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Listen To Your News		Tuesday, July 27, 2010		News Archive

FOURTH PERSON SENTENCED IN TWENTYNINE PALMS CHILD CRUELTY CASE
A fourth person found guilty in a two-year-old Twentynine Palms child cruelty case has been sentenced. Cynthia Carranza, 46 pled out to willful cruelty to a child charges during a pre-trial hearing June 11, and was sentenced to 5 years in state prison Friday by Judge David Mazurek. Carranza’s sentencing ends the two year old case that saw Christine Marquez, 58, Edward Garcia, 36, Alejandro Marquez 41, along with Carranza all pleading guilty to various charges after an investigation into child sex crimes against an eleven year old girl. On November 12, 2008, twenty law enforcement officials swarmed a house in Twentynine Palms after a month long probe into the charges. After pleading guilty to willful cruelty to a child, Christine Marquez was sentenced to 10 year and 4 months in state prison, Edward Garcia received 10 years, and Alejandro Marquez received a sentence of 4 years in state prison.

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TWENTYNINE PALMS CITY COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT, HEARING ON GRANITE EXPANSION
The Twentynine Palms City Council meets in both closed and regular session tonight. The council will hold two public hearings, including the expansion of the Granite mining facility east of the city. Reporter Dan Stork outlines the agenda...
The Twentynine Palms City Council meeting on Tuesday July 27th begins with a closed session at 5 p.m. to consider two cases of potential litigation. The open session that begins at 6 p.m.has a consent agenda that includes an item that lays to rest concerns raised in an earlier meeting about licenses held by Marshall Networking, which does some computer equipment contracting for the City. In the first of two public hearings, the Council will hear a proposal for revising a section of the Specific Plan for an area along National Park Drive. The change recommended by the Planning Commission is intended to allow the builder of a particular single-family home to complete that project without jumping through hoops that were devised to control tourist-commercial development. The second hearing deals with a collection of decisions, including acceptance of an environmental impact report and granting a conditional use permit, that will allow the expansion of the mining operation run by Granite Construction to move forward. The meeting will finish up with a discussion of land use moratoriums.

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JOSHUA TREE CLEAN TEAM OUT TOMORROW MORNING
The very hard working members of the Joshua Tree Clean Team, volunteers who get together to clean a specific area of Joshua Tree each month, will be out tomorrow morning. The Clean Team will be meeting tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. at Highway 62 and the Mountain Valley Cemetery. Gloves and tools will be provided and additional volunteers are always welcome.

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YUCCA VALLEY PLANNING COMMISSION MEET, LOOKS AT CELL TOWER AT JOSHUA SPRINGS
The Yucca Valley Planning Commission meets tonight, a request for a cellphone tower and approval for a new gas station are on the agenda. Reporter Tami Roleff takes a closer look...
The Yucca Valley Planning Commission will meet at 7:00 tonight in the Yucca Room of the Community Center. On the agenda, the Commission will hold a public hearing on a conditional use permit for a cell phone tower at Joshua Springs Calvary Chapel and School. Next up, the Commission will hear a request for amendments to and deferrals of the Conditions of Approval for the new AM/PM gas station and convenience store at the southeast corner of Balsa Avenue and Twentynine Palms Highway, that would allow the gas station to open before the required improvements and access to the highway are completed.

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JOSHUA TREE LIBRARY SUMMER READING PROGRAMS THIS WEEK
The Joshua Tree Library Summer Reading Program will feature special programs this week as their Summer Reading program continues. Wednesday at 11:00 a.m., in the John Abrams’ Animal Magic Show, a hilarious, high energy, age appropriate amazing magic show with squeaky-clean zany comedy. In this interactive show young audience members are invited to become a magician’s assistants. For the pre-school and Kindergarten program Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Put on your bathing suit and backstroke down to the library for preschool summer fun as story time cools off with stories, songs and crafts about swimming. There is still time to sign up and be a part of the Joshua Tree Library Summer Reading Program. Program performances will continue through August 4. The Summer Reading Program celebration party and prize drawing will take place on August 11. Call the library for details on how your child can be entered for a chance to win. For more information about the Summer Reading Program please call the Joshua Tree Branch Library at 760-366-8615.

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BIGHORN DESERT VIEW WATER AGENCY MEETS, DIRECTORS WANT $1,200.00 EACH FOR CONFERENCE
The Bighorn Desert View Water Agency Board will meet in regular session tonight. Reporter Mike Lipsitz says the agenda calls for action on a petition from Gubler’s Orchids, a request to give themselves money for a conference, then a look at ethics and conduct at meetings...
The Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency Board of Directors holds its regular meeting at 6 o’clock tonight at the Agency offices located under the big water tower on Cherokee Trail in Landers. Directors will review and consider a number of items which will include the contracting the engineering services, taking action on a petition from Gubler’s Orchids opposing a LAFCO review and update of the Agency’s sphere of influence, the ratifying of an amended Association of California Water Agencies Bylaws and related agreement, and the authorizing of director requests for conference attendance and associated registration fees estimated at $1,200 per person plus expenses. And finally, turning attention inward, the board will consider establishment of codes of ethics and conduct for themselves in conducting agency business. Then, following approval of routine items on the consent agenda, and reports from the President, General Manager, and directors, the board has planned a little merriment in observance of this, the agency’s 20-year anniversary.

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JOSHUA BASIN WATER DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVISORS MEET TONIGHT
The Joshua Basin Water Citizens Committee meets tonight. Managing Editor Karl Gardner checks the agenda...
Joshua Basin Water District’s Citizen’s Advisory Committee meets in regular session this evening at district offices on Chollita Road, starting at 7. After an opportunity for public comment, the committee will discuss emergency preparedness then conduct a review of the district’s website. General Manager’s report and committee comments and reports raps up the remainder of the agenda.

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BRAVO NETWORK FILMING AT YUCCA VALLEY BUSINESS TODAY
Yucca Valley’s very own, Cherish Consignments will be bustling with lights, camera, and action today, as a Bravo Network film crew films scenes for the brand new series, Million Dollar Decorator, a show that will provide a dramatic and exciting look inside the worlds of five of the country’s most celebrated and influential interior designers. Cherish Consignments, known as the pretty little shop on Church Street, offers a lovely selection of ladies fine clothing, accessories, jewelry and of course, home furnishing and décor. Proprietor, Donna Dillard invites the community to come get a sneak peak of the world of show biz and while you’re there, see décor at its finest at Cherish Consignments, 7347 Church street, suite A.

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Neil Derry and Alan Rasmussen

HOMESTEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL PREPARES PACKAGES FOR MARINES Members and supporters of the Homestead Valley Community Council got together yesterday to prepare special packages for marines and sailors deployed to Afghanistan. Reporter Derwood Andrews was there as the local care packages were assembled... At the Yucca Mesa Community Center yesterday the next stage in delivering vital supplies of comfort to our serving Marines came together.

In just one month the collective Homestead Valley Community Council, the HVCC which includes Flamingo Heights, Johnson Valley, Landers and Yucca Mesa organizations, raised over $2000 to buy supplies such as, Lip Balm, Foot Powder, Face Wipes, Beef Jerky and even cards that the troops can send home, and packed it all into 60 packages, helped by County Supervisor Neil Derry and field rep Alan Rasmussen. The response from the public was overwhelming, struggling families and their children gave generously to show our troops on the battlefields, that they are in our thoughts. Rachel Sandlin, the Family Readiness Officer at the base came by to see the local volunteers packing the boxes and said ‘This is a great statement as to the local support of our Marines’.

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