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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Bob’s Take Bob Hazard just says “no” to Measure M after sifting through its pros and cons; he also recommends Measure P, for public pension reform 6 Montecito Miscellany Oprah at Starbucks; Huguette Clark’s fortune; John Burke and Meals on Wheels; Roger Rodas’ widow files lawsuit; Anjelica Huston at Cabana Home; Doris Murray Kuhns’ autobiography; Dream Foundation luncheon; Santa Barbara Symphony finishes 61st season; Direct Relief Women fundraiser; Red at Ensemble Theatre Company; Family Service Agency collects $80K; animal activist Diana Basehart; Kendall Conrad’s Spring Fling; Barbara Walters steps down 8 Letters to the Editor “Yes” on Measure M; politicians and county infrastructure; wastewater treatment and desalination; corporations exiting California; Montecito Village Grocery; Rick Maiani and Hope School; J.W. Burk and the Endangered Species Act; climate change; here’s to Oprah and dreams; Cliff Ghersen and Jeremy Harper organizing trip to England 9 The Last Drop Josie Levy Martin’s mind is deluged with thoughts about water, which is why she drycleans dishes instead of washing them 10 Village Beat Montecito’s Four Seasons The Biltmore makeover; Montecito schools get “distinguished” recognition; United Blood Services needs blood 11 This Week Flower show; “Tragedy at Honda” exhibit; lecture and exhibit at SB Mission ArchiveLibrary; The New Yorker discussion; photo workshop at zoo; Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation ceremony; MUS board meeting; Cold Spring Art Faire; documentary screening at Goleta library Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 14 Seen Around Town Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care hosts Mother’s Day luncheon; Magic Castle birthday with Milt Larsen; Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards 22 Montecito Insider Country Day School’s Crane Rocks! raises money and honors retiring teacher Janey Cohen

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23 Your Westmont Washington Elementary runs away with the city track title, and students research sports science at a unique study-abroad program 26 On Entertainment Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion at SOhO; Equivocation storms the stage at UCSB; ballet gets in step with San Marcos High; Thumbelina at Lobero and Funk Zone Style; ArtBark and Show N’Tell; UCSB Dance Company shows; Sprung Floor Festival 29 Notes from Downtown Jim Alexander casts an eye toward Dulce, New Mexico, and late engineer Philip Schneider’s purported battle with aliens 33 On Exhibit Flower power with the Garden Club of Santa Barbara, whose upcoming show takes root The Music Academy of the West 36 Sheriff’s Blotter Gasoline stolen from scooter; vehicle break-in; solar lights and tools stolen 37 Coming & Going James Buckley peels back the layers of Les Misérables and Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre; Monte Wilson warms up Cars & Coffee, “Rally For Kids,” and “Rally After Party” 38 Our Town Native American flutist Mark Holland, “the Jimi Hendrix of American flute,” visits California and makes a stop at Unity Church; smART Talks series at SB Museum of Contemporary Art 40 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Showtimes 42 Calendar of Events UCSB music in the air; Ziggy Marley at the Chumash; Muddy Waters café hosts poet Ryan Yamamoto; I Madonnari on the streets; Stephen Stills rocks the Granada; SCAPE artwork along Mission Creek; “Left Coast” exhibit at SB Museum of Art; Bach to the future at First United Methodist Church; California Global Youth Peace Summit; The Fault in Our Stars preview at UCSB 45 93108 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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BOB’S TAKE

by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

I’m Voting ‘No’ on Measure M

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ote-by-mail ballots have been sent to Montecito residents for the Tuesday, June 3, election. The toughest decision on the ballot is Measure M, an initiative that would require Santa Barbara County to keep county-owned roads, buildings, and parks in the same or better condition than exists now. Who can argue against that?

Measure M does not provide a fix for the current state of disrepair. It merely mandates that the county prevent further deterioration to roads, buildings, and county parks. The board of supervisors may implement Measure M in any way it chooses, except that it cannot issue debt, unless the debt is approved by the voters. Again, that sounds quite reasonable.

The Case in Favor of Measure M

Crafted by 4th District supervisor Peter Adam, Measure M is supported by former Montecito Association (MA) president Bob Collector, past MA president Dave Kent, management consultant Tobe Plough and Santa Barbara City councilman Dale Francisco. The official position of the Montecito Journal also favors passage of Measure M, noting that roadway and infrastructure repair and maintenance cannot be postponed indefinitely and that those spending choices should be made now, not somewhere later down the road by someone else.

Repairs and maintenance of county roads, buildings, and parks have been underfunded and systematically deferred for decades. According to 1st District County supervisor Salud Carbajal, the deferred maintenance backlog, an unfunded liability, has now climbed to an estimated $208 million for 1,670 miles of county roadways, bridges and culverts; 386 public buildings with 8.5 million square-feet of space that need repair; and 8,500 acres of parkland and open space, as well as 90 miles of trails. Fifth District supervisor Peter Adam, the Santa Barbara News-Press and the Santa Maria Times put the unfunded backlog at $349 million. Regardless of which is correct, the backlog is huge and inexcusable.

Supporters of Measure M argue persuasively that roads, parks, and buildings owned by the county are not being maintained to acceptable standards. They say the county now spends only $2.5 million per year on deferred repairs and maintenance of county roads, buildings and parks, out of a total 2014-15 operating budget of more than $800 million. They argue that the county should be forced to increase maintenance spending to at least $20 million a year.

The Case for Voting ‘No’ on Measure M Measure M is opposed by Adam’s four colleagues on the SB County Board of Supervisors – Carbajal, Janet Wolf, Doreen Farr, and Steve Lavagnino, a frequent North County ally of Peter Adam – and by Joe Centeno, former 5th District County supervisor; by Joni Gray, former 4th District County supervisor; and by the League of Women Voters.

Supervisor Carbajal argues that the county spent $22.3 million in 2013-14 on infrastructure repairs and maintenance, not just the $2.5 million that is taken out of the general fund. He notes that the county spent $8.3 million for road maintenance and repairs; $9.4 million for General Services (buildings maintenance); and $4.6 million for parks maintenance and repair in this current fiscal year.

3rd District supervisor Doreen Farr spoke for four of her five colleagues when she noted, “Measure M does not identify a funding source, but mandates the county to find and spend $18 million to $44 million a year more on maintenance and repair, no matter what other fiscal emergencies arise.”

According to Farr, “If county departments are forced to make offsetting cuts to county services to fund increased maintenance, the impact on county residents will be devastating.”

Her concern is that all the cuts will have to come from the $220 million discretionary spending budget, where $120 million is already committed to public safety, and not from the $800 million total budget. She argues that cutting as much as $44 million for added maintenance, or 20% of the $220 discretionary budget, will lead to higher taxes, higher fees, or fewer services for the mentally ill, the elderly, children, the courts, firefighters, public safety, operations at the new county jail, public libraries, the homeless, health and human services, school teachers, truancy prevention, planning and zoning, veterans, and even animal services. Neither supporters nor opponents have identified the specific or new revenues to fund Measure M.

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If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

Prioritize Now!

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n May 13 at the Montecito Association monthly meeting, a discussion of the pros and cons of Measure M was presented by representatives of supervisor Peter Adam (pro) and supervisor Salud Carbajal (con). Measure M is on the June ballot and states “shall the County Facilities Maintenance Ordinance requiring the County to keep County owned roads, parks and building in their current condition or better be adopted.”

Voters are asked to vote either YES or NO. Both sides of the argument agree that the county is not spending enough money on upkeep. But the county is short of money, and if this ordinance passes, it may take money away from other departments.

At the Montecito meeting, those in favor of adopting the ordinance want to prioritize the county budget to maintain roads, parks, and buildings and stop the deterioration of county assets. They say that the board of supervisors can find the money in the $850 million budget. Those opposing the ordinance feel it is unnecessary and will take money away from needed programs. Points made in an article that appeared in the [Santa Barbara] Independent by Supervisor Carbajal as reasons to vote NO were echoed by their representative at the Montecito meeting: 1. Less police, more criminals

2. Less emergency medical services and less vital services for seniors, children, students, families, and the most vulnerable. Did I leave anybody out?

3. Library services and county parks may be cut out entirely.

Question: If money is taken out of the general fund to properly fund our parks, why would we have to close the parks? Oh, never mind.

If those were not enough reasons to vote NO, the speaker added one more catastrophe. He stated if you vote YES on Measure M, the county could be deciding to pave Camino Cielo instead of having adequate water supply in Montecito. Fortunately, there were members of the Montecito Water Board at the meeting to remind the speaker that the Montecito Water District does not get its water from the County of Santa Barbara, and that the county does not contribute anything to our water district.

I called County Public Works to see if they had a good guess on the amount of money Measure M would cost. In October 2013, Roy Jorgenson Associates was awarded a contract by the County of Santa Barbara for a “Facilities Condition Assessment and Asset Management Plan Development.” This report is out and has some statistics and facts that would be relevant to the Measure M discussion. The county owns more than $1 billion in assets. Jorgensen

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conducted field inspections of the facilities between October 2013 and February 2014. The team evaluated approximately 8.5 million square [feet] of buildings and approximately 309.6 acres of park facilities. The report estimates the deferred maintenance at $83.6 million. This is a very lengthy and detailed report, but the bottom line is that it will cost about $8 million for buildings and parks, and about $5 million for roads in additional funding annually to fulfill measure M. This is a far cry from the $40 million number being thrown about as a scare tactic by opposition to Measure M. I ask myself why elected representatives would let $1 billion of assets deteriorate and not work to find $13 million out of a budget of $850 million to protect those assets. Do we vote NO, just so our politicians don’t have to make any hard decisions?

Dick Nordlund Montecito (Editor’s note: You ask somewhat ironically if you’d “left anybody out?” The answer is, yes, you have. You forgot to mention that passage of Measure M would force old people to choose between gruel and oatmeal, that all children under the age of 26 are likely to face slow starvation (or at least severe anxiety), and that some government employees may be forced to wait until the ripe old age of 51 to begin to collect early retirement pensions at 98% of their former pay level. – J.B.)

sincere. Or, as Mark Anthony said in his oration upon the funeral of Julius Caesar, “For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.” However, as a litigator I have spent decades and countless hours discovering what others actually knew. I suggest that restraint need be exercised when stating categorically what others “know” and what is an “inconvenient truth.”

Dr. Edo may perhaps be right in his assertions; I am not qualified to say. But what is clear to me is that all involved must diligently search for correct solutions to our current and perhaps long-range water shortage. I have determined that our Montecito Sewer District does not engage in tertiary wastewater treatment. Such treatment may obviate Dr. McGowan’s concern. That is a fact to be determined.

Ultimately, it is not enough to simply search for additional sources of fresh water, which is finite and diminishing. More solutions must be intelligently explored and implemented, whether those solutions be desalinization or reuse of recycled water. So far, I have yet to see evidence of such exploration and implementation.

Edwin C. Martin Jr. Montecito

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Another what? Another new law from Hannah-Beth Jackson. Another corporation leaving California.

Any connection?

Toyota announced 5,000 U.S. headquarters jobs are moving out of state.

Corporations have been fleeing the state for years. Fifty corporations have left California this year already. Jerry Brown’s response? “We have lots of little burdens and regulations and taxes.” Little burdens? Last year he signed 800 new laws. How can anyone read them, much less obey them and have time left to run a business?

Ms Jackson’s latest bill would force drug companies to take back unused prescriptions. This seems particularly pointless. Sensible people will dispose of drugs sensibly; foolish people will be foolish.

Ms Jackson is proud of the huge number of laws she has introduced.

But Jackson and Brown seem oblivious of the damage they do. They assume business is automatically bad.

Remember, if you have it, it came from a business. Your car and gas come from corporations, your house from a local building contractor; most food came via a company. Silly me, I almost forgot, your job is likely with a corporation.

Remember when California was

Thanks for speaking out on the hard truth of why all the career politicians came out in opposition [of Measure M]. God forbid their pension should be diminished while the infrastructure of the county they are supposed to protect crumbles before our eyes.

Maybe it’s a good thing if the county building disappears!

Hope you don’t have to call the sheriff before the election is over; call me and I’ll cover your back. You’re fearless – keep it up!

Best regards, J.S.S. Montecito (Editor’s note: Thanks, but it’s not “fearless,” it’s just clear-headed. The idea that if anyone anywhere ever brings up the subject of reining in government spending they are subject to abuse and derision by those most likely to be affected is frightening and disheartening. – J.B.)

Heads Above Water I have read with interest the current letter of Dr. Edo McGowan. In no way do I intend to question the thoughts of Dr. McGowan and note that he has written extensively on the issue of pathogenic bacteria/virus in recycled water.

I am sure that his comments are

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THE LAST DROP

by Josie Levy Martin

Josie Levy Martin is the author of Never Tell Your Name, story of a hidden child during WWII; a former columnist with the Larchmont Chronicle and a retired L.A. school psychologist.

Dry-Cleaning Dishes

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dry-clean dishes. We’re allowed 34 HCFs (hundred cubic feet) this month, which has turned me into a water Nazi. It’s not so much about the penalties if we go over, it’s the threat of having our water shut off altogether if we exceed the limit after three months. It’s also about conserving for the community at large.

So, I dry-clean dishes instead of wash them. Use paper towel to remove the sticky cheese sauce from the pasta Alfredo. Moisten the towel and scrub, keep scrubbing hard; use the thumbnail for that sticky morsel.

The gruyere cheese caked on the plates would slide off easily with a couple of gallons of hot water running over it, like in the good old days. But on this ration of 748 gallons per day, I think about every gallon, every quart, every pint, every cupful.

It’s a lean and mean operation – measured, calibrated, down to the last drop, and I yell at the husband, who is not as orthodox. Once the last crusty flake has been forced off the white plate, I rinse under the faucet over the catch basin. Almost no water is allowed down the drain.

When the basin is three-quarters-full and heavy, I lift it, set it on a dishtowel spread on the sink to dry its bottom, then carefully transport it across the kitchen, the hall, the living room to the garden.

Now comes botanical triage.

Shall I pour it on the violets, the

golden poppies, the purple sage, or the geraniums? Not the poppies; they got a few cups full before dinner from the vegetable-washing. The nasturtiums that were practically winking with orange bliss a few days ago look desperate. This grey water drop is for them. I smile at the rows of succulents that don’t cry out with thirst.

Does grey water hurt delicate plants? The dimontia ground cover planted to replace the peaceful, green lawn that once surrounded our house seems healthy. Will the beloved Japanese maples survive water-softener salts, dribbles of Joy dishwashing soap, and other chemicals? Can’t be good for hydrangea, purple sage, or the white canna lilies…

My favorite rose bush, Silver Anniversary, looks pinched and droopy. The leaves are folding down inward. I promise it one of my least contaminated grey water drops as soon as it collects in the sink basin.

She’ll get it all in one giant gulp. By morning, I walk out to see results.

The leaves are less droopy, but two buds have been whipped off by blasts of hot late-afternoon winds.

Dry-cleaning dishes is like camping, except there’s no end to the trip.

I sometimes do a half-dozen water drops a day onto the poor garden. It makes me feel faintly virtuous but not hopeful.

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Four Seasons Biltmore Gets Makeover

An extended outdoor patio at Ty Lounge is re-opened after being closed for six weeks. The extension includes eight new tables, as well as radiant heat under the patio floor.

May 2014 Meter-Reading Dates To help you track water use and remain within your allocation, the planned meter-reading schedule will be regularly updated at www.montecitowater.com.

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Downey said. The space has undergone a major makeover, including an expansion of the oceanfront terrace, which now accommodates eight additional tables to allow guests to take advantage of the scenic beach views.

The patio was expanded to reach the outdoor patio of Bella Vista, and radiant heat has was added beneath the Italian marble.

Inside, the casual lounge has been transformed to be “more modern, more lively, and more in line with the warm, elegant service, and memorable experience we are known for,” according to general manager Karen Earp. The cream walls have been painted a deep terra cotta color, and

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THURSDAY, MAY 22

“Tragedy at Honda” The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s upgraded exhibit, “Tragedy at Honda”, will honor the lives of 23 brave sailors who lost their lives as seven Clemson-class destroyers crashed into the jagged rocks at Honda Point, just above Point Arguello, in September 1923. To this day, it is considered the largest naval disaster during peacetime in United States history.

The exhibit features artifacts from the destroyers, photos, and aerial footage of the wreck site, and interviews with Gene Bruce, the last living survivor of the tragedy (now passed away) and a telegraph operator working the night of the disaster.

When: 5 pm to 7 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: free RSVP: www.sbmm.org or (805) 962-8404 ext. 115

THURSDAY, MAY 22 Flower Power “Fascinating Rhythms, The Music of Flowers” is the theme of The Garden Club of Santa Barbara’s upcoming flower show, which will feature members’ horticulture specimens, floral design arrangements, photography, and a conservation exhibit on the honeybee. Garden Club of America-designated judges from throughout the United States will select winners among the entries.

The Montecito estate formerly known as Miraflores, which means “Look at the flowers,” is the setting for the show. Just as the Music Academy musicians are inspired by the lovely gardens of Miraflores, Garden Club members will seek to reflect the joy of music.

When: 10 am to 4 pm and Friday, May 23, 10 am to 3 pm Where: MAW, 1070 Fairway Road Info: www.gardenclubofsantabarbara.org

Lecture & Exhibit A free lecture and viewing of Edwin Deakin’s oil paintings of the 21 missions of Alta California will be held at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library. Scott Haskins, art conservator at Fine Art Conservation Laboratories, will speak on “Preserving California History: Conserving the Art of Edwin Deakin and Henry Chapman Ford” When: 6 pm Where: 2201 Laguna Street; free parking at the Mission RSVP: 682-4713 ext. 124, or research@sbmal.org Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

Advanced Photo Workshop Aspiring wildlife photographers get up “close and personal” with both small animals and tall giraffes at an Advanced Photo Workshop at the Santa Barbara Zoo, led by noted photographer Ralph Clevenger. Participants can edit their best shots during an optional hour of instructorguided Adobe Lightroom Training, which follows the workshop at 3 pm.

Clevenger is a longtime instructor at Brooks Institute who has traveled around the world. A selection of his photographs taken at the Channel Islands is currently on view at the zoo’s Volentine Family Gallery in the newly opened Discovery Pavilion.

Class size is limited and registrations are on a first-come, first-serve basis.

When: 8 am to 2 pm Where: 500 Niños Drive Cost: Cost for the Advanced Photo Workshop is $260 per person, and $200 for Santa Barbara Zoo members. The additional one-hour Adobe Lightroom Training is $50.

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FRIDAY, MAY 30

Memorial Day Ceremony Come join us for the real reason we celebrate Memorial Day. Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation presents a one-hour program to honor all those who have served and their families. Program includes bagpipers, USMC Color Guard, Pledge of Allegiance and Invocation with live music, guest speakers, and singers to bring to life the PCVF motto, “Never Forgotten.” All are welcome to join.

Seating area provided. Please arrive no later than 9:45 am. Ceremony starts at 10 sharp and culminates with a flyover of vintage war birds doing two passes – the final one being “The Missing Man”.

When: 10 am to 11 am Where: Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive Cost: free, donations welcome

Film Screening The American Scandinavian Foundation and Sons of Norway hosts a screening of a documentary containing interviews about a 1942 rare experiment in American military history, beginning with the activation of the 99th Infantry Battalion composed of Norwegians and Norwegian Americans. They served in Normandy, the Ardennes Rhineland, and Central Europe before entering Oslo to act as the Honor Guard for the Norwegian Royal family on their return in 1945.

The documentary includes interviews with servicemen, historians, and researchers.

The film will be introduced by Lt. Col. Erik Brun, retired president of the 99th battalion Educational Foundation.

When: 6 pm Where: Goleta Public Library, 500 N. Fairview Avenue

TUESDAY, MAY 27 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 6 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 Cold Spring Art Faire This event is a showcase of art Cold Spring students have produced throughout the year. Bring a picnic dinner to eat on the lawn; face painting, edible art and crafts will entertain the kids. Art viewing will take place afterward in the classrooms.

When: 5 to 6 pm: art on display in classrooms; 6 to 7 pm: picnic Where: Cold Spring School, 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road

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This workshop will help the novice beekeeper build basic skills. Learn honeybee society and biology, equipment, starting a colony, and fall and winter management. Protective equipment provided. Paul Cronshaw has more than 40 years of beekeeping experience and teaches at Fairview Gardens. He tends La Casa’s apiary and will lead in inspecting onsite hives.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $60, includes lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org Bridge Party Santa Barbara Bridge Center presents a low-stress and fun bridge game in a social atmosphere, with individually dealt hands timed to allow discussion between each hand. Masterpoints available at each table at each round. There will be a minimum of 16 hands in four rounds. Players will play different teams on each round. Partners available for single players. Reservations required.

When: 6 to 9:30 pm Where: SBBC, 2255 Los Positas Road Cost: $25, includes dinner and drinks Info: Dawn Ligon, 455-7008 •MJ

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dining chairs have been reupholstered in a rich, sophisticated fabric.

Downey tells us the renovation was conceptualized by owner Ty Warner and was heavily influenced by his extensive travels in Mexico. Worldclass designer Pierre-Yves Rochon was employed to bless the concept and add to the overall design with the chosen fabrics and color schemes.

Ernesto Cruz, an artist and architect based in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, created unique pieces specifically for the lounge, including two massive chandeliers and sconces constructed of handmade iron and hand-blown glass in deep shades of red and purple. “The design was based on those chandeliers,” Downey said.

A new central table, also custom-made by Cruz, offers a place for guests to linger and socialize near the bar. Behind the bar, the previous shelving was replaced with Italian honey onyx from Antolini of Verona, Italy, in a yellow and orange-lighted arch, flanked with hand-wrought bronzework, locally crafted by Dan Paterson. Banquette tables have been added along one wall to create a cozier, more intimate seating option, and a new, large screen, high-definition television above the fireplace masquerades as a gold-framed mirror when not in use.

In conjunction with the reopen-

ing, Ty Lounge has introduced a new happy hour as well as a celebratory signature cocktail – a deconstructed gin and tonic called the G&T Cura, which features a house-made citrus shrub and botanicals from the chef’s garden. The happy hour is Monday through Thursday, from 4 to 6 pm and includes half-off specials on well drinks, wines on tap, and beers, along with select tapas. Wednesdays the Lounge features Flamenco guitarist Chris Fossek, and Friday nights Lois Mahalia and her family perform jazz music. A DJ spins music on Saturday nights. “The lounge continues to get more and more popular,” Downey said.

In other parts of the hotel, there are more updates, including a softgoods renovation in 152 out of the 207 guest rooms. The update includes new carpeting, paint, window coverings, headboards, upholstery, and artwork, as well as new beds, custom designed

by Simmons Bedding Company. Four Seasons is the first hospitality company to offer a custom-designed bed, Downey said. The Biltmore is the third Four Seasons resort to obtain the new beds, as part of the recent upgrades.

One of three plunge pools has been finished on the property, which are adjacent to three guest cottages. The

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Guests gathered in the courtyard of the Coral Casino and were treated to the inaugural fashion show complete with a runway, music, and mistress of ceremonies Shirin Rajaee from Channel 3 news. Boutiques participating were Allora, Bonita, Giuliana, Indian Summers, Lana Marme, Lola and Lole. Strutting their stuff were models Allison Antionette, Erika Buse, Michelle Cervantez, Jill Chase, Babetta Daddino, Jessica Feltman, Andrea Garzon, Teri Green, Jennifer Hatton, Jessie Hernandez, Barbara Kummer, Suzanne Murphy, Robyn O’Hearn, and Robyn Parker.

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auction had a bidding war reaching more than $15,000 for the Queen Mary 2 trip donated by Judy and Brian Robertston of Robertson International Travel.

Jill’s husband, Neil, lauded his wife’s many great traits, joking, “She still gets carded from time to time, and she does get angry sometimes.”

He also believes that without Jill the upcoming Children’s Museum would not be happening. Groundbreaking (near the railroad station) will be in June. Jill’s mom, Irma, was also honored by VNHC in 2007.

Tom Rollerson spoke of his late mother, Barbara, who had five children. “I was the last and she never came home again. She was stricken with multiple sclerosis.” She survived in a home for 10 more years where he, his father and siblings would visit. But still he felt her love. He has had many surrogate moms along the way. As Tom said, “Death pries us apart, but love can never be pried from the heart.

I’m proud to be a mama’s boy.”

All the moms received a red rose on the way out.

Milt’s Magic Castle Birthday

Leave it to Milt and Arlene Larsen to have a unique party. The invitation announced, “We’ve having a

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moustache/birthday party” complete with moustaches attached in a variety of styles. It was to be held at their iconic landmark attraction, The Magic Castle, in Hollywood.

Milt was turning 83, but he has been a busy fellow all his life. He was born in Los Angeles and can claim title to being a writer, actor, performer, lyricist, magician, entrepreneur, speaker and, of course, the creator of the private club for magicians, The Magic Castle.

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and his brother the late Bill Jr., were both in television but had grown up in a family of magicians. Their father was not only an attorney but also a performing magician. Their mom was the early TV pioneer children’s entertainer known as The Magic Lady and published Genii, the Conjurors Magazine, which is still going strong.

Dad always wanted a place for magicians to hang out. After his passing in 1955, Milt met the owner, Tom Glover, of a hillside property with a house at 7001 Franklin Avenue. With a lease arrangement, Milt almost single-handedly transformed the once stately but dilapidated old mansion to its former Victorian elegance.

Grandpa had shown Milt about fine woodworking.

Milt’s best supporter was his brother Bill, who produced The Danny Kaye Show and promoted Milt’s project, which opened in 1963. Bill as president of The Academy of Magical Arts and Sciences and his new bride promoted The Magic Castle worldwide.

The brothers were also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

The Larsens have lived in Santa Barbara for many years, so a large contingency of local friends headed for the birthday bash in Hollywood by hook, or by crook or by limo.

The Montecito Journal’s Jim and Helen Buckley, Don Seth, Priscilla, Hiroko Benko, and I were there. Also Joyce Shaar, Terry Ryken, Diana and Ralph MacFarlan, Leslie Ridley-Tree and Larry Larsen, Al and Lisa Parsins, mayor Helene Schneider, and Rod Lathim.

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There were poppers, confetti, and fun.

There was a beautiful painting of Milt with his favorite mentor, Walt Disney, presented to him by the artist James Mulligan.

Thanks, Milt, for having a birthday and Arlene for inviting us all to your festive affair.

Spirit of Entrepreneurship “The goal of the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Awards is to support entrepreneurship at all levels in Santa Barbara County,” said foundation board chair/CEO Cathy Feldman at the dinner held at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort. Women who start their own businesses are recognized, and it sets an example for high school and collegiate student entrepreneurs as well.

Friends and competitors gathered for drinks and dinner, with thanks going to premier sponsors Montecito Bank & Trust and lynda.com. Lynda Weinman, who is co-founder of lynda. com and former winner of an award, was the mistress of ceremonies.

As Cathy said, “Together the 27 amazing finalists that we are honoring tonight have gross revenues that total approximately $45 million and employ 684 people, mostly in Santa Barbara County.”

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The 2014 Rock Star: Life Achievement Award went to Betty Hatch. Betty started La Belle Modeling Agency in the 1960s when she was just 25 years old. I moved to Santa Barbara in 1976 and joined the agency as a model,

Stan Hatch with his honoree wife, Betty, who was given the 2014 Rock Star award from the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation

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Santa Barbara resident Larry Ellison and entertainment mogul David Geffen, posed for pictures with customers.

“Everybody was going crazy,” adds my mole. “It was so cool. She is a nice woman with a lot of good ideas. It was great seeing her doing her thing!”

Around 25 cents from every drink purchase is going to Oprah’s Leadership Academy Foundation in South Africa.

Just days later, she was back in the Big Apple for TV news legend Barbara Walters’ farewell appearance on her ABC show The View, with a host of other female TV stars...

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Clark Developments New court documents in the latest battle over the vast fortune of Huguette Clark have claimed that the reclusive copper heiress was “insane.”

It is the first time that the insanity argument has been used in the three years of feverish litigation over the Montana millionairess’ estate.

Clark died in May 2011, after spending the last two decades of her life living in a New York hospital.

The current court battle comes eight months after Clark’s distant relatives – many of whom had never met her – won a $34.5 million settlement in a separate legal fight over two contesting wills.

Now the executors of the estate are going after $105 million in gifts that Clark gave to doctors and employees in her last 20 years, claiming that she did not know what she was doing.

Lawyers for Beth Israel Hospital, where Clark lived for 20 years, said the insanity claim was “a measure of their desperation,” according to papers seen by the New York Post.

However, the executors’ lawyer, John Morken, said his clients simply want to show that the elderly lady was “incapacitated,” according to the Robert Murdoch daily.

According to court papers, Morken claimed that when Clark moved into the hospital in 1991, she was “an eccentric recluse” living in a dirty bathrobe and weighed just 75 pounds.

A judge has yet to make a decision on the insanity claim.

Clark was the daughter of copper magnate Senator William A. Clark.

After losing her father, then her 16-year-old sister to meningitis, and a failed marriage, she withdrew from public life. She spent decades out of the public eye designing dollhouses and painting exquisite works of art.

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Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman, who gave a talk at the Montecito Country Club earlier this month.

Just after Clark’s death, distant relatives began questioning how her lawyer and accountant were handling her affairs – particularly after a will cut them out – and a criminal investigation was launched.

The relatives also argued she had given hefty gifts to her advisors, doctors and carers, suggesting they had manipulated her – but they argued she was simply giving generously to the people in her life.

The argument was settled last September and the relatives walked away with the largest payout, while her devoted nurse was left with nothing.

More recently, prosecutors failed to find evidence of criminal conduct toward her, instead discovering Clark’s extravagant gifts were made in her own steady handwriting or with her written authorization.

No criminal charges were filed against attorney Wallace Bock and accountant Irving Kamsler, who all along denied any wrongdoing, and the investigation was closed earlier this year.

Documents and testimony also showed that Clark was not kept from her relatives, NBC reported, but instead made her own decisions about whom to speak with in person or by phone.

A neurologist who testified in the investigation visited Clark in 2005, six months after she signed the second will. She said the then 99-year-old seemed alert.

“She seemed as cute as pie,” Dr. Louise Klebanoff testified. “Perfectly content.”

While Bock and Kamsler missed out on their payouts, the settlement also disposed of all potential legal claims against the pair, in relation to mistakes they allegedly made – such as failing to video her signing the will, and failing to claim gift tax returns for seven years...

Meals on Wheels Montecito-based bicycle tycoon John Burke could be going from pedaling to peddling.

John, whose Trek Bike Corp is one of the world’s biggest bike manufacturers with 1,700 dealers across the U.S. and 90 countries worldwide, is the rumored new buyer of the Montecito Village Grocery from current longtime owner Norman Borgatello.

A change of ownership notice has gone up in the window at the corner store, just a tiara’s toss from Tecolote, the bustling bijou book boutique, which opened in 1981.

No one is saying much and calls to manager Jackie Estrada went unreturned.

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Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker and Roger Rodas tragically died in a fiery car crash in November.

And now Rodas’ widow, Kristine, is claiming the fatal accident was caused by faulty mechanics, according to TMZ. She has reportedly launched a lawsuit against Porsche, filing the documents in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Kristine is claiming the car veered out of control due to a malfunctioning part of the suspension, and that her late husband could not regain control

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a happy place – Camelot West? Its easygoing nature has been destroyed by people who want dictatorship by regulation like Ms Jackson and her voters. All our representatives do is raise taxes and make rules. Brown is in distant Sacramento, age 76, dreaming of his legacy, not his constituents. And he thinks it is a “little burden.”

But Ms Jackson is often in Vons. Ask her how many more laws are needed to make California perfect. Does she ever plan to stop, or continue indefinitely making jobs for fellow lawyers while destroying jobs for everyone else? And ask her how much campaign money she gets from fellow lawyers.

Your old friend, Jo U Public (the U stands for unemployed)

What’s in Store I wholeheartedly agree with reader Christina Allison, who wrote in about our Village Grocery last week. I’ve come to know this market as a staple of my daily shopping. I can easily ride my bike, or even walk there to pick up a tasty cooked chicken, a patty or two of grass-fed beef, or a head of kale. I look forward to the new owners taking into account how much a local market means to Montecito. I do hope the staff [members] get a fair chance should they wish to continue, as they’ve helped me many a time over the years. May good things be in store for the upper village.

Michael Edwards Montecito

Hope School Spring Sing I am the music director/teacher at Hope School. Recently, the children performed songs from early decades based on TV and movie themes, such as Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres and The Addams Family. Most recent titles are from Despicable Me I &

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Hope school principal Barbara Lacorte was elated during the show and said it was the best concert the school has ever had. My brother, Patrik, and his new bride, Sarah Gore-Maiani, were in attendance and stated they loved the show.

I am pleased that announce that I am accepting new students for the summer session beginning Sunday, June 8. I offer private music lessons and have been a premier music instructor in the Montecito and Santa Barbara area for more than 25 years.

You can reach me at (805) 689-3468 or rickmaianiband@gmail.com.

Rick Maiani Montecito (Editor’s note: This may seem a little self-serving on Rick’s part, but we’ve known Rick, Patrik, Nino, and the entire Maiani clan for many years and think highly of them all. – J.B.)

Of Frogs and Trout Here in the West, there is a saying that water flows uphill toward money. But lately, it seems to flow downhill toward obscure critters that no one ever sees or even knows exist.

Most recently in New Mexico, the endangered Mexican jumping mouse apparently is causing a ruckus with drought-stricken ranchers, who are not permitted to let their thirsty cattle drink from a stream for fear of harming the mouse by treading on the ”riparian area” (code for land that meets a stream).

Locally, we have to contend with both ends of this fight. On the one hand, we encourage government, businesses, and homeowners not to plant and constantly water grass or other water-loving plants (as beautiful as they may be) and replace

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them with landscapes more suited to a semi-desert region. The water district may even cut off water from larger estates that irrigate their vast grounds and do not conserve responsibly. Taking well water is not the answer either and risks spreading unwanted salt minerals as shared aquifers are drawn down and collapse unseen water pockets below, forever stopping their re-charging with future rain.

On the other hand, we watch precious water flow out of our main reservoir, the depleted Lake Cachuma, to keep the typically dried-up Santa Ynez River wet for a specific steelhead trout that doesn’t use the stream during this time of year anyway. The SoCal steelhead knows how to contend with drought, and dried up riverbeds are all part of the process.

Having governing bodies look out for the common good by enforcing conservation of a necessary resource like water in times of drought makes sense, and they need to act with dispatch now. However, having other governing bodies use the Endangered Species Act to waste or impede the use of the same necessary resource by protecting a trout that does not need it, or a rodent that can adapt to a rancher’s cattle walking over for a drink, is misguided at the least and, as they say out West, just plain loco.

J.W . Burk Santa Barbara

Climate Change The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consultant at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees, 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years, it is predicted that due to the ice melt, the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.

By the way, I must apologize. I neglected to mention this report was

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from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 91 years ago.

A Citizen Out in The Cold Montecito (Editor’s note: We checked this one out and it is real; it was printed in The Washington Post 91 years ago – J.B.)

Reading, Writing, and Dreaming

I would like to thank the Montecito Journal, as you have kept us informed on what is always going on in the Montecito community, and you have been so supportive of my thoughts and submissions by publishing them in your paper. We can expect the Journal to be ready every Thursday, rain or shine. So I offer you a big “Thank You.” You might well ask, “What am I up to now?” I have a project that I am working on and very excited about. I have renewed my vigor to complete the book of my life and have been inspired by our neighbor, Oprah Winfrey. It has been something I have been putting off for a long time and feel it is now or never.

I understand that Oprah has launched her own brand of tea and will be sold through Starbucks [Editor’s note: See Richard Mineard’s column in this issue]. And then, in the fall, she will be touring the country with a few friends to inspire America’s communities, to not forget their “dreams” by getting off the couch and doing something about them. It reminds me of a poem I read some time ago.

Here it is: a poem called “Dreams” by Langston Hughes: For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life hold fast to dreams is a barren field Frozen with snow.

So, while Oprah will be “Dancing with the Stars” to the Music of “Tea For Two” and the rest of us guys and dolls will dancing under Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, I will be finishing my book. I am 87 years young and through Oprah’s actions, I have found new inspiration to “dance again” through the pages of my book. What a woman Oprah is (is she or ain’t she real?) Wow! What a life.

Thank you for your support. Let’s get writing!

Enthusiastically yours, Rosemary Ashby-Maiani Montecito (Writer’s note: I am a former dancer, actress, model, and the widow of international artist and singer Dario Maiani III, and, last but not least, mother of three.

•MJ – R.A.M.) 22 – 29 May 2014

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before crashing into a light pole.

The widow alleges that the Porsche Carrera GT that Roger was driving did not have a proper crash cage and racing fuel cell, which she believes is why it exploded upon impact.

According to the documents, the fuel cell prevents fuel from igniting upon impact and is a feature often found in race cars.

Kristine claims that Porsche did not warn customers of multiple car crashes that have happened in the Carrera GT. She quotes them as saying the model is “as close to a race car as we will ever get.”

Kristine is suing the German manufacturer for negligence, wrongful death and product liability, TMZ reports, adding she has hired Hollywood celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos, who represented the late Michael Jackson in his molestation case.

The popular website alleges Kristine claims that Roger was doing 55 mph at the time of the accident.

But the California Highway Patrol stated in March that it believed the car was travelling between 80 and 93 mph.

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Huston in SB Oscar-winning actress and director Anjelica Huston, who recently moved from her longtime home in Venice to Pacific Palisades, was in our Eden by the Beach the other day to read excerpts from hew autobiogra-

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phy, A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London and New York.

The 62-year-old daughter of legendary swashbuckling director John Huston, was at Cabana Home, the tony interior design emporium owned

by Steve and Caroline Thompson, which is selling an assemblage of her personal items, including art and historic movie posters.

The evening was organized by the Thompsons’ friend Dawn Moore, founder of MixxCentury.com, which sells vintage and antique home decor.

Her late father, Clayton Moore, played the famous 1950s TV cowboy The Lone Ranger.

Anjelica, who most recently starred in the musical drama TV series Smash on NBC, is now finishing off the second part of her entertaining memories Watch Me, which is due out this fall.

“My parents inspired me to write,” says Anjelica, who read two excerpts from her tome. “My father wrote on every movie he made, and my mother was also a very beautiful writer and very erudite.

“My mother gave me Colette when I was thirteen years old, which is pretty fabulous, I think.”

Among those turning out to snaffle the canapés, quaff the martinis, and meet Anjelica, who had a well-chronicled, 16-year romance with actor Jack Nicholson, were Hollye Jacobs, Gina Tolleson, Jennifer Smith Hale, Michael and Lorie Porter, and Julian Nott and Anne Luther...

Match Made in the MJ Montecito resident Doris Murray Kuhns has published a charming autobiography, Time Was: Some Memories from Eight Decades.

“I had been toying with the idea of writing my memoirs for at least ten years, but never had the momentum, when I spotted an ad in the Journal for an editor, David Wilk, who had experience writing histories for families,” says Doris. “We began a long and happy collaboration, which culminated in this book.

“It was an exhausting, bittersweet but fulfilling experience. So many other people and events keep popping into my mind, but I have not thought of writing a sequel.”

Wisconsin-born Doris was brought up in New York and lived in Europe, rubbing elbows with such luminaries as Salvador Dali and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Her book, reflecting on her eclectic life with a number of artistic, literary, and Hollywood notables over the years, is filled with adventure, humor, and cultural richness, as well as innumerable photographs.

Doris and her husband, Will Kuhns, visited our tony town for many years while living in Malibu, and his mother had moved into Casa Dorinda from her home in Florida.

“He would drive up nearly every Saturday to have lunch with her,” says Doris. “On one of those occasions, he arrived to be notified that his mother was missing, but had called them from

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Vons market, where she had traveled on her walker to buy some wine for lunch! She was rescued immediately.”

A permanent resident of our rarefied enclave since 1987, she joined the CAMA women’s board and volunteered at DAWG, the animal shelter, as well as writing the odd article for this illustrious organ.

“My husband always called Montecito the last best place,” observes Doris, who will be having a book launch at Tecolote on Saturday, June 14...

Lunch Dreams Dream Foundation’s 4th annual Flower Empower lunch at the Coral Casino was a blooming good event!

Because of the extreme heat, the venue was changed at the last minute from the lawn at the Biltmore to the air-conditioned sheltered bliss

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At the end of the dinner and live auction, head of school Joel Weiss honored Cohen, who has taken on a diverse number of roles in her 25 years at the school but who currently teaches 6th grade science, heads up Crane’s service learning and directs the 7th grade project-based learning segment, called QED. “At her core, Janey is a science teacher, but she has such amazing versatility and range that there is nothing

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Washington Captures Track and Field Crown

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bout 200 fourth-to-sixth grade school children enjoyed a hot day May 15 at Westmont College, competing in the Santa Barbara Elementary School Track and Field City Championships. The athletes from Washington, Adams, Cleveland, McKinley, and Monroe Elementary schools battled temperatures in the mid-80s while competing in a dozen track-and-field events including long jump, high jump, softball toss, and various races. Washington finished the meet in first place (218 points), sneaking past Adams (190 points) and McKinley (120 points).

The annual track meet began last year after being conceived by Westmont alumna and Adams Elementary School principal Amy Alzina and Westmont head track-andfield coach Russell Smelley.

“This is a great way to introduce these youngsters to the sport and give them a chance to be on a college cam-

pus,” Smelley says. “They’re having fun and are thrilled to be out on a field running around and not being in class.”

Westmont track-and-field athletes, who are competing at the national championships May 22-24 in Gulf Shores, Alabama, served as volunteers, timing and measuring the events. Winners were awarded Westmont T-shirts.

Noah from Washington won the 800-meter boy’s race at two minutes, 52 seconds, nearly four seconds ahead of the competition. One of the most exciting competitions was the boy’s 60-meter-hurdles, which Samuel of McKinley won in 12.2 seconds, .2 seconds ahead of Franky of Adams, .4 ahead of Joseph of Monroe, and .5 ahead of Gerrardo of Adams.

Washington dominated the 400meter range, winning both the boys’ and girls’ 4x100 relay and the boys’ and girls’ 400. Caitlyn won the girls’

800 for Washington and Ben captured the title for Washington in the boys’ 200.

After the event, students toured the campus and enjoyed eating in the college’s air-conditioned dining commons.

Students to Research Sports Science Abroad Seven Westmont kinesiology majors will conduct international research focusing on exercise science in June at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. The students on the Kinesiology Europe Mayterm program, led by Gregg Afman, professor of kinesiology, will assist the ongoing research of James Betts, senior lecturer in nutrition, metabolism and statistics at the University of Bath.

Author of the book Nutrition for Post-Exercise Recovery, Betts has taught at Bath since 2005 after earning a doctorate in human muscle metabolism at Loughborough University. Afman first met Betts in 2005 when Afman was on sabbatical at Loughborough.

During a sabbatical last spring, Afman conducted research in exercise science with Betts and the two became friends. “An outcome of that research is a paper that has been accepted and will be published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise

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Metabolism,” Afman says.

The research involves the effects of sodium bicarbonate and reactive hypoglycemia on basketball skills.

“We looked at how nutritional practices (carbohydrate and sodium bicarbonate) may enhance basketball skill during a simulated game,” he says.

“We also validated the testing protocol to be a valid measure of the metabolic costs of a basketball game.”

The Westmont students will assist Betts and five doctoral students who are conducting research involving nutritional recovery from exhaustive exercise, the impact of eating or skipping breakfast on daily energy expenditure, and the effects of high-intensity interval training on health and performance.

“Our kinesiology students will participate in high-level research projects in their major and with respected researchers while gaining valuable international cultural and educational experiences,” Afman says.

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Cold Spring School superintendent Tricia Price and Montecito Union School superintendent Tammy Murphy celebrate their respective schools being honored as California Distinguished Schools

Montecito Schools Recognized For another four years, Montecito Union School and Cold Spring School (CSS) will both hold California Distinguished School titles. “The community should be proud of us!” said CSS superintendent Dr. Tricia Price.

Seven schools in Santa Barbara – two of which are Montecito schools – received the honor earlier this month.

Price tells us that in order to be invited to apply for Distinguished School honors, schools must meet a variety of eligibility criteria, including designated federal and state accountability measures based on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Academic Performance Index (API) requirements. “It is based on a boost in academic performance for each student,” she said. Both schools have been given the honor in past years.

Elementary and secondary schools are recognized during alternate years.

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“Montecito schools are recognized in this way due in part to highly qualified staff, which participate in ongoing development to meet the needs of every student,” Price said. She also credits parent involvement as a reason our local schools thrive.

Blood Donations Needed Earlier this week, United Blood Services announced a concerning shortage of blood donations in Santa Barbara and the Central Coast. The agency is trying to collect 1,800 donations in the next week, in preparation of Memorial Day Weekend.

“We are hoping people will make time to come in for a donation before the holiday,” said Scott Edward, regional donor recruitment director with United Blood Services California.

Two trends intersect and cause challenges for blood centers during the weeks approaching the long holiday weekends: donation rates can rapidly decline and the risk of trauma accidents can increase.

In 2012 and 2013, United Blood Services successfully avoided the declining donations with a series of

productive blood drives. This has not been the case in 2014, as the first two weeks of May have experienced an unexpected decline in volunteer blood donations. The warm weather is suspected of being a factor as potential donors “chose the beach over donating blood,” Edward said. “As the warm weather gets into the nineties and above, comfort can be a factor for donors who elect to stay home.” The recent Miguelito Fire near Lompoc also caused a cancelation of a large community blood drive in Solvang.

All blood types are needed as United Blood Services is asking for whole blood donors, plasma donors, and platelet donors. Staying prepared for patient needs requires a supply of the three main blood components (red cells, plasma, and platelets) from all the eight major blood types. With each donation, donors receive a free total cholesterol test and earn points in United Blood Services’ Hero in Me rewards program. Volunteer blood donors must be at least 16, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, and be in good health. Additional height/ weight requirements apply to donors 22 and younger, and donors who are 16 or 17 must have signed permission from a parent or guardian.

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by Steven Libowitz

All in The Family

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here’s a whole lot of rural American cultural history holding forth in a home in Montecito these days. The place belongs to Gail and Thomas Steinbeck, the latter the novelist and son of famed author John Steinbeck. But the husband-and-wife singer-songwriter couple of Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion – her dad is Arlo Guthrie and grandfather is the iconic Woody Guthrie, while Irion is Steinbeck’s nephew – have been staying there since January.

“Yeah, my uncle jokes that now they’re able to put all the FBI files in one place,” Irion said. “Or maybe that was Arlo. They hang out and it’s pretty funny.”

Things have been a lot more than humorous since Guthrie and Irion began spending time together 15 years ago, shortly after being introduced by mutual friend Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes. The duo has made several well-received albums, and oh yeah, also been married since a few months after they met in 1999, and raising two daughters: Olivia, 11, and Sophia, 6.

Sarah Lee & Johnny have played a lot of gigs in town over the years, but

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Tuesday at SOhO will mark their first headlining show since relocating to Montecito, at least for the school year.

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once – at least that’s how I remember it. We were playing music, and within a week or two we were together and in love and making harmonies and melodies together. I was quite young and I had no idea what I wanted. But when he came into the picture, the rest of my life fell into place. I fell in love with him and with songwriting at the same time, just one package. But we had different musical directions at first. We both made solo records and it took us awhile to realize that we were meant to do this together. We fought that a little bit in the beginning. And when I look back, I realize every sign was telling us this was the way.

Johnny: It didn’t morph into a musical partnership until we moved back east to South Carolina, where I’m from, in 2000. We did a show in together in 2002, which was really great. Then made a record, had a baby, made another record, then had another baby – and it snowballed into a career and a family.

There’s so much history to learn. We just now feel like we have a little bit of a grasp of the family stories, who knew who and how it all came together. But that marriage took awhile to successfully pull off folk and rock together. We’re still figuring that out, especially live.

Sarah Lee, how is it with your heritage you weren’t originally thinking of music as a career?

I don’t know if it was the pressures and expectations that led me the other way, or I might have just been avoiding the issue. But everybody seems to come to an age when you get out of the fog of adolescence and things become clear, become real, and now I realize it’s a blessing.

But I tend to harken back to Woody a little more now, wanting to learn more about his contributions to what I do. I’m still sort of figuring that out.

It’s a part of me, but how does it come through my music? How do I gracefully hold that and still be myself?

Those are the challenges taken on in following in the footsteps. I learned a lot from watching my father hold the torch, and with each generation it becomes more natural that this is who we are. When I see it in my children, it makes me smile and laugh and wonder what my dad must have thought.

It’s a beautiful thing that we’re a part of. Being part of the process of keeping Woody alive makes me closer to his spirit and to people everywhere

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The cool thing about this is that we’re going out there singing our songs. And we’re constantly writing about what we’re seeing and experiencing (just as Woody and my dad did). We’ve got so many projects going on, Sarah Lee & Johnny things, and they all feel like they’re coming together.

Johnny, how is it to be related to the Steinbecks and living in your uncle’s house?

JI. I never knew John, of course, but I’ve learned a lot from my uncle – he’s been something of a personal professor for me, and it’s rubbed off on my songwriting. I can’t say enough on the educational influence he’s had on me, in the way I read literature, view topics, and write. And we’ve written songs together, too.

Can you tell me about the songwriting process between Sarah Lee & Johnny?

You generally don’t write together. How does it work? How do you come together on that?

JI. The first thing is that Sara Lee and I go off on our own and come up with ideas before presenting them to each other. We each have songs the other one hasn’t heard yet. Although there is Scenario B, like we did just this last weekend. We started in the car, just messing around. That’s the happy way, because we really don’t work on songs from the start.

SLG: We figured out a long time ago that we just can’t write together. We’ve tried so many times, but we can’t and it’s frustrating. It’s because we come from such different approaches that we don’t start in the same place together. The strengths in the songs are the ones that show our hearts, and when you co-write you don’t put it all on the table. I can’t have someone sitting over my shoulder being sensitive or feeling offended, and I know the things he says about me in songs, I have to allow that, too... When I can taste it in the glass of melody and chord progressions, then I can present it, but when it’s raw, I don’t like anybody looking. We almost always open up the suitcase eventually and let the other one in.

Let’s talk Montecito: how did you come to spend so much time here in town and now basically move to town?

JI: We toured all over the East Coast last fall, and then started out here in January. We figured why don’t we hang out here instead of going back to the worst winter in Massachusetts in 100 years? The weather’s great, but the real magnet is Montecito Union School. The kids’ teachers are amaz-

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What Needs To Be Done?

Mandated Funding Initiatives Are Ballot-Box Budgeting at Its Worse

My personal vote will be NO on Measure M. While I agree totally with the need for increased funding for roadways, buildings, and county parks repair, and I agree that the supervisors have acted irresponsibly, I oppose any solution that mandates increased spending without identifying both a price tag and a source of funding. Like many voters, I am skeptical of mandates that remove the ability of elected leaders to exercise individual judgment and control over their most important task: evaluating competing priorities and allocating limited funds based upon constantly changing circumstances and needs.

If Measure M is a good idea, why not introduce Measure D mandating a bigger allocation for the district attorney? How about Measure E for more mandated education funding? Measure F for mandated fire funding? Any good executive will tell you that spending mandates limit flexibility in allocating costs in the budget process.

The Real Spending Crisis – The Public Pension Debacle

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In my opinion, Measure M for increased spending on repairs and maintenance of county assets is not the county’s most important priority. The number one issue is the more fundamentally flawed and unsustainable public pension system that is choking funding for key services at every level of county, city, special district, state, and federal government.

The tidal wave of unfunded public pension obligations for the 4,296 county employees represents a major millstone dragging down county government budgets. For the average career government employee, pension benefits will equal 87% of their final salary, paid for life. County contributions to the Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement System (SBCERS) for future retirement benefits for eligible county employees amounted to $99.7 million in 2012-13, and are expected to climb to $110.6 million in 2014-15. The SBCERS Actuarial Valuation Report of October 2012 put the unfunded taxpayer pension liability at $827.7 million, and the county retiree health care benefit unfunded liability at an additional $173.9 million. Peter Adam puts the current county unfunded pension and health care liability at $1.3 billion.

We need to draft and pass Measure P, an initiative for public pension reform, whereby the county agrees to honor its pension and healthcare obligations for all existing public service employees, but substitutes a 401(k)-style retirement plan for all new employees. This would be a start in bringing public pension costs more in line with the private sector. If passed, it would free up millions of dollars to spend on badly needed public services.

Touching pension reform is the third rail of politics. Proposing a pension overhaul leads to public service union charges and court challenges that would-be reformers are “launching a diabolical plot to loot workers’ pensions.” Financial support from the public service unions is critical to political tenure in office. It is not uncommon for public service unions to donate as much as 50% of all campaign contributions. Not surprisingly, public sector unions endorse, contribute, and work for whichever candidate promises to deliver the most generous benefits. After the election, the unions sit across the table and negotiate work rules and benefits with the same candidates they just elected. Therefore, the initiative process becomes the only avenue for meaningful public pension reform.

Santa Barbara County elected leaders face at least five major challenges: (1) bolster strategic reserves, (2) implement meaningful pension reform, (3) improve public safety, (4) decrease long-term county debt and (5) improve infrastructure repair and maintenance. Of these five challenges, the toughest and most important is implementing meaningful pension reform. There is no money to accomplish the other four until the hard task of meaningful pension reform is addressed. Settling for minor pension reform concessions, touted by the public service unions as “draconian givebacks,” is not sufficient to solve the problem.

My plea to you, Peter Adam, is to go back to the drawing board and craft the one initiative that county supervisors are afraid to touch. Start immediately to introduce the much more significant Measure P – pension reform – that would help free up funds for road maintenance and a lot of other county services.

For all his faults, governor Jerry Brown gets it right on his governance philosophy: “No matter how liberal you want to be, at the end of the day, fiscal •MJ discipline is the fundamental predicate of a free society.”

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n.o.t.e.s. from downtown

ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 26) ing – they’re in love with them and with the school itself. We’re going back home for the summer, but we’ll be back in the fall, if you guys will have us. I take a very short shower, so I’m not too much trouble. Really very, very short.

SLG: Montecito has been so great supporting us and the kids. We’re very fortunate to have found so many people who want to help us in our journey. To be frank, at first I was intimidated by the people around here, before I knew them. But as I met them and heard their stories about how they got here and what they’re doing with all that money, I’m in awe of their generosity and their good doings... And that’s ultimately what our music is about; it might be a small part, but it’s about creating community and touching people with our music. And it seems to go hand in hand with this community trying to make this world a little bit better.

So will there be a fourth generation of Guthrie music?

JI: We don’t lay heavy on that. [The kids] join us when they want to, and we have a good time. The most we can do is give them the tools and show them whatever they want to learn from a place of love and encouragement.

SLG: My dad thinks I’m creating monsters. Maybe he’s right. When I was a kid I wasn’t even allowed on stage, because it was a sacred space.

But with our kids, we raised them with the ground-level touring – Olivia was in the van for the first four years.

So when she wandered up on stage and grabbed a harmonica, we didn’t stop her. It’s not what I necessarily want for them. They can figure out what they want to do. But for now it’s a lot of fun.

‘Electric’ Equivocation

Bill Cain’s 2009 drama Equivocation focuses on the historical event of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. But it’s much more than a period drama.

Instead, Cain uses the story to postulate that the spymaster to King James I commissions William Shakespeare – here known as Shag – to write a play about the plot, an unsuccessful effort to dynamite the House of Lords in an assassination attempt against the king. But Shag investigates the story and becomes aghast at having to create it as a piece of propaganda, and instead substitute Macbeth, thus telling a story which is not the truth, but which is also not the great public lie he was supposed to write.

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Zack Humphreys (as Cecil), Patrick Arter (as Shag)

we turned to director Irwin Appel, a professor of theater and director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UCSB, to sort them out and give us six reasons to see the play – not to mention that it brings the UCSB theater season full circle from the Naked Shakes production of Macbeth early last fall, which Irwin also directed.

It is Appel’s (who is a Shakespeare expert) favorite play from the last several years: “The language is electric.

How can I explain it other than it felt like a page-turner thriller I couldn’t put down? There are so many ideas, and it’s very ambitious without being pretentious. This has wonderful characters and lots of imagination. When I proposed the play and the students read it, they loved it, too, so it appeals to people 18-22 also... When I direct plays at UCSB, they’re not an academic exercise. They have to move me or I’m not doing them. The biggest sin on Earth is inviting people to a boring play... If we do it right, it will be very moving to a lot of people.”

Like Game of Thrones? You’ll love Equivocation: “It’s got incredible theatricality – there are hangings and beheadings – but it’s also incredibly intelligent. For someone like me who is a Shakespeare nerd, it’s a dream of a play. But it’s not stuffy or stodgy or intellectually off-putting at all.”

Same goes for House of Cards: “[Playwright] Bill Cain wrote the third episode of the second season.

The play is great in the same way. It’s tricky and there’s lots of manipulation, but it’s also a lot of fun. It actually also reminds me of Shakespeare in Love – not in the tone, but in the idea of a smart playwright using their imagination and writing a historical fantasy on how one of the Shakespeare plays might have been created. And it has contemporary appeal even though [it’s a] period piece. Cain said he was at the Tower of London when he had inspiration, and he thought of our own Twin Towers and the great

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he Montecito Journal has an excellent writer named Hattie Beresford who pens the second-best column for this publication titled “The Way It Was.” Because of Ms Beresford’s excellence, I generally stay away from historical pieces. However, in my quest for a Buckley (the local equivalent to the Pulitzer), I’m going to dip my toes in someone else’s literary pond, and write about an episode in American history that few of you know about: the Alien/Human Battle of Dulce.

The word “dulce” means sweet in Spanish. I think. Then again, maybe dulce means mistress. It’s been 48 years since I got a C- in Spanish at La Cumbre Junior High, and now that I think about it, “dulce” might mean dull. What I do know is that the story I’m about to tell you is neither “sweet” nor “dull.” It is mucho a-scaryo.

Dulce, New Mexico, is a quaint little town located on the Colorado/ New Mexico border. Nowadays, that means the residents don’t have to go far to buy legal marijuana Rice Krispie treats, but back in 1979 it was the location of a grande battle. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Starbucks’ dialect, grande is bigger than tall, but smaller than venti, and all are more confusing than simply saying small, medium, or large, not to mention mucho pretencioso. But back to the battle.

Philip Schneider, an engineer who worked for the government (the U.S. government, not the Martian one), claimed that he helped build a secret underground base in Dulce, back in 1979. It was here that a horrific battle played out, leaving many humans and countless space aliens dead.

Schneider asserts that he became suspicious about the engineering operation when he noticed the presence of Green Berets and Special Forces. That would do it. Add Captain Kirk & Mr. Spock, and I’d be more nervous than a chocolate-covered Tribble egg on Romulan Easter.

Schneider’s fears were realized when he came face-to-face with a seven-foot-tall, stinky, gray alien. Unless Mr. Schneider was very tall himself, I’m guessing such a meeting would be more like face to navel, but I digress.

Schneider claims that he pulled his pistol (standard engineering issue – pencil, slide rule, pocket calculator, Smith & Wesson 9mm), and shot and killed two aliens. Not only is Mr. Schneider a top-notch engineer with high-level government security clearance, apparently he’s also a crack shot. A third alien shot Schneider with

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Jim Alexander, aka “The Amazing Jimi,” dips his toes in unchartered “sweet” waters – those swirling around the Alien-Human Battle of Dulce, New Mexico. He also ponders his rusty Spanish and seems skeptical about engineer Philip Schneider’s alleged underground battles with seven-foot creatures.

a laser-plasma ball, or Borg brain disruptor, or Uranus baloney blaster, and blew off several of his fingers. Then all Infierno broke loose. In all, 60 humans allegedly lost their lives at the infamous Alien/Human Battle of Dulce.

According to Schneider, the only reason he survived that day was because a Green Beret gave his life for him.

That and the fact that the enemy’s cosmic phasers were built by the Ferengi, and therefore prone to jam and misfire.

“There’s a war taking place underground, and it’s been going on since

Mr. Schneider spoke of 1,477 underground bases around the world, 129 of which are located within the United States. Yet Montecito still can’t get a Hooters or a Dunkin’ Donuts! that time,” Schneider said. Jeez, and here I was blaming all that seismic activity on fracking. Boy, don’t I have egg on my faceta.

Mr. Schneider spoke of 1,477 underground bases around the world, 129 of which are located within the United States. Yet Montecito still can’t get a Hooters or a Dunkin’ Donuts!

Call me The Amazing Jimi, but I’m a bit skeptical of Mr. Schneider’s secret underground war. First of all, secrets are hard to keep – just ask John Edwards, Robert Packwood, Gary Hart, Larry Craig, or Mark Sandford, or, shall I go on? Secondly, everybody knows that space aliens aren’t gray and tall and stinky, they’re green and short and stinky. Thirdly, if there were seven-foot-tall stinky, gray aliens underground, Donald Sterling would have smelled them out by now and had them ballin’ for the Clippers, declaring, “Gray is the new black.”

On the off chance Mr. Schneider was telling the truth and there’s truly been a subterranean war since 1979, I say it’s time we lay down our Klingon Battleaxes. Let there be peace on Earth, or as they say in Spanish, Permitir •MJ pecera en Eartho. I think.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 21) Andrew and Ivana Firestone with Elizabeth Slaught (photo by Priscilla)

Triston Layton, Kisa Heyer, Carol Brown, and Ken Slaught at the Coral Casino (photo by Priscilla)

of the Pacifica Ballroom. The record 250 guests helped raise more than $200,000 for the popular non-profit, which celebrates fulfilling 20,000 dreams since its founding by Thomas Rollerson in 1994 in due course and delivers 125 bouquets a week to hospitals, the homebound and the elderly, with 12 local growers donating their wares.

“It really is the most beautiful event,” says new director Kisa Heyer.

Robin Himovitz chaired the fun fragrant floral-filled fete, which was co-hosted by KEYT-TV personalities Alan Rose and Shirin Rajaee, with a tidal wave of bold-faced name guests, including Jodi Fishman-Osti, Robin Fell, Diana MacFarlane, Debbie

Kass, Arlene Larsen, Shelley Schulte, Hiroko Benko, Amie Parrish, Alixe Mattingly, Celyne Demonteverde, Bea Molina, Steve Shulem, Elaine Morello, Mireille Noone, Debby Davison, Laura McIver, Mara Abboud, Amanda Masters, Bella Hahn Cohen, Hilary Doubleday, and Lynette Hall.

Amie Parrish, Robin Himovitz, Lynette Hall, Jodi Fishman-Osti, Sharin Rajaee, and Alan Rose celebrate Dream Foundation’s Flower Empower lunch (photo by Priscilla)

Sara Sizzles The spotlight was certainly on Grammy Award-winning cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio with her delightful performance at the Granada when the Santa Barbara Symphony, under conductor Nir Kabaretti, wrapped its 61st season with an absolute cracker of a show.

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Israeli composer Noam Sheriff’s 10-minute piece “Akeda – The Sacrifice of Isaac” opened the soldout concert with Sant’Ambrogio, in a stunning white and pink gown, performing Dvorak’s concerto in B minor, with a short encore by Bach, which, she explained, had soothed her baby son while she was pregnant.

The finale concluded with Dimitri Shostakovich’s Soviet-era masterpiece, “Symphony No. 5”.

The concert was dedicated to violinist Gloria Autry, who played for the symphony for 59 years and died earlier this month, aged 80. The weekend concert was scheduled to be her last before retirement...

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Money Raisin’ Moms Direct Relief Women held its fourth annual Mother’s Day fundraiser at the Fernald Point home of supporter Mark Schwartz and his wife, Linda.

The bubbly beachside bash with a record 210 guests, co-chaired by Rachel Stein and Kim Thomas, raised $150,000, most of it with the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone at the podium for a Stand Up and Be Counted paddle raise, which will go to the popular non-profit’s maternal and child health programs.

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INSIDER (Continued from page 22) Crane gala chairs Laura Shelburne and Kisa Heyer with head of school Joel Weiss, who dressed up as his favorite rocker, Elvis Costello

Crane moms Rachael Stein, Kelly Bilek, and Jen Abed helped organize the live and silent auctions for the Crane Rocks! event last weekend

that Janey Cohen cannot do,” said Weiss. “She has done so much for Crane, and her fingerprints are all over this school.”

During her 25 years of service, Cohen’s jobs included: interim upper school head; acting director of admission; created and developed Crane’s 7th grade QED program; helped develop the families program; led the 6th grade trip to Catalina Island; conceived of and implemented composting program; taught upper school math; and created the upper school seminar program.

Of all the projects and accomplishments at Crane, Cohen says the one she will miss the most is the QED program, which stands for the Latin phrase “Quod erat demonstrandum,” roughly translated as “We have

proven what we set out to prove.”

Children pick a project they are particularly interested in, and then work with a mentor to learn more about that topic, such building an iPhone app, constructing a model train layout, or starting a non-profit for girls in Honduras.

“It’s probably my favorite thing of all because it changes the most people,” she said. “I love the idea of kids following their hearts’ desire. It’s really important at that age to pursue their passion.”

Just like the long list of things she accomplished at Crane, Cohen has a long list of things she wants to accomplish in retirement, including spending more time painting, playing the cello, biking, hiking, and playing a regular weekly golf game with her

Past, present, and future Crane Board of Directors chairs Laura Shelburne, Scott Brittingham, Tom Kenny, and Carrie Towbes with head of school Joel Weiss at the Crane Rocks! celebration

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Cohen says.

More than 200 people attended the event, which was chaired by Crane parents Kisa Heyer and Laura Shelburne.

Other parents who lent their expertise to the event were Amanda Masters, Rachael Stein, Kelly Bilek, Jen Abed, Mary Morouse, Meg Purdy, and Sharon Hughes.

“In choosing the theme, we recognized Crane’s long history of music and performing arts,” said Heyer, who said the “Crane Rocks” title had multiple layers of meaning. “Laura and I both feel that Crane is the rock in our children’s education – it has been the

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foundation of their childhood. Plus, it made for a fun-filled event!”

In addition to the rock and roll bands that performed, Crane students and alumni performed as well.

Alumna Jessie Bridges made a surprise appearance and sang three songs on acoustic guitar, including The Beatles’ “In My Life,” which she dedicated to Cohen. The Crane Chorus sang, and alumni Allie Towbes, Zac Towbes, and Melanie Thomas performed along with current student Alexander Fell.

The event emcee was Crane parent Palmer Jackson, who told the audience it was his 15th year of being a Crane parent (two of children are alumni), and who dressed and performed in the style of three different musicians throughout the evening – Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Neil Young.

“In typical Crane fashion, our parent volunteers, faculty, staff, students, and alumni came together to produce an action-packed, fun-filled evening that featured non-stop music from a variety of eras,” said Heyer. “The guests absolutely outdid themselves with creative and hilarious costumes!”

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The event takes root at The Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road in Santa Barbara. Doors open to the public on Thursday, May 22, from 10 am to 4 pm, and Friday, May 23, from 10 am to 3 pm. Admission and parking are free.

The Montecito estate formerly known as Miraflores, which translates as “Look at the flowers,” is the setting for the show. Just as the Music Academy musicians are inspired by the lovely gardens of Miraflores, Garden Club members will seek to reflect the joy of music. Each entry category has a song to inspire the designs, including Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm” for a modern mass or “Me and My Shadow” for a design using two containers. Photography inspiration comes from the songs “Waltz of the Flowers” and “On the Street Where You Live.”

The honeybee display will highlight the importance of the bees and other pollinators that are essential for twothirds of the food crops humans eat every day. Over the past 15 years, beekeepers worldwide have reported a drastic decline of their hives. In 2006, this unprecedented loss of bees was

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This exhibit, created in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association, will showcase how to create a bee-friendly garden, and include displays of plants and a see-through hive with live bees.

The Garden Club flower show is especially poignant this year, as it will honor the memory of Natalie Rand McFadden, a beloved member, an award-winning floral designer, Garden Club of America Judge, and community volunteer.

The club is proud to be a partner organization of the Santa Barbara Public Gardens Partnership (www. sbpublicgardens.org), which celebrates and promotes the gardens of Santa Barbara throughout the month of May. Founded in April 1916, The Garden Club of Santa Barbara is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to stimulating the knowledge and enjoyment of gardening, the art of flower arranging, the conservation and protection of our environment and native plants, the beautification of our community, and the education of the horticultural richness and diversity of our region.

The SB club is affiliated with The Garden Club of America, whose flower shows are unique and rare. As a gift to the community, we hope all residents will be able to view the elaborate floral designs, horticultural plants grown to perfection, exhibition quality photographs, and our conservation exhibit about the honeybee and pollinators. This is for all ages, from •MJ youngest to oldest.

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Regina and Rick Rooney with Mary Romo at the Direct Relief fundraiser (photo by Priscilla)

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Over the last three years, the women have collected $500,000 from the annual fete, which translates to 20,000 safe births.

Among those turning out for the cause were Susan Keller, Jeff Jacobs, Ricardo and Dinah Calderon, Stan and Betty Hatch, Judith Babcock, Jane Dailey, Holly Sherwin, and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore...

Seeing Red Ensemble Theatre Company’s latest production, the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Red, is a definite splash!

Susan Jordan, Pedro Nava, and Maryan Schall at the Honoring Families Celebration (photo by Priscilla)

The sizzling, 90-minute, one-act show by John Logan at the New Vic, beautifully directed by Brian Shnipper, features Matt Gottlieb as abstract impressionist painter Mark Rothko working on a series of art for New York’s new Philip Johnsondesigned Four Seasons restaurant, in the Mies van der Rohe Seagram building.

The intense and enjoyable production pits Rothko against an idealistic young protégé, admirably played

by Shaun Anthony, making his ETC debut.

Kudos to Brian Sidney Bembridge,

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the scene and lighting designer, for his impressive Big Apple studio set, reflecting the former YMCA gym that Rothko rented, in the late 1950s.

The play, a complex examination of two very driven and sensitive men literally getting down and dirty, is spellbinding...

Honoring Families Celebration Santa Barbara’s Family Service Agency collected around $80,000 when 150 guests turned out at the Carpinteria oceanside home of Reese

and Christine Duca for its Honoring Families Celebration, with a special tribute to Michael and Marni Cooney.

The 115-year-old agency has an annual budget of $3.6 million to help nearly 20,000 low-income children, families, and seniors annually.

“We know we are making significant differences in the lives of vulnerable families, which will in turn benefit our entire community,” says Marni.

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Barbara Walters hosts The View for last time

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Aid for Animals Animal activist Diana Basehart attracted quite a crowd for a Summerland bash for her foundation, which helps the elderly pay veterinary fees for their pets.

More than 150 guests were at Andrea Dominic’s hillside aerie, where Patrick and Beth Hart recounted how their rescue dog, Lindsay, which has the uncanny ability of alerting its owner to medical emergencies, was going to be put down until $5,000 was found to pay for an urgent leg operation.

“With Diana’s help, we were able to save Lindsay, who I literally couldn’t live without,” disabled Patrick told guests, almost in tears.

Helping to raise around $50,000 for Diana’s charity were Tipper Gore and Bill Allen, actress Angela Lansbury’s son, David Shaw, Harry Carmean, Miriam Slater, Barbara Mueller, Wendy Foster, and Valori Fussell...

In Bloom Fashion designer Kendall Conrad hosted a Spring Fling for her new Montecito Mart neighbors, chef Julie Robles and patissier Elizabeth Colling, with the 100 guests downing red scorpion cocktails of blood orange and tequila, and chicken salad canapés.

Among the fabulous foodies at the bijou bash were Dennis and Carolyn Miller, Tatjana Patitz, Taiana Giefer, Bob and Marlene Veloz, Arlene Montessano, Stephanie and Dewey Nicks, Beverley Jackson, and Mary Conrad...

Barbara Walters Retires On a personal note, I mark the retirement of legendary TV newswoman Barbara Walters, who I first met when I moved to New York from London in 1978.

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We would see each other socially and met on occasion when I became a commentator on ABC News World News Now, broadcasting from the network’s West 66th Street studio, just across Central Park from where I lived.

Later I became a regular on her popular TV show The View and eponymous national radio program talking about the Royal Family.

She was always a great pleasure to work with, and the gossip in the green room was always memorable.

After 50 years on TV, Barbara, 84, finally removed her microphone last week.

As she would often say to me after each interview: “Ta ta for now!”

One correction: Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care has a budget of $27 million for providing care for 15,000 people annually, not $2.6 million as I wrote last week...

Sightings: Oscar winner Tom Hanks and his family at the A-Frame surf store in Carpinteria... Kurt Russell lunching at Café Luna in Summerland... TV chef Anthony Bourdain noshing at Olio e Limone

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SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

Compiled by Kelly Mahan from information supplied by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department

Gasoline Stolen from Scooter

Wednesday, 16 April, 7:10 am – Deputy Amjadi responded to Butterfly Lane to respond to a petty theft. The victim told the deputy that he had stored his Vespa scooter in a parking lot behind his residence. He had placed a cover over it, and a few days later, he noticed the cover was partially removed. He went to investigate and discovered that someone had stolen the contents of the gasoline tank, estimated to be 1.5 gallons of fuel. A report was taken.

Money Missing, Headphones Left

Saturday, 19 April, noon – Deputy Baisa was dispatched to Paso Robles Drive on report of a theft from vehicle. The victim had parked his car in his driveway the day before, and when he returned he found his wallet, which had been in the side compartment of the door, was now on the front seat. He found that $450 in cash had been taken from the wallet, but the credit cards and identification card were still there. A pair of headphones, which did not belong to the victim, were found on the floor of the driver’s seat. They were booked into evidence, as well as latent fingerprints from the exterior of the vehicle.

Solar Lights Stolen

Saturday, 19 April, 3:51 pm – Deputy Padilla met with a resident of North Jameson lane. The man reported that two solar lights, which were attached to solar panels, were stolen from his driveway. A report was taken.

Tools Missing from Job Site

Monday, 21 April, 8:19 am – Deputy Spears was dispatched to Camino del Rosario to meet with a contractor whose tools had been stolen from a job site.

Tools and construction equipment valued at $2,775 had been stolen from several areas of the home. A report was taken.

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Janet Adderley’s Les Misérables

Rickie Lee Benedetto, Blake Brundy, Elise Guerrand-Hermes, Avery Hughes, and Grace Blankenhorn (photo by Kelly Kirlin)

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t isn’t actually Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre (SBYET) founder-director Janet Adderley’s Les Misérables. The show was taken from Victor Hugo’s massive novel of the same name and made into a memorable musical by a couple Frenchmen – Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg are credited with the book – and South African-born Englishman Herbert Kretzmer, who did the lyrics; music is also by Schonberg. Lyricist Kretzmer ’s distinguished career includes at least two hit songs recorded by Charles Aznavour, and a stint as lyricist for BBC’s satirical That Was The Week That Was way back when.

This musical version of the play opened in London in 1985 and has been running one way or the other publicly ever since (and continues in London). Songs such as the heartbreaking “I Dreamed A Dream,” sung by the young and innocent Fantine, “Master Of The House,” robustly and gleefully performed by crooked innkeeper Thénardier and his equally felonious wife, Madame Thénardier, “Bring Him Home,” a forceful lament offered by Jean Valjean, and “On My Own,” sung by Eponine are what move most of us, but there is a plethora of other tunes, such as the anthemlike “Do You Hear The People Sing?” that joyously or sadly, but always beautifully, fill the spaces in between.

Ms Adderley is taking an enormous risk putting this production on, especially at the Lobero, but she is fearless because she knows her SBYET students are among the most talented performers in the entire Santa Barbara area. And, perhaps even more importantly, Janet knows how to squeeze every last bit of latent ability out of her young acolytes. If she is anywhere near the stage or the rehearsal space, every student is on notice that she is in charge and demands nothing but their best. Janet’s voice resonates off the walls, up from the floor, and down from the ceiling. Things never drift when she is there. She’s clapping her hands, stomping her feet, singing, gesticulating, laughing, scolding, manipulating, cajoling, pleading, and doing whatever it takes to drill discipline and effort into each actor’s routine.

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Elise Guerrand-Hermes, and Avery Hughes (photo

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And it works.

Every production of the Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre group has succeeded as both art and entertainment.

Janet can be brutal and severe, especially when it comes to timing: things must move, and move quickly. Audiences are easily bored, she believes, so for example, she has slashed an hour off this version of Les Misérables. Action leading to action leading to more action is what she looks for. “Advance the plot” is her credo.

And it works... beautifully.

Upon examining the cast, Janet boasts that “Rickie Lee Benedetto was born to play Fantine. At only thirteen years old,” she says, “her vocal power, richness and finesse rivals Randy Graff, the actress who originat-

Rickie Lee Benedetto, Grace Blankenhorn, Avery Hughes, Elise Guerrand-Hermes, and Blake Brundy during dress rehearsal at a private home in Montecito (photo by Kelly Kirlin)

ed the role on Broadway, going on to win the Tony.”

As for Grace Blankenhorn, “As Eponine, Grace is an experience not to be missed. At twelve, she commands the stage with the ease of an actress who’s lived her entire life in front of the footlights. She is a pure conduit of emotion with a megawatt voice and an emotional vulnerability that can bring an audience to tears.

Grace has star quality in spades,” Janet says.

And then there is Elise GuerrandHermes as Cosette. “At barely ten years old, Elise is regal yet innocent and warm, with a pristine soprano voice that will melt your heart. These astonishing three actresses,” Janet concludes, “provide the anchor for our two evening performances.”

SBYET students started their rehearsal process in September, but they began without a leading man. It wasn’t until late December that Blake Brundy – Jean Valjean – came along.

“There’s a bright future ahead for this six-foot-tall fifteen-year-old whose velvety high baritone gives Valjean a new texture and richness. Blake is electrifying,” Adderley says.

There are two separate casts: a matinee Junior Company cast, many of whom are making their Lobero debut in leading roles, and the Senior Company who will perform on Saturday and Sunday evening at 6:30 pm.

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Montecito’s Ryan Slater, along with Lucas Meisel and Jack Grazer play Gavroche, and Sofia Malvinni, Leora Wasserman, Holly Hadsall, and Lilly Blankenhorn each play young Cosette.

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Our Town

and that was it – hooked – love at first sight. An indescribable connection – something very common with this flute.

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Mark Holland’s Intimate SB Concert

Post concert, award-winning, Native American flutist Mark Holland with his friend Emiliano Campobello

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orld-renown in the genre of Native American Music is premier composer and Native American flutist, Mark Holland. Originally from St. Louis, he is nicknamed the “Jimi Hendrix of American flute.”

As he is currently touring California with new material recorded with his band, Autumn’s Child, I was contacted by his close friend Emiliano Campobello, an artist and musician in his own right, to come to the concert and do a review. I was happy to cover the off-the-radar event and bring a unique genre of music to our readers.

Emiliano, who has been featured in the Montecito Journal Magazine, has just released a new album, four years in the making, so look for an exclusive about him in an upcoming column.

The concert took place at the Unity Church last week. Mark used nine different flutes in his two-hour solo performance and shared with the audience his background and writing of the songs. It was like being in a friend’s living room and jamming.

The first half of the concert focused on his interpretation of 1960-70s popular music, combining world, jazz, classical, and folk styles. Songs performed included Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” and a Rolling Stones medley. He concluded the first half with “Nights in White Satin” by the Moody Blues, and just shined his talents on our ears. His expertise in trills, vibrato, perfect pitch bending and breathing techniques brought the house down.

The second half of the concert was comprised of original compositions in

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Native American style, filled with ethereal sounds mimicking birds, water, and wind coupled with Celtic influences. Emiliano joined him on stage for an impromptu improvisation. For his finale, Mark played two flutes at the same time, in a call and response between himself and a bird he met on the beach. After a truly meditative musical experience, the audience exited the concert with peaceful smiles and an increased interest in the genre.

Mark has recorded 16 CDs since 1997, with many nominations and awards.

His music is played on Satellite Radio including SiriusXM, and JetBlue, Frontier, and Air Tran Airlines. He has worked with R. Carlos Nakai, Mary Youngblood, Bill Miller, Oregon, The Rippingtons, Acoustic Alchemy, Jesse Cook, and many others.

Q. Mark, what and who are your influences in music?

A. My influences in music are very broad and wide in range – from music of the 60s and 70s to world music, jazz, and classical.

How did music find you?

When I was young, I was into music and loved it. I grew up in a home with music. I played low-brass instruments until my senior year when I taught myself the silver flute, (concert flute) then studied music in college and took lessons from two members of the St. Louis Symphony. I played in a few bands off and on... and graduated with a B.A. in music. Always loved the whole family of flutes, in particular the world flutes. I was looking for a Native American flute in 1994

Tell us about these unique flutes, and their range in music making.

Native American flutes originally did not have a set scale – they were each different in tuning – as the wood was measured by the length of the arm of the maker. The finger holes were spaced by using his thumb or two fingers. Each one was different because of this. Somewhere in the 1900s, many flutes took on a more diatonic tuning. It was around 1980 when the pentatonic minor tuning was experimented with and is what is most common today in about 99% of the flutes. When you learn the extended scale, which includes some cross fingering and half hole, you can play chromatically up to an octave and an third... For example, with an E minor flute, you could play a G major diatonic scale, or an A minor – C major.

With the wood flutes, you have many different keys and different ranges.

You also have different wood types, as well as different flute makers.

With all of these components, you have many different personalities in the flutes. There are subtle-sounding differences between hard woods and soft woods. The real contrasts come from the different flute makers and how they voice the flutes.

How does this style of flute speak to you?

I approach the Native flute as any instrument... notes for making music.

However, there are sounds of nature that you can achieve – birds and other animals – (and) it is the nature of the flute itself when you are including all the wonderful ornamentation or embellishments that make these flutes set apart from others.

When people hear your music, what would you love to have them experience?

First, I would hope they would like the music for what it is... music. I am always amazed at how people have used my music – at times very heavy and therapeutic, and others very playful. I never set out to create a song that is going to be designed for a specific situation. It is after the fact when someone listens and then shares with me how they used the song in their life or how it spoke to them.

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Museum Hosts smART Lectures

The Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art (SBMCA) smART Talks series finale featured local artist Kimberly Hahn on May 8. SBMCA

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executive director Miki Garcia said, “Now in its 18th year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is proud to host smART Talks, which honors the achievements of local artists who enrich our community with their vision and creative practices. This free public program, like so many we offer here at the museum (i.e., Sessions, On Edge Festival), encourages and sustains our artists’ future development and ability for experimentation.

Kimberly Hahn is a perfect example of the kind of artist selected for smART Talks lectures. She has produced a significant body of work that demonstrates a compelling, innovative practice and is considered a leading talent within the local community of contemporary artists. It is a privilege to have the Montecito Journal cover this wonderful program!”

The smART Talks program is a series of three annual lectures of various art mediums by Santa Barbara-based artists. Susan Rose and her daughter Julie Weiner created the program in 1996 to honor Helen Rosenberg, Susan’s mother. Helen was the key to their love of the arts. Growing up in New York City metropolitan area, Susan and Julie remember fondly Helen bringing them to art events, museums, theater and dance, and inspiring them to appreciate all art forms. Later in life, Helen became a sculptor. They believed that the smART Talks would continue Helen’s appreciation of art.

They also fashioned the series to feature Santa Barbara artists.

The program is open to the public and free. The mission is for people to have sense and appreciation for the artists in the community, and the talks are available on video. Susan, born in Brooklyn, New York, has lived in SB since 1978. A former Santa Barbara County supervisor, she now lends her talents as a Public Policy professional for the Advisory of the International Women’s Right’s Committee Human Rights Watch. She also served as executive director of the Los Angeles City Commission on the Status of Women and executive director of the Santa Barbara Arts Council. Julie is the Development Director for the Humanities & Fine Arts and Social Sciences Division at UCSB. Artist Kimberly Hahn creates contemporary works that focus on the subtleties inherent in the processes of photography and vision, bringing the viewer closer to understanding how it works. She has exhibited internationally, with her most recent solo exhibition, “The Object is Null” at the Design Matters Gallery in Santa Monica.

Kimberly and her artist-musician husband, James Van Arsdale, head the Can(n)on Art Studio in Goleta. Hahn studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, England and the University of Texas, Austin, 22 – 29 May 2014

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where she received a BFA. The program was well-attended, bringing guests from the art world, students and fans of her work. She talked about her growth as an artist, who influenced her and provided an in-depth exploration of how she created her key exhibitions. She shared her fixation with the traditional processes of photography, her narrative art beginnings, and transition into abstract and conceptual art. Here are the highlights of my interview with Kimberly: Q. When would you say you began your life as an artist? (9, 10, high school?)

A. Hmm, I think there was a delay to my being aware of my visual side, because of the vision issues I had; it both cultivated my interest and simultaneously was a hindrance to my awareness. All of the background led to a life of an artist, so one could say since I was young, but also if one determines the answer from a more dedicated practice and awareness, I would say high school is where the serious dedication began, with college being a further, complete focus on it.

photography and art from a different mindset, and to have a better understanding of my work. For photographers, I love to think there might be some pushing of their thoughts on the medium, an opening of a world of thinking about it from a different perspective. It’s not important, however, that other artists/photographers discuss with their work what I do. It’s a unique vision and fixation I have, and more than anything I like for it to become a part of a greater artistic dialogue.

When you made the decision, did that become your life’s focus, or were there other areas you explored?

For me, it was not a decision to become an artist, but more of an inescapable imperative. I was driven to do this, and I can’t really imagine anything else. That said, I do cultivate many parts of my self, and I do have to work at other things to support my continued artistic practice. Artists — we dream of being able to just make our work.

Do you think the smArt Talks are for the community, or [that] their focus is more for artists?

SmART Talks are valuable for both the artists and the community at large.

They demystify artists and artist practices in contemporary art; contribute to the sharing and understanding of visual, auditory, experiential input; expose the community to artists working within their midst, and bring visibility to our local creative community. One attendee mentioned he is not artistic, but he thought, “What the heck” – he’d come to see what it was about, what an artist is about in essence. He was intrigued by the Still Life with Index Card series and felt like he understood it regardless of the series’ complexity. When I hear that I feel good, because the sharing was impactful and exciting for someone who is not artistic to experience. Art often reaches people in a way that they might never have thought possible and through the smART Talks, this sharing was facilitated.

After your presentation, what would you love the guests to walk away with?

I’d love for the guests to think about

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO: 3723 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3723 for the Marina One Replacement Project – Phases 5-8 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 3, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Marina One Replacement Project – Phases 5-8, Bid No. 3723”.

The work includes all submittals, labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Professional Engineer stamped submittals, demolition of existing docks including utilities, installation of floating docks including utilities, tying over to existing water, sanitary sewer, electrical, and cable/telephone service, and installation of new piles per plans and specs. The contractor shall possess a valid Contractor's Class A License issued by the Contractors State License Board at the time the bid is submitted to complete this work. The Engineerʼs estimate is $6,223,000 for the base project and $194,000 for the additive bid item for a total project estimate of $6,417,000.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 11:00 am at the Waterfront Department Office located at 132-A Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Eric Maple, Project Engineer, 805-8972501.

In order to be placed on the plan holderʼs list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5329 DUE DATE & TIME: June 4, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Street Name Signs Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Love Letters to the World, 1482 E Valley Road, Suite 482, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Laurie Elizabeth Dill McKinley, 1482 E Valley Road, Suite 482, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 19, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001470.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Revitalize With Exercise, 620 Anacapa Unit 4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Brian Lawrence Antecki, 2710 Sycamore Canyon, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Noe Sobis. FBN No. 2014-0001272.

Published May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Merchant Therapy, 1530 Miramar Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Jennifer Powell, 1530 Miramar Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 6, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001344.

Published May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: W-3 International, 1482 E. Valley Rd. #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Gregory Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd. #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, Robert Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd. #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001291.

Published May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 2014.

Published: May 21, 2014 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Beija Flor Designs, 2130 Grand Avenue, Ventura, CA 93003. Devin Christopher DeHart, 2130 Grand Avenue, Ventura, CA 93003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 6, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001330.

Published May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ellipsis Gellatly, 26 East Sola #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Ellipsis Darcane, 26 East Sola #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 2, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001307.

Published May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Piccadilly Holdings, 4283 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Goodman Reed Motorcars, LLC, 4283 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0001387.

Published May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Susan Keller, 328 Mathilda Drive #2, Goleta, CA 93117. Maia Palmer, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robert Palmer, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 6, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001340.

Published May 14, 21, 28, June 4, 2014.

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person(s) is/are doing business as: The Lower Lodge, 609 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Hannah Vainstein, 609 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001204.

Published May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Revitalize With Exercise, 620 Anacapa Unit 4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Brian Lawrence Antecki, 2710 Sycamore Canyon, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Nie Sohis. FBN No. 2014-0001272.

Published May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sideways Wine; Sideways Wine Bar, 3920 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Charles S. Crail, 180 Olive Mill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001301.

Published May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kirk’s Plumbing, 2718 Verde Vista Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Kirk Elliot Peters, 2718 Verde Vista Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001222.

Published May 7, 14, 21, 28, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Martin & Associates, 121 West De La Guerra, Ste B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. David R. Martin, 869 Knollwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001170.

Published April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bee Vintage Designs; The Buzzy Bee; The Right Gift, PO Box 1802, Buellton, CA 93427. Jamie Martinez, 371 Sycamore Dr., Buellton, CA 93427.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 D. Sanchez. FBN No. 2014-0001131.

Published April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brookwest Group; Choo Choo Jewelry; Choo Choo; Choo Choo Baby, 106 Kinman Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. Ashlan Taylor, 106 Kinman Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001182.

Published April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Masonry, PO Box 4213, Santa Barbara, CA 93140. Jimmie Thaten, 217 S. Milpas, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001025.

Published April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Happy Dog, 464 Terrace Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. John H. Godsey, 464 Terrace Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 22, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Noe Solis. FBN No. 2014-0001195.

Published April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1466942. To all interested parties: Petitioner Star Haines filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Star Scarlet Haines to Star Scarlet Kemp. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 5, 2014, by Jessica Vega, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: July 9, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/21, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1466473. To all interested parties: Petitioner Shannon Courtney Clark filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Shannon Courtney Clark to Shannon Clark Batchev. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed May 16, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 25, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/21, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1466578. To all interested parties: Petitioner Meng Sun filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Mingyi He to Lily Mingyi He. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter 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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 11, 2014,

by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 4, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21

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debate about torture.”

You don’t need to know anything about the Gunpowder Plot to appreciate Equivocate: “I didn’t, either. It’s like with The Da Vinci Code – you didn’t need to know that story, either.”

You might learn something about practical integrity: “Here’s what equivocate means to me – we even put it in our poster: how to speak the truth in difficult times. That’s what it comes down to.”

It’s a chance to see future professional actors in action: “We have the only three-year professional training program for actors in the entire UC system. They’re trained every day in acting, movement and voice – that’s the reason we can do a play like this, which is very difficult. People might question the casting because of the age of the actors, but they bring an energy I wouldn’t want to trade.”

(UCSB Theater presents Equivocation at 8 pm May 23-24 and 29-31, plus 2 pm Saturday, May 31, at the Hatlen Theater on campus. Tickets cost $17 for general admission, $13 for students and seniors.

Call 893-7221 or visit www.theaterdance. ucsb.edu.)

Ballet and Library Dances

State Street Ballet dancer Cecily Stewart has been hooked on ballet since she saw the company perform Beauty & the Beast as a second grader at Washington Elementary School.

“I saw Chauncey Perkins, who was playing the stag, leaping across the stage and I immediately thought, ‘That’s what I’m going to do’,” she recalled.

Almost 20 years later – and five years after winding up back in her native Santa Barbara to dance with State Street following four years of studying and performing all over the country – Stewart is hoping to create a similar experience for students at San Marcos High, her alma mater. She has created Library Dances, an ambitious collaboration with the ballet company and the high school theater arts program that pairs 14 professionals with several mostly dance-newbie students to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Gift of the Magi, both with original choreography by Stewart. The performances take place on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 pm, with an additional invitational show at 2 pm Tuesday for the San Marcos students, though that’s open to other schools, too, if they make advance arrangements.

“I’ve always been interested in literature – the analytics, how stories are formed,” she explained during a fundraiser/outreach event at her aunt’s house on the Mesa last weekend. “But for kids who are not into 22 – 29 May 2014

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reading, if they have a visual or some other kinetic form of that storyline, it can enhance their experience. State Street does a lot of story ballets, so I thought, ‘Why not do the ones they’re already reading?’”

She asked theater teacher David Holmes to see what the English teachers were assigning, and the first book he returned with was The Hunger Games. “That seemed a bit too challenging this time,” Stewart said with a laugh. “But maybe next year.”

Still, Midsummer is a full 45-minute piece, by far the longest work yet from Stewart, who appeared with State Street as Micaela in April’s Carmen and Jean Veloz in An American Tango in previous seasons. Her choreography has been seen in State Street’s Evenings events.

“I’d been itching to do something more substantial, so I didn’t have any problems with it,” Stewart said. “The choreography just flows out of me. I know it’s what I’m here to do. I loved putting these stories to movement; it’s like a puzzle.”

What was harder was dealing with the logistics of getting all the dancers together in the same place, though Stewart said the six-month process has been more than worth the effort.

“This project has the potential to touch so many lives,” she added. “I’m so excited. The dancers give me energy, and so do the kids, who are really cute, and energetic, and excited. They don’t have dreams to be dancers but after doing this show, they might.

That’s what happened to me. So I couldn’t be happier.”

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ONGOING UCSB Music – Hear what’s new in compositional attitudes and specific fields of activity in a talk and concert by two outstanding Czech composers, Ivo Medek and Vit Zouhar, with pianist Sara Zalcikova, in New Sounds from the Czech Republic on Thursday, May 22 (6:30 pm lecture, 8 pm concert; Old Little Theatre in the College of Creative Studies; free)... Graduating senior Thor Blough, a baritone who sang with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus performing the lead in the world premiere of Peter Ash’s opera Keepers of the Night, offers his student recital before moving to Europe this summer, to pursue a professional career as a singer (8 pm Thursday; Karl Geiringer Hall; free). On Friday, Reflections on Singers of the Past, hosted by Cal State Fullerton professor Dr. Mark J. Goodrich, offers a multimedia journey through time featuring photos, biographies, and recordings of the world’s greatest classical vocalists, including Caruso, Nellie Melba, Lily Pons, Jussi Bjorling, Paul Robeson, Robert Merrill, Louisa Tetrazzini, Marian Anderson, Rosa Ponselle and many others (2 pm; Geiringer; free)... Also, soprano Kajsa Nelson performs her senior student recital, singing “Lagrimas Mías” (Miguel Marqués); “Sure on this Shining Night”, “The Secrets of the Old”, “Bessie Bobtail”, “The Crucifixion”, and “Sleep Now” (Samuel Barber); “Widmung”, “Der Nussbaum”, “Die Lotosblume”, “Was will die einsame Thrӓne”, and “Du bist wie eine Blume” (Robert Schumann); Nuit d’Etoiles”, “Fête Galante”, and “Apparition” (Claude

Debussy); and “Op 37” by Jean Sibelius (8 pm; Geiringer; free)... Wednesday brings the beginning of the end-of-quarter concerts from the various musical ensembles, starting with the Gospel Choir, directed by Victor Bell (12 pm; music bowl; free).

INFO: 893-2064 or www.music.ucsb.edu THURSDAY, MAY 22 Downtown Poetry Lounge – The UCSB MultiCultural Center (MCC) has a charming intimate theater out in the student center on campus. But tonight, UCSB poet Ryan Yamamoto heads downtown to the funky and even more intimate Muddy Waters Coffee House for the quarterly MCC in Santa Barbara poetry series. The young poet – who has opened for a number of internationally acclaimed artists such as Rudy Francisco, Mayda Del Valle, and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and has performed at the Mixed Roots & Literacy Festival, Lab Art LA, and SOhO – draws on daily observations and his mixed-race heritage to weave together poems that are empowering and heartfelt. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 508 East Haley Street COST: free INFO: 893-8411 SATURDAY, MAY 24 I Madonnari – Locals adverse to traffic and out-of-town gawkers know to avoid many of the annual big celebrations around town. But I Madonnari, which is Italian for “street painters,” is one wellworth braving the crowds and parking challenges. Chalk artists both professional and those just having fun gather together

THURSDAY, MAY 22 Reggae and Roulette – While Ziggy Marley may never command the messianic appeal and devoted following of his famous father, the reggae pioneer Bob Marley, he has done a fine job as the natural heir to the throne left vacant by his dad’s untimely death in 1981. Ziggy, Bob’s oldest son, has earned six Grammy Awards and recorded dozens of albums with his band the Melody Makers – which featured his brothers and sisters – and as a solo artist, in the process becoming something of a Jamaican legend in his own right over the last 33 years. At first, Marley carried on the tradition of communicating reggae’s message to his father’s audience, even scoring a Top 40 single with “Tomorrow People” in 1988, and other minor hits with “True to Myself”, “Drive”, and “People Get Ready”. Ziggy’s recent albums “Family Time” (2009) and “Wild and Free” (2011) both reached No. 1 on the Billboard Reggae chart, while his 2013 live album Ziggy Marley in Concert won the Grammy for Best Reggae Album. As with many popular reggae outfits, Marley normally plays big halls and festivals, especially in the warmer months (he’s performed at the Santa Barbara Bowl several times). But tonight, the reggae revelator is making a singular stop on the casino circuit, playing the Samala Showroom at the Chumash, which seats just 1,400. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $25-$45.

INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

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SATURDAY, MAY 24 Art Along the Creek – More than 200 works of art from nearly 100 members of Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE) are on display and on sale this weekend under the shades of the sycamore trees along Mission Creek not far from the Old Mission. The three-day event reflects the values of its subtitle Restoring Lands, Restoring Lives, as 40 percent of each purchase supports the creek restoration project of Phoenix, a nonprofit residential mental health treatment agency. The 7th annual juried art show for the SCAPE group, which is known primarily for top quality plein-air landscapes, features a wide variety of artistic styles, including portraits and figurative art, still life and floral, contemporary, surreal, mixed media, outsider and abstract art. This year’s honored artist, Camille Dellar, one of the founders of SCAPE, grew up in Santa Barbara and paints to capture and protect the beautiful natural places of her youth from development. Art Along the Creek is also something of a music festival, as myriad local bands perform for visitors all weekend long, including Glendessary Jam, Larrry and the Ocean All-Stars, John Rindlaub’s Hot Dusty Roads, Chucumite, Susan & Sierra Reeves, Michael Mendelson and The Honeysuckle Possums.

And this is one festival where dogs are welcome! WHEN: 2-6 pm Saturday, 11 am-6 pm Sunday (awards ceremony and artist reception 1:30-3 pm), and 11 am-5 pm Monday WHERE: 37 Mountain Drive COST: free INFO: 965-3434 or www.s-ca-p-e.org for the three-day weekend to transform the Mission plaza into a blacktop canvas, using pastels on pavement to create 150 vibrant and colorful large-scale images on the rough asphalt. The squares vary in size from 4-by-6 feet to 12-by-12 feet, a full six times the smallest space. You can see the incredible renditions – some so life-like they can be mesmerizing – take shape right before your eyes as the artists create original works or copy drawing or famous paintings from photographs. But the festival isn’t just a feast for the eyes (and imagination) – live musical and an authentic Italian market held adjacent to the painting engage the other senses, while if the breeze is right (and your nose sensitive enough), you can smell the sea air wafting up from East Beach less than two miles away. And do get there early if you want to see the artists in action: many of the street painters complete their squares long before the weekend is over. Santa Barbara’s festival, now in its 28th year, is one of the first in the United States, an import from our sister festival in Grazie di Curtatone, Italy. The festival benefits the Children’s Creative Project, a nonprofit arts education program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office that serves 50,000 children in more than 100 schools with visual and performing arts workshops and performances. WHEN: 10 am-6 pm today through Sunday (paintings remain until the weather washes them away) WHERE: 2201 Laguna Street COST: free INFO: 964-4710 ext. 4411 or www. imadonnarifestival.com

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Stills the Same – The all-time folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash have been frequent visitors to the Santa Barbara Bowl, and David Crosby – who grew up in Santa Barbara and lives in the Santa Ynez Valley – has often played around town in solo gigs or with his on-and-off duo with Graham Nash. But it’s been many a moon since Stephen Stills has graced our area with a solo appearance. And now we’re getting two concerts in one!

Stills – the only artist ever to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two times in one night (he made the grade in 1997 for both Buffalo Springfield and CSN) – will play two sets at the Granada Theatre tonight: a solo acoustic opening followed by a full electric band set of career-spanning favorites, including several new songs. Meaning we’re likely to hear Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”, selections from Manassas, and huge pop singles such as “Love The One You’re With”, plus CSN favorites like “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”, which features acoustic guitar picking by Stills that still defines the genre. Stills, one of rock’s greatest axmen, is ranked No. 28 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. For the rock band portion, Stills will be accompanied by longtime CSN band mates bassist Kevin McCormick (who lives in Ventura) and organist Todd Caldwell, with a new addition on drums, Mario Calire, who grew up in Ojai.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $33-$78 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

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SUNDAY, MAY 25 Our Own Stuff – The new exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art,” features exactly what the name implies: new additions to the museum’s permanent collection that focuses on artists living and working in Southern California.

The 30-plus works are by artists ranging from regional to international renown, including critically acclaimed artists Jack Goldstein, Kim Jones, Mike Kelley and Lari Pittman, to established artists Amy Adler, Carlee Fernandez, Lyle Ashton Harris and Steve Roden, to emerging artists Elad Lassry, Sommer Roman, April Street and Robert Weschler. Featuring a variety of media, including painting, photography, works on paper, and sculpture, many of the works in the exhibition are on view for the first time. WHEN: Today through September 14 WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free with regular museum admission INFO: 9634364 or www.sbma.net WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 Growing Circles Benefit Concert – The 2nd annual California Global Youth Peace Summit brings together 60-plus youths from 20 different countries for a week-long program dedicated to healing, leadership skills, community development, and crosscultural exchange. The summit, which takes place in July, is a transformational experience where cultural, religious, and personal differences are celebrated, and our humanity is acknowledged as the thread that unites us all. Tonight’s local concert to help support the summit features music by Todd Hannigan, David Courtenay, and others, plus food, drinks, community connection, and information about the Amala Foundation, which hosts the summit.

WHEN: 6-9 pm WHERE: 1721 Las Canoas Road COST: $33 donation INFO: 272-5267

No ‘Fault’ Insurance – Shailene Woodley stars as Hazel, a teenage, terminal cancer patient who gets a new lease on life after Gus (played

by Ansel Elgort) suddenly appears at Kids Cancer Support Group in the forthcoming film The Fault in Our Stars.

Based on the 2012 best-selling novel of the same name by John Green, the movie gets a preview screening followed by a Q&A session with director Josh Boone at the state-of-the-art Pollock Theater on the UCSB campus tonight. Also featuring Laura Dern, Sam Trammel, Willem Dafoe, and Nat Wolff, The Fault in Our Stars is set to open in multiplexes on Friday, June 6.

WHEN: 7 pm COST: free, reservations required INFO: www.carseywolf.ucsb. edu/pollock •MJ

MONDAY, MAY 26 Bach by Candlelight – The 32nd annual classical concert, which has moved around town a bit, now takes place in the main sanctuary of First United Methodist Church, a spacious but acoustically live venue that will be illuminated with hundreds of candles, recreating the ambiance of concerts in Bach’s era. The Baroque master composer’s “Air On The G String” kicks off the program, followed by the “Little Fugue” in G Minor, in an arrangement by West Coast Chamber Orchestra concertmaster Tamsen Beseke, a violinist who has held the same position with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Robles Master Chorale and performed with the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and New West Symphony. The first half closes with the “Concerto For Two Violins”, featuring Beseke and her student, 11-year-old violin prodigy Alexander Fried, who also studies chamber music at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, and whose father is world-renowned flutist Paul Fried. After intermission, the concert continues with Bach’s wondrous “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2” with soloists Jamie Pedrini, flute; Catherine Del Russo, oboe; Caster Teoh, trumpet; and Beseke, violin; and the “Cantata No. 82” (Ich habe genug) featuring graduating UCSB senior baritone Thor Blough (who has his own recital on Thursday). West Coast Symphony/Chamber Orchestra founder/music director Christopher Story VI conducts the first half of the program, with associate conductor Michael Shasberger, also a professor of music at Westmont College in Montecito, handling the second half. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 305 E. Anapamu Street COST: $10-$25 INFO: 963-4408 or www.CieloPerformingArts.org

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 44)

Cars & Coffee’s 180-Mile Rally

Monte Wilson is a relative newcomer, having only lived in Montecito for the past four years; he moved here from the Washington, D.C., area. “My wife, Maria, is from Santa Barbara,” he explains, “so I always teased her that as a condition of marriage we would end up back here. We used to come out and visit three or four times a year and always loved it,” he tells me as we sit in the sunshine outside Pierre Lafond in the upper village.

He’d worked in software for the U.S. government, but got tired of the Beltway rat race, took a year off and “got back,” he says, “to having lunch with my wife and enjoying life again.”

The bad winters moved things along. The winter he moved was so bad, his wife just looked at him and said, “We’re moving.”

The thing he likes about Montecito and Santa Barbara, he confesses, “is that everyone kind of knows each other. There’s a sense of community” that he says was absent from the Washington, D.C., area.

Monte started up what has become known as Cars & Coffee soon after moving here four years ago. He had a small collection of cars back east (his collection is much larger now), and he belonged to a group called “Church of The Holy Donut” that would meet on Sunday mornings outside a Dunkin’ Donuts.

He looked but could not find anything like that here, and his wife suggested he start it. “I was very sensitive to not step on any toes here,” he says, “being new to the area, so we checked out various car clubs and there wasn’t anything like that.”

So he printed up little cards and handed them out or stuck one on the

windshield to anyone with an interesting car. His club met for the first time the weekend after the Santa Barbara Concours d’Elegance in November 2011.

He chose Coast Village Road for its visibility, and he managed to attract 15 or 20 cars that very first week.

Cars & Coffee has become quite popular with car owners, car aficionados, and the general public, and Monte’s group’s special event permit has been expanded to where it now goes from in front of Angel on the east to as far as Tre Lune on the west.

Every Sunday from 8:30 to 10:30 am, you’ll find Monte and a cadre of others with their hot rods, Delahayes, Ferraris, Corvettes, Maseratis, Bentleys, American muscle cars, and lots more, drinking coffee, and talking cars. The last Sunday of every month, they meet in the upper village, outside Pane e Vino.

“There is no registration, no membership,” Monte reminds. “Whoever shows up is encouraged to display his vehicle.”

The Big Kids Rally “We have a big Coast Village Car Show in September,” he says, “and we always wanted a spring show,” which he says is the impetus of the upcoming “Rally For Kids” and “Rally After Party.”

The Wilsons have supported the Boys & Girls Club and have donated software and put digital arts in the school labs. Jim Crook, owner of Milpas Motors, is on the board of the United Boys & Girls Club and introduced Monte to Diana Starr Langley, who he thought could help Monte figure out how to make the concept of a rally a reality.

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fills the back of his antique fire truck with ice and everybody brings frozen chickens for the Unity Shoppe), and other events, Cars & Coffee donates some $200,000 to local charities over the course of a year.

“So,” Monte recounts, “we came up with the concept of a rally. It’s not a competitive, time-speed kind of rally.

It’s a casual, fun rally.” He teases people that it’s also a “divorce-free rally,” because often the husband-wife driver-navigator team find themselves at odds in other kinds of rallies. “She’ll say, ‘Turn left here,’ and he’ll say, ‘I don’t think so.’”

So, he is putting on what is called a poker rally. “When you get to the check point, you’ll get a playing card.

You can answer some trivia questions to get more cards, and whoever has the best hand at the end of the rally, wins.”

He goes to say that it doesn’t matter who has the fastest or flashiest car. “It’s all about having fun. The route is secret, but I can tell you we’ll be visiting some pretty cool places.

We start at QAD in Summerland and we finish at the Nesbitt estate with a dinner and a party, but there’s 180 miles in between there. It’s an all-day affair,” he says, “but you’re never in your car for more than forty-five minutes, because you’ll be stopping at check points.”

Rally participants will also be stopping at some wineries (“hopefully only the navigators will be doing the tasting,” he jokes, seriously). Monte says the goal is to get people to go to places they maybe haven’t been before. “We’re blessed with some incredible roads,” he says.

There is still time to register to join the rally by going on the Boys & Girls Club website (www.UnitedBG.org) or drop by Cars & Coffee on Coast Village Road on Sunday; they’ll have a table set up.

Cost is $750 and includes a Friday night get-together dinner, the rally, lunch on Saturday, and the dinner and gala on Saturday night, featuring Papa Doo Run Run, songwriter Jeff Barry, and comic Paul Clay. And, when Papa Doo Run Run isn’t playing, various runners-up and winners of the Santa Barbara Teen Star contest

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Diana Starr Langley and Monte Wilson start up the very First Rally For Kids on Saturday, May 31

will fill in. The nice thing about the gala, too, is that attire will definitely be “California Casual.” The reason for the loose dress code? “Some of the drivers will be coming directly off the rally with bugs in their teeth.”

If you’d like to attend the party, but don’t have a full day to devote to a rally, the price is $200 per person.

They expect around 40 cars to participate in the rally, and at least 200 people to attend the gala. The dinner will be at the Nesbitt stables, and the rally cars will be arrayed around the fountain outside. You can also expect some high-end trips on sale during the silent and live auction.

“This first year is so important,” Monte concludes, “so we want to make sure the participants have fun.

We’re putting the focus on creating a high-quality event.”

Trophies are being designed for the various winners, but Monte says even more importantly they’ll have “major bragging rights” for at least a year.

There is also a booby prize being designed.

The 1st Annual Car Rally After Party begins at 6 pm on Saturday, May 31.

The Rally For Kids starts at 9 am (cars must be there an hour earlier, at 8 am).

The Rally and After Party will raise funds to support the United Boys & Girls Club’s four club sites and five satellite locations, which collectively serve more than 7,000 youth every year through after-school and summer •MJ programs.

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involved in two other productions this week. Gustavson Dance, the official school of State Street Ballet, performs Thumbelina this weekend at the Lobero Theatre. The students will dance the story of a woman whose magical seeds, procured from a mystical firefly, blossom into tiny fairy girls, including one no bigger than her thumb whom she names Thumbelina. The fairy is a free spirit who eventually meets ladybugs, frogs, flowers, and even a canary on her journey home. Show times are 2 & 6 pm Saturday, and 2 pm Sunday; tickets cost $25 general, $14 children and students.

Funk Zone Style, which takes place 7-10 pm next Thursday, May 29, at AVA and Pali Wineries, 116 E. Yanonali Street, offers a perfect pairing of fine wine and ballet. State Street dancers will interpret four distinctly different wines through contemporary dance movements as guests enjoy tastings in a special-event wine glass. Valentes Homemade Tapas and Tacos provide the food, and DJ Empty Priest the soundtrack for the fundraiser, which also features La Chambre Photographique creating tintype portraits of guests. Tickets

are $75 and available at www.ssbfunkzonestyle.com.

Show N’ Tell In other dance news, ArtBark International’s Alma Karlin project was accepted for the Slovenian National Theatre in Ljublana. In anticipation of the effort and expense to gear up for the 2015 event, ArtBark is scaling back on local production in favor of the professional branch. Thus, its new Show N’ Tell Performance Series takes a test flight with a smaller way to celebrate the boutique performing arts collectives and companies, a low-cost model to keep the spirit of the ADaPT and Affinity Festivals alive. The studio showcase series features just one company from out of the region offering more of its own work and pairing up with locals.

Nancy Evans Dance Theater is the inaugural event’s visiting guest, performing three sections from its most recent evening of work presented at Porticos Art Space in Pasadena as part of the WORKS concert series: Casualties, a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, seen from the perspective of the

women left behind; Tethered, a triple duet that explores the connection iin relationships; and Alter Ego, a duet that tackles the battle between our inner and outer selves. BodySensate, The Nicole McKenzie Improv Group (NMIG), Selah Dance Collective, dand Got Country!?! comprise the participating Santa Barbara-based artists.

ArtBark’s Show N’ Tell takes place at 5 pm on Saturday at Montecito School of Ballet, 529 E. Guttierrez Street. In ArtBark’s spirit of collaboration, the artists will discuss their work with each other following the performance, and the audience is invited to stay for the shop talk. Admission is free, but donations are welcome, and guests are asked to bring snacks and drink to share. Info at 569-0389 or www.artbark.org

Let’s Dance UCSB Dance Company recently returned from a two-week tour of Prague and six cities in Italy; now the senior student dancers are presenting their final two public shows before they graduate. Delila Moseley directs a program featuring choreography by faculty members Nancy Colahan

Festival Has Sprung Rather participate than watch?

The Santa Barbara Country Dance Society’s annual Sprung Floor Festival – now condensed into just Sunday of Memorial Day weekend – brings two different bands and two callers to the Carrillo Recreation Center for the biggest day of public contra dancing all year. Jean Gorrindo & The SB Mountain Boys handle the first set on Sunday afternoon from 3 to 6 pm, followed by Erik Hoffman & the Ojaibased family fiddle band Celtic Spring from 7:30 to 10 pm. A potluck dinner is held between dances. Tickets are $8 for the afternoon, $10 in the evening.

Don’t fret if you’ve never done the dance before; there’s a free lesson before each set and the regulars are always happy to help.

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SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio.

Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714 For Lease. Montecito bungalow, 2bd/1ba. Large kitchen with service porch, large livingroom with fireplace, wood floors, 2 large decks, newly redecorated. Superb condition. Private garden, short walk to Miramar Beach. $3300/mo. Call 969-2128 for appt.

Adorable 1 bed/ 1 bath + ofc or second bedroom private house on quiet street.

Centrally located in Montecito near beach & lower village. $4,000 per mo. Utilities not included. Avail for 1 year lease 6/1.

Please call 805-444-4652.

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special needs in Santa Barbara. Join our volunteer team and make a difference in someone’s life. To lean more, visit www.heartsriding.org 964-1519.

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3351 Padaro Ln $14,500,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Padaro’s best & most private location. Panoramic vws. 4BD/4BA w/gst apt. www.PadaroLaneHome.com

700 San Antonio St $11,000,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 3 Residence Compound on 65± acs in central Ojai. Pool, Tennis Crt. 700.MontecitoProperties.com

291 Cummings Rd $5,200,000 Bunny DeLorie 805.570.9181 4188 Foothill Rd $8,500,000 3622 Reeves Rd $7,250,000 40-Acre Working Horse, Lemon/Avocado Ranch. Exquisite Custom 12,000 SF home 7BD/6.5BA. Pool/Spa & Sauna. Two 8-Stall Kogevinas/Zafiratos 805.450.6233/805.448.4317 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 12-Acres in Carp w/Ocn & Mtn Vws. 5 BD/7 BA Main Hse + GH & Horse 50+ Acs in Ojai with income producing orchards. 5BD/7BA Main House.

Barns. 4+ car garage w/ 2BD apt & 3BD Ranch hand house. Photos/Floorplan: HomesAndLandSantaBarbara.com

810 Toro Canyon Rd $4,475,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Private 25-Acres, 360° Ocn/Mtn views. 4BD/4BA Main Hse w/pool + GH. MontecitoProperties810.com

1473 Bonnymede Dr $4,450,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Sea Meadow in Montecito, 3BD+/3BA, SW sun exposure, gated.

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3291 Beach Club Rd $3,950,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Ocean view 4BD/3BA beach home off Padaro Lane w/beach access. www.3291BeachClubRoad.com.

230 Hot Springs Rd $2,850,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Renovated & convenient in Montecito w/ stunning kitchen & guest apt 4BD/3BA. www.DanEncell.com

Facilities, barns & pastures.

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1460 Bonnymede Dr $6,450,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Beautifully constructed 4BD/4.5BA home in Sea Meadow at the beach. www.1460Bonnymede.com

1152 Hill Rd $4,500,000 Team Scarborough 805.331.1465 Situated down a quiet road w/access to Montecito’s Butterfly Beach.

Totally redone. 4BD/4BA.

718 Foothill Rd $3,985,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 195 Sheffield Dr $2,490,000 2700 Glendower Ave $2,400,000 Mermis/St. Clair 805.886.6741 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 This Myron Hunt Swiss Chalet in Ojai is a restored classic. 4BD/4BA, gated w/ sunny pool/spa, horse corral on 1+ ac w/privacy, 4000+SF, 4BD/4.5BA Montecito Hacienda w/3 FP, 3 car gar & open Premiere Los Feliz location. Remodeled 3BD/2BA w/ guest apartment. City mtn vws, stone fireplaces, orig wood flooring & antique fixtures. 718.MontecitoProperties.com beams. www.MontecitoHacienda.com

& Griffith Park views.

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