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Richelle works as the Indy’s Marketing and Promotions Administrator. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and Professional Writing in Journalism. She was on the dean’s list and received an excellence in scholarship and service award for the Department of English.

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Alexandra works as the host and producer for The Indy: A Podcast. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Professional Writing in Journalism. She graduated summa cum laude, was on the dean’s honor list, and received the Ellen Reid Writing Award in the Writing Department.

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Jenna has been writing for the Independent as a News Intern. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, specializing in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Professional Writing in Journalism. She was recognized for academic excellence and was on the dean’s honor list.

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Summer Solstice Parade Shines

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The Santa Barbara News-Press has suspended its print edition, the daily newspaper announced last week. Managing Editor Dave Mason explained that the paper’s Goleta printing plant (pictured) was having power issues, the suspension of the press was temporary, and the paper was going to an online version daily in the meantime. Most recently, the paper’s staff joined the printing press at its Goleta location on South Kellogg Avenue in April, leaving the iconic building on De la Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara that the newspaper had occupied since 1922.

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by Callie Fausey

Photos by Ingrid Bostrom

Glimmering dancers in golden costumes adorned with jewels, crowns, and peacock feathers were the rays of sunshine illuminating the way for the stream of floats, roller-skaters, singers, puppets, and more that followed. As the shimmering performers danced to songs like “Mambo No. 5,” they encouraged parade-goers to dance alongside them. It would have been difficult for anyone to stay in a gloomy mood while surrounded by such sparkle.

A sliver of sun was enough for Santa Barbara to nurture a good time and rediscover its “Roots” the theme for this year’s Solstice. Fairies, mushrooms, flowers, trees, and gnomes were among Mother Earth’s representatives in the parade, branching out through the streets and truly selling the theme.

As the parade progressed, the sun gradually peeked its head out. Attendees were aptly reminded of the bright, gorgeous community

they gathered in.

Butterflies guided the final few groups in the procession, floating around their large, mechanical sister with beautiful fluttering wings. “Here Comes the Sun” played from the float’s speakers, appropriately welcoming the star’s shining Saturday debut.

Indy photographer Ingrid Bostrom caught some of the most special moments from the parade, more of which can be found at independent.com/2023-summer-solstice n

Downtown State Street Closure Extended

Council Agrees to Keep State Street Parklets and Explore Options for Permanent Citywide Program

by Ryan P. Cruz

After a marathon meeting with two hours of public comment and another few hours of back-and-forth discussion over the future of downtown parklets, the exhausted and frustrated members of Santa Barbara City Council agreed by way of five separate motions and votes to keep the downtown outdoor dining experiment going forward, for now at least, along the State Street promenade. The city will continue to explore other options for a longterm plan to regulate parklets on private property and other public rights-of-way. The topic has become one of the most hotly debated issues in the city, and Tuesday’s decision was a win for the dozens of city residents, restaurateurs, and alternative transportation activists that spoke in favor of keeping the downtown promenade open for pedestrians and bicycles. But for those who feel like a closed-off State Street was a temporary fix that has run its course, the

city’s choice to keep it open could also be a sign of council’s reluctance to change.

Councilmember Eric Friedman, who voted against extending the temporary Economic Recovery Extension and Transition Ordinance (ERETO) which was set to expire at the end of the year said the situation made him think of the paradoxical quotes made famous by New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra: “It’s like déjà vu all over again. When you see a fork in the road, take it. If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up someplace else. No one goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”

Friedman said that Berra’s nonsensical but wise words kept running through his head, and he realized that the quotes were

“all about State Street.”

“We’ve had these discussions over and over, and we keep kind of coming to the same place,” he said. Friedman explained that he had hoped that the city would be more willing to try new things when he advocated to truncate the State Street promenade to the two blocks between Ortega and Haley, an area he said has become a “destination in itself.”

Mayor Randy Rowse, who also voted against extending the temporary outdoor dining order on State Street, shared a similar frustration. He said he felt like the program was meant to be a temporary response to the pandemic, but now it has been “three summers of the same thing,” with nothing to show except several

At the County Library Advisory Committee on 6/21, the news was positive library services will continue as usual across the county except for the Isla Vista Bookvan, the fate of which may rest on whether the county will contribute $25,000 to keep its operation alive. That $25,000 is the same ask Goleta’s City Council came up with during budget talks on 6/20, when they hashed out whether they’d continue serving I.V. and how much it would cost ($125,000 plus the $25K “challenge” to the county). The supervisors will vote on the proposal on 8/22, and Goleta’s final determination will also come in August.

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Two-time track-and-field Olympian Jane Frederick shared her story alongside five other women athletes at the Courthouse on 6/23 to mark the 51st anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law that promotes gender equality in school sports and educational programs. She and other pioneers were honored at the event for their strength and determination, which paved the way for the young flag football players in attendance. The girls’ coach, Foothill Elementary teacher Jaylon Letendre, spoke of the “blood, sweat, tears, and cleat marks” it took to demonstrate the capability of her players and make high school girls’ flag football an official CIF sport offered at all three S.B. Unified high schools next year. Read more at independent.com.

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UCSB’s Professional and Continuing Education program (PaCE) and Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit online college, have partnered to provide alternative certificate-to-degree pathways for the “nontraditional” students across the Central Coast. Through the partnership, PaCE certificate holders can seamlessly transfer credits to WGU’s accredited bachelor’s degree programs in either accounting or human resources management. It’s the first continuing-education arm of a UC school to partner with WGU, which will bridge the gap for UCSB students who want to pursue their degrees online (which the UC system does not offer). Learn more at wgu.edu/partners/ucsb.

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Renoviction Law Amended County

by Jean Yamamura

Renoviction law was back before the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, as the five supervisors considered adding language requiring a landlord, if taking a rental unit off the market, to allow the tenant to return in a no-fault eviction. As well, all landlords in the county would be required to offer their tenants a one-year, or longer, lease within 60 days after passage of the ordinance. The proposal passed 3-2, but not until testimony was heard of the necessity of the new rule and its unintended consequences.

The ordinance, proposed by supervisors Laura Capps and Das Williams, will come back for further recommendations on July 11, but the major change was a right for a tenant to return to a renovated unit. This was prompted by the standoff in Isla Vista over Core Spaces, a Chicago-based developer of luxury college apartments that started the eviction process for an estimated 550-1,000 tenants at apartments known as CBC & The Sweeps. On April 6, the county passed an ordinance requiring a landlord to provide tenants with copies of permits before an eviction based on “substantial renovation” could proceed. Stanley Tzankov with the Santa Barbara Tenants Union later told the Independent that their suggestion of a rent cap was based on the law enacted in Marin County, which is a general law county as is Santa Barbara.

A wave of renovictions large and small has occurred in the county, staff reported. The term “NOAH” is used to describe “naturally occurring affordable housing,” or multi-family units in a location or condition that decreases the amount of rent that can be charged, making them affordable. The county lost 754 such units during the past three years, according to the California Housing Partnership, and looks to lose another 2,050 in the next two years. The League of Women Voters wrote that the county has only 7,000 units affordable to households in the 80 percent range of area median income.

Regarding the one-year lease requirement, the new amendment only mandates it be offered; a tenant need not accept it if they prefer a month-to-month rental. To that end, the county’s Community Services

Department was directed to come up with a document tenants could use to refuse the lease offer.

But the one-year-lease offer triggered doubts among landlords, one public speaker said. As a rental property manager in Santa Maria, he knew how complex government, owner, and tenant relations could be. He warned that a lease would not help ownertenant relations and offered to serve on a volunteer group to figure out a better way.

Supervisors Steve Lavagnino of Santa Maria and Bob Nelson of Orcutt had similar reservations that there had to be a better way. Lavagnino said he could vote for the ordinance amendment if it only applied to South County. Nelson observed that the problem was that the county was making it less and less attractive for anyone to build, much less build affordable homes. He argued that making home ownership more possible and streamlining the building process would be more effective in keeping people in homes.

One CBC tenant described what a “no fault” eviction meant. She paid her rent on time and she was a good neighbor, she told the supervisors, and the Housing Authority had inspected her apartment and found it to be “in fine condition and in need of no habitability repairs.” Speaking of this brought her to tears. She said she had been homeless for four-and-a-half years and was only now beginning to “open up” to others about her situation. She’d been looking for a one-bedroom apartment that had equal space and rent, but wasn’t finding anything close to her doctor and physical therapist. “Give people here a rent cap,” she asked, “so that if they want to return, they’ll be able to afford it, and it won’t be double what they pay now.”

She was joined in that request by a number of tenant groups.

There was hope of a statewide rent cap of 5 percent, which had been part of State Senator Maria Durazo’s Senate Bill 567, known as the Homeless Prevention Act. However, Durazo (D–Los Angeles) agreed to keep the cap at the current state amount of 10 percent after landlord organizations opposed the lower threshold in May. The bill has succeeded in making its way to the Assembly. n

RENOVICTIONS REVISITED: Supervisors Das Williams and Laura Capps proposed amending the county’s renoviction law at Tuesday’s board meeting.

Where There’s Smoke

State Audits County’s Cannabis Record, Supes Crack Down on Tax Delinquents, and Growers in Glass House Throw Stones

by Nick Welsh

The Santa Barbara County Supervisors voted to crack down on tax delinquent cannabis operators this Tuesday, just as California’s State Auditor launched an audit of how Santa Barbara County and five other California counties have issued cannabis business permits over the past five years. The state audit was championed by Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr. of Los Angeles, who argued it was necessary to determine if the business license processes of the six counties are open, fair, or susceptible to corruption. According to the California Auditor’s Office which did not use the term “corruption”— the effort will evaluate whether the rules and regulations adopted by individual counties are clear, transparent, fair, and to what extent conflict of interest and other forms of abuse and favoritism are evident. A spokesperson for the Auditor’s Office declined to confirm the identities of any of the six counties, but Santa Barbara County Supervisor Steve Lavagnino a strong supporter of Santa Barbara’s emergent cannabis industry confirmed that Santa Barbara was one of the six. “And it’s a good thing,” Lavagnino said. “I look forward to someone who knows something about it looking at what we’re doing and letting us know what we can do better. I think it will be fair.”

With the speed at which Santa Barbara’s legal cannabis industry exploded and then imploded, the county sports more cultivation licenses than any in the state, while the crop’s olfactory impact on neighbors led to outraged complaints of political favoritism and kid-glove regulation. What critics decry as corruption, supporters describe as growing pains.

The most spectacular instance of cannabis-infused corruption nearby involved a Morro Bay operator named Helios Dayspring, who was recently sentenced to 22 months in prison for bribing a San Luis Obispo County supervisor to vote for two dispensary permits. The supervisor committed suicide.

No Santa Barbara supervisor mentioned the audit this Tuesday when deliberating over tough new sanctions they voted unanimously to impose on cannabis operators who failed to file or make payments on quarterly tax statements. Operators are required to submit to the county treasurer’s office four times a year, and failure to file these reports or make payments within 30 days of the due dates will result as of August in the revocation or non-renewal of those operators’ business license.

Under the current regulatory framework, such transgressions a common occurrence almost since the dawn of the

new industry have been subject only to fines. In the most recent report, roughly half the licensed cultivators filed tax returns and made timely payments, while one third reported no gross receipts, and the rest simply didn’t file.

Adding to the troubles of an industry beset by falling prices and serious overproduction woes is a statewide legal and public relations battle between Graham Farrar Santa Barbara’s boy-next-door cannabis mogul running the vertically integrated Glass House cannabis operation and Elliot Lewis with his Catalyst cannabis empire of the 18 dispensaries. Lewis filed a lawsuit at the beginning of June in Los Angeles County describing Glass House as “one of the largest, if not the largest, black marketers of cannabis in the State of California, if not the country.”

Lewis alleged that Glass House employees sold about 70 percent of their weed on the black market via a network of so-called “burner distros” to consumers as far away as New York and New Jersey. Lewis’s lawsuit provided no direct evidence to support this claim, but relied on mathematical calculations that purport to demonstrate such illegal sales must have to have occurred for Glass House to afford the massive expansion of cultivation production that the company projected while the market is tanking. Lewis made many of the same allegations on a series of social media posts delivered with flamboyant profanity prior to filing his lawsuit.

Glass House countered this week by filing a defamation claim against Lewis and his partners. Glass House objected to Lewis’s descriptions of company as “the biggest black marketer in American history” and “the largest illicit cannabis operator in American history.” It alleged that Lewis’s broadsides are knowingly false and have inflicted financial damage on the company as well as on the reputation of its principals.

Glass House claims Lewis’s charges are part of an attack by one business operation on a competitor. In a cannabis trade publication, Lewis responded to the Glass House countersuit, stating, “I wipe my ass with it.” n

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Graham Farrar, Glass House co-founder and president

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“Continuing the status quo is not something I can support,” Rowse said. “I need improvement, and I need it now.”

Rowse and Friedman’s frustrations were reflected by downtown landlords and owners of retail businesses, who contended that the closed-off street benefits restaurants but damages other shops who miss out on traffic. But those who want to reopen State Street are in the minority, according to recent public meetings and community surveys.

Brian Bosse, the Public Works Department’s Downtown Team Manager, broke down the results of the recent city survey, which received more than 4,500 responses. Nearly 70 percent of responses were from visitors and restaurant patrons, with more than 3,400 submissions, which showed that 88 percent of respondents wanted the city to “explore permanent options for outdoor dining.”

The differences became more evident when Bosse broke down the survey results from restaurant owners, retail owners, and commercial property owners. Of the 68 restaurant and bar owners, 83 percent said they benefited from outdoor dining. But for the 68 retail shop owners and 58 commercial property owners, less than 30 percent said they benefited from parklets, while 40 percent claimed the parklets harmed their businesses.

The Independent ran its own online poll this week, which found that out of more than 9,100 votes, 83 percent of respondents preferred that the city make outdoor dining permanent for the promenade, on private property, and off State Street. About 14 percent voted to get rid of parklets permanently, while 3 percent voted to keep them to certain blocks of State Streets and create strict design standards.

Councilmember Kristen Sneddon pointed out that the results of the city survey and the Independent poll just reaffirmed the results of an earlier survey that found that 70 percent of residents preferred to keep State Street closed off to cars. She shared similar frustration on the process, though her frustration was that the council and State Street subcommittees had already provided ample direction, which was never turned into action. This failure to follow recommendations has led to the city falling short on meeting its true potential, she said.

The State Street Interim Operations Committee, she explained, used to be a public meeting that adhered to the Brown Act and allowed public comment and input. Now it is considered an ad-hoc committee held behind closed doors, which she says she

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finds “ineffectual” when its recommendations never reach the light of day.

“None of those have yet been implemented on a larger scale,” Sneddon said. “I don’t believe that we have yet seen what we can be. I don’t think we have really given it its full chance to blossom.”

Sneddon suggested that the city take steps to restore the subcommittee back to its previous structure, with public meetings to allow for more accountability. Her motion passed 6-1, with Councilmember Friedman dissenting, and the council will return to approve the subcommittee at a future meeting.

Sneddon’s second suggestion was to continue the closure of State Street, as suggested by city staff, with the caveat that the city explore pilot programs to test options for trolleys, bicycles, and what she called a “true promenade” downtown.

“We haven’t tried everything yet, or anything,” she said. “We have a community that wants to be together.”

The council voted 5-2, with Rowse and Friedman dissenting, to keep State Street closed and extend the temporary order to redirect traffic until the State Street Master Plan is completed, which could last through 2026.

In the case of off–State Street outdoor dining, the council decided unanimously to allow private property patios to remain as long as they apply for all necessary permits before the end of the year; and in a departure from staff’s recommendation, the council voted 6-1 to explore a permanent citywide ordinance for parklets on side streets such as those along West Victoria and the 1300 block of State Street.

The decision went against the original recommendations, which would have forced all off–State Street parklets to be removed by January 1, 2024.

The City Council’s choice, on one hand, represents a willingness to listen to its residents. But it also makes the next steps much harder. In order to draft a permanent ordinance, the city will now have to consider many more factors, including liability issues, ADA accessibility, compliance and monitoring, and creating a design review and permitting process for parklets that will have to meet strict safety standards.

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destroyed, and another from an unnamed business. The Hawaiian flag was taken from Kaena Wine, where Pride flags had been on display in the window. Anyone with video from the night in the vicinity of Grand and Alamo Pintado avenues can contact the sheriff’s substation at (805) 686-5000 or anonymously at (805) 681-4171 or sbsheriff.org. n

Elected Official Boasts About Participating in January 6 Riot

Karen Jones, the first Santa Barbara County resident to be identified among the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, spoke openly about her participation in the riot during an amateur comedy show this week in Texas.

After a short stand-up set on the Kill Tony live podcast, Jones is interviewed by the hosts, comedians Tony Hinchcliffe and Theo Von. “We’re meeting a real one tonight, ladies and gentlemen,” says Hinchcliffe.

Jones a two-time candidate for county supervisor who currently serves as vice president of the Santa Ynez Valley Community Services District says she, her husband, and three friends had RSVPed to a “permitted event” at the Capitol and were within their rights to enter the building.

“I have been to the Capitol multiple times on a weekday, and there has never been any reason not to go in,” she said. “I didn’t do anything that I thought was illegal.” Jones emphasized she only entered the “public” section of the building on January 6 and never a “private office” or other “restricted area.”

Cell phone video from that day shows

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Jones leading the crowd, which had just fought its way through a line of police, in the Pledge of Allegiance on the Capitol steps before it breached the eastern doors. Security camera footage then places Jones and her husband in the Rotunda as officers are grabbed and beaten nearby.

Jones also told the podcast hosts that FBI agents visited her home shortly after the riot, though federal records show she has not been charged with any crimes. Jones said one of the three friends who joined her “is a very well-known starlet from a TV show in the ’80s whose name I can’t say” because authorities have not yet identified her.

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Jones has not responded to multiple requests for comment. The Santa Ynez Community Services District has also declined to comment.

Third of Homeless People Older than 50

Reflecting the findings of a statewide report issued last week showing that a substantial percentage of people experiencing homelessness fall on the elderly side of the demographic spectrum, statistics for Santa Barbara County indicate that between June 1, 2022, and May 30, 2023, 535 people receiving homeless services were 60 years old or older. If people 50-60 are added to the equation 593 that would bring the total elderly population to 1,128. That’s out of a total of 3,234 individuals receiving services.

“So over one-third are over 50,” stated Kimberlee Albers, the county’s homeless czar.

According to Albers, the county has one person older than 90 receiving such services. She said 15 clients are ages 80-89, 102 are 70-79, and 417 are 60-69.

According to the report released by UC San Francisco in which 3,200 people experiencing homeless were extensively interviewed more than 90 percent were living in California at the time they became homeless and 75 percent were living in the county in which they are now homeless.

Slightly more than half were age 50 or older. Many were older than 50 when they became homeless.

Respondents cited the high cost of housing not substance abuse or mental health issues as the single biggest obstacle to securing stable housing.

For Albers, this is not necessarily new news: “The cost and lack of affordable housing continues to drive persons into homelessness and housing insecurity.”

She noted that more than 500 of the county’s homeless population are minors, mostly in families. That demographic bulge, she said, constitutes 16 percent of the county’s homeless population.

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Karen Jones spoke openly about her participation in the January 6 riot during an amateur comedy show in Texas.

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Crisis over Crisis Beds

How Santa Maria Hospital Helped Bridge Gap in Psych Bed Space

by Nick Welsh

Eight years ago, on November 22, county movers and shakers armed with ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors opened the county’s brandnew Crisis Stabilization Unit, a 23-hour mental-health treatment center with eight recliners and staffed by clinicians trained to treat people on the verge of a mental-health precipice. There were lots of balloons and optimistic speeches delivered that day.

The CSU, as it was called, would offer a place for people who would otherwise find themselves in the county’s perpetually overwhelmed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) with its scant 16 beds or sent to facilities out of the county. In the first three months of that year, the county had exported 1,111 people in acute psychiatric distress to such places. At the CSU, people in crisis could voluntarily decompress and then obtain longer-term treatment closer to home.

Fast-forward to the present.

The CSU, administered by the county’s Behavioral Health Department, remains very much a dream unrealized, operating at less than half of its licensed capacity. Since May 2022, it’s been shut down completely. Plans to reopen the CSU reengineered to function as a locked facility now able to accept patients placed on involuntary, as well as voluntary, holds have been thwarted yet again.

Chronic staffing shortages especially for high-end skilled clinical positions has so plagued the Department of Behavioral Wellness that administrators are now authorized to pay $90,000 signing bonuses to recruit new psychiatrists. For the time being, all CSU staff has been transferred to the PHF to continue operating it as a 16-bed facility.

The utility of and need for a locked CSU was highlighted at a downtown forum hosted last Thursday evening by mentalhealth advocates associated with the local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Dr. David Ketelaar, the emergency room medical director and consultant for Marian Medical Center in Santa Maria, described the arduous journey he undertook to get such a facility licensed and built and the results since it opened last September. Ketelaar, who’s been with Marian since 1997, said their Outpatient Psychiatric Unit (OPU) has now treated nearly 500 patients experiencing “very significant crisis.” The impact on the hospital’s emergency room, he said, was immediate: Prior to OPU, the average acute mental-health patient would spend more than 30 hours in the ER awaiting treatment. Since OPU opened, that time had plummeted with 70 percent released to their own homes.

Cottage Hospital’s director of psychiatry, Paul Erickson, expressed some astonishment at Ketelaar’s numbers, noting that Cottage releases only 30-40 percent of its 5150

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Zurbarán and Murillo: Observations on 17th-century Spanish Painting from the Conservation Studio

emergency room admissions back home. (Cottage has created a special emergency room holding unit to handle patients experiencing acute mental-health crises; it sees about 70-80 such patients a month.)

Ketelaar, however, also bemoaned the lack of follow-up options available to mental-health patients. For patients with heart problems or other traditional medical trauma the referral time would be one or two hours; for those with mental health problems, a four-to-six-hour wait is often required, and not infrequently considerably more than that. That should not be the case, he said, in an integrated trauma care system.

Making matters tougher still, Ketelaar explained, is that most of the patients seen at the OPU are Medi-Cal recipients for whom reimbursement rates are notably lower than what’s provided by private insurers. When he initially broached the issue of opening a locked facility on Marian’s medical campus, he said all the experts told him he should pursue a voluntary holding model instead, which is much cheaper and has easier licensing requirements.

But he pushed for the involuntary approach anyway. “It’s where the patients are,” he said. The facility cost Marian more than $2 million to build, and the state oversight agencies made the task significantly more difficult.

Marian’s OPU is not open to walk-in patients or drop-offs by law enforcement. Given the acuity of some patients who share a common open space that could pose security and safety concerns. All patients must be screened by the emergency department first.

Ketelaar got the biggest applause of the night when he took decisive issue with the county’s often-stated strategy on providing more outpatient care options in hopes of reducing the need for inpatient beds.

“I’ve been hearing that concept for three decades now and it hasn’t worked,” Ketelaar stated. “Can we stop that conversation?” n

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Four Figures on a Step, c. 1655–60. Oil on canvas. 43 ¼ × 56 ½ in. (109.9 x 143.5 cm). Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, AP 1984.18.

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A Desperate Leap?

by Ryan P. Cruz and Jack Magargee

On a quiet Sunday afternoon in late April, 84-year-old Santa Barbara resident Kenneth D. Fink jumped to his death from the county courthouse clock tower a death authorities would rule a suicide with no foul play involved. While Fink’s death received little attention at the time, a deeper look into his life reveals he’d been fighting in court to keep his longtime home, which the city has contended poses an extreme safety risk.

Remembered by neighbors as a reclusive but sweet man, Fink was born and raised in Ohio and attended Ohio University before moving to Santa Barbara, where he worked as a high school math teacher and county welfare employee before retiring in 1991.

According to county records, Fink lived in his modest 700-square-foot home on Cooper Road since at least 1968.

While the rest of the Mesa neighborhood is full of tidy little homes with manicured yards, a reporter’s visit of Fink’s property revealed a house that had fallen into disrepair, deep and tangled with overgrowth that spilled over the fence into the street. That stark contrast eventually brought the attention of the City of Santa Barbara, which began to pursue civil penalties against Fink for an extensive list of property,

public-health, and fire-safety violations.

Assistant City Prosecutor Denny Wei filed the lawsuit on behalf of the city in July 2022, following an extensive history of reports that Fink had been living in his home without any sort of maintenance for decades. According to court documents, the property at 114 Cooper Road “has been maintained as a dangerous nuisance” since at least August 2003. The complaint also says that fire inspectors were called to the property on several occasions, whereupon they “observed overgrown and excessive accumulation of personal belongings and junk in the yard.”

During inspections conducted in 2003 and 2013, inspectors observed “extremely hazardous and unsafe hoarding conditions,” as well as “substandard living conditions such as no working plumbing, no heating sources, and improper disposal of human waste” all violations of both the city’s municipal code and state law, according to the city.

But in the past year, the city ramped up the pressure against Fink. On April 27, 2022, fire inspectors observed more overgrown vegetation and excessive personal belongings on the property, which were deemed “an extreme fire hazard.” On May 23, 2022, Fink was issued a “Notice and Order to Repair and Abate,” giving him 30 days to address all violations. The violations, the city argued, would be a danger to Fink and others as they could impede first responders in an emergency. If Fink failed to clean up his property, the city could appoint a receiver to take of control it to bring it into compliance or demolish the whole thing.

In June 2022, Fink was served with documents informing him that city inspectors returned to the property on June 22, 2022, and found that none of the changes had been made in the 30-day period. In addition, the lawsuit contends that Fink failed to correct any of the violations issued over the

past two decades.

Over the next few months, the court held several case management conferences, which were continued due to Fink’s inability to appear in court. The last was on March 24, 2023, just one month before Fink died by suicide.

According to Fink’s obituary, his only living family members are his two sisters, Ruth and Rema, and their children. A month after his death, a mother and son, Letitia and Jeremy Harper, filed a petition to administer Fink’s estate, adding another wrinkle to the court case. The Harper family claims to have visited with Fink regularly, and on June 7 their attorney Dana Longo filed two pieces of evidence that aim to corroborate their relationship with Fink. The City Attorney’s Office has asked for a continuance in their original lawsuit until after Fink’s estate is settled. Judge Colleen Sterne will hear the Harpers’ petition regarding Fink’s will on July 7.

Regardless of who gets the property, Wei said that the lawsuit will move forward, and all violations must be corrected or the court can rule on a number of actions, including appointing a receiver and taking liens out against the home to pay for repairs, destruction, and the city’s legal fees.

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text TALK to 741741.

Kenneth Fink

A Pox on Pickleball

The cover story “Pickleball Takes Over!” on June 15 echoes the passion of pickleball players and advocates, but it does not do justice for those who regard the sport as a vulgar nuisance. My neighbors and I successfully opposed the operation of pickleball courts in our 55+ community that caused annoyance for more than 100 previously peaceful residences.

In fact, the nuisance of pickleball is not limited to the incessant, loud, disturbing, percussive noises of paddle-on-ball. In their enthusiasm for the game, the players yelled, roared, screamed, and shouted profanities at the top of their voices, without any consideration for the peace and quiet of the neighborhood. It seemed that the game somehow gave them permission to revert to childhood, with thoughtless unrestrained abandon, but with powerful adult voice boxes. Several players told me that making noise was what they liked most about pickleball.

Fun for players. Torture for the neighborhood.

—John Day, S.B.

Campaign Donation?

Imagine if you were a small donor to a presidential candidate and you read a disclaimer on the donation website that a portion of your donation would go toward paying the candidate’s legal fees for the criminal indictments he or she was facing. Welcome to American politics 2024.

—Frank DiMarco, Goleta

Not Popular, Essential

I was horrified to learn of the cessation of the Welcome Every Baby program that has been helping new mothers and babies for 22 years. The headline, however, was not quite accurate. Instead of calling the program “popular,” the Indy should have called it “essential.”

In other countries, this kind of program is an integral part of the social welfare system. The fact that funding support cannot be found is emblematic of the worsening state of health care in this country. A program that monitors and assists newborn babies and their mothers is absolutely essential for the health of our families.

Funding spent on such a program that can discover and prevent medical problems, both physical and mental, that may arise in the first year of life for both the parents and the baby surely saves far more

money by preventing illness and, in some cases, serious lifelong conditions.

This is all the more true in today’s stressful climate when families are staggering under many challenges already. —Susan Shields, S.B.

Change with the Times

Regarding the “Parklets or No Parklets” article, as well as a recent opinion urging that the city bring back car traffic to State Street, I wish to add this comment.

What can bring visitors both local and nonlocal to a unique and successful downtown that Santa Barbara can benefit from and be proud of? Is reverting back to old times the answer?

Times change, and if Santa Barbara wishes to adapt to these new times and prosper, we need a bold and beautiful new plan for State Street. With the proper design, restaurants and shops could have designated outdoor space without having to construct ugly wooden structures. Allowing only foot traffic would encourage leisurely shopping and restaurant and café attendance. People can bike downtown but should be required to walk their bikes throughout the promenade. This would be a safe and elegant solution.

As a longtime Santa Barbara resident, I’m embarrassed for our downtown with its shabby chaos and vacant properties. It’s no accident that there are vacant properties. If State Street was an attractive and exciting location, business would be thriving there.

I feel kind of sorry for visitors who may have heard that Santa Barbara is a beautiful city to visit when all you see is old pavement dotted with ugly structures and people sleeping in doorways.

We need a vision that would restore the character of our downtown while presenting fresh new energy and sights.

For the Record

—Steve Fields, S.B.

¶ Last week’s story on the Mission’s Chumash memorial meant to say Chumash are “interred,” or buried, in the cemetery, not “interned,” which, as reader Leslie Ervin pointed out “is what we did to the Japanese” in the U.S. during WWII. The sculpture is by Paula Zima.

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Doug Rossi

1954-2022

Lawyer and Carrillo Street Gym’s Power Forward

Jonathan M. Church

sion on his colleagues.

He fought California wild fires by fearlessly transporting crucial water supplies.

BY ERIC HVOLBOLL

Doug Rossi’s lifelong love affair with sports began when he was a boy in the late 1950s in his parents’ backyard on 21st Street in Santa Monica, where he and his older brothers Jon and Chris played wiffle ball with avocado trees as their backstop. The boys loved baseball and would take long bus rides from Santa Monica to watch Dodgers games at the L.A. Coliseum. Doug’s abiding affection for the transcendent nature of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully’s voice started then as Doug began to discover his talents as a natural athlete with a love of competition, sportsmanship, and team camaraderie.

At Santa Monica High School, Doug added varsity basketball to his sports repertoire and continued playing through his years at Amherst College in Massachusetts. The spark of competitiveness that propelled his success in sports may have led him to law school at USC. Following graduation in 1979, Doug began a lifelong career at the storied Price, Postel & Parma law firm in Santa Barbara, where he first worked as a law clerk, and at the time of his death last June 2022, he had become the firm’s senior partner. He and his estate planning practice were highly respected throughout the region and beyond.

Santa Barbara was already home to Doug’s family when he and his new wife, Suzanne Sanders, arrived in 1979. Doug’s parents, Alex and Dale (Rhodehamel) Rossi, were both natives. Doug’s paternal grandparents had emigrated from northwestern Italy. They lived on East De la Guerra Street, where the Rossi boys enjoyed many holidays, always with their grandmother’s homemade chicken ravioli from her family recipe, which required a key ingredient: ground chicken feet. Doug’s Rhodehamel grandparents lived nearby on North Alisos Street, and at their country home — the historic Ballard Adobes/Stagecoach Station near Los Olivos. Doug’s maternal great-grandfather, James Sloan, came to Summerland as an agent for the Southern Pacific railroad in the 1890s and served as Santa Barbara’s mayor in the early 1920s.

Soon after Doug’s legal career started, he and Suzanne welcomed a daughter, Lauren, and two years later, a son, Christopher. Lauren believes Doug made her childhood “adventurous and magical” with adventures such as spelunking in the Sierra Nevada. She also recalled her father’s eclectic interests: “If you went to a museum with him, it would take a long time. He read every single label — in every exhibit.”

Years later, in 2001, Doug met and married a fellow Angeleno, graphic artist Kimberlee Haggin, with whom he would have two more children: Claire,

Kim’s daughter from her first marriage, whom Doug adopted; and Kate. Of her dad, Claire recalled, “Growing up, I always knew that no matter what, everything would be okay — because we had him as our rock. Thinking of him will always bring me back to that feeling of safety, warmth, and unconditional love.”

Doug’s legal career could be stressful, and he found relief in swimming, basketball, and golf. He enjoyed golf, particularly at the Alisal and Glen Annie courses, where he played with professional colleagues. Lol Sorenson remembered Doug as “competitive, but never at the expense of sportsmanship and camaraderie” and for his “love/hate relationship with his five-iron.”

For more than 30 years, Doug spent most of his lunch breaks at the nearby Carrillo Street Gym playing pickup basketball, most often with his longtime friend, legendary local musician Spencer Barnitz, who describes those years of midday games as “always good, always competitive, where everybody played … politicians, lawyers, surfers, high school students … all the hardcore basketball players in town…. It felt like the center of the universe for a while.” He observed Doug was a “good rebounder … but he could play any position, typically the front line because of his size.” Lol Sorenson stated Doug was unequivocally “the best power forward in town.”

Gary Robinson, a fellow attorney, reminisced about his friend: “The one thing I will always remember about Doug is that he understood the key to building a successful relationship with a person is not so much what they think of you, but what they think of themselves when they are with you. Doug made you feel good about yourself. It wasn’t about him. You wanted to be with him because you always walked away feeling better about yourself.”

Doug and Kim had recently bought a home near Palm Springs in which they planned to spend more time as Doug began to share more of his workload with younger attorneys — while enjoying e-bike rides, pickleball, and golf at the Desert Willow course. He hadn’t been feeling well for a month or so when, on New Year’s Day in 2022, he went to the emergency room. Two days later, he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer from which he died only six months later.

Looking back on their years of basketball together, Spencer Barnitz recollects an argument that broke out on the Carrillo Street Gym court when Doug was feeling older and retrospective.

Doug caught Spencer’s eye. “I’m really going to miss this.”

Jonathan M. Church was a highly decorated combat veteran and avid surfer who passed away peacefully at the age of 77. He had an impressive 26 year military career, rising to the esteemed rank of Command Sergeant Major of the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion.

He loved to surf. He won his age group in the 25th Annual Rincon Classic; C Street Classic; and in the ASP Rabbit Kekai Invitational 2006 Costa.

Jon served the Nation with distinction in and out of uniform. He was the beloved Honorary Command Sergeant Major of the University of California, Santa Barbara Army ROTC. Jon additionally served the community as the Commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1649 and the Commander of the Military Order of the World Wars.

He became a supervisor at the US Postal Service. He devoted significant time to training and mentoring others, leaving a lasting impres -

In his personal life, he was married to Wendy Church for 11 Years. They became inseparable. Jon was a treasured member of the Yoon family, Wendy’s own family. He became a father to Gia and Marlin, who cherished and loved him.

The Military Honors and Memorial Service will be July 7, 2023 at 1:00pm, Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, CA 93117 *Please enter at the designated entrance. Following the service at 3:00pm, there will be a reception with food and refreshments in the Santa Barbara Veterans Memorial Building, 112 W Cabrillo, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. *There is parking available in the SB Harbor Parking Lot.

In honor of Jon’s passion for surfing, we will have a Paddle-Out at Goleta Beach, Area D on July 16, 11:30am.

In lieu of flowers, you may donate in Jonathan Church’s name to: UC Santa Barbara, Army ROTC; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 1649; or Santa Barbara Military Order of the World Wars

Doug Rossi, in 2016, who often said, “I never met a swim I didn’t like.”

Willard (Bill) Winfield McEwen, Jr.

12/26/1934 - 6/11/2023

field, Bill became The Honorable Willard McEwen as an appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Santa Barbara-Goleta Municipal Court in 1973, a position he cherished.

Santa Barbara has lost one of its great community champions and most respected leaders with the passing of The Honorable Willard (Bill) McEwen, Jr. Surrounded by loved ones, Bill lost his battle with multiple health conditions, which he faced with unwavering courage, unflappable determination, and his uncanny sense of humor.

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, on December 26, 1934, to parents Willard McEwen, Sr. and Esther Sprenger McEwen, Bill was the eldest of three siblings and assumed the role of Big Brother with a steadfast devotion that never faltered. In 1946, the family relocated to Hope Ranch Park in sunny Santa Barbara where Bill attended La Cumbre Junior High and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1952.

Bill’s lifelong pursuit as a student and steward of the law began at Claremont Men’s College where he graduated with a double major in pre-law and public administration. In 1956, he served a year on active duty as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve before entering –and, in 1960, graduating from – Hastings College of Law. Bill was admitted to the California Bar in 1961 and launched his early career as a lauded local family attorney. A highly respected figure in his

An active and faithful community activist, Bill’s long list of accolades and leadership positions inspired all who knew him. He served as president of the Santa Barbara Kiwanis Club as well as the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Heart Association and the Chamber of Commerce. Bill was chairman of the Citizens Community Master Plan Committee, for which he led the charge to secure funding and support in the development of what is now Shoreline Park among other enduring legacy projects. Additionally, he proudly served as Chairman of Citizens Save Our Shoreline (SOS) and as a founding member of City Commerce Bank’s Board of Directors. Bill remained an important advocate for his alma mater, Claremont Men’s College.

Chairman of Citizens Save our Shoreline (SOS), 1964 and founding member of board of directors of City Commerce bank

When Bill wasn’t serving his local community or supporting causes important to him, he was strumming his guitar while singing along to favorite musicians like Crosby, Stills & Nash; John Denver; Jim Croce and The Kingston Trio. Social events at the McEwen household usually included friends who sang harmony with him. When he wasn’t singing, he was skiing, swimming, hunting, fishing, enjoying the outdoors with his family.

Accolades and personal

passions aside, Bill’s greatest source of pride and most treasured role of his storied life was as the loving family man who married the love of his life, Susanne House McEwen, in 1959. The couple had three children – two of whom, Michael and Beth, predeceased them. These profound losses, added to the earlier loss of Bill’s younger brother, Bob, to cancer, led Susanne and Bill to their shared passion for and support of cancer research and patient care. Sadly, Susanne succumbed to cancer in 2022. Their daughter, Allison McEwen Peck; four grandchildren, Ryan and Drew Jacobs, Elizabeth Peck and Madeline McEwen, and Bill’s sister, Marilyn Potter, survive.

Bill is remembered for his strong will, intelligence, ambition, perseverance, curiosity, love of music and razor-sharp wit. He leaves behind an indelible legacy.

Family only will have a private graveside remembrance followed by a private celebration of life on July 3rd. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the Elizabeth McEwen Jacobs endowment fund which is dedicated to medical and scientific research related to genetic cancer. A check can be mailed to: Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara, 601 W. Junipero Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 or online donation at:www.cfsb.org.

Kimiko (Ishimoto) Robinson, born January 25, 1931, to Katsuko (Machida) and Itsuo Ishimoto, died on April 2, 2023 due to complications of dementia. Kimiko was born in the seaside town of Kamakura, Japan in a home behind the Daibutsu. She attended the Peers’ School (Gakushuin) in Tokyo with Princess Yori (daughter of Emperor Hirohito) as her childhood best friend. Her family survived the U.S. fire bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 although their family home did not.

Kim worked as a translator in the US Army Hospital in Tokyo. She met her husband Edward Robinson while he was stationed in Tokyo after being drafted during the Korean War. They married in Japan in 1953 and she came to the U.S. with him in 1954 to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, then Illinois and eventually California. One of her early experiences as an American was when she found herself pondering the two entrances at a public restroom, white or colored?

She attended Cal Poly Pomona while raising two children and earned her BS in Mathematics and a Master’s in Education and had a long, fulfilling and successful career as a Junior High, then High School Math teacher in Covina, California. She mentored

the Chess Club, taught the first computer classes and played golf and bridge and loved to sew in her spare time. Kimiko also instilled a lifelong fondness of home baked cookies among her family and friends.

Kim and Ed loved to travel and visited 25 countries along with exploring many regions in the U.S. in small private aircraft (a benefit of Ed’s flying hobby).

In retirement Kim and Ed moved to Trinidad California in beautiful Humboldt County. When grandchildren arrived they relocated to Santa Barbara and later Goleta. Here she thoroughly enjoyed taking classes in the SBCC Adult Ed program; psychology, beading, watercolor painting, yoga and journal writing.

She leaves behind one remaining sister in Tokyo along with nieces and nephews and their children in Japan, Thailand and Greece. Ed’s large family across the U.S. adored her as a sister-in-law. She also leaves her husband Edward in Goleta along with children Susan (Steve Owens) in Santa Barbara and David Robinson (Liza Pon) in NYC plus grandchildren Mia Owens, Nate Owens and Lena Robinson. A private memorial was held on April 29th. Her gentle presence, love of life, upbeat personality and sense of humor is and will be greatly missed.

Kimiko Robinson 1/25/1931 - 4/2/2023

Byron Lyle Fairbrother

9/22/1958 - 3/17/2023

Fairbrother, daughter Leah (Koby Glick), and granddaughter Annora, his mother, brother Russell and sister Kaia.

Anne Hyde Greet

6/13/1928 - 4/23/2023

Byron was born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to Edwin Henry Fairbrother and Randi Tangvall Fairbrother. He had a heart attack while sailing in San Diego. Their team won last year’s race. He learned to sail as a youngster at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. At least he passed doing something he loved.

He treasured his childhood memories growing up in Montecito when few properties had entrance gates, and it was a quiet, unpretentious community with fields to explore. His life was enriched by hiking and camping with his dad in state and national parks and remote areas. He was in tune with nature. In addition, his interests included cycling and skiing. He graduated from Cal Poly in Crop Sciences and worked for several agricultural companies in Mexico and the Central Valley spending most of his time focused on strawberries. He nurtured plants and liked to see things grow.

He will be remembered for his excellent Holiday Turkey, his quiet demeanor and playing a good game of Parcheesi. He took pleasure in helping others. He traveled to England, Japan, and France, and had hoped to do more when his time on this earth ran out. It is with great sadness that we mourn his all too soon passing.

He was preceded in death by his father and is survived by his wife Kelly

Cushing, Carolyn Fishel and Keith Cotton. We want to thank the staff and caretakers from Valle Verde in Santa Barbara.

From ” Jellyfish” in 1vAnne’s book of poetry Musk Ox, “Is there another such dance as mine?I journey where the currents take me. My only harbor, death.”

Lisa A Kanofsky

4/1/1966 - 1/8/2023

Anne Hyde Greet passed away April 23, 2023, in Santa Barbara, California. She was born June 13, 1928, in New York City, to William Cabell Greet and Katherine Hyde Greet. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband John E. Cushing, second husband John W. Cotton, and her aunt Eleanor Greet Cotton.

Anne received her B.A. in Greek from Bryn Maw, her M.A. in English from Columbia and in French from the University of Colorado, as well as her Ph.D. in French. She held a scholarship in Greek at Oxford, a Fulbright grant at the University of Padua, and studied at the Middleburg School of French in Paris as well as the University for Foreigners at Perugie. At the beginning of her career, she taught classics at the Chapin School in New York and French at the University of Colorado. She finished out her career as a professor of poetry and French at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she was named professor emeritus. The love of languages came from her father and her aunt, both professors of English.

She was soft-spoken, kind, generous and loving, and she will be greatly missed. Survivors include Cabell, Stephanie, Brooke and Reed Capshaw, John

Lisa A Kanofsky, 56, passed away on January 8, 2023 in San Luis Obispo, CA. Born April 1, 1966 in Santa Barbara, CA to Francis and June Kanofsky. Lisa was a loving mother and devoted friend. Known for her passion creating art, reading books and travel.

Lisa attended Santa Barbara High and later pursued higher education at Antioch University Santa Barbara, CA and Brooks College of Fashion Design. Lisa discovered her love of Pilates while working at the Santa Barbara Pilates Studio with her friend Kristen Williams, then went on to open her own, Studio 154 Pilates in Santa Barbara. Later in life she opened San Luis Obispo Pilates.

In addition she also worked as a Private duty nurse, Art teacher and owned Le Pari Fashion Boutique in Santa Barbara, CA. In her free time, Lisa enjoyed creating art, sculpting, teaching, and practicing Pilates. Lisa is survived by her son Gavin and will be dearly missed by all who knew her. May she rest in peace.

was at the state tournament that he organized the biggest squads. San Marcos always had the largest squads of any bowling center in the state despite being in a small bowling community.

Russell L. Johnston, Sr., age 93, died peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara on June 15, 2023. He was born on May 20, 1930, in Johnson City, New York to Charles and Clara Johnston.

His first professional job was with Link Aviation, a company that made flight simulators for both commercial and military jets. He started as an expeditor but ended his eight years with Link Aviation as a Production Control manager for the Northrop F89 Scorpion project.

He moved to California in 1959 to be near his family who had moved here in 1954.  Quite by accident he started working part time at a bowling center called West Valley Bowl in Canoga Park. Within a year, Russ became manager and remained there until 1963. Later that year, he moved to Santa Barbara to take over as manager of the “Fiesta Bowl.”

From 1964 through 1969, he and his brother Vic opened a real estate company named Johnston Realty.

But in 1969, he once again got back into the vocation that had always been an avocation for him. Russ was hired as the manager of San Marcos Lanes, eventually becoming the co-proprietor/ manager until the business was sold in 1989.

During his time at San Marcos, he organized squads of his bowlers to participate in tournaments around the state. He always took squads to both Encino Bowl for the Harry Grant Classic and to Pismo Bowl for their Annual Singles Tournament. But it

After retiring in 1989, Russ became a member of the Santa Barbara Bowling Association and served as tournament manager for both The Santa Barbara Festival Tournament and the Masters Tournament for many years. He was inducted into the Santa Barbara Bowling Hall of Fame for meritorious service to the sport of bowling.

His other passion along with bowling was classical music, which he first became enamored with as a teenager. He accumulated a vast collection of various media. He shared this music with the senior community at Vista Del Monte for many, many years.

He joined the Goleta Lions in 1968 and served as their Treasurer for twentyone years. He received the Goleta Lions Man of the Year award, plus the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award from Lions International.

Russ is preceded in death by his parents, his wife Julia, his sister Beverly, brother William, brother Victor, and son Russell (Rusty) Johnston Jr.

He is survived by his daughter Saundra (William), sons William and Kenneth and stepsons James (Angela), Stephen (Jennifer) and Thomas (Tonya) Rowe and daughter-in-law Amanda Johnston and many loving grand and great grandchildren.

A Celebration of Life & BBQ will be held on 7/7/23, at Tuckers Grove (Area 5) at 1:00 p.m.  For planning purposes, if you are sure you will attend, please leave a message at (805) 964-9817, or use email:  russ.Johnston7@yahoo.com.

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Russell L. Johnston, Sr. 5/20/1930 - 6/15/2023

The Whiff of Bias

Thomas and Alito Threaten Our Trust in the Highest Court

BY STEPHEN C. MARTIN

Our judicial system relies on independent and hopefully knowledgeable and analytical judges to ensure we remain a nation of laws and not of men and women. To work, and even to survive, our system of justice and its rulings must be respected and followed by the public. Our judges must put aside their personal opinions and biases and make objective decisions. They must not be influenced by friendships, loyalties, or favors. They must abide by the oath they all take to faithfully uphold the law.

But it is not enough to avoid actual bias, impropriety, or favoritism. Our judges must also diligently avoid even the appearance of bias, impropriety, or favoritism. Failure to do this also undermines public confidence and trust in the rulings of our courts and in the very law itself. The resulting distrust contributes to chaos and anarchy.

The United States Supreme Court, as the highest court in the land, is tasked with the responsibility to make the most important decisions about our democracy, our safety, and our wellbeing, even about life and death. Along with this task comes the responsibility to set the highest and strictest example of judicial ethics and propriety.

Sadly at least two of our justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, have failed to set this example and have severely damaged the reputation and authority of the court.

Justice Thomas has accepted gifts worth hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars from a conservative billionaire who clearly would like to see his views followed by the court.

Justice Thomas voted to rule the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional at the very same time

that his wife advertised herself as a lobbyist with the single purpose of repealing Obamacare. He then voted against releasing documents relating to the January 6 attack on the Capitol at the same time as his wife was actively working to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

We now learn that Justice Alito received vacation gifts worth thousands of dollars from another wealthy conservative.

Sadly, neither justice sees any problem with their actions. Justice Thomas simply stated he thought he did not have to disclose gifts from a friend and said he would amend his financial disclosure form. Justice Alito wrote an op-ed describing the then-unpublished article disclosing his trip as an attack and stated that the gift of a private plane to Alaska and luxury accommodations at a salmon-fishing resort was not significant. He betrayed a total lack of understanding of ethics and twisted and illogical thinking one would not expect from a legal mind, let alone a Supreme Court justice, suggesting that filling an otherwise empty seat on a private jet was of little cost to the donor and therefore not a significant gift to Alito. He apparently could not find a way to apply his logic to the resort. In any case, any remedial ethics course would tell Justice Alito that it is the value of the gift to the recipient donee, not the donor, that raises the specter of obligation and impropriety.

It would have taken only a microsecond for any of our good local judges to decline the gifts offered to the justices and to recuse themselves from cases affecting family members. At a minimum, Justices Thomas and Alito should acknowledge the errors of their ways and pledge to correct their behavior. If they cannot do this and comprehend the basic principles of ethics, they should resign. If they cannot live on their $280,000 annual salary, they should seek other employment. Shame on them.

Iam an attorney, former part-time judge, and strong supporter of the rule of law and the judicial system that interprets and enforces that law.

“PRIVATE JETSETTER JUSTICE ALITO” BY R.J. MATSON, CQ ROLL CALL

The Science Is Personal

Tales from a Patient-Researcher

BY ELLE MURATA

Iam a neuroscientist whose expertise is mapping the dynamic interplay between hormones and the brain. In the course of my PhD training, I have read hundreds of empirical papers, taken graduate-level classes, and collaborated with experts in neuroscience and endocrinology. I work in a research lab entirely dedicated to advancing women’s brain health. I am literally steeped in a world that pays careful attention to women’s bodies.

And yet, it took years to figure out what was happening with my hormones, my brain, and my body to confirm that I have the most common endocrine disorder: polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS is characterized by ovarian cysts, irregular periods, and elevated levels of androgen hormones, such as testosterone. The typical diagnostic timeline for PCOS the time between when symptoms begin and an accurate diagnosis is achieved is two to five years. Five years? People earn a PhD in that timeframe.

Why is it that it can take up to half a decade to diagnose a disorder that impacts one in 10 women? As Elinor Cleghorn writes in her book Unwell Women, “our diseases are not elusive to us … but something about them seems to thwart and frustrate medicine at every turn … and the lives of unwell women depend on medicine learning to listen.”

When I was in middle school, my menstrual cycle irregularities were brushed off as exercise-related and I was prescribed birth control as a patch fix. I went off of birth control for the first time when I started graduate school, and I didn’t get a period for more than six months. My endocrine panels also showed testosterone levels that were significantly higher than the reference range. I knew these were indications of PCOS, but confirming a diagnosis required an ultrasound. This time, my concerns were dismissed as stress-related. I insisted that something felt wrong and pushed for an ultrasound. The procedure confirmed that my concerns were real. I have PCOS, a chronic condition that has no known cause, no cure, and is the leading cause of infertility in women. When I brought up worries about infertility, I was told, “We’ll cross that bridge when you get there.” After years of uncertainty, I finally found a clinician who believed me, wanted to help me, and educated me about a dietary supplement that has since stabilized my condition. Why did it take so long to get here?

Why did my institution of more than 20,000 students 44 percent of whom are women have only one practicing OB/GYN at the time? Why can it take five years to receive a diagnosis for a disorder that impacts 10 percent of women? I can’t help but wonder how much sooner I could have known about my

diagnosis and been able to address it if birth control wasn’t handed out as a patch fix, or if women’s voices were taken seriously. Why is the medical system so unprepared to answer questions about women’s health?

Ignorance is baked into the system. For example, a survey of medical schools found that 80 percent fail to offer curricula on menopause, which half of the population experiences. If it’s offered at all, women’s health is typically defaulted to an elective. Failures such as these in our health-care system are likely related to the historical dearth of female leadership in biomedical sciences and health care.

While I suffered the mental agony of not understanding what was happening with my body, other women endure this uncertainty on top of intense physical pain. And it’s not just PCOS. It’s endometriosis, a condition where endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus, causing chronic pelvic pain. Like PCOS, endometriosis impacts one in 10 women and takes more than seven years on average to diagnose. It’s pregnancy: Even after anesthesia was created in the mid-19th century, for years women were expected to do their so-called duty and suffer through childbirth without it. It’s birth control: In many clinics, it’s assumed that women will experience the agonizing pain of IUD insertion without any sort of pain relief. For far too long, women’s bodies and women’s pain have not been taken seriously.

The irony of my situation is not lost on me: I am a female PhD student in neuroendocrinology working in a lab that shines a spotlight on women’s bodies, but I still fell victim to medicine’s ignorance. The worst part of my story is that it’s not a unique one. It’s a broader echo of medicine’s failure to listen to women. In response to this, my goal is to find solutions both empirically and policy-wise so that other women do not have to experience what I did.

In my role as a neuroscientist in the Jacobs Lab at UC Santa Barbara, I am leading a study to examine how PCOS and endometriosis influence the brain. Understanding the neural impact of these extremely common yet understudied reproductive disorders is one step forward for women’s health. I hope that discussing women’s heath within our community can be a first step toward influencing the next generation of young women to be advocates for themselves as they come to understand their changing bodies.

By incorporating topics like reproductive endocrine disorders, pregnancy, and menopause into the broader dialogue and into required curriculum from elementary school health classes through medical school we have the opportunity to transform medicine so that it can finally serve women. Our lives depend on it. n

JEFFREY LIANG

Elle Murata

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Santa Barbara’s Biggest Beer Geeks

From Belgian Ales to Defiant Pales, Beer Aficionados Offer a Toast to Their Imbibing Passion

by George Yatchisin | Photos by ingrid bostrom

They sing the praises of Saaz. They’ll give you a look if you confuse Pliny the Younger with Pliny the Elder. They have carboys and they know what to do with them. Saccharomyces cerevisiae isn’t just Latin to them.

Welcome to a handful of Santa Barbara beer geeks, none of whom shied away from the term. They frequent our region’s breweries and beer halls, not just in search of the new, but suggesting what places should brew or tap and eager to share their passion for craft beer. You will see them decked out in T-shirts and caps, looking like they are ready to root at a college ballgame. But sometimes it’s just this, as one subject confessed: “Twice I bought a sweatshirt because I got cold on the patio and didn’t want to leave.”

Meet some of Santa Barbara’s biggest beer geeks.

MATT BELDING

Matt Belding has been home-brewing for more than 10 years, so at this point if he attends a festival, he’s generally on the serving side of the table, pouring home-brewed beer of his own or from fellow home-brewers from Santa Barbara Brewing Society and Ventura Independent Beer Enthusiasts (VIBE). This proud half-Kiwi electrical engineer at Sonos also had a very local beer “Aha!” moment. After finishing a long bike ride with friends at Dutch Garden, he ordered the Belgian

CHEERS TO BEER: Erik Moore and Veronica Navarro toast with their favorite beverage.

dark strong ale Gulden Draak. “It was so much better than any of my previous negative experiences with light lagers,” he says. “Just like that, I became a Belgian beer fan! Gulden Draak is still one of my favorite beers.”

While he claims his “palate perceives high hop levels as either unpleasantly bitter, grassy, or both,” he relishes “the yeast character, malt flavors, and boozy nature of Belgian strong ales.” That makes Third Window an easy choice for his favorite local spot, although his home is also stocked with St. Bernardus Abt 12, tripel, and Prior 8; Chimay Blue; La Fin du Monde; Gulden Draak, of course; and, perhaps a bit more surprisingly, Firestone Walker 805 (for when a high-alcohol beer is the wrong call).

Raising a son who just completed 9th grade also keeps him busy, but his son understands his dad’s obsession. “My son has fun buying me beer-themed shirts as gifts and updating the beer inventory chalkboard in my kitchen,” Belding says. “He even helps with some of the home-brewing work sometimes.”

Belding also likes to hit the road for beer. “You just can’t beat the in-person experience of visiting a brewery,” he says. “It’s fresher beer, styles that you can only get there, and sometimes a chance to nerd out about brewing with the house brewer.”

TRAVIS CROWE

For Travis Crowe, beer is all about curiosity and community. “One of the things I love about beer is the huge diversity of styles and flavors, so I try not to spend too much time on one style,” the materials engineer who lives in Goleta explains. “I like to switch up my beer order whenever possible.” It saddens him to think how many wonderful varieties of malt- and yeast-forward styles end up getting neglected.

His favorite local brewery for variety is Third Window. “What initially caught my attention when they first opened was their surprisingly diverse lineup of beers that amazingly did not include a single IPA,” he recalls. “I am not anti-IPA, but I appreciated that as a pretty bold and refreshingly different direction for a new brewery at the time.” He does point out they’ve certainly brewed IPAs since, despite their Belgian-style focus, but concludes, “The beer was excellent, and the staff were all awesome.”

Although he remembers no come-to-Malty-Jesus moment, it was his last year in college at Cal Poly when he began to realize that there was more to beer than the typical domestic light lager and began exploring different beers. That led to collecting, so that his “cellar,” which he confesses is just the shelves in his kitchen, probably holds about 300 bottles.

As he’s not a hophead (since hop-forward beers generally need to be drank fresh), he does highly value letting ales age. In general, he finds aged beer, wines, and cheeses interesting, saying “I would love to go to Belgium and try some 40-yearold lambic. I think what makes this type of thing so interesting to me is that it has a profound effect on the flavor and there’s also no way to shortcut it. A 40-year-old beer takes 40 years to make.”

ALEX DRAGOS & JAMES DALTON

Alex Dragos and James Dalton are beer buddies joined at the Instagram account @dasbeerreview. As you might guess, they specialize in German styles: pilsners, helles, lagers as Dalton puts it, “They are so steeped in tradition.” Their job, as they see it on IG, is to bring the #beerporn, so each post leads with a gorgeous photo and then a tasting description. “We love the culture, community, and enthusiasm of craft beer in Santa Barbara,” Dalton explains. So they want to extol all its virtues. Ask them to mention a favorite spot and the list goes on, from the Brewhouse to Institution Ale, with a big shoutout to Lama Dog for the range of California craft they offer. It was an international trip that highlights the Das Beer Review experience so far. In 2018, a year into their project, Dragos and Dalton visited Germany and landed private tours

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at Ayinger and Augustiner. “It was so cool to be able to go slow and see the whole process,” Dalton recalls. “It was a trip of a lifetime.” So much so that one of their pours there is still their Holy Grail an Ayinger Unfiltered Seasonal Zwickelbier. Dalton enthuses, “You heard angels saying, ‘This is it!’ when you drank it.”

Dalton is an educator who has lived in the area for 30 years; Dragos, part of environmental consulting group Blue Tomorrow, has been in Santa Barbara for 20. During COVID, they ran a beer delivery service for people who didn’t want to leave their houses. Now they are working on taking that knowledge to get licensing for a Das Beer Review beer club. The goal will be to help make available hard-to-find beers. “Our love of beer is sincere,” Dalton says. “If it’s a beer we like, we’re going to buy a shirt to advertise.”

ERIK MOORE

VERONICA NAVARRO

Erik Moore came to the area in 1985 to attend UC Santa Barbara and then never left, so it’s only fitting his first great beer moment takes place in I.V. To celebrate graduation, he and his roomies bought a keg of Bass the British import was exotic then. He reminisces, “We were the kings of I.V. until it was tapped out.” It was also in I.V. where he originally bought beer supplies from Rafael Maldonado’s basement shop. Home brew is so important to Moore’s story that it was the only beer served at his wedding 30 years ago.

His house now has a full-size kegerator with four taps, but, he’s sad to report, “The lockdown meant I had to drink all the beer I made, as there were no guests and I fell out of the habit of seasonal brewing.”

He admits he’s a hophead, to the point he has even felt Arrogant Bastard, one of the hoppiest beers around when released, seems malty to him these days. West Coast IPAs are his favorites, ever since he made his first batch at a class at the now-gone Telegraph Brewing. “From adjuncts in the water to keeping the malt bill simple, you can really see how to tweak the recipe to make the hops shine,” he says. “I love that bright, clean, hopforward flavor, and there are so many hop varieties now.”

You are just as likely to see Moore in a concert hall as in a brewery, given that beyond his day job at UCSB he now manages the campus’s newest classroom building, the Interactive Learning Pavilion he used to work at Campbell Hall and still works at the Lobero Theatre. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t try to get to a festival or two. For years he, volunteered at the Oregon Brewers Festival. He happily remembers, “I poured for one long eight-hour shift and basically drank the world’s beer for free for three days.”

Asked to name her favorite hops, Veronica Navarro recites a list that borders on a mystical chant Citra, Saaz, Liberty, Riwaka, Cryo Hops. A self-admitted hophead, Navarro jokes, “I love to taste all the different hops, the more the bitter.” Her keen palate can savor the distinctions between Riwaka’s herbal and earthy notes versus Liberty’s more resiny character, for instance. Navarro has lived in Santa Barbara for two decades. She fell in love with craft beer working for Barrelhouse 101 in Ventura and since has been sure to not miss local festivals like Surf ’n’ Suds and Zoo Brew.

As part of the beer biz, Navarro insists it’s “very important to me to rep breweries to spread the love to all the hopheads and beer enthusiasts,” so you will see her decked out in gear from her favorites, such as MadeWest and Institution. She doesn’t have a home tap system (“yet,” she is sure to add), but her fridge is regularly stocked with sours so she isn’t just a hophead pales, and IPAs. Her family digs her obsession, mostly. She admits, “Sometimes I have to tone it down and hide my beers.”

Her white whale is the Lawson’s Finest Liquids Sip of Sunshine, an 8 percent DIPA out of Stratford, CT. It’s one of those beers made in homage to a previous, even less-available beer called Double Sunshine, made in Vermont, but that’s how beer geekery goes it’s all about history, roots, connections. The Californian in Navarro makes her cherish the beer’s name; the IPA lover makes her thirst for its hop bill that stars Citra, which she values for its “bright citrus kick that is still approachable and easy to drink.”

How important is beer to her? Well, it’s not just what she loves to drink; it’s her job. She’s the market manager and beer rep for MadeWest Brewing Company.

FERNANDO PRADO

Fernando Prado’s love for craft beer goes back to the 1990s, when he discovered Sierra Nevada. And although he typically allows new breweries a few months to overcome their growing pains, he was blown away from day one at Draughtsmen Aleworks. Not surprisingly, they recommended him as part of this story, writing: “Fernando quickly became part of the Draughtsmen family. He had a fierce love of beer not just drinking it, but understanding it. He would have in-depth conversations about the ins and out of how something was

created or how a flavor profile came to be.”

That’s not a huge surprise, given he’s an avid homebrewer himself, creating Warrior Monkey Brewing. He’s easy to spot at the many beer festivals he likes to attend, with his signature blue goatee, either pouring his own ales or working the booth for the Santa Barbara Brewing Society, billed as “a home-brew club based on beer but welcoming to all fermentables.” Prado helped start the group, for as much as he loves beer, he adores his hometown too. As Draughtsmen added, “He is an example of a leader in our community that goes above and beyond for his friends, family, and employees and community, quietly and humbly giving back.”

Prado works at Santa Barbara Paint Depot, a family-owned business, when not brewing or raising a pint with friends. He’s open to all styles of beer, insisting his desires “depend on my moods and the season. Now that summer is coming, my preference is a light, clean, crisp all-day drinker.”

He has a soft spot for another alcoholic beverage too, admitting, “I’m also a tequila connoisseur. My family on my mother’s side came from a small town called Tequila, so I know all tequila. As I would say, I am the self-proclaimed ‘Tequila Grandmaster.’ ”

JEFF SIECK

You know you’ve spotted a true beer aficionado when they say something like, “How can you not love a place with multiple saisons on tap?” That’s Jeff Sieck’s take on Third Window, one of his local go-tos, along with Figueroa Mountain. While it was a college trip to a German biergarten that opened his eyes to the sudsy stuff, he’s a huge advocate for local breweries, asserting, “They live and work in our communities, and I think local breweries are really at the heart of brewing historically, so I try to support local brewers.”

Sieck, an IT project manager at the Chumash Casino Resort, is an avid home-brewer. He most delights in lagers, such as German dunkels, schwarzbier, and Belgian farmhouse ales, and turned to crafting them himself 20 years ago when those styles weren’t readily available in the States. “I love trying lagers at taprooms because there’s nothing to hide behind,” he points out. “You can’t hide flaws behind a ton of hops.”

Married with three daughters, Sieck jokes that his wife puts up with his beer obsession because “She is a kind and generous woman. Also, my love for beer is not my worst trait, so it flies a bit under the radar!” It’s not a single-minded obsession, either, as he crafts his own bitters for the cocktails he likes to concoct and makes limoncello “based on a recipe I got in Tuscany from a 6'6", 65-year-old Italian sommelier named Gigi.”

Clearly travel is important to him, too. For instance, while he’s had the abbey classic Westvleteren XII (one of the world’s rarest) in bottle, he says, “Sometimes I wish I’d stayed strong and waited to go to Belgium to try it there. I feel like I cheated but I’d probably do it again. I think that might still be my Holy Grail: to have a Westvleteren at Brouwerij de Sint-Sixtusabdij van Westvleteren.”

CAREY VILLASEÑOR

Navy veteran Carey Villaseñor has a true love story with beer he met his wife at Figueroa Mountain. “I’m very fortunate to have a wife who enjoys beer and understands the quest to find my next obsession,” he says, “so much so that she gifted me a fridge for my ‘investments.’ ” Those investments include pours from both coasts, as a friend brings him goodies back from Connecticut and Massachusetts. That said, his home tap system is currently pouring Defiance Pale from the Brewhouse, “for those days I can’t get down there.”

When he lived in Japan while in the Navy, he fell in love with the clean, crisp beers produced there. “But it was the Asahi Black that flipped a switch in me and introduced me to a more complex style of beer,” he specifies. “It was the ‘Aha!’ moment.” That love for lagers is back in force currently, too. He claims, “In the past I was an ‘IPA-all-day’ guy but have evolved over the past year toward a lighter style of beers.” It’s not surprising that Fig Mountain’s Lagerville in Buellton is one of the festivals he most enjoys. “I certainly enjoy attending the festivals that offer something different, with a mix of small producers and local offerings alike.” He’s also been to Zoo Brew and the hard-toget-into Firestone Invitational in Paso Robles. And he looks forward to the chance to attend the granddaddy of them all, the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, at some point. Always in search of complexity, Villaseñor also enjoys single-malt scotch and especially wine. “I have one of the best jobs in the world as brand ambassador for Zaca Mesa Winery,” he says. “I oversee sales for all of California and get to drink great wine every day! How could I ever complain?”

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Who’s Pouring for Indy Hops?

Meet the Nine Breweries and Brewpubs Serving You Suds and Stamps This Month

by Matt Kettmann

Not that you needed another reason to sip on some suds during the summertime, but it’s time for the Santa Barbara Independent’s annual Indy Hops, a month-long cheers to the many breweries and brewpubs serving up ales to our thirsty readers. Those who collect stamps on their Indy Hops passports from every one of the nine participants are invited to the July 31 “Drop Party,” where your efforts will be rewarded with, of course, more beer. Here’s where you’ll be drinking. See independent.com/indyhops.

THE BREWHOUSE

After taking over The Brewhouse from the longtime owners last year, Grant Danely made some improvements but retained the core formula of brewing fresh beer and serving delicious food.

“We’re the oldest and most local operating brewery with a full restaurant and bar in Santa Barbara,” he said. “We opened the Montecito Street location on May 26, 1998, and are still going strong after 25 years.” First-time visitors should try the Condor Pilsner, which even works for those who don’t consider themselves beer-drinkers. They’ll be hosting their own raffle at the end of Indy Hops, with the winner getting a free flight of fours beers, a $25 gift certificate, and free gorgonzola chips.

229 W. Montecito St.; (805) 884-4664; sbbrewhouse.com

CENTENNIAL BEER HALL

In 2021, Ron Batdorf turned the longtime Mercury Lounge location in Old Town Goleta into Centennial Beer Hall, bringing craft brews from around the world to the heart of the Good Land.

“We pride ourselves on offering a wide array of beers sourced from our incredible local breweries as well as a selection of special and uncommon offerings,” said Batdorf. “Our rotating tap list provides an opportunity for guests to try new, seasonal, and limitedrelease beers each time they visit us.”

Indy Hops participants can enjoy a pint for just $5 on their first visit when you show your passport.

5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta; (805) 324-4724; centennial beerhall.com

INSTITUTION ALE

a fixture of the seaside community.

“The brewery serves a full spectrum of beers, from lagers to stouts, including the Starry Night Stout, which won gold at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup,” said the brewery’s Mark Matthews. “But perhaps the beer that causes the most head turning, and Untappd reviews, is the Avocado Honey Ale.”

This father-son brewery opened a decade ago in Camarillo before expanding to Santa Barbara in 2019, when it became one of the most buzzing spots on State Street.

“The devil is in the details when making beer,” explained co-owner Shaun Smith, the son in the equation. “We don’t have a ‘secret sauce’ or niche that we rally around. We’re just focused on brewing consistently great beer and serving it as fresh as possible.”

Since Institution is known for their West Coast–style pales and IPAs, try the Somewhere Golden Pale Ale, which shows off the hop love. Also hop-forward but malty, the Mosaic Pale Ale is a fan favorite, while the Stranded Coconut Stout is for those seeking richer ales. It’s brewed with fresh coconut that they toast, and served on nitro. 516 State St.; (805) 482-3777; institutionales.com

ISLAND BREWING COMPANY

Brewed with dark, rich, molasses-like avocado honey, the ale was originally created for the annual Avocado Festival but quickly became a staple, with variations including an IPA, amber ale, and bourbon-barrel version. “The best course of action is to come to Island Brewing Company, sit on the patio, watch the trains go by, see the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, and taste the Avocado Honey Ale sunshine in a glass at the source!” said Matthews.

5049 6th St., Carpinteria; (805) 745-8272; islandbrewing company.com

LAMA DOG TAP ROOM + BOTTLE SHOP

“Lama Dog’s main focus is to bring in the best possible beer we can, both on draft and in can or bottle,” said owner Pete Burnham, who takes trips in his pickup every couple of weeks to buy straight from breweries around California and employs full-time beer buyer Chris Thompson to scour the world. “Beer styles and trends change often, so we do our best effort to stay on top of what’s new and upcoming in the beer world. We utilize our resources to bring in a large variety of the best possible beer available for everyone to enjoy.”

116 Santa Barbara St.; (805) 880-3364; lamadog.com

In 2001, when Paul Wright opened Island Brewing in Carpinteria, there were just three breweries in the whole region. Four years later, the brewery moved to its current location right on the railroad tracks off of Linden Avenue, where it’s

Lama Dog became the Funk Zone’s prime central gathering place when the tap room opened in May 2016.

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M. Special quenched the thirst of Goleta when it started pouring in a former office complex near the busy intersection of Storke and Hollister in 2015. Those vibes expanded to State Street five years later.

“We saw a need for approachable craft beer in the Santa Barbara community, and we have executed in fulfilling that need ever since,” said cofounder and brewmaster Joshua Ellis, who’s proud of the brand’s brew-collar work ethic. “We’re not trying to make beer into something it’s not there is no need to stick your pinky out while you’re drinking it.”

Try the flagship M. Special American Lager, Sabado Tarde Tangerine Blonde Ale, and G-Town Grapefruit IPA for a scan of their flavors.

6860 Cortona Dr., Building C, Goleta; 634 State St.; (805) 968-6500; mspecialbrewco.com

RINCON BREWERY

SOLVANG BREWING COMPANY

Founded in 2010 by Solvang-born Cari Renfrow and her husband, Stephen Renfrow, this centrally located brewery on Mission Drive/ Highway 246 which also has a location in Lompoc serves the standard range of brews as well as a full menu of food. Try the Valhalla IPA, Odin’s Oatmeal Stout, or BlueEyed Blonde Lager, brewed in the traditional helles style.

1547 Mission Dr., Solvang; (805) 6882337; solvangbrewing.com

VALIDATION ALE

Rincon Brewery began in Carpinteria in October 2014, expanded to Ventura in 2017, and then opened on a prominent Funk Zone corner in 2020. They just finished building a full kitchen in the latter location and are excited to show it off.

“We are a restaurant and brewery that has a full menu and vast array of craft beers brewed locally in the 805,” said owner Luisa Hyatt, who’s proud of their “ocean-friendly” certification from Surfrider because, “It goes right along with the values of the brand.”

Beer is integrated into their food, such as the tri-tip marinated in La Reina Lager, the Mac Brown Ale–laced cheesy bacon beer dip, and the stout-powered BBQ sauce. This month, they’re highlighting the Friendship Paddle’s “Spread the Love Lager,” with proceeds supporting April Medina-Watson and cans featuring a painting by last year’s Paddle beneficiary, Chris Potter.

5065 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; (805) 684-6044; 205 Santa Barbara St., Ste. 1B; (805) 869-6627; rinconbrewery.com

Validation Ale was opened a year ago in the heart of the Funk Zone by two longtime Santa Barbara technology veterans, who also enlisted partners to run the gastropub menu. They developed a participatory model that pits two beers of similar styles (like “Light” or “Hoppy”) against each other, with the established beer, a k a “Validated,” being challenged by the new “Vying” recipe.

“If the challenger outsells the incumbent, it takes the place of Validated and we brew another new beer to try and outdo ourselves again,” said CEO and cofounder Brian Deignan. “Essentially, our tap list is controlled by the community that drinks our beer, and we’re constantly innovating and creating based on our guests’ preference.”

The top seller is an “extremely crushable” Cold IPA called “Mo Frosty,” though it may be wise to start on the crisp Italian pilsner “Convalida” or the Golden Coffee Ale “Morning Gold,” which is served on smooth nitro and sports a chocolate-vanilla finish. Wanna turn it up to 9.2 percent? Then the current Hoppy challenger “Yanonali” is your piney, citrusy West Coast Double IPA.

Validation will be hosting the July 31 Indy Hops drop party, so there’s no excuse not to have this stamp on your passport.

102 E. Yanonali St.; (805) 500-3111; validationale.com

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The SBCC Foundation fuels the excellence of Santa Barbara City College, providing more than $5 million annually to support the SBCC Promise, student success programs, scholarships, emergency grants, and more.

SBCC Scholarships 2023-2024

Thanks to generous donors, the SBCC Foundation awards over $1 million annually in scholarships and book grants. Scholarships remain among the most important ways to encourage student success, and can provide a significant positive outcome for a student’s educational journey, career trajectory, and life. SBCC faculty, selection committees, and scholarship donors celebrate and acknowledge the dedication of these students by awarding the following scholarships for the 2023-2024 academic year. The SBCC Foundation gratefully acknowledges the individuals and organizations who have contributed funds to establish scholarships at SBCC.

PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Janet and Eugene Aiches (during their lifetimes, and through their estates), and the Luria/Budgor Family Foundation: Karina Carachure Angel

TOWBES/LURIA STEM ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Carrie Towbes and the Luria/Budgor Family Foundation: Melika Dabiri

GENERAL SCHOLARSHIPS

AHA! SCHOLARSHIP FOR PROGRESSIVE CHANGE – Provided by an Anonymous Estate Bequest: Estephani Perez, Diana Romero

MARION P. ALVES SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Estate of Marion P. Alves: Geneve Aguilera, Darren Brown, Joshua Fielding, Gabriela Garcia Melena, Manuel Perez, Kelsie Ramirez, Jeanne St. Mary, Maria Trasladino Aparicio, Ying Zhang

ORVILLE ARMSTRONG SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Orville M. Armstrong, during his lifetime: Zachary Ryder

THE BURKE LIVING TRUST SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Burke Living Trust: Bobby Homem

JAMES D. EMERSON ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND – Provided by California Thrift & Loan and its employees, Marjorie R. Emerson, and James D. Emerson, during his lifetime: Sarah Giamoni

HAROLD AND DIANA FRANK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Harold and Diana Frank during their lifetimes, through the Raintree Foundation: Enrique Moran, Gabriela Vega

FRIEDEL FAMILY BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Coleen and Ted Friedel: Alishbah Afzaal, Omar Aguilar, Michael Armann, Sabrina Avenida, Erika Badilla, Richard Baez, Santiago Bailey-Musacchio, Adair Balbuena, Harold Blevins, Lincoln Breck, Trinity Bruegl, Xiaoyang Cai, David Caro, Feliciana Castro, Nancy Cedillo, Heidi Chagollan, Stephanie Chavez-Marquez, Terra Cobian, Erika Cruz, Denver Dale, Jessica Diaz Hernandez, Carrie Diec, Ivan Esparza, Heidi Estrada,Troy Fitzgerald, Abigail Garcia, Cristina Garcia, Giselle Garcia, Elden Gil, Isaiah Gil, Jessica Good, Micah Goodnough, Rima Guefroudj, Sara Hale, Cassandra Hansen, Hannah Hartmann, Hilda Hernandez, Charles Hess, Dustin Hopkins, Kristina Ibarra, Elena Ibarra Guillen, Jamie Lai, Uma Lama, Ava Lara, Dana Lutton, Vanessa Martinez, Jorge Martinez Mejia, Elizabeth Merino Alcantara, Karla Meza, Mia Nungaray Ruiz, Michael O’Connell, Marlene Onate, Alexandra Ovod, Maya Palma, Cindy Perez, Adriana Ramirez Huerta, Bryan Rexfors, Alisha Rivera, Rachael-Anne Robinson, Alyssa Rockwood, Dayana Salgado, Diana Sanchez, Bianey Sanchez Saldivar, Jolver Santos Alvarez, Sarah Starks, Brian Stetson, Sarina Torres, Taylor Vann, Alina Villarreal, Brady Ward, Brian Wolden, Alexandra Zapata, Dylan Zapata, Colette Zylstra

TED AND COLEEN FRIEDEL VOCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP – U.S. VETERANS –Provided by Ted and Coleen Friedel: Dana Lutton, Zachary Pedersen

HENRY AND ROSE GESSNER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Carol & Ray Benedicktus and Adrienne & Richard Furman, during their lifetimes, in memory of Carol’s and Adrienne’s parents: Antonio Galvan Garcia

GILES FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Diane and Mike Giles: Ernesto Hermosillo, Mark Lafarga

JOSEPH R. GLEASON TAP BOOK GRANT – Provided by Arleeta Korntheuer, during her lifetime: Isabella Caramaschi, Mariam Martinez Gama

SARAH GREGORY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS – Provided by Laurie Converse, during her lifetime and through her estate, in memory of her sister: Amir Almir, Silvia Alva, Sabrina Avenida, Paul Bowman, Bergen Braaten,

Josue Chavez Orellana, Jubilee Comeau, Nevaeh De Alba, Carrie Diec, Ivan Esparza, Celia Espinoza, Mayra Garcia, Rosemary Garcia, Leticia Garcia Nieves, Ariana Garibay, Christian Gonzalez, Maria Gratigny, Miguel Angel Hernandez Mora, Jayden Kasler, Yijing Ma, Jorge Martinez Mejia, Mykola Mazharenko, Maritza Melquiadez, Karla Meza, Rosanna Moss, Ashley Noroian, Lisa Petersen, Meghan Petersen, Johana Ponce, Paty Ramirez Ramirez, Adriana Ramirez Huerta, Caitlyn Randolph, Alisha Rivera, Juan Rivera, Vanessa Rodriguez, Francesca Ruggeri, Dayana Salgado, Frank Sanchez, Bianey Sanchez Saldivar, Riley Stork, Angi Tabor, Jocelyn Toy, Ash Valenti, Taylor Vann, Damian Velasco, Mia Velazquez, Dorian Villanueva, Alina Villarreal, Stella Zingsheim, Colette Zylstra

DONALD AND PERRI HARCOURT SCHOLARS FUND – Provided by Perri Harcourt: Alexander Bello, Gandhi Manzanarez Jimenez

DIANE AND DONALD JACKSON SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR OF DR. KATHRYN O. ALEXANDER – Provided by Diane and Donald Jackson: Maria de la Luz Amador Amaral, Kristine DeWitt, Lilly Homem

KIND WORLD/OSHER FOUNDATIONS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Kind World Foundation and Bernard Osher Foundation: Benjamin Sheffler

ALTON AND RUTH LEWIS BOOK GRANT FUND – Provided by the Estates of Alton and Ruth Lewis: Cristina Batres, Dylan Joujon-Roche, Margarita Perko, Jaden Phan, Aide Sanchez

WINSLOW MAXWELL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Winslow Maxwell, during his lifetime: Mildred Baker, Emily Baranda, Brooke Barnett, Mark Beaver-Bell, Adam Burkhart, Bonnie Garcia, Alexandra Guce, Juan Hidalgo, Brianna Hill, Shannon Maynard, Dylan Mcknight, Ana Magdalena Puentes, Julio Rangel, Ana Razo Avila, Izabella Velasquez, Carmen Zamora

DOROTHY N. MEIGS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Margaret N. Kaufman and the Dorothy N. Meigs Family: Janeth Hernandez

MILLER ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP

Provided by Helen Miller, during her lifetime and through her estate: Zoe Castaneda, Michael Sanchez

BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION / BRAD AND STUIE KRAUSE SCHOLARSHIP –

Provided by Bernard Osher Foundation and the Estates of Bradley and Mary Stuart Krause: Marco Aban, Brisa Alonso Perez, Beverlyn Amoh, Tatiana Anderson, Jennifer Ayala, Yesenia Barreto, Katie Beausoleil, Aminetou Bint Ely, Lauren Castelo, Brianna Ceballos, Yara Ceballos Fortuna, Alannah Cetti, Dulce Cobian Flores, Paul Conliffe, Catherine Connor, Addison Cravens, Lewis Daniel, Rachel Delgado, Guadalupe Diaz Olea, Ashley Flores, Nancy Flores Mejia, Jason Foutz, Dolores Gonzalez, Kristen Hepp, Jesus Hernandez, Rosy Hernandez, Sheree Jefferson, Angel Jimenez-Rangel, Tracey Laslo, Monique Lopez, Mariam Martinez Gama, Paulina Martinez Ugalde, Itzel Mayo, Jose Padilla Martinez, Jessica Perez, Maribel Ponce, Sokhna Aissatou Pouye, Elizabeth Quintero, Sandra Ramirez Miranda, Ulysses Ramirez Vasquez, Jessa Riley, Fatima Rodriguez Gallegos, Leanna Romero, Renee Ruvalcaba, Samantha Sanchez, Sergio Sotero Morales, Tanya Villalobos, Thayli Villalobos Mendoza, Lisa Walters

RIDLEY-TREE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Lady Leslie and Lord Paul RidleyTree (during their lifetimes): Maria Abundez, Dianahi Alcocer Crusillo, Monica Alonso, Sergio Alonso Valadez, Ingrid Alvarado, Gabriel Arce, Crispin Bernabe, Katherine Bonsell, Fernando Botello, Loretta Chacon, Hao Chi, Tiffany Citarella, Ximena Conde Jimenez, Sharayah Dato, Chernor Diallo, Lourdes Dorado, Buena Evans, Antonio Galvan Garcia, Luz Garcia Marquez, Sean Giomi, Maria Jose Gonzalez Alonzo, Jessica Good, Cyndi Guerrero, Evelyn Hernandez, Jesus Hernandez, Zulma Hernandez, Frida Lagunas Moreno, Judith Leon Gonzalez, Leslie Loaeza, Irma Loyola, Gabriela Luna, Mitzi Marin Alpizar, Jonathan Medina, Reyna Mendoza, Leobardo Monroy,

“Receiving the President’s Scholarship means the world to me. I am beyond grateful for the opportunities that SBCC and the Foundation have given me. And it’s in these moments that I realize I have a duty to pave the way for the next generation, and to keep giving back to my community. My family and I will always be grateful.

“Choosing SBCC has truly been one of the best decisions. I found myself in a very supportive environment filled with opportunities.”

– Karina Carachure Angel, 2023-2024 President’s Scholarship recipient, transferring to UC Berkeley

Diana Mosquera, Cinthia Navaro, Deliane Olivo, Marlene Onate, Michael Osio, Diana Paredes Castellanos, Nancy Pena, Gerard Pepe, Rachael-Anne Robinson, Luis Rodriguez Aguilar, Isabella Saldivar, Winni Simon, Guadalupe Solano, Rosa Vazquez, Melissa Villa

PEG AND JAY ROBERTS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by The Estates of Margaret and Nathan J. Roberts: Alexia Aban, Krystal Barajas, Anjelica Bravo, Andy Gonzalez, Abraham Homem, Rita Maes, Victoria Martin, Erik Thomsen, Itzary Vences

BRIGADIER GENERAL NATHAN J. ROBERTS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Margaret Roberts, in memory of her husband:

Ingrid Karina Abrego Gonzalez, Maricela Martinez, Cristina Ramos, Victor Vega, Jing Wang

SBCC BOOKSTORE BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by SBCC Campus

Bookstore: Daisy Aguilar, Angelina Almarez, Sussan Arevalo, Carley Baranoff, Ashlyn Benning, Tatiana Casci, Trinity Chisholm, Maria Claussen, Jean Concepcion Bonilla, Lindsey Diamond, Bayliss Enns, Maria Flores, Devyn Galia, Ariel Gamble, Krystal Graham, Calli Hill, Emma Houseworth, Harper Hug, Janette Hyde, Brooke Kelly, Brendan King, Kathryn Lape, Andrea Lara, Adam Majji, Lauren Maldonado, Ian Martyn, Emmanuel Monk, Gina Moreno, Brandi Myers, Zachary Neiderhiser, Reiley Omdahl, Zoe Ortiz, Ian Piala, Jessica Rahamim, Luis Rampulla, Andrea Saich, Veronica Salgado, Joy Simpson, Adam Smith, Michael Stanciu, LauraRose Tibbin, Christina Torres, Maria Torres, Amanda Toscano, Mychael Urquhart, Rosanne Vargas, Meghan Wilkins, Charlotte Williams, Elizabeth Wilmer

SBCC BOOKSTORE VETERANS’ SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by SBCC Campus Bookstore: Alexander Bello, David Caro, Dana Lutton, Riley McCaffrey, Tyler Twiford

SAVING GRACES SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Various Individual Donors: Ava White

JAMES F. SHIELDS MEMORIAL BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Susan Shields, in memory of her husband: Monica Alonso, Maria Gratigny, Rene Jeronimo, Cinthia Navaro, Dalila Pelayo, Pei-Ling Peng, Paty Ramirez Ramirez, Rosa Santana Flores

DR. RONALD SHLENSKY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE CONTINUATION OF EDUCATION – Provided by Evely Laser Shlensky, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, Sheba Laser Lux, and Aviva Goldfarb, in loving memory of Ron: Alexandra Ludwinski, Isela Ramirez

HERBERT SIMON FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Herbert Simon and Family: Kayla Whitson

DR. NICHOLAS J. VINCENT, M.D. AND SUE F. VINCENT SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Scott, John, and Jim Vincent: Eliana Cornejo Muniz

CROSS DISCIPLINE SCHOLARSHIPS

ADELLE DAVIS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP IN NUTRITION STUDIES –

Provided by Adelle Davis Foundation: Nancy Gonzalez, Ana Hernandez, Ashley Luna

AMVETS OF SANTA BARBARA POST 3 SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Amvets of Santa Barbara Post 3: Clifford Munton

HENRY BAGISH SCHOLARSHIP IN SOCIAL SCIENCES – Provided by Frances and Henry Bagish, during their lifetimes: Christy Schofield

LAURIE CONVERSE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Laurie Converse, during her lifetime and through her estate: Tiphanie Alvarez-Dixon, Norah Bajari, Danial Baradaran, Zena Benenati, Isabella Caramaschi, Mark Del Campo, Renier John Dela Cruz, Sydney Glasberg, Sage Holter, Jesus Lopez Moctezuma, Evelyn Marino, Valerie Moua, Kyle Nelson, Sasha Nisavic, Jonah Norton, Tashi Rabten, Elias Rea, Miles Richards, Vanessa Santillan, Samuel Torres, Tyler Twiford

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON SCHOLARS STEM SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Southern California Edison: Ma Edita Andrea Azul, Eddie Carrillo, Jordan Castil, Hamza El Amni, Joaquin Gutierrez, Paul Ore, Larissa Rodriguez De La Rosa, Eizak Sanchez, Jazmin Sanchez Tinoco, Itzary Vences, Valentina Venegas

CHRISTIE AND JOHN GLANVILLE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Christie and John Glanville: Milagros Corne Chaparro

SANDRA KONDO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Laurie Marx and the family and friends of Sandra Kondo: Juana Gonzalez Gutierrez

POST-SBCC PROMISE TO CAREER SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Anonymous Donors: Diana Atilano, Adan Balandrano Ramirez, Aaron Broumand, Joshua Graham, Holly Graybill, Ahtziri Gutierrez, Alex Leyva Diaz, Denise Lopez-Heredia, Sol Ortega Cueva, Mercedes Perez Perez, Jonathan Pirul, Marco Vazquez Gonzalez

ART

ELI LURIA HONORARY SCHOLARSHIP IN STUDIO ART – Provided by Friends, Family and Admirers of Eli Luria: Kevin McCullah

ADRIAN “OZZ” OSBORNE MEMORIAL ART SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Ken and Shannon Osborne, and friends and family of Adrian Osborne: Elizabeth Rosales

FREDERICK AND URSULA PERL ENDOWED ART SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Ursula Perl, during her lifetime: Micah Goodnough, Celina Ramos

MARY D. THOMPSON STUDIO ART SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mary D. Thompson: Ashley Warren

ATHLETICS

LOUISE LOWRY DAVIS EXCELLENCE IN ATHLETICS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Louise Lowry Davis, during her lifetime: Sage Holter, Eden Tal

DONALD HARCOURT CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK AND FIELD SCHOLARSHIP

AWARD – Provided by Perri Harcourt: Zia Frausto, Sage Holter, Samuel Robinson

BUD REVIS MEMORIAL ATHLETICS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Duane Jones along with friends, colleagues, admirers, and former students of Coach Revis: Wilfrid Nado

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

TED AND COLEEN FRIEDEL VOCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP – AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY – Provided by Coleen and Ted Friedel: Alex Leyva Diaz, Colleen Livingstone

HAIGIS JERMAGIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN AUTOMOTIVE – Provided by Estate of Haigis Jermagian: Brando Hernandez

SANTA BARBARA WOODIE CLUB AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP IN MEMORY OF SCOTT ISAACSON – Provided by Santa Barbara Woodie Club: Alfred Amador

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

RICHARD ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Family and friends of Richard Armstrong: Christopher Platt

DAVID W. DONER, JR., M.D., BIOLOGICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by David W. Doner, Jr., M.D., during his lifetime: Young Kwon Ann

WILLIAM C. JORGENSEN SCHOLARSHIP FOR MARINE BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY

MAJORS – Provided by Estate of Jean Methven Jorgensen and William C. Jorgensen: Agustin Aguilera, Danai Alvarez, Young Kwon Ann, Daniela Carreon Romero, Stephanie Chavez-Marquez, Elliette Delgado, Nayeli Estrada, Mireya Gil, Carys Goldsmith, Cassandra Hansen, Cara Ison, Fiona Liang, Sarah Linde-Goodfellow, Tara Mata, Elizabeth Oroudjeva, Isabella Palazzo, Grace Parkey, Fatima Pereira Da Silva, Christopher Platt, Evelyn Sanchez, Daymrion Sears, Nazanien Shahir, Holden Smith, Jacob Stinnett, Brady Ward

DR. JUDITH EVANS MEYER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES – Provided by Dr. Judith Evans Meyer Living Trust, Wesley Evans Meyer, Trustee, and friends and colleagues of Dr. Meyer, in her memory: Cara Ison

ROBERT J. PROFANT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Family and friends in memory of Robert J. Profant, former Biology Department Chair: Carys M. Goldsmith

ANN AND R. ALASTAIR WINN SCHOLARSHIP IN BIOCHEMISTRY/ BIOENGINEERING – Provided by Ann and R. Alastair Winn: Valeria Bond, Elizabeth Oroudjeva, Eric Schwartz

BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTING

DR. HERBERT ALSHEIMER SCHOLARSHIP IN ACCOUNTING – Provided by Cornelia Alsheimer-Barthel, in memory of her father: Nicole Pena

GREG GARTRELL MEMORIAL BUSINESS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Nan Gartrell, during her lifetime, in memory of her husband, and Mary Eichbauer and Greg Gartrell, in memory of their father: Maria Flores

JACK HALLORAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mrs. Kathleen Halloran,in memory of her husband, former Chairman of the Business Division: Hailey Vasko

HAIGIS JERMAGIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ACCOUNTING – Provided by Estate of Haigis Jermagian: Maria Vergara, Moriah Warren, Ying Zhang

NASIF, HICKS, HARRIS & CO.,LLP TRANSFER SCHOLARSHIP IN ACCOUNTING –Provided by Nasif, Hicks, Harris & Co., LLP: Moriah Warren

CHEMISTRY

JOHN SELFRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Martha Selfridge, in memory of her husband: Sayyid Nooruddin

COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS

HOLMES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS – Provided by Estate of James and Margaret Ruth Holmes: Mark Beaver-Bell, Lincoln Breck, Cristina Garcia

COMPUTER SCIENCE

RUSSELL AND SUZANNE BOCK COMPUTER SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Russell and Suzanne Bock, during their lifetimes: Hamza El Amni

HOLMES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE – Provided by Estate of James and Margaret Ruth Holmes: Melika Dabiri

JOHN NELSON/LINDA MACS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Barbara and Charles Nelson and SBCC students in memory of John Nelson and Linda Macs, and by family and friends in memory of Roberta Nelson: Ambrose Igbechi, Margaret Quackenbush

COMMUNICATION

JEAN METHVEN JORGENSEN SCHOLARSHIP IN COMMUNICATION – Provided by Estate of Jean Methven Jorgensen and William Jorgensen: Emelie Beckman, Dayhan Cardozo Gonzalez, Zoe Castaneda, Arin Im, Sokhna Diarra Pouye

DISABILITY SERVICES AND PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS

AUSTIN DONER SCHOLARSHIP BY JOY DONER-MAZZEO AND DAVID W. DONER, JR., M.D. – Provided by Joy Doner-Mazzeo and David W. Doner, Jr., M.D., during his lifetime: Tyler Twiford

MARIA V. FAJARDO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Patricia Montemayor, in memory of her friend: Daniel Parra Hensel

JAKE FREEMAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Peter T. Rojas: Donna Entezari

YVONNE GARTRELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mrs. Nan Gartrell, during her lifetime, in memory of her daughter: Elizabeth Rosales

HENRY REED MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Friends, Family, and Colleagues of Henry Reed: Eris Ivanova

CYNTHIA ANN MORROW MEMORIAL BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and First United Methodist Church: Heidi Estrada

HOWARD STARRET MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Estate of Esther Race Starret in memory of her son: Michael Abrams, Rosa Aguilar, Christina Almoney, Kirsten Anderberg, Adan Balandrano Ramirez, Jessica Escalante, Lela Fenstermaker, Aminah Hill, Sayyid Nooruddin, Pei-Ling Peng, Jacob Ramirez, Nicholas Vera

SUSAN HAAS SURRATT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Family and friends in memory of Susan Haas Surratt: Aminah Hill, Jessica Perez, John Pitcher, Monica Sanchez

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

SIMMS/MANN FAMILY FOUNDATION / BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION

SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Simms/Mann Family and Bernard Osher

Foundations: Sonia Garcia Mares, Fatemeh Homayooni, Nadia Soto, Julie Velasquez

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

RONALD ALLAN CHROMY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Chromy in memory of their son: Aaron Broumand, Eva Grant

MARSCHAK ASTRONOMY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Erin O’Conner and Sean Kelly: Rafael Cottom

CARL SAGAN MEMORIAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Dr. Sidney Edelson, during his lifetime: Heath Milton

MARTY MCCREARY SELFRIDGE GEOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Marty McCreary Selfridge: Abe De La Palma

ENGLISH

JOHN AND MARY MINASSIAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN LITERATURE –Provided by Helen and Alvin Jermagian: Karina Carachure Angel

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

DENISE CHEDESTER AND KENNETH HUGES SCHOLARSHIP IN ESL – Provided by Denise Chedester and Kenneth Hughes: Fernando Botello, Yuselly Carazo Hernandez, Dayhan Cardozo Gonzalez, Francisco Carrasco, Sirinda Carter, Merylin Castillo, Fabian Corazon Itzep, Milagros Corne Chaparro, Pascual Cortes, Kenya Crispin Teran, Areli Crucillo Perez, Francisco Cruz, Gabriel Cruz Ordonez, Guadalupe Diaz Olea, Luz Garcia Marquez, Leticia Garcia Nieves, Maria Jose Gonzalez Alonzo, Maria Gratigny, Cyndi Guerrero, Marta Gutierrez Hernandez, Jorge Heredia, Zulma Hernandez, Fatemeh Homayooni, Rene Jeronimo, Sook Jung, Aoran Lian, Ingrid Lopez Sanchez, Gabriela Luna, Claudia Magdaleno Navarro, Benito Magdaleno Vargas, Antonio Mansilla, Daniel Marroquin Diaz, Melanie Martinez, Yeison Martinez Henriquez, Jennifer Martinez Henrriquez, Reyna Mendoza, Luis Mendoza Mejia, Teodoro Miranda Ortiz, Leobardo Monroy, Diana Mosquera, Cinthia Navaro, Paul Ore, Noelia Paredes, Diana Paredes Castellanos, Dalila Pelayo, Laura Pena, Nancy Pena, Pei-Ling Peng, Paty Ramirez Ramirez, Araceli Ramirez Martinez, Julio Rangel, Juan Rivera, Estefania Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez Aguilar, Silvia Ruiz,

Catalina Salas, Frank Sanchez, Rosa Santana Flores, Guadalupe Solano, Alejandra Trejo Cruz, Denisse Uribe, Elsa Uribe, Rosa Vazquez, Damian Velasco, Meiqi Yang

PAUL MOLLOY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Kathy Molloy and friends and family, in memory of her husband: Hortencia Torres

MARIA-CLARA GARCIA AND ROBERTO ROBLEDO ESL SCHOLARSHIPS –Provided by Maria-Clara Garcia and Roberto Robledo: Ingrid Karina Abrego Gonzalez, Dianahi Alcocer Crusillo, Monica Alonso, Sergio Alonso Valadez, Silvia Alva, Ingrid Alvarado, Maria de la Luz Amador Amaral, Anna Katrina Barrameda, Juan Barreto Miranda, Cristina Bartolo Soriano, Dalia Bolux Santay

ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY SCHOLARSHIP FOR ENVIRONMENTAL

HORTICULTURE – Provided by International Academy at Santa Barbara: Rudy Perez

KATHEE CHRISTIE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN HORTICULTURE – Provided by Steve Hanson Landscaping and Kathee’s family, friends, and colleagues: Michelle Fe Joyce

SANTA BARBARA GARDEN CLUB AWARD – Provided by Santa Barbara Garden Club: Anders Wenner

SANTA BARBARA BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE

SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Santa Barbara Beautiful, Inc.: Kobe Arreola

EOPS/CARE

FRANK SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Harold and Diana Frank during their lifetimes through the Raintree Foundation: Yesenia Barreto, Adam Burkhart, Lauren Castelo, Addison Cravens, Sharayah Dato, Kristine DeWitt, Nancy Flores Mejia, Luz Garcia, Dolores Gonzalez, Jessica Good, Zulma Hernandez, Monique Lopez, Shannon Maynard, Maritza Melquiadez, Karla Meza, Jason Obispo, Marlene Onate, Ulysses Ramirez Vasquez, Alisha Rivera, Rachael-Anne Robinson, Fatima Rodriguez Gallegos, Francesca Ruggeri, Victor Vega, Lisa Walters

JOHN AND BETTY GROEBLI SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by The Estate of John and Betty Groebli: Gabriela Vega

MANKIN RUNNING START SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Arthur Mankin Charitable Remainder Trust: Denise Parra

NISSENSON TRUST RUNNING START SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Dale FererNissenson and Michael Nissenson: Alejandra Perez

PACIFIC PREMIER BANK RUNNING START GRADUATES SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Pacific Premier Bank: Ayleen Rios-Miranda, Larissa Rodriguez De La Rosa, Julia Torres Elias, Izabella Velasquez, Jose Villafana

FINANCE, MARKETING, AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

WALLACE DREW MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Dr. Ursula Henderson, Joyce and John Tevenan (during his life), Patricia and Alan M. Griffin, Wally’s friends and colleagues, and SBCC Foundation Board Members: Nelly Johansson

ANDRALL PEARSON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN MARKETING – Provided by Mrs. Joanne Pearson and Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc.: Darren Brown

GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

PETER O. HASLUND GLOBAL STUDIES SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Margareta Jamner: Claes Palmgren

HONORS PROGRAM

JAMES SELLECK BOWER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HONORS

PROGRAM – Provided by James S. Bower, during his lifetime: Sydney Glasberg, Mathias Goeb, Alondra Hernandez, Eris Ivanova, Raymond Russell

MORRIS AND IRMA JURKOWITZ HONORS PROGRAM AWARD – Provided by Irma and Morris Jurkowitz: Alannah Cetti, Katherine Cordova, Connor Davis, Sokhna Aissatou Pouye

PRESIDENT’S SOPHOMORE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by The Richard Berti Family: Atzyry Mendoza, Jenel Nguyen

MUSIC

GUIDO BART AND SUZANNE FAULKNER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Katherine S. Bart, in memory of her husband and her stepmother: Alimu Mierkamali, Moon Man Whitehead

HAROLD DUNN, MAHLON BALDERSTON, AND ROBERT DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP

– Provided by Phyllis Dunn, during her lifetime, and family and friends of SBCC Music Department faculty: Moon Man Whitehead

DON RICHARDSON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by friends and colleagues of Dr. Richardson: Alimu Mierkamali

PATRICIA STARR MUSICAL PERFORMANCE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by friends and supporters of Patricia Starr and Gabriel Gonzales: Sally Ghizzoni

NURSING AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

JEANNE M. BELL COMPASSIONATE CARE IN NURSING SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Jenny Bell-Berch, RN, Laurie Bell-Folden, RN, Dan Bell, and John Bell through the Jeanne Marie Bell Trust in memory of “our beautiful “momma”: Melody Barajas

FORREST AND DOROTHY BROOKS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mary Brooks Orr, in memory of her parents: Estephani Perez

DAVID W. DONER, JR., M.D. ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN NURSING SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by David W. Doner, Jr., M.D., during his lifetime: Tessa Pollorena

DORIS DORAN CRAWFORD NURSING SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Joan and William Crawford, in honor of Mr. Crawford’s mother: Mehealani Velazquez

ERNY MARGARET EDELSON, R.N. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN NURSING –Provided by Sidney Edelson, M.D., during his lifetime, in memory of his wife: Josh Maverick Lambert, Justin Nachazel, Shawn Ramos, Kathryn Sullivan

ARTHUR GREDITZER NURSING BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Estate of Arthur Greditzer: Maria Abundez, Jennifer Ayala, Paul Bowman, Anjelica Bravo, Ireland Cullum, Holly Graybill, Jennifer Marino, Andrew Quintana, Elizabeth Quintero, Sandra Ramirez Miranda, Cristina Ramos, Caitlyn Randolph, Mia Rimanelli, Deanna Rodriguez, Diana Romero, Diana Sanchez, Norma Tessitore, Michelle Villegas

DORIS M. LOUTH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Claudia Louth Mitchell in memory of her mother: Mia Rimanelli

ROBERT C. LOUTH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Claudia Louth Mitchell in memory of her father: Jennifer Marino

ADOLF C. PEDOTTI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR NURSING STUDENTS

– Provided by Helen Schott Pedotti, The Monroe Foundation, and family members and friends: Anjelica Bravo, Ireland Cullum, Cyndi Guerrero, Vanessa Mendiola, Tammy Noi, Elizabeth Quintero, Sandra Ramirez Miranda, Diana Romero, Diana Sanchez, Tori Sims, Jessica Sokcharoeun, Kayla Whitson

MADELEINE M. SICOTTE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN NURSING

SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Joseph A. Dandona, Sr., during his lifetime and in his estate, in memory of his friend: Marietta Bertha, Luz Garcia, Julia Hernandez, Josh Maverick Lambert, Yesenia Luna, Kaiya Ming, Justin Nachazel, Jason Obispo, Grunting Palomo, Estephani Perez, Tessa Pollorena, Grace Quaglia, Shawn Ramos, Deanna Rodriguez, Monica Sanchez, Kathryn Sullivan, Marlene Vargas, Mehealani Velazquez

MARGERY BROWN STARK MEMORIAL NURSING SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Dr. Boyd Stark during his lifetime, in memory of his wife: Corine Arnold

THATCHER FOUNDATION NURSING PROGRAM AWARD – Provided by Thatcher Foundation: Maria Abundez, Corine Arnold, Khristian Barnhart, Katherine Englert, Cyndi Guerrero, Julia Hernandez, Bianca Lara Arredondo, Jennifer Lopez-Ayala, Yesenia Luna, Vanessa Mendiola, Tammy Noi, Catalina Ortega, Soledad Pacheco, Haistem Sanchez, Monica Sanchez, Tori Sims, Jessica Sockcharoeun, Patricia Stefek, Marlene Vargas

PHI THETA KAPPA HONOR SOCIETY

PHI THETA KAPPA HONOR SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Margareta Jamner: Emelie Beckman

POLITICAL SCIENCE

ROBERT CASIER POLITICAL SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Robert Casier, SBCC and UCSB Political Science Professor, during his lifetime: Jennifer Hull

JASON DAVIDSON SCHOLARSHIP IN POLITICAL SCIENCE – Provided by Thomas R. Davidson, in honor of his son, Jason, a former SBCC Political Science student: Juan Castillo

MANOUTCHEHR M. ESKANDARI-QAJAR HONORARY SCHOLARSHIP IN POLITICAL SCIENCE – Provided by Margareta and Fred Jamner, during his lifetime: Jennifer Hull

HOLMES SCHOLARSHIPS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE – Provided by Estate of James and Margaret Ruth Holmes: Shanti Fukasaku, Reemo Hooper, Anil Hosgur, Riley McCaffrey, Angelic Robinson, Jonny Salmeron

JOHN KAY HONORARY SCHOLARSHIP IN POLITICAL SCIENCE – Provided by Margareta and Fred Jamner, during his lifetime: Jennifer Hull

RADIOGRAPHY AND SONOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGY

ERNY MARGARET EDELSON, R.N. ENDOWED MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN RADIOGRAPHY – Provided by Dr. Sidney Edelson during his lifetime, in memory of his wife: Denver Dave Arandia, Chaise Elliott, Nayeli Valencia

ARTHUR GREDITZER RADIOGRAPHY BOOK SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Estate of Arthur Greditzer: Katie Damas, Ekaterina Davis, Bryan Gonzalez, Christian Gonzalez, Brianna Hill, Jose Padilla Martinez, Johnette Pulido, Vanessa Rodriguez, Sergio Sotero Morales

SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS

BOUCHON AMERICAN RIVIERA SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Mitchell Sjerven: Maya Ulloa

JAMES SELLECK BOWER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP IN THE CULINARY PROGRAM – Provided by James S. Bower during his lifetime: Bonnie Garcia, Maya Ulloa

BRANDER FAMILY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP IN CULINARY ARTS AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT – Provided by Brander Family Foundation: Isabell Evans

TED AND COLEEN FRIEDEL VOCATIONAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIP - CULINARY ARTS – Provided by Coleen and Ted Friedel: Nathan Martin, McLeod Noormand

SANTA BARBARA CULINARY ARTS SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR OF JULIA CHILD –

Provided by Santa Barbara Culinary Arts: Adeline Gouda, Maya Ulloa, Daniel Villalpando

JOVANI TOVAR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT STUDIES – Provided by Rosalinda Tovar and the Tovar Family: Adeline Gouda

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES

CLAIRE BROISSOIT HOFFNER SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE – Provided by Claire Broissoit Hoffner during her lifetime: Stephanie Cambray-Guevara

FRANCISCO S. MORENO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE STUDY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE – Provided by Maria Santa Cruz Moreno, during her lifetime, and Francisco’s colleagues, family, and friends: Ana Arce

THEATRE ARTS

RUSSELL AND SUZANNE BOCK THEATRE PERFORMANCE SCHOLARSHIP –

Provided by Russell and Suzanne Bock, during their lifetimes: Luke Hamilton, Grace Wilson

JEAN METHVEN JORGENSEN SCHOLARSHIP FOR THEATRE ARTS – Provided by Estate of Jean Methven Jorgensen and William C. Jorgensen: Adrián Contreras González

SARA EVELYN SMITH ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS IN THEATRE ARTS –Provided by Herbert Simon Family Foundation: Frank Addeman, Alexandra Brent, Harriet Burvall, Adrián Contreras González, Kaiya Cummins, Tuva Hermine Fronth- Andersen, Luke Hamilton, Abigail Mintz, Wyatt Spencer, Grace Wilson

TRANSITIONS

MATT SANCHEZ TRANSTITIONS SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Gretchen Hewlett and Ursula Ruland: Manuel Perez

2023 NOMINATION-BASED AWARDS BY DEPARTMENT:

ART DEPARTMENT

THOMAS LARSON ART HISTORY STUDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD – Provided by Thomas Larson: Sokhna Diarra Pouye

SANTA BARBARA ART ASSOCIATION AWARD– Provided by the Santa Barbara Art Association: Margarita Perko, Benjamin Sheffler

VENTURA COUNTY POTTERS GUILD AWARD IN CERAMICS – Provided by Ventura County Potters Guild: Sean Walker

ATHLETICS

STEVEN P. GILL MEMORIAL AWARD – Provided by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Gill, in memory of their son: Damien J. Roberts

VOORHEES FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Estates of Nancy and Vern Voorhees, and gifts made in their memories from their family and friends: Jakobie D. Seabourn

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

THOMAS R. BENNETT AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY AWARD – Provided by Stan Crapo in honor of his friend: Alfred Amador, Adan Balandrano Ramirez, Adair Balbuena, Brando Hernandez, Omar Ibarra Torres, Alex Leyva Diaz, Jonathan Pirul, Jolver Santos Alvarez

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

MICROBIOLOGY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Provided by Judith Meyer, Ph.D., during her lifetime: Kevin Flores Rodriguez

WILLIAM OLIVARIUS BIOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by William Olivarius Trust: Alexander Khalil, Tara Mata

CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION

CASH-MCROY/ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO NURSING SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Catherine Cash and Bruce McRoy, through the Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: James Hanna

KATI AND PETER BUEHLER FAMILY/ ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Kati and Peter Buehler, in memory of Julia Emma Zeller, through the Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: Leslie Loaeza

JULIE AND ROGER DAVIS/ ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO CONSTRUCTION

TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP – PProvided by Julie and Roger Davis, through the Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: Julio Rangel

LORA AND TOM FISHER/ ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO BUSINESS

EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Lora and Thomas Fisher, through the Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: Andrej Mihajlovic

MARTIN AND JULIA KOOBATION ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO SCHOLARSHIP

- Provided by Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: Riley Stork

ROTARY CLUB OF MONTECITO CAREER TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP –Provided by Rotary Club of Montecito Foundation: Estella Avila, Hannah Diaz, Marianna Gamet, Alyssa Marlen, Carmen Zamora

CHEMISTRY

GARY L. CARROLL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AWARD – Provided by Christopher Caires, Ph.D. and Moriah Thomason, Ph.D.: Christopher K. Platt, Holden J. Smith

COMPUTER NETWORKING ENGINEERING

MICHAEL SAFFOLD MEMORIAL AWARD IN COMPUTER NETWORK ENGINEERING – Provided by Saffold Family and Friends: Margeaux Collins

COMPUTER SCIENCE

ROBERT “COACH” DEPENDAHL COMPUTER SCIENCE AWARD – Provided by Janice and Robert Dependahl: Tselmegronan Batzaya

DISABILITY SERVICES AND PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS (DSPS)

TED TOWNSEND AWARD – Provided by Friends of Ted Townsend in his memory: Arelillian Mondragon Camacho

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

HAROLD ALEXANDER SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Jeanne Carr in memory of her uncle: Nolan Rogers, Sunshine Wheelock

MURIEL BARTH OUTSTANDING GEOSCIENCE AWARD – Provided by Michael Barth in memory of Muriel: Julia B. Gibbons

THOMAS R. BENNETT GEOLOGY AWARD – Provided by Stan Crapo in honor of his friend: Joanna Alvarez, Logan A. Cattanach, Rebekah K. Miller, Annalise J. Villa

JAN DEPENDAHL “SPIRIT OF GEOLOGY” AWARD – Provided by Janice and Robert Dependahl: Joseph Martin

EIKO KITAO OUTSTANDING GEOLOGY STUDENT AWARD – Provided by Robert S. Gray, Ph.D.: Joy Henderson

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

RUGGERO J. ALDISERT MEMORIAL AWARD IN CREATIVE WRITING – Provided by the Estate of Silvio Di Loreto: Ruth A. Baker, Stacy L. Little, Jose J. Macias, Alejandra R. Soto Morales

WILLIAM OLIVARIUS ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by William Olivarius Trust: Bridget Ballo, Monet Claypool, Phoebe Lawler

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

PETER ALEVRA MEMORIAL AWARD – Provided by John Alevra in memory of his father: Ximena C. Conde Jimenez

GENERAL OLSEN/SANTOS/LA CUMBRE COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Proceeds from the Olsen/Santos Golf Tournament: Megan Laack

PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP HONORABLE MENTION – Provided by the Luria/ Budgor Family Foundation: Emelie Beckman, Mark Del Campo, Jennifer Hull, Divya Ramesh

JOURNALISM

RAY CANTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Elizabeth Canton, during her lifetime, in memory of her husband, former SBCC Journalism Professor: Claire C. Geriak

MARINE DIVING TECHNOLOGY

NEJAT EZAL MEMORIAL AWARD – Provided by Proceeds from the Diving Rescue Workshop and the Santa Barbara Underwater Film Festival: Lucas Holland

DR. HUGH GREER MARINE TECHNOLOGY MEMORIAL AWARD – Provided by Family, friends, and colleagues of Hugh D. Greer, M.D.: Grayson Selzer

DUANE JONES FAMILY AWARD – Provided by M. Duane Jones: Jesper Johnson

ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN NURSING PROGRAM

CHRISTINA ALLISON NURSING SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Estate of Christina Allison: Marissa Agueda, Jose Aguina, Tatiana Anderson, Caitlyn Arigo, Kelli Barretti, Ashley Beaver, Shelby Beveridge, Preston Beye, Garrett Bryant, Shelby Caputo, Rachel Chow, Tara Cooper, Kate Cowell, Eric Duncan, Ashley Fragosa, Hendrix Fraser, Marina Gandara, Kasie Gillette, Holly Hagen, James Hanna, Phoebe Hoffman, Nena Hylander-Pontod, Katie Hyson, Kelly Irelan, Lyndee Johnson, Keelie Lewis, Chance Lompa, Yijing Ma, Mercedes Madden-Sanchez, Jonathan Mathieson, Jeffrey McCullough, Brook McIlwain, Danica McLinn-Neuhaus, Kaiya Ming, Grace Molsberry, Richard Omura, Armando Orozco, Esme Palma, Samantha Patrick, Mikayla Payette, Jessica Pearson, Sergio Perez, Megan Raya, Amanda Russell, Isaura Saenz, Trinidad Sanchez, John Schwartz, Rachael Smith, Brennagh Tourigny, Alyssa Valdez, Janelle Valles, Mayra Vaughan, Van Vo, Shelley Zyhailo

BLANCHE BALZARETTE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Sister Carolita Johnson, during her lifetime, and the Estate of Blanche Balzarette: Kathryn A. Sullivan

HANNA FAMILY NURSING EXCELLENCE AWARD - Provided by the Hanna Family: Shelby L. Caputo, Hendrix J. Fraser

GREGORY HANSON MEMORIAL AWARD IN NURSING - Provided by Sheri Shields in memory of her son: Van Vo (Fall 2022), Hendrix Fraser (Spring 2023)

EVE MILLER, GLADYS SMITS, FLORENCE TISDELL, AND IDA MEIR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP - Provided by Altrusa International, Inc. of Santa Barbara: Ireland Cullum, Janelle Valles

POLITICAL SCIENCE

MARGARETA JAMNER POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD –Provided by Margareta Jamner: Liam P. McCoy

SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS

COETA AND DONALD R. BARKER FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Coeta and Donald R. Barker Foundation: Joshua Aguilar, Jose Arroyo, Andrea Burleson, Isabel Cordova, Joshua Cruz, Joce Cruz, Tomas Duarte, Julia Fredericks, Nicolas Frias, Bonnie Garcia, Miranda Gonzales, Diana Gonzalez Villasenor, Adeline Gouda, Victor Guadarrama, Brandon Holland, Dillon Jacobson, Trevor Lum, Jaylia McGary, Daniel Mendoza, Aydin Nunez, Maya Palma, Genevieve Ramirez, Carlos Rendon Gijon, Natalia Robles Valenzuela, Luis Rossell Juanico, Maya Ulloa, Daniel Villalpando, Katie Wiest

DON SKIPWORTH CULINARY ARTS STUDENT OF THE YEAR – Provided by Santa Barbara Culinary Arts: Brandon Holland

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES

ITALIAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM AWARD – Provided by Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara: Karina Carachure Angel

LURIA JAPANESE LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Luria Foundation: Cooper Lender (Fall 2022), Duong Nguyen (Spring 2023)

LURIA KOREAN LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP - Provided by Luria Foundation: Siqi Fang (Fall 2022), Moriah Warren (Spring 2023)

STUDY ABROAD DEPARTMENT

ACADEMICS OVERSEAS STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Anonymous Donor: Valerie Begg

WILLIAM AND LOTTIE DANIEL INTERNATIONAL STUDIES STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Estates of Lottie and William Daniel: Isabella Larkins, Nicole Mairena, Erika Kunzmann

LOUISE AND PHILIP EMRICH, SR. STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Emrich Family Trust: Heron Collins, Tillie Rubin, Jose Lopez, Benjamin Sheffler

CLAIRE BROISSOIT HOFFNER SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE – STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM – Provided by the Emrich Family Trust: Riley Sether

INTERSESSION STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Margaret Roberts, during her lifetime: Devyn Galia

FRANCISCO MORENO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDY OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE – STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM – Provided by Maria Santa Cruz Moreno, during her lifetime, and Francisco’s colleagues, family, and friends: Jesus Rubio

JOHN ROMO STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by Friends and colleagues of John Romo: Nicole Mairena, Adara Balabanow

ALTON AND RUTH LEWIS STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP – Provided by the Estates of Ruth and Alton Lewis: Valerie Begg, Fernando Garza Soto

THE ITALIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS IN ITALY – Provided by the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara: Maria Claussen

Changing Lives Through Education

THE SBCC PROMISE

In 2016, the Foundation launched the SBCC Promise, offering all recent, local high school graduates the opportunity to attend Santa Barbara City College full-time at no cost. The SBCC Promise relies entirely on private support and covers all required fees, books, and supplies for up to two years. To date, over 6,500 students have participated. By removing financial barriers, the SBCC Promise ensures that SBCC’s life-changing educational programs are fully accessible to all local students.

Thank you

to the hundreds of donors who have made the SBCC Promise possible. And a special thanks to the following donors who have recently made major gifts to keep the Promise strong: The John C. Mithun Foundation, Winslow Maxwell Charitable Trust, Assistance League of Santa Barbara, Jean M. Nell Revocable Living Trust, Fidelity Charitable, Mary D. Thompson, Glenn E. and Gleeola Brun Charitable Trust, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc., College Futures Foundation, Hazen Family Foundation, Joan and Jerry Rocco, Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving, Volentine Family Foundation, William and Charlene Glikbarg Foundation

The SBCC Promise is funded by the community, for the community. Your support provides all recent, local high school graduates with access to an outstanding college education and the resources they need to earn an associate’s degree or certificate, and transfer to a four-year university.

The President’s Circle makes the SBCC Foundation’s work possible by providing core support through an annual gift of unrestricted funds. President’s Circle members form a dynamic group that believes in the power of education to transform lives and our community.

Generosity comes in many forms. You can fulfill your financial goals while helping the SBCC Foundation provide vital assistance to students by including a charitable gift in your estate plans. Your gift ensures that future generations of students will have the opportunity to pursue their dreams at SBCC.

I have seen how an education at SBCC changes lives, providing opportunities to people who are struggling to find their way in the world. Through the Foundation, students receive both financial assistance and emotional support that transforms despair into hope. At the end of the day, this is what inspires them to continue and succeed.”

– Dr. Peter Haslund, member of SBCC Foundation’s Legacy Circle

When SBCC students succeed, we all win.

Jaylia McGary, SBCC Promise graduate, Class of 2023

Rick Thomas Barron 1/15/1945 - 6/16/2023

Rick Thomas Barron died from complications from non-alcoholic liver disease on June 16, 2023 at the age of 78 in Santa Barbara, in the home in which he was raised and in which he raised his son. Rick was born on January 15, 1945 in Bellingham, Washington to Dr. Fred Thomas Barron, a dentist, and Genevieve Barron.

They moved to Santa Barbara when Rick was a year old, and as a boy, he hunted and fished with his father, Fred, often on horseback, throughout California’s backcountry, along with a hunting dog sporting a goldcapped canine tooth. Rick was among the earliest pioneering surfers at Rincon, braving cold winter swells in a primitive diver’s “beavertail” wetsuit and building fires on the beach to warm up. Rick, his father, and his sister Adair were each passionate Mammoth skiers long before the first chairlifts or T-bars were put in, when the only way to the top of the run was a tow rope pulled by a repurposed auto engine. Rick was a lifeguard at Ledbetter and Hendry’s while a student at Santa Barbara High. He went on to study anthropology at Berkeley, where he saw and demonstrated against the Vietnam War, later transferring to and graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 1966.

After college, Rick went on to study at Hastings Col-

lege of Law, graduating in 1971. In the winter of 1969, he took a break from law school and visited his sister Adair at her UCLA dorm. On a Westwood sidewalk, he ran into a friend heading to the grocery store with recent art school graduate named Shirley Kay Connolly. Rick soon began dropping by her apartment to chat, and on their first date they saw a Robert Redford skiing movie, “Downhill Racer,” (his choice.) Another early date was to a secret underground Mexican restaurant, Lupe’s Carnitas, in a residential garage.

Rick and his future wife moved up to the Bay Area so Rick could finish his law degree while she worked as a stewardess with TWA. Rick co-founded Bayview-Hunters Point Foundation, where he worked from 1972 to 1976 providing free legal aid to the Black community.

In the late 1970s, Rick and Shirley lived in Venice and Vicenza, Italy, where they both worked on several research grants. They became fluent Italian speakers, and developed a lifelong love of Italy’s art, culture and food.

From 1979 to 1986, Rick taught environmental law and evidence advocacy at the University of San Diego School of Law. Rick’s students, fellow surfers, outed him as one of their own by the telltale drip of ocean water from his sinuses that sometimes happened in the lecture hall following a dawn surf session.

Rick’s son Noah was born in 1982, and when he was 4, the family moved back to Santa Barbara. For a time, there were three generations living under one roof at Rick’s family home on State Street.

At the Santa Barbara Public Defender’s Office, Rick found his lifelong calling, and he would continue to practice there until his retirement in 2009. Rick believed his role was to stand as a champion in the way of a powerful and often corrupt legal system that steamrolled the powerless. He was recognized as a formidable trial attorney, and won numerous awards, including the Order of Reasonable Doubt from the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association. With his friend John Mitchell, Rick co-authored three textbooks focused on evidence handling and criminal procedure.

Later, Rick focused on legal work in Santa Barbara County’s drug court system, advocating to route nonviolent drug offenders to treatment programs rather than prison. For years, he couldn’t walk the neighborhood without being greeted and thanked by recovering addicts and families. Variations of “You helped me get my life back on track, Mr. Barron,” were a near-daily refrain.

To everyone who knew him, Rick was a beacon of fair-mindedness, compassion and resourcefulness. He was a brilliant but untroubled man, who gave people the benefit of the doubt and saw goodness and humor everywhere. His mind produced endless contraptions and devices, and he filled his workshop with sketches for inventions, sculptures, furniture and carpentry projects. He made shelves, cabinets, a sled, a unicycle and shaped his own balsa longboard.

He was a fine woodworker, and hand-carved his family’s Brazilian rosewood

dining table with elaborate original Celtic knotwork. For his son’s wedding in Maine, he carved a pair of moose cake toppers. He never met a storage compartment, carabiner or lanyard he didn’t like. Under his care, a profusion of roses, staghorn ferns and tall bamboo stalks have sprouted in his yard.

The love of surfing, skiing and the outdoors extended until the very end of Rick’s life. For two decades, he treasured a heavily customized Bayliner powerboat he named “Waive Time,” (a surfer/lawyer pun amusing only to him), a vessel which gave him and his friends access to uncrowded breaks at the Hollister Ranch. Rick’s favorite was the right at Cojo, which, if he made it past the closeout section, provided a glassy long ride and a rare little tube to duck his head into.

One time, Rick and his son tried to radio his longtime friend, lobsterman Ken Bortolazzo, who was also at sea that day aboard his boat “T.K.O.,” to tell him Cojo was going off. But bad reception, similar-sounding vessel callsigns, and a language barrier got in the way. A Japanese fishing boat responded – “This is vessel Taiko,” – and a very confusing VHF conversation followed.

The spring before Rick’s death was an epic snow dump season at Mammoth, and he skied several full weeks on his beloved Ikon season pass at the age of 78. His favorite run was St. Anton. He always stayed at Motel 6 (a concession that came only after decades of sleeping in his van) and he loved to eat at the Pita Pit in Mammoth Lakes.

Despite his remarkable

physical fitness and joie de vivre, Rick Barron was denied a liver transplant by Cedars-Sinai hospital and died at home shortly after discharge. Rick is survived in Santa Barbara by his wife, Shirley Connolly, his son Noah Barron, his daughterin-law Hayley O’Connor and his 6-month-old granddaughter Daisy Jane Barron.

In loving memory of Judith Chase Ludwig Cooley by daughters

Jessica and Nicole

Rio F. Ulvaeus

7/6/1977 - 5/25/2023

In Loving Memory of Rio Ulvaeus Dear Rio,

We love you and will keep you alive in our cherished memories of good times spent together. Thank you for the time you spent with us. We will always hear your name in the crashing waves and crackling of a campfire, see the twinkle of your eye in the stars…Our love is endless and deep as an ocean, as will be our longing for you.

With all of the love in the universe, Your family

We will be skipping rocks in celebration of you, on your birthday at your lifelong special place. Love you.

Judith Cooley

Brian Paul Gregory 5/9/1963 - 1/9/2023

Valley in 2009, where he immersed himself in the Catholic community and was called to a greater holiness through a committed life rich in the Gospel values of faith, hope, and charity.

Rev. Ronald Edward Gibbons, Ph.D. 8/26/1936 - 6/12/2023

Heather Rose Miller, Jonathan R. Miller; and by Ron’s wife, Geraldine Gibbons and stepdaughter, Esther Jenny Schulman.

Brian Paul Gregory, 59, returned to his heavenly home on January 9, 2023. His devotion to his family and his firm belief in God supported him through difficult times and ultimately gave him peace.

Brian was born May 9, 1963 in San Francisco, California, the only child of Paul and Patricia Gregory. He developed his lifelong passions for music and technology at an early age.

Brian received his Baccalaureate of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986, relocating to the Silicon Valley shortly thereafter. Brian went on to have a nearly 40 year long career in software engineering and information technology.

Brian moved to Santa Barbara in 1996. He was very active in the local business community, serving on a number of boards and being very involved in many industry and charitable organizations, including the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Barbara Industrial Association. At his leisure, Brian enjoyed history, architectural restorations, and the arts. He was very involved in the Santa Barbara Symphony League.

Brian and his family moved back to Silicon

Brian is survived by his wife, Kerri, his three children, Alyssa (Daniel), Colin, and Leia, one grandchild, Isla, and everyone who knew and loved him. He will be remembered for his kindness, his enthusiasm for life, and his love of learning. Brian leaves behind a legendary record collection, several fabulous antique furniture pieces, an assortment of fine spirits, a closet full of rare Hawaiian shirts, and countless treasured memories. He will be deeply missed.

Following his passing, Brian was inurned at Skylawn Memorial Park in Half Moon Bay alongside his parents. A joint Celebration of Life for Brian and his mother, Pat, will be held on June 29, 2023 from 4 to 8 pm at the Palm Park Beach House in Santa Barbara.

In honor of Brian Gregory’s name and in lieu of flowers, you may donate to any of the following charitable organizations in support of ministries and service for all Catholics in the surrounding community: The Carmelites at Mount St Joseph, the Diocese of San Jose, and Catholic Charities.

Larry Mohr, age 77, died peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara on June 2, 2023 after a two-year sojourn with metastatic melanoma. He was born Lawrence Henry Mohr on October 8, 1945 in Trenton, New Jersey to Milton Ernst Mohr and Vyvian Crane Mohr. Larry grew up in Malibu, earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, followed by a master’s from Caltech in Biochemistry, and later a master’s from UC Santa Barbara in Computer Science.

Two years after they met, Larry and Lori married in 1975, the same year he began his career as a computer systems analyst that spanned four decades. They shared a birthday (different years), and would have celebrated their 48th anniversary in October, 50 years together. As a husband, a father and a grandfather, Larry lived his life with a deep commitment to his loved ones. Until the final few days of life, he followed world events, a truly caring, engaged, kind human being. He is survived by his wife, his son, his daughter, son-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, and his brother-and sister-in-law.

A celebration of life will be held in the fall.

On the morning of June 12, 2023 Rev. Dr. Ronald Edward Gibbons made his transition.  Born in 1936 in Chicago, Illinois Ron left high school in the “Windy City” seventeen years later to join the Air Force, serving from 1954-1958.   After an exhilarating working life while becoming a husband, father, uncle and grandfather, Ron retired as Manager of IT Systems in 1999 from Raytheon/Santa Barbara Research.  He continued a few more years at UCSB as Adjunct Instructor of the International Management Program, then left to enjoy his pastimes and to share treasured moments with family and friends near and far.

After having spent 19591960 in the Arctic Circle, he traveled across Europe (Greece, Turkey, Germany and Italy) working for an adventurous seven years.  Ron recently published (on Amazon) his memoirs in his 2023 book “White Alice – A Cold War Story”.

Ron succumbed at his home in Santa Barbara to a rare, aggressive and incurable form of Leukemia and Lymphoma, diagnosed in December 2022.  Ron is survived by his son and daughter Ronald A. Gibbons and Helen (Eleni) M. Gibbons; by his grandchildren, Cameron J. A. Gibbons, Dylan A. A. Gibbons and Logan E. J. Gibbons; along with Jeremiah S. Gibbons, Matthew E. Cottrell,

Smart Cremation is responsible for the final arrangements.  A full obituary version can be found at The Independent online.

Kymani Meijer-ColeRoger

6/9/1994 - 6/23/2016

In Memory

My sweet son Kymani: Thank you for gracing our lives with your presence, though unfair it ended too soon. You always shared your love, loyalty, inner and outer beauty, chivalrous nature and kind heart with all who were blessed to know you.

I’m so grateful to you for the time we shared. How amazing to experience true deep unconditional love. I chose your name Kymani because it means “adventurous traveler” and we traveled the world together enjoying many adventures that I now treasure as a plethora of precious memories – my best friend, my travel buddy, my adventurer.

I think of you and miss you every moment of every day. You will forever live on in my heart – my greatest gift in life. Yet I’m not the only one as you will continue to live on through the gift of life to the many people who were blessed to be the recipients of your organ donation.

All my love, All my life, Mama Rose

Larry Mohr 10/8/1945 - 6/2/2023

Nadine

B. Greenup

5/23/1926 - 6/22/2023

Nadine was grateful to the entire team of professionals at the Smith Center at Samarkand who provided excellent care and companionship following her stroke in December 2022, and who then provided compassionate hospice care under the direction of VNA Health.

Nadine Greenup died peacefully on June 22, 2023 in Santa Barbara, California. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 23, 1926.

Nadine received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1948 from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. After moving to California, Nadine continued her studies in Los Angeles at U.S.C. where she achieved her dream of graduating with a Masters in Library Science in 1962.

Nadine worked steadily for more than thirty years for public and private libraries including Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara City College Library, and the David L. Reeves Medical Library at Cottage Hospital. Additionally, she served as the President of the California Library Association in 1974.

As a lifelong learner, Nadine cultivated interests in many subjects including Chinese history, classical music, and Buddhist philosophy. She became proficient in the practice of judo, Greek dancing, and playing the Celtic harp.

Nadine was preceded in death by the great love of her life, Robert Naud, and leaves behind dear friends in the Samarkand Community, in the Santa Barbara area, and from out of state.

No services are planned at her request. However, please take a moment to savor a piece of dark chocolate as you enjoy a sunrise, or watch clouds drifting over the mountains. Donations in her name can be made to KUSC Classical Radio (https://www.KUSC.org) or VNA Health (https:// www.VNAhealth).

Leona J. Warner 12/27/1929 - 6/14/2023

Lee left this world to join her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on June 14, 2023, surrounded by her family, following a six month battle with cancer. Lee was born in Chicago, Il where she lived until she was 23 years old. She then moved with her husband and three year old daughter Carol to Santa Barbara, Ca. Lee later divorced and remarried Richard D. Blume who had a son, Dickie, and together they had another child, Kimberly. They eventually divorced but Lee remained in Santa Barbara raising her family and building a long career in hospitality working for the Biltmore and serving as the

Dining Manager for the Coral Casino for nearly 25 years. After retiring, she met the love of her life Ernie Warner and they were married on June 12, 1983 and remained married until his passing in 2007. Lee was passionate about her community and voluntarism. She served with the PTA, Girl Scouts, Brownies, Meals on Wheels, as a pollster during local and national elections, but the job she loved the most was as a crossing guard. She said seeing the children and getting to know them filled her heart with love and joy. She and Ernie were heavily involved with the Elks servin g in leadership there, producing the weekly bingo event and many other social events all designed to raise money to support local charities assisting families and children within the community. Lee simply cared about everyone. She would even leave a piece of candy in her mailbox every day for the postal carrier as a way of saying thank you. Lee is survived by her children Carol Simmons, Richard “Dickie” Blume, Kimberly Blume Tollstrup, Tammy Warner, grandchildren Robert Grayson Grijalva, Richard J. Grijalva, Richard Blume, Christina Blume, as well as eight great grand children. Service for Lee will be held on July 5, 2023 at the San Roque Catholic Church

– 325 Argonne Cir, Santa Barbara at 10:30 AM and is open to the public. In lieu of flowers Lee and her family would love it if you made a donation to your favorite charity.

11/12/1937 - 4/5/2023

Marjorie Nelson

7/18/1927

- 5/22/2023

Marjorie Nelson, an extraordinary family matriarch, acclaimed musician and 66-year Santa Barbara resident, died at 95 on May 22, 2023.

Beloved wife of Arthur maskala. Loving mother to Michael (Julie) Maskala. Dear sister of Carol (Dale) Beyer and the late Merilyn (Richard) Tscherney. Loving aunt to Tammie (Tom) Schmieder, Gayle (James) Scott, Tom (Pam) Beyer. Jennifer Tscherney, Julie (Mark) Grauer. Barbara was born in Chicago in 1937 to the late George and Bess (Sedlak) Melka. After attending Farragut high school, she married Arthur in 1956 and drove west to create a home in Santa Barbara, CA. She found work at Santa Barbara Bank and Trust as a teller and rose through the ranks to become General Manager-Vice President before retiring in 1985 and serving as Founder and board member of Goleta National Bank, now Community West Bank. In 1989 she moved with her husband to Las Vegas, NV. Her love of music was evident in everything she did- entertaining at home, singing with her family, and dancing the night away. She enjoyed gardening and crafting and created works such as stained glass to decorate her home, crocheted blankets and cross-stitched family gifts. She died in April 2023 in Las Vegas of complications from Alzheimer’s. Her family will miss her quick wit, laughter and compassionate nature. The family wishes to thank the staff at Aegis for the extraordinary care they gave to Barbara during her years there.

Born in Los Angeles, Marjorie frequently relocated as her father worked at Santa Fe Railroad stations across the country. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College, where she met fellow music major Wendell Nelson, then received a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate School. Marjorie and Wendell married in 1951, settling in Santa Barbara in 1957 when Wendell began a 34-year career as a music professor at UCSB.

While raising three children, Marjorie taught piano and performed with Wendell as a duo piano team. They made guest appearances with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra and completed several concert tours of Europe and Asia, giving world premiere performances of pieces composed by prominent contemporary composers. In 1979 Marjorie accompanied Wendell to the People’s Republic of China, where he was the first UC performing artist to play concerts, deliver lectures and host master classes.

After Wendell’s death in 1993, Marjorie continued to travel the world and enjoy her family, for whom she was a source of unwavering love, generosity, energy, optimism, encouragement and wisdom.

Marjorie Nelson is survived by a daughter, Cynthia Nelson Worth; two sons, Richard Nelson and Joel Nelson; and six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Local graveside services were private.

Barbara Maskala

Richard Allen Dailey

7/2/1955 - 5/30/2023

Richard Allen Dailey

lost his courageous battle with Multiple Myeloma on 5/30/23 at the age of 66. He passed away peacefully at his home in Astoria, Oregon with his partner Margaret by his side. Richard fought this destructive debilitating disease for 12 years with a positive attitude, no complaints or giving up hope.

Richard was born in Eugene, Oregon to Opal and Allen Dailey in 1956. Richard moved to Santa Barbara with his family as a young boy. He attended La Colina Junior High School and San Marcos High School.

Richard was married in 1976 to Carol Bloom (Dailey). The couple had three sons Jonathan, Shawn and Ryan. After their divorce, Richard relocated back to Oregon. Jonathan and Ryan both joined him there in later years.

Richard spent his life in the auto repair business – owning Allen’s Paint & Body Shop in Santa Barbara and Dailey’s Auto Body & Paint in Astoria, Oregon. His reputation for hard work preceded him. He worked diligently until his diagnosis in 2011. He continued his work through his illness the best he could manage. Slowing down was almost as hard on him as the illness itself.

Richard was preceded in death by his father Allen and his sister Sonia.

Richard is survived by his mother, Opal, his loving partner, Margaret, his former wife Carol, and, his three sons. Jonathan, Shawn and Ryan. He also leaves behind a grandson, Henry. Richard will be greatly missed by his brothers Joe and Dan and his sisters Alinda and Candie. Richard was fortunate to have many in laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles and friends who will miss his humor, love and love of life.

Richard was heavily involved in his local religious community. Spirituality and his love of God came first and gave him guidance in his final days.

A Celebration of Life is being planned for a later date.

Hazel Marie Garrett 1928 - 2023

Aid for 27 dedicated years. Though she retired and was the “ultimate helper”, Hazel could no longer sit idle and she applied at the City as a crossing guard, soon becoming known as “Miss Hazel”. She was beloved by all the children and families. She served for 25 years until she retired due to health issues. This only slowed her, it didn’t stop her. Being from a family of three, on holidays such as Thanksgiving or Christmas, she would cook enough food for whoever came through her door or just needed a meal. She loved to cook and did most of the cooking for the family that grew larger each year, always getting more and more requests for peach cobbler, banana pudding, or lemon cake.

Hazel never complained or made excuses. She was a woman of her word who lived a life of love and humility. Hazel is resting where she wanted to be –with God, Leon and Georgia Mae.

and love for her family. Toward the end. She asked her priest “why has God not taken me yet? The priest cheerfully responded “Well Rogelia you have your ticket but your train has not arrived.”

Hazel was born to Frank Lawson and Dixie Henderson in Kebler, Arkansas.

After finishing high school in Little Rock, she moved to Santa Barbara with her mother and sister, Georgia Mae Gilbert. Hazel lived with her Aunt Bertha and Uncle Frank as her mother moved to the Bay Area seeking work.

As it was her nature, Hazel quickly found work to help the family. After doing domestic work for a couple of years, Hazel met and married Leon “Lightnin” Garrett. In 1949, she gave birth to their only son, Jerome.

Hazel found work at the Santa Barbara County General Hospital, as a Nurse’s

Hazel was preceded in death by her husband, Leon, and her beloved sister, Georgia Mae. Hazel leaves to mourn her passing: son, Jerome (Bernice); grandsons Patrice and Jerome Ali (Gina), granddaughter, Melika (Dewey); six great-grandchildren, Essence, Serenity, Mariah, Jiana, Elijah, D.J.; loving nieces: Jackie (William) and Sheila; nephews: Dexter and Craig; as well as a host of relatives and friends, which is too many to count.

To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Hazel Garrett, please visit Tribute Store.

On June 15, 2023, Rogelia Cano passed away peacefully and was surrounded by her family. She was 84 years old and a longtime resident of Santa Barbara and was the youngest of 10 children. Her life was a challenge from adolescence even up to the moment of her death. Her children would often refer to their mother as a “firecracker” because her energy was explosive and entertaining, and the light/sparkle generated was so unique and inspiring to all who were fortunate enough to witness it. Rogelia was also active in her church and part of the Altar Society for some time. She liked to travel when she could Canada, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Italy, Machu Pichu, Mexico just to name a few.

Rogelia was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years Raymond Cano, and by her daughter Cynthia (Cano) Callahan. Rogelia is survived by her sons

David Cano and Ray Cano Jr., daughter Ann (Cano) Scollin and her son-in-law Wayne Scollin.

The simplest pleasures in life brought great joy to Rogelia. She loved working in the garden, taking walks, spending time with her family and talking with those who would listen.

Rogelia was well-loved and opened her heart to those that knew her and those she did not. She always provided support

The Family would like to thank the many doctors, nurses and caregivers that helped her through the years.

Please join us for Rosary services on Tuesday, June 27th at 7pm Welch-RyceHaider – downtown. Funeral services will be on Thursday, June 29 at 10:30am at San Roque Parish, Santa Barbara. Burial services to follow at Calvary Cemetery. Reception will be at the gathering area San Roque Parish.

Janis Heleen

Cowie 12/8/1938 - 2/10/2023

Janis Cowie of Santa Barbara, passed away on February 10, 2023. Janis was born to Jack & Gertrude Silver in Stockton CA and grew up in Fresno. She moved to Santa Barbara in 1956 as a UCSB student. After graduation Janis worked as an editor for GE Tempo (later acquired by Kaman) until her retirement in 1994. She is survived by her 4 children, Laura Arrol, Jennifer Cornejo, Matthew Hallowell, & Michael Hallowell. She had 7 grandchildren, Melissa Arrol, Kristen Berry, Ashley Cornejo, Trevor Cornejo, Daniel Cornejo, Heaven Higgins, & Chase Gatson, and 4 great grandchildren, Devin & Emerson Berry and Ezra & Atlas Cornejo.

Rogelia Cano 6/15/2023

What’s On What’s On

50th Anniversary & Farewell Tour

The legendary quartet has achieved an incomparable career of pop and jazz hits, winning 10 GRAMMY® Awards out of 20 nominations. With their current release, FIFTY, the group has earned its 21st GRAMMY® nomination – for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

July 15/16 EARL MINNIS PRESENTS and Lobero LIVE present

An Evening with Graham Nash

July 21 An Evening with Cowboy Junkies

Aug 9 EARL MINNIS PRESENTS Patti Smith Trio

Aug 19 Tab Benoit with special guest The Rumble featuring Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr.

Aug 26 Yesterday – A Tribute to The Beatles

Sept 22 Keb’ Mo’

THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND

THURS

JULY 20

The 150 th Anniversary Celebrations Continue Manhattan Transfer

Sept 24 Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and Dave Hause & the Mermaid

Sept 28 Get The Led Out

Oct 17 EARL MINNIS PRESENTS and Lobero LIVE present The Wallflowers

Nov 17 Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at Fifty + Hackett Highlights

Nov 18 An Evening with Bruce Cockburn, with special guest Steve Postell

The 20-time GRAMMY ® Award winning guitarist & composer is launching a solo tour — a first of its kind for Metheny featuring personal and fan favorites from his nearly 50-year career.

Led by 14-time GRAMMY® Award winner Jerry Douglas, the band has been forging new paths into the musical horizon since 2017, with deep roots in bluegrass and folk that spread out into the Americana and jazz landscapes.

“Robert Cray is not only making music, he’s making history.”

– Guitar Player Magazine

As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. Submit virtual and in-person events at independent.com/eventsubmit

THURSDAY 6/29

6/29,7/5:

Metro Summer Kids’ Movies

Have fun at the perfect summer movie. Thu.: The LEGO Batman Movie (2017, PG). Camino Real Cinema, 7040 Marketplace Dr., Goleta; Wed.: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022, PG). Fiesta 5, 916 State St. $2. metrotheatres.com

6/29-7/2: PCPA Solvang Festival Theater Presents Emma Adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy from the novel by Jane Austen, this play follows Emma through romantic misadventures, misplaced confidence, and matchmaking in the town of Highbury, England, in the early 19th century. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St, Solvang. $25-$64. Call (805) 922-8313 or email boxoffice@pcpa.org pcpa.org/events

6/29: Book Signing and Q&A: Connard Hogan S.B. resident, Vietnam veteran, retired marriage and family therapist, and author Connard Hogan will discuss his memoir, Barbwire, Brothels, and Bombs in the Night: Surviving Vietnam followed by a Q&A and book-signing. 6pm. Wylde Works, 609 State St. Free. Email events@wyldeworks.com. tinyurl.com/ConnardHogan

6/29: Mashugana, Sour Fin, Zampkamp Take in the Indie/jazz/rock sound of L.A.based band Mashugana with Ventura-based alt/rock band Sour Fin and the industrial sounds of Zampkamp to open the show. 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$15. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

6/29: X2: Brahms Piano Quartet This program of Joan Tower, Debussy, Enrique Crespo, and Brahms will feature academy artists paired with 2023 fellows. 7:30pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free-$55. Call (805) 969-8787 or email tickets@musicacademy.org musicacademy.org/calendar

6/29: In Conversation: Robin Gowen and Roger Durling In advance of the publication of her first art monograph, artist Robin Gowen, legally blind since childhood but fully sighted with corrective lenses, will talk with Roger Durling followed by a Q&A and glass of wine. 6-7pm. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 730-1460. tinyurl.com/RobinGowen

FRIDAY 6/30

6/30: Summer Nights Teen Program

S.B. Parks & Rec, S.B. Unified School District, and the United Boys and Girls Clubs of S.B. invite teens of all backgrounds to a night of music, food, art, and a variety of games and sporting activities. Fridays through July 28. 5-8pm. Westside Boys and Girls Club, 602 W. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 12-17. tinyurl.com/TeenSummerNights

6/30: Live Nation Presents: Trevor Wallace Having built a digital thumbprint of more than 2.5 billion views across his social media channels with a following of more than 16 million fans collectively, 29-year-old comedian Trevor Wallace will make fun of all types of people, especially those he loves, through sketches and his stand-up. 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $30.50-$76.50. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com lobero.org

6/30: John Cruz With captivating guitar playing and soulful vocals, Hawaiian singersongwriter John Cruz will tell stories through songs ranging from Hawaiian to blues, folk, R&B, and more. 7pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $30-$35. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

OR

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

(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

SATURDAY 7/1

7/1: Free Summer Safety and Fun Event Cottage Health’s Trauma Services invites kids to swim safely with lifeguards on duty, try the bicycle obstacle course (bring your own bike), explore a fire truck and police car, learn Krav Maga techniques, receive a free eye exam, and get their faces painted. Learn about car seat harnessing, concussions, playground safety, safe sleep tips, and purchase helmets for $10. 10am-2pm. Ortega Park, 604 E. Ortega St. Free Call (805) 569-7521. cottagehealth .org/childrens/safe-kids

7/1: Academy Festival Orchestra Concert Osmo Vänskä will conduct Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, Holst’s The Planets, and the West Coast premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone. 7:30pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. Free-$55. Call (805) 969-8787 or email tickets@musicacademy.org musicacademy.org/calendar

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7/1: Virtual Seminar: The Foundations of Our Republic Please join to explore the Complete Federalist Papers and selected Anti-Federalist Papers and learn how one should read these papers and how they apply to government authority, if principals are changeable, and more. Register online to receive a link. Noon-2pm. Free. Call (805) 231-5974 or email greatbooks ojai@gmail.com agorafoundation.org/current-seminars

7/1: British High Tea at Arrowsmith’s Listen to classical music and enjoy English cakes, cream tea scones, and savory treats with either a hot drink or a glass of English sparkling wine from Chapel Down. 1pm. Arrowsmith’s, 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. $40-$50. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686 9126 or email anna@arrowsmithwine.com tinyurl.com/British-HighTea

SUNDAY 7/2

7/2: Free Ice Skate Present your Goleta Valley or Santa Ynez Valley library card on the first Sunday of the month to receive free skating admission (skate rentals not included). One library card per skater. 7-9pm. Ice in Paradise, 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta. tinyurl.com/FreeIceSkate

MONDAY 7/3

7/3: The Tearaways Listen and dance to the band whose sound has been described as “British invasion meets the California Sun sound.” 8-10pm. Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. GA: TBA. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/Tearaways

TUESDAY 7/4

7/4: S.B. Running Association Presents Semana Nautica 2023 Calling all runners, hikers, and walkers to spend the Fourth on scenic trails with epic views of the Chan- nel Islands by participating in a 5K or the 1.25-mile Junior Race with prizes for the top three male, female, and junior finishers. All proceeds will benefit youth running programs and Elings Park trail maintenance. Bib pickup: 7-7:50am; 5K: 8:30am; 1.25-mile Junior Race: 9:30am. Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Rd. Free-$45. tinyurl.com/SemanaNautica2023

WEDNESDAY 7/5

7/5: Wharf Wednesday: The Doublewide Kings Stroll the wharf, shop, have dinner and drinks, then take in the bold rock ’n’ roll sounds of the Doublewde Kings. 6-8pm. Stearns Wharf, 217 Stearns Wharf. Free. stearnswharf.org/events

INDEPENDENCE DAY

7/1: Buttonwood Winery: Red, White & Blues Bring your lawn chairs and blanket to the Buttonwood Pond and join for live music, great wine, and delicious food. 1pm. Buttonwood Farm Winery, 1500 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang. $65-$80. Call (805) 688-3032. buttonwoodwinery.com/news-events

7/3-7/4: Ojai Fourth of July 2023 Join in Ojai on Monday for a free concert with a Presentation of Colors by the Navy Sea Cadets and a performance by Shanti Kettles and the Ojai Band at Libbey Bowl (210 S. Signal St.). Start Tuesday off with breakfast at the Chaparral Auditorium (414 E. Ojai Ave., $5-$7) followed by a Youth Freedom Run (register at 8:45am near Libbey Park fountain) and the Fourth of July parade (Country Club Dr. to Park Rd.). Enjoy live music from the Jimi Nelson Band, food trucks, and the fireworks show at 9pm at the Nordhoff High School stadium (1401 Maricopa Hwy.). Presale GA: $5-$10; presale family: $25-$50. Mon.: Concert: 6pm; Tue.: Breakfast: 7-10am; Youth Freedom Run: 8:45am; Parade: 10am; fun and fireworks: 5:30pm. tinyurl.com/Ojai4th-Tickets

Please contact the venue to confirm the event.

DREW GILLIAM

FOODBANK PICNIC IN THE PARK (PIP) 2023

The Foodbank will offer free, nutritious meals, activities, and enrichment opportunities to all children ages 1-18 in our county, Monday-Friday, June 12-August 18 unless otherwise stated. Visit the website for more North County locations. Call (805) 967-5741. tinyurl.com/FoodbankSummerFood

FOODBANK PICNIC EN EL PARQUE 2022

El Foodbank ofrecerá comidas nutritivas gratuitas, actividades, y oportunidades de enriquecimiento para todos los niños de 1 a 18 años en nuestro condado, del 12 de junio al 18 de agosto, de lunes a viernes si no se indique lo contrario. Visite el sitio web por las ubicaciones más lugares del North County. Llame al (805) 9675741. tinyurl.com/FoodbankSummerFood

South County:

GOLETA VALLEY COMMUNITY CTR. (JUNE 12-AUG.18)

Goleta: 5679 Hollister Ave. 11:15am12:15pm.

CASA DE LA RAZA (JUNE 12-AUG. 18)

Santa Barbara: 602 E. Montecito St. 12:30-1:30pm.

SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY (Tue.-Fri., JUNE 12- AUG. 18)

Santa Barbara: 40 E. Anapamu St. 11:30am-12:30pm.

North County:

SANTA YNEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (JUNE 12-AUG. 11)

Santa Ynez: 3325 Pine St., Santa Ynez. 11:30am–12:30pm.

THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FREE SUMMER MEALS

Breakfast, 8:30-9:30am and lunch, 12:30-1pm will be provided to all youth ages 18 and younger. Call (805) 729-7623 or email amonzon@unitedbg.org.

THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB COMIDAS DE VERANO GRATUITAS

Se ofrecerá desayuno, de 8:30 a 9:30, y comida, de 12:30 a 13:00, a todos los jóvenes de 18 años o menos. Llame al (805) 729-7623 o envíe un correo electrónico a amonzon@unitedbg.org.

DOWNTOWN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB

(JUNE 12-AUG. 16)

632 E. Canon Perdido St.

WESTSIDE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB

(JUNE 12-AUG. 16)

602 W. Anapamu St.

CARPINTERIA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (JUNE 12-AUG. 16)

4849 Foothill Rd., Carpinteria.

S.B.

UNIFIED

GOLETA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (JUNE 12-AUG. 25)

5701 Hollister Ave., Goleta.

LOMPOC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (JUNE 12-AUG. 16) 1025 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc.

SCHOOL DISTRICT FREE MEALS

Free breakfast and lunch will be provided to all S.B. Unified Students, including those on independent study beginning June 12. For any information about the delicious and nutritious meal service and locations, call (805) 963-4338 x6385, text “food” to 304-304, or download the CA Meals for Kids App. sbunified.org/support/foodservices

DISTRITO ESCOLAR UNFICADO DE S.B. COMIDAS GRATIS

A partir del 12 de junio se ofrecerá desayuno y almuerzo gratis a todos los estudiantes del Distrito Escolar Unificado de SB, incluyendo a los que están en estudio independiente. Para cualquier información sobre el delicioso y nutritivo servicio de comidas y lugares, llame al (805) 963-4338 x6385, texto “food” a 304-304, o descargar el CA Meals for Kids App. sbunified.org/support/foodservices

LUNCH AT THE LIBRARY USDA SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM

Children and teens in grades 0-12 can pick up a free, nutritious meal (firstcome, first-serve) on Tuesday-Friday, June 13-August 18, 11:30am-12:30pm and stay for hands-on science activities and games. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com. tinyurl.com/Lunch-Library

ALMUERZO EN LA BIBLIOTECA PROGRAMA DE SERVICIO DE ALIMENTOS DE VERANO DEL USDA

Los niños y adolescentes en grados 0 a 12 años pueden recoger un almuerzo nutritivo gratuito (por orden de llegada) de martes a viernes, del 13 de junio al 18 de agosto, de 11:30 a.m. a 12:30 p.m. y quedarse para participar en actividades y juegos científicos. Biblioteca Central de S.B., 40 E. Anapamu St. Llame al (805) 962-7653 o envíe un correo electrónico a info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com. tinyurl.com/Lunch-Library

THINK INK

AFTERPARTY AT MOXI (21+)

Saturday, August 12, 7 PM

INK-TRIGUING ACTIVITIES. FOOD + COCKTAILS. DANCING.

Exploring the medium of ink in science, art, and the natural world from organic dyes to media and print, to body art.

Dip into food + drinks throughout the museum and make your mark on the rooftop dancefloor with DJ Gavin Roy.

No kids allowedbut you can still act like one.

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For the Love of Hospitality

Tourism has long been part of the lifeblood of the Central Coast, but even more people are discovering and falling in love with the region for the first time a credit to the wining and dining scene that keeps getting better and better, as well as the expanded diversity of compelling hotel options for travelers to check into. One local hotelier believes it’s more than that. “I feel like this is just the beginning of a whole new phase for this area,” said Kimberly Walker, co-founder and co-owner of Nomada Hotel Group.

Over lunch at Nella in Los Olivos, Walker filled me in on Nomada’s signature approach to hospitality and some exciting new projects in the works, spearheaded in collaboration with her business and life partner, Mike Kyle. Their Central Coast–rooted company has been quietly expanding its footprint since embarking upon its first hotel project in 2012, the Granada Hotel & Bistro in downtown San Luis Obispo. Walker’s passion for hospitality, curating experiences, and creating a space for human connection through travel shines through whether she’s talking about her favorite hotels around the world, what makes the Central Coast so special, or how they choose projects.

Walker and Kyle operated the Granada for seven or eight years before even thinking about another hotel. “We got so excited about the Skyview property because we loved Los Alamos so much, going down there and just spending the day with that incredible hospitality.” When they found the Skyview project, they knew it was the next step. “We fell in love with the building,” she said.

Nomada Hotel Group’s Growing Collection of Central Coast Hideaways

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That ended up becoming the template for Nomada’s development process. “We don’t have goals of owning a certain number of properties. It really always starts with falling in love with a building, which sometimes is a dilapidated building in a very bad state! And then the idea of us contributing to its longevity and creating its next best chapter that’s what drives our growth,” said Walker.

Skyview was followed by Hotel Ynez, situated where Solvang borders Santa Ynez. The former Meadowlark Inn property had been on the market for a while because the previous owner, Brigitte Guehr, wanted the hotel to end up in good hands. “It was her life and business; it was very important to her to sell it to people who she thought were going to take care of it,” Walker shared. She was drawn to the property’s tranquil garden courtyard and used that sensibility to inform the hotel’s design to cultivate a restful place.

When I asked if there’s a notable difference between Hotel Ynez and Skyview clientele, Walker noted that Hotel Ynez attracts guests wanting to go there to just chill. “That same person will then go to Skyview on a different trip, looking for something with more energy and more of an F&B experience. Somewhere that has a nice pool where people are more social. And that same guest will also go to Granada when they are looking for an experience in S.L.O. when they are wanting to go mountain biking, hiking, or surfing, and wanting to stay in more of an urban intimate hotel.”

Fans of those properties now have a few new reasons to

start planning trips to Paso Robles wine country. Farmhouse Paso opened its doors to guests in early May, with 26 individual cottages. “It’s right downtown; the layout is very cool,” Walker enthused. Similar to Hotel Ynez, the previous owners had run it for decades and were ready to move on. “He reached out to Mike, having known him for years being local, and asked if he was interested,” she said. “We had just bought the River Lodge, which is also in Paso, right at the base of wine country. We were getting ready to start working on that, and then this came along, and we just decided to do two projects at once, which is kind of challenging!”

River Lodge is still a work in progress, with an anticipated fall 2023 opening. Nomada is also breathing new life into the Pozo Saloon, located 17 miles east of Santa Margarita. “Pozo is such an incredible place, but there’s no place to stay,” Walker explained. In addition to restoring the historic landmark saloon, they plan to introduce vintage trailer-style lodging as a modern nod to the 1880s-era stagecoaches and ramadas (simple canvas shelters rented out to travelers back in the day).

Five years in the making for Nomada’s ownership to purchase the property, the Pozo project is a true labor of love. “In a way, [Pozo Saloon] is so much more difficult because so many people have such high expectations, and they have really important memories and moments we don’t want to mess with while also making sure the building is going to be there for another 200 years.”

That thoughtful, respectful approach has contributed to Nomada’s success creating memorable destinations. When asked to define their ethos, Walker said the “love of strangers” is their mantra, recounting a story of a conversation with a cab driver in Israel who told her the word hospitality stems from a Hebrew word that means “the love of strangers.” And while she enjoys curating the design, art, music, and culinary components of their projects, it’s “sincerity of service” that makes guests return again and again. She sees repeat business as the biggest compliment. “At the end of the day, the most important part is how our staff makes the guest feel. And that

is really the key to doing hospitality well.”

With the opening of Farmhouse, Nomada employs around 130 Central Coast residents. “Success for me is measured by the fact that I go to bed every single night and I cannot wait to wake up in the morning,” Walker reflected. “I am so excited to go and spend that next day with our teams … the people we work with, the people that make up Nomada and all the properties they’re just incredibly passionate, professional, awesome people, and that really keeps me excited. Also, the love for the industry. I can’t imagine doing something like this without loving the team that you work with because it’s such a collaborative art form.”

See nomadahotelgroup.com.

Kimberly Walker at the original Nomada project, the Granada Hotel & Bistro

The Skyview in Los Alamos

The Pozo Saloon near Santa Margarita

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Hotel Ynez in Santa Ynez

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July 2023 Events

A Rustic Oceanfront Luxury to Avila Beach

My wife and I recently took the 90-minute drive north to check out the brand-new Flying Flags Avila Beach resort: a mix of RV spots, tent campsites, and, in our case, ocean-view cottages.

Nestled in the hillside above Port San Luis (the tiny boating hub just north of the town of Avila Beach), this new resort promises to be a favorite among RV folks and campers.

by Gareth Kelly

Check-in was a breeze we pulled up and a friendly attendant approached with a map of the resort and a parking pass. Following his directions, we meandered up the hillside, passing the many RVs before arriving at our “Moonlight” cottage.

Stepping inside, we were impressed by the style and space of our adorable one-bedroom, dog-friendly, ocean-view cottage. The bedroom featured a queen bed, a closet, and a doggie welcome basket reflecting

wrap-around deck with a built-in gas fire pit, a table, and chairs overlooking what has to be one of the best views of any campsite/RV-type resort in California. Over the mooring field of boats, vistas of Pismo, the Oceano Dunes, and Point Sal are visible. The resort is apparently also the perfect spot to watch SpaceX rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Once unpacked and eager to explore, we took the short walk into Port San Luis. Following the sound of seals barking, we were soon treading the wooden beams of the Port Harford Pier, originally built by John Harford in 1873. Restaurant options in Port San Luis are limited with Mersea’s and Fat Cats Café the only options. We opted for Mersea’s and enjoyed fresh fish tacos, fish and chips, and a bowl of clam chowder along with a couple of cocktails.

Up bright and early the next day, we grabbed complimentary coffee from the small on-site retail store (all cottages have espresso machines) before taking the five-minute drive into Avila Beach.

Our first stop of the day was BoltAbout Bikes, and after a brief safety demo, we were soon whizzing along the Bob Jones nature trail on our e-bikes. Although limited to 18mph, our bikes were more than enough to weave between the joggers and walkers on the trail as we made our way toward the Secret Garden at Sycamore Springs Resort.

At a concession airstream designed to replenish weary trail-goers, we munched on a cheese board and drank Rosé Cider from S.L.O. Cider Co. while enjoying the peaceful garden.

the dog-friendly nature of the entire resort.

The bathroom was clean and bright, with robes, fresh towels, and Malin + Goetz toiletries. The living area featured a huge countertop, a small sink, and a large fridge, as well as a comfy sofa, coffee table, flatscreen TV, and modern, light-colored, faux-wood flooring throughout.

The pièce de résistance was the deck! Stepping out through the patio doors, we were greeted by a large,

Returning our bikes, we stepped next door into Peloton Cellars for some wine tasting, leaving with a bottle of Peloton Rosé. We swung by the Avila Beach Farmers’ Market (Fridays), grabbing a half-dozen oysters from Harford Seafood Co. to add to our to-go dinner from Fat Cats Café and making it back to Flying Flags just in time to enjoy some live music into the early evening.

On our final morning, enjoying breakfast at Mulligans Bar & Grill at the Avila Beach Golf Course we couldn’t help but reminisce about how much we had enjoyed our cottage stay and those views! We can’t wait to come back.

For more information on Flying Flags Avila Beach, visit flyingflagsavilabeach.com.

The Avila Beach ocean view at sunset is tough to beat.

A peek through the living room and patio deck of the “Moonlight” cottage

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intentions. We were each given a rose to meditate with and lay down in the garden, allowing the sound of birds chirping and a lavender-scented pillow on our eyes to lull us into relaxation. As Harrsen shared wise words for when things get hard “Everything reaches toward you to bless you” I couldn’t help but feel like this was a mantra of El Encanto as well. Sacred sound baths, Reiki healing, and yoga are also held in this magical place.

“We are completely dedicated to guests’ well-being journey from the moment of arrival. From luxurious accommodations to breathtaking views, the hotel creates a sanctuary where guests can relax, recharge, and prioritize self-care,” Clapoff said.

Another delightful aspect of the In Bloom program includes indulging in their locally crafted cuisine. New Executive Chef Conny Andersson’s menu sings of Santa Barbara’s natural bounty, including hand-picked ingredients from the El Encanto’s garden, such as fresh basil and fruits. Starting with one of their cocktails, such as the First Glance grapefruit, agave, Grey Goose vodka, Aperol, and lemon is a smart move, and their generous cheese plate could be a meal in itself.

It’ s hard to pinpoint exactly where the unwinding began was it the moment when the facialist kneaded her fingers tenderly between my furrowed brows? Was it snuggling under a blanket beside the lily pond during a guided meditation, rose petals scattered down my body? Or maybe it was simply arriving to the wisteria-lined white, bright, and charming bungalow, a warm fire already aglow as I let down my luggage and began a steady dropping of my shoulders as well, a feeling that pervaded my stay at the El Encanto, a Belmond Hotel, Santa Barbara.

El Encanto’s Sensorial Wellness Program

by Rebecca Horrigan

I’m a teacher, and I had just locked the door to my classroom heading into summer when I was invited to experience the launch of the El Encanto’s “Seasons in Bloom” program (running through December). Obviously, I jumped at the chance.

“As El Encanto, a Belmond Hotel sits above the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by seven acres of rolling scenery with lush gardens, the sense of serenity and connection to nature is immediate once guests step foot on the property,” said Janis Clapoff, general manager. “The program encourages guests to dive deeper into this connection through the several immersive, garden-themed activities.”

We started with a visit to the neighboring Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens. It was a startling shift from racing toward the finish line to a quiet, meandering walk among redwoods and poppies, but it served as the perfect gateway to El Encanto’s serenity.

The next experience on my itinerary was an “Illustrious Beauty Journey” by celebrity facialist Linda Ross at the hotel’s lovely spa. I had never had a facial before, and I’m afraid this first one will top them all. Lying on the infrared-heated gemstone chakra mat was just the beginning of the tension release. Ross applied a microderm scrub as well as essential oils and used LED red-light therapy and microcurrent gloves

to stimulate facial lift. My skin gratefully soaked up the food-grade colostrum while Ross massaged and moisturized my feet, hands, and shoulders. As she encouraged me to breathe in and let go, I found myself a bit emotional. The feeling of truly being taken care of by wise and loving hands is one I’ll remember.

Next up was the “Botanical Afternoon Tea” in their oceanview dining room. Crafted with the Ojai-based ceremonial tea brand Magic Hour, these teas are custom-blended to suit your zodiac sign and produce benefits such as boosting collagen and supporting the immune system. The Taittinger bubbly immediately uncorked a festive mood as our three-tiered tree of treats arrived. Sometimes at teas, everything looks pretty but doesn’t taste that way. However, this food was somehow even more delicious than it looked. Smoked salmon, chicken, and egg-salad sandwiches delighted our savory cravings. The array of meticulously crafted desserts, such as a vanilla-bean and thyme profiterole, would spoil any sweet tooth, but I was most blown away by the buttery, hot-from-the oven scones served with strawberry basil jam, honey butter, and clotted cream.

Afterward, we moseyed over to the Lily Pond for a “Guided Meditation” from Evan Rilling and Mar Harrsen at PALMA Colectiva. I was impressed with how intimate the group setting felt right from the get-go, as we all shared our names and

It’s hard for me to get excited about soup, but I am eternally grateful to my dining partner for encouraging us to try the Cream of Castroville Artichoke Soup. I could not believe this velvety rich concoction was vegan. The ancient-grain tomato dolma with roasted cumin seeds and grilled garlic kale burst with ripe tomato flavor, and the desserts, including a luscious avocado chocolate mousse with macerated berries and hazelnut brittle, provided a strong closing act. As we looked out at the sun setting on the ocean from the elegant yet relaxed patio, sipping a local 2020 Presqu’ile pinot noir, we couldn’t help but feel an all-encompassing sense of satiety.

The thoughtful ingredients continued into the breakfast and lunch menus, with highlights such as the artichoke and prosciutto flatbread and the three-egg breakfast omelet.

The morning of my departure, I had one more wellness experience on my list, a “Mandala Reading” with renowned healing expert Renate Hume. I do not take pride in my artistry, and although I enjoy it, I usually end up throwing my work in the trash. However, when I met Hume at her bungalow, and she gently instructed me to color in the quadrants of the mandala with whatever spoke to my subconscious, I felt a sense of freedom and ease as the colors and images poured out onto the page. Hume then shared what she learned about me through the images. She seeks to explain to people where their power points are so they can go into the world more grounded. I felt this sense of empowerment as we hugged goodbye.

“Our hope is that guests take this special opportunity in the embrace of California’s natural wonders to refresh their body, mind, and soul, cultivating a profound sense of well-being that extends beyond their stay,” Clapoff said.

Closing the door to my Craftsman dream home, I walked past the fire pits where I lingered to read, the lily pond where I waved at turtles, and the lobby where I had one too many cups of tea chatting with the concierge, who had become like family. I was sad to leave but also determined to bottle up this sense of peace and connectedness found at the El Encanto and sprinkle it into my every day.

It was just what this teacher needed to start the summer off in contentment.

El Encanto will continue to roll out different garden-themed experiences for guests throughout the year. For more information, please visit belmond.com/elencanto.com or email reservations.ele@belmond.com.

Getting in touch with nature is a key component of the wellness program.

New Executive Chef Conny Andersson’s cuisine focuses on ingredients from El Encanto’s garden.

The “Guided Meditation” program at the El Encanto’s Lily Pond

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Dining Like Royalty at Sushi by Scratch

One of the strangest ironies of being a journalist who specializes in the softer side of things (food and wine, and arts and culture, as opposed to newsy beats like courts and crime, and politics and policy) is that I frequently get to wine, dine, travel, and experience things at a VIP level that I would never be able to afford on my measly salary. Such was the case when I recently dined at Sushi by Scratch, Montecito’s first Michelin–starred restaurant.

I’ve always been curious about the place especially having been one of the few people who experienced co-owner chefs Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee’s incredible Silver Bough experience when it briefly orbited the universe at the Montecito Inn back in 2019 so when the restaurant reached out with an invitation to check it out, I jumped at the opportunity to try it.

Here’s what it’s like to dine at one of Meghan and Harry’s favorite restaurants in the 805 region (they reportedly dine here often and recently brought along Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow).

We’re personally greeted in the Montecito Inn lobby and escorted to a lounge area for a welcome cocktail, a lovely concoction of Japanese whiskey, ginger, and sake served in a small cup and saucer, which our server explains is to be poured over into the saucer for good luck, giving new meaning to the phrase “your cup runneth over.” It’s exactly this kind of charming attention to detail that makes this experience so unique.

Soon we’re escorted into the restaurant, an intimate space I’ve been in before it once housed Frankland’s Crab & Co., then Chaplin’s Martini Bar, before being converted to Sushi|Bar, the recent predecessor to Sushi by Scratch. Now a thoughtfully conceived omakase restaurant, Sushi by Scratch has a 10-seat sushi counter where we’re upclose and personal with a four-person team, including a chef, two sous chefs, and a bartender/sake sommelier. We elect to leave our pairings in the hands of the pros, who curate a sake flight and a house cocktail flight for us, to go with the “chef’s choice”style progressive 17-course nigiri tasting menu. The cocktails are nice, but the sake selection is a revelation, with far more complexity and interesting flavors in every sip than all of those sake-bomb shots of my youth.

Course one was bluefin tessin, made from the tail part of the tuna, which is ground into a paste with ponzu, matcha salt, wasabi, lemon, and rice, and topped with salmon roe and avocado.

That was followed by the beautiful, bright textural treat of hamachi (Japanese yellowtail), brushed with a sweet corn pudding, sourdough breadcrumbs (from Chef Margarita’s homemade bread), and wasabi. I know it sounds weird, but it was absolutely delicious and a truly original bite.

Montecito’s Intimate Omakase Space

Earns an A+ for Attention to Detail

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Then it’s on to the tasting menu (it’s all chef’s choice here, at $165 per person), where each painstakingly prepared bite course is simply glorious, as much a treat for the eyes as it is for the belly.

If there were ever a meal where we were justified to have “the camera eat first,” Sushi by Scratch is it!

Course three was toro, a second visit to the bluefin tuna family, but this time glazed with pineapple, soy, and wasabi for a bite that was much closer to meals I’ve had before, but never such an elevated version of this fish.

Course four was madai (red sea bream), a “summer taste” treat made with watermelon three ways, creating still more amazing textures.

For the fifth course, the house-made remoulade gave the scallop preparation a lovely lemony tang and paired notably well with the Domaine Christophe Mittnacht Gyotaku from Alsace.

Course six was a spot prawn, seasoned with clarified butter and a delectable house-made spice they called “elevated Old Bay,” which gave it a lovely, slightly Cajun kick at the end.

Then it was on to course seven, king salmon with an okra-root rub and fresh dill, among other elements in this

meticulous preparation. Watching the chef rub the okra against a sharkskin grater tool to create the rub was an impressive example of the attention to detail at Sushi by Scratch. Not a single element of this experience is left to chance, which means that although we have plenty of fabulous fish in our Santa Barbara seas, the offerings here are primarily flown in from Tokyo’s famous Toyosu Fish Market. They only seat 30 people a night, with three mostly sold-out seatings of 10 offered, which makes consistently great food an imperative.

Course eight was the shima-aji, topped with a nice kick of honey, another unexpected delight.

Course nine was albacore, rubbed with garlic and ponzu, wrapped in sake-soaked nori, and topped with wasabi and crispy onions, to create a texture and flavor bomb of the highest order. This was followed by akami, a bluefin tuna and what the chef described as the “most traditional bite of the night.”

The 11th course was kanpachi, topped by chicken cracklings and paired with a refreshing Yamada “Everlasting Roots” sake. The most time-sensitive course a Japanese uni with matcha sea salt was up next, followed by escolar, served with collard greens and pickled okra.

Lucky number 13 (or maybe 14) was an incredible buttery bite of Wagyu, served sushi-style and torched to perfection right in front of us. As he prepped the beef, the chef confirmed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are indeed regulars, and confided that Harry wasn’t really a fan of fish, “so, last time when he was here, I made him a steak.” If Harry’s steak was anything like the bite I had, he’s still getting the royal treatment, whether or not it’s granted by the king.

Even better than the Wagyu was the next course, roasted bone marrow nigiri of all things: topped with soy sauce and torched to brown it to indescribably tasty perfection.

That was followed by number 16, unagi, fried crispy in the rendered bone-marrow fat from the previous course and then dressed with poblano yuzu kosho, soy sauce, ponzu, lemon, and sea salt.

Unless you’re Prince Harry, the omakase menu changes with the seasons and the chef’s choice, but the final course, number 17, will always be a delectable dessert from Chef Margarita. The night we were there, the pièce de résistance was a pretty-as-a-picture, jewel-box-green gift: a matcha bonbon, made with makrut lime, white chocolate, and shortbread. It left a delicious lingering finish to an unforgettable night.

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Chef Richard torches the incredible Wagyu beef.

The Spot Prawn, seasoned with clarified butter and a housemade “elevated Old Bay” spice

Bluefin tessin, topped with salmon roe and avocado

The intimate 10-seat dining area

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SAMsARA’s Led Zeppelin Wine Experience Takes Tasters on Trip Through Time

Music and wine have an uncanny way of bringing people of different walks of life into the same room for a shared experience. And while it’s not uncommon to find both around local tasting rooms all over Santa Barbara, you’re less likely to find an experience that combines a curated wine and music pairing through local vintage wines. This transcendental wine-tasting experience is precisely what SAMsARA’s Goleta tasting-room team would like guests to enjoy through their curated wine and music pairings. This month’s theme: wines from SAMsARA’s 2013 harvest to the tune of Led Zeppelin’s “Ten Years Gone.”

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Tasting current-release wine is the norm at most places, but tasting vintage wine offers the unique opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the wine. Tasting vintage wine is not so common in Santa Barbara, especially compared to regions such as Burgundy or Bordeaux, where archeological evidence dates viticulture practices back to the Roman era and sometimes even older. Santa Barbara wine country, which was first designated in the ’80s with the Santa Maria AVA, followed by Santa Ynez Valley, Sta. Rita Hills, and Ballard Canyon AVA, is relatively young. There just isn’t much “old” wine to taste. This is part of the reason most tasting rooms stick to pouring current releases for their tasting flights while reserving their vintage wines for club members’ shipments only.

rience this particular retrospective lineup, as only about five cases of this wine remain in existence. “We will definitely sell out,” says tasting room manager Christopher Skrabut. Scarcity of the wine is one reason why a library tasting is something to revel in. “You don’t see library tastings often, but our tasting room is off the beaten path. We are the only one in Goleta, so we often host the neighborhood folks who are regulars. We want to be able to offer something different for them each time they come in that is unlike the usual draw of day drinking one might find in the Funk Zone. This is why we preemptively save wines from each vintage to offer different retrospective tastings to our guests every month.”

The music becomes another way to enhance the experience. Brady and Skrabut are often working or hanging together in the tasting room, and opening up a bottle that has been aged and properly stored for an extended period of time allows one to discover a preserved snapshot of the year’s climate. Simply put, tasting vintage wines is one way to understand and truly appreciate a region and the wine’s ability to develop over a period of time.

The year 2013 was a warm vintage for Santa Barbara, which Brady remembers well: “2013 was a powerful vintage, so drinking these wines during their original release would have made them seem bold and tannic, which is precisely what made them great candidates for enjoying 10 years down the line.” Tasting through these wines is one way to discover Sta. Rita Hills pinot and syrah with the added enjoyment of complexity and flavor from time spent in the bottle.

SAMsARA Wine Co.’s winemaker, Matt Brady, believes offering library wines is part of what makes their tasting-room experience special, and his passion for music from artists such as Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin helped to create a truly one-of-a-kind tasting experience. In fact, this may be the only time you have the opportunity to expe-

The “Ten Years Gone” tasting is a special flight of ’13 pinot noirs from Cargasacchi and Las Hermanas, syrahs from Melville and Zotovich, and grenache from Larner. 6485

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Wines poured in this themed flight include 2013 pinot noirs from Cargasacchi and Las Hermanas, syrahs from Melville and Zotovich, and grenache from Larner.

Menu for the “Ten Years Gone” tasting flight

Reimagined Corner Tap Introduces Detroit-Style Pizzas

Many residents of Santa Barbara’s Mesa became familiar with Corner Tap Restaurant within months of its original opening in 2020. One of the Santa Barbara Restaurant Collective’s local establishments, Corner Tap has relaunched with a freshly remodeled décor, a new chef, new management and a new menu.

Partnering with wife Paige Simandle as the restaurant manager, culinary artist Chef Nathan Simandle has curated a variety of gourmet-style comfort foods ranging from light greens (like the Beets by Dre salad) to pizzas (like the Booming Shrooms Day Device) and appetizers, including their unique Wagyu Smashburger Tacos: a blend of meat, cheese, subtle spice, and crunch. Now in their featured food offerings is Corner Tap’s new selection of Detroit-style pan pizzas. The traditional Detroit-style pizza layers its pie crust with cheese and toppings, often below a layer of sauce, which creates a focaccia-like foundation. Then what is layered atop is typically a Wisconsin brick cheese, which caramelizes over the edges of the finished pie during baking to create a distinctly more-thanjust-a-pizza taste. Chef Nathan has evolved this culinary style by changing up some of the pie-making process and cheeses. Corner Tap now features the Notorious P.I.E., Lt. Dan, and Jalisco Rodeo, which gives a nod to Mexican cuisine.

Corner Tap continues to offer a full spectrum of tap beers and a host of signature cocktails, such as the unique Prickly Pear Paloma and Spicy Blackberry Mint Margarita, and an espresso martini. For whiskey drinkers, Corner Tap offers the Mesa Dad, their variation of the Old-Fashioned, with Elijah Craig rye.

Corner Tap is also launching their new entertainment program, including live music performances, sports viewing events, comedy, tasting events, and a variety of other activities. Call (805) 690-2739 or visit sbcornertap.com

STELLA MARE’S BISTRO TO REMAIN OPEN: This just in from Stella Mare’s: “Hello John, Philippe here with Stella Mare’s Bistro with great news: We are no longer closing at the end of 2023! Our lease has been extended; Thank you to everyone for being so supportive; we are looking forward to many more dining experiences for lunch, brunch, dinner, and events. This gives us lots to celebrate for our 27th year in business this July. We are looking forward to seeing you soon. À bientôt, the Stella Team.” Call (805) 969-6705 or visit stellamares.com

BROAD STREET OYSTER COMPANY SUMMER

SERIES: Broad Street Oyster Company at 418 State Street announced the launch of a new beverage summer series. “We are excited to host Point Break and collaborate with our incredible beverage partners,” said Christopher Tompkins, owner of Broad Street Oyster Company. “This series not only celebrates the summer season but also presents an opportunity to connect with the Santa Barbara community and to meet our beverage partners. Guests can look forward to a delightful fusion of flavors, featuring Broad Street Oyster Company’s signature menu items, including the Lobster Roll, oysters, and featuring special off-menu items paired with an array of refreshing beverages with giveaways, samples, and merch.”

The schedule includes Best Coast Beverages (July 14), Topa Topa Brewing Company (July 26), Entity of Delight (Aug. 3), Crowns & Hops Brewing Co. (Aug. 17), Anna’s Cider (Aug. 31), and Figueroa Mountain Brew Co. (Sept. 14).

TWO EATERIES OPEN IN SOLVANG: In Solvang, our popular neighboring Danish destination, The Copenhagen House (thecopenhagenhouse.com) has welcomed two sibling businesses with the opening of new pastry shop Brød & Kage by Danish Mill Bakery and Æbleskivehuset, the latter of which is also home of new Solvang Creamery.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com

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SANTA BARBARA UPTOWN OPEN STUDIO TOUR

Henry Diltz, sharp-eyed photographer to the boomer folk-rock stars, is anything but a war photographer, and he has built up an iconic body of work on the proverbial front lines. To be more specific, he was there on the “front lines” of counterculture turned mainstream pop culture in the late ’60s and early ’70s, capturing and staging imagery now deeply etched in the pop-culture collective unconscious.

As seen in Diltz’s latest local exhibition, Music Is Love, at Solvang’s Elverhøj Museum, images can suggest sounds and nostalgia and tickle other senses. Many of the show’s ultra-familiar images wound up on landmark pop albums including the Crosby, Stills & Nash debut album, The Doors’ Morrison Hotel, James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James, and Stephen Stills’s first solo album. A tight shot of Paul and Linda McCartney, which landed on the cover of Life magazine in 1971, is another instantly recognizable and instantly lovable sight.

Seeing these pictures again in living, clean-printed color on a museum wall reflexively triggers musical memories. In fact, on the afternoon I visited the alwaysinviting museum, Diltz’s dreamy shot of the Bohemian-attired Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock resonated with the in-gallery sound of Hendrix’s dulcet-toned psychedelia, in the form of such songs as “Wait Until Tomorrow.”

To paraphrase another Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young) album, seeing Diltz’s work can also trigger a kind of déjà vu all over again. The folk musician turned highprofile photographer’s striking cavalcade of pop-culture photos, both official and casual, have often been seen in the Santa Barbara area, in gallery spaces and also in slideshow form at the Tales from the Tavern series and elsewhere.

What gives an added poignancy to the timing and titling of this latest show is its proximity to January’s passing of longtime

Santa Ynez resident David Crosby. Crosby was a long-standing friend and subject of Diltz, and it was Crosby’s hypnotic, mantralike song “Music Is Love” from his masterpiece solo album If I Could Only Remember My Name that provides the show its apt title. One corner of the exhibition is devoted to Crosby, with his impish radical humor in tow. The best-known of this small group of photos is a 1971 shot of the mustachioed “Croz,” with a joint between his lips and a gun-shaped flag origami aimed at his temple, looking perfectly deadpan.

Another tribute to a recently belated musical legend appears in the form of a Tina Turner concert image, with the energized rock ’n’ roll queen drenched in sweat and a palpably ecstatic sheen. By contrast, Diltz’s ability to bring unpretentious intimacy to his work finds expression in shots of Neil Young at his ranch unused photos from the Harvest shoot and Joni Mitchell peering out of a window in the Laurel Canyon house that was the inspiration for then-boyfriend Graham Nash’s classic “Our House.”

In an even more close-up and friendly shot, Mitchell, Crosby, Eric Clapton, and an unidentified toddler lounge on the Laurel Canyon lawn predecessor to Mitchell’s Hissing of Summer Lawns imagery?

Given the familiarity of many of the images in this Diltz show, some of the more eye-catching images fall under the category of “deep cuts,” versus the “greatest hits” from the canon. By those terms, my two favorite and surprising images in Music Is Love reflect the natural diversity of gigs in Diltz’s image bank. A stunning and enigmatic action shot of Kurt Cobain at the Forum in Los Angeles in 1993, shortly before his death, finds the charismatic musician in frozen intensity, hair flung wildly in red light and the angel prop from the cover of In Utero standing vigil in the background.

A bit disarmingly, we also find Diltz shifting boldly away from his more naturalistic style into the stuff of kitschy fantasy for a stage shot of David Cassidy as football stud flanked by yellow-costumed UCLA cheerleaders.

A unique group of artists in Santa Barbara are opening up their studios to the public with their first collaboration of its type, the Uptown Studio Tour.

Artist Tal Avitzur put the group together for the show, which takes place on Saturday, July 8, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. He specializes in creating sculptures from found objects culled by scavenging salvage yards, scrap yards, and dumpsters. Inspired by childhood science fiction movies and comic books, Avitzur uses everyday household objects such as vacuum cleaners, floor polishers, tools, and kitchen supplies to make sculptures of robots, spaceships, and all sorts of creatures.

Avitzur describes the process as being like a jigsaw puzzle, as it takes a long time to look for the right parts. “I just put something aside and wait until the part appears, taking my parts, laying them down, seeing what looks good together and figuring how to fit them together with these objects that weren’t meant to be together.”

Woodard

These images, too, abide by the adage that “music is love,” from very different corners of the rock multiverse. —Josef

Music Is Love runs through August 13. See elverhoj.org.

Over the years, Avitzur has met several artists who live within walking distance of his studio and create unique art. There is already a Carpinteria and Summerland studio tour, he thought, so why not Santa Barbara?

In addition to Avitzur, other participating artists for the first tour edition include Macduff Everton, Eric Saint Georges, Laurie Gross, Mary Heebner, Sol Hill, Daniel Elmer Landman, Becca Licha, Margaret Matson, and Nurit Ruckenstein. Although this is the first studio tour of this particular area in Santa Barbara, Avitzur is doing it for fun with no rules attached. “We’re just trying it for the first time. It doesn’t have to be every year; we could do it every few months.”

Avitzur also wants to include different artists for every studio tour.

—Colette Victorino

The locations and information for the artist’s open studios can be found at Independent.com/events.

COURTESY

PHOTOS

Crosby, Stills & Nash, February 1969

David Cassidy and UCLA cheerleaders

Neil Young, Broken Arrow Ranch, 1971

TIME-TRIPPING PICTURE SHOW

A GROUP OF RASCALS CALLED THE BRASSCALS

BROADWAY IN SANTA BARBARA IS READY TO BOOGIE

The Brasscals, a 13-member street brass band founded in Santa Barbara in early 2022, has just returned from HONK! West Fest, a globally recognized street brass-band festival in Seattle. Not even existing two years ago, the band is now playing in national festivals, as well as in Santa Barbara and Ventura.

Entertainingly, their first name was the Brassholes, but they wanted something more playful and a little more family-friendly as the band founded by Maria Cincotta and Antoine Descoshas and then populated via an ad on Craigslist has members that range in age from 19 to 80 years old, so they decided on the Brasscals.

As the band’s leaders, Cincotta and Descos start with some pre-made arrangements for songs, then they get inspiration from their 13 members, who push them to try different genres and arrangements. The members are also encouraged to bring their own pieces and arrangements for the band to perform.

Mary Beugelsdijk, one of the two trumpet players in the band, said, “It’s collaborative; just before [a recent show] we met and had a very business-like meeting about these moments for group feedback, so that everybody felt like they had a voice.”

As the band continues to grow organically, the leaders are open-minded to the feedback of the band and hope to make them feel like they are getting what they want out of the experience.

The Brasscals used to practice in Alameda Park, where people would be able to swing by and hear them play this also introduced them to some of the members that they have today.

This was how Beugelsdijk became a member. “I was really craving a musical thing and had just moved here [to Santa Barbara],” she said. “I saw these guys, and it was like a scene out of a movie; I swerved my car around and ran up to them.” There were no awkward introductions, just immediate connections.

One of the special qualities about the band is that they all come from a different background in terms of musicality, and can play a variety of unique instruments, such as a banjo and washboard.

“Some of us are natively trained by ear and can riff a solo like nobody else,” said Cincotta. “There are also some of us who come from the traditional formal, fitting concert bands, took music lessons, and had sheet music.”

The band members fill in each other’s weaknesses, a discovery and learning process that’s still ongoing today. “There’s a beauty for me that street brass bands are just whatever the people want to do, wherever it goes,” said Descos, “a real freedom musically, artistically; you can do whatever.”

HONK! West Fest was a special time for the Brasscals, as participation in this festival was by acceptance only. The Brasscals received the honor of being accepted just one and a half years into existence, and were the only band from California.

Not only did they get to play in the festival, but they were also able to meet, listen, and network with other street brass bands. “It was so powerful to me to be able to connect with these random people,” said Cincotta. “It shows that you’re part of a global movement.”

At the end of each evening, all of the bands brought out their horns and drums and jammed together creating a phenomenal sense of community and experience.

“We’re a bunch of random people with such a crazy range of ages and backgrounds,” said Cincotta, “but we would have never met each other otherwise, and, speaking for myself, I think we love each other.”

At a recent show at M. Special Brewing Company in Goleta, the Brasscals talked about how much they love how people quickly embrace them as a fun, wholesome, unique band.

The band’s number-one goal is community awareness, and they would love people to come watch them perform or even join their band. As to where they’re headed next, the Brasscals are gearing up with talk of travel, with the possibility of an international tour within the next couple of years and more U.S. festivals.

—Colette Victorino

See brasscals.weebly.com.

From beloved literary characters to iconic movie romance and pop divas, along with a sprinkling of remarkable true stories, the 2023-24 Broadway in Santa Barbara series has something for just about everyone to enjoy.

Kicking off the season is The Cher Show (Dec. 6–7), the Tony Award–winning musical that tells the life story of the iconic superstar portrayed by three different women and including a look at 35 smash-hit songs, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, a Grammy, an Oscar, an Emmy, and enough fabulous Bob Mackie gowns to cause a sequin shortage! The fabulous fantasies continue into the new year with Pretty Woman: The Musical (Jan. 22–23, 2024), based on the beloved Julia Roberts and Richard Gere romance. This version features a creative team led by twotime Tony Award–winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde).

Momix: Alice (Feb. 20, 2024) is a season add-on inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Visionary choreographer Moses Pendleton presents a blend of illusion, acrobatics, magic, and whimsy that sends audiences flying down the rabbit hole on a mind-bending adventure as Alice encounters time-honored characters including the undulating Caterpillar, a lobster quadrille, frenzied White Rabbits, a mad Queen of Hearts, and a variety of other surprises.

Another beloved classic fictional work comes to the stage with Little Women (Apr. 10–11, 2024), a vivid musical interpretation that follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March, each determined to live life on her own terms. Critics have raved that the musical Little Women is an embodiment of the complete theatrical experience, with a powerful book and score leaving audiences filled with a sense of adventure, joy, heartache, and a lifting of the spirit.

The final offering in the series is Come from Away (Apr. 30–May 1, 2024), the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them when the world was in chaos in the aftermath of the events of 9/11. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, this musical is based on the original Broadway direction and choreography.

—Leslie Dinaberg

Season tickets are now on sale at americantheatreguild.com/santabarbara.

The Brasscals

The North American tour of Come from Away

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Hamburg production of Pretty Woman: The Musical

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ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Visionary author Peter McWilliams wrote, “One of the most enjoyable aspects of solitude is doing what you want when you want to do it, with the absolute freedom to change what you’re doing at will. Solitude removes all the ‘negotiating’ we need to do when we’re with others.” I’ll add a caveat: Some of us have more to learn about enjoying solitude. We may experience it as a loss or deprivation. But here’s the good news, Aries: In the coming weeks, you will be extra inspired to cultivate the benefits that come from being alone.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): The 18th-century French engineer Étienne Bottineau invented nauscopy, the art of detecting sailing ships at a great distance, well beyond the horizon. This was before the invention of radar. Bottineau said his skill was not rooted in sorcery or luck, but from his careful study of changes in the atmosphere, wind, and sea. Did you guess that Bottineau was a Taurus? Your tribe has a special capacity for arriving at seemingly magical understandings by harnessing your sensitivity to natural signals. Your intuition thrives as you closely observe the practical details of how the world works. This superpower will be at a peak in the coming weeks.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): According to a Welsh proverb, “Three fears weaken the heart: fear of the truth; fear of the devil; fear of poverty.” I suspect the first of those three is most likely to worm its way into your awareness during the coming weeks. So let’s see what we can do to diminish its power over you. Here’s one possibility: Believe me when I tell you that even if the truth’s arrival is initially disturbing or disruptive, it will ultimately be healing and liberating. It should be welcomed, not feared.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Hexes nullified! Jinxes abolished! Demons banished! Adversaries outwitted! Liabilities diminished! Bad habits replaced with good habits! These are some of the glorious developments possible for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little. But if so, not much. In my vision of your future, you will be the embodiment of a lucky charm and a repository of blessed mojo. You are embarking on a phase when it will make logical sense to be an optimist. Can you sweep all the dross and mess out of your sphere? No, but I bet you can do at least 80 percent.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): In the book Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Frank Cowan tells a, perhaps legendary, story about how mayors were selected in the medieval Swedish town of Hurdenburg. The candidates would set their chins on a table with their long beards spread out in front of them. A louse, a tiny parasitic insect, would be put in the middle of the table. Whichever beard the creature crawled to and chose as its new landing spot would reveal the man who would become the town’s new leader. I beg you not to do anything like this, Leo. The decisions you and your allies make should be grounded in good evidence and sound reason, not blind chance. And please avoid parasitical influences completely.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I rebel against the gurus and teachers who tell us our stories are delusional indulgences that interfere with our enlightenment. I reject their insistence that our personal tales are distractions from our spiritual work. Virgo author AS Byatt speaks for me: “Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.” I love and honor the stories of my own destiny, and I encourage you to love and honor yours. Having said that, I will let you know that now is an excellent time to jettison the stories that feel demoralizing and draining even as you celebrate the stories that embody your genuine beauty. For extra credit: Tell the soulful stories of your life to anyone who is receptive.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the Mayan calendar, each of the 20 day names is associated with a natural phenomenon. The day called Kawak is paired with rainstorms. Ik’ is connected with wind and breath. Kab’an is earth, Manik’ is deer, and Chikchan is the snake. Now would be a great time for you to engage in an imaginative exercise inspired by the Mayans. Why? Because this is an ideal phase of your cycle to break up your routine, to reinvent the regular rhythm, to introduce innovations in how you experience the flow of the time. Just for fun, why not give each of the next 14 days a playful nickname or descriptor? This Friday could be Crescent Moon, for example. Saturday might be Wonderment, Sunday can be Dazzle Sweet, and Monday Good Darkness.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From 998 ’til 1030, Scorpio-born leader Mahmud Ghaznavi ruled the vast Ghaznavid empire, which stretched from current-day Iran to central Asia and northwestern India. Like so many of history’s strong men, he was obsessed with military conquest. Unlike many others, though, he treasured culture and learning. You’ve heard of poet laureates? He had 400 of them. According to some tales, he rewarded one wordsmith with a mouthful of pearls. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be more like the Mahmud who loved beauty and art and less like the Mahmud who enjoyed fighting. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to fill your world with grace and elegance and magnificence.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): About 1,740 years ago, before she became a Catholic saint, Margaret of Antioch got swallowed whole by Satan, who was disguised as a dragon. Or so the old story goes. But Margaret was undaunted. There in the beast’s innards, Margaret calmly made the sign of the cross over and over with her right hand. Meanwhile, the wooden cross in her left hand magically swelled to an enormous size that ruptured the beast, enabling her to escape. After that, because of her triumph, expectant mothers and women in labor regarded Margaret as their patron saint. Your upcoming test won’t be anywhere near as demanding as hers, Sagittarius, but I bet you will ace it and ultimately garner sweet rewards.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn-born Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was an astronomer and mathematician who was an instrumental innovator in the Scientific Revolution. Among his many breakthrough accomplishments were his insights about the laws of planetary motion. Books he wrote were crucial forerunners of Isaac Newton’s theories about gravitation. But here’s an unexpected twist: Kepler was also a practicing astrologer who interpreted the charts of many people, including three emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. In the spirit of Kepler’s ability to bridge seemingly opposing perspectives, Capricorn, I invite you to be a paragon of mediation and conciliation in the coming weeks. Always be looking for ways to heal splits and forge connections. Assume you have an extraordinary power to blend elements that no one can else has.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Dear Restless Runaway: During the next 10 months, life will offer you these invitations: (1) Identify the land that excites you and stabilizes you. (2) Spend lots of relaxing time on that land. (3) Define the exact nature of the niche or situation where your talents and desires will be most gracefully expressed. (4) Take steps to create or gather the family you want. (5) Take steps to create or gather the community you want.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I’d love you to be a deep-feeling free-thinker in the coming weeks. I will cheer you on if you nurture your emotional intelligence as you liberate yourself from outmoded beliefs and opinions. Celebrate your precious sensitivity, dear Pisces, even as you use your fine mind to reevaluate your vision of what the future holds. It’s a perfect time to glory in rich sentiments and exult in creative ideas.

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ORDINANCE 5182

An Ordinance Rescinding and Replacing Chapter 5, Ambulances, of the Santa Barbara County Code, to Establish a Non‑Exclusive System to Regulate, Set Rates for, Issue Permits for, and Contract with Ambulance Services.

Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 20th day of June 2023, by the following vote:

Ayes: Supervisors Williams, Hartmann, Nelson and Lavagnino

Noes: None

Absent: Supervisor Capps

Abstain: None

MONA MIYASATO CLERK OF THE BOARD

By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk

NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinances No.5182 is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.

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PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ANALYST

OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR

The Academic Affairs Analyst provides analytical and administrative support

for the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC). Manages and/ or coordinates special projects or actions for the EVC, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel, Executive Director for Academic Affairs, and other senior staff in the EVC’s Office. Anticipates needs, understands priorities, and sets deadlines accordingly. Provides support for the review and development of academic policies, programs and initiatives, as well as assessment and accreditation. Provides comprehensive support to the Director of Academic Planning and Policy and Director of Space Planning & Management for Academic Affairs. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience/ training; demonstrated ability to use discretion and maintain all confidentiality; demonstrated proficiency in communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range is $26.39 to $44.78/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $28.00 to $32.00/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/7/23. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 54922

ACADEMIC PERSONNEL COORDINATOR

PHELPS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER

Administers academic personnel activities for a total of five departments and programs (French & Italian, Germanic & Slavic Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Latin American & Iberian Studies). Responsible for complex academic merit and promotion cases, faculty recruitment and appointment cases, recruiting and hiring temporary Lecturers, payroll, and occasional postdoc and other research appointments. Responsibilities include working with the Office of International Student and Scholars on visa requests, assisting visiting scholars, facilitating leave requests in a timely manner, attending trainings, and maintaining a working knowledge of the Academic Personnel Manual, campus Red Binder and online systems. This individual will work closely with faculty, the department Chairs, and College of Letters & Science academic personnel analysts.

Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training in a higher education setting. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The full salary range is $26.09 ‑ $37.40/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $26.09 ‑ $27.32/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 Date: 7/7/23.

Job # 55071

ACCOUNT SPECIALIST

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Uses in‑depth accounting knowledge to resolve complex account reconciliations, (high level of complexity and high volume of transactions). Analyzes problems using a variety of applications from multiple sources to determine solutions. Independently performs responsibilities with a detailed understanding of significant processes, practices and policies. The University of California, Santa Barbara is an enterprise with expenditures in excess of $1 Billion annually and assets totaling $2 Billion. The reliability and quality of the financial information presented in these statements is essential to the management and resource allocation decisions of an extraordinarily broad clientele of stakeholders. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 1‑3 years Performing accounting analyst, professional accounting, accounting systems or auditing duties at a level of responsibility equivalent to Accounting Analyst, including AR/AP experience, fund accounting knowledge, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience. 1‑3 years

Computer proficiency is required. 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. Thorough knowledge of accounting functions and assignments. Ability to independently gather, organize, and perform accounting‑related analysis to complete work assignments.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted

Salary or Hourly Range: $62,300

‑$76,100/yr. Full Salary Range: $62,300 ‑ $117,500/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 7/10/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job # 54969

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE PROCESSOR

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Processes invoices for payment(s) within the UCSB Procure‑to‑Pay System and Financial Systems. Reviews, analyzes, verifies, matches and processes consolidated vendor invoices. Processes payments, and manages liens, for extramural award sub agreements, construction contracts and architects agreements.

Audits invoices, analyzes Sales and Use Tax requirements, and liaises with departments, central offices, and vendors to make necessary corrections. Reviews supplier statements and resolves related

issues. Reqs: Associate’s Degree or equivalent experience. 1‑3 years Administrative experience. High level of competency in written and verbal communication. Knowledge of and demonstrated ability to use standard computer systems including email, Microsoft Word, and Excel. Ability to take initiative and exercise strong problem solving skills. 1‑3 years of Experience in a customer service role. Ability to handle challenging customer experiences with patience, tact, and professionalism. 1‑3 years Computer proficiency is required. Word processing, spreadsheet, and computerized accounting system experience are essential to this position. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $26.09 ‑ $27.32/hr. Full Salary Range: $26.09 ‑ $37.40/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 7/10/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job # 54982

CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER 2 (OR CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER 3)

STUDENT HEALTH, UCSB

Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Hiring/

Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: CSW 2: $72,155 ‑ $78,085/yr. / CSW

3: $80,173 ‑ $95,813/yr. Full Salary

Range: CSW 2: $72,155‑ $101,012/ yr. / CSW 3: $80,173 ‑ $112,236/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action

with departmental standards and procedures. Troubleshoots, diagnoses, repairs, and requests maintenance for communication equipment and makes necessary recommendations for correction. Performs the full range of Public Safety Dispatcher call‑taking and dispatching functions as needed.

BUSINESS MANAGER‑CLEGG LAB/STEM CELL CENTER

NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Provides research, budget and analytical support for the Clegg lab and the Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering lab within the NRI. Responsibilities include pre and post contract and grant components, financial management and analysis of contracts, grants and gift funds awarded on behalf of PI Clegg. Prepares ongoing analysis and review of current lab awards. Responsible for writing financial reports to agencies, and assisting with Stem Cell lab components of the NRI Annual report. Makes recommendations on short and long‑term resources available for supplies, equipment, and lab personnel. Assists with formatting scientific manuscript citations and the multiple CIRM training grants. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area or equivalent experience/training, 1‑3 yrs working in a lab environment. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $27.68 ‑ $32.00/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 # 54785

Work as a clinical social worker in an integrated health clinic serving UCSB students. Support both behavior health and medical treatment teams. This position has an emphasis on crisis support services. Duties include providing mental health assessments, counseling/therapy, case management, and crisis intervention. Provides advocacy support for students in collaboration with campus partners. Reqs: Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited program required at both levels. CSW 2: California Associate Clinical Social Worker registration (ASW) with BBS registration. CSW 3: 3 years of post‑Masters experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. CSW 3: Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with BBS licensure and with 3 years post‑Masters experience or an equivalent combination of education/ experience. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting requirement of Dependent Adult Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. CSW 2: Clinical Supervision for hours provided. CSW 3: Must have a California Clinical Social Worker license at all times during employment.

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 # 54271

COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONAL STAFF SUPERVISOR

POLICE DEPARTMENT

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18. Fenced

19. Language spoken in “The Passion of the Christ”

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29. Alaska natives

31. Hill affirmations

32. It branches into Ulster and Dublin accents

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37. They come to a point near your field of vision

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40. Undisputed

44. Subject of some terraforming proposals

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51. Silence, in a way

53. Costal enclosures

56. Rabbit creator

57. Mars option

58. Decreasing figure?

59. Hohe ___ (Cologne shopping locale)

60. Devices that displayed numbers

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27. Throws a sleeper then touches the ground, essentially

29. Went for the silver, perhaps

30. Ganon, to Link

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completion of the POST Dispatcher test. Currently Grade 21: $62,300/ yr. ‑ $117,500/yr. Grade 22 starting July 1, 2023: $68,700/yr. ‑ $132,500/ 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 #53259

COMMUNICATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS ASSISTANT

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Under the supervision of the Academic Personnel and Operations Coordinator, the Communications and Special Events Assistant provides administrative support to the Department Chair and Business Officer. Helps develop the Computer Science department’s outreach and communication. Assists in planning and implementing departmental conferences, colloquia and special events including the annual CS Summit and the weekly Theory seminar series. Reqs: High school diploma or GED. 1‑3 years clerical experience. Thorough knowledge in administrative procedures and processes including word processing, spreadsheet and database applications.Budgeted Hourly Range: $26.09 to $29.25/hr. Full Salary Range: $26.09 to $37.40/hr.

Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Position is funded through June 30, 2026 pending further funding. 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 7/7/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu. Job # 54904

CUSTOMER SERVICE COORDINATOR

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Uses computerized work order systems and other software applications to develop, assign, and manage administrative processes of property management. Schedules work; tracks progress of work using various software programs; coordinates schedules with various outside resources; vendors, staff, and project managers. Utilizes software systems to collect data and create reports. Serves on Project Management Team and provides administrative support and data analyses for Leadership in Environmental & Energy Design certification. Reqs: 1‑3 years customer service experience. Work experience demonstrating a strong customer service background.

Ability to prioritize demands, meet timelines and exercise judgment. Strong communication and organizational skills, including ability to work independently as well as with others. Ability to communicate in person, via telephone and two way radio. Independent judgment, initiative and ability to evaluate and analyze data and make recommendations. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. Ability to work under pressure in a team atmosphere and independently involving deadlines, periodic heavy work cycles and high volume while maintaining extreme attention to detail. Proficiency in Word and Excel.

Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s

license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check.

Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $26.09/hr. ‑ $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 #54695

FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC PERSONNEL ANALYST

PHELPS ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT CENTER (PASC)

Responsible for financial matters and academic personnel processes for the departments and programs that the PASC serves. Manages payroll reconciliation and audit general ledgers. Projects and monitors expenditures across all funding sources. Advises faculty on policies regarding budgets. Serves as primary UCPath initiator for all staff and selected academic appointments including requesting position control numbers and initiating the funding entry. Ensures proper employee and supervisor set‑up in Kronos on‑line timekeeping system. Is responsible for the visa aspects for visiting scholars. From preliminary analysis, extensive communication with applicants and OISS, to submission of documents, ensuring accurate tracking of status and follow‑through. Coordinates annual summer research additional compensation. Provides administrative back‑up and possesses the ability to work under pressure of deadlines. Serves as back‑up for academic personnel actions for permanent faculty and continuing lecturers including faculty retention, merits and promotions, lecturer reviews, leave requests, and retirements. Maintains a broad knowledge and functional understanding of all academic personnel policies and procedures. Provides consultation and advice to the department Chair and faculty regarding academic personnel policies. Collaborates on financial matters and academic recruitment cases, meeting Affirmative Action guidelines, and ensuring that overall general procedures are followed. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area or equivalent work experience and/or training. 1‑3 years bookkeeping/financial work experience in an academic higher education institution or similar. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The full salary range is $26.39 ‑ $44.78/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $26.39 ‑ $29.00/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 7/10/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #55145

GROUNDSKEEPER

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Maintains grounds and landscape duties around seven residence halls, three dining commons and four residential apartment complexes. May be assigned other duties (including those in other areas) to accomplish the operational needs of the department. May be

required to work schedules other than Monday through Friday, 7am to 3:30pm, to meet the operational needs of the department. May be required to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational need of the department. Complies with department safety and illness programs as implemented by supervisor and/or co‑workers.

Interacts as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment. Professional Expectation/Attitude Standard/ Customer Service Promotes customer service programs in the Grounds unit to residents/clients.

Assists with the development and maintenance of a work environment that is conducive to meeting the mission of the organization.

Initiates communication directly with co‑workers and/or supervisors to improve and clarify working relationship, identify problems and concerns and seek resolution to work‑related conflicts. Participates in staff training and development workshops, retreats and meetings as determined by supervisor. Reqs: Minimum of one to three years experience in grounds maintenance.

Must be able to follow oral/written instructions. Ability to perform minor repairs on small equipment. Some knowledge of irrigation and drip systems. Experience with the use of tractors, small lawnmowers, edgers, power sweepers, roto‑tillers and chainsaws. Will be working with a diverse student body and staff. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Must have effective communication skills. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $18.93/hr. ‑ $22.20/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 #54466

HOUSING BILLING ASSISTANT

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Using a computerized receivable system known as BARC, provides customer service to students and parents. Assists in financial tasks, such as daily balancing and preparation of financial journals, reconciliation, Registration Payment Processing, Withdrawal/Cancellation of Registration, ARID Setup, Daily Balancing, Account Blocks, Payment Plan Audits, Ad‑Hoc Reports, BARC Usage, Private/Agency Loan & Scholarships, Refund Checks, and Financial Aid File review. Reqs: High School Diploma High school diploma or GED. 1‑3 years of experience in an administrative, clerical, or operations role. Thorough knowledge in administrative procedures and processes including word processing, spreadsheet and database applications. Requires good verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking, multi‑task, and time management skills. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The budgeted hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $26.09 ‑ $27.32/hr.

Full Salary Range: $26.09 ‑ $37.40/ 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 # 50374

IMMUNIZATION COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR

UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH

Assists UCSB students with their entry immunization requirements and documentation for compliance. The Immunization compliance coordinator will use a multi‑function compliance module to identify students that are not compliant with our entry immunization requirements. The Immunization Compliance Coordinator will utilize the necessary steps to accomplish full entry compliance for UC enrollment and registration. The Immunization Compliance Coordinator will use substantial customer service experience and demonstrate knowledge of immunization schedules and dosage requirements, based on the Center for Disease Control, The Public Health Department, the University of the President, and Student Health guidelines. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. Strong customer service skills. 1‑3 years experience in an administrative or health‑related field. Notes: To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $23.59–$27.39/hr. Full Title Code Pay Range: $23.59/ hr.–$31.98/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 # 54275

LIMITED MEDICAL ASSISTANT

STUDENT HEALTH

Provides medical and administrative support to the physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. The medical assistant will assist with but limited to support with exams, procedures, taking vitals, checking in/out patients, filling out necessary paperwork, taking phone/ electronic messages and following directives from the clinicians.

Reqs: Education: High School diploma or equivalent. Current CPR certification/Basic Life Support (BLS) certification Certification with one of the following agencies*: American Association of Medical Assistants (AMA), American Medical Technologists (AMT), California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants (CMAA), Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (LEMSA), Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).

Notes: Student Health requires all clinical staff to successfully pass the background check and complete the credentialing process before the employment date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the

influenza season. This is a 40% limited position not to exceed 1,000 hours in a rolling one‑year period. Days and hours may vary and equate to 16 hours/week. May be requested to work up to 20 hours/ week. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action.

Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $24.69/ hr ‑ $30.68/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.

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MANAGER, CORAL TREE CAFE

CAMPUS DINING

Under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Retail, the Coral Tree Manager oversees the day to day operations of the Coral Tree Cafe. This includes Supervision and Training, Menu Development and Food Handling, Systems Management, and Financial Management. Annual revenue of Coral Tree Cafe exceeds $700,000 and has a staff of one part time cook and approximately 35 part time student employees. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years of management experience in a food service operation and/or retail outlet and knowledge of and experience with culinary techniques. Notes: ServSafe Certification. Will require some flexibility in work hours. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Budgeted Range: $55,100.00/yr. ‑ $67,500.00/yr. Posting Salary Range: $55,100.00/ yr. ‑ $70,000.00/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 7/6/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #55028

PAYROLL AND FINANCIAL ANALYST

UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH

Manages the personnel and payroll program for the department, including managing pay records and personnel files, administering financial resources, and providing expert guidance and counsel to staff and management. Also provides administrative support and works on special projects as needed. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training. Experience in relevant administrative work.

Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suites applications.

Notes: To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range*: $27.32–$29.25/ hr. Full Title Code Pay Range: $26.09–$37.40/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 # 54139

PHYSICIAN

UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH

Nationally ranked University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), is looking for a full‑time Sports Medicine fellowship‑trained primary care physician for Student Health Services. Work alongside primary care providers and campus athletic trainers to coordinate delivery of care to NCAA athletes including pre‑participation clearances, musculoskeletal and head injury evaluations and other acute needs.

Work with athletic trainers to review and update existing policies and procedures and create new policies and procedures as indicated. Keep up to date on NCAA requirements for intercollegiate athletics. Deliver full range primary care to a college population including evaluation of acute needs such as acute illnesses and injuries, managing chronic conditions, reproductive/sexual health, mental health, and screening and referral for substance use. Reqs: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree. Current CA Medical license nad DEA license at all times during employment. Board Certification in Family Practice, Internal Medicine or Pediatrics, or Emergency Medicine throughout employment. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse and Dependent Adult Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass a background check and credentialing process before start date and date of hire.

To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. May be required to answer phone calls and respond to campus emergencies outside of regular operating hours. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $199,102.51/ yr. ‑ $244,258.00/yr.

Full Salary Range: $199,102.51/ yr. ‑ $264,494.58/yr. he 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 # 54835

PROCUREMENT BUSINESS ANALYST

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES

Acts as the back end source of reporting, data and metrics for Purchasing and Contracts Office, provides support to campus departments for the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment and services for the University of California, Santa Barbara. Provides data analytics, supplier on‑boarding, customer service, training, forms administration, and policy and regulatory compliance for the campus. Follows University, State and Federal guidelines to assist with the various facets of University procurement. Reqs:

High school diploma or equivalent experience. 1‑3 years experience in an administrative, clerical, or operations role. Thorough knowledge in administrative procedures and processes including word processing, spreadsheet and database applications. Requires good verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking, multi‑task and time management skills. Requires interpersonal and work leadership skills to provide guidance to other nonexempt personnel. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $26.09 ‑ $27.32/hr. Full Salary Range: $26.09 ‑ $37.40/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 7/6/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 54495

RESEARCH INTEGRITY SPECIALIST, IACUC

VICE CHANCELLOR OF RESEARCH

Oversees and promotes campus‑wide compliance with federal, state, and funding agency regulations regarding animal care and use in research. Responsible for independent administrative review of all research applications involving vertebrate animals, ensuring that the application fulfills and addresses all relevant regulations. Serves as the primary campus resource for faculty members using animals in research and disseminates information to all campus animal users. Along with committee Chair and Attending Veterinarian, maintains critical program accreditation (AAALAC) upon which many extramural funding sources depend. Conducts outreach and training, and oversees the Occupational Health Program for animal users and interactions with Occupational Physician. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Research Compliance Analyst 2: 1‑3 yrs exp relating to compliance or similar field, and/ or research with animals, and/or research lab experience; Research Compliance Analyst 3: 4‑6 yrs exp as listed above. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. UCSB is a Tobacco‑Free environment. Budgeted Pay Rate/ Range*: Research Compliance Analyst 2: $32.95‑$38.31/hr; Research Compliance Analyst 3: $77,000‑$95,000/yr. Full Title Code Pay Range: Research Compliance Analyst 2: $27.68‑$50.57/hr; Research Compliance Analyst 3: $68,700‑$132,500/yr. Salary offers are based on the final candidate’s qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent practices at the University. 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 7/5/23. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 54851

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ALICE STEPHENSON, aka ALICE KLEBB STEPHENSON, aka ALICE K. STEPHENSON, aka ALICE BRUNNER CASE NO.: 23PR00308

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

K. STEPHENSON, aka ALICE

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

THE PETITION for probate requests that: PETER M. BRUNNER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001406. E30. Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE CAPTAIN’S COTTAGE at 1526 Shoreline Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Shelby JA Hendrix 430 Camino Talavera Goleta, CA 93117; Kristen DA Hendrix (same address). This business is conducted by A Married Couple. SIGNED BY:

SHELBY HENDRIX, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 24, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001334 E40.

Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001422. E30. Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

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

GRAPHIX SB at 555 Coronel Pl, Apt 3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Juan R Correa Avila (same address).

This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JUAN RENE CORREA AVILA, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

County on May 23, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001324. E49. Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

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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:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GANDER GUY CONSTRUCTION at 328 West Valerio Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Janet S Gander Guy (same address). This business is conducted by A Individual. SIGNED BY: JANET GANDER GUY, PRINCIPAL Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 16, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001288. E30.

Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

By _____________________________

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09/28/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

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: Jeffrey L. Boyle, Delwiche, Von Dollen & Boyle, Attorneys at Law 1114 State Street, Suite 256, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 962‑8131

Published June 29. July 6, 13 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FREEDOM SIGNS at 816 Reddick Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Daniel G Morris 241 West Constance Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This business is conducted by A Individual. SIGNED BY: DANIEL G MORRIS Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 01, 2023. This

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SWEET REEF BOBA at 620 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Boba And Buns (same address). This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: JARED SQUARE, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 22, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001318 E57. Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOUSEMASTER HOME INSPECTIONS at 430 Camino Talavera Goleta, CA 93117; Hendrix Housing LLC Goleta, CA 93117 (same address). This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: SHELBY HENDRIX, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 05, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001181 E4. Published: June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BELLECREST at 330 James Way, Suite 270 Pismo Beach, CA 93448; Main Street Bungalows LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company.

SIGNED BY: GARY H. GROSSMAN, MEMBER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 09, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001471. E30. Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at 3:00 P.M.

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:// www.cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing for the projects listed, with the date, time, and location of the DRB public hearing set forth above. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review

New Carport and balcony extension and California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption 7121 Del Norte (APN 077-113-003)

Case Nos. 23-0004-LUP/23-0016-DRB

Residential garage reorientation and California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption 7115 Madera (APN 077-114-004)

Case Nos. 22-0068-LUP

CopyRight Printing Signage Modification and California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption 5708 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-081-037)

Case No. 23-0012-DRB

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 DRB meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to DRB members and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, at (805) 961-7567 or mchang@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.

In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published on the City’s website. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter during counter hours or by contacting the staff member listed for the item 805-9617543.

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAMBOAT CLEANING AND SERVICES at 5572 Camino Galeana Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Frank J Gamberdella (same address) Shawn P Poindexter 1514 Eucalyptus Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This business is conducted by An General Partnership. SIGNED BY: FRANK GAMBERDELLA Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 05, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland,

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) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent 6/29/23

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE DEARBORN

PLACE & ARMITOS AVENUE ADA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA

(PHASE II)

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 3:00PM July 20, 2023 and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished Dearborn Place & Armitos Avenue ADA Improvement Project (Phase II). Work includes construction of asphalt paving, utility adjustments, traffic signal upgrades, communications infrastructure, and signing, striping and pavement delineation improvements. Please see the Project Plans titled Dearborn Place & Armitos Avenue ADA Improvement Project (Phase II), attached in Planetbids.

A Pre-Bid Meeting is not scheduled for this project.

A project manual, including all Contract Documents and the Proposal forms for bidding on this project, may be obtained on-line from the Planet Bids Website https://pbsystem.planetbids.com.

All communications relative to this project shall be conducted through Planet Bids.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law.

Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City business days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR DEARBORN PLACE & ARMITOS AVENUE

ADA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (PHASE II) .”

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code.

All Bidders and Contractors, including subcontractors, shall have a current City business license before undertaking any work.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

Required Listing of Proposed Subcontractors: Each proposal shall list the name, address and Contractor license number of each subcontractor to whom the Bidder proposes to subcontract portions of the Work in an amount in excess of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of its total bid, in accordance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act. The Bidder’s attention is invited to other provisions of said Act related to the imposition of penalties for a failure to observe its provisions by using unauthorized subcontractors or by making unauthorized substitutions.

Noncollusion Declaration: Bidders shall submit a properly completed and executed “Noncollusion Declaration” conforming to the City’s “Noncollusion Declaration.”

Addenda: Proposals shall include all costs and account for all addenda issued prior to opening of bids. The Bidder is responsible for verifying that all issued addenda have been received. An addendum acknowledgment form for each addendum shall be included as part of the Proposal submittal.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 9617505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUENOO at 1301 San Andres St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jrod LLC (same address). This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: JUAN RODRIGUEZ BUENO, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 05, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001419. E47.

Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BASIC BOOKKEEPING at 5028 Calle Sonia Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Laura R Perry (same address)

This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: LAURA PERRY, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001524. E30.

Published: June 22, 29. July 6, 13 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: EFB SERVICES LLC at 5266 Hollister Ave 112 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; EFB Services LLC (same address)

This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: EILEEN BREWER, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001519. E30.

Published: June 22, 29. July 6, 13 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SURFS UP LIMOS, AT YOUR SERVICE ENTERPRISES, AT YOUR SERVICE TRANSPORTATION at 4025 State St, Space #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jeff L Azevedo (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY:JEFF AZEVEDO, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 26, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001353. E47.

Published: June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANSELYN’S DAYDREAM RECORDS at 2536 Elk Grove Road Solvang, CA 93463; Michelle K Gysan 606 Alamo Pintado 3‑270 Solvang, CA 93463 This business

is conducted by An Individual.

SIGNED BY: MICHELLE GYSAN, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001515. E30. Published: June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BLUE MAGNOLIA, BLUE MAGNOLIA EVENTS, SANTA BARBARA MAKERS, SB FLOWER CULT, SANTA BARBARA FLOWER CULT, SB MAKERS at 282 Pebble Hill Place Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Kerstin O Horneman (same address)

This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: KERSTIN O HORNEMAN, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 7, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001452. E30.

Published: June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BLOOMING IDEA at 975 Knollwood Dr. Montecito, CA 93108; Susan Bunkers (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: SUSAN BUNKERS, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 21, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).

FBN Number: 2023‑0001557. E30.

Published: June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COHEN & COHEN PUBLISHER ADMINISTRATION at 104 W. Anapamu Street, Suite K Santa Barbara, CA 93101 3126; Evan S Cohen (same address). This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: EVAN S. COHEN, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 06, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN

Number: 2023‑0001433. E30.

Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEACHSIDE POOL AND SPA at 5390 Overpass Rd, Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93111 3126; Nicco Herman 4140 Via Real #9 Carpinteria, CA 93013. This business is conducted by An

Individual. SIGNED BY: NICCO

HERMAN, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

Ordinance 5182

An Ordinance Rescinding and Replacing Chapter 5, Ambulances, of the Santa Barbara County Code, to Establish a Non-Exclusive System to Regulate, Set Rates for, Issue Permits for, and Contract with Ambulance Services.

Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 20th day of June 2023, by the following vote:

Ayes: Supervisors Williams, Hartmann, Nelson and Lavagnino

County on June 08, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001467. E30.

Published: June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SHEENA ESCOBEDO

CASE NUMBER: 23CV02028

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: SHEENA ESCOBEDO TO: SHEENA ESCOBEDO HARTON 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 JULY 24, 2023, TIME: 10:00 AM DEPT 5, 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: May 30, 2023, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: RANY SOUBHI HAMED; VLADIMIRS TROJANSKIS CASE NUMBER: 23CV02145 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: RANY SOUBHI HAMED

TO: RONNY HAMED‑TROYANSKY

FROM: VLADIMIRS TROJANSKIS TO: VLADIMIR HAMED‑TROYANSKY 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 JULY 26, 2023, TIME: 10:00 AM DEPT

City Clerk, City of Goleta

Published: June 29, 2023 and July 13, 2023

Noes: None

Absent: Supervisor Capps

Abstain: None

MONA MIYASATO CLERK OF THE BOARD

By:

Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk

NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinances No.5182 is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.

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: May 30, 2023, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

LEGALS (CONT.)

KEARSTEN ANN CHAU

CASE NUMBER: 23CV02078

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: KEARSTEN ANN CHAU

TO: ENSLEY CHAU

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 JULY 28, 2023, TIME: 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: May 30, 2023, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE

FOR CHANGE OF NAME:

JENNIFER EVANS

CASE NUMBER: 23CV02421

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: PEARL KATHARINE

EVANS‑YOUNG

TO: PEARL KATHARINE EVANS

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

HEARING AUGUST 11, 2023,

TIME: 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: June 12, 2023, Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ALAN

ISRAEL CEDILLO ZAMUDIO

CASE NUMBER: 23CV02314

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: ALAN ISRAEL CEDILLO

ZAMUDIO

TO: ALAN NOAH CEDILLO

ZAMUDIO

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 JULY 24, 2023, TIME: 10:00 AM DEPT 5, 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: June 6, 2023, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MELISSA ANN PETITTO & BROCK CANNON TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 23CV02560 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 and TO the following name(s):

FROM: CHLOE SKYE CANNON

TO: CHLOE SKYE PETITTO 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 aooear 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 withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing August 7, 2023 10:00 am Dept 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street 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 June 20, 2023. by Colleen K. Sterne. of the Superior Court. Published. June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DEBRA DIANE NATHWANI TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE

NUMBER: 23CV02570

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 and TO the following name(s):

FROM: DEBRA DIANE NATHWANI

TO: DEBRA DIANE HUNT

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 aooear 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 withouta hearing. Notice of Hearing August 22, 2023

am

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ZONING ADMINISTRATOR

Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom

Thursday, July 13, 2023, at 10:00 A.M.

30 San Jano Drive Trellis, Addition, and 10’ Rear Yard Setback Modification with CEQA Exemption

Case No. 22-0003-MOD; 22-0003-DRB; 23-0013-LUP

APN 079-412-019

ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Administrator (ZA) will conduct a public hearing on the merits of the proposed Modification (MOD) and Land Use Permit (LUP) at 30 San Jano Drive. The date, time, and location of the Zoning Administrator hearing is:

HEARING DATE/TIME: Thursday, July 13, 2023, at 10:00 A.M.

LOCATION: Goleta City Hall- Council Chambers (In person and via Zoom)

130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117

ZOOM LINK: See Electronic Participation Option Below

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Applicant, Dexign Systems on behalf of Alec Missel, property owner, is requesting a new 346 square foot addition and a 477 square foot trellis to the eastern portion of the existing 1,014 square foot residence. The trellis would consist of wood post and beam construction, would be situated north of the proposed addition, and would have a height of 8 feet. The addition would comprise of a new primary bedroom and bathroom at the rear of the residence.

As part of the request, the Applicant is proposing a Modification to a portion of the addition that encroaches 10 feet (184-square feet of the addition) into the 25-foot required rear yard setback. The addition would be located 15 feet from the rear property line and contain an elevated bay window. The height of the addition (13 feet and 3 inches) would match the existing residence.

The property is located in the Inland portion of the City and has a General Plan Land Use and Zoning Designation of Single-Family Residential (RS).

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW (NOE): Pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, §§ 21000 et seq.), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq.), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines, the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA and a Notice of Exemption is proposed. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency for this project.

The addition portion of the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA based on CEQA Guideline Section 15301 (e) (1), existing facilities as the addition to the house would not result in an increase of 50 percent of the floor area or 2,500 square feet whichever is less. The 346 square foot addition is less than 2,500 square feet and is approximately 34% of the existing floor area.

The trellis portion of the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA based on CEQA Guideline Section 15303 (e) new construction or conversion of small structures as the trellis is an accessory or appurtenant structure to the primary residential structure.

The modification portion of the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA based on CEQA Guidelines Section 15305(a), minor alterations to land use limitations in that the setback modification will not result in the creation of a new lot and the encroachment will only occur in a small portion of the rear yard. The encroachment represents 11 % of the setback area. The encroach does not change the density or intensity of development on the site as the use will remain single family home and the addition will not exceed the lot coverage standards for the zoning district.

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

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The hearing documents and all documents referenced therein may be obtained by contacting the Planner listed below (see the “For Further Information” section). Staff reports, project plans and related materials for the Zoning Administrator hearing will be posted on the City’s website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.

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 Zoning Administrator meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing Kim Dominguez at kdominguez@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Zoning Administrator and published on the Zoning Administrator’s web page.

ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Please register for Zoning Administrator Hearing on July 13, 2023, at 10:00 AM at:

https://us06web.zoom.us/w/85378516284?tk=OHBur02_lVlcBay14mCp7f3h9_SbiNEOLbtvJ3rQCPc.DQMAAAAT4PTFPBZGcHRnUlBU aFNQU2MyYVpDV2tiRnpRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&pwd=d2M5VjJlaE5EaHI2RnhZaFU0VlJQdz09&uuid=WN_-E80i_ faQxC8SPGXmUKlzQ

Or, dial:

US: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 669 444 9171

Webinar ID: 853 7851 6284

Passcode: 582016

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the Zoom software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar to use your telephone. Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Darryl Mimick, Senior Planner, at (805) 961-7572 or dmimick@ 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.

Review Process: This project is subject to approval by the Zoning Administrator (ZA). The next steps include: (1) a public hearing by the ZA on July 13, 2023, to consider the project, (2) a 10-day appeal period following the ZA’s decision, (3) Final Design Review Board Approval, and (3) issuance of the associated Land Use Permit.

APPEALS: The Zoning Administrator’s decision may be appealed by an applicant or an aggrieved party, pursuant to the Goleta Municipal Code Section, 17.52.120. Appeals must be filed, and associated fees must be paid, within 10 calendar days of the appealable decision.

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) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publication Date: Santa Barbara Independent June 29, 2023

LEGALS (CONT.)

130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 P.M., July 20th, 2023 and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished HOLLISTER AVENUE OLD TOWN INTERIM STRIPING. Work includes construction of asphalt paving, utility adjustments, traffic signal upgrades, communications infrastructure, and signing, striping and pavement delineation improvements.

A Pre-Bid Meeting is not scheduled for this project.

A project manual, including all Contract Documents and the Proposal forms for bidding on this project, may be obtained on-line from the Planet Bids Website https://pbsystem.planetbids.com.

All communications relative to this project shall be conducted through Planet Bids.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law.

Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City business days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR HOLLISTER AVENUE OLD TOWN INTERIM STRIPING.”

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license, Class “C” Electrical specialty, or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code.

All Bidders and Contractors, including subcontractors, shall have a current City business license before undertaking any work.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

Required Listing of Proposed Subcontractors: Each proposal shall list the name, address and Contractor license number of each subcontractor to whom the Bidder proposes to subcontract portions of the Work in an amount in excess of one-half of one percent (0.5%) of its total bid, in accordance with the Subletting and Subcontracting Fair Practices Act. The Bidder’s attention is invited to other provisions of said Act related to the imposition of penalties for afailure to observe its provisions by using unauthorized subcontractors or by making unauthorized substitutions.

Noncollusion Declaration: Bidders shall submit a properly completed and executed “Noncollusion Declaration” conforming to the City’s “Noncollusion Declaration.”

Addenda: Proposals shall include all costs and account for all addenda issued prior to opening of bids. The Bidder is responsible for verifying that all issued addenda have been received. An addendum acknowledgment form for each addendum shall be included as part of the Proposal submittal.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 9617505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For information relating to the details of this project and bidding requirements please submit questions through PlanetBids.

Published: Santa Barbara Independent: June 29, 2023, and July 6, 2023

Maria, CA 93454. COOK 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 June 20, 2023. by James F. Rigali. of the Superior Court. Published. June 29. July 6, 13, 20 2023.

PUBLIC NOTICES

“THE BOARD of Directors of the Isla Vista Community Services District, County of Santa Barbara, State of California have approved a Preliminary Budget for the Fiscal Year 2023‑2024, copies of which will be available online at www. islavistacsd.ca.gov and at 970 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista, California, 93117, for inspection by interested residents on June 30, 2023. The Board of Directors has set 6:00 p.m., August 22, 2023 to meet for the purpose of approving a fiscal year 2023‑2024 final budget. Any resident may appear at the above specific time and be heard regarding the increase, decrease, or omission of any item of the budget or for the inclusion of additional items.”

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF VENTURA.

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION WELFARE & INSTITUTIONS CODE & SECT;366.26

J071725, J071726, J071727

HEARING DATE: 08/30/2023

TIME: 08:30 AM

COURTROOM: J1

In the matter of the Petition of the County of Ventura Human Services Agency regarding freedom from parental custody and control on behalf of Sebastian Campuzano Roman, Christopher Campuzano Roman, & Damian Campuzano Roman, a child. To: Maria I. Roman, Crisoforo Campuzano, and to all persons claiming to be the parent of the above‑named person who is described as follows: name Sebastian Campuzano Roman, Christopher Campuzano Roman, & Damian Campuzano Roman, Date of Birth: 08/03/2006, 02/13/2009, & 04/16/2013, Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, CA, Father’s name: Crisoforo Campuzano, Mother’s name: Maria I. Roman. Pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26, a hearing has been scheduled for your child. You are hereby notified that you may appear on 08/30/2023, at 8:30 a.m., or as soon as counsel can be heard in Courtroom J1 of this Court at Juvenile Justice Center 4353 Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA 93036.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED as follows: At the hearing the Court must choose and implement one of the following permanent plans for the child: adoption, guardianship, or long term foster care. Parental rights may be terminated at this hearing. On 08/30/2023, the Human Services Agency will recommend termination of parental rights. The child may be ordered placed in long term foster care, subject to the regular review of the Juvenile Court; or, a legal guardian may be appointed for the child and letters of guardianship be issued; or, adoption may be identified as the permanent placement goal and the Court may order that efforts be made to locate an appropriate adoptive family for the child for a period not to exceed 180 days and set the matter for further review; or,

parental rights may be terminated.

You are entitled to be present at the hearing with your attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, you are entitled to have the Court appoint counsel for you. A thirty‑ day continuance may be granted if necessary for counsel to prepare the case. At all termination proceedings, the Court shall consider the wishes of the child and shall act in the best interest of the child. Any order of the Court

permanently terminating parental rights under this section shall be conclusive and binding upon the minor person, upon the parent or parents, and upon all other persons who have been served with citation by publication or otherwise. After making such an order, the Court shall have no power to set aside, change, or modify it, but this shall not be construed to limit the rights to appeal the order. If the Court, by order or judgment, declares the child free from the custody and control of both parents, or one parent if the other no longer has custody and control, the Court shall, at the same time, order the child referred to the licensed County adoption agency for adoptive placement by that agency.

The rights and procedures described above are set forth in detail in the California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26. You are referred to that section for further particulars. Michael J. Planet, Executive Officer and Clerk, County of Ventura, State of California. Dated: 06/02/2023 by:

Laura Suarez Deputy Clerk, Children and Family Services Social Worker.

6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6/23

CNS‑3708603#

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

ANTHONY J. BARRON, State

Bar No. 150447 abarron@ nixonpeabody.com

NIXON PEABODY LLP

One Embarcadero Center, 32nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94111‑3600

Telephone: (415) 984‑8200

Facsimile: (415) 984‑8300

SHERENE TAGHAROBI, State

Bar No. 327645 stagharobi@ nixonpeabody.com NIXON PEABODY LLP

300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 4100 Los Angeles, CA 90071

Telephone: (213) 629‑6000

Facsimile: (213) 629‑6001

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

NATALIE HALCRO and OLIVIA PIERSON

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

NATALIE HALCRO and OLIVIA PIERSON, Plaintiffs, vs. WILLIAM R. WOODWARD and DOES 1 through 10 inclusive, Defendant.

Case No.: 22VECV00948

NOTICE OF CASE MANAGEMENT

CONFERENCE

Date: June 9, 2023

Time: 8:30 a.m.

Dept.: W Complaint Filed: July 8, 2022

TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: PLEASE

TAKE NOTICE that on June 9, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. in Department W of the above‑referenced court, the Court ordered that: 1. The Case Management Conference is continued to September 15, 2023, at 8:30 a.m. in Department W.

1 This Notice shall be published alongside the Summons in the Santa Barbara Independent in the next available publication.

Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of the Court’s Order dated June 9, 2023.

DATED: June 12, 2023

NIXON PEABODY LLP

By: ANTHONY J. BARRON

CHARRON VARONA Attorneys for Plaintiffs NATALIE HALCRO and OLIVIA PIERSON

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS

ANGELES Civil Division Northwest District, Van Nuys Courthouse East, Department W

22VECV00948 June 9, 2023

NATALIE HALCRO, et al. vs WILLIAM R. WOODWARD , et

8:30 AM al.

Judge: Honorable Virginia Keeny

Judicial Assistant: Colleen O’Grady

Courtroom Assistant: Rommel

Villagonzalo

CSR: None ERM: None Deputy

Sheriff: None

APPEARANCES: For Plaintiff(s):

ANTHONY J BARRON By Charron

Varona Via LaCourtconnect For

ffefendant(s): No Appearances

NATURE OF PROCEEDING’S: Case

Management Conference

The above matter is called for hearing. The Court and counsel confer regarding the case management conference. The Court notes the complaint remains unserved. The Court grants the plaintiffs oral motion to continue the CMC as follows: Pursuant to the request of plaintiff, the Case Management Conference scheduled for 06/09/2023 is continued to 09/15/2023 at 08:30 AM in Department W at Van Nuys Courthouse East. Plaintiff to give notice.

Published June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on July 20, 2023, the personal property in the below‑ listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 10:00 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified.

PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

015 ‑ Kozlowski, Alan; 086 ‑ Nunez, Laura; 172 ‑ Pollock, Ashley; 291 ‑ Pizarro, Francisco; 357 ‑ Kozlowski, Alan; 381 ‑ Panagsagan, Felimon; 489 ‑ Le Dune, Timothy; 496 ‑ Sosa Nava, Felipe; 527 ‑ Morales Obispo, Elizabeth

PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 240 ‑ Loen, Lonny; 337 ‑ szegda, Peter; 382 ‑ Howe, Hadley

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

A070 ‑ Stewart, Melinda; A074 ‑ Parfrey, Daniel; A406 ‑ mora, Karina; A6‑J ‑ Collins, Scott Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. Dated this 29 th of June & 6 th of July 2023. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 6/29, 7/6/23 CNS‑3714174# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

AMENDMENT TO COMPLAINT

Arash H. Zabetian, SBN 291403 Torn Vertanous, SBN 330760

MARTINIAN & ASSOCIATES, INC. 2801 Cahuenga Blvd. West Los Angeles, CA 90068 Telephone (323) 850‑1900

Defendants.

CASE NO.: 22CV02458

COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES

1. PREMISES LIABILITY

2. NEGLIGENCE DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL [UNLIMITED CIVIL CASE]

Plaintiff DAVID NORIEGA (hereinafter “Plaintiff’), an individual, alleges, upon information and belief, as follows:

a. Plaintiff

THE PARTIES

Plaintiff is an individual and at all relevant times herein, was, and is a resident of the County of Santa Barbara, and State of California., b. Identified Defendants Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that at all relevant times,Defendant

FLORIANO’S MEXICAN FOOD, INC., (hereinafter “FLORIANO” ), is and at all relevant times was and still is, a business entity authorized to do and doing business in, and resident of the State of California. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that at all relevant times, Defendant FM&A INVESTMENTS, LLC., (hereinafter “FM&A”), is and at all relevant times was and still is, a business entity authorized to do and doing business in, and resident of the State of California. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that at all relevant times

Defendant RICHARD SACCO (“SACCO”) is and was an individual and the trustee of a trust—THE SANTA BABA. REALTY TRUST ( “TRUST” )—that serves as the owner of the SUBJECT PREMISES

Plaintiff further believes that SACCO is and at all relevant times a reside of Santa Barbara County. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that at all relevant times Defendants FLORIANO FM&A, SACCO and DOES 1 through ,50, inclusive, and each of them, owed Plaintiff a duty of care which they breached, and which resulted in the harm to Plaintiff, as hereinafter alleged, and in ways that are presently unknown to Plaintiff. All Defendants herein and DOES 1 through 50 are hereinafter at times referred to collectively as “DEFENDANTS.”

Unidentified Defendants The true names and capacities, whether individual, corporate, associate or otherwise, of Defendants DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, are unknown to the Plaintiff who therefore sue such Defendants by such fictitious names. Said DOE Defendants may include, but do not necessarily include, individuals, businesses, corporations, partnerships, associations, joint ventures, trusts, L.P’s, LLCs, LLPs, Defendants that are governmental in nature, as well as product manufacturers, medical providers, professionals, subsidiaries, professionals, contractors, estates, administrators of estates, trusts and/or all other types of entities and/or individuals, as discovery in this matter may reveal. Regardless, Plaintiffs allege that each of the Defendants designated herein as a DOE is legally responsible in some manner for the events and happenings herein referred to, and legally caused injury and damages proximately thereby to Plaintiffs as herein alleged. Plaintiffs will amend this complaint, according to the applicable laws of this Court, with the true names and capacities of the DOE Defendants when ascertained. At all times hereinafter mentioned, Plaintiff will show according to proof, that various Defendants were the agents, servants, employees, associates, partners, in a conspiracy with, co‑conspirators of, and/ or joint venturers of, each other, and were as such, acting within the scope and authority of said agency, employment, association, conspiracy, and/or venture, and with the permission and consent of their co‑Defendants and/or that all of said acts were subsequently performed with the knowledge, acquiescence, ratification and consent of the respective principals, and the

benefits thereof were accepted by said principals. Defendants also conducted themselves through acts and/or omissions. on their part, so as to cause all others to believe the remaining Defendants to be their agents. Each and every Defendant, including DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, when acting as a principal, was negligent in the selection and hiring of each and every other Defendant. Each and every Defendant, including DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, when acting as an agent, employee servant, associate, partner, co‑conspirator, and/or joint venturer, was negligent in the selection and hiring of each and every other Defendant, including DOES 1 through 50, inclusive. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that all of the acts and conduct herein described of each and every corporate Defendant was duly authorized, ordered and/or directed by the respective Defendant’s corporate employees, and the officers and management‑level employees of said corporate employers. In addition thereto, said corporate Defendants participated in the aforementioned acts and conduct of their said employees, agents and representatives and each of them; and upon completion of the aforesaid acts and conduct of said corporate employees, agents and representatives, the Defendant corporations, respectively and collectively, ratified, accepted the benefits of, condoned, lauded, acquiesced, approved and consented to each and every one of the said acts and conduct of the aforesaid corporate employees, agents and representatives. At all times hereinafter mentioned, Defendants retained the ability to exercise, and in fact exercised, substantial control, whether contractual, actual, implied or otherwise, over the means and manner in which the remaining Defendants conducted their business. At all times hereinafter, mentioned, Defendants also retained the power to terminate any franchise, business relationship, and/or dealership held by another Defendant at will. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that each Defendant, and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive, and each of them, were and are the alter egos, successors, and/ or successor of interest of each of the other Defendants. At all times there existed such a unity of interest and ownership such that any separateness ceased to exist and at all times the one was a mere shell or instrumentality through which the other carried out their business. Each Defendant exercised such complete control over the other and so dominated it to achieve individual goals and so ignored business formalities that any separateness was merely a fiction, and did not in fact exist and should be deemed not to exist. At all,times in this complaint if acts are alleged as against one Defendant, it is alleged that that Defendant acted for itself as well as on behalf of its alter ego(s). As to “alter egb liability” Defendants, it is alleged, upon information and belief, that as to those Defendants, that at all times there existed such a unity of interest and ownership among those Defendants such that any separateness ceased to exist that one was a mere shell or instrumentality through which the other carried out their business and that each Defendant exercised such complete control over the other and so dominated it to achieve individual goals and so ignored business formalities that any separateness was merely a fiction;and did not in fact exist, and should be deemed not to exist, and as such, if acts are alleged as against one Defendant in this complaint, it is alleged that that Defendant acted for itself as well as on behalf of its alter egos. Among other things, those Defendants did one or more of the following acts supporting its alter ego liability:

(1) commingled corporate funds;

(2) failed to observe corporate formalities including maintaining minutes and failure to contribute sufficient capital; (3) commingled funds or other assets; (4) used corporate funds for something other than corporate uses;

(5) failed to maintain adequate corporate records; (6) deliberately confused the records of the separate entities; (7) had the same directors and Officers of the two or more corporations; (8) used the same office or business location; (9) utilized the same employees and/or attorney; (10) failed to adequately capitalize the corporation; (11) used the corporation as a mere shell, instrumentality or conduit for a single venture; (12) failed to maintain an arm’s length relationship among related entities; and/or (13) used a corporate entity to procure labor, services or merchandise for another entity. Moreover, injustice would result but for the finding of alter ego liability as to these Defendants, and as such this Court should pierce the corporate veil. Further, since alter ego applies here, a corporation’s shareholders are treated as “partners” and are held jointly and severally liable for its debts and Plaintiffs note that ownership of even one share is sufficient to impose alter ego liability, and it is thus alleged, upon information and belief, that various Defendants as alter egos, are also active shareholders in the remaining Defendants, influenced and governed the remaining corporate Defendants and as such can, and should, be held liable as an alter ego of each and every remaining Defendant. As to those Defendants liable under theories of “successor liability and/or successor in interest liability,” it is alleged that, as to those Defendants, one or more of the following factors exists: (1) there is a mere continuation on the part of Defendants; (2) a common identity of directors, officer and shareholders from iiredecessor corporations to successor corporations; (3) that assets were purchased; (4) that the Defendants are successors and successors in interest, of both assets and liabilities of the others; and (5) that among other things, one or more of the following facts exist and/or are in play, particularly given various documented mergers on record with the State of California Office of the Secretary of State: (a) a continuation of the enterprise, i.e., that key people of the predecessor are involved in the new entity, the same name, location, facilities or product is used, the assets were bought by the new entity and the operations are the same; (b) the seller dissolved or ceased doing business after the sale; (c) the purchaser assumed the liabilities and obligations ordinarily necessary to continue doing business; and/ or (d) the new entity holds itself out as an effective continuation of the seller.

JURISDICTION & VENUE This Court has jurisdiction over this entire action as this is a civil action wherein the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeds the jurisdictional minimum of the Court. Also, the acts and omissions complained of in this action took place in the City of Lompoc, County of Santa Barbara, in the State of California Venue in this Court is proper because this is a personal injury action in which the acts and/or omissions complained took place, in whole or in part, within the venue of this Court, and/or because the Defendants reside, are domiciled, exist, and/or do business and conduct business within the venue of this Court.

GENERAL ALLEGATIONS 14. The incident that is the subject of this action occurred on November 20, 2020. Plaintiff sustained injuries as a result of a trip‑and‑fall. On the day of the incident, Plaintiff was finished having lunch at FLORIANO’S located at 1140 N H St, Lompoc, CA 93436 (hereinafter

“SUBJECT PREMISES” ). After having lunch, Plaintiff was making his way to his vehicle located in the parking lot of the SUBJECT PREMISES. While walking to his vehicle, Plaintiff tripped and fell on a foreign metal object protruding from the floor. At all relevant times, DEFENDANTS owned, possessed, leased, operated, managed, designed, manufactured, maintained, repaired, constructed, and/or controlled the aforementioned real property including but not limited to the SUBJECT PREMISES. At all relevant times Plaintiff was a customer on or within the SUBJECT PREMISES . At the date and time of this incident, the SUBJECT PREMESIS was devoid of any hazard signs, warnings, or measures to warn individuals of the unreasonable dangerous existing on or near the SUBJECT PREMISES. At all relevant times, as Plaintiff was lawfully on the

SUBJECT PREMISES . Based on information and belief it is alleged that the DEFENDANTS had knowledge and/or had created the dangerous condition. Additionally, it is believed and thereon alleged, DEFENDANT’S failed to maintain the SUBJECT PREMISES and/or warn of the dangerous condition existing. Upon information and belief, such failure on behalf of the DEFENDANTS created one or more dangerous conditions on the SUBJECT PREMISES At all relevant times, one or more dangerous conditions caused created by the negligence of the proprietors, employees, and/or agents of DEFENDANTS contributed to, and/or were a substantial factor in causing, the injuries of the Plaintiff DEFENDANTS knew or should have known that its failure to inspect, manage, warn, control, and or clean the SUBJECT PREMISES created an unreasonable risk of harm, which

includes the type and manner of harm suffered by the Plaintiff

FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION

PREMISES LIABILITY (Against All Defendants and DOES 1 through 50) Plaintiff repeats, reiterates, re‑alleges, and incorporates each and every fact and/or allegation set forth in the prior paragraphs of this complaint in its entirety, as though fully set forth herein.

On or about November 20, 2020, DEFENDANTS owned, maintained, leased, contracted, constructed, possessed, repaired, inspected, controlled, managed, and operated the SUBJECT PREMISES. Plaintiff was lawfully present at the SUBJECT PREMISES.

DEFENDANTS as reasonable owners, operators, builders, supervisors, contractors, lessors, occupiers, maintainers, managers, repairers, inspectors, cleaners, custodians, and/or controllers of the SUBJECT PREMISES, should have foreseen. Plaintiff would be

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR COMMENT

Public Housing Agency Annual Plan FY2024

exposed to a risk of harm. As such, DEFENDANTS owed the Plaintiff a duty of care. DEFENDANTS as the owners, operators, builders, supervisors, contractors, lessors,’ occupiers, maintainers, managers, repairers, inspectors, cleaners, custodians, and/or controllers of the SUBJECT PROPERTY were negligent in that, among other things, failed to exercise due care in their control, ownership, operation, construction, supervision, lease, operation, and maintenance of the SUBJECT PREMISES to ensure that patrons, including the Plaintiff, were not subject to an unreasonable and/or increased risk of harm. Without limiting the foregoing, DEFENDANTS, were negligent in use and maintenance of the SUBJECT PREMISES, by among other things, failing to ensure: a) The area surrounding the object protruding from the floor had a warning “caution” sign; b) The area surrounding the

Capital Fund Program CA 16-P021-501-24 Annual Statement/5-Year Action Plan

The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) is inviting all interested parties to comment on the Public Housing Agency Plan for 2024, and the proposed Capital Fund Program CA16-P021-501-24 Annual Statement/5-Year Action Plan in accordance with Section 903.17 and 905.300 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.  This public notice is hereby posted a minimum of 45 calendar days prior to the public hearing scheduled on August 17, 2023.

The draft PHA plan and draft Capital Fund Program CA16-P021-501-24 Annual Statement/5-Year Action Plan are now available for review on HASBARCO’s website www.hasbarco.org.

Written comments may be sent to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara at P.O. Box 397, Lompoc, CA 93438-0397or by email to arthurfloyd@hasbarco.org The deadline for submitting written comments is August 17, 2023.

A public hearing on the draft plan will be held on August 17, 2023, at 5:00 PM.

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Plan Anual de la Agencia de Vivienda Pública para el Año Fiscal2024

Programa del Fondo de Capital CA 16-P021-501-24 Declaración Anual/Plan de Acción 5-Año

La Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara (HASBARCO) está invitando a todas las partes interesadas a comentar sobre el Plan de la Agencia de Vivienda Pública para 2024 y el Programa de Fondos de Capital propuesto CA16-P021-501-24 Declaración Anual / Plan de Acción de 5 años de acuerdo con la Sección 903.17 y 905.300 del Título 24 del Código de Regulaciones Federales.  Este aviso público se publica un mínimo de 45 días calendario antes de la audiencia pública programada para el 17 de agosto de 2023.

El borrador del plan PHA y el borrador del Programa del Fondo de Capital CA16-p021-501-23 Declaración Anual / Plan de Acción Quinquenal ya están disponibles para su revisión en el sitio web de HASBARCO www.hasbarco.org.

Los comentarios por escrito pueden enviarse a la Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara en P.O. Box 397, Lompoc, CA 93438-0397 o por correo electrónico a arthurfloyd@hasbarco.org La fecha límite para enviar comentarios por escrito es el 17 de agosto de 2023.

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LEGALS (CONT.)

object protruding from the floor was tapped off; c) The metal object was not protruding from the floor; d) Cones were placed around or on top of the object to prevent someone from tripping over it; Based on information and belief it is alleged that the DEFENDANTS had knowledge and/or had created the dangerous condition. As a direct, and proximate result of the conduct, negligence and/or omissions of DEFENDANTS, Plaintiff sustained injuries, including but not limited to traumatic brain injury, shoulder, spinal, and neck A injuries, as well and was hurt in his health, strength and activity, sustaining injuries to her nervous system and physical person, all of which injuries have caused and continue to cause plaintiff great physical, mental, and emotional pain and suffering.

As a direct and proximate result of the conduct, negligence and/ or omissions of DEFENDANTS, Plaintiff was compelled to, and did employ the services of medical, hospital, surgical and/ or nursing professionals, and the like to care for’ and treat her injuries and condition, and she incurred medical, hospital, surgical, nursing, professional and other related incidental expenses. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereupon alleges, that by the reason of her physical and emotional injuries, Plaintiff will necessarily incur additional like expenses in the future.

SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION

NEGLIGENCE (Against All Defendants and DOES 1 through 50) Plaintiff repeats, reiterates and incorporates each and every fact and/or allegation set forth in all prior paragraphs of this complaint in its entirety, as if fully set forth herein. On the date of the subject incident, for a period of time prior thereto, and at all relevant times, DEFENDANTS were owners, occupiers, builders, operators, designers, repairers, possessors, lessors, operators, managers, custodians, supervisors, inspectors, servicers, controllers, engineers, contractors, renters, repairers and/or of the SUBJECT PREMISES. On the date of the subject incident and at all relevant times DEFENDANTS, owed a duty to Plaintiff to exercise reasonable and ordinary care in the ownership, leasing, possession, use, inspection, control, maintenance, design, operation, and/or management of the SUBJECT `PREMISES, so as to avoid subjecting Plaintiff and others to an unreasonable risk of harm. At all relevant times herein, and for a period of time prior thereto

DEFENDANTS, so negligently, carelessly, recklessly, unskillfully, unlawfully, and wrongfully owned, operated, built, contracted, leased, rented, occupied, maintained, controlled, inspected, designed, managed, repaired, supervised, had possession and/or custody of, maintained, and/or had control over the abovementioned SUBJECT PREMISES, as to cause, permit, allow to be in a dangerous, hazardous, unlawful, unsafe Condition. DEFENDANTS as the owners, operators, builders, supervisors, contractors, lessors, occupiers, maintainers, managers, repairers, inspectors, cleaners, custodians, and/or controllers of the SUBJECT PROPERTY were negligent in that, among other things, failed to exercise due care in their control, ownership, operation, construction, supervision, lease, operation, and maintenance of the SUBJECT PREMISES to ensure that p:atrons, including the Plaintiff, were not subject to an unreasonable and/or increased risk of harm. Without limiting the foregoing, DEFENDANTS , were negligent in use and maintenance of the SUBJECT PREMISES, by among other things, failing to ensure: e) The area surrounding the object protruding from the floor had a warning “caution” sign; 0 The area surrounding the object protruding from the floor was tapped off; g) The metal object

was not protruding from the floor; h) Cones were placed around or on top of the object to prevent someone from tripping over it;

COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES

DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

Based on information and belief it is alleged that the DEFENDANTS had knowledge and/or had created the dangerous condition. As a direct and proximate result of the conduct, negligence and/ or omissions of DEFENDANTS, Plaintiff sustained injuries, including but not limited to traumatic brain injury, shoulder, spinal, and neck injuries, as well and was hurt in his health, strength and activity, sustaining injuries to her nervous system and physical person, all of which injuries have caused and continue to cause plaintiff great physical, mental, and emotional pain and suffering. As a direct and proximate result of the conduct, negligence and/ or omissions of DEFENDANTS, Plaintiff was compelled to, and did employ the services of medical, hospital, surgical and/ or nursing professionals, and the like to care for and treat her injuries and condition, and she incurred medical, hospital, surgical, nursing, professional and other related incidental expenses. Plaintiff is inforined and believes, and thereupon alleges, that by the reason of her physical and emotional injuries, Plaintiff will necessarily incur additional like expenses in the future. PRAYER FOR RELIEF

WHEREFORE , Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants FLORIANO’S MEXICAN FOOD, INC., a corporation; RICHARD SACCO TRUSTEE OF THE SANTA BARA REALTY TRUST; FM&A INVESTMENTS, LLC, a business entity unknown; and DOES 1 20 through 50, Inclusive, and each of them, for: For general damages, including but not limited to pain, suffering, disability and mental and emotional distress, past, present, and future, according to proof at the time of trial; For special damages for medical and other associated costs, loss of earnings, loss of earnings potential or capacity, loss of use, property damage, incidental and related expenses incurred to date and to be incurred in the future, all according to proof at the time of trial; authorized by law;

27. For prejudgment and post‑ judgment interest according to law and proof, to the extent authorized by law; DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

Plaintiff hereby formally demands a trial by jury as allowed by California law. Dated: June 28, 2022. Martinian & Associates, Inc., Signed by; Tom Vertanous, Attorneys for Plaintiff Published June 22, 29. July 6, 13 2023.

SUMMONS SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): LYNDA C. GEMBERLING, an individual; and DOES 1 through 10 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): ALLEN & KIMBELL, LLP, a California Limited Liability Partnership NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court

Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO

después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso

23CV01764

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SANTA BARBARA COUNTY

SUPERIOR COURT‑ANACAPA

DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street

St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Allen & Kimbell, LLP by James M. Sweeney, Esq.#205333 317 East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 963‑8611 DATE 04/25/2023 Deputy Clerk; Teri Chavez (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante

que no tiene abogado, es):

Published. June 8, 15, 22, 29 2023.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CAROLINE BYRNE, KATHLEEN BRYNE, DOES 1 to 4 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SERGIO ISMAEL ALDANA NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.

sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso 19CV05036

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT CALIFORNIA1100 Anacapa Street St Santa Barbara, CA 93101

The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Sergio Ismael Aldana, 626 Kentia Avenue, Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 280‑5636 DATE 09/19/2019. Deputy Clerk; Sarah Sisto (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

Published. June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF:

MICHAEL JOSEPH FIGONE Case No.: 23PR00279

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

MICHAEL JOSEPH FIGONE

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: CORINNA POLLY‑CORTEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

The Petition for Probate requests that: COURTNEY DESOTO 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:

08/31/2023 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 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.

Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer

Date: 06/13/2023

By: April Garcia, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Cristi Michelon Vasquez, 132 East Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 882‑2226.

Published June 22, 29. July 6 2023.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE

TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): WILLIAM R. WOODWARD, and DOES 1 through 10 inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): NATALIE HALCRO and OLIVIA PIERSON

NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un

programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso 22VECV00948

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT VAN NUYS COURTHOUSE EAST, 6230 Sylmar Avenue, Van Nuys, CA 91401 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Nixon Peabody LLP, 1 Embarcadero Center, Suite 3200, San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 984‑8200 DATE 07/12/2022 Deputy Clerk; A. Salcedo (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Published. June 15, 22, 29. July 6 2023.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE

TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): MONTECITO MANAGEMENT CORPORATION formerly known as Doe 2. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): DAVID NORIEGA, an individual, NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se

entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso

22CV02458

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA ANACAPA DIVISION 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Tom Vertanous, 2801 Cahuenga Boulevard West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 (323) 850‑1900 DATE 06/16/2023. Deputy Clerk; Teri Chavez (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Published. June 22, 29. July 6, 13 2023.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE

TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): FLORIANO’S MEXICAN FOOD, INC., a corporation; RICHARD SACCO TRUSTEE OF THE SANTA BARA REALTY TRUST; FM&A INVESTMENTS, LLC, a business entity unknown; and DOES 1 through 50, Inclusive.

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): DAVID NORIEGA, an individual, NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia. org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

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

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por

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escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www. sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso

22CV02458

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA ANACAPA DIVISION

1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Tom Vertanous, 2801 Cahuenga Boulevard West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 (323) 850‑1900

DATE 06/16/2023. Deputy Clerk; Leili Hejazi (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Published. June 22, 29. July 6, 13 2023.

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NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom July 10, 2023 at 6:00 P.M.

Amendment to the Camino Real Specific and Development Plans and Proposed Storke Medical Center Development Plan with Notice of Exemption (Case Nos. 21-0005-DP/21-0002-SP/22-0002-ORD/23-0001-DPAM)

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 www.cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to review the project described in this notice along with the request to adopt a Notice of Exemption pursuant to 14 California Code of Regulations § 15090. The date, time, and location of the Planning Commission public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City’s website (www. cityofgoleta.org) at least 72 hours prior to the hearing date.

The Planning Commission action is advisory to the City Council and will be asked to make a recommendation to the City Council on the legislative and land use entitlement components along with the design review elements (i.e., building orientation, design, landscaping, lighting, parking design etc.). The City Council will be the decision-maker for the entirety of the project and a future hearing on the project by the City Council has not been scheduled yet. Additional notice will be provided prior to the future Council hearing.

HEARING DATE/TIME: Monday, July 10, 2023 at 6:00 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).

JOIN MEETING ELECTRONICALLY AT: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_--9IsElHQZGuQHQ_mc_w5w Webinar ID:  862 7866 4915 Passcode: 066791

PROJECT LOCATION AND APPLICANT: The project is located at 6975 Santa Felicia Drive (APN: 073-440-026) in the Inland Area of the City of Goleta. The land use designations (General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan and zoning) applicable to the site are Community Commercial. The project site is on a portion of the 4.32-acre parcel that is partially developed with a 175-space parking lot and bioswale. The project was filed by agent Kimberly Schizas, Project Manager, Wynmark Company on behalf of Camino Real IV, LLC, and The Price Living Trust, property owners.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The components of the project include:

(i) A Development Plan to construct two 18,600 square foot two-story Medical Office buildings with accessory childcare use (2,113 sq. ft. indoor space and 1,200 sq. ft. outdoor space within the western building) with a requested approximately 2’ height adjustment. In addition, parking (automobile, bicycle, and EV spaces), landscaping, and lighting are included as part of the project;

(ii) A Specific Plan Amendment to remove the subject parcel (073-440-026) from the Camino Real Specific Plan Map and to delete the requirement for a MTD transit center at this location. Figures 5 Specific Plan Land-Use Plan; Figure 6 Specific Plan Northern Portion; Figure 7 Specific Plan Southern Portion; Figure 8 Specific Plan Composite Map; Figure 17 Circulation Plan; Figure 22 Noise Contours; Figure 23 Proposed Comprehensive Plan/Zoning Map; Figure 25 Phase 1 Uses of the Specific Plan would be amended to remove the MTD transit center;

(iii) An Ordinance Amendment to remove the Specific Plan Overlay on this parcel; and

(iv) A Development Plan Amendment to the original Camino Real Development Plan (95-DP-026) to remove this parcel from the boundaries of the approved Development Plan.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: Pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, §§ 21000 et seq.), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq.), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines, the project has been found to be exempt from CEQA and a Notice of Exemption is proposed. The City Council of the City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency for this project.

The project has been found to be exempt from CEQA in accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15332, infill development based on this analysis, the entirety of the Specific Plan Amendment to the Camino Real Project and the Wynmark/Storke Medical Center Two New Buildings and Associated Improvements Project meets all criteria for the Class 32 Categorical Exemption pursuant to Section 15332 of the State CEQA Guidelines. Furthermore, exceptions to the applicability of a Categorical Exemption, as specified in Section15300.2(a) through (f) of the CEQA Guidelines, do not apply to the project. Therefore, the project is exempt from CEQA. CORTESE LIST: Further, the site is not listed on any hazardous waste facilities or disposal sites as enumerated under Section 65962.5 of the California Government Code (the “Cortese list”)

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to kdominguez@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Christina McGuire, Associate Planner, at (805) 961-7566 or cmcguire@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 at or before the public hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, June 29, 2023