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COVER STORY

Celebrating Old Spanish Days

A Complete Guide to Fiesta 2022

by Camie Barnwell and Terry Ortega

NEWS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 OPINIONS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

OBITUARIES.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

FOOD & DRINK .. . . . . . . . . . . 38 Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

ARTS LIFE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

ASTROLOGY.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

CLASSIFIEDS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ON THE COVER: Sofia Chicote and Timo Nuñez dance on the beach near the breakwater. Photo by Timo Nuñez. Design by Xavier Pereyra.

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Flamenco dancer, singer, actor, and model Timo Nuñez is this week’s cover photographer.

How were you able to capture this unique image of you and Sofia Chicote? I shot this picture of Sofia, a beautiful local dancer, out on the breakwater a few years ago when I was just starting photography. Using my iPhone (I know), I found an angle that showed her and her shadow as the waves were breaking. I looked to the side and saw my own shadow next to her, taking her photo. I was wearing a hat already, and I quickly struck a pose while somehow positioning my little iPhone behind my forearm and snapped. It was a fun moment, and the fact that it is being featured here at the Independent is a testament to what people can create when they’re having a good time and not taking themselves too seriously. That shot wouldn’t have been possible with my camera today! No way!

Nuñez performs flamenco at Sunstone Winery on Saturday, August 6, from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. with Clare Rodriguez, David McLean, Lakshmi Basile, and others. He will also be singing his new Flamenco pop song, “Loco,” around town during Fiesta. For more information, visit @timonunez_official.

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NEWS of the WEEK

JULY 28-AUG. 4, 2022

by RYAN P. CRUZ, TYLER HAYDEN, JUN STARKEY, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA, with INDEPENDENT STAFF

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Wrong-Way Driver Found Guilty in Hwy. 154 Triple-Murder

FIESTA

John Dungan Faces 45 Years to Life on Lesser Charges of Second-Degree Murder RODR IGO H ER N AN DEZ

into Bley’s Chevy Volt on Cold Springs Canyon Bridge in October 2019.

Dungan’s defense team, led by attorney Jeremy Lessem, built a case that Dungan, though responsible for the deaths of the three victims, did not plan or premeditate the killings.

The prosecution’s case took the bulk of the trial, with Chanda and Wagner calling witnesses at the scene that day, investigators involved in the incident, and those who knew Dungan personally. The often emotional testimony drew tears from several witnesses describing the gruesome scene, in which Bley’s body was launched through her windshield and the children were trapped inside the burning vehicle. Other witnesses recalled failed attempts to rescue the children. Investigators would testify that all three died on impact, with Dungan’s gas pedal fully open at 119 mph at the time of the collision.

As the trial continued, the prosecution called personal friends and family of Dungan, painting a picture of a man who struggled with mental-health issues and suicidal thoughts. Earlier in 2019, authorities conducted a welfare check earlier at Dungan’s residence following self-threatening messages that were sent to friends and family. “I am too sensitive for this reality,” read one note submitted as evidence.

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early three years after the high-speed head-on collision that took the lives of 34-year-old Rebecca Vanessa Goss Bley and her two children — 2-yearold Lucienne Bley Gleason and 4-monthold Desmond Bley Gleason — on a bridge on Highway 154, the man responsible for the crash, 31-year-old John Dungan, was convicted by a Santa Barbara jury Tuesday of three counts of second-degree murder.

The seven-week trial began in June, with the prosecution team of Deputy District Attorneys Megan Chanda and Stephen Wagner pushing for a conviction on three counts of felony first-degree murder, attempting to prove a suicidal and homicidal Dungan intentionally plowed his Chevy Camaro full-speed

Chanda would also show that Dungan had a penchant for weapons and violent tendencies. Police discovered 16 firearms, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and body armor at his residence, with Dungan eventually being placed on a psychiatric hold. A month later, he would be charged with felony stalking of an ex-girlfriend, which resulted in him being involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric facility before attending a rehabilitation program and being placed on probation. Investigators later showed that Dungan removed his courtordered GPS tracker minutes before the crash.

The defense called only two witnesses, with Dungan choosing not to testify at all. Instead, Lessem called on a psychiatrist who examined Dungan at the hospital a little more than a week after the collision in 2019. Though the doctor did not specifically remember the encounter, he reviewed his reports and testified that he was unable to determine whether Dungan was suicidal, but that there were “a lot of red flags”—one being the note the defendant left the day of the crash, which the doctor referred to as a “suicide letter,” and another being a call from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office advising the hospital about Dungan’s history of having crisis intervention called on him multiple times.

After both sides finished their arguments on Thursday, July 28, the jury deliberated through Friday and Monday. On Tuesday, they reached a verdict convicting Dungan on the lesser charges of second-degree murder, finding that he was responsible for the deaths but lacked “aforethought” and intent. Now convicted of three counts of second-degree murder, Dungan faces 45 years to life. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 8. n

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UCSB Prof Helped Shape Climate Bill Dr. Leah Stokes Advised Senate Democrats but Frets About Local Regulations

by Tyler Hayden r. Leah Stokes may have helped craft the most significant piece of climate legislation in U.S. history, but she’s having a heck of a time electrifying her Santa Barbara home. “It’s a lot of red tape,” she said. “Our city really does not make it easy.”

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Senate Democrats on the $369 billion climate and tax deal announced with great fanfare last week after a year of bruising negotiations. In addition to jump-starting clean energy production on a mass scale, the package features a raft of incentives for everyday Americans wanting to live greener lives, including tax credits for electric vehicles and sustainable home improvements.

We spoke to Stokes Monday about the

bill, the compromises that were necessary to make it happen, and Santa Barbara’s role in fighting the climate crisis. This is an edited version of our conversation.

The bill is obviously a major achievement, but some environmentalists are worried about its fossil-fuel provisions, like requiring new lease sales for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. What are your thoughts

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Santa Barbara Trolley Co. will be offering free rides on its open-air trolleys on 8/5 for Fiesta. The trolleys will run every 10-20 minutes back and around from the S.B. train station up Chapala Street to Victoria and back down Anacapa Street, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., to take passengers from the parade route — El Desfile Histórico will run along Cabrillo Boulevard this year — to downtown Santa Barbara and its mercado at Plaza De la Guerra. Full story at independent.com/ free-trolley.

CORONAVIRUS Late last week, S.B. Mayor Randy Rowse tested positive for COVID-19, and then early this week, he tested negative. Rowse said he’d re-test again on 8/3 and then consult with his doctor to determine to what extent he’ll make the ceremonial scene for this year’s Fiesta, the first to be held in three years.

Even if he tests negative, Rowse said “the optics” of showing up so soon after testing positive could prove distracting for some people. Full story at independent.com/mayor-covid.

NATIONAL The illnesses experienced by U.S. veterans due to their exposure to toxic burn pits in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam were recognized on 8/2 when the Senate passed a bill called the Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. S.B. Rep. Salud Carbajal was among the House co-sponsors of the bill and is himself a veteran of the Marine Reserve during the Gulf War. “I am glad to see that the 25 Senate Republicans who held up this bill … have stopped playing games with our veterans’ health care and let this bill get to the President’s desk,” Carbajal said in a statement. Full story at independent.com/pact.

COMMUNITY The Sheriff’s Office has identified Faysal Hekmat, 33, of Santa Maria as the motorcyclist killed in a head-on collision on Highway 1 near San Antonio Road in Lompoc on 7/28. Hekmat died at the scene, according to Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Raquel Zick. The car that crashed into Hekmat was driven by Santa Maria resident Natalia Mesa, 21, who was transported to the Marian Hospital for minor injuries after the crash. No arrests have been made, and investigators say drugs and alcohol are not a factor in this case.

The S.B. Zoo has announced that Audrey, the zoo’s 14-year-old female Masai giraffe, lost her calf late during birth on 7/27. She was in labor for six and a half hours with keepers and veterinary staff present, but it became clear that the calf was stillborn. Audrey was given time with her calf and then walked away of her own accord. She was able to see the rest of the herd within an hour and started eating and drinking around that time as well, which zoo officials say is a “great sign of her continued health.”

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on that? Look, provisions that require lease auctions are not ideal. We don’t want any new fossil-fuel development, and scientists tell us we can’t have any new development and still limit warming to 1.5 degrees. But even though the leases are required doesn’t mean fossil-fuel companies will buy them. And it doesn’t mean they’re going to develop them, because we’re going to make it financially less profitable to do so with royalty rate increases and other steps in the process.

You saw that here in Santa Barbara. I’ve been involved in trying to stop drilling in our own county.

So we have to be cleareyed. Although we might spend a lot of time thinking Dr. Leah Stokes about these provisions and worrying about their impacts, from a climate perspective, they’re pretty small compared to the rest of the bill. An analysis came out today from Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan research group, which shows that the climate benefits of the bill are 24 times larger than the climate costs.

What parts of the legislation are you personally excited about? The consumer-

facing incentives. I worked on those to help people afford heat pumps.

That’s going to be really important in Santa Barbara County, where more and more people are going to need airconditioning because our county has actually warmed faster than the rest of the country.

If you put in a heat pump, you can both heat and cool your home efficiently without using gas, and that will help people get off SoCalGas, which again, I’m personally excited about because I think SoCalGas is not a good company.

They were the ones who engaged in all that deceptive messaging where they sent texts to people in the community and lied about the vote to ban gas in new construction, which we managed to pass in Santa Barbara.

Overall, I’m happy there’s going to be money to help people pay for an induction stove, hot water heater, that kind of stuff — everything to help Americans electrify their homes.

Have you outfitted your home yet? I’ve

been working on it, and I got to say, the city makes it really difficult. We have a lot of bad rules. For instance, I can’t put an electric vehicle charger on the front of my house. It has to be on the side of my house. Like, what? That’s stupid.

We should be thinking about how we are going to make it easier for people

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What else can the city do to help fight the climate crisis? I think the city needs to be

putting more effort into bike infrastructure. People want to bike in our community, and they do. If you go along the Modoc bike lane, for example, there’s always tons of people. In fact, just the other day, I was biking along that lane and I came across about 3,000 riders.

It was like some kind of group ride. It was amazing.

But people want to feel safe, too. And I don’t think that our community is doing enough to create protected bike lanes, really good ones that have actual barriers or that are elevated. We live in such an amazing climate. Why don’t we have better bike infrastructure here?

At the county level, we need to keep fighting oil drilling in our backyard.

We’ve had some recent successes, like at Cat Canyon.

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Not long ago, the threat of climate change felt pretty abstract. Now it feels very real.

When did that happen? I think because

the American people are seeing climate change in their backyards. A hundred million people in July experienced extreme heat all at once in one week.

Sixty million people are under extreme drought. Santa Barbara is on the front lines of that. Our community is projected to become a desert in the coming decades if we don’t get on top of this. I think all of us are feeling the impacts of the water shortages. So yeah, I think so many Americans have really woken up to this climate crisis and they really n want Congress to act.

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NEWS BRIEFS CONT’D FROM P. 6 California sea lions at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary will soon join Elvis Presley and Wonder Woman in having their image on a U.S. postage stamp. Starting 8/5, a new series called National Marine Sanctuaries will be issued and liven up the first-class envelopes sent by those who still correspond by pen and paper. The sea lions’ photo was taken at the east end of San Miguel Island by Jeff Harris, a research ecologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration based in Seattle. Full story at independent.com/ sea-lion-stamp.

HEALTH Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to assist in efforts to combat the spread of monkeypox, as areas such as Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle to keep up with the demand for vaccinations. Currently, Santa Barbara County has a total of 40 monkeypox vaccinations and no known cases of the disease. Neighboring Ventura and Kern counties have two and five cases, respectively.

Jackie Ruiz, spokesperson for S.B. County Public Health, said it is unclear when the county will receive additional vaccinations from the state.

“Right now, all we know is they’re coming later in the summer,” Ruiz said.

ENVIRONMENT New oil drilling and fracking was put on hold for federal lands in Central California after the Bureau of Land Management settled with the State of California and several environmental groups. Lawsuits filed in 2020 succeeded in arguing once again that the environmental review done for a lease-sale project across eight counties and covering more than a million acres failed to adequately address impacts, including those from fracking, on California residents and land. Included in the temporary moratorium for S.B. County is almost the entirety of Vandenberg Space Force Base’s 102,000 acres, 1,793 acres near Tepusquet Canyon, more than 3,000 acres in Lompoc, and 40 acres near Cate School near Carpinteria.

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The corner of State and West Anapamu streets was cordoned off as a crime scene on 7/30 after one person was stabbed during what witnesses described as “some type of altercation” with one person or possibly more, according to an S.B. Police statement. Detectives continue to work the case, police spokesperson Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale said, and are compiling witness statements, video from the nearby businesses, and evidence. The 37-year-old victim was taken to Cottage Hospital with most injuries to his arms and is believed to be in stable condition.

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An S.B. SWAT unit surrounded a residence on the 100 block of Alisos Street near Cacique and executed a search warrant on 7/28 that led to at least one arrest, according to police spokesperson Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale. Late on 7/26, just a few blocks away on Cacique Street, there was a stabbing and reports of at least one gunshot following an altercation in front of an apartment complex. Police have not officially confirmed whether Tuesday’s events are related to Thursday’s SWAT operation.

A man is in custody facing charges of vehicular manslaughter and DUI causing injury following a death on Painted Cave Road on 7/23, according to Sheriff ’s Office spokesperson Raquel Zick.

Authorities had received a report of “a person down in the roadway,” and around 10 p.m., Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene and found Nicole Lawson, 45, unconscious in the road and Daniel Zuzinec, 37, “awake and near a vehicle.” Lawson was pronounced dead at the scene; Zuzinec was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs but “experienced a medical emergency,” Zick said, and was transported to the hospital, where he was booked in absentia. He has since been booked into the Main Jail.

S.B. County will receive $61,130 out of a $1.39 million award settlement struck between multiple California counties and an interstate trucking firm, Old Dominion Freight Line, for hauling hazardous materials and hazardous wastes without the proper permits or without notifying state environmental officials that they were doing so. Most of that $61,130 will go to the county District Attorney’s office, which joined the litigation launched by the Orange County District Attorney. A small percentage will go to the county’s Department of Environmental Services. Santa Barbara jumped into the litigation because Old Dominion operates a facility out of Santa Maria.

A 42-year-old Lompoc pedestrian on the 600 block of West Ocean Avenue was struck and killed by a driver reportedly under the influence on 7/30, according to the Lompoc Police Department.

Authorities transported the victim to an area hospital, where she later died of her injuries.

The suspected driver, Angela Rose Cline, 31, was arrested in the nearby area and booked at the Northern Branch Jail, with her bail set at $100,000.

The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification to next of kin.

A pride flag hanging at Saint Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church in Santa Ynez was cut down on 7/28, and two people identified as “young adults” have been determined by the Sheriff’s Office to be suspects in the hate crime. After the incident was publicized, community members reported seeing videos of the pride flag being burnt circulating on Snapchat. The suspects admitted to detectives that they had previously stolen a pride flag from the Ballard area, near Buellton, and had also stolen and filmed themselves burning pride flags. The Sheriff’s Office requested the DA charge the suspects with petty theft and committing a hate crime but did not arrest them. n

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DNA sequencing revealed that bone fragments thought to belong to Montecito Debris Flow victim Jack Cantin may in fact be from a cow.

by Tyler Hayden he Santa Barbara County Coroner’s Bureau has closed its case on the remains discovered last summer reportedly belonging to missing Montecito Debris Flow victim Jack Cantin, determining through DNA analysis that the bone fragments unearthed by a former UCSB anthropologist and her team of students are probably not human, but more likely bovine.

“We found no evidence to support the tested bone sample is of human origin,” states a letter from an outside forensics company attached to the final coroner’s report, which noted the “DNA preservation in the bone is extremely poor.” “We cannot determine with certainty the species the bone belongs to, but the strongest evidence available in these data suggests cow.”

The recent finding supports an earlier opinion rendered by a separate forensics expert, before the DNA testing was conducted, that the remains did not come from Cantin. Two of the samples provided by the anthropologist, Dr. Danielle Kurin, were “clearly not bones, neither human nor nonhuman,” the expert said, and were instead “fragments of stems of a woody plant.”

Another two, though confirmed to be bone, showed signs of a prolonged exposure to the elements that indicated “the fragments are not of recent origin and almost certainly are not those of Jack Cantin,” he said.

Given the consenting opinions, and after consulting with forensic anthropologists at Harvard and Marshall universities, as well as the Kern County Coroner’s Office and a radiocarbon dating lab in Florida, the Santa Barbara Coroner’s Bureau concluded its current investigation and still considers Cantin a missing person, states the report, which was finalized July 12 and obtained by the Independent through a public records request.

The development marks the latest tragic twist in the aftermath of the death of 17-year-old Jack Cantin, who was swept

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The Girls Inc. in Carpinteria is in a different chapter from the Greater Santa Barbara chapter.

Faust, who began in January 2022, said while the pandemic accelerated the decision to close and sell the Ortega Street location, it had been in discussion for years. After the Ortega Street center stopped its enrichment classes, the organization shifted to outreach and providing resources through programs like school partnerships. During this time, it piloted enrichment programs at Goleta Valley and Santa Barbara Junior High, as well as Dos Pueblos High School.

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by Ryan P. Cruz anta Barbara’s Parks & Recreation department unveiled the latest renderings for the proposed $14 million Ortega Park Master Plan last Thursday, revealing the suggested locations for the 12 reenvisioned, re-created, and relocated murals, along with an already controversial steel-andconcrete gated fence surrounding the park.

It was the second public meeting held at the park’s Welcome House in the past two months, following a June 8 meeting focused on getting public input about the size and location of the new swimming pool. The July 28 meeting revealed the details on the park’s historical murals, which have been at the center of a heated battle led by community activists, who fought back when the earliest master plan called for their complete removal.

Since then, the city gave into public outcry by commissioning a study of the park’s murals, and in the report published in July 2021, an updated plan called for some of the murals to be kept as is and relocated, while others were set to be recreated or reenvisioned in the new park.

Five of the 17 murals — depicting Aztec and geometric symbols, a jaguar, a dragon, and a green serpent — were deemed in too poor shape and destined for “documentation and deaccession.”

Four of the murals — “Rainbow Quetzal,” “Codex Cospi,” “La Playa,” and “Aztec Chumash Solstice” — will be “reenvisioned” by local artists to more accurately depict the intention of the original murals.

For example, the study found the “Aztec Chumash Solstice” mural did not “represent the Chumash as accurately as the name suggests,” and since it would be difficult to preserve in place or relocate, it will be used as “inspiration for a new mural that is more inclusive and representative of the Chumash-Chicano connection.”

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The five most historically significant murals, according to the city’s study — “Cosmic Unity,” “Coatlicue,” “Deportes,” “Campesinos,” and “Niños del Maiz” — will be preserved as much as possible and relocated in full to locations around the new park. Thirteen all-new murals will also be commissioned and placed throughout the park.

City Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez attended the public meeting and said the new plans are “good” but that there is still a lot of public pushback about several aspects of the design, from the pool to the skate park to the look of the new fencing.

“I do have concerns that I’m still wrestling with in my head and need more feedback from the community,” he said. He added that the park as it is now has a very open layout, and the proposed iron bar fencing may not be the best decision. “I really have some strong reservations about fencing off an open public space.”

Several members of the public have started a petition asking the city to rethink the design for the pool and pushing for a larger competitive-sized model, even suggesting the planners remove the proposed skate park to create more space for a fullsized pool.

The $14 million project starts with $1 million from the city’s general fund, with the first $500,000 earmarked for the park improvements in 2023. Grants and sponsorships will likely be key to funding the entire project, and the project is expected to navigate a labyrinth of city review before being finalized.

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Opinions STATING THE OBVIOUS: This is an inconvenient time to want simple things. Vin Scully

dies. His silence will be deafening. Before that, it was Celtics great Bill Russell. The feet don’t exist that can fill Russell’s size-14 shoes. In the same week, the United Nations Secretary-General announces, “Humanity is just one misunderstanding—one miscalculation — away from nuclear annihilation.”

Scientists have just upgraded the “mega”drought that’s seized the western United States for so long to “giga”-drought. And people who worry about such things are now talking openly about something they call “climate endgame.” That’s a euphemistic way of saying “human extinction.”

I get it.

If this were a chess game, I’d resign.

Fortunately, I never learned to play chess.

In the meantime, I just want a pair of pants. Is that asking too much?

Santa Barbara’s City Council, it turns out, heard my plaintive wail. Two weeks ago, the council voted unanimously to spend about $750,000 on a team of high-powered consultants —big-brain, future-forward-thinking visionaries—to figure out over the next 18 months a credible plan to Make State Street Great Again. For those inclined to reduce all of life into irritating acronyms, that spells “MSSGA.” Thankfully, that defies human pronunciation, meaning there will be one less red-hatted variant we have to worry about.

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An Inconvenient Dog Naturally, members of Santa Barbara’s “Gott im Himmel!” crowd — their bald hair forever on fire — have worked themselves into a hyperventilating lather of indignant harrumphing. In a prior, more innocent time, I might have said that when I hear someone “harrumph,” I reach for my gun.

But these days, somebody might be inspired to act.

Having been a precocious zygote during John Kennedy’s salad days, I am forever asking not what I can do for my country, but what my country can do for me. And $800,000 for a consultants’ contract so that I can buy a pair of trousers in my hometown downtown seems virtuous enough to excuse any excess of extremism.

One might think that in the vast one-mile State Street chasm yawning out between Haley and Sola streets, there would be a multitude of places where an over-the-hill Dagwood could buy a simple pair of pants.

To be fair, Old Navy does, in fact, sell pants.

But every single pair comes so pre-starched they can all but walk out of the store. And the cuffs are engineered to slide up one’s calf upon the crossing of one’s legs, thus exposing an alarming sea of chalky white skin.

That leaves Men’s Wearhouse, which is fine but maybe a little too “Dad at a Father’s Day All-You-Can-Eat brunch.”

Clearly State Street is not all it can be.

Previous consultants have determined State Street is roughly 33 percent too long to be

economically sustainable as a retail corridor.

Worse, most storefront building spaces are too long and too deep for functional retail purposes. As a result, business owners wind up paying top dollar to rent square footage they can’t profitably use.

COVID might be the best thing that ever happened to State Street. Thanks to COVID, State Street was declared a promenade. Cars off; everything else on. Yes, it’s a big sloppy wet kiss. But it’s a lively sloppy wet kiss.

Before that, it was a dry peck from a corpse who would not die.

Now, families are downtown. Kids are downtown. Tourists are downtown. Yes, even obnoxious couples short-leashing their twin his-and-hers labradoodles are downtown. And, of course, every electric or human-powered vehicle known to humanity is careening up and down the street. Yes, there are problems.

Mayor Randy Rowse is forever worried — with good reason — that the withered remains of Jimmy Hoffa might turn up buried underneath one of State Street’s many parklets. Would that project the requisite image of public safety the world has come to expect from Santa Barbara?

For the past three years, we’ve been operating by the seat of our pants — no wonder I need to buy a new pair — collectively making it up as we go along. Now it’s time to figure out the long-term vision. How many parking lots do we need? Can some be con-

verted into housing? What will become of Paseo Nuevo? Can we put a homeless shelter where the police station will soon

no longer be?

One thing’s for certain: The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. State Street’s pedestrian promenade may well get shortened; it is twice as long as the one they have in Ventura. But cars are not coming back.

That train left the station, and the horses are out of the barn.

Former Mayor Sheila Lodge — now a planning commissioner — deserves a plaque for sticking her neck out about 30 years ago when she suggested a promenade would be an idea to consider. For the crime of simply saying so, Lodge was all but drawn and quartered by the “Gott im Himmel” crowd then animating the Chamber of Commerce.

If I were the consultants, I’d steal a page from Carpinteria’s playbook and ban chain stores from State Street. I’d steal a page from Ventura and encourage the return of thrift stores to State Street. Have you visited Ventura lately? It’s humming. As for chronically vacant storefronts, I’d charge the owners a fee large enough to hire the best street musicians we could find — Music Academy of the West, anybody? — and make the alcoves come alive with the sound of music.

Then I’d take whatever’s left over from the consultants’ contract and buy myself a pair of trousers.

—Nick Welsh

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On July 25, the Santa Barbara Architectural Board of Review reviewed the 121 East Mason “SoMo” Funk Zone project. I was struck by the good fortune of our community in entailing rigorous standards of review for such projects and also the massively inappropriate scale, design, and function of the proposed project.

From Citizens’ Planning Association letter to the ABR: “In addition to the size, bulk, and scale being out of proportion to the neighborhood, the building is unattractive. There is no true Santa Barbara style, dignity, or handsomeness proposed.”

What happened to Maui cannot happen to Santa Barbara.

The 121 East Mason project, in its current form, —Carol Eichler, S.B. must not be approved.

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In the water and stroking up the coast, I was startled by a sea lion surfacing and charging straight toward me. I waved an arm and shouted as the creature homed in on my face, glared into my eyes, snorted, and slid effortlessly beneath me, disappearing.

I wasn’t through swimming, but I calculated my risk-reward ratio and headed for shore, grabbed my gear, and, tail between my legs, headed up the beach.

A lady approached and said that from atop the cliff, she had taken in the whole thing: the sea lion approaching me from behind, speeding toward me for about 30 seconds, passing me from underwater, then turning and surfacing while charging.

I’ve often surfed up at Government Point, just around the bend from Point Conception, the near-

est major landfall from San Miguel Island, a wellpopulated sea lion rookery. I usually surfed alone up there and was often surrounded by sea lions, but never one in such a frisky mood.

Evidently, they can act that way during breeding season, and with increasing global warming and algae growth, their brains can become infected and they become ornery.

The witness turned out to be a researcher at UCSB; her current field of interest is investigating how various societies around the globe treat elders.

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These are not the only two viable options. There is at least one other route option that would preserve trees and wildlife and provide a beautiful, scenic, and safe route for bike riders, walkers, runners, and wheelchair users, young and old.

An option called “Alignment C” starts just inside the entrance to Hope Ranch and runs along Vieja Drive, but it was not recommended for reasons that seem minor compared to tree removal required for Alignments Bad and Awful.

If Alignment C is truly unworkable, then we implore the county planners to come up with a new Alignment D. Perhaps a modified version of Alignment A could make room for the new path while preserving trees and wildlife by narrowing the car lanes along the north end of Modoc from Via Senda to the Obern Trail.

The $5.5 million grant requires plan approval by October 1, and the issue comes before the Board of Supervisors for a vote on September 13.

Community Association for Modoc Preserve (CAMP) is asking concerned residents of Santa Barbara County to sign our change.org/ SaveModocRoadTrees petition. We offer an easy one-hour guided hike through the Modoc Preserve.

Make a reservation at modocpreserve@gmail.com today.

—Shelly Cobb, CAMP Volunteer, S.B.

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11/30/1940 - 8/11/2021

Bruce was joyfully welcomed into Heaven a year ago on August 11, 2021 in Santa Barbara, CA. Although he struggled with many medical issues for the last few years of his life, his devoted wife, Canda, was his greatest champion and always at his side.

A TRUE GENTLEMAN … to be emulated. Deeply faithful.

Never taking a day off from excellence. Honor and dignity were his core values. Generous with his time, wisdom, and resources.

Kind, fair and loyal. Strong work ethic and commanding personal presence identify him as a leader.

He was born November 30, 1940 in Los Angeles to parents Bill and Betty and big brother Jay. He fondly remembers his childhood of camping under the stars with family and friends in Baja Peninsula, Catalina Island, Carpinteria. He enjoyed numerous activities with the Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts.

In 1956 his family moved to Santa Barbara, where he was proud to be a Don at SB High School. Bruce was accepted into Claremont McKenna College.

He was Associated Student Body, Athletic Chair, Appleby Social Chairman, member of Junior Class Council and the Knickerbocker Social Club.

He merited the Academic Roll of Honor. Bruce considered this excellent educational experience to be four of the most important years of his life. He graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He went on to earn an MBA in Finance UCLA and was elected into Beta Gamma Sigma.

Bruce proudly enlisted in the Army National Guard. He became a sharpshooter with M-14 rifle and completed SEOH NOC Leadership School.

In 1963 he married Cheryl Miller and had three children: Bill, Brett and Carrie.

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Financial Executive. His expertise included investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and venture capital. He was a member for the Association of Corporate Growth. Board of Advisors, Entrepre- neurial Studies Program at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management.

His amazing career spanned Prudential Insurance Co. of America as a Senior Investment Analyst. Then to Seidler Companies Inc. as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and Board of Directors. On to Van Kasper and Company as Managing Director of Corporate Finance, member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. He retired his career with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as Executive Vice President, Senior Managing Director of Investment Banking.

In 1985, it was destiny that Bruce met Canda, the love of his life, while visiting Maui. They were joyfully married in 1987.

They lived in Pacific Palisades where they thoroughly enjoyed the community. Bruce was a member of the Jonathan Club since 1972. In 2003 they moved to Santa Barbara.

Bruce was an active member of El Montecito Presbyterian Church. He had a deep faith and belief that God actively moved in his life. He demonstrated his faith through acts of kindness and generosity throughout his lifetime.

Bruce was an incurable dog lover and supported numerous animal and environmental causes across the country. He was known for his wonderful sense of humor and quick wit. He led by example, made time for his family and friends and was a man of his word. Above all, he will be most remembered as extremely loyal and supportive to those he loved, generous to all he encountered… he was kind, steadfast, a consummate Gentleman.

He will be greatly missed and always remembered by those he held most dear ~ Canda, his devoted wife of 35 years, his children, Brett (Jamie) Emmeluth, Carrie (Kirk) Landau and five grandchildren: Jaden & Kuryn Emmeluth, Kylie, Chase and Cole Landau. He was proceeded in death by his parents, his brother Jay and son, Bill.

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Doris Passi passed away on July 22, 2022 at Vista Del Monte, in Santa Barbara, CA at the age of 96. She was born June 5, 1926 in Boston, MA the daughter of John F. Melavin and Anna Gillis Melavin and grew up in the neighborhood of Dorchester. After graduating high school she and her twin sister, Dottie, began work at the Boston Edison Company.

She moved to California in the 1960s and worked at Caltech University. Doris married Robert Grasser, an American Airlines flight engineer, in 1965 and they lived in Thousand Oaks. Doris was a favorite neighbor to all the kids, always baking and handing out treats. She and Bob moved to South Weymouth, MA to take care of her mother in the late 1970s. Her mother passed away and after Bob died in 1979 Doris returned to California.

On Valentine’s Day 1981, Doris married Paul Passi and gained a son, John Passi. The trio loved traveling to Italy. Commenting on her marriage, Doris often stated that she and Paul never had an argument the entire length of their union. They both loved helping others and were dedicated volunteers for Meals on Wheels.

Doris is survived by many nieces and nephews: Lisbeth Caccese, Samuel (Katherine) Caccese, Michael (Louise) Caccese, Carol Caccese, the Baranski’s (Len, Carole, John F., & James R.), Andrea (David) Hays, Julie (Monty) Goodwin, Robert (Linda) Corcoran, Danny Murphy, Michael (Liz) Murphy, John (Kerry) Melavin, Scott Melavin, Lauren (Dan) LePage, Joyce Melavin and many great and great-great nieces and nephews.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Robert Grasser and Paul Passi, brother John Melavin, sisters Dottie Browning, Rosemary Corcoran, and Kay Murphy. She was the last surviving member of her lifelong friends of Club 14 of Dorchester.

Graceful and dignified, Doris Passi impressed everyone with her charm and humor. Her favorite greeting was, “How are things in your world?” Asked how she was feeling, Doris always answered with, “No complaints.” A memorial services will be held at a later date on the East coast.

Ciao Bella, Aunt Doris

John was a local boy who grew up on a horse ranch in Montecito, and attended local schools. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School, class of 1956 and then attended Oregon State on a football scholarship, playing for legendary caoch Tommy Prothro, on a team that went to the 1956 Rose Bowl.

John was known to “hot rod” around Santa Barbara in the 1950’s, so it was no surprise that he would make a career in the automative business that would continue for over 60 years, starting first with the Chevrolet division of General Motors in Van Nuys. While living there, he met the love of his life, Lauren Leventhal, and they married in 1963.

He spent the 60’s and early 70’s with GM, which took him to San Diego and Washington state with Chevrolet. Having enough of the corporate life, John decided to venture out on his own to start Mission City Leasing in 1975. The family picked up from San Diego, and moved to his hometown of Santa Barbara. He also owned the local Chevrolet dealership Fixe Star Chevrolet for a period of time in the mid 1980’s. Mission City Auto Center was a longtime fixture on lower State Street in the 1980’s, and then later on Hollister Avenue as a seller of work trucks.

Many customers became friends and would stop by to just shoot the breeze with “Papa John”.

In his spare time, when John wasn’t out chopping wood and collecting western memorabilia he was an amazing silversmith.

Taught by his father Dean Mullins, John made beautiful silver and gold western belt buckles, hat bands and earrings for family and friends.

John is survived by Lauren, to whom he was married of 58 years; his children Todd (Corby), Marc (Renee), Jennifer Fisher (Kevin); his grandchildren Addison, Mackenna, Shane, Drew; his sister Jeanette Taylor, brother Gary Mullins, and numerous nieces and nephews.

“Papa John” was a master on the wood fired grill. Legendary tri-tips and ribs, with chopped peppers were standard fire for gatherings with family and

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friends. Everyday was a good day for a frie in the hearth, as he “twice warmed” our hearts.

Donations can be made in his name to: VasculitisFoundation.org

Evangelina P. Leon 10/17/1930 - 7/11/2022

Evangelina P. Leon, passed away July 11, at home surrounded by family. In rest she joins her beloved husband Antonio Leon, and son, Jose Leon. Born in Stratford, TX on October 17, 1930 to Jose and Guadalupe Perez. She grew up in Angamacutiro, Michoacán, Mexico and moved to Santa Barbara in the early 1950’s where she started her family with her husband.

She is survived by her children: Trina Lazalde, Alberto Leon, Lidia Rennix, Beatriz Leon, and Antonio Leon Jr. Her legacy includes 14 grandchildren, 35 great grandchildren and 11 greatgreat grandchildren.

Evangelina was passionate about her family, faith, community, gardening, traveling and attending Fiestas. She made sure to stay active and enjoyed walking in Douglas Family Preserve and the Mesa neighborhoods daily.

Her door was always open as she welcomed and created a connection with her family and guests by expressing her love and affection through cooking delicious food.

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Bill Gebhart, MD passed away on July 7, 2022, at home, with his wife Rosemarie at his side. He was 94 years old.

Bill joined the Sansum Clinic on August 1, 1957 in the Internal Medicine Department. He went to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Cleveland Clinic. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the original members of the newly created Nephrology Department and was involved in dialysis treatment in Santa Barbara since its inception here. He was involved in the short-lived efforts at kidney transplants in Santa Barbara around that time as well. He was involved in Clinic leadership roles during his last few decades at The Clinic – he was here for more than 40 years – and was one of the instrumental players in the early 1970s in the creation of the then-novel 1206(l) Medical Foundation model in California.

Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic along with Palo Alto Medical Foundation Clinic and Gould Medical Foundation Clinic were the three original Medical Foundations in the State of California in the early 1970s.

Dr. Gebhart and other visionaries at Santa Barbara Medical Clinic with their colleagues at the other two Clinics mentioned above were responsible for creating the legislation that created the 1206 (l) model that now cares for millions of California residents.

Bill remained a practicing internist/nephrologist until his retirement from the Clinic in 1999, 42 years and two months after he started. He was the Assistant Medical Director of the Clinic at the time of his retirement. He was very involved in quality initiatives and JAHCO accreditation at the time of his retirement and went on to work part time as a JAHCO surveyor after his retirement.

He is survived by his wife of 30 years, Rosemarie, and his two children, Judy and Cynthia, as well as his stepchildren Nicole and Madaline and two grandchildren.

There is no scheduled memorial service, per his wishes.

He will be missed by all who knew him.

The family has requested that any memorial gifts be made to VNA Health or Sansum Clinic.

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John Macker

Twenty-six Odes to the Macker!

You are A good soul, Living inside an Irish devil.

What a blow, For you to go, I didn’t know.

When I knew, I couldn’t Come see What happened To you.

Not fair.

I wasn’t aware Of your fears And tears.

Remember what we said; No blame!

No shame!

No regrets!

Great big sadness.

You could get an artichoke To tell it’s life story.

So, would you please interview God. And get back to us, Asap.

Shared many a toke Of my best smoke.

What a pest But the best.

In the west.

Whimsically attractive, Always in the middle.

Easily amused & mystified By a gee-haw whammy diddle.

In need of help.

Til the last, You were too proud to ask.

Sharing Hollywood story’s A star in a jar At Two Dollars Bill’s Bar. Please forgive me The future I was not told.

Too late To be saved You broke your stem Then locked the gate.

Optimistic to the end.

You said: “Sooner or later.”

Then there was yesterday.

Bill Dalziel

Final cut: July 26, 2022

Leslie Bruel

10/14/1941.- 6/25/2022

I’ll be looking for you, To show up soon, Kind hearted friend.

On a stool, Not a nudge,?

Would make you budge.

Grim at times, You didn’t have enough time, To learn the rhyme.

Too late; Too early; Too much; Too reasonable.

A fabulist You’re not.

Linen & scarfs, Sage bright, String tied Pajamas, So tight.

So sorry, So sad, The way You had To said Goodbye.

Hoping you’re at peace.

And know you’re free From earthly debts.

Your stamp is everywhere.

Soft shoe prints In the Montecito mudslide.

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Always a bright shaker.

You clever faker, A true dream maker.

You are missed, Hoping you’re Resting in bliss.

Japanese G.Q. model Of frugality.

Never 86’d Even with a tab,

Douglas Dale Rossi

You will show up again With your crooked Dr. Strange smile.

Chopped Luckys salad, Side of Roquefort, And M-5.

You were misused, Abused, and Accused.

You are now excused!

She traveled the world. She loved her friends, animals and all the arts. She spent half her life battling painful, debilitating diseases.

With the help of her ever-present wit, humor and determination and her outstanding and dedicated team of UCLA medical specialists, her life remained full and devoted to others. Leslie was a life force who will always be remembered and cherished.

There will be a Celebration of Leslie with a Mass at Trinity Episcopal Church, S.B., at 1:00pm on Saturday, August 20, 2022.

There will be a reception on the patio immediately following. All are welcome. Loud sneakers are encouraged.

Leslie leaves her daughter, Kirsten Deeb;her granddaughter, Nikki Willams; her great grandsons, Christian and Jayden Williams and their grandpa Joe Russo; her sister-in-law, Sandy Keery-Higgins, her nieces, Meghann Wright (and her son Calvin) and Tara Wright (and her son Cillian); her nephew, Heath Wright; her lifelong friends both here and abroad; and her companions, Lynn, Luigi and cats Torino and Liz (among others).

Leslie loved life. Born in Conn.,

Douglas Dale Rossi, beloved husband, father, long-time Santa Barbara resident, and senior partner at the Price, Postel and Parma law firm died June 10, 2022, after a six-month battle with a rare and aggressive cancer. Doug was born in Oakland on March 3, 1954, to Santa Barbara natives Dale Rhodehamel Rossi and Alexander Rossi and was raised in Santa Monica where he attended Franklin Elementary, Lincoln Junior High, and Santa Monica High School.

Doug went to Amherst College where, in 1976, he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics. While at Amherst, he played on the varsity basketball team and was president and treasurer of the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Doug went on to the University of Southern California Law School where he was on the Southern California Law Review.

In 1979, shortly after he graduated, he began his career at Price, Postel & Parma. He was first a law clerk, then an associate attorney, then partner. At the time of his death, Doug was the senior partner at the one hundred and seventy-year-old firm and chaired its Estate Planning Department.

Doug believed in contributing to the community and served as a trustee to charities Alexander House Foundation and Sattler Beneficial Trust and on the board of several Santa Barbara organizations including the Boys and Girls Club, Casa Dorinda, Casa de HerINDEPENDENT.COM

rero, Family Service Agency, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and most recently Habitat for Humanity.

Doug was a natural athlete and played one game or another his whole life. Early on it was baseball and basketball. For thirty years, Doug spent his weekday lunch hour playing basketball, with friends from all walks of life, at the downtown Carrillo Rec Center near his office. He always enjoyed the workout but, moreover, he loved the camaraderie and laughs on the court. While he loved playing the game, he was equally happy coaching his kids’ teams and watching “his Lakers” on TV. Doug was big on March Madness and faithfully ran the annual brackets at his office. A true Pisces, Doug was always happiest in any body of water and was known to say “I never met a swim I didn’t like.” Doug also loved to play golf and had most recently joined the pickleball craze. Whatever the sport, he always loved a game. On the domestic side of life, Doug loved to grow things and would spend many hours carefully tending to his vegetable garden at home. He was always proud of his crop, no matter how fruitful. He especially enjoyed growing pole beans, and lettuces and was always challenged by the temperamental tomato plant.

Doug loved the desert and it had been a long-time dream of his to have a second home there. He and his wife, Kim, had recently bought a condo in Rancho Mirage. At age 68, and after 42 years of full-time lawyering, Doug was looking forward to lightening his workload and spending extended time in the desert with Kim, his kids, and grandkids.

The Rossis had only owned their new desert home for six months before Doug’s cancer diagnosis in January.

Doug is survived by his wife, Kim Haggin Rossi, children Lauren (Tom Reynolds), Christopher (Randi), Claire, and Kate, grandchildren Aubrianna, Rudy and Otis, and brothers Jon (Trish) and Chris (Linda).

There will be a private memorial service. Any contributions in Doug’s memory can be made to the Carrillo Rec Center or Habitat for Humanity.

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Stupid Never Gets Old

Trump and His Merry Band of Seditionists never seen a “smart” Republican criminal.

They all seem to be idiots.

Let’s start with Watergate. I was privileged enough to be a first-hand observer of that scandal. Working as a literary agent in Washington, D.C., I sold many of the best-selling books of that era. I represented Bernstein and Woodward, and White House Council John Dean. I therefore had a historical front row seat for the dramatic fall of Richard Nixon and All of the President’s Men. The one takeaway from that experience I’d like to share with you is something that John Dean told me just after being released from prison. He said that doing time wasn’t as hard as he’d imagined, but the disdain and scorn shown to him and the other former White House staffers by the inmate population was brutal.

They didn’t care that these men had tried to subvert the democratic process.

No, what they cared about was how moronic the plan had been.

One told Dean, “I thought Nixon was a smart guy, but he’s the dumbest criminal I’ve ever heard of. I mean, who gets his whole crew sent to prison for messing up a f****** third-rate burglary? The guy hasn’t a clue on how to be a criminal.”

Indeed, Richard Nixon’s best-known defense to his supporters was the admonition “I am not a crook.” No, he wasn’t; he was an idiot trying to be a crook.

Now let’s flash forward to Donald Trump and his merry band of seditionists. Over these past couple of months, we were presented with a stark roadmap of what these morons had in mind. First, call the faithful to D.C. on January 6 to “kick some ass and take no prisoners.” Second, march on Congress and take the building over. Next, have Trump lead his followers through the building until they could find Vice President Mike Pence and his family and force him to enforce the lunatic John Eastman’s plan.

This plan of replacing duly selected electoral voters with Trump supporters would have meant to these simple minds that the matter was now settled and Trump was still the president. Lastly, Trump, on the steps of Congress, would promise to bring those who tried to steal the election to justice and then bring America back together again for a great big beautiful tomorrow.

Had the Secret Service not refused to drive the irate Donald to his rendezvous with destiny, we might well be witnessing the greatest crisis

America has faced since the Civil War. Instead, they took the fuming Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces back to the White House. There he hopefully watched as his people streamed all over the halls of Congress, searching for the Vice President.

Trump, never one to be cited for his extraordinary patience, finally couldn’t stand it and tweeted to his people that the Pence problem had to be dealt with. In moments, the chant of “Hang Mike Pence” rang out. In sworn testimony, certain Proud Boys have confessed that they would have done Trump’s bidding. They missed cornering Pence and his family by less than 40 feet.

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Ac d General Flynn, Bannon, Eastman, and especially Giuliani were almost giddy before the January 6 storming of the Capitol. They were sure that their genius plan would return all of them and their fearless leader back to power.

Thankfully, we’ll never know if their harebrained scheme would have worked. We also will not have to look at the potential bloodbath that might have been unleashed by the president and his men that day. His gang was armed and ready; the only thing they lacked was a leader to scream, “Open fire.”

That leader instead sat staring at his TV for hours, waiting for some kind of report that his people had reached Pence and the plan was successful. The reason he didn’t send help was that it would have killed his plan. The reason the plan failed was because it was really stupid.

Like Nixon, Trump felt that because he wanted something to happen, it would. I mean, look at how far that kind of thinking had taken him.

My guess is that because the idiotic plan to grab the government was so terrifying, dumb, and didn’t make it past part two, Trump will not go to prison. As the noose begins to tighten on him, he’ll strike a deal with the Republican leadership to promise not to run for elective office again if he’s pardoned. A deal similar to one offered to Richard Nixon. Because of the national trauma that a Trump trial would bring to this already harshly divided land, it might be the only non-stupid move left. n

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Maria Cabrera Old Spanish Days Fiesta 2022 La Presidente Maria Cabrera, born in Colombia, moved to S.B. from the San Fernando Valley in 1983 with her husband, Francisco, and her daughter, Marisol. Her son, Pablo, was born in 1984. She has been a part of S.B.’s Fiesta fabric through her family's involvment with three dif different dance groups, watching her daughter’s performances, and being a volunteer for 30 years. The role of La Presidente meant that Maria was part of this year’s entire planning, as opposed to just a few events. The challenges included “inventing the wheel again” in a post-COVID world, such as the new parade route for El Desfile Histórico (The Historical Parade) on Friday that goes along Cabrillo Boulevard from Castillo Street to Calle Puerto Vallarta, a route that was last used in 1973; as well as El Desfile De Los Niños (Children’s Parade) on Saturday, beginning near the corner of Cabrillo Boulevard and Garden Street to Calle Puerto Vallarta. The theme she chose for this year, Todos Juntos en Familia (All Together as a Family), for her means that, “Due to COVID, we missed each other’s company, and Fiesta is the time when you become family with those around you.” Maria says, “Fiesta is back! A little different, but worth the wait.” Always on the job, she would like you to be aware that Fiesta is “in need of volunteers, vendors, and merchants … we cannot do this by ourselves; we need each other!”

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Lynn Kirst Saint Barbara 2022 Who is Saint Barbara you ask? She is regarded as the patron saint of architects, builders, stonemasons, and sailors—very fitting for the seaside town of S.B. The organization dedicated to the preservation of California history, Native Daughters of the Golden West, Reina Del Mar Parlor 126, has been selecting the Saint Barbara since 1926. Fourth-generation Californian Lynn Kirst attended Bishop Diego High School and ultimately graduated from USC with an undergraduate and graduate degree in art history and historic preservation—a perfect fit for her role as Saint Barbara. With a fulfilling career and 31 years with her late husband, Lynn has many interests, such as travel, art and antiques, bocce, music, opera, and her friends. She is honored to have been selected as this year’s Saint Barbara, saying, “It isn’t a contest or anything one tries out for; the selection process is secret.

“It all seemed like a dream until the first time I tried on the traditional crimson cape and golden crown,” she said. “It was then that the importance of carrying on this amazing tradition became a sobering reality … and being a Christian adds an additional layer of meaning for me personally.” In the past, Lynn rode her horse in the parade and rode in the S.B. Historical Museum’s carriage. This year, Lynn will ride on her very own float, “reviving the traditions that celebrate our heritage.” Lynn would like the community to join in by dressing in Fiesta wear to “pump up the atmosphere for everyone—residents and visitors alike.” She wants to remind you not to miss the Flor y Canto event on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens to “see traditional dances of early California with live narration” and to tell all that “everyone is family during Fiesta in Santa Barbara!”

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Fiesta 2022 listings In partnership with Heal the Ocean, S.B. Channelkeeper, and Downtown S.B., the City of S.B. would like to remind the community that metallic confetti, sequins, and glitter on the ground is considered littering, harmful to our environment, and difficult and expensive to clean up.

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Tara Mata Spirit of Fiesta 2022 This year’s Spirit of Fiesta, 19-year-old Tara Mata, has been dancing since she was 5 years old.

Growing up in S.B. meant that she became aware of the amazing traditions and the importance of this annual celebration. The flamenco style of dance “has always been my form of expression. I was pretty shy growing up … and dancing flamenco allows me to connect with the music and the audience in such a unique way.” Tara has always looked up to the Spirits, and being chosen this year fuels her to be the best role model and dancer she can be.

To say Tara has spirit is an understatement, as she recently graduated from SBCC with four Associate of Arts degrees while holding down jobs as a dance instructor, a mathematics tutor, and a server. Give a shout-out and wave to Tara as she leads the El Desfile Histórico on Friday.

Tara is the perfect ambassador to bring people together, and she is excited to be a part of the return of a full Fiesta, all thanks to Old Spanish Days, the city, and volunteers. She “cannot wait to reconnect with friendly faces, meet new ones, and embrace the theme, Todos Juntos en Familia.”

Layla Gocong Junior Spirit of Fiesta 2022 Layla Gocong, a 9-year-old 3rd-grader at Crane Country Day School and this year’s Junior Spirit of Fiesta, is excited to bring joy to the community through her dancing and let you know she’s worked hard for you. “This style of dance is my favorite because … you will see my dance abilities and my emotions all in one,” she said, adding, “The music is so beautiful, especially when it’s live.”

It seems the Junior Spirit has something in common with the Spirit besides dancing; it turns out Layla loves math and solving hard problems. Wow, STEM and the arts—these two spirits have it all. Say hi to Layla as she leads El Desfile De Los Niños up the boulevard on Saturday. Layla hopes to make you proud, and she can’t wait to meet you!

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THURSDAY 8/4 FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW AND RODEO This day belongs to participants ages 7-17 who will begin with horse classes at 9am in the Dome Arena; then at 11am in the Mountain View Arena, there will be Girls’ and Boys’ Goat Tying, Ribbon Jerking, Keyhole, Pole Bending, Single Stake, and Dummy Roping followed by more Pole Bending, Single Stake, and Girls’ Goat Tying at 5pm in the Dome Arena. 9am. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Free+. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org

COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS Meet in the Mural Room for a docent-led tour of this beautiful Moorish-Spanish building.

Tours happen every 30 minutes. 10am-3pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org

962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

OLD SPANISH DAYS FIESTA AT LA CUMBRE PLAZA Gather in front of Macy’s in the Plaza to see live dance performances from area dance studios.

Visit the website for the schedule. 11am-5:15pm.

La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. shoplacumbre.com/events

EL MERCADO DEL NORTE This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina! The purchase of a wristband will get you unlimited rides. 11am-10pm. MacKenzie Park, State St. and Las Positas Rd. Admission: free; wristband: $35. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

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CASA CANTINA

Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805)

Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra.

You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noon-midnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $15 (purchase on-site). Call

Please visit sbfiesta.org for a full schedule. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. Please be aware that events are subject to change or cancelation.

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(805) 961-5378 or email tim@sbthp.org. sbthp.org/casacantina

PASEO NUEVO: VIVA LA FIESTA! Enjoy traditional folklórico and flamenco dance and live music in center court. Seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit the website for the full performance schedule. Performances are subject to change. Noon-7pm. Paseo Nuevo, 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call (805) 963-7147. paseonuevoshopping.com/events

S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM: PROJECT FIESTA! View a collection of historic posters, ephemera, historic film footage, costumes including a 1920s charro suit, and more in this exhibition that shows through September 11. Noon-7pm. Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 13 E. De la Guerra. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/fiesta

DIGS! (CELEBRACIÓN DE LOS DIGNATARIOS) Enjoy fare from area restaurants, live music, and dancing on the zoo’s iconic hilltop. All-in-one pricing includes admission, drinks, and food. 5-10pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. $150. Ages 21+. Call (805) 9625339 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

$20-$30. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org

COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS Meet in the Mural Room for a docent-led tour of this beautiful Moorish-Spanish building. Tours happen every 30 minutes. 10am-3pm (except during the parade). S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org

EL MERCADO DE LA GUERRA Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

EL MERCADO DEL NORTE This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina!

The purchase of a wristband will get you unlimited rides. 11am-11pm. MacKenzie Park, State St. and Las Positas Rd. Admission: free; wristband: $35. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

DIGZ 2022: DJ QUIK AND DJ HECKTIK

OLD SPANISH DAYS FIESTA AT LA CUMBRE PLAZA

West Coast hip-hop recording rapper and producer DJ Quik with special guests The Baka Boyz and DJ Lazy Boy will get you ready for Fiesta along with DJ Hecktik and host Frank Ramirez in this historic and intimate venue in downtown S.B. You must be a Moose Club member or accompanied by a Moose Club member to attend. 6-11pm. Moose Lodge, 110 W. Victoria St. $75. tinyurl.com/DJQuickMoose Lodge

Gather in front of Macy’s in the Plaza to see live dance performances from area dance studios. Visit the website for the schedule. 11am-3:30pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. shoplacumbre.com/Events

EOS LOUNGE: 13TH ANNUAL ÜBER-FIESTA ’22!

Dark Lights (locals George Pendergast, Lucas Eskin, Jeff Croteau and singer Clare Carey) will serve fresh heavy metal cuts, new wave, and splashes of punk.

Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. $5-$20. tinyurl.com/ UberFiesta22

NOCHES DE RONDA (NIGHTS OF GAIETY) Evening performances will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. 8-10pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 9628101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

PATXI’S PIZZA FIESTA 2022 Join the party hosted by K-Deezil with DJ Lazy Boy, winner of 2019’s Red Bull Music 3Style National Championship, the world’s largest global deejay competition; and S.B.’s DJ Hecktik. 10pm-1:30am.

Patxi’s Pizza, 515 State St. $30-$50. Ages 18+. tinyurl.com/PatxiFiesta

FRIDAY 8/5 FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW AND RODEO Participants ages 7-17 will start the day at 8am with team roping, breakaway roping, and barrel racing, followed by a PRCA (The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) performance at 7:30pm. Dome Arena, Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real.

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Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine, live entertainment, and games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-10pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. tinyurl.com/GuadalupeFiesta

THE HISTORICAL PARADE (EL DESFILE HISTÓRICO) This historical parade will feature floats depicting episodes from the history of the state and city, descendants of local Native Americans, Spanish pioneers, the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, and area service clubs and organizations.

Noon. Along Cabrillo Boulevard from Castillo St. to Calle Puerto Vallarta (Santa Barbara Chromatic Gate). Reserved seating: $30-$50; parking: $20 (proceeds from seating and parking go toward free events). Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta .org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

CASA CANTINA Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra. You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noon-midnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $15 (purchase on-site). Call (805) 961-5378. Call (805) 961-5378 or email tim@sbthp.org. sbthp.org/casacantina

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Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call (805) 963-7147. paseonuevoshopping.com/ events

all the right sounds. 9pm-1:30am. El Paseo Mexican Restaurant, 813 Anacapa St., Ste. 10. $15. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/ViernesDeFiestas

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SATURDAY 8/6

View a collection of historic posters, ephemera, historic film footage, costumes including a 1920s charro suit, and more in this exhibition that shows through September 11. Noon-5pm. Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 13 E. De la Guerra. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/fiesta

FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW AND RODEO

IDA & ROBERT’S ANNUAL POST-FIESTA PARADE PARTY This year’s party will be bigger and better than ever with The Bomb at 3pm and DJ Wicked at 6pm. Tacos will be available for purchase.

2pm. Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. Free. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/ PostParadeParty

LOQUITA’S FIESTA PARTY Enjoy flamenco performances, authentic Spanish cuisine including paellas, a jamon carving, raw bar, sherry tasting, and all-you-candrink Loquita sangria with special guest Lalo Gonzalez, the grandson of Don Julio and Maestro Tequilero at Lalo. 11am-2pm. Loquita Santa Barbara, 202 State St. $125. Call (805) 880-3380. loquitasb.com/events

SUNSTONE WINERY FIESTA WEEKEND Celebrate Fiesta with the Latin and classic rock sound of Agua Santa, Spanish and Mexican food (for purchase), and the release of seven new wines! 5-7:30pm. Sunstone Winery, 125 N. Refugion Rd., Santa Ynez. Free. tinyurl.com/SunstoneFiesta2022

FLOR Y CANTO See original Spanish California dances and songs of the 19th century performed by area residents in authentic costumes that will be interwoven with historic narration. Musical numbers will be accompanied by replica acoustic instruments. 7-8pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

NOCHES DE RONDA (NIGHTS OF GAIETY)

Today starts at 8am with Chuck Doss Memorial Old Timers Team Roping, tri-county steer stopping, team roping, Earl Souza Memorial Roping, open-ribbing roping, tri-county tie-down roping, and ladies’ breakaway roping followed by a PRCA rodeo performance at 7:30pm.

Dome Arena, Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $20-$30. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org

EL DESFILE DE LOS NIÑOS (CHILDREN’S PARADE) Watch the young people of S.B. and their families walk, ride in wagons, and dance along the new parade on Cabrillo Blvd. from Garden St. to Calle Puerto Vallarta as they wear traditional costumes to celebrate the rich culture of the area. 10am. Free. tinyurl.com/ Desfile-DeNinos

MUJERES MAKERS MARKET This two-day pop-up market will feature area talent and vendors selling vintage goods, handmade jewelry, candles, ceramics, and Fiesta-inspired items with a performance from Puro Flamenco at noon. 10am-4pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call (805) 280-1939 or email info@ mujeresmakersmarket.com. mujeresmakersmarket.com/events

Crazy Horse Cantina! The purchase of a wristband will get you unlimited rides. 11am-11pm. MacKenzie Park, State St. and Las Positas Rd. Admission: free; wristband: $35. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@ sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE MERCADO Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine, live entertainment, and games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-10pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. tinyurl.com/GuadalupeFiesta

PASEO NUEVO: VIVA LA FIESTA! Enjoy traditional folklórico and flamenco dance and live music in center court. Seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit the website for the full performance schedule. Performances are subject to change. Noon-7pm. Paseo Nuevo, 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free.

Call (805) 963-7147. paseonuevoshopping.com/events

S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM: PROJECT FIESTA! View a collection of historic posters, ephemera, historic film footage, costumes including a 1920s charro suit, and more in this exhibition that shows through September 11. Noon-5pm. Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 13 E. De la Guerra. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/fiesta

COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS Meet in the Mural Room for a docent-led tour of this beautiful Moorish-Spanish building. Tours happen every 30 minutes. 10am3pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org

FIESTA ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW Shop for fine and contemporary arts and crafts from nearly 150 artists and artisans. 10am-6pm. On Cabrillo Blvd. from Stearns Wharf to Calle César Chávez. Free. tinyurl.com/arts-crafts-sb

EL MERCADO DE LA GUERRA

Evening performances will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. 8-10pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

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EL MERCADO DEL NORTE

Celebrate Fiesta at this historic venue that embodies the S.B. tradition of service, style, and hospitality and dance to deejays playing

This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the

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De La Guerra

De La Guerra Plaza

Explore the underwater world of the Santa Barbara Channel in our updated upstairs exhibit. Encounter a Two-spot Octopus, Moon Jellies, Giant Pacific Seahorses, a California Moray, and more.

Learn about the channel’s unique habitats from rocky reefs to kelp forests and see the animals that live there.

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Wednesday, August 3 11:15 AM-12:00 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 12:10-12:45 PM — Alma de Mexico 12:45-1:15 PM — Grupo Danza de Quetzalcoatl 1:20-2:20 PM — Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts 2:25-3:15 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 3:15-4:15 PM — Flamenco Santa Barbara 4:45-6 PM — DJ Darla Bea 6:30-8 PM — False Puppet 7:50-8:10 PM — La Boheme and DJ Darla Bea 8:30-10 PM — Doublewide Kings

Wednesday, August 3 11:00 AM-12:00 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 12:05-1:00 PM — Puro Flamenco 1:15-1:45 PM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 2:00-2:45 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 3:00-3:15 PM — 2022 Spirits 3:30-4:30 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 5 PM — Luis Medrano 6:15 PM — TBA 7:30 PM — Buena Onda 9 PM — Time Travelers Band

Thursday, August 4 11:00-11:30 AM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 11:35 AM-12:05 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 12:10-12:40 PM — Alma de Mexico 12:45-1:30 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 1:35-2:00 PM — Grupo Danza de Quetzalcoatl 2:00-2:30 PM — Puro Flamenco 2:35-3:10 PM — Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts 3:15-4:30 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 5-6:15 PM — Tony Ybarra 6:45-8 PM — Los Anclas 8:30-10 PM — Mezcal Martini

Thursday, August 4 11:00-11:30 AM — Puro Flamenco 11:45 AM-12:30 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 12:35-12:50 PM — 2022 Spirits 1:00-1:30 PM — Grupo Folklórico de West L.A. 1:40-2:10 PM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 2:15-3:00 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 3:10-3:40 PM — Alma de Mexico 3:45-4:30 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 5 PM – Dusty Jugs/The Rincons 6:15 PM — Art of Funk 7:30 PM — Soul Kool 9 PM — Los Anclas

Friday, August 5 11:00-11:30 AM — Alma de Mexico 12:05-12:35 PM — Baile de California 12:40-1:15 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 1:20-1:50 PM — Puro Flamenco 1:55-2:25 PM — Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts 2:30 PM-3:15 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 3:20-3:40 PM — Grupo Folklórico de West L.A. 3:45-4:30 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 4:40-4:55 PM — Melody Hope 5-6:15 PM — Jackson Gillies Band 6:45-8 PM — Flannel 101 8:30-10 PM — Molly Ringwald Project Saturday, August 6 11:15 AM-12:00 PM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 12:00-1:00 PM — Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts 1:05-1:35 PM — Puro Flamenco 1:40-2:00 PM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 2:05-3:00 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 3:05-3:25 PM — Alma de Mexico 3:30-4:30 PM — Garcia Dance Studio 5:00-6 PM — Elements 6:45-8 PM — The Roosters 8:00-10 PM — Spencer the Gardener

Friday, August 5 11:00-11:45 AM — Cruz Dance & Entertainment 12:00-12:30 PM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 12:45-1:15 PM — Alma de Mexico 1:30-2:30 PM — Grupo Danza de Quetzalcoatl 2:45-3:00 PM — 2022 Spirits 3:10-4:15 PM — Zermeño Dance Academy 4:45 PM — Chill Point 6 PM — Vibe Setters 7:30 PM — 805 Cali Tejanos 9 PM — Heart and Soul Saturday, August 6 1:00-1:30 PM — Alma de Mexico 1:45-2:15 PM — Baile de California 2:45-3:00 PM — Grupo Folklórico Huitzillin 3:15-3:30 PM — Ballet Folklórico Aztlán de CSUN 3:35-4:00 PM — Boscutti Ballet Theatre 4:30 PM — Grooveshine 6:15 PM — House Arrest 7:30 PM — Mestizo 9:15 PM — Agua Santa

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SUNSTONE WINERY FIESTA WEEKEND Celebrate Fiesta with live music and dancing, Spanish and Mexican food (for purchase), and the release of seven new wines! 11:30am2:30pm: Flamenco with Timo Nuñez; 3:30-5:30pm: Mariachi with Perla de Jalisco; 5:30-7:30pm: Latin singer Lex Borja. Sunstone Winery, 125 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Free. tinyurl.com/SunstoneFiesta2022

TARDES DE RONDA Children from the S.B. area will don colorful costumes and demonstrate their talents and multicultural heritage with joyful dancing performances. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. 1-5pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. tinyurl.com/ TardesDeRonda

CASA CANTINA Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra.

You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noon-midnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $15 (purchase on-site).

Call (805) 961-5378 or email tim@sbthp.org. sbthp.org/casacantina

OLD SPANISH DAYS/FIESTA WEEKEND RIDE Meet in the Funk Zone next to Hotel Californian (36 State St.) and then ride around town on a 15+ mile loop, making brief stops at key Fiesta spots in town and ending at Corazón Cocina inside the S.B. Public Market (38 W. Victoria St.). There will be free food and drinks available with prizes and giveaways. 2-5pm. Free. tinyurl.com/ FiestaRide

NOCHES DE RONDA (NIGHTS OF GAIETY)

COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS Meet in the Mural Room for a docent-led tour of this beautiful Moorish-Spanish building. Tours happen every 30 minutes. 10am3pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org

Evening performances will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. 8-10pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@ sbfiesta.org for more information. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar

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Enjoy music from a deejay and a live band. Standing room only.

Disfruta de la música de un DJ y una banda en vivo. Espacio para gente de pié únicamente. 9pm-1:30am. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $35. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events

25TH S.B. MARIACHI FESTIVAL This year’s festival will feature Pedro Fernández, Natalia Jiménez, and Mariachi Estrella de México. 5:30pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $79-$199. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com

SUNDAY 8/7

Shop for fine and contemporary arts and crafts from nearly 150 artists and artisans. 10am-6pm. On Cabrillo Blvd. from Stearns Wharf to Calle César Chávez. Free. tinyurl.com/arts-crafts-sb Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine, live entertainment, and games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-9pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. tinyurl.com/GuadalupeFiesta

MUJERES MAKERS MARKET This pop-up market will feature area talent and vendors selling vintage goods, handmade jewelry, candles, ceramics, and Fiestainspired items with the opportunity to break the piñata at 3pm.

10am-4pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call (805) 280-1939 or email info@mujeresmakersmarket.com. mujeresmakersmarket.com/events

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S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM: PROJECT FIESTA! View a collection of historic posters, ephemera, historic film footage, costumes including a 1920s charro suit, and more in this exhibition that shows through September 11.

Noon-5pm. Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 13 E. De la Guerra. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/fiesta

FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW AND RODEO El Mercado de la Guerra

penning and sorting at 8:30am in the Dome Arena followed by a PRCA rodeo performance at 2pm in the Dome Arena. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $15-$20. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org

Today starts at 8am in the Mountain View Arena with all horse show classes, then team

Celebrate Fiesta with live music and dancing, Spanish and Mexican food (for purchase), and the release of seven new wines! 11:30am1pm: Zermeño Dance Academy; 1:30-4pm: Latin and classic rock from Suave; 4-5pm: Zermeño Dance Academy. Sunstone Winery, 125 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Free. tinyurl.com/SunstoneFiesta2022

THE PROFANT FOUNDATIONS FIESTA FINALE 2022!

Honor Santa Barbara traditions with fabulous cuisine and vibrant costumes and music and dancing. Fiesta or cocktail attire required.

Proceeds will go toward the Profant Foundation for the Arts scholarships. 5:30-9:30pm. El Paseo Restaurant, 10 El Paseo. $225. Call (805) 450-2001 or email jeprofant@gmail.com. independent.com/events/fiesta-finale

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A Love Letter to Fiesta Our Appreciation for Old Spanish Days Burns Brighter than Ever This Year

by Camilla Barnwell

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De Lapa, who passed away in 2015. “Sue looked so delightful in her gorgeous dress that I couldn’t resist inviting her for an after-work drink. We settled down at an open-air café just off De la Guerra Plaza. Just as we began chatting, I spilled a beer all over her brand-new Fiesta dress. Sue just laughed. came.

‘It’ll dry.’ ” In 2021, our hearts were broken again. You tried to be here, It was a Fiesta love match. but we didn’t recognize you.

We’ve been through so much as a community, BrantingTwo empty summers full of longing and loss under the ham said, and perhaps Fiesta can be the ultimate booster we weight of a global pandemic. all need.

Parades, mercados, Noches at the courthouse, Pequeña “Our hearts have been hard at work all year,” he said. “It’s at the Mission, cascarones, flower girls, dancing at El Paseo time to unloosen those heartstrings and feel the romance of … our 98-year-old tradition of carefree community merry- Santa Barbara. Let loose and feel the humanity and love that making replaced by face masks, test kits, social distancing, we have kept undercover for too long. We’ve lost contact with vaccine mandates, closures, reopenings, closures, reopenings. a lot of old friends that we only saw during Fiesta, and we miss Social and political trials. Isolation. Disappointment. Fear of them. Somehow, we need to float away from that stress and getting sick or dying … fear of the unknown. strife. Leave it all behind.”

You’re back now, but we’re all a little changed.

Yes, please!

My own romance with Fiesta began in 1996, when I moved Pandemic life has taken a toll. Our spirits are depleted. here to cover the schools for the News-Press. I’d never heard Fiesta … we need you now more than ever.

We need to heal. We need to restore ourselves. We need a of Old Spanish Days Fiesta. One late Friday afternoon, my moment to get out of our own heads—to be part of some- editor told me to go up to the courthouse to get some “Fiesta thing beautiful and bigger than our own worries. We need color” for a story for the next day’s paper. I wasn’t sure what to reconnect with each other and with ourselves through the he meant. Press pass around my neck, I walked up a confettistrength and magic of this deep-rooted tradition that is part riddled State Street, and through a back entrance, I found my way inside the grand halls of the courthouse. There were of our community identity.

We also need to let go a little. Let’s face it, we all need some hundreds of costumed performers and musicians milling around “backstage.” I approached one of the organizers and fun!

My friend and former colleague (and Indy Columnist told her that I was a reporter there to “get some color” for my Emeritus) Barney Brantingham gets it. He came to Santa Bar- story, hoping she would know how to answer. bara to work for the Santa Barbara News-Press in 1960 durAt that same moment, one of the flamenco studio groups ing the T.M. Storke era. Over his 60-year journalism career, was lining up near the entrance to the stage. Their friendly Brantingham has covered his fair share of Fiestas—like 50 teacher, Linda Vega, introduced herself, and we became fast of ’em. friends after sharing that we’d both spent years living in Spain.

“I’ve always said that Fiesta is the time to fall in love. And I She told me she’d give me a colorful quote for my story when did,” said Brantingham, 90, remembering a romantic turning their routine was done. I peeked around her and looked out point one warm Fiesta day when he was courting his wife, Sue to the stage and beyond. There were hundreds of people gathered on blankets—like a colorful patchwork quilt woven into the bed of the sunken gardens. Just then, the organizer came over and said, “Our second emcee didn’t make it. You’re a reporter, right?

Can you do it?” I thought she was talking to someone else.

The take-charge Vega said, “Yes, of course, she can do it!” then wrapped her Spanish shawl around my shoulders and pulled a flower out of thin air to attach to my hair. Then she nudged me out onto the stage with my co-emcee, a local radio deejay whose main contribution was announcing over and over where the bathrooms MARIACHI FAN: Congressmember Salud Carbajal (left) founded the Mariachi Festival with were located. But somehow, we COURTESY

I love you. I’ve missed you. I haven’t been myself without you. None of us have, really.

Things have gone sideways since you left.

In 2020, we waited for you, but you never really

Al Pizano to make Fiesta more inclusive of Santa Barbara’s Mexican-American community.

HOOKED: Camilla Barnwell’s romance with Fiesta began when she moved to town in 1996.

pulled it off! Two-plus hours later, I hustled back to the NewsPress to write up my story before deadline. Only the sports reporters were still there typing away. I told my editor, “I think I found the ‘Fiesta color.’ ” It was more like a Cupid’s arrow to the heart.

I’ve gone on to write about Fiesta from every angle I could think of—the Best Fiesta Margarita-Crawl; how the event used to be scheduled to take place under the full August moon, and why it isn’t anymore; the true origins of the horses that grace the parade; backstage Fiestamama madness and surviving the week with my dancing daughter; as well as the Spirits of Fiesta, the food, the vendors, the seamstresses, the costumes, the shoes, the dance forms, the musicians, the romance, the history, the backstories, the subculture, and the subtext that make this week-long party what it is.

And I’ve also experienced Fiesta for myself: danced my heart out under that full moon; crowded into Joe’s after the parade; bounced from one blanket to the next to share my famous sangria with friends; decorated a wagon and put my kids in costumes for the children’s parade; serenaded my husband accompanied by a mariachi trio; battled it out for the primo parade curb spot and El Paseo table; and dressed up for all of the parties and helped others do the same with what I now consider a decent Fiesta costume closet of possibilities.

The Fiesta we know and love went away for two years, and it was like saying goodbye to a dear friend, agreed Rose Marie Cruz—a local dance studio owner for nearly 50 years. Her daughter, Linda Cruz, was Spirit of Fiesta in 1977.

“The families, the dancers, the grandparents and the grandchildren, people from out of town, out of state, out of the country … none of us know what to do without Fiesta,” said Cruz, who has attended the festivities with her family since birth and even danced with legendary Fiesta icon Jose Manero. “Fiesta brings us together with the joy and fuel we need for our souls, and I say ‘Amen to that!’ The world is so unsettled, and the headlines are filled with so many tragedies: CONTINUED

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PARTY TIME: From left, David Bolton, Erin Graffy de Garcia, and James Garcia enjoy the annual Profant Foundation Fiesta Finale fundraiser.

I did that. I was there!’”

Graffy agrees that Fiesta has the ballast to withstand the vagaries of history and troubled times. “It’s not just good for our souls; it’s good for the economy on so many levels,” she said. “Fiesta pays for itself in spades.”

A Fiesta devotee, U.S. Congressmember Salud Carbajal said the event can help us feel normal again. “In light of what’s transpired, it can help us ease back into normal life. We need Fiesta. It’s a tradition that we have become accustomed to … part of our ethos as Santa Barbarans. It can be a fresh start. Al Pizano and I started the Mariachi Festival years ago, which added a whole new component to the festivities and made it more inclusive to the Mexican-American community.”

Everything that is Fiesta—the gatherings, the activities, the artistic performances, the volunteering, and the merry-making and mischief—could offer a cathartic experience that helps us work through pent-up emotions and release stress.

Carbajal said Fiesta can heal us in so many ways.

“Our relationships. Our mental health. I know I’m looking forward to the annual mariachi festival at the Bowl.

I don’t believe I’ve ever missed one. I’m looking forward to the mercados, the tortas, the churros, maybe a night of Noches, as many events as I can. Nick Welsh and I have a war going on with confetti eggs. This year, I’ve recruited a few helpers, so he should be on alert.”

Along with helping our Congressmember crack a few confetti eggs on Nick’s head, this Fiesta, I want to sing, I want to dance, I want to see my old Fiesta friends and make new ones. I want to feel the way I felt when I first got pushed out on that stage 25 years ago. Excited. n Nervous. Up for anything. Falling in love.

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climate change, the war, the cost of living, the shootings, the pandemic. It all just pierces my heart. We need to be lifted up, and I can already see how Fiesta has the power to do that. This year, the dance teachers, the seamstresses, the dancers, the parents—we’re part of a community again. You can see it; we are standing taller again. Our shoulders are back; our chins are lifted. We are so happy to be back out there.”

Cruz said she and the many others who are part of putting on the show feed off the crowd, and there’s power in that.

“You’re up there dancing, at the mercados, at the Courthouse, at the mall, on a float in the parade, and all you see are smiles, people sitting, standing, with walkers, wheelchairs, the young and old—they’re all just beaming. The audience brings you so much joy; it’s a mirror reflection, and that’s the fuel. Don’t leave town or say things like, ‘Oh, Fiesta again.’ Get out there! Fill your soul; appreciate the work that goes into this. Fill yourself with that joy and humanity, and let’s go for some tamales. Live for today. Tomorrow is not promised.”

Since the first official Fiesta in 1924, Old Spanish Days has managed to keep the party going every year, with the exception of the 1940s, when several Fiestas were straight-out canceled from ’42 through ’45 due to World War II. In 1948, Fiesta was ostensibly canceled due to a drought, but more likely due to the need for some reorganization. Even after the historic 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, the State Street parade was canceled due to the rubble, but festivities elsewhere in the city continued, said local historian Erin Graffy, my go-to Fiesta resource, who has written several books on the topic.

For the last two years of the pandemic, Old Spanish Days organizers did their best to put a placeholder on the occasion, even though “Viva la Virtual Fiesta” just didn’t have the same allure for most of us.

“Fiesta needs to be celebrated in person,” Graffy added. “The magic of Fiesta is that it’s a culturally shared community experience over time that we can all identify with and feel part of and relate to, whether it was two years ago, 20 years ago, or 52 years ago…. Everybody goes, ‘Yeah,

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Enjoy the arts and crafts while you take in Santa Barbara’s beautiful marina and a spectacular view of our coastal mountains.

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Thank You

To Our Many Sponsors For Bringing Our Festival Back To Our Community!

The Board of Directors of Old Spanish Days would like to thank our amazing sponsors, volunteers, and our collaborative non-profit partners. Fiesta could not happen without their generous support! Special gratitude to the entire Santa Barbara community for once again coming out to celebrate this time-honored tradition.

Special thanks to the City and County of Santa Barbara and Old Mission Santa Barbara for their generous support of Old Spanish Days Fiesta since 1924. Also, a thank you to our Collaborative partners: Goleta Valley Historical Society, the Santa Barbara Zoo, and to Santa Barbara Historical Museum for Project Fiesta!

To the many non-profit vendors who contributed to the two Mercados and to the many restaurants, wineries, breweries, distilleries, organizations, and companies that donated to the many events this Fiesta season—Thank you!

Old Spanish Days would like to give special recognition to Los Niños de las Flores, Las Señoritas, Bienvenidos, Parade Announcers, Parade Marshals, and all the parade volunteers.

Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to the 2022 Spirit of Fiesta Tara Mata and 2022 Jr. Spirit Layla Gocong, as well as the entire dance community.

Thank-You! ¡Gracias!

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ninth solo exhibition for S.B.-based painter Angela Perko with her show The Place of Hidden Things and the second solo exhibition for the artist Wosene Worke Kosrof, Beyond Words. The exhibitions will show through September 26. Reception: Thu., 5-8pm; gallery hours: daily, 10am-5:30pm. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St. Free.

Call (805) 730-1460. sullivangoss.com/

8/4: Eos Lounge Arnold & Lane. 9pm.

500 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 564-2410.

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8/4, 8/6: Lost Chord Guitars Thu: Terry Lawless, 7:30-9:30pm. $10. Sat.: Darryl Purpose, 8-11:30pm. $15. Lost Chord Guitars, 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

exhibitions

8/4-8/6: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Thu.: Dos Bros. Fri.: Beau Wilding & Friends. Sat.: Framers. 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

FRIDAY 8/5 8/5: State Street Ballet Academy Presents We Got the Beat: A Celebration of Music Take in a variety of new dance

Old Spanish Days Fiesta S.B.’s rich heritage will

come alive with music, dance, food, pageantry, community, and more as this year’s theme, Todos Juntos en Familia (All Together as a Family), is celebrated. See our Fiesta guide on page 22 for a full schedule and locations. sbfiesta.org

8/4: Samsara Wine Co. Ted Lennon, 5:30-7:30pm. 6485 Calle Real, Ste. E. Free.

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8/4: Eastside and Montecito Libraries Stuffed Animal Sleepover Drop off

8/6: Fruit-Tree Summer Pruning Workshop Join experienced pruners Larry

one of your stuffed friends so they can have a super-fun sleepover and pick them up the next day. If you don’t have a “stuffy” of your own, adopt one at the Eastside Library on a first-come, first-serve basis, (donations of new stuffed animals are being accepted at the Central and Eastside Libraries). Library staff will make sure they have a great time! Fri.: Drop off (or adopt at Eastside Library): 10am-5pm. Sat.: Pickup: 11am-2pm. Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Call (805) 963-3727 or email cmorancey@santabarbaraca.gov.

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8/4-8/10: Los Olivos Gallery Exhibit Opening: Romance of the Landscape Featured landscapes by artists (and good friends) Linda Mutti and Sheryl Knight range between mountain, river, vineyard, and ocean. The exhibit shows through August 31. Thu.-Mon.: 10am-5pm. Gallery Los Olivos, 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 688-7517.

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8/5-8/6: Uptown Lounge Fri.: The Trio, 5-7pm; The Roosters, 9pm-midnight.

Sat.: Elements, 9pm-midnight. 3126 State St. Free. Call (805) 845-8800.

workshop, artist Nika Cavat will guide you through a series of simple writing exercises to draw out your own personal poetry, followed by the second hour, which will utilize handmade paper or Japanese paper to craft a Japanese accordion-style folding book to hold your poetry. 6-8pm. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $20. Ages 18+. Call (805) 884-0459.

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E-Waste Recycling Event Safely recycle

desktops, laptops, servers, tablets, computer peripherals (mouse and keyboard), CRT/LCD computer monitors, television sets, cell phones and accessories, small appliances, home entertainment systems, stereos, fax machines/printers/copiers, or VCR/ VCD/DVD players. 9am-3pm. La Cumbre Plaza (near Islands Restaurant), 121 S. Hope Ave. Free-$10 fee on certain items. (805) 687-6458.

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8/5: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Jacob Cole, 6-9pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang.

Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-9126. arrowsmithwine.com/events

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8/4: Tiny Books, Poetry Tending Workshop In the first half of this two-hour

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8/5-8/7: S.B. Bowl Concert Fri.: Jon Pardi, 6:15pm. $45-$75. Sat.: 25th

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Sultan and Friends, 1:30-4:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066.

Chaucer’s Book Signing: Victoria Shorr Author, political activist, and part-time S.B. resident Victoria Shorr will sign copies of her book Mid-Air: Two Novellas, two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status titled Great Uncle Edward and Cleveland Auto Wrecking. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event

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8/4-8/7, 8/9-8/10: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: The Beths with Rosie Tucker, 8pm. $18-$23. Ages 18+. Fri.: Venice, 8pm. $27-$32. Sat.: Banda Night, 9pm. $35. Ages 21+. Sun.: Jeff “Skunk”

8/5-8/7: Cold Spring Tavern Fri.: Lenny Kerley Band, 6-9pm. Sat.: Green Flag Summer, 1:30-4:30pm. Sun.: Kenny

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8/5: Pali Wine Co. Live music.

6-8pm. 116 E. Yanonali St., Ste. A-1. Free.

Ages 21+. Call (805) 560-7254.

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Baxter and CJ Vanston, 8pm. $35-$40. Ages 21+. Tue.: Singer-Songwriter Showcase: Isabelle Rose, Kellen Romano, Will Breman, 7pm. $10. Wed.: The Everly Brothers Experience featuring The Zmed Brothers, 8pm. $25. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events

and Russ in the garden for an in-depth immersion in the tree-care calendar and learn practical tips with hands-on experience in the orchard. Bring gloves and pruners if you have them. 10am-noon. Mesa Harmony Gardens, 500 Dolores Dr. Free. Call (805) 708-9180 or email mesa.harmony@gmail.com.

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S.B. Mariachi Festival, 5:30pm. $79-$199.

Sun.: Rebelution, 5:45pm. $45-$63.

1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411.

Call (805) 688-8689.

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works choreographed to celebrate the many instruments that make music in this culmination of SSBA’s two-week Junior Intensive Camp. 6pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $16-$20. (805) 963-0761.

8/5-8/7: Maverick Saloon Fri.:

Medicine Hat, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Randy LeDune, 1-5pm.; Chris Johnson and The Hollywood Hillbillies, 8:30-11:30pm.

Sun.: About Time, noon-4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Ages 21+.

Call (805) 686-4785.

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Venues request that patrons consult their individual websites for the most up-to-date protocols and mask requirements for vaccinated and unvaccinated status before attending an event.

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8/4: Sullivan Goss Opening Reception: Angela Perko and Wosene Worke Kosrof Celebrate the opening of the

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8/5-8/6: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: The New Vibe, 7-10pm. Sat.: Joystix, 8-10pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

The Everly Brothers 8/6: Andrew Murray Vineyards Nataly Lola, noon-3pm. 5249 Foxen Canyon Rd., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 686-9604. andrewmurrayvineyards

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8/6: Tom Segura: I’m Coming Everywhere World Tour Actor, comedian, writer, and podcast host Tom Segura will bring his observational comedy and one-liners and comfortably say out loud what everyone else is thinking. 8pm. The Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $35$90. thearlingtontheatre.com

SUNDAY 8/7 8/7: Watercolor in the Vineyard at Koehler Winery Sip delicious Koehler wines as you capture the beauty of botanicals with watercolor on the gorgeous upper terrace above the tasting room lawn. 11am-1pm. Koehler Winery, 5360 Foxen Canyon Rd., Los Olivos. $85.

Ages 21+. Call (805) 325-8092.

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8/9: Women’s Creative Support Circle Lady creators are invited to work on their own projects or take the opportunity to take part in free-writing exercises, inspiration cards, group sharing, and being brave together in this open space. 5-6:30pm. Mission Rose Garden, 420 Plaza Rubio. Free. tinyurl.com/WomensSupportCircle

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Legendary artist and Grammy-winning guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Doobie Brothers in 2020, will be in S.B. with film composer, record producer, songwriter, and keyboardist CJ Vanston. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $35-$40. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events

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Lifetime Achievement Award-winners Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady perform with a well-honed and solid power, with GRAMMY® Award-winner Justin Guip providing the perfect drumming to electrify their trademark sound.

8/10: Compassionate Care of Carpinteria’s The Light Shines Ahead Fourth Annual Luncheon Event emcees Win and Ed Van Wingerden will guide you this afternoon with event chair Marybeth Carty and special guest speaker Virginia Benson Wigle, who after the passing of her husband, John, launched an online site and nonprofit to help those dealing with loss who fall through the cracks. This event will raise funds to support people who are struggling with grief and illness in Carpinteria. 11:30am-1:30pm.

Rincon Beach Club, 3895 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria. $100.

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Find out what meteorites are made of, where they come from, and why they are magnetic from S.B. Astronomical Unit Outreach Coordinator and Gladwin Planetarium presenter Chuck McPartlin. Come early to purchase your favorite food and drink. 6:30-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Call (805) 682-4711 x172 or email jrolle@sbnature2.org.

At the Lobero Theater on Friday, August 12

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8/8: Online Event: Energetics of an Injury—A ThreePhase Model for Treating Injuries with Herbal Medicine Learn a Chinese medicine approach to using internal and external herbal medicine during the different stages of injury rehabilitation with area acupuncturist Sam Wuest. 6-7pm. Free.

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Virtual Talk with Pulitzer Prize–Winning Journalist Paul Pringle Join the virtual talk with Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Spotlight and Catch and Kill Paul Pringle, who will talk about his new nonfiction thriller, Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels, about the corruption and betrayal radiating from the University of Southern California, one of the biggest employers in L.A. 7pm.

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SATURDAY Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476.

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FOODBANK PICNIC IN THE PARK 2022 The Foodbank offers free, nutritious meals, activities, and enrichment opportunities to all children ages 1-18 in our county, Monday-Friday, June 6-August 12, unless otherwise stated. Visit the website for North County locations. Call (805) 967-5741, text “SUMMERFOOD” to 304-304, or download the CA Meals for Kids App.

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A Dall sheep perches on a mountain ledge.

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hey could’ve been small patches of snow, remnants of winter clinging to slopes of the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in northeast Alaska. Instead, it was a herd of 18 Dall sheep grazing a daunting mountain face smothered in peat and wildflowers. I watched them through my binoculars as they traversed into a lichen-covered limestone cathedral towering above the braided Kongakut River.

Visiting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

by Chuck Graham Rivers on the North Slope of the range flow into the vast Coastal Plain, fortified by gritty barrier islands, the icy Beaufort Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. The Plain spans 1.5 million acres and is the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd, which is 130,000-plus strong and breeds in Western Canada. The herd’s migration route is the longest of any terrestrial mammal on the planet.

The region is also a vital habitat for thousands of nesting shorebirds like red-necked phalaropes, least terns, and dunlin, and during the harsh Arctic winters, ANWR provides important denning sites for polar bears. Among the 43 species of mammals there, musk ox, gray wolves, grizzly bears, Arctic and red foxes, and wolverines thrive.

The refuge encompasses the native lands of the Inupiat in the north and the Gwich’in in the southeast.

Native Americans have subsisted in the Arctic for thousands of years, long before it was deemed a wildlife refuge in 1960.

Since 1977, the ANWR has been on a political rollercoaster, dodging advances by oil and gas companies eager to tap into its oil reserves. Estimates range from 7.7 to 11.8 billion barrels beneath the permafrost on the Coastal Plain, also known as “1002 Area.” Due to political pressure, the Plain was left unprotected when the refuge was created, but since 1986, Congress has introduced bills to protect the fragile expanse.

Under the Trump Administration, a provision in the 2017 federal tax bill opened the area to oil and

gas leases in 2020 that two small companies quickly took advantage of. But on his very first day in office, President Joe Biden put a temporary halt to drilling.

“NRDC, alongside critical partners among Indigenous peoples and conservation groups, has drawn a line with the Arctic Refuge, and the Biden-Harris Administration understands the stakes,” said Garrett Rose, staff attorney with Natural Resources Defense Council’s Alaska Project. “This is America’s last, best place. If we can’t safeguard the Refuge from extractive industry, then no place in America is safe.”

Currently, the two companies that did secure leases have rolled back their efforts to move forward with oil exploration. The costs of building roads, helipads, and other infrastructure on the Coastal Plain have apparently far outweighed the potential revenue. For now, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is safe.

“It is so important that our young people see that we are heard, and that the president acknowledges our voices, our human rights, and our identity,” Bernadette Demientieff, executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, said in a statement.

Rafting downriver, we paralleled a large male grizzly bear along the Kongakut. Its head down, the big bear sauntered along the foothills, foraging for food.

I exited the raft and kept pace with him by running along the cobble and making sure to stay downwind.

After half a mile, he disappeared over a rolling ridge.

Back in the raft, we paddled farther downriver.

After locating a decent campsite, I kept my binoculars on me while I pitched my tent. Anticipating the bear continuing its foraging northward, I scanned for him after each tent stake was pounded into the ground. Sure enough, the 800-pound grizzly found a place to bed down well within sight of my optics.

Light rain fell as dark clouds swirled above the high peaks of the Brooks Range. Sodden by the rain, the grizzly occasionally rolled, yawned, and stretched his legs on a spongy bed of peat moss. There was utter calm across the tundra. Suddenly, without warning, the grizzly awoke and continued his trudge for food into the next river veld. The enormity of the ANWR made him appear small, this phenomenal Arctic biome, the largest, last, great wild place. n

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Cellar Success for Blair Fox MACDUFF EVERTON

Deep Roots Sprout Great Vines, Great Wines

What follows is an edited excerpt from Vines & Vision: The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County, published in 2020 by Matt Kettmann and Macduff Everton.

took their advice. “So that’s what happened.”

Today, the lineup at Blair Fox Cellars includes six different vineyard-designated syrah bottlings and estate wines from his parents’ really had no idea that I would 20-acre Santa Ynez Valley ranch, become a winemaker, but I’ve which they bought on the east side been immersed in wine counof Highway 154 in 2004 after selling try from a young age,” says Blair their Montecito home. The threeacre, organically farmed vineyard, Fox, who was born in Santa Barbara’s Cottage Hospital and grew up in Montecito. “I which features syrah, grenache, was riding my bike around the Santa Ynez petite sirah, zinfandel, and vermenValley with my parents when there were tino, rises up an incredibly steep like 10 tasting rooms. It was a long way slope. “Almost every tractor rolled between them!” down the hill,” explained Fox, “so Water polo was Fox’s first love. He we figured we had to do it by hand.” excelled at the sport while at Santa Barbara Blair and Sarah, who handles the High and was accepted to Johns Hopkins, marketing and business sides of the Harvard, and Brown upon graduation in family winery, also own Fox Wine 1993. “But I was a California boy, and I Company, which opened a tasting couldn’t see myself going back east,” said room in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone in 2013. “We wanted to get back Fox. Also keeping him home was his girlinto Santa Barbara and become friend, Sarah, who’d become his wife a few part of the scene,” said Fox. “Both years later.

He had been heavily recruited to play of us just love the Funk Zone and on UCSB’s team, so he stayed in town to its resurrection.” play water polo for the Gauchos. Three Compared to the singular focus years in, the head coach that Fox liked of Blair Fox Cellars, “Fox Wine was fired, so he decided to transfer to UC Company concentrates on the variDavis, where Sarah was a soccer star. Then ous appellations of Santa Barbara,” he stumbled into his first viticulture class. he said. “Being a native, I have a “I just fell in love with that,” said Fox. “At good understanding of all the diffirst, I just liked being outside and being in ferent areas.” So there is cab and the vineyard.” Then he realized that, even if sauv blanc from Happy Canyon, he grew perfect grapes, he could sell them chard and pinot from the Sta. Rita Hills, and Rhône wines from Balto someone who didn’t make great wine.

EXPLORING HIS PLACE: Blair Fox likes to make wine from Santa Barbara County’s many appellations. “ I have a So he started studying winemaking too, lard Canyon and the Los Olivos good understanding of all the different areas,” said the Santa Barbara native. and he graduated in 1999 as the first UC District, among others.

The couple and their two teenDavis class to earn dual degrees in viticulWhen it was time to come home, Fox was hit with mulage daughters live in downtown Los ture and enology.

“Once I did figure out that I wanted to be part of tiple job offers, but he went back to Eli Parker. “We Olivos, which is home to the Blair Fox Cellars tasting this business, I wanted to come back to this area,” always have had a great relationship,” said Fox, room. Their eldest, Rylee Dare Fox, just graduated from said Fox, who found a harvest enologist who was offered the job as Rhône varietal wine- Santa Ynez High and is entering Cal Poly to pursue a job with Fess Parker Winery right maker and has been at Fess Parker ever since, viticulture and wine degree this fall. “It was the only college she applied to,” said Fox. “We are very excited after graduation. “I knew there was becoming head winemaker in 2005. something special here. It was still His own label, Blair Fox Cellars, actually and proud to see our next generation involved in the kind of undiscovered.” goes back to 2001, when Sunstone paid part family business!”

While learning from mentors like of his salary in a ton and a half of grapes. He Perhaps more than any other family, the Foxes are a Brett Escalera and Dan Gehrs, Fox chose syrah. “In my final winemaking class, truly complete product of Santa Barbara wine country, wound up working at Sunstone WinI was told that syrah was going to be the from when Fox was one of the youngest faces on the N TTMAN ery, which was closely tied to Fess Parker variety that overtakes cab in popularity,” scene until today, as his experience is starting to match E K T T

BY M A said Fox with a smile. “I’ve always been hoping his age. back then. Sarah also got a job in the Sunthat would happen. I don’t know if it ever will.” stone tasting room. Right before the har“Even today, people say, ‘Wow, you’re so young,’ but He started thinking of a name for his personal winery I’m not that young anymore,” he laughed, before getting vest of 2002, Fox went back to Fess Parker to manage the vineyards, as Escalera and Eli Parker were so busy while drinking beer with other winemakers in Austra- more thoughtful. “I’ve always really worked my ass off,” lia, where friends gave him some very frank advice. he said. “It is great to see that hard work pay off.” in the cellar.

The next year, he worked a vintage at Haselgrove “The guys were looking at me, and said, ‘Mate, your Winery in South Australia’s McLaren Vale region, name is Blair Fox. That’s like a Hollywood name. Why 2477 Alamo Pintado Ave., Los Olivos, (805) 691-1678; and and then traveled around the country with friend and wouldn’t you just use your own name?’” recalled Fox, 120 Santa Barbara St.; (805) 699-6329; blairfoxcellars.com winemaker-to-be Dave Potter, who was studying there. who thought that sounded pompous but begrudgingly and foxwineco.com

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The restaurant is helmed by Executive Chef Kentaro Ikuta, who hails from Osaka, where he learned his craft before moving to California, spending the last 13 years at Michelin-starred omakase concepts.

Chef Ikuta is joined by Chef de Cuisine Scott Yonamine, who was most recently in Tokyo at Musahi Sushi; and Sushi Chef Wendy Ramos from Southern California’s renowned Nobu Malibu. “I am thrilled to bring almost 30 years of experience in the traditional Edomae school to this special region of California,” says Chef Ikuta.

AMA Sushi can be experienced a la carte or as an omakase meal, and the menu features a selection of zensai (appetizers) such as Namagaki Oysters and Tamago Tofu with Local Uni; salads and usuzkuri (thinly sliced sashimi); agemono (fried foods), including a variety of tempura and chicken karaage; and yakimono courses, grilled over binchō-tan charcoal, ranging from Hokkaido Scallops to Miyazaki A5 Wagyu Ribeye.

Anchored in an extensive nigiri and sashimi list, the menu highlights local offerings alongside seafood selected from Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo’s Kōtō ward. The wild-caught and sustainable ingredients will also be available as simply prepared hand and cut rolls or uramaki (insideout) rolls that introduce non-classical sauces and flavors. In keeping with local and Japanese seasonality, a selection of featured fish will rotate seasonally. Highlights include Abalone, Chu-Toro (tuna belly), Shime-Saba (marinated mackerel), Buri Yellowtail, and Uni from Hokkaido and local purveyors.

Curated by the resort’s Director of Wine, Daniel Fish, the AMA Sushi wine list showcases both Cali-

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Pedro Fernández will perform on August 6 at the Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival.

with a sales tally upward of 30 million. The singer nimbly switch-hits between Latin pop and Mexican regional styles, including mariachi with modern twists, as heard on the two volumes of her fairly recent and impressive México de Mi Corazón project.

Now 40 and going strong in mid-career, Jiménez has a discography going back to 2001, when she led the band La Quinta Estación before going solo. Befitting her transcontinental career and cultural ties, she now splits her time between Miami and Mexico City, with jaunts back home to Madrid.

From the male vocalist perspective, Fernández is your basic hyphenate creature, a singer/actor/songwriter/composer/producer/TV host. At 59, his bio includes 40 albums and scores of soap operas and films.

A notable headlining band this year, Mariachi Estrella de México exemplifies the expansion of the once male-dominated musical world into a cross-gender realm, with an ensemble of sharp-dressed men and women in the ranks.

All told, the 25th birthday gala promises to be a Mariachi Festival worth the trip up the hill.

—Josef Woodard

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INDY BOOK CLUB: AUGUST The Indy Book Club is back in action for August with When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole. Cole ties the horrors of gentrification and racism together in this thriller set in Brooklyn. We follow Sydney Green, a Black woman in her thirties, who starts to notice unusual changes happening in her neighborhood. New construction seems to be everywhere, apartments are selling more than usual, and her lifelong neighbors are disappearing overnight. Developers prowl around Sydney’s neighborhood, promising a better life to those willing to move, but Sydney is convinced something more sinister is at play and teams up with her neighbor Theo to investigate.

This novel creeped me out from beginning to end. Cole creates a setting fit for a contemporary romance and juxtaposes that with the very dark realities of institutional racism, all of which adds up to a chilling novel with much more substance than a typical thriller. I felt frustrated, angry, and scared when I read this novel. It is rare for a thriller author to unpack social justice issues in their work, but Cole does it effectively in an educational and entertaining way.

Join the Indy Book Club, a collaboration between the Santa Barbara Independent and the Santa Barbara Public Library, for a virtual discussion of When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole on Wednesday, August 31, at 6 p.m. Register at independent.com/indybookclub.

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ronically, or not, mariachi music, the great American genre born in Jalisco in the mid-19th century, has its long weekend in the sun, Mexican style, during Old Spanish Days. Downtown, roaming mariachi bands keep the music rippling through the festive aura of the city in Fiesta mode. Meanwhile, up in the mythic hillside haven of the Santa Barbara Bowl in the prime-time slot of Saturday night during Fiesta, the widely acclaimed Mariachi Festival presents some of the finest artists in this genre in the world.

This year, the festival, a nonprofit organization that funnels profits to scholarships for local Latino students, reaches the significant milestone of its 25th anniversary year. The four-and-a-half-hour concert/festival boasts a suitably high-caliber roster for the occasion, featuring Pedro Fernández, Natalia Jiménez, and Mariachi Estrella de México.

Each year, the festival hosts full-fledged mariachi bands but also showcases special guest vocalists. The spotlight this year goes to famed Spanish singer Jiménez, winner of Grammy and Latin Grammy awards and

Charley Crockett The magical pleasures of live entertainment are back in full force, and Santa Barbara’s cultural calendar is brilliantly bursting at the seams, in large part due to UCSB Arts & Lectures’ more than 45 dynamic performances and fabulous lectures slated for the 2022-2023 season — with even more exciting announcements coming soon, says spokesperson Charles Donelan.

Single tickets are now on sale for rising Americana star Charley Crockett, who kicks off this electrifying season with his old-school-countrytwang-meets-millennial-modern-troubadour vibe at the Arlington on October 2. This dapper Texan — named the 2021 Americana Music Awards Emerging Artist of the Year — performs with his band, the Blue Drifters.

Set your alarms for Friday, August 5, at 10 a.m., when single tickets go on sale for the rest of the season, a diverse, world-class lineup of dance, music, theater, and speakers, including Arts & Lectures’ cleverly curated signature mix of big names and emerging talents.

Yo-Yo Ma, Nigella Lawson, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Morris, John Irving, Jake Shimabukuro, Tig Notaro, Pink Martini, and the Danish String Quartet are among the well-known favorites. Some of the newer discoveries that we’re excited for include the Linda Lindas, Sō Percussion, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, and Jean Rondeau.

Rounding out the opening week is a timely visit from DakhaBrakha, the folk-meets-punk group quartet from Kyiv, Ukraine, performing their electrifying blend of Ukrainian melodies and contemporary rhythms from around the world on October 6. Then on October 8, put on your dancing shoes for Sw!ng Out, a group of Lindy Hop dance champs from acclaimed choreographer Caleb Teicher who bring the joy, fire, and fight of competitive and social swing dance to the stage with live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band. Pro tip: Get ready to strut. The audience is encouraged to jump on stage for the jam session that concludes the show. For tickets and additional information, visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries poet Ada Limón advises us to notice and love “the music of the world.” She says that praising and giving attention to the good things “are as important and necessary as witnessing and naming and holding the grief and sorrow that comes with being alive.” This is always a crucial principle to keep in mind, but it will be extra essential for you in the coming weeks. Your ability to attract the influences and resources you need most will thrive if you focus on and celebrate the music of the world. P.S.: I encourage you to sing more than usual, too.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Here’s my hope for you in the coming months: You will cultivate a specialty for connecting people and situations that need to be affiliated but aren’t yet.

You will regard your flair for blending as a gift you offer generously. Can you picture yourself doing that? I think it will be fun and will also benefit you in unexpected ways.

So here’s my proposed plan: Conspire to heal fragmentation and schisms. Unite heavenly and earthly things. Keep the far side and the near side in touch with each other.

Never let the past forget about the future, and vice versa.

One more thing, Taurus: Be gleefully imaginative as you mix and conjoin and combine.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): In a play by Gemini philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, a character says, “Hell is other people.” What did he mean by that? One interpretation is that our fellow humans always judge us, and their judgments rarely align with who we really are and who we imagine ourselves to be. Here’s my solution for that problem: Choose allies and companions whose views of you match your own. Is that so hard? I suspect it will be easier than usual for you in the coming months, Gemini. Take advantage of life’s natural tendency to connect you with cohorts who appreciate you. Be picky as you avoid the hell of other people.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): The people most likely to succeed as entrepreneurs are those with a high degree of analytical intelligence. Right? Well, it’s more complicated than that.

Reasoning ability and problem-solving skills are key skills, but not as important as emotional intelligence: the power to understand and manage feelings. I mention this, Cancerian, because the coming months will be a favorable time to advance your ambitions by enhancing and expressing your emotional intelligence. Here’s some reading to foster your powers: (1) tinyurl.com/EmotionSmarts; (2) tinyurl.com/SmartFeeler; (3) tinyurl.com/WiseFeeler; (4) tinyurl.com/BrightFeeler

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to always be confident that YOU ARE THE PARTY! Everywhere you go, bring the spirits of fun and revelry. Be educationally entertaining and entertainingly educational. Amuse yourself by making life more interesting for everyone. At the same time, be kind and humble, never arrogant or insensitive. A vital part of your assignment is to nourish and inspire others with your radiance and charm. That formula will ensure you get everything you need. I foresee bounty flowing your way! P.S.: Regularly reward your admirers and followers with your magnanimous Cheshire-cat grin.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In my Astrological Book of Life, here’s what I have inscribed about Virgos: You may not always find the perfect solution, but you are skilled at finding the best solution available. This will be an especially valuable knack in the coming weeks, both for yourself and others. I trust you will scan for practical but compassionate answers, even if they are partial. And I hope you will address at least some of everyone’s needs, even if no one is completely satisfied. You can be the master of creative compromise that we all need. Thanks in advance for your excellent service!

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Everyone knows that “balance” is a key word for you Librans. However, there are many interpre-

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tations of what balance entails. Here’s how I define it for you during the coming weeks: (1) an openness to consider several different ways to capitalize on an opportunity, but to ultimately choose just one way; (2) the ability to see and understand all sides of every story, while also knowing that for pragmatism’s sake you must endorse a single version of the story; (3) the capacity to be both constructively critical and supportively sympathetic; (4) the facility to be welcoming and inviting while still maintaining healthy boundaries.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Life is enchanting for me because I have so much control over what I think,” my Scorpio friend Daria told me. “If I decide to flatter myself with comments about how attractive I am, I can do just that. If I would like to imagine a good fairy visiting me while I sleep and giving me a dream of having an orgasm with my lover while we fly over the Serengeti Plains, I can.” I asked her about the times when worries gush forth unbidden from her subconscious mind and disturb her joy. She said, “I simply picture myself shoving those worries in a hole in the ground and blowing them up with an exploding rose.” I bring Daria’s mind-management expertise to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to raise your mastery over what you think.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People might impatiently advise you to relax and settle down. Others might tell you to stop dreaming such big visions and formulating such adventurous plans.

Still others might give you the side-eye because they imagine you are having too much fun and brainstorming too wildly and laughing too loudly. If you receive messages like those, give the complainers a copy of this horoscope.

It will tell them that YOU WILL NOT COMPLY WITH ANY INHIBITING DIRECTIVES. Your astrologer, me, authorizes you to be as vast and venturesome and enterprising and spontaneous as you dare. In doing so, I am speaking on behalf of the cosmic rhythms. Your plucky audacity has been heavenly ordained.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In accordance with astrological omens, I hereby authorize you to worry, worry, and worry some more. Stew and simmer and ferment as you weigh all the options and mull the correct actions. But when the time is right, end your fretting with crisp decisiveness. Shake off any residual doubt that still clings to you. And then undertake robust action to transform the situation that provoked your righteous brooding. In my astrological opinion, what I have just described is your best plan for success in the coming days.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I was looking for a love unlike my parents’ love or my sister’s love or the love on a foreign kitchen floor,” writes Rebecca Dinerstein Knight in her novel The Sunlit Night. “I wanted to forgive my mother and father for their misery and find myself a light man who lived buoyantly and to be both his light and his dark.” I offer you her thoughts, Aquarius, in the hope of inspiring you to expand and deepen your ideas about the love you want.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to revise and reinvigorate your definitions of intimacy and togetherness. You will have extra power to see new truths about how best to create maximum synergy and symbiosis.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “Even raw and messy emotions can be understood as a form of light, crackling and bursting with energy,” writes Jungian psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés. For example, “We can use the light of rage in a positive way, in order to see into places we cannot usually see.” Likewise, confusion might be a healthy sign that a long-held misunderstanding is dissolving. Disappointment may herald the demise of an unrealistic expectation.

So let’s unleash a big cheer for raw and messy emotions, Pisces! I suspect they will soon be your gateway to clarity and renewal.

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EMPLOYMENT organization‑wide initiatives. Involves understanding and application of a range of international and U.S. federal/ state laws and regulations to a wide variety of activities, including academic and non‑academic‑related activities that have implications for UCEAP operations and academic programs. Provides interpretation and guidance to UCEAP unit Directors and subject matter experts regarding complex issues ranging from foreign liability risks to global data privacy. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and three or more years of compliance/legal experience or equivalent training and/or experience.

Three or more years of compliance/ legal experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience (e.g., paralegal certification and 5 years of relevant experience).

Note: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check.

The UCEAP Systemwide Office is located in Goleta, CA. Position is eligible for remote or hybrid work arrangements.

Work schedule to align with business hours, Pacific Time. Per UC policy, travel costs for non‑mandatory training and professional development will be reimbursed (up to) the expenses for travel to and from the UCEAP systemwide office regardless of the elected remote work location. $91,300 ‑ $116,400/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application review begins 8/10/22.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39897

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS

ARTS & LECTURES Has full functional responsibility for all financial, personnel and administrative operations of the Arts & Lectures unit.

Serves as an advisor to the Executive Director and Associate Director on high‑level matters of critical importance, creating and implementing short and long‑range strategic financial, personnel, and operation plans and goals. Directs contractors, vendors and departmental staff at select A&L events and has the autonomy and authority to represent the organization at high level meetings and events. Serves as a senior point of contact in the absence of the Executive and Associate Director. Responsibilities include management of all Arts & Lectures finances, including complex income accounts exceeding $10 million annually, as well as management at the department level of the Arts & Lectures $30 million endowment campaign funds. Additionally, the A&L unit is granted procurement authority to execute contracts for professional services in excess of $3 million annually; the Director of Finance and Operations establishes structures, policy and procedures to ensure success in delegation and auditability of all department transactions. Handles high level contractual negotiation with agents/artists/managers. Responsible for complex financial reporting, including economic forecasting and modeling, projections on investment income, and advising the Executive Director on financial strategies and risks. Prepares reports and presents on financial performance and projections to the Arts & Lectures Finance Council. In addition to short‑ and long‑range strategy, is responsible for directing the administrative operations of the Arts & Lectures organization on a day‑to‑day basis with broad impact, autonomy and authority to act, including managing the needs of all personnel and managing all space and facility needs. Exercises a high degree of autonomy in addressing departmental issues and creating departmental policy.

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payroll, procurement, contracting, and business services. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check.

Ability to work occasional evening and weekend hours. $90,000‑130,000/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 34141

FINANCIAL ANALYST

MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT The Financial Analyst is responsible for the full spectrum of financial administration including but not limited to reconciling the general ledger and payroll expense reports; analyzing expenditures and spending patterns; pre‑award and post‑award administration, proposal preparation and budgets; preparing monthly financial reports for review by PIs, and the Business Officer. Maintains knowledge of University accounting policies, contract/grant policies, funding agencies, including related policies and procedures for payroll, travel, and purchasing.Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Working knowledge of financial processes, policies and procedures. Proficiency in the use of spreadsheet and database software.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $26.39 ‑ $33.00 $33.00/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application review begins 8/12/22.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 40103

GRADUATE ADVISOR

SOUTH HALL ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER The Graduate Advisor has comprehensive responsibility for managing and coordinating all aspects of the graduate advising in the Department of Philosophy and Linguistics. Coordinating all aspects of graduate recruitment and admissions processes for both programs, processing over 140 applications each year. Independently advises current and prospective graduate students on a wide variety of matters, including requirements for graduate admissions, program requirements, and options, progress towards degree, grades, courses, availability of fellowships and financial assistance, petitions, leaves, exam schedules, housing, cost of living, community issues, employment, and other academic issues. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree, 1‑3 years administrative experience and experience with advising/counseling. $24.81‑$28.57/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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PHELPS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER Assists in managing all graduate programs and services in the Departments of French & Italian; Germanic & Slavic Studies; Spanish & Portuguese; and the Programs of Comparative Literature and Latin American & Iberian Studies. Works closely with Faculty Graduate Advisors in advising students and faculty on most aspects of graduate matters. Assists in advising prospective applicants on degree programs and in coordinating the admissions process. Acts as departmental liaison with all relevant campus agencies. Assists in coordinating graduate students’ block grants, fellowships and teaching assistantships.

Prepares payroll for graduate student services and processes accounting and reimbursement transactions as needed.

Assists in designing and maintaining departmental databases as needed.

Assists in coordinating, designing, composing and editing departmental publications and announcements.Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent. 1‑3 years of administrative work experience.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. $24.61‑$25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 36331.

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COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE, ACADEMIC ADVISING Provides leadership on behalf of the Division of Student Academic Affairs, College of Letters and Science as a senior academic advisor in the Division of Student Academic Affairs. Advises students to help them meet their academic and personal goals. Analyzes and acts independently on petitions for exceptions to college and university policy. Acts as Dean’s representative to assigned academic departments.

Contributes to design, implementation and evaluation of revisions in university or college policy or procedure. Is expert in current university and college degree requirements and in college policy, procedures and precedents related to undergraduate matters Serves as the liaison to the Office of the Registrar regarding the Degree Audit Report System and Special Enrollment Programs. Collaborates with Letters & Sciences Information Technology in developing and implementing a replacement advising workflow system and will be responsible for training college and department advisors on the new system. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $62,300 – 65,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 39769

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Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39414.

using UCPath and Time Keeping system (Kronos). Payroll actions also include visa updates, tracking benefits, processing or overseeing the processing of tuition and fee payments when connected to GSR appointments. Works closely with other academic departments on complex inter‑ and multi‑campus appointments.

Executes and maintains knowledge of UC policies regarding recruiting, salaries, benefits, retirement, work study regulations, merit and promotions for research titles, leaves of absence, workers comp and employment separations. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree In related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $26.00‑31.68/hr. commensurate with experience and internal equity.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application review begins 8/8/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39803

PRIMARY CARE OFFICE MANAGER LOCKSMITH

MAINTENANCE‑ RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS The locksmith performs journey level locksmithing tasks and related repairs/ installations for the buildings maintained

by Residential Operations. In compliance with H&RS goals and objectives, affirms, and implements the department Educational Equity Plan. Reqs: Fiveyears’ experience working at a journeyman level as a locksmith. Experience with Best Inter‑changeable core system and Schlage institutional lock hardware and cylinders. Experience installing and servicing door hardware including exit devices (Von Duprin) and door closers (LCN). Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Ability to work effectively in a team environment. Notes: Five (5) years’ experience working at a journeyman level as a locksmith. Experience with Best Inter‑changeable core system and Schlage institutional lock hardware and cylinders. Experience installing and servicing door hardware including exit devices (Von Duprin) and door closers (LCN). Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures. Ability to work effectively in a team environment. $39.71/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #39424

STUDENT HEALTH Under the general supervision of the Nursing Director and Medical Director, acts with a high level of independent judgment and works in coordination with Nursing Director/Medical Director on management goals and objectives to increase standardization and efficiencies in Student Health primary care and nursing care delivery. Stays abreast of all issues facing the Nursing Director/ Medical Director. Provides agenda development, record and tracks action items for various committee needs of the Nursing Director. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Must be detail oriented with a high degree of accuracy. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child & Dependent Adult Abuse. To comply with Santa Barbara Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. $24.61/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #39399

pair count copper cables, splicing fiber and troubleshooting, knowledge of theories and techniques involved in the implementation and maintenance of private and public telecommunications networks and telecommunications equipment operation and use is essential. Reqs: High School Diploma.

Fiber Optic, research, troubleshooting, electronic circuitry construction experience ‑ minimum of 1‑3 years.

Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $35.83‑$40.29/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 30409

SCITREK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAM COORDINATOR

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY The SciTrek Coordinator works with the elementary school portion of the program in 2nd‑6th grade classrooms and assists with the administrative aspects of the program. This includes but is not limited to: coordinating and setting up schedules, organizing events, packing and putting away materials, updating the website, driving volunteers to schools, assisting with proof‑reading SciTrek materials (knowledge of science is helpful for this), helping with fundraising, recruitment, and data entry. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent training and/or experience.

1‑3 years general administrative/clerical experience. 1‑3 years data collection, analysis and reporting experience using spreadsheets and charts. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Position funding beyond the first two years is dependent on continuation of SciTrek Program funding. $21.28‑$23.18/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39765

SENATE ANALYST PAYROLL MANAGER

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY Responsible for all aspects of employment in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department which encompasses direct and indirect oversight for management of all non‑faculty payroll functions. Manages, administers, and analyzes the payroll activities for the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, a large multifaceted academic department.

Responsible for coordinating, analyzing, monitoring, and processing complex payroll issues for academic, technical, student, visitor, lab assistant, and other staff positions on approximately 366 active projects (as of Fiscal Year 2016‑17) totaling ~ $40 million. Responsible for hiring processes via UCPath, Job Builder, and UC Recruit and for the oversight and processing of all payroll actions

PRINCIPAL ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES UCSB’s Departmental Information Technology is looking for a Principal Electronics Technician to support major campus growth initiatives. The technician will share responsibility for the installation,maintenance and troubleshooting of the outside copper and fiber cable plant. Additional duties include coordinating with cable maintenance and installation crews on locating cable, cable tray, conduits, access panels, and manholes for the construction, adding and/or maintaining the cable plant, reviewing and verifying all completed work orders for accuracy of cable assignments, and recording all changes to both outside and inside cable plant. Experience with design and installation of high

ACADEMIC SENATE Serves as Analyst for Undergraduate Education. Provides Analyst support to the Undergraduate Council (UgC), Committee on Admissions, Enrollment and Relations with Schools (CAERS), and Committee on Courses and General Education (CCGE). Provides direction, oversight, and institutional memory; interprets and ensures compliance with University, campus, and Senate policy and procedures. Manages all administrative aspects of UgC, CAERS, and CCGE. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree and three years working in a related area or equivalent training. Advanced analytical/problem solving skills. Strong policy analysis techniques. Ability to accurately prepare documents, reports, and correspondence. Notes: Occasional travel to other campuses or Office of President. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $75,800/yr. The University of California $75,800 is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified

applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application review date begins 8/9/22.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #39742

WORKPLACE ACCOMMODATIONS SPECIALIST ‑ REMOTE

HUMAN RESOURCES Provides services mandated by federal and state law, UC System‑wide Policies to faculty, staff, and student employees with disabilities. Evaluates faculty, staff and student employees for program eligibility with respect to the legally mandated Interactive Process and Reasonable Accommodation, to retain in employment when their work is impacted by a medical condition, illness or disability. Provides union contract and policy interpretation, advice and consultation on work accommodation issues to campus managers and supervisors related to Interactive Process and Reasonable Accommodation.

Develops, maintains and updates the case management database; identifies and analyzes data for trends; develops and produces a variety of reports on an ad hoc/quarterly/annual basis; assists with development and implementation of training modules for managers, supervisors and employees. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Knowledgeable of applicable state and federal laws.

Demonstrates strong writing, speaking and group presentation skills in order to present information in a clear and concise manner to multiple levels in the organization. Works in a highly collaborative manner with others across the organization to prioritize and complete multiple assignments on time. Ability to function independently and analyze problems /issues of diverse scope and determine solutions using a variety of factors. Ability to counsel and advise all levels of staff and academic employees. Ability to resolve issues independently using sound professional judgment. Note: Fully remote will be considered.

Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. $62,300‑ $67,138/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application review begins 8/11/22.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 40024

ACADEMIC COORDINA COORDINATOR

Undergraduate Instructional Support Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Main duties will include implement‑ ing laboratory course material direc‑ tives and to accurately prepare experi‑ ments for all teaching labs. Req; B.S. in Chemistry, Biochemistry or related field at time of application. The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic com‑ munity through research, teaching and service. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, pro‑ tected veteran status, or any other char char‑ acteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/12/22. https://apptrkr. com/3282122. Posting will remain open until filled.

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LEGALS LEGAL NOTICESTO PLACE EMAIL NOTICE TO LEGALS@ INDEPENDENT.COM FBN ABANDONMENT STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: TRI‑COUNTY INSULATION at 1900 F. Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 02/01/2013 in the County of Santa Cruz. Original file no. 2013‑0000249. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: TRI‑COUNTY INSULATION, Statewide Insulation, Inc., 1900 F. Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95065. AL#1499563 State: CA This statement was filed in the office of Tricia Webber, Santa Cruz County on June 21, 2002 by Lorena Bibriesca‑Camacho, Deputy County Clerk. I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct.

Published: July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2022.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: SMALL BUSINESS LOAN FUND 333 S. Salinas St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Women’s Economic Ventures (same address) The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 08/15//07/2017 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. 2017‑0002303. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: The business was conducted as a corporation, signed by KATHY ODELL, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 7/08/22.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001734. Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2022.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: TRI‑COUNTY INSULATION at 910 George Street, Santa Clara, CA 95054; Statewide Insulation Inc. (same address). The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 7/15/2019 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

FBN2019‑0001695. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Statewide Insulation Inc. (same address) This businesss is conducted by a corporation. This statement is SIGNED BY MARK A GIESEKE, PRESIDENT. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 2022. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) FBN2022‑0001789. Published: Jul 28, August 4, 11, 18, 2022.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: CENTRAL COAST RBS, 5671 Ekwill St, Unit 103, Goleta, CA 93117; Darin Biamonte (same address) The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 11/4//2020 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. 20‑0002735. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: The business was conducted as an Individual. SIGNED

BY DARIN L. BIAMONTE, OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 7/08/22. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001740.

Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 20022.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: FLUENTESL at 802 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Danny Chun‑Fu Tsai (same address) The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 04/19/2019 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

FBN2019‑0000960. The business was conducted by an individual and SIGNED BY Danny Chun‑Fu Tsai, Founder. This FBN 2022‑0001718, E47 statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2022. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) , Published: July 28, August 4, 11, 18 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA LEGAL DOCUMENT SERVICES, 4509A Auhay Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110‑1705; Alexis C Henderson, (same address)This business is conducted by an Individual.

SIGNED BY ALEXIS HENDERSON. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 5, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001705. Published: July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: OAK PARK, 1532 Acorn Way, Solvang, CA 93463; Flt Oak Park Flte, LLC, 2082 Michelson Drive, 4th Fl (same address) .This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Corporation.

SIGNED BY MICHAEL B. EARL, VICE PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 7/6/2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001715.

Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: SKYPIG PRODUCTIONS, 1127 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103; Santiago P Bailey‑Musacchio (same address).

This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY SANTIAGO BAILEY‑MUSACCHIO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E51. FBN Number: 2022‑0001720.

Published: July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARADISE HOOKAH HUT, 432 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Paradise Hookah Hut, LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY DANNY TSAI, CO‑OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E51. FBN Number: 2022‑0001717. Published: July 28, August 4, 18 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA NATURE CONNECTION WALKS, 101 S. Salinas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Tamara A Murray (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED

BY TAMARA MURRAY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001892. Published: August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FREEDOM SIGNS, 816 Reddick Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elizabeth K

Harris, 333 Old Mill Road, #9, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED

BY ELIZABETH K. HARRIS, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2022‑0001854. Published: August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA FREE SCHOOL, 1330 State Street, Suite 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Free School, LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY MADELINE KIMLIN, MANAGER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 27, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001898. Published: August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ECHOLOGIC DESIGN, 5061 7th Street, Carpinteria, CA 93013; Echologic Design LLC (same address)This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED

BY EVAN WALBRIDGE, CEO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 21, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30.FBN Number: 2022‑0001602. Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SECOND ARROW COUNSELING, 301 E. Carrillo St, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Daniel M Cohen, 2415 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105‑3561. This business is conducted by an Individual. SIGNED

BY DANIEL COHEN, OWNER. Filed

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001728. Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA BEE CO., 1560 N Ontare RD, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Tracey L Goss (same address) This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED

BY TRACEY L GOSS. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001778. Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AYURVEDA SANA, 48 Mallard Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117; Daniela Caballero (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY DANIELA CABALLERO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 30, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E20. FBN Number: 2022‑0001675.

Published: July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: LOS LAURELES CO, 1128 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Los Laureles Co LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY NANCY GONZALEZ, MANAGER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001860. Published:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GIOVANNI’S PIZZA OF GOLETA, 5711 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117; Noormand & Sons Incorporated (same address).

This business is conducted by A Corporation. SIGNED BY MCLEOD NOORMAND, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001783. Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA FLORA DIVINA SANTA BARBARA, 4721 Amarosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jacqueline Clarke, 249 Verano Dr. #5, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY JAQUELINE CLARKE, FOUNDER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001722.

Published: July 21, 28, August 4, 11 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: SCO HOLDINGS, 121 Gray Avenue, Suite 302, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Iterative Ascent (same address).

This business is conducted by Limited Liability Company. SIGNED

BY JOSHUA CALEB COLLINS, MANAGING MEMBER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001853. Published: July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 2022.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: MOVE SANTA BARBARA, 506 E. Haley Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, Santa Barbara, CA (same address).

Move SB County; Cycling Without Age; Coast; Coalition for Sustainable Transportation. This business is conducted by a Corporation. SIGNED

BY GREG JANEE, SECRETARY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 23, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001621. Published: July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2022.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MELISSA ANN HENSIEK, CASE NUMBER: 22CV02517 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SABRINA BATES BELL, CASE NUMBER: 22CV01328 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: SABRINA BATES BELL TO: SABRINA BATES BELL‑BONADEO 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 includes 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 should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING AUGUST 10, 2022, 10:30 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 6/15/2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court, Published July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2022.

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH) CASE NUMBER: 20CV00235.

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Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 9321‑1107 Anacapa Division.

Plaintiff: Marshall R. Bernes, an individual seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows: 1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages c. Loss of earnings (to date), $5,000.000.00; d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000,000.00 e.Property Damage $5,000,000.00 i. Other (specify) Lost income, incidental, and consequential damages of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you. Dated: April, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson.

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH) CASE NUMBER: 20CV00235.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 9321‑1107 Anacapa Division.

Plaintiff: Elinor Fisher, an individual seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows: 1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000.000.00. e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00 i. Other (specify) Lost Income, incidental, and consequential damages, $5,000.000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed agains you. Dated: April, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson.

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH) CASE NUMBER: 20CV00235.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 9321‑1107 Anacapa Division.

To: Camilla Meldahl, aka Camilla Mehdahl, an individual Plaintiff: Marshall R. Bernes, as Trustee of the Marshall R. Bernes Family Trust, seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows: General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000.000.00. e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i.Other (specify) Lost Income, incidental, and consequential damages of (specify) $10,000.000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you; 3. Dated: April, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson.

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STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH) CASE NUMBER: 20CV00235.

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 9321‑1107 Anacapa Division.

Plaintiff: Judith Dannett, an individual seeks damages in the aboveentitled action, as follows: 1. General Damages, b. Emotional distgress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000.000.00. e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i. Other (specify) Lost Income, incidental, and consequential damages, $5,000.000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed agains you. Dated: April, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson.

SUMMONS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV00235 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CAMILLA MELDAHL AKA CAMILLA MEHDAHL, an individual; ED ST. GEORGE, an individual; JAMES GELB, an individual; JAMES M. GELB, as Trustee of the 2010 James M. Gelb Revocable Trust, MARIO MELENDEZ, an individual; MELENDEZ CONSTRUCTION, an Unknown business entity; MATTHEW CROTTY, an individual; FRANCES CROTTY, an individual; BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION, as Trustee under that certain Pooling and Service Agreement dated as of October 1, 1992 for RTC Commercial Pass‑ Through Certificates, Series 1992 CHF; ROBERT L. LOVGREN, an individual; DOREEN J. LOVGREN, an individual, 6651 L.P., a California limited partnership; HARVEY H. WIPF, an individual; HARVEY H. WIPF, as Trustee of the Wipf Family Trust; BERNICE A. WIPF, an individual; BERNICE A. WIPF, as Trustee for the Wipf Family Trust; ERNEST G. GULSRUD, an individual; ERNEST G. GULSRUD as Trustee of the Gulsrud Family Trust; MURIEL GENEVIEVE GULSRUD, an individual; MURIEL G. GULSRUD, as Trustee for the Gulsrud Family Trust; CURTIS R. JAHNKE, an Individual; and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MARSHALL R. BERNES, an individual; MARSHALL R. BERNES, as Trustee of the Marshall R. Bernes Family Trust; JUDITH DANNETT, an individual; AND, ELINOR FISHER, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do

not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Sue respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no pueda pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia,org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes del California , (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cual quier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuer o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y direccion de la corte es); Santa Barbara Superior Court, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Stephen Jamieson, SOLOMON SALTSMAN & JAMIESON; 426 Culver Blvd; Playa Del Rey, CA 90293 Ph: (310) 822‑9848 DATE: (FECHA) 1/13/2020 Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Sara Sisto, Deputy (Adjunto) SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 21CVO4486 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Jacques Andre

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person‑ (s) is/are doing business as: CEILO DRONE SERVICES, 571 Hill St, Los Alamos, CA 93440; Gary Gordon, (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual. SIGNED

BY GARY GORDON, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001716. Published: July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2022.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MERRILL GARDENS AT SANTA MARIA, 120 Suey Rd, Santa Maria, CA 93454; Shi‑IV Merrill GP, LLC, General Partner of MG at Santa Maria, LP, 1938 Fairview Ave E Ste 300, Seattle, WA 98102. This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership. Signed

by DOUGLAS D. SPEAR, VICE PRESIDENT OF GENERAL PARTNER OF MG AT SANTA MARIA, LP. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2022.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001552. Published: July 14, 21. 28, August 4, 2022.

petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: MELISSA ANN HENSIEK TO MELISSA ANN SOUZA 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 includes 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 should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER 1, 2022, 8:30 AM, DEPT SM4, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: July 14, 2022, Jed Beebe, Judge of the Superior Court, Published July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2022.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WOMEN’S ATHLETIC CLUB/FIT GAL at 4141 State St., Suite D1.2, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Women’s Athletic Club (same address). This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY ALICE S. HUANG, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 27, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E40. FBN Number: 2022‑0001894. Published: August 4, 11,18, 25, 2022.

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Benoit, an Individual, Doing Business As Benoit Construction, and Does 1‑5 ELECTRONICALLY FILED Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 11/10/2021; 11:53 am BY: Narzralli Baksh, Deputy YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Oliveira’s Fashion Floors, Inc. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages,

money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Sue respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de

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las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no pueda pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia,org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes del California , (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cual quier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuer o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

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CASE NUMBER: 21CV04486 The name and address of the court is (El nombre y direccion de la corte es); Santa Barbara Superior Court, 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Dennis Neil Jones (SBN 112515) Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, LLP 5425 Everglades St. (805) 644‑7188, Ventura, CA 93003 DATE: (FECHA) 11/10/2021 Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Narzralli Baksh, Deputy (Adjunto)

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ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION PURSUANT TO CRC 2.259 THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN ELECTRONICALLY FILED BY THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA,

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DENNIS NEIL JONES, SBN 112515 MYERS, WIDDERS, GIBSON, JONES FEINGOLD, LLP 5425 Everglades Street Ventura, CA 93003 Telephone: (805) 644‑7188 Facsimile: (805) 644‑7390 E‑mail: djones@mwgjlaw.com Attorney’s for Plaintiff, Oliveira’s Fashion Floors, Inc. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Plaintiff: OLIVEIRA’S FASHION FLOORS, INC. vs Defendants: JACQUES ANDRE BENOIT, AN INDIVIDUAL, DOING BUSINESS AS BENOIT CONSTRUCTION, AND DOES 1‑5.

CASE NO. 21CV04486 EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff Oliveira’s Fashion Floors, Inc. may serve the summons in this action upon defendant Jacques Andre Benoit by publication of the summons in this action upon defendent Jacques Andre Benoit by publication of

SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE THOMAS P. ANDERLE

Dated: July 22, 2022 By: Thomas P. Anderle for Hon. Donna Geck

ORDINANCE NO. 22-__ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 17 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE FOR ELECTRONIC CHANGEABLE COPY SIGNS On August 16, 2022, at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will consider the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that would reduce the permit requirement from a Major Conditional Use Permit to a Zoning Clearance for existing manual changeable copy signage to upgrade to electronic changeable copy.

If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption by the City Council.

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 9617505.

Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk Publish:

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the summns in the Santa Barbara Independent.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm Goleta Gardens LLC (SyWest) Development Agreement Amendment 907 S Kellogg Avenue; APN 071-190-035 City of Goleta Case No. 22-0003-ORD ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https:///cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta City Council will conduct a hybrid public hearing to consider a Development Agreement Amendment between Goleta Gardens LLC (SyWest) and the City of Goleta. The date and time of the City Council meeting is: DATE/TIME: Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at 5:30 PM LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION: The subject property (APNs 071-190-035) is an 11.71 -acre parcel located at the south terminus of Kellogg Avenue at 907 S. Kellogg Avenue, within the California Coastal Zone.

The site is currently operating as the Westwind Drive-In Theater and Public Market. The property is zoned Service Industrial (I-S) and the land use designation is Service Industrial (I-S). The applicant proposes to amend a Development Agreement that grants a license to the City of Goleta to use a private access road to the San Jose Creek Channel in exchange for an extension of the deadline to use the City’s former zoning ordinance (Article 35 Coastal Zoning Ordinance) to December 31, 2023 for review of applicant’s pending development proposal (Case No 17-121-DP-DRB). The proposed amendment, as directed by the California Coastal Commission, will change the end date to use the City’s former zoning ordinance to either the date the Coastal Commission certifies the City’s Local Coastal Program or December 31, 2023 whichever occurs first.

On July 25, 2022, the Planning Commission held a publicly noticed hearing to consider the Development Agreement Amendment and recommended the City Council adopt the Development Agreement Amendment.

The City Council is the final decision maker for the Development Agreement Amendment.

The project was filed by Robert Atkinson of SyWest Development on behalf of Goleta Gardens, LLC. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: A Notice of Exemption (NOE) has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq., CEQA), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 California Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq., CEQA Guidelines), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency. The NOE is appropriate pursuant to CEQA Guidelines §15061.b.3 because the act of approving a Development Agreement Amendment will not cause development of the project site itself, but will change the extension timing to use the City’s former zoning ordinance to either the adoption date of the City’s Local Coastal Plan or December 31, 2023 whichever occurs first.

CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records maintained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Staff reports and related materials for the City Council hearing will also be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting on the City’s web site at www.cityofgoleta.org.

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FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Kathy Allen, Supervising Senior Planner at 805-961-7545 or Kallen@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org.

Note: If you challenge the City’s final action on this Project in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised in written or oral testimony and/or evidence provided to the City on or before the date of the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b) [2]).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office, at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

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