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LAW & DISORDER During an altercation with two Chumash Casino Resort security guards early Tuesday morning, Jose Guido, 37, of Santa Barbara was shot and killed. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. outside a parking garage at the casino. As of print deadline, the Sheriff’s Office had declined to release further details, including the identities of the two security guards.

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by Jean Yamamura y moving the morning Amtrak to an earlier time, a train will finally bring commuters from Ventura County to Santa Barbara on April 2. It sounds like a simple solution, but breaking the logjam of competing rail interests was anything but.

At least 10 years ago, the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) tried the same thing, but Caltrans, the state rail agency at the time, found mounting technical problems and suggested a commuter rail, like Metrolink in Los Angeles. But a gambling train to Las Vegas was offering Union Pacific (UP) sky-high track prices. “We spent years negotiating with Union Pacific, pulling together every conceivable funding source,” said Gregg Hart, SBCAG deputy director. The gambling train fell apart, and so did SBCAG’s commuter plan. “We decided to go back to the retiming idea, with LOSSAN. And a few dominoes fell into place.” (LOSSAN stands for Los Angeles–San Diego–San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor Agency.)

The chief domino was State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. A staunch environmentalist, Jackson fumed along with everyone else while stuck in traffic on Highway 101, gazing over at the railroad tracks — “with one of the best views in California!” The state budget of 2014 was her opportunity.

“I sit on the subcommittee that reviews transportation funding,” Jackson said. It became clear that Brown’s funding priority was high-speed rail, while intercity and commuter rail were being given “short shrift,” the senator said. “Until more equality was given on funding distribution,” she said, “I was not prepared to support additional high-speed

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In particular, Jackson got a promise that funds from cap and trade—a greenhousegas-carbon-credit auction held by the state that brought in $2 billion in 2017 — could be used to expand intercity, commuter, and light-rail options. Those new funds freed up existing money to organize stations, crews, and trains for the 4 a.m. start time out of L.A. “And don’t think that’s not a popular time,” said Michael Bennett, a Goleta city councilmember and the county’s representative to LOSSAN. “The very early morning commute is very full in Los Angeles.”

But don’t call this train “commuter rail.”

Unlike Metrolink’s many trains during commuter hours, the 4 a.m. start time replaces the 7 a.m. Pacific Surfliner, which doesn’t reach Santa Barbara until after 10. The arrival times are now Santa Barbara at 6:45 a.m. and Goleta at 7:15 a.m. Jackson credits the State Transportation Agency’s Brian Kelly with negotiating with Amtrak on this one.

Departure times are unchanged. Using the existing line means the fee paid to Union Pacific, which owns the rail between here and Moorpark, is based on the agreement nailed down in the 1970s when Amtrak formed, Hart explained. With this solution, UP, whose West Coast leadership had changed, was “surprisingly cooperative,” Jackson said.

The jingle “a lane and a train” helped 2008’s Measure A muster 79 percent voter support for a half-cent sales tax for county transportation. The funding from this push for a third highway lane and commuter rail gives an influx of $2.5 million to this two-year project, bringing the trip cost down to $5.

The rail pass — offering 10 rides for $50 —can be used on both the Ventura–Santa Barbara train and the Coastal Express commuter bus service, said Scott Spaulding with SBCAG. It’s also good for free “last-mile” travel on Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) trolleys to several employment hubs in Santa Barbara and Goleta. MTD’s Transit Solutions is coordinating the trolleys, bicycle sheds, and a pilot bike-sharing program.

The estimated Surfliner time from Ventura to Santa Barbara is about 40 minutes, compared to the current 50- to 90-minute highway trip on the Coastal Express commuter bus. Highway traffic delays are attributed by some to the loss of State Route 192, which suffered six broken bridges in the 1/9 Debris Flow. As many as 12,000 travelers had used the 192 daily, Bob Ludwig of the Coast Village Association told the SBCAG board, as he recounted the devastation affecting his members. The Coastal Express counts 350500 people who board its buses per day. The train can hold 500 people, and 100-200 are expected to commute, said Spaulding.

The early-morning train lacks final LOSSAN approval, expected at a Wednesday meeting, after press time. “All the ‘T’s have been crossed and all the ‘I’s dotted,” reassured Dennis Story, a longtime train advocate. But Senator Jackson isn’t sitting on her laurels.

She’s working now on parking at the Ventura Fairgrounds and at least two evening trains to take people home again. And she’s confident commuters will discover the allure of train travel. “You can sit on the train, read your mail or the newspaper, and have a cup of java in the morning or maybe a craft beer at night,” she said. “It’s an alternative to getting in the car and polluting the atmosphere.” n INDEPENDENT.COM

Dos Pueblos High School sophomore Kaiden Vague died on 2/16 — his 16th birthday — from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound sustained the day before at the Glass Factory shooting range, where he was reportedly practicing with his father and brother. In a GoFundMe account opened to help the family with funeral expenses, Vague’s behavioral therapist wrote, “He had highfunctioning autism, and boy was he proud of it.

His family … runs a nonprofit organization for individuals with disabilities called SOFTIN Inc. They are an integral part of the autism community, and take kids out on the ocean on their charter boat.”

ISLA VISTA County supervisors approved an 8 percent utility user tax on Isla Vista households for the 6/5 ballot. If approved by two-thirds of I.V. voters, the tax would raise about $642,000 for the recently formed Community Services District annually from gas, water, electricity, sewer, and garbage services to fund “local improvements to parking, public safety, lighting, and sidewalks; provide tenant mediation services; create a municipal advisory council; and operate community facilities and events,” according to the ballot language.

DISASTER RELIEF The Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation raised about $1 million for Direct Relief at its 10th biannual gala and auction at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on 2/17. The event, always a who’s who of winemaking in Santa Barbara and beyond, was especially meaningful and productive this year — a third of the money raised will benefit victims of the Thomas Fire and the 1/9 Debris Flow.

PEOPLE Internationally renowned oenophile and gourmand Archie McLaren, whose Central Coast Wine Classic put winemakers from Santa Barbara to Paso Robles on the global map, passed away from bone cancer on 2/20 at his home in Avila Beach. Amid a rich life of sports, anti-oil activism, and social justice work, McLaren’s Classic, which celebrated its 32nd edition last year, raised millions of dollars for more than 125 nonprofits across the region. He also cofounded the World of Pinot Noir event and was a wellknown host of television and radio programs n about food and wine for decades.

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Argyropoulos, 71, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment; he was released on a $300,000 bond. His trial is set for March 20.

The 21-count indictment alleges that Argyropoulos operated two schemes out of his Santa Barbara investment services firms, Prima Capital and Prima Ventures.

In one scheme, he promised to use investor funds to purchase securities for pre-IPO shares of Facebook and Twitter. He then used the funds for day-trading and personal expenses such as his mortgage, car payments, and casino debts. He also used some of the funds as hush money for clients who complained when their shares never materialized. He solicited $4,947,360 from victimized investors between October 2010 and October 2015, according to the indictment.

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aced with significant funding hits in the wake of the 1/9 Debris Flow, Montecito’s two public elementary schools — Cold Spring School and Montecito Union School—are struggling with the sorts of budget cuts that could lay off up-and-coming teachers and pare down specialty instruction, such as art and music. The projected financial impact is especially acute at Cold Spring, which has already launched a fundraising campaign to raise $485,000 by May 1, accord- Montecito Union Superintendent Anthony Ranii ing to Principal Amy Alzina.

“We’re covered for the rest of this [school] year, roughly 12-17 percent of the school’s year, but next year looks bad. The hard budget. Ranii praised previous boards for part in this planning stage is not knowing building the school’s reserves over the years. [exactly how severe the financial impact will “Because of that, we’re not in a crisis,” he said. be]. We have to notify teachers in March However, he added, “That is a huge amount if their positions will still be available in for our district to hearken to.” Enrollment is the fall.” Alzina explained that 93 percent projected to drop from 418 students this year of Cold Spring’s $3.9 million budget comes to 387 in the fall. Ranii proposed drawing from local property taxes. Hundreds of from reserves while making administrative, Montecito homes were destroyed or severely staffing, and other cuts; the board vote will damaged by the January 9 natural disaster. be held at a special meeting March 5.

At Montecito Union — which operates Both Ranii and Alzina said that some under the same funding model as Cold state legislators are trying to create what’s Spring — Superintendent Anthony Ranii called a “property-tax backfill” to make told boardmembers Tuesday that after disaster-impacted school districts finannumerous meetings with Santa Barbara cially whole for the 2018-19 school year. If County Auditor-Controller representatives, successful, that funding would appear in the the K-6 school can expect a revenue loss in state budget, which won’t be unveiled until —Keith Hamm the range of $1.2 million to $1.7 million next mid-June.

In a different illegitimate venture, Argyropoulos faces seven fraud charges for reportedly marketing shares in an investment known as the Laurence Miles Giant Estate Settlement, also called the Laurence Miles Trust. According to the indictment, Argyropoulos told investors falsely that the beneficiary of the trust was a woman who was ill and also heir to an estate worth more than $1 billion; she needed to borrow money to cover her large medical expenses while access to her trust was tied up in legal proceedings. Argyropoulos reportedly told victims that once the proceedings were finished, the assets would become available for transfer, at which point investors would receive a return of up to 1,000 percent. The indictment states investors lost more than $760,000.

Argyropoulos faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each fraud count; there is no statutory maximum sentence for the criminal contempt charges.

His trial is set for March 20.

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anja Heitman was sworn in as Santa Barbara County’s probation chief on December 1 in a courtroom packed with judges and criminal justice workers. She began working at juvenile hall 27 years ago. Now she’s in charge of 350 sworn and unsworn officers handling more than 4,000 cases at any given time — offenders of all ages who have been convicted of all levels of crimes. Heitman is also overseeing the $1.5 million remodel of the juvenile hall on Hollister Avenue.

The probation department underwent a jolt last year when her predecessor, Lupe Rabago, resigned under a cloud, the details of which have not yet been released by the Santa Barbara Superior Court.

Heitman is well respected OUT OF JAIL: Tanja Heitman, who was appointed probation chief last December, talks about the role of her department in rehabilitating by those who work in crimi- defendants. nal justice. Retired judge George Eskin said he has been impressed by her “positive, no-non- officer. They report every month and don’t sense, practical approach to solving prob- actually talk to their probation officer unless lems by developing creative collaborative there’s a problem. They’ll pay their fines, efforts with public and private partners.” their restitution, complete whatever proIn 1989, Heitman moved to Santa Bar- grammatic requirements, terminate, and bara County from Texas with her husband, we’ll never see them again. who worked as a dog handler at Vandenberg The next step up is the medium-risk-level Air Force Base. In Texas she had worked at caseloads, and those are 75 cases per officer. a children’s psychiatric hospital, but Santa Then our traditional high-risk caseloads Barbara County didn’t have a similar facility. now are at 50:1, and our realigned high-risk She eventually landed a job as a juvenile- caseloads are 40:1. Ideally, intensive caseinstitutions officer at a 24-hour locked facil- loads would be at 20:1. That would be for ity. She could not help but wonder what she offenders who were severely mentally ill or was getting herself into. But in all her years had other issues that required a higher level in the Probation Department, Heitman says of intensity. We just aren’t staffed right now she has never been bored. And now work is to be able to do that. definitely not slowing down.

Heitman recently met with the Santa How has the Probation Department changed Barbara Independent to talk about her role over the course of your 27-year career? If you as chief. go back prior to my time with the department, kids would get locked up in juvenile What does probation provide to society? My hall just for running away from home. We view of it is that probation or community routinely transferred kids to California supervision is not for everyone. There are Youth Authority — prison for kids. But over some offenders who are truly too dangerous time it was modified so that a juvenile had or their offense is too egregious. If you’ve to actually commit a 602 offense, something murdered somebody, you should not just an adult could get locked up for. be put on probation. But we know that the majority of our offenders are substance What about adults on probation? Shortly abusers … and that is what’s driving their after these changes for juveniles, Senate Bill criminality. Locking substance abusers up 678, or the Probation Incentive Act, tried to does not remedy the problem. accomplish something similar within the adult criminal justice system. The prison Who is put on probation in Santa Barbara numbers have gone down dramatically.

County? For those of lowest risk, 400-500 There isn’t any indication that the crime offenders are assigned to one probation rates have increased. It’s mixed news on how CONT’D ON PAGE 12 

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Tanja Heitman Cont’d from p. 11 much recidivism has been reduced, but it hasn’t gotten any worse. Arguably in many counties it’s gotten better, and it’s costing a lot less, and we’re providing some programming options to adult offenders.

What is your opinion of the state initiatives intended to make the criminal justice system more progressive — Proposition 47, Prop.

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even those that support rehabilitation and treatment for substance abusers see some deficits within these laws. If treatment were available, we would love to say that all substance abusers would enroll, but as we who have worked with them know, that’s not always the case.

Sometimes you have to force people to do what they need to do. What happens with that person who gets arrested for a misdemeanor, but doesn’t stay in jail because they’re a misdemeanant, and are ordered to get treatment? Often they don’t, and then they get another misdemeanor, and another.

How many misdemeanors do they get before we go, this isn’t working? And how much harm could they cause themselves in the interim while we’re trying to figure this out? I don’t have the solution … There’s probably good that’s coming out of all of them, but there’s some fallout, I think, from a number of the different initiatives that are taking some of our ability to really compel those that need treatment.

What are your thoughts on the new Northern Branch Jail? I have to believe that even if we

don’t get the ability to house a substantially larger number of inmates, it’s going to be a modern jail that won’t have the deficits that

our old jail does. You just have to recognize that the main jail is so old that it’s not a great place to incarcerate people. The new jail is going to have the latest standards. It may not be able to fully accommodate for the crowding issues that we have, but it’s going to have treatment space. It’s going to have options for people who are mentally ill that will be more humane and appropriate. And our largest population is in North County, so it is going to be responsive to where the population base is at this point.

In 2016, Santa Barbara County launched the assessment tool called the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument. The tool is essentially a checklist that allows investigators to more objectively determine if an inmate should be released without bail. How is it going? It’s probably not happening as quickly as we would like. The probation staff met with the court staff and came up with strategies to make sure that a greater number of defendants are reviewed for potential supervised release, and we’ll be touching base to gauge what’s working, what’s not, and how it can be improved.

How do you judge what is the best plan for those put on probation? What works for

one may not work for another. And what you know about that offender changes over time. What’s presented when they were first arrested may only be a fraction of what the issues are, and when you’re visiting them at their home and seeing the totality of the situation, you may realize, okay, I need to reassess where we’re going with this, especially with those who have mental illness and substance-abuse issues, trauma issues.

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n the wake of the high school shooting that killed 17 students and staffers in Parkland, Florida, Santa Barbara Representative Salud Carbajal and four of his congressional colleagues urged action this week on House Bill 2598, the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) Act. The bill, introduced by Carbajal last May, would enable family members or law enforcement officials to petition a court to temporarily stop persons suspected of posing a serious threat to themselves or others from buying or possessing a firearm. With a court-ordered “gun violence prevention warrant,” police could confiscate any guns owned by a person deemed dangerous for up to a year, after which the firearms would be returned or the order renewed.

The GVRO Act was inspired by a similar California bill drafted by then-assemblymember Das Williams and signed by

Governor Jerry Brown after the 2014 Isla Vista killings.

“Clearly, from all I’ve read, this was a guy in crisis,” Carbajal said of the Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz. “There were warning signs.” While Cruz raised a number of red flags, it doesn’t appear he underwent any mental-health treatment and so wasn’t added to a list that would have precluded him from owning a gun. “All they needed was a tool like the one already being used here in California,” said Carbajal, who pilloried Republicans for their inaction after each new mass shooting. “I’m tired of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle giving their thoughts and prayers,” he said.

“Quite frankly, I’m frustrated and angry that they haven’t shown one iota of leadership on such an important issue.” Carbajal said he hopes to earn the support of more moderate Republicans who see his bill as —Tyler Hayden “reasonable.”

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OLD-SCHOOL: A new court ruling could impact traditional bail services, such as Goleta Fast Response Bail Bonds, owned by Dave Corlatan (pictured).

Cash Bail in California Ruled Unconstitutional Judges Must Consider a Defendant’s Ability to Pay

by Kelsey Brugger etainees behind bars at Santa Barbara County Jail have a few options. They could, for example, call Mcguire Brothers Enterprises, Biker Bail Bonds, or Bail Hotline. In the future, though, they may not need to call any of them.

A California appeals court in January ruled the cash bail system unconstitutional because underprivileged defendants languish in jail before ever being convicted of a crime. The ruling forces Superior Court judges to consider a defendant’s ability to pay when setting bail amounts.

“It’s really huge,” said deputy public defender Deedrea Edgar. “Poor people are held in jail because they don’t have money. It is on its face unfair.” Prosecutors and defense attorneys alike called the ruling—known as the Humphrey decision—very significant.

The San Francisco case in the 1st District Court of Appeal involved Kenneth Humphrey, a 63-year-old man accused of stealing cologne from his elderly neighbor after a confrontation. His bail was set at $350,000; he spent eight months in jail.

The purpose of cash bail is both to ensure defendants show up in court and to protect public safety. But defense attorneys complain that bail amounts have become so high that they function as de facto detention orders. Judges are “no longer going to be setting bail without analysis,” said Santa Barbara defense attorney Bill Makler. “If a person is such a threat, make a record of why.”

Bail amounts are set by judges and differ by county. A defendant pays 7-10 percent of the bond to a bail bondsman, who acts as the insurer. There is also collateral. If the person does not show up to court, he or she forfeits the bond.

A group of representatives from across the Santa Barbara criminal justice system met with Superior Court Judge Patricia Kelly recently to discuss how to handle the flood of cases that could overwhelm the courts. “Are we going to see 5-10 [bailreview cases] every week?” asked Mag

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Nicola, chief deputy district attorney. “It’s too soon to tell.”

An unknown number of the 929 inmates in County Jail cannot afford to bail out. Of those, 64 percent are awaiting trial, according to jail chief Vincent Wasilewski. A vast majority are represented by public defenders because they cannot afford private counsel, not to mention the hundreds or thousands of dollars it costs to post bail.

“There are people in custody who cannot bail out,” said retired Superior Court judge George Eskin, a bail-reform advocate, adding, “We don’t know how many.”

Judges should immediately follow the new ruling, he said. “Bail has transformed from an assurance of security to a multibilliondollar business fraught with implications,” he said. He explained that new technologies are emerging to replace the bail system, including conditions of release, GPS tracking devices, and ankle monitors.

One bail bondsman says his profession — while imperfect — does not need to be changed. Jae Brattain—a bail bondsman who took over his father’s business 25 years ago—said he tries to work with clients who cannot afford to pay. “We are mainly dependent on people’s honesty,” he said.

“We struggle to collect the money from people who are not taking care of business.”

About a third of his clients show up in court but don’t pay him, he said. Once or twice a year, he has to arrive unannounced at his client’s house to collect the money, he said. He has struggled to keep up with corporate bail bond companies that employ their own bounty hunters and, therefore, can take bigger risks. But now the movement toward eliminating cash bail could put his businesses in greater jeopardy.

But Brattain is not worried. “There have been proposals in the past,” he said. “It doesn’t seem feasible at all in California.” He has reason to be concerned, however. State legislation has been introduced to overhaul the system. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Tuesday he would not appeal the Humphrey verdict.

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a new mechanism of gridding pre-incident maps. Our searches were awesome during this event but will be even better next time. We tasked our incident command team with reinforcing our response plan, and they did that. Now we have an even more robust plan for the next three to five years when we receive heavy rainfalls.

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of us hike and run the front country, and we fight fires there.

We know how steep it is and how narrow the canyons are.

We knew that the burn was severe and that the damage to the watershed was severe. All that was given. But we had absolutely no reference point. We’re now calling the incident the 1/9 Debris Flow to establish that reference point, so that everybody in the community knows what a debris flow looks like and the risk level.

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Already in the Field, First Responders Were Ready for Disaster

by Tyler Hayden n the immediate aftermath of the 1/9 Debris Flow, hundreds of Montecito residents were rescued, some locking arms with firefighters to wade through thigh-high mud, others signaling frantically at U.S. Navy helicopters to pluck them from their roofs. The death toll was staggering—21 lives lost, and two young people still missing—but more would surely have perished were it not for the first responders who lined up below the maw of the mountains before the storm blew in.

Here, Montecito Fire Division Chief Kevin Taylor explains how his small department of 47 men and women, in step with countless others across Santa Barbara in county, state, and federal agencies, prepared for the worst, and how they’re girding themselves and the community for more dangers ahead.

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Walk me through your preparations. We started on December

26 with a meeting at 8:30 a.m. We said, hey, we have this new risk, and in order to communicate that to our chief officers, I showed them a couple of debris-flow videos. That got everybody’s attention. We utilized the FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] flood-risk model to figure out what preparation and response and recovery things to do internally at Montecito Fire. Then we brainstormed about what to do next.

First, we decided to engage our mapping professionals because our most robust maps were just for front-country fires. We didn’t have the district divided up into manageable chunks for a flood or debris-flow response. Next, we had our training battalion chief schedule an eight-hour refresher program on water rescue.

The front-country fire departments — Santa Barbara City, Montecito, and Carpinteria-Summerland — met shortly after. We came up with a pre-incident attack plan that we published on January 5, four days before the event.

It looked at, for instance, a scenario where one of our battalion chiefs gets a call for a debris flow. What does he order?

Where does he get it? All that stuff.

By Sunday night, the forecast had tightened quite a bit, with higher confidence of a storm and increased rainfall amounts. So we activated our incident management team at 8 Monday morning, and we brought everybody who was off duty [after the Thomas Fire] back on duty. We’d ordered up Cal Fire hand crews to finish clearing the creeks. The debris basins were all done.

We also ordered rescue resources like a swift water rescue team from Long Beach with 12 members, boats, vehicles.

And we got four high-water vehicles from the National Guard. We checked on the availability of air resources from the Coast Guard and Navy, too. Our initial order was for four helicopters, and I believe the most we had was nine.

That’s a lot of hands to mobilize for something that might not even happen. Did that make people nervous? As soon as we

activate, the bosses start writing checks. It’s a big deal anywhere to do all this in advance of an event, and it’s especially unheard of here—this has never occurred before in Santa Barbara County. The policy makers, the signatories, were sitting there like, “Jesus, am I going to be laying it all out every time we have a storm like this?” And we’re telling them, “Yes, you likely will. This is our new normal.”

How did you organize yourselves in the field? We broke up our

fire district by watersheds, and we had people at Fire Station 1 [595 San Ysidro Road], Fire Station 2 [2300 Sycamore Canyon Road], and over in the Birnam Wood area. Overall, [the fire departments] had more than 200 responders ready to go. The Coast Guard and some of the swift water rescue guys were at Earl Warren Showgrounds. No one knew where this was going to occur. It could have been anywhere from Cold Springs Canyon to Highway 150.

And you have to remember, everyone is looking at the terrain they’ve worked their whole careers from an entirely different perspective. Firefighters receive training across all disciplines—structure fires, wildland fires, vehicle accidents, hazardous materials, basic water rescue. They’re very well trained, but a debris flow is something we see very rarely.

What was the first sign of trouble? At about 3:50 a.m., the

explosion on Park Lane came over the radio. All of our resources immediately deployed in that direction. Then we started getting calls from the guys at Station 1 saying, “Hey, we can’t get help to you. We have a problem on San Ysidro.”

We have big maps at the incident command post that guys mark the calls on. At first it was: We have a catastrophic event from Cold Springs Canyon to Romero Canyon and everything in between. But I would say between 12 and 14 hours in, we had a very accurate picture, what we call a “common operating picture,” that the damage was concentrated along the waterways.

What difference did the pre-deployments make? When you

have command and control before an event occurs, the response is more effective and efficient, which in layman’s terms means you save more people. Having outside help already in town made a huge difference, too.

Every time we go to a call, whether it’s a fender bender or a tragedy like this, we recognize there are things we do well, and there are things we don’t do so well. We call those “opportunities for improvement.” We now know we need certain tools and equipment like dry suits, fishing waders, coats, and water helmets for every single person.

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very well. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. Exceedingly traumatic. They saw things that you never hope to see in your career. They did things that you hope you never have to do in your career. But they’re doing well. I can’t even begin to tell you how proud I am of those people. The effort that they put forth starting December 5 with the Thomas Fire until just recently—it’s crazy commitment to the community.

And I’ll tell you, when we asked them all to come back, they all came back. Nobody said, “Hey, I can’t,” or “I’m tired,” or “I’m burnt out.” They were all there, and they worked 12 days straight.

Our people have an intense amount of pride in their community. They’re still working right now in the middle of [the aftermath]. They drive past it every day, and their daily operations have changed. It’s a big deal.

What do you make of the low evacuation numbers? There will

always be people who don’t believe us. They say, “If I think it’s safe, then I should be allowed to stay.” I respect that guy’s decision, but professionally, in exchange for that, he needs to understand that we may not be able to help him, or if we are able to help, it might be 24 hours [later].

But the question remains: How do you effectively communicate warnings? Because the community didn’t listen, so we didn’t do it right. Something is wrong with the sender, not the receiver.

As you can imagine, we’ve done a lot of research. We’re very confident in the 72-hour [weather forecast] and our pre-deployment strategies. I am less confident in our ability to immediately notify people [of danger]. We found there are really 13 notification methods—email, regular mail, texts, sirens, et cetera. Some of them are great short-term; some are great delayed. You really have to use all 13 of them.

What else have you learned in your research? We found that no matter what you do, there is always going to be this phenomenon called “milling.” That’s where I tell you that you have to evacuate, and you don’t believe me, so you search Twitter or check with your neighbor or spouse. The delay between me asking you to leave and you making up your mind, that’s milling.

Women are much more agreeable to evacuating than men. In a family, the man frequently stays behind to protect the cottage. What we’re trying to do is formulate a messaging plan so that we convince that gentleman to go with his family. You cannot get on your roof with a hose and protect your home from a debris flow.

The messaging has to be common and consistent. It has to be delivered with expertise that builds the public trust.

The data say 87 percent of the public doesn’t trust government, so we have that working against us.

What about a siren system? The upside with sirens is that they’re immediate. The downside is that they’re super expensive, we need a whole bunch of them, and they’re a maintenance nightmare. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do it, though. It’s clearly one of those 13 mechan nisms. We’re looking at all of it.

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sucker punched Murillo and ate her lunch. don’t know that they complete each other’s senPUTTING ‘DISS’ BACK INTO ‘DYSFUNC- Via an adroit but ultimately self-destructive tences, but they are bona fide buddies.

TION’: There are a thousand and one stories maneuver, he managed to snag the SBCAG The named client in Thyne’s legal papers is in the Naked City. This one requires a raincoat. appointment away from Murillo by a 3-to-2 James Fenkner, who, like Thyne and DominThat’s because the pissing match that’s engulfed vote. By City Hall standards, this constituted guez, suffers an overabundance of restless IQ City Hall since the beginning of the year shows a declaration of war. On February 6— Ron- points. Fenkner is also a founding member no sign of abatement. If anything, it’s picking up ald Reagan’s birthday —Murillo struck back. of the Anybody but Cathy club and was a key

steam. Umbrellas will soon be needed.

Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo was just named in a legal complaint filed with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra by supporters of Councilmember Jason Dominguez. Since January 9, when Murillo was first sworn in as the city’s first Latina mayor, she and Dominguez—who represents the city’s Eastside district — have been engaged in a sharply worded exchange of elbows that shows no sign of easing up. Both want to represent City Hall on the most powerful cabal of elected government officials in the county, the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, otherwise known as SBCAG. This agency is so omnipotent, it can and does meet in public, safe in the knowledge no one knows what the hell it is doing.What it does is really important: It dispenses millions of dollars in road-repair money, it manages the freeway-widening process, and it determines just how many more housing units the county decides need to be built in order to meet natural demand. In other words, everything.

On all these issues, Murillo and Dominguez differ substantially.

On January 9, Dominguez simultaneously

Availing herself of a parliamentary maneuver no one had ever seen before — let alone heard of — she snatched the appointment away from Dominguez, again by a 3-2 vote.

From where I sit, all this was totally unprecedented but equally predictable. In the contact sport of politics, tit follows tat as day follows night. Jason jumped Cathy; Cathy jumped him back.

End of story? Not hardly.

A well-greased machine of histrionic — dare I say hysterical—Cathy haters (known as ABC or Anybody but Cathy)—is now screaming bloody murder. They contend Murillo’s action was so egregiously improper it violates the norms of all civilized society. Hence the mumbo-jumbo-sounding “quo warranto” filed this past week with the Attorney General by Santa Barbara attorney and real estate mogul John Thyne III on behalf of Dominguez. For the record, Dominguez insists he has absolutely nothing to do with this action.“John is not representing me,” he insisted. “It is not being pursued on my behalf.” These assertions so beggar belief they might actually be true. But I doubt it. Thyne and Dominguez are former roommates; they pal around together. I

mover and shaker behind the unsuccessful mayoral quest by former shoe mogul Angel Martinez last November. In his legal pleadings, Thyne—who also supported Martinez —accuses Murillo of engaging in “wrongful and biased conduct” that resulted in “her usurpation of a public office to which she is not entitled.”

The rap on Murillo before the election was that she lacked procedural chops; she wouldn’t know how to run a meeting to save her life.

Maybe not, but she did pull a rabbit out of her hat here. Typically, city councils can undo their actions only by something called a motion for reconsideration. But these motions have time deadlines and other requirements that effectively blocked Murillo from going that route.

So instead she and new councilmember Eric Friedman filed a motion to consider, something new and different.

Thyne objected mightily. This was akin to calling a tiger a zebra, he argued in otherwise impenetrable legalese, because they both have stripes. To do so, he charged, violated the council’s own procedures and protocols adopted in 2015. As such, it is illegal. Hence the highdander charge of “usurpation.” Thyne is correct

in the former but—at least according to City Attorney Ariel Calonne —wrong on the latter.

Calonne informed the council that the procedures to which Thyne refers are “directive” and not “mandatory.” Translated, that means they can be ignored when it suits the council’s purpose to ignore them. Thyne complained this interpretation effectively renders council procedures a “nullity,” which is my new all-time favorite word. For good measure, Thyne added a line engineered to reverberate throughout the ages,“The law abhors a nullity.”

One notion making the rounds is the Chaos Theory. Its adherents suspect Dominguez is trying to generate as much chaos as possible as prelude to a possible recall campaign against Murillo that will allow him to become mayor. Another theory suggests Putin and the Russkies might be trying to destabilize Santa Barbara politics; after all, the wives of Thyne and Fenkner are both Russian.

Here’s the real deal. On any given Tuesday, the council can vote to do whatever it wants.

Or as Councilmember Randy Rowse —who first voted to appoint Dominguez to SBCAG and then against him — bluntly put it: “Cause?

We don’t have to give a cause. We just did it.”

Maybe Rowse flipped his flop because Dominguez—as even his best friends admit—can be his own worst enemy, taking way too much time asking way too many questions from the council dais. Or maybe, as Rowse suggested, he got tired of all the Cathy haters burning up his phone lines right before the vote in question.

Who knows?

Only one thing’s for certain. We ain’t seen nullity yet.

— Nick Welsh

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Mark & Caroline Montgomery

A life lived so beautifully deserves to be beautifully remembered.

Please join us for a CELEBRATION OF LIFE for Dr. Mark Truslow Montgomery and Caroline Grace Montgomery Saturday February 24, 2018 at 1:00 pm Fess Parker Double Tree, Outdoor Plaza 633 East Cabrillo Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Memorial donations may be made to the Mark and Caroline Montgomery Memorial Fund, c/o Santa Barbara Foundation For more information about the foundation, please contact 805-963-1873

Victor R. Schumacher 1942-2018

years. Upon returning to the US, they settled in Malibu for many years, where their son, Alec, was born. A move to Pacific Palisades for three years was followed by their permanently settling in Santa Barbara in 1991.

Victor enjoyed many lasting friendships in Santa Barbara beginning early on in Newcomers club and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club, as well as with many of his architectural clients. After retirement in 2014, Victor volunteered at the Botanic Garden on a building committee and was a member of the Mission Canyon Architectural Review Board.

Victor enjoyed skiing, sailing, traveling, camping and he especially loved working in the garden, building garden walls with stone. He enjoyed “his” city thoroughly and liked to, as he called it, “read the pulse of the town” by strolling downtown, walking along the breakwater and regularly attending First Thursdays, the City’s monthly evening art gallery open houses. Even after retiring, his favorite TV program was the Santa Barbara architectural review sessions on the local channel.

Victor will always be deeply loved and missed by his family: Faye, wife of 46 years; daughter, Courtney Narine and spouse, Carl, and grandsons, Ian and Lucas Narine of Santa Barbara; son Alec and spouse, Kate Fritz, and granddaughter, Nora, and grandsons Benjamin and Fritzy Schumacher of Goleta; his sister, Edith Wyler of Switzerland; nephew Yanick Wyler, of Argentina; niece, Ariane Langdon of New Zealand. He will always be remembered as an intelligent, kind, loyal, and honest man…a true gentleman throughout his life.

A private service will be held for immediate family.

Memorial gifts may be sent in Victor’s name to Serenity House Hospice Care, 930 Miramonte Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109 or the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, 540 West Pueblo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

a wicked sense of humor and loved a good laugh. Totch liked people and never met a stranger, she was a party person, the consummate hostess and in later years an unforgettable guest.

She will be greatly missed by all who knew her and loved her.

Totch is survived by her children Kevin Burke (Kathleen), Rene’ Ellis, Wyman Winn (Linda), and Walt Winn (Deanna), grandchildren Brianna, Nicole, Stefanie, Sheena, Lindsay, Jordan, and Sage, great grandchildren Claire, Drake, Emma, and Archer, and a new great grandson to be welcomed in May, cousins David Halbach, Carl Richard Halbach, and nephew John Laughlin (Lori), whom she invited into her home when he was 16 and loved like her own. She was predeceased by former spouse John Burke, her husband Walter Winn Sr., son Patrick, grandson Zac Winn, and great grandson Colt Bayles.

The family would like to thank the caring staff at the Pete Moore Hospice House for their tender, loving care in the last hours of her time on this earth, as well as all the friends who made a point to stop by, call or write her over the past many months and made her days better by doing so. A special thanks to her wonderful neighbor Glenda Sellene, an angel on earth, for her help with rides, errands and most of all, her friendship, companionship, and kindness. Totch cherished all of you and we thank you for making her life better by being part of it.

From Totch to all of us: “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”

Stanley Russell Riffle Jr. 1945-2018

Dorothy (Sievert Burke) Winn 10/08/26-02/01/18

Greatly loved by his family and friends, Victor R. Schumacher, 76, passed away peacefully at Serenity House on February 3, 2018.

A native of Switzerland, Victor first traveled to the USA in 1968 when, upon graduating from the school of architecture at the ETH in Zurich, he earned a travel scholarship to the country of his choice. He was deeply drawn to Southern California and the Southwest, which offered a lifestyle that gradually became too appealing to leave behind. Before opening his own office in Santa Monica in 1980, for 12 years Victor was employed with the large architectural firms of DMJM, Gruen Associates where he worked with Cesar Pelli, and William Pereira & Associates where he eventually became a vice president.

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Dorothy (Sievert Burke) Winn died on Feb 01, 2018, after a brief illness, surrounded by her family. Though her given name was Dorothy Elizabeth, everyone knew her as Totch. Born in Santa Barbara, California on October 08, 1926, to German immigrants Ludwig and Berta Sievert she got her nickname early in life from her younger cousin, western artist David Halbach.

It stayed with her for her entire life.

Totch was a wonderful mother, a generous and loving grandmother who cherished her grands and great grands. She loved animals, fast cars and crooked roads, and in her prime was one heck of a bowler. She did several crossword puzzles daily (in ink, it must be noted) and was nearly impossible to best at Scrabble. She had

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Stanley Russell Riffle Jr., 73, of Point Roberts, Washington, passed away peacefully on February 2nd, 2018. Stan – also know among family and friends as Lee – was the son of Stanley Russell Riffle Sr. and Mary Jo (Spreitz) Riffle, and the loving husband of Jollena (Thompson) Tylor, whom he met in a kindergarten class in Santa Barbara. Although his four final years were complicated by cancer and heart problems, Stan nevertheless took his diagnoses with a grain of salt.

Ever the entertainer, he filled the room with laughter and swapped stories with those around him until the very end. Stan found his final rest while in the care of staff at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bellingham, Washington.

Stan is survived by his wife, Jollena Tylor (Pt. Roberts, WA); his brother, Lewis, brother, Laird, and sister-in-law, Paige Riffle (all three of Santa Barbara, CA); his daughter, Jenny Riffle (Vancouver, WA); his son, Jason, daughterin-law, Janelle, and grandson, Elias Riffle (all of Tucson, AZ); and his stepdaughter, Janice Tylor Waterman and son-in-law, Ric Waterman (both of Tsawwassen, BC). He is preceded in death by his father, mother, sister, Marijo Riffle, and by his former wife

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– Jenny and Jason’s mother – Dianne (Sinkola) Riffle.

Stan wore a number of professional hats in his lifetime. He officially began his path towards architecture upon graduating from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1967. That fall, he trained for military service at Fort Belvoir, VA. Stan was transferred overseas in 1968 as a first lieutenant with the US Army Corps of Engineers to points in Germany and Belgium. He concluded his tour as a General's Aide in 1970, having contributed to the relocation of NATO SHAPE from Rocquencort, France, to Mons, Belgium. Upon returning to the US, he resumed residence and began his own architectural practice in Santa Barbara.

Stan maintained his studio here for 36 years, developing a portfolio of work comprised of projects in California, Arizona, and Washington. After moving permanently to Pt. Roberts in 2006, he continued his practice until informally retiring in 2013. He was a proud Mozos Camp member of the Rancheros Visitadores in Santa Barbara, and looked forward to attending their annual ride for several years after relocating to Washington. Stan also took an active interest in the Point Roberts Volunteer Fire Department, serving as a Whatcom County Fire Commissioner from 2011 until 2017, when he reluctantly retired mid-term due to his declining health. Family, friends, clients, and colleagues alike will remember Stan’s generous and disarming nature, his knack for storytelling, and his irreverent and relatable sense of humor.

Two services are being planned to honor and remember Stan. The first will be held at 1:00 pm on February 21st at the Point Roberts Fire Hall.

The second will be held in April at the Riffle family home in Santa Barbara, with an exact date to be determined.

During the course of his illness, Stan was profoundly touched by the personal sacrifice he witnessed and medical care he received. In keeping with his final wish to give back, his family has asked that any contributions be made in the form of a blood donation. Facilities will be on hand during services held at the Point Roberts Fire Hall. Santa Barbara residents who would like to donate in his honor are encouraged to contact the TriCounty Blood Bank.

“Illegitimi non carborundum.”

Kimberly Helen Flory 10/19/55-01/27/18

Kimberly Flory was born October 19, 1955 in Escondido Ca. She came to Santa Barbara in 1973 from her home town of Riverside, Ca. to attend UCSB. She graduated in 1977 with a BA in Studio Art. All through school, Kim worked waiting tables at the original Sambo’s on Cabrillo Blvd.

For the next thirty years people would stop her to say that they

remembered her from those days. In the years to come Kim worked at other cafes in Santa Barbara. Most Notably Moby Dick’s and The Brown Pelican.

While attending UCSB, Kim lived in IV and Goleta with many roommates; several became lifelong friends with whom she continued to correspond and exchange her famous handmade Valentines. They were all her dear friends right up to her last days.

She kept up her love of art after University. During the 1980s, Kim decided to broaden her employment opportunities with drafting classes at SBCC. With this new skill she started making floor plans and elevations for real estate agents and mechanical drawings for architects and contractors. This work eventually led to a position as a HVAC parts estimator for plumbing and mechanical engineering contractor R.P. Richards.

After a few years of this work, Kim applied for a job as a draftsman in the County Assessor’s Office making drawings for the Appraisers and later applied and was promoted to junior property appraiser. This was work she truly enjoyed for the next eighteen years. She eventually became a crew leader earning the love and respect of her colleagues.

All through this time Kim kept producing art work including ceramics and photography. Over the years she exhibited in several venues around Santa Barbara. One of her favorite Art experiences was working on Christos’ Umbrellas Project in 1991.

Kim’s other great joy in life was travel. She traveled with friends to Europe several times. Especially her favorite city Paris. One of her favorite trips was to Costa Rica with her childhood friend Lynne. Other travels included China, Morocco, Mexico, Hawaii, NYC and as a member of the Toba Sister City Organization two memorable trips to Japan.

Kim was also a great lover of animals. From an early age be it hamsters to horses and all her various kitties all felt secure and loved and none could resist her charms.

Even in her last stay in the hospital, Kim and her best friend Diane Arnold were planning a new art work based on Kim’s theme of the last months of her life resulting in a bumper sticker with the slogan “Be Kind.”

Kim is survived by her mother Pat and sisters Kathy and Karen and large extended family. She is dearly missed by all her many friends in Santa Barbara and by Patrick Cook her partner and companion of these past forty years.

Her friends and family would like to thank Dr. Gregg Newman at Sansum Clinic and the staff at the Santa Barbara Cancer Center for their tireless effort to provide Kim with the best care possible in her four year fight with lung cancer. We also want to thank the Santa Barbara Visiting Nurses and Hospice Association and all the staff at Serenity House for the care and comfort they gave to Kimberly in her final days. We will always be grateful.

Donations in Kimberly's name to Santa Barbara Cancer Center, Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care or ASPCA would have pleased her very much.

We are planning a memorial service for sometime in March. Contact Diane at izac13@aol.com.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

George Edward McClintock

CITY OF NOTICE OFSANTA PUBLIC BARBARA HEARING NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

General Plan Map Amendment and General Plan Map Amendment and Local Coastal Program (LCP) Amendment Local Coastal Program (LCP) Amendment (Including Draft Coastal Land Use Plan) (Including Draft Coastal Land Use Plan)

Planning Commission Hearing Planning Commission Hearing Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:00 p.m.

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Jenkins, Prince Lasha, Sonny Simmons, Herbie Mann, ast call at George McClintock’s jazz club, the Billy Higgins, Ron Finney, and Vince Wallace came Spigot, had ended hours ago, but the after- down from San Francisco to play along with bass hours jam session at his house just off Shore- player Lennie Seguiera. Sal Nistico played there with line Park was in full swing. Louis Armstrong Herb Hicks and was living with Herb on Gillespie and his band were smoking hot that September night Street. They painted houses to pay the rent. Shortly in 1965, riffing on the Great American Songbook, to after, Sal went with Woody Herman. Freddy Jackson the delight of all the neighbors. George’s beautiful played there also. Later he went with the Ray Charles wife, Lucy, was serving authentic, old-world Italian band. Donny Ontiveros, Dave Wilson, and Bo Young cuisine, while George was barbecuing steak. This was were among the jazz musicians. Chip Crosby (Dave only the second time that Louis and his band had Crosby’s brother) played drums there for a while with performed at the Spigot, but they were welcomed, Vince. Dave Sanchez, Harry Vizzolini, and Hal Sweanot only as the greatest men of jazz, but also as family. sey were there.” (From “The Jazz Age in Santa Barbara,” Dr. Kathy McClintock a letter by Tony Cappiello remembers that night posted at independent well. “I was about 12 years .com in 2010.) old. My brother and sisAfter two decades of ters, ‘the kids,’ as Dad jazz, the arrival of rock would call us, were sup’n’ roll changed the musiposed to be asleep. But, cal interests of Santa that night, as with many, Barbara, and the Spigot it was all too exciting at changed hands. It was our house, and we just a time when George looked back on his life, could not miss a single note. Dad described Louis family, friends, and proArmstrong, ‘Satchmo’ or fessional standing. He ‘Pops’ as he was known, had fought for his country in the Korean War as the most important musician in the history of and was awarded the Purple Heart for bravery; jazz. Looking back, I canhe’d married the love of not believe that Mr. Armstrong singled me out his life, Inez Lucy Fantin, RAISED ON JAZZ: George McClintock raised his children — and gave me that beautithe daughter of Italian seen here in 1962 and now known as Kathleen McClintock ful smile, which was his immigrants; and they Stimson, DDS; Diana McClintock; Darlene Reynolds; Cynthia trademark. had brought up six wonHagon; Mark McClintock, and Norma Howell — around the “I remember him derful children. Having musicians who played at his club, the Spigot. playing his trumpet, with sold the Spigot, George intensity, as though it decided where the next were a part of him, an extension of his whole person- few decades would take him, and they were nothing ality. His eyes were very wide as he played, and his face short of exciting. was soaked with perspiration. I was standing, half hidHe retired to pursue a Hemingway-inspired lifeden, staring entranced at the legendary musician. Mr. style, which included buying and captaining a sailboat Armstrong finished the set and looked straight at me. in Key West, Florida; living the infamous casino life of Smiling wide, he said joyfully, ‘Look at those big blue the Las Vegas strip; and then, in his later years, coming eyes! Isn’t she adorable? Everybody, that’s George’s lit- back to Santa Barbara to focus on the achievements of his children and grandchiltle daughter! Hey, girl, have you dren, the legacy of a lifetime. got something on your mind?’ I An Irishman to the heart, he smiled back at him and, embarhad a great sense of humor rassed, just shook my head. He and amused everyone laughed heartily!”

Only a few historians of with his gifted storytelling.

George loved Santa Barbara the Santa Barbara Jazz SociCounty’s natural beauty, ety may have lived in Santa Barbara during the 1950s and looking out to sea, enjoying ’60s and been patrons of the incomparable sunsets along Goleta Beach and during Spigot. Located on upper De POPS: Louis Armstrong and his band played the long walks on hiking trails. la Vina Street, it was the first Spigot in 1965. jazz club in Santa Barbara and He undertook one such hike, one of only three nightly jazz spots on the California on the Nojoqui Falls trail near Lompoc, at the youthcoast. The other two were located in Los Angeles and ful age of 84.

San Francisco. The Spigot was the vision of owner George Edward McClintock passed away at the George McClintock, a passionate jazz lover and a age of 88, on February 9, 2017, in Santa Barbara. In man whose commitment to family and community remembrance of George and the Spigot, his family are still remembered. Through his doors passed the invites his friends to a meet up on Saint Patrick’s Day legends of the jazz world. “Great musicians played at Santa Barbara’s SOhO music club at 8 p.m. Come in the club. On Sundays, George would bring in the lift a glass to George, meet “the kids,” and relate your big acts. Louis Armstrong, Cannonball, Dizzy Gil- memories of the Spigot, Santa Barbara’s first jazz club. lespie, Shorty Rogers, Cal Tjader, Curtis Amy, Marv For more information, please call 708-3777. n

The Planning Commission will consider for recommendation to the The Planning Commission will consider for recommendation to the City Council: City Council: 1. General Plan Map Amendment (MST2018-00070, Applicant: 1. General Plan Map Amendment (MST2018-00070, Applicant: City of Santa Barbara) bifurcating the adopted General Plan City of Santa Barbara) bifurcating the adopted General Plan Map at the Coastal Zone boundary, except in the Airport Area, Map at the Coastal Zone boundary, except in the Airport Area, to create a General Plan Land Use Map for the Inland and to create a General Plan Land Use Map for the Inland and Airport Areas (no other changes proposed) and a General Plan Airport Areas (no other changes proposed) and a General Plan Land Use Map for the Coastal Zone with minor land use Land Use Map for the Coastal Zone with minor land use designation name changes. designation name changes.

2. LCP Amendment (MST2018-00070, Applicant: City of Santa 2. LCP Amendment (MST2018-00070, Applicant: City of Santa Barbara) comprised of: Barbara) comprised of: a. An update to the Coastal Land Use Plan (LUP) to a. An update to the Coastal Land Use Plan (LUP) to modernize the 1981 Coastal LUP to 1) document criteria modernize the 1981 Coastal LUP to 1) document criteria and interpretations already being used today for the review and interpretations already being used today for the review and approval of Coastal Development Permits, 2) clarify and approval of Coastal Development Permits, 2) clarify development standards for complicated topics such as development standards for complicated topics such as development near coastal bluffs and creeks, and 3) address development near coastal bluffs and creeks, and 3) address new and emerging issues for the City, such as sea level rise; new and emerging issues for the City, such as sea level rise; and, and, b. A General Plan Land Use Map for the Coastal Zone. b. A General Plan Land Use Map for the Coastal Zone.

Following Planning Commission recommendation, the General Following Planning Commission recommendation, the General Plan Map Amendment and LCP Amendment will be forwarded to Plan Map Amendment and LCP Amendment will be forwarded to the City Council for adoption, and the LCP Amendment onto the the City Council for adoption, and the LCP Amendment onto the CCC for certification.

CCC for certification.

You are invited to attend this public hearing. The agenda and staff You are invited to attend this public hearing. The agenda and staff report will be available online by end of the day on Thursday, report will be available online by end of the day on Thursday, February 22, 2018 at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/PC. February 22, 2018 at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/PC. Documents related to the agenda item are available for review at 630 Documents related to the agenda item are available for review at 630 Garden Street and online at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/lcp.

Garden Street and online at http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/lcp.

Written comments are welcome and should be submitted prior to the Written comments are welcome and should be submitted prior to the hearing by mail to PC Secretary, P.O. Box 1990 Santa Barbara, CA hearing by mail to PC Secretary, P.O. Box 1990 Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990; or by email at PCSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

93102-1990; or by email at PCSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases. most cases.

For more information, please email LCP@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or For more information, please email LCP@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or call Rosie Dyste at 564-4599. call Rosie Dyste at 564-4599.

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hank you for the excellent interview with Leah Stokes, a climate policy researcher at UCSB, titled “Climate Change Hits Home: The Terrifying Truth of the Montecito Disaster” (independent.com/montecito climatechange). She challenges us to seize this moment and to be vocal and active. Do we love life enough to tax our carbon emissions in a way that will reduce them?

I am a member of the local chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. We all need to find our voice and take action, or this is just the beginning. I hope you love life enough, too. Find us at CitizensClimateLobby.org.

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It was a relief to read this statement in our city’s only remaining representative of journalistic integrity, the Santa Barbara Independent. I cannot count the times that I closed your webpage in dismay, having read an excellent piece, only for it to be followed by toxic, hateful comments that nearly negated the informational value of the article. Nothing is more depressing.

We in Santa Barbara are fortunate to live in a progressive, forward-thinking, community-minded city.

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Where are those values refuted? As reflected in the Indy’s comments sections, the ugliness of racism, sexism, and other forms of hatred rise up when given an opportunity, ironically within a forum designed to support the journalistic liberties now threatened by our current administration. Removing the comments sections is not about the dominance of one politically inclined group versus another: It is about ending the abuse of freedom.

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compassion. sadness. pride. gratitude.

These are just a few of the feelings Cottage Health employees have experienced over the past weeks.

We are so thankful to our colleagues and our medical staff who acted without hesitation to respond to emergencies, to provide support to community members and to each other. For the first responders, the firefighters, the search and rescue volunteers and others who worked tirelessly to find people who needed care. For the CHP officers and community partners who helped employees get to the hospitals to provide care.

We are honored to be part of a community that responds to crisis by finding ways to help others. We thank all of those who are partnering to serve and to heal.

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he first thing you notice about Eddie Hsueh is counts of all the psychologically unhinged who went on killhis size: not huge but somewhere between a Coke ing sprees in Santa Barbara County during the past 20 years. machine and a refrigerator. Back in the day, Hsueh He personally responded to some. In the wake of Elliot Rodwas a seriously competitive weight lifter. He could ger’s deadly 2014 Isla Vista rampage, California passed laws bench-press 578 pounds and deadlift 661. It’s been a while. giving police agencies greater authority to confiscate weapons But it still shows. from the psychologically unstable. Hsueh takes pride in the The second thing is his total lack of cop vibe. He gives off no fact Santa Barbara County leads the state in such confiscawhiff of the command-and-control psychic armor cultivated tions. But the vast majority of people with mental illness, by many in law enforcement as a form of self-defense and Hsueh insisted, are not dangerous. For 99 percent, he said, the intimidation. Instead Hsueh — pronounced “shway”— speaks only danger they pose is to themselves. softly. He smiles a lot.

For the past 31 years, Hsueh has carried a gun for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. For 26 of those, Hsueh worked patrol. Now he’s a lieutenant. As of January, Hsueh became de facto chief of police for the cities of Solvang and Buellton, both of which contract with the Sheriff’s Office for services. It would seem a plum assignment for someone fast approaching retirement, but Hsueh isn’t trying to slow down. He has much bigger fish to fry.

For the past three years, Hsueh has led a lonely uphill charge within the Sheriff’s Office to change the way deputies interact with people with mental illness. It starts with training. It’s about minimizing confrontations and gaining more time to find nonlethal solutions.

Fewer officers get hurt. Fewer people get shot. Nationwide, half of all fatal police shootings involve people with mental illness.

Hsueh has made sure everyone in his department — whether they carry a gun or not — has a minimum of eight hours of training. But that’s just a start. Hsueh recently developed a state-approved 40-hour training curriculum and has spearheaded the department’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, which tracks and details all deputy interactions with people with mental illness.

This information is shared with the Department of Behavioral Wellness. Amazingly, Hsueh made all this happen in a cash-strapped, top-down, chain-of-command bureaucracy without any funding.

In the wake of Florida’s mass school shooting, the deficiencies of America’s mental-health system are once again under the microscope. President Donald Trump, loath to entertain restrictions on the sale of guns or SLOW IT DOWN: Lt. Eddie Hsueh is on a mission to de-escalate encounters between law enforcement and people with mental illness. Little wonder — ammo, is once again blaming people with mental illness.

Hsueh’s father had his personal demons, and his mother was made to believe she As Hsueh can attest, it’s not quite that simple. was developmentally disabled.

Yes, he can rattle off the names, dates, and body

W E L L M A N With two years left before his retirement, Hsueh is not only trying to put his current mental-health initiatives on solid financial footing but also trying to fund a program where mental-health workers accompany deputies on patrols. He has a long way to go on both. What little funding the program has runs out in March.

It will be a lot harder to find the time for these projects at his new assignment, where he will have to work with two city councils and two city managers, but, he said, they have the same problems in Solvang and Buellton as they do everywhere else: “I just know we can do a better job.”

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origin story: As a kid, Eddie Hsueh was a certified Batman freak. His office is decorated with Batman drawings and figurines. He said he learned to read by devouring old Batman comics. “It’s why I became a cop,” he explained.“I wanted to fight crime, protect people, and put the bad guys in jail.”

When Hsueh was 17 years old, he was standing in a Santa Maria mall parking lot when a homeless person rattled by with a shopping cart. “I was afraid I’d wind up like that,” he said. But then, a cop car drove by and Hsueh had his Batman revelation. He signed up to be a reserve officer with the Sheriff’s Office. Since then, he’s worked under five sheriffs.

Things could have worked out very differently.

“I didn’t grow up a person of privilege,” Hsueh said.

Indeed, he didn’t. He was born in East Los Angeles and never knew his biological father growing up. His extended family moved around the state, managing sleazy motels.

When he was 12, they moved to Santa Maria.

As a child, Hsueh was given his grandfather’s name, Ellsworth H. Pond. In exchange, his grandfather, who was the head of the family,“borrowed” Hsueh’s Social Security number. Hsueh found out many years later when he had to clean up his credit history. The record had shown that “by the time I was 11, I was already bankrupt,” he said, laughing.

His mother had an even tougher life. At age 9, she was “given” to the Ponds by her natural mother, who had decided to move on. The Ponds kept her out of school, made her believe she was developmentally disabled, and told her to say she was brain damaged. “She wasn’t retarded,” Hsueh said, “But that’s how she grew up.”

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Police were frequent visitors to the motels his grand“When I was in the academy, we were taught you’d father managed. Hsueh remembered that once, when ask someone to do something, then you’d tell them to, they were called to a murder, an officer let him sit on his and then you’d make them,” he recounted. “Ask, tell, motorcycle. “He seemed eight feet tall,” Hsueh recalled. make — that was our mantra.” That approach rarely After four years in Santa Maria, the Pond clan moved works when confronting someone in a mental-health on, but Eddie, who never called himself Ellsworth, crisis. In fact, it often makes things worse. “As a general stayed put. At 16, he dropped out of school and took rule, people experiencing a psychotic break don’t hear on three jobs: working in restaurant kitchens, cleaning too well,” Hsueh said with a soft chuckle.“So they’re not up around construction sites, and scrubbing telephone real good at following commands.” A better approach, booths from Ventura to San Luis Obispo, for which he he said, is to slow things down — to “de-escalate.” earned a buck a booth. He got into judo, studying with Sensei Isamu Yamamoto, who ran a Japanese cultural club and dojo in Santa Maria. He lifted weights, ran, and trained in other, flashier martial arts. “It kept me out of trouble,” he said.

When he joined the force 31 years ago, Eddie Pond, as he was then known, started off working patrol in Santa Maria. Mike Durant, who just retired from the Sheriff’s Office, worked with him. “He was huge. Solid as a rock. A great beat cop,” Durant recalled. “He was very soft-spoken. Me, I used foul language all the time. Eddie? I don’t think I ever heard him use it.”

David Saunders, who teaches law and criminal justice at Santa Barbara City College, also remembered Eddie Pond from his own days as an S.B. County Sheriff’s deputy.“He was a gentle giant,” said Saunders. “Deputies have a whole lot of discretion in ROBIN AND BATMAN: Eddie Hsueh was inspired by Batman to become a cop; he wanted the use of force. He was always to put bad guys in jail. Now he’s teamed up with clinician Cherylynn Lee (left) to help keep on the lighter side. He was not a people with mental illness out of jail. meathead.”

Force, however, is part of the job.“It’s never pretty,” said Hsueh.“Nobody wants to see BATMAN, MEET ROBIN: To the extent Hsueh has it.” Hsueh remembers getting into it with a Korean War become his own Batman, Dr. Cherylynn Lee became his vet with Alzheimer’s. The man held a knife to his wife’s Robin. Without Lee, who runs the Behavioral Sciences throat. As Hsueh and his partner tried to talk him down, Unit (BSU) that Hsueh launched, none of the crisis the man threw the knife at Hsueh’s partner. It struck his intervention training (CIT) could happen. Until a few partner’s leg, but with the handle, not the blade. “We years ago, Lee was running a methadone clinic in Santa could have shot him,” Hsueh said. “It would have been Maria. But she was so taken with Hsueh’s vision that she agreed to work for free — though only for a while. justified.” Instead, Hsueh tackled the man.

At age 40, after some old-time sleuthing, Eddie Pond Lee has proved invaluable. Her mother was the first met his biological father for the first time. He discovered female psychologist ever to work for the Los Angeles that his father, whose last name was Hsueh, was born Police Department, which might explain why Lee is so in China and, though extremely intelligent, had his comfortable within cop culture. She gets it. It took time, demons. By the time they met, his father was a Pente- but eventually Lee became accepted as part of the team. costal minister, but before that, he’d been living in his car When deputies find themselves dealing with someone for a couple of years. He also discovered a family he’d in psychological distress, they call Lee. Her cell phone never known. Several aunts and uncles were exception- explodes with such calls. ally accomplished in their fields. It was She dispenses real-time advice about who and what deputies are facinspiring. He became Eddie Hsueh.

It also opened his heart. “We deal ing, warning about actions that might with the mentally ill so much,” he said. set off the suspect, recommending “They’re a huge part of our caseload. available services, and describing how And they’re so time-consuming. I always to calm things down. If other agenknew there had to be a better way of cies need to be called, Lee handles it. doing things.”

“I speak ‘clinician,’ ” Lee said. Deputies

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IT CAN BE DONE: Mark Stadler runs crisis intervention training in Ventura County, where the program is funded to the tune of nearly $300,000 a year. In Santa Barbara, Eddie Hsueh and Cherylynn Lee still have no budget.

JAIL TIME AS TREATMENT: In the past five years, the collision between people with mental illness and the criminal justice system has reached critical mass throughout the United States. Jails are expensive places to warehouse people with mental illness, and incarceration tends to trigger “decompensation” among the psychologically or chemically fragile. Though Sheriff’s Office officials insist no one is behind bars because of mental illness, the jail has become the county’s de facto mental-health treatment facility. Of the 1,051 inmates in county jail on October 20, 2017, more than half had been Behavioral Wellness clients at some point. (Behavioral Wellness only treats those clients with serious to acute problems.) There is an ongoing battle between the Sheriff’s Office and mental-health advocates over — Lt. Eddie Hsueh the adequacy of care at the county jail. In December 2017, Disability Rights California—an arm of the state—sued the county over treatment of their mentally ill inmates. That lawsuit is unresolved.

Only in the past year has the Sheriff’s Office started to track the use of force by county deputies, a policy instigated by Hsueh. Of the 142 useof-force cases reported by the Sheriff’s Office in 2017, 68 — nearly half — involved persons “showing signs/behaviors consistent of mental illness at the time.” Those numbers, however, are not broken down to reflect severity of force involved.

At least one case ended in a fatality.

‘As a general rule, people experiencing a psychotic break don’t hear too well.

So they’re not real good at following commands.’

FUNDING A CRAZY IDEA: When Hsueh wanted to begin forming the BSU and CIT in 2015, he asked Undersheriff Bernard Melekian for his blessing and got it, though the undersheriff stressed there was no money in the budget for new programs. Melekian was well aware of the problem. He had testified before Congress in 2000 about it. “The number-one challenge facing law enforcement in the field is dealing with the mentally ill,” said Melekian in a recent interview. With the collapse of America’s mental-health system, continued

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telling Behavioral Wellness caseworkers that their detainee was a “batshit crazy” person might not cut it.

Lee has successfully persuaded deputies to write detailed reports on encounters they have with people with mental illness. Lee then shares that information with Behavioral Wellness. More than 750 reports have been filed, three quarters of which are about individuals already known to Behavioral Wellness. One quarter, however, were unknown and were then contacted by Behavioral Wellness caseworkers. Some have since gotten treatment.

BSU includes 13 deputies who’ve undergone the 40-hour trainings and five others who consider the BSU work a compelling “collateral assignment.”

(At the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office, very few assignments are full-time. Almost all deputies work multiple beats. Even those assigned to narcotics and gang details work collateral assignments.)

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cops have been forced to become “de facto social workers,” he said, but the only tools they have are their voices and their guns: “And then we wonder why things go badly.”

But despite the financial handicap, Hsueh somehow managed to keep the projects moving forward for three years. “It exists because of Eddie’s passion,” Melekian acknowledged, “and because he’s been creative enough to make it happen.”

How much longer Hsueh and Lee can continue, however, remains uncertain. The meager funding Hsueh found for Lee soon runs out. “I’m not sure where the funding’s going to come from,” he said.

The idea for the program is not brand-new. In fact, county mentalhealth workers used to train Sheriff’s Office deputies. It failed in part because the instructors lacked a lawenforcement presence. As a result, Hsueh said, “A lot of cops didn’t relate to it.” The idea for CIT specifically LAMENTATIONS: Even though law enforcement officers dates back to 1988, when the Memphis are expected to function as de facto social workers, they’re Police Department instituted a more equipped only with their voices and guns, observed Santa effective training program. By 2001, Barbara County Undersheriff Bernard Melekian, adding, the idea had reached Ventura County “And then we wonder when things go badly.” policing agencies.

Pioneering that effort on the Central Coast actors in role-playing exercises. “It’s the most was Mark Stadler, a Ventura Police Depart- impactful work I’ve done in my entire career,” ment sergeant at the time who had originally Stadler said. joined the Santa Barbara Police Department The key to CIT, Stadler said, is turning the in 1987. Five months into his job, Stadler and volume down. First, assess the subject’s parahis partner were called to the Hotel Virginia noia level; then position yourself accordingly. (now the Holiday Inn Express on Haley Don’t crowd, but remain close enough to Street), where a man wielding a machete had respond. Speak softly, slowly. Listen. Use first attacked the manager. The suspect was Rob- names. Don’t bark orders. Soften the comert Herbst, a transient from Wisconsin with mand voice. Don’t interrupt. Pay attention. burn scars over 80 percent of his body and a The first priority, always, is officer safety. The history of minor infractions. When Stadler’s second priority is time and space. Maintain partner sprayed Herbst with Mace, Herbst enough space so there’s time to give less-lethal charged Stadler.“I started firing shots. I killed options a chance.

Stadler estimates 80 percent of all sworn him that night.” Later, Stadler learned Herbst had mental-health issues.“What would I have officers in Ventura County have received this done different?” Stadler asked. “I’d liked to mandatory training. In Santa Barbara, only have talked to him.” the eight-hour training is mandatory, but After he transferred to the Ventura Police since the 40-hour training began in NovemDepartment, Stadler was asked to look into ber 2017, 14 S.B. County Sheriff’s deputies have CIT. Back then, it was an exotic idea. Lots of signed up for it. cops dismissed it as “soft,” he said. In June In one four-day session, Hsueh and Lee 2001, Stadler had an opportunity to use his brought in a combat veteran who talked CIT training. A jumper was on a Highway 101 about suicide, a person with schizophrenia overpass, but freeway noise made it impossi- who’d been arrested for stealing a car during ble to communicate, so Stadler closed it down a psychotic break, and a teen with autism who for two and a half hours, stranding 38,000 explained what triggered him: noisy radios, motorists, he said. At a nearby bar, patrons flashing lights, sudden motion, and physical were yelling, “Jump!” from an outdoor patio. contact, to name a few. Mental-health profesHe shut that down, too. Stadler was talking sionals also tried to explain the confounding to the jumper but getting nowhere. Finally, maze of public and nonprofit agencies offerthe jumper told Stadler to call the coroner; ing services. he was ready to leap.“I said,‘You won’t need a Deputy Matt West of the Isla Vista Foot coroner; it’s not that far down.’ ” That changed Patrol completed the 40-hour training. On duty he said he interacted with people with his mind.

Today, a consortium of six Ventura County mental illness daily and that the system is law enforcement agencies and the mental- frustrating and ineffective. He described a health department fund a CIT training pro- typical acute case: First, county mental-health gram to the tune of nearly $300,000 a year. workers have to be called since only they can Stadler and another instructor train 100 assess the threat suspects pose to themselves sworn officers a year in a 40-hour program or others and issue an involuntary psychiatric that requires 60 instructors, evaluators, and hold, known as a 5150. (Santa Barbara County

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JUSTIFIED OR NOT: When five deputies shot Bryan Carreño 20 times after he walked toward them with a knife, it was ruled a justified homicide.

A lawyer for the family charged that two of the deputies had been to Carreño’s house twice in the year prior to the shooting on suicide calls.

is the only county in California in which officers cannot make the 5150 calls.) Typically, it takes over an hour for these caseworkers to arrive. By that time, the detained individual has often calmed down. As a result, the mental illness goes untreated, and the officers often find themselves responding multiple times to calls about the same individual. Aside from the exasperation and expense incurred by playing whack-a-mole with people with mental illness, there lies a troubling reality: Santa Barbara County doesn’t have enough beds—short-term or long-term—for those experiencing a psychiatric crisis.

MIGHT DO SOMETHING STUPID: Nevertheless, West said the program was valuable, especially the role-playing simulation exercises. One involved someone diagnosed as bipolar inside a house and armed with a knife.

Coincidentally or not, that scenario closely mirrored the fatal showdown between five S.B. County Sheriff ’s Office deputies and 26-year-old Bryan Carreño on February 12, 2017, in a residential neighborhood off La Cumbre Road. Carreño had been diagnosed at age 16 with a bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Twice the year before the shooting, deputies had been called about Carreño. In both instances, he was alleged to have made suicidal threats. In one, his ex-girlfriend showed deputies the knife with which he tried to slash his wrists. In another, a county mental-health worker was called.

Carreño’s father—a retired custody deputy for the S.B. County Sheriff’s Office — had called on the night in question, describing his son as high on drugs, worried that he might “do something stupid” and that he might have a hatchet. Carreño had entered a neighbor’s home, extremely agitated, saying someone was trying to harm his father. Deputies located Carreño using a dog and helicopter.

Two deputies entered the house as Carreño started to come out onto the backyard patio, carrying a knife. He told deputies to shoot him. The deputies, boxed in by the patio fence, opened fire, hitting Carreño 20 times. Two of the five deputies involved had responded to the previous calls for service involving Carreño last year. All five had received eight-hour CIT training. None had attended the 40-hour sessions.

District Attorney Joyce Dudley ruled the shooting justified, concluding the deputies feared for their own safety and the safety of fellow officers. The Carreño family has hired attorney William Schmidt, who has already

filed a claim against the county. “They absolutely knew he had mentalhealth issues,” Schmidt said. “They had an obligation to try less lethal means. They had time to slow it down. They should have tased him or pepper sprayed him ….

If that didn’t work, then they could have shot.” The county has denied the claim filed by Schmidt.

Details of the Carreño shooting notwithstanding, both Hsueh and Stadler stressed that people calling law enforcement to report a relative or friend experiencing an acute mental-health crisis should make a point to ask the dispatcher to send officers with 40 hours of CIT training under their belts.

Earlier this month, a 58-year-old Santa Barbara woman called 9-1-1, saying she was suicidal. Sheriff’s Office deputies managed to convince the woman to come out of her home. She emerged holding a large butcher knife to her neck, declaring she wanted to kill herself. Deputies sought to speak with her. Only when it appeared she “was about to make an attempt” to harm herself or a deputy did they fire one 40 mm foam baton out of a Less Lethal Launcher.

‘They had time to slow it down.

They should have tased him or pepper sprayed him … .

If that didn’t work, then they could have shot him.’

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— Attorney William Schmidt on the shooting death of Bryan Carreño last February Hsueh highlighted this more recent case as doing it right. He declined to comment on the Carreño shooting, stating he had not been there. He didn’t know, for example, if the responding deputies had less-lethal weapons at their disposal. “Not every department has them; not every car has them,” he said. Officers, he noted, are trained to shoot to kill if someone armed with a knife gets within 21 feet.“You have to make split-second decisions.

Ideally, you want to buy yourself time to consider other options,” he said. “But if a person doesn’t drop the knife and gets close, probably something bad is going to happen.”

In the meantime, Hsueh is pondering the future of his program. If part-time funding for Lee doesn’t continue after March, it’s unclear how he’ll manage. Undersheriff Melekian said he has some ideas up his sleeve but is not ready to unveil them just yet. The fiscal impact of the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow has not been fully assessed. In concept, however, Melekian supports the training program enthusiastically.“It makes a huge difference. It provides real knowledge. And where you have knowledge, you have less fear.”

This article was written as part of a fellowship offered by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

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all, who’ll be speaking in Santa Barbara on March 3, is one single sign of gloom in sight. Paul Simon was onstage at the of the nation’s most outspoken proponents of psychedelics for both therapy and spirituality. For nearly two decades, Santa Barbara Bowl, his sold-out crowd hanging onto every the author, artist, and academic has been a leader in entheoword and greatest hit. genic studies, which examines psychoactive substances, such as ayaAs the last notes of “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” floated in the air, the pint-sized troubadour began waxing poetic huasca and peyote, that induce spiritual experiences. Traditionally, about a recent psychedelic experience he had had with a shaman. these substances are used intentionally for such an experience, usually Simon was palpably giddy as he detailed his inner voyage while using with the help of a shaman or spirit guide. ayahuasca, a powerful psychedelic vine from the Amazon. He even wrote a “Anywhere in the world that you find naturally occurring psychedelics, you will also find indigenous cultures that use them for ceremony, enlightenment, song about it, “Spirit Voices,” which he was about to play. and mystical experiences,” explained Ball. “The more you investigate it, the more you can The crowd, made up mostly of more-than-middle-aged baby boomers drinking wine, see that this has been going on for a very long time. Even popular religions have entheowent nuts. They seemed to know all about ayahuasca and the mind-expanding spiritual gens in their origins: Hinduism talks about psychedelics in its early texts; Taoism has the renewal that Simon was celebrating.

Divine Mushroom; Judaism has the Tree of Knowledge in the middle of the Garden of At about the same time, I snorted my drink out through my nose in a horribly embarrassing display of disbelief. I, too, knew all about ayahuasca, but, my lord, I never imagined Eden. Professors don’t often like to talk about it, but psychedelics have always played an it being discussed so positively in such staid, civilized company. important role.” Even today in the United States, Ball pointed out, three religions are legally allowed to use psychedelics as part of their ceremonies.

Fast-forward 20 months, and I’m on the phone with Martin Ball, a Santa Barbara– Ball’s own eyes were opened during a magic-mushroom trip as a fairly serious born, UCSB-trained religious studies professor at Southern Oregon University. Ball and studious undergraduate studying philosophy and religion at Occidental is telling me about a recent Friday afternoon in which he dosed 5-MeO-DMT College in the early 1990s. “I grew up in a secular home, so it was rather revo— a strong psychedelic of the tryptamine class that occurs naturally in certain lutionary for me,” said Ball of his first brush with spirituality. “It was the first plant and frog species — and climbed willingly into a giant brain scanner for BY time I really said to myself,‘Okay, maybe there is something to all this heaven the sake of science.

ETHAN STEWART “Listen, we are currently in a psychedelic renaissance,” he explained matterand hell and spirit and otherworld talk. Maybe some of this stuff that we can’t of-factly. “All around the world, we are coming to the same conclusion: that always see is entirely real.’ That experience encouraged me to keep looking.” making these types of things illegal is both culturally and medically inapThankfully for the rest of us, Ball is not alone on that journey. Over the past propriate …. There is still much more research to be done, but the initial findyear, many medical publications and organizations in America and abroad started talking about psychedelics as real and measurings are rather undeniable. These sorts of substances have huge potential benefits, from the spiritual to the able medicine.

Martin Ball will give a talk titled The Revolutionary Healing Potential of Entheomedically therapeutic.” Ball was not at all surprised to Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder? hear about Simon preaching psychedelics.

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Substance such as MDMA (the main ingredient in ecstasy), psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT are all being explored by scientists as real solutions for serious problems. Even cannabis falls under this category, as the mildly psychoactive plant gains more recognition as a potent medicine for a variety of issues.

“The health system in our country is horrible — that’s no secret,” said Ball. “People are searching for answers and are turning to alternative therapies to help find them. From war veterans to sex-abuse survivors to cancer patients, people are using entheogens to confront their deeply personal issues in a safe setting and transform themselves from there ….

In the end, reality will win. There is only so long that you can keep saying that these things have no beneficial use and that they lead to mental derangement. It is just not true, and more and more people know that today than ever before.”

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My mind was in a dark place, and anxious thinking became my new norm — not the mindset required when one is about to engage in a fight for your life. I knew that, but I also knew that my mental salvation was not going to be found in some brain-numbing or emotion-highjacking pharmaceutical. Instead, I turned to peyote and LSD to help me reorder my thinking and integrate my new reality.

A few months after my diagnosis, I used peyote in a ceremony to help me explore where exactly this health journey would lead me and to see where I might need to go if I wanted to survive. And then, in the two months before my daughter was born, I used small amounts of LSD on a weekly basis to help stabilize my moods and find a deeper-rooted and sustaining form of daily positivity.

I know, without hesitation, that my intentional use of psychedelics helped me in ways that are beyond measure. They delivered me to the doorstep of peace and acceptance, and I’ve been living more fully ever since.

When I share this with Ball, he is impressed but not surprised.“Wow, so you know then — this is something that is happening, and this is something that is real,” replied the professor. “[Psychedelics] may not keep you from dying, but they will help you find peace with the dying process. And how important is that! The possibility for truly radical medical developments is right here right now. Trying to keep it all suppressed and underground isn’t good for any of us. It is time for some serious social discussion.” t

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Matthew Desmond: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City MacArthur Fellow and Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond has forever changed the way we look at poverty in America, proving the idea that eviction is a cause, rather than merely a symptom, in his 2017 Pulitzer Prize–winning and massively influential book, Evicted. 7:30pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $10-$35. Call 893-3535.

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2/22: Anima: Theater of the Feminine Underground Ten area power-

2/23: Friday Matinee: Roman J. Israel, Esq. This 2017 dramatic thriller is set in the

house female artists will bare their souls, sharing dreams, fantasies, secrets, rants, and revelations through dance, song, spoken word, and performance art in this ritual theater project. 7pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $23-28. Call 963-0408.

underbelly of the overburdened L.A. criminal court system and stars Denzel Washington as a driven, idealistic defense attorney whose life is turned around when a turbulent series of events challenges the activism that has defined his career. 1-3pm. Faulkner Gallery., S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Rated PG-13.

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2/22: Script to Screen: She’s the Man This 2006 film resets William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night in a contemporary boarding school setting. Teenage Viola (Amanda Bynes) takes her twin brother Sebastian’s place on his school’s boys’ soccer team and falls in love with his roommate, Duke (Channing Tatum), who is in love with the beautiful Olivia. A Q&A with screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith (Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You) will follow the screening, with a reception afterward in the Michael Douglas Lobby. 7-10pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $5-$7. Rated PG-13. Call 893-8903.

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2/22-2/25: The City of Conversation From novelist, essayist, and playwright Anthony Giardina, The City of Conversation stars Meredith Baxter and Sharon Lawrence, spans 30 years and six presidential administrations beginning in 1979 Washington, D.C., and follows Hester Ferris, notorious for her posh dinner parties that can change the course of politics. Find out what happens when her son turns up with an ambitious significant other and a different political agenda that may tear the family apart.

Thu.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 2 and 7pm. New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $20-$60. Call 965-5400. etcsb.org

SATURDAY 2/24 2/24: Juan Bautista de Anza National Trails & Rails Program Annual Training This collaboration between the National Park Service and Amtrak will train volunteers on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail between S.B. and San Jose. Volunteers will attend an initial daylong classroom training at the start of their first season and then continue their education by observing

you to ring in the Year of the Dog with a show that will feature traditional and folk Chinese dances, exciting kung fu, and majestic live Chinese instrumental music.

Area professional and student performers will portray the beauty and strength of Chinese cultural arts. It’ll be fun, family friendly, and a wonderful way to celebrate Chinese New Year! 6pm. Elings Performing Arts Ctr., Dos Pueblos High School, 7226 Alameda Ave., Goleta. $10-$15. Read more on p. 55. sinowestsb.com

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2/24: Creative with Cardboard with Kristen Walker Let your imagination go wild at the CreatorLab as artist Kristen Walker provides her expertise to guide you in creating artwork made from cardboard. 10amnoon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children ages 6 or younger must be accompanied by an adult. Call 884-0459 x13. exploreecology.org

2/24: Sensory Storytime This story time will provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all children to learn and grow. Small groups, structure, and sensory activities will create an environment for sensory seekers and the sensory sensitive and will be special-needs friendly. Registration is required. 1:30-2pm. Island Rm., S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free.

Best for ages 3-7, but all ages and abilities welcome. Call 564-5641 or email hbroman@ santabarbaraca.gov. sbplibrary.org

2/24: The History of International Adoption in the United States Rachel Rains Winslow, PhD, assistant professor of history and director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Westmont College, will speak on the role international adoption has played in U.S. immigration and foreign policies. She will share how the adoption of CONT’D ON P. 36

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2/22: Poetry Reading and Reception: Learning to Love the Literati Famously fabulous parties among noted writers and scholars have included Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball and Jay Gatsby’s fictional lawn party. This same idea of a gathering of poets is being translated into the 21st century: 41 area poets who contributed to To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will read their works while inspirational images are projected as backdrops. Move into the galleries to talk, sip wine, and sample savories after the readings. Reserve tickets at the museum visitor desks or online. 5:30-6:30pm. Mary Craig Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364.

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2/25: Pop-Up Community Portrait Studio The public is invited to participate in a free pop-up portrait studio in celebration of the CrosscurCrosscur rents exhibitions, which feature painted and photographic portraits. Bring a friend or family member, or pose solo. Photos will be available for viewing or download on the museum’s Flickr page after March 1 and could be selected for viewing in SBMA’s community gallery space Going Up!, located in the Museum’s elevator. 1-4pm. Family Resource Ctr., S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364. sbma.net ongoing:

River Michael C. Armour’s show has oil paintings and works on paper in a contemporary style, with subjects ranging from representational to abstract. The exhibit shows through March 14. Silo118, 118 Gray Ave. Free. Call (301) 379-4669. silo118.com

of a Tuna Canyon detainee, will provide a brief overview of U.S. detention during the world wars of the 20th century and the existing law upon which they are based, as well as personal reflections on the label “alien enemies,” Tuna Canyon and other detention facilities, and Tuna Canyon in relationship to the world climate of today. Reservations are required. 5:30-7pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. $15-$20. Call 966-1601.

ongoing: Africa Through Its Sculpture: Highlights from the Lifshitz Collection This exhibit displays the African art collection

of Westmont neighbors Fima and Jere Lifshitz, thematically organized according to topics including Zoomorphic Forms, Images of Women, The Rediscovery of Nok (the Iron Age civilization that existed in the area of modern Nigeria circa 1500 bce-300 ce), and more. The exhibit shows through March 24. Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 955 La Paz Rd. Free. Call 565-6162. tinyurl.com/AfricaSculptureWestmont

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raking group starts with an orientation and clothing check to ensure volunteers are wearing sturdy, closed-toed shoes, long sleeves, and long pants. Shovels, wheelbarrows, and work gloves are requested. 8:30am-2:30pm. Ages 16+. More information as well as meet-up location will be sent via email to those who register online. sbhabitat.org/disaster-

ness class, which improves endurance through breathing; aids in balance, strength, and flexibility; and reinforces ligaments through precise movements. All donations will go toward the S.B. Bucket Brigade. You can send donations ahead of time to PayPal account rollnessonline@gmail.com.

11am. Simpatico Pilates & Gyrotonic Studio, 1235 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. Suggested donation: $20. Call 825-7865.

2/24: Facing the Future Together Five featured artists, along with many more, will come together to create a “Wall of Faces” on recycled objects for a silent auction, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to United Way’s S.B. Thomas Fire and Flood Fund for S.B. and Ventura counties. The bidding started on February 17. 5-7pm. Whimsy Antiques, 962 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 252-0491.

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half-day retreat in celebration of 15 years of friendship and support from the friends at La Casa de Maria (LCDM) and its Center for Spiritual Renewal for providing a sacred space to meditate, pray, relax, and renew in the natural sanctuary of 26 acres. Dr. Radhule Weininger and friends will lead a guided meditation and then 2/24: Teen Star Showcase Finale enjoy music and refreshments. All First responders will be offered complidonated funds will go toward the

by Christina May Brand mentary tickets to come watch area youth recovery effort at LCDM. Please showcase their singing talents in a healthy, make donation checks payable supportive environment of family, friends, schools, and the to La Casa de Maria. 2:30-6pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 community. Ten contestants will perform, three finalists will State St. Donations accepted. Call 969-5031. lacasademaria.org be determined by the judges, and the audience will vote electronically to select the final winner. Proceeds will benefit youth in performing arts in S.B. County. 7pm. Free to first 2/27: #805Strong Benefit This show will have responders; $15-$40 otherwise. The Arlington Theatre, 1317 performances by S.B.’s Pete Muller Band, area singer/songState St. Call 963-4408. Read more on p. 51. axs.com writers Haddon Cord and David Segall, and the Doublewide Kings, playing their original rock and Americana with some 2/24: Mingle for the Mud Piggies Kubisch and Ferris deep-cut covers. All proceeds will go toward the S.B. Bucket Orthodontics will host this benefit to support area children Brigade. 6:30-10:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 affected by the Montecito mudflows in a fun and creative State St. $25-$50. Call 962-7776. sohosb.com way. Mud Piggies are piggy banks that will be filled with change to be delivered to kids impacted by the mudslides. ongoing: MacMechanic and TechEase Community The fun will include piggy-bank crafts with Art From Scrap, members are invited to bring any computers damaged by music by DJ Hecktik, a bounce house from Luna’s Jumps, face the fire or the mudslides to MacMechanic or TechEase (at painting and a bake sale by Nothing Bundt Cakes and Anderthe same location) for free data recovery. Even a mud-caked sen’s and Anna’s bakeries, and more! Proceeds will go toward laptop may still have its programs, files, photos, and music the Montecito Mud Angels. 10am-1pm. Kubisch and Ferris stored. Mon.-Fri.: 9am-6pm. 3433 State St., Ste. E. Call Mac Orthodontics parking lot, 3820 State St. Free.

Mechanic at 965-9722 and TechEase at 564-3273. mudangels.org/mudpiggies macmechanic.com, techease.com mote healing and to provide support, Cottage Health and Old Mission Santa Barbara are hosting this event that will offer guidance and resources for healing after the disasters and will provide the community an opportunity to give feedback on any areas of need. Enjoy a continental breakfast, a community panel, a faith-based panel, refreshments, and a sound booth for attendees to share and record their stories for reflection and healing. Visit the website for speaker information and to register. 9am-noon. Junipero Serra Hall, 2200 Garden St. Free. cottagehealth.org/howweheal

2/24: #805Strong Benefit Reggae band Soul Majestic will put on this show that will not only focus to strengthen our connection to each other but also showcase S.B. and Santa Cruz artists Cornerstone, One Two Tree, King Zero, Dylan Judah, Shylah Ray, Rastan, CaletoTV, and more for a night of reggae, neo-soul, hip-hop, and dancehall music that will lift spirits to new heights. Free admission to all first responders!

A portion of the proceeds will go to S.B. Support Network.

9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. Free-$15.

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ongoing: Dr. Steve Politis, DPT, of Kineci: Heath in Motion has put together a list of discounted or free services for firefighters in the community that includes fitness facilities, yoga, trauma therapy, B-12 shots, healing sessions, acupuncture, a consultation with an internal-medicine physician, and more. kineci.lpages.co/firefighters-ty ongoing: Women’s Economic Ventures: QuickResponse Loans For businesses impacted by reduced

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BANDS on TAP 2/22, 2/24: Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Thu.: Dannsair. 6:30-8:30pm. Sat.: Tequila Mockingbird.

9:30pm-12:30am. 18 E. Ortega St. Free. Call 568-0702. darganssb.com 2/22: Eureka! David Segall. 8-10pm. 601 Paseo Nuevo.

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6-8pm. Sat.: Blown Over. 6-8pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 965-7985. carrwinery.com 2/23-2/25: Cold Spring Tavern Fri.: Sleeping Dogs.

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Dr. Lorie Robinson welcomes Dr. Jonathan Bridger to her practice! Same or next day appointments now available.

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View from Above: An Astronaut Photographs the World Astronaut Terry Virts will share the newfound

6860 Cortona Dr., Bldg. C., Goleta. Free. Call 968-6500.

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2/23-2/24: Uptown Lounge Fri.: Heart & Soul.

Sat.: Rincons. 9-11:30pm. 3126 State St. Free. Ages 21+.

Call 845-8800. www.sbuptownlounge.com 2/23-2/25, 2/28: Velvet Jones Fri.: King Shelter, Mt. Eddy, Naked Walrus. 8pm. $10. Fri.-Sat.: La Sonora Explosiva, Nacimiento Tropical, DjXZOT!C. 10pm. $5. Ages 21+. Sun: The Bombpops, Petmedz, Grownups. 8pm. $10.

Wed.: Smoke and Mirrors Drag Revue. 8pm. $5. Ages 21+.

423 State St. Call 965-8676. velvet-jones.com 2/24: Naughty Oak Brewing Co. David Segall Band.

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WEEK 2/25: 8th Annual Black History Month Worship & Celebration Service The community is welcome to join this event for a unified worship to God, live gospel music, a powerful message by Pastor Carlos D. Speights, and a celebratory tribute to African Americans who served in times of war. 3:30-7pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, S.B. Junior High School, 721 E. Cota St. Free.

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2/25: Simply the Best Wedding Showcase of S.B. This unique showcase will offer top wedding

ence with hospice care or simply want to give back to the community in a meaningful way, join this training for Hospice volunteers — members of the community who donate their time and offer compassionate support to our patients and their families. Volunteers are carefully screened and required to complete 18-24 hours of training on six consecutive Wednesdays. Online applications must be submitted by February 16 in order to complete interviews prior to training. 1-5pm. Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, 512 E. Gutierrez St. Free. Call 690-6274. vnhcsb.org/volunteering/hospice BEN CROP

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industry professionals, including caterers, photographers, florists, planners, and more, all in one place. There will be food, drinks, music, and raffle prizes throughout the show, and couples who preregister will receive a gift bag. 11am-3pm. S.B. Woman’s Club, 670 Mission Canyon Rd. $16. Call 243-8004. simplythebestofsb.com

2/25: Danya Belkin Dos Pueblos High School sophomore Danya Belkin will sign her debut book, Tanya’s Tech Troubles, about a young girl who can’t seem to put her tablet down and how her parents have to find a solution to this bad habit before it gets out of control.

2pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787.

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2/25-2/28: Speaking of Stories: Personal Stories 2018 Come enjoy a collection of first-person true stories written and performed by members of the S.B. community. There are two bills of stories; each will show twice. Bill A: Sun.: 2pm; Tue.: 7:30pm. Bill B: Mon., Wed.: 7:30pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $18-$28. Call 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org

2/25: The World of the Iceman: Europe’s Oldest Natural Mummy Professor Michael Jochim, distinguished professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, UCSB, will summarize what is currently known about the Iceman in the Alps and place him in context by discussing archaeological evidence drawn from a number of remarkable village sites in Switzerland and southern Germany, providing unparalleled knowledge of lifeways in this region of Europe (4800-2200 bce). 2-3pm. Multipurpose Rm., Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta.

Free. Call 964-7878. sbplibrary.org

MONDAY 2/26 2/26: LGBTQ Jewish Youth Ice Cream Social Take some time to socialize and discuss topics of interest in this safe environment while you enjoy some ice cream. RSVPs are requested but not required. 5:30-7pm.

Jewish Federation of Greater S.B., 524 Chapala St. Free.

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TUESDAY 2/27 2/27-2/28: Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour This S.B. favorite will feature the world’s best films and videos on mountain subjects in exotic locations that will awe the audience, from extreme sports to mountain culture and environment. Each night will screen a different program. 7:30pm. The Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $14-$20. Call 893-3535. Read more on p. 51. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

WEDNESDAY 2/28 2/28: Hospice Volunteer Spring Training If you have had a personal experi-

Exodus: The Largest Movement of People Since the Second World War DEXTER FILKINS

2/28: The Theatre Group at SBCC: Communicating Doors This intricate, time-traveling, comic thriller by British master of farcical comedy Sir Alan Ayckbourn follows a London sex specialist in 2004 into a murder plot that sends her, thanks to a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time to 1994 to rewrite history with two women who were murdered in hopes of preventing their violent demise. This performance is a preview. The show runs through March 17. 7:30pm. Garvin Theatre, 801 Cliff Dr. $10-$18. Call 965-5935. Read more on p. 53.

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Sichuan Opera: Buddhist and Ghost Plays Sponsored by UCSB and UCLA Confucius Institutes

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

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

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Welcome in the Year of the Dog with a performance of China’s Welcome in the Year of the Dog with a performance of China’s Sichuan Opera by a professional troupe from Chengdu.

Sichuan Opera by a professional troupe from Chengdu.

Featuring supernatural characters and stories from the spirit Featuring supernatural characters and stories from the spirit realm, the program showcases Sichuan Opera's a cappella realm, the program showcases Sichuan Opera's a cappella vocal style and its face-changing performance technique. vocal style and its face-changing performance technique.

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or five months in 2015, Terry Virts lived in a world of color. The NASA commander and crack photographer had helped install a 360-degree viewing bubble aboard the International Space Station, and every time it orbited above the crimson sands of the Australian desert, the entire station turned red. Above the Sahara, his camera lens filled with a pinkish orange.

Northern lights bathed him in a brilliant turquoise.

Even during Virts’s very first spaceflight, as he sped toward the sunrise, he peered into a shade of blue he’d never seen before. “It was this bright, deep, intense royalblue band in the atmosphere,” he said. “It was incredible.”

Virts wound up taking more photos in space—around into orbit for him to learn profound lessons about life on 319,000—than any astronaut before him. He stole every the ground—about “global wealth, environment, and the free moment he could from his 12-hour workdays of sci- golden rule.” He’ll also detail the close working relationship ence experiments and equipment maintenance to snap American astronauts maintained with their Russian colimages of mountain peaks, lightning storms, 20 typhoons leagues during a time of intense political tension not seen and hurricanes, cityscapes, and untouched islands. Busy since Kennedy and Khrushchev.

Virts has always been a photography enthusiast, forever editors pared down his vast collection into an incredible coffee-table book called View from Above: An Astronaut travelling with a camera around his neck and driving Photographs the World World, and Virts’s video footage is featured his kids crazy with nonstop family documentation. He admires photographer Frank Hurley, who memorialized in the new IMAX film A Beautiful Planet Planet.

On Monday, February 26, Virts will recount his visual Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914 Endurance voyage, and odyssey to a Santa Barbara audience, which he hopes will is a sucker for black-and-white nature imagery. Virts help us terrestrials better understand and appreciate the retired from NASA in 2016, but if he could glide back into the observation bubble one beauty and fragility of our planet. more time, he’d capture more images “NASA is really great about doing See Terry Virts and his work on of moonrises. “And mountain lakes science in space and building equipMonday, February 26, 7:30 p.m., in Patagonia and New Zealand,” he ment that works,” said Virts. “But it’s at Campbell Hall, UCSB. Call 893-3535 or said. “They’re just really spectacular.” not great at telling stories.” Virts will visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu. also discuss how it took blasting — Tyler Hayden

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he Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Choir is singing a happy tune these days — for good reason. For the first time since 2009, the group landed a coveted slot at the Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in March. One of only eight high school vocal jazz ensemble finalists to compete and led by vocal music director and DP choir alum Courtney Anderson, the school’s 17-student-strong Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Choir choir impressed judges in a blind audition. It will be among the 1,300 top student musicians throughout the United States which they were judged on uniformity of sound and from middle school, high school, and college, raising vocal technique.

“I’m so proud,” said student choir director Maggie a joyful noise in the form of big bands, combos, vocal Knauss. “To start to see us get more merit— merit I think ensembles, soloists, and more.

The Monterey festival comes after a few years of we deserve that.” Knauss joined the choir as a sophorebuilding. Flashback three years to 2015, and the more and feels bittersweet in her senior year. “It’s done choir’s future seemed grimly uncertain; administra- so much for me, and I want to give back to this choir tors feared the program would have to be cut due to even a fraction of what it’s given to me,” she said. “It a lack of funding and teachers. That’s when legendary gave me a family at high school.”

After Monterey, the DP Jazz Choir will work with former choir director Ike Jenkins called up Anderson, urging her to take the helm. “It’s so exciting to think New York Voices and return to the Reno Jazz Festival.

In the short term, the choir needs funds. “We’re all about how much it’s grown,” she said.

Last year, the choir scored top marks at the Reno on our own, and our biggest hurdle is always money Jazz Festival, “coming out of nowhere” to become and being able to afford to go [to festivals],” Anderson national contenders for Monterey. For its blind audi- said. The Thomas Fire nixed their solidly booked tion, the choir submitted recordings of The Beatles’ holiday performance schedule, leaving the choir “Eleanor Rigby,” The Idea of North’s “Keep My Sup- short of needed cash. To donate or learn more about dpjazzchoir.org per Warm,” and the traditional “Deck the Halls,” for the choir, visit dpjazzchoir.org.

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atthew Desmond, Princeton sociologist, cofounder of Just Shelter, and recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, will discuss his book and the affordable housing crisis in America on February 22 at 7:30 p.m. at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Desmond spoke recently with the Independent.

Matthew Desmond What was it that drew you to study evictions in Milwaukee in 2008-2009? I wanted to understand the role that housing played in deepening poverty in America.

There are many books about deindustrialization, loss of jobs, and mass incarceration, but the question that interested me was, what’s the private rental market like for the majority of Americans? Cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, and Milwaukee are places where Americans of average means live, but they are usually left out of the story. Studying evictions allowed me to write about tenants, landlords, and everyone in between.

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How would you describe housing policy in the United States in 2018? Completely benefiting middle- and upper-middle-class households via the mortgage interest deduction. The vast majority of low-income Americans receive no assistance whatsoever, and many spend more than half their income on housing. Low-income people are the unlucky majority.

As you vividly illustrate in Evicted Evicted, the fallout from an eviction process is often brutal. It touches nearly every aspect of a person’s life. It causes people to lose their homes; they often lose their stuff, their neighborhood connections, their jobs, their children’s schools, and quite often their health.

Did the scale of this problem surprise you? I had no idea that about 40 people every single day are evicted from their homes in Milwaukee.

The last time we did the American housing survey, some 2.3 million households feared they might face eviction. The problem is massive.

Possibly tens of millions of evictions going back to 2000.

You were quoted as saying that you experienced a sense of guilt while researching Evicted Evicted.. Can you explain what you meant? Leaving the rooming house I lived in in Milwaukee and moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, was culturally shocking to say the least. I often thought about my friends in Milwaukee who were experiencing scarcity and hardship, and it troubled me.

Do you view housing as a fundamental human right? I think it’s essential that as a society we ask ourselves if we believe that housing is a right. If we do, then we are obligated to deliver on that as a matter of justice. I see housing as a right for the simple reason that without it everything else falls apart.

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Which is bound to make Easter dinner exceptionally awkward.

But it got me thinking about the times I’ve rooted against my own kids, and whether it was the right thing to do. Since, you know, they’re not even Republicans.

For example, I recently found myself leaping into the air on the sidelines of a flag-football game screaming “YES! OH, MY GOD, YES!” as my quarterback son got sacked. By a girl.“Wrong team!” the other parents scolded me. “Yeah, but did you see that?” I bellowed.

“She got him! That was fantastic!” No one had come close to sacking my elusive boy all season and then this determined chick — one of the few in the league —had zipped in out of nowhere and shut him down. Objectively, it was a beautiful thing, like watching Chloe Kim land back-to-back 1080s on the Olympic half-pipe.

And it had to be celebrated.

I can’t be the only parent who’s ever cheered for a worthy opponent out of sheer admiration.

And let’s face it: We all root for the adversaries during those toremail: starshine@roshell.com tuous moments when our kids’ teams are winning 38 to 3 and we’re trapped watching a field/court/diamond half full of demoralized children who have just decided that they hate this fricking game.

Just as often, though—and here’s where some will deem me monstrous—I root against my kids because I want them to fail.

For one thing, failure imparts brilliant lessons. Pride springs from winning, but character grows out of losing, and if you don’t believe me, try playing cards with a brat whose parents always let him win.

Spanx founder Sara Blakely, the self-made billionaire, often says in interviews that her dad used to ask her at the dinner table how she’d failed that week — and be disappointed if she had nothing to report.

He encouraged her to try challenging new things without fear of failing, and that liberating outlook gave her the moxie to build her booming business.

Similarly, there’s a Lee Pitts essay I like called “These Things I Wish for You,” written for his grandchildren. “I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated,” he writes.“May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove, and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.” Meanest grandpa ever? Maybe. His point: Only by living the full gamut of human experience can you truly appreciate life.

There’s one final reason I root against my kids — and it occurred to me tonight in my Pilates class as I was quivering, grimacing, and silently cursing the barky, merciless instructor. “I hate her. I hate her so much,” began the conversation in my own head. Come on, you don’t hate her. She’s trying to help you. “She’s Satan in spandex and she wants me to die.” Nonsense. She only wants you to hurt temporarily so you’ll be stronger tomorrow. And your butt will look better. Would Satan do that for you? “Ask me … when … this $%&ing plank … is over.”

I don’t enjoy seeing my kids laid low. But life’s going to knock ’em down plenty of times whether I like it or not. And I want them to learn how to fall while I’m watching so I can make sure they know how to stand back up. It’s practice is all.

I want them to hurt temporarily so they’ll be stronger tomorrow.

Unless they ever plan to run for office as Republicans. Then I want them to hurt tomorrow, too.

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here was a glimpse of the glory is high on both players, commenddays of UCSB men’s soccer last ing Roach’s “combination of great Thursday night: Chris Ponsize with soft feet while at the same tius slamming the ball into time being very technical.” The coach the goal at Harder Stadium in front said Ferreira “can be one of the best out-wide players in the Big West.” of thousands of cheering fans. Pontius, who as a sophomore in 2006 Another hometown player signing played a key role on UCSB’s national with the Gauchos is SBCC forward championship team, scored this Victor Chavez. He scored 16 goals goal to give the L.A. Galaxy a 2-1 for the Vaqueros, who went 17-1-4 last lead over Fresno FC in a preseason fall. UCSB has also recruited Carter Clemmensen, a high-scoring forprofessional match that the Galaxy ward (112 goals) from Arizona’s Broeventually won, 3-1.

“It’s nice to be back,” said Pontius, phy Prep. who scored 29 goals in his Gaucho Fortifying the Gauchos with college experience will be transfers career and enters his 10th year as a Hunter Ashworth (San Francisco), pro with 45 goals in Major League Soccer (MLS). The Southern CaliThibault Candia (Temple), and fornia native not only was back on Faouzi Taieb (St. Francis Brooklyn). Vom Steeg can only hope they his old college turf but also is back home for the season after spendwork out as well as a pair of graduate ing nine years back east with D.C. transfers on the basketball team — United and the Philadelphia Union.

Leland King II and Marcus JackEma Boateng, a third-year son —who have helped the Gauchos make the biggest improvement (from Galaxy forward who was a Gaucho in 2012, described Pontius as six wins all last season to 20 so far this “an absolute professional. He never year) in the nation. complains about anything. He works hard and is a great leader for WINNING WOMEN: The UCSB FAMILIAR PITCH: Former Gaucho Chris Pontius (right) was again one of the standouts at Harder Stadium, advancing the ball for the L.A. Galaxy against Fresno FC’s Rony Argueta. The 30-year-old Pontius scored the go-ahead goal in the Galaxy’s us this year.” women’s soccer team has signed 3-1 win.

The Galaxy needs new leaderSBCC’s Chloe Montano and Kat Sheehy, who combined to score ship after falling to the bottom of the MLS standings last year. The club has brought in several turnout for last Thursday’s double-header, somewhere 27 goals with 17 assists for the Vaquero women, the state new players and hired veteran coach Sigi Schmid to try to around 4,000, was substantial for a weeknight and showed runners-up with a 21-1-1 record. revitalize a team he led to the first of its five MLS champion- there is an appetite for good soccer in Santa Barbara. With ships in 2002. the presence of the Angel City Brigade, a Galaxy fan club SPLASH-UP: Both the Dos Pueblos Chargers and San MarIn a preliminary game Thursday, that stood throughout the match while drumming and cos Royals reached the final four of the toughest girls’ waterthe UCSB Gauchos defeated the Ven- chanting, the event had a festive atmosphere polo competition in America, the CIF Division 1 playoffs. In tura County Fusion, 3-1. Coach Tim Many of the fans came out to see Giovani and Jonathan the quarterfinals last week, the top-ranked Chargers downed Vom Steeg viewed it as the first step dos Santos, the two Galaxy players who expect to be on Orange Lutheran, 12-7, and the Royals stunned No. 2 Laguna in a long, steep road to the 2018 Col- Mexico’s roster at the World Cup this summer. They started Beach in overtime, 8-7. Wednesday’s (Feb. 21) semifinals lege Cup, the NCAA championship the game against Fresno but were subbed out in the first half. (DP–Foothill and San Marcos–Mater Dei) and Saturday’s tournament that will take place at Pontius played the full 90 minutes, while Boateng rested, final (Feb. 24) are scheduled to be played in Irvine. n Harder Stadium in December. with the club playing another match Saturday.

To make their first appearance in the final four since Justin Vom Steeg, the 20-year-old son of the UCSB 2006, the Gauchos will have to make a significant leap from coach, is the Galaxy’s third goalkeeper, and he played last year, when they struggled to score goals and went 6-8-5. in the second half, shutting out Fresno with a couple Vom Steeg believes they have the ingredients to recapture of saves. the old magic.

“We’re returning 9 or 10 guys, with most of our good DONS AND FRIARS: Chris Pontius came to UCSB pieces,” Vom Steeg said. They include forward Rodney from Servite High in Anaheim, as did his younger Michael, who was Big West Freshman of the Year. The brother, Tim Pontius, who was an outstanding 2/24: College Women’s Basketball: UC Riverside at UCSB Four UCSB seniors will play their final home game coach is hopeful that German midfielder Kevin Feucht, defender. Tim scored the longest goal by a Gaucho in 2011 late Saturday afternoon. Chaya Durr and Makala Roper whose knee injury in the first practice last year dealt a dev- when he sent the ball 61 yards over the head of the UC Davis weathered a two-win season their first year to become astating blow to UCSB’s plans, will enroll in graduate school goalie. It can still be found on YouTube. Servite is currently steady contributors in 39 victories the past three seasons. and play a full season. the No. 1–ranked boys’ soccer team in CIF Division 1, and Beginning with their junior year, transfers Drew Edelman Despite their losing record last year, the Gauchos planted the Santa Barbara Dons are No. 2. If they can each survive (USC) and Drea Toler (Oregon) have made the Gauchos some seeds for growing into a contender. When Boateng three playoff games, the Dons and Friars would meet for the a team to be feared in the Big West Conference. In last decided to sign a pro contract in Sweden after his only sea- championship on March 2 or 3.

Saturday’s 82-55 win over second-place UC Irvine, the 64 son at UCSB, it was apparent that, for all the excitement he Edelman recorded her ninth double-double of the season created, the “one and done” aspect was not conducive to sus- RECRUITING TALLY: Goalkeeper Ben Roach is one of (12 points, 15 rebounds) and was named Big West player of taining a consistent program. They need guys like Pontius. the reasons for the success of the Dons. The 63 senior the week. The 55 Toler also had two doubles (10 points, 10 assists). The Gauchos will try to avenge their 84-76 loss at UC The Gauchos had led the nation in attendance for nine recorded 11 shutouts while Santa Barbara went undefeated Riverside on Feb. 8 and secure their position in the top four consecutive years starting in 2007, but the streak ended (14-0-3) before losing to Dos Pueblos in the regular-seaof the conference standings. 4pm. The Thunderdome, UCSB. in 2016. They were still in the top three, but to call their son finale, 2-0. Roach will continue his career at UCSB $5-$12. Call 893-UCSB (8272) or visit ucsbgauchos.com. stadium “Soccer Heaven” seemed a little exaggerated. The next fall, as will DP forward Oscar Ferreira. Vom Steeg

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Goodland in Goleta. wine per year (four botHe was still giddy with tles of the three wines). finally having a stable financial future for his Of that, $48 is for the wine itself (yep, just $4 a family—winemaking, after all, is really a gam- bottle, so you only pay a small amount of tax), bler’s game for those who aren’t already rich — and $912 is the subscription fee (nontaxable).

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CONT’D ON P. 49 >>> We returned to The Goodland last week to clink glasses again — albeit not so many, it being a Monday and all— all and discuss his new project: Clarice Wine Company. It’s named after his grandmother from Texas, who cooked big pots of food all day long for his farmer grandpa.

This October, I’ll be leading a group of intrepid wine She taught Lee lovers into the polished châteaux of Bordeaux that adding spice on one of AmaWaterways’ popular river cruises. at the end of the batch really It’s the first stab at what we’re calling Editor makes that seasoning stand out Explorations, in which our newspaper’s editors rather than integrate with the stew. will take readers somewhere that aligns with In winemaking terms, that means their expertise, as facilitated by Santa Barbara combining all your components Travel Bureau. For my trip, we’ll also be visitearly rather than late. So for Clarice’s ing Grassini Family Vineyards one afternoon first vintage in 2017, Lee identified two this summer to learn about how Bordeaux separate blocks at Garys’Vineyard in varieties are faring in our own backyard. If the Santa Lucia Highlands (which you’re interested in learning more about the trip, he’s worked with since 1999) and two see sbtravelbureau.com/mattkettmannwinecruise.html. separate blocks at nearby Rosella’s (a Siduri source since 2001). Rather

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“PokeCeviche is a seafood restaurant that combines Latin American ceviche with Hawaiian poke,” says owner Andy Kuan. “We focus on offering fresh ingredients that fit a healthy and flexible diet. You will find health-centric options such as zero-calorie noodles and low-carb kelp noodles to customize your poke and ceviche bowls.”

The menu offers Signature Bowls and Custom Bowls. The Signature Bowls come in three sizes for $8.95, $10.95, and $12.95, and include Spicy Ceviche (jalapeño Spanish rice, spicy fish ceviche, pico de gallo, yellow corn, takis fuego), Sushi Poke (matcha white rice, tuna, signature sauce, masago, green onions, furikake), Classic Shrimp (quinoa brown rice, classic shrimp ceviche, yellow corn, cucumbers, tortilla flakes), and Low-Carb Protein (low-carb kelp noodles, salmon, signature sauce, masago, cucumbers, furikake).

The Custom Bowls also come in three sizes: Skinny ($9.95), Regular ($11.95), and Sumo ($13.95). Skinny includes one base (rice, lettuce, noodles, etc.), two proteins, a choice of sauce, and up to 22 toppings. The Regular bowl is similar but includes two bases and three proteins, while the Sumo bowl comes with three bases and four proteins.

Hours are Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Hours are subject to change. Visit pokeceviche.com.

ROSE CAFÉ CLOSES … AND REOPENS: In January of

last year I reported that the family that owns Rose Café at 424 East Haley Street had decided to close the restaurant in 2021, which would have been the eatery’s 85th year in business. But as ashfall from the Thomas Fire kept potential customers at home, the family decided to close the business for good last December 20. Fortunately, Santa Barbara

Independent reporter D.J. Palladino says this story has a happy ending: George Guevara, grandson of Agnes Guevara, the matriarch of the Rose Café who passed away in 2014, reopened the restaurant on January 6, less than three weeks after closing. “I promise I didn’t change anything, except to make it a little better,” said Guevara.

TACO TUYO VEGAN TAKEOUT OPENS ON HALEY: Santa

Barbara Independent reporter Molly Forster has announced that Taco Tuyo, a vegan Mexican food takeout restaurant, opened its doors in January at 724 East Haley Street. Forster reports that owner Steven Sysum’s mission is to provide Santa Barbara with healthy, tasty, affordable food using traditional Mexican flavors that we all know and love.

Sysum describes his business as follows: “Taco Tuyo is the first restaurant of its kind on the Central Coast, and perhaps in California. It’s meant to be fun, casual, healthy, and communal.

Taco Tuyo seeks to be a place where regulars can stop in for a quick bite or meet up with friends and family for delicious meals, and where visitors can learn that Santa Barbara is the best place to showcase such healthful and flavorful plant-based Mexican food at a reasonable price. Taco Tuyo also exists for more than food. Two percent of its profits go to a local nonprofit whose mission is to end homelessness. We also participate in composting and environmentally friendly practices behind the scenes. We support local farmers by buying local and seasonal ingredients where possible. We use only earth-friendly takeout packaging. We want to educate people about the benefit of eating healthy.”

Call 319-3627 or visit tacotuyo.com.

CODY’S APPLYING FOR NEW LIQUOR LICENSE: Last June,

fans of Cody’s Café at 4898 Hollister Avenue in Goleta mourned the loss of dinner service and the sale of Cody’s liquor license. After the faithful created an uproar — they have serious fans —dinner service quickly returned, but that liquor license appeared to be gone for good. Things in that department have apparently changed, says reader Dude: “Not sure if you’ve heard or not yet but Cody’s Café in Turnpike Center is getting their liquor license again. I think it will be about a month ’til they start serving again. I first heard about this from one of the managers about two weeks ago, and I saw the application on display last Saturday. Check it out and spread the word.”

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

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On Sunday, February 25, 4-6 p.m., Leslie “Wine Consumption Specialist” Thomas is shining a light on Ballard Canyon syrah by hosting five “microproducers” at Max’s Restaurant & Cucina (3514 State St.), with winemakers from Cherry Newton, Kaena, Larner, Potek, and Tercero wineries. Tix are $15 and include tastes of at least 10 wines and some nibbles. Email lesliewine@ aol.com.

On Thursday, March 1, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., the Wine Cask is hosting the 20th anniversary of Brewer-Clifton, in which Greg Brewer will talk story and master somm Michael Jordan will lead participants through chardonnays and pinot noirs from 2007 to 2010. The familystyle lunch includes wines from The Hilt, Longoria, Alma Rosa, Lafond, and Babcock. Tix are $75.

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The World of Pinot Noir takes over the RitzCarlton Bacara next weekend, March 2-3, with grand tastings, special meals, and seminars. I’ll be leading one on Friday at 1 p.m., featuring nine wines that I selected to represent a wide swath of the Central Coast, from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Santa Maria Valley. Joining me are winemakers Tyler Thomas (Dierberg), Ken Brown, Bradley Brown (Big Basin), and Eric Hickey (Laetitia). See worldofpinotnoir.com for more info and n tickets.

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Lee hopes the model will work — he’d clear about $500,000 annually if all goes well — and may consider franchising it. “I don’t think that what I’m doing has ever been done before,” said Lee, but he knows the current winery sales model of wine clubs, tasting rooms, and traditional distribution won’t cut it for very long. He explained, “What I do believe is that what we’re doing is not working.”

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here are those who seek the thrill of adventure and those who love to watch others seek the thrill of adventure.

For the latter, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures offers up two nights of nature-fueled exploits via the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which will take you around the globe without ever having to leave your seat. This year’s cinematic slate is, as usual, a delightful, exciting, varied lineup.

One standout is the National Geographic–produced Into Twin Galaxies, a 52-minute film chronicling Sarah McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer, and Ben Stookesberry’s often-harrowing trek across a Greenland glacier to where two Arctic rivers converge. After locating the rivers — which have never been explored and which the trio named Twin Galaxies — via Google Earth, the three pros set out to kite ski across the ice sheet and then kayak the wild rivers for a total of 1,000 km. Hauling approximately 200 pounds of gear— gear including kites, kayaks, tents, gear, and food— food the entirety of the trip, it took them 46 days to complete

the journey, during which they experienced spectacular scenery, frustrating setbacks, serious injuries, and exhilarating successes.

Via email, McNair-Landry gave some insight into the expedition and her life of adventure.

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the conditions were bad, such as after you broke your back? Training is a key to successful expeditions, and important to build skills, physical endurance, and also mental endurance. We always train and prepare a lot before expeditions, and I also see every expedition as training for the next. When the conditions are bad, it’s really important to stay positive, as it’s so easy to focus on the negative. When I broke my back in a kite-skiing accident, I tried to really focus on getting through the day, knowing (and hoping) that every day I would feel a little better and stronger (plus I am also very stubborn, which helps).

Your father, Paul Landry, is a famous explorer. When did you know that you wanted to follow in his footsteps? Both my parents, Paul Landry and Matty McNair, are bad-ass explorers and polar guides, and have been to both the North and South poles numerous times, among other epic expeditions.

Everything I learned was from them dragging me out camping on weekends when I was young, and eventually on longer and longer trips. I never really set out to follow in their footsteps; it just kind of happened.

And a couple years ago I took over their guiding company base in Baffin Island, called NorthWinds Expeditions.

How many expeditions have you done? Are you planning your next one? I’ve done over 15 multi-month expeditions, mostly in the Arctic, but also some desert expeditions, too. I am always planning the next expedition. This winter we have a backcountry ski mission we are planning on the east coast of Baffin — exploring some new terrain.

And in the future we are planning a kiteskiing expedition in Russia.

—Michelle Drown

The Banff Mountain Film Festival runs Tuesday-Wednesday, February 27-28, 7:30 p.m., at The Arlington Theatre (1317 State St.).

Call 893-3535 or see artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

2018 TEEN STAR SHOWCASE FINALE

Last November, dulcet-voiced youth queued up to audition for Teen Star, the annual singing competition that has 10 crooners (and an alternate) vie for the championship title during a one-night finale held at The Arlington Theatre. The event is formatted like American Idol Idol, with an emcee (J.J. Lambert), celebrity judges (Kenny Loggins, Catherine Remak, and Randy Spendlove), and audience-member voting.

This year’s hopefuls are as follows: Ava Burford (S.B. High, 11th grade), Benjamin Catch (San Marcos, 10th grade), Daniel Geiger (Pioneer 2017 Teen Star Valley High, 12th grade), McKenna

Gemberling (San Marcos, 9th grade), Jake Gildred (Santa Ynez High, 9th grade), Neve Greenwald (Dos Pueblos, 9th grade), Holly Hadsall (La Colina Junior High, 7th grade), Savannah Jayaraman (homeschool, 12th grade), Elizabeth Padfield (Solvang Middle School, 8th grade), Nicole Trujillo (Dos Pueblos, 12th grade), and alternate Sofia Schuster (Crane Country Day School, 8th grade).

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How did the Greenland crossing compare to the Northwest Passage exploration you did with your brother, Eric? Was it more, less, or differently difficult? Both expeditions were really tough in their own ways. The Northwest Passage trip I did with my brother, Eric McNair-Landry, was 3,500 km over 85 days — we had a serious distance to cover before sum-mer came and all the snow melted away. We also had some very diffi-cult sections — open water forced us on a 550 km detour and a polar bear ripped through our tent in the middle of the night, to mention a few.

The Greenland trip was also dif difficult— crevasses posed a huge risk, ficult not to mention the ice canyon and huge waterfalls on the river. And I was seriously injured early on in the expedition in a kite-skiing accident, which made the expedition very challenging. The similarity between both trips is the teams were both amazing.

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Abramsky illustrates how Americans spend “huge amounts of energy trying to literally remove all risk from our daily interactions” while ignoring more statistically likely dangers such as driving an automobile, pneumonia, or the side effects of medications.

Many undesirable outcomes result when the line between safety and liberty is crossed, and our ability to calculate risk and assess danger is compromised by conditioning. In such circumstances, we are more inclined to accept simplistic, black-and-white solutions and all kinds of excesses in the name of security.

As Abramsky puts it, “Hysterias don’t solve vast societal problems. Too often, overwrought responses generate more of the very conditions they were intended to vitiate, creating cycles of chaos and, at the same time, ever-greater curbs on personal liberty.”

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MOONRISE: For six years, Vicki Wang and Dragon Sun have curated a Chinese New Year celebration that includes dancing, Shaolin Kung Fu, weaponry demonstrations, and traditional instrumental music. Pictured here, Sun (center) leads kids in a 2015 performance.

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ccording to Chinese zodiac lore, those As Bay Area dancers, Wang and Sun disborn in the year of the dog possess a covered fertile opportunities to explore their straightforward and loyal personality, are reverence for the art of Chinese dance, touroccasionally prone to bouts of anxiety, and are ing with the Chinese Performing Artists of most comfortable taking on a supportive role America in balletic and acrobatic forms that in the workplace.And despite their best efforts, highlighted the country’s varying regional once every 12 years the styles. When their desire dog personality must for teaching led them on a step into the global spotsearch for a city to house their bricks-and-mortar light, a reluctant celebrity on the receiving end of endeavor, Wang said she one of the world’s most couldn’t stop thinking about prominent festivals: the her years as a student at Lunar New Year, which UCSB. “The natural beauty began February 16. The and picturesque landscape centuries-old ritual of is something that stays with ushering in the arrival you,” she said. of spring kicked off in In 2011, the pair debuted customary fashion across Sino West Performing Arts’ Asian communities the dance studio in Old Town world over, with a bevy Goleta, offering classes in of fireworks signaling a both Chinese traditional 15-day celebration that and folk styles, as well as might also include feastWestern forms of dance, ing on delicately stuffed including ballet and jazz. dumplings and exchang“When we started our dance ing monetary blessings school, it was all Chinese tucked neatly inside red students wanting to conenvelopes. This year’s nect with their roots,” Wang astrological guest of remembered.“Now we have honor is the lovable dog, Caucasians and Latinos and its conventional characso many others who are teristics believed to set the curious about this beautiful tone for the coming year, dance form.”With area allies

by Ninette Paloma figuring prominently in such as the Santa Barbara sermons, and decorating Trust for Historic Preservathe sides of ornate teation and the Santa Barbara cups. “It’s a time of renewal,” said Vicki Wang, Chinese School, hosting a Chinese New Year codirector of Santa Barbara’s annual Chinese festival seemed like a natural extension to New Year festival, “where we sweep out the their seasonal programming. “Our students old spirits and make room for the new things are given a stage to showcase their work, and to come.”

Sun and I have an opportunity to expand the Over the past six years, Wang and her hus- knowledge of Chinese culture here in Santa band, Dragon Sun, have curated a weekend Barbara,” Wang added. celebration that includes folk and traditional February 24 will mark the ninth day of Chinese dancing, Shaolin Kung Fu, weaponry the New Year, traditionally celebrated as the demonstrations, and live Chinese instru- birthday of the Jade Emperor of Heaven, mental music. This year’s festivities will take where households pay their respects by placplace at Dos Pueblos High School’s Elings ing offerings on an altar table that symbolize Performing Arts Center, complete with daz- honor and homage for the revered deity. In zling costumes and a glimpse of some of the Santa Barbara, Sino West has curated a day mystical traditions that make this ancient cul- of dancing and storytelling that promises to ture so alluring.“We love that Santa Barbara is enrich our understanding of a culture steeped open to so many diverse forms of dance and in legendary allegory and affecting ritual; don your best red outfit and join in the revelry. cultural festivals,” Wang stressed.

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THRILLIN’ VILLAINS: They’re back! Also on March 3, Vaud and the Villains will get the party started at SOhO, bringing back to town their big-band sound and cabaret show at 9 p.m. Though Mardi Gras has already kicked off, the L.A.-based orchestra prefers to laissez les bon temps rouler into eternity.

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GIMME KING SHELTER: Speaking of regal band names, King Shelter is gonna rock the socks off Velvet Jones (423 State St.) with S.B.’s very own Naked Walrus and Oakland’s Mt. Eddy on Friday, February 23, at 8 p.m. Per the phrase, you may want to wear several sock pairs, given the mega-melodic rock roller rink they’ll spin you ’round with. Although King Shelter’s debut EP was called Failure, its trajectory for now suggests quite the opposite, with sold-out shows and a growing fan base lending evidence. Mt. Eddy, meanwhile, shares actual genetics with Green Day—frontman Jakob Armstrong’s father is Billie Joe Armstrong, and the punk/pop-punk spirit runs through their veins, with some slightly Strokes-y vibes for good measure.

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STAYING #805STRONG: Grief: It leaves no season unspoiled, no person untouched, no rule unbroken. As we continue to learn the many ways to grieve, as communities, as nations, and alone, we learn as well the many ways to be strong. At SOhO Restaurant & Music Club (1221 State St.), they offer us not one but two chances to share the strength of our hearts and the skills of our dancing feet with this week’s #805Strong benefit concerts.

The first is an all-star experience featuring many of our area code’s finest reggae and reggae-inspired acts on Saturday, February 24, at 9 p.m. Soul Majestic headlines, backed by a full 805 showcase featuring all (or members) of Cornerstone, One Two Tree, King Zero, and Dylan Judah, plus Santa Cruz’s Shylah Ray, Rastan, and CaletoTV … and special guests, to boot. The sum total of these acts, who are known for simulating the rejuvenating effects of sunshine itself in even the darkest of clubs, is sure to offer abundant love, gratitude, and grooves to get lost in. Jah bless, bless.

On Tuesday, February 27, at 6:30 p.m., you can help honor first responders at the second #805Strong benefit, with the Pete Muller Band, the Doublewide Kings, Haddon Cord, and David Segall all set to sing their hearts out for some of the strongest hearted, strongest souled among us. Muller’s swinging piano, the Kings’ fired-up guitar, Cord’s beautiful voice, and Segall’s soothing melodies will all entwine for a meaningful evening.

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The lead performances resonate strongly, both with the material and with the young actors, who clearly understand and empathize with the mostly desperate characters.

As Sunny, Young manages to convey both wide-eyed innocence and steely determination. The complicated plot finds Sunny doing whatever she deems necessary to transcend her position as a janitor in one of Shenzhen’s many office buildings. From doling out sexual favors to attending self-help workshops, Sunny shows relentless initiative.

Although there’s precious little subtlety in this script, which overflows with obscenities and coarse remarks, particularly toward women, the subjects it addresses matter, and American audiences may learn from its excoriating take on contemporary Chinese urban life. For the UCSB students in the cast, it’s a fantastic opportunity to step into the shoes of real people who, living far away, nevertheless cast a shadow on the world we live in here and now.

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he World of Extreme Happiness is probably not the only show to open with a scene of childbirth, but when the living baby gets thrown into a garbage pail, you know you’re not in paradise. Despite the play’s title, contemporary China as depicted here may qualify as extreme, but it rarely achieves happiness, at least not for long. The baby’s daddy, Li Han (Andrew Truong) does save her from the trash on account of her smile, but Sunny Li (Lilian Young) leads a life that belies her optimistic name. Born in a poor rural village, she follows her fortune to Shenzhen, the massive manufacturing city that has sprung up in recent decades on the outskirts of Hong Kong.

Lilian Young As directed by Daniel Stein and designed by Jen LaMastra (costumes), Greg Mitchell (scenery), and Vickie J. Scott (lighting), this production excels at giving the talented UCSB students who make up the main cast and ensemble interesting things to do. Fans of immersive, nontraditional theater technique will find much to admire in this inventive staging.

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Presented by The practice of playCAMA. At The ing on period-specific Granada Theatre, instruments continues Tue., Feb. 13. to outpace any attempt to confine it within a set of rigid expectations, and the OAE exemplifies this protean tendency. In the Symphony No. 4, the orchestra followed the vigorous body language of Gurevich at a quick tempo with strong accents. Relatively light instrumentation lent focus to the brilliant structure of this most underappreciated of Beethoven’s symphonies.

Benedetti’s lively elegance of tone was a perfect match for the group and for the Concerto in D Major Major, surely one of the finest concertos in the repertoire. A swift, dynamic approach to the opening movement led to the highlight of the evening, a dazzling new cadenza duet between violin and timpani.

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Multiple standing ovations later, the violinist obliged the rapt audience with a short encore, but the memory that lingered most was of the dialogue between her violin and Bending’s drums.

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FINGER ON THE TRIGGER: The notion of a satirical cartoon series on POTUS might have seemed daring, but in the present conditions, with a leader widely considered a psychotic clown, Our Cartoon President seems almost redundant.

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At one point, the cartoon president gains n one early scene in the new Showtime series Our Cartoon President, our orange- a hunger for the “wartime, baby”; he tells a coiffed tyrant of a supreme leader is meeting with military heads, “Gimme that perched and pj-ed in his extravagant bed, nukular football,” which becomes a running scrolling through TV channels, quickly dis- (literally) gag in the show. We laugh; we cry; missing most—“fake news, fake news, fake we cringe. In another subplot, his doofus news … fake weather”—before landing on sons Donald Jr. and Eric appear on Sean his go-to comfy-chair show, Hannity’s show and Fox & Friends. One wonbetray their father’s SERIES RAISES QUESTION: ders what the White House wish to avoid the hotwould think, bumping into potato subject of Rusthis latest satirical attack on sia, and Donald Sr. his character? And another gives Melania (Cody question: Is this farce, reality Lindquist) a dubious TV, or both? You be the judge. anniversary gift of a

by Josef Woodard At some other, saner night out with Karen moment in America’s politiPence (conversing cal history, the notion of a satirical cartoon with her is “like talking to a human shower series on a POTUS might have seemed daring curtain,” says the cartoon president). or outlandish—maybe even treasonous (by a In a State of the Union bull session at misdemeanor standard). But in the present the White House, with a jumbo-eared conditions, with a leader widely considered Jeff Sessions and a squinty-eyed and Mr. a psychotic clown, finger on the “nukular” Magoo-ishly mumbly Ben Carson in tow, trigger, and an unapologetic indulger of the president is urged to use his first address hate-mongering who has angered the known as a way to make a bold statement — as world and plunged American into a sour presidents FDR, LBJ, and others have in the global reputation, this cartoon adventure past—and up his approval ratings. He delivseems almost redundant. If anything, one of ers said address from inside a fire truck (for the downsides of the show is the dizzying dramatic effect), insulting the intelligence of competition already on the air and airwaves, the nation in the cartoonish setting, but with and on the everyday conversation index of the obvious links to what actually happened. The masses the world over. line between chilling realities and cartoon For one, many of us get our nightly fix hyper-reality are blurred. of Trump bashing on The Late Show with The closing song, under the credits, is Stephen Colbert, where interviews with the eerily simple, repeating the still-frightening cartoon Trump were the basis for this series, phrase “Donald Trump is the president.” which also has Colbert in the executive pro- The lyric modulates and searches for resoluducer’s and cocreator’s seat (and also making tion just as many of us are still in a state of a voice cameo as Sergeant at Arms of the arrested disbelief about the song’s statement House). Heading over to the trenchant com- of fact. mentaries of Samantha Bee or John Oliver, Our Cartoon President has a precedent, in the subject of Trump and his latest outrages the Trey Parker/Matt Stone Comedy Central can be both addictive and numbing. In effect, show That’s My Bush! of 2001, and the new the neurotically attention- and screen-time- show syncs up with the brand of snarky seeking president has won, if it’s true that any humor firmly rooted in Family Guy and the toothier episodes of The Simpsons. The scare publicity is good publicity.

And now, he enters the lofty and lowly factor underlying this latest addition to TV’s dimension of cartoon culture. The season takes on Trump follies relates to its proximpremiere opens with the Man (expertly voiced ity to the chilling non-cartoon world over

by Jeff Bergman), invoking the fourth-wall which the Trumpster has dominion for a few clause by saying, “This is Showtime, right? So more years. We can’t just change the channel n I can say ‘shithole’ …” on that.

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It was during that political climate that one of the Gabriel is a piece of cinematic history: the only most bizarre movies ever to hit the screen was made: explicitly pro-fascist film Hollywood ever made 1933’s Gabriel Over the White House, which will screen (although one can argue about the implications of March 1 at UCSB’s Pollock Theater. Funded in part by the Dirty Harry movies that scorn the civil-libertiesnewspaper baron William Randolph Hearst, the film minded academics, or the Rambo series). And 85 years tells the story of President Judson Hammond (played later, it offers subtle but significant clues about our curby Walter Huston), a ne’er-do-well hack who is sur- rent political terrain. When conditions are bad enough, rounded by corrupt factotums and has little interest when significant numbers of people abandon confiin dealing with employment, organized crime, or dence in the system, there will be powerful currents international tensions. Driving home one night from in the direction of something — or someone — wholly a disreputable gathering, he crashes his car and winds new, wholly disconnected from long-established up in a coma. Then, as a mysterious breeze flutters the norms. curtains — a symbol, it’s inferred, of a kind of divine As a 35-year veteran of network news — at ABC, intervention —Hammond rises from his bed with fire CNN, and CBS — I’ve had a longtime fascination with in his eyes, returns to his rule, and proceeds to become this movie and the way it still speaks to a hunger for a “benevolent fascist.” Threatened with impeachment, a politics that overthrows everything we assume is he declares martial law, dissolves Congress, suspends central to our system. That’s what we’ll be talking about civil rights, and organizes execution squads to gun after the film is screened.

—Jeff Greenfield down gangsters in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.

Gabriel Over the White House will screen ThursHe orders up a massive public works program and day, March 1, 7 p.m., at UCSB’s Pollock Theater. threatens feuding nations with a super-weapon that forces them into agreeing to global disarmament. Then, Journalist Jeff Greenfield will join moderator Patrice Petro for a his divine work done — spoiler alert — he returns to his post-screening discussion. The event is free, but reservations are recommended. See carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/events/. sickbed and dies.

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Fifty Shades Freed (101 mins., R) In this, the final chapter in the Fifty Shades trilogy, Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) and Christian (Jamie Dornan) have settled down and are married. One day their lives are upended when Ana’s former boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson) threatens revenge and the Greys’ nemesis, Elena Lincoln (Kim Basinger), returns.

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Darkest Hour (125 mins., PG-13) Gary Oldman has already garnered critical acclaim — including a Golden Globe Award for best actor and the 2018 Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Maltin Modern Master Award — for his turn as British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. This biopic focuses on his early days as PM during World War II as Hitler’s army advances toward Great Britain.

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Hugh Jackman stars as P.T. Barnum in this biopic musical that focuses on the legendary circus master and the lives of the people who form what eventually becomes the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Zendaya, and Rebecca Ferguson also star.

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I, Tonya, directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), beautifully blends memory and reality as it explores figure skater Tonya Harding’s role in the 1994 attack on fellow teammate Nancy Kerrigan just prior to the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad) gives a riveting performance as Harding, who is both a victim and the instigator of a life fraught with violence and tumult. Filmed in mockumentary style, the story cleaves the testimonies of Harding, her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), their associate Shawn

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Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), and Harding’s mother, LaVona Fay Golden (Allison Janney), posing the question: What is truth? The film never really answers that query but rather postulates that truth is a complex combination of perspectives. In a time when “fake news” is commonplace, I, Tonya shows that the “truth” of things often depends on who is telling the story. (NS) The Hitchcock Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (119 mins., PG-13)

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan star in this comedy/action adventure in which teenagers find the long-lost people-eating game Jumanji and get gobbled up.

They can only return home when they complete the game, which in this iteration means returning a gem called the Jaguar’s Eye to its rightful place and then saying “Jumanji.”

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Lady Bird lives up to the hype. The solo directorial debut of Greta Gerwig, the film is a full, honest snapshot of the coming-of-age of Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) as she navigates her last year of high school. In a skillful depiction of the pain, beauty, strangeness, and humor of what it means to be a 17-year-old girl, Ronan’s performance is refreshingly nuanced as she gracefully walks the line between daring confidence and acute insecurity. (EW) Fiesta 5

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It’s great being a parent these days, as many so-called “kid” films manage to thoroughly entertain adults, whether through over-the-children’s-heads jokes or just plain great storytelling and animation. Peter Rabbit doesn’t aspire to that category; it’s a worthy romp for the kids, but that’s about it. From a dad’s perspective, the jokes are overly cheeky, the plot is formulaic, and the banter is simple, but the four kids in attendance with me all thought it was swell enough.

The narrative concerns protagonist Peter and his clan adapting to the new owner of McGregor’s garden (Domnhall Gleeson) and his budding love affair with their good friend Bea (Rose Byrne), a welcome and well-integrated nod to creator and literary legend Beatrix Potter. The animated bunnies tuck seamlessly into the live-action humans, and there’s plenty of humorous physical fun throughout. (Apparently some parents object to the blackberry allergy attack employed at one point, which is just ridiculous.) Still, it’s as if the filmmakers briefly considered making one of those great kid-films-for-adults-too, but gave up halfway through and just sent it to the finishing room. (MK) Fairview/Fiesta 5

Phantom Thread (130 mins., R) Daniel Day-Lewis stars in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s historical drama set in 1950s London’s world of haute couture. Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps also star.

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With Donald Trump declaring war on the media like no president ever before it’s touching that Steven Spielberg sought to defend the so-called Fourth Estate with this heroic thriller

about the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Post publisher/owner Katherine Graham in particular. What could have been a gripping movie about the role of the press in keeping the government accountable instead left me wishing for a good documentary about what actually happened back in 1971 with the release of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study commissioned by the Department of Defense to explore the United States’ military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Spoiler alert: The study revealed presidents from Truman to Johnson lied to the American people about a war they increasingly understood to be unwinnable. When the New York Times broke the story, the Nixon White House got a gag order to shut it up. When the same documents mysteriously showed up at the door of the Washington Post, Graham (powerfully played by Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) struggled with whether to publish or perish. Only in hindsight is the “right” answer obvious. The actual debate was anything but.

Had Spielberg not depicted the winners as so unfailingly heroic and the losers so craven and venal, it would have been a better movie and a better civics lesson, too. That said, Spielberg knows how to tell a story, and in this case, the story is so interesting that not even he can ruin it. (NW) Paseo Nuevo

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When a semiaquatic humanoid (Doug Jones) is brought in chains to a Baltimore military research facility sometime during the Cold War, Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a cleaner at the facility who communicates through sign language, finds the nonverbal creature kindred to her nonspeaking self. Their relationship is one of several that anchors Guillermo del Toro’s latest fairy tale, The Shape of Water, whose central characters experience the era’s bright promises in terms of disappointment and disempowerment. Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins buttress the film as Elisa’s partners in crime, but they play sketches of postwar life rather than fully fleshedout characters. The ever-delightful Sally Hawkins is The Shape of Water’s big draw; her physically expressive performance style, reminiscent of silentera stars, is well matched to the role of someone who communicates sans speech. Soon, though, I hope actors with disabilities will get their starring turns in major films in which disability is rendered as possibility rather than lack.

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O Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (115 mins., R) With a star-studded cast including Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, and up-and-comer Lucas Hedges, the film follows tough-as-nails Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) and her quest to drive the Ebbing police department to properly investigate the rape and murder of her daughter. With astute insights into Southern smalltown living, incredible cinematography, and a powerhouse performance from McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is, without a doubt, the best film I saw last year. (EW) Paseo Nuevo

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It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks.

Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): If you gorge on 10 pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary,“You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of Homework: Is it possible there’s something you really need but you don’t know what it is? Can you guess what it might be? Go to Freewillastrology.com and click on “Email Rob.”

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us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II, British code breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered topsecret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean.

You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection.

This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating — thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced

his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin.

Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion, mistakes, and doubts is key to understanding ourselves.

I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing, and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the

riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark,“Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus — a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird.

Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s T-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In her novel The Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds,“Ideas, too.”Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

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Cottage Business Services • • • •

Advancement Systems Analyst Director – Revenue Integrity HIM ROI Specialist Manager – Denials and Utilization Review • Patient Financial Counselor • Sr. Revenue Integrity Analyst

• Environmental Services Rep. Lead • Patient Fin. Counselor – Part Time & Per Diem • Radiology Tech – Per Diem • RN – Emergency • RN – Med/Surg • Security – Part Time

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • Food Service Rep • Physical Therapist • Registered Nurse – Emergency • Registered Nurse – ICU • Registered Nurse – Surgery – Per Diem • Sonographer

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital • CCRC Family Consultant • Lifeguard/Aquatics Instructor – Per Diem • Occupational Therapist – Per Diem • Patient Care Tech • Physical Therapist – Per Diem • Speech Therapist – Full Time & Per Diem

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • Certified Phlebotomist Technician – Part Time/Full Time • CLS – Santa Ynez /Microbiology • Mobile Cert Phleb Tech – Lab • Quality Coordinator • Sr. Sales Representative (San Luis and Los Angeles) • Transfusion Safety Coordinator

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com • 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?

Please apply online at jobs.cottagehealth.org.

Candidates may also submit a resume to: Cottage Health, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689 Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

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EMPLOYMENT essential to the position. This position is full‑time with benefits which will give you the opportunity to work with experienced educators, engaged students and be part of a dynamic and diverse community established over 40 years ago. The complete job description and application requirements can be found at https:­// www.antioch.edu/santa‑barbara/job/ research‑associate/

PROFESSIONAL

BUSINESS OFFICER

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (EOP) Plays a key role in ensuring effective and efficient financial and payroll business functions for the department encompassing multiple programs.

Performs responsible and complex professional financial and payroll analysis and processing for the department. Extract, research and analyze financial and payroll data, develop, create, and present budget data and report to the Director, and as appropriate, to the division’s Director of Budget & Administration. Possess a strong and in depth knowledge of University policies and procedures and Divisional guidelines to process personnel and payroll actions.

Provide policy information to staff and handle multiple complex and confidential projects that require strong analytical and organizational skills. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience working with and creating budgets. Experience working with policies and procedures.

Supervision experience, including knowledge of collective bargaining agreements, and employment and payroll in a university setting. High level of proficiency with Microsoft software products, such as Excel and Word. Excellent written and oral communication and organizational skills. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Occasional weekend and evening work required. $22.85 ‑ $26.50/hr. Competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For primary consideration apply by 2/26/18, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.­ucsb.edu Job #20180063

DEVELOPMENT CO­ORDINATOR, KITP

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Serves as the Development Coordinator for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (“KITP”), supporting a complex and multifaceted program in coordination with Central Development’s Prospect Management, Development Research, Development Communications, and Donor Relations units. Provides leadership for all analytical functions that support strategic goals, initiatives, and projects leading toward increased and sustained philanthropic support for the KITP. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong organizational skills, unfailing attention to detail and accuracy. Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills that foster positive relationships with diverse populations.

Excellent grammar, composition and proofreading skills. Experienced with photography and/or graphic design. Outstanding computer skills including proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Social Media Platforms, Adobe Suite and other graphic design, video editing, and web development tools along with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs. Ability to

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work independently. High level of initiative, creativity, and energy. Ability to maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of work. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. May be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various Development Office, Institutional Advancement, or campus‑wide events. This is a 100% time, Limited Appointment, working less than 1,000 hours. $22.85‑$25.86/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 2/28/18, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20180071

DIRECTOR OF AUDIT AND ADVISORY SER­VICES

AUDIT AND ADVISORY SERVICES Exercises overall responsibility for the conduct of the UCSB internal audit program as provided for in the University of California Audit Management Plan approved by the Regents, the UC Audit Manual, and the professional standards issued by the Institution of Internal Auditors.

The Director is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining a campus‑wide audit services plan. Works with appropriate sources to ensure the campus is in compliance with federal and state regulations. Activities include complaint investigations of potential allegations of improper behavior, “whistleblowing,” and improper government activities.

Serves as advisor to senior and executive leadership on issues of significant consequence and risk to the campus.

Reqs: Substantial demonstrated audit experience at the management level at a university. Knowledge of University, Federal, State, governmental or non‑profit corporation requirements that includes contract and grant type activity, fund accounting and agency reporting. Bachelor’s degree preferably in Accounting, Business or Public Administration, or equivalent.

Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Must fill out form 700 Statement of Economic Interests Filer. $122,900‑$167,300/yr. Competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 3/8/18, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 20180058

SKILLED ESTABLISHED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY has a full time opening at their brand new community in Goleta for a Mainte­ nance Supervisor. This position per­ forms a wide variety of maintenance and cleaning duties including preven­tative, emergency, cosmetic and rou­tine maintenance and regular inspec­tions. Nature of work requires empha­sis on safe work practices, sustained physical effort, trouble shooting, prob­lem solving, attention to detail, cus­tomer service and time management. The Maintenance Supervisor performs all general apartment and facilities maintenance under supervision of the Property Manager. Please submit your resume to loscarneros@trinity‑pm.­com for consideration.

STEWART’S DE‑Rooting & Plumbing has an opening for a FT Repair/

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S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: FOX & GOSS at 2830 De La Vina Street #B Santa Barbara CA 93105.

The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Oct 16, 2014 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2014‑0002952. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Lauren Goss 136 East Mission Street Santa Barbara CA 93101; Ashley Fox 415 West Sola Street Santa Barbara CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 18, 2018. 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 Melissa Mercer. Published. Feb 8, 15, 22, March 1 2018 S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: MISSION SURVIVAL GEAR at 2120 Oak Park Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 07/06/2017 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2017‑0001948. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: General Partnership; Nicholas Galuzevski & Kevin Ott (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 14, 2018. 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 Rachel N. Gann. Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

S TAT E M E N T OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: SORAALASER at 485 Pine Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Aug 3, 2016 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2016‑0002241. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows:

SORAA LASER DIODE, INC (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2018, 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 Margarita Silva. Published.

Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCISSOR KIX at 1616 Hillside Road Santa Barbara CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Married Couple, Amy Vigilante and Christopher Vigilante (same address) Signed: Christopher Vigilante. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 24, 2018 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 Rachel N. Gann. FBN Number: 2018‑0000265. Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VACATION PROPERTY CONSULTANTS at 131 Vernal Avenue Santa Barbara CA 93105. This business is conducted by an Indidual (same address) Signed: Stephanie Olson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2018 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2018‑0000161. Published. Jan 25, Feb 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARIACHI ISLA VISTA at 4326 Calle Real #14. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Gonzalo Reynoso.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 28, 2017. 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 Jaywingle.

FBN Number: 2017‑0003469. Published. Jan 25. Feb 1, 8, 15 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CHOCOLATE GALLERY at 5705 Calle Real Goleta CA 93117. This business is conducted by a Trust Timothy H. Johnson and Karen E. Kegg 4821 Winding Way Santa Barbara CA 93111.

Signed: Timothy H. Johnson.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2018 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 Tania Paredes. FBN Number: 2018‑0000259.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA CPAS at 122 South Patterson Suite #C‑133 Santa Barbara CA 93111. This business is conducted by a Corporation (same address) Signed: Roger Elmerick, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2018‑0000251. Published.

Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREEN MEADOW FILM AND ENTERTAINMENT at 139 Potrero Lane Santa Barbara CA 93105, Mailing Address: 11751 North Ventura Avenue Ojai CA 93023. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Douglas L. Draper. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2018 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 Connie Tran . FBN Number: 2018‑0000318. Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ALLSTYLES FURNITURE at Guadalupe CA 93434. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: David Gilbert Brewer 503 North College Drive Santa Maria CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2018 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 Mary Soto. FBN Number: 2018‑0000262.

Published. Feb 8, 15, 22, March 1 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GONZO RADIO at 6381 Rose Lane Carpinteria CA 93013; Mailing Address: 133 East De La Guerra Street Suite #320 Santa Barbara CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Corporation Media Labs International, Inc. (same address) Signed: RAY HAMILTON, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 25, 2018 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2018‑0000283. Published.

Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE VINTAGE FOX, SANTA BARBARA at 2830 De La Vina Street #B Santa Barbara CA 93105. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Ashley Fox 415 West Sola Streeet Santa Barbara CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 18, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000208.

Published. Feb 8, 15, 22, March 1 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND SANTA BARBARA’S ELECTRIC LEMONADE at 440 Old Coast Highway Unit #A Santa Barbara CA 93103.

This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Gabriel Manuel.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 25, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000287.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PR CONSTRUCTION at 5569 Ekwill Street Santa Barbara CA 93111. This business is conducted by a Corporation PM & RC Builders, Inc. (same address) Signed: Peton Miko, VP . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 19, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000228.

Published. Feb 8, 15, 22, March 1 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EASTSIDE INVESTMENT COMPANY at 232 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara CA 93101.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple Amalia Castelo and Tomas Castelo Signed: Tomas Castelo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2018 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 Tania Paredes. FBN Number: 2018‑0000304. Published.

Feb 1, 8, 15, 22 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CO‑ EFFICIENT ORGANIZING/DEMO 2 DESIGN, ARCHITECTURAL REUSE at 350 South Kellogg Avenue Suite #G Goleta CA 93117; Mailing Address PO Box 60715 Santa Barbara CA 93160. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Carol Ashley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2018 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: 2018‑0000299.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POR LA MAR HOMES AND POR LA MAR INVESTMENTS at 137 Por La Mar Circle Santa Barbara CA 93103.

This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Christopher Hund.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 22, 2018 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 Tania Paredes. FBN Number: 2018‑0000238.

Published.

Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUXURY MEETINGS SUMMIT at 812 Anacapa Street Suite #B Santa Barbara CA 93101.

This business is conducted by a Corporation (same address) Signed: Jacob Ahrens, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2018 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: 2018‑0000312.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA SUNSHINE CAFE at 3514 State Street Santa Barbara CA 93105.

This business is conducted by a Corporation Santa Barbara Sunshine Cafe, Inc. (same address) Signed: Manuel Plascencia, President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2018 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000331.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARGUS BUSINESS TAX SERVICES at 416 East Ocean Avenue Lompoc CA 93436; Mailing Address 1640 West 7th Street Reno NV 89503.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed:Blackline Partners, LLC 2330 Albatross Street San Diego CA 92101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 24, 2018 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 Connie Tran .

FBN Number: 2018‑0000263.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WORKSHOP MEDIA at 5344 Paseo Rio Santa Barbara CA 93111; Mailing Address 5951 Encina Road #107 Goleta CA 93117. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Brian Schoneberger. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 18, 2018 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 Connie Tran . FBN Number: 2018‑0000192. Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: S.B. PLASTERING at 531 Live Oaks Santa Barbara CA 93108. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Manuel R. Leyva. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2018‑0000336.

Published.

Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C’EST CHEESE at 825 Santa Barbara ST, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Corporation (same address) Signed: C’EST CHEESE, INC. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000396.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COASTLINE TRANSPORTATION at 431 Via Roma Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Greg Benavidez Jr (same address) Natalie Benavidez (samea address).

This business is conducted by an Married Couple (same address) Signed: Greg Benavidez Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 07, 2018 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 Connie Tran.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000441.

Published. Feb 15, 22. Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION WEALTH, MISSION WEALTH MANAGEMENT at 1111 Chapala ST. 3rd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mission Wealth Management, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by an Limited Partnership Signed: Mission Wealth Management, LLC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 01, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000370. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EARLY BIRD FLEA MARKET at 937 South Thornburg, Santa Maria, CA 93458; Flavio Canales Palma and Luisa Reyes‑Ramirez 1204 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Flavio Canales Palma. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2018. 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2018‑0000258. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE GOOD CAPTAIN SEAFOOD at 1912 Castillo ST. Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; John Emmett Hoadley (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: John Emmett Hoadley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 06, 2018. 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: 2018‑0000412.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018..

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEALTHY WARRIOR MEAL PREP at 604 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mia Rose Pasqualucci 308 West Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Mia Rose Pasqualucci. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 07, 2018. 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000437.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C O L L A B O R AT I V E EVENTS, LUCIDITY, LUCIDITY COLLABORATIVE EVENTS, LUCIDITY FESTIVAL at 101 S Quarantina, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Lucidity Festival LLC, 5684 Encina Rd, Goleta, CA 93117. This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Allyson Gomez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 09, 2018. 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 Tania Paredes.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000465.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNIFIED DISTRICT PRINT COMPANY at 4280 Calle Real #70 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Robert Simentales (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Robert Simentales.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 09, 2018. 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000463.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REBELS OF THE SEA at 140 W. Highway 246 Unit 735, Buellton, CA 93427; Robert Falcon 583 Central Ave. Buellton, CA 93427.

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Robert Falcon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2018. 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 Mary Soto. FBN Number: 2018‑0000153. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SISTERS LEGAL DOCUMENT PREPARATION at 306 E. Haley ST. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Josefina R. Martinez 30 Plumas Ave. Goleta, CA 93117. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Josefina Martinez.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on FEB 12, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000482.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SAY WHEN at 1034 W. Aviation Drive, Lompoc, CA 93436; Pigeon, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Rachel Silkowski, CEO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 12, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000480.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: BEA FURNISHINGS at 208 Palm Ave Santa Barbara, CA 9301; Joanna Shultz 325 W Pedregosa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Joanna Shultz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 02, 2018. 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 Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2018‑0000392.

Published: Feb 15, 22 and Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROSALES CAR WASH AND AUTO MOBILE DETAILING at 609 W. Junipero St. #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Alejandro Rosales.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 6, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000417.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PETCO #2164 at 615 E Betteravia Avenue, Santa Maria, CA 93454. This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Petco Animal Supplies Stores, INC 10850 Via Frontera, San Diego, CA 92127. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 22, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000229. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORNERSTONE LANDSCAPES at 265 Nogal Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Gregory Hyman 265 Nogal Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Gregory Hyman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 24, 2018 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000273. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IT WORKS MUSIC at 1812 Mountain Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wylliam Carruthers (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Wylliam Carruthers.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2018. 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: 2018‑0000247.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: B & B STEEL & SUPPLY OF SANTA MARIA INC. at 1233 Furukawa Way Santa Maria, CA 93458; B & B Surplus INC. 7020 Rosedale HWY, Bakersfield, CA 93308.

This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: B & B Surplus INC. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000308. Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA AUTO SERVICE at 7340 Lowell Way, Unit B, Goleta, CA 93117; Ivan Padilla, Sandra Padilla (same address).

This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Ivan Padilla.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 14, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000504.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUSSEL SHOALS PIRATE BLEND, MUSSEL SHOALS WINES THE PIRATE, PIRATE at 2825 Santa Ynez ST Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Sanan Redmond LLC (same address). This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Philip Sanan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 02, 2018. 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 Tania Paredez. FBN Number: 2018‑0000398. Published: Feb 22 Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SITASANA at 3160 Serena Ave. Carpinteria, CA 93013; Haley Wilson (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Haley Wilson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 07, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000440.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SANDCASTLE MUSIC TOGETHER at 1033 Camino Del Rio, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Susan Shaberman (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Susan Shaberman.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 16, 2018. 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: 2018‑0000521.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE GOOD SHEPHERD ELDERLY CARE CENTER at 6268 Aberdeen Ave, Goleta, CA 93117; Leticia Spaethe (same address) & Josue Velasquez.

This business is conducted by an General Partnership Signed: Leticia Spaethe.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 15, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000515. Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOVE ROHO, ROHO at 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Best Foot Forward LLC, 3639 San Remo Drive #20 Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Lindsay McTavish.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000492.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATELIER 80 at 720 E. Victoria St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Adrian Meier‑Dentzel (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Adrian Meier‑Dentzel. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000489.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PROH2O, PROH2O.ORG at 315 Meigs Rd. Ste A300, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; ProH2O, INC (same address). This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Mircea Oprea. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 14, 2018. 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000510.

Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SLD LASER at 485 Pine Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117; SORAA LASER DIODE, INC (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Soraa Laser Diode, INC. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000302.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROMO AND ASSOCIATES at 3663 San Remo #5G, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Benjaim Romo (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: BENJAMIN ROMO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 31, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000357.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA ARCADA ITALIAN BISTRO, PIZZA MIZZA PIZZERIA & KITCHEN at 1112 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mizza LLC (same address). This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Kourtney Sealls, Manager.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 15, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000514. Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONYX + REDWOOD at 5038 La Ramada Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jessica Rachel Kuipers (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Jessica Rachel Kuipers.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2018. 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 Tania Paredes‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2018‑0000394.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTAMO at 3773 Greggory Way UNIT 1, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jack N. Mohr­(same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: JACK N. MOHR. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JAN 25, 2018. 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 Tania Paredes. FBN Number: 2018‑0000294.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22. Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLACK SIREN CO., SIREN CO. at 609 De La Vina St APT 8, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Corwin Joseph Di Dio (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Corwin Joseph Di Dio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2018. 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 Tania Paredes. FBN Number: 2018‑0000326.

Published: Feb 22 and Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: QUILT PROJECT GOLD COAST at 1615 Calle Canon, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: Neil Coffman‑Grey.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 7, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000439.

Published: Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CIRCLE L RANCH at 828 Ballard Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463; Christian Larson 8472 E. Homestead Circle, Scottsdale, AZ 85266. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Christian Larson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 12, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000472. Published: Feb 22, Mar 1, 8, 15 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 ATM at 3463 State St. #312, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rock Ranches, INC (same address) This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Anthony Rock.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 1,2018. 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 Rachel N. Gann.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000377.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIRSTCLICK SEO, LLC at 104 West Anapamu Street Suite #K Santa Barbara CA 93101, Mailing Address: 27 West Anapamu Street #350 Santa Barbara CA 93101.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company (same address) Signed: Jacques Habra, Member.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 3, 2018 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 Melissa Mercer.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000042.

Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DUNGEON DARK GAMES, SANTA BARBARA ARCADE, WIZARD COIN‑OP at 182 Park Circle, Goleta, CA 93117; Andrew Reinhart (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: ANDREW REINHART. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 5, 2018. 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 Tania Parades‑Sadler. FBN Number: 2018‑0000405.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22 and Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FELIZ NOCHE, FELIZ NOCHE CELLARS at 473 Atterdag Road, Unit 103, Solvang, CA 93463; Feliz Noche Cellars, LLC 6903 Foxen Canyon Road, Los Olivos, CA 93441.

This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: FELIPE L. HERNANDEZ, managing member. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 19, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000219. Published: Feb 8, 15, 22. Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ORGANIC GREENS HEALING BOUTIQUE at 21 West Michelorena, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elaine Falstrom, 49 Six Flags Circle, Buellton, CA 93427. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: ELAINE FALSTROM. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 31, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000360. Published: Feb 8, 15, 22. Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAMMOTH ROCK CAPITAL at 519 N. Quarantina St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Matthew Hofmann (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: MATTHEW HOFMANN. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 31, 2018. 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: 2018‑0000351.

Published: Feb 8, 15, 22. Mar 1, 2018.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTECITO WEDDINGS at 3710 Amalfi Way #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This business is conducted by an Individual (same address) Signed: EMMA RECHER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 19, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0000224. Published: Feb 8,15,22. Mar 1, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLOS TIBURON at 84 Industrial Way Unit C Buellton, CA 93427; Mailing address PO Box 769 Buellton, CA 93427.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple: Jennifer Roark and Ryan Roark Signed: Ryan Roark. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 4, 2018 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 Connie Tran.

FBN Number: 2018‑0000060.

Published: Feb 1, 8, 15, 22 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRUE RADIOS at 1326 East Mason Street Santa Barara CA 93103.

This business is conducted by an Individual Mailing Address: PO Box 21551 Santa Barbara CA 93121; Signed: David Manriquez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2018 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: 2018‑0000168. Published. Feb 1, 8, 15, 22, 2018.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF CHIU LING WANG ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV00576 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: CHIU LING WANG TO: ALICE CHIULING WANG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING APRIL 25, 2018 9:30 am, Dept 6, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Feb 07, 2018

by Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer; Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk; Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published.

Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

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IN THE MATTER OF NATALIE ANNE MIMS ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV00108 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: NATALIE ANNE MIMS TO: NATALIE ANNE MIMS FRICK THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING APRIL 04, 2018 9:30 am, Dept 6, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Jan 12, 2018 by Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer; Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk; Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published.

Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

IN THE MATTER OF Jose Maria de Jesus Claude Michael Whitehead ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV00134 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: Jose Maria de Jesus Claude Michael Whitehead TO: Jose Maria de Jesus Claude Michael Moon Man Whitehead Sellars y Garcia.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must aooear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING APRIL 04, 2018 9:30 am, Dept 6, Courthouse, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

Dated Jan 12, 2018 by Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer; Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk; Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published.

Feb 15, 22 Mar 1, 8, 2018.

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