Sentinel 10-27

The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, OctoberSentinel 27, 2017 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (951) 567-1936 Wonder Valley Chromium & Arsenic H2O Levels 1,000 Times Over Limit Industry’s Tres By Mark Gutglueck Indications are, how- miles northeast of the Amboy Road and State nent living structures Hermanos Sun The San Bernardino ever, that there is no east entrance to Joshua Route 62 run through built by homesteaders County Fire Depart- county agency mandated Tree National Park. The Wonder Valley and ex- under the Small Tract Power Plan ment’s reflexive move to with responsibility to town lies south of the ist as the community’s Act, also known as the Begets Greater protect its firefighters in safeguard residents and Sheep Hole Mountains primary paved roads, “Baby Homestead Act,” reaction to the discovery their drinking water sup- and Bullion Mountains with the vast major- between 1938 and the Uncertainty of well water contamina- ply in the face of the risk and north of the Pinto ity of the community’s mid-1960s, once dot- tion in Wonder Valley that has been identified. Mountains at an eleva- streets existing as dirt ted the landscape in the is raising the specter of Wonder Valley is an tion range of 1,200 feet roads or ones that have 150-square-mile area, a wider contamination unincorporated com- to 1,800 feet near the been oiled and impacted. though hundreds were hazard that represents a munity roughly 10 confluence of the higher- Wonder Valley boasts a demolished and removed threat to the well-being miles east of the City elevation Mojave Desert population of some 650. as part of a clean-up ef- of the community’s resi- of Twentynine Palms and the lower-elevation Some 3,000 recreational fort over the last two dents generally. and approximately 15 Colorado Desert. Both cabins and more perma- decades. Most See P 3 Upland Police Chief, At Odds With Nearly Four-Fifths Of His Officers, Resigns Brian Johnson’s two- ing him as a “cop’s cop,” manded. On the evening for his abrupt leaving Konradt Bartlam and-one-half year tenure whose career with the of his introduction to the with a terse explanation as Upland police chief is much larger, more pres- community at a March of urgency. Upon assum- The inevitable de- at an end. tigious, more sophisti- 2015 city council meet- ing the post of police velopment of Tres Her- The atmosphere sur- cated, more cosmopoli- ing that took place tech- chief, Johnson initially manos Ranch remains rounding his exodus is tan and more storied Los nically before he was earned kudos and appre- fraught with uncertainty. radically different from Angeles Police Depart- officially police chief, ciation from a cross sec- That is the case even the air of confidence that ment would add dimen- a report of an injury to tion of residents and the after the City of Indus- attended his assumption sions to the smaller and an officer came in and business sector for step- try, which recently re- of the leadership of the parochial Upland PD. Johnson made a hurried ping up patrols and the asserted ownership and department in March And Johnson appeared departure into the field visibility of the depart- control of the 2,450-acre 2015. Brian Johnson to have a genuine af- to ensure assistance was ment’s officers. property straddling Chi- Many in the Upland son’s hiring at the time finity and deep concern rendered, delaying only Johnson, however, no Hills and Diamond community hailed John- it occurred, characteriz- for the officers he com- long enough to apologize was the first See P 5 Bar, has declared its in- tention of converting Miffed With Postmus’ Testimony, the bucolic expanse into Highland And County Dinged For Militating a 450-megawatt solar DA Now Seeking Long Sentence To Favor Incumbents In 2016 Council Races power generating field. in intensity by the plunge against the City of High- partment militated in Chino Hills and Dia- that followed his implo- land and San Bernardino favor of John Timmer mond Bar officials, who sion and crash to earth in County in a legal action and Larry McCallon, a series of scandals that brought against them incumbent councilmen rocked the county and by 2016 Highland Ward running in the election the Republican Party to District 4 city council who emerged victorious the core, will not be fully candidate Frank Adomi- over, respectively, three determined at least until tis, who alleged the city challengers and a single January. and the county loaded challenger. Postmus, 46, was in the dice against political In the 2016 election, court early this morning outsiders in last year’s Highland, its political Bill Postmus before Judge Michael election. institutions and its of- The legal fate of Bill A. Smith for possible Frank Adomitis In particular, it ap- fice holders found them- Postmus, whose meteor- sentencing on charges San Bernardino pears, Williams found selves under an uncom- Rossana Mitchell ic rise in San Bernardino against him which were County Superior Court credible Adomitis’ con- mon attack of historic have for some time com- County politics in the lodged in 2009 and Judge David Williams tention that the city and proportions. In the light plained that the City of early 2000s was matched 2010 and to See P 3 has entered a judgment the police/sheriff’s de- of Williams’ See P 2 Industry has been far too secretive with regard Hesperia Mayor Russ Heading To New Orleans For Double Organ Transplant to how it truly intends Hesperia Mayor Paul lenges. At the age of 12, a treatment had rendered it yond his kidneys, to the another kidney trans- to utilize the property, Russ, who was handed viral infection devastat- dormant. point that he had gone plant, consigning him to continue to perceive an a possible death sen- ed his kidneys. In 1986, In March, he pulled a into stage 4 renal failure. a lifetime of dialysis. inexactitude to Indus- tence earlier this year at the age of 26, he began muscle and took a mus- He was given prednisone Before actually begin- try’s representations that when he learned his only kidney dialysis. A year cle relaxant. A metabolic and he recovered, rela- ning chemotherapy, he borders on the duplici- kidney was failing and later, he received a kid- reaction to the muscle tively, to stage 3. Follow- applied for a double or- tous. Meanwhile, City of he had liver cancer, is ney transplant from his relaxant reactivated the up tests showed his kid- gan transplant. He was Industry officials, whose soldiering on and will brother, Raymond. That hepatitis C. ney is failing and that he recently informed by predecessors in 1978 temporarily relocate to kidney did him yeoman’s Dazed and disori- had liver cancer. Ochsner Medical Center spent $12.1 million to Louisiana next month service for thirty years, ented, he was taken to This summer, he was in New Orleans that he acquire the property and to await a double organ twice the 15-year span the emergency room at set to begin chemother- has been accepted. subsequently transferred transplant he hopes will typical transplanted kid- Desert Valley Hospital. apy to combat the liver He will sojourn there ownership of it to their prolong his life. neys remain viable. There it was determined cancer, which would in two weeks and await redevelopment agency, Russ, 57, is no strang- Along the way, Russ that the drug he was tak- have precluded any pos- the availability of the in August agreed to re- er to dire health chal- contracted hepatitis, but ing was not passing be- sibility that he could get two organs he needs. acquire the land See P 4 Friday, October 27, 2017 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 Judge Rules High- Grimes of Los Angeles, rejecting it. opted out of running. In The San Bernardino County land Favored In- Garrett filed a lawsuit, Following that vote, the four contested con- alleging that the city was Garrett’s lawsuit pro- tests under the newly cumbents With violating the California ceeded and the city implemented ward sys- Hosting Of Candi- Sentinel Voting Rights Act of sought to assuage the tem, incumbents Larry Published in San Bernardino County. dates Forum from 2001 by continuing to demand by proposing to McCallon and John Tim- The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic front page hold at-large elections allow cumulative voting, mer did run. Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 and not switching to a in which each voter is Timmer, who had A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with ruling, it appears city of- ward system whereby given one vote for each been zoned into the Countywide News Service ficials reflexively sought minority voters would contested position and city’s Fourth District, Mark Gutglueck, Publisher to insulate the city’s stand a greater prospect is allowed to cast any or found himself beset with Call (951) 567-1936 of electing one of their all of those votes for any three challengers, Rus- powerful insiders from to learn of locations where the Sentinel having to participate in own ranks to office. one candidate, or spread sell “Rusty” Rutland, is available or to provide news tips an open and unbiased In response to the the votes among the can- Frank Adomitis and political process. lawsuit, the city council didates.

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