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Ontario celebrates awarding of $35 million Transformative Communities grant for Downtown revitalization

The city, community stakeholders and regional leaders are celebrating today’s formal approval of a $35 million grant from the California Strategic Growth Council, which provides a major boost to Ontario’s plans for a modern urban village in and around its historic downtown core.

The Transformative Climate Communities (TCC)  grant follows six years of planning and community engagement, led by the city as part of a broad effort to uplift the downtown area, create new economic opportunities and improve the health and well-being of all residents. Ontario was among three… Read More

Ontario Fire Department Responds to Pallet Fire Next to Business

The Ontario Fire Department responded to a pallet fire next to a business at 2313 S. Baker Avenue.  At 1:23 PM, the Ontario Fire Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting pallets on fire to the rear of the structure.  At 1:28 PM, the first arriving Engine Company found a large column of smoke and fire coming from a storage area behind the building, with flames beginning to impinge on the building.  Fire attack was immediately initiated.  Primary and secondary searches for victims were completed, and no victims were located.  The fire was confined to… Read More

Ontario Museum of History & Art Announces Lunar New Year Exhibit, Reception, and Calligraphy Workshops
A new exhibit, Lunar New Year: Blossoms of Spring will be on view from Thursday, February 8, 2018 to Sunday, March 4, 2018.  The Ontario Museum of History & Art is showcasing the Chinese calligraphy and brush painting of the multiethnic group, Sea of Ink Society, in honor of the Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in China – a combination of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s all rolled into one. The exhibit will be curated by Shantien Tom Chow.
 
The Lunar New Year is the most important traditional Chinese holiday… Read More
Diversity and Inclusion: The Influence of African-American Art in Southern California

The Ontario Museum of History & Art and Guest Curator, Jerry Weems, present Diversity and Inclusion: The Influence of African-American Art in Southern California on exhibit now through Sunday, February 25, 2018. This open call exhibit displays how regional artists are influenced by the raw and expressive beauty of the African-American experience. Visitors will enjoy viewing artwork with a wide range of subject matter and technique.

Diversity and Inclusion features fifty-one artists of different race and ethnic backgrounds who use a… Read More

Bike and Pedestrian Traffic Enforcement

Ontario Police Department will step up Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations on January 16, 2018 with focused enforcement on collision causing factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

The department has mapped out locations over the past three years where pedestrian and bike collisions have occurred along with the violations that led to those crashes. Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas where bike and pedestrian traffic and crashes occur in an effort to lower deaths and injuries.

Officers will be looking for violations made by… Read More

Ontario Youth Pastor Arrested for Lewd Acts with a Minor

Detectives are releasing the booking photograph of Youth Pastor Gerardo Custodio Jr., believing there may be additional victims or witnesses and they are encouraging them to come forward.

Gerardo Custodio Jr. has been the Youth Pastor for many years at the Iglesia La Familia De Dios Church located at 1305 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario. Gerardo Custodio Jr. was away from the church while attending college but has been back since 2011.

His father, Gerardo Custodio Sr. is the Senior Pastor of the church which opened in 1995. On Saturday, January 14, officers interviewed… Read More

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