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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 11 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45

THE WAY IT WAS The big beautiful Carleton Winslow mega mansion at the intersection of Hot Springs and Olive Mill – the centerpiece of Montecito’s premier retirement haven – was once simply Anna Dorinda Bliss’s private home (complete story begins on page 8)

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The high cost of this exceptional drought

5 Bob Hazard Bob Hazard sets his sights on the MWD and plumbs the depths of its proposed Temporary Water Emergency Surcharge, which he views as having a trifecta of flaws 6 Montecito Miscellany Oprah on Empire; Michael Hammer time; Nic Roldan’s girlfriend; Christopher Weir’s new book; Spain concert at Granada; Joffrey Ballet; Carpe Diem Chorus; Lutah in Maine; “Celebration in the City” bash; Back to the 80s in Goleta; CALM authors’ luncheon; orchid show; Philip Claypool at Granada; and Karna Hughes’s career 8 The Way It Was Hattie Beresford turns back the pages to unearth the legacy of the Casa Dorinda estate, Anna Dorinda’s background, and her life at the property 9 Letters to the Editor J’Amy Brown applauds Joan Wells; Jett Schaefer’s tree hugger alert; Don Michel dissects the Republicans’ letter; Dale Lowdermilk on emails; and Matt McLaughlin asks about Robert Gates and Abe Foxman 11 This Week Italian Conversation; SB Maritime Museum lecture; Tecolote book signing; SB Music Club concerts; La Casa lecture; MBAR meeting; nutrition lecture; Dick Smith Wilderness; knitting and crocheting; Architectural Foundation lecture; The New Yorker discussion; comedian Kyle Cease lecture; seaside soirée; Curious Cup book signing; May Madness sale; Divine Inspiration exhibit; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Update on desalinization; Cold Spring School discusses campus plans; E Madison opens on Coast Village Road; and fire prevention begins; Jupiter jumps into view at a public viewing March 20 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner takes note of Lotusland and FLOCK: Birds on the Brink; makes history with the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation; and visits the Just Communities campaign 24 At The Wheel Randy Lioz shifts gears and takes a turn talking with Dolly Granatelli, widow of the auto-racing world’s Andy Granatelli, about her late husband and the Murphy Museum’s “Mister 500” tribute 28 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz talks with jazz pianist Christian Jacob, who plays Sunday at the Lobero; New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players debut at the Granada; David Olney chimes in about singing “like hell” at the Lobero; Brother Sun play the Maverick; and Contemporary Floor to Air Festival at the Lobero 34 Coming & Going James Buckley goes from soup to nuts with Organic Soup Kitchen co-founders Andrea and Anthony Carroccio and Montecito Village Grocery’s Denis Lacey 38 State Street Spin Erin Graffy de Garcia gets to the heart of Dr. Joe Ilvento; doesn’t take a rock for granite; chronicles the Pop-up Accessories Boutique campaign; and previews Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day 40 Legal Advertisements 42 Calendar of Events Jack Lemmon Returns; Robert Gates at Granada; Camerata Pacifica; sharks on film at UCSB; Bayou blues with Kenny Neal; SB Music Club free concert; Master Chorale at church; keyboarding at the Granada; Hart Pulse takes Center Stage; Trinity Episcopal Church concert; Spring Pub Sing at Dargan’s; and pianist Yuja Wang 45 Open House Guide 46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

Montecito Water District California, and most of the West, is facing one of the most severe droughts on record. The three-year period between Fall 2011 and Fall 2014 was the driest yet recorded.

Record low Sierra snowpack

Driest three years for the State

Reservoirs are below 40% of capacity

low rainfall means no recharge of groundwater.

State Water project deliveries will be cut to 20% of normal.

Supplemental water is very expensive. Last year, nearly $1.5 million was spent to purchase supplemental water to offset drought losses.

$2.4 million in drought related expenses to date. District revenue is also reduced by successful conservation. Costs to develop desalination or other supplemental supplies are substantial.

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Bob Hazard Michele Higgins wearing March Madness in Montecito “Joseph Ribkoff” Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

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1) The Surcharge may not be “temporary.” A temporary increase typically has a date-certain or condition-certain expiration. MWD’s proposed increase stipulates that “the surcharge is temporary and will be phased out once water conditions have returned to normal, and when the District has financially recovered the additional costs related to the water shortage emergency.” 2) The emergency shortage is of money, not water. MWD does not have a current shortage of water. Quite the contrary, MWD general manager Tom Mosby has secured a remarkably robust 6,689 acre-feet (AF) water supply for the 2014/15 water year to service projected sales of less than 3,000 AF. The water supply outlook for 2015/16 is also adequate, with a projected supply of 5,656 AF to service demand estimated at 4,500 AF. The problem today is that MWD does not sell enough water to cover its fixed and variable overhead costs, including pensions, healthcare, legal expenses, con1485 EAST VALLEY ROAD sultants, and joint power obligations. The DistrictMONTECITO, is looking at a $5 million annual CA 93108 • (805)969-6962 operating loss on less than $10 million a year in water sales. 3) The “Temporary Surcharge” is really a fee increase. The MWD board should have realized that rationing and its penalties would reduce water sales, leading to a budget shortfall that could only be ameliorated by increased water fees. The new surcharge doesn’t raise any new money to cover this year’s 17-percent increase in routine operating expenses, nor any of the expected future costs of developing water security. Montecito needs a plan and a proposed budget for possible desalination, wastewater recycling, or even dredging Cachuma and Jameson. Additional “surcharges” may be needed to fund these programs, which is not a pleasant thought, but somebody has to pay for them. Hearing Scheduled for March 24 MWD has scheduled a second public hearing for 6:30 pm, Tuesday, March 24, at Montecito Union School to again present the proposed surcharge, which will be followed that same evening by a vote of the MWD board. Under California State Proposition 218, MWD has the freedom to pass and implement the proposed surcharge unless 50 percent plus one of its customers deliver written letters of opposition (no emails allowed) to the District office on or before the date of the hearing.

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he Montecito Water District Board (MWD) presented a proposal for a “Temporary Water Shortage Emergency Surcharge” at a contentious public hearing held March 12 at Montecito Union School. The case for another rate increase was made by MWD consultant Bartle Wells Associates, whose representative opined: “We need to restore the financial stability of MWD. The District cannot continue to lose $5 million a year.” MWD first declared a water shortage emergency a year ago, a wake-up call traceable to a series of non-decisions over previous years. After the last multiyear drought, for example, the MWD board should probably have encouraged structuring of a strategic plan to recycle wastewater, embrace desalination, or take other significant measures to ensure long-term water security and independence. The proposed “Temporary Water Emergency Surcharge” seems to have at least three obvious flaws:

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The Montecito Association in Action During the past week, the Montecito Association (MA), under the leadership of new president Cindy Feinberg, voted 15-0 to notify all its members of its concerns and to suggest they express their thoughts to the MWD Board, either in writing or by attending the public hearing on March 24. Sending a letter of concern will let MWD know that the community wants MWD to take a more thoughtful look at the overall water situation. Montecito residents deserve to see a full strategic plan of action for meeting its water needs, as well as the overall projected costs attached to such a project before being asked to spend any more money for water. Moving Forward Montecito, indeed all of California, must come up with a plan to secure new sources of water and to recycle what we do have. NASA scientist Jay Familglietti summed it up nicely in a recent op-ed about water in the Los Angeles Times: “This crisis belongs to all of us – not just a handful of decision-makers. Water is our most important resource, but the public remains detached from discussions and decisions. The process works just fine when water is in abundance. In times of crisis, however, we must demand that planning for California’s water security be an honest, transparent, and forward-looking process. Most important, we must make sure that there is, in fact, a plan.” •MJ 19 – 26 March 2015

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Oprah destined for regular role in new Fox TV series? (Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker in The Butler – courtesy of The Weinstein Company)

But as Empire continues to glean hefty ratings for its time slot, Lee says he is not the only one reaching out to be part of what he calls the “black Dynasty.”

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Anna Dorinda Bliss bought the land in Mission Canyon and helped establish the Blaksley Botanic Garden, named in honor of her father. Seen here circa 1942 is Dorothy Shrake in the meadow area designed by Lockwood de Forest, Jr. and Beatrix Ferrand. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

asa Dorinda, today a luxurious retirement community, was once the premier social gathering place for elegant garden parties and cultural evenings that featured some of the most renowned musicians in the world. Designed by Carleton Monroe Winslow in 1916 in a Spanish Revival style, the 80-room estate house surrounded a central patio and was filled with treasures of paintings and decorative arts from around the world. The house and the grounds were the vision of Anna Dorinda Bliss, who concerned herself with all aspects of the estate’s development and paid the bills. The home, completed in 1918, featured a large library and an Oriental room with a ceiling from Peking. The dining room had secret cupboards behind its wooden paneling, and the music room boasted a built-in pipe organ. Letters between Anna and her West Coast attorney and agent, Spencer Forbes, reveal the budgetary details of the construction. When the work was completed, Anna was unhappy with the workmanship of the wrought iron gates. She demanded that they be redone. The Otis Elevator Company, too, was called back several times because the elevator was noisy, jerky, and slow. Correspondence over the elevator issue continued for nearly two years. Anna hired Peter Reidel as her landscape architect, and the varied gardens developed over time. She was very involved with their creation and consulted with the renowned Eastern landscape architect, Beatrix Ferrand, who had worked with Anna’s daughter Mildred to design the gardens for Mildred’s Washington, D.C., estate called Dumbarton Oaks.

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Anna Dorinda Bliss (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum) Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

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Anna Dorinda was born in 1851 in Saint Louis, Missouri, where her father had been a successful merchant, grocer, and real estate developer. She was educated at the best private schools and in Paris. At age 27, she married the widower Demas Barnes, who had made a fortune in the patent medicine field. Demas had led quite a varied life before marrying Anna. He

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Good Time to Say “Thank You”

ongratulations to Joan Wells for her well-deserved recognition by Planned Parenthood. The public accolade inspires me to take pen in hand to let me express my own personal appreciation. Joan is not only an effective problem-solver and staunch community advocate, but she also graciously (and patiently) shares her knowledge; she is accessible and open with her time; she is smart but firm when the need arises, and somehow manages to maintain a keen sense of humor and a realistic viewpoint as to the importance of land-work within the bigger scheme of life. All her “basics” makes her wildly popular, but I think if I had to only put one moniker on Joan, it would be that she is an effective and patient teacher. Joan Wells is also a living and approachable land-use encyclopedia and has carried Montecito’s protection torch valiantly. She helped us procure both a local Community Plan as chair of GPAC (General Plan Advisory Committee) and Community Planning Commission, where she served as our

charter chair. These visionary tools have helped increase our property values and protect our enviable semi-rural community character. Both are testaments to how much better Montecito is because Joan chose to reside here and serve our community. Lucky us! So, to my fellow Westlake Alum, I wanted to take a moment to let you know how fortunate I feel to have worked with you the last 15 years. Enjoy your Planned Parenthood acknowledgement – it is well deserved. However, don’t let it make you think it marks your retirement, for as long as you can answer a phone or open an email, I will chase you down to seek your irreplaceable and unique counsel. Loud and sincere cheers! J’Amy Brown Montecito (Editor’s note: Ms Brown is current chairman of the Montecito Planning Commission and a former president of the Montecito Association.)

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 John La Puma, MD FACP, has been sharing valuable nutritional advice with Dr. Oz, The Today Show and Good Morning America for years. Today, the Santa Barbara-based physician will present “Healthy Diet and Lifestyle with Dr. John La Puma” at The Samarkand, a faith-based, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community operated by Covenant Retirement Communities. A professionally trained chef and nutritionist, La Puma was the first physician to teach nutrition and cooking in a U.S. medical school. He has been repeatedly named “One of America’s Top Physicians” by Consumers’ Research Council, and cited as a “Secret Weapon” against cholesterol and heart disease by The Wall Street Journal. In addition to seeing patients in Santa Barbara, he farms drought-tolerant certified organic avocado and a rare citrus orchard locally. When: 10:30 am Where: 2550 Treasure Drive Info: www.TheSamarkand.org

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Italian Conversation Group Practice your Italian conversation skills with other individuals. When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: Sara Doehring, 969-5063

Book Signing at Tecolote Author Barbara Gaughen-Muller will sign and discuss her book Revolutionary Conversations; wine, cheese, and snacks will be served. When: 5 to 6:30 pm Where: 1470 East Valley Road Info: www.revolutionaryconversations.net

SBMM Lecture Santa Barbara Maritime Museum presents, “To and Fro for 67 Years: The Story of the Schooner Santa Cruz Lecture,” by Michael Marzolla and Bruce Hector . Marzolla and Hector’s presentation is based on “Toing and Froing for 67 Years: The Rise and Demise of the Schooner Santa Cruz,” a paper they presented at the California Islands Symposium in 2008. The lecture will cover the colorful history of this remarkable schooner, her loss, and their work mapping and documenting the wreck site. When: 7 pm (members-only reception at 6:15 pm) Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free to members, $10 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. Today’s concert features performers from Camerata Pacifica. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free

Architectural Lecture The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara hosts a lecture by Kevin A. Clark titled “A Meditation on the Spanish Colonial Revival Idiom.” Clark’s work explores the connection between art and architecture, and evokes a European style and sensibility, with an exquisite flair for detail and precision. He has been working on residential design in Southern California for more than 30 years, with a particular admiration for the achievements of the preeminent architects of the 1920s. Mr. Clark has a private rare-book collection of more than 10,000 tomes on fiction and architectural history. The lecture will include a selection of Clark’s tools, books and artwork, and a demonstration of the architectural drawing process. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Town and Country, Veranda, Elle Décor, and Malibu Magazine, and his personal home in Ojai appeared in a recent edition of The Wall Street Journal. When: 6 pm Where: The Architectural Foundation is located in the historic Acheson House at the corner of Garden and East Victoria streets in Santa Barbara. The primary entrance on Garden Street is ramp-accessible. Cost: suggested $10 donation Info: 965-6307 into not only through our landscapes, but also through our lives? Prepare for a lively discussion on the integration of water into our places and actions. Using La Casa as a laboratory, participants will explore where water comes from, where it goes, and what happens during its journey through the built environments we have created. We will then discover what we can do to increase it, clean it, and benefit from it – both in times of scarcity and of abundance. Host Daniel Wilson, president /founder of Wilson Environmental Contracting, has more than 22 years of academic and professional experience working with natural landscapes and their associated plants and animals. When: 2:30 to 5:30 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donations accepted Info: www.lacasademaria.org

MONDAY, MARCH 23 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: 3 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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Lecture at La Casa How do we interact with water as it flows

Nutrition Lecture Exploring the Dick Smith Wilderness

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Created in 1984, the Dick Smith Wilderness encompasses close to 64,700 acres of protected land. Tucked between the San Rafael Wilderness and Highway 33, the Dick Smith Wilderness is one of the least visited wildernesses in our area. Within these natural lands, you will find a range of features from the pines of Madulce Peak, the scenic waterfalls in Indian Canyon, as well as quiet potreros, Chumash village sites, and other historic places. Join local author James Wapotich as he shares images and stories from his hikes through this rugged wilderness area. James has hiked many of the trails in our local backcountry. He is a volunteer wilderness ranger with the Forest Service, and is the author of the Santa Barbara News-Press hiking column, Trail Quest. When: 7 pm Where: Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street Cost: free Info: 729-4250

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Ice Man Cometh Montecito philanthropist Michael Hammer got a decidedly chilly reception when he drove a custom-made go-kart made from an ice chest, that can attain a top speed of 45 miles per hour. Michael, an inveterate art and car collector, including Ferraris, Maseratis, and Rolls-Royces in his

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collection, was test driving the go-kart with his son, Viktor, at his Carpinteria headquarters. “It was sputtering and we made some adjustments,” says Michael. “The throttle was wide open and the brakes suddenly failed. “It was going at about 30 mph, and I didn’t want to collide with Viktor or a Rolls-Royce I had nearby, so I stopped it by crashing it into an old Dodge truck I have in my collection.” But, unfortunately, it wasn’t without repercussions, as Michael smashed his head on the 4,000-pound vehicle’s hood, tearing off a kneecap and cracking his pelvis. “In my career of off-roading in the

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YOUR RESPONSE IS NEEDED. Dear Montecito: As part of our mission, the Montecito Association acts as a watchdog, always vigilant for community impacts that might affect our homes and/or properties. In that spirit, the Montecito Association has been monitoring water issues and created a special committee focused on review, inspection and research of Montecito’s water supply issues. The Water Committee is evaluating the water issues facing Montecito; specifically the need to establish a diversified portfolio of water supplies to guarantee Montecito water security and independence. Part of the committee’s charter is to work with the Montecito Water District (MWD)and the Montecito Sanitation District (MSD) to develop a short and long-term water strategic plan that includes a full financial analysis of the total cost of ownership for water security. This would include costs to procure, treat, deliver water and maintain infrastructure; as well as future costs for additional infrastructure such as desalinization and/or advanced wastewater recycle plant. The Association believes our community cannot be served without such a long-term strategic plan! Once formulated, the committee’s plan will be presented to the community, the Montecito Association Board of Directors and then, if adopted, to MWD and the MSD for their consideration. In regards to Montecito’s current water situation, we are deeply concerned about the Montecito Water District’s intent to levy a temporary rate surcharge starting April 1, 2015. The surcharge would initially be $1.87/hundred cubic feet (HCF) of water used and up to $4.16/HCF if annual water sales fall to 3,120 acre feet per year. (This is in addition to the 5-year 55% increase in water rates and meter charges imposed in August 2013). This surcharge will go into effect on April 1 unless 50% of ratepayers, plus one, file written objections or the MWD board rejects the current proposal at their hearing on March 24. The Board of the Directors of the Montecito Association and the Water Committee are of the opinion that this rate increase needs more study and community input before the MWD takes action.

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n storms this gorgeous guy – he was thin then – and he was spearheading everybody behind him, charging, and I said to myself, ‘Why are all the good ones married?’” Thus was Dolly Granatelli’s first impression of her late husband, Andy, when meeting him on a trip to Chicago. For everyone in his life, and nearly everyone in the world of auto racing, Andy Granatelli was a largerthan-life presence. On Sunday, March 15, the Murphy Museum in Oxnard opened its “Mister 500” tribute to Andy, which houses memorabilia from the collection of his son, Vince. You can see the exhibit every weekend with admission to the Murphy (www.murphyautomuseum. org/). It turned out that Andy was no longer married, and the night after her first encounter with him, Dolly recalls, he took her and her family out to dinner. “Before we even got the menu, he picked up my hand from my lap…

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and told my dad, ‘I’m going to marry your daughter.’” In response, Dolly just giggled, but she had already fallen in love at first sight. Andy may have been an imposing figure, but he was also a positive and energizing one. Describing her husband, Dolly uses terms like “powerful” and “all over the place.” But her smile really comes through when talking about his love and affection. “If I ever had anything negative to say about someone, he would steer me away from it. That was his expression, ‘It’s gonna come back to bite you someday.’” A big believer in karma, I suggested. “He started it,” replied Dolly. Andy was born in Dallas, but his family moved to Chicago when he was young. He opened an auto service shop with his brothers Joe and Vince. Andy’s Super Service – their name would be first in the phonebook – set themselves apart by doing pit-stopstyle maintenance, with four or five mechanics wrenching at a time.

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Andy parlayed the success of the shop to create Grancor, with performance parts for the burgeoning hot rod scene. His business acumen was undeniable, as he was one of the first to recognize the opportunity for branded, consistent performance upgrades. The next year, in 1946, Andy took his first car to the Indianapolis 500, which kicked off a life-long obsession with the event. In fact, Andy attended every single Indy 500 event from ’46 until 2012, reinforcing his “Mr. 500” moniker. Even as he focused on winning Indy, he had time to create a tremendous business legacy. He and his brother, Joe, had purchased Paxton Products, from which they had been buying superchargers, and Andy managed to rescue the company from failure in a mere seven months. The company was acquired by Studebaker, which then asked Andy to rescue their floundering Chemical Compounds division, which made STP oil additive. He proceeded to create a marketing plan that revolutionized the way brands could be promoted, and cemented the new STP logo as one of the most recognized in history, becoming a symbol of speed and excitement. During this time, Andy’s mind was still focused on racing, and getting back to the Indy 500. He retuned in 1967 with a car he had built with Ken Wallis with a turbine engine and all-wheel drive. The car, driven by Parnelli Jones, led for most of the race, but the failure of a six-dollar transmission bearing sank the car with just three laps to go. The following year, his Lotus racecar was also leading the race when it broke down just ten laps before the checkered flag. But in 1969, despite driving a yearold backup car and recovering from burns from the crash of the main car in a practice session, Mario Andretti sealed the deal for Andy. This spurred the iconic photo of Andy’s big, fat kiss on Andretti’s cheek in Victory Lane – before the Queen of the 500 Festival could get to him. He continued his involvement in racing until 1973, but would go on to attend the Indy 500 as a major presence every year. It would even be part of

his philanthropic efforts. Andy would often donate packages to fundraisers that would give the winning bidder the opportunity to join him at the race. He would regularly draw in bids of more than $50,000 for the package. His charitable endeavors were manifold. In 1982, Andy helped to found the 11-99 Foundation to benefit CHP officers and their families. He also served as chairman of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Council and was a big supporter of the Police Activities League. His affinity for police organizations began with his good friend Bob Weinberg, with whom he started the 11-99 Foundation. “He saw how successful that was,” and realized the big impact he could make for the law enforcement community, said his son, Vince. Andy was a relentless crusader for those causes, which perhaps helped to sustain his vitality. He was nearly 91 years old when he passed away at the end of 2013. “Two days before he died, he was working at his desk,” proclaimed Dolly. With his outsized impact of both his sport of choice and the people around him, Andy was honored many times. Most prominently, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2001. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum will also be honoring Andy with an exhibit, but that is still under construction, so you can get your Granatelli fix at the Murphy in the interim. The exhibit features photos, memorabilia, and even clothing from the family collection, some of it displayed publicly for the first time. The Murphy exhibit also has a sharper focus on Andy’s life on the Central Coast. You can see the exhibit along with the rest of the Murphy’s wonderful cars, some of which will be highlighted in the Santa Barbara Sentinel this weekend. And if you visit for Andy, your admission donation to support the museum can help his karmic lega•MJ cy continue to grow. If you have a story about a special car or piece of car culture in the local area, email Randy at rlioz11@gmail.com.

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Tree Hugger Alert

In response to Kelly Mahan’s article in her Village Beat Land Use Committee cover story (“Dead And/ Or Dying,” MJ #21/9): Where are the tree huggers when you need them? I love Montecito, and as a recent resident, having arrived here in 1960, I may or may not know what I am talking about, but with this in consideration I would just like to share a couple ideas. How about if we take a walk on the wild side, Montecito, say 100 years ago or earlier (about the same number of years ago our dear and beautiful trees were planted)? I apologize for not having one of the black-and-white photos of this decade to share, but I suggest that those interested research past photos of Santa Barbara and Montecito. Veering off the track for a moment, the absolutely best part of Santa Barbara and Montecito are the people. In my travels, it ultimately comes down to the people here. So much talent, intelligence, and creativity all packed into a tiny dot on our planet Earth. It overwhelms me. So, who are the powers at be who want to remove the trees planted here 100 years ago when Santa Barbara was oil derricks and Montecito a barren desert? Jett J Schaefer Montecito (Editor’s note: Well, Jett, welcome to the neighborhood; after 55 years or so, I guess you’ve earned the right to be called a resident. As for that stand of cypress in question, the problem is that those trees were planted a hundred years ago.

Although they could live for many more years, they are situated on a slight slope on the north side of East Valley and now lean precipitously over the roadway. A couple or three of them came down in a windstorm a few years ago and could have caused serious harm had there been a pedestrian or auto passing underneath. The trees have become a danger and need to be removed. Should someone plant something to replace them? Sure, why not? But... no eucalyptus, please! – J.B.)

A Letter Idea

Who knew that all it would take is a letter from 47 United States Senators to get the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Fruit of the Looms in a wad? The letter, crafted by Senator Tom Cotton and signed by 46 of his Republican colleagues, has been decried by Democrats as being traitorous, treasonous, and treacherous. It would appear the letter has also proven moderately brilliant, as it has obviously gotten under the Ayatollah’s sensitive dermis. Khamenei has forcefully denounced the letter, stating that it confirmed to him that Americans are sneaky, crafty, and deceitful, and that we stab with a dagger in the back. Holy Rollah, Ayatollah, it sounds like you’ve got us mixed up with ISIS. I think this letter could have the effect of opening up a dialogue with the Ayatollah that could be very beneficial for all. Our next letter could allay his expressed concerns about whether a future president would honor the nuclear deal that our present president is structuring with Iran. We could explain to him that the leading

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Gates’s Gaffe

In James Buckley’s interview with Robert Gates (Coming & Going, MJ #21/10), Gates says Israel has been impractical concerning the expansion of its settlements. I remember General Petraeus made a statement in 2010 about Israel, and Abe Foxman (National Director of the Anti-Defamation League) was out the next day attempting to competently counter Petraeus’s statement that: “The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the AOR [area of operational responsibility]. Israeli-Palestinian tensions often flare into violence and largescale armed confrontations. The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples in the AOR and weakens the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab world. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support. The conflict also gives Iran influence in the Arab world through its clients, Lebanese Hezbollah, and Hamas.” He failed. My question: should we expect a statement from Abe Foxman on Gates’s statement in the Montecito Journal? Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I don’t believe Mr. Foxman will be responding to Secretary •MJ Gates’s comment. – J.B.)

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candidates for our next president – the Clintons – hardly have the reputation of being sneaky, crafty, and deceitful. Further, we could assure the Ayatollah, that any emails with the Clintons would always be kept on a private server, and therefore would be undiscoverable by anyone. In future letters, we could ask for the Ayatollah’s favorite goat recipes, who he is wearing (is it called camel couture?) and what size sandals he wears. We could also ask if he follows the Kardashians, and whether he favors decapitations over IEDs, and maybe what his favorite camel’s name is. We could also inquire, of course, what he plans to do with the nuclear bomb that he is not building after he is finished not building a nuclear bomb. One letter, so many possibilities. Don Michel Montecito (Editor’s note: We detect a note of cynicism in your letter. Everyone knows that Ayatollah Khamenei’s favorite camel’s name is Sweetie Pie. – J.B.)

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drain in June. Concurrently, permitting of the full-scale facility would occur this summer, if possible. The project would be required to adhere to CEQA regulations and environmental review. Hypothetically, a plant could be built and ready to use by the end of 2017, though the financing of it has yet to be determined. The consultants told the board that their current contract will pay for their time throughout the non-invasive work, but that more money is needed to continue. The consultants are currently putting together a financing and funding plan. For more information, visit www.montec itowater.com. The board also discussed the current water supply, and general manager Tom Mosby reported there will not be any allocations out of Lake Cachuma for the next water year. “This is the first time in the history of the Cachuma Project that this has occurred,” Mosby said. The board voted to purchase other supplemental water to offset the Cachuma deficit, further adding to the budget deficit the District is experiencing. A hearing on a proposed surcharge for MWD customers to offset the purchase of supplemental water will be next Tuesday, March 24. Members of the community are encouraged to attend. The meeting is at 6:30 pm at Montecito Union School. The board also voted to apply for a grant to study the feasibility of using recycled water to offset the use of fresh/potable water from the state and/or local supplies. The program includes a partnership with Heal the Ocean, which will look into Montecito’s groundwater basin, and Montecito Sanitary District, which will be required to co-apply for the grant.

Cold Spring School Explores Plan for Campus

As Cold Spring School celebrates its 125th year in existence, the school board is busy studying the cost of reconfiguring the campus to make it safer. “It’s been a goal of the board for years,” says superintendent Dr. Tricia Price, who tells us the current location of the office – embedded in the middle of campus – is a security concern.

Two portable classrooms on the Cold Spring School campus may be removed as the school board discusses building a new administrative building

The school district legally began in late 1889, but it would be five more years before a school building would be ready for use. The current property was deeded back in 1927; some of the original classrooms are still in use. Five years ago, the school underwent a significant infrastructure remodel, including updates to the 80-year-old restrooms, upgrades to flooring, cabinets, and instructional surfaces in the five 50-year-old classrooms and two 80-year-old classrooms, and repair and replacement of roofs on the 80-year-old buildings. The campus was brought up to ADA (American with Disabilities Act) standards, and electrical and mechanical systems were updated to reflect current technology. Also at that time: the school-wide alarm and communication system was upgraded, and security cameras were installed. “The cameras are comforting, but they are not enough,” Dr. Price said. Now, Price and the school board hope to move the office to the front of campus, a goal Dr. Price has had since she set foot on the property five years ago. “The moment I walked onto campus, I realized the first thing people see are the portable classrooms, which detract from the beauty of the campus, and present a security issue,” she said. The portables house an afterschool program and special education classrooms. “They were added twenty years ago as a temporary solution, but twenty years is no longer temporary,” Price said. The board has enlisted an architect to draw up preliminary plans,

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atmosphere – I’m happy to dive in and improvise in that direction. When I’m with the trio, it’s much more personal. I am 100 percent leading it. It’s all my arrangements. I’m the judge of what will be there. I pick musicians who understand what I’m trying to do and have them do it. It’s like a smaller big band – one leader who decides how to play a tune. Everything is always different, every project, which I really welcome because I want to keep that variety. I’m in talks now to do a new project in Seattle on a symphonic level, almost going back to a classical approach, a piano concerto.

Pianist Christian Jacob performs Sunday at the Lobero

ocal jazz lovers have heard pianist Christian Jacob perform in town for years, but never in the way he’ll be playing on Sunday afternoon, March 22. Jacob is an integral ingredient of singer Tierney Sutton’s band, which has become a staple at the Lobero since early this century. The group takes an all-hands-ondeck approach to arranging, which they started way back when they met in a quick rehearsal as part of Jack Sheldon’s Big Band and in 1995 as discovered an “Instant wow!” as Jacob called it. But now – with Sutton still out on the road promoting her Joni Mitchell tribute project, the first time she’s branched beyond her regular backing band for an extended project in

almost 20 years – the pianist who is a three-time Grammy nominee with more than three dozen albums to his credit is bringing his on-and-off again trio for an appearance at SOhO as part of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society’s monthly concert series. Jacob clued us in on what to expect on a rare day off between separate bi-coastal gigs as music director for Anne Hampton Calloway and Broadway legend Betty Buckley. Q. As well-known as you are in Santa Barbara, you’ve never been here with your trio. How different is your sound or style? A. I always approach my work from a perspective of what’s needed. Whoever I’m playing with, it’s not just different in style, but also in color, an

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How do you approach arranging, getting old material to sound fresh? Do you always go in knowing what you want to accomplish? No, it’s a big mystery. It just happens. I get an idea that it might be great to change something obvious – drastically altering the tempo, or put a jazz beat into a bossa nova song. It might not work and we usually know that right away, but sometimes it turns out very interesting and it’s a great to explore. So I just start with an idea and see where it goes. Looking inside the song and something in my head shows me the direction to take next. It’s just the love of a particular sound that draws me in, and then I go to the next step... On my solo album, I did “Tea for Two”, a very old standard, and the idea was to use chords that were a little strange. They’re not quite right, but after a while they start to make sense.

New Yorkers Invade Granada

New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) started life 40 years ago as street theater created by some alumni of the Barnard College Gilbert & Sullivan Society at Columbia. From a budget of $35 for photocopying fliers, the society has burgeoned into perhaps the preeminent professional repertory company dedicated to the British purveyors of comical light opera, now with a budget of $1.5 million. Now, NYGASP is making its Santa Barbara debut at the Granada on Saturday night with a performance of H.M.S. Pinafore, the first of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan’s comic collaborations to capture the fancy of the theater-going public, and more or less the first popular piece of musical theater. Why a work created in 1878 still resonates today is a no-brainer, said David Auxier, a baritone singer/choreographer/director who has been with the company since 1992.

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“They have brilliantly written music, and the plays are so tightly written,” explained David Auxier. “But the stuff that Gilbert wrote about, the themes he played on, are one of human excesses, and those things are timeless. It’s how we behaved then, and still how we behave now.” The story takes place aboard the British ship of the title and focuses on a love triangle with the captain’s daughter who is in love with a lower-class sailor, though her father has arranged for her to marry a British Lord. Along the way, a lot of fun gets poked at issues of class and ego, things that are still alive today if not quite as codified as in the 19th century. Add to that the memorable score – including the classics “When I was a Lad”, “I’m called Little Buttercup”, “The Nightingale”, and “I am the Captain of the Pinafore” – and the formula for success is complete. “People aren’t even aware that they know the songs, but there is probably no music out there that has been quoted in more TV shows and movies than Gilbert & Sullivan, especially the Captain and Buttercup songs,” said Auxier, who uses the hashtag #whatnever on his Twitter posts. “It’s been quoted in Star Trek, Family Guy, and Sideshow Bob performed all of the Pinafore songs on The Simpsons. The Major General song has been parodies from commercials to parties. It’s so easy to take that tune and write new lyrics.” Indeed, it’s the ability to make adjustments along the way that has kept the company members from burning out performing the same 14 pieces or so throughout NYGASP’s years, Auxier said. Nothing major, just reacting to what’s present. “We love what we do and don’t look at it only as a job, so the show changes a bit every night as we play off the audiences, which we can’t help. And new actors add something different. Those little shifts keep it alive. We all bring different qualities to each character.” Coming to Santa Barbara for the first time is a special treat for the company and the audience, Auxier said. “We’re popular in our season in New York, of course, but there is a good chunk of Gilbert & Sullivan fans in each place we go. On the road, the crowd tends to be more enthusiastic because they’re not as familiar with the material, and they’re having so much fun hearing the jokes for the first time in years, if ever. For us, it’s all about the response when the audience gets it.” But on the other hand, don’t take things too seriously, Auxier cautioned. As with all G&S works, Pinafore has a twist at the end that strains credulity. “It’s pretty absurd. You have to sus19 – 26 March 2015

pend disbelief and don’t think about too hard. Just laugh and love it.”

Folk-country from Pages and Porches

“I’m just killing time on a rainy day,” David Olney’s replied to the customary “How are you?” question when he answered the phone the other day at his Nashville home. And in his half-growled rural Southern drawl, and the considered but still laid-back answer that sounds like lyric, and perhaps a microcosm of his catalog of brilliants songs, there’s the instant impression that Olney was born to be a singer-songwriter. “Yeah, I was just reading Greil Marcus’s book The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He said that about Joy Division, that they had no choice to do what they’re doing. It’s not about money or anything else. It’s an odd thing. I was 19 when I stumbled on writing song, and I had no other plan than to play music. It’s great when it works out.” Well, sure. Great for us all. Olney was first raised in New England and transplanted to the Carolinas in his teens, where he dropped out of college and gigged for a while before moving to Nashville in 1973. That’s where his songwriting career took hold, and where 42 years later he remains one of the most respected writers in a town known as Music City. It’s like they were made for each other. “I had to get to some music city, get in there, and mix ‘em up,” Olney said. “New York was too strange and hectic and L.A. too far away. But here, the country scene, which is a strict, conservative form, worked out well. It gave me boundaries to work within, made me a more disciplined writer – a couple of verses and a chorus and/or a bridge. It’s not a place for abstract thinking, which was fine for me.” Olney has treated songwriting like an observant but creative kid playing with Legos, always coming up with something new out of the same building blocks. It’s been his ability to breathe new life into the standard format – telling stories that seem both fresh and familiar like they came from your granddaddy’s front porch but also out of a tidbit in a column from the local paper – that has ingratiated Olney to a sizable cadre of followers. Among them are Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, and Steve Earle, just a few of the artists who have covered his songs and afforded him a comfortable living, after all. “It’s always a huge compliment for someone else to do my song, and you get more mileage and money if it’s Emmylou Harris,” Olney said. “ But I also find things on YouTube of some

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guy in Holland making a home video of one of my songs and it’s very touching. It’s almost more real.” Olney’s latest album When the Deal Goes Down adds horns and some other soundscapes, but it’s in his strippeddown regular touring format – just Olney with guitarist Sergio Webb at his side – that the singer-songwriter returns to sings Like Hell at the Lobero Saturday night. That means it’s all about the songs. We delved deep into the subject during our discussion. Q. Can we talk about your process? Does it work like a compulsion, a job, or something in between? A. It’s like being right-handed. It’s

not a process, it’s just the way it is. Some part of my brain is always looking at things and trying to capture it in a line and come up with another line that rhymes. It’s almost a compulsion. I don’t know how else to describe it. There’s that part where I sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and the guitar, and actually write it. But that’s just the end process. All the heavy lifting is done unconsciously. But It’s different every time. I’ve thought about this a lot. There are staff writers in Nashville who have a way they work and do it the same way all the time. But it’s not like that for me. What I did yesterday isn’t how

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 29) it will work today. So I always have a feeling when I finish a song that, whoa, I didn’t see that coming. And I always get a little panicky, thinking that it might be the last song, the end of the line.

Do you know where you’re going when you start? No, I try to not know. Especially in story songs. The one that put me on the map “Jerusalem Tomorrow” (Emmylou Harris had a hit), the first lines just popped out – a guy who took pride in his ability to tell lies. But I had no idea it was going, maybe a Western story. But I got to a point and hit a wall – I had him in a desert, and decided to move it to the Middle East. And holy smokes, it went somewhere else entirely. For the whole song, I was just following this guy. When I’ve tried to write a song with knowing where I’m going and what I want the meaning to be, they always come out flat. They might be clever, but they don’t have an emotional center. Your songs always sound like true stories, but they’re not actually autobiographical, right? No, I was never very comfortable strictly writing about myself. It was very liberating to make the decision to keep myself out and just make people up, even though doing that I found out that I was revealing or discerning things about myself that I would never do if I stayed with personal experience. If I have someone else do things that I cause them to do, it ends up saying a good bit about me. And that opened me up to write about anything – Martians or insects, anything at all. It sounds like you bring what you know, and then let it go?

Yeah, a good thing to have when you’re writing songs is a sense of humility. It’s more of a knack than a skill. But that’s only half the process. I also enjoy getting up in front of people and playing. Even at this late stage of the game, it still has a romantic appeal. You ride into town and set up your deal and play, and for me often that’s still to people who have never heard me before, and have no idea what is going to come out of my mouth or what it’s going to sound like. If you’re doing it right, you have to make yourself vulnerable. You’ve got to stand on the ledge. It’s great when they come back for the second time because that means they liked you, but it’s not as gratifying as seeing them react for the first time.

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international aerial artists and companies over the last two weeks to offer workshops to dancers and collaborate on new evening-length production blending contemporary movement with the aerial arts. The festival culminates this Friday, March 20, at 7 at the Lobero with the premiere of the Belline, choreographed by the Centre’s Ninette Paloma as part of her new Paloma Project and ready to go on tour later in the year. Here are four reasons to take the flight of fancy on Friday night: Belline is timed for the season: “I very deliberately put it to debut on spring equinox to make that connection of re-birth,” Paloma said. “It’s a gorgeous, vulnerable female-centric story about letting go, breaking open, and re-emerging with a more honest and authentic self. It’s going to be luscious. The setting is saturated in pink and floral, with lingerie and things hanging everywhere. It speaks to what it’s supposed to be to be female – ladies in petticoats and fluffy skirts ascend apparatus and open up to their inner strength, which reflects

out into their physical strength. We’re exploring what it feels like to be both strong and vulnerable.” Among the visitors are Cirque du Soleil and Cavaglia veterans: Columbian Ana Prada-Born has 17 years of experience including Cirque in Spain, and Cirque Eloize and Cirque Fantastic. Gabriel Martin “just came off the latest Cavaglia tour, equestrian with aerial, with bungees off trapezes onto horses,” Paloma enthused. “Now she’s here.” The visiting aerial artists who will perform are all trying something different: “My choreography uses all of their skills. I’m challenging them with new apparatus they’ve never worked with before, and contemporary concepts on the floor.” The artists are returning the favor for the post-intermission second movement: “They’ve each brought a solo work that I’ve combined with pieces from our company; they’ve set some on our dancers,” Paloma explained. “We’re combining it all together in another seamless culmination.” •MJ

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They are men – great men – who need only to be asked or told what to do and this job is done – well done! No tribute is great enough – no praise sufficient – no reward ample!” Speaking to us were brigadier general Fred Lopez, USMC; colonel Phil Conran, USAF; and lieutenant Stephen E. Penner, USN who described various parts of the invasion. There was a composite film of Iwo Jima, which also portrayed how the flag that was raised over Mount Suribachi was done twice. The first flag was taken down and saved for historical purposes, and the second is the one that shows the iconic flag raising in the infamous photo that was copied to become a monument in Washington, D.C. There were 669,100 Marines serving during WWII, and more than a quarter of the total casualties occurred

during the 36-day battle at Iwo Jima – the largest battle in the history of the Marines. As Calvin Coolidge said, “A nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten.” You may want to join the PCVF and the CCC when they honor “Vietnam Remembered” on September 10 at a luncheon and attend the Veterans Ball set for November 7. For more details, check out www. PierreClaeyssensVeteransFoundation. com or wwwChannelCityClub.org.

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This is the studio/gallery operated by Alpha Thrift for mentally disabled artists. It’s a happy, cheerful place with many windows and the walls hung with colorful art. The leading sponsors were Fielding Graduate University, The Fund for Santa Barbara and American Riviera Bank. The monies raised will go to scholarships for the Community Leadership Institute (CLI) that will make a difference that stretches far beyond the eight-week CLI camp. CLI empowers youth to confront the many social challenges that can often limit personal and professional achievement. Graduates are able to push through potential societal barriers and strive for the best for themselves and their community. They become a positive peer influence in school. They advocate against bullying, violence, and social division. Those attending make new friends from throughout the Central Coast and receive 48 hours of community service credit, leadership training, and university credits. Executive director Jarrod Schwartz

told me, “Just Communities has been around for 20 years.” Board member Doug Green emceed the honorees program. Those honored were Dr. Ben Drati, Mitzy, and mom Mayra Perez. Dr. Drati is assistant superintendent of secondary education for the Santa Barbara unified school district and has been a consistent advocate for students by addressing inequities in education and ensuring all students succeed. Mitzy has been an active Just Communities youth leader since she first participated in CLI in 2012. Mayra learned to listen to her own voice after participating in the Parent Involvement through Dialogue and Action (PIDA). She is always present at the parent events at all her children’s schools and is there advocating for the students and interacting with other parents, raising questions to administrators and teachers. There are other programs offered by Just Communities and translation for Spanish. Call 966-2063 for more information. •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 31) The Carpe Diem Chorus take the stage at the New Vic

featured the Channel Aire Chorus and Ms. Cellaneous, covered a number of popular songs, including a rewritten version of “The Boy from Ipanema,” whose original words were written by Montecito resident Norman Gimbel, and 525,600 Minutes from the hit Broadway musical Rent. A most entertaining afternoon... Maine Event The $100,000 documentary Lutah, which debuted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 15 months ago, is becoming a Maine attraction! Having been screened in Palm Springs in February and the San Luis Obispo international film festival last week, the entertaining documenta-

ry, made by the Lutah Maria Riggs Society, founded by Montecito’s Gretchen Lieff, has just been accepted to the Sanford international film fest in Maine in May. “This is fantastic,” says Melinda Gandara, archivist and historian. “It caught us completely off guard. Lutah really has legs!” The film also won the Best Documentary Feature Award in the Central Coast Filmmaker showcase. Worth Celebrating Laguna Blanca School was definitely in a New York state of mind when it threw its “Celebration in the City”

Lutah marks its fourth international film festival appearance in San Luis Obispo. On hand are Lutah Maria Riggs Society members Robert Adams, film critic; Nancy Caponi, architectural historian, Ryan Petty, filmmaker; Melinda Gandara, historian; and executive producer and founder, Gretchen Lieff. (photo by Priscilla)

gala and auction at the Bacara. With a gigantic photo of the famous Manhattan skyline bordering the cavernous ballroom, a record 300 guests helped raise around $800,000 for school projects, a hefty $250,000 raised from sponsorships and ticket sales before the boffo bash. Chaired by Sherry Hlavarty, the live auction featured Zan Aufderheide working her gavel magic with stays in Nicaragua, Kauai, Fiji, the Cayman Islands, Saratoga, Wyoming, three nights at the oh-so trendy Mercer Hotel in New York, and an original Marilyn Monroe diamond dust art work by Russell Young, husband of General Hospital actress Finola Hughes. The silent auction, sure to be a hit with fashionistas, featured Judith Lieber clutches, St. John tote bags, a Tiffany pearl necklace, an emerald and diamond bracelet and necklace, and magnums of Veuve Clicquot. Among those supporting the cause were Kevin and Christine Costner, Robert and Robin Fell, Gina Tolleson, Blake Dorfman, Art Coppola, Jennifer Zacharias, Kim and Tammy Hughes, Craig and Susan McCaw, and Geoffrey and Alison Wrigley Rusack.

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nother first for Denis Lacey, general manager of Montecito Village Grocery, is the handsome freezer he’s recently placed in the front of the store near the registers that holds frozen quarts of soup made by the Organic Soup Kitchen. “Back in 2009,” says Organic Soup Kitchen’s Anthony Carroccio who, together with his wife, Andrea, founded the company, “I noticed that the economic downturn had caused many people to scramble... the homeless population here in Santa Barbara was on the rise and it was really noticeable. “So we rented a commercial kitchen; we got insured; we became a 501(3)(c) and we started feeding people. We then decided,” he continues, “just feeding people wasn’t enough, so we began collaborating with various agencies such as the Housing Authority, Doctors Without Walls, veterans, about six in all; we supplied the food and they supplied the services. That’s what we were looking for. Not to just help people for a moment, but to help them get back on their feet.” Anthony points out that it wasn’t just the homeless population that grew during the downturn, but so did the senior population. “Not only are we giving them a good nutrient-dense food,” he notes, “we’re bringing them out of their apartments; we’re breaking their isolation and they’re socializing.” All the soups Anthony and his crew make feature a low-glycemic, anti-inflammatory, and low-sodium coconut base. “We use all-organic cocoa milk,” he boasts, adding, “We use organic herbs, organic vegetables. It’s a really good soup.” Originally, Organic Soup Kitchen utilized leftover food from restaurants and such, but now his team gathers produce from different farms and at farmers markets. Suppliers and growers include Lompoc-based Tutti Frutti Farms, Pacifica Graduate Institute’s organic garden in Carpinteria, and Trinity Gardens in Santa Barbara. “People with large estates in Montecito,” Anthony points out, “have their gardeners give us their excess produce. One gentleman,” he notes, “collects a good deal of backyard gleanings and drops off hundreds of pounds of avocados and citrus.” Organic Soup Kitchen’s soups are frozen “to extend their shelf life.” Currently, they are marketing a potato leek soup, a chia-carrot-coconut soup, garbanzo bean soup, and a farmer’s market vegetable soup. “This week,” Anthony says, “we’re making a coconut-curry lentil soup.” He also offers

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(from left) Montecito Village Grocery manager Denis Lacey, and Soup Kitchen’s Anthony Carroccio and his wife, Andrea

tomato sauces and a mushroom-based Napoli sauce. Anthony arrived in Santa Barbara in 1982 from his home in Rhode Island, became a land developer for 15 years, and published Healing Retreats and Spas for eight years. When he sold that, he wondered what he should do

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with the rest of his life. That question was resolved when he met Andrea while taking classes at Yoga Soup on lower State Street. During a hiking trip together, the duo decided they should feed people who needed to be fed. When it came time to marry, the knot was tied by Eddie Ellner, owner of Yoga Soup. Wisconsin-born Andrea, a photographer and yoga instructor, is administration director of the Organic Soup Kitchen and conducts a free class for veterans suffering PTSD every Tuesday at the Veterans Memorial building. Montecito Village Grocery customers should know that not only will they bring home high-quality food servings, but also any money spent for an $8.99 packet of Organic Soup Kitchen soup (contains four 8-ounce servings), goes right back into the company. Anthony says the Organic Soup Kitchen accepts donations; he can be reached at: organicsoupkitchen.org or •MJ (805) 886-7427. 19 – 26 March 2015

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Casa Dorinda seen from the great expanse of lawn (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Aerial view shows courtyard and gardens (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum) Anna Dorinda Bliss circa 1913 took to the air with pioneer aviator Frank H. Burnside at Long Beach, New York (Courtesy Montecito Association History Committee)

trol. Town Hall also became a venue for cultural events. During the 1920s, Ruth St. Denis, Paul Robeson, Andres Segovia, Pablo Casals, and Richard Strauss took to its stage.

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opened his own drug company in New York (1853), traveled West by wagon to study mineral resources and published a book about his experiences (1862-1865), and he served as Democratic congressman from Brooklyn (1867-69). He later backed the new Centaur Company famous for Fletcher’s Castoria (1870), established and edited the Brooklyn Argus (1873-1876), and became a banker (1873-1881). Anna and Demas had one child, Mildred Barnes, who was born in 1879. In 1888, Demas was killed in a carriage accident, and Anna inherited the bulk of his estate. Anna, therefore, was a wealthy widow when she married William Henry Bliss in 1894. A widower with two children, Bliss was a former U.S. district attorney in Saint Louis and served on the boards of several railroad companies. The family lived in New York City on 65th Street, just off of Central Park, and were members New York’s exclusive social register, “The 400.” In 1908, Henry Bliss’s son, Robert

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Woods Bliss, married Anna’s daughter, Mildred Barnes, with the blessing of both parents. Robert became a career diplomat, and they often lived abroad. In New York, Anna became known for her many philanthropies. During WWI, she furnished a Red Cross ship with medical and surgical supplies and provided many Red Cross ambulances for service at the front. In 1913, she contributed funds for the purchase of an airplane and training for New York National Guard officers to create an aero company at Long Island. For this generosity, she was taken aloft in a Thomas-Morse plane by pioneer aviator Frank H. Burnside at Long Beach, New York. She donated $600,000 to the suffragist League of Political Education to build Town Hall, which was completed in 1921. Its purpose was to provide a meeting place to educate people on the important issues of the day. In November of its opening year, Margaret Sanger was arrested on its stage for speaking about birth con-

As exacting as Anna was in the creation of her estate, she was equally so in the creation of her soirées. Ignace Jan Paderewski, the famous Polish pianist and composer, gave several concerts for Anna Dorinda’s guests. In his memoirs he wrote, “The most agreeable and enjoyable private house in which I played in America was that of Mrs. Bliss in Santa Barbara …. To play in her house was an experience unlike anything else.… It was like celebrating a mass. The atmosphere of silence was like that of a temple… beautiful and inspiring.” Despite having served as Poland’s foreign minister and having represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, however, Paderewski was not afforded honored guest status. Upon his arrival, Anna insured he was shuffled to the servant’s entrance like any itinerant piano man. The story goes that he shrugged his shoulders philosophically and said, “It’s all right; I’ll just add another $5,000 to the bill.” In February 1923, Ann hosted a musicale at her home where Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-born violinist and

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composer, played. Anna’s secretary wrote a letter to Frances Thorpe, wife of Anna’s agent, describing the event: “Dorinda looked especially beautiful (in white grenadine embroidered in steel), wore pearls and engraved emeralds, received seated, [she had developed chronic back pain] to my great satisfaction, in that high-backed violet chair placed just at the entrance of the music room hall…. D. was wise in having part of the patio enclosed and charmingly furnished with rugs, chairs, tables, etc…. the mise en scene was really beautiful.” Anna had plenty of help in preparing for her parties. A list of employees for that year reveals 20 in the house alone and included three secretaries, his and her chauffeurs, and a full complement of butlers, cooks, and maids. In addition, there were 14 gardeners, and eight maintenance staff. Clearly, the most eminent guests of Casa Dorinda were King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium and son, Crown Prince Leopold, who spent three days in Santa Barbara during their month-long visit to the United States in October 1919. Although the Blisses were not in residence, the King and his retinue enjoyed a host of activities that included hiking, riding, flying with the Loughead Brothers and swimming at the Miramar. King Albert planted a redwood tree at Casa Dorinda to thank his hosts. 19 – 26 March 2015

The vaulted corridor today still retains the architectural features of the original design (Courtesy of author)

The vaulted corridor in Anna’s day was laid with Arequipa tile and decorated with stylized floral designs (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Plans for Casa Dorinda were completed in 1916 (Courtesy Architecture and Design Collection; Art, Design and Architecture Museum; UC Santa Barbara)

Anna Dorinda also became involved with various Santa Barbara institutions. In 1921, she donated the money for a children’s wing at Cottage Hospital as well as a wing for infectious diseases. Coming on the heels of the devastation caused by the Spanish Flu in 1918-19, there was a great need for both facilities. In 1926, she gave the money to purchase land in Mission Canyon for the Blaksley Botanical Garden. She served on the first Botanic Garden Committee and, as time went by, added gifts and endowments. After her death, her daughter Mildred inherited her mother’s position of patronage of the Botanic Gardens as well as Casa Dorinda.

Strife

Separate bedroom suites and separate chauffeurs hinted at problems in the marriage. In 1924, Anna wrote a letter to Spencer Thorpe announcing she was going to New York for an extended period to take care of business. If William died while she was gone, his body was to be sent to his daughter’s home in Washington, D.C., where he could be cremated and later interred in St. Louis with his first wife. “All of the expense should be submitted to [his son] Robert for payment,” she wrote, “as I have support19 – 26 March 2015

New wings and entrance to Cottage Hospital were paid for by Mrs. Bliss and designed by Carleton Monroe Winslow (Courtesy Architecture and Design Collection; Art, Design and Architecture Museum; UC Santa Barbara) Winslow used this design for the tower on an inn in Douglas, Arizona (Courtesy of author)

ed Mr. Bliss in every way for thirty years and in addition have given him the income on a quarter of a million dollars annually ….” Asking that Spencer keep this letter with his private papers, Anna confides, “Mr. Bliss has been removing his papers for the last two or three months in a surreptitious manner, and I think no one but his chauffeur knows where he goes, as he never mentions anything to me, but I notice his coat when he goes out is stuffed from neck to waist and then belted in, and he always goes out the servants’ entrance or the side door so that no one can see him. “I have always tried to do the right thing, and have endured misrepresentation and neglect from him, but have still educated both his son and his daughter and placed them in the world, so it is only just that his son should pay his final expenses, and I do not wish Mr. Bliss buried in my mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery….” When the earthquake of 1925 forced both Blisses to vacate the house until repairs could be made, Anna wrote, “Mr. B. will never be able to return,

nor do I wish it.” William did return to Santa Barbara but moved to 2003 Santa Barbara Street. He died in 1932. Anna continued her active lifestyle until her own death in 1935. For a short while in 1942, Casa Dorinda served as officer housing when Santa Barbara became a Redistribution Center. In 1946, Mildred Bliss sold the estate to Dr. Homer F. Barnes, who opened the Montecito School for Girls. In the

1970s, it was made into an exclusive retirement community and continues so today. •MJ (Sources: James Frush’s Casa Dorinda; Anna’s letters to Spencer Thorpe; Dumbarton Oaks website; Noticias “A Garden for All Times”; www.peachridgeglass.com/2015/01/demas-s-barnesmedicine-man-to-politician/; Myrick’s Montecito and Santa Barbara; and various topical websites.)

Please join us! April 2 Maundy Thursday 6:00 p.m. Soup Supper with Communion

April 3

April 5

Good Friday 7:00 p.m. Service

Easter Sunday Celebration 10:00 a.m. Worship 11:45 a.m. Children’s Easter Egg Hunt

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

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State Street Spin

by Erin Graffy de Garcia

Cardiologist Knows Way to a Manâ’s Heart

n his spare time, cardiologist Dr. Joe Ilvento exchanges his white lab coat for his white chef’s coat... and he’s still all heart. Joe has teamed up with his daughter, Juliana Fitzpatrick (an attorney specializing in business start-ups), to launch a series of sauces... straight from time-tested Italian recipes. His family’s recipe. And that’s Italian! Recently, he gave a wonderful talk at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club luncheon forum. He regaled us with the history of the restaurant his grandfather started in 1933 in New Jersey... which was just as colorful as the four family sauces he has now launched. The original sugo marinara is made with fresh basil and garlic and finished with fragrant oregano. Mushroom boscaiolo contains slices of whole mushroom and dried thyme and is great with chicken cacciatore. My favorite is Dal Pietro, savory with an unusual spice I could not quite put my finger on. I used it with spaghetti squash and ground buffalo. Yum. My husband wanted to try the Arrabiatia (it means angry, Ilvento explained to the crowd at the luncheon.) Most of the ladies steered clear of that extra-spicy sauce with green and red peppers, but my husband was anxious to try it with shrimp. It is not too hot, he reported. What makes their sauces top banana

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est standards (this all sounds pretty kosher for Proprio Italiano.) These sauces are gluten-free, no preservatives, natural ingredients, vegan, and have no sugar (check that out, all you on the Whole 30 diet). Ilvento’s Proprio Italian Sauces can be found on the website at Ilventos. com and have already been discovered and available through Good Eggs in San Francisco to Montecito Village Grocery, Tino’s Italian Grocery (moved to Carrillo and De La Vina) and down to We Olive in Ventura on Main.

Rock Not Taken for Granite

Calling All Vietnam Veterans

Dr. Joe Ilvento and daughter Juliana at the Goodland kitchen, cooking up a batch of their new sauces Ms Graffy is author of “Society Lady’s Guide on How to Santa Barbara,” is a longtime Santa Barbara resident and a regular attendee at many society affairs and events; she can be reached at 687-6733

is the plum tomatoes, as well as the secret family herbs and spices (they’d have to kill you...). The sauces are hand made and slow cooked, in small batches, right here in Santa Barbara. Next up they are hand-bottled and hand-labeled, assuring the high-

fundraiser at the Knapp Estate and was touched by how they cared for our vulnerable population in Santa Barbara. They provide psychological counseling for low-income clients and support services for veterans to avoid homelessness. They administer the Safe Parking Program for people who are currently living in their vehicles and provide support services for City Housing Authority tenants and parenting education. Give this some attentive thought and check out your closets for things you can donate. You’ll have a nice clean feeling inside and out! (You can either drop off items at the New Beginnings office, 324 E. Carrillo Street, suite C, or call Camille Jarmie at 963-7777, x112 to schedule a pick-up.)

Mystery rock in Montecito: What does the engraving stand for and why is it there?

Somebody from “Old Guard” Montecito might know. What is the meaning behind the special carving, presumably a date, on this rock in the hills up around Bella Vista. Do tell! Call me, write me, text me... inquiring minds want to know!

Give Unwanted Accessories a New Beginning! It’s spring cleaning time – and just in time for the New Beginnings Counseling Center ’s Pop-up Accessories Boutique fundraiser. I am asking the women of Santa Barbara to give their accessories “a new beginning” by donating fashionable scarves, hats, belts, sunglasses, jewelry, purses, gloves, and pashminas to be sold at the boutique. Now girlfriends, you know you have a closet full of these, goodies that you bought and wore once, (after deciding the color wasn’t right), or you received as a gift (but it was not quite to your style or taste). You’ll never get around to hauling them off to the consignment stores, so consider doing a cool Good Thing with them: donate them to New Beginnings for their Pop-Up Accessories Boutique. And of course, you’ll want to come browse the boutique on April 24-25 to pick up new items to replenish your now reduced stock. I learned about New Beginnings Counseling Center years ago at a

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Four years ago, Congress declared March 28 as an official day to recognize Vietnam Veterans. The local Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 218 is presenting an official celebration of the Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. Everyone is invited to attend this national day of recognition for all who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War era (1959-75). Saturday, March 28 is an opportunity to meet the local Vietnam Veterans who served during that war and give them a hearty Welcome Home! This free, family-friendly event runs from 11 am till 11 pm. A special ceremony at 2 pm will honor the men and women who did not come home, 98 of whom are from Santa Barbara County. Get up close with Chapter 218’s authentic Huey Helicopter and other types of military vehicles for photos. Cool T-shirts featuring Huey helicopter will be for sale. Live music from Teresa Russell will keep the energy high. Prizes and trophies will be awarded for chili and enchilada cookoffs, as well as Best Dressed and Best Dancing. So dust off your love beads, bell bottoms, and tie-dyed duds, or even your old uniforms, and dance to the music of the 1960s and ‘70s for fame and fortune. The event will be set up at the parking lot of Break Time Sports Lounge at 5977 Encina Road in Goleta thanks to owner/special-events manager Jerry Farmer. Vietnam soldiers did not get the welcome home like previous veterans did, so take a moment to drop on by, shake a veteran’s hand and say, Welcome home. All proceeds benefit the VVA Chapter 218 programs. If you need more information, call Peter Bie at (805) 259-9779 or Jerry Farmer at (805) 350-2006 and tell them •MJ Erin sent ya! 19 – 26 March 2015

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The school celebrates its 125th school year this year; a community celebration is planned for May 30

which include removing the portables and building a permanent building to house administrative offices, one classroom, and an employee boardroom. The after-school program and resource center would be moved elsewhere on campus; it is possible the current office space would be turned into a teachers’ lounge. The new structure, which would be designed in the same Spanish style as the rest of the buildings, would serve as a functional gateway onto campus on the Cold Spring side, overlooking one of the two access points. (The other, located on Stoddard Lane, will continue to be open before and after school only.) The board will consider the plans at an upcoming meeting, to determine if the project is within its budget. “We are not going after a bond,” Price said, adding that she has been studying school bond measures in Montecito closely. Cold Spring has funded previous updates via Measure C ($2.4 million), which passed in November 2008 after the failure of two previous ballot measures, which were rejected by district voters in November 2006 (Measure K for $14m) and February 2008 (Measure R for $8.75m). The failed bond measures, which some estimate to have failed by just 50 votes, have caused the board to adapt its adherence to the Master Plan, which originally called for an addition of a larger auditorium, total replacement of playground equipment, the construction of a brandnew office building, a new technology classroom, new construction to replace the portable classrooms on campus, and new furniture, fixtures, and equipment. The board has now decided to move forward with higher priority projects, the highest of which is building the new administrative building in the front of campus. “The 19 – 26 March 2015

reality is, we have almost everything we need in terms of classroom space,” said school board president Bryan Goligoski. “The building of this new project is the most relevant for us to fulfill.” Price says the district has about $1 million earmarked for the development. Goligoski tells us the board will likely move forward if the plan costs $2 million or less; the remaining $1 million coming from other reserves and monies raised via a capital campaign. If all goes as planned, construction could begin as early as next summer. We’ll have much more on the project as it comes to fruition. Also on campus, plans are in the works for a community celebration marking the 125th anniversary of the school. On Saturday, May 30, the school will host a barbecue with live music and birthday cake for all current and former students and teachers, as well as other members of the community. Several additional events are approaching, including the Move-aThon next week (Thursday, March 26) and the Parent Club fundraiser, An Evening in Santa Barbara, on Saturday, April 11, at the El Encanto in Santa Barbara. The evening auction and dinner event raises funds for school improvements: this year’s fundraising efforts will help pay for a new swing set on the upper playground, as well as a water bottle refilling station. Cold Spring currently serves 162 students. For more information, visit www.coldspringschool.net.

E Madison Opens on Coast Village Road

March 16 marked the opening of E Madison, an interior design firm and retail store located at 1159 Coast Village Road. Owner Courtney EllisDever opened her first E Madison location in Ladera Ranch, California, in 2012. “Montecito has always been one of Courtney’s favorite places to visit, so when this building became available, she knew she wanted it,” says store general manager Nicole Dever, who added that her sister-in-law Courtney is a big fan of Maison K, which spent five years at 1159 CVR before returning to its original location down the road. Previously, the two-story Costa Villa building was home to Circa and Letter Perfect. E Madison features an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary designs, bringing together luxurious fabrics with relaxed, rustic furniture and décor, all of which is available for purchase off the floor, according to senior designer Connie Glazer, who helps run the interior-design portion of the business.

E Madison, the new home store on Coast Village Road, features an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary designs

tomizable), to throw blankets and pillows, headboards, picture frames, mirrors, vases, candles, kitchenware, and more. “The style is refined and upscale, while still approachable and relaxed,” Glazer described. The store opened after several months of renovations, including new flooring, new doors, and paint, and newly built office space located in the upstairs showroom. “We’re so happy to be here,” Dever said. E Madison is located 1159 Coast Village Road. Call 618-1810 for more information, or visit www.emadison home.com.

SBCAG Meeting

The Costa Villa building on Coast Village Road is now home to E Madison, an interior design store

The company is a design firm and retail showroom, designed to inspire clients with ever-changing vignettes and décor ideas. The shop carries furniture and décor for every room, from couches and ottomans (all cus-

On Thursday, March 19, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) will hear an update on the Highway 101 widening project through Montecito. The Corridor advisor, Tony Harris, will give the board recommendations on advancing the design of the project. The meeting starts at 8:30 am at the Board Supervisors Hearing Room at 105 E. Anapamu Street, 4th floor. For more info, visit www.sbcag.org. •MJ

FLOCK: birds on the brink World Renowned Bird Experts at Lotusland

Scott Weidensaul Living on the Wind: The Miracle of Bird Migration Saturday, March 28 / 4 to 6 PM Gates open at 2:30 to explore Lotusland

Scott, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a contributing editor for Audubon and is the author of more than two dozen books including Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds.

Linnea Hall & René Corado The Beauty of Birds & Their Perils Sponsored by Rich and Luci Janssen Saturday, April 11 / 2:30 to 5 PM Gates open at 1 PM to explore Lotusland

Exec. Director and Collections Manager at Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ), share their passion, knowledge, and expertise about the beauty, wonder and dangers that birds face.

Explore the Garden • Experience the Art • Meet the Experts Followed by book signings, light hors d’oeuvres and wine on the terrace. FLOCK: Birds on the Brink is a contemporary art exhibition inspired by an environmental imperative – the global loss of wild bird populations and their role as indicators of the health of our planet. Lotusland will open early for an opportunity to explore the garden and to see the FLOCK exhibition. Call 805.969.9990 for reservations or information or go to lotusland.org MJ-Lotusland 1/6 page 3.19.indd 1

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. – William Wadsworth

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3763 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3763 for the AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 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, “AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS,” Bid No. 3763. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: AIRPORT LIGHTING AND SAFETY UPGRADE IMPROVEMENTS. The Project consists primarily of the following: Base Bid 1. Replacement of Airfield Conductors (Approximate Total of 202,000 LF) and Facility Transformers (Airfield Lights, Signs, and Wind cones-Approximate Total of 1,060 EA). 2. Re-routing of Airfield Conductors and Underground Duct Banks. 3. Installation of Elevated and In-Pavement Runway Guard Lights (RGLs) (Approximate Total of 129 EA). 4. Installation of Elevated and In-Pavement Edge Lighting (Total of 97 EA) and Airfield Signs (Approximate Total of 2 EA). 5. Airfield Pavement Marking Removal (Approximate Total of 47,500 SY). 6. Airfield Pavement Marking (Approximate Total of 36,500 SF) and Surface Painted Signs (Approximate Total of 64 EA). 7. Emulsified Asphalt Slurry Seal Treatment (Approximate Total of 26,000 SY). 8. Installation of Airport Perimeter Fence (Approximate Total of 3,425 LF) and Gates (Approximate Total of 7 EA). Bid Alternate No. 1 1. Installation of Airport Perimeter Fence (Approximate Total of 1,840 LF) and Gates (Approximate Total of 3 EA). The Engineer’s estimate for the Base Bid is $2,309,000 and $129,000 for Bid Alternate No. 1. Each bidder must have a Class A license at time of bid opening to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be an optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. at the Airport Administration Office, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. All bidders are strongly encouraged to attend. 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 City’s contact for this Project is Jeff Leonard, PE, Mead & Hunt, Project Engineer, (707) 526-5010, jeff.leonard@meadhunt.com. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor must 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 City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED UNDER THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION (FAA) AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (AIP). Contractors must comply with specific federal required provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents. The following are required to be included in this solicitation for bids. (Further information regarding required Federal Provisions are included in Part B, Special Provisions – General, Section B2 the Project Specifications). By reference: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Foreign Trade Restriction (Reference: 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: DOL Regulation 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Disadvantage Business Enterprise (Reference: 49 CFR part 26) 5) Veteran’s Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 47112(c)) 6) Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (DOT regulation 49 CFR Part 29) 7) Banning Texting while Driving (Executive Order 13513, Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Message While Driving, and DOT Order 3902.10) 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. 1) Affirmative Action Requirement. (Reference: 41 CFR part 604, Executive Order 11246). 1. The Offeror's or Bidder’s attention is called to the "Equal Opportunity Clause" and the "Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications" set forth herein.

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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 federallyassisted) 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 Santa Barbara Airport, City of Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, California. Affirmative Action Plan. The Department of Labor is responsible for administering the Executive Order 11246, which contains requirements for an Affirmative Action Plan. This Plan is similar in content and requirements to the affirmative action plan required in 49 CFR Part 152 subpart e. 49 CFR Part 152 applied to grants issued under the Airport Development Aid Program, which was replaced by the Airport Improvement Program. 2) Civil Rights - General. (Reference: 49 USC § 47123) The contractor agrees that it will comply with pertinent statutes, Executive Orders and such rules as are promulgated to ensure that no person shall, on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap be excluded from participating in any activity conducted with or benefiting from Federal assistance. This provision binds the contractors from the bid solicitation period through the completion of the contract. This provision is in addition to that required of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 3) Civil Rights - Title VI Assurances 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. 4) 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) By submitting a bid/proposal under this solicitation, the bidder or offeror certifies that at the time the bidder or offeror submits its proposal that neither it nor its principals are presently debarred or suspended by any Federal department or agency from participation in this transaction. 5) Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (Federal Minimum Wage) (Reference: 29 USC § 201, et seq.) All contracts and subcontracts that result from this solicitation incorporate this provision by reference, with the same force and effect as if given in full text. The contractor has full responsibility to monitor compliance to the referenced statute or regulation. The contractor must address any claims or disputes that pertain to referenced requirement directly with the Federal Agency with enforcement responsibilities. Requirement

Federal Agency with Enforcement Responsibilities

Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (29 USC 201)

U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division

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6) Notice of Nonsegregated Facilities Requirement (Reference: 41 CFR § 60-1.8) 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. 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. 7) Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Reference 20 CFR part 1910) All contracts and subcontracts that result from this solicitation incorporate the following provisions by reference, with the same force and effect as if given in full text. The contractor has full responsibility to monitor compliance to the referenced statute or regulation. The contractor must address any claims or disputes that pertain to a referenced requirement directly with the Federal Agency with enforcement responsibilities. Requirement

Federal Agency with Enforcement Responsibilities

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (20 CFR Part 1910)

U.S. Department of Labor – Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Bid of any Contractor who has previously violated the terms of the Federal Labor Laws, and who has not been cleared of such violations, will not be honored. Also, any subcontractor under him under the same circumstance will not be accepted for this project. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California and the Davis Bacon Act (2 CFR Section 2DD), the Contractor shall pay its employees not less than the greater of the minimum wage rates determined by the State of California’s Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (state wages) or the U.S. Secretary of Labor (federal wages). The most current prevailing wage rates available shall be used at bid opening and throughout the Project. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code, and the Davis Bacon Act requirements, relating to apprentice public works contracts. 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 cashier’s check payable to the OWNER in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. 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. 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

PUBLISHED: March 11 and 18, 2015 Montecito Journal

William Hornung, C.P.M.

19 – 26 March 2015

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5376 DUE DATE & TIME: April 8, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Yanonali St. Water Main Replacement Project AN OPTIONAL pre-bid meeting will be held on April 1, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., at 100 East Yanonali St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. 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 Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). 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. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. Contractors/Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A General Engineering Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that 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 with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Monday, March 30, 2015, during a special afternoon session, which begins at 4:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The public hearing will be held pursuant to California Elections Code Section 10010 to consider a Proposal to establish District Boundaries for City Elections. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. On Thursday, March 26, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Monday, March 30, 2015, 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: Click on the Government tab, click City Council Meeting Videos (under Quick Links), and then click on the Video link for the meeting date. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL) Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager March 18, 2015

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. 2015-0000780. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: K & A Design Group; K + A Design Group; Kavoian & Associates, Inc., 489 Crocker Sperry Drive, Montecito, CA 93108. Kavoian & Associates, Inc., 489 Crocker Sperry Drive, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 4, 2015. 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. 2015-0000752. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015.

FBN No. 2015-0000863. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kim’s Tailoring, 1998 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Soon Sik Tansen, 142 A Loureyo Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2015. 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. 2015-0000579. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spark Creative; Spark Creative Events; Spark Events, 5390 Overpass Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. LBPS Events Inc., 5390 Overpass Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crown Cab Company, PO Box 1845, Goleta, CA 93116. Hanif Siraj Malik, 131 South Kellogg Avenue #157C, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 11, 2015. 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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brighten Solar Co. 14 San Roque Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Synergetik LLC, 14 San Roque Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 11, 2015. 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.

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on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0000849. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Honor Bakery, 1255 Coast Village Road, Suite #101, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Hillstone Restaurant Group, Inc. 2710 East Camelback Road, Suite #200, Phoenix, AZ 85016. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2015. 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. 2015-0000742. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Accessible Yoga; Jivana Heyman,

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32 E. Micheltorena Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jason Heyman, 1723 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 2, 2015. 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 Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2015-0000733. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stone Savers, 4614 Via Rubi Santa Barbara, CA 93111. David Mauk, 4614 Via Rubi Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 26, 2015. 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 Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000681. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ashley Chanel, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93011. Ashley Chanel White, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2015. 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. 2015-0000787. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SEAWINDSUN, 747 Reef Circle, Port Hueneme, CA 93041. Christiano J. Silva, 747 Reef Circle, Port Hueneme, CA 93041. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2015. 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. 2015-0000745. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Youth Drought Project, 1733 Calle Cerro, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Nurturing Across Cultures, 1733 Calle Cerro, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 27, 2015. 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 Christine

Potter. FBN No. 2015-0000712. Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E Madison Interior Lifestyles, 1159 Coast Village Road Ste A Montecito, CA 93108. Ellis Design Group, INC, 25652 Crown Valley Pkwy F3, Ladera Ranch, CA 92694. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 25, 2015. 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. 2015-0000664. Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zip Clean, 1998 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Soon Sik Tansen, 142 A Loureyo Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2015. 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. 2015-0000580. Published March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Club West – Santa Ynez Youth Track Club, PO Box 5730, Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Club West, Inc, 937 Arcady Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2015. 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. 2015-0000594. Published February 25, March 4, 11, 18, 2015. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1486906. To all interested parties: Petitioner Thomas Leonard Johnson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing from Thomas Leonard Johnson to Tommy James Johnson. 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 February 25, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 15, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25

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ONGOING Theatrical Lemmon – The famed actor Jack Lemmon’s only son, Chris Lemmon – himself an actor and musician with credits including Duets and Lena’s Holiday – stars in the one-man show Jack Lemmon Returns as the last-minute replacement for Rubicon Theatre Company’s canceled production of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The “playwith-music” is both a portrait of the legendary actor – who won Oscars for Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger and also starred in the classics Mister Roberts, Some Like it Hot, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Odd Couple – and an in-depth, personal look at his relationship with Chris. The two Lemmons appeared together in the films Airport ‘77, That’s Life! and, most aptly, Dad. The piece grew out of Chris’s book about his father, A Twist of Lemmon, that was published in 2006, five years after Jack died. Hershey Felder, who created and starred in the similar biographical one-man show George Gershwin Alone, adapted and directed the production. The younger Lemmon plays his father talking about his life to an unseen Chris in the audience. Although there is a striking resemblance, Chris has told interviewers that he’s more channeling his dad than imitating him. WHEN: 2 & 7 pm Wednesdays, 8 pm Thursdays & Fridays, 2 & 8 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, through Sunday, March 29 WHERE: 1001 Laurel St., Ventura COST: $44-$54 INFO: 6672900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 Camerata Goes Chromatic – Arnold Schoenberg’s 1899 string sextet Verklärte Nacht, the composer’s earliest important work, serves as the anchor of Camerata Pacifica’s current program at Hahn Hall.

The piece from the father of 12-tone music is intensely chromatic and among his most popular works. Verklärte Nacht was inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem as well as the composer’s meeting of the sister of his teacher, whom he would later marry. Violinist Kristin Lee and cellist Ole Akahoshi make their Camerata debut, alongside visiting violinist Erik Arvinder and violist Ara Gregorian, and principal cellist and violist Ani Aznavoorian and Richard O’Neill. Pianist Gloria Chien also debuts with the ensemble performing Debussy’s Suite bergamasque, L. 75 and Beethoven’s C-Sharp Minor Piano Sonata, Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, and joining the others for John Field’s Piano Quintet in A-Flat Major. Artistic director Adrian Spence employs his flute chops to lead Arthur Foote’s Nocturne & Scherzo for flute and strings kicking off the program. WHEN: 1 (Schoenberg & Beethoven only) & 7:30 pm WHERE: 1070 Fairway Road COST: $45 (1 pm $22) INFO: 884-8410 or www. cameratapacifica.org

SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Blues from the Bayou – The Santa Barbara Blues Society celebrates its 38th birthday with a trip to the swamp. Or rather, Kenny Neal, one of the great swamp blues masters, is coming west to anchor the party. Guitarist/ multi-instrumentalist/singer Neal, who was born in New Orleans but raised in Baton Rouge, learned his craft from his dad, harmonica master Raful Neal, but has not only preserved the legendary sounds of the bayou but also updated the swampy sounds with jazz, R&B, and more. He’s won numerous blues awards from several organizations, and even garnered a Grammy nomination. Neal will be backed by Ventura’s Hot Roux,

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 Gates at the Granada – Whether or not you agree with his politics, there’s no disputing the fact that former U.S. secretary of defense and CIA director Robert Gates has had a major impact on American foreign policy for decades. Gates served as a trusted adviser to an astonishing total of eight presidents, helping to shape U.S. intelligence and defense policies for the past four and a half decades, a time frame spanning the Cold War to the current War on Terrorism. In his recent best-selling memoir, Duty, he recounted his experiences serving under both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Gates will share his insights about his perception of the most pressing threats to America’s security and global stability in a talk titled “The Challenges Facing the United States”. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $35-$75 INFO: 899-2222, www.granadasb.org or 8933535, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Capturing Sharks – We’re talking about on film, of course, as this event is a part of the National Geographic Live series, where no animals or nature are harmed. Husband-and-wife underwater photographers David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes are bringing their multimedia presentation “Sharks: The Magnificent and Misunderstood Ghosts in Our Seas” to UCSB’s Campbell Hall, not far from the prestigious school’s own marine biology facilities. Doubilet, National Geographic’s most published underwater photographer, is also the author of several books, including Light in the Sea, Water Light and Time, The Kingdom of Coral: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and Fish Face. He’s responsible for nearly a dozen stories on sharks for the magazine, including a collaboration on great whites with Jaws author Peter Benchley. He’s also an alumnus of Brooks Institute of Photography, having taking one course in underwater photography. Hayes is an aquatic biologist and photojournalist specializing in natural history and marine environments. Appropriately, the couple met underwater, covering the birth of a lemon shark in the Bahamas. WHEN: 4 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $15 youths 18 & under INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu the band who also joined Albert Lee for a SBBS gig in 2013, and anchored the groups 2014 all-star benefit. The local saxophone-keyboard blues combo Schnackenberg-Estrada Duo opens the show, which also features the usual free barbecue snacks plus birthday cake for all, while the first 38 paying Santa Barbara Blues Society members will receive a free blues CD, as the SBBS extends its record as the longest continuously operating organization of its kind in the U.S. Be sure to bring your dancing shoes as the ballroom at the Carrillo Recreation Center is spring loaded, making bopping to beat almost mandatory (though there’s plenty of seating, too). WHEN: 7:15 pm WHERE: 100 E. Carrillo St. COST: call INFO: 722-8155 or www.sbblues.org Camerata Comrades, for Free – At least once a year, Camerata Pacifica musicians invade the twice-a-month free concerts presented by the Santa Barbara Music Club at the downtown library. Today’s show is a real treat, as artistic director and flutist Adrian Spence teams with pianist Christopher Davis for Bach’s lovely Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1034, a work known for its magnificent structure and advanced harmonic approaches. An early piano concerto by Mozart, No. 12 in A major, K. 414, brings together pianist Ariel Halevy fronting a quartet composed of violinists Kristin Lee and Erik Arvinder, violist Jacob Adams, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 617-3401 or www. SBMusicClub.org

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Song of the People – The Santa Barbara Master Chorale returns to a favorite piece from the 20th century, Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis’s setting of Chilean Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda’s Canto General, the poet’s Song of the People. The epic poem about the South American continent and its nature, people, battles, bounties, and social and historical destiny was first published in Mexico in 1950 as Neruda was in exile; viewing the work as “a gospel of our time,” Theodorakis composed music for 13 parts of the poem in 1971, and was to premiere the piece in Chile in September 1973, before the military junta under Pinochet scuttled the plan. It’s a much more folk-y work than typical choral pieces, and with its political and social undertones, one that’s well worth hearing. WHEN: 7:30 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: First United Methodist Church, corner of Garden and Anapamu Streets COST: $22 general, $20 seniors & disabled, $12 college students, free for children in grades K-12 INFO: 455-3276 or www.sbmasterchorale.org

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 The Pulse of Dance – Pasadena’s Hart Pulse Dance Company – which blends ballet, modern, and jazz through contemporary movement to create cutting-edge pieces – tops off its fifth anniversary with a short road trip of four California cities featuring its most loved works and a world premiere and guest appearances by local companies. For tonight’s visit to Santa Barbara, Hart Pulse – who have been voted Los Angeles’s Top Dance Show by LA Weekly, will be joined by ArtBark International and Nebula Dance Lab, two local outfits comfortable

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Keyboard Heaven – Jazz pianists Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock both performed with Miles Davis in the 1960s before moving on to record more than 140 albums that collectively have helped to re-shape the genre over their frequently evolving five-decade-long careers. Separately, they pioneered jazz-rock (that would be Corea with his band Return to Forever in the 1970s) and broke the platinum record barrier for jazz artists (Hancock’s 1973 album Headhunters, also his highly innovative band’s name at the time). Between them, they have collected 32 Grammy Awards (20 for Corea, 12 for Hancock), and easily earned the title of jazz giants. Despite still current and vital careers (as marked by Corea’s 2014 double-Grammy nominated live CD set Trilogy and Hancock’s 2007 Album of the Year Grammy for the Joni Mitchell tribute and his current position as chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz), Now, they’re coming together for a rare duo performance in Santa Barbara’s most elegant concert hall that should prove to be one of the jazz highlights of the year. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $45-$75 INFO: 899-2222/www. granadasb.org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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from Cantate No. 30, before pianist Egle Januleviciute closes the concert with Bach’s French Suite in B minor. WHEN: 3:30 pm WHERE: 1500 State Street COST: free INFO: 965-7419

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Bach Birthday Celebration – Trinity’s Episcopal Church’s minister of keyboard Thomas Joyce leads the church’s annual concert marking the Baroque master’s birthday (430 years ago on March 31) with a wide variety of Johann Sebastian’s works. Santa Barbara’s Adelfos Ensemble, directed by Temmo Korisheli, opens the program singing Kyrie: Christe, du Lamm Gottes (derived from Bach’s Lutheran Mass in F), followed by Joyce’s turn on Kyrie: Gott heiliger Geist from Clavierübung played on Trinity’s pipe organ. With Joyce on piano, cellist Joanne de Mars plays the Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 2 in D Major; violinist Camden Boyle offers selections from the B minor solo Partita; and mezzosoprano Joanna Lynn-Jacobs sings the aria “Kommt ihr angefochten Sünder”

Wang does Gershwin for LSO – Still-young Chinese piano sensation Yuja Wang – who has wowed local audiences in two recitals at Hahn Hall among other Santa Barbara appearances – returns to perform at our classic-music jewel under the baton of San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas in his role as principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Wang will serve as soloist for Gershwin’s Concerto in F, while the LSO – widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras – will also play Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, Op.33a, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.47. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $38-$103 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org •MJ

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Gil Shaham, Bach Six Solos for Violin with original films by David Michalek TUE, MAR 31 / 7 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $15 all students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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MONDAY, MARCH 23 Revels Pub Sing – The weather service might say we skipped over spring entirely, if we ever even experienced winter this year, but don’t tell that to the folks behind Santa Barbara Revels. Else we’d have to miss their eighth annual Spring Pub Sing, the society’s way to celebrate the vernal equinox. The Revels’s new music director, Adam Phillips, who also plays guitar, will lead all of the assembled singers – professional or those more comfortable in the shower – through a series of Irish tunes, sea shanties, familiar folk songs, traditional favorites, and novelty ditties, while guest artist Gentry Hill offers some fine fiddling to froth up the festivities. Merry mayhem is the mission here, so perfect pitch isn’t nearly as important as a upbeat attitude and ability to raise a glass (Dargan’s offers a fine selection of ales, glasses, and wines, though there’s no obligation to imbibe, as this is a family-friendly event). Just “join us and be joyous”, as Revels folks like to say. WHEN: 6-8 pm WHERE: Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 East Ortega Street COST: $15 adults, $10 children (includes a songbook and one beverage) INFO: 565-9357 or www.santabarbararevels.org

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 35) Richard Mineards drives back to the future in a DeLorean (photo by Ric Hovespian)

Many of them were dressed as characters from the decade, including one as Charlene Tilton, the actress in the TV series Dallas, and the ever-gregarious Nina Terzian, who graced the back cover of this illustrious organ last week in a Lucky’s ad, as rock singer Madonna. The “historic” bash, which raised around $100,000 for the cause, was emceed by KEYT-TV anchor Shirin Rajaee and the channel’s chief meteorologist Alan Rose, while Steve Epstein conducted the live auction, which included a fire truck ride in the July 4 parade, a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, an autographed replica of former world champion Shaun Tomson’s 1983 Pipeline surfboard, and white gold spiral diamond earrings from the Montecito bling emporium, Silverhorn A plaque honoring Deckers, best known for its Uggs sheepskin boots, was presented to company executive Leah Larson by Jim Turner and Amie Parrish, watched by the retro guests, including Shaun and Carla Tomson, David Edelman, Diana Starr Langley, Das Williams and Ric Hovespian, who was the silent auction announcer. All is CALM CALM, Child Abuse Listening Meditation, hosted its 29th annual celebrity authors’ lunch at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree, attracting 500 guests and raising around $100,000 for the non-profit that helps 2,000 families and children annually. Four best-selling authors, including Andrew Marlowe, award-winning executive producer of the hit ABC series Castle, based on his popular books, and multi Emmy Awardwinning NBC investigative reporter, Hank Phillippi Ryan, who wrote the mystery Truth Be Told, were interviewed by former KEYT anchor Debby Davison and journalist Tom Weitzel, at the bustling bibliophile bash, emceed by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone. Other authors at the event, co-chaired by Becky Cohn – who received the Claire Miles Award for her long service to the charity – and Carolyn Gillio, included my Journal

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colleague Erin Graffy, Montecito’s Hollye Jacobs, Cindy Chupack, Kelly Corrigan, Rich Grimes, Fredric Hunter, Nancy Spiller, and Frances Mead-Messinger. Among the many supporters were Dolly Granatelli, Stan and Betty Hatch, Lee Luria, Rich Block, Pat Andersons, Jeff and Margo Barbakow, Marlene Veloz, and Silvio DiLoreto... Flower Power Business was blooming at the 70th annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, which this year had the theme “Celebrate With Orchids.” Floral fans from as far away as Thailand, Ecuador, Columbia, and Japan, where a unique bloom can go for a staggering $100,000, gathered to

Sitting in the tented gazebo with a scenic background of prized cymbidiums, orchids combined with waterfalls and bridge are participants Vicki Zamora; Andy Phillips of Andy’s Orchids; Dina Clapinski and Jaime Zamora of Ventura Farms, which won the trophies for sweepstakes “Best Display; and “Design of Distinction” (photo by Priscilla)

James and Lauris Rose of Cal-Orchid, displaying their Most Artistic Display in Show; with the executive manager of SB International Orchid Show Nancy Melekian and Heidi Kirkpatrick, SB Orchid Show Plant registrar (photo by Priscilla)

UCSB publicist Karna Hughes moves to Visit Santa Barbara (photo by Kimberly Citro)

Sheriff Bill Brown; George Hatfield of Hatfield Orchids, winner of the Grand Champion Mosher trophy for his “Cym. Doris Hirata #4”, also received the Reserve Champion Cymbidium of Show Trophy for “Heart of Gold” with Susan and Jim Neuman (photo by Priscilla)

see the 100,000 examples on display during the three-day event. “They have a broad appeal with those in the botanical community, casual growers and interior designers,” Nancy Melekian, show manager, told me at an entertaining reception, centered around an elaborate landscape and water feature.

A high ribbon placement is highly prized, given it can increase the value of an orchid to a hefty $10,000, with major criteria including its eye-catching quality and colors... A Hughes Asset On a personal note, my best wishes go to Karna Hughes, who I used to

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work with at the News-Press eight years ago when I first arrived in Santa Barbara. For nearly four years, Karna, who used to scribe as a feature writer, has been public relations guru for UCSB’s Arts & Lectures program. She is now making a bunk to lusher financial pastures as director of communications for Visit Santa Barbara. I’m sure she will be a great asset... Claypool of Resources The McCune Founders Room at the Granada was socially gridlocked when the theater welcomed the return of country music star Philip Claypool for its latest intimate show in the “Upstairs at the G!” series. The Nashville recording artist shared the spotlight with Paraguayanborn Carlos Reyes, a Bay Area music legend, whose prowess on the violin 19 – 26 March 2015

Susan and Palmer Jackson make their way “Upstairs at the G” in the Granada Theatre to attend the Philip Claypool concert with Carlos Reyes (photo by Priscilla)

Pleased with the pleasurable evening are Carlos Reyes, world-renowned harpist and violinist; Granada’s executive director, Craig Springer; Roger Chrisman (evening’s sponsor); Philip Claypool, Nashville recording artist and Granada chair; and Sarah Chrisman (sponsor) (photo by Priscilla)

and harp has garnered him worldwide acclaim. The tony twosome melded their versatile talents covering many genres. Claypool lived in our Eden by the Beach for many years and his latest single “Strong One” is already a country music charts hit. The entertaining performance was sponsored by Roger and Sarah Chrisman...

Paraguayan instrumentalist Carlos Reyes and country music star and composer Philip Claypool play to an appreciative audience (photo by Priscilla)

Sightings: Oscar winner Jeff Bridges noshing lunch at the Coral Casino...Beverly Hills 90210 actress

Jenny Garth and beau, Dave Abrams, taking part in the Sky Ranch fitness program at the Bacara...Dennis Franz checking out the antipodean eatery, Outback in Goleta Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings, and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla please email priscil la@santabarbaraseen.com or call 9693301. •MJ

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SUNDAY MARCH 22

ADDRESS

TIME

1398 Oak Creek Canyon Road 1-4pm 1530 Mimosa Lane 1-3pm 1522 East Mountain Drive 1-3pm 2225 Featherhill Road 1-4pm 705 Park Lane 1-3pm 1445 South Jameson Lane 1-4pm 603 San Ysidro Road 1-3pm 709 Park Lane 2-4pm 193 East Mountain Drive 1-3pm 1154 Hill Road 2-4pm 1424 East Valley Road 1-4pm 298 East Mountain Drive 1-3pm 1512 Mimosa Lane 1-4pm 1090 Toro Canyon Road 12-3pm 3055 Hidden Valley Lane 2-4pm 462 Toro Canyon Road 1-4pm 1293 Spring Road 2-4pm 115 Coronada Circle 2-4pm 619 Stoddard Lane 1-3pm 180 Hermosillo Road 1-4pm 1308 Plaza Pacifica By Appt. 1362 Plaza Pacifica By Appt.

19 – 26 March 2015

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SIGN PAINTING Road side beautification, authentic period looking signs, old school materials. 40 years experience. 808-264-4097.

ESTATE SALE Estate Sale, March 22’15, 12 Noon to 3PM: 1787 Fernald Point Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Indoor & outdoor- Furniture – contemporary and antique: loveseats, “easy” chairs, side tables, dining chairs & table, rugs, framed paintings/prints/ mirrors, lamps/pairs, crystal chandelier- 8 arm. Kitchen appliances, glassware/wines, china sets, china /crystal serving dishes/casseroles, bed comforters/ quilts – all sizes. Men/ladies dress and sports clothing. Sportswear/gear – scuba, ski, camping/golf. Information: call 805 896-4313.

FURNITURE FOR SALE SAVE $1,600+ on DESIGNER’S CUSTOM LOVESEAT FROM LEE CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY FURNITURE. BRAND NEW factory direct to designer’s studio. Retails for over $5,000. Dark warm brown leather with soft worn look in highest grade leather, dark wood legs, hand-hammered nail heads in gunmetal color, soft cushion back and seat. Very comfortable and stylish. $1,000 less than designer’s cost it’s priced to sell at $3,400. - CONTACT: 805-962-1566

ACCESSORIES FOR SALE Several New Italian leather 7B shoes, retail -$520, will sell $250 obo. Excellent condition. Italian leather handbags and size 10 & 12 silk blouses. 805 563-2526.

HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible. Great with all pets. 805-451-6200 Birds/house sitting & estate management services. Travel without worry. Local refs. Avalon 689-0822 or email: avalonavian@gmail.com Experienced TLC for your pets. 3 walks daily/feeding/brushing. Daily Photos/email reports. Home watch, mail, water plants Superior Refs- eaarey@aol.com Elizabeth at 858-204-1238 cell

ESTATE MANAGEMENT SERVICES Would you like to enhance your security and at the same time become energy independent ? Contact 805-681-0600 or info@renewablecommunity.org All inquiries will be kept in strictest confidence

POSITION WANTED I can help YOU organize your home, office or life. Run errands, grocery shop, pay bills, make appointments, Drive you, pet care & companionship. $25/hr. Excellent, local references. Sandra 636-3089. Professional Live-In Coordinator looking to relocate to the Santa Barbara area. I have over 20 years experience in home care and the hospital setting. My goal is to ensure people safety and quality of life while living in the comfort of their own home. Celanimary4@gmail.com

BOOK BINDING REPAIRS Manuscripts, books & treasured literary works repair and reconstruct by hand sewing. Sheryl Robinson 805 324-4623

SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, together we can create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family. Lisa O’Reilly, Member Association of Personal Historians 684-6514 or www. yourstorieswritten.com I will write your memoirs or personal story for you!  Published author, Guaranteed Quality Service  Jay at www. OneGlobePress.com Free consultation. 805-794-9126 GHOST WRITER. Time to let your book see the light of day? Allow me to be the conveyance of your voice/vision. (805) 267-6101 Jeremyfay@rocketmail.com Church Pianist available Sundays & choir practice. Reliable with 10 yrs experience. Superior Refs eaarey@aol.com Elizabeth at 858-204-1238.

PHYSICAL TRAINING/COACHING Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle. Individual/ group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available. Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227. Private Physical Therapy in the comfort and convenience of your home, place of work or gym. Over 34 years experience. UCLA trained. Josette Fast, PT 722-8035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy

Eating Disorder Therapy Get Help now for Bulimia, Anorexia, and Disordered Eating. For information call 1 800 560 8518. Adolescent & Adult Programs

Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “Nancy Stands head and Shoulders Above The Rest” ~Lisa R./Client 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com 2015 is your year to buy real estate in Montecito. Visit www.montecitohouses. info then call us. We have 60 years combined experience helping Buyers in SB County. Team service from 2 points of view. Kevin Young and Berni Bernstein, BRE #00834214, 00870443 COASTAL PROPERTIES, BRE #00834214, 00870443 1086 Coast Village Rd. 637-2048 kevin@sbre.com

Would you like to walk, exercise, get toned, breathe deeply, have someone to talk with, but don’t know how to get started? Call me: Avalon 689-0822 anytime or email.: avapache@gmail.com Let’s get together and discuss possibilities. PR SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com

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La Ventana Treatment Programs Santa Barbara 601 E. Arrellaga # 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103

Spiritual Mentor. I have been a soul counselor and channel for 30 years. Looking for guesthouse and opening to mentor, create sacred food and gardens for a client. Pamela 805-245-0323 florameade44@gmail.com

Your local Santa Barbara Real Estate Agent Ursula Santana (805) 455-9025 Keller Williams Realty CalBRE# 01965452 www.ursularealestate.com

SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL Montecito Village home- furnished 2bd on 2 acres. Utilities & gardener. Available May/June/July/Sept/October/Nov. $6500 to $8500/mo. ww.vrbo/84421.com Mark 886-7097. CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714

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POSITION AVAILABLE HOUSEKEEPER wanted, experienced, very clean, English speaking, using green products for Montecito lady 3 to 4 times a week 3 to 4 hrs. a day Please respond to jbvital5@gmail.com

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TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults. Call us at 684-4626. Solo/group vocal instruction. Fun, build confidence performing public festivals/ events. All styles music. Credentialed teacher. Piano skills offered. 805 453-9703 rivkah3@yahoo.com

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3589 Toro Canyon Park Rd Kerry L Mormann Ready To Build a Grand Estate? 120 acre (assr) view parcel in Montecito ready for building.

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1373 School House Rd $5,495,000 Josiah Hamilton 805.284.8835 6BD/4BA extensively remodeled Mediterranean style home on 1+ ac (assr). www.TheHamiltonCo.com

1475 Bonnymede Dr $4,950,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Bright, remodeled 3BD/3.5BA Sea Meadow with a private yard. www.1475Bonnymede.com

1512 Mimosa Ln $2,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 Rare 1930 European Hedgerow in a storybook garden setting. 3BD/3BA. wwwMontecitoFineEstates.com

3291 Beach Club Rd $2,975,000 Kathleen Winter 805.451.4663 Ocean view 4BD/3BA beach home off Padaro Lane w/beach access. www.3291BeachClubRoad.com

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8560 Ocean View Rd $2,750,000 Kerry L Mormann 805.682.3242 Commanding ocean, island and coastline views from this one of a kind 44 acre (assr) property.

4188 Foothill Rd $8,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 12-Acs (assr) in Carp w/Ocesn & Mtn Views. 5BD/7BA hm + GH & Horse Facilities, barns & pastures

1530 Mimosa Ln $8,495,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 1924 Classic Spanish architectural gem on 1¾ acs (assr). 6BD/6BA. www. MontecitoFineEstates.com

3611 Padaro Ln $7,125,000 Winter/Anderson & Hurst 805.451.4663 BEACHFRONT on Padaro Lane. Charming remodeled 2BD/3BA on the sand. www.PadaroLaneCottage.com.

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

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