John Zant: A Sports Writer’s Life
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What is something new in town that has got your interest recently? Planned Parenthood’s annual book sale is September 14-24, which is always a treasure chest of fun, not to mention all of the proceeds go to such a great cause. There is some particularly beautiful and thought-provoking work on view at Sullivan Goss right now by Nicole Strasburg and Holli Harmon, both exhibitions running through September 25.
What are highlights of the UCSB Arts & Lectures season? I was so excited to interview Tiler Peck for this issue. She’s an amazing ballerina (principal with the New York City Ballet) and the show she’s bringing to town next month has elements of ballet, but also tap, contemporary, and more. It’s going to be fabulous, and she could not have been nicer and more down to earth. I’m also a huge fan of Kristen Chenoweth, who’s going to be doing a cabaret-style revenue for Arts & Lectures in November.
Where are your personal favorite spots in town? Lotusland, for sure! It’s such a magical spot; I never turn down an opportunity to visit. Lotusfest returns this weekend, September 16. I go a lot for work, but the Lobero and the Santa Barbara Bowl are definitely two of my happy places, without a doubt.
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Mike Jordan is in a big fat hurry. Late last week, Santa Barbara’s twoterm councilmember got the first installment of what would become an avalanche of e-mails from a whistleblowing resident at a 52-unit apartment building shoehorned snugly into City College’s “Little I.V.” located in the West Beach neighborhood between the freeway and the waterfront. Mass evictions had just started, it warned. Or, in the parlance of the moment, “renovictions” are coming.
By Monday morning, Jordan a Mesa granddad, longtime homeowner, and selfdescribed “grumpy old white guy” whose district includes the area in question had convened a top-tiered meeting with City Attorney Sarah Knecht, her assistant Denny Wei, Assistant City Administrator René Eyerly, and Community Development Director Eli Isaacson. Jordan wanted to begin knocking on doors at the apartment complex, once known as Casa Pequeña presumably because its units are so cozy they squeak and just renamed “West Beach College Commons” by the new owners, the Koto Group, which took possession of the property September 1. Jordan wanted to start handing out one-page flyers one side in English, the other in Spanish alerting residents what their rights were and what resources were available. More specifically, what protections did the city’s new Just Cause eviction ordinance offer?
What could he say? He wanted to know.
Two days before taking possession of the premises, for which the Koto Group paid $16.8 million Koto property manager James C. Knapp issued the first notice of termination letter. A tenant who had lived there for eight
Flames sprang from the Beach City apartments on Cliff Drive near SBCC late 9/9, leaving 14 students safe but without an apartment to live in. The 14 students, who lived in two apartments that are now ceiling-less, were relocated to a hotel the night of the fire. Two of the apartments closest to the attic are completely uninhabitable due to the smoke and fire damage. Other units below the top floor suffered water damage, and the tenants currently were waiting for the gas line to be turned back on. Fire Marshal Ryan DiGuilio said it looked like the fire was started by an electrical issue in the attic floor.
years was told she had 30 days to get out by October 1. “We are giving this notice to you so that you are not under the belief that your lease has been or will be renewed or that you can continue to lease the premises after the termination date,” Knapp wrote. But he did offer, as required by city code, a “one-session conciliation meeting with the landlord.”
Jordan was convinced the notice failed to comply with many aspects of the city’s Just Cause protection ordinance, which was intended to protect tenants uprooted through no fault of their own. But the attorneys at the meeting not having the lease in hands or knowing how long the tenant had lived there could not provide the unequivocal answer Jordan sought.
On its surface, however, the Knapp letter certainly appears deficient. For example, he only gave the tenant 30 days’ notice, not the 60 days the ordinance requires; nor did it inform the tenant of the two months of relocation assistance the landlord must pay displaced tenants; nor did it state one of the four reasons deemed acceptable by the ordinance for why the termination was taking place.
In an e-mail response, Knapp stated, “For the discontinued leases, we are following all of the rules pertaining to noticing and fees,” adding, “We believe we have followed all the correct procedures.” Knapp stated that four of the leases have not been renewed so
far, adding, “We don’t anticipate non-renewing any other leases this year.” While he did not address how many additional “non-renewals” would be issued next year, he explained that Koto’s insurance carrier is requiring a massive overhaul of the apartment complex’s outdated electric system, installed, he said, in the 1920s. Adding urgency to this work, he said, was the recent fire that displaced 14 students renting space at the Beach City apartment complex, which also focuses on the lucrative student housing market.
However reluctant City Attorney Knecht was to render an instant legal judgement, she stressed she takes any potential violations of the Just Cause law “very seriously.” To that end, she dispatched a legal investigator, Tony Alva, to the apartment complex Tuesday afternoon to knock on doors, interview tenants, and take cell photos of their leases. (Later this week, activists with CAUSE and the Santa Barbara Tenants Union plan to canvass the building.)
If Koto intends to argue the just-cause protections don’t apply because they are “nonrenewing” the leases rather than “terminating” them, Knecht said such a “dodge” would not pass muster.
Underlying Jordan’s fixation on such legal technicalities is the pervasive economic violence inflicted by the seismic shifts now taking place in Santa Barbara’s desperately overheated rental markets. As real estate investment trusts, such as Koto, buy up larger apartment complexes, long-term tenants living in what is described as “work-force” housing find themselves suddenly displaced with no place to go. Instead, the apartments are rented to transient waves of students able to pay top dollar thanks
Over the course of three days, three inmates at the county’s Main Jail had their opioid overdoses reversed with Narcan, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Two men were found unresponsive in the same housing area at different times of the day on 9/7, and another in a receiving-area cell on 9/9. In all three instances, the men were taken to the hospital for treatment after being resuscitated. The three near-death experiences come less than a week after the in-custody death of Goleta resident Luis Enrique Duron Rodriguez, who died in the hospital after being found unresponsive at the Main Jail on 9/3.
A man was found unresponsive in a bathroom at the foot of Stearns Wharf on 9/6 and was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders. The man has been identified as John Venters III, 20, of Sierra Vista, Arizona. The medical emergency call went out around noon from an unknown source. City police officers arrived at the scene, as well as City Fire, Harbor Patrol, and AMR personnel. Rescue breathing and CPR were tried, and Narcan was attempted, all to no avail. The body was taken to the Coroner’s Bureau while next of kin are being notified. Foul play is not suspected.
S.B. Police are searching for the suspect in a bank robbery reported 9/8 at First Bank on upper State Street. Police described the suspect as a 40-something heavyset man wearing a black jacket, tan pants, gloves, and a mask that was made to look like an elderly person. According to police, the masked suspect entered the bank at 3304 State Street and demanded money from a teller, who provided an undisclosed amount of cash from the teller’s drawer before the suspect fled on foot with the money. No weapon was seen on his person. Anyone with information can contact the SBPD Detective Bureau at (805) 897-2347.
by Ryan P. Cruz
This week, Santa Barbara had its 15 minutes of shame when S Money, an Australian-based money exchange service, ranked the city as the “most expensive city to be happy in the U.S.,” claiming that according to a “price of happiness” index based on a 2018 Purdue University study on the relationship between happiness and income it costs about $162,000 a year to be happy in Santa Barbara.
The rankings, which placed Sant Barbara in the dubious top spot above Honolulu, New York City, and San Francisco, went viral and sparked a wave of online criticism, but the report also highlighted a larger problem underlying Santa Barbara’s extremely high cost of living: If it costs that much to be happy in Santa Barbara, how much does it cost just to exist?
According to the recently updated income limits from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, the Area Median Income (AMI) for Santa Barbara County jumped up from $101,000 per year to $107,300 for a four-person household.
Under the new limits, any person earning under $31,050 a year (the average salary for an entry-level position with the City of Santa Barbara is $25,000-$30,000) would be considered “extremely low income.” Those earning up to $51,800 a year, around the starting salary of a schoolteacher would be “very low income,” and anybody making less than $82,650 a year could qualify as a low-income renter.
These changes have squeezed the already dwindling supply of affordable housing in Santa Barbara, forcing longtime low-income renters to compete against those who would be considered middle class in other areas. This is compounded by the fact that the city has had a problem getting private developers to build any more affordable housing than the 10 percent of units mandated for large residential projects.
Making things worse, the city is dragging far behind its previous goals for affordable housing. In the latest 2023 Housing Element which outlines how the city will accommodate 8,001 more units of housing in the upcoming 2023-2031 cycle statistics show that just 1,824 units of housing have been built during the previous cycle, or about 44 percent of the state’s allocation of 4,100 units.
But the statistics show a shocking discrepancy when separated into market-rate and lower-income housing. While 97.5 percent of the market-rate housing goals have been met, with nearly 1,600 units of abovemoderate-income housing built from 2015 to 2022, there has been a severe lack of verylow-, low-, and moderate-income housing built over that same period. Altogether, only 247 units were built for all lower-income brackets combined, just more than 8 percent of the state’s allocation of 2,834 units.
The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara is one local agency fighting for what’s known as “capital A” affordable housing or residential projects created in partnership with state and regional governments to fill the need for all types of affordable housing.
When private developers submit applications with 40 units of housing boasting four “affordable units,” those units can refer to anything available to tenants with “moderate income” or below, including those making anywhere from 80 to 120 percent of the AMI (up to $128,60 per year). But projects done through the Housing Authority are able to leverage city and federal funding to build projects that can promise 100 percent of units to all lower-income brackets, with rents that are limited by state and regional guidelines.
In August, the Housing Authority had two affordable-housing projects approved by the city that will provide 111 units of below-market housing in the downtown
The defunct Santa Barbara News-Press is continuing to bill subscribers, according to one octogenarian in Noleta. Her friend, Sandy Shertzer, contacted the Independent to spread the word, saying his “Noleta grandma buddy” had $120 automatically deducted from her bank account on September 9, seven weeks after the newspaper announced its July 21 bankruptcy.
Shertzer said his friend, who is 87 years old and asked that her name not be used, had received the paper at her door until October 22, when the News-Press stopped home deliveries and began delivering through the U.S. mail. She said that “forewarned is forearmed” in letting others know of the subscription charge that might still be coming from Ampersand Publishing.
Calling himself “an over-educated kid from the Bronx High School of Science” with a background in the law, Shertzer accompanied his friend to the bank, which canceled the automatic payments and returned her money.
Bankruptcy Trustee Jerry Namba did not return messages asking for information on the position subscribers are in who’ve been billed by the bankrupt paper. In a creditors meeting on September 7, News-Press owner and publisher Wendy McCaw was unable to answer questions about subscriptions, instead deferring to ex-employees, who her attorneys said they had not been able to reach and who are still owed their last paychecks.
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S.B. resident Roy Eugene Stephenson Jr., 82, was arrested 9/4 after allegedly firing a handgun at three male teenagers he believed were trespassing on his property near Stevens Park in the San Roque area. Stephenson was booked into county jail on multiple felonies, including threats and assault with a deadly weapon, as well as enhancements that include “habitual criminal” and “persons not to be granted probation or suspended sentence.” He will appear on 9/19 for a hearing regarding a gun violence emergency protective order, which would remove all firearms from his property. Nobody was injured, and no damage was reported due to the incident.
The Coalition for Responsible Cannabis filed a lawsuit on 9/7 against several cultivators, including Ceres Farms, Valley Crest Farms, and the Van Wingerden Family Trust, to push them to use “carbon scrubbers” instead of chemical masking agents for odor abatement. The lawsuit was filed by attorney Robert Curtis of Foley, Bezek, Behle & Curtis, who previously led a nuisance lawsuit that led to a settlement resulting in Carpinteria’s first permanent carbon-scrubber filtration system. Curtis is representing the Coalition and three individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit: Chonnie Bliss Jacobson and the owners of the Rose Story Farm, Dr. William Hahn and Dani Dall’Armi.
The County Housing and Community Development Division sent out a statement 9/7 urging potential tenants to “remain vigilant” for rental listing scams, which often lure victims with the promise of low-cost rentals that may not even be available. “Often, rental listings are copied from legitimate listings by a scammer who then
markets the units as their own, perhaps at an appealing rent in order to attract even more unsuspecting victims,” the statement reads. Prospective tenants can ensure listings are legitimate by visiting units in person, if possible, and obtaining a copy of their lease before making any payment.
Critical steelhead habitat in Gaviota Creek has come under scrutiny after emergency work this past winter destroyed the very section that Caltrans and the Coastal Ranches Conservancy had been working on over the past 10 years in planning to improve for fish passage. On 8/31, Coastal Ranches sent a letter to Caltrans stating its intent to sue over the emergency repairs made in May. Doug Campbell, executive director of the Coastal Ranches Conservancy, said they hope to win penalties for the damage done to Gaviota Creek and the steelhead population, which might prevent occurrences like this from happening again.
A Caltrans spokesperson said the agency would hold off commenting as the matter is headed for litigation.
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Santa Barbara’s Fire and Police Commission was overhauled last year to make it a more transparent and community-facing system of police oversight, and after losing one of the newly selected members, the city has filled the final remaining seat with UCSB Director of Educational Programs and Opportunities (EOP) Aaron Jones. Jones has a long affiliation with UCSB and a deep history with activism, serving as the Associated Students assistant director for community
• Earthquakes in California are inevitable, but the damage they cause is preventable.
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Appeal of the Planning Commission Approval of the Change of Ownership, Change of Guarantor, and Change of Operator for the Las Flores Pipeline System (formerly Plains All American Lines 901/903)
September 19, 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
On Tuesday September 19, 2023 the Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider the appeal of the Planning Commission’s July 14, 2023 approval of the Change of Ownership, Change of Guarantor, and Change of Operator for the Las Flores Pipeline System (formerly known as Line 901/903).
The 901 and 903 pipeline system (now known as the Las Flores Pipeline System) is an existing 122 linear mile crude oil pipeline that runs from the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County to the Pentland Delivery Station in Kern County. The pipeline system is permitted under Santa Barbara County Final Development Plan Permit 88-DPF-033 (RV01)z, 88-CP-60 (RV01) (88-DPF-25cz; 85-DP-66cz; 83-DP-25cz), approved on February 18, 1986, revised in 1988, and last modified in May 2003. Pacific Pipeline Company (PPC) formally acquired ownership of the pipeline system from Plains All American Pipeline (Plains) on October 13, 2022. PPC and ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (EMPCo) submitted applications for a Change of Owner (Plains to PPC), Change of Guarantor (Plains to ExxonMobil Corporation), and Change of Operator (Plains to EMPCo) to the County on November 15, 2022. On June 14, 2023, the Planning Commission approved the Las Flores Pipelines Change of Ownership, Change of Guarantor, and Change of Operator by a vote of 3 to 1. On June 22, 2023, an appeal of the Planning Commission’s action was filed by one party, Grey Fox Class Members c/o A. Barry Cappello (Case No. 23APL-00027).
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.
For additional information, please contact Jacquelynn Ybarra, Planner, at: Email: jybarra@countyofsb.org
For current methods of public participation for the meeting of September 19, 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 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.
COVID cases have been rising all summer across Santa Barbara County, where a water polo game between Carpinteria High and the Dons in August was postponed due to the virus infecting a number of Santa Barbara players. This Tuesday, the latest mRNA COVID vaccines were approved by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). They might not have prevented the water polo outbreak, but they are widely recommended to reduce the severity of the disease, which continues to be highly contagious.
Three and a half years after the pandemic began, “95 percent of our population has some protection against COVID,” said Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons. “And that protection is coming from vaccines, from an infection we had, and perhaps from an infection we didn’t know we had.” She observed that at Cottage Hospital, where Dr. Fitzgibbons leads the infectious diseases division, they’ve had far fewer patients than at any earlier time during the pandemic.
As of September 2, the hospitals across the county had 11 COVID patients, with no deaths occurring over the past week. In total, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 814 persons in Santa Barbara County. Looking at wastewater, which can show the amount of virus in the community, a plateau was occurring in Santa Barbara earlier this month, a decline in Goleta, and an increase in Lompoc. For the county as a whole, the level of disease is “low,” according to the CDC.
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area. The first is a 63-unit development at 400 West Carrillo Street, which will be 100 percent rent-restricted to low- and moderate-income renters and was unanimously approved by the city’s Planning Commission on August 10. The second, a 48-unit project at 220 North La Cumbre Road that will be available exclusively to very-lowand low-income families, received final approval from the city’s Architectural Board of Review on August 21.
Housing Authority Director Rob Fredericks said that the rents for all affordable housing projects are set by federal guidelines based on the income of the tenants. For renters, this means paying no more than 30 percent of your income on rent, factoring in the size of the household.
For a single person making $82,950 a year, the new income limit for low-income renters, this translates to $2,074 a month, or around $1,450 a month for a studio apartment. For a two-person household bringing in $94,800 a year, also considered low-income, the rent for a one-bedroom would be $1,896.
At the same time, the rate of renters paying more than a third of their income on rent is growing. According to the state’s latest figures, more than half of the city’s 20,000-plus renters are paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, with a quarter of the city’s renters paying more than 50
Dr. Fitzgibbons was anticipating the CDC’s announcement this Tuesday regarding the new Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which were recommended for everyone ages 6 months and older. While the vaccines were developed for the Omicron offshoot called XBB.1.5, the major subvariant circulating now is EG.5, with another called Pirola, or BA.2.86, receiving much attention for the number of mutations on its spike protein, though its number of cases is very low.
“The variants that are around right now are closely related to the one targeted, and we’re still going to get great protection from the new vaccine,” Dr. Fitzgibbons said. “The data looks really good.”
As for the precautions against COVID from the pre-vaccine days, such as masks and avoiding crowds indoors, Dr. Fitzgibbons said that they still held true, though it was much more up to the individual to decide their own level of risk based on their immune system.
Importantly, the endorsement from the CDC means the vaccine will continue to be covered by Medicare and health insurance carriers and be available from public health agencies. The earliest shipments are expected later this week. An updated version of the more traditionally produced vaccine Novavax is still under consideration by the Food and Drug Administration.
Jean Yamamurapercent of their money on rent alone.
For housing advocates in Santa Barbara, the need for affordable housing and drastic inflation of rent prices are at emergency levels, and some are urging city and county leaders to do more to tackle the problem, whether that be supporting agencies like the Housing Authority with more resources to continue building for low-income families or drafting rental protections in the meantime.
“Our skyrocketing rents and our dismal vacancy rate are pushing people out at an alarming rate it’s unrelenting and unjust,” said Stanley Tzankov, cofounder of the Santa Barbara Tenants Union and housing advocate with the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE). “It’s unraveling the social fabric that makes our city and region vibrant, diverse, healthy, and sustainable.”
“And yet there are totally things we can do at the local and regional level to meaningfully address it,” he continued. “The city can and absolutely should stop dragging its feet and finally pass long-overdue, bold, and broadly popular tenant protections like rent stabilization and a rental registry; they should stop approving expensive hotels and luxury second homes and instead zone, help finance, and fund housing that’s truly affordable, near jobs, and in transit corridors.”
The heirs of a Jewish cabaret singer and art collector killed in the Holocaust have dropped their claim against the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) over a drawing they say was stolen from their late relative by the Nazis, sold into the New York dealers’ market, and ultimately gifted to the museum by one of its founders.
The reason for the voluntary dismissal in early August is unclear. Attorneys for the heirs of Franz Friedrich “Fritz” Grünbaum, who have successfully sued other art institutions for the return of pieces from his scattered collection, declined to comment. Some legal observers speculate the drawing a small pencil-on-paper sketch by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele is now also in the process of being returned.
SBMA spokesperson Katrina Carl said she was unable to speak about the case. “Things surrounding this matter are in pro-
cess, and we should be able to make a statement when all is resolved,” she said.
For reasons similarly vague, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is now also involved. The office’s press secretary declined to comment.
Born in 1880, Grünbaum was a wellknown Viennese entertainer who wrote and performed cabarets, songs, and operettas. He also directed and acted in films. Over his lifetime, he amassed a nearly 500-piece art collection with at least 80 works by Schiele.
In 1938 Grünbaum was captured and held at the Dachau Concentration Camp by Hitler’s Third Reich, where he was tortured into signing over power of attorney to his wife. Grünbaum’s wife, Elisabeth, was then forced to liquidate her husband’s assets before she herself was imprisoned and killed.
Tyler HaydenFive days after the 6.8 earthquake that’s killed more than 2,900 people in Morocco so far, Direct Relief Santa Barbara’s premier international humanitarian assistance operation announced it was sending $100,000 in cash to fund search and rescue operations there. Because Morocco accepts international assistance from only four nations the United States not being one of them Direct Relief will be funneling its support to the effort via Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras, an international aid organization based in Spain.
Prior to that, Direct Relief was monitoring cell phone data from Morocco to determine areas of most intense need. Because Direct Relief has no relationship with Libya where catastrophic flooding has claimed thousands of lives and thousands more are still missing Direct Relief has no immediate plans to funnel aid to that country, which has yet to ask Direct Relief for assistance. In addition, Libya remains
the target of United States sanctions due to long-standing international friction.
Direct Relief’s Tony Morain explained there’s no shortage of reasons political, historic, and practical why some countries choose not to accept humanitarian assistance from other nations. Language, Morain said, is often the most obvious.
“People need to be able to read the directions for a lot of drugs, and what you don’t need is a whole lot of people not being able to read the directions for a whole lot of drugs right in the middle of some natural disaster,” he explained.
The United States, he noted, has not always been receptive to offers of humanitarian assistance, citing the help volunteered by the oil-rich government of Venezuela then on exceedingly poor terms with the U.S. to soften the trauma of sticker shock then experienced by U.S. citizens at the gas pump. —Nick Welsh
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Santa Barbara’s cannabis industry generated $6.1 million in county revenues, roughly $10 million less than projected, according to a year-end financial report presented to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
When all costs to county government are factored in permitting, planning, enforcement that’s a net gain of $1.5 million. If the costs of law enforcement are excluded on the grounds that illegal operations are targeted for enforcement action, not the legal ones it’s a net gain just north of $3 million. Either way, that’s a steep drop from two years ago, when cannabis generated more than $15 million in county revenues. Given that the county finished the fiscal year with a $27 million more in its coffers than budgeted, the poor performance by cannabis was easily absorbed.
Driving the drop in cannabis revenues has been a steady decline in prices due to overall overproduction. That drop, reportedly, is starting to reverse itself. Currently, there are two cannabis dispensaries operating within the county’s jurisdiction, and two to three are expected to open up sometime in the next year.
Supervisor Das Williams, who played a major role in crafting the county’s cannabis regulatory apparatus, took this
Tuesday’s presentation to lambaste the illegal cannabis market. For those who choose to buy illegally cultivated cannabis, Williams stated, “We want to be pejorative of that choice,” citing the physical and moral contamination caused by mold, pesticides, drug cartels, human traffickers, and “lots of bad stuff.”
In prior quarterly reports, the supervisors routinely heard how large numbers of cultivators failed to either report or pay their taxes. In this report, there were none. Earlier this year, the supervisors passed tough new penalties that could put delinquent operators out of business.
to parental support.
“This is a life-altering event, and in a very negative way,” Jordan stated. “Some people will never recover. Some could become homeless. For others, it’s like getting hit by a car when you’re 70 years old. This one may be the most obscene example because it’s so big, but other cases happen all the time one or two units here and one or two units there.”
While Knapp did not describe Koto’s longterm plans for the property, the handwriting is on the wall. Its new name coupled with ads it’s taken out to fill vacant spaces and the company’s online presence leaves little doubt. Koto is part of a nationwide real estate strategy, “housing-inspired living,” that buys up off-campus apartment buildings in college towns and transforms them into student housing complexes with all the amenities.
One tenant, who declined to be quoted by name, joked that she now lives in an “off-campus college dorm” like she did when she was 17. “I have found the Fountain of Youth again.”
As economic strategies go, it makes obvious sense. Santa Barbara has an over-abundance of students washing in and out; what until a week ago was Casa Pequeña with its proximity to City College and downtown, thick ivy walls, swimming pool, and profusion of every exotic species that defines the Southern California beach experience would be an ideal home away from home for young students.
If Koto’s online ads reflect reality, Koto will be packing two tenants into one-bedroom units, charging each $1,500 a month. A current tenant, Kayla Jensen, has been paying $2,200 a month for her one-bedroom unit since moving in last December. “It’s really nice but really small,” she cautioned. “I don’t see how you can possibly pack two people in there. It would be hard even if it were your boyfriend.”
Jensen is 32, having moved back to Santa Barbara after 12 years away attending college and graduate school. She works remotely for a big company she’d rather not name. Most tenants, she said, are between 30 and 50 years of age, with a few older people as well. Many get around by bike. “It’s a great place,” she said. “It’s also very expensive. But it’s the least expensive place I could find.”
Jensen has not received notice yet, but she is expecting to on November 15. Looking for a new place fills her with dread, she said. “It took me so long to find this one.” Plus, she can’t afford the moving-in costs of paying first and last month’s rent plus a security deposit. “I don’t have $10,000 just lying around,” she said. “It’s just really disheartening,” she said. “You just can’t keep up with how much it costs to live here.”
In the meantime, City Hall will continue to investigate whether the notices given out thus far comply with the city’s Just Cause ordinance. n
There is a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)
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Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating bal- ance problems.
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The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.
Like so many others, I view the destruction of what used to be the vibrant core of our city with great dismay. It is time to end the disaster that it has become and move forward to reclaim our downtown.
I support the plan that has been proposed to let the restaurants and shops extend out onto the sidewalk area directly adjacent to their shopfronts, getting rid of the “parklets,” and moving foot traffic to the edge of the sidewalk area by removing planter boxes. I also support the return of cars and requiring bicycles to use in-street bike lanes. And bring back parades!
Will this sensible solution require another $80,000 consultant fee? No! Take my advice free!
—Pat Fish, S.B.
After two unsuccessful committees, State Street’s revitalization now returns to the City Council. In a discussion on August 29, recommendations from the now-disbanded State Street Interim Operations Ad Hoc Committee were discussed; three prominent conclusions emerged.
First, the city’s financial constraints prohibit pilot programs, raising concerns about funding substantial downtown developments. Second, the insufficient resources allocated to the police hinder the enforcement of safety-maintaining ordinances. Third, and perhaps most crucially, the council lacks the leadership required to make progress on this matter.
Where are the efforts toward compromise and the exploration of fresh ideas? Councilmember Friedman proposed removing planters and expanding sidewalk dining; why was this seemingly disregarded? The mere novelty of an idea does not render it incorrect.
odor. This system is effective, but chemical masking is not.
I drive on Casitas Pass Road every day to go home. And I do smell the cannabis odor. Don’t we deserve to live in an area that is free from the cannabis odor? Are our officials and politicians doing enough to control and solve the cannabis problem? Hopefully, this article will wake up people, officials, and politicians. We deserve better.
—Diana Thorn, CarpinteriaFolks, 28 units with all this hoopla? That’s 28, not 280 at Vera Cruz Village.
Am I the only one that thinks nearly $1 million a unit is not to be celebrated? How is this sustainable? How is creating all these segregated enclaves smart, cost-effective, or sensible in any way?
Thousands of homeless on our Gold Coast, and 28 units have everyone excited? How many subsidized vouchers could you extend for $25 million? Hold all new development(s) responsible. Follow common sense and the EU’s successful endeavors.
—Dee Morgan, MontecitoIgrew up in Santa Maria and delivered the NewsPress when I was 10 years old. The paper had a local news bureau in Santa Maria, and the guy who ran it also managed the carriers and sold advertising, all while listening to the police radio for photo ops. We also had morning delivery of the L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal, a reading habit I continue to this day.
We need Mayor Rowse to lead on this issue. As the representative of the entire city, not just a district, his responsibility entails guiding the process, fostering compromise, and building consensus about State Street.
Thank you for your article “Coalition for Responsible Cannabis Files Lawsuit Against Stinkiest Central Coast Growers.” Bravo to the nonprofit for encouraging cannabis businesses to be accountable and neighbor-friendly.
I learned from the article that the lawsuit is not about money. Its aim is to push or encourage cannabis growers to use permanent carbon-scrubber filtration systems instead of just masking the foul
The News-Press had real reporting on national events, not just summarized wire reports. I learned so much reading the News-Press growing up, but I have to admit, I didn’t even know it was still publishing. I thought its readers resigned with the newsroom staff.
—John Tobin, Calabasas
Iwas a distribution driver for the Santa Barbara News-Press from 2012-18. When I saw that malarkey headline “Illegals Line Up for Driver’s Licenses” fall off our presses, I knew we were doomed. You cannot antagonize people walking down the street as a business model. —Devin Kuberski,
S.B.
Patricia you were my best friend and worst Enemy.
Your spirit will live on in the healthy cells of the Apple Cider Vinegar Generation.
We had good times. You annoyed
Me greatly
My first day in my manufactured home I almost kidnapped your howling, barking canines.
They barked outside my bedroom
Window all night.
That was 20 years ago.
How can one be mad at dogs,
At you, Patricia.
Your smile reigned. Your vivacious personality ruled and softened the hardest heart.
The night you passed the thunder and lightning roared. That morning your dear, dear friend
And caregiver called and said you passed.
She cried. I knew it was a painful revelation.
You her best friend. How could you leave us so soon at 94. Probably more like 104. You didn’t like people to know your age. You danced and moved like a gazelle.
Once
We went to a lecture at your church. You stretched out in the back and fell asleep.
When it was over I woke you and you took me home.
“Thanks Patricia, great lecture!”
“It was wasn’t it?”
I guess she heard it in her sleep or maybe she wrote it. Anyway life was always fun with Patricia.
Her two favorite sports thrift store shopping and dancing in the square.
Patricia went into the thrift store and came out with half the store. She filled a large pickup.
She walked around in one of her lovely pink hats she bought there.
Her outfits could be in grandma vogue magazine.
Nothing ever matched. I mean stripes, polka dots, flowers, squares. Never a match. Patricia didn’t know the word “coordinated.”
Patricia was a local, a patron of the healthy arts.
She danced at Camino Real when there was Music.
Patricia was an innocent angel. A true love child.
She loved everyone and everyone loved her. Her beautiful smile captured one’s soul. She loved to drive in her old white Mercedes. Until she could drive no longer. I drove with her in that old Mercedes, “the Bragg mobile.”
We were friends, old friends, and I shall never forget you beautiful ageless friend. Rest in peace and take a dance for Me my love. You shall be dearly missed. —Irene Russo, Goleta
know she is at peace and on to a new adventure.
1/13/1943 - 8/16/2023
BY LESLEY TIPPITTIfirst met Patricia Bragg in 2000 when I moved from Northern California to Santa Barbara with my then-fiancé, Tom. He had taken a job here as a counselor for youth, and I was happy to be able to move to Santa Barbara with him. A few months later, I applied for a job advertised in the Santa Barbara News-Press, I was just looking for something part time to do as I reestablished in a new town. The job description said, “part-time help wanted.” Period. I interviewed for it, got it, and started the next day, even though the “interview” provided absolutely no information about the job or what I would be doing for Patricia!
It turned out that Patricia hired me because her cat, Big Foot, liked me. And that was the beginning of 23 years of friendship.
If you ever had the privilege of meeting Patricia Bragg, you’d understand why she was truly unforgettable. Clad in vibrant, eye-catching, brightly colored clothing, she radiated a zest for life that was contagious. Clothing was never supposed to match, as long as every color was bright and happy. Her energy was palpable; she wanted to stop and talk to everyone, no matter where she was, always sharing a newsletter, a gift of a book from her library of health books, or products from her company, Bragg Live Foods, which she had run since the late 1970s. It was important to her to make a connection with everyone she came across in some way.
Patricia had a mission, to make sure that everyone she met would go away with something to encourage them toward a healthier lifestyle. With each sentence, she greeted the world with a resounding “Woo-hoo!” a joyful exclamation that mirrored her vibrant outlook. She genuinely wanted people to be aware of their own bodies and health, and although she wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, that never stopped her.
One of her favorite sayings was “Be the captain of your own ship,” meaning to take responsibility for our lifestyle choices and our food choices. We had more testimonials come in to say how, although initially offended by her candor, she had forced or encouraged people to take a look at their health and make changes that were often life-changing and life-saving.
She loved to tell women that they should never
wear wire bras because the wires restricted circulation to the breasts, and she happily showed women that she was proud of never having worn a bra herself. She believed that dancing was the best exercise, inspiring happiness and well-being while getting the benefit of the movement. She was often seen dancing on the grass at Earth Day.
Whether she was speaking to a crowd or engaging in a one-on-one conversation, Patricia’s presence was magnetic. Her infectious positivity, combined with her deep-rooted faith, created a powerful combination that left a lasting impression on all fortunate enough to experience it. She touched literally millions of people over the decades with her teachings, through her books, her lectures, her radio shows, and her personal meetings. If she was on a cruise ship, she would invariably be invited to the captain’s table, where she would entertain with stories of her aroundthe-world trips and adventures.
She enjoyed living, and eventually retiring, on her 110-acre organic farm in Goleta, surrounded by orchards of apples and other fruit, and tropical landscaping surrounding the pond. She built a “Tiki Hut” that felt like you had just transitioned to Hawai‘i without leaving home. We had so many wonderful and memorable parties and gatherings there.
Patricia loved to help good causes in our community for the environment, people, and animals, supporting many local organizations with charitable donations. Among her favorites were the Unity Shoppe, to which she also donated organic fruit from her farm. You can see Unity’s white van with the sunny logo of Patricia’s foundation driving around town delivering food to people in need. The Patricia & Paul Bragg Foundation also contributed to the Foodbank’s new facility and the Community Environmental Council’s new building, while providing grants to many other local organizations too numerous to mention here. Her heartfelt work will now carry on through her Foundation.
Thank you, Patricia, for your never-ending dedication, your pioneering spirit, and your boundless love for humanity. For inspiring us to live our best lives, to celebrate the beauty of true health, and to embrace the incredible potential within each of us. May your light forever shine brightly in our hearts, and I am forever grateful for the privilege of knowing you.
On September 8, 2023 while taking an afternoon rest in her own bed, Marilyn Cropley peacefully passed over to the realm she has long awaited. Marilyn was a deeply spiritual person who did not fear death. Those who knew her should be comforted by the fact that for some time she had felt like her place was no longer on this earth, speaking often about how she was ready to go when her body released her. While she waited to join her departed sister, mom, and dad in the spiritual world, Marilyn made the most of her time here. She reinvented herself more than once, including moving from her birthplace of Canton, Ohio to raise her family in Southern California in the 70s, and much later moving to Santa Barbara to be involved in her grandchildren’s lives. She reinvented herself again at age 72 by choosing to divorce, something both her and her former husband, Bill, would come to see as a gift that allowed them each to become their fullest selves in their later years while remaining good friends. Even after a debilitating stroke at age 78, she showed incredible strength by fighting to recover and thrive in a new environment with new friends and neighbors. She believed in the power of laughter, and could find humor in even the most frustrating circumstances. One of her favorite quotes was “Those who can laugh at themselves will never cease to be amused.” Marilyn experienced several hardships in life, from which she gained an intense empathy for people who were suffering. She was known for offering encouraging words and unconditional support, and was especially supportive to her own mother in her final years. She was a loyal friend and had deep relationships with several other phenomenal women, and was very close to her half-sister, Lynda. Marilyn earned a Master’s Degree and was a much-loved elementary school teacher for most of her career. But the role closest to her heart was that of a loving and patient mom who dedicated her life to supporting the dreams of her two children, Jason and Carrie. She was an exceptional and adoring Grami to her two granddaughters, Lilah and Cleo, who each cherished their close relationship with her. While she will be missed by many on this earth, those who love her
Stephen Wellman Dunn was born on 01/13/1943 to parents Bessie Wellman and Joseph Dunn and was raised in Detroit, Mi. His first foray into media began working at his fathers newspaper stand in Detroit as a young boy. While attending Mumford High School Stephen discovered he was a natural with numbers. He graduated from Ferris State College and became an accountant. Stephen then went on to pursue his dream job of working in the music industry, and achieved his goal as a top music promoter for A&M records at a pinnacle time in musical history. He promoted top artists such as Supertramp, Peter Frampton, and Styx, just to name a few. In addition to his love of music, Stephen loved sailing with the ones he loved. He would bring family, friends and their children out on sailing excursions and to music venues. Everything that brought Stephen joy, he shared with others. He spent the second half of his life in Santa Barbara to be close to his older brother and best friend, Andy, as well as to watch his niece and nephew grow up. Stephen was often referred to as the Mayor of the Douglas Preserve, where he would walk his dog every day and made countless friends over the years. There aren’t really words that can express the whole of who Stephen was and still is for many of his family and friends. We will miss him dearly and are comforted in the fact that he will now join Andy, his loving brother, his parents, aunts and uncles, and a whole line of ancestors and friends.
Stephen made an indelible mark on everyone in his life and his legend will live on in all of us.
Stephen is survived by his niece and nephew, Elizabeth and Shawn Dunn.
4/27/1966 - 8/22/2023
3/7/1928 - 6/18/2023
Laura Jane Milton of Santa Barbara, California, passed away on August 22, 2023, at the age of 57 from ALS. She died in the comfort of her home surrounded by her loved ones.
Laura was born in Santa Barbara, California, on April 27, 1966, to Carol Nickerson and Jack Milton. She was raised in Santa Barbara, attending Cleveland Elementary School, Santa Barbara Christian School, and Santa Barbara Junior and Senior High Schools. Always an adventurous spirit, she moved to Kauai, Hawaii, with her husband Mark Morando, where she gave birth to her son, Jason Morando. Upon returning to Santa Barbara, she worked at QAD and then later embraced her love of animals and worked in the veterinary field. She was especially proud of her time spent as a pet sitter for Oprah Winfrey.
Laura was an avid runner and participated in numerous marathons, 5Ks, Santa Barbara Night Moves, and The Pier to Peak. She had a passion for travel and history and visited numerous countries exploring ruins and ancient cultures.
Laura is survived by her son, Jason Morando, daughter-in-law Aviance Morando, granddaughter Kaila Morando, parents Carol Nickerson and Jack Milton, sisters Shauna Milton and Brenda Milton, nephew Heath Milton, step-mother Jan Milton, uncles John Milton and Everett Nickerson, aunt Mary Nickerson, and numerous cousins. She also leaves behind her beloved Maltipoo, Pixel, and Tink and Rue, her Devon Rexes.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, September 30, 2023, at 3:00 at The Press Room, 15 E. Ortega St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to alsagoldenwest.org.
Laura will be remembered for her ready smile, zest for life, her love of animals, and her kind and generous heart.
Marguerite drew her final breath just less than a year after her husband Jim drew his. She is survived by her children Janis Holt, Ken Downing and Pamela Noel Hughes, seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Marguerite and Jim raised their family in Santa Monica, CA and after retiring from teaching moved back to Santa Barbara, where she was very involved at Veronica Springs Church and sponsored a monthly social to provide scholarships for women.
A memorial was held on Wednesday, September 13 at 2:00 PM at Veronica Springs Church in Santa Barbara.
Susannah Claire Kelly
4/24/1987 - 9/2/2023
Shortly thereafter, Susannah met the love of her life, fellow artist Neil Perry. Together they opened Antler Gallery in 2012 in a windowfront cubicle on Alberta Street. She and Neil curated each monthly show together and their combined eye for beauty and artistic talent led to such success that they soon moved Antler Gallery to a full storefront on Alberta Street, rapidly followed by a second gallery, Talon, in 2017. Susannah and Neil loved to travel. Their adventures took them all over the world, but they especially loved spending time together on the Oregon Coast and in the Columbia River Gorge. They adopted their first dog, Duncan, in 2014, and he became a fixture at the gallery, charming everyone he met. When Neil proposed to Susannah, he tied the ring to Duncan’s collar and sent him over to her because he said, “she couldn’t say no to Duncan”. Susannah and Neil were married on February 13, 2017, in a beautiful ceremony surrounded by their loving families and friends.
In June 2023, they realized a decade-long dream and opened Antler and Talon in their own building, celebrating this momentous event with the inaugural show on June 29.Susannah was wildly funny. Her infectious laugh made everyone around her smile, too. She was witty, loving, generous, and kind. She cared deeply about equality and social justice. She loved hunting for agates, shells, and fossils. She stopped to pet every dog she met. She loved nature, her family, and her friends.
7/17/1937 - 6/6/2023
Susannah Claire Kelly (36) passed away unexpectedly on September 2, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, due to a sudden and severe medical issue.
Susannah was born on April 24, 1987, in Santa Barbara, California to Kathy and Kevin Kelly, arriving five minutes before her identical twin, Sheila. They joined their sister, Liz, growing up in a household filled with love, laughter, and music. Susannah and Sheila shared an uncommon bond and were inseparable from the moment they were born.It was clear from the beginning that Susannah had an artist’s eye for detail, observing the minutiae of the world around her and finding beauty in it all. She drew and painted constantly and after graduating Dos Pueblos High School in 2005, she attended Willamette University, where she received her BA in Studio Art in 2009.
After graduating, Susannah moved to Portland, where she immersed herself in the art community, working with the Alberta Arts District to expand programs and developing her portfolio. She had her first solo show in 2010 at the Newport Visual Arts Center on the Oregon coast.
She was so incredibly and deeply loved. The loss of her is unimaginable. She is alive in our hearts and in the beautiful art she made.
Susannah is survived by her husband, Neil Perry; her parents, Kathy and Kevin Kelly; her sisters, Sheila Kelly (Michael Haight) and Liz Kelly-Campanale (Kris Kelly-Campanale); her niece and nephew Ava and Otto KellyCampanale; her in-laws, Frankie and Christine Perry; her beloved hound dog Herbert; and a multitude of close friends and family.
There will be a Celebration of Life on Monday, September 18, at the Antler and Talon Galleries in Portland, Oregon at 4pm.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to and sharing the following link: https://gofund. me/37a31e61
Elspeth Collins, 85, died peacefully on June 6, 2023 at Serenity House in Santa Barbara after an unfortunate struggle with dementia.
She was born to David Marshall Brown and Patricia Philippa (Niven) Brown in a small hospital in Gourock, Scotland on July 17, 1937 and raised nearby in the picturesque village of Kilmacolm. After the war, she spent much of her time riding ponies around the beautiful Renfrewshire countryside. She attended St. Columba’s School, then Seggieden House near Perth, St. Marie’s Boarding School in Dunblane, and Villa Sunnydale Toechter Institute in Adelboden Switzerland. She continued her education studying Hotel Management at Ross Hall, the Scottish Hotel School in Glasgow, where she learned bookkeeping skills, providing her the opportunity to run off to Canada at the age of 21 and never look back.
She sailed alone on the Empress of England to Montreal to meet her brother, Ranald, who was living in Ottawa and helped her settle there. She treasured her time working summers at Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta and after a few years was ready for more adventure. While in line to get a US visa, she made friends with another woman and offered to drive her to her nursing job Santa Barbara, California. After spending less than a week there, she was enchanted. She tossed her plans to continue traveling on to New Zealand, found an apartment and a job and stayed for over 60 years.
In 1963, she met her husband, Jack Collins and soon after got married, bought a house, gave birth to 2 children and lived the suburban Santa Barbara dream until his passing in 2017. She had continued her work as a bookkeeper for several employers in Santa Barbara including Kimo’s Polynesian Shop on State Street, but ultimately retired from her favorite position at UCSB’s student run Daily Nexus Newspaper.
She enjoyed spending time with family and friends from near and far, including the many canine and feline family members (Heidi, Kirstie, Dixie, Bo, Agnes, Jenny, Rikki and Moki). She loved playing board games (perquacky, boggle, you name it, she played it), and was a “take no prisoners” ping-pong ace, routinely trouncing competitors on her home court with her unmatched angles and spin!
Elspeth is preceded in death by her husband, Jack; her parents, Marshall and Pat; and her brother,
Ranald Brown. She will be dearly missed by her four children and their partners: John Collins (Angela Whiting) of Happy Valley; Jennifer Collins (Marc Shapiro) of Vancouver, Canada; Susan Locke (Don) of Glendale; Jeanette Onorati (Peter) of Sherman Oaks. She was a proud Granny and will be fondly remembered by her seven grandsons and their partners: Donny (Kelsey), Douglas, Sonny (Tayla), Frankie (Kristen), Charlie (Sylvia), Sidney, and Solomon; and her great-grandson, Gilbert. She is also survived by her brother’s wife, Mara Brown, in Smiths Falls, Ontario and her nieces and nephew, Sue (Dave), Vari (Richard), and Topher.
A casual celebration of life has been planned for Sunday, October 8th from 2pm to 5pm. If you are interested in attending, please contact mizzzangela213@gmail. com for details by September 20th.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to our local chapter of The Alzheimer Foundation – https://alzfdn.org/
Jim Covert11/30/1942 - 9/3/2023
Jim was born in Chicago on November 30, 1942. He passed away on Sept. 3, 2023 in Canada. Jim was raised in West Frankfort, Il until his late teens. There he played basketball, participated in school activities and made beautiful sketches, a talent he carried through his life. In 1964 he moved with his family to Santa Barbara, CA. An idyllic life was spent in the beautiful beach town. He began working in Maintenance at UCSB in 1966 and retired in 2001. After retirement his next adventure took him to Canada to marry the love of his life, Christine. Together they weathered many of life’s challenges and laughed together until the end.
Jim was predeceased by his brother Patrick, his father Leo Frank, his mother Dorothy and his sister Joy. He leaves behind his sister Jane (Mark), niece Erin (Derek), and nephew Patrick (Lindsey). He also leaves behind step son Julian and grandchildren Grady and Schuyler. Lastly he leaves behind his nephew Michael (Nita), and niece Kathy (Roger). All of the above referenced people played a huge role in his life and he loved them dearly.
Most importantly, he leaves his heartbroken wife Christine, step daughters Emily and Laura and grandchildren Lyrica, Lydia and Madelyn. Christine and Jim built a life of love and strength and cherished their 23 years together. Services will be held near Jim’s home in St. Catherine’s, Ontario at a later date.
God speed Jim- We love you.
negotiation skills translated well in the civil arena, where he tried many complex business disputes to successful verdicts, while guiding clients less likely to prevail to prudent settlements. Jim always sought to identify and narrowly focus on the key issues in a civil dispute. “Go for the jugular, not the capillaries” was one of his favorite expressions.
James E. Herman lived a life in full for nearly eight decades. Those who knew and loved him only regret that the final chapter of his life ended too soon. Jim meant so much to so many people. He was an accomplished lawyer and respected judge by profession, but with an abundance of other talents and interests and an infectious sense of humor that allowed him to establish a personal connection with everyone he met.
Jim was born on July 14, 1945 in Kansas City. The son of a railroad engineer, Jim embarked on the first of his many adventures at the age of 19, joining the Air Force and becoming a translator fluent in Mandarin, a skill that would serve him well in his world travels, and greatly impress his friends at Chinese restaurants, at least when his orders were not misunderstood.
Following his military service, Jim pursued an interest in acting gained from high school drama productions, attending San Diego City College and then receiving a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from UCSB in 1971. After pursuing a theatrical career for a short time, Jim instead turned his talents to law, where his acting skills and acute sense of timing would always serve him well. Jim graduated with a J.D. from California Western Law School in 1975, where he would later serve on the board of directors, and followed with an L.L.M. degree from New York University in 1976.
Rather than seeking a lucrative career with a large law firm, Jim chose instead to pursue a commitment to public service and equal access to justice by serving as a public defender in Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara counties, where he tried over 100 cases, many involving homicides and other serious felonies. As a fellow public defender observed, “Jim was always ready to try the tough cases,” quoting Jim as once having responded to his case assignment attorney “I’ll take the next body that walks in the door.” Asked at the time how he could represent those accused of serious crimes, Jim responded: “I think the key is that they are people. They are people in trouble. They are people with problems and it is primarily because they are people that I can represent them.”
In 1984, after taking a six month sabbatical for world travel, Jim turned his skills to civil law as an attorney with Cappello & Foley and then for the next several years as a partner in the firms of Rogers, Sheffield & Herman and Reicker, Pfau, Pyle, McRoy & Herman. Jim’s courtroom and
Throughout his career as a practicing attorney, Jim was never content to view his role as a lawyer as simply a day job. Jim’s contributions to the Santa Barbara community over the years are too numerous to recount in full, but include the hosting of a call in radio show to better educate the community about the law, the teaching of jury selection and trial advocacy seminars for young lawyers, service as a law professor at Santa Barbara College of Law, frequent participation in the Inns of Court and the production of a play based on the transcripts of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings as a benefit to support the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.
Some of Jim’s proudest achievements in his legal career involved his volunteer service to the legal profession, as a board member and president of the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, as an elected member of the State Bar Board of Governors, and as president of the State Bar in 20022003. Jim led the bar in many key initiatives, but none were more important to him than the priorities he placed on an independent judiciary, equal access to justice, and the encouragement of greater diversity in the legal profession. Following his service as Bar president Jim received the Bernard E. Witkin award and was appointed as an attorney representative to the California Judicial Council, service he later continued as a judicial appointee.
Whether in the courtroom, his law office, performing his duties as a volunteer or just socializing with friends, Jim’s good nature and keen sense of humor always rose to the fore. It is difficult for most to think of Jim without recalling the many occasions when he compelled them to laugh out loud. One example that many recall was his appearance at the retirement dinner of Judge Dodds in a frog suit, giving a speech replete with references to Kermit, Calaveras County, lily pads and his anticipated transformation into a prince. Those who heard it will never forget Jim’s recital of a Hamlet soliloquy while channeling Walter Brennan. Even as State Bar President, in his frequent speeches to local bar associations across the state Jim could not resist referring to his hometown of Santa Barbara a “humble fishing village.”
Jim’s success could not have been achieved without the support and encouragement of the love of his life, Denise de Bellefeuille. When Jim and Denise began dating in 1986, Jim lived on the Pearl S. Buck, a sailboat anchored in the Santa Barbara Harbor. The, the Pearl S. Buick, as he often called it, provided great enjoyment to Jim and Denise as they hosted friends on
many sailing adventures, and a few misadventures, to the Santa Cruz Islands. Jim and Denise were married in 1995 and became life-long partners, living first in a vintage craftsman home on Mission Street and later on a rural property in the Santa Ynez Valley. Although Jim and Denise were very different people their love and mutual respect always prevailed. Companions for 38 years, Jim and Denise when together were greater than the sum of the parts. They often played off one another comically as though George and Gracie, although the roles were frequently reversed with Jim assuming the part of bumbling naif.
In 2005 Jim was appointed a Superior Court Judge, following Denise’s appointment to the bench in 1994. He noted that his decision to pursue the assignment was inspired by Denise and “seeing how much she enjoys her work and watching how she conducts court . . . treating litigants and lawyers and the public with dignity and courtesy.” Jim also cited his goal of “channeling my efforts at policy and public service levels, especially in the area of helping preserve the judiciary as an independent branch of government.”
Jim served on the bench for over 17 years in many capacities in both North and South county, including assignments in criminal and civil trials, juvenile court and the Appellate Division. A few of his high profile cases included People v. Plains-All American Pipeline, where he assessed a $3.3 million fine against the defendant after a lengthy trial, and Goleta Valley Water District v. Slippery Rock Ranch, where he adjudicated a complex dispute regarding underground water rights. During his tenure on the bench Jim continued his active role as a judicial policy advocate, serving on the Judicial Council as well as other state wide committees.
With all of Jim’s professional achievements and extra-curricular activities, you would think that he had no time for leisure or fun. You would be wrong. A life-long athlete, Jim thrived in the outdoors, whether it be swimming, running, sailing, cycling, golfing or hiking with friends. His passion for car racing often took him on weekend excursions to remote racetracks to give a workout to one of his BMWs or his Mazda RX-7. Jim loved to travel and enjoyed extended trips throughout his life to many continents, including Europe, Africa and Asia. Once settled in the Santa Ynez Valley Jim and Denise planted an acre of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot grapes and happily hosted parties to ferment and bottle the next vintage of Herman de Bellefeuille cuvee. Jim always found time for entertainment and conversation with family and friends, whether hosting a barbeque featuring his smoked Kansas City ribs or just settling in to watch a Chief’s game.
When writing his last Presidential column in the State Bar Journal in 2003, Jim of course drew inspiration from Shakespeare, concluding his message
with a quotation from Hamlet: “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddets now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?” Jim may now be without his quiddets and quillets, but fortunately we are all left with lasting memories of his cases, his tenures, and his tricks. Jim lived a remarkably full and wonderful life; those of us who knew him were so fortunate to have shared the ride.
Jim is survived by his wife Judge Denise de Bellefeuille, stepson Dr. Joseph Burt, brothers Gary Herman and Dennis Herman and several nephews and nieces. Consistent with Jim’s career long dedication to the cause of equal access to justice, donations in his honor to the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County are welcome and encouraged.
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Terry. Eventually their dream home would welcome all their grandchildren and become a staple of the Benedetto family.
Bob originally pursued a career in painting, but his true passion lay with automobiles. In the 1970s, he founded Performance Rebuilders, a business that thrived for years in downtown Santa Barbara. Bob’s mechanical talents extended far and wide, as he crafted a ‘32 Ford Phaeton, built and raced his favorite “Dego Red” boat, assembled and flew remote control airplanes, and even constructed and piloted his own ultralight aircraft. His enthusiasm for mechanics didn’t stop there, as he once built a go-cart that provided a wild ride for his three sons’ babysitter.
Bob’s selflessness and devotion to his family was evident in his every gesture, both big and small. Bob’s thoughtfulness extended to Kathy’s workplace, where he would surprise her with mochas during her late night shifts in the Emergency Room. Speaking of their enduring marriage, Kathy often said that sharing common goals was key to its success. Their journey was marked by love, shared dreams, and unwavering support for each other.
In Loving Memory of Robert (Bagsey) Benedetto
Bob, known to his family and friends as Bagsey, was a devoted husband, and a loving father and grandfather. He was born in Inglewood to proud parents Charles and Nora. Bagsey and his family moved to Santa Barbara when he was five years old and settled into a small downtown house. From an early age, he was mechanically inclined, always eager to tinker and fix things.
Upon reaching his high school senior year, Bob was drafted into the army. His dedication to service led him to the Aleutian Islands, an experience that would make him reluctant to visit Alaska later in life. Despite the interruption to his education, Bob’s commitment never waned, and in 2013, he was proudly awarded an honorary high school diploma. His service didn’t end with the army; Bob participated in the Honor Flight program, which honors veterans by providing them with a memorable trip to Washington D.C.
Bob was introduced to Kathy by Kathy’s head nurse, and although Kathy was initially reluctant, fate had other plans. Bob’s red Thunderbird and undeniable charm won her heart. The two were married in 1957 and the rest was history.
In 1960 the couple decided to build their dream home, selling the beautiful red Thunderbird for a plot of land nestled within a lemon orchard. Bob was a handson builder, involving himself in every aspect of construction. Their home became a testament to their shared vision and hard work, a place where they would raise their sons, Rob, Kirk, and
Bob’s legacy lives on in the memories of those whose lives he touched. He will be remembered for his dedication to his family, his passion for mechanics, and his unwavering love for Kathy. Bob is survived by his wife of 66 years, Kathy, sons: Rob (wife Carrie), Kirk and Terry (wife Lynda). His grandchildren Nick (wife Jess), Samantha, Jamie (husband Josh), Chad, and Rickie Lee. May he rest in eternal peace. Gravesite service at Calvary Cemetery on Monday September 11, at 11:30AM.
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was surrounded by the people who loved him the most. We will miss him forever and we are so grateful for the time we had. Bruce we pray God bless you and speed you on your next chapter. Eternal peace and love your family.
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
Thu, Oct 5 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Tickets start at $25 / FREE for UCSB students
The co-founder of Inflection AI and DeepMind and former Head of Applied AI at Google, Suleyman warns of the unprecedented risks that fast-proliferating technologies pose to global order, and shows how we might contain them while we have the chance.
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Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Tue, Oct 17 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
Tickets start at $20 / FREE for UCSB students
Part of the Earth, Air, Fire, Water series. Buy the series and get a copy of Goodell’s new book. Probing archaeology, science, history, current events and more, Goodell presents a completely new understanding of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and our planet.
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Award-winning Historian and Acclaimed Journalist
Amend: Rewriting the Constitution
Tue, Oct 24 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
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“Jill Lepore is a national treasure.”
– Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains
Historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jill Lepore brings her wisdom, empathy and razor-sharp insight to a discussion of the Supreme Court and the looming crisis of the U.S. Constitution’s unamendability. Books will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Chaucer’s
Major Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune
The high season of the all-important cultural force that is UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) may run from October to May each year, but the organism never goes completely dormant. We are in the moment when its summer simmer mode popular movie screenings at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens segues into the high heat of the official season.
It has long been an accepted wisdom that A&L plays a vital role in what makes Santa Barbara such a special place, culturally and otherwise. Luckily for us, the series also ranks highly in comparison to other such programs in the UC system, with exclusives, long-term projects and alliances, and commitments to local educational activities with visiting artists.
Music from a variety of genres flows through the university and downtown, along with world-class dance and the prized series of lectures from global notables. In the season’s first week alone, the offerings are kicked off by acclaimed young British jazz-pop wizard Jacob Collier on October 1, Martha Graham Dance Company on October 4, AI thought leader Mustafa Suleyman on October 5, and Nickel Creek on October 8, promoting a dynamic new album conceived and written in Santa Barbara retreat during the pandemic.
A strong jazz component this year includes both a rare visit from octogenarian legend Herbie Hancock and twenty-something sensation Samara Joy, in the wake of her surprise win as this year’s Grammy Artist of the Year. In other accolade-related news, we will get not one, but two, encounters with Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur fellow, and American musical treasure Rhiannon Giddens, heading the Silkroad Ensemble this fall (Nov. 9) and with her own group in spring (Apr. 23).
Classical music plays its usual starring role this season, as well, including visits from the Danish String Quartet (with a U.S. premiere of new music by Thomas Adès), Renée Fleming, the Kronos Quartet, Daniil Trifonov, Midori, and promising emerging artists in the bold Hear & Now series at Hahn Hall.
Lecture-wise, the list of speakers and interviewees (in the acclaimed Pico Iyer Speaking with Pico series) so far includes Walter Isaacson, Abraham Verghese, and Lauren Groff, as well as Adam Grant, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, and David Sedaris, among others.
A&L’s season is also a moving, malleable target, with late-breaking additions to the list along the way. Keep an eye on artsandlectures.ucsb.edu for more announcements. The autumn harvest begins in earnest, starting on day one of October.
—Josef Woodard
by Josef Woodard
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By now, the witty wizard of mandolin mastery Chris Thile has appeared often enough in Santa Barbara to be granted the keys to the city. But part of what makes his return visits so welcome are his innate eclecticism and artful blurring of musical identities. Which project/hat will he be wearing this time in our town? Let us count the ways.
Over the past two decades, Thile has appeared at the Lobero Theatre with his groundbreaking new-grass band Nickel Creek (with Sara and Sean Watkins), his acclaimed prog-grass band The Punch Brothers, and in solo Bach mode. Recent years also have found him on the 805-concertizing rebound via the hosting umbrella of UCSB Arts & Lectures, including a soothing House Calls streaming performance during the 2021 COVID lockdown.
Fast-forward to October 8 in the big house of The Granada Theatre, when Thile returns in a significant, epic form, with Nickel Creek performing music from their stunning and most venturesome album to date, Celebrants, which was literally conceived and homecooked as the three Creekers and their families hunkered down in a Montecito house during lockdown.
Coincidentally, two weeks ago, Thile’s big summer project found him on another mythic Southern California property, giving the West Coast premiere of his cheekily titled ATTENTION! A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl.
How was that experience? That was really, really fun. To do it with L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl was just a total dream. You worry, of course, that you’re not gonna be able to scale up to that sort of an environment. But it all ended up working out wonderfully. The piece is just this big old 45-minute
bit of zaniness, with playing and singing, talking and choreography though not actual dancing. I’m acting throughout, and my wife is the director of the dramatic aspect of the piece. It’s a whole thing.
You have regularly landed to concertize in Santa Barbara. Is this a special spot for you?
It’s exceedingly special. My dad had a good friend that lived up in Santa Barbara. Probably one of the first recordings of me making music was singing things like “It ain’t gonna rain anymore no more” and “Frosty the Snowman.” This guy had an early four-track [recorder] or whatever. So I think the very first recording of me that exists was made in Santa Barbara. [Laughs.]
Our sort of unofficial apprenticeship with Glen [Phillips] was hugely influential to all three members of Nickel Creek. We made a record in Santa Barbara, at Glen’s house, with the great Ethan Johns producing. [In 2021], we were holed up in this incredible house in Montecito writing the record that would become Celebrants a kind of coming together. It was not just the three of us, but our families as well. So all three families were living in this big house on the hill in Montecito, looking out over the Pacific and getting reacquainted after the A Dotted Line tour [their 2014 album]. We didn’t mean to take so much time off, but one thing led to another. There was so much going on for me, with [his inventive public radio show] Live from Here and for them all this Watkins Family Hour activity.
We’ve had so much fun making the record. It’s, by far, the most ambitious thing we’ve written, and the most collaborative thing. And playing it live now feels great collaboration is starting to feel fully consummated. That’s when a project really starts to take flight. You have the recorded version, and now the live
version is off the blocks and out onto the racetrack. And it feels amazing to be out there performing, night in and night out. And it is extra special to do so in Santa Barbara, where we have such wonderful memories, impactful experiences, besides the fact the record was conceived in Santa Barbara.
It is such an ambitious album, with 18 tracks and these overarching themes. I don’t know if the term “concept album” resonates here. Yeah, I’d say so. Obviously, there are cringey aspects to that idea. But there are plenty of brilliant concept records out there that you can point to. I think it’s fair to apply the term to this.
Your Hollywood Bowl piece is identified as a song cycle. Is Celebrants a song cycle, in its own way? Yeah. And I think, increasingly for me, there’s some ornery sort of self-defeating, anti-capitalist streak with my artistic instincts. [Laughs.] Of course, things have gone in the opposite direction from anything long-form or acquiring attention, beyond what a person is able to take in while they’re chopping carrots for dinner.
I still consider listening to music sans any other activity. I tend to be drinking a cocktail while I listen, and I write music and collaborate on music that is meant to be consumed thusly which means it’s gonna be relegated to obscurity. [Laughs.] That’s a pretty esoteric approach at this point, to make music that demands one’s entire full attention. And I’m so lucky to have band mates that feel the same.
The song-cycle concept can range from Schubert to the modern work of such composers as Gabriel Kahane and you, as well. Is that a rewarding path to follow? Gabe is a master of musical narrative. Traditionally speaking, narrative musical activity has not always been a fringe pursuit. Think of musical theater. That world, in essence, relates to the concept of narrative song cycles. We’re not far removed from there being a whole freaking phenomenon of Hamiltons sweeping the entire world. All any musician heard about for a little while was, “Have you seen Hamilton?”
People still love music. That sounds like a platitude, but people still have the capacity to give their full attention to a big old helping of it. I mean [with Hamilton], you’re in for two-and-a-half hours. Of course, there are many people who feel like “I’m gonna sit down for an hour and listen to this record and not do anything else.”
Your wondrous album of solo Bach sonatas and partitas, Volume 1, came out a decade ago. Is Bach still a grounding presence in your life, in your daily existence? Oh, of course. [Laughs.] There is something so foundational about that like a yoga routine, almost. It’s like a reminder to breathe in and out. I think Bach feels that way to so many people. And talk about the truth in music not that more truth hasn’t been discovered since that time, but we get the sense that nothing about Bach has ever been disproved. [Laughs.]
I actually do think that it’s time to start seriously thinking about getting volume two of the Sonatas and Partitas on record. I’ve let volume one hang out in the breeze for a long time.
This version of the interview has been edited for length and clarity. To read the full interview, see Independent.com.
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by Leslie Dinaberg
It was none other than Mikhail Baryshnikov himself who helped Tiler Peck solidify her vision for her critically acclaimed show, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends, which makes its way to Santa Barbara on October 25 for its West Coast premiere.
The formidable choreographer and award-winning principal dancer with New York City Ballet makes her directorial debut with Turn It Out, an innovative blend of dance styles and pieces that have special meaning to her. “Every body that’s in the show is pretty much my favor ite dancer,” says Peck, clearly excited to share the work. “Every one of them, when I watch them, I’m truly moved by them. I love them as dancers.”
Among the dancers we’ll see on the Granada stage are tap superstar and founder of Dorrance Dance, Michelle Dorrance (who thrilled local audiences in 2019); So You Think You Can Dance Season 14 winner, Lex Ishimoto (about whom Peck gushes, “He basically can hold it down and bring it with Michelle Dorrance, which is insane that is pretty amazing”); and Jillian Meyers, whose work includes La La Land, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,
and Babylon. Peck also brings in her fellow New York City Ballet dancers India Bradley, Chun Wai Chan, Jovani Furlan, Christopher Grant, Roman Mejia, Mira Nadon, and Quinn Starner, as well as American Ballet Theatre’s Brooklyn Mack and Dorrance Dance company member Byron Tittle.
“I just thought how cool it would be to be able to showcase these dancers and everything that they can do,” says Peck. But it was Baryshnikov who convinced her that she needed to include not just a group of her favorite choreographers in the show Meyers, Dorrance, Alonzo King, and William Forsythe but also her own choreography to pull the whole piece together.
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“I was talking to him about these pieces, about this evening that I was thinking about putting together, and he said, ‘Well, you have to have some of your choreography; don’t you choreograph?’ ” She laughs at the memory. “I was like, ‘Oh, I do. But I would just never do that. I just wouldn’t want to put myself on a program with Forsythe, Alonso, and then Michelle Dorrance and Jillian Meyers!’ ”
But Baryshnikov convinced her to go for it, saying, “That’s what helps make the throughline, because you can’t be in every piece. This is your evening. So how amazing to have something that might be choreographed.”
Peck says, “I just wanted to basically surround myself with my favorite dancers and artists to watch who inspire me, who I knew would help me grow and make me better. I mean, at this point in my career, that’s all I want to do. I want to be challenged.”
It also helps that the cast has loads of fun together, she shares. “I want to be dancing with people that I love, both as human beings and as dancers, artists, and I am so excited for California to see the show, but also this piece in particular, because it’s pretty incredible.”
While it might seem like a stretch for a ballerina to work in such wide range of dance disciplines, Peck reminds me that she grew up in her mother’s dance studio (Bakersfield Dance Company, formerly known as Princess Studio) where “I trained classically, but that was secondary to my jazz, my hip-hop; my mom had every style, and ballet was definitely my least favorite. But she was so smart to make me stick with it so that my technique would be strong no matter what kind of dancer or dance form I wanted to go into. And it wasn’t until I went to SAB [School of American Ballet] at 14 that I really fell in love with ballet.”
She continues, “So in this show, I feel like I get to be the most authentic version of myself because I get to do all the forms of dancing that I love and also be wearing
pointe shoes and be a ballerina. It feels really comfortable.”
The name of the show, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck, is an outgrowth of her pandemic project gone viral. Encouraged by her sister Myka Peck who was the principal of Garces Memorial High School in Bakersfield at the time to do an online dance class for students, Tiler decided to try Instagram Live out at the same time, thinking, “I bet a lot of kids are at home that maybe don’t have a dance studio. Right away, the number was like 15,000 people or something taking class. I didn’t know what that number was.”
#TurnItOutWithTiler, her IG Live dance classes, quickly grew even more, attracting stars such as Jennifer Garner, Kelly Ripa, and Sarah Jessica Parker, and eventually a guest list that included dance celebrities like Debbie Allen and Leslie Odom Jr.
“I guess a lot of people actually really needed this. That’s what got me through COVID and kept me motivated and wanting to do things was knowing how many people I was getting to dance with every day,” says Peck. “I wasn’t in the room with them, but I knew I had all these people counting on me. And it held me accountable and got me to dance to give me something to look forward to every day.”
Now Santa Barbara has its very own inperson Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends performance to look forward to, presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures on October 25 at the Granada.
See artsandlectures.ucsb.edu for tickets and more information.
by Josef Woodard
The “lectures” component of the UCSB Arts & Lectures program is an impressive ingredient in the dual equation, which sometimes requires the big house of the Arlington or the Granada when the on-campus home base of Campbell Hall isn’t sufficient for the audience demand.
This season, lectures are organized loosely into categories. “Word of Mouth,” dealing with relevant current topics and areas of global interest, features a list of writers, including historian Jill Lepore (Oct. 24) and psychologist and professor Adam Grant whose new book is the ondemand Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, popular enough to warrant his appearance at the Arlington Theatre on November 16. Nicholas Thompson (high-ranking positions with
The Atlantic and Wired) and Nita Farahany (The Battle for Your Brain) team up to address the AI elephant in humanity’s room on January 31, 2024. On April 24, Pulitzer Prize–winning Evan Osnos discusses U.S.–China relations.
Environmental issues take the spotlight in a new category, “Earth, Air, Fire, Water,” kicking off with investigative journalist and author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell (Oct. 17). Oceanic life during the climate crisis is the topic for Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (May 7) and oceanic photographer Cristina Mittermeier (Apr. 16), while tree life is in focus for forest ecologist Suzanne Simard (May 1).
Famed writer, travel-philosopher, and essayist Pico Iyer, who grew up in Santa Barbara and maintains roots here while living in Japan, has taken on a unique
role as onstage interviewer for significant visitors with the beloved Speaking with Pico series. When prized fiction author George Saunders sat across from Iyer on the Campbell Hall stage a few years ago, Saunders expressed his great admiration for the insights of his interlocutor flying without notes.
This season’s roster of Pico encounters kicks off formidably, with noted biographer Walter Isaacson on October 26. Isaacson’s latest subject: Elon Musk. On February 21, Iyer speaks with physician/author Abraham Verghese, whose book The Covenant of Water was hailed by another celebrated Santa Barbara (well, Montecitan), Oprah Winfrey. Novelist and short-story writer
Lauren Groff speaks with Pico on April 9. The lectures list is an evolving organism, growing as late-breaking additions drop into the calendar. Recent additions include AI developer and now cautionary sage (à la post-Hiroshima Robert Oppenheimer) Mustafa Suleyman (Oct. 5), Robin Wall Kimmerer speaking on indigenous botany (Nov. 14), and Eddie Ndopu speaking on disability (Nov. 2). Back by popular demand is author raconteur David Sedaris (Nov. 4).
As usual, A&L’s lectures series taps worldly, lofty speakers and offers the community a diverse range of subjects to talk about and think about.
Enjoy 5 days of incredible lms from around the world plus guest speakers, a musical performance, opening night reception, co ee and bagels, and more.
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The Southwestern pop-tinged Americana supergroup has maintained a faithful following with their unique blend of punk rock, country-western, and mariachi influences.
Dave Hause & The Mermaid combines Americana tones and socially driven lyrics with punk spirit.
GTLO captures the essence of Led Zeppelin’s recorded music and brings it to the stage in all its depth and glory.
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When and how did Blues, Country, Folk, Soul, Reggae, Classical, Jazz, Electronic, and Rock styles converge? Take a musical journey with us from the 1960s to the present and find out! Archival film footage, curated from the respective libraries of Hale Milgrim (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.
Thirty years after her formative busking days in Paris, the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso is an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours, the proud curator of nine beguiling albums, and her countless accolades include the coveted BBC International Artist of The Year honor. 2023 finds the prolific musician continuing her world tour around the 2021 release of Careless Love Deluxe Anniversary Edition.
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Shop gently used books ranging across 50 categories, including children's books, LGBTQ+ and feminism, as well as CDs, DVDs, puzzles, maps, and more. On Thursday, take advantage of the first chance to buy items before the sale officially starts and participate in the silent auction ($30). The book sale goes through September 24 with proceeds going toward Planned Parenthood. Thu.: 4-8pm; Fri.-Sat.: 10am8pm; Sun.: 10am-6pm; Mon.: noon-8pm; Tue.-Wed.: noon-6pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Free booksale.ppcentralcoast.org
9/14: Chaucer’s Book-Signing: Journalist Katya Cengel Journalist and author Katya Cengel will sign copies and be in conversation with Mandy Jackson-Beverly about her new book, Straitjackets and Lunch Money: A 10-Year-Old in a Psychosomatic Ward, a raw account of childhood mental illness modeled after her own experience in 1986. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787 or email events@chaucersbooks.com chaucersbooks.com/event
9/14: Friendship Center Adult Day Services 11th Annual Wine Down Enjoy local wines, hors d’oeuvres, and live music, all to raise funds for LEAP (Life Enrichment Activity Program), which provides music, movement, and excursion programs for seniors with dementia. 4pm. Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Ln. $100. Email sophia@friendshipcentersb.org friendshipcentersb.org/wd2023
9/14: The Power to Be: A Lecture by Anthony Sonnenberg Artist Anthony Sonnenberg, whose work ranges from porcelain to performance, will explore expressions of power through decoration within various cultures. The artist’s work will be featured in the exhibition WARES! Extraordinary Ceramics and the Ordinary Home through September 17. 5-6pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free-$5. Call (805) 963-4364 or email info@sbma.net sbma.net/events
9/14: Family Service Agency of S.B. County: The Gift of Healthy Aging Professionals in healthcare will present valuable insights and tips to enhance the lives of individuals and families seeking to enhance their quality of life as they age. Topics include Encouraging Active, Rewarding Lives; Tips to Gracefully Age in Place; Advance Care Directives; and Support for Family Caregivers 8:30-10:30am. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 965-1001 x1223 or email yleal@fsacares.org fsacares.org/events
FRIDAY 9/15
Solvang Danish Days Immerse yourself in all things Danish with activities for all ages, including three parades, an artisanal crafts marketplace, a wine and beer garden, æbleskiver breakfasts, story time with Hans Christian Andersen, a Lego building competition, axe-throwing, folk dancers, outdoor concerts, ceremonies, and more. Visit the website for the full schedule. Fri.: 4-9pm; Sat.: 8:30am-9pm; Sun.: 8:30am-4pm. Various locations, Solvang. GA: free-$12; Dane for a Day VIP Package: $100. Call (877) 327-2656 or email solvang@stilettomarketing.com. solvangdanishdays.org
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
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SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
9/15: Isla Vista Recreation & Park District
Presents Movies in the Park: The Flash Watch 2023’s The Flash (Rated PG-13) as he travels through time to prevent the murder of his mother but unwittingly causes changes that create a multiverse. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided while supplies last. 8pm. Anisq’Oyo’ Park Amphitheater, 950 Embarcadero Del Mar. Free. Call (805) 968-2017. independent.com/ events/movies-in-the-park-5
9/15-9/17: The Community Arts Workshop (CAW) Exhibit Opening: The Future That Never Came This group show will feature eight assemblage and collage artists who explore the theme of retrofuturism, a movement in the creative arts showing depictions of the future produced in an earlier era, such as The Jetsons and Star Trek. The exhibit also shows on September 23. Fri.: 5-8pm; Sat.: noon-5pm; Sun.: noon-4pm. S.B. CAW, 631 Garden St. Free. Call (805) 324-7443 or email svanhorsen@ cox.net Read more on pg. 40. sbcaw.org/upcoming
SATURDAY 9/16
9/16: Eastside Library 50th Birthday Bash! Join the celebration of 50 years of shared knowledge and community building in the Eastside neighborhood with Lotéria, mariachi, crafts, and more! Tacos and cupcakes will be served while supplies last. 11am-4pm. Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Free. (805) 9633727. tinyurl.com/EastsideBirthday
9/14: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 3643043. satellitesb.com
9/14-9/20: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu., Fri.: Grateful Shred, 8pm. $30-$60. Ages 21+. Sat.: Krooked Kings, Night Cap, 9pm. $18. Ages 21+.
Sun.: Andres Vadin Trio, 7:30pm. $25-$30.
Mon.: Mike Love: Unite to Light & REACH for Uganda Benefit Concert, 8pm. $35-$40.
Tue.: Son Volt, Peter Bruntnell, 8pm. $30.
Ages 21+. Wed.: Taimane, 7:30pm. $25$28. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
9/14-9/16: Lost Chord Guitars Thu.: Mary Scholz, 8pm. $11. Fri.: Alan Satchwell
Jazz Quartet, 8pm. $10 suggested donation.
Sat.: Matt Moody, 8pm. $11. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com
9/15-9/16: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Dead Set, 8pm. Sat.: Soul Majestic Acoustic, 8pm. 634 State St. Free Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
9/15: S.B. Sailing Center Music on the Water Chris Fossek, 6:30pm. S.B. Sailing Center, 302 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $85. Call (805) 962-2826 or email anchor@sbsail.com tinyurl.com/MusicOnTheWater
9/15-9/16: Uptown Lounge Fri.: Mark Alvarado, The Trio, 6pm. Terry and the Ripleys, 9pm. Sat.: Missbehavin’, 9pm. 3126 State St. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events
9/15-9/17: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Runaway Band, 8:30pm. Sat.: Jimmy Rankin, 1pm. Crown City Bombers, 8:30pm. Sun.: Adrian Galysh, noon. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/ event-calendar
9/16: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Jacob Cole, 7pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@ arrowsmithwine.com. arrowsmithwine.com/events
9/16-9/17: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: The Reserve, 1:30-4:30pm. Brian Kinsella Band, 5-8pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan, 1:30-4:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
9/16: Hook’d Bar and Grill Marika and the Ohms, 4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
9/16: S.B. Bowl Van Morrison, James Hunter. 7pm. $55.50-$300.50. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com
9/17: Eos Lounge BAAD Sunday, noon. Ages 21+. 500 Anacapa St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com
9/17: S.B. Wine Collective Natalie Clarissa Trio, 2:30pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free. Call (805) 456-2700. santa barbarawinecollective.com/events
9/17: Au Bon Climat Tasting Room Live Music Sundays: Jake DeTar, 3pm. 813 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 963-7999. aubonclimat.com/events
9/18: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Don Darox & the Melody Joy Bakers, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
9/20: Carr Winery The Kinsella Brothers, 5:30pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985 or email info@carrwinery.com carrwinery.com/ event
9/15-9/17,9/20: The Blue Owl Fri.: Tony Ybarra, 7pm. Luca Ellis, 11pm. Sat.: Trio Grande, 7pm. Brandon Kinalele and Friends, 11pm. Sun.: Alison Tuma, Melody Collins, Tony Ybarra, 6pm. Wed.: Rat Pack Showcase and Open Mic, 6pm. 5 W. Canon Perdido St. Contact venue for price. Ages 21+. Call (805) 705-0991. theblueowlsb.com/events
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9/16-9/17:
Nomad Tango Presents Earth & Fire
Walking: A Tango Love Story Earth and Fire Walking is a stereotype-defying love story of two wanderers navigating between city life and nature’s embrace shown through Argentine tango and physical theater. Sat.: 7pm, Sun.: 3pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $32. Call (805) 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org
9/16: Dave Koz & Friends: Summer Horns 2023 This feelgood, high-octane summer show will feature Grammy-nominated sax virtuoso Dave Koz with special guests Candy Dulfer, the sax phenom who collaborated and played with Dave Stewart and Prince; and elite jazz, R&B, and pop saxophonist Eric Darius. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $85-$115; VIP: $195. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com Read more on pg. 41. lobero.org
9/16: Institution Ale Company (S.B.) Oktoberfest Celebrate Germany’s traditional folk festival with brats, pretzels (along with the normal menu), live music from Bottom Line Brass, and special beer releases with all beers $6! 11am. Institution Ale Company, 516 State St. Free. Call (805) 482-3777. tinyurl.com/InstitutionOktoberfest
9/16: Help Plant 100 Trees at Stow Grove Park Help to get the grove back to what Edgar Stow had envisioned from the beginning. We will provide all tools, materials, and knowledge necessary to successfully plant a tree. Bring sunscreen, a hat, comfortable boots, and work gloves. Refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP. 9-11am. Stow Grove Park, 580 N. Patera Ln. Call (805) 562-5509 or email parksopenspace@cityofgoleta.org tinyurl.com/Plant100Trees
9/17: Chaucer’s Reading and BookSigning: Nikkolas Smith Nikkolas Smith, activist, illustrator, and author of My Hair Is Poofy & That’s Okay, I Am Ruby Bridges, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: The Courage to Dream, and New York Times bestselling The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, will read from and sign his book The Artivist, an inspiring picture book about how children can combine art and activism in their daily lives. 3pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event
9/17: Archaeology Day
All ages are invited to get your hands dirty and dig through time to discover the buried secrets of S.B.’s rich history as you interpret clues to reconstruct the layered history, learn how to sort artifacts, and identify your discoveries with the help of a Presidio archaeologist. 11am-2pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. (805) 965-0093. sbthp.org
9/18: Mike Love Benefit Concert Take in an evening of the unique and revolutionary take on reggae with Mike Love. By attending, you’ll directly contribute Unite to Light solar Luke Lights to REACH for Uganda schools. 6-9:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St., Ste. 205. GA: $35; VIP: $125. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
9/18: N.Y. Times Best-Seller Melanie Benjamin at Chaucer’s New York Times best-selling author Melanie Benjamin will sign copies and read from her latest book, California Golden, about two sisters navigating the euphoric early days of California surf culture and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/events
9/19-9/20: Ted Neeley’s
Birthday Bash and Screening Celebrate the incomparable talent and spirit of the Broadway and film star Ted Neeley with a screening of the 1973 rock opera written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar
There will also be a Ted Neeley Balcony presentation. Proceeds will benefit Rubicon Theatre (Neeley’s “home theater” through COVID recovery). 7pm. Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura. GA: $70; VIP: $175+. Call (805) 667-2900. rubicontheatre.org
9/19: An Evening with Comedian Brian Regan Deemed as “the funniest stand-up alive” by Vanity Fair, Brian Regan will bring his stand-up to the valley. 7:30pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $74.50. Call (805) 686-1789 or email info@solvang theaterfest.org. solvangtheaterfest.org
9/19: Film Screening and Panel Discussion: The War Shirt: A Dialogue with the Ancestors This documentary looks at the backstory of creating the play that explores the guidance of ancestral messages from African and Native American cultures in the creation of the play and documentary. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Reservations are required. 7:30-9pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. Free. Call (805) 884-4087. luketheatre.org/events
9/20: Al Stewart with The Empty Pockets and Special Guests The Scottish-born singer-songwriter of “Year of the Cat” and “Time Passages” (released in 1976 and 1978, respectively) will be in S.B. with his band The Empty Pockets to sing favorites and selections from his deep catalog. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $61-$71. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
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El Día de la Independencia de México suele denominarse “El Grito” o “El Grito de Independencia,” en homenaje al grito de guerra que inició una rebelión en 1810. Mexican Independence Day is often referred to as “El Grito” or “El Grito de Independencia,” a tribute to the battle cry that launched a rebellion in 1810.
9/16: Old Town Goleta Mexican Independence Day Join this important cultural celebration and block party while shopping local. There will be music from Grupo Radiante de Fausto Cruz, Mariachi Fiesta Mexicana, and Heart & Soul with a performance from Ballet Folklórico Patria Mexicana, a car and bike show, bounce house, library book van, and a visit from Consul of Mexico Ricardo Santana Velázquez. Únete a esta importante celebración cultural y fiesta del barrio mientras haces tus compras. Habrá música del Grupo Radiante de Fausto Cruz, Mariachi Fiesta Mexicana, Heart & Soul con una actuación del Ballet Folklórico Patria Mexicana, un espectáculo de coches y bicicletas, castillo inflable, biblioteca de libros y una visita del Cónsul de México Ricardo Santana Velázquez 1-8pm. 298 Pine Ave., Goleta. Free tinyurl.com/ElGrito2023
9/16: PCH Street Salon and Wine Lounge Presents Mexican Independence Day Community Market This event will feature live music, food booths, a farmers’ market, vendors, and free activities for the kids. Este evento contará con música en directo, puestos de comida, mercado de agricultores, vendedores y actividades gratuitas para los niños. 3-7pm. PCH Street, 117 S. H St., Lompoc. Free. Email events@pchstreet.com. tinyurl.com/LompocSep16
WED, OCT 4, 2023 | 9 AM–1 PM EARL WARREN SHOWGROUNDS
$5 Admission | Free Parking | Live Music
Aveteran of a legendary career in sports journalism that has spanned more than 55 years, Santa Barbara Independent Sports Writer John Zant is being inducted into the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table (SBART) Hall of Fame on Monday, September 18. Zant has covered many of the most acclaimed sporting events of the 20th century, from the Rose Bowl to the Olympics, and was a pioneer in covering women’s sports, among many other accomplishments.
To those of us who are captivated by the excellence of human endeavors, Zant has lived a dream that will echo into the future. He shares some of his favorite moments, memories, stories, and relationships from a lifetime in sports.
What is your favorite event you ever attended as a reporter? Game one of the 1988 World Series has to be near the top. I still guess it’s number one in the L.A. Times poll of what is the signature event in L.A. sports history with Kirk Gibson’s home run.
I was auxiliary press that day, so I was in the blue level. I wasn’t in the press box. It’s at the top two rows behind home plate. The seats in front of me were public. There was some guy there who was trying to impress his girlfriend. The A’s were up. José Canseco hit that grand slam to center field that hit the camera out there or it would still be going into the parking lot. One of the hardest-hit balls I’ve ever seen. Then Mickey Hatcher hit a home run and sprinted around the bases. After the eighth inning, Dennis Eckersley is coming in to pitch, and this guy in front of me with his girlfriend says, “All right, I have to beat the traffic,” and they left, so I had a view of all the tail lights in the parking lot.
You are always thinking about what you are going to write over the course of the game. Gibson came up, and I said to myself, “Well, this is the story. It’s drama; he’ll probably strike out, but that’s drama too.” There was drama on every pitch. He hit a slow roller up the line that he never would have beat out, and it went barely foul. Mike Davis went to second base without a play, and then the home run.
I wrote my story, and it went on the front page. It was a column, not a game story. I compared it to The Natural when Robert Redford hit the home run. Besides all the fans leaving, several sports writers left before the ninth
inning to go down to the interview room. I never leave a game. As Yogi Berra said, “It’s not over until it’s over,” so I was able to experience being there.
What makes the Santa Barbara sports media landscape unique? In the greater Santa Barbara area, [it’s the] five high schools and the natural rivalries between them. Because of its proximity to Los Angeles, it also has a connection to the Dodgers and the Lakers. There’s always been a lot of interest in those teams, which justified us covering those teams.
The climate and locality make Santa Barbara great for all kinds of sports. The oldest polo club in the U.S. and I think the pioneers of ultimate frisbee began here. You name it, and they play it here. Also, lots of great athletes have trained here and still do. Carl Lewis trained here before the 1984 Olympics.
How did you get into sports journalism? What led to you making a career out of sports writing? I was at UCSB and graduated in 1968, the year of the Mexico Olympics, and started at the Santa Barbara News-Press in the fall of 1968. It wasn’t just covering games; we all had to put together the paper and edit wire copy. There were teletype machines in this glass-encased room. There was a UPI teletype; there was an AP teletype; there was the New York Times teletype and this special thing called the race wire that transmitted horse-racing results.
I worked for the yearbook at UCSB. A friend of mine was sports editor of the yearbook my sophomore year, and I thought I could do that. In high school, I went to St. Francis of La Cañada Flintridge, where everybody played sports and everybody did extracurricular stuff. I worked on both the newspaper and the yearbook …. The paper only came out about twice that year because we were so busy doing everything else. We won the CIF Division 3A football championship my senior year. That was crazy for me to play in the L.A. Coliseum in front of 25,000 people after I had seen so many games there myself.
Sports were a big-time interest for me, but I didn’t put two and two together to become a sports writer. I graduated with a degree in anthropology, and I didn’t really have an idea how to become a sports writer. The key was my friendship with Donn Bernstein, the legendary sports information director at UCSB.
I was ready to head back to L.A., and Bernstein asked me what I was up to. I said, “Well, I’m looking at publications.” I actually applied to Sunset magazine. I liked selecting pictures. I didn’t do a lot of writing. I might have written a few things for the student paper, but I don’t remember. Bernstein said to me “The News-Press is looking for someone to cover high school sports.” I thought I could certainly cover high school sports. He called Phil Patton [the sports editor] that afternoon on Sunday and arranged for me to come up Tuesday for an interview, which I did and got the job.
What was your favorite part of the glory days of the Santa Barbara News-Press? We were a major institution in the community. There was the city government, and then there was the News-Press covering things and keeping an eye on things. My first year, 1968-69, was the year of the oil spill in January, 1969. The News-Press was all over it.
There was a little box on the front page every day, because there was still leakage out there, that said, “Oil spill in its 368th” (or whatever) “day when will it end?”
I don’t know how long that little box lasted, but you know like they say, the environmental movement started here.
Even though sports are supposedly fun and games, even as a sports writer, I feel that I am a part of something important here in this town and I’m contributing to it in a certain way because there is interest in sports in this town and some people read the newspaper because of sports.
Who is your favorite of all time and why? It’s hard to go against my good friend Sam Cunningham because of how great he was as an athlete when I covered him, especially when I covered him in the 1973 Rose Bowl, where he was the star.
Four years earlier, I would have said OJ Simpson was my favorite athlete, because the very first Rose Bowl game I covered on January 1, 1969 was USC against Ohio State. Simpson ran 80 yards for a touchdown and he had also run at the Easter Relays in Santa Barbara twice. He had all the glamour and glitz that OJ Simpson became known for. With what happened in later years, you realize we don’t really know these people.
But in the case of Sam Cunningham, I felt I did know him. He was just a great, salt-of-the-earth guy. He retired from the Patriots as the all-time leading rusher, and he went into some kind of picture-frame business. He lived in Inglewood, enjoying a regular middle-class life the rest of his life. He never ran around telling everybody how great he was. He left it to me or you to tell people how great he was. I kept in touch with him, too. I didn’t keep in touch with OJ. I just read about him.
A few weeks after that Rose Bowl I covered, Sunset magazine called. I flew up to San Mateo, and they offered me a job. But Sunset had no sports. I was interested in outdoors stuff, but I can’t say that I was interested in home furnishings and cabinet-making. The travel aspect of Sunset interested me, but I had just covered the Rose Bowl game and I sat across from OJ Simpson like I’m sitting across from you. Phil Patton said he thought they might be able to keep me on fulltime, so I said, “I’ll take that gamble to stay a sports writer.”
You were around during the inception of Title IX and one of the pioneers nationally when it comes to women’s sports coverage. How has that evolved to where it is today? One of the proudest things I’ve ever done in journalism was, in 1973, I wrote a four-part series about the rise of women’s sports. There’s no mention of Title IX in that series; it had passed a year before, but no one connected the dots. But there was still a movement for more participation.
Back then, most of the girls’ athletics in high school was intramural and run by old gym teachers. The girls had to wear skirts, and basketball was a half-court game. I anticipated what was coming down. I think I was a little ahead of my time in writing that series.
Sports Illustrated came up with their own four-part series on women’s sports a few months after that. Not that they were inspired by me, but someone at Sports Illustrated was thinking the same thing.
The first part was an overview, and I wrote about Lyn Carman. She was maybe the second woman to run a marathon.
Back then, the AAU [Amateur Athletic Union] had a limit of half a mile for women to compete, which was two laps. At no track meet was there an event longer than 880 yards for women. Then there was the old story about the Boston Marathon and women getting pulled off the course when they tried to run. Santa Barbara had one of the early marathons back then, and women were running it. I thought, why can’t women have more opportunities to play sports?
The second part was about the funding. The budget for men’s sports was like $100,000, and UCSB had five women’s sports and the total budget was $5,000. In part three, I wrote about whether the answer was for women to be able to compete against men, but the general consensus was that wasn’t the way to go.
The last part was just about the culture of women’s sports and how it wasn’t as “win at all cost” as the men’s. Originally the AIAW [Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women] didn’t allow scholarships. They wanted to keep it pure and amateur, but of course that all evolved, and now women’s and men’s sports are on equal footing when it comes to winning at all costs. I think that was a pretty good project that I did on my own accord.
I began covering the UCSB women’s basketball team in the 1990s, when they made 11 appearances in the NCAA tournament, including nine in a row from 1997-2005. UCSB budgeted $1,000 for women’s basketball when I wrote the articles in 1973. Two decades later, I was covering the Gaucho women as they flew to games all over the country and made 11 appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
On a bright fall day more than 20 years ago, Howard Sahm and his wife, Ruth, welcomed my oral history students and me to their 19th-century house tucked away on a back street in Los Olivos. Mr. Sahm, who died in 2011 at the age of 85, had lived his entire life in this very house, built by his grandfather. “This was all our dairy property,” he said, encircling widely with a gesture of his arms. “It was run by my father and me until 1964.”
He had known Los Olivos in a very different era. He shared boyhood memories of playing marbles on the corner, making newspaper kites, and delivering papers on his bicycle for a penny a paper. “I’d go five and a half miles every day, out to the stores, by the schools, up Figueroa Mountain Road ,” he recalled. “It was gravel roads until the 1930s, when they put down the blacktop. In later years, if we wanted to go to a movie on a Saturday afternoon, we’d ride our bikes into Solvang. There was a theater there where the Bit O’ Denmark is, and there was a bowling alley next door.
“Later, when I got to driving, after I became 16, there’d be a Saturday-night dance every week, oldtime dances here at the grammar school or Santa Ynez, and then the regular dances down in the Veterans Hall in Solvang. We had live music, not albums. Our band instructor was Bob MacDonald, and the principal, Hal Hamm, he played the clarinet, and then there was Ivan and Ellen Sorenson he played the fiddle and bass fiddle, and Ellen played the piano. For the dances up here, it was banjo, fiddle, piano square dancing. We danced with everybody two-step, foxtrot, polka. Girls asked boys, too. We liked ‘Melancholy Baby,’ ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz,’ ‘Let Me Call You Sweetheart,’ songs like that. Ruth and I used to dance, and we never missed a polka, but then I had the stroke a few years ago, and my right foot wouldn’t
quite track. And now I wouldn’t have air enough to polka.”
One of the students asked him about life during the Depression. “Everybody was in the same boat,” he said. “Nobody had any money. There was a hobo camp up by the bridge at Mattei’s. They’d come here and ask my mother for a potato, and I don’t think anyone ever got turned away. She’d say, ‘Okay, if you wanna chop some wood.’ They’d chop up a half a dozen pieces of wood, and she’d give ’em a potato, or whatever. But she wouldn’t give it to them just for nothing. They had to earn it. The work gave them dignity.”
He mused, “I wish I had a video of some of the characters we used to have here in Los Olivos. There was a big bench
outside the post office, and they called that the ‘spit ’n’ argue club.’ Those guys would come there in the morning, waitin’ for the mailman, sittin’ on the bench, and they’d tell stories: the biggest fish, or the biggest spread of horns on the deer. One fellow who lived up there, Frank Cooper, was a staunch Democrat, and there was another guy who would argue Republican, and they’d be struttin’ around, chest forward, roosterstyle, arguing….”
Operating the dairy farm demanded more and more of Howard’s focus over the years, and it was hard work. “We were milking 130, 135 cows,” he said. “We furnished milk to Camp Cooke, and we furnished milk to the creamery in Santa Barbara, and they in turn furnished it to marine bases, hospitals…. We had registered Guernseys, and in later years, we put in some Holsteins with them for a little more volume, less butter fat. They were all different, and we knew each cow, and all of ’em had names: Bossy, Opal, Suzy, Fanny, Petunia…. We had one that always had twins every year. It was easy to tell ’em apart. Even the Angus black as shoe leather, but every one of ’em was different.”
He continued, “Before we sold out, our contract was big enough for one man, but it wasn’t hardly big enough for two, yet it took two to operate. Then they closed the plant down in Santa Barbara and started shipping our milk to Los Angeles. That increase in the freight, and the contract and all that, was just economically hard for us. At one time, there used to be 12 or 14 dairies right here in the valley, and about 55 or 60 in Santa Maria. Now there’s just one here in the Valley Jacobsen’s out on Baseline Avenue and one in Santa Maria.”
He continued, “So, in the late ’50s, early ’60s, it was time to think about selling. One of the dairy men over in Buellton bought our cows. And it wasn’t easy. You know, you’re born and raised with something.… Back when we was operating, my mother had to cull a cow sometimes. It didn’t bother her; you’d come back, and there’d always be one to take the place. But oh, that last day. The last day, it was it wasn’t easy.”
All these decades later, Howard Sahm had tears in his eyes remembering. “Nothing was easy,” he told us. “But my dad always had a philosophy never ask a hired man to do something that you wouldn’t do. You work hard. And that stands true. You just work hard.” n
Steve Fennell’s connection to wine is rooted in, of all places, the balmy flatlands of Florida.
The state’s tropical heat and humidity isn’t ideal for growing fine wine vines, but that’s what got his grandfather, Joseph E. Fennell, wondering why native grape species thrived in so many regions of the world, whereas Europe’s coveted Vitis vinifera required more temperate climes. A plant breeder by profession, Fennell began hybridizing indigenous North American vines with European ones, experimenting with groundbreaking combos in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica from the 1930s until his death in 1990.
“He was not the first to put forward the idea of using native wild varieties as the basis for a cultivated grape suited to Florida and the tropics,” wrote his son, and Steve’s dad, Lee Fennell in a paper presented during the Florida Grape Growers Conference in 1991. “But the evidence clearly suggests that Fennell was indeed first and for a while alone in actively pursuing this approach to grape breeding in a systematic way on a relatively large scale. And to this day, he appears to stand alone in the intensity and scope of his search for promising wild varieties.”
Grandpa’s work was eye-opening to a young Steve, who was raised in Stockton, where his dad taught at the University of the Pacific. “I always thought it was really fascinating,” recalled Fennell recently. “It got me thinking about vines.”
While studying geology and geography at UCSB, Fennell worked for Heinz in the summer, researching tomato breeding for the ketchup king, and started
tasting wine in the nascent Santa Ynez Valley. “It hit me as an epiphany one day that wine production and grape growing encapsulates all of my areas of interest, from agriculture to the aesthetics of winemaking to the physical labor,” he explained. “And then the fact that all the premium wine-growing regions of the world tend to be in beautiful places with beautiful climates, I thought there could be something to this.”
The grandson earned a master’s in wine from UC Davis, worked for years in Napa and Australia, and returned to Santa Barbara County in 2006 to run Sanford Winery when the Terlato family took over from founder and regional pioneer Richard Sanford. He was there until four years ago, when he took a job as GM of Rancho Sisquoc in the Santa Maria Valley, where winemaking lore goes back even deeper than the iconic Sanford & Benedict Vineyard.
“It’s been an absolute treat to go from one historic place to an even more historic place,” said Fennell, who oversees a wide range of concerns on the massive, 58-square-mile Rancho Sisquoc, from vineyards and winemaking to cattle and land management. “It’s such a diverse operation.”
But he’s not the hands-on winemaker at Sisquoc that’s Steven Smith’s job so Fennell decided in 2019 to finally make his own line of eponymous wines. “It was the opportunity to do something on a small scale so that I could have a very creative outlet and make wines that I personally like to drink,” he said. “Hopefully there are other folks out there who appreciate them as well.”
mineral quality,” explained Fennell of the white. “That’s a pretty easy wine to pair.”
Dim sum is not the immediate inkling for wine, but that chard is a star on the weekend wine list at China Pavilion, where it decisively complements many of the three dozen or so selections. “I really like it with their dim sum,” said Fennell. “There are so many wonderful little dishes.”
The early results impress, showing rich fruit with spice on the pinot noir, intensely fresh violet on the syrah, and brisk, rocky goodness on the chardonnay. “It has a nice texture, an acid backbone, and a definite
The goal is to grow as demand demands, which right now is around 500 cases per vintage, sourced mostly from Peake Ranch, Bien Nacido, and Watch Hill.
But he remains focused on his job at Rancho Sisquoc and his life on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, where he and his wife who is retiring this year as a teacher at San Marcos High manage an extensive garden of fruits, vegetables, and ornamental flowers.
It’s a home he’s proud to come home to, even after driving from the remote reaches of Rancho Sisquoc. “Being around the corner from Elings Park is really nice,” he said. “It’s a pretty pleasant place.”
See fennellwines.com.
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Hidden on the flat, alluvial plains between Santa Maria’s suburban tracts, strip malls, senior centers, and ballfields, the Allan Hancock College Vineyard doesn’t boast the steep hillsides or stellar views that typify so much of Central Coast wine country.
by Matt Kettmann
But these four acres, where 50 different varieties and clones of wine grapes grow, serve as an outdoor classroom, teaching the next generation of vintners how to prune, when to pick, and almost everything else required to manage a vineyard. Just across the street, hidden behind the institutional facades of a community college campus, these same students learn how to turn those grapes into wine, working together to produce more than a dozen bottlings each year.
“We are focusing more on the practical winemaking operations,” explained Alfredo Koch, the head of Allan Hancock College’s viticulture and enology department, where he started in 2007 and helped build the onsite winery in 2014. “The students love the challenge of making the wine.”
The wines, typically priced between $15 and $20, tend to be rather excellent, frequently on par or outperforming wines that cost exponentially more.
Monterey and Paso Robles; the recently retired Doug Braun, who left last year after teaching at the college for more than three decades; winery lab specialist Kelsie Norris, who handles much of the winery’s day-to-day operations; and Federico Casassa, a professor of sensory analysis at Cal Poly.
But there’s also something special about that suburban vineyard too. Though not particularly beautiful, geologically unique, or dramatically sloped, the vines actually lie to the west of the border of the federally recognized Santa Maria Valley appellation, which may make the property the closest commercial vineyard to the coast in the entire Santa Maria area.
My rough calculations show Allan Hancock College Vineyard being fewer than 12 miles from the closest coastline, which is slightly closer as the crow flies to the coast than Solomon Hills Vineyard, usually proclaimed as the westernmost vines of the valley. It’s also much closer than most of the Sta. Rita Hills down in the Santa Ynez Valley, save for properties like La Barge and Duvarita that ride the line around 11 miles from the coast. But no matter the right math, the vineyard’s coastal proximity ensures that the Pacific Ocean’s influence keeps acidity bright and flavors fresh on the resulting wines.
I say as much as someone who reviews, through a blind tasting process, more than 200 wines from across the Central Coast every month for my critic’s job at Wine Enthusiast. I am repeatedly, and happily, surprised every time I see yet another Allan Hancock pinot noir or syrah or malbec scoring higher than brands made by betterfunded and more experienced teams.
Much of that has to do with the quality of the faculty. In addition to Koch, who started working on his family’s vineyards in Argentina at age 5 before getting degrees at Cal Poly and UC Davis, there are: vineyard operations instructor Ric Fuller, who has more than 40 years of experience in
They can be tasted for $5 and purchased every Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the campus winery, as well as during special events that include a 5K fun run every May and a festival featuring other colleges wineries from Cal Poly, Fresno State, UC Davis, and elsewhere held each June. The vineyard and winery will also be open to the public during the fifth annual Santa Barbara County Farm Day on September 23, just one of 17 stops that people can make as part of a full-day agricultural experience.
The attention couldn’t come at a better time, as Koch explained that admissions to the program have yet to recover from pre-pandemic highs. There are about 150 students currently, but the program which also includes the potential to study wine at the University of Bordeaux can handle twice as many. Many graduates go on to Cal Poly, Fresno State, Oregon State, or other wine programs, but plenty of people go right into making wine for a paycheck. “There has been high demand in the industry,” confirmed Koch. n
Ireceived a message from Hollister Brewing Company in Camino Real Marketplace to share with you: “As of September 18, Hollister Brewing Co. will stop operating at this location,” says owner Tom Fuhrmann, who bought the Goleta brewery from founders Eric and Marshall Rose in November 2018.
“We have enjoyed and appreciated all of the business over the years and truly enjoyed being a part of the community. Hollister Brewing will continue at another location in the future. We are identifying potential sites currently and will keep everyone posted on the progress. In the meantime, we are planning on producing our beers at another location to distribute throughout the local market, so please keep an eye out for your favorite Hollister beers at your nearest retailer.
“With that being said, we would encourage you to come in for a couple more beers or food at this location prior to the 18th and be at our team farewell at the Camino Real address. Sunday the 17th will be the final night of operation.” The business opened on May 6, 2007.
UPTOWN LOUNGE CLOSES: Readers Warren and Tom let me know that Uptown Lounge at 3126 State Street has closed. I haven’t received official word, but reader Tom says the business has been closed during usually open hours, and reader Warren says a local musician has posted the following message on Facebook: “My 29-month run of playing at the Uptown Lounge every Friday has come to an end. I was informed today that the venue has gone out of business and has closed its doors for good.” I am told that the business is now listed for sale on Loopnet.
PIZZA MIZZA REOPENS: A Santa Barbara tradition is back, as they say. You probably remember Pizza Mizza, formerly located at La Cumbre Plaza until it closed on October 16, 2018. Well, after a five-year vacation, they have reopened in a new downtown location next to the
turtle pond in La Arcada Plaza, 1114 State Street. “We have built a beautiful arcade to host birthday parties, family events, or to simply have some fun,” says the business. “Same great food that you loved and remembered. Join us for delicious pizza, pasta, salads, and sandwiches. Enjoy our craft beer and drink selections. Bring the whole family and enjoy our kid-friendly environment and arcade.” Call (805) 564 3900 or visit pizzamizza.com
CRUMBL COOKIES GRAND OPENING: Owner Shideler Bennett tells me that her new dessert destination Crumbl Cookies, coming to 5660 Calle Real in Goleta, will have a grand opening on Friday, September 15. “Crumbl Cookies is all about creating moments of happiness through our freshly baked, gourmet cookies,” says Bennett. “Our unique rotating menu ensures that there’s always something new to discover.”
Crumbl Cookies is a franchise chain of bakeries that specializes in baking a variety of cookies and serving ice cream. Based in Utah, it was started in 2017 and now has more than 600 stores across the United States. Visit crumbl cookies.com.
WINERIES TO TAKE OVER FORMER FRESCO
SPACE: This just in from reader Steve H.: “Hi John, 23-25 E. Canon Perdido, next to the Lobero, former home of the illfated Fresco, will become a tasting room for two Santa Barbara County wineries, Lieu Dit and Tyler.”
DEL PUEBLO CAFÉ UPDATE: Reader Andre
C. directed me to a Reddit page that suggested Del Pueblo Café in Goleta is closing. I lived a block away from Del Pueblo Café when it opened in 1997 and it has been on The Restaurant Guy’s go-to list since that time. I reached out to management and received this reply:
“Hi John, the closing of Del Pueblo is not definite. What I can say now is that we are in negotiations with a possible new owner. Thanks for checking in. —Enrique.”
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Conceptualist “book artist” Linda Ekstrom has long been known to have her own personal way with books, to unique artistic ends. A professor at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies for more than two decades, Ekstrom is the subject of a fascinating retrospective exhibition opening the new Westmont RidleyTree Museum of Art season, exploring her love of books including the Bible and her love of deconstructing the physical objects, fastidiously reshaping pages and minute lines of text. Deconstruction leads to new and tangled meanings.
That latter part of the process has fomented some controversy in the extensive Westmont show, called Straddling Circumference, with some at the Christian college calling foul at the prospect of Ekstrom’s “desecration” of the Holy Bible. Ekstrom has shown her work in various art spaces around town, and beyond, for a few decades, but context matters in a Christian university setting. She stirred controversy over one work shown in a Westmont exhibition in the 1990s “Sophia’s Logos,” also in the current show. But with this exhibition, the art and the artist stretch out in the full regalia and overview of a Biblical reviser, with intellectual and spiritual seeker credentials in check.
Kudos to the museum’s director and curator Judy Larson for facilitating this deserving retrospective tribute to an important and distinctive Santa Barbara–based artist.
To play devil’s/angel’s advocate, Ekstrom’s “altered Bible” art can be viewed from a very different perspective, as part of a process of contemplation and a personalized “re-secration” of the sacred book, from her own vantage as a feminist, ideafueled contemporary artist and also as a Catholic. Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini ran into similar friction with the church, but his films explored spiritual conflict and inquiry from his viewpoint as a gay, Marxist Catholic. In recent decades, religion-questioning art by Andres Serrano and Chris Ofili has rankled conservatives and engaged discourse on the changing role of the church.
For Ekstrom, the Bible is a living, evolving fount of inspiration, not an inert text with fixed meaning. Just as Biblical scholars and seminarians parse potential meanings and revised references, her artistic means involved interpreting and reexamining the Bible, and exposing the patriarchal nature of the book and religion at large.
That process translates into such literally Bible-based sculptures as “Flourish,” a meticulously cut-up flowering of pages bursting out from its leather cover; or “Chains,” a long chain-like piece with each link made from a single Bible page, invoking the continuum between heaven and Earth. “The Women of the Bible” is a deceptively graceful fabric piece, its long, looping fabric embedded with all female references in the Bible, adding up to a surprisingly lean body of text.
Ekstrom’s list of inspirations goes beyond the Bible, and a modest number of pieces in the show spring from such nonreligious influences as Emily Dickinson and female mystic philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, and Teresa of Ávila. The
“Mary and Eve II” depicts these primary female figures in the Bible Eve as a wayward but sincere seeker of God, and Mary as the holy host who accepted God’s proposition, forwarding the master plan. The powerful duo is represented, with a pinch of pithy wit, in the form of a canning jar with water (holy water, we presume), an apple, and a plastic Mary figurine.
In “Word of Hand,” Ekstrom’s superfine dexterity comes in handy, having X-Acto-knifed all Jesus’s words in the Bible (printed in red in some editions), rolled into tiny balls, and stuffed in a transparent glove. Voilà, a way to grasp Jesus’s words in hand.
museum’s entrance gallery space includes such extra-bookish pieces as “Labyrinth,” made up of drawings both detailed and a touch chaotic; and “The Long Walk,” a linear series of memory drawings made with her eyes closed to chronicle a walk she once took. They feel like blueprints of circumambulation and the mysteries of memory.
But our attention is mostly attuned to her “altered Bible” art, especially given the prominence of that body of work, and as seen in this space on this campus. Beyond the subject matter involved, Ekstrom’s artistic practice involves an ever-shifting array of inventive approaches to sculptural forms and change-ups. Her often audacious and for some, button-pushing ideas are transformed into craft-conscious and cleanly realized art objects.
If many Biblical pieces are, in fact, subtle and conceptual, the cloistered back corner of the main gallery is more startling: The elaborate “Menstrual Liturgical Cycle” indicts the repressive, diminishing view of women in the Catholic church with neat rows of silk squares referring to the liturgical calendar, with a dab of faded blood on each. The piece makes an impact both dramatic and subversive, with a light hand.
For those of us who have been keeping tabs and admiring teasing glimpses of Ekstrom’s part over the years, the sum effect of Straddling Circumference can amount to a revelation. Yet the revelation is not so much any crafty shock effect, but a long arc appreciation of how her artistic and, yes, spiritual obsessions fit together in a grand design all her own.
Josef WoodardGrowing up in Lakewood, CA, a Los Angeles suburb with the easily mockable motto “Tomorrow’s City Today,” “It was so not that,” laughs Sue Van Horsen. That notion did provide inspiration for the Santa Barbara–based assemblage artist, however. “It always stuck with me that tomorrow really never happens. You know, it’s always today or yesterday. It’s never tomorrow.”
She was joking around with some artist friends about it, and they all agreed that the notion of the retro versions of the future would make a great show theme. “And then Asteroid City came out, and suddenly we’re like, cutting edge.”
The result is a group show, The Future That Never Came , featuring eight assemblage and collage artists exploring the theme of retrofuturism a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. Inspired by sci-fi shows like Star Trek, Lost in Space, Gigantor, and Johnny Quest, Van Horsen is bringing together some of Santa Barbara’s coolest collage and assemblage artists for a 10-day show beginning September 15 at the Community Arts Workshop Gallery (CAW).
Artists include: Tony Askew, Adrienne De Guevara, Dan Levin, Michael E. Long, Jamie Joelle Nielsen, Norm Reed, Dug Uyesaka, Frank Whipple, and Van Horsen herself. The opening night party is September 15, from 5-8 p.m. at CAW, 631 Garden Street. Additional open hours are September 16 from noon to 5 p.m.; September 17 from noon to 3 p.m.; and September 23 from noon to 3 p.m.; with weekday and other special viewings available on request. —Leslie
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Instrumental jazz musician Dave Koz brings his tour Dave Koz & Friends: Summer Horns to Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre on Saturday, September 16. This summer alone, the nine-time Grammy nominee has graced stages around the world with his iconic style of summertime feel-good music. Now, for the last leg of his summer tour, Koz returns to where it all began.
“It’s hard to not have where you are and where you’re raised kind of seep into the music that you make,” Koz said. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, Koz talked to me about growing up in Southern California, and its relationship to his musical journey.
“I was dealing with being gay and not having an ability to get that out,” he said. “And so the saxophone just became the vehicle for me to express a lot of the things that I didn’t have words for.” This desire for expression would lead to the beginnings of a career as a musician, when after college Koz found a gig playing with musician Bobby Caldwell’s band in Los Angeles. “The next thing I knew, I was on the stage with him, and we were playing in front of the who’s who of L.A.” For Koz, this opened the door to the world of music.
Since his early gigs, Dave Koz has earned success, praise, and plenty of performance experience. He talked about the special experience of playing at the Hollywood Bowl a venue Koz has enjoyed performing at 10 times. “My mom and dad used to take my brother and sister and I to the Hollywood Bowl countless times when we were growing up,” he said. “I remember the first time that I ever played there. My mom and dad came, and it was a full-circle experience.” For Koz, taking the stage at the Hollywood Bowl
never gets old no matter how often he does it. “There’s only one feeling better, and that’s leaving the stage at the end,” he joked. “The whole week leading up to it, I was just a bag of nerves.”
Koz places so much importance on performances because, for him, the music comes to life playing live on stage. For this reason, Koz feels the labels of “smooth” or “contemporary jazz” misrepresent instrumental music, these descriptors being genres of polished radio music culture. “You know, most of the people who’ve been doing this for a long time, under the smooth jazz banner,
are really incredible live performers who throw everything at the music to create these very exciting moments on stage.”
For the 2023 tour of Summer Horns, Koz is joined by his band, which includes two additional saxophonists around which the concert is centered. Eric Darius, who recently released his album Breakin’ Thru, “represents a little bit more of the young influence of instrumentalists and saxophone players,” Koz said, juxtaposing him with the veteran performer Candy Dulfer. “She’s had worldwide hits; people all over the world know her,” said Koz. “When you get three people playing together with great arrangements and a killer band behind you, it’s just full of energy, it’s full of life.”
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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries photographer Wynn Bullock had a simple, effective way of dealing with his problems and suffering. He said, “Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.” I highly recommend you experiment with his approach in the coming weeks. You are primed to develop a more intimate bond with the flora and fauna in your locale. Mysterious shifts now unfolding in your deep psyche are making it likely that you can discover new sources of soulful nourishment in natural places even those you’re familiar with. Now is the best time ever to hug trees, spy omens in the clouds, converse with ravens, dance in the mud, and make love in the grass.
(Apr. 20-May 20): Creativity expert Roger von Oech says businesspeople tend to be less successful as they mature because they become fixated on solving problems rather than recognizing opportunities. Of course, it’s possible to do both untangle problems and be alert for opportunities and I’d love you to do that in the coming weeks. Whether or not you’re a businessperson, don’t let your skill at decoding riddles distract you from tuning into the new possibilities that will come floating into view.
(May 21-June 20): Gemini author Fernando Pessoa wrote books and articles under 75 aliases. He was an essayist, literary critic, translator, publisher, philosopher, and one of the great poets of the Portuguese language. A consummate chameleon, he constantly contradicted himself and changed his mind. Whenever I read him, I’m highly entertained but sometimes unsure of what the hell he means. He once wrote, “I am no one. I don’t know how to feel, how to think, how to love. I am a character in an unwritten novel.” And yet Pessoa expressed himself with great verve and had a wide array of interests. I propose you look to him as an inspirational role model in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be as intriguingly paradoxical as you dare. Have fun being unfathomable. Celebrate your kaleidoscopic nature.
(June 21-July 22): “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Cancerian author Henry David Thoreau said that. I don’t necessarily agree. Many of us might prefer love to truth. Plus, there’s the inconvenient fact that if we don’t have enough money to meet our basic needs, it’s hard to make truth a priority. The good news is that I don’t believe you will have to make a tough choice between love and truth anytime soon. You can have them both! There may also be more money available than usual. And if so, you won’t have to forgo love and truth to get it.
LEO
(July 23-Aug. 22): Before she got married, Leo musician Tori Amos told the men she dated, “You have to accept that I like ice cream. I know it shows up on my hips, but if you can’t accept that, then leave. Go away. It is non-negotiable.” I endorse her approach for your use in the coming weeks. It’s always crucial to avoid apologizing for who you really are, but it’s especially critical in the coming weeks. And the good news is that you now have the power to become even more resolute in this commitment. You can dramatically bolster your capacity to love and celebrate your authentic self exactly as you are.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Virgo writer Caskie Stinnett lived on Hamloaf, a small island off the coast of Maine. He exulted in the fact that it looked “the same as it did a thousand years ago.” Many of the stories he published in newspapers featured this cherished home ground. But he also wandered all over the world and wrote about those experiences. “I travel a lot,” he said. “I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” You Virgos will make me happy in the coming weeks if you cultivate a similar duality: deepening and refining your love for your home and locale, even as you refuse to let your life be disrupted by routine.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My hitchhiking adventures are finished. They were fun while I was young, but I don’t foresee myself ever again trying to snag a free ride from a stranger in a passing car. Here’s a key lesson I learned from hitchhiking: Position myself in a place that’s near a good spot for a car to stop. Make it easy for a potential benefactor to offer me a ride. Let’s apply this principle to your life, Libra. I advise you to eliminate any obstacles that could interfere with you getting what you want. Make it easy for potential benefactors to be generous and kind. Help them see precisely what it is you need.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In your history of togetherness, how lucky and skillful have you been in synergizing love and friendship? Have the people you adored also been good buddies? Have you enjoyed excellent sex with people you like and respect? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, these will be crucial themes in the coming months. I hope you will rise to new heights and penetrate to new depths of affectionate lust, spicy companionship, and playful sensuality. The coming weeks will be a good time to get this extravaganza underway.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Is it ever morally permissible to be greedily needy? Are there ever times when we deserve total freedom to feel and express our voracious longings? I say yes. I believe we should all enjoy periodic phases of indulgence chapters of our lives when we have the right, even the sacred duty, to tune into the full range of our quest for fulfillment. In my astrological estimation, Sagittarius, you are beginning such a time now. Please enjoy it to the max! Here’s a tip: For best results, never impose your primal urges on anyone; never manipulate allies into giving you what you yearn for. Instead, let your longings be beautiful, radiant, magnetic beacons that attract potential collaborators.
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s a Malagasy proverb: “Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly but floods the river.” Do you want that kind of love, Capricorn? Or do you imagine that a more boisterous version would be more interesting like a tempestuous downpour that turns the river into a torrential surge? Personally, I encourage you to opt for the misty rain model. In the long run, you will be glad for its gentle, manageable overflow.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to the Bible’s book of Matthew, Jesus thought it was difficult for wealthy people to get into heaven. If they wanted to improve their chances, he said, they should sell their possessions and give to the poor. So Jesus might not agree with my current oracle for you. I’m here to tell you that every now and then, cultivating spiritual riches dovetails well with pursuing material riches. And now is such a time for you, Aquarius. Can you generate money by seeking enlightenment or doing God’s work? Might your increased wealth enable you to better serve people in need? Should you plan a pilgrimage to a sacred sanctuary that will inspire you to raise your income? Consider all the above, and dream up other possibilities, too.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Piscean author Art Kleiner teaches the art of writing to non-writers. He says this: (1) Tell your listeners the image you want them to see first. (2) Give them one paragraph that encapsulates your most important points. (3) Ask yourself, “What tune do you want your audience to be humming when they leave?” (4) Provide a paragraph that sums up all the audience needs to know but is not interesting enough to put at the beginning. I am offering you Kleiner’s ideas, Pisces, to feed your power to tell interesting stories. Now is an excellent time to take inventory of how you communicate and make any enhancements that will boost your impact and influence. Why not aspire to be as entertaining as possible?
Homework: For three days, love yourself exactly as you are. Don’t wish you could change yourself.
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University of California Santa Barbara
The UCSB Department of Economics is creating a pool of lecturer candidates for the potential to teach one or more undergraduate courses for students pursuing the economics and accounting degree. We are particularly interested in candidates who are qualified to teach courses in tax accounting. Members of the pool would be called upon to teach lower or upper division students during the 2023‑2024 academic year, as needed. The number of positions varies by quarter, depending on demand and the needs of the department. Screening of
applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies by quarter, depending on demand and the needs of the department. Positions may range from 33% to100% with the possibility of reappointment, based on department need.
Please visit our website for a list of course offerings at https://my.sa.ucsb.edu/public/ curriculum/coursesearch.aspx.
A qualified applicant for the position will have a M.A. or Ph.D. in accounting, tax, economics, or finance. We will also consider candidates with a B.A./ B.S. in accounting, tax, economics, or finance, a CPA licensure, and at least 5 years of public accounting experience. Applicants must have at least 5 years of experience as a tax professional. Prior teaching experience is desirable. Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills are required. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship. Also, please note that the department cannot reimburse travel or moving expenses for relocating.
The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service as appropriate to the position.
The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at appointment. A reasonable estimated full‑time rate for this position at 100% time is $66,259 ‑ $126,960, dependent on level of experience.
UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
Please direct questions to Ali Brieske, Academic Personnel Specialist, at (805) 893‑3569 or alibrieske@ucsb.edu
Please note: The use of a lecturer pool does not guarantee that an open position exists at the time you are applying. See the next review date specified in UC Recruit to indicate the next potential upcoming opening. If there is no future review date showing, your application may not be considered at this time.
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Coordinates and provides analytical and administrative support to a range of activities pertaining to academic personnel and administrative operations. Responsibilities include the coordination and evaluation of materials and processes associated with faculty recruitment and merit/ promotion activities. Independently manages departmental visitors and visitor procedures, which includes development of new and modified processes, tracking and management of visitor space, visitor training and access procedures, and development and maintenance of visitor information web pages. Coordinates special events including management of event schedules, publicity, database management, travel and entertainment reimbursements, hotel/ catering arrangements. Use discretion and good judgment in working with sensitive and confidential personnel matters as well as maintaining compliance with campus procedures.
Oversees student employees, providing training and coordinating work schedules to ensure coverage for specific weekly events. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 1‑3 years of experience working in a professional administrative office. Notes: This is a hybrid position. Must be able to commute to the UCSB campus approx. 3 days/week. Satisfactory conviction history background check
The full salary range is $27.29 ‑ $39.12/hr. The budgeted salary is $27.29 ‑ $29.92/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Application review begins 9/22/23.
Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 58847
Processes all purchase orders, invoices, and statements for payment following Student Health and campus policies and procedures; maintains accurate database of all transactions;
processes all documentation for recharges, travel, entertainment, reimbursements; audits Student Health credit card transactions; completes all deposits; provides a variety of administrative tasks for the smooth operation of services. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. Experience in relevant administrative work. Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suites applications. Notes: To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays.Budgeted Pay Rate/Range*: $26.24/hr. ‑ $29.26/hr. Full Title Code Pay Range: $23.60/ hr. ‑ $33.45/hr. *Salary offers are based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable and consistent practices at the University.The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58182
CAMPUS DINING
The Assistant Event Manager is an on‑site Manager for events planned by the Catering Division. The Catering Division consists of high‑end catering for the Chancellor and various campus clients, as well as Housing, Dining & Auxiliary Enterprises and Summer Conference functions. Provides support in event planning, employee scheduling and training, ordering & confirming rentals & linens. Responsibilities include invoice processing & post event labor & billing reconciling; maintaining storage unit and inventory of non food items. Assists with loading of trucks, driving and safe transportation of catering equipment and staff. Reqs: Education: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education or experience. 1‑ 3 years Catering or Event Planning ‑ specifically in the area of customer service, event set up and staff scheduling. Experience in supervising and managing staff. Ability to work effectively with others, Full‑Time and Student Staff. Excellent communication and customer service skills, including the ability to effectively convey information verbally and in writing. HACCP and Sanitation Knowledge. Demonstrated ability working with diverse student and career staff. Or equivalent combination of education or experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Work hours/days may vary. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $23.82/hr. ‑ $27.36/
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 9/25/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #58863
CAMPUS DINING
Under the supervision of the Office Manager, the Assistant Office Manager helps in the coordination of administrative services for a dining commons with 20‑45 career staff and 120‑170 student staff who prepare and serve meals for up to 1,900 customers daily and has an annual budget of up to $3 million. Duties include hiring, payroll and benefit transactions for student staff, running all CBord Menu Management System reports, using the Kronos Timekeeping System to schedule student staff and troubleshoot payroll problems and assisting with the training of student office assistants. Works closely with the UCen Access department and Housing’s I.S department in implementing and maintaining the lobby entry system (ACCESS). Serves as a backup in the absence of the Office Manager. Reqs: High School Diploma required/Or Equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years’ experience working in an office environment and knowledge in using Word and Excel /Or Equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Hourly Range: $23.60/hr ‑ $28.02/ 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 9/22/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #58794
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
This University Development Officer serves as Associate Director of Development, Parent & Family Giving within the Regional Giving program and central development office and UC Santa Barbara. They will personally work with donor prospects to optimize philanthropy to benefit UC Santa Barbara supporting all campus divisions, programs, interdisciplinary initiatives, and fundraising goals as outlined by the University. The Associate Director plays a critical role in managing parent and family giving throughout UC Santa Barbara, including collaborating on a solicitation and stewardship plan as well as working with key advocates and volunteers, campus partners and colleagues in the Development department and the Division of Institutional Advancement to support fundraising efforts. As a member of the Development Office staff, their fundraising efforts are devoted primarily to Parent & Family
Giving, with the remaining time devoted to Regional Giving, special projects, broader initiatives and other University initiatives, as appropriate. The Associate Director focuses on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual prospects and associated family foundations. Primary solicitation focus is securing new annual and leadership annual giving level gifts ($1k ‑ $24k) and helping to create a pipeline of major gift prospects ($25k+). Reqs: Bachelor’s degree; 1‑3 yrs of successfully managing professional relationships in business, preferably in a Development or higher education environment; 1‑3 yrs proven success in fundraising, sales or related business fields. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. This is an annually renewable contract position with no limit on total duration. Flexibility and willingness to travel frequently, primarily in California. Ability to work some weekends and evenings. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $80,000/yr. ‑ $90,000/yr. Full Salary Range: $74,300/yr.‑$104,400/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/20/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58624 Continued
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UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
Plays a key role in ensuring effective and efficient financial and business functions for Student Health Service (SHS). Incumbent performs and is responsible for complex financial analysis and billing processing at Student Health. Works with the Executive Leadership Committee in both current and long‑term medical service billing strategies, processes and revenue management related to University of California Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP). Manages the billing component of SHS Electronic Medical Record system. Oversees the flow of data between the SHS Billing system and other various systems. Audits and oversees payment processing. Acts as liaison with various on‑campus and off‑campus entities concerning billing issues. 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. Demonstrates flexibility in learning and adapting to new business processes, and University policies and procedures to meet both University and department needs. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting requirement of Dependent Adult Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check before employment and date of hire. To comply with the 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. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $27.16/hr. ‑ $32.05/hr.
Full Salary Range: $27.16/hr. ‑ $46.70/ 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 9/22/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58705
OFFICER
ARTS & LECTURES
Has full functional responsibility for all financial, personnel and administrative operations of the Arts & Lectures unit. Serves as an advisor to the Executive Director and Associate Director on high‑level matters of critical importance, creating and implementing short and long‑range strategic financial, personnel, and operation plans and goals. Directs contractors, vendors and departmental staff at select A&L events and has the autonomy and authority to represent the organization at high level meetings and events. Serves as a senior point of contact in the absence of the Executive and Associate Director. Responsibilities include management of all Arts & Lectures finances, including complex income accounts exceeding $10 million annually, as well as management at the department level of the Arts & Lectures $30 million endowment campaign funds. Has delegated signature authority for all Arts & Lectures funds. Additionally, the A&L unit is granted procurement authority to execute contracts for professional services in excess of $3 million annually; the CFO/COO establishes structures, policy and procedure to ensure success in
delegation and auditability of all department transactions. Handles high level contractual negotiation with agents/artists/managers. Responsible for complex financial reporting, including economic forecasting and modeling, projections on investment income, and advising the Executive Director on financial strategies and risks. Prepares reports and presents on financial performance and projections to the Arts & Lectures Finance Council. Responsible for directing the administrative operations on a day‑to‑day basis with broad impact, autonomy and authority to act, including managing the needs of all personnel and managing all space and facility needs for A&L. Exercises a high degree of autonomy in addressing departmental issues and creating departmental policy. Independently identifies issues, initiates research, interprets information, and acts on issues regarding personnel, space and facilities management, grants management, accounting, travel, payroll, procurement, contracting, and business services. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent training and/or experience. 4‑6 years’ experience managing the operations of a complex, multi‑faceted, and deadline‑driven organization. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Willingness to work occasional evening and weekend hours.The full salary range is $101,100 ‑ $192,300/yr. The budgeted salary range is $101,100 ‑ $150,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 57439
UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH
Assist in the overall operation of the clinical laboratory of the Student Health Service by performing the duties of testing personnel (as specified by CLIA 88) in the specialties of hematology, urinalysis, clinical microscopy, diagnostic immunology, chemistry, microbiology, and virology/ molecular diagnostics. Other duties include specimen processing, phlebotomy, data entry and instrument preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. Must possess a high degree of accuracy and precision. Must be capable of working independently while maintaining compliance with existing laws, regulations and policies. Must have the ability to communicate effectively with clinicians, patients, health service staff and visitors. Is capable of fast, accurate laboratory work while doing multiple procedures. Training and experience must comply with Federal CLIA 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Is familiar with common laboratory analyzers, equipment and Laboratory Information Systems. Maintains the equipment and the entire work area in a clean, presentable fashion to preclude injury to self and others. Adheres to safety and infection control policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree. Graduation from college with Bachelor of Science degree in major of appropriate scientific field. Current California Clinical Laboratory Scientists license at all times during employment. 3 – 5 years of training and experience sufficient to comply with Federal CLI 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Familiar with all laboratory equipment, including Hematology, Microbiology, Urinalysis, Molecular and Chemistry analyzers and other standard laboratory equipment.
Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Must successfully complete
and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Hourly Range: $39.32 ‑ $49.88/hr.
Full Salary Range: $39.32‑ $57.33/ 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 9/8/23. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58194
INSTITUTE (CNSI)
Under the direction of the Manager, Research Administration, has three primary areas of responsibility: contract and grants: is responsible for pre‑ through post‑award administration of assigned contracts and grants and research gift funds made to CNSI.
Duties include, among other things, proposal preparation and budgets, coordinating proposal submission and managing deadlines, analysis of award terms and conditions, University and Agency form preparation for all new, continuing, renewed and supplemental awards, subawards and contracts; preparing detailed reports and budget projections, keeping abreast of newly implemented policies and procedures related to C&G administration and personnel; working regularly and independently on complex proposals and awards; assuring sponsors are invoiced regularly and timely; and managing the award close‑out process; financial analysis: is responsible for reconciliation of general ledgers, maintaining accuracy of information recorded in the accounting system, researching, analyzing and reconciling financial data ensuring applicable university and agency rules are followed, preparing budget projections, assuring backup documentation is in place and identifying financial discrepancies or errors and resolving them appropriately. Reqs: Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience and 1‑3 yrs administrative experience.
Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Salary Range: $67,200‑$72,000/yr.
Full Salary Range: $67,200‑$119,600/ yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/21/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #58776
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
The Development Assistant serves as the primary initial contact for two or more Directors of Development and works as part of a team of administrative staff to provide essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful
operation of a complex fundraising program. Assists the Directors with all aspects of analysis, planning and implementation strategies for the Regional Team, to support the University’s overall mission by securing support from private donors (individuals, foundations and corporations). Also provides administrative support, which includes but is not limited to: scheduling appointments, making travel arrangements, directing critical calls, updating databases and spreadsheets, completing paperwork in compliance with University and Department policies and procedures, and handling confidential, high profile, and time sensitive matters involving senior UC Santa Barbara administrators, faculty, staff, collaborating institutions and the donor community all in a timely and professional manner in accordance with Development and UCSB standards, policies and protocols. The Assistant must be able to work independently, act with a high degree of initiative and confidentiality, anticipate job requirements, prioritize and coordinate multiple complex tasks with frequent interruptions while meeting strict deadlines in a fast paced and professional environment and potentially supporting one or more Directors. Strong technical, written and oral communication and social skills, unfailing attention to detail accuracy, policies and procedures, and effective problem‑solving and reasoning skills are essential. Must be highly proficient with Word, Excel, and Google Suite. Reqs: HS Diploma or GED. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Ability to work some weekends and evenings. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $27.29 – $29.18/hr. Full Salary Range: $27.29‑$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 9/21/23. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #58725
BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT
The Director works closely with the Executive Director on setting the strategic direction and managing all aspects of the Career Development and Alumni Relations Programs. Manages day‑to‑day operations, including executing career development services, overseeing enterprise systems, running alumni and employer relations, and conducting partner engagements. Works directly with students, alumni, employers, corporate partners, prospective students, Bren staff, Bren faculty, and UCSB personnel. Manages diverse job functions, including conducting one‑on‑one advising, designing and facilitating workshops and speaker sessions, managing Salesforce CRM software, overseeing career‑related DEI initiatives, supervising staff, and managing budgets. Reqs: The team seeks an individual with expertise in career development and advising, program management, workshop design and facilitation, enterprise systems management, and staff development and supervision. The ideal candidate will also have excellent interpersonal and communication abilities, strong writing skills, an eye for detail, a marketing and customer service mindset, and the ability to work effectively with students from diverse and multicultural backgrounds. To apply, submit an application, cover letter, CV/resume, and contact info. for 3 references online at: https:// www.jobs.ucsb.edu/ Note: Satisfactory
criminal history background check. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range is $74,300/yr. to $104,400/yr. The budgeted salary range is $80,000/ year to $95,000/year. 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 # 58544
workstreams and his participation on the project is critical. Reporting to the EMF Assistant Manager, this role will support the EMF Assistant Manager and Senior Accountants duties.
Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 4‑6 years Experience in accounting procedures and practices with thorough knowledge of accounting function and assignments, financial transactions and systems, as well as related policy, accounting, and regulatory compliance requirements. Thorough knowledge of analytical procedures used in accounting projects of moderate to semi‑complex scope. Ability to independently gather, organize, and perform accounting‑related analysis to complete work assignments.
Proven ability to effectively present information verbally and in writing.
Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly
Range: $27.29 ‑ $33.49/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 # 57647
Performs skilled electrician tasks for University‑owned Housing, Dining, & Auxiliary Enterprises (HDAE) facilities and its related buildings at on and off‑campus locations as outlined below, and may be assigned other duties (including those in other craft areas) to accomplish the operational needs of the department. In compliance with HDAE goals and objectives, affirms and implements the department Educational Equity Plan comprised of short and long term objectives that reflect a systematic approach to preparing both students and staff for a success in a multi‑cultural society. Reqs: 6 years of experience working at a journeyman level as an electrician in commercial and residential environments. Ability to read and interpret blueprints. Thorough knowledge of the NEC and the California Electrical code. Demonstrated experience installing and troubleshooting various building automation and control systems. Ability to work in an ethnically diverse and culturally pluralistic team environment. Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills. Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures.
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 Rate: $44.01/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 #57932
The Extramural Funds Accounting unit oversees the financial management of all external funding received by UCSB, including federal, state, local and other government, private contracts and grants, endowments, and gifts. Advises on matters of financial compliance and proper cost accounting. Responsible for financial reporting, cash management, accounts receivable, gift processing, effort reporting, review high risk expense transfers for compliance, cost share monitoring, and support to departments in managing Extramural funds. This position is needed to support EMF staff participating in a large project to transform UCSB’s financial management capabilities by implementing enhanced budgeting, accounting and financial reporting throughout campus using Oracle Financials Cloud (OFC) platform. This is a multi‑year project with representation from across the campus. The EMF Manager is the co‑lead for two of the project
Advanced excel skills as well as experience working with large data projects, data sets, and data extraction. Thorough knowledge of common desktop / web applications.
Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Salary or Hourly Range: The budgeted salary or hourly range is $67,200 ‑ $80,300/yr. Full Salary Range: $67,200 ‑ $119,600/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Application review begins 9/20/23.
Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 58720
STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE
RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS
Provides support for financial functions in Residential Operations.
Responsible for Accounts Payable, resident damage billing and recharge. Reconciles the general ledger accounts. Utilizes a procurement/ Accounts Payable system. Performs a wide scope of transactions including, but not limited to: processing invoices, vendor blankets, Flexcard purchases, personal services agreements and contracts, and records maintenance in accordance with Departmental, UC, and State policies and procedures.
Knowledgeable of UC policies and procedures. Serves as a Liaison for the campus Procurement department and vendors to assure adherence to UCSB procurement procedures. Maintains moderately complex technical knowledge of goods, equipment, insurance, and services necessary to conduct business. Daily activities vary as there are no set assumptions for the operations business; we are a client/ customer service and business needs change on a day‑to‑day basis. Reqs: Work experience demonstrating at least three years of customer service experience. Demonstrated budgetary and fiscal management skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google suite. Knowledgeable of the appropriate procedures to ensure accurate and efficient processing of paperwork. Experience demonstrating the ability to analyze and research products, vendors, parts or equipment relating to facilities maintenance environment. Ability to work independently to perform detailed and accurate work while meeting critical deadlines. Ability to apply a high level of sound, independent judgment, tact, ingenuity, and resourcefulness in overseeing assigned areas, including working with managers and customers, and solving problems during the course of daily business. Ability to establish and maintain job priorities when there are changes in workload and competing deadlines. Ability to interact as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment.
Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer
Exciting career opportunity working in a multidisciplinary, comprehensive University Student Health Service. The successful candidate will work under UCSB Standardized Procedures in a collaborative and collegial relationship with physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and other clinical staff at UCSB Student Health. Responsibilities include evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries, common chronic health conditions; assessment, management and/or referral of primary mental health conditions, routine gynecologic care, physical examinations, prescribing medications under the legal scope of practice and arranging follow up care and referrals as indicated. Reqs: Successful completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program. Must have a BRN and current unrestricted RN and Nurse Practitioner license, National Provider Identifier (NPI), CA Furnishing license, DEA license, and BLS certification at all times during employment in order to practice and function in their clinical role. Must have at least 1‑3 years’ experience as a Nurse Practitioner. Notes: Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment 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. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Flexible work schedule to allow afternoon time off is dependent on clinic staffing needs and can be subject to change. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range: $62.09/hr.‑$75.68hr. Full Title Code Pay Range: $62.09/hr.‑$80.32/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply 9/20/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 58717
Exciting career opportunity working in a multidisciplinary, comprehensive University Student Health Service. The successful candidate will work under UCSB Standardized Procedures in a collaborative and collegial relationship with physicians, Advanced Practice Providers and other clinical staff at UCSB Student Health. Responsibilities include evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries, common chronic health conditions; assessment, management and/or referral of primary mental health conditions,
routine gynecologic care, physical examinations, prescribing medications under the legal scope of practice and arranging follow up care and referrals as indicated. Reqs: Successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant Program. Must have a PAB and current unrestricted Physician Assistant license, National Provider Identifier (NPI), DEA license, and BLS certification at all times during employment in order to practice and function in their clinical role. Must have at least 1‑3 years’ experience as a Physician Assistant. Notes: Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment 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. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Flexible work schedule to allow afternoon time off is dependent on clinic staffing needs and can be subject to change. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Budgeted Pay Rate/Range:
$56.79/hr. ‑ $76.51/hr. Full Title Code
Pay Range: $56.79/hr. ‑ $82.82/hr.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply 9/20/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 58722
The University of California Police
Officers deliver police services to the University and local community. Officers patrol on foot, bicycle and in vehicles; respond to crimes; investigate complaints; arrest offenders; appear in court; respond to medical, fires and other emergencies; control traffic; provide law enforcement and security at major events or assemblies; engage in crime prevention; participate in community liaison meetings; safeguard the custody and disposal of found property and evidence. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent certification. Completed the Law Enforcement Academy. Knowledge of State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations as applicable to the police. Competent in defensive tactics and arrest and control techniques.
Shows sound judgment and the ability to process information quickly and thoroughly, while making effective and ethical decisions that are trustworthy and in keeping with the highest standards of conduct. Skilled in the operation of a motor vehicle under emergency and other police‑related driving conditions.
Skill and knowledge in the use and care of all firearms, impact weapons, chemical agents, restraint devices, ECDs, and other safety equipment issued by the Police Department. Ability and experience in using computers, including Microsoft Office applications, and law enforcement databases. Ability and experience serving and working well with the public as a solo officer as well as an effective member of a team. Accurate report writing skills including the proper use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, as well as the cohesive organization of facts and information.
Experience communicating in various forums: one‑on‑one, in groups, in stressful situations, in writing, as well as the ability to communicate using a police radio while keeping transmissions brief and clear. Notes: Please see job posting at https://jobs. ucsb.edu for detailed information on the special conditions of employment.
Full Salary Range: $44.19/hr. ‑ $55.57/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 57510
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
Manages the daily operations of the Associated Student Publications Service. The Coordinator is responsible for organization, purchasing, expenditure control, space utilization and equipment security, and daily operations. In consultation with the Assistant Director for Business Services is responsible for developing innovative solutions to a wide range of business problems. Oversees Notetaking inventories. Develops reports on sales of Readers and Notes Sales. Analyzes profits and loss from these enterprises and recommends course of action to ensure proper use of student fees and appropriate controls over revenues and expenditures to meet Business Services goals. Reqs: Ability to supervise and evaluate personnel with 1‑3 years of supervisory experience. Ability to work independently, anticipate job requirements, prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously. Exercises a high degree of initiative, problem solving ability, diplomacy and professional judgment. Notes: Campus Security
Authority. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/
Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $27.09/hr. ‑ $29.23/hr. Full Salary Range: $24.95/hr. $42.10/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 #58129
PHYSICS
Responsible for the day‑to‑day operations of Physics Purchasing and Receiving. These responsibilities require an understanding of University purchasing policies and procedures, vendor agreements, granting agency regulations and competency and resourcefulness in obtaining product information and other relevant data essential to making effective purchasing decisions. Assures compliance with EH&S policies regarding the storage of hazardous materials. In coordination with the Materials Manager, is responsible for purchasing, shipping, receiving. Delivers quality, cost‑effective and expeditious procurement services to all customers, exercises professional judgment using best business practices, and ensures compliance with federal, state and university policies, laws and regulations; works to ensure maintenance of internal controls and good relationships between vendors, faculty and staff. Is accountable for committing University funds and ensuring accuracy and compliance with procurement processes utilizing the departmental financial system and the UC web‑based procurement system. Primary responsibilities include the procurement of supplies and equipment for vendors, shipping and receiving. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 1‑3 years of experience providing quality customer service.
1‑3 years of experience comparing purchase orders and/or invoices to sales materials in order to resolve pricing issues. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check
Must be able to commute daily to the UCSB campus. The full salary range for this position is 27.29 ‑ $39.12/hr.
The budgeted hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.90 ‑ $30.60/ 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 9/20/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58704
CAMPUS PLANNING & DESIGN
The University is seeking a Senior Planner with strong writing and analytical skills to analyze project impacts and prepare, or supervise the preparation of, appropriate CEQA and Coastal Act documentation supporting campus development projects. The Senior Planner, in collaboration with, and in support of others, implements the Regents’ certified campus Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) to approve, permit, and gain entitlements for all campus capital development projects. Qualified candidates must possess knowledge of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the California Coastal Act, and must have experience with other regulatory agencies such as the Army Corps of Engineers, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Regional Water Quality Control Board. Reqs: Graduation from college with major work in environmental studies or sciences and/or city and environmental planning, and 4‑6 years of professional experience in planning. A Master’s degree in city or environmental planning at a recognized planning school is highly desired. Strong, analytical, written, verbal, organization, and interpersonal communication skills and working experience with MS Office are required. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record, and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program; Satisfactory criminal history background check.
Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $90,000 ‑ $112,700/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 57462
1‑855‑480‑0769 (Cal‑SCAN)
using SQL Server technologies, or comparable database management systems. 4‑6 years Experience designing, developing, documenting, and testing (including unit testing and test plan creation) information systems. 4‑6 years Experience analyzing business processes and information systems to ensure systems meet the business needs, and identifying opportunities for system improvement to better align with the business needs. Demonstrated ability to design highly complex data systems and integrations. Knowledge of relevant application development technologies and tools, including Power BI, SQL Server, SQL Report Services, SQL Integration Services, REST API, Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Git. Thorough knowledge of data management systems, practices and standards. Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non‑technical personnel at various levels in the organization. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $100,000/yr. ‑ $120,000/yr. Full Salary Range: $82,300/yr. ‑ $151,700/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #58526
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
completion of a conviction history background check. Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. The full salary range is $32.18 ‑ $57.28/hr. The budgeted hourly range y is $35.95 ‑ $44.73/ 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 www.jobs.ucsb.edu.
Job # 57696
Assists the Meetings and Events Manager with checking event confirmations, placing work orders, checking event set‑ups, scheduling students, recruiting, hiring and training student employees. Assists in updating event confirmation prices after events have taken place and emails invoices to clients.
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We are looking for a self‑motivated technical services engineer to join our Communication Services onsite team! Provide the installation, configuration, administration, and technical support for the Communications Services’ moderately complex Information Technology environment which includes, Voice over IP, central telephone system, application servers, electronic mail server, database servers, directory servers, workstations, peripherals, RF spectrum monitoring which includes, Licensed spectrum, Public Safety, ERRCS and Cellular site management. Monitors the campus’ primary communications facility’s infrastructure, power, HVAC, generator, and safety environment; coordinates repair activities with vendors, performs record‑keeping activities in computerized operational support systems. Performs new equipment evaluations, advises on modifications on such devices and the feasibility of electronic solutions to network technicians, engineers and other professionals utilizing campus and Industry standards, manufacturer reference materials and trade publications. Configures, installs, tests and maintains complex voice and data communications equipment, circuits and services in a blended communications network environment. Trouble‑shoots such systems and subsystems by exercising originality based on analyzing technical data from an understanding of complex voice and data communications systems and the interactions of associated sub systems or by adapting existing practices and techniques. Participates in installation, testing and troubleshooting of transmission facilities, by collecting and interpreting raw data. Participates in cross‑functional and cross divisional projects as scheduled, ensuring a high degree of technical quality and accuracy to support a varied customer community. Reqs: 4‑6 years Network Operations and Maintenance • Various hardware platforms • OSI Model Layer 3 protocols at a basic level • OSI Model Layer 2 protocols at complex level. 4‑6 years familiar or experience with Telephony operation, Maintenance and System administration. Notes: Satisfactory
Reqs: Must be organized, able to adapt to difficult situations and detail oriented. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $21.02/hr ‑ $24.72/hr Full Salary Range: $21.02/hr ‑ $29.53/ 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 9/20/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #58736
LEGAL NOTICESTO PLACE EMAIL NOTICE TO LEGALS@ INDEPENDENT.COM
ADMINISTER OF ESTATE
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GISELE STRASSNER Case No.: 23PR00183
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: GISELE STRASSNER
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: COURTNEY DESOTO in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
The Petition for Probate requests that: COURTNEY DESOTO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available foe 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: 10/05/2023
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COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Anacapa Division.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either
(1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.
Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer
Date: 08/28/2023 By: Rosa Reyes,
Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Cristi Michelon Vasquez, 132 East Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 882‑2226.
Published Aug 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: OSCAR
LOWENSCHUSS CASE NO.:
23PR00424
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who
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may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of OSCAR LOWENSCHUSS A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MAIA LOWENSCHUSS PALMER in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara
THE PETITION for probate requests that: MAIA LOWENSCHUSS PALMER and LEONARD LOWENSCHUSS 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:
11/02/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: SB 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.
IF YOU ARE A
CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.
Attorney for Petitioner: David E. Graff, Esq (SBN: 232343) 317 East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑8611
Published Sep 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA BARRISTERS at 820 State Street, 4th Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Barristers Club of Santa Barbara (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: OLIVIA P. YOUNG/ SECRETARY Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0001978. E30. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001927
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Adizes Research Fund, 1212 Mark Ave., Carpinteria, California 93013, County of Santa Barbara.
ICHAK ADIZES, LLC, 1212 Mark Ave., Carpinteria, California 93013; California
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/ Ichak Adizes, Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/07/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/23
CNS‑3726468# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: JAYA at 596 Vereda Parque Goleta, CA 93117; John J Birchim (same address)
This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JOHN BIRCHIM/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002044.
E40. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001939. E49. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
/s/ Mallery Mellinger, Managing Member
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/01/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/23
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002002
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT HEARING BOARD
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARASOLS IN PARADISE at 2001 Alameda Padre Serra, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Julie L. Deangelis (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JULIE DEANGELIS/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: PLANE SIGHT PROVISIONS at 7083 Del Norte Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; Nathan D Vanetten (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: NATHAN D VANETTEN/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0001928. E49. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: MIA’S COLIBRI at 3838 Sunset Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Julia Juarez (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: JULIA JUAREZ ORTEGA/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 16, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002020. E47. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2023‑0001925
Notice is hereby given that the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) Hearing Board will hold a public hearing to consider the following matters on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, at the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room, located at 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, California, 93454. Alternatively, the public hearing will be available via zoom for public participation.
REMOTE VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION INFORMATION TO JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING
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Case No. 2021-12-M3 – Mustang Renewable Power Ventures, LLC (Modification of Final Compliance Date and 17 Corporate Plaza Drive, Suite 200 Modification of Increments of Progress) Newport Beach, CA 92660 Hearing – To consider a Petition for Modification of Regular Variance from District Rule 206, Author-
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SAIA LTL FREIGHT, 850 Stowell Road, Suite B, Santa Maria, CA 93454 County of SANTA
BARBARA
Mailing Address: 11465 Johns Creek Pkwy., STE. 400, Johns Creek, GA 30097 Saia Motor Freight Line, LLC, 11465 Johns Creek Pkwy., STE. 400, Johns Creek, GA 30097
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 N/A. Saia Motor Freight Line, LLC
S/ Kelly Benton, Vice President, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/07/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/17, 8/24, 8/31, 9/7/23
CNS‑3716706# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
CNS‑3728846#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002009
The following person(s) is doing business as:
William Hines & Family, 1501 E Chestnut Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436, County of Santa Barabra. Brouillard Vineyards & Winery, LLC, 3636 N Causeway Blvd., Ste 300, Metairie, LA 70002; 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 Not Applicable
/s/ William M. Hines, Manager
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/15/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3732027#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001955
The following person(s) is doing business as: Central Coast Goods, 1208 Marigold Way, Lompoc CA 93436, County of Santa Barbara. Christian E. Sauter, 1208 Marigold Way, Lompoc CA 93436
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/ Christian E. Sauter, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/09/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3731188#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002003
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Taqueria Rodriguez, 1106 W. Cook St., Santa Maria, CA 93458, County of Santa Barbara.
9.C.6.c.ii, 9.C.6.c.iii, 9.C.18 (tipping area and materials sorting area biofilters only), 9.C.19.b.i, 9.c.19.b.ii, 9.c.19.b.iii, 9.c.19.b.iv, 9.c.19.b.v, 9.c.19.b.vi, 9.C.33.a, and 9.C.33.f, submitted on September 6, 2023, for continued operations of the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) without the following equipment that was damaged by the 2021 Alisal Fire: MRF baghouses, MRF scrubbers, and MRF biofilters.
The Petitioner is currently operating under Regular Variance Order 2021-12-M1, which provides relief through October 14, 2023, or the date compliance is achieved, whichever occurs first. Per Health and Safety Code §42357, the Petitioner is requesting a Modification of Increments of Progress and Modification of Final Compliance Date for Variance Order 2021-12-M1 to extend coverage through June 15, 2024, or the date compliance is achieved, whichever occurs first. If granted, the Variance would provide continued relief from emission controls, maintenance, monitoring and source testing requirements for MRF equipment damaged during the 2021 Alisal Fire.
The Petitioner operates the equipment described in the Petition at the Santa Barbara County Tajiguas Landfill located at 14470 Calle Real in Goleta, California.
Case No. 2023-03-A – (Abatement Order)
Central Coast Agriculture
85 W. Highway 246, #233 Buellton, CA 93427
Hearing – To consider a Petition by the Air Pollution Control Officer (APCO) of the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District submitted on September 5, 2023, for issuance of an Order of Abatement pursuant to Health and Safety Code §42450. Central Coast Agriculture, Inc., Central Coast Agriculture, LLC, Central Coast Ag Distribution, LLC, Central Coast Ag Farming, LLC, and Central Coast Ag Products, LLC (collectively “CCA”) operates cannabis product manufacturing, volatile extraction, storage and distribution facilities and is currently operating without the required best available control technology to control emissions, or the required District Permits, in violation of District Rule 201. The CCA facilities subject to this Petition are located at 1201 W. Chestnut Avenue and 1200 West Laurel Avenue in Lompoc, CA,
The Petitioner requests an Order of Abatement from the Hearing Board that CCA be enjoined from building, erecting, altering, replacing, operating or using any cannabis processing, manufacturing, or extraction (both solvent and solventless) equipment or performing related activities subject to District permits, and storing or purchasing any solvents at or for the facilities unless and until the required District permits are approved and issued and the required control equipment is installed and operational. Said Petitions are on file with the Clerk of the APCD Hearing Board and available for public inspection. Interested persons may submit written evidence, arguments concerning this matter, or make arrangements to view said Petitions before the hearing by contacting the Hearing Board Clerk at: variance@ sbcapcd.org, or 260 North San Antonio Rd., Suite A, Santa Barbara, California 93110.
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001901
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Adira Ergonomics Safety and Workplace Rehab, 27 W Anapamu St #175, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara.
Adira Occupational Therapy Corp., 27 W Anapamu St. #175, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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/ Monica Quintanilla Goldstein, President
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/02/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/24, 8/31, 9/7, 9/14/23
CNS‑3729230#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0001889
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Marlin Jockey, 139 W Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara.
Offshore Consulting LLC, 139 W Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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 Apr 06, 2023
The following person(s) is doing business as: Welcome Every Baby, 2424 Borton Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93109, County of Santa Barbara. Traile Easland, 2424 Borton Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93109
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/ Traile Easland, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/15/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3732469#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002007
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Elizabeth Sanchez therapy, 201 S. Miller St., Suite 103, Santa Maria, CA 93454, County of Santa Barbara. Elizabeth Sanchez, 201 S. Miller St., Suite 103, Santa Maria, CA 93454
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/ Elizabeth Sanchez, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/15/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3732473#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
Jesus R. Gallardo, 1106 W. Cook St., Santa Maria, CA 93458
This business is conducted by an Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 07/02/2023
/s/ Jesus R. Gallardo, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/15/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3732464# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002006
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Truly Organized , 133 E. De la Guerra St. #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara. Bridget Gardner, 133 E. De la Guerra St. #4, 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 06/26/2023
/s/ Bridget Gardner, Owner
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/15/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21/23
CNS‑3732466#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANGELES VISTA VENTURE, A CALIFORNIA GENERAL PARTNERSHIP at 5901 Encina Road, Suite C‑5 Goleta, CA 93117; Daniel E Braun (same address) Gary P Braun (same address) Monica Eiler 318 Avila Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Mahvash Afrahim 9012 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211; Parviz Afrahim (same address) Casey Shannon 296 Pine Tree Way Riverside, CA 92506; Courtney Shannon 2021 Oak Ridge Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jesse Shannon 340 Peachtree Road #2775 Atlanta, GA 30326; Judson Shannon 137 N Larchmont Blvd #674 Los Angeles, CA 90008; Travis Shannon 1860 Tatnall Square #308 Vero Beach, FL 32966 This business is conducted by An General Partnership.
SIGNED BY: DANIEL E BRAUN/MANAGING GENERAL
PARTNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 24, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001829. E40. Published: Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as:
RAVENSCROFT PM at 1709 Chapala St Apt 14 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kevin J Cyr (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual.
SIGNED BY: KEVIN J CYR/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 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: 2023‑0001941. E47. Published: Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL, 911 PROJECT HARMONY at 17 Romaine Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; 911 At Ease International (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: MICHAEL R MCGREW/CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 21, 2023. This statement
expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001819.
E62. Published: Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOOTHILL
REAL ESTATE, FOOTHILL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1011 W. Sola Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Foothill Real Estate 27462 Table Meadow Rd. Auburn, CA 95602 This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: STEVE FRENCH/
PRESIDENT/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002031.
E30. Published: Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CENTRAL
COAST GOODS at 1208 Marigold Way Lompoc, CA 93436; Christian E. Sauter (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED
BY: CHRISTIAN E. SAUTER/OWNER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 09, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001955. E47. Published: Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002036
The following person(s) is doing business as:
The Set, 1501 E. Chestnut Ave., Lompoc, CA, 93436, County of Santa Barbara.
Brouillard Vineyards & Winery, LLC, 3636 N Causeway Blvd., STE 300, Metairie, LA 70002; 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 Not Applicable
/s/ William M. Hines, Manager
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/18/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
CNS‑3732852#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BLUE
EAGLE SALES at 512 Calle Mastil Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Brian F Dutter (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED
BY: BRIAN DUTTER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002127.
E58. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28
2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: STAR
AUTO REPAIR, STAR AUTOMOTIVE
REPAIR at 254 E Highway 246 Buellton, CA 93427; Buellton Garage Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: JENNIFER HURNBLAD/
CFO 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: 2023‑0001883. E30.
Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GROCERY
OULE OF SANTA BARBARA at 2840
De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; CMR Foods Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: EDWARD
MICHAEL CALLAGY JR/PRESIDENT
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002097. E28. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: HAWAII STAR BALL at 115 Via Lee Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Dance Junkie Productions Inc (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: JOHN FISHPAW/SECRETARY Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 24, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it
was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002080.
E30. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA REAL ESTATE & MORTGAGE at 1727 State Street #1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Geoffrey Quaglino (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual.
SIGNED BY: GEOFFREY QUAGLINO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002123. E58. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CODY MARIE AESTHETICS at 27 E. Victoria Street, Suite H Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Cody Marie Aesthetics Management LLC 2108 N St Ste N Sacramento, CA 95816 This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: CODY PINCOCK/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 24, 2023.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Santa Barbara County HOME Consortium and CDBG Urban County Partnership 2022-23 Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report (CAPER)
The County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department’s Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) invites comments on the HOME Consortium and CDBG Urban County Partnership 2022-23 Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The Santa Barbara Urban County Partnership includes the County and the member cities of Buellton, Carpinteria, and Solvang. The HOME Consortium is comprised of the Urban County members and the cities of Goleta, Lompoc, and Santa Maria.
The CAPER summarizes and evaluates previous year achievements using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program funds allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a local government performance reporting tool, the CAPER also documents progress made towards meeting the affordable housing and community services goals established by the County’s Consolidated Plan and Strategic Plan.
The 2022-23 Draft CAPER will be available for a 15-day public comment period from Wednesday, September 13, 2022 through Thursday, September 28, 2023. The Draft CAPER will be available for review on the HCD website: https://www.countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development
Written comments may be submitted to County HCD, 123 E. Anapamu St, Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, or e-mailed to HCD@countyofsb.org. If you need additional information, have questions, or require special accommodations, please call (805) 568-3520. Si tiene cualquieras preguntas, por favor llame a (805)-568-3520.
The County is committed to equal housing opportunities for all of its residents.
IFB #CA-101723 Invitation for Bids for Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity Construction Contracts in the State of California
Bid Due Date: October 17, 2023, 4:30 p.m., Central Time Sourcewell, a State of Minnesota local government entity and public agency, is issuing this Invitation for Bids (IFB) on behalf of its participating entities to create indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity construction (IDIQ) contracts that may be used by those participating entities for projects related to construction or the repair, alteration, modernization, or renovation of buildings, structures, or other real property.
This IFB consists of the following parts:
1. Invitation for Bids, including Map of Regions
2. Template IDIQ Construction Contract
3. IDIQ Contract General Terms and Conditions
4. Construction Task Catalog
5. Technical Specifications
A full copy of the IFB can be found on the Sourcewell Procurement Portal (https://proportal.sourcewell-mn.gov), and only bids submitted through the Sourcewell Procurement Portal will be considered. Bids are due no later than October 17, 2023, at 4:30 p.m. Central Time, and late bids will not be considered.
Esté es un anuncio de que sus tarifas pueden cambiar. Para más detalles en español llame al 1-800-342-4545.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS REQUEST TO CHANGE RATES FOR GAS TRANSPORTATION (VENTURA COMPRESSOR MODERNIZATION (VCM) PROJECT)
APPLICATION FILING A.23-08-019
Why am I receiving this notice?
On August 24, 2023, Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas®) filed the Ventura Compressor Modernization (VCM) Project Application (A.23-08-019) with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The application is requesting a total of $578 million. If the CPUC approves this application, SoCalGas will recover costs beginning in 2032. This will impact your monthly bill.
Why is SoCalGas requesting this rate change?
The VCM Project will support continued reliable supply of natural gas to residential, business, industrial, and agricultural customers in Ventura and along the Central Coast of California It also facilitates maintaining adequate inventory in the La Goleta storage field, by replacing the three existing nearly 40-year-old natural gas compressors with two electric and two natural gas compressors. Modernization of the facility is critical and needed due to the limited functionality and reliability of the existing equipment, coupled with changes in local gas supply. This project is estimated to result in a nearly 75% reduction in permitted oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions as compared to the existing facility
How could this affect my monthly gas rates?
If SoCalGas’ rate request is approved by the CPUC, the average residential monthly bill using 36 therms per month would increase by approximately [$.27] or [0.4%] per month in 2034. Recovery in rates for the proposed project would occur from 2032- 2083 (50 years)
Backbone Transportation Service are rights that customers may purchase to transport gas over the backbone system to the SoCal Citygate. Core customers who purchase gas supplies from SoCalGas have this charge included in the gas commodity rate.
How does the rest of this process work?
This application will be assigned to a CPUC Administrative Law Judge who will consider proposals and evidence presented during the formal hearing process. The Administrative Law Judge will issue a proposed decision that may adopt SoCalGas’s application, modify it, or deny it. Any CPUC Commissioner may sponsor an alternate decision with a different outcome. The proposed decision, and any alternate decisions, will be discussed and voted upon by the CPUC Commissioners at a public CPUC Voting Meeting.
Parties to the proceeding may review SoCalGas' application, including the Public Advocates Office. The Public Advocates Office is an independent consumer advocate within the CPUC that represents customers to obtain the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. For more information, please call 1-415-703-1584, email PublicAdvocatesOffice@cpuc.ca.gov, or visit PublicAdvocates.cpuc.ca.gov
Where can I get more information?
Contact SoCalGas
Email: tariffs@socalgas.com
Mail: Jeffery Salazar, Regulatory Business Manager for SoCalGas, 555 West Fifth Street, GT14D6 Los Angeles, CA 90013
A copy of the Application and any related documents may also be reviewed at www.socalgas.com/regulatory/cpuc
Contact CPUC
Please visit apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2308019 to submit a comment about this proceeding on the CPUC Docket Card. Here you can also view documents and other public comments related to this proceeding.
Your participation by providing your thoughts on SoCalGas's request can help the CPUC make an informed decision.
If you have questions about CPUC processes, you may contact the CPUC’s Public Advisor’s Office at:
Phone: 1-866-849-8390 (toll-free) or 1-415-703-2074
Email: Public.Advisor@cpuc.ca.gov
Mail: CPUC Public Advisor’s Office 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
Please reference SoCalGas’ VCM Application 23-08-019 in any communications you have with the CPUC regarding this matter.
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: 2023‑0002073. E47. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person
(s) is/are doing business as: VICTOR
GARCIA PROJECTS at 309 S. Canada
St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Victor P Garcia (same address) Jessica P Garcia (same address) This business is conducted by An Married Couple.
SIGNED BY: JESSICA PEARL GARCIA
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002130. E58. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN2023‑0002041
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:
MROSUPPLY.COM, 2915 E. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023 County of LOS ANGELES Los Angeles Rubber Company, 2915 E. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 3/9/23.
Los Angeles Rubber Company
S/ David Durst, Chief Executive Officer
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/18/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
CNS‑3734033#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002069
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Pete’s, 1550 Santa Monica Rd. Carpinteria, CA 93013, County of Santa Barbara. Hollandia Produce Group, Inc., 400
W. Main St. Hamilton, MT 59840; State of Incorporation/Organization:Delawar
e This business is conducted by a Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a
/s/ Margaret McCandless, Secretary
This statement was filed with the
County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/24/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
CNS‑3734092#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002070
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Pete’s Living Greens, 1550 Santa Monica Rd , Carpinteria, CA 93013, County of Santa Barbara. Hollandia Produce Group, Inc., 400 W. Main St. Hamilton, MT 59840; State of Incorporation/Organization: Delaware
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on n/a
/s/ Margaret McVandless, Secretary
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/24/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
CNS‑3734093# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
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, September 26, 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
Relocation and adaptive reuse of a two-story hangar building totaling 17,912 square feet
115 Castilian Drive (APN 073-150-025)
Case Nos. 22-0004-DP; 23-0032-DRB
Preliminary
Santa Barbara Humane campus renovation General Plan Amendment, Rezone, Development Plan, Conditional Use Permit
5399 Overpass Road (APN 071-220-036)
Case No. 22-0008-DP; 22-0025-DRB; 22-0004-CUP
Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review
New Carport and balcony extension and California Environmental Quality Act Notice of Exemption
7121 Del Norte (APN 077-113-003)
Case Nos. 23-0004-LUP; 23-0016-DRB
Final
Fuel Depot convenience store addition and setback Modification
180 N Fairview Ave. (APN 069-110-054)
Case Nos. 22-0006-DPAM; 22-0004-MOD; 23-0025-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 9/14/23
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2023‑0002071
The following person(s) is doing business as:
Indoor Farms 1550 Santa Monica Rd., Carpinteria, Ca 93013, County of Santa Barbara. Hollandia Produce Group, Inc., 400 W. Main St., Hamilton MT, 59840, Delaware
This business is conducted by a Corporation.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A
/s/ Margaret McCandless, Sercretary
This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/24/2023.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
CNS‑3734087# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BIRD IN HAND PRESS at 409 W. Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Bird In Hand Press LLC (same address) This business is conducted by An Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY: TZU TING TSENG/MANAGING MEMBER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 24, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002085. E30. Published: Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: FRIEND OF THE TEAM at 121 Juana Maria Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Douglas W Madey (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: DOUGLAS MADEY/FOUNDER
Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 21, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0001815. E40. Published: Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTECITO CONTRACTOR CALIFORNIA CONSTRUCTION, CALIFORNIA CONTRACTOR at 910 St. Vincent Avenue #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 Aug 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: 2023‑0002110. E47. Published: Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KOBAWEAR at 1581 San Roque Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Trent J Mata (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: TRENT MATA/DIRECTOR & CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 18, 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: 2023‑0001994. E30. Published: Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARAGON
MORTGAGE GROUP, TRINITY
FINANCIAL SERVICES at 1215 De La Vina Street Suite G Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Trent Investment Corp Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation.
SIGNED BY: PETER TRENT/ PRESIDENT Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0001986.
E30. Published: Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASSISTIVE COMPUTERS at 47 San Jano Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Donald A Holm (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY: DONALD A HOLM Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2023‑0002118.
E30. Published: Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
LIEN SALE
LIEN SALE AUCTION Advertisement
Notice is hereby given that
ORDINANCE NO. 23-
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 September 21, 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
Maria Diaz
Rafael Tinoco
Rafael Tinoco
Scott Roberts
LeRoy Carmeno Helzer
Rebecca Ramos
Martha Garcia 9/7, 9/14/23
CNS‑3731736#
SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. September 28, 2023 at 3:00pm.
Kevin Battle
Rugby Gear
Gregory Halmi Bike, clothing, boxes, cassettes, cd case, books Sandra Shields 4 brdroom house, furniture, clothes boxes. Samantha Carey boxes, personal
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING a SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE GOLETA GARDENS llc Development Agreement TO PROVIDE THAT THE TERM OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT MUST NOT EXTEND BEYOND THE DATE THE COASTAL COMMISSION CERTIFIES THE CITY’S LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM or DECEMBER 31, 2024, whicHever occurs first; 907 S. KELLOGG AVENUE; CASE NO. 23-0002-ORD.
On September 19, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will consider the second reading and possible adoption of proposed Ordinance for the second amendment to the Development Agreement (DA) between the City of Goleta and Goleta Gardens, LLC (SyWest Development) to change the term of the Development Agreement to December 31, 2024 or the certification date of the City’s Local Coastal Program, whichever occurs first.
As adopted initially, the DA grants a license to the City to use a private access road to the San Jose Creek Channel in exchange for an extension of the deadline to use the City’s former zoning ordinance (Article 35 Coastal Zoning Ordinance) to December 31, 2023, for review of the applicant’s pending development proposal (Case No 17-121-DP-DRB). The second amendment would change the expiration date as noted above.
If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.
Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.
Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 14, 2023
To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals
This is to give notice that the County of Santa Barbara has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order 11990, in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for Making Determinations on Floodplain Management and Wetlands Protection. The activity is funded under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. The project will consist of safe abandonment of an existing septic system and connection to the Goleta Sanitary District’s sewer main for the Goleta Neighborhood Clinic located at 5580 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93111. The purpose of the project is to replace an ageing septic system to bring the Clinic’s waste treatment into compliance with environmental health standards and to prevent possible contamination of San Jose Creek caused by a septic system failure.
The County of Santa Barbara has reevaluated the alternatives to conducting this project near the wetland and has determined that it has no practicable alternative. Environmental files that document compliance with steps 3 through 6 of Executive Order 11990, including consideration of alternatives and adoption of mitigation measures, are posted online at https://www.countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development. They may also be reviewed from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department, 123 East Anapamu St. Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Written comments must be received by the County at the address above on or before Friday, September 29, attention: Laurie Baker, Grants and Programs Manager. Comments may also be submitted via email at HCD@co.santa-barbara.ca.us
Date: Thursday, September 14
The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
NAME CHANGE
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JOSEPH
ALEXANDER
CASE NUMBER: 23CV03048
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: JOSEPH ALEXANDER
TO: JESUS CHRIST
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 3, 2023, 8:30 AM, SM TWO, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 312 East Cook Street Building E Santa Maria, CA 93456‑5369, Santa Maria Cook Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED JULY 28, 2023, JAMES F.
RIGALI, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Aug 24, 31. Sep 7, 14 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ALFREDO
PLASCENCIA ABUNDIZ
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02459
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: ALFREDO PLASCENCIA
ABUNDIZ
TO: ALFREDO PLASENCIA ABUNDIZ
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER 25, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED AUGUST 15, 2023, COLLEEN K. STERNE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
AMENDED IN THE MATTER OF THE TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: DAMIAN TAPIA
CASE NUMBER: 23CV02430
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: DAMIAN TAPIA
TO: DAMIAN MEZA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING SEPTEMBER 27, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED AUGUST 18, 2023, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Aug 31. Sep 7, 14, 21 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JOCELYN MONTANARO
CASE NUMBER: 23CV03512
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: JOCELYN MONTANARO MCIVERS aka JOCELYN ELIZABETH
MCIVERS
TO: JOCELYN ELIZABETH MONTANARO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 27, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.
DATED AUGUST 29, 2023, DONNA
D. GECK, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ANTONIO
MIRA ABAD
CASE NUMBER: 23CV03652
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: ANTONIO MIRA ABAD
TO: ANTONIO MIRA
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 25, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to
Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED SEPTEMBER 5, 2023, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MIKE IGOREVICH MESHKOV CASE NUMBER: 23CV03613
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: MIKE IGOREVICH MESHKOV
TO: MIKHAIL IGOREVICH
MESHKOV THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 25, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED AUGUST 31, 2023, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE
OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME: RACHEL
LETICIA RASSIER
CASE NUMBER: 23CV03576
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: RACHEL LETICIA RASSIER
TO: RACHEAL LETICIA RASSIER
THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing
indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 30, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa
The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) seeks public input on a proposed fare increase for the Clean Air Express bus system. Clean Air Express fares have not been updated in 15 years and were recommended for approval in 2019 but delayed due to the pandemic. Clean Air Express is funded by Measure A, passenger fares, and limited federal funds.
There are several opportunities to provide input including attending one of three in-person listening sessions, completing an online survey, submitting input by writing or providing feedback over the phone. Public comments will be accepted until 4 p.m., October 13, 2023. SBCAG will also accept public testimony at its North County Subregional meeting at 10 a.m. on October 11, 2023.
*Effective January 15, 2024
LISTENING SESSIONS:
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. September 19 at Lompoc Park and Ride, W. Cypress Ave between S. I St. and S. J St. 93436. *Servicio de interpretación al español disponible
5:45 p.m. – 7 p.m.
September 20 at Santa Maria Park and Ride, Hagerman Softball Complex, Santa Maria, CA 93455. *Servicio de interpretación al español disponible
10 a.m., October 11 at SBCAG North County Subregional Meeting *Details on how to participate is described on the agenda which will be posted online via SBCAG meeting’s portal at www.sbcag. org by Monday, October 9.
ONLINE SURVEY:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FareSurveyENG
WRITTEN / PHONE FEEDBACK:
Email: service@cleanairexpress.com
Online: https://cleanairexpress.com/contact-us/
Phone: (805) 962-8910
U.S. Postal Service: SBCAG, 260 N San Antonio Rd, Ste B, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
SBCAG is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations for in-person listening sessions and meetings. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, accommodation requests should be made 48 hours in advance of public meetings to SBCAG at (805) 961-8900.
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 AUGUST 29, 2023, COLLEEN K. STERNE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ROVIN
GARCIA and MIRNA RAMIREZ
CASE NUMBER: 23CV03293
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: (Last, First Middle) RAMIERZ, GENESIS GARCIA
TO: (Last, First) GARCIA RAMIREZ, GENESIS ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and
must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 18, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1110 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. DATED AUGUST 31, 2023, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICE – The business records of the following customers of ACCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (or any affiliates of ACCESS) located at 5950 Condor Drive, Moorpark, CA 93021 have been abandoned: DR.DAVID MICHELSON,M.D.. All records will be shredded 9 days after publication of this notice. Anyone claiming to have an interest in the records should contact Access Information Protected in writing at
the following address: 500 Unicorn Park Drive, Suite 503, Woburn, MA 01801, Attn: Legal Department, Tel. No. (888) 869‑2767 (Client Support); email: Collections@accesscorp.com.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and Occupant(s). Dated this 14 th day of September, 2023 and this 21 th day of September, 2023.
PATTERSON/101 ALLSTORE
SELF‑STORAGE (805) 964‑0924
STATE OF INDIANA ) FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT ) SS: COUNTY OF FAYETTE ) 2023 TERM IN RE THE MARRIAGE NO. 21D01-1402-DR-067 OF SARAH GRUBBS
Petitioner AND ANDRE’ COLUMBO
Respondent
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Patterson/101 Allstore Self‑Storage, will sell at public sale, the following delinquent occupant’s(s’) stored contents, by competitive bidding ending on September 28 th , 2023 at 11 am. Property has been stored by the occupant(s) and is located at Patterson/101 Allstore Self‑Storage, 98 North Patterson Avenue, Santa Barbara, California 93111. Competitive bid auction available online only at www. storagetreasures.com The property being sold is described as: Unit #H136 ‑ Robyn Harris Misc household items, mattress, headboards, toys, kid’s furniture, racks/shelving, sewing machine, electronics, clothing, boxes contents unknown, bags contents unknown, personal effects Purchases must be picked up at the above location and paid for at the time of purchase with cash or credit card only. All purchased goods are sold as is, where is, and must be removed at the time of sale. The sale is subject
For bidding technical questions ‑ Storage Treasures (480) 397‑6503
SUMMONS
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso):
22CV02400
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CARLOS
GARCIA YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
STATE OF INDIANA ) FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT ) SS: COUNTY OF FAYETTE ) 2023 TERM
STATE OF INDIANA ) FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT ) SS: COUNTY OF FAYETTE ) 2023 TERM
IN RE THE MARRIAGE NO. 21D01-1402-DR-067 OF SARAH GRUBBS Petitioner AND ANDRE’ COLUMBO Respondent
IN RE THE MARRIAGE NO. 21D01-1402-DR-067 OF SARAH GRUBBS Petitioner AND ANDRE’ COLUMBO Respondent
NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE OF HEARING
STATE OF INDIANA ) FAYETTE SUPERIOR COURT ) SS: COUNTY OF FAYETTE ) 2023 TERM IN RE THE MARRIAGE NO. 21D01-1402-DR-067 OF SARAH GRUBBS Petitioner AND ANDRE’ COLUMBO Respondent
Notice is hereby given that the Petitioner, Sarah Grubbs, on October 27, 2021 a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed in the Fayette Superior Court, Cause No. 21D01-1402-DR-067, seeking the dissolution of marriage of Sarah Grubbs and Andre Columbo. Such Petition will be heard on October 3, 2023 at 2:00 P.M in the Fayette Superior 401 N Central Ave, Connersville, IN 47331 , Telephone: 765-825-1775. Any person has the right to appear at the hearing and to file objections.
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, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.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 cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑ 1107
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): HARLAN M. REESE, ESQ. (CA BAR NO.: 118226), REESE LAW GROUP, 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842‑ 5850 (File No. 567544)
DATE (Fecha): 6/27/2022
Clerk (Secretario), by /s/ JOHNNY AVILES, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) 9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28/23
TRUSTEE NOTICE
NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Petitioner, Sarah Grubbs, on October 27, 2021 a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed in the Fayette Superior Court, Cause No. 21D01-1402-DR-067, seeking the dissolution of marriage of Sarah Grubbs and Andre Columbo. Such Petition will be heard on October 3, 2023 at 2:00 P.M in the Fayette Superior, 401 N Central Ave, Connersville, IN 47331 , Telephone: 765-825-1775. Any person has the right to appear at the hearing and to file objections.
Notice is hereby given that the Petitioner, Sarah Grubbs, on October 27, 2021 a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed in the Fayette Superior Court, Cause No. 21D01-1402-DR-067, seeking the dissolution of marriage of Sarah Grubbs and Andre ’ Columbo. Such Petition will be heard on October 3, 2023 at 2:00 P.M in the Fayette Superior, 401 N Central Ave, Connersville, IN 47331 , Telephone: 765-825-1775. Any person has the right to appear at the hearing and to file objections.
Notice is hereby given that the Petitioner, Sarah Grubbs, on October 27, 2021 a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage was filed in the Fayette Superior Court, Cause No. 21D01-1402-DR-067, seeking the dissolution of marriage of Sarah Grubbs and Andre Columbo. Such Petition will be heard on October 3, 2023 at 2:00 P.M in the Fayette Superior, 401 N Central Ave, Connersville, IN 47331 , Telephone: 765-825-1775. Any person has the right to appear at the hearing and to file objections.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Sections 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Section 2328 of the CC, Section 335 of the Penal Code and provisions of the Civil Code. The undersigned will sell at public sale competitive bidding on the 20th day of September 2023, at 10 AM, on the premises where said property has been stored and which are located at GOLETA VALLEY MINI STORAGE, ALSO KNOWN AS GOLETA VALLEY SELF STORAGE a 5380 & 5342 Overpass Road, Goleta, 93111 in the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, the following:
NOTE: Petitioner is required to publish Notice in a newspaper of general circulation the County in which the last known location was of the respondent – to be published weekly for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be at least thirty (30) days prior to the scheduled hearing.
NOTE: Petitioner is required to publish Notice in a newspaper of general circulation the County in which the last known location was of the respondent – to be published weekly for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be at least thirty (30) days prior to the scheduled hearing.
NOTE: Petitioner is required to publish Notice in a newspaper of general circulation the County in which the last known location was of the respondent – to be published weekly for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be at least thirty (30) days prior to the scheduled hearing.
CNS‑3734700# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT SUMMONS (CITACIÓN JUDICIAL)
Case Number (Numero del Caso): 22CV03628
NOTE: Petitioner is required to publish Notice in a newspaper of general circulation the County in which the last known location was of the respondent – to be published weekly for three (3) consecutive weeks, with the last publication to be at least thirty (30) days prior to the scheduled hearing.
JAMIE WILLIAMS A23
NICHOLAS TRACY 730
Purchases must be paid for at the time of purchase in cash only. All purchased items sold as is where is and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party.
Dated this 14th day of September 2023
Auctioneer:
Barry Sweet
805-680-0588
Bond Number: 70489167
Goleta Valley Mini Storage
Phone: (805) 964-3104
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada 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 más 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 más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé 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 más advertencia.
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$10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. iAVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en el 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 más 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 más 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 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 más advertencia.
The name and address of the court is:
(El nombre y dirección de la corte es):
SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT 1100 ANACAPA STREET SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; Anacapa Division
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Mark Potter, Esq., Center for Disability Access, 100 Pine Street, Ste. 1250, San Francisco, CA 94111 (858) 375‑7385
Date: (Fecha) September 22, 2022.
Darrel E. Parker Clerk
(Secretario) Leili Hejazi Deputy
(Adjunto)
Published Sep 7, 14, 21, 28 2023.
CASE NAME: Baby Girl Jovel CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294
CASE NUMBER: 23JD00130‑001
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JAMES M. DELORETO, in individual and representative capacity as Trustee of Testamentary Trust YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): CHRIS LANGER
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal group. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca. gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.
NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of
1. To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): Luis Ernesto Jovel, aka Luis Ernesto Jove! Arevalo, and any known or unknown fathers and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): Baby Girl Jove! born on (date): 05/15/2023 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria, California
2 A hearing will be held Fn (date): 11/09/2023 at (time): 1:00 p.m. in Dept.: 12 Room: located at El court address above 111 other (specify address): *This hearing will be held remotely. if you wish to appear by telephone, your attorney in this case must notify the Court on the day of the hearing, prior to the hearing calendar. If you wish to appear in person, notify your attorney in this case. If you do not have an attorney and you wish to appear for the hearing, you must contact the Court.
The remote hearing will be confidential. You must not record the hearing, allow others to listen to the hearing, or disclose to others what occurs during the hearing. Participants who violate confidentiality may be subject to criminal and civil sanctions.
3. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.
4. The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.
You have the right to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford to hire one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.
Date: 8/30/2023 Paule Smith,Deputy
APN: 041‑411‑013 TS No: CA08000294‑21‑3 TO No: 230177956‑CA‑VOI 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 2923.3(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED June 4, 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 PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On October 4, 2023 at 01: 00 PM, at the main entrance to the 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 June 6, 2008 as Instrument No. 2008‑0033707, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, executed by MICHAEL E SILVA AND DONNA L SILVA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. 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: 2447 CALLE LINARES, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109‑1131 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 $907,408.16 (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 In Source Logic at 702‑659‑7766 for information regarding the Trustee's Sale or visit the Internet Website address listed below for information regarding the sale of
this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA08000294‑21‑3. 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
which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee.
1, 2021
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 702‑659‑7766, or visit this internet website www.insourcelogic. com, using the file number assigned to this case CA08000294‑21‑3 to find the date on
ORDINANCE NO. 23-08
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA ADDING CHAPTER 9.02 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE, ENTITLED BINGO REGULATIONS
On September 5, 2023, at 5:30 pm at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) adopted Ordinance No. 23-08 that would allow bingo to be operated by qualifying organizations in compliance with Penal Code 326.5. In 2010, as part of an overhaul of the Goleta Municipal Code, the City inadvertently omitted the prior regulations authorizing bingo games by qualifying organizations. The Ordinance will restore those organizations’ ability to operate bingo games, subject to state regulations.
The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 23-08 at a regular meeting held on the 5th day of September, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS KASDIN, KYRIACO, AND REYES-MARTÍN
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
The Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.
Any interested person may obtain a copy of the ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.
Deborah S. Lopez City ClerkPublish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 14, 2023
ORDINANCE NO. 23-09
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA AMENDING CHAPTER 9.09 OF TITLE 9 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING RESTRICTED NOISES
On September 5, 2023 at 5:30pm at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) adopted Ordinance No. 23-09 that would amend its noise restrictions. The ordinance does not change the general noise standard for noise complaints. The ordinance (1) changes curfew hours applicable to certain noises from 12am-7am to 10pm-7am; (2) adds a list of specifically prohibited noises; (3) amends the list of exempt noises; and (4) cleans up ambiguous language and reorganizes sections for better flow.
The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 23-09 at a regular meeting held on the 5th day of September, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS KASDIN, KYRIACO, AND REYES-MARTÍN
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
The Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.
Deborah S. Lopez City ClerkPublish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 14, 2023
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. Date: August 21, 2023 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA08000294‑21‑3 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949‑252‑8300 TDD: 711 949.252.8300
By: Bernardo Sotelo, Authorized Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www. insourcelogic.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES
INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: In Source Logic AT 702‑659‑7766 Order Number 94956, Pub Dates: 8/31/2023, 9/7/2023, 9/14/2023, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) will receive sealed proposals for Security Services for Buena Tierra (residential building) located at 6021 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA, until 2:00 p.m. on September 26, 2023, at 815 West Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, CA, or emailed to shereeaulman@hasbarco.org. Proposals will be held in confidence and not released in any manner until after contract award.
Proposed forms of contract documents, including specifications, are available on the HASBARCO website www.hasbarco.org.
Please contact Sheree Aulman, Construction Contract Coordinator, at shereeaulman@hasbarco.org if you have any questions.
The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) will receive sealed proposals for Housing Supportive Services for Buena Tierra (residential building) located at 6021 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA, until 2:30 p.m. on September 26, 2023, at 815 West Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, CA, or emailed to shereeaulman@hasbarco. org. Proposals will be held in confidence and not released in any manner until after contract award.
Proposed forms of contract documents, including specifications, are available on the HASBARCO website www.hasbarco.org.
Please contact Sheree Aulman, Construction Contract Coordinator, at shereeaulman@hasbarco.org if you have any questions.
