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New Book Explores Mysterious Montecito Mogul Ty Warner and His Stuffed-Animal Craze (Tyler Hayden)

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When cover story author Tyler Hayden was 12 years old — seen here on the left with his cousin and sister — he had exactly three Beanie Babies: Stinky the Skunk, Congo the Gorilla, and Bubbles the Fish. Within a few months of this 1997 picture, Tyler had graduated to much manlier Magic cards. His sister went on collecting and kept a sleeping/cuddling schedule to give her few dozen animals an equal amount of attention. She’s now studying to become a veterinary technician.

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ON THE COVER: Photo by Paul Wellman. ABOVE: Sweetheart the Orangutan.

Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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OPINIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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Los Alamos standoff suspect Ronald Carrari faces a slew of felony charges stemming from an hours-long incident on 3/20 that led to a 15-mile closure of Highway 101 in both directions. The standoff began after Carrari, 56, reportedly threatened a family member. He then barricaded himself in his home until deputies used tear gas to drive him out. A later search of the home found three handguns, two shotguns, three rifles, thousands of rounds of ammo, seven swords, and two fighting knives. Pedro Bravo, wanted by Santa Barbara authorities since 1988 for shooting a man to death on Punta Gorda Street, has been sentenced in Mexico to 20 years in prison. Under Mexican law, citizens who are accused of crimes in other countries and flee back home can be arrested and prosecuted in their home country. Bravo was apprehended in Mexico City in March 2013.

ON THE CLOCK: State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson is working to tweak the Paciﬁc Surﬂiner’s run times.

All Aboard Commuter Rail? Amtrak May Change Train Schedule for Ventura-S.B. Commuters

BY N I C K W E L S H hough still a far cry from the commuter rail promised nearly 10 years ago, it now appears Amtrak will soon change its train schedule so that Ventura County residents can arrive to jobs in Santa Barbara by 8 in the morning and leave for home at 5 in the evening. Currently, the first northbound Pacific Surfliner arrives in Santa Barbara around 10 a.m. and heads back south around 4 p.m. But with the new arrival and departure times, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson predicted as many as 500 riders a day could make the journey by rail. That’s the equivalent of half-a-lane of traffic. For years, it appeared a commuter rail was dead in the water. It was Jackson, who chairs the Select Committee on Passenger Rail, who applied the political squeeze necessary to break the impasse. Governor Jerry Brown, Jackson explained, needed support for his highly ambitious multibillion-dollar highspeed-rail initiative. Jackson — who previously sat on the budget committee overseeing rail, transportation, and cap-and-trade policies — was in a position to help. In exchange, she secured support from high places. In 2004-05, Santa Barbara officials first embraced what’s known as “the lane-and-the train” initiative, a delicately orchestrated deal in which freeway-widening advocates and commuter-rail champions agreed to hold their noses and support each other’s pet projects. This would be memorialized by voters countywide in 2008 with the passage of Measure A, the halfcent sales tax used to fund the freeway widening and a host of other transportation projects. But efforts since then to develop a commuter 10

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rail have gone nowhere. Union Pacific, the company that owns the tracks, has declined to be a meaningful participant in such discussions. The price the company demanded for use of the tracks was prohibitively expensive. In addition, Union Pacific insisted that freight shipments had to take priority over commuter scheduling. Under the proposal Jackson is hammering out, Union Pacific’s consent was bypassed because Amtrak and the other entities involved had already secured a time slot on the tracks. Amtrak, Jackson said, was persuaded to participate because the Governor’s Office provided studies demonstrating that the Surfliner would experience an increase in both riders and revenues by retiming. To do that for just one early-morning train, she explained, would not displace any Union Pacific freight lines. But to add any additional trains, Jackson cautioned, would require the active cooperation of Union Pacific. While many train advocates have despaired of ever getting phone calls returned by Union Pacific, Jackson said she was optimistic. With the Governor’s Office involved, she said, that helps even the playing field. In addition, there’s real money involved. In response to climate change, the State Legislature approved a program that caps the volume of greenhouse-gas emissions that can be released annually and then auctions off permits for excess emissions. Last year, that auction generated just under $1 billion. Of that, a large chunk has been earmarked to pay for the high-speed-rail plan. Conventional rail lines — like the one linking San Diego to San Francisco — are slated to receive 10 percent. But until any of that comes to pass, Jackson said, “We have to be careful not to call it a commuter independent.com

train. Instead, they will be run during ‘commuter hours.’” In the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of transportation politics, such distinctions are anything but academic. For supporters of the freeway-widening project, Jackson’s announcement constitutes proof-positive that the deal was and remains legit. “It’s a very big deal,” gushed Gregg Hart, who is not just a Santa Barbara City Councilmember but also the chief political spokesperson for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) in its quest to widen 11 miles of freeway between Santa Barbara and Carpinteria. Leading the lawsuit challenging the legal validity of the environmental review for that widening project is attorney Marc Chytilo, who was notably less enthusiastic. The rabbit Jackson is pulling out of her hat, he argued, in no way resembles the promise for genuine commuter rail, and he questioned SBCAG’s commitment to keeping its word. “We should not plan infrastructure based on moving cars around. We need to implement more services focused on moving people around,” stated Chytilo’s client, Michael Gibian of the Transportation Futures Committee. Longtime commuter-rail advocate Dennis Story praised Jackson for making anything happen, adding, “People have to be weary of the machinations involving . Rail is like a breath of fresh air.” Jackson remains hopeful that the new service could begin as soon as next April. “If you live in Ventura, you can grab the train, sit at a nice big table where they have Wi-Fi, look out the window or get some work done, and even buy a latte,” she exclaimed. “And in 45 minutes to an ■ hour, you’ll be at work.”

Former Iron Cross Tattoo owner Pablo Sela was sentenced Monday to ﬁve years in state prison. He was arrested last year for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of antique guns, ivory pieces, Chumash baskets, and Nazi memorabilia from the next-door antique shop, Collector’s Corner, then selling the items on eBay. Sela was also ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution. Pioneer Valley High School basketball coach and teacher Brian Thomas Hook pleaded no contest to four counts of sex with a minor. Hook, 54, was accused of having a four-month relationship with a 16-year-old student on and off the high school campus. He’ll be sentenced next month and faces up to ﬁve years in prison. A man suspected of robbing banks across Washington State and two in Santa Barbara recently confessed to committing the crimes here. Known as the “Roscoe Bandit,” William Mitchell, 56, robbed a Santa Barbara Bank & Trust on August 15, 2005, and a Community West Bank on October 2, 2014. In the 2014 incident, he left a fake gun behind, which authorities tested for DNA. The results matched Mitchell’s. He is expected to serve 10-15 years in federal prison. The U.S. Coast Guard arrested three Mexican nationals on San Miguel Island this Sunday as they tried to smuggle 5,700 pounds of marijuana into the country by panga boat. The seized weed had an estimated street value of $3 million, and the suspects are expected to appear this week in federal court. Another boater in the area spotted the panga.

CITY The auditorium at Monroe Elementary School was buzzing with excitement Saturday afternoon, as girls of the Santa Barbara Cheer Elite tumbled and danced before celebrating multiple ﬁrst-place wins at a statewide competition last weekend. Five teams totaling about 60 girls — ages 4-18 — traveled to Knott’s Berry Farm’s Sharp International Cheer Competition; four of the teams placed ﬁrst, and one placed second. The Santa Barbara City Council waded through 20 proposed maps for the city’s new

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six council districts but delayed a ﬁnal vote pending last-minute adjustments. The hope is to create boundaries that don’t split San Roque into two districts and that keep Oak Park and the Brinkerhoff Street area in the downtown district. The new districts will go into effect for this November’s council race and resulted as a settlement to a lawsuit alleging Santa Barbara’s traditional at-large system of elections yielded “racially polarized” results. A ﬁnal vote is scheduled to take place at a special council meeting next Monday.

On Tuesday, the City Council gave the green light for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s renovation plan, rejecting an appeal by neighbors Mark and Lauren Carey of Las Encinas Lane, who wanted more controls on outdoor speakers, construction timing, and the placement of trash cans. Dozens of public speakers packed the chambers to support the museum; no one spoke against it other than the Careys. The council’s blessing of the plan —

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Representatives from Southern California Edison were politely grilled by the Santa Barbara City Council about the increasing number — and lengthening duration — of “unplanned power outages” afflicting the downtown business district. Santa Barbara has always been at the tail end of Edison’s service district, but the problems posed by older equipment, deferred maintenance, and fewer workers achieved critical mass during First Thursday last October. That’s when an outage forced the Granada Theatre to cancel a Tony Bennett concert, and follow-up outages over the next several days inflicted hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses on surrounding businesses. In 2014, there were 33 such outages downtown, up from 17 the year before. Edison representatives assured councilmembers they were accelerating the rate at which they replace and repair problematic equipment. The company is planning to hire five additional repair WHICH WIRE? Southern California Edison crews, prune 20,000 trees, install 160 repair crews worked to restore power after a poles, and spend $5.7 million in the comrecent outage. ing year. Mayor Helene Schneider said that sounded like a lot but wasn’t sure that it actually was. In a tone cooperative but stern, Schneider warned company reps, “Don’t mess with Old Spanish Days.” Councilmembers Bendy White and Gregg Hart argued that City Hall needs to weigh in more strategically on behalf of Edison’s infrastructure improvements before the Public Utilities Commission. They urged company — Nick Welsh reps to keep the council better apprised of such opportunities.

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which will not expand the museum’s footprint or attendance — allows the remodel to begin.

COUNTY Santa Barbara’s Child Support Services was recently named the seventh best in California for 2014. The ofﬁce’s statistics are both impressive and somber: Paternity was established in 100 percent of cases, and support was ordered in 93.5 percent of open cases. But it collected current payments to keep children fed and housed from only 67 out of 100 parents; the statewide average was 64.9 percent. The ofﬁce also received kudos for cost effectiveness, pegged at a dollar spent for every $2.90 collected, compared to the statewide average of $2.43. The county’s Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services (ADMHS) recently won $150,000 from the state to train employees and cont’d page 12 volunteers who have a per-

ast Wednesday afternoon, a group of scientists and a handful of lucky onlookers crowded around a heap of computer monitors onboard a NOAA research vessel in between Santa Cruz and Anacapa islands. In the middle of this scrum were two men controlling a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) 500 feet beneath the boat’s hull. Later in the day, an oceanographer named Peter Etnoyer would ruminate on the fact that when he was in college, researchers still believed that the deep sea consisted of dead zones devoid of life; however, the ROV’s electrical eyes revealed an ecosystem teeming with fish, crustaceans, and the organism that nobody knew actually existed in the Santa Barbara Channel until recently: coral. Everyone held their breath as they watched the ROV clamp onto a pink gorgonian coral bush, more commonly known as a sea fan, and deposit it onto the submersible’s “front porch.” Exhales. Applause. Soon after, scientists and their assistants were slicing and dicing the specimen so it could be preserved for examination. The abiding question is how deep-sea corals are impacted by ocean acidification. Corals, the second-most simple animals (the first being sponges), form hard exoskeletons from calcium carbonate, and they tend to thrive in conditions where the water is saturated with such minerals. However, when oceans absorb carbon dioxide — which they have been doing increasingly since the Industrial Revolution, becoming on average 30 percent more acidic — the change in chemistry reduces the number of carbonate ions. Marine scientists use the saturation of one particular calcium carbonate called aragonite to discuss acidification. The “aragonite saturation horizon” marks the depth below which corals cannot form their exoskeletons. As acidification increases, the depth of the horizon becomes shallower. In the California Current system, it was between 300 and 350 meters in the preindustrial era, before 1750. It is roughly now 150 meters, and by some predictions, it will be 50 meters by 2050. Aside from their beauty, corals provide habitat for both invertebrates and fish. “Corals are to fishes as trees are to birds,” said Etnoyer. independent.com

They support entire ecosystems. They also hold pharmaceutical potential, Etnoyer explained, are crucial to biodiversity, and are an “indicator species,” manifesting earlier than other species’ impacts to the ocean environment. The scientists were particularly interested in Lophelia pertusa, a white-pink–colored species commonly referred to as bubblegum coral, that can live up to 1,000 years. Lophelia, said Etnoyer, is a “poster child” because it exists all over the world. The Lophelia in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary seem to be healthier than the scientists predicted. They guess this might have to do with the richness of food sources in the area, or it may be due to the fact that this portion of the Pacific is naturally highly acidic due to upwelling, so perhaps the corals had already become inured to such conditions. Because of their inaccessibility, deep-sea corals are still quite mysterious creatures. “Eighty percent of the data we collect is imagery,” said Etnoyer. He surmises that he was drawn to studying deep-sea corals because of his first career working on Hollywood movie sets. “It’s all cameras, it’s all light,” he said of the submersible vehicles that marine scientists depend on. The ROV on the Bell M. Shimada was designed by a nongovernmental organization called Marine Applied Research and Exploration (MARE). Executive Director Dirk Rosen, one of the ROV operators on the ship, is based in San Francisco, but his motivation for founding the nonprofit is a Santa Barbara story. A graduate of UCSB’s engineering program, Rosen had been diving in the channel since 1976 when he attended early meetings on the formation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) within the Channel Islands sanctuary. Distressed at the “demise” of sea life in the area, he asked scientists what they most needed, and their response was “deepwater data.” He launched MARE in 2003, the same year the MPA regulations went into effect, and his machines have been gathering data up and down the West Coast ever since. At the end of the day, everybody was pleased. The mission was a success. They’d collected all the coral samples they could hope for, and after 30-knot winds the night before, the waters were ■ calm.

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The county supervisors dove into controversial state waters this week, weighing in on whether to support two bills working their way through Sacramento. They looked first at Senate Bill 277, which would eliminate the personal-belief exemption currently allowed to avoid childhood vaccination. Introduced by Democratic state senators Richard Pan — a pediatrician — and Ben Allen, and supported by others including State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, SB 277 would still allow opt-outs for medical reasons but would do away with personal and religious exclusions. Many public-health officials — including those in Santa Barbara County — have warned such exemptions can reduce herd immunity and may be behind the recent outbreaks of whooping cough and measles, a disease eradicated in 2000. About a dozen community members — including former county supervisor Gail Marshall — spoke out against the bill, saying it would violate parents’ rights to make their own decisions. Up on the dais, the supervisors grappled with the issue themselves, with Peter Adam — who said he vaccinated his kids — calling it “Orwellian” to force the decision, Doreen Farr supporting the religious exemption, and Steve Lavagnino claiming the matter was beyond their purview. A motion to support the bill with some caveats ultimately failed, but Salud Carbajal and Janet Wolf wrote their own letter in favor. “I don’t think that you’re irrational,” Wolf said, addressing the public speakers. “I just happen to believe in the many decades of science and the importance of immunizations.” Diving deeper, the board discussed supporting Senate Bill 128, which would allow competent California residents diagnosed with a terminal illness by two doctors to obtain life-ending medication. While a few members of the public took issue with the bill, the majority of the speakers — and of the supervisors — supported it, noting the suffering they had watched loved ones endure at the end of their lives. The final speaker alluded to his own terminal illness and battle with pain. “If you’re going to die and you don’t have to go through the pain, that would be a good thing,” he said. — Lyz Hoffman

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By the end of this fiscal year, select county buildings and parks will receive facelifts paid for with $1.4 million set aside for preventative maintenance projects; Nojoqui Falls Park, Ocean Beach Park, Goleta Beach, Manning Park, and various offices and fire stations will be upgraded. The county departments in charge of parks and buildings also received funds to tackle deferred maintenance projects; the backlog is around $84 million. A plan approved last year to funnel 18 percent of new revenue growth to maintenance — $102 million over the next decade — will provide $1 million in 2015-2016. Five evicted Isla Vista tenants who filed smallclaims lawsuits against landlord Majestic Asset Management settled last week for an undisclosed amount of money. At issue was whether or not a county ordinance applied that required landlords to pay tenants’ relocation costs if an eviction was for renovations requiring a permit. Majestic denied any wrongdoing. The tenants, all Latino families, said they were disappointed with the outcome, which also settled countersuits Majestic filed against them amounting to $700-$1,100 for attorney’s fees.

A bill cosponsored by Rep. Lois Capps seeks to expand veterans’ ability to obtain non-Veterans Affairs medical care. In the wake of the nationwide scandal over long waits, last August’s Veterans Affairs (VA) reform bill allowed veterans more than 40 miles from a VA facility or whose wait exceeded 30 days to see a private doctor at the government’s expense. In smaller regions like Santa Barbara, veterans face VA clinics without certain surgical procedures, dental work, or chemotherapy treatment, and they must trek to West Los Angeles. Capps’s bill would allow them to seek that private care locally.

Eighteen-year veteran Rob Heckman was named Santa Barbara County Fire’s new secondin-command, replacing Eric Peterson, who was just named Fire Chief. David Sadecki, a 34-year County Fire veteran who spent the last six years as public information ofﬁcer, retired this week and is being succeeded by Dave Zaniboni.

ENVIRONMENT More monarchs migrated to the Goleta groves this season than last season, but the numbers still show a drastic drop from years past. The entire Ellwood Mesa attracted a high of 22,237 butterﬂies by December, while the popular main grove saw 6,915 monarchs by January, according to a report made to the Goleta Parks and Recreation Commission. In 2013, the main grove saw a record-low migration of 2,500; the count was as high as 47,510 in 2011. Scientists have suggested the drought could be a culprit.

DEATHS Al Pizano, a mover and shaker in Santa Barbara Latino business and cultural circles from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, has died. He was 84. Pizano moved to Santa Barbara in the ’70s to become district manager for Southern California Gas Company, and he took advantage of that position to jump feet ﬁrst into civic affairs. Among other things, Pizano started the Hispanic Achievement Council. In addition, he cofounded the Mariachi Festival and the Flamenco Arts Festival.

Limo driver, shoe salesman, and onetime Republican activist Rod Sumner died of a heart attack this week at the age of 65. Sumner — a sweetspirited gadﬂy who delighted in the media sobriquet “free-ﬂoating electron” — was most engaged in Goleta politics prior to its incorporation. He later became a champion of RV living. ■

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TOO BIG, TOO MUCH: Casa Dorinda neighbor Dale Zurawski took issue with the 100,000-square-foot, $40 million expansion proposal.

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Senior Community Plans Massive Expansion

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hen it comes to Montecito, two things are certain: The average age of its population is getting older. And never mess with its neighbors. That was evident Monday evening at a dramatic meeting of the Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee, at which the $40 million, 100,000-square-foot expansion plans for Casa Dorinda were deliberated by a mixed bag of speakers. A mazelike property adjacent to open space and hiking trails, the senior-living community is undeniably magnificent. Philanthropist Anna Dorinda Blaksley Bliss, who also founded the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, built Casa Dorinda in 1918 with her husband, William. It became a senior community in 1975, now made up of 30 buildings on 48 acres. Like many of its residents, Casa Dorinda needs a facelift: Those were the words of one commenter who supported the proposal to build 32 new units — 20 independent-living (cottage-style, studio, or one-bedroom) and 12 assisted-living units (personal and memory care). The plan includes a 5,000-square-foot dining facility and 36,000 square feet for parking. The new units would accommodate about 30 more residents, requiring 17 more staffers. Currently, to live at Casa Dorinda, residents must fork over $178,000 to $1.1 million. From there, monthly costs range from $3,500-$7,900, which are not expected to increase after the remodel, because the new apartments are on the high end, said Casa Dorinda CEO Ron Schaefer. The waiting list has about 90 people on it, he added. The proposal has been in the works since 2009, and in February, County Planning and Development drafted a mitigated negative declaration. This simpler, cheaper version of an environmental impact report (EIR) outlined mitigations needed for the proposal to avoid significant impacts to public scenery, visual character, lighting or glare at night, or “visual incompatible” structures. Not so, said neighbor Dale Zurawski, who is leading the charge that the negative declaration is deficient. Zurawski said the plan emphasizes

architectural beauty and landscaping without the necessary nitty-gritty of infrastructure. She contended that communication has been lacking and project speciﬁcs were not transparent. The wildlife corridor would be threatened, Zurawksi claimed, and the new buildings would be too close to neighboring houses, posing noise and light concerns. Any course other than an EIR “leaves the applicant open to lawsuits,” Zurawski contended. Some neighbors have chipped in to hire an expert, who is still determining if a complete environmental study is needed. An EIR would cost between $700,000 and $1 million, CEO Schaefer said, and it would delay the process about a year. The removal of 27 oak trees concerned a few speakers, but environmental scientist Mark de la Garza said oak trees have been dying across the state and that the proposal includes planting 199 trees. Technically, a wildlife corridor does not exist at the site, de la Garza added, and the area animals are suburban ones like skunks and rats — not bobcat and deer. A handful of people called for careful environmental study but said they believed the negative declaration was suﬃcient. They thought Casa Dorinda had taken proper steps by hiring eight or so consultants to conduct special studies, which cost millions of dollars. “The takeaway for me was that people are involved in the project and that the project is well designed,” Schaefer said, adding that previous community meetings were poorly attended and more conversations with neighbors need to take place. “There is always room to look at things more deeply,” he said. On Monday, the Montecito Association ultimately decided to send a letter to Planning and Development, incorporating the neighbors’ concerns but not asking for an EIR. For their part, several neighbors stated they would ask the county for an EIR or for public comment on the negative declaration to be extended further. (The period was already extended several weeks.) Sometime this summer, the Montecito Planning Commission will review the plans. If approved, construction would commence about one year from now. ■

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On April 14, the Board of Supervisors will hear two challenges to the Miramar Hotel project approval. The board set that date this week but not without significant pushback from Pasadena-based lawyer Robert Silverstein, who is representing the Pachulski family, Miramar neighbors arguing the 170-room hotel would eat up residents’ on-street parking. For weeks, Silverstein, developer Rick Caruso (who also appealed the approval but for different reasons), and county staff have been in discussions over when to schedule the hearing. Silverstein maintained he couldn’t attend April meetings given his involvement in a previously scheduled trial but could attend a May 5 hearing. Caruso said he’d be traveling then. Caruso representative Matt Middlebrook said further delaying the hearing would have a “spiraling impact” on the construction schedRick Caruso ule yet hinted twice in a three-minute speech that the hotel’s future could be in question regardless. He referred to Caruso Affiliated as “the hopeful developers” and used the phrase, “If we are able to move forward after these appeals are addressed …” Supervisor Salud Carbajal said county staff did their best to find an acceptable date for the two parties. The Montecito Planning Commission approved Caruso’s project in January — his third iteration and approval since he purchased the property — but, to Caruso’s chagrin, imposed temporary caps on event sizes and club memberships. After Tuesday’s decision, spokesperson Andrew Rice released a statement on the Pachulskis’ behalf. “Supervisor Carbajal tried to spin his selection of April 14 for the Miramar hearing as a compromise. It’s not a compromise at all,” Rice said. “He and the rest of the board were fully aware that the Pachulskis’ legal counsel cannot attend on that date. Yet they blatantly chose to prioritize Caruso Affiliated’s profits over the general public’s right to due process.” Rice suggested that the decision could mean an — Lyz Hoffman appeal to the California Coastal Commission.

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Ward’s Wisdom Longtime I.V. Cop Reflects on His Career and a Changing College Town

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nown for his cool demeanor and frank personality, Isla Vista Foot Patrol Deputy Mark Ward will retire from the Sheriff ’s Office on March 28 — exactly a week before this year’s Deltopia — after 27 years of police work. He spent much of that time in the rambunctious college town, with his final stretch on bike patrol. As a young man, Ward was inspired to go into law enforcement in part because his dad was a sheriff and many of his mom’s friends were cops. “You really have to do it right every time,”Ward said of policing.“Everyone has bad days. You have to get past that. It’s really scary what you have to do every day.” Scary seems to be the applicable word for Isla Vista right now: Have recent violent incidents just been an unfortunate string of events, or is Isla Vista actually worse off than it was decades ago? Ward is one of the few people in town fit to answer that question. He sat down with The Santa Barbara Independent over a cup of coffee to reflect on his career and the good, the bad, and the ugly of I.V. Isla Vista has gotten a lot of bad attention in the last year or so. Has it actually gotten worse? In the last two years, it seems like there has been an uptick in people resisting arrest. In the past, when you walked up and had a conversation, it was a friendly thing. It wasn’t a confrontation. That seems to have changed. I’m not sure why. People seemed to be motivated by anger. When I started in police work, if I was involved in a fight, citizens would jump in and help me out. Now they just lift up their phones and yell that I am going to federal prison. Do you think attitudes toward police have changed since Ferguson? If I had to guess, I would say, “Yes, absolutely.” But after the Isla Vista murders, appreciation for cops seemed to increase. That went on for three months. And then that went out of memory. I don’t get how I have spent my entire career keeping people from harming themselves, and now that has made me many

people’s enemy. After the shooting, people appreciated whatever we did. That’s not the case anymore. What can be done to improve I.V.? The first thing I’d say [to students] is take responsibility for yourself. Take care of your neighbors. Don’t invite your friends up for a riot. If you screw up, say, “I screwed up,” and don’t do it again. What about Deltopia this year? I get the sense that a lot of students don’t want to see last year’s nightmare again. Good. I’ll tell you this. Halloween this year [was tame]. Well, it was raining. No, not just that. I talked to a lot of people who not only didn’t invite their friends for Halloween, [they] also stayed away for Halloween. What can be done to prevent sexual assault in college communities? It’s not the best thing for your personal safety to go out and get so blind drunk you literally can’t speak your native language. Sometimes the response to that is, “You are blaming the victim.” But no, if I get so drunk and want to go play on the freeway, I am going to get hurt. I think that’s a valid point, but I think some people argue that’s not fair because men can get very drunk often without the same risk. A life-changing moment for me was [when I was talking to] a very smart lady. I said to her, “I just don’t get it. These women get so drunk, and then they get raped. I’m not saying it’s their fault, but my god they have to play a part.” She said here’s the difference: If you and all of your male friends go and get blind drunk, when you wake up the next morning, your butt doesn’t hurt. And that caused me to change the entire way I looked at stuff. That doesn’t take me off point: You shouldn’t get so screwed up you can’t do anything. A lot of these times the ladies don’t know what happened. They have no clue. It’s dangerous to put yourself in that position; I don’t care what sex you are. ■

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Sheila Carter Ehrman

Glenn Franklin VanBlaricum

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Sheila Carter Ehrman of Santa Barbara passed away on February , . Sheila will always be remembered for her generosity of spirit, energy and commitment to the arts, compassion for others and devotion and love of her family . Sheila was born in Liverpool, England, on  May , to Matthew and Mary Alice Carter where she spent her childhood with her brother, Kenneth. During WW she met the love her life, Mason Leoffler Ehrman, and was married to him on  January , in Chicago, Illinois. They immediately boarded the train to Los Angeles and began their life together. They became the proud parents of Judith Lynn (Ehrman) Weisbart and Brian Carter Ehrman. After the death of her husband, Mason, in , Sheila and her children went to England where they spent  years and then returned to Los Angeles. Throughout Sheila’s life, she worked in office settings until her retirement in , when she moved to live with her daughter, Judi, and son-in-law, Harry Weisbart in Santa Barbara. Her lifelong passion for the theatre and the arts lead her to a number of volunteer experiences. She served on the Board of the Lobero Theatre and was one of the Founders of Step One, an art gallery in Carpinteria. Her love of life was evident in everything she did, and those who experienced her organizational skills, determination and sheer guts knew her as the “Queen.” Without a doubt, the greatest achievement of Sheila’s life was her family and friends. She loved them all and always had time to talk and support them in all their dreams. Her devotion and love was unequaled and will be missed by her children, Judi (Ehrman) Weisbart and Harry Weisbart, Brian and Yolanda Ehrman. Her grand-children Adam Mason Weisbart and Erin (Curry) Weisbart, Lisa (Ehrman) Castro and Alex Castro, Max Ehrman, great grand-daughter, Elise and her step grandchildren Jamie, (Weisbart) Hornbeck, Alan Weisbart and Alesha Hughes, Jonathan Weisbart and Veronique Flambard-Weisbart and her great grandson, Clovis Weisbart. Her nieces and nephew Lynne (Carter) Scobbie, Sarah Chiodetto, Susie Flockhart, Georgina & Gracie Flockhart, Sara Ehrman, Howard Ehrman and her ‘adopted’ daughter Cara Tilston, and all the adopted loved ones she embraced over her lifetime!! In lieu of flowers, please send a contribution in her name to the Lobero Theatre,  East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA , or LifeChronicles,  West Mission Street, #B Santa Barbara, CA . Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary. 16

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Glenn Franklin VanBlaricum of Goleta, California, died of pneumonia at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital on March , . He was  years old. Glenn was born on May , , on a small farm in Decker Township south of Noble, Illinois, to Mary Jane (Mollie) Long VanBlaricum and James VanBlaricum. He was the youngest of their eight children. Glenn graduated from Noble High School on May , . In the fall of  he started college at Eastern Illinois State Teachers College (now Eastern Illinois University) in Charleston, IL. He majored in physics with a minor in math and chemistry. However, after the first year he saw that he would not have enough money to finish college, so he borrowed fifty dollars to take teaching classes at Eastern in the summer and passed the Illinois Teachers Credential exam in August . In the school year -, he taught st and nd grade at Thomas School south of Clay City, IL, and in -, he taught grades , , , and  at Gray School south of Noble, IL. In July , he volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps and trained as a fighter pilot, receiving his wings and commission as a nd lieutenant on July , . While on leave, on July , , he and Mary Ellen Shearer of Olney, IL, eloped to St. Charles, Missouri, where they were married. Lt. VanBlaricum flew a Bell P- Airacobra fighter plane in Tunisia during the North African campaign and served as a base operations officer in Florida later in the war. He earned an Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster. He was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant in  but stayed in the Air Force Reserve until . Glenn taught at Noble Grade School, Noble, IL, from  to  and at Newton Consolidated School, Newton, IL, from  to . He then received a Bachelor of Science in Education from Eastern in May of . He later completed a Master of Science in Education in August of , also from Eastern. He served as principal of elementary schools in Toledo, IL, from  to  and Momence, IL, from  to . He took a hiatus from teaching to work for the textbook publisher D.C. Heath and Company. In , he became superintendent and high school principal in Wyanet, IL, retiring in . The longest-lived of his generation of the VanBlaricum family, he was predeceased by his parents; his sisters Effie Mae VanBlaricum Schnell and Wanda Nadine VanBlaricum Patterson; his brothers William, Edgar Lowell, James Otho, Verle Everett, and Elbert Clendus VanBlaricum; and an infant son Thomas Lynn VanBlaricum. Glenn is survived by his wife of  years, Mary Ellen (Shearer) VanBlaricum, of Goleta, CA, and his two sons and their

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families: Glenn F. VanBlaricum Jr. and his wife Claire Bernadette VanBlaricum and Michael L. VanBlaricum and his wife Pamela Calvetti VanBlaricum, all of Santa Barbara, CA. He was the proud grandfather of three grandchildren: James Robert VanBlaricum of Los Angeles, CA; Ann Calvetti VanBlaricum Harrer and her husband Nicholas James Harrer of Pasadena, CA; and Susan Michelle VanBlaricum of Cambridge, MA. His great-grandchildren are Ellen Calvetti Harrer and Calvin Van Harrer of Pasadena. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Glenn was a nd-degree Mason, a member of the Olney Masonic Lodge No. , and a member of the American Legion Post No.  of Olney, IL.

John Steven Harris  – 

An adventurer, a traveler and smarter than the president, John Steven Harris aka “Harry” passed with his irreverent sense of humor, incredibly open heart, and wordplay intact to the very end. Kind to the poor and mean to the rich, John’s clever, urbane and wicked acerbic wit brought him and his hundreds of friends immense joy, as he was always his authentic, truthteller self, never apologetic and fiercely loyal. In that spirit, prior to his passing, John requested that anyone who cherished him do something kind for somebody they normally wouldn’t do something kind for. Ahead of his time, John was a somatic educator on approaches to physical and emotional pain and has been an ally in the healing process of thousands of people. As a child, his favorite outfit was his BB gun and cowboy hat, and not surprisingly, he was thrown out of university numerous times before graduating. Fluent in Spanish, John traveled extensively in South America, was once shot at and was almost kidnapped in Morocco. All fodder for future storytelling. Throughout his storied career, John was a PR professional at a law school; taught countless students chronic myofascial pain relief in workshops around the planet and locally at Body Therapy Institute; was a massage therapist at the ‘ Olympics;

created a technique for barefoot sports massage and co-authored a book called “Fix Pain.” He is survived by his bette brother, aka “the good son;” three natural children who he felt were better looking than he but not as smart; a faux-da; two ex-wives; his formerly alive dachshunds Hildagard and Heidi and his sparkling sense of humor.

Elizabeth “Beth” Pattrick Mackenzie

Elizabeth “Beth” Pattrick Mackenzie, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, has died at age  in Pasadena, California. A Southern California resident since , she was born in  to parents John H. Pattrick and Elizabeth R. Pattrick, both of Missouri. She resided in Glendale with parents and younger brother Robert and is a graduate of Hoover High School Pepperdine University, where she earned her Teaching Credential University of Southern California, where she earned her MFA in Film/Television Production and California State University Northridge where she earned another advanced degree in Cinematic Arts. Beth achieved successful careers in both teaching and then in television production. Her media career included years of travel programming with “Global Zobel,” then multiple documentaries, one of which won a coveted Emmy award. She then held the position of Producer at NBC of “The Sunday Show.” This -year position included public affairs programming as well as comparative religious programming. Noteworthy programs included audiences with numerous global, spiritual leaders, including the Pope and the Dalai Lama. She is best remembered for her great sense of humor, capacity to see beyond the superficial and her ongoing support of environmental, social justice, and humanitarian causes. She was a mentor to many and a friend to a chosen few, offering depth of understanding, compassion, and loyalty, often walking alongside as a companion during difficult times. Through her work, her own spiritual practices grew to reflect a contemplative approach in both Christian and Buddhist traditions; she was an avid student and traveled to study under great masters of each discipline. Beth is predeceased by her parents, her brother, and her former husband, Kent Mackenzie. She is survived by few members of the Mackenzie clan and by her chosen family, now residing in Escondido, CA. Memorial Services for Beth will be held on Friday, March , , at : pm in the Little Church of the Flowers on the grounds of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Please join the family in honoring and celebrating her life and legacy. Online Information: http:// forestlawn.tributes.com/obituary/show/ Elizabeth-Pattrick-Mackenzie-.

Ronald H. Eldridge Ronald (Ron) Eldridge died peacefully with family at his side, March , , at the home he built and filled with evidence of his craftsmanship. After growing up on Cape Cod and graduating from Tufts University School of Engineering, he migrated to California during the early fifties to work in the aero space industry in Los Angeles and finally in Santa Barbara. He ended his career as an environmental test engineer at General Motors DELCO electronics. There he worked on many interesting projects, including the “Moon Buggy.” His other interests ranged from building and playing guitars, to racing Porsche sports cars, competing, and winning many trophies in skill events at the SB Airport track during the ’s. He also enjoyed camping trips with family and friends in California’s mountains and deserts. He leaves Ann, his wife of  years, and children Stephanie (Zandona) and David, plus several cousins in Massachusetts. He will be long remembered with fondness and pleasure. The family thanks the Visiting Nurse Hospice and Hospice of Santa Barbara. At his request, no formal service will be held and friends may make contributions in his name to charities of their choice.

Alberto Paul Pizano

// – //

Dedicated Community Advocate and Volunteer Santa Barbara lost a tireless advocate for education and the cultural arts in the passing of Alberto Pizano. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Pizano’s vast contributions to the communities where he lived can be seen through the many leadership positions he held in local and regional organizations over the course of his lifetime. A natural leader, Pizano’s civic participation began while living in Los Angeles, where he was involved in the effort to incorporate East Los Angeles as an independent city. Through his involvement in the Democratic Party, Pizano was active in Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign and attended the events at the Ambassador Hotel on June , . Pizano also served as president of the Monterey Park Democratic Club and th Assembly District Delegation Chair for the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Pizano was particularly dedicated to serving the Latino community, both through political and philanthropic support for education and providing platforms for the arts. During the s, Pizano helped with the community effort to clean up the lake in Los Angeles’ Lincoln Park and establish the Plaza de la Raza cultural arts center,

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In Memoriam

PRESIDIO VOLUNTEERS: Joining Jeremy Hass (sitting on the ground) on the Presidio dig were (from left) Russell Clay Ruiz, Alice Ruiz, Russell Antonio Ruiz, Michael Hardwick, and Richard Whitehead, circa 1970.

Jeremy Dennis Hass 1936-2014

Attorney, Social Engineer, Historian

BY W. E L L I O T B R O W N L E E

eremy Hass was the proverbial “man of many parts.” The public ones that I knew best were his roles as attorney, engineer (social and mechanical), and historian. He merged them seamlessly, acting on his passion for historic preservation as an instrument to promote cultural understanding. His accomplishments were extraordinary. During World War II, Jeremy’s father, John Hass, moved from Minnesota to Santa Barbara, where he was an intelligence officer at the Goleta Naval Air Station and later founded the law firm of Weldon and Hass. Jeremy’s mother was a court reporter, and both parents provided him with informed yet detached perspectives on society and politics in Santa Barbara. He later put them to good use. Jeremy graduated from Pomona College, where he majored in economics and engineering. But other interests also took hold. In 1956, pursuing a history minor, he went on a field trip that took him back to Santa Barbara, introduced him to the remnants of the Presidio, and kindled a lifelong fascination with the history of California. After attending Hastings College of the Law and Loyola Law School, Jeremy joined the family law firm. In the mid-1960s, while working in historic title records, he began research on the Santa Barbara Presidio. He plotted its boundaries, joined the Presidio Volunteers, and singlehandedly began reconstruction of the Presidio Chapel. Over the Christmas holidays in 1966, he obtained permission from the owner of the chapel site (Elmer Whitaker) to begin digging for a Presidio wall on a vacant lot. His dedication was evident even then. When night fell and he had not yet found the wall, he borrowed a flashlight from a close friend across the street (Jimmy Chung, the owner of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens) and continued to dig. Still unsuccessful and with no moonlight, he moved his 1960 Lancia into place and directed its headlights onto the trench, which was growing longer and longer. He eventually tired and went home, leaving his Lancia behind. Jeremy had accurately located the position of the wall, but where he was digging, the stones had been raided for construction. He had started the Presidio archaeology and also introduced the neighborhood to the project. The next morning when commuters arrived to park their cars in the vacant lot in which they had rented spaces, they found their access to the lot barred by a long, gaping trench and a securely locked Lancia with its parking brake set. Pearl Chase, the founder of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP), proceeded to harness Jeremy’s diverse talents by encouraging him to become

a social engineer on behalf of historic preservation. He artfully negotiated the acquisition and financing of properties in the Presidio neighborhood; he forged an innovative concession agreement with California State Parks in 1972; and he served as executive director of the SBTHP during a period of transition in 1984-1985. His leadership in the acquisition of El Paseo and Casa de la Guerra significantly advanced the cause of historic preservation in Santa Barbara. Over the last 30 years, as a lifetime honorary trustee of the SBTHP, Jeremy’s creative strategizing and diplomacy paved the way for the acquisition and preservation of the Rochin Adobe, Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, and the Santa Inés Mission Mills. The latter is destined to become a State Historic Park, and its development will be based on Jeremy’s research and numerous scholarly papers on the history of waterworks technology, fulling and grist mills, and the pioneer millwright Joseph Chapman. In 2000, the SBTHP presented him with the Pearl Chase Historic Preservation and Conservation Award. In 2013, the California Mission Studies Association recognized his career of creative historical research and thinking by giving him its President’s Award. Jeremy’s wide-ranging historical interests were reflected in his contributions to a large array of community organizations in addition to the SBTHP. He served on the boards of the California Chapter of the American Irish Historical Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, California Mission Studies Association, and the Scholarship Foundation of the Filipino Community Association. Jeremy joined the Santa Barbara Corral of the Westerners International in 1976 and served as sheriff (president) 1986-87. Jeremy served on the Santa Barbara Sister Cities Board and was active in the San Juan Metro Manila/Santa Barbara Sister City Association. Three years ago, he organized and formed the nonprofit Early California Agriculture and Technology Society (ECATS). He collected and restored antique cars; he was a member of the Horseless Carriage Club and served as a president of the Antique Automobile Club of America. Over the last several years, Jeremy made a weekly appearance on “History Friday” for Baron Ron Herron’s radio show. In all of his activities, Jeremy received loving support from his wife, Ada, and their daughter, Melinda. Jeremy Hass’s enthusiasm and generous spirit attracted broad networks of friends, and he loved to mesh these networks at lunch. All of us were drawn to Jeremy by his curiosity, independence, honesty, passion, and intellect. We miss him. ■

obituaries cont’d for which he served as president of the board of directors. His daughter, Vibiana remembers that through his prolific work as a volunteer, and this project in particular, Pizano taught his children the importance of serving the community by getting them involved. “I learned from these experiences (and believe me there were many) that community service is important to strengthening a community, and it brings a diverse group of people together to work toward a common goal,” she shared. Pizano and his family moved to Santa Barbara in the late s, where he was the district manager for The Gas Company for Santa Barbara County for  years. Over the course of his career, Pizano was thrice named Outstanding Leader by the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. Shortly after arriving in Santa Barbara, Pizano jumped at the chance to join the Santa Barbara School Districts’ Board of Education when a board member resigned in . His years of experience volunteering in the community were an asset to him as a first-time board member, explained friend and College School District Board President Molly CarrilloWalker,“He knew the importance of staying connected to the community and making it better.” As the only Latino on the school board, Pizano was an advocate for creating a more diverse district from the top down. His calls for more Latino teachers, support for bilingual education and objection to selling Lincoln School made Pizano a controversial figure in the community. Though he chose not to run for an elected position on the school board, his involvement in the community only grew from there. Through his next project, Pizano sought to remedy another way in which Latinos were lacking representation: “My prime preoccupation became the recognition of Latinos in Santa Barbara: people who daily work to make the community better, people in every walk of life who were not being recognized,” Pizano said during an interview last fall. So he worked to found the Hispanic Achievement Council, which held annual events to honor local Latinos for  years, only ceasing when they saw Latinos receiving due recognition in all sectors of the community. More recently, Pizano made a name for himself by co-founding and/or leading a plethora of community organizations including the Flamenco Arts Festival, Mariachi Festival, Public Education Foundation, United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara Business Council, Santa Barbara Latinos for Better Government, and Old Spanish Days Fiesta, for which he served as El Presidente in . Pizano’s long-time friend Santa Barbara County Supervisor Salud Carbajal, with whom he founded the Mariachi Festival, once described him as “a tireless advocate for socio-economic justice and political empowerment of the Latino community.” Nearly all the organizations Pizano cofounded have an educational component. For the Mariachi Festival, it’s the college scholarships that have helped hundreds of local students pursue higher education. The Flamenco Arts Festival provides scholarships for young dancers to attend classes with the visiting artists and produces educational concerts for children. independent.com

Though he was humble about his accomplishments, Pizano’s decades of service did not go unnoticed. In what he called one of the greatest thrills of his life, Pizano was recognized as a Community Hero when the  Olympic committee chose him as a local torchbearer. The prestigious National Organization of School Administrators presented Pizano with its Phi Delta Award for Excellence in Education, and the Santa Barbara Industry Education Council recognized him with an award for Outstanding Contributions to Education. Pizano also received the AntiDefamation League’s Distinguished Community Service Award, and Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors and California State Legislature commendations. Pizano is survived by his wife, Lillian, of  years; his daughters Vibiana Pizano Smith and Sonia Pizano-Bellotti; grandchildren Pablo Pizano Smith and Jaclyn Pizano Smith; and sons-in-law Brian Smith and Philip Bellotti. He is predeceased by his two sons, Paul Pizano and Michael Pizano. A funeral mass will be held at Old Mission Santa Barbara,  Laguna Street, on Friday, March , at : a.m. Internment at Santa Barbara Cemetery,  Channel drive. A reception will take place at the Montecito Country Club. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care at  East Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA , or www.vnhcsb. org/donate.

Jesse Papworth  – 

Jesse Papworth passed away on March  at his home in Santa Barbara after a -month battle with Pancreatic Cancer. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and moved to Santa Barbara in . He graduated from Santa Barbara High School with the class of  and most recently worked for HUB International from  until December of . His passion for music was prominent throughout his life. He enjoyed nothing more than playing and creating music with his friends he leaves behind a large library of original music. Jesse had a charismatic personality and an unmatched wit. His gentle spirit, love for animals and strong sense of loyalty will not be forgotten. He is survived by his mother; Suzanne Brown; his father, Scott Papworth; his brother, Dominic Papworth; his sister and brother-in law, Samantha & Martin Norbury; and his niece, Aria Norbury. Special thanks to his girlfriend, Sylvia Brown, and his best friends Kalin Walling, NaicheEsters-Berkich, Chad Richardson and Rufino Ramirez for their undying love, support and friendship. He will be missed more than words can express.

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Most of the time, it works the other way around. But after witnessing the Montecito Water Board in action Tuesday evening — at a standingroom-only extravaganza — I’m still not sure I can believe my eyes and ears. Ultimately, medical tests will be required to determine whether the board’s action inflicted soft-tissue trauma to my neck. But in the meantime, I’m submitting all medical bills to the district. I showed up fully expecting an unruly mob of angry citizens armed with pitchforks and rakes. On the table was yet another water rate increase, an insulting if necessary “reward” for the great job normally profligate Montecitans have done conserving water. So incensed was the Montecito Association that it dispatched an email blast urging members to protest the rate hike. The water board was sending dangerously mixed messages, they complained. Conspicuously lacking was any long-term planning or coherent message. In other words, the district couldn’t find its ass with either hand. That same jeremiad was prominently posted in the pages of the Montecito Journal. Under the rules of the rate-hike game, if a majority of rate payers oppose the increase, it’s dead in the nonexistent water. Prior to the meeting, there had been a few theatrical whiffs and sniffs about a possible recall of water boardmembers. There was some allusion to that at the meeting, but mostly it was 200 exceedingly well-behaved people crammed into exceedingly uncomfortable seats at the Montecito Union

School’s auditorium, gazing upon a blizzard of

charts and graphs displayed on a 94-inch TV monitor. One speaker — the putative ringleader of the opposition movement — suggested perhaps unkindly that any person in the room was smart enough to do the job of the five elected boardmembers. And although the word “recall” did escape his lips, it was more as a hypothetical possibility than actual threat. It was never clear what exactly his beef was. I’ll tell you what mine is. At a time when Southern California finds itself consumed by the most withering drought in modern recorded history, the Montecito Water Board — which has the most precarious water supply of any district on the South Coast — is now pushing its customers to use more water not less. District managers are hoping to bump sales by no less than 26 percent. To quote Alfred E. Neuman, the world’s most famous nitwit philosopher,“What, me worry?” Based on the dire prognostications outlined in vivid detail by General Manager Tom Mosby, this makes zero sense. As of October, Mosby said, Montecito will be getting zero water from Lake Cachuma. As of next year, he predicted, Montecito will be getting zero water from the State Water Project. In the meantime, Montecito’s own reservoirs have been reduced to mere gobs of spit. Efforts to stop new wells from tapping further into Montecito’s severely depleted groundwater basin were unceremoniously rebuked by the county supervisors last week. So why increase consumption?

The district and Mosby successfully went out and bought 2,500 acre-feet on the spot market from water districts in Kern County. That’s allegedly enough, Mosby explained, to get Montecito through the hump of the next two years. At that point, he explained, Montecito will be sucking at the teat of a new desalination plant. In the meantime, all the water conserved — in other words not sold — created a $5 million budget shortfall. For a district with an operating budget of $15 million, that’s huge. The district, Mosby explained, needed to recoup revenues. And some of the landscaping for which Montecito is so famous needed relief. It should be stated that Mosby seriously saved Montecito’s bacon by securing additional water supplies, if at enormous cost. Props are due. And as absurd as the rate increase may seem, Mosby had no choice but to make up for the revenues lost due to conservation. Without new revenues, the district could pursue no new supplies, no nothing. Here’s where he lost me. In any parallel universe, Montecito’s desal plant doesn’t qualify as even a pipe dream. There’s simply no way Montecito could have a new plant designed, permitted, and built within the two years projected. It is remotely possible, however, Montecito might draw from Santa Barbara’s reactivated plant — scheduled to begin production in 2017. But if so, Santa Barbara has emphatically refused to raise this possibility with any of the state regulatory agencies that have recently held their noses to approve its plant. A couple of speakers raised the obvious point;

we live in a coastal desert. At some point, we need to address the profound collective denial that’s given rise to Santa Barbara as lush tropical paradise. Our collective delusions of “ambience” — a k a “real estate values” as one speaker tartly observed — need to take a backseat to meteorological and climate realities. To push water sales now, another suggested, was like buying a Hummer because gas prices dipped. The single best question came just as the meeting was all but over. A man with a sunburned face and a big lantern jaw wondered why the district didn’t just park the additional water it bought. Why not store it some place — rather than sell it — for when there’s not a rainy day? One boardmember said something about “mature” landscaping needing relief. Another boardmember, Dick Shaikewitz — a shrewd ass-kicking retired attorney from Chicago — hemmed and hawed about how the board wrestled with that one. It was hard to follow, but in the end, Shaikewitz explained, “It was one of those decisions that’s neither right nor wrong.” I probably missed something important. When I heard “neither right nor wrong,” my neck seized up, my eyes rolled back, and a deafening white noise ﬁlled my ears. For the record, only 387 voted against the rate hike; 2,196 were needed to block it. For every 748 gallons, Montecitans will now pay $1.87 more. That should cover my medical bills. I don’t know if I got whiplash or not. I think I did. Let’s just say it’s one of those diagnoses that’s “neither right nor wrong.” No doubt the check’s already in the mail. — Nick Welsh

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ARTS A-PLENTY: They were new (parttime) additions to Santa Barbara, and they didn’t arrive in a beat-up 1974 Chevy wagon with 300,000 weary miles on it, a mattress on the roof, and the dangling muﬄer clanging on the road. The couple clearly had bucks, were from a wealthy Chicago suburb, had bought in a highend neighborhood here without too much apparent sticker shock, had a kid at Stanford, and didn’t quite know what to think of their new winter getaway. Sue and I encountered them sitting alone outside the tent where locals were loudly schmoozing before the Ramsey Lewis/John Pizzarelli jazz concert. They seemed very, very worried about water. And how about desal? When was it coming? See, in their Chicago, water is not a problem. It rains a lot, and the summer storms are something to behold: loud, rolling thunder like a million kettle drums, awakening you from your sleep with astounding, cat-scaring pyrotechnical displays of crackling lightning forking across the Midwestern skies. It’s a place where not only does a river run through it, but it freezes in winter. Its annual rainfall is about 36.89 inches, compared with Santa Barbara’s pre-drought average of 17.76 over the past 30 years. In Chicago you can be literally swimming in water (as kids we swam in the city’s drink), but

here’s scary Santa Barbara, sitting in a semi-arid, quasi-desert climate, on the edge of the whole Pacific Ocean but without a straw into it (yet). This couple has already taken out the lawn, so they’re on the right track. I explained about desal. Unless Lake Cachuma spills this spring (the chances of that are less than that of a giant meteor crashing down on Santa Barbara), the City Council is set to give the final okay to desal. The hope is that the reactivated $42 million plant will begin gushing sometime next year, along with higher water bills. The aforementioned couple, professionals, also asked, what is there to do here? Answer: Enough big-city-quality culture, heavy-duty speakers, and all-around fun and food to fill every 24-hour span, and a lot easier to get to than fighting the mean streets of the Windy City. Spread out below their winter home are some of the rich resources of Santa Barbara. Samples: It’s showtime at Santa Barbara City College and the New Vic, thanks to the Ensemble Theatre Company (Venus in Fur coming June 11-28) and at Paseo Nuevo mall’s Center Stage Theater. Music abounds at the Granada Theatre, where the Santa Barbara Symphony holds forth and great orchestras visit. The London Symphony Orchestra was due this week. For me, one of the top musical events of the season will be Camerata Pacifica’s performance

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of Bach’s complete Brandenburg concerti, May 15-16 at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall. Get your tickets now, or else. The Museum of Art is featuring a masters of Italian painting show (Botticelli and friends). A drive over San Marcos Pass takes you to wine country and Chumash Casino’s concerts. Santa Barbara also boasts the advantages of one of the nation’s top colleges, UCSB. Its marvelous Arts & Lectures program is bringing violinist Gil Shaham to the Granada on March 31, and the famed Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell Trio on April 17. Arts & Lectures also brought former MIRACLES: Among our small-town pleasures is the CIA chief and ex-Defense Department Museum of Art exhibit featuring Botticelli, including head Robert Gates to the Granada on “The Annunciation.” the night after we met the Chicagoans. Gates, a Republican, spoke bitterly of Congress been made to make sure all would be safe, she (who doesn’t?) and even criticized his former still fretted. Finally, exasperated, he told her that there’d be three heavily armed CIA guards commander-in-chief, President Obama. Gates told how during his CIA days, guards ready to spring into action from below. Well, she lived in his basement. After carefully planning replied, then it ought to be all right. Two picketers outside the Granada held his daughter’s prom party, with strict rules and names and phone numbers of invited kids, signs branding Gates a “war criminal” and urghe got a call a few days before from a mother, ing people not to buy his book Duty. Gates’s talk who somehow, even in the gossipy Washington almost had a campaign stump speech ring to it. world, didn’t know who he was. She was very At a reception, I asked if he had political ambitions. Replied the old warhorse: An emphatic, worried about her child’s safety. Despite assurances that he and his wife “No,” never. I took him at his word. would be on hand and that every eﬀort had — Barney Brantingham

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wonder how much Elings Park boardmembers know about the landfill below the park and what it is doing to the Las Positas Valley environment. “Report of Waste Discharge” suggests big problems, and it has already required that expensive mitigation begin. This report was required when Elings was enrolled in the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board’s general monitoring program. Sewer sludge mixed with the park’s soil, volatile organic compounds in the water samples, and monitoring for a toxic plume radiating in the groundwater of Las Positas Valley are among some of the report’s findings. Explosive levels of gas have been detected within the landfill and its perimeters, and recent inspections report violations. The city has spent nearly $2 million installing a gas-venting

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for Santa Barbara, but fortunately it’s not necessary. With its huge cost, risk, and climate footprint, it assumes water users put lush landscapes ahead of our children’s future. Do we? Let’s slow down, take a deep breath, and look at the facts. Desal adds fuel to the climate ﬁre; climatefriendly landscaping doesn’t. The fossil-fuel-

fed climate crisis has made this drought the driest on record. Desal’s huge power demand, which can’t be met by renewables, sharply increases fossil fuel burning. Is it sensible to solve any problem by worsening its cause? Climate scientists warn that boosting, instead of cutting, our fossil fuel use inﬂicts increasing droughts, monster storms, rising seas, and global famine on the planet. Economists warn of social, economic, and political chaos. Is maintaining water-intensive landscapes worth leaving this legacy to our children? Conventional landscapes consume about half our water. Climatefriendly landscapes, however, funnel rain and gray water to irrigate plants. Thick layers of mulch create a rich organic soil sponge to hold water and nourish plants for months. Plants suited to Santa Barbara’s Mediterranean climate look beautiful through the long dry season with minimal water and maintenance, and no mow and blow noise or fumes.

the end of last year, we already reduced water use 23 percent since Stage  started. Fair rate increases that finance climate-friendly landscaping can save more water than desal produces and at less cost. Higher rates and lower use balance each other out on bills. And unlike desal, rates can be more flexible, reflecting weather cycles. Support for a transition to landscaping appropriate to our region would entail professional training and community education plus substantial rebates and low-interest financing for design, labor, and materials. This investment pays off for decades — without the high operating costs of desal. The local economy is boosted by work designing and installing climate-friendly landscapes. And property values improve because the landscapes are beautiful, functional, and economical to maintain.

Water rates will go up because the cheapest water source is disappearing until rains refill Lake Cachuma. But the proposed desal rates go up 38 percent for high water users, 47 percent for low water users, and 56 percent for urban agriculture. By eliminating the massive capital cost of desal — estimated to be $65 million-plus, including financing and minimum operating costs — rates can be increased fairly to cut consumption, maximize temporary water purchases, and support a rapid transition to climate-friendly landscaping designed for water conservation and beauty. Santa Barbara is behind in supporting such landscaping. Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, and Bay Area counties offer rebates of $2-$4 per square-foot for lawn replacement, including labor costs. Maximum rebates are several thousand dollars. Santa Barbara only rebates half of material costs, not labor, up to $1,000. Even so, through

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manently tripled water rates, and most went idle when rains returned. Our desal facility originally cost a fortune and then never operated, which could easily happen again. If it operates, costs for future generations would balloon as fossil fuel depletion swells energy prices. One avenue for collaborative research is replenishing groundwater through rainwater inﬁltration. Even in drought years, far more rain runs oﬀ Santa Barbara’s watersheds than we will ever use. Capturing a fraction of that water would provide a long-term sustainable water supply while improving creek and ocean health. Other California communities already do this. Santa Barbara’s obsolete desal facility should be converted to purify recycled water, as the Orange County Water District does. It would produce cleaner water than we now drink. Its carbon footprint would be far smaller than desal’s. Desal is one more unsustainable means to maintain an unsustainable lifestyle, including landscaping that consumes roughly half our water. Instead, let’s make the cultural, ecological, and economic transition that gives everyone a better life now and for generations to come. ■

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TY’S TOYS AND TROUBLES A few weeks ago, H. Ty Warner walked into Your Remnant Store in downtown Santa Barbara. The small shop’s new ers and their weekend customers owners ped to attention. snapped

There Th ere was no entourage or security detail, just a quiet, 70-year-old toymaker obsessed with fabric. c. But he commanded a presence available only to titans of industry who’ve cultivated ed their wealth as carefully as their mystique. ique. When he was young, Warner, now worth more than $2.5 billion, read a biography ography of Howard Hughes and decided ded he wanted to earn and live like ike the reclusive tycoon. Ass he sifted through bolts of paisley isley and plush with the samee perfectionist scrutiny he gave ave to the Beanie Babies that made him rich — maybe this time choosing upholstery for the he Montecito hotels he owns and sometimes micromanages, or the nearby $200 million estatee he routinely remodels — Warner was approached by Hillary Hauser. Hauser auser shook his hand and thanked him for giving so generouslyy to Heal the Ocean, her environmental nonproﬁt. Motivated d either by a true desire to protect Santa Barbara’s waters or by a more self-serving need for public support as he fought for development lopment permits, Warner had donated to Heal the Ocean moree than once in some of his few acts of philanthropy on the South h Coast. Warner was friendly to Hauser in return but kept the conversation n brief. He explained he had to “check with his wife” before buying anything. Warner then continued down the narrow aisles, gently feeling samples between his thumb and foreﬁnger and squinting at price tags through tortoiseshell glasses. Soon after, he would stop by the Biltmore Hotel he bought for $150 million to personally check on the gift-shop display of his newer Beanie Boo line. The downtown errand was unremarkable in a lot of ways. But it was curious and illustrative in others. It proves old habits die hard, that the image of Warner agonizing over fabric swatches

as he created his first Beanie Babies in 1993 hasn’t completely faded from reali reality. It shows the man, notoriously tightfisted ste as head of what’s still the biggest plush-toy plush company in the world — and who also owns the C Coral Casino, Ysidro San Ys by Ranch, Sandpiper Golf Course, and the MonteMo cito Country Club — still can’t pass up a good deal. And it raises some gossipy quesq tions about his personal life becaus because he has a strange habit of referring to his girlfriends as his wives when he’s never n been married. While Montecito’s W Willy Wonka of stuffed animals anim spends more time away from f his Chicago home and an in his South Coast mansion, mansio a long-awaited book published publi this month offers mesmer mesmerizing insight into his life, his busi business, and his role in the speculative hysteria of the Beanie Baby bboom and bust that 20 years ago mutated a harmless kids’ toy int into an overwrought currency of gullibility and greed.

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BEAR MARKET: For awhile in the mid-’90s, the purple Princess Diana bear was the Holy Grail of Beanie Babies. They regularly sold among collectors for upward of $300. Now, most of them are worth just a few bucks.

One chapter talks of a man driven to murder over a Beanie deal gone bad. Another describes a North Carolina father and daughter who still live among thousands of plush fish, lizards, unicorns, and bears with a plan to one day open a Ty Inc. museum attached to a McDonald’s. Looking back, many of the Beanie acolytes remember the thrill of the hunt, the gambler’s high they chased as they waited in long lines and camped out at stores to grab the next “valuable” piece. Few could accept the inevitably of the 2000 crash from oversaturation, bad business moves, and new hot toys like Pokémon and Magic cards. Perhaps most remarkable is what Bissonnette discovered about the genesis of the little animals and the tricks Warner and his company pulled to create buzz and demand. A brilliant salesman totally consumed with creating the perfect toy —“Even perfection has room for improvement,” he would say — Warner had the simple but inspired idea to move away from traditionally rigid stuffed animals and make something more floppy and cuddly. He then put plastic pellets in his under-stuffed handiwork to make them “poseable,” which gave them more personality and an undeniable charm that spoke to children. The rarity phenomenon arose partly from Warner’s excessive nit-picking. Whole batches of Beanies would be released then quickly recalled because the boss would find something he wanted to change, whether it was a color, a fabric, or a stitch. Those that did make it to the shelves immediately became collector’s items, their heart-shaped tags encased in plastic protectors and the animals locked in Lucite containers well out of the reach of children. The “buy now or never” scheme was also cultivated by an ever-changing product line — called a “rolling mix,” Bissonnette explains — to keep consumers guessing and always hungry for more. Cryptic riddles about upcoming “retirements” posted on Ty Inc.’s website only added to the furor. But before he dives into the nuances of Ty Inc.’s commercial strategies and how a ticking time bomb of a secondary market was fueled by amateur trade magazines, rumor mills, an overexcited media, and the rise of the Internet, Bissonnette takes a hard look at Warner himself.

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COVER STORY It was tricky to get a clear portrait. Warner hasn’t granted an interview since a 1996 sit-down with People magazine when he fed the reporter a bunch of halftruths. He wouldn’t talk to Bissonnette (his reps didn’t respond to this paper, either), so the author spoke with former Ty Inc. executives, sales staff, retailers, family, and friends, to the extent Warner has friends. Warner — named after the great and famously mean Chicago baseball player Ty Cobb — is painted on one hand as a lonesome, sensitive misfit racked by the lifelong pain of a horribly dysfunctional childhood. The word “sad” comes up often. Though he grew up in an upper-middle-class Chicago suburb, Warner’s parents did not create a cheerful household, Bissonnette found. Much was made of the “unhappy” childhood Warner’s lawyers obliquely referred to last year in his $100 million tax-evasion case. Critics claimed the admission was just a hollow sympathy play as his attorneys successfully argued Warner’s sentence down from prison time to a $53.5 million civil penalty, community service, and probation. Yet Bissonnette writes about how Warner’s mother suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. His sister, Joy, reportedlyy awoke one night g to see their mom hoveringg over her with a butcher’s knife. Warner and his father, who gave Ty his start in the toy industry after he dropped out of college, often dated the same women. Joy confided in Bissonnette that her father repeatedly molested her. “I truly believe that he has the heart of a kid who was harmed by his mom’s psycho crap,” a former Ty Inc. executive told Bissonnette. “That’s where I always thought that he had a soft spot. He never really had a childhood.

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He’s got that, like, Michael Jackson syndrome. He’s a really sensitive guy, but he’s got so much damage.” Similar to Jackson, Warner has undergone countless plastic surgeries that have rendered his face taut and doll-like.

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He reportedly styles his hair in a sort of mullet to hide his many incision scars. On the other hand, and in objective terms, Warner also comes across in the book as a selfish, arrogant tyrant. While he treated his lower-level employees fairly well — Bissonnette writes about how, in 1998, Warner gave all his workers Christmas bonuses equal to their annual salaries — he was borderline cruel to some of Tyy Inc.’s higher-ups g and other people he did business with. He allegedly to took credit for ideas that weren’t his and work he never did. did relationAnd his personal life is littered with broken relatio ships and estrangements as he valued an opul opulent existence above all else. In 1996, the same sa year Warner squirreled $100 million mill overseas and away from the IRS, I he went back on a promise prom to build his sister a muchmu needed $100,000 home ho because he “could “couldn’t afford it,” it,” Bisso Bissonnette wrote. He aalso her declined to help h with her hip surge surgery, “instead advising her h to turn to the sev seven children she’d raised wit with a former husband, none of whom wh Warner had ever met.” Through all his research and w writing, however, Bissonnette never ne took a dim view of o one of the richest men in America. “I couldn’t could tell if it was Sto Stockholm syndro syndrome for me, bu but I absolutely vi view him as a specsp tacular talent, tale ” Bissonnette Bissonne told me last l view week. “I vi sympahim as symp thetic, and I cerc tainly don’t have ha any negative feelin feelings toward him.” In an hour-long conver conversation, Bissonnette, who works work at a hedge-fund research firm in New York, talked about how h he got hooked on the Beanie Bea PLUSH WITH PERSONALITY: Every type of Beanie Baby had a name and a poem in its Ty tag. This is Puffer the Puffin.

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As you know, Ty Warner and his legal team are super litigious. Worried? I’ve gotten no indication that Ty cares at all about the book. And that was true while I was working on it. I got one very nice letter from his lawyer telling me that Ty was very protective of trade secrets, and that’s why they enforce their nondisclosure [agreements]. And they said while they had no reason to think I was seeking trade secrets, I should know employees might not want to talk to me because of that, and I should understand that. That was the only communication of any substance I had with them.

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Why chase down the kids his entire career, Ty Warner almost never Beanie Baby story? It was interacts with his young customers. really about trying to understand what the process was — to the extent you can ever understand these things — behind how people came to view these beanbag animals as an investment. And how the hell people would have possibly thought these things were going to go up in value. People ask, why did the Beanie Baby craze crash? Because it was stupid. Then there’s the elaborate story people string together to make themselves feel better. The book is really a window into speculative bubbles because I’ve always been obsessed with them.

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How come? I think the idea of a mass hysteria, even outside of the financial space, is fascinating — how does something like the rise of Hitler happen? These crowd madnesses of people collectively losing their minds are just incredible. Then it was trying to comprehend why it specifically happened with Beanie Babies. Because people point to Cabbage Patch Kids and other products and say,“Who knows why anything happens?” But no, there were a bunch of things about Beanie Babies that really were different. Do you see any toys or products now and think to yourself, “Jesus, this could be the next Beanie Baby”? The thing that jumps out at me is Bitcoin, in that you had all this interest being fueled by the run-up. And that really is the definition of when something becomes a bubble. Robert Shiller has written a spectacular book called Irrational Exuberance, where he defines a speculative bubble as a time when people are essentially lured in by the stories of other people making money. And the Beanie Babies were 1,000 percent that. That’s what it was. It was these stories of Peanut the Royal Blue Elephant selling for $4,000. As a member of the media, I was particularly interested and freaked out by how those reports — and I know many of them weren’t accurate — played a big part in starting the craze. Yes! Speculative bubbles don’t start happening until there’s a media. But in terms of anything like that happening now with toys, I think in a way — and people in the toy industry have told me this — that the Beanie craze was so huge and exploded so spectacularly that it will be hard for anything like that to happen again for two reasons. First, I think people will see the comparison and say,“I’m not falling for that again.” Second, Beanie Babies really gained critical mass before eBay. And now that you have markets that are so connected, it’s hard for stuff to seem rare when it isn’t. There will be micro versions of it among collectors — Build-A-Bears and My Little Ponies sell for inflated prices — but I don’t think there will be another consumer product that everyone hoards for investment and that turns someone into a billionaire.

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When you talked to people who were sucked into the Beanie whirlpool, and they looked back on those years, they seemed to have little insight on why they bought into the rage. They had a hard time self-analyzing. What did you make of that? At first, this frustrated me endlessly. And then I realized, “Wait, this is interesting, too.” You’re never going to have a satisfying explanation for why someone did something completely insane, because you’re talking about something that’s divorced from rational thought. I also thought it was interesting that most people bought their Beanies for the $5 retail price and hoarded them because they thought they were getting in on the ground floor. Of all the stories you heard, which one did you think was most emblematic of an innocent toy getting co-opted into something ugly? The one that struck me most was about psychotherapist Nancy Biank. She helped kids whose parents were dying of cancer, and she would give them Beanie Babies for comfort, which they absolutely loved. She also let them take one home at the end of the program. But once the speculative market took off, the kids started coming to their last therapy sessions with instructions from their parents to take a certain Beanie because they thought it’d be worth something. It started lots of arguments, and she had to stop using the Beanies for therapy. What anecdote did you think was most emblematic of Warner? I love business stories, and I find the rise much more interesting — the early days. Once someone’s rich, it becomes dramatically less interesting for me. To me, the story of Ty and [his former girlfriend] Patricia Roche sewing the stuffing into the bellies of plush animals on the floor of his condo while Ty’s mother is screaming at her, “You’re a whore! You’re so ugly, and that’s why my son will never marry you!” and Ty just sewing, sewing, sewing away. That ability to focus. In the book, you talk about his odd behavior, like how he’ll make loud, nasty com-

ments about overweight people near him. Did you hear those kinds of things a lot? We could sit and talk about Ty’s eccentricities all day. He knows the serial numbers of hundreds of lightbulbs. When he was a salesman, he would go from hotel to hotel asking for discounts on rooms they weren’t renting. And he would have these incredible ideas for his hotels or office or house, but he would execute it and then rip the whole thing out. He did that over and over again. Also, he wanted a different ceramic pig for every cottage at the San Ysidro Ranch, so as he traveled around the world, he would collect the pigs and bring them there. That’s the stuff that makes me think, “Man, you are trying so hard to be a freak.” There is an element of that with him, I think. Like, to what extent is he in on the joke? I think 40 percent. What did you learn about his real estate investments in Santa Barbara? Ty doesn’t have an MBA or anything. He isn’t a sophisticated finance guy, and he’s not particularly trustful of the stock market, so he sort of just buys what he likes. He wanted those big, marquee properties, and he sometimes bought them even when the numbers didn’t make any sense. It’s like buying sports teams. It isn’t really about the cash flow year to year. It’s about making sure you have [a property] conservatively financed enough that you’re not going to lose it. And at some point when you want to sell it, there will be someone else who will pay you more than it’s technically worth because there are only so many properties like it. What’s your take on his legal issues, and what did you think about federal prosecutors appealing his probation sentence? Do you think he deserves prison time? I thought his whole case was BS. This was suave UBS bankers [from Switzerland] going to this newly rich college dropout and telling him, “Park this money over here. This is a good idea.” Then finally the U.S. government catches on to UBS, and to avoid being fined, UBS hands over the names of all the clients it promised confidentiality to. The real bad guys here are UBS, I think. Obviously you should

I’m going to ask you to speculate here: What do you think Ty Warner wants his legacy to be? I think he wants to be the greatest toy salesman there ever was, and I think he is. As someone once told me, “Ty’s real talent was an ability to take crap and convince people it was really important.”

LIVE AND LET LIVE Last summer, Ty Warner’s name was wiped from the side of the Sea Center on Stearns Wharf in the midst of his tax-evasion case and a Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History “rebranding.” He had given the aquarium on the wharf $1.5 million in 2005. Before that, grumblings arose over access to a bike path near his estate, the gates of which he painted gold the day after his probation was handed down, and his doomed ownership of the Miramar Hotel didn’t sit well with neighbors. His sometimes sour reputation took another hit this month when he cancelled his San Ysidro Ranch advertising in the Montecito Journal after it ran a short column about Bissonnette’s book. But like Hillary Hauser, many on the South Coast are simply appreciative of the generosity Warner has doled out over the years and are content to just let him be. It’s his life and his money, they declare. Who’s anyone to say what he does with either? J’Amy Brown, a longtime Montecito watchdog and planning commissioner, is one of the few people around who’s spent any signiﬁcant time with Warner. They took a trip together to the Santa Monica Beach Club shortly after he bought the Coral Casino to discuss the style and sensibilities of a high-end coastal operation and how they might align with his vision for the property. Brown said she found him “quite charming” and “well-bred.” A string of his employees followed them as they talked and wrote down every word he said. But he had a sense of isolation about him, Brown went on, and she hasn’t said hello to him in public since so as not to make him uneasy. A decade ago, when the USS Abraham Lincoln parked oﬀ the coast, Warner handed out nautical-themed Beanie Babies to some of the visitors. Brown said she could sense his discomfort from afar as he slowly backed away from the crowd. In 2001, Warner created an exclusive line of 588 Beanie bears for members of the Coral Casino. He personally numbered and signed their tags. One recently sold on eBay for $800.

The Coral Casino bears are some of the very, very few of the more than 2,000 different species of Beanie Babies, which have all been discontinued, that can fetch any real money today. The vast majority are worth nothing more than their sentimental value and have been forgotten in the backs of garages or donated to thrift stores and children’s hospitals. When Warner moved to Montecito in 2000 shortly before Oprah did, he helped shift the community’s vibe from relatively circumspect to decidedly extravagant. While that’s enjoyed by some residents, others find themselves muttering, “Montecito — full of shady palms and shady people.” And what happened, they wonder, to the generous Ty Warner who used to help Heal the Ocean? Tom Modugno has an idea to help Warner erase his public-relations blemishes. A lifelong Goleta resident and the owner of Santa Cruz Markets, he’s working to preserve the old Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station that sits along Hollister Avenue and on the edge of Warner’s Sandpiper Golf Course property. The building is boarded up and fenced off but still sports its ornamented mosaic dome above time-capsuled relics from its heyday in the 1920s. Modugno wants to see the gas station saved and restored to its former glory and is soliciting the City of Goleta and the Pearl Chase Society to have it designated as a historic landmark. His online petition has nearly 3,000 signatures. But he knows it’s ultimately up to Warner to PAUL WELLMAN

pay your taxes, but at the time a lot of people were doing it. I thought it was a little bit of a tempest in a teapot. I really, really hope they don’t put him in prison. I know a lot of people do, but I don’t. I don’t think he deserves it. Ty would be like one of two or three people in the thousands of people who had these Swiss accounts who would end up in prison. He’s already part of the 1 percent who were indicted. By the way, I’ve heard he’s done just incredible things with his community service. He’s been very, very good with kids and not mailing it in at all. He’s taking it as an opportunity to do some real good.

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t’s been exactly two years since Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, her snappily titled womanifesto aimed at leveling the corporate playing field. Now it’s my turn. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you two other snappy words guaranteed to change the business world for the better: Shut up. No, really. Please. Shut it. Zip those runaway gabtraps, you prattling project technicians, twaddling strategery administrators, and Chief Blarney Officers. The jargon of everyday business speak has become a dialect of dimwits, a patois of pretention: Pain points, key wins, action items. Incentivize, monetize, synergize. Bandwidth, deliverables, mindshare. We’re living in a Dilberty jungle where everyone grasps lazily at and swings monkey-like from overgrown verbal vines, plucking low-hanging, overripe idioms and juicing them for all they’ve got as the excessive syllables drip down their flapping chins. Stakeholders, thought leaders, white papers. Visibility, granularity, scalability. Raise up, drill down, circle back. The problem with empty catchphrases is they not only obfuscate your message; they expose you as a linguistic lemming with nothing valuable — nothing real — to say. Ideate, iterate, integrate. Metrics-driven, solution-oriented, results-centric. by Starshine Best practices, value propositions, core competencies. Bravo to whoever first used “over-rotate” in a sentence — but a pox on those who keep email: starshine@roshell.com spitting it back at the Skype screen because they can’t recall how to say, “Crap, we’ve gone too far.” When did merchandise, whiteboard, and leverage become verbs? When did we start verbing nouns? When did leverage replace utilize — and utilize replace use, for jabbering out loud? My brainy friend Nick, who lives to argue with me, calls this stuff “business poetry” and insists that each term is packed with valuable lexical information. I have colleagues — smart ones, even — who maintain that if it weren’t for “action items” and “deliverables,” they’d have no idea what to do when they leave meetings. But I call hooey. I hate any sort of squawk that’s fussy when it ought to be clear — and that’s perpetuated for the sole purpose of affirming group identity. It’s phony inclusiveness, which makes users feel super special at first but ultimately divides us all in silly and arbitrary ways. My friend Mott, the cunning linguist, reminds me that the academic world is guilty of “insider” slanguage, too.“And in the real-estate world, you hear, ‘This building has a lot of optionality’ instead of ‘it’s versatile’ or ‘has a lot of possibilities.’ The other one that gets me is ‘orientate.’ ” (I’ve been in meetings where highly paid people belched the non-words “expediate” and “bucketize” and were NOT EVEN KIDDING.) Mott recently had a business meeting with a guy who claimed to have “verticals.” Personally. Himself. As in “I have several verticals.” What?! “This is the opposite of communication,” Mott says. “It has a way of shutting down a meaningful dialogue.” But can we really blame people, Mott says, for leaning on abstract shorthand when trying to convey the complexities of commerce? “It’s a discipline to think and speak clearly — and when people do, it’s a relief,” he concedes. “But on the other hand, it’s scary because it makes you accountable.” I think that’s what peeves me most about bombastic business balderdash. I’ve dedicated my career to using language carefully, even painstakingly, to try and make the opaque transparent, to boil the bewildering and byzantine down to the simple and straightforward. It’s hard, and I don’t always succeed. But I always try. Because I deeply believe that clear, courageous communication is the cure for most of what ails us — from personal relationships to business ventures. And because optimizing matrices, facilitating methodologies, and deploying high-level efficiencies may stun a crowd into momentary stupefaction — but they don’t amount to much if the emperor has no point.

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gainst my better judgment, I recently got involved in a Nick Johnson workout. When he was one of the most

active young men on the planet, Johnson blazed a trail in the mountains above his Santa Barbara home. He chose a supremely challenging route, up a steep and jagged ridge to a rocky outcrop that commanded spectacular views of the entire South Coast and the Channel Islands. It was a physically demanding and psychically uplifting experience that he shared with many friends, teammates, and potential dates (does she have the right stuff?). They think of him every time they look up at that rugged terrain. Augie Johnson figures he’s done that three-mile climb of more than 2,000 vertical feet about 50 times in the year since Nick, his oldest son, died. I told Augie that I’d like to experience it myself. We met early one morning and began hiking before sunup. Augie, a strong man who had competed as a college rower, brought along his 10-year-old daughter, Sophie. I struggled to keep up with them. Augie carried a pack with two large bottles of water for which I would be very grateful. He kept a steady pace and carefully chose a familiar path through a maze of sandstone and chaparral obstacles. He knew the spots where if you strayed in the wrong direction, you would find yourself in danger of falling down a very steep precipice. He often had to tell Sophie to slow down and wait for us. She hopped from rock to rock as if she had springs in her knees and suction cups on her feet. I was scraping against those very same rocks, lowering myself gingerly and then pulling myself up to the next plateau on all fours. After two arduous hours — made more difficult by the rising of an unusually intense March sun — came the payoff. First, the view. Then, the look of Augie beaming with teary pride at the brass plaque Nick’s friends had embedded in the rock, a fitting memorial to his son who had been such a rock himself. The subsequent descent tortured my weary legs, but I was nonetheless elated at having done Nick’s climb. There are other established tributes that say a lot about Nick Johnson’s character. A lifeguard tower at East Beach bears his name. U.S.A. Water Polo hands out the Nick Johnson Inspiration Awards to age-group athletes who exemplify the values of the Olympic Development Program. At the CrossFit gym on East Cota Street, the Nick Johnson Workout is a daunting regimen of strength and endurance activities (count me out). “It takes the best guys an hour to get through it, and they end up dropping on the floor like me,” CrossFit trainer Traver Boehm said. He described Johnson as “focused, determined, hard-working, humble, and polite — qualities you don’t see in kids his age.” “We Johnsons may not be the greatest athletes,” Augie Johnson said, “but we have a high pain threshold.” It was a terrible irony that Nick drowned while working out on his own at the Santa Barbara High pool on March 24, 2014. He was pushing

toward his pain threshold, swimming laps while holding his breath underwater. He had always given an all-out effort. As he wrote in a manifesto that Augie found on his son’s computer: “Only you decide when you’ve had enough. No one else can decide when it’s your time to call it quits.” Living up to that credo, he swam into a cruel deception. It was a little-known biochemical condition known as “shallow-water blackout.” It erased the pain and turned off the alarm system in his brain that should have told him to emerge from the water to life-sustaining air. Other young men and women like Nick Johnson — physically fit swimmers likely to respond audaciously to the challenge, “How many laps can you do underwater?”— are now aware of the danger because of what happened to him. Before the start of the Channel League Relays, the first meet of the 2015 high school swimming season, athletes from five schools gathered in the S.B. High gym for a presentation that fully exposed shallow-water blackout. “Nick Johnson would do everything 110 percent,” Dons coach Mark Walsh said. “Hours after he passed, his dad called me and said, ‘Don’t let this happen to another kid.’” Walsh screened a video that explained the science behind the blackout syndrome, how the mechanism that provides the stimulus to breathe — a rising level of carbon dioxide — is depressed when a person hyperventilates before swimming underwater. UCSB water polo coach Wolf Wigo got choked up when he recalled how he was attempting 20 laps underwater in the family pool. In the 16th lap, he said, “I pushed off, started to slowly fade, drifted toward the bottom … my dad … knew what was happening … he pulled me out.” Wigo was a 26-year-old, two-time Olympic water polo player at the time. The swimmers were told always to have a lifeguard present during any workout, never to compete at breath-holding, never to hyperventilate before attempting to swim or kick underwater. Because there is no training benefit from underwater swimming, it all boils down to one basic rule: “Just don’t do it.” Augie Johnson said he and his family — wife, Karen; sons Sam, a student at Cal, and Cooper, a S.B. High volleyball player; and Sophie — are looking forward, not back at the past year. They will celebrate Nick’s 21st birthday on May 16. He is still with them in spirit, leading them up the mountain to gaze at the wonder of life on this Earth.

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especially at harvest. We spend as much time in the vineyards as possible throughout the growing season. The -- route is so familiar that I think we could drive it in our sleep. Close to harvest time, we’ll often drive there and back in a day to check on vineyards. We do everything ourselves, including being there for the sunrise picks and trucking the fruit back to the winery, so our long days of winemaking work during harvest are just beginning after many hours on the freeway. We love it, though; it seems crazy (it might be crazy), but it works somehow.

we didn’t start out wanting to make wine at a commercial level. We just wanted to make wine — the best wine we could, and it happened, and then to feasibly keep it going, we had to take it commercial. That’s when we found out how much work was really involved in operating a winery versus just making wine. I would say be sure you do it for the love because once it becomes a business and not simply something you’re doing in your garage, your non-winemaking tasks increase exponentially.

Crafting from Afar: Workman Ayer Though based in Phoenix, Arizona, as an attorney, Michel Ayer comes from a long line of farmers. And his wife, whose maiden name is Workman, hails from a family that’s been in the wine business for decades. Together they make about 200 cases of wine annually, split between a white viognier wine and a red blend of syrah, grenache, and mourvèdre. What’s the story behind the two family names involved? Ayer is

How is the San Diego fruit you work with? What’s the potential for that region? We love the carignan from the one

San Diego vineyard we work with, McCormick Ranch. The fact that it’s still here is somewhat miraculous; it’s around 35 years old and has been through two major ﬁres. The vines that survived have all reverted to head-pruned, they’re scraggly and so noble, and in true carignan fashion, the fruit gets better every year now that the vines are older. We think the wine it makes is a perfect example of San Diego in a glass; warm, friendly, earthy, and grounded. It tastes like sunshine. That’s one end of the San Diego spectrum. The other is exactly that, potential: In the last few years, a lot of vineyards have been planted with careful attention paid to the site, the soil, the microclimate (there are so many microclimates in San Diego), and the varieties that work best with all of those variables. It will take some time to see what happens, but my feeling is that in ﬁve years, 10 years, you will start to see San Diego emerge as less of a curiosity and more of a true wine region.

my last name, and Workman is my wife’s maiden name. Her family has been in the wine business for about 40 years, and I come from a long line of farmers. We wanted to honor our parents and grandparents. Is it challenging to be in California for the right times of the growing season, especially harvest? It can be a chal-

lenge for harvest, but I have come to accept it. I have the utmost conﬁdence in my consulting winemaker and in the facility where I produce my wines. I am also thankful for FedEx, as it is easy to get samples sent to Arizona during blending and around bottling. What advice would you give to people who work in the city but still really want to make wine at a commercial level? You have to ﬁnd people that you trust to work with and

be comfortable with the level of hands-on time you can spend. You also have to realize that if there are parts of production that you can’t be hands-on for, it will cost you to pay others to handle it. Careful planning is the key, regardless of how much hands-on time you can put in.

The Garagiste Fest features plenty of people, if not a majority, embarking on second careers. That goes for newbies, such as Los Angeles– based interior designer Caren Rideau, and well-known industry insiders, such as Andres Ibarra, the longtime winemaker at Rideau Winery who left in 2011 to pursue vineyard management roles. Together, they recently launched tierra y vino, focusing on wines from La Presa Vineyard, among others, under the Ibarra and caren brands. I know Andres was winemaker at Rideau, and I assume Caren must be related to Iris [Rideau]. So tell me how this new venture began. Caren Rideau: My visits to

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Second Careers: tierra y vino

the Santa Ynez Valley began in 1995, visiting my godmother, Iris, who is my aunt through marriage. I helped Iris throughout the early development of Rideau Vineyard, and my love of wine made it a natural transition. As my design business grew, my visits to the Valley became less frequent, but I always kept one hand in the business, for the love. Andres started working at Rideau Vineyard in 2005, which is where we ﬁrst met and shared our passion for the craft of winemaking. Despite his departure from Rideau Vineyard in 2011, we remained friends and developed our friendship into a life partnership and business. Was it intimidating to break out on your own after having worked for other wineries in the past? Andres Ibarra: No, not at all;

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Caren, what advice would you give for people who live in L.A. or other places away from the vines but who want to be involved in a commercial winemaking enterprise? CR: Because I don’t live in the Valley, I feel as though I can oﬀer

our business a freshness to marketing. Since we have a small production and no tasting room, I have been developing popup wine tasting events that can vary between 50 to 100 persons, showcasing our wines, pairing them with tapas, and marketing them to fresh faces. We have been successful, with two to three tastings a year, hosted by friends and clients of mine through my design business. No matter how far away you live from the vines, you have to remain attached and committed because it is a lot of work to create a brand!

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BACH TO BACH: Violinist Gil Shaham will play Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin accompanied by projections by artist David Michalek this Tuesday, March 31, at the Granada Theatre.

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all it a rite of passage to a very elite league. Past violin masters like Milstein, Perlman, Heifetz, and Grumiaux have all done it, as have Christian Tetzlaff and Hilary Hahn. And this month, with the release of his recordings of J.S. Bach’s Partitas and Sonatas for solo violin, Gil Shaham dons the robes. Even when regarding his substantial body of work — some two dozen albums in as many years — Shaham’s recording of the “six alone” (Sei solo, as Bach labeled them) stands apart as a watershed for the violinist’s maturity and daring. A cursory listen to the opening Allemande of the first Partita is refreshing: In place of a stretched dirge-like solemnity, we find a lively pulse and playful skip — a reminder that these were written as dance suites. “Maybe in a way, today we’ve almost lost touch with the cultural meaning of these pieces,” Shaham suggested, speaking by phone last week. “I’m not a musicologist, you know. I’ve read articles that said the Allemande wasn’t really danced, that it was more of a theoretical dance. I also remember reading some other articles and descriptions of what the Allemande was: a man and a woman with very intricate hand-holding, switching left hand and right hand, and the man standing next to the woman and behind the woman. When I

tions from the “six alone,” he will not be alone. The “unaccompanied” will be visually accompanied by the films of photographer and public video art installer David Michalek. “He’s brilliant. I love his films and photography. It’s amazing: With light or with shadow, he’s able to produce certain feelings for his viewers,” said Shaham. “I thought it would lend itself to working with music, and I was thrilled to find that David was inspired by Bach, as well.” And what did Michalek come up with? “Some are still lifes, some are just flower arrangements, one is a portrait of a young girl pouring out a pitcher of water, and something quite amazing happens when you watch them at that speed — when you see it with the music, somehow our brains try to put it all together. “I just saw the films for the first time a couple of months ago. I’m always telling my kids to try new things, to not be worried about making a mistake, and the truth is, in real life, I rarely do that,” he continued. “This project falls a little bit under that — my trying out new things.” Shaham performs Bach Six Solos for Violin at the Granada Theatre (1214 State St.) on Tuesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

VIOLINIST GIL SHAHAM AND ARTIST DAVID MICHALEK TEAM UP AT THE GRANADA

NIC HESSLER SOFT CONNECTIONS Longtime Muddy Waters Café frequenters may remember Nic Hessler by his old band/moniker, Catwalk. Back in 2010, the 18-year-old Oxnard native and his rotating cast of Catwalk bandmates were something of Santa Barbara regulars, opening criminally small shows for bands like Future Islands and Dirty Beaches. If memory serves, their songs were great, underproduced nuggets of jangly guitar pop gold, and Hessler, despite his age, was a formidable frontman to watch. There were two singles and a recording deal with label Captured Tracks, and then Catwalk disappeared, due mostly to a freak autoimmune disorder that struck Hessler down when he was 21. Last week, Hessler reemerged

look on the page of the Bach, it seems to me that it really matches all those descriptions.” Inevitably, a sense of the forbidden hangs at the entrance of these monuments of violin literature. The Sonatas and Partitas are pinnacles of both technique and musicality. Although the violin is limited to sounding one or two notes simultaneously, a dense implicit harmony runs through these works, suggested by tricky intervals and passing double stops. “People feel so strongly about this music, and I feel so strongly about this music that 12 years ago, I didn’t know if I was confident enough to present them for an audience. So I made a concerted effort; I decided to start playing them in concert, hoping that the more I played them, the more comfortable they’d get, and then I discovered what so many others have already said: There really is no greater joy than playing Bach.” Curiously, when Shaham appears at the Granada Theatre this week to play selec-

under his own name with Soft Connections, the long-awaited and much-reworked debut LP that Catwalk never completed. Like those early Muddy shows, Soft Connections is filled with a swirling mix of surf-lite guitar chords, wistful lyrics, and dreamy guy-girl harmonies, but there’s also a crazy amount of growth here, especially on songs like “Hearts Repeating” and the album’s penultimate title track. In both instances, Hessler’s knack for melody writing shines through; “Repeating” is all thumping tambourines and sunny twang, while “Soft Connections” offers a, well, softer sway — as well as a warm bed of spidery synths and gossamer vocals. Elsewhere, Hessler flexes his newfound muscle on tracks like “Into the Twilight” and “Feel Again,” both of which burst wide open and sound a whole lot like the kind of hopeful Brit pop built to soundtrack good

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THURSDAY If you were an angsty teen in Southern California in the ’90s, chances are Strung Out was blasting out of your car speakers at one point or another. Since forming in 1989, the Simi Valley punksters have been cranking out the kind of melodic hardcore that made screaming along at concerts a thing to do. I won’t even start in on the slam dancing. Say what you will about the throwback-y appeal of bands like Strung Out (and their still-going-strong Fat Wreck Chords contemporaries like NOFX and Lagwagon), but there’s something strangely wonderful about revisiting this music many (many) years and life experiences later. For starters, it’s still oddly invigorating, brimming with whiny vocals and crunchy guitar tones and chest-smacking, stadium-sized drum ﬁlls. It’s also perfectly indicative of the time it exploded in, which means you can’t help but get a little teary-eyed nostalgic listening to it. But cry not, fellow ’80s babies, because this Thursday, Strung Out is giving you the chance to relive your youth live and in person in Santa Barbara. The show comes on the heels of the band’s eighth studio release, Transmission.Alpha.Delta., which dropped earlier this year. (Don’t worry — they still sound exactly as you remember them.) I’m imagining the night is going to play out like a high school reunion for the Warped Tour set. In other words, expect a hot, sweaty, beer-swiggin’ (because you can legally do that in bars now!) good time. Strung Out plays Velvet Jones ( State St.) on Thursday, April 2, with Masked Intruder and La Armada. The show starts at 7 p.m. and is ages 21 and up. For tickets and info, call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com. — AC

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coming-of-age ﬁlms. In these moments, Soft Connections feels wonderfully youthful and thrillingly expectant, not to mention totally worth the wait. — Aly Comingore

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SWEET JANE: The ladies of Los Angeles–based improv group Impro Theatre (pictured) will appear alongside their male counterparts this Friday and Saturday at the New Vic in Jane Austen UnScripted.

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he wild and unpredictable style of collaborative stage comedy called “improv” may not be the first thing one thinks of in connection with the great 19th-century writer Jane Austen, but on Friday-Saturday, March 27-28, the Los Angeles–based Impro Theatre intends to change that. Starting with suggestions from the audience, each night this talented and experienced crew of professional by Charles Donelan actors will weave together an original 90-120 minute stage drama using the settings, situations, and plot devices associated with such classic Austen novels as Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. Although these improvised adaptations of Austen lack the narrative voice that’s among the most distinctive features of her work, the pleasure resulting from seeing these relationships evolve spontaneously makes for a good consolation. You won’t be hearing anyone speak that most memorable of opening lines —“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”— but you will see a single man of good fortune, or three, and you will be able to judge with your own eyes how much in want of a wife he really is, or whether any sensible woman would want him. Austen UnScripted codirector Dan O’Connor feels that the approximately 70 performances that the group has done, often at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, have honed their approach to the point that even with “an A, a B, and a C story going” the actors can still hold an audience. When the show begins, the actors onstage don’t yet know what role they will be playing.“The characters are iconic,” said O’Connor,“but we don’t know who’s going to be what.” As in more traditional improvisation exercises, much depends on the performer’s ability to say yes to whatever his or her cast mates suggest. O’Connor remembers an evening when he entered confidently, assuming the romantic lead, only to have the rest of the cast greet him with a chorus of,“The vicar is here!” “The Regency wardrobe and set that we use really help,” said O’Connor, adding that “it’s all about rereading the novels and then going onstage intending to find ways to be real in these roles.” When asked about how the group approaches a goofy character like Mr. Collins, the inept initial suitor of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, O’Connor said,“Mr. Collins could be a caricature onstage, but we would rather keep him real.” What Austen really has going for her, once you’ve gotten past the outfits and the estates and the classconsciousness and the love language, is an unerring sense of social comedy. No other writer in the history of English literature holds quite the same reassuring steady grasp on what makes us ridiculous, and therefore renders us somehow loveable. But will it be funny? This can only be answered in person, but the odds are in UnScripted’s favor. Both O’Connor and Paul Rogan, the Englishman who cofounded the project, are excellent improvisers, and, perhaps more importantly, they are ardent Janeites. Their craft in the service of Austen’s genius promises an exciting adventure.

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REACH FOR THE STARS TAKE THE LEAP: Pictured from left are Nebula Dance Lab’s Genevieve Hand, Meghan Morelli, Megan Ragland, and Weslie Ching. The company, spearheaded by choreographer Devyn Duex, is the launching pad for Duex’s new HH11 Dance Festival, which takes place this Friday-Sunday at Center Stage Theater.

ith HH, Devyn Duex is realizing a long-term both wanted to explore the stages of grieving … not just goal to mount a dance festival in Santa Barbara in response to a loved one’s death but to all the losses we — a festival with a name that is a play on stars and have in our lives: moving from a home, losing a relationstar-stuff, just like Duex’s dance company, Nebula ship or a job.” Dance Lab. (HH is the name of a star-forming region.) Two dance films by Tonia Shimin, award-winning “Part of Nebula’s mission statement is about supporting dance filmmaker and professor emeritus of the Departemerging choreographers in the dance world. There’s ment of Theater and Dance at UCSB, will be presented: such a need for platforms to “Of Time and the Spirit” and “Of get work produced. Finding all Stones and Water.” For the festival, the resources is really difficult,” Shimin has also crafted a solo work Duex said. Her aim in creating for Christina Sanchez, a member of this first HH Festival is to proSanta Barbara Dance Theater and much-loved and respected area vide a venue for both seasoned by Melissa Lowenstein dance instructor and performer. The and emerging dance artists. In past years, Misa and Stedance, “A Walk with Modigliani,” is a phen Kelly, joint founders of an artists’ collective called world premiere celebrating the work of Italian painter and ArtBark, have produced multiday dance festivals in Santa sculptor Amedeo Modigliani. Keith Johnson/Dancers will premiere a duet called Barbara, providing dance artists from all over the world with opportunities to bring their work to our little seaside “Sawdust and Diamonds,” danced by Tara McArthur and town. The Kellys are taking a break from festival produc- Bahareh Ebrahimzadeh to the music of Joanna Newsom. tion as Duex realizes her dream — excellent timing for “It is a work, to me, about desire and longing,” Johnson said. the 30 or so groups (more than 75 individual artists) par- “I hope the audience will be inspired by the work’s physiticipating in the three HH shows taking place at Center cality, intimacy, and humanity.” Weslie Ching’s duet, “You, Stage Theater. The first two programs are evening-time or Someone Like You,” danced by Kaita Mrazek and Nikki affairs on Friday-Saturday, March 27-28, with the third Pfeiffer, is inspired by the notion that if the types of matoffered as a matinee on Sunday, March 29. ter in the universe are finite and the size of the universe is Artists include S.B.’s own BodySensate, Weslie Ching, infinite, then there must be an infinite number of versions Tonia Shimin, SELAH Dance Collective, and The Dance of one’s self — either exactly or almost exactly identical Network; from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other parts to that self. “How does this idea fit in with contemporary of California are FUSE Dance Company, JESSICA KON- Western culture’s sense of a unique self?” Ching muses. DRATH | THE MOVEMENT, Keith Johnson/Dancers, “My hope is that the audience will take away that although Kelly Todd, Kendra Pearson, Louise Reichlin & Dancers, we’re all individuals, our thoughts and needs are universal ProjectDance, Rebecca Bryant Danceworks, Rubans … that in our desire to connect, we are never really alone.” Rouges Dance Company, Strickly Addikcted Dance TheDuex is especially grateful to the sponsors who have ater, and Watson Dance. New York artist Michelle Tara helped make the festival possible: the Santa Barbara Travel Lynch and Iowa’s Anna Krupp are also participating. Bureau, which is handling all of the travel associated with Nebula is presenting an excerpt from “Dreamscape” (a the event, Strategic Incentives, IM=X Pilates, CenterPoint piece collaboratively choreographed by Duex and com- Pilates, Boone Graphics, Heritage Oaks Bank, Downtown pany members Meghan Morelli, Megan Butala, Megan Santa Barbara, and California Pasta. Ragland, and Shelby Joyce with guest choreographers Emily Tatomer and Meredith Cabaniss) and an excerpt The HH11 Dance Festival takes place this from Duex’s “Sand into Glass,” and on Sunday, Nebula will Friday-Sunday, March 27-29, at Center Stage premiere an excerpt from a new work about the stages of Theater (751 Paseo Nuevo). For tickets, information, and grieving. The work, titled “Push and Pull,” is anchored in showtimes, call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater real-life experiences for both Duex and co-choreogra.org. For more on Devyn Duex and Nebula Dance Lab, visit pher Shelby Lynn Joyce. “Both of us lost parents,” Duex nebuladance.org. explained,“me five years ago and Shelby one year ago. With my experience being longer ago and Shelby’s so fresh, we

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hings are looking up for Santa Barbara natives Gardens & Villa in 2015. The self-proclaimed “galactic fever” band is headed out on a West Coast tour this April, as well as dropping an album this summer. Their voyage begins at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club on Thursday, April 2. In anticipation of the band’s plans, I chatted with frontman Chris Lynch about the group’s forthcoming album, life on the road, and his possible future in pickling.

HOLY HOMECOMING: Santa Barbara’s Gardens & Villa launch a West Coast tour this Thursday, April 2, at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club.

What originally drew you to songwriting? I’ve been really into music my whole life, so I started writing shitty punk songs when I was 12. I think I’m still in that phase, but now I’m surrounded by really talented people who can create really complex arrangements, and I just try and keep up. Everything on this planet inspires me to write lyrics, though — even the bad stuff. It’s something I feel I have to do all the time. You practice and vent and express and just keep writing as much down as you can, and once in a while, you find that your brain has some gold in there.

Can you tell us a little about your new record? Are you doing anything new with sound or recording this time around? A little birdie told me that you wrote and recorded almost completely in your home and workspace in Los Angeles. The new record was almost entirely written and recorded around a living/ working warehouse space in northeast Los Angeles. We Are you excited to be back in Santa did a lot of new stuff on this one; it’s kind Barbara now that you’ve moved of our “have fun and don’t give a to Los Angeles? We’re always funk” record. Last time we faced excited to play in Santa Barquite a bit of pressure from people, bara! It was my treasured mostly the record label, to be a cerhome for 10 years, and it will tain kind of band and make dancy ov always have a chain of love ik sn ia M a dr an by Cass music. This time we said, “Funk around me. I tear up a bit that,” and we set out to create the thinking about all the good times I spent there. I feared record we always wanted to make. That was our mantra, living in L.A. my whole life — it’s just such a mess, and the and I think that is truly what we ended up with. traffic is mind-bending — but I really think that things are

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Do you know when it’s going to be out? Is there a title yet? Or an overarching theme? Our new record should be ready around August; we just finished it. The album isn’t titled yet, but the overarching themes of this one are voyeurism, observation, paranoia, summertime blues, and modern life in the networked infinity. We kinda went back to the template of our first record on this one; it’s more minimal, and it has more space. The songs we wrote for this album are better than anything we’ve written before — we’ve gotten wiser, and we’ve had more time to work on our craft. How would you describe your sound on this one? It’s sort of a smorgasbord of everything we are obsessed with from the ’70s and early ’80s — Devo, Ziggy, Television, and early Eno — although somehow it came out sounding pretty contemporary. Although there’s still quite a bit of synth woven into this album, this one has less emphasis on synth and more on guitar. Adam [Rasmussen] played loads of piano on this one. It was what he was raised on and what he’s most comfortable with. I guess our music comes in waves: Like, if you make a fancy synth record, then you want to feel more badass, so you make a guitar song. If you want to feel more sophisticated, you add piano, and the music just keeps moving with no fixed agenda. We’ve never had a “You have to play this instrument” conversation. It’s all been pretty natural. Adam and I wrote most of this one, but [keyboardist] Dustin [Ineman] and [bassist] Shane [McKillop] had some really nice moments where they kinda saved the day.

changing in L.A. for the better right now, and I like being a part of that. It can really become whatever you want to make it, and it’s not too far away from Santa Barbara.

What are the best and worst parts of a long tour? The best: weird food, eating at funny places, free booze, coffee, good crowds, scenery, traveling all the time, getting to see old friends that live all over the place, and playing music every night. The worst: weird food, eating at funny places, free booze (if you drink it all the time), bad crowds, crappy scenery, traveling all the time, having to talk to people you don’t really want to talk to, losing touch with home and friends, fatigue, bad hotels with bed bugs. What would you do if you weren’t making music? I think I would have made a good smuggler, or maybe a shoemaker or carpet salesman — something having to do with fine fabrics and fast talking and negotiating. I’d like living on the edge of the law. Sometimes I daydream about land and building my own future house or farm, or selling homemade lip balm and pickles. [Laughs.] I think that’s what I’ll try and do when all my music’s said and done … that is, if I’m not completely destitute and owing tons of money to record labels! Fingers crossed.

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Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May 1. UCSB, 893-2951. ElverhØj Museum – Ro Snell: Outside In, through Apr. 26. 1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang, 686-1211. Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX; Limited Palette Abstracts, through Apr. 29; Professional Baseball, ongoing; multiple permanent installations. 21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Out of the Great Wide Open, through Mar. 29. 653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373. Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society. 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, 681-7216. S.B. Historical Museum – Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601. S.B. Maritime Museum – Doug Klug: Underwater Forests of Anacapa Island, through May. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404. S.B. Museum of Art – Visions of Modernity: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, through April; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364. Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526. Wildling Museum – Wild Spirit: Horses in Art, through June 1. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-1082.

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Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing. 800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966. Architectural Foundation Gallery – R. Anthony Askew: Prints PLUS, through Apr. 10. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307. Artamo Gallery – Julia Pinkham: Flight Plan, through Mar. 26. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400. Atkinson Gallery – Maria Rendón: Missing Rib, through Mar. 27. 721 Cliff Dr., Rm. 202, SBCC, 965-0581 x3484. Bella Rosa Galleries – Tom de Walt and Mehosh Dziadzio, through Mar. 31. 1103 State St., 966-1707. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., 898-2204. Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Figure It Out, through Apr. 20. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789. Casa Dolores – Bandera Ware, through May 30. 1023 Bath St., 963-1032. Channing Peake Gallery – Under the Influence: Responses to Place, through June 18. S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St., 568-3994. Corridan Gallery – Into the City, through Mar. 28. 125 N. Milpas St., 966-7939. Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Sherry Spear: Whimsy, through Apr. 25. 1528 State St., 570-2446.

Faulkner Gallery – The Oak Group and Friends: Reserves of Strength, through Mar. 29. 40 E. Anapamu St, 962-7653. Flying Goat Cellars – Nancy Yaki, through Mar. 31. 1520 E. Chestnut Ct., Unit A, Lompoc, 736-9032. galerie102 – Ellwood T. Risk, Sabine Pearlman: No Risk, No Reward, Apr. 25 - May 24. 102 W. Matilija St., Ojai, 640-0151. Gallery 113 – Iven Vestergaard, through Mar. 28. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611. Gallery Los Olivos – Juried Art Show Winners, through Apr. 1; Two Off the Road, through Apr. 30. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517. The Good Life – Wine Country, through Apr. 30. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-7111. Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Reflection, through Apr. 17. 2415 De la Vina, 687-7444. Hospice of S.B. – Diana Valdez: Ocean of Souls, through Apr. 30. 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, 563-8820. Jewish Federation of S.B. – Fiber, Fabulous and Faux, through Apr. 2. 524 Chapala St., 957-1115. The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing. 131 Anacapa St., 284-0370. Los Olivos Café – Laurel Sherrie: Capturing Light, through May 6. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265. Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing. 127 Anacapa St., 284-0358. Marcia Burtt Studio – Variations, through Apr. 26. 517 Laguna St., 962-5588. MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 1, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373. MichaelKate Gallery – Psyched, through Apr. 19. 132 Santa Barbara St., 963-1411. Montecito Aesthetic Institute – eclecticism, through May 15. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, 565-5700. Ojai Café Emporium – Tom Hardcastle and Gretchen Greenberg, ongoing. 108 S. Montgomery St., Ojai., 646-2723. Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing. 1108 State St., 962-8111. Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating 28 Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing. 30 E. Figueroa St., 883-5100. Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln., 879-7103. Porch – Billy Woolway, through Apr. 30. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300. Porch Gallery Ojai – Bobbie Bennett and Joan Scheibel: Home on the Range, through Mar. 29. 310 E. Matilija St., Ojai, 620-7589. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940; Memorias y Facturas, ongoing. 123 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-0093. S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. Tennis Club – Inkspots, through Apr. 3. 2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Frederick Remahl, 2015, through Mar. 30; Ben Messick: Artist and Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary American Masterworks, through May 3; Meredith Brooks Abbott: Days That Count, Apr. 2 - June 28; Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460.

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MAR. 26 - APR. 2 Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing. 3888 State St., 687-2200. UCSB Library – Girls-in-Justice, through May 29. UCSB, 893-2478. wall space gallery – Bootsy Holler: Nuclear Family, through Apr. 26. 116 E. Yanonali St. C-1, 637-3898. Westmont Ridley-Tree Art Museum – Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection, through Mar. 28. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162. Youth Interactive Creative Studio Gallery– Monsters, Heroes and Angels, through Mar. 28. 209 Anacapa St., 453-4123.

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First Presbyterian Church – Cornell University Chorus Concert. 21 E. Constance Ave., 687-0754. TUE: 7pm Granada Theatre – Gil Shaham. 1214 State St., 899-2222. TUE: 7pm Lobero Theatre – S.B. Choral Society Presents Music Then and Now. 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. SAT: 8pm SUN: 3pm Stewart Hall – Schubertiade: A Classical Music Benefit Concert. Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd., 969-4726. SAT: 3pm

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theater Chumash Casino Resort – Kathy Griffin. 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. THU 4/2: 7 and 9:30pm The New Vic – Jane Austen UnScripted. 33 W. Victoria St., 965-5400. FRI, SAT: 8pm

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Carmen and The Boys (3pm); Carmen and The Vigilantes (8pm) WED: Owen Plant and Brother Sun (7pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall – 523 State St., 564-8904. THU: College Night with DJ Gavin Moby Dick Restaurant – 220 Stearns Wharf, 965-0549. WED-SAT: Derroy (6pm) SUN: Derroy (10am) Monty’s – 5114 Hollister Ave., Goleta, 683-1003. THU: Karaoke Night (7pm) Old Town Tavern – 261 Orange Ave., Goleta, 967-2403. WED, FRI, SAT: Karaoke Night (7:30pm) Palapa Restaurant – 4123 State St., 683-3074. FRI: Live Mariachi Music (6:30-9pm) Piano Riviera Lounge – 129 E. Anapamu St., 882-0050. FRI: David Courtenay & The Castawaves (6pm) Plaza Playhouse Theater – 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-6380. FRI: Emy Reynolds Band, Lee Koch Band, Max Kasch & Jesse Siebenberg (7:30pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar – 211 Helena Ave., 966-5906. THU: Live Music (8pm) Roundin’ Third – 7398 Calle Real, 845-8383. THU, TUE: Locals Night (7pm) S.B. Maritime Museum – 113 Harbor Wy., #190, 962-8404. SAT: Ukulele music and singing (1-3:30pm) Sandbar – 514 State St., 966-1388. WED: Big Wednesday (9pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. THU: Marty O’Reilly, Slanted Land, Dancing Manzanitas (8:30pm) FRI: Live Salsa (9pm) SAT: Cubensis, Shaky Feelin’ (9pm) SUN: Holly Near (7pm) MON: Lucky Devils Band (8pm) TUE: Charles Johnson Band, Zach Torres (8pm) WED: Margo Rey (8pm) THU: Gardens & Villa, Dante Elephante (9pm) Statemynt – 519 State St., 689-6968. THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (10pm) Tiburon Tavern – 3116 State St., 682-8100 FRI: Karaoke Night (7:30pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. THU: Swimmers, Dog Party (8pm) FRI: Agent Orange, Petmedz (8pm) SAT: Glitterfish & Pacific Haze (8pm) SUN: Cody Branan, Donald Spence (8pm) THU: Strung Out, Masked Intruder, La Armada (7pm) Whiskey Richards – 435 State St., 963-1786. WED: Punk on Vinyl (10pm) SUN: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (4-6pm) MON: Open Mike Night (8pm) Wildcat – 15 W. Ortega St., 962-7970. THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (10pm) TUE: Local Band Night (10pm) Zodo’s – 5925 Calle Real, Goleta, 967-0128. THU: KjEE Thursday Night Strikes (9:30-11:30pm) MON: Service Industry Night (9pm)

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Blush Restaurant & Lounge – 630 State St., 957-1300. SUN: Chris Fossek (6pm) Brasil Arts Café – 1230 State St., 245-5615. FRI, SAT: Live Brazilian Music Carr Winery – 414 N. Salsipuedes St., 965-7985. FRI: Doublewide Kings (6pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. THU: Sawyer Brown (8pm) FRI: Pepe Aguilar (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. FRI: Sean Wiggins and Paul Houston (7-10pm) SAT: Cast Iron Ghost (2-5pm); Hot Combo (6-9pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:15-4pm); Low Down Dudes (4:30-7:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118. FRI: DJ No Request (8pm) SAT: The Wednesday Knights (8:30pm) WED: Country Night (7pm) Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. TUE: Karaoke (9pm) WED: Karaoke - The Band (8:30pm) THU: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café – 113 Harbor Wy., 564-1200. FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (6:30pm) EOS Lounge – 500 Anacapa St., 564-2410. THU: Vanity Thursdays FRI: Yacht Club Fridays SAT: #ExpectGreatness Saturdays WED: Bailamos Salsa Night Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. – 137 Anacapa St., 694-2255. FRI: Live Music (5pm) SAT: The Caverns (5-8pm) The Goodland – 5650 Calle Real, 964-6241. THU: Live Music Thursdays (7pm) Granada Books – 1224 State St, 845-1818. FRI: Live Music Fridays (6pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus – 801 State St., 962-3131. THU: Live Music Thursdays (7pm) Indochine – 434 State St., 965-3800. TUE: Indie Night (9pm) WED: Karaoke (8:30pm) The James Joyce – 513 State St., 962-2688. THU: Alastair Greene Band (10pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (10pm) SAT: Ulysses Jazz Band (7:30-10:30pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (9pm) TUE: Teresa Russell (10pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. FRI: Carmen and The Renegade Vigilantes (8pm)

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The whole story starts out with Jay and a guy in the back of a car. Were you worried about doing a sex scene? Um, yes. A sex scene will always and forever be awkward. There is nothing romantic or normal about pretending to have sex with a guy you barely know while a bunch of random people stand around you holding booms, cameras, and lights. [Laughs.]

IT FOLLOWS STAR MAIKA MONROE TALKS HORROR FILMS, KITEBOARDING, AND SUPER CUCAS by Aly Comingore How would you compare yourself to Jay? I guess I am drawn to strong female character, and Jay has that. She is not a damsel in distress; she’s a modern woman. Jay is also a reluctant hero — she’s a fighter — but she is not perfect. She’s just a human being in a bad situation who deals with it instead of folding under the stress and fear and danger. I know you kiteboard. How did you get into that? My dad taught me when I was 13, and I fell in love with it. I think one of the reasons I loved it so much was because I was the only girl out there and I felt badass. [Laughs.] It wasn’t until I was 17 that I started to professionally compete. Any favorite beaches in Santa Barbara? Butterfly Beach. Do you have any other hobbies/hidden talents? I can dance. I started taking dance classes when I was 3, and I branched off into all forms of dance: jazz, hip-hop, ballet, swing. I love to dance. When you come home to S.B., what’s the first place you go? I stop at Super Cucas and get some amazing Mexican food.

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Lewis (Kevin Hart) to prep him for jail. Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo

✯ The Divergent Series: Insurgent (119 mins.; PG-13: intense violence and action throughout, some sensuality, thematic elements, and brief language)

This time last year, I took my mom to see Divergent, the movie based on the YA novel of the same name that became a worldwide phenomenon after The Hunger Games ushered in a Beatlemania-like fervor for teens battling their way through the post-apocalypse. This year, I took my sister to see Divergent’s sequel, Insurgent. My mother had never read the books; my sister also had not read the books nor had she seen the first movie. And still a good, nay, a great time was had by all. For the uninitiated, the Divergent series tells the story of a dystopic Chicago in which citizens are divided into five factions named after SAT words (kidding, kidding, they’re named after personal attributes and SAT words). Abnegation is selfless, Candor is honest, Erudite is brilliant, Amity is kind, and Dauntless is courageous. The central character Tris (Shailene Woodley) eschews her birth faction (Abnegation) for Dauntless and, in doing so, meets and falls in love with her combat instructor, a fellow Abnegationturned-Dauntless named Four (Theo James) and discovers an evil plot on Erudite’s part to enslave the other factions. In the second film, Tris, Four, and the less ridiculously named Dauntless are on the run from Erudite, hiding out in the other factions until Tris realizes that in order to stop the madness, she must confront and destroy the leader of Erudite, Jeanine (Kate Winslet). Divergent, and now Insurgent, aren’t “good” the way that Citizen Kane and Casablanca are “good.” To be honest, these films aren’t even good the way The Hunger Games adaptations are “good.” But they are fun. A minute does not go by where someone does not throw a punch, hold a knife to someone’s throat, jump on or off a bullet train, or suffer the horrors of distant future tech, including truth serum, mindcontrol chips, and simulations that force the participant into her deepest and darkest nightmares. The action is silly bordering on preposterous, the characters take themselves all too seriously, and this seemingly incongruous combination actually translates into two extremely watchable and entirely winning films. (KS) Arlington (D)/Camino Real (D)/ Metro  (D and D)

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Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) seeks retribution for the death of his brother. Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker star. Arlington/Camino Real/Metro  (Opens Thu., Apr. )

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Home (94 mins.; PG: mild action and some rude humor) An alien on the run lands on Earth and befriends an adventurous cat who is on an adventure of her own. Fairview/Fiesta  It Follows (100 mins.; R: disturbing violent and sexual content including graphic nudity and language)

After she’s involved in an unwanted sexual confrontation, a young girl is followed by an unknown force. (See more on page 59.) Camino Real/Metro  Seymour: An Introduction (84 mins.; PG: some mild thematic elements)

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Cinderella Do You Believe? (115 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, an accident sequence, and some violence) After he meets a devout street-corner preacher, a pastor is reminded that true faith requires action. Fiesta 

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✯ Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (115 mins.; NR) In Israel, where civil marriage and civil divorce don’t exist, a woman spends three years trying to gain emancipation from her husband. This ﬁlm is a powerful look at how, in a society and infrastructure built by men, a woman’s voice can go unheard, ignored, and outright dismissed. (AC) Plaza de Oro The Gunman (115 mins.; R: violence, language, some sexuality) A military contractor with PTSD (Sean Penn) goes on the run across Europe to clear his name. Fairview/Paseo Nuevo Focus (104 mins.; R: language, some sexual content, and brief violence)

A veteran conman (Will Smith) is thrown for a loop when a woman from his past — who is now a skillful femme fatale — resurfaces. Metro 

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A decorated Navy SEAL sniper (Bradley Cooper) returns home and struggles to reconnect with civilian life after four tours of duty. Cooper is terriﬁc, beefed up and stoic, determined instead of crazy-eyed. And Clint Eastwood’s no-nonsense direction style pushes us through the melodramatic script moments. (DJP) Metro 

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This live-action ﬁlm retells the classic fairy tale about a servant stepdaughter who becomes the object of aﬀection for the kingdom’s prince. The remake comes nowhere near the domesticated grandeur of the 1950 cartoon, though it has its own moments, both new and wonderfully familiar. (DJP) Camino Real/Fiesta 

✯ Deli Man

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Erik Anjou’s cinematic ode to the Great American Deli is part straightforward documentary, part personal case study. But the real surprise here is the subtle, poignant way the ﬁlm tackles those bigpicture questions, like how traditions are created, changed, and, sometimes, disappeared. (AC) Riviera

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A veteran secret service agent becomes the mentor for a young street kid with a lot of potential. Kingsman is a dish best suited to fans of weirdo cinema; it’s preposterous and funny but meant to be painful. (DJP) Metro 

McFarland, USA (128 mins.; PG: thematic material, some violence and language) A cross-country coach (Kevin Costner) in a small California town leads his team to championship glory. Fairview/Fiesta  The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (122 mins.; PG: some language and suggestive comments)

With the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel booked to capacity, Sonny (Dev Patel) pursues his dream of opening a second hotel. The new Marigold may rely too heavily on a stolen sitcom joke, but it also has a nice wistful quality to it. (DJP) Fairview/Paseo Nuevo

Still Alice (101 mins.; PG-13: mature thematic material, and brief language including a sexual reference)

A linguistics professor with three children struggles with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Julianne Moore stars. Paseo Nuevo

Timbuktu (97 mins.; PG-13: some violence and thematic elements) A quiet cattle herder and his family living on the dunes of Timbuktu have their lives disrupted by Jihadists. This ﬁlm is dazzling but ultimately feels too timid for a theme that has set the world on ﬁre in recent months. (DJP) Plaza de Oro independent.com

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ARIES (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): The term â&#x20AC;&#x153;jumped the sharkâ&#x20AC;? often refers to a TV show that was once great but gradually grew stale, and then resorted to implausible plot twists in a desperate attempt to revive its creative verve. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a little worried that you may do the equivalent of jumping the shark in your own sphere. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not at all worried that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll jump the shark. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that you did go through a stagnant, meandering phase there for a short time. But you responded by getting ďŹ erce and fertile rather than stuck and contrived. Am I right? And now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the verge of breaking out in a surge of just-the-right-kind-of-craziness.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): Novelist L. Frank Baum created the make-believe realm known as Oz. Lewis Carroll conjured up Wonderland, and C. S. Lewis invented Narnia. Now you are primed to dream up your own fantasy land and live there full-time, forever protected from the confusion and malaise of the profane world. Have fun in your imaginary utopia, Cancerian! APRIL FOOL! I halflied. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that now would be a good time to give extra attention to cultivating vivid visions of your perfect life. But I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend that you live there full-time.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): If you happen to be singing lead vocals in an Ozzy Osbourne cover band, and someone in the audience throws what you think is a toy rubber animal up on stage, DO NOT rambunctiously bite its head oďŹ&#x20AC; to entertain everyone. It most likely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a toy but rather an actual critter. APRIL FOOL! In fact, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not likely youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be fronting an Ozzy Osbourne cover band any time soon. But I hope you will avoid having to learn a lesson similar to the one that Ozzy did during a show back in 1982 when he bit into a real bat â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a small ďŹ&#x201A;ying mammal with webbed wings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thinking it was a toy. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a mistake like that. What you think is fake or pretend may turn out to be authentic.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The national anthem of Hell must be the old Frank Sinatra song â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I Did It My Way,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? declares Richard Wagner, author of the book Christianity for Dummies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SelďŹ sh pride is Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most common trait,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhabitants have a sense of satisfaction that they can at least say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been true to themselves.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Heed this warning, Leo. Tame your lust for selfexpression. APRIL FOOL! I was making a little joke. The truth is not as simplistic as I implied. I actually think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for you to be able to declare â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did it my wayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been true to myself.â&#x20AC;? But for best results, do it in ways that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t selďŹ sh, insensitive, or arrogant.

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(May 21 - June 20): In the spring of 1754, Benjamin Franklin visited friends in Maryland. While out riding horses, they spied a small tornado whirling through a meadow. Although Franklin had written about this weather phenomenon, he had never seen it. With boyish curiosity, he sped toward it. At one point, he caught up to it and lashed it with his whip to see if it would dissipate. This is the kind of adventure I advise you to seek out, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really believe you should endanger your safety by engaging in

(Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): No matter what gender you are, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to get a gig as a stripper. Your instinct for removing your clothes in entertaining ways is at a peak. Even if you have never been trained in the art, I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have an instinctive knack. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really think you should be a stripper. But I do recommend you experiment with a more metaphorical version of that art. For instance, you could expose hidden agendas that are causing distortions and confusion. You could peel away the layers of deception and propaganda that hide the naked facts and the beautiful truth.

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(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): Give yourself obsessively to your most intimate relationships. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother cleaning your house. Call in sick to your job. Ignore all your nagging little errands. Now is a time for one task only: paying maximum attention to those you care about most. Heal any rifts between you. Work harder to give them what they need. Listen to them with more empathy than ever before. APRIL FOOL! I went a bit overboard there. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a phase when big rewards can come from cultivating and enhancing togetherness. But if you want to serve your best relationships, you must also take very good care of yourself.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The past is not only another country where they do things diďŹ&#x20AC;erently,â&#x20AC;? says writer Theodore Dalrymple, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but also where one was oneself a diďŹ&#x20AC;erent person.â&#x20AC;? With this as your theme, Capricorn, I invite you to spend a lot of time visiting the Old You in the Old World. Immerse yourself in that person and that place. Get lost there. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come back until youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve relived at least a thousand memories. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. While it is a good time to get reacquainted with the old days and old ways, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend that you get utterly consumed by the past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s after midnight. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re half-wasted, cruising around town looking for wicked fun. You stumble upon a warehouse laboratory where zombie bankers and military scientists are creating genetically engineered monsters from the DNA of scorpions, Venus ďŹ&#x201A;ytraps, and Monsanto executives. You try to get everyone in a party mood, but all they want to do is extract your DNA and add it to the monster. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a lie. I doubt youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll encounter any scenario that extreme. But you are at risk for falling into weird situations that could compromise your mental hygiene. To minimize that possibility, make sure that the wicked fun you pursue is healthy, sane wicked fun.

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Some Aquarian readers have been complaining. They want me to use more celebrity references in my horoscopes. They demand fewer metaphors drawn from literature, art, and science, and more metaphors rooted in gossipy events reported on by tabloids. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell me how Kanye Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent travails relate to my personal destiny,â&#x20AC;? wrote one Aquarius. So hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sop to you kvetchers: The current planetary omens say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in your interest to be more like Taylor Swift and less like Miley Cyrus. Be peppy, shimmery, and breezy, not earthy, salty, and raucous. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write about celebritiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; antics if you paid me. Besides, for the time being, Miley Cyrus is a better role model for you than Taylor Swift.

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PISCES

(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): If you were a ladybug beetle, you might be ready and eager to have sex for nine hours straight. If you were a pig, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be capable of enjoying 30-minute orgasms. If you were a dolphin, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seek out erotic encounters not just with other dolphins of both genders, but also with turtles, seals, and sharks. Since you are merely human, however, your urges will probably be milder and more containable. APRIL FOOL! In truth, Sagittarius, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not so sure your urges will be milder and more containable.

(Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): Annie Edson Taylor needed money. She was 63 years old and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any savings. She came up with a plan: to be the ďŹ rst person to tuck herself inside a barrel and ride over Niagara Falls. (This was back in 1901.) She reasoned that her stunt would make her wealthy as she toured the country speaking about it. I recommend that you consider out-of-the-box ideas like hers, Pisces. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to get extra creative in your approach to raising revenue. APRIL FOOL! I halflied. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that now is a favorable time to be imaginative about your ďŹ nancial life. But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try outlandish escapades like hers.

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he Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center’s annual Chocolate de Vine fundraiser will be held on Saturday, May 2, 5-7:30 p.m., at Rincon Beach Club,  Santa Claus Lane. There’s also a VIP reception starting at 4 p.m. for those seeking to sample distinctive reserve wines and hors d’oeuvres. The benefit features chocolate creations from Santa Barbara’s top chocolatiers and pastry chefs, who will be judged for Best Tabletop Presentation, Outstanding Flavor Appeal, and the coveted People’s Choice Award. Participants include Michele’s Tesora, Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro, Brasil Arts Café, Conway’s Confections, Stafford’s Famous Chocolates, Secret Ingredient, and Mama Ganache, with wines from Imagine, Palmina, Brewer-Clifton, Riverbench, and others. Tickets are $65 in advance, $75 at the door (if available), and $100 for VIP. Call 963-6832 or see chocolate devine.org. Guests will also have a chance to bid on luxurious getaways and more in live and silent auctions. The Chocolate de Vine fundraiser benefits Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center (SBRCC), founded in 1974 to support survivors of sexual assault. SBRCC offers a 24-hour hotline, crisis and long-term counseling, selfdefense programs, and sexual-assault prevention education programs. All services are offered, regardless of ability to pay, in English and Spanish. Visit sbrapecrisis center.org.

DEUX BAKERY: Reader Steve tells me that the family-run business Deux Bakery at  Reddick Street is now open to the public. An oﬀshoot of Scarlett Begonia in Victoria Court, Deux Bakery had been wholesaleonly, oﬀering artisan bread, desserts, and more. Visit deuxbakery.com. AAA RATINGS: Reader Chris tells me that AAA

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JANET M. TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP aka Janet Taylor Schoepp and Janet Taylor‑Schoepp NO: 15PR00002 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JANET M. TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP aka JANET TAYLOR SCHOEPP and JANET TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: CRISTINA‑MARIE DURAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): CRISTINA‑MARIE DURAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decsdent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 4/16/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: BARNES & BARNES 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660. Published Mar 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FBN Abandonment STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Interwoven Health at 5370 Hollister Avenue, Suite 7 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 12/13/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0003716.

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The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Karin R.P. Gluck 301 Verano Drive #40 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Aaron M. Gluck (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 20 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. for Published. Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: AJ Motorsports at 402 Nopal St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 730/2012 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2012‑0002209. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Maribel Ramos Zamudio 3905 State St. #7‑339 Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe for Published. Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Mission Canyon Typing Service at 2970 Glen Albyn Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 1/14/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0000129. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Lesley Sammells (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. for Published. Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Smart Translating Team at 7352 Elmhurst Place Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 3/15/2011 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2011‑0000855. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Susana Haake (same address) Robert Haake (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. for Published. Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Terraza Cafe Blend of Mexican & American Food at 3007 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rosalinda Monrroy 662 La Roda Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rosalinda Monrroy This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheaff, Treasurer. FBN Number: 2015‑0000747. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Association United For A Better Community at 502 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dante Omar Morales 66 Oceanview Ave, Apt 36 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Rosemary Munoz 5077 Santa Susana Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (same address) This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: Frank J. Artusio, Treasurer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2015. 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 Frank J. Artusio, Treasurer. FBN Number: 2015‑0000522. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS

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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Back To Basics at 1107 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gregory M. Ortiz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory M. Ortiz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 02, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000732. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Jake’s Plumbing at 110 Saint Albans Place Goleta, CA 93117; Jacob Bonneau (same address) This business is conducted by a IndividualSigned: Jacob Bonneau This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheaff, FBN Number: 2015‑0000748. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alki Acupuncture, Alki Myotherapy & Massage, Alki Art & Wellness Institute, Grandle Chiropractic PC, Alki Chiropractic at 209A Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grandle Chiropractic PC at 209A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grandle Chiropratic PC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marc D. Grandle, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 02, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000724. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Art Nails at 1047 Casitas Pass Road Carpinteria, CA 93013; Thuy Trang Dang 5155 Tabano Way Santa Barbara, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thuy Trang Dang This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000764. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Dreamcather at 524 E. Arrellaga Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dreamcatcher LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Alison Morrow Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 02, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000734. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Goleta Vineyard, VCF of Goleta, Goleta Vineyard Christian Fellowship VCFG, Goleta Vineyard Church, Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Goleta at 5276 Hollister Avenue, Suite 352 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Goleta (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Martin L. Reitzin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 09, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000814. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Holdren’s Personal Touch Tours at 309 Moreton Bay Lane #3 Goleta, CA 93117; Charles Edward Holdren (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Charles Edward Holdren This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000757. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Branches, Branches Gallery, Branches Mobile Gallery at 5684 Encina Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Luke Holden (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Luke Holden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. 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 Christina Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000827. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Lucid University, Lucid University at 5684 Encina Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Lucidity Festival LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Luke Holden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. 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 Christina Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000828. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sunny Pools And Windows at 18 East Mission Street Apt‑B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sunny Robin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sunny Robin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2015. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000791. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Fortune Services at 328 East Carrillo Street, Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Robert Anthony Fortune (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert A. Fortune This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 09, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000815. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XPRTS Wholesalers at 5949 Hollister Avenue Suite A Goleta, CA 93117; Stephan Brissaud 267 Aviano Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephane Brissaud This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 23, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000630. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hamilton & Associates, LLC at 3048 Paseo Del Refugio Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Hamilton & Associates, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000566. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coda Wines at 5249 Foxen Canyon Rd. Los Olivos, CA 93441; Spencer Landon Daley 7944 Winchester Circle Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lea Fainer, Agent This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000661. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Los Prietos Hotshot Firefighter Support at 4681 Tajo Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Joseph A Duprey (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Joseph A. Duprey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000656. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Car Wash Pros, Detail Pros at 3905 State Street, Suite 7210 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bijan Omid 6689 El Colegio Road Goleta, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bijan Omid This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000638. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XO Greeting at 136 E. Yanonoli St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erika Marie Carter 218 C Santa Barbara St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Erika Carter This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000504. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: L And F Investor Services at 27 West Anapamu Street, Suite 406 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; L And F Montecito Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Alexandra Merz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000558. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FCC, First Congregational Church of Santa Barbara, Fccsb, Ucc, Fccsbucc at 2101 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; First Congressional Church of Santa Barbara (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jack R. Orr This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0000659. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Child Predator Alert, Child Safety Alert, Family Safety Monitoring, Neighborhood Protection, Online Monitoring, Registered Offender Maps, Sex Offender Monitoring, Child Predator Notice, Child Safety Tools, Family Safety Notice, Neighborhood Safety Alert, Predator Alert, Sex Offender List, Sex Offender Results, Child Protection, Family Protection, Family Safety Tools, Neighborhood Safety Map, Registered Offender List, Sex Offender Map at 3905 State St Suite 7228 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Scalable Commerce LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000660. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Phobias Away at 7041 Armstrong Road Goleta,

CA 93117; Michael Shierloh (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Shierloh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 23, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000611. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Isla Vista Student Ministry, University Methodist Church, U.ME.I.V., University Methodist Isla Vista, University Church, University United Methodist Church at 892 Camino Del Sur Isla Vista, CA 93117; Santa Barbara Korean United Methodist Church (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jonathan Garcia, CEO (Chair) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000669. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Been Jammin Music at 525 Olive Street Snta Barbara, CA 93101; Meridian Entertainment, INC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ben Margulies This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 19, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000583. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Neighbor Tim’s BBQ at 670 Glen Annie Road Goleta, CA 93117; Neighbor Tim’s LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Timothy Goebel This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000708. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aesthetic Center For Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery Center of Santa Barbara at 5333 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Julio Soares MD 4681 Sierra Madre Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Julio Soares This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000675. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Casa Dorinda at 300 Hot Springs Road Montecito, CA 93108; Montecito Retirement Association (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Robin Drew, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 26, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000693 Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Pies at 5392 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Bonnie Claire, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Hallie Katnic This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 19, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0000582. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s)

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is/are doing business as: Wilder Public Relations at 1324 East Haley St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jessica Elizabeth Clayton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jessica Clayton This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000807. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2149 at 175 N. Fairview Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Haggen Poco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000649. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2146, Haggen Pharmacy #2145 at 850 Linden Avenue Carpinteria, CA 93013; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000647. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2150 at 2010 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000651. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2146 at 163 S. Turnpike Rd Goleta, CA 93111; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000648. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Haggen #2151 at 3943 State St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000652. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Downhill Co at 841 Weldon Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Pedro Goncalves Darin Franca (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Pedro Goncalves Darin Franca This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000886. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zepeda Trucking, Zepeda Trucking, Inc at

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5565 Stillwell Road Santa Maria, CA 93455; Zepeda Trucking, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Andres Zepeda, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheeif. FBN Number: 2015‑0000840. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Super Cuca’s No. 3 at 6527 Madrid Road Goleta, CA 93117; Jenaro Rios 2504 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jenaro Rios This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000872. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Proform Fitness And Training at 127 Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Proform Fitness And Training, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Joe Lyons, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2015. 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 tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000869. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coast Carpet Cleaning at 4945 Cervato Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; David Stapp (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Stapp This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000861. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goleta Fit Body Boot Camp at 7127 Hollister Ave, Suite 110 Goleta, CA 93117; Fitness Impact, Inc 4175 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marianna Sarkisova This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2015. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000853. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brew 42, Brew 42 Bottle Shop & Tap Room, Brew 42 Tap Room & Bottle Shop at 116 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Good Beer Company, LLC 1430 Laguna Street, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. This statement expires five

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CMF Creative Services, LLC 582 Vine St Oak View, CA 93022 This business is conducted by a Limited Liaqbility Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000906. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PDC Consulting at 650 Palm Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013; Patricia K Devaney Campbell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Patricia K. Devaney Campbell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 23, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000961. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Moon Unit Wines at 84 Industrial Way Unit C Buellton, CA 93427; Ryan Ellis Roark 9160 HWY 101 Los Alamos, CA 93440 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gretchen Voelcker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000754. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sounds of Santa Barbara at 259 Helena St. Los Alamos, CA 93440; Taylor Dubois (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Taylor Dubois This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 23, 2015. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000964. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Farm To Fork CSA at 2405 Medcliff Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Kristi Curtis (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kristi Curtis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 23, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000967. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Netlok at 1171 Crestline Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; No Password, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000894.

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Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gerardo’s Cleaning Service at 5776 Alondra Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Gerardo Valdez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gerardo Valdez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000904. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sustainable Solutions at 401 East Victoria St #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Angelina Sanchez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 2015. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000762. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Public Data Check at 5662 Calle Real, Suite 107 Goleta, CA 93117; National Data Analytics, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000845. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zaytoon at 209 E Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Fawaz Istwani 1235 Franciscan Ct #1 Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000830. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Yardi Marketplace at 430 South Fairview Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Sitestuff, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gordon Morrell, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2015. 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000810. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Communications at 72 Santa Felicia Drive Goleta, CA 93117; D & B Communications Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dallas B.

Angele, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000902. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ourtown Property Management at 1627 Chapala Street #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; John Ucciferri (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Ucciferri This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 9, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000821. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Automobile Consulting Group at 931 N Alisos St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Frank Flores (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Frank Flores This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000930. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carrillo Upholstery at 713 W Micheltorena St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Norma Carrillo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Norma Carrillo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000940. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: M. V. Landscape And Irrigation System at 514 W. Anapamu Street Apt #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Marcos Vasquez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Marcos Vasquez Rios This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2015. 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0000672. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Envision Health Coaching at 322 #2 W. Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mary Beth Merola (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mary Beth Merola This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000939. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS

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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fly Away Hang Gliding at 237 Santa Catalina St Santa Barabra, CA 93109; William Dydo Christopher (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: William Christopher Dydo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 20, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000942. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ECO SB Design at 1418 Alta Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; ECO SB Design (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Eduardo S. Bell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000811. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Homes at 3038 Las Positas Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; John P. Gaffney (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John P. Gaffney This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000774. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hesperian Sound Divison at 415 Rancheria Street #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Nicholas Michael Tillman (same address) Alejandro Elias Zerah 2142 W. 18th Place Chicago, Il 60608 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Nicholas Tillman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 6, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000448. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carpinteria Landscape Nursery at 933 Elm Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013; Lynda Anne Adams 950 Medio Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lynda Adams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 03, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000744. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Big Brothers Big Sisters at 123 W Gutierrez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara (same address) This business is conducted by

a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 27, 2015. 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000701. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

Summons WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure section 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB No. ADJ9305712 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: APPLICANT, Mateo Garcia DEEFENDANTS, Vicente Valtazar NOTICES 1)A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant. You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory). 2)An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the serve of the application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests. 3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief. If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution. A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance ofanaward. 4)You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and paper and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Crystal C. Forsher Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540. NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person(s) sued under the fictitious name(s) of: Vicente Valtazar Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

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employment Activism Start your humanitarian career! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply today! www. OneWorldCenter.org 269‑591‑0518 info@oneworldcenter.org

Admin/Clerical We are seeking an Administrative Assistant for general support for the office staff. The Administrative Assistant will be required to file documents, run errands, create spreadsheets, scan, organize etc. Email your resume to classifiedjob.kelly@gmail.com

Business Opportunity MAKE $1000 Weekly!! Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately. OBTAIN CLASS A CDL IN 2 ½ WEEKS. Company Sponsored Training. Also Hiring Recent Truck School Graduates, Experienced Drivers. Must be 21 or Older. Call: (866) 275‑2349. (Cal‑SCAN)

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Housekeeping Supervisor

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is in need of a full‑time Environmental Services Supervisor to oversee housekeeping staff (day/evening shifts). This is a fast‑paced position overseeing 21‑40 housekeeping employees. Will ensure proper patient area cleaning, floor buffing, stripping, carpet shampooing, extracting, project work, discharge and terminal cleaning. Evaluates and monitors quality improvement indicators for safety and sanitation utilizing established programs and standards. Requires: 3+ years experience in supervising housekeeping staff in very large facilities, knowledge of proper use of cleaning fluids, and excellent communication skills. Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. CHS offers an excellent benefits package which includes above‑market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, and tax savings accounts. Please apply online at www. cottagehealthsystem.org. EOE

Vacasa Vacation Rentals is seeking an Amazing Housekeeper in the Santa Barbara area. Duties will include deep cleaning, organizing & stocking amenities. 0‑2 years of experience preferred in vacation home or hotel setting. Applicants should possess clear verbal & written communications, have internet access, be comfortable with computers & have reliable transportation. Pay is $15 Hourly plus benefits such as 401(k) match up to 4%, Paid Time Off & other supplemental insurances. Apply at our career site: https://vacasarentals. applicantpro.com/jobs/199808.html

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residents daily, 24,000 conferees yearly, 10,000 guests and 2,500 off campus meal plan participants yearly with an annual operating budget of $17 million and 181 FTE. Reqs: 10+ years as senior executive and/or multi‑site culinary senior leader in the restaurant industry or in college and university food service. Culinary degree or equivalent required. Expert knowledge in food preparation, nutrition, special needs and sanitation regulations. Advanced knowledge in food preparation, culinary trends, vegetarian, vegan and raw cuisine, nutrition, special dietary needs, allergy awareness and sanitation regulations. Advanced verbal and written communication in the English language, and active listening, dynamic flexibility, critical thinking, and ability to multi‑task and ensure effective time management. Advanced decision making and reasoning skills, and ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, and perform operations analysis and quality control analysis. Demonstrated skill in leading work groups, managing and supervising complex projects, leading and supervising culinary staff and students. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license and a clean DMV record. ServeSafe certification required. $6,100 ‑ $8,300/ mo. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/31/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job #20150131

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SUBSTITUTE TEACHER POSITION Cottage Hospital Children’s Center

Join the team of Cottage Health System professionals who care for our employee’s children. We are looking for a substitute teacher who is comfortable working with infants, toddlers and preschoolers. This is a part time position with varying hours that require some flexibility. Candidates need to have a minimum of 12 ECE units including 3 Infant/ Toddler units with at least one year of experience in a child care setting some of which should be with infants. Lab School Student Teaching experience is a plus. We are looking for dedicated and flexible individuals who have a passion for young children and good communication skills. We offer a warm family atmosphere, low adult to child ratios and the opportunity to learn and grow professionally while nurturing the children’s growth. Salary range is $13.64 – $18.59 per hour depending on education and experience. Please apply online at: www.cottagehealthsystem.org EOE

P/T Medical Equip.Delivery/Set‑up for Santa Barbara/Ventura County. Rotates on‑call 24/7, 365 days. Pay rate per job. Must use own vehicle, auto ins., CDL, pass background & lift 50#. Submit resume to: info@jrmedicalinc.com Retirees Encouraged

Hospitality/ Restaurant

Central Coast Home Health is a fast‑growing organization with an excellent reputation throughout the Central Coast. We are seeking a full‑time RN for the Santa Barbara area. One year of nursing experience is required. Home Health experience preferred.

Cook

We offer competitive pay and benefits and flexible schedules. Please submit resume and cover letter to hr@cchh08. com for consideration. For more information about our company see www.mycchh.com.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is currently in need of a full‑time cook, for the day/evening shift. Job duties include planning and preparing products according to recipes that meet standards of quality and quantity, and meet portion control guidelines. Temperature control, sanitation and timeliness are equally important. Knowledge of commercial kitchen equipment operation. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing. Culinary Arts degree preferred. Food Handler Card required.

Cottage Health System offers an excellent compensation package that includes above market salaries; premium medical benefits, pension plans, and tax savings accounts. Please apply online at: www.cottagehealthsystem.org. EOE

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RESIDENTIAL DINING SERVICES Shares responsibility for the overall Dining operations serving 5,100

Staff Physician, Supervising The Public Health Department has an immediate need for a Staff Physician, Supervising in Santa Maria to provide medical supervision for clinic operations, physicians and mid‑level practitioners. Bring your strong leadership skills in support of our mission to improve the health of our community by preventing disease, promoting wellness, and ensuring access to needed health care. For more information and to apply, please visit: www.sbcountyjobs.com

Music/Performance DID YOU KNOW 7 IN 10 Americans or 158 million U.S. Adults read content from newspaper media each week? Discover the Power of Newspaper Advertising. For a free brochure call 916‑288‑6011 or email cecelia@cnpa. com (Cal‑SCAN)

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COMPASSION

FOR EVERYONE IN OUR CARE.

It’s one of our core values. In the experience Cottage Health System provides to our patients, clinical skill and state-of-the-art technology are only part of the equation. Equally important is compassion – the demonstration of sincere caring, as fellow human beings, for each patient we are privileged to serve. Along with excellence and integrity, compassion is a Cottage core value. Join us in putting it into practice every single day.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Nursing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Access Case Manager Cardiac Services Coordinator Cath Lab Clinical Manager – ER GVCH Clinical Manager – Ortho/Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Quality Consultant Employee Health Emergency Eye Center Med/Surg – Float Pool MICU Mother/Infant NICU PACU PICU Pulmonary Renal SICU Surgery Triad Coordinator – Surgery RN

Allied Health • • • • •

Pharmacist – Per Diem Pharmacy Tech Physical Therapist – Per Diem Respiratory Care Practitioner Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem • Surgical Techs

Clinical • Medical Social Worker • Neurodiagnostic Tech • Personal Care Attendant – Villa Riviera • Special Procedures Technician • UCT – SICU

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Benefactor Liaison BioMed Electronics Tech II Catering Set-up Chaplain – On-Call Concierge – Part-time Cook Digital Marketing Content Specialist Environmental Services Rep Food Service Rep HIM Manager Infection Preventionist Data Support (RN) Integration Analyst – HIE Interpreter – Per Diem IT Project Manager IT Project Manager, Sr. Lean/Process Improvement Facilitator Manager, ISD Customer Service Marketing Coordinator Patient Financial Counselor II – Admitting Room Service Server Security Officers Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain Teacher – Part-time

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital

Cottage Business Services • HIM Coder III • Patient Financial Counselor – Admitting & Credit Collections • Supervisor – Patient Business Services

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • • • •

RN – Emergency RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem RN – ICU – Per Diem Security Officer – Per Diem

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • • • • •

CLS – Day/Evenings Environmental Services Rep Manager – Radiology Patient Care Tech – Per Diem RN – Med/Surg

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • • • • • •

Anatomic Path Technician Certified Phlebotomy Techs Clinical Lab Scientist – Nights Client Systems Analyst Lab Assistants Lab Processing Supervisor

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

• Psychotherapist • Recreation Therapist • Therapeutic Recreation Aide (Lifegaurd)

• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back? For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health System, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

Excellence, Integrity, Compassion

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ARTS EDITOR

The Santa Barbara Independent seeks an experienced editor to oversee print and online arts coverage in and around Santa Barbara County. Job duties include managing weekly and daily editorial calendars, finding and assigning freelance writers, photographers, and interns, and fostering relationships with individuals throughout the S.B. arts community. Please send resume to hr@independent.com EOE F/M/D/V. No phone calls, please. Nonprofit

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Antioch University is currently recruiting for a full time faculty Chair in the MBA Program.

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GEVIRTZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION As part of a team, is responsible for managing a dynamic portfolio of successful contract and grant proposals. Advises researchers and support staff on contract and grant compliance

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Hope Ranch

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Coldwell Banker Montecito, 2542 Banner Ave, $1,835,000, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1‑3, Lori Bowles 805‑452‑3884

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4589 Via Vistosa, 6BD/5.5BA, Sun 2‑4, $3,250,000, Coldwell Banker, David Goldstein 448‑0468

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