Santa Barbara Independent 9/28/23

Americana Royalty Nickel Creek with special guest Hawktail

Sun, Oct 8 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre

“Nickel Creek made Americana the new Indie Rock.” NPR

Featuring Chris Thile and siblings Sean and Sara Watkins, revolutionary roots trio Nickel Creek returns to Santa Barbara with an ambitious album’s worth of dazzling new music.

Superstar Trio’s U.S. Debut

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Gautier Capuçon, cello

Tue, Oct 10 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre

“When you have the possibility to play incredible music with great friends onstage, this is just pure luxury. There is nothing better than that.” – Gautier Capuçon

In this evening of chamber music at the highest level, three friends and exquisitely talented artists join forces for a captivating program of piano trios by Haydn, Ravel and Mendelssohn.

West Coast

Premiere

Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends

Featuring choreography by Michelle Dorrance, Alonzo King and William Forsythe

Wed, Oct 25 / 8 PM / Granada Theatre

Award-winning New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck embraces the role of director with an innovative, handpicked repertoire by some of today’s most exciting talent.

Lead Sponsor: Jody & John Arnhold

Dance Series Sponsors: Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Bob Feinberg, Donna Fellows & Dave Johnson, Barbara Stupay, and Sheila Wald

ADVANCES IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE AORTIC ANEURYSM TREATMENT

An aortic aneurysm occurs when the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body, has a bulge in its wall.

Treatment can be life-saving.

Join us for a free virtual discussion on caring for your heart and vascular system, from prevention to intervention.

Causes and Symptoms

Strategies for Prevention and Treatment

Q & A

Thursday, October 12, 2023 4 - 5 p.m.

Kevin M. Casey, MD, FACS Vascular Surgeon Santa Barbara Vascular Specialists

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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.

This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.

As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to survive.

When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numb- ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.

There is a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)

In order to effectively treat your neuropathy three factors must be determined:

· What’s the underlying cause?

· How Much Nerve Damage Has Been Sustained

· How much treatment will your condition require

The treatment that is provided at SB Regenerative Health has three main goals:

1. Increase blood flow

2. Stimulate small fiber nerves

3. Decrease brain-based pain

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.

Don’t Hesitate to Act Now!

We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.

Charles Sciutto Lac along with NP Kristen Nelson at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs.

Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until October 31, 2023.

Figure 1: Notice the very small blood vessels surrounding each nerve.

Figure 2: When these very small blood vessels become diseased they begin to shrivel up and the nerves begin to degenerate.

Figure 3: The blood vessels will grow back around the nerves much like a plant’s roots grow when watered.

VADA TALKS

Leading creati ve thinkers discuss their inspirati ons, process and perspecti ves

Art, Design & Quantum Computi ng

What will the future bring?

AI Santa Barbara

7PM - Thursday, October 12, 2023

Fé Bland Forum at Santa Barbara City College 721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

Refreshments and reception to follow. Free admission. RSVP required. Visit www.vadatalks.org

The Friends of VADA: a 501c3 raising awareness of and support for the creative students of SBHS

Presented by VADA - The Visual Art & Design Academy of Santa Barbara High School

Forest Stearns Principal Artist in Residence Google Quantum

A conversation facilitated by Les Firestein Founder & Editor, The RIV

Robin Donaldson, AIA Architect & Founding Partner ShubinDonaldson

Dr. Erik Lucero Lead Engineer & Site Lead Google Quantum AI Santa Barbara

Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge Publisher Brandi Rivera

Executive Editor Nick Welsh Senior Editor Tyler Hayden Senior Writer Matt Kettmann

Associate Editor Jackson Friedman Opinions Editor Jean Yamamura

Arts, Culture, and Community Editor Leslie Dinaberg

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News Reporters Ryan P. Cruz, Callie Fausey Senior Arts Writer Josef Woodard

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The Santa Barbara Independent’s third annual Burrito Week was a delicious success! We had 21 restaurants serving $8 burritos for the past seven days, and we’ve enjoyed seeing your photos, videos, and reviews on Instagram using #sbindyburritoweek.

One of our

was a Book Club Burrito Blowout from S.B. Book Social. The group meets monthly and has been around for 10 years. And they are 22 members strong the perfect number to tackle our massive Burrito Week selection! The group got one burrito from each restaurant and split them up to enjoy.

Looks like Book Social can take the title for biggest burrito order, at least until next year!

GLOBAL HARMONY / VIRTUOSOS AND VISIONARIES AVI

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023, 7:30PM

AVITAL , mandolin HANZHI WANG, accordion

A passionate and charismatic performer, mandolinist Avi Avital’s two past performances for CAMA with the LA Chamber Orchestra (2018) and Les Violons du Roy (2021) confirmed that he is “a musician who recognizes no boundaries except those of good taste, and who has the artistry to persuade listeners to follow him anywhere” (New York Times).

Acclaimed for her staggering virtuosity, Chinese-born Hanzhi Wang is the only accordionist ever to win a place on the roster of Young Concert Artists in its 60-year history and to be named Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month.”

WORKS BY KREISLER, STRAVINSKY, BACH, BARTÓK, SARASATE, DE FALLA, AND SAINT-SAËNS

Tickets at the Lobero Theatre Box Office (805)963-0761 ⫽ lobero.org

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2023, 7:30PM

LOS ANGELES

PHILHARMONIC

Zubin Mehta, Conductor Emeritus

Seong-Jin Cho, p piano

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2024, 7:30PM

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Vasily Petrenko, Music Director

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2024, 7:30PM

ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Nathalie Stutzmann, M Music Director

Haochen Zhang, p piano

Zubin Mehta

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2024, 7:30PM

ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS

Joshua Bell, M Music Director & violin

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

Press Room in Stoppage Time

It’s early afternoon on a Thursday, and the Press Room on Ortega Street is unusually empty. Only the pub’s proprietor for 28 years, James “Raf” Rafferty, sits behind the bar. Everybody else that had just been inside regulars, friends, family, and staff is over at City Hall to plead with members of the Planning Commission to save the longtime soccer-viewing hotspot, which is slated for demolition in favor of a 66-room hotel and restaurant.

There had already been a long road to get to this point. The wrecking ball has been hovering over the 100-plus-yearold building for years, ever since the SIMA Corporation submitted its first application to build housing across six downtown lots including the Press Room location in 2020.

After significant pushback on that

original development, including a petition with more than 13,000 signatures at the time, it seemed that the Press Room had been saved when SIMA pulled its application, with Chair Jim Knell claiming that the city forcing developers to include affordable housing was effectively making housing impossible to build downtown.

ENVIRONMENT

Volunteers at 31 cleanup sites around Santa Barbara County removed more than 5,625 pounds of trash and recyclables from the coastline, covering an estimated 51 miles at sites ranging from Rincon Beach Park to Jalama on Coastal Cleanup Day, which was celebrated around the world on 9/23. Started nearly 40 years ago, Coastal Cleanup Day is locally organized by the nonprofit Explore Ecology in partnership with the county’s Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division and statewide by the California Coastal Commission. With only 50 percent of cleanup sites reporting as of 9/25, more than 150,000 pounds of trash was picked up by more than 27,000 volunteers statewide.

Ryan P. Cruz

But the battle to save the pub was only half over, and it soon was evident that the corporation had not given up its plan altogether, but instead pivoted to the more profitable idea of a hotel development on the same properties.

Read the full story at Independent.com

Making State St. Promenade Work

By Ryan P. Cruz

Wi th State Street, it’s never easy, but after a five-hour discussion, the City Council agreed to reopen one block near The Granada Theatre to cars and keep the rest of the promenade as is until a more permanent plan is adopted.

There’s no shortage of opinions when it comes to the State Street Promenade in downtown Santa Barbara, and that was the case Tuesday at City Hall. Councilmembers intended to discuss only a few changes to the promenade plan, but the talks quickly veered into big-idea debates about the future of downtown.

Some want the streets closed to traffic for good, while others are calling for the return of cars. Parklets were a blessing for restaurants, but shop owners claim they have hurt retail sales. During public comment, speakers either applauded the council for keeping the street closed to traffic or admonished them for failing to make any progress in more than three years.

Councilmember Eric Friedman said the hyperbolic talk about State Street reminded him of the Charles Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”

“Depending on who you talk to, State Street’s never been better,” Friedman said. “We’ve heard that tonight. And we’ve also

heard it’s never been worse.” His comments came near the end of the marathon hearing, in which the council eventually did decide on the interim configuration of downtown Santa Barbara’s main drag.

In three different votes, the council agreed to open a block of State Street for one-way traffic to allow drop-offs at The Granada Theatre; to pursue a “mini-shuttle” system for more accessibility on the street; and to extend the current promenade setup through December 31, 2026, or until the city adopts its State Street Master Plan, whichever comes first.

But before the council could vote on those items, Friedman floated his own idea for the promenade. Based on his exploratory trips to other cities, he suggested that Santa Barbara consider a “hybrid approach” with just the 500 and 600 blocks closed to traffic. “An eight-block closure is just not sustainable,” he said.

This would allow the rest of State Street to be reopened for traffic until the State Street Advisory Committee could decide on a permanent configuration. He admitted that it was not likely to gain support, but it would allow the council to publicly “vote” for cars on State Street.

The motion failed 3-4, with Mayor Randy Rowse and Councilmember Alejandra Gutierrez voting alongside Friedman.

“We sure know how to make things

complicated when there are simple solutions right in front of us,” said Mayor Rowse, frustrated that the council was still discussing the temporary promenade ordinance for the fifth time without any major changes.

Councilmember Kristen Sneddon brought the discussion back to changes that could be implemented right away, specifically updates to the promenade ordinance: Extend State Street traffic closure another three years, permit the council to make traffic changes at any time, and give the Historic Landmarks Commission and Accessibility Advisory Committee authority to participate in decision making.

These changes were approved 5-2, with Friedman and Rowse dissenting. The updates to the ordinance would be the “framework,” Sneddon said, for the council to explore and decide on bigger changes.

In another 5-2 vote, the council directed staff to look into a “mini-transit” system to operate on State Street while also exploring a waterfront shuttle with MTD. This allows shared lanes for bikes and micro shuttles.

In the final decision, the council unanimously approved one-way northbound traffic along the 1200 block of State Street (the Granada side of the street), with “minimal disruption to the parklets” on the other side of the block.

As California prepares to phase out the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) is helping jump-start Central Coast residents to get behind the wheel of an electric car. During National Drive Electric Week, which runs through 10/1, the CEC has been working to inform the Central Coast public about electric vehicles (EVs) and the financial incentives and rebates available to make them more affordable. To learn more about CEC’s events, including EV showcases and test drive events, visit cecsb.org/events. For more on “stacking” financial incentives to make electric power more affordable, visit cecsb.org/EYL.

HOUSING

At the S.B. Unified School District’s 9/26 board meeting, the City’s Housing Authority and the district’s housing committee presented findings on housing needs for district staff and potential sites for housing development on district property. They found that about two-thirds of district staff are in the very-lowto moderate-income categories (housing-burdened). The top prospect for housing was the vacant Parma School site, feasibly hosting at least 40-45 units. Boardmember Gabe Escobedo gave direction for the housing committee to work with legal counsel on developing the Parma site and to study other school district sites for potential housing development.

Tenants from the 52-unit apartment complex at 215 Bath Street appeared before the City Council asking for ordinances that would make it illegal for the new property owners, the Koto Group, to threaten tenants and that would require the landlords to follow the city’s Just Cause Eviction ordinance. They also asked that when tenants are displaced by renovation work, they should be able to return to their apartments with rent increases of no more than 10 percent, the maximum annual increase allowed under state law. Because of procedural requirements, councilmembers were instructed not to respond to commenters.

Thanks to the city adjusting the budget to allocate more funds to the library to bring it back to its preCOVID hours and services, Library Director Jessica Cadiente announced on 9/21 that both the Central Library and Eastside

Press Room proprietor James “Raf” Rafferty

RYAN P. CRUZ

Council Beyond ‘Thrilled’ over Affordable Housing Project for ‘Missing Middle’

Five years after neighbors exploded over plans to create a tiny-home village on the city-owned Carrillo-Castillo Commuter Lot, the Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday enthusiastically and unanimously approved a Development Agreement allowing the Housing Authority to build 63 affordable rental units targeting moderate- and middle-income earners instead. In the intervening years, the site of this underused has become an expanding haven for those living in their campers or RVs. But just one week before the council’s vote, that parking lot was cleared of all resident motor vehicle dwellers “to address deteriorating and unsanitary conditions.”

Dubbed Jacaranda Court, the new development will provide deed-restricted “affordable” rental housing targeting middle- or moderate-income earners. Translated, this means two-person households making anywhere from $94,000 to $137,0000 Santa Barbara’s so-called “missing middle” can qualify for the new units. For moderateincome individuals, a studio will rent for $1,600 and a two-bedroom unit for $2,200. For middle-income individuals, studios will fetch $2,535 and two-bedrooms $3,244.

Seven of the 63 units will be set aside for low-income tenants. In Santa Barbara, “lowincome” is defined as a family of four that makes less than $94,000.

To make this deal happen, City Hall not

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Library locations will be expanding hours on evenings and weekends starting 10/8. The new hours are Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sundays, noon-5 p.m. On 10/4, both locations will close early (at noon) to allow for training of new staff members.

COMMUNITY

Juana Flores, who returned home to Goleta in 2021 after being deported two years prior, has received a year’s extension from deportation after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security granted a temporary reprieve extending her humanitarian parole in the U.S. Flores is the mother of an active-duty sergeant in the U.S. Air Force., and in July, Congressmember Salud Carbajal reintroduced legislation to ensure permanent residence in the U.S. for parents and spouses of active-duty members or veterans of the U.S. military. Flores’s legal team has also requested

only kicked in the real estate but also allowed housing density bonuses that the developers could not have gotten even under the most aggressive state law to incentivize affordable housing. In addition, City Hall allowed the four-story project to exceed the city’s 45-foot height limit by 18 inches, gave the developers a substantial break in terms of yard space, and allowed the project to encroach 8-10 feet into required creek set-back protections. The Housing Authority will also be allowed to provide what’s known as “unbundled parking,” meaning tenants without cars can pay less, and those with cars will pay separately for their space.

“I’m beyond thrilled to be at this moment,” exclaimed Councilmember Meagan Harmon, who represents the district in which this project will be located and whose excitement was echoed by other councilmembers. For many residents of the immediate neighborhood, Harmon said, this is exactly the sort of project that’s urgently needed. Nick Welsh

the Biden administration to pardon her for crossing the U.S.–Mexico border almost four decades ago. The Child Care Stabilization grants, which provided $24 billion to children’s care providers nationwide during the pandemic, expire at the end of this month. Democrats, including Congressmember Salud Carbajal, are demanding this vital funding be extended via the Child Care Stabilization Act, the House version of a bill that will assure $16 billion for the next five years to these existing children’s care providers. “This funding for childcare has been critical to California providers and the working families that rely on them…. ” Carbajal said. “The ripple effects of this expiration would be felt by small businesses, industries, and communities across our nation.”

COURTS & CRIME

Jeanne Umana, the S.B. woman who went viral on social media after being caught on camera harassing a Latino construction worker, could now be charged with a hate crime, trespassing, and battery. After hundreds showed up in a demonstration outside her residence near Garden and Micheltorena streets to call for her arrest, the Santa Barbara Police Department (SBPD) opened an investigation into the incident. In a statement on 9/20, police spokesperson Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale said that SBPD detectives have now referred the case to the DA’s Office for consideration of the three charges against Umana.

A rendering of the Jacaranda Court housing project proposed for 400 West Carrillo Street

Juana and her husband, Andres Flores

Conception Families Battle the U.S. for Evidence

File Suit for the Right to Examine Remainders of Batteries and Chargers

by Jean Yamamura

The surviving family members of the

34 individuals who died aboard the Conception are battling the U.S. government to examine what remains of the batteries and chargers widely thought to have caused the fire. It’s a race against time, as they have until 2024 to analyze the evidence and identify the manufacturers implicated in the devastating fire on Labor Day, 2019. The government says they must wait until the conclusion of the criminal trial of Captain Jerry Boylan, which is currently set for October.

The cause of the fire aboard the Conception remains the subject of speculation. Both the National Transportation Safety Board and the Coast Guard reports are inconclusive because they have not been allowed to examine the evidence the FBI is holding for Boylan’s trial. Sources familiar with the case believe the trial is expected to focus on the captain’s habitual failure to organize roving night patrols. A recent Los Angeles Times story reported that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) investigation suggested the fire may have ignited in a plastic trash can on the deck.

John Hillsman, whose firm McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky represents a number of the plaintiffs, cast doubt on the story. The ATF simulated wind to send the trash-can fire into the salon, he said, but the night of September 2, 2019, was very foggy and without wind.

A number of complex lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts in Los Angeles. The court documents cover the threeday Labor Day holiday, which was intended as a diving adventure for an international group of SCUBA divers. Among them were photographers and ocean enthusiasts; couples and family groups, including one

celebrating a 17th birthday; and a young woman in a budding romance with another crewmember. Around 3 a.m. a fire had blazed out of control within a half-hour’s time while everyone on the ship was asleep.

One lawsuit was filed against the Coast Guard charged it had inadequately inspected the Conception. This suit was cited by the U.S. attorney as one of the reasons not to hand over the evidence, as was the fear that the integrity of hard evidence would be compromised.

The U.S. attorney stated that requests for the agencies’ reports would reveal too much about investigative techniques. An email in August seemed to seek a compromise, looking for a more limited set of evidence “most important to your clients.” It also asked why the handover could not wait until after trial, which at the time was set for September. The case against Boylan has apparently had its own evidentiary disputes that have delayed the trial.

For their part, the plaintiffs argue ATF has routinely provided such evidence in other cases and that the prosecutors had no intention of using the evidence in Boylan’s criminal trial.

Hillsman bristled as he explained why the plaintiffs had the right to examine the evidence: “Look at the Deepwater Horizon,” he said. The government recovered material from the depths that was used in its criminal and civil cases, including a civil case brought by the Coast Guard against BP for environmental cleanup. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” Hillsman said. “The Coast Guard was the civil litigant in that case, and we are in this case.”

The U.S. attorneys are to answer the complaint this month. As per DOJ policy, the attorneys would not comment on ongoing litigation. n

Jennifer Homendy of the NTSB and Jason Neubauer of the Coast Guard examine the bunkroom of a sister ship to the Conception. Evidence from the burned wreck is at issue in a new lawsuit.

Cuyama Launches Carrot Boycott

The people of the Cuyama Valley, a vast land of little rain east of Santa Maria, have had enough. This summer, as their legal fees were mounting into the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars, they launched a boycott against the giant carrot corporations that have roped 700 other valley landowners into an expensive lawsuit over water rights.

It will be a tough fight. The boycott is targeting Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, the largest carrot producers in the world and by far the largest water users in the valley. Well water is the only source of water here.

“They’ve been farming in this valley for decades and depleting the water table consistently as the biggest users of water,” said Charlie Bosma, a retired Sheriff’s deputy who owns a cattle ranch near New Cuyama. “We knew that. But we never expected they could do that type of damage to our water table and then turn around and sue us.”

In late July, 150 residents of this remote and sparsely populated region flocked to the kickoff for the carrot boycott at the Cuyama Buckhorn. Now the organizers say they are having trouble keeping up with the demand for boycott yard signs, bumper stickers, and banners.

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Sheriff’s deputies arrested David Rousso, 19, of Goleta, for his alleged involvement in a fatal hitand-run near Camino Real Marketplace on 9/20 that took the life of Goleta landscape maintenance worker Ruben Reyes Victoria, 29, who had been supporting a wife and two young children living in Puebla, Mexico. According to authorities, Victoria was working on the southbound side of Storke Road near Bollay Drive when he was struck by Rousso, who then fled the scene until he was later identified at the 400 block of Storke Road and taken into custody. As of deadline, no charges against Rousso had been announced.

A 64-year-old Goleta man riding his bicycle in Ventura 9/21 was struck and seriously injured by a Ventura County–owned bus driven by Oxnard man Edgar Landeros, 33, who was arrested and charged with felony hit-and-run, according to the Ventura Police Department. The cyclist, Jose Campos Estrada, was riding on Telegraph near Joanne Avenue in Ventura around 9:50 a.m. when the bus struck the bike’s handlebars as it attempted to pass him and knocked him to the ground, where he was run over by the bus’s rear wheels and suffered “major injuries to his lower body,” according to police. Landeros was booked into Ventura County Jail but posted bail. He is set to appear in court 10/5. Estrada was being treated for his injuries at Ventura County Medical Center.

A mere day after the Board of Supervisors approved emergency ambulance permits for the S.B. County Fire Department and denied one to American Medical Response AMR sent notice that it intends to contest the award of the permits. Worth an esti-

The boycott is aimed at supermarket carrots, said Ella Boyajian, an organizer and cattle rancher.

“If they’re in a supermarket, chances are they’re Bolthouse and Grimmway,” she said.

“It’s best to buy carrots in a farmers’ market if you can.”

The campaign has a website, StandWith Cuyama.com, and claims to have collected more than 7,000 signatures on a petition mostly from residents and their relatives demanding that the corporations stop over-pumping, drop their water rights lawsuit, and reimburse landowners for their lawyers’ fees.

As of deadline, Bolthouse and Grimmway had not responded to a request for comment for this report. Melinda Burns

mated $1 billion, the 10-year ambulance contract is supposed to be given by the LEMSA, or the Local Emergency Medicine Services Agency, AMR contends, which for the county is the Public Health Department. Instead, by an ordinance created in April, the supervisors developed a permit system they would manage, with the finalists then going to Public Health for the contract.

The next step in the bankruptcy of Ampersand Publishing LLC a k a the Santa Barbara NewsPress is the filing of Proofs of Claim, a step that occurs once assets are identified. At the time of the News-Press filing for Chapter 7 on 7/21, the company claimed it had $532.96 in its checking account, as well as $7,000 in office furnishings and equipment, $26,000 in artworks, and $79,000 in accounts receivable, with assets totaling $116,474. It also owed more than $5 million to creditors, who ranged from employees, former employees, subscribers, and advertisers to utility companies, vendors, and co-publishers Arthur von Wiesenberger and Wendy McCaw, who claimed to be owed more than $1.4 million for a loan. The next creditors’ meeting is tentatively scheduled for 10/19.

A legal battle over the U.S. Forest Service’s 755-acre tree and vegetation clearing project atop Pine Mountain and Reyes Peak in Los Padres National Forest is set to continue, pushed forward by concerned conservation groups who filed an appeal on 9/19 against a 7/19 ruling that allowed the contentious project to proceed. First approved by the Forest Service in 2021, the tree-thinning project, known as the Reyes Peak Forest Health Project, was met with overwhelming criticism based primarily on concern over the removal and potential commercial sale of large trees. n

ART MATTERS LECTURE

Gift to an American City: The Past, Future, and Present of the Clyfford Still Museum

Joyce Tsai, Ph.D. Director, Clyfford Still Museum

thursday, october 5, 5:30–6:30pm

mary craig auditorium

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Students and Museum Circle Members: Free SBMA Members: $10 Non-Members: $15

Reserve or purchase tickets at the Visitor Services desks in person, by phone 805.884.6423, or online at tickets.sbma.net.

For more information, visit www.sbma.net/artmatters

The American Abstract Expressionist artist, Clyfford Still, held on to 93% of everything he ever made and willed this extraordinary corpus, not to an existing art museum or gallery, to an unnamed American city. In so doing, he invests his art with civic potential. Joyce Tsai, director of the Clyfford Still Museum will illuminate the ways her institution seeks to fulfill that ambition.

1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

Tuesday–Sunday 11 am–5 pm Thursday 11 am–8 pm www.sbma.net

Since 2017, Art Matters speakers have been selected, introduced, and mediated by SBMA Deputy Director & Chief Curator, Eik

Kahng.

Children responding to a painting by Clyfford Still, PH-1049, 1977, oil on canvas, 114 × 172 inches, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver. Photo credit: Joyce Tsai.

Generous support for Art Matters was provided by the SBMA Women’s Board.

One woman’s journey from ecological despair to finding hope in the soil beneath her feet.

Rachel’s Farm Film Premiere

With filmmaker & director

Rachel Ward attending, Q&A follows

Santa Barbara Lobero Theatre

Sunday, October 15, 2023 • 6pm

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SBMA Surrenders $1M Nazi-Stolen Drawing

Museum Had Challenged Claim by Holocaust Victim Heirs

by Tyler Hayden

In January 2006, the heirs of a Jewish entertainer and art collector murdered in a Nazi concentration camp sent a letter to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art formally demanding the return of a valuable drawing they said was stolen from their late relative by Hitler’s Third Reich.

Offering sworn testimony from genealogists, handwriting analysts, and other experts as to the drawing’s true provenance, the family of Fritz Grünbaum and their attorneys insisted they had legal claim over the work by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, which had been gifted to the museum by one of its founders at a time when Nazi-looted art with forged paper trails flowed freely through the market.

“To this date,” the letter said, “the world’s museum community has been content to enjoy this stolen art without searching for heirs and explanations. It is time for this shameful conspiracy of silence to end.”

Last Wednesday, a small measure of that silence was broken with an announcement by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that seven Schiele paintings and drawings from Grünbaum’s once-vast collection including the pencil sketch in Santa Barbara’s possession valued at approximately $1 million were finally being returned to his relatives.

The other six pieces, with values ranging from $1 million to $2.75 million each, were owned by the Museum of Modern Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, both in New York, and two private collectors.

“We are returning these beautiful works to their rightful owners, to the family,” said District Attorney Alvin Bragg during the emotional handover ceremony that coincided with the Jewish High Holy Days. “This incredible art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime.”

In a somber yet optimistic speech, Grünbaum heir Timothy Reif thanked Bragg and his office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit for pursuing a new criminal investigation into the seven pieces after his family had originally fought to take them back through civil litigation. A lawsuit filed by Reif and other relatives earlier this year against the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, which the museum challenged on jurisdictional grounds, was withdrawn last month in anticipation of Bragg’s announcement.

“By recovering these long-lost artworks, our law enforcement authorities have achieved a measure of justice with excellence, unfailing resolve, and courage,” said Reif. Their successful efforts which Reif predicted would set a legal precedent for similar Holocaust restitution cases around the world “reminds us once again that history’s largest mass

murder has too long concealed history’s greatest robbery.”

Santa Barbara Museum of Art spokesperson Katrina Carl said Director Larry Feinberg and the museum’s Board of Trustees determined that the drawing should be returned after Manhattan prosecutors presented them with “relevant information concerning the provenance.” The piece had not been on display in decades, Carl previously noted.

“The artwork, ‘Portrait of the Artist’s Wife,’ had been donated to the Museum in 1957 by Wright Ludington, one of the institution’s founders,” Carl said. “This decision comes in response to a claim made by both the family members and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has been investigating a number of Schiele artworks in various museums and private collections.”

A legal stipulation signed by Nicholas Mutton, chair of the museum’s Board of Trustees, acknowledged the museum was voluntarily surrendering the Schiele “pursuant to a criminal investigation” into “Nazi-looted” property.

A celebrated Austrian cabaret singer, writer, and actor who was openly critical of Hitler in his performances, Fritz Grünbaum was arrested in 1938 and sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp. While imprisoned, he was forced to sign over power of attorney to his wife, Elisabeth, who was then strong-armed into giving up his art collection when soldiers “Aryanized” their home.

Among the nearly 500 pieces Grünbaum had amassed, 81 were by Schiele, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and member of Austria’s growing modernist movement. Schiele known for his nude self-portraits and depictions of prostitutes had been declared a “degenerate artist” by the Nazi Party, and any of his work that survived destruction was auctioned off or sold to finance the regime.

While at Dachau, Grünbaum often performed for his fellow prisoners, putting on one final show on New Year’s Eve, 1941, two weeks before he was killed. Elisabeth was murdered the following year in another death camp.

By the 1950s, a number of Schieles and other works from Grünbaum’s collection had surfaced on the art market. They were owned for a time by a Swiss dealer before being sold to a New York gallery that then distributed them to buyers around the globe. At the time, the U.S. State Department was so concerned over the influx of Nazi-plundered

art that it warned galleries and museums to be extra vigilant over the origin of items arriving to the country from Europe during or after the war.

It is not clear when or how Ludington acquired his Schiele. A wealthy socialite and voracious art collector, Ludington was a central figure in the formation of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, sitting on its building committee, serving as its first vice president, and donating hundreds of paintings, sculptures, and other objects to its permanent collection.

The fact that the stolen Schieles had passed through New York gave authorities there the jurisdiction to pursue them, the Manhattan DA’s Office explained. “Justice may be delayed, but it will never be denied,” Bragg said.

The department’s efforts were aided by the Holocaust Expropriated Recovery Act passed by Congress in 2016, which eased the requirements for reclaiming artwork lost through Nazi persecution. Prosecutors were also bolstered by a 2018 ruling in a related court case that proved Grünbaum did not give up his collection willingly, as one art dealer had argued. “We reject the notion that a person who signs a power of attorney in a death camp can be said to have executed the document voluntarily,” wrote the judge at the time.

Reif and the other heirs said they plan to put “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife” up for auction along with five of the other recovered works. The proceeds will fund the newly created Grünbaum Fischer Foundation and establish a scholarship program for young musicians. Grünbaum, Reif has said, was known for supporting budding artists and new members of his orchestra.

In his speech, Reif, a judge on the United States Court of International Trade, recited a poem written by Grünbaum that lamented his lack of children:

My word, it is truly bitter, you see, To die out completely like this 1, 2, 3. Imagine, having been so fit and distinguished, You find your life from one day to the next quite extinguished.

“I beg you please not to forget that the Grünbaum dynasty has life in it yet,” Reif said. “When viewing these artworks, imagine Fritz and Elisabeth in their lively Vienna apartment, singing and dancing and cracking jokes. Remembering their lives defeats Hitler’s plan to erase this brave Jewish man’s name from the book of history.” n

Matthew Bogdanos, lead prosecutor for the Antiquities Trafficking Unit, speaks to reporters surrounded by the recovered artworks.

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Timothy Reif (left) with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg

“Portrait of the Artist’s Wife” by Egon Schiele

Pros and Cons

I’malways amazed when people complain that the absence of cars on State Street has somehow been responsible for empty storefronts and an increase in the number of unhoused people. These problems were very much in place long before State Street was closed to cars.

The reality is that the nature of retail has changed. Bringing back cars isn’t going to undo the Amazonization of shopping. Cars on the street didn’t make it easier to get to the stores. And no one drove down State Street if they were actually trying to get somewhere.

As for being disturbed by unhoused persons, that too is not a function of the absence of cars. They are living on the streets and sidewalks of communities everywhere. You could argue that if you want to avoid such people, having the ability to walk in the street gives you more space to do so.

Bringing cars back wouldn’t bring back a golden age that has not existed for quite some time.

Gail Teton-Landis, S.B.

State Street needs to be open so those with mobility issues can be dropped off very near their destination at the front of a restaurant, the movie theater, the Granada for events not to mention quick access by first responders.

Let’s be allies for everyone and make State Street and its sidewalk work for everyone from families with babies in strollers to the blind, the hard of hearing, the mentally ill, folks in manual and electric wheelchairs or with walkers, and the groups of teens who enjoy laughing and skipping and jostling each other as they happily go up and down State Street.

Paulina Conn, S.B.

It’s hard to watch your childhood hometown change. My hometown is a city now, not a bustling but moderately sized suburb as it was 50 years ago. That’s just what happens when the world gets more populated.

Those who accuse the City Council of planning to do nothing for the next three years clearly are not paying attention either to council meetings or to the State Street Advisory Committee, both of which have been making decisions and exploring possibilities at a steady clip.

The council recently took up several recommendations from an ad hoc committee to rapidly address challenges like speeding bicycles. And they just voted to explore a complete redo of Paseo Nuevo. Meanwhile, the State Street Advisory Committee has heard exciting proposals about how to rethink downtown to

create a vision and design standards that would appeal to residents and visitors alike.

Nostalgia is a state of mind, and people are entitled to it. But it certainly should not determine planning for the future of our downtown.

A Point of Order

Lee Heller, S.B.

Wewish to emphasize how important it is to complete a written Requirements Document before any further design work is done for the State Street Master Plan.

The document will list all the real-world requirements a project will have to meet to be successful such things as building code and zoning regulations, police and fire safety standards, stormwater management, residential density, and the variables essential to a large, complex project. The document should precede any design work as it will usefully limit infeasible design choices because of regulations, lack of financial resources, or those choices not being desired by the community at large.

From our perspective, the two biggest requirements that need to be resolved are 1) transportation and mobility throughout the study area, and 2) the identification and integration of needed housing on both public and private land, both to create a livelier downtown and to meet the state’s housing requirements.

We believe the Requirements Document must be completed now, before the council, State Street Advisory Committee, and consultants move on to the next step: potential design changes to Santa Barbara’s El Pueblo Viejo Historic District.

—Dale Francisco, Bill Mahan, Don Sharpe, Addison Thompson, and Bendy White

For the Record

¶ This tasty photo of the Quesebirria from Taquería La Unica was missing from last week’s burrito bustout.

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LESLIE DINABERG

At 215 Bath Street

Neighbors Made Homes, Experiences, and Connections

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This is what community looks like. At least, what’s left of a community. This community represents 10 countries, including Jamaica, Mexico, Sweden, Ecuador, Italy, and the Philippines. This community of young and old, of natives and immigrants, of city workers, artists, Lyft drivers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and seniors shares the same address. This community signifies what I envisioned Santa Barbara to be: a thriving, culturally diverse, international community, living in harmony.

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The people in the picture are just one-quarter of the residents who still live at 215 Bath Street. The forever-smiling woman in the blue fisherman’s hat is Merlinda Goddard, who managed the property for 22 years. She raised her children there. Her kindness, care, and generosity of spirit brought the residents of Bath Street together. When escrow closed on the apartment building last month, Merlinda, who innocently signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Koto Property Management, was given 30 days to vacate the premises.

In January of this year, UCSB hosted a panel discussion on Urban Place Making that explored the question, “What kind of living environment makes us happy?”

Applying the research of behavioral economists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and city planners in the book Happy City, Charles Montgomery explores how city planning and personal decisions can have profound implications for social equity, sustainability, and our overall well-being. In conclusion, Montgomery emphasizes the importance of living a “connected life” and feeling connected to other people.

I trust that two years into his role as Community Development Director, Elias Isaacson, who was part of the Urban Place Making panel discussion, is up for the ongoing challenges that distinguish Santa Barbara from his former post in Santa Fe when it comes to housing and human services.

You see, there are 52 units at 215 Bath Street. Fiftytwo apartments where, through inclusion, people felt safe and rooted and grew relationships. Fiftytwo neighbors who, through shared experiences and familiarity, formed connections. Fifty-two fellow humans who, despite differences, looked out for each other’s well-being and made themselves at home there over decades.

So still the question for Santa Barbara hangs. What will become of communities like 215 Bath Street as affordable housing makes way for tourism?

Around the corner from 215 Bath Street, current hotel projects include Ed St. George’s West Beach Hotel at 302 and 308 West Montecito Street (60 rooms). Another awaits at 517 Chapala Street (35 rooms). Arvand Sabetian has two hotels in the

works: 812 Garden Street (30 rooms) and 513-517 De la Vina Street (15 rooms). The biggest hotel project pending boasts 230 rooms at 101 Garden Street, along with the addition of 86 rooms to the Hilton on Cabrillo Street.

To be fair, construction of the affordable-housing project Vera Cruz Village is complete. All 28 units are designated for those with special needs and the homeless. SomoFunk, still in development, will take over an entire city block. The mixed-use project includes 155 residential units with 29 units tagged as “affordable.” Milpas Gardens proposes 90 residential units with 15 units “below market rate.” Of the 82 units Alan Bleecker and Ed St. George are building at 701 North Milpas, 16 will be offered for those with a “moderate income” between $80,000 and $120,000 annually. The most promising affordablehousing project in development is where Tri-County Produce stands on Milpas. Investors are collaborating with local employers to ensure that the rental prices at the 99-unit building meets the income of local workers.

Simple math makes the contrast between hotel rooms and affordable housing units apparent. Where will long-term tenants living in “workforce” housing go when they find themselves suddenly with no place to go displaced? What becomes of a city where communities are replaced by commuters? Is it sustainable from an environmental perspective? How do we foster connections with short-term or part-time residents? A half-dozen tenants at 215 Bath Street are elderly; who’s looking out for them?

Councilmember Mike Jordan was correct. This is a life-altering event. Some people will be impacted in a negative way. Some will never recover. Some will move out of town. Some will leave the state.

I returned to Santa Barbara after 15 years away. I returned, beckoned by a professional opportunity with the generous support of lifelong friends. I returned, hopeful that Santa Barbara would, by now, have taken some of its glamourous allure, influence, tax money, and charities to be the prosperous, culturally diverse community it portrays.

I stayed, through a pandemic, through the struggles of launching and maintaining a new business. I stayed, despite what Nick Welsh aptly described as “the seismic shifts taking place in Santa Barbara’s grossly overheated rental market.” I stayed, intent to generate millions of dollars, invest in a proper home of my own here, and give back what privilege affords me. But more immediately, I stayed because I found an affordable apartment on Craigslist, met Merlinda Goddard, connected with others, and lived happily for years.

So now, I leave Santa Barbara to this question: When a community is uprooted, what grows in its place? n

James Edward Herman

1945-2023 Legal Giant

BY DENISE DE BELLEFEUILLE AND ALAN BLAKEBORO

Jim Herman arrived in Monterey, California, in the early winter of 1966 to attend the Defense Language Institute and learn Mandarin at the behest of the United States Air Force. Jim had never been out of his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, and when he phoned his parents to let them know he’d made it to California, he learned that there was freezing sleet and subzero temperatures back home. He took a deep breath and marveled at the beauty surrounding him — 70 degrees, mild offshore winds, sunlight glinting off of the Pacific Ocean.

At that moment, the humble Midwestern son of a railroad engineer and a tax accountant became a lifelong Californian who took advantage of everything the Golden State had to offer him, including a first-rate education at UC Santa Barbara, where he studied drama. He had every intention of becoming an actor until an injustice done to his younger brother Gary spurred him to go to law school.

From his earliest days, Jim possessed a gusto about life that translated into excellence in everything he undertook, whether it was rock-climbing at Yosemite, long-distance running, sailboat captaining, bike riding, photography, surfing, scuba diving, performance driving, acting in and producing plays, winemaking, or world travel. But his greatest passion was reserved for his life in the law.

Everyone who knew Jim agrees that he had the best sense of humor of anyone. He carefully honed this gift throughout his life. As a public defender for the first seven years of his legal career, he developed the gallows humor common to professionals who deal with the worst human behavior. One of his earliest triumphs in the courtroom was securing a voluntary manslaughter conviction on a theory of “imperfect self-defense” for a young man charged with firstdegree murder. Upon their first meeting, Lewis Price begged Jim not to let him be sent to the electric chair. Jim replied calmly, “Stop crying, Lewis. I guarantee that you won’t go to the electric chair — because we have the gas chamber in California.”

The Price case garnered widespread media attention and established Jim’s reputation as a truly gifted trial lawyer. He was an expert in the art of jury selection and taught that subject (and others) to generations of law students and lawyers. He moved from criminal law to civil litigation and met his longtime law partner Alan Blakeboro at the first of three firms at which they worked together; Jim dubbed them “Brains” (Alan) and “Bluster” (Jim). But, as the Los Angeles magazine article about the Price case stated, “Jim Herman is known as one of the canniest and most able criminal lawyers in the county, and neither judges nor prosecutors are fooled by his terrible suits or his slow, Midwestern speech.”

Serendipity led Jim to be elected president of the California State Bar in 2002, an honorary role that carried with it a surprising amount of work. He relished the adventure, visiting any group of lawyers anywhere in the state who invited him to do so. He always began his introduction by telling his audience

that he hailed from a “humble fishing village on the Central Coast.” Two decades later, lawyers and judges around California still remember that line and the charming guy who uttered it.

As a result of his tireless work as State Bar Presi dent, he was invited to sit on the Judicial Council of California and returned as a judge member upon his appointment to the Santa Barbara Superior Court in 2005. The pinnacle of his career came when Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye counted him as one of her closest advisors.

From 1986 to 2006, Jim visited China five times. On the penultimate visit, he took a diverse group of American lawyers to meet their Chinese counter parts. The last trip included two California Supreme Court Justices, Marvin Baxter and Ming Chin. Jus tice Chin was the American-born son of Chinese immigrants, and he did not learn Mandarin. When Jim and Ming visited a street art fair in Hong Kong to buy scrolls, Jim deftly handled the negotiations in Mandarin

Jim had a gift for friendship, and his inner circle was a group of loyal buddies who knew him and loved him for decades. But he was also a beloved figure in the Santa Barbara legal community, and his death is a stunning loss. In the words of lawyer Lacy Taylor, who tried her first jury trial in front of Judge Herman, “He was kind, just, and very brilliant.”

For the past 17 years, Jim lived on a five-acre farm in the Santa Ynez Valley with his wife, retired Superior Court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille. Each night, they would sit out together with a glass of local wine, sometimes from their own small vineyard, looking at the clouds play against the San Rafael and Santa Ynez mountain ranges. At such times, Jim would often recall that moment in Monterey and express his amazement at his good fortune. Please raise a glass to toast our good fortune to have shared his journey.

In James Herman’s memory, donations can be made to the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County (301 E. Canon Perdido St., S.B., CA 93101 or at lafsbc.org).

Dad, this one’s for you! Our wonderful and irreplaceable Father, Albert Quincy Spaulding, Jr., passed away peacefully, on Sunday July 16th, in his own bed, in his own beautiful home – his wishes fulfilled!

Al was born on July 8, 1925, at St. Francis Hospital, to his mother, Josephine Marie McManus (Josie), a very well-known portrait artist and father, Dr. Albert Quincy Spaulding Sr. (Baba), a beloved doctor in Santa Barbara, Montecito and Carpinteria. His sister Gwendolyn (Gwennie) was two years old. Dad was raised on Monte Vista Road and Picacho Lane. Albert had many nicknames, as they did in the day – “Q’ser” (because Gwennie couldn’t pronounce Quincy), “Butch” (from being a quarterback at Catholic High School), “Foofee” (a name bestowed upon him by the White Family of Montecito), “Al” (as everyone in Santa Ynez and his caregivers knew him and “Daddy/Dad” (as his children called him). Dad was raised a Catholic, baptized at Mount Carmel Church and was an altar boy, swinging the incense pot with his adorable smile. He attended Montecito Union School and Santa Barbara Catholic High School and had lots of friends and many interests. His horoscope sign is “Cancer”, so he always loved his homes, family and the moon. Marbles (or “megs” as he called them) were very popular at school and also a game called “chilacayotes” which were green prickly round pods filled with 3 dark, shiny brown seeds, kept in your pockets and held in a closed hand to play “odd or even”. Once at a construction stop on Highway 154, he jumped out of the truck, ran down the hill and bushes toward Lake Cachuma and plucked a long vine from an oak tree. Even though the car line might start moving, Dad just jumped

ALBERT QUINCY SPAULDING, JR.

1925-2023

that they practically had to bar the front door on Picacho because the local boys were besotted with his sister, Gwennie. She and our cousin Peggy McManus were the Belles of the Ball in Montecito, but all they were interested in was riding their horses on the beach (well, maybe they were a little interested in the boys)!

in with his “catch” of “chilacayotes”, opened one up and the seeds were beautiful – then he explained how to play the game – can you believe that?! As a boy, Dad would stop at “Colville’s Grocery & Soda Fountain” for his giant 5 cent bologna and cheese sandwich, on his walk to school. He loved fishing off the Miramar pier using hand lines, right next to the Miramar Swim Club (unfortunately, both the pier and the swim club are gone!). Dad was a great swimmer, enjoying body surfing at Miramar Beach and swimming out to the hotel’s raft! His parents were members of the Coral Casino, which at that time, had a professional high diving board and beautiful white sand all around the ocean water pool – he loved swimming there! Sailing was also one of his favorite things.

After he joined the Santa Barbara Yacht Club’s junior “sailing school”, he learned the sport on small boats called “Seashells” for the kids. Baba was a “Commodore” there in 1942 and 1943, as he also loved boating. Dad’s family had lots of dogs; most remembered was their springer spaniel “Rowdy” – he always loved animals. He even raised bees for years and when we lived at the Sycamore Canyon house, we had Banty Hens, and Rod White, a great friend, brought us the most adorable Australian Shepherd puppy called “Dobie”, named after our adobe house. In his teens, Baba, Dad and other friends would horseback ride into the backcountry (the Santa Ynez Range), with Dad riding his trusted buckskin mare, “Bieta” and burros carrying all the gear and supplies for a one- or twoweek trip of hunting and fishing. At Santa Barbara Catholic High School in 1938, Dad wasn’t much for school (except all of the nuns loved him!), but he loved playing football – a quarterback he was, and the nickname “Butch” was born! Dad also said

Dad left high school at 17 and along with two friends took a boat to Catalina Island for Merchant Marine School. When Baba, the doctor, found out, he contacted our father and said “remember, Q’ser, one night with Venus – a lifetime with Mercury” (because they didn’t have Penicillin in those days)! Dad got the picture! He studied a lot and played a lot on that island for two months and joined the “Sailors Union of the Pacific”. He signed up in San Pedro, went to Portland Oregon as an “Able Bodied Seaman”, working in the galley on a P2 tanker on the Columbia River, then back to San Pedro to catch another new vessel and worked as a Deckhand, then to the engine department, then steward and eventually at the age of 18, a Bosen! Back to San Pedro and bussed to New York. First big trip was to Dover, crossing the Atlantic on a Liberty Ship – then across the English Channel to France where his ship was pounded by a hurricane so intense that none of the other Liberty ships could stay together. This might have “saved his bacon” because their ships were always targets for the enemy due to their dangerous and precious cargo (bombs, ore to make steel, etc.). Next time, shipping out from San Pedro, they stopped in Honolulu for supplies, surged through a storm before arriving at Midway, near New Guinea. At dock, the ship was camouflaged, and the older guys brought boxes of “Three Feathers” whiskey on board. Sea Bees on a landing craft stole the booze and then the MP’s (Military Police) found out and shouted, “get rid of it or you’re all going to the Brig”! Q’ser was nonplussed! His exciting, but treacherous itinerary follows: Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, the Tigress and Euphrates River, up the Bosporus Straight, Sudan, Ethiopia (where they picked up sisal), south to Mozambique to pick up Tunston ore ( to make steel), Durbin and Cape Town, South Africa and detoured to the Caribbean to take the ship’s baker off due to V.D. (venereal disease, just to be clear!). The food, per Dad, on the ships was nothing great, but there was a lot of it. The highlight for Dad on all of his travels (he went around the world at least 3 times) were the Solomon Islands – such wonderful people and so beautiful! We all know that we are losing the “Greatest Generation” that went through the Second World War, but still lived in one of the best times in our nation’s history. We now salute all those who have served their Country, especially Dad and his son in law and Susanna’s husband, Stephen Davis.

After the war, Q’ser had experienced a lot of growing up and many fantastic experiences! He moved back into the Picacho Lane house and immediately called his very best friend Stewart (Storky) White and started right where they left off! Our brother Quinn’s middle name, Stewart, results from their close bond. Dad was known for the Ford Model A that he cruised State Street and Cabrillo Boulevard in. After he met my mother, he often double dated and “dragged” State Street up to the “Fig Tree Drive-In” (later, the “Blue Onion”) where the waitresses roller skated to your car in cute, short uniforms and hooked your food tray onto your car window – those were the days! One weekend, Q’ser decided to throw a party, as his parents were out of town. Being a small town, word got out fast and all of Dad’s friends and some strangers showed up for the festivities. You cannot mention Dad without our mom, Jeannie (Queenie, for short). Jeannie showed up with a date and Q’ser also had a date. The party was in full swing and Q’ser could barely keep up with all the beer bottles, glasses, cigarette butts and chaos, so Jeannie went into the kitchen to help him and ended up staying for the entire party! The next day he called her, showed up at her door, and they started going out every night (Dad called her every day!) and true romance had blossomed. Their first date was to the wrestling matches – so popular in those days. Dancing was a huge part of their relationship as well. Sorrowfully, at this fun filled and happy time, Storky was tragically killed while flying an airplane near his family’s home in Montecito. Our Dad was devastated and of course, his family and friends. Bendy White, Stewart’s younger brother, is a very good friend of ours to this day.

Sister Gwendolyn (Gwennie), a Pan American Airlines stewardess, married United Airlines pilot, Vernor “Pete” Petrie and Dad is also survived by their daughter, Robin, all were from Sausalito. Soon after, Mom and Dad were married in November of 1946. They lived in the Picacho guest house and Dad had a successful cleaning business until he landed something he really wanted to do. One thing– he didn’t want to work for anyone else – he was always self-sufficient and wanted to manage his career in his own way and at his own speed. In 1948, along came their first daughter, Susanna (Tutie), so Mom gave up her banking career and in 1952, another bundle of joy arrived –Lisa Bryn; Dad called her “Lisa Brynie-Pin Stuffins” which always made us laugh. Life was beautiful then as we had four “parents”; Mom and Dad, Baba and Josie. Then Baba saw an advertisement – “For Sale, Montecito Lemon Ranch” with 52 acres, a family home and a lemon packing building. It was being auctioned, so Baba, Josie, Mom and Dad, put up the final paddle, unbelievably with the highest bid, and bought the newly named “Rancho San Alberto” on

the corner of Sycamore Canyon Road and Camino Viejo in Montecito. The plan was to continue working the lemon orchard for income and turn the large hilltop hacienda into two residences. To our utter shock and complete sadness, our grandmother, Josie, passed away and all of Baba’s and Dad’s lives and plans were forever changed. Baba sold a portion of the ranch land and Mom and Dad kept 12 acres, plus the beautiful house and the adobe packing house, which Dad successfully turned into a small home. Dad planted the top 9 acres with Hass avocados. We loved helping him graft the trees and we remember him lifting the heavy irrigation pipes to water both the lemons and the avocados. In 1956, cute little Quinn arrived, bringing happiness to all. Dad was seeking a business to really sink his teeth into and bought Santa Ynez Feed and Milling Company – a working mill in little downtown Santa Ynez. We rented out the Montecito house and Mom packed us up and we “headed for the hills” and drove Hwy 154 to Edison Street in her classic navy blue and faux wood Country Squire wagon, as the chickens from the neighborhood crossed the street in front of us – we all said in unison “Oh, No!” We rented a house on Edison Street which at the time had a pine tree forest and was close to the mill. Dad grew the business, but times were changing. Instead of chicken ranches and cattle ranging, customers were building large houses on large properties, raising and training thoroughbred horses with first class staging to lure the very wealthy. Al, with his amazing business mind, picked right up on the phenomenon and turned the mill into a retail store with feed for most animals, Western and English tack, rentals and off he went.

Susanna attended Santa Ynez High School for one year and was horrified that almost half the students wore cowboy hats and boots, and being a blond beach girl, a fish out of water literally! We are remembering all the fun family trips we took; Palm Springs every spring break (Oh, the hors d’oeuvres at Trader Vic’s!), many weekends at Hollister Ranch – catching our first halibut, Lake Arrowhead – water skiing, Lake Tahoe – boating and river rafting on innertubes, most of the Western State National Parks and a special family resort in Idaho – fishing and canoeing. Mom and Dad also loved to ocean cruise and when the Sitmar Line started, they cruised to Mexico and Alaska – also flying to Hawaii. But our favorite family trips were always to the Palmilla Resort in San Jose Del Cabo. That second-floor bar, totally open to the air, sky and ocean waves crashing on the massive rocks, the margaritas, guacamole, and home-made tortilla chips were the best ever – bar none! It will always be remembered as our paradise! In Santa Ynez, Susanna remembers sneaking out of her bedroom window with her best friend Vail, and Dad, unbelievably grabbing her foot and holding on – they were so busted! Then another time she had a party (parents were gone) and one of the boys hot-wired Dad’s Army Jeep and took it for a country off-road joy ride. It barely made it back to the garage, due to a freshly broken axle and Dad was never told for three months, but he knew and asked her “what took you so long?” and figured that she had suffered enough with overwhelming guilt and worry. That’s how truly nice he was!

Susanna was receiving her driver’s license

and Al and Jeannie didn’t want her to drive the San Marcos Pass – so, we moved back to Montecito and Dad amazingly commuted from Santa Barbara to the “Valley” over the Pass for 54 years (from 1964 to about 2018) without a hitch, in his classic white Ford Ranchero, replacing several engines through the years (he also delivered hay, etc. to customers in Santa Barbara – mostly Hope Ranch and Montecito). He finally purchased a beautiful brand-new truck. Al loved working at the Feed Store, either lifting bales of hay into customer’s cars or loading the delivery trucks or sitting in his office near the registers and holding court with all his favorite folks. He never stopped coordinating all the responsibilities of a large business.

In 1985 Quinn joined Dad in the business and helped to add more retail departments, like the tropical fish department and many hardware store items as well as an incredible shavings business, and started a Western clothing store –“Tumbleweeds”, upstairs. In 1986 Susanna joined the family business (after a career in travel), restructuring Tumbleweeds and eventually moving it next door to a much larger space. Dad loved having the clothing store and was so happy he could buy his jeans and shirts at work! Eventually another renter left, and Al asked what she could visualize in the space and “Sage of Santa Ynez '' was born. Al changed this into a wonderful space for home furnishings, gifts and accessories and it is a hit for the locals and Santa Barbaran’s alike!

Eventually Dad bought the entire corner, after luckily finding out it was for sale by word of mouth. It had been a Real Estate office and Steve’s Wheel and Tire – so here he went again and built his dream restaurant and deli. It was a “5 star” to us and was called “Santa Ynez Feed and Grill”. In 1999, Lisa left her tennis teaching job at Birnam Wood and helped start the restaurant and deli. You want to work at the toughest job ever? – build, open or buy a restaurant! After four years of serving delicious family recipes, we decided to rent the business and after a few unsuccessful tries, we landed Carlos Lopez (the owner of “Cava” on Coast Village Road and son of “Carlito’s” owners on State Street). Hence the opening of “Dos “Carlito’s”, the topper of our family corner and a gorgeous place for a “delish” margarita (with any Tequilla you want) and great food and ambience! Dad was so happy to see the completion of his dreams – family working with him and a successful collection of businesses, with varied offerings, that helped to complete the town of Santa Ynez!

Back to our Sycamore Canyon home – Dad had a “thing” for Bar-B-Que’s – he had 5 in total, but whenever he BBQ’D, he always used the original black steel one, that was furthest from the house. It went up and down as you turned the handle, and he always used the best wood and kindling to get a perfect fire. I can see him now, jumping over the back wall, holding a large flashlight in his mouth with the chicken sizzling. Only once did he really get mad regarding his new built-in BBQ on the patio. Quinn (sorry, Quinn) had a party and unzipped the cover of the new BBQ and actually cooked steaks on Dad’s perfect grill! Well, apparently, no one cleaned it afterwards, and when Dad saw it, he went crazy! How

could anyone use my new BBQ before me?! – we should probably drop the subject now!

Dad was really into hunting, and he was invited to many ranches. There were duck, dove, quail and pheasant, so Susanna turned into a professional “Duck Plücker”. There were often 1 or 2 deer curing in the garage – we loved the chops and grew up eating fresh and organic game. Mom used to cook the pheasant in butter, sour cream, sautéed mushrooms, and white vermouth until it was so tender – we all went crazy for it! And every Sunday night we had a family gathering and Dad BBQ’D his famous chicken– none better! Also, we can’t forget Mom’s famous “taco nights” – they were out of this world. All of our friends begged us to come over! Some of the best things that Dad cooked were scrambled eggs, pancakes (the best), BBQ’D chicken and lemon meringue pie -Yumm!

Every get together or party at their house, after talking, laughing and drinking and eating for hours, when we were ready to go home to bed, Dad would follow us outside the front door, walk you to your car, lean on the driver’s windowsill and start a whole new conversation (which was good for another 15 or 20 minutes!). He always loved a good party and never wanted it to end! Some of Dad’s favorite things…dancing with Jeannie, music, sailing, swimming, jogging, hunting and fishing, horseback riding, all animals, margaritas and Manhattans, great food, his family and friends, his work family, his caregivers, his favorite book “Something of Value”, traveling, the satisfaction of building something and of course, the fact that it’s ok to wear the same uniform every day – light blue oxford cloth shirt, wrangler jeans and his comfy boots (except when he wore a tuxedo!). Can you imagine being 98 years old, having lived in the same small town all your life, married 75 years (to the same person) and slowly everyone wants to live here, and they just keep coming. There used to be stop lights on the 101 and State Street had 4 lanes, sidewalks and parking and there were Christmas trees going all the way to Sola Street. It seemed like we all knew each oth-

er, and it was such an innocent time – life was simple. He was so lucky to have been raised then and he always just accepted the changes –Almost!

Jean Lavonne Neilson Spaulding died on March 8, 2021, at the age of 97. Married to Q’ser from 1946 to 2021 – 75 years of love, fun and compromise. That’s marriage! When you live with someone for so long in your life, it’s almost like they will be here forever – it is part denial, part hope and all love. We were so lucky, as a family, to have enjoyed our parents for so many years, precious years! We still go toward the phone to call Mom…and now we are doing the same with our Dad. It instantly stuns you into reality, a big letdown and then sadness. But remember, our mourning is love and without mourning we never really loved.

Q’ser/Al’s legacy: Kindness, incredible love, honesty, hard work, incredible happiness, generosity, a great sense of humor, people lover, his uniqueness, the joy of dancing with our mom, common sense, a deep sense of awareness, amazing memory and the quote “can’t everyone just get along” (Rodney King). Stephen recently asked Dad “what got you through all the difficult and challenging times throughout your life and career?” – long pause…” you just have to learn how to roll with the punches”. Q’ser is survived by his children, Susanna Davis (Stephen), Lisa Spaulding (Brian Felix) and Quinn Spaulding (Robin Poett), granddaughter Quincy Spaulding and his niece, Robin Petrie Hostetter. We would like to thank Mom and Dad’s kind caregivers, Leslie, Letty, Rosie, Candice, and others. We believe that with their loving hearts, they gifted and added long and happy years to both of our parents’ lives. We will never forget all of you… and thank you, Mr. Ruben Rey, proprietor of Pueblo Del Rey. Funeral Services, we appreciate you all so much.

There is no such thing as an ending, just a place where you leave the story – We love you, Dad!

Katherine Lee Molony

8/15/1930 - 9/14/2023

their fifth child, John, arriving on February 7, 1962. The rest is a mirage of school, bologna sandwiches, uniforms, swimming parties, and trips to the beach and to the Mission on Sundays. All of this was supervised by a succession of stoic, gentle German Shepherds who presided on the front porch to monitor visitors and greet everyone coming home.

Cecilia Navarro Castro 11/11/1933 - 9/18/2023

Santa Barbara Chapter in her living room. The Junior Brown Beret Drill Team for Santa Barbara Junior High had a home base there too, including her daughter Patricia, and her cousins and friends who were always in attendance.

Kitty Molony has left the building. And her absence is felt profoundly by every one of her children and grandchildren, in so many ways.

Katherine Lee Molony, nee Bollinger, departed this earth on September 14, 2023 after a brief period of ill health. Hers was a life of complexity and challenge, lived fully and richly, including 60+ years in Santa Barbara. Together with her husband James, our late father, Kitty designed, built and landscaped a custom mid-century modern home in the foothills of Santa Barbara that provided the setting for our childhood of endless adventures, hiking, biking, swimming, hooky playing on horseback, polliwog hunting and more.

But let us go back to an earlier time. Born in Taft, California on August 15, 1930, Kitty Bollinger was the youngest of three girls born to Katherine and Don Bollinger. Kitty Lee was an adorable blue-eyed curly haired toddler who grew into a beautiful young woman. She finished nursing school and met and fell deeply and immediately in love with James Molony, a young Navy pilot. Two babies ensued, and pretty quickly they were a small family. In September 1952, James survived a major aircraft accident, falling onto the desert floor with a torn parachute and shattering both his legs in the process. Their life changed in an instant.

After two years spent in traction in a Navy hospital, Jim emerged in a wheelchair, progressing to a walker and then a cane. He spent the next few years obtaining his MBA at Stanford University with the constant help and support of Kitty, whose nursing skills were put to the test.

Their move to a rocky hill in Santa Barbara was low-key and filled with hope. By now they had four children; Michele, Suzanne, Michael, and Katherine. Their collaborative effort on the property, where they planted every tree and shrub, blossomed into a gentle homestead for their family of 5, with

Kitty was a maker. Her talents in sewing and crafting were legendary, and some of her hand-tailored pieces are in pristine condition today. She was an accomplished cook, and memories of her succulent Thanksgiving turkeys, delicious Easter leg of lamb and veal scaloppine are embedded in the ongoing story of our childhoods. She painted the house, tended to the landscaping, raised all of us to adulthood and still found the energy to play tennis at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club for many years.

Our mother was most proud of her accomplishments as a nurse at Pueblo Surgical Center, where she worked until her retirement in her 70’s. She was an astute observer of human nature, and always found the right words to say to a patient worried about a diagnosis. Her powers of observation survived right up to the end of her life.

It is impossible to describe Kitty Molony without a look at the family portraits decorating every wall of the house. She cherished and adored all her grandchildren: Alex, Olivia, Nikki, Monique, Jessica, Brittanny, Tiana and Bella. Her words of love and support, and her prickly sense of humor, as well as her creativity, have left all of her surviving family missing her and finding ways to remember her. So many memories and so much laughter in our now quiet homestead are a testament to her quick wit, her sense of humor, her intuitiveness and her creativity.

Yes, she was much loved, and will be deeply missed by all of us. We are grateful for the home she and our Dad provided and the stability, beauty and peace created in our home on the hill.

A celebration of life will take place in November.

Cecilia was born in Santa Barbara to Perfecto and Petra Navarro. Cecilia was predeceased by her husband Rosendo “Ross” Castro, and her siblings Lupe Romo, Consuelo Morelez, Gilbert Navarro, Martha Armijo, Sally Rodriguez, Richard Navarro, and Salvador Navarro who passed away at a younger age; and grandson-inlaw Colin Gardiner.

Cecilia is survived by her three daughters, Patricia Ann Valenzuela (Paul), Cindy Bernadette Mera, JoAnna Castro Lopez (David) and adopted daughter in spirit Lisa Gonzales; grandchildren Adelita Vida Gardiner (Colin), Alicia CyL Valenzuela, Daniel Mera (Myriam), and Luis Mera Jr.; and great grandchildren Laylanie Carmen Valenzuela, Jayden James Draws, Cecilia Patricia Gardiner, Brianna Darlene Gardiner, Aribella Mera, and Sofia Mera, who will all miss their Grand na na na na na na na so very much.

Santa Barbara didn’t have many places to dance, and my dad and his friends weren’t allowed in with their zoot suits and duck tail haircuts. The parking lot of the East Beach Pavilion was the only place they could go to dance So that’s where it all started. They met at the Pavilion and he would walk her home after the dance, kai kai kai.

As a couple our parents were all about helping everyone find their way, and as we were growing up we always had someone else living with us. Together they helped many families and friends at different times- to live with our family and help them out in different situations. In addition to sharing their home and family, Mom always provided a support system to everyone, and did whatever they could to get people back on their feet through education, careers and financial stability to make their own solid path ahead.

Cecilia opened her home and welcomed the community, and hosted the Brown Berets of

Cecilia Supported the founders of La Casa de la Raza (Latino Community Center). Together with other likeminded people dedicated to providing the Latino community with services, community celebrations, and empowering the community with education. Cecilia was honored to have Cesar E. Chavez visited her for her homemade carrot juice whenever he came to Santa Barbara. Mom and her family marched together with Cesar and the UFW for justice in the grape boycotts, and traveled to attend Cesar’s funeral and final march along with Daddy Ross and daughter JoAnna.

In her personal life, Mom loved to cook and clean. She shared her amazing food everyday at home with family and friends, and often with the community, helping in the kitchen of Casa de la Raza- with the hugest pots of rice, beans and other delicious food in mass quantities. In the summertime she would keep her daughters and their friends busy in her own “summer school”, teaching them how to clean the house in the most extraordinary ways, and how to earn money, and save it. Cecilia showed her daughters and their friends a good work ethic.

Our parents were great role models for only having gone to school through the 7th or 8th grade. At a young age our t.v. only had 13 channels and no remote. So my Dad would always have us young kids get up and change the channel to find the news. (Agh!) But he always had us knowing what was going on politically. We were taught to seek higher education and develop ourselves as much as possible. My Dad always said, “If you can’t afford the News Press at least walk by a newspaper stand and read the headlines. And most importantly always let your voice be heard and get out and vote every time there is an election.”

Mom didn’t have a college degree but she was a true businesswoman. Over time she bought rental properties in Santa Barbara. She showed her husband what was possible with their hard work and savings.

Mom was the greatest mom.

She was always cooking for us. We never had fast food. She always made breakfast, lunch for school, and dinner. She taught us to shop for clothes in the thrift store. When her youngest daughter JoAnna got older she would ask her to be her personal shopper and eventually discover shopping consignment, always learning how to be a smart businesswoman in everyday life just like Mom. Our Mom Cecilia was baptized, completed her first communion, confirmation, attended school through the sixth grade ,and married at Guadalupe Church. In addition, Cecilia’s final mass will be at Guadalupe church as well. She loved her Catholic faith, and in the 1990’s attended religious retreats in Anaheim with Daddy Ross. In her older age she became Mother Cecilia, loved by many as Mama Cheila, as she was always praying for her family and friends, and even for the animals. When anyone we knew became ill, we would call her and ask for her prayers. We will always remember her saying how she was praying for “the family tree”, and her grandchildren were always grateful for her powerful precious prayers when their pets got sick. She loved attending morning mass at Guadalupe Church and going to Our Lady of Sorrows at noon during the week, where she met more prayer group friends. Her legacy already lives on in our family, friends and in the whole community, and we will always love our Mom, Mama Cheila, Grand na na na na na na, and more, for her beautiful spirit that will live on in our hearts and in our homes forever.

Funeral services will be Monday, October 2, 2023 at Guadalupe Church, 227 N. Nopal 9:30am Rosary, 10:00 am Mass, then to Calvary Cemetery at 199 N. Hope Ave. for the final graveside blessing. The reception will be announced at the Cemetery.

Jack Hulbert

11/11/1947 - 5/10/2023

non Cherry and grandkids Aiden and Kayla, sister-in-law Mary Ortega, nieces and nephews Terry Ortega (Brian), Gabriel and Miranda, Kathy Ortega (Rod) and Mia Cetti. Thanks to RidleyTree Cancer Center and the Visiting Nurses Association for their care.

Jack’s smile and character were known by all. We feel the vacancy in the universe without him.

Jack now is riding the best wave ever and enjoying it all.

Phyllis was born. He was a member of The Boy Scouts of America, played Little League baseball, and collected stamps. He was a basketball player in high school and graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1963.

Jack Hulbert was born November 11, 1947 and passed away at home on May 10, 2023.

Jack Hulbert was born in San Francisco and has lived in Santa Barbara since 1959 when he was 12 years old and his family moved to La Conchita. There, Jack fostered his love of the sea and learned how to surf. Surfing was a happy core of his life throughout his life and he surfed in La Conchita, Rincon, Carpinteria, the Santa Barbara Islands and occasional surf trips to Mexico. All of the kids he grew up with in La Conchita have remained lifetime friends. His long-time surfer buddies knew him as “Dickey-Di.”

In 1968 Jack met Santa Barbara native Gloria Dominguez, the love of his life, and the feeling was mutual. They met on Mountain Drive, where auburn-haired Gloria lived, when Jack went to see an available room there. It was love at first sight, Gloria captivated by his sun-browned looks, sparkling hazel eyes, beautiful smile and laidback character. What wasn’t to like?

Also wonderful was that they shared in common Indian spiritual master Meher Baba. This was especially clear one day after Jack had moved in and folks were dining together, recounting their day’s doings. Jack mentioned that he had been to a Meher Baba meeting in Carpinteria. This was on the same day that Gloria had been to a Baba meeting in Santa Barbara and, at that, their sweet karma on meeting was cinched. They were wed in July 1968 and their daughter Shannon was born in August 1969 to complete their family.

Jack was a career independent general contractor throughout the Santa Barbara County. On Mountain Drive they shared a sweet life and a big garden and lived happily together there from 1974 until the Tea Fire in 2008.

Jack was extraordinarily kind, caring and loving. This is a common thread that runs through all the calls and cards concerning his passing. He loved life, surfing and people, often laughing with them and at himself.

Jack is survived by his devoted wife Gloria, their daughter Shan-

Jai Bba.

A celebration of life will be held in the Fall.

Annette J. Mendez (Borra)

9/13/1937 - 9/13/2023

Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Annette grew up in the San Roque area and went to San Roque Catholic School and Marymount. She graduated from Catholic High in 1955. Although very active in the Santa Barbara community from a young age, following graduation Annette attended St. Vincent’s College of Nursing in Los Angeles and became a RN in 1958. While a young nurse at St. Vincent’s Hospital, she met and married Dr. Michael Mendez. They raised their family in Glendale while also staying connected to Santa Barbara. She and Michael built a home on Padaro Ln in Carpinteria and Annette lived in Santa Barbara and was active in the community after she became a widow in 1995 at age 58. After her mother Adeline Anderson died in 2005 Annette moved to Oahu, Hawaii where she lived more than ten years. In 2019 she returned to the Santa Barbara area to live. Annette was active and healthy during much of her life until God called upon her to go to Heaven. Her children, except Laurie who died in 2019, were with her when she died comfortably at Cottage Hospital, just shy of her 86th birthday.

A Catholic service will be held Oct. 4, starting at 11:30 am at Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Dr. She will be buried with her husband. Flowers are welcome. Donations also can be made to a fund established to deliver flowers regularly to Annette’s grave https://gofund. me/cf176a4c

James Harold Evers, age 76 of Freeport passed away September 14, 2023 after a battle with Cancer. He was born in Freeport on September 11, 1947 to Mary Louise (Franz) Evers and John A. Evers. He was the youngest of 3 siblings. Jim graduated from Freeport High School in 1965 and Northern Illinois University with a degree in History. After college he relocated from the Midwest to Santa Barbara, California where he worked an array of interesting jobs. Jim became manager for Londono CANAM racing team out of Columbia South America traveling throughout North America for several years. Upon retiring from that position he became a bartender working at Maggie McFlys, The Bistro in Montecito and 26 West in Santa Barbara. In early 1990 he returned to Freeport to take care of his mother. He became a bartender at the “Mopes”, The Germainia Club, the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago and retired from the Elks Lodge where he made many, many friends. He was an avid NIU Huskie football fan and looked forward to making trips to Dekalb, Illinois for “Huskie” games. Jim is survived by his brother Joel and sister-in-law Audrey of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota, nephew Joseph of Overland Park, Kansas and good friend Madge Sullivan of Freeport.

John E. Bellinger

2/18/1945 - 7/30/2023

John attended UC Santa Barbara for one year as a college freshman. He cherished his brief time at UCSB and developed a fondness for Santa Barbara and the local community. Ultimately, he graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with his Bachelor’s degree. Right before he was to graduate from Cal Poly, he received his draft notice that he would be going to Vietnam. He went to basic training at Fort Benning, GA served in the Army as an artilleryman.

Johnny found his way back to Santa Barbara when he left his position at Perkin-Elmer to become a project manager at Santa Barbara Research Center. He devoted 14 years to SBRC. Instead of leaving Santa Barbara to keep his job in aerospace, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by opening his own billiards hall. In 1992, he established “Johnny’s Family Billiards” on State Street across from the Granada.

Known for his dry humor, love for people, and deep connection with the outdoors, John enjoyed fishing at Lake Cachuma, the Goleta pier, surf fishing, and attending Opening Day in the Sierra Nevada, staying at Tom’s Place near Bishop.

Johnny is survived by his sons David and Daniel, his daughter-inlaw Kimberly, his granddaughters Kristen and Emily, his sister Phyllis Funk, and Dan’s fiancée Melissa. He is also remembered by his former wife, Patty Bellinger Bigoni.

Luke Arthur Vandenberg

5/15/2000 - 9/10/2023

gram. While in school he sang and danced in many campus musicals including leading roles in Guys and Dolls in junior high and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in high school. His love of performing and beautiful voice were also demonstrated by his three years in the highly-rated Dos Pueblos Jazz Choir. Before completing high school, Luke was taking college classes at Santa Barbara City College and eventually finished there with two Associatelevel degrees.

Luke loved going on many camping and exploring trips with his family. His travels included trips to Alaska, Hawaii and Canada, as well as solo trips to friends/ relatives in Switzerland and New York City. During his travels he was always intensely curious to understand what he was experiencing. Luke also loved to get in the kitchen and bake wonderful creations to share. His cupcakes and key lime pie were requested for many special occasions. In addition to singing, Luke played piano and took dance classes. He participated in the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s Nutcracker at the Arlington Theater. Luke’s creativity and curiosity extended to building projects. He found instructions on Youtube for building a hoverboard from a leaf blower and convinced his dad to help him build it. Neighborhood children lined up for a ride on Luke’s hoverboard. He also worked at Sprouts grocery store for three years in his first job while finishing high school and attending Santa Barbara City College.

In his last years Luke struggled greatly with mental health and addiction issues. He fought valiantly to overcome his problems by actively engaging in years of treatment with many wonderful therapists, counselors and peers to whom we owe our deep gratitude. Luke’s family and friends are deeply saddened by his passing at a young age, and we will keep him in our hearts forever.

John E. Bellinger, aged 78, peacefully passed away on July 30, 2023, at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. He was surrounded by his sons David and Daniel, along with family members. Born on February 18, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, Johnny’s life journey was one of close family ties and shared experiences.

Growing up, Johnny’s family moved to San Bernardino, California, soon after his younger sister

Luke passed away on September 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. He was born in Garden Grove, CA and was adopted as an infant by his parents – Jody Stevens and Dave Vandenberg. His brother Nathan was also adopted that same year. Luke is survived by his parents and brother.

Luke was born with a sparkling personality, bright eyes, a quick wit, lots of creativity and an endless curiosity. He grew up in Goleta, attended Dos Pueblos High School and graduated from the SBCC Middle College Pro-

A memorial service to celebrate Luke’s life will be held on October 14, 2023 at 2pm at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 820 N. Fairview Ave in Goleta.In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the National Association for Mental Illness: https:// www.nami.org/About-NAMI/ Donate-to-NAMI or the Dos Pueblos High School, Vocal Music Program: https://www.dpjazzchoir. com/

James Harold Evers 9/11/1947 - 9/14/2023

PLANTING THE SEEDS OF GOLETA PLANTING THE SEEDS OF GOLETA

An Ode to the Lemon Festival, the Goodland, and Its Agricultural Roots

by Leslie Dinaberg

As Goleta gets ready to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Lemon Festival (September 30–October 1 at Girsh Park), we thought it was high time for the Santa Barbara Independent to give the region some extra love and attention. This special section features stories on all of the citrus-flavored fun planned for the festival itself, as well as a look at Goleta’s zesty agricultural history and the Goleta Valley Historical Society’s work to preserve the Main-Begg Farmhouse. We’ve also got Goleta stories sprinkled throughout this week’s newspaper, including a peek at the beautiful Terra restaurant at the new Steward Hotel

in the Food & Drink section, and an Arts & Entertainment preview for the NatureTrack Film Festival a long-established fundraiser for the nonprofit NatureTrack Foundation, which works to provide free field trips to outdoor spaces for school children and wheelchair users which has a new home at the Fairview Theatre in Goleta, as well as a glamorous opening night party at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on October 6.

All told, it’s a full menu of natural beauty, fun things to eat and enjoy, history, education, and community just like Goleta itself. Pucker up and enjoy!

GROWING IN THE GOODLAND: GOLETA’S ZESTY HISTORY

Unpacking Goleta’s Lemon Industry

by Leslie Dinaberg

The roots of Goleta’s lemon industry go back wide and deep. Both lemons and oranges were initially brought to California by the Spanish during the establishment of the mission system in the late 18th century, and almost a century later, Sherman Patterson Stow of Goleta’s Rancho La Patera planted the first known commercial lemon orchard in California around 1875. He planted about 3,000 trees, thus making lemons NOT into lemonade, but rather what the Goleta Valley Historical Society describes as “the first irrigated agricultural commodity of Goleta Valley.”

Part of the success of the early lemon industry came from the incorporation of new varieties, such as the thorn-free Eureka lemon and the productive Lisbon lemon. As Stow’s lemons began to thrive and gain renown, Harleigh Johnston, a lemon grower and fruit packer at Montecito’s San Ysidro Ranch, agreed to buy them. By 1881, Rancho La Patera’s lemons were being delivered to Johnston’s packing shed near the wharf, with Stow selling them at 90 cents for 70 pounds. They were transported

by wagons with six-horse teams and then loaded onto steamers to send to San Francisco.

According to the Goleta Valley Historical Society, between 1889 and 1892, Johnston also packed lemons on the Stow Ranch itself, using the famous “Mission Brand” label. When a rival packinghouse near Corona began shipping lemons under the Mission brand, a lawsuit followed and the court found in favor of the Goleta growers who had used the trademark first.

As the lemon industry grew, so did the number of organizations involved with it, and in 1896, the Santa Barbara County Lemon Growers’ Exchange was formed. They built a packinghouse and began receiving lemons for shipment that same year. In 1897, the Johnston Fruit Company was incorporated to handle processing, shipping, and marketing of the combined harvests of local lemon growers, naming Stow as the first president.

As the organizations and their ability to do business grew, so did the amount of acreage in Goleta that was devoted to lemons. It increased greatly in the 1930s, and in 1935, the nonprofit, cooperative marketing group the Goleta Lemon Association was formed by 60 growers representing 600 acres of lemon trees. The next year, the Goleta Lemon Association opened its packing and storage plant on La Patera Lane in Goleta next to the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. That first plant employed as many as 350 workers during the peak season, many of whom were women.

By 1947, the Goleta Lemon Association had grown rapidly and was serving 220 growers who were harvesting 2,300 acres of lemon groves that produced an annual gross of about $3 million.

When the original Goleta Lemon Association plant was destroyed by fire in January of 1950, a new one was built in 1951. Said to be the largest single-unit lemon-processing facility in the world, it had 182,000 square feet of floor space and the capacity to process 2,000 carloads of lemons a year.

“Carloads” come up a lot in researching the agricultural history of lemons. During its first six months of operation, the Goleta Lemon Association shipped 306 carloads of lemons to cities across the United States; eight years later, in 1943, they shipped 900 carloads; and in 1947, they shipped 1,200 carloads. How many lemons a 1947 car actually holds is another question and possibly a good contest for the next Goleta Lemon Festival to sponsor! How many lemons can this car hold, and how many lemon meringue pies will they make?

Another fun fact from this era in our agricultural history is that the iconic Goleta Lemon Association brand labels have a hierarchical meaning beyond their names. The labels included “Goleta” and “San Marcos,” which were “top quality”; “La Patera,” which was “extra choice”; “Schooner,” “Channel,” and “Arboleda,” which were “choice”; and “Estero,” which was “standard.”

Prior to 1950, the Goleta Lemon Association was the fourthor fifth-largest (depending on yearly production totals) shipper of fresh lemons in the United States. Lemon acreage in Santa Barbara County hit its peak in 1957 with 9,328 acres planted.

GOLETA VALLEY HOSTROICAL SOCIETY PHOTOS

GLA interior packing plant

Lemon tree topping by truck

Rancho La Patera lemon grove furrow irrigation, 1947

Lemon delivery to Johnston Fruit Company shed, late 1880s

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During the years 1943-1961, Santa Barbara County’s annual lemon crop was worth $6-8 million, according to data from the Goleta Valley Historical Society.

The Goleta Lemon Association operated until 1978, at which time its packing plant was closed. By 2002, only 1,904 acres of lemons were in production. That number of acres of lemons harvested in 2022 was 1,618, according to the most recent (2022) Santa Barbara County Agricultural Report. The total value of that crop was reported to be $13.1 million.

While lemons are no longer the top crop in our county strawberries continue to top that list by a very large margin, accounting for 82 percent of the $989 million in fruit and nut crops reported in 2022 according to the March 2023 US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service Crop Production report, 95 percent of the country’s lemons are now supplied by farms in California. So having Goleta as the home of the first known commercial lemon orchard in California is certainly a part of our history worth celebrating.

GOLETA VALLEY’S HISTORIANS FOCUS ON MAIN-BEGG FARMHOUSE

Living in the shadow of the preservation juggernaut that is Santa Barbara, the Goleta Valley’s history scene always felt a bit quaint and quotidian, a tale of forgotten farms, changing crops, and rusty railroads subsumed by subdivisions and strip malls. But beneath that seemingly simple surface are complex chapters of horticultural heroes, hardworking families, and a community that emerged from diverse cultures, leaving legacies that continue to reverberate today.

The Goleta Valley Historical Society (GVHS) became the steward of such lore in the 1960s, when it was formed to save the Stow House and parts of Rancho La Patera from the era’s rampant suburban development. But only last year did the City of Goleta finalize its rules around historic and archaeological preservation, complete an inventory of important structures, and the creation of a historic preservation commission, which met for the first time in February.

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“There’s a deep sense of caring for this community,” explained Fermina Murray, a professional historian who sits on that inaugural commission as well as the advisory board of GVHS. Even young children show that sen-

timent when learning about the indigenous and farming histories of Goleta, she said, explaining, “Your tract home is here, and you can connect your story from there all the way back to Chumash.” Her colleague Ronald Nye started working as a professional historian almost 50 years ago, now also serving on the GVHS advisory board as well as being vice chair for the county’s historical landmarks commission. “It’s important to appreciate where your community comes from and where it’s been,” said Nye of why this work matters. “Who came here? What did they do? How did they live? Knowing that is essential for a shared sense of community.”

Goleta history experts (from left) Robin Hill Cederlof, Ronald Nye, and Fermina Murray on the porch of the Main-Begg Farmhouse

SCHEDULE NatureTrack FILM FESTIVAL

Tickets and passes on sale NOW!

$200 VIP All-Access Pass, $75 Opening Night, $12 Individual Film Blocks, $25 Best of the Fest

OUT THERE: A NATIONAL PARKS STORY

SAT, OCT 7, 1:20 PM

Fairview Theatre Screen 1

A young filmmaker sets out on a 10,000mile exploration of the national parks with his childhood best friend during the centennial year of the formation of the National Park Service. The two record stories of the people that work in the parks and those that come to enjoy them.

PEAK SEASON

SAT, OCT 7, 6:45 PM

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Feeling neglected during a getaway with her fiancé to the wealthy town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, New York yuppie Amy finds herself drawn to the free-spirited Loren, a local wilderness guide. Both lonely and lost in their own lives, Amy & Loren share an instant connection after he takes her fly fishing, and they spend the week together exploring the Tetons.

MY ALASKAN JOURNEY

SAT, OCT 7, 3:10 PM

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Wildlife camerawoman Erin Ranney explores four unique areas of Alaska’s coast, revealing stunning landscapes and iconic wildlife along the way. Guided by Alaska’s history, her family’s stories, and her own memories, Erin’s journey weaves the past with the present, and paints a hopeful future for the land and wildlife of coastal Alaska.

BIG WAVE GUARDIANS

SUN, OCT 8, 5:00 PM

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As surfers push the limits and crowds increase on Hawaii’s North Shore, a small group of heroes have reinvented water safety on a parallel track to the rising dangers. Big Wave Guardians traces the history of surfing in Hawaii and the native Hawaiians who strive to make it safer for all.

OPENING NIGHT FILM + PARTY WILD WATERS screening and afterparty

FRIDAY, OCT 6, 6:30 PM

The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara

Join us for our opening night film and gala as we welcome you to the 5th Annual NatureTrack Film Festival! Enjoy a light opening reception before the screening of Wild Waters in the Bacara theatre. After the film we’ll kick it off with a party filled with booze and music in the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Bacara!

WILD WATERS

DIRECTOR: DAVID ARNAUD 1 hour 25 minutes

From Olympic pools to wild rivers to world championship podiums, discover the incredible life of Nouria Newman, the most gifted kayaker of her generation.

OUTDOOR FILMMAKING PANEL

SATURDAY, OCT 7, 10:00 AM The Leta, 5650 Calle Real Come learn about the challenges and rewards of filmmaking in extreme outdoor conditions, from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and beyond.

Monica Medellin - Creator/EP of Surf Girls Hawai’i on Prime Video

Ian Kellett - Field Producer/Cinematographer for National Geographic, BBC, & Ocean X

Andrew Schoneberger - Co-Founder of Santa Barbarabased Bimarian Films; Director & DP

PASSHOLDER + FILMMAKER MIXER

SAT, OCT 7, 8:30 PM

The Leta, 5650 Calle Real

Welcoming all VIP passholders and filmmakers to our Saturday night party to grab some drinks and meet your fellow festival goers!

CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS & PARTY

SUN, OCT 8, 7:00 PM

The Leta, 5650 Calle Real

Join us at our closing night awards ceremony to celebrate the wonderful films and filmmakers we’ve enjoyed over the last two days!

DOCENT-GUIDED BIRD WATCHING WALK LAKE LOS

CARNEROS

SUNDAY, OCT 8, 8:00 AM

304 N Los Carneros Rd

Join our NatureTrack docents for a guided walk through Lake Los Carneros in Goleta and learn about the local birds inhabiting the area.

NTFF FILMMAKER PANEL

SUNDAY, OCT 8, 10:00 AM

The Leta, 5650 Calle Real

Join some of the incredible 2023 NTFF filmmakers to hear about the making of their films.

Quinnolyn Benson-Yates - Director/Producer/DP of Epic Bill

Brendan Hall - Director/DP of Out There: A National Parks Story

John Dutton - Director of Hudson River Wild, Returning NTFF Filmmaker

BEST OF THE FEST

LOS

SATURDAY, OCT 14, 3:00-9:00 PM

The Grange, 2374 Alamo Pintado Ave, Los Olivos

The NatureTrack Film Festival is a program of the NatureTrack Foundation, a a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Santa Barbara County that hosts outdoor field trips for school-aged students and wheelchair users of all ages. NatureTrack transports them from their indoor classrooms to “natural” classrooms, where learning comes alive as all their senses are engaged. Each year thousands of K-12 students from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds explore and enjoy local trails and beaches during the traditional school day. Wheelchair users and others with physical disabilities enjoy nature using Freedom Trax, an off-road wheelchair attachment provided by NatureTrack. As an extension of NatureTrack’s mission to inspire passion for nature, the NatureTrack Film Festival was born, bringing education through art and the outdoors together by showcasing inspiring and thought-provoking films to the community. Your support of the NatureTrack FILM FESTIVAL enables NatureTrack to continue connecting kids and wheelchair users to the natural world.

photo by Ken Pfeiffer

HOLLYWOOD

GOING BIG FOR MAIN-BEGG

Both Nye and Murray are heavily involved on the latest Goleta Valley preservation push: protecting and promoting the Main-Begg Farmhouse, which sits on the remaining half-acre of what was once a 25-acre walnut orchard. Built in 1911 by Robert Main, a Scottish immigrant who became a prominent ranch foreman at Bishop Ranch and elsewhere, the farmhouse “is a classic example of a working family’s ranch house and immediate yard,” said Robin Hill Cederlof, who is leading the preservation efforts.

Located at the corner of Hollister Avenue and San Marcos Road, the house was indeed home to multiple Main-Begg generations all the way until 2019. A few years earlier, Cederlof, a fifth-generation Goletan whose parents helped save the Stow House, was contacted by the family to check out some of their old belongings before they sold the property. But she quickly realized that the entire property was worth saving, in part because it was in pristine condition. “It had been lived in the whole time, and they took really great care of it,” she said.

In 2019, she created a nonprofit to raise the more than $1 million required to buy and start restoring the property, which was designated as a county landmark the next year. She’s now pursuing three goals: preservation of the structure and surrounding yard, where variegated lemon, kiwi, fig, peach, tangerine, lemon verbena, fragrant flowers, and six different avocado varieties grow; educational outreach, which includes the reservationonly tours and extensive information on the website; and opening the home as a gathering place for community events, such as book clubs, family reunions, or music recitals. That latter goal is moving through the county permit process, as the house sits outside of the City of Goleta’s eastern edge.

Right now, the only way to experience the house is during one of the free tours, which are offered the second Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Private tours are also offered for a small fee, which may expedite a visit, as the monthly walks are currently booked into December. Unlike the Stow or Sexton mansions, which were fancy homes for rather wealthy families, the Main-Begg Farmhouse provides a look at a more typical, middle-class existence of the

early 20th century, providing an accurate window into what life was like for so many of our California ancestors. Aside from a deck that was expanded, the two-story structure is just as it was built in 1911, and the interiors are near-immaculate, their wooden beams never even painted over. In 1957, when Robert Main’s daughter Carrie Begg then a widow and mother to eight children sold the surrounding acreage to developers, the original barn was destroyed and a water tower was taken down, though there may be a chance to resurrect that one day. In the 1970s, Hollister Avenue was widened, which is why the street is so close to the front door today.

“You can imagine what the view was like before all the trees were planted,” said Cederlof, looking from the porch toward the Santa Ynez Mountains. But there’s a bonus to being visible to passing traffic. “It’s important to save these structures and keep them in prominent locations,” she said.

GOOD GOALS

There are a number of buildings on the short list of concern for Goleta history buffs, including the Beck House, which Santa Barbara Humane is seeking to relocate; the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Service Station on Hollister near Ellwood, which is crumbling into disrepair; the main house at Bishop Ranch, whose current state is not well known; and two hangars at the airport.

But Cederlof, Murray, Nye, and their various boards and commissions aren’t just interested in preserving the built history of the Goleta Valley. As evidenced by the City of Goleta’s extensive and engaging Historic Context Statement, which includes an archaeology section with an introduction by the Barbareño Band of Chumash, future history projects will highlight the stories of indigenous, immigrant, and otherwise overlooked populations that are as integral to understanding this place as any others.

“These stories of the people who were actually tilling the soil need to come out,” said Murray, an immigrant from Palau herself who’s particularly interested in educating people about the waves of Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Scottish, Italian, Irish, English, and others who developed Old Town over the generations. “People don’t understand the history of Old Town and why it’s so eclectic,” agreed Cederlof. “There were so many different cultures in that area.”

To Nye, understanding those stories is as critical as preserving old homes. “There are pockets of immigrants and Chumash and others who have lived here and worked here in Goleta that are sometimes invisible to the larger Caucasian, European community,” he said. “But unless their stories are told, they’re not treated as fairly.”

See main-beggfarmhouse.org and cityofgoleta.org and goletahistory.org for more information.

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THE PIANOS ARE COMING!

Pianos Painted By:

• Amanda Harris

• Babymoet

• Brett Renee

• Catalina Bertola

• Elina “Suzy” Lopez Garza

• Elzy Sherlock

• Hello Coyote

• Jenn Swain

• Madeleine Gendreau

• Matt Rodriguez

• Mia Franco

• Rebecca Zendejas & Stephanie Ingoldsby

• Stephen Harper

• Vandana Khare

Presenting:

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Sponsors:

SANTA BARBARA BOWL

Piano:

10am - 10pm

Artist:

Santa Barbara Chapter Piano Technicians Guild

Foundational:

Robert & Jane Main, 1921

GOLETA VALLEY HOSTROICAL SOCIETY PHOTOS

Robert & Jane Main, 1921

REPORTER BY LARISSA FASTHORSE DIRECTED

GOLETA LEMON FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

As we pucker up for some old-fashioned fun at the Goleta Lemon Festival on September 30 and October 1, will we celebrate not only the region’s rich agricultural history, but also the milestone 30th anniversary of the event, which started as a small street festival in 1949.

I’m not sure about the complicated mathematical calculations on that one, but the first official Goleta Lemon Festival was in 1991 it was known as the California Lemon Festival for a time, and they took a couple years off for COVID and it has since grown since grown into the largest community event of the year in Goleta, featuring more than 100 booths that include local nonprofit organizations, Goleta-based businesses, arts and crafts, a classic car show, a carnival, entertainment, lemon-infused and lemon-inspired food and drink, and more.

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the Goleta Chamber team since 2002, so the Lemon Festival is near and dear to her heart.

by Leslie Dinaberg

“This year, we are focused on the triedand-true elements of the festival that the community has come to love and look forward to, with a few new surprises,” said Kristen Miller, president and CEO of the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, which merged the Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria Chambers of Commerce midway through 2020. Miller has led

As to what she’s most excited about showcasing, Miller said, “Of course, we are bringing back the popular entertainment on the main stage featuring a full lineup of different musical genres. It wouldn’t be the Goleta Lemon Festival without the Saturday afternoon headliner, Area 51.” Area 51 takes the stage at 4:45 p.m. on Saturday. Also on the bill that day are Macomber Karate, Momentum Dance Company, AJ and a Guitar, Sandy Haley Experience, the 192s Band, and Tequila Mockingbird. Sunday’s entertainment lineup features the Dos Pueblos High School Cheer Team, Dance Unlimited, the Youngsters, illunis, Flight 805, Brittney and the Bsides, and the Tearaways. Both days include a pie-eating contest at noon, in keeping with the creative food and libations that are always a Lemon Festival highlight.

“We are especially proud to feature local food and beverages vendors like Rusty’s Pizza, our presenting sponsor,” said Miller. “They will be offering a zesty twist to their already popular pizza options.” By far the most popular is the lemon pie booth, featuring lemon meringue pie and lemon bars from Anna’s Bakery. “We are also proud to offer

lemon ale from our longtime partners, M. Special and Hollister Brewing Company, at the Lemon Lounge,” said Miller. “Savory favorites such as Elubia’s Kitchen and Dave’s Dogs

She added, “The festival also depends on longstanding Goleta businesses with a rich history, MarBorg Industries provides so much of the infrastructure for the festival. Our local businesses represent our community, and these partnerships are signifi cant. But the festival is not just for adults; it’s a family-friendly event with endless rides and games in the Santa Barbara Airport Kids Zone, making it tion for families with kids of all ages. We also have Safety Street, and the Annual Goleta Fall Classic Car Show, showcasing a fantastic array of classic cars.”

And what would the original lemon growers in Goleta would think if they saw how the city has evolved? “The Goleta Lemon Festival has always been a vibrant celebration of Goleta’s rich history and lemon-harvesting heritage,” said Miller. “It’s fascinating to think about how the original lemon growers in Goleta would

perceive the city’s evolution over the past 30 years as we celebrate this milestone. While we can’t know for sure, it’s safe to assume they would be both surprised and proud of how Goleta has evolved. Given that the Goleta Lemon Festival celebrates their pioneering efforts, they would likely be pleased to see that their agricultural legacy lives on. Lemon farming remains an important part of the region’s history and identity, even as the city has grown and diversified.”

Growing from a small street event to a major community gathering that brings together residents, visitors, community leaders, and nonprofits, Miller said she thinks “the original lemon growers would likely be touched by the sense of community and pride in Goleta that this festival embodies. The fact that the festival relies on volunteers, including young people, demonstrates the enduring spirit of giving back to the community. The original lemon growers might be heartened to see how their legacy has inspired future generations to be actively involved in preserving Goleta’s heritage.”

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GOLETA LEMON FESTIVAL COURTESY PHOTOS

The Goleta Lemon Festival takes place at Girsh Park (7050 Phelps Rd., Goleta) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 30, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 1. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit lemonfestival.com.

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

THURSDAY 9/28

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

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

FRIDAY

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

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

SUNDAY

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

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

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

(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org

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Shows on Tap Shows on Tap

9/28: Satellite S.B. Brett Hunter Band, 6pm. 1117 State St. Free. Call (805) 3643043. satellitesb.com

9/28-9/30: S.B. Bowl Thu.: Foo Fighters, Julie, 6:30pm. $85-$155. Fri.: Goose, 6:30pm. $46.50-$76.50. Sat.: Odesza, Bob Moses, Tokimonsta, Qrtr, Olan, 5:30pm. $65.50-$155.50. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com

9/29: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Beau James Wilding and Friends, 8pm. 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

9/29: S.B. Sailing Center Music on the Water John Lyle, 6:30pm. S.B. Sailing Center, 302 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $85. Call (805) 962-2826 or email anchor@ sbsail.com tinyurl.com/MusicOnTheWater

9/29-10/1: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Flannel 101, 9pm. Sat.: About Time, 1pm. Farm Truck, 8:30pm. Sun.: JeZ Blacker, noon. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon .com/event-calendar

9/28-10/1:

Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley This fourday celebration, spanning Solvang, Santa Ynez, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Ballard, and Buellton, will celebrate the Valley with activities, ranging from wine tastings, delicious lunches dinners, horseback riding, yoga, and more. Visit the website for the full schedule. Various locations. $55-$180. Email info@visitsyv.com. visitsyv.com/events

9/28: Restaurant Roy Presents: Jazz Night! Enjoy dinner and drinks (for purchase) as you listen to stunning jazz pieces from John Schnackenberg (baritone saxophone), Dan Zimmerman (guitar), and Randy Tico (standup bass). 7pm. Restaurant Roy, 7 W. Carrillo St. Free. Call (805) 966-5636. tinyurl.com/RestaurantRoyJazz

9/28: Lobero LIVE Presents: Get the Led Out Take in the magic sound of Led Zeppelin’s greatest hits from Philadelphia’s six-part band who are intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live! 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $39-$49; VIP: $106. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com lobero.org

9/28: Comedy Music Show See what happens when comedy intersects with live music through the entertaining performances of Tova Morrison, Those Klein Boyz, and Mira Wilder, with host Luis Moro and MC Maddy Fossatti. 7:30pm. The Red Piano, 519 State St. $20. Ages 21+. Call (805) 358-1439. tinyurl.com/MusicalComedyShow

9/28: S.B. Reads Kickoff Events with Backbone Storytelling Enjoy this storytelling event where participants will tell stories on the theme “Blood Is Thicker.” Attendees will also have the first chance to pick up a copy of A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende and register for the upcoming S.B. Reads programs. 6-9pm. Wylde Works, 609 State St. Free. Call (805) 962-7653 or email librarypr@santabarbaraca.gov tinyurl.com/backbone-storytelling

9/28: Central Coast Agritourism Social Join to celebrate the resilience of the agricultural community amid various challenges and hear a brief report on the benefits of agritourism (agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch). 5pm. Sunstone Winery, 125 N. Refugio Rd, Santa Ynez. $25. Ages 21+. Call (310) 500-4637 or email ncaravantes@ bhfs.com tinyurl.com/Agritourism-Social

9/28-9/29, 10/2-10/4: The Atkinson Gallery at SBCC Exhibition: Xicana/o/x Time and Space This exhibition, curated by Dr. Thomas A. Carrasco, presents a timeline through various forms of Chicana/o/x rhetoric (painting, text, film, photography, and performance) with an overview of Mesoamerican and Chicana/o cultural traditions. The exhibition will show through October 18. Thu., Mon-Wed.: 11am-5pm; Fri.: 11am-3pm. Free. Humanities Bldg., Rm. 202, East Campus, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Call (805) 965-0581 x3484. gallery.sbcc.edu

9/28: BEAM Career Fair Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association BEAM (Bridging Education, Ambition, and Meaningful Work) will provide identity-centered career programming to support alumni/ae, students, and local community members on their journey to finding meaningful work in fields including business, sciences, social work, behavioral sciences, and liberal arts. 10am-4pm. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 801 Ladera Ln. Free pgiaa.org/careerfair

FISHERMAN’S MARKET

SATURDAY

Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat

FRIDAY 9/29

9/29, 10/1: Opera Santa Barbara Presents Carmen Take in a stunning adaptation of Carmen, Georges Bizet’s 1875 masterpiece, sung in French with an English translation, depicting a young woman’s trials and tribulations surrounding love. Fri.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2:30pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. Ages 8-18: Free; GA: $69-$90. Call (805) 899-2222 or email boxoffice@ granadasb.org operasb.org

9/29: AquaFête: An Ethereal Sunset Boat Celebration Dress in all white for this celebration aboard a boat that will feature live music by local deejays ANAHITA and Claire Zielinski and drinks available for purchase (cash only). Check in: 5:15pm; sail: 5:45pm. S.B. Landing, 301 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $56. Ages 21+. Call (415) 215-8323 or email info@sandalaexperiences.com sandalaexperiences.com/events

SATURDAY 9/30

9/30-10/2, 10/4: The Artist’s Table Art Show Enjoy work by 16 celebrated local artists with proceeds from art sales going toward the Museum of Natural History’s work to connect people to nature. The show goes through October 15. 10am5pm. Courtyard Gallery, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free$19. Call (805) 682-4711 or email info@sb nature2.org. sbnature.org/visit/calendar

9/28, 9/30-10/4: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: 22 & Good 4 U: A Taylor Swift vs. Olivia Rodrigo Dance Party, 8pm. $15-$20. Ages 21+. Sat.: Queentide, Magnetize, Cam Reed, 8:30pm. $15-$18.

Ages 21+. Sun.: Sofia Talvik, 7:30pm.

$25. Mon.: SBCC Monday Madness Jazz Orchestra, 7pm. $15. Tue.: The Orwells, Lettucehead, 8pm. $18-$22. Ages 21+. Wed.: Ron Artis II, 8pm. $20-$25. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

9/29-10/1, 10/4: The Blue Owl Fri.: Lenny Kerley and The Blues Priority, 7pm. Sat.: Funklectic, 7pm. Brandon Kinalele and Friends, 11pm. Sun.: Luca Ellis, 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/

9/30: Lost Chord Guitars Shomey (Seth Shomes), 8pm. $11. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

9/30: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Shay Moulder, 7pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@ arrowsmithwine.com. arrowsmithwine.com/events

9/30: Cold Spring Tavern Cuyama Mama and the Hot Flashes, 1:30-4:30pm. The Katie Skene Band, 5-8pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

9/30-10/1: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: Out of the Blue, 4pm. Sun.: Nate Latta, 1pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water

10/2: The Red Piano Church on Monday: RJ Mischo, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com

9/30-10/1:

26th Annual Chumash Intertribal Powwow This two-day gathering will include more than 300 Native American dancers, singers, and drummers representing many tribes from Canada and the U.S. who will compete. There will be food for purchase, and arts and crafts. Bring lawn chairs and blankets and reusable water bottles. Sat.: 10am-10pm. Sun.: 10am-6pm. Hwy. 246/Meadowvale Rd., Santa Ynez. $5. Call (805) 688-7997. chumash.gov/powwow

EVENTS MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.

ALMA ROSA WINERY

Sofia Talvik

COURTESY COURTESY

Thurs 9/28 8:00 pm

22 & GOOD 4 U! ~ A TAYLOR SWIFT VS. OLIVIA RODRIGO

DANCE PARTY

DJ DANCE PARTY

Sat 9/30 8:30 pm

QUEENTIDE WITH MAGNETIZE AND CAM REED SALTY ROCK

Sun 10/1 7:30 pm

SOFIA TALVIK ACOUSTIC FOLK / POP

Mon 10/2 7:00 pm

SBCC MONDAY MADNESS

JAZZ ORCHESTRA JAZZ

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9/30-10/1: 30th Annual Goleta Lemon Festival Come out for a weekend of family fun, food, live music and dance performances, pie-eating contests, a classic car show, and the ExxonMobil Safety Street and S.B. Airport Kids Zone with interactive and toddler courses, inflatable carousel, rock wall, laser tag, an interactive castle, and more! Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Rd., Goleta. Sat.: 10am- 6pm; Sun.: 10am-5pm. Free; Kids’ Zone wristbands: $35. Call (805) 967-2500. Read more on pg. 28. lemonfestival.com tinyurl.com/KidsZoneWristband

9/30: Spanish Guitar Entertainment Presents Benise FIESTA! Emmy Award–winning artist Benise will take you on a journey with his iconic blend of Spanish flamenco, Cuban salsa, Brazilian samba, Parisian waltz, exotic drumming, and more! 3 and 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $33.50-$69.50; meet and greet: $97.50. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@ lobero.com lobero.org

SUNDAY 10/1

TUESDAY 10/3

Literary Club Presents Paul Rudnick

Following a delicious three-course prix-fixe meal and tea service, Paul Rudnick, novelist, playwright, and essayist known for his humorous and satirical novels and plays, will engage in conversation about his work, which frequently touches on the themes of sexuality and identity. Email to secure a reservation. Noon. Belmond El Encanto Hotel & Spa, 800 Alvarado Pl. $75. Call (805) 845-5800 or email reservations.ele@ belmond.com or concierge.ele@belmond.com tinyurl.com/PaulRudnick

WEDNESDAY 10/4

10/1:

Intocable’s Evolución Tour 2023 Take in a night of Tejano conjunto music, Norteño folk rhythms, pop ballads, and rock from one of the most influential groups in the Tejano/Norteño music scene. 7pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $49.50-$109.50. Call (805) 963-9589. arlingtontheatresb.com

MONDAY 10/2

10/4:

Senior Expo 2023 This active-aging fair for seniors and caregivers will have exhibits, food, music, activities, and a health clinic with flu shots (bring insurance card and identification), blood pressure and glaucoma screenings, eye and hearing tests, diabetes testing, and haircuts. Learn about travel clubs, financial services, residential facilities, home care services and more. 9am-1pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. $5. Call (805) 965-1001. fsacares.org/senior-expo

10/4: Rumours of Fleetwood Mac This tribute band, personally endorsed by Fleetwood Mac founding member Mick Fleetwood, channels the spirit of Fleetwood Mac at their very best and provides the opportunity for fans old and new to rediscover this iconic music. 8pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $25-$40.50. Call (805) 9639589. arlingtontheatresb.com

10/4: UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Martha Graham Dance Company Martha Graham, whose family moved to S.B. when she was 14, has been credited with defining contemporary dance’s place in the American arts. Her dance company will perform an abstract concert depicting the journey of life and the experience of finding community with others. 8pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. Students: $20, GA: $51-$106. Call (805) 893-3535 or email info@artsandlectures.ucsb.edu artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

10/4: Wharf Wednesday: Down Mountain Lights Stroll the wharf, shop, have dinner and drinks, then take in covers of ’70s favorites and current hits from Down Mountain Lights. 4-6pm. Stearns Wharf, 217 Stearns Wharf. Free stearnswharf.org/events

10/2:

Talk: S.B. County Archaeological Society Presents: Rock Art of the World Rock art researcher Jeff LaFave will talk about his book Rock Art of the World: Ancient Images of Power, Ritual, and Story, which delves into the rock art created by indigenous people across six continents. 7:30pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call (805) 682-4711 or email info@sbnature2 .org sbnature.org/visit/calendar

JEFF LAFAVE

We Cats and Dogs!

9/29: Beat the Heat Spay/Neuter Clinic S.B. County Animal Services, C.A.R.E.4PAWS, and ASAP Cats will be offering cat owners an affordable deal on spaying, neutering, microchipping, rabies treatment, FVRCP, flea treatment, and deworming for one flat rate. Reserve a space online. 9am-3:30pm. ASAP Cats, 5473 Overpass Rd., Goleta. $35. Call (805) 705-6575 or email info@asapcats.org. tinyurl.com/ASAP-Cats-Sep29

10/1: C.A.R.E.4Paws’ Walk Against Abuse Take your pooch for a walk through the beautiful park and enjoy activities, food, and music, all to raise funds and awareness for Safe Haven, a program that supports domestic violence survivors and their companion pets. 11am-2pm. Elings Park, 1298 Las Positas Rd. Ages 12 and under: $10; GA: $25. Call (805) 968-2273 or email info@care4paws.org care4paws.org/event/walk2023

See You at the Theater!

9/29-10/1: Alcazar Theatre

Presents The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie The classic murder-mystery-style play The Mousetrap follows seven strangers snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse when a police sergeant arrives to reveal that one of them is a murderer. Fri.-Sat.: 7pm; Sun.: 3pm. Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $15-$20. Call (805) 684-6380. thealcazar.org/calendar

9/29-10/1: The Ojai Art Center Theater Presents Rope

This play, thought to be inspired by real-life 1924 murderers, follows two university students who murder and then hide the body of a fellow student in their London home, then invite friends and family of the deceased to a party. Find out if their nefarious act will be exposed. The play shows through October 22. Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm. Ojai Art Center, 113 S. Montgomery St., Ojai. $22-$24. Call (805) 640-8797. ojaiact.org

Oh My Gourd!

9/30-10/4: Lane Farms Pumpkin

Patch Pick the perfect pumpkin and enjoy hay rides, farm animals, tractors, educational displays, and the corn maze (closes daily at 6:45pm). Open through October 31. Thu.-Fri., Mon.-Wed.: noon-7pm; Sat.-Sun.: 10am-7pm. Lane Farms, 308 S. Walnut Ln. Free. Call (805) 964-3773. lanefarmssb.com

9/29-10/4: Big Wave Dave’s

Pumpkin Patch Enjoy kids’ activities and photo ops as you find the perfect pumpkin, from mini to giant. Open through October 31. 10am-9pm. La Cumbre Plaza (Macy’s parking lot), 3865 State St. Free. Call (805) 218-0282. bigwavedaveschristmastrees.com

10/1-10/4: Santa Ynez Valley Scarecrow Festival Scarecrows will be displayed around the six townships of Ballard, Buellton, Los Alamos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang with one community to win the Annual Harvest Cup. Visit the website for locations and to cast your vote. Scarecrows on display through October 31. Free syvscarecrows.com

10/1-10/4: Los Olivos Scarecrow

Festival Walk around town to see all the scarecrows humorous, allnatural, and more and then vote for your favorite. Visit the website for locations. Scarecrows on display through October 31. Free losolivosca.com/ syv-scarecrow-fest

LIVING

Cardio Confidential

Boutique Gyms Provide Personalized Fitness

Say “boutique” and what usually comes to mind is a hipster hotel or a shop filled with pricey clothes. But in the same small-batch, non-corporate spirit as craft beer, artisanal bread, and handmade gifts, there is also the boutique gym. I checked out a couple of Santa Barbara’s newer boutique gyms to find out what these small facilities have to offer. RSTR (pronounced “restore”) and Off the Grid both followed surprisingly similar paths to their current incarnations, starting out in tiny, hard-to-find spaces. Jade Wilson launched Off the Grid on her 10'x10' patio; Fil and Kelsee Curiel started RSTR out of their garage, then moved to a spot hidden away above an optical shop. Even their present locations in downtown Santa Barbara are similar: RSTR is behind Cantwell’s Market; Off the Grid is behind an extravagantly gabled yellow Victorian house with fish-scale shingles. Each facility is well-stocked with equipment and weights, and both of them offer personal training sessions and small semi-private circuit-training classes. As you would expect, students receive considerable personal attention in the semiprivate classes at these gyms. The trainers circulate constantly to correct form, offer encouragement, and suggest modifications. Fil Curiel of RSTR noted that some of their clients also have large-gym memberships but tell him they get lost in the shuffle at the other facilities. At Off the Grid, one of my workout partners told me her wife also a member felt a sense of community at Off the Grid that she hadn’t experienced at other gyms.

Taking the Plunge at Two New Gyms: RSTR and Off the Grid

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Each gym is a very personal reflection of the owners. The Curiels are bodybuilders; competition photos of them adorn the walls. Kelsee designed the logo and built many of the fixtures in the studio herself. At Off the Grid, you’re likely to be greeted by Wilson’s friendly German shepherd mix, Draven, and may get to coo over her infant son, Jett.

RSTR combines tech tools with its personal touch. A monitor on the wall displays the names and photos of the exercises to help you remember the day’s circuit, and an electronic timer cues you when to start and stop. By contrast, Off the Grid is more high-touch than hightech. Wilson writes the day’s circuit on a whiteboard, and you keep track of your own reps. Wilson typically pairs up exercisers by height, so you and your partner can help each other remember what you’re supposed to be doing.

At both these gyms, I was urged to use far more weight than I’ve been accustomed to. At RSTR, after I’d done a couple of warmup sets on the leg press machine at 160 pounds, Fil loaded a pair of 45-pound weights onto the machine. For the last few reps of the final set, he snuck on another pair of 45-pound weights. His rationale: “People have more strength in their legs than they realize. I wouldn’t put the weight on there if I didn’t think you could do it.”

It would be easy to chalk that up to the Curiels’ background as bodybuilders, except that Wilson a functional strength trainer who’s certified in corrective exercise takes a similar approach. She enthusiastically loaded up my bar with 95 pounds for the hip thrust and the same amount for the dead lift, and handed me a 15-pound dumbbell for renegade rows. Even so, I felt like a literal lightweight when I saw the size of the plates the longtime members (all of whom were women in the classes I took) were putting on their bars.

One of my favorite things about the boutique gym experience was the one-on-one assessment that Wilson conducts for all new members. She asked me about my exercise history and wanted to know more about the foot surgery I had a few years ago. She observed that one of my shoulders is lower than the other (scoliosis) and one of my feet pronates. She had me take off my shoes and socks and asked me to stand, walk back and forth across the room, and demonstrate a deadlift, then corrected my form. She endorsed my choice to use a wide stance when I do squats. I asked her why I tend to feel abdominal work in my hip flexors. “Let’s fix that right now,” Wilson said, and showed me how to make sure I’m contracting the abs and keeping my back on the ground. That session was far more rewarding than any doctor’s visit I’ve had.

A common feature of these two gyms is their emphasis on post-workout recovery. They both offer percussion massagers and the Normatec

compression therapy system that filters out lactic acid. The Curiels have partnered with physical therapist Heidi Whitney, who has a treatment room in the studio where she can treat RSTR members and coordinate their exercise programs.

Off the Grid also features two saunas. At the other end of the temperature spectrum, Wilson coached me through my first-ever cold plunge (47 degrees). She played Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s” for me while reminding me to breathe and to wiggle my fingers and toes, and keeping time (three minutes, 20 seconds). I tried the cold plunge after my workout one day and found that it prevented muscle soreness, as advertised. On another day, I tried the cold plunge beforehand, which is supposed to boost your metabolic rate. I don’t know if that really happened, but I ate a big dinner afterward in case it was true.

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RSTR Fitness (11 W. Arrellaga St.) offers Full Body, Upper Body, and Lower Body classes; register with mobile app. Towel service; cubbies for storing personal items. Combined bathroom/changing room with a single shower. Lot and street parking. Physical therapy available on-site (not included in membership). See rstrfitness.com.

Off the Grid Fitness (815 De la Vina St.), key club capped at 250 members, who receive individual door codes. Initial consultation and pre-registration required, with mobile app. Towel service; cubbies for storing personal items. There is a bathroom but no shower; cold plunge room doubles as a changing room. Lot and street parking. Cold plunge uses an ozone sanitation system (no chlorine or chemicals) and is constantly filtered. See otgfitnesssb.com.

Amy R. Ramos | Photos by Ingrid Bostrom

Amy Ramos at a training session at Off the Grid

RSTR trainer Fil Curiel gives some of the personal instruction that smaller gyms specialize in.

FOOD & DRINK

The Steward’s Terra Honors Goleta Tradition and Modern Terroir

Despite sitting at the bustling confluence of two highways and Old Town Goleta and being home to one of the most legendary mansions in Goleta Valley history, the hotel known for decades as Pacifica Suites was never all that inviting to the neighboring community.

Chef Augusto Caudillo Brings His Style of California Cuisine Back Home

BY MATT KETTMANN

That mentality flipped this summer, after the property changed hands, renovated, and reopened as The Steward, the latest addition to Marriott’s creatively minded Tribute Portfolio. The star of the show aside from the 87 suites that are popular with tourists, UCSB parents, and business travelers is Terra, where Goleta-raised, Lompoc-residing Chef Augusto Caudillo is presenting the region’s agricultural roots with modernized, Cali-Mexi fare.

“We joke that there is no such thing as American food, except maybe barbecue or some Southern dishes, but I believe that the American culinary scene is having its moment,” said Caudillo, who sees the country undergoing an epicurean renaissance like Europe did a century ago. “We’re such a melting pot that we have truly ingested all the different cultures, and are now putting out our own versions. I am Mexican, but this is not Mexican food. It has Mexican influences, and I think that mix is the intention of American cuisine.”

DISH DIVE

The dinner menu unfolds with spot prawn aguachile, the succulent, citrus-cured flesh popping with Fresno chiles, red onion, tomato, radishes, and micro-cilantro, leaving a slurpable brine in its wake. The roasted-’til-caramelized carrots are finished with their own tops ground into a pesto of toasted pistachio, shaved parmesan, and “backyard” olive oil, which exists on a textural plane somewhere between liquid and tapenade. Entrees dive into salmon amid spring peas and patty squash atop creamed corn rice, Caudillo’s own silky starch creation; double-cut pork chops and roasted chicken; and the enlightening hibiscus tacos, which after rescuing the flowers postjuicing places them atop house-made tortillas with a pickled onion, caviar lime, and salsa morita.

As hotel guests appreciate most, breakfast is no longer a continental affair. Sweet corn/olive oil pancakes inspired by Caudillo’s travels to La Cocina de Doña

Esthela in Baja support bountiful berry compote and top-shelf maple syrup, the chilaquiles crunch with chips

and spice with guajillo salsa, and the house-cured salmon pastrami rides a charcoal flatbread with caper berries and quail egg, with pickled mustard seeds and onion shavings adding the piquant punch.

But the property is most proud of the Pampas Grass King avocado toast, a nod to Joseph Sexton. An exotic crop guru, the horticulturist built the property’s Italianate, Peter Barber–designed mansion from a fortune earned through establishing the region’s pampas grass, walnut, avocado, and lemon industries. The hotel cites archival documents that reveal avocado toast was a common treat for the Sexton family, suggesting that these grounds may be the place where this now-ubiquitous breakfast staple first appeared.

The presentation of every dish is clearly composed yet refreshingly unpretentious. “I just want food that feels like it’s real, but it’s pretty,” said Caudillo. “I want it to feel like I threw it down on the plate, and it worked out perfectly, but it’s still a little messy.”

CREATIVE FREEDOM

Terra is the latest chapter in the cooking career of Caudillo, who was born in Guanajuato but grew up in Goleta from when he was 8 years old, attending El Rancho Elementary and Dos Pueblos High. “This is my hometown,” explained Caudillo, who worked as a technical director for Univision until about 2004, when weekend catering gigs lured him into the chef life. “Coming to this property, I took it personally.”

He’s best known for Lompoc’s Scratch Kitchen, which was that city’s best place to eat by far, most would say from its 2015 opening until closing in 2019. “I graduated from Scratch Kitchen” is how Caudillo puts it. “It taught me a lot. That’s where I developed my own style. Here, I’m just playing off of the mistakes I made and the lessons I learned.”

It took about six months of cajoling by the hotel to get Caudillo to commit to the job. He was wary of the constraints that can come in a conventional resortchain formula and the connotations of being a “hotel restaurant,” where creativity often plays second banjo to the bottom line. But then he learned more about the Tribute Portfolio, the small line of fewer than six dozen properties where Marriott gives operators flexibility to

adjust as much as needed to serve both guests and the surrounding community.

“They allow us so much creative freedom,” said Caudillo. “We don’t have to abide by serving the Marriott Burger or any of their standards.”

A similar tune was sung by the property’s sales director Jennifer Byerly, who toured me through the renovated suites all basically identical, two-room setups, though the best ones face the pool courtyard. “We have the full capacity to do all we want,” she explained, noting that some of the outside spaces are still being conceived, as are plans for the Sexton House itself. “We get the opportunity to keep evolving.”

A brilliant initial step was sourcing Frinj Coffee, the Goleta-born company that’s planting coffee farms from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It’s high-dollar java, and really gets to shine in Terra’s espresso martini, which also features Funk Zone–made Cutler’s Spirits. Pair that with the Solvang-churned gelato or the Hummingbird Cake, bolstered by pineapple compote, plantain chips, and blood-orange olive oil from Los Olivos.

“A lot of time people create a restaurant concept, but then don’t actually carry it out,” said Caudillo of the care and attention he’s taking to make Terra succeed. “We’re always so conscious of, ‘Does it feel like this place or not? Is this Terra? Is the identity there?’ ”

Right now, Terra feels a lot like the best parts of Goleta life, where orchards still thrive across the street, even and a warm, family-oriented atmosphere dominates. Caudillo plans to keep it that way, explaining, “It feels really good to come home.”

Terra, The Steward, 5490 Hollister Ave., Goleta; (805) 6836722; thestewardsb.com

Executive Chef Augusto Caudillo

INGRID BOSTROM PHOTOS

Charcoal flatbreads serve as the base for Terra’s salmon pastrami lox and avocado toast, which, legend has it, was created on the property by the Sexton family.

The Return of Silvergreens

After decades in business, the first and last South Coast Silvergreens restaurant, located at 900 Embarcadero del Mar in Isla Vista, closed in September 2020. Silvergeens was a sister restaurant to the popular Kyle’s Kitchen and one of the first saladonly restaurants. Earlier this month, I was visiting Graphicink in Goleta to have a sign made for the Restaurant Kid’s 9th birthday party and noticed something peculiar in the corner: a refrigerator labeled “Silvergreens.” Inside were salads labeled with names of customers who would soon be enjoying them for lunch. An employee told me that this is part of a new service by Silvergreens.

I did some research and found that the iconic local Silvergreens brand is indeed making a comeback. Silvergreens is distributing glassdoor refrigerators to businesses across the South Coast. Each week, the company and employees order meals online, and early the next week, Silvergreens stocks your office fridge with fresh salads, wraps, and sides. Small refrigerators hold 49 items, and the large one has a capacity of 100.

At the heart of it is an optional subscription program that takes Silvergreens to another level. The Silvergreens membership program is currently only available to local Santa Barbara–area businesses. The non-subscription option has no membership fees and lets you stock your refrigerators with three weeks’ worth of food for $3-$10 per item with a $400 minimum order. The subscription system has a fee of $59/ week and lets you order products in batches of four for 40 dollars. Everything is delivered to your workplace.

“Silvergreens delivers straight to your work and stores your salads and sides in a refrigerator, allowing you and your team to access meals all week,” says their website, silvergreens.com. “At only $10 per salad/wrap, you can easily save budget on your team’s meals, while also eliminating waste. When you pair healthy and delicious meals together, it creates a happier, more productive team. Silvergreens uses Pop Bowls, patented newage salad bowls that expand on the bottom so that you can freshly toss your salad without making a mess.”

AUGIE’S SUSPENDS SERVICE: Augie’s, which opened in October 2022 in the former home of Panera Bread, Left at Albuquerque, and Ma Dolce Vita, has some things going on, says reader SBone: “I was just informed Augie’s at 700 State Street will be closing for a ‘few months’ after eating there today Sunday the 24th of September, last day. Staff was just informed this week of the closure.” I reached out to Augie’s on September 24 and received this response: “Hi there, we are closing for an estimated 4-12 weeks for a ReMenu. Today is our last day.”

SNEAK PEEK: Santa Barbara Fish Market is coming to University Plaza next to the DMV in Goleta. The new location will be 7127 Hollister Avenue, Suite 18, the former home of La Bella Rosa Bakery (2016-2019), Café Zoma (2010-2011), and Mojo Coffee (2006-2010). I saw the interior, and it is nearly complete. Reader Linda fills in some details:

“Today my husband and I saw the door open at the new location for the Santa Barbara Fish Market that is at the Pacific Oaks Plaza on Hollister, and talked to a gentleman named Paul, who is going to be the chef there. They are hoping to open in 3-4 weeks and will not only have fresh seafood like the downtown location, but also a full kitchen and restaurant with outdoor seating, featuring grab and go items, both hot and cold, prepared meals, sauces, an oyster bar, seafood platters, and seafood tacos. We have been so excited for this location that is so close and convenient to finally open, and even more so now!”

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

SALAD SENSATION: The Silvergreens brand is making a comeback in the form of a salad and wrap delivery service to businesses across the South Coast.

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Ticket includes book

Founder of DeepMind

Former Head of Applied AI at Google

Mustafa Suleyman

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.

Corporate Sponsor: Sage Publishing

Supporting Sponsor: Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli

Investigative Journalist and Bestselling Author

Jeff Goodell

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.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water Series Sponsors: Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher, Justin Brooks Fisher Foundation, and Sara Miller McCune

Award-winning Historian and Acclaimed Journalist

Jill Lepore

Amend: Rewriting the Constitution

Tue, Oct 24 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Tickets start at $20 / $10 all students (with valid ID)

“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

Special Thanks:

JUSTICE FOR ALL Lead Sponsors: Marcy Carsey, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Eva & Yoel Haller, Dick Wolf, and Zegar Family Foundation

SYMPHONY SEASON TEASER, WITH MUSIC ATTACHED

violinist and San Marcos High School senior Zahra Clark impressively took on Beethoven’s “Romance No. 2.”

Of course, the underlying mission here is to whet appetites for the musical bounty to come, and to evangelize to potential newcomers to the fold. To that end, SBS CEO and president Kathryn Martin’s boosterist introduction included the fact that the list of subscribers to date included 233 first-timers, which is “the opposite trend that arts organizations are experiencing around the country. We’re very proud of that.

strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, all very well-orchestrated. But we don’t care when the piece was written, you know, if you dance to it or it was written for an opera or for a film or by Mozart for the high society of Vienna.”

On the season’s list is a concert showcasing crossover trio Time for Three (Nov. 18-19); Opera at the Symphony (Jan. 20-21, 2024); Serenade for Romance, featuring violinist Sirena Huang (Feb. 17-18, 2024); and Mahler Meets Klezmer, featuring noted Klezmer-championing clarinetist David Krakauer (Apr. 20-21, 2024).

Off to the side of the official SBS season, the orchestra will lend itself to divergent upcoming projects, as an orchestral complement to the Doublewide Kings’ tribute to Van Morrison at the Granada on November 11, and as the pit orchestra for State Street Ballet’s production of Giselle at the Granada, October 21 and 22.

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ARCHITECTOURS 2023 OF AIA SANTA BARBARA PROJECTS

Officially, the Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) won’t be live and in person until its season opener on October 14 and 15. Then, the musical prospects will fill The Granada Theatre stage with at least 200 musicians and singers, to the tune of Beethoven’s ever-popular Ninth Symphony. The Ninth is a trusty season-kickoff choice that the SBS last brought to the stage seven years ago.

But in recent years, the Symphony’s relationship with its admiring public and newcomers has included the increasingly popular “prequel” to the season. An hourlong Season Preview event took place at the Lobero Theatre this month, free and open to the public with champagne in the celebrational mix.

The event lured out a larger crowd than usual. The word is out: Not only does the preview give an engaging bird’s-eye view of the season to come, with wise counsel and incisive commentaries from maestro/season planner Nir Kabaretti, but it also now includes a performance element, with fine musicians interspersed in the mix. Highcaliber, live performances make for an exponentially more persuasive and satisfying experience in any theater, let alone the Lobero’s enlightened ambience.

Gracing the stage this time out were the ever-versatile pianist Natasha Kislenko and mezzo-soprano Christina Pezzarossi Ramsey. Ramsey’s highlight was the darkly poignant Mahler song “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” (“I have been lost to the world”), a central piece in Joyce DiDonato’s conceptual EDEN, heard at the Granada earlier this year. Representing the active Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, young

“You are our symphony ambassadors,” she told the crowd, “spreading the word and introducing new friends to the symphony. I love it when, at intermission, a first-timer runs up to me and says, ‘Kathryn, you have to tell everybody. The symphony’s not that scary after all.’ ”

Kabaretti led the audience on a tour through the season, a typically diversified menu touching on many styles, eras, and tastes. He mentioned that, while large urban orchestras have the resources to present many different series, “for us, we thought the best way to feature seven different programs in a subscription concept would be really to offer as many genres as possible.”

By way of a mission statement, the maestro commented, “There are only two parameters that guide me: It has to be great music and it has to be written for symphony orchestra. We all know what it means. It’s about 150 to 200 musicians on stage with

Kabaretti also pointed out, “Of course, in a season we also want to feature American music. We are an American orchestra. We want to give a chance to American musicians, composers, artists, guest artists.”

The American component of the season revisits Hollywood, fitting for an orchestra including many musicians who play studio sessions for “the industry.” Last season, John Williams was in the spotlight, and An Oscar Celebration (Mar. 16-17, 2024) is a crosshistorical smorgasbord of film music. The Symphony will also present its classic New Year’s Eve program at the Granada, A Celebration of Pop, Rock & Broadway

An annual celebration of the art of architecture, this year’s American Institute of Architects, Santa Barbara (AIASB) ArchitecTours takes place on Saturday, October 7, with self-guided behind-the-scenes looks at a wide variety of commercial and residential projects in communities near downtown Santa Barbara.

Closing out 2023-24 is a jazz-flavored return of the Marcus Roberts Trio, on the theme of Rhapsody in Blue @ 100. For a live small-plate taste, Kislenko served up a small plate of the Gershwin classic to satisfyingly round out the tour/show.

—Josef Woodard

See thesymphony.org for more information.

Projects on the tour include Salt Architecture Inc.’s Coastal Tree House, a significant rebuild of the existing home on a steep hillside overlooking the harbor; Anacapa Architecture’s Drift Hotel, the restoration of a historic structure on State Street; and RRM Design Group’s Gardens on Hope, an affordable senior housing project. Also on the tour are RRM Design Group’s Johnson Court, a transitional housing project for lowincome veterans; Bildsten Architecture and Planning’s Mid-Century Modern, an indoor-outdoor residence near the beach; Tom Ochsner Architect’s Ocean View Hillside Ranch, an update of a 1970s residence designed to take advantage of scenic ocean views, as well as the addition of an ADU above the garage; DMHA Architecture + Interior Design and Henry Lenny Design Studio’s S.B. Biergarten, a revitalized industrial warehouse space in the Funk Zone; and Tom Ochsner Architect’s Seaside Cottage ADUs.

The tour, designed to showcase the depth of knowledge and expertise AIA architects have in urban design, sustainability, accessibility, structural improvements, buildings materials, and historic renovation, takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be followed by an after-party, 4-6 p.m. at AIA Santa Barbara (229 E. Victoria St.).

—Leslie Dinaberg

For tickets and more information, visit aiasb.com.

The annual AIA Santa Barbara tour spotlights eight properties in Santa Barbara.

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IGNITING A LOVE OF NATURE THROUGH THE ART OF FILM

NATURETRACK FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS A CELEBRATION OF NATURE AND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES TO GOLETA

PIANOS ON STATE COME OUT TO PLAY

Two days of short and feature-length films celebrating nature, ecology, and stewardship of Earth’s wild places are coming to Goleta for the 2023 NatureTrack film festival. NatureTrack is a local nonprofit that provides free outdoor field-trip experiences for young students throughout Santa Barbara County, getting kids off screens and into local habitats. “We view the film festival as an extension of that mission to connect people with nature and the outdoors,” says festival director Mitchka Saberi. “NatureTrack founder and director Sue Eisaguirre’s philosophy is once you have a relationship with the outdoors and the area around you, you’re going to be more likely to fight to protect it.” The festival, with the tagline “Igniting Passion for Nature Through Film,” runs October 6-8 at various locations in Goleta.

This year’s film lineup champions conservation. Filmmaker Michael Love, who enjoys spending time at his Los Padres cabin, focuses on ecosystems in our own backyard. His short films Learning to Condor and The Little Fox of Limuw track local native species recovery efforts. “The California condor and Channel Island fox are both species that were brought back from the brink of extinction by humans, the same species whose impact caused their near-extinction,” says Love. “As the dominant species on this planet, we need to make it a priority to take care of the biodiversity we have left.”

Other ecology-related films include Yann Sochaczewski’s Cactus Hotel, which chronicles the life cycle (and many animal tenants!) of a mighty saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert, and John Dutton’s Hudson River Wild, which introduces audiences to the Hudson River watershed in the Adirondack mountains.

Another emphasis of the festival is outdoor adventuring on a scale of easygoing to extreme. The opening film is David Arnaud’s Wild Waters, about a globe-trotting kayaker. “It’s not specifically calling out to protect nature ... watching it just really made us want to go

kayak!” says Saberi. “We hope people walk away with a newfound inspiration of why it’s so fulfilling to spend time outdoors and why it’s important to protect those places.”

Brendan Hall’s film, Out There: A National Parks Story, explores the importance of the American National Park system. “The national park system and protected lands have a dual mission: to preserve nature and to benefit the enjoyment of people,” he says. In Out There, Hall and a childhood friend road-trip from national park to national park, interfacing with guests about the impulse to sojourn into wild spaces. “I think as a species our healing, our recovery, our spirituality, and so much of our mental and physical health can be tied into protecting land for our enjoyment and our use,” he says.

Further enriching the festival experience, NatureTrack offers interactive events such as discussion panels, Q&A sessions with the filmmakers, an opening-night bash at the Bacara, and a mixer for pass-holders and filmmakers. The festival will also host a Best of the Fest presentation in Los Olivos on October 14, featuring a selection of the year’s favorite films.

That lovely, lively, joyful time of the year is almost upon us: the annual Pianos on State interactive public art and music experience that hits the streets of Santa Barbara every autumn. The colorfully painted pianos will be displayed along State Street October 3-23, and they’ll even have additional pianos at the New Vic (home to Ensemble Theatre Company, 33 W. Victoria St.), on Stearns Wharf, and at the Santa Barbara Airport all placed strategically for the community to play, listen, and enjoy.

This year’s selected artists are Amanda Harris, Babymoet, Brett Renee, Catalina Bertola, Hello Coyote, Elina (Suzy) Lopez Garza, Elzy Sherlock, Jenn Swain, Madeleine Gendreau with friends and family, Matt Rodriguez, Mia Franco, Stephanie Ingoldsby and Rebecca Zendejas, Stephen Harper, and Vandana Khare all of who will come together for a weekend of pianopainting fun at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW) prior to the October 3 piano displays.

A fun new show is also happening at CAW this year, as artists who have painted at least two pianos for Pianos on State in past years were invited to participate in the Pianos on State Retrospective Gallery Show, which will be on view in CAW’s Little Gallery September 28–October 15, with a reception on September 29 from 5:30-8

p.m. “The core of Pianos on State is bringing people together. Our amazing community of artists are essential to making this project come to life. We are thrilled to honor some of our previous piano-painters and celebrate their work as prolific artists within the region,” stated CAW spokesperson Adrienne De Guevara. The artists whose work will be on view at the retrospective show, curated by De Guevara and Kai Tepper of Children’s Creative Project, are Sharyn Chan, David Diamant, Mike Irwin, Adam Janke, Jack Mohr, Jami Joelle Nielsen, Judy Nilsen, Matt Rodriguez, and Sara Wilcox.

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The aim of NatureTrack and the film festival is to engender a sense of love and respect for the environment through exposure to nature’s wonders. For those who want to get involved in local ecology, Sochaczewski suggests exploring nonprofit organizations dedicated to nature conservation investigate their programs and consider becoming a volunteer. NatureTrack, for example, accepts volunteers in a variety of capacities. These films may also inspire viewers to go play outside. “I’d love for people to think about their next adventure in nature,” says Hall, who would probably rather be hiking than sitting in his New York City flat. “That outdoor experience that seems out of reach is a lot closer than people realize.”

For more information and a complete schedule, see naturetrackfilmfestival.org.

“These artists are creative professionals representing a diverse range of practices and careers within the creative sector. From gallery owners to arts educators, entrepreneurs, and full-time artists, these are the creatives who help inspire the rest of us on a daily basis,” said De Guevara.

—Leslie Dinaberg

For a map of all the piano locations, please visit pianosonstate.com/ map.

Artists Stephen Harper and Irene Ramirez from Pianos on State 2020

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Artist John Zarate-Khus from Pianos on State 2022

Artist Marisol Trejos during Pianos on State 2022

The NatureTrack Film Festival opening night film is Wild Waters, a documentary about kayaker Nouria Newman and directed by David Arnaud.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Author Diane Ackerman says it’s inevitable that each of us sometimes “looks clumsy or gets dirty or asks stupid questions or reveals our ignorance or says the wrong thing.” Knowing how often I do those things, I’m extremely tolerant of everyone I meet. I’m compassionate, not judgmental, when I see people who “try too hard, are awkward, care for one another too deeply, or are too open to experience.” I myself commit such acts, so I’d be foolish to criticize them in others. During the coming weeks, Aries, you will generate good fortune for yourself if you suspend all disparagement. Yes, be accepting, tolerant, and forgiving but go even further. Be downright welcoming and amiable. Love the human comedy exactly as it is.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus comedian Kevin James confesses, “I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.” Many of us could make a similar admission. The good news, Taurus, is that your anxieties in the coming weeks will be the “piece of seaweed” variety, not the great white shark. Go ahead and scream if you need to hey, we all need to unleash a boisterous yelp or howl now and then but then relax.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): Here are famous people with whom I have had personal connections: actor Marisa Tomei, rockstar Courtney Love, filmmaker Miranda July, playwright David Mamet, actor William Macy, philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, rockstar Paul Kantor, rock impresario Bill Graham, and author Clare Cavanagh. What? You never heard of Clare Cavanagh? She is the brilliant and renowned translator of Nobel Prize Laureate poet Wisława Szymborska and the authorized biographer of Nobel Prize Laureate author Czesław Miłosz. As much as I appreciate the other celebrities I named, I am most enamored of Cavanagh’s work. As a Gemini, she expresses your sign’s highest potential: the ability to wield beautiful language to communicate soulful truths. I suggest you make her your inspirational role model for now. It’s time to dazzle and persuade and entertain and beguile with your words.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): I cheer you on when you identify what you want. I exult when you devise smart plans to seek what you want, and I celebrate when you go off in high spirits to obtain and enjoy what you want. I am gleeful when you aggressively create the life you envision for yourself, and I do everything in my power to help you manifest it. But now and then, like now, I share Cancerian author Franz Kafka’s perspective. He said this: “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s talk about changing your mind. In some quarters, that’s seen as weak, even embarrassing. But I regard it as a noble necessity, and I recommend you consider it in the near future. Here are four guiding thoughts. (1) “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw. (2) “Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.” Enid Blyton. (3) “Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.” Vera Nazarian. (4) “The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality, not weakness.” Stuart Sutherland.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The soul moves in circles,” psychologist James Hillman told us. “Hence our lives are not moving straight ahead; instead, hovering, wavering, returning, renewing, repeating.” In recent months, Virgo, your soul’s destiny has been intensely characterized by swerves

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and swoops. And I believe the rollicking motion will continue for many months. Is that bad or good? Mostly good especially if you welcome its poetry and beauty. The more you learn to love the spiral dance, the more delightful the dance will be.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you have ever contemplated launching a career as a spy, the coming months will be a favorable time to do so. Likewise, if you have considered getting trained as a detective, investigative journalist, scientific researcher, or private eye. Your affinity for getting to the bottom of the truth will be at a peak, and so will your discerning curiosity. You will be able to dig up secrets no one else has discovered. You will have an extraordinary knack for homing in on the heart of every matter. Start now to make maximum use of your superpowers!

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you been sensing a phantom itch that’s impossible to scratch? Are you feeling less like your real self lately and more like an AI version of yourself? Has your heart been experiencing a prickly tickle? If so, I advise you not to worry. These phenomena have a different meaning from the implications you may fear. I suspect they are signs you will soon undertake the equivalent of what snakes do: molting their skins to make way for a fresh layer. This is a good thing! Afterward, you will feel fresh and new.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to legend, fifth-century Pope Leo I convinced the conquering army of Attila the Hun to refrain from launching a full-scale invasion of Italy. There may have been other reasons in addition to Leo’s persuasiveness. For example, some evidence suggests Attila’s troops were superstitious because a previous marauder died soon after attacking Rome. But historians agree that Pope Leo was a potent leader whose words carried great authority. You, Sagittarius, won’t need to be quite as fervently compelling as the ancient Pope in the coming weeks. But you will have an enhanced ability to influence and entice people. I hope you use your powers for good!

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Singer-songwriter Joan Baez has the longevity and endurance typical of many Capricorns. Her last album in 2018 was released 59 years after her career began. An article in The New Yorker describes her style as “elegant and fierce, defiant and maternal.” It also noted that though she is mostly retired from music, she is “making poignant and unpredictable art,” creating weird, hilarious line drawings with her non-dominant hand. I propose we make Baez your inspirational role model. May she inspire you to be elegant and fierce, bold and compassionate, as you deepen and refine your excellence in the work you’ve been tenaciously plying for a long time. For extra credit, add some unexpected new flair to your game.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author and activist Mary Frances Berry has won numerous awards for her service on behalf of racial justice. One accomplishment: She was instrumental in raising global awareness of South Africa’s apartheid system, helping to end its gross injustice. “The time when you need to do something,” she writes, “is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done.” You are now in a phase when that motto will serve you well, Aquarius.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): I invite you to spend quality time gazing into the darkness. I mean that literally and figuratively. Get started by turning off the lights at night and staring, with your eyes open, into the space in front of you. After a while, you may see flashes of light. While these might be your optical nerves trying to fill in the blanks, they could also be bright spirit messages arriving from out of the void. Something similar could happen on a metaphorical level, too. As you explore parts of your psyche and your life that are opaque and unknown, you will be visited by luminous revelations.

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ALCOHOL AND DRUG PROGRAM MANAGER

STUDENT HEALTH

Under general supervision and guidance of the Alcohol and Drug Program (ADP) Director at UCSB Student Health, the Alcohol and Drug Program Office Manager acts with a high level of independent judgment in the establishment, implementation and management of the general operations for the Alcohol and Drug Program of UCSB Student Health. The Office Manager: Serves students, staff, faculty and requires analysis of individual cases to determine appropriate actions. Identifies and resolves administrative problems, supports the staff in the areas of scheduling, program presentations, data reports, outreach materials, and program development. Administers the logistics of the Alcohol and Drug program, including scheduling appointments, coordinating meetings, handling all purchasing and procurement, travel and conference related logistics, data and financial reports, Peer Education program support including onboarding and timekeeping. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. Experience in relevant administrative work. Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications. Experience working with college age populations. 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 Santa Barbara County 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 Hourly Range: $28.58/ hr. ‑ $30.60/hr. Full Salary Range: $27.29/hr. ‑ $39.12/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #59495

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ALUMNI AFFAIRS ALUMNI AFFAIRS OFFICE

The Associate Director of Alumni has overall responsibility for a multi‑pronged engagement strategy for UCSB alumni that includes numerous campus‑based and regional events, a set of “Professional Development” initiatives for alumni, student activities and major events including the All‑Gaucho Reunion, Alumni Awards Dinner and Day of Service. Includes oversight, management and supervision of at least two full time employees and approximately 2 student or limited employees. Serves as the Executive Director’s chief deputy; develops, motivates, and manages staff and partners in providing high level stewardship to the corporation’s volunteer leaders of various affinity programs. Spends the majority of time (40% or more) achieving organizational objectives through the coordinated achievements of subordinate staff. Establishes departmental goals and objectives, functions with autonomy. Manages the accountability and stewardship of human, financial, and often physical resources in compliance with departmental and organizational goals and objectives. Engages with diverse campus audiences to develop alumni engagement strategies. Works specifically on strategies that connect alumni back to areas on campus that helped shape their college experience, and to the student population. Pays special attention to opportunities to advance diversity initiatives on campus and within our alumni community resulting in alumni engagement programming that feels inclusive for all demographics, and helps the office of Alumni Affairs program in a way that reflects the diversity of our alumni and student populations. Responsible for department wide brand management and works closely with the Office of Public Affairs to stay current on best practices relating to brand management and communications. The Associate Director has a major role in the UCSB Alumni Strategic Plan, Vision 2025: Your Story Continues Here. Serves as primary liaison to several

Alumni Association Board of Directors Committees, and the Office of the President and other UC campuses, as related to these program areas. The Associate Director is in charge of the management for Career related programs and staff and is ultimately responsible for an annual budget of approximately $250,000. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree, 4‑6 yrs of Alumni experience or related profession; 4‑6 yrs of proven success with program development, marketing and coordination. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Work schedule may require travel and occasional evening and weekend work. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $91,300‑$110,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 10/4/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job # 59246

BILLING ANALYST

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. Performs tasks independently or within a team environment. 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; open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

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MANAGER

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The Events and Catering Sales Manager is responsible for the catering sales and administrative management of the Catering Office with over 200 hundred monthly events and annual sales over $1.5M. Serves as the departmental liaison, assisting clients with planning catered events, assisting with menu selection, and arranging for rental equipment, linens and event decor. Works with UCen Events and Administration on room logistics for in‑house events. Processes catering orders, keeping accurate records of events, distributing catering in weekly staff meetings, updating posted orders as necessary, and communicating all changes necessary to staff. Bills clients and works with the UCen Accounting Office to ensure all events for month‑end are billed and payments received. Manages on site catered events when needed. The Financial responsibilities of this position relate to forecasting, monitoring, and recording monthly sales for budget purposes. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years Experience working in an office environment and knowledge in using Word, Excel and Google Workspace or equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to work

a flexible schedule including some nights and weekends. Satisfactory conviction history background check.

Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $27.29/hr. ‑ $30.60/hr. Posting Salary Range: $27.29/hr. ‑ $32.04/ 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 10/9/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #59601

CHIEF FINANCIAL & OPERATIONS

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/

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Across

1. Go halfsies on

6. Host Convy or Parks

10. College grad

14. Novelist Ferrante

15. St. George’s setting

16. Facility

17. University with a focus on adventurous journeys?

19. Actor Reynolds

20. Turmoil

21. Longest river within Spain

23. “___ Along” (Pet Shop Boys song)

24. Roswell visitors(?), for short

27. Abate

31. First name in TV “neighborinos”

32. “The King of Queens”

actress Remini

33. Start of a Steinbeck title

34. Potential brand name for a cleaning polish for reflective surfaces?

36. Philosopher with a “razor”

39. “I ___ you one!”

40. One of the Three Musketeers

41. Planned undertaking to visit the coast?

44. Large moon of Jupiter

45. “___ that special?”

46. “Exit full-screen mode”

key

49. Unleash, as a tirade

50. Serene type of garden

51. Muppet who hosted the “Not-Too-Late Show”

52. Sunset direction

54. Turmoil

56. Nil

59. Nuts about a particular disco dance?

62. Love, in a telenovela

63. Voting against

64. Part of a “Supermarket Sweep” route

65. Hockey projectile

66. Routes

67. Fold and press

Down

1. Costume sparkler

2. Deep dive

3. Looked rudely

4. Map adjunct

5. Body art

6. “Close ___ no cigar”

7. Airport stat

8. Cost per minute, say

9. Amorphous movie villain

10. “Dream On” rock group

11. Put down, as tile or carpet

12. Olympics chant that’s often parodied

13. “The ___ Who Stare at Goats” (2009 movie)

18. Take the helm

22. Bend with a prism

25. Deck with wands

26. Entertainment realm

28. “OK, whatever” sound

29. “OK, whatever” sound in response, maybe?

30. Shrimpboat gear

32. Key dessert

34. “La Mer” for Debussy, for example

35. Joaquin’s “Walk the Line” costar

36. European GM affiliate

37. Motley ___ (Tommy Lee’s former band)

38. Actor Bud of “Harold and Maude”

42. Kate who married Spielberg

43. Cancel out

46. Plaza Hotel girl

47. It’s almost always used to spell “and”

48. Like old phones, retronymically

51. Rommel of WWII history

53. Subway option

55. Mountain range feature

56. Bolt from the blue

57. Adelaide biggie

58. “1001 Nights” creature

60. Porcine home

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EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)

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

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM MANAGER

HUMAN RESOURCES

Responsible for developing and managing innovative employee engagement programming focused on driving an inclusive, engaged, and positive employee culture and experience. As a technical leader and subject‑matter expert in their field, this role works in close partnership with department leadership to analyze staff engagement and retention issues, develop strategies to promote staff engagement and retention, and to design and deploy programs that empower our employees and are aligned with our mission and core competencies. This position is critical in advancing our mission to impact our employee experience positively. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Demonstrated experience in the field of Human Resources. Experience with eLearning and employee engagement platforms, including but not limited to Canva, Shoreline, PowerPoint, Prezi and other relevant technology. Additionally, awareness of current eLearning industry technology, trends, and best practices. Experience and knowledge of instructional design principles and learning strategies. Successful record of building new programs, improving existing programming, and supporting employee engagement at an organization‑wide level. Proven ability to develop strategic internal communication and effective employee engagement programs, particularly in an organization with employees working in multiple modalities (on‑site, hybrid, remote).

Demonstrated success in building trust and strong relationships with business partners. Strong presentation, analytical, verbal and written skills that exhibit the correct use of syntax and grammar. Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills for effective influence and to encourage buy‑in, advocacy, and support for change and new initiatives with all stakeholders. Ability to use discretion, exercise good judgment and resourcefulness, tact, diplomacy and maintain strict confidentiality.

Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Work schedule may require occasional evening and weekend work. Hiring/

Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range:

$83,000‑$89,000/year. Full Salary

Range: $82,300‑$151,700/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 # 58951

programming capable of automating large scale and critical systems such as the Campus Chilled Water Loop and Animal Resource Center, as well as laboratories and clean rooms.

In support of the Capital Building Program, provides intelligence and direction to Design and Construction Services for all building automation and control systems. Oversees the campus wide Energy Management System to ensure the system’s daily operation and reliability which allows technicians and customers to ascertain the status of building equipment. Leads a team in the creation of custom interfaces and ensures secure access to researchers, Building MSO’s and Department Chairs for critical system or building environment real‑time conditions. Evaluates current system hardware and software to ensure the system is up‑to‑date with all security functions and to ensure all field components are reliable and reporting back to the Energy Management System. Oversees and verifies correct operation of all work contracted out for Building Automation or Energy Management projects. In partnership with other UC departments, provides leadership in collecting and compiling campus energy and emission data for annual reporting. Serves as the primary expert in support of UCSB Energy Management in related construction or Control System projects. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, building systems, or a related field and / or equivalent experience / training. Minimum two year degree from an accredited Technical Institute with five years field experience installing, programming and commissioning Johnson Controls Metasys Building Automation Control Systems. 5‑7 years of progressively responsible experience in building automation, HVAC controls, and facilities management. 2‑4 years experience successfully managing budgets, projects, and vendor relationships related to building automation and HVAC controls.

Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $115,000/yr. ‑ $130,000/ yr. Full Salary Range: $101,100/ yr. ‑ $192,300/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #59517

FINANCIAL & PAYROLL ASSISTANT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

PROGRAM

Assists the Business Officer in the preparation of all financial and payroll forms and transactions. Serves as Department Preparer and Timekeeper to ensure proper set‑up and payment of employees. Assists the Business Officer with reconciling timecards and serves as the Kronos contact person.

the overall goals and mission of the program and coordinates multiple activities independently. Interprets and implements UC policies and procedures extensively in the areas of Accounting, Purchasing and Business Services and communicates these policies to the Coordinators. Establishes and maintains effective liaison roles with a variety of campus departments and service providers. Is responsible for the collection and organization of budgetary information from various sources. Monitors budget expenditures for programs using ledger Cost Centers; prepares accounting, financial and payroll forms and transactions utilizing multiple campus online systems. Reqs: HS Diploma or equivalent experience, solid verbal, written and active listening skills, strong organizational skills and ability to multi‑task; competent in Microsoft Excel and Word and Google Suite applications. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $27.90/hr. ‑ $28.58/hr.

Full Salary Range: $27.29/hr. ‑ $39.12/

hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 10/10/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #59636

JR. EQUIPMENT ENGINEER (ENTRY LEVEL 1 OR JOURNEYMAN LEVEL 2)

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Under general supervision (if P2‑level, under direction) of the Nanofab Equipment/Facility Manager, provides entry‑level (or if P2 ‑ journeyman level) engineering and Nanofab work for the maintenance/development/ organization of research equipment. Applies basic professional engineering concepts (or journeyman level concepts), consults with Nanofab Engineers, researchers, and graduate students regarding appropriate materials and methods for support of research equipment. Maintains, stocks, orders and improves necessary equipment parts, chemicals, lab supplies and tool inventories. Uses a basic level of technical expertise and a broad knowledge of scientific theory and practice in a variety of areas to successfully perform these duties. Once hired at the R&D Engineer 1 level, is expected to acquire more advanced skills and knowledge over an 18‑month period to achieve the R&D Engineer 2 level of skill. Please note:There is only one position available. Final level will be determined at point of hire and is dependent on skills, knowledge, education and experience of final candidate. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.

Notes: Driver’s License (U08): Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV

LEGISLATIVE LIAISON ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

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

1‑3 years Experience in working with diverse communities and across multiple identities and respect and consideration for all identities, perspectives, and differences. Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Thorough knowledge of advising and counseling techniques. Skills in judgment and decision‑making, problem solving, identifying measures of system performance and the actions to improve performance. Abilities in project management, problem identification and reasoning skills. Background in political science, public policy, or law preferred. Understanding of long term ramifications of policy. Knowledge of student development theories and practice; counseling and crisis intervention, conflict mediation, and assessment measurement and design. Notes: Campus Security Authority. Some evenings and weekends are required. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring or Budgeted Salary Range: $62,370/ yr ‑ $68,607/yr. Full salary range: $56,700/yr.‑$97,500/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58910

NURSE PRACTITIONER

STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE

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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 58717

OFFICE COORDINATOR, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM

EOP ADMINISTRATION

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE

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.

other departmental equipment. Will process and upload all performance recordings for library archival purposes and distribution. Regularly serves as the evening performance manager for department events. Reqs: 1‑3 years of experience in stage technician skills including lighting and sound. 1‑3 years of experience with and technical understanding of AV equipment, stage lighting, and sound equipment, instruments, and tools.

Notes: Variable schedule includes frequent night and weekend work. Academic year hours for this position will primarily be scheduled during afternoon and evening hours, but will vary depending on the volume and complexity of events each week. The summer quarter schedule of work hours are generally weekdays during business hours. Must be able to perform frequent moderate lifting (20‑50 lbs.) Satisfactory conviction history background check The full salary range is $28.14 ‑ $33.82/hr. The hourly range is $28.14 ‑ $30.21/ 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 # 59048

ENERGY CONTROL & BUILDING AUTOMATION ENGR. MGR.

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Directs, plans, and organizes the daily operation of the campus’s Building Automation Group. Responsible for conception and creation of complex

Under the general direction of the Business Officer, is independently responsible for the design, coordination, implementation and management of the administrative and financial operations facet of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) for the following functions: Signature Events, Cultural Resources Center Programs and Summer Programs. Determines administrative objectives, interprets and implements policies and establishes procedures in pursuing program goals. In consultation with the EOP Coordinator, provides recommendations based on self‑directed analysis and complete knowledge of all administrative and logistical activities and objectives. Helps resolve issues that have a significant impact on

Pull‑Notice Program Satisfactory conviction history background check The full hourly range for R&D ENGR 1 is $29.55 ‑ $51.77. The budgeted amount is $29.55 ‑ $40.00/hr. The full salary range for the R&D ENGR 2 is $74,300 ‑ $134,500/yr. The budgeted amount is $74,300 ‑ $104,000/yr.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 10/4/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 59385

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

Independently responsible for coordinating and managing multiple administrative functions for the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Administration office. Serves as the primary initial contact and response person for all department inquiries. Plans, organizes and implements the intake and scheduling structure for students, staff and faculty requesting EOP services. Supports the front desk roughly five departments/ units including EOP. Provides direct administrative and scheduling support to staff including the EOP Director and EOP Assistant Directors. Responds to inquiries from various campus partners and independently alters respective calendars to accommodate priorities. Acts with a high level of independent judgment in the establishment, implementation and management of the counseling appointment scheduling operations and reception intake structure and identifies and resolves scheduling conflicts and reception issues. Uses a high degree of judgment to maintain constant communication with stakeholders and EOP leadership. Provides training for office equipment and responsible for scheduling maintenance of equipment. Manages the inventory of supplies for the department. Provides administrative support for the EOP Student Staff Hiring Process and human resources administrative support. Collaborates with the Assistant Director responsible for student hiring to ensure training of all EOP student staff. In cooperation with the Business Officer, ensure proper onboarding and offboarding of career and student staff. Reqs: HS Diploma or equivalent experience; 1‑3 yrs administrative support and experience with databases; proficient in MS Office and Google Suites; solid organizational skills, strong attention to details and ability to multi‑task with demanding timeframes; solid communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with stakeholders and all levels of staff verbally and in writing. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse; satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $27.90 ‑ $28.58/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 10/10/23.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job #59598

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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 58722

PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN MUSIC DEPARTMENT

Performs the full array of duties necessary to fully service the technical production, facility requirements and equipment needs of the Music Department’s events, and supervises the technical support for rehearsals, performances, master classes and guest artists. Responsible for many of the operational duties, aspects of scheduling, monitoring the physical plant for upkeep and repair needs, and submitting and tracking work orders for facilities repair and maintenance as necessary. Works with student, community, and campus organizations that use department facilities for campus events, particularly over the summer months when departmental music events are infrequently scheduled. Participates in the training of student workers in audience safety, front of house, and stage technician skills including lighting and sound. Responsible for the distribution, management and collection of keys for department facilities. Responsible for the assignment of teaching assistant office space, student practice rooms, student lockers and department instruments assigned to student musicians. Responsible for inventory and maintenance of all AV equipment, stage lighting and sound equipment, instruments, tools, and

PROGRAMS COORDINATOR

AFFAIRS OFFICE

ALUMNI

The Programs Coordinator is responsible for the implementation of Alumni Association programs, numerous regional events, and the All‑Gaucho Reunion. The Programs Coordinator must work collaboratively across multiple departments and divisions including the central development office as well as with the various schools and units with the intention of building program partners, increasing capacity and use of the Gaucho Network, and recruiting participants for alumni/ student activities intended to foster philanthropy and engagement. The Programs Coordinator will provide assistance with researching, analyzing, developing, implementing and executing programs and events designed to engage students and alumni. Using strong organizational communication, and relationship building skills, ensures that long‑term relationships with alumni are fostered and enhanced by all program offerings and opportunities for volunteerism. The Programs Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and facilitating meetings with alumni affinity and regional groups. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. HS Diploma or GED, 1‑3 yrs Marketing and Communications experience, Social Media Expertise, Project Management skills, Meet Facilitation, Graphic Design Experience, Ability to work under pressure and independently meet deadlines, P knowledge of MS Office, Google Workspace, Canva, and the ability to quickly learn various software programs. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check; must be able to work occasional evenings and weekends at staff events. Budgeted/Hiring Salary Range: $29.17/hr. ‑ $32.00/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 58871

EMPLOYMENT (CONT.)

RISK AND INSURANCE ADMINISTRATOR

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Administers the campus Risk Management and Insurance Program. Coordinates and supervises staff and program needs on a daily basis. Identifies and evaluates potential loss exposures and risks and recommends methods to eliminate, mitigate, reduce or transfer campus risks. Develops and maintains Risk Management Training program. Administers the following insurance programs and policies on behalf of the campus: The University’s General Liability, Automobile Liability, Property, Cyber Security and Professional Medical & Hospital Liability Self‑Insurance Programs; the University’s Commercial insurance policies including Fine Arts, Marine, Aircraft, Equipment, etc.; the CampusConnexions Insurance Program, including coverage for student groups, outside facility users, sports clubs, Alumni Association and support groups and University vendors and contractors; and the University’s Travel Insurance Program for students and employees. Reviews and evaluates insurance, indemnification, limitation of liability and other provisions in campus contracts, agreements, purchase orders, research and affiliation agreements in order to identify exposures created by the University’s research and business operations and activities and propose the means and methods to reduce, mitigate, and eliminate them. Provides input, advice and recommendations during contract negotiations with respect to insurance, indemnification, limitation of liability, and other provisions that address or create risk exposures for the campus. Administers and coordinates the University’s management, investigation, evaluation, negotiation, and resolution of claims filed against the campus. Administers and coordinates the OP‑mandated Non‑litigated Employment Claims process. Coordinates and represents the University in all facets of campus litigation and acts as liaison between campus departments and campus named defendants and the third party claims administrator, local defense counsel, Office of General Counsel and Office of the President Risk Services. Administers and coordinates the campus’ e‑discovery process for lawsuits and claims filed, or anticipated to be filed, against the University in compliance with State law. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.

4‑6 years Progressive experience in the risk management or insurance field. Advanced working knowledge of risk management and insurance for a large organization including but not limited to forecasting and analysis; accounting; litigation; and contracts. Advanced knowledge of common UC Risk Services computer application programs, organizational processes and procedures, and applicable rules and regulations. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $98,000/yr. ‑ $111,150/yr. Full Salary Range: $91,300/yr. ‑ $170,700/ 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. Application review begins 10/18/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #59557

SR. CUSTODIAN CAMPUS DINING

The Senior Custodian is primarily responsible for maintaining dining room floors, cleaning of restrooms and offices, periodic cleaning of windows, training, supervision and follow up nightly kitchen clean up, working as a liaison with the maintenance department for minor equipment repair and maintenance (carts, wheels, light bulb replacements, etc.), and overseeing shutdown building clean ups. Supervises part‑time student employees. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. One year of progressively more responsible janitorial experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Knowledge of safety and sanitation regulations regarding proper storing of chemicals in a food environment, proper cleaning of janitorial closet, safe lifting and transporting procedures, and ability to train others in this area. Exhibits organizational skills sufficient to ensure timely completion of tasks. Communication skills sufficient to direct the work of others and interact successfully within a large staff, including part time student employees. Ability to understand, read and write English for the purpose of reading and creating special projects lists. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $21.36/hr ‑ $23.59/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 #56692

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

THEATER AND DANCE

Oversees all the technical elements and activities (except costumes) related to the department’s season of theater and dance productions. Acts as liaison between designers and shops to ensure all designs are translated and executed properly. Creates working drawings from designer drawings and elevations for use in shops. Facilitates technical set‑up, operation, and coordination of personnel for technical rehearsals for all mainstage productions. Recruits, schedules, trains, and supervises student lab production run crews for mainstage productions. Evaluates student crews for grading purposes. Coordinates staff or student employee production supervisors for all mainstage productions. Oversees technical budgets and coordinates budgets with area supervisors. Coordinates production schedules with area supervisors. Hires and supervises career, limited, and student employees. Assists in different tech areas as needed and as time permits. Helps coordinate the technical needs for classroom related productions.

Trains Technical Teaching Assistants and works with them to ensure proper use of spaces and equipment. Recruits student lab production run crews for several classroom related productions. Hires and supervises production crews for all facility rentals. May teach and supervise student scenic and lighting labs and evaluate their work for grading purposes.

May supervise student assistants assigned to productions. Oversees safety and is responsible for use of safe practices in all technical areas.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. 1‑3 years of practical technical theater experience (including demonstrated leadership experience).

background check Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program Ability to work some evenings, weekends, and holidays. Employment may be contingent on medical approval to use a respirator. The full salary range is $29.55 ‑ $51.77/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $29.55 ‑ $32.63/ 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

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who 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.

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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.

Notes: Satisfactory conviction history

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

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

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ANTHONY CHANDOS CASE NO.: 23PR00434

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: AMY SUSAN CHANDOS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: LINDA CHANDOS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

12/28/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

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A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

12/28/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

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

Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner:

Julianna M. Malis, Esq (SBN: 189138) 14 W. Valerio Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 946‑1550

Published Sep 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: FRANCES

BARBARA MARCUSE CASE NO.: 23PR00439

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: HAROLD MARCUSE in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: HAROLD MARCUSE 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

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: Joseph F. Green, Esq (SBN: 076600) 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 966‑1501

Published Sep 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RONALD WILLIAM LEY CASE NO.: 23PR00435

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of RONALD WILLIAM LEY A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DAVID LEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: RONALD WILLIAM LEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent Administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 11/16/2023 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

LEGALS (CONT.)

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:

Robert E. Traylor, Esq (SBN: 309069)

3839 Constellation Road, Suite C, Lompoc, CA 93436; (805) 364‑2778

Published Sep 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: STEPHEN WELLMAN DUNN Case No.: 23PR00451

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

STEPHEN DUNN

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

THE PETITION for probate requests that: THOMAS E. LURIA 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

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

12/28/2022 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

In the Board of Supervisors’ Hearing Room 511 Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA

The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday October 10, 2023, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider the Adoption of a Resolution in the Matter of the Board of Supervisors Agenda Policy and Protocols for the Conduct of Meetings and Amendments to Santa Barbara County Code Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2.1 Regarding When and Where Regular Board of Supervisors Meetings Are Held.

For current methods of public participation for the meeting of October 10, 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.

Please see the posted agenda and staff reports available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 for alternative options.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 PM on Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240.

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. G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.

Mona Miyasato  CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

By: Sheila de la Guerra, Deputy Clerk Brian McCarthy, Board Clerk/Secretary

Ordinance 5189

An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors, County of Santa Barbara, State of California Amending Chapter 18 Health and Sanitation of the Santa Barbara County Code to Repeal Sections 18-41 Through 18-44 and Section 18-49.

Ordinance 5190

An Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors, County of Santa Barbara, State of California Amending Chapter 18C Environmental Health Services, Article III Certified Unified Program Agency, and Adding Article IV Release of Waste, of the Santa Barbara County Code.

Passed, approved and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, on this 19th day of September 2023, by the following vote:

Ayes: Supervisors Williams, Capps, Hartmann, Nelson and Lavagnino

Noes: None

Absent: None

Abstain: None

MONA MIYASATO

CLERK OF THE BOARD

By: Sheila de la Guerra – Deputy Clerk

NOTE: A complete copy of Ordinances No.5189 & 5190 is on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and is available for public inspection and copying in that office in accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1.

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: 09/19/2023 By:

Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: James F. Cote, Esq 222 East Carrillo, Suite 207, Santa Barbara, CA 93120‑0146; (805) 966‑1204.

Published Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RONALD BISHOP CASE NO.: 23PR00387

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

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MILES PAINE in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: MILES PAINE 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:

10/19/2023 AT 9:00 A.M. IN DEPT: 5 of the SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107.

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

may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: James F. Scafide, Esq (SBN: 314626) 7 W. Figueroa Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 651‑3021

Published Sep 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SHARON

LYNN ROBLES, also known as SHARON ROBLES Case No.: 23PR00455

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: SHARON LYNN ROBLES, also known as SHARON ROBLES

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: GUY ROBLES in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

THE PETITION for probate requests that: GUY ROBLES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows:

12/07/2023 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 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: 09/20/2023 By: Monica

Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg 1900 State Street, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 687‑6660.

Published Sep 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

BULK SALE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs. 6104, 6105 U.C.C.)

Escrow No. WLV‑00657

Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller that a bulk sale is about to be made of

the assets described below.

The names and business addresses of the seller are:

WOOD FIRED, INC., a California corporation, 414 Salsipuedes Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103

The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: Same

As listed by the seller, all other business names and addresses used by the seller within three (3) years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the buyer are:

NONE

The names and business addresses of the buyer are:

CROSSHATCH WINERY LLC, a Flordia limited liability company. 2891 Coacoochee St., Miami, FL 33133

The assets to be sold are described in general as: Furniture, Fixtures, Equipment, and Assets and are located at: 1090 Edison Street, Ste 104, Santa Ynez, CA 93460 and 414 N. Salsipuedes Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103

The business name used by the seller at that location are:

CROSSHATCH WINERY and CROSSHATCH TASTING ROOM.

The anticipated date of the bulk sale is September 29, 2023 at the office of Fidelity National Title Company, 950 Hampshire Rd, Westlake Village, CA 91361. This bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2.

If so subject, the name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is Rhonda Wharton, Fidelity National Title Company, 950 Hampshire Rd, Westlake Village, CA 91361, and the last date for filing claims shall be September 28, 2023, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this document on the date(s) set forth below.

Dated: 6/22/23

CROSSHATCH WINERY LLC, a Flordia limited liability company

By:S/ MICHELLE VAUTIER, Manager 9/28/23

CNS‑3741164#

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT

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

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

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

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 File No. FBN2023‑0002041

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

LEGALS (CONT.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

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: 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. 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 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: 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: 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: 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.

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 File No. FBN 2023‑0002065

The following person(s) is doing business as: Pulido General Home Services 1133 Deep Trail, Solvang, CA 93463, County of Santa Barbara. Mailing Address: 311 W Civic Center Dr Ste B, Santa Ana, Califo 92701 Pulido General Services LLC, 1133 Deer Trail, Solvang, CA 93463 State of Incorporation: 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/ Efren Pulido, CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/23/2023.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/23

CNS‑3736979# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

File No. FBN 2023‑0002111

The following person(s) is doing business as:

EveryWalk Design, 411 E

Micheltorena St., Apt. F, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, County of Santa Barbara.

Shenomi T Rathugamage, 411 E

Micheltorena St., Apt. F, 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 7/30/2023

/s/ Shenomi Theekshani

Rathugamage, Owner

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 8/29/2023.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/23

CNS‑3737174# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2023‑0002148

The following person(s) is doing business as:

Sana Sana Weliness, 3935 Loch Lomond Dr. Santa Maria, CA 93455, County of SANTA BARBARA.

The Rodriguez Group LLC, 3935 Loch Lomand Dr, Orcutt, CA 93455, 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 Not Applicable

/s/ Gilberto Carlos Rodriguez, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 09/05/2023. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/23

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NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION

PUBLIC HEARING Hybrid Public Meeting - Held in Person and via Zoom Monday, October 9, 2023, at 6:00 P.M.

GENERAL PLAN CONFORMANCE DETERMINATIONS REGARDING THE ACQUISITION OF AN APPROXIMATELY 2-ACRE SIZED PARK WITHIN THE HERITAGE RIDGE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (LOT 3 OF VESTING MAP 32,068) AND PROPOSED RIGHT-OF-WAY-EXCHANGE ALONG LOS CARNEROS ROAD ADJACENT TO THE HERITAGE RIDGE DEVELOPMENT SITE PURSUANT TO SECTION 65402 OF THE GOVERNMENT CODE

ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta Planning Commission will conduct a hybrid public hearing to make a recommendation to the City Council regarding the above- mentioned General Plan Conformance determinations regarding the vacation of roadway and landscape/slope easements and acceptance of road easements adjacent to Los Carneros Road and Calle Koral (“Right-of-Way Exchange”), as well as the acquisition of approximately 1.85-acre park parcel and approximately 0.15 acres of a public access easement for neighborhood park uses within the Heritage Ridge Development.

The date, time, and location of the Planning Commission is as follows:

HEARING DATE/TIME: Monday, October 9, 2023, at 6:00 PM

LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda).

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Section 65402(a) of the Government Code requires that no real property shall be acquired by dedication or otherwise for street, square, park, or other public purposes and no real property shall be disposed of, no street shall be vacated or abandoned, and no public building or structures shall be constructed or authorized, until the location, purpose, and extent of such acquisition or disposition, has been submitted to and reported upon by the Planning Commission as to the conformity with the General Plan. The City Council will decide whether to accept the dedication and the vacations as proposed as part of the Final Map acceptance process.

PROJECT LOCATION: The Heritage Ridge Residential Development site is located on the North Side of Camino Vista Between S. Los Carneros and Aero Camino Roads (North of Willow Springs II) and encompasses APNs 073-060-031 through -043. The park acquisition site is identified as Lot 3 of Vesting Parcel Map 32,068 and encompasses some or all of current Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 073-060-035 through -038

The Right-of-Way exchange area is located along the western boundary of the Heritage Ridge development site along the Los Carneros Road frontage generally between the US 101/ Union Pacific Railroad bridge to Calle Koral. The Right-of-Way area does not have an Assessor’s Parcel Number.

The Heritage Ridge development site, located in the Inland portion of the city, has a Medium-Density Residential (R-MD) with an Affordable Housing Overlay Goleta General Plan land use designation and is subject to Design Residential (DR-20) zone in the former Inland Zoning Ordinance (Article III). The site is current zoning Residential Medium (RM).

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: On March 7, 2023, the City Council of the City of Goleta certified the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR), adopted Findings of Fact (including a Statement of Overriding Considerations) and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), and approved the Heritage Ridge Residential Project (Project). The EIR evaluated potential environmental impacts that could occur as a result of implementing the Project and/or alternatives and provided applicable mitigation to reduce the intensity of potential environmental impacts. This included evaluation of the vacation of roadway and landscape/slope easements and acceptance of road easements adjacent to Los Carneros Road and Calle Koral, as well as the acquisition of approximately 1.85-acre park parcel and approximately 0.15 acres of a public access easement for neighborhood park uses within the Heritage Ridge Development. No further environmental review is required because none of the conditions in Public Resources Code, section 21166 and/or State CEQA Guidelines, section 15162 are triggered by the general plan conformity findings that the Planning Commission is being asked to make. The Government Code, section 65402 findings fall within the scope of the Heritage Ridge Residential Project EIR (State Clearinghouse No. 2015041014) that was certified by the City on March 7, 2023, and were contemplated future actions in the EIR.

CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records maintained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to kdominguez@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Staff reports and related materials for the Planning Commission hearing will also be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting on the City’s web site at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Supervising Senior Planner 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

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. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent September 28, 2023

LEGALS (CONT.)

CNS‑3738835# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as:

ESTIMATING SERVICE TEAM at 217 E. Gutierrez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Justin R Klosinski (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED BY:

JUSTIN KLOSINSKI/OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 07, 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: 2023‑0002174. E30. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE SPOT, CARPINTERIA at 389 Linden Ave. Carpinteria, CA 93013; Bustillos Enterprises Inc. 934 Mission Ter Camarillo CA 93010 (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: JESUS R

BUSTILLOS/PRESIDENT 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: 2023‑0002119. E30. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SMART

START SB at 1419 Kenwood Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Terra L. Taylor (same address) This business is conducted by An Individual. SIGNED

BY: TERRA L TAYLOR/SOLE

PROPRIETOR Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2023‑0002190.

E30. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5,

12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2023‑0002139

The following person(s) is doing business as:

CENTER FOR AUTISM AND RELATED DISORDERS, 20750

VENTURA BLVD., STE 160, WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364, County of LOS ANGELES.

PANTOGRAN LLC, 20750

VENTURA BLVD., STE 160, WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91364;State of Inc./Org./Reg.:

DELAWARE

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 Aug 28, 2023

/s/ SANGAM PANT

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 09/01/2023.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12/23

CNS‑3739505# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: METHOD BUILDERS at 1 N Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 230‑Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93103; MB Contractors Inc (same address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: ROBERT A GILCREST/PRESIDENT

Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 1, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002145. E24. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: METHOD BUILDERS at 1 N Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 230‑Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Method Builders, Inc (same

address) This business is conducted by An Corporation. SIGNED BY: ROBERT A GILCREST/PRESIDENT

Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 1, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0002146. E24. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BORIFIC, PI, APEX, DUO, LOZIER, ALOYSIUS, SUPER TUSCAN, MRS. B, KIMBERLY JAMES at 23 E De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jamie Slone Wines, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: JAMIE SLONE/ MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2023‑0002209.

Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPECTRA CONTRACT FLOORING at 11411 Valley View Street Cypress, CA 90630; Spectra Holdings, Inc. 865 W. Irving Park Rd. Itasca, IL 60143 This business is conducted by A Corporation. SIGNED BY ANDREW

G.KLEVORN/SECRETARY Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2023‑0002183. E30. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLO TEK SEWER & DRAIN at 1121 E Gutierrez St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Juan J

GOLETA WEST SANITARY DISTRICT

P.O. Box 4 – UCSB Campus, Parking Lot 32 Goleta, California 93116

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2023 AT 5:30 PM HEARING TO BE HELD IN-PERSON AND VIA TELECONFERENCE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9609647119 Meeting ID: 960 964 7119

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Board of Directors of the Goleta West Sanitary District (“District”) at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday October 3, 2023, on the following matter:

Consideration and adoption of an Ordinance relating to miscellaneous fees and charges associated with one-time service requests, including: (1) Permit Fees; (2) Plan Check Fees; (3) Inspection Fees; (4) Frontage Fees; and, (5) Industrial Service Fees. No changes are proposed to the District’s annual sewer service charges, or property-related fees. The Board will also find this Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act.

This Notice was posted on the District website (http://goletawest.org) and at the District outside display case on September 18, 2023. If you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, contact the District office at 805-968-2617 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting.

Brian McCarthy, Board Clerk/Secretary

ORDINANCE NO. 23 -__

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA APPROVING A SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT TO REMOVE APN 073-440-026 FROM THE CAMINO REAL SPECIFIC PLAN, APPROVING THE REMOVAL OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN ZONING OVERLAY DESIGNATION ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, AND FINDING THAT THE ORDINANCE IS EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT AT 6975 SANTA FELICIA DRIVE; APN 073-440-026; CASE NOs. 21-0002-SP and 22-0002-ORD

On September 19, 2023 at 5:30 PM 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 that would amend the Camino Real Specific Plan to remove APN 073-440-026 from the Specific Plan area and also removes the Specific Plan Overlay zone from the site as well. These actions would allow the site to be developed based on the underlying General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan and zoning designations of Community Commercial.

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) 9617505.

Deborah S. Lopez

City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 28, 2023

Campos (same address) This business is conducted by a Individaul Filed by: Juan J Campos, Owner with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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) by E47. FBN Number: 2023‑0002239. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA CHAPALA MARKET at 5780 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; La Chapala Enterprises, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: EVERARDO RAMOS/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 15, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E57. FBN Number: 2023‑0002235. Published: Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: AGNEW TREE SERVICE INC. at 256 Big Sur Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Agnew Tree Service Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: DARREN AGNEW/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 15, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2023‑0002234. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: VNA HEALTH SUITES, VNA CARE SUITES, THE OVERLOOK AT VNA HEALTH at 930 Miramonte Drive, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Visiting Nurse And Hospice Care Of Santa Barbara 509 E. Montecito Street, Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: KIERAN SHAH/PRESIDENT&CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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) by E30. FBN Number: 2023‑0002176. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLF OR DIE at 314 W. Alamar Ave, #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Greenstripe Holdings LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: LUCAS MILLER/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 19, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN

Number: 2023‑0002255. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: WD&T EMBROIDER at 230 S Voluntario St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Andrehi Lozano (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: ANDREHI LOZANO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 20, 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) by E47. FBN Number: 2023‑0002259. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNRISE CHIROPRACTIC at 3324 State St, H Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Soloduka Chiropractic (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Filed by: JULIE SOLODUKA/OWNER 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) by E30. FBN Number: 2023‑0002122. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUTTONWOOD VINEYARD AND WINERY/ BUTTONWOOD FARM & WINERY/ BUTTONWOOD RANCH

AND VINEYARD/ BUTTONWOOD FARM WINERY/ BUTTONWOOD WINERY/ BUTTONDWOOD RANCH/ BUTTONWOOD RANCH WINERY at 1500 Alamo Pintado Rd Solvang, CA 93463; Buttonwood Ranch Management Services, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Filed by: DANIEL JENKINS/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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) by E30. FBN

Number: 2023‑0002245. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2023‑0002168

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

Off the Record Vinyl and Vintage 446 Alisal Rd. #16, Solvang, CA 93463 County of SANTA BARBARA VRC INDUSTRIES, INC., 1470

AARHUS DRIVE, Solvang, CA 93463

This business is conducted by a Corporation

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 08/08/2023.

VRC INDUSTRIES, INC.

S/ Michael Casey, Chief Executive Officer

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 09/07/2023.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/28, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/23

CNS‑3739666# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2023‑0002169

The following person(s) is doing business as:

1. HEALTH SANITATION

SERVICE, 2. HSS RECYCLING, 1850 W. BETTERAVIA RD. SANTA MARIA, CA 93455

County of SANTA BARBARA

Mailing Address: 800 CAPITOL ST. STE 3000, HOUSTON, TX 77002

HOUSTON, TX 77002; DELAWARE

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Oct 21, 2013 /s/ COURTNEY A. TIPPY, VICE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 09/07/2023.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/28, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19/23

CNS‑3735937#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA PLUMBING at 55 S Kellogg Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Cuyler Kittle 5071 San Julio Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Filed by: CUYLER

KITTLE/OWNER 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) by E30. FBN Number: 2023‑0002120. Published: Sep 28. Oct 5, 12, 19 2023.

INVITATION FOR BIDS

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Bids open at 2:00 PM on Wednsday, October 18, 2023 for:

JONATA STREET IMPROVEMENTS FROM NOJOQUI AVE TO GRAND AVE IN LOS OLIVOS IN THE 3RD SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT

COUNTY PROJECT No. 820793

General project work description: Road grading and paving

The Plans, Specifications, and Bid Book are available at https://www. planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm? CompanyID=43874.

The Contractor must have either a Class A license or any combination of the following Class C licenses which constitutes a majority of the work: C‑12, C‑31

Submit sealed bids to the web address below. Bids will be opened available at the web address below immediately following the submittal deadline.

PlanetBids

https://www.planetbids.com/portal/ portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874

Complete the project work within 20 Working Days.

The estimated cost of the project is $174,000

A optional pre‑bid meeting is scheduled for this project on Friday, October 6, 2023, at 10:00 AM at intersection of Nojoqui Ave and Jonata Street. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR).

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of PCC Section 4104, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code (LAB) Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 7029.1 or by PCC Section 10164 or 20103.5 provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to LAB Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the

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wage rates at the DIR website https://www.dir.ca.gov/.

Inquiries or questions based on alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted as a bidder inquiry by 2:00 PM on 10/11/2023. Submittals after this date will not be addressed. Questions pertaining to this Project prior to Award of the Contract must be submitted via PlanetBids Q&A tab.

Bidders (Plan Holders of Record) will be notified by electronic mail if addendums are issued. The addendums, if issued, will only be available on the County PlanetBids website, https://www.planetbids com/portal/ portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874

Scott McGolpin Director of Public Works

LIEN SALE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on October 19, 2023, the personal property in the below‑listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 09:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified.

PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246

Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

015 ‑ Kozlowski, Alan; 070 ‑ Howard, Jasen; 081 ‑ Itie, Preston; 086 ‑ Nunez, Laura; 172 ‑ Pollock, Ashley; 357 ‑ Kozlowski, Alan; 361 ‑ BROWN, MICHAEL; 374 ‑ Conner, David

PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

226 ‑ Sousa, Steve; 234 ‑ Hernandez, Raymond; 240 ‑ Loen, Lonny

PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770

Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

2231 ‑ Moore, Brenda; 3240 ‑ Adogu, Chidinma; 4120 ‑ Yahontova, Olga; A431 ‑ Connolly, Michael; A6‑E ‑ Huggins, Michael Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. Dated this 28 th of September 2023 and 5 th of October 2023. By PS Orangeco, Inc., 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑ 8080 9/28, 10/5/23

CNS‑3740150#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

NAME CHANGE

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: 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 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: 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.

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: 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.

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: DARLENA RICHARD

CASE NUMBER: 23CV03724

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: DARLENA RICHARD

TO: DARLENE RICHARD LOVE 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 NOVEMBER 1, 2023, 10:00 AM, DEPT 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 08, 2023, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. Published Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) Escrow No. 120‑32492‑CM

(1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made on personal property hereinafter described.

(2) The name and business addresses of the seller are: DEBBIE’S DELIGHTS, INC., 233

EAST GUTIERREZ STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

(3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is:

SAME AS ABOVE

(4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are: MYLANDON LLC, 7616 PISMO BEACH CIRCLE, GOLETA, CA 93117

(5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are: CERTAIN FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT, GOODWILL, INVENTORY AND OTHER ASSETS of that certain business located at: 233 EAST GUTIERREZ STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

(6) The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: DEBBIE’S DELIGHTS

(7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is OCTOBER 20, 2023 at the office of: GLEN OAKS ESCROW, 24018 LYONS AVE. SANTA CLARITA, CA 91321 , Escrow No. 120‑32492‑CM , Escrow Officer: CYNTHIA MOLLER

(8) Claims may be filed with Same as “7” above.

(9) The last day for filing claims is: OCTOBER 19, 2023 .

(10) This bulk sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

(11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: DIE

BRETZEL, UCSB CAMPUS, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93106 .

DATED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

BUYER(S): MYLANDON LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 1903377‑PP SB INDEPENDENT 9/28/23

NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION

PUBLIC HEARING

Hybrid Public Meeting – Held in Person and via Zoom October 9, 2023 at 6:00 P.M.

Santa Barbara Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan General Plan and Title 17 (Zoning) Amendments (Case Nos. 22-0001-GPA; 23-0003-ORD)

ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at www.cityofgoleta.org/meetings-agendas.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider recommending to City Council adoption of amendments to the General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) and Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code (GMC) to update City polices and regulations to ensure consistency with the recently adopted Santa Barbara Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP). The ALUCP replaced the 1993 Airport Land Use Plan (ALUP). The City Council will consider any recommendation at a later hearing to adopt amendments to the General Plan and Title 17. The date, time, and location of the Planning Commission public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

HEARING DATE/TIME: Monday, October 9, 2023 at 6:00 P.M.

PLACE: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda).

PROJECT LOCATION: The amendments would apply citywide, including all areas of the City within the Coastal Zone.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed amendments to the General Plan and Title 17 of the GMC are proposed to ensure consistency between the City’s policies and regulations and the ALUCP. The project includes text amendments to the Land Use Element, Safety Element, and Noise Element of General Plan; revisions to Figures 5-3 and 9-4 of the General Plan; text amendments to Chapter 17.16 of the GMC and to the definitions included in Title 17 of the GMC; and an update to the City’s Zoning Overlay Districts Map. These changes are intended to best align the City’s policies and regulations with the ALUCP. The edits are included to update references to the ALUCP (from references to the ALUP); remove or revise any policy language that references the ALUP requirements, including related to the clear and approach zones; and remedy conflicts with the standards and procedures included in the ALUCP.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: The amendments to the General Plan and Title 17 are exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (California Public Resources Code Sections 21000 et seq.) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378(a) but it is an organizational or administrative activity by government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment pursuant to Section 15378(b)(5).

The amendments are also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment.

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Planning Commission meeting agenda. All letters/comments should be sent to kdominguez@cityofgoleta. org. Letters must be received on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Andy Newkirk, Supervising Senior Planner, at (805) 961-7544 or anewkirk@cityofgoleta.or g. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.

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

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

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent, September 28, 2023

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PUBLIC NOTICES

known as 14470 Calle Real, APNs 081‑150‑026, ‑019 and ‑042 in the Gaviota Coast area, 3rd Supervisorial District.

PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DRAFT SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR) FOR THE PROPOSED TAJIGUAS LANDFILL CAPACITY INCREASE

PROJECT

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Santa Barbara County Public Works Department, Resource Recovery and Waste Management Division (RRWMD) proposes to construct a limited capacity increase project (14.25 acres/6.1 million cubic yards) to extend the service life of the Tajiguas Landfill and reduce the rate‑payer burden associated with paying debt service on the ReSource Center concurrently with off‑site transport and disposal of residual and bypass waste. The extension of life was expected to be provided by diversion associated with operation of the Resource Center; however, based on numerous factors, the Landfill is currently projected to reach its’ currently permitted capacity in 2026. RRWMD is proposing to increase the current Landfill capacity to accommodate projected waste burial needs through approximately December 2038.

PROJECT LOCATION: The project site is located at the Tajiguas Landfill, approximately 26 miles west of the City of Santa Barbara, commonly

PUBLIC HEARING AND COMMENT: RRWMD is soliciting comments on the adequacy and completeness of the analysis and proposed mitigation measures described in 23EIR‑00001. You may comment by providing testimony in person or via Zoom during the public hearing on Thursday October 26, 2023, 5:30p.m., at the Tajiguas Landfill ReSource Center Education Room located at 14470 Calle Real, Goleta CA, 93117 and/or submitting written or oral comments to the project planner identified below prior to the close of public comment on Monday, November 13, 2023 at 5 p.m. To register for in‑person attendance at the meeting, or to participate remotely through Zoom, please go to https://www.countyofsb.org/1165/ Environmental‑Documents.

PROJECT DETAILS: The Tajiguas Landfill property comprises 497 acres, a permitted operational area of 357 acres, a permitted waste disposal footprint of 118 acres, and a permitted disposal capacity of 23.3 million cubic yards (mcy) (Solid Waste Facility Permit SWFP No. 42‑AA‑0015).

The Capacity Increase Project involves a new approximate 14.25‑acre Phase IV waste fill area to provide approximately 6.1 million cubic yards of additional airspace for burial of solid waste not suitable for recycling. The proposed project would increase the permitted height from 620 feet above mean sea level to 650 feet above mean sea level,

disposal area footprint from 118 acres to 132.25 acres, and design capacity of the Landfill from 23.3 million cubic yards to 29.4 million cubic yards to extend the estimated closure year to approximately December 2038. No changes to other Landfill operations or staffing would occur; however, the project includes a proposed change from the existing daily waste receipt limit of 1,500 tons per day to a working week limit of 9,000 tons.

No changes to the ReSource Center facilities or operations are proposed.

Relocation of some ReSource Center supporting infrastructure (e.g., electrical transmission lines, stormwater pipelines) would be required to eliminate conflicts with the proposed Phase IV waste fill area. Some changes to the Landfill’s storm water management system (e.g., north sedimentation basin) would also be required.

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS:

RRWMD has prepared a Draft Subsequent EIR (23EIR‑00001, SCH#2023030563) to the Tajiguas Landfill Expansion Project EIR [01‑EIR‑05, SCH#98041003], the Tajiguas Landfill Reconfiguration and Baron Ranch Restoration Subsequent EIR (08EIR‑00000‑00007, SCH#2008021052) and Tajiguas

Resource Recovery Project Subsequent EIR (12EIR‑00000‑00002, SCH#2012041068) pursuant to requirements of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the County of Santa Barbara Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA. RRWMD has prepared a Subsequent EIR for the

proposed project due to the potential for unavoidable, significant adverse effects to result from project implementation. The Subsequent EIR prepared for the project identifies and discusses potential impacts, mitigation measures, residual impacts and monitoring requirements for identified subject areas. Significant and unavoidable effects on the environment are anticipated from implementation of the project in the following areas: air quality (greenhouse gas emissions) and biological resources (Crotch’s bumblebee). Significant but mitigable effects on the environment are anticipated from implementation of the project in the following areas: biological resources, hazards/hazardous materials, cultural resources, noise and land use. The project would extend the life of the Tajiguas Landfill and thereby extend previously disclosed significant and unavoidable visual resources and biological impacts, and significant but mitigable biological resources, hazardous materials, nuisance and cultural resource impacts. If the project description changes, RRWMD will require a reevaluation to consider the changes. If you challenge this environmental document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues raised by you or others in written correspondence or in hearings on the proposed project.

DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: If a copy of the Draft Subsequent EIR is not attached, the Draft Subsequent

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EIR may be obtained and all documents referenced in the Subsequent EIR may be reviewed at RRWMD at 130 E. Victoria Street, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 AND on our website at: https://www.countyofsb. org/1165/Environmental‑Documents. Draft documents are also available for review at the Goleta Branch Library, 500 N Fairview Ave, Goleta, CA 93117 and Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E Anapamu Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

HOW TO COMMENT: Please provide comments to the project environmental planner, Joddi Leipner by email at Jleipner@countyofsb.org or to 130 E. Victoria Street Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, PHONE 805‑882‑3614, prior to the close of public comment on Monday, November 13, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. or provide testimony at the public hearing (in person or via Zoom) on the date and time specified above. Please limit comments to environmental issues such as traffic, biology, noise, etc. Please check the Public Works website at https://www.countyofsb. org/1165/Environmental‑Documents for information regarding the dates of future public hearings before the Board of Supervisors to consider the project, which is estimated in winter 2024.

Published September 28, 2023.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SPRING STREET COURTHOUSE BOLTHOUSE LAND COMPANY, LLC, a California limited liability company; WM. BOLTHOUSE FARMS, INC., a Michigan corporation. and GRIMMWAY ENTERPRISES, INC., a Delaware corporation, DIAMOND FARMING COMPANY, a California corporation; LAPIS LAND COMPANY, LLC, a California limited liability company; RUBY LAND COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Plaintiffs, VS. ALL PERSONS CLAIMING A RIGHT TO EXTRACT OR STORE GROUNDWATER IN THE CUYAMA VALLEY GROUNDWATER BASIN (NO. 3‑013); ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO; DOES 1 THROUGH 5000 and THE PERSONS NAMED AS DEFENDANTS IDENTIFIED ON EXHIBIT D TO THIS COMPLAINT as may be amended from time to time

Defendants.

Case No.: BCV‑21‑101927 Complex Action (Complaint Filed: 8/17/2021)

NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF GROUNDWATER BASIN ADJUDICATION OF THE CUYAMA VALLEY GROUNDWATER BASIN (NO. 3‑013)

Assigned for All Purposes to: The Honorable Yvette M. Palazuelos

NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF GROUNDWATER BASIN ADJUDICATION OF THE CUYAMA VALLEY GROUNDWATER BASIN (NO. 3‑013)

NOTICE OF COMMENCEMENT OF GROUNDWATER BASIN ADJUDICATION [ADAM, DENA; ALMANZA, OSCAR SALINAS; ALVARADO, LUIS DAVID; ALVAREZ, MARIO M; ANDERSON TRUST DATED 2/19/98; ARBAYO‑GIL, MATTHEW JOSHUA; ARREOLA, ANGELICA MARGARITA; ASHTON, RICHARD J; ASKEW, JAMES/LUCY; AZEVEDO FRANCISCO FAMILY TRUST 5/29/02; BALUTCH, NADJIB; BARNES, RUSSELL; BLOSE, BARRETT S & SMITH NICOLE D 2009 REVOCABLE TRUS; BOSTER, MELINDA MAE; BOUGHERS, WILLIAM R; BREEDLOVE, DONNA J; BREEDLOVE, EDWARD; BRODERSEN LIVING TRUST; BROOKOVER, NELLIE F S; BROUGH, CAROL; BROWN, LARRY G; BUCKMASTER, THOMAS J; BUFFINGTON, SHERREL; CAMPOS, ANTONIO V; CARPENTER, JOSHUA ROBERT; CARPENTER TROY G; CARRANZA, MARIA R; CARROLL, DENNIS; CARSON, MARVIN J EST/ OF; CASTILLO, JOSE NEGRETE/ JOSEFINA MUNOZ G; CERVANTES, ANTONIO REVOCABLE FAMILY

TRUST 3/31/20; CHOUNET, FRANK PAUL; CLARK, RICHARD/LISA; COMSTOCK, J; CONTINENTAL TELEPHONE COMPANY/ CALIFORNIA; CORTEZ, ARNULFO; CRUZ, JENNIFFER; CUEVAS, GUSTAVO CORTES; CURTO, BART J/ DOLORES TR 6‑24‑91; CUYAMA VALLEY RECREATION DISTRICT; PANG TOAN NGHIA; DAWOODJEE ‘ SHAUKAT ABDULLA & AYESHA REVOCABLE TRUST; DEATON, KENNETH GERALD; DEBUSSCHERE, DONALD B INDIVIDUAL LIVING TRUST 8/22/02; DEICK, BRADLEY & THERESA LIVING TRUST; DIAZ JOSE CANUTO; DIAZ MARIO; DOMINQUEZ AURELIANO; DREWSICH ROBERT; DUE LIMONI LLC; EDDY JACOB; EDWARDS BRIAN W/ERIN WELLS;EDWARDS

ROBERT J; EHLY VIOLET M; ENSIGN JACK M; EVRY ARTHUR; FANCHER BRIAN LEE; FERNIMEN JAMES F; FERNIMEN MICHAEL; FOSTER ANDREW C; FRANKE RONALD; FREEMAN HAZEL A; FULLINGTON PHILIP; GADIENT GEORGE; GALVAN HECTOR JIMENEZ; GARCIA ALICIA JOY; GARCIA JUAN CARLOS; GARCIA OSCAR CEJA; GARCIA‑AGUILAR DEMETRIO; GARCIA‑ROBLEDO FELIPE DE JESUS; GARL KEITH; GARVIN RODNEY; GIL TAMERA J; GILL MICHAEL L 2016 TRUST

11/15/16; GIN FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST 1/31/18; GOLLER JUDITH L; GOLLER WHITNEY N; GOMEZ PENELOPE; GONZALEZ GENARO; GONZALEZ JOEL RUIZ; GRIFFIN ROBERTA G 2000 LIVING TRUST

01/05/2000; GRUNDMAN JACKEY

D REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST

2008; HAGGERTY SALLY L FAMILY TRUST 4/12/02; HANSON ROY E JR; HARDIN COLE M; HARSHBARGER DAVID & CAROL 2003 TRUST 4/2/03; HEFFRON GARY L; HENDRICKSEN EMMA; HERNANDEZ GARCIA ROGELIO; HERNANDEZ ROGELIO; HERNANDEZ VICTOR GONZALEZ; HERNANDEZ‑NAVARRO ALEJANDRO; HICKEY GLEN H ET AL TRUSTEES; HICKMAN RICHARD; HILTS KAREN JOY; HORENBURG GRETCHEN M REVOCABLE TRUST

10/24/18; HOUSTON FAMILY TRUST; HOUSTON FAMILY TRUST 2‑11‑94; HUDSON JOHN B FAM TRUST

3/25/90; HURD JOSEPH C TRUSTEE; HYATT FRANCES M; INFANTE VANESSA CORRAL; JARQUIN ROSIBEL ORTEGA; JENSEN JULIE M; JOHNSON EMILY; JONES JENNIFER

E; KENNEDY JUSTIN D; KHALIL SAMEER F & ENSAF LIVING TRUST; KHALIL SAMEER F & ENSAF LIVING TRUST 7/28/2000; KIM MU SEUNG; KISTLER MAX LEROY JR; KRIEGER JUDY; KROUPA LIVING TRUST

8/12/19; KURATH ROGER; LAZARO

GLORIA; LEMUS RUBEN LEON; LENZ TONYA M; LEPELL DANIEL; LIEBAU KEVIN L; LOUDERBACK JOHN R; LOVETT MICHAEL S; MAGGIO FAMILY TRUST; MAGGIO FAMILY TRUST 02/15/96; MANZO JRABIEL; MARTIN MARY DIANE BELLIS; MARTINEZ JACOB; MAVYAN MISAK/MARAL; MCBRIEN VIRGINIA L EST/OF; MCBRIEN

WILLIAM T; MCCABE FRANCIS J REVOCABLE TRUST 08/05/92; MCCALIP KENNETH C/PERNELLE M TRUSTEES; MCCREA TRUST 7/15/08; MCGARRY JAMES M REVOCABLE TRUST 4/29/19; MCMENAMON MARY; MEAD STEVEN T; MELGOZA DANIEL MENDOZA; MENDIBURU JOSE; MENDIBURU JOSE M; MENDIBURU JOSE M/ GERMAINE; MENDIBURU MICHAEL JAMES; MENDOZA ARNOLD/ JANET TRUST 2/23/17; MERCADO ERIC; MESSINA SALVADOR; MILLER IVAN; MILLER IVAN O; MITZEL TERRY KEITH; MONCADA

LEUGARDO D; MONTGOMERY

JAMES BERNARD; MONTGOMERY

JASON; MOORE ROBIN; MORALES

OFELIA; MORMANN KERRY L/ NANCYH TRUSTEES; MORRIS ZALE

RAY; MOSELEY BRIAN; MOTLEY THOMAS; MOUNTS THOMAS

LEON/ROBIN E; MUNOZ FERNANDO FONSECA; NAVA MARTIN; CONSTANTINO ROMERO; NEJELY JOAN

LOUISE; PECAN ASHLEY A; PEET SARA; PEREZ FILOMENO & ORALEE REVOCABLE FAMILY TRUST 10/11; PEREZ ROBERTO; PHAN MICHAEL; PHILLIPS LOIS ANN TRUSTEE; PING QU XIAO REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST 10/4/02; PIXIE 2010 TRUST 7/29/10; PORTWOOD DAVID/LISA FAMILY TRUST 8/14/98; PRECIADO ROSITA; QUIRK ANNE; RAEDEKER WILLIAM C REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST 10/4/02; RATZKE WILLIAM WALTER; RAY RICHARD N/PEARL A; RAYMOND FAMILY TRUST; RED DIAMOND COOLING INC; REHA JESSE; REYES MARTIN EMILIO RIVERA; REYNOSO JOHN F & A SUSAN FAMILY TRUST 08/29/1995; REYNOSO JOHNNIE F/NORA ANN; RICHFIELD RANCH LLC; ROBBINS CONSTANCE ANNE; RODRIGUEZ MARY FRANCES; RODRIGUEZ TRUST 3/25/19; ROJAS CARLOS; ROSCAMP RHODA; RUSSELL CLAUDIA J; RUSSIAN DAVID; RYAN ROBERT THOMAS REVOCABLE TRUST 4/30/15; SADIQ FAMILY TRUST 12/21/04; SADIQ ZAHID; SAN DIEGO ANDREA; SANCHEZ MARIA Z; SANDOVAL CARMEN H; SANSON FAMILY TRUST 10/16/03; SANTA MARIA JT UN HS DIST; SANTIAGO AURORA REVOCABLE TRUST 7/27/00; SANTIAGO EZEQUIEL; SANTOS LAURENCIO; SAWYER LINDSEY C; SCHADE DANIEL & KAREN REVOCABLE TRUST 7/19/17; SCHADE DANIEL/ KAREN TRUSTEES OF SCHADE DANIEL & DARE; SCHEINERT DON; SEPV CUYAMA LLC; SERVIN CORTEZ FAMILY TRUST, 11/27/19; SHARMA SHIV R; SIEBENTHAL MARY C; SMITH MAURINE FAMILY TRUST 11/12/20; SMITH RICKY M; SPINNER LINDA L LIVING TRUST 4/2/12; STANCLIFF RALPH; STARR YOLANDA,M TRUSTEE; STOLLER FAMILY TRUST 10/19/90; SULLANO FRANK G/GRACE; SWAN BENJAMIN MATTHEW; TERRONES TIMOTHY J; THORSEN SONYA; TOGNAZZINI FAM TR 1/14/92; TORBA PAUL J TRUSTEE; TREINEN JON S/ MARY L; TREUR JOHN H; TYSON LAWRENCE W; URIBE CESAR; VALENCIA JOSE; VANSCHOYCK JUNE L LIV TR 3/23/88; VASQUEZ ERIC FRANK; VAUGHN NEIL; VELASQUEZ FRANCISCO GABRIEL; WALL DANIEL P; WALL MATT/ DONNA; WARD RACHEL; WARREN JOHN K; WATSON DONALD RIJEAN C; WELKER SUSAN; WETZEL DAVID WAYNE LIVING TRUST 5/14/20; WETZSTEIN JEROME A; WHITTLESEY MARKELL; WILLIAMS DEBORAH L; WILSON PAUL S; WOODWARD DONALD; WUCHERPFENNIG JOSEPH ADAM; ZAMARRIPA ROSALBA G]

THIS NOTICE IS IMPORTANT. ANY RIGHTS YOU CLAIM TO PUMP OR STORE GROUNDWATER FROM THE BASIN IDENTIFIED IN THIS NOTICE MAY BE AFFECTED BY A LAWSUIT INITIATED BY THE FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT SUMMARIZED BELOW.

A copy of the First Amended Complaint may be obtained by contacting the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney identified in this notice. If you claim rights to pump or store groundwater within the basin, either now or in the future, you may become a party to this lawsuit by filing an answer to the lawsuit on or before the deadline specified in this Notice. You may file an Answer by completing the attached form Answer, filing it with the court indicated in this notice, and sending a copy of the form 4 Answer to Plaintiffs or the Plaintiffs’ attorney. Failing to Participate in this lawsuit could have a significant adverse effect on any right to pump or store groundwater that you may have. You may seek the advice of an attorney in relation to this lawsuit. Such an attorney should be, consulted promptly. A Case Management Conference in this groundwater basin adjudication proceeding shall occur on the date specified in this notice.

PAGLIARI ALICE

If you intend to participate in the groundwater adjudication proceeding to which this Notice applied, you are advised to attend the initial Case Management Conference in person or have an attorney represent you at the initial Case Management Conference. Participation requires the production of all information regarding your groundwater use. Within three months

LEGALS (CONT.)

of appearing in this action you must serve on all other parties, and the special master, if one is appointed, an initial disclosure that includes all of the information listed in Code of Civil Procedure section 842.

A form Answer is provided for your convenience. You may fill out the form Answer and file it with the court. Should you choose to file the form answer, it will serve as an Answer to all Complaints and Cross‑Complaints filed in this case.

The following information is provided pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 836(a)(1)(B):

1. Name of Basin: Cuyama Valley Groundwater Basin, Department of Water Resources Bulletin 118 Groundwater Basin No. 3‑013. A map of the Cuyama Valley Groundwater Basin is available at: hftps://sgma. water.ca.goviportaligsp/preview/32.

2. Case No. BCV‑21‑101927, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Spring Street, Courthouse, Civil Complex Center located at 312 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Assigned to the Honorable Yvette M. Palazuelos, Department 9.

3. The First Amended Complaint may be obtained from and a copy of the form Answer should be sent to Plaintiffs’ attorneys, who may be contacted at the following mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses:

Richard G. Zimmer William T. Zimmer Zimmer & Melton, LLP 11601 Bolthouse Drive, Suite 100 Bakersfield, CA 93311 Tel: (661 463‑6700 rzimmer@zimmermelton.com, wzimmer@zimmermelton.com

Robert G. Kuhs Andrew K. Sheffield LeBeau Thelen, LLP 5001

E. Commercenter Drive, Suite 300 Post Office Box 12092 Bakersfield, CA 93389‑2092 Tel: (661) 325‑8962 rkuhs@lebeauthelen.com, asheffield@ lebeauthelen.com

4. The First Amended Complaint seeks a comprehensive adjudication of the Cuyama Valley Groundwater Basin (Basin) and alleges two causes of action. The First Cause of Action for Comprehensive Adjudication and Physical Solution pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 830 to 852 seeks a comprehensive judgment that determines and fixes the respective rights and priorities of the parties, and their respective successor in interest, to the extraction and use of Basin groundwater and the right to Basin storage space, among all users, a preliminary injunction to provide for management of the Basin, on an interlocutory basis, through entry of final judgment and any appeal, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 847, and to provide a physical solution for the perpetual and continuous management of the Basin pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 834, 849 and 850. The Second Cause of Action Quiet Title seeks to quiet title to interests in the Basin groundwater and storage space appurtenant to Plaintiffs’ real property as of the date the First Amended Complaint is filed as against any adverse claims pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure sections 760.010 to 764.080. Plaintiffs additionally seek costs of suit and such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper.

5. You must appear in this comprehensive adjudication within thirty days after receiving this Notice.

Dated: March 8, 2022

Dated: March 8, 2022

ZIMMER & MELTON, LLP

By: RICHARD G. ZIMMER, ESQ.

WILLIAM T. ZIMMER, ESQ. Attorneys for Plaintiffs BOLTHOUSE LAND COMPANY, LLC and WM. BOLTHOUSE FARMS, INC.

LEBEAU‑THELEN, LLP

By: ROBERT G. KUHS Attorneys for Plaintiffs Grimmway Enterprises, Inc., Diamond Farming Company, Lapis Land Company, LLC, and Ruby Land Company, LLC

Published Sep 21, 28. Oct 5, 12 2023.

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACIÓN JUDICIAL)

Case Number (Numero del Caso):

22CV03628

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 $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.

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.

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. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (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 CNS‑3734700# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

CASE NAME: Baby Girl Jovel CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS

CODE SECTION 294

CASE NUMBER: 23JD00130‑001

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 ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY Trevor C. Creel PO Box 456 Atascadero, California 93423‑0456

TELEPHONE NO.: (805) 540‑5549 FAX NO. E‑MAIL ADDRESS ATTORNEY FOR SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF San Luis Obispo STREET ADDRESS: Courthouse Annex, 1035 Palm St. MAILING ADDRESS: CITY AND ZIP CODE: San Luis Obispo 93408 BRANCH NAME: Juvenile Court Published Sep 14, 21, 28. Oct 5 2023.

TRUSTEE NOTICE

T.S. No. 23004020‑1 CA APN: 067‑082‑015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALEYOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 07/29/2009. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appointed trustee as shown below, of all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by the trustee in the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described below. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by the Deed of Trust, with interest and late charges thereon, as provided in the note(s), advances, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee for the total amount (at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale) reasonably estimated to be set forth below. The amount may

be greater on the day of sale.

Trustor: SUE J. CHESTER, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN Duly Appointed Trustee: ZBS Law, LLP Deed of Trust Recorded on 08/04/2009, as Instrument No.

2009‑0047528 The subject Deed of Trust was modified by a Document recorded 09/18/2020 as Instrument

Number 2020‑0050805 of Official Records of Santa Barbara County, California; Date of Sale: 10/11/2023

at 10:00 AM Place of Sale: At the Main Entrance to the County Courthouse, Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Estimated amount of unpaid balance and other charges: $280,725.83 Note: Because the Beneficiary reserves the right to bid less than the total debt owed, it is possible that at the time of the sale the opening bid may be less than the total debt owed. Street Address or other common designation of real property: 805 VIA CAMPOBELLOSANTA BARBARA, CA 93111 Described as follows: As more fully described on said Deed of Trust. A.P.N #.: 067‑082‑015 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address or other common designation, if any, shown above. If no street address or other common designation is shown, directions to the location of the property may be obtained by sending a written request to the beneficiary within 10 days of the date of first publication of this Notice of Sale. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY

OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires

ORDINANCE NO. 23-10

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 (855) 976‑3916 or visit this Internet Web site www. auction.com using the file number assigned to this case 23004020‑1 CA. 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 Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE

TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (855) 976‑3916 or visit this Internet Web site https:// tracker.auction.com/sb1079 using the file number assigned to this case 23004020‑1 CA to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee.

Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase.

Dated: 09/14/2023 ZBS Law, LLP, as Trustee 30 Corporate Park, Suite 450 , Irvine, CA 92606For Non‑Automated Sale Information, call: (714) 848‑7920For Sale Information: (855) 976‑ 3916 or www.auction.com Michael Busby, Trustee Sale Officer This office is enforcing a security interest of your creditor. To the extent that your obligation has been discharged by a bankruptcy court or is subject to an automatic stay of a bankruptcy, this notice is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a demand for payment or any attempt to collect such obligation. EPP 38165 Pub Dates 09/21, 09/28, 10/05/2023

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”) conducted the second reading and adopted Ordinance No. 23-10. This ordinance is a 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.

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 23-10 at a regular meeting held on the 19th 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 Ordinance No. 23-10 at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@ cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

Deborah

City Clerk

S. Lopez

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 28, 2023