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You might have read about the plight of San Bernardino's animal shelter in The Sun. (Note: The article is posted below.)
The shelter is in poor condition, but the cash-strapped city does not have the finances for construction that would improve the living quarters of many cats and dogs.
On Tuesday November 11, a fundraiser will be held at Chili's in San Bernardino in support of our animal shelter.
From 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM, 10 percent of sales will go toward renovating theshelter. Remember to print this flyer or pick one up at the Shelter located at 333 Chandler Place San Bernardino, CA 92408.
Also remember that animals can be adopted year around at our shelter and adoption is a gift that benefits everyone.
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SAN BERNARDINO - Leaking roofs. Problems with mice, roaches and disease. Backed up sewage. Animals shivering and wet, lying on concrete floors.
These are some of the allegations posted on the message board of shelterwatch.com describing decrepit conditions at the San Bernardino City Animal Shelter.
Concerns voiced by community members at City Council meetings and published on the Internet have prompted action.
"It needs lot of improvement," said Mary Sheets, executive director of the Humane Society of San Bernardino Valley. "As the Humane Society we want to make sure those animals are well cared for and in the process of getting adopted."
The Human Society has offered to partner with the city to address to improvements needed at the shelter, Sheets said. Volunteers also recently toured the facility.
As city officials grapple with a $17.3 million deficit, the city has little money to spend on addressing the problems at the facility.
In response, Mayor Pat Morris has reached out to the business community for donations and is asking for volunteers to help fix up the shelter.
"We're terribly understaffed and overburdened," Morris said. "This is a very old facility in desperate need of renovation or replacement."
Each year, the city impounds, feeds and cares for 16,000 animals, Morris said.
The city also provides animal control services to several cities, including Loma Linda and Fontana.
An architect with the Humane Society recently toured the facility and suggested some immediate improvements, such as covering the existing roof with foam, which would fix the leaks and make the building cooler during summer, Sheets said. In addition, he suggested improving the heating system in the floor, Sheets said.
Meanwhile, San Bernardino County officials have also reached out to the city. The county's animal care and control program has proposed forming a joint powers authority, an entity that cities could join to provide animal services across the county.
If the entity were formed, the city of San Bernardino would not have to shoulder the entire burden of paying to rebuild the animal shelter, said Brian Cronin, division chief.
San Bernardino, along with 12 other cities in the county, have expressed interest in forming a joint powers authority, Cronin said.
"The idea has great merit," Morris said. "We are not doing well with our aging facility and limited staffing."
The San Bernardino County Democratic Party will kick off the county's "Yes We Can California '08" political campaign with a reception for voters and volunteers on Saturday, Oct. 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in its headquarters at 136 Carousel Mall.
The California Democratic Party (CDP) has designated the county offices as a Coordinated Campaign Headquarters for its "Yes We Can California '08" campaign. The state party has assigned a full time field organizer, installed eight new phone lines and helped refurbish and redecorate the offices.
The reception will be to welcome voters and volunteers to participate in a variety of tasks during the next five weeks of the campaign. Refreshments will be served.
For more information call Carol Robb at 909-783-2404 or 909-835-7278, or Edil De Los Reyes at 909-945-7561.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants to help stem the foreclosure crisis.
San Bernardino County received nearly $23 million, the third highest amount in California after Los Angeles and Riverside counties.
Local governments can use the Neighborhood Stabilization Program grants to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight in their communities.
Among the cities to receive aid are Rialto, Fontana and San Bernardino.
Another caller, John Warder, a Devore resident, says he signed a petition at the Wal-Mart on Hallmark Parkway in San Bernardino and later found out he had been registered as a Republican.
The Republican registration prevented him from voting in the Primary.
"I was very upset about it," he said. "Then I went to vote and I couldn't vote."
Note: Although the voter fraud allegations originated from the San Bernardino County Democratic Party, the sources quoted in news stories have not been supplied by the county Democrats. In numerous instances, residents called the paper when the first articles about the suspected voter fraud and district attorney's office investigation were published.
We just received another call reporting another incident that occurred in San Bernardino.
We've received a number of calls from people who say they were unknowingly registered as Republicans after signing what they believed was a petition to increase prison time for child molesters. The incidents being reported occurred in Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Rialto, San Bernardino and Highland, according to the county Democratic Party.
Click here to read today's latest story: http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10559994
If you are concerned you were a victim of the voter fraud scheme, there are two government agencies you should call:
- The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters, 909-387-8300, to check how you are registered and to report voter fraud.
- The California Secretary of State, (800) 345-8683, a voter fraud hotline to report instances of voter fraud.
Today's story: http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10559994
A San Bernardino resident just called in to say that he and his wife signed petitions at Wal-Marts in San Bernardino and Highland. One of the petitions they believed they were signing was to put tracking devices on child molesters.
"I've got two little girls," the resident said about what convinced him to sign the petition. "Anything about keeping child molesters in prison we're definitely going to sign."
The Sun has received a number of reports from residents in San Bernardino County who suspect they may have been victims of voter fraud.
The county Democratic Party says the voter registration scheme was conducted at Wal-Marts in Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Rialto and San Bernardino.
UPDATE: Reached yesterday by phone, Kate Folmar, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Debra Bowen, had this to say:
"The secretary of state takes seriously all allegations of voter fraud and elections fraud, and she encourages people who have knowledge of any alleged fraud to report it to her office."
As a voter fraud scandal continues to unravel in San Bernardino County, we've received a few calls from people who say they were unknowingly registered as Republicans after signing what they believed was a petition to increase prison time for child molesters.
Click here to read today's latest story: http://www.sbsun.com/sanbernardino/ci_10559994
If you are concerned you were a victim of the voter fraud scheme, there are two government agencies you should call:
- The San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters, 909-387-8300, to check how you are registered and to report voter fraud.
- The California Secretary of State, (800) 345-8683, a voter fraud hotline to report instances of voter fraud.
The alleged voter fraud scam with the district attorney is investigating occurred at Wal-Marts in Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Rialto and San Bernardino, according to the Democratic Party.
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