The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, SeptemberSentinel 28, 2018 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (951) 567-1936 Over Intense Opposition, Board OKs Putting Warehouse Among Houses Petition Effort By Mark Gutglueck Board of Supervisors on included an amendment the negative consequenc- ing network of activists Over the objections of Tuesday voted 4-to-1 to to the county’s general es of the warehouse’s de- and environmentalists To Halt Nestlé’s two members of the Cal- allow residential proper- plan, the granting of a velopment and therefore on the other. But there SB Mountain ifornia legislature and ty in the unincorporated conditional use permit, justified granting the remains yet the possibil- dozens of residents who county area of Bloom- the certification of a final proponent permission to ity that a lawsuit will be H20 Diversion were speaking that day, ington adjoining a school environmental impact proceed with the project. filed on behalf of the un- By Amanda Frye and more than two dozen and other residences to report which enumerated County officials are incorporated county ar- Mark Gutglueck residents who inveighed be rezoned for light in- negative consequences hoping the vote will ea’s residents to prevent In recent years, there against the project in dustrial use so it can host for nearby residents and bring to an end the four- J.M. Realty Group, Inc. has been significant con- person five weeks pre- a 344,000-square foot students attending an ad- year controversy that has from proceeding with troversy over the Nestlé viously and hundreds of warehouse. jacent high school along pitted them and the proj- constructing the ware- Corporation’s siphoning others who had affixed The zone change was with a declaration by the ect applicant on one side house. of water from the San their signatures to peti- one component of a land board of supervisors that and a significant cross The reason for the bit- Bernardino National tions of opposition, the use designation read- a set of considerations section of Bloomington ter and deep resistance Forest. San Bernardino County justment that further existed which overrode residents and a burgeon- to the project is See P5 Since 1992, when Manis, Once Hailed As Upland’s Future Guru, Departing After Less Than A Year Nestlé acquired the Ar- rowhead brand from By Marian Nichols cil moved to hire him Third Millennium until that search dragged on Perrier, the Swiss cor- and Mark Gutglueck after going 15 months he was essentially forced beyond the three months poration has continued Mystery and contro- without having officially into retirement from it was originally antici- to bottle water drafted versy are attending the filled the city manager that position by later- pated it would take to from the Strawberry abruptly announced but void created when a 3-to- disgraced, indicted and attract a fair number of Creek headwaters at the simultaneously extended 2 majority of the coun- convicted Mayor John candidates from which a approximate 5,000 foot leave-taking of Bill Ma- cil in July 2016 handed Pomierski in 2005, had suitable manager might elevation level in the San nis as Upland City Man- Rod Butler his walking functioned as acting city be selected. The recruit- Bernardino Mountains. ager. papers. In the interim, manager. Thouvenell’s ment drive eclipsed the The water withdrawal Last December, Ma- Marty Thouvenell, who tenure in the post was six-month mark, then from the Strawberry nis was widely hailed had been the city’s po- intended to be a short nine months and then a Creek headwaters start- as an excellent fit for lice chief throughout one that was to last only year, with speculation Bill Manis ed in 1929 after the Ar- 77,000-population Up- most of the 1990s and until a successor for But- echoing that the council city manager’s post upon rowhead Spring See P19 land, when the city coun- the first five years of the ler could be chosen. But might simply confer the T h o u ve n e l l , See P 2 Revamp Ontario’s Central Core, Community Activism, Familial Dedication To Crowe Gunning Says Council Candidate Corona Montclair Qualifies Him For Council, Lopez Says To Oust Leon As Saying “It’s time for a Benjamin Lopez, Our family has been a Ontario Mayor change,” Norberto Coro- known to his family and part of Montclair’s fab- na explained that “I am friends as Ben, said his ric even before Mont- running for Ontario City candidacy for city coun- clair was a city. This is Council to address the cil in Montclair is a logi- the only city I have ever increase in homelessness cal outgrowth of his im- called home. I want my and gangs in the city.” mersion in the city. fellow residents and fu- Corona says he envi- “As a lifetime Mont- ture generations to come sions the revitalization clair resident, business- to experience the many of the city’s central core man, Little League coach joys, benefits, programs to reestablish it as the and volunteer, I want to and safety I have expe- resplendent draw it was Norberto Corona build upon the progress Ben Lopez rienced living here. We Sam Crowe throughout most of the ple want to come to shop being made in Montclair “I have devoted over 20 are a small but mighty 20th Century. “I also and eat great food every and bring a new, fresh years of involvement to city.” Sam Crowe, who has want to focus on making weekend, not just on the and younger approach to my community and giv- His suitability and been a part of Ontario’s the Ontario downtown days they have a concert solving the needs of our ing back to my fellow qualifications to serve on social, political and gov- area a place where peo- in the park.” See P 3 great city,” Lopez said. residents and neighbors. the city council See P 4 ernmental establishment off and on for more than Ramirez Touts Management & Academic Success In Vying For Hesperia Council a half of a century, is Dan Ramirez is seek- a voice for the residents He stands above his with diverse employees seeking to cap his pub- ing election to the Hes- of Hesperia.” competition for the post, and staff to attain goals lic career with a stint as peria City Council in He is qualified to hold Ramirez said, in that and objectives. And, out mayor. that city’s newly-drawn the position of city coun- “Out of five candidates of the five candidates, In seeking the city’s Second District, he said, cilman, Ramirez said, by for District 2, I am the I am the only one with highest elected office, “because I am tired of virtue of his professional only one who has ac- advanced educational Crowe has placed the seeing elected represen- training and perfor- tual business experi- degrees, having attained incumbent mayor, Paul tatives not heeding the mance. “I have over 40 ence running manufac- both a bachelor’s and a Leon, directly in the concerns of the residents. years management expe- turing firms, business master’s degree. In ad- crosshairs, basing his I believe council mem- rience leading different departments. I am well dition, I am the only one campaign on an effort to bers should represent the organizations,” he said. acquainted with com- of the candidates that illustrate the degree to interests of the residents “I understand the com- pleting multimillion has a title of ‘professor,’ which Leon is out of the Dan Ramirez first. A cornerstone of plex world of running dollar projects, work- having taught business mainstream with regard my campaign is to pro- organizations, trying to ing change and adverse ing with multimillion classes at Victor Valley to not only the political vide transparency and be solve problems, manag- situations.” dollar budgets, working College the last See P 7 orientation and See P 3 Friday, September 28, 2018 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 Manis Leaves Up- land had proceeded with and week out over the uled for discussion dur- The San Bernardino County land, Enhancing shuttering its more than more than eight months ing the closed hearing a century-existant mu- he had been with the city, of the council that was Pension On The Way nicipal fire department, with only the rarest of ex- to take place at 6 p.m. Sentinel Out from front page annexing the entirety of ceptions, most of which outside the earshot and Published in San Bernardino County. the city limits and the involved differences be- sight of the public, an The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic who repeatedly insisted adjacent unincorporated tween the four-member hour before the standard Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 he did not want the job. county area of San Anto- council majority that business portion of the A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with The city at last settled nio Heights into a county found itself at odds with meeting open to the pub- Countywide News Service upon filling the position fire service district and that panel’s lone dissi- lic was to commence at Mark Gutglueck, Publisher with Manis, who was having the county fire dent, Janice Elliott, who 7 p.m. That item, accord- Call (951) 567-1936 then the city manager in department assume the last year parted company ing to the agenda, was to learn of locations where the Sentinel Rosemead.