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No matter your perspective, the death of the Santa Barbara News-Press is a tragedy a tragedy for a community that once supported and relied on the printed daily paper as a source of information. It is also a tragedy for democracy, which depends on the free flow of ideas provided by honest news organizations.
This bankruptcy has elicited a range of emotions from grief to disinterest, but regardless of your reactions, the fact remains that an institution that has cataloged Santa Barbara life from before the Civil War and into the 21st century is gone. We feel deeply for the hundreds of loyal journalists, designers, printing press workers, sales reps, photographers, and other employees who’ve had part of their history lost. And we empathize with the generations of readers for whom the News-Press was a daily friend.
We recognize that the paper’s downfall which began nearly 20 years ago with a series of self-inflicted wounds that led to last week’s bankruptcy is only partially connected to the modern challenges facing the news industry. But we still see this moment as a time to reflect on why we need objective, professionally reported journalism in our lives.
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We are just under the century mark for Fiesta this year! There are so many things to do and see, including
uses pictures to highlight
The
Fiesta celebrations of years past and to showcase the traditions of one of our city’s most cherished festivals. When Jackie (a longtime reader and friend of Independent Calendar Editor Terry Ortega) visited the exhibit, she was thoroughly impressed, and much to her surprise and amazement, her mother, Lorraine Villegas (pictured here) was pictured in the exhibit!
Lorraine, who is a sixth-generation Santa Barbaran with Chumash and Spanish roots, is seen in two pictures at the exhibit: the first as a 4-year-old in the photo “El Desfile de los Niños, c. 1957,” and again as a 6-year-old in the same parade! The family was delighted to see a familiar face among the crowds.
by RYAN P. CRUZ, CALLIE FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, NICK WELSH, and JEAN YAMAMURA, with INDEPENDENT STAFF
The State Street undercrossing connecting the downtown and the waterfront will get an $11 million face-lift, featuring the trademark colorful twist of Santa Barbara architect Jeff Shelton, after the project gained unanimous support from the City Council on Tuesday.
Councilmember Mike Jordan called the design a “generational project” that will be here “50 years or 100 years from now and still benefiting the community.”
The project has been in the making for years as part of the city’s Vision Zero initiative to address collisions between vehicles and pedestrians or cyclists in high-traffic areas. Supervising Transportation Planner Jessica Grant explained during the council meeting that the State Street undercrossing between Gutierrez and Yanonali had “one of the highest concentrations of pedestrianand bicycle-related collisions” in the city, and that the changes would rebalance the space by widening the sidewalks from eight to 15 feet and condensing vehicle traffic into one lane on either side with protected bike lanes throughout.
After being included in the city’s bicycle master plan in 2016, the project gained momentum and the city applied for and received a state transportation grant that helped fund $4.7 million toward the project. The city is paying $6.8 million.
Despite the high price tag, the remodeling project gained wide support from the council and from alternative transportation advocates. Barry Remis, an administrator with MOVE S.B., said the organization “supports and endorses” the project, and that it is a “pricey” but “wise investment
into the future of the gateway to our city and to our downtown.”
The council unanimously approved the six contracts for the project to fund construction (C.A. Rasmussen, $6.5 million); construction management (Filippin Engineering, $704,000); ironwork (David Shelton, $1.8 million); column tilework (Upton Construction, $471,000), design support (Bengal Engineering, $50,000); and secure a freeway management agreement with the city and Caltrans.
The undercrossing will have a new look, with brightly colored tiles adorning the columns along the walkway, designed by renowned Santa Barbara architect Jeff Shelton, as well as new light posts and custom ironwork railings with flower-shaped cutouts along the sides designed by his brother David.
Jeff Shelton handled the architectural design of the undercrossing, and Bengal Engineering, which has built a number of bridges and waterway projects in Santa
Barbara County, handled the engineering aspects.
City staff worked with the S.B. County Arts Commission, Grant said, to ensure that the area would be “a future canvas for future art.” This included electrical wiring to support art installations.
The all-new bike lanes would be separated from the traffic by large cones, much like the ones seen on the State Street promenade, and new lighting will make the crossing much safer at night, Grant said.
With the approval, the project team will hold a pre-construction conference in the next month, and construction could begin as early as the fall. Since the area serves as a major artery for nearly 13,000 pedestrians and cyclists any given weekend, the city will plan for construction on only one side at a time to allow traffic to cross between Gutierrez and Yanonali. City staff estimate that the project will take about 18 months to complete from the beginning of construction. n
Reports of a huge, hovering red square above Vandenberg Air Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County were shared at a House of Representatives panel’s hearing on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), a k a unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), last Wednesday, July 26.
The football-field-sized flying object at Vandenberg was spotted in 2003, according to testimony during the hearing held by the House Oversight Committee’s national security subcommittee.
“A large group of Boeing contractors were operating near one of the launch facilities at the base when they observed a very large, 100-yard-sided red square approach the base from the ocean and hover at low altitude over one of the
launch facilities,” said Ryan Graves, a former U.S. Navy fighter jet pilot and founder of a nonprofit focused on UAP sightings.
“This object remained for about 45 seconds or so before darting off over the mountains,” he continued.
Graves, the executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace, said the sighting occurred around 8:45 a.m., followed by a second sighting only hours later. He said witnesses provided him with information about the mysterious incidents, as they had held onto “official documentation and records” from the event over the years.
“Later in the evening, post sunset, there were reports of other sightings on base, including some aggressive behaviors. These objects were approaching some of
the security guards at rapid speeds before darting off,” Graves said.
A dangerous situation was averted midday on 7/28 after a shirtless, shoeless man climbed the sandstone bricks on the County Courthouse archway shortly before noon, forcing emergency crews to shut down Anacapa street and stretch an engine ladder nearly 40 feet up to rescue the man. City police spokesperson Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale said that, while there may have been a crime involved, the main priority was to ensure that the man was able to get any medical assistance he needed and refer him to mental-health services. No criminal charges are being considered at this time, Ragsdale said.
Sheriff’s deputies stopped an apparent escape attempt at the county’s Main Jail on 7/31. During a routine linen exchange and group movement, custody deputies found five unescorted inmates in an unauthorized area. The situation prompted a lockdown of the facility and assistance from Sheriff’s deputies and area agencies on the outside of the jail, the Sheriff’s Office announced 8/1. The inmates involved had bypassed one layer of security to reach the area of the jail they were found in, but several more layers of security stood between them and the public. After they were found, the inmates were secured and rehoused. The identities of the inmates are being withheld due to the Sheriff’s Office’s ongoing criminal investigation.
Rep. Salud Carbajal wasted little time releasing a statement of support for the four-count indictment issued on 8/1 by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., against former President Donald Trump for his role in a conspiracy to overturn the results of the November 2020 election — which he lost — so he could retain power. In the past two and a half years, Carbajal noted, more than 1,000 people have been charged for their role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, designed to block Senate ratification of President Joe Biden’s victory. “Today, that list now includes the ringleader,” he stated, adding, “These charges — while hardly reason to celebrate — prove once again that in our nation, no one involved in such conspiracies is above the law.” This marks the third indictment to be leveled against Trump.
Callie FauseyThe alleged sighting of a giant, flying red square raises eyebrows, but reports of odd sightings are becoming more public and are being treated more seriously by government officials on both sides of the political spectrum. Last year, the Department of Defense created the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, for handling UAP reports. The U.S. intelligence community said last year that UFO reporting by U.S. military personnel is increasing, but government officials have emphasized that only a small percentage of those reports could be described as “anomalous.”
Santa Barbara man Isaiah Ramirez Alexander, 36, is facing more than 121 years in prison after being found guilty of second-degree murder in connection to the Pacifica Suites hotel shooting last February that left Goleta man Richard Cardona, 43, dead, DA John Savrnoch announced 7/31. In addition to the murder conviction, the jury also found Alexander guilty of shooting at an inhabited vehicle and burglary, as well as several special allegations and enhancements, including discharging a firearm causing death, having two prior violent strikes, and committing crimes while out on bail for two other offenses. Alexander is currently being held without bail ahead of his 10/19 sentencing hearing.
Appearing to substantiate reports that UCSB’s controversial Munger Hall proposal has been scrapped, the university issued a formal “request for qualifications” this week for architectural firms to design a new student housing project at the same campus location previously reserved for Munger Hall.
UCSB is looking for “qualified professionals interested in providing detailed project programming, full design services, preparation of bidding documents, and construction administration services,” the notice states.
The overall project, it says, will deliver 3,500 undergraduate student beds the same amount promised by investor-billionaire-turned-amateur-architect Charlie Munger in his plans and cost between $600 million and $750 million. “Design teams or firms with experience in the design and redevelopment of student housing projects similar in scale and scope are encouraged to respond,” it states.
UCSB declined to comment on the public request other than to say that the campus “continues to work on the planning and consultation process for Munger Hall with members of our campus community,
With classes resuming in just a couple of weeks, the search is still on for a new principal at S.B. High School after Elise Simmons left the position this week to take a job at the County Education Office, which comes with a $10K drop in pay. Simmons worked with the district for a total 24 years and served as principal at S.B. High for five years. The S.B. Unified School District said it’s conducting an “immediate search” for her successor, “using a variety of media channels and networks.” In the meantime, veteran district employee Fred Razo will serve as interim principal.
The City of Santa Barbara is looking to fill the final opening on the reimagined Fire and Police Commission, which was overhauled last year to ensure a more transparent and efficient model of police oversight in the city. The commission’s five all-new members were appointed last December and began meeting in January, but since then, one of the commissioners, Ana Zepeda, decided to step down for personal reasons. The deadline to apply is 8/17 at 5 p.m., and interviews will be held during the City Council meeting on 8/29. For more info and to apply, visit governmentjobs.com/careers/ santabarbara/promotionaljobs.
donors, and stakeholders.”
Championed by Chancellor Henry Yang, Munger Hall has been the subject of intense community controversy almost since the day it was unveiled. Munger, 99 years old and a generous donor to UCSB, had promised to give $200 million for construction of the dorm, but in exchange, he demanded the ability to call the shots when it came to fundamental design questions.
Munger’s highly unorthodox blueprints of the nine-story, hyper-dense structure placed residents in small, single-occupancy bedrooms, more than 90 percent of which did not include windows and instead featured LED fixtures meant to mimic daylight. Common areas would instead be where students met and congregated, he argued, including spacious lounges and large communal kitchens.
Last December, after five months of review, UCSB’s Faculty Senate released a scorching 200-page report that said Munger’s vision posed “significant safety risks that are predictable enough, probable enough, and consequential enough that it would be unwise for UCSB to proceed without significant modification to the design.”
Tyler HaydenA Court of Appeal ruling last month allows County Public Works to clear the right-of-way along East Mountain Drive near the Hot Springs trailhead in Montecito. The Court of Appeal decision determined that Public Works had the right to enforce the county’s ordinance that areas beside the road were “clear zones” to be used for parking, emergency vehicle travel, and emergency egress. Further, the homeowners seeking to curtail the county “have an obligation to obey the laws, including the encroachment laws.” Lastly, it stated, “The trial court may not allow CEQA to trump the criminal law.”The court awarded costs on appeal to the county. Attorneys for the four homeowners in the case say they plan to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court.
Santa Barbara’s unsung business owners and entrepreneurs from the Latino community finally got a long-deserved night in the spotlight and a chance to win the bragging rights as people’s choice for the 2023 Latino Business Awards at the second annual award show held 7/29 at the Arlington Theatre. The winners were chosen after several weeks of online voting, with more than 100,000 votes being counted for the nearly
Santa Barbara’s only roller rink is now under new management. Dynamite Pickleball and Santa Barbara Roller Hockey (SBRH) fought for control of the rink at Earl Warren Showgrounds, beginning when the lease went up for renewal this year.
Following some contention between parties, Dynamite Pickleball was awarded the rink management contract from Earl Warren Showgrounds and is entering a rental agreement with SBRH, the nonprofit that built and owns the rink. To put it in simple terms, SBRH owns the roller rink itself, not the land it’s on.
“It’s less of a win and more of an evolution,” said Earl Warren Showgrounds CEO Ben Sprague about the contract. “The goal is to manage the rink in the best way possible for all groups.”
Sprague originally considered asking SBRH to remove its property (the walls of the rink) to make space for other potential uses. However, the walls will be staying up for now, following the Earl Warren Showgrounds Board of Directors meeting last Thursday.
“We are 99.9 percent close to a deal with derby, pickleball, soccer, lacrosse, and us,” said Joan Vignocchi, SBRH secretary. “I
50 combined categories. Winners were announced live onstage Saturday, and each received a glass plaque and certificates of recognition signed by Senator Monique Limón, who was also in attendance at the show.
TMC Hospitality has purchased Buttonwood Farm & Winery, the historic 106-acre property located in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley on Alamo Pintado Road. The deal which the parent company of Drift Hotels made in partnership with farming company Simpatica, Newport Beach–based investment manager Anthony Curci, and Santa Barbara–based developers Jason Jaeger and Sep Wolf sets in motion plans to build 60 farmstay cottages on the estate. That proposal is awaiting the county’s adoption of the Agricultural Enterprise Ordinance, which will add farm stays, among other things, as accepted uses on unincorporated ag properties of appropriate size.
Ricardo Santana Velázquez, the new Mexican consul to the Central Coast, met with Santa Barbara city officials at City Hall on 7/25, holding a discussion about the crucial
think we’ll be open by the rodeo,” which begins on August 4.
The rink’s walls will not be removed for now, which is a protection included in Dynamite Pickleball’s agreement with SBRH. If Sprague and the board decide to take down the rink’s walls, they would have to wait at least until Dynamite Pickleball’s six-month contract is over and give SBRH a 45-day notice.
Sprague compared it to figuring out the Showgrounds’ horse arena footing. With the Showgrounds becoming more inclusive of other uses, it means trying to find a “onesize-fits-all model” that “serves everyone.”
In exchange for Dynamite Pickleball taking the reins and profiting off the rink, which is SBRH’s property, SBRH is compensated by the state and receives four hours of free use per week. All current users including youth sports and roller derby will have the same rates ($50/hour used) and hours as they did under SBRH management.
Dynamite Pickleball will also have to fund daily maintenance, including trash and bathrooms. That means that SBRH’s volunteer board will no longer be responsible for picking up after young soccer players in their free time.
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services his consulate offers. From his offices in Oxnard, Velázquez represents Mexico’s citizens living, working, and visiting the counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura. He told city officials the services are for the most part designed to address the needs of the Mexican field workers and other laborers. The offices of the Mexican Consulate are in Oxnard at 3151 West 5th Street, Suite 100, and open weekdays, 7:45 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Goleta got to the finish line on 7/31 during the third workshop for its third rendition of its Housing Element as the city seeks to satisfy the state that landowners are serious about building new lower-income housing. After the state’s last set of “critiques,” the city found itself 637 units short in the category, but Planning Manager Anne Wells ventured they’d just squeaked by the requirement on Monday. The city lacked a track record on the underutilized sites it first chose, due to the decade’s water moratorium, and reluctantly turned to vacant sites in order to satisfy the state, which will now review the document. n
Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating bal- ance problems.
This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.
As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to survive.
When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numb- ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.
There is a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)
We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.
Charles Sciutto Lac along with NP Kristen Nelson at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs.
Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until August 31, 2023.
Figure 3: The blood vessels will grow back around the nerves much like a plant’s roots grow when watered.
The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.
Aquick online search for hotels in Santa Barbara yields more than 100 results, and this fiscal year, the Transient Occupancy Tax collected from these hotels is expected to reach $30.8 million 9 percent higher than expected. In 2022, Visit Santa Barbara reported that the average price of a hotel room jumped by more than 40 percent since 2019.
Simply put, the hotel business is booming.
But at the same time, the city is struggling to meet the housing needs of its residents, and aside from a few developers willing to offer a small portion of their units as affordable housing, the city is seeing a wave of hotels proposed by developers looking to make a quicker return on their investments. In the downtown area especially, from Mission Street all the way to the Funk Zone, hotel developers are jumping at the chance to cash in on the tourism industry.
One of the developers jumping in with both feet is Bay Area–based Arvand Sabetian, who built his fortune when he sold his first company, Arvixe which he founded when he was just a junior in high school for $22 million in 2014. A few years later, he was featured in Inc .com’s “30 Under 30” list, and now, he is overseeing at least six boutique hotel projects with a total of 155 rooms in the downtown Santa Barbara area.
Sabetian’s first company specialized in remote work, even before the pandemic made working from home the cultural norm. Arvixe focused primarily on customer service, and Sabetian kept the same idea with his new company, Ziprent, a remote property management service that allows landlords to outsource the day-to-day management of tenants and properties. According to the Ziprent website, the company has managed more than 2,600 units in more than 320 cities, processing at least $180 million worth of rent since 2019.
Using the same model, Sabetian entered the boutique hotel market here in Santa Barbara, testing out a self-checkin system with no lobby, no concierge, and no room service starting with the six-unit Casa Valerio and 13-unit Casa Jardin.
The two smaller-scale hotels worked like a charm (a onebed unit at Casa Jardin, priced as high as $700 per night, is fully booked through the first week of September), but when Sabetian put in a proposal for a 30-unit self-check-in hotel at 812 Garden Street, it caught the attention of neighbors who worried that the unmanaged hotel would cause noise and security issues for the tenants at the Laguna Cottages for Seniors across the street. With no overnight staff, they felt that the hotel could be rife with parties and crime.
In an interview with the Independent, Sabetian said he didn’t quite understand why people were so upset over the prospect of a self-check-in process. “Every hotel that I know of has a self-check-in,” he said. “Are we going to go back in time or not?”
The hotel at 812 Garden, he said, would be just as safe as the Casa Jardin and Casa Valerio properties, and would only add to the value and character of the neighborhood. Before he purchased the 12,000-square-foot building, it was an empty office building that he said welcomed more squatters and transients than would ever be at his hotels. None of his current properties, he added, has had any security issues due to the self-check-in system.
Despite the pushback, the project won the approval of the Historic Landmarks Commission (HLC), as did a 15-unit hotel at 513 De la Vina Street submitted by Sabetian and AB Design Studio in 2020, which, after several revisions, received full approval last year.
With both projects now moving forward, Sabetian and AB Design Studio are turning their attention toward two more ambitious projects within just a few blocks of each other: a 73-room hotel proposed at a former threebuilding medical office property at 1919 State Street and a 37-room hotel proposed at the historic First Christian Church at 1915 Chapala Street.
On July 19, both projects came across the HLC for the latest rounds of comments and project design approval.
The church property, which is listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory, was constructed in 1924 and was upgraded in 1957 to its current Mediterranean style. The iconic pink church was purchased in June for $5.3 million, according to a Barton Real Estate group listing. Neighbors received a city notice that Sabetian was planning on converting the church, remodeling the interior, and cutting out a section of the roof to create a central courtyard. The church’s 171-space parking lot, according to the plans, will be reduced to 41 spaces the minimum required by the city’s zoning codes.
The State Street 73-room hotel project proposal also includes adding a fourth floor and roof deck. Commissioners voted 8-1 in favor of it, saying that the proposed design stayed faithful to the original property and kept modifications to a minimum. But Commissioner Ed Lenvik, the lone “no” vote, questioned “a lot of aspects,” including the rooftop deck, which has become a popular feature among new hotel projects in the city. (The former Forever 21 building on State Street, also proposed as a hotel conversion, includes plans for rooftop decks.)
“I personally don’t buy into all of that roof being used for outside use,” Lenvik said. “I won’t accept that for Santa Barbara. I’m really disappointed in all the roofs we see now being used.”
While the two biggest projects gained HLC approval, both still have to win over the Planning Commission and the City Council, where there could be greater resistance due to the pressure for the city to push for much-needed housing.
But according to Sabetian, the modifications needed to provide long-term housing would have been “too severe” to pursue, and that a conversion to a hotel was much easier and could be done with minor alterations.
Sabetian’s six boutique hotels have cruised through the review process in part due to the fact that they all have been done with minimal alterations, and will match the Spanish Colonial style of El Pueblo Viejo District.
But another project is taking a less subtle approach. Longtime land owner Bill Wright plans a 250-room behemoth on the corner of Garden and Yanonali streets in the Funk Zone just a block away from another 155-unit multiuse development.
The project calls for merging six lots, tearing down every structure, and building a 178,919-square-foot hotel with 130 extended-stay and 120 “self-service” rooms, along with an 85,000-plus-square-foot underground parking garage in an area likely to see a drastic sea-level rise in the coming decades.
A grassroots group called Keep the Funk opposes the Funk Zone developments, updating posts regularly on its Instagram page (@keepthefunksb) which has more than 1,000 followers. “The Funk Zone is not in any way, shape, or form the neighborhood that it used to be in 1983,” the group wrote in one post. “And it certainly does not need yet another hotel.”
The Planning Commission hearing regarding the Garden Street Hotel was scheduled for August 3, after press deadline. n
OPPENBARBIE VS. BEANIE BABY MOGUL: I haven’t got around to seeing Barbie yet. I worry about gamma radiation exposure from all that pulsating pink. Instead, I went to see The Beanie Bubble a less-than-epic cinematic experience about Beanie Baby mogul Ty Warner and three women he exploited, betrayed, and otherwise screwed over as he climbed to the top on their well-trod backs
For Santa Barbara where Warner lives and does much business it’s your basic local-billionaire-makes-bad genre. Spoiler alert: Each of the three women finds success and happiness after telling Warner played as a megalomaniacal, micromanaging, backstabbing, control-freak genius endowed with a too-eager-to-please manipulative man-child charm by a criminally miscast Zach Galifianakis to pound sand as they walk out the door and into the sunset of destiny.
You can watch it at home on Apple TV+, but I preferred to see it up close and personal at the Hitchcock Cinema. It turns out everyone who watches it in theaters gets a free Beanie Baby, courtesy of Ty Warner himself. Back in the ’90s during the speculative peak of the Beanie Baby day-trading craze such a creature might have fetched as much as $10,000
The night I went, only two Beanie Babies were given away. It was just me and one other guy in the audience. After the grand finale think the final scene of The Godfather when all Michael Corleone’s enemies are
sacramentally gunned down in synchronized slow-mo poetry the other guy was moved to clap and cheer. Fearing such enthusiasm might be contagious, I got out before the credits rolled. Mostly I wondered why Ty Warner would have given anything for free at a movie that made him look more pathetic than nefarious
Maybe he’s a bigger man than I. Or maybe he’s so relieved it’s such a stinker that people will pity him rather than shun him. I’ll never know. In real life, Ty Warner imagine a hybrid of Willy Wonka of the chocolate factory and music producer extraordinaire Phil Spector, who gave the world such genuinely heart-throbbing hits as “Be My Baby” before later in life shooting a woman who decided she wanted to end their “date” and go home is more incommunicado than UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang and former News-Press owner Wendy P. McCaw combined. In the United States, you’re only as important as all the people you don’t talk to. It’s a thing.
But three weeks ago, Ty Warner accompanied by his right-hand man Bill Medel a one-time high school football star turned land-use consultant paid a visit to the fourth floor of the County Administration Building for an up-close-and-personal meeting with County Supervisor Das Willams. On the table was a potentially explosive land-use fight pitting the billionaire against all the Montecito millionaires upset by changes Warner was proposing to the Coral Casino, one of the
many landmark properties he owns.
I’ll spare you details because the conflict was resolved behind the scenes before the supervisors could chop the baby in half. But Williams took the opportunity to ask Warner about the fabled Four Seasons Resort: The Biltmore which Warner bought in 2000 paying twice what he now says it’s worth which has lain dark since March 2020.
That’s three years the county has had to do without the $4.5 million a year in bed taxes that’s a conservative estimate that the Biltmore generates. And it’s three years since the 450 presumably hard-working Biltmore employees were placed on indefinite “work furlough.” That’s meant no pay, no insurance, and no explanation
According to Williams, at least two people have lost their homes as a result. According to the attorneys representing the workers in a lawsuit demanding as much as $6 million in unpaid severance payments, at least one Biltmore worker has committed suicide
News flash: Williams said Warner and Medel indicated at their meeting the Biltmore would be reopening, perhaps as early as next spring. When I asked Medel to explain this unprovoked act of economic violence on the employees and the county coffers he said he was precluded from saying anything based on a gag order among the parties, the parties presumably being Warner and the Four Seasons, the Canadian-based hotel company that Warner contracted with to run his flag-
As to when the hotel might reopen, Medel acknowledged he’d like that to happen but could not say when. Nor could he say what changes to the hotel he and Warner hope to make in the meantime. Nor would he hazard an estimate as to how many units of employee housing the Biltmore might be inclined to construct on one of its parking lots, though the number 42 gets bandied about.
Medel took issue with the accusation that Warner is responsible for the one-sided class warfare waged against Biltmore employees, noting that the Four Seasons as hotel manager is responsible for hiring and firing. But the workers’ attorneys claim the Beanie Baby mogul is at fault. The Four Seasons notified Warner in May 2020 that the hotel was safe to reopen, they claim, but Warner refused to give them the permission to resume operations.
None of this was even mentioned in the Beanie Bubble movie. Nor was a lawsuit by a fourth woman Kathryn Zimmie who claims she functioned as Warner’s de facto wife for decades, helping him build his empire. Zimmie claims Warner had grown so abusive that, among other things, he allegedly choked her when she threatened to leave. Warner’s attorney dismissed such allegations as lies, but the lawsuit settled several months ago. There’s a gag order, so we don’t know the terms.
News flash: I’m glad the other guy liked the movie, but save your money Nick Welsh
George Rybnicek
9/11/1925 - 7/21/2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Smithsonian Institute’s Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C.
every day.
George Rybnicek, a.k.a.
George Brooks, left his body peacefully at his Santa Barbara home on Friday, July 21, 2023 at the age of 97. George was a master jeweler and craftsman and a key figure in the modernist jewelry movement of the 50s and 60s, owning a successful jewelry business in Santa Barbara for over 30 years.
Born in Brno, Czech Republic, George was 6 years old when he and his family immigrated to Montreal, Canada. From an early age, he took an interest in beautiful things such as butterflies, rocks and shells. In his teens, George began hammering jewelry from silver coins, which led to a job as a jeweler’s apprentice working alongside European jewelers and top designers of the time. Over several years, he worked his way up to becoming a master silversmith, goldsmith and platinumsmith, opening his first store in Montreal in 1957.
Soon after meeting his beloved wife, Jean, the two took their accrued savings and traveled around the world for a year, to such exotic places as Sri Lanka, Tahiti and Australia, where they married. They returned in 1962, settling in Santa Barbara for the good weather and natural beauty. After opening his second Jewelry store, George Brooks Jeweler in Santa Barbara’s El Paseo, George and Jean bought some land, built a house and started a family. Subsequently, George moved his store to Montecito, continuing the business for over 25 years before retiring in 1991. His work has been accepted into many permanent museum collections around the world, including the
George was a reserved and loving husband and father, who had a passion for gardening, snorkeling, fishing, opals, shells, reading and an evening rum and coke. There seemed to be nothing he wasn’t capable of, and he enjoyed teaching others and passing on what he knew. George is survived by his wife of 62 years, Jean Rybnicek, his son and daughter, Kimon and Martana Rybnicek, and five grandchildren. His presence will be deeply missed.
Judith Leigh Jackson
11/16/1954 - 7/8/2023
She was a talented photographer, specializing in nature photography and portraiture. She knew the exact moment to snap the shutter.
Judy loved to walk with her dog and spent much of her young life exploring Santa Barbara’s beautiful coastal sagebrush foothills in her bare feet.
Judy loved the beach. She returned to Goleta Beach throughout her life, her chair and umbrella always at the ready in the trunk of her car.
She loved parades, especially the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade. She had a great sense of humor, was an excellent listener and was always loving to her family.
Chile and Argentina. She retired from the College in 2013 after a long and distinguished career, esteemed by students, faculty and staff.
Judith Leigh Jackson was born to Donald T. Jackson and Susan L. Kremer-Jackson on November 16, 1954, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
She passed peacefully on July 8, 2023, with her family and her beloved 17-year-old dog Buttons at her side in Concord, California.
The third of four children, Judy attended San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara City College.
Judy was a hard worker at any job or task she took on. A long-time waitress at Frimple’s and a grocery clerk, she earned devotion from customers and coworkers alike. She was admired for her smile and her quiet, gentle nature.
Underneath those qualities, she had a strong will and was very determined. She was retired from Lucky’s grocery store.
She enjoyed celebrating the holidays, cooking and baking for family and friends. She was generous and thoughtful, surprising her nieces and nephews with Easter baskets full of gifts tailored to each person, making them feel loved
She was a devoted mother to her daughter, Kathleen (Kate) Francis, with whom she was very close. They went on many fun trips, some favorite destinations including antique shopping and Disneyland. Kate was her long-time caregiver.
Judy is survived by her daughter, Kate, siblings D. Wesley Jackson & wife Patty M. Jackson, Julie L. Morgan, and Laura E. Jackson, Nieces and nephews Garrett K. Jackson, Meghan M. Jackson, David B. Klein & wife Julie Klein, Maggie S. Morgan, Matthew D. Morgan and Brett D. Jackson & wife Devlin A. Jackson. Great nieces Elizabeth Jackson and Charlotte Jackson.
She was pre-deceased by her parents Donald T. Jackson and Susan Lynn Kremer Jackson-Newberg.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the Alzheimer’s Association. No services are planned at this time. Judy, you are in our hearts forever. No sweeter person ever lived.
Clark, 89, passed away on July 18, 2023. He was a wonderful husband and father, always thinking of his family first. An excellent golfer, he enjoyed many rounds at Santa Barbara Community Golf Course before Parkinson’s robbed him of his skills. He is predeceased by our beloved daughter, Laura, and is survived by his wife of over 60 years, Charlene, and other daughter, Nicole. No services are planned.
Ygualt Molanphy, beloved mother, grandmother, sister and companion, and retired professor of Spanish and Portuguese literature at Santa Barbara City College, passed away peacefully June 15, in her home in Santa Barbara. She was 80.
Dr. Ygualt taught Spanish and Portuguese language and literature at UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz and most recently at Santa Barbara City College. A great believer in the power of education, she began her studies at Ventura City College in the mid 1970s, culminating in a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese literature from UCSB in 1993. In 1993 Dr. Ygualt joined the Spanish Department at Santa Barbara City College, where she was instrumental in the success of the College’s Study Abroad program where she served as director of the program in Spain, Mexico,
Born on October 12, 1942 in Vina del Mar, Chile, to Ana Maria Molanphy Donoso and Jorge Igualt Ramirez, Captain in the Chilean Navy, Ana Maria grew up on various naval bases in Chile and in Lima, Peru where her father served as Chilean Naval Attaché to Peru. In 1964 she married Edgardo Catalan, a fine art painter and professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Vina del Mar. Newly married, the couple immigrated to the United States in 1964, where Mr. Catalan had been hired by the Thacher School in Ojai, California as the head of the arts program. During this time Ana María started her studies at Ventura City College where she received her Associate degree in 1973, while raising two children and commuting from Ojai. In 1977 she earned her BA in Spanish and in 1980 her Masters in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of California Santa Barbara. She taught at UCSB from 1986 to 1988, and then at the University of California Santa Cruz from 1988 to 1993. Upon receiving her PhD in 1993 she returned to Santa Barbara to teach at City College until her retirement 2013.
Dr. Ygualt is survived by her two children, Rodrigo Catalan, (Sibyll Carnochan Catalan) and Lorena Whittaker (Colin Whittaker), grandchildren Nic Catalan, Sophia Catalan and Thomas Catalan, her companion Steve Watson and siblings Jorge José Igualt, María Eugenia Bascuñan Igualt, Margarita María Igualt. She is predeceased by her younger brother Sergio Alberto Igualt.
To commemorate Dr. Ygualt, consider a donation in memory to the Santa Barbara City College Foundation at sbccfoundation.org.
3/28/1950 - 7/21/2023
be greatly missed.
No services are planned at this time. A Celebration of Life will be held at a future date.
Wilma Jean Walker
6/12/1952 - 4/13/2023
Robert Michael “Mike” Murphy (73) passed away at home on July 21, 2023 of natural causes. Mike is survived by his loving wife of 42 years, Darcy Murphy. He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Bill, Raymond and Wesley and sister Pam.
Mike was born in Santa Barbara, California to Robert and Millie Murphy, attended local schools and later became an electrician working for local companies such as Donovan Electric, Midway Electric and Craviotto Electric. Mike entered the U.S. Army in 1969, serving in Vietnam. He had many stories from that time including driving for a general, hearing the hiss of a grenade being thrown into the gas tank of the jeep, throwing the General out and landing on top of him. (Breaking a couple of the general’s ribs but saving his life!) After leaving the Army Mike owned his own electrical contracting business, Switch On Electric, until he retired in 2003.
Mike and Darcy were always active in the horse community in Santa Barbara and continued their love of horses and trail riding when they moved to Arroyo Grande in 2002. Mike loved horses and dogs, camping, cooking and barbecuing. He even made a mobile barbecue out of an old horse trailer that he towed to big events to cook for groups. Mike was also a writer having published one novel and was working on a history of his time in the Army including many more stories.
Mike was a true friend, always willing to help someone in need and encourage young friends interested in the construction trades by sharing his knowledge and expertise. He was loved by all who knew him and will
Wilma Jean Walker, 70, of Santa Maria, CA, passed away peacefully at Marian Regional Medical Center on April 13, 2023, after a long battle with cancer. She was born premature on June 12, 1952, to Willie Mae Bess and Henry William Walker in Santa Barbara, CA. She weighed in at 2 lbs 13 oz’s. This presented several issues but she prevailed.
Wilma graduated from Santa Barbara High. She resided in Santa Barbara until 2008 when she moved to Pahrump, NV, to reside with her cousin/step-sister
Jessie Matthews Spencer and husband Paul. In February, 2014, she returned to CA to reside with her cousin/step-sister Barbara Matthews Godwin in Santa Maria. In January, 2016, she was accepted into the Quality Life Services Program at the VTC Enterprises which she enjoyed and where she formed many friendships.
Wilma enjoyed crocheting and enjoyed making throw blankets for family and friends. She was a member of the Santa Maria Church of Christ. Wilma worked as a pre-school assistant in the Early Childhood Education Center at St. Vincent’s in Santa Barbara during the five years before her move to Nevada.
Wilma was predeceased by her grandmother Pearl W. Bess; her mother Willie Mae; her father Henry; her cousin Jennifer L. Robinson; her second cousin Mario Johnson; her third cousin Ricky Green; her second cousin Rhonda R. Godwin; her aunt/stepmother Carrie Matthews Walker; her second cousin Bernadette Johnson; her second cousin Carol Wilson; and her third cousin
Kaelynn Stiles. Wilma never married. However, remaining to cherish Wilma’s memory are cousin/step-sister Barbara Godwin of Santa Maria; cousin/step-sister Mary Stiles of Santa Barbara; cousin/step-sister Jessie Matthews-Spencer and husband Paul of Pahrump, NV; cousin/step-brother Edker Matthews of Gig Harbor, WA; cousin/step-sister Patricia Matthews of Las Vegas, NV; and a number of second, third, and fourth cousins, and friends.
The memorial service for Wilma will be on Saturday, August 19that 11:00 am, at the Santa Maria Church of Christ with evangelist Don Smith presiding. It is located at 416 N. Lincoln St in Santa Maria. A potluck will follow. (As this is a Saturday, parking may be a problem. Carpooling is suggested if possible.)
ings (a local savings and loan) which grew to become Northern California Savings. In that same year, Bob married Elizabeth “Ann” Spurr Conrad of Salinas.
From the early 1960s through the early 1990s Bob was actively involved in Toastmasters, Rotary Club, the California Rodeo, and the Good Shepherd Church, all in Salinas. He was an award-winning public speaker and adman; and more recently,Bob ran a popular Reader’s Theater Group at the Samarkand in Santa Barbara, where he and his wife, Ann moved in 2005.
Bob never knew a stranger and was loved by all for his gift of gab and sense of humor. He was also an avid photographer and a joke enthusiast.
He is survived by his wife, Ann, and their four children, Mark Allen (Lou Dotson), Sylvia Hendlin, Dawn Allen (Anthony Paré), and Luke Allen. He is also survived by four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Bob’s family would like to extend a warm thank-you to the staff of Samarkand for their compassionate and exemplary end-of-life care.
A memorial service will be held at The Samarkand Mountain Room on Friday, July 28,2023, at 2pm.
Robert “Bob” Glassburn Allen passed away on Saturday July 22, 2023, surrounded by loving family. Bob was born on January 9, 1927, in Steamboat Springs, CO. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946 and attended college at both the University of Colorado and the University of Washington, where he received a BA in Theater.
In 1950, Bob toured with the University of Washington Touring Theatre. Then, in November 1951, he joined radio station KLWN in Lawrence, Kansas. In Lawrence, he also participated in community theater at the university; and in 1953, Bob became the announcer on Channel 12 in Hutchinson, the first TV station in the state of Kansas.
In 1955, Bob moved to California and became a Northwestern Mutual Life agent, and in 1961 he became the Director of Advertising for Salinas Valley Sav-
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity.
Helen Frances Naumann 11/22/1932 - 6/17/2023
Helen passed on June 17, 2023 at the age of 90. A descendent of Danish immigrants, she was born November 22, 1932, in Dixon, California to Hazel Dolfer & James Jensen. She spent her early childhood, with older brother Martin, on the family dairy in Dixon. The family relocated to Oakland, California following the loss of their dairy herd to disease. There, younger siblings Carol &
Gordon joined the family. Helen attended Fremont High School. In November, 1949, Helen married William (Bill) Naumann the true love of her life. Continuing their life in the Oakland hills, Helen & Bill had three children, Beverly, James & Eric, spending summers in a cabin on a tributary of the Russian River in Cazadero. In 1962, the family relocated to Sonoma County for a more rural lifestyle. In 1968, Bill’s work in retail relocated the family to Santa Barbara where younger siblings Renee & Julie joined the family. Helen became a foster mother with Children’s Home Society, caring for infants during their transition from the hospital to their adoptive homes. She reentered school and completed her nursing degree, practicing nursing with St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara in labor & delivery until her retirement. In retirement, Helen & Bill traveled the world, went on long bicycle excursions, & spent summers with grandchildren & friends camping on the Russian river. Helen had always been creative & enthusiastic in all her endeavors. She was an excellent seamstress, upholstered furniture & helped remodel their homes. Stained glass became her passion, creating beautiful works of art for family & friends. One of her stained glass windows is in the Maritime Museum in Santa Barbara. Very nurturing, social & loving, she made herself available to friends and family for help and support. She taught her grandchildren to swim. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her. She is preceded in death by Bill, her husband of 71 years, brother, Martin & sister, Carol. She is survived by her brother, Gordon, her five children: Beverly, James, Eric, Renee & Julie. Thirteen grandchildren: David, Benjamin, Sara, Garrett, Paul, Danielle, Christy, Marli, Anthony, Ashley, Raphael, Faith & Lindsey. Nine great-grandchildren: Emma, Audrey, Maya, Hannah, Kaeden, Cavan, Daniel, Brynlee, Dominic & niece Heidi. A memorial for both Helen & Bill is being planned.
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Lori Ann Kari, architect, sailor and friend to everyone she met, passed away peacefully on July 16th in her Santa Barbara home after a brief illness. She was 62.
Lori grew up in the Valley and moved to Santa Barbara in the late ’70’s to attend UCSB and graduated in 1983 in Geography. She went on to study Architecture and passed her boards a few years later. She worked for several local firms, Design Arc and Bob Easton Design before opening her an office in 1991 with her good friend and fellow architect Valerie Froscher. She paid great attention to detail with her clients and build long-lasting relationship. Lori was a generous community builder and volunteer. She served on the boards of the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB), Santa Barbara Beautiful and the Santa Barbara Bowl.
At AFSB she was one of the early visionaries to create the Scholarship programs and the SFSB Scholarship Reception where they honored student recipients. Lori was also a strong supporter of the Kids Draw Architecture Program.
Lori became an avid gardener over the years, designing gardens with great care and enthusiasm. She shared this talent with her close friend Charlene Pidgeon and they frequently visited Lotusland for inspiration. Lori had a great eye for color, texture and scale. As a board member of Santa Barbara Beautiful she served on the Horticulture Committee and the annual awards program.
In the early ’80’s Lori
expanded her love of sailing by joining an all women crew of her close friends. She raced on Jane Watkins’ J/24 SHE BOP in the SBYC Wet Wednesday Series as well as many women’s regattas. Lori was a talented and enthusiastic sailor and enjoyed the spirit and camaraderie of the sport and the many friends she made in the sailing community over four decades.
Another of Lori’s great loves was the concerts at the County Bowl and she volunteered there often and eventually became a member of the board. She has been on the board for 22 years; served on the Facilities Committee and worked on the Masterplan helping to guide the many construction phases of the Bowl.
Lori loved to travel and revisited Germany, Italy and Switzerland several times. She was a great hiker and always up for an adventure. She took many trips with girlfriends from Ojai to Puerto Rico and to Colorado to visit her “Steamboat Sista’s”. She also loved beach walks with her companion Bill Bench and their Australian Shepard Meka.
Lori leaves behind so many friends who will miss her dearly. Her smile could light up a room. Her parents passed away in her younger years. She is survived by her companion Bill Bench of Santa Barbara, her sister Heidi and niece Jeanette of Germany and her beloved dog Meka.
A Celebration of Life will be held for Lori and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club on August 6th from 3 to 5.
Contact janewatkinsSB@gmail for further information.
Sail on Lori…
Annelise Falk will be remembered for so many things, but especially for her creativity and her life’s work with children. She passed peacefully on May 1st, 2023 from complications associated with colon cancer. Her children were with her throughout her illness and passing.
Annelise was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 1st, 1937. She rarely talked about World War II but shared a harrowing memory of running to a bomb shelter as sirens blared. She and her mother were turned away because it was full, and planes arrived before they found another. She was a good student, but by her own admission, lazy. She was artistically talented and after finishing school her father pushed for a career in painting china— which she did, for a while. She painted some beautiful pieces for Dahl-Jensen, a famous porcelain factory in Copenhagen. However she couldn’t see herself doing that for life, so at the age of 21 she left her job and traveled to Canada. She joined her brother, Jørgen Engelbrecht (predeceased), who was there at the time. They both wanted to stay but Jørgen returned home for their parents’ sake. Nonetheless, Annelise and her brother had a close bond throughout their lives, no matter how far apart they lived.
Annelise met her future husband, Bent Falk (predeceased), in Canada. He also emigrated from Denmark, albeit at a younger age with his family. The two of them moved to Santa Barbara, California in the early 1960’s. From
then on, Annelise did not live anywhere else. She considered herself enormously fortunate to live here (she said that when you grow up in Denmark, sunshine is a treasured thing). They joined a large community of Danes living in the area, and raised their three children to eat, celebrate, and live like Danes. They also spent most weekends at the beach, so the children learned how to be Californians as well.
Annelise’s life’s work was teaching children, especially young children. She attended Santa Barbara City College for early childhood studies, and soon after started Bluebird Nursery School (on Figueroa Street). She ran this for over a decade until she purchased her own property for the school. But before she could make it a school, it burned down. This was the event that brought her to Montecito Union School (MUS) as a kindergarten aide in approximately 1979. For more than 30 years, Annelise helped innumerable children learn to read and write, compute and problem solve. But she was probably best known for her artistic efforts with them. She had many repeat students in her afterschool classes, and hopefully there are many knitters out there thanks to Annelise. With daily playground supervision, she kept a close eye on hundreds of children and delighted in seeing the world through their eyes. She regaled her family with hilarious and insightful stories about what children would say. It’s no wonder she worked well into her 70’s.
All of the things Annelise did with children at work, she did with her own children and grandchildren at home. Arts and crafts and baking were part of daily life when you were in her home. And when you left, you were never empty handed. All family
members benefitted from her remarkable knitting, and those knits be handed down for a long, long time. She was an amazing cook, and prepared meals for family and friends her whole life. She baked each of her children a birthday cake, every birthday, until this year. She helped raise her grandchildren. Annelise was an exceptional working mom.
She will also be remembered for her intelligence, strength, and independence. She earned her own way and single-handedly managed her home and garden for most of her life. She loved to travel, and did so annually. She was a prolific reader. She stayed current on world events. She had opinions and wasn’t afraid to share them! She was also an accomplished pianist and lover of classical music.
Annelise was content and grateful for the life she lived, and so grateful for her friends and neighbors. She loved her home. Her garden was her place of joy. But it was her grandchildren who were probably her greatest source of joy. She created a close family, and they miss her dearly. She is survived by her three children, Tine Sloan (Michael Corrigan), Jane Dugan, and Jens Peter Falk (Alexis), as well as her five grandchildren, Kristian, Dana, and Lauren Sloan; and Ella and June Falk.
A Celebration of Life will take place on Sunday, August 27th at 2:00 pm at the Rockwood Women’s Club in Santa Barbara. If you are able, please RSVP by emailing afalkcelebration@gmail.com.
BY MARTIN DENT AND GRACE RACHOW
When Karin Finell moved to Santa Barbara in 1985, she immersed herself in its literary community, opening her home to other writers as a meeting place to offer feedback on one another’s work. Her party at the close of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference became a memorable event that gave conference goers a place to unwind.
As a child in Germany before the war years, the extraordinary events in Karin’s life began early. She worked on her memoirs to chronicle those events in Santa Barbara, where she found ongoing support as a writer. She’d first attended the Writers Conference in the mid-1980s, and the connections made there proved to be a boon to her writing career. She became friends with conference founders Mary and Barnaby Conrad, as well as many other local literati.
Karin taught a class at Santa Barbara City College’s adult education program, “Writing Your Pain, Writing Your Grief,” to help people deal with loss. Because she’d been a friend of Anaïs Nin, Karin organized a commemoration through adult ed in 2003: “Anaïs Nin: 100 Years A Writer, a Life.”
When it came to weighty subject matter, Karin had much to write about. Her dynamic memoir of her World War II years was titled Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler’s Berlin
She was born in 1930 in Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany (now Legnica in Poland), where her father was the chief editor of the local newspaper. Her parents divorced, due in part to her paternal grandmother’s disappointment Karin hadn’t been born a boy. Karin’s father, Wolfgang, wanted to name her Wolf Linda. Her mother defied him. Karin’s father remarried after the divorce, and Karin’s younger half-brothers were named Wolf Dieter, Wolf Eberhard, and Wolf Hubertus.
Karin’s household included her divorced mother and maternal grandmother, who’d been raised in Utah and spoke English. The family endured the Third Reich years from 1933 through the end of WWII in Europe, May 1945. They survived bombs, the loss of their home, food deprivation, and then the Fall of Berlin, during which tens of thousands were killed, and an estimated 100,000 girls and women were raped by Russian soldiers.
A huge inflow of German refugees from farther east marked the immediate post-war time, with continuing starvation, bitter cold winters with limited fuel, and the Berlin Airlift in 1948–1949 when the Soviets blocked land access to West Berlin.
Through wit and luck, Karin escaped the worst and maintained a determined survivor’s spirit. In 1952, Karin immigrated to the U.S. When her ship arrived in New York, she learned her father had died the very day she’d left the Fatherland, setting sail for America.
In 1960, Karin married Marvin Finell, a founding partner in a successful law firm. The couple lived in Beverly Hills and adopted a son, Steven, followed by the birth of their daughter, Stephanie. While her two children were young, Karin earned a master’s degree in English and was well on the way to her PhD from UCLA, when her then 7-year-old daughter contracted viral encephalitis from a mosquito bite.
Karin switched her focus to Stephanie’s recov-
ery. It could be said that she gave birth to Stephanie twice the second time was when Stephanie woke from a six-week coma and struggled to overcome brain damage from the encephalitis. Karin vowed Stephanie would defy doctors’ expectations and live her best possible life.
Through involvement with the Frostig Center in Los Angeles, and with various organizations in Santa Barbara supporting those in our community with brain damage, such as Jodi House and the Therapeutic Equestrian Center, Stephanie proved herself to be as much of a survivor as her mother had been under different challenging circumstances. Karin nurtured her daughter’s penchant for speaking poetry, with the help of Perie Longo, a well-known poet and teacher in Santa Barbara.
After her divorce from Finell, Karin met Martin Dent, a British wanderer, and married him. They shared an affinity for travel. Karin had a particular love of the American Southwest and a deep respect for the Navajo culture there.
In 1995, at age 31, Stephanie died of a seizure, a result of the effects of encephalitis. After losing her daughter, Karin wrote a moving memoir about Stephanie’s determination to live a full life, Broken Butterfly: My Daughter’s Struggle with Brain Injury
Karin was invited to speak at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference after each publication. She continued to participate in the yearly conference throughout the remainder of her life.
A determined optimist until the end, Karin suffered age-related ailments, but she made it to her 93rd birthday. During a celebration of her life on June 30, friends shared memories of Karin. Clearly, she’d affected the lives of a large community of writers and friends. They mentioned her colorful sense of style; her propensity for welcoming newcomers; her penchant for giving good, but often unsolicited, advice and there was her love of marzipan.
Karin is survived by her husband, Martin Dent; her son, Steven Finell, and his family in Kansas; as well as her three half-brothers, who reside in their native Germany. She will be missed by numerous fellow writers who appreciate the relentless hard work it takes to become a published author.
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County of Santa Barbara Planning and Development
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
of a Draft Program Environmental Impact Report for the Agricultural Enterprise Ordinance
Release Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2023
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The County of Santa Barbara proposes to amend the County Land Use and Development Code and the Coastal Zoning Ordinance to allow a variety of uses that would be incidental to, and compatible with, agricultural uses on lands zoned Agricultural II (AG-II) (Case Nos. 23ORD-00005 and 23ORD-00006). The primary use of the land must continue to be agriculture (e.g., crop cultivation, ranching/grazing).
PROJECT LOCATION: The project is located on rural unincorporated lands of Santa Barbara County zoned AG-II, including the Coastal Zone, but excluding lands within Montecito and lands under the jurisdiction of incorporated cities, the federal government, and the University of California. In addition, one of the proposed uses (incidental food service) would also be considered for winery tasting rooms on lands zoned Agricultural I (AG-I).
PUBLIC HEARING AND COMMENT: The County of Santa Barbara Planning and Development (P&D) is soliciting comments on the adequacy and completeness of the analysis and proposed mitigation measures described in 23EIR00003, SCH #2021110353. You may comment by providing testimony at the virtual public hearing on Monday, August 21, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. Please visit the project website https://www.countyofsb.org/728/AgriculturalEnterprise-Ordinance where a link to the hearing will be provided. You may also submit written comments to the project planner identified below prior to the close of public comment on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
PROJECT DETAILS: The Agricultural Enterprise Ordinance consists of two components: (1) a tiered permitting structure that would allow new and incidental, compatible, and supplemental agricultural enterprise uses on certain agricultural lands, and (2) a streamlined permit process for larger structural agricultural developments. Proposed uses include supplemental agricultural support activities (e.g., small-scale processing and product preparation, composting, farm stand, firewood processing and sales) and rural recreational/agritourism uses (e.g., small-scale campgrounds, farmstays, educational opportunities, fishing, horseback riding, small-scale events).
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: P&D has prepared a Draft Program Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) (23EIR-00003, SCH No. 2021110353) pursuant to requirements of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the County of Santa Barbara Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA. P&D has prepared a DEIR for the proposed project due to the potential for unavoidable, significant adverse effects to result from project implementation. The DEIR prepared for the project identifies and discusses potential impacts, mitigation measures, residual impacts and monitoring requirements for identified subject areas. Significant and unavoidable effects on the environment identified in the DEIR include: air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and transportation. Significant but mitigable effects on the environment identified in the DEIR include: biological resources, cultural and tribal cultural resources, hazards and hazardous materials, noise, and wildfire. If the project description changes, P&D will require a reevaluation to consider the changes.
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The DEIR and all documents incorporated by reference in the DEIR may be reviewed at P&D offices located at 123 E. Anapamu St, Santa Barbara and 624 Foster Rd, Santa Maria AND is available on the P&D website: https://www.countyofsb.org/728/Agricultural-Enterprise-Ordinance. The DEIR is also available for review at the Goleta Valley Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave, Goleta, and the Santa Maria Public Library, 421 S. McClelland St, Santa Maria.
HOW TO COMMENT: Please provide comments to the project planner, Julie Harris at 123 E. Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 568-3543, or PADAgEnterprise@countyofsb.org prior to the close of public comment on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. or provide testimony at the public hearing on the date and time specified above. Please limit comments to environmental issues such as aesthetics, biology, agricultural resources, etc. Future notice will be provided for dates of future public hearings to consider project approval or denial.
If you challenge this environmental document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues raised by you or others in written correspondence or in hearings on the proposed project.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.
The City of Santa Barbara is in the midst of a growing affordable housing crisis that is forcing working-class families, vulnerable seniors, and young adults who grew up here to be displaced from their community or worse, become homeless. The good news is that plenty of new housing is now being built. But is it the right type of housing? What will it take to build affordable housing?
In the past eight years, the city has permitted 1,581 units of above-moderate-income housing, but only 232 lower-income housing units. To put that into perspective, the U.S. Census Bureau (2015 – 19) finds that more than 14,000 households fall into the verylow- and low-income categories in the city.
Unfortunately, building expensive, new market-rate-housing projects adds only 10-20 percent affordable units per project. This won’t help our lower-income workforce nor is it a realistic long-term solution. It would take tens of thousands of market-rate units to meet our affordable housing need. Building them would cause significant impacts to our city’s resources and infrastructure. Moreover, our developable land is finite and what limited land we have should be maximized for the amount of affordable housing we need.
That is why the Housing Authority is exploring permanent, ongoing, and local funding sources to build 90-year, deedrestricted affordable housing. At the top of the list is a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) that would be charged to visitors who stay in one of our city’s hotels. There is a clear relationship between the demand for affordable housing and those who work for hotels and other tourism-related businesses. Many tourism-industry workers make far less than $90,000 a year, which means they would more than likely qualify for deed-restricted affordable housing. Another option being discussed is a sales tax, but that would mean
the people who are most in need of affordable housing would be financially impacted.
Santa Barbara has one of the top 10 highest rent levels in the nation, according to a recent survey by the online rental marketplace Dwellsy. Santa Barbara is a unique
moderate, and lower-income housing is where our city’s resources, energy, and time needs to be laser-focused. Key to accomplishing this goal is to subsidize and build projects with 100 percent deed-restricted units that are made legally affordable by
Authority has more than 4,000 households on its waiting lists families, seniors, lowto moderate-income workers, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. Needless to say, the situation is dire and heartbreaking.
The lack of affordable housing also has impacts on our community at large. Santa Barbara’s quality of life, environmental sustainability, and ability to maintain a thriving economy is tied to maintaining a strong affordable-housing infrastructure. Without such an infrastructure, our essential workers are forced to commute from the North County or from Ventura County, adding to greenhouse gas emissions. When natural disasters strike, they are unable to access the city due to highway closures. Meanwhile, employers face significant challenges in hiring and retaining a qualified workforce extending to all facets of our community, including school districts, government, private businesses, health care, tourism, and related service industries.
In our effort to seek durable funding for affordable housing, we’re not wed to one approach or another and are weighing thoughtfully what is in the best interests of our entire community. We are checking in with stakeholder groups and city leaders. We encourage you to do the same.
housing market, a highly desirable place where demand is more inelastic and less sensitive to price. Anyone from any place in the world will pay whatever price it takes to move to paradise. As we witnessed with the number of remote workers who moved here during the pandemic, build it and they will come.
The state’s system for determining how much housing we need, called the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), shows that we’re lagging behind in affordable housing production and we’ve primarily met our target for above-moderate or market-rate housing production.
Increasing the supply of workforce,
covenant usually for 90 years of price control. Renters whose incomes qualify would find their rent fixed to 30 percent of their annual income. Nor would they be evicted, because their apartment could not be bought and flipped by corporations whose primary motivation is a return on their investment.
Less affordable housing has meant more human suffering, housing instability, and homelessness. In recent years, we have seen more seniors living in their vehicles or on the streets due to their fixed low incomes and the lack of affordable housing. Transition House has experienced long waiting lists for basic shelter services to low-income families with young children. The Housing
Whatever we do, we must do together for the betterment of our community. The city Housing Authority wants to continue to build affordable housing that is not only livable but something we can all be proud of, improves neighborhood vitality, and creates a more resilient city.
What we really can’t keep doing is just wringing our hands. We must tackle the biggest barrier to resolving our affordable housing problem the lack of a steady, sizable funding source. It will take all of us to make this happen.
In response to Rob Fredericks’s Voice, much of which is on point, he appears take a shot at our city’s Average Unit Density (AUD) program while making a case for a sales or temporary occupancy tax (TOT) hike to further fund the city’s Housing Authority.
The op-ed argues that AUD isn’t meeting low-income needs. This isn’t exactly correct. Santa Barbara’s AUD rules now require a portion of the total units be deed-restricted as lower-income affordable. True, the majority of new units are not “affordable.” But the purpose of AUD is to incentivize construction of smaller “move-up” rental units downtown a far
more sustainable program compared to the program before AUD, when we incentivized luxury condos of more than 2,000 square feet (sf).
Fredericks states we’ve permitted 1,581 new housing units over the last eight years, concluding, “This new housing isn’t translating into lower housing prices.” Rents on an 800sf apartment here are far more attainable and affordable than costs of a 2,000sf condo, which include hefty down payments, mortgages, and homeowner association dues.
But consider that of those “permitted” housing units, only 656 have actually been constructed. AUD hasn’t dented our supply problem, but consider the long view.
In a red-hot housing market, it’s no
wonder that a brand-new unit complete with fine fixtures and splendid architecture, in highly desirable locations causes sticker shock. That’s because prior to AUD, we experienced a 50-year moratorium on apartment development. As a result, we have self-inflicted pent-up demand combined with “work from home” trends. AUD cannot fix history overnight.
The missing piece to our housing perspective is that new units now will eventually convert to more affordable prices over time. Let’s take a longer view of our housing stock over a 50-year horizon. Remember, 88 percent of our current stock was built before 1990. Also, new AUD projects are better bang for the buck in terms of water efficiency and residential density per acre,
particularly when they replace obsolete land uses.
We need the vision to continue without a distraction, or worse, allowing the fallacy that high rents now should stop us in our tracks. We support Mr. Fredericks’s goal of more public financing sources, particularly at the state level. But let’s work together as a housing industry with all the available tools in our collective belts. AUD won’t dig us out of 50 years of history overnight. But if we consider the long view and slowly try to keep pace with demand, future generations will thank us.
he Board of Directors of Old Spanish Days would like to thank our amazing sponsors, volunteers, and our collaborative nonprofit partners.
Fiesta could not happen without their generous support! Special gratitude to the entire Santa Barbara community for once again coming out to celebrate this time-honored tradition.
Special thanks to the City and County of Santa Barbara and Old Mission Santa Barbara for their generous support of Old Spanish Days Fiesta since 1924. Also, a thank you to our Collaborative partners: Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Goleta Valley Historical Society and the Santa Barbara Zoo.
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To the many nonprofit vendors who contributed to the two Mercados and to the many restaurants, wineries, breweries, distilleries, organizations, and companies that donated to the many events this Fiesta season—Thank you!
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Old Spanish Days would like to give special recognition to Los Niños de las Flores, the Parade Marshals and announcers, as well as the many incredible volunteers that made Fiesta possible. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to the 2023 Spirit of Fiesta Jack Harwood and 2023 Junior Spirit of Fiesta Oliva Nelson, as well as the entire dance community. Fiesta would not be the same without you. Our appreciation also goes to Saint Barbara Lisa Osborn.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
LA FIESTA PEQUEÑA 3 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM FREE
As the August sun slowly sets behind the “Queen of the Missions,” experience the Franciscans’ hospitality as they welcome all to enjoy the official opening of Old Spanish Days Fiesta, as they have for almost a hundred years. Limited reserved seating is available. Or bring a picnic to the Mission Rose Garden and enjoy! Open to all.
Thursday, August 3, 2023
LA MISA DEL PRESIDENTE 3 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM FREE
The Saint Barbara Parish invites those of all faiths to enjoy High Mass in the main church of Old Mission Santa Barbara. The tradition of holding mass in honor of the El Presidente of Fiesta dates back to 1936. Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez will preside. All are welcome.
DIGS! (Celebración de los Dignatarios) 9 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM $$
DIGS at the Santa Barbara Zoo features small bites, margaritas, local breweries, and wineries. This all-inclusive event includes music and dancing on the Zoo’s iconic hilltop. 21 and over only. No tickets at the door.
Friday, August 4, 2023
EL DESFILE HISTÓRICO (The Historical Parade) 7
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM FREE
El Desfile Histórico is one of the nation’s largest equestrian parades featuring over 500 horses as well as antique carriages, coaches, and wagons. The parade starts at the west end of Cabrillo Boulevard and proceeds east along the beach to Milpas Street. Viewing the Parade is free. Tickets for shaded, guaranteed seating along Cabrillo Boulevard are also available.
FLOR Y CANTO 4 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM FREE
A unique opportunity to see original Spanish California dances and songs of the 19th century interwoven with historic narration. The musical numbers are accompanied by acoustic instruments and are performed in authentic period costumes. Bring a picnic to the Courthouse Sunken Garden and step back in time.
EL DESFILE DE LOS NIÑOS (Children’s Parade) 12 1
0:00 AM to 12:00 PM FREE
The charming Children’s Parade is a favorite fiesta event. Young people of Santa Barbara don costumes and celebrate the rich culture of the area. The parade travels along Cabrillo Boulevard from Garden Street to Calle Puerto Vallarta. A must see!
TARDES DE RONDA 4 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM FREE
Held in the Courthouse Sunken Garden on Saturday afternoon, the always highly attended “Afternoon of Gaiety” features performers under the age of sixteen.
August 2 – August 5
EL MERCADO DE LA GUERRA 5
Wednesday–Saturday 11:00 AM 10:00 PM FREE $
The Annual Mercado at De La Guerra Plaza is the heart of Fiesta. Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) and feast on Spanish and Mexican-American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the evening. Free concerts include Will Bremen, False Puppet, Elements and more. All are welcome.
Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Project Fiesta: 99 Years 6 July 6 – Nov. 12. For hours and information, visit www.sbhistorical.org. Free admission.
Santa Barbara Courthouse Tours 4 Aug. 2–6. Free, onehour tours every hour between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM daily. Casa Cantina 5 Aug. 3–5, 12:00 PM to 12:00 AM at Casa De La Guerra. Proceeds benefit the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.
Old Mission Santa Barbara Tours 3 Aug. 3 and Aug. 6
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mercado 10 Aug. 4–6, 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM
August 3 – August 5
LAS NOCHES DE RONDA 4
Thursday–Saturday 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM FREE
Las Noches de Ronda, “Nights of Gaiety,” held in the historic Courthouse Sunken Garden, draws as many as 4,000 spectators each night. The evening performances feature spectacular dances and songs from the fire of flamenco and the charm of Mexican folklorico. Over 200 performers entertain the crowd each night. Bring a blanket, friends and family and enjoy!
August 3 – August 6
EL MERCADO DE LA PLAYA (Formerly Mercado del Norte) 13
Thursday–Saturday 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM and Sunday 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM FREE $
Held at the parking lot of La Playa Stadium at City College on Cabrillo Boulevard, El Mercado de la Playa features a full carnival with rides and games, food and shop vendors, live music and dancing. This family-friendly Mercado has a little bit of everything for everyone.
CRAZY HORSE CANTINA 13 Thursday–Sunday $
Guests 21 and over can enjoy live music, dancing, and craft beer and wine by the sea. Located at El Mercado de la Playa.
August 5 – August 6
FIESTA ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW 11 FREE
Saturday 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Sunday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Stroll along the beautiful beachfront on Cabrillo Boulevard just West of Stearns Wharf and browse for handmade treasures created by local artisans.
SAN SALVADOR TOURS 14 FREE
Saturday 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Come down to the harbor and tour the full size replica of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo’s ship that arrived on the shores of Santa Barbara in 1542.
vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina! Cabrillo Boulevard at Loma Alta Drive. 13
A Complete Guide to Fiesta 2023, with Luminary Profiles for El Presidente, the Spirits, Saint Barbara, and Fiesta Parade Grand Marshal
Having attended many a Fiesta with my grandparents, parents, and my own children, I have come to think about Fiesta as more of a state of mind. A vibe that brings up the mariachi sound, the faint scent of tri-tip on the grill, sea breezes, margaritas (not blended, without salt), laughter, and the warm feeling of family, friends, and community.
Now in its 99th year, Old Spanish Days will have for the first time a Barbareño Chumash tribal elder, Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, serving as the Grand Marshal of the Desfile Histórico with a reenactment of events of 1542 of a Chumash tomol (plank-built boat) greeting a full-size replica of Juan Rodrígez Cabrillo’s ship San Salvador. Also new this year, El Mercado de la Playa (formerly Mercado del Norte at MacKenzie Park) will be held at La Playa Stadium at SBCC with a carnival, food, music, an ocean view, and more.
In this guide, Camilla Barnwell will introduce you to this year’s Spirit of Fiesta, Jack Harwood; and Ryan P. Cruz will share insights about Fiesta parade Grand Marshal Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, and get to know El Presidente David Bolton and Junior Spirit of Fiesta Olivia Nelson.
Let our complete guide to Old Spanish Days Fiesta help you plan the perfect itinerary of experiences with parades and authentic food and drink, and help you to find your own Fiesta state of mind.
—Terry Ortega
In partnership with Heal the Ocean, S.B. Channelkeeper, and Downtown S.B., the City of S.B. would like to remind the community that throwing and leaving confetti (especially metallic), sequins, and glitter on the ground is considered littering and harmful to our environment, ¡Viva la Fiesta Considerada!
Have we entered some kind of post-COVID alternate universe? On the cusp of Fiesta’s 100th anniversary, the most hide-bound, traditionalist organization in town has given us our first male Spirit and our first openly gay Presidente.
One thing seems certain nothing will ever be the same again.
A 19-year-old named Jack Harwood has made it cool for guys to be the Spirit of Fiesta.
A title held only by females since the first Spirit was named in 1949, it’s as if a big door just got blown off its hinges and now stands wide open for all comers.
On the day of the audition back in April, Jack won us over the moment he stepped onto the stage. His calm, confident style seemed to draw in the audience and put them at ease. The routine offered no dramatic flair or flamboyance, no colorful ruffled dress or props to distract, no quadruple turns or exhaustive leaps. It was just Jack … a tall, lean, single figure in black pants and gray matador jacket who at one point gently shrugged his shoulders, raised his brow, and broke into a smile as if telling the crowd “Forgive me, I’m just having a bit of fun up here.” Slowly, steadily, he delivered the goods in the form of fine footwork and technique doused with the bravado of an orchestra conductor. His soft auburn curls were just icing on the cake.
He nailed the routine, stole the show, won the coveted Spirit sash, and changed history.
“Honestly, it was totally surreal. I think I blacked out for 20 minutes after,” Harwood said about the moment his name was announced. “For so many reasons, I never, ever, thought I would win. That’s why, as the first male Spirit of Fiesta, my message stems around inspiring and encouraging other boys to dance, breaking down walls and stigmas and stereotypes around male dancers, especially in the U.S. In Spain, it’s considered way more normal for guys to be flamenco dancers. I want other boys to be able to embrace who they are, and not be ashamed if they want to be dancers.”
The Old Spanish Days organization likes history and tradition. We all do. But this year, we’re learning that we can both hold on to tradition and shake it up at the same time.
As Old Spanish Day’s first openly gay leader, this year’s El Presidente, David Bolton, has been strategic about creating a Fiesta that is viewed as professional, inclusive, fun, and profitable. A shrewd and experienced executive director, producer, and event curator, Bolton has worked around the clock for months to deliver his own winning performance this Fiesta. He’s a multidimensional figure who made the bold decision, for example, to have a contemporary graphic design created for this year’s Fiesta poster. He has warmly and widely introduced his husband, Gonzalo Sarmiento, as the “Primer Caballero” to his “El Presidente.”
Juxtapose that with Bolton’s overtures to deep history and tradition. He’s the mastermind behind Friday’s historical reenactment of the 1542 arrival of Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo to the Santa Barbara channel. Thanks to Bolton’s involvement with the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, on August 4 he arranged for a full-size replica of Cabrillo’s vessel, the San Salvador, to enter Santa Barbara waters and be greeted at sea by local Chumash in their replica of a historic tomol
This spring, Bolton kicked things off by wowing attendees as they arrived at a sold-out private pre-Fiesta party. Signaling that he was stepping things up a notch, Bolton orchestrated a historic recreation of the Theodore Van Cina painting, “Fandango,” depicting a scene from the legendary 1835 wedding of Commandante Jose de la Guerra’s daughter, Anita, that took place over three days at the Casa de la Guerra. He also arranged for a professional stage to be installed inside El Paseo Restaurant for the performance that followed. Bolton chose an elder in the Chumash community, Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, as the Grand Marshal of Friday’s Desfile Histórico.
Along with serving as Old Spanish Days’ official historian, Bolton’s day job is serving as the CEO/executive director of the California Missions Foundation. In 2019, he was knighted by Spain’s King Felipe VI as a Commander of the Royal Order of Isabel la Católica.
For the record, Old Spanish Days has always invited both male and female dancers to try out for Junior Spirit and Spirit titles. The reality in Santa Barbara is that very few males participate in local dance studios. While a handful have tried out over the years, only one other male has ever won a title: Ryan Zermeño was named Junior Spirit in 1998.
Bolton points out that Jack Harwood’s win actually upholds tradition.
“We’re not changing tradition; we are keeping it by having a panel of anonymous judges select the very best finalist as Spirit. It’s a tribute to Jack that his many years of dedication in the studio, practice, trips to Spain … they’ve all paid off. This was a natural evolution of our tradition and truly a credit to Jack that his passion for dance was able to bring him to the forefront in the eyes of the judges.”
Isabella Ricci, 17, shed tears of joy when her longtime friend’s name was announced as the winner, right after her own name was called as the Spirit runner-up. She lashed out against a series of derogatory social media comments made after the competition, implying that Jack was undeserving and that our community expected to see a pretty female donning a white dress during Fiesta, not a dude. Other comments included “I thought that’s what Solstice was for” as well as claims that having a male Spirit was “a very sad example of throwing women aside in the name of equity.”
Ricci wasn’t having any of those sour grapes.
“Just because we are women, we are not entitled to that Spirit title,” she said. “I’ve had friends come up to me and say, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen a guy dance like that’ and I say, ‘That’s because we don’t have enough diversity in the Fiesta dance community.’ Jack
broke a barrier, and he was the perfect person to do it because he’s an amazing role model. I’m beyond proud of Jack and the path he is paving for us. Of course, I’m kinda biased. He’s my best friend.”
Jack’s longtime flamenco mentor and teacher, Manuel Gutierrez, arrived on the Santa Barbara Fiesta scene years ago as a singer, performer, choreographer, and composer, traveling in from Los Angeles to support local dancers, including Harwood, who was just 10 at the time. Gutierrez and his wife and two sons recently returned home to Córdoba, Spain, but he will be in town for Fiesta to back up his protégé, whom he endearingly calls “Joaquin.” Gutierrez also choreographed all of Harwood’s routines for Fiesta.
As a professional dancer, Gutierrez said he too has been on the receiving end of judgmental comments.
“All my life, when people ask me, ‘What do you do for a living? Oh, you’re a dancer? Really?’ and
I say, ‘What do you mean by really?’ Thank goodness Jack is so confident and doesn’t let that get to him at all. For other boys, they deal with teasing and even bullying, and it can be a real trauma for them. That’s why Jack’s changing history is so monumental. He has hopefully opened the door for all of these young men who have never seen themselves represented up on that stage. Maybe parents will say, ‘My daughter, and also my son, can be part of this beautiful local cultural tradition.’ ”
Another of Harwood’s longtime teachers and mentors, Timo Nuñez, was one of the few boys to perform during Fiesta throughout his childhood growing up in Santa Barbara. Nuñez choreographed Harwood’s routine when he tried out for Junior Spirit, nearly 10 years ago.
“When he was still a young child, Jack set his sights on this accomplishment. To watch how his perseverance has paid off is so motivational,” Nuñez said.
Harwood definitely lives up to one label often ascribed to him. He’s a nice kid.
“My win as Spirit is really shared with Timo and Manuel and Ryan all of the dancers who paved the path before me,” Harwood said. “Of course, none of this would have happened without my mom and dad.” (His parents are Riley Harwood, who retired from the Santa Barbara Police Department, and Dacia Harwood, the executive director of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Jack’s younger brother Skyler is also a flamenco dancer.)
Gutierrez said it has been an honor to have a hand in Harwood’s growth as a performer:
“Jack Harwood is not a student anymore. He is an artist. He is Joaquin, and he is ready!”
This year’s El Presidente, David Bolton, has lived in Santa Barbara for 55 years, having attended Montecito Union, S.B. Junior High, and S.B. High School, then San Diego State University to earn his BA in Journalism and History of Latin America. Bolton lives in S.B. with his husband and this year’s Primer Caballero (“first gentleman”), Gonzalo Sarmiento, and also serves on the board and as official Fiesta historian for Old Spanish Days. “Since its first year in 1924, it continues to bring this community together and helps support local business and nonprofits while recognizing our varied histories, cultures, and traditions,” he said.
When asked how this year’s theme of “Let’s Fiesta” was created, Bolton recounted, “November 2019, I was at a conference with my husband in San Antonio, Texas, and after breakfast one day, we decided to walk and saw a large mural painted on the entire side of the building that said, ‘Let’s Fiesta!’ I told Gonzalo then, ‘If I ever become Fiesta Presidente, that will be the theme.’ ” Coincidence or manifestation?
I asked Bolton about what the role and responsibility of El Presidente means to him, and he expressed how honored he is to follow in the footsteps of past Presidentes. The job has many elements, such as volunteering, fundraising, and government and business relations, while setting an overall tone each year. Bolton is most looking forward to “families celebrating together, and friends reconnecting,” adding, “Fiesta is not about any one of us individually it is about the entire community, bringing us together and helping to make this community we live in special.”
What Bolton wants for the community and tourists to take away from this year’s Fiesta is “history, history, history. Understanding our history will make us better people and a better community in the future. We cannot change history, but we can learn from it, and I have tried to include history in all aspects of this year’s Fiesta.” Bolton knows it takes many pieces and hard work and planning to pull off a successful celebration, and he does not take this responsibility lightly. “I am hopeful that the hard work of everyone involved the board, the volunteers, city officials, and our sponsors pays off and everyone in this community truly enjoys Fiesta 2023!” he said.
As well as creating a seamless event this year, El Presidente David Bolton is also aware of the importance of our shared history. He hopes this tradition will continue for years to come.
—Terry Ortega
Olivia Nelson, a 10-year-old 4thgrader at Roosevelt Elementary School and this year’s Junior Spirit of Fiesta, has been “working really hard this past year for the honor of sharing my love of flamenco with the community.”
Nelson has studied flamenco dance with Zermeño Dance Academy for three years, and before that, she studied ballet for four years. “It wasn’t until my best friend, Savannah Hoover, won Junior Spirit in 2021 that really motivated me to make the change from ballet to flamenco,” she said.
When asked what she’s most excited about, Nelson responds with assurance: “I’m most excited to dance on the Mission steps and wearing my white dress for the first time.” I asked this year’s Junior Spirit if there is something about her that would surprise the community, and she revealed that her great-great-aunt and -uncle are Ozzie and Harriet Nelson from the 1952 sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
With Nelson’s debut on the Mission steps being a “dream come true and one of my biggest accomplishments,” say hi to her as she leads the Desfile de los Niños, dances at the Courthouse for Noches de Ronda, and performs for the community throughout the entire 2023 Fiesta celebration.
For the first time ever, an elder of the Chumash community has been selected as the Fiesta Parade Grand Marshal. Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, whose ancestors have been a part of the Santa Barbara community for generations, will have a prominent position in this year’s El Desfile Histórico (Historical Parade) as it travels along Cabrillo Boulevard and passes her ancestral village, Syuxtun (also known as Ambassador Park), and known to be one of the largest Chumash villages on the South Coast.
Ygnacio-De Soto’s family has deep connections to Santa Barbara and the Americas. DNA traces her ancestry as far back as 13,000 years ago; her great-great-grandmother Maria Ygnacio was the last known survivor to be born in the village of Syuxtun; and her mother, Mary Yee, is noted to be the last native speaker of the Šmuwič Chumash language.
“Being asked to be the Fiesta Parade Grand Marshal is a wonderful opportunity to show our Santa Barbara community that we Chumash are still here and that we have left our mark on this place,” said Ygnacio-De Soto. “Our presence was the first, and our town of Syuxtun, located at the harbor front, was the first village here. Our younger generation is following us, making their contributions to our community and to keeping our Chumash traditions alive. I am pleased to represent the recognition of the Chumash roots of our Ygnacio family.”
—Ryan P. Cruz
FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW
This day belongs to participants ages 7-17 who will begin with horse classes at 8am then pole bending and single stake events at 1pm, followed by team sorting and team penning. Dome Arena, Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Free+. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org
LA MISA DEL PRESIDENTE
The Saint Barbara Parish invites those of all faiths to High Mass in the main church. This Roman Catholic Mass dates to the first day of Fiesta in 1936 and today is followed by a festive reception in the Mission’s Sacred Garden.10am-noon. Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St. Free. Call (805) 682-4713. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
S.B. COUNTY COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS
Meet in the Mural Room for a one-hour docentguided tour of this beautiful Spanish-Moorish Historic Landmark. Tours take place every hour between 10:30am and 3:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org
EL MERCADO DE LA GUERRA
Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and
enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Join at the Plaza to see live dance from Zermeño Dance Academy and Puro Flamenco. Schedule subject to change. 1-4:15pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call (805) 687-6458. shoplacumbre.com/Events
This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina! Noon-10pm. La Playa Stadium at SBCC, Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@ sbfiesta.org.
sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra. You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noonmidnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $30/three-day pass. Call (805) 961-5378. sbthp.org/casacantina
A History of Old Spanish Days will be held at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. See photos of the pageantry, fashion, and traditions of this city’s cultural festival, Fiesta, in this latest installation that shows through September 22. Noon-7pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 966-1601.
sbhistorical.org/project-fiesta-2
Sip on a flight of four different Don Fulano tequilas, guided by our bar manager and spirits expert John Hardin and Brianna Houghton of Don Fulano. There will be two seatings that also include light bites and giveaways. 4 and 5pm. Drift Hotel, 524 State St. $45. Ages 21+.
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Enjoy fare from area restaurants, live music, margaritas and other libations, and dancing on the Zoo’s iconic hilltop. All-in-one pricing includes admission, drinks, and food. 5-10pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. $150-$175. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-8101. tinyurl.com/DIGS-Tickets
Join on the rooftop for Fiesta-themed fun, paella and drinks for purchase, music from DJ Danny Welch, and the best views in town. 5-9pm. Kimpton Canary Rooftop, 31 W. Carrillo St. Free. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/CanaryFiesta
Evening performances from more than 200 performers will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. Visit the website for the performance lineup schedule. 8-11pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Start your Fiesta weekend with techno/ house sounds provided by deejays Claire Zielinski and Tadeeds! 9pm. Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. Free. Ages 21+. eoslounge.com
FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW
Participants ages 7-17 will start the day at 8am with team roping, breakaway roping, barrel racing, and more followed by a PRCA (The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) performance at 7:30pm. Dome Arena, Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $20-$30. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org
S.B. COUNTY COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS
Meet in the Mural Room for a one-hour docentguided tour of this beautiful Spanish-Moorish Historic Landmark. Tours take place every hour between 10:30am and 3:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org
DUSK BAR FIESTA WEEK HAPPENINGS
Kick things off with daily shot and drink specials that will include Mijenta Tequila. 11am. Dusk Bar, 534 State St. $45. Ages 21+. Call (805) 721-2658 or email hello@drifthotels.co drifthotels.co/santabarbara/happenings
EL MERCADO DE LA GUERRA
Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@ sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Evening performances from more than 200 performers will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. Visit the website for the performance lineup schedule. 8-11pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101. sbfiesta.org/ events-calendar
Join the reggae, soul, and ranchera vibe from Soul Majestic, Sensamotion, and Natalia Muse. 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
LOQUITA’S ANNUAL FIESTA FRIDAY PARTY!
Enjoy flamenco performances; authentic Spanish cuisine, including chorizo y pollo paellas, patatas bravas, bocadillo de verduras, churros, and all-you-can-drink Loquita Sangria; and special deejays Val-Mar Records and A Smooth Exchange. 11am. Loquita Santa Barbara, 202 State St. $85. Ages 21+. Call (805) 880-3380. tinyurl.com/FiestaLoquita
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE MERCADO 2023
Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine (including posole, tamales, tri-tip tortas, tacos, and more), live entertainment, games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-10pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. Call (805) 965-4060. olgsb.org
OLD SPANISH DAYS FIESTA AT LA CUMBRE PLAZA
Join at the Plaza to see live dance from Zermeño Dance Academy and Buscutti Dance. Schedule subject to change. 12:30-2:30pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call (805) 687-6458. shoplacumbre.com/Events
The local Chumash community and the S.B. Maritime Museum invite you to view this greeting ceremony where a Chumash tomol (plank-built boat) will greet the full-size replica of the San Salvador ship to reenact events of 1542 with public tours on Saturday and Sunday. 10:30am, west of Stearns Wharf. Free. (805) 962-8404. sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events
This historical parade will feature more than 600 horses, antique carriages and wagons, floats depicting episodes from the history of the state and city, descendants of local Native Americans and Spanish pioneers, the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, and area service clubs and organizations. Noon-2pm. The parade starts at the west end of Cabrillo Boulevard, proceeds east along the beach to Calle Cesar Chavez, then back down Cabrillo. Free; reserved seating: $30-$50 (proceeds from seating will go toward free events). Call (805) 962-8101. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Cantina! Noon-6pm. La Playa Stadium at SBCC, Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
CASA CANTINA
Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra. You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noon-midnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $30/three-day pass. Call (805) 965-0093. sbthp.org/casacantina
S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM: PROJECT FIESTA: 99 YEARS
A History of Old Spanish Days will be held at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. See photos of the pageantry, fashion, and traditions of this city’s cultural festival, Fiesta, in this latest installation that shows through September 22. Noon-5pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/project-fiesta-2
2023 S.B. MARIACHI FESTIVAL
This year’s festival will feature Edith Marquez El Mariachi del Divo, Majo Aguilar, Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlán, Mariachi Angeles, and Maria chi Garibaldi. 5:30pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $85.50-$180.50. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com
FLAMENCO ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS
American Mariachi, about an all-girl mariachi band in the ’70s, is an uplifting comedy about family, the freedom to go after your dreams, and the music that unites us played live on stage! Best enjoyed by audiences ages 12+. The musical shows through August 27. American Mariachi, sobre una banda de mariachis de chicas en los años 70, es una comedia conmovedora sobre la familia, la libertad de perseguir tus sueños y la música que nos une, ¡con música en vivo durante el espectáculo! Mejor disfrutado por audiencias mayores de 12 años. El musical va hasta el 27 de agosto. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $25-$59. Suggested for ages 12+. Call (805) 922-8313 or email boxoffice@pcpa.org pcpa.org/events
Visit the winery to enjoy live music, Mexican- and Spanish-inspired food, and the release of seven new wines. Reservations are encouraged. 11am5pm. Sunstone Winery, 125 Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 688-9463. sunstonewinery.com/events
EL MERCADO DE LA PLAYA
DEL NORTE)
This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse
ALFONSO LOSA IN FLAMENCO:
Immerse yourself all things flamenco with performances from the most genuine current representative of the Madrid school of flamenco dance, Alfonso Losa; Concha Jareño (guest dancer); Francisco Vinuesa (guitarist); Angeles Toledano (singer); and Antonio Luque (singer). There will be a free pre-concert reception with complimentary drinks and light eats starting at 6 pm and a gala after-party to meet the artists, enjoy music, and tapas with a no-host bar ($36 tickets sold online through July 24). Pre-reception: 6pm; concert: 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $51-$96; VIP: $106-$116. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/whats-on
See original Spanish California dances and songs of the 19th century performed by area residents in authentic costumes that will be interwoven with historic narration. Musical numbers will be accompanied on replica acoustic instruments. 7-8pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Today starts at 8am with Chuck Doss Memorial Old-Timers Team Roping, tri-county steer-stopping, team roping, Earl Souza Memorial Roping, open-ribbing roping, tri-county tie-down roping, and ladies’ breakaway roping followed by a PRCA rodeo performance at 7:30pm. Dome Arena, Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $20-$30. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org
Watch the young people of S.B. and their families wear costumes to walk, ride in wagons, and dance along Cabrillo Blvd. from Garden St. to Calle Puerto Vallarta to celebrate the rich culture of the area. 10am. Free. Call (805) 897-2652 or email MEsparza@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. tinyurl.com/Desfile-DeNinos
The local Chumash community and the S.B. Maritime Museum invite you to view this full-size replica of the San Salvador flagship. 10am-3pm. The harbor’s S.B. Pier. Free sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events
This pop-up market will feature area talent and vendors selling vintage goods, handmade jewelry, candles, ceramics, and Fiesta-inspired items. 10am-4pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Email info@mujeresmakersmarket.com. mujeresmakersmarket.com/events
Stroll the beachfront to shop for fine and contemporary handmade arts and crafts created by area artists and artisans today and tomorrow. 10am6pm. On Cabrillo Blvd. from Stearns Wharf to Calle César Chávez. Free tinyurl.com/arts-crafts-sb
Meet in the Mural Room for a one-hour docent-guided tour of this beautiful Spanish-Moorish Historic Landmark. Tours take place every hour between 10:30am and 3:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org
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Stroll through a colorful Mexican market (across from City Hall) to feast on Spanish and Mexican American foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment all day and into the early evening. 11am-10pm. De la Guerra Plaza, first block of E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 9628101 or email info@sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE MERCADO 2023
Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine (including posole, tamales, tri-tip tortas, tacos, and more), live entertainment, and games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-10pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. Call (805) 965-4060. olgsb.org
EL MERCADO DE LA PLAYA (FORMERLY MERCADO DEL NORTE)
This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina! Noon-10pm. La Playa Stadium at SBCC, Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
CASA CANTINA
Celebrate Fiesta where it all began at S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation’s Casa Cantina in the courtyard of the historic Casa de la Guerra. You are invited to relax, sip a cold drink, and celebrate! Noon-midnight. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $30/three-day pass. Call (805) 965-0093. sbthp.org/casacantina
S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM: PROJECT FIESTA: 99 YEARS
A History of Old Spanish Days will be held at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. See photos of the pageantry, fashion, and traditions of this city’s cultural festival, Fiesta, in this latest installation that shows through September 22. Noon-5pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St.Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/project-fiesta-2
Gather in front of Macy’s in the Plaza to see live dance performances from area dance studios. Visit the website for the schedule. 11am-3pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free shoplacumbre.com/Events
Enjoy traditional folklórico and flamenco dance and live music in center court. Seating available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Visit the website for the full performance schedule. Performances are subject to change. Noon-7pm. Paseo Nuevo, 651 Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call (805) 963-7147. paseonuevoshopping.com/events
Children from the S.B. area will don colorful costumes and demonstrate their talents and multi-cultural heritage with joyful dancing performances. Bring blankets or lawn chairs. 1-5pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
Join this exclusive event in the stunning Mural Room and outdoor Loggia where the sights and sounds of Fiesta’s Las Noches de Ronda can be heard and enjoyed. Enjoy classical guitar by Chris Fossek and a special performance by the Spirit of Fiesta Jack Harwood. Guests will have private afterhours use of the courthouse, including the Tower Observation Deck with its 360-degree views of the city. All proceeds will benefit the Courthouse Legacy Foundation. 6:30-9:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. $150. Ages 21+. courthouselegacyfoundation.org
Evening performances from more than 200 performers will feature spectacular dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico dances. Bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating. Visit the website for the performance lineup schedule. 8-11pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-8101. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
ME SABOR PRESENTS BOBBY ESCOTO THE AFRO ALL-STARS SALSA NIGHT
Start the night off with a dance lesson, then dance to DJ Wonder’s Latin mix in one room and DJ Smooth’s salsa and bachata sounds in another with a final performance by Bobby Escoto and the Afro All-Stars. Bachata class: 9pm; dance: 10pm-2am. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 705-7939. mesabordancestudio.com/danceevents
Hutton Parker Foundation and the Santa Barbara Independent are pleased to continue our Media Grant program for local nonprofit agencies. This unique opportunity provides nonprofits the ability to spread their message to the greater Santa Barbara community. Organizations apply online, and one nonprofit group is is chosen each month. The Santa Barbara Independent design team produces a custom four-page insert specific to the individual agency's needs. The insert is published and distributed in the Santa Barbara Independent, with the cost underwritten by Hutton Parker Foundation.
Find out more about this opportunity to boost your organization's marketing efforts, promote your good works, and tell your story to a wider audience. Visit HuttonFoundation.org for more information and the Media Grant application.
Kick things off with daily shot and drink specials that will include Catedral Mezcal along with deejay tunes by Val Mar Records. 3-5pm. Dusk Bar, 534 State St. $45. Ages 21+. Call (805) 721-2658 or email hello@drifthotels.co drifthotels.co/santabarbara/happenings
Take a salsa class at 9pm, then enjoy two dance floors, full bar, outdoor patio salsa, bachata, cumbia, merengue, and more. 10pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 705-3939. sohosb.com
American Mariachi, about an all-girl mariachi band in the ’70s, is an uplifting comedy about family, the freedom to go after your dreams, and the music that unites us played live on stage! Best enjoyed by audiences ages 12+. The musical shows through August 27. American Mariachi, sobre una banda de mariachis de chicas en los años 70, es una comedia conmovedora sobre la familia, la libertad de perseguir tus sueños y la música que nos une, ¡con música en vivo durante el espectáculo! Mejor disfrutado por audiencias mayores de 12 años. El musical va hasta el 27 de agosto. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $25-$59. Suggested for ages 12+. Call (805) 922-8313 or email boxoffice@pcpa.org pcpa.org/events
FIESTA WEEKEND AND SUMMER WINE
RELEASE
Visit the winery to enjoy live music, Mexican- and Spanish-inspired food, and the release of seven new wines. Reservations are encouraged. 11am5pm. Sunstone Winery, 125 Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 688-9463. sunstonewinery.com/events
FIESTA STOCK HORSE SHOW
Today starts at 8am in the Mountain View Arena with all horse show classes followed by a PRCA rodeo performance at 1pm in the Dome Arena. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $15-$20. Call (805) 688-5093. sbfiestarodeo.org
FLAGSHIP, SAN SALVADOR PUBLIC TOURS
The local Chumash community and the S.B. Maritime Museum invite you to view this full-size replica of the San Salvador flagship. 10am-2pm. The harbor’s S.B. Pier. Free sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events
MUJERES MAKERS MARKET
This pop-up market will feature area talent and vendors selling vintage goods, handmade jewelry, candles, ceramics, and Fiesta-inspired items. 10am-4pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Email info@mujeresmakersmarket.com. mujeresmakersmarket.com/events
FIESTA ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW
Stroll the beachfront to shop for fine and contemporary handmade arts and crafts created by area artists and artisans. 10am-5pm. On Cabrillo Blvd. from Stearns Wharf to Calle César Chávez. Free tinyurl.com/arts-crafts-sb
S.B. COUNTY COURTHOUSE FIESTA TOURS
Meet in the Mural Room for a one-hour docent-guided tour of this beautiful Spanish-Moorish Historic Landmark. Tours take place every hour between 10:30am and 3:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 962-6464. sbcourthouse.org
This family-friendly event will feature a full carnival with rides and games, food and merchant vendors, live music, dancing, and the Crazy Horse Cantina! 11am-6pm. La Playa Stadium at SBCC, Cabrillo Blvd. Free Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org. sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE MERCADO 2023
Enjoy a wide array of authentic Mexican cuisine (including posole, tamales, tri-tip tortas, tacos, and more), live entertainment, and games, and shop at a white elephant sale. 11am-9pm. Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 227 N. Nopal St. (corner of Nopal and Montecito sts.). Free. Call (805) 965-4060. olgsb.org
A History of Old Spanish Days will be held at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. See photos of the pageantry, fashion, and traditions of this city’s cultural festival, Fiesta, in this latest installation that shows through September 22. Noon-5pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call (805) 966-1601. sbhistorical.org/project-fiesta-2
Honor Santa Barbara traditions with fabulous cuisine and vibrant costumes, music, and dancing. Fiesta or cocktail attire required. Proceeds will go toward the Profant Foundation for the Arts scholarships. 5:30-10pm. El Paseo Restaurant, 10 El Paseo. $250. Call (805) 705-9179 or email jeprofant@gmail.com profantfoundation.org/fiesta-finale
Kick things off with daily shot and drink specials that will include Amaras Mezcal along with live music by Tony Ybarra. 3:306:30pm. Dusk Bar, 534 State St. $45. Ages 21+. Call (805) 721-2658 or email hello@ drifthotels.co. drifthotels.co/ santabarbara/happenings
PCPA PRESENTS AMERICAN
American Mariachi, about an all-girl mariachi band in the ’70s, is an uplifting comedy about family, the freedom to go after your dreams, and the music that unites us played live on stage! Best enjoyed by audiences ages 12+. The musical shows through August 27. American Mariachi, sobre una banda de mariachis de chicas en los años 70, es una comedia conmovedora sobre la familia, la libertad de perseguir tus sueños y la música que nos une, ¡con música en vivo durante el espectáculo! Mejor disfrutado por audiencias mayores de 12 años. El musical va hasta el 27 de agosto. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $25-$59. Suggested for ages 12+. Call (805) 922-8313 or email boxoffice@pcpa.org. pcpa.org/events
Visit the winery to enjoy live music, Mexican- and Spanish-inspired food, and the release of seven new wines. Reservations are encouraged. 11am5pm. Sunstone Winery, 125 Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. $18-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 688-9463. sunstonewinery.com/events
As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. Submit virtual and in-person events at independent.com/eventsubmit
Old Spanish Days Fiesta
S.B.’s rich heritage will come alive with music, dance, food, pageantry, community, and more as this year’s theme, “Let’s Fiesta” (“Vamos de fiesta”), is celebrated. See our Fiesta guide on page 30 for the full Fiesta schedule. Call (805) 962-8101 or email info@sbfiesta.org sbfiesta.org/events-calendar
8/5: Carpinteria Arts & Crafts Faire Shop for handmade items featuring unique sea glass creations by Jill Johns with live music from the Ukulele Jammers and the Americana Cats. 10am-4pm. Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Ctr., 865 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free carpinteriaartscenter.org/marketplace
8/4: Chumash Casino: Three Dog Night Original member Danny Hutton, who founded the band in 1967, will be backed by a stellar band of musicians to perform hits such as “Joy to the World,”“Black and White” “Mama Told Me (Not to Come),” and more. 8pm. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $49-$79. Ages 21+. Call (800) 248-6274. chumashcasino.com/ entertainment
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8/3-8/6, 8/9: Lost Chord Guitars
Thu.: Smith and Tegio, 8pm. $11. Fri.: Shawn Jones, 8pm. $11. Sat.: Shomey (Seth Shomes), 7-11:30pm. $11. Sun.: Christian Lopez, 8-11pm. $31. Wed.: Local Artist (TBA), 7-10:30pm. Free.1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
8/3, 8/8: Pearl Social Thu.: Tina Schlieske, 4:30pm. Tue.: Will Breman, 6pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. B. Free. Call (805) 2840380. pearlsocialsb.com/happenings/
8/3: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6-9pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 3643043. satellitesb.com
Sun.-Mon: Rebelution, Iration, The Expendables, Passafire, DJ Mackle, 5pm. $50.50-$64.50. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com
8/4: S.B. Sailing Center Chris Fossek, 6:30pm. $85. S.B. Sailing Center, 302 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Call (805) 962-2826 or email anchor@sbsail.com tinyurl.com/MusicOnTheWater
8/4-8/6: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Rebel Heart, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Sam Mitchell, 1-5pm. Tex Pistols, 8:30-11:30pm. Sun.: Teddy Spanke, noon-4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/ event-calendar
8/3, 8/9: Metro Summer Kids Movies See the perfect summer movie at 10am for $2. Thu.: Megamind (2010, PG), Camino Real Cinema, 7040 Marketplace Dr., Goleta; Wed.: The Bad Guys (2022, PG), Fiesta 5, 916 State St.; $2. metrotheatres.com
8/3: X2 Series: Jake Heggie & Brahms Piano Quintet Take in pieces by Ahmed Al Abaca, John Corigliano, Jake Heggie, and Brahms. 7:30pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free-$55. Call (805) 969-8787 or email ticketoffice@musicacademy.org musicacademy.org/calendar
8/3: Art Matters Lecture with Bart Devolder: The Artist’s Intent and the Paradox of Art Restoration Chief Conservator at the Princeton University Art Museum Bart Devolder will discuss the complex nature of art restoration and conservation. 5:30-6:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free-$15. Call (805) 963-4364 or email info@sbma.net sbma.net/events
8/4: Unity of S.B. Movies
That Matter: Fried Green Tomatoes
Watch the 1991 film (Rated PG-13) that stars Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker and is based on the book Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Café, by Fannie Flagg, who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay and will be present for a Q&A. Proceeds will benefit Unity of S.B. 7pm. Unity of S.B., 227 E. Arrellaga St. $15. unitysb.org/event/fried-greentomatoes
8/3-8/5, 8/8-8/9: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Like Years, 8pm.
$15-$18. Ages 21+. Fri.: Soul Majestic, Sensamotion, Natalia Muse, 8:30pm. $20-$25. Ages
21+. Sat.:. ME Sabor presents: Bobby Escoto & The Afro Son All-Star, 10pm. $18-$25. Ages
21+. Tue.: Singer-Songwriter Showcase: Matt and Brett Staska, Bradford Shaw, Oliver Koppert, 7pm. $10. Wed.: Makena Tate Band, Meghan Downing, 8pm. $12-$15.1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
8/3-8/5: Uptown Lounge Thu.: Freddy and Friends, 9pm. Fri.: Mark Alvarado, The Trio, 6pm. Sat.: Red Fish, 9pm. 3126 State St. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events
8/5: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Dos Bros, 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 9686500. mspecialbrewco.com
8/5-8/6: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Sat.: Will Stephen’s Band, 8-10pm. Sun.: Brasscals, 4:30-6:30pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
8/5: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Brady Harris, 7-10pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@ arrowsmithwine.com. arrowsmithwine.com/events
8/5-8/6: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: Stray Herd, 4-7pm. Sun.: Nate Latta, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
8/4-8/7: S.B. Bowl Fri.: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Ziggy Marley, Mavis Staples, Robert Randolph Band, 6pm. $53.50-$136.50. Sat.: S.B. Mariachi Festival: Edith Marquez, El Mariachi del Divo, Majo Aguilar, Mariachi Femenil Nuevo Tecalitlán, Mariachi Angeles, Mariachi Garibaldi, 5pm. $85.50-$180.50.
8/6: Zaca Mesa Winery Live Music Sunday with Eric Zobel. Noon-3pm. 6905 Foxen Canyon Rd., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 688-9339 or email info@zacamesa .com zacamesa.com/upcomingevents
8/7: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Debbie Davies, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
8/4-8/6, 8/9:
PCPA Presents American Mariachi American Mariachi, about an all-girl mariachi band in the ’70s, is an uplifting comedy about family, the freedom to go after your dreams, and the music that unites us played live on stage! Best enjoyed by audiences ages 12+. The musical shows through August 27. American Mariachi, sobre una banda de mariachis de chicas en los años 70, es una comedia conmovedora sobre la familia, la libertad de perseguir tus sueños y la música que nos une, ¡con música en vivo durante el espectáculo! Mejor disfrutado por audiencias mayores de 12 años. El musical va hasta el 27 de agosto. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St, Solvang. $25-$59. Suggested for ages 12+. Call (805) 922-8313 or email boxoffice@pcpa.org pcpa.org/events
8/5: LVAA Art Reception: Joe GliebeGoetz The Lompoc Valley Art Association (LVAA) presents works by Joe Gliebe-Goetz inspired by patterns found in stones of the natural world in this show, Landscapes and Gemstones. This exhibition will show through August 31.1-3pm. Cypress Gallery, 119 E. Cypress Ave. Free. Call (408) 707-8005 or email jrgg@coolmojo.net lompocart.org/events
EVENTS MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
8/5: Honoring Purple Heart & Gold Star Community The Cloverlane Foundation and Santa Ynez Community Outreach invite you to celebrate National Purple Heart Day with a free BBQ. 11am-2pm. Avenue of the Flags, Buellton. Free. Call (805) 925-2195. tinyurl.com/PurpleHeart-Day
8/5-8/6: Mujeres Makers Market Shop unique items from more than 60 WOC (women of color) businesses. There will be dance performances, music, a photo booth, arts and crafts, face painting, and more. 10am4pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Email info@mujeres makersmarket.com mujeresmakersmarket.com/events
SUNDAY 8/6
8/6: Ensemble Theatre Company Presents Play It Forward This benefit concert will feature Broadway performers Joan Almedilla, David Burnham, Deedee Magno Hall, Jen Paz, Beverly Ward, and Kirby Ward alongside the company’s former and current students with a silent auction and champagne reception prior to the concert. Funds raised will go toward the ETC’s education outreach initiatives. Reception: 6pm; concert: 7pm. GA: $45; premium: $60. The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. Call (805) 965-5400 or email boxoffice@etcsb.org. etcsb.org/play-it-forward
MONDAY 8/7
8/7: Soul Bites Monday Night West Coast Swing Calling all dancers to an optional swing lesson before a night of invigorating social dancing. 6:45pm. Soul Bites, 423 State St. $8-$15. Call (805) 869-2198 soulbitesrestaurants.com
TUESDAY 8/8
8/8:
Rancho La Patera & Stow House: Music at the Ranch
Bring a picnic or purchase food from Mony’s and Sassafrass food trucks and take in seven decades of rock ’n’ roll from S.B.’s King Bee with this being the final gig with Shawn Fabian (lead guitar) and founding member Rachel Sarah Thurston. 5:30-7:30pm. Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. Free. Call (805) 681-7216. goletahistory.org/ music-at-the-ranch
WEDNESDAY 8/9
8/9:
Annual Sadako Peace Day
Reflect and honor the innocent victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as war, through poetry readings, speakers, live music, and more. 6-7pm. La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Rd. Free. Call (805) 965-3443 or email info@napf.org tinyurl.com/ SadakoPeaceDay2023
8/9: Patti Smith Trio Influential rock ’n’ roller and acclaimed musician Patti Smith and her trio will be in S.B. for a benefit concert for the Lobero Theatre Foundation, Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA), Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, and the Bob Dylan Center. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $175-$250. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com lobero.org/events
8/9: Blind Fitness & Kyle’s Kitchen Fundraiser Kyle’s Kitchen will donate 20 percent of order totals to Blind Fitness, a local nonprofit that provides life-enriching sports and opportunities for individuals who are blind or have low vision. 11am-9pm. Kyle’s Kitchen, 791 Chapala St. Call (805) 962-8500. tinyurl.com/KylesKitchenFundraiser
8/9: Western Monarch Butterfly Panel Discussion Learn about community science programs, migratory needs, and planting native habitat for monarch butterflies from a panel of experts. A short film about creating monarch habitat will be screened. 6-7:30pm. CEC Environmental Hub, 1219 State St. Free tinyurl.com/ MonarchButterflyPanel
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:
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
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.
S.B. UNIFIED 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
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
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
Saturday, August 12, 7 PM
Dip into food + drinks throughout the museum. Make your mark on the rooftop dance floor with DJ Gavin Roy Presents. Groove to eclectic reggae jams from Rey Fresco. Enjoy live screen-printing with MindGarden creative studio + more ink-triguing activities. No kids allowed – but you can still act like one.
Tickets on sale $35 in advance / $45 at the door Tickets include first drink
Fess may no longer be with us, but the hospitable spirit of the beloved actor and entrepreneur has deep roots in Santa Barbara Wine Country, as evidenced by a recent visit to the renovated Fess Parker Wine Country Inn.
Purchased by Parker and his wife, Marcella, in 1998 and last renovated in 2012, the 19-room boutique inn with rooms and suites on both sides of Grand Avenue, the bucolic main street in Los Olivos manages to be a cozy combination of luxurious amenities and personal Parker family touches that make you feel like such a VIP houseguest that Fess and Marcy are going to come out and greet you in their tennis whites (or maybe a colorful caftan for her) at any minute.
by Leslie Dinaberg
Now run by General Manager Amanda Parker White, Fess’s granddaughter, who is part of the third generation of the family to join the business, each room at the inn has its own unique decor. Our Grand Spa King had beautiful new hardwood floors, a dreamy wrought-iron four-poster bed, a comfy seating area, a cozy fireplace, and lots of vintage framed photos of Fess and Marcy, along with young Eli and Ashley Parker (their children, who now sit at the helm of the business, along with various family members in leadership roles). The complimentary bottle of Fess Parker 2020 viognier and sweet peanut brittle treats (one of Fess’s favorites) added to the warm feeling of being an honored houseguest, as did the delicious morning coffee, fruit, quiche, bagels, lox, and pastry offerings included as part of our much-morethan-continental breakfast, served in yet another charming room off of a the spacious backyard grass area.
Also on the property is Toscana Restaurant Group’s separately owned but equally hospitable Nella Kitchen & Bar, a
delicious sister to the nearby S.Y. Kitchen, with a wine-friendly Italian menu that includes pinsas, a Roman artisan baking dish that’s sort of a cross between a pizza and a crisp but airily light bread. It’s hard to describe but delicious and great for sharing before diving into the more traditional entrees of seafood, meats, and pastas.
Over the years, Los Olivos has become quite a desirable wine travel destination for people from all over the world, with the Parkers among the earlier business owners to have that vision. With the recent reopening of the Auberge Resorts Inn at Mattei’s Tavern just down the road, the timing seems perfect for a refresh at the cozy Wine Country Inn, which is easy walking distance to more than 30 tasting rooms in the charming downtown area, many housed in historic, Victorian buildings from the 1800s.
The Parker family’s recently renovated Epiphany Tasting Garden is one of the quaint tasting experiences just a few blocks away from the Wine Country Inn. A complimentary tasting is included for guests at the inn, and we enjoyed having the affable Bryce lead us through a sparkling wine flight that included the Fesstivity brut rosé, 2019, which he introduced by saying “Why have a mimosa when you can have a brut rosé?” Brunch is always my favorite meal of the day when I can swing it, and this notably delicious bubbly will make a perfect addition. I also enjoyed the delightfully fruitforward summertime splash of happiness from the 2022 grenache rosé from Rodney’s Vineyard.
A vineyard visit to Fess Parker Winery was also part of the offerings included from the inn. We drove ourselves to the storied Foxen Canyon Road establishment, but the hotel also offers
transportation to the winery, which is a great option for those who aren’t familiar with the winding roads through this classic Santa Barbara County wine region. Dana entertained us with family lore as she led us through a flight that included a lovely 2020 syrah and 2021 pinot noir, as well as a few library wines including a 2006 Bien Nacido pinot noir made by Eli Parker himself (Blair Fox is now the winemaker) that drank remarkably well that were open from an earlier tasting that day.
“As a family-owned and -operated business, we hold our heritage in high regard, while also recognizing the importance of providing a fresh and modern experience,” said Ashley Parker Snider, Fess’s daughter and co-owner and proprietor of the Fess Parker portfolio, in talking about the recent renovations, which include future plans to revamp the pool area. Based on our recent experience at the property, I’d say the family business is in very good hands indeed.
For more information, see fessparker.com.
The origins of the Huff and Puff Coed Soccer League (HAPCO) go back to 1985, when Joel Schwartz approached David Stone at the end-ofseason banquet of another adult soccer league. Both players loved the game but were fed up with the intensity, physicality, and machismo of the men’s league. There had to be a place where people who loved the game could go to practice their skills, get exercise, and enjoy the camaraderie of team sports.
years is that now the minimum age is 27 for both sexes. New players coming into the league quickly learn the different rules and are gently reminded if they forget.
In the early internet days of 1986, the existence of the new league was spread largely through word of mouth. Schwartz was the first league director, and when he stepped down, Stone took his place. Joel Kaufman was also one of the league’s founding fathers, and today his daughter Jody has taken the baton and is one of the team captains.
by Hugh Ranson
There wasn’t. So the two men decided to do something about it thus, HAPCO was born.
Schwartz and Stone wanted an alternative, less aggressive version of the game, and in order to dilute the testosterone that sometimes dominated the men’s games, they decided to include women and men on the same teams. In order to make it so that the women were not put off by the physicality of the men, a novel tweak was made to the rules. In each of the two 45-minute halves of the game, the women alternated between attacking and defending, and the same would hold true for the men. So the women on the Blue Team would defend in the first half while the women on the Red Team attacked, and at halftime the roles were reversed. During the half when the Blue Team’s women were attacking, the Blue men were not allowed inside the 18-yard box around the goal so that the women had more opportunities to take shots. In every game, players would have equal opportunity to work on both attacking and defending skills.
Other rules and customs were modified. To encourage safe, non-aggressive play, slide tackling was banned. Scores were not tallied. Teams were not given names apart from the colors of the team shirts. To apply to play in the league, men had to be at least 30 years old, women had to be 27, and couples were given priority over singles. There was no upper age limit.
These modifications remain in effect to the present day and are highly successful. The only change over the
During the formative seasons of HAPCO, games were played on the gopher-infested field at Mountain View Elementary. Then Stone spoke to a teacher acquaintance at Crane School, inquiring about the availability of its pristine soccer pitch. Somehow, permission was granted, and so began the Golden Age of HAPCO. The Crane field and the HAPCO league had a glorious run of more 30 years together. Unfortunately, when COVID struck, the league went into a short remission and hasn’t been able to get back onto the Crane field since then. Games are currently played on the lower field at San Marcos High School.
One of the many beautiful aspects of HAPCO is that, apart from the times of COVID restrictions and when games are rained out, there has rarely been a week when games have not been played. There are four seasons annually, and when one season ends, the next begins the following week. To keep teams fresh and as even as possible, players are rotated to different teams on a regular basis.
I have played HAPCO Soccer since 1988. One of the great things about the league is that it attracts people from all over the world. Inexperienced players are encouraged and mentored, and more seasoned players are drawn to the cooperative, low-key atmosphere of the league. When I started playing, there were four teams. This has now expanded to six teams. At one time, there was a waiting list of up to three years to join HAPCO, but now the league is actively seeking new players, especially women and couples. If you have an interest in playing, check out the HAPCO website at hapcosoccer.com
I hope to see you on the pitch!
Community Market featuring Women of Color artisans, creatives, vintage curators, and more
ommunity
Saturday, August 5th and Sunday, August 6th 10-4 PM
123 E Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Chefs don’t tend to stick around long in the modern American restaurant scene, where ladder-climbing looks more rewarding than loyalty. But the longevity of Chef Jason Paluska is why The Lark remains a darling of the Santa Barbara culinary scene, a full decade after he was part of the team that opened this Funk Zone hotspot and fueled the seaside neighborhood’s ongoing maturation.
didn’t seem like a real place for me to land. It was almost too much of a postcard, where the ATM looks like a destination in itself. I was really overwhelmed. We didn’t anticipate it being that busy. It’s such a big restaurant. I remember going to the Hungry Cat before we opened to see what people told me was the most popular restaurant at the time. If this is as busy as it gets, and there are like 35 people in here, how are we gonna fill rooms this big? I started to get pretty nervous about it.
So it was definitely risky for me to jump straight out and not really know if there was anything to catch me. It was a leap of faith. But I connected with Sherry immediately in our first conversation. I liked her as a person. I trusted her because she was so well-spoken and intelligent.
ON SUSTAINED SUCCESS: I don’t have ego in regards to who I am. I don’t wear a chef’s coat with my name embroidered on it to tell people who I am. That doesn’t matter to me. Are we relevant? Are we good at what we do? Are we proud of what we do? That’s how I have always measured success.
ON THE MENU: During the first six months of the menu, I was sort of mimicking things that other chefs had shown me in San Francisco. It was my first executive chef job. I was 31 when we opened, so my identity wasn’t my own.
The menu has stayed, for the most part, pretty consistent. We’ve stayed as hyper-seasonal as we can. But I’ve had a couple of super creative people in the kitchen, and I let them exercise their creativity and contribute to the menu. I want to make sure people in those positions feel like they have a way to contribute to what we’re doing.
When I write menu items, I start with a blank piece of paper and crunch my brain ’til something comes out. If I read a cookbook or am on social media too long, I’ll just absorb something else. I don’t want that to be the nature of what we do. I know food isn’t wildly original in any capacity, but I like the ideas to feel like they came from somewhere personal.
I’m trying to keep the food a little simpler, the plating a little simpler. We’ve got smoked ribs and potato salad on the menu with a caramelized peach glaze. It’s the most honest thing I’ve ever put on a menu. It’s as obvious as it gets. All the culinary school, fine dining techniques are there to make something as simple as that. When people connect with a familiar thing and it’s done well, they’ll come back.
ON S.B.’S RISING CULINARY STAR: The secret is out on Santa Barbara. It was only a matter of time. The pandemic pushed people out of cities and had them looking elsewhere to live and thrive. Culinarily, it’s cool to see people move here and to raise the bar so high. I love that Bell’s got the Michelin star and put the Central Coast of California on a national scale. When restaurants elevate and really push their own bar, it pushes everyone else around them. That’s a really great thing.
by Matt Kettmann
“One thing that stands out about The Lark is the big heart the team brings to it every day,” said Sherry Villanueva, who left her corporate marketing career to open the restaurant in 2013, then went on to open multiple eateries and hotels under the Acme Hospitality brand. “There is no better example of that than Jason. He and Skyler Gamble were both part of our opening team, and we would not be where we are without them.”
Raised in Houston, Paluska was lured to Santa Barbara (a city he didn’t know) after years of sharpening his skills in San Francisco (a city he loved). He’s since become ingrained in the community, raising twin 8-year-old daughters together with his wife in Carpinteria. We spoke for nearly an hour on the phone recently, and Jason was as thoughtful, eloquent, and reflective as ever. I’ll mostly let his own words do the talking here.
ON COMING TO S.B.: It felt like a massive risk. I had plenty of stability living in San Francisco, and I wasn’t seeking to get out because I was somewhat obsessed with it. I grew up in Houston, which is pretty much the complete opposite of San Francisco. It just clicked with me on a different level.
Finding out about The Lark project was out of nowhere. I thought that maybe this was my chance to live in a quintessentially Californian place. Being from Texas, you’re always looking for the postcard.
I had only visited Santa Barbara once prior, and it just
Ten years ago on paper sounds like a real long time, but I’m still so invested and connected to it. I’ve grown to love and appreciate where I’m at completely. I was longing for San Francisco when I first arrived, but the longer you stay here, you really get to understand the reason why so many people seek out to be here. It goes beyond sunny days.
ON THE FUNK ZONE’S EVOLUTION: Each day that I drive to work, I’ll park and notice that something has gone up or changed. Sherry had this cool vision and she was trying to get everyone on board. It’s really challenging to get people to believe when it’s just an idea on paper. It wasn’t like the neighborhood made me nervous, but it definitely wasn’t super attractive from a physical standpoint.
When we first opened, I got pulled over by the police a handful of times as I was leaving work super late in the middle of the night. “Why are you in this neighborhood?” they’d ask. Leaving work at 2 a.m. in the morning is very common in restaurants, but it was awkward. “Here’s my business card. Here’s my knife roll.” That was the state of things back then.
ON THEIR SERVICE: We’re playing to a big audience, and we want to make sure everything we’re doing is super tight and well-rehearsed. We don’t want to be winging any detail at all. I’ve never once looked at the restaurant and said, “Okay, today’s an easy day. Let’s call it early.” We go above and beyond every day because we really take pride in what we do.
I’ve always been excited and impressed by people who want to work as hard as they can to do what they’re doing. That becomes an energy that’s instilled in the food scene and shared between restaurants.
ON COOKING WITH NANCY SILVERTON: One of the most influential meals I’ve ever had in my life was eating at Mozza. When she and Michael Cimarusti came to cook dinner with me here in February 2020, I’d never felt so Wayne’s World we’re-not-worthy. This dinner is donating back to the James Beard Foundation because they’re so invested in everything we support. It’s such an honor. n
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, The Lark is hosting a $250 dinner on Thursday, August 24, at 5:30 p.m., prepared by Chef Jason Paluska and famous Los Angeles restaurateur Nancy Silverton, with wines selected by superstar sommelier Caroline Styne. See thelarksb.com for information and reservations.
When I first visited Guadalupe getting lost in the dunes, eating sopes at El Tapatio, appreciating the colorful architecture, learning about its multiethnic history I was smitten and vowed to return regularly. More than 20 years later, I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve only been back a handful of times, rarely finding a visit convenient, given that the remote city in the northwestern corner of Santa Barbara County sits so far off of 101.
Meanwhile, I’ve watched Guadalupe endure years of heartache. It was one of the few cities in California to nearly go bankrupt (it didn’t), then the first in 40 years advised to dissolve (it didn’t), and even lost its primary landmark, the Far Western Tavern. That restaurant moved to Orcutt in 2012 due, in part, to the costs required to retrofit the old brick building. Those expensive earthquake-safety requirements scared off new businesses from investing as well, so I was left thinking that Guadalupe’s somewhat subdued status quo would go on forever.
I’m happy to report that I was wrong. I finally made it back to Guadalupe earlier this year, and found a much more vibrant downtown strip than I remember. It still showed the charm of a sleepy Mexican farming pueblo which makes sense, given the population is nearly 90 percent Latinx, most employed in agriculture but there was palpable energy and bright coats of paint to the mercados and taquerias along Cabrillo Highway.
In the midst of it all sits Guadalupe Social Club, a wine bar, casual eatery, and event space that immediately became a community hub upon opening in February. Attracting a mix of longtime Latinx residents who are increasingly interested in wine, retirees who live up the coast in Nipomo’s Monarch Dunes development, and the recent influx of middle-class families who bought homes in the Pasadero subdivision, the Club comes at a prescient time. As the nearby Royal Theater opened in 1939, closed since 1989 undergoes a $5 million renovation, Guadalupe’s star is decidedly on the rise, with more than a few thinking that it could be the next Los Alamos.
“We wanted a place where you could drink wine, eat good food, and have a safe place for your kids,” explained Brooks Van Wingerden, who purchased the building with her husband in 2021 and founded the Club with her next
door neighbor in Arroyo Grande, Lexie Bell. Both are moms of three young kids, and acutely appreciated that parental need for having fun, but with ample fencing. Others craved that too, said Bell, confirming, “They’ve charged in.”
The formula wine, food, games, occasional entertainment, etc. appears straightforward, but the story behind the wines they pour is anything but. Since 2010, Van Wingerden has managed the day-to-day business operations for Margerum Wine Company, from Santa Barbara to Buellton and beyond. As she embraced parenthood, she evolved her job to build projects that expanded the brand’s reach beyond the high-touch, small-batch bottlings that are Doug Margerum’s primary concern.
That led to negociant labels such as Valle de Inez, Riviera Wine Company, and Diseños de California, which are affordably priced and sold by larger retailers across the country. But the Guadalupe Social Club is their only direct-to-consumer outlet.
“There’s no other place where you can taste these wines,” said Van Wingerden. A flight is $15, glasses range from $10 to $12, bottles are $30 to $40, and there’s the occasional offering from small brands, like Ann Albert or Soul, that don’t have their own tasting rooms. There’s also beer, hard seltzer, and non-alcoholic options like apple cider and sparkling water.
The food service is much like what you find at Margerum’s Santa Barbara tasting room: extensive snacks, cheese, and charcuterie, plus paninis and flatbreads. They’re aimed to share while tossing cornhole or bocce, playing a board game, or chasing your kids around the expansive backyard, which looks out over the dusty end of the Santa Maria River and toward the mountains above San Luis Bay. That malleable outdoor space more than a half-acre of what was previously a junkyard may prove to be the Club’s top asset, able to host food trucks, live concerts, and even substantial festivals one day. (More than 500 people enjoyed the grand opening, for instance.)
The century-old building retrofitted before the Van Wingerdens bought it, then designed by Bell is split down the middle into two long rooms, allowing ample space for overflow when the main room gets busy and the
opportunity to host private parties without closing out the public. The Club throws its own events as well, like flowerarranging classes, mother-daughter teas, trivia night, and wine tastings, often featuring visiting winemakers. Coming up is a winemaker night with Doug Margerum on September 7.
If the hour-plus drive from Santa Barbara seems daunting more so that drive home, of course consider the train, which leaves State Street just before 10 a.m., gets to Guadalupe before noon, and then gets you back by 8 p.m. “It’s a great summer day trip,” said Van Wingerden, who suggests lunch at El Tapatio or La Simpatia and a tour of the Dunes Center before settling in at her Club. “Then you can take pizzas from us or Two Guys Pizza to go on the train along with a bottle of wine, and you’re set for your sunset ride home.”
Margerum is especially proud of his longtime collaborator, and bullish on the potential for Guadalupe. “It will boom,” said Margerum, who was on hand to share his wines during my visit. “History will reward you for opening this and being the catalyst.”
Of course, not everyone wants Guadalupe to become the next Los Alamos, as even well-meaning gentrification of the culinary and cultural kind often uproots those who’ve lived there longest. We’re probably a few years away from that point, so hopefully strategic planning can ensure that everyone keeps their place at Guadalupe’s table. I’ll surely be back to take my seat someday soon. I promise.
Rusty’s Pizza has introduced some brand-new flavors for Fiesta’s 99thyear celebration. The new offerings include the Chicken ’n’ Ranch Pizza and Mango Habanero Sauce for Rusty’s Hot Wings. The Chicken ’n’ Ranch Pizza features hand-made crust with their signature Rusty’s Ranch sauce and includes white meat chicken, fresh red onion, mushroom, and red bell pepper. Canadian-style bacon and freshly chopped cilantro can be added for an extra boost of flavor. Rusty’s Hot Wings now come with a choice of Mango Habanero Sauce, offering a fruity twist with a spicy kick.
Owner Tyler Duncan expressed excitement about the launch, coinciding with Fiesta’s 99th year. “We are thrilled to be part of the festivities and celebrations in Santa Barbara and invite everyone to experience these new flavors at any of our Rusty’s Pizza locations.” The Chicken ’n’ Ranch Pizza and Rusty’s Hot Wings with Mango Habanero Sauce are now available at all Rusty’s Pizza for dine-in, pickup, or delivery. Order online at rustyspizza.com or by calling (805) 564-1111.
MATTEI’S TAVERN ADDED TO MICHELIN GUIDE: The signature restaurant at the newly opened The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern, Auberge Resorts Collection, The Tavern, has officially been added to the Michelin Guide. “The Tavern features seasonal dishes that involve sophisticated ingredients with an approachable and satisfying menu,” says Executive Chef Rhoda Magbitang.
The Michelin Guide highlights menu items such as the braised abalone finished with abalone liver mousse over mushroom confit in white miso butter, as well as the wood-fired sides and the dark chocolate soufflé for dessert. In addition to The Tavern, the hotel recently opened another eatery for guests and locals, Gin’s Tap Bar, a small tap bar and smokehouse that pays homage to Gin, the longtime chef of the original Mattei’s.
ISLA VISTA UPDATES: Reader Brendan tells me that a taqueria called Maria’s Tacos has opened in the former home of Kaptain’s Firehouse BBQ and Mr. Pickles Sandwich Shop at 6545 Pardall Road in Isla Vista,
next to the now-defunct Study Hall. Call (805) 869-6377.
Reader Brendan also sent me and update about 903 Embarcadero Del Norte in Isla Vista: “Pho Bistro appears to have closed, and a sign says that a new restaurant called ‘Asia 101’ is ‘coming soon summer 2023’. The sign says, ‘Asian fusion | Noodle bar | Fried tapas’ and also lists other foods with question marks (‘Pho?’, ‘Bulgogi?’, etc.), not sure what that means.”
Pho Bistro opened in May 2007.
Checo’s Mexican restaurant, which opened in September 2022 at 6578 Trigo Road in Isla Vista—in the former home Mojo (which moved to 6530 Seville Road), 805 Kabob, Lovin Oven Mediterranean Bakery & Café, Café Int’l, and dozens of other establishments since USCB opened its current campus in 1949—has closed.
CAYA LAUNCHES NEW BRUNCH: Caya restaurant at The Leta Hotel, 5650 Calle Real in Goleta, launched a new brunch on August 3. The price of the brunch, including choice of cocktail below, is $25 and is available Saturday and Sundays from 8 a.m.–1:30 p.m. It includes Chicken-Fried Steak Benedict (a tender chicken-fried steak, poached eggs, smothered hash browns, drenched in savory sausage gravy, and the Butter Griddled Biscuit, a twist on a classic biscuit) and choice of Bloody Mary, Irish coffee, or CAYA’s signature Hangover Hot Chocolate (Kahlua and Baileys, topped with whipped cream).
PAVILIONS RENOVATION STARTED: In August 2021, I reported that Vons market in Montecito was scheduled to be rebranded as Pavilions. Reader Eric says that process has finally begun: “The Pavilions renovation has officially started now; they’ve actually already finished the bakery and checkout lanes. The receipts and registers are already rebranded as well.” Pavilions is a grocery store banner used by Vons, a supermarket division of Albertsons. Although similar to Vons stores, Pavilions markets are more upscale and feature a larger selection of organic food, wine, and other specialty foods. Vons shares the popular Signature brand with Pavilions.
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THE FLAMENCO ARTS FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH TRADITION OF SHOWCASING TALENTED WORLD-CLASS FLAMENCO ARTISTS
Devoted to flamenco music and dance, the Flamenco Arts Festival (FAF) is taking place at the historic Lobero Theatre on August 4 at 7:30 p.m. to showcase world-class flamenco artists from Spain and the U.S., featuring Alfonso Losa from Madrid in the award-winning production of Flamenco: Espacio Creativo. Losa will be accompanied by dancer and guest artist Concha Jareño, along with other artists.
Losa, a current representative of the Madrid school of flamenco, is one of the many talented dancers, choreographers, and directors that will be at the FAF this year, proving a necessary bridge between the masters and the new generations.
“The seed of Flamenco: Espacio Creativo is simply my love for dance in its broadest and most respectful concept,” said Losa about his production. “This is the one major reason that led me to introspection, to rework my language, to rediscover and surprise myself.”
The nonprofit based in Santa Barbara was founded by Vibiana Pizano and her father, Alberto Pizano, in 1999.
Vibiana was struck by the beauty and the power of the performances during her month-long attendance of the flamenco festival La Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla, and knew she had to bring that experience to Santa Barbara.
“It was then, sitting in the audience, that I knew Santa Barbara was ready for a flamenco festival,” said Vibiana. “With only one other flamenco festival in the U.S. at the time, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to introduce this art form at a different level to our community.”
Vibiana returned to Santa Barbara with the vision of bringing this experience to the community, and discussed the idea with her father, who was a prominent member of the community. Both saw great potential to create an event that would showcase flamenco and the best of Santa Barbara’s culture, traditions, and history. The FAF held its first festival in 2000, and has been dedicated to promoting flamenco along with offering educational opportunities for those interested in understanding and learning about the art form and
celebrating cultural diversity in the arts.
Vibiana’s favorite aspect is introducing the community to these international stars who perform all over the world at some of the most prestigious theaters and festivals.
“I find it particularly fulfilling to witness the audience’s amazement and surprise at the exceptional artistry and talent displayed by these artists,” said Vibiana. “We are humbled by the many testimonials we receive after every festival, which remind us of the positive impact that this event has on our community and to those who come from around the nation and abroad.”
After the passing of her father in 2015, many of the ideas that Vibiana had for the FAF had to be put on hold. Now, she is working on some of them and hopes to continue collaborating and partnering with the community to make the FAF a truly unforgettable experience and community treasure. Vibiana said she is excited and grateful for the support that she has received from the community over the last 24 years.
—Colette VictorinoFor more information about the gala performance, pre-party, and separately ticketed after-party, see lobero.org or flamenco arts.org.
Let us now praise off-thebeaten-path art venues we might take for granted, but shouldn’t. Take, for a ripe example, the Architectural Foundation Gallery, nestled in a historic house on the corner of Victoria and Santa Barbara streets. The living room/ meeting room has also led a healthy double life for many years as a light-filled art gallery, sometimes showcasing work by “off the radar” or less familiar gallery-graced artists.
Official gallery hours are limited to Saturday afternoon, 1-3 p.m., but the “by appointment”clause is more than casual. Barring official board meetings and use of the hall, a weekday gallery visit is just a phone call away.
As it happens, the current exhibition, vibrant painter Nadya Brown’s A Natural Curiosity, makes for ideal summer art-watching. Brown, an English-born artist who lived in Spain and Italy before settling in Santa Barbara, creates paintings with beaming and bustling surfaces, but also with secret agendas beneath the sparkling manners.
In Brown’s art, visions of natural beauty, remembered objects and scenery, travelog-ing, and inviting, warm-spirited interiors are sometimes packed into compounded or imagined contexts. A palette of bright colors, sometimes spilling over into the fluorescent spectrum, further nudges the prospects of realism into realms kissed by fantastical ambience.
Underscoring the gentle and festive scene-making, however, are hints of eco-angst, and concern for environmental fragility. Brown often deals with varied distancing or layering visual effects, sometimes integrating warm interior spaces with visions of dramatic nature observable in the distance, through windows/ sensory portals. The dichotomy is in place in such paintings as “View from a Window with Wayne’s Bowls,”“View of the Mountain with Tulips, Oaxaca,” and especially in “The Artist’s Studio with a View of Tenochtitlan,” with the dense artist’s studio metaphor for the artist’s eye view peering outward at a slice of culturally loaded nature.
A quartet of small, square-format canvases detail undersea life, including the unwanted intrusion of humanity-introduced detritus into the ocean sanctuary.
Two large triptychs hang on opposite long walls of the gallery, celebrating compositional density for its own sake along with the piled-on references filling and energizing the pictorial space. Intentions are telegraphed in the title of “Simonetta’s Library: a brief history of nature,” with its profusion of objet d’arts, worldly relics, books, actual flowers, and both a large painting of exotic birds and a live exotic bird perched on an antique chair.
Across the room, the triptych “Casa de Cultura, Menorca” also heaps on data, but in a more consciously orderly way, with crisscrossing references to ornithology and ancient mariner life. A laying-on of layers is the MO in these paintings.
In a sudden burst of surreal, witty whimsy tinged by an environmental reality check “Snackbar Grackles” mixes affectionate portraits of our bird protagonists with airborne potato chips and French fries. Despite the painting’s clear message, decrying the scourge of litter and unhealthy aviary diets, the non sequitur charm is our strongest takeaway.
Why not? It’s art. It’s summertime. Imagination is the limit, with moral conscience humming in the periphery. —Josef
Woodard
Nadya Brown, A Natural Curiosity, is on view at the Architectural Foundation Gallery through August 12. See afsb.org/programs/art-gallery
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Emotions are not inconvenient distractions from reason and logic. They are key to the rigorous functioning of our rational minds. Neurologist Antonio Damasio proved this conclusively in his book Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
The French philosopher’s famous formula “I think, therefore I am” offers an inadequate suggestion about how our intelligence works best. This is always true, but it will be especially crucial for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Here’s your mantra, courtesy of another French philosopher, Blaise Pascal: “The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
(Apr. 20-May 20): The famous Taurus TV star Jay Leno once did a good deed for me. I was driving my Honda Accord on a freeway in Los Angeles when he drove up beside me in his classic Lamborghini. Using hand signals, he conveyed to me the fact that my trunk was open, and stuff was flying out. I waved in a gesture of thanks and pulled over onto the shoulder. I found that two books and a sweater were missing, but my laptop and briefcase remained. Hooray for Jay! In that spirit, Taurus, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I invite you to go out of your way to help and support strangers and friends alike. I believe it will lead to unexpected benefits.
(May 21-June 20): “Did you learn how to think or how to believe?” When my friend Amelie was 9 years old, her father teased her with this query upon her return home from a day at school. It was a pivotal moment in her life. She began to develop an eagerness to question all she was told and taught. She cultivated a rebellious curiosity that kept her in a chronic state of delighted fascination. Being bored became virtually impossible. The whole world was her classroom. Can you guess her sign? Gemini! I invite you to make her your role model in the coming weeks.
(June 21-July 22): In the coming weeks, I advise you not to wear garments like a transparent Gianfranco Ferré black mesh shirt with a faux-tiger-fur vest and a coral-snake jacket that shimmers with bright harlequin hues. Why? Because you will have most success by being down-toearth, straightforward, and in service to the fundamentals. I’m not implying you should be demure and reserved, however. On the contrary: I hope you will be bold and vivid as you present yourself with simple grace and lucid authenticity.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): In 1811, Leo scientist Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856) formulated a previously unknown principle about the properties of molecules. Unfortunately, his revolutionary idea wasn’t acknowledged and implemented until 1911, 100 years later. Today his well-proven theory is called Avogadro’s law. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Leo, you will experience your equivalent of his 1911 event in the coming months. You will receive your proper due. Your potential contributions will no longer be mere potential. Congratulations in advance!
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Israeli poet Yona Wallach mourned the fact that her soul felt far too big for her, as if she were always wearing the clothes of a giant on her small body. I suspect you may be experiencing a comparable feeling right now, Virgo. If so, what can you do about it? The solution is NOT to shrink your soul. Instead, I hope you will expand your sense of who you are so your soul fits better. How might you do that? Here’s a suggestion to get you started: Spend time summoning memories from throughout your past. Watch the story of your life unfurl like a movie.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-century Libran physician James Salisbury had strong ideas about the proper ingredients of a healthy diet. Vegetables were toxic, he believed. He created Salisbury steak, a dish made of ground beef and
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onions, and advised everyone to eat it three times a day. Best to wash it down with copious amounts of hot water and coffee, he said. I bring his kooky ideas to your attention in hopes of inspiring you to purge all bunkum and nonsense from your life not just in relation to health issues, but everything. It’s a favorable time to find out what’s genuinely good and true for you. Do the necessary research and investigation.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I’m amazed that anyone gets along!” marvels self-help author SARK. She says it’s astonishing that love ever works at all, given our “idiosyncrasies, unconscious projections, re-stimulations from the past, and the relationship history of our partners.” I share her wonderment. On the other hand, I am optimistic about your chances to cultivate interesting intimacy during the coming months. From an astrological perspective, you are primed to be extra wise and lucky about togetherness. If you send out a big welcome for the lessons of affection, collaboration, and synergy, those lessons will come in abundance.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Please don’t make any of the following statements in the next three weeks: (1) “I took a shower with my clothes on.” (2) “I prefer to work on solving a trivial little problem rather than an interesting dilemma that means a lot to me.” (3) “I regard melancholy as a noble emotion that inspires my best work.” On the other hand, Sagittarius, I invite you to make declarations like the following: (1) “I will not run away from the prospect of greater intimacy even if it’s scary to get closer to a person I care for.” (2) “I will have fun exploring the possibilities of achieving more liberty and justice for myself.”
(3) “I will seek to learn interesting new truths about life from people who are unlike me.”
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Champions of the capitalist faith celebrate the fact that we consumers have more than 100,000 brand names we can purchase. They say it’s proof of our marvelous freedom of choice. Here’s how I respond to their cheerleading: Yeah, I guess we should be glad we have the privilege of deciding which of 50 kinds of shampoo is best for us. But I also want to suggest that the profusion of these relatively inconsequential options may distract us from the fact that certain of our other choices are more limited. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I invite you to ruminate about how you can expand your array of more important choices.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My best friend in college was an Aquarius, as is my favorite cousin. Two ex-girlfriends are Aquarians, and so was my dad. The talented singer with whom I sang duets for years was an Aquarius. So I have intimate knowledge of the Aquarian nature. And in honor of your unbirthday the time halfway between your last birthday and your next I will tell you what I love most about you. No human is totally comfortable with change, but you are more so than others. To my delight, you are inclined to ignore the rule books and think differently. Is anyone better than you at coordinating your energies with a group’s? I don’t think so. And you’re eager to see the big picture, which means you’re less likely to get distracted by minor imperfections and transitory frustrations. Finally, you have a knack for seeing patterns that others find hard to discern. I adore you!
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Is the first sip always the best? Do you inevitably draw the most vivid enjoyment from the initial swig of coffee or beer? Similarly, are the first few bites of food the most delectable, and after that your taste buds get diminishing returns? Maybe these descriptions are often accurate, but I believe they will be less so for you in the coming weeks. There’s a good chance that flavors will be best later in the drink or the meal. And that is a good metaphor for other activities, as well. The further you go into every experience, the greater the pleasure and satisfaction will be and the more interesting the learning.
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ARTS & LECTURES
Under the supervision of the Manager of Ticket Office Operations, the Assistant Ticket Office Manager carries out the operational processes of the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office. Principal duties include processing ticket sales (including subscription sales) for over 100 performances, films, and lectures presented annually by Arts & Lectures with yearly sales exceeding $1,000,000 and supervising numerous part‑time student employees. Is responsible for exact record‑keeping, money deposits, and reporting consistent with University policies and standards. Follows Ticket Office policies and procedures set by the Manager of Ticket Office Operations and Arts & Lectures’ Executive Director, and ensures standards are maintained within the Ticket Office. Leads by example and ensures that ticket office staff also provide
courteous, accurate and prompt service to clients and customers, including students, faculty, staff, members of the community, VIPs, and donors. Is a key member of the administrative, marketing, and development teams. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience /training. 2‑3 years of customer service experience.
1‑ 2 years of experience/solid computer skills in google suite and a demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs.
Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Willingness and available to work evenings and weekends. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly
Range: $27.29/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 56610
COMPUTER SCIENCE
SOLID STATE LIGHTING & ENERGY
ELECTRONICS CENTER (SSLEEC)
Responsible for managing the administrative and staff functions necessary to support the mission of the Center. Provides high‑level management support to the Executive Director in the areas of budget, financial reporting, staff personnel, equipment and facilities, space, and website development.
Liaison with the Materials Department Business Officer on matters concerning SSLEEC. Direct management responsibilities include planning, development and implementation of operating policies and procedures as they relate to center goals and objectives in the areas of financial management and general administration. Must interpret, apply and explain a broad spectrum of policies, procedures, and regulations using sound management and financial skills and a comprehensive understanding of the purpose and organizational structure of SSLEEC. Job functions require a high level of independence and judgment, initiative, problem‑solving ability, effective verbal and written skills, and the capacity to organize and handle a wide range of responsibilities accurately and consistently. Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. 1‑3 years of experience in financial and cost accounting and financial analysis.
Proficiency with Google Suite and Microsoft Office software, such as Word, Excel, etc. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range is $67,200 to $119,600/yr. The budgeted salary range is $67,200 to $85,000/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Application review begins 8/14/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Under the shared supervision of the Licensed Clinical Social Worker Chief Associate, and the Associate Director of Residential & Community Living, the Housing Social Worker, provides a full range of social work services within University owned and operated Housing facilities, with emphasis on identifying treatment resources and providing psychosocial interventions (individual, group, crisis) not offered by other campus resources, to assure that residents receive optimal benefit from medical and/or psychiatric care. Additionally, the Housing Social Worker oversees the accommodations process for residents requesting special housing accommodations, and provides training for live‑in staff. The primary client population to be served is residents living in student housing with significant psychosocial stress, acute and chronic mental illnesses and in need of short and long term social services, including long term counseling and case management support. Reqs: Master’s Degree from an accredited school of social work. At least 3 years of post‑master’s experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Possession of a clinical social worker license issued by the California Board of Behavioral Science Examiners, within 1 Year required. Notes: Mandated Child Abuse Reporter. Campus Security Authority. Credentials Verification (U06): For clinical practitioner. Works in patient care environment. Must have a Master’s Degree in Social Work. Must be a currently licensed social worker in the state of California and must remain so at all times during employment in order to practice and function in this clinical role. It is the policy of Residential & Community Living and Student Health that all charts, reports, records and conversations regarding care of patients of R&CL/Student Health are kept confidential and are not discussed outside of the department. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. This is a 100% 12 month position. Residential & Community Living is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. 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. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary: $92,094.75‑$97,688.71/ 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 # 56283
Responsible for student affairs and academic personnel coordination for the Data Science (DS) Initiative. Serves as the initial source of information, advises students regarding general and program information. Ensures grades are reported and develops and updates the Schedule of Classes and other publications. Requires knowledge of policy and procedures for undergraduate education. Serves as the departmental liaison with the Office of the Registrar on all matters pertaining to program courses grades and undergraduate records. With Data Science Director and Business Officer, develops and prepares program curriculum plan for each academic year and prepares temporary sub‑0 budget. Responsible for processing all employment transactions for DS academic employees, including lecturers, teaching assistants and undergraduate learning assistants, in UCPath. Serves as resource for and advises DS Initiative Director on academic personnel policies including procedures covering academic recruitment, appointment, and advancement; compensation and salary administration; labor contracts; visa procurement; benefits; payroll. Provides administrative support for program coordination. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or training. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. This position is currently funded for 1 year from the start date. The full salary range is $24.95 to $42.10/yr. The hourly range is $24.95 to $28.42/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/9/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 56729
OFFICE
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
Serves as the primary initial contact for the Senior Managers of Development in the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor, Central and Executive Development, and provides essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fundraising program. Manages online calendar, screens incoming calls, makes travel and entertainment arrangements, completes all necessary paperwork in compliance with policies and procedures, and compiles and analyzes data and information from various sources including Advance
database, requiring strong analytical and technical skills. Serves as project assistant for development communications and large central fundraising initiatives such as Give Day. Provides leadership and oversight for planning, executing, and evaluating projects according to timelines and budgets. Uses a developed knowledge of current fundraising activity to maximize the effectiveness and perform all duties with excellent standards of accountability, follow‑through, and a profound commitment to customer service. Provides financial support including the management of the Managers’ established expense budgets. Handles confidential, high profile, and time sensitive matters involving senior UC Santa Barbara administrators, faculty, staff, collaborating institutions and the donor community. Reqs: HS Diploma or GED; strong verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking multi‑task and time management skills; excellent interpersonal communication and customer service skills; ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion; 1‑3 yrs experience with managing multiple projects and calendars under tight deadlines and dealing with frequent interruptions. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. The budgeted salary or hourly range is $27.29 ‑ $29.18/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 56367
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Under supervision, performs operational level groundskeeping duties as assigned. Cultivates planted areas; plants, fertilizes and maintains shrubs, small trees, lawns and other ground covers; may operate irrigation systems manually and by automatic controls. Uses a variety of hand and powered tools and equipment, including lawn mowers, edgers, line trimmers, hedge trimmers, blowers, and vacuums. Cleans grounds and walks of litter; empties trash receptacles; maintains and makes minor repairs to tools, irrigation and drainage systems. Reqs: High School Diploma, or equivalent. 1‑3 years Experience in institutional or commercial landscape maintenance and installation. 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
Salary or Hourly Range: $20.50 ‑
$22.20/hr. Full Salary Range: $18.93
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Job #56496
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
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Job # 56582
DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCE
Organizes and completes projects involving fabrication of instrumentation for both classroom and research; mechanical repair, light vehicle repair, wood working, and occasional metal working. Minor plumbing and electrical repair. Repairs and maintains instructional supplies and equipment. Coordinates field trips, readying vehicles, equipment and supplies. Occasionally provides staff support on field trips, and may be in the field for up to 10 days. Manages field equipment storeroom. Assures all department facilities meet EH&S requirements. Assists in laboratory remodels. Reqs: High School diploma or GED and four years of metal shop experience and journeyman skill in the operation of all standard machine shop equipment; or an equivalent combination of training and/or experience. Knowledge of and experience with basic hand and power tools. Knowledge of safety gear needed in the application of power tools, hand tools, general construction procedures and procedures associated with the use of various tools. Note: 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. The full salary range is $31.00 ‑ $37.29/ hr. The budgeted hourly range is $31.00 ‑ $31.72/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
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Job # 55930
MANAGEMENT
Sr. Building Maintenance Worker may work independently, as part of a team, or as an assistant to a skilled trades person, performing a variety of semi‑skilled and unskilled tasks in the maintenance, alteration and repair of buildings and related facilities and equipment. Maintains and repairs campus light fixtures, replaces lamps, ballasts, sockets, and other components in fluorescent, incandescent, quartz, high pressure sodium, and other types of fixtures. Works off of ladders, scaffolding and hydraulic lifts. Assists electricians in trouble shooting of basic lighting circuits and with pulling of wire, and other basic electrical installation duties. Delivers, loads, and unloads materials and cleans storage areas, shop areas, electrical and mechanical rooms, and trucks. Responsible for other related duties as assigned.
Reqs: One year experience as a Building Maintenance Worker, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Four years of experience in the performance of semi‑skilled building maintenance
Pull‑Notice Program. Work schedule: Monday ‑ Friday, 7am ‑ 4pm. This is a multi‑hire. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/
Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $24.11/hr. to $27.70/hr. Full Salary Range: $22.73/hr. to $29.99/ 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 # 56521
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Processes the payroll for Academic Student Employees including Teaching Assistants, Readers and Undergraduate Learning Assistants (ULAs). Duties include entering employment transactions in UCPath and projecting expenditures in the automated accounting system (GUS). Responsible for the hiring of employees in Student Intern titles including initiating J‑1 visas. Assists with ULA application process. Assists with travel and entertainment reimbursements in the Concur system. Serves as back‑up to the Personnel Administrator as needed, including payroll activities for other academic appointments, timekeeping and visa actions when necessary. Reqs: High school diploma or GED. Thorough knowledge in administrative procedures and processes including word processing, spreadsheet and database applications. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Position is funded through June 2025 pending further funding.
The full salary range is $27.29 to $39.12/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $27.29 to $29.92/hr.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 8/10/23. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 56839
UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
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CAMPUS DINING
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SARAH FRASCELLA CASE NO.: 23PR00307
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SARAH FRASCELLA
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: WILLIAM J. FRASCELLA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: WILLIAM J. FRASCELLA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:
09/21/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT:
SB5 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: April M.
Lavigne (283372) 5290 7 W. Figueroa, Ste, 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 683‑1459
Published July 20, 27. Aug 3 2023.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: STANTON
L. SAVINO (also known as STANTON LOUIS SAVINO) CASE
NO.: 23PR00351
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of STANTON
L. SAVINO aka STANTON LOUIS
SAVINO
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: LAUREL A. SAVINO in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: LAUREL A. SAVINO 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. 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: Dana F. Longo, Fauver, Large, Archbald & Spray LLP 820 State Street 4th Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 966‑7000
Published July 20, 27. Aug 3 2023.
AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BARBARA ECHEMANN NO: 23PR00300
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of BARBARA
ECHEMANN
A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: MICHAEL E. GUTMANN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): MICHAEL E. GUTMANN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to provide. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 08/31/2023 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA
Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner: JULIANNA MALIS, 14 W. Valerio Street, Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 946‑1550.
Published July 20, 27. Aug 3 2023.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LESLIE TALT aka LESLIE ANNE TALT
Case No. 23PR00334
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LESLIE TALT aka LESLIE ANNE TALT
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by Jennifer Anne Talt‑Lundin in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.
THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that Jennifer Anne Talt‑Lundin be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedents will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act.
(This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held on August 31, 2023 at 9:00 AM in Dept. No. 5 located at 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
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: PAUL T GAULKE ESQ SBN 82089 HROMADKA GAUKLE & COUTEE LLP 11661 SAN VICENTE BLVD STE 410 LOS ANGELES CA 90049‑5112 CN998159 TALT Jul 27, Aug 3, 10 2023
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SALLY LEWIS
Case No.: 23PR00356
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SALLY LEWIS, SALLY MCINTYRE LEWIS
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MAGGIE THOMAS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION for probate requests that: MAGGIE THOMAS be
appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 9/07/2023
AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in
California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner: Alexander Saunders:15 W. Carrillo St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (805) 699‑5086
Published Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: KYNDER 26 Don Antonio Way Ojai CA 93023.The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 04/19/21 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2021‑0001088. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Louree Maya (same address). The business was conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY LOUREE MAYA/FOUNDER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 7/14/23, FBN 2023‑0001755, E30.
I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. 2023‑0001561
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
1. WDC KITCHEN & BATH CENTER, 2. WDC KITCHEN & BATH, 14349 WHITE SAGE ROAD, MOORPARK, CA 93021 County of VENTURA
T.J.S. ENTERPRISES, INC.,
14349 WHITE SAGE ROAD, MOORPARK, CA 93021
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 06/01/2028.
T.J.S. ENTERPRISES, INC.
S/ THOMAS J. SCHLENDER, PRESIDENT
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/22/2023. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/13, 7/20, 7/27, 8/3/23
CNS‑3716362#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VAQUERO BBQ IN SANTA YNEZ at 3580 Manzana St. Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Juan A Lara (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual.
SIGNED BY:JUAN A LARA, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 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: 2023‑0001679. E47. Published: July 13, 20, 27. Aug 3 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TORTA THE HUTT at 1202 Diana Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Ray A Rubio (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: RAY A RUBIO, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 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: 2023‑0001678. E47. Published: July 13, 20, 27. Aug 3 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA MOBILE TRAILER REPAIR
Date of Notice: August 1, 2023
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION
Stow Grove Park Master Plan Project City of Goleta
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta has completed a Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for the project described below, and invites comments on the adequacy and completeness of the environmental analysis described in the Draft MND. The public comment period begins on August 1, 2023 and will end on August 31, 2023 at 5:00 P.M. All interested persons are encouraged to submit written comments. All letters should be addressed to Department of Neighborhood Services, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117, to the attention of (JoAnne Plummer, Parks and Recreation Manager, 805-562-5505, jplummer@ cityofgoleta.org). All comments must be received no later than August 31, 2023 at 5:00 P.M.
PROJECT LOCATION AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project is located in a residential area of the City of Goleta at 580 North La Patera Lane. The project site is approximately 11.75 acres and includes the entirety of Stow Grove Park (Assessor Parcel Number 077-160-009) and a portion of the Cathedral Oaks Road to the north. The project site has a land use and zoning classification of Open Space Active Recreation (OSAR). The project includes the development of the Stow Grove Park Master Plan which envisions improved, new, expanded, and renovated active and passive recreational park amenities at Stow Grove Park in the City of Goleta. Generally, improvements include installation of a new restroom, interactive gardens, fitness trail loop, nature/play area, and trash enclosure, and refurbishment of the parking lot, maintenance facility, horseshoe area, playgrounds, multi-use fields, walking/running paths, volleyball courts, picnic areas, park entrances, and redwood grove/walking trails. The project also includes relocation of an on-site Goleta Water District line.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: A Draft MND has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code, §§ 21000, et seq.), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regulations, §§ 150000, et seq.), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines. The Draft MND identifies and discusses potential impacts and residual impacts for the identified subject areas. Based on the discussion and analysis provided in the Draft MND, it is anticipated that the project described would not create any significant adverse effects on the environment with the inclusion of mitigation measures in the following areas; Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, and Geology and Soils. 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.
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: The Draft MND is available for public review at the City of Goleta Department of Neighborhood Services, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California. The document is posted on the City’s website at https://www.cityofgoleta.org/play/parks-recreation-open-spaces/current-improvement-projects/ stow-grove-park-master-plan-design
REVIEW PROCESS: The upcoming steps in the review process are: 1) Public review period on the Draft MND between August 1, 2023 through August 31, 2023 at 5:00 P.M. A Public Hearing to consider and take action on the Final MND will be scheduled before City Council, the decision maker for this project. The date for this hearing has not been determined and additional notice will be provided accordingly.
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent (August 3, 2023).
is/are doing business as: 9ROUND
KICKBOXING FITNESS, 9ROUND at 6831 Hollister Ave, Suite 1 Goleta, CA 93117; Estrella Wellness LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: ANTHONY ESTRELLA/OWNER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 11, 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: 2023‑0001720. E30. Published: Aug
3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001670
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Susan Caine Executive Coach, 1482 East Valley Road #102, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, County of Santa Barbara
Susan Caine, 1482 East Valley Road #102, Santa Barbara, CA 93108
This business is conducted by An Individual
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A
/s/ Susan Caine, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2023
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3721572# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2023‑0001716
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
ISLANDS FINE BURGERS & ; DRINKS, 5760 FLEET STREET, SUITE 100, CARLSBAD, CA 92008 County of SAN DIEGO
ISLANDS RESTAURANTS, LLC, 5760 FLEET STREET, SUITE 100, CARLSBAD, CA 92008
This business is conducted by a limited liability company
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 10/12/1994.
ISLANDS RESTAURANTS, LLC
S/ MICHAEL WONG, CHIEF
FINANCIAL OFFICER
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/11/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3722169#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WARREN & SELBERT, LLC, WARREM & SELBERT, ACCUFY ANALYTICS at 222 East Carrillo Street, Suite 310 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Accufy Analytics, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: ERIC
C. SEALE/MANAGER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 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: 2023‑0001870.
E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OAK AND FIRE at 4 La Flecha Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Oak And Fire LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED
BY: BRIAN LONG/MR Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 31, 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: 2023‑0001873.
E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001771
The following person(s) is doing business as: Santa Barbara Lactation Care,
1545 Marquard Ter, Santa Barbara CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara.
Kendra Johnson, 1545 Marquard Ter, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable
/s/ Kendra Johnson, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/17/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3723596# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001772
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Swavie B, 874 Perry Ct., Santa Barbara CA 93111, County of Santa Barbara.
Terrance Brown, 874 Perry Ct., Santa Barbara CA 931111
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/27/2023
/s/ Terrance Brown, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/17/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3723595#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TC ELECTRIC at 2529 Treasure Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nicholas Tyle Custodio (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: NICHOLAS TYLER CUSTODIO/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on July 13, 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: 2023‑0001737. E40. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person
(s) is/are doing business as: A MI MANERA MEXICAN CUISINE at 1701 N Broadway Santa Maria, CA 93458; Daf Inc. (same address)
This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: DANIEL GOMEZ, PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 25, 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: 2023‑0001838.
E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
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: 2023‑0001799. E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001691
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Mr. Digger, 5095 Michael St., Santa Maria, CA 93455, County of Santa Barbara.
Captain Black Trading, LLC., 5095 Michael St., Santa Maria CA 93455; CA
This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A
/s/ Garrett McLean, Managing Member
County on July 6, 2023
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3721557# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: ODESSO HEALTH, INC. at 758 Via Miguel Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Odesso Health, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: MICHIEL DE BRUIN/ CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 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: 2023‑0001868. E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
LIEN SALE
LIEN SALE Auction Advertisement Notice is hereby given that Pursuant to the California Self‑ Service Storage Facility Act, (B&P Code 21700 et. seq.), the undersigned will sell at public auction; personal property including but not limited to
furniture, clothing, tools, and/or other misc. items
Auction to be held at 3pm August 24, 2023 at www.selfstorageauction.com. The property is stored at: Betteravia Self Storage 1265 W. Betteravia Rd, Santa Maria, CA 93455 (805) 254‑0110
NAME OF TENANT Tina Rios Ricardo Velasco 8/3, 8/10/23
CNS‑3724333# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY
NOTIFICATION OF REQUEST FOR COMPENSATION
THROUGH THE GAS COST INCENTIVE MECHANISM
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TORGESON
PROPERTIES at 2025 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kristine A Torgeson (same address) John E Torgeson 319 Coleman Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Sarah B Torgeson 1520 Portesuello Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by An General Partnership. SIGNED BY:
KRISTINE A TORGESON/PARTNER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 11, 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: 2023‑0001723. E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A TRIORAMA at 540 E Betteravia Rd Suite D #172 Santa Maria, CA 93454; Amos J Alexander (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED
BY: AMOS J ALEXANDER/OWNER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2023.
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/07/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24/23
CNS‑3722362# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001674
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Bryce Rosenthal Consulting, 39 San Marcos Trout Clb., Santa Barbara, CA 93105, County of Santa Barbara.
Bryce Rosenthal, 39 San Marcos Trout Clb., 39 San Marcos Trout Clb., Santa Barbara, CA 93105
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A
/s/ Bryce Rosenthal, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara
NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR CITYWIDE STREETLIGHT MAINTENANCE
The City of Goleta Public Works Department invites you to submit a proposal to become eligible for the maintenance of the citywide streetlight infrastructure. Proposals must meet the requirements and descriptions outlined in the RFP, available through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal. Proposals must be received no later than 3:00 p.m, August 24, 2023.
Firms interested in submitting a proposal may do so through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal. https://pbsystem.planetbids.com/portal/45299/bo/ bo-search
Please submit any questions regarding this Request for Proposals through the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids Vendor Portal Online Q&A no later than 3:00 p.m. on August 17, 2023.
Published: Santa Barbara Independent August 3, 2023 & August 10, 2023
IFB 2023-01: Coastal Hazards Removal Projects
Event ID: 28173
Title: IFB 2023-01: Coastal Hazards Removal Projects
Project Location: The geographic scope of this contract is the Santa Barbara and Ventura counties coastlines.
Offers Due: August 31, 2023 @ 2:00pm
PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS:
SB 44 (Jackson, stat. 2017, Ch. 645) provided funding to the State Lands Commission to administer a Coastal Hazards and Legacy Oil and Gas Well Removal and Remediation Program. The Legislature, when it passed SB 44, found that there is a critical need to remove Coastal Hazards.
Pursuant to the Commission’s jurisdiction and authority (PRC § 6212), and to improve surf zones and beaches in the best interests of the state, the Commission desires to employ an on-call Contractor for Coastal Hazards Removal.
Contact: CSLC.Solicitations@slc.ca.gov
Interested firms may obtain a copy of the solicitation package by downloading it from the California State Contracts Register (CaleProcure)
Why am I receiving this notice?
A.23-07-005
On July 17, 2023, Southern California Gas (SoCalGas®) filed an application (A.23-07-005) with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The application is requesting approval of its management of savings incurred during the purchase of natural gas for its customers.
Natural gas purchases are reviewed through a mechanism referred to as the Gas Cost Incentive Mechanism (GCIM). The CPUC authorized the GCIM as a means of encouraging utilities to seek the best rates available for natural gas. Under the GCIM, a target price is set and if the utility secures a better rate, the savings are shared with customers and shareholders. If a high rate is paid, the utility must absorb a portion of the higher rate. SoCalGas shares the savings with its “Core” customers, that is, customers who rely on the utility for all their natural gas needs, including both gas transportation and gas commodity service.
Why is SoCalGas requesting compensation?
In the latest GCIM year, SoCalGas purchased natural gas at $417.6 million below the target price during the program period of April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023. Using the CPUC’s formula to determine the incentive for purchasing gas below the target price, SoCalGas has calculated a $62.8 million allocation for its shareholders. This means that these purchases provided customers a benefit of $354.8 million in lower gas costs. In this application, SoCalGas requests that the CPUC approve SoCalGas’s shareholder allocation of $62.8 million. SoCalGas is also requesting to share $37.4 million of the $62.8 million shareholder reward with customers. That would result in a net shareholder reward of $25.4 million.
How could this affect my monthly gas bill?
A typical residential customer’s average monthly bill for 36 therms of gas has already increased by 0.60 cents/month, from $85.80 to $86.40. A typical residential customer’s monthly summer bill for 23 therms of gas has already increased by 0.38 cents/month, from $45.55 to $45.93. The impact on each customer and customer class has varied depending on individual usage. If the CPUC approves SoCalGas’s request to share a portion of the shareholder reward, future bills will be lower as a result. If the CPUC approves a different allocation for SoCalGas shareholders, the difference will be credited or charged to customers through a rate change in future months.
How does the rest of this process work?
This application will be assigned to a CPUC Administrative Law Judge who will consider proposals and evidence presented during the formal hearing process. The Administrative Law Judge will issue a proposed decision that may adopt SoCalGas’s application, modify it, or deny it. Any CPUC Commissioner may sponsor an alternate decision with a different outcome. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon by the CPUC Commissioners at a public CPUC Voting Meeting.
Parties to the proceeding may review SoCalGas’s application, including the Public Advocates Office, which is an independent consumer advocate within the CPUC that represents customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. For more information, please call 1-415-703-1584, email PublicAdvocatesOffice@cpuc. ca.gov, or visit PublicAdvocates.cpuc.ca.gov
Where can I get more information?
Contact SoCalGas
Jordan Calzadillas
Regulatory Case Manager for SoCalGas
555 W 5th Street, GT14D6 Los Angeles, CA 90013
A copy of the GCIM Application and any related documents may also be reviewed at https:// www.socalgas.com/regulatory/cpuc
Contact CPUC
Please visit apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2307005 to submit a comment about this proceeding on the CPUC Docket Card. Here you can also view documents and other public comments related to this proceeding.
Your participation by providing your thoughts on SoCalGas’s request can help the CPUC make an informed decision.
If you have questions about CPUC processes, you may contact the CPUC’s Public Advisor’s Office at:
Phone: 1-866-849-8390 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-2074
Email: Public.Advisor@cpuc.ca.gov
Mail: CPUC Public Advisor’s Office 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
Please reference SoCalGas’ GCIM Application A.23-07-005 in any communications you have with the CPUC regarding this matter.