Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) articles from June 2006

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) archives from June 2006

GE plant at ONT all but shut.
June 30, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 30--Under one name or another, General Electric has been operating in the city of Ontario since World War I. From the 1920s until after World War II, its Hotpoint Iron plant was the biggest single...

Ground broken for Vernola.
June 30, 2006... Byline: Joanna Parsons Jun. 30--MIRA LOMA -- Riverside County officials and developers broke ground Wednesday morning at the future home of the 390,000-square-foot Vernola Marketplace. Builders have spent the past couple of months...

With words exchanged, Claremont OKs budgets.
June 29, 2006... Byline: Caroline An Jun. 29--CLAREMONT -- The City Council approved budgets for 2006-08 Tuesday, but not before council members exchanged several verbal jabs. After the dust settled and council members retreated back to pleasantries,...

Group wants to buy school.
June 29, 2006... Byline: Wendy Leung Jun. 29--ONTARIO -- A group being sued by the Cucamonga School District for not paying rent while operating at the Louisa Guasti School property expressed interest in buying the site on Tuesday. Visions of...

Fontana Police Department gets $60K for recruitment.
June 28, 2006... Byline: Leonor Vivanco Jun. 28--FONTANA -- As the Police Department moves forward with plans to hire nine new officers, it is getting $60,000 to boost recruitment efforts and improve diversity on the force. The money included in the...

Homes near Cable Airport mulled.
June 28, 2006... Byline: Maria Hsin Jun. 28--UPLAND -- More than 350 homes slated for development near Cable Airport could transform the area with street improvements and additional residents, planners say. The 30-acre project, called Upland Crossing, is...

Real estate agents cheer latest slowdown in home value increases.
June 28, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 28--A local real estate agent says Tuesday's housing report from the California Association of Realtors can be summed up in one word. Yay. That was Bill Velto's reaction to the news that home...

CVUSD to break ground for new school.
June 28, 2006... Byline: Joanna Parsons Jun. 28--CHINO -- Chino Valley Unified School District officials will break ground at its new kindergarten through eighth-grade school site on Friday at the Preserve. The 20-acre, $40 million school will be...

Neighbors say flights too close for comfort.
June 27, 2006... Byline: Maria Hsin Jun. 27--UPLAND -- Planes often fly too close to homes and businesses when landing at Cable Airport, some residents said days after a jet crashed there. Although not everyone agreed, most people had something to...

West Elm, Oakley coming to Rancho.
June 27, 2006... Byline: Wendy Leung Jun. 27--RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Home furnishing store West Elm and sunglasses retailer Oakley will be Victoria Gardens newest additions when they open this fall. West Elm, launched in 2002 Williams-Sonoma, will open its...

Cable Airport has grown with region.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Monica Rodriguez Jun. 26--Located just north of a commercial area along Foothill Boulevard, Cable Airport has been home to mostly light aircraft since 1945. The airport is family owned, and according to its Web site, it's...

UPS plans ONT expansion.
June 26, 2006... Byline: Mason Stockstill Jun. 26--ONTARIO -- Shipping firm UPS will be able to expand its cargo operations at Ontario International Airport if a proposed zoning change is approved. UPS has requested a change to 22 acres of property...

Rancho OKs Red Hill condos.
June 23, 2006... Byline: Wendy Leung Jun. 23--RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Nostalgia lost the battle to growth on Wednesday when the City Council gave developers the green light to build 206 condominiums in the Red Hill area. The proposed site, which spans 21...

Luxury apartments offer alternative to high-priced homes.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Bonnie Boyd Jun. 22--The hard truth for many people is that they cannot afford to purchase a home in the Inland Empire. While the area is one of California's fastest-growing, the rise in jobs, people and traffic has meant a...

Land developer skeptical of talks with S.B. County.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Jeff Horwitz Jun. 22--An unreasonable demand by San Bernardino County leaders has doomed a round of settlement talks with a major developer suing the county over land rights, the developer's spokesman said. County officials...

Housing market cools down.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 22--Ah, the good old days. The days when real estate agents took multiple offers along with them when they went to people's homes to take their listings. The days when a seller would ask for...

Land buy clears a hurdle.
June 22, 2006... Byline: Caroline An Jun. 22--CLAREMONT -- The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has authorized the purchase of 80 acres along the Marshall Canyon Regional Park and Golf Course. Tuesday's unanimous decision, though, is just the...

California economy at "tipping point".
June 21, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 21--Calling the California economy at a "tipping point," UCLA's Anderson Economic Forecast for California said that a so-called soft landing was far more likely than a recession for the remainder of 2006...

Montclair council OKs annexation.
June 21, 2006... Byline: Maria Hsin Jun. 21--MONTCLAIR -- The city just got bigger by 40 acres. The City Council voted 4-1 to move ahead with the annexation Monday with Councilman Bill Ruh dissenting. A handful of speakers Monday evening spoke...

La Verne approves changes to address parking shortage.
June 21, 2006... Byline: Caroline An Jun. 21--LA VERNE -- Downtown La Verne's chronic parking shortage may be alleviated this summer with the City Council's approval Monday of much-needed changes. The changes include: --shortening all two-hour...

Condo project slope too steep for some neighbors.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Wendy Leung Jun. 19--RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- Developers who want to construct a condominium project on a hillside site in the western portion of the city will ask council members this week to give them the go-ahead. But some...

Hospitals bring in foreign nurses.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Nikki Cobb Jun. 19--A critical shortage of nurses has compelled Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, like hospitals across the country, to hire more foreign-trained nurses. Driven in part by the advancing age of baby boomers --...

CVUSD teachers dispute district letter figures.
June 19, 2006... Byline: Joanna Parsons Jun. 19--CHINO -- Teachers and Chino Valley Unified School District officials continue to be at odds, this time because of almost 50,000 letters the district sent out last week about teacher contract negotiations....

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif., David Allen column.
June 16, 2006... Byline: David Allen Jun. 16--With Ontario's A&W Drive-In gone, what's the Inland Valley's longest-surviving chain restaurant? Among the runners-up, as found in old phone directories at the Ontario and Pomona libraries: --Arby's,...

High-tech training.
June 15, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 15--RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- You won't see a lot of pudgy, middle-aged guys trying to sweat off a few pounds at Advanced Acceleration. But you might see a young pitcher trying to add four miles per hour to...

Deep-discount store opens soon in Pomona.
June 14, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 14--POMONA -- So you're a businessman. You've got 10 truckloads of 23-inch Symphonic color television sets, part of a manufacturer's overstock. What do you do? If you're John Foto, you put them...

I.V. hiring promising for summer.
June 13, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 13--Anyone looking for a job in Ontario or Upland or thinking of changing jobs can take heart from Manpower's Employment Outlook Survey. The survey, released today, says that 47 percent of the companies...

Ontario's dreams remain just that.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Mason Stockstill Jun. 12--ONTARIO -- A new sports arena will be built in Ontario this year, the mayor said. When completed, the facility will host several sports teams and bring new entertainment options to the Inland Valley,...

Creating a natural tan look.
June 12, 2006... Byline: Cliff Morman Jun. 12--Krista MacCharles has accomplished what many others have tried --she found a convenient way to get a seemingly natural tan. MacCharles and her cousin from Oklahoma recently met Jeannie Freeman, the owner...

PUSD E-rate audit begins.
June 8, 2006... Byline: Mark Petix Jun. 8--During a sometimes heated discussion of the audit, triggered by claims Pomona misspent $2.3 million on laptop computers, trustee Andrew Wong said Tuesday the district might have received bad advice from its...

With growth as a priority, Chino OKs budget for coming fiscal year.
June 8, 2006... Byline: Joanna Parsons Jun. 8--CHINO -- City Council members have approved a $153.7 million budget for the coming fiscal year, encouraged by new and future city projects, the hiring of more employees and the projected increase of sales...

Four generations of Armijo's run Pomona's Home Escrow.
June 8, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 8--POMONA -- It was 30 years ago this week that George and Billie Armijo decided to take a chance and start their own business. He was a successful banker handling escrows and working as a manager for...

KB Home lays off employees at Inland Valley office.
June 8, 2006... Byline: Mason Stockstill Jun. 8--In a sign of the cooling housing market, KB Home has laid off nearly a tenth of its work force at its Inland Valley office, officials said Wednesday. The company let go 25 of the 275 employees in its...

Ontario development: The story isn't over yet.
June 2, 2006... Byline: Michael Rappaport Jun. 2--ONTARIO -- Now that the parcel of land that includes the historic Guasti winery has been sold, those watching the development of Ontario might ask one question. But the city is hardly finished,...

San Diego developers to take control of historic Ontario property.
June 2, 2006... Byline: Mason Stockstill Jun. 2--ONTARIO -- The Guasti Villa, one of the region's oldest historic properties and the site of Ontario's original winery, has been sold for redevelopment, its owners announced Thursday. "We certainly...

Aerojet site cleanup enters new phase.
June 2, 2006... Byline: Joanna Parsons Jun. 2--CHINO HILLS -- Karen Miller remembered when trucks carried uncovered waste material from the Aerojet munitions site near her home a few years ago. "I was one of the ones who would chase down the...