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A properly fitted helmet is the most effective way to prevent a head injury resulting from a crash. So it’s important to always wear a helmet when riding a bike, scooter, skateboard or roller skates. Wearing a helmet can even save your child’s life.

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Please call Cottage Trauma Services at 805-569-7451 to learn more about our helmet safety program. We are dedicated to providing helmets to our community at little to no cost for those in need.

• A helmet is considered safe if it has a certification sticker inside or if the box states that it was certified by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

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• Children under the age of 18 are required by law to wear helmets. Be a good role model by always wearing your helmet too.

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How long have you been a photographer, and what primarily do you shoot? Born amid the natural splendor of Santa Barbara, California, my journey into the world of photography and multimedia is as vibrant and compelling as my work. Growing up in such a picturesque setting, I developed a keen eye for beauty and a deep appreciation for storytelling through imagery. I have been shooting professionally for more than 10 years.

Over the past 15 years, what began as a progressive hobby evolved into a consuming passion, driving me from one creative project to the next. My ambition and relentless pursuit of excellence led me to reach a professional level in photography and marketing, eventually inspiring me to start SYNRGY Creative, a full-service marketing agency. Every capture and design I create is not just a piece of work, but rather part of a larger narrative fueled by my endless passion and creativity.

What do you enjoy about photography as an art? What’s especially challenging? With every photo or video shoot, many elements come into play. Lighting and shadows are often the most challenging to get right, as they can easily make or break a photo. However, playing with light and shadows allows me to dynamically express the composition. My role as a photographer is to accurately represent a 3D space in a 2D format.

I enjoy shooting primarily with natural light, as it’s how we naturally see the world through our eyes. Everything I observe has a cinematic quality, and the camera allows me to express that vision to others.

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COURTS & CRIME

Former Teacher Charged with Sex Crimes Against Minors

Steven Schapansky, 54, Accused of Felony Molestation, 70 Counts of Electronic Peeping

by Callie Fausey

Steven Schapansky, a 54-year-old former teacher at Santa Barbara Charter School (SBCS), was charged on Monday with two felony counts of child molestation and 70 misdemeanor counts of unlawful electronic peeping. He allegedly used hidden recording devices to secretly videotape children for six years.

Schapansky, a Goleta resident, was arrested on Friday morning in the Fresno area on a felony warrant of child molestation. However, he was released on a $100,000 bail on Sunday.

According to court documents, Schapansky molested two Jane Does under the age of 14 while they were sleeping. The first molestation victim, called “Jane Doe 2” to protect her privacy, was also the subject of multiple of Schapansky’s illicit recordings.

In total, 46 Jane Does have been confirmed as victims of the recordings, while the Sheriff’s Office and DA work to identify five remaining unknown minors.

Prior to his teaching contract expiring on June 7, Schapansky taught 5th-6th-grade students at the charter school for seven years.

In July, he was found with secret recording devices in his possession and accused of recording children in several locations, including places where children change clothes. Many recordings were on the charter

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school’s campus, which it shares with Goleta Valley Junior High.

Shortly after, Schapansky was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of invasion of privacy with a recording device, but he was released while the Sheriff’s Office investigation unfolded.

According to the school’s Director of Education Laura Donner, these allegations were a “complete shock” to the school. “It’s just so unexpected and so upsetting,” Donner told the Independent at the time. She assured that

he would not be returning to the school.

Since Schapansky’s initial arrest, a legal claim for personal injuries and damages was filed against Schapansky by the parents of one confirmed victim of the recordings, and the case is still developing. It alleges that the charter school and the Santa Barbara Unified School District were also liable for Schapansky’s misconduct, claiming they “negligently supervised” and failed to protect students and to enforce guidelines, training, and procedures.

Sexually Assaulted Former Jail Inmate Wins Settlement

Santa Barbara County settled its litigation with a former jail inmate identified as Jane Doe to maintain her anonymity on September 4, after Doe sued the county in federal court over claims that the Sheriff’s Office’s “policy of inaction” and “deliberate indifference” paved the way for a jail employee to sexually assault her. A jury trial was set to begin on September 17.

“There were institutional failures that allowed my client’s sexual assault to happen,” said Neil Gehlawat, Doe’s attorney.

Salvador Vargas, the perpetrator and thendischarge planner, sexually assaulted Doe in 2018 while transporting her from the Main Jail to Bethel House, a residential treatment center where she would complete her sentence. Court records show that “during the drive, Vargas told Plaintiff that ‘he got her out’ and that she ‘owed him.’ ” Then, “Vargas assaulted, groped, and forced Doe to orally copulate him.” Vargas had made multiple

NEWS BR IEFS

Two Santa Barbara families have put together online fundraisers to ask the community for support while they help rebuild their lives following a fire that displaced them from their homes. The electrical fire ignited on 8/4 in a neighborhood home on Santa Barbara’s Westside and spread over to the property next door until both homes were burning. By the time fire crews were able to extinguish the fire, both homes were damaged beyond habitability. The Valadez and Avila families, both families of six, were displaced and connected with the local Red Cross. Read more and find the links to the fundraisers at independent.com/community.

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A Santa Barbara woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smother her newborn baby in her apartment on 9/8. Roommates discovered both the mother, Joseline Lopez-Hernandez, 20, and her newborn baby unresponsive inside their apartment at a complex on the 1100 block of San Andres Street, according to police. City Police, City Fire, and AMR responded to the scene at 7:54 a.m. and transported the baby and Lopez-Hernandez to Cottage Hospital. Following lifesaving measures, the baby regained a pulse and began breathing without assistance. During a follow-up investigation, detectives learned that Lopez-Hernandez had allegedly attempted to smother the baby. She has been booked into county jail for attempted homicide and cruel and unusual punishment of a child and will be held without bail.

sexual comments and advances at Doe before this event.

Vargas ended up pleading guilty to two felony charges on the eve of his own trial in 2022 and is serving three years behind bars.

In the years leading up to Doe’s assault, three sexual assault complaints were made against Vargas by other inmates. According to court records, investigating deputies did not interview the victims in two of the three complaints.

The one interviewed inmate was taken seriously, and investigating deputies relayed the complaint to their sergeants for further action. However, the deputies were instructed to disregard it.

Gehlawat emphasized that this situation could’ve been entirely preventable had the county properly investigated each complaint.

The settlement amount, while not currently finalized, will be released in the coming weeks.

—MargauxLovely

The District Attorney’s Office has ruled the 12/29/23 homicide of Connor Jeffrey Amador, 20, by Lompoc Police at a Circle K was justified, citing that Amador’s actions “created a reasonable fear of death or injury to officers.” Amador was fatally shot by officers Tara Newton and Alexander Justice after he attempted to rob the Ocean Avenue convenience store at gunpoint before pistolwhipping a store employee and returning two hours armed with the same gun (later determined to be a pellet gun) and a machete, according to the DA’s report. After holding the gun to an employee’s head, Amador exited the convenience store, was confronted by the officers, ignored their commands, and was fatally shot. Read more at independent.com/courts-crime.

TRANSPORTATION

A short stretch of State Route 192 from Orizaba to Parma Park will be closed for about five weeks, from 9/16 to about 10/18, as crews construct a retaining wall at the site of a landslide below Stanwood Drive, Caltrans announced. To bypass the work zone by taking the 101, motorists are advised to turn off SR 192 at Alamar on the west and Sycamore Canyon Road on the east to get down to the highway. Other routes visible on maps also wind over the Riviera hills to zigzag around the slide area via Mission Ridge, Las Alturas, and Conejo roads.

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Steven Schapansky

Salvador Vargas, the perpetrator and county jail’s then-discharge planner, sexually assaulted the female inmate in 2018 while transporting her from the Main Jail to a residential treatment center.

COUNTY

Committee to Tackle Farmworker Conditions

During last week’s heat wave, when some families cooled off at the beach, farmworkers were under the sweltering sun, working in the fields to ensure food was still available. On Tuesday, the County Board of Supervisors formed a committee to tackle farmworker conditions.

Daniel Segura, an organizer with Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, said that the move would be a “crucial step to formally begin discussing” the concerns raised by farmworkers, including stagnant wages and hazardous working conditions like extreme heat. The ad hoc committee, suggested after dozens of workers and advocates came to highlight the issue during a previous board meeting, has already ignited a firestorm debate with workers pushing for a $26 minimum wage while farmers and business groups warn the county that a higher minimum wage would come with dire unintended consequences.

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Grower-Shipper Association President Claire Wineman said during public comment that the formation of an ad hoc committee would be equal to the county “providing implicit endorsement” of an unsustainable minimum wage and suggested the idea be “rejected outright.” Supervisor Bob Nelson made similar comments, saying that the committee would “send a signal that there is policy movement toward a living wage,” and that, if a committee should

Toni Navarro, director of the county’s department of Behavioral Wellness, confirmed that plans are underway to submit funding plans to build a bigger, brand-new Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF) to the state the second week in December. If the plans are approved, the county’s PHF where people deemed a sufficient risk to themselves or others can be placed on involuntary holds will increase in size from 16 beds to 24.

However ephemeral that sounds, it is historic. The shortage of PHF beds has been the subject of grand jury reports dating back more than 30 years. Santa Barbara is the only county in all of California’s 58 in which law enforcement agencies do not write 5150 holds for those who pose a risk to themselves or others because of its acute shortage of acute-care treatment beds. The existing PHF is sufficiently small that only two additional beds could be added.

Making this possible, according to Navarro, is the $1 billion in mental health funds made available from Proposition 1, narrowly approved last November by state

be formed at all, the discussion should be broadened to take away focus from the polarizing “nuclear option” of a $26 minimum wage.

Supervisors Das Williams and Joan Hartmann, who both asked that the item be placed on the agenda for board discussion, were open to widening the scope of the committee, though they were adamant that the county should continue looking into the concerns of farmworkers. Williams agreed to change in the group’s name from the “Living Wage Ad Hoc Committee” to the “Farmworker Conditions Ad Hoc Committee,” with discussions opened to wages, workplace conditions, and employee housing.

The board unanimously approved the motion, with Supervisors Williams and Hartmann to sit on the committee, and Supervisor Nelson to replace Williams after his departure early next year. —Ryan P.Cruz

New Psych Hospital Planned

voters to address the mental-health crisis afflicting many unhoused people. On any given day, Navarro said, up to three Santa Barbara residents are transported to acutecare mental-health hospitals in other counties because of the shortage.

Navarro added that the demand for PHF bed space already pinched could easily increase by more than 50 percent in the next couple of years as the county complies with a new state law Senate Bill 43 requiring local governments to take people on the street with acute addiction issues and place them in involuntary treatment centers. Navarro said the plan is to increase not just capacity but flow for a growing population of people in crisis.

Also to be included in the proposal for state funding will be plans for two residential stepdown facilities for people in crisis getting out of the new and expanded PHF. How much all this will cost, she said, has yet to be worked out. Those details will all be included in the proposal submitted to the state for Prop. 1 revenues no later than December 13.

—Nick Welsh

The county is forming an ad hoc committee to discuss a potential living wage ordinance for farmworkers, among other issues.

EDC Says County Oil Settlement Was Wrong

Sable Still Must Get Approval from California Agencies to Operate Pipeline

by Margaux Lovely

Santa Barbara County acknowledged that it does not have jurisdiction over Sable Offshore’s plans to restart oil production from the Santa Ynez Unit, whose corroded pipelines were the culprit of the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill. In addition to the August 30 agreement, Sable has promised to create Santa Barbara–specific surveillance and response teams and provide first responders with oil-spill-specific training.

“If we continued to fight this out in court, [Sable] likely would have sought to recover lost revenue from the pipeline not being in operation,” said Supervisor Steve Lavagnino. “That could amount to millions of dollars the County would be on the hook for.”

This settlement agreement comes after Sable shifted their plans to construct the required automatic shut-off valves on pipelines underground as opposed to above a change that preempts the county based on a 1988 settlement agreement with the original pipeline builders, Celeron Pipeline Company.

In a September 6 letter to County Planning and Development, Linda Krop with the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) said the county was wrong.

The Celeron Agreement was meant to stop the county from requiring the construction of safety valves on new pipelines in 1988. More specifically, the document outlines the county’s jurisdiction over the construction and operation of interstate pipelines. At the time, Celeron’s Line 901 was classified as such. However, after Line 901 ruptured in the 2015 spill, the pipeline’s classification switched to an intrastate pipeline, and jurisdiction over its restart was passed from federal agencies to the California State Fire Marshal.

Therefore, Krop wrote, the Celeron Agreement simply does not apply.

The county remains firm in its settlement decision. “Whether the pipeline is considered interstate or intrastate, the County does not have permit authority or jurisdiction over the safety valves as currently proposed,” affirmed Kelsey Buttitta, a spokesperson for the county.

Regardless, Krop and supporters are call-

ing on the county to retract their acknowledgment to Sable and hold a public hearing on the matter.

“Too much of this process is happening behind closed doors,” said Brady Bradshaw, a campaigner with the Center for Biological Diversity, during his public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting on September 10.

While the county appears to be out of the picture for now, multiple other agencies have jurisdiction over Sable’s restart plan. However, Buttitta stated that “the County cannot speak to exactly what steps Sable will need to go through to get the pipeline restarted.”

It’s confirmed that the Office of the State Fire Marshal has the final say over a restart, and will require the automatic shut-off valves to be fully operational before giving their stamp of approval. “Time is based on how fast or slow Sable works to complete all of the requirements,” said Chief Jim Hosler, who oversees pipeline safety for the Fire Marshal. When asked what other agencies have jurisdiction in the matter, Hosler deferred the question to Sable.

Further, the California State Lands Commission is currently processing applications to reassign four leases in state waters from ExxonMobil, the previous owner of the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), to Sable. State Lands has no timeline in mind for this decision, said Sheri Pemberton, their spokesperson, but it must be approved before a restart.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife must receive oil spill contingency plans from Sable’s facilities and documents proving they can financially handle a potential oil spill. Sable’s most recent plan was deemed incomplete after it projected the worst-case oil spill to be zero gallons due to the SYU’s current idle state. Fish and Wildlife is requiring Sable to submit an updated contingency plan within the month.

According to Sable’s September 3 SEC filings, it plans to restart the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU) comprising three offshore oil platforms, an onshore processing facility, and the pipelines in between by the fourth quarter of this year.

Sable has not responded to the Independent’s multiple requests for comment. n

County of Santa Barbara County Planning Commission

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

SB 35 Coastal Zone Ordinance Amendment

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Planning Commission Hearing Room 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, the County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding a proposed ordinance amendment to the County Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO). The amendment will revise existing and create new development standards and permit procedures to implement recent changes in State legislation (SB 35 and SB 423) regarding streamlined permit processing for qualifying housing projects in certain areas of the Coastal Zone. The County Planning Commission will consider the following in order to recommend that the Board of Supervisors adopt the proposed amendments:

 Adopt an ordinance (Case No. 24ORD‐00010) amending the Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO), of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code.

 Determine that ordinance (Case No. 24ORD‐00010) is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) and 15265 of the State Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA.

The County Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the County Planning Commission. The staff analysis of the proposal may be viewed at the Planning and Development Department website, located at https://www.countyofsb.org/1625/County‐Planning‐Commission prior to the hearing. For further information about the project, please contact the planner, Lila Spring, at springl@countyofsb.org.

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The following methods of participation are available to the public.

1. You may observe the live stream of the County Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: https://www.countyofsb.org/1333/CSBTV‐Livestream; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20

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The County Planning Commission’s rules on hearings and public comment, unless otherwise directed by the Chair, remain applicable to each of the participation methods listed above.

Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568‐2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

If you challenge the 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 Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

After Line 901 ruptured in the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill, the pipeline’s classification switched from interstate to intrastate, passing jurisdiction over the pipeline from the feds to the state.

Venocov.PlainsBack in S.B. Court

Plains All American Pipeline employees have been ubiquitous on witness stands across the state after Line 901, owned by Plains at the time, ruptured and caused the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill. Now, Plains remains under legal fire in Santa Barbara this time by Venoco Inc., a Delaware-based oil company that owned offshore oil platform Holly, visible from the Santa Barbara beaches, at the time of the spill.

Barbara’s distaste toward oil trucking, and knew the county would not allow Venoco to truck their oil if, by some stroke of misfortune, something happened to the pipeline.

The 2016 suit was initially filed in Santa Barbara County Superior Court but was quickly removed to federal court due to the nature of Davis’s complaints. In a six-year whirlwind of motions to dismiss, appeals, and changing legal precedent, it was ultimately decided that the case be moved back into the hands of a Santa Barbara judge the Honorable Colleen K. Sterne in 2022.

A Santa Barbara jury heard opening statements on August 15 of this year.

Due to Holly’s limited capacity to store oil onboard, Venoco was contracted with Plains to run oil through Line 901 to Venoco’s onshore refinery. After Line 901 ruptured, the oil produced on Platform Holly had nowhere to go. Venoco was forced to stop production from this facility and quickly went bankrupt. In 2024, Platform Holly’s wells were permanently plugged.

Eugene Davis, Venoco’s liquidating trustee, sued Plains for $12.6 million one month after the company’s bankruptcy filing in 2016 for its role in Venoco’s downfall. Davis’s attorneys claim that Plains knowingly put Venoco in the ground by neglecting to properly inspect and maintain the integrity of Line 901 in the years leading up to the spill. Further, they argue that Plains was well aware of Santa

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All the trash generated from Montecito to Buellton ends up at Tajiguas Landfill on the Gaviota Coast, which added an anaerobic digester, composting, and automated recycling at a cost of about $150 million three years ago to create a state-of-the-art dump. Since firing landfill operator Mustang Santa Barbara (MSB) at the end of 2023 over which a lawsuit ensues Santa Barbara County has assumed oversight of the trio. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors approved another $766,000 for Public Works to spend on two of the units at Tajiguas.

The composting unit has been a source of odor complaints since it started, lying upwind of the small community of Arroyo Quemado on the coast. The most recent fix of a Gore covering the heaps eliminated most complaints, said Public Works’ Carlyle Johnston. Now the county was addressing water quality violations by hiring Geosyntec Consultants to design a treatment system for the water running off

Plains’s defense team is relying on a Connection Agreement signed by both companies in 2011, when Venoco built a small pipeline to run the oil produced on Platform Holly to Line 901. The “Shut-In Rights” provision of this agreement states, “Each Party shall have the right to shut-in the Connection at any time a Party deems it appropriate in order to protect persons, property, the common stream, or the environment.” This agreement, Plains claims, rids them of any responsibility to Venoco for the shutdown of Line 901. Further, Plains’ attorneys are arguing that Venoco was dying anyway, and a final gunshot from Plains unintentionally yet opportunistically put them out of their misery. After oil prices started to plunge in 2014, a small company like Venoco wouldn’t have survived much longer regardless, they said.

Plains is being sued for Venoco’s past, present, and future lost earnings and profits. While the original complaint put that figure at $12.6 million in 2016, no amount is specified in the most recent amended complaint. Instead, the complaint states that the amount owed will be proven at trial, which is expected to continue through September.

—Margaux Lovely

the compost heaps when it rains. After that, $4.8 million of the tipping fees earned from trash trucks will go toward an Active Treatment System to retain and clean the runoff, which could be used for dust control or ponded in a sedimentation basin, said Jeanette Gonzales-Knight, a deputy director at Public Works.

The compost is a mix of wood chips, or green waste, and digestate from the anaerobic digester, which takes organic matter like food scraps from the trash and converts them to methane captured and used to produce energy and a smelly sludge full of agricultural nutrients. The digester system was designed and manufactured by Germany-based Eggersmann/Bekon. Public Works requested up to $400,000 over the next two years, as it was likely they’d need new parts Johnston said none were needed immediately and that they could be a long time coming. The preapproved funds would help speed any purchase.

—Jean Yamamura

Police Station, Park Fully Financed

Debt Issuance of $135M to Cover New Police Station and Dwight Murphy Park Renovation

Tby Ryan P. Cruz

his week marked the symbolic finish line for two long-range projects the new downtown police station and Dwight Murphy Park renovation which are now fully financed and can soon begin construction after the city approved a debt issuance of $135 million to cover the costs for both.

Both the Finance Committee and City Council reviewed the deal, which was explained in detail by Finance Director Keith DeMartini during hearings for both boards on Tuesday. The $135 million financing will be paid off with $8 million annually, to come from the city’s voter-approved Measure C tax revenues. This would still leave the city with an “acceptable level of debt” around 3 percent, DeMartini said.

This debt issuance is structured like the 2009 financing of the city’s new airport terminal, with the city essentially leasing the ground under the police station to a financing authority, which then issues bonds to pay for the construction of the new station.

Police Chief Kelly Gordon described how the new, 65,000-square-foot, state-of-theart station with a community meeting room, shooting range, training facilities, fitness center, evidence laboratory, holding cells, and updated staff spaces —will finally bring the station up to par with the department’s new-age policing.

“We are spread throughout multiple buildings, which makes it very difficult for us to effectively deliver services to the community,” Gordon said. “Because that’s what it’s really all about.”

Plans for the $103.7 million station will put everybody under one roof, and could help solve the department’s problems with recruiting and retaining officers.

Together, the police station and park will cost $111 million for construction, with the park scheduled to be finished in March 2026 and the station slated to be unveiled a year later in March 2027. The debt issuance will also include a “capitalized interest assumption” of $15.5 million; a required project reserve fund of $3.9 million; a “market con-

tingency” of $3.4 million; and a debt issuance costs of about a million. All told, the city is taking on a debt not to exceed $135 million.

With the money for both projects coming through Measure C a one-percent sales tax voters approved in 2017 city leaders are considering this as a follow-through of election promises made to the community that the funds, while technically open to the general fund, would be used to update the police station and fund parks projects.

“This action would be making good on the promises of Measure C,” said Councilmember Kristen Sneddon. “It’s a really important message that we make good on the promises of our tax measures.”

Councilmembers praised both projects, but dozens of members of the community poured out their support for the Dwight Murphy Park project, specifically the innovative Gwendolyn Strong Playground, during the public comment period.

The universally accessible playground, which would be the first of its kind in Santa Barbara, came as a result of a collaboration between the city and the community, with the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation raising more than $6.7 million and the city receiving $1.5 million toward the park renovations. In total, the park is expected to cost $27 million.

“This really is a model for positive and productive collaboration,” said Victoria Strong, mother of Gwendolyn Strong and executive director of the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation.

Dwight Murphy Park, formerly the city’s municipal soccer field, was established nearly a hundred years ago, but despite its popularity with sports leagues it has been left largely the same for decades.

The Finance Committee and City Council unanimously approved the debt issuance ordinance, which will take effect on October 17, followed by a competitive sale on October 21, and bond closing on November 4.

“We would then have the funds available to move forward with both projects,” DeMartini said. n

County of Santa Barbara County Planning Commission

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Cannabis Odor Ordinance Amendments

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Planning Commission Hearing Room

123 E. Anapamu Street, Room 17, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On September 25, 2024, the County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing and consider making a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding proposed ordinance amendments to Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO). The amendments will establish a cannabis odor threshold and revise existing development standards for odor abatement and Odor Abatement Plan procedures. The County Planning Commission will consider the following in order to recommend that the Board of Supervisors adopt the proposed amendments:

 A resolution recommending that the Board of Supervisors approve Case No. 24ORD‐00012, an ordinance amending Division 7 General Regulations, and Division 11, Permit Procedures, of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code.

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Renderings of the new S.B. Police Station and Dwight Murphy Park renovation

CREEK WEEK

Chaucer's Books

News-Press Auction Hits Snag

Aspanner entered the works of the Santa Barbara News-Press bankruptcy hearing when Judge Ronald A. Clifford expressed consternation about the auctioning of the paper’s assets. Liquidation of the 150-year-old newspaper’s assets is proceeding piecemeal: The online website — which spans the last quarter-century — sold for $285,000 in April. On September 24 will come the sale of the physical archive, and the auction of everything that isn’t nailed down will happen by October 27.

What perturbed Judge Clifford was an opposition filed by attorney William Beall on behalf of NP 2024 LLC, which had bought the online website, trademark, and copyright. The legal filing asserted that anything in the upcoming auction that contained something like a computer hard drive holding materials that went online — photographs perhaps — the right to that material belonged to his clients, a group of “local kids” fronted by Ben Romo.

How will anyone know what they are buying? the judge demanded. What was in

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the online pot and what was in the tangible goods pot?

The attorney representing the bankruptcy trustee jumped in, assuring the judge that he and Beall have been negotiating this issue with the auctioneer. Eric Israel of Danning Gill law firm said the auctioneer planned to wipe any digital media before putting it up for sale, thereby preserving NP 2024’s trademark acquisition.

Judge Clifford was not pleased. “Those records represent a fairly important historical record of this community’s life,” he said. What if the auctioneer wiped that?

Israel and Beall stated Romo’s group intended to examine all digital media stored at the old building on De la Guerra Plaza and at the Goleta printing press plant before any wiping occurred, with a purchase in mind. Romo later said their interest was to preserve the newspaper’s entire archive, and that they were happy to pledge to help the Santa Barbara Historical Museum achieve the physical archive of bound books, clippings, and microfiche.

“The Historical Museum already has such knowledge, and they have the capacity,” Romo said, adding that he would not divulge either his client or the amount they’d pledged.

Dacia Harwood, who leads the museum, cheerfully verified these claims, but was careful to emphasize that the deal was not yet done: “There are no guarantees,” she clarified. Currently, the museum might buy the physical archive for $70,000. But bids in $1,000 increments will be accepted on September 24.

—Jean Yamamura

Housing Trust Getting Close for State’s Matching Funds

On Tuesday, Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously to authorize an application from the city’s local housing trust fund for matched funding from the state. If successful, the match would double the trust’s existing $2.9 million and help finance affordable housing developments on Hope Avenue and Carrillo Street. Currently, the projects are slated for completion in 2027 and 2030, respectively.

Laura Dubbels, the city’s Housing and Human Services manager, told the council that together the housing projects would provide more than 100 new affordable housing units for people who make 60 percent or less of the area’s median income.

“Over half of the units proposed will be restricted even further to extremely low income,” she said, adding that “each of these projects will [also] set aside units for special needs housing, a critically underserved population.”

The match money comes from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. The money is meant for local and regional housing trusts to help communities build and preserve affordable housing, transition housing, and emergency shelters. In July, the department announced it would offer $53 million to local housing trusts around the state who apply.

Dubbels said that 15 percent of that $53 million is reserved for new local housing trusts. Santa Barbara established its housing trust in January.

The Hope Avenue and Carrillo Street developments will use all money in the trust if the trust’s application is accepted. Councilmember Kristen Sneddon said that while she was excited to authorize this application, that the council also needed to consider how to find a permanent funding source for the trust. The state’s awards will be announced this December.

—Christina McDermott

The News-Press’ physical archive will come up for sale on September 24.

Six Deaths in Custody: What Can Be Done?

Once again, the Santa Barbara County supervisors found themselves collectively squinting to figure out how to improve health care in the county jail, this time with the focus on the six inmate deaths that occurred there between December 2022 and December 2023.

A recent grand jury report on inmate deaths points to insufficient observation, communication failures, and ongoing staffing shortages as major problems in county jail.

Of the six, five died within three days of being booked. Two were overdoses. Two were suicides, one by an inmate who had repeatedly threatened to kill himself yet somehow managed to throw himself off a second-story railing to the ground below.

The grand jury concluded most deaths took place because of insufficient observation, a failure to communicate in a timely or effective manner, and ongoing staffing shortages both among custodial staff and the private health-care contract workers. To many of the grand jury findings, the sheriff’s response was that protocols had been in place at the time of the deaths but had not been followed by health-care workers with Wellpath, the private company with whom the sheriff contracts out such care.

The county supervisors also heard how many of the solutions proposed by the grand jury were either already being implemented or would be soon. The supervisors, for example, had authorized the hiring of 16 additional Wellpath workers earlier this year. They’d also eliminated the long waiting list for inmates seeking methadone treatment for opiate addiction.

Two weeks ago, the supervisors raked Wellpath over the coals for failing to provide the number of medical staff called for in the contract. The county reportedly paid about half a million dollars for health-care staffing it did not receive; the sheriff was called on the carpet for poor contract oversight. In response, the supervisors called on the Public Health Department to assign one senior-level medical professional and one registered nurse to the county jail to monitor the quality of health care provided and provide greater oversight. To date, the super-

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Newly drafted legislation aims to address the exorbitant gas costs that plague California. Introduced by Democratic assemblymembers Gregg Hart and Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, the bill proposes stricter regulations on oil refineries. Specifically, the bill hopes to stabilize California’s oil supply by requiring that refineries maintain adequate reserves to account for any interruptions or unplanned shutdowns. This legislation is seemingly part of a larger project that is being undertaken by multiple California legislators to mitigate soaring gasoline costs and target Big Oil head-on. On 8/31, Governor Gavin Newsom called a special session to discuss a package of substantial energy bills that were not passed during the regular session. Hart and Aguiar-Curry’s bill was presented during this special session on 9/3.

visors heard, those positions have yet to be filled, though the RN position is slated to be filled September 30 and the medical director sometime later this fall.

One longtime mental-health advocate noted that many of the inmates who died might still be alive had they been diverted to other treatment options like the ER prior to booking. One of the decedents died of complications arising from alcohol withdrawal. He’d complained of pains in his chest. Failure to pass on information gleaned by arresting officers to the nurses on jail intake contributed as well; naturally staffing shortages exacerbated all of this.

Supervisor Joan Hartmann especially wanted to know why more use was not being made of the eight new lockdown beds now offered by the nearby Crisis Stabilization Unit or the equally nearby Sobering Center. She was told a judge would first have to sign off on any such releases from the county jail. Even so, she wanted to get a fresh report on the utilization of the facilities still relatively new within four months.

Mostly the supervisors heard how much collaboration was now taking place between all the many government agencies and Wellpath, as well that make up the criminal justice system.

Supervisor Das Williams pointedly noted that Wellpath’s most recent annual report was a year late. A lot of problems could happen in a year, he added.

County of Santa Barbara County Planning Commission

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Outdoor Lighting, Signs, and Miscellaneous Ordinance Amendments

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Planning Commission Hearing Room 123 E. Anapamu Street, Room 17, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M.

On September 25, 2024, the County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider the Outdoor Lighting, Signs, and Miscellaneous Ordinance Amendments and Comprehensive Plan Amendments. The County Planning Commission will consider making recommendations to the Board of Supervisors regarding the following proposed ordinance and Comprehensive Plan amendments:

Case No. 24ORD‐00001, an ordinance amending the County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC) of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code, in compliance with Chapter 35.104, and Case No. 24ORD‐00003, an ordinance amending the Article II Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO), of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code, in compliance with Section 35‐180, to implement new regulations and update requirements for outdoor lighting, signs, and sign structures, and to make other miscellaneous updates to the code to update and clarify existing development standards related to accessory structures and setbacks, pool cabañas, exemption noticing and short‐term rental enforcement.

Case No. 24GPA‐00001, amendments to the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan, Los Alamos Community Plan, and Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan of the County Land Use Element, and Case No. 24GPA‐00002, an amendment to the Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan of the Coastal Land Use Plan, for consistency with the outdoor lighting ordinance amendments.

In addition to the ordinance and Comprehensive Plan amendments, the County Planning Commission will consider and make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding minor changes to the Old Town Orcutt Design Guidelines and Los Alamos Bell Street Design Guidelines for consistency with the Outdoor Lighting, Signs, and Miscellaneous Ordinance Amendments.

The County Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the County Planning Commission. To review the staff report, ordinances, and other related documents, please visit the Planning and Development Department website: https://www.countyofsb.org/1625/County ‐Planning‐Commission. For further information about the project, please contact the planner, Ben Singer, at bsinger@countyofsb.org or (805) 934‐6587.

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ELECTION 2024

—Nick Welsh

The grand jury report was accepted, but not before multiple supervisors praised the work and its ongoing sustained focus on the county jail.

As rental prices continue to rise across the state, the contentious debate over “rent control” ramps up for California residents and policymakers ahead of the 2024 General Election on 11/5. Here in Santa Barbara, the topic has factored heavily in the city council races; and at the state level, voters will have a chance to decide on Proposition 33, which would grant cities the ability to pass even stronger rent caps. Prop. 33 would “expand local governments’ authority to enact rent control on residential property” by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Act, a 1995 law that protects landlords’ ability to raise their rents to market rates when new tenants move in to single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. If Prop. 33 passes in November, cities would be able to expand local ordinances to limit rent hikes on all units, including those previously covered by Costa-Hawkins. Read more at independent.com/election-2024. n

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Goleta Sued over Builder’s Remedy Project on Shelby Property

Couvillion Family Proposes 56 Single-Family Residences on Ag Land Next to Glen Annie Golf Course

by Jean Yamamura

After Glynne Couvillion bought some run-down orchards at 7400 Cathedral Oaks Road, he took to calling it “Resurrection Ranch.” He hoped to grow thriving groves of avocados and persisted through three separate plantings, all of which developed root rot. So Couvillion reconsidered growing homes. After all, the land was zoned residential when he bought it in 1978.

Although a drought and a water moratorium put the housing project on pause, he did receive a vested tract map for the land, now known as the Shelby property. About the time that abundant rains presaged an end to the water moratorium, California began to crack down on its umbrella of rules called the Housing Element. Any jurisdiction that failed to file the swarm of legislation and documents on time was vulnerable to the builder’s remedy, including the City of Goleta in 2023.

Seizing the moment, Couvillion, who is today a 91-yearold retired eye surgeon, and his project team filed a builder’s remedy application for 56 single-family homes, of which 13 would be deed-restricted, lower-income homes. The City of Goleta rejected the application, however. Despite the talks between the parties that year, since this January the issue has been at Santa Barbara Superior Court, where Judge Thomas Anderle will have the pleasure of untangling the complex issues surrounding the Housing Accountability Act and the builder’s remedy in this case.

A Complicated History

Shaped like a stubby thumbs-up, the 12-acre Shelby property juts northward along the City of Goleta’s western boundaries, across the street from Dos Pueblos High School and bordered on three sides by Santa Barbara County. Owned by the Couvillion family for the past 45 years, the land that was once part of WW Hollister’s fabled Glen Annie Ranch has a complicated zoning history Santa Barbara County–zoned residential since the 1950s and rezoned agricultural during the water and development wars of the ’70s and ’80s when the county population nearly doubled.

Glen Annie Golf Club moved in next door in 1994, and Cathedral Oaks Road was completed in 1997 across a Shelby easement. The City of Goleta formed in 2002, the Goodland Coalition was born in 2011, and five back-to-back years of drought started in 2012.

What also occurred during 2012, aside from the reelection of Barack Obama in November, was the passage of Measure G by 71 percent of Goleta voters. Backed by the conservationminded nonprofit the Goodland Coalition, Measure G set out to preserve Bishop Ranch the big carpet of green just above the Glen Annie/Storke Road highway exit and mandated that any proposed subdivision of ag lands larger than 10 acres must go to a vote of the people.

As they say, timing is everything.

The Couvillions received the vested tract map in 2011, before Measure G passed. While Shelby avoided the ballot, it would still need City Council’s approval to rezone from agriculture to residential. When Santa Barbara County considered doing just that for Glen Annie Golf Club, the current Goleta council was seriously opposed. The county stuck in the same hard place as the city over the state-mandated Housing Element, which compels more zoning for homes changed the zoning of the golf course from agriculture to residential in April 2024.

What was likely a year of anxiety for the city was a ray of sunlight for the Couvillions. During much of 2023, Goleta’s Housing Element was between adoption and rezoning as it attempted certification by the state. The boon for the Couvillions is the provision of builder’s remedy that erases the need to rezone to residential zoning.

Builder’s Remedy: Headache or Heaven-Sent?

For citizens interested in very careful, i.e., painfully slow, planning procedures, the builders remedy was a wallop upside the head.

Though enacted 30 years ago, it became a contender in 2022 when Santa Monica found itself in protracted Housing Element arguments and missed the certification deadline, as did most Southern California jurisdictions. Developers swooped in, claiming the right to build 15-story apartment buildings regardless of Santa Monica’s planning rules but with the required 20 percent affordable units (or 100 percent moderate-income homes).

Those threatened skyscrapers turned out to be bargaining chips in the developers’ fights with the city, but since then, builders remedy projects have snaked through planning departments in desirable areas, landing in the courts for interpretation of the vague statutes.

The tract map for the Shelby property laid out 60 singlefamily homes. The Couvillions’ attorney, Beth Collins of Brownstein Hyatt, showed the Independent the property last week. Because of El Encanto Creek on the west side, she explained, four of the mapped homes were removed to honor the city’s new creek setbacks.

Most of the homes are small, about 1,850 square feet. Exactly how the 13 deed-restricted, lower-income homes will be included has yet to be worked out, Collins said, but they might be a mix of single-family homes and accessory dwelling units, a k a granny flats.

Having leapt the low-income requirement of builder’s remedy with room to spare, the Couvillions’ application asked the city to retain their right to build housing outside of Measure G’s vote requirement. They also invoked Senate Bill 330 (SB 330), a provision of the Housing Accountability Act, that requires, among other things, the city to process the completed preliminary application submitted on November 28, 2023, hold no more than five public hearings, and adhere to the rules in place at that time.

The Couvillions had actually submitted the application twice, once in March and once in November. According to a letter from City Attorney Megan Garibaldi, Goleta could not accept the Shelby application because the Couvillions wanted to retain their vested map of 2011. They could not use a vested right of 2011 and also use the builder’s remedy for events of 2023. It was one or the other, Garibaldi wrote, but the city was willing to talk it over.

Those talks left both sides far apart. Dr. Couvillion stated, “This past year we have worked earnestly with the city to seek cooperation to use this property for higher density, to help

Goleta build much needed workforce housing. Regrettably, we have not been successful, all the while incompatible densities are being proposed next to older single-family neighborhoods citywide.”

Because the matter is in litigation, city planning chief Peter Imhof said they could not discuss the project. According to the legal pleadings, talks went on all year. At the 11th hour, a week before the council would meet to adopt the Housing Element, the project team submitted their SB 330 application a second time. They got the same result.

Time Will Tell

Other timing issues may come up in Anderle’s court: The largest might be whether Measure G applies to an SB 330 application filed in 2023 or if the vested tract map in 2011 prevails. Another novel conundrum was raised by the city attorney of whether builder’s remedy arises upon project approval or project application, stating that the city believed it was upon approval.

Then there’s the golf course zoning. Glen Annie Golf Course surrounds much of Shelby on three sides, creating a “resource preservation” zone, the city claimed, which protected Shelby from being used for housing, according to one provision of the Housing Accountability Act. However, five months after the Couvillion application was submitted, the county switched the golf course zoning to residential.

And will Shelby benefit from the plentiful rains that triggered in January the lifting of Goleta Water District’s moratorium on new hook-ups? As much as 150 acre-feet of new water is available per year as long as there’s no drought, Bob Wignot pointed out. Wignot helped create the Goodland Coalition, promulgator of Measure G.

“It doesn’t make sense to say ‘build now, cut back later’ when we know there will be another drought,” Wignot said. “How does that work?”

Wignot thought Measure G should be observed and that the project should go to Goleta voters. He noted the need for affordable and workforce housing, not the market-rate housing the majority of Shelby will become. And he asked how the traffic issues at Glen Annie and Cathedral Oaks during rush hour for residents and Dos Pueblos High School will be resolved.

These same traffic and water issues will come home to roost for the

Jim Youngson, a consultant on the Shelby project, points eastward where Glen Annie Golf Club lies. With him is attorney Beth Collins, with the tree line along El Encanto Creek behind them.

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developers, nonprofits, and school district hoping to build hundreds of homes atop 100 acres of Glen Annie Golf Club, which remains in the County of Santa Barbara. However, litigation has begun with its neighbor to the north, Glen Annie Organics, which argues that residences mean herbicides and fertilizers, not to mention roaming pets and their “potential bacterial and fecal coliform contamination” of organic fields.

Recently added to the chorus of opponents is a petition organized by Keep Goleta the Good Land at ThePetitionSite.

com. “Tell the politicians and the developers to leave Glen Annie Golf Course the way it is!” petitioner Tom Modugno wrote. It’s gathered 728 signers of its 1,000-supporters goal.

According to Collins, it all comes down to housing. The single-family homes and lower-income homes the Couvillions propose will be a benefit for Goleta, which lacks new homes for sale.

“So many of my colleagues commute from Ventura or Lompoc,” she said. “We really need housing, especially affordable housing.” n

SCHAPANSKY CONT’D FROM P. 7

According to the claim, a 13-year-old female who attended the school from 2016-2023 and her family have suffered “serious and irreparable harm and injury” due to Schapansky’s misconduct.

However, the school district has clarified that the charter school operates independently of the district and is a “separate legal entity” with its own Board of Directors and administrative and teaching staff. Under California law, SBUSD is not responsible for the school’s operations or anything that may occur on its grounds.

To add to the litigation against Schapansky, on July 24, Ximena Cristina Cullen, the director of operations at Santa Barbara Charter School, filed a petition for a workplace violence restraining order against Schapansky. She also requested a temporary restraining order, with the charter school listed as a protected party, according to court records.

In the petition to the court, Cullen wrote that Schapansky filmed staff and students without their knowledge and that he had caused emotional harm. The hearing for the restraining orders is scheduled for later in September.

In a recent statement, the charter school said, “Our hearts are with our entire Santa Barbara and Goleta community as we navigate this unimaginable situation.”

“SBCS is fully cooperating with law enforcement, and strongly encourages any SBCS community member with material information to report such information to law enforcement immediately,” it said. “Santa Barbara Charter School offers referrals to community resources for any of the students, staff, and family members who might need support at this time.”

This week’s announcement of the charges against Schapansky is the most recent update in the DA’s and Sheriff’s Office’s ongoing investigation of the secret recordings.

Identities of the underage victims are being withheld to protect their privacy, and “the Sheriff’s Office is working to identify all the victims and communicate with the families,” according to Deputy District Attorney Lauren Franco. Because the case is still open, she said, that is all the information that can be provided at this time.

Schapansky is scheduled to appear in Department 8 of the Santa Barbara Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. on September 13. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s detectives Brett White and Gregory Plett are leading the investigation. Victims may contact the District Attorney’s Victim-Witness Assistance Program at (805) 568-2400 or toll-free at (855) 840-3232. n

The vested tract map of 2011 indicates a half-dozen larger homes on the hill and about 50 smaller homes below, but the project is in litigation with the City of Goleta over the application of builder’s remedy.

It’s About Time

When our younger daughter was a sophomore at San Marcos High School nine years ago, I asked (almost begged) then-principal Behrens to make a school-wide policy abolishing cell phones from the classroom. Our nephew, also a sophomore but at Camas High School in Washington, was not allowed to have his cell phone in class, so we knew a cell-phone-free high school classroom was possible. I, however, was told that it wasn’t possible at San Marcos some teachers used the phone as a learning tool, parents would get upset if they couldn’t reach their children immediately, and I don’t remember what other excuses were given.

It’s still hard for me to believe that it’s taken this long for S.B. Unified School District to adopt a policy that prioritizes learning, focus, and a connection with the three-dimensional human beings inside the classroom over cell phone distractions.

I’m glad, but I’m also sad for the several cohorts of high school students whose learning was sabotaged, including my daughter’s.

—Carol Millar, S.B.

Climate Action Rethink

With the county’s adoption of the Climate Action Plan (CAP), I look forward to 3,000 new trees for canopy during heat waves. I am also curious to see what county staff recommends to put the brakes on new oil and gas exploration. Let’s also rip out page six, which celebrates collaborative aerospace expansion: private jets, surveillance satellites, bombs, and billionaire space tourism.

Talk about climate destroyers!

A private jet can emit two tons of carbon dioxide in an hour equivalent to a few months of the average person’s emissions. Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rockets that launch surveillance satellites at Vandenberg are fueled by kerosene and burn propellant that can destroy the ozone layer. Billionaire blastoffs, $450,000 for a four-minute spit into space, emit black carbon into the stratosphere.

REACH argues commercialization of space will uplift coast residents who live paycheck to paycheck to barely make rent. Nonsense.

Private jet trips and billionaire rocket rides will benefit the one percent, the ownership class, those who will buy up real estate to drive up housing costs. Expansion of aerospace will rely on out-of-town professionals or intellectual labor at UCSB, where graduate engineering students are signing pledges never to work for weapons contractors.

Yes, county supervisors should fund climate relief, but not climate pollution. No taxpayer dollars for the merchants of war, the rapacious rich, or the privatizers of space.

Coalition in S.B.

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Maybe you missed the humor on page seven last week. In the CAP 2030 article, a climate change alarmist decreed, “July was California’s hottest month on record.” Printed adjacent was a Refugio Fire quote that firefighting was “assisted by the lowest August temperatures in 34 years.” Brilliant how nature works.

I have to agree with Supervisor Steve Lavagnino about climate change rhetoric. The 2015 goal went upside-down, and 2030 goals will probably fail as well. Meanwhile, county officials want our pollution to be transferred to other locations across the planet. Electric cars are proving to be the most toxic inventions in history. Between accelerated tire wear, fossil fuels required to mine the components, heavy metal toxicity, and landfilling old batteries, you can’t have a much worse environmental result.

Luckily, the climate change hysteria prevents our representatives from having to worry about really important issues.

—Robert Parham, Carpinteria

Don’t Get Rattled

Yesterday, I was hiking in the hills above San Roque when I heard, for the first time in my life, the unmistakable rattle of a rattlesnake! It was alarming but beautiful, and quite a loud, tumbling, silvery noise. I stopped, of course, and saw about 25 feet up the trail, right where I would have walked, a very thick rattlesnake! It kept on for about 20 seconds, then the rattling stopped. The snake didn’t move, so I decided to go back the way I came.

The wonderful thing is that the system works! The snake offered a clear and timely warning, which I heard and heeded, and I didn’t get hurt. A lesson for my fellow hikers is don’t wear earbuds while hiking. What you hear instead could save your life!

—Maggie Silverstein, S.B.

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—Marcy Winograd, Co-chair, Central Coast Antiwar

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Roberto Vega 7/10/1931 - 9/4/2024

Roberto Vega, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend, passed away at the age of 93 on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024, at his home in Santa Barbara, California, surrounded by his loving family.

Born in Michoacán, Mexico, Roberto came to the United States as a young man with the determination to support his younger siblings. His journey led him across California, where he worked as a farmhand before finding a long-term role with the Santa Barbara Housing Authority. For more than 30 years, Roberto was a dedicated painter, known for his remarkable work ethic and attention to detail. His commitment to hard work was a guiding principle he instilled in his children, often encouraging them with the words “échale ganas,” meaning “give it your all.”

Roberto was also known for his generous spirit, his enjoyment of gatherings with friends and compadres, and his passion for watching soccer. His generous nature and tough love shaped the lives of his family, who will forever remember him with gratitude and affection. He is survived by his beloved wife, Otilia Vega, and children: Lydia Quiroga, Fili (Phil) Vega, Jesus Fernando Vega, Alfredo (Fred) Vega, and Jose Luis (Joey) Vega. His legacy continues through his grandchildren: Olivia Quiroga, Elena Quiroga, Alicia Quiroga, Alyssa Vega, Sianna Vega, Isabella Vega, Santiago Vega, and Paloma Vega, as well as his great-grandchildren, Oscar, Preston, Amelia, and Ezekiel. He is also survive d by his faithful cat, Flavio.

Roberto was preceded in death by his beloved son, Roberto (Bobby) Vega. Roberto’s life was a testament to perseverance, love, and generosity. His memory will be cherished by all who had the honor of knowing him. A memorial service to celebrate Roberto’s life will be held at Our Lady of Guadalupe at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 11.

3/31/1958 - 8/11/2024

It is with sadness that we mourn the loss of Ann Kale who lost her battle with cancer on August 11th. She was surrounded by friends and family to the last and will be forever in their hearts and minds.

Ann, born in Los Angeles, graduated from Cal State San Diego and afterwards accepted an internship in New York City with a preeminent architectural lighting design firm, beginning a career that would span nearly 40 years. She founded Ann Kale Associates in 1987 and became an award winning, nationally recognized architectural lighting designer, ultimately with hundreds of projects to her credit. Ann was a true force of nature, blazing a path in a profession that, at the time, was largely dominated by men. She was a mentor to many and taught lighting design at the Parsons School of Design.

Ann and her architect husband, B ob Kupiec AIA, married in 1990 and lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn. They welcomed their daughter, Julia, in 1997. Ann always

planned to return to California and in 2003 made sure Santa Barbara was the place her family landed. Throughout her daughter’s childhood, Ann was active in local school affairs and reveled in orchestrating the “Books for Bedtime” series of musical theater performances at Montecito Union School, a program very popular with the students as well as their parents. As Julia moved on to Santa Barbara Junior High Ann took on the role of PTA President, continuing her commitment to Public Education.

Ann was great fun to be around. She was a wonderful storyteller and took great pleasure in “growing up with Julia” in the era of Harry Potter, relaying the tales during long drives to their country home in the Berkshires. A dinner in Ann’s home often consisted of her, Bob and Julia playacting accents and characters for the fun of it… well into Julia’s adulthood. Ann was very pleased that Julia inherited her talents as an artist. They often painted together and have left behind some wonderful canvases that will be cherished. She loved gathering around the fireplace with friends and truly reveled in a spirited game of Hearts…. it’s certain that she is shooting-the-moon somewhere.

Ann Kale Associates continued to thrive in Santa Barbara and have made significant contributions to our community. Over the last 20 years, Ann’s expertise and commitment to design excellence has brightened many of Santa Barbara’s landmark buildings including the Lobero Theater, Cabrillo Arts Center, the MOXI Children’s Museum, the Music Academy of the West, the Carrillo Recreation Center, Paseo Nuevo and the Hotel Californian to name just a few. Ann’s spirit will continue to shine through the spaces she touched, the people she mentored, and the standards of excellence she set.

Ann is survived by her husband and daughter, her sister Denise, brother Paul, and beloved nieces and nephews, Christopher,

Nicole, Curtis, Olivia, Alison, Greta and Sean. There will be a memorial service on September 17th at 2:30 in the Mural Room of the Santa Barbara Courthouse.….one of her favorite projects. Following the Memorial there will be a Celebration of Life gathering at the Kale-Kupiec home in Montecito.

Ellen Elizabeth Clark-Williams 12/2/1942 - 8/1/2024

Ellen Elizabeth ClarkWilliams peacefully passed away on the early morning of August 1, 2024. She left us at the age of 81. Ellen was an extraordinary woman with a hunger for knowledge, travel, and camaraderie. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from the University of the Pacific, with a major in fine arts, Ellen spent 15 years working as a graphic artist. She ran her own design studio in Los Angeles for eight years, And later received a masters degree in art therapy from Loyola Marymount University. In 1989 she was awarded a PhD. As a photo journalist, Ellen successfully traveled around the world. She was an accomplished travel writer and photographer. As a long-time member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), she won numerous awards for her photography, including being honored twice as SATW Travel Photographer of the Year. She never stopped moving and that was her will, her motto, and her testament to life.…… She was passionate about many things. She had a wonderful marriage to Geoffrey Williams who passed away in 2006. Ellen is survived by her step-son Douglas Williams, his wife Amy and grand children Amanda, and Spencer. She also leaves behind her brother Tad Clark, sister-in-

law Kira, and niece Victoria (Tory), her sister-in-law Barbara Eales, brother-inlaw Brian Williams. She was loved dearly and will be missed. The outpouring of support from different people and places is heartwarming. Ellen touched so many lives and has many fans that mourn her loss. Anyone that knew Ellen enjoyed her shared stories from childhood days in Pasadena, and Montecito, California. Growing up in a prominent family of artists, painters, and architects, Ellen definitely got the creative gene. She was always helping others, and got behind causes dear to her from the endangered tree frogs at the Miramar hotel, to supporting the Santa Barbara Zoo. Ellen’s travels all around the world showed us a unique view from behind her lens as she enlightened us with her inner vision. She loved tennis, and more recently took on paddle tennis (not pickle ball), as she adamantly would have told you, “Pickle ball sucks!” Ellen was always up for a fun-filled outing with good food, family, and friends, and all events were commemorated with a toast of white wine. Do not forget the big cup of ice on the side! Her “bar flies” were also such an integral part of Ellen’s social scene and we all feel honored to have been “family” to Ellen. She lived each day to the fullest and all were lucky to share in Ellen’s colorful world. Her travels, her photos, and her dreams will live on in all of us. True to form Ellen humorously engraved on her tomb stone, right next to her sister Deborah, “Still traveling!” Ellen ClarkWilliams has traveled home to be reunited with her loved ones who have passed before her. Ellen’s memory is our keepsake from which we’ll never part we treasure and hold her deeply within each and every heart. Cheers to Ellen…travel in peace.

A graveside service will be held on Friday, September 20th, 10 o’clock in the morning at Santa Barbara Cemetery Association. 901 Channel Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

Ann Kale

Pravrajika Deviprana

A Life of Grace and Surrender

BY THE SARADA CONVENT OF SANTA BARBARA

It is with great sadness that we share that our beloved Pravrajika Deviprana (Robin Carolyn Small) passed in the wee hours of August 1, from complications of multiple sclerosis (MS), which she endured for 20 years. We are sad because we will miss her quiet radiance but glad that she is finally free from the body that gave her so much grief the past two decades.

Deviprana was born in Altadena, California, in 1951. Her father, John, after graduating from Cal Tech, worked at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and her mother, Marguerite, worked at See’s Candies. Throughout her childhood, Deviprana was extremely active, often trekking with her older brother Steven in the surrounding San Gabriel mountains.

The joyfulness of her early teen years was shattered by the death of her mother to cancer when she was 14, an event that dramatically altered her life. In 1969 she went to Whittier College, where she received her BA in Political Science and a teaching credential.

In 1975, Deviprana came to Santa Barbara to attend the wedding of close friends and fell in love with the city by the sea. She found a job she loved, teaching at the Franklin Day preschool for several years; at the same time, she worked as a nanny for five children. Her former Franklin Day pupils would visit her throughout her life.

Always interested in Eastern philosophy, Deviprana began taking yoga classes in the early 1970s from a woman who had belonged to the Vedanta Society in Chicago. Not long after, Deviprana discovered the Vedanta Temple and the Sarada Convent of the Ramakrishna Order in the hills of Montecito. She immediately felt a clarion call to a new life and mission one leading to a near half-century of service, work, and worship.

When she told her coworkers she was joining a convent on April 1, 1976, they were certain it was an April Fool’s prank. She remained a nun without regrets until her last breath.

Deviprana spoke often of her great fortune to be initiated by Swami Aseshananda, a disciple of Sri Sarada Devi, the wife and first disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. In much of India and among devotees around the world, Ramakrishna (1836-1886) is regarded as a spiritual avatar in the same pantheon as Buddha, Jesus, Moses, and Krishna. It was Ramakrishna’s foremost disciple, the celebrated Vivekananda, who first introduced meditation, and yoga, to the West in the 1890s.

Deviprana received her preliminary vows (brahmacharya) from Aseshananda in 1983 and her final

vows of renunciation (sannyasa) in 1988. She visited him every year in Portland until his passing in 1996. Like her guru, Deviprana loved performing puja or ritualistic worship, which she did as long as humanly possible and beyond, resulting in several falls trying to do what she loved most in life. Even when she could no longer stand up on her own and had lost the use of her right hand, she continued worship in the convent’s small shrine. Like Aseshananda, who was also disabled, she was an avid gardener who conversed with the plants, encouraging them with endearments.

Deviprana was an unusually kind person, one who remained cheerful even during the most challenging circumstances. She had a terrific sense of humor, was an excellent mimic, and would sometimes laugh so intensely that she would weep. “She was the real deal,” said a Santa Barbara Vedantist, who recalled Deviprana’s earliest days at the temple. “She lived it.”

For many, there was much heartbreak that it would be Deviprana the strongest, the most active nun of her order who was struck by MS. And while MS slowly chipped at her strength and capabilities, not once did anyone hear a complaint. Ever. When asked why she had to endure so much, she replied, without a trace of self-pity, “Mother [Sri Sarada Devi] wants to teach me complete surrender.” A state of surrender for Deviprana was a gift from the divine.

Deviprana’s memorial was held at the Vedanta Temple in Santa Barbara on Saturday, August 17. In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to the Vedanta Society of Southern California. n

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Pravrajika Deviprana was born Robin Carolyn Small and was given her new name upon entering the Ramakrishna Order.

obituaries

Deanna Alisa Vazquez

6/2/1978 - 9/6/1998

FOREVER YOUNG AND FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS MOM & DAD

Josephine Manriquez Villegas

3/25/1920 - 8/30/2024

Josephine Manriquez Villegas was born on March 25, 1920 in Carpinteria, California. Josephine entered eternal rest on August 30th, 2024 at her residence surrounded by her loving family.

Her parents were Jovita Perez Manriquez and Margarito Amado Manriquez. She was their third child born after sisters Catherine and Delfina and before her brother Daniel.

She attended the then segregated Aliso School, designated as an “Indian” school, where Carpinteria’s Mexican American children were all sent, regardless of where in the area they lived. Due to the efforts of parents and legal advocates the campus was later desegregated but not during her tenure. This story was documented in a 2022 film featuring Josephine and her son Tony, among others. The film was shown locally and during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This historic episode is also memorialized in a mural at the current Aliso Elementary School.

As a child, she joined her grandfather picking walnuts. Her first paying job was at the Carpinteria Lemon Packing House. She

packed and sorted lemons for 37 years. She then worked as a supervisor at Josten’s (known for manufacturing class rings) for over 25 years till she retired. Josephine was a woman of many skills and talents. In fact her primary talent has been to embrace learning new skills and to teach them to others. Most importantly she is fearless in her efforts and desire to acquire new skills. Josephine was never intimidated or put off by her father Margarito’s cantankerous teaching style. She was one of the few of his children that her father taught to drive. She had a commendable ability as a seamstress, to produce quality clothing that would have been too expensive for the family to buy in local stores. She was also known and appreciated as an expert hair stylist for her family and friends. Josephine also patiently trained the family dog “Bubbles” to stay and speak. She also trained the family’s parakeet to speak a few words. Josephine was also an excellent cook. Although she can cook any dish, her specialties were turkey stuffing, cranberry jello, and carrot cake with delicious cream cheese frosting.

She was also a music lover who loved to sing and dance. She had a beautiful singing voice and she and her cousin Carmen Perkins often performed together at family gatherings. Her favorite musicians were Pedro Infante, Lola Beltran, and many of the popular singers of the day. She was also tolerant of the era’s music stars her children (Tony and her daughters Margaret and Sylvia) liked, such as the Everly Brothers. She had a large collection of classic 78 rpm records that she enjoyed playing. She was an avid Dodger baseball fan and enjoyed playing baseball in her younger days as a student at Aliso Elementary School. Her caregivers are at her side: son, Tony Villegas, granddaughter Rachael Villegas, grandson Richard Villegas and Tony’s wife Aleyda Villegas.She is survived by her son Tony, his

wife Aleyda, and her grandchildren Michael, Rachael, Richard, David, Robert, Fred Jr., Fred III; Jessica, Anthony, Raymond Jr., Renee and Anna Maria; 17 great grandchildren and 19 Great, great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughters Margaret and Sylvia and granddaughter Linda.

Services will include a Rosary on Wednesday, 09/11/2024 at 7:30 pm at St Joseph Chapel on 7th Street, and the funeral mass which will be celebrated on Thursday, 09/12/2024, 10:00 am at St Joseph Church on Linden Ave. Interment will follow the funeral Mass at Carpinteria Cemetery.

Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services.

Emmet J.

Hawkes, Sr. 4/5/1937 - 8/15/2024

Emmet passed away peacefully at the home he shared with his beloved wife, Sally. Emmet was born in New Jersey, the 4th of six children born to Edward and Edna Hawkes. With visions of cowboys in his head young Emmet and his family moved out west for his mother’s health. Emmet attended Catholic schools and graduated from Catholic High now Bishop Diego. Lucky for Emmet he met the love of his life, Sally Ramirez when he was just a teenager. Drawn to her large, loving Mexican family, everyone joked that he fell in love with Grandma Ramirez’s cooking before he fell in love with Sally. After high school he joined the

army and was stationed in Tacoma Washington. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder and that was the case for Emmet and Sally. They were married at the Santa Barbara Mission in June of 1957. They welcomed their first child, Sherrie the following year while living in a tiny attic in Tacoma. Emmet realized early on that taking orders and following other people’s direction was not his strong suit. After being honorably discharged from the army they returned to Santa Barbara where they had their second child, Emmet Jr.

Emmet was unsure of his career path at this time and as Sally tells it, would work round the clock providing for his family. He worked various jobs, milkman, 7Up delivery, cigarette sales and gas station attendant. With the philosophy of ‘it’s not what you make, it’s what you save’ he was able to buy his first piece of property. This led him to his passion of real estate sales, eventually opening his own real estate firm, Hawkes & Co. In 1967 Emmet & Sally moved to Goleta where they welcomed their third child, Sally ‘Eileen’. Finally settling in Montecito in 1980 they were thrilled with the arrival of their bonus baby Cynthia.

Emmet touched many lives throughout the years and took great joy in helping people realize their dream of owning their own home. Along the way Emmet wisely invested in Santa Barbara real estate and even developed a few properties. Emmet’s legacy lives on with his four children, Sherrie (Scott) McIver, Emmet Jr., Eileen (Tom) Ochsner, Cynthia Hawkes, 14 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. He will always be remembered as a self-made man who followed his dreams and was successful in both his personal life and his professional one. He would say he couldn’t have done it without his supportive wife Sally by his side and we agree.

We’d like to invite family and friends to join us in a celebration of Emmet’s life, which will be held at the

Carousel Building at Chase Palm Park on September 29 th 4:00pm. Everyone is invited to come and share fond memories and raise a glass to Big Em, always the life of the party! Anyone who knew Emmet knows he loved to wear shorts with his oxford shirts – feel free to come casual. RSVP to Eileen at eileeno1@cox.net or 805-705-6559.

Glenn R. Heidbreder

7/22/1929 - 8/9/2024

Glenn R. Heidbreder, a Santa Barbara resident from 1963 when he helped establish UCSB’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to his retirement in 1991, passed on August 9, 2024, at age 95, near his home in Northern Virginia. Born in 1929 in rural Missouri, he served in the Navy, attended Yale, and came to Southern California to work in space engineering research, and then in university teaching. At UCSB he met Santa Barbara native Gloria Livingston; they were married until her tragic death of cancer in 1983. Always deeply interested in law and politics, he took a J.D. at Loyola U. of Los Angeles, writing his thesis on the causes of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. In 1991 he settled in the nation’s capitol area, where he had earlier (1981-82) worked as IEEE Congressional Fellow, and taught at George Washington University. A sharply critical researcher, thinker, and writer who loved people, as professor he found the greatest satisfaction in teaching and mentoring students.

A memorial service will be held on September 18 at 10:30 AM at Galilee United Methodist Church at 45425 Winding Rd, Sterling, VA. Cards and flowers are welcome. His remains will be interred at the Quantico National Memorial Cemetery.

Harrison Stroud 1926 - 2024

In Loving Memory of Harrison Stroud

Harrison “Harry” Edgar Stroud, age 98, passed away July 7th, 2024 at his home, surrounded by his family.

Harry was a remarkable man whose life was characterized by love of his family, love of our country, cherished friendships, UCLA sports, Dodger baseball, growing beautiful flowers and tomatoes in his garden, fishing, playing tennis, and his never-ending appreciation for a long and wonderful life.

Harry was born in Burbank, CA in 1926 to William and Lucia Stroud. He was their second child after his sister Ann. He graduated from Burbank High School.

In 1944, at 17 years old, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was whisked off to basic training in Farragut, ID and then on to Class A Yeoman Training school in San Diego. Harry was a World War II Veteran who served on the USS Kenton in the Pacific. His ship was awarded honorary citations for both the Liberation of the Philippines and the final battle at Okinawa. Harry enjoyed many reunions with his shipmates throughout his life and was the last living survivor of his ship.

Harry graduated from UCLA in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity where he made lifelong friendships with his fraternity brothers. He spent summers working in Yosemite with fraternity brothers where he had such fond memories. Harry was a huge fan and supporter of UCLA sports.

While at UCLA, Harry met Sarah Jane Shiells, a

member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. They married in 1951 and raised five children in Van Nuys and Newhall.

Harry started his career at Texaco and Sundstrand before landing his dream job in Personnel Administration at TRW, an aerospace company in Redondo Beach. Later in his career, he moved his family to Mentor, OH where he worked at TRW corporate headquarters in Cleveland as Corporate Director of Manpower.

He was especially proud of the work he did with the National Alliance of Business (NAB) in California and Washington D.C. while on loan from TRW. He managed the U.S. program that placed over 130,000 Vietnam Veterans in jobs after the war. At White House receptions, Harry received three commendations from Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford for his many accomplishments with NAB.

Sadly, Harry’s wife Sarah died in 1981. After being widowed for several years, he met JoAnn Guenther. JoAnn brought love and joy back into Harry’s life, and they were married in 1988. Harry spent his retirement years playing tennis and traveling the world with JoAnn.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Los Angeles Scottish Rite, and the Al Malaikah Shrine Masonic organizations; the Santa Barbara Cosmopolitan Club; and All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, where he had numerous friendships. No matter where Harry went in the world, he always managed to bump into someone he knew!

Harry was preceded in death by his first wife Sarah from Fillmore, his second wife JoAnn from Rolling Hills Estates, and his sister Ann Ankerman from Midway City.

He is survived by his five children: Susan (Richard) Kentro, Linda (Norman) Pick, Dan (Julie) Stroud, Jack (Rita) Stroud, and Alan (Kathryn) Stroud; two step-children: Krista (Tony) Walker and

Eric Amend; fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be held at the All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara on September 21, 2024 at 1:00pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Transition House at 425 East Cota Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Pearl Boxer

7/15/2024

Pearl Boxer, age 95, passed away on July 15th with her husband Rube at her side. They were married for 74 years. She was exceptionally beautiful with a wonderful charisma. Family always came first and she always met the daily requirements of her husband and four children. She was Den Mother to Cub Scouts at Washington School. In Rome, New York, she was elected president of the Jane Cees, an auxiliary to the Chamber of Commerce. She was very active in Congregation Bnai Brith and was a member of both the Sisterhood and Hadassah. She was very inventive, including a method to prevent snoring and a special device to hold a tablecloth down on a windy day.

She was the impetus that led to a US patent for keeping socks together in the laundry without sorting them. When the family was invited to President Reagan’s Los Angeles office, he took a special interest in her and showed her around the premises. She loved to cook and one of her recipes was a crowd favorite, on the menu, at the Palazzio restaurant. “Mama Pearl’s Spaghetti and Meatballs.” She loved to travel, fish, and family camping. She had special expertise and love for the card game of Blackjack, and in handicapping thoroughbred races.

In addition to her husband Rube Boxer, she leaves behind her children Diana (Rohn) Rumelhagen, Robert Boxer, Ken Boxer and preceding her in death Warren Boxer; her grandchildren Shanna (Shawn) Torres, Jenna Rosenthal, and Dagny Boxer; and her great-granddaughter, Isla Torres.

Elizabeth Kay “Betty” Garcia 8/13/1946 - 8/24/2024

Elizabeth Kay “Betty” Garcia (née Dally), aged 78, of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away on August 24, 2024. Born on August 13, 1946, in Santa Barbara, California, Betty was the beloved daughter of the late George and Helen Dally.

With a career marked by dedication and expertise, Betty served as a supervisor at Raytheon, where her work on projects like the Sidewinder missile and the Space Shuttle was highly esteemed. Her talents extended beyond her professional life, as she assisted her late husband, Albert Garcia, in the operations of his body shop, where her adeptness at auto body repair was well-regarded.

A matriarch in her own right, Betty’s love for her family was immense. She instilled in her children and grandchildren the values of hard work and perseverance. Betty’s passion for life was evident in her hobbies, which included cooking, crafting, and curating a distinctive shoe collection. Her sense of humor was as memorable as her resolve, and she was respected for her unwavering commitment to excellence.

Betty’s memory will be cherished by her sons, Edward StGeorge-Adams and Emilio Castro; her daughter, Elestin a Reyes;

her sisters, Patricia Orsua and Kathleen Orsua; and her brother, St ephen Dally. She was a doting grandmother to Samantha and John Patrick Reyes and held a special place in the hearts of her numerous nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews. Her sons-in-law, Johnathan Parales and Steven StGeorge-Adams, also survive her. Betty was predeceased by her beloved husband, Albert Garcia; her sister, Georgette Hannah; her stepson, Albert Garcia Jr. ; and her parents.

The family invites friends and loved ones to a funeral service in Betty’s honor on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 10:00 AM at Holy Cross Church, 1740 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Betty’s legacy of love, laughter, and tireless spirit will be fondly remembered and deeply missed.

Lawrence Johnson 6/7/1936 - 8/24/2024

Lawrence grew up in Santa Barbara, he enjoyed motor sports in several forms starting with drag racing as a member of the Duster’s & later the Grave Gamblers car clubs.

Later he turned to motorcycles riding in the desert and racing motor cross with his sons. In the mid eighties he tried land speed racing until 2005 when he retired.

Lawrence owned & ran Higgins Radiator until he retired in 2005. He was preceded in death by his wife Beverly in 2018. Survived by sons Robert & Mark, 4 granddaughters & great grandchildren and his two sisters and many close friends.

A Celebration of life will be held on September 21st, 2024, at the Grove at the Elks Lodge in Goleta, 150 N Kellogg Ave 12-4. All are welcom e.

Clyde Joseph Bruff 8/7/1945 - 6/8/2024

Clyde Joseph Bruff, born August 7, 1945, in Pittsburgh, PA, passed away on June 8, 2024, in Santa Barbara, CA. A vibrant and larger-than-life personality, Clyde was the cherished son of Judd and Florence Bruff and grew up loving his family, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the magic of Hollywood.

Clyde met and married his beloved wife, Anne Marie Bruff (Cheek), at Duquesne University. Their 56 years of marriage were filled with love, laughter, and adventure. While stationed at Warren Air Force Base, they welcomed their two adored children, Judd Collins Bruff II of Oakland, CA, and Julie “Jules” Anne Bruff of Los Angeles, CA. Clyde proudly served as an officer in charge of 5% of land-based nuclear weaponry in the U.S. Air Force and earned his MBA from the University of Wyoming.

The family’s final post was at Vandenberg AFB in California. The Bruffs made Oakland, California, their home. Clyde transitioned from a successful investment broker in San Francisco-where he also became a passionate 49ers fan-to a career in acting. His third and most fulfilling career saw him grace over 30 films and T.V. shows, host a radio talk show, and lend his voice and talent to commercial, print, and voice-over work. Clyde’s true calling was acting, reflecting his larger-thanlife, wild-hearted, and warm spirit.

A man of many roles, Clyde was a dedicated coach and referee for his children’s soccer and basketball teams. For over two decades, he brought joy to others as Santa Claus at a Bay Area Veterans Hospital every Christmas and

generously volunteered as an election poll worker. His family and friends will remember him for his antics, generous hugs, booming laughter, and deep love of sports and acting.

Clyde’s warmth extended beyond his family to his friends and beloved family dogs, whom he adored with all his heart. His legacy lives on through his family, dear friends, and the countless lives he touched with his love and passion.

Clyde is survived by his wife Anne, children Judd and Julie, and a host of cherished family and friends. His vibrant and loving spirit will be deeply missed but forever remembered.

Norman Horsley 8/19/2024

SANTA BARBARA, California (Aug. 19, 2024)- Norman Horsley was a dedicated husband, father, Papa, friend and law enforcement officer, fueled by his faith in God and his love of family and traditions. He was born in September 1946, to Morris and Vera Horsley. He was the second born of three children and he grew up in California.

In his youth, he attended Pomona First Baptist Church, where he met the love of his life, Lynda Dunbar. The high school sweethearts later married in 1966 and began their lives together in Pomona.

After serving in the US Navy as an electronics technician aboard the U.S.S. Mt. McKinley, in 1965, Norm began his law enforcement

career with the Montclair Police Department. He and Lynda moved to Santa Barbara County in 1973 and Norm began his career with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. He attained the rank of Chief Deputy overseeing the Law Enforcement branch and later retired in 2005.

Throughout Norm’s life, he enjoyed a variety of hobbies such as hunting in his childhood, motorcycling (including desert racing), flying his Taylorcraft airplane, photography, and perfecting his expert level marksmanship. His longest lasting interest was working on his various hot rods and he enjoyed attending and participating in car shows. It brought him joy to gather with his car buddies and other friends he made along the way. Closest to his heart though, was the annual family tradition of camping at Camp Edison, Shaver Lake.

To the very end, Norm thanked God for all He gave him. He cherished his family, taught us all about Jesus, and took his role as provider and protector very seriously. He taught us all to work hard and with integrity. Norm’s face would light up in the presence of or mention of his grandchildren. He loved them beyond words and couldn’t wait to see each of them, to support them, to celebrate their accomplishments, to give them hugs or shower them with blessings.

We thank you for your continued prayers as we grieve our loss and rejoice that he is with our Lord and Savior. Norm’s last word was, “Wow!” Our hope is that you all might share this sense of joy and wonder when your final moment is reached.

Norm is survived by his wife, Lynda, his children Edward and Barbara, as well as his younger brother, Charles, and grandchildren; Madilynn, Jonathan, Lily, and Abigail. Norm was preceded in death by his parents, Morris and Vera Horsley, and sister, Carolyn.

Norm’s celebration of life service will be held on October 5, 2024 at 2:00 PM

at Santa Barbara Community Church 1002 Cieneguitas Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

James Gallacci 6/23/2024

In Loving Memory of James (Jim / Jimmy) Walker Gallacci.

Beloved husband, brother, cousin and friend, passed away peacefully on June 23, 2024 after a fierce battle with cancer. He leaves behind a legacy of love, laughter and generosity that will be cherished forever.

He was born in Port Angeles Washington to Emily and Angelo Gallacci. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Gallacci (Walden), sisters Eileen Graves (Gallacci) and Debi Kumpula (Gallacci) along with many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Jim attended local schools in Port Angeles, to include Peninsula college and later spent time at the University of Washington where his beloved “DAWGS” played. Following college, he became a rescue pilot in the US Coast Guard and was honorably discharged after six years of service. He then pursued his passion for cars, working at and managing multiple dealerships in the Northwest and later in Santa Barabra. Beginning in 1998 he worked in the golf industry in Santa Barbara where he worked at Ocean Meadows Gold Course, Sandpiper Golf Club and then at Glen Annie Gold Club as a golf professional and instructor.

He had a great love of sports, especially college football (Washington Huskies), Seattle Seahawks, the Mariners, the former Sonics and in recent years the Golden State Warriors. Ultimately golf became his favorite sport and he spent his final years playing, teaching and coaching. One of his greatest joys was coaching a group of chil-

dren involved in the PGA 1st Tee Program.

Jim touched the lives of all who knew him, leaving behind memories of his amazing sense of humor, big smile and caring heart. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends, but his spirit will live on in the countless lives he has touched and the people he taught.

In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to honor Jim’s memory towards a cause he was passionate about. First Tee – Central Coast is a local non-profit that teaches kids valuable life skills through the game of golf. Donations can be made online at www. FirstTeeCentralCoast.org or by sending a check made out to FTCC to PO Box 6261, Santa Barbara, CA 93160. Contact Executive Director, Jessani Johnson with any questions at (805) 637-5042 or jessani@FirstTeeCentral Coast.org.”

A gathering to celebrate Jim’s life will be held at a future date.

Hilton Gabrielsen 10/31/1931 - 8/28/2024

Hilton Gabrielsen died on August 28, 2024, at the age of 92. He was born in Alameda, CA on October 31, 1931. After serving four years in the US Navy, he became an electronic engineer, working at Raytheon Co. until his retirement in 1993.

He met the lovely Germaine Trenkler in 1959, and they married in June of 1960. They loved traveling, skiing and ballroom dancing and had joined several dance clubs.

Hilton was preceded in death by Germaine. He wishes no memorial service. Friends may remember his favorite charities, SB Cancer Society and the SB Humane Society.

Arrangements by WelchRyce-Haider Funeral Chapels.

Dolores “Lola” Iniguez 12/26/1951 - 9/1/2024

Dolores “Lola” Iniguez, affectionately known as Jamma, passed away at the age of 72 on September 1, 2024, in San Jose, CA from complications related to Lewy Body Dementia. Born in Santa Barbara, CA, on December 26, 1951, Lola spent her entire life in her hometown before relocating to San Jose in March 2024 for her daughter to care for her.

Lola loved her family deeply, a love that was magnified with the birth of her grandson, Ronan, who became the center of her world. She would move heaven and earth for her daughter, Cynthia, and grandson. Nothing made her smile more than being with them and seeing them happy. Everyone loved Lola and she loved everyone. She was welcoming, social and willing to help anybody who was in need. Her laugh and humor were infectious. Her hobbies included travel, watching movies, bowling, attending theatre, celebrating Fiesta, and enjoying dinners with her many friends.

Lola dedicated her career to serving the State of California, working across various departments including the Employment Development Department, Franchise Tax Board, and Community Care Licensing. Her commitment to public service was paralleled by her devotion to her community. A long-time volunteer at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Lola contributed as a choir member, lector, confirmation leader, and wedding coordinator. Her service extended to the Alzheimer’s Board following her mother’s diagnosis, highlighting her compassionate spirit.

She is survived by her daughter, Cynthia Kava -

nagh; son-in-law, Stephen Kavanagh; grandson, Ronan Kavanagh; sisterin-law, Lynda Iniguez; nieces and nephew, Jasmin Iniguez, Veronica Flores, and Paul Padilla; and dog, Tommy Lasorda. Lola was preceded in death by her parents, Taurino and Victoria Iniguez; brother, John Iniguez; and the dog only a mother could love, Lucky.

A Rosary will be held on Thursday, September 19, 2024, at Welch-RyceHaider in Goleta at 7 PM. A Funeral Mass is scheduled at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Santa Barbara for Friday, September 20 at 10 AM, followed by burial at Calvary Catholic Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Lola’s memory can be made to the Friendship Center of Montecito & Alzheimer’s Association. The family extends their gratitude to the loving staff at Friendship Center and all her caretakers, especially Mayra (Clarita), Leti, and Nikki.

Richard Raymond(Rich)Cervantez

9/24/1968 - 8/23/2024

Richard passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, he attended Notre Dame Elementary School, Bishop Garcia Diego High School, and Santa Barbara City College.

Richard had a passion for sports, both as a teammate and as the head coach for the YFL SB Saints Freshman division, age group 10-11 years old. He mentored his young players on and off the field and was well loved by his teams past and present.

At the time of his passing, Richard worked as bus driver for Santa Barbara MTD for more than 20 years. He maintained strong friendships with coworkers and bus riders alike. Prior to establishing

himself at MTD, Richard had many jobs but loved the social aspect of bartending and being a former manager at Kaisers.

Richard, known as Uncle Rich by many, was blessed with a large, loving family including aunts, uncles and cousins. He extended great effort in supporting his cousins’ many activities, attending sporting events, birthdays, graduations, and more.

He and his brother Robert were raised by their loving mother Martha, to whom Richard was deeply dedicated, and who supported them in all of their endeavors (with a particular love for the Bishop sporting events). Richard cherished and shared a love of cars with his father Daniel, who gave Richard his first car, a 1964 Chevy Malibu.

In December 2021 at Harry’s, wearing a Santa Claus hat peppered with blinking Christmas lights, Richard met the love of his life Judi Sotelo. They cherished each other’s company, often vacationing and attending comedy shows and concer ts. But what he cherished the most was the time they spent at home together. He took her family as his own with unconditional love and support.

Richard was the heart of a strong and loving community, including several best friends from first grade and adding many more along the way. He gathered them together at Harry’s once a month for dinner and drinks. Richard could not walk down the street without running into a friend or relative and was profoundly loved by all.

Words that describe Richard are genuine, loyal, trustworthy, honest, kind, patient to a fault, and compassionate, with a wickedly dry sense humor. His infectious laugh will be deeply missed by all.

Richard is survived by his mother Martha (Madrigal); Father Daniel; brother Robert (DeeAnn); nephews Garret, Dominic (McKinzie), Marcus; and niece Moraya. He is preceded in death by his niece Tahi. Services were held August 30, 2024.

H. McKinney 2/3/1965 - 8/21/2024

Born on February 3, 1965, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Michael “Mike” H. McKinney was a man who lived life with a fierce independence and a heart full of kindness. At just 16, Mike set out on his own to carve his unique path in the world. His journey led him to discover a deep passion for long-distance trucking, a career he embraced for over 23 years, driving across the country and making countless friends along the way.

During his travels, fate brought him to Kansas City, MO, where he met the love of his life, Carol. Together, they shared an incredible bond and eventually made Santa Barbara, CA, their home for the past 20 years.

Mike was a man of simple joys—he had a love for movies, music, and good food. Those lucky enough to be in his circle knew he could whip up a mean pot of Gumbo or Jambalaya that transported you straight to Louisiana. His culinary skills were just another testament to his love for bringing people together.

Mike’s generosity knew no bounds. He had a genuine care for others, often going out of his way to offer a meal to someone in need, never waiting for them to ask. His kindness and warmth touched many lives.

On August 21, 2024, after a courageous eightmonth battle with cancer, Mike left this world on his own terms, surrounded by love. He is deeply missed by his life partner, Carol Simmons, his five siblings—Sonja Renee Carroll, Bridget (Didi) Reeves, Thelma McKinney, Roxanne McKinney, and John McKinney—and his seven

nephews—Mathew, Shawn, Anthony, Koby, Seth, Johnathan, and Xabe.

Carol will bring Mike back to his hometown of Lake Charles, where his family will gather to celebrate his life and the many beautiful me mories he left behind. This celebration of Mike’s life will take place in late October.

Mike’s spirit, love for life, and boundless kindness will forever remain in the hearts of all who knew him.

Fred Lyle Wiseman

10/24/1931 - 2/4/2024

Fred (Mickey -nickname) passed away alone in his mobile home in Carpinteria. Fred was born in a coal mining town in West Virginia. His mother and other relatives moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1942 where they lived until World war II was over.

Fred moved with his mother to Santa Barbara in 1947 after she married a Santa Barbara resident, Rosco Welshans. Fred worked at various jobs one of which was a Security Service Agency.

In October 1974 In Santa Barbara, Fred married Kinue Watanabe, 36, a teacher from Japan. They purchas ed a mobile home In 1989 in San Roque Mobile Home Park in Carpinteria where they lived.

Fred retired in 2009 from working with Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. He then plunged into ancestral research and writing poetry and becoming a world traveler with his wife. Their last trip was to Japan in November 2019 where his wife remained and is now quite ill. Fred’s relatives are three nieces, one nephew and his elderly first cousin who lives close and is involved daily with his estate. Fre d has been cremated and his ashes will be spread over his mother’s grave if per mitted.

Michael

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A Very Santa Barbara

Home & Garden

Fall Edition⬘

What to Plant, How to Decorate, and More from Local Pros

⬘ by Sarah sinclair AND INDY STAFF ⬘

Ah, yes. Fall in Santa Barbara. When the leaves blush a gentle crimson and a fresh chill hangs on the air. Err, rather, when late-season heat waves hug us tight and happy sundowners tickle our cheeks….

We may be in the midst of a patented second Santa Barbara summer, but that just means shorter days and cooler temps are right around the corner the perfect time to plant citrus and hibiscus, get your book nook ready for a

⬘ HORTICULTURE ⬘

winter novel, and pause to spruce up your living space or dive into a full renovation.

Welcome to the Independent’s first-ever Fall Home & Garden issue, a new complement to our regular spring edition. We hope you’ll draw inspiration (and not just envy) from the rich greenery and impeccable interiors on these pages, and use the advice offered by our sources. They’re all local, and they’re all pros.

Stay cool-ish out there.

Find the Sweet Spot for Fall Plants

If Mike Tully weren’t such a nice guy (and if he had much less business sense), he’d grab every customer who entered his nursery and shake them by the shoulders. “Plant in the fall!” he’d say, giving them the formula for why this is an ideal time of year to get certain vegetables, bulbs, fruit trees, and landscaping in the ground: “Shorter days! Cooler temperatures! Warm soil!”

Terra Sol’s Mike Tully Helps You Navigate Our Second Summers

by Tyler Hayden

Instead, Tully the owner and operator of Terra Sol Garden Center for the past three decades spreads his wisdom with the same gentle patience he uses on the happy stock in his lush lot off Patterson Avenue. (The strategy has worked before, Tully noted. After years of politely reminding customers to specifically purchase narrow-leaved milkweed for our native monarchs, the message finally stuck. “They don’t even ask for the other kinds anymore,” he said.)

Standing in a patch of shade surrounded by fig saplings, Tully took the time to explain how in Santa Barbara with our funny second summers there’s a sweet spot on the calendar for fall plantings. It takes place around the autumnal equinox (September 22 this year), after the heat waves but before it gets too cold, when the sun bakes young leaves less but the soil is still nice and toasty.

“People often don’t realize this is a good time of year to get plants established,” Tully said. “It’s the right set of conditions for new plants to put down roots and start some early growth.” Given last week’s brutally high temperatures, those conditions might take longer to materialize, but the window will arrive

soon, Tully said. “Watch the season,” he advised. “In a few more weeks, we’ll likely turn that corner.”

As we wait, here are a few recommendations from the Terra Sol guru for your fall garden.

VEGETABLES

“The leafy stuff, like kale, chard, and lettuce,” Tully said, can be especially sensitive to heat, so don’t jump the gun. Also Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower. The UC Master Garden Program suggests root veggies as well, including beets, carrots, onions, radishes, and turnips.

BULBS

“Fall-planted, spring-blooming” bulbs are what you want: freesia, sparaxis, ranunculus, Dutch iris, and daffodils. For paper-white narcissus, get them in dirt 6-8 weeks before the holidays to enjoy blooms on Christmas.

FRUIT TREES

HERBS

Perennial herbs such as thyme, rosemary, and sage may not look their best until spring, but planting them early lets them become established before winter rains.

Go with stone fruits (peach, plum, etc.), avocado, and citrus. Avoid tropical things such as papaya, mango, and cherimoya. “They are on the fringe of being able to survive here and can shut down before the cold season,” Tully explained.

LANDSCAPING

A common mistake among home gardeners is to plant ornamentals like hibiscus and bougainvillea while they’re blooming. They’ll often drop their flowers as they spend energy finding a foothold in their new home. Instead, get them in the ground now for a dazzle of color this coming spring and summer.

PESTS

Fall is actually a good time for pests, meaning good for us and bad for them. Aphids are not out in such force, and bugs that overwinter in the soil directly below plants like rose slugs and black fig flies are easier to attack. Instead of hunting them down individually on the undersides of leaves, sprinkle beneficial nematodes on your garden beds and let microscopic critters do the work for you.

Visit Terra Sol Garden Center at 5320 Overpass Road or see terrasolgardencenter.com.

Paper-white narcissus

HOME & GARDEN

Your Renovation Questions, Answered

Home renovations can be exciting but sometimes overwhelming. As an interior designer specializing in these projects, I’ve gathered answers to the most common questions to help you navigate yours with confidence.

by Laura Gransberry

How much will it cost? Renovation costs in Santa Barbara County can vary significantly depending on the project’s scope, materials used, and specific home features. I recommend including a 25-30 percent contingency in your overall budget to cover additional costs arising from unexpected issues.

How long will it take? The length of a renovation depends on its complexity and the quality of your design and contractor team. Larger projects take more time to complete. For example, a three-bedroom, twobath home might take six to 12 months, while smaller remodels like a kitchen or bathroom could take three to six months. Moving walls, utilities, or adding square footage will extend the timeline.

How do I avoid a money pit? If you’ve ever seen the film The Money Pit, you might be wary of buying a fixer-upper. It’s true that older homes often have unforeseen problems, but there are steps you can take to avoid costly surprises. Ensure the property is properly inspected. Plan for some inevitable hiccups. And build in an even bigger contingency budget.

What does a full-home renovation entail? In a typical full-home renovation, every surface is updated in some way. For example, we may be gutting the bathrooms and kitchens, but the bedrooms are also getting fresh paint, new millwork, and updated flooring. When you walk through a fully remodeled house, it should feel as if every detail was considered.

What about permits? Permits are a wild card, especially in Santa Barbara. Here are a few tips: 1) Choose your home wisely. The house you select in the “find and buy” stage can significantly impact the number and type of permits required. 2) Start early. Talk to your contractor well in advance about the permitting process to learn how it will affect the project timeline.

How do I make all the choices? Paint, flooring, tile, etc.? The sheer number of choices needed in a renovation can be overwhelming. Even for a single bathroom remodel, there are hundreds of decisions to make. A designer can help guide you through the process. If you decide to do it on your own, start with one key element such as tile, flooring, or fabric to build your vision around. Each new choice you make needs to complement the colors and styles of what you have already selected.

How do I hire a contractor? Do I need a designer? Start talking to people and interviewing the contractors and designers who come up consistently. Referrals are invaluable, especially if you have seen their work and love the finished product. Hiring a designer is one of the smartest moves you can make. There is a reason professionally planned homes stand out and fetch higher asking prices.

How do I get the best return on my investment? The best return is a fully renovated home that looks and feels flawless, with everything fitting together perfectly. If you aren’t ready for a complete overhaul, projects like kitchen remodels, bathroom upgrades, and outdoor living spaces are ideal. You can always tell when corners are cut, so hire the best team you can. A good contractor and designer will help you get there, and it’s worth every penny.

A Modern Mesa Home

In 2016, the newly married Brent Baldwin and Zenitra Kumar purchased a one-bedroom, one-bath, 562-square-foot home in their favorite part of the Mesa. Their friends shook their heads at the couple’s decision to pool their life savings on a tiny, older, somewhat dilapidated abode, but Brent and Zenitra shared the seed of an idea.

They stood on the roof of their little house, felt the breeze, and got to know the trees and the neighbors on this wide street near the beach as they planned the property that would fit and serve their family for generations to come.

Brent and Zenitra will open their home to the public next month as part of this year’s ArchitecTours, presented by American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara (AIASB).

THE JOURNEY HERE

Brent moved from Morro Bay to Santa Barbara in the late ‘90s to attend City College and UCSB. He lived on his 32-foot sailboat in the harbor, sailing on the weekends and immersing himself in the nautical lifestyle. After graduating in 2002, he set his sights on sailing up to San Francisco, where he planned to go to law school.

SUN AND EARTH

Several seaworthy mates pledged to help with the voyage, but when it came time to set sail, Captain “Bear” Kramer, a former Top Gun Navy pilot, was the only friend who came through. The two set off on a four-day adventure, including

a stop in Morro Bay after a hairy night navigating Point Conception, and culminating in a harrowing passage under the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. They moored in Sausalito, where Brent resided for the next four years.

After graduating from both law school and his live-aboard life, he moved back to the Central Coast, settling in Santa Barbara, with his love of the ocean deeper than ever.

Today, Brent works as vice president of legal and regulatory affairs at Direct Relief, and Zenitra, who grew up in Fiji, where her father was an architect, is a dentist and lead clinician at Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics. The couple and their energetic 3-year-old son, Luke, live in their dream home on Palisades Drive on the West Mesa. The journey to build their two-story contemporary home was at times as tumultuous as Brent’s seafaring adventures.

The couple worked from the start with architect Dawn Sherry of Santa Barbara firm Sherry & Associates. “Brent and I knew each other from the harbor in the ‘90s,” shared Sherry. “I still live on my boat, and I understand his love of the ocean, the sunshine, and wide-open views. We were able to work together through the myriad challenges of this project, with the same vision in mind.”

The home is designed around the sun. During their early years there, Brent and Zenitra studied the arc of the sunlight on their property. They knew they wanted to maximize the light and bring the sunshine into and through the house. That principle guided their every decision.

The project took more than five years to complete. Three years of planning and permitting, and another two years of construction. They applied for their first permits in 2018 and just moved in in May of this year. It wasn’t smooth sailing. The Design Board suggested that modern did not work for the Mesa. “They wanted something more Santa Barbara,” shares Brent, “even suggesting that a Cape Cod style which we know is not Santa Barbara would be more appropriate.”

Today, their house is rich in earth tones and materials: travertine walls, concrete floors, marble countertops, and cedar siding. As we walked through, Brent pointed out the low maintenance. “There’s plenty of wood, but it’s under the eaves and in places that won’t need a lot of attention,” he explains. “We want to enjoy the house, not spend every weekend sanding and varnishing.”

The bold first-floor layout includes a large, open-plan kitchen and living room that epitomize the indoor/outdoor living concept, with views straight through the house to the backyard, facilitated by 23-foot folding glass doors. The entrance to the house functions as a big front porch, open and inviting to the neighborhood. “The street activity is such an integral part of the Mesa,” says Sherry. As if on cue, neighbors walked by and waved as we sat talking in the living room.

Earthy and Airy Property with Ocean Views Invites In Sun and Neighbors

by Sarah Sinclair

photos by Nick Kvistad

The Palisades Drive home was designed by architect Dawn Sherry.

Two ensuite bedrooms, an office, a guest bath, and a large, functional pantry/laundry room/mudroom combo round out the first floor. “This is the place you throw your groceries and keys when you come in from shopping,” Zenitra pantomimes with a flourish.

Up a stylish staircase, the sleek primary suite boasts a kitchenette, walk-in closet, and commanding deck with 270-degree views of the islands. An outdoor staircase leads to a hidden rooftop deck with the same view. Offering even more living space, the entire deck is plumbed as a rainwater catchment to provide water for the landscaping. In fact, the entire property is off the grid, with solar and battery systems providing power.

NAUTICAL NODS, COMMUNITY TIES

This self-sufficiency central to life on a boat echoes the nautical theme evident throughout the home. Architect Sherry notes the nuances of the house’s design to the bow, captain’s quarters, and even the flybridge of a boat.

“From the materials we used, the stainlesssteel and wood stair railings, and the walkways around the house that hearken to boat docks, even the roof deck is an homage to the concept of a flybridge.” It’s the position that has the best view of the surrounding ocean. “We basically built them a 2,200-square-foot Grand Banks,” she laughs.

The couple worked closely with their general contractor Dan Ribbens and a host of other Santa Barbara professionals. Brent tells stories of community ties surfacing repeatedly throughout the process: “One of the painters and I recognized each other from 25 years ago when we both lived in the harbor.” In addition to Ribbens Construction, their local talent included CommonGround Landscape, Lotus Cabinetry, Forte Stone, and many others.

Zenitra oversaw every aspect of the home’s interior design. Standing next to the Cristallo quartzite countertop in their kitchen, she describes hours of working with Forte Stone in Goleta to choose just the right slab with the warmth and translucence to echo the clarity of the sea. “The internet is only helpful to a point,” laughs Zenitra, “and then you need experts to help guide your decisions.”

SEE IT FOR YOURSELF

The self-guided ArchitecTours let the public go behind the scenes at five sites. Liz Hughes, AIA, is the committee chair of ArchitecTours, and passionate about the event. As she puts it, “Architecture is meant to be experienced. Walking through a building gives you such a different sense of space than just looking at photos.”

Properties on the tour include a Santa Barbara foothills “glass house,” designed by NMA Architects; a mountaintop retreat with a sloping roof resembling leaves, designed by DMHA Architecture + Interior Design; Community Environmental Council’s Hub, designed by Andrulaitis+Mixon Architects; a contemporary home perched on Campanil Hill in Hope Ranch, designed by Warner Group Architects; and, of course, Brent and Zenitra’s home on the Mesa.

ArchitecTours is Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., with a reception following, 4-6 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from the event will support DignityMoves’ efforts to provide interim supportive housing in Santa Barbara County. Visit aiasb.com for tickets and more information.

Brent, Zenitra, and Luke

HOME & GARDEN

Feng Shui Secrets

Feng

is an ancient Chinese practice that transcends mere aesthetics it’s about crafting a healing sanctuary for mind-body wellness.

My first encounter with feng shui was years ago, during a visit to a Big Sur retreat center. Eucalyptus and lavender oil permeated each room while sunlight streamed through the windows, framing the towering redwoods outside. Guided by specific principles, every element was meticulously placed to create a tranquil and nurturing environment. From the arrangement of furniture to the choice of decor, each detail was carefully selected to promote well-being for all who visited.

My experience in this space, combined with nature’s elements, ignited a desire to delve deeper into feng shui and integrate its principles into my own life. Here are some ways you, too, can harness its power to align the energies of your surroundings with your health and wellness aspirations.

DECLUTTERING FOR INNER PEACE

A cluttered bedroom disrupts the flow of chi, the vital life force or energy in Chinese philosophy and medicine, which can affect the quality of your sleep. When your bedroom aligns with feng shui principles, it becomes a sanctuary promoting deep, restorative rest.

Here are practical steps to declutter your space:

• Schedule Regular Purges: Set aside dedicated time each week to tackle clutter. Establishing a routine gradually creates a more organized and serene environment, which in turn nurtures your inner tranquility.

• Evaluate Emotional Significance: Reflect on the emotional value of your possessions, keeping only those that bring joy and peace.

• Release What No Longer Serves You: Let go

of items that no longer serve a purpose or contribute to your happiness. This process of release frees up space and energy.

• Embrace Digital Solutions: Reduce physical clutter by digitizing documents, photos, and files. Leveraging technology in this way helps streamline your space and maintain order.

And here are some actionable items to consider when arranging your bedroom:

• Position Your Bed in the Command Position: Place your bed so you can see the door without being directly in its line of sight. This positioning helps you feel secure and in control, promoting better sleep.

• Balance Yin and Yang Energies: Integrate both soft and calming (yin) and bright and active (yang) elements to create a harmonious and balanced atmosphere.

• Improve Air Quality with Plants: Add air-purifying plants such as peace lilies or snake plants to your room. These plants enhance the aesthetic and promote better air quality.

• Remove Electronics from the Bedroom: Create a serene environment by keeping electronic devices such as TVs, computers, and smartphones out of the bedroom. This minimizes distractions and supports uninterrupted rest and relaxation.

• Keep Surfaces Clean and Organized: Maintaining a tidy space ensures the free circulation of energy throughout the room, supporting a calm and restful atmosphere.

DRAWING FROM NATURE’S ELEMENTS

Connecting with nature allows for wisdom and healing. Feng shui encourages bringing the five elements into your home: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.

• Wood: Symbolizing growth and vitality, the wood element allows you to embrace nature’s

renewing energy. Incorporate wooden furniture, lush plants, and natural textiles to foster a sense of regeneration. Just as trees thrive with sunlight and nourishment, may you flourish amid the vibrant energy of wood.

• Fire: Representing passion and transformation, the fire element ignites your inner flame and encourages you to pursue your dreams. Introduce elements such as candles, bold hues, and expressive artwork to awaken your creative spirit. Like a flickering flame, may your soul radiate with purpose and vitality.

• Earth: Grounding and steadfast, the earth element reminds you to stay anchored in the present moment. Surround yourself with earthy tones, natural crystals, and sturdy ceramics to cultivate a sense of stability and security. Just as the earth supports all life, may you find strength and resilience in its embrace.

• Metal: Sharp and reflective, the metal element encourages clarity and focus in your pursuits. Embrace metallic accents, sleek designs, and minimalist aesthetics to declutter your mind and invite fresh perspectives. Like a finely honed blade, may you cut through distractions and obstacles with unwavering precision.

• Water: Flowing and adaptable, the water element teaches you to embrace change and navigate life’s currents gracefully. Introduce water features, reflective surfaces, and serene shades of blue to promote emotional fluidity and balance. Like a tranquil stream, may you move through life’s ebbs and flows with ease and serenity.

Diving into these practices can deepen your connection to your environment and instill a newfound sense of harmony. Take the first step and observe how aligning your spaces with feng shui principles can positively impact your life, welcoming wellness into every corner of your existence, even while you sleep.

Rebecca Capps, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in eating disorders and CEO of Mind-Body Thrive®. She helps clients develop healthier relationships with food, their bodies, and selfimage. For more info, visit mindbodythrive.com.

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Tips for Creating Balance and Harmony in Your Home

by Rebecca Capps

HOME & GARDEN

⬘ THE STYLE SPECIALIST ⬘

The Perfect Book Nook

Calling all book lovers! If having a dedicated space to curl up with your favorite literary escape sounds like perfection, then perhaps creating a book nook in your home is your next DIY adventure.

For many, having a secluded spot where you can get cozy and dive into someone else’s world might sound like a luxury, especially if your home or space is on the smaller side and/ or shared with children, roommates, and pets. However, a book nook doesn’t have to take up a lot of space! Here are some tips to help you create your ideal reading haven.

Think about seating. Since you’ll need a place to actually sit, finding a comfy chair should be priority number one. If you like to sit with your feet tucked under you or prefer to swing your legs over the arms of the chair, consider using an oversized chair or pouf in a soft upholstery fabric. If you’re like me, reading with your feet up is ideal, so don’t forget to add a small ottoman or footstool.

Let there be light. Lighting is, obviously, a pretty important part of reading, and most agree that natural lighting is ideal. However, even the best bay window seat needs to be lit to allow one to read at night. Task lighting, such as a small table lamp or pin spot light, serves to illuminate the page, while ambient lighting, like a string of fairy lights, can help you relax and set the overall mood for a space. If possible, having both types of lighting in your book nook is desirable.

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Find the perfect spot. Whether tucked in an alcove or carved out of closet, the ideal location is one with minimal foot traffic, allowing you to hide away from unnecessary interruptions. One of the most common spots is in an unused bedroom corner, partitioned behind a screen or plant. However, if every inch of your home already feels in use, think about unexpected spaces, such as the upstairs landing, a window seat, or underneath a staircase (my personal favorite!). Other possibilities include adding a hanging chair to the front porch or utilizing vertical space by installing a hammock.

If electrical outlets are not nearby, consider adding cordless LED rechargeable lamps; there’s a surprisingly nice selection available these days. A decorative sconce attached to the wall is not only useful, but it can also provide the opportunity to select a fun piece that you wouldn’t stylistically use in other parts of your home.

Consider where to place your cup of tea. Once settled, all comforts should be within reach, so having a place to set a cup of tea and a cookie (or cocktail and crackers, depending on the time of day) is the next

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How to Create Your Ideal Reading Haven

by Christine S. Cowles

HOME & GARDEN

The Perfect Book Nook cont'd

consideration. This doesn’t have to cost a lot or take up much room, and you’ll likely pat yourself on the back for adding this touch of functionality. Think floating shelves attached to the wall, a small stylish side table, or a chair with a swinging arm (and don’t forget the coasters!). If you have the room, consider adding a bookcase or built-in shelves to house your latest reads.

Bring in the cozy. A book nook wouldn’t be cozy without blankets and cushions, and this is where you can really start to personalize the space. Perhaps you have a collection of textiles from your travels or family heirloom quilts sitting in a chest? Adding blankets rolled up in a basket or simply layered on top of each other will bring major cozy vibes while also providing warmth on chilly nights. If you love an eclectic, colorful look, layering with multiple pillows, cushions, and throw blankets in a variety of patterns will really bring a lot of pizzazz. On the other hand, if you prefer a more subdued palette, you can still add visual interest by using blankets and pillows made from a variety of fabrics (cable-knit, faux fur, linen, cotton, gauze, alpaca wool, etc.).

Other ways to decorate your space include hanging framed family photos, add-

ing wallpaper to an accent wall, or complementing the space with a candle, plant, or water feature.

Lastly, don’t forget the tech. Although keeping phones and other distractions away from your book nook is generally ideal, many people read on a Kindle or other device, so having a place to charge your electronics should also be a consideration. Or, if you enjoy reading while listening to your favorite chill house music station, perhaps adding a Bluetooth speaker is the perfect tech for you.

Ultimately, your nook is an extension of your imagination. So, gather your books, fluff those pillows, and let the magic unfold. And if you’re looking to add a few titles to your collection, swing by the Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale, which takes place September 12-22 at the Earl Warren Exhibit Hall.

Christine S. Cowles is the owner of Vacation Rental Design, an interior design company specializing in short-term rental properties. She is a certified ShortTerm Rental StylistTM, member of Real Estate Staging Association, and a proud WEV graduate. She can be reached at hello@vacayrentaldesign.com.

Kevin Reimer Is Your Rare Fruit Man

Taking a ramble through Kevin Reimer’s dense, jungly garden at the tippy-top of San Marcos Pass is a multisensory mystery tour full of visuals, aromas, flavors, and textures that could go on for hours.

“It’s just like a fruit park,” said Reimer, who’s been growing an insane variety of species some from seed, some from grafts, and some being hybridized for a half-dozen years now. “When I moved in, it was all succulents and sand. I’m trying everything, and have had very few failures.”

His nearly 200 different flavors feature fruits you know (apples, citrus, plums, figs, etc.); fruits you probably know (pluots, quince, dragonfruits, etc.); fruits you know but in varieties that you don’t (Hawaiian blackberry, white mulberry, guineense guava, etc.); and fruits you know but didn’t know grew here (pineapple, mango, pawpaw, etc.).

Most fascinating and promising, at least when it comes to drought-tolerant, delicious species that appear to thrive in Santa Barbara’s environs are the fruits you probably don’t know at all: pitangatuba, guabiju, guazumifolia, guajava, jaboticaba, and, probably Reimer’s favorite, multiple shades of cherry of the Rio Grande.

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Now Growing Crazy Fruits atop Santa Marcos Pass

by Matt Kettmann

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Some are even a mystery to Reimer. “We don’t know what that species is,” he said of one bush. “We call it Skittle guava.”

Most of these fruits are from the tropics, particularly South America. Quite a few are from the Eugenia or Campomanesia families, which produce leafy shrubs that dangle with colorful, tiny balls of sweet, tangy, even peppery fruits. Most bizarre is the jaboticaba, whose grape-like orbs grow directly from the tree’s papery trunk. Said Reimer, “That is one of the stars of the garden.”

Reimer started discovering such fruits about 15 years ago while downhill skateboarding in Brazil. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, where he braved steep skills while skating to school, Reimer went right into professional skating at 18 years old, eventually winning a couple of world championships. (Check his skating-focused Instagram at @aerakrimes.) He also developed a skateboard truck company called Aera, then sold that to Santa Barbara’s Powell-Peralta in 2014, which is when he moved to town.

“I’m very obsessive, as you can probably tell,” said Reimer. “I just figured out how to make skateboard stuff, and now I’m hoping to do the same with fruit.”

His timing is fortuitous, as the fruit seed market out of South America is becoming much more accessible. “It’s like a renaissance for rare fruit growers, because all of the seeds are coming out of Brazil now,” said Reimer.

He has no intention of keeping this fruit zoo all to himself. In addition to his job at Skate One, the Powell-Peralta parent company where he’s worked since selling his company, Reimer is now consulting on fruit trees for property owners all around Santa Barbara.

Through his company, S.B. Fruit Tree, Reimer can be hired to help with grafting, pruning, pest management, soil adjustments, and/or selecting the right fruits for your yard. He could, for instance, graft five different apple or plum varieties onto the same tree, like he’s done all around his yard. “We call them cocktail trees,” said Reimer, whose Instagram photos of this year’s harvest would stoke envy in any backyard gardener.

“I’m such a fruit nerd,” admitted Reimer, who’s become knowledgeable about the various maladies affecting fruits of all types, such as the black fig fly that’s threatening every fig tree in California. (All of his figs 25 different varieties! are now covered in silk bags to keep the larvae-laying pest out.)

“I see fruit trees around town, and they look so neglected,” said Reimer with a hint of sadness. But he wants to help, and spread the gospel about these lowwater, easy-to-grow species, particularly Eugenias like that cherry of the Rio Grande.

“I’ve found them to grow very well up here and all around Santa Barbara,” he explained. “It’s like a Christmas ornament. It’s super full, and tasty and pretty. If it falls right into your hand, it’s ready!”

See sbfruittree.com and Reimer’s

AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF KEVIN REIMER’S

FRUITS

PSIDIUM (GUAVA)

• Guineense

• Australe

• Ganevii

• Strawberry

• Lemon

• Purple Forest guava

• Crunchy Thai White

• Orange Flesh

• SP “Skittles”

• Narrow Leaf

STONEFRUIT

• Flavor King

• Flavor Grenade

• Late Santa Rosa

• Arctic Snow nectarine

• Spicy Z nectaplum

• Sweet Treat Pluerry

• Santa Barbara peach

APPLES

• Anna

• Pink Lady

• Pink Pearl

• Cox’s Orange Pippin

• Winter Banana

• White Winter Pearmain

• Åkerö

• Goodland

• Regent

MULBERRY

• King White “Shahtoot”

• Pakistani

• Himalaya

• Skinner

• DMOR9

DRAGONFRUIT

• Cosmic Charlie

• Dark Star

• Asunta 3

• Baby Cerrado

• S8

• AX

• Purple Haze

FIGS

• LSU Purple

• LSU Champagne

• Figoin

• Cessac

• CDD Grise

• CDD Blanc

• Sal’s GS

• Ron de Bordeaux

• Musso di Vo

EUGENIA (MYRTACEAE)

• “Cherry of the Rio Grande”: E. involucrata (an orange version of this too)

• E. calycina

• “Pitanga”: E. uniflora

• E. multicostata

• E. acutata

• “Grumichama”: E. brasiliensis

• E. moraviana

• E. tenuipedunculata

• E. squamiflora

TROPICALS

• Mangoes (Peach Cobbler, Fairchild, CAC, etc.)

• Kohala Longan

• Erdon Lee lychee

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THURSDAY 9/12

INDEPENDENT CALENDAR

9/12-9/18: The Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale The 50th annual book sale will feature more than 120,000 books, CDs and DVDs, vinyl, puzzles, games, and more in benefit of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast. The sale runs through September 22. Thu.: 4pm, Fri.-Sun.: 10am, Mon.-Wed.: Noon. Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real. Thu.: $30, Fri-Wed.: Free. Email sbbooksaleinfo@gmail.com booksale.ppcentralcoast.org

9/12-9/13: UCSB’s Naked Shakes: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Naked Shakes, the UCSB ensemble that annually produces a Shakespearean play under the direction of Professor Irwin Appel, will perform Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing. 5pm. Department of Theater and Dance, UCSB. $13-$19. Call (805) 893-3022. tinyurl.com/MuchAdoAboutNothin24

9/12: The Toledo Show: The Erotic Ostrich Soul singer, jazz man, spoken word poet, and dancer Toledo, whose voice has been compared to Tom Waits, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone will bring his L.A. show to S.B. 7:30pm. Location given upon ticket purchase. GA: $50-$70, VIP: $95. Email summon@shimmyshimmyproductions.com tinyurl.com/The-Toledo

9/12: Reception & Exhibit Opening: Eqwinery Celebrate polo, rodeo, riding to hounds, and the opening of this exhibit that features lifelong equestrian Kate Griffith’s collection of paintings, lithographs, photos, memorabilia, and gear that combines her passions of wine and equines. 5pm. Flying Goat Cellars Tasting Room, 1520 E. Chestnut Ct., Lompoc. Free. Call (805) 736-9032. tinyurl .com/EqwineryExhibitReception

9/12-9/14: The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy This chilling cocktail experience will bring four of Poe’s stories off the page and onto the stage as told through the Poe Historians and paired with four classic cocktails. Thu.-Fri.: 6, 8, 10pm, Sat.: Noon, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10pm. The Narrative Loft, 1 N. Calle Cesar Chavez, #240. Ages 21+. $55-$62. tinyurl.com/PoeSpeakeasy

9/12: Voice Gallery Book Signing: History of Psychology through Symbols Join clinical psychologist and author James Broderick, PhD, and illustrator Danuta Bennett, PhD, for a book discussion and signing of History of Psychology Through Symbols, about the belief that history becomes more meaningful when it is experienced by active engagement. 6pm. Voice Gallery, La Cumbre Plaza, 110 S. Hope Ave., Unit H-124. Free psychologyandsymbols.com

FRIDAY 9/13

9/13-9/14: SCAPE Exhibit and Sale Immerse yourself in the beauty of the Central Coast at SCAPE’s (Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment) annual juried Fall Show, which celebrates stunning work by area artists and also benefits the environmental education nonprofit Explore Ecology. Fri.: 2:30pm, Sat.: 11am. Lehman Hall, Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free scape.wildapricot.org

9/13: I.V. Rec & Park District and I.V. Arts Present Movies in the Park: Jurassic Park Watch Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park (PG-13) about paleontologists and a mathematician who tour a theme park populated by dinosaurs and must deal with the aftermath when various predators break free. Bring a blanket and enjoy free snacks while supplies last. 8pm. Anisq’Oyo’ Park Amphitheater, 950 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista. Free. Call (805) 350-8751 or email nnorman@ivparks.org ivparks.org/recreation/events-calendar

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

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

FRIDAY

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

SATURDAY

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

SUNDAY

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

TUESDAY

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

WEDNESDAY

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

(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org

FISHERMAN’S MARKET

SATURDAY

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

9/13-9/15:

The Producing Unit Presents The Father This gripping and intense play will take the audience on a powerful journey through the mind of an elderly man, André, who is struggling with the complexity of dementia, offering a poignant look at the impact of aging and memory loss. The play shows through September 21. Fri.: 7:30pm, Sat.: 2pm, 7:30pm, Sun.: 2pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. Students: $21, GA: $31. Call (805) 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org

SATURDAY 9/14

9/14: S.Y.V. Children’s Museum Annual Fall Carnival Fundraiser Join for a light meal, drinks, and carnival games to raise money to build the valley’s first outdoor children’s museum. Comfy shoes and a hat are recommended. Noon. S.Y.V. Children’s Museum, 202 Dairyland Rd., Buellton. GA: $75. Email admin@syvchildrensmuseum.com givebutter.com/SYVCMFall24

Shows on Tap

9/13-9/14:

M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Soul Majestic Acoustic, 6pm. Sat.: Matthew Clark Trio, 6pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

9/12-9/14, 9/17-9/18: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: The American Diamond, 8pm. $20-$25. Fri.: Make It Last All Night: A Tribute to Tom Petty, 8pm. $25. Ages 21+. Sat.: Banda Night, 9pm. $20. Ages 21+. Tue.: Marley’s Ghost, 7:30pm. $20-$25. Wed.: The McCrees, 8pm. $15. Ages 21+. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

9/12: Eos Lounge Jackie Hollander, 9pm. $6.18. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com

9/13: Validation Ale Green Flag Summer, 7pm. 102 E. Yanonali St Ages 21+. Call (805) 500-3111. validationale.com

9/13-9/15: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Redondo B*tch, 9pm. Sat.: Rebel Heart, 8:30pm. Sun.: Adrian Galysh, 1pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/event-calendar

9/13-9/14: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Walking Coco, 8pm. Sat.: The

Upbeat, 8pm. 634 State St. Free. 634 State St. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

9/14: Lost Chord Guitars Jannike, 8pm. $11.59. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

9/14, 9/18: Carr Winery Sat.: Jonathan Firey, 4pm. Wed.: Brian Kinsella, Jimmy Rankin, 5:30pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985 or email info@ carrwinery.com carrwinery.com/event

9/14: Arrowsmith’s Wine Bar Teresa Pico, 7pm. 1539 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call (805) 686-9126 or email anna@arrowsmithwine.com arrowsmithwine.com/events

9/14: Hook’d Bar and Grill Out of the Blue, 3pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarand grill.com/music-on-the-water

9/14-9/15: S.B. Bowl Sat.: Stephen Sanchez, The Brook & The Bluff, 7pm. $45.50-$105.50. Sun.: Sturgill Simpson, 7pm. $75.50-$155.50.1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com

9/16: The Red Piano RJ Mischo, 7:30pm. 519 State St. Free. Call (805) 3581439. theredpiano.com

9/18: Whiskey Richards Punk on Vinyl, 9pm. 435 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 451-8206. tinyurl.com/PunkOnVinylSept18

9/18: Soul Bites Snapshot, 5pm. 423 State St. Free. Call (805) 869-2198. soulbitesrestaurants.com/events

9/14: Second Annual Downtown Santa Barbara Brew Fest Join fellow beer enthusiasts for an afternoon of craft brews from more than 15 breweries, food, and live music. 2pm. Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. $49. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-2098 or email christy@downtownsb.org tinyurl.com/SB-BrewFest2024

9/14: The Robert Cray Band Five-time Grammy Award–winning artist Robert Cray and his band will bring his unique sound of American roots, blues, soul, and R&B to S.B. 7:30pm. The Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $55-$65; premium: $106. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/whats-on

Soul Majestic Acoustic

9/14: NatureTrack Summer Screening Film Series Celebrate nature and conservation with a screening of bird-themed documentaries Nesting with the Devil, The Snowy Plover & You, and Fresh to Frightening. 7:30pm. El Capitán State Beach Campground, Goleta. Free. Email info@naturetrackfilmfestival.org tinyurl.com/ NatureTrack-BirdNight

9/14: Italian Cooking Class & Lunch with Cucina Melissa Join Chef Melissa Norton to create confit tomato salad, pasta with clams, and her signature olive oil cake with fior di latte gelato, and more followed by a picnic lunch. Buttonwood Farm & Vineyard, 1500 Alamo Pintado Rd., Solvang. $125. Call (805) 688-3032. tinyurl.com/ ItalianCookingClassSept14

9/14: No Indoor Voices Presents: Last Comic Stand-Up Show Laugh the night away with comedy from Laurie Kilmartin, comedian and Emmy-nominated writer for Conan, and Matt Kirshen, comedian and writer for the The Jim Jefferies Show, Arrested Development, and more. 7:30pm. Soul Bites, 423 State St. $20-$25. tinyurl.com/LaurieKilmartinandMattKirshen

9/14: Brander Winery & Vineyard 48th Annual Harvest Festival Experience the magic of harvest season with live music by Leslie Lembo & The Raw Silk Band, Argentine Asado BBQ by Buena Onda S.B., a folk art exhibition, exclusive library and reserve wine tastings, and grape stomping. 1pm. The Brander Vineyard, 2401 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. $75. Call (805) 688-2455. brander.com

9/14-9/15: Hula Anyone Presents Lokahi Concert Series 2024 Take in one or both of this year’s Lokahi (Coming Together) outdoor shows with live music, storytelling, singing, hula dancing, and a silent auction benefiting Hula Anyone’s mission to preserve Hawaiian hula and Tahitian dance traditions. Shows will be held at private residences with locations provided upon ticket purchase. Sat.: 4:30pm, Sun.: 12:30pm. $45. Call (805) 451-0589 or email info@hulaanyone.com tinyurl.com/HulaAnyone-2024

9/14: Eurythmy: Healing Movement for Body, Soul, and Spirit Join for the quiet movement art of eurythmy, which aims to express the spiritual nature of the world through movement, color, and form and was founded by Rudolf Steiner. 9:30am. The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, 7421 Mirano Dr., Goleta. $35. Call (805) 967-6656 or email info@waldorfsantabarbara.org waldorfsantabarbara.org/events

SUNDAY 9/15

9/15: Art KIT: Marketing & Promotion for Creatives This Art KIT (Know Important Tools) workshop will begin with a panel discussion by successful area professionals on branding, messaging, market research, and audience identification, moderated by Adrienne De Guevara of the Arts Collaborative. 11am. S.B. Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. Free. Call (805) 301-7857 or email info@artscollaborative.org sbartscollaborative.org/artkit/workshops

9/15: Green Film Series: The Doctrine of Recovery: Unmasking the Domination Code Watch a screening of this 2014 historical documentary that traces the roots of the colonial conquest of North America to the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery,” which justified the dispossession of Native populations, followed by a post-screening interview and Q&A. 4pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $10. Call (805) 884-4087 or email kathykelley@luketheatre.org luketheatre.org

MONDAY 9/16

9/16: Scrabble Club This weekly social group is designed to connect older adults through their love of Scrabble. All levels, new members, and English and Spanish speakers are always welcome. 1-4pm. Westside Neighborhood Center, 423 W. Victoria St. Free. Call (805) 564-5418. tinyurl.com/ScrabbleClub-Sep16

TUESDAY 9/17

9/17: S.B. Central Library Presents 1,000 Books Party Readers who have read 1,000 books before kindergarten will be celebrated during a special Wiggly Storytime where attendees can enjoy bubbles and a ceremony. 3pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call (805) 962-7653. tinyurl.com/1000BooksParty

9/17: The S.B. Audubon Society Presents: Why Are Some Birds So Colorful? The Evolution of Avian Ornamentation Using birds to illustrate, author and academic Steve Gaulin will explain sexual selection and why male birds in particular use flamboyant displays during courtship. 7pm. S.B.

9/17: Dementia Caregivers Support Group This support group, conducted by trained facilitators, will provide caregivers of people with dementia current information about Alzheimer’s and other dementias, and a supportive connection to learn practical solutions to common caregiver challenges. Walk-ins welcome. 5pm. 3rd Flr. Conference Rm., Sansum Clinic, 215 Pesetas Ln. Free. Call (800) 272-3900. tinyurl.com/DementiaCaregiversSupportGroup

9/17: Celtic Thunder: Odyssey The Odyssey tour is a fascinating exploration of Irish music and culture with traditional, contemporary, and original arrangements sung by vocalists with distinctive voices that also create a harmonious blend. 7:30pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $62-$92. Call (805) 899-2222. granadasb.org

9/17: Chaucer’s Book Talk and Signing: Alycia Vreeland Area author Alycia Vreeland will talk about and sign copies of both her illustrated memoir Baby Darlin’, which exposes the stigma around child sexual abuse with compassion and insight through the eyes of a brave little girl, as well as her poetry collaboration with her late husband, Jon Vreeland, titled Laughing in Her Sleep. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event

WEDNESDAY 9/18

9/18: An Evening with Kevin Nealon, Andy Woodhull Enjoy a comedy set by Emmy and SAG-nominated actor and comedian Kevin Nealon in benefit of Solvang Theaterfest and the Rotary Club of Solvang with stand-up comedian Andy Woodhull to open the show. 7:30pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $60-$90. Call (805) 686-1789. tinyurl.com/KevinNealonSept18

PAYING TRIBUTE

9/15: Memories: An Evening

Tribute to Barbra Streisand Celebrated Streisand impersonator

Sharon Owens will pay tribute to 50 years of Barbra Streisand’s music career and perform songs such as “People,” “Evergreen,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “The Way We Were,” and more. 5pm. The Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $54.75-$73.50. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/whats-on

9/12: An Evening with the American Diamond: Neil Diamond Tribute Band Enjoy a performance by American Diamond, a diverse musical cover band honoring the legendary music of the great Neil Diamond. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant and Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$25. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

9/13: A Tribute to the Legendary Linda Ronstadt The seven-piece Ronstadt Revival band featuring Shannon Rae will faithfully perform Linda Ronstadt’s incredible songs such as “You’re No Good,”“Blue Bayou,”“When Will I Be Loved,” and more, weaving stories with background imagery. 7:30pm. The Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $53-$78. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/whats-on

9/13: Make It Last All Night: A Tribute to Tom Petty Cover band Make It Last All Night will honor and play the classic songs of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers such as “American Girl,”“Refugee,”“I Won’t Back Down,” and more. 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant and Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$25. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

¡FELIZ DÍA DEL GRITO!

El Día de la Independencia de México suele denominarse “El Grito” o “El Grito de Independencia,” en homenaje al grito de guerra que inició una rebelión en 1810 Mexican Independence Day is often referred to as El Grito or El Grito de Independencia, a tribute to the battle cry that launched a rebellion in 1810.

9/16: Goleta Mexican Independence Day Festival

Join this important cultural celebration and block party while shopping and eating local with the Consul General of Mexico leading the traditional El Grito, vendor booths, live music, Ballet Folklórico, a mariachi performance, a talent show, and giveaways. Únase a esta importante celebración cultural y a la fiesta del barrio mientras compra y come comida local con el Cónsul General de México dirigiendo el tradicional El Grito, puestos de vendedores, música en directo, Ballet Folklórico, una actuación de mariachis, un concurso de talentos y regalos. Noon-7pm. Goleta Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. tinyurl.com/2024-ElGrito

MYSTICISM IN THE ’BURBS

DUNCAN SIMCOE’S EXHIBITION AT WESTMONT MUSEUM OF ART MEDITATES ON THE SECRET LIFE OF SUBURBIA AND OTHER COMMONPLACE IMAGERY

On the face of things, the subject matter encountered in Duncan Simcoe’s current Night Visions exhibition at Westmont’s Ridley-Tree Museum of Art is seemingly commonplace. He presents scenes from the suburbia he knew growing up in Orange County, and deals with implements of travel as iconography which he calls “means of conveyance” as well as observations on a famous plane crash and racist violence, and a loosely spun dalliance with rock ’n’ roll.

But behind and around these commonplace realms and objects, mysteries and questions lurk. Not for nothing is one strong series in the show dubbed Mythinburbia Mysticism visits the ’burbs: There goes the neighborhood.

The artist’s unique, means painting/ drawing on tar paper and artistic messaging grow ever-denser on closer scrutiny. Scrutiny and contemplation are necessary tools for the job of appreciating Simcoe’s art. With intriguing degrees of subtlety and inference, Simcoe’s art satisfies the underlying but not dogmatic adherence to spiritual themes at the Christian-based Westmont College. Simcoe, who follows the Eastern Orthodox path and teaches at the California Baptist University in Riverside, California, inquisitively broaches the secret life and spiritual questing bubbling under the surfaces and conventions of contemporary life.

The very exhibition title Night Visions (curated by Gordon Fuglie) serves a dual purpose, descriptive of the visual and spiritual nocturnes involved and, via his tar paper base, the inverted art logic of light on dark. In some way, the effect reminds us of black velvet paintings, although with a very different cultural context. While Simcoe’s art suggests the linear quality of drawing, a skill he masters, it is actually created with oil paint and flecked with loamy tones to enrich and also further mystify the end result.

In the museum’s entrance gallery, we’re introduced to his “means of conveyance” interest (conveyance implying both actual travel and philosophical search modes) with the vast “Means of Conveyance (Sailing Ship)” painting, suggesting a ghostly vessel that slipped out of a dream. Across the room, Simcoe tangentially taps into the post–George Floyd era of awareness of racial violence not by directly addressing Floyd’s murder but by interpreting a news story photo of a violent protest in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s. The trans-historical vantage lends a deeper recognition of the dark, seemingly unstoppable legacy of racial violence through human history.

In a related way, Simcoe finds new artistic angles to respectfully contend with the harsh historical reality of the tragic Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crash in 2014, which killed all 239 passengers. “Black Box” is a set of integrated elements a triangular form conveying an ocean and a plummeting toy airplane, Persian-rug-like stacks of tar paper marked with religious iconography across religious faiths forming a distinctive and openended memorial through art.

The “Candelabra” series shifts orientation and format as tall pieces based on an inverted triangle structure. The realistic imagery at the base, whether a swimming, swooning couple or a film noir–tinged smoking man, gives way to a mysterious emanation of huge ectoplasmic plumes consuming most of the pictorial space.

A centerpiece of the main gallery, and the show itself, is his powerful Mythinburbia series, in which flinty linear drawings of cookie-cutter tract houses take on the feel of architectural drawings irradiated by some cosmic force and as if seen through “night vision” goggles. The piece “#17 (Fire Starter)” blends a generic ranch house and an apparitional/memento inset image of the artist’s late wife (who died of cancer in her fifties), with wall text quoting the sage Bruce Springsteen: “You can’t start a fire without a spark.”

In “Mythinburbia #19 (Vice),” the familiar grid of humble homes is flanked on its

edges by images of a man and woman in a face-off, with a central talismanic image of a large vice floating above the house, signifying inter-gender tension and fixity.

Lest we buy into the idea of the suburbs as Simcoe’s singular or most concentrated point of fixation, Night Visions also leads us into other realms, often reflective of his spiritual nature at the core. His religious and specifically Eastern Orthodox perspective comes through clearly in a dark-lit alcove of the museum, in “A Distant Mirror: A Meditation on St. Catherine.” He pays tribute to the saint, martyred in 305 CE, with a plastic skeleton, and his own paintings thereof.

In another surprising turn, his “Rock and Roll” is a large, slowly revolving cylinder bearing images of antique cruciform church designs. The odd, soothing piece might function as a summarizing statement of the artist’s intent, with its meshed different shades of icon worship and ritual, where the sacred and the secular meet in surprising and potentially illuminating ways.

—Josef Woodard

Duncan Simcoe’s Night Visions is on view at Westmont’s Ridley-Tree Museum of Art (955 La Paz Rd.) through November 9. See westmont.edu/museum.

Once, the indie movie with an Academy Award–winning ballad (“Falling Slowly”), evolved into an off-, then on-Broadway sensation that now enjoys popularity in regional theaters around the country. The Rubicon Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Once (written by Enda Walsh with music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová; directed by Michael Michetti) brings this lovely musical reverie to an intimate Irish pub setting built on downtown Ventura’s Rubicon stage.

The tale told in Once leans toward “vibes” more than a strict, event-based narrative artists lost in the inspirational doldrums, desperately seeking sparks of passion, find each other but the journey is expressive and sensorial. “Guy is shut down from the world and has decided to no longer take risks or chances and no longer live a big life,” says Shawn William Smith, who plays the leading character, “Guy.” “When Girl shows up in his life, she incites a start to healing,” says Smith.

While much of the dramatic action takes place within the pub, the out-of-scene performers are generally visible on the stage peripheries, giving the sense, says Smith, of “telling the story in real time.” Meanwhile, Michetti likens Once to a long-form Irish-style story-song.

Beyond the maybe/maybe not flint strike between Guy and Girl, Once is also a blissful expression of the excitement and pleasure of the communal musical experience. With the setting in Dublin, much of the show’s music has an Irish folk influence, though the characters are from different countries, backgrounds, and cultures, infusing an international flavor to the sound.

“There’s this sense of community, a sense of ensemble coming together to make something despite not playing the same musical style,” says Michetti, “yet finding joy and satisfaction in the collaboration of making music.”

—Maggie Yates

Once runs at the Rubicon Theatre (1006 E. Main St., Ventura) September 13 through October 6. See

COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

“Divers, Candelabra” by Duncan Simcoe

Duncan Simcoe, “Rock & Roll” studio

CHRISTOPHER

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Shawn W. Smith as Guy and Maddie Eaton as Girl in the Rubicon Theatre’s production of Once COURTESY

THE EMOTIONAL LAYERS OF DEMENTIA TAKE CENTER STAGE IN THE FATHER

INTENSE AND GRIPPING PLAY IN DOWNTOWN S.B. SEPTEMBER 13-21

André has dementia, and his daughter, Anne, struggles to navigate the situation as his symptoms progress. In The Father, a play by Florian Zeller, presented by The Producing Unit at Center Stage Theater, the day-to-day forgetfulness of an aging man turns into confusion, frustration, and the misinterpretation of reality. For André (Tom Hinshaw), the world is ceasing to make sense. For Anne, amid the grief of losing touch with a loved one whose mind is failing, a difficult question looms: What do I do with Dad?

The role of André gives Hinshaw emotional layers and mental compartments to play hide-and-seek in depending on the

state of the character’s mind. “It’s a delicate balance because André is sometimes completely confident in his view of reality, even when it’s not accurate, and other times, he’s confused and frustrated,” he says. “To be truthful to that perspective is a challenge that I relish.”

The Father gives audiences the brokenmirror view of Andre’s reality, but also the other side of the coin the concern and angst of the family on the outside. Director Bill Egan describes The Producing Unit’s mission as exploring humanity and performance through deeply actor-driven work. “I was drawn to this material and the universal time in our lives when our parents get older and there’s a role reversal and lifestyle changes as the child becomes the parent and vice versa. It’s such a complex and severely impactful time,” he says. “I wanted to explore those relationships.”

The Producing Unit has connected with the California Central Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and will have resources available for deeper learning as well as a guided Q&A talkback after the production on September 15. See The Father at Center Stage Theater (751 Paseo Nuevo) September 13-21 and open your mind to both a practical and an emotional education about dementia.

—Maggie Yates

See centerstagetheater.org for tickets and information.

From left: Rachel Jordan Brown, Tom Hinshaw, and Paul Canter in The Father

Rachel Jordan Brown and Tom Hinshaw in The Father

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Professors, Poets, and Me

Apublished poet. Principals. Mystery authors. Doctors. Social media influencers. A “big-time troublemaker.” University professors. And me.

It’s an unlikely group of people that have come together. But we all have one thing in common: a love of literature.

“We’re about literacy,” longtime volunteer and Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale co-chair Fran Antenore explains. My second day on the job, Antenore pulls me away from my “rough sort” duty a role I’m both eager to start but also terrified of, since I’m still learning the more than 50 categories of books (because, 50!) to talk with me about some of the people she’s encountered in the dozen years she’s volunteered. Set to begin serving as the chair for her fifth sale, Antenore isn’t just a volunteer this is her life.

The Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale is celebrating 50 years this year. For five decades, this entirely volunteer-run operation has gone from earning around $4,600 out of their State Street book sale site to more than half a million dollars last year.

Today, they have a completely dedicated book sale warehouse and donation site near Old Town Goleta where books are shlepped, sorted, categorized, scanned, shipped, and stacked every single week of the year. Every new set of volunteers is trained by a manager who runs their team enthusiastically. It’s fun to be here. I mean, everyone is a volunteer, so why shouldn’t it be fun? But also, everything is organized. Like, a dedicated person that arranges, restocks, and purchases supplies for the office, kind of organized.

For an organization that’s just half a century old, this thing could be studied by Harvard Business School (and it might be just give the group until October to set the plans in motion). “I’ve never seen anything like this in America,” quips Carol, another volunteer.

stations, so needless to say, things were scrappy. Phone trees were used. Mothers with children, specifically children “who could read,” as Antenore puts it, were called on to help set up the sale.

But what isn’t often told is how this book sale got to be so good. Because it’s not just the community coming together every September to attend “the biggest used-book sale in Santa Barbara with thousands of donated books collected all year on everything from aardvarks to zygotes,” as one newspaper ad wrote about the event in 1994. (Yes, that’s great, too.) It’s the volunteers.

A New Volunteer’s Journey Into the 50-Year-Old Mary Jane McCord Annual Planned Parenthood Book Sale

by Meaghan Clark Tiernan

I am four weeks into this gig, one I signed up for months ago just thinking I’d just get first dibs on children’s books at this big sale everyone always talks about (NO, I HAVE NEVER BEEN) and am literally getting chills. “We operate like a collective,” Carol chimes in during my chat with Antenore.

If you’ve ever attended the Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale, you know it’s good. Like, according to Antenore, no-one-ever-walks-away-empty-handed good

The history of the sale is a beautiful one. Because of course it’s beautiful. A group of volunteers and boardmembers got together in 1973 to create an auxiliary of Planned Parenthood to support education and fundraise. They chose to sell books! In the beginning, books were collected in bins at gas

I’m not sure when I got the first email to volunteer for the book sale. It might have been in January. The training day had been on my calendar for months. When I finally walked into the room for my first day of orientation, I was five minutes late, but the meeting had already started. Everyone in the room had already introduced themselves. “But I’m a mom!” I screamed internally, as I quickly stashed the half-eaten Clif bar in my purse for later. Somehow, two hours of training in the office rushed by. Obviously, I love books. But as I learned during my first day of rough sort training, I don’t love books in the way that some people do the way they can immediately pick up a book or catch the author’s name from the other side of the room and know whether it’ll fit under one of 50 categories, such as Natural History or New Age. This isn’t just training; it’s an education. And I’m a student. My teachers are the volunteers who work tirelessly all year to put together an annual fundraiser that benefits Planned Parenthood of California Central Coast.

Part of the initial training is to learn about the book sale’s “side hustles.” I’m using that term playfully, because selling on Amazon is considered a side hustle, but it raked in just as much money a few years ago as the book sale did. A large part of that is likely due to a volunteer named Steve, who created a proprietary software named Lookling.

Lookling allows category owners to scan every single book that’s been delivered to them by a rough sorter and determine whether it has value, and how often it sells online. Not only that, but this tool also generates a basic description of each book, posts it online, and creates a packing slip. It’s a tool literally created for this book sale. By a volunteer. In their spare time. “He thought it would take him a few months, but it took him a few years to flesh it out,” Antenore tells me.

There’s also a room the team refers to as “ABE” not because the category owner is named Abe, but because another volunteer who deals directly with specialized books full-time curates high-end, one-of-a-kind, and first-edition books that can be sold on AbeBooks, a site that’s described as an “e-commerce global online marketing that offers books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries.” Last month, one of the donated books sold for $1,500.

And that’s just scratching the surface. There’s also the puzzles and games that volunteers began collecting and organizing during COVID; or Bernie and Carol, who took one look at the upstairs “record room” last year, if you could call it that, and took it upon themselves to organize, sort to sell at the sale, and on occasion work directly with dealers to sell high-value records.

“We get so many books, often duplicates, and we try to fulfill the requests of outside organizations who are also interested in literacy,” explains Antenore. Organizations like Alcoholic Anonymous, where boxes of books that can’t be sold are donated to give to individuals who may not be able to afford a new book; or building a North and South County library for the jail. “We know people want to donate to the [Planned Parenthood] Book Sale, but we’re about community,” says Antenore.

There’s also an entire team dedicated to selling all the random stuff they receive on eBay (a Sleep Number Bed control?), and the group that collects data to help analyze the number of books sold per category and price during the sale, allowing future category owners to assess how to organize for the following year.

“My answer is just to say yes to everything,” smiles Antenore.

I get chills every time I hear these stories. Because it’s the volunteers that have made this all happen. “The span between our youngest volunteer and our oldest volunteer is 78 years.” Antenore tells me, sharing that the youngest volunteer, at age 14, designed this year’s new logo. “So, people show up, they bring their brilliance, and they create and do.”

I’m not sure if I’m adding any brilliance to the group, but in just a few short weeks, I’ve worked alongside neighbors, fellow moms, and new friends to determine what ends up in the sale. And yes, I’ll finally be attending this year as a proud volunteer.

The Mary Jane McCord Planned Parenthood Annual Book Sale takes place at Earl Warren Showgrounds September 12-22. Admission to the opening night party (September 12, 4-8 p.m.) is $30; all other days are free. See booksale.ppcentralcoast.org.

Writer Meaghan Clark Tiernan and other volunteers enjoy peeking at the treasures before the Planned Parenthood annual book sale.

GENERAL WESTERN AERO HANGARS OPEN HOUSE

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Direct Relief Conference Room 6100 Wallace Becknell Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93117

Join Santa Barbara Airport to discuss the future of the historic General Western Aero Hangars. Drop by anytime to explore exhibits, provide ideas, and discuss potential fundraising opportunities to support the rehabilitation of the hangars.

For more information, visit FlySBA.com/GWAHangars

¡El Aeropuerto de Santa Barbara quiere escuchar de ti!

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Solvang’s Vibrant Danish Days Celebration Returns

Solvang Danish Days is returning this September with a jam-packed lineup.

From Friday, September 20, to Sunday, September 22, Solvang will once again honor its title as “The Danish Capital of America,” inviting visitors to take part in authentic Danish festivities. With the theme Det Dansk, Det Dejligt (“It’s Danish, it’s delightful!”), this year rings in the 86th year of Danish-themed fun in Solvang.

Æbleskiver Eating Contests, Lego-Building, and More at This Year’s Festivities

by Caitlin Scialla

GENERAL WESTERN AERO HANGARS CASA ABIERTA

Martes, 17 de Septiembre, 2024

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Direct Relief Sala de Conferencia

6100 Wallace Becknell Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93117

Únete con el Aeropuerto de Santa Barbara a hablar del futuro de los General Western Aero Hangars. Pasa por cualquier tiempo para ver exhibiciones, dar ideas, y hablar de recaudación de fondos posibles de apoyar la rehabilitación de los hangares.

Para más información, visita FlySBA.com/GWAHangars

Danish Days honors the 1911 establishment of Solvang by Danish-Americans. Beginning in 1936 to commemorate Solvang’s 25th anniversary, the event has since transformed into a massive annual tradition that looks to preserve Solvang’s unique Danish culture. As the story goes, Danish Days solidified Solvang as a tourism hotspot in 1946 when a reporter from the Saturday Evening Post visited the event and published an article praising Solvang as “Little Denmark.”

Many decades later, Danish Days continues to delight attendees. This year’s itinerary seamlessly integrates older Danish-American customs with modern-day festival essentials. Activities are varied from axe throwing to food tours to a Hans Christian Andersen story time welcoming guests of all ages to enjoy the celebration.

As tradition mandates, Danish Days will be overseen by the 2024 Danish Maid. Since the 1960s, the Danish Maid has been appointed to serve as an important figurehead for the event, making public appearances during their year to promote Solvang

and the spirit of hospitality that characterizes the city.

This year’s Danish Maid is 16-year-old Kaeley Reid. Reid’s family has a long history of involvement with Danish Days. Her grandparents, Hans and Denise Birkholm, were key figures in growing Danish Days, molding it into the renowned occasion that we have come to appreciate today. Reid’s mother, Karine Birkholm-Reid, was the 1998 Danish Days Maid. Reid herself experienced her first Danish Days at just nine months old.

“As this year’s Danish Maid, I can’t wait to represent Solvang and present our Danish history and culture to both locals and visitors, some of which travel from all over the world to join in our annual Danish Days festivities,” said Kaeley Reid. “I am happy to give back to the community I hold so dear and most importantly, I will be honoring the memory of my grandparents, who left me too soon. I know they will be smiling down on me.”

For the complete schedule of Danish Days events, visit solvangdanishdays.org.

Costumes aren’t required, but they certainly add to the fun of Solvang Danish Days festivities.

Kaeley Reid

Birds of Two Feathers Flock Together

When dusk falls, the daytime birds find a well-hidden roosting site, perhaps deep within a thicket, for at night they are at their most vulnerable. They remain motionless and silent until the morning if they survive the attentions of the night hunters. It must be a powerful urge, then, that sends hundreds of millions of birds into the night sky to migrate south every fall, more powerful than their natural fear of the night. Many of these birds are juveniles, striking out on their own, into the unknown, on their first great journey.

I’ve often wondered what it must be like for these youngsters, obeying the urge to launch alone into the night sky. I imagine they feel something akin to terror. I recently had my thinking changed, however, when I read new research that suggests migration is more of a communal affair, where different species form “migrating communities.”

New Research Has Found That Mixed Groups of Birds Migrate Together

Joely DeSimone, researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, thought that with so many birds in the air together, there must be some kind of interaction going on. DeSimone had the idea of looking at data from banding stations, where birds are caught in nets, measured, cataloged, fitted with a band, and quickly set free. Banding stations are located at known gathering sites for migrating birds, so it made sense to see if there was data to show that migrating birds were moving together.

The researchers gathered more than half a million records from five stations across eastern North America. After much statistical analysis, lo and behold, the data proved that birds have their own “interspecies social networks.” These networks held true across all the banding stations.

DeSimone had surmised that birds with similar dietary needs would avoid one another to cut down on the competition for scarce resources; they were surprised, then, when they discovered the opposite to be true. Nashville warblers and Tennessee warblers, both tiny green-and-yellow birds that have essentially the same diet, often travel together during migration. Another example of interspecies traveling buddies involves the American redstart and magnolia warbler.

The researchers conjecture that one possible benefit that such companionship could bring is that, because of the birds’ similarities, they can help each other discover prime feeding habitat.

Whether these “social networks” are formed at night as the birds are on the move, or when the birds have landed and are actively seeking food, is still unknown. I’d like to think that it’s the former, and that the birds have some company as they journey in darkness, especially for the youngsters who are striking out for the first time.

The next Santa Barbara Audubon Society program will be Why Are Some Birds So Colorful? The Evolution of Avian Ornamentation, presented by Steven Gaulin. Gaulin is a Professor of Anthropology at UCSB and an avid birder. The talk will take place on Tuesday, September 17, at 7 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s Fleischmann Auditorium (2559 Puesta del Sol). The event is free and is open to the general public.

Hugh Ranson is a member of Santa Barbara Audubon Society, a nonprofit organization that protects area birdlife and habitat and connects people with birds through education, conservation, and science. For more information, see santabarbaraaudubon.org.

Story and Photos by Hugh Ranson, Member of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society

Tennessee warblers, shown, team up with Nashville warblers during migration.

Nashville warbler

An American redstart, which often has a magnolia warbler as a traveling companion

Magnolia warbler

Don’t miss these Los Angeles Times critics’ picks for hottest classical music tickets this fall!

“Blindingly impressive.”

The New York Times on AMOC*

“Julia Bullock [is] an essential soprano for our times.”

– Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

Co-presented with

Olivier Messiaen’s HARAWI

An American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) Production

Fri, Oct 4 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall

Tickets start at $32.50 / $15 UCSB students

Zack Winokur, director

Julia Bullock, soprano

Conor Hanick, piano

Bobbi Jene Smith, dancer/choreographer

Or Schraiber, dancer/choreographer

Experience Olivier Messiaen’s deeply affecting, hour-long song cycle for voice and piano in a newly physicalized and dramatized production. Throughout a dozen interconnected love songs, two dancers bring the composer’s romantic surrealism to life and add new dimension to the piece’s searing portrayal of love and loss.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner, Principal Conductor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja , violin

Sat, Oct 12 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre

Tickets start at $58.50 / $20 UCSB students

A Granada facility fee is included in each ticket price

“London’s most adventurous and dynamic mainstream orchestra.” The Times (U.K.)

“An astonishing force of nature.”

The Guardian (U.K.) on Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Led by principal conductor Edward Gardner, the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs a new piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León. Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins the orchestra for Shostakovich’s Violin

Concerto No. 1. Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony takes listeners on an emotional journey with moments of anguish to pure ecstasy.

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LITTLE BIRD KITCHEN Flies into the Santa Barbara Public Market

Former bouchon and Intermezzo Chef Brings Fine Dining Cred to California Casual Cuisine

BY REBECCA

A“s a chef, you can design everything you want into a restaurant,” the owner of Little Bird Kitchen (LBK), Josh Brown, told me of his recently opened casual Californian spot at the Public Market.

Cheeseburgers, corn dogs, milkshakes, and onion rings might not be what you’d expect of the first business owned outright from the former chef at bouchon and chef and partner at Intermezzo. However, Brown elevates these crowd-pleasing favorites with his signature attention to detail and obsession with quality.

“Even in a fast-casual concept, you can still cook with passion and consideration for what you’re giving your guests,” Brown explained.

This is evident in nearly every item on the menu. Take, for example, the exceptional fried chicken sandwich. He sources premium Mary’s FreeRange Chicken and fries it in buttermilk with a Dixie fry breading he’s been using since he was a kid. House-made sweet pickle chips (a snack he had created for the charcuterie board at Intermezzo) are stacked on top with plenty of addictive LBK sauce. Nestled between a Martin’s Potato Roll toasted with clarified butter, this hefty sandwich is a filling and flavorful deal in a town that can be saturated in small plates at high prices.

“I created the menu to reach a broad number of the guests coming into the Public Market at any given day,” Brown explained of the multi-faceted options. For those looking for something a little lighter, there are four bountiful salads served in classic wooden bowls that I certainly remember my mom using growing up. It’s this mix of nostalgia and sophistication of ingredients and technique that makes Little Bird feel at once familiar yet exciting.

savory balance to the dish. Grilled marinated chicken breast or Scottish salmon can be added to any of the salads for any added boost of protein.

Brown’s 27 years of experience as a chef and 30 years in Santa Barbara give him a keen read on the pulse of what local diners want.

With two children and a wife who works at Cottage Hospital, Brown created the restaurant in part because it would allow him more time with his family. Little Bird Kitchen is even named after his daughter, Piper Wren. Brown’s love for family is evident in the approachable menu and the quality that goes into it.

Their LBK burger uses heritage chuck Angus that they grind the day before. “It’s a huge effort, but the delivery of that is a wholesome and much higher quality product,” he says. There’s also a kid’s menu full of friendly options such as grilled cheese and chicken tenders.

“The Caesar salad is something I’m known for and always proud of,” Brown said. Roots Farms Little Gems are mixed in a bright garlic and anchovy dressing and tossed with homemade croutons and parmesan. This was my favorite of the salads, but with Brown’s commitment to sourcing as much as he can from farmers’ markets and his selection of handmade dressings, you really can’t go wrong.

The mixed lettuces with roasted beets, toasted pepitas, orange slices, and shredded carrots doused in a delightful poppyseed dressing recalled family dinners of my childhood.

“It’s something your mom would have made for every summer salad,” Brown said. With one bite, I was taken back to a warm July evening and my mom’s strawberry salad; I could almost hear the blender whipping up that classic poppyseed dressing. However, Brown’s gourmet background can’t help but show not only in the local produce, but in the artful swipe across the bowl of

“I knew that there was a demographic in the market that would want things outside of a full meal,” Brown said. So, while there are certainly satisfying sandwiches and salads, Brown also offers a selection of tasty shareables for those looking for a snack while watching the game.

The mouthwatering LBK roasted Blue Point oysters stuffed with spinach, butter, parmesan, and persillade crumbs and topped with warm hollandaise and scallion provide a perfect pairing with a Margerum rosé or handshaken margarita from Cooney’s Bar at the Public Market. The LBK Crispy Fried Chicken Wings served with crudité and blue-cheese ranch make a welcome companion to the more than 30 craft beers on tap at Cooney’s. The two Public Market outposts will be partnering up for Happy Hour coming soon at Cooney’s with a draft beer and an LBK Burger deal for only $15 from 3-5 p.m.

If you’re looking for a nonalcoholic beverage, Little Bird has you covered with their selection of hard-to-find, refreshing, and vintage sodas.

“I work with a soda somm out of L.A.,” Brown said. Their friendly fridge beckons with exciting options such as cane sugar Coca-Cola or Big Red, and the list changes all the time.

Whether you’re opting for a lighter lunch or dinner with a kale salad or reveling in the nostalgia of a Nathan’s jumbo corn dog and fries, do not sleep on the milkshakes. I’ve tried both options multiple times, and I cannot choose a favorite. The Chocolate Malted features a rich mix of Dutchman’s Chocolate, malt powder, and malt ball crunch, and the Vanilla Coconut’s combination of vanilla bean ice cream, local honey, coconut oil, and toasted coconut is an ethereal concoction of flavors and textures that is sure to put a smile on your face.

With only a month under its belt, the warm, efficient, and consistent service at Little Bird is laudable, and also makes sense given the fact that Brown’s management team and sous chef came with him from Intermezzo.

“The three of us are working toward a large goal with this concept,” Brown explained. Judging by the mix of young professionals grabbing a quick and healthy lunch, sports fans sharing savory snacks, and families enjoying the quality and simplicity of fries and a burger, Brown’s goals are right on track.

Little Bird Kitchen is open daily, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., at the Santa Barbara Public Market (38 W. Victoria St.). Online ordering is also available. See littlebirdsb.com for more information.

whipped goat cheese, which adds a lovely note of cool,

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The fried chicken sandwich

The Chocolate Malted

Little Bird Kitchen has a nice assortment of salads.

Seven Lands a Heavenly New Location

When Seven Bar & Kitchen lost their lease in 2022 after 10 years of providing a fun and truly funky destination in the Funk Zone, shutting down that August, owner Michael Gomez, unsurprisingly, wasn’t pleased. Now Seven Bar (the “& Kitchen” is gone, even if food service isn’t) is settled into its new location the spot once occupied by The Neighborhood on Montecito Street.

“This change wasn’t part of the plan,” Gomez says, “but it’s turned out to be a blessing in disguise.”

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More than anything, the new space is more spacious, neatly divided into a bar area, a room that’s perfect for live music and/or events such as wedding showers and hip-hop brunches, and a backyard patio that argues for any happy hour to extend into an evening of chill vibes.

what it does best. Gomez says, “We get to focus on cocktails we want to be an approachable cocktail bar.” The Seven team loves their infusions, especially as featured in their signature lemonades a strawberry, a cucumber, and a bikini bottom (pineapple/strawberry), bringing together infused vodka, fresh fruit puree, and fresh lemonade which are all done in-house. Be prepared for kicks in some of the pun-loving cocktails, too: The Mez You Up features pineapple-habanero-infused mezcal, and the Guava Have It has a jalapeño-infused tequila. “We had 10 years of cocktails to bring over,” Gomez points out, “so we’re only offering the best of the best, the all-stars.”

“Our clientele is aging with us,” Gomez explains. “We’re all graying together, so we want to elevate our experience. The goal is to keep supporting the arts and the local,” pointing to bands, aerialists, and even distillers like long-time friend Ian Cutler.

The Seven team might have needed to knock a few back to deal with the delays in opening their new location. Not that theirs is a singular tale in this town, but Gomez purchased the spot in April 2023 and finally opened to the public July 10, 2024. Fortunately, once doors opened, things were smooth sailing. Part of that is Seven brought back 75 percent of their old staff, including some who hadn’t worked for them in five years. “We had no problem hiring,” Hilary MacDonald, director of operations and events, says. “People had lots of good memories from before.”

And while Seven has taken over the old Neighborhood space, they are doing all they can to fit into the new neighborhood. You can even say Gomez and company ended up there thanks to the cajoling of Dudley Michael, who runs Wingstop and the Rodeo Room right next door. In fact, Michael is providing food for Seven. As Gomez puts it, “I had a passion for food, but no training. I’m excited to work with someone who has more experience with it and wants to do it.”

The tight and enticing menu you order and pay via QR code lets you go healthy with a Roots Farm Caesar or mushroom tacos, or indulge a bit with mac and cheese, Wagyu steak bites, or churros.

Having food service off its plate, so to speak, leaves Seven a chance to do

Now the goal is to create great memories for the future. Part of that will be to, as director of operations Jeff Goebel says, “create a music scene.” Beyond continuing to provide a home for bands from the region, Seven hopes to snag some bigger groups as they tour the West Coast.

“We get to take all the great stuff about the old location and leave the nonsense behind,” Gomez says. “And now we need to let the area know Seven’s back,” to which MacDonald adds, “And still eclectic.”

No Noodle Is Excluded at Pang Zi Noodle Shop

Embracing Multiple Asian Cuisines in a Cozy, No-Frills Setting

BY STEPHANIE GERSON

With more than 20 years of culinary experience behind them, Isaiah Oregon and Dan Wang can confidently say they’ve mastered all variations of noodle-based dishes. It was their mutual appreciation for Asian cuisine that brought them together not only as husband and wife but also as co-owners of the newly opened restaurant Pang Zi Noodle Shop.

Located on Hollister Avenue across from the Creekside, Pang Zi opened its doors on July 10, a few months following the departure of the previous tenant S.B. Munchiez, but it had been through several iterations during the time Oregon had his eye on the restaurant space, which dates back to 2012.

“The first day that it got posted on Craigslist, I jumped on it, and we got it right away,” Oregon said of finally securing the space in early spring of this year. From the day they signed the lease up until early July, Oregon renovated every inch of the space himself.

Pang Zi has a small menu of Asian dishes and operates on a takeout-first model with limited seating inside. The back wall features their mascot, a smiling panda with a mouthful of noodles. If you do dine in, you’ll be well cared for by Wang, the restaurant’s kind and friendly hostess. In the years leading up to the opening of Pang Zi, Wang worked in the kitchens of Saigon Noodle House, China King, and Meet Up Chinese Cuisine. Pang Zi’s dishes reflect her breadth of restaurant experience.

“People follow her from restaurant to restaurant. Everyone loves her,” Oregon said of his wife’s contagious positivity.

Their two-page menu won’t overwhelm you with options but includes enough variety for every type of craving. Offerings feature a little bit of everything from Chinese and Vietnamese cuisines. Of course, there are many different types of noodles from mei fun to vermicelli and pho, plus fried rice variations and an assortment of fresh and cooked appetizers. Pang Zi aims to prove that it serves the best versions of a few Asian favorites rather than attempting to master every recipe in the book.

Oregon’s culinary résumé equally demonstrates a passion for Asian cooking. A Santa Barbara native who began his culinary career after moving to Rochester, New York, in 2001 to work for Wang’s family res taurant, Oregon learned to cook com forting Chinese takeout items. But the pair officially met in 2003, when their paths crossed during Oregon’s culinary studies in China, where Wang was still living. They wed in 2004 and continued working at her family’s restaurant in Rochester together before becoming offand-on Santa Barbara residents for seven years.

Oregon brought Wang to Santa Barbara, where she studied accounting at SBCC. The pair continued to gain restaurant experience until Rochester called yet again, this time with an invitation to open a sitdown Chinese restaurant in 2012.

During a visit to the restaurant in mid-July, we took Wang’s recommendations that reflect the restaurant’s range: lo mein with shrimp, pho with tofu, egg rolls, and their best-selling crab rangoon.

A sizable order of crab rangoon arrived first and relatively quickly. It was lightly fried and served with sweet and sour sauce; it was tough to restrain ourselves from eating every puff. But trust me, you’re going to want to save room for the other items in your order.

Operating a more formal establishment just didn’t feel right for the pair, who preferred the casual nature of takeout. Thus, they opened the original Pang Zi Noodle Shop in 2013, a restaurant providing affordable offerings that were well-loved by the Fairport community. Their departure from New York in 2015 proved to be the final one, with the determination to bring quality noodles to Santa Barbara once and for all.

The couple brought back a piece of Rochester with them to Santa Barbara in the form of Pang Zi’s Chinese dishes, which are Wang’s family recipes.

Yet, Pang Zi’s menu is also a collaborative effort. Head chef Alex Hernandez, who trained with the SBCC Culinary Arts program, developed the eatery’s Vietnamese recipes, which include pork egg rolls and six variations of pho.

The veggie egg rolls were equally delicious, paired with another tangy dipping sauce.

Entree sizes at Pang Zi are generous, featuring enough noodles to satisfy two people. The plate of lo mein noodles kept grease to a minimum, featuring slightly charred shrimp and a handful of green onions.

The pho, which I enjoyed with chunks of fried tofu, was massive. Complete with onions, cabbage, broccoli, and chewy rice noodles, I only made my way through a third of the bowl before asking for a to-go container.

With every dish, Oregon said the focus is “fresher food, lighter ingredients, and quality ingredients,” as most produce is sourced from local farmers’ markets, and frozen items are avoided whenever possible. This emphasis is something you can taste; even the crispy egg rolls had a fresh and light flavor profile.

We drove home satiated, leftovers in hand. I’d consider Pang Zi a “you get what you pay for” kind of place.

The eatery’s positive local response has been everything that Wang and Oregon dreamed about. Including Hernandez and a dishwasher, they currently operate as a four-person team. They’re taking things slow and staying cautious of creating too much buzz that they can’t sustain with limited staff.

Pang Zi has expanded its offerings since opening to include vegan pho, tofu dishes, and sauteed farmers market greens. With plans to continually update the menu and introduce desserts, the cozy restaurant is on its way to becoming a neighborhood favorite.

Pang Zi Noodle Shop is located at 4427 Hollister Avenue, serving lunch and dinner daily, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. For more information, visit their Yelp page at bit.ly/3WygbqA.

Egg rolls, lo mein with shrimp, and pho with tofu at Pang Zi Noodle Shop

The panda greets customers outside at Pang Zi Noodle Shop.

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Crab rangoon

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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 bal ance problems, pain, numbness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.

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

The South Coast’s Ghost Restaurant Ambassadors

One of the most visible and enduring restaurant advertising campaigns in the history of the South Coast has finally come to an end 20 years after the eatery closed. A sign at the western gateway to the South Coast, on the southbound 101 freeway just west of Storke Road, featured Café Orleans, which closed in Paseo Nuevo in 2004. Bruxie now occupies the former Café Orleans space in Paseo Nuevo. After the demise of Café Orleans, our “ghost restaurant ambassador” for visitors driving southbound through Santa Barbara continued to receive 6,000 views per hour (at peak driving times) for the next two decades. The adopt-a-highway sign recently switched to a new advertiser.

Interestingly, our restaurant ambassador for visitors driving the northbound 101 freeway through Santa Barbara is also a ghost eatery. A prominent sign is still standing for The Big Yellow House in Summerland, and that legendary dining destination served its last customer in 2006. If their marquee can remain in place for just two more years, The Big Yellow House will break Café Orleans’ record for longest post-mortem restaurant advertising campaign on the South Coast.

ALMA FONDA FINA OPENS IN MONTECITO: Alma Fonda Fina has opened at the Montecito Country Mart at 1024-A Coast Village Road next to Pavilions in the former home of Little Alex’s, which moved to Five Points Shopping Center earlier this year. The Mexican restaurant is operated by Chef Ramon Velazquez, who runs several eateries in town including Corazón Cocina in the Santa Barbara Public Market, Corazón Comedor at 29 East Victoria Street, and Beast Taqueria inside M. Special Brewing Company at 634 State Street. Unlike the fast-casual experience at his other local restaurants, Alma Fonda Fina offers table service and the prices are significantly higher, with entrée prices ranging from $18 to $29.

LA CANTINA OPENING SOON: In July 2021, I broke the news that six restaurants were coming to the Turnpike Center next to Vons. One of them, La Cantina, a New Mexican dining destination and cantina brought to you by Chris Chiarappa, the visionary and inspiration for Mesa Burger, Lighthouse

Coffee, and other local eateries, has been under construction for more than a year at 199 South Turnpike Road, Suite 106. Chiarappa tells me that the restaurant will be opening soon.

“Where New Mexican cuisine meets artistry, and every meal is a celebration of rich, vibrant flavors,” says the restaurant. “At La Cantina, we are dedicated to crafting exceptional dining experiences that delight the palate and captivate the senses. Our chefs, true maestros of New Mexican cuisine, thoughtfully curate each dish, blending traditional techniques with innovative touches to create a menu that honors the essence of fine dining. We are deeply committed to sustainability, reflected in our every choice. By partnering with local farmers, minimizing waste, and responsibly sourcing our ingredients, we ensure that our practices honor both the environment and the community.”

Hours will be Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Happy Hour is available daily, 3-5:30 p.m. Visit lacantinasb.com

THE ELLWOOD HOPING FOR A NOVEMBER LAUNCH: The Ellwood is coming to 5905 Sandspit Road Goleta, formerly Beachside Bar-Café. In late 2022, construction had just started when winter storms battered the facility, leaving it full of seawater, which was obviously a big setback. I stopped by last March as well as this week and noticed that a tremendous amount of work has been completed. I spoke to a representative on-site who said that they hope to open The Ellwood this November but added, “It will be done when it’s done.”

A BROOM HAS MOVED: I often get asked for an update about the restaurant property at the Santa Barbara Airport formerly known as The Elephant Bar, High Sierra, and, most recently, Flightline. In September 2023, I stopped by to see if there was any activity at the property that has the unusual status of having the City of Santa Barbara as the landlord. The only thing I saw hard at work was entropy, with tall weeds and general deterioration throughout the property. I stopped by again this month, and everything appears the same except (drum roll, please) a broom has moved that was leaning against an interior wall near the front door.

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ARIES

(Mar, 21-Apr, 19): One of the longest bridges in the world is the 24-mile-long Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. During one eight-mile stretch, as it crosses Lake Pontchartrain, travelers can’t see land. That freaks out some of them. You might be experiencing a metaphorically similar passage these days, Aries. As you journey from one mode to the next, you may lose sight of familiar terrain for a while. My advice: Have faith, gaze straight ahead, and keep going.

TAURUS

(Apr, 20-May 20): My horoscopes don’t necessarily answer questions that are foremost in your awareness. This might annoy you. But consider this: My horoscopes may nevertheless nudge you in unexpected directions that eventually lead you, in seemingly roundabout ways, to useful answers. The riddles I offer may stir you to gather novel experiences you didn’t realize you needed. Keep this in mind, Taurus, while reading the following: In the coming weeks, you can attract minor miracles and fun breakthroughs if you treat your life as an art project. I urge you to fully activate your imagination and ingenuity as you work on the creative masterpiece that is YOU.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): The Gemini musician known as Prince got an early start on his vocation. At age 7, he wrote “Funk Machine,” his first song. Have you thought recently about how the passions of your adult life first appeared in childhood? Now is an excellent time to ruminate on this and related subjects. Why? Because you are primed to discover forgotten feelings and events that could inspire you going forward. To nurture the future, draw on the past.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): You are lucky to have an opposable thumb on each of your hands. You’re not as lucky as koalas, however, which have two opposable thumbs on each hand. But in the coming weeks, you may sometimes feel like you have extra thumbs, at least metaphorically. I suspect you will be extra dexterous and nimble in every way, including mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. You could accomplish wonders of agility. You and your sexy soul may be extra supple, lithe, and flexible. These superpowers will serve you well if you decide to improvise and experiment, which I hope you will.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): The internet is filled with wise quotes that are wrongly attributed. Among those frequently cited as saying words they didn’t actually say, Buddha is at the top of the list. There are so many fraudulent Buddha quotes in circulation that there’s a website devoted to tracking them down: fakebuddhaquotes.com. Here’s an example. The following statement was articulated not by Buddha but by English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray: “The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, Leo, because it’s a crucial time for you to be dedicated to truth and accuracy. You will gain power by uncovering deceptions, shams, and misrepresentations. Be a beacon of authenticity!

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Peregrine falcons can move at a speed of 242 miles per hour. Mexican free-tailed bats reach 100 miles per hour, and black marlin fish go 80 miles per hour. These animals are your spirit creatures in the coming weeks, Virgo. Although you can’t literally travel that fast (unless you’re on a jet), I am confident you can make metaphorical progress at a rapid rate. Your ability to transition into the next chapter of your life story will be at a peak. You will have a robust power to change, shift, and develop.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Mythically speaking, I envision a death and rebirth in your future. The death won’t be literal; neither you nor anyone you love will travel to the other side of the veil. Rather, I foresee the demise of a hope, the finale of a storyline, or the loss of a possibility. Feeling sad

might temporarily be the right thing to do, but I want you to know that this ending will ultimately lead to a fresh beginning. In fact, the new blooms ahead wouldn’t be possible without the expiration of the old ways. The novel resources that arrive will come only because an old resource has faded.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Did you ever have roommates who stole your credit card and used it to buy gifts for themselves? Does your history include a friend or loved one who told you a lie that turned out to be hurtful? Did you ever get cheated on by a lover you trusted? If anything like this has happened to you, I suspect you will soon get a karmic recompense. An atonement will unfold. A reparation will come your way. A wrong will be righted. A loss will be indemnified. My advice is to welcome the redress graciously. Use it to dissolve your resentments and retire uncomfortable parts of your past.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my oldest friends is Sagittarius-born Jeffrey Brown. We had rowdy fun together in our twenties. We were mad poets who loved to party. But while I went on to become an unruly rock and roll musician, experimental novelist, and iconoclastic astrologer, Brown worked hard to become a highly respected, award-winning journalist for the PBS News Hour, a major American TV show. Among his many successes: He has brought indepth coverage of poetry and art to mainstream TV. How did he manage to pull off such an unlikely coup? I think it’s because he channeled his wildness into disciplined expression; he converted his raw passions into practical power; he honed and refined his creativity so it wielded great clout. In the coming months, dear Sagittarius, I urge you to make him one of your inspirational role models.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s hypothesize that you will be alive, alert, and active on your hundredth birthday. If that joyous event comes to pass, you may have strong ideas about why you have achieved such marvelous longevity. I invite you to imagine what you will tell people on that momentous occasion. Which practices, feelings, and attitudes will have turned you into such a vigorous example of a strong human life? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to meditate on these matters. It will also be a favorable phase to explore new practices, feelings, and attitudes that will prolong your satisfying time here on planet Earth.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Few Americans are more famous than George Washington. He was a top military leader in the Revolutionary War before he became the country’s first president. George had a half-brother named Lawrence, who was 16 years older. Virtually no one knows about him now, but during his life, he was a renowned landowner, soldier, and politician. Historians say that his political influence was crucial in George’s rise to power. Is there anyone remotely comparable to Lawrence Washington in your life, Aquarius? Someone who is your advocate? Who works behind the scenes on your behalf? If not, go searching for them. The astrological omens say your chances are better than usual of finding such champions. If there are people like that, ask them for a special favor.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): More than 15 centuries ago, Christian monks decided Fridays were unlucky. Why? Because they were the special day of the pagan goddess Freya. Friday the 13th was extra afflicted, they believed, because it combined a supposedly evil number with the inauspicious day. And how did they get their opinion that 13 was malevolent? Because it was the holy number of the goddess and her 13-month lunar calendar. I mention this because a Friday the 13th is now upon us. If you are afraid of the things Christian monks once feared, this could be a difficult time. But if you celebrate radical empathy, ingenious intimacy, playful eros, and fertile intuition, you will be awash in good fortune. That’s what the astrological omens tell me.

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Under the general supervision of the Director, the AD utilizes an equity mindset as they: ‑Serve as the primary supervisor for an area comprising of 2,000‑3,000 residents living in one of 4 campus neighborhoods. Directly supervise 2‑5 professional staff, and oversees an additional 2‑5 professional staff and 20‑40 RAs. Lead their neighborhood in the development and implementation of a comprehensive community development strategy grounded in the curricular approach. Ensure that the staff create a strong sense of belonging within the individual communities within their neighborhood, which may include undergraduates, graduates, and/or students with families. Work with their staff to ensure effective management of a student conduct and students of concern case load consisting of students living within their community. Develop effective working relationships with the 60+ colleagues that make up our R&CL staff. As part of a team of Assistant Directors, the AD is responsible for: Overseeing and sustaining the daily operations of the Student Life function. Implementing a comprehensive staff orientation, training, and development

program. The recruitment and selection of both student and professional staff members. Working as a cohesive team to maintain a smooth and consistent student life operation over 4 distinct neighborhoods. Serves on departmental and campus committees as determined necessary by the Director. Reqs: Master’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. At least 5 years work experience in University Housing, or a combination of University Housing and Student Affairs.1‑3 years Experience Supervising full time professional staff . 1‑3 years Experience leading and modeling practices that foster equity and inclusion in a diverse community of residents, student and professional staff. 1‑3 years Experience managing high level conduct and mental health cases. Track record of infusing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles into daily work. Commitment to creating communities where residents feel a deep sense of belonging. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues throughout a large, multifunctional department. Notes: May have to attend events after hours for student related functions. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/Range: $85,000.00 to $101,304.00/year. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #72726

ASSISTANT TO THE VICE CHANCELLOR

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

UC Santa Barbara seeks an Assistant to the Vice Chancellor to conduct research and analyze high‑level reports. This role involves applying organizational policies to manage administrative tasks, including budget and event planning. The ideal candidate will interpret background materials, make recommendations, and handle sensitive matters with discretion. Key responsibilities include managing the Vice Chancellor’s calendar, coordinating meetings and events, and overseeing travel arrangements. Processes confidential correspondence and financial transactions, and collaborates with various departments to achieve project goals. Additional duties include providing support in the absence of the Executive Assistant and participating in campus crisis management. The ideal candidate must prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy while interacting with diverse stakeholders. Reqs: Proficient in communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with diverse groups at all levels, both verbally and in writing. Ability to work independently and be flexible while performing a wide range of tasks concurrently and effectively. Strong organization and planning skills and the ability to multitask and prioritize with demanding deadlines. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Espresso Suite, Gateway, database systems, email and calendaring software. Note: Satisfactory criminal history background check. The budgeted hourly range is $28.07 – 38.17/hr. The full salary range is $28.07/hr. ‑ $48.28/ hr. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and

experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair. equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The 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. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy. Open until filled. Apply online at www. jobs.ucsb.edu. Job # 72712

CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST

UCSB, STUDENT HEALTH Assist in the overall operation of the clinical laboratory of the Student Health Service by performing the duties of testing personnel (as specified by CLIA 88) in the specialties of hematology, urinalysis, clinical microscopy, diagnostic immunology, chemistry, microbiology, and virology/molecular diagnostics. Other duties include specimen processing, phlebotomy, data entry and instrument preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. Must possess a high degree of accuracy and precision. Must be capable of working independently while maintaining compliance with existing laws, regulations and policies. Must have the ability to communicate effectively with clinicians, patients, health service staff and visitors. Is capable of fast, accurate laboratory work while doing multiple procedures.

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Training and experience must comply with Federal CLIA 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Is familiar with common laboratory analyzers, equipment and Laboratory Information Systems. Maintains the equipment and the entire work area in a clean, presentable fashion to preclude injury to self and others. Adheres to safety and infection control policies and procedures. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree. Graduation from college with Bachelor of Science degree in major of appropriate scientific field. Current California Clinical Laboratory Scientists license at all times during employment.

3 – 5 years of training and experience sufficient to comply with Federal CLI 88 requirements for personnel of high complexity testing. Familiar with all laboratory equipment, including Hematology, Microbiology, Urinalysis, Molecular and Chemistry analyzers and other standard laboratory equipment. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly Range: $40.50/hour ‑ $50.36/hour Full Salary Range: $40.50/ hour ‑

$59.05/hour. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 58194

CONFERENCE

MANAGER

CONFERENCE AND HOSPITALITY

SERVICES

Serves as a key member of the Conference & Hospitality Services team in Housing, Dining & Auxiliary Enterprises sharing responsibilities for the overall program which includes planning, management and administration of all conferences and the provision of meeting management services. Ensures smooth‑running, effective events, including successfully recognizing and resolving potential, and real, problems in a timely manner using tact, sensitivity, discretion, and political acumen. The Unit provides meeting management and hospitality services to 20,000+ residents and commuters in 100+ programs. Using approximately 6,700 beds and in 12 facilities and 4 dining commons as well as campus meeting rooms, classrooms and lecture halls, the Unit assumes administrative responsibility of 100% of the residence hall beds and 50‑70% of the single student apartments in the summer as well as the coordination of services from campus departments and facilities and numerous off‑campus vendors. Reqs: 4‑6 years Experience in the field of conference and/or event management, including negotiating contracts, group insurance requirements, using conference/event management database, and developing customized program budgets.1‑3 years Experience in running and/or assisting with the execution of a marketing campaign and a passion for industry‑leading marketing technologies, tactics, and best practices.Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) as well as Google Suite (Drive, Sheets, Forms, etc), and Conference Management software applications (residential, room scheduling,

planning, financial, etc). Ability to provide specialized and customized full meeting management services. Ability to compile conference data in order to produce departmental summary reports. Previous experience in a customer service industry as well as working with different service levels like Housekeeping, Maintenance, Grounds to ensure excellent customer results. Ability to work under pressure and to prioritize workloads to meet demands. Knowledge of academic conferences and familiarity with a University campus. Notes: After hours work required during May‑September. This position requires ability to respond to after hours phone calls and occasional travel. Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. 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. Pay Rate/Range: $80,000 to $90,384/ year. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72662

Performs culinary duties such as preparing soups and casseroles, grilling, roasting or barbequing foods, working a sauté station, and preparing and assembling made‑to‑order entrées serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Ensures that assigned responsibilities are accomplished and that high standards of food quality, service, sanitation and safety are met at all times. Assists with student training, food production and sanitation. Reqs: High School or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years culinary experience in a high‑volume culinary environment. 1‑3 years knowledge of and experience with culinary techniques, including but not inclusive of sautéing, grilling, frying, steaming, preparing sauces and stocks. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. 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: $19.53/ hr ‑ $21.56/hr UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72759

The Cook performs culinary duties such as preparing soups and casseroles, grilling, roasting or barbecuing foods, working a sauté station, and preparing and assembling made‑to‑order entrees serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Ensures that assigned responsibilities are accomplished and that high standards of food quality, service, sanitation and safety are met at all times. Assists with student training, food production

and sanitation. Reqs: High School or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years of culinary experience in a high‑volume culinary environment. 1‑3 years knowledge of and experience with culinary techniques, including but not inclusive of sauteing, grilling, frying, steaming, preparing sauces and stocks. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $19.53/ hr ‑ $21.56/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72042

DEVELOPMENT ANALYST, PRINCIPAL & LEADERSHIP GIFTS

DEVELOPMENT

Supports analytical functions to advance the strategic goals, initiatives, and projects that secure philanthropic support from individuals, foundations, and organizations at the $1M+ level. Works closely with development managers in supporting principal, leadership, and major gift moves management; coordinating major gift strategy meetings; assisting with event management; supporting donor stewardship; supporting prospect and donor visits, and serving as a resource to the P&LG team. Reports to the Senior Analyst, Principal and Leadership Gifts, and serves the development officers within the P&LG team. Receives general direction from the Directors of Prospect Management and Development Research as it relates to research and prospect management processes and maintains close and effective working relationships with Prospect Services, Advancement Services, Donor Relations and Stewardship units, Development events, as well as other development units, facilitating collaborative efforts between teams. At the direction of development officers and the Senior Analyst, helps create stewardship reports for P&LG and select major donors and supports proposal writing, reviewing and editing of gift letters and other written documents working in coordination with the Central Development Communications team to ensure consistency in messaging and branding. Helps coordinate and manage development events, including interfacing with Development Events and/or Event Management and Protocol. Helps coordinate and prepare development officers, senior administrators, and academic and program stakeholders for donor visits, solicitations, travel and events. Supports the P&LG team in short‑ and long‑term strategic planning, including preparing materials and reports that analyze the activities, progress and goals of the team. Such analysis includes accessing comprehensive information from the divisional database, currently Ellucian Advance, independently and in coordination with Central Development colleagues. Is responsible for aspects of prospect tracking and moves management, including proactively planning, organizing and attending major gift strategy meetings and coordinating follow‑up regarding major gift prospects. As needed, supports processing gifts, Development Officers’ reimbursements, and calendar support. Principal and Leadership gift outcomes (individuals, foundations, and corporations) make up approximately 50% on average

of what is raised in a given year. The Principal and Leadership Gifts team (“P&LG”) focuses on prospects/donors who have the ability and inclination to make philanthropic investments of $5M or more (Principal) and $1M or more (Leadership). In addition to individual portfolio management, the P&LG team helps coordinate strategy, supports moves management, and packages strategic initiatives and development priorities working in partnership with campus leadership, academic and program stakeholders, and development colleagues to advance UC Santa Barbara’s mission as a public university. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; 1‑3 yrs demonstrating strong analytic and project management skills, as well as excellent interpersonal skills; 1‑3 yrs communicating exceptionally well through verbal and written mediums, paying close attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in reporting as well as management of key processes; 1‑3 yrs of demonstrated expertise in writing, including excellent grammar, composition and proof‑reading skills. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $28.74 ‑ $34.48/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72375

DINING ROOM AND CATERING MANAGER

THE CLUB AND GUEST HOUSE

Responsible for the overall hospitality services in the dining room and event spaces of The Club & Guest house, a 150‑seat dining facility with an event space, located within a hotel setting. The Dining Room & Catering Manager reports to the General Manager of The Club & Guest house and will oversee all dining room and catering functions of The Club & Guest House. This role is crucial to ensuring The Club & Guest House is represented to both the campus and the surrounding community as an organization that provides the highest degree of customer satisfaction and standards of excellence in all aspects of guest services. The Dining Room & Catering Manager will be responsible for the day‑to‑day dining room and catering operations, event services planning and execution, directly supervise Events & Catering Sales Manager, Dining Room & Catering Supervisor, and all service staff. Reqs: 4‑6 years progressive experience in collegiate or high volume, full service food operations, hotel/restaurant management. Thorough Knowledge in food service operations and sanitation regulations. Demonstrated leadership abilities, customer service and communication skills, interpersonal savvy, strategic and organization agility, managing vision and purpose, innovation management and business acumen. Strong organizational skills, including attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to manage multiple and often conflicting priorities, meet deadlines and delegate with accountability. Financial and analytical skills to manage food cost, labor and controllable targets. Intermediate computer application skills to include food service applications for point of sale and inventory control software. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/Range: $77,000 to $79,000/ year. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72390

GRADUATE ADVISOR GLOBAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Manages all aspects of the current graduate programs, including the Masters Program, the PhD Emphasis Program and a PhD program. Assures that graduate students meet the academic, teaching and research requirements of both the Global Studies Program and the University. Acts as Program liaison to the Graduate Division. Identifies problems, suggests solutions, and develops procedures for graduate affairs. Advises graduate students on all aspects of the graduate program. Administers and tracks annual block grant funds, TA allocations, recruitment funds, gift funds, fellowships and grants. Responsible for the employment (UC Path) for graduate student academic employees. Provides Department and University policy and procedural information to graduate students, faculty, staff, applicants and potential applicants to the graduate program. Coordinates graduate recruitment, admission and orientation. Manages database for all graduate student records. The graduate program advisor is expected to be strongly committed to the program and to the welfare of the students, maintaining a climate of interpersonal support and exercising independent professional judgment and creative problem solving skills. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience / training. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Mandated Child Abuse Reporter. The full hourly range for this position is $25.77 to $43.58/hr. The budgeted hourly range is $25.77 to $27.34/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. For more information: https://policy. ucop. edu/doc/4010393/PPSM‑20; https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/ Anti‑Discrimination. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu, Job # 71445.

POT WASHER

CAMPUS DINING

Performs essential daily cleaning and sanitation of kitchen equipment, counters, walls, floors and dining room tables and chairs. Washes pots used for cooking by the kitchen production staff, as well as bowls used to serve food that are too large for the dish machine. Must follow strict safety and sanitation rules to include the use of proper chemicals and high temperatures in the cleaning process. Keeps the dish machine clean and ready for use. Utilizes high pressure cleaner to remove grease from equipment, garbage cans, doors and walls. Reqs: Knowledge of safety and sanitation regulations regarding proper cleaning of pots, safe lifting, and ability to train others in this area or equivalent combination of education and experience. 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: $19.53/

hr‑$20.72/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy, please visit: https:// policy.ucop. edu/doc/4010393/ PPSM‑20. For the University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/ doc/1001004/Anti‑Discrimination Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #72761

PROGRAMMING MANAGER

ARTS & LECTURES

The Programming Manager is a key member of the team responsible for programming, booking, and managing Arts & Lectures public events. Reporting to the Director of Public Lectures & Special Initiatives, this position is essential to the success of current season events as well as future years’ programming. As a public‑facing senior representative of the organization, the Programming Manager is responsible for building and sustaining collaborative relationships between Arts & Lectures and Artists, Lecturers, Agents, Tour Managers, Venue Management, University and other representatives. This position is a critical bridge to solicit, organize, and disseminate complex event information between organizations, and within Arts & Lectures’ various departments. Ensures that complex contractual obligations are met for the Lecture, Film, and Performing Arts programs as well as special events. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience and training. Extensive professional experience managing high visibility, high‑impact, high‑risk events; ability to apply best practices and industry standard techniques under pressure, and to deal with multiple constituents, often with competing priorities. Notes: Must be available for evening and weekend events management work in addition to normal business hours. Satisfactory conviction history background check Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. The full salary range is $85,400 ‑ $156,800/yr. The budgeted salary range is $85,400 ‑ $100,000/yr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For more information: University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy; University of California’s Anti‑Discrimination Policy Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 71593

UCEN ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

Provides direct assistance to the Director of the University Center (UCEN) and Events Center (ECEN) Administration and serves as the primary contact for department inquiries. Provides excellent customer service to visitors to the UCEN Administrative Office and leads the team of office receptionists. Provides support for departmental financial needs and serves as the main coordinator of the UCEN and ECEN Governance Boards. Exercises professional judgment, discretion, confidentiality and sensitivity in all communications. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent experience. 1‑3 years of professional experience in an office environment. Excellent customer service skills.

Working knowledge of Word/Excel/ Google Workspace and Google Calendars. Solid communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. Solid organizational skills and ability to multi‑task with demanding timeframes. Ability to establish priorities, perform effectively under pressure and adapt to changing needs and issues. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/ Range: The budgeted range $28.44/ hr ‑$31.18/hr full salary range: $28.44/ hr ‑ $40.76/hr. UC Santa Barbara is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the University of California’s Affirmative Action Policy,

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ADMINISTER OF ESTATE

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: NANCY ANNE REID No.: 24PR00482

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

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): SHIRLEY RILEY 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: 10/31/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. 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 08/19/2024 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jean Alexander 4644 Vista Buena Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; 805‑569‑0587 Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: CARL E. WILLIAMS No.: 24PR00469

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

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): ALBERTA WILLIAMS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/24/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. 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.

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 08/22/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: George E. Robinson, Esq. 2900 W. Horizon Ridge Parkway, Suite 200, Henderson, Nevada 89052; 702‑451‑2055

Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JUDITH OTTEN No.: 24PR00436

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

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): ANDREW SATTLEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA AYUNTAMIENTO

Audiencia pública híbrida: en persona y vía Zoom 17 de Septiembre, 2024, a las 5:30 P.M.

LEYES LOCALES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN - CÓDIGO DE ALCANCE EV

ATENCIÓN: La reunión se realizará de forma presencial y a través de la plataforma Zoom. El público también podrá ver la reunión en Goleta Canal 19 y/o en línea en https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings

SE DA AVISO que el Concejo Municipal llevará a cabo una audiencia pública para llevar a cabo la segunda lectura de la siguiente ordenanza de acuerdo con la Sección del Código de Gobierno 50022.3: Una Ordenanza del Concejo Municipal de la Ciudad de Goleta, California, que modifica el Capítulo 15.12 titulado “Código de Construcción Ecológica” del Código Municipal de Goleta para adoptar la edición 2022 del Código de Construcción y Energía de California y sus enmiendas locales (“Código REACH”) y Determinar la ordenanza para estar exenta de la Ley de Calidad Ambiental de California.

La fecha, hora y lugar de la audiencia pública del Concejo Municipal se establecen a continuación. La agenda de la audiencia también se publicará en el sitio web de la Ciudad. (www.cityofgoleta.org).

INFORMACIÓN DE LA AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA:

FECHA/HORA: Martes, 17 de Septiembre, 2024, a las 5:30 PM

SITIO: Ayuntamiento de Goleta, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA, 93117 y reunión por teleconferencia; esta reunión se llevará a cabo en persona y vía Zoom (con instrucciones detalladas para participar incluidas en la agenda publicada)

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PROYECTO:

Como parte de la ordenanza, se proponen nuevas enmiendas locales de la siguiente manera: 1) los nuevos desarrollos residenciales unifamiliares deberán proporcionar un receptáculo de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EV) de nivel 2 y un receptáculo de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EV) de nivel 1; 2) los nuevos desarrollos residenciales multifamiliares deberán proporcionar al menos un receptáculo de carga de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2 de baja potencia para cada espacio de estacionamiento asignado y el 25 % de los espacios de estacionamiento no asignados o de uso común deberán proporcionar cargadores de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2; 3) los nuevos desarrollos de hoteles y moteles deberán proporcionar el 40% de los espacios de estacionamiento con receptáculos de carga de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2 de baja potencia y el 25% del total de espacios con cargadores de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2; 4) las nuevas oficinas y desarrollos comerciales proporcionarán el 7% de los espacios de estacionamiento con capacidad para vehículos eléctricos y el 23% de los espacios de estacionamiento con estaciones de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EVCS); y 5) todos los demás desarrollos nuevos no residenciales deberán proporcionar un 15 % de espacios de estacionamiento con capacidad para vehículos eléctricos y un 15 % de espacios para EVCS. La Sección 25402.1(h)2 del Código de Recursos Públicos permite una audiencia para considerar el establecimiento de leyes de construcción locales más estrictas que los estándares estatales.

COMENTARIOS PÚBLICOS: Se anima a las personas interesadas a proporcionar comentarios públicos durante la audiencia pública en persona o virtualmente a través del seminario web Zoom, siguiendo las instrucciones que figuran en la agenda de la reunión del Concejo Municipal. Se pueden enviar comentarios por escrito antes de la audiencia enviando un correo electrónico al Secretario Municipal a CityClerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Los comentarios escritos se distribuirán al Concejo y se publicarán en la página de Agenda y Reuniones de la Ciudad. PARA INFORMACIÓN DEL PROYECTO: Para obtener más información sobre el proyecto, comuníquese con la Gerente de Sostenibilidad Dana Murray al 805-961-7547 o dmurray@cityofgoleta.org o sostenibilidad@ cityofgoleta.org. Para consultas en español, comuníquese con Marcos Martínez al (805) 562-5500 o mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.org. Los informes y documentos del personal se publicarán aproximadamente 72 horas antes de la audiencia en el sitio web de la Ciudad en www.cityofgoleta.org.

Nota: Si impugna la naturaleza de la acción anterior en el tribunal, es posible que se le limite solo a aquellas cuestiones que usted u otra persona plantearon en la audiencia pública descrita en este aviso o en correspondencia escrita entregada a la Ciudad en la fecha de la audiencia o antes ( Sección 65009(b)(2) del Código de Gobierno).

Nota: De conformidad con la Ley de Estadounidenses con Discapacidades, si necesita ayuda para participar en la audiencia, comuníquese con la Oficina de la Secretaria Municipal al (805) 961-7505 o cityclerkgroup@ cityofgoleta.org. La notificación al menos 48 horas antes de la audiencia permitirá al personal de la Ciudad hacer arreglos razonables.

Fecha de publicación: Santa Barbara Independent 12 de Septiembre, 2024

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: 10/3/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Anacapa Division.

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 08/29/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Scott G. Soulages & Braden R. Leck, 427 E. Carrillo St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑963‑9721 Published: Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BRUCE LANE No.: 24PR00505

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): HOWARD LANE 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: 10/31/2024 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Anacapa Division.

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 09/5/2024 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Neal Bartlett 4299 Carpinteria Ave., Ste 101, Carpinteria, CA 93013;805‑576‑7693 Published: Sep 12, 19, 26 2024. FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: 805 GOLF LOUNGE 417 Santa Barbara Street, Suite B1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 07/17/2024 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2024‑0001697. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Jeffrey M Sturdivan (same address) Angela C Sturdivan (same address) The business was conducted by an Married Couple. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A Signed by: JEFFREY STURDIVAN/ OWNER Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 09/03/24, FBN 2024‑0002094, E57. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GARRISON PROTECTIVE SERVICES, GPS PRIVATE SECURITY 101 S Quarantina Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Guardians Protective Services Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 15, 2024. Filed by: ALAN AVILA/ CEO,OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 15, 2024. 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 E28. FBN Number: 2024‑0001948. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAYLA LOPEZ THERAPY 6 N. Alisos Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Kayla E Lopez PO Box 91234 Santa Barbara, CA 93190‑1234 This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 01, 2024. Filed by: KAYLA LOPEZ/ LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001980. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLETCHER PERFORMANCE RESEARCH 501 E Locust Ave Lompoc, CA 93436; David J

LEGALS (CONT.)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s)

is/are doing business as: PRIEMIER

SURGERY CENTER 231 W Pueblo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Cottage Medical Foundation 400 W Pueblo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93102

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Partnership. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 21, 2005. Filed by:

AUDREY DUNLAP/ADMINISTRATOR

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 16, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001972. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE OUTDOOR PSYCHOLOGIST 351 Paseo Nuevo, 2nd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Lena N Harris (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 13, 2024. Filed by:

LENA N HARRIS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 15, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001953. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE PEOPLE’S PLACE CHILD CARE 1112 Gardenia Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Jacqueline V Salas (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on May 1, 2024. Filed by: JAQUELINE VARGAS

SALAS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001896. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOLARBLISS CLEANING 1423 Shoreline Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Solarbliss Cleaning LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 1, 2024. Filed by: TAJ

CHESLUK/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 9, 2024. 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 E62. FBN Number: 2024‑0001867. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

BARBARA PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY, SHENNIE SMITH, LMFT 30 W Mission Street Suite 4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Shenandoah Smith, Licensed Marriage And Family Therapist, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 25, 2024. Filed by:

SHENANDOAH SMITH/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 30, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001797.

Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

CONSULTING 1035 E Yanonali Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Coleman & Spouse, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 20, 2024. Filed by: ARIELLA COLEMAN/MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 29, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001780. Published: Aug 22, 29. Sep 5, 12 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

FILE NO. FBN 2024‑0001723

The following person(s) is doing business as:

ARNOLDI’S CAFE, 600 OLIVE ST SANTA BARBARA, CALIFO 93101, County of SANTA BARBARA. NORTE SB LLC, 4811 WINDING WAY SANTA BARBARA, CALIFO 93111; 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 JUN 28, 2024

/s/ SARA SKRINSKI, MANAGER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/09/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, 9/12/24

CNS‑3842415# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

FILE NO. FBN2024‑0001834

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WANDERLUST LUXURY RENTALS, 2429 BATH STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105

County of SANTA BARBARA

DJJ PROPERTY RENTAL GROUP, 2429 BATH STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105

This business is conducted by a

Corporation

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 04, 2019. DJJ PROPERTY RENTAL GROUP

S/ JENNIFER KINSELLA, COO

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/07/2024.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, 9/12/24

CNS‑3841460#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2024‑0001724

The following person(s) is doing business as:

VALLARTA SUPERMAKETS #46, 1482 S BROADWAY, SANTA

All Booked

MARIA, CA 93454, County of SANTA BARBARA. JALOS FOOD ENTERPRISES, INC. 10147 SAN BERNANDO RD, PACOIMA, CA 91331; CA

This business is conducted by A

Corporation

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 01, 2014 /s/ ANGELINA GONZALEZ, CFO

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/19/2024

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, 9/12/24

CNS‑3840416# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN CO 1912 Robbins Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Christine N Sorenson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: CHRISTINE SORENSON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001928. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J N TACOS 5892 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Jose G Corvera De Santiago 215 Bath St Apt C11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JOSE GUADALUPE CORVERA

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Santa Barbara County, Calinfornia and Incorporated Areas

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report, reflecting proposed flood hazard determinations within Santa Barbara County, California and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. Technical information or comments are solicited on the proposed flood hazard determinations shown on the preliminary FIRM and/or FIS report for Santa Barbara County, California and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. However, before these determinations are effective for floodplain management purposes, you will be provided an opportunity to appeal the proposed information. For information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, as well as a complete listing of the communities affected and the locations where copies of the FIRM are available for review, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema. gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp, or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 3:00 P.M.

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing for the projects listed below, with the date, time, and location of the DRB public hearing set forth above. The agenda for the hearing, including how to participate virtually in the hearing via a Zoom link, will also be posted on the City website at least 72 hours before the hearing (www. cityofgoleta.org).

For Conceptual Review:

Linberg residential fence

210 Old Ranch Drive (APN 079-570-068)

Case Nos. 24-0025-DRB, 24-0011-LUP

For Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review:

PUBLIC NOTICE

Santa Barbara County HOME Consortium and CDBG Urban County Partnership 2023-24 Consolidated Annual Performance & Evaluation Report (CAPER)

The County of Santa Barbara Community Services Department’s (CSD) Division of Housing and Community Development invites comments on the HOME Consortium and CDBG Urban County Partnership 2023-24 Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The Santa Barbara Urban County Partnership includes the County and the member cities of Buellton, Carpinteria, and Solvang. The HOME Consortium is comprised of the Urban County members and the cities of Goleta, Lompoc, and Santa Maria.

The CAPER summarizes and evaluates previous year achievements using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) program funds allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As a local government performance reporting tool, the CAPER also documents progress made towards meeting the affordable housing and community services goals established by the County’s Consolidated Plan and Strategic Plan.

The 2023-24 Draft CAPER will be available for a 15-day public comment period from Wednesday, September 11 through Thursday, September 26. The Draft CAPER will be available for review on the CSD website: https://www.countyofsb.org/494/Housing-Community-Development

Written comments may be submitted to CSD, 123 E. Anapamu St, Suite 202, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, or e-mailed to HCD@countyofsb.org. If you need additional information, have questions, or require special accommodations, please call (805) 568-3520. Si tiene cualquier pregunta, por favor llame a (805)568-3520.

The County is committed to equal housing opportunities for all of its residents.

Angelo’s Liquor Signage & California Environmental Quality Act 5599 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-140-057)

Case Nos. 24-0024-DRB, 24-0035-ZC

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the DRB meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to DRB members and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, at (805) 961-7567 or mchang@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org

In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published on the City’s website. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter during counter hours or by contacting the staff member listed for the item 805-9617543.

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) 9617505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent 9/12/24

LEGALS (CONT.)

DE SANTIAGO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002013. Published:

Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE GARDEN OF..... 2810 Ontiveros Rd Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Shinme, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A

Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 3, 2024. Filed by: DEBORAH YOUNG TAKIKAWA/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 2, 2024. This statement expires

ORDINANCE NO. 24-XX

An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Goleta, California, approving a Third 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, 2025, whichever occurs first and find that the Ordinance is exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act for the property located at 907 S Kellogg Avenue; Case No. 24-0001-ORD.

On September 17, 2024 at 5:30 P.M. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will consider the second reading and possible adoption of proposed Ordinance for the third 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, 2025 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 third amendment would change the expiration date as noted above.

If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 9617505.

Deborah Lopez

City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 12, 2024

five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E62. FBN Number: 2024‑0001810. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INVENTIVE EVENTS 1306 Dover Hill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Michael R Loftis (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 14, 2024. Filed by: MICHAEL LOFTIS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 26, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0002047. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: LYNDOO LUNES 2046 Modoc Rd, 22 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ana Lilia Rios Suaste (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 18, 2024. Filed by: ANA LILIA RIOS SUASTE/C.E.O. with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002020. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

FILE NO. FBN 2024‑0001793

The following person(s) is doing

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL

Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom September 17, 2024, at 5:30 P.M.

LOCAL BUILDING LAWS - EV REACH 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 Council will hold a public hearing to conduct the second reading of the following ordinance in accordance with Government Code Section 50022.3:

An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Goleta, California, Amending Chapter 15.12 Entitled “Green Building Code” of the Goleta Municipal Code to Make Certain Local Amendments to the 2022 Edition of the California Green Building Standards Code (“Reach Code”) and Determine the Ordinance to Be Exempt From the California Environmental Quality Act.

The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

PUBLIC HEARING INFORMATION:

HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 5:30 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:

As part of the ordinance, new local amendments are proposed as follows: 1) new single family residential developments shall provide one Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Receptacle and one Level 1 EV Charging Receptacle; 2) new multifamily residential developments shall provide at least one low power Level 2 EV charging receptacle for each assigned parking space and 25% of unassigned or common use parking spaces shall provide Level 2 EV chargers; 3) new hotel and motel developments shall provide 40% of parking spaces with low power Level 2 EV charging receptacles and 25% of the total spaces with Level 2 EV chargers; 4) new offices and retail developments shall provide 7% of parking spaces EV capability and 23% of parking spaces with EV Charging Stations (EVCS); and 5) all other new nonresidential developments shall provide 15% EV capable parking spaces and 15% EVCS spaces. A hearing to consider establishing local building laws more stringent than the statewide standards is allowed by Public Resources Code Section 25402.1(h)2.

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 City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@ cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Sustainability Manager Dana Murray at 805-961-7547 or dmurray@cityofgoleta.org or sustainability@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org

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

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent September 12, 2024

business as:

WE SHINE WELL, 988 MIRAMONTE DR., APT 3 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109, County of SANTA BARBARA. ZOE KELSEY, 988 MIRAMONTE., APT 3 SANTA BARBARA, CA 93109

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on OCT 01, 2023 /s/ ZOE KELSEY, OWNER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/30/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/29, 9/5, 9/12, 9/19/24

CNS‑3845112# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VITAL RIDES INC 7 West Figueroa 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Vital Rides Inc 8200 Stockdale Hwy M10‑389 Bakersfield, CA 93311 This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 18, 2024. Filed by: GARY S FUSSEL JR/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 21, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002015. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GET IT DONE, CARE COORDINATION & EXECUTIVE SERVICES, PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC, CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES OF SANTA BARBARA, SEE SANTA BARBARA, SEE CALIFORNIA, ROMANTIC CELEBRATIONS AND DETINATIONS, SEE SANTA BARBARA AND BEYOND 317 W. Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chrystal L Carlson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 17, 2024. Filed by: CHRYSTAL CARLSON/ PROPRIETOR/OWNER/EXE CUTIVE DIRECTOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2024. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2024‑0001746. Published: Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRISM PAINTING SB COMPANY 700 Bond Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Prism

Painting SB Company P.O. Box 4643 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on August 21, 2024. Filed by: ELMER G MUNOZ/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 29, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002080. Published: Sep 5, 12, 19, 26 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOMES SANTA BARBARA COUNTY 1010 North H Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Lauren M Howard (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on August 27, 2024. Filed by: LAUREN HOWARD with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 29, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002088. Published: Sep 5, 12, 19, 26 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE FOUNDATION ROUNDTABLE 1111 Chapala St, 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Foundation (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JAQUELINE M CARRERA/PRESIDENT AND CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002071. Published: Sep 5, 12, 19, 26 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE RESOLUTION GROUP 585 Barker Pass Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Rock Solid Options, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: RICHARD W. ROCKENBACH, II/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 9, 2024. 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 E62. FBN Number: 2024‑0001856. Published: Sep 5, 12, 19, 26 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

ORDINANCE NO. 24-XX

FILE NO. FBN 2024‑0001903

The following person(s) is doing business as:

HEALTHCARE DIRECT, 1860 VERONICA LN SANTA MARIA, CA 93454, County of SANTA BARBARA.

JUANITA SOTO, 1860 VERONICA LN SANTA MARIA, CA 93454

This business is conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on NOT APPLICABLE /s/ JUANITA SOTO, OWNER This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/13/2024. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26/24 CNS‑3846215# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YELLOW BRICK EXPERIENTIAL 27 W Anapamu Ste 444 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Iterative Ascent, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 10, 2024. Filed by: JOSHUA CALEB COLLINS/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001991. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YLW BRK 27 W Anapamu Ste 444 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Iterative Ascent, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 10, 2024. Filed by: JOSHUA CALEB COLLINS/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2024. 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: 2024‑0001992. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWINGPATH GOLF CLUB 417 Santa Barbara Street, Suite B1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jeffrey M Sturdivan (same address) Angela C Sturdivan(same address) This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 15.12 ENTITLED “GREEN BUILDING CODE” OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE TO MAKE CERTAIN LOCAL AMENDMENTS TO THE 2022 EDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA GREEN BUILDING STANDARDS CODE (“REACH CODE”), AND DETERMINE THE ORDINANCE TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT

On September 17, 2024 at 5:30 P.M. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) will hold a public hearing and consider the second reading and possible adoption of proposed Ordinance that would amend Chapter 15.12 “Green Building Code” of the Goleta Municipal Code to make certain local amendments to the 2022 edition of the California Green Building Standards Code (“Reach Code”). As part of the ordinance, new local amendments are proposed as follows: 1) new single family residential developments shall provide one Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Receptacle and one Level 1 EV Charging Receptacle; 2) new multifamily residential developments shall provide at least one low power Level 2 EV charging receptacle for each assigned parking space and 25% of unassigned or common use parking spaces shall provide Level 2 EV chargers; 3) new hotel and motel developments shall provide 40% of parking spaces with low power Level 2 EV charging receptacles and 25% of the total spaces with Level 2 EV chargers; 4) new offices and retail developments shall provide 7% of parking spaces EV capability and 23% of parking spaces with EV Charging Stations (EVCS); and 5) all other new nonresidential developments shall provide 15% EV capable parking spaces and 15% EVCS spaces. A hearing to consider establishing local building laws more stringent than the statewide standards is allowed by Public Resources Code Section 25402.1(h)2 If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 30 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 12, 2024

LEGALS (CONT.)

above on N/A. Filed by: JEFFREY

STURDIVAN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002093. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s)

is/are doing business as: S. Y. V. SISTERS 3583 Numancia Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Deborah D Foshee PO Box 1023 Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Susan F Townsend 1529 Elm Avenue Solvang, CA 93463 This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 24, 2024. Filed by: DEBORAH

FOSHEE/PARTNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002069. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAMA SAMA 3435 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Great Beer Company, LLC 421 Mountain Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 30, 2024. Filed by: PETER BURNHAM/ MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 4, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002116. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

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

70 Crestview Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Michael E McCrory (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2000. Filed by: MICHAEL E MCCRORY/ OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 23, 2024. 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 E63. FBN Number: 2024‑0002035. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRUNNER LEASING, DEAN BRUNNER RENTALS, DEAN R BRUNNER AND PENNY S BRUNNER 1985 SURVIVORS TRUST, DEAN R BRUNNER AND PENNY S BRUNNER 1985 BYPASS TRUST, BEAU A BRUNNER IRREVOCABLE TRUST, PASADO IRREVOCABLE TRUST 6778 Pasado Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Jamia Stetler (same address) Penny Brunner (same address) Dean Brunner (same address) This business is conducted by A Trust. Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 1974. Filed by: JAMIA STETLER/ TRUSTEE with the County Clerk of

Santa Barbara County on Sep 4, 2024. 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: 2024‑0002113. Published: Sep 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2024.

LIEN SALE

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 10 S. Kellogg, Goleta, CA 93117. September 26th, 2024 at 3:30 PM

Glen Apacible

Sandra Shields

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.

Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: BROOKE NOELLE HORSLEY

CASE NUMBER: 24CV04132 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: BROOKE NOELLE

HORSLEY A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: BROOKE NOELLE HORSLEY

PROPOSED NAME: BROOKE NOELLE HARCSA

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 2, 2024, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa Street., P.O BOX 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 21, 2024, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle. of the Superior Court. Published Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ANVITHA

MOHAN ACHARYA CASE NUMBER: 24CV04005 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: ANVITHA MOHAN

ACHARYA A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s)

in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: ANVITHA MOHAN

ACHARYA

PROPOSED NAME: ANVITHA

ACHARYA MUNIKOTI

BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE

1100 Anacapa Street., Santa Barbara, CA 93121, ANACAPA DIVISION. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 20, 2024, JUDGE Donna D. Geck. of the Superior Court. Published Aug 29. Sep 5, 12, 19 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: KALLIE YIHPING

WANG

CASE NUMBER: 24CV04329 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER: KALLIE YIHPING

WANG A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: KALLIE YIHPING

WANG

PROPOSED NAME: CALLIE YIHPING

WANG

BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa Street., P.O BOX 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, ANACAPA DIVISION. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the 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 21, 2024, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle. of the Superior Court. Published Sep 5, 12, 19, 26 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: FAZEH EBRAHIM

KHAMESH CASE NUMBER: 24CV04360 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: FAZEH EBRAHIM

KHAMESH A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) is soliciting proposals for Residential Support Services, a site-based case management and service coordination program for residents of HACSB’s newest Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) development. HACSB is seeking to collaborate with a local social service organization specializing in case management, service coordination (including primary and behavioral health), and harm reduction services. Supportive services will be provided to a variety of PSH residents with limited incomes, including formerly homeless individuals, as well as persons with disabilities and/ or special needs. Qualified organizations are encouraged to submit proposals that reflect their capacity to provide the scope of services outlined in the RFP. The RFP package is available electronically upon request by contacting the undersigned at (805) 897-1036; or via email at aredit@hacsb.org; and/or by accessing it on our website @ www.hacsb.org.

Proposals are due no later than 5:00 PM, September 30, 2024. Alice Villarreal Redit, Resident Programs Supervisor, Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara.

decree changing name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: FAZEH EBRAHIM

KHAMESH

PROPOSED NAME: FAZEH EBRAHIMI

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

ORDINANCE NO. 24-02

Santa Barbara,

copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation,

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 10.01 OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING CERTAIN STREETS AS SAFETY CORRIDORS OR FACILITIES THAT GENERATE HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF BICYCLISTS OR PEDESTRIANS, REDUCING SPEED LIMITS ON SAID STREETS AND FINDING THAT THE ORDINANCE IS EXEMPT FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT

On September 3, 2024, 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. 24-02. This Ordinance will apply sections in the California Vehicle Code (CVC) updated by Assembly Bill 43 – Traffic Safety, to reduce speed limits by an additional 5 mph along specified corridors within the City that meet the CVC definitions of a safety corridor or facilities that generate high volumes of bicyclists or pedestrians. These changes are in support of the City’s goal to eliminate serious injury and fatalities resulting from traffic collisions.

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 24-02 at a regular meeting held on the 3rd day of September, 2024, by the following roll call vote:

AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE REYES-MARTÍN, COUNCILMEMBERS KASDIN, KYRIACO AND RICHARDS

NOES: NONE

ABSENT: NONE

ABSTAIN: NONE

The Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption. Enforcement of new speed limits will begin once the Ordinance is in effect and appropriate signs are posted.

A copy of the ordinance is available at the City Clerk’s Office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, or by calling the office at (805) 961-7505.

Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 12, 2024

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom September 17, 2024, at 5:30 P.M.

LOCAL BUILDING LAWS - EV REACH 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 Council will hold a public hearing to conduct the second reading of the following ordinance in accordance with Government Code Section 50022.3:

The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

PUBLIC HEARING INFORMATION:

HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 5:30 PM

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

As part of the ordinance, new local amendments are proposed as follows: 1) new single family residential developments shall provide one Level 2 Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Receptacle and one Level 1 EV Charging Receptacle; 2) new multifamily residential developments shall provide at least one low power Level 2 EV charging receptacle for each assigned parking space and 25% of unassigned or common use parking spaces shall provide Level 2 EV chargers; 3) new hotel and motel developments shall provide 40% of parking spaces with low power Level 2 EV charging receptacles and 25% of the total spaces with Level 2 EV chargers; 4) new offices and retail developments shall provide 11% of parking spaces EV capability and 34% of parking spaces with EV Charging Stations (EVCS); and 5) all other new nonresidential developments shall provide 22% EV capable parking spaces and 23% EVCS spaces. A hearing to consider establishing local building laws more stringent than the statewide standards is allowed by Public Resources Code Section 25402.1(h)2.

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 City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@ cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

Publish Date: Santa Barbara Independent September 5, 2024, and September 12, 2024

LEGALS (CONT.)

Serve as Goleta’s Voice on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission

Submit Your Application by September 25, 2024

Looking for a way to represent your community? The Goleta City Council has the opportunity to endorse an applicant to serve on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission for consideration by the Santa Barbara City Council.

The Santa Barbara Airport Commission advises the Santa Barbara City Council regarding the following:

• Selection and appointment of an Airport Director.

• Terms and conditions of leases, contracts and agreements pertaining to operation of the Airport.

• Rules and regulations related to operation and maintenance of the Airport, including the fixing of rates and charges related to operation of the Airport.

• Preparation of development plans, financial plans and budget for the Airport. Commission Members shall serve a 4-year term. The Commission meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the Airport Administration Conference Room, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara. To be considered for endorsement by the Goleta City Council, please email cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org indicating your interest in serving, and submit an application on the Santa Barbara Airport Commission website at https://santabarbaraca.gov/government/boards-commissions.

For any questions, please contact us at (805) 961-7505. Applications are due by September 25th, at 5:00 p.m. Thank you for considering this important role in your community!

Audiencia pública híbrida: en persona y vía Zoom 17 de Septiembre, 2024, a las 5:30 P.M.

LEYES LOCALES DE CONSTRUCCIÓN - CÓDIGO DE ALCANCE EV

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INFORMACIÓN DE LA AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA:

FECHA/HORA: Martes, 17 de Septiembre, 2024, a las 5:30 PM

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PROYECTO:

Como parte de la ordenanza, se proponen nuevas enmiendas locales de la siguiente manera: 1) los nuevos desarrollos residenciales unifamiliares deberán proporcionar un receptáculo de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EV) de nivel 2 y un receptáculo de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EV) de nivel 1; 2) los nuevos desarrollos residenciales multifamiliares deberán proporcionar al menos un receptáculo de carga de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2 de baja potencia para cada espacio de estacionamiento asignado y el 25 % de los espacios de estacionamiento no asignados o de uso común deberán proporcionar cargadores de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2; 3) los nuevos desarrollos de hoteles y moteles deberán proporcionar el 40% de los espacios de estacionamiento con receptáculos de carga de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2 de baja potencia y el 25% del total de espacios con cargadores de vehículos eléctricos de nivel 2; 4) las nuevas oficinas y desarrollos comerciales proporcionarán el 11% de los espacios de estacionamiento con capacidad para vehículos eléctricos y el 34% de los espacios de estacionamiento con estaciones de carga para vehículos eléctricos (EVCS); y 5) todos los demás desarrollos nuevos no residenciales deberán proporcionar un 22 % de espacios de estacionamiento con capacidad para vehículos eléctricos y un 23 % de espacios para EVCS. La Sección 25402.1(h)2 del Código de Recursos Públicos permite una audiencia para considerar el establecimiento de leyes de construcción locales más estrictas que los estándares estatales.

Fecha de publicación: Santa Barbara Independent 5 de Septiembre, 2024, y 12 de Septiembre, 2024

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