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GIVE BIG: County Supervisors Launch 2016Webathon Campaignin News, Ticker / by Michael P. Neufeld / on October 25, 2016 at 12:05 am /
Supervisor James Ramos looks on as AAUW Big Bear Valley Branch spokesperson Jill Myerstalks about the importance of contributing to GIVE BIG San Bernardino County. (Photo byMichael Perry)
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By Michael P. Neufeld
San Bernardino, CA – Board of Supervisors Chair James Ramos and supervisors Curt Hagman and RobertLovingood gathered in the rotunda of the San Bernardino County Government Center to “officially” launchGIVE BIG San Bernardino County.
Michael Perry from Big Bear and PennyShubnell from Crestline urge mountainresidents to GIVE BIG. (Photo byROTWNEWS.com)
GIVE BIG is a 24hour fundraising webathon scheduled to start November 29 to raise money for numerousnonprofit organizations in the mountain communities and throughout the county.
“A well funded nonprofit sector is vital to the health and stable community of San Bernardino County,” Ramosstated during his remarks standing behind the GIVE BIG logo. “It’s about making a change. Making dreamscome true and letting those in need know we care.”
Ramos, who represents Big Bear Valley went on to state that GIVE BIG San Bernardino County is more than aday of giving.
“It’s a day of giving and changing peoples lives,” the third district supervisor emphasized. “That’s why we cometogether and that’s what today is about.”
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Marilyn Mays and Mary Jo Alari from the Rimof the World Education Foundation join
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Community Foundation representative Andrea Mitchell — who also happens to be a mountain resident —commented on the fact San Bernardino County is a big county with big challenges.
“We consistently overcome those challenges,” Mitchell noted surrounded by representatives of nonprofitorganizations, “and you helped us overcome those challenges.”
GIVE BIG 2016
The actual GIVE BIG San Bernardino County webathon begins at midnight on Tuesday, November 29, andconcludes at midnight on Wednesday, November 30.
However, Mitchell told ROTWNEWS.com that mountain residents don’t need to wait until November 29donate to their favorite charity or charities.
“They can simply go online to GIVE BIG SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY and make a contribution,” sheexplained.
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10/25/2016 Here’s how you can ‘Give Big’ to help San Bernardino County nonprofits
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Here’s how you can ‘Give Big’ to help San Bernardino County nonprofits
By Doug Saunders, The Sun
Monday, October 24, 2016
SAN BERNARDINO >> County officials Monday launched thereturn of the Give Big fundraiser campaign, a 24hour webathonintended to raise money benefitting local nonprofits throughout theregion.
“This is a big county with big challenges,” Community Foundationrepresentative Andrea Mitchell said. “We consistently overcome thosechallenges and you helped us overcome those challenges.”
Mitchell was joined by San Bernardino County supervisors JamesRamos, Robert Lovingood and Curt Hagman along with other event
organizers in the rotunda at the San Bernardino County Government Center, 385 N. Arrowhead Ave.
• Photos: San Bernardino County’s annual Give Big kicks off fundraising campaign
Give Big begins at midnight Nov. 29 and continues to midnight Nov. 30, but anyone can donate to the charity oftheir choice at anytime, organizers said.
“This is more than a day of giving,” Ramos said. “It’s a day of giving and changing peoples lives. That’s whywe come together and that’s what today is about.”
There are more than 5,600 nonprofits in San Bernardino County and more than half of them have an annualoperating budgets of less than $100,000.
In 2014, the inaugural Give Big fundraising campaign raised more than $500,000.
“A well funded stable nonprofit sector is vital to the health and stable community of San Bernardino County,”Ramos said. “It’s about making a change. Making dreams come true and letting those in need know we care.”
Anyone can donate to the Give Big campaign by going to [email protected].
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10/25/2016 Here’s what’s in store for Santa’s Village if it’s able to open Thanksgiving weekend
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Here’s what’s in store for Santa’s Village if it’s able to open Thanksgiving weekend
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Monday, October 24, 2016
LAKE ARROWHEAD >> The return of Santa’s Village will create anew entertainment mecca for the western side of the San BernardinoMountains.
The new Skypark at Santa’s Village will include an ice skating rink, alog cabin community of singing characters and actors, new restaurants— one with an electric train zooming above diners — and multipleadventure activities.
And the park will meld technology and nature as RadioFrequencyIdentification will allow the Village’s Santa to know what children
want for Christmas (because the parents write that down before entering the park), and customers of a log cabinbar sip their brews resting on oakwood.
• Photos: See how Santa’s Village is coming along as it hopes for a Thanksgiving weekend opening
As heavy earthmoving equipment is getting the parking lot ready, actorsingers are auditioning for Christmasrelated character roles and the executive chef is tinkering with menu offerings.
Santa’s Village work crews are working furiously to open the 1955era entertainment venue by Thanksgivingweekend — if not before, Bill Johnson, project manager, said last week.
This assumes San Bernardino County issues a temporary use permit for the facility that has been closed for 18years.
• Related Story: Beloved Santa’s Village in Lake Arrowhead could open next month
“We had hoped to be open on Nov. 1, but clearly we are not going to make that,” Johnson said.
Many items, such as major components of the skating rink, are still in sea containers that have yet to arrive,Johnson said during a recent tour of the 153acre park.
San Bernardino County is still on track to decide whether or not to grant Santa’s Village a temporary use permitprior to Nov. 1, David Wert, a county spokesman, said Friday.
Ice skating rink
“We will try to keep the skating rink going all year long,” said Michelle Johnson, an interior designer and BillJohnson’s wife.
If it can’t survive the heat of July and August, the concrete pad the rink rests on would be used for rollerskating,craft fairs or some other activities, she said.
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The ice skating rink will be the first public rink in the San Bernardino Mountains since one in the community ofBlue Jay closed in 2001.
• Photos: A look back at Santa’s Village
“This will be a wonderful addition to Santa’s Village at Skypark,” said Polly Sauer, executive director of theLake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce.
“The big issue is to get that temporary use permit,” she said, which will allow the Santa’s Village portion of theadventure theme park to open in time for Christmas.
Trying to open for holidays
Due to the complexity of the project, its Environmental Impact Report can’t be completed this year, so Johnsonand his team made the decision to open only on the footprint of the old Santa’s Village this winter.
Doing so, however, limits parking to about 300 spaces — meaning the maximum capacity at any one time iscapped at about 1,000, Johnson said.
The complete project, which is expected to open next year, would add another 300 spaces on the other side ofHighway 18, he said, which would allow 2,000 people into the park.
Daily attendance could exceed those numbers as when one car leaves, another could come into the park.
• Park History: The life, death and rebirth of Santa’s Village in Lake Arrowhead
Because of the capacity limitations, Johnson anticipates that the park may sell out for much of the Christmasseason with online ticket sales, which will likely start Nov. 1.
“That way people can make plans,” he said.
Johnson said he is working to get some sort of sign placed at the bottom of Highway 18 to alert people about thepark being full before they drive up.
In the event that “something odd happens” and the park is unable to open on the first few days that have beensold, “We will make refunds available,” he said.
Tickets will be $59 for adults and $49 for seniors and children 12 and under. There will be a parking fee, but theamount is undetermined at this point, Johnson said.
Opening attractions
Not all of the park’s attractions will be functioning during the first phase, which involves just the Santa’s Villagefootprint.
But the zipline, a custombuilt train that will carry passengers and a custommade 30foot climbing wall — witha waterfall — are expected to be functioning for the November opening, said Mike Newcombe, assistant generalmanager.
As the heavy earthmoving equipment worked to level a portion of the steeply sloped parking area forhandicapped parking, auditions were being held for various singing elf roles in the park.
Forty people have already been hired as talent for the park, Michelle Johnson said.
• Read More: Developments at Santa’s Village
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“There is an entertainment layer to the park,” she said. “It will be like entering a live village.”
Local musicians will stroll through the park, there will be carolers and storytellers, and even the Johnson familypet dog, Arrow, has been made into a character, she said.
Among those trying out last week was Ethan Nelson, 20, of San Bernardino, who has studied chorus for severalyears at Citrus College in Glendora.
Before learning about the potential of a job at Skypark, Nelson said, “I didn’t realize there was a place up in themountains this cool.”
Santa’s Village preview
• Hoping to open around Thanksgiving weekend
• Hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Internet ticket sales may start Nov. 1
• Adult ticket price: $59
• Children and seniors: $49
• Parking fee: Undetermined
• Parking: 300 spaces initially
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Project manager Bill Johnson said that due to the immense transformation of the amusement park, the site will be renamedSkypark at Santa's Village.
"Probably the biggest delay is trying to take something from 1955 and bring it up to code," Johnson explained.
Although there will no longer be a petting zoo and Bumble Bee Monorail ride, Johnson assured that there will be plenty to do.
"We have climbing walls for all ages, bouldering rooms, train rides, the bakery and all the nostalgic stuff that was here before,"Johnson said.
Gift shops will also include locally made scented candles.
San Bernardino County expects to issue a temporary-use permit by Nov. 1.
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Thirteen years ago, on October 25, 2003, an arsonist started the Old Fire in Old WatermanCanyon. (Photo Courtesy Craig C.)
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Mountain Communities, CA – Thirteen years ago, on October 25, 2003 at 9:16 a.m., arsonist Rickie Lee Fowlerignited the Old Fire in Old Waterman Canyon and for the next eight days Santa Ana winds fanned the fire thatchanged the lives of mountain residents and the way wildfires are fought. . . forever!
The Old Fire, burned 91,281 acres, destroyed 993 homes andcaused six (6) deaths. Some 80,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes before the fire was containedon November 2, 2003, thanks to snow and rain.
THE OLD FIRE
At the peak of the Old Fire (October 25November 2), there were 4,211 firefighters battling the fire that alsodestroyed 50 commercial structures.
The environmental issues that contributed to the Old Fire included high fuel loads, longterm drought and amajor tree mortality caused by the Bark Beetle infestation in the higher elevations, with chaparral fueling thefire in the lower elevations.
The leaders of the unified command, from federal, state, county and local agencies directed fire operationsduring the Old Fire and saved countless homes and businesses.
ARSONIST ON DEATH ROW
Rickie Lee Fowler(Contributed Photo)
Fowler was sentenced to death on January 25, 2013, and was received at San Quentin on February 5, 2013. Heremains on Death Row.
On that Saturday, October 25, 13 years ago, Fowler tossed lighted road flares out of a moving vehicle inWaterman Canyon.
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Two years later, the driver of the van — identified by authorities as David Valdez, Jr, — was shot to death.
The last execution in California was Clarence Ray Allen in 2006. Stateapproved executions were firstauthorized in 1851.
Several legal challenges have halted executions over the past few years.
The Old Fire from Strawberry Peak Lookout Tower. (Contributed Photo)
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10/25/2016 Mexican consuls meet over possible San BernardinoMexico flights
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Mexican consuls meet over possible San BernardinoMexico flights
However, economist skeptical of plans for commercial service from San Bernardino
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
SAN BERNARDINO >> Five consuls representing Mexican citizensliving in most of Southern California met Monday at San BernardinoInternational Airport to explore the possibility of flights from this cityto Mexico.
The flights are still just a possibility, with no timeline, airline orspecific destinations within Mexico established, said Carlos Garcia deAlba, the consul general of Los Angeles.
“This is something we think is important, because nowadays Mexicanpeople want more ways to travel to and from the Inland Empire,” hesaid.
Five officials — mostly fresh appointees based in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, Oxnard and Fresno,covering all of Southern California except the San Diego area — held a news conference at the airport toannounce the meeting.
No airline or airport officials were at the meeting, and Mark Gibbs, San Bernardino International Airport’sdirector of aviation, did not return a phone call Monday.
The meeting of consular officials is part of a series of meetings intended to cement relationships in SouthernCalifornia: The same officials met three months ago in Los Angeles, agreed to meet in Oxnard in January andintend to continue operating after that, Garcia said.
“This jurisdiction is the most populated of the consular areas, so it’s important for us to meet regularly,” he said.
Their itinerary Monday included a work session at the airport, a lunch with Riverside County Supervisor MarionAshley and others to discuss regional economic development, and a meeting at UC Riverside.
Ontario International Airport has had two airline carriers offering flights to Guadalajara, Volaris andAeroMexico, since 2014.
That makes it difficult for a nearby airport to break into the market, said Jack Keady, a Playa Del Rey aviationconsultant.
“I’d say there’s no niche,” Keady said. “The market may be big, in that there’s a lot of people (from Mexico),you’d be trying to create a new market, which is pretty tough unless you’ve got a new product. If you can’t dothat, you’d be trying to divert traffic from Ontario or LAX, and you’d have to do extensive marketing or havevery low fares.”
San Bernardino has done a good job refurbishing and getting general aviation aircraft, but the likeliest way toestablish service to Mexico would be a subsidy, Keady said.
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“All in all, I just can’t see it happening,” he said.
John Husing, chief economist for the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, was also skeptical.
“We’ve been talking about trying to get commercial flights out of San Bernardino forever,” Husing said.“Honestly, Ontario (airport) is so underutilized. Once Ontario is built out, San Bernardino could become aviable option. But God knows when that would be.”
But the Mexican government’s interest in the Inland Empire makes sense, Husing said.
“The important fact is that if you take the metropolitan areas of the United States, the Inland Empire has thefourth largest accumulation of Hispanics in the United States,” he said. “(Half) of the twocounty area isHispanic. Given that fact, the interest of the Mexican consul in this particular economy is not a surprise.”
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10/25/2016 The shipping containers are here, and Ontario is going to court to kick them out
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The shipping containers are here, and Ontario is going to court to kick them out
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Monday, October 24, 2016
ONTARIO >> Dairy cows on Sunday were feeding under the shadowof what appeared to be hundreds of stacked shipping containers in anagricultural area of town that city officials say can’t legally storethem.
Ontario City Manager Al Boling, who had been concerned about thepossibility of thousands of stranded Hanjin shipping containersmaking their way from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles toOntario after reports of such a deal happening, said the city found outabout the local containers last week.
Hanjin Shipping Co., the world’s seventhlargest shipper, financially collapsed in August, ultimately leavingthousands of empty containers — some owned by the shipper, others leased out to other companies — piling upat the spacechallenged, busy port complex. The solution lay eastward, with one logistics official eying a 100acre property in Ontario.
That set off alarm bells for Ontario officials, who said the city’s zoning codes don’t allow for storage of shippingcontainers. They also worried truck traffic would plague existing residents and impact home sales in the OntarioRanch housing development now under construction on former agricultural land in South Ontario.
Boling, in an interview Friday, confirmed the site of the containers as a property on the southwest corner ofEucalyptus and Carpenter avenues, just north of the Gardner Trucking company, 9032 Merrill Ave. And, that’sjust one of four separate properties turning parts of the city into an inland port.
On Sunday, containers — some with the word “Hanjin” clearly written on them — were stacked three to fourhigh and could be visibly seen from the southwest corner of Eucalyptus and Carpenter Avenues.
Boling said the other properties hosting containers are in the 13600 block of South Grove Avenue; the 9000block of East Merrill Avenue and the 8200 block of East Schaefer Avenue.
Ontario code enforcement officers, working with the city attorney, took swift — and unsuccessful — legalaction Thursday, requesting a judge grant a temporary restraining order for the property at Walker and Chinoavenues, Boling said.
“The judge denied the temporary restraining order. However the judge set a hearing date on Nov. 18 for theproperty,” Boling said. The city is starting the same process for the other three storage sites.
It was not immediately clear who owns the Eucalyptus Avenue property or who the city took to court over thematter, as of Sunday. Named in the legal document requesting the temporary restraining order to remove thecontainers at Walker and Chino avenues is the Hogg Family Trust.
Carolyn Hogg said the shipping containers are not on her property.
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“We have trucks and trailers but not shipping containers,” she said Monday, adding there are shipping containerson a property across from hers, but she does not know who owns that property.
After seeing photos of the Eucalyptus Avenue site, Mike Radak, senior vice president of marketing and sales forHanjin, said he did not know about the Ontario containers, adding those containers may be leased. Hanjin hadpreviously tried to arrange for containers to move to Ontario and Fontana, but Radak said the deals fell through.
“For various business reasons, we decided to forego both locations as a potential for storing empty Hanjinowned containers,” he said in a statement. “Instead, we chose to store our owned containers back at the ports inLong Beach and Seattle at our owned proprietary terminals.”
In a phone interview, Radak said the containers might be leased containers.
“All of the leasing company contracts, including the sales/lease back variety, have been canceled and Hanjinshipping has no responsibility to store these empty containers,” Radak said in the statement. “Hanjinownedcontainers are our responsibility to store and we have chosen to do that at the ports, not in the Inland Empire.”
For now, Ontario is making an effort to get the shipping containers removed as soon as possible, Boling said.
“The land is not zoned for those containers, so they need to go somewhere else,” Councilwoman Debra Poradasaid.
Staff writer Monica Rodriguez contributed to this report.
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10/25/2016 Participants sought for Victorville Veterans Day Parade and Freedom Mile Run
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VICTORVILLE — The City of Victorville is accepting applications to participatein its 20th anniversary Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony on Nov. 11.
Applications to participate in the parade, which is scheduled for 9 to 11 a.m. inOld Town Victorville, are now being accepted at Hook Community Center.Groups of all types are encouraged to participate and are recommended to followa patriotic theme. The application deadline has been extended to Nov. 3.
The city will also host its Freedom Mile Run prior to the parade. The mile-longrun starts at 8:55 a.m. and will serve as the kick-off for the parade. Participationin the Freedom Mile Run is free. Registration for the run will be at the corner ofSeventh Street and Forrest Avenue at 8:15 a.m. The first 100 runners registeredwill receive a free commemorative race bib.
The parade route begins at Tracy and Seventh streets. The Veterans DayCeremony immediately follows the parade at Seventh Street and ForrestAvenue. This year’s ceremony will feature a special salute to Victorville veterans,including personal recognition for more than 70 Victorville veterans.
The parade application can be downloaded at www.victorvilleca.gov. For
more information about the Freedom Mile Run, parade and ceremony, call 760-245-5551.
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Man California Countie Charge Parent High Fee While Kid are Locked Up
Contra Cota Count' Juvenile Hall in Martinez, Ca. (uke Lewi/KQD)
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“ut what I’m finding i the tudie are not upporting that,” he added.
A group (http://www.law.erkele.edu/tudent/tudent-organization/oard-of-advocate/oard-of-advocate/archived-oard-and-memerhip/appellate-advocac-memerhip-2015-2016/)of tudent at the U.C. erkele chool of Law ha een tuding thee feefor the pat three ear. Their reearch, which will e preented to the count on Tueda, include an anali of Contra Cota inparticular.
“We don’t think there are man compelling argument to upport thee fee,” aid Tim Kline, one of the erkele law tudent tudingthe fine. “Countie don’t make mone. The’re ad for familie. The don’t help kid rehailitate and get ack on track.”
One of the more tartling tatitic Kline’ group found i the diproportionate racial apect of thee fee. For example, AfricanAmerican kid are 23 time more likel than their white counterpart to e locked up.
Dan Macallair, xecutive Director of the non-profit Center on Juvenile and Criminal Jutice (http://www.cjcj.org/index.html),aid diproportionate impact are preent tatewide.
“Who end up in the juvenile jutice tem?” he aid. “It’ kid from povert, who grew up in povert, who grow up in the margin ofociet, who come from fractured familie, often diproportionatel African American, or in California, Latino. o e, it [ juvenile fee]fall heavil on the kid whoe familie can leat afford it.”
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John Keene of the Chief Proation Officer’ union aid the fee aren’t meant to target an particular group or e a urden on trugglingfamilie, and point out that countie do take into account a parent’ “ailit to pa” when determining how much to charge them.
“We care aout what happen to our oung people; we care aout what happen to the familie,” he aid. “We reall work hard to tr toengage the familie in uilding and reconnecting the famil.”
ut while ome argue thee fee are meant to hold parent financiall reponile for their kid’ ehavior, Macallair added that theefee got their tart ack in the 1950 for a ver different reaon.
“It ecame kind of a practice for parent to, when the had an argument or heated diagreement with their kid, the could actuallring the child to local detention center and tell the center, ‘I‘ve had enough!’,” Macallair aid.
The child would often pend the weekend in detention, and then parent would have a change of heart and come pick their kid up onMonda morning.
“o, adminitrative fee were originall intituted for the purpoe of dicouraging parent from miuing detention center,” he aid.
“A parent can’t jut how up at our door and a he’ incorrigile, ‘would ou detain him?’” laughed Contra Cota Proation Chief Toddilleci. ven legall, the tate can onl lock up kid who are upected of criminal ehavior.
ut, illeci aid, it’ hard to advocate for a lo of revenue. If Contra Cota doe do awa with juvenile fee, hi department tand toloe around $200,000 in net revenue. ut an anali (http://64.166.146.245/agenda_pulih.cfm?id=&mt=ALL&get_month=9&get_ear=2016&dp=agm&eq=27183&rev=0&ag=861&ln=53284&neq=27130&nrev=0&peq=27182&prev=0#ReturnTo53284)of how much it cot to collect thee fee how that the cot of collecting thee fee i actuall greater than the revenue the ring in.And the fee do little to offet the total cot of running the count’ juvenile hall, which i more than $19 million.
And that’ part of the prolem tatewide. The mone that juvenile adminitrative fee ring in varie from count to count, and omecountie don’t collect thee fee at all. Macallair a count proation department who are ued to getting thi revenue don’t want toee it go awa, even if it i jut a cae of ureaucrac maintaining itelf.
ut Keene a countie need the flexiilit to charge thee fee, and that the are ued to provide kid with recreation program andeducational opportunitie.
Lat ear a ill (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pu/15-16/ill/en/_0901-0950/_941_cfa_20160523_100925_en_comm.html) ponored tate enator Holl Mitchell (D-Lo Angele) would have anned countie from collecting thee fee, ut it talled in theappropriation committee.
Now, ome countie are moving forward with reform on their own.
After reviewing the practice, oth Alameda and anta Clara countie have repealed thee fee. Lo Angele doen’t charge juvenile feeand neither doe an Francico.
To Contra Cota upervior John Gioia the juvenile fee aren’t o much a fical iue, ut a moral one. He a the goal of the juvenilejutice tem i to keep outh out of the criminal jutice tem.
“Thee fee don’t achieve that goal,” he aid. “The polic doen’t make an rational ene.”
10/25/2016 Print Article: Wiretaps and death sentences: Local counties' dubious distinctions
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Wiretaps and death sentences: Local counties' dubiousdistinctionsBy SAL RODRIGUEZ20161021 19:51:53
The Inland Empire has the dubious distinction of originating the most wiretaps in the state and among the highest numberof death sentences in the country.
In 2010, there were 627 electronic interception orders completed statewide. San Bernardino County accountedfor 110 of them, while Riverside County ordered 75. Los Angeles County, with more than twice the populationof both counties, had 192 orders documented. By 2015, there were 1,148 electronic interceptions completedstatewide. San Bernardino County accounted for only 58, Los Angeles County 134, while Riverside Countyinexplicably accounted for 640 of them.
Meanwhile, according to recently released reports by the Fair Punishment Project, both counties were amongjust 16 counties nationwide, out of over 3,143, to sentence five or more people to death between 2010 and2015.
Riverside County is among the leading producers of death sentences in the country, with a death sentencingper 100 homicide rate nearly 9 times the statewide average. San Bernardino County death sentences exceedthe statewide average by 40 percent.
With 29 death sentences in Riverside County and 5 in San Bernardino County between 2010 and 2015, bothcounties have only added even more bodies to an already packed, expensive death row system.
Riverside County especially tends to sentence minorities to death, with 76 percent of those sentenced to deathrow between 2010 and 2015 being minorities.
On both of these issues, the fundamental source of these disparities comes from the deliberate choices of therespective District Attorney’s offices and cooperative judges and jurors.
With respect to the wiretaps, the surge in their use in Riverside County occurred during the term of former DAPaul Zellerbach, who served from 20102014. Most of the wiretaps approved in 201314 were signed off on bya single superior court judge.
Many of the requests were from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration via the Riverside County DA’soffice, which has cooperated extensively in federal drug investigations. Incidentally, this same period saw theDA’s office collect millions of dollars through federal asset forfeiture .
The extensive wiretapping has prompted legal challenges, including one centered on the apparent fact thatZellerbach himself didn’t sign off on eavesdropping.
On Oct. 14, Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Molloy upheld the legality of the wiretaps on thegrounds that Zellerbach was allowed to delegate responsibility.
At the very least, the DEA has recently changed its own policies to rely less on the use of state courts, many ofwhich are far more lenient and compliant with wiretap requests. Perhaps this will translate into fewer wiretapsmoving forward.
Less likely is a shift on the death penalty without it being outright repealed statewide.
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Incumbent DAs Mike Ramos in San Bernardino County and Mike Hestrin in Riverside County have beenprominent advocates of speeding up the death penalty, apparently with the aim of transforming California from astate with the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere to being one of the most prolific users of the deathpenalty in the world.
It’s a sorry aim for a generally civilized society in the 21st century. At some point, Californians will realizepouring billions of dollars into trying to kill people is unbecoming of America.
Hopefully these dubious distinctions are just passing fads of an ultimately regrettable era.
Sal Rodriguez is a staff columnist. He may be reached at: [email protected]
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California voting groups prepare to monitor polling placesBy JANIE HARAssociated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) California voting rights advocates say they will monitor more polling places than usual on Election Day amid concerns about possiblevoter intimidation stemming from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's repeated assertions that the election is rigged against him.
The steppedup efforts are happening as officials in the diverse state brace for a potentially high turnout in the presidential election year. In addition, there arenumerous local and state races and 17 statewide initiatives on the ballot that could take voters a while to complete.
Monday is the deadline for Californians to register to vote in the Nov. 8 election. Counties began sending out votebymail ballots on Oct. 10. More than 800,000have been completed and returned, according to data tracking firm Political Data Inc., which tracks returns reported by counties.
More than 18 million people have registered to vote, a record high for the state, with nearly a third of them in Los Angeles County alone.
While California is not known for strict voter ID laws or hourslong waits to vote that critics argue can disenfranchise voters, electionwatchers worry about theharsh tenor this campaign season.
"Every voter in California should know that their right as a voter includes being able to cast their ballots free of any harassment orintimidation," California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said.
Trump, who is trailing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in California and a number of other states, says he is enlisting volunteers tostop his rival from rigging this election. He has voiced strong support for North Carolina's stringent voter ID law, saying that without it,voters could cast ballots multiple times.
His statements, in part, have prompted Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliates in Los Angeles and in San Francisco to step up pollobservations. The affiliates plan to partner with organizations to expand its operations into the Central Valley and San Bernardino andRiverside counties, areas with high populations of Latinos.
Deanna Kitamura, voting rights project director for Asian Americans Advancing JusticeLos Angeles, said the groups aren't necessarilyanticipating problems.
"But given the rhetoric, we're concerned people will go beyond what is legal and try to question every person who fits a particular typeof profile, to see if they can legally vote or not," she said.
Nationally, the watchdog group Common Cause has ramped up efforts to have poll monitors in at least 31 states, including California,said Allegra Chapman, the group's director of voting and elections.
The Trump campaign referred questions about its California plans to Harmeet Dhillon, national committeewoman to the RepublicanNational Committee. She said such worries are overblown and GOP lawyers will be on hand at polling sites to safeguard the integrity of
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"There is no organized effort that I know of to influence people in any way," she said.
Dean Logan, president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials and the registrar of voters in Los Angeles County,said voting early and by mail is on pace with the 2008 presidential election. He said counties have issued more than 10.7 million votebymail ballots.
California accepts ballots postmarked as late as Election Day and received by counties up to three business days later, which typicallyslows final results compared to other states.
Kim Alexander, president of the nonprofit California Voter Foundation, said many voters in the June primary did not realize they hadcommitted to permanently receiving mailin ballots.
That resulted in confused voters showing up at polling sites unaware they had received mailin ballots at home, she said. In thosecases, counties issued provisional ballots so clerks could verify counties hadn't already received ballots from those voters, leaving somefeeling as if their vote didn't count.
"For this election," she said, "you're going to have a lot of people who vote occasionally or are firsttime voters, and they're going toneed some extra assistance."
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Bus company in Palm Springsarea crash also involved in 2007 triplefatal Riverside crash
By Ali Tadayon, The PressEnterprise
Monday, October 24, 2016
The charter bus company involved in Sunday’s crash near PalmSprings that killed 13 people was sued once for wrongful death andtwice for personal injury claims in Riverside County, though all threelawsuits were eventually dismissed, court records show.
• RELATED STORY: 11 of 13 killed in Palm Springsarea bus crashare identified
Teodulo Elias Vides was the owner of Alhambrabased USA Holiday,which specialized in trips to casinos and on Sunday was returningfrom Red Earth Casino in Thermal. He was driving the bus when it
crashed on westbound Interstate 10 near the Highway 62 exit, and was among the 13 dead, according to theCHP.
• PHOTOS: 13 die in Palm Springs bus crash
The wrongfuldeath lawsuit was filed in May 2009 by the estate of Maria Llamas against Silvia Saucedo,Paulino Camacho Ceballo, Vides – listed incorrectly as Elias Vides Teodul – and USA Holiday. It says that onMay 6, 2007, the bus collided with Llamas’ vehicle on northbound I215 south of Fair Isle Drive in Riverside.
• RELATED STORY: 13 killed, 31 injured in tour bus crash on 10 Freeway near Palm Springs
News reports at the time said three people died and a least one person was critically injured in a collisionbetween a car and a bus carrying more than 50 passengers.
• PHOTOS: Memorial grows for victims of Palm Springs bus crash
In a response to the lawsuit, USA Holiday’s attorneys contended that the fault for the accident lied with theplaintiffs. They succeeded in having the lawsuit dismissed in June 2009 because the plaintiffs failed to provideinformation sought through the discovery process in court, records show.
A 2004 lawsuit against Vides individually and doing business as USA Holiday, along with Ceballos, referencesan accident that occurred in June 2003. According to the complaint, a USA Holiday bus driven by Ceballos wastraveling at an unsafe speed and collided with a car on westbound Highway 60 west of Day Street in Riverside.That case was dismissed in 2007.
A 2009 lawsuit names Teodulo individually and doing business as USA Holiday, along with Ceballos, SilviaSaucedo and “Casino 29,” where it says the bus company was transporting customers under a contract. The suitsays a passenger was injured in May 2007 while on the bus at the 15/60 interchange in Jurupa Valley. Vides wasnot driving the bus, the complaint said.
Though a Casino 29 doesn’t exist, there is a casino called Spotlight 29 in Coachella.
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That suit was dismissed in 2010.
In addition to the lawsuits, Vides was cited twice for speeding in Riverside County, court records show, thoughone of the citations was later dismissed. Both traffic tickets say he was driving a 1996 bus – the same year as thebus involved in Sunday’s crash.
A 2005 citation says he was driving 78 mph on eastbound I10 west of the Main Street exit in Cabazon. Heattended traffic school and paid a $151.80 fine.
A 2011 citation says he was driving over 80 mph on eastbound I10 near Highway 62, and was driving on asuspended license. That case was dismissed.
Vides was driving the bus involved in Sunday’s fatal crash — A 1996 MCL motor coach — when both citationswere issued.
In 2008, as part of a crackdown at LAX on “illegally operating passenger carriers,” the California PublicUtilities Commission cited Vides and USA Holiday for unspecified violations of state regulations, according to anews release.
Staff writer Richard K. De Atley contributed to this report.
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
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Heartbroken family and friends mourn victims of tour bus crash
Koreatown: A corner becomes a place for families friends to mourn
By Susan Abram, Los Angeles Daily News
Monday, October 24, 2016
KOREATOWN >> The votive candles and roses left at the corner ofVermont Avenue and Olympic Boulevard on Monday offered littlecomfort or answers for Lester Gomez.
His father, Gustavo Green Gomez, 62, stood on this corner in LosAngeles’ Koreatown just two days before. He had been one of 44people who climbed aboard the USA Holiday charter bus Saturdaynight to spend a couple of hours at the Red Earth Casino in Thermalnear the Salton Sea.
But before dawn on Sunday, Gustavo Green Gomez became one of atleast 13 people who died after the bus they were traveling in slammed into a bigrig on the 10 Freeway nearPalm Springs, on the way back to Los Angeles. Dozens of passengers were seriously injured.
“It’s difficult right now for us,” Lester Gomez said through tears as he talked about his father, who lived inHuntington Park. “He had 10 children.”
Dozens of people who heard about the crash came to Vermont and Olympic to tuck a rose into the fibrous trunkof a palm tree there, to leave a note or a flower or to say a prayer. They would then talk to each other about themany times they met at the corner to board the USA Holiday charter bus bound for Southern California casinos.
Many said driver Teodulo Elias Vides, who was among the 13 dead, was a good driver. Vides, who was fromAlhambra, operated his own charter bus and had contracts with the small casinos. He picked people up,including Rosa Cabello, early in the mornings or late in the afternoon.
“He behaved well,” Cabello, 79, said. “He was a good person.”
But Cabello said there were times when she saw him gambling in the casinos, when he should have been resting.
“It would have been best if he had napped on the bus,” Cabello said.
She began taking the bus more than 20 years ago, when she learned about it from residents in her Koreatownneighborhood.
“It was better than sitting at home alone, crying, waiting for children to call or visit,” Cabello said as sheexplained why she paid $20 to take the bus to the casinos.
Cabello said she didn’t know many of the passengers by name, but realized some of the ones she had traveledwith died in the crash. She could have been one of them, she said.
“It hurts,” she said of those who died.
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The National Transportation Safety Board told reporters Monday it is investigating the cause of the crash.
Meanwhile, the crash left family members across Los Angeles County in mourning.
Jennifer Ruiz, 26, called her mother, Rosa Ruiz, 53, a legend.
Ruiz said her mother enjoyed going to the casinos with her girlfriends to relieve stress.
“She loved it,” she said. “Everything she did, she did it with no regret. That was her thing. Some people go tothe movies, my mom loved the casino.”
Born in Guatemala, Rosa Ruiz had been living in the U.S. for more than 30 years. She worked most of her life,but was disabled in recent years.
She was a mother of three who enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, her daughter said. She was oftendancing, and playing “her cumbias.”
“I loved that woman so much,” Jennifer Ruiz said. “It’s so empty here now, so quiet. No more music playing.”
In Echo Park, Ana Gomez de Magallon, 71, lived with one of her sisters, according to her niece, Yajaira Gomez.Originally from El Salvador, Gomez de Magallon was the oldest of five and lived in Los Angeles for much ofthe 35 to 40 years she’s been in United States. Her niece said she went on weekly trips to the casino in Thermalfor the past couple of years.
“She went there all the time,” Yajaira Gomez said. “She loved to go gambling.”
Zoila Aguilera, 72, of Los Angeles was remembered by relatives as an optimistic and inspiring woman whoovercame obstacles and made sure to teach younger generations to do the same.
The active, greatgrandmother was on one of her regular jaunts to a casino with good friend and relative YolandaMendoza, 69, when the crash occurred. Both women died.
“She was tough, amazing. Even in her bad days, it was always a good day for her,” said Aguilera’s grandson,Ricardo Mendoza, 20, who flew in with his family from Ohio after hearing of the collision.
A native of El Salvador who had lived in L.A. since 1972, Aguilera was a cook and caregiver “enjoying herretirement,” Mendoza said.
Family members on Monday remembered her as an outspoken woman who maintained a positive outlook nomatter what.
“Any obstacle, she would say: ‘Don’t worry about it,’ ” recalled grandson Chris Ramirez, 18, who lives with hisfamily in the back part of a duplex next to his grandmother’s home in Los Angeles. “She told it like it was. Andshe taught me that hard work pays off.”
Jacquelynn Ochoa, a niece who lives in Rancho Cucamonga, said: “She would empower everyone.”
“She always had the time to listen to you,” Ochoa said from her aunt’s home, where two large candles were lit inremembrance inside the living room.
“I’m so sad. I’m going to graduate in December and she won’t be here. She was like a second mom to me,”Ochoa explained. All my cousins would say the same: She was like our second mom.” Aguilera is survived bysix children, six grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.
Meanwhile at the Koreatown memorial Monday evening, Francisca Escobar, 47, of Los Angeles embracedfriends and family as well as dozens of strangers.
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She placed a candle at the growing vigil, wiped tears from her face and tried to tape a sign to the tree saying“RIP Tony.”
Escobar said that she learned hours earlier that her boyfriend, Tony Mai, had died.
“I usually got there early and saved us seats on the bus,” Escobar said through a translator. “This time he calledme and told me not to come.”
She doesn’t know why.
Escobar and Mai, who she said was 50, met five years ago on such a bus.
“He didn’t talk much; he was quiet,” she said. But he was caring, she added, her cheeks tearstained.
During her many trips with Mai to the casino, Escobar, who has diabetes, would lose track of time playing theslots.
“He’d bring me food,” she said. “He’d make me stop playing and eat.”
When asked why Mai didn’t want her to go with him this time, she shook her head.
“I don’t know,” she said.
Other passengers who died, and were identified by the Riverside County coroner’s office include:
• Aracely Tije, 63, of Los Angeles.
• Dora Rodriguez, 69, of Los Angeles.
• Concepcion Corvera, 57, of Palmdale.
• Milagros Gonzales, 72, of Los Angeles.
• Isabel Jimenez Hernandez, 66, of Los Angeles.
• Elvia Sanchez, 52, of Los Angeles.
Staff reporters Roxana Kopetman, Stephanie Baer, Christopher Haire, Jason Henry and Alejandra Molinacontributed to this report.
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