C.A.R.E.4Paws rolls out a new mobile clinic!
Having access to veterinary care improves the lives of pets and their people. But, many pet families cannot gain that access unless services are brought TO their neighborhood. This is why C.A.R.E.4Paws’ Mobile Community Medicine & Spay/Neuter Outreach is so impactful and why we are launching a third, 37-foot mobile clinic to support more pet families in need.
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Colette Victorino has been writing a wide variety of arts life and living section stories as an intern this summer. She wrote the Flamenco Arts Festival story for the Fiesta issue and recently interviewed pro surfer Conner Coffin for Independent.com.
Where are you from and brought you to the Independent? I’m originally from Santa Barbara, but my family now lives in Ventura. This past spring, I studied abroad in Rome, and I was looking for a journalism internship that could keep me close to home when I returned. I missed the beaches, local coffee spots, and restaurants that Santa Barbara and Ventura have, and I wanted to write about all the good news that was happening around them. I’m so happy that I found my internship at the Independent, and it has been such a privilege to be able to write for them under Leslie Dinaberg.
What does the future look like for you? Can we hope to see more writing? I’m entering into my senior year at Chapman University in Orange, CA, where I am an English major with an emphasis in journalism. I have always enjoyed writing, but I also really enjoy the design and styling aspect within the fashion industry. I would really love to combine the two to be a fashion journalist so I can continue both passions as an ultimate career goal.
What was the best thing about covering the festival? Covering the Flamenco Arts Festival was such a cool experience, and I was able to learn a lot about the history and culture through Vibiana. Being able to write stories and talk to people about what they’re most passionate about is what makes this internship so unique; everyone has a different way of doing good within the community.
Don’t Be So Serious: In Conversation with Artist Seth Bogart
Thursday, August 17 | 5 – 6 pm | Mary Craig Auditorium
In conversation with WARES! curator Lauren Karazija, exhibition artist Seth Bogart discusses his distinctively playful and irreverent practice in the production of art, music, and clothing.
Free for SBMA Members/$5 Non-Members
Pop-Up Clay Play Workshop for Adults with Seth Bogart
Saturday, August 19 | 10 – 11:30 am | Family Resource Center
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Dr. Erika Endrijonas has officially taken the helm at Santa Barbara City College, becoming SBCC’s fifth superintendent-president since 2019 and taking over for interim superintendent-president Kindred Murillo. Endrijonas previously served as SBCC’s dean of career and technical services from 2000 to 2009 before serving as Oxnard College’s executive vice president, L.A. Valley College’s president, and Pasadena City College’s superintendent-president. SBCC spent nearly two years searching for the right candidate before selecting Endrijonas in May. Murillo held the position since 2021 and is on contract until 9/6. Murillo said that she and Endrijonas have chosen to work together as a “bridge” between their leadership.
In the midst of hanging up the help-wanted sign to fill the vacant position left by former S.B. High principal Elise Simmons’s resignation, another district administrator bid adieu to Santa Barbara Unified. Stanley Munro, assistant superintendent of elementary schools, resigned after serving in the role since May 2022. His last day was 7/31. In his wake, the district is consolidating his role. Instead of looking for a new hire to take Munro’s position, Denise Alvarado will move into the role of executive director of elementary education. Meanwhile, at S.B. High, Fred Razo will serve as interim principal for a daily rate of $739 until a permanent replacement for Simmons is found.
S.B. resident William George Carmichael, 56, was identified by the Sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau as the man struck and killed by an Amtrak train near the Modoc Road crossing in Santa Barbara on 8/1. Witnesses reported that around 4 p.m., a train suddenly stopped near the train crossing at Modoc Road and Hollister Avenue and was repeatedly blowing its horn. Emergency crews arrived and saw that a pedestrian was hit by the train, and the victim was reported dead on scene. No other information has been released about the incident, which is still under investigation.
by Leslie Dinaberg | Photos by Ingrid BostromSetting the tone for what turned out to be one of Santa Barbara’s most innovative Fiesta celebrations in memory, as Camilla Barnwell wrote in last week’s cover story, “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.”
But that was just the beginning. The two parades, El Desfile Histórico and El Desfile de los Niños, settled nicely into their new home along the waterfront, with revelers flocking to take in the ocean view festivities on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Also appreciative of the cool ocean breezes were patrons at the new El
Mercado de la Playa, as the former Mercado del Norte moved from its longtime uptown MacKenzie Park location to the parking lot at Santa Barbara City College’s La Playa Stadium.
In case you missed out on any of the festivities, here are some of Indy photographer Ingrid Bostrom’s highlights, all of which and more can be found at Independent.com n
Over the past year, 66 otherwise chronically homeless individuals have managed to call the DignityMoves pop-up village in downtown Santa Barbara home. Of those, 34 are currently residing in the 34 prefabricated tiny homes or “cabins” that were packed tightly onto the site of the former government parking lot at 1016 Santa Barbara Street. There they enjoy the comforts of interim housing, which in this case involves a bed, air-conditioning, a desk, windows, and, most critically, a door they can close and lock.
This is all part of a new public-private experiment involving the County of Santa Barbara, DignityMoves, and the Good Samaritan shelter in addressing chronic homelessness by giving the most vulnerable a place where, for 6-12 months, they have their own space coupled with on-site access to mentalhealth counseling, substance-abuse treatment providers, and medical practitioners. Unlike at traditional shelters, DignityMoves residents don’t have to share their space with anyone, though partners and pets are allowed. The thinking is that many people who need help
will refuse to enter a group shelter setting.
Half the residents have been unhoused for more than 10 years. Nearly half are 55 years old or more. Fifteen have since found permanent housing, four have reunited with their families or found other interim housing, and another eight have located permanent housing but have not sealed the deal yet.
Nine have been asked to leave for health and safety reasons. Another seven individuals had been approved but declined to move in.
Of the residents, 74 percent reported
The giant valley oak on Grand Avenue in Los Olivos was a big tree when Roeser’s drugstore opened 40 years ago, but early 8/5, the limbs of the 50-foot tree fell victim to gravity, toppling mostly into the street and leaving about 10 feet of the trunk upright. It missed the drugstore now the Gallery Los Olivos but a big limb landed on the Wildflower Women Boutique in a wing of the building, knocking a hole in the roof. Fortunately, no one was injured. Firefighters got the call at 7:53 a.m., Captain Scott Safechuck reported, and they chainsawed the fallen branches to get them out of the street. A water main was also reported broken.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s senior homelessness advisor, Hafsa Kaka, was in town on 8/2, touring the housing and support centers operating in Isla Vista, Goleta, and Santa Barbara, as well as the site of the soon-tobe-built La Posada in Noleta. S.B. County received two large state grants to resolve homeless encampments, one this year for $6 million toward riverbeds and creeks and another in 2022 to put $2.5 million toward rail and highway areas. The state’s new homeless advisor was here to learn about the innovative initiatives being undertaken to rehouse some of those displaced. Read more at Independent.com
during last week’s city Planning Commission
and the developers behind the project were told to foot the bill for a more in-depth study into how the hotel would impact the city’s housing crisis while city staff take a deeper look into whether the project qualifies for an exemption from environmental review.
The project has been years in the making, with longtime property owner Bill Wright contending that the city agreed for a 250room hotel at the location in its Specific Plan in 1983. Forty years later, the development is struggling to win over city leadership, especially in the face of concerns over the city’s housing crisis and environmental impacts.
Back in April, the Planning Commission attempted to address these concerns, with Commissioner Devon Wardlow suggesting that, due to the current housing climate, the development team consider a housing analysis or at least include employee housing with the project.
This time around, the project included six affordable housing units, which the developers hoped would mitigate the impacts on the city’s housing stock. Instead, the project was blasted by commissioners and during public comment, with the commission ultimately deciding to continue the hearing to a later date when city staff had more information.
The project’s developer, Shaun Gilbert, expressed frustration with city staff and said his team had done “years of work” to get to this stage and to work toward a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) exemption, which would allow the project to bypass environmental review.
“That’s the frustrating part for us,” Gilbert said. “We keep going down this rabbit hole.”
He said that he felt that the city was asking too much and that they were forcing the developers to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars toward a project that may not happen. The development team did their own housing study, he said, which is why they decided to include the six affordable units. Anything more, they contended, could kill the project for investors.
“This is not an affordable housing development. We are trying to do a hotel and
solve some of the things you guys asked us to do,” Gilbert said. “We are not going to solve all of the city’s problems with one project, right? We’re not going to make everyone happy.”
City Project Planner Kathleen Kennedy made it clear from the beginning of the hearing that the city was hoping to continue the item to a later date because of the housing and environmental concerns. City staff, she said, had “many of the same questions” as the commissioners regarding the developer’s housing study and environmental review.
Wardlow, who has been outspoken about the need for more housing in the city, questioned how the developers arrived at the final number of six affordable units: Was it for 10 percent of the hotel’s projected staff of 60? Was it based on the original Specific Plan, which called for seven residential units?
When the developers had little explanation as to how they arrived at that number, Wardlow expressed her own frustration with the applicant’s lack of preparation.
“I hope you all can understand our goal of making sure that this is the best project for our community,” Wardlow said.
Commissioners also questioned the level of community outreach that had been done. The city received more than 25 letters of public comment; all but two of which voiced concerns over the hotel.
One group opposing several large-scale developments in the Funk Zone is the nonprofit Keep the Funk. Brittany Zajic, a representative of Keep the Funk, spoke at the meeting, saying the group was formed a year ago to “start holding accountability to the influx of developments coming into the Funk Zone looking to maximize profits by capitalizing on the community they return no benefit to.”
While developers of the hotel have met with the group privately, she said, they have not yet proved that they are willing to work with the community.
“The proposed project is massive, and thus will have massive implications for the Funk Zone,” Keep the Funk wrote in a statement to the Independent following the meeting. “As of yet, the developers have not fulfilled the requirement of bringing community value to this project.” n
Due to a nationwide decline in maternal care services stemming from a shortage of providers, many mothers are unable to receive care until they’re actually having their babies. However, following a growing trend in health-care services, maternity care is gaining more remote options to bridge the gap between patients and the increasingly out-of-reach doctor’s office.
“There’s a lack of maternal care across the nation, but especially here in Santa Barbara,” said Dr. Susanne Ramos, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist (OB/ GYN) who has practiced in Santa Barbara for more than 20 years.
A divide between patients and specialized health-care facilities creating maternity care deserts exposes women to elevated risk of undiagnosed and untreated mentalhealth issues such as depression and anxiety, as well as severe obstetric complications such as high blood pressure (preeclampsia and eclampsia), hemorrhaging, and sepsis.
“So women are seeking care later during the pregnancy, whereas a lot of maternal diseases, if they’re caught early in the pregnancy, can be managed and prevented from worsening,” Ramos added.
To try to close the gap, Ramos is one of the first OB/GYNs in the nation to partner with e-Lōvu, a new digital wellness platform centered on comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care. Ramos said it serves as an “extra provider,” empowering patients to take an active role in their health-care journey.
The platform equips expectant mothers with monitoring tools such as blood pressure cuffs and fetal heart rate monitors. For
Natasha Casias, one of Ramos’s patients, it actually might have saved her life.
On the night she went into labor, Casias had been feeling off. She checked her blood pressure, which was abnormally high, indicating severe preeclampsia.
“She came right in, and we delivered the baby two hours later,” Ramos said. “Who knows what would have happened if she hadn’t been checking and monitoring things at home. She could have had a stroke.”
Ramos and e-Lōvu work collaboratively to enable early diagnosis, personalized treatment, and timely intervention. A mother’s health data and concerns are sent to Ramos, so both she and her patient can keep tabs on the pregnancy and spot any complications early.
The platform also addresses mental health with regular screenings and quick access to behavioral health partners. It even extends to lactation consulting, birthing support, pelvic floor rehab, and nutritional guidance to address issues like gestational diabetes, and it connects moms with services and a navigation aid that can help with
financial challenges and food insecurity.
Noël Pugh, e-Lōvu’s CEO, said the idea for the platform came out of pandemicinduced lockdown, the obstacles to maternal care across the country, and a broken health-care delivery system. A lack of focus on prevention and wellness, she said, as well as an outdated model for prenatal care, fragments the system and allows moms to fall through the cracks, particularly in the time between when they’re at home and physically in the doctor’s office.
In Ramos’s office, 20 percent of enrolled patients have been flagged as having moderate or higher symptoms of anxiety or depression, which is associated with higher rates of preterm birth and low birth weight, as well as suicide the number-one cause of postpartum death.
“Moms are suffering in silence,” Pugh said. “The platform creates that place of no shame, where mom can be vulnerable, and communicate, ‘Yes, I am thinking about killing myself. I am thinking about suicide.’ We’ve had that happen, and we’ve been able to very quickly intervene with the OB at the helm.”
By integrating directly with clinicians, the services are paid for by most insurance plans, including Medi-Cal and Medicaid. Pugh stressed that it caters to a diverse range of parents, too, offering support to single moms, queer moms, and those with varying family dynamics.
She said it’s there for a patient’s private struggles, like deciding whether they want to be pregnant, or, on the other end, sharing exciting information with a partner or even uploading their baby’s heart rate on Instagram.
“We’re happy to work with any birthing clinicians doulas, midwives, home-birthing facilities,” she added. “The one thing that we ask is that there’s an absolute commitment to standards of care.”
In the face of limited resources, the platform has supported both Ramos and the patients who walk into her office each month. Ramos started enrolling patients in June, and so far, she said they’ve responded positively, especially to the opportunity to listen to their baby’s heartbeat on a whim. n
The Low-Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) is available to City of Santa Barbara customers in need of bill assistance
LIHWAP is a federally funded program offering a one-time benefit of up to $15 000 per household for past-due or current bills We encourage lowincome households to apply for LIHWAP before water service disconnections resume in September 2023
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Pacific Pipeline Company Appeal of the Pipeline 901/903 Valve Upgrade Planning Commission Denial
August 22, 2023
Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.
Location:
Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building, Board Hearing Room
511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93455
Shaun Roche, a commercial fisherman and urchin diver from Santa Barbara, became the victim of a freak accident on a commercial fishing boat in the final hours of the sockeye salmon season in Bristol Bay, Alaska, this July. In response, the community has rallied to support Roche and his family, raising tens of thousands of dollars to help cover his medical bills and more.
Roche’s job was just another routine endof-season task that fishermen have, in the past, completed without issue: spray-paint the engine room to prevent wintertime corrosion.
However, a spark of unknown origin ignited the fumes mingling in the tight space around him, causing a small explosion. Roche was able to scramble out of the engine room and strip off his respirator and clothes, but he sustained third-degree burns on 16 percent of his body in the process.
Instead of returning home to his wife, Tricia, and his son, Teddy, Roche was medevaced from Naknek to a hospital in Anchorage (a nearly 300-mile journey), where he will stay while he recovers. There is no determined date for his return to
Santa Barbara, but he is stable.
Maressa Voss a family friend whose husband, James, has fished with Roche for more than 10 years organized a GoFundMe (“Help The Roche Family”) to help Tricia Roche cover her husband’s medical bills and the family’s living expenses. So far, it’s brought in close to $30,000 as of press time, exceeding their original $25,000 goal.
The total of his medical expenses is undetermined, but with what has accrued so far, and with rehab to follow, Voss said they “can safely assume” those bills will not be small.
While his recovery does seem promising, Roche will need time before regaining full use of his hands. He won’t be able to work for the foreseeable future, including the upcoming urchin season in Santa Barbara, which usually runs between September and March.
On Tuesday August 22, 2023 the Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider the appeal by Pacific Pipeline Company (PPC), of the County Planning Commission’s April 26, 2023 denial of the Pipeline 901/903 Valve Upgrade Project, Case Nos. 21AMD-OOOOO-00009 and 22CDP-OOOOO-00048.
The project is a proposal by Pacific Pipeline Company to install 16 safety valves along existing Pipelines 901 and 903 to comply with State Assembly Bill 864 requirements by reducing the amount of fluid released in the event of a potential line failure. Eleven (11) motor operated values (MOV) and five (5) check valves (CHK) will be installed along the pipelines on various parcels spanning from the Gaviota Coast to the Los Padres National Forest within Santa Barbara County, on 16 different properties. All of the valve sites are located in the Third and Fourth Supervisorial District.
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mental-health disorders and 48 percent have been connected with treatment; 43 individuals reported substance-abuse issues, and 23 have been connected to services.
Another 85 individuals have been screened and approved but are on the waiting list as new vacancies open up.
The DignityMoves project made a point to target people living in the downtown area already. Anecdotally, the presence of obviously frail and acutely troubled people on the streets of downtown has subsided since the tiny-home village opened a year ago on August 10. The model has been the subject of much interest, and the property has been the focus of 40 tours.
DignityMoves, the county, and Good Samaritan are currently in the process of developing another similar village, La Posada, near the intersection of Hollister Avenue and Modoc Road; there, up to 90 cabins will be built. In addition, another village with 94 cabins is slated for Santa Maria. Operating costs are $1.03 million, and it cost $1.6 million to develop. Of that,
“It’s been a really interesting experience watching the fishing community rally around this,” Voss told the Independent. “We think about things like shipwrecks and shark attacks, but, really, every aspect of what they do is dangerous. And it’s all for the sake of putting food on the table.”
The Board hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Clerk of the Board. Please see the posted agenda and staff report available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx# under the hearing date.
Callie Fausey$950,000 came from private philanthropy and $750,000 from state funding.
In addition, the City Housing Authority is about to open up the Vera Cruz apartments by Vera Cruz Park later this month, which will provide 29 permanent housing units to people otherwise on the streets. Likewise, a former Super 8 Motel located by Hollister and Fairview in Goleta will soon be opening its doors as Buena Tierra, also permanent housing for people who have been chronically homeless.
The big takeaway, according to Kimberlee Albers, the county’s coordinator of homeless services, is “more elbow room and more space for pets, recreation, and clinical space.”
According to Barbara Andersen, the City Hall administrator most in charge of homeless response projects, there have been no complaints about homeless people congregating in front of the DignityMoves site. A private security company is on call 24/7 and prevents that from happening, and curfews and conduct rules are strictly enforced inside. n
For additional information, please contact Katie Nall, Planner, at: Email: nallk@countyofsb.org | Tel: 805-884-8050
For current methods of public participation for the meeting of August 22, 2023 please see page two (2) of the posted Agenda. The posted agenda will be available on Thursday prior to the above referenced meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged or the item may be continued.
If you challenge this project (Case No. 23APL-00022, 22APLOOOOO-00024, 22APL-OOOOO-00025, 22APL-OOOOO00026, 21AMD-OOOOO-00009, 22CDP-OOOOO-00048) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors prior to the public hearing.
Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting at (805) 568-2240.
DAY LATE AND DOLLAR SHORT: I celebrated Monday morning by driving my car over a large and looming traffic-calming device lurking in plain on sight on Micheltorena Street, named after a former governor famous for not being able to ride his horse into a battle due to a debilitating case of hemorrhoids. Whatever memo the device an elevated oblong island was designed to send, I clearly did not receive it until the belly of my car found itself violently raked, scraped, and otherwise assaulted by its concrete protuberances. I experienced no calming effect in the moment, and even less when I saw the repair bill.
Some things just can’t be taught; stupid is one of them
The moral of this story is I should have been riding my bike. This was God’s way of punishing me for getting in a car. In my defense, I can only say I had my reasons. I mention this by way of full disclosure so you can take what comes next with the requisite grain of salt.
First thing, I’d like to praise the deliberate non-action taken by the City Council about a month ago in response to what looked suspiciously like an attempted parliamentary sneak attack hatched by Mayor Randy Rowse and City Administrator Rebecca Bjork to get rid of downtown parklets located on cross streets Victoria, Cota, Carrillo, etc. and on private property. Because the COVIDinspired emergency legislation that gave rise to the pedestrian promenade and the parklets
will expire at the end of this year, they argued, it was time to start dismantling Santa Barbara’s nascent Parklet-Industrial State
I say “sneak attack” because no councilmembers or members of the affected parklet cabal knew this was on the agenda until just a few days prior when it was offhandedly disclosed during an early morning meeting of the Downtown Organization. In support of this plan, there was much talk about the “ripping off the Band-Aid” virtues therein. When the council balked, leaving Mayor Rowse perched all alone on top of the dais, he fumed about “kicking the can down the road.”
First, that’s what one does with cans you kick them down the road. Second, that’s why councilmembers are given steel-toed boots when sworn into office. And thirdly contrary to what all the learned experts on leadership will say sometimes it’s actually better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing
On the issue of parklets, I am mixed. No, they do not begin to solve the underlying root problems that bedevil State Street. But for all their ticky-tacky faults, they still remain the most conspicuous and immediate sign of life downtown. The ones on the side streets, typically, are among the nicest and most inviting. Remove them and it’s like yanking out the few remaining trees in what was once a forest. Every time I eat at the Olio Bottega parklet on West Victoria, for example, I feel I’ve been teleported to another time and space. The outdoor space created by the Rose Café’s
parklet up on the Mesa is beyond magical. And there’s a new and energized social ambience at the Cajun Kitchen’s parklet on Chapala that doesn’t quite happen inside.
High-priced consultants talk a lot about “activating spaces” and “fostering accidental community.” These places are actually doing it. And for that growing percent of the population experiencing hearing challenges, the outdoor acoustics of parklets are infinitely superior to the splashy din of many restaurant interiors. If parklet owners know they have three years left as one state bill would give them they’ll be better able to amortize the costs they’ll need to incur to make their parklets less of the eyesores that some actually are On the issue of bikes on State Street both electric and acoustic people need to stop wetting their pants. Not all bikes “whiz” down State Street, the inflammatory and invariable verb of choice deployed by those who feel threatened or who want cars back. Some of us actually meander, saunter, cruise, roll, stroll, or sometimes pant. Please get a new verb; do not conflate the act of riding a bike with the act of urination
As a side note, I’d also say the numbskull Teenage Mutant Ninja Rad bike riders whose clueless riding habits gave rise to such alarms last summer somehow got the traffic-calming memo that I missed. Maybe the new street signs helped. Either way, they’re notably less reckless in their youthful abandon, and I’ve even seen a couple of them actually fasten the
chin straps of their helmets.
Lastly, the presence of bike riders on State Street is not some rhetorical ideological bikes versus cars issue conjured up by the tree-hugger mafia. Bikes have been embedded in city master planning documents for some time now, but they have been part of downtown warp, woof, and weave since well before that. Given how we are intent on boiling the world alive, maybe now is not the time to go to the mattresses to bring back cars on State Street. But yes, trollies are a necessary addition. I’d suggest our friends at MTD dig into their linty sock drawer for spare change and buy a few deluxe e-bike rickshaws with the proceeds. What could be more enchanting and utilitarian?
What downtown really needs is for people to live in the old office space lying dormant or abandoned. For that to happen, City Hall needs to allow developers the requisite densities to make this attractive. If we don’t, we’ll just get even more new hotels than we’re already getting. There’s a qualitative difference in the quality of light and life infused by people who actually live in the area as opposed to people who are just visiting. While we love the latter, downtown absolutely needs more of the former
It’s not rocket science, but then no one would ever mistake me for Wernher von Braun. Hell, I’m the guy who couldn’t avoid a traffic-calming device as big as the Titanic I should have ridden my bike —Nick Welsh
1935 - 1998
group. Mariana inspired a diverse group of women from around the U.S. and beyond to improve their health and become their best creative selves by sharing recipes, natural remedies, exercise tips, life lessons, discussing problems and passions, setting goals and forging life-long friendships in the process. She called them “Sistahs”, leaving a positive, luminous, indelible light in their hearts forever.
ties for many years, her faith and involvement in the church community were an integral part of her life.
25 years since you’ve gone and I still can’t cook
Barbara Foxen Viera1935-1998
Think of the joy she left behind, Of the cheerful smile and laughter. Think of her loving words and deeds. That will live forever after. Think of all the wonderful things and even though she’s gone, Within our hearts and memories Our Mom will live on.
Frank, Steve, Mike
Mariana Titus
5/9/1949 - 7/17/2023
Mariana’s art includes oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and metal. Many of these works were part of the “Ana Series” dedicated to her mother, Ana Teresa Allen de Perez Titus, born in Caigua, Venezuela. Her mother was affectionately called “Mama-T” by many that waved at her sitting on the porch of the family home in Franklin, Louisiana.
In the spring of 1949, Ana went to the movies in Barcelona, Venezuela. Her husband Elmer brought her to the city to have their second child, Mariana. Elmer was an American engineer working in the El Tigre oil fields after WWII. He had met Ana there and they married in 1946. It was not yet time for Ana to go to the hospital so the two went to the theater to enjoy a new release. Halfway through the film, Ana’s water broke, and she never saw the end of that movie.
Barbara Ellen Dunaway, 78, of Santa Barbara, CA, passed away on June 3, 2023. Barbara was born on June 14, 1944, in Bremerton, Washington, to Grant Maitland Call and Mary Catherine Judd Call.
Barbara grew up in Tonasket, Washington, where she cherished her small-town upbringing and the freedom to explore the outdoors. She delighted in picking wild buttercups and bluebells in spring, swimming during the summer, and snow sledding in winter. Known for her quiet, calm, and easygoing nature, Barbara approached life with a ready smile and good-natured wit, always eager to burst out into joy and laughter. Barbara’s elegance was evident, yet never pretentious.
A memorial circle gathering will be held on August 20, 2023, at 11:30am at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, located at 820 N. Fairview Ave. Goleta. In memory of Barbara, contributions can be made to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Barbara will be deeply missed by her loved ones, friends, and all those whose lives she touched. May her kind and gentle spirit continue to inspire us all.
Laird Koenig
9/24/1927 - 6/30/2023
de Littérature Policière in 1978. Based on a screenplay adapted from the novel by Laird Koenig and Peter Dixon, the film was directed by Serge Leroy and produced by Alain Delon, who also starred in the leading role as “The Man.” Other novels written by Koenig include The Neighbor (1978), Rockabye (1981), and Rising Sun (1986). Koenig wrote numerous episodes for the television series Flipper (1970) and High Chaparral (1970), as well as numerous screenplays including for films Red Sun, Bloodline, Inchon, and many others. His final self published work was Morning Sun: The Story of Madam Butterfly’s Boy.
Though now gone, Laird’s legacy lives on in his vast array of books, plays and films through which his point of view continues to enlighten the world. Laird is remembered as a kind and thoughtful man with tremendous creativity and warm concern for those around him and humanity. He will be sorely missed.
Mariana Titus passed over the rainbow in her beloved Louisiana on July 17, 2023. The death was unexpected, but she was fortunately joined by her husband, Richard Putnam Baker, and close relatives at the Ochsner Lafayette ICU before passing. He had flown in from their home in Santa Barbara, California.
She is loved by many people, touched by her outgoing, funloving creative spirit. Mariana was an author, artist, photographer, teacher, and leader of an online women’s group Shedding Light. In 2019, She received an award from the Governor of Louisiana for preserving the oral traditions and culture of Southwest Louisiana in words and photographs. These recognized works are a series of five books published from 1991 to 2008. A sixth book, “The Midway Miner,” is about her father, Dr. Elmer Harvey Titus, and will be published posthumously.
Mariana received a bachelor’s degree in art and a teaching credential from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She taught as a substitute teacher in the 1980s and early-1990s for the Santa Barbara School District.
She created Shedding Light, a private online natural health
Two weeks before leaving home for her annual summer hiatus in Louisiana, Mariana surprised her husband. She found the Venezuelan-Argentine film Ana never finished watching (La Balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde). On some level, Mariana realized her day drew near – time to collect the missing pieces in her beautiful life story. She and Richard viewed the movie on YouTube. Then again and again.
Mariana worked on the book about her father for 17 years. A remarkable man who was 58 years old when she was born. A farm boy in Iowa, Elmer served in Mexican Border Service after the Pancho Villa raid and as a Stable Sergeant in WWI. He successfully operated several garages in Northern Wisconsin and applied engineering skills in the oil fields of Venezuela. He found time to prospect and mine gold in the Southwest and later became a Doctor of Chiropractic with a practice in Franklin, Louisiana to support a family of six children. Mariana made the last edits to “The Midway Miner” before boarding her final flight. She knew her day drew near.
The circle of life is complete.
Barbara’s career was dedicated to education. She served as an Elementary School Teacher and later became the Math Lab Director at Santa Barbara City College. Her former colleagues in the math department at SBCC praised her efforts, and her students eagerly sought her guidance and tutoring. Barbara’s passion for teaching and nurturing young minds was evident to all who knew her.
In her free time, Barbara found solace in her hobbies. She loved gardening, cooking, reading poetry, and solving puzzles. She also had a genuine desire to help others and made a positive difference in the lives of those around her.
Barbara is survived by her children, Leslie Gehring and her husband David, Scott Dunaway and his wife Anne-Marie, Susan Goetz and her husband Marc; her six grandchildren including Joshua, Elizabeth, Lucienne, William, Grant and Ellen; and her siblings, Cathy Hainer, Tom Call, and Jim Call. Barbara’s companion, Fred Gamble, and her ex-spouse, Clay Dunaway, also mourn her loss.
Barbara found comfort and a sense of belonging at Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Goleta. She joined the congregation during its formative years in the late 1980’s and played an instrumental role in its transition from being a tenant to finding a permanent home. Barbara served in various capaci-
Long time Santa Barbara resident and successful American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Laird Philip Koenig peacefully passed away in his sleep on June 30th 2023. Laird was born on September 24, 1927 in Seattle, Washington to Betty and Rowland Koenig. Laird Koenig attended the University of Washington and worked in advertising in New York City. In the 1960’s Laird moved to Los Angeles where he began his successful literary career. Laird works included 8 published novels, six plays which were produced on Broadway and Off Broadway, and fourteen movie credits with dozens of luminary actors and stars as organ Freeman, Laurence Olivier, Audrey Hepburn, James Mason, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune to name just a few. Laird’s novels, plays, and screenplays also had great success in England, Germany and France. Beginning in the 1970s, his literary works and passion for travel allowed him to travel around the world. In 1996, Laird settled in Santa Barbara in where he remained until his passing.
Koenig’s early novels include The Children Are Watching (co-written with Peter L. Dixon, 1970) and The Little Girl Who Lives down the Lane (1974). In 1976, Koenig adapted his novel The Little Girl Who Lives down the Lane into a film. Directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen, the film would earn Koenig a Saturn Award nomination for best screenplay. Attention Les Enfants Regardent, a French film adaption of The Children Are Watching, was awarded the Grand Prix
With a heavy heart, I announce the passing of my mom, Sue Watkins, 81, at the Serenity House in Santa Barbara, California, after a short and brave battle with cancer. She was a woman of exceptional character and boundless love. She lived a life filled with purpose, compassion, and joy.
Sue was a devoted wife to Lew Watkins, and together, they shared a love that was an inspiration to all who knew them. Family and friends were at the center of Sue’s life, and she was a loving mother to her son, Dan, and his wife, Stacey. She adored her grandsons, Ben and Josh, who brought immense joy to her heart. Sue’s younger sister, Jan, was a close confidante and friend. Her dearest friend Pat was by her side daily for many years and brought boundless love and joy to my mom.
Sue Watkins’ life will be celebrated on Friday, September 1st, at the Santa Ynez Presbyterian Church at 1:30 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to Atterdag Village in Solvang, California, a place dear to Sue’s heart.
Rest in peace, Mom. Your light will forever shine brightly in our hearts.
Wes, as he was better known, was born on May 16, 1944 in Springfield, Missouri to Lilly Viola Chapman and Frank Wince. At a young age, Wes and his mother moved to Santa Barbara, California. He grew up a self-proclaimed cowboy and outdoorsman, in love with the ocean, hills, and long stretches of road boasted by southern California. He attended Santa Barbara High School where he played football and met many lifelong friends.
At the age of 21, Wes enlisted in the United States Army and served two valiant tours in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, “Screaming Eagles.” He served as a Sergeant and was awarded the Bronze Star for his heroic and meritorious service. At the time of his service, Wes was married to Rita Ann Braught of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Together they had two children, Arleigh and Karen Carpenter.
Wes spent the majority of his life working at the Santa Barbara harbor as a seafood broker. He was a pioneer in the urchin industry and known for his fairness and generosity towards others – in business and in life. It was at the harbor that Wes met Priscilla Dowd of Needham, Massachusetts and together they had a daughter, Kelly Carpenter.
Wes is loved and remembered by many for his largerthan-life heart and humor, and incredible strength of spirit and zest for life. Wes passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Saturday, May 13, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. Wes was predeceased by his son, Arleigh Carpenter; his partner of 20 years, Linda Frey; his best friend, Archie MacPhee; and beloved mother, aunts, and uncles. He is survived by his daughters, Karen and Kelly Carpenter, and grandchildren, Arleigh Jr., Kayleigh, and Kolby. Family and friends will gather on August 12th, 2023, to celebrate and honor Wes’s beautiful life. Please contact (805) 453-4844 for details.
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.
Italo Arnoldi
1/3/1951 - 6/27/2023
at the local rink, Ice in Paradise. There, he was given an award for being the most improved player for the summer of 2019.
During Bob’s battle with his illness, he always kept his sense of humor–entertaining family, friends, and hospital personnel to the end. This was a testament to his strength, courage, and lively spirit.
Robert A. (Bob) Haas, 78, passed away on June 16th, 2023, at Serenity House in Santa Barbara, CA. For the last year of his life Bob bravely fought a very aggressive form of lymphoma.
Bob grew up in Racine, WI, on the shores of Lake Michigan where he spent many happy and busy days with his sister and two brothers. He was active in the Boy Scouts and was very proud that he became an Eagle Scout at the young age of twelve.
Fred left on his Eternal Hunting and Fishing Trip in the early morning hours on June 27, 2023, passing peacefully in his home in Morro Bay, with his wife Diane and his sister Janice by his side.
Fred was born January 3, 1951 raised in Santa Barbara where he attended Lincoln Elementary School, La Cumbre Junior High School, and Santa Barbara High School 1970.
He left Santa Barbara to become a commercial fisherman up until his last day on earth. He fished salmon in Alaska and the South Seas. Fred seined in San Pedro, and fished herring in San Francisco. Fred owned several vessels including Drifter, Halcyon, Roselena Marie, H2O K-9 and Amakua.
He was an avid hunter of deer, water fowl and upland game around the Central Coast. He has many friends in the fishing industry, and many hunting buddies, all of whom he considered “his family.” Through the years he had his trusted hunting dogs, Auggie, Sam, Pepper and Jessie by his side.
He is survived by his wife Diane Arnoldi and family; brother Dennis Arnoldi and family, sister Janice Arnoldi Morgan (Jim and family) cousins Jeanette Arnoldi and family, Ugo “Butch” Arnoldi and Family.
A link to the Arnoldi cousin’s family chain has been broken. During their younger years they were know as the “Wrecking Crew”
A Celebration of Life will be held August 19 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Veteran’s Memorial Building, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay. All are invited
Bob is survived by his wife, Jane, his son Adam (Santa Barbara), and his son Eric, daughterin-law, Diana, grandchildren Niko, Logan, and Kristinia (Western Springs, IL). He is also survived by his sister, Nancy, and her husband, Ed (Sullivan, WI), brother, Michael (Napa, CA), and brother, Jim, and his wife, Claudia (San Francisco, CA).
Bob is preceded in death by his father, Norbert H. Haas, mother, Marguerite W. Haas, and sister-in-law, Eileen Hunt (Napa).
Bob attended St. Patrick’s Elementary School and St. Catherine’s High School in Racine. He then progressed on to St. Mary’s College in Winona, MN where he spent two years studying physics. From there, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to study math and computer science. It was there that he met his wife of 54 years, Jane Barker Haas. He graduated in 1968 with a degree in computer science.
Soon after graduating, Bob began his long career with General Motors, working at its AC Electronics division in Milwaukee. In 1972, he accepted an offer to transfer to Delco Electronics in Santa Barbara. There he worked as a software engineer on NASA’s Apollo program. During this time, he also completed a master’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Later in life, after retiring, Bob continued his lifelong love of learning by taking classes in astronomy and geology at Santa Barbara City College.
Family was very important to Bob. He was always very supportive of his two sons, Eric, and Adam, as they pursued their interests. Later, he became a devoted grandfather who provided much amusement for his three young grandchildren.
Also important to Bob was nature, and he was an avid outdoorsman. He liked fishing and backpacking, but he was most passionate about rock climbing. Some of his favorite places to climb included Yosemite Valley and Joshua Tree.
Having grown up ice skating outdoors in the Wisconsin winters, Bob took up the sport of ice hockey at the age of 74. He played in an adult hockey league
A memorial service for Bob will be held on Saturday, August 19th, 2023, at 2:00PM at the Unitarian Church, 1535 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara. Following the service there will be a reception in the church’s courtyard.
In lieu of flowers you can donate in memory of Bob Haas to support his favorite charity, Direct Relief (www.directrelief. org). You may wish to designate your contribution for the Ukraine crisis as Bob did.
8/7/1929 - 5/13/2020
Family and friends of Laurie will be gathering on August 19th, 2023 to remember him and honor his legacy. He was a respected orthodontist, loyal member of the El Montecito and Summerland Presbyterian congregations, friend to many and devoted family man. The celebration of his life will be held at Summerland Presbyterian Church, 2400 Lillie Ave. Summerland, CA at 10:00 AM. All are welcome.
¡Viva la Fiesta! with Old Spanish Day’s 2023 Saint Barbara
In this week’s podcast, host Alexandra Goldberg sat down with Fiesta’s 2023 Saint Barbara, Lisa Osborn, to talk about the roots of Fiesta and the responsibility of portraying Saint Barbara.
Then, Indy reporter Daniel Huecias talks La Fiesta Pequeña, interviewing performers, spectators, and El Presidente of Old Spanish Days 2023, David Bolton.
Summertime seems to fly by in Santa Barbara. Whether you’re a beach rat, bike enthusiast, summertime snacker, or you just like a quick and fun day-trip out of town, there is always something to fill that extra free time during the summer months.
This year, there was even more to do in the city, as events like Summer Solstice, Fourth of July, and Old Spanish Days returned to their pre-pandemic glory. But with so much to do in so little time, we now find ourselves in the last days of summer. Yes, it’s true, Santa Barbara schools are preparing to get the fall semester started on August 21, but that means that there’s still 11 days to squeeze in some last-minute summer memories, and the Indy is here to help you make sure you get the best out of this final stretch of summer freedom.
While it’s impossible to compile a list of everything available in Santa Barbara, we’ve put together a few regional favorites along with some others that you may not have tried yet to make sure you get the best out of your summer.
—Ryan P. Cruz
On the way up to Highline Adventures in Santa Ynez, I must admit my stomach was in knots as I sat in the car and thought about the prospect of being strapped up in a harness and sent flying down the mountains at more than 50 miles per hour. It was the same feeling I had waiting in line to ride my first roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain as a middle-schooler.
But as Indy photographer Ingrid Bostrom and I
pulled up to the 1,200-acre adventure park, located just off Highway 246 in Buellton, right next to the famous ostrich and emu ranch, my anxieties started to melt away not because of the 90-plus-degree heat that day, but because the brand-new park was so impressive. Park manager Jeff Hartman walked us through the “base camp,” explaining how he had transformed the property into a state-of-theart adventure park and travel destination, complete with a protea flower garden, high-ropes “adventure course,” and the biggest and fastest zipline in California.
His father acquired the property in 2014, and Hartman worked for the past nine years to get the
place ready for visitors, so he was ecstatic to announce this summer that the zipline was finally completed and open to the public.
Stringing more than a mile’s worth of cable through the hillsides was no easy task, Hartman told me, but every step of the way was taken with extreme care. This meant that concrete trucks had to navigate narrow dirt roads and lay the giant foundation blocks at the three launches and landings. The thick cables, the same used for gondolas in the Swiss alps, were put in place using a helicopter. Structural engineers were brought in, spending hours painstakingly checking “every inch and every bolt” of the park to ensure that all visitors, including me, would be safe.
We strapped on our harnesses and began the scenic ride up the mountain. For $175, guests can book the zipline tour, which starts with a safety lesson and a ride in the park’s customized Humvee, an old military vehicle retrofitted with eight seats on the back and sporting a custom paint job featuring a mountain lion and the park’s motto: “Save a horse, ride a zipline.”
The ride up, much like a roller coaster, builds suspense around the experience. The view of the Santa Ynez Valley stretches for miles the higher we get, and a cool mountain breeze offers some much-needed relief from the summer sun. We stopped at the Protea Flower Garden on a hillside near the landing of the first of three ziplines on the property, where blooms of hundreds of red and purple and bright-orange flowers burst from the gritty underbrush.
When we were loaded up into the first zipline, any fears I had were long gone. I couldn’t think about anything except the view. I’ve lived in Santa Barbara all my life, but usually I have to hike a few miles to get a bird’s-eye view like this. The first zipline is the slowest, Hartman said, but when our tour guides let us loose, we took off like a shot. I’m no daredevil, but I do love the feeling of going fast. Riding on the zipline, I forgot all the stresses of everyday life up there, there’s nothing but clean mountain air, clear blue sky, and the hillsides zipping by below.
By the time we loaded up on the second line, I was asking for more speed. Hartman showed us the “pencil technique,” which had us lying as flat and aerodynamic as possible. The third line, which has already earned the name “screamer” by park staff, stretches 2,600 feet and maxes out at more than 55 miles per hour. When I hit the bottom, I just wanted to go again.
Highline Adventures is officially open for zipline tours now, and though the ropes course has not officially been opened, Hartman is hoping to have it ready for the public in the very near future. —RPC
If you want a nice, cold drink and a bite to eat while enjoying the sand beneath your feet and the sound of the ocean, you’ve got to go here:
Literally any public beach in Santa Barbara.
Just kidding (sort of). But, for those who want a somewhat-hidden, quiet spot with casual dining, Haskell’s in Goleta is the place to go.
On Hollister Avenue, go past the Sandpiper Golf Club, toward the Bacara resort. Park your car in the small parking lot adjacent to the tennis courts. Follow the path between the courts to Haskell’s Beach.
At the fork in the path, you’ll see a sign that says “FOOD TRUCK” with a big arrow. Follow the direction of the arrow, and your stomach, to the picnic tables with bright-green umbrellas surrounding the Bacara’s ocean-blue food truck.
Awaiting beachgoers is a collection of canned cocktails, wine, beer, and classic, Bacaraquality dishes such as shrimp tacos, burgers, salad, and chicken tenders. Grab a glass of iced lemonade (or something more alcoholic) and a snack for under $20, and enjoy it at a shaded table or bring it down to the beach.
The truck will only be around until September 3. But until their summer ends, they’ll be open every day from 2 to 7 p.m.
8301 Hollister Ave.; $12+
—Callie Fausey
The summer season brings vacationers of all kinds to Santa Barbara, but none are more graceful, colorful, or many-winged as the fluttering butterflies at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s popular annual exhibit Butterflies Alive! Along with the halls of fossils and groves of oak trees, guests of the museum may enter the Sprague Butterfly Pavilion, a bountiful grove of color where more than a thousand Costa Rican butterflies dance among colorful flora and blue skies. Don’t be surprised if a brilliant green malachite lands right on your shoulder, as Butterflies Alive! offers an up-close-and-personal meeting with nature that is thrilling, instructive, and magical.
Butterflies Alive!, which runs until September 4, hosts more than two dozen species of tropical butterflies, many of which can only be seen at a select few butterfly preserves in America. “You won’t see a blue morpho anywhere else but here,” says Jimmy Friery, the museum’s butterfly coordinator. Guided by volunteers who offer information about the insects, guests of any age are sure to learn and delight in the undeniable joy that nature offers.
For more information on Butterflies Alive!, including a longer interview with Friery, see Independent.com
2559 Puesta del Sol; free-$19; (805) 682-4711; sbnature.org
—Josh Kazali
Blueberries don’t tend to make it to the waning days of summer, even in late seasons like this year. Good thing that Santa Barbara Blueberries isn’t just a one-crop pony: raspberry season is in full swing right now with blackberries starting any moment.
The u-pick farm close to Nojoqui Falls just north of the Gaviota Pass is a hands-on hoot for all ages, offering amateur pluckers the chance to wander the rows, finger their favorite fruits, and toss the ripe ones into pails. The property is run by Ed and Shay Seaman, whose parents, Rolland and Venetia Jacks (former owners of Hotel Santa Barbara), bought the 955-acre property in 2002 and planted the berries.
The Seamans took charge a few years later, and now the property, known as Restoration Oaks Ranch, is home to two vacation rentals, small events, and nature tours tarantulas in the fall, toads in the spring. They also founded the Wild Farmlands Foundation in 2014 to educate small farmers and the public about sustainable ag initiatives.
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Yes, it’s okay to chomp a couple berries while harvesting, but save some for the rest of us, and make sure to pay the very fair per-pound fees on your way out. The farmstand also sells ranchraised ground beef (and occasionally other cuts, like heart), honey sticks, sun hats, ice cream, and much more. Seeking a more adult option as well? Folded Hills Winery is a one-minute drive away. Just mind those tricky turns across Highway 101!
—Matt Kettmann
1980 U.S. Hwy. 101, Gaviota; $10.40/lb; (805) 686-5718; santabarbarablueberries.com
It may be the second-oldest yacht club on the Pacific Coast, but the Santa Barbara Yacht Club’s Wet Wednesday sailing races are a great place to take the young’ns.
About 60 sailboats set out with white and silver masts and then unfurl their spinnakers to create a rainbow of colors for the return to the finish line every Wednesday, from March through October. Watch from the Breakwater wall or other vantage points; it’s a friendly, comeone, come-all gathering. The boats start lining up about 4:45 p.m.
Also fun is Lil’ Toot, which takes you on a narrated water taxi ride between the Santa Barbara Harbor and Stearns Wharf. With bubbles rising from the smokestack and a smile on the bow, kids are sure to enjoy this ride as the captain and crew share interesting factoids about the history of the harbor and yachts owned by famous people. And if you’re really lucky, they might even let you toot the horn!
After all of that waterfront fun, Anchor Rose is a great place to set down your family’s anchor, for surely you’ve worked up a thirst. Both the rooftop deck and outdoor patio have great harbor views, and they offer happy hour daily from 3-6 p.m. —Leslie Dinaberg sbyc.org; celebrationsantabarbara.com/lil-toot-water-taxi; theanchorrose.com
The first time I went to Goleta’s Ice in Paradise in early spring, a worker told me he’d “never seen someone fall more times during the free skate” than me. Returning this summer, I was determined to outperform my previous outing (or at least not walk away needing a massage). To my surprise, I was able to not only stay on my skates but also move faster and break a decent sweat. While my hockeyplaying friend skated circles around me and young kids mimicked my awkward, wide-legged, arms-spread stance, I was laughing and smiling the whole time.
If you and your family are looking to beat the summer heat, Ice in Paradise is the perfect place for kids and adults of all ages to learn to skate or bring a big group for an outing. Open skating sessions for all ages and abilities are available 1:30-4:30 p.m. every day, with additional morning sessions on weekdays and evening sessions on the weekend.
Admission starts at $10, and skates are available to rent for a reasonable $5 fee (which is waived on Tuesday College Night and Friday Teen Night with student ID). For younger kids and others still unsteady on their skates, walker-like “skate helpers” are also available to rent.
If you’re new to skating or want to build on your skills in a more structured setting than an open skate, there are also affordable group classes for all ages and skill levels, as well as specialty skating lessons for more advanced skaters.
When you’re all skated out, stop by the Rinkside Café, which, according to their website, “offers a cozy indoor space with an atmosphere that acts as a place for friends, skaters, and families to share a meal together.”
—Jack Magargee
6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta; public session: $10-$15, skate rental: $5, skate helper: $10; (805) 879-1550; iceinparadise.org
Disc golf is ingrained in Santa Barbara’s history, going back to the 1960s when local teenagers were throwing frisbees through Alameda Park, using gazebos, trees, and lampposts as part of their makeshift course.
Since then, disc golf courses have popped up all over the area, including at Evergreen Park, Elings, and Isla Vista. There are also two courses in Cachuma Lake, which are a bit more like the “real deal.”
It’s a lot like how it sounds. It’s golf, but with discs that you throw. However, since disc golf is most often played in public parks, rather than on carefully manicured golf courses, it does require a bit more agility and a willingness to do some walking.
Once you have your discs you can buy them online or in local sporting goods stores for cheap it’s usually free to play (Cachuma has a $10 entrance fee).
This Indy reporter is no expert, but my friends play weekly. They also are no experts, but they know more than I do. Here are some of their tips for beginners:
1) Download UDisc, a free app that has maps to help you find your way between holes (they’re more like baskets).
2) Go with a friend who already knows how to play, if you can. They can walk you through the course and give you tips! I suck at throwing, but thanks to my friends’ suggestions, I suck at throwing less.
3) Practice. There’s usually at least one practice spot in the area.
4) “Disc golf is 10 percent discing, and 90 percent looking for your discs,” joked my friend and disc golf extraordinaire, Owen Dawson. Consider buying a few (long-range drivers, midrange, putters).
—Callie Fausey
Remember to do your part to keep the courses and the parks clean, and don’t forget to “charge” your discs!
See UDisc’s guide to Disc Golf in Santa Barbara at udisc.com/places/santa-barbara-ca
Want to get in some more summertime fun before the school bells start ringing? Pair one or more of our staff’s suggested activities with some of these 11 events happening August 10-20. For more events and info, check out The Week in print or our online calendar of events at independent.com/events.
THURSDAY 8/10
American Mariachi 8pm. Shows through Aug. 27. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $25+. pcpa.org
FRIDAY 8/11
Free Summer Cinema: Star Trek 8:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. PG-13. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
SATURDAY 8/12
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Party 2:30-4pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Grades K-6. calendar.library.santabarbaraca.gov
MONDAY 8/14
Whale Rider Screening and Post-Film Discussion with Novelist Witi Ihimaera 7pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Rated PG-13. Free carseywolf.ucsb.edu
TUESDAY 8/15
Music at the Ranch: Moneluv x Mony’s Food Truck 5:30-7:30pm. Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. Free goletahistory.org/music-at-the-ranch
FRIDAY 8/18
Juggling with David Cousins 12:30-1:15pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Grades K-6. calendar.library.santabarbaraca.gov
Free Summer Cinema: Guardians of the Galaxy 8:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. PG-13. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
SATURDAY 8/19
You don’t need to be rich, famous, or even gainfully employed to enjoy an afternoon amid the rich, famous, and may-never-need-employment-again crowds who gather every weekend at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club just south of Summerland.
Though known as the sport of kings and often played by those with more money than most royals polo is actually free to watch on Friday afternoons, when The Fieldside hosts a happy hour that starts at 3 p.m. The restaurant, which overlooks the main pitch, is open to the public Wednesday-Sunday, 5-8 p.m., and there’s quite often horse activity happening throughout the week, per the schedule published weekly online.
The main Sunday games cost $30 for seats, although that price can go up quickly if you’d like to reserve a cabana. Keep in mind that they do sell out, and with the season’s popular Netjets Pacific Coast Open happening August 12–28, it’s wise to get those seats today. —MK
What has 24 wheels and goes ’round and ’round for hours on end? Three women roller-skating at Santa Barbara City College, chatting and catching up with one another.
That was the scene on a recent Sunday afternoon at the impromptu skating rink that sprang up in the parking lot across from La Playa Stadium during the pandemic. Terrance Brown said he discovered the space after his mother persuaded him that skating was fun. Brown was telling her how very low he felt with the world shut down and everyone having to stay six feet apart.
Star Party 8:30-10pm. Palmer Observatory, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free sbnature.org
SUNDAY 8/13
Explore Ecology Beach Cleanup 10am-noon. Arroyo Burro Beach, 2981 Cliff Dr. (meet in front of the blue Watershed Resource Center to sign in). Free. exploreecology.org
Goleta Dam Dinner 4-7pm. Lake Los Carneros Dam, 163 N. La Patera Ln., Goleta. Free (bring your own picnic or buy food and drinks on-site). cityofgoleta.org
SUNDAY 8/20
Summer Family Day at the Wildling Museum 10am-4pm. Wildling Museum, 1511 Mission Dr., Ste. B. Free wildlingmuseum.org
“You should try roller-skating,” his mother told her son in early 2020. “Me and all my girlfriends used to go to the rink, wearing our short shorts. It was to get the guys to check us out,” she said, and Brown was in. To see him skate, glide, and dance is to see a man transformed from a “big giraffe,” his description of his early excursions.
Brown, who started S.B. Rollers skate club, was soon joined by his friends, a crowd from Xanadu Skate Boutique, people taking breaks at tailgate parties, and music played by anyone with speakers.
“Roller-skating changed my life,” said Val Selvaggio, who opened Xanadu last year. “Rollerskating is so healthy,” she said with fervor, “no matter your age.” —Jean Yamamura
SBCC Lot 3, 800 block of Shoreline Dr.; free; @sbrollers
I’m no cowboy, but when I got a chance to go on a guided ride through the canyons and trails behind Circle Bar B Ranch in Gaviota, I threw on my 10-gallon hat and decided to give it a go.
Circle Bar B Stables has offered quintessential California dude ranch experience for more than 80 years, with four generations of family ownership welcoming guests to hop on a horse and get an up-close-and-personal view of the region’s rich backcountry.
For $105, you can sign up for a 90-minute ride plenty of time for a beginner which takes you on a scenic back trail snaking between shady canyons and past splashing waterfalls to a hilltop vista overlooking the ocean and the Channel Island.
I saddled up onto a big palomino named Traveler, and the horse displayed amazing patience as I learned the basics of holding the reins and using my feet to signal when to go, when to stop, and which way to turn. I never understood just how smart and powerful horses are, and riding atop Traveler gave me another level of respect for these beautiful creatures. The ride was bumpy, sure, and my legs did have that trademark thigh soreness after the ride, but I’m glad I got the chance to live out my cowboy dreams and get a slice of what it was like before the internet and before social media, when it was just a cowboy and his horse on the trail. —RPC
1800 Refugio Rd., Goleta; $105; (805) 968-3901; circlebarbstables.com
Just a scenic 15-mile drive from Carpinteria, the recently remodeled Casitas Water Adventure park at Lake Casitas offers a great opportunity for an Ojai-adjacent day of water play.
After soaking in the sights of the replenished reservoir on the drive up Highway 150, hang a right on Santa Ana Road and then either hunt for a free parking spot outside the entrance gate or pay to park inside. Arrive early to snag some shaded lounge chairs before wading your way over to the whimsical play structure boasting three large slides (for those 42 inches or taller), a smaller all-ages slide, and two dump buckets, including a prodigious pail at the top that unleashes a deluge every 15 minutes or so.
Then mosey on over to the Lazy River and grab an inner tube for a relaxing ride around the winding waterway, where lifeguards are stationed at every turn. Those with tots in tow can also take advantage of the tuckedaway children’s lagoon for some even mellower shallow-water play.
After getting your hand stamped upon exiting the park, you’re welcome to come and go as you please, so stop by the snack bar stationed just outside the entrance or pop over to Ojai to let the kids loose at Libbey Park, browse the open-air offerings at Bart’s Books, or enjoy an al fresco family meal at Boccali’s or Ojai Rotie.
Thanks our generous sponsors for supporting us in this year's fundraising walk through Alma Rosa Vineyards
10,000 Steps in the Right Direction
—Jackson FriedmanCasitas Water Adventure is open through September 16, and tickets for weekdays ($20) and weekend morning and afternoon sessions ($23) can be purchased online or in person at the Guest Services Office. Children younger than 2 get in free, and an ample number of life jackets are available at no extra charge.
Lake Casitas Recreation Area, 11311 Santa Ana Rd., Ventura; free-$23; casitaswater.org/ recreation/casitas-water-adventure
The Independent is proud to announce the launch of Indy Parenting, presented by Cottage Health, an online resource guide for Santa Barbara families.
The information hub found at IndyParenting.com features personal stories about the magic and madness of raising children, advice from local experts on a wide range of kid-related topics, and spotlights of supportive businesses and services.
It is also home to our annual issues that focus on young people, starting with our After-School Activity Guide, and an event calendar that highlights age-appropriate happenings around town.
To offer feedback and ideas, email indyparenting@ independent.com. Grandparents are encouraged to follow along, too.
When my podcast, The Mom Hour, debuted in March 2015, there were only a handful of parenting shows in publication. Most of my fellow moms at preschool pickup were only vaguely aware of what a podcast was. Popular parenting media centered around online articles and a few big-time bloggers, with a side of YouTube for funny parodies and a sprinkle of Facebook groups for middle-of-the-night commiseration.
I noticed a shift around 2018, when audio started becoming a go-to for busy parents looking for expert advice, friendly connection, informative entertainment, or a combination of all three. And it makes so much sense: Whether you’re rocking a newborn in the wee hours, driving in circles to extend a toddler’s nap, or pushing the stroller or folding the laundry, podcasts can keep your brain company while your hands are occupied. Today, there are so many options to choose from. There’s no one right way to be a great parent, and the perfect podcast for you is one that reminds you of that. Here are 12 shows that don’t preach or judge, and that just might make your next sleepless night a little less lonely.
Visit IndyParenting.com for direct Spotify and Apple Podcasts links.
Parenthood can be isolating especially in the early years. And while a friendly voice coming through your car speakers or AirPods is not a direct substitute for meaningful connection, it’ll do in a pinch. Listen to these podcasts for their helpful parenting content, sure; but after an episode or two, you might just find yourself going back for the camaraderie.
What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables are comedians, friends, and moms of tweens and teens. Their style is full of laughs, but their conversations will also make you think. Start with episode: “Let’s Stop Caring What Other People Think.”
Didn’t I Just Feed You? Meghan Splawn and Stacie Billis GET US when it comes to the challenges of feeding a family. They’re moms and career food professionals who are better in the kitchen than most of us regular folks but they don’t lord it over us. Start with: “Date Nights & Sitter Dinners.”
The Girl Next Door Podcast Erica Ladd and Kelsey Wharton are good friends with kids ranging in age from preschool to tween, and their podcast
covers everything from motherhood and marriage to home organization and creativity. Start with: “Games We Love, Hate, and Made Up.”
Best of Both Worlds Podcast Laura Vanderkam and Sarah Hart-Unger are full-time working moms with kids of all ages, and their show gives voice to the joys and challenges of loving both your career AND your family. Start with: “Do You Still Need Childcare? Evolving Household Support as Kids Grow.”
(Of note: The Mom Hour also fits into this category; my co-host Meagan and I have eight kids between us and bring different backgrounds and perspectives to our conversations about motherhood.)
If you’ve ever tried Googling a specific parenting challenge, such as picky eating or sibling bickering, you know there’s no shortage of expert advice on the Internet. But reading parenting advice requires a certain quiet focus that kids have a way of rendering impossible; a podcast can deliver the same concepts on the go and often with an engaging, compassionate tone that’s harder to get from a book or article. Look to these podcasts for thoughtful advice about raising happy, healthy kids. (Pro tip: Use the search feature in your favorite podcast app to find a specific topic within the shows’ archives.)
Good Inside with Dr. Becky Dr. Becky Kennedy’s short, practical podcast episodes are a great audio companion to her wildly popular social media videos. She’s at the top of the charts for a reason! Start with episode: “You’re Not the Boss of Me!”
Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting Dr. Lisa Damour and co-host Reena Ninan combine their lived experiences as parents with professional expertise as a psychologist/author and journalist, respectively, to answer questions from their audience. Scroll the archives for a topic that fits your situation (each episode is helpfully titled as a common parenting question or challenge).
The Puberty Podcast Dr. Cara Natterson and Vanessa Kroll Bennett are here to talk about the stuff that makes us and our kids squirm. With humor and evidence in equal measure, they deliver an updated education in all things growing up. Start with: “The Right Time to Talk About…”
TiLT Parenting: Raising Differently Wired Kids Debbie Reber is a lifeline for parents of differently wired kids (in her words: giftedness, autism, 2e, learning differences, sensory processing issues, anxiety, and more). Through conversations with experts, parents, and her own kid, Reber helps parents find more peace while navigating this complex world. Start with: “Phyllis Fagel on Raising Resilient Teens in Turbulent Times.”
So much of being a parent isn’t about, well, parenting at least, not the literal, hands-on tasks of caring for children. It’s about navigating adulthood with a decent attitude and a good sense of humor, finding your way as a human and citizen, and figuring out the routines and systems that work for your unique family. Check out these podcasts for smart takes on topics that run adjacent to parenting, such as organization, personal growth, home management, and current events.
Edit Your Life Dr. Christine Koh is a scientist turned creative professional who’s big on small tweaks that make a big difference whether it’s work, home management, or relationships. Start with episode: “Finding Adult Friendships & Community.”
Savvy Working Mom Whitnee Hawthorne’s experience as a full-time working mom at a Fortune 500 company helped her develop systems and tools to help busy working parents thrive. Start with: “How to Find Joy at Work (Even When You Don’t Love Your Job).”
The Lazy Genius Kendra Adachi helps her listeners figure out what matters and let the rest (mostly) go in almost every area of life. Episodes are friendly and packed with actionable tips that won’t overwhelm you. Start with: “Five Essential Mindsets for Time Management.”
Although we’re highlighting a few new Indy Parenting stories here in print our growing collection of content lives first and foremost online.
Be sure to bookmark IndyParenting.com and follow us on Instagram (@sbindependent) for the freshest content. Here’s what’s featured so far:
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers cover politics and the news with nuance and kindness, and their smart conversations are perfect for busy parents who want to stay informed. Start with the latest episode, or scroll through recent archives and pick a topic you’d like to learn more about.
Sarah Powers is a writer, podcaster, and communications professional. As co-creator of the chart-topping parenting podcast The Mom Hour, Sarah has produced more than 1,000 hours of audio content for parents. She was raised in Santa Barbara but lived elsewhere for more than two decades before finding her way back home in 2020. Sarah and her husband have three kids, two cats, one dog, and a very spoiled guinea pig.
The days of moms doing most (if not all) of the cooking are over. And that’s a good thing in the paradigm of equal labor at home.
Dads, however, may not have had a lot of practice in the kitchen before the kids arrived, and mac and cheese will only suffice for so long. Or, even if they do have some experience, they’ll often run into fading hours and dwindling energy reserves around mealtime, especially during the work week.
Through extensive trial and error, this dad to a 16-month-old is sharing his list of easy, healthy, go-to recipes that have minimal ingredients and little prep time, and maybe most importantly store well for lunches and leftovers. Because although cooking can be fun, sometimes the less (and therefore less cleanup), the better.
After-School Activity Guide 2023: Find the perfect program for your kids to get engaged, meet new friends, learn new skills, or do what they already enjoy doing.
Family-Friendly Event Calendar: An array of fun and interesting events geared toward children of all ages.
I’m Not Santa Barbara’s Ted Lasso: Memories of coaching kindergarten soccer, an awful, awesome experience for young parents.
Kids and a Clean Home Not Impossible: Seven tips and tricks to get your family’s living space in order, then keep it that way.
TechWise S.B. Tackles Excessive Screen Time: A coalition of doctors, educators, and parents are helping kids create healthier relationships with technology.
From Kids’ Friends, to Parent Friends, to Family: Finding your people can be tricky, but when you know, you know. Take a Hike at the Zoo: New ranger station offers visitors a taste of the great outdoors and a peek into California's national parks.
What Legal Rights Does My Child Have? Explanations and advice from Santa Barbara youth law experts.
Seven S.B. Playgrounds Where Your Toddler Won’t Get Trampled: There are plenty of options in town way less crowded than Kids World.
Education Reimagined at Santa Barbara Free School: Where students are given the opportunity to direct their own learning through democratic, community-based, and experiential programs.
Santa Barbara Foundation Offers Child Care Scholarships: The program, one of many at the Foundation that supports families, increases working parents’ access to quality child care.
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Ages: 18+ (no high school participants)
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Inspired by @zaynesplate
Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 bananas
2/3 cup rolled oats
2 tablespoons peanut butter (or any nut or seed butter)
A handful of spinach or berries
Method:
1. Add all ingredients to a blender and blend on high until smooth. (Grainy is okay; just no big chunks.)
2. Heat a large nonstick frying pan over lowmedium heat and hit it with a nonstick cooking spray.
3. Add four smallish dollops of batter to the pan (they should have the approximate diameter of a
flattened golf ball) and cook for 1-2 minutes per side until golden brown.
Notes:
This recipe makes approximately 8 pancakes. Double it if desired. Pancakes store well in the fridge for three days or up to three months in the freezer.
Inspired by Culinary Hill
Ingredients:
1 pound of ground turkey
2-3 cups vegetables of choice (carrots, squash, bell pepper, etc.), minced
1 small white onion, minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup bread crumbs
2 eggs
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1-2 total teaspoons of dried herbs of choice (basil, oregano, parsley, thyme)
Salt and pepper to taste
Method:
1. Combine all ingredients in large bowl and mix well
2. Shape mixture into 1-inch balls (you should have 2 to 3 dozen total)
3. Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Fry meatballs in batches until browned on all sides and cooked through, approximately 5-7 minutes per batch.
Notes:
Serve with rice, pasta, or potatoes. To freeze, let cool completely then transfer to freezer-safe container.
Salmon Ingredients:
4 salmon filets (about 6 ounces each)
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 total teaspoon of dried herbs of choice (basil, oregano, parsley, thyme)
Salt and pepper
Salmon Method:
1. Heat oven to 400 degrees and grease a large baking pan. Arrange salmon filets and season generously with salt and pepper.
2. Stir together olive oil, garlic, and herbs. Spoon over filets and rub on all sides.
3. Bake for 12-15 minutes until salmon is opaque
Edited by Tyler Hayden
We asked our readers to share an unexpected thing they learned about being a parent. Here’s what they said.
When I became a parent, I didn’t know I’d get a second chance at living. You get to play, create, move, and discover all over again, something lost on many tooserious adults. With my son, I’ve learned more about penguins and Legos than I was ever interested in as a kid. Now I’m interested because he’s interested he’s making me smarter and wiser every day. Also, young children live in the present, and my kids have forced me to remember to stay in the now, no matter how fun or uncomfortable the moment is.
When my wife was pregnant with our second child, she battled months of debilitating morning sickness. I was already active with our 4-year-old son and we spent almost every early morning play-acting Peter Pan. (I was always limited to Wendy while he occupied every other role.)
One day, Zach and I were out to breakfast when he leaned forward and revealed in a very serious tone: “Mom’s my favorite parent.” I realized then and there that I had better be doing this parenting thing because I enjoyed it and felt fulfilled by it, not for some expectation of appreciation or recognition —which might not ever come.
It was a lesson I carried with me in all aspects of life thereafter the motiva-
tion to do something needs to come from within, as does the satisfaction. I am grateful that both our boys, now 36 and 32, did grow up to appreciate me, but it is a lesson I hope they remember as they raise our four grandsons.
As my kid gets older and enters an age that I clearly recall being (11 years old!), I have had to learn to take time to settle my memories of being 11 and let my kid be his own kind of 11. Especially this summer: I grew up in the Junior Lifeguards program, and what my kid is into and good at is different from me. It has been a huge lesson to allow him to grow and be his own person. I marvel at how amazing he is so much like me and so vastly different. What a gift having a kid is.
The most unexpected thing I’ve learned about being a parent is a new love of sports! My eldest daughter easily enjoyed a lot of the things I did, like classical music and the arts. Neither of us is particularly athletic. But my youngest daughter is an avid softball and tennis player. As her talent developed, I learned about club teams and tournaments, and now my husband and I travel around central and southern California and beyond to watch her play. Of course, by watching lots of games, I became more interested in the rules and began to watch professional games. And the best thing is the community. My daughter has a great athletic mentor in her tennis coach, who challenges her, and the softball community has fully embraced us, even when I ask naive questions. I never imagined I would become a sports fan, but it has given me a lot of joy and inspiration I never expected.
The most unexpected thing I have learned while being a parent is just how difficult it is to bear witness to your child struggling. My instinct is to remove the obstacle, sometimes achingly so, but being a patient and loving guide while he navigates life struggles is best for him in the long run.
Becoming a parent has been a journey of joy, love, and unforeseen challenges. One surprise, especially as a parent of a medically fragile child, was the absence of an automatic community support system. I had to build my own intricate web of support, actively seeking individuals and resources. Initially, I expected a natural support system to emerge, but I discovered the
and flaky when pulled apart with a fork. Broil the last 1-2 minutes to crisp the top, if desired.
Lemon Butter Sauce Ingredients:
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Lemon Butter Sauce Method:
1. Place butter in saucepan over medium heat.
2. Let butter melt, then whisk occasionally. When butter turns golden brown and smells nutty (approximately 3 minutes), remove from stove and pour into small bowl.
3. Add lemon juice and pinch of salt and pepper. Stir, let cool slightly, then serve
Notes:
Goes well with grilled veggies. To fancy things up a bit, serve with lemon wedges and finely chopped fresh parsley.
need to forge connections with like-minded parents and healthcare professionals. Online forums and support groups became a source of solace, offering understanding and empathy.
Building this support network taught me resilience and the importance of nurturing connections that sustain us through life’s unexpected turns. Constructing our own narratives, shaping experiences, and finding strength in the bonds we forge holds immense power.
I have learned that our society and economic system have made having a family a luxury. In order to have children and afford a place to live, food to eat, childcare, and money for day-to-day existence, a family of three in Santa Barbara must make at least $44 an hour. Because of the emphasis capitalism places on revenue generation, parents must work. However, service jobs, like child-care provision, pay poverty wages.
We expect teachers and care providers to help us raise the next generation, but we do not allow them to thrive, or even afford to live in our community. Twenty percent of children in the U.S. live below poverty level, and we are ranked as the second-worst place to raise a family globally. Raising good humans is hard our culture is doing everything it can to make it harder.
I’m now a grandparent to teenaged twins. I still get reminders of notable parenting missteps unrecognized by me at the time, but indelible to my kids as youngsters. Put succinctly: kids absorb and remember a lot more than we credit them. They grow up with sometimes very different images of us than we intend. And late after the fact, there’s usually little to do about it.
All our kids really need is our attention, attunement, and our deep nurture. They need connection and comfort. They don’t need rigidity; they need regulation they need to borrow our calm amid their chaos. They don’t need the latest gear and gadgets they need graciousness and grounded-ness. They don’t need new “techniques” and “training” they need responsiveness. They need presence over perfection.
Parenting often requires re-parenting ourselves looking closely at the generational practices bestowed upon us and examining if our inherited philosophies align with our values. I want to create safety and security in my kids, and doing so starts with throwing out past (often patriarchal) practices that ignore babies’ biological needs.
I’ve found that most of the answers I’m seeking are already within, guided by millennia of evolutionary biology. The “work”seems to be tuning out the noise and tuning in to our intuition. n
Saturday, October 14 at 6:52 pm
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Archival film
(former President/CEO of Capitol Records) and music lover Richard Salzberg (aka ‘Music Maniac’) will be shown. This is a ‘One Night Only’ event to support the Lobero Theatre’s 150th Ovation Celebration.
As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. Submit virtual and in-person events at independent.com/eventsubmit
8/10: Metro Summer Kids Movie See 2016’s Trolls (Rated PG), about the journey of Poppy and Branch to rescue friends on this adventure of mishaps. 10am. Camino Real Cinema, 7040 Marketplace Dr., Goleta. $2. metrotheatres.com
8/10: Discussion: Demystifying Neurotherapy Drs. Tiff Thompson and Nick Dogris of NeuroField Neurotherapy, Inc. will demystify the topics of neurotherapy, neurostimulation, and more. 5:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 403-4202 or email info@schoolofneurotherapy.com tinyurl.com/NeurotherapyDiscussion
8/10: Art From Scrap Crafternoons See where your imagination takes you as you weave straw at this crafternoon. 3:30-5pm. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Call (805) 884-0459 or email info@exploreecology.org exploreecology.org
8/11:
8pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $48.50-$93.50. Call (805) 899-2222. ticketing.granadasb.org/events
8/11: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Out of This World: Star Trek Watch 2009’s Star Trek (rated PG-13), directed by JJ Abrams, that follows the voyage of the USS Enterprise through unimaginable danger. Come in costume and win prizes with K-LITE’s Gary and Catherine before the movie. 8:30pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
8/11-8/13: The City of Lompoc Birthday Celebration To commemorate its 135th birthday, the City of Lompoc will have a birthday celebration followed by the 19th annual Lompoc Police Car Show and Lompoc Old Town Market on Saturday, and an Electric Birthday event on Sunday. Fri.: 5-8pm; Sat.: 9am-3pm (car show); noon-3pm (market); Sun.: 11am. Old Town Lompoc. Free. Call (805) 736-1261. cityoflompoc.com
8/11-8/13: Gem Faire Peruse precious and semi-precious gemstones, beads, crystals, gold and silver, pearls, fossils, and more with jewelry repair and cleaning while you shop. Fri.: noon6pm; Sat.: 10am-6pm; Sun.: 10am-5pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Admission: $7. Call (503) 252-8300 or email info@gemfaire.com gemfaire.com
8/12: Star Party at the Museum Join museum astronomy staff and members of the S.B. Astronomical Unit for an evening of craters on the moon, nebulas, galaxies, and more with a view through the state-of-the-art 20-inch telescope. 8:30pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call (805) 682-4711. sbnature.org/calendar
THURSDAY
Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm
FRIDAY
Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
SATURDAY Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8am-1pm
SUNDAY
Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm
TUESDAY Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-7pm
WEDNESDAY Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm (805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org
SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
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8/10, 8/12: Eos Lounge Thu.: The Cora Zone, Kiesummit, 9pm. Sat.: Moscoman, Les District, Siegal, 9pm. 500 Anacapa St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com
8/10: The Granada Theatre and The Good Lion: Roar & Pour The 192s, 6-8pm. 1212 and 1214 State St. Free. Call (805) 899-2222. granadasb.org/roar-and-pour
8/10: Corner Tap Gourmet Gastropub Erinn Alissa, 7-9pm. 1905 Cliff Dr. Free. Call (805) 690-2739. tinyurl.com/Erinn-Alissa
8/10, 8/16: Pearl Social Thu.: Natalie Espinoza Jazz Trio, 6:30pm. Tue.: Makenna Tate Band, 6pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. B. Free. Call (805) 284-0380. pearlsocialsb.com/happenings/
8/10: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 364-3043. satellitesb.com
8/10-8/12, 8/14-8/16: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Glenn Annie, Quail Mountain Speedway, 8:30pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. Fri.: The Mighty Cash Cats, 8:30pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. Sat.: No Simple Highway, 9pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. Mon.: Dead Seagals, 7:30pm. $12. Tue.: Souls of Mischief, Breakbeat Lou, The Architect, 8pm. $30. Ages 21+. Wed.: Bobby Alu, 7pm. $15-$20.1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
8/11: S.B. Sailing Center Music on the Water John Lyle, 6:30pm. S.B. Sailing Center, 302 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $85. Call (805) 962-2826 or email anchor@sbsail.com tinyurl.com/MusicOnTheWater
8/11-8/12: Uptown Lounge Fri.: Mark Alvarado, The Trio, 6-8pm. Will Steven and The Essentials, 9-11pm. Sat.: Hoodlum Friends, 9-11pm. Free. 3126 State St. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events
8/12: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Shay Moulder, 7-10pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@ arrowsmithwine.com. arrowsmithwine.com/events
8/12-8/13: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: The Reserve, 1:30-4:30pm. The Rincons, 5-8pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, 1:30-4:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
8/12: Hook’d Bar and Grill Out of the Blue, 4-7pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-on-thewater
8/12: S.B. Wine Collective Will Breman, 2:30pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free. Call (805) 456-2700. santabarbarawine collective.com/events/
8/13: Au Bon Climat Tasting Room
Live Music Sundays: Rob Moreno Duo, 3-5pm. 813 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 963-7999. aubonclimat.com/events
8/12:
Music Under the Stars: Chris Norton and His Big Band Enjoy jazz standards, pop, R&B, rock, and more from Chris Norton and his eight-piece big band. Doors will open at 4:30pm with food for purchase and DJ Darla Bea, who will start the party off. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. 5-10pm. Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Rd. Kids ages 12 and under: Free; GA: $29. Call (805) 569-5611. elingspark.org/ events-tickets
8/12: Santa Ynez Valley (S.Y.V.)
Summer Saturday Movie Nights:
Sustainable Watch a screening of the 2016 documentary Sustainable, an investigation of modern farming practices, soil loss, water depletion, climate change, and pesticides. Picnic boxes from Clean Slate Wine Bar ($20) and wine from Final Girl Wines ($30/bottle)
8/11, 8/16: Lost Chord Guitars Fri.: Alan Satchwell Jazz Quartet, 8pm. $10 suggested donation. Wed.: Summer Series: Local Artist TBA, 7pm. Free. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
8/11-8/13: Maverick Saloon Fri.: The Robert Heft Band, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Robert Heft, Dave Wilson, 1-5pm. Dave Bernal, 8:30-11:30pm. Sun.: Jimmy Rankin, noon-4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/event-calendar
8/11-8/12: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Cadillac Angels, 6-8pm. Sat.: Larry Williams and The Groove, 6-8pm. Birria Boys, 5-10pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
8/11: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Red Fish, 7:30-10pm. 634 State St. Free. 634 State St. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
EVENTS MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
8/13: S.B. Bowl Father John Misty, The Head and the Heart, Miya Folick. 6pm. $41.50-$91.50. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com
8/13: Zaca Mesa Winery Jacob Cole, noon-3pm. 6905 Foxen Canyon Rd., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 688-9339 or email info@zacamesa.com zacamesa.com/upcoming-events
8/14: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Morganfield Burnett, 7:30pm. Free. 519 State St. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
will be available for purchase. Wine tasting: 7pm; movie: 8pm. Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden, 151 Sycamore Dr., Buellton. $25. Call (805) 991-7901 or email irlartsfoundation@gmail.com tinyurl.com/ SYVmovieNight
8/12: Afterparty at MOXI: Think Ink Calling all adults who act like kids to enjoy an evening of exploring the medium of ink from organic dyes to media and print and body art. There will be food and cocktails with rooftop reggae jams from Rey Fresco. 7-10pm. MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, 125 State St. $35-$45. Ages 21+. Call (805) 770-5000. moxi.org
8/12: Summer Swing 2023 Workshop and Dance Party Learn the basics of West Coast swing with a workshop taught by Texas West Coast Swing champ Gina Sigman, followed by a dance party with music by DJ BeeGee. Basics and beyond lessons: 6:308pm; dance: 8-11pm. 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. $15. Call (805) 344-1630 or email centralcoastqueenof swing@gmail.com tinyurl.com/Summer-Swing
8/12: Blind Fitness Beach Walk & Run for Health All people who are blind or have low vision, along with their family, friends, and community members, are invited to walk, run, or stroll toward Stearns Wharf, then enjoy post-workout snacks and connection. Email RSVPs. 9-11:30am. 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. (a Blind Fitness flag will mark the location). $10 suggested donation. Email info@blindfitness .org. tinyurl.com/BlindFitness
8/13: Explore Ecology Beach Cleanup
Bring your own supplies or use the buckets, plastic bags, and reusable gloves provided for your self-guided cleanup. Sign in at the Watershed Resource Center. Community service volunteer hours are available. Participants will receive a coupon for a free cup of chowder from the S.B. Shellfish Co. 10am-noon. Arroyo Burro Beach, 2981 Cliff Dr. Free. Call (805) 884-0459. exploreecology.org/calendar/list
MONDAY 8/14
TUESDAY 8/15
8/14: Film Screening: Whale Rider Watch the critically acclaimed 2002 film Whale Rider, about a young Māori girl who dreams of becoming the chief of her patriarchal tribe. There will be a post-screening discussion with Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera. 7-9:50pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/upcoming
8/15:
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 the California dance-pop, alt-rock sound of Moneluv. 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 8/16
8/16:
Peter Frampton: Never Say Never Tour Frampton came alive in 1976 with hits such as “Show Me the Way,” “Baby, I Love Your Way,” “Do You Feel Like We Do,” and “I’m in You.” Hear the hits, covers, and his signature talk-box sound.
8/16: Free Senior Day at S.B. Botanic Garden Seniors ages 60 and older can enjoy the beautiful garden, docent tours, native plant talks, and more. Use the discount code “SFD2023.” 10am-5pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Call (805) 6824726 x138 or email info@sbbg.com sbbotanicgarden.org
Saturday, August 12, 7 PM
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
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 GOLETA
(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
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
What started as a reluctant volunteer gig as a photographer turned into an annual labor of love for David Powdrell, a Carpinteria resident and longtime shooter around town, who plays keyboards and cowbell with The Nombres and has a day job as a CPA.
give them digital photographs to share with friends and family living outside the area. In the course of the week, they would go on to accomplish incredible acts of courage, make lifelong friends, and smile and laugh with gratitude in their eyes.”
A friend called 15 years ago, “and asked if I’d drive to UCSB to photograph the Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp, a camp for kids that I knew absolutely nothing about,” shared Powdrell. He reluctantly agreed, but he said he was “confident that these kids would be sad, mad, and perhaps miserable.”
Powdrell continued, “I was completely wrong! The kids were happy, grateful, smiling, laughing, and fun! After an hour of photographing that Monday morning 15 years ago, I called my wife and asked her to cancel all my business appointments. I would be photographing these amazing kids for the entire week, hoping to fill their scrapbooks and
Sponsored by Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital and Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, the annual week-long Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp began in 1986 and is the only camp of its kind on the Central Coast. Not only do all campers attend for free, but free transportation is also provided from Oxnard, Santa Maria, Lompoc, Carpinteria, and Santa Barbara. (Campers from Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and Temecula are also invited to attend.)
The camp provides a safe and supportive environment for mobility-challenged kids to participate in a wide range of sports. Offerings range from beginner to advanced-level wheelchair sports and recreation activities, including rugby, basketball, tennis, hand cycling, swimming, boxing, scuba diving, racquetball, an obstacle course, a climbing wall, a ropes course, dancing, dodgeball, pickleball, and even “a festival of fun.”
Powdrell is among the more than 50 volunteers who assisted the approximately 40 campers (ages 6 to 21) last month at the UCSB Recreation Center. In addition to volunteers, counselors and instructors are wheelchair users themselves, so they become natural mentors to the campers on how to stay healthy and active while living with a disability.
“The camp staff and volunteers are amazing, dedicated, and passionate,” said Powdrell. “They all go beyond the call of duty to make every camper have the absolute best week-long
experience possible. When the bug bites a new volunteer, he or she typically returns year after year.”
He continued, “The Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp empowers kids to be more independent. Through adaptive sports and activities, they learn valuable life skills, build resilience, and develop a strong sense of self-worth. The camp has a positive impact on the mental well-being of the children, too. Self-esteem is enhanced, stress is reduced, and the sense of isolation is reduced, all leading to a positive outlook on life.
“One camper shared with me that this week was the only week of the year that he felt completely ‘normal.’ Another shared that her town didn’t have any camps with similar programs or opportunities.”
The greatest reward, Powdrell said, “is when a kid overcomes what they thought was impossible. One boy, who dreaded heights, climbed to the top of the rock wall. Another, who ‘doesn’t swim,’ was scuba diving at the end of the camp experience.”
Powdrell has high praise for director René Van Hoorn, Recreation Therapist and Manager of Community Programs at Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital, who leads the camp, as well as all the staff, volunteers, sponsors, and supporters. “They should be celebrated, for they are making the world a better place, one child at a time let’s hope that the Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp inspires others to create similar opportunities for children with disabilities around the world,” said Powdrell.
For more information about next summer’s camp, call (805) 5698999 x82102.
“We have already begun to see the positive impact on families going through the program, and we look forward to our continued work together to offer caregivers the comprehensive support they need,” said Amy Krueger, deputy director of adult and children’s services at the Santa Barbara County Department of Social Services.
Cynthia, for one, was unequipped for her first experience with kinship fostering. It was taxing. When the kids were returned to their home, she was left feeling confused and discouraged.
“I just felt broken; I really wanted to foster but just felt like maybe it just wasn’t for me,” she said.
After a few months of resignation, however, there came a turning point, in the form of an ad in the newspaper. It was for Angels Foster Care, and Cynthia was drawn to fostering in the birth-to-age-5 range. “I can do that,” she thought to herself. Before she knew it, she was training through Angels.
“All my questions that I had while I was kinship fostering were answered,” she explained. “I knew exactly what was expected of me, and it wasn’t confusing anymore. Angels felt like a family.”
Afoster mom in the Santa Maria Valley dreamed of fostering children up until the moment she did. Cynthia, a mom of three girls of her own, thought that once she was done raising her kids, fostering would be the sensible next step. “But that’s not how it worked out for me,” she said.
In 2013, Cynthia and her husband learned that a relative’s three children were removed from their home. So they stepped up, applied to foster them, and provided kinship care when family members or close family friends foster a child for 14 months.
Fostering, it turned out, was not as easy for Cynthia as just wanting to foster, nor as easy as raising her own children (although that wasn’t easy, either).
The new set of foster parents (who requested to only use their first names to protect their and their children’s privacy) had more questions than answers, and they had no program or community to fall back on like Santa Barbara County foster parents do now.
Even though they were family, they were not prepared. Genes don’t tell you how to raise a child, and there is no “Fostering Your Cousin’s Kids for Dummies” help book.
“It was like walking through the dark,” Cynthia said. “We had no idea what we were doing.”
Struggles like Cynthia’s inspired the launch of Family & Friends Together (FFT) in July this year, a new kinship program that provides intensive, trauma-informed support to kinship families caring for foster children from birth to age 5 in Santa Barbara County.
According to County Social Services, there are more than 380 children across the region in need of a foster home due
to abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
FFT was launched by Angels Foster Care a nonprofit that provides homes for infants and toddlers up to age 5 in foster care throughout Santa Barbara County in partnership with Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Services, the Towbes Foundation, the Bower Foundation, the Hazen Foundation, and other private donors.
The program which has helped seven families thus far, referred by child welfare services provides case management, referrals, individualized education, and brief therapeutic intervention to kinship caregivers and the children they are fostering.
“Family members caring for children in foster care face unique challenges,” said Holly Carmody, executive director of Angels Foster Care. “They often deal with fear, guilt, and anger, and they may have challenges navigating complex family relationships.”
Carmody explained that the free program is meant to add an “extra layer of support for the family,” such as providing advice and training, helping them navigate the courts, and assisting with basic childcare like doctor’s appointments and education, to name a few.
A small but qualified team of social workers with Angels work with families across Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties with the greatest need in Northern Santa Barbara County to craft a personalized plan and “make sure that these kinship families are successful” while the children are going through a difficult time, Carmody said.
Young children are particularly vulnerable to developmental problems when not in a safe, stable environment during their transformative years.
“It’s preferable for the children to be able to be placed with family members because these are people that they already know,” Carmody said. “It’s traumatic to be in the foster care system; to be pulled out of the only home you’ve known. Anything that we can do to ease that trauma for children, and keep them in a consistent environment, is a positive thing for the child’s development.”
Over a period of seven years, Cynthia fostered around 15 children through Angels (which gets referrals from the County). Angels connected her with the little one she is fostering now, nicknamed Tarzan from when he was 3 with long hair. He was nonverbal, as well, making him slightly different than the kids Cynthia and her husband fostered in the past.
“We grew to love him quickly,” she said.
Cynthia and her husband have fostered the child on and off while his mother has struggled with her health, therefore qualifying them as close family friends and kinship caregivers. At the request and blessing of his mother, they will soon be taking on the role of permanent caregivers for Tarzan.
“His beginning is not awesome, but his ending will be,” Cynthia said. “There’s always a little sadness when it comes to what I do. We just have to do our best to be supportive and honor this agreement with his mom.”
Throughout the entire process, Angels social workers have been a helping hand, through home visits and follow-ups.
“They’re that kind of buffer,” Cynthia said. “I call it a soft place to fall. Because they are just very helpful, very kind. They feel like home.”
It was the training and support from Angels that also prepared Cynthia for the fostering and adoption of her 7-yearold grandson, following the tragic and sudden death of her eldest daughter. Her voice broke speaking about it.
“This is where it gets sad,” she said.
Her grandson was coming from another state, and for a variety of circumstances, she had to handle guardianship and the process of adopting him all on her own. Right now, she is taking care of both her grandson Isaiah and her foster son. But she can fall back on the Angels community if she ever needs to.
“After all of the training that I had gotten from Angels, I was very capable to handle everything that I had to do with my grandson alone,” she said. “I felt like my own little social worker.”
Cynthia emphasized that there are many kids in the county in need of a home, and accordingly, a great need for families and individuals willing to foster kids.
To learn more about fostering, Angels Foster Care, or the FFT program, contact (805) 884-0012 or visit angelsfostercare.org.
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When my son was young, a lot of our summer travel revolved around theme parks and water polo tournaments. Now that we’re empty nesters, more and more often music is the driving force in our adventures. We recently hit the road to see Tori Amos, one of my favorite artists since I first discovered her Little Earthquakes album in 1992. She’d been performing for more than a decade by then, but to me, she was edgy and new with a passionate sound and more substantive lyrics than a lot of her fellow rockers.
Before we ventured to the theater, we had cocktails and appetizers at the rooftop High Bar, which had shade, comfy chairs, nice greenery, and a great view of the rolling hills and the city. I was too busy enjoying my “Perfect Margarita” (it was excellent) to play a round of bocce, but it’s a fun option, and not something you see on every roof! The grilled artichoke was delicious, as were the house-made chips and guacamole, which shouldn’t be a surprise, as all of the cuisine at Hotel S.L.O. is overseen by Santa Barbara–born, Napa–trained Chef Ryan Fancher, whose steakhouse on the property Ox + Anchor even has a Michelin mention.
by Leslie Dinaberg
She’s still got the passion, and watching her swivel between instruments a giant Bösendorfer piano on one side and a bank of keyboards on the other is exciting, especially while sitting under the stars at the Vina Robles Amphitheater in Paso Robles. It’s a wonderful space to see concerts; the wideamphitheater, 3,300-seat setup means that every seat truly is a good one. All of the seats are within 150 feet of the stage, but the “VIP Box” seats that we had as part of our Hotel S.L.O. Summer Vibe package were particularly excellent. My husband and I had done this before, but the friends we brought along with us were particularly impressed by the sponsor box service, which included someone to bring us beer and wine (handily, we were on the Vina Robles Winery property), as well as food.
The VIP treatment also includes super close parking, and gives you entry through the Vina Robles tasting room (no lines), as well as access to the private winery patio with comfy chairs and fire pits, another menu of food and wine pairing options, and my favorite perk of all, VIP restrooms.
There are a lot of great shows still to come at Vina Robles this season, and the Summer Vibe package deal is a nice way to do it. Hotel S.L.O. has a comfortable, hipster chic vibe, but it’s S.L.O., so hipster means friendly and comfortable, not just cool. Our room had a king-sized bed; our own private balcony, which
Hotel S.L.O.’s Summer Vibe Special runs through the beginning of November, with upcoming shows at Vina Robles Amphitheater including: Los Lonely Boys (Aug. 11), Chris Isaak (Aug. 12), Michael Franti & Spearhead (Aug. 18), Fleet Foxes (Aug. 22), Chicago (Aug. 25), Yachtley Crew (Sept. 2), Common Kings & Steel Pulse (Sept. 13), Los Lobos (Sept. 21), Lupita D’Alessio (Sept. 22), The Avett Brothers (Sept. 23), Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening (Sept. 24), Shakey Graves (Oct. 5), Rumors of Fleetwood Mac (Oct. 6), Alice and Chains (Oct. 7), Banda MS (Oct. 8), The Used (Oct. 11), Psychedelic Furs & Squeeze (Oct. 12), Oingo Boingo Former Members (Oct. 21), Alice Cooper (Oct. 23), and Devo (Nov. 3).
In addition to all of those great concerts, the hotel is within an easy walk of attractions like Bubblegum Alley, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, and Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, as well as loads of shops and restaurants.
For more information and to book the Summer Vibe Special, call (805) 235-0700 x3 or visit hotel-slo.com.
This Summer’s Musical Journey up the Coast Includes Dates with Chicago, Chris Isaak, The Avett Brothers, and Los Lobos, Among Others
Wine tasting is one of Santa Barbara County’s most cherished activities, and for good reason. With more than 275 wineries in the region, and a plethora of world-class wine to be had, it’s no wonder why locals and tourists alike make time to taste wine, and do so often.
But what happens when you plan to enjoy a day of wine tasting and your babysitter flakes, or you have a new baby but don’t want to give up your pre-baby lifestyle? Luckily, there are plenty of wineries and tasting rooms you can venture to with the kiddos, and many that even let your fur babies join, too. So gather the baby wipes and coloring books, because we’re sharing some of the area’s most family-friendly wineries.
by Hana-Lee Sedgwick
Before we jump in, though, let’s pause for a moment to address those of you who may be doubting the concept of wine tasting as a family activity. If that’s you, we get it, but let us just say this: It’s not just about the wine. Sure, you want to take note of how the wine looks, smells, and, of course, how it tastes, but wine tasting is a true sensory journey, so everything from the setting and ambiance to the conversations you have and the people you bond with can play equally significant roles.
“Visiting a winery can be so much more than tasting wine,” affirms Chad Melville, owner and winemaker of Melville Winery. “At Melville, we invite guests of all ages to take in the beauty of our vineyards, learn about farming, touch the soil, and create memories.”
Echoing this sense of connection to the land is Santa Barbara resident Geneva Ives, who brings her child along not only for convenience reasons. “We want our son to understand the local agriculture and all the work that goes into producing wine,” she explains. “If he chooses to enjoy wine when he gets older, we want him to know it shouldn’t be something mass-produced that you buy without thinking. Wine is the people and the region.”
Indeed, wine tasting transcends the act of savoring what’s in your glass it’s about fostering a connection to the land and community, and creating shared experiences both with the people who make the wine and with those who savor it together.
Says Santa Barbara mom of two, Ashley Hollister: “We love to bring our children to family-friendly wineries because it’s such a lovely experience to relax with a glass of wine while the children can frolic around, making friends with the other children from neighboring
tables, sharing cherished moments of play and connection at the same time as their parents.”
Keith Saarloos, a third-generation member of Saarloos + Sons, believes “wine is a communal experience.” He adds that, to his family, “Kids are part of our community.”
This family-oriented approach resonates with Andrew Murray, owner and winemaker of Andrew Murray Vineyards, who says, “We are a family business and we raised our own children in and around our winery.” Recognizing the importance of family-friendly environments, Murray emphasizes their commitment to catering to families traveling together by ensuring their winery is a welcoming place for both adults and children alike.
It’s evident that many wineries in Santa Barbara offer more than just fine wines they provide experiences for parents who, like myself, delight in merging their passion for wine with their children’s company. So, when you’re ready to craft your own wine-tasting memories with your family, regardless of age, here are a few inviting places to consider:
With a name like Saarloos + Sons, you can imagine that cultivating a spot where families feel welcomed is a priority for the Saarloos clan. At their Los Olivos tasting room, you’ll find a cupcake station for kids, as well as some old pedal tractors in the backyard perfect for burning off that sugar rush. Not surprisingly, dogs are welcome, too. (saarloosandsons.com)
Besides Melville’s range of acclaimed wines, the winery offers a selection of non-alcoholic beverages and snacks for guests of all ages to enjoy think lemonade, cheese and charcuterie, and even ice cream sandwiches from Rori’s Artisanal Creamery. Stop in for a tasting, play a game of cornhole or life-size Connect 4, then let the kids dive into their winerythemed activity books, complete with a scavenger hunt. Parents of pups will also appreciate the bottle-shaped dog toys available for purchase. (melvillewinery.com)
This Buellton winery, restaurant, and farm is a destination the whole family (even the four-legged kind) will like. Here, Mom and Dad can sip on Italian and French varietal wines and picnic while the kids feed farm animals and play lawn games. Be on the lookout for the opening of the Vega General Store, which will have grab ’n’ go picnic lunches, snacks, toys, games, and more, along with on-property tractor rides being offered in the near future. (vegavineyardandfarm.com)
Though adults are the only ones who can appreciate the wines of this beautiful Santa Maria Valley winery, the whole family will surely relish its relaxed setting and views. The best part? You don’t have to be 21 to dig into the Mezze Picnic, a delectable spread of seasonal fare highlighting ingredients grown in Presqu’ile’s own organic garden. (presquilewine.com)
The indoor-outdoor setting of this relaxed family-owned and -operated tasting room sets the perfect stage for sipping chilled reds and refreshing sauvignon blancs. Luckily, you don’t have to leave the family behind to enjoy it all, as Storm Wines is both kid- and dog-friendly. In fact, it’s not uncommon to see the Storms’ own children on-site.
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At this picturesque Foxen Canyon winery, you’ll find a large lawn ideal for families who want to spread out a bit, as well as activity packs designed specifically for the little ones. Inside these welcome kits are crayons, toys, and even a letter from the Murrays’ own daughter. Furry friends are welcome, too. (andrewmurrayvineyards.com)
Wine is a family affair at this multigenerational familyowned winery, so it’s only natural that families would be welcomed. While Fess Parker doesn’t allow anyone under
21 for the wine experiences, the expansive, picnic-friendly lawn is a great spot to let the kids run around and play. Don’t worry, you can order wine to savor on the lawn. (fessparker.com)
Kids of all ages are always welcome at this cheerful Los Olivos tasting room. Parents will appreciate Future Perfect’s easy-drinking wines and inviting setting, while the kiddos will get a kick out of the whimsical space complete with disco ball on the porch not to mention the glitter stickers, crayons, and custom rainbow and robot pages they’ll get to color during a visit. (futureperfectwine .com)
At Potek, located at The Mill, Mom and Dad can sample a wide range of delightful wines in between bites of smashburger. And for the kids? Fries and milkshakes, of course. With a large, casual patio; regular live music; and a brewery on-site, too, The Mill has become a destination the whole family can enjoy. (municipalwinemakers.com/ pages/potek)
Of course, this is just a small sampling of the familyfriendly wineries Santa Barbara County has to offer. There are plenty more throughout the region such as Kunin, Roblar, Zaca Mesa, and Longoria, to name a few that are ready and willing to help you create lasting memories you and your kiddos can cherish forever.
In yet another sign of the upward trajectory of Santa Barbara’s food scene, the upper State Street building that once held Taco Bell is now home to Taqueria La Unica, the latest restaurant from the Los Agaves Restaurant Group. Speaking of signs, the one for Taqueria La Unica says “Est. 2021,” the birthplace of the concept, say the owners, but the actual venue at 3771 State Street has only been open a few months. Launched this spring as an outpost for traditional Mexican street tacos and other taqueria favorites, the restaurant took a while to find its footing. Starting with the fact that the neighbors in nearby San Roque and Hope Ranch were eager for a new fast casual concept, but needed a menu they could understand the first rendition of the rather extensive menu was in Spanish only, which slowed down the line because people had a LOT of questions.
by Leslie Dinaberg | Photos by Ingrid Bostrom
Now happily translated with additional explanations for some of the less-familiar items the menu and kitchen of Taqueria La Unica are quickly becoming a neighborhood mainstay under the guidance of Chef Gerardo Marin, one of three chefs (the others are Richard Garcia and Danny Reyes) who oversee all of the cuisine for the Los Agaves group. That enterprise now includes five locations of the flagship Los Agaves (the original Milpas Street, De la Vina Street, Marketplace Drive in Goleta, Westlake Village, and Oxnard), as well as Flor de Maíz on the waterfront, and Santo Mezcal on lower State Street.
The notion of elevated Mexican food is the primary throughline for all of owners Carlos and Christian Luna’s concepts, and despite the name, the emphasis at Taqueria La Unica is more on meats (al pastor, skirt steak, sirloin steak, chicken, strip loin, tongue/lengua, head/cabeza, picanha steak, short rib, cheek, lip, rib eye, bone marrow, beef birria, suadero, chorizo/longaniza, tripe, and campechana/seafood) than it is on tacos.
These are the flavors of street food you’d find in Mexico City and Guadalajara, shared Chef Marin. He recently walked us through some of the menu highlights, all of which were new to me, despite the fact that I had been to Taqueria La Unica a few times before, which gives you some idea of how extensive the menu is.
For starters, we tried the house-made guacamole with tostadas with a generous portion of chips. Then there was the
Elote De Pueblo, which is their version of the popular corn on the cob with mayo, fresh cheese, sour cream, and pequin pepper. It’s not easy to eat gracefully or to share but this take on authentic Mexican street corn is definitely tasty. This was followed by pinto beans with cheese, an elevated version of the refried bean dip my mom used to make when I was a kid.
Next up, the Taco Al Pastor, garnished with pineapple, onion, and cilantro. “Everyone loves and knows al pastor,” says Marin. “Al pastor is king because al pastor is very familiar in all parts of the world.” Wanting to expand our horizons further into what he calls “the real cuisine and flavors of Mexico,” the Mexico City native then had us try the costras with tongue, which has a cheese crust wrapped around the tongue (it tastes like, uh, meat, and was well seasoned if I didn’t know it was la lengua I wouldn’t have given it a second thought) on top of a corn tortilla. It was tasty, but a bit difficult to eat with a plastic fork and knife, which is all they have available.
“Alambres La Unica is our most popular menu item,” says Marin, as he had us try this fabulous (and huge) combination of sirloin steak, picanha steak, chorizo, onion, Anaheim chili, mushrooms, and deliciously melty cheese. No surprise that this was probably my favorite item of the night. The shrimp alambres are my go-to order at Los Agaves, and even though the flavor of the La Unica Alambres also available in variations with skirt steak and bacon (Norteño), and al pastor, chicken, and picanha steak (Que Me Ves) is a bit heavier and heartier, the winning combination of savory meats and melty cheese is tough to beat.
The Skirt Steak Volcánes, served on a corn tostada with refried pinto beans, were good, but definitely needed salsa and luckily there is plenty. Each of the Los Agaves Group’s restaurants has its own extensive variety of salsa.
The Salsa Puya, with puya-dried chile sauce, is my favorite of this bunch. It’s similar to guajillo but has a bit more kick to it. The Tacos Santa Barbara a house specialty, made with grilled Anaheim chili, al pastor, cheese, and avocado on soft corn tortillas were quite good as well. I loved the bright
crunchiness of the radish garnish.
Even with trying small bites of everything, I was stuffed at this point, but Marin brought out the Burrito Del Rey, made with al pastor, Chihuahua cheese, refried pinto beans, rice, pineapple, onion, and cilantro, a clever concoction that stayed intact as I dug in to try a bite (one of my pet peeves is exploding burritos). I took it home for lunch the next day, and it was just as good reheated. We didn’t even get to the tortas, Mexican sandwiches available with a variety of meat options, including al pastor, suadero, head, campechana, birria (braised beef), and milanesa (breaded beef).
I had the quesabirria (beef birria with cheese tacos) on a previous visit and enjoyed it immensely the birria torta is definitely on my list for next time. Marin also encourages the desserts, which include strawberries with homemade whipped cream and cookies and traditional Mexican rice pudding. Mostly though, he just wants people to “come to the taqueria and try the real flavors of Mexico and the best taqueria in town.”
“Where our family is from in Jalisco, some of the very best food can be found right on the streets it’s amazing; there’s nothing else like it!” said owner Carlos Luna when Taqueria La Unica first opened. “We wanted to re-create the experience that transports our guests to the streets of Mexico, where the flavors are bold, the spices are fiery, and the tacos are always fresh.”
I don’t know about the streets of Mexico, but on the uptown streets of S.B., Taqueria La Unica is definitely on its way to popularity: I saw five people I knew in line during my visit!
With a lively open kitchen concept, plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, and a beer and wine license in the works, there’s no reason not to think that Taqueria La Unica is well on its way to becoming as much of a mainstay as the Los Agaves Group’s other restaurants. My only complaint: The plastic silverware doesn’t quite cut it (literally) with this level of cuisine. That one fix and they’ll have a clear winner on their hands.
See taquerialaunica.com.
Several readers have let me know that the Los Angeles Jewish eatery Wexler’s Deli is coming to the Santa Barbara Public Market. “Wexler’s Deli stands for three things: tradition, craftsmanship, and quality,” says their website, wexlersdeli.com. “Born of a desire to serve classic Jewish deli food made by people who care, Wexler’s uses old-school methods to handcraft our pastrami and smoked salmon. After curing in a special blend of salt and spices, our meats and fish are slowly smoked in-house over apple wood and sliced by hand in front of your eyes.” Wexler’s Deli has two locations, both in in Southern California: Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
THE EDDY OPENS: “The Eddy is now open,” says Reader Steve H. “It’s a corner store with a hip international foodie twist located at 137 East De la Guerra Street (formerly the Bead Shop).”
NEW COOKIE SHOP: Reader Steve H. again has some news for you: “Hey John, a cookie shop is coming to 918 State Street, formerly The Good Cup.” The new eatery is called The Cookie Plug.
COURTHOUSE TAVERN CLOSES: Reader Annie tells me that The Courthouse Tavern at 129 East Anapamu Street (formerly The Little Door, Piano Riviera Lounge, The French Table, Elements Restaurant & Bar, Irene Davis Bakery, and Jane Brolin’s Bakery Café) has closed. The eatery opened in June 2021.
MR. B CLOSES: Reader Andre let me know that Mr.B Restaurant & Café in La Cumbre Plaza, which started offering Jordanian cuisine in December 2021, has closed: “Went by Mr.B’s today and it was closed down permanently,” says Andre. “Sign is down, windows are covered.”
PRINCELY PIZZA: People Magazine has a new story about Bettina in Montecito, which apparently is a favorite pizza place for some well-known
local residents. “On any given weeknight, a pizza takeout order from Bettina at the Montecito Country Mart in California could be for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who, like many of the area’s locals, are fans of the restaurant,” says People. “The hotspot, which is the brainchild of husband-and-wife team Brendan Smith and Rachel Greenspan, has become one of the most popular casual restaurants in town.” Visit tinyurl .com/bettina-prince.
GOLETA DAM DINNER: The annual Goleta Dam Dinner, established in 2012, is a free community event featuring live music that will be held this year on August 19, 4-7 p.m., at the Lake Los Carneros dam. Bring your own food and beverage or purchase at the event that includes AR Catering, Dave’s Drip House, Creekside Restaurant & Bar, face painting, and Dam Dinner shirts. This popular event is organized by the City of Goleta and the Goleta Valley Historical Society.
BEER AND WINE NOW SERVED AT CRUSHCAKES IN GOLETA: This just in from Crushcakes at 5392 Hollister Avenue in Goleta: “Hi Restaurant Guy. We have some news here at Crushcakes we would love to share! We are now serving beer and wine at Crushcakes in Goleta! We have a super cute patio in the back that is open all day; come enjoy bubbly mimosas, local beers, hard seltzers, kombuchas, and more with our delicious breakfast and lunches!”
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By contrast, Gifford Myers’s deceptively soft-spoken piece “Holding On/Holding Out” toys with perception of scale, for com mentary’s sake. A tiny, all-American sub urban home is seen dwarfed by looming monolithic black walls, symbols of faceless urban encroachment.
From the younger set of ceramic artists,
For a lighter and more categorically summery Santa Barbara Museum of Art encounter than the subtle, enigmatic survey of James Castle’s dusky spit and soot drawings, proceed to the smaller Emmons Gallery and bask in the colorful, sly-witted fare to be found in the exhibition WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home
Here, elements of pop art’s fusion of high and low culture and carbonated irreverence meet in the realm of contemporary/ modern ceramic art, a medium still deserving more love in the fine-art world.
Highlights in this mix include both emerging artists and such groundbreaking luminaries as Viola Frey, Robert Arneson, and Ojai’s own beloved Beatrice Wood (1893–1998). Wood’s small, genially grotesque autobiographical figurines, like
wedding cake cameos, allude to her husband-by-convenience Steve Hoag and friend and confidant Helen Freeman, as a lopsided, lippy nude.
Arneson’s playful and decidedly pop-artful 1963 piece “Case of Bottles” counterbalances the reality of a single mass-produced soda bottle (7Up, the truth be told) with a motley crew of gruffly fashioned ceramic facsimiles.
Art imitates marketplace reality, crudely, and trumps the commercial commodity subject.
In the large centerpiece of the exhibition, Frey’s wild and whimsical “Homage to Dubuffet” (1977–80), a larger-and-funnier-thanlife coupling of a tall, fauvist-colored woman facing off with a mangled beast of the sort that “Art Brut” master Jean Dubuffet might have created. It’s an art historical in-joke, in which beauty meets beast and eras and
the selection includes two previously not shown on gallery walls, Woody De Othello’s “underneath the surface changes occur that we cannot bear witness to,” and Seth Bogart’s “Cheeks.”
Bringing into the arena of fine art the everyday the “ordinary home” aspect of the exhibition title’s equation is an objective for Stephanie Shih, whose realistic renderings of items, edible and otherwise, from Asian-American grocery stores deal with ethnic and commodity-related themes, while also simply pleasing our sense of texture and design.
In his own different way, Bogart’s purposefully funky representations of elite perfumery vessels makes for a friendly yet subversive reversal scheme at hand, and at play. Speaking of which, play of an enlightened sort, is a general MO in this show, best enjoyed with a fizzy mind/eye.
Josef WoodardWARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home is on view at Santa Barbara Museum of Art through September 17. See sbma.net.
The restoration of the Lompoc Theatre got a nice shot in the arm this week when the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation announced a $150,000 matching-grant commitment to the project, which will restore the city’s nearly 100-year-old venue.
With an aim to reopen the theater to bring movies, concerts, and other live performances back to the venue, Executive Director Mark Herrier and his 13-member board of directors have been working hard since 2012 to raise the $10 million needed to bring the project back to life. It has been dormant since 1991, but the nonprofit group behind the restoration project has a fundraising campaign going and a plan to reopen around the theater’s 100th birthday in 2027. The infusion of a dollar-for-dollar matchup from the Chumash should help considerably.
“This theater was the pride and joy of this town. I get emotional,” said Herrier in a statement about the donation. “People were so proud of it. Slowly but surely, it has come to represent a Lompoc that has fallen on hard times. The hard-working people who live here do much of the heavy lifting that benefits the entire county, but they don’t have
a single entertainment center of their own. This empty theater has been a symbol of the decline now it will become the engine for its renaissance.”
“We are proud to support efforts that foster community enrichment through the arts and have the potential to bring together people from diverse backgrounds,” said Kenneth Kahn, Tribal Chair for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.
The theater project is now in the second of three phases, with a goal of finishing phase two in June 2025 when it reaches a $3 million fundraising milestone, which will allow the group to host a 99-person audience.
“Our first year of fundraising, we made $4,000,” Herrier said.
Antonia Marksevka from Ternopil fled the war with her mother. She presents an Easter egg in the national colors of Ukraine during Easter preparations held for Ukrainian refugee children at the Slawia cultural center on April 12, 2022 in Halle, Germany. Portrait by Rich Wilkie.
“I focus on expressing emotions and movement in a still image. I painted like this for about a year when Russia invaded Ukraine and images of terrified refugees flooded the media,”Wilkie said. “These children had so much pathos in their faces, I had to paint them.”
For Wilkie, having the proceeds of his art go toward helping Ukrainian refugees felt right, but organizing it was another hurdle.
“Helping the Ukrainian refugees seemed like the right thing to do,” he said. “I can sit in my studio all day painting it comes easy for me. Getting out and asking people for money, donations, help, is a challenge. A fundraiser is not in my comfort zone, so it is forcing me to stretch.”
Paintings by San Juan Bautista–based artist Alex Gorelik and sculptures by Santa Barbara–based ceramic artist Burt Horowitz will also be on display. All profits from the sale of the three artists’ work will be donated to local nonprofits, including World Dance for Humanity, Direct Relief, Voice of the Children, Ukrainian Women of Santa Barbara, and First Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church of Santa Barbara.
At the CAW reception, live Ukrainian music and dance performances will help honor the persistent spirit of Ukraine, which Wilkie highlights in his work.
“Children are very resilient. They see other children; they start to play and laugh. They return to life,” Wilkie said. “I referred to these children as the ‘Eyes of Hope.’ They are the hope for Ukraine’s future.”
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“Where we are now with this grant from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians is game-changing.”
Leslie Dinaberg
To learn more about this project and make a donation, email info@ lompoctheatre.org or visit lompoctheatre.org.
More information about the event and ways to support Wilkie’s work can be found on his website, richwilkie.com. To visit the exhibit, see sbcaw.org.
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In Stephen King’s novel It, a character named Beverly is in love with a man who projects a sense of authority but also listens well. He is strong-minded but receptive; confident but willing to be changed; selfpossessed but open to influence. That’s an apt description of the allies I wish for you to attract into your life in the coming months. Whether they are lovers or partners, companions or collaborators, friends or colleagues, you need and deserve the high-quality, emotionally intelligent exchanges they offer.
(Apr. 20-May 20): Seventy-year-old Taurus-born Eric Bogosian is a prolific playwright and author renowned for his hard-edged satire. The title of one of his books is Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead. But one critic speculates he may be softening as he ages, noting that he “seems more amused than disgusted by the decaying world around him, as if his anger has been tempered by a touch of hope.” The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to cultivate a comparable reshaping, dear Taurus. Can you tenderize what has been tough? Is it possible to find redemption or entertainment in situations that have been challenging? Are you willing to add more levity and geniality to your perspective?
(May 21-June 20): Decca is a U.K.-based record label that has produced the work of many major musicians, including Billie Holiday, the Rolling Stones, and Tori Amos. They made a huge mistake in 1962, though. A fledgling group named the Beatles tried to get signed to Decca. An executive at the company declined, saying, “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” Oops. The Beatles eventually became the best-selling and most influential band of all time. I don’t think you’re at risk of making as monumental a misstep, Gemini. But please be alert to the possibility of a key opportunity coming into view. Don’t underestimate it, even if it’s different from what you imagine you want.
(June 21-July 22): I’m a Cancerian who used to be overly reactive to people’s carelessness. If someone was in a bad mood and flung a rash insult at me, I might take offense too easily. If a friend misunderstood me, even with no malice intended, I may have sulked. Thankfully, over time, I have learned to be more like a honey badger, whose thick skin protects it well against stings and pricks. I bring this up because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice my approach. First step: Understand how people sometimes direct their frustration about life toward undeserving recipients. Second step: Vow to take things less personally. Third step: Give yourself regular compliments. Actually say them aloud.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): Now and then, there comes a time when I acquire an uncanny knack for seeing the totality of who you really are. I tune in to everything you do that few others know about or appreciate. I behold the big picture of your best possible future. One of those magic moments has now arrived. And it’s no accident that your energy matches mine. In other words, my power to consecrate you reflects your ability to bless yourself. So give yourself the ultimate gift, please.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the 17th century, Virgo musician Johann Pachelbel composed a piece of music he called the Canon in D. It soon went out of style and disappeared into obscurity. But more than 250 years later, a French chamber orchestra rediscovered it, and by the 1980s, it was everywhere. Ever since, Pachelbel’s Canon has been used in many pop songs and is a common anthem at weddings and funerals. I’m predicting a comparable revival for you, Virgo. An influence, creation, or person that has been gone for a while will reemerge as a presence in your life. Be decisive in adopting it for your benefit.
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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Iain S. Thomas tells us, “There is magic even in gridlock, in loneliness, in too much work, in late nights gone on too long, in shopping carts with broken wheels, in boredom, in tax returns.” He says it’s the same magic that prompted Joan of Arc to believe that God spoke to her and empowered her to lead an army. I wouldn’t agree that it’s the same magic. But I do advise us all to be alert for enchantment and interesting mysteries even in the most mundane affairs. I am a champion of the quest for holiness, delight, and marvels in seemingly unlikely locations. In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have a special talent for finding these revelatory joys.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Rainer Maria Rilke said, “Self-transformation is precisely what life is.” If that’s true, you are in luck. Of all the zodiac signs, you are the most skillful self-transformer. Moreover, you are entering a prolonged phase when your instinct and talent for self-transformation will be even more potent than usual. I plan to observe you closely in the hope of learning your tricks for changing into an ever-better version of yourself. Show us all how it’s done, dear Scorpio!
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Born under the sign of Sagittarius, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was one of history’s most influential composers of classical music. His elegant, lyrical works are still widely played today. He was also a revolutionary innovator who expanded the scope of many musical genres. One composition, Piano Sonata No. 32, prefigures elements of ragtime, jazz, and boogiewoogie 70 years before those styles emerged. In this spirit, I invite you to plant a seed for the future. You will soon get glimpses of creative shifts that will someday be possible. And you will have an enhanced ability to instigate the inventive momentum that generates those shifts.
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s be honest. Most of us maybe all of us! fail to grasp the world objectively. Our perceptions get filtered through our opinions and beliefs and habit minds. The events we think we see are shaped by our expectations about them. Our projections often overrule the possibility of unbiased impartiality. We are serial misinterpreters. But there’s no need to be ashamed! It’s a universal human tendency. Having said all that, however, I believe you will have a special knack, in the coming weeks, for observing reality with more clarity and openmindedness than usual. You will have an unprecedented opportunity to see accurately and gather fresh, raw truths.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is this a phase of your cycle when you’ll be prone to saying things like “Why do you take me for granted?” and “I’m feeling cranky” and “It’s not what you said; it’s the way you said it”? Or are you in a time when the following expressions are more likely to emerge from your mouth: “I have come to understand you in a totally new and interesting way” and “Life has blessed me by removing one of my unnecessary obstacles” and “I would love to learn more about the arts of cooperation and collaboration”? Here’s what I think, Aquarius: Which way you go will depend on how clearly you set your intentions. Life will respond in kind to the moods you cultivate and the specific requests you make.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Our bodies are imperfect. They are often less than 100 percent completely healthy. They don’t always do what we wish they would. Yet even when we feel less than our best, our body continually carries out millions of biochemical marvels, mostly below the level of our conscious awareness. As the creation of an evolutionary process that has unfolded for eons, our precious organism is an amazing work of art that we have every right to regard as miraculous. According to my astrological reckoning, the coming weeks are the best time this year to honor and celebrate your body. What does it need to flourish? Ask your intuition to show you.
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Notes: Student Health requires all clinical staff to successfully pass the fingerprint background check and credentialing process before the start date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Shift: Days/ Evenings/Swing Shift/ Weekends.
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Hours: 10‑hour shifts, generally 2:00 pm‑12:00am. Must be able to work a variable schedule and work on‑call. Must be willing to become certified for 5150/involuntary hospitalization. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted
Pay Rate/Range: CSW 2: $39.70 ‑ $42.11/hour / CSW 3: $40.73 ‑ $42.40/hour. Full Title Code Pay
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Hourly Range: $27.16/hr. ‑ $30.65/ 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 8/17/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 57160
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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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 for this position 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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 56729
Plays a key role in ensuring effective and efficient financial and business functions for Student Health. Incumbent performs responsible and complex professional financial analysis and processing. Provides policy information to staff and handles multiple complex and confidential projects that require strong analytical and organizational skills, and accurate interpretation of policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training.Proficiency with Google Suite and Microsoft Office software, such as Word, Excel, etc. Ability to communicate effectively and work with a diverse clientele and work group. Ability to work effectively in a service‑oriented environment subject to frequently changing priorities. Notes: Mandated reporter for requirements of child and adult dependent abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $29.03/hr ‑ $30.99/ 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 #56496
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
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or maintenance work experience in an institution and/or commercial setting. Example: College residence hall, hotel, resort, or school. Some computer experience, including Microsoft office programs. Ability to motivate staff and maintain positive morale. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a diverse work force. Ability to communicate and work effectively with staff and others such as employees from other departments, students, parents, project managers, conference organizers, etc. Organizational experience. 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. Full Salary Range: $21.97 ‑ $30.79/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 # 55930
Serves as working lead for team of Sr. Custodians, Sr. Building Maintenance Worker, student employees and seasonal workers, working various assignments. Responsible for work assignment and quality, safety, employee training, building security, oversight of special projects and maintenance tasks, emergency response and customer service. Orders and distributes supplies, and
equipment maintenance for building. Under the general supervision of the Custodial Supervisor or Residence Hall Manager, performs duties in accordance with established standards and instruction, for University owned Residence Halls, Apartments and Dining Facilities. May be required to perform other duties as assigned to meet the operational needs of the department.
Reqs: Minimum 3 years of custodial or maintenance work experience in an institution and/or commercial setting. Example: College Residence Hall, hotel, resort, or school. Some computer experience, including Microsoft Office programs. Ability to motivate staff and maintain positive morale. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Experience in a customer service environment. Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse work force. Ability to communicate and work effectively with staff and others such as, employees from other departments, students, parents, project managers, conference organizers, etc.
Organizational experience. 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: $21.97 ‑ $30.79/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 8/17/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 57073
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Licenses/Certifications: Certification with one of the following agencies: American Association of Medical Assistants (AMA), American Medical Technologists (AMT), California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants (CCBMA), Local Emergency Medical Services Agency (LEMSA), Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA), Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Note: Applicants without a proper certification will not be considered. Notes: Student Health requires all clinical staff to successfully pass the background check and complete the credentialing process before the employment date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Scheduling will be reviewed annually and set for the upcoming fiscal year. Weekly schedule may include Thursday
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Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $24.69/ hour ‑ $29.50/hour. Full Title Code
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Job # 57062
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Salary Range: $27.29/hr. ‑$32.04/ hr. Full Salary Range: $27.29/ hr. ‑$39.12/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 8/18/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #57180
COMPUTER SCIENCE
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UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
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Job # 55963
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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
IFB 2023-01: Coastal Hazards Removal Projects
Event ID: 28173
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.
FBN ABANDONMENT
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 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERENITY CARE SUITES, SERENITY CARE, SERENITY HEALTH at 930 Miramonte Drive, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Visiting Nurse And Hospice Care Of Santa
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)
Barbara 509 E. Montecito Street, Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93103
This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: KAREN WALLACE, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 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: 2023‑0001776. E30. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: OLD TOWN COFFEE & ROASTERS at 5877 Hollister Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Otc Coffee Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: RACHEL J WARD, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 1, 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: 2023‑0001392. E4. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOONLIT CONSULTING at 5070 Rocoso Way
Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Teresa L Allison (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual.
SIGNED BY: TERESA ALLISON Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001692. E30. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: JOYOUS TRANQUILITY, LLC at 5524 Tellina Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Joyous Tranquility, LLC. (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company.
SIGNED BY: DEENA ZIELGER, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 30, 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: 2023‑0001646. E30. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2023‑0001599
The following person(s) is doing business as: Sudsie 7363 Shepard Mesa
Road, Carpinteria CA 93013, County of Santa Barbara.
SoCal Brands LLC 7363 Shepard Mesa Road, Carpinteria CA 93013
This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.
State of Inc./Org./Reg. CA
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A
/s/ Julie Dubuque, Managing Member
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/26/2023. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/20, 7/27, 8/3, 8/10/23 CNS‑3718678#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
OLUMINATE YOGA at 820 E Canon Perdido St. Apt 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Olivia S Bray (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY:
OLIVIA BRAY, 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: 2023‑0001713. E49. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: HYGGE BOBA TEA AND SMOOTHIES at 1665 Copenhagen Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Quench CA, LLC 253 Third Ave Apt A Solvang, CA 93463 This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: AMY ZHANG WARTHAN, MANAGER/DIRECTOR Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 29, 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: 2023‑0001632. E30. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CURATED HOME at 5337 Traci Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Emily Rose Elledge‑Hoffman (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: EMILY ELLEDGE‑HOFFMAN, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 3, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland,
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Historic Preservation Commission Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom
August 21, 2023, at 5:30 P.M.
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) will conduct a public hearing to review the project described in this notice in order to make a recommendation to the Design Review Board (DRB). The date, time, and location of the HPC public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
HEARING DATE/TIME: August 21, 2023, at 5:30 P.M.
LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)
Project Location: 5490 Hollister Avenue (APN: 071-330-014)
Project Name: The Steward Signage and Lighting Case No.: 22-0076-ZC and 22-0036-DRB
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (under HPC Purview):
This is a request for a recommendation to the Design Review Board (DRB) from the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) regarding the installation of a non-illuminated wall sign, a new freestanding monument sign by the driveway entrance, refacing of an existing pole sign, and one new light post near Hollister Avenue. The existing pole sign, proposed freestanding monument sign and new light post are located within the National Register’s historic boundary associated with the Sexton house. No changes or signs are proposed for the Sexton House. The HPC’s focus is on the proposed sign changes and new light post within the Sexton House historic boundary. The project was filed by Amanda Mauceri for Mustang RE Holdings LLC, property owner.
Next Steps:
In addition to the HPC, the project will be reviewed by the DRB who will be asked to make a decision for approval or denial of the project. Depending on the outcome of the HPC review, the DRB may be conducting their review on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, at 3:00 pm for which separate notice will be provided. If the HPC continues its review on the matter, then the DRB hearing will not occur on August 22, 2023. If approved by the DRB, a ministerial Zoning Clearance will be issued after the 10-day appeal period.
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the HPC meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing HPC Secretary Darryl Mimick at DMimick@cityofgoleta.org Written comments will be distributed to HPC and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Travis Lee, Associate Planner, at (805) 562-5528 or tlee@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted at least 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org
In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published as part of the agenda materials. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter when the Planning Counter is open to the public or by contacting the staff member listed for the item at 805-961-7543. In addition, the plans will be available at the meeting.
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent August 10, 2023
County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number:
2023‑0001657. E58. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB CONSTRUCTION, SANTA BARBARA DECKING, SANTA
BARBARA OUTDOOR LIVING at 910 St. Vincent Avenue, Unit 4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; ACSB Enterprises, Inc. (same address)
This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: MICHAEL
SHANE DOWNS, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 12, 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: 2023‑0001727. E47. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: MEL
ENTERPRISES at 217 W Pedregosa St, B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Megan E Lunger (same address)
This business is conducted by An
Individual. SIGNED BY: MEGAN
LUNGER/OWNER County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 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: 2023‑0001770. E40.
Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNLIMITED
HEALTH AND WELLNESS at 1414
South Miller Street Suite C, Santa Maria, CA 93454; Unlimited Health & Wellness LLC 2830 De La Vina Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: ALBERT BALTIERI, MANAGING PARTNER 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: 2023‑0001738. E47. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001597
The following person(s) is doing business as: Seek Health, 1110 Eugenia Pl, Suite 200, Carpinteria, CA 93013, County of Santa Barbara. Cervini Chiropractic Corporation, 1301 Dove St. #1050, Newport Beach CA 92660; CA
This business is conducted by A Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not applicable /s/ Mckenzie Cervini, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/26/2023. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 7/20, 7/27, 8/3, 8/10/23
CNS‑3718638# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person
(s) is/are doing business as: A&L
TOYS at 544 Lado Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Samuel A. Evans (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED
BY: SAMUEL A. EVANS, OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 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: 2023‑0001707. E30.
Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASPIRE ED CONSULTING at 6620 Calle Koral Goleta, CA 93117; Ashley Johnson (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED
BY: ASHLEY JOHNSON 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: 2023‑0001718. E30. Published: July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADVENTURE COMPANY OF SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA ADVENTURE COMPANY, SANTA BARBARA ADVENTURE TOURS, SANTA BARBARA WINE COUNTRY TOURS, COASTAL TEAM BUILDING at 32 E. Haley Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Adventure Company, INC. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY:
KIMBERLY VAWTER/GENERAL
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
Submit Your Application by August 31, 2023
Looking for a way to give back to Goleta in 2023? The City has one vacancy on the Santa Barbara County Library Advisory Committee (Goleta Nominee). It’s a great way to use your talent and time to make a difference and help shape the future of Goleta.
The Santa Barbara County Library Advisory Committee (Goleta Nominee) reviews services and operations, makes advisory recommendations to the Board of Supervisors as follows: ensures adequate library services to all the inhabitants of the County of Santa Barbara; reviews annually the operation of the library system and Agreement; submits advisory recommendations to ensure adequate service to branch libraries; assures adequate exchange of information among libraries; determines the level of service necessary to ensure adequate library services for all the residents of the County; considers site locations and building programs; receives notices of reductions to the level of library services and receive citizen input regarding library-related issues and make recommendations thereon. There is one (1) vacancy. Committee Members shall serve a 1-year term. Eligible applicants must live in the City of Goleta. The Committee holds quarterly meetings and may hold additional meetings as needed.
Applications for all open Board and Commission vacancies may be submitted online at www.cityofgoleta.org/your-city/city-clerk/boards-commissions
For additional information, please email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org
Applications are due by August 31, 2023, at 5:00 p.m.
Thank you for considering this important role in your community.
MANAGER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001528. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: WEST COAST RX PHARMACY SANTA BARBARA at 5726 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117; Santa Barbara Pharm, INC. 2960 Sailor Avenue Ventura, CA 93001 This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: ALVARO SANCHEZ/ CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 3, 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: 2023‑0001660. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE OTHER SIDE CONTEMPORARY, LOS OLIVOS OUTFITTERS at 2353 Hollister Street, Suite E & D Los Olivos, CA 93441; In The Shop, LLC 1214 Cuesta Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460 This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company.
SIGNED BY: CLAIRE HARTLEY/ MANAGING PARTNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 29, 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: 2023‑0001629. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
(s) is/are doing business as: SB COUNSELING & WELLNESS at 735 State Street, Suite 527 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SB Counseling & Wellness (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: JILL
FRANDSEN/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 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: 2023‑0001619. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTEITO MILLWORKS at 623 Chiquita Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Bradley R Phillips Construction Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY:
BRADLEY R PHILLIPS/PRESIDENT
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL).
FBN Number: 2023‑0001521. E49.
Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: PIZZA MIZZA, PIZZA MIZZA PARLOR AND ARCADE, PIZZA MIZZA CATERING, PIZZA MIZZA DELIVERY, PIZZA MIZZA DISTILLERY at 1114 State Street Suite 20 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Delivery SB LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company.
FBN Number: 2023‑0001873. E30. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIGHWAY
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent Thursday, August 10, 2023
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: ATAVIST CANID LLC at 30 Winchester Cyn Rd. #76 Goleta, CA 93117; Atavist Canid LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY:
DENVER DALE/SINGLE MEMBER
OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 06, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001686. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: VISTA POOLS at 461 Cool Brook Ln Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Jason W Timmons (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JASON
TIMMONS/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: 2023‑0001719. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2023‑0001634
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Dan Chaison Consulting, 1220 Gillespie St# B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara.
Daniel Michael Chalson, 1220 Gillespie St #B, 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 N/A
/s/ Daniel Michael Chaison, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 06/29/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
7/27, 8/3, 8/10, 8/17/23
CNS‑3720924# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person
SIGNED BY: KOURTNEY SEARLS/ OWNER MANAGER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 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: 2023‑0001794. E49. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: COSMIC KOKO at 5142 Hollister Avenue, #589 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Novia Prepetit‑Tucker (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: NOVIA PREPETIT‑TUCKER 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: 2023‑0001751. E30. Published: July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 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
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).
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 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 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: A TRIORAMA, MOM’S CUTEST 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 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
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
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.
TACOS at 3145 Hwy 246 Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Cesar Miranda 5458 Dariesa St Carpinteria, CA 93013
This business is conducted by An Individual.
SIGNED BY:
CESAR MIRANDA.OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001843. E57.
Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA SURFING WALL OF FAME at 81 Vista Del Mar Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; James D O’Mahoney (same address)
This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JAMES
O’MAHONEY/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 3, 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: 2023‑0001649. E58. Published: Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TC ELECTRIC at 2529 Treasure Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nicholas Tyler 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
File No. FBN 2023‑0001671
The following person(s) is doing business as: Bay Construction SB, 903 Sate St., Ste 206, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara Alexander B. Suy, 903 State St., Ste 206, 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 N/A /s/ Alexander B. Suy, 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‑3721578# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 9ROUND KICKBOXING FITNESS, 9ROUND at 6831 Hollister Ave, Suite I 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 2023‑0001672
The following person(s) is doing business as: Wane Wellness, 1187 Coast Village Rd Suite 1‑720, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, County of Santa Barbara
Jonathan Wane Thompson
listed above on N/A
/s/ Jonathan Wane Thompson II, 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‑3721559#
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.
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
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
& SELBERT, LLC, WARREN & 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: COVE, COVE ECO, COVE BUSINESS
COMMUNITY at 4063 Via Zorro Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Scalable Business Hub Inc. (same address)
This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: ALEXANDRA LOOS/PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 12, 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: 2023‑0001732. E30.
Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001774
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Diselo Media Internet Marketing, 4710 8th St #A, Carpinteria CA 93013, County of Santa Barbara. Pedro Orozco, 4710 8th St #A, Carpinteria CA 93013
This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/06/2023
/s/ Pedro Orozco, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Santa Barbara.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/10, 8/17, 8/24, 8/31/23
CNS‑3725057# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: WALL TEXTS at 312 Rancheria Street, Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Mission Collective LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company.
SIGNED BY: AARYN ANDERSON/ MANAGER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 17, 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: 2023‑0001778. E30. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE LITTLE WAX ROOM at 3455 State Street Suite 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nayelli Villafana 215 Bath St A5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: NAYELLI
VILLAFANA 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: 2023‑0001682. E30. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANYON COLLECTIVE STUDIO at 820 Cheltenham Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Gale Design Studio LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: JILLIAN GOULD/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 1, 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: 2023‑0001884. E47. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANDELA’S BAKERY at 812 E. Figueroa St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Mauro B Lanza Perez (same address) Candelaria K Azenas (same address) This business is conducted by An Married Couple. SIGNED BY:
MAURO LANZA/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001842. E49. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CRESCENT MOON MASSAGE THERAPY at 1907 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Andrea L Minshull 507 Del La Vista Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY:
ANDREA LEE MINSHULL 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:
2023‑0001872. E58. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER
petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER 11, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WARREN
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: YOUR GARDEN’S FRIEND at 810 San Roque Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bryn T Barker (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: BRYN BARKER/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 03, 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: 2023‑0001653. E47. Published: Aug 10, 17, 24, 31 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
NAME CHANGE
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MICHELLE JAZMIN DIAZ
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02659
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: MICHELLE JAZMIN DIAZ
TO: MICHELLE JAZMIN ZURITA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not
The California State Lands Commission and its consultant, 2HOffshore (Previously InterAct), will reseal the legacy wells known as Treadwell 1 & Treadwell 5.
Work will begin on: August 13, 2023 & conclude on August 26, 2023
Treadwell 1 and Treadwell 5 are over 100 years old and are a source of minor, ongoing oil seepage. The Commission is working to stop the seepage and to seal the wells completely. The project is expected to take 14 days to complete. For public safety reasons, the Lookout Park parking lot will be temporarily closed to the public as work is performed.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!
If you have questions, please contact: Sheri Pemberton, Chief of External Affairs for the California State Lands Commission Sheri.Pemberton@slc.ca.gov (916) 477-0691
Walter Scott Petroleum Engineer
NOTICE OF HEARING AUGUST 21, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE
1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED JUNE 27, 2023,COLLEEN K. STERNE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ASHLYN MARIE CORNES
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02784
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: ASHLYN MARIE CORNES
TO: ASHLYN MARIE DEAKINS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection
6, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE
1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED JULY 13, 2023,THOMAS
P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published July 20, 27. Aug 3, 10 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MARK
DAMIAN BIOLLEY
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02748
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: MARK DAMIAN BIOLLEY
TO: MARC DAMIAN BIOLLEY
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the
1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED JULY 13, 2023,COLLEEN K. STERNE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published July 27. Aug 3, 10, 17 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CHRISTOPHER BLAKE and SANDY DELBIANCO
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02838
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s)
FROM: AZIEL ASHER DELBIANCO
TO: AZIEL ASHER DELBIANCO BLAKE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Design Review Board
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom
Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, August 22, 2023, at 3:00 P.M.
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https:// www.cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing for the projects listed, with the date, time, and location of the DRB public hearing set forth above. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
Conceptual
New Single Family Dwelling using 3D printing technology
550 Cambridge Drive (APN 069-560-030)
Case No. 23-0020-DRB
Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review
The Steward Signage and Lighting, and California Environmental Quality Act
Notice of Exemption
5490 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-330-014)
Case Nos. 22-0076-ZC/22-0036-DRB
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the DRB meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to DRB members and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, at (805) 961-7567 or mchang@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org
In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published on the City’s website. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter during counter hours or by contacting the staff member listed for the item 805961-7543.
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent 8/10/23
court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.
AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.
CASE NO: (Numero del Caso
23CV02885
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT (ANACAPA DIVISION), 1100 Anacapa Street St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Wiley G. Uretz, Reetz, Fox & Bartlett LLP, 116 East Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑0523 DATE 07/06/2023 Deputy Clerk; Sarah Sisto (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Published. Aug 3, 10, 17, 24 2023.
NOTICE
APN: 043‑152‑013 TS No:
CA05000002‑23‑1 TO No:
230001465‑CA‑VOl NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE (The above statement Is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d) (1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor(s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 29233(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN
DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST
DATED October 1, 2018. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER, On August 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM, At the Main Entrance to the County Courthouse, Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on October 2, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018‑0042164,
of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, executed by HECTOR ALESSANDRO CABRERO, A SINGLE MAN AND CLAUDIA MCLAUGHLIN, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, as nominee for ON Q FINANCIAL, INC. as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS. MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST
The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1809 SAN ANDRES ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $565,898.41 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances‑will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of The Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse.
Notice to Potential Bidders If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a Trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a Trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources; you should be aware that the same Lender may hold more than one mortgage or Deed of Trust on the property. Notice to Property Owner The sale date shown on this Notice of Sale may be postponed one or more times by the Mortgagee, Beneficiary, Trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section
2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about Trustee Sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call Auction.com at 800.280.2832 for Information regarding the Trustee’s Sale or visit the’ Internet VVebsite address www.Auction. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to thiS case, CA05000002‑23‑1. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Notice to Tenant NOTICE TO TENANT FOR FORECLOSURES AFTER JANUARY
remaining principal sum of the note (s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may be greater on the day of sale.
you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.
First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call FOR SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (855) 986‑9342, or visit this internet website www.superiordefault.com, using the file number assigned to this case2023‑1288 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee.
or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust, to‑wit: $205,750.72
1, 2021
You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California CivilCode, If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 800.280.2832, or visit this internet website www.Auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case CA05000002‑23‑1 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustees sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: July 19,
2023 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA05000002‑23‑1
17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949‑252‑8300
TDD: 711 949,252.8300 By: Loan
Quema, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.Auction.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION
PLEASE CALL: Auction.com at 800.280.2832 Order Number 93649, Pub Dates: 7/27/2023, 8/3/2023, 8/10/2023, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
A.P.N.: 041‑411‑013 Trustee
Sale No.: 2023‑1288 Order No:2281754CAD NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 9/1/2021. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Will sell at a public auction sale to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the
Trustor: MICHAEL SILVA, TRUSTEE OF THE MICHAEL SILVA REVOCABLE TRUST DATED NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Duly Appointed Trustee: S.B.S. TRUST DEED NETWORK, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION Deed of Trust recorded 9/16/2021 as Instrument No. 2021‑0065845 in book XX, page XX of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, Date of Sale: 8/30/2023 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: AT THE NORTH DOOR OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA ST, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93101 Amount of unpaid balance and other reasonable estimated charges: $916,719.15 Street Address or other common designation of purported real property: 2447 CALLE LINARES SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109 A.P.N.: 041‑411‑013
The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the trustee within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale.
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgage, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call FOR SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (855) 986‑9342 or visit this internet website www.superiordefault.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2023‑1288. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not. immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE
TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction if conducted after January 1, 2021, pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code.
If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,”
Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale.
Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Date: 7/27/2023 WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
S.B.S TRUST DEED NETWORK, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION 31194 La Baya Drive, Suite 106, Westlake Village, California, 91362. By: Colleen Irby, Trustee Sale Officer 818‑991‑4600 (TS# 2023‑1288 SDI‑27404) Published Aug 3,10,17 2023.
APN: 053‑193‑016 TS No.: 22‑ 02750CA TSG Order No.: 8760688 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED MAY 23, 2008. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Affinia Default Services, LLC, as the duly appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust Recorded July 29, 2008 as Document No.: 2008‑0044727 of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, executed by: JANIS MCCUNE: MERLIN L MCCUNE, TRUSTEE OF THE MERLIN LEWIS MCCUNE, JANIS MCCUNE LIVING TRUST DATED LOUIS 05/30/07, as Trustor, will be sold AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER for cash (payable in full at time of sale by cash, a cashier's check drawn by a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state). All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said deed of trust in the property situated in said county and state, and as more fully described in the above referenced deed of trust. Sale Date: August 23, 2023 Sale Time: 1:00 PM Sale
Location: At the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 File No:22‑ 02750CA;9508‑1994 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 3038 CALLE ROSALES, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made in an “AS IS” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed
(Estimated) as of . Accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. It is possible that at the time of sale the opening bid may be less than the total indebtedness due. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.
You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call, (916) 939‑0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this internet website, www.nationwideposting.com, for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, T.S.# 22‑02750CA. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction.
If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (916) 939‑0772, or visit this internet website www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 22‑02750CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must
send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. File No:22‑ 02750CA;9508‑1994 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. For Trustee Sale Information Log On To: www.nationwideposting.com or Call: (916) 939‑0772.
Dated: July 20, 2023 By: Kellee Vollendorff Foreclosure Associate Affinia Default Services, LLC 301 E. Ocean Blvd., Suite 1720 Long Beach, CA 90802 (833) 290‑7452 NPP0438189 To: SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 08/03/2023, 08/10/2023, 08/17/2023