Santa Barbara Independent 12/8/22

Berkus Collection at Westmont

Sake Spritzes & Cacao Classes

Chris Shiflett Comes Home to SOhO

by Roger Durling

Photos by Ingrid Bostrom

Columnists Dennis Allen, Gail Arnold, Sara Caputo, Christine S. Cowles, Roger Durling, Marsha Gray, Betsy J. Green, Amy Ramos, Jerry Roberts, Starshine Roshell

Contributors Rob Brezsny, Melinda Burns, Ben Ciccati, Cheryl Crabtree, John Dickson, Camille Garcia, Keith Hamm, Rebecca Horrigan, Eric HvolbØll, Shannon Kelley, Kevin McKiernan, Zoë Schiffer, Ethan Stewart, Tom Tomorrow, Maggie Yates, John Zant

Director of Advertising Sarah Sinclair Marketing and Promotions Manager Emily Lee

Advertising Representatives Camille Cimini Fruin, Suzanne Cloutier, Remzi Gokmen, Tonea Songer

Digital Marketing Specialist Graham Brown Marketing and Promotions Administrator Anne Parayil

Accounting Administrator Tobi Feldman Office Manager/Legal Advertising Tanya Spears Guiliacci Distribution Scott Kaufman

Editorial Interns Ellie Bouwer, Melea Maglalang, Zoha Malik, Sasha Senal, Lola Watts

Columnist Emeritus Barney Brantingham Photography Editor Emeritus

Roger Durling Photos by Ingrid Bostrom

A third-year writing/literature stu dent at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies, Sasha Senal started her Indy food writing internship by jumping from vegetables to candy, covering Lompoc’s mobile farmers’ market last week and Menchaca Chocolates in this issue on page 40. Originally from the coastal redwoods of Sonoma County, Sasha was drawn to writing in preschool and further encouraged by her grandmother, a prolific poet and storyteller.

“I could create whole worlds and fulfill my most implausible fantasies through simple manipulations of lan guage,” she explains. “I still feel this way about writing, though what I choose to write has evolved with age, diverging away from sci-fi fantasy novels to wards poetry and critical analysis.”

She’s excited to explore Santa Barbara’s culinary scene and strengthen her “journalistic muscles,” which she’ll keep flexing after college when she plans to move to Seattle. “I’m drawn to that state and can’t shake the desire to be there,” she said. “I want to explore its forests, taste its cuisine, and write of its culture. I think it will be an adventure.”

Until then, you can find her on the trails. “Perhaps more than hiking itself though, I love returning home exhausted and making a big pot of soup for myself and loved ones,” she said. “Some of my favorites to make are borscht, matzo ball, and potato leek. I am a firm believer that soup can be a meal!”

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Hart and Capps Sworn In

Inthe political equivalent of musical chairs, former County Supervisor Gregg Hart was sworn in Monday as the newest assemblymember to represent Santa Barbara. On Tuesday morning, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Laura Capps via press release to replace Hart as the newest 2nd District county supervisor. She was officially sworn in early Tuesday morning, just before the supervisors began their weekly meeting.

Hart’s first day was spent in special session convened by Governor Newsom to impose financial penalties on oil companies engaged in price gouging at the gas pump. Back in Santa Barbara, Capps made poverty the centerpiece of her remarks when the supervisors discussed last year’s legislative agenda and accomplishments in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento. She reminded the county’s legislative represen tatives to push for extended family leave and for extending earned income tax credits.

With Finals Week Underway, UC Strikers Get Disruptive

One main parking lot, near campus administration offices, has only two points of entry and exit, making it easy for picketers to block access. Costello mentioned that they do let cars exit the lots, as their main goal is to “prevent peo ple from coming to work.”

However, Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 2865, called the proposal “inadequate,” say ing that strikers are “not done yet” and “dis ruption will continue.” Banners hung around UCSB express agreement, with bold, painted slogans such as “7.5 percent won’t pay the rent.”

On Monday, other UC protesters staged sit-ins at the Sacramento and Oakland offices of the UC Office of the President, as well as rallied outside the California State Capitol building, and outside the homes of UC Regent Jay Sures in Los Angeles and UC Irvine donor Henry Samueli in Newport Beach. That same night, union officials announced that 17 striking workers were arrested at the Sacra mento office.

CORONAVIRUS

COVID is on the increase in S.B., with Cottage Hospital converting one area into a COVID unit to handle the 33 patients currently positive, seven of them in critical care. As well, the triple whammy of influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 has recently sent the bed count in the intensive care units of county hospitals on a roller-coaster ride. However, the low of nine available ICU beds on 12/1 could just reflect the number of nurses available, said Jackie Ruiz of Public Health, explaining that staffing is one criterion for the available bed count. On 12/6, 14 ICU beds were available countywide.

CITY

Real-world questions about liability in the case of defective roofing, a sufficiency of bathrooms, and the benefits conferred by parklets large or small were so tangled that they derailed the city Finance Committee on 12/6. As Chair Eric Friedman reported to the City Council, he and his two colleagues “got stuck” and could not choose from among the suite of options to charge restaurants on State Street for their parklet. The only thing the three could agree on was to send the issue to a future meeting with the full City Council. Full story at independent.com/parklet-fee.

by Callie Fausey

It’s finals week for University of California students, and striking academic workers are ramping up disruptions statewide. As the strike enters week four, student workers at UC Santa Barbara are using the picket line to block staff from parking on campus, alongside holding sit-ins, chalking up sidewalks, and hanging large banners around campus to make their presence felt.

Joe Costello is a striking graduate student researcher in the Physics Department at UCSB and an organizer for SRU-UAW, a local union affiliate that represents UC student research ers. He said the workers’ actions are the result of the UC being uncompromising at the bar gaining table.

“The UC has been offering things that really do not address the material demands that me and everybody else really need, and we wanted to demonstrate that not only is our labor important, but we can disrupt the workers at the UC in other ways,” Costello said on Tues day. “So, what we did is walk back and forth across crosswalks, which is totally legal; we’re just using the crosswalk a lot. If that meant that people couldn’t park, then they couldn’t park.”

Protesters at UCSB will continue their parking disruptions through out the week, targeting lots used mostly by the administration, in addition to plans to pitch tents and camp out on campus. “It’s … a way of disrupting the working of the University, and the hope is that this frustration will make its way up to the UC, and they will come and give us an offer that will actually work. Because, otherwise, these problems aren’t going to go away,” Costello continued.

Although tentative contract agreements have been reached for academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars at UC, the remain ing two bargaining units, including gradu ate student researchers, teaching assistants, and tutors, are still in negotiations with the University.

According to Ryan King, a UC spokesper son, the current proposal from the University, made over the weekend, “would increase sala ries of the lowest paid GSRs nearly 40 percent, raising starting salaries for part-time bargain ing unit members from $22,005 to $30,540.” For part-time teaching assistants, who are at the lowest end of the salary scale, the UC pro posed “a 7.5 percent increase in their first year, going from $23,246 to $24,990,” along with “experience-based increases in their second year of between 12.6-19.5 percent.”

“I’m engaging in this act of civil disobedi ence because the stakes are incredibly high, and the UC is not demonstrating that they understand that,” said Jess Banks, a member of the bargaining team at UC Berkeley.

King clarified that “the building in Sac ramento where the protests took place is not owned by the University of California,” although the University does lease office space there. “It is our understanding that a small number of protesters were cited for tres passing, asked to sign arrest forms, and were released to their own recognizance. These actions were not taken at the direction of the University,” King said.

With finals week underway, striking work ers are continuing to withhold their work. That includes refusing to proctor and grade final exams, which means undergraduate students may have to make up exams and class credits in the future, depending on when the strike will end.

“The UC is pricing in the disruption of finals as they withhold concessions,” Costello said.

Both the remaining bargaining units and the UC have expressed that they want to reach fair agreements as soon as possible. Until then, educational and transportational disruptions will continue to take place on university cam puses. n

The City Council approved the expenditure of $67,000 to hire Hassan Aden, a professional Independent Police Monitor, to provide consulting expertise in “creating and implementing” a new civilian oversight system for the city’s police department. The council heard from 25 applicants now vying for one of five seats on that commission on 12/6. The final decision is scheduled to be made 12/13. The commission is slated to meet for the first time late next January in City Council chambers, and its meetings will be televised on public access. Full story at independent .com/police-monitor.

To chip away at the extreme shortage of housing, the regulations governing applications for granny flats otherwise known as accessory dwelling units or ADUs are being relaxed both statewide and within Santa Barbara city limits. This week, the City Council Ordinance Committee got a first look at the new rules, which will allow units to be higher, with more square footage. In addition, property owners will be able to use more of their backyard for new units. Also, City Hall could be allowed greater latitude in permitting double ADUs up to 25 feet if the unit is attached to the main structure. After the Ordinance Committee concludes its deliberations, the new language will go to the whole council for a vote.

Arts and cultural event sponsors applied for twice as much in grants than the City of Santa Barbara can provide. Those accepted range from a revived Cinco de Mayo festival through the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to several events honoring Black history and culture, an oral history project at the Trust for Historic Preservation with the Filipino-American community, and a kinetic sculpture race through the group New Grit. A total of $295,947 was awarded for 2023 out of the more than $600,000 requested. Full story at independent.com/grants-awarded.

POLITICS

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

UCSB Protesters Use Picket Line to Block Staff from Parking

Nick Welsh

Assemblymember

Gregg Hart

Supervisor Laura Capps

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Strikers block staff parking near Cheadle Hall on Wednesday.

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COURTS & CRIME

Santa Ynez Murder Suspect Released

Twenty-six-year-old

accused murderer Rylen Quinn Svane-Morris walked out of County Jail last Friday a free man, having been held behind bars for two months on charges that he beat to death Terry Lee Wilson, the 72-year-old father of his former girlfriend, Jennie Wilson, in the Wilsons’ Santa Ynez home. But on the day of Morris’s preliminary hearing, the homicide charge was dismissed by the District Attorney’s Office, citing “new information regarding Terry Wilson’s cause of death.”

Deputy District Attorney Lara Clinton said she could not disclose what that new information was. But defense attorney Erica Sutherland with the Public Defender’s office stated that evidence that was avail able at the time Morris was arrested dem onstrated that Morris hadn’t broken into the Wilson residence as originally alleged. More to the point, she said, Terry Lee Wilson had not been murdered.

At the time of Wilson’s death in early October, it was reported that Morris had been charged with domestic violence and had been the subject of several restraining orders to stay away from both Wilsons. But text messages on Morris’s phone seized at the time of his arrest, Sutherland said indicated Morris had been invited to the Wilson house. According to Sutherland, there were multiple text messages and phone

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exchanges between Morris and Jennie Wil son on the day of her father’s death

Morris, Sutherland added, had been there three to four hours before law enforcement was called. Sutherland acknowledged a fight did, in fact, ensue, but she said it did not go as previously reported. Instead, she said, the elder Wilson went after Morris armed with a crowbar. Sutherland said she did not know whether Morris suffered any damage but said the forensic record clearly indicated that the elder Wilson had not been struck.

Sutherland added that the elder Wilson had been suffering acute cardiac problems at the time of this struggle. Two days prior, he had been transported by ambulance to the Cottage ER for heart problems. Those issues were serious enough, Sutherland stated, that attending physicians had recommended hospitalizing Wilson, who Sutherland said declined and checked himself out against the advice of medical professionals.

The coroner’s report has not yet been finalized, Sutherland said, but she stated, “It becomes very clear that my client was invited and there was no murder.” In the meantime, she said, her client had been incarcerated for two months on a no-bail murder charge that would have made him potentially eligible for the death penalty. “As you can see, it’s been catastrophic for my client. He is innocent.” Nick Welsh

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a cozy pajama-clad read-in on 11/30 for Scholastic Book

and Pajama Program’s 13th annual Great Bedtime Story Pajama Drive. In the 12 years since the event started, the national drives have collected and distributed more than 850,000 pairs of pajamas and 1.25 million books. This year, Lewandowski’s class collected 39 sets of never-beenworn pajamas for children from six months to 12 years old. All the pajamas will be donated to Transition House and distributed to families experiencing homelessness. Full story at independent.com/pj-drive.

COUNTY

In hopes of raising an additional $700,000 to defray operating costs, the county supervisors approved a slew of proposed fee increases for camping and sport fields on 12/6. Day use in parks will not be affected. People hoping to camp at Jalama, for example, will pay $20 more. Lake Cachuma costs will increase by 5 percent, not including a $2 increase in booking fees and 10-20 percent increase in RV hookup charges. Courthouse weddings will go from $900 to $1,000. The Lompoc Veterans Center auditorium

fee will increase by $200 per night. For groups seeking to reserve sport fields, costs could go up by as much as $350 for daily use. For tournament play, there’s a new minimum charge of $1,000, not including the $1,500 security deposit.

ENVIRONMENT

Two rare Channel Island plant species the Channel Island bedstraw and Santa Cruz Island dudleya have been saved from extinction, conservationists announced last week. The survival of the two species, which are found nowhere else on Earth, hinged on their recovery from damage caused by plant-trampling, soileroding, grass-munching livestock, namely, sheep and feral pigs. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed to remove the two plants from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Species. The FWS will accept public comments on the proposed rule and post-delisting monitoring plans through 1/30/23. Full story at independent.com/rare-plants.

PUBLIC SAFETY

The commercial fishing boat Martha Jane ran ashore near Santa Barbara’s Mesa Lane on 11/30 after colliding with a 130-foot-long research vessel, Clean Ocean , and knocking the fishing boat’s owner, Mark Becker, unconscious into his boat’s fish hold, where he was pinned by a 200-pound box of lobster bait. At the time, Becker’s boat was on automatic pilot heading toward the shore. When first responders and Becker’s brother reached him on the beached boat, Becker advised them that 100 gallons of diesel fuel were on board none of which got into the water or on the local beach. Becker is reportedly recovering from his head wound, and his boat is under repair.

Franklin School 3rd-grade teacher Leon Lewandowski’s classroom (above) enjoyed

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RYAN P. CRUZ

No Lame Ducks Need Apply

by Nick Welsh

Don’t tell Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal he’s a lame duck.

Yes, his party just lost control of the House albeit narrowly in November’s midterm elections. Yes, Republican Kevin McCarthy will soon bang the gavel that Nancy Pelosi wielded. But right now, Carbajal is more of a crow one with plenty to crow about.

For starters, this Tuesday, bids began pouring in for three fed eral offshore leases located 20 miles off the coast of Morro Bay for what Carbajal envisions as the largest offshore wind farm in the deepest waters in the United States, if not the world.

As of early Tuesday after noon, private wind companies had ponied up $167 million to secure 376 square miles of some of the windiest patch of water off the Central Coast. With 41 companies qualified to compete for three leases each 80,000 acres Carbajal suggested the bid ding could continue for several more days with several hundreds of millions more on the way. “Let’s just say the stars are aligned,” Carbajal quietly exalted.

What started off as a seemingly farfetched concept in 2018 is now generat ing serious interest by major investors. A threshold has been crossed.

Should this wind power project actually come to fruition six, seven, or eight years from now with 300 massive wind tur bines off the coast with blades longer than the Eiffel Tower is high Carbajal will have played the role of both legislative midwife and backroom head-knocker.

But for his intercessions, the Depart ment of the Navy would never have agreed to consider the plan in the first place. The presence of 300 massive wind turbines scat tered across 240,000 acres of ocean threat ened the high-stakes training and testing exercises conducted in that area by the U.S. Navy involving live missiles, among other things. When live missiles go off course, the Navy likes to be able to blow them out of the sky. With the world’s biggest wind farm and all the attendant support vessels down below that’s not so simple.

But after Carbajal had won the Navy high commanding officers to his quest, a highranking Navy administrator and Trump appointee threatened to torpedo the whole deal. He released a map of the South Coast drenched in red ink; the red indicated where he would not allow any non-Naval activities to happen. Carbajal, who serves on the House Armed Services Commit tee, took his case to committee colleagues on both sides of the aisle. He expressed concern that “some political appointees

had become a little disassociated from the effort.” He “elevated” his concerns, as he put it, by inserting language in the fine print of the National Defense Authorization Act that would inflict budgetary pain on the Secretary of the Navy’s office. The message got delivered. The Navy came back to the table. And the wind farm project still very much in its infancy managed to survive.

But the wind farm, as Carbajal tells it, is just the beginning. For the wind farm to function, a new industrialized port capa ble of providing all the necessary services enough electricity for more than two million homes for so massive an energy project. Turbine blades have grown so large that neither trains nor trucks can transport them. Only ships will do.

As Carbajal notes, ports offer the addi tional benefit of jobs. Hundreds, if not thousands. “Jobs, jobs, jobs,” he explained. Whether that’s in Morro Bay, San Luis, or Port Hueneme, he said, is too soon to say. All those questions like the wind project itself must undergo the rigors of envi ronmental analysis and the scrutiny of the public process. Impacts to birds and sea life must be studied and mitigated. At the very soonest, Carbajal estimated, construction is at least five years away.

Can anyone technically call Carbajal and all his party’s members lame ducks? True, the Democrats just lost control of the House in the November midterm elec tions. And Santa Barbara’s Democratic Congressmember Carbajal is once again a member of the minority party. But he seems unfazed. After all, he served his first four years during the presidency of Donald Trump. For the next two years, Joe Biden will still be in the White House. “Lame duck?!” Carbajal demanded. “You can’t say that; we’re too productive.” n

Carbajal Touts Progress of Massive Offshore Wind Energy Project

Congressmember Salud Carbajal

ERICK MADRID

Hollister Ranch Lawsuit Lives On

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attorneys were gathered, in person and virtually, in Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Colleen Sterne’s courtroom on Monday morning, in the hope of influencing her ruling that saved a Hollister Ranch lawsuit from an early death. At issue was whether Hollister Ranch should have sued the state back in 1980 or in 2013, an issue of when the statute of limitations expired. And it was all with an eye to whether the public would be allowed untrammeled access to the ranch’s eight miles of southfacing beaches where world-class surf breaks roll.

The ranch lands are somewhat remote, and access to its beaches to the west can be gained by sea or by the main road, which is limited to ranchland owners. Hollister is not entirely closed off; it offers several docent-led visits, in part a concession to the Coastal Act and also a means for scientists and schoolchildren to research and tour the land. A legislation-induced process is also ongoing to complete a public access pro gram for the ranch. The evolving question here addresses how people would reach the beaches.

The presence of one of the eight attor

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neys, Barry Cappello, underscored a set of plaintiffs who are in the case as a class — a group that ups the ante of legal complex ity, outcome, and costs. He represents the class of Hollister owners who would all be involved in any public easement over the roads at the ranch. It’s a group, Sterne noted obliquely in her ruling, whose rights — and whether they’ve been violated — have yet to be determined.

In the case at hand, the story stretches its long legs back to 1980, when the state gave a coastal development permit to the Met ropolitan Los Angeles YMCA for a sum mer camp. In return for the state permit, the YMCA offered to dedicate beach lateral access, bluff-top trail access, and vertical access to the main road across the ranch. However, the property owners argue that the YMCA could not alone give an easement for the ranch’s roads to the state, and thereby to the public. Those roads cross the plaintiffs’ lands along Cuarta Canyon, and they had not signed on to the easement, they said. In her ruling, Judge Sterne asserted that 2013 was when the state accepted the offer to ded icate the easement and that the plaintiffs had filed their lawsuit on time. JeanYamamura

Public Blasts Cruise Ship Program

Santa

Barbara residents packed inside a cramped meeting room at the harbor on Thursday, eager to voice their concerns over the city’s cruise ship program during the latest meeting of the Harbor Commission’s Cruise Ship Subcommittee.

Waterfront Director Mike Wiltshire opened the meeting with a report out lining the economics of the cruise ship program. Since its inception in the early 2000s, the cruise ship program has grown to host 20-30 ships every year, with 2022 marking its busiest year in more than a decade, with 30 ships anchoring in Santa Barbara. COVID forced a temporary shutdown of the program in March 2020, with only five ships visiting 2020-2021.

The Waterfront Department charges $10 per passenger for each ship that anchors offshore, with most ships averaging 2003,500 passengers. According to a Visit Santa Barbara survey in 2016 the secondbusiest season in the past decade with 29 ships the program had an estimated eco nomic impact of $3.9 million.

But it wasn’t the economics of the cruise ships that drew so many locals to the sub committee meeting. The rest of the time was spent discussing the environmental and social impacts of the program, start ing with a show of hands of just how many in the room wanted an end to cruise ships in Santa Barbara with nearly every hand shooting up.

Still, there were a handful of business owners and employees in the tourism

industry that argued in support of the pro gram, contending that those extra visitors help support struggling small businesses and many times return for second or third visits to Santa Barbara.

Waterfront Department Administra tive Analyst Chris Bell answered questions about the regulation on emissions and waste discharges by explaining that California has “the most stringent fuel requirements in the world,” and that here locally there are sev eral levels of regulatory agencies ensuring that the cruise ships do not adversely impact the environment. But local environmental watchdogs in attendance noted these cruise ships still put huge amounts of pollution into our waters and that one large cruise ship emits twice as many greenhouse gasses as 1,788 passenger car trips from L.A. to S.B.

The subcommittee members will review the public input from the session and return to the Harbor Commission to discuss any changes that could be made to the cruise ship programs.

Ryan P. Cruz

RYAN P. CRUZ

SHOW OF HANDS: Residents raise their hands during the meeting to show their opposition to cruise ships in S.B.

Breath of Fresh Air in Carp Pot Wars

by Melinda Burns

Paul Ekstrom, a retired firefighter in Carpinteria, says he and his wife, Linda, have been living a happier life for the past few months, largely free from the pungent smell of pot that drove them indoors with the windows shut.

That’s because earlier this year, Ed Van Wingerden, owner of the 11-acre EverBloom cannabis greenhouse operation at 4701 Foothill Road, just 65 feet from the Ekstroms’ home on Manzanita Street, installed 100 carbon filters from the Netherlands to clean up cannabis odors.

A comprehensive study released this week by SCS Engineers, a Santa Maria con sulting firm, shows that on average, the fil ters or “scrubbers” developed by the Dutch Envinity Group can eliminate 84 percent of the smelly gases emitted by greenhouse cannabis before they escape through the roof vents.

“When those carbon scrubbers went in, the odor dropped dramatically,” Paul Ekstrom said. “It’s been like a 90 to 95 per cent improvement.”

Also gone, Ekstrom said, is the annoying “laundromat” smell of an earlier technol ogy the curtain of mist that was emitted from perforated pipes around the perimeter of the greenhouses. This misting, called a “vapor-phase” system, was designed to neu tralize the skunky smell of cannabis in the outside air. Van Wingerden shut it down 10 months ago.

In 2020, Ekstrom and the Santa Barbara Coalition for Responsible Cannabis a citizens’ group that advocates for tighter regulation of the industry and Gregory and Marllus Gandrud, then-residents of Chaparral Drive, filed a public nuisance lawsuit against Van Wingerden.

Now the parties are in negotiation and a settlement is expected soon. The Dutch scrubbers represent “the latest and best technology,” Van Wingerden said this week, adding, “It’s only fair that everyone puts them in.”

The SCS study was performed at Road side Blooms, a four-acre cannabis green house operation equipped with Envinity scrubbers at 3840 Via Real. Van Wingerden and his partners Phil Greene, Mike and Adam Palmer, and Amir-Hamsa Eskandari paid $750,000-$900,000 for the study “as part of our commitment to fix the odor in the community,” Greene said. By the end of 2023, he said, he hopes “the majority of people who need scrubbers will have them.”

But some growers say that at $20,000 each, the cost of scrubbers is prohibitive; the

recommended density is up to 10 scrubbers per acre of greenhouse cannabis. The cost for Ever-Bloom alone was about $2 mil lion; installing scrubbers valley-wide, as the coalition and Van Wingerden have called for, could represent an investment of nearly $40 million.

“The cannabis market is in a place of peril right now,” Tristan Strauss the owner of Headwaters, a California-based cannabis supply chain; and the operator of Valley Crest, a nine-acre cannabis green house operation at 4385 Foothill told the county Planning Commission last July. The price of cannabis has dropped 80 percent since 2018, to about $300 per pound, Strauss said.

“Politicians in Santa Barbara County have to decide if they want us to stay here,” he said.

Valley Crest is owned by Case Van Wingerden and his son Alex; they use a vapor-phase system to control odors. In a 3-2 vote, after hearing odor complaints from neighboring farmers and Cate School administrators, the commission required the growers to install scrubbers within 12 months.

“There is a solution out there, but you said it would be financial suicide to install scrubbers,” Commission Chair Mike Cooney, who represents the Carpinteria Valley, told Strauss. “We can’t use that threat as the standard.”

But Case Van Wingerden appealed the commission’s ruling to the county Board of Supervisors, and in October, the board tossed out the requirement for scrubbers at Valley Crest.

With a new study showing that the Envinity scrubbers are effective, the real test of county policy will come on Tuesday, when the board hears an identical appeal by Case Van Wingerden. The project this time is Ceres Farm, a nine-acre cannabis green house operation run by Strauss at 6030 Casitas Pass Road, next to Valley Crest. The commission required the growers to install scrubbers within 12 months at Ceres, and Cate School and neighboring farmers are urging the board to uphold that ruling. n

Photo by Todd Rosenberg Photography

Expensive Clean-Air Tech Proves Effective, but Will Growers Install Them?

ODOR EATERS: At a cost of $2 million, Ever-Bloom installed 100 Dutch carbon filters, called “scrubbers,” to reduce the smell of pot at its 11-acre cannabis greenhouse operation on Foothill Road.

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by Tyler Hayden

The drive from San Francisco was going pleasantly enough with Monica Quirarte-Beeman behind the wheel and her 29-year-old son, Everett, happy to be heading home for the holidays. They listened to music and chatted. Monica tried keeping it light.

It had been a difficult year for Everett. He’d been dropped by his graduate program and separated from his partner, and he was living alone, struggling with the schizophrenia and bipolar disorder that had plagued him since junior high school. He was having trouble sleeping. Sometimes he heard voices.

As they entered Goleta on the way to their home in Ven tura, Everett became worried they were being followed by the police. Monica assured him they were not. He didn’t believe her. His hands clenched, and his paranoia turned toward her. He accused her of conspiring against him. She tried changing the subject and defusing the tension. Sud denly, he hit her in the arm.

Monica turned off the highway and pulled into an apart ment complex, where things escalated. Everett struck her harder, this time in the back of the head. He gouged her eye and tried to snatch her cell phone. Overhearing the commotion, an off-duty Santa Barbara County firefighter intervened, and Sheriff’s deputies arrived soon after. “It was just shocking to me,” said Monica. “He had never been violent like that before.”

The deputies encouraged Monica to press charges, not for punitive reasons, but so Everett could be enrolled in the county’s Mental Health Court and receive the psychiatric services he needed. They promised him help. Monica was hesitant. “I was adamant that he not just be shipped to jail,” she said. “It would be so counterproductive to put him in a place where he couldn’t get his medication and that might not acknowledge his mental illness.”

But, after years of failed attempts to stabilize Everett at expensive private facilities, Monica ultimately agreed, and Everett was taken into custody, where he spent Christmas and New Year’s and began a downward spiral from which he has yet to recover.

Over the past year, as Everett has cycled in and out of jails in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Ventura, his family has continued to advocate on his behalf, thankful for individu als who have lent a hand along the way but frustrated by court-ordered diversion programs that sometimes promise more than they can deliver. Especially for those whose legal issues cross county lines.

“Everett has problems, and I’m not trying to excuse behaviors,” said his father, Randal. “But the system is stacked against families in need.” Their situation is hardly unique, he explained. “It’s a story that’s being replayed all over.”

Everett Beeman grew up in Bakersfield, the middle of three brothers. He excelled in parochial school and would be disappointed in himself if his grades ever fell below an A. Achievement runs in the family; Randal is a history professor who recently taught at Westmont College, Monica works with children with autism, and one of Everett’s brothers went to UCSB and now has his PhD. The other is a robotics engineer for Amazon.

In junior high, Everett came out as gay. He was bullied by some of his peers, though his parents didn’t know it at the time. They did, however, begin to notice an overall change in his behavior. It became less predictable. His friends started pulling away. Everett transferred to a public school, where he seemed more content, and was later accepted to UC Riverside.

All was well for a while. Everett made new friends and enjoyed dorm life. But after about a year, his growing mental

health struggles overwhelmed him. By the time Randal and Monica picked him up and brought him home, his weight had dropped to 135 pounds and his teeth were riddled with cavities. His backpack was half-filled with various medica tions he’d been prescribed.

In and out of treatment facilities, Everett ultimately found his footing again and was reaccepted to Irvine. To the relief of everyone, he graduated, and he began pursu ing a master’s degree in philosophy at San Francisco State University. It wasn’t long, however, before he really started to unravel. His weight ballooned up to 300 pounds. He fought with his boyfriend. And he began hallucinating.

Again, Everett’s parents did what they could to help, and Monica drove north to shuttle him once more back home. It was on this trip that the attack took place. As the deputies had promised, Everett was assigned to Santa Barbara Coun ty’s Mental Health Court, where a prison sentence for felony assault was suspended in favor of gentler interventions, like mandated therapy, anger management, medication, and the assignment of a social worker to his case.

Randal claims, however, that these services were too slow in reaching Everett, who resented Monica for press ing charges, which included a restraining order. He quickly returned to San Francisco. On his own, he was soon in trouble again and locked up, this time for four months, for threatening his neighbors.

Once his San Francisco sentence was completed, he was transferred back to Santa Barbara’s custody, where attempts at diversion continued. He was sent to a LGBTQ-friendly facility in Los Angeles that, according to Randal, was not equipped to handle Everett’s acute mental health needs. Everett wound up walking away from the center and roam ing the streets of L.A. with no shoes, coat, or money. It started to rain. A bank employee took pity on him when he tried withdrawing the last $4.24 from his account, giving him $20 and letting him use her cell phone.

Everett called his parents, and Randal sent an Uber to bring him home. Randal said he received assurances from the Santa Barbara County Probation Department that Monica’s restraining order had been amended to allow contact with the two of them. When Everett walked through the front door, Randal was relieved and elated. It had been a year since he’d been able to hug him. “I was so happy to see my son,” he said. “He was remarkably cogent, but he wasn’t on his meds.”

The next day, after a shower and a few square meals, Randal and Monica tried to convince Everett to visit the emergency room so he could quickly get back on his medi cations. Everett resisted. He became upset. Fearing the situ ation could spiral out of control, Randal called the police to help him and Monica escort Everett to the ER. But when the officers arrived, they said the prior restraining order was still active and they would have to take Everett into custody. Randal pleaded with them not to. The officers said their hands were tied.

At the Ventura County Jail, Everett’s anger and paranoia only grew and eventually exploded into a fight with two guards. One of them sustained a cut above his lip that was treated with an ice pack and ibuprofen. Everett received two black eyes. He was charged with felony assault on a peace officer with a recommendation from prosecutors that he be sentenced to six more months. Randal and Monica wor ried that both of their attempts to solicit law enforcement’s help in their son’s mental health issues had only made his situation worse.

When the Independent recently tried to speak with Ever ett at the Ventura jail, where he’d been placed in an isolation cell, officials said he was too agitated to take visitors. Randal said he was becoming more of a feral animal than a human

being. Attempts to reach him by phone were also unsuc cessful. Everett later told Randal he didn’t trust anyone from Santa Barbara and that reporters were likely working with the police.

It was the quick work of a Ventura County public defender that got the charges against Everett dropped last week and allowed him to be released from custody. By contrast, Randal said, working with Santa Barbara public defenders has been a “fiasco.” Phone calls are rarely answered, and voicemail boxes are almost always full, he claimed. Similarly, the Ventura judge voiced exasperation that the Santa Barbara restraining order confusion had landed Everett in jail in the first place. If not for that error, he said, the fight with the guards wouldn’t have occurred.

Even though Everett is out of jail, Randal explained, he is hardly out of the woods. He continues to resist treatment and is more “sad, confused, and angry than ever before.” More than once he’s wandered back onto the streets. “He said he prefers being homeless than accepting more ‘help’ from the government, who he thinks is trying to kill him,” Randal explained. Ironically, it is that lack of a permanent residence that may be the biggest impediment to securing meaningful assistance for Everett, as California counties have a notoriously difficult time coordinating with one another in such cases.

Randal and Monica said they’ll continue to do every thing they can to ensure Everett receives the treatment and support he needs. “We have no problem putting every dime we own into our child,” said Randal, noting their sav ings are nearly exhausted. “But at this point, we need the system to help us.” They continue to do their own research on options for inpatient care and a potential conservator ship. They have been especially thankful for the resources they’ve gleaned from NAMI, the National Alliance on Men tal Illness.

Beyond Everett’s case, Randal wants to start advocating for others in similar situations. “I am going to get more involved in educating people about how well-meaning pro grams need budgets, staff, and most of all, accountability,” he declared. At the very least, he hopes telling their story will help other families feel less alone. “If this is happening to us, I can only imagine what it’s like for people who can’t speak up,” he said.

Longer term, Randal hopes Everett can realize his desire to one day support those who share the same demons, per haps by combining his personal experiences with his inter est in philosophy. “He wants to be normal,” said Randal. “He wants to function.”

GOOD KID, MAD SYSTEM? “He has never been a criminal, a drug addict, or a bad person,” said Randal Beeman of his son, Everett. “He has always been a smart person.”

Dog at the Top of the Stairs Opinions

CACOPHONY OF CROWS: While taking my dog for an early morning walk during last week’s rains, the sky overhead erupted in an explosion of crows. Swirling above us was a frenzied upwelling of angry, agitated birds. The crows would descend en masse upon one of two nearby trees. They would swarm from the branches of one to the branches of the other and back again. It was unclear what they hoped to achieve. Another dog walker pointed to the telephone pole that jutted up between the two trees; the body of a solitary crow hung limply down. Some how, the bird got zapped by a transformer at the top. A steady beam of black smoke poured from its carcass.

The smoke never stopped. I’d been in a grim mood at the time and found the display perversely uplifting At least crows looked out for each other, I thought. When one bit the dust, they all grieved. And they testified loudly and defiantly about the injustice of it all. I didn’t see any crows shrugging, as if to say, “What are you going to do?”

I wish I could say the same for myself. I’ve since read that crow funerals , as they are called, are a thing. It’s how crows notoriously smart come to grips with the dangers that lurk. One should not sentimentalize, the articles, warned. On occasion, crows are reported to engage in sex with the deceased. Failing that, they

might sometimes eat the dearly departed This information demonstrates only that crows and humans share a deep evolution ary ancestry.

I thought of the crows when reviewing a spreadsheet provided by the Santa Barbara Police Department detailing the 281 times its officers “found” a dead body in the past two years. The vast majority of these cases involved people who died at home; cops show up to ensure there was no foul play. But 38 were people who died on the streets, in parking lots, garages, off to the side of the freeway, in parks, encampments, motels, cars, playgrounds, houses of worship, on the wharf, in a shopping mall, or even in just one case in an actual homeless shelter. These 38 died of many things, but surprisingly, suicide was not one of them. Drugs and alcohol played a role, but not as much as you might suppose. Most die during winter months when if we’re lucky it tends to be colder and wetter.

I bring this up because we have now entered the wet and cold season. This is the time about 15 years ago that the Freedom Warming Centers were first opened up in response to what was then a shocking num ber of homeless deaths. Freedom was the nickname of a wheelchair-bound homeless Vietnam War vet whose birth name, Paul Bradshaw, has largely been forgotten. By all reckoning, he was tragic and sweet.

When preparing for a Fourth of July bar

becue back home somewhere in the south, his wife and kids went off to the store to buy ice. They never made it home. They got wiped out by a big rig driver with the sun in his eyes and his attention elsewhere. Bradshaw, reportedly, was never the same Somehow, he got to Santa Barbara and never left. On the night of his death wet and cold he literally gave a fellow home less person the coat off his back. He’d just been denied admission to the Casa Esper anza homeless shelter for trying to smuggle in a bottle of vodka. People there tried to get him admitted elsewhere, but he stead fastly declined. He was, after all, Freedom. Just bring me a pillow, he reportedly asked. They did. He died that night with a pillow and his freedom.

There were crows around back then.

To mark Freedom’s passing, a clutch of activists, medical professionals, and church people helped organize what became known as the Freedom Warming Centers. A mix of professionals and volunteers staffed the centers at various churches throughout the county. Today, 12 churches participate in a revolving-door fashion. They are abso lutely essential because of Santa Barbara’s acute shortage of short-term shelter beds

The shelter on Cacique Street now PATH is contractually bound to provide 50 beds when it’s wet and cold. This past week, however, PATH could provide only 11 such beds. PATH is experiencing a simul

taneous space crunch and a staff shortage. It’s trying to provide amenities to make the low-ceilinged shelter seem more inviting and less claustrophobic, a laudable and necessary goal. But those amenities not all the way installed yet take up space that could go to human bodies in need of warmth.

Clearly, we need more crows.

The church-based warming centers have a very significant limitation. For starters, they open only when the temperature drops down to 35 degrees or when meteorologists predict there’s a 50 percent chance of rain for two consecutive nights. A guy I know who used to live on the streets noted that’s the same temperature Santa Barbara mor tuaries use to keep their bodies from stink ing. I haven’t checked to verify this, but given how many times he’s been brought back from the dead, he probably knows. He says the warming centers should open their doors when the mercury drops to 40, not 35. County administrators say there are not enough participating churches to make this work and it would cost more money.

That’s all real. But so too are homeless encampment fires. Putting them out costs a lot of money. Not putting them out costs even more.

Some people find crows loud and irritat ing. Clearly, we need more of them

—Nick Welsh

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Time to End Racism

At The Towbes Group, we talk often of commu nity: about building and nurturing it, about sus taining and supporting it, and about protecting and defending it. The community that we endeavor to build and support is a community of inclusion for all people. No exceptions. Sadly, today we must once again raise our collective voices to fight for it.

The recent escalation of anti-Black incidents within our local schools is deeply troubling. Left unchecked, these kinds of hate-based incidents tear at the fabric of our community. We must not allow ourselves to “wait and see” while dismissing these incidents as products of “youth” or “a phase” that we hope might change with time and maturity. To the contrary, this is exactly the right time to act. Responding with age-appropriate anti-racism edu cation and providing racially sensitive mental health support through trained professionals is exactly the right thing to do.

Through thoughtful, age-appropriate responses, it is my hope that we can bend the arc of these trends back toward the creation of communities where all people thrive. It is in that spirit that we join with our neighbors in the Black community in calling for an end to racism, bigotry and hate in all of its forms, and to demand more from our local school districts and administrators.

—Robert L. Skinner, CEO, The Towbes Group

Carbon Emissions Solutions

The U.S. cannot reduce global CO2 emissions alone, no matter what is done.

NPR reported, “China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt, and the Philippines.” India is building 47. These countries will choose economic growth over emis sions reduction every time.

People are not going to stop flying, using cargo ships, going on cruises, resurfacing roads with asphalt, making car tires, or using huge construc tion equipment to mine the lithium, cadmium, and nickel necessary to make electric vehicle batteries.

What can be done? Media reports state trillions of trees could be planted to capture huge amount of car bon dioxide: 800,000 volunteers planted 49.3 million saplings in under 24 hours in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in 2016; and more than 300 million trees were planted in 12 hours in Ethiopia.

—David Baum, S.B.

Climate Change is a liberal hoax; quit trying to scare people. This earth will be around forever.

The people won’t.

Stop with this bullsh*t. Brad Blue, S.B.

Better with Gas

Can you tell me one restaurant that cooks with electric in Santa Barbara? Tell me one chef that will want to cook with electric? So I guess we can say goodbye to any new restaurants unless they buy an existing one with a gas stove. And if they want to upgrade to a newer appliance, they can’t get a gas stove! Yes, let’s help the small businessman in S.B.!

And what about when the grid goes down? Any one with an electric stove is out of luck in cooking their own food — maybe a bonfire?

When the power went out in my neighborhood, I could cook my dinner on my gas stove. Yes, it has an electric starter, but the quick strike of a match got my gas stove lit. Sue Burk, S.B.

Kind Thanks

On a recent Monday morning, I was walking along State Street to the Amtrak station — I’m a commuter from Oceanside spending weekends with the fine folks at First Congregational Church. As I crossed Arrellaga, I tripped on the curb and landed flat out on the sidewalk. Immediately, I heard several individuals call out to see if I needed help. It took a few moments for me to ascertain my wellbeing. Thankfully, all were wise enough to avoid lift ing me up until I agreed that a man from Cantwell’s could give me his hand. First Aid 101: Be cautious in lending aid; you may add to injury.

I am sore, bruised, and grateful. Thanks to those unnamed 8 a.m. helpers; I appreciate your kindness.

Dennis Alger, Oceanside

For the Record

¶ Last week’s Gift Guide incorrectly listed Meadow Rose Photography in the Funk Zone; the correct business name is Lancaster Wood Prints, which is at 121 South Santa Barbara Street.

¶ The Arts & Crafts Fair at SBCC is Saturday, December 10, not December 7 as was stated in last week’s ’Tis the Season.

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obituaries

Donna Jean Mortimer 11/3/2022

will be held at the Trinidad Cem etery, located at 170 Stagecoach Rd, Trinidad, CA 95570 on Fri day, December 9th, 2022 at 11am. The service will be conducted by Deacon John Gai.

Flowers, donations and con dolences may be offered at the reception that is being held at 3068 Eagle Lane in Mckin leyville, CA 95519.

To contact Tim Mortimer, Donna’s husband, please call (805) 290-8747.

at Cottage Hospital, Serenity House, and Samarkand/Smith Health Care. Our family is grate ful for the kindness and generous personal attention they provided to Daniel.

Donna Jean Mortimer, wife, mother and sister, passed away on November 3rd, 2022 at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, CA. She was 64.

She is survived by her hus band, Tim Mortimer, her brother Buzzy, sister Becky, brother Allen, her many nieces and nephews, and friends.

Donna is preceded in death by her son Chris, Brother Robin and her Mother and Father.

Donna was born at Santa Bar bara Cottage Hospital to Bob and Eleanor Lind. From a young age she aspired to be an actress and performed in high school plays. Donna was of the Christian faith and attended the Alamar Four square church in Santa Barbara growing up. She also met for bible class every friday evening that was conducted by a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs that were affilated with a different church.

Her mother passed when Donna was 13 and she moved to Sacramento to live with her father. When she eventually moved back to Southern Califor nia she was accompanied by her son. She loved being a mother to her only and late son, Chris topher Michael Lind. He loved Humboldt County and encour aged her to move up North from Ventura County. She and her husband, Timothy Mortimer moved to McKinleyville, CA in 2004. Donna managed apart ment buildings and was her husbands bookkeeper for his plumbing buisness, Mortimer Plumbing for many years. Tim and Donna met in 1995 and were married for 27 years. She loved spending the holidays with her family and creating a festive atmosphere.

A fond memory of her hus band’s was their love of watching classic black and white movies together. They loved eachother immensely. Donna will also be remembered as a go-getter with a rebel spirit, as well as for her generous heart, love of animals, quick-wit and spontaneous per sonality. Donna really lived in the moment and enjoyed life!

Friends, family and others are invited to a simple service cel ebrating Donna Mortimer’s life

Daniel Ira Maizlish         12/30/1946 - 11/2/2022

Daniel’s long struggle with a complex variety of illnesses ended painlessly at Cottage Hos pital on the evening of Novem ber 2.

Daniel was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Israel Leon Maizlish and Mae Maizlish, and younger brother of Morton Mai zlish. When Daniel was 4, the family moved to Flint, Michigan. Daniel completed high school in Flint, then earned a BA with High Honor from Justin Morrill College at Michigan State Uni versity in East Lansing. After two years in San Francisco, Daniel returned to Flint to help when his father became ill, then lived there until they all moved to Santa Barbara together in 1975. He remained in Santa Barbara for the rest of his life.

Daniel was a soft-spoken, thoughtful, and private man who lived a solitary life but fol lowed many interests. He had a heartfelt and lifelong concern for social justice. He was fascinated by philology and etymology, and did extensive research of his own in language and its uses. He was always interested in nutrition, and spent a great deal of time studying and selecting proper foods. He read deeply and ana lyzed the works of his favorite authors, particularly Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, Booth Tarkington, J.R.R. Tolkien. Above all, he loved wordplay. Daniel had a wicked sense of humor and an endless supply of quotes, puns, palindromes, and one-lin ers from his pantheon—Groucho Marx, W.C. Fields, Ogden Nash, S.J. Perelman, Henny Youngman.

For the final two+ years of Daniel’s life, he received excel lent medical and residential care

He is survived by his brother Morton Maizlish and sister-inlaw Alicia Maizlish of Santa Bar bara, and his nephews and niece Aaron Maizlish, Lisa Maizlish Connolly, David Maizlish and J Maizlish Mole. He will be missed by all of his extended family, especially at holidays, when he would always contribute poetry and humor from his vast collection.

Contributions in Daniel’s memory may be sent to Direct Relief International or Unity Shoppe of Santa Barbara.

MEDINA, Cecelia T. (Lara)

5/18/1942 - 12/14/2021

nephew, Bryson Ribeiro (Mar quel) great niece, Mara Ribeiro, Visalia, CA, niece Adria Ribeiro, Pismo Beach, nephew, Brennan Ribeiro (Peyton), Tulare, nephew, Brooks Ribeiro, Los Angeles, brother, Melvin Simoes (Gly nette), Avila Beach, CA, nephew, Cameron Simoes, Oceano, CA, niece, Madison Simoes, San Luis Obispo, CA, niece, Jordan Simoes, San Diego, CA, brother, Mark Simoes (Tulare), numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and her beloved pets, her Pug Dottie and two cats Luna and Bruce. Leslene is proceeded in death by her paternal grandparents, grandfa ther, Isaias Simoes, grandmoth ers Olivia and Albertina Simoes her maternal grandparents, Joe and Mary Souza, uncle, Joe Souza, aunt, Clarice Souza Math ias, uncle, Dan Souza, aunt, Mary Simoes Oliveira, uncle Tony Oliveira and their son Manuel Oliveira, uncle, John Fernandes, brother-in-law, Mark A. Ribeiro, nephew, Michael Simoes and her beloved pug, Sammy Dee.

"If I could have a single wish and never have another, it would be to have an hour and spend it with my mother." ~I miss you mama~ Love you forever and a day, Christine

Leslene A. Simoes 10/28/1970 - 12/1/2022

With heavy hearts we sadly announce the passing of our fun-loving sister, daughter, aunt, cousin, niece, wife, mother and friend to many, Leslene Ann Simoes of Santa Barbara, CA on Thursday, December 1, 2022. Born to Mario and Gloria Simoes in Tulare, CA on Octo ber 28, 1970, Leslene is survived by her loving husband, Robert “Chipper” Clouser and daughter Presley Harper Clouser, father, Mario Simoes, mother, Gloria Simoes both of Tulare. brother, Mario Simoes Jr. (Celeste), Tulare, niece, Brittany Simoes, Bakersfield, CA, niece, Brooke Simoes, Tulare, nephew, Chris Simoes, Tulare, sister, Leanne Simoes Sandlin (David), Tulare,

Leslene spent her childhood being raised on the family farm, this is where she developed her love for animals. With no interest in receiving a College degree, Leslene packed up her car at the age of 18 years old and moved to Santa Barbara to pursue a career in the Hotel Industry. With her unstoppable drive and work ethic, she moved from hotel to hotel all the while climbing up the ladder with every move. All of her hard work paid off when she landed the prestigious Sales Manager position at the World Renown Bacara Resort. Here she had the responsibility of coordinating many events, countless meetings, conventions, weddings, etc. She knew she reached the pinnacle of her career when she landed the contract to host the Oprah Winfrey Legends Ball. Always striving to look her best, it was no surprise when she decided to pursue a career change and become an Esthetician. As being a wife and mother clearly defined her at this stage of her life, she decided it was time to live life to the fullest. Wanting to give her daughter a taste of her own childhood, Leslene became the proud owner of 300 acre dairy farm in Tulare, she efficiently managed her various properties and enjoyed owning a dairy farm near family keeping her in the loop with her extended family and childhood friends. Leslene loved traveling, especially to Por tugal and she was an avid Rams fan, evidenced by how she held onto her assigned seating season tickets for many years, attending

countless home games with lil Presley in tow. She loved nothing more than spending time with her big ole “Portuguese family” back home and rarely missed the opportunity to get together. We hope you can join us as we gather to celebrate her life and can share with us all, what she meant to you. On December 14, 2022, the family will have a viewing at 6:00 pm for those that care to come and say their final goodbye, followed by a Rosary Mass in her honor at 7:00 pm at the Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapel of Santa Barbara. Funeral Service is scheduled for Decem ber 15, 2022 @ 10:00 a.m. at the San Roque Catholic Church, Santa Barbara, immediately fol lowed by a burial at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery, also of Santa Barbara. The family would like to express their appreciation for the care given by both Sarada and Dr. Kearney with the VNA Palliative care team as well as both Melinda Wax and Marcela Taylor with VNA Hospice care. We also would like to sincerely thanks those that took the time to visit and just drop in to see how Leslene, Chipper and Pre sley were doing, this extends to both friends back home as well as the local community. Special recognition needs to be extended to her lifelong friend, Julie Bet tencourt Smiley. Julie always had a meal in tow and offered so much advice and much needed emotional support. The family of Georges Bitar, his wife Nicole and sons Nic, Nathan and Char lie. Nicole has been just amazing to all the family, no box was left unchecked with Nicole as she would consistently stop by with a meal or two per day, at times with her boys to extend their emotional support to us all. Pre sley has too been blessed with amazing teachers that have taken the time to stop by and likewise her fellow classmates that have sent their cards and condo lences. For this reason, the family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Monte Vista Elementary School in her memory. Donations may be mailed to 730 N. Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Josephine ‘Dodie’ Lemcke

and Emilia of Santa Barbara; her siblings Alexandra ‘Zan’ Rans burg of Peoria, IL and Ralph ‘Kib’ Lemcke of Tucson, AZ as well as many loving extended family members and close friends.

Dodie’s memorial service and celebration of life was held on November 15 at Veronica Springs Church.  Burial of ashes service is forthcoming.

Dodie, Mom, ‘Grammy’ will be profoundly missed.

sity; he was the first in his family to earn a degree.

Josephine ‘Dodie’ Lemcke, 83, of Santa Barbara, CA went to be with her Lord peacefully at Seren ity House with family by her side on the morning of Wednesday, November 9, 2022 after suffering an unexpected brain hemorrhage on November 4th.

Dodie was born in Cleveland, OH to Ralph and Emily Lemcke on March 2, 1939. Her family moved to Indianapolis, IN in 1942. She graduated from Broad Ripple High School, Indianapolis in 1956 and attended Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. She lived many years in Cincinnati, OH before moving to Santa Fe, NM and then to Santa Barbara.

Dodie had a deep and abiding faith in Jesus and was an active member and leader in many church communities.  Most recently she attended Reality Santa Barbara and also attended Prayer Room at Veronica Springs Church. In her church life she was a devoted prayer partner, provided lay counseling and participated in worship and Bible studies.  She served as an active volunteer all her life. She was especially gifted serving at the bedside of hospice patients; her gentle, calming presence brought encouragement, hope and a sense of peace to many friends and family.

She was an accomplished and life-long artist and leaves behind an extensive collection of draw ings and paintings.

Dodie was a lover of God’s creation and spent her life creat ing beauty through gardening, knitting and her art. She loved the beauty of a flower, the color of the sky, the awe inspiring sunsets and walks on the beach. She spent her last years as an active, fun-loving mother, grandmother and faith ful friend to many. Her teenage grand-daughters often raided her closet for the latest fashions! She lived a life of prayer, simplicity, beauty and quiet contempla tion. She will be remembered for being welcoming to others and loving God who held her hand through life here on earth.

Dodie is survived by: her chil dren, Daniel Newell of Santa Fe, Melinda Newell of Cincinnati and Elisabeth (Mike) Gonella, grand children Josephine, Katharine

We request any donations in honor of Dodie’s memory please be made to Hospice of Santa Bar bara (www.hospiceofsb.org/).

God is love (1 John 4:7-16)  The Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23)

During his undergraduate years, George worked two sum mers in the office of landscape architects Darling, Innocenti & Webel in New York. His supervi sors, recognizing his exceptional talent, encouraged his application to Harvard. Earning a full schol arship for his innovative design ideas, George graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Masters in Land scape Architecture in 1954.

For the next three years, George worked in Manhattan at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as a Site Planner-Landscape Archi tect. This being Manhattan in the 1950s, George was able to take advantage of frequent sojourns to art galleries and avant-garde happenings, sparking his lifelong interest in art and antiques. George married Paula Mauro on April 22, 1957, and the couple moved to California on their wedding day.

7/21/1925 - 10/22/2022

Returning to Santa Barbara, the city he fell in love with, George began his career as a planner in the Santa Barbara County Planning Department. He was promoted to Senior Planner in 1958. George worked on the original Santa Barbara County General Plan, eventually serving as Chief of the Comprehensive Planning Division. He retired from the County in 1981.

1/15/1947 - 11/20/2022

until his marriage proposal, they were wed at St. Malachy’s Church on 82nd St. in Los Angeles, CA on a cold rainy day on January 15, 1955. They were married for 67 beautiful years, raised 2 daugh ters, Hilda and Patricia (Hector Balboa). He provided his daugh ters with the best Catholic school education. What enjoyment he felt taking holiday trips to every amusement park in Southern California.

It is with our deepest sorrow that we inform you of the death of our beloved brother, Havie.

We welcome you to join us on Friday, Dec 16th at 10:00 a.m. for services at the Chapel located at Welch Ryce Haider, 15 E. Sola, Santa Barbara, CA

Reyes Lopez

11/7/1927 - 11/28/2022

Yet nothing gave him the most pleasure than singing trio bolero music until his passing. He shared his love of music with everyone in his path. He not only sang his favorite trio music with local guitarists and compadres, Larry “Chalo” Hernandez and Tomas Myers but also sang with mariachis, Lalo Moreno (whom he’s known since 15 years old) and some big bands of the 1950’s. He became a fixture in Santa Bar bara for his singing and in high demand at weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, reunions, etc.

F. (Florian) George Kammer passed away peacefully on Octo ber 22, 2022. He was 97 years old.

George was born in Queens, New York, on July 21, 1925, to Josephine and Frank Kammer. He grew up in Ridgewood and Middle Village with his brother and two sisters. His father was an entrepreneur working in trucking and manufacturing.

In 1944, George enlisted in the Navy to serve his country during World War II. As an Electrician’s Mate Third Class he was stationed on board a wood-hulled YMSclass minesweeper. While ship ping out to the Pacific, George journeyed through the Panama Canal, along the coast of Mexico, to Southern California. On shore leave in California, George, along with a few crew mates, visited the small city of Santa Barbara. George fell in love with the city and its temperate weather, vowing to return.

At war’s end, and stationed in Hawaii, George took some classes at the University of Hawaii.

After his discharge from the navy, he went on to earn a Bach elor of Science degree at the State University of New York, College of Forestry at Syracuse Univer

After retirement, George took the opportunity to explore his love of art and antiques, working for a time at Peregrine Galleries on Brinkerhoff Avenue. George took great pleasure in searching for treasured items, and enjoyed making that one-of-a-kind find. George had a wonderful sense of humor, and liked to joke with others; he delighted in joyful ban tering with people he would meet, as well as with family and friends. He liked to travel, especially to explore the art and architecture of Italy.

George is survived by his children Anna Kammer (Dan Fallorina), John Kammer, Regina Kammer (Jason Munkres), and grandchildren Calia and Weston Kammer. George will be interred at the Santa Barbara Mission mausoleum.

Donations in George’s memory can be made to the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation: https://www.sbthp.org/

On Monday morning, Novem ber 28, 2022, Reyes Lopez, a native of Santa Barbara passed away due to a sudden illness. He was born on November 7, 1927 and had just celebrated his 95th birthday. He was born into a large family of 13, he was ninth in line of his siblings.

He attended Lincoln School + 1 year at Santa Barbara Jr. High yet never graduated as he helped to support his family. He worked odd jobs as a farm hand with A.C. Bryse, plowing, cultivating + harvesting crops, caring for live stock and poultry. What he never forgot were the days as a young boy selling newspapers on State St. What humbling times they were for him.

On February 22, 1946 he entered the Army, was assigned to basic training, gun crewman, squad leader and lastly as a mail clerk selling stamps, money orders, and postal supplies. Everyone in his troop depended on him to distribute mail from their loved ones back home. He served in this capacity for 3 months and was then stationed in Yokohama, Japan. On May 9, 1947 he was honorably dis charged, returned home to Santa Barbara where he found work with Johnson Lemon Packing.

During this time he met the new girl in town (thru his family friend Socorro) from El Paso, TX. Her named was Bertha Olivas and pursued her for about 6 years

He was a proud City of Santa Barbara Parks Department employee for 33 years from 1951 til his retirement in 1984. He managed the Santa Barbara Rose Garden (in front of the old mission) where he taught him self everything about roses. He became highly respected for his knowledge of rose care to receive no. 2 state recognition and was also a Santa Barbara Rose Society member as well as presenter at meetings showcasing his knowl edge of how to prune, graft and maintain roses.

He is survived by wife, Ber tha Lopez, daughters Hilda and Patricia (Hector Balboa), grand children Billy Fletcher Jr and Ariana McLaughlin, many nieces and nephews and brother, Leo London. He is preceded in death by his father Frederico, mother Geronima, sisters Isabel, Monica, Susana, Herlinda, Aurora “Goya”, Dolores and Carmen, brothers Celso, Frederico “Tito”, Ysidro, and John.

Funeral service will be Friday, December 16, 11 am at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 227 N. Nopal St, Santa Barbara CA and Calvary Cemetary 199 N. Hope Ave, Santa Barbara, CA immedi ately following. Reception details to be announced after burial.

F. George Kammer

Francisco Javier “Havie” Caballero

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Patricia Anne Gregory 5/18/1932 - 10/30/2022

take place at a private ceremony in December 2022 at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California. Please contact the family for celebration details at estateofpatriciagregory which is at gmail.com (please no spam). In lieu of flowers, please con sider contributing to any of the charities Patricia loved, or of course your own choice.

At home, Wayne’s woodwork ing hobby developed into a business, Cathedral Peak, and he was passionate about creat ing high-quality furniture that was admired for it’s beauty and craftsmanship.

Wayne will be remembered by those who knew him well for his quick wit , humor and sarcasm.

She will be missed by her sons, Carl Jr. and Bob and his wife, Val erie, as well as her grandchildren Rachele, Breanne, Shane, Cas sandra and Samantha and greatgrandchildren Gage, Marissa, Kaleb, and Elayna.

Patricia went on to her eternal home on October 30, 2022, at 90 years of age. We are grateful to God for her peaceful and merci ful passing. She was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Her bert George Hofling and Bessie Merriam Hofling. Herbert came to the US in 1912 from Sweden, to fight for the US in WW1. Bessie came to San Francisco in 1902, when her parents homesteaded land in Mendocino county. They were from Massachusetts, and their family lines arrived there in 1638. Patricia grew up dur ing WW2, and had two siblings, Robert and Ronald. She mar ried Paul Maurice Gregory in 1954 in San Francisco. They had one son, Brian Paul Gregory. Her successful 35-year career in banking began as a loan secre tary, and culminated with her as SVP of HR for Bay View Bank, for many years. In 2001, her hus band passed away, and in 2003 she relocated from San Mateo to Santa Barbara and began a new and exciting life. She is survived by her son, Brian, his wife, Kerri, her three grandchildren, Alyssa, Colin, and Leia, and great-grand child Isla.

Patricia’s life was filled with music and the joy of the per forming arts. She gave generously her time, talent, and treasure to many organizations – the SB Symphony, the Granada, CAMA, UCSB A&L, State Street Bal let, Ensemble Theatre, SB Youth Symphony – and many, many more. She was the trustee of her aunt and uncle’s chartitable foundation (The Edward and Gladys Baker Foundation), which enabled her to make a real dif ference in the community. She especially loved all of the friends she made in her journey through support of local music, arts, and education. Her enthusiasm, her great sense of humor, her dedica tion to her family, friends, work, and pursuits, and her dedication, brought joy and and love to all!

Thank you God for the gift of Patricia’s life. Thank all of you for being her family and friends. She is greatly loved and greatly missed.

There will be a celebration of life in February 2023 in Santa Barbara. Her inurnment will

Wayne’s courageous battle with ALS ended 11/19/2022 at the age of 66. Wayne was born in New York to Dolores and Oswald Lenhard. He is survived by Mary, his wife of 41 years, his brothers, Doug (Pat) and Craig (London), his sister Terri (Billy) and neph ews and nieces. After graduating from high school he served 6 years in the Navy. Upon leaving the Navy, Wayne worked as a Field Technician for Raytheon at Grumman in Long Island, NY.

Wayne and Mary met and married in New York in 1981 and moved to Santa Barbara two years later. They enjoyed camp ing and hiking at many National Parks and Zion was Wayne’s favorite. At Yosemite Wayne hiked Half Dome “And made it to the top” !!!! Wayne loved com petition; racquetball, table tennis, half marathons, triathlons, 3-mile swims, and bike races were the sports he enjoyed the most.

Determination and perseverance describe Wayne’s attitude in life. Wayne completed the world’s toughest half marathon “Pier to Peak” three times. Always look ing for more challenges, Wayne trained and competed in sprint and Olympic triathlons as well as a 75-mile fundraiser bike ride.

Another challenge he under took was Toastmasters. Through this work he grew personally; from being afraid to speak in a group to being in contests in front of 50 people. He was known for his jokes and tall tale stories.

A funeral mass and celebra tion of life were held at Holy Cross Catholic Church and Lead better Beach on Monday, Decem ber 5th for family and friends, with another celebration of life to be held in New York in February, 2023.

Donations in memory of Wayne Lenhard may be made to:

• ALS Association Golden West Chapter

P.O. Box 7082 Woodland Hills, CA 91365 www.alsagoldenwest.org

• Sansum Clinic – Palliative Care

https://www. Sansumclinic. org/donate-now scroll to “I would like my gift to support:” and check Palliative Care box

• Holy Cross Catholic Church 1740 Cliff Drive Santa Barbara, CA 9310

Carol Lee Davis

8/30/1934 - 11/30/2022

Following a private graveside service there will be a celebra tion of her life at Goleta Beach on December 16th at 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cancer Society.

Barbara Burgess

6/20/1937 - 11/1/2022

new venture as an Interior Deco rator. In what became a substan tially successful business, Barbie worked with clients throughout Santa Barbara and all over the country, creating elevated spaces that felt equally elegant and com fortable at the same time.

Upon becoming a grand mother, she moved to Carpinteria to be close to her daughter and son-in-law Matt Thomas as she helped raise her granddaughter Melanie, with whom she had a profoundly close bond. Her influence was monumental in not only her granddaughter’s life but also the whole family’s lives. She is survived by her son, Brent, her son-in-law Matt, her grand daughter Melanie Monaco, her great-grandson Aurelio, and her nieces Isis, Willow, and Star. Her generosity left an unforgettable imprint in all of our hearts.

Barbara Jean Burgess (née Merrifield) was a beloved mother, grandmother, sister, and friend who graced us all with her gener ous, effervescent, and creative presence. Barbara was born in Santa Barbara to parents Rev. Glenn and Auda Merrifield. She enjoyed a sweet childhood along side brother Edward “Heyoka” Merrifield, living in Ojai and eventually East Los Angeles where she was a proud majorette at Paramount High School.

Barbie’s memorial will be held on January 29th at 2pm at The Lobero Theater Courtyard. RSVPs and messages may be sent to inmemoryofBJB@gmail.com

David Grainger Chenoweth

7/7/1941 - 11/28/2022

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Carol Lee Davis, a loving mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother on November 30th. A long-time resident of Santa Barbara, she worked for the Dis trict Attorney’s Office in Santa Barbara as well as the Public Defender’s Office and finally at UCSB in the Ombuds Office. Her life was one of service and giving of herself both to the community and to her family and friends. She was truly an angel among us.

Her name was Carol, but her family affectionately called her Grandma CooCoo. Grandma CooCoo was a role model for her children and grandchildren. Her home was filled with cuckoo clocks and the sound of laughter from her silly dances, pool par ties, and hosting the family for holidays. She brought the family together by passing on her favor ite recipes and dressing us to the nines in matching outfits. She was a loving grandma and the sweetest lady in the world.

She went to Knapp College of Nursing in Santa Barbara and worked in labor and delivery, where she adored taking care of newborns. While a nurse at Cottage Hospital she met Dr. Leonard Burgess whom she mar ried in 1958. The next year, she gave birth to her son Leonard Brent, followed by her daughter Beth Anne. Barbie loved being a mother and homemaker, and while raising her children in Santa Barbara, Barbie was cel ebrated for her many social and philanthropic pursuits, hosting glamorous parties and events that are treasured memories for those who attended.

She had a passion for the arts and supported several local artists, as well as her brother Heyoka’s career as a sculptor and jeweler, avidly collecting and promoting their work. She served as President of the Board at the Lobero Theatre and was an influential member of the Junior League of Santa Barbara. As a passionate world traveler, Barbie visited six continents and priori tized exploring beautiful places all over the world with family and friends.

Once her children grew into adults, Barbie made the coura geous decision to become an independent woman and begin a

was

He was one of four children: Justy, Michael, and his twin sister, Joanie. He met his wife, Day Day Bonner when he was 8 years old and she was 7, at the Hartsook Inn in the Cali fornia Redwoods. He went on to graduate in business from the University of Nebraska (always a dedicated Cornhusker). He and Day Day eventually married on July 6, 1968 and were married for 54 years. They happily raised five children: Mike, Joe, Anne, Steven, and Peter. He also loved his eight grandchildren: Adam, Kathryn, Ellie, Meg, Gwen, Flynn, Aubrey, and Ascher. He lived an incredible life filled with family gatherings and traditions, trips with the kids and grandkids, and traveling the world with Day Day. He was dearly loved and will be missed. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Fr. Virgil Cordano Center.

Wayne Lenhard 11/19/2022

David Grainger Chenoweth

born on July 3, 1941 in Santa Monica to Wilbur and Louise Chenoweth.

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Raymond Leong 10/7/1934 - 11/30/2022

love of animals and plants and cheering on their academic, ath letic and musical pursuits.

On Wednesday evening, November 30, 2022, Raymond Leong went home to be with the Lord. He passed peacefully after receiving many heartfelt good byes from friends and family. Born on October 7, 1934, Ray mond spent his early childhood in a fishing village in southern China, eventually moving to the port city of Macau. The first-born son of Lee Tai and Chow Sue Chong, Raymond is survived by his brother George, his sisterin-law, Anna, his nieces Debbie, Amy and Michelle, his son David, his daughter-in-law Cha, his son Ivan, his daughter-in-law Teresa, and three grandchildren – Kar inna, Jeremy and Jack.

As a young teenager, Raymond immigrated to America to help his father run a family-owned grocery store in Santa Barbara. After high school, he served in America’s Cold War nuclear deterrence effort with the United States Air Force. Upon complet ing military service, Raymond enrolled in college where he was invited to a Bible study orga nized by retired China mission ary, Ruth Hitchcock. Raymond accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior and served faithfully and steadfastly for the remainder of his life. While in school, he met the love of his life, Jen Woo. Soon afterwards, Raymond began a 25 year career at Crocker National Bank, running the operations department at their main branch in downtown Santa Barbara.

Raymond and Jen were married 40 years and always remained active in their local church community. They encour aged immigrants to join in church fellowship and frequently gave support to students, faculty members, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Ray mond was highly committed and actively involved in raising his sons. No one could have asked for a better father than Raymond Leong. After his wife’s passing, Raymond was embraced and cared for by his immediate relatives and his church family. He lived a peaceful retirement spending many hours garden ing and caring for his beloved birds, koi fish, and dogs. He loved spending time with his grand children, sharing with them his

We wish to celebrate and remember Raymond’s life with a memorial service on Monday, December 19, 11:30am at WelchRyce-Haider Funeral Chapels, 15 E. Sola Street, downtown Santa Barbara. The memorial will con clude with a graveside service at Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive, at 1:15pm. Prior to the service, visitors may pay their respects on Friday Decem ber 16 from 9am to noon at Welch-Ryce-Haider.

Those wishing to donate flow ers for the service can contact Kaleidoscope Flowers, 805-9620032. However, we ask that in lieu of flowers, friends might consider donating to the Chinese Evan gelical Free Church Benevolence Fund (cefcsb.org), 15 W Calle Crespis, in memory of Raymond.

In Santa Barbara, they enjoyed the scenic beauty and the yeararound tennis. Tony soon became known as the neighborhood “fixit man” for his ability and willing ness to help his community, not to mention fixing his children’s cars.

Tony and Judy are survived by their children Jeff Wolf (Nancy), John Wolf (Jennifer), Laura Porter, Rob Wolf (Gail) and Kari Pena (Fernando) along with 9 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. He truly loved his family and he thought of himself as the luckiest man alive. He died peacefully surrounded by his lov ing family. He will be missed.`

Both share his love of soccer, his incredible sense of humor, and his gigantic heart. He also leaves behind his parents, Nancy and Russ Revlin, his brother, Scott Revlin (and family), as well as a large community of family and friends who adored him.

Paul was a tremendous spirit, incredible son, and brother, wonderful husband and father, encouraging teammate, dedicated soccer coach, and the friend that everyone could count on. His passing leaves this world a less loving and fun place, but Paul would encourage us to carry on hugging our family, barbecuing for friends, learning a new magic trick to amaze a child, taking on a challenge like a triathlon, hiking a beautiful canyon or simply by going camping.

sibility, that she often rebelled against.

Judy was an artist in ceramics.

Her first career was as a graphic designer, and she worked for magazines and businesses all over the Los Angeles area.

In 1988, she moved to Santa Barbara to raise her only child. There, Judy studied to be a radio logic technician and obtained her degree. From that point on, she was a proud member of the Santa Barbara community as a medical worker, mother, and aunt to her one niece and five nephews.

One of Judy’s favorite places to visit was El Museo de las Momias, (The Museum of the Mummies) in Guanajuato, Mexico.

Anton

(Tony) Wolf 2/9/1929 - 11/24/2022

Anton (Tony) Wolf born February 9th, 1929, in Aberdeen, South Dakota, was one of 7 children of German, Black Sea immigrants. A hard worker and brilliant student, Tony gradu ated early from high school and worked in his father’s shop to save money to attend college. Before entering college, he joined and served stateside in the United States Army during the Korean conflict. Afterwards, the GI Bill allowed him to pursue his dream of a higher education, completing a degree in Electri cal Engineering at Marquette University in Milwaukee. While there, he met and later married the love of his life, Judy.

In their first five years of mar riage, four children were born. Soon after, in the early sixties, Tony, Judy and his young family moved abroad. They lived a life of adventure, spending four memo rable years living in France and Sweden. In France, they loved the bakeries, the open-air markets, the museums, and the Sunday afternoon drives. In Sweden, the fifth child was born. Shortly after, they returned to the states, where Tony began working for General Motors in Milwaukee, Judy’s hometown. Then, in the early seventies, General Motors moved Tony and the family from Milwaukee to Santa Barbara, where Tony continued his career.

Paul Clark Revlin passed away unexpectedly on November 18, 2022 while riding his bike. He was 42 years old.

Paul began his education at the prestigious Starr King Pre school where he double majored in trikes and snack time with a minor in climbing. He matricu lated to Monte Vista Elementary School followed by a three-year stint at the Santa Barbara Middle School. Paul then took his con siderable talents to Santa Barbara High School, before relocating to Los Angeles and earning a degree in Psychology.

In Los Angeles, Paul found his true calling as a behavioral thera pist for children on the Autism spectrum. He made it his life’s work; Paul worked at the Lovaas Institute, worked with inner city youth at A Place Called Home in South Central LA, and most recently as Behavior Consultant for STAR of CA.

It was while working at the Lovaas Institute that Paul met the love of his life, his future wife, Kelly. The two were instantly inseparable, and they were mar ried in 2012 at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Paul was the most amaz ing, loving father to his two sons: Chase (7) and Finn (5).

The family is planning a cel ebration of life in Orange County later in December. Information on support for Kelly and the boys can be found at https://gofund. me/9133800e

Another of Judy’s passions was music. She loved to go to concerts, especially when accom panied by friends. There is a case to be made Judy Aakhus was Bob Dylan’s biggest fan. Her enthusiasm for his artistry ran so deeply that it is rumored she even named her daughter, Echo, after one of his former girlfriends (although she did first meet Echo’s father in Echo Park, Los Angeles).

Judy loved walking and hiking Santa Barbara’s hills and beaches, picking up shells, glass and many other treasures.

Judy Aakhus

1952 - 2022

In Judy’s last weeks, she suf fered a severe decline, yet still maintained an ability to dramati cally roll her eyes which showed exactly what she thought of any situation. Even so, her caretak ers remained so enamored with her, they decorated her hair with flowers, and even painted her nails pink (things that she would have previously hated, but some how perfectly fit the absurdity of her dire situation).

To have known Judy Aakhus was both a unique and memo rable experience. Many of her patients may have encountered Judy’s sweet and nurturing side, while her loved ones also knew and loved her dark humor and dry wit. However she came at you, she was perfectly JUDY.

Judy was born in Seattle, WA, in November of 1952. She and her family moved around frequently during Judy’s early childhood. Her father, Jerome, was a naval officer in three wars.

During Judy’s teen years, the Aakhus family finally settled in Woodland Hills, California, where Judy had the time and opportunity to meet and keep a large circle of close lifelong friends. Those bonds made long ago stay strong to this day.

Her parents, Jerome and Kath leen Aakhus, raised Judy with a strong sense of duty and respon

Judy is survived by her only daughter Echo Hansen, brother Greg, sister-in-law Luanne, niece Remi, and nephews Zach, Kacy, Randy, Mac, and Tim.

Judy Aakhus will be remem bered as an incredible force of highly refined nature– tenacious, artistic, aggressive at times, yet caring and attentive to whomever she chose to surround herself with. She will be missed by every one who was ever close to her or was fortunate to have shared time with her, no matter how brief.

Memorial is planned for March 18th, 2023.

Paul Clark Revlin 11/18/2022

Todd Yuhasz

Work Hard, Play Harder

BY HALEY LEE YUHASZ AND DILLON TODD YUHASZ

The Yuhasz family is heartbroken to announce the passing of our incredible father, Todd Yuhasz. Our dad passed away suddenly in February, one week after his 62nd birthday. Todd Yuhasz was deeply loved by this community, and he loved it back. Our dad was the epitome of “work hard but play harder.” He was a jack of all trades. He bartended at The Chase every Friday and Sat urday night for more than 30 years. He also started Garden Street Furniture in our childhood backyard, later moving to a workshop in the Funk Zone. Most notably, he ran Toddy’s Christmas Trees at the Santa Barbara Bowl, where he loved and cherished being a part of so many families’ holiday traditions.

Todd Yuhasz was a marvel. Our father grew up in a small town in eastern Ontario called Brantford. He was raised by a single father who had migrated to Canada from Budapest, Hungary, right before the revolution. Our dad told us stories of his childhood that would paint pictures only good enough for Hol lywood movies. From having to buy his teacher ciga rettes, to hopping a fence to see Evel Kneivel, almost burning a house down, and getting stuck on a bridge with an oncoming train á la Stand by Me. We would go on road trips and our dad would tell stories the entire time. Todd’s biggest adventure came when he first moved to Santa Barbara. At age 18, he dropped out of his Catholic high school and hitchhiked across Canada, headed west. With no money to his name our dad hopped trains, thumbed rides, camped, sat in the back of trucks, and sang Neil Young songs all the way here.

ebrating their 30th wedding anniversary this coming Valentine’s Day.

There are many people in this town who love our dad, but no one like my brother and I. Our father built us the childhood of our dreams. Wagons, doll houses, army forts, puppet shows, a basketball court in our small backyard we didn’t have much as a family, but with him as a father, the sky was the limit. Even as adults, this never stopped. His last big project was helping Dillon and his wife build a Disneyland-style shooting gallery in Arizona. Who else could make that happen other than Todd Yuhasz? Not a single day will go by that we won’t deeply miss our father, but we know we couldn’t have been any luckier to call him Dad.

After a few odd jobs and purchasing an always broken down 1964 Ford Falcon, he met a waitress at Moby Dick who would change everything. Our dad said he used to go in and hand our mom the bill to pay and his hands would be shaking because he thought “she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen.” After years of admiring one another from a distance, Car ole and Todd moved into an old Victorian house on Garden Street. A few years later they would bring home two children, Dillon Todd Yuhasz and Haley Lee Yuhasz. Todd and Carole were an unbreakable partnership. Through thick and thin, they never ever gave up on each other. Todd and Carole would be cel

The Yuhasz family cherishes Todd more than anyone will ever know, but we aren’t unaware of the amount of people in this town who adored him. We couldn’t take our father down the block without being stopped by someone he knew. He loved his customers, and he loved his friends. He remembered every family that came to the lot each year and always had a fun story to share about them. He loved his bar regulars so much that he stayed at The Chase for more than 30 years.

We would like to thank his community for all they have given back to our father and his family. Toddy’s Christmas Trees will not be taking place this holiday season, as we are taking the time to be together as a family on our first Christmas without our dad. We cannot thank you all enough for the years of support, love, and cherished memories.

While we are still in shock to have lost our dad, there will be a “Cheers to Toddy” celebration hosted by the Yuhasz family in February 2023 around his birthday. We love you dad, and we miss you. Cheers, Toddy!

The Santa Barbara Bowl will feel empty this year without Todd Yuhasz’s Christmas trees.

Todd, Haley, Carole, and Dillon Yuhasz

On a rare October rainy day in Santa Barbara, I drive toward the foothills for the first of three conversations with renowned artist Jane Gottlieb. My head feels congested with wor ries about the midterm elections and mundane workrelated stress about deadlines and budgets as I drive through winding streets of Mediterranean-style homes monochromatically painted in beige and brown. My imagination transports me to the sepia section of The Wizard of Oz when Judy Garland opens the door and is stunned by the multi-hued world she enters, as I find myself in front of a gate that opens unto Gottlieb’s Technicolor home the entire exterior is painted in bright shades of yellow, green, purple, and hot pink. The sprawling house is done in a constructivist style, its geometric indulgences accentuated by different tints.

I feel as if I have stumbled onto a real-life Candy Land, and as I take it all in, an unmanageably big grin

sneaks up on my face. “Forget your troubles, c’mon, get happy!” starts playing in my mind.

As I park my vehicle, my eyes continue wandering to the gardens and the ocean view. The elaborate pool is also bathed in day-glow tones, and sculptures accen tuate the surreal landscape. I feel as if I were literally walking into a painting.

This is Jane Gottlieb’s world where color is height ened, and the elevated stimulus is the status quo. Resis tance is futile; my smile is now a permanent fixture.

Bruce Robertson, director emeritus of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, told me, “Jane’s not focusing on critical social or environmental issues as so many artists are, but on something fundamental to art, and, she would argue, to life, to our lived expe rience and that is color. She’s part of a long tradi tion of modern artists who have used color to explore experience, from Kandinsky and O’Keeffe (who were contemporaries) onward.” He continues, “She jazzes

Jane Gottlieb welcomes us to her studio with the same vibrant energy infused in her artwork.

up the world and takes color as a synonym for energy, joy, happiness with the hope of producing the same reactions in her audience.”

Gottlieb comes out to greet me, followed by her four res cue dogs: Popcorn, Pepper, Lulu, and Freddie. Unsurpris ingly, she’s dressed in vibrant colors. “The house was built in 1977,” she says. “I bought it from a former drug dealer who used it as a party house. It was a lemon. Everything was wrong with the house I had to conquer it.”

She leads me to her office/studio and the rush and jux taposition of color continues. “This is the fourth house I’ve done like this,” she shares. “I started painting my houses when I was in my thirties. Why would people buy a beige chair or paint their house the color of dirt? Mine is the color of flowers.”

Beside the walls, every piece of furniture, artifact, and fixture reverberates in a divergent tincture. You see evi dence that someone works and lives in this place, yet it takes a while to adjust to the feeling of being inside a three-dimensional art showcase. Her use of color chal lenges the mind, and slowly you start to notice the forms of things like you hadn’t done previously. On the walls of her studio hangs her artwork striking, piercing, and alive. Gottlieb is a colorist a painter and photographer whose technique entails using her lifetime collection of photos taken all over the world that are enhanced with paint, collage, and Photoshop to make works that create a reality that is emotional and uplifting. Color is the intrinsic component of her work.

“People always want to talk about the medium and the process,” she firmly states. “I prefer to talk about the image. ‘Wow, that’s really dynamic,’ instead of, ‘How did you do it?’ It’s been a long time avoiding that. With a painting, you never get those types of questions.”

I ask her if she considers herself a painter or a photog rapher. “I consider myself an artist,” she answers without hesitation. “I start with my photographs, but I do paint them. I stretch them. I take things out. It’s not digital art. I think of it as art. It’s my own medium, and I always start with my own photographs. I’ve done way better in galleries

that show paintings, photographs, sculptures. I don’t like to define it. It’s art.”

Gottlieb was born in the Westside of Los Angeles in 1946 and wanted to be an artist for as long as she can remember. But she wasn’t encouraged. “My parents thought it was a

hobby,” she recalls. Her dad, Milton Gottlieb, started as a history and economics professor, became the business manager of the Screen Publicist Guild, and segued into building in L.A. in the early ’50s. Her mother, Patricia, was a housewife who’d done some modeling for John Robert Powers and was Miss Oldsmobile of 1938.

Patricia also painted and took classes with famous art teachers, including Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun. These artists were nice to a 10-year-old Gottlieb. “That is where I really started,” she professes. At school, she was encouraged to paint and displayed her work on its walls. She got a degree in painting and art history from UCLA in 1968. After graduation, she went to New York City, where her sister Lynn Kirk and her husband, Frank Kirk, intro duced Gottlieb to the advertising world. At 21, she was “the perfect age to deal with New York,” she says. From 1968 to 1982, Gottlieb had her first career as an art director, designer, and photographer, including working as an art director for Warner Brothers.

She started taking photographs in college, although she had never taken a photography class. She found painting was too slow. “I would go to London and would take two rolls of photographs an hour,” she explains. “I always had my camera with me.”

In her twenties, a trip to Paris with her camera would prove seminal. She took a set of images that she continues to draw inspiration from to this day. “I was taking photos before you could do any alterations,” she says. “No airbrush ing. They were cool photos but had no bright colors.”

One day, she found her photo developer spotting her pictures, and she learned that she could add dye to the

“Bilbao in Technicolor” by Jane Gottlieb

“Check It Out” is a 15-foot-tall commission by Jane Gottlieb for the UCSB Library.

photographs. By painting on them, she discovered she could make one-of-a-kind art pieces. “After you take a photograph, it’s dead,” she says. “How am I going to get that feeling back of seeing the place that first time? When I add color, it comes back to life. It becomes dynamic and reflects the energy I was feeling at the time that I took it. You can sharpen it again; you can bring back what you originally saw and felt.”

She stopped hand-painting 20 years ago when she started to work with Photoshop. “I’d been waiting for Photoshop all my life,” she exclaims. “Prior, I would take a picture and know I wanted to add color to it. But Photoshop allows me to achieve my dreamscapes. It makes me feel good.” As Robertson says, “She lives color as anyone who has gone to her house knows and she wants to create a similar environmentalism of color in her art.” Gottlieb simply says, “Color makes me happy.”

By 1983, she gave up her job as art direc tor to focus solely on her art. She got her

first big show at the Laguna Art Museum, and Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York started representing her. According to Got tlieb, the standout piece of her career is a photograph she took when she was 36. There’s a balcony view of the ocean at sun set, and a lone chair is positioned to experi ence it. The composition is precise: A pair of curtains frames the edges, inviting the viewer unto its theatricality. The color of the sky is a burnt orange. She shot it at a hotel in Sorrento, Italy, where she was dealing with a relationship that had come to an end. It can be interpreted as a sad scene or a hopeful depiction of human resilience. Throughout the years, Gottlieb comes back to this com position and alters the colors and rearranges its elements, sometimes taking out the chair. Notably, in her artwork, there’s no depic tion of people. Robertson sheds light on this: “Her work is all about people but not in her pictures. It’s about people’s reactions to color and the hope that her viewers will get the same charge from color as she does.”

Regina

“Bridge of Dreams” by Jane Gottlieb

Jane Gottlieb revels in the colorful palette of her Santa Barbara home.

“Day Dream” is the art piece that Jane Gottlieb considers the standout piece of her career; at its root is a photograph she took when she was 36.

THE FUTURE IS NOW

A trip to the Yucatán was instrumental in her usage of saturated colors. It was there that she was introduced to magenta, dark purple, and bright turquoise. Prior to that, she was using colors from the Impression ists. Eventually, the turquoise was replaced by chartreuse, because her husband, writer/ film producer David Obst, didn’t like turquoise.

Gottlieb and her spouse met in 1964, right after high school, and they had a little romance. Similar to the titular characters in When Harry Met Sally, they remained friends but went in different directions for 25 years and married others. In 1990, when they were both 45, David asked her permis sion to court her. “And he’s still courting me,” she says with a smile.

In 1997, they came to Santa Barbara. “I thought it was the best place to live in and be close to L.A.,” says Gottlieb. “I didn’t know how fabulous Santa Barbara was. I needed to get out of L.A. It was a choice of lifestyle over career.”

“I feel very connected to UCSB,” she acknowledges. Gottlieb is leaving her entire oeuvre to the AD&A Museum. “I’ve already cataloged everything for them. They’re tak ing every work, every slide,” she giddily declares. Two years ago, she was commis

sioned to create an original artwork for the UCSB Library. It’s 15 feet tall, and the larg est piece she has ever done. Appropriately named “Check It Out,” Gottlieb worked on it during the pandemic. “The idea of hav ing your work of art in public spaces where people can see it is wonderful,” she admits. “I can’t tell you how many people have seen my work and told me about it.”

The first building she put her work in was at the UCLA Anderson School of Manage ment 10 years ago. She has about 120 pieces total at UCLA, including at the Luskin Conference Center, where renowned art ists with ties to UCLA and art movements of Los Angeles are on display. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at L’Image in Rome, MADS in Milan, Louis Stern in L.A., as well as galleries in Basil, Switzerland, Lis bon, Paris, and Turin, along with art expos around the world.

It is quite joyful to spend time with Jane Gottlieb. There’s genuine warmth and boundless curiosity in her. “I haven’t led the life of a tortured artist,” she says. “I’m so lucky to do what I do and to have found Santa Barbara. It’s such a welcoming com munity. Art means my life to me. It’s been my power source. I’m a fulfilled and happy person.” n

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Here’s to making memories, Santa Barbara!

Singer-songwriter Allison Russell in a transformative performance of her new album

Community rehearsal with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro performs and teaches for nearly 1,000 fourth through eighth graders at The Granada Theatre

Global risk expert Ian Bremmer addresses today’s greatest threats and opportunities for a hopeful future in a captivating talk at the Granada Theatre

Outside Child at UCSB Campbell Hall

“One of the standout concerts of the year.” Santa

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“Easily the best lecture I’ve attended in the past five years!” – Melissa, A&L patron

“Be humble. Be grateful. Be kind.” – Jake Shimabukuro

“Music and dance have an uncanny ability to take you on a journey to unknown places. We’re very fortunate to have the programmers at UCSB Arts & Lectures helping to curate our cultural adventures.”

Santa Barbara Independent

THECOVID-19 VENUE POLICY

THURSDAY 12/8

12/8-12/10:

cstheater@sbcoxmail.com. centerstagetheater.org/shows

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm

FRIDAY

Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am

SATURDAY

Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8am-1pm

SUNDAY

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

TUESDAY

Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-7pm

WEDNESDAY

and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm

Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. (805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org

FISHERMAN’S MARKET 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. cfsb.info/sat

Shows on Tap

Shows on Tap

12/8-12/11, 12/14: Lost Chord Guitars Thu.: Jeff Pine Songs You Won’t Hear in Church, 7:309:30pm. $10. Fri.: Jazz Messengers String Quartet, 8-11:30pm. $20-$60. Sat.: The Dales, 8-11:30pm. $15. Sun.: Sven Holcomb, 8-10:30pm. Free; suggested donation: $10. Wed.: Joel Martin’s Grateful Zone, 7:30-9:30pm. $10. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

12/8-12/9, 12/11-12/14: SOhO Res taurant & Music Club Thu.: We The Beat Presents Phantoms, 8pm. $18-$22. Ages 18+. Fri.: Numbskull Presents Eric Rachmany Acoustic Tour, Geoff Weers, Cydeways, 8pm. $124. Ages 21+. Sun.: S.B. Jazz Society Holiday Jam Featuring Debbie Denke, Kim Collins, Matt Perko, 1-4pm. $10$25. Mon.: Detar Studios Band Showcase, 5:15 and 7:15pm. Free Tue.: Detar Studios Band Showcase, 5:15 and 7:15pm. Free Wed.: Laurence Juber Acoustic & Electric Trio, 7:30pm. $25. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events

The Shades, 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

12/9-12/11: Maverick Saloon Fri.: OutOfTheBlue, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: The Rondales, 1-5pm; Crown City Bombers, 9pm-midnight. Sun.: Robert Heft & Dave Wilson, noon-4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-4785.mavericksaloon.com/ event-calendar/

12/9: Pali Wine Co. Live music. 6-8pm. 116 E. Yanonali St., Ste. A-1. Free Ages 21+. Call (805) 560-7254. urbanwinetrailsb.com/events

12/8:

Insider Series:

Inside Haute Couture Discover the materials and methods that haute couture designers used to create sculptural dresses as you look at four designs from the houses of Gres, Heim, Ricci, and Patou. 5:30-6:30pm. Workzones, 351 Paseo Nuevo. $25. Call (805) 303-4775 or email contact@couturepatternmuseum.com. tinyurl.com/InsideHauteCouture

12/8-12/11, 12/14: Ensemble The atre Company

state-of-the-art 20-inch telescope. 7-10pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call (805) 682-4711. sbnature.org/visit/calendar

SUNDAY 12/11

12/9-12/10: Figueroa Mountain Brew Co Fri.: The New Vibe, noon. Sat.: Dante Marsh & The Vibe Setters, 7pm. 137 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 324-4461. figmtnbrew.com/events

12/9-12/10: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Do No Harm, 6-8pm. Sat.:

12/9: Uptown Lounge The Trio, 5-7pm. 3126 State St. Free. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events

12/12: Red Piano Sugarmill Slim, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 3581439. theredpiano.com/schedule

MONDAY 12/12

Carol Patrick

writer of the Broad way and West End hit The 39 Steps, has refashioned Charles Dickens’s holiday classic into an inventively comic holiday delight filled with humor and heart. The play shows through December 18. Thu., Wed.: 7:30pm; Fri.: 8pm; Sat.: 4 and 8pm. Sun.: 2pm. The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $40-$84. Call (805) 965-5400 or email boxoffice@ etcsb.org etcsb.org/whats-on/season

FRIDAY 12/9

12/9: Jazz Messengers String Quartet

Listen to this dynamic group of Bay Area musicians with unique instru mentation of cello, violin, guitar, and bass playing hard-hitting instrumental jazz and songs from the Great American Song book. 8-11:30pm. Lost Chord Guitars, 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. GA: $20; VIP: $60/ sofa for two. Call (805) 331-4363. Ages 21+. lostchordguitars.com

SATURDAY 12/10

12/10:

12/11: Explore Ecology Beach Cleanup Bring your own supplies or use the buckets, plas tic bags, and reusable gloves provided for your self-guided cleanup. Sign in at the Watershed Resource Center. Community service volunteer hours are available. Participants will receive a coupon for a free cup of chowder from the S.B. Shellfish Co. 10am-noon. Arroyo Burro Beach, 2981 Cliff Dr. Free. Call (805) 884-0459. exploreecology.org/calendar/list

Archaeology S.B. Museum of Natural History Lead Astronomy Programs presenter Rafael Cottom will take you on a voyage through time and space as he recounts his research as an intern at Carnegie Observa tories on the topic of what the first generation of stars in the universe were like. 6:30-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St Free Call (805) 682-4711 x172 or email jrolle@ sbnature2.org

TUESDAY 12/13

12/13: Embodied Breathwork with Chantal Peterson Multi-modality healer Chan tal Peterson will guide you through two embodiment practices to ground your body, and then move into a 45-minute connected breathwork practice ending with integration. 7-8:30pm. $30. Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Wy. Call (805) 965-8811. tinyurl.com/ConnectedBreathworkDec13

VICTORIA SNIDER by & TERRY ORTEGA

Presents A Christmas

Barlow,

Star Party The Palmer Observa tory will open its doors and its roof to share a remarkable view of craters on the moon, nebulas, galaxies, and more through its

Center Stage Theater Presents Bul letproof Unicorn L.A.-based comedian Stacie Burrows wrote and directed this dark comedy that is a harrowing and hilari ous true tale of her brush with death at the hands of her drunk brother. 7:30pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. GA: $30; Patron: $50. Call (805) 963-0408 or email

COURTESY

COURTESY

Jazz Messengers String Quartet

931 State St. Free. Email info@ danieldens.com. tinyurl.com/LaLaLaPopUp

12/9-12/11: A Cowboy Christmas The horse stable has been transformed into the North Pole with

games, activities, music, horse and pony encounters, and Santa! Visit the website to reserve your time slot through December 23. Fri.: 2-8pm; Sat.-Sun.: noon8pm. River View Park 151 Sycamore Dr., Buellton. GA: Free-$20; VIP: $49. Email bob@syvhorsebackrides.com syvcowboychristmas.com

12/9: Westerlay Orchids Christmas Open House Have some seasonal bites and beverages, participate in a family-friendly raffle with prizes, and take a photo with Santa! 4-7pm. Westerlay Orchids, 3504 Via Real, Carpinteria. Free tinyurl.com/WesterlayOrchids

12/9-12/11: Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Enchanted Garden Holiday Lights Festival View installments such as a meadow of lights, LED animal figures, and more with dance and music per formances and live reindeer on specific days through December 18. Visit the website for a schedule. 5:308:30pm. Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden at River View

12/9: Una Noche de las Posadas (The Inns) Take part in this time-honored reen actment of Joseph and Mary’s search for shelter in Bethlehem. Begin at the Presidio Cha pel and continue to Casa de la Guerra for holiday songs and traditional food. There will be a Mujeres Market before the reenactment at 5-7pm. 7-10pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call (805) 965-0093. sbthp.org/lasposadas

12/9: Dickens Christmas Dinner in Los Alamos Enjoy a traditional Christmas din ner with mulled wine from Chef Jesper Johansson and winemaker Stephan Bedford with readings of Charles Dickens’s classics. 5:30-9pm. Plenty on Bell, 508 Bell St., Los Alamos. $85. Call (805) 323- 804-0928 or email plentyonbell@gmail.com plentyonbell.com

12/9-12/11: Gem Faire Peruse jewelry, minerals, and more from more than 40 exhibi tors. Jewelry repair and cleaning is available while you shop. Fri.: noon-6pm; Sat.: 10am6pm; Sun.: 11, 10am-5pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $7/weekend pass. tinyurl.com/GemFairDec

12/10: Organic Soup Kitchen Holiday SouperMarket & Soup Tasting Party The Organic Soup Kitchen invites you to shop from almost 40 vendors and taste yummy soups and breads, listen to live music, and enter the raffle to win a holiday tree and decor. Funds raised go toward Organic Soup Kitchen. 9am-5pm. Organic Soup Kitchen, 608 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free organicsoupkitchen.org/events

12/10: Winter Gift-Making Workshop Children ages 5-12 can draw, paint, print, collage, and sculpt artful gifts. 9am-3pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Member: $120; non-member: $150. Call (805) 884-6457 or email communityprograms@sbma.net. tickets.sbma.net/event-list/workshops/

12/10: Carpinteria Arts & Craft Faire There will be a variety of arts and crafts from more than 20 area artists with the Ukulele Jammers strumming in the morning and the Americana Cats playing at 12:30pm. 10am-4pm. Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Ctr., 865 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free carpinteriaartscenter.org/marketplace

12/10-12/11: S.B. Festival Ballet Nutcracker at the Arlington S.B.’s treasured holiday tradition is back for its 47th year with guest artists, a gifted ensemble of students from UCSB and SBFB, and Elise Unruh to conduct the live orchestra. Sat.: 2:30 and 7pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. The Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $30-$58. santabarbarafestivalballet.com

12/10-12/11: S.B. Choral Society Presents The Hallelujah Project 8 Listen to beloved carols, a visit from Santa, a reading of ’Twas The Night Before Christmas, the Hal lelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, and the children from The Music Academy’s SING! program. Sat.: 7pm; Sun.: 3pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $10-$30; VIP: $50. Call (805) 963.0761. lobero.org/events

12/10-12/11: 39th Annual Light Up a Life Join this heartwarming ceremony of light, love, remembrance, unity and to honor the many who are missed this holiday season. The Trees of Remembrance will have stars available for purchase 30 minutes before the program. 5pm. Sat.: Seal fountain, Linden Ave., Carpinteria; Sun.: Camino Real Marketplace, 7004 Market Place Dr., Goleta. Free hospiceofsb.org/lual

12/11: S.B. Master Chorale Presents Holiday Lights Join this delightful concert that will celebrate the season followed by a sing-along of favorite carols conducted by David Torres. 3-4pm. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. $5-$20. sbmasterchorale.org

12/13: 40th Annual Messiah Sing Along Everyone is invited to be part of the chorus as Phillip McLendon will conduct this performance of George Frideric Handel’s choral masterpiece Messiah, in a benefit for Unity Shoppe. 7:30-9pm. First Presby terian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. $10. tinyurl.com/40thMessiah

12/14: SMHS Winter Wonderland: A Concert of Festive Wintery Favorites This concert will feature festive favorites from the award-winning ensembles from San Marcos High School’s Vocal Music Department. 7-8:30pm. San Roque Catholic Church, 325 Argonne Cir. Free-$12. Email epantages@sbunified.org. tinyurl.com/WinterWonderlandSMHS

12/14: AWC-S.B. Holiday Party The S.B. chapter of the national organization Asso ciation for Women in Communications will recognize Lauren Bianchi Klemann as Member of the Year and announce the recipient of the Lois Phillips Founder’s Award at this year’s annual holiday party. 5-7:30pm. Villa Wine Bar, 618 Anacapa St., Ste. A. $40-$50. Email news@awcsb.org awcsb.org/2022-holiday-party

1:20, 4:20, 7:50.

Devotion (PG13): Fri-Wed: 2:20, 4:10, 7:30. Thur: 3:20.

Violent Night (R): Fri-Thur: 2:45, 5:40, 8:20.

Top Gun Maverick (PG13): Fri-Wed: 2:10, 5:15.

Avatar Way of Water* (PG13): Thur: 3:30/3D, 4:30, 5:30/3D, 6:30, 7:30/3D, 8:30, 9:30/3D.

Business living

Thrifting Goes High-Tech

Secondhand shopping is more popular than ever thanks to fast fashion, rising costs of living, and social media trends. But digging through the racks at thrift stores or searching across resale sites can be time-consuming and fruitless. That’s where Beni comes in: a free browser extension that makes secondhand shopping easier by offering users comparable products for a fraction of the price. Based in Santa Barbara, the company launched in September and is led by S.B. natives Sarah Pinner and Ryan Shand, UCSB Bren School alum Celine Mol, and new resident Kate Sanner.

Think of the Beni extension like a per sonal online shopper. Once the extension is downloaded, the user navigates to the web page for the item they’d like, clicks the Beni icon in the bottom right corner, and receives a selection of secondhand alternatives. The user can create a profile to input their size, set the platforms from which they prefer to shop, and soon will be able to list their own items to sell from their closet. Beni’s goal is to make resale seamless from start to finish.

“There’s no stigma around shopping secondhand,” Pinner said. “In fact, people almost feel embarrassed not to do it. But there hasn’t been a tool to actually help you.”

Originally envisioned in 2020 as Pinner’s thesis project, Beni is the first to marry technology and partnerships with leading resale marketplaces. The software features artificial intelligence that combs the world’s largest catalogs of online aggregated resale.

Beni currently partners with companies like The RealReal, Rent the Runway, Vestiaire Collective, eBay, and Kidizen.

or tossing out ideas about a Beni van tour. The four share backgrounds in the corporate sector or startups, see waste as a design flaw, and value progress over perfection as a guiding principle for their work. The company is proudly women-owned, remote-first, and holds its offsites in Santa Barbara at places like the Dart Coffee garden and Kiva Cowork.

The company hit its beta metrics in August and is now in its second round of seed funding. This quarter, the team’s focus is expanding their customer base and converting downloads to successful purchases. Shand is focusing on securing more partners, Sanner is build ing a campus ambassador program to create a market among college students, and Mol is collecting data and fine-tuning the software to be even more intelligent and adaptive to users’ behavior. “We’re going to build our own version of a TikTok algorithm that will just know you so well,” Mol half-joked.

“We want Beni to be the welcoming party to sec ondhand shopping,” Sanner explained. That winsome ethos permeates the young company’s culture. Pinner, Mol, Shand, and Sanner didn’t know each other before becoming the executive team of the company, but you would never guess it from the way they finish each other’s sentences explaining the circular economy,

Beni is also tapping into the increasing environ mental consciousness of consumers. Mol referenced a report from McKinsey & Company: If just one in five garments is traded through circular business models, buyers could make a large dent in reducing fashionrelated emissions.

When asked about the state of the re-commerce industry in Santa Barbara specifically, the team listed mostly strengths. “I think people by default care about the environment because they’re more in the environ ment,” Shand said. “I think you just have to search a little harder. There are fun community events like pop-ups selling secondhand clothing, and there are startups in town such as Apeel [Sciences] that also see waste as a design flaw.”

If you’re interested in secondhand shopping in Santa Barbara, be sure to check out Crossroads Trad ing Company, Lazy Eye Shop, The Closet, Farmer & the Flea Market, Westward General, and The Blue Door.

joinbeni.com.

The Beni leadership team

KATIE SHARA

StarCycle Is Lights Out

When a friend invited me to help her celebrate a milestone birthday by going on a cycling tour of Italy, I accepted without hesitation. Our itiner ary called for us to ride 20-35 miles a day, and even though we’d be renting e-bikes in Italy, I decided a little training was in order. After hearing a co-worker rave about StarCycle, I headed to La Cumbre Plaza to check it out.

As a veteran of other cycling programs like Spin ning and RPM, I figured I knew what to expect, but the StarCycle experience had several surprises in store for me.

by Amy R. Ramos

First of all, the room is dark. A spotlight and candles illuminate the instructor, but otherwise there’s no light in the studio. Unlike Spinning and RPM, in which the instructor gives cues that provide a simulation of road cycling (e.g., climbing uphill or racing on the flats), StarCycle classes feature choreography a style that franchise co-owner Kayla Neal calls “rhythmic.” Instead of picturing myself pedaling up the Alps, I found myself doing combinations that involved get ting in and out of the saddle, lifting my arms out and overhead, and moving my hands to different posi tions on the handlebars, all to the beat of the music. Those hands-free moments provide a challenging core workout, and StarCycle incorporates more upper body work than other cycling programs I’ve tried, with lots of push-ups on the handlebars and a brief but demanding weight workout at the end of each class.

And there are some things you won’t find at StarCycle: The bikes aren’t equipped with computers indicating your RPMs, resistance level, and other data. There’s also no leaderboard pitting you in a virtual race against everyone else.

Neal says it’s all by design. The dim lighting pro vides the freedom to do your own workout, she points out, without comparing yourself to others or turning the tension control knob quite as many times as the instructor says. The dark studio and the absence of computers “give people an opportunity to quiet their mind, to enter a space that’s technology- and interrup tion-free, to connect with the music,” she explains. It’s

no wonder StarCycle markets itself as “a dance party on a bike.”

As a woman of a certain age, I will note that the few songs I recognized were from the ’90s or before. In general, the playlists are heavy on R&B and hiphop, no doubt a reflection of the riders, who, in the classes I took, seemed to skew young. Neal, however, describes the StarCycle demographic as broad, with a lot of college students as well as riders in their sixties and seventies. She estimates that the membership is about equally divided between those who do StarCycle exclusively and those who mix other kinds of work outs into their routine.

Whatever a rider’s experience level, the StarCycle team creates a personalized experience in an inviting environment. When I arrived at the studio, I found that each bike had been set up with a towel and two small hand weights, and a staff member helped me configure my bike correctly for my height. For my first few classes, I found personalized notes on my bike welcoming me to the studio or congratulating me for returning. Instructors called out encouragement to me and other students by name during class.

So, how well did StarCycle prepare me for my cycling tour? Even on days when I pedaled up the grapevine-covered hills of the Piedmont region, I experienced only minor muscle soreness. Remem bering my StarCycle classes, I got out of the saddle periodically to reduce soreness and did pushups on my handlebars every so often to relieve forearm tension.

There are no beginner classes at StarCycle. “Every class is defined for every fitness level,” says Neal. My advice to novice riders: Let yourself work up to the moves that involve taking your hands off the handle bars, which can feel a little scary at first. Your hands (along with the rest of you) will get sweaty, so wear cycling gloves to help you keep a grip on the handle bars. And definitely invest in some bike shorts or bike underwear to protect your “undercarriage.” Even if you’re an experienced road cyclist, you may be in for a shock when you try StarCycle indoor cycling, advises Neal, “is a completely different sport.”

Located in Suite D115 at La Cumbre Plaza, StarCycle offers mul tiple classes per day, starting as early as 6 a.m. on weekdays. Reserve a spot using the StarCycle app. Towel service and cubbies are included, and shoe rental is available. Plenty of free parking. See starcycleride.com.

The author gears up for a StarCycle session.

Ysidro Sake Spritz Adds Class to Hard Seltzer Game

that speaks to the sun and the mountains and the sea where we live, and has a nice flavor profile to boot.”

The sake-based hard seltzer Ysidro is a pandemic baby, born out of a dream inspired by a Zoom wine tasting, an open-air walk allowed by social distanc ing rules, and that sense of why-the-hell-not that so many felt during spring 2020’s end-of-days atmosphere. The wine tasting was hosted by Alex Dessouky, who’d just launched his Barrel Down Selections import company, and his Montecito neighbor Monica Epstein was one of many “attendees” staring at her computer screen and sipping along.

had all the pieces to the puzzle to try to do something together.”

The first step was market research. “Basically, we tasted a lot of uninspiring things in cans,” said Dessouky. “I wanted to create a product that I’d be happy to pour for friends who are winemakers or importers or work in restaurants. We just wanted the drink to be refreshing, have a bit of complexity, and be balanced in the front, middle, and end.”

They picked the very Santa Barbara name Ysidro, which was a nod to the road where they all live but also to St. Isodore, who, they were happy to discover, is the patron saint of farming. The Epsteins’ branding acu men led to a stylish font and clean design set against a soft pink colorscape, to represent those “pink moment” sunsets. “The can stands out on the shelf,” said Monica. “The surface area isn’t dominated by a lot of information, and it really is quite beautiful.”

“The whole thing was very surreal,” she said of that early stay-at-home era. “That night, I had a dream that we were on Zoom and talking about a drink we had started.” She told her husband, Seth Epstein, about the vision, and then they ran into Dessouky while at Miramar Beach that same morning.

“We thought the world could end tomorrow,” recalled Dessouky, “so we figured we’d give it a shot.”

Though none had worked in the ready-to-drink canned beverage category, the trio brought a compelling skill set to the table: Dessouky had worked in wine brand development for two decades; Monica’s background was in lifestyle and fashion, creating items that were sold at major stores like Nordstrom; and Seth is the founder of Los York, a marketing and creative agency that’s run campaigns for Nike, Motorola, and many of the biggest brands in the world. Said Dessouky, “We thought we

Working at kitchen tables, they crafted their own formulas, trying neutral grain spirits, fermented cane sugar, and even bulk wine as potential bases. They all lacked character. Then came a chance encounter with a friend who grew up in Japan and was deep into sake. “That was our spark,” said Dessouky, who appreciated the traditional rice wine’s umami character. “It created the canvas that we started building these Santa Barbara–inspired flavors off of.”

With Ventura Spirits handling production, Ysidro was launched in September 2021, only 16 months after they started the project in earnest. Distribution steadily spread from Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley to Los Angeles, Ojai, and SoCal relaxation zones like Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, and Big Bear. There’s a monthly subscription option that offers a 10 percent discount, and Santa Barbara orders are still hand-delivered.

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Sake seltzer was also an untapped segment. “From a commercial standpoint, no one else was using sake,” he said of the booming hard-seltzer market. “We knew that we could have something special.”

To keep their carbon footprint down, they connected with the oldest sake producer in the United States, using rice sourced from the Sacramento Delta to craft a pro prietary Junmai Ginjo sake. For flavor, they quickly settled on a combination of zesty grapefruit “it was the absolute clear winner,” said Monica of the many fruit trials and sea salt, which brings body to the midpalate. Explained Dessouky, “We knew we landed on something

The popularity is warranted. In a world of lackluster and often gross hard selt zers, Ysidro tastes like it’s made from real ingredients, which are listed openly on the website, and the flavors truly recall a citrus grove awash in ocean spray. The sake shows itself with just enough warmth, but it’s really a background player, as the bright grapefruit and refreshing effervescence take center stage. It’s great at the beach, on the golf course, in your backyard, and at restaurants, which are known to spruce up the sip by adding rocks and a twist.

Can we expect more flavors? “When the market demands more product, we’ll be ready to provide it,” said Dessouky.

Are they still the only sake-based seltzer out there? “We are aware of one other, but they are not using Junmai Ginjo,” he explained. “We’ve positioned ourselves as the sole premium sake-based drink out there.”

See ysidro.com.

SAKE TRIO: Ysidro’s founders (from left) , Alex Dessouky and Monica and Seth Epstein wanted to elevate the hard seltzer game with their sake-based grapefruit-and-sea salt spritz.

CANNED COAST: The pink color of Ysidro Sake Spritz is designed to reflect “pink moment” sunsets while the flavors recall citrus groves and ocean spray.

Saved by Santa Barbara Wine

Iused to walk up the hill to visit the Queen of the Mis sions on late Sunday afternoons. I would perch on her steps as the sun fell into the sea, her twin belltowers sheltering me from the breezes rustling down Mission Canyon. I would let my gaze be swept out beyond the lawn and roses to the Spanish tiles glowing in the waning light, and finally to the rippling slate blue of the Santa Barbara Channel and the peaks of Santa Cruz Island.

Sometimes, from my viewpoint, I would think about the Santa Cruz Island Wine Company, which boasted the largest winery and vineyard in the area at the turn of the 20th century. It was said at the time that “the most romantic vineyard is out at sea.” That operation is long gone, but a few years ago, the Rusack Winery took cuttings of the few remaining Santa Cruz zinfandel and mission grape vines, still clambering up trees 100 years later on the back side of the island, and planted them in Ballard Canyon near Los Olivos. The past is not dead as long as there are dusty bottles and old vines.

I may have moved here to join the wine industry, but it didn’t take long until I found the history of Santa Barbara to be just as intoxicating as its wine. Spanish sea captain Sebastián Vizcaíno gave the modern name to the area when, tossed in violent seas in our Channel on his voyage up the California coast, he cried out to Santa Barbara for rescue on the eve of the saint’s feast day. That was December 4, 1602.

Almost two centuries later, what would come to be called the Queen of the Missions was baptized on December 4, 1786, set in an amphitheater of hills above her burgeoning pueblo. Sailors would use her as a bea con for steering safely into port. Santa Barbara has been saving people ever since.

by Adam McHugh

Before I relocated here nine years ago, I lived about 30 miles east of Los Angeles and worked as a hospice chaplain and grief counselor. I would drive to homes and facilities all throughout the San Gabriel Valley and East L.A., to sit with people who had been given a terminal diagnosis and with their families who were watching their loved ones die.

Sometimes I would be holding a patient’s hand when she took her last breath. I worked many shifts in the middle of the night on what we called “death visits.” I would get called to be with a family after a patient had died, to help handle the mortuary arrangements, to hear the stories the family was desperate to tell about the per son they had just lost, and to be a comforting presence for the few minutes we had together.

When I told people what I did for a living, they would often respond, “Oh, that takes such a special person.” I knew I wasn’t that special. It was sacred, necessary, strange, deeply meaningful work. But it was also a slow leak on my soul, and my capacity for joy and celebration was slowly, but inexorably, deflating. Sometimes I wor ried my patients weren’t the only ones who were dying.

During those hospice years, it was the Santa Ynez Valley that became my refuge. I would blast right by Santa Barbara on my way over the mountains to the vines stitched along the hillsides. Often I would go round-trip in one day, sometimes when my hospice shift began at

midnight that night, just to smell the air crackling with the vapors of pinot noir and to partake for a few hours in a world that felt so astonishingly alive. I fantasized about giving it all up, disappearing into wine country, and fad ing into myth. But I never thought I would actually do it.

My book Blood from a Stone: A Memoir of How Wine Brought Me Back from the Dead was published in October, and it tells the story of how my hospice career ended and how my life in L.A. unglam orously fell apart. And it tells the story of how I moved to Santa Barbara, where my work and participation in the tight-knit wine community downtown helped me to heal and begin to put a new life together. My Sunday evening meditations at the Mission helped.

Santa Barbara has always been a healing place. In the 1870s, after the golden spike was driven into the trans continental railroad, doctors back east began prescrib ing the climate of Santa Barbara to their convalescent patients. The salty sea air combined with the south-fac ing beaches that lounged under the long arc of the sun was considered medicine for the sick.

Or you could take the short journey into the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains and recuperate in natural hot springs. So wealthy patients took the train to San

Francisco and boarded a steamer to Santa Barbara, where they checked into the Arlington Hotel and stayed for weeks or months. Santa Barbara boomed as a high-class health resort, earning itself the nickname “The Sanito rium of the Pacific.”

Down the beach a few clicks, the little village of Sum merland was founded in the 1880s as a Spiritualist colony, by a group of people who were intent on communicating with the spirits of the deceased, which, let’s be honest, is weird. But it does seem there is a long history of Santa Barbara calling people back from the dead. And I am grateful to be one of them.

Eventually, the call of the vines of Santa Ynez became irresistible for me, and I made the climb over the moun tains. But Santa Barbara is still my healing place.

Follow Adam McHugh on Instagram at @adammchughwine.

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Lots to Love at Menchaca Chocolates

When I stepped onto the patio of Menchaca Chocolates, the first thing I noticed was a scent: a sultry concoction of roast ing cacao beans and caramelizing oat milk. Walking into the establishment, located in El Mercado Plaza on Upper State Street, the second thing I noticed was the vibrant artwork that adorned the walls and packaging, created by artist and co-owner Leanne Iverson. The logo of Menchaca Chocolates an amorous couple embracing a glowing cacao bean in a tropical locale is emblematic of what this business stands for: a whole some, artful product forged with love.

milk, white, and strawberry chocolate is tempered with oat milk, a decision based on the owner’s preference of the flavor above all. “Personally, I’m not a vegan,” said Menchaca. “I just like good food.”

The product speaks for itself: it doesn’t need dairy, and for those who delight in dark chocolate, Menchaca offers prod ucts with up to a 90 percent cacao con tent. The direct-trade beans are sourced straight from Guatemala and Ecuador, a quality imbued in the flavor of the choc olate as well as the ethical climate of the business. This is reassured by Menchaca’s commitment to sustainability, wasting nothing down to the husk of the bean, which is used to create a coffeelike, caffeine-free tea available for purchase and consumption on site.

What more can be hoped for in a chocolate business? How about art?

Iverson and Pete Menchaca are Santa Barbara natives with a love story that spans decades. They met as teenagers at the wrong place and time, and went their separate ways, Mechanca enjoying an extensive career in the fire protec tion industry and Iverson teaching art while pursuing multiple entrepreneur ial endeavors. They found each other 37 years later, rekindling their relationship and paving a dream that is embodied in Menchaca Chocolates.

“I like to say that this was kind of a dare,” explains Iverson. “Pete would say, ‘We can’t own a chocolate business!’” Lo and behold, Menchaca Chocolates was born out of experimentation and tenacity. “We haven’t even scratched the surface,” said Menchaca of the inventive flavors they’re infusing into plant-based chocolate, like habanero sea salt and rosemary cacao nib. Each micro batch of

On Fridays and Saturdays, Menchaca offers customers the opportunity to design their own bars, barks, and boxes, emphasizing the customization of the packaging and product. During my visit, I sampled vari ous chocolates and drank cups of husk tea as I painted an ocean theme on the frame of what would become a pistachiobanana bark. It was heavenly.

“There’s so much visual need for chocolate,” said Iverson of using all five senses to enjoy these treats, “so pack aging is really important.” This visual need is brought to the forefront of what Menchaca offers: a fusion of chocolate and art in which the public can partici pate. This holiday season, expect person alized advent calendars and chocolate boxes from your friends. When you ask them how they did it, they’ll simply say, “Menchaca Chocolates.”

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COCOA FUN: Customers can buy artisanal chocolates or even make their own creations at Menchaca Chocolates, the new shop opened by Pete Menchaca (above left) and Leanne Iverson.

Corazón Comedor Opens Downtown

Project Manager Andres Velasco tells me that cuisine inspired from the streets and markets of Mexico City is the specialty of Corazón Comedor, which has opened at 29 East Victoria Street, the former home of Ca’ Dario Pizzeria (Ca’ Dario is open for business as usual next door). “For lack of a better word, let’s call it tradi tional,” says Velasco. “This is the most traditional style, like when your mom cooks for you, or your grandma cooks for you. That is the inspiration behind it. We want to make it like you are eating at home, or eating at your mom’s, your grandma’s, your aunt’s. We offer tacos and quesadillas, but it is totally differ ent than what you usually find around town.”

Corazón Comedor is open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. They will soon start offering breakfast and open at 8 a.m. Call (805) 679-5397 or visit corazoncomedor.com

ON THE HORIZON: While talking with Andres Velasco, I learned that a res taurant named Tacos Roma is coming to 1024 Coast Village Road, the former home of Little Alex’s. They hope to open four or five months from now. “We will be working in the following months in Montecito at the Country Mart,” says Velasco. “We changed the name a little bit because we changed the whole con cept. Roma Norte is a district in Mexico City where we have some high-end res taurants. Owner Ramon Velazquez loves Mexico City and travels there a lot. We are focusing on tacos, but it will be a little more on the high end, but it will still be casual. We are going to be serving plates from Guadalajara [a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco] and we will platter everything super nice. But nothing is set in stone yet.”

A few months back, I broke the news that Velazquez may be opening a res taurant inside the M. Special brewery at 634 State Street and I am told that it is not 100 percent for sure at this point, but if plans do hold up, the name might be Beast Tacos. Velazquez is also work

ing with The Good Lion to do some thing in Ventura. Good Lion Hospitality operates The Good Lion bar at 1212 State Street, Shaker Mill at 418 State Street, Test Pilot at 211 Helena Avenue, Venus in Furs at 18 East Cota Street, and Bank of Italy at 394 East Main Street in Ventura.

WE WANT THE FUNK OPENS: Ted and Greer Ellis have opened We Want The Funk at 210 Gray Avenue in the Funk Zone. “We are serving fresh oysters, wood fired oys ters, wood-fired flat bread pizzas, along with beer and wine,” says Ted Ellis. Food hours are Wednesday-Thursday 4-9 p.m., and Friday-Saturday 4-10 p.m. The bar will stay open later. Next year they plan to start serving lunch and offering brunch on weekends.

SPECIAL FEAST AT BLUE WATER GRILL: Blue water Grill in the lighthouse across from Stearns Wharf has a special holiday gift for guests of its final Second Tuesday Tasting of the year: a preview of several chef-driven seafood dishes on the Blue water Grill 2023 menu. Local seafood fans attending the December 13 tast ing and wine pairing will be the first to sample a Sashimi Grade Yellowfin Tuna Tostada with Avocado Purée Firecracker Sauce and Daikon Sprouts followed by Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Roasted Rock fish with Parmesan Risotto. The price of the Second Tuesday Tasting is $50 per person, which is $15 off the $65 value. Seatings begin at 6:30 p.m., and reserva tions are strongly encouraged.

CARUSO’S IS AWARDED MICHELIN STAR: Santa Barbara County added a third Michelin Star awardee to its ranks this week, when Caruso’s at the Rosewood Miramar in Montecito was honored with the culi nary world’s most esteemed designation. Bestowed upon a very excited Chef Mas simo Falsini during a presentation in Los Angeles on Monday night, the star puts Caruso’s on par with Bell’s in Los Ala mos and Sushi by Scratch: Montecito, which won their Michelin stars in 2021. Caruso’s also picked up a Green Star, which designates sustainable operations.

TACO TIME: Tacos inspired from the streets and markets of Mexico City have come to 29 East Victoria Street at the new Corazón Comedor.

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BUILDING ON ART AND EYES

LATE ARCHITECT-COLLECTOR BARRY BERKUS’S COLLECTION LANDS AT WESTMONT

in A Bold and Unconventional Collec tor: Highlights from the Barry Berkus Family Collection, now enlivening the walls and floors of the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art.

Berkus collected many well-known artists in his day such as Rauschen berg, Hockney, Lichtenstein, and War hol, which have been auctioned off as well as “lesser” names deserving wider recognition. This selection fea tures such noted artists as Kiki Smith, Charles Garabedian, Nancy Graves, and Andy Goldsworthy a photo graph documenting a Goldsworthy art-embracing-nature piece in Santa Barbara’s Botanic Gardens, made at Berkus’s invitation.

abstraction, and Lindsay Warren’s strange and lively “Power-Outage,” in which a cartoony, paint-by-number style prevails in a fantasy forest scene with ghostly rooster draw ings flown in, as if in an alternative nature dream.

Berkus’s collecting adventures managed to deal with important national and international artists, but also cel ebrated the riches of artists calling Santa Barbara home. Several of those locals, including artist-poet Mary Heebner and proto-collagist William Dole, are represented in the entrance gallery.

Some in this group of artists lay claim to home turf revisi tation, having had major exhibitions in this museum. Dane Goodman and Keith Puccinelli’s serio-comic collaborative show Tug is one example, along with one-person shows by sinuous abstractionist Marie Schoeff and deft, delicate assemblage artists Dug Uyesaka and Tony Askew.

In the late architect/art collector Barry A. Berkus’s cof fee table opus Architecture/Art/Parallels/Connections, he addresses the mutual influencers in his life devoted to the two A-words. “The more I see,” he writes, “the more ques tions fuel my desire to learn, to observe, and to create. This process becomes what I call ‘walking with the eye.’”

Berkus’s insightful and curious eye can be seen, in archi tectural terms, in such local structures as the Galleria (home to baby Target, at La Cumbre and State) and in the dynamic MOXI museum, which Berkus designed but didn’t live to see in concrete form. That eye, as avid collector, is a silent guide

The list of eye-catching works in the museum goes left into more obscure art terrain, including John Walker’s “The Centre #2,” a huge, visually vis ceral canvas from the neo-Expres sionism-bolstered 1980s that leaps and oozes off the wall. Lurking on the gallery floor, Luisa Rabbia’s 2008 sculpture “Mother” combines membranous encasement and a mythic suggestion of maternal protective instinct. Lawrence Gipe, who worked at UCSB for a spell and left his local imprint on murals such as one at Anacapa and Victoria, imbues enigma and dark allure in his painting “Woman at Window.” Its subject peers mysteriously out a window at an undisclosed vision of pleasure, horror, or nothingness. Viewer’s choice.

Other paintings demanding attention in the show include Adam Roose’s 2003 “Chronopolis 2,” a clean-lined futuristic

Photography, a Santa Barbara treat and obsession, shines via the light off Wayne McCall’s conceptual image-withinan-image and a slyly, darkly witty image from Richard Ross.

Ross’s “Capuchin Cemetery Rome” is a stately shot of a mosaic of priestly skulls, taken in 1989, around the time of his memorable Museology series coaxing unexpected ele gance from shots of dead creatures in dead, cryptic spaces.

There may be no binding, discernible aesthetic connect ing this culling of contemporary art, apart from some links one can make to Berkus’s innate architectural sensibility. Even so, despite the disparate artistic entities here, some implied though line connects with the discerning and rest less perspective of a beholder/collector who excelled in the art of “walking the eye.”

—Josef Woodard

Santa Barbara is the home turf for Chris Shiflett, the man who would become lead guitarist for the Foo Fighters, circa 1999. That cornerstone of the alt-rock scene, inducted into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame last year, suffered a blow this year with the passing of drummer Tay lor Hawkins. Meanwhile, Shiflett’s solo artist life continues its upward trajectory.

He lives in Los Angeles with his family these days, keep ing a place in the old hometown, where he will serve as master of rocking ceremonies of Hometown Holiday Hoe down at SOhO on Thursday, December 15. The “hoedown” is Shiflett’s special brand of California-meets-Nashvillemeets-Bakersfield. For an example, in “West Coast Town,” Shiflett puts a twang on his ode to the 805: “I grew up in a West Coast town / back before they chased the working class out / You know we don’t fuck around where I grew up / in a West Coast town.”

We checked in with Shiflett, pre-hoedown.

Tell me about the Hometown Holiday Hoedown. Last year was the first one, and it was a blast one of the best S.B. shows I’ve done in a long time. … I corralled a ton of old friends to come and play some tunes. It was fantastic but

exhausting. This year is a bit different. We’ve got my old pals Nerf Herder and Logan Livermore doing sets, then I’ll close it out with my solo band. Might still pull up a few old pals as well.

You have two new singles “Long, Long Year” and “Born & Raised.” Are they autobiographical? Well, “Long, Long Year” was just a phrase and a chord progression that was rattling around my head during the lockdown, so I turned it into kind of a love song, but “Born & Raised” is totally autobiographical.

It’s funny how I haven’t lived in Santa Barbara since ’89, but those years still influence so much of what I do. That line “Born & Raised” popped into my head when I was all grumpy one morning surfing Hammonds, and I started thinking, “Fuck this; I’ll surf anywhere I want! I was born and raised here, motherfuckers!”[Laughs.]

You have teenage sons. Is the music gene passing down? They’ve all played and they all love music and they all could play if they wanted to, but as it stands right now, the jury is out on whether or not any of ’em go that way. I think I was a little too pushy with music lessons when they were

really young, and I had to check myself a little and remind myself that the draw to play music for me was because all my friends were doing it, not because my parents wanted me to.

Will the whole family be at the Hoedown, along with a posse of hometown friends? Well, it’s a school night, so we’ll see. We might have to pick up some fake IDs for the boys. [Laughs.]

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Luisa Rabbia, “Mother,” on view at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art

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Santa Barbara certainly won’t have a “white” Christmas, but that doesn’t mean locals and visitors alike can’t enjoy holiday festivities including a variety of lively offerings from the performing arts community. Don your gay apparel and experience music, dance, and theater that celebrates the season with classic holiday fare and Santa Barbara traditions.

For those who crave traditional holiday stories, Santa Barbara’s theater and ballet companies will mount productions of A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. Ensemble Theatre Company presents Charles Dickens’s beloved tale of Christmastide hauntings in Patrick Barlow’s adaptation for the stage. Through December 18, the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take the stage at the New Vic in a show of comedy, drama, music, and theater magic (including puppetry!). Meanwhile, in the magical kingdom of the nut cracker, Clara and her prince dance in the land of the sweets. There are several opportunities to catch The Nutcracker this season, including shows from Santa Barbara Festival Ballet (The Arlington Theatre, Dec. 10-11), and from State Street Ballet (The Granada Theatre, Dec. 17-18). S.B. Festival Ballet’s cast features guest artists Misa Kuranaga and Angelo Greco (principal dancers at San Francisco Ballet), and Alexandra Hutchin son and Kouadio Davis (principal dancers from Dance Theater of Harlem), along with student dancers. Elise Unruh conducts an orchestra of local and regional professional musicians. The

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State Street Ballet production features the Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Orchestra, along with State Street Ballet Academy students dancing with the company’s professional dancers.

Other Santa Barbara traditions include the Christ mas Revels and An Irish Christmas, both at the Lobero Theatre. This is the 15th year of the Christmas Revels, the singing and dancing theatrical extravaganza that celebrates winter rituals from around the world. This season’s show is A Scottish Celebration of the Winter Solstice (expect bagpipes!). The Revels bring audiences back to the 18th century to see a rich gathering of clans in the highlands of Scotland for a rousing celebration of winter holidays (Dec. 17-18).

The following week, “travel” across the narrow strip of ocean between the British Isles to be enchanted by An Irish Christmas, presented by Kerry Irish produc tions. Get ready for Irish music and traditions, includ ing a cast of Irish dancers from the likes of Riverdance and Lord of the Dance, who celebrate along with sing ers from the Kerry Voice Squad and musicians from the Kerry Traditional Orchestra (Dec. 23).

Musical experiences are abundant throughout the season, including the fifth annual Winter Music

Showcase (presented by the Grace Fisher Foundation) and the Hallelujah Project. The Winter Music Showcase brings Santa Barbara’s talented singers, dancers, and musicians to the stage for a diverse mix of holiday cheer. The program includes the Santa Barbara Folk Orchestra, Jackson Gillies, Will Breman, and the West mont Chamber singers (The Granada Theatre, Dec. 9).

For fans of the Santa Barbara Choral Society, don’t miss The Hallelujah Project 8, featuring young singers from the Music Academy’s SING! program. The pro gram of seasonal delights from Bach to Irving Berlin, and the orchestrated version of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, is a crowd-pleaser for all ages (The Lobero Theatre, Dec. 10-11).

For something a little louder, check out the SOhO winter lineup of acts for rockin’ around the Christmas tree. The Chris Shiflett Band will have their Hometown Holiday Hoedown on December 15, featuring special guests (and local talent) Nerf Herder and Logan Livermore. And don’t forget the annual holiday sweater party with The Molly Ringwald Project and Green Flag Summer on December 17.

Finally, count down to the new year in an evening with the Santa Barbara Symphony. This end-of-year program includes favorite scores from The Beatles to Broadway. All your New Year’s Eve necessities, such as champagne, party hats, noisemakers, and an “Auld Lang Syne” sing-along, are included in the festivities. Bob Bernhardt hosts and conducts, featuring guest artist soprano Mela Sarajane Dailey. This concert is on December 31 from 8:30-10 p.m. at the Granada, so you’ll be able to ring in the New Year (or have an early bedtime!) post-show.

The Santa Barbara theater district is bustling with cheer this holiday season. May these concerts and theat rical presentations make your days merry and bright! n

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& FANTASY

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “To be free, you simply have to be so, without asking permission. You must have your own hypothesis about what you are called to do, and follow it, not giving in to circumstances or complying with them. But that sort of freedom demands powerful inner resources, a high degree of self-awareness, and a consciousness of your responsibility to yourself and therefore to other people.” That last element is where some freedomseekers falter. They neglect their obligation to care for and serve their fellow humans. I want to make sure you don’t do that, Aries, as you launch a new phase of your liberation process. Authentic freedom is conscientious.

TAURUS

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(Apr. 20-May 20): The term “neurodiversity” refers to the fact that the human brain functions in a wide variety of ways. There are not just a few versions of mental health and learning styles that are better than all the others. Taurus musician David Byrne believes he is neu rodiverse because he is on the autism spectrum. That’s an advantage, he feels, giving him the power to focus with extra intensity on his creative pursuits. I consider myself neurodiverse because my life in the imaginal realm is just as important to me as my life in the mate rial world. I suspect that most of us are neurodiverse in some sense deviating from “normal” mental func tioning. What about you, Taurus? The coming months will be an excellent time to explore and celebrate your own neurodiversity.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): Poet Jane Hirshfield says that Zen Buddhism is built on three principles: (1) Everything changes. (2) Everything is connected. (3) Pay atten tion. Even if you are not a Zen practitioner, Gemini, I hope you will focus on the last two precepts in the coming weeks. If I had to summarize the formula that will bring you the most interesting experiences and feelings, it would be, “Pay attention to how everything is connected.” I hope you will intensify your intention to see how all the apparent fragments are interwoven. Here’s my secret agenda: I think it will help you register the truth that your life has a higher purpose than you’re usually aware of and that the whole world is conspir ing to help you fulfill that purpose.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Author Flannery O’Connor wrote, “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” I will add a further thought: “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it and strive to transform it into a better place.” Let’s make this one of your inspirational meditations in the coming months, Cancerian. I suspect you will have more power than usual to transform the world into a better place. Get started! (PS: Doing so will enhance your ability to endure and cherish.)

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Many sports journalists will tell you that while they may root for their favorite teams, they also “root for the story.” They want a compelling tale to tell. They yearn for dramatic plot twists that reveal enter taining details about interesting characters performing unique feats. That’s how I’m going to be in the coming months, Leo, at least in relation to you. I hope to see you engaged in epic sagas, creating yourself with verve as you weave your way through fun challenges and intrigu ing adventures. I predict my hope will be realized.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Venus is too hot and dry for humans to live on. But if travelers from Earth could figure out a way to feel comfortable there, they would enjoy a marvel ous perk. The planet rotates very slowly. One complete day and night lasts for 243 Earth days and nights. That means you and a special friend could take a roman tic stroll toward the sunset for as long as you wanted, and never see the sun go down. I invite you to dream

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As far as I’m concerned, Libran Buddhist monk and author Thích Nhất Hạnh was one of the fin est humans who ever lived. “Where do you seek the spiritual?” he asked. His answer: “You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become sacred if mindfulness is there.” In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have exceptional power to live like this: to regard every event, however mundane or routine, as an opportunity to express your soulful love and gratitude for the privilege of being alive. Act as if the whole world is your precious sanctuary.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A reader named Elisa Jean tells me, “We Scorpio allies admire how Scorpios can be so solicitous and welcoming: the best party hosts. They know how to foster social situations that bring out the best in everyone and provide convivial entertainment. Yet Scorpios also know everyone’s secrets. They are connoisseurs of the skeletons in the closets. So they have the power to spawn discordant commotions and wreak havoc on people’s reputations. But they rarely do. Instead, they keep the secrets. They use their covert knowledge to weave deep connections.” Everything Ella Jean described will be your specialties in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittar ians are least likely to stay in one location for extended periods. Many of you enjoy the need to move around from place to place. Doing so may be crucial in satisfy ing your quest for ever-fresh knowledge and stimula tion. You understand that it’s risky to get too fixed in your habits and too dogmatic in your beliefs. So you feel an imperative to keep disrupting routines before they become deadening. When you are successful in this endeavor, it’s often due to a special talent you have: your capacity for creating an inner sense of home that enables you to feel stable and grounded as you ramble free. I believe this superpower will be extra strong during the coming months.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Edgar Allan Poe made this mysterious statement: “We can, at any time, double the true beauty of an actual landscape by half closing our eyes as we look at it.” What did he mean? He was refer ring to how crucial it is to see life “through the veil of the soul.” Merely using our physical vision gives us only half the story. To be receptive to the full glory of the world, our deepest self must also participate in the vision. Of course, this is always true. But it’s even more extra espe cially true than usual for you right now.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian theologian Henri Nouwen wrote, “I have discovered that the gifts of life are often hidden in the places that hurt most.” Yikes! Really? I don’t like that idea. But I will say this: If Nouwen’s theory has a grain of truth, you will capitalize on that fact in the coming weeks. Amazingly enough, a wound or pain you expe rienced in the past could reveal a redemptive possibility that inspires and heals you.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Piscean novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen says it’s wise to talk to yourself. No other conversational partner is more fascinating. No one else listens as well. I offer you his advice in the hope of encouraging you to upgrade the intensity and frequency of your dialogs with yourself. It’s an excellent astrological time to go deeper with the questions you pose and to be braver in formulating your responses. Make the coming weeks be the time when you find out much more about what you truly think and feel.

Homework: What action could you take to rouse unexpected joy in a person you care about? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

by Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone

up equally lyrical adventures in togetherness here on Earth during the coming months, Virgo. Your intimate alliances will thrive as you get imaginative and creative about nurturing togetherness.

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COMPUTER & IT TRAINING

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

FAST LANE Auto seeking Full time/part‑time experienced Auto Lube Technician, schedule 4/10, 2 locations. Contact Terry at (805)967‑1890.

EDUCATION

PARAEDUCATOR SPECIAL Education – Level 2 (PSE‑2)

Our Ideal Candidate:

A committed professional with a nurturing and patient demeanor who enjoys working with elementary aged children in need of specialized assistance. A team player who contributes to a positive and efficient work environment on behalf of colleagues, students, families, and our Goleta Union School District community.

General Description:

Goleta Union School District is seeking an experienced Paraeducator Special Education‑ Level I to work under the direction of their assigned administrator and certificated staff, by assisting in providing instruction and supervision to individual students or small groups of students; observes, monitors and reports student progress regarding academics, social skills, and behavior; performs related duties as assigned; assist students in developing various self‑ help, social and community skills; assist students with essential life functions.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED and one of the following (per ESEA):

‑ Two years of college (48 units)

‑ A.A. degree or higher

‑ Passing Status of the GUSD Basic Competency Exam or the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)

• First Aid Certification (Infant, Child, Adult)

• CPR Certification (Infant, Child, Adult)

• Behavior Management Certification (e.g., CPI)

Apply Online at: www.gusd.us We look forward to having you as part of our Goleta Union School District team!

under the direction of their assigned administrator and certificated staff, by assisting in providing instruction and supervision to individual students or small groups of students; observes, monitors and reports student progress regarding academics, social skills, and behavior; performs related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED and one of the following (per ESEA):

‑ Two years of college (48 units)

‑ A.A. degree or higher

‑ Passing Status of the GUSD Basic Competency Exam or the California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)

• First Aid Certification (Infant, Child, Adult)

• CPR Certification (Infant, Child, Adult)

• Behavior Management Certification (e.g., CPI)

Apply Online at: www.gusd.us

We look forward to having you as part of our Goleta Union School District team!

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

AMAZON.COM Services LLC, an Amazon.com company – Santa Barbara, CA: Business IntelligenceEngineer II: Support sr. mgmt by managing metrics reporting & performing math & statistical modeling to produce business forecasts. (AMZ6376887 & AMZ6386284). Salary Range $99,500/year to $160,000/year. Multiple job openings. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs – search by AMZ job #(s). EOE.

PROFESSIONAL

Thorough knowledge of accounting function, transactions, assignments and systems as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements with experience equivalent to Accounting Analyst, professional accounting, accounting systems or auditing duties, including AR/AP experience, fund accounting knowledge, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Thorough knowledge of analytical procedures used in accounting projects of moderate to semi‑complex scope with demonstrated ability to independently gather, organize, and perform accounting‑related analysis to complete work assignments. Word processing, spreadsheet, and computerized accounting system experience are essential to this position. Advanced Excel knowledge and experience (macros, vlookups, pivot tables) as well as experience working with large data projects, data sets, and data extraction.

status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 12/15/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #46211

MARKETING SPECIALIST

Involves the marketing of activities, services or product; provides marketing support activities.

Involves the analysis of identifying possible constituencies / audiences

NOW HIRING

and the development of programs, services, and outreach to meet identified needs and influence public perception; may involve “brand” development or enhancement, and may involve working with the media (press, television and radio). Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills. Knowledge of marketing principles, concepts, strategies and best practices.

Inside Sales Administrator

FINANCIAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST

PLAYGROUND SUPERVISOR

Our Ideal Candidate:

A committed professional with a nurturing and patient demeanor who enjoys working with elementary aged children, who is friendly, caring and passionate to help keep our children safe. A team player who contributes to a positive and efficient work environment on behalf of colleagues, students, families, and our Goleta Union School District community.

General Description:

Goleta Union School District is seeking Playground Supervisor’s that under the direction of an assigned principal, supervises a variety of students activities and monitors students’ behavior at school, e.g., in the cafeteria and restrooms, at gates, on the playground, in hallways on campus, and in parking lots; performs a variety of routine clerical duties in support of assigned students; supervises students on campus suspension and detention.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED • Experience working with groups of children in an organized environment is desirable

Apply Online at: www.gusd.us We look forward to having you as part of our Goleta Union School District team!

FINANCE

OVER

TECHNOLOGY

Under the supervision of the Business Manager, using a high level of professional and independent judgment, the Financial Support Specialist assists with the department’s overall business operations, which encompasses: general office administration, all facets of payroll and personnel actions (UCPath), time reporting (Kronos), travel and entertainment (CONCUR), procurement (Flexcard and Gateway), financial reporting, inventory tracking, facilities maintenance, and safety. Uses a high level of attention to detail and accuracy, as well as knowledge of university policies and procedures. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 1‑3 years computer skills and experience of Microsoft Suite products. 1‑3 years office and administrative experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $26.09 ‑ $29.97/ 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 12/15/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 46202

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $70,580 ‑ $76,100/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 #41485

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

The Independent is seeking an inside sales administrator to join its sales team. This role is responsible for prospecting advertising clients, collecting and processing legal notices, classified ads, open house listings, and maintaining and fulfilling our print subscription database. This position will work full time in our downtown Santa Barbara office, ready to greet and assist our readers and customers.

Qualified candidates must have a positive attitude and need to be self-motivated and highly organized with outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Responsibilities include providing excellent customer service (through email, on the phone and inperson), attending weekly sales meetings, and data entry with strong attention to detail. Must also be able to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment and have a basic understanding of marketing and sales.

Compensation will be hourly + commission. Full-time positions include health, dental, and vision insurance, Section 125 cafeteria plan, 401(k), and vacation program.

Please introduce yourself, reasons for interest, and a brief summary of your qualifications, along with your résumé to hr@independent.com No phone calls, please. EOE m/f/d/v.

PARAEDUCATOR SPECIAL

Education – Level 1 (PSE‑1)

Our Ideal Candidate:

A committed professional with a nurturing and patient demeanor who enjoys working with elementary aged children in need of specialized assistance. A team player who contributes to a positive and efficient work environment on behalf of colleagues, students, families, and our Goleta Union School District community.

General Description: Goleta Union School District is seeking an experienced Paraeducator Special Education‑ Level I to work

$18‑23/hour

GENERAL ACCOUNTANT 3

BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

Experienced professional in the General Accounting Office, responsible for general accounting functions such as analyzing, monitoring, preparing and reconciling financial information to reflect the condition of the organization and provide financial and other statistical data to control operations. Also may involve preparation of financial reports to meet internal and external reporting requirements. May include activities relating to developing, implementing and monitoring accounting systems, policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/ or equivalent experience / training.

Serves as an expert informational resource for students on the A. S. Legal Code. The Legal Code is comprised of the A.S. Constitution, the A.S. By‑laws, and Standing Policies. Updates Associated Student Legal Code based on legislation passed at weekly meetings maintains the historical records of changes and provides research and information on past policies and procedures. Serves as advisor for Internal Affairs Committee, External Affairs Committee, and the Committee on Committees. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 1‑3 years Experience in political science, public policy, or law. 1‑3 years Experience in an institution of higher education working with college students in an academic advising or counseling capacity, or other field that is directly related to the functions of the position or equivalency as determined by the hiring authority.

1‑3 years Experience in working with diverse communities and across multiple identities and respect and consideration for all identities, perspectives, and differences. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Campus Security Authority. Some evenings and weekends are required. $58,940 ‑ $64,700/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

HOUSING DINING & AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES

EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)

Knowledge and experience in Adobe

Creative Suite applications: Illustrator, Photoshop & Premiere, and other applications: Canva, Hootsuite, or similar Social Media management systems. Notes: Mandated Child Abuse Reporter. 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. $55,100‑$74,300/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 12/13/2022. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #46015

MEDIA CENTER

SPECIALIST ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

Responsible for developing and coordinating student services provided by the A.S. Media Center.

The Media Center Specialist is responsible for collecting, compiling, and writing information for various workshops, social media, and other various forms of written communication. As well as providing oversight and facilities management of the Annex space and acting as the backup for the Pardall Center space. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Knowledge of media equipment and software. Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. 1‑3 years Experience with microsoft office suite, Google Suite or equivalent. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Campus

Security Authority. $26.31‑ $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. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #45751

PAYROLL ANALYST

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Uses critical thinking, analytical, and problem solving skills to research, analyze and develop solutions to a wide range of complex campus payroll and general ledger questions, issues, and concerns. Researches and troubleshoots business processes and system issues and demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques

for obtaining resolution within tight deadlines. Uses critical thinking, analytical, and problem solving skills to administer the campus wide work authorization program and processes required by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Experience processing and responding to basic inquiries regarding payroll. Experience with an automated, integrated payroll system. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $26.39 ‑ $30.00/ 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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 44248

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Provides program coordination to all units within Residential Operations and Transportation & Parking Services. Comprehensive understanding of the programs and systems utilized to support Residential Operations managers and staff. Assists with research and analysis on various issues relating to payroll/ personnel/employment actions, data management, and training/ learning development procedures. In compliance with HDAE goals and objectives, affirms and implements the department Educational Equity Plan. Reqs: 1‑3 years of experience in an administrative, clerical, or operations role. Must be able to interpret and apply numerous complex policies, analyze information, make substantive recommendations to management. Maintains confidentiality as it pertains to personnel policies and procedures. Excellent communication and organizational skills, including the ability to work independently and with frequent interruption. Excellent problem‑solving abilities, prioritize workload, meet frequent and changing deadlines and perform all duties to a very high standard. Strong customer service skills. Proficient in Microsoft Office & Google Suite. 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. $26.09‑ $31.35/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 #45618

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PHILOMENE GERMAINE SMATHERS, CASE NO# 22PR00553

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of PHILOMENE GERMAINE SMATHERS

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: William Smathers in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): William Smathers be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examiniation in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: 12/22/2022 AT 9:00

AM, DEPT. 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Harold K. Kono, 831 State Street, Suite 289, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 962‑8412. Published December 1, 8, 15, 2022.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO

ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHELLE SPATZ, CASE NO# 22PR00565

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of

MICHELLE SPATZ.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Alexander Spatz in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Alexander Spatz be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: 01/05/2023 AT 9:00

AM, DEPT. 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Electronically Filed, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 11/22/2022.

Attorney for Petitioner: David E. Graff, 317 E. Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 963‑8611. Published December 8, 15, 22, 2022

FILED IN SUPERIOR COURT, CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA OCTOBER 24, 2022, NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JEREMY M. KERMIT, CASE NO# 22PR00527

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of Jeremy Maxwell Kermit.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Taryn Bazzell in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Taryn Bazzell be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examiniation in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under

the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT

AS FOLLOWS: 1/05/2023 AT 9:00

AM, DEPT. 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT , you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Taryn Bazzell, 2114 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. (661) 330‑1333. Published December 8, 15, 22, 2022.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LESLIE LAYNE RIDLEY‑TREE AKA LESLIE L. RIDLEY‑TREE NO: 22PR00546

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LESLIE LAYNE RIDLEY‑TREE AKA LESLIE L. RIDLEY‑TREE.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Joshua P. Rabinowitz in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Joshua P. Rabinowitz be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examiniation in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: 12/22/2022

AT 9:00 AM, DEPT. 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT , you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Gamble T. Parks, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck,1021 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 882‑1445. Published November 23, December 1, 8, 2022.

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name: ABSTRAX TITLE SERVICES is being abandoned at 12348, A, Cactus Drive, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed on 11/26/2019 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. 2019‑002931. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Ralph Peter Folsom (same address). The business was conducted as an individual. SIGNED BY RALPH PETER FOLSOM, INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 11/21/22, FBN2022‑0002826, E40 and is hereby certified that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: December 1, 8,15 22, 2022.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: CREEKSIDE STORIES, 902 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 10/15/2021 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN2021‑0002901. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Jan Dewitt, 902 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Charlene M Huston, 203 Hitchcock, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The business is conducted as a general partnership. SIGNED BY CHARLENE HUSTON, PARTNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 11/18/22, FBN2022‑0002818, E47. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TASCA TRAVEL, 11 W. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Established 1992, LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a limited partnership. SIGNED BY ANGELA TASCA‑ZUNGRI, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 15, 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: 2022‑0002790. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: Fatima Andrade Martinez, 809 East De La Guerra, Unit 2, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Fatima Andrade Martinez (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY FATIMA ANDRADE MARTINEZ. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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: 2022‑0002777. Published: November 23, December 1, 8, 15, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLASSICS WITH THE CARDINALS at 95 Alpine Dr, Goleta, CA 93117; Classics with the Cardinals (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED ROBIN HURLEY, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 18, 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: 2022‑0002820. Published: November 23, December 1, 8, 15, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOMETHING THIS WAY MAGIC at 2460 Lillie Ave, Unit 2, Summerland, CA 93067; Joseph H Detar (same address); This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY JOSEPH DETAR, OWNER. Filed by the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 07, 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 E49. FBN Number: 2022‑0002736. Published: November 23, December 1, 8 15, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: LEONE ARMS at 87 Galaxy Way, Lompoc CA 93436; Jeffrey L Monteleone (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY JEFF MONTELEONE, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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: 2022‑0002782. Published: November 23, December 1, 8, 15, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: FLASH FAST PHOTOGRAPHY, 2832 State Street, apt 10, Santa Barbara, CA 93120; Alehxa C Jones (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY ALEHXA JONES. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 17, 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: 2022‑0002809. Published: November 23, December 1, 8, 15, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person

(s) is/are doing business as: Abstrax Title Services, 315A Meigs Road, #178 , Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Patricia OConnell (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY PATRICIA I OCONNELL, INDIVIDUAL. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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 E40. FBN Number: 2022‑0002827. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: RARE SOCIETY, 214 State St., Santa Barbara, 93101; Brad L Wise, 1125 W Morena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. This business is conducted by a limited partnership. SIGNED BY BRAD WISE, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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: 2022‑0002831. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAMMAR GRIZZLY, 535 E Arrellaga St, #22, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elke Ichau (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY ELKE ICHAU. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 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: 2022‑0002845. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEDBRIDGE BILLING ASSOCIATES, 121 Gray Avenue, Ste 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Medbridge Anesthesia Management, LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a limited liability company. SIGNED BY DAVID ODELL, MANAGING MEMBER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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: 2022‑0002839. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INTEGRATED HOME DESIGNS, 601 Micheltorena, 38, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Vanessa B Rabatin, (same address); Kristina Wong, 1207 San Andres, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a general partnership.

SIGNED BY VANESSA RABATIN, PARTNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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 E49. FBN Number: 2022‑0002779. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BIG MIKE’S MARKETING , 7216 Fordham PL, Goleta, CA 93117; Michael R Sexsmith (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY MICHAEL R SEXSMITH. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 16, 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: 2022‑0002801. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHARMADILLO PRODUCTIONS,

72 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta, CA 93117; Charlene Huston, 203 Hitchcock Way #119, Santa Barbara CA 93105. This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY CHARLENE HUSTON, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 18, 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: 2022‑0002819. Published: December 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COASTAL REALTY GROUP , 330 James Way, Suite 270, Pismo Beach, CA 93448; Coastal Community Builders, Inc. (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY GARY H. GROSSMAN, CEO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 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: 2022‑0002848. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA PSYCHOTHERAPY, 21 E. Canon Perdido Street, Suite 213, Santa Barbara CA 93101; Kristine J Schwarz, 2767 Miradero Drive, Apt E, Santa Barbara CA 93105. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY KRISTINE J. SCHWARZ. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 22, 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: 2022‑0002852. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOUBUD WINES, 331‑C Northgate Dr., Goleta, CA 93117; Loubud Wines L.L.C. (same address). This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership.

SIGNED BY LAURA ROACH, MEMBER‑MANAGER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 28, 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: 2022‑0002874. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TSR ENTERPRISE , 1113 Camino Viejo, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Timothy S Romano (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY TIMOTHY S ROMANO, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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: 2022‑0002867. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOBOBA STUDIOS, 317 Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; James T Long, 805 Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY JAMES THOMAS LONG, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 28, 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: 2022‑0002870. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business

LEGALS (CONT.)

as: CRTN MEDIA, 28 Vereda Cordillera, Goleta, CA 93117; Garrett D Norvell(same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY GARRETT NORVELL. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 28, 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: 2022‑0002881. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BETTER CALL MICHAEL!, 2785 Alta Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael S Miller (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY MICHAEL MILLER, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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 E49. FBN Number: 2022‑0002898. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TEAGUE, 929 Laguna Street, Unit E, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Walter Dorwin Teague Associates Incorporated,110 Union Street, Suite 400, Seattle, Washington 98101 This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY JOHN BARRATT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 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 E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002899. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE SANTA BARBARA THEATRE COMPANY, 1024 Olive St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Santa Barbara Theatre Company (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY ELLEN PASTERNAK, MANAGING DIRECTOR. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 2, 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: 2022‑0002916. Published: December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROBERT CHESTER THOMAS at 38 San Mateo Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117; Robin L Thomas (same address); Elizabeth C. Alix, 5081 Amberly Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This business is conducted by copartners. SIGNED BY ROBIN L THOMAS, COPARTNER. Filed by the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 01, 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: 2022‑0002694. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TOOTH & PEN , 654 Ivy LN, Solvang, CA 93463; Michael C Ray (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY MICHAEL RAY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 9, 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: 2022‑0002752. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STEVE’S AUTO REPAIR, 254 East

Highway 246, Buellton, CA 93427; Buellton Garage, 320 Central Ave, Buellton, CA 93427. This business is conducted by a corporation.

SIGNED BY JENNIFER HURNBLAD, CFO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 1, 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: 2022‑0002690. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JOSHUA CAMPOVERDE, CASE NUMBER: 22CV04287

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: JOSHUA CAMPOVERDE TO: JOSHUA CAMPOVERDE HERNANDEZ.

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 DECEMBER 28, 2022 10:00 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: November 08, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published November 23, December 1, 8, 15, 2022

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SARAH JANE JENKINS, CASE NUMBER: 22CV04514

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: SARAH JANE JENKINS TO: VICTORIA JANE JENKINS.

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 JANUARY 27, 2023 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, 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: November 29, 2022. Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published December 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

Attorney for Sarah Jane Jenkins: Bruce A. Pence MULLEN & HENZELL L.L.P. 112 E. Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 966‑1501

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SIMONE CAMILLE BYERS CASE NUMBER: 22CV04172

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: SIMONE CAMILLE BYERS TO:

SIMONE CAMILLE BELAMOUR. 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 DECEMBER 28, 2022 10:00 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: November 08, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

EXTRA SPACE Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. December 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM

Dominic Garza boxes and equipment Adam Hewett household items

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

GET INVOLVED BY JOINING ONE OF THE CITY’S BOARDS OR COMMISSIONS THE CITY OF GOLETA IS SEEKING APPLICATIONS FOR UPCOMING VACANCIES

Planning Commission - 2 vacancies:

• 2 Commissioners

This Commission meets the second and fourth Monday of each month at 6:00 p.m., members are compensated $100 per meeting.

Design Review Board - 3 vacancies:

• 1 Licensed Landscape Professional

• 1 Licensed Architect

• 1 Alternate

This board meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 3:00 p.m., and the members are compensated $50 per meeting.

Parks and Recreation Commission - 3 vacancies:

• 3 Commissioners

Eligible applicants must live in the City of Goleta. The Commission holds six regular meetings and may hold additional meetings as needed, members are compensated $50 per meeting.

Public Tree Advisory Commission - 3 vacancies:

• 3 Commissioners

Eligible applicants must live in the City of Goleta. The Commission holds six regular meetings and may hold additional meetings as needed. members are compensated $50 per meeting.

Library Advisory Commission - 1 vacancy:

• 1 Commissioner (Unincorporated Library Area)

Eligible applicants must live in the Unincorporated Service Area of the Goleta Valley. Meetings are held the first Monday of the month, and members are compensated $50 per meeting.

Persons interested in serving on a City Board, Commission or Committee should contact cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or visit https://www.cityofgoleta.org/ city-hall/city-clerk/boards-commissions.

Applications must be submitted by Friday, January 6, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.

NOTICE OF CITY COUNCIL

PUBLIC HEARING

Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom

December 20, 2022 at 5:30 P.M.

Accessory Dwelling Units Urgency Ordinance Case No. 22-0005-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 Goleta City Council will conduct a public hearing to consider adoption of an Urgency Ordinance to amend Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code (GMC) related to Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www. cityofgoleta.org).

HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 5:30 P.M.

PLACE: 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 LOCATION: The amended regulations would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Due to changes in State law (Senate Bill 897 of 2022), the project includes the replacement of the City’s existing ADU regulations (Section 17.41.030 of the GMC) with a new set of citywide ADU and Junior ADU (JADU) standards that will fully comply with the changes in State law. Changes to the City’s ADU regulations include, but are not limited to, ADU heights and front setbacks; changes to the processing and denial of ADUs; and JADU locations, configurations, and definition.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: Under California Public Resources Code Section 21080.17, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) does not apply to the adoption of an ordinance by a city or county implementing the provisions of Section 65852.2 of the Government Code, which is California’s ADU law and which also regulates JADUs, as defined by Section 65852.22. Therefore, the proposed Urgency Ordinance is statutorily exempt from CEQA in that the proposed Urgency Ordinance implements the State’s ADU law.

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.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Anne Wells, Advance Planning Manager, at (805) 961-7557 or awells@cityofgoleta. org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www. cityofgoleta.org.

SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION. If you require interpretation services for the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at (805) 961-7505 or via email to: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. Please specify the language for which you require interpretation. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting helps to ensure that reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the hearing.

Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 9617505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, December 8, 2022