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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR, P. 46

AMERICA’S FIRST LADY OF POLO Santa Barbara Polo Club’s 16-year-old Morgan Ru, daughter of group’s ex-president Wes Ru, becomes first American female to play polo in Iran, where the game originated (story on p. 6)

Fortnight Of Activities Ahead At MAW

From violinist Daniel Hope’s master class and Tuesday @ 8, to Open House and a MERIT recital, here is what’s making noise throughout the first half of July, p. 26

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On the Water Front Bob Hazard declares water independence for Montecito, acknowledges users’ improvement, explains water penalties, and weighs some viable remedies 6 Montecito Miscellany Morgan Ru plays polo in Iran; Rob Lowe survives France flood; Kirk Douglas’s wife is a life-saver; Chicago to host George Lucas museum; Miscellany “scoops” other news outlets; David Krieger launches new book; historical museum opens Project Fiesta!; Montecito couple’s Colorado property for sale; SB Polo Club sports fest; E.R. Leather Goods opens in Funk Zone; John Cleese criticizes Bond films; Larry Rachleff performs Beethoven at Granada 8 Letters to the Editor Fracking debate heats up with Linda Stewart-Oaten; Richard Russell on scare tactics; Ernie Solomon sounds off about bonds; proper U.S. flag disposal; Unity Shoppe silent auction; wells – a deep subject; AFSB gives thanks 10 This Week Craig Newton plays at library; Cheryl Doty at Maison K; Village Fourth; holiday Art Show; parade and concert; retreat at La Casa de Maria; Car Day; Montecito Association meeting; MERRAG training; balloon show; New Yorker discussion; Farmers Market; LotusFest set for July 12; MBAR meeting; Book Club; planning commission meeting Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat ACE Hardware honors SB Home Improvement Center; polo luncheon raises funds for Braille Institute Auxiliary; Coastal Home Care partners with Montecito churches; Crane Country Day School graduation 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner is on the scene for the Fork & Cork Classic, lauds the Association for Women in Communications, and embraces Friendship Center’s Big Heart awards 24 Music Academy 2014 There’s hope, Daniel Hope, who is multi-tasking and striking up the band at MAW this summer

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26 This Week at MAW Here’s a sneak-peek at who is performing and what sounds are on the horizon at Music Academy of the West 30 Coup de Grace Return to sender? Grace Rachow sifts through her mail to find a few surprises: baby formula, narcolepsy news, and a golf magazine 38 Seniority Who cares? Definitely Adventures in Caring, whose new video offers encouragement and lends a hand to community helping hands 40 On Entertainment Looped re-creates Tallulah Bankhead at the New Vic; eventful summer at coastal theaters; silent movies dominate USSB series; SB International Film Festival launches The Wave 42 The Way It Was Hattie Beresford, armed with a copy of The Land of Little Rain, strikes out toward Owens Valley to research the ins and outs of Inyo 46 Calendar of Events Launch Pad inaugural summer reading series; Concerts in the Park with Sgt. Peppers; Bob Weir grateful to be at SB Bowl; music mix for 1st Thursday of Summer; striking up the symphony; Moshav plays Ojai; jamming with Richard Thompson; All-Star Band with Ringo at the Bowl; kirtan hero Dave Stringer; SB French Festival; Ledward Ka’apana at SOhO 49 Real Estate View Michael Phillips gauges the rising Heat Index rating of 250, a considerable spike compared to that of 2013 50 Legal Advertisements 54 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 55 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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ON THE WATER FRONT Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

by Bob Hazard

Water Independence for Montecito

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hy are Montecito and Cambria the only coastal communities between San Francisco and San Diego that have had to impose mandatory water rationing? Why are gardens and parks within five minutes driving time outside our community still green, while ours are withered, wasted, and turning brown? What has gone wrong? What can we do about it?

It is hard to believe that Montecito, with all its problem-solving talent and intellectual brainpower, can’t do a better job of solving its water woes. Why is Montecito so far behind its neighbors in Goleta, Santa Barbara, and Carpinteria?

It can be argued that the Montecito Water District (MWD) Board should have been more perceptive in predicting the current water shortfall. It was widely recognized that a finite amount of state water had been promised to an infinite number of users. It was predictable that when the drought worsened, our state water allocation would drop to zero.

The depleted condition of our aquifers compared to our neighbors in Carpinteria, Goleta, Santa Barbara, and even Hope Ranch is well documented.

Excessive silting at Jameson and Cachuma lakes was known to dramatically reduce emergency storage capacity. MWD has historically been more frugal than its neighbors in investing in the necessary treatment and delivery of recycled water for irrigation. Finally, MWD has been slow to fund the replacement of its 100-year-old water pipes and other aging infrastructure.

The Real Cost of Lack of Water

Based on property tax assessments, Montecito residents have a whopping $8.5 billion investment in residential real estate, and an estimated $500 million invested in landscaping. The imminent danger is that Montecito homeowners could face a substantial drop in real estate values if prospective buyers come to believe that a lack of water is a threat to those evaluations.

Back in February, projections showed that without a significant change in usage, Montecito, unlike the rest of Santa Barbara County, would run out of water by the end of July. Non-voluntary conservation (rationing) was chosen as the hammer to reduce the use of water for landscaping, which accounts for 80 percent of water consumption in Montecito. To get the community’s attention, MWD quickly adopted a punitive but persuasive program to allocate a limited amount of water, backed up by financial penalties for overuse, supported by the threat of water restrictors and a potential shut-off in service. Most in Montecito adjusted.

Since February, rationing has worked. Montecito and Summerland residents have cut their water usage by a remarkable 40 percent, compared to an expected drop of 25 percent. Instead of going dry in July, MWD is projecting a modest carryover of surplus water going into next year.

In addition, the board of MWD deserves high marks for taking swift – though belated – action to acquire supplemental water to replace its cutoff in promised state water. Purchase agreements have been signed with Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Santa Ynez Water District, Biggs West-Gridley, and Dudley Ridge for the purchase of up to 3,500 acre-feet (AF) of water this year.

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Future Outlook: Cloudy with Chance of Storm

At the same time that conditions are looking up, many in Montecito are expressing a growing disillusionment with 1) the unfairness and inequities in the short-term rationing penalties; 2) lack of a longer-term plan to upgrade our 600,000 gallons a day of treated wastewater to irrigation quality, instead of dumping it into the ocean; and 3) lack of a realistic plan for desalination as the preferred long-term emergency supply of reliable and locally controlled drinking water.

Water Penalties and Fines

Last September, MWD imposed a 55 percent water rate hike on its customers, spread over five years. That included a 16.3-percent bump immediately, fol-

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The dynamic duo attended the 83rd Federation of International Polo Ambassador’s Cup in Tehran, which included six men’s teams and two women’s teams representing 10 countries around the globe, with side trips to Esfahan, site of the world’s oldest polo field; the garden city of Shiraz, the country’s fifth-largest metropolis; and the ruins of Persepolis, destroyed

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suspect I’m older than Montecito Journal founder James Buckley, and being a grandmother is the source of my passion and deep concern regarding global warming. I, too, remember what was being said on that topic in the 1970s.

But perhaps I paid closer attention with regard to whom was saying what. And since I was a student in biology (married at the time to a to a PhD candidate in astrophysics), I read more than my share of scientific papers. If you closely examine those papers, you’ll find that very few scientists were in the global cooling camp. Probably similar to the numbers of scientists today who – like your unnamed friend – are in the Climate Deniers group. A close reading of those papers reveals that in fact, they never actually called for a reduction in carbon emissions as the solution. In any case, their views were roundly discredited by more robust science. Certainly in the ensuing 40+ years, science and reputable scientists have continued to improve their ability to interpret the data and to make assessments and predictions about the trend in climate change.

Fracking increases CO2 emissions beginning with the process of drilling new wells. During the initial process of fracking, many gases are inevitably released into the atmosphere, though fracking companies will never admit that publicly. Gases like toluene and benzene, both of which are known carcinogens, and other greenhouse gases like methane.

(Yes, we know cows are also great producers of methane, and there are workable solutions available to address that problem.)

Aside from your unnamed science consultant, most reputable scientists know that greenhouse gases are one

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of the root causes of global warming.

About 15 percent of fracking wells “fail” during the first year. Fail is a euphemism that means they leak.

Either they spill more methane and CO2 into the atmosphere, or they penetrate table water aquifers. Most fracking wells leak eventually. But aside from that, and aside from the earthquakes and the accidents that happen too often during shipping (whether in trucks or trains or pipelines) fracked material releases greenhouse gases as its being refined and again when it’s finally combusted inside vehicle engines.

I’ve never called for a complete ban on oil and gas production, but I do strongly support a ban on fracking and other enhanced methods until we are better able to address the problems. At the same time, we should continue to develop viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Even petroleum engineers know that earth does not have an endless supply.

What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s? The 1970s iceage predictions were predominantly media-based. The majority of peer-reviewed research at the time predicted warming due to increasing CO2.

Sincerely, Linda Stewart-Oaten Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Being a gentleman, I won’t inquire about your age versus mine. However, I am curious about the meaning of “climate denier,” which you so cleverly called me and my friend early in your letter. Does that mean we “climate deniers” don’t believe in weather?

Does it mean we deny that Earth has a climate? Or does it mean we deny that Earth’s climate changes? If so, then neither I nor my physicist friend can reasonably be called a “climate denier,” as we believe in weather; we believe Earth

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has a climate; and we believe Earth’s climate changes. So, as best as I can make out, a “climate denier” is a kind of a Flat-Earther (which no doubt was the consensus opinion of “scientists” back in the early Middle Ages).

Well, we “Flat-Earthers” are skeptical for many reasons. One, perhaps, is that Earth hasn’t warmed up for the past fifteen years, but CO2 emissions have gone “through the roof” so to speak, what with both China and India industrializing heavily over the past couple decades.

CO2 is made up of one atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen. CO2 is used in carbonated drinks to make bubbles; humans and animals give off CO2 when exhaling; CO2 is given off by decaying vegetable matter, and is used by plants (photosynthesis), which, according to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, “synthesize certain carbohydrates and release oxygen into the air.”

In other words, CO2 is pretty good stuff. Without it our precious planet would expire, along with all other life requiring oxygen to function, such as you and I. Countries around the world have been trying to find a way to universally tax commercial interests for at least the past 70 years. Charging companies for using carbon would be extremely beneficial – economically speaking – to virtually every government. Setting up giant carbon combines, monitoring each

country’s output, exchanging “carbon credits,” authorizing construction of CO2-emitting plants – or not, would be a vast expansion of international bureaucracy, to no particular benefit except to those doing the monitoring, who would no doubt receive expansive salaries and benefits befitting their exalted station.

CO2 levels are currently near 400 parts per million (ppm). In past geological eras, CO2 levels have regularly surpassed 1,000 parts per million and have ranged from 180 ppm to 7,000 ppm, so, I and my scientist friend are not particularly worried. More CO2 in the atmosphere is probably a good thing, on balance.

Should we stop burning coal? If we can’t burn it without removing most particulate matter, probably. Is there a finite supply of oil and gas on Earth?

Maybe, but that limit is still a couple hundred years away. Is it better that the U.S. recovers and uses its own oil and gas rather than purchase it from countries with little regard for environmental degradation? Definitely. Should we continue research and development into more “sustainable” energy sources?

Sure, why not? But, unless scientists and energy experts ascertain that hydraulic fracturing poses an immediate and unacceptable danger to Earth and those on it, I’m for it.

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FRIDAY, JULY 4 Village Fourth Firemen’s Breakfast, Parade & Celebration Starting at Upper Manning Park, the annual Village Fourth is a celebration of country and community.

Food, music, and other festivities will take place at Lower Manning Park.

When: Pancake breakfast at MFPD station from 7:30 to 10:30 am; parade kicks off at 11:30 am and Lower Manning Park festivities begin directly after Where: Parade starts at Upper Manning Park and finishes in Lower Manning Park Info: Diane 969-9005 THURSDAY, JULY 3 July 4th Music Craig Newton will play acoustic guitar, harmonica, fiddle, tambourine, banjo, Indian flute, mandolin, saxophone, bottleneck guitar, and electric guitar... not all at once, but sometimes two together. He’ll sing his way through American history performing classics everyone knows and loves.

When: 10:30 to 11:15 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Artist Reception Artist Cheryl Doty will be at Maison K on Coast Village Road.

When: 4 to 8 pm Where: 1159 Coast Village Road Info: 969-1676 4th of July Old Mission Alternative Site Art Show More than 50 juried local artists – including Montecito jewelry artist Charlotte Barnard – will present their hand-made original arts and crafts, including paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, wearable art, and hand-dyed and spun yarn When: 10 am to 5 pm Where: 2227 Garden Street

Parade & Concert Downtown Santa Barbara hosts annual 4th of July Parade and Concert When: parade starts at 1 pm on State Street at Micheltorena to Cota; concert at the sunken gardens at 5 pm Info: www.spiritof76sb.org SATURDAY, JULY 5 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat On the first Saturday of each month, La Casa de Maria offers a mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice.

There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and Centering Prayer practice. Beginners welcome.

Sr. Suzanne Dunn, Mark Benson, and Annette Colbert share facilitating and teaching.

Suzanne and Annette are cocoordinators for Contemplative Outreach in Ventura and Santa Barbara.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: www.lacasademaria.org SUNDAY, JULY 6 Vintage & Exotic Car Day Motorists and car lovers from as far

away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in front of Richie’s Barber Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on Coast Village Road going west to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

When: 8 to 10 am (or so) Where: 1187 Coast Village Road Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com TUESDAY, JULY 8 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road THURSDAY, JULY 10 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “selfhelp” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary districts. This month, learn what is expected of MERRAG volunteers during Red Flag/ Fire Weather activations.

When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 Nifty Balloon Show Enjoy a family-friendly variety show filled with music, storytelling, comedy, and balloon sculptures that come to life. Enter the fantasyland of “The Nifty Balloon Show” and see the world like never before!

When: 4 to 4:45 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker

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When: 7:30 to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, JULY 11 Montecito Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road LotusFest LotusFest, an annual event that celebrates the legendary flower that is Lotusland’s namesake, is planned for Saturday, July 12. The afternoon will include wine tasting with some of Santa Barbara County’s premier vintners, hors d’oeuvres, entertainment, and lotus lore galore.

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When: 3 pm Cost: $95 for members, $105 for nonmembers Registration: 969-9990; confirmation and directions to Lotusland’s visitors’ entrance will be mailed upon receipt of your reservation Info: www.lotusland.org MONDAY, JULY 14 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu TUESDAY, JULY 15 Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title. Check the library for current title; new members always welcome.

When: 1 to 2:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAY, JULY 16

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Leaders from the Ace Hardware Corp., headquartered in Oakbrook, Ill., came out to the store to present Simpson and associates with a plaque.

Vice president of Retail Operations and New Business Kane Calamari, Western Division manager Natalie Sender, and district manager Charlie Kukla participated in the small ceremony. “The Home Improvement Center has been steadily gaining in volume particularly over the last ten years,” Kukla said. “Simpson’s store excels in nearly every key merchandising category in the home improvement industry.”

Simpson says he is humbled by the recognition. “I owe it to my wonderful staff that consistently provides Santa Barbara with a very broad selection of product, and the friendliest and most knowledgeable customer service in the area,” he said. Simpson would also like to thank the store’s loyal patrons. “We truly appreciate each and every one of our customers and look forward to exceeding their every expectation daily.”

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center strongly believes in adding to the community and does so through broad and steady gifting to nonprofits in the area. Simpson told of the Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center’s largest gift some years back to Transition House in the amount of $250,000, recently to Unity Shoppe for $50,000 and annual sponsorship donations to Hospice of Santa Barbara, Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara and Domestic Violence Solutions, among others. Simpson said, “Day in and day out, we are proud to help our community with requests big and small.”

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There are also Foodbank youth programs like Teens Love Cooking (TLC), which takes them on a seven-week, after-school adventure where middle-school teens learn cooking skills as well as about food and nutrition.

“I thank all of our dedicated committee members, sponsors, volunteers, and Foodbank staff who have spent countless hours planning and executing what is an afternoon of tantalizing fare and a celebration for the senses. Montecito Country Club graciously offered its space for the event and thanks to all our supporters,” said event chair Mickey Neal.

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Among the sippers and tasters were Carla Rosin, Drew Wakefield, Irene Hoffman, Lisa Przekop, Elise Geiger, Jacques Habra, Vibeke Weiland, and George Thurlow.

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The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) gave its 9th Women of Achievement luncheon with two special honorees Nancy Leffert, Ph.D., and Marianne Partridge. The Montecito Country Club was filled with women who give voice to leadership, education, and community.

After a networking hour, lunch was served in the Santa Cruz room, where KCLU general manager emcee Mary Olson took control in her humorous way. AWC president Dr. Lynn Jones welcomed all. Four powerful ladies took front and center with proclamations for the honorees: congresswoman Lois Capps, mayor Helene Schneider, supervisor Janet Wolf, and city councilmember Cathy Murillo.

AWC poet laureate (Santa Barbara’s poet laureate emeritus) Perie Longo read two poems she had written, one for Nancy and another for Marianne. Nancy is known for her wild socks and Perie called her a “fox in socks.” Marianne, who founded The Independent publication, welcomes dogs and children at work, according to Perie. Their friends say Perie’s poems “nailed” the honorees.

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The line I liked best was, “These two women found their voices by not listening.” Dr. Cynthia Smith presented Nancy, president of Antioch University since 2009, with her award, saying, “She’s the person I want to be when I grow up.” Nancy told us how to be unique in the 60s; she wore all black and even painted her room black. She was told by a high school counselor that she was not college material. Then a mentor came along and “the rest is history.” She has written numerous scientific books and has a national reputation as an expert on adolescent development.

Anne Bardach gave Marianne her award and told us,” Marianne had the distinct honor of being fired by Rupert Murdoch not once but three times.” Among her many credits, she was the first woman editor of The Village Voice, executive editor of Look Magazine and senior editor of Rolling Stone magazine.

Marianne responded, “Anne has a heart of gold – not as big as mine – because she’s thinner. Even if I cry, I’m still the authority figure.” She is proud that her newspaper has a circulation of 40,000.

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of an illness. Her presenter, Dr. Lois Phillips, was in Europe and spoke on a video. Kate told the audience, “Life Chronicles is 16 years old and has won many awards. The videos show how people lived not how they died.” Her mantra is belief and persistence.

Thanks went to Pam Flynt Tambo and the board of directors who helped create this truly inspirational event.

If you’d like to join AWC, contact the membership manager at (703) 3707436.

Big Heart Awards

Union Bank’s charming HillCarrillo adobe was the site of Friendship Center’s Big Heart awards.

The patio was festooned with the colorful Mexican paper flowers—even the olive tree was “blooming.” Wine flowed and munchies were passed by some of the many volunteers who continually help at the Center.

Mistress of Ceremonies was Pamela Dillman Haskell who introduced board president Marty Moore. He remembered how much Friendship Center meant to his father who attended during his last years.

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“We were also permitted to tour an army base. It’s interesting to note the government has mandated that every army base will now have a polo club with appropriate facilities of fields and horses. This will facilitate a rapid growth of the sport in Iran.”

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Kudos to event co-chairs Sue Adams (CFO), Kathy Merden (vice president), and Dana VanderMey (president elect).

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Trust Her Intuition Veteran actor Kirk Douglas, who celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary with wife, Anne, at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills last month, as I exclusively revealed here, also has to thank her for saving his life, he has revealed.

same and are open to people from all walks of life and beliefs. Their effusive welcome brought tears into our eyes.

It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips and we will treasure the memories and the friendships forever.”

almost washed away by a massive storm last week.

The 50-year-old thespian, his wife Sheryl, and son John, 19, had to be evacuated by rescuers after a huge storm – the biggest of the year – poured down three months of rainfall in less than four hours, creating freak floods.

Once the waters rose to a dangerous level, submerging the first floor of their holiday residence in the town near Cannes, considered to be the world’s perfume capital, they were evacuated by rescuers.

Rob posted a photo to Instagram of Sheryl, 53, hugging a fireman in front of a truck, saying: “My wife being rescued this a.m. in the horrific flooding in Grasse. Glad we are safe. Grateful to first responders.”

Meanwhile the Parks and Recreation star’s son posted a video to Instagram of the first floor of their house being flooded by a surge of water, as he documented it from the second story.

The teen captioned the frightening clip: “That’s the first floor of our submerged home. Scariest hour or so of my life, also sorry for the explicit language.”

Rob also posted another Instagram snap of the roiling muddy waters, with the note: “This is right outside the house. Was twice as high at the worst, just before sunrise.”

John’s older brother, Matthew, 21, who was not on the trip, tweeted his concern: “My thoughts go out to everyone in the south of France.”

Rob, who has also been traveling in Barcelona, Spain, and London, U.K., with his family and also some of John’s school friends, is expected back in our rarefied enclave in due course, where rainfall has been non-existent...

Kirk Douglas reveals how wife Anne’s premonition saved his life

Kirk, 97, says Anne, 84, has an “uncanny intuition” and refused to let him join Oscar-winning producer Mike Todd on his fateful flight east in 1958.

“We stopped speaking over that one until we heard the news the next morning. Elizabeth Taylor became a widow, but not my Anne.

“When I had my stroke seventeen years ago, she drove me to the hospital like a Formula One racer. And when I wallowed in self-pity because of my impaired speech, she made me get up and work with a speech therapist. To this day, I write her love poems; to this day, she continues to give me tough love.”

As to the anniversary bash, hosted by his Oscar-winning son Michael and wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kirk says he was superstitious about planning a celebration too far in advance of the May 29 diamond anniversary.

“After all, I am only three years shy of my personal centennial, and my Spartacus days are well behind me. But Michael and Catherine ware determined to help us celebrate in style,” he writes in a personally by-lined article in the Los Angeles Times.

“It was a magical night. Anne looked as glamorous as she had the day she walked into my life in Paris, and I was proud to be by her side.”

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The decision is a major victory for the Windy City, America’s third largest, with San Francisco and Los Angeles also seeking the museum.

Lucas say he hopes to open the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in 2018, which will feature the Star Wars director’s collection of paintings, illustrations, and digital art.

“I am humbled to be joining such an extraordinary museum community and be creating the museum in a city that has a long tradition of embracing the arts,” he says.

The selection was, to say the least, something of a surprise, given Lucas’s close ties to California.

He is a native of the state, Lucasfilm’s visual effects division is based in San Francisco, and the headquarters for Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound is just across the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.

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ritish violin virtuoso Daniel Hope is serving as one of four Mosher Guest Artists at Music Academy of the West this summer.

But unlike most of the visitors, he isn’t just teaching a master class and performing in a recital.

Hope, who has appeared as a soloist with the world’s major orchestras and conductors and plays chamber music in both traditional and unusual venues, will lead from the violin a chamber orchestra of faculty and fellows in a program of works by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Alfred Schnittke, and Erwin Schulhoff on Saturday, July 5, in Hahn Hall. The chief draw on the program, however, is Max Richter’s “Recomposed: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons” – a re-imagining of the wildly popular Baroque masterpiece, which was composed with Hope in mind.

The violinist talked about the work and his relationship with music and the violin over the phone from Germany: Q. What were your initial thoughts when Max Richter approached you about The Four Seasons project?

A. To be perfectly honest, when he said he wanted to re-compose the piece, I didn’t know what that meant. I said, “Why? What’s wrong with the original?” And he said, “No, it really is perfection, you can’t get any better”... But we’re bombarded with it in shopping malls and elevators, on hold music – it’s piped into my brain. So I don’t recognize it as music anymore, but just blank it out when I hear it. So I have to get away from this piece and deconstruct it. That’s when I realized he was extremely erudite and love Vivaldi almost as much as I do. He wanted to approach this war horse with great ideas and respect for the original. Because I believed in him, I had to be part of the projects.

Nobody comes close to Vivaldi,

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of course; he was the original outrageously, scaringly talented guy.

Forget about his 300 concertos, the quality and innovation in that musical language at the time is just staggering. Nothing will ever come close.

But Max’s piece is so well-written and so diligently constructed that it reminds people why they love The Four Seasons in the first place. I’m convinced it will be major part of the repertoire for years to come. And it sends people back to the original.

Even Max himself says he’s fallen back in love with Vivaldi.

Was it difficult to learn the new version? I’d think it might be a bit confusing, at least with the long-standing muscle memory of the original?

Very much so. It was very challenging. I’d been playing Vivaldi since I was 8 or 9. It was the first major concerto I learned. It’s so deeply in my muscle memory. And

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in places, Max took large quotations but changed them subtly, one note or a different rhythm. And it was hard not to lapse into the original.

In first movement of Autumn, for example, there’s a slightly cheeky version of the original, which brings up all sorts of emotions. It shows how adventurous Max was, throwing himself into it in some paces vs. pointing to the original as a sign of respect... But after playing it for more than two years, now, I can easily switch between the two.

Is this something you’re generally in favor of? Or do you come more from the thought that great classic works don’t need to be messed with?

I’m ambivalent about these issues.

Many of these experiments don’t work. I’m against anything that destroys a masterpiece. But if you have the arrangers, a vision to share that’s thoughtful and that even enhances the knowledge or love of a piece, it can be great. The idea of re-composition isn’t new. Bach was one of the first to recompose Vivaldi. He was given a stack of concertos and made his own versions. Throughout history, composers have gone back to great works of art and re-designed them – stolen or inspired, whatever you call it. It’s

only new when it’s something that people know so well. That’s when it’s risky.

What’s the key for the fellows – who won’t have as much time with it as you have – to play the piece?

I’ll talk to them about Max’s ideas in more detail, the specific ideas, his belief that there is a correlation between the repetition in Vivaldi and minimalist composers. We’ll work on the areas in the original as if we were playing that, too. But they’ll have to be on their toes, because there are moments of false security when you have to move between them very fast. If they stay focused and go with the ride, they’ll have a great time.

How about the audience, who may not have heard the recording?

They don’t need anything at all.

Just come in with your ears wide open. That’s true for any concert.

Just experience it and decide for yourself. The piece has had incredible success around the world, but not everyone agrees. But even those who were skeptical were convinced when they heard the piece live, which goes to a much greater depth than the recording.

You’ll also be teaching a master class.

What do you look for, and what can you impart in just an hour or two?

My goal is to never go in with a plan. That’s a mistake. Be open to what you will hear. Hopefully after 40 minutes, (the fellow) will sound a little better than they did the hour before. The idea is just to raise the game. I give them options.

There is no right and wrong. Things might suit you or not. So, it’s about opening doors. And you might need someone from the outside to suggest something because you’re so close to a piece or a teacher that alternatives don’t come up. I learn a lot about my own playing by watching talented individuals and seeing how someone else plays a piece I’ve done many times. So it’s really a give and take, and that’s what music is ultimately all about.

In more general terms, you’ve said many times that music is what drives your life. How have you been able to stay curious after so many years? And something I think is apropos to the young artists at the academy: what are the secrets to avoiding burnout?

Yehudi Menuin said that playing the violin was as natural as flying is for a bird. You can’t imagine a bird saying I’m too tired, I’m not going to fly today. Music is so intrinsic and

in my soul. It’s not the violin – that’s just the means of expression. The writing and broadcasting and all that is an extension, too. Everything I do is connected back and it keeps ticking on, like a constant renewable source of energy for me. When I hear music, it makes me want to get up and move to it in some form, whether with the violin or the creative process or writing. For me, it’s like a drug: I’m addicted to music.

Still, you’ve called your violin – the 1742 Guarneri del Gesù known as the Ex-Lipinski – your “heart and soul.”

Can you expand upon that relationship between a musician and his instrument?

I’d played 50-60 instruments (in a search for a new violin given the opportunity by an investor). But when I picked this one up, after one note, I knew this was the one.

There was a connection; it felt like an extension of me... it was like going from driving a fantastic Porsche to a Formula One race car. It’s a different world. It wasn’t just a violin anymore – more like a jet. The most exciting thing about this instrument is that it has an extraordinarily dark and brooding sound. Like a racehorse, you can literally push it as far as it will go – it never gives. It’s been the most exciting, glorious ride. •MJ

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This Week at the Music Academy

by Steven Libowitz

Friday, July 4: Independence day is no holiday at MAW, where the fellows are put through their paces as on any other weekday. But there still might be some fireworks, such as when violin star Daniel Hope coaches the fellows in a special master class (1 pm; Hahn Hall; $12 and $13), while the same hour also marks veteran trumpet faculty member Paul Merkolo’s first public appearance of the 2014 festival in a master class (Weinman Hall; free). It’s also your final chance to see former Minnesota Symphony concertmaster with the violin fellows in the new String Leadership Master Class (3:15 pm; Weinmann; $12 and $13).... There might also be some pyrotechnics at tonight’s Picnic Concert, featuring select fellows having the freedom to perform chamber pieces they’ve been working on so far this summer (7:30 pm; Hahn; $30).

Saturday, July 5: Opera Scenes – which features the MAW voice and vocal piano fellows performing wellknown or other notable scenes drawn from the stage – remains one of the more popular early July events on the academy calendar. The six venerable

operas – all workhorses, no newbies here – include Menotti’s The Medium, Verdi’s Aida, Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Britten’s Peter Grimes, and Beethoven’s Fidelio.

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by Gregory Fortner, whose opera and theater productions have been seen throughout the United States, Brazil, and Romania, and include Matei Visniec’s play Old Clown Wanted, which has been seen at various festivals and enjoyed long runs in Chicago and New Jersey. He has directed Don Giovanni and Puccini’s La Bohème at Los Angeles Opera and has directed and taught in the opera program at the USC Thornton.

MAW faculty vocal coach John Fisher – a Scottish opera director, conductor, opera manager, vocal coach, and record

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producer who is the former artistic administrator of La Scala in Milan – co-directs, while faculty artists John Churchwell and Warren Jones join Fisher as conductors. The performing fellows are in costume, with minimal sets, for the operatic potpourri. (2:30 pm today & 7:30 pm Monday; Lobero; $41).... Also, Mosher Guest Artist violinist Daniel Hope in a chamber orchestra concert (see interview on page 24) in Hahn Hall (8 pm; $50).

Tuesday, July 8: This week’s Tuesday @ 8 faculty chamber music concert is a marvelous assortment of sound opening with American fiddler-composer Mark O’Connor’s Chief Sitting in the Rain and College Hornpipe played by violinist Kathleen Winkler with cellist Alan Stepansky and double bassist Nico Abondolo. Pianist Jerome Lowenthal gets an all-too-rare chance to shine on a solo piece showpiece, performing Ferruccio Busoni’s Sonatina super Carmen (Carmen Fantasy). The composition weaves themes from Bizet’s famous opera – which will be fully produced by the vocal fellows and opera orchestra in August at the Granada – into a strikingly original work. Dvorak’s “Serenade for Winds” in D minor, Op. 44, finds several fellows joining their faculty counterparts before the concert closes with pianist Conor Hanick, who The New York Times has called “a young Peter Serkin”, making his MAW debut alongside Lowenthal, percussionist Ted Atkatz and a percussion fellow for Bartok’s exhilarating and boisterous Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (8 pm; Hahn; $40).

Wednesday, July 9: The unexpected death of longtime faculty oboist David Weiss late this spring left a big void in the wind program at MAW. Thankfully, some top musicians have stepped in on short notice. Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida – who has shared the season with Weiss for many years – handled the first week before she returns for the second half of the summer, while MAW alumnus Liang Wang (2003), who was just 26 when he was appointed principal at the New York Philharmonic for years later, was in for Week 2.

Eugene Izotov, the principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2005. Izotov, who has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony (where we hear he might be moving next season), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, finishes his twoweek engagement coaching the fellows in a master class this afternoon before DeAlmeida returns for the final four weeks as scheduled (1 pm; Weinman;

free). Unfortunately, none of them plays musical saw, the whimsical instrument Weiss turned into an art and shared with the community every summer.

Thursday, July 10: The annual Music Academy Open House not only removes admission fees for all of the master classes but also offers a few rare opportunities, including a guided tour of the gorgeous Miraflores campus, well worth a visit even if you don’t stay for the classes. But what a sumptuous menu of music: Lowenthal’s piano chamber master class (Lehmann Hall) and a new one in “The Path to Optimal Performance” (Weinman Hall) with Bill Williams, a trumpeter who also has a master’s in psychology, both at 1 pm, plus Ted Atkatz’s percussion coaching session (Weinman) and a special collaborative piano master class (Hahn Hall) with superstar Jeremy Denk in his first appearance on campus this summer (more on him later). At 7 pm, Duff Murphy, who hosts “The Opera Show” on KUSC classical music radio station every Saturday morning, offers his unique and demystifying sneak preview of this summer’s opera production, Bizet’s Carmen.... Meanwhile, at 2 pm, the first free community concert of the 2014 festival takes over the Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art downtown; think of the one-hour chamber performances as a mini-picnic concert, sans the picnic.

Friday, July 11: The MERIT (Music Education Reinforces Intellect and Talent) recital used to be a part of the Open House, but the talented young local musicians (ages 11-17) – who are being mentored by and studying with MAW fellows for the past two weeks in a payit-forward process – deserve a day of their own. As always, the recital will be followed by a reception for the musicians and audience members. (12:30 pm; Hahn; free)... 12-year vocal technique and performance faculty member Fred Carama – who was on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts for 10 years, and at the Manhattan School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival – gets a chance to mold the vocal fellow in public in today’s master class (3:15 pm; Hahn; $18 & $19)... The fourth week of the new String Leadership master class gets a new master: violinist/conductor Alexander Treger, music director of the American Youth Symphony for the last 15 years, and a former professor at UCLA for the previous 20 years before. More fittingly, he has served as the concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1985 (3:15 pm; Weinman; $12 & $13).

Saturday, July 12: As if having Edward Gardner, music director of the English National Opera and principal guest conductor of the Birmingham Symphony, wielding the baton for an Academy Festival Orchestra concert

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program featuring works by Strauss (Also sprach Zarathustra, best-known for showing up in a pivotal moment of the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey), Bartok (“Piano Concerto No. 3”) and Ravel (“Daphne and Chloe, Suite No. 2”) isn’t enough, the soloist for the Bartok is none other than Jeremy Denk. The pianist is the second musician to return after serving as a Mosher Guest Artist in a previous season, so the four-year old program must really be working in terms of introducing great artists to the wonders of Miraflores. And how do you not gladly welcome back the exceptional pianist and writer who was named a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow last fall, and awarded a 2014 Avery Fisher Prize earlier this year (not to mention his wildly successful turn as music director of the Ojai Festival just last month)? What a treat for the fellows to appear on stage behind him, and what a treat for us! (8 pm, Granada, $15-$48.)

Monday, July 14: Two more incredible master classes, though they’re competing with each other as coaching sessions in solo piano with Denk (Hahn; $13 & $15) and violin with Treger (Lehmann; $12 & $13) both take place at 1 pm... No such issues at night, when the annual Academy Brass Concert finds Mark Lawrence conducting the brass and percussion fellows accompanied by the appropriate faculty members for an evening of bold and beautiful music, including an arrangement of Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy”. (7:30 pm; Hahn; $29).

Tuesday, July 15: Here’s how far MAW has come in just a few years: Glenn Dicterow, the recently retired longtime concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, was a Mosher Guest Artist in 2011, and a visiting faculty member the last two years. Now he’s on staff. The violinist coaches the string chamber master class this afternoon (1 pm; Lehmann; $12 & $13).... Today also brings Richard O’Neill in for a twoweek stint leading the viola master class (3:15 pm; Weinman; $12 & $13)... Deep in the Denk: tonight’s Tuesday @ 8 concert brings the piano wizard back to Hahn’s stage to play Ives’ “Piano Sonata No. 2”, “Concord, Mass., 1840-60”, closing out the concert that opens with pianists Natash Kislenko and Margaret McDonald teaming up for the delightful samba-influenced Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud, the honorary director of the Music Academy for four years back in 1940s. In between, we’ll hear Rebecca’s Clark’s best-known work, her violin sonata, with O’Neill and pianist Warren Jones (8 pm; Hahn; $40).

Wednesday, July 16: Fifteen-season veteran vocal piano and interpretation faculty member John Churchwell takes his turn coaching the vocal fellow and pianists in a master class (3:15 pm; Hahn; $18 & $19).

•MJ

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lowed by four successive 7.4-percent hikes over the next four years to pay for the replacement of 23 miles of near 100-year-old pipes in our district, plus other deferred maintenance projects.

Today, with water sales revenue down substantially, MWD is turning to penalty fees to make up the revenue shortfall from lower sales. Last month, 816 MWD customers, or just under 20 percent of the MWD customer base, were fined a total of $600,000 in penalty fees. There is a growing grumble that MWD has moved away from satisfying its customers’ needs by finding and selling water at the lowest possible price, to funding its operations through excessive fines and punishing penalties.

A Workable Solution

There are two actions should be taken – one immediate and one long-term – by the three water and sanitary special districts in Montecito and Summerland.

1) Immediate Drought Relief. Tom Mosby, general manager of MWD, is exploring options with the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) and the Department of Water Resources to purchase another 1,000 AF of water for a relatively expensive price of up to $2,400 per AF. This translates into a cost of $5.51 per hundred cubic-feet (HCF), plus conveyance and treatment costs. This new water supply, if dedicated to rationing relief, could be sold to MWD residents and businesses who have demonstrated sustained conservation savings, but who are losing valuable plantings through the long, hot, dry summer months or facing a loss of business.

One thousand AF is enough water to support 1,000 customers for a year. It also represents 435,600 billable HCF units of water that could be sold at less than the current $30 per HCF penalty price. This emergency relief price would still represent a healthy premium over the current water rates and would be far less than the $70 per HCF charged by water trucks rumbling through Montecito, hawking water of an unknown quality.

Under this strategy, everybody wins. Montecito customers receive more water to help preserve their valuable trees and specimen landscaping. Water trucks are removed from local streets. MWD makes a profit, allowing it to buy more water.

2) Long-term Water Security. The greatest insanity would be to accept the current drought conditions, wait for rain, and then go back to “business as usual.”

Montecito has been in a drought before, and the only certainty is that there will

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be more droughts in years to come. While negotiations need to continue with possible partners like the City of Santa Barbara, Montecito must recognize that partnership arrangements are fragile when potential partners come to the table with different goals, needs, and aspirations.

The solution is to listen to and trust our local water professionals. The team of Tom Mosby and Karl Meier from MWD, Diane Gabriel from Montecito Sanitary District (MSD), and Mike Sullivan from Summerland Sanitary District (SSD) should sit down together and define precisely what they need to make Montecito and Summerland completely water-independent. Their job should be to evaluate alternatives, select the best technology, and determine capital requirements and operating costs for both a desal plant for drinking water and recycled water to meet irrigation needs for Montecito and Summerland.

Montecito’s wastewater needs to add third-stage tertiary treatment for use in landscaping, a recycled water delivery system and micro-filtration that safely allows treated water to be injected into our depleted aquifers. There are some 17 desalination plants open or proposed along the California coast.

Why not here?

And Now, the Funding

The final step in resolving our water independence is crafting a funding plan. We have a plethora of talented people in Montecito who know how to finance and fund capital projects. Once the proper mix of a Montecito state-ofthe-art desalination plant and recycled water treatment and delivery system is determined, Montecito needs to enlist a Blue Ribbon Committee of successful private citizens and high-worth, high-profile individuals who know how to raise money through public and private offerings, joint ventures, state and federal grants, and other financing tools. The job of the Blue Ribbon Task Force would be to evaluate the financial feasibility of the Montecito Water Plan and recommend alternative funding strategies to make Montecito drought-proof and water-independent for the next 100 years.

If done properly, the Montecito Water Plan can serve as a model for safe and responsible water management in small communities. Fortunately, Montecito has both the will and the wallet to ensure its sustainability as a word-class community.

Let’s get started!

•MJ

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Boundary-breaking British violinist Daniel Hope will lead members of the Academy Festival Orchestra in Max Richter’s enthralling recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

The program also includes an homage to Paganini by Schnittke, Biber’s gorgeously sublime Passcaglia, and Schulhoff’s highenergy Solo Sonata.

Best-loved scenes from Menotti’s The Medium, Verdi’s Aida, Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Britten’s Peter Grimes, and Beethoven’s Fidelio are brought to life by Academy Voice Fellows in this operatic potpourri staged by director Gregory Fortner.

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Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow has lived enough years on the planet to understand there’s a weird surprise around every corner.

Surprises in the Mail

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hen I was little, a friend’s mother used to tell us to stand up straight and suck in our tummies, or people would think we were pregnant.

I thought her comment was weird given that, at our tender age, we had no idea of how one might come to be pregnant. Still we did follow her admonition, and, as a result, I have excellent posture, and no one has ever asked me about my due date.

Now that I am… well… much older and not likely to give birth without a team of mad scientists, I received a big surprise in the mail, a month’s supply of powdered baby formula.

I checked the address, assuming the package had been delivered to the wrong house. But there was my name, Grace Rachow, bold as anything.

I opened the package, thinking maybe there was something else inside. After all, people do reuse boxes.

However, inside were three largish cans of white powered stuff that I was supposed to feed a brand-new baby, which I was pretty sure I hadn’t had.

Of course, I have been a little forgetful lately. If by some miracle on high I had given birth at my age, it was quite possible that the whole event could have slipped my mind. I wondered if I should look around the house to see if there was a baby, maybe under a sofa cushion or cuddled in one of the doggie beds with a terrier.

At least having given birth could explain the bit of extra weight I’d gained recently.

Many hearty congratulations were offered on the note that came with the baby formula, and that made me feel pretty special about the whole thing. I only wish I had waited just a few more years, so Medicare could have paid for the delivery.

I tucked my tummy in and vowed to lose the baby weight soonest.

I knew I should’ve sent a note back, explaining that I hadn’t really had a baby, but I hated to break the news to them, as they seemed so happy for me.

Then, a few weeks later, I got another unexpected package, this time from an organization that offered support to individuals with narcolepsy. With the gallons of coffee I consume daily, I seldom find myself asleep at any time.

And I have never been known to nod off unexpectedly, except when made to watch golf on TV. There is something about the soothing voices of golf announcers that sends me to slumber land despite my level of caffeination.

I wondered if someone was playing

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a practical joke, sending me strange things in the mail. However, it occurred to me that probably the baby formula people figured after all the sleep I lost caring for my newborn, that, of course, I might need treatment for my uncontrollable drowsiness.

Then this past week, I received the coup de grace of surprises in the mail, a new magazine. The handsome young man on the cover wore orange shorts and wielded a golf club. It was the latest copy of Golf Digest. Again, I figured it had been mistakenly delivered to the

If by some miracle on high I had given birth at my age, it was quite possible that the whole event could have slipped my mind.

wrong address. I checked. There was my name, and my subscription is good until June 2015.

Wow. I was truly perplexed. I have never set foot on a golf course, though I imagine it is fun riding the motorized cart over the green hillocks.

I decided to thumb through the pages searching for clues. Maybe someone was telling me I needed to broaden my horizons.

Every ad in the magazine was for golf-related products. There were layouts for clubs, clothing, bags, and a rainbow array of single gloves. The articles were all about golf, too. I suppose that is what one might expect from a magazine titled Golf Digest, but I could not figure what the heck any of this had to do with me.

Then I remembered the formula people. They had been so nice from the get-go, congratulating me and helping me out with my narcolepsy. Perhaps they now were concerned that I was still carrying those few extra pounds of baby weight. Who can find the time to exercise while caring for an infant?

Golf might be the answer. I’d get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. I could strap the baby to my golf bag and head out.

Maybe next week, the baby formula people will send me a golf cart to ride around the course. Those folks think of •MJ everything.

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One more point: if President Obama and his retinue were so worried about reducing carbon pollution, they would not be flying halfway around the world at every turn, using two giant jet airplanes plus accompanying fighter jets, shuttling carbon-spewing SUVs, limousines, and at least 500 individuals, all of whom need to be carted around upon arrival in carbon-spewing vehicles. These are not serious folks when it comes to personally reducing CO2 emissions, but they will, of course, benefit if carbon controls are put in place. I could go on, but I won’t.

– J.B.)

Who Needs Fracking?

Thanks to the author of [the letter] “Fracking Ban Needed” for proving the point of my earlier letter, “What The Frack?” The proponents of this measure either choose to deny factual historical data and/or are profoundly ignorant as to how oil and gas are produced.

First, I challenge the Ban Needed author to provide documentation of the “extensive fracking” taking place offshore and in Kern and Ventura counties, and the devastation caused by this apocalyptic practice. The fear mongering that these types of claims, without any proof or evidence, puts in the minds of people have to stop!

Next, it is clear the Ban Needed

author either did not read all that I wrote or conveniently chose to ignore it. I, in fact can provide documentation that water flooding and natural gas injection have been used for [more than] 65 years on several hundred oil wells that my family and others own, with absolutely no contamination of any ground water, air, or land. This initiative would outlaw “Secondary and Enhanced Recovery Operations, and includes water flood injection, steam flood injection, and cyclic steam injection...” as noted on page 8 of the printed initiative.

The only “conventional” procedure allowed by the initiative is a “well that flows naturally under its own pressure or through which oil is pumped up to the surface.”

Do any of the supporters of this initiative realize that there are very few oil wells anywhere that flow long at all, and that even when a pump is attached the amount of recoverable oil available is very small unless some form of secondary recovery is employed? Thus, by virtue of this initiative passing, none of the longused secondary recovery techniques would be allowed, and oil production would no longer be economically feasible. I clearly understand that ceasing oil and gas production in Santa Barbara County alone would not greatly affect the overall oil sup-

ply. However, if misinformed zealots, such as the supporters of this measure are able to convince other low information voters in large oil producing areas that the sky is falling, my prediction of $20 gas is right around the corner.

What is most distressing about this situation, as with many other “Ban this, stop that” movements, is that those supporting these movements generally have no understanding of the science, technology, or production methods they are protesting. In this case, that of the production of oil and gas, and as noted in the initiative, the interaction with the production of food and fiber and the effects on land, air and water resources. On the other hand, many who oppose this initiative, like myself, have been actively involved for decades, in the production of food and fiber, as well as oil and gas production, co-existing on the same land, without any hint of contamination or degradation to any of these resources.

Once again, I challenge those who support this initiative to bring their documentation of destruction to the table. I and others in the business will also bring documented evidence supporting what I have said.

The Ban Needed author also cites a contaminated water situation in Kern County, and subsequent lawsuit brought by a large farmer. I have known the farmer in question for many years, and I sympathize with his situation. Ban Needed, however, failed to report the whole truth of that situation. The wastewater in question was being held in percolation ponds on the surface, immediately adjacent to the farmer’s property. Some of that water did percolate underground and damage his crops. This practice was banned some time ago and these percolation ponds are no longer in use.

Both state and federal regulations currently monitor these situations.

This was not a case of some hideous witches’ brew being pumped into underground fresh water aquifers.

As has been noted before, the vast

majority of freshwater underground aquifers are between 1000 and 1500 feet below the surface. For example, on ground that I and others have farmed, growing several thousand acres of row and field crops, the water we use is pumped from a depth of less than 500 feet. Oil and gas is produced from several thousand feet below this level, and there are typically many nearly impermeable clay layers throughout these thousands of feet. And, as been noted before, existing regulations require cement barriers above where any injection methods are being employed.

This initiative needs to be defeated as bad public policy that is based totally on scare tactics put forth by people who have little or no understanding, and even less factual data to support their argument.

Richard Russell Carpinteria (Editor’s note: We agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments concerning scare tactics and a lack of factual supporting data, but unless the oil and gas folks mount a concerted information campaign, this initiative is likely to pass.

– J.B.)

Bond Bonanza

The SBCC District from Gaviota to the Ventura County line will be included in the Assessment District, and everyone in this geographic area will have their property taxes go up by $17 per hundred thousand of valuation for 25 years.

Here is the kicker: While the property owners in the district are paying 100 percent of the cost of the bonds (some of which will be passed on to renters and lessees of business properties), only about 50 percent of the students at SBCC are residents of the district.

Many people will be voting on these bonds who do not own property in the SBCC District, but those who vote for it that are renters will, in many cases, see their rents go up to cover the cost of these added assess-

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ments. Any commercial lessee who is on a NNN lease will see the cost of these bonds added to [his or her] NNN payments.

My question is: Why should local taxpayers pay for the educational needs of 11,000 students per semester who come from outside of our district to attend SBCC? There’s something really wrong here.

Ernie Solomon Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’ve long ago given up trying to make sense of government “needs;” it all seems like one giant boondoggle. – J.B.)

Burn That Flag

I found a bunch of U.S. flags in a MarBorg bin last year, just after July 4.

Please advise people of flag etiquette.

Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The Veterans of Foreign Wars website (vfw.org) advises that the proper way to dispose of a U.S. flag is to burn it. Here are their recommended steps to do so: 1) The flag should be folded in its customary manner; 2) It is important that the fire be fairly large and of sufficient intensity to ensure complete burning of the flag; 3) Place the flag on the fire; 4) The individual(s) can come to attention, salute the flag, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and have a brief period of silent reflection; 5) After the flag is completely consumed, the fire should then be safely extinguished and the ashes buried; 6) Please make sure you are conforming to local/state fire codes or ordinances. – Note: Please contact your local VFW Post if you’d like assistance or more information on proper flag disposal. – J.B.)

Unity Shoppe Furniture Sale

Recently, a couple in Malibu donated furniture to Unity Shoppe that they had purchased for a home they intended to move into. The remodel project got too complicated, and they abandoned the idea. However, they had already purchased $140,000 worth of furniture that was in storage, still shrink-wrapped and in the original cardboard containers.

So, Unity is holding a four-day silent auction for this incredible furniture starting today, Thursday [July 3] through Sunday. This is a much higher level of quality than we would ordinarily have for sale in the Unity Gift Shoppe, so we are contacting people who would have an appreciation for these pieces. Elizabeth Stewart Appraisals has assisted us with the auction details. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think may have an interest.

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Water Wells Permitted

In response to the discussion on wells (“Well Enough Alone?” MJ # 20/25): An overlying landowner generally has a right to drill a well. In most areas of California, overlying landowners may extract percolating groundwater and put it to beneficial use without approval from the state board or a court.

California does not have a permit process for regulation of groundwater use. In several basins, however, groundwater use is subject to regulation in accordance with court decrees adjudicating the groundwater rights within the basins. As far as I know, the basin in Montecito has yet to be adjudicated. Goleta’s basin may be a different issue.

Dr. Edo McGowan Montecito

Las Tapias Tops

Wow, we at the Architectural Foundation Santa Barbara are so thrilled with Joanne Calitri’s amazing article (Our Town, MJ # 20/25). Thank you so very much for all of your efforts to produce this wonderful article about our Las Tapias event.

Many thanks, Nancy Clare Caponi AFSB •MJ

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holes-in-one at the Montecito Country Club, not to mention Kirk Douglas’s 60th anniversary soirée, with director Steven Spielberg and Frank Sinatra’s widow, Barbara Marx, in Beverly Hills. The Voice of the Village is clearly getting louder...

Summer Grasses Prolific Montecito author David Krieger, who has written or edited 25 books, has just launched his latest tome Summer Grasses, an anthology of war poetry.

David, who is president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, has included some of the 20th century’s greatest poets, including Siegfried Sassoon, E.E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, and William Stafford.

“Great war poetry shows the horrors of war and its corrosive effects on the human spirit,” says David. “Such poetry sends a message of peace.”

“What links the poems in this volume are their insights into the fierce dehumanization of war,” he told guests at a book bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the upper village.

“The combatants seek to maim and kill ‘the other’ in their struggle to survive and prevail. They come to view the ‘enemy’ as less than fully human.

It becomes clear in these poems that the enemy is not just the soldiers on

John Woodward, Elizabeth “Lynn” Brittner, Eleanor Van Cott, and Warren Miller (photo by Priscilla)

Author David Krieger adds another book to his growing collection

the other side. It is war itself.”

Among the guests were Gerry and Imaging Spence, Nancy Gifford, Diana Basehart, Jeff Farrell, and Mara Sweeney...

Viva la Fiesta!

With the start of our tony town’s 90th anniversary of Fiesta looming large, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum has opened Project Fiesta!

The colorful and eclectic show chronicles the history of the popular annual festival over the past nine decades, showing the pageantry, fashion, and traditions of the cherished cultural event.

The exhibition, curated by my Journal colleague Erin Graffy; Daniel Calderon, the museum’s chief curator; and director of research, Michael Talia Ortega-Vestal, Dennis Rickard, Dianna Bottoms, Bill Burtness, and Natalie Mowers celebrate Fiesta (photo by Priscilla)

Helen Cornell, Jeanine Robles, Helene Schneider, and Susan and Gil Rosas at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (photo

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Redmon, features vintage posters, artwork, restored costumes, artifacts, and historical photos.

Guests at the opening reception were treated to dance performances by the Spirit of Fiesta, Talia OrtegaVestal, and Junior Spirit, 10-year-old Natalie Mowers.

“It is one of the most complicated exhibitions I have ever dealt with,” says Dan. “We literally finished it just an hour before we opened the doors!”

Attending the show, which runs through September 28, were Roger and Debby Aceves, Bill Burtness, Gil and Susan Rosas, Eleanor Van Cott, Scott and Lisa Burns, John Woodward, and new director, Lynn Brittner...

Menkick House, an iconic Colorado home, put on the market for first time in 30 years by its Montecito owners

Trading Spaces One of Colorado’s most iconic properties has emerged on the market for the first time in 30 years.

The mid-century Charles Haertlingdesigned Menkick House, which was built to relate to a massive rock outcrop that dominates the one-acre West Boulder site, is owned by Montecito couple Stephen and Vicki Cherner.

The sale price for the unusual property is $3.95 million, and Emily Gadacz of Colorado Landmark Realtors says the two prospective buyers have come from Santa Barbara.

A small world, indeed...

Lacrosse players rule at the Santa Barbara Polo Club

Lots of Lacrosse Lads Visitors to the Santa Barbara Polo Club the other day might have been forgiven if they thought their sat nav systems were playing up.

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three-day sports fest.

Seventy-eight teams were competing from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California.

Suzanne Marr, events program director, says the teams play all over the country, but this is the first time the event has been held in our Eden by the Beach.

“It has been a great success and you can’t beat the locale.”

The teams are scheduled to be back in mid-January...

Battling Bond Veteran actor and former Montecito resident John Cleese has criticized the latest batch of Bond movies for their over-long action sequences and for sacrificing their British flavor to secure “big money” from Asia.

The 74-year-old Monty Python actor starred in two 007 movies – The World Is Not Enough in 1999 and three years later in Die Another Day. But he has now hinted he was dropped from his role as the successor to gadget inventor Q in the long-running British franchise, partly because film bosses wanted to please audiences in Asia.

He suggested that the spy movies, which have enjoyed renewed success with Daniel Craig in the lead role, have dispensed with their subtle British sense of humor.

“I did two James Bond movies, and then I believe they decided that the tone they needed was that of the Bourne action movies, which are very gritty and humorless.” he says of the Robert Ludlum thriller spy films, starring Matt Damon and Jeremy Renner, which have been a box office and critical success.

“Also the big money was coming from Asia, from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, where the audiences go to watch the action sequences, and that’s why in my opinion the action sequences go on for far too long, and it’s a fundamental flaw. The audiences in Asia are not going for the subtle British humor or the class jokes.”

Cleese’s character did not appear in the recent Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace, but was resurrected by Ben Whishaw in Skyfall two years ago.

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“What I love about this particular event is that all the money raised stays in Santa Barbara, here at our local Braille Institute chapter,” Thompson said. The summer event typically attracts 200 guests for a lively afternoon of lunch and polo. This year the event is co-chaired by Mary Romo and Janet Lew, who are keeping the silent auction items under wraps. “We always have great items to bid on, and this year will be no different!”

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Polo in Provence will raise funds for the Braille Institute, a non-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate barriers to a fulfilling life caused by blindness and severe sight loss. The Auxiliary president is Pat Andersons.

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t the New Vic Theatre on June 19, Adventures in Caring (AIC) premiered its new video, “Oxygen for Caregivers: A Toolkit for Guarding Against Burnout and Sustaining Compassion.” Approximately 200 guests were in attendance.

AIC spent four years developing this project. Simon Fox, the group’s executive director said, “This video wouldn’t be possible without the caregivers of Santa Barbara. All the people in it are local physicians, nurses, hospice, and social workers. It is very much a community project.”

This year, AIC celebrated its 30th anniversary. Locally, they are best-known for the Raggedy Ann and Andy program, in which their volunteers dress in the uniform of Raggedy Ann and Andy and befriend patients at local nursing homes and hospitals. The volunteers are planning to go into the healthcare field and are pre-med, pre-nursing, pre-pharmacy, pre-dental, and pre-social workers.

AIC teaches those young men and women something they are unlikely to learn at their university classes

A new video encourages and assists community caregivers Patti Teel is the community representative for Senior Helpers, providers of care and comfort at a moment’s notice. She is also host of the Senior Helpers online video show. www.santabar baraseniors.com. E-mail: patti@pattiteel.com.

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– the art and practice of conveying compassion to another person.

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The first sign that a caregiver or first responder is headed for compassion fatigue is that he or she works harder and harder. But people can only push themselves so far, especially when their job places them under tremendous pressure.

They know that people might die on their watch, and this takes place day in and day out for years and years.

Finally, those who suffer from compassion fatigue have no more left to give. Recovery is a long and arduous road. “Oxygen” is an attempt to head it off at the pass.

Simon acknowledges that healthcare workers and first responders are extremely intelligent people. They know what they’re supposed to be doing to care for themselves, but they’re not doing it. The new program helps people to revisit their choices.

For those who are on the frontline dealing with life and death on a daily basis, traumatic exposure is a day-to-day reality. They often suffer from sleep problems, flashbacks, and nightmares and are at risk of developing compassion fatigue, causing them to lose their ability to be compassionate. These are real occupational hazards. Construction workers wear hard hats to protect themselves from physical hazards, and healthcare workers need their own armor to protect themselves from psychological hazards.

The “Oxygen for Caregivers” program provides tools for healthcare professionals to safeguard themselves. It is based on proven techniques, which can be taught to assure that they develop the resilience to thrive in their chosen professions. These techniques have a direct bearing on the quality of a health care provider’s work as well as their own satisfaction and happiness. For more information, visit adventuresincaring.org. To listen to my radio interview with Simon Fox, go to youngatheartradio.com. •MJ

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To be sure, there is a fine full team in place ready to go for Looped’s July 12 opening – with Diane Louise Salinger in the starring role and multiple-Emmy Award-winning Montecito director Glenn Jordan at the helm – but the question remained: Is there a curse here?

“No, it’s just a very big role with lots of dialogue,” Lombardo said recently over the phone from Provincetown, Massachusetts. “For any actress, that can be scary. Valery Harper on Broadway and Stephanie Powers on the national tour were both extraordinary. So it’s not cursed, it’s an opportunity for great actresses of a certain age to work in the theater in a very big way.”

In fact, Lombardo said, it was his fascination with just such leading ladies that led him to create Looped in comic homage to the outspoken film and stage star whose most famous roles include Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth, Regina in The Little Foxes and Blanche Du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Diane Louise Salinger and Jon Levenson in Looped (Photo: David Bazemore)

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A. I had just opened Tea At Five (in New York) and the director told me there was this audio tape floating around of Tallulah Bankhead trying to re-record this one line of dialogue, and that it was hysterical. She was drunk and it lasted eight hours long.

I listened over and over, and at first I was laughing. But then it also made me sad, and it moved me. That’s when I thought there is a play within this audio tape. So I created the character of the audio engineer as being a very conservative guy because she was so outrageous and very liberal, a master of double entendre, and very sexy. I thought, what if I put her in the room with someone who was the complete opposite and see what happens over the course of two hours?

So you were a fan?

Actually, I really wasn’t. I didn’t know too much about her. I fell in love with her via the tape. I like to write about characters who are extremely gifted and extremely tortured at the same time. And the more

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I learned about her, the more fascinated I became. So, I read all the books and biographies and watched all the movies and listened to the tape over and over. And then just like with Tea At Five, I put all that away and created own version of the character. This is my Tallulah, just as Tea was my version of Hepburn.

Why are you so drawn to the great older ladies of theater?

All my central characters are woman of a certain age, the ones who when they turn 40 in Hollywood, Tinseltown doesn’t want anything to do with them anymore. So they come back to theater. But it’s also that women are far more fascinating then men. They reveal so many emotions and they’re much stronger than men. In theater, you can get away exploring so much more with women. And I cast strong actresses to play them.

Why is this incident with Bankhead something worthy of two hours in a theater? How does it relate to people today?

There’s so much more than what happens in the studio. They both have secrets, and they both reveal them via flashbacks. You’re seeing two people who come into each other’s lives by mistake – they’re not even supposed to meet, and they’ll probably never see each other again, but over time these true opposites find common ground and learn something. That’s a beauty in life. Someone can open a door or a window for you, and you have a slightly different view than you did before.

The critics were uneven in their reviews.

What didn’t they understand?

You can’t expect critics to understand anything. Eli Wallach said having critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.

If they get it great, but if not, I don’t care. We’re creating art. You and I can both look at a painting, and I can love it and you can hate it. And neither one of us is right – it’s an opinion. But having done this show across the country and hearing audiences howling so hard that the actors have to stop and let them finish, and then they jump to their feet at the end – I know I’ve done my job.

(ETC’s Looped plays at the New Vic, 33 West Victoria Street, July 10-27. Call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.)

It’s Summertime, and Theaters are Jumping

An old warhorse begins one theater company’s new season, while a newer adaptation of a classic closes out another. Meanwhile, PCPA’s summer in Solvang continues with a fun musical, and Ojai’s ACT presents one of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classics.

John Brindle, Jay Carlander, Samantha Eve, Ed Lee, Linda MacNeal, Edward K. Romine, Donal Ross, Matt Schuster, Christopher Short, Leslie Ann Story, Brad Strickland, Allan Stewart-Oaten, Jerry Vassallo, and Tim Whitcomb star in Arsenic and Old Lace as the Theatre Group at SBCC starts the 2014-15 season with the comedy classic July 9-26. Katie Laris directs Joseph Kesselring’s play about two dotty old sisters who dispatch their lonely gentlemen callers via glasses of their arsenic-laced elderberry wine, and turn out to be just two members of the family that is not quite all there.

One brother believes he is Teddy Roosevelt, another is on the run from the law, so it’s up to the third nephew to restore some sanity. Get tickets and details by phoning 965-5935 or visit www.theatregroupsbcc.com.

Mary Plant-Thomas directs Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, closing out Elements Theater Collectives current season focusing on gender and sexuality with a play that takes on both. Orlando is a young man who lives life to the fullest beginning in the 16th century until, after a long sleep, when he transforms into a woman and is faced with the gender restrictions 200 years later. The piece is a romp through the ages, called the longest love letter ever to be written in literary history.

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The Land of Little Rain

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The plaque before the brown house under the willow tree at the end of the village street

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fter an arduous winter and spring that taxed our mental reserves, we escaped to the mountains, for hadn’t Thoreau said, “In wildness is the preservation of the world”? By which he meant, of course, that a dose of wild nature is necessary for the health of the human spirit. We were definitely in need of resuscitation, so we packed the van with camping gear and headed up Highway 395 at the first opportune moment.

On day two, having completed an awe-inspiring hike to Gilbert Lake out of Onion Valley high on the eastern slope of the Sierras, we descended the tortuous road back to the Owens Valley. Each curve promised to swing us off the edge of a precipice, and the green oasis of the town of Independence seemed to remain forever out of reach. At last, though, we reached the valley floor, breathed a sigh of relief, and decided to explore the historic little town of 669 souls.

Driving along the wide town streets, we came upon a small brown house with a large, bronze historic land-

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mark plaque in front. Of course, we stopped.

And so we were introduced to Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934), who said, “….if you ever come beyond the borders as far as the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have knocked at the door of the brown house under the willow-tree at the end of the village street, and there you shall have such news of the land, of its trails, and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.”

Thus invited, we found a copy of The Land of Little Rain and received the news of the land we had just traveled. Our hostess, Mary Hunter

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Austin, had come to the Owens Valley in the early 1890s with her engineer husband who had been hired to work on irrigation canals. She taught school in Independence and Lone Pine but had been educated in natural sciences at Blackburn College in Illinois, was well-read, and desired to be a writer.

In the introduction to a recent edition of her book, former poet laureate of the United States Robert Hass writes that in the small towns of the Owens Valley she “…taught herself the botany of the place, as well as its geology and history; interrogated Mexican sheepherders about plants;

and listened to whatever stories the Indians who lived on the fringes of the towns, having been pushed out of their ancestral villages, would tell her.” The book she wrote is a meditation on place. Her anthropomorphisms probably appalled exacting scientists, but entwined with her poetic images is scientific truth presented in a way that excites the human soul and leaves it breathless.

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Pausing to catch a breath at 9,800 feet gave me an opportunity to catch up with the Journal

Stafford Wallace Austin, a Stanfordeducated engineer, in 1891. The Inyo County that Mary encountered in the 1890s had been shaped by a tumultuous history during the previous 30-40 years.

Early explorations by Jedediah Smith, Joseph Walker, and John C. Fremont, as well as the occasional errant wagon train left the land and the native Paiute populations virtually untouched. When the Mormons in Salt Lake City determined to create the State of Deseret, which included Utah, Arizona, and Nevada, and a section of California, the stage was set for settlement. By laying a route across the desert, Mormon emigrants found the first gold mine at Amargosa in 1854, and Mormon prospectors found silver in the Panamints in 1858. The following year, hundreds of hopeful prospectors entered the area.

From the Indians, the prospectors learned that the mountain range to the east was called Inyo, meaning “The Dwelling Place of the Great Spirit.”

Mary would later say, “I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving [which is] always beautifully fit and does not originate in the poor human desire for perpetuity.”

For her, Lone Pine Mountain would always be Oppapago, the Weeper, for the many streams that originated on its slopes.

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the Owens River (named for the perpetuity of Richard Owens of the 1845 Fremont expedition). Several of the cattlemen decided to stay.

Then, in 1861-62 came one of the harshest winters on record. Their natural game diminished by miners and supplanted by cattle, the Paiutes took to hunting cattle for food. Objections to this practice let to escalating altercations, which soon led to all-out war.

On July 4, 1862, Fort Independence was established to protect the miners and cattlemen.

When a sort of peace was negotiated in 1863, the various clans were relocated to Fort Tejon but many escaped and returned to live in small camps of brush huts, which Austin called campoodies. Trouble between the settlers and the Indians continued to plague the area for many years. Nevertheless, miners, cattlemen, sheepherders, and farmers continued to enter the valley. Fledgling towns sprouted wherever there was a promising strike. Most only lasted a few years and were abandoned when the mines played out.

On March 20, 1872, a devastating earthquake struck, killing 24 people and tumbling many adobe homes and buildings to the ground. Huge fissures appeared in the earth and the land was displaced as much of 20-50 feet in many areas. Two hundred aftershocks rolled through the valley in the next 24 hours. By April 6, these had subsided to one every 12-20 hours. The Owenites set about the task of rebuilding almost immediately.

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By the 1890s, all evidences of civilization were in place. Sawmills and stamp mills, dairies and mail service, as well as schools, churches, and temperance societies reflected prosperous, growing communities. When the gold and silver played out, other minerals were mined and borax became king.

No longer could the natural flow of the mountain streams supply the population. Irrigation ditches were built to capture and tame the waters.

Mary Austin wrote of these streams that their origin is like the origin

Looking south at the Owens Valley from Grays Meadow campground on the road to Onion Valley

of tears, “patent to the understanding but mysterious to the sense.”

Describing the manner in which a mountain stream descends from the pastures of snow to the irrigating ditches she writes, “It slips stilly by the glacier-scoured rim of an ice-bordered pool, drips over sheer, broken ledges to another pool, gathers itself, plunges headlong on a rock ripple slope, finds a lake again, reinforced, roars downward to a pot hole, foams and bridles, glides a tranquil reach in some meadow, tumbles into a sharp groove between hill flanks, curdles under the stream tangles, and so arrives at the open country and steadier going.”

In 1903, the same year Mary published The Land of Little Rain, the City of Los Angeles turned a covetous eye on Mary’s tumbling streams and the Owens River. In 1905, it announced it wanted the water for itself, and through what one author describes as “chicanery, subterfuge and a strategy of lies,” managed to obtain the water rights and complete an aqueduct by 1913. The result: Owens Lake became dry and agricultural pursuits in the valley nearly impossible.

Today, though the valley lies mostly desiccated, the streets of the mountains, those “canons scored out by the glacier plough of God,” still the have transformative power that Mary’s lyrical details describe.

“Every cañon,” writes Mary, “commends itself for some particular pleasantness; this for pines, another for trout, one for pure bleak beauty of granite buttresses, one for its far-flung irised falls, and as I say, though some are easier going, each leads to the cloud shouldering citadel.” Beautiful.

How glad we were that we had come to the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of the mountain and stopped at the brown house under the willow tree to learn the news of land.

(Sources: The Story of Inyo (1922) by Willie Arthur Chalfant and The Land of Little Rain (1903) by Mary Austin, 2003 •MJ Random House edition.)

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Lots of shows boast heavenly harmonies, but only Forever Plaid actually has its singers singing in thirds and octaves inside the Pearly Gates. PCPA Theaterfest puts on the jukebox musical – which takes place when big hairdos were in, cars had enormous fins, and the doo-wop bands of the 1950s were all the rage – at the Solvang Festival Theater July 4-27. The band in question’s quest to record an album ended in a bus collision while on the way to the group’s biggest gig, but now they’ve been miraculously revived for the concert that never happened. Sing (and laugh) along with the Plaids to such hits as “Sixteen Tons”, “Chain Gang”, “Three Coins in the Fountain”, “Perfidia”, and “Heart and Soul”. Erik Stein directs stars Jeff Parker, Richie Ferris, Kyle Smith, and Nick Tubbs, who play the band members. Tickets and information at www.pcpa.org or 922-8313.

Carousel, Oscar Hammerstein’ and Richard Rodgers’ follow-up to big hit Oklahoma!, is a loose adaptation of the Ferenc Molnár 1909 play Liliom, transformed from Budapest to the coast of Maine and turned into a story of love, heartbreak, hope, and redemption between the strong-willed main characters and their more traditional friends. Tracey Williams Sutton directs a cast headlined by Haley Yanez, Kieran Culliton, Audrey

Pennington, and David Stewart, with chreographers Anna Kotula and Beverley Sharpe following closely the work of originator Agnes de Mille.

OJAI Act mounts the musical Time magazine called the greatest of the 20th century as the centerpiece of its 75th season July 11 to August 10. Call 640-8797 or visit www.OjaiACT.org.

Meanwhile, Circle Bar B Dinner Theater’s early summer show, Murder by the Book – an amusing whodunit pitting the company co-owners David and Susie Couch against each other as an arrogant crime novelist and his angry estranged wife in a story that features more twists and turns than Chubby Checker negotiating Painted Cave Road – has two final weekends of performances before closing on July 13. Call 967-1962 or visit www.circlebarbtheatre.com.

Mortilla Improvises to Sounds of Silents

Don’t be surprised when there’s no sound coming from the screen at the start of this year’s Summer Film Series at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens or UCSB’s Campbell Hall. There’s nothing wrong with the equipment. It’s just that the focus of this year’s screenings – the fifth year of the series from UCSB Arts & Lectures and three other Santa Barbara organizations – is on

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The Freshman makes noise among the silent comedies within UCSB film series

can call attention to Buster’s more pathetic side and get some sympathy for the character, evoke an emotion with what I’m playing – be it empathy or humor. Thankfully, I have the dexterity to play what comes to mind.”

Mortilla learned how to play live extemporaneously as the touring pianist for the Martha Graham Dance Company, then taught at UCSB for many years before leaving town for Hollywood, where he’s worked extensively for the Motion Picture Academy.

Playing in front of a live screening is his favorite occupation.

“I consider English to be my second language – music is my first,” he explained. “What I do in my own mind is to create an audio description in the language of music. In my head, I’m thinking of what’s going on in the scene as the lyrics to a song. But I think more in terms of the situation.

It’s like the announcers at the World Cup following the action. I’m giving a blow-by-blow description of what going on screen just with music, but I can connect a lot more of the emotional content than you can get with the English language.”

The audience plays a part, too, Mortilla said.

“They’re just as much a part of the performance as the film and I am. I can respond to what they’re doing, lay back if they’re into it and really getting it and let them provide their own soundtrack of laughter, gasps, or cries. Or if they’re not being all that responsive, I can evoke more emotion with how I play. It’s really a commu-

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silent films.

Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd: Comedy Classics of the Silent Era will screen nine silent comedy movies on Wednesdays (Campbell Hall) and Fridays (Courthouse) from July 9 to August 22, bringing together some of the greatest work from the legends of the 1920s-30s and their bestloved characters including Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Buster Keaton’s Stoneface under pork pie hat, and Harold Lloyd’s daredevil in horn-rimmed glasses. Among the classics silent films are such gems as Chaplin’s Modern Times and The Gold Rush, Keaton’s The Navigator and Lloyd’s The Freshman, works that had audiences tumbling into the aisles in laughter during the early days of movies.

But just because there’s no official soundtrack for the movies, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay attention.

In fact, just the opposite is true, said Michael Mortilla, the versatile pianist and composer who will play live for four of the films at the Courthouse.

(The Charlie Chaplin films and Campbell Hall films feature music recordings).

“You can’t just let it happen to you, like with Spider-Man or those kinds of movies, or you’ll be bored silly,” he said. “You have to invest yourself in silent film if you want to get the message. You can imagine what the actors voice sounds like, or the sound of a pole vault through a glass window, or a boat sinking. It becomes much more personalized.”

It’s very personal for Mortilla, too, as he improvises every single note that he plays for screenings.

“I can’t even tell you what key I’m going to start in,” said Mortilla.

“Literally 10 seconds before the film goes up, I can be thinking ‘F major would be nice, or B flat, except my fingers are more comfortable E flat.

Oh hell, I’ll start in G.’ Then those first notes are critical, because I have an inkling for the mood I want to portray, and I’ll improvise a theme and then it ends up recurring throughout the piece.”

Mortilla’s creations come mostly in the classical style – “I mimic Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart,” he said – and he tries to highlight a specific character according to the mood. “I

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nal experience. The emotions can be like a virus. Your experience off the show changes based on what the people around you are doing.”

Some of your neighbors might be dolled up like the movie stars, on July 25 at least, when the series stages a costume contest at the Courthouse. Prizes, including series tickets to UCSB A&L’s 2014-15 program, will be awarded to those best-dressed as silent film actors or other 1920s-inspired outfit. Other special events include a DIY silent film contest where the winning 3-minute film get screened during the final two nights of the series.

Get the complete schedule, details, movie descriptions, and more online at www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or call 893-3535.

No Surfing Necessary to Catch The Wave

Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), which began nearly 30 years ago as a long weekend offering meant to draw tourists to our coastal resort during the winter months, has long since become one of the city’s great attractions. By this point, SBIFF has become a destination not only for visitors but also a wide swath of Oscar hopefuls who meet the press and public on tributes and panels scheduled with a month before Academy Award voting closes. The festival has already announced it’s adding a 12th day to the 2014 schedule, which will run Tuesday, January 27, through Saturday, February 7.

But under executive artistic director Roger Durling’s decade-long reign, SBIFF has also expanded its reach, what with Cinema Society bringing sneak previews of likely Oscar contenders and other important films, along with filmmakers who undergo Q&A sessions after the screening, served up monthly – and more frequently during November-December, when the calendar crowds with the release of Oscar-worthy films.

Last fall, SBIFF also created The Showcase, a partnership with Metropolitan Theatre Corp. that has brought foreign, independent, and other art house films to the Plaza de Oro Theater every Wednesday evening. That’s where Santa Barbara got its first glimpses of Italy’s Academy Award-winner The Great Beauty and documentaries The Act of Killing and Muscle Shoals.

Now, SBIFF is taking on the summer months with its brand-new The Wave Film Festival, a long weekend devoted to similar esoteric fare. This inaugural mini-festival, slated for July 16-20 at the Riviera Theater (home of Cinema Society and Metro’s typical house for screening foreign fare), focuses solely on a French cinema, though future Waves are being considered for other 3 – 17 July 2014

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But the 11-film roster – each of which screens twice over the four days – should please any French movie lover as it ranges from romances to comedy to drama to detective story, and those wonderfully unclassifiable offerings that touch on many areas.

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ENDING THIS WEEK Launch Pad Lite – UCSB’s innovative new play development program, which offers a playwright the opportunity to have a play in progress produced in a safe environment with eager student actors over an extended period – has proven successful and popular over its nine years. Since its inception in 2005, the department has developed and produced nine plays with the playwright in residence. Now comes Launch Pad’s inaugural summer reading series. New Plays in Process invited three professional playwrights to join the UCSB community as artists in residence in a summer course.

In collaboration with artistic director Risa Brainin, the program features a team of undergraduate designers, actors, stage managers, dramaturgs, directors, and playwrights, and culminates in open rehearsals or public readings on Thursday evenings. Barbara Lebow’s Gun Play kicked things off last week. July 3 brings a public reading with audience Q&A of Jami Brandli’s ¡Soldadera!, described as part-epic and part-grotesque comedy, is set in the Mexican Revolution during The Day of Dead Feast and features Mexican folks songs in a play about class, sexism, love, tradition, the romanticism of war juxtaposed with its reality, forgotten

women, myths, and fantasy. The series closes Thursday, July 10, with The Velvet Weapon, by Deborah Brevoort, who is a two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award for King Island Christmas with David Friedman and Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing with Scott Richards, and might be best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which is performed throughout the United States and internationally. The Velvet Weapon is a backstage farce about a matinee audience rising up in protest over what is being performed on stage, demanding something new and beginning their own impromptu performance of the title work, a play by an unproduced playwright of questionable talent. The work was inspired by Brevoort’s interviews with 43 ringleaders of the Velvet Revolution, which marked the end of Soviet Rule in the former Czechoslovakia. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Theater/Dance West, Room 1507, UCSB campus COST: free INFO: www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu THURSDAY, JULY 3 Un-Dead, Not Crow-ing – It’s an intelligent jam band fan’s delight of a double bill tonight at the Santa Barbara Bowl, where Bob Weir, a founding member of the seminal San Francisco

ONGOING Concerts in the Park – The wildly popular program from Santa Barbara Parks & Rec department, has returned to Chase Palm Park across Cabrillo Boulevard from the beach. This is where singles, visitors, families, and music lovers gather each Thursday for the presunset concerts that starts with picnicking and socializing, and almost always gets listeners up and dancing on the lawn in front of the stage. The series kicks off tonight with Sgt. Peppers, the Los Angeles-based Beatles tribute band that was a big hit when they played the same gig a few years ago. The group plays two full sets of Fab Four favorites, dressed up alternately in The Ed Sullivan Show black suits, the Shea Stadium jackets, the Sgt. Peppers outfits, and the Abbey Road attire. To enhance the experience, they also employ the same vintage instruments and amplifiers used by The Beatles to get make the tribute as close as possible to the real thing. Coming July 10: Captain Cardiac & the Coronaries, whose garish costumes and fun-loving approach to 1950s and ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll – which includes frequent forays into the crowd – has made them an annual series favorite. July 17: Savor, the second in a trio of tribute bands in the park this summer. Savor favors Santana, the great Latin-rock band with roots going back to the late 1960s, including an incendiary appearance at the original Woodstock Music Festival. WHEN: 6-8:30 pm WHERE: 323 East Cabrillo Boulevard COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/parksrec/recreation/ events/parkrec/concerts.asp

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JULY 4 Patriotic Concert – The West Coast Symphony Orchestra has taken over the Fourth of July slot once occupied by the pop portion of the Santa Barbara Symphony for a patriotic concert full of fun and cheer, perfect as a prelude to the fireworks. American music classics to be performed by the orchestra include “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess; “Hoe-Down” from Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo; highlights from Camelot; Morton Gould’s “American Salute”; American pride songs including “America The Beautiful”, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, and “God Bless America”; and traditional 4th of July marches by John Phillips Sousa including, of course, “Stars and Stripes Forever”. The concert will also feature The Channel City Barbershop Chorus in a medley of other popular favorites. The concert will be conducted by Christopher Story VI – who founded the Cielo Foundation for the Performing Arts in 1969 and produced a Fiesta Concert by the West Coast Symphony at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens that August and every subsequent year, and Dr. Michael Shasberger, professor of music and worship at Westmont College. Remember to bring blankets and/or lawn chairs, and fixins for picnicking on the lovely lawn in the Sunken Gardens.

WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: 1100 Anacapa Street COST: free INFO: www.

CieloPerformingArts.org band The Grateful Dead (he contributed “Truckin’” and “Sugar Magnolia” to the catalog of classics, among others), and his band RatDog share the stage with Chris Robinson Brotherhood, led by the Black Crowes singer-guitarist.

RatDog was Weir’s sideband even during his Dead days, beginning life back in the 1980s as his project with string bassist Rob Wasserman and percussionist Jay Lane. These days, the trio is accompanied by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti, guitarist Steve Kimock, and bassist Robin Sylvester. CRB, as the Brotherhood is known, performed a memorable residency at SOhO back in spring 2011, when the band – featuring Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Adam Macdougall (keys, vocals), George Sluppick (drums), and Mark Dutton (bass, vocals) – was just getting together and had yet to release any recordings.

There have been three CDs since those heady, formative days, including Phosphorescent Harvest, released this past April. Note the early start time, giving the two bands a collective five hours to get their ya-ya’s (and wah-wahs) out. WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas Street COST: $48.50-$68.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com 1st Thursday of Summer – The sounds of the Summer Solstice celebration return – or at least some of them. More than 100 performers participated in Panzumo’s entry in the parade; there won’t be quite as

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many doing the Afro-Brazilian thing this evening on the patio in front of Marshall’s but expect plenty of rhythm, song & dance, which is also the title of the ensemble’s popular workshop....

Over at Sojourner Cafe, it’s the Debra Farris Band unplugged, a quieter version of the group that played midday last Sunday led by Farris, who coordinated the entire entertainment lineup at Alameda Park. Special Solstice bonus: Kevin Steele’s photography from parade’s past hangs on the walls of the ever-popular eatery, which will also offer wine tasting.... Scott Topper is one of the city’s top DJs, but he’s also a guitarist and singer who forms one half of Mon-e-luv with Mitch Karno on ukulele, keyboards and vocals.

The dynamic duo play fun, lively, danceable originals and cover songs from “Margaritaville” and “Brown Eyed Girl” to “Twist & Shout” and “Sweet Home Alabama.” Hmm. Just like you might hear when Topper spins the discs, too. Get down to the live sounds over at Paseo Nuevo Center Court.... In the visual arts side, CASA Magazine’s downtown offices takes note of summer vacation with the exhibition “Teachers Break to Create”, comprised of figure drawings, paintings, sketches, and prints by local art educators.... With Solstice in the rear-view mirror, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum is gearing up for Old Spanish Days, which turns 90 with this year’s Fiesta, starting at the end of the month. The exhibition

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 Thompson Gunning – Once a frequent visitor to Sings Like Hell at the Lobero and the Live Oak Music Festival, the great English guitarist/singer-songwriter Richard Thompson hasn’t played in town for too many years. One of the founders of Fairport Convention, the band that fairly invented British folk-rock, Thompson went on to form a duo with his then-wife, Linda, that put out several classic albums, including Shoot Out the Lights, which appears on many a critic’s list of all-time best LPs. He has been even more prolific as a solo artist, though, releasing dozens of records over a 30-year span. A terrific songwriter able to dig into hard-toaccess emotions with sensitivity or rock out with the best of them, Thompson’s songs have been covered by the likes of Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, REM, Bob Dylan, Del McCoury, Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, David Byrne, and Don Henley. His prowess on guitar is even more legendary – no wonder Rolling Stone lists him among the Top 20 ax-men of all time, capable of shredding hearts with his intricate acoustic finger-picking or simply shredding on an electric guitar. We’ll get to see both sides at tonight’s concert, hot on the heels of his two latest CDs, Electric, featuring a slew of fabulous new songs, and the forthcoming Acoustic Classics, due later this month: Thompson plays solo acoustic before returning after intermission for a full electric set with his trio. Buckle your seat belt. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $42.50 ($154 Meet & Greet Package includes seating in the first five rows, a personal photograph with Thompson at the post-performance reception, and an autographed lyric print; $79 Tour Package includes seating in the first 12 rows, the signed lyric print, and an exclusive tour merchandise item) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com “Project Fiesta!” features vintage posters, artwork, restored costumes, artifacts, and historical photos from the cultural celebration’s past nine decades, plus a sneak preview of the performances via flamenco dancers from the Linda Vega Dance Studio.... “Summer Impressionists” settles in a Sullivan Goss with today’s opening reception featuring some of the most important American painters in history, an annual tradition at the gallery. Also on view, exhibitions of work by: Ken Bortolazzo, Susan McDonnell and Richard Haines.

WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State

Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday SATURDAY, JULY 5 Music from Moshav – The Ojai Concert Series taps into more world music this evening with an outdoor concert from Moshav, a progressiveleaning jam-band from Israel with intelligent swirl of alternative rock, funk, reggae, and folk. The band was originally formed by three brothers and their friends who grew up in Moshav

SUNDAY, JULY 13 Slack Key Master – Ledward Ka’apana has been one of Hawaii’s most influential musicians for four decades, a master of many stringed instruments known for an exceptional picking style on slackkey guitar and ukulele. He’s also stands out for his voice, which ranges from a deep baritone to leo kiekie (falsetto). So-called Led Heads also love him for his easy-going style and kolohe (rascal) charm, which extends past the Big Island of Hawaii to around the world. Ka’apana was honored with an NEA National Heritage Fellowship back in 2011, and has won three Grammys for his work on slack key compilations and has been nominated for four more in his own right, not to mention winning multiple Na Hoku Hanohano’s, Hawaii’s equivalent.

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Meor Modi’im, a musical village in the hills between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and while the personnel has changed, the group now has released eight albums over a 20-year career that has brought its members to stages around the world. Although Moshav’s music stems from intensely personal places and address terrorism, suffering and war, the group’s harmonies, joyous and uplifting rhythms and organic sounds have drawn comparisons to Pearl Jam and the Dave Matthews Band.

The band’s original songs sometimes lift phrases straight from religious texts from around the world, while Moshav also play Hebrew-sung Jewish standards all in the service of the power of peace, love, and never letting go of your dreams. Sabrina Lentini, a finalist on American Idol, opens the show. As with all Ojai Concert Series summertime shows, the performances are only part of the events, as a huge potluck (bring a dish to share if you want to join in the good eatin’) precedes the music, and a bonfire starts raging in the fire pit at the break.

WHEN: Gates open 5 pm, Lentinie at 6 pm, Moshav at 7 pm WHERE: Dancing Oaks Ranch, 4585 Casitas Pass Road, Ventura (off Hwy. 150) COST: $20, free for kids under 15 INFO: 665-8852 or www.ojaiconcertseries.com SATURDAY, JULY 12 All-Star Band at Bowl – It’s been a pretty good time to be Ringo Starr over the last 12 months or so. Not that it’s ever a bad thing to be an ex-Beatle, the sticks-man for the most legendary band in the land. But he’s been having even more fun recently, including performing his song “Photograph” on the Grammy Awards last January and then joining Paul McCartney for his number – the performances celebrating The Beatles’ Lifetime Achievement Award – followed the next night by the two doing it all over again with a whole host of guest stars for the taping of The Beatles Tribute on CBS celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first U.S. visit and appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. That all comes on the heels of The Grammy Museum exhibit “Ringo: Peace & Love”, which opened last June as the first major exhibit to focus on a drummer. In February, Simon & Shuster published Octopus’s Garden, a children’s book based on his Ringo’s lyrics. The All-Starr Band, Ringo’s fluctuating traveling outfit, is touring again, this time around featuring Toto’s Steve Lukather, former Mr. Mister lead singer-bassist Richard Page, ex-Santana and Journey keyboaristsinger Gregg Rolie, wunderkind pop producer/singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren, and drummer Gregg Bissonette. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $39-$99 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

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New Kirtan Hero – Kirtan, the Sanskrit call-and-response chanting performed in India’s bhakti devotional traditions (the word means “praise”), has found a modern Messiah in Dave Stringer, a trained filmmaker and jazz musician who discovered the tradition when video editing work brought him to an ashram in India back in 1990. Stringer’s blend of the transcendent mysticism of traditional Indian instruments with groove-oriented sensibility of American gospel and R&B has given him a pseudo rock-star status in the world of kirtan, where his innovative approach, heartfelt inclusiveness and lighthearted humor makes the music in a sort of participatory theatrical experience accessible to all. Stringer has released seven albums under his own name, and his music is played in yoga studios worldwide, while his voice also appears on numerous soundtracks, including the blockbuster film Matrix Revolutions and the video game “Myst”.

All of which means you won’t feel out of place at all if this is your first experience with kirtan, and you’ll likely walk away with a strange sense of euphoria – and community. WHEN: 7-9:30 pm WHERE: Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way COST: $15 in advance, $20 day of show INFO: 965-8811 or www.yogasoup.com They Can-Can... Can You? – The Santa Barbara French Festival returns to Oak Park every second Saturday in June to celebrate Bastille Day and the French culture. Francophiles and others can enjoy fabulous wine, mimosas, crepes, delicious pastries, music, dance, arts and crafts, and, two true annual Santa Barbara traditions in the Poodles Parade and the Femme Fatales Drag Revue. One of the few surviving ethnic festivals, the community event draws huge crowds from near and far to the midtown park in our little berg known as the American Riviera.

Dance and music from more than 30 different artists take over the three stages both days, including such acts as cancan dancers, French Polynesian dancers, African belly-dancing, the French Johnny Cash, French vocalists, jazz combos – and, in a first this year, an entire stage devoted to accordion music. The poodle parade, complete with costumes and doggy topiary, is actually open to other French four-legged breeds in a canine cavalcade that expands this year to include a promenade through the park leading up to the presentation on the main stage. Beyond the food and entertainment, there are also dozens of booths offering everything from face painting and henna tattoos to vacation adventures. The profits from the event go to support Center Stage Theater and Speaking of Stories, which took over the festival from its founder a couple of years ago. Ooh la la! WHEN: 11 am-7 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Oak Park, 300 West Alamar Avenue COST: free INFO: 963-8198 or www. frenchfestival.com •MJ

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ing seminars designed to help older adults maintain independence and health, with advice from experts who specialize in home care and adult wellness. “The 4M churches do so much for community outreach, and we are happy to partnering with them,” says community liaison Cynthia Snyder.

The churches, All Saints-By-TheSea, Montecito Presbyterian (ELMO), Montecito Covenant Church, and Mount Carmel Church, have been helping spread the word about the seminars, the first of which was held last week at All Saints. “A panel of experts discussed the medical, physical, and functional areas of aging well,” Snyder said. The seminar was well attended, with many attendees asking for ongoing informational events of this type.

The second seminar, to be held on July 31 at El Montecito Presbyterian, will focus on the physical, social, and economic choices that optimize health, wellness, and security for seniors. It will cover how to pay for long-term care, how to navigate Medicare, and information on reverse mortgages.

Suzanne McNeely of Senior Planning Services will be speaking on fiduciary care and financial management.

“Both seminars will help our seniors live independently at home for as long as they can safely and healthfully,” Snyder explains. The seminars are free and open to the public.

The graduating class of Crane Country Day School, published large enough to see everyone’s shining faces (photo by Teresa Pietsch)

For more information, email csnyder@seniorplanningservices.com.

Congrats Graduates, Again

Two weeks ago, we ran our annual graduation edition (MJ #20/24),

LotusFest!

SATURDAY, JULY 12 • 2:00 TO 5:00 PM

Please join us for this celebration of the spectacular flower that is Lotusland’s namesake.

which featured the photos and names of 202 graduates from seven Montecito schools and preschools.

There was an error in the list of graduation awards given to Crane School graduates. Here is the correct listing: David Echols Math Cup: Ian MacFarlane; Lejeune Language Award: Laura Vences; Instrumental Music Award: Orlando Soriano; Drama Prize: Anna Martin; Katharine Faletti Performing Arts Award: Camila Lemere; Tech Award: Charlie Corman; Art Prize: Zoe Padilla; Julia Brown English Prize: Ian MacFarlane; Library Award: Merith Velazquez; Nagle Community Service Award: Arin Pieramici and Lizzie Spiller; Best Girl Athlete Award: Sienna Gonzalez; Best Boy Athlete Award: Miles McGovern; Sheila Davidson Inspirational Athlete Award: Gordon Wren; History

Prize: Clay Rodgers; Science Prize: Ian MacFarlane; Dean Smith Perfect Attendance Award: Diarra Pouye; Rose Bowl: Lizzie Spiller; Tower Improvement Award: Clay Rodgers; Talia S. Klein Award: Shelagh Morphy; Amiability Award: Laura Vences; Headmaster’s Prize: Ian MacFarlane; Academic Achievement Awards: Gabby Campbell, Ian MacFarlane, Merith Velazquez, and Laura Vences.

It was also suggested to us by several parents and school leaders that we publish the photos a bit larger, so the smiling face of every graduate can be seen. While we promise to do so next year, here’s a start: the graduating class of Crane Country Day School.

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he Montecito Heat Index measures present demand for Montecito single-family houses in five distinct price sectors, and identifies the strength and weakness of the market today. Although completed sales is a more typical measurement of market performance, such data are trailing by at least 30 days and often much longer.

By examining the present ratio of listings to those under contract, we determine the “Heat” of the market.

And since real estate activity fluctuates month to month, today’s Heat score is compared to a year ago today.

All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

Today’s Heat score is 250, an impressive increase of 117 percent more than last year.

The sector most in demand by buyers today is the $1-2m sector scoring a 50, a decrease of 14 percent over last year and 25 percent of all current demand in Montecito. This group is attracting second home buyers, people who wish to downsize to a cottage/condo lifestyle, young families looking forward to our extraordinary elementary schools, and, of course, investors who are buy-, hold-, and rent-focused – and perhaps wary of a increasingly likely overheated stock market.

The $2-3M group has seen strong, consistent demand typically close to the $1-2M group for the past six or so years. Lately, it has been weaker.

Today with a score of 18, it is 50 percent below last year.

And as the $2-3M finds fewer buyers, the $3-4M group, with half as many properties for sale, seems to be finding more. It scored an extraordinary 41, a whopping 193 percent increase over last year. All of the homes chosen were listed between $3.75M and $3.99M. The 4-5M group, a historically difficult sector, also nicely outperformed, doubling last year’s score of 5.

The $5M and above group has been 3 – 17 July 2014

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Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner.

He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

showing signs of waking from a six to seven year rest. Today it scored a very impressive 16, bettering last year’s score by a staggering 700 percent. A 10K square-foot Mediterranean estate on 20 acres was chosen at near $15M, and a 7/6, 8K square-foot estate on five park-like acres is heading to closing near $12M. Although the demand leader in Montecito continues to be the $1-2M group, there is now no doubt the highend, $3M and up group is finding major support after some fairly quiet years. Clearly, our market is a stronger, more balanced one than we have seen in a long time.

The market is bringing slightly higher prices, and for all price sectors, the actual number of sales and new listings are so far this year down a significant 19 and 15 percent, respectively. As a result, buyers, with fewer choices, are often forced to pay more than they would like. Prices, therefore, are up over last year; median by 2 percent and average by 11 percent. There is little doubt that sellers are holding the best cards.

Nearly 55 percent of home sales in the U.S. occur in the summer months.

I haven’t looked, but I would guess this more or less also holds true for us. Given the positive demand pressure here, one would think that folks who have been waiting to sell would be pushing each other aside to get to their favorite realtor to list their property.

Since we are only about one week into summer, it is too early to predict, yet we could soon see more homes for buyers to choose from and •MJ more sales.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3730

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3730 for the PAVEMENT REHABILITATION OF RUNWAY 15L-33R, TERMINAL RAMP, SOUTH GA RAMP, AND SIGNATURE RAMP will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, July 24 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, “PAVEMENT REHABILITATION OF RUNWAY 15L-33R, TERMINAL RAMP, SOUTH GA RAMP, AND SIGNATURE RAMP, Bid No. 3730.”

The PAVEMENT REHABILITATION OF RUNWAY 15L-33R, TERMINAL RAMP, SOUTH GA RAMP, AND SIGNATURE RAMP project primarily consists of: (1) Base Bid: a. The pavement marking removal, crack filling and sealing, slurry seal surface treatment, and runway and pavement markings of Runway 15L-33R,and the South General Aviation (GA) Ramp. b. The cold planning and filling with bituminous surface course of the existing asphalt concrete Terminal Apron and two portions of asphalt concrete pavement along Taxiway ʻAʼ. c. The full depth reconstruction of Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) Pavement to the Signature Ramp. d. The full depth reconstruction of asphalt concrete pavement for the Runway 15L Run-Up Apron. e. The PCC pavement joint sealant repair of a section of the Terminal Ramp along Taxiway A. (2) Additive Alternative No. 1: a. Involving the pavement marking removal, slurry seal coat and crack sealing, and reinstatement of the pavement markings of a portion of the entrance road to Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (turn-on from Fowler Road).

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Insert improvements per plans and specs. The Engineerʼs estimate for the Base Bid is $1,900,000, and the Engineerʼs estimate for Additive Alternative No. 1 is $30,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Wednesday July 9 at 10:00AM at the Airport Administration Office- 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara.

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 Pearse Melvin, PE, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc, (714) 939-1030.

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: 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, or no less than the higher of either the State wage rates as established by the Director of the State of California Department of Industrial Relations, or the prevailing Federal wage rates established by the Department of Labor. 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.

Buy American Certification - The successful bidder must comply with Title 49 U.S.C. Section 50101. Unless otherwise formally approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), all acquired steel and manufactured products installed under the AIP assisted project must be produced in the United States. Section of 50101(b) permits conditional waivers of this preference. Bidder is hereby advised that Owner approval of any requested waiver is contingent upon approval by the FAA. As a condition of bid responsiveness, Bidder must indicate on the Buy American certification whether it intends to meet Buy American requirements by only installing 100% United States made steel and manufactured products or if they intend to request a permissible waiver to Buy America preferences.

All solicitations, contract and subcontracts resulting from projects funded under this Contract are subject to the foreign trade restriction required by 49 CFR Part 30, “Denial of Public Works Contracts to Suppliers of Goods and Services of Countries That Deny Procurement Market Access to U.S. Contractors”. Bidders will be required to provide certification in accordance with 49 CFR Part 29 regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion from participation in this transaction by any Federal Department or Agency.

Race Neutral DBE Goal - There is no DBE project goal established for this project. At this time the City of Santa Barbara (City) will meet the DBE goal on federally assisted projects through race neutral measures. The City supports the use of race neutral measures to facilitate participation by DBEs and other small businesses, and encourages prime contractors to subcontract portions of their work that they might otherwise perform with their own forces.

According to the Department of Labor, the minority utilization goal for Santa Barbara County is 19.7 percent.

Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action 1. The Offeror's or Bidderʼs attention is called to the "Equal Opportunity Clause" and the "Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications" set forth herein.

2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the contractor's aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: A. Timetables: Until further notice B. Goals for minority participation for each trade (19.7) C. Goals for female participation in each trade (6.9%) These goals are applicable to all of the contractor's construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally-assisted) performed in the covered area. If the contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the contractor is also subject to the goals for both federally funded and non-federally funded construction regardless of the percentage of federal participation in funding.

The contractor's compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a), and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training shall be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from contractor to contractor or from project to project, for the sole purpose of meeting the contractor's goals, shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order, and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

3. The contractor shall provide written notification to the Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed.

4. As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the "covered area" is Sate of California, County of Santa Barbara, City of Santa Barbara.

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION REQUIREMENT. (Reference: 41 CFR part 60-4, Executive Order 11246) ACCESS TO RECORDS AND REPORTS. (Reference: 49 CFR part 18.36(i), 49 CFR part 18.42) AIRPORT AND AIRWAY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1982, SECTION 520 (Reference: 49 U.S.C. 47123) BREACH OF CONTRACT TERMS. (Reference 49 CFR part 18.36(i)(1)) BUY AMERICAN PREFERENCE. (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) CIVIL RIGHTS – GENERAL. (Reference: 49 USC § 47123) CIVIL RIGHTS – TITLE VI ASSURANCES. CLEAN AIR AND WATER POLLUTION CONTROL. (Reference: 49 CFR § 18.36(i)(12)) CONTRACT WORKHOURS AND SAFETY STANDARDS ACT REQUIREMENTS. (Reference: 49 CFR § 18.36(i)(6)) COPELAND “ANTI-KICKBACK” ACT (Reference: 49 CFR § 18.36(i)(4), 29 CFR parts 3 & 5) DAVIS BACON REQUIREMENTS. (Reference: 49 CFR § 18.36(i)(5)) DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION (NON-PROCUREMENT). (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C), 2 CFR part 1200, DOT Order 4200.5 DOT Suspension & Debarment Procedures & Ineligibility) DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. (Reference: 49 CFR part 26) ENERGY CONSERVATION REQUIREMENTS. Source: 49 CFR part 18.36(i)(13) EQUAL OPPORTUNITY CLAUSE AND SPECIFICATIONS. (Reference 41 CFR § 60-1.4, Executive Order 11246) FEDERAL FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT (FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE) (Reference: 29 USC § 201, et seq.)

LOBBYING AND INFLUENCING FEDERAL EMPLOYEES. (Reference: 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) NONSEGREGATED FACILITIES REQUIREMENT. (Reference: 41 CFR § 60-1.8) OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 1970 (Reference 20 CFR part 1910) RIGHT TO INVENTIONS (Reference 49 CFR part 18.36(i)(8)) TERMINATION OF CONTRACT. (Reference: 49 CFR § 18.36(i)(2)) TRADE RESTRICTION (Reference: 49 CFR part 30) VETERANʼS PREFERENCE (Reference: 49 USC § 47112(c))

Civil Rights - Title VI Solicitation Notice: The City of Santa Barbara, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.

Notice to Prospective Federally Assisted Construction Contractors 1. A Certification of Non-segregated Facilities shall be submitted prior to the award of a federally-assisted construction contract exceeding $10,000 which is not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

2. Contractors receiving federally-assisted construction contract awards exceeding $10,000 which are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause will be required to provide for the forwarding of the following notice to prospective subcontractors for supplies and construction contracts where the subcontracts exceed $10,000 and are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

3. The penalty for making false statements in offers is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

4. Monthly progress payments shall be made to the Contractor for the value of the work completed during the preceding month, less a five percent (5%) security withhold.

Notice to Prospective Subcontractors of Requirements for Certification of Non-Segregated Facilities 1. A Certification of Non-segregated Facilities shall be submitted prior to the award of a subcontract exceeding $10,000, which is not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

2. Contractors receiving subcontract awards exceeding $10,000 which are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause will be required to provide for the forwarding of this notice to prospective subcontractors for supplies and construction contracts where the subcontracts exceed $10,000 and are not exempt from the provisions of the Equal Opportunity Clause.

3. The penalty for making false statements in offers is prescribed in 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

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.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER, CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

William Hornung, C.P.M

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Published June 25 & July 2 Montecito Journal

3 – 17 July 2014

PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3708 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3708 for the FY 2014 SIDEWALK ACCESS RAMPS PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, July 10, 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, “FY 2014 SIDEWALK ACCESS RAMPS PROJECT, Bid No. 3708."

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished sidewalk access ramp project, including curbs, gutters, sidewalks, access ramps, root pruning, conforms, pavement delineation, and sign relocation. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, traffic striping, clearing and grubbing, surveying, shrub trimming, concrete saw cutting, removal of hardscape, placing of asphalt concrete, cleanup, public notices, and incidentals per the project plans and specifications. The Engineerʼs estimate is $125,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

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 Laura Yanez, Project Engineer, 805897-2615.

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.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: June 25 & July 2, 2014 Montecito Journal

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ORDINANCE NO. 5656

ORDINANCE NO. 5657

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A FIFTEEN YEAR AND FIVE MONTH LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THREE FIVEYEAR OPTIONS, BETWEEN MAJCO CORPORATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, DBA BIG BRAND TIRE, FOR 29,620 SQUARE FEET OF LAND, INCLUDING 4,484 SQUARE FEET OF BUILDING 370, AT 6010 HOLLISTER AVENUE, AT THE SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT, EFFECTIVE JULY 10, 2014, FOR A MONTHLY RENTAL OF $7,533, EXCLUSIVE OF UTILITIES

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA INCREASING THE SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFIT FOR THE FIRE AND POLICE SERVICE RETIREMENT PENSION FUND The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 24, 2014.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

held on June 24, 2014.

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

California.

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

(Seal)

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

/s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

California.

(Seal)

ORDINANCE NO. 5657

/s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5656 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on June 17, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 24, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Dale Francisco

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 25, 2014. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 25, 2014.

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on June 17, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 24, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Dale Francisco

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 25, 2014. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 25, 2014. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20140001819.

Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quality Promotions & Events; Racecarden, 454 Orange Blossom Lane, Goleta, CA 93117.

Charles Baird, 454 Orange Blossom Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. This

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 20, 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

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. – Alexander Woollcott

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aanstad Imports, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Julianna Onstad, 649 Tabor Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This

statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 25, 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. 20140001871.

Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3574

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING City of Santa Barbara

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3574 for the Cabrillo Boulevard Bridge (Replacement) will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 12th, 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, “Cabrillo Boulevard Bridge (Replacement), Bid No. 3574".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant, and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished bridge replacement project on Cabrillo Boulevard over Mission Creek between State Street and Helena Avenue per plans and specs. The project includes the replacement of the four-lane bridge, sidewalks, and bike path with four-lane bridge, sidewalks, and attached bike path bridge; creek wall replacement upstream of the bridge; and stream restoration downstream of the bridge per plans and specs. The Engineerʼs estimate is $12,000,000.

Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. Each bidder shall also have no less than three (3) years' experience in the magnitude and character of the work bid. Magnitude of the work shall be defined as projects over $8 million. Character of the work shall be defined as a bridge replacement project for a “local agency” on road classified as arterial or greater on the California Road System maps over a creek or near an environmentally sensitive area. The bidder (general or subcontractor) performing the cast-in-steel shell concrete piling work shall have completed a minimum of five (5) projects in the last three (3) years using the oscillation method and EDTTEX or equivalent methods specified There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday , July 17, 2014 at 10 a.m. at the David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at http://santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/out.asp. 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 Adam Hendel P.E., Supervising Engineer, 805-897-1921.

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: http://santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/out.asp.

Bidders are advised that this project is a federal-aid construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provision set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposed entititled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Section B2 of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request.

This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 8% DBE participation. Bidders must meet this goal or demonstrate that adequate good faith efforts to meet this goal have been made as outlined in Section B2.

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 for the county in which the work is to be done as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are available from the California Department of Industrial Relationsʼ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD.http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD/. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in Appendix J of the specifications and are available from California Department of Transportation Internet web site at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/federal-wages/. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relates for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determinations otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/federal-wages/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 must 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.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOTʼs continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M.

PUBLISHED: July 2, 2014 and July 16, 2014 Montecito Journal

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, during the afternoon session of the meeting, which begins at 2:00 p.m., in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The City Council will consider proposed amendments to Title 28 of the Municipal Code for implementation of emergency shelter zoning in compliance with Senate Bill 2 (SB2).

SB2 requires that jurisdictions provide a zone or zones that allow emergency shelters without a conditional use permit or other discretionary approval.

In compliance with the requirements of SB2, the City Council will consider amendments to the R-4 (Hotel-Motel-Multiple Residence), C-P (Restricted Commercial), C-L (Limited Commercial), C-1 (Limited Commercial), C-2 (Commercial) and C-M (Commercial Manufacturing) zones allowing emergency shelters with minimal supportive services without a conditional use permit or other discretionary action. Chapter 28.79 would be added to Title 28 of the Municipal Code establishing regulations for emergency shelters with minimal supportive services. Amendments related to emergency shelters are also proposed to the Definitions Chapter 28.04 and Conditional Use Permit Chapter 28.94.

The Municipal Code amendments are within the scope of the 2011 General Plan and the Program EIR analysis for the General Plan. No further environmental document is required for this project pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §21083.3 and Code of Regulations §15183). The City Council environmental findings adopted for the 2011 General Plan remain applicable for this project.

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerkʼs Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990.

On Thursday, July 10, 2014, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Quick Links, click on Current Council Agenda & Packet.

Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 564-5305 or inquire at the City Clerk's Office on the day of the meeting. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases.

(SEAL) Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager July 2, 2014

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOPSYZ, 945 Ward Drive #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

Julia Chrynko, 945 Ward Drive #20, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 12, 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. 20140001743.

Published July 2, 16, 23, 30, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Heavenly Sinful, 3343 Via Feliz, Lompoc, CA 93436.

Raquel Heron, 3343 Via Feliz, Lompoc, CA 93436.

Frank Gomez, 3343 Via Feliz, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement 3 – 17 July 2014

PUBLIC NOTICES was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 18, 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.

Original FBN No. 20130003267. Published June 25, July 2, 16, 23, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Heavenly Sinful, 3343 Via Feliz, Lompoc, CA 93436. Raquel Heron, 3343 Via Feliz, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 18, 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 Carol Kraus.

FBN No. 2014-0001802.

Published June 25, July 2, 16, 23, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Liquor & Wine Grotto, 1271 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Brian R. Brunello, 62 Canon View Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Jason E. Herrick, 2507 Treasure Drive B, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 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 Adela Bustos.

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FBN No. 2014-0001835.

Published June 25, July 2, 16, 23, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Festa Di Ferragosto, 2128 Piedras Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara, 2128 Piedras Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 12, 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. 2014-0001742.

Published June 18, 25, July 2, 16, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Container Concepts, 2027 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robert Ferer, 2027 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 12, 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. 2014-0001403.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clear Concept

Consulting, 2942 Verde Vista Drive, Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Gretchen M Walker, 2942 Verde Vista Drive, Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 14, 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. 2014-0001444.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aladdin Café, 938 Embarcardero Del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117.

Sarkis Abdulhai, 938 Embarcardero Del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117.

Sam Mushmel, 938 Embarcardero Del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 13, 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. 2014-0001420.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fore the Body, 30 Winchester Cyn #121, Goleta, CA 93117. Bill Hughes, 30 Winchester Cyn #121, Goleta, CA 93117. Rosa Hughes, 30 Winchester Cyn #121, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County

Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 5, 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. 2014-0001676.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Isabelle Greene and Associates, 2613 De La Vina, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Isabelle C Greene, 3019 Paseo Tranquillo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 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. 2014-0001651.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clear Waterways Organization, Inc, 1187 Coast Village Road #758, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Clear Waterways Organization, Inc, 1187 Coast Village Road #758, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 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. 2014-0001640.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: South Coast Photonics, 135 Sierra Visita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Armando M. Arias Del Cid, 5651 Encina Road 203, Goleta, CA 93117.

Paul Terrance Nolan, 135 Sierra Visita Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2014-0001525.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gibraltar, 16 W. Mission Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Sara Jaqua, 27 W. Anapamu, Suite 362, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 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. 2014-0001660.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s)

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British no longer have any sense of personal responsibility. – Lord Thomson of Fleet

is/are doing business as: Bowwowbin, 21 E. Anacapa St. #6, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Diane Lea Williams, 21 E. Anacapa St. #6, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 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 Noe Sobis.

FBN No. 2014-0001630.

Published June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1467263. To all interested parties: Petitioner Michelle Rivas Quintero filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Michelle Rivas. 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 June 12, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: July 30, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/25, 7/2, 7/16, 7/23

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Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents

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will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White House.” For more information or to apply, please contact Danielle Fowler at 805-9571980 or daniellef@reaganranch.org.

“The 1st Memorial Honors Detail is seeking veterans to get back in uniform to participate in an on-call Honor Guard team to provide military honors at funeral or memorial services throughout Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. For more information visit www.usmilitaryhonors.org, email carlvwade@gmail.com, or call 805667-7909.”

Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter is located at the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, Ca. www.bunssb.org Adopt /Volunteer/ Donate with us, and help give abandoned & stray rabbits & guinea pigs a better life.

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1880 E Valley Rd $16,980,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Distinguished Montecito estate, 4.5 acres, 6BD/7BA, pool, & many other luxury amenities.

843 Park Hill Ln $9,950,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Gated 4BD/5BA Don Nulty designed Hilltop Villa w/ panoramic ocean views situated on 4.42 acres.

1620 E Mountain Drive $7,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 799 Lilac Dr $7,995,000 1535 W Mountain Dr $5,300,000 Secluded & intimate this ocean view Montecito compound on 1.7 acres will take your break away! 3BD/4.5BA main house with Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Luxurious 4 bed, 4 bath Montecito estate, privacy and the highest level of Mediterranean estate w/ panoramic views, 4+ acres in SB Foothills. stunning views, elegant formal living & dining rooms, 2 fireplaces, plus Guest House & Studio.

1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $3,950,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 6± ac parcel in A+ Montecito location. Dramatic ocean & mtn vws. Water meter in-ready to build!

1090 Toro Canyon Rd $3,695,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Private & gated 6± acre 5BD/6BA ocean view estate with a 2BD/2BA guest house, pool & more.

2862 E Valley Rd $3,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 3BD Suites & GH, Open Kitchen, Media Rm, Den, 3-Car Garage. www.

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800 Hot Springs Rd $2,975,000 Angela Moloney 805.451.1553 Private, beautifully landscaped, 4BD/3BA with remodeled kitchen & bath, ocean & mountain views.

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780 Rockbridge Rd $4,650,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Private in Montecito w/ ocean vws, vineyard, & 3500 wine storage.

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1425 Mission Ridge Rd $3,950,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Breathtaking Riviera estate site with Panoramic views. 4BD/4.5BA. www.

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802 Jimeno Rd $2,195,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 155 Cedar Ln $2,795,000 623 Parra Grande Ln $2,495,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Incredibly darling 3BD/1.5BA ocean view Craftsman gem, updated kitchen & baths, covered front porch,& separate 2-car garage Ocean views rarely get much better than this. Offering privacy, and Single level ranch style on quiet lane w/ large yard. 5BD/3BA + 2 Guest with wine room. www.802JimenoRoad.com elegance. 4BD/6BA.

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