Coastal View News • May 11, 2023

Preserving history

Property owners of the historic downtown building at Wullbrandt Way and Linden Avenue protect one of the city’s popular murals with clear plastic while painting the building on Friday at 2 p.m., as photographed by Joey Interlande. The mural, highlighting the “World’s Safest Beach,” was painted in 2012 by John Wullbrandt and sponsored by Carpinteria Beautiful; it was dedicated in memory of Mayor Ernest Wullbrandt, Carpinteria native and seven-term city councilmember.

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Covid-19 cases as of May 4

Covid-19 cases decrease

The average number of PCR-confirmed Covid-19 cases in Santa Barbara County decreased last week, by 28.2%. Covid-19 community levels remain low in Santa Barbara County; one new death related to Covid-19 was reported last week. It is recommended that everyone six months and older receive an updated, bivalent booster; see more at vaccines.gov.

Yahner opened

Deborah Yahner is the newest addition to Linden Avenue with the opening of her fourth boutique, Ikat & Pearls Boutique, last month. Yahner owns and runs three other boutiques in the area: two in Ventura and one in Ojai.

She told CVN she lived in Santa Barbara for many years and is now “making my way back up the coast.”

“I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “But we’ve been blown away with the amount of niceness, kindness – we literally poured our hearts and our bank accounts into making this space look beautiful (…) Everyone here is so nice.”

Most of the clothes range from $44 to $69, Yahner said, and the boutique has a higher end cashmere line; the store also specializes in comfortable sweatshirts.

“We’re a lifestyle store,” she said. “As shoppers say, ‘We love this,’ we (adapt)… I hope everyone locally will come and check us out!”

The store is open every day from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Yahner said the hours will change over the summer. To learn more, visit the store at 933 Linden Ave. or call (805) 448-9526.

Trash pickup postponed due to Memorial Day

Trash collection in Carpinteria will be postponed one day due to the Memorial Day holiday. E.J. Harrison & Sons will collect Carpinteria refuse on Friday, June 2; regular collection will resume the following week. For more information, see ejharrison.com.

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Family Baptist to celebrate 70th anniversary

The Family Baptist Church of Carpinteria – formerly known as the First Baptist Church of Carpinteria – will celebrate its 70th anniversary next week, from May 19 – 21. The church first began as a Vacation Bible School Mission on July 6, 1952; after locals purchased another property, the mission was then organized as a church on May 17, 1952 at 3 p.m. On June 3, 1953, the church voted to incorporate as a nonprofit.

The church’s 70th anniversary celebrations will start on Friday, May 19 from 6-8 p.m.; continue on Saturday, May 20 from 2-5 p.m.; and finish on Sunday, May 21 from 10 a.m. – noon.

The church is located at 5026 Foothill Rd. in Carpinteria. See more at fbccarpinteria. org or by calling (805) 684-3353.

Community Resource & Engagement Fair: May 20

The city will host a community resource and engagement fair on Saturday, May 20, from 10 a.m. – noon at Aliso Elementary School, titled “Together We Thrive,” for residents of Carpinteria Districts 1 and 2.

The fair will offer food, lively music and crafts; local businesses, city departments and community organizations will discuss their jobs and organizations and answer questions. A fire truck will also be present for kids to check out.

“Through the districts 1 and 2 event, an extension of our Neighbor-to-Neighbor program, we aim to bring local resources, city information, and elected officials closer to our community. Together We Thrive provides a wonderful opportunity for residents to ask questions, meet city staff, and forge new connections with neighbors, fostering a stronger sense of camaraderie within Carpinteria,” Vice Mayor Natalia Alarcon said Monday.

Aliso Elementary School is located at 4545 Carpinteria Ave.

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Search for new city manager hits snag

BY EVELYN SPENCE

Although the Carpinteria City Council had previously approved an agreement with Regional Government Services (RGS) to conduct the search for a new city manager, city staff said Monday RGS is no longer able to perform the work.

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Moms Demand Action urges adoption of Carpinteria safe storage ordinance

Several members of local gun-control group Moms Demand Action spoke at Monday night’s council meeting, urging the Carpinteria City Council to adopt a safe storage gun ordinance. A safe storage ordinance would require all guns in a residence be kept “securely stored” in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock.

Citing recent ordinances adopted across California and in Goleta, members urged the council to help keep kids and communities safe from gun violence.

The city is searching for a replacement for City Manager Dave Durflinger, who is set to retire at the end of the year.

The council elected to form a new ad-hoc committee consisting of the Vice Mayor Natalia Alarcon and Mayor Al Clark to identify other consultants. The committee will dissolve on Jan. 30, 2024, or until the work is done.

“(Picking) the city manager is going to be the most important thing we do this year, and maybe for many years,” Mayor Clark said Monday. “We need to take the time to do the job adequately.”

This matter will come back to the council.

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“We believe the second amendment can be respected while simultaneously protecting people through commonsense gun legislation,” commenter Carly Bass said. “I have been a Carpinteria resident for over 13 years. I have two school-aged children. I am a responsible gun owner who stores their guns safely.”

Commenter Aja Forner also cited several statistics involving the dangers of unsecured guns.

“Research shows that keeping guns securely stored does not hinder self-protection. A gun can be accessed within seconds – but it does prevent unintentional deaths of children and teen suicides by as much as 85% depending on the type of storage,” Forner said. “A DOJ-approved safe storage can be obtained for as little as $40, so the cost is not prohibitive.”

Former first responder Caroline Campopiano also spoke, emphasizing “it is the responsibility of the adult to prevent unsupervised access to guns.”

“I have watched life drain from a gunshot victim’s eyes. I am also the mother of a vivacious five-year-old girl who, along with the rest of her generation, deserves to go to school without fear of a mass

shooting or other tragedy due to guns found in the wrong hands,” she said.

Councilmembers requested staff put a resolution on a future agenda for consideration.

In other city news… Council extends temporary formula businesses ban

The council voted Monday to extend the temporary formula businesses ban, which bans new formula businesses within the city of Carpinteria except in limited places, such as the Casitas Plaza and Shepard Place Shops. The temporary moratorium is set to expire in June 2024.

According to city legal counsel Mack Carlson, the city’s permanent ordinance is now in the hands of the Coastal Commission; the city expects to bring back the second reading of a permanent ordinance back to council for review soon.

City approves several proclamations

Friends of the Carpinteria Library, a used bookstore pictured in 2018, requested a rent decrease from the city on Monday.

Friends of the Carpinteria Library requests rent decrease

The council gave the go ahead for city staff to open lease negotiations with the nonprofit Friends of the Carpinteria Library, a small used bookstore at 5103 Carpinteria Ave., also known as the Seaside building. Proceeds from the bookstore go back to helping the Carpinteria Community Library.

Friends of the Carpinteria Library rents the property from the city of Carpinteria; currently, the group is paying $1,300 a month in rent to the city, according to Parks and Recreation Director Matt Roberts. The Friends of the Carpinteria Library group has requested a decreased rent to $1 per year, to further support the library’s funding.

The $1,300 a month rent currently covers the city’s “hard costs” – maintenance, window washing, janitorial,

water, etc. Decreasing the business’ rent would not be impactful on the city’s finances, according to Roberts.

“Staff is generally ambivalent in the way it reflects on the city’s finances,” he said. “This might generate more support (of the library) … It will leave a deficient in the operating budget (but) it really does matter to the city from a bottom-line perspective.”

Speaker Gabby Edwards said “every dime” the bookstore makes goes back to the library. According to Edwards, there are more than 60 seniors who volunteer at the bookstore.

“We want Matt to think we’re being stingy by not paying rent anymore, but it just seems like all of our financial focus should be on supporting the library,” Edwards said.

The council approved several proclamations on Monday, recognizing Charles Lo Bue for his years of contribution to the city; honoring the Family Baptist Church on its 70th anniversary; designating May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; and naming May 2023 as Community Action Month, on CommUnify’s 56th anniversary.

Special City Meeting: May 15

The Carpinteria City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday, May 15 at 5:30 p.m. at Carpinteria City Hall to discuss the Rincon Multi-Use Path. Carpinteria City Hall is located at 5775 Carpinteria Ave.

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“I have watched life drain from a gunshot victim’s eyes. I am also the mother of a vivacious five-year-old girl who, along with the rest of her generation, deserves to go to school without fear of a mass shooting or other tragedy due to guns found in the wrong hands.”

– Caroline Campopiano

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Members of Carpinteria’s Moms Demand Action chapter spoke at city council on Monday, urging the city to adopt a safe storage gun ordinance.

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Library launches adult English tutoring program Program seeks volunteers; training scheduled for June

BY JUN STARKEY

The Carpinteria Community Library recently launched an Adult Literacy tutoring program, which provides oneon-one tutoring for adults looking to learn English. The program is seeking additional tutors for the growing number of students; a tutor training event will be held in June for those interested.

The library launched program three months ago, according to the library’s community outreach librarian Eric Castro. Students and tutors meet in the library at 5 p.m. on Mondays and review vocabulary or work on conversational skills. Currently the program has eight students and six tutors, with two tutors working seasonally in the summer.

The process begins with an initial meeting between the student and tutor, to establish where students are at in their comprehension. The pair then go over their goals for learning English. After this meeting, the tutor and student will begin holding regular sessions, meeting in public places. The library also provides all necessary materials.

The majority of students are local, working parents, Castro said, who make time in between working and taking care of their families to meet with tutors. Some students work in pairs, with their significant other, a family member or another student. Tutors are provided with ESL workbooks to guide lessons, but they also help students work on real-world situations.

“Many mothers say they want to help their children with homework,” Castro said. Some students have asked tutors

to rehearse conversations for doctor’s appointments or trips to the bank, to ensure their concerns are properly addressed. Other students have asked tutors to rehearse business conversations, to practice discussing pricing and services with clients.

“It’s an hour a week for me but when I leave, I feel really good about it,” said tutor Donna Treloar, who has been with the program since February. Treloar said she has been learning Spanish for less than three years. Many of the tutors are not fluent or longtime speakers, Castro said, although he said this doesn’t impact the tutor’s ability to teach.

“It’s not about the tutor, it’s about the learner,” Castro said. There is no limit to how long a tutor and student can work together, and Castro said in his experience, he has seen student and tutor relationships last for years. Conversation is an essential part of retaining a new language, according to Castro.

Santa Barbara City College also provides adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classes through the Carpinteria Children’s Project, Castro said, which currently has about 25 students. Ideally, he said, the library would have enough tutors to serve each of those students, and then some.

Potential tutors don’t have to be fluent in their students’ native language to teach English, Castro said. Tutors should only be ready, willing and patient, and understand that not all students learn the same, or learn at the same pace, he explained.

The library will hold its tutor training event on Saturday, June 24, from noon to 4 p.m.

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Tutors and students in the Adult Literacy Program work together at the Carpinteria Community Library.

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Downtown needs to open up space

I am writing to voice an opinion about the outdoor dining set up on the street and sidewalks on Linden. I just wanted to say that I think it’s time to put the streets and sidewalks of Carpinteria back to the way it was before the pandemic.

Parking and sidewalk space are needed for parking and walking, especially with summer crowds arriving soon. Downtown construction is also taking away more valuable space. I’m pretty sure the president announced the pandemic is officially over. Let’s go forward by getting back to the way things were.

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Leah Harding’s “Wellness Warrior” article in a recent Coastal View News (CVN Vol. 29, No. 33) on “staying fit while dealing with an injury” left out another option. How about cannabis cream? Carpinteria company Autumn Brands makes a great cannabis-infused salve that helps sore muscles and joints. A little goes a long way. Support Carpinterians.

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Dogs are good for business, health

In last week’s CVN (Vol. 29, No. 33) Van Fleisher wrote about the absence of a dog park in Carpinteria – either because of indifference, inaction or even possibly conflicting interests – that affects the people of Carpinteria. Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General included findings that loneliness and isolation are as detrimental to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, a condition during Covid-19 that the El Carro off-leash hours helped prevent for many dog owners. But since that arrangement was problematic for some neighbors, the city council promised to find an alternative location. That was five months ago. So far, it has done absolutely nothing in that regard!

Our residents’ mental health is not the only thing that has been affected. The lack of a dog park impacts our businesses as well. When I travel, I use the Bring Fido link to guide me to areas, hotels and restaurants that welcome dogs, and I’m not the only one! More and more people travel with their dogs. I recently received an article from the Discoverer Blog listing the top 10 dog beaches in the U.S. We may have the safest beach, but certainly not the most welcoming if you have a dog. San Diego, Coronado and San Francisco all have dog beach areas listed in the top 10, and that listing will bring in more business.

Bring Fido lists just 10 restaurants in Carpinteria that allow dogs. There are more than that, but only 10 have listed themselves. Santa Barbara lists 86, Ventura has 53 and even Ojai lists 14. But of course, they have dog parks where you can walk and let your dogs play after your meal.

The bottom line is dogs are good for business! It is nothing but short-sighted to deprive our town of this recreational facility.

Jackie Morris Carpinteria

I am following up my last month’s article regarding the unusual amount of methamphetamine arrests in our community.

The drug arrests reported in the CVN “Commander’s Recap” section just seems so out of proportion to our small town that I went to a city council meeting to seek some answers. They were mostly silent on the subject except for district two councilperson Natalia Alarcon, who suggested some possible recommendations to Police Chief Ugo Arnoldi. I am not sure if the council or even the police can do anything else than what they are already doing.

I asked our police chief Arnoldi for his take on the whole situation, and he responded that the arrest ration is about half local residents and half from mostly out of county. Methamphetamine is both cheap and easily accessible. He went on to say that the criminal justice system is swamped, and the courts are behind schedule because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the reason why many are merely cited and not held accountable for their actions and placed in rehabilitation for their addictions.

He also told me the police department is very proactive in its traffic and drug enforcement as many traffic stops result in narcotics arrests. The most important thing that he said was that the relationship between the public and law enforcement needs to be one of transparency and open communications as well as a collaborative effort.

Our local police appear to be doing the best it can with limited resources. The sad truth is that the U.S. is the largest consumer of illicit drugs in the world. If you couple that with being the most armed nation in the world, what can go wrong?

Bob Franco Carpinteria

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Commonsense gun safety measures are needed to reduce suicide rates

BY BECKI NORTON

Editor’s Note: May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Older Americans Month. This four-week series, from HopeNet of Carpinteria, will focus on mental health awareness and mental health resources in the Carpinteria and Santa Barbara areas.

Mental illness and suicide both continue to carry a lot of stigma in our society. To reduce this and make positive changes around this difficult problem, we need to have the uncomfortable conversation about mental illness and excessive gun deaths by suicide. Then we need to take immediate and constructive actions at both the personal and legislative levels to address the issue.

More than half of gun-related deaths in the United States (54% in 2021) are suicides, according to the Pew Research Center. This is a very sobering and shocking statistic. We would all like to reduce this statistic significantly.

First, we need to stop polarizing the gun violence issue with “it’s just guns,” “it’s just mental illness” rhetoric. Reframing the problem leads to viable solutions.

Access to firearms is certainly not the sole risk factor for suicide – but it is a very big one.

Experts show the combination of mental illness, impulsive action in a moment of passion, easy accessibility of guns in many households and their instantly lethal nature are the true causes of this ongoing tragedy.

In addition to immediate access to quality mental health treatment, there is a true need for common sense gun control to reduce suicide rates.

Other potentially lethal objects and substances (cars, drugs, tobacco and alcohol) are regulated; as such, it is logical to pursue gun control.

Effective gun control measures include “red flag” laws (which help keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who are a proven danger to themselves or others), removing guns from homes when family members are experiencing a mental health crisis, safe firearm storage and background checks.

Data show that states with the strongest gun laws have fewer firearm deaths. Former California State Assemblymem-

ber (and current First District County Supervisor) Das Williams helped craft and pass one of the nation’s first “red flag” laws in 2016: the Gun Violence Restraining Order measure. This temporarily prohibits individuals at high risk of violence from purchasing or possessing firearms, ammunition and magazines. Key informants such as police and first responders have found the law to be effective, particularly for preventing firearm suicide.

Congressman Salud Carbajal has taken several actions around gun safety and reducing gun violence. He helped pass the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law in June 2022. This act includes an Extreme Risk Provisions Protection Order for states to create and administer red flag laws. Carbajal is also sponsoring H.R. 660 (Ethan’s Law), which establishes a framework to regulate safe storage of firearms in homes for the protection of minors who may access them without permission. He also co-sponsored H.R. 715, the bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2023. This bill requires every sale of a firearm include a background check. There is an urgent need for widespread collaboration amongst gun owners, mental health experts and advocates, local residents, public health officials and local politicians to take further effective action on this matter.

Becki Norton is a retired school psychologist and the HopeNet of Carpinteria secretary. HopeNet of Carpinteria is a grassroots organization whose vision is to improve the mental wellness of Carpinteria residents and lessen the number of attempted and completed suicides in our community through support, advocacy and information about mental health resources. Visit hopenetofcarp.org or contact hopenetofcarp@gmail.com.

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TERESA ALVAREZ

My stomach was in knots, my palms started to sweat and my chest felt like it was crushing me. I’d felt like this almost every day for months. Some days, my anxiety was so crippling that I’d wake up in a panic, sob uncontrollably and struggle to breathe. It got to the point where my husband and kids were frightened of my panic attacks. I knew then I had to do something to help me feel better.

I have my master’s degree in psychology, so I’ve never shied away from speaking about mental health, and this was no different. When I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and prescribed medication, I immediately felt relief – I was taking matters into my own hands. I also felt vulnerable but brave. I never thought I’d be on medication but was open to the idea. I always thought that because of my clinical training, I knew what coping mechanisms worked for me, but it got to the point where that wasn’t enough. I could no longer do it alone and needed to care for myself to be present for my husband and kids. Often a long day at work would stress me out to the point of irritability with my children, and it wasn’t fair to them. I’d be left feeling guilty and upset, and that would then stress me more; it was a never-ending cycle.

Almost two years later, I am no longer using the medication. Honestly, I feared not being on it because I was unsure I could trust my brain. I continue with my therapy sessions and learning to identify my triggers. The medication helped me see more clearly and feel more deeply to

become more aware of my body and my responses to each situation that caused me stress and overwhelmed me.

Every day is not perfect; I’m still learning and unlearning some things. Some days are easier than others, but I’m grateful for each and every one. My husband has learned how to support me, and my kids and I openly discuss our emotions. It’s been a journey, but I’m glad we have each other to lean on.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I encourage you to take steps if you need strategies to support your mental health. Contact our Family Resource Center if you’re seeking help at frcstaff@ carpchildren.org. We all struggle – you’re definitely not alone!

Teresa Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Carpinteria Children’s Project. She has over a decade of experience in the nonprofit field and a passion for helping children and families. Teresa was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and moved to the U.S. with her parents at age two. Growing up as an undocumented student, she learned the importance of having mentors, a strong work ethic, and the value of education. Teresa holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UCSB and a master’s degree in psychology from Antioch Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the Future Leaders of America board and is a founding member of the Santa Barbara Latino Giving Circle. Teresa loves to travel, read and chase after her two boys.

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Access to firearms is certainly not the sole risk factor for suicide – but it is a very big one.

Every day is not perfect; I’m still learning and unlearning some things. Some days are easier than others, but I’m grateful for each and every one.

The author holds onto a sign from the county advertising the “Light Up Green” campaign for Mental Health May; residents are encouraged to put up green signs or green lights over the next month.

Longtime CUSD teacher retires after 45 years

Jacquelyn Geary worked at CMS, Canalino and more

BY MELEA MAGLALANG

In the fall of 1975, Jacquelyn Geary took her first steps into her teaching career. Nearly 50 years later, the Carpinteria Middle School P.E. teacher is retiring.

Throughout her 45 years of teaching, Geary – better known as “Ms. G” –worked at nearly all schools within the district, including Carpinteria Middle School, Carpinteria High School and her first placement, Canalino Elementary School.

After receiving her teaching credentials from UC Santa Barbara when she was 24, an advisor told Geary that her opportunities would be limited if she chose to stay in Carpinteria. However, Geary started as a kindergarten teacher at Canalino later that fall.

“Little did I think that I was gonna get a job in Carp because at the placement office, the woman just said, ‘You’re really limiting yourself.’ So, I feel it was meant to be that I’d be in Carpinteria,” Geary said. Four years into her career, Geary began coaching for the high school girls varsity softball team. Geary had no coaching experience, and during her first year, the team was known as the “bad news bears,” which motivated her to continue coaching despite telling herself she would only do it for one year.

“I vowed to get better. I said, ‘Next year, I’m gonna do better because if people were laughing at my teams this year, they’re gonna laugh with us next year,’” she said.

“We actually went from bad news bears in ‘79 to taking the league championship in ‘85 in a very, very competitive league.”

Geary coached for 18 years, and the experience looms large in her heart, as she watched her athletes grow up. “The beautiful thing with softball is you get to know them really well. The girls were like little sisters, and then their parents were amazing. And so that was a very rich time of my years,” she said. “Those girls are now women with their own children playing sports and going to college, and I’m friends with them.”

In 2012, Geary retired from teaching, but two years later, she returned to the field to teach P.E. at Aliso Elementary School. She taught the children how to play Four Square, organized spaces for games on the playground and filled gopher holes on the field.

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“It went beyond just teaching P.E., but I loved it because it kept me physically active and in good shape,” she said.

Three years later, Geary was invited to the middle school and taught the afterschool program, which would be her last position within the district.

Geary wants to remind her students to focus on their grades so they could have successful futures and to always remember to surround themselves with good people. For the parents, she emphasized the importance of creating space for family time.

“These students have been amazing.

We don’t have a lot of them, but the ones we do have, have good hearts,” she said.

After retirement, Geary plans to stay active in the community by looking into local volunteer opportunities. She reflected on not only the impact teaching had on her life but also the connections she formed with others.

“You don’t realize the impact sometimes as a teacher that you make and when students come back and give you that hug, it’s just, that’s worth it. It’s not even about the money. It’s about the rewards that you feel,” Geary said.

“I’m going out a winner.”

“You don’t realize the impact sometimes as a teacher that you make, and when students come back and give you that hug, it’s just, that’s worth it. It’s not even about the money. It’s about the rewards that you feel.”

– Jacquelyn Geary

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Jacquelyn Geary’s students celebrated her retirement with a handmade sign, full of “thank you” notes.

Jacquelyn Geary (top row in red) celebrated her last year of teaching with her students at Carpinteria Middle School earlier this month.

From left: Superintendent Diana Rigby and Jacquelyn Geary

Carpinteria Unified School District promotion and graduation ceremonies are scheduled for June 7 and June 8.

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responsible for making sure nutritious food is offered to students is a hero, and this day was specially designed to show appreciation for their valuable and important contributions to students’ well-being. We appreciate Chef Michelle Hernandez and her food services team.

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DIANA RIGBY CUSD SUPERINTENDENT

Teacher Appreciation Week, or National Teacher Appreciation Week – May 8 through May 12 – is a week-long celebration in recognition of teachers and the contributions they make to education and society. It is held in the first full week of May of every year and provides an opportunity for the school community to show their appreciation for all the hard work done by teachers. Tuesday in Teacher Appreciation Week is designated as Teacher Appreciation Day. Our teachers deserve heartfelt gratitude for their continuous adaptation, creativity and flexibility to ensure all students are successfully learning during this school year. Thank you, Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) teachers – we appreciate you!

National Principal’s Day is celebrated on May 1 each year. The day acknowledges the valuable work performed by our principals and vice principals. It recognizes the contributions made by frontline leaders who interact daily with students, staff, parents and community members. Thank you to CUSD principals and assistant principals Gerardo Cornejo, Kirsten Neumann and Jeremiah Sobenes at Carpinteria High School (CHS); Lisa O’Shea and Ricardo Cota at Carpinteria Middle School (CMS); Jamie Persoon at Canalino Elementary and Carpinteria Family School (CFS); Brett Weiberg at Aliso Elementary School; and Shannon Colson, teacher in charge at Summerland Elementary School.

National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding of the role of school nurses in the educational setting. School Nurse Day is celebrated on Wednesday, May 10; we recognize CUSD school nurse, Kristina Calamia, for her excellent health care that she provides our students and their families.

School Lunch Hero Day is held annually on the first Friday in May in honor of each person responsible for providing breakfast and lunches to millions of children across America. Each staff member

Congratulations to CHS student athletes for their winning Spring season with postseason play for track & field, swim, tennis, softball and baseball. Citrus Coast League Championships were won by girls’ track & field and boys’ swim teams.

Congratulations to Canalino/CFS fourth- and fifth-grade students for winning first place in the Countywide Battle of the Books. On May 31, DLI students will participate in the Spanish Battle of the Books.

Second Interim Report and Analysis

As required by Education Code Section 42131, the Santa Barbara County Education Offi ce has reviewed CUSD Second Interim Budget Report and notified the State Department of Education and the State Controller that CUSD has filed a positive certification. CUSD will be able to meet its financial obligations for the current and two subsequent fiscal years while maintaining the required minimum level Reserve for Economic Uncertainties.

CAASPP State Testing

Annually, CUSD administers the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments to students in grades three through 11 for English Language Arts and Mathematics during May and June. The California Science Test (CAST) is required for students in grades five and eight and once in grades 10, 11 or 12. The California Alternate Assessment for ELA and Mathematics is for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who are unable to participate in the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments. The primary purpose of the CAASPP System is to assist teachers, administrators, students and parents by promoting high-quality teaching and learning through the use of a variety of assessment approaches and item types. The CAASPP-CalEdFacts web page provides a more detailed overview of the tests.

Diana Rigby is the superintendent of Carpinteria Unified School District. For more information about CUSD, log on to cusd.net, or contact Diana at drigby@cusd.net or (805) 684-4511x222.

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I miss your hand reaching for mine, quick kisses, your kindness and caring, dedication to so many and most of all, me. You are so missed, appreciated and loved. Love, Rosa

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Amid the cannabis glut, growers are pulling out

Pt. 2 of 2

BY MELINDA BURNS

Editor’s Note: Pt. 1 of “Amid the cannabis glut, growers are pulling out” ran in CVN Vol. 29, No. 33.

The bread and butter of the cannabis taxation system in Santa Barbara County is its 4% tax on gross sales receipts, or gross income, from cultivation. But because it relies on self-reporting, the deficiencies have been glaring. The county’s quarterly tax reports show that many growers routinely report zero receipts or fail to report at all.

The Santa Barbara County Treasurer-Tax Collector will spend $522,000 this fiscal year to conduct audits of cannabis growers. The county’s taxes on gross receipts range from 1% for nursery plants to 6% for retail cannabis.

“I’m constantly frustrated by the gross receipts tax,” said Supervisor Bob Nelson, whose district includes part of the Sta. Rita Hills, a federally designated American Viticultural Area. “I’ve always desired something that would reduce complexity and increase transparency. I want us to get out of the auditing business. We have had to build all this infrastructure to try to make sure we’re catching people.

“We have a lot of really good operators in the county, and we also absolutely have some not-so-great operators that are avoiding taxes by moving product around and selling it back to themselves at different numbers.”

A change to a cannabis tax based on the square footage of the “canopy” of the plants under cultivation – the most widespread tax system in use in the California – would guarantee a larger and more predictable revenue stream, Brittany Odermann, principal analyst for cannabis in the County Executive Office, told the board. It also would discourage operators with permits from not growing any cannabis, she said.

A rough estimate of revenues based on square footage of cannabis under cultivation if, say, the county imposed a

tax of 60 cents per square foot of Carpinteria greenhouse cannabis and 30 cents per square foot for outdoor cannabis in the North County – within the range of what other counties are assessing – Santa Barbara County might see tax revenues of $19 million yearly, Odermann said.

Under that scenario, she said, a typical outdoor operation, at 60 acres, would pay $588,000 per year in tax revenues; a 25-acre outdoor operation would pay $245,000; and a typical greenhouse operation, at five acres, would pay $98,000.

“No perfect answer”

Yet across California, some counties that base their cannabis tax collection on the square footage of “grows” have significantly reduced their rates, Odermann said. Some, she said, are considering at least partially adopting a system like Santa Barbara County’s to capture market fluctuations. Yolo and Santa Cruz counties rely on a gross receipts system, and they are sticking with it even as growers are pulling out.

“Nobody’s happy right now with the state of cannabis tax revenues,” Odermann told the board. “It’s not so much how they’re being collected; it’s really about the market and the inability of the legal market to take hold. There’s no perfect answer here.”

Humboldt County, which regularly trades places with Santa Barbara County as No. 1 in the state for active cannabis cultivation licenses, has suspended its tax rates altogether for cannabis cultivation for two years, Odermann said.

“The market is down,” she said. “Is that the way it’s going to be forever? I don’t necessarily think so. The people who know what they’re doing are going to stick with it and there’s going to be revenue there.”

Other counties are looking into building hybrid tax systems based on gross receipts and the square footage of cannabis operations, Odermann said, adding, “Many of these jurisdictions are finding that more flexibility they can build into

Regrowing the Franklin Trail

their ordinance to account for these market fluctuations, the better off they are.”

The board may want to consider assessing a minimum tax based on square footage, together with a tax based on gross receipts beyond that minimum and make annual adjustments to keep up with the market, Odermann said. There’s no precedent for such a model, she said, adding, “to date, there hasn’t really been an industry standard for indexing.”

The only public comment at the April 21 hearing came from Joe Armendariz, a cannabis industry consultant who said Humboldt County got it right.

“Good grief,” he said, “… the cannabis industry is in a severe recession … To contemplate raising taxes on our beleaguered cannabis industry would just be counterproductive.”

Melinda Burns is an investigative journalist with 40 years of experience covering immigration, water, science and the environment. As a community service, she offers her report to multiple publications in Santa Barbara County, at the same time, for free.

“Nobody’s happy right now with the state of cannabis tax revenues (…) It’s not so much how they’re being collected; it’s really about the market and the inability of the legal market to take hold. There’s no perfect answer here.”

– principal analyst for cannabis Brittany Odermann

MELINDA BURNS

SFS Farms abandoned plans for 87 acres of cannabis on this property off Highway 246 last month; since the county started tracking withdrawals last fall, growers countywide have walked away from plans for about 285 acres of cannabis.

COURTESY PHOTOS

From left, locals Candi Burquez, Susan Anderson and Vincente Lopez ready to plant trees on Sunday at the Franklin Trail; at right, their trees are marked with unique signage, each with the planters’ names. Lopez began planting seeds from a California Live Oak Tree at the bottom of the Franklin Trail after the Thomas Fire burned down many of the trees, Burquez told CVN. Several have been planted in the area over the last year, with more plantings scheduled. “Vicente is the true rock star behind this project and is constantly maintaining the trail, putting in lots of long hours and hard work on his own,” Burquez said.

The view from the pilot seat of a Huey

Editor’s Note: The Vietnam Veterans of America Local Chapter 218 is looking for a home for a local Huey helicopter. The helicopter has made appearances at several parades and events in the area since the chapter acquired it in 1993. According to Maureen McFadden, the “‘bird’ means so much more to our members because to all the men and women in VVA Chapter 218, this Huey is family.”

The author of the below piece, Joe Danely, was a VVA218 member and U.S. Army helicopter pilot. He achieved the rank of captain, served five years on active duty and did two tours in Vietnam: Sept. ‘65 – Aug. ‘66 and Oct. ‘67 – June ‘68.

To learn more about Huey and the campaign to find the helicopter a home, visit vvachapter218.org/huey or call Huey pilot Ed Foster at (805) 770-0979.

BY JOE DANELY

The venerable Huey helicopter is probably the most recognized icon of the Vietnam war. Its distinctive whomp, whomp, whomp sound of the rotor blades is well known and revered by almost every one of the seven million veterans who served in Vietnam.

As one of more than 100,000 Vietnam helicopter pilots and crew members, I have a lot of love for the Huey! We carried troops into battle, resupplied them with food, water and ammo, evacuated them to life saving hospitals and lifted them out when the battle was over. Huey tirelessly carried us over rivers, rice paddies, beaches, villages, mountains and deltas, into and out of pick-up zones and landing zones, mountain tops and river valleys, whether in daytime or pitch-black night!

The Huey came in several variations, as a troop-carrying ship, a medevac air ambulance, an armed gunship or an attack helicopter. They were flown mostly by young men in their late teens, twenties and thirties. They could, and would, fly in the dustiest conditions, the muddiest conditions, through rainstorms, monsoons, fog and smoke. Of course, always depending on that trusty bird, the UH-1 Huey, to bring them home at the end of the day.

Oh, let’s not forget the “gun pilots.” They could swagger with the best of ‘em! They flew Huey gunships and the Huey Cobra attack helicopters. It was a little unset-

tling when they would “hose down” the tree line of a landing zone with machine guns and unguided rockets, keeping the bad guys’ heads down as we landed and unloaded but, damn, they were good, and we trusted them! Still gives me chills thinking about it.

Now, most Vietnam vets are in their 70s and 80s. Yes, we may shuffle when we walk, some even need a walker or a wheelchair. But get us next to a Huey at an airshow, or parade, or museum, and it takes us right back to a time when we were young and invincible “hot sticks” in our kerosene powered steeds of steel, fiberglass and aluminum charging through the skies of Vietnam! Heck,

even now that I’m half deaf and blind, I can still spot a Huey in the air a mile away! Would I like to see one displayed here in Santa Barbara? Do we need a Huey on display here to honor those who flew and rode in them? You bet!

We have a lot of Vietnam veterans in Santa Barbara. We have a Huey here now. We need a person, a group, an organization to help make this happen. We know the Huey needs a lot of TLC and cosmetic touch up, but it’s a perfect candidate to display. Support your local Veterans and let’s give this Huey a home here in the county. C’mon Santa Barbara!

COURTESY PHOTO

Joe Danely, a VVA218 member and U.S. Army helicopter pilot, shaves with the help of an emergency signal mirror in Vietnam near the end of his first tour in 1966.

The Lions Club of Carpinteria has selected new officers, who will take over July 1. Incoming officers are, from left, Rolando Mia (third vice president), Barry Brand (first vice president), Matt Dawson (current president), David Hayman (incoming president), Ron Tito (membership chairperson), Clyde Freeman (treasurer), Carlos Brens (secretary), Ken Towers (director), Robert Shroll (tail twister), Carl Van Wingerden (lion tamer), Gene Wanek (director), Lucas Seehof (director) and Chris Jones (director).

CVN Girls Inc. tackles period poverty for Girls Inc. Week

CLUB SCENE

COMPILED BY JUN STARKEY | COURTESY PHOTOS

Lions Club of Carpinteria selects incoming officers

The Lions Club of Carpinteria has selected new officers for the upcoming year, which will begin on July 1, including incoming Club President David Hayman. Other incoming officers include Barry Brand, first vice president; Ray Lane, second vice president; Rolando Mia, third vice president; Carlos Brens, club secretary; Clyde Freeman, club treasurer; Ron Tito, membership chairperson; Carl Van Wingerden, lion tamer; Robert Shroll, tail twister; two year directors Lucas Seehof and Chris Jones; and one year directors Ken Towers and Gene Wanek.

ON THE ROAD

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria will be celebrating Girls Inc. Week from May 8 to May 12, celebrated across the United States and in Canada, and will include several days of activities centered around menstrual equity.

“Access to menstrual products is a basic necessity, but current barriers make it difficult for some people to fully participate in school, work, and society,” the organization wrote in a press release. “This Girls Inc. Week, we will work to uplift this issue and do our part to combat period poverty and advance menstrual equity for all.”

Each day during Girls Inc. Week, the organization will partner with a local business to put on an event, including Westerlay Orchids, Rincon Brewery, Corktree Cellars, the Alcazar Theatre and Dirt Botanicals. Events will include creating flower arrangements, happy hours, yoga and a movie screening.

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria also has an Amazon wishlist with menstrual products available, which will be distributed to community members through the group’s 24/7 free access community pantry. Those interested in contributing may access the wishlist to donate.

CVN sees the sights in India

Carpinteria resident Richard Allgaier poses with his copy of CVN outside the Statue of Equality near Hyderabad, India. The statue depicts the 11th-century Indian philosopher Ramanuja.

Students perform in the Los Volcanes youth band, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Carpinteria and the Santa Barbara/Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee.

Rotary International Project focuses on Mexican youth band

The Rotary Club of Carpinteria’s international 2023 project will focus on a music program in Los Volcanes, Mexico, near Puerto Vallarta. The club has been supporting the youth group for two years; it is also sponsored by the Santa Barbara/Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee. The youth band has more than 50 members, and the group plans to use funds to purchase new instruments, music stands and a sound system.

Rotary Morning Club hears from Sanitary District

The Rotary Club of Carpinteria Morning recently heard from Craig Murray, the general manager of the Carpinteria Sanitary District, about the history of the sanitary district and a joint water conservation project with Carpinteria Valley Water District.

During the meeting, Murray also reviewed the club’s goals for the district’s new building, which was completed in September 2022. Goals for the new building included building a sustainable structure that reduced its carbon footprint.

Murray also told club members about the district’s joint project with Carpinteria Valley Water District, referred to as the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project (CAPP). Once fully operational, CAPP will help produce 25% of the water used in Carpinteria.

Contact Rebecca Griffin at rgrgriffin@aol.com to learn more about the Rotary Club of Carpinteria Morning.

Exchange student reflects on time in Carpinteria Rotary Club hopes to expand Carpinteria exchange program

BY GILLIAN FLATH

As the Rotary Clubs of Carpinteria’s first exchange student prepares to finish off her sophomore year, Anna Lucan of Austria said she is glad to have been able to live in Carpinteria. She came to Carpinteria in August and has been an exchange student in the area for eight months now.

“The U.S. was always my first choice since I wanted to improve my English to a very high level,” she said. “My dream location was California, but you don’t get to choose your city. So, I was really lucky when I got assigned to Carpinteria.”

Through the program, Carpinteria’s three Rotary clubs – Rotary Club of Carpinteria Morning, Rotary Club of Carpinteria Noon and Rotary Club of Carpinteria Sunset – can host international exchange students, such as Lucan, for a full school year.

Lucan may have been the first to come to Carpinteria through Rotary Youth Exchange Program, but according to former Carpinteria Mayor and current City Councilmember Wade Nomura, the club’s experience worldwide with exchange students has been very successful. Local residents volunteer to host students for three months at a time.

“We are finally starting to see more ambassadors coming in,” Nomura told CVN. “We plan on increasing the program with the success that we have had through Anna, and we will hopefully see more ambassadors going out now.”

Lucan’s first host parent, Kristina Calkins, said hosting students from different countries acts as a cultural learning experience for Rotary families.

“Carpinteria did something really amazing in that we have three Rotary clubs in town: Rotary morning, noon, and sunset,” Calkins explained to CVN. “We split hosting an exchange student so that each club had the student for three months, and I started them off in the fall

Anna Lucan, 15, came to Carpinteria eight months ago through the Rotary International Exchange Program.

with Anna.”

With the success of the program’s first year, the Carpinteria Rotary clubs are anticipating the expansion of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, Calkins added.

“This was the first time that I hosted with the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, and I was really impressed with how organized they are,” Calkins said. “The Carpinteria clubs hope to host an

exchange student every year, and we are looking for host families for next year.”

Lucan was eager to be a part of the Carpinteria Rotary international exchange program, she said, having hosted an exchange student back in Austria, and because her father is a Rotarian.

Members of Rotary Youth Exchange Program are allowed to pick their top three places in which they would like to attend school; for students such as Lucan, the Rotary exchange program provides a “typical” high school learning experience that includes new schooling, expansion of language skills and the opportunity to participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities.

“In Austria, we go straight to high school at the age of 10 and we don’t have many sports,” Lucan told CVN. “We just have physical education, so being able to choose three different sports in one year was amazing.”

Lucan explained that coming in as a new student was challenging, but the opportunity to enroll in several sports such as tennis, water polo and track allowed her to find her best friends. In addition to extracurricular activities, she participated in fundraisers and community service; she also served food at the Rotary clubs’ first International Food Festival last month.

Nomura said that he hopes to further build the exchange program within the district.

“The intent of the program is to create international goodwill, peace and understanding,” he said. “That is why we do international exchange. We want to make sure that there (are) students who are given the opportunity to see what it’s like outside of their country.”

Individuals between the ages of 15 and 19 are eligible for the program. For more information on how to get involved with Rotary and or the international exchange program, visit rotary.org.

KARLSSON

COURTESY PHOTOS

Anna Lucan first stayed with the Calkins family in Carpinteria, welcomed by the Calkins’ daughter, former Jr. Carpinterian of the Year Emily Calkins, left.

From left, Karen Graf and Anna Lucan celebrate Women’s History Month with Women Making Change.

Anna Lucan participated in water polo sports at Carpinteria High School.

Alongside members of C-DOG, Anna Lucan, second from the right, walks in the Carpinteria Christmas Parade.

What do you love

notice the beauty in nature, like the patterns in a pine cone and the scales in a fish; they like to make friends with the wild creatures.

From left, Ali likes playing Candyland with Emi likes Jill’s closet because they are size, and she can borrow her mom’s clothes; thinks of her mom, Pati as a friend.

Harkin McKinney, mom Kate

From left, Perry says her mom Shannon Kamen-Smith is smart; Hank loves her orange chicken; and Otis says she is a kind person.

Davey, right, and mom Jackie Doucette both love to talk about their days right before bedtime.

From left, Mia and Beth Cox like playing pickleball together.

Evi Foster, 3, loves when her mom, Eveling Marenco gives her fruit and milk; she thinks

From left, Alex and Natalia Alcantar think their mom Laura makes the best breakfast.

Ahead of Mother’s Day 2023 – Sunday, around Carpinteria, asking kids and their

about your mom?

Sunday, May 14 – CVN photographer Robin Karlsson walked their moms a question: What do you love about your mom?

with her mom Jill; now the same clothes; and Jill

Three generations shared their memories with CVN: from left, Pam Densmore, Andrea Edmondson and Corina Porter. Andrea remembers when the family went camping, her mom Pam would wash her feet with warm water before they could come into the tent at night; Corina remembers when her mom gave her a crash course on how to play volleyball so she could try out for the team.

love when their mom, Brittney, takes them to the park.

makes good eggs; Maddie likes her mom’s peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Parker

said the best thing about his mom Lindsey is that she doesn’t yell too much.

McKinney, right, said she loves when her Kate makes her favorite food, pasta.

Haven, center, said she loves early walks with her mom, Aja Forner, left, and their dog Scout; Aja said she has happy memories of love and scones, and of her mother Richeon Solis-Herman’s good sense of humor.

Callum and Griffin McMeekin

Van Perys, right,

Max, right, loves the chicken wings his mom, Lilly Lopez, makes.

IN THE

NATUREHOOD

I can’t remember a more beautiful spring. The aftermath of the rain is a gift – as if the earth is celebrating. The colors of the spring bloom, which have been captured by NASA satellite images from space, are drawing flower gazers to California from all over the world.

Those of us lucky enough to live near Carpinteria have only to stroll along the Carpinteria Bluffs, hike the Franklin trail or walk around our neighborhoods to take in the spectacle.

In our backyard, flowers my husband Ken planted a few years ago have exploded. Standing in a sea of golden poppies and purple lupines we hear the buzz of bumble bees and the hum of honeybees among the avocados and citrus trees. There’s a pond for wildlife and nest boxes for birds. As I pause to drink in the scene, I notice bird songs I might overlook. I pull out my phone and record the sound on the Merlin Bird ID app. It verifies what I am hearing with the name of the bird and its picture that lights up with the song. Sometimes the Merlin app points out things I am missing. It is a great teaching tool.

Venture a little further to nearby sanctuaries like Arroyo Hondo, protected by The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, and the landscape offers a different palette of colors and a soundtrack of different bird songs – Lazuli Buntings and Warbling Vireos.

Grass Mountain, off Figueroa Mountain Road, is famous for its steep, bare pyramid face covered in flowers. It’s trickier to access after the rains, but with a willingness to wade the creek or balance across on logs, you soon climb up to its shoulders where you walk through carpets of poppies and are engulfed in the peppery scent of lupine. Over the three times I have ventured there this spring, the colors have morphed from orange to increasingly purple like a time-lapse photo.

Even the Carrizo Plain, which photographer Lynn Scarlett described as “looking like goddesses spilled their paint boxes across the landscape,” can

Spring forays

LYNN SCARLETT

This week Ken and I decided to go farther afield. We packed up our Covid getaway Sprinter – which we nicknamed Vincent Van Go – and drove two hours north to Montaña de Oro State Park. I

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KEN WEISS

The Carrizo Plain looks “like goddesses spilled their paints across the landscape,” as put by photographer Lynn Scarlett.

NANCY

BARON

NANCY BARON

The Grass Mountain on Figueroa Mountain Road glows with poppies and lupines.

be experienced in a day trip or a quick over-night.

Poppies line the Point Buchon Trail.

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have long wanted to hike the Point Buchon Trail, which is accessed through the park and is gated. The area is home to the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, run by Pacific Gas and Electric Company. PG&E requires you sign a waiver of liability to travel in the rugged area. The headland known as Point Buchon was named by the Spanish in honor of a Northern Chumash leader in 1769.

This scenic coastal trail is grazed by cattle, although lightly enough to support vast fields of flowers. It also has views of offshore sea stacks that attract seabirds and marine mammals.

We were at the gate to sign in by 9 a.m., as there is a daily limit of 275 people. And albeit an easy hike, there is a real sense of

wilderness. Between the crashing waves and the spring bloom, it was hard to know where to look.

Life abounds in the Marine Protected Area offshore. This area of the ocean is highly productive due to upwelling of nutrients that support the kelp forests and their inhabitants, including sea urchins, rockfish, sea stars and abalone.

Twenty Southern Sea Otters were rafted together, swaddled in kelp blades. Surrounding the kelp bed, huge breakers pounded the rocky headlands sending spray flying high. But within the baffled water of the kelp forest, the waves were gentle rollers. The otters snoozed holding pups tucked under their chins and lying the length of their bodies like sock puppets.

Nearby, Pigeon Guillemots, the penguins of the north, called their wheezy whistles and bobbed merrily on the crash-

ing waves, flashing bright red feet as they flew through the spray to the cliffs, likely scouting for nests sites in the crevices.

The wildflowers peaked three miles along the trail at Windy Point, which lived up to its name. Poppies lined the path like a bridal walkway. Closed like orange fists in the cool overcast morning, as the sun emerged, they opened wide and faced the sky. We paused to sit on the bench and gaze towards the profile of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant – a strange contrast to the wildflower strewn land.

Rambling back to the parking lot, we drove to our campsite in Morro Bay State Park in time for happy hour at the nearby Morro Bay Inn, which is perched on park’s edge. From the bar’s picture windows we watched Double-crested Cormorants flying back and forth to a giant Eucalyptus tree, their beaks full of

twigs building their impossibly precarious stick nests.

Most of the shorebirds and waterfowl that overwinter in Morro Bay have moved on now, headed north where winter is slowly releasing its grip.

I think about the migrating birds this year. With the vagaries of weather, climate change and avian flu, I hope the extra rain from atmospheric rivers will provide enough nourishment along the way to help them make it to their breeding grounds.

Meanwhile, we are the lucky ones, enjoying a spring to remember.

Nancy Baron is a naturalist, writer, and Senior Research Associate at NCEAS – UC Santa Barbara. She lives in the hills above Carpinteria with her husband Ken Weiss. You can reach her at baron@nceas.ucsb.edu.

KEN WEISS

Double-crested cormorants build their precarious nests overlooking Morro Bay.

KEN WEISS

A female sea otter clutches her pup and rests within the calm water of the kelp forest.

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Halos& Pitchforks

A reader sends a halo to Burlene for making the Carpinteria Lumberyard Nursery area a joy to visit. “Her outgoing personality (Southern style), friendly conversation and plant knowledge make it a pleasure to visit and shop.”

A reader sends a halo to the generous person for paying for the reader’s gas when she forgot her ATM card at the gas station. “I’m sorry I chose the most expensive oil, I’d love to reimburse you, and thank you. I’m deeply moved by your generosity.”

A reader sends a halo Yamneli at Nutbelly for the wonderful pizzas for Kinderkirk’s teacher appreciation.

A reader sends a halo to most wonderful, kind, intelligent and caring Union Relationship Banker Torrie Walters. “For many days she painstakingly walked me through an incredibly confusing situation. You are beyond the best, Torrie!”

A reader sends a halo to Sean and Dayna for being wonderful neighbors and helping the reader through another frazzled mom situation.

A reader sends a halo to the 93013 Fund, Uncle Chen Restaurant and Marybeth Carty for the surprise delivery of a delicious dinner complete with a fortune cookie, candy bar and painted rock. “Wonderful kindness and quite a thrill!”

A reader sends a halo to the anonymous person who left a $100 donation in the HELP of Carpinteria office mail slot this past week. “Thank you for your kindness.”

A reader sends a halo to kind and generous people from St. Joesph Church for preparing and serving a great lunch to the homeless in the community.

A reader sends a halo to the staff of Jack’s Bistro for staying open during Covid-19. “Always a smile no matter how busy. A great way to start the day.”

A reader sends a halo to the Daykas for always being there to help with anything and never complaining. “Many thanks to the best neighbors ever. We love you all dearly.”

A reader sends a halo in advance to everyone who leaves food by their mailbox for the letter-carriers food drive this coming Saturday, May 13.

A reader sends a halo to Mayor Wade Nomura for the city’s beautiful flower wreath at the Carpinteria Cemetery for the Memorial Day program.

A reader sends a halo to Tami and John at Robitaille’s for their constant smiles and over-the-top customer service. “The wedding favors were loved by all and brought a bit of Carpinteria to the Seattle wedding!”

A reader sends a halo to Johannah Lockwood, a member of the Active Adult/Senior Citizens group, for making incredible half-stitch nametags for members. “Each one takes 1.5 hours to produce.”

A reader sends a halo to those who acknowledge people with disabilities. “When you encounter a person in a wheelchair or walking with a walker, please smile and say hello to that person.”

A reader sends a halo to Lance Lawhon at the Carpinteria Sanitation District for helping Kim’s Market.

A reader sends a halo to Bruce Morden for the wonderful program he put on for the Seniors Inc. “He described how the railroad trails came about to all about our own Carpinteria Depot.”

A reader sends a halo to the Carpinteria Beautiful lady picking up trash in a neighborhood near the beach. “Thank you! We need all the help we can get keeping trash picked up in the neighborhoods on the beach-side of the tracks.”

A reader sends a halo to Kassandra Quintero at The Spot. “When the roof-top flag was twisted and lodged in the rain gutter, Quintero jumped into action and climbed up to the roof and untangled it so that it could wave freely. Way to show patriotism!”

A reader sends a halo to Ron and the St. Joseph’s Resale Shop for “their fantastic donation to a local homeless man who recently acquired housing.”

A reader sends a halo to Emma and Justin. “It was a wonderful wedding, great food, spectacular location and great people! It was moving and wonderful.”

A reader sends a halo to Carpinterians who put out boxes in front of their homes full of surplus oranges, avocados, etc. from their trees. “Thank you for sharing your abundance.”

A reader sends a halo to the kind woman who paid half of their copay when the reader realized they didn’t have the full amount on them. “I’m extremely appreciative for her generosity.”

A reader sends a halo to Nikki at HEAT Culinary. “I went to my first class this weekend with my sister, who has been to four so far. I had the best time! Someone get this girl a TV show, she should be on the Food Network already.”

A reader sends a halo to all the beach community residents. “Thank you for parking in front of your home with your permit.”

A reader sends a halo to Diana, a caregiver at Carpinteria Senior Lodge for nearly three years.

A reader sends a pitchfork to herself. “There is a problem in our community with homelessness and I have not done anything to help. I was advised I could donate toiletry items and such to the fire department in town. I will do more of what I can to help.”

A reader sends a halo to Tom Sweeney for going out on Elm Avenue by the beach to clean up plastic bottles, bags, dirty gloves and masks.

A reader sends a halo to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the local vet for working diligently to save the Rincon Beach bear. “It’s a terrible shame to lose one of these magnificent creatures; however, I wouldn’t want it to suffer to a miserable death.”

. “All the “no parking/two hour” signs just made people park in my neighborhood. Seventh

A reader sends a halo to for spending their Saturday taking photos for Junior Warriors Football. “We appreciate all you do for our families, players and program. You rock!”

A reader sends a pitchfork to on their FAFSA and took scholarships away from kids who need it.

A reader sends a halo to for coming out early Saturday morning to support the Junior Warriors. “It made the kids so happy to hear you say their names—you’re a local celebrity to them!”

A reader sends a halo to Debra Herrick, director of Boys & Girls Club, for removing the toxic Euphorbia fire sticks from the pots and landscape.

suspended. The man was cited, and his vehicle was released to a licensed driver.

2:37 a.m. / Public Intoxication / Bailard Avenue

truck and both were extremely intoxicated with open containers of alcohol observed in the vehicle. One man was not being the most cooperative, but once he was convinced to exit the vehicle, a pat down search of his person was conducted. Deputies located a collapsible baton in the man’s front waistband. He was cited and both were released to a sober friend.

he found a small baggie containing a white powdery substance underneath the driver’s seat of his recently purchased vehicle. The man stated he purchased the vehicle three weeks ago but didn’t find the small baggie until he’d removed the driver’s seat to fix the reclining mechanism. The incident was documented, and the baggie was booked into Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office property for destruction.

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Friday, May 22

7:41 a.m. / Theft / 5500 block Calle Arena

Deputies responded after a woman reported her residence was burglarized the prior night. The woman stated a cartoon of almond milk and tools were taken from her garage. She told the reporting deputy that the tools belonged to her daughter’s boyfriend. The deputy attempted to contact the man via telephone multiple times with no response. The woman stated her garage door was unlocked during the night and is in the process of getting a new lock. She did not have any suspect information at the time. The incident was documented, and patrol will follow-up for further details of the stolen items.

2:07 p.m. / Found Drugs / 6000 block Jacaranda Way

A man was contacted after reporting

Deputies responded to a motel on Via Real for a report of a domestic violence incident. Upon arrival, a deputy contacted a man and woman in the parking lot. After contacting both subjects, there were visible injuries on both parties. Due to conflicting statements regarding their mutual altercation and obvious injuries, both parties were arrested for corporal injury on a spouse.

10:36 a.m. / Hit and Run / Cameo and Casitas Pass roads

Deputies responded to a report a of a black sedan crashing into a parked water truck. While en route, it was also reported the male subject driving the sedan fled the scene on foot. Upon arrival, deputies observed the sedan abandoned in the middle Cameo Road with major damage to the front right passenger wheel

A reader sends a halo to Ryan Moore for bringing dirt back to Carpinteria.

A reader sends a halo to everyone who supported the Playa Del Sur 4-H this year. “The members are looking forward to another successful year.”

A reader sends a pitchfork to the manager of a local national fast-food franchise “As I witnessed from a booth, she belittled and mocked the customer’s grasp of the English language. As he exited in frustration she commented to an employee, ‘they need to learn English.’”

A reader sends a halo to Valerie, the new volunteer at the Friends of the Library Bookstore, for cleaning and reorganizing the self-help section.

A reader sends a pitchfork to the immature and disrespectful three adults and teenager that came into a local business this past Sunday. “They verbally harassed the teenage employee, intentionally trashed displays in the store, throwing clothing all over the floor like children. Who raised you?”

A reader sends a halo to Desiree, the new masseuse at The Gym Next Door. “She could have coasted through it, but she worked really hard to relieve my back pain. I never experienced such a great massage.”

A reader sends a halo to whoever left a sign telling people to pick up their dog-waste bags and stop leaving them on Casitas Pass Road.

Happy 96th Birthday Betty Brown WE LOVE YOU

A reader sends a pitchfork to the ing huge rides that take up the whole road is irresponsible. There are countless bike lanes that were put in with our tax dollars to avoid this problem.”

A reader sends a pitchfork to pool. “Not professional!”

A reader sends a pitchfork to the employees of the newer businesses on the Carpinteria Bluffs. “Learn to share the bike/walking path with locals… There will be four to five of you walking together and not a single one will scoot over just a tad to let a local pass through?”

A reader sends a pitchfork to the . “All the mushrooms growing there indicate too much water. Nice weed farm.”

A reader sends a pitchfork to for parking his vehicle in the spots right out front of his establishment. “Shouldn’t he leave those parking spots available for his paying customers?”

A reader sends a pitchfork to the for letting the bluffs turn into an ever-increasing dirt parking lot. “That is not what the bluffs were purchased for. Post No Parking signs immediately!”

A reader sends a pitchfork to the using his radar gun the other morning in front of city hall. “Why don’t you go by one of the schools and catch all the speeders there in morning, and keep our children safe while walking to school.”

What’s new at the harbor seal rookery?

This

Average Adult Count

100

Weaned pups are not easily distinguished.

CVN’s Seal Watch weekly report, written by Seal Watch volunteers, covers activities at the Harbor Seal Rookery. The group can be reached at carpsealwatch@ gmail.com or at (805) 684-2247. The rookery is located immediately east of Casitas Pier, between the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve and the Carpinteria State Beach.

Natural history notes

Wolves and coyotes are natural predators of harbor seals. Dogs on the beach will flush all the seals, and dogs barking at the overlook cause disturbances. The bluff at the west side of the overlook is not very steep, and several times unleashed dogs have run down the bluff to chase the seals. Recently Sealwatchers have encountered a few people who dispute the need to keep dogs out of the overlook, despite the sign of 30 years stating, “No Dogs.” Please respect the seals and the hardworking volunteers, and leave dogs outside the overlook area.

Visitors

Volunteers recorded 1,264 visitors, including people from the Netherlands, Mexico, China, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Korea, Chile, Germany, India, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York and Washington D.C.

Disturbances

Oil industry workers on the pier, four boys on the beach and a loud overlook visitor caused the recorded disturbances.

Seal Watch volunteers began shifts on Jan. 1 at the overlook daily and at the beach ends during low tides. Please consider honoring the Marine Mammal Protection Act and not walking the seal sanctuary beach all year. Do not bring dogs, bicycles or loud voices to view the seals. Harbor seals, when disturbed, may flee and become separated from their pups. Volunteers ask that dogs always remain outside the rope area.

CHEF RANDY

The first time I saw kohlrabi I thought, “that is one alien-looking vegetable.” Kohlrabi was widely unknown until a European botanist described it for the first time in 1554. By the end of the 16th century, it was known in Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Tripoli and the eastern Mediterranean. It is said to have been first grown in Ireland in 1734. In the United States, records of its use go back to 1806. Two types are grown in North America: white (light green in color) and purple. The white is much more popular, although the purple is more attractive.

Think of kohlrabi as the wild yet hearty cousin to Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage and broccoli (which it is). Its taste is similar to a turnip, but milder and sweeter, especially if it is harvested before it becomes too old and tough.

I like and cook with both and can understand how it might be off-putting.

Spicy Kohlrabi Slaw

Please don’t be put off by its appearance even if it does look like someone teleported a Martian vegetable right into your kitchen. Once it is peeled and grated, you’ll love its flavor and texture. It pairs perfectly with the carrots, onions and jalapeños in this spicy kohlrabi slaw.

Ingredients:

4 cups kohlrabi bulbs (peeled and grated)

1 medium carrot (coarsely grated)

½ cup onion (peeled, cut in half and sliced thin)

2 jalapeños (seeded and diced fine)

½ cup white vinegar

½ cup water

1 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons sugar

1 teaspoon dried oregano

Directions:

Peel the kohlrabi by cutting off the top and bottom, and then peel the skin off with a paring knife. Using a box grater, grate the kohlrabi on the large openings until you have about 4 cups. Transfer kohlrabi to a medium size bowl. Add carrot, onion and jalapeño to the kohlrabi. Pour 4 cups of hot water into the bowl. Cover and let steep for 5 minutes. Uncover and drain. Set bowl aside.

Randy Graham is a noted chef and writer and has been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for over 38 years. Chef Randy has written and published a series of seven cookbooks with original recipes developed over the period 1975 through 2020. He writes for the Ojai Quarterly, the Ojai Discover Monthly, and the California 101 Travelers Guide. His vegetarian recipes are published in newspapers throughout Central California under the header, Chef Randy. He and his wife, Robin, live in Ojai, California, with their dog Cooper. Robin and Cooper are not vegetarians.

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Sunday, April 30

1432 hrs / Incident / 800 block

Linden Avenue

The victim’s daughter left her Silver Rad E-bike unlocked outside a store on Linden Avenue. The bike is valued at approximately $2,000. An unknown male, believed to be transient, was seen riding away from the front of the store on the bike.

0213 hrs / Incident / 1000 block

Casitas Pass Road

An unknown suspect was caught on camera walking behind a grocery store in the early morning hours. Shortly after passing by the building a small fire begins, which is immediately put out by employees.

1252 hrs / Narcotics / 1000 block

Bailard Avenue

Deputies responded to investigate a suspicious vehicle that had been sitting in an alley for approximately 45 minutes. Deputies contacted the two occupants, who were both on active county probation with full search terms. During a probation compliance search of their person and vehicle, deputies located numerous meth pipes and small plastic bags of meth. Both were transported and booked at Santa Barbara County Jail without incident.

1052 hrs / Incident / Via Real

Deputies responded to take the report of a possible burglary. During the investigation, it was discovered that the suspect had stolen a yellow DeWalt drill box including its accessories, and a pair of

brown Danner boots from the business’s shed. Case suspended pending leads.

Monday, May 1

2103 hrs / Incident / Linden Roundabout

Deputies were flagged down on Casitas Pass Road regarding a possible DUI driver, with the reporting party only providing minimal information. A short time later, a reporting party reported a vehicle collision, in the area of the Linden Roundabout. Deputies arrived and located the driver who was clearly intoxicated. The driver refused to perform FST but based on his driving and obvious signs of intoxication, he was arrested and refused a chemical test. A blood warrant was written, and AMR responded to the Carpinteria Station. The man was transported and booked into Santa Barbara County Jail.

Wednesday, May 3

1105 hrs / Incident / 1100 block

Anacapa Street

Deputies authored a Ramey warrant for a subject, and while waiting for the

warrant to be authorized, it was discovered that the subject was in court at the Santa Barbara Courthouse. Once the warrant was signed, deputies responded and contacted the subject. He was subsequently placed under arrest for the warrant without incident. Additionally, probation placed a 10-day detainer on him. The subject was booked into Santa Barbara County Jail without incident.

Thursday, May 4

2307 hrs / Incident / El Carro Lane

A man was contacted in a parked vehicle. The subject was drunk, had a warrant and was in violation of a served protective order. The subject was arrested and taken to jail while his vehicle was towed.

Friday, May 5

1049 hrs / Incident / Via Real

Deputies responded to a landlord/ tenant dispute. The landlord stated a couple were renting the apartment and were supposed to be out on May 1, but still hadn’t left yet. The landlord rents the apartment on Airbnb and the new renters were unable to stay due to the current occupants refusing to leave. The landlord was advised to contact the Civil Bureau for further assistance with eviction procedures.

0937 hrs / Incident / El Carro Lane

The reporting party stated he pulled

his vehicle over on El Carro Lane to take a work call. The reporting party said he was approached by a male who told him he was retired FBI and needed to leave the neighborhood. Deputies made contact with the man and he said he did confront someone sitting in their car with the engine running because he thought it could be a contractor he recently hired. The man stated the reporting party became belligerent with him and he returned to his home.

2216 hrs / Incident / 1000 block Casitas Pass Road

A man was contacted at the rear of a restaurant while he was consuming alcohol with another man. A records check showed he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, and the man was arrested and booked into Santa Barbara County Jail.

2308 hrs / Narcotics / South Highway 101 at Bailard Avenue

A traffic enforcement stop was conducted on a vehicle for equipment violations. The driver advised that he was on parole and consented to a search of his vehicle. During the search, a deputy located a used glass methamphetamine. The man was cited and released for the violation.

Saturday, May 6

1831 hrs / Incident / 5300 block Carpinteria Avenue

A woman was contacted after she was reported to be standing in the middle of the street yelling for help. When deputies arrived, she was crying and had a strong odor of alcohol emanating from her person and had an open container nearby. She did not have anyone to pick her up or take care of her. She was arrested and booked at Santa Barbara County Jail for being drunk in public.

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Carpinteria Unified School DIstrict 1400 Linden Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013 www.cusd.net

The Carpinteria Unified School District (“District”) is seeking statements of qualifications and proposals from qualified persons or entities (“Responders”) to perform construction services for the CUSD Project - Canalino Sewer Improvement Project, utilizing the lease-leaseback delivery method (“LLB”), as set forth in Education Code section §17406, and related statutes. The Request for Qualifications/Proposals (RFQ/P) is available on the CUSD website: https://www.cusd. net/departments/facilities/rfps

The District and/or its designee shall conform to the prevailing wage requirements pursuant to California Labor Code, including but not limited to sections 1771 et seq, 1774-1776, 1777.5, 1813 and 1815. All contractors and subcontractors shall be registered with the Division of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 and adhere to the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) participation goal to be qualified.

The Contractor and all subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements and post prevailing wage rates at the location of the work. The rates are on file with the Clerk of the Owner’s governing board, and copies will be made available to any interested party upon request.

All Responders must be prequalified in accordance with Public Contract Code 20111.6. The prequalification requirement details are referenced in the RFQ/P. Prequalification packages are due no later than 4:00 PM on May 12, 2023. Proposals not conforming to this requirement will not be accepted.

Statements in prescribed form are due no later than 4:00 PM, May 12, 2023. Submit sealed RFQ/Ps clearly marked “CUSD

LLB RFP #02-22/23 - Canalino Sewer Improvement Project” to the Carpinteria Unified School District, Attention: Maureen Fitzgerald, Assistant Superintendent, Business Services, 1400 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013. RFQ/Ps received after the deadline will not be opened.

Request for Qualifications/Proposals questions, clarifications, and additional information

Signed: DANIELLE DALL’ARM, OWNER. In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code). I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk-Recorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0000984.

Publish: April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT. The following Entity(ies) is/are doing business JAYJ’S FAMILY PEST MANAGEMENT at 340 E FOSTER RD, SANTA MARIA, CA 93455. Full name of registrant(s): JAMES TENIENTE at SAME ADDRESS AS ABOVE. This business is conducted by an Individual. This statement was filed with the County 03/28/2023. The registrant began transacting business on N/A.

generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code).

I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County ClerkRecorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0000800.

Publish: April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2023

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT. The following Entity(ies) is/are doing business as THE GUARDIAN

CPA at 1408 OLIVE ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101. Full name of registrant(s): JOHN F DUSTON at SAME

ADDRESS AS ABOVE. This business is conducted by an Individual. This statement was filed with the County on 04/04/2023. The registrant began transacting business on Sept. 15, 2022.

Signed: JOHN DUSTON, OWNER.

In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code).

I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County ClerkRecorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0000888.

Publish: May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2023

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that include the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING JUNE 9, 2023 at 10:00 am, Dept: 4, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121-1107. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Carpinteria-Summerland Coastal View a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for the hearing on the petition. Dated 03/01/2023 by Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court.

FILED BY the Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara on 04/19/2023. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer by Chavez, Terri, Deputy Clerk.

Publish: April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 2023

CLASSIFIED

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

The Carpinteria Community Church (CCC) Operations Director is responsible for ensuring administrative and project support for CCC and the Pastor. This is an important role that will help bring continuity and care to CCC and its mission. This is an onsite, parttime role that requires professional experience. Apply at CarpinteriaCommunityChurch. org, under the “About Us” tab.

CAREGIVER AVAILABLE

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PIANO LESSONS

STUDIO OF MUSIC is currently teaching in-person lessons. Call now to arrange a time. 805-453-3481

The Board of Directors of the CarpinteriaSummerland Fire Protection District, County of Santa Barbara, State of California, has adopted a

for the Fiscal Year 2023-2024, copies of which are available between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, at 1140 Eugenia Place, Suite A, Carpinteria, for inspection by interested taxpayers.

SALARIES & EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

$ 10,280,000.00 77%

SERVICES & SUPPLIES

$ 1,672,000.00 13%

OTHER CHARGES

$ 0.00 0%

CAPITAL ASSETS

$ 655,000.00 5%

INCREASE TO RESTRICTED

$ 50,000.00 0.4%

INCREASE TO COMMITTED

$ 650,000.00 5%

TOTAL BUDGET

$ 13,307,000.00 100%

The Board of Directors has set 5:30 p.m., September 6, 2023, at Carpinteria City Hall, Council Chambers, 5775 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, California, for the Board of Directors to meet for the purpose of approving the 2023-2024 Final Budget. Any taxpayer may appear at the above specified time and be heard regarding the increase, decrease or omission of any item

Signed: JAMES TENIENTE, OWNER. In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code). I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk-Recorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0000831.

Publish: April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2023 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT. The following Entity(ies) is/are doing business AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION CO at 1241 E FESLER ST. SANTA MARIA, CA 93454. Full name of registrant(s): SANTELLA BUSINES SERVICES INC at SAME ADDRESS AS ABOVE. This business is conducted by a Corporation.This statement was filed with the County 04/17/2023. The registrant began transacting business on N/A. Signed: SCOTT A SANTELLA, CEO. In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code). I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk-Recorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0001012.

Publish: April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2023

FICTITIOUS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT. The following Entity(ies) is/are doing business as ASPYN LEAF BOUTIQUE at 3636 SANTA MARIA LN, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. Mailing address: 3463 STATE ST #188, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. Full name of registrant(s): ASPYN K JONES at 3463 STATE ST #188, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. This business is conducted by an Individual. This statement was filed with the County on 04/27/2023. The registrant began transacting business on April 20, 2023. Signed: ASPYN JONES. In accordance with subdivision (a) of section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A new fictitious business name must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (see section 1441 Et Seq., Business and Professions code).

I hereby certify this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County ClerkRecorder (SEAL) FBN2023-0001101.

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ORDINANCE NO. 766

EXTENSION OF AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY OR ANY OTHER ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE OPERATION OF FORMULA BUSINESSES WITHIN THE CITY OF CARPINTERIA, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CASITAS PLAZA AND THE SHEPARD PLACE SHOPS

WHEREAS, pursuant to the City of Carpinteria’s (“City”) police power, as granted broadly under Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution, the City Council of the City (“City Council”) has the authority to enact and enforce ordinances and regulations for public health, safety, and welfare; and

WHEREAS, section 65850 of the Government Code also provides the City Council with the authority to, among other things, adopt ordinances regulating the use of buildings within its jurisdiction; and

WHEREAS, the City’s Zoning Ordinance currently allows operation of formula businesses within the City, provided that such businesses meet all applicable legal requirements and have obtained a Certificate of Occupancy and other necessary entitlements from the City; and

WHEREAS, the City adopted its General Plan/Local Coastal Plan as a comprehensive, long-term plan for the City’s development and many of the City’s General Plan/Local Coastal Plan policies and zoning regulations were enacted to limit commercial development that would impair the City’s distinctive small beach town charm and character. Among others, those land use objectives and policies include the following:

• Land Use Element Objective LU-

3: Preserve the small beach town character of the built environment of Carpinteria, encouraging compatible revitalization and avoiding spawl development at the City’s edge; and

• Policy LU-3d: Establish a commercial sector that balances the retail and service needs of citizens and tourists; and

• Policy LU-3g: Provide for a range of business activities that bring vitality, revenue, and employment to Carpinteria and are compatible with its small town character.

WHEREAS, the City has adopted Resolution No. 5500, a Sustainable Community Policy, in part, as a basis for creating strategies that allow it to adapt to ever-changing environmental, economic, social, and physical stressors. Among the directives of the City’s Sustainable Community Policy are the following:

• Promote a diversified and resilient local economy that reflects the unique attributes of the region and provides necessary and desirable products and services for both residents and visitors; and

• Attract and retain downtown retailers, hotels, corporate headquarters and Research and Development uses that can be successful in and complimentary to the community; and

• Establish support for small business development; and

• Maintain and enhance the unique identity of the community and built environment to sustain a strong sense of place and community.

WHEREAS, the City’s character as a classic California beach town; the City’s desire to foster businesses that serve both the needs of City residents and visitors and thereby ensure the community’s quality of life; the resiliency of the City’s vibrant, small-scale, diversified commercial character; and the City’s ongoing economic vitality all require that the City maintain and encourage establishment of diverse business types and sizes, including smaller and mid-sized businesses; and

WHEREAS, formula businesses are, by their very nature, standardized (including their architecture, décor, color schemes, and signage) and not unique, and therefore do not enhance the unique small town character that the City Council finds necessary to maintain a viable visitor industry in the City; and

WHEREAS, as City staff noted in a May

9, 2022 Staff Report, many formula businesses are increasingly locating in downtowns and neighborhood business districts en masse, squeezing out independent businesses and causing a speculative run-up in rents that results in the wholesale transformation of a business district. In addition to causing such downtowns and business districts to lose their distinctive appeal, the rent increases caused by an influx of formula businesses can force independent entrepreneurs and low margin/service businesses that serve the surrounding neighborhood’s basic needs to close or move out of the area; and

WHEREAS , as further noted by City staff in the May 9, 2022 Staff Report, local economies dominated by formula businesses tend to be solely profit-based and therefore disinterested in meeting the community’s needs, rather than filling a local niche or complementing existing businesses in similar categories. Formula businesses also often invest locally generated profits outside of the commu-

nity, disappearing quickly when economic conditions shift or corporate strategy changes, and leaving behind vacancies with higher rent expectations; and

WHEREAS, this ordinance is not premised on maintaining local ownership of businesses, or protecting existing businesses, or preventing formula businesses from doing business in the City. The purpose of this ordinance is to maintain the City’s unique, special character, the diversity and vitality of the City’s commercial districts, and the quality of life of City residents; and

WHEREAS, the impacts described above may result in existing small businesses losing customers and having fewer business opportunities, and may further lead to long-term urban decay and increased vacancies in commercial real estate, both of which could lead to a decline in tax revenue for the City; and

WHEREAS, further, the COVID-19 pandemic and government regulations pertaining to social distancing had devastating impacts on businesses—with acute impacts on small businesses—including those doing business within the City; and

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the unregulated proliferation of formula businesses could lead to a lack of diversity in City businesses, which would substantially harm the important City interests listed above and create substantial public health, safety and welfare problems for the City, its residents, and its businesses; and

WHEREAS, on May 9, 2022, the City Council directed City staff to prepare a proposal to adopt regulations governing the establishment of formula businesses within the City; and

WHEREAS, City staff is currently studying and drafting comprehensive regulations governing formula businesses pursuant to the City Council’s direction; and

WHEREAS, in the meantime, a temporary moratorium is necessary to allow City staff time to study possible revisions to the City’s zoning ordinance and other regulations to address the matters set forth above, which regulations when completed will be brought back for City Council consideration within a reasonable time; and

WHEREAS, on May 23, 2022, the City Council heard City staff’s report and received public comment on the proposed moratorium but could not take action on the moratorium because only three Councilmembers were present, which would not have met the four-fifths (4/5) vote requirement in Government Code section 65858; and

WHEREAS, California Government Code section 65858 provides that for the purpose of protecting the public safety, health, and welfare and without following the procedures otherwise required prior to adoption of a zoning ordinance, the City Council may adopt, as an urgency measure, an urgency ordinance prohibiting any uses which may be in conflict with “a contemplated general plan, specific plan, or zoning proposal that the [City Council], planning commission or the planning department is considering studying or intends to study within a reasonable time;” and

WHEREAS, the City currently has approximately 15 vacant commercial spaces, in addition to an anticipated 17 to 20 new commercial spaces that are associated with pending development projects, which could be occupied by a formula business without any further discretionary review or approval by the City; and

WHEREAS, the City’s Municipal Code provides that a Certificate of Occupancy and business license, both of which are necessary to operate a business in the City, are ministerial entitlements not subject to discretionary review by the City; and

WHEREAS, if and when a new formula business applies for such entitlements, any such application could be granted before the City could consider and enact an urgency ordinance under Government Code section 65858 regulating establishment of such a new formula business, thereby frustrating the City’s ability to enact lawful regulations on the establishment of new formula businesses; and

WHEREAS, the City finds that, as a result of these conditions, the City cannot wait until a new application for establishment of a formula business is submitted in order to enact restrictions on formula businesses; and

WHEREAS, if additional formula businesses were allowed to be instituted in the City, prior to the City’s consideration and adoption of final regulations governing formula businesses, such uses could (1) conflict with and/or defeat the purpose of the proposal to adopt regulations regulating formula businesses, (2) conflict with the requirements of the General Plan/ Local Coastal Plan, (3) be inconsistent with surrounding uses, and/or (4) be immediately detrimental to the public health, safety, and welfare; and

WHEREAS, in the absence of an urgency moratorium, the City’s ability to effectively address in a timely manner the negative impacts caused by the proliferation of formula businesses on the public health, safety, and welfare will be seriously compromised; and

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the above conditions create a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the City, its residents, and its businesses, within the meaning of Government Code section 65858, as the public health, safety, and welfare

depend on the continued economic and cultural vitality of a connected, engaged, and diverse business community, and excessive formula businesses degrade the community’s small-town feel and eliminate opportunities for smaller and independently-owned businesses to thrive, especially those business providing vital services to local residents that do not normally pay high rents; and

WHEREAS, on June 27, 2022 for the reasons included in the record, the City Council has determined that, as of the Effective Date of Ordinance No. 755, there is no urgency to regulate formula businesses within the Casitas Plaza or the Shepard Place Shops; and

WHEREAS, on June 27, 2022 the City Council determined, by at least a four-fifths

(4/5) vote, that Ordinance No. 755 satisfies the requirements of Government Code section 65858, is a matter of City-wide importance, is a reasonable and necessary measure designed for immediate preservation and protection of the public health, safety, and welfare of the community, and is in accord with the public purposes and provisions of applicable State and local laws and regulations; and

WHEREAS, the provisions of Government Code section 65858 provide that the City Council may extend the interim ordinance for an initial period of ten (10) months and fifteen (15) days, and for a second period of one year, upon notice pursuant to Government Code section 65090 and a public hearing at which the City Council adopts the extension by at least a four-fifth (4/5) vote; and

WHEREAS, on July 25, 2022, the City Council adopted a report pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d) and also adopted Ordinance No. 757, extending the interim ordinance for a period of ten months and fifteen days; and

WHEREAS, on February 13, 2023, the City Council approved Ordinance No. 760, at a first reading, which would amend the City’s zoning regulations and Local Coastal Program to include permanent regulations governing establishment of formula businesses in the City; and

WHEREAS, on April 19, 2023, the City transmitted to the California Coastal Commission the materials necessary for the Commission to consider Ordinance No. 760’s proposed amendment to the City’s Local Coastal Program; and

WHEREAS, the California Coastal Commission has not yet acted on Ordinance No. 760; and

WHEREAS, although the City has made progress (as outlined in a report prepared and adopted by the City Council pursuant to Government Code section 65858(d)), the City has not completed the process of amending the City’s zoning ordinance and Local Coastal Program to address regulation of formula businesses, and meanwhile the conditions creating an immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare (as described above and in Ordinance Nos. 755 and 757) persist; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the requirements of Government Code sections 65858 and 65090, a notice of public hearing about the proposed extension of this Ordinance, originally enacted on June 27, 2022 and extended on July 25, 2022, has been placed in a newspaper of general circulation within the City at least 10 days prior to the City Council meeting scheduled for May 8, 2023; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to the requirements of Government Code section 65858, the City Council has determined, by at least four-fifth (4/5) votes, to extend this Ordinance for the immediate preservation and protection of the public health, safety and welfare of the community.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Recitals Incorporated. The above recitals are incorporated herein and are each relied upon independently by the City Council in its adoption of this Ordinance.

SECTION 2. Declaration of Urgency.

The City Council hereby finds and declares that, for the reasons set forth in the above recitals, there is a need to extend the urgency ordinance establishing a moratorium on the issuance of any and all Certificates of Occupancy and/or any other entitlements for the operation of formula businesses (as defined in Section 6 of this Ordinance) within the City, with the exception of the Casitas Plaza and the Shepard Place Shops (collectively, “City Limits”), subject to the findings and conditions contained in this Ordinance. To clarify, the Casitas Plaza and the Shepard Place Shops shall not be subject to this Ordinance. Prior to the issuance of further entitlements for formula businesses within the City, City staff needs time to ensure that the proposed changes to the City’s zoning regulations and Local Coastal Program are in full force and effect.

SECTION 3. Moratorium.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of the CMC or any other ordinances or regulations of the City to the contrary, no Certificate of Occupancy or any other entitlement which has as its result the approval or allowance of the operation of a formula business within the City Limits shall be issued, granted or approved by any employee, department, or commission of the City for a period until June 26, 2024 or until City Ordinance No. 760 takes effect, whichever occurs first. During the term of this Ordinance, only those entitlements for which the right to proceed with the associated development, facility, or activity has vested pursuant to the provisions of State law prior to the effective date of this Ordinance, shall proceed in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance.

SECTION 4. Immediate Threat.

Based on the findings herein, this Ordinance is adopted pursuant to California Government Code section 65858. Adoption of this Ordinance is required in order to address the current and immediate threat identified by the City Council to the public health, safety, and welfare of residents and businesses that would result from the grant of new Certificates of Occupancy and/or other entitlements for the operation of formula businesses within the City Limits.

SECTION 5. Hardship Exception/ Waiver

The City, on a case-by-case basis, shall have the authority, upon a showing of good cause by an applicant or other individual with standing, to waive the interim prohibition/moratorium imposed by this Ordinance and allow for the granting of a Certificate of Occupancy and/ or other City-issued entitlement to said applicant or other individual with standing. “Good cause” shall mean a factual and evidentiary showing by the applicant that the interim prohibition/moratorium, if not waived, will (1) deprive the applicant of substantially all reasonable economic use of its property or (2) result in a violation of an applicable California or federal law. All such applications for waiver shall be filed with the City Community Development Department.

SECTION 6.Definition of Formula Business

For the purposes of this Ordinance, “formula business” is defined as any commercial business operating as a retail sales, restaurant/food service, and/or hotel or motel establishment, and which (a) has more than seven (7) locations anywhere in the United States of America, and (b) has two or more of the following features common to all or substantially all of its locations: standardized array of services or products for sale, façade, architecture, décor or color scheme, uniform or other employee apparel, signage, or trademark/servicemark.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, the following types of businesses are not formula businesses: office space, professional services, banks or credit unions, grocery stores, nonprofit businesses, pharmacies, gas stations, or theaters/performing arts spaces.

SECTION 7. Exception for Relocation of Existing Formula Businesses.

In the event that a formula business, in operation at a location within the City Limits on the Effective Date of this Ordinance, seeks to relocate to another location within the City, this Ordinance shall not apply to bar such relocation.

SECTION 8. Effective Date. This Ordinance becomes effective immediately following the expiration of Ordinance No. 757, i.e., June 26, 2023 and will extend for a period of one (1) year, i.e., June 26, 2024 or until City Ordinance No. 760 takes effect, whichever occurs first.

SECTION 9. Amendment of Ordinance Pursuant to the process set forth in Government Code section 65858, the City Council, by the affirmative vote of at least four-fifths (4/5), may modify, amend, delete, or add to this Ordinance upon a finding that such action will implement and enforce the goals, policies, and purposes of this Ordinance.

SECTION 10. Severability.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decisions shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed and adopted this Ordinance, and each and all provisions hereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more provisions may be declared invalid.

SECTION 11. CEQA Exemption.

The City Council finds that this Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, CEQA Guidelines sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a “project” as defined in section 15378). The Ordinance prevents changes in the environment pending completion of the contemplated CMC review and thus has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, either directly or indirectly.

PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 8th day of May, 2023, by the following called vote:

AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:

Nomura, Solórzano, Alarcon, Clark

NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None

ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Lee (recused) Al Clark Mayor of the City of Carpinteria

ATTEST: Brian C. Barrett City Clerk, City of Carpinteria

I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Carpinteria held this 8th day of May, 2023.

CITY OF CARPINTERIA 5775 CARPINTERIA AVENUE CARPINTERIA, CA 93013 (805)684-5405/www.carpinteriaca.gov

PUBLIC NOTICE SUMMARY OF ADOPTED ORDINANCE NO. 765 (AS PRESCRIBED BY GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 36933(C)(1))

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA, AMMENDING CHAPTERS 8.20 AND 12.24 OF THE CARPINTERIA MUNICIPAL CODE

The proposed Ordinance was introduced and first reading was approved at the regular City Council meeting held on April 24, 2023. The Ordinance was adopted at a regular City Council meeting held on May 8, 2023, by the following vote:

AYES: Lee, Nomura, Solórzano, Alarcon, and Clark

NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None

Summary of Ordinance: This Ordinance will amend Carpinteria Municipal Code (CMC) Sections 8.20 and 12.24 pertaining to public sleeping and camping to reflect recent case law regarding the enforcement of local agency regulations that prohibit public sleeping and camping. Specifically, Ordinance No. 765 amends CMC Section 8.20 such that (i) the prohibition on camping shall not be enforceable against homeless persons when there is no available shelter, subject to limited exceptions, and (ii) the penalty for a violation of CMC Section 8.20 is only a misdemeanor or an infraction, and violators receive a warning and referral to services prior to citation. The exceptions where CMC Section 8.20 is enforceable against a homeless person without access to shelter are where there is a substantial danger to any person, where there is an immediate threat and/ or an unreasonable risk of harm to public health or safety, and where there is a disruption to vital government services.

Ordinance No. 765 also amends CMC Section 12.24 so that the prohibition on camping therein is subject to the limitations in CMC Section 8.20. The City Council also found that approval and adoption of Ordinance No. 765 is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to Sections 15060(c) (2), 15060(c)(3), and 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines.

A certified copy of the full text of the ordinance is posted in the Office of the City Clerk, 5775 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, CA. The full text can also be viewed on the City’s website at https://carpinteriaca.gov/city-hall/publichearings-legal-notices/, under “Public Hearing & Legal Notices.”

Said Ordinance will become effective 30 days after adoption.

Brian C. Barrett, CMC, CPMC, City Clerk Publish: May 11, 2023

main entrance window.

Additional information concerning the above matter may be obtained from John Ilasin, Public Works Director at johni@ carpinteriaca.gov or (805) 880-3402 and written comments should be addressed to the City Clerk, City of Carpinteria, 5775 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria, California 93013.

If you challenge the actions of the City Council related to the matter noted above in court, you may be limited to only raising those issues you or someone else raise at the City Council hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence to the City Council prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Brian Barrett, City Clerk at brianb@carpinteriaca.gov or (805) 7554403. Notification of two business days prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

Brian C. Barrett, CMC, CPMC, City Clerk Publish: May 11, 2023

CITY OF CARPINTERIA

5775 CARPINTERIA AVENUE CARPINTERIA, CA 93013

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARPINTERIA MONDAY, MAY 22, 2023 AT 5:30 P.M.

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before a regular meeting of the City Council at 5:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, Monday, May 22, 2023 on the following matter:

Measure A Program of Projects

Adoption of the City’s five-year program of projects funded by the Measure A sales tax funds pursuant to Section 18 of Ordinance No. 5 of the Santa Barbara County Local Transportation Authority. The proposed Local Program of Projects includes funds for major street maintenance and repairs, drainage work, transit assistance, bikeways and certain transportation related capital improvement projects. The full agenda, associated staff report and ordinance will be available on Thursday, May 18, 2023 on the City’s Website here: https://carpinteriaca.gov/city-hall/ agendas-meetings/. Details and procedures on how to provide public comment and participate in the meeting are available on the posted agenda at https://carpinteriaca.gov/city-hall/agendas-meetings/ and on the City Hall notices board.

APPROVED

May 11, 2023

CITY OF CARPINTERIA 5775 CARPINTERIA AVENUE CARPINTERIA, CA 93013 (805)684-5405/www.carpinteriaca.gov

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARPINTERIA MONDAY, MAY 22, 2023 AT 5:30 p.m.

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before a regular meeting of the City Council at 5:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as may be heard, on Monday, May 22, 2023, on the following matters:

1. Continuation of Carpinteria Street Lighting District No. 1 for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and hearing of written protests to the proposed improvements or to the assessment therefore in accordance with Resolution of Intention No. 6227 adopted April 24, 2023.

2. Continuation of Carpinteria Right-OfWay Improvement District No. 3 for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and hearing of written protests to the proposed improvements or to the assessment therefore in accordance with Resolution of Intention No. 6229 adopted April 24, 2023.

3. Continuation of Carpinteria Parking and Business Improvement Area District No. 4 for Fiscal Year 2023-24 and hearing of written protests to the proposed improvement or to the assessment therefore in accordance with Resolution of Intention No. 6231 adopted April 24, 2023.

4. Continuation of the City’s Winter Protection Berm Assessment District No. 5 for Fiscal Year 2023-24, and to levy and collect the assessment pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, Streets and Highways Code, and to order the construction of the improvement in accordance with Resolution of Intention No. 6232 adopted April 24, 2023.

The full agenda, associated staff report and resolutions will be available on Thursday, May 18, 2023 on the City’s Website here: https://carpinteriaca.gov/ city-hall/agendas-meetings/. Details and procedures on how to provide public comment and participate in the meeting are available on the posted agenda at https://carpinteriaca.gov/city-hall/ agendas-meetings/ and on the City Hall

If you have any questions about the above referenced matter, please contact John Ilasin, Public Works Director, by email at johni@carpinteriaca.gov or by phone at (805) 880-3402. If you challenge the actions of the City Council related to the matter noted above in court, you may be limited to only raising those issues you or someone else raise at the City Council hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence to the City Council prior to the public hearing. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact Brian Barrett, City Clerk at brianb@carpinteriaca.gov or (805) 7554403. Notification of two business days prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.

Brian C. Barrett, CMC, CPMC, City Clerk Publish: May 11, 2023

Hollywood on the Rincon

BY STEPHEN BATES

It’s no Malibu, but the area around Rincon Point has attracted its share of Hollywood people and projects through the years.

As soon as it opened in 1915, the Hotel Rincon on Rincon Point was popular with movie folks, which proved to be a mixed bag. In 1916, three men from the Flying A studio in Santa Barbara partied there with their dates and then drove back toward Santa Barbara. Their car crashed near Carpinteria at 3:30 a.m., killing one of the women and besmirching the hotel’s reputation.

In 1919, when the place had a new name (Rincon Inn) and new management, director D. W. Griffith and actors Lillian Gish and Robert Harron dined there. Griffith had directed Gish and Harron in two classics of the silent era: “Birth of a Nation” (1915), which lionizes the Ku Klux Klan, and “Intolerance” (1916).

In 1925, a rubbery-faced character actor named Raymond Hatton built a beach cottage at Mussel Shoals, by what’s now the pier to the manmade Rincon Island near La Conchita. A year later, Hatton tried to rescue a drowning girl, but couldn’t reach her in the heavy surf. She died, according to news reports, as did another would-be rescuer.

Union Oil Co. struck oil near Hatton’s house in 1927, and he bought three lots on Rincon Point for $3,000 apiece. The oil discovery also prompted Hatton’s Mussel Shoals neighbor, actor Warner Oland, to buy three lots of his own. Oland had his beach cottage dragged from Mussel Shoals to the point and spent time there for the rest of his life.

More recently, James Arness, who played Marshall Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke,” surfed Rincon starting in the 1950s. Supposedly he was on his board there during the legendary swell of 1969. (His son Rolf Aurness – the original spelling of the name – won the World Surfing Championship in 1970.)

Kevin Costner bought a house on Rincon Point in 1992 for a reported $2.9 million. Other residents have included Susan Harris, creator of “Golden Girls”; Tony Thomas, producer of “Dead Poets Society” (and son of Danny Thomas and brother of Marlo Thomas); actress Sandra Will Carradine; and cinematographer and director Louie Schwartzberg.

Partiers at Rincon Point have included actors Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Eva Marie Saint, José Ferrer, Vivian Vance and Roddy MacDowell, plus author-screenwriters Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Some parties were hosted by artist-writer Barnaby Conrad and his wife, Mary, and others by artist Jack Baker; their circles of friends overlapped, according to Baker’s daughter India.

In 1951, Hollywood location scouts came to Rincon Point in search of a beach that could double for 1920s Nantucket, Massachusetts, for a scene in the sequel to the movie “Cheaper by the Dozen.” R. W. Bates, whose family owned part of Rincon Point, showed them around. A Cape Codstyle beach house, formerly owned by the Rubel family, won them over.

Even though the studio was going to pay to film at Rincon Point, Bates couldn’t help raising an objection. He pointed to a sprawling tree by the Rubel house. What, he asked, would audiences think when they saw a Monterey cypress in Massachusetts? The director said he didn’t know what a cypress looked like and neither did anybody else.

“I am sorry to say that an ordeal faces us,” Bates told his family in a letter. He had learned the name of the film: “Belles on Their Toes.” “Imagine having to go to a movie with such a title!”

It got worse. Bates and his wife, Juliette, drove to Ojai in 1952 to see the film, but the director, maybe belatedly unsettled by the cypress, had reshot the beach scene at Malibu. Rincon Point got edited out.

The point does appear in a 1974 horror (also horrid) film called “Welcome to Arrow Beach,” directed by and starring Laurence Harvey. Early in the film, a free-spirited young woman played by Meg Foster heads from Bates Road toward the Rincon Point gate.

Watching her from afar, a sheriff says she’s about to become a trespasser.

No, says his deputy, not if she goes down to the beach. Beaches are open to the public.

“One thing you’ve got to learn, chum,” the sheriff replies. “Private property owners don’t see it that way.”

Foster crosses the wooden bridge that spanned Rincon Creek at the time (it got demolished not long after filming), strolls by nudists and their dogs on the beach, passes an ominous PRIVATE sign, takes a nude swim and falls asleep on the sand.

She awakens to find suave Harvey standing over her. He invites her up to his house. She accepts. Unhappily, he turns out to be a cannibal. An allegory for the struggles between homeowners and beachgoers, perhaps?

Stephen Bates is coauthor (with Vince Burns) of the book “Rincon Point,” on sale at the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History and elsewhere. He is a professor of journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Character actor Raymond Hatton, center, had a beach cottage at Mussel Shoals in the 1920s. This photo from “Sea Wolf,” a silent film released in 1920, shows Hatton with Mabel Scott and Noah Beery.

COURTESY CBS TELEVISION Rincon Point surfers have included “Gunsmoke” star James Arness, shown here in 1959 with his son Rolf. Rolf became World Surfing Champion in 1970.

It’s no Malibu, but the area around Rincon Point has attracted its share of Hollywood people and projects through the years.

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Rincon Point appears in the 1974 horror movie “Welcome to Arrow Beach.” Here, actress Meg Foster crosses the bridge spanning Rincon Creek, headed for trouble.

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Artist-writer Barnaby Conrad, right, and his wife, Mary, moved to Rincon Point in the 1960s. They hosted lots of film stars in their home on the bank of Rincon Creek, where Fran Collin took this photo in 2010. Barnaby died in 2013; Mary still lives there.

Carpinteria hosts CIF Division 4 Track Prelims

Warriors seniors Ivan Vargas and Ainslee Alexander qualify for May 13 CIF Finals

Carpinteria High School hosted the CIF Southern Section Division 4 Track and Field Prelims on Saturday, with over 120 schools representing 30 leagues from across Southern California competing for a spot in the upcoming May 13 CIF Finals.

The event went off without a hitch, with more than 100 volunteers pitching in to welcome all the competitors to Carpinteria Valley Memorial Stadium.

Several local athletes had great showings, with both Carpinteria and Cate advancing athletes to the finals.

For Carpinteria, seniors Ivan Vargas and Ainslee Alexander qualified for the finals. Alexander qualified in two events, earning eighth place in the triple jump and tying for first place in the pole vault with a height of 9’3’’; Vargas took sixth place in the pole vault with a height of 10’.

“Congratulations to Ainslee and Ivan for qualifying for their first finals in their senior year,” said Carpinteria coach Van Latham. “Both have overcome injuries and illness to make their debut in the finals.”

Two Warriors earned spots as alternates in the finals with top 10 finishes. Junior Amarisse Camargo took 10th place in the shot put with a new personal record throw of 31’2.25’’ and junior Wes Chung finished 10th in the 110 meter hurdles with his own personal record of 17.44 seconds.

Other Warriors had notable performances but did not qualify for the finals. Senior Chris Ceja wrapped up a successful high school career finishing third in his heat in the 400 meters with a time

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of 54.06; sophomore Averi Alexander nearly matched her personal records in the long jump and triple jump; and junior Lela Roberts narrowly missed her personal record with a time of 17.83 in the 100 hurdles, while junior Mika Mullikin broke her personal record in the 300 hurdles with a time of 53.46.

From Cate, junior Sebastian Sutch had a career day on the track. He took first place overall in the 1600 meters and second place in the 800 meters and was part of the Rams’ second-place 4x400 relay team along with Pen Brooks, Tyler Martinez and Justin Musyimi. Musyimi also qualified with fourth place in the boys triple jump, along with Cate senior Kennedy Kirkland, who took fourth place in the girls long jump.

But the performances of the day came from Serra senior Rodrick Pleasant. The defending state champion and sprint king of Southern California set new stadium records with first-place finishes in both the 100 (10.40 seconds) and 200 (20.89 seconds).

“It was another outstanding day at the Carpinteria Memorial Stadium,” said Latham. “The competition was excellent the weather was beautiful, and the officials and volunteers were exceptional. The Warrior team performed well in competition and as meet staff. A big thank you to the Warrior family who did a great job in hosting the prelims.”

The CIF Division 4 Finals will be held at Moorpark College on Saturday, May 13.

ABOVE, Sophomore Averi Alexander had a solid day, nearly breaking her personal records in the long jump and triple jump.

LEFT, Cate junior Sebastian Sutch took second in the 800 and first in the 1600; he was part of the Rams’ runner-up 4x400 relay squad.

ABOVE, Carpinteria junior Wes Chung finished in the top 10 in the 110 meter hurdles.

LEFT, Senior Ainslee Alexander qualified for the CIF Finals in the triple jump and pole vault, where she tied for first place with a height of 9’3’’.

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BY RYAN P. CRUZ

Warriors baseball wins big in first round of CIF

Carpinteria handled business in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 6 baseball playoffs, with the Warriors scoring early and often against Desert Christian in Lancaster on the way to a 14-4 victory, earning a second-round home game this week against Norwalk.

After a long drive out to Rawley Duntley Park in the windy Antelope Valley, the Warriors got right to work, scoring six runs in the first inning.

Senior leadoff hitter Erich Goebel got the offense going on the very first pitch of the game, smacking a triple into left field and igniting the rest of the Warriors offense.

Junior Isaac Flores drilled in two doubles and three RBIs on the day, along with two diving highlight-reel catches in the outfield; junior Joaquin Ramirez finished with three hits, a run and an RBI; and freshman Gabe Martinez tallied two hits, two RBIs and one run scored.

Martinez also teamed up with junior ace Shane Goodmanson for a solid pitching performance. Goodmanson got the start and earned his seventh win this year, pitching through five innings and holding Desert Christian to seven hits and four runs.

In the final two innings, Martinez came in to shut the door and serve up two scoreless innings to send the Warriors into the second round.

“The game simply could not have gone better,” said Carpinteria coach Pat Cooney. “In a single elimination game on the road, you have to score early and often. The offense had the right mindset and squared up some fastballs. Baserunners remained ready to take advantage of each opportunity.”

Cooney said he felt that Goodmanson and Martinez put forward a “gritty” pitching effort, and that the recent success of the team has come with “an increasing level of trust” that sets the tone for the rest of the bunch. “The defense expects the ball to be put into play and they want the ball hit to them,” he said.

“The bottom line in these playoff events is that we want the players to have a memorable experience, win or lose. It was special to get out of school early, to stop for sack lunches at College of the Canyons, and to be hosted by Desert Christian,” Cooney said. “Now we will look forward to hosting our own event and enjoying the experience of being the home team.”

Carpinteria (13-8) will host Mid-Cities League champion Norwalk (22-4) for a second-round matchup at John Calderwood Field this week. With a win, the Warriors would face the winner between Lakeside and Hesperia Christian later in the week.

For the girls, Otsuki continued to build on her storybook career with a new personal record and third place finish in the 100 backstroke and a sixth-place finish in the 100 freestyle; and while Piccoletti, a sophomore standout, did not qualify for the finals, she did set a new school record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1.13.28.

In the CIF Finals, the Warriors swimmers that advanced came ready to shave some time off their previous bests and mark their names in the school history books. After all was said and done, the swimmers set four new school records.

“It is the reason coaches coach, to reap the benefits of having a great group of kids who show respect for one another, display sportsmanship, try their hardest every day and walk away with smiles on their faces knowing they did the best they could,” said Carpinteria coach Jon Otsuki. “It’s great to be a Warrior!”

Otsuki’s daughter, Erin, led the way with fourth and fifth place finishes in the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle, respectively. The senior team captain also swam with the girls relay team – with Piccoletti, Classen and Nemetz – that took fifth place and broke the school record in the 200 medley. The same team took seventh in the 4x100 relay with a season best time of 3:49.1.

In the race of the day, the boys relay team finished second in the 4x50 sprint relay in an excruciatingly close finish (Carpinteria – 1:29.15; Costa Mesa – 1:29.12). The same group set a new school record in the 4x100 relay, breaking the record set in last year’s CIF Finals by 1.25 seconds.

In the individual events, Smith finally broke through the school record he had been inching closer to all season in the 100 backstroke, etching his name in the CHS record books with an all-time best finish of 57.32.

Overall, the Carpinteria girls took ninth out of 65 schools, and the boys team took sixth out of 53 schools.

Warriors tennis' wild playoff trip

Carpinteria boys tennis had a big postseason win in the CIF Wild Card Match against Westminster, but dropped a road match the next day against #2 ranked La Serna to end the Warriors season at 10-8 overall.

After an unexpected rain, Carpinteria’s athletic department scrambled to get the home courts ready to host the Wild Card matchup against last year’s CIF semifinalist, Westminster.

In doubles, the duo of seniors Ryan Souza and Connor Gralewski set the tone with a three-set sweep, while the team of Troy Zimmerman and Asher Pampel went 2-1 and pulled out a vital tiebreak at a crucial time in the third round.

In singles play, junior standout Max Stone continued to dominate with a perfect three-set sweep without dropping one game.

“It is that type of focus and grit to never give your opponent easy points, let alone games, that makes him so tough to play,” said coach Charles Bryant.

The Warriors won the Wild Card match 10-8, but there wasn’t much time for celebration, as Carpinteria had to make the trek to Whittier to face top-ranked La Serna the very next day.

Carpinteria struggled against a powerful and deep La Serna roster, and ultimately the Lancers held on for the 14-4 victory.

Stone swept his singles sets once again, and the duo of Souza and Gralewski grabbed the only other set win for the Warriors in their final match together as seniors. “I am happy they were able to play together,” Bryant said. “They have been stalwarts in the program these past four years.”

“We lost to the better team today,” Bryant said. “A team that really had no weak spots and a team that has a chance to go all the way. Even their substitutes were quality players. With the exception of a few sets, we just could not get close to them.”

Carpinteria’s CIF Final swim team

Carpinteria swimmers break records at league finals

The Warriors swimmers made waves at the CIF Southern Section Division 3 Finals at Riverside Aquatics Complex over the weekend, with the Carpinteria boys placing sixth overall and the girls taking ninth out of more than 60 schools competing in the meet. It started with the CIF Prelims, where the girls medley relay squad of Erin Otsuki, Giulia Piccoletti, Taylor Classen and Lilli Nemetz moved up from qualifying in seventh to entering the finals as the number three seed.

Not to be outdone, the boys relay team of Justin Main, Jackson Melton, Asher Smith and Jacob Otsuki (22.13) qualified for the finals in the 4x50 with a third-place finish and a new school record time of 1.30.13. The same group also took third in the 4x100 and earned a spot in the consolation finals with a 14th place finish in the 200 medley.

In the individual events, four Warriors qualified to compete in the CIF Finals. Melton advanced as the 11th seed in the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke; Main advanced as 13th in the 50 freestyle and 16th in the 100 freestyle; and Smith nearly broke the school record and advanced in the 100 backstroke.

Bryant said he was especially proud of this team for dealing with a thin roster all season. “We had only eight players on our roster the whole season and most of our matches have been played with only six, seven and sometimes even five players. For our team to do what they did this season (as they started each match either down 0-3 or 0-6 in sets before they even hit a ball) was quite challenging. Each set became so important, but the boys really stepped up and played well. They became accustomed to playing from behind and in most of the matches they were able to overcome that initial deficit. But today, the hole was just too big to climb out of. I applaud our efforts though!”

Stone will compete in singles, and Gralewski and Zimmerman in doubles, in the CIF sectionals at Carpinteria High School on May 18.

The 2023 Carpinteria boys golf team

Carpinteria boys golf season recap

In the first season back on the links after coach Craig Cook resurrected the program, Carpinteria boys golf had a solid season with a lot of room for growth for its young roster.

In their final Citrus Coast League Match at Saticoy Regional Golf Course in Ventura, the Warriors placed fourth overall, with four members of the team – all underclassmen – scoring under 50 points.

Junior Carter Cox earned his lowest score in regional play this year with a 41, while sophomore Sawyer Kelly shot a 43 and freshman Taylor Lenci finished with a 45. Cox, Kelly and Lenci were named as second-team all-conference. Three more Warriors – Luke Fancher, Mario Serrano and Dylan Walker – were named as honorable mentions on the Citrus Coat League all-star list.

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CALENDAR

Thursday, May 11

Senior And Active Adult Group Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, 5315 Foothill Rd. 9:30 a.m. – noon. carpinteriaca.gov/ parks-and-recreation/active-adult-senior-services

Friday, May 12

Friday Fun Day Carpinteria Community Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. 10 – 11:30 a.m. For ages 3-11. carpinterialibrary.org

“Encanto” Family Movie Night The Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave. 6 p.m. $5. thealcazar.org

Live Music: Lion Heights Island Brewing Company, 5049 Sixth St. 6 – 9 p.m.

Saturday, May 13

CWA Flower Sale, FFA Scholarship

Fundraiser Carpinteria Middle School, 5351 Carpinteria Ave. 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Carpinteria Beautiful meeting Carpinteria City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave. 9 a.m.

American Scandinavian Scholarship Awards Luncheon 1059 Vallecito Rd. 1 p.m.

CycleMAYnia: Family Biking Activities Carpinteria Children’s Project, 5201 Eighth St. 2 – 5:30 pm, movesbcounty.org/events

ABOP Disposal Program Carpinteria City Hall, 5575 Carpinteria Ave. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Live Music: Flight 805 Island Brewing Company, 5049 Sixth St. 6 – 9 p.m.

Sunday, May 14

Live Music: Jayden Secor Island Brewing Company, 5049 Sixth St. 2 – 5 p.m.

Monday, May 15

Preschool Story Time Carpinteria Community Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. 10 – 10:30 a.m. For ages 2-5. carpinterialibrary.org.

Curso de Computación Carpinteria Community Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. 6 – 7 p.m. carpinterialibrary.org, (805) 684-4314

Tuesday, May 16

Carpinteria Writers’ Group Carpinteria Community Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. 10 a.m. – noon. carpinterialibrary.org

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Spanish Conversation Group Carpinteria Community Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave. 1 – 2 p.m. carpinterialibrary.org

Senior And Active Adult Group Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, 5315 Foothill

Rd. 9:30 a.m. – noon. carpinteriaca.gov/ parks-and-recreation/active-adult-senior-services

Carpinteria Improv The Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave. 7 p.m. $10. thealcazar.org

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