conflict from front page interest in any matter official capacity.” ment Code Section current statement of eco- existed with regard to would have provided for he or she acts upon as a According to Califor- 84308 pertains to limi- nomic interests, known Warren’s participation in Burrtec remaining as the public official. nia Government Code tations on an official’s as a California Form the decision-making pro- city’s refuse handler at At the September Section 87100, “No pub- ability to advocate or 700, which she filed with cess, stating that “You least until 2028, an ar- 30 committee meeting, lic official at any level of vote on issues impact- Mendenhall’s office ear- can say it’s legally okay, rangement that would Warren participated in state or local government ing on a political donor lier this year and certi- but it is not okay ethi- have precluded an open her capacity as assistant shall make, participate in as well as the need for fied as being true under cally.” He voted against bid competition for the public works director. making or in any way at- a public official to dis- penalty of perjury, states the contract extension, franchise for 28 years, Her comments lauding tempt to use his/her offi- close donations he or she she has “no reportable which failed on the re- while involving a con- Burrtec’s performance cial position to influence has received from enti- interests.” sultant 2-2 vote. tract with a total value under the current con- a governmental decision ties with dealings before As the Upland City This week, at the exceeding $150 million. tract augmented recom- in which (s)he knows or the public agency that Council’s October 28 November 11 council Over the last decade, as a mendations by Upland has reason to know (s)he official is acting on be- vote on the Burrtec meeting, Deidre Rodri- successful candidate for Public Works Director has a financial interest.” half of. According to the contract extension ap- guez, the interim general the Fontana City Coun- Rosemary Horning and Gov. Code Section Fair Political Practices proached, the controver- manager of the San Ber- cil and Fontana mayor as Upland City Manager 87103 (e) states “A pub- Commission’s web site, sy with regard to War- nardino Public Employ- well as in an unsuccess- Stephen Dunn, as well lic official has a finan- “Section 84308 prohibits ren’s conflict in Upland ees Association, which ful run for the State As- as by an outside firm, cial interest in a decision solicitation or receipt of hit a crescendo. Prior to represents 15,000 county sembly, Warren received R3 Consultants, that the within the meaning of campaign contributions the vote, city attorney and municipal work- $11,578 from Burrtec. city extend the franchise Section 87100 if it is rea- from parties, partici- Kimberly Hall Barlow ers in San Bernardino Questions arose as to contract. sonably foreseeable that pants, or their agents, in offered an interpretation County, including those whether her receiving Government Code the decision will have a proceedings involving li- of Government Code in Upland and Fontana, that money from Burrtec Section 1090 states, material financial effect, censes, permits, or other sections 1090, 87100, spoke to the council dur- and then advocating on “Members of the Leg- distinguishable from its entitlements for use. The 87103 (e) and 84308 ing the public comment behalf of the company as islature, state, county, effect on the public gen- law also requires an of- that a legal conflict did portion of the meeting, a hired/appointed official district, judicial district, erally, on the official, ficial’s disqualification not apply to Warren’s addressing Musser in in Upland entailed a vio- and city officers or em- a member of his or her in those proceedings if circumstance vis-à-vis particular in an effort to lation of three sections ployees shall not be fi- immediate family, or… the official has received Burrtec since in Up- defend Warren. of the California Gov- nancially interested in any donor of, or any in- campaign contributions land she was acting as She lambasted Musser ernment Code that are any contract made by termediary or agent for of more than $250 from a “hired” official rather for his having suggested outgrowths of the Politi- them in their official ca- a donor of, a gift or gifts a party or participant than an “appointed” one. Warren had any sort of cal Reform Act of 1974, pacity, or by any body aggregating two hundred within the 12 months Nevertheless, the con- conflict and tore into sections 87100, 87103 or board of which they fifty dollars ($250) or preceding the decision. tretemps took its toll. On the mayor for having and 84308, all of which are members. Nor shall more in value provided Finally, Section 84308 October 28, Mayor Ray questioned the ethics of pertain to conflicts of state, county, district, to, received by, or prom- requires disclosure of Musser, speaking from Warren’s participation in interest, as well as Gov- judicial district, and city ised to the public official such campaign contribu- the council dais in his the Burrtec discussions, ernment Code Section officers or employees be within 12 months prior tions.” remarks before the coun- suggesting that Muss- 1090, which prohibits a purchasers at any sale or to the time when the de- According to Upland cil voted, responded to er’s raising of the ques- City Clerk Stephanie public official from hav- vendors at any purchase cision is made.” Barlow’s pronouncement Continued on Page 12

in the face of indications looking into alleged ir- sion of certain surgical review of the hospital’s GnanaDev, who had Petre Leaving this created a circum- regularities at the insti- procedures at the hospi- policies and practices. been the hospital’s medi- ARMC from front stance that was contrary tution, including faulty tal; the hospital’s alleged The county initiated cal director since 2000 to the interests of some page diagnoses that led to free provision of off-the- the first of a series of in- and had come under of the hospital’s patients. addition of a three-story, the deaths or permanent books medical care to ternal audits shortly af- continuous criticism be- Petre’s reluctance could 68,000-square-foot med- injuries of patients; bill- individuals, including ter the state and federal cause of the perceptions be at least partially ex- ical office building. Petre ing fraud with regard to members of the board probes were revealed as of the conflict involving plicated by the consid- was also on hand when descriptions of services of supervisors and high being under way. his dual roles as the hos- eration that some of the the medical center was rendered; a fiduciary ranking county officials; In May 2010, the pital’s medical director members of the board of designated as a stroke conflict of interest in inadequate supervision Centers for Medicare and as owner and head supervisors had been the center and incorporated which the hospital’s for- and oversight of the and Medicaid Services of the surgery group recipients of the off-the- a palliative care program mer medical director, Dr. emergency room; viola- threatened to suspend with a hospital contract, books care rendered at and an enhanced cancer Dev GnanaDev, owned tions of law with regard Medicare and Medi-Cal departed as medical di- the hospital. care program. the medical corporation, to the use of physical payments to Arrowhead rector and was replaced In September, Dr. By February 2010 and Arrowhead Regional restraints on patients in Regional Medical Center by Dr. Emily Ebert, who Richard Pitts succeeded perhaps earlier, however, Surgical Group, Inc., the hospital’s behavioral if the county hospital did has served the last eight Ebert as Arrowhead Re- California state and fed- which had an exclusive health ward; together not show improvement months as the acting gional’s medical direc- eral investigators began contract for the provi- with inadequate peer in operations and patient medical director of the care. county hospital. tor. On November 4, 2010 Doctors and other Petre reportedly was a team of more than 20 medical professionals offered a management investigators, including who work at the hospi- post with a private sector FBI agents, members of tal reported that Petre medical provider in Los the U.S. Attorney’s of- was unwilling or unable Angeles County, and fice and district attor- to assert his overarching will move into that posi- ney’s office employees, management authority tion shortly. served search warrants at the hospital to hold Petre will be tem- at Arrowhead Regional GnanaDev in check, and porarily replaced by Medical Center, haul- had shrunk from provid- Pitts while a nationwide ing away thousands of ing recommendations to search is conducted to documents and com- the board of supervisors replace him. puter files. No criminal that would have cur- charges were ever filed, tailed GnanaDev’s dom- but the county’s internal ination of hospital opera- examinations of its op- tions and the promotion erations intensified. of his surgical group’s Last January, financial interests, even Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 8 where the closest station of contracting with the months pertains to fur- dispatch and commu- Montclair/Upland was in Upland, then they San Bernardino County clair as one entity and ther consolidation, Starr nications center that Fire Admin Con- would have responded Fire Department or the dispatch the unit closest said, of “non-sworn previously set the stan- first, just as if in a case California Department to the incident. The first solidation from positions in both de- dard in that arena for where Montclair has a of Forestry and Fire Pro- part of our study needs front page partments to determine nearly three decades. closer station to an on- tection. to be completed. My un- which of those will be But the county of San going incident in Up- The impetus for the derstanding at this time Fire Chief Rick Mayhew subject to cost sharing. Bernardino has recently land, we would respond exploration of those op- is there would be an op- becoming fire chief of At the end of six months. significantly upgraded first. With what we are tions were financial portunity for economic both departments, with by July 2014, we will de- its computer-aided dis- proposing now, we will considerations, brought saving if the two of us the departments sharing cide if sharing costs for patch system, giving it not be eliminating our on by the downturn of went together as one en- three battalion chiefs as various non-firefighting capability that rivals or service boundaries until the economy, dwindling tity. We haven’t actually well as a fire marshal. positions in our depart- exceeds that of Ontario. July.” governmental revenue approached the city of Each city will retain a ments should take place.” According to Starr, Nevertheless, Starr and the conflation of Ontario with that ques- deputy fire chief that will Both cities stand to “We have not entered said, rapid response governmental services. tion yet. We have ap- not be part of the com- save money in the ar- into an agreement with across those lines of de- As a result of the state proached the county in mand sharing. rangement, Starr said. Upland on consolidated marcation will take place of California’s shuttering that regard. The county While each depart- “My understanding is the dispatch, but it is an item as is appropriate and as of municipal redevelop- has a different and more ment will maintain its savings for Upland are in of discussion. At this emergency and necessity ment agencies through- recent addition of tech- own identity and retain the $160,000 to $180,000 point, we have to rely dictates. “We already out the state, toward the nology for its dispatch responsibility for its range,” Starr said. “That on the current dispatch have mutual aid and au- end of the 2010-11 fiscal capability. If it is appro- own firefighters, who is not an exact or hard arrangement that treats tomatic aid agreements, year, Montclair laid off priate, the two cities may will work under differ- figure, but just based on Upland and Montclair as so a Montclair engine 10 employees as part of want to avail themselves ent employee contracts my conversation with individual and separate might roll on an Upland its effort to make up for of the economic advan- with their respective cit- Upland officials. Up- agencies. If we are to fire or emergency now, its loss of redevelopment tage consolidation would ies, the arrangement will land personnel need to consolidate our dispatch if the Montclair station money. Throughout bring and we may want pave the way for future complete their calcula- functions, we could stay is the closest. The call much of 2010-11, one of to take advantage of the consolidations, includ- tion to fully determine with the city of Ontario would go through Up- the Montclair Fire De- updated technology the ing the planned eventual what their cost savings or go to the county of land first, but if the Up- partment’s paramedic county can now offer at dropping of the fire ser- will be. This could have San Bernardino. What- land truck is busy, a call units was parked and the the same time. It may vice boundaries between a significant economic ever agency we go with will go to Montclair and paramedics functioned also be to our advantage the two cities and use advantage for them be- would have the ability to we would respond.” from the department’s to stay with Ontario.” of a common dispatch yond the figure I quoted. treat Upland and Mont- team. This could well impact At present the city of remaining engines, Upland, with its popula- “Initially we are go- on their overtime costs. which stayed in service. Apple Valley tentially vulnerable to a ing to ask the council to In Montclair, we are pro- tion of 73,732, employs Over the last year-and-a- Referendum lawsuit that would con- approve command staff jecting $120,000 savings 36 full time firefighters half, what was a 27-fire- test its presence as be- from page 2 sharing and to delay the in overtime costs. There staged out of four fire sta- fighter department has ing incompatible with tions. Montclair fields 24 boundary drop for six may be savings we have lost three positions to at- ing the election – despite nearby uses. firefighters and operates months while we carry not fully calculated.” trition, and has not filled its costs – because voter An attorney with of- out of two fire stations. out studies with regard Starr said the gist of those vacancies, mak- approval may prove key fices in Upland and San Previously, the city of to fully merging our re- the savings will consist ing up for the manpower to the development pro- Diego, Corey Briggs, has Upland contemplated spective cities’ service of the economy of scale shortage with overtime. posal reaching fruition. had considerable success outsourcing options for areas,” Starr told the realized with the elimi- In September 2012, The project runs coun- in stymieing or delay- its fire department in an Sentinel. “At the end of nation of costs netted Starr, in a cost-cutting ter to the town’s current ing Wal•Mart projects effort to reduce costs, in- those studies, effective with the consolidation of move that saved the city general plan and it will in a number of Southern cluding considering con- July 1, 2014, we will the battalion chief func- nearly half a million dol- border a residential area. tracting with the city of very likely eliminate our tion. Upland will see lars a year in wages and As such, it would be po- Continued on Page 9 common service bound- further savings in that Ontario, the California benefits, elevated police ary. This is a two-year Montclair will “pay a Division of Forestry or chief Keith Jones to the proposal about which all share of the Upland fire the county of San Ber- position of director of of our [Montclair] coun- chief’s salary.” More- nardino for fire protec- public safety and gave cil members appear to be over, he said, Montclair tion service. Upland also fire chief Troy Ament his supportive.” will “initially pay for approached Los Angeles two-week severance no- One element of the two of the three battalion County to see if its fire tice. In June of this year, study to be carried out chiefs.” department would pro- police captain Michael over the next several The advantage to both vide it with a fire service deMoet was appointed to cities will not entirely proposal. Los Angeles the position of director be economic, Starr said. County turned Upland of public safety, follow- “Each city will have down because the Cali- ing Jones’ retirement. de access to expanded re- fornia Division of For- Moet continues to func- sources. From our per- estry, also known as Cal tion in the role of Mont- spective, it is a good Fire, and LA County clair fire chief. deal. For Upland, it will Fire have an agreement If the administrative not provide them with that Cal Fire will not merger is approved and Prudential the half million dollars come into Los Angeles provides the projected California Realty in savings they are look- County to seek contracts savings in both cities and ing for in dealing with and Los Angeles County the boundary dissolution Richard S. Morda their budget issues, but has agreed not to go into takes place next July as San Bernardino County anticipated, the next log- Realtor/DRE License it will represent at least # 01734177 $160,000 in cost reduc- or Orange County for ical step for both cities tions. And they will reap contract agencies. would be the merger of California Realty improved fire protec- In Montclair, offi- its public safety dispatch 1063 W. Sixth Street tion.” cials previously gave function, which would Suite 101 Ontario CA An earlier envisioned serious consideration to provide monetary sav- 91762 Business 909 983 benefit to the merger, the outsourcing of that ings as well. 9933 Fax 909 984 5664 Starr said, was that “the 36,664-poulation mu- At present, both Up- Cell 213 713 8849 response to a call was nicipality’s fire depart- land and Montclair to be based on the clos- ment, specifically the contract with the city E-mail: richardmorda@ concept of dissolving of Ontario, which has pruCArealty.com est fire station. If a call from Montclair came in the department in favor a regional emergency Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 9 escape swimming under Wal•Mart Vote Glimpse from page consistencies with sever- Nevertheless, the of marshaling monetary water. from page 8 6 al of those cities’ general opposition to the new and political support. 1859 they established Assuming command plans. Apple Valley Wal•Mart, The committee that Camp Colorado near of the post, less than 10 Briggs made a show- while significant in was organized to op- Beale’s Crossing on the days later, Camp Colo- California cities, chal- ing in Apple Valley more terms of numbers, its vo- pose the Apple Valley Arizona side of the river rado was renamed “Fort lenging them both on than two years ago when ciferousness and dedica- Wal•Mart Supercent- opposite what is now San Mojave” on April 28, environmental grounds he contested the town’s tion, lags well behind the er, Citizens for Smart Bernardino County to 1859 by Captain Lewis relating to the California tentative approval of the project proponents and control “hostile Mohave A. Armistead, 6th U.S. Environmental Quality Supercenter. its supporters in terms Continued on Page 11 and Paiute Indians.” Infantry. During this pe- Act as well as their in- There was no riod of time, it is report- combat; peace was dis- ed that bags of poisoned nps.gov/moja/history- in place of their tradi- gaming has long been a ing and is a lovely place cussed. Hoffman told sugar were purposely culture/mojave-early- tional clan and individ- traditional part of Native to dine and relax this the chiefs that if they “lost” or accidentally history.htm). The con- ual names. You can read American culture and holiday season, when the would agree to not attack dropped out of the back straints of the American more details of the chal- with the income from fall/winter desert weath- immigrants traveling of wagons where Cheme- Civil War resulted in the lenges in the later years the recently established er is relatively mild. through their land and to huevi Indians lived at closure of the outposts in of our San Bernardino casinos, our indigenous Just beyond our bor- not oppose the govern- Paiute Springs on the 1861 but by 1865 a reser- County Native Ameri- San Bernardino County ders are the Cahuilla, also ment's building of roads wagon road about 40 vation was established in cans in the Fort Mo- Native Americans are known as the Morongo and forts in Mojave ter- miles west of the river in Parker, Arizona. Those jave Indian Tribe’s own turning their reserva- Band of the Mission In- ritory, than the Mojave San Bernardino County. who refused to leave words at http://www.nps. tions, once the emblem dians. Their Morongo people would not be de- The deadly assault re- their cultural hearth in gov/moja/historyculture/ of deprivation, injustice Casino is in Riverside stroyed. But to show the sulted in people getting Mohave Valley were not mojave-tribe-late-histo- and mistreatment, into County along I-10. The Mojaves the might of the sick and/or, dying upon allowed to farm in their ry.htm economic successes that Mojaves have two casi- U. S. Government, Hoff- eating it. A military traditional old ways and Finally on Feb- benefit entire tribes. nos, one on each side of man arrested and held outpost (Fort Paiute) had no land they were al- ruary 2, 1911, by execu- Two of these casinos the Colorado River north hostage a young Mo- was also installed at that lowed to call their own. tive order of President are located in San Ber- of Needles. The Avi is jave brave, Cairook, and spring as well as numer- In an attempt to eradi- William H. Taft, the Fort nardino County. The just across our county eight others by locking ous other springs along cate native culture and Mojave Reservation was Serrano have located border at the tip of Ne- them in the miserable the Mojave Road in San language, children were established. In a check- their San Manuel Indian vada south of Laugh- Yuma Prison. Cairook, Bernardino County that forced to attend school erboard arrangement of Casino conveniently in lin, Nevada. The Spirit was the nephew and sub had previously sustained at Fort Mojave; learning sections, 31,300 acres the Inland Empire in an Mountain casino is in chief of the elderly Great Native Americans for English was compul- of land were reserved oasis-like setting along Mohave Valley, Arizona. Chief Homoseh Awahot. thousands of years. sory. Truant children for the Mojave while the the foothills of San Ber- There is some discussion He was supposed to be “Sometimes friendly, were forcibly returned railroad received every nardino Valley. of acquiring a third ca- released after a year but sometimes deadly. That to school, often whipped other section of land. The wall of glass in sino in San Bernardino was not. Cairook gave describes the early con- and locked in an attic for The boarding school at the dining area of the County along I-40 near his life by holding the tact between the Mojave days, and given water Fort Mojave was finally Chemehuevi casino res- the river at Needles. The lone guard at noon pro- and the white man” says and a slice of bread for closed in 1931 when the taurant provides a gor- success of our county’s viding an opportunity the Fort Mojave Indian meals. In 1905, the chil- children started attend- geous view of San Ber- Native American people for younger hostages to Tribe of those contact nardino County’s eastern dren were required to ing school in Needles. Continued on Page 10 dive into the river and years (see http://www. adopt English surnames Fo r t u it o u sly, shore on Havasu Land- Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 10 San Bernardino County Coroner Reports Coroner case #701308272 – On 11/13/2013, at 1:14 AM, officers from the San Bernardino Police Department responded to a 911 call of “shots fired” in the 1900 block of Guthrie Street in San Bernardino. When officers arrived they found 25 year-old San Bernardino resident Courtney Kilpatrick with trauma to the upper body. Kilpatrick was pronounced dead at the scene. The San Bernardino Police Department Homicide Detail is investigating the incident. [11132013 0850 SY]

Coroner Case #701308265 – On 11/12/2013, at 6:57 PM, Mario Dupree Moore, age: 27, from San Bernardino, was struck by a Dodge Durango while crossing traf- fic lanes in the area “G” Street and 21st Street in San Bernardino. Moore was transported to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 8:04 PM. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. San Bernardino Police Department Homicide Detail is investigating the incident. [111313 0450 EM]

Coroner Case #701308206 – At 1:30 AM, on 11/10/13, the California Highway Patrol received 911 calls reporting a "motorcycle rider down" on the eastbound State Route 60, east of Euclid Ave., in Ontario, that had been struck by multiple vehicles. Officer arrived to find 61 year-old Ontario resident Robert R. Ybarra, had been riding a 2002 Harley Davidson eastbound in the carpool lane when he lost control and was ejected onto the highway. The male was pronounced dead at 1:44 AM. The California Highway Patrol is investigating. [111013 1615 TC]

Coroner Case #701308197 – On 11/08/2013 at 6:49pm, 18 year old Alec Garcia, a resident of Fontana, was traveling westbound on on E. Ontario Mills Parkway when he was broadsided in the intersection by a vehicle traveling northbound on Barrington Ave. Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene. Ontario Police Depart- ment is investigating this collision. (CN 0318 11102013)

Coroner case #701308192 – On 11/09/2013, at 10:29 AM, the California Highway Patrol responded to State Route 138 and Lone Pine Canyon Road, Phelan, for atraffic collision. They found that Rodolfo Amescua Borrego, a 43 year old resident of Highland, driver of 1996 Honda had been struck by an oncoming 2004 Volvo. Borrego suffered major trauma and was transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center where he was declared dead at 12:13 PM. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the incident. (CN 2336 11092013)

Coroner Case #701308159 – On 11/07/2013, at 11:10 PM, Robert Vasquez Rodriguez, a 43 year old resident of Fontana, was involved in a single vehicle rollover while traveling eastbound on Interstate 10, east of the Etiwanda Ave. overpass, in Fontana. Rodriguez was in a red 1993 Toyota pickup. Rodriguez was pronounced dead at the scene. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the accident. (11082013 CN 0533)

Coroner case #701006520 – On 11/07/2013, at 2:45 PM, The California Highway Patrol responded to the Interstate 15 and the Calico Road off ramp, in Yermo. Upon arrival they found that Richard Lee Hall, a 65 year old resident of Yermo and the driver of a white 1999 Cadillac Escalade, was involved single vehicle col- lision. Hall was declared dead on scene by Marine Corps Logistics Base Fire personnel. The incident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol. (CN 11/08/2013 0030) [11092013 1102 GB] The Coroner Reports are reproduced in their original format as authored by department personnel.

Glimpse from page first area residents whose heritage. by our county’s Native 1970, Jensen tell us, the ceremony by indigenous 9 ancestors lived here The reservations are American population fourth Thursday of every people on Coles Hill attest to the tenacity, re- for thousands of years but a small percentage was huge—lost lives, November has been set overlooking Plymouth silience, fortitude and and whose descendents of the original native lost property, and some- aside as a Day of Mourn- Rock Massachusetts. resourcefulness of our proudly hold on to their territory; the price paid times, lost spirit. Since ing in a spiritual/political San Bernardino County residents might consider doing something similar like setting aside a mo- ment of silence or cer- emony on Thanksgiving Day to recall the events along the Mojave Trail, at Fort Paiute and Fort Mojave or to tell these stories to their children. Better yet, buy a meal ticket or take a homeless person to dinner at one of our county Indian ca- sinos. After all, “Thanksgiving is true to its purposes," says Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Brandeis University "And that's all it needs to be. For these holidays say much less about who we re- ally were in some spe- cific Then, than about who we want to be in an ever changing Now." (From Common-Place website in 2001, cited by Richard Schiffman http://www.huffington- post.com/richard-schiff- man/the-thanksgiving- truth_b_1105181.html). Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 11 Subscribe to County Wildlife Corner the Sentinel Never miss an issue. Read it weekly from the The Elusive Grey Fox comfort of your own home. By Diane Dragotto black stripe runs from them well against preda- fox is to deposit a skunk- Williams the inside corner of the Ordering your one year email subscription is tors like coyotes, bobcat like smell during elimi- quick and easy. Like others of the ca- eye, down the pointed and golden eagles. nation of urine or feces, nine family, Urocyon Ci- muzzle to its mouth. The family unit is protecting them further Send a check or money order for $30.00 pay- nereoargenteus, the Gray With its long, hooked important to gray fox- from predators. able to the Sentinel, to: 10808 Foothill Blvd., Fox, is playful with its claws, this fox is an ag- es with mating occur- At Wildhaven Ranch, Suite 160-446, Rancho Cucamonga, food, throwing it in the gressive hunter and CA 91730. Include your name, city of resi- ring in winter and their we had the privilege of dence, phone number and email address. air, chasing it down, and excellent tree climber. young born in March or caring for Shadow, our then burying it, if there's Weighing from 7 to 14 April. Male and female care for the offspring Supreme Court the case was filed. together, and teach pups Considering Colo- While Mandel main- how to hunt at around 4 tains the matter is a nies Prosecution months old, with typi- “high-profile public cor- Case from page 4 cal pouncing and stalk- ruption case that is being ing techniques. Barking indictment as Burum’s closely watched and will and growling may warn “agent,” “mule” and “un- be used as a benchmark the pups of impending derling,” to propound the to inform the conduct of danger, but is also part of theory that his action in both public officials and family interaction. Other resident gray fox that having prepared, prior to those seeking to influ- communications include survived an auto ac- the 2006 election, never- ence them” and is “the scent marking and re- cident. With central delivered mailers and right case” for the Su- lease of pheromones. nervous system dam- handbills which dwelled preme Court to make a excess. Very few have Males do the majority of age, also causing par- on derogatory informa- precedent-setting deci- pounds, this nocturnal watched this remarkable hunting before the birth tial blindness, this fox tion relating to Postmus sion with regard to brib- omnivore feeds mostly animal in the wild due of their young, while the charmed his way into the and Biane, constituted ery of public officials on mice, rats, voles, rab- to its elusive, yet very females spend their time hearts of us all. Beauti- blackmail and extortion and thereby “offer guid- bits and carrion, but oc- present habitation in our ful and seemingly wise that paved the way for ance on … what acts casionally will capture environment. Whether as he deftly maneuvered the bribes that were de- they can commit without in the mountains, the his habitat, his gentle na- livered to Postmus and subjecting themselves hillsides of the valley, or ture towards us, yet his Biane after the vote con- to prosecution,” Larson even the brush of the flat- fighting spirit against his ferring the $102 million argued that it was a mis- lands, this talented mam- injuries revealed to us settlement on the Colo- application of the law to mal helps balance the the essence of the gray nies Partners. The com- try to hold Burum ac- lower level animal world fox. Shadow graced us bination of the bribes, countable for the other in our California ecosys- with his presence, and extortion, blackmail and defendants’ violations tem. An important fur- we will be indebted to the use of a third party, of Government Code bearer, this silvery fox him for what he taught i.e., Erwin, in this re- Section 1090 and 1097, sports a mane of short, us about this valuable gard, Mandel suggested, which prohibit an elected stiff, black hairs along its species. constituted a facilitation official from engaging in back leading to a black of the crime that went a financial conflict-of- tipped tail. Peppery gray birds during the day, or searching for and pre- Wildhaven Ranch is a beyond mere bribery. interest or making a de- on top, reddish brown on feast on their eggs in the paring suitable dens. But wildlife sanctuary in the Burum, she said, utilized cision which will have its sides, chest and back nest. Fruit, grains and then, both hunt regularly San Bernardino Moun- his “enormous politi- an impact on his own of its head, its feet and reptiles may round out for the family, engrossed tains specializing in edu- cal power and financial financial circumstance. short legs are mildly red- their diet. Gray foxes in survival. Due to their cating the public about resources to coerce the He said the Davis, Clapp dish in color. Gray foxes prefer deciduous for- amazing abilities to dis- wildlife in our ecosys- public officials into ac- and Wolden precedents have oval-shaped pupils ests with wooded areas appear into the forest, tem. Visit them at www. cepting his bribes.” have been for so long es- with a black stripe of fur to den in hollow trees escape up trees or hide wildhavenranch.org or To questions from the tablished that they have around the eye area, that or logs, crevices under in small holes, the gray call for tours at (909) justices as to whether the become standards un- travels from the outside rocks, in underground fox can live 6 to 8 years 337-7389. prosecution had allowed der California jurispru- corner of the eye to the burrows. But a lower in the wild. An unusual the statute of limitations dence. He said the Court side of the head. A thick, forest canopy also serves characteristic of the gray on the bribery – which of Appeal had engaged allegedly occurred be- in sound analysis of the tween February 2007 criminal case and made Wal•Mart Vote and June 2007 – to accurate rulings. “The from page 9 elapse by the time of the Court of Appeal correct- Growth, did not register May 2011 indictment of ly held that Mr. Burum with the California Sec- Burum, Mandel did not cannot be charged with Frank Guzman retary of State until Sep- provide a direct answer. aiding and abetting or tember. The group has Present during the conspiring in the alleged less than $1,000 in its oral arguments before Attorney at Law violation of Government coffers, meaning it can the Supreme Court but Code Section 1090. Gov- put out very little in the not taking part were ernment Code Sections way of mailers or ads in deputy district attorneys Former Prosecutor, Western State University of Law Graduate 1090 and 1097 do not ap- opposition to Measure D. Lewis Cope, Reza Sede- ply to private citizens,” Wal•Mart, working Handling all manner of criminal defense from DUI to Capital Murder ghi and John Goritz, all according to Larson. through Apple Valley of whom work in the “The Court of Appeal Consumers for Choice, Over 24 years in practice office’s public integrity properly based its ruling collected more than the division, as well as for- on the legislative intent 5,700 signatures to qual- Over 200 jury trials mer deputy California to exclude aiding and ify Measure D for the (951) 274-9798 (P) Attorney General Gary abetting liability.” ballot, an indicator that Schons, who previously (951) 274-9036 (F) opponents may have a oversaw the case and su- tough row to hoe in stop- 3633 10th Street Riverside, CA 92501 pervised Mandel when ping the project. Friday, November 15, 2013 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 12 California Style Fashion Falling By Grace Bernal a ballerina dress and d i a m o n d shoes on oc- casion and performed a little dance. She loved Famous for her ce- taking pic- lebrity portraits, Editta November 1, 2013. Her existence did so in all and great grandkids. Sherman, born July 9, tures and posing for passion was photograph- colors and styles, mak- Shine on Editta! 1912 in Philadelphia, PA. ing musicians, actors, them in flamboyant fash- and this made her pho- ing her goodbye as cool was a one-woman show sports stars, dancers and ion. Editta was always tographs stand out as as ever. Editta is sur- when it came to photog- writers. She serviced ready to party! She also cutting edge very artsy. vived by three children raphy. She left an enor- them all, from Elvis had a passionate love af- Those who came to hail and over 30 grandkids mous footprint in the art Presley and Joe DiMag- fair with Carnegie Hall, her exit from this earthly world. The Duchess of gio to Tilda Swinton. where she resided for Carnegie Hall exited this more than 60 years un- earth at the age of 101 on The last fa- mous name to be added to her list "I'm never leaving… was Barack They'll have to drag me O b a m a , out." -Editta Sherman whom she

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Warren from page 7 its extension. driquez’s show of sup- previously put her into as memorandums of un- from participating in fu- tions relating to War- “It is not against the port for Warren in the and continues to put derstanding, outside the ture votes pertaining to ren’s assumptive conflict law to serve the com- relatively limited venue her into a conflict when scrutiny of the public. San Bernardino Public during the discussion of munity as an employee of Upland immediately she served as a Fontana Fontana City Attorney Employee Association- the Burrtec contract con- and as a public official,” resonated well beyond council member and is Jeff Ballinger cited Gov- negotiated contracts. stituted a violation of the Rodriguez said. Warren, the Upland City Coun- serving as Fontana may- ernment Code Section Ballinger is with the Brown Act, California’s she said, “is stepping up cil’s meeting chambers. or and voting with regard 54957.6 in justifying law firm Best, Best & open meeting law. She and serving her com- Rodriquez’s remarks, to that city’s municipal holding those negotia- Krieger, which serves said Musser was “not munity and her city. She which like the rest of the employee contracts. tions in secret. Fontana under contract.. speaking to an item on is well respected. Like meeting were broadcast Typically, municipal Warren’s participation Repeated phone calls to the agenda” when he most of midmanagers, on the local public ac- employee contract nego- in past employee con- the Best, Best & Krieger called Warren’s conduct she is doing two to three cess television station, tiations involve surveys tract votes leaves them office in Ontario did not into question. jobs. Is this the treat- vectored attention to the of the salaries and ben- subject to legal chal- elicit responses from Rodriguez insisted ment she deserves? The consideration that War- efits provided to employ- lenge. Ballinger or his firm the assistant public San Bernardino Public ren’s status as a public ees with surrounding cit- The city administra- colleague, Clark Alsop, works director “was not Employees Association employee in Upland ies. In this way, Warren’s tion in Fontana deferred- who was previously city involved in contract ne- stands behind Ms. War- represented by the San salary in Upland could to Ballinger questions attorney in Fontana dur- gotiations” with regard ren.” Bernardino Public Em- have an impact on the with regard to Warren’s ing much of Warren’s to Burrtec’s franchise or Ironically, Ro- ployees Association, salaries paid to compa- circumstance and wheth- tenure there as a city rable employees in Fon- er she will be precluded councilwoman. tana. Available Fontana City Council meeting Read the minutes show that the council, including War- Sentinel ren, made a practice of meeting in closed ses- sion to conduct labor On The World Wide Web! negotiations with rep- To visit our blog, simply type resentatives of the San http://sbsentinel.com/ into your Bernardino Public Em- URL box and hit enter. You can ployees Association and view the Sentinel, read individual ratified the city’s final articles, offer comments and search agreements with the as- our archives from the convenience sociation on the city’s of your pc, laptop, Blackberry or labor contracts, known iPhone.