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Force for the trees: Animal activist Gretchen Lieff establishes Montecito Now, p. 6

LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 35 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

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Village Beat

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On Entertainment

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Montecito Now; The Night It Rained Boulders; Lynn Brittner; fond farewells; William Soleau; Nocking Point wines; Nina Terzian; grants gala; Joshua Bell; Artistry of Strings; Bluewater Grill; Katy Perry; George Lucas museum; Ellen and Adam; and Prince Charles

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On Business

Another cluster of correspondence from Journal readers comprising Lidia Zinchenko, Anthony Ranii, Gerald Rounds, Thomas Bollay, Ray Bourhis, the Grahams, Jay Peterson, and stalwart David McCalmont MBAR; Knit ‘N Needle; Spanish; art gala; STEAM; MAW fundraiser; SB Music Club; Energy & Environment; Empty Bowls; library closures; Brady Harris; fishermen’s market; treasure hunt; Easter services; Grief Recovery group; art classes; brain fitness; story time; yoga; Italian; Carp art; Latin dance; plus wine and cheese Public Works, FEMA and County’s rebuilding guide; update on Montecito Center; and Good Friday Breakfast Lynda Millner reports on Lobero Ghostlight Society; and the American Irish Historical Society Steven Libowitz interviews soprano Hannah Kidwell; classical music; CAMA; Liszt at Granada; BASSH; Center Stage; dancing; laughs; and romance Sound check: Joanne Calitri gets in tune with singer Jade Hendrix and mother Sharon, as part of a concert to raise funds for the Montecito community Kaitlin Lloyd, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network program director, gets to the heart of brush rabbits and how to care for them New book offers to reframe tragic events; a conference March 22-24 examines the liberal arts in a “‘Post-Truth’ Age”; theater hosts a new play; and chamber orchestra performs Jon Vreeland has his mind set on Carpinteria-based GranVida Senior Living and Memory Care, which has earned the Large Business of the Year Award

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Leaf it to him: star-crossed Ashleigh Brilliant inspects the tree of life, breaking down the history and variety of symbolism, including flags

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Spirituality Matters

Moonstruck? Chuck Graham returns to the fold with full-moon fever, as he ventures to Carrizo Plain National Monument.

The Decemberists; Bonnie Raitt at Chumash; Ike Jenkins; Justin King; The Avett Brothers; arts commission gala; Carissa Phelps; and Peter Kater Steven Libowitz interviews Forrest Leichtberg about the Consciousness Network; Patricia Diorio; Alexis Slutzky; vocal workshop; Yin & Yang energies; Diana Raab; and Meditate ‘N’ Mingle

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To that end, animal activist Gretchen Lieff has founded Montecito Now, which is dedicated to the restoration, health and preservation of trees in our rarefied enclave, especially two native species, the coastal live oak and the white bark sycamore.

“The layers of mud, some up to seven feet deep, have blanketed entire areas and is a very serious and mortal threat to important trees,” says Gretchen. “The community forest is a fundamental anchor of our local ecosystem, and we need help spreading the word and educating the public on the issue.”

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of mud under them and appear to be the least impacted, do not have damaged trunks, and appear to have a full and uncompromised canopy, are the trees to start with. Trees with the most remaining leaves should also make the top list.”

In the good news, Gwen adds that native oaks and sycamores are resilient and fast-growing at a young age.

“If we can’t save them, we can readily plant many more young trees, and in ten or twenty years these will be majestic trees creating a new canopy for another century of Montecito’s community.”

The Rain Event Montecito documentary maker Harry Rabin’s latest work, The Night It Rained Boulders, about the recent fire, flash floods, and mudslides in our rarefied enclave, has been showing on The Weather Channel.

The 44-minute film took two months to come to fruition with Harry, 64, starting shooting December 4 with the outbreak of the Thomas Fire, which devastated more than 300,000 acres, and January’s earth-moving disasters that killed more than 20 people and destroyed more than 115 homes.

“I was personally impacted getting stuck in the mud,” says Harry. “I went out of my car window on the corner

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“It is not only the potential loss to the community ecosystem, but dead or dying trees increase the risk of wildfire spreading in the future,” adds Gretchen, whose organization is working with the Bucket Brigade, Montecito Association, Santa Barbara Beautiful, Lotusland, and the SB Association of Realtors to save the historic trees from imminent demise.

More than 400 properties are affected with vital areas impacted including Riven Rock, Glen Oaks Drive, Ashley Road, Parra Grande Lane, Meadow Wood Lane, and Randall Road.

Lotusland head honcho Gwen Stauffer says that two months of a few feet of mud on top of tree roots is “way too long” and, at this point, the removal may be too late to save some of them.

“If there is any hope, action must be taken immediately and the mud removed from under each tree to the original soil level and as far out as the tree’s drip line. This appears to be, and most certainly is. an overwhelming task, especially considering there are so many trees and no place to take the mud, and, most understandably, the community is focused on human urgencies first.”

Gwen says there should be a plan to determine which trees homeowners or the community should attempt to save first.

“The trees that have the least amount

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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 H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

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thought our community might like to see how other Montecito residents are coping with our recent disasters. Like many others, my wife, Nancy, and I were suffering from evacuation fatigue after the Thomas Fire and decided when authorities ordered a second evacuation for a winter storm, that our home was far enough away from a creek and that we would not be in immediate danger in the event of a flash flood.

The early morning events of January 9 proved that we were wrong in our assumptions; the debris flow damaged or destroyed many homes in our community, and we experienced mud and debris flowing across a portion of our garden. Fortunately for us, our home and my studio survived unscathed, but after experiencing the debris flow first-hand, I felt that we

should take immediate actions to protect our home from a potential second debris flow.

My studio (a little stone building) was the most at risk, so with a series of storms forecast in the coming days, I chose to board up the windows with plywood to protect the structure. Nancy understood the need, but thought it made the property look abandoned and suggested that my niece, Maddie, and I paint the plywood panels to make the little stone structure look more lived-in.

Maddie, Nancy, and I spent a Sunday afternoon painting. I was not sure how this was going to turn out, but thought it might be good therapy and might just bring a little color to our ravaged neighborhood. I will let the readers judge for themselves, but I will add that it was therapeutic and that I still feel joy when I pass by.

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MUS Sacrifices in Order Nancy Bollay and niece Maddie illustrate that with a little bit of paint and a lot of creativity and effort, one can transform a boarded-up structure into a picturesque neighborhood enhancement

A week ago, my family – like all the others in our class – received very sad news. Our teacher was about to be fired by MUS. We could not believe it: our wonderful teacher with great experience and amazing, kind, attentive attitude toward our kids would lose her position and will no longer be a part of our life and the beautiful Montecito community. Some of you may say: “Well, life is life.” And on some level, I can agree with that.

Montecito has been through a lot lately: drought, fire, mudslide. There is no way it would not affect people who live here and some sacrifices are inevitable.

Obviously, property taxes are down

and when that happens, budgets shrink. That’s what happened to all of us, and even our “perfect” school was affected. But there are many ways to deal with consequences like that when you are as strong as our community and want to find the right and smart way instead of the path of least resistance.

I can give you a very simple example I came across a few days ago. One worker in Germany lost his wife and his son got sick with cancer. The devastated father thought he had no other options but to leave his job to stay with his son. He was a good worker and... German coworkers decided to spread his hours among themselves to help him not only to save his job, but also able to receive a salary. All together, his colleagues worked 3,264 hours for him, which is about 400 days.

Andreas Gaff (the name of the father) was able to not just save his position at work and have money for his child, not just feel honored to be a part of a strong community, but a very important part indeed. And that’s how it’s supposed to be in a civilized world such as ours. One for all and all for one. Especially for one as important in creating great future people as a teacher.

It’s easy to say “Goodbye,” but harder to say “Let’s think what we can do to stay together,” and that’s what MUS has obviously forgotten how to do.

Let me walk you through some basic facts. We have a tiny district with two schools. Montecito Union has 390 kids, and the numbers are 20 percent down after all the debris flow events.

Apparently, the first thing that came to their minds: let’s fire some teachers.

That cannot be more wrong.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23 After-School STEAM Program Build with Legos, do snap circuits, and drop-in craft activities at Montecito Library.

Ages 5 and up.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MARCH 22 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a new detached garage on El Bosque Road, a remodel on Miramar Avenue, new hardscape and landscape on Mesa Road, additions and remodeling on Santa Elena, and new accessory structures and trellis on Parra Grande, among other agenda items.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Music Academy Fundraiser The Music Academy of the West

is holding a Dream Dresses at Dream Prices fundraiser at the Goleta Valley Community Center.

Wedding dresses from $99 to $199, evening gowns $40, sizes 2-24, everything brand-new! Free parking, no entry fee. Proceeds benefit Full-Scholarship & Community Access programs at the Music Academy.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: 5679 Hollister Avenue 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.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Energy & the Environment The Sustainable Change Alliance is hosting an event on energy and the environment. Sigrid Wright, executive director of the Community Environment Council, is the keynote speaker. Company presenters are Jim Diehlsen, who is one of the nation’s more prominent developers of wind and hydro power, and Catherine von Burg, CEO of Ojai based Simpliphi Power, which provides integrated battery storage systems.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Impact Hub Santa Barbara, 1221 Chapala Street

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 14th Annual Empty Bowls in Lompoc Guests enjoy great soups from local restaurants, a chance to win raffle prizes donated by Lompoc businesses and take home a personally selected hand-crafted bowl. All proceeds go directly back to Lompoc residents.

The Foodbank provides 1.05 million meals annually to Lompoc through 28 distribution sites. Tickets available www.foodbanksbc.org.

When: 11 am Where: Dick DeWees Community Center, 1120 W. Ocean Ave, Lompoc Information: 937-3422 THURSDAY, MARCH 29 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MARCH 30 Libraries Closed All Santa Barbara Public Libraries are closed for Cesar Chavez Day. Brady Harris Band Former frontman for the Replacementsinspired Solid Goldsteins, Brady Harris’s solo career has diverged from his previous work into a sound altogether more indicative of his Texas roots. Bearing considerable vocal resemblance to John Lennon, Harris crafts moody country-rock with a hard

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When: 6 to 8 pm Where: The Barrel Room at Carr Winery, 414 N. Salsipuedes Street Cost: free admission, 21 & over SATURDAY, MARCH 31 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Brophy’s restaurant. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine.

When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Easter Services El Montecito Presbyterian, 1455 East Valley Road, 8:15 & 10 am All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane, 8 & 10 am Montecito Covenant, 671 Cold Spring Road, 8:15 & 10 am Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1300 East Valley Road, 8 & 9:30 am & 12:30 pm ONGOING Grief Recovery Support Group GriefShare features nationally recognized experts on grief

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recovery topics. Seminar sessions include “Is This Normal?” “The Challenges of Grief”, “Grief and Your Relationships”, “Why?”, and “Guilt and Anger”.

When: 10:30 am, each Monday through May 21 Where: Montecito Covenant Church, 671 Cold Spring Road Info: call Pam Beebe at 679-1501 MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859

flow classes taught by Leanna Doyle. All levels are welcome.

When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 2911957

TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages 2 to 5 enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Latin Dancing for Beginners Dance Fever Studio is offering a beginning course in all International Latin dances, including Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, and Jive. This class is designed for everyone interested in learning how to dance socially and/or competitively.

When: 7 pm Where: Dance Fever Studio, 1046 Coast Village Road Cost: $23 Info: 941-0407

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Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

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“We know many property owners are anxious to move forward with rebuilding,” said Matt Pontes, director of Recovery for the County of Santa Barbara. “But the debris flow created unique challenges in Montecito that we are working aggressively to resolve,” he added, reiterating those sentiments at a Montecito Association-sponsored community meeting January 14.

Because the debris flow dislodged many survey markers and other

landmarks, making it impossible to identify many property lines without professional surveys, the County will work with outside surveyors to re-establish survey markers along public rights-of-way. Creek channels and land elevations have also changed throughout the debris flow area, which means existing FEMA flood maps are no longer accurate. County staff is working with FEMA on interim flood hazard/recovery mapping to assess where and how high water and debris is predicted to flow in the future. The process is dynamic, and maps may change depending on the severity of this week’s storm.

The survey work is expected to take a minimum of three months. Until it is completed, the County is advising property owners to temporarily delay making any significant expenditures on design plans, so their decisions and permit applications can be informed

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oprano Hannah Kidwell winds up her senior year at Chapman University in a couple of months.

But first there’s a mini-spring break tour of Houston, Chicago, New York, and Santa Barbara, part of the prize she earned for winning the Marilyn Horne Song Competition last summer at the Music Academy of the West. Kidwell, who at 21 was one of the freshest singers on the Montecito campus in 2017 (and one of the youngest-ever winners), will perform in recital with fellow competition-winning pianist Christina Giuca at 7 pm Monday, March 26, at Hahn Hall, returning to the site of their triumphs last August. (Tickets are $10, free for children 17 and under. Call 969-8787 or visit www.musicacademy.org.)

Q. Has singing opera always been your goal?

A. No. I have three older sisters, all of whom also sing, but we never studied classical music. But my mom played musical theater soundtracks in the house all the time, so we were always singing. My oldest singer decided to audition for opera at her

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college and got a role. She had so much fun with it that it trickled down into our psyches. As the youngest I got the most exposure to opera, and at 16, I saw a DVD of La Traviata and I fell in love. Knew that it was what I wanted to do. Since I was the only one left at home, my parents could finally afford voice lessons. Competitions led to scholarship at Chapman and then the Music Academy. It just fell into place.

What was it about opera that drew you in?

It’s a very strange art form (laughs).

It’s not normal at all to sing opera, from the physiology – the way you have to hold your body and breath.

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extremely weird. In these crazy stories about love and death – Greek tragedies retold with music in this extreme way – I think it reminds people of their humanity. So, it’s hard to relate to but also easy at the same time.

Were you surprised when you won the competition, or did you know you had nailed it?

No way! All the singers are so talented and have been working for so much longer than I have. The first couple of weeks (of the festival) were a challenge in just trying to navigate with the other singers who are really professionals. I was just trying to keep my head above water. On the day of the competition, I was actually starting to get sick, and I had to clear my throat on stage a couple of times. But I just did my best, which is what my dad always told me: Be the best you can be, and don’t focus on if someone is better than you. So, I had a lot of fun on stage and I guess it showed.

You’ll be singing the brand-new song cycle that Jake Heggie was commissioned to compose for you – “These Strangers”, with texts by Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Martin Niemöller, and Walt Whitman. Did he capture your essence?

I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s about the experience of refugees and immigrants, and about how we need to relate to them and do all we can to help. It’s about reaching out to your neighbors even when it’s not socially acceptable – a lot of psychological things going on. I have some Mexican heritage in my family, so I can relate.

How did you choose the rest of the program: Mahler’s Rückert Lieder; Turina’s Tres Poemas, Op. 81; Enescu’s Sept chansons de Clement Marot, and the three American songs?

I’d never heard the Mahler songs before last summer, but my friend sang some of them, and I was very moved. They’re about a singer who lives in their heaven because “I have my love and I have my song”. That resonates with any performer. I knew I had to sing it. I’m doing the Turina Spanish set because my voice teacher, Carol Neblett, who just passed in November, has given it to all her sopranos. It’s really passionate and connected to nature, and I come from a Hispanic background, so I wanted something to connect with that. Enescu is Romanian. Christina’s family is from there and she wanted something to connect to her heritage. We chose the American set together. She wanted the Cole Porter (“Looking at You”), I chose Stephen Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer”, because Ms. Horne sung it for years and I wanted to pay tribute. I chose Bernstein’s “Somewhere,” from West Side Story, both because it’s his centennial year, and my oldest sister

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won her first competition with that song when I was 5.

Are you excited about returning to Hahn for the performance?

Absolutely. That hall was made for singers and it’s beautiful. And when everything happened in Montecito (the wildfire and debris flow), if felt like the mud was going through my own home. That’s where I grew up as a musician, making my home in that hall. So, it’s nice to come back and sing there again.

Classical Corner

A different soprano and pianist twosome launch the Santa Barbara Music Club’s next free concert at 3 pm Saturday, March 24, at the Faulkner Gallery at the Central Library, as Takako Wakita and Betty Oberacker perform Italian love songs by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Wolfgang Mozart, Benedetto Marcello, and Ernesto de Curtis. Continuing the MAW connection, pianist Natasha Kislenko, who teaches at UCSB and is on the faculty at the Music Academy of the West, closes the program with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 (“Waldstein”) and Debussy’s La Cathedrale Engloutie and L’isle Joyeuse. Visit www.sbmusicclub.org.

Closing Concert

CAMA’s International Series at the Granada “Season of the Maestros” comes to its conclusion on Wednesday, March 28, when Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in a program of Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No.5. The 11-time Grammy winning maestro, a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, is the longtime music director of the ensemble in its 107th season. Violinist Gil Shaham, himself a Grammy winner and a Musical America “Instrumentalist of the Year” and a frequent Santa Barbara visitor, serves as soloist for the Berg. Call 8992222 or visit www.granadasb.org.

Making a Liszt, Checking it Twice

Nir Kabaretti conducts Santa Barbara’s own symphony over the weekend, performing a pair of concerts on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon (March 24-25) at the Granada that feature two guests and a wide-ranging program. Ukrainian piano virtuoso Alexander Romanovsky performs Liszt’s first piano concerto as the centerpiece separating Britten’s age-defying symphonic tutorial “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”, with Deborah Bertling narrating, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Tickets at www.granadasb.org/899-2222.

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BASSH One Giant Dance Party for All

Hector Sanchez appeared in so many of the pieces performed at last year’s BASSH – the theatrical showcase for local dance professionals and their protégés to show off their choreography in a wide variety of social dance genres – that one was thinking they might have to change the name of the two-decades old production to the Hectorama. But with Sanchez dialed back to just five of the 22 offerings in the program that will be presented three times this weekend at the New Vic Theater, we’re settling to simply savor a few words with the 25-year Santa Barbara resident who has been dancing socially even longer.

Sanchez, who is a student earning a degree in sociology at UCSB, also takes dance classes with Christina McCarthy and other instructors, adding contemporary choreography to his extensive repertoire of Latin dances.

“Dance is an outlet for creativity and freedom. I can express myself any way I want,” Sanchez said, explaining his love for the art form. “It’s a lifestyle in itself. You can create something just by movement. And it’s a great tool for school, because it makes my brain work differently and helps with memory. But to be honest, it’s just fun.”

The academic approach is also broadening his opportunities, he said.

“Getting a lot of technical training in contemporary and ballet, more modern styles, has been really helpful for my dance.

Aerial dance became another tool on his belt a couple of years ago when he joined longtime partner Lauren Breese in Airedanse Collective.

Between the two new styles, Sanchez in completely eschewing Latin dances at BASSH (which originally stood for ballroom, Argentine tango, salsa, swing, and hip hop) in favor of modern and aerial works.

“I intentionally cut back this year because I didn’t want to over-commit, given my other responsibilities,” explained Sanchez, who first danced at BASSH back in the late 1990s. “I’m so grateful and blessed that I have been able to participate so much for so long. It’s amazing that I’m not doing any Latin dances this year. I always loved Cirque du Soleil, so dancing aerial is really cool, even though it’s new for me. Dance is one of the few activities where you can continue to improve even as you get older.

Anyway, I’m getting my Latin fix with the Salsa team at UCSB, which I founded.”

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are moments of tension, but the love shines thru the whole piece.”

That sense of connection is a big part of the pull of BASSH for Sanchez.

“We’re all doing the same things, sharing our creativity together. And when it culminates in the performance, it’s just great. It’s like a big giant family.”

(BASSH takes place at 7:30 pm Friday and 2 & 7:30 pm Saturday, March 23-24.

Friday’s show includes the Santa Barbara’s Local Dance Heroes award tribute to veteran Santa Barbara teacher/producer Julie McLeod (Art with Out Limits, SB Dance Alliance, Dance Warehouse), while Saturday night’s performance is followed by dance party/reception on stage. Tickets cost $15 to $50. Call 965-5400 or visit www.ensembletheatre.com/rental-shows.)

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Local dancers also perform at “Dislocate”, the fourth festival-style concert from Meredith Cabaniss/ selah dance collective taking place the same weekend as BASSH (March 23-24) back at Center Stage, where BASSH held forth until two years ago. Cabaniss’s something like the desert is the centerpiece, an evening-length work that takes a journey into one’s personal wilderness, inspired in part

by The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho’s famed fable about following one’s dreams. The piece considers where strength lies: in the moments where one confronts fear, or from a quieter place where the heart can speak?

Also joining in the performances are emerging artists from elsewhere in the country, who will collectively showcase seven new works, including BLiPSWiTCH Smashworks (Austin), Dance Collective (New York), and Novus Dance Project (Los Angeles). Info at 963-0408 or www.

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Star-Crossed Duo in Dance

In State Street Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, company artistic director Rodney Gustafson retells William Shakespeare’s poignant classic with his characteristic stylistic verve.

Employing music by Sergei Prokofiev, Gustafson’s choreography is intended to intensify the drama by highlighting the most emotional and romantic moments of the iconic love story, pairing fast-paced action with moments that enhance empathy for the young lovers. The re-mounted ballet hits the Lobero Theatre stage on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, March 23-24. Info at 963-0761 or www.lobero. org.

Dance-off and More

Everybody Dance Now!’s winter performance (which takes place at

5:30 pm on Friday, March 23, two days into spring) brings together students, families, teachers, and other local dancers at the Santa Barbara County Education Office auditorium, 4400 Cathedral Oaks Road. The EDN! Teachers, The Village, Hollister Elementary, The Lighthouse, Breaking Mentorship Students, Canalino Elementary, Isla Vista Elementary, Casa De La Raza, Aliso Elementary, Brandon Elementary, Parent Dance Off and MC Omar, Bhangra Dance with Mihir and Shivani, Foothill Elementary, and Ellwood Elementary are all slated to perform in an event that also features a bake sale, a crafts station, and prize giveaways. Entry by donation.

“Nothing But Laughs”

It was just barely the middle of January when we talked to Dan Gunther about Speaking of Stories’s special “Nothing But Laughs” show, which was supposed to kick off the new series the following weekend at the Center Stage Theater as a themed tribute to Jay Thomas. But that was just days after the Montecito mudslide/debris flow, and the unfolding tragedy was of more concern than the upcoming memorial to Thomas, the Santa Barbara-based comedy actor (Cheers, Murphy Brown) and radio personality who died last August.

Indeed, Gunther, a longtime Speaking of Stories (SOS) reader, actor, and improvisation impresario noted then that he had just closed escrow on his Montecito home on Wyant Road, an intersection or two away from some of the hardest-hit areas, a scant two months earlier.

“It took me a year and half to sell – I feel badly for the people who bought it. And I can’t get in to find out if the house is okay,” he said, adding that his parents still have a home on beach.

“I chartered a power boat to buzz out there yesterday to check on them. It’s such a tragedy.”

Not long after we talked, the enormity of the mudslide and the extended closing of the 101 freeway caused the producers to postpone the performances, which are now set to take place this Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, March 24-25. But even in January, Gunther was viewing the shows as an elixir for a community in mourning.

“People can probably use an evening of comic stories,” he said, noting that even though the performances serve as a tribute to Thomas – who was a frequent SOS participant – it’s not a memorial. “It’s entertainment. A chance for people to get their minds off of what happened. I can’t think of anything better than a night of laughter. I’m reminded of Preston Sturgis’s movie Sullivan’s Travels, which offered a great moral lesson about the value of

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entertainment. People in the direst of circumstances are smiling and laughing and getting their minds off of what ails them. You do a great service if you can make people laugh. Under these circumstances, this is what we have to offer.”

Gunther should know about the healing aspects of comedic theater.

After all, he’s the guy who gave up a career in medicine for the world of acting and improv, and never looked back. “I know lots of unhappy doctors,” he said. “I didn’t want to be one of them. You get one shot in life. It’s that simple.”

Gunther and the other two Santa Barbara actors, Devin Scott and Rudy Willrich, will be reading stories that were once performed by Thomas during his tenure at Center Stage, where the actor’s comic timing always brought smiles to the audience. Gunther will read “Jamaica” by David Schikler, a domestic story told from a husband’s point of view. “It’s about his precious relationships with wife and family and how fraught they are,” Gunther said. “He’s coming from great gratitude, but no domestic interaction is easy, so therein likes the tension and comedy. The guy spends the entire story with his head stuck between various parts of a banister.

So, it’s kind of funny.”

Gunther said “Jamaica” doesn’t require a lot of character work from the reader. “All you have to do is deliver it with a nice pace and stay out of author’s way. It’s so well-written, all I need to do is share it with the audience.”

Scott and Willrich are each reading stories by Stuart McLean, “Dave and the Dentist” and “The Phone Message”, respectively. Both were memorably performed by Thomas in the past. “All of us did shows together over the years,” Gunther said. “It’s always good to share the stage again.”

Romancers Reunite at RTC

Singer-songwriter duo Sylvie Davidson and Trevor Wheetman met while performing in Lonesome Traveler at Rubicon Theatre in 2011. Seven years later, they are returning to the stage together, now married and with a new duo album to celebrate. The couple moved to Nashville to focus on writing and performing in 2013, developing a style rooted in folk, Americana, and country, with strands or their relationship resonating in their music. Davidson and Wheetman – who are once again appearing on the main stage production of King Lear that opened last weekend and plays through April 1, she as Cordelia and he in the ensemble and as coordinator of onstage sound – share their stories and songs in a special show at 7 pm this Sunday, March 25.

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and flood with Lis Leader and Tom Piozet for the major TV networks.

Making History After four years as executive director of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Lynn Brittner is bidding adieu.

She is taking a similar position with the Indian Pueblo Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which preserves and perpetuates Pueblo culture, I can exclusively reveal.

Before moving to our Eden by the Beach, Lynn was in charge of the building of the Ute Museum near Durango, Colorado, and prior to that spent a significant time working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I wish her well.

Documentary filmmaker Harry Rabin with first responders

of East Valley Road, crawled on a wall and started shooting the rescues. It was insane!”

The documentarian has a considerable history, having worked with the late Mike deGruy for a number of years, including his last film, Deepwater Rising, about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as providing footage for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, PBS, CNN and MSNBC. Harry, who has also worked with a host of celebrities, including Jeff Bridges, Billy Baldwin, Dave Crosby, Billy Idol, Kenny Loggins, Jack Johnson, and Jackson Browne, is now working on another film about the fire

Two of a Kind

Historical museum director Lynn Brittner off to new job (photo courtesy SB Historical Museum)

Kate Carter, William Dalziel, and Cheryl Kelmar

Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro was the setting as friends remembered two great Montecito residents.

Josie Gower, 69, who I had known for 11 years since moving to Santa Barbara from Los Angeles, was one of the first victims of the January mudslides, with her East Valley Road home swept away and her body carried more than a mile from her home.

Friends were invited to put their memories of the effervescent character, a regular at the Montecito Y on film, when Kate Carter, founder of Life Chronicles, set up her camera with Cheryl Kelmar, a longtime friend of Josie’s, to capture the moments of her life.

In another part of the popular eatery, friends including Bill and Trish Davis and William Dalziel, remembered University of Michigan grad-

uate Michael Thomas, a former IBM executive, who died at the age of 78 after living here for 23 years.

Something is Afoot

Big Apple choreographer William Soleau joins State Street Ballet (photo by David Bazemore)

State Street Ballet has named prolific New York choreographer William Soleau as co-artistic director.

Founder of the 23-year-old troupe Rodney Gustafson says the new partnership will propel the already acclaimed company to new heights.

“After working with him for the past 18 years, I feel excited he is coming on board. His dedication, artistic integrity, and innovative spirit will enhance the company’s mission on so many levels.”

Soleau developed a creative repertoire comprising some of the company’s most popular productions, including Carmen, An American Tango, and Starry Night, as well as groundbreaking world premiere collaborations with the Santa Barbara Symphony, including Carmina Burana, Appalachian Spring, The Firebird, and Mozart’s Requiem.

The company’s season continues with Romeo and Juliet on Friday and Saturday at the Lobero.

Wine of the Times The Nocking Point vineyard in Walla Walla, Washington, owned by actor Stephen Amell and Andrew Harding, has produced two wines, First Responders red and rosé, to raise monies for the recent disasters that have beset our rarefied enclave.

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Benefit Concert Hits High Note Jade and her famous singer mom, Sharon Hendrix In performance from left, Carol Dennis, Sharon Hendrix, and Jade Hendrix raising funds for Montecito and Ojai

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n March 8, young singer/ songwriter Jade Hendrix held a family affair concert to raise funds for our community and those affected by the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslide. There were 70 lucky people who bought an advance ticket to see the performance in person in the living room of her mom’s designer house. The concert was live-streamed on Facebook to 200 peeps who couldn’t attend and wanted to donate to the funds. The show

is still available to view through her Facebook music page with the option of donating, and donations are pouring in [see link below].

Jade was joined by her mother, Sharon Hendrix, a world-renowned backing singer for Tom Jones, Natalie Cole, and Barry Manilow, and by her godmother, Carol Dennis the legendary backing singer for legacy artists Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as an impromptu song jam with her best friend,

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Portland-based actor Alexandra Ramirez de Cruz, who flew down to support Jade.

The concert took place in the intimate living room of Sharon’s new home with professional stage lighting, sound, and refreshments. Jade came out sporting her trademark jade-green hat and suede Chelsea boots. She proudly introduced Sharon and Carol, who took us on their musical journey for the next hour. Seated on white high stools, they gave harmony a new meaning in sound, with full dynamic range. With a last name like Hendrix, one would expect an ethereal rock horse to be in the mix; however, Jade’s music is a new-generation take on the Norah Jones genre. The set list included originals, a serious hard-rocking version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish” with Carol’s remarkable vocals, and closed appropriately with “Show Them Love”.

Afterward, Jade took time for an interview: Q. How did the idea to do a fundraiser with Sharon and Carol come about?

A. My family is so music-oriented, so my mom, stepdad, and I have been talking about doing a house show for the better part of a year. But when the fires happened, and then the mudslide, we felt a strong call to action to do something as soon as possible.

And my mom, godmother, and I love singing together so much, so this felt like the right moment to get the band back together, so to speak.

Now that the girl band is back, together what’s next for the Sharon,

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Carol, and you?

My goal is to go on the road with my mom and Godmother becoming a permanent fixture in the band. My alltime favorite shows are the ones I’ve done with them singing beside me, and I want that to become the norm instead of the exception. We’ve yet to write any music together, but I’d love for that to be a part of the next phase of our collaboration.

How did you select the two charities for the funds?

I selected two charities for the events: Greater Goods, which is based out of Ojai and the 93108 Fund, which is based out of Montecito. I thought it was important to choose two charities, so that we could guarantee disaster relief for those affected by the fires and the mudslide. What I liked about these charities is that they’re both supplying cash aid that goes directly to people who were affected, as well as raising money for long-term aid.

I didn’t have a specific number in mind, only the aspiration to do as much as I could to raise money for a community that’s been so good to me.

This was my effort to give back.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

There is no such thing as having too many people watching your kids. I know it; I have five. There is no such thing as having too many smart people teaching your kids. Amazingly, besides all the numbers that are about to change in MUS, one number is going to stay the same: the number of administrative (i.e., not directly participating in the teaching process) personnel. Our tiny district with [fewer] kids than ever will have [fewer] teachers but way too many administrators.

The number of administrators per kid is actually increasing as the number of kids goes the opposite way.

That does not make any sense.

MUS has one superintendent, one principal, and one vice principal. Why do we need three administrators, each with six-figure salaries? Why not five, or eight? Do we really need them all?

What exactly do they do to improve our children’s education? It’s just a tiny community with 10,000 people.

The salary of the principal is twice as high as the salary of one teacher. Why do they want to affect the learning process, the lives of the kids they’re supposed to serve, the lives of the teachers, the teachers’ kids (who will probably not be able to attend MUS any longer) and not want to get rid of unnecessary expenses at the top? Alternatively, they simply can be more thoughtful and reasonable and (the German way described earlier), take full responsibility (at the end, it’s all about money) as captains of their own ship and help those teachers in need by spreading the missing parts of the budget, cutting the fat in their own salaries and giving it to the teachers.

I am sure as good friends, great faculty, and wonderful humans, the teachers will also be happy to share a tiny part of their salary with others.

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to figure that out? And of course, all that sacrifice is needed only temporarily until everything is back to normal. Let the MUS community show the real face of brotherhood, strong responsibility, and kind feelings for each of its members instead of just proclaiming it in generally meaningless emails while apparently not practicing what is being preached.

Such a temporary solution – assuming Montecito will bounce back in a few years – will not just make us stronger in words, but in real life.

Save the teachers.

Save our community.

Save our kids and their education!

Lidia Zinchenko Montecito

MUS Responds

Staffing reductions are difficult for any organization, and perhaps especially difficult in a school, as the teachers and other staff members who work with children deserve both our admiration and respect. It is especially difficult to let go of staff members in a year like this one, when they have done so much for our students during challenging times. When reductions in a school are needed, they should be done thoughtfully, and should be spread out throughout all the areas of the school organization.

That is what we have done.

At Montecito Union School (MUS), we are faced with two separate challenges: the prospect of reduced income of perhaps 13 percent or more, and declining student enrollment. To be clear, the enrollment decline of 20 percent was not a direct result of the Thomas Fire and Debris Slide. This 20-percent decline took place over seven years and is largely the result of demographic shifts. With fewer students and less income, it is prudent to reduce the budget. The Board of Trustees has done that, but we will still be using reserves and deficit spending next year, even with these reductions. Our reserves were built over time for a reason: as a pro-

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tection from a sudden, unexpected event… and that’s certainly what this community has experienced.

We’ve reduced expenditures across all areas of the budget. I have voluntarily forgone the contractual raise that was set to kick in automatically in the next school year. The principal, assistant principal, and chief business officer have all reduced their workdays, and thus their salary. Please note that administrators do receive a higher salary than our teachers, but they work many more days of the year and longer hours in those days, so their “hourly rate” is quite similar to our teaching staff. Every member of the business office will see their hours and salary cut, and we have reduced school office support as well.

We’ve also reduced spending in technology, professional development, school supplies, subscriptions, and other areas in an attempt to save as many positions as possible.

It is never easy to reduce our teaching force. The fact is, this year we have some classes that are at 12 students. There is not a sound educational reason for class sizes to be so low, and our teachers agree it is not even in the students’ best interests.

We plan to go from 26 classes to 22 classes, while still maintaining a low school average of 18 students per class. Even if we were not facing significant revenue reductions, it would still be appropriate to make these reductions. To be clear, these particular reductions are a function of our student numbers and not our revenue. We have one retirement this year, and one teacher had a creative solution with a voluntary leave for a portion of the year. Taken together, this saves two teaching positions.

Unfortunately, that still means we have to say goodbye to two excellent teachers. We will also need to reduce some instructional assistant positions as a result of this reduction of classes, but we hope we can do that by natural attrition. Finally, as we have reduced classes, we can reduce services needed in each of our specialist areas, and this is a complex process that is ongoing.

During these expenditure reductions, I have worked hard to consult the teachers as I prepared my recommendations and the teachers union wrote a letter in support of our decisions. Here is their March 5 public comment, in full: “My name is Jeff Linder and I am here to speak on behalf of the Montecito Teachers Union. At the February 20 meeting, Barbara Gonzales shared that the majority of the teachers are in support of tier 1 cuts. Tier 1 being defined as reductions due to right-sizing associated with decreasing student enrollment.

Although we stand to lose some amazing teachers, colleagues, and

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personal friends, we believe these reductions are what is best for the Montecito Union School Community.

“As MTA leadership, we represent the Montecito Union Teachers as a whole above any specific individuals.

At times, we make recommendations against the desires of individuals, for the overall group. Today we are here to do the same. This past, we collected additional teacher survey data to determine if MTA supporting Tier 1 cuts included all recommendations or excluded a specific department. It was reaffirmed that we stand behind all recommendations for Tier 1 reductions as the premises for those cuts is not to change the student experience at MUS and only to reduce due to student enrollment. Less students means we have a need for fewer classes and fewer teachers. With fewer classes we need fewer specialist hours. We are in support of our same great PE, music, library, art, and Spanish programs.

With less students, those programs need less hours to maintain their same excellence.

“Let’s use the library as an example. Mrs. Yungling sees classes in the library for a minimum of 30 minutes a week. With a reduction of 4 classes, Mrs. Yungling has at least 2 hours a week of less time with students. She also has four less classes to get ready for. The proposal is to reduce the library from a full time position to an 80% position. That reduction of 20% has an effect on Mrs. Yungling, but does not change the amount of minutes students visit the library. To the students, the library next year will be the same as it is this year.

“We have a desire to preserve the amazing educational experience for the students. From the classroom learning environment, to our specialists programs, Montecito Union is a special place. We thank the school board for allowing reserves to be used to preserve that student experience. Please spend those reserves wisely. We ask that you consider the MUS learning community as a whole and continue to move forward for what is best for kids.”

No “Unnecessary Expenses” I’d like to reiterate that even with the above reductions, we expect to deficit spend next year out of our reserves: that’s what reserves are for. This community will rebuild. It will never be the same, and we’ve lost people and seen neighborhoods altered in significant ways. That said, the long-term future is bright, and we’re betting on this reduced funding as a temporary issue. Our expenditure reductions will slow our use of reserves but are not designed to prevent the use of them.

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to call our administrative staff into question. When I made my recommended expenditure reductions to the board, I made clear that we could need to make further reductions in the future. I recommended a “Tier 1” set of reductions, which I have described above, but I also explained a “Tier 2” and a “Tier 3” set of recommendations, which included further reductions to administration, including reducing the overall number of administrators. We could be at that point in the future.

That said, I am proud of the MUS staff for extraordinary efforts this year to keep the kids safe and to keep the learning process going by holding classes at the Santa Barbara Zoo, Moxi Museum, Santa Barbara City College, McKinley School, Summerland School, and the Hope Elementary School District through rounds of exclusion zones and evacuations. The teachers, support staff, facilities crew, and parent volunteers are to be commended for this Herculean effort.

But I would be remiss if I didn’t also commend the administrative team, who worked nights, devoted weekends, and devoted long days this year to these students.

Leadership matters, and at a time like this, it makes a real difference to the student experience. We have cut administrative salaries and central office staffing, and we may need to make deeper cuts in the future. That said, in this year more than most, the administrative team has not been an “unnecessary expense.”

Anthony Ranii Superintendent, MUS District

Warehousing not “Care”

My friend, Madame X, who is in her mid-80s, was plucked from her home in Montecito during the evacuations in early December. Just before that, I drove by and gave her a dust mask.

In the following weeks, I phoned but never got an answer. Finally, just after the debris flow, I called the sheriff.

Within minutes, they had entered the house and called me to say all looked fine, but no one was there. Her car was in the garage.

As far as I know, she has no family.

My concern grew. Where was she?

After some sleuthing, I found her in a care facility. She had been evacuated by authorities going house to house. On the phone, she sounded fine and glad to hear from me. She wanted to see her house, and I agreed to take her the next day. It was not long before I received a call from the facility telling me that the trip was not possible and warning me to not cause trouble.

She has been institutionalized without her consent. I have visited her a few times in the last month.

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Her first words to me were, “I am in a loony bin.”

It was not an attempt at humor.

Safety is not the only criterion for living well. There is no doubt many sincere, professional people are responsible for Madame X’s life, but for her, warehousing is not care.

Gerald Rounds Montecito

Transforming Montecito

Regarding your Editorial (“A New Montecito,” MJ #24/10): In 1925, Pearl Chase had the vision to see how the devastation caused by the Santa Barbara earthquake could transform the city from the Victorian image it had been into the Spanish Revival enclave it became.

What you recommended we do is exactly what I have been suggesting in recent conversations. Through planning initiatives and financial incentives, Montecito could become more beautiful than ever.

We should put together a committee of visionaries to make this happen before this magnificent opportunity slips through our busy fingers.

Ray Bourhis Montecito/San Francisco (Editor’s note: Thank you for the optimism for Montecito, which we share.

We’ll continue stressing the positive changes and efforts we and other residents can promote, such as fully undergrounding utility wires and poles, securing a permanent and reliable water supply, speeding up the building permit process for affected homes, replacing bridges quickly, and expediting the widening of Highway 101, along with other incidental efforts. – J.B.)

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ORDINANCE NO. 5828 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A SUPPLEMENTAL LEASE AGREEMENT EXTENDING THE LEASE TERM AN ADDITIONAL THREE YEARS WITH THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, LOCATED AT 113 HARBOR WAY, COMMENCING ON JUNE 1, 2018.

Bid No. 3700 Notice Inviting Bids

Federal-Aid Project Number: BRLO-5007(061) 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Anapamu Street Bridge Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before April 19, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 13, 2018.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the Anapamu Street Bridge over Old Mission Creek and is described as follows: Remove and replace the Anapamu Street Bridge over Old Mission Creek. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant, and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished bridge replacement project per plans and specs

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 135 working days.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $2,947,684.

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License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A.

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3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5828 ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

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Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

was introduced on March 6, 2018, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

6.3 Federal Wage Rates Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the Contract Documents Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the Contract Documents. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

March 13, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

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None

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None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

Federal Wage Determination #CA180023 dated 02/09/2018 can be downloaded at the following website: https://www.wdol.gov/dba.aspx If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

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

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 14, 2018.

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/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 14, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m., at the following location: 630 Garden Street, Public Works Main Conference Room for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory.

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Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 9% DBE participation.

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Attention is directed to the Special Conditions for federal requirements and conditions specified in Section SC.9 Buy America. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-4249071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

Published March 21, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eat This, Shoot That!, 14 E. Valerio St. #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Taralynn Jones, 14 E. Valerio St. #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 13, 2018. 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 Connie Tran.

FBN No. 2018-0000782.

Published March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 2018.

Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ William Hornung, C.P.M., General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) March 21, 2018 2) March 28, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s)

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• The Voice of the Village •

22 – 29 March 2018

LETTERS (Continued from page 23)

community’s supernatural strength to overcome the deathly toll taken by the mud and boulders and debris that attacked us on January 9.

Our heartfelt wishes for recovery and rebirth for everyone living or working in Montecito – especially all of you who lost business, your job, your home, your loved ones.

Diane and Garrett Graham Montecito

Open Those Lanes

Bob Hazard’s recent editorial regarding the need to open Highway 192 is absolutely correct (“Building Bridges,” MJ #24/11) and it appears county and state personnel are handling this as a business-as-usual approach. I have personally talked to personnel at both levels and pleas asking to improve the situation have fallen on deaf ears.

I live in the Toro Canyon area and would like to offer some additional ideas to improve the traffic flow through our area. My observations are for the Toro Canyon-LaderaFreehaven area only, but I suspect other areas have similar situations.

While the idea of adding temporary bridges has merit, I suggest using the bridges as they are. Prior to the closing of Toro east, 80 dump trucks a day carried their loads (40,000 pounds each) from the Toro debris basin across the bridge. After the bridge was closed, excavators (40,000+ pounds) routinely worked from the bridge moving boulders. After watching all this, I question whether the bridge is truly unsafe for passenger car traffic. The rails are gone from this bridge, but K rails could be easily added and the bridge re-opened as a single lane. After permits for rebuilding the bridge are approved and the crew is on site to do demo work, the bridge could then be shut down until it is rebuilt. Perhaps this approach could apply to other bridges as well.

Two other things could be implemented immediately to help traffic flow in the Ladera-Toro CanyonFreehaven area.

Currently, all traffic to and from our area (including all heavy trucks and construction personnel) are

forced to use Ortega Ridge Road in order to go anywhere. This means all traffic starts or ends up at the Ortega Ridge-Ortega Hill intersection, which is very congested and that ripples to 101. This traffic could be mitigated somewhat by reopening Greenwell Road through Summerland. Currently, Greenwell has been shut down and is being used as a dirt dump. This is a perfectly viable road that, if opened, would allow people coming from or going to the south to bypass the Ortega Ridge-Hill intersection.

Calls to the County asking why Greenwell is closed have yielded responses of it will be closed until the rainy season is over, but no explanation has been given as to why it is closed. There is absolutely no good reason why one of the few good roads in our area is closed and being used as a dump.

Five plus years ago, the County closed one lane of Ortega Ridge to traffic due to one lane sinking a few inches. They have never fixed this, and so Ortega Ridge is only one lane for a short distance and traffic going both directions is forced to stop at “temporary” stop signs. The County needs to step up and remedy this issue and open both lanes.

Many in the area have contacted Das Williams’s office, Salud Carbajal’s office, County Public Works, and Caltrans, but as stated above, it seems to be business as usual for all of them. Thanks for trying to bring some urgency and offering alternative thinking to the situation. I hope some of it gets through to the right people and we start to see some positive changes.

Jay Peterson Montecito

have said myself back in 1995, when our Congresswoman was Andrea Seastrand.

Today? It falls flat like warm spit.

Enlightenment-based political ideology just doesn’t make it with me anymore. There’s a whole lot going on in my cranium; it would take a 15,000-word essay in The Atlantic to sort everything out. But I think it’s fair to say my transition from “West” to “East” began with Natalia Nikolenko Lambert in 1997. John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Voltaire – heck, not even Blaise Pascal, does it for me these days. I’m very comfortable with my new paths.

On another subject, I have no reason to question the letter-writer who says Katy Perry has been talking about babies and children for 10 years (“Baby Talk,” MJ #24/11). It’s just that I’ve never come across these wishes. I am “softening” on Katy Perry because there’s evidence her long-standing hostility and resentment toward her parents is mellowing, and the fact you alluded to: her talent is improving and broadening as she matures.

She’s not a one-dimensional per-

former.

As for her insistence on searching only the U.K. for marriage material, I give people huge latitude. My only objection would be a “revenge” marriage candidate. “Global” female celebrities say we American men are “immature.”

Maybe, maybe not.

There’s got to be one American guy in his 30s in SoCal worth $100 million who isn’t immature.

David McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I guess I made a mistake asking Mr. Harding to respond to the “Looking For Help” letter, but Jeff has strong views on the subject of tariffs and free trade, so I believed we would be better served if he responded. However, because I penned the opinion that I didn’t agree with much of what he had written, he took serious umbrage at my comments. Which is a shame, as he has informed takes on many subjects and I meant no disrespect.

Perhaps he’ll reconsider.

As for Ms Perry, yes indeed, she is a top talent and I fully expect her to continue to command center stage for decades to come. – J.B.) •MJ

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Wildlife File

by Kaitlin Lloyd Ms Lloyd is program director at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network.

The Brush Rabbits

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he Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN) just released its first baby animal intakes for 2018. Two juvenile brush rabbits, one weighing 76 grams during intake and its sibling weighing 78 grams, were discovered by a community member’s dog and subsequently removed from their nesting den in Santa Barbara.

The individual concerned about their well-being called SBWCN for advice and brought the two baby rabbits to the center for further care. Judging by their weight, it is estimated that the two rabbits were around 2 weeks of age.

Brush rabbits are extremely common to Santa Barbara and our native chaparral landscape. Interestingly, this species does not create its own dens for nesting, but alternatively, utilize pre-made dens from other animals.

Although they breed throughout the year, the peak breeding season tends to begin in early February and continues throughout the remainder of spring and summer well into August.

With a short gestation period of only 22 days, female brush rabbits can rear

This baby brush rabbit was admitted to the center with its eyes still closed. It is estimated that this rabbit is 3 weeks of age. (Photo by staff member Jessie Zamichow)

as many as five litters during one year.

Babies will stay with the mother in her nest for a total of five weeks before leaving to explore the world on their own.

Keeping Them Stable

When Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network first receives a juvenile brush rabbit, stabilization of the animal is extremely important and occurs prior to providing further treatment or care. In general, wild rabbits are notoriously difficult animals to rehabilitate. This species is prone to elevated levels of stress during care, a risk factor that can seriously harm or even

kill an animal. When an initial exam is performed to assess the reason for admission, handling of the brush rabbit must be kept to a minimum to limit the risk of injury.

Upon examination, the smaller 76-gram rabbit was found to have a puncture wound and, accordingly, was placed on an antibiotic mixture of trimethoprim-sulfonamide (TMS).

This drug combination is preferred for treating mammals at SBWCN in place of other antibiotics that have been shown to interfere with the growth of cartilage surrounding long bones in developing animals.

Formula Feeding

Once the two rabbits were stabilized at the center, they were placed in a warm, dark, quiet environment.

Often a large Rubbermaid container is used with a grass hay substrate placed on top of a heating pad. The first few days were trying for these two, and there was difficulty in getting the smaller rabbit to eat. Conditions have to be perfect when feeding these particular animals. The formula must be warm, even hot to the touch, and most baby rabbits will be fed with their eyes covered by a cloth to reduce stress.

The two rabbits were fed via a 1cc syringe containing a specialized formula specifically designed for juvenile brush rabbits. This formula is initially started at a 25-percent concentration with water and gradually increased during the rabbit’s stay. The gradual increase ensures that the animal will be able to properly digest any nutrition that it is receiving. Over the course of a rabbit’s recovery at SBWCN, they will be raised to a 100 percent concentrated formula while they are still being syringe-fed.

Before each feeding, rabbits are

weighed and calculated a given feeding amount based on 10 percent of their body weight. This ratio limits the risk of bloat, a condition that can prove to be potentially fatal in rabbits. It is not well understood if bloat is primarily due to overeating, or possibly the result of a lack of beneficial bacteria within the rabbit’s GI tract. Some juvenile orphaned rabbits in care are also supplied with a probiotic, a healthy mixture of bacteria that will benefit the rabbits’ GI tract, similar to the way in which juvenile rabbits will ingest their mother’s cecotropes, special components of rabbit excrement that contain microbial proteins, B vitamins, and other essential nutrients.

Throughout the process of formula feeding, rabbits will still be presented with grass hay and buckwheat to pique interest in eating on their own.

When a rabbit is finally weaned off of a liquid diet, it will be given an increasingly dilute formula mixture in a saucer while being given a primary diet of buckwheat, grass hay, and other grasses.

Free at Last

These rabbits were released in a residential area near the location in which they were found. While SBWCN releases animals within a mile of their address at discovery, it is also important to ensure safety of the animal with a reduced risk of potential predators.

In 2017 alone, 19 brush rabbits were brought to SBWCN after dog attacks.

For cats, the intake number for brush rabbits in 2017 alone was a whopping 70. Spring and summer are the most vulnerable seasons for many wildlife species, and in many cases, the best ways to protect wildlife are to keep pets indoors unless monitored during nesting and breeding seasons.

•MJ

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22 – 29 March 2018

SEEN (Continued from page 14) American Irish Historical Society speaker Hugh Kelly with Bridget Colleary and founder Frank McGinity

George Burtness, Rima Robinson, with Arlene and Milt Larsen at the Wine Cask dinner before the k.d. lang concert

Irish members Gail and Harry Gelles with Michael and Kim Hayes

American Irish Historical Society Lobero Ghostlight Society board president Amy MacLeod and husband Don

night. Every night. The Ghostlight.”

As executive director David Asbell said, “Every theatre in North America has one.”

The Lobero Ghostlight Society has been around since 1924, when a core group of donors were responsible for rebuilding the Lobero Theatre. They pledged their time, talent, and treasure to keep the arts alive. Currently, there are 23 community organizations and two corporate ones that use the Lobero as a home stage.

The Society recently had a black-tie affair that began with cocktails and dinner at the Wine Cask restaurant to induct as Luminaries two outstanding figures in our community, Tim and Louise Casey. When it came time for Jim Morouse to present the award, he joked Casey’s were noted not for time, talent, and treasure but trees. They underwrote and traveled to Visalia to select lovely fungus-resistant and age-appropriate Ascolano Olive trees that now replace and stand in front of the theatre.

The Lobero has been thanked for saving the original trees. Good job!

Their support has been on going through the years. Other philanthropic luminaries have been Lillian and Jon Lovelace, Anne and Michael Towbes, Lyn and David Anderson, 22 – 29 March 2018

Janet and John McCann at the Ghostlight event

baroness Leni Fe Bland, and George Burtness.

Morouse also remembered he took his wife on a first date in Seattle to see a k.d. lang concert. That was 20 years ago. And now following a delightful dinner, the 75 diners walked across the street to the theatre for a lang concert.

She was celebrating the 25th anniversary of her GRAMMY award-winning album Ingenue, and is doing a 19-city tour with the Lobero probably being the smallest hall. The two-disc set has been re-packaged and re-mastered. It was a platinum-selling record. Lang first appeared on stage as a cowgirl singer with a golden voice. She soon became a crooner who was known for “Constant Craving”. Among her many credits is a collaboration with Tony Bennett in 2002. He says of lang: “She’s the best singer of her generation.”

Some of the folks attending this special evening were Bitsey and Dennis Bacon, Rynell Cook and Cameron Casey, Michael and Nancy Casey, Mike and Lisa Schlagel, Sarah and Roger Chrisman, Chana and Jim Jackson, Leslie and Frank Schipper, Jean Schuyler, and Linda and Doug Wood.

The 145-year-old Lobero Theatre is lit up 150 nights a year. Jose Lobero would have been proud!

In this St. Patrick’s Day month, it seemed appropriate to attend a meeting of the American Irish Historical Society at a private club. The founder and president of the California branch Frank McGinity had invited me. The speaker was a notable Irishman Hugh Kelly, who brought his book Honest John Kelly Truth or Satire. Hugh comes to Santa Barbara every winter for three months and had agreed to speak on Tammany Hall and John Kelly, who is a distant cousin of Hugh’s.

Some of those enjoying the wine reception were Ken Fitzpatrick, Mary Hampson, Tara Holbrook, Bill and Pat MacKinnon, Margaret Nadeau, Colleen and Robert Thornburgh, Sara and Phillio Vedder, Diane and Fred Sidon, Harry and Gail Gelles, and Frank and Mary Rose Artusio.

Then it was time to learn about Tammany Hall and its impact on national politics and John Kelly.

Tammany Hall was a New York City political organization that was around for nearly two centuries. Formed in 1789 to oppose the Federalist Party, it often mirrored the local Democratic Party. It was popular because it helped the city’s poor and immigrant populations (Irish) but it became corrupted with leaders like William “Boss” Tweed. Finally, the anti-Tammany mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1934-45) with the help of president Franklin

The first Easter taught us this: Life never ends and love never dies. – Kate McGahan

Irish board members Phil Conran and Judith McDermott

Roosevelt weakened its power permanently.

“Honest” John Kelly (1822-1886) was boss of Tammany Hall for 10 years and could determine the course of New York City elections as U.S. representative from New York from 1855 to 1858. He was given the honest title while he was New York City sheriff, more sarcastic than truthful. This Irishman amassed a fortune through ethical and questionable means. He was especially popular within the Irish-American and Catholic immigrant community.

Frank reminded the Society members that it had been a year since dues were collected. He reiterated that you don’t have to be Irish to join, just enjoy history. One of their recent talks was on Bloomsday and James Joyce. For information, check out www.cal-aihs. org.

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 5)

plays of mostly new clothing, shoes, and other vital necessities for those who’ve lost everything, most of everything, or even just a little, in one of our most recent twin calamitous events. The reason the store looks so unlike what one would ordinarily expect to see in any kind of “disaster relief” effort, is because of the backgrounds of the individuals directly involved in its creation.

Berna says she “has always been in the fashion and footwear business” (her ex-husband and she owned Impo International, which has been a big contributor to the store) and has always given clothes to her friends, “So, the Recovery Free Store,” she says, “was a natural thing for me.

“I came back from Asia,” Berna explains, “on the night [the debris slide] happened. We landed in San Francisco at eight in the morning and when we turned our phones on, they just lit up.”

The phone calls were from friends and neighbors describing what had just occurred, beginning around 3:30 that same morning. They were told that the bottom of Parra Grande – where Berna lived with her husband, David Debin – was a disaster, and so was Riven Rock.

It would be two weeks before they found out whether they still had a home or not.

“They wouldn’t let us in and wouldn’t give us any information because they were doing search and rescue, still recovering bodies,” Berna recounts. “We were staying at a hotel and didn’t know. One day, they had us on the map showing which houses were hit and on another day, we weren’t on the map, so we really didn’t know.”

Two weeks went by before the couple finally reached their home with a police escort and were allowed 10 minutes to gather what clothing and other items they could retrieve. They didn’t get back into their house again until February 29.

Berna currently works with Chainson Footwear, which sent 150 pair of brand-new shoes to her house almost immediately. Chainson owns a number of brands in the U.S., one of which, Eileen Fisher, sent 400 brandnew garments. “My house started to fill up after I reached out to my friends too and said, ‘C’mon, give me the shirt off your back!’

“And they did,” she says with a smile.

Finding a Space Berna wanted to make sure the shirt and shoes were “the good stuff,” because the people’s lives she was serving “had been broken.” When she contacted Montecito Disaster Lost and Found, Heather Sage – a young mother with six children –

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contacted her and asked what she could do. Berna told her they were collecting clothes, and she said she’d ask the stores where she shopped to help out.

They did. Big time.

Quickly, the women realized they’d need a dedicated store, as Berna’s house was too small and now too crowded. “It needed to be in a good location with easy access and also needed to be ‘Montecito Style,’” Berna says. There was a store in downtown Santa Barbara, but she insisted on having something in Montecito.

Susan St. John and Berna have known each other for a number of years, and they were evacuated together. They stayed together at the same hotel as evacuees. Susan responded to an e-mail by saying she’d “be over there today and I’m bringing my closet.”

And she did.

With her checkbook, she bought gift certificates from Amazon, H&M, Forever 21 and other stores. Then she called Richard Mineards at the Montecito Journal, who did the initial story on her plight.

Berna zeroed in on an empty space across from Vons, saying, “That’s the space.” Heather promised, “I’m going to talk to my husband (Josh Sage, who runs Ty Warner’s company) and see If Ty knows James Rosenfield [owner/manager of Montecito Country Mart]. Josh says, ‘I’ll do what I can do.’

“I don’t know what he said or whether or not he contacted James or Ty Warner,” Berna recounts, “but Monday morning, the day after the Kick Ash Bash, I’m at the house with Cathy, Susan, and Heather and the phone rings. “’Hi. This is James Rosenfield.’

“I didn’t know what to say to him, so I just started bleeding my heart out and he stopped me.”

‘You know what, Berna? I get it; you got it.’

“I’ve got it?”

‘Yes, you’ve got the space.’

“Well, I don’t know anything about what we need, insurance, utilities, and...

‘I’ll pay for everything. You’ve got the space.’”

Rosenfield told Berna she could have the space for a month and then ‘We’ll see what happens. We’ll see what the need is. We’ll just see. I’ll work with you. I understand.’

“I think this event [the mud-anddebris-slide] kind of broke his heart too,” she says.

Berna emailed her friends, told them the good news, then asked them to come to her house, where she fed them, made a special dessert, then offered them “the opportunity to participate.” Those who couldn’t participate pledged money, at $500 a

clip. “We got $2,000 right there,” she recalls.

“They said we needed to hire a manager,” Berna points out. “I’m there seven days a week, from 11 am to 7 or 8 pm, but I really didn’t want to use that money to pay a manager.”

She didn’t have to.

Taiana Giefer, the daughter of Cheryl and Sebastian Giefer, stepped up to help. Her parents are traveling, so Taiana attended the meeting in their place and after listening to everything, she offered to take care of all the social media with her boyfriend, Leo.

Whatever Happened to ISIS?

Well, new U.S. Secretary of Defense former U.S. Marine general Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis for one, who, along with the new president, adjusted the rules of engagement in the Syria-Libya corridor to allow for more on-theground control of U.S. forces. Presto, ISIS was on the run.

Lucky for us, commander Richard J. Witt is someone intimately involved in many of those operations and he is coming to Santa Barbara to speak on Monday, April 9. Montecito Journal, along with the Channel City Club and Brian Robertson’s Committee on Foreign Relations, is sponsoring his visit, whose theme is “How

U.S. Navy commander Richard J. Witt is set to speak Monday, April 9, on his experiences as a SEAL in Syria and Iraq in the Reagan Room at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn, sponsored by the Channel City Club and Montecito Journal Special Operations Forces Defeated ISIS in Iraq and Syria”; the talk will take place in the newly Moving In renovated Reagan Room at The Fess Parker “The next day,” Berna says, Doubletree Inn. “Wednesday morning, we got an alert U.S. Navy commander Witt is a SEAL and to evacuate” because of a forecast of began with SEAL Team One attached to the rain. Her house is in the red zone and Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Sri she had all these clothes there. So, she Lanka. His career took him to the Horn of Africa, called James Rosenfield’s secretary, Western and Central Iraq, Guam, Australia, who said he was leaving for Marin Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines. but assigned a person to help. In In January 2008, as a Platoon Commander of short order, someone arrived with a SEAL Team Three, he commanded a SEAL plakey to the store. toon in Ramadi and in Fallujah, Iraq, and oversaw “We hadn’t signed anything, but the transition of responsibility from U.S. forces to we got a mover,” Berna recounts.

Provincial Iraqi Control; in 2009, he became Basic Training Command Operations officer managing They packed up and moved everythe expansion of SEAL Qualification Training; thing to the store that same day, in 2010, he became executive officer of Naval then picked up furniture from the Special Warfare Unit Three in Bahrain; from house and moved that to the store.

2013-15, he served as Crisis Action planner and Berna called Sheri Mize, a designer Yemen Action officer with Special Operations in Montecito.

Command; in 2016, he was selected to serve in “Sheri, we have beautiful dressing the Commander’s Action Group (CAG) with U.S. rooms, but they have no drapes on Central Command. them.”

This guy has been around and is certain (or at ‘I’ll be there tonight,’ Sheri says. least highly likely) to deliver an in-depth appraisal She went out and got painter’s canof past and current conditions, as well as future vases, came in, and hung everything possibilities for U.S. forces in those sensitive areas. on Thursday morning.

I don’t believe you could hear a more authoritative The team worked Thursday and accounting of the fighting than what you’ll hear Friday and opened Saturday mornfrom Commander Witt. ing.

Reservations for the lecture and luncheon More good news: “Taiana told us program prior to it may be made via email to she has just finished her modeling info@channelcity.club.org or over the phone at job and didn’t have another one until (805) 564-6223.

two weeks from now in Alaska, and

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offered to manage the store until then. She refused to be paid and would only do so as her donation.

“She’s been here every day, seven days a week, day and night. She helped set up Facebook, Instagram, a website, printed flyers...” Berna marvels.

Then Taiana reached out to her friend Chanti, who will manage the store for the following two weeks.

Berna and Cathy bought all the rolling rack and hangers on Amazon.

They also bought out Costco’s stock of such items. “We wanted the store to have “a certain look, a center of well being,” Berna explains. They contacted the Soup Kitchen, whose members taught the women how to organize their volunteers and gave help and support; they now supply organic soup for lunch, every day. Lynette Briner, who owns Little Alex’s, baked some fresh pumpkin bread. Hudson Home brought candles, baskets, and glass pieces for donations.

How the store works Donations are given to people who’ve lost their homes or who cannot get back into their homes; people who were burned out. IDs and addresses are checked, and a volunteer sits and speak with them, asks them who they are, where they live.

First responders and their families are served too.

People who come in to donate and then want to buy something are told they can’t buy, but if they see some thing that “stole their heart,” they could offer a donation for it. There is also a donation jar for the Soup Kitchen.

Current needs include: furniture, bedding, towels, cooking utensils, dishes, flatware, and other items to restart people’s kitchens, baths, and bedrooms, along with mattresses, pillows, mattress pads...

They are planning an online furniture catalog featuring sofas, tables, and similar items. Transportation for parents trying to get their children to school and/or medical appointments is also needed.

Local stores who’ve helped furnish the Recovery Free Store include Wendy Foster, Pierre Lafond, Angel, Whiskey & Leather, KFrank, and Antoinette. Companies such as Impo, Chainson Footwear, Eileen Fisher, and Simple Shoes have been generous, as have Montecito residents who’ve emptied their closets to donate, much of it with price tags still on them. The bountiful sunflowers everyone receives with their goods were donated by the Lomeli family from Harvest Moon in Carpinteria.

How to donate: Drop by the store at 1016 Coast Village Road (across from Vons). Or, call Berna at (805) 570-4339.

Any day, all day long.

•MJ 22 – 29 March 2018

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Your Westmont

by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Book Offers Help in Reframing Life

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reg Spencer, Westmont professor of communication studies, hopes that his new book, Reframing the Soul: How Words Transform Our Faith, will help members of the local community as they remember the challenging events of this past winter.

On the night after the massive January 9 debris flow, Spencer said his last thought before going to bed was that he needed to feed the birds the following day. “These words reminded me that I needed to do something life-giving,” he says. “I needed to do what I could do, to hold the hurting, to listen to my students’ stories, to prepare for the semester ahead. How we frame these last few months matters. It has everything to do with how we go forward.

“As we work on our word choice, we become empowered to reframe our story according to the truth of our lives and the wisdom of the gospel. New circumstances, such as a natural disaster, often drive us to reframe. In times of crisis, we might realize that the labels we’ve been using are unsatisfying. Reframing the Soul guides readers through four ‘soul essentials’: remembering the past with gratitude, anticipating the future with hope, dwelling within themselves with peace, and relating to others in love.”

Spencer has published several books, including Awakening the Quieter Virtues, and two novels, The Welkening and Guardian of the Veil.

The book will be available for purchase and signing at a free, public reading on Wednesday, March 28, at 5 pm at Hieronymus Lounge in Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall.

Spencer, the Western States Communication Association’s 2018 Master Teacher, earned a bachelor’s degree at Cal Poly before earning a master ’s degree and doctorate in communication, both from the University of Oregon. He has taught at Westmont since 1987, specializing in rhetorical theory and media ethics.

Examining Liberal Arts in a Post-Truth Age

The Westmont Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts hosts the 17th annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts, “Knowledge in Crisis: Liberal Learning in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age,” March 22-24 at Westmont. Top scholars, administrators, students, and practitioners consider how the tools of a liberal arts education can help us navigate the changing landscape of knowledge. Speakers include William Deresiewicz, Lynn Hunt, Martín Carcasson, and Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig.

“With ample time for open discussion in addition to formal presentations, this intimate conference is designed to stimulate teaching and learning through conversation,” says Chris Hoeckley, director of the Gaede Institute. “Participants come

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“The conference will be kept rather small with fewer than 100 participants to better stimulate the teaching and learning through conversation rather than lecture,” says Hoeckley.

“The wide array of backgrounds from those participating also means a wide range of perspectives.”

Deresiewicz, an award-winning author and essayist, taught English at Yale and Columbia before becoming a full-time writer in 2008. He wrote the New York Times bestseller Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, as well as numerous articles, including recently In Defense of Facts for The Atlantic and On Political Correctness for The American Scholar. He has won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, the Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and a Sydney Award as well as being a three-time National Magazine Award nominee.

Hunt, a distinguished research professor in history at UCLA, specializes in the French Revolution. She has undertaken wide-ranging examinations of human rights, time, religious pluralism, and historiography.

Before serving at UCLA, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1987-98) and the University of California, Berkeley (1974-87). She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and her Master of Arts and doctorate from Stanford University.

Carcasson, professor in the communication studies department at Colorado State University, founded and directs the CSU Center for Public Deliberation, an interdisciplinary center that prepares students for practical engagement in deliberative democracy. His research with the Kettering Foundation’s Deliberative Democracy Consortium most recently includes his report titled “Process Matters: Human Nature, Democracy, and a Call for Rediscovering Wisdom.” Carcasson’s research has been published in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, the International Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Stoker Bruenig, an assistant editor and opinion columnist at The Washington Post, served as staff writer at The New Republic, and contributes articles to a wide range of periodicals including The Atlantic, The American Conservative, and Jacobin Magazine.

She has done graduate work in religion at Cambridge University and Brown University.

For full conference information, visit westmont.edu/conversation.

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Theatre Opens End to Avoid Damage

Westmont has commissioned a new play that explores friendship and the laundry list of things to do as the end of the world nears. End to Avoid Damage, written by Diane Exavier, Westmont theatre arts department scholar-in-residence, will be performed in Porter Hall Black-Box Theatre at Westmont on Sunday, March 25, and Monday, March 26, both at 7:30 pm. All performances are free and open to the public.

The play, directed by senior Karly Kuntz, features senior projects by actor Troy Chimuma and designer Leslie Duggin.

Chimuma, who plays Leroy, is desperately in search of his brother, whom he hasn’t seen in years, to rekindle their childhood relationship before the world comes to an end.

“It’s a work of art that shows the lives of people living in black culture and how the external circumstances of the play impact each character differently and how they cope,” Chimuma says.

“I hope audiences leave feeling as though they were invited into a foreign world and didn’t feel alienated or distant, but felt one with the world.”

Chimuma was introduced to Exavier’s work when he was lighting director for one of her plays, Blame the Season, at last year’s Westmont’s Fringe Festival. “After the final performance, I was approached by John Blondell, theatre arts professor, about commissioning a play from Diane for my senior project,” Chimuma says.

Exavier, a native of Haiti who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is a threetime recipient of the Roland Wood Fellowship for Theater Studies from Amherst College, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts in theater and dance. She recently received a Master of Fine Arts in writing for performance from Brown University.

Chamber Orchestra Hosts Spring Concert

The Westmont Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Winds will host their spring concert Sunday, April 22, at 3 pm in Deane Chapel on Westmont’s lower campus. Admission is free.

The Westmont Chamber Woodwinds, featuring Sarah Hooker (flute), Elaina Hollister (oboe), and Maya Rouillard (bassoon), will perform pieces by Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, and Mozart. The Brass Ensemble will perform pieces from West Side Story.

The chamber orchestra will perform Hebrides Suite by Clare Grundman, as well as selections from the soundtrack to Brave. The concert will also feature the Westmont College Choral Union performing “Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.

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In Business

by Jon Vreeland

Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir, The Taste of Cigarettes, will be published May 22, 2018, with Vine Leaves Press. Vreeland is married to artist Alycia Vreeland and is a father of two beautiful daughters who live in Huntington Beach, where he is from.

Grand GranVida Earns Honor

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fter GranVida Senior Living and Memory Care opened a 77-apartment community in Carpinteria in the dawn of February 2017, it would take only one-year for the Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce to grant GranVida the Large Business of the Year Award for the company’s auspicious debut. Gran Vida’s executive director, Catherine Lee, says to receive the award their first year is “wonderful, and I am truly stoked.”

The senior community sits in one of California’s forgotten treasures and occupies a 30-year-old building on Carpinteria Avenue – formerly Microsoft – which they gutted and remodeled the inside only. “We carved it out like a watermelon,” said Catherine.

The project resulted in creamywhite walls and vaulted ceilings with brown maple trim and crown molding to match the living room and dining room chairs; hardwood floors in the marble and maple kitchen; a black grand piano near a fireplace mantle made of bone-white masonry, with brown stationary cabinets on either side and three large candles on the right of its single pallid shelf.

As for the apartments, 55 are used for assisted and senior living residents, and 22 are what GranVida calls “Memory Care suites.” Catherine says the apartments are “unique;” each one decorated with its own color scheme and furniture. Also, all residents have full access to med techs, resident assistants, nurses, schedule drives for shopping, and to pick up medication or go to the gym.

“But not every resident needs a nurse,” Catherine adds, then spoke of one particular GranVida inhabitant who is 90 years old and walks to the gym three days a week in the mornings – Monday, Wednesday, and Friday – solely for extra exercise. The community also allows pets,

which, according to Harvard Health Publishing, are known to improve a person’s heart health, and lower one’s stress and blood pressure as well (Health.Harvard.edu).

tinue to be the most popular areas to vacation and, of course, live. But California natives (or even a devout reader of John Steinbeck) know of these clandestine villages and coastal gems scattered up and down the coast: places such as Carpinteria, spots with a population of fewer than 14,000, rural areas of solace, and hints of Steinbeck, perfect for the elderly to reside in peace.

The award-winning company’s overall goal is to “enrich the residents’ lives,” to live where clean salted air has already swallowed the clouds of smog. Or where the new employ-

ees’ “culture-training program” called Seniority Spirit helps the employee learn the 14 commitments that “govern every interaction” among residents, employees, and family members at GranVida, and “cherish” the resident’s very existence.

The community provides an executive chef, a concierge that is open seven days a week, 7 am to 7 pm. And no matter what, at least one of the 67 employees is available 24 hours a day for the safety of the GranVida residents. The address is 5464 Carpinteria Avenue in Carpinteria. Their phone number is (805) 566-0017.

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GranVida Senior Living and Memory Care is one of seven GranVida communities; the Carpinteria one is more than half-filled to capacity

Furthermore, other than the continuing care, retirement housing, temporary respite, and hospice care which GranVida provides, the community takes part in all kinds of special events.

The first trip the community made in 2017, by more than popular demand, was to the slots and tables at Chumash Casino. And in July 2017, California representative Salud Carbajal attended the GranVida’s Veterans Appreciation Day, where more than 100 people were provided a free lunch, and 12 retired service members, one being a woman, were recognized for their American contributions. Three of them spoke and were presented with awards, Catherine informed me amid a torrent of tears.

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by this work. “We sympathize with property owners and understand how hard it is to wait at a time like this,” said Pontes. “The survey, engineering, and mapping that we are doing throughout the debris flow area will significantly reduce the costs that individual homeowners would incur if they were taking on these tasks on their own. However, if property owners want to move ahead on their own, they can work with their case manager to find out what professional studies they would need,” he added.

The County has already assigned case managers to each impacted property, and property owners are advised to contact their case manager by calling 568-2090. The Board of Supervisors will receive a report on the progress of the mapping every 14 days.

Other rebuilding efforts discussed at last week’s community meeting: the rebuilding of six Montecito and Carpinteria area bridges. Four bridges are slated for complete replacement following the 1/9 debris flow – Cravens Lane at Highway 192, Toro Canyon (east) at 192, Romero Canyon/ Sheffield at 192, and Montecito Creek at 192 – while two other bridges at San Ysidro and Toro Canyon (west) are being repaired. Caltrans reps report that the bridges can be demolished following the relocation of public utilities, and that reconstruction will take up to a year.

The County also announced last week a newly established Community Wellness Team, led by the County’s Department of Behavioral Wellness.

The team, a collaboration of 13 local agencies, will offer a continuum of services to meet the needs of individuals impacted by the collective and individual trauma experienced after the Thomas Fire and 1/9 debris flow.

Suzanne Grimmesey, MFT, chief Quality Care and Strategy for Santa Barbara County Behavior Wellness, says that symptoms of stress experienced in response to trauma may include anxiety, sadness, depression, or confusion and may be noticed in sleep, concentration, work, or relationships. “People respond differently to trauma and may have different levels of need,” Grimmesey explained.

“Within the Community Wellness Team continuum of care, a range of crisis services are available, including

short- and long-term counseling.”

A member of the Community Wellness Team, Cottage Health is offering an intensive outpatient program of groups designed to help individuals learn how to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma. Cottage Health support groups will be provided in English and Spanish and all are free. Orientations for the intensive outpatient program begin this week. More information is available at www.CottageHealth.org/ HowWeHeal.

More information on the Community Wellness Team, including where to access services is available on www.ReadySBC.org, under Health and Safety.

Julia Larson, Kristen LaBonte, and Suzanne McCafferty help to clean photos and art at La Casa de Maria.

Suzanne has been a volunteer for the project and also co-produced the Montecito Community Panel discussion on January 31.

Montecito Center Latest

Two weeks ago, we reported on the opening of the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery, and Rebuilding, in the Orfalea building on Coast Village Circle. Last week, the newly-formed “805 Conservation Collective” set up shop at the center, adding another resource for mudslide victims to access in the heart of Montecito. “The work is both emotional and technical, and we are so happy to be able to offer help to mudslide victims,” said project rep Melissa Barthelemy, who sat down with us earlier this week.

The Collective comprises a group of volunteers who salvage and preserve damaged personal items from the wreckage of the 1/9 debris flow.

The project was born after the success of a February event at Montecito Library called “Saving Memories from Mud,” in which a professional paper conservator offered free assessments of damaged items and guidance to residents seeking to preserve their precious memorabilia, including photo albums, diplomas, awards, and important documents. The conservator discovered extensive mold on the materials she examined, which poses a high risk to the items and anyone that handles them. “We quickly realized the need was much greater than a one-day event, and that there was a critical need within the community,” Barthelemy said.

Barthelemy is a Ph.D. student at

Volunteers worked on hundreds of photos, albums, and important documents at the Saving Memories From Mud event at Montecito Library

UCSB, and is a consultant on community tragedies. Her dissertation is on the after effects of the 2014 Isla Vista tragedy, and she is the liaison between the campus and the families of the victims. “Helping with this effort was a perfect fit for me,” she said, adding that the project of preserving memories hits close to home; her family home in Ojai burned down when she was 8 years old and the only items to survive the blaze were a stack of family photo albums. The home was damaged again in the Thomas Fire in December. “I feel like I have a personal connection to this work,” she said. Others leading the project include Kristen LaBonte, reference librarian at UCSB and head of the Central Coast Disaster Preparedness and Response Network, Julia Diane Larson, a reference archivist at AD&A Museum, and Rebecca Metzger, associate university librarian at UCSB.

Grant Dyruff, a member of the Montecito Boy Scouts Troop and friend of victim Dave Cantin, has helped retrieve the Cantins’ belongings and is helping with their conservation with the 805 Conservation Collective

The conservation of paper materials requires a two-step process. Phase one, salvaging and stabilization, includes meeting with the families and evaluating, separating, bagging, and freezing their belongings to kill the mold. Two industrial-strength freezers have been trucked in from Los Angeles; one is housed at Westmont, along with a high-powered generator on which it operates, the other is located at the Santa Barbara County Sheriff Carpinteria substation, which has become the hub for items lost in the debris flow. The Collective is working closely with the Sheriff’s Department, helping to catalog all items that have been turned in, and trying to remove dangerous mold before staff is exposed. Many of the items found were discovered by the Bucket Brigade, which is also a part-

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Singular Symbols

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ere is a little quiz for you: What country is represented by (a) a part of a tree? (b) a whole tree?

The part of a tree is a leaf, and the maple leaf has been the symbol of Canada for centuries, though it did not get onto the national flag until 1965. A key factor in this tree’s historical popularity appears to have been the maple sugar derived from its sap. Except for one other, which we will get to eventually, not many political entities have chosen an emblem so pleasantly associated with sweetness.

The whole tree I asked you about is the Cedar of Lebanon, which is the central feature of that country’s flag, and has been associated with Lebanon since ancient times. Indeed, it is said to be mentioned no fewer than 70 times in the Bible (though I haven’t counted them), apparently always with positive connotations, such as holiness, peace, and longevity. Here’s one example, from Psalm 92: The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

But of course, trees, and other vegetation, form only one source from which national symbols are derived.

There are also animals and birds. The Kiwi, for example, is a flightless bird with no tail – a nocturnal creature with few endearing characteristics.

Perhaps only New Zealanders could love them – which they do, to the extent of actually calling themselves Kiwis.

Then there is that long-time favorite of cartoonists – the Russian Bear, which, after the fall of the Soviet Union, actually came close to being officially adopted as a national symbol, but, somewhat surprisingly, lost out to the old Tsarist two-headed eagle. It did succeed, however, in becoming the Russian “mascot” in the 1980 Moscow summer Olympic Games, in the form of a cute little bear cub named Mishka.

(Unfortunately, most Americans were hardly aware of this, because the U.S. – thanks to President Jimmy Carter – boycotted that whole event, in a little tiff over the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.)

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from the Emperor Constantine (who, around 300 A.D., supposedly saw a cross in the sky with the message “In this sign, conquer”) through the Crusades, to the flag of Switzerland (which inspired a modern humanitarian movement to reverse the Swiss white cross on a red background and call itself the Red Cross.)

Another kind of cross, the Swastika, had a long and (until Hitler) not dishonorable history, reaching far back into Asian mysticism. On the other hand, the six-pointed “Star of David,” consisting of two interlocked triangles, which is now the official symbol of the State of Israel, can’t be traced back more than a few centuries, and has no deep religious significance in Judaism.

But sometimes neither pictures nor abstract figures, just words or letters, can convey an entire national ethos.

An outstanding example was the official use by the ancient Romans of the letters “S P Q R” – which were often carried at the head of legions on the march.

Those characters were simply the initial letters of the Latin expression: SENATUS POPULUS QUE ROMANUS, meaning “The Senate and the Roman People.”

But if you want a truly unique national symbol, with a grotesque story behind it, look no further than Ulster, the Irish province, most of which became what is today Northern Ireland. The flag and many other emblems of Ulster prominently display a Red Hand. The legend behind it (and we must hope that it is only a legend) tells us that, when Ulster was a kingdom and the throne was in dispute, the contenders agreed on a boat race, the winner and rightful king to be the first who touched the shore. One potential king so desired the crown that, upon seeing that he was losing the race, he cut off his hand and threw it to the shore—thus winning the kingship.

To conclude on a more upbeat note, we can return to the symbolic sweetness we started out with. The state of Utah, even before it was a recognized U.S. territory, has always had as its symbol a beehive. Of course, the only purpose of raising bees is to secure their honey – though officially, this beehive represents not the sweetness of the honey but the labor of the bees.

In fact, the state motto of Utah is the single word “Industry.”

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) The ever-youthful musician, who celebrated his half-century in December, was on the top of his form in the CAMA show with Mendelssohn’s overture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wieniawski’s concerto No. 2 in D minor, and Beethoven’s glorious Symphony No. 6 in F Major, the Pastorale.

No wonder his albums Romance of the Violin and Voice of the Violin soared to number 1 in the charts.

He can’t come back soon enough.

Actor Stephen Amell (photo courtesy Heroes & Villains)

new member who signs up with the referral code FIRSTRESPONDER to charity, with half the money going to RAKlife-Help California, a new disaster relief and restoration charity based in Santa Barbara and Ventura, and the other half going to First Responders Outreach through the Gary Sinise Foundation.

I’ll drink to that.

On the House Bubbly entrepreneur Nina Terzian is selling her imposing oceanside property on Miramar Beach.

The 7-year-old, 3,531-sq.-ft. estate, composed of a 3-bedroom, 4-bathroom main house and 3 cottages on 0.65 acres, is just a tiara’s toss from the home of Dolly Granatelli, widow of the Indy 500 legend Andy, and the new house of Tom and Heather Sturgess.

The property with extensive ocean frontage, which I have visited many times, is being sold through Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and is priced at $25 million.

Nina, who has a more rustic home on the beach just a few hundred yards away, says: “Someone will continue to have the reverie I’ve had while living there. My shabby chic beach house is more than enough for me!”

String Along

Reyna Kaufman (personal banker for Montecito Bank & Trust), lieutenant Maryellen Walters (The Salvation Army of Santa Barbara), captain Willie Bland (The Salvation Army of Santa Barbara), and Janet Garufis (president & CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust) (photo by Clint Weisman)

Bank on it To mark its 43rd anniversary, Montecito Bank & Trust hosted a grants reception at its magestic State Street headquarters when president and CEO Janet Garufis handed out checks worth $20,000 to 10 local charities.

Along with the checks, the nonprofits also received a short video professionally produced by cable giant Cox to promote their work.

Employees of the bank, which since its founding in 1993 by the late philanthropist Mike Towbes, has grown to 11 branches and $1.4 billion in assets, also provided more than 1,800 hours of volunteer work last year.

More than 110 guests turned out to witness the bank’s largesse, as well as quaff the wine and nosh on the Omni comestibles, with charities receiving checks including Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue, Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County, Solvang Theaterfest, and the Wilderness Youth Project.

Basil Vendryes, by a string (photo by Stephen Honikman)

Bell of a Show Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, who has appeared in our tony town innumerable times with UCSB Arts & Lectures and CAMA – Community Arts Music Association – was back on the cavernous Granada stage performing with the esteemed London’s Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which he has conducted for seven years since the death of founder Sir Neville Marriner.

Quartet founder Mary Beth Woodruff (photo courtesy Santa Barbara Strings)

Nina Terzian’s beach house up for grabs

Santa Barbara Strings hosted its 7th annual Artistry of Strings benefit concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall featuring the talented quartet of founder Mary Beth Woodruff, violinist Jane Chung, violist Basil Vendryes, and cellist Andrew Smith.

The charity, founded in 2009, runs teaching programs for young string musicians aged 5 to 18 working with 26 different schools in Santa Barbara, Ojai, and the Santa Ynez Valley.

An evening of high note featuring works by Mozart, Austrian composer

Anniversary grants attendees mingle before the award program begins (photo by Clint Weisman)

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Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

Full Moon Fever

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think I was suffering from anxiety. Wracking my brain trying to figure out where to position myself for that rare event of a super moon, blue/blood moon and lunar eclipse, a simultaneous solar systematical natural wonder that hadn’t occurred since 1866, I had to force myself to choose.

I finally settled on the Carrizo Plain National Monument. How could I go wrong out there, right? So I left late morning on January 30, but I had to take Highway 101 up to Highway 58, because Highway 33 beyond Ojai was and will remain to be closed for some time due to the Thomas Fire and the muddy aftermath that followed.

I hadn’t been to the Carrizo Plain in nine months, and it never ceases to amaze me how beautiful it is across the grasslands. I arrived at 2 pm and had some time to look for some wildlife. I headed up to the Selby Campground and immediately was rewarded with approximately 20 Tule elk bedded down in the tall grass, their teardrop-shaped ears peeking above swaying blades.

As I continued up to the campground, the expanse of the plain broadened to my right where a couple hundred elk grazed the plain below. It was a rare glimpse in the past at “Old California,” a scene set 300 years prior. It was a nice diversion as I gauged where the super moon might rise above the Temblor Range to the east.

Just before 5 pm, the massive full moon rose above a nameless peak in the Temblors, growing brighter as the sun sank behind the Caliente Mountains. The sky morphed from orange into pink, then a deep purple and eventually into a royal blue. I found myself shooting across toward the Elkhorn Plain, where I almost needed sunglasses to combat the moonlit plain.

just after midnight.

The blood-orange lunar eclipse was set to appear just before 3 am.

I raced along Highway 135 knowing I needed to be somewhere with a good view of the lunar eclipse. I decided on the Franklin Creek Trail and parked it at Frank’s Bench. I thought I might see some other lunar lunatics, but gratefully I was the only one there just before 3 am. There I sat, not sure what to expect. I tried to nap, but it was too bright and I was anxious. When would the moon turn?

Around 4:30 am the eclipse began, the bright moonlight fading fast. For one hour from 5 to just after 6 am, the lunar eclipse peaked, living up to its blood red/orange reputation and total darkness finally settling over a sleepy Carpinteria.

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I reluctantly left the Carrizo Plain at 8:30 pm and hoped for the best during this 24-hour odyssey at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Sand Dunes National Wildlife Refuge. Seventy miles later and the grasslands long in my rear-view mirror, the dunes were absolutely brilliant in the moonlight. With my camera pack strapped tight and my headlamp burning bright, I jogged along the Santa Maria Rivermouth and then cut south for one of the most breathtaking places on the Central California Coast.

A lone coyote trotted out in front of me, its detailed prints adding to a busy runway of animal tracks across wind-groomed dunes, the only blemishes across the largest, most intact coastal dune complex on the West Coast.

For a while I wandered, descending steep troughs of sand and navigating around fish hook-shaped dunes.

Then I selected a spot with the super moon directly overhead and the surf thundering in the background. I fired a few frames and bugged out of there

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Office located at 620 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 12:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

Notice Inviting Bids LA COLINA FORCE MAIN NO.1 REHABILITATION PROJECT Bid No. 5618 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its La Colina Force Main No. 1 Rehabilitation Project (“Project”), by or before April 11, 2018, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

BID REQUEST DUE DATE & TIME: APRIL 5, 2018 UNTIL 12:00P.M.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located in the City of Santa Barbara extending from the La Colina Lift Station along La Colina Road to N. La Cumbre Road with discharge to a transition MH. La Colina Road is a collector street and N. La Cumbre Road is an arterial street, and is described as follows:

SANTA BARBARA GOLF CART LEASE Sealed Bids must be submitted on official vendor stationary in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid specifications, terms and conditions shall be obtained following request via email to MSewell@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

The Work consists of construction of the La Colina Force Main rehabilitation, including the rehabilitation of approximately 3,200 linear feet of existing 8-inch cast iron pipe, with cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) method via downstream inversion, end seals, closures and closures at access pits. Closures at access pits, bends, lift station, transition manhole shall be with PVC pipe. Thrust control at bends shall not be with thrust blocks. However, it is most likely that the existing force main has thrust blocks that will require removal. The project also includes cleaning, closed-circuit television (CCTV) inspection of pipelines before and after lining and Traffic Control for all of the associated work. The Contractor shall be responsible for maintaining control of odor and noise. In addition, repair and reconstruction of existing improvements affected by the Work, and incidentals for a complete and usable force main system. In addition, the modification of two (2) plug valves located in the valve vault at the La Colina Lift Station.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

is/are doing business as: Albertos Metal Finishing, 717 N Milpas St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Adalberto Castellanos, 642 W De La Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 12, 2018. 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. 2018-0000757.

Published March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DNA Discount, 5048 Cathedral Oaks Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

Gregory R Hons, 5048 Cathedral Oaks Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 12, 2018. 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. 2018-0000759.

Published: March 21, 2018 Montecito Journal

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: one hundred and sixty (160) calendar days.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $859,310.

3.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A General Engineering Contractor.

Published March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crypto Farming; Santa Barbara Avocado Company, 5006 Telephone Road, Orcutt, CA 93455. Tim Kurriss, 5006 Telephone Road, Orcutt, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 6, 2018. 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 Marlene Ashcom. FBN No. 2018-0000682.

Published March 14, 21, 28, April 4, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Camille K, 1318 Alta Vista Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

SUD West Partners INC, 1318 Alta Vista Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 28, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County

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License and Registration Requirements.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of 10 percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 5, 2018 at 1 p.m., at the following location: La Colina Pump Station located near 4000 La Colina Street for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

12.

Specific Brands. Pursuant to referenced provision(s) of Public Contract Code section 3400(c), City has found that the following specific brands are required for the following particular material(s), product(s), thing(s), or service(s), and no substitutions will be considered or accepted: Item:

Required brand:

Reference:

Dezurik

Modification of 2 existing valves (c) (3)

Plug Valve Worm Gear By: ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) March 21, 2018

Date: __________________________

2) March 28, 2018 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice Inviting Bids: Bid No. 5637 STEARNS WHARF ANNUAL MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS FOR 2018

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5638

1.

DUE DATE & TIME: April 4, 2018 UNTIL 3:00P.M. 2018 Dump Truck The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018. electronically opened and posted.

2.

________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 20180000621.

Published March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rent A Handyman SB, 823 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Elekatek Construction Inc, 823 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 27, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20180000608.

Published March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Multi-Media Moguls; Signature PR Pros, 1187 Coast Village Road #736, Santa Barbara,

22 – 29 March 2018

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 30 days after Notice to Proceed.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is: $190,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A MANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on March 29, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: Stearns Wharf City Office, 219F Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, CA for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference may be disqualified from bidding.

3.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANNEXX; ANNEXXHOMES; ANNEXX, LLC; A N N E X X L A B ; ANNEXXBLOOM, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

ANNEXX, LLC, 1805 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification: A-General Engineering Contractor

Published: March 21, 2018 Montecito Journal

CA 93108. Annamarie Seabright, 1187 Coast Village Road #736, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 1, 2018.

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 Margarita Silva.

FBN No. 2018-0000379.

Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the Stearns Wharf and is described as follows: Replacing pilings, decking & stringers as described in specifications.

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 electronically via PlanetBids.

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.

At this date and time all bids received will be

It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 5637 shall be received to furnish and deliver materials for the STEARNS WHARF ANNUAL MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS FOR 2018 per the attached terms, conditions and specifications. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten (10) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

5.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

5.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

5.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

5.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

6.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

7.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

8.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

9.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

10.

Retention Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is five (5) percent.

By: _______________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung CPM, General Services Manager Publication Date: 3/21/18 Montecito Journal

copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0000424.

Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV00643.

To

all interested parties: Petitioner Peter Avery Mendel filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Tokpa Korlo. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if

I’ve seen Easter as highest necessity. – Gerhard Frost

any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must 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 21, 2018 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: April 18, 2018 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published February 28, March 7, 14, 21, 2018.

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cake.

Bluewater Grill also supports Round Up America, a nonprofit that encourages patrons to “round up” their bills to the nearest dollar to support local causes, including the Thomas Fire and Flood relief.

A fun addition to Santa Barbara’s bustling dining scene.

A serving team from the Bluewater Grill includes Liana Flores, server, holding the Java Mud Pie; Colin Lohenry, general manager; Pedro Rivera, bartender; and Gerry Bravo, assistant manager at the entrance of Bluewater Grill (photo by Priscilla)

Celebrating time together and ready to enjoy the freshness of their dinners are Tiffany Dore, Billy Cordero, SBCFD’s public information officer Dave Zaniboni; Cathy O’Neil, Lyman Orton, and Janice Izzi in the Bluewater Grill (photo by Priscilla)

Anton Webern, Brahms, and Haydn’s Quinten string quartet with violin students Talia Honikman from Dos Pueblos and Vincent Lertchareonyong from San Marcos, violist Moonman Whitehead from Westmont College, and cellist Aidan Woodruff from Solvang Middle School.

Grill Thrill To the Bluewater Grill, the buzzing new seafood eatery just a tiara’s toss from Stearns Wharf.

The restaurant, formerly Rusty’s Pizza Lighthouse and the Castagnola Lobster House, has been in business for 21 years after being established in Newport Beach by partners Rick Staunton and Jim Ulcickas, and now has branches in Redondo Beach, Coronado, Tustin, Carlsbad, Temecula, and Phoenix.

The kitchen run by Chanel Ducharme, formerly of the Hungry Cat, and overseen by executive

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chef Jason Mazur, serves 40 types of seafood, working directly with the Seafood for the Future program at Long Beach Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, including fried Ipswich clams from Cape Cod, softshell crabs from Maryland, Petrale sole from the San Francisco Bay Area, Dungeness crab from the Pacific Northwest, and sand dabs from southern California.

The eatery, which is run locally

by Colin Lohenry from the original nosheteria, even has its own fishing boat, Pilikia, which is used for humanely harpooning swordfish around the Channel Islands, avoiding the use of nets or long lines.

After starters of sea urchin and oysters, my trusty shutterbug Priscilla and I tucked into blackened sea bass and trout, while quaffing Avignon cabernet sauvignon and Patron tequila, rounding off the scrumptious repast with key lime pie and mud

Perry Good Time Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry, who is reportedly raking in $25 million as a judge on the ABC-TV reboot of American Idol, should be happy.

The show attracted more than 10 million viewers with its debut, the network’s biggest Sunday night with regular series programming since 2012.

The talent show series, again hosted

by Ryan Seacrest, ended on the Fox TV network two years ago.

Katy’s other colleagues on the judging panels are singers Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan.

The former Dos Pueblos High student, who made a surprise appearance at the Kick Ash benefit bash last month, is back in our Eden by the Beach for a concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 19 billed as A Benefit For the Community: Our Neighbors, Our Heroes, which will boost local charities assisting those impacted by the Thomas Fire and flash floods.

Curious George Star Wars director George Lucas has finally broken ground on his $1 billion Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles after a decade of legal wrangles in San Francisco and Chicago.

The filmmaker, who has a beach house in Carpinteria near Oscar winner Kevin Costner and TV talk-show host Conan O’Brien, funded the massive project himself after selling his production company and the rights to Star Wars to Disney for $4 billion in 2012.

The five-story, 300,000-sq.-ft building in Exposition Park, near USC – where Lucas earned a degree in film in the 1960s – will display his collection of 10,000 paintings, including Renoir, Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parrish, and Norman Rockwell, and other art, along with illustrations and movie memorabilia.

Lucas, 72, says the museum will focus on the art of storytelling from the time of cave paintings to digital film, which details the “mythology of society.”

The museum, scheduled to open in 2021, is also getting a $400-million donation from Lucas and his wife, businesswoman Mellody Hobson, to kick-start a fund for future acquisitions.

It is set on 11 acres of green space made from knocking down two parking lots and putting them under-

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ground, and includes a garden and public terraces on the roof.

Let Her Rip(pon) Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres is teaming up with 28-year-old Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon on a TV project.

“He gave his first television interview after the Olympics to Ellen, and now they’re going into business together,” a source tells the New York Post’s Page Six. “During the winter games, she reached out to him and had to meet him.”

Another source says Rippon may also appear regularly as a correspondent on 60-year-old Ellen’s Burbankbased show.

“He’s definitely coming back. They don’t know how many episodes or in what capacity, but it’ll be more than one show.

“It hasn’t been totally ironed out, but it’ll be semi-regular appearances.”

Picky Prince A visit from Prince Charles can be more hellish than heavenly, a revealing new tome by top investigative biographer Tom Bower reveals.

In Rebel Prince: The Power, Passions and Defiance of Prince Charles, he recounts a visit to the north east of England when Queen Elizabeth’s son sent his staff, including a butler, two valets, chef, private secretary, typist, and bodyguards, ahead a day early with a truck to replace the perfectly appropriate fittings in the guest rooms.

The vehicle contained nothing less than Charles and Camilla’s complete bedrooms, including HRH’s orthopedic bed, along with his own linens.

His staff – of which he has 124, including four valets – also made sure to pack a small radio, Charles’s own lavatory seat – perfect for a royal flush – rolls of Kleenex Premium Comfort lavatory paper, Laphroaig whiskey, bottled water, plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.

The heir to the British throne also had his own food delivered – organic, of course.

Sightings: Actor Don Johnson noshing at Trattoria Mollie...Actor William Daniels picking up his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond...Kenny Loggins at the Boathouse at Hendry’s Beach 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, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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ner in the effort. An open house at the sheriff’s substation is in the works, where members of the community who’ve lost their homes will be invited to see if any of their belongings were found and turned in.

Once items have been frozen for 72 hours, they are thawed and vacuumed with a special tool; this process is being offered for free to affected residents. “Very often, the photos and valuables are returned to owners after this process. If they need more conservation, our professional conservator will evaluate them and continue to work on them in the pop-up lab at the Montecito Center,” Barthelemy said. This work is done on a fee basis.

Basic conservation services offered include cleaning and mending of photographs, documents, children’s art, letters, posters, and works of art on paper.

The group has worked on a plethora of belongings, including photographs and art damaged at La Casa de Maria, the Olympic awards belonging to Olive Mill resident Jeff Farrell, and family photos belonging to the Cantin family, whose patriarch, Dave Cantin, perished in the debris flow, and son Jack Cantin is considered missing but presumed dead. “It’s really heart-wrenching, but we know we are doing great and meaningful work,” Barthelemy said.

“This is a community grass-roots effort, and we are thankful to any monetary help we can get,” Barthelemy said, adding that a donation of $3,000 was recently received by Congregation B’nai B’rith. Partners to the project include UCSB, Westmont College, Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, and the Montecito Center. To donate, and for more information, email 805conserva tion@gmail.com. The group is asking those who need services to schedule an appointment via email; the Center is scheduled to be closed several days this week due to evacuations.

Good Friday Breakfast

The Santa Barbara Family YMCA has announced that Dr. Joseph Bondarenko, former “KGB’s Most Wanted,” will speak at the 41st Annual Good Friday Breakfast on March 30.

The event will take place at the Earl Warren Showgrounds at 7 am.

Dr. Joseph Bondarenko will speak at the 41st Annual Good Friday Breakfast on March 30

“After the recent hardships our community has faced, it’s important to break bread together, feed from the strength of one another, and live inspired in order to rebuild the community,” Timothy Yu, associate executive director of the Santa Barbara Family YMCA said in a statement. “We are excited to hear Dr. Bondarenko’s message, and I have faith that his life’s experiences and testimonial will bring our community closer.” Montecito first responders have been invited by sponsors to attend the breakfast.

For more than 50 years, Bondarenko has spread the message and teachings of Jesus Christ. Often called the “Billy Graham of Russia,” Bondarenko is widely known for his efforts to take the gospel to Siberia and other distant parts of Russia. Bondarenko led and organized massive outreach in the former Soviet Union. On three separate occasions, he was arrested and imprisoned in the former Soviet Union and spent almost 10 years in Soviet gulags and labor camps.

Tickets for Good Friday Breakfast are $50 per person. Tables for eight are also available and include these partnership levels: Premier for $2,500; Gold for $1,000; Silver for $750; and Bronze for $400.

To purchase a table or reserve seats, call 687-7720 x245 or visit www.ciym ca.org/good-Friday-breakfast.

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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 Decembrists March into Arlington – Santa Barbara gets a second-day session with critic darlings and indie-rock fave The Decemberists as the Portland-based band arrive at the Arlington after kicking off a new tour last night. The nearly two-decade old collective – revered for such albums as Picaresque, The Hazards of Love, The Crane Wife, and What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World that meld British, American, and Irish folk music with alt/art rock approaches and worldly themes – also has a brandnew album to draw from. I’ll Be Your Girl, released a week ago, represents a bit of a departure as they worked with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Lana del Rey) with an ear toward such influences as Roxy Music and New Order. “Our ambition was really just to get out of our comfort zone... to free ourselves from old patterns and give ourselves permission to try something different,” principle singer-songwriter Colin Meloy said in the press release, adding that he and the band willingly embrace their inner-Bryan Ferry. The songs share a mood that’s steeped in our current times and condition, envisioning “exuberant nihilism, an apocalyptic dance party.”

The musical departures are nothing if not intentional, Meloy said. “Making music is an infinite choose-your-own-

adventure. When you go down one path, the other paths get sealed off. So, every time we could, we said, ‘If this is what our impulses would tell us to do, let’s try to imagine it in a different way.’” Decembrists get down and different tonight in downtown Santa Barbara. Will there be dancing in the streets or only in our minds? WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $40.50 to $48.50 INFO: 9634408/www.thearlingtontheatre.com or www.axs.com SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Tapping into Two Talents – Justin King, whose family is a famed wine producer in Oregon, took a different direction, becoming a guitarist who is known for his percussive “tapping” playing. His approach was inspired by Will Ackerman and other Windham Hill guitarists, especially the legendary “tapping” pioneer Michael Hedges, and influenced by a number of styles ranging from Flamenco to Celtic. King released his debut album Le Bleu, which was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in England circa 2001, returned to the states and built his own recording studio and continued to refine his two-handed fretting technique and sophisticated syncopations. He served as solo opening act for James Taylor, B.B.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 The Raitt Stuff – Usually when an artist transforms themselves in an effort to reach a larger audiences, something quite valuable gets lost in the process, perhaps a deeper connection to the musician’s inner world or the true nature of its expression. But while Bonnie Raiit’s early fans might mourn her transition from acoustic-leaning blues-roots singer to the remarkable pop singer-songwriter in the last year of the 1980s, it would be nearly impossibly to deny that what emerged is anything but an even more integrityfilled presentation of the complete woman and artist.

Nobody was more surprised than Raitt when Nick of Time topped the Billboard 200 chart, sold more than 5 million copies and won three Grammy Awards including Album of the Year back in 1989, and nearly 30 years later, she’s still cranking out albums that both capture critics’ hearts and please her fans, as 2013’s Slipstream won a Grammy as Best Americana Album, and 2016’s received “universal acclaim” on MetaCritic. More importantly, Raitt, now 68, remains a consummate performer who never dials it in, as evidenced by the roaring approval she receives in her regular appearances at the Santa Barbara Bowl. This time around, however, Raitt heads up the road to the Chumash Casino, where hearing such hits as “Something to Talk About”, “Love Sneakin’ Up on You”, and “I Can’t Make You Love Me” will be a more intimate experience, and New Orleans funk/R&B veteran Jon Cleary is her special guest. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $75 to $105 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (2486274) or www.chumashcasino.com

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SATURDAY, MARCH 24 We Like Ike – Ike Jenkins is renowned in Santa Barbara for having taught music at Santa Barbara High School, Dos Pueblos High School, and La Cumbre Junior High – serving as an early mentor to future entertainment stars Karl Hunter and Dirk Shumaker from retro-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; musical-actor Howard McGillin, whose accomplishments include serving as the longestrunning Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera; and a pop singer-songwriter you may have heard of named Katy Perry. After four decades of teaching, Jenkins is currently semi-retired, but he still the head of the jazz band at Santa Barbara City College, director of the Monday Madness Jazz Band, and a judge and clinician for high school and college jazz festivals throughout the state. All of which makes him the perfect choice to lead the 20-piece big band performing this afternoon for The Center for Successful Aging’s (CSA) sixth annual benefit concert, “Sophisticated Ladies”. The outfit will play music inspired by Duke Ellington and Count Basie, among others of the Swing Era, in a show that fulfills CSA’s mission-driven event celebrating both the talent and the love of artists who are seniors paired alongside younger performers.

The concert is a change from the last several shows that featured an original-script featuring an entourage of actors and entertainers; in another twist that serves as a balancing act, the CSA’s “Spirit of Successful Aging” award, which is normally bestowed on an individual, will instead honor the Assistance League of Santa Barbara, currently celebrating 70 years of service to the Santa Barbara community.

WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. COST: $25 general, $10 children ($100 patron seats include priority seating) INFO: 898-8080 or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3225624

King, and Al Green, among others. In 2009, he released his last solo album, Humilitas Occidit Superbiam – on which he played guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, and cello – before stepping away from music to pursue opportunities as a photojournalist, including tours embedded with the Oregon National Guard in war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

But acoustic music still draws some of his attention, as indicated by his 2017 demo session at the Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration (SBAIC) last fall, which impressed enough to warrant an immediate invite to return to town for a full gig.

SBAIC’s umbrella organization, Santa Barbara Acoustic Music Association, hosts what is said to be King’s only announced 2018 concert as part of its new Wooden Hall Concert Series in the intimate and acoustically fine space of Alhecama Theatre downtown. You might want to, ahem, tap into the music. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. COST: $20 INFO: www.sbama.org Spring Sing – Westmont College’s annual event features students from each residence hall creating Broadway-style skits to compete for prizes and bragging rights. Spring Sing is not only the longest-running tradition on the Montecito campus,

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it’s so big and involves more students than any other Westmont activity, that it actually takes place off campus at the city’s largest venue. Performers in the 56th annual Spring Sing – which serves as the centerpiece of Westmont’s Parents Weekend – use song, dance, and an occasional faculty or staff guest appearance to tell a story about this year’s theme, “Four Score and Seven Years Ago”.

All are welcome, even if you may not get all the references. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $7.50 to $30.50 INFO: 9627411 or www.sbbowl.com SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Festive 40th is Free – Santa Barbara County Arts Commission (SBCAC) celebrates its 40th anniversary with an afternoon largely made up of art, and a few activities meant to applaud local artists and arts advocates and reflect on the magnificent evolution of Santa Barbara’s arts culture over the last four decades. During the two-hour event, SBCAC’s nearby partner venues Channing Peake Gallery, Courthouse Mural Room, Faulkner Gallery, Jardin de las Granadas, Sullivan Goss Gallery, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will be open with corresponding exhibitions and programming. Meanwhile, a short 22 – 29 March 2018

SUNDAY, MARCH 25 I’ll Avett What They’re Having – While just about every genre save for dance-pop and hip-hop seem to have fallen out of favor, these are good days for American folk rock – maybe as an antidote to all that electronics and processing. Whatever the reason, The Avett Brothers are both a catalyst and a recipient of roots still remarkable reception, blending soaring melodies with bluegrass, country, folk, rock, honky tonk, ragtime, and even the energy of punk to produce a winning formula. The North Carolina-bred brothers Seth and Scott Avett plied the southern circuit for years while honing their sound before making mainstream waves with their 2009 major label debut, I and Love and You, which made it into Billboard’s Top 20 albums and earned raves from important critics. The band’s latest disc, True Sadness, produced by Rick Rubin of American Records fame, debuted at the top of Billboard’s Top Albums chart, as the Avetts stepped it up another step, necessitating even larger halls for them to play. Thus, their early spring show tonight heads outdoors to the open-air splendor of the Santa Barbara Bowl. Get there on time as there’s no opening act, and be sure to bundle up, though the Avett’s arrangements should warm you inside out from the heart. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $44.50 to $64.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

formal program will take place at 4 pm in the historic Mural Room, which is where the Santa Barbara City Council conducts its meetings, during which they SBCAC will also present the Leadership in Art Award to The Arts Fund and take note of its accomplishments, from the city’s investment to the revitalization of the Historic Theatre District and the Funk Zone to SBCAC’s first public art initiatives in Santa Maria, Guadalupe, and New Cuyama. WHEN: 3 to 5 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. COST: free INFO: 568-3992 or www.sbac. ca.gov/anniversary TUESDAY, MARCH 27 Good Evening, Ms. Phelps – Carissa Phelps is the human trafficking survivor who founded her own organization to advocate for runaway and homeless youth while providing training for groups to effectively reach out and address

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The organization is named Runaway Girl, which was also the title of her 2012 book that told her life story that began as a sexually exploited runaway child living on the streets of Fresno, which was also documented in the 2008 film Carissa. While incarcerated at an alternative to the Youth Authority, Phelps began to teach herself mathematics and worked to overcome numerous rapes, sexual exploitation, and substance abuse and addiction issue, eventually graduating with an MBA and a law degree from UCLA. Phelps, now an author, speaker, and advocate for survivors of sex trafficking, will talk at SBCC’s Fe Bland Auditorium in an event hosted by Hustlers for Humanity, which is working with the steering committee for Safe at Home Community Collaborative that works locally on the human trafficking issue.

WHEN: 6 to 8:30 WHERE: SBCC West Campus COST: free INFO: www. meetup.com/Santa-Barbara-Hustlers/ events/248708319/ •MJ

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Kater to the Muse – Peter Kater, whose Dancing on Water won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, is a pianist-composer who has released more than 70 albums, scored the music to more than 10 television and film productions, as well as provided the music for 11 Broadway and off-Broadway dramatic plays. He has played in hallowed venues all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and the United Nations, and received a dozen previous Grammy Award nominations of the last 15 years. He has also collaborated with Snatam Kaur, Michael DeMaria, Tina Guo, Nawang Khechog, and Dominic Miller, among others. Kater is on tour of Hawaii and California to celebrate the release of his new album, She, which features Peia Luzzi as guest while Kater pays tribute to his muse. Luzzi is a song preserver who has collected material from ancient traditions that span across the globe, from Bulgaria to Ireland, and encompassing the wisdom and trials of the Native peoples of North and South America while preserving the enchantment of medieval chant and Indian Raga. Kater and Luzzi perform at Unity of Santa Barbara tonight under the aegis of presenter Bright Star. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 227 E. Arrellaga St. COST: $20 general, $50 for VIP seating which includes a CD INFO: www.tickets. brightstarevents.com/event/peter-kater-peia-luzzi-album-release-concert-santa-barbara

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Consciousness Network, Reborn

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t takes nine months for humans to gestate in the womb from conception to birth. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the same period has elapsed since the Santa Barbara Consciousness Network events went on hiatus as founder Forrest Leichtberg began to incubate a new format for the gatherings. Complications with logistics combined with a desire to reassess the operations precipitated the break, during which the organization received full 501(3)(c) nonprofit status, and, equally importantly, reassessed its purpose.

“We needed to clarify who we are and what we do, our vision and mission,” Leichtberg explained, adding that originally the main thrust was to create a single space where conscious individuals could connect. “The community has a lot of healers, people who define themselves as living a conscious life, or at least living with that intention, mindset, and energy. There were a lot of groups, but not a single space that could bring them all together.”

Now, the new statement reads “to establish and advance conscious communities.” The main method is the newly restructured Consciousness Expo & Symposium Events, meant to serve as a “meeting space, training ground, resource pool, and support network that helps conscious communities fulfill their potential and impact the world,” Leichtberg said. To that end, the new format, which debuts this Friday, March 23, at the original venue of Unity of Santa Barbara, combines the expo, featuring local health and well-being product and service providers, with a panel symposium.

The events, which are now slated to take place quarterly, are intended to “take the community through a journey of greater mastery” of four specific areas, he said. They are: Personal well-being, in the realms of physical, emotional and spiritual; Relationships, including personal, business and community; Success, encompassing career accomplishments and monetary goals in a way that respects humanity and nature; and Spirituality, addressing connectedness with the whole, and the ability to manifest a vision.

This first symposium under the new format features a panel of four wellness experts who will speak about the latest advances for achieving optimal bodymind-spirit health, Leichtberg said.

Included are Dr. John Horton, M.D., Integrative physician and co-author of The Inner Game of Stress: Outsmart Life’s Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential

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with Timothy Gallaway (The Inner Game of Tennis); Dr. Kathy Gruver, Ph.D., author of seven books including The Alternative Medicine Cabinet and Conquer Your Stress with Mind/ Body Techniques; Corinna Maharani, C.A.P., founder of Maharani Ayurveda in Santa Barbara and a practitioner and instructor of Ayurvedic medicine; and the reverend Larry Schellink, the nondenominational spiritual leader who is lead minister at Unity. The new structure calls for brief, 10-minute introductory remarks from each participant, followed by an extensive Q&A with the audience and one another.

“I want this to be a space where people can bring their own unique flavor of a conscious life into the mix, and offer and be received by the others who are present,” Leichtberg said.

“We don’t take a stance on that path, but only encourage that your path be respectful of life, nature, your body, and your mind, and contribute to well being. The intention is to help empower you on that journey, however you decide to implement it, and to offer support you in your path.”

But the Expo, which precedes the symposium and is now free for everyone, is the most vitally important part, Leichtberg said.

“It’s not about the speakers on the stage but about the community, and how we can support and further each other. The overriding intention is to create coordination.”

(The Consciousness Expo & Symposium takes place 6 to 9:30 pm on Friday, March 23, at Unity, with the Expo running from 6 to 8 pm, and the speakers taking the stage at 8. Expo admission is free, the symposium costs $20. Visit www.consciousnessnetwork. org.)

Mind Your Own Business

Patricia Diorio, M.A., is the executive producer, creator and co-host of the Get Conscious Now! show airing on TV Santa Barbara, who also produced and hosted The Paradigm Shift on TV and radio in town. Diorio applies her decades of experience in education and psychology to her work as a spiritual counselor wherein she offers intuitive readings, workshops, and classes in her private practice. Over that time span, she put a particular focus on demonstrating how “science and spirituality are the same conversation” through interviews with more than

300 pioneers of evolutionary thought such as Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and Dr. Michael Beckwith.

Now, she’s embarking on a new aspect of her spiritual work to bring awareness and raise consciousness in the corporate world as a professional speaker. The public can get a first taste this Saturday, March 24, at the Healing Hub, where Diorio will deliver the talk “Mindfulness: The Key to Increasing Profits, Passion & Purpose”. The address, accompanied by a Power Point presentation, encompasses her personal story of becoming consciously aware following an early trauma, through research in the science that humans are “energy beings in physical form... (whose) thoughts, feelings, and words are also energy that are literally creating our reality, personally and collectively,” and concludes with an offering of “Seven Simple Steps” to employ mindfulness in the workplace as well as daily life.

A $10 donation is requested for the 7:30 pm event at the Healing Hub, located in Le Cumbre Plaza. Call 2802050 to RSVP.

Community Grief Ritual

Alexis Slutzky – a wilderness guide, mentor, community builder, council trainer, and licensed Marriage and Family therapist who is also adjunct faculty at Antioch University and affiliated with Pacifica Graduate Institute and The Ojai Foundation – began leading these gatherings that have the subtitle “Cultivating Connection, Compassion & Communion” last year, even before the Thomas Fire and ensuing Montecito mudslide. The original plan was for quarterly events timed for the solstices and equinoxes, half just for women and the other two for all genders. But after the twin tragedies, Slutzky began hosting mini-versions of the rituals at Yoga Soup and elsewhere to help in the recovery efforts from a communal healing aspect.

As spring approaches, Slutzky is returning to the all-day quarterly rituals, with the next one slated for next Saturday, March 24, once again encompassing all forms of grief: death, loss, change, divorce, betrayal, unrealized dreams, places in ourselves that have not known love, things expected and did not receive, ancestral grief, trauma, the sorrows of the world, and more.

Synthesizing processes and insights from her work with Francis Weller, Sobonfu Some, and Malidoma Some, as well as training in related work with Joanna Macy (Despair and Empowerment/The Work that Reconnects), Deena Metzger (Grief into Vision), and Martin Prechtel (Grief and Praise), Slutzky will help participants experience grief as a natural part of the human experience, in community rather than isolation, as a conduit to love and gratitude.

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The 9:30 am to 5:30 pm gathering takes place in the great outdoors, employing nature in the healing process, at Arroyo Hondo Preserve, with a sliding scale fee of $50 to $100. Details and registration online at www.wildbelonging.com/events.

Energies of Yin & Yang

Brie Ehret Barron and her husband, Stace Barron, who co-founded Avraprana Emoto-Spiritual Healing, are cuing up an offering that seems particularly timely for our gender-conflicted world. Yang & Yin, not male & female, examines issues of “Essence vs. Conditioning in gender issues and intimacy” in a a six-week class addressing the controversies of the innate nature of male and female, their effect on sexuality of all kinds, and bridging the gap between psychological and spiritual dynamics of intimacy. The course will cover such topics as how our essences of Yin and Yang relate to the forms of male and female and their expressions as men and women; sexuality and codependency in the context of our emotive primacy of being; the essential nature of Yin missed by feminism, and the effects on men and the innate natures of Yin and Yang and their energetic expressions; the deeper layers of the issue of sexual harassment and women’s empowerment; and the architecture and dynamisms of Sacred Union’s intimate relational space.

The course takes place 1:15 to 3:30 pm on Saturdays, March 31 to May 5, at the Healing Hub in La Cumbre Plaza (136 S. Hope St.), and costs $35 per class, or $195 for the full six weeks.

The Barrons are offering a free introductory session including Q&A about the course at 1:15 pm this Saturday, March 24. Call (541) 326-7525 or email stace@avraprana.com to register. Visit www.Avraprana.com for more about the Barrons and Avraprana.

Raab on Writing

Diana Raab, the Montecito author and philanthropist who has been contributing first-person accounts and reflections to the Journal in the wake of the January 9 Debris Flow, has offered several local workshops based on her latest book, Writing for Bliss: A Seven-Step Plan for Telling Your Story and Transforming Your Life. Next up is “The Secret to Telling Your Story”, which takes place 3 to 5:30 pm on Sunday, March 25, at The Sacred Space in Summerland, where the intensive workshop to help writers organize their thoughts and begin to write the story they want to write aims, in just one afternoon, to offer the key elements and a road map to actualize a writing plan for telling your story. The cost is $63. Visit www.thesacredspace. com or call 565-5535.

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LUCKY’S . . . for lunch • Smaller Plates and Starter Salads •

• Main Course Salads •

Iceberg Lettuce Wedge, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10. roquefort or thousand island dressing

Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27. arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion

Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette 12.

Caesar Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.

Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs) or Crabmeat Cocktail . . . . . . . 18.

Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, le sorrelle’s evoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.

French Onion Soup Gratinée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.

Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.

Fried Calamari, two sauces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Seafood Louie, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29. shrimp, crab, egg, romaine, tomato ,cucumber, avocado Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Chopped Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. arugula, radicchio, shrimp, prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.

Old School Chinese Chicken Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.

Lucky’s Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18. romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort

• Tacos and other Mains • Chicken, Swordfish or Steak Tacos, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22. beans, guacamole, salsa, tortillas

• Sandwiches • Fries, Farm Greens or Caesar

Lucky Burger, choice of cheese, soft bun or kaiser . . . . . . . . $20.

Range Free Vegetarian Burger, choice of cheese, . . . . . . . . . . 20. soft bun or kaiser (burger patty is vegan) Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . 27. mushroom sauce

Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries . 19.

Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce, . . . . . . . . . . .22. imported mozzarella, basil Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes . . 18.

Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29. red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce

Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye . . . . . 20.

Meatball Sub, mozzarella, basil, D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Pulled Pork Sandwich, Carolina bbq sauce, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19. topped with slaw, D’Angelo Roll

Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel, . . . . . . . . . 20. cream cheese & condiments

Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side . . . . . . . . 14.

Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . 29.

Skinny Onion Rings or Herbie’s Potato Skins . . . . . . . . . . . . $9.

Lucky’s French Fried Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

Lucky’s Home Fries or Fried Sweet Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

Lucky’s Half & Half . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.

Sautéed Spinach or Sugar Snap Peas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

• Sides •

Our Corkage Fee is $35 per 750ml bottle with a 2-bottle limit per table • 20% Gratuity added to parties of six or more