Good morning, San Bernardino.

The Fontana Park Aquatic Center will host its Annual Water Safety Challenge on Saturday, May 24, from noon to 4 p.m. at four local pools — Martin Tudor Splash Park, Don Day Pool, Miller Pool and Heritage Pool — where families will enjoy free swimming, live music, food from a truck and raffle prizes to start the summer swim season.

Artists of color in the Inland Empire are leading a movement that reclaims public spaces using art and community events; figures like Michael Segura, Cam Gnarly, Duan Kellum, and Francis Almendarez use graffiti, music, and screen-printing to share untold stories and ignite local dialogue + inspire change. Their work at venues such as Creative Grounds and the Garcia Center for the Arts builds platforms that reflect personal journeys and the region's layered history.

Roy Juarez Jr.'s IMPACTtruth will host an event on May 5 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the Dorothy Ingham Learning Center to showcase youth who have participated in the Literature to Life initiative and Beyond the Books series — a program that has produced over 300 published works and helps students build leadership and creative writing skills with support from the county school superintendent.

Fontana Unified School District’s Board of Education named Jurupa Hills High School junior Ashley Suarez as its student representative for the 2025-26 school year after an application and interview process on April 23.

She will work with the board to represent 33,000 students—ensuring their voices guide school decisions.

Crafton Hills College students Vanessa Vincent and Sam Tuckett are semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship—467 semifinalists were chosen from over 1,600 applicants—to support their transfer to a four-year university with final winners announced in May.