By STEVE SCAUZILLO | sscauzillo@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Chaffey College will use a $2.9 million state allocation to build a welding training facility at its technical learning center in Fontana, the college announced last week.

In response to community outcry against significant funding reductions to KVCR, the San Bernardino Community College District Trustees reached out to their state representatives for assistance.   The State Legislature came through to save this icon of the Inland Empire.  With the passage of AB 132, a state budget trailer bill dedicated to education funding, KVCR, the broadcast arm of SBCCD, will continue as the only Inland Empire operated public media outlet.  Earlier this year, Majority Leader Eloise Reyes (D-San Bernardino), Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), and Assemblymember Fred