The San Bernardino County News of Note from Around the Largest County in the Lower 48 States Friday, JanuarySentinel 2, 2015 A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Countywide News Service 10808 Foothill Blvd. Suite 160-446 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (909) 957-9998 Anti-State Bias, Religious Fervor & Cronyism Delay YV Water Issue Solution Convention At By Mark Gutglueck water quality crisis local out and out cronyism - ward modernity in the Chino Mosque YUCCA VALLEY— officials had previously have prevented the town, 1950s when Norman Addresses ISIS This desert town of failed to address. De- its residents and its local J. Essig promoted it as 20,700 is up against a spite Yucca Valley’s in- water district from com- both a getaway to and Threat To Islam formidable deadline by corporation as a munici- ing to terms with a reali- private residency for en- which it must complete pality in 1991, it remains ty that will, if it is not re- tertainment celebrities. the first phase of a large the only one of San Ber- dressed, severely impact He ventured capital to- scale wastewater treat- nardino County’s 24 cit- all of the area’s residents. ward that end, acquiring ment system within less ies without a sewer sys- Long a remote and hundreds of acres, which than 17 months. tem. rustic desert area that he improved with roads attracted those wishing around the region’s ma- That deadline was But a combination of Roger Mayes imposed by state water factors, financial, politi- to remain well off the jor arterial, Highway quality officials in 2011 cal, ideological and even beaten track and free of ization, Yucca Valley 62, also known as Twen- because of a mounting religious - not to mention the strictures of urban- made its first lurch to- tynine Palms See P 2 Landers Group Challenging County Planning Commission Approval Of Solar Farm Imam Azhar Haneef The twenty-ninth an- An appeal of the San cial welfare organiza- being located on pris- lar soil conditions, due is on land which is at nual West Coast conven- Bernardino County tion serving the Landers tine land, highly visible to the disturbance of some points elevated tion of the Ahmadiyya Planning Commission’s community, filed the from Reche Road, the the delicate soil crust.” almost 180 feet higher Muslim Community December 4 vote ap- appeal with the San Ber- major highway running continued Krantz. “The than Reche. Among oth- held at the Baitul Ha- proving Salt Lake City- nardino Board of Super- through Landers. Migra- Bowman Trail solar er affected land owners meed Mosque in Chino based Sustainable Power visors, which has not yet tory birds and desert tor- project would be equiva- within view of the site is December 26 to 29 di- Group LLC,’s 35-acre, scheduled a hearing date toises are also likely to lent to 32 football fields, a Buddhist retreat cen- rectly addressed the ef- three-megawatt solar on the matter. be affected.” likely to severely affect ter, which is diagonally forts by the Islamic State farm to be located be- According to Michael “Wind blown dust and the quality of life for across the Reche/Bow- In Syria [ISIS] to attract tween Bowman Trail Krantz, Vice President sand is currently a major neighbors during our man intersection. Muslim youth and other and Sunny Vista Road in of the Landers Associa- effect suffered by resi- frequent windy days.” According to Tracy disaffected elements to Landers has been filed. tion, “The solar facility dents living near other The project is 2,000 Creason, an associ- its cause. The Landers Asso- would be a blight on our existing solar farms in feet from Reche Road ate county planner who The upshot of the ciation, a nonprofit so- rural desert community, the area with very simi- which it parallels, and prepared the See P 3 convention was asser- State Water Board OKs PG&E 21st District Senate Hopeful Moffatt Seeks tions by the Ahmadiyya State Level Second Amendment Safeguards Community that the H2O Clean-up & Monitoring violence and intolerance HINKLEY—The La- the result of severe wa- State Senator, this week California, to enact gun advocated by ISIS is not hontan Region Water ter contamination in the enunciated her commit- control laws that nibble representative of Islam Quality Control Board area. ment to hold the line at the corners of the Sec- in its purest form or as is has approved Pacific Gas On December 19, against any erosion of ond Amendment to the practice by the majority & Electric’s proposals to California Water Qual- Second Amendment U.S. Constitution and of the 72 Islamic sects. utilize extraction wells ity Control Board, La- rights by the California presage future efforts “Isis has built its case to limit the migration of hontan Region Assistant Legislature. to compromise citizens' around distorted and in- chromium six in the wa- Executive Officer Lauri In recent years, rights to bear arms. appropriate interpreta- ter table in, at, around Kemper informed Kevin sportsmen and advocates "I am pro-Second tions of the Koran and and below Hinkley and Sullivan, the director for the preservation of Amendment," Moffatt Islmic teachings,” said to conduct hydraulic of chromium remedia- Constitutional protec- said in declaring her be- Ibrahim Naeem, the tion for Pacific Gas & tions have expressed lief that citizens' ability faith outreach director testing to ascertain the Star Moffatt effectiveness of those Electric (PG&E) that his alarm over efforts within to arm themselves should for the Los Angeles West measures in this com- team would be permitted Star Moffatt, who is several state legislatures, be held sacrosanct. Chapter of Ahmadiyya munity that has seen its to undertake the effort to vying to replace Steve including both the state "Proven statistics are Muslim community. population diminish as trace the See P 10 Knight as 21st District senate and assembly in now showing Naeem said the Ah- See P 3 madiyya and other Mus- lims were as appalled by Ontario Plays Race Card In Transmission Towers Dispute With SCE the action of ISIS as non- Ontario officials have below ground. now filed with the com- hachapi line is intend- erect high-tension pow- Muslims. raised the specter of rac- Trying to replicate the mission a petition and ed to connect what is er transmission towers “We want to have a ism and ethnic preju- rather improbable suc- an amended petition to planned as the world’s through the 44.7-square conversation about the dice in their effort to cess the city of Chino modify the massive util- largest windfarm, con- mile city at the extreme current state of Islam, convince the California Hills had in persuading ity corridor through the sisting of hundreds of southwest corner of in particular the concern Public Utilities Com- the California Public southern portion of its electricity-producing San Bernardino County with ISIS and what their mission to order South- Utilities Commission city, where the city in- windmills in Kern Coun- along a long-existing objective is as opposed to ern California Edison to to force Southern Cali- tends to complete the so- ty, with the Los Angeles power corridor easement what the ideas and ideol- scrap its current plans fornia Edison to under- called New Colony retail metropolitan basin. owned by the utility. ogy of Islam is in general to construct an above- ground the 500 kilovolt and residential subdivi- The Public Utilities In 2011, after South- worldwide,” Naeem said. ground electrical trans- electrical lines that are sions, which will entail Commission in 2009 ern California Edison “What people are con- mission line across the part of its Tehachapi the addition of roughly over the city of Chino had already expended cerned about when they southern portion of the Renewable Energy Proj- 12,000 residents once it Hills’ protest granted millions of dollars in hear of these terroristic city and instead bury ect traversing that city, is completed. Southern California erecting 18 of the 197- acts is they link them that high capacity cable Ontario officials have The 173-mile Te- Edison clearance to foot high trans- See P 9 all. They think See P 6 Friday, January 2, 2015 San Bernardino County Sentinel Page 2 Combination of a water treatment facil- gave builders what has As a good number of The San Bernardino County Poverty, Ignorance, ity and skeleton sewer essentially been carte those who had moved to system to which future blanche to build aggres- Yucca Valley were se- Ideology, Greed, developments could con- sively without incorpo- nior citizens and retirees Religiosity & Cro- Sentinel nect carried a price tag of rating urban land use living on fixed incomes Published in San Bernardino County. nyism Preventing roughly $10 million, well standards. who had been attracted The Sentinel’s main office is located at 10788 Civic Yucca Valley From beyond the tiny commu- Thus, the septic sys- to the area by cheap Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 Achieving Water nity’s fiscal means at that tems that had prolifer- land, they were alarmed A Fortunado Publication in conjunction with Treatment Solution time. ated in Yucca Valley by the concept of hav- Countywide News Service from front page After the town’s No- for three-quarters of a ing to defray the cost Mark Gutglueck, Publisher vember 1991 incorpo- century remained the ac- for the installation of a Call (909) 957-9998 Highway. ration, civic officials sewer system. 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