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DELIVERING THE FARMERS’ MARKET

LOCAL FARMERS LIKE TOM SHEPHERD ARE COMING UP WITH NEW WAYS TO SURVIVE SAFELY IN THE FARMERS’ MARKETS AND DELIVER THEIR GOODS TO CONSUMERS AS MARKETS AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE SHUT DOWN DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. MEANWHILE BARBAREÑO’S PRESTON KNOX OFFERS DELIVERY OF MEAT AND PRODUCE ALONG WITH PREPARED FOOD (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 26)

Fitness Front

Health and wellness expert Nora Tobin offers one-on-one virtual coaching and live classes online, p. 20

Flatten the Curve

Julie McMurry’s coronavirus manifesto became one of the most invaluable science-based resources on the web, p. 13

Village People

Tecolote Book Shop still open for business thanks to owner Mary Sheldon and the store’s Dutch door, p. 10

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial

Gwyn Lurie announces the winners of the first Montecito Journal’s Thom Steinbeck Creative Writing Contest

6 Montecito Miscellany

Ty Warner opens up his hotels to medical personnel battling the coronavirus; the Miramar’s top chef feeds first responders; Oprah self-isolates even further; Conan O’Brien broadcasts from home; remembering Kenny Rogers; plus sightings

8 Letters

Readers rejoice over home delivery, ponder the data behind the pandemic, and suggest that our politicians be better at eating bitter

10 Village People

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Meet Mary Sheldon of Tecolote Book Shop

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13 Julie McMurry Explains it All – Pandemic Edition 14 Village Beat

How Zoom – along with some creative learning concepts from our local teachers – is transforming our children’s education

16 Seen Around Town

Santa Barbara’s Courthouse used to house a jail built at the same time as – and with eerie similarities to – Alcatraz

20 Fitness Front

Wellness expert Nora Tobin has been helping Santa Barbara residents stay strong and healthy for 13 years

22 On the Record

The Friendship Center rolls out food and care package deliveries; Santa Barbara’s ‘Stitch Witch’ makes masks; Montecito Fire Department is ready for the coronavirus; plus a no-wipes-please plea from our friends at the Sanitation District

26 Feature Story

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27 Spirituality Matters

Santa Barbara City College’s School of Extended Learning goes virtual while other trainers offer online non-violent communication, QiGong, and meditation courses

30 For Goodness’ Sake

Non-profit leader Ken Saxon asks us all to step up to the challenge posed by the coronavirus crisis

Focus on Finance

Financial planner Christopher Gallo argues against emotional bias in investing

34 The 501c3 Weekly

TVSB, Santa Barbara’s community access television station, teaches kids about video production

35 Meet the Teacher

All Saints-by-the-Sea Parish School’s Padric Davis

With help from the likes of Montecito’s Kenny Loggins, Unity Shoppe is helping to feed the needy

It’s high time for California communities to say hello to resiliency and goodbye to PG&E

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41 Brilliant Thoughts

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42 Building Resilience in Crisis

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A mind-body therapist explains how to calm yourself during the coronavirus pandemic

A Good Sign

April’s astrological forecast by Jennifer Freed, PhD

49 Winners of the Montecito Journal Thom Steinbeck Writing Contest

Winning submissions by Marc Cronin, JC O’Brien, Richard Renaldo, and David Figueras

51 On Entertainment

Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta’s Fortunes launches on Zoom, plus a guide on how to find the latest classical performances online

54 Classified Advertising

Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

55 Local Business Directory

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“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale

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Editorial by Gwyn Lurie

Judgements-Be-Damned

shout out of gratitude to Realtor Dusty Baker for sponsoring this week’s Montecito Journal home delivery. Hemingway famously said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter… and bleed.” Which certainly has been true for me on occasion. But on the positive side of the ledger, writing has always been one of the few things (other than quarantine) that allows me to completely lose track of time. Lost in my efforts at word-wrangling, sparring with serpentine sentences allows me to express an idea, a thought; one that might evoke a feeling; a chuckle, a chill, a revelation. A momentary brush with truth. And I am content. This is the work at which I have toiled for much of my life. Nothing can frustrate me, or Thomas Steinbeck (August 2, 1944 – August 11, 2016) excite me, more. Not everyone is a writer. But of those who are, few were born with that ability. One becomes a writer by writing. And bleeding. And rewriting. By seeking truth or beauty and sometimes both and feeding it through one’s unique filter and putting it down on paper. By getting in touch with one’s authentic voice and learning to trust that voice. By having something to say. By being okay with the fact that not everyone will like what we have to say or how we say it. And most importantly, by not caring. While really, we care so very much. My former neighbor and dear friend was the writer Thomas Steinbeck, son of the better known writer and Steinbeck, John. As the doppelganger son of a Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer winner, Thom bravely (and thanklessly) went into the family business after serving time in Vietnam. I so admired Thom’s passion and penchant for writing, his judgements-be-damned attitude that belied his spirited but in some ways heart-crushing life spent largely in the cold shadow of his legendary father’s towering legacy. I personally considered Thom to be as talented a writer as his dad. He had a way with words that slayed me. But the thing I loved most about Thom, the thing I miss about my friend every day, was his generosity. Thom, one of the greatest talents I’ve personally known, made those around him feel recognized and talented as well. If you wanted to write, Thom believed you could. And because he believed it, somehow it made it so. Thom was well-known and much-loved by so many in this community to whom he was many different things: a raconteur extraordinaire; a drinking buddy, a great conversationalist, a brilliant writer, a muse; a man-child who loved to build model war planes, and fix wagons, and choreograph complicated battle scenes with carefully collected toy soldiers. Replaying battles un-won was one way Thom dealt with his PTSD. To our family, he was Uncle Thom. My fondest memories involve my children and their friends jumping on our trampoline, shrieking and yelling and laughing as kids do – understandably and unknowingly annoying to a writer whose inner sanctum and writing sanctuary overlooked our property. Sometimes at those moments Thom would come bounding out of his house and through our yards’ connecting gates; and he’d stand there, hands on his hips and to our constant relief he’d say: “Kids laughing… it’s the best sound in the world.” Two weeks ago we launched the first-ever Montecito Journal Creative Writing Contest. The idea was that with more time on our hands and nowhere to go, some of us might enjoy writing a story and submitting it in the hopes of winning a prize: a 100-dollar gift certificate for take-out food from a local restaurant. The writing prompt was: “I never thought I could be so wrong…” The rules were simple: the stories could be no more than 250 words. The response has been outstanding. Not only did we receive almost 50 submissions, but the quality was genuinely impressive. It’s not surprising, as I

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Monte ito Miscellany by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 12 years ago.

Lending a Hand

eanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner, owner of the Biltmore and the San Ysidro Ranch, is putting his money where his mouth is. Overworked medical personnel battling the coronavirus are now able to stay free of charge at Ty’s fivestar Four Seasons Hotel in New York. “Our health care workers are working tirelessly on the front line of this crisis,” says Ty, 75. A one-night stay at the 682-ft. high, 52-story digs can cost $1,295 a night, but the East 57th Street 368-room hostelry is temporarily closed to guests, like the Biltmore, and won’t be open until at least April 15. Ty’s largesse will help cut down commute times for medical workers at facilities nearby. “Many of those working in New York City have to travel long distances to and from their homes after putting in 18-hour days,” says Ty. “They need a place close to work where they can rest and recuperate. “I heard Gov. Cuomo’s call to action during his press conference and there was no other option for us but to do everything we could do to help.” The hotel’s penthouse, which features a Zen room and four cantilevered glass balconies – the highest in the world – goes for $50,000 a night. When I last stayed there I was

mightily impressed that the bathtub took just 60 seconds to fill, even on one of the highest floors. During the mudslide disasters in our rarefied enclave there years ago Ty continued to pay his workers out of his own pocket. A helluva guy... Miramar on the Move Billionaire L.A. real estate developer Rick Caruso is also doing his considerable best during this pandemic. Despite having now closed the Rosewood Miramar temporarily, he is still paying staff who work at the 124room, 27-suite hostelry, which opened a year ago. In a further effort to support our rarefied enclave and thank the heroic first responders and essential frontline workers through the coronavirus, the hotel has introduced Miramar on the Move – the food truck providing complimentary coffee and to-go breakfast burritos, complete with house-made salsa, to those in need of a warm, fresh meal. Led by executive chef Massimo Falsini, the truck, which will feature vegan and vegetarian options, is visiting several locations in the community, including the Montecito Post

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

Art in the Time of Corona

(photo by Jane Walker Wood Orfalea)

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 letters@montecitojournal.net

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ome delivery?! Now, the calm and comfort we feel from living in a small and caring community is complete. What a surprise to find the MJ in the driveway this morning along with the Times and WSJ. From a distance, I assumed we’d received some junk publication, but instead I found our more-valuable-than-ever local newspaper. While we expect that your thoughtful and labor-intensive action is temporary until we emerge to the other side of this public health crisis, we truly appreciate your ultimate gesture in customer care. P.S. Can’t wait to read the article on Debbie Ousey of Montecito Coffee Shop – our favorite place for breakfast! Diane and Garrett Graham Montecito

Hard Times… Not the Movie

As of this writing, our 450,000-person County had 64 positive Corona tests, with 47 of these folks recovering at home and six patients being hospitalized. In the face of this public health and economic disaster, our $1B County was quick to lament the $3M hit to their size-mysterious General Fund, while lauding the idea that cannabis – which “contributed” $2.8M last quarter – was recession proof. This was gross revenue and didn’t include the deep costs against it, i.e. Cannabis is not the panacea for either the Corona respiratory virus or our economy. Anyway, with global equities down 40%, gun sales surging (scary stuff), and 78% of American adults living paycheck-to-paycheck, we have much greater problems to concern ourselves with during this phase of State and County imposed Martial law. Eighty percent of County revenue derives from property taxes. When asked if property owners could expect an IRS-like reprieve our Tax Collector said: “If someone is affected adversely because of COVID-19 and it’s out of their control (huh?), obviously, I’m prepared to cancel the penalty.” Is this County so brain-soft that they don’t understand that ALL OF US are affected by Corona? When County-pols speak, it is more frightening than the virus itself and believe you me, I’m no Corona naysayer. Prior to COVID-19 our $1T national debt was the largest in history at 105% of GDP. Assuming modest/individual

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federal help, it will be dangerously unprecedented – in excess of $3T. The risk may be worth it if we can begin having honest discussions about our local economy where $1 spent will cycle 5X before leaving SB. Why is it that I can risk a trip to a crowded Costco, Office Max, a laundromat or a Cannabis store (“essential”), but I can’t shop at a local boutique or bookstore? Or, how about purchasing a plant at my always empty local nursery rather than at Home Depot? If we don’t ask the questions, we could forever destroy our thinly capitalized local businesses – not hyperbole! I’m not advocating “herd immunity” but as we “flatten the curve” to accommodate our unprepared healthcare system (what is THE COUNTY doing?) we also extend the curve – there needs to be some thoughtful moderation. In his NYT Op-ed and subsequent interviews, Dr. Katz (and others) has advocated just that. Perhaps a focus on individual risk and/or a store size-to-customer ratio, rather than what’s “essential”, is a better approach. Without data, we will never know. SB can’t impose authoritarian Martial law and then have their Public Health Office, Dr. Ansorg, say “it’s never our practice to share information.” Not sure he understands, but a global pandemic might be the exception to any past practice norms, just saying. During times of great national crisis we have always persevered sometimes even spawning the “greatest” of generations. Without data, an understanding of “is this working” or a definition of “success,” this crisis will only bring questions and unrest. A few thoughtful residents are asking for just that – facts. In the end, I hope the information flows and that it fosters an honest discussion about how we can begin to slowly return to normalcy. We too can become a great generation, only time will tell if we will. Stay healthy! Jeff Giordano SB County Resident

What We Need Now

Life size cardboard cut outs of your family and celebrities to keep you company while in solitary (Lonely Guy). Inflatable dolls for physical comfort and pleasure. Punching bags with faces of your choice. Eyeglasses that allow you to see viruses. A necklace that kills all viruses around your head.

A ring that will destroy all viruses on your hand and anything you touch. A room virus eliminator. A phone app that detects and reports to authorities everyone within one mile that has a temperature or looks sick. A phone app that will directly contact Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to send money whenever you need it. A phone app that lets you know as soon as an outbreak occurs anywhere in the world and reports, minute by minute, all infections, hospitalizations and deaths (Zip a Dee Do Dah or diabolical laugh optional sound). A phone app that tracks your mental state and will call your psychiatrist when you are extremely anxious and/or suicidal. Old Man Steve Carpinteria

How Can We Help?

Hi and this is a question and/or for the letters… and hope for an answer either way. What do we need to do to show support for our local businesses… at this time I’m thinking of the Montecito Coffee Shop and Debbie. We go there regularly on weekends and certainly want to help them continue serving our community. What can I personally do? Thanks in advance, Jean von Wittenburg Montecito

Criminology and Covid-19

Covid-infused ire against Chinese Americans is as ironic as it is misplaced and lamentable. Countries in the Chinese cultural sphere do better at eating the bitter medicine of social distancing. Two traditions in Chinese culture contribute to this. One is that of reclusion. When events are not in accord with the Mandate of Heaven, retiring to the mountains for a life of self-cultivation becomes a most prestigious strategy. The other tradition is that of Legalist philosophy. Legalism helped shape a collection of warring states into a more unified political body, which became China. The phi

losophy can be summed up in the one sentence: “If there are no small crimes there will be no big crimes.” The idea is to nip things in the bud. In Singapore, whose judicial system draws both on Confucian and Legalist sources, one gets twenty years for spitting on the street. Singapore also displayed an impressively flat firstwave epidemiological curve. Taiwan and Hong Kong were able to tamp down their first-wave curves as well. For this one must be able to “eat bitter,” an ability the Chinese have long claimed that Americans lack. The war against any virus is two-pronged: Isolate it (by social distancing) and out tech it, through vaccine. In the first strategy all players are of equal value, as in the game of go (wei chi), wei chi our defensive chi, or immunity. The prerequisite for not passing a virus on is not to get it. The second strategy is more hierarchical, like chess, where players possess different values. The pharm lab that first makes a vaccine available is like a Queen in a chess game. Wars against viruses yo-yo back and forth between these two strategies. Social isolation buys time and flattens the curve so that medical systems do not become overburdened. During those precious days and months scientists are hard at it in the labs. Thus it is dangerous when influential politicians are not able to eat bitter. One could say they are not acting in accordance to the Mandate of Heaven. Time for all good Taoist poets to retire to the hills and cultivate what is innate. They may forget what Dynasty they are in, but they will know which wild greens to cook up after the Spring rains. James N. Powell

Another Thorny Affair

I pounded on the Thorns a few weeks ago, but it amazed me when I read her letter about how we should all rally around the President. I agree, but wasn’t it this President who had a cavalier attitude when this crisis hit and now he wants us to go to Church on Easter? Thomas Carlisle •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

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Village People by Nicholas Schou

Tecolote Book Shop’s Mary Sheldon Tecolote owner Mary Sheldon awaits you at her Dutch door

on’t even try to tell Mary Sheldon about how COVID-19 is hurting local businesses. After all, the owner of Tecolote Book Shop in Montecito’s Upper Village has been a bookseller for 30 years, the last 20 of which had the misfortune of taking place after the unprecedented rise of online shopping spearheaded by Amazon. Technically, Tecolote has been open almost four times as long as the internet has existed: since 1925 to be exact, although not at its current location on East Valley Road. The bookstore’s first iteration was in downtown Santa Barbara’s El Paseo. “There were Tecolotes in a few spots and then it ended up at what is now the De La Guerra House Museum,” Sheldon explains. “They moved out here in the early 1960s when this shopping center was built. Then in 1975, they closed the other store in Santa Barbara, leaving this as the only one.” Sheldon began working at the shop in 1991, managing it for then-owner Peggy Dent until 12 years ago when Dent retired, at which point Sheldon realized she had an opportunity to save the local landmark. “She said that if I didn’t buy it, she would probably close it,” Sheldon recalls. “I thought the store needed more respect and so I contacted a regular customer who was interested in buying it if it was ever for sale. We made a partnership and here we are.”

Ever since all but essential businesses in town were forced to close to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic, Sheldon has been keeping the shop open thanks to the fact that her main entrance features a Dutch door. This feature allows her to keep the top half of the door open so the public knows the shop is open, yet the bottom half of the door can remain locked to prevent anyone from wandering inside. “It’s great,” Sheldon says. “I can say hi to people and people can come by to pick up books they’ve ordered or to ask if there is a book that Sign of the times they could get for their son for a birthday.” Sheldon likens Tecolote’s temporary business model as somewhat akin to what used to be known as a carriage trade, where people would ride up to a shop in a carriage and purchase something and have it wrapped up for them on the spot. Long-term customers have also made a point of dropping by. “I think right now people really like to get out of their houses just to take a walk,” she says. “There are a lot of people walking around, and this is kind of a destination: Let’s go by the bookstore and see if it’s open.” That said, Sheldon adds, she hasn’t been able to help but notice a lot of shops nearby have closed in recent years, including a stationery shop and then a jewelry store, Sheldon’s next door neighbor, which shuttered in March. “A lot of people have moved to other places in Santa Barbara or other places in the U.S. We’ve also lost a lot of our customers to age.” And then there’s Amazon, which while now offering self-isolated shoppers everything from toothpaste to toilet paper, actually started out as a simple online bookselling website. “Something that has hurt all retail businesses, but which hurt booksellers to begin with is this twenty-year span that we have had to put up with Amazon,” Sheldon says. “I guess it’s what the American people want, but it sucks.” That said, Sheldon tries to remain humorous about the competition. When she’s unable to find a book for a customer, she recommends the website, although not exactly by name. “We tell people, ‘If you can’t find the book, you can always go up the river,’” she says, only half-jokingly. “With technology, I want it to work for me. I don’t want to work for it.” Tecolote Book Shop is located at 1470 East Valley Road; 805-969-4977; tecolotebook shop.com. Temporary hours: 10 am-1 pm Monday-Friday. •MJ

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic Strikes Santa Barbara

Note to Readers: In 2007, when I wrote about the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic in Santa Barbara, I never thought its story would ever be timely and relevant to today. I am sorry to have been wrong. I offer it again for your curiosity, instruction, and hope. They got through it then, and we’ll get through it now. Stay patient; stay safe. ~ Offering the very best of wishes ~ Hattie.

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Red Cross volunteers deliver food and supplies to families stricken by the Spanish flu on the East Coast where a terrible winter added to the distress (Library of Congress)

ith nearly one-third of the world’s population afflicted by the Spanish Influenza in 1918 and 1919, American children incorporated the epidemic into their jump rope games, singing, “I had a little bird, and its name was Enza. I opened up the window, and in-flu-enza.” The horror of the pandemic was hardly cause for levity, however. Fever-racked victims experienced temperatures between 104 and 106 degrees, severe limb pain, prostration and respiratory ailments. In severe cases, hemorrhagic pneumonia developed, filling the lungs and leading to death. Scientists today believe the 1918 virus was entirely new to humans, accounting for its terrible contagion and death rate. Normal flu epidemics have a death rate of 1 in 1,000. The 1918 pandemic had an average death rate of 25 in 1,000, with the death rate rising to 50 in 1,000 for those between the ages of 20 and 40, another anomaly of the 1918 epidemic. In one year, over 50 million people died worldwide, and some researchers put that number at 100 million. In comparison, total military and civilian deaths in WWI were 15-20 million. Very few areas of the world escaped unscathed, and those that did, like American Samoa and the French Colony of New Caledonia, did so because of extremely rigid quarantines. Santa Barbara was not among these lucky few. 2 – 9 April 2020

Ms Beresford is a local historian who has written two Noticias for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as well as authored two books. One, The Way It Was: Santa Barbara Comes of Age, is a collection of articles written for the Montecito Journal. The other, Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial, is the fascinating story of Santa Barbara’s Community Arts Music Association.

Santa Barbara and Montecito Get the Flu

Influenza officially invaded the Santa Barbara area on October 14. Health officials had been warning the public to take precautions for weeks, and buried beneath the headlines about war raging in Europe and Liberty Bond sales were articles out of Washington, D.C. reporting on the terrible numbers of cases in the military training camps. On October 11, the federal government reported a total of 236,083 cases of influenza and 7,432 deaths since the first documented outbreak at Fort Riley, Kansas in March. Just the day before, word had been received of a local boy, Thomas Adland, who had died at Fort Meade. Parents now had a double worry; would their children die on the muddy battlefields of Europe or would they die at the training camps of influenza? The Santa Barbara Board of Health

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Julie McMurry Explains It All – Pandemic Edition by Mitchell Kriegman

Information for Action

he wrote a manifesto, which became flattenthecurb.com. It was originally a Google Doc. Her document was uploaded so fast that it broke the Google drive features. She had no idea who was sharing it. It was just staggering. Then someone reached out to her and said they had reserved the domain flattenthecurve.com and wanted to put her Google Doc up on the website. Now the content has been translated into multiple languages and has more than 130 volunteers working on it. It’s routinely monitored and reviewed by a host of doctors and experts. The site is not political and has become the go-to site for the most up-to-date science-based advice about current best practices. It’s reliable and constantly updated as new discoveries develop. Remarkably all this content was initially compiled here in Santa Barbara by Julie McMurry. She has a master’s degree in public health from the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as a background in infectious diseases and vaccine development. She is currently an assistant professor, senior researcher, at Oregon State University in the College of Public Health. Communication rooted in science is her specialty. On March 13, which seems like ages ago, she posted a new Google Doc with a few other locals Stay Safe Santa Barbara with a plan for Santa Barbara. The Montecito Journal talked to her via Zoom in her recently renovated home office with her son, whom she affectionately refers to as Captain America, hovering occasionally and politely in the background.

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Q. As a health professional you’ve made it a mission to address the flood of disinformation people are hearing about the coronavirus. A. I think it’s important that local people are getting sane and prioritized advice. There’s just a swirl of disinformation and in addition to disinformation, there’s the additional layer of well-meaning people who want to help and heard something. It’s making the lives of the real first responders that much more chaotic and difficult. Is there an essential message you want to convey? One of the prevailing messages is “Information for Action.” Information for action is very different than information for its own sake. In public health, a lot of outcomes depend on 2 – 9 April 2020

it that way. And that’s exactly the way I saw it. In terms of this pandemic, people are fuel for the spread of the virus. Everyone needs to understand that. That avenue is there and there’s nothing really to stop it from reaching us unless we change our habits. It’s really a waste of time to talk about why it shouldn’t be this way to begin with because it is a problem that is urgent.

Information for action is very different than information for its own sake.

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behavior change. Behavior change is one of the hardest things to do. We know how difficult it is to lose weight, to regularly exercise, to get enough sleep, even though these are

What misconceptions have you heard that we can correct? The biggest misconception that people have right now is that if they’re not 65-plus, they’re not at any risk.

It’s really a waste of time to talk about why it shouldn’t be this way to begin with because it is a problem that is urgent. all things that are in our best interests. “Information for Action” is the first step toward behavioral change. It can motivate people and empower them to make decisions that are in their own personal interest, and also in everyone’s collective interest. Infectious diseases are one of those situations in which there is a straight line from how you behave to what happens to everyone around you. At the Journal we’ve written about Social Solidarity where, for example, we keep our sick kid home from school, so they get well and don’t infect others. We look after an older person and knock on their door to see how they’re doing. So, it isn’t really that foreign, it seems daunting now because it’s big and seemingly arbitrary.

That is patently false. In fact, under 50 constitutes a very substantial number of the hospitalizations. People who are young and healthy are finding themselves in the ICU. They don’t realize how easily they can get the virus and spread it as well. How do you explain this to younger people and everyone else? There’s a little local story for you that might help. During the Thomas Fire we lived in San Roque. I was looking at the map and I was looking at the winds and I was looking at our resources and telling my husband we should be ready to leave. He looked at the map and said, “It’s so far away.” And I said there is nothing between the fire and us except fuel. He hadn’t thought about

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Why aren’t there safeguards? Why is it spreading so quickly in our country? Successful policies in other countries have been difficult to apply here. There are five things in our social policy landscape that make pandemic control especially difficult. First, not having universal paid sick leave. Even the patients with paid sick leave are covered on the order of days and not weeks to recover. Second, zero guaranteed family leave to care for sick family members. Third, zero guaranteed financial and operational support for people who should self-quarantine. So, people ignore the quarantine because they need to make money to eat and may have the milder forms of the illness or worse. Fourth, many people are uninsured and given this cryptic transmission and no available vaccine with very few drugs to curb the severity of the illness, there’s no financial incentive for insurance companies to actually guarantee access to help. Not that they don’t care about people, but from an actuarial perspective it would be cheaper if everyone just died and died fast. Fifth and finally, insurance is tied to employment. So, when people get sick, especially when people get very sick, they are vulnerable to bankruptcy. That’s especially problematic in the economy at large when you have great numbers of people suddenly filing for bankruptcy all at the same time. So those factors add to the vulnerability of the population? Yes. You know, there was nothing anyone could have done to keep this pandemic from arriving on these shores. The nature of this virus is the perfect killing machine. It’s just deadly enough to do a lot of damage, maxes out healthcare, but spreads asymp-

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Village Beat by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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.

Remote Learning in Montecito

Montecito Union’s Dr. Anthony Ranii hosts a Zoom school meeting, which has become the cornerstone of remote learning

Three weeks ago, dining room tables across the country became home base for school, as parents began navigating remote learning

n Friday, March 13, it was announced that all 20 school districts within Santa Barbara County would close indefinitely in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving over 67,000 students – and their parents – left to begin a homeschooling program. Administrators and teachers from both of Montecito’s public schools have been working around the clock to adapt school curriculum for home use, in an attempt to bring a sense of normalcy to their students during this unprecedented time. Both Cold Spring School and Montecito Union School held one week of remote learning before their scheduled spring break last week; this week, on Wednesday, both schools will roll out a more formal remote learning program. “Our staff has been absolutely amazing,” said CSS superintendent Dr. Amy Alzina. “They rolled up their sleeves immediately and started getting to work building these remote curriculums.” The remote learning being rolled out this week at CSS utilizes programs such as Google Classroom and Zoom, and Dr. Alzina said the school’s primary focus is on English language arts (reading, writing, grammar, phonics),

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as well as math, with a secondary focus on social studies and science. Each student is provided a MacBook, as well as a set of headphones with a microphone, and earlier this week the school held a sort of “Back to School” night for parents via Zoom, to go over the daily schedule as well as parental expectations and limitations. “Everyone has a role and responsibility, and we will get through this together,” Dr. Alzina said. The 169 students at Cold Spring School will start their remote learning day with an all school Zoom meeting at 8:25 am, mimicking the daily blacktop meetings they used to have in person for the Pledge of Allegiance, birthday roll call, and announcements. “I think it’s important that they see me every morning, to give them a familiar way to start off their day,” she said. Students will then attend a Zoom meeting with their teacher, who will go over the daily schedule, assignments, and lesson plans. The bulk of the lessons, which are a combination of screen lessons and pen/paper, are done in the morning hours, in order to give parents flexibility in the afternoon. “We are cognizant that not every student is going to log back in after

lunch, depending on what their parents need to accomplish that day.” After lunch, lessons include music, PE, STEAM, and art. “We have teachers that are giving violin lessons to students remotely, or drama lessons for our sixth grade play,” said Dr. Alzina, adding that teachers are able to work from home or from their classroom on campus, and are working with a consultant to sharpen their technological skills. “It’s basically like we’ve started a new school,” she said. At Montecito Union, “MUS At Home 2.0” is also launching this week, following a week-and-a-half spring break which teachers and administrators spent building remote curriculums. “We’re utilizing a vari-

ety of different tools, from high tech to low tech,” said MUS superintendent Dr. Anthony Ranii, adding that the school is also using Google Classroom and Google Docs, Zoom, and a program called Seesaw which allows kids to upload videos to their teachers, to show their progress on assignments. All teachers and educational staff at MUS are working from home to maintain social distancing, including Dr. Ranii, who spoke to us from his home office earlier this week. “All of our teachers are also learning how to work and juggle their own families, and they’ve had great attitudes,” Dr. Ranii said. Dr. Ranii says the goal of MUS At

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’ve been studying to be a docent at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and learning historical facts. I never knew that the building at the back part of the Courthouse with the turret on top was once our jail. The first floor held the sheriff’s offices (it still does), the second floor was for the jailer and his family to live, the third was for female prisoners, the fourth for men, and fifth for exercise. Two cells for solitary confinement were in the tallest tower. The jail held 140 inmates in cells similar to Alcatraz because they were all built about the same time. The Courthouse was finished in 1929. Although Alcatraz is best known for its 29 years (1934 to 1963) as the site of one of our most infamous federal penitentiaries, it has a much longer history as a “prison island.” Probably one of the most famous islands in the world. It’s known as “The Rock” and is located in San Francisco Bay 1.5 miles offshore from the city. It originally served as a lighthouse. The U.S. Army

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established a fort on the barren, turtle-shaped island in 1853. The Army occupied Alcatraz for about 80 years, but its protection of the Golden Gate as a lighthouse is not what gained the 22-acre island recognition. Alcatraz housed many famous criminals such as Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Today it is a National Historic Landmark and can be visited by ferry. In 1859 eleven military prisoners accompanied the first garrison. They were placed in a dungeon-like room that was accessed with a ladder through a hatch in the floor of the guardhouse. Thus began imprisonThe Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Alcatraz ferry

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ment. Over time four separate buildings were added to hold prisoners. In 1908 the War Department constructed a fourth and last cell house which is the large concrete building you see today. Life in the 600 cement cell house was governed by military rules of conduct but something new was added – rehabilitation. A school was begun with departments for education, vocational, and military training. Every prisoner went and many returned to active Army service. Seventy percent finished their tours of duty in good standing. In 1933 the expense of transporting supplies and personnel to and from was too expensive. The Army gave it to the Department of Justice. With renovation, it became a jail. Yes, people did escape. The military prison was not maximum security and was staffed with soldiers, not trained guards. They came later in 1907. In May 1878, two prisoners commandeered a boat and got away. In 1877, nine prisoners fled from work assignments in San Francisco. My favorite escape is in 1906 when four convicts stole a butter vat from the bakery and tried to paddle it the mile and a quarter to San Francisco Currents and wind forced them to return and they were found hiding in a power magazine. The next year three men tried it

Approaching Alcatraz from the ferry

on a bread kneading trough. In 1912 two prisoners tried to escape on a raft. Another time a pair tried clinging to a log; one drowned and the other was caught. Forgery and disguise were also tried. In 1903 four prisoners drafted an official looking document recommending their own release and forged the commanding officer’s signature. They were freed; one was caught but three vanished. During the flu epidemic in 1918, inmates stole uniforms and flu masks and boarded an Army launch but were captured a few days later. In the movie Escape from Alcatraz, the warden says to a new prisoner

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SEEN (Continued from page 17) Walking around Alcatraz as part of the self-guided tour with earphones

One of the cells similar to the ones in Santa Barbara’s former jail

(Clint Eastwood), “If you disobey the rules of society, they send you to prison. If you disobey the rules of prison, they send you to us.” And that’s the way it really was. Women convicts were never housed in Alcatraz. It was segregated with African American inmates housed in the top tiers of B and C Block while Asian and Latino inmates were mixed in with white prisoners. Over the course of the years it was a federal penitentiary (19341963). 1,545 men did time on Alcatraz. All but 71 were transferred from other prisons after creating problems of one kind or another.

Did anyone escape from the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary? Yes, No. Maybe. Between 1934 and 1963 a total of 34 men tried to escape in 14 separate attempts. Five were never seen or heard from again and presumed to have drowned. Two tried to escape twice. And the list goes on. By the 1960s U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy reevaluated the prison. The marine environment had deteriorated the cement cell house and a new sewage system was needed. Rehabilitation was in the future so Alcatraz was closed March 21, 1963 with the inmates transferred to

other prisons. My last prison story is about Saint (Santa) Barbara who, legend has it, was locked in a tower by her father to keep her safe from suitors. This was about 250 A.D. and maybe in Turkey. While he was gone she added a third window to her tower representing the trinity. When her father returned he knew that meant she had turned Christian. He was so angry that he chopped her head off. The minute he did, he was struck dead by lightening. She is the patron saint of munitions and dangerous jobs. Maybe she zapped him! The next time you’re in San

Francisco, if you’ve never been to Alcatraz, hop on that ferry for a fascinating and emotional self-guided tour with headphones to direct you. The National Park service is the caretaker now. In the words of inmate Jim Quillen #AZ586, “Nothing could blot out the knowledge of what and where you were, or the certainty that this was all that life held for you in the future. Man was never intended to live as a caged animal; I often speculated as to whether life was worth living under these conditions.” Maybe when things get back to normal, you’ll come to the Courthouse for a docent led tour. They’re free. •MJ

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Get Off the Couch!

ello, my social distancing, hand washing friends out there! How are you coping amidst all this mayhem? Does anyone even know what day it is? As the apocalyptic pandemic of COVID-19 intensifies and our collective anxiety increases exponentially each day we remain under quarantine, I think it’s remarkable that any of us can peel ourselves off the couch and away from our screens to do anything productive. But today more than ever we need to get up and move, and I don’t mean just into another room! Managing stress is essential to your wellbeing and emotional resilience, and physical activity is one of the most effective ways to do it. Getting off the couch and being active has numerous physical and mental benefits, including slowing down the release of stress hormones, elevating metabolism to burn fat more efficiently, improving deeper stages of sleep, boosting the

production of hormones responsible for mental wellbeing, and strengthening your immune system, which is something everyone needs right now. The hard part is motivation. If you need some inspiration and guidance in this department (and most of us do), help is here with beautiful and talented health, fitness, and wellness expert Nora Tobin. For over 13 years Nora has been helping people in Santa Barbara stay healthy and strong with her knowledge, experience, and infectious enthusiasm for fitness and wellbeing. In addition to being the first female fitness editor of Sports Illustrated and columnist for SHAPE magazine, she leads luxury wellbeing retreats, executive summits, workshops, corporate wellness programs for Fortune 500 companies, and private and group health coaching. When you meet Nora her passion for fitness and health is palpable and compelling. She notes, “I have had

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the fortune of working with and being inspired by the magnetic Santa Barbara locals to build my wellness business. My remarkable mentors, as well as the team at Physical Focus in Montecito and their twenty-plus years in health, have greatly influenced me.” During this unprecedented time of endless TV watching and all-day snacking, Nora has something to help every single one of us. Her “Fulfillment in 3” (Fit, Fueled, Focused) workshops, one-on-one coaching, and live classes are now available online. Originally created for the business professional with little time, Nora’s “Fulfillment in 3” program utilizes a holistic approach to wellbeing, delivering strategies for sleep, stress, fitness, and nutrition without sacrificing enjoyment. To take advantage of this quarantine time and get into shape, the four-week plan includes multiple live workouts, guided online meditation and yoga classes. Nora offers one-on-one coaching sessions (via phone or Skype), as well as weekly nutrition plans, tips on strengthening your immunity, and

her own “Nora’s Naturals” recipes for clean cocktails, healthy desserts, superfood snacks. Nora is also offering free, online yoga classes from Monday to Saturday, from 12-12:45 pm. Try this yoga flow class in the comfort of your own home for a mix of energizing and restorative poses that will help strengthen immunity, increase production of serotonin, and enhance creative and analytical thought. Open to all levels, the class integrates core strengthening as well as guided breathing to improve physical and mental wellbeing. You can watch classes for 24 hours after each class ends. To access this free class, visit @noratobin on Instagram. In our sudden, home-bound reality we need all the tools we can get to keep ourselves centered and healthy. Any kind of physical activity you can do is beneficial. Stay safe and healthy, and get off that couch! For more information on Nora or her offerings, visit www.NoraTobin. com or email her at: nt@noratobin. com •MJ

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Friendship Center, Easy Lift, and Bucket Brigade Team Up for Home Food Deliveries Heidi Holly and Abe Powell readying the Friendship Center’s deliveries

ince 1979, Montecito’s nonprofit Friendship Center has provided group therapy for senior citizens from Monday through Friday at its rustic headquarters on Eucalyptus Lane. Normally by mid-morning on a weekday, the center would be a buzz of activity, with caregivers dropping off members to enjoy a day full of live music, therapy dog yoga, talks on travel and exploration, walking and water-coloring clubs, flower arranging and bingo, just to name a few. Last Thursday at 10 am, however, the Friendship Center was closed to the public, as it had been since March 15 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this – or rather precisely because of this fact – about a dozen volunteers that morning packed the center to help deliver food and care packages to dozens of elderly members who are now stuck at home with nothing to do and nowhere to go. “We’ve been worried about our mem- Items donated by the Food Bank of Santa bers and their caregivers ever since we Barbara closed both our Montecito and Goleta locations,” said executive director Heidi Holly, who along with Kim Larsen and Judy Hughes were wearing masks while busy packing bags of non-food items for members including stress balls, puzzles and games, shampoo bottles, Kleenex, and other small items donated by local businesses such as First American Title Company. “We felt it was important to take care of our members right now, because it’s hard for them to get out and get food, particularly for people who are in cognitive decline,” Holly said. “These are Take Care Totes that are filled with wellness and comfort food products so people can feel comfortable at home.” To help deliver the food and care packages, the Friendship Center enlisted the support of Santa Barbara-based Easy Lift Transportation, a para-transit organization that helps bring elderly and disabled people anywhere they need to go from Goleta to Carpinteria, as well as provide free rides for MediCal recipients to and from medical appointments. On hand to help drive last Thursday was Easy

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Lift’s Kristina Lauterio, also wearing a mask. “We usually provide free transportation for people,” Lauterio told me. “Now we are here to deliver food.” Holly was grateful for all the support. “Our mission is to keep people involved in activities to keep their minds going,” she explained. “So I really love that we are reaching out and being able to do that today, because their being home really concerns us. It’s hard on the caregivers and family members who take care of them when they are not here, and that’s why we are offering our help now, just to give Canned food to the rescue them little things to do and keep them moving.” Inside the Friendship Center’s kitchen were numerous boxes full of food staples including comfort food items such as bananas and pistachios as well as beans and other canned foods, all of which were provided to the center by the Foodbank of Santa Barbara. There to help organize the packing and delivery of the food was the Bucket Brigade’s Abe Powell, whose group has extensive experience in coordinating aid efforts. Powell made sure that volunteers practiced proper social distancing and helped ensure that as little effort as possible was wasted in packing up the food for delivery. “Line up these boxes right here,” Powell instructed. “Put the tables there and this is where all these boxes will go,” he added. “Boom!” Along with all the other volunteers, Powell was wearing a health mask, but also a pair of industrial strength coveralls and heavy construction boots. “Normally, we run the entire operation ourselves,” he said after telling volunteers how to proceed. “But because we are working with all these other agencies with their own levels of experience and competence, we’ll get the system worked out. This is the premier barbacoa but we’ll get it right.”

Santa Barbara’s Stitch Witch Now on Mask Duty

A decade ago, after working at Nordstrom for several years, Ellen Sztuk took a lunch break one day and called up her husband, telling him she was going to quit her job. That night, when she came home from work, her husband asked her what she could possibly be thinking. “I told him that I am going to be the ‘Stitch Witch’ of Santa Barbara,” Sztuk recalls. “I made some business cards and in no time I had five clients. I realized this is what I am supposed to be doing my whole life.” Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Sztuk has lived in Santa Barbara for the past 17 years. Although her great-aunt used to sew and she remembers learning

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 26)

Cottage Hospital with the Nurses’ Home (the original hospital) in the background was filled beyond capacity (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Boyland, Prynce Hopkin’s school for underprivileged boys, became a hospital ward (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

started advertising the slogan, “Cover up each cough and sneeze; if you don’t, you’ll spread the disease.” They also arranged for public speakers and slides to be shown at the theaters in order to educate the public, they said, “into realizing a sense of the seriousness of the situation.” New York City did Santa Barbara one better and made it illegal to sneeze in a public place without covering one’s mouth and nose. The penalty? Five hundred dollars or one year in jail, or both! On October 13, another local boy, William E. Hosmer, died at Camp Humphrey, Virginia. Several cases of colds and mild influenza were reported in town, but officials claimed there was no cause for panic. On October 15, everything changed. The Santa Barbara Board of Health, under the direction of George H. Hicks, closed the schools, churches, and all public places and forbade all public gatherings. Houses where family members were ill with influenza were quarantined and placarded as such. The number of cases built slowly, but soon Cottage Hospital, County General, and St. Francis were full. The demand for space became so severe that the not-yet-finished maternity ward was pulled into service as were the basement, new dispensary, and the parlor at the nurses’ home. Prynce Hopkins was the pacifist founder of Boyland (later the

have been laboring under the delusion that there was nothing at all to the Spanish influenza scare.” The Red Cross made and distributed 1,400 flu masks. Once those were gone the Board of Health offered sterilized cheesecloth so the citizens could make their own. “This is a very simple matter,” they said. “Even a man can make them.” The State Board of Health ordered all people ill with the flu or a cold and their family members to wear masks as well as all medical staff and visitors to hospitals. The mask requirements did not go unchallenged. In Santa Barbara, people simply ignored the ordinance; in San Francisco, they were vocal about it. Several wrote the papers and the mayor saying it was unconstitutional. One man, Erminio Chavez, Sr., asserted masks frightened people, encouraged municipal corruption, discouraged immigration, enabled married folks to deceive each other, and pleased the Kaiser. By October 27, the emergency hospital at Boyland was filled, and 9 people had died. On that day, the Morning Press headline shouted, “BAN ON GHOSTS PROWLING AROUND,” and Halloween activities were cancelled. Merchants wrote, admonishing their customers to use the phone if they were sick and not “subject clerks and employees to the annoyance and possible danger of being forced to wait on customers with incipient cases of influenza.” As activities of a social nature ceased, the society editor Jessie Mary Bryant wrote, “Just as long as this epidemic lasts, with incidental fall in

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Samarkand Hotel and today a retirement community), a boarding school for underprivileged boys. He had been fined $20,000 and jailed for his anti-war lectures. Public sentiment against Hopkins had closed his school by the spring of 1918, nevertheless, he offered the empty building as an emergency hospital for the duration of the epidemic. It opened on October 22. Besides lack of space, qualified nurses were in short supply because many were serving overseas. Red Cross volunteers filled in where needed. Eventually, public school teachers were required to work for the war effort, the flu effort, or the schools in some capacity.

The Fight Against the Virus

On October 19, Santa Barbara experienced its first death from influenza, followed the next day by two more. On October 20, the number of cases in California stood at 15,363 reported cases with Santa Barbara reporting 152. On October 23, the California State Board of Health ordered barbers and hotel room attendants to wear medicated gauze masks. Local banks initiated a voluntary mask plan as did several postal clerks. The Morning Press reported, “The appearance of the masks here was in many ways a severe jolt to the skeptical ones who

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Red Cross Motor Pool in front of the Recreation Center where volunteers switched from rolling bandages to making masks (Courtesy Photo)

Throughout the nation, Red Cross volunteers made masks to protect people from the pandemic (Library of Congress)

abated, and on December 4, the Morning Press reported, “The Last of the Flu Fences Knocked Down.” The epidemic, like the war, was over just in time for Christmas. In Santa Barbara and Montecito, crowds rejoiced and prepared to welcome home their soldier boys, women prepared to vote and serve on the grand jury, and everyone drank “one more for the road” before getting on the wagon of Prohibition.

A Merry Christmas and a Not-So-Happy New Year

After a very merry Christmas of mingling with friends and family and kissing under the mistletoe, the Board of Health greeted the New Year by closing the city again. The Morning Press of January 3 reported 35 new cases of influenza with an average of 33 new cases per day the entire previ-

ous week. With Boyland now closed, a new emergency hospital was opened by the Red Cross in the Hadley House at 633 East Sola Street. The house was donated by its artist owner, Louis Lombard. The Red Cross put out a call for Gray Ladies, volunteer nurses who had taken the home nursing course, and assumed all costs of running the hospital. The death toll continued to rise. Ray Leslie of Montecito died January 3, three others on January 4 and deaths continued to average about three per day for the next few weeks. With school closed again, the Board of Education instituted a correspondence system for students. The St. Cecilia Club, which was helping fund several cases of influenza, canceled its annual fundraiser, the Valentine’s Day Tea and Fair, just when it needed it the most.

Clarence Black’s daughter Ruth as a member of the Red Cross Motor Pool which extended its service beyond the Armistice (Courtesy Photo)

A flying squadron of quarantine cops joined the Red Cross Motor Pool in aiding the health board. They patrolled the city on motorcycles, putting up notices of influenza on quarantined houses, getting doctors and nurses for the sick, performing errands for quarantined families, and enforcing the quarantine. By January 29, the Health Board decided the crisis had passed and cautiously phased in a partial opening of the city. First the schools were reopened, then the churches, and finally the theaters and pool halls. By February 11, the final flu bans were removed as the epidemic sputtered out. To this day, scientists remain baffled by the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. They

have not been able to determine its origin or pathology. They do know that its severity serves as a great lesson and warning as medical workers the world over struggle to plan for the next “Big One.” (Sources: contemporary Morning Press and Daily News articles; “1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics” by Jeffrey K. Taubenberger and David M. Morens; “Philadelphia Nurses, and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918” by James F. Armstrong, U.S. navy; “Santa Barbara History Makers,” and “Cottage Hospital: the First 100 Years” by Walker Tompkins; with special thanks to C. Seybert Kinsell, MD.) •MJ

The Hadley House was donated to serve as a hospital (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum

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Delivering the Farmers’ Market from the Coronavirus

by Mitchell Kriegman

hen we look out at the Pacific from Butterfly Beach it’s clear. The ocean still works. When we turn to look at the Santa Ynez Mountains it’s easy to see the mountains are just fine. Clouds, too. It also turns out that the valleys and fields and surrounding farms continue to produce food, with even bluer skies and more sun. The storms of this month have brought the countywide rainfall to 83% of the normal, so the ever-present threat of drought has subsided. The natural world spins serenely on despite how much humanity across the globe has been turned upside down. One would assume that farmers’ markets would be doing just fine. Food is an essential service and Gelson’s, Lazy Acres, and Tri-County are open with daily and weekly adjustments. The Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market falls in the same category of essential services and for some the market is the heartbeat of Santa Barbara. In so many ways the market provides an even more important service to the community. It’s local, it’s outside, people come and leave, fewer hands have touched the food sold there, more food is organic and connects growers and consumers directly. It’s also a social mecca, even a weekly highlight for many and that’s where the trouble begins. On one hand across the country, farmers who sell boxes of meat, dairy, fruits, and vegetables directly to consumers are seeing a huge spike in orders as the coronavirus outbreak changes how people buy food. The food delivery businesses run by local farmers across the country are flourishing as people grow wary of making frequent trips to the grocery store and choosing to cook at home instead of eating out. It’s emerged as a bright spot in the agriculture industry while other types of small to midsize farms are struggling due to many farmers markets shutting down and restaurants and schools scaling back contracts.

Gathering at Farmers’ Markets is a Concern During the Crisis But at the same time, farmers’ markets are being scrutinized and reevaluated on a daily basis. Just this week Los Angeles closed down all its farmers’ markets as of March 31. The problem, put bluntly, is social contagion. The issues aren’t just for consumers. If consumers don’t feel comfortable, they can go home. The farmers can’t and they are the ones who are taking the most precautions and are the most concerned. The SBCFMA, the market association and its Board of Directors, are working around the clock to figure out new ways to intake cash, food handling, social distancing, market flow, and more. The Montecito Journal made numerous attempts to reach the SBCFMA staff but were unsuccessful. “Both the consumer and vendors have improved patterns of behavior a ton,” says market vet and longtime Santa Barbara farmer Tom Shepherd, “but nevertheless, I’m still concerned.” Roots Farm owner Jacob Grant who has one the biggest farm stands in the market and whose entire year-round production is aimed at the farmers’ market as his primary point of sale has stopped going to the markets for the last few weeks because he’s simply uncomfortable. Grant has thought deeply and philosophically about how he farms and brings his products to the market consumer and he doesn’t take his decision lightly. “I think changes have already started happening as the market has become more of an essential activity than a social activity,” he explains. “Limiting the contact points between customers and vendors is crucial. I stopped because I felt like the public and myself were not on the same page with how we need to act and engage with each other to limit the potential risk of the coronavirus.” As a result of these concerns, farmers are all reevaluating overnight their business models in varying ways. What is eminently clear is that the people in Montecito and Santa Barbara have a stronger demand for local produce than ever, particularly with the need to stay at home, as the restaurants have virtually shut down and the bigger stores seem daunting.

Consumers are Beginning to Change Their Behavior

“Farmers provide for the health and nourishment of the people,” states Katherine Lesh, who runs a highly successful CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) which markets boxes of prepaid and preordered market produce and was established well before the current concerns developed. “Many are worried about their own health and the health of their workers. On the bright side a need for healthy local produce will always be important,” she added.

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Farmers’ Market staple Tom Shepherd gloves up

Tom Shepherd sees a new normal at farmers’ markets. “There’s more social consciousness and communal health awareness that will continue even after the pandemic ends. People will buy without touching everything and rooting around and change their pattern.” He deeply loves the market and seeing the community, it’s his social connection, so the thought of dropping out of the market weighs heavy on him.

Solutions Abound

The resourcefulness of farmers is legendary. New ideas are springing up overnight just like this month’s harvest. In almost every case farmers are working hard to keep their workers and not lose them and keep their farms fully functioning. CSAs like Farm Cart Organics or the Farm Box Collective are popping up

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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.

SBCC SEL in Cyberspace

hat with all the online learning taking place in colleges, universities, and other educational institutions, it may not seem all that revolutionary that Santa Barbara City College’s School of Extended Learning is embracing the internet. Indeed, with the COVID-19 crisis, there was no choice but to go virtual. What is rather exciting is the breadth of classes from the division formerly (and belovedly) known as Adult Ed that have made the journey. Courses in art (including drawing, painting, collage, and flower arranging as well as appreciation), music (including several singing sessions and instruction in the ukulele and more), acting, writing, travel, film, and much more. More germane to our area, there are also plenty of personal development/spiritual practices classes that have zipped over to Zoom as well, a transition made all the more simple by the fact that most don’t require any props at all. You can choose from several section of Body/Mind Awareness; Consciousness, Science, and the Nature of Being; Essence of Compassionate Communication; Acupressure - Simple Patterns for Pain Relief and Relaxation; Health and Wellness: Active Body, Active Mind; and Naturopathic Medicine - Science and Nature Working Together, to name just a few. All of the instructors seem not only amenable but actively enthusiastic about having people join any class that’s already ongoing. A little more surprisingly, Rodger Sorrow has figured out to take people on meditative journeys through the plentiful beaches, mountain trails, parks, and such in our area through his now virtual Nature and Self-Healing classes, which have both beginning and intermediate sections (not sure how they differ since nobody is actually moving). “I think we can still have fun with this,” Sorrow said in an email message. “We will start with some time just to visit and connect. I will bring some hiking pics and short video clips so we can talk about different trails and the special features they offer. We can have our usual discussion of a self-healing topic and then a short meditation.” What’s new is an assignment: a weekly suggestion to go for a hike while, of course, maintaining safe social distance unless you are with the people already in your house2 – 9 April 2020

hold. You can even ask during class if anyone wants to go with you and perhaps try a new trail – keeping far enough apart that you’re untouchable by COVID. Participants can then share digital pictures with the class. Sorrow provided the Zoom link, but I’m withholding it here, because students need to register as SBCC gets funding through attendance, and low enrollment means the class might get canceled. Even more exciting, perhaps, is the news that came just this Monday that The SBCC School of Extended Learning has also arranged to conduct the annual Santa Barbara Nonviolent Communication Conference online. In response to COVID-19, the event, curated and moderated by Sorrow, will be hosted by the NVC Academy, the existing online classroom for learning NVC concepts, meaning dedicated Santa Barbara-area NVC practitioners can stay in touch with the local NVC community and learn from the seven visiting trainers without leaving your home. There will be 20 sessions in all during the April 24 -26 conference, which will be conducted via four parallel Zoom rooms. We’ll have more details in an upcoming issue. Visit www.sbcc.edu/extendedlearn ing/sel_online_classes.php to see the current spring schedule and register for the conference. Email Sorrow at rodgerhsorrow@gmail.com or call (805) 452-8874 to find out more about the new format.

Next Up in NVC

Speaking of Nonviolent Communication, this week offers a chance for a free session with Sarah Peyton, a Washington-state based CNVC Certified Trainer who is also an international speaker and facilitator known for an ability to weave together neuroscience knowledge and experiences of healing that unify people with their brains and bodies. Peyton’s revolutionary Resonant Self Process and associated retreats have helped hundreds of people rewire their brains and restore their capacity for self-love, something that might seem even more essential in these harrowing times. Peyton will be offering her transformational retreat in an online format for the first time next month, so she’s holding a free session to provide a taste of what to expect. The 90-minute Introduction to Resonant Language provides an opportunity to learn reso-

nant language skills for powerful and effective relational connections and to experience the interactive and connecting possibilities of online retreating. A live Q&A session with Peyton will follow so you can learn more about the retreat that also served as the basis for her book, Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, which was published by W.W. Norton, and brings together neurobiology, the science of relationships and Nonviolent Communication. Visit https://zoom.us/meeting/ register/vJYkcOqprTkpnNL2bkgPbL-h5eQSL-z2yg for details and registration.

Jessica’s Journey to Zoom

Carpinteria QiGong teacher Jessica Kolbe, another SBCC SEL we have profiled in these pages in the past, held out as long as possible in keeping her in-person classes going at the Linden Avenue beach, where people were easily able to stay more than six feet from each other, all the way through March 22. But the city, wisely in our humble opinion, shut that down in favor of flattening-the-curve isolation. So Kolbe’s COVID capitulation means classes have migrated to Zoom. Her six live classes a week schedule began last Monday, March 30, with sessions in Qigong for Optimal Health, Qigong/Tai Chi, Tai Chi Easy™, Inner Power Qigong, Wudang Qigong/Tai Chi, and Animals and Elements Qigong. Kolbe has also made pre-recorded videos in Every Day Qigong, Phoenix Qigong, Balance and Fall Prevention, and Animal Frolics Qigong available online for free, while her friend and one of her teachers, the celebrated Qigong teacher and author Daisy Lee, is offering an introduction to Zang Fu Gong, a graceful, empowering form of Qigong renowned for its cleansing and rejuvenating powers, via a onehour video. “Qigong to Cleanse Your Organs for Better Health & Energy Flow: Receive Two Zang Fu Gong Practices to Bring Healing Energy to Your Liver & Lungs” is also being made available for free at https:// shiftnetwork.infusionsoft.com/go/ qc/a18955. Visit https://www.qigongsb.com/ online-classes for details and to register for the six weekly Zoom classes, which cost $10 each.

just keeps expanding her ongoing offerings to the community to gather, connect, and share silence and guided meditations together. The weekly schedule produced by the clinical psychologist and teacher of Buddhist meditation and Buddhist psychology now includes events on every day of the week, save for Saturday, and features no fewer than 11 different practitioners with various approaches as guides. On Mondays from 12-12:30 pm it’s Anahita Holden and Hattie Bluestone “Mindful Self-compassion,” while 7-8:15 pm Weininger offers “Mindfulness and Compassion.” Tuesdays at 7 pm is Stacy Zumbroigel “Meditation and Trauma,” and Weininger teams with Danjo San for “Mindfulness, Compassion, and Zen” at 7 pm on Wednesdays. Thursdays brings

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COVID-19 concessions conalmost everyone to their Santa Barbara meditation Radhule Weininger, Ph.D.,

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everywhere, but they don’t provide the same kind of income farmers rely on from selling direct to the consumer. So many farmers are creating their own distribution systems. Golden State Papaya, Mt. Olive, and Tutti Frutti have already mobilized to reach their loyal farmers’ market customers that way. Chefs and caterers have also entered into the fray. One astonishingly successful development has been directed by the head chef of Barbareño Restaurant, Preston Knox. Meeting overnight with Julian Martinez, one of the owners, and the staff and even their website designer, Knox has reconfigured their entire operation to provide not only prepared food for pick up but quality goods from their distributors and local produce from the farmers. Nadia Van Wingerden of Sage Hill Farms who grows some of the most Chef Preston Knox innovates and keeps his whole sought after avocadoes in the market staff working in new and original ways delivered twenty-five pounds of avocados to Barbareño and will be supplying them regularly. She’s also selling them out of her driveway in Carpinteria at 1473 Sterling Avenue for five dollars a bag, all certified organic. Preston first met Nadia when he was searching for fresh rabbit. When he started preparing it in the restaurant people went crazy for it. Barbareño feels that the new venture is successful enough that even when things calm down and the restaurant reopens, they’ll continue distributing and preserving their unique relationship with the farmers from the market. Former Wildwood Kitchen and Julienne Chef Justin West has also created a new endeavor built around farmers’ market produce called the Market Forager, providing boxes of produce chiefly sourced from Jacob Grant’s Roots Farm. He’s also providing recipes and is offering a butcher’s box. An investigation into already existing underlying local farm produce distribution uncovered a further intriguing possibility, especially here in Montecito. The buoyant and effusive owner of Montecito Village Grocery, Roxy Lawler, was also already buying Sage Hill avocados for the market in upper Montecito. The Village Grocery is home of one of the very best butchers in town, Tony Perocco, who whips out grass-fed filets faster than a wild west gunslinger. He’s been a stalwart of the market for thirty-six years. Ms Lawler bought the Montecito Village Grocery three years ago and has gone to great lengths to preserve and enhance a cherished landmark. ` The Market has instituted many changes in recent weeks to protect the employees as well as consumers. It had been an agonizing decision to acquire face masks for the grocery employees instead of contributing them to the hospital. But in the end, Ms Lawler felt she had to protect her workers. It’s one of the strange ironies of the pandemic that store clerks and even checkout counter baggers are exposed and provide an essential service to keep stores open and people fed. With broken distribution chains and the heightened desire for fresh local produce the Montecito Village Grocery is innovating for the community as well. SANTA BARBARA

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“The missing link is to have more fresh and local produce in the market,” she declared, “and we’d like to sell more local farm produce including eggs and other items. It’s a win-win for the farmers for the market and the village consumer.” In fact, it might even be a win-win-win. “We are a community service,” she adds. Farmers can reach her regarding distribution at MontecitoGrocery@yahoo.com. “We’d like to put it out there for businesses struggling that have amazing product to offer. We’d like to hear from you.” Lori Heal, affectionately known as Mama, of Two Peas in a Pod Farm doesn’t hesitate to offer that the farm is “the love of her life.” Two Peas is a small family farm that offers some of the sweetest blueberries in the area. It’s just her husband, children, and herself and she’s been farming for thirty-six years. They’re between crops right now so the market has been slower than usual. As for the coronavirus she takes it in stride. “Farmers are used to dealing with the unpredictable. There is always the unpredictability of weather and how the crops thrive or not,” she says. “Nothing is ever for sure in farming.” She says she has no choice but to be in the market because their entire business is markets. She feels blessed every day to be healthy and able to continue working. “We’re taking everything day by day,” she adds. “We all have to make it, so we will make it. We are a community and we will work together.” •MJ

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• The Voice of the Village •

MONTECITO JOURNAL

For Goodness’ Sake

Focus on Finance by Christopher Gallo

by Ken Saxon Ken Saxon’s second act – following his business career – has been building a leadership network to empower, elevate, and connect Santa Barbara County’s nonprofit leaders. He enjoys the opportunity to engage in civic life and leadership locally, especially through the nonprofit leadership organization he founded, Leading From Within.

Thank You for Your Service

hen I committed to write a regular column for the Montecito Journal about our local community and the people who care for it, I could never have imagined COVID-19 and how it has overtaken our collective world. But here we are in this moment of fear and “social distancing” and the crushing of livelihoods, and it’s actually a great time to talk about the people who tend to the common good in our community as so many of us shelter in place. Have you ever noticed that there are certain people who seem compelled to serve and to lead in their community? My second career, here in Santa Barbara, has been working with people like this – those who can’t not

and their canyon nets, and “Cash Mobs” that hit the streets to show support to our local merchants. And now comes COVID-19. This insidious virus has turned so much more upside down this time around than our natural disasters of two years ago. It’s gone right at the social and economic beating hearts of our community, with no end in sight. And it’s global, so we can’t expect the world to come to our rescue. We will get through this pandemic crisis, but not without a lot of pain and disruption. And that pain will be spread widely and quite unevenly. Many that launched efforts to address community needs in our natural disasters – the Foodbank,

The very least the rest of us can do is step up and do anything we can to help cushion the blow – donating, checking on neighbors, finding ways to support local businesses, volunteering as able, and certainly listening to our health professionals

step up when there is a need. Some do this from nonprofit organizations. Some work for government. Some are philanthropists. Many are everyday citizens who just get an immense amount of satisfaction by chipping in. We saw these public servants out in force during the Thomas Fire and the January 9 debris flows that followed them. Typically, they operate behind the scenes. But those daily 4 pm press conferences made some of them household names. Remember Cindy Ponce of the California Highway Patrol? Dave Zaniboni from County Fire? And Suzanne Grimmesey from the County’s Department of Behavioral Wellness, helping us deal with our trauma? And for each person who popped up in our livestreams, there were thousands more working behind the scenes to help our community recover. Philanthropic and government initiatives stepped up and made a massive contribution to recovery and renewal here after the mountain came down. But what most inspired me were the many self-organized citizen-to-citizen efforts that emerged – like the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, the Santa Barbara Support Network, the Project for Resilient Communities,

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Bucket Brigade, the 805Undocufund, United Way, and the Santa Barbara Foundation – are stepping up again in this crisis. And schools and health centers and government are being forced to adapt all their services on the fly. While many of us have been asked to retreat to our private domains, there’s a whole universe of people stepping up to care for so many who need help right now – those losing their employment, the sick and the soon-to-be-sick, and our elderly and our children. The very least the rest of us can do is step up and do anything we can to help cushion the blow – donating, checking on neighbors, finding ways to support local businesses, volunteering as able, and certainly listening to our health professionals. This is what community should be about – reaching beyond our private interests to invest in one another’s welfare. In an essay last week in Politico, Villanova professor Mark Lawrence Schrad wrote of his hope that this pandemic crisis would ultimately lead to what he called a new kind of patriotism. He noted that we are not fighting this particular battle with soldiers. “Those on the frontlines against coronavirus... are our doctors, nurses, pharmacists, teachers, caregivers,

Since graduating from UCSB in 1992, Christopher has worked with local individuals and families as a financial planner. He is a Vice President with UBS Financial and holds the CFP, CIMA, and CPWA credentials. He can be reached at christopher.t.gallo@ubs.com or 805-730-3425.

Emotions in Personal Finance

Westmont College-hosted talk in February by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman spoke to the increasing awareness of behavioral economics. Kahneman won the prize in 2002 for his creation of the prospect theory: the concept that investors feel the pain of losses much more than the joy of gains. This echoed a similar sentiment from Adam Smith 200 years earlier but overturned the ruling theory of economics at the time – that humans act rationally in economic decisions. The fascinating results of the prospect theory have reshaped financial thought and provided some good lessons for investors. Since the pain of loss is twice as pronounced as the satisfaction of gain, Kahneman finds that our actions are dictated by loss aversion. That is, we engage in risky behaviors to avoid the reality of a loss. As investors, the most obvious example is when we routinely sell stocks that have risen to lock in a gain and conversely when we hold losing stocks to avoid the reality of a loss. The cure for this particular damaging behavior is to remove the emotion and for investors to weigh each decision on economic merit. Anchoring, the concept that we make economic choices influenced by data that is irrelevant, is another emotional behavior that causes problems for investors. For most of us, this bias shows up with recent information. For example, the price we paid for an investment often outweighs the potential return of an investment when it comes to action – if we pay $50 for something, many of

us will be loath to sell it for less even if it eventually becomes worthless. One way to mitigate this bias is to pretend you don’t already own the investment and ask yourself if you would purchase it at this price with cash. If not, you are likely holding it for non-economic reasons.

Since the pain of loss is twice as pronounced as the satisfaction of gain, Kahneman finds that our actions are dictated by loss aversion.

Another bias, availability bias, is especially appropriate in the information age when we face a deluge of information on every topic. Studies have found that we tend to latch on to the information that has the most impact or is the most recent. For years after 2008 stock market meltdown, researchers found that a majority of respondents said the market was flat or down in 2009 and 2010, even though it was up 40% during those years. This skew of taking recent negatives (and positives) and extrapolating forward often leads to missed opportunities and poor decisions – think cryptocurrency and cannabis as well. Here the most common cure is to put everything in context: the newest information or great story is just one data point amongst many for your successful and rational decisions. •MJ

store clerks, utility workers, small-business owners, and employees.” When this is all over, Schrad expressed a hope that “perhaps we will finally start to understand patriotism more as cultivating the health and life of your community... Maybe the de-militarization of American patriotism and love of community will be one of the benefits to come out of this whole awful mess.” Yes, it’s important to honor the members of our armed forces and to appreciate their service. But shouldn’t we do the same for those on the frontlines back at home? Those cultivating the health and life of our community – teachers, nurses, caregivers, nonprofit employees, and many more – are not amply compensated in our society. And given the cost of housing locally, their life in Santa Barbara is challenging when there’s no crisis at all. That’s just a fact of life here. As you interact with those on the frontlines of the battle to preserve and protect our community – people working at a grocery store, spending long hours in the County’s Emergency Operations Center, picking up our trash, creating online lessons for our children, or preparing food for takeout as they work to keep a local restaurant afloat – consider inquiring as to how they are holding up. And ask, “How can we help?” And before you are done, you might add, “Thank you for your service.” •MJ

“With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” – Reese Witherspoon

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A call to those who can help.

$15,000 Matching Grant By Kirby Jones Foundation

We believe that there are 1,200 hourly wage earners that work in Montecito that are unable to work due to the government Stay at Home Order.

We are again, raising funds for our community and need your help if you are in a position of abundance at this time.

Donate today.

The 93108 Fund is back to supporting Montecito hourly wage earners. The 93108 Fund is here to help hourly wage earners in 93108.

Make a donation via paypal on our website at: 93108fund.org/donate Use this link to donate now.

Since the debris flow of 2018 the 93108Fund has also made grants to: - The Bucket Brigade - The Partnership for Resilient Communities What are we doing now? and Why ? We are again raising money to support those hourly wage earners in our community being impacted by the economic consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Win.Win.Give is the official sponsor of the 93108Fund. Win.Win.Give is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and collected donations and distributed grants directly on behalf of the 93108Fund. The 93108Fund made all grant decisions based on objective and verifiable information provided by applicants and distributed grants on a first-come first-serve basis. The fund is managed and administered by local volunteers with proceeds going directly to those in need. Ron Blitzer, Gregg Bigger, Gregg Wilson, Kristen Teufal, Alison Hardy, Nicole Herlihy, Laura Wyatt, Michelle Cutler, Tricia Raphelian

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• The Voice of the Village •

MONTECITO JOURNAL

NOTICE INVITING BIDS

ORDINANCE NO. 5941

Santa Barbara Municipal Airport Northeast Apron and Taxilane Reconstruction – Phase 2

AN UNCODIFIED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE

Bid No. 3993

A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS FOR

COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ENACTING

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its NORTHEAST APRON AND TAXILANE RECONSTRUCTION - PHASE 2 Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, April 23, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. 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. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

NONPAYMENT

Project Information.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on March 24,

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport 500 James Fowler Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, and is described as follows:

2020.

BASE BID – WORK AREA 1: 1)

RESIDENTIAL

AND

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

Asphalt Concrete Removal

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

Unclassified Excavation and Subgrade Preparation

Cement Treatment of Subgrade

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

Crushed Aggregate Base Course Construction

California.

Asphalt Concrete Construction

Pavement Shoulder Construction

(Seal)

Asphalt Concrete Mill-and-Fill in close Proximity to the Hangar Building (Approximately 170 square yards) a)

Pavement Pulverization/Milling

Asphalt Concrete Construction

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5941

Reconstruction of Southside Area and Taxilane D (Approximately 9,800 square yards) a)

Asphalt Concrete Removal

Unclassified Excavation and Subgrade Preparation

Cement Treatment of Subgrade

Crushed Aggregate Base Course Construction

Valley Gutter Construction

Asphalt Concrete Construction

Pavement Shoulder Construction Pavement Marking Application

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

Asphalt Concrete Mill-and-Fill in Close Proximity to the Hangar Building (Approximately 700 square yards) a)

Pavement Pulverization/Milling

Asphalt Concrete Construction

was introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on March 24, 2020, by the following roll call vote:

Electrical Improvements a)

Relocation of Taxiway Edge Lights

Replacement of Conduit and Conductor

Relocation of Lighted Airfield Sign

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed as specified in the table below, from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed.

2.3

FINANCIALLY AS A RESULT OF COVID-19

BID ALTERNATE – WORK AREA 2: 1)

RENT

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

Reconstruction of Hangar Area 14 (Approximately 11,500 square yards) a)

COMMERCIAL TENANTS WHO HAVE BEEN HARMED

Contract Award

Mobilization Element

Construction Element

Total

Base Bid Only

25 Working Days

40 Working Days

65 Working Days

Base Bid and Bid Alternate

25 Working Days

60 Working Days

85 Working Days

Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is as follows: Base Bid - $1,430,210.00

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on March 25, 2020.

Bid Alternate - $1,270,955.00 Total Base Bid & Bid Alternate - $2,701.165.00 The basis of award will be on the lowest responsive and responsible bid amount for the Base Bid only. 2.4

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor(s) will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents. (1)

NOTICE OF REQUIREMENT FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION to ENSURE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on March 25, 2020.

The Offeror’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications” set forth herein.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Timetables Goals for minority participation for each trade: 19.7% Goals for female participation in each trade:

6.9%

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Published April 1, 2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kirk’s Plumbing, 2718 Verde Vista Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kirk Peters, 2718 Verde Vista Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2020. 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. Jo-

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

seph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0000723. Published April 1, 8, 15, 22, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stretchlab Montecito, 1046 Coast Village Road, Suite E, Montecito, CA 93108. Next Gen Wellness, LLC, 3913 La Colina Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

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County on February 27, 2020. 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), filed by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000645. Published March 25, April 1, 8, 15, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Urban-Equestrian, 813 E Anapamu St. Apt 2C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Joel A Chauran, 813 E Anapamu St. Apt 2C, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2020. 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), filed by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000719. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOMES805 INC Trust Account, 1187 Coast Village Road #187, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. HOMES805 INC, 1187 Coast Village Road #187, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 12, 2020. 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), filed by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000791. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blue.Studio Landscape Architecture, 1203 Diane Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Guillermo Gonzalez, 1203 Diane Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Crista Lee Sanders, 301 Oliver Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2020. 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), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0000546. Published March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nava Gaby Cleaning, 44 Portola Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Jaime Nava, 44 Portola Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 9, 2020. 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.

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Holland, County Clerk (SEAL), filed by Rachel Becerra. FBN No. 2020-0000749. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2020.

The CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders or offerors that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. (3) DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (DBE) A DBE Goal of 2% has been established for this contract.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Millworks; Phillips Construction, 623 Chiquita Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Bradley R. Phillips, 623 Chiquita Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 21, 2020. 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), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0000566. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Collective Music and Media Group DBA Santa Barbara Summerfest Music Camps, 5266 Hollister Av. Suite 301, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Giuseppe Fratianni, 10061 Riverside Dr. #214, Toluca Lake, CA 91602. Laurie Robinson, 10061 Riverside Dr. #214, Toluca Lake, CA 91602. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 3, 2020. 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), filed by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2020-0000701. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Central Coast Wine Tours, 25 S. Salinas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Crush Santa Barbara LLC, 25 S. Salinas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 26, 2020. 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), filed by John Beck. FBN No. 2020-0000616. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2020. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coast + Olive, 1295 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Copus Hospitality Group, LLC, 1295 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 5, 2020. 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), filed by Maria F. Sanchez. FBN No. 2020-0000712. Published March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2020.

The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53. The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening. (a) The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; (b) A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; (c) The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) (d) Written statement from Bidder or Offeror that attests their commitment to use the DBE firm(s) listed under (1) to meet the Owner’s project goal; and (e) If Bidder or Offeror cannot meet the advertised project DBE goal, evidence of good faith efforts undertaken by the Bidder or Offeror as described in appendix A to 49 CFR part 26. (4) FEDERAL PROVISIONS The following provisions are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if given in full text: (a) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) (b) Civil Rights Title VI (Reference: 49 USC § 47123) (c) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: 2 CFR § 200, Appendix II(D); 29 CFR Part 5) (d) Debarment and Suspension (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C); 2 CFR part 1200; and DOT Order 4200.5 ) (e) Disadvantage Business Enterprise (Reference: 49CFR Part 26) (f) Trade Restriction Certification (Reference: 49 USC § 50104; 49 CFR part 30) (g) Lobbying and Influencing Federal Employees (Reference: 31 USC § 1352 – Byrd Anti-Lobbying Amendment; 2 CFR part 200, Appendix II(J); and 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) (h) Procurement of Recovered Materials (Reference: 2 CFR § 200.322; 40 CFR part 247; and Solid Waste Disposal Act) (See Federal Contract Provisions of the Contract Bid Documents for further details.) Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s). 3.

License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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: http://www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboardplanetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. 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.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent (10%) 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 issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.

Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., 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. These prevailing rates are on file with the City and are 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. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial 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 rate 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. Federal wage determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts are available electronically at no cost at Wage Determinations OnLine.gov, http://www.wdol.gov/Index.aspx. This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced. The Federal Contract Provisions will be incorporated into the successful bidder’s contract as applicable and are attached hereto as “Special Conditions Part 1 - Federal Contract Provisions for FAA AIP Projects.” Contractors, including all subcontractors and apprentices, must be eligible to participate. Actual prevailing wage rates will be determined as of the bid opening date. If any modifications have been issued to the wage decision, the contractor must adhere to the modified wage decision. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4, and the Federal Contract Requirements for AIP Funded Projects, and the Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular 150-5370-10H.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

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

Subcontractor List. Each Subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a completed Subcontractor List form with its Bid Proposal, including 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 price) 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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Bidders’ Conference. There will be no bidder’s conference

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Retention Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is 5%.

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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) March 25, 2020

Date: ________________

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In addition to summer school programs, TVSB has field equipment for its members to use (photo by C Trevor)

by Zach Rosen

TVSB

Each summer TVSB teaches groups of kids about videography (photo courtesy of TVSB)

s the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep us indoors, online streaming and video content has helped us feel a sense of connection as we remain isolated. From online concerts to exercise lessons, this time is showing us the importance of video content in allowing one to share their story and connect to the community. A lesson that will undoubtedly remain after this is all over. TVSB has been providing invaluable video production resources to the area for decades. I recently met (of course before the shelter-in-place order was in effect) with Executive Director Erik Davis to tour the facilities and see what TVSB has to offer the community. Founded in 1974, TVSB officially reorganized as a nonprofit, technically known as the South Coast Community Media Access Center, in 2001. Since then they have been providing community access, resources, and production services to their members at very affordable rates. As a non-commercial channel, their services also offer three production staff that can help nonprofits and other organizations produce a show or cover an event for a fee lower than anywhere. They are still the only one providing public broadcasting in the county, filling a need that one else has done for decades, or “a community gem” as Erik more simply refers to it. The TVSB facilities have moved

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around over the years, but the current studio (329 South Salinas Street) has been there for about six years. All of the TVSB offerings are available once someone becomes a member ($30/month). In the Community Access Center, open from 10 am to 10 pm each day, there are two studios available to members that provide the equipment and infrastructure needed to produce a large range of production types. Studio A is the larger studio at 600 sq ft and is where the more elaborate productions are filmed. With high-definition cameras and full studio lighting and audio controls, this space brings the capabilities of a TV studio right to the members’ fingertips. Studio B offers a smaller space at 300 sq ft with three standard-definition cameras. Besides the difference in recording quality and size, Studio B features robotic cameras that allow a single operator to adjust the angles of the shots. This means a show can be produced with only one production member. This studio provides a simple solution for those who are looking to produce a smaller show with a more minimal staff at a lower production cost. Both studios feature green screens that allow different digital backgrounds to be edited-in during post-production. Of course, filming content is only one step of video production, albeit a big one. Editing is one of the

other major steps and TVSB offers an editing studio with seven dedicated computers, each equipped with editing software. These video editing programs can either be expensive or taxing to run on your day-to-day computer, so the editing bay makes it easy for members to finish their production. An equipment bay includes gear for field work like cameras, iPads, and microphones, that can be rented out by TVSB members. This gives members the opportunity to take gear out into the field and get professional footage from outside the studio. One of the most popular newer additions is the recording booth that allows members to produce audio tracks like podcasts and voiceovers. Once a production is polished and finished it can be submitted to their scheduling staff so that the show can be aired on one of their channels. TVSB has two avenues of content, channels 17 and 71, although they now have several ways for the content to live online after it has aired. Viewers can access shows on demand from their website, watch archived videos on their YouTube channel, or even stream on ROKU and Facebook Watch. Of the two TVSB channels, Channel 17 is considered the “people’s channel” and airs content like talk shows and personal interests, featuring over 100 locally produced shows. Channel 71 is the educational channel and features major lectures and events like the League of Women Voters, Economic Forecast Project, and MIT Enterprise Forum. Part of TVSB’s mission is to

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” - Robin Williams

support other nonprofits and they help these different institutions by assisting with the production of fundraising videos, PSAs, and livestream events. They also run an extensive summer camp program in partnership with United Way’s “Fun in the Sun” program where their staff has dedicated over 1,500 hours to teaching young kids about video production. Education is integrated into TVSB’s services. Upon joining, members can arrange an orientation meeting where they will go through guidelines, scheduling, and equipment. From there members can begin to produce content, however TVSB hosts different training sessions throughout the year for those who want to learn more about video production. Three-hour training courses are held the first Wednesday of every month. These different classes are held in four categories, Studio Essentials, Field/ Mobile Essentials, Edit Essentials, and Podcasting Essentials, that provide the participants with a better grasp of video production and the full range of services that TVSB offers. Erik notes that their staff is there to help each member find out “how to best succeed.” As of now the facilities are closed until at least Monday, April 6, however their two channels will still be airing during this time to provide the community with vital educational and informative content, or at least a little leisure to take their mind off of everything. Visit TVSB.tv for more information or to become a member. •MJ

TVSB features two recording studios for its members (photo courtesy of TVSB)

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MEET THE TEACHER

Science experiment

by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.

All Saints’ Padric Davis

ntering the campus of All Saints-by-the-Sea Parish School was actually a homecoming of sorts for a variety of reasons, the most recent being that our granddaughter, now 10 and a big fifth grader, attended the Parish School as a toddler. Not that long ago she could be seen hopping around the playground laughing, playing, and learning in the nurturing atmosphere of the Parish School and its staff. Another memory that came to mind as I entered the church grounds, a remembrance from a Galaxy Far, Far Away was the image of Dr. George Hall (all 20 feet of him... at least that’s how tall he seemed at the time) standing at the alter pronouncing us Man and Wife! As I opened the gate to the playground for a visit with All Saints’ Parish School Director Padric Davis, the little preschoolers were happily bouncing around on the playground in front of their classrooms exactly as they did just a few years ago. Davis met me at the entrance and escorted me into her office at the heart of the complex. It was obvious that this office was a busy place: the shelves were full of children’s books, personal photos and mementos, a couple of computer screens, sticky reminder notes, magnets, a few toys, and a desk with her current “to-do” paperwork. Certainly a busy, comfortable, and welcoming place. I felt right at home! Once settled, Davis proudly confirmed the multiple generations of children the Parish School had served in over half a century. “The school opened its doors with a few rabbits, Guinea pigs, and twenty-nine kids,” she laughed. “Since Rev. Dr. George Hall’s 1965 request that a church school be formed, our Parish school’s been operating continuously since then.” Dr. Letty Lauffer, a parishioner, was the school’s original Director and her successor, Eva Smith, served for nearly 30 years. Davis has also been with the school for 30 years as both teacher and director. She added that most of the current staff members have also had long associations as both parents and teachers. “All our teachers here and a past student, the first alum to become a teacher, and most assistants are past parents who understand our mission to prepare our children academically, spiritually, and emotionally for a smooth transition to Kindergarten,” Davis revealed. “Each of our teachers carries an ECE credential and most credentials have been earned at our fabulous SBCC – 2 – 9 April 2020

Padric Davis

the best program for working with young children ever!” She added, “We are truly a family here with so many connections.”

The Brady Bunch

A native of Los Angeles, the eldest of three children with a working dad and a stay-at-home mom, Davis grew up in Santa Monica. “Even when I was young I always wanted to be a mom… and also a teacher.” She attended local schools and after graduating from St. Monica’s Catholic High School, she attended UCLA and earned her Early Childhood Education credential. Marriage and the arrival of two sons came before her first teaching position at St. Mathews Parish School, an Episcopal school, in Pacific Palisades. The position at St. Matthews was ideal for Davis, now a single mom, to have the kind of hours that would allow her to be home for her boys. “St. Matthews was amazing,” recalled Davis, “and I stayed there as a teacher and eventually as the Assistant Director for a decade and a half... actually until we moved here to Santa Barbara.” It was at St. Matthews she met her second husband, a single father with three kids about the same age as her own. “All of the kids wanted us to get married,” Davis recalled. “They pestered us constantly!” After dating for two years, Padric and John Davis finally tied the knot to the happiness and satisfaction of the entire crew. “We were like the ‘70’s Brady Bunch,” Davis laughed, “we really were! We raised all five kids… and today are the proud grandparents of nine.” In 1989, Davis and her husband made the move up the coast to Santa Barbara. Once settled, Davis applied

for a substitute teaching position at All Saints’ Parish School. All Saints’ long-time director, Eva Smith, hired her as a full-time teacher immediately knowing Davis’ background as an administrator at St. Matthews, also an Episcopal school. “All Saints’ Parish School felt so comfortable to me, I felt right at home from the moment I entered the door, and that feeling has never changed.” Davis continued as a teacher until 2007 when Eva Smith retired, after which she was deemed the Interim Director, and then hired as the Director of the school. During Davis’ tenure the Bumble Bee program was added, extending the curriculum to very young children. This classroom was added to accommodate the newest group, beginning at two years old. She remained a teacher-director until 2014, after which she reluctantly gave up teaching to concentrate fully on administration.

Feeling Like Family

The present-day school provides early childhood education for children between the ages of two and five years, with 89 students enrolled in the 2019-20 program. The school is overseen by the All Saints-by-the-Sea Vestry and the Parish School Board, and is supported by an active Parent Council which raises funds to supplement the school’s educational programs. Five days a week classes are held from 9 am to 12:45 pm with an Extended Day class available Tuesday through Friday until 2:45 pm. Thanks to the families generously supporting the Parish School Scholarship Fund,

children who might otherwise not been able to attend are enrolled. “A defining aspect of the school,” noted Davis, “is the formation of lasting friendships as is the case with our teaching staff, but also by our students that often follow them through high school and beyond.” At graduations or other key events, children and parents will see friends and remember that they met at All Saints’ Parish School. Davis is proud of the family feeling and the nurturing environment that extends to the entire school community, which includes her staff as well as herself. “After a tragic personal loss of my own, the All Saints’ family became my support system and gave me the courage to move forward with gratitude and became my ‘happy place,’” she shared. “During times of crisis, whether in our community or personal, these experiences bind us together as a family.” As our time together drew to a close, I asked Davis how she envisions the future for the All Saints’ Parish School. “My goal is to maintain the integrity of the school as envisioned by the founders, to provide not only a chance for a child to fly, but a safe, soft place to land when they fall short of their goals.” With a history of over 50 years in the Santa Barbara community and generations of children the Parish School remains true to the mission established by Dr. George Hall and is carried forth in the tradition with which it was established. Thank you to Padric Davis and her talented and committed staff… you’ve surely made the Parish School founders proud! •MJ

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Helping Hands Unity and FoodBank

Kenny Loggins has been a Unity Shoppe supporter for years (photo by Jensen Sutta)

by Steven Libowitz

nity Shoppe has come a long tions as the unemployed, single-parway back since a huge gap ent families, seniors on fixed incomes, in its funding forced the non- the disabled and homebound start profit agency – the largest, single to run out of groceries. The Shoppe direct distributor of food, clothing, is servicing increasing numbers of and necessities in the county – into hourly minimum wage residents who briefly closing its distribution doors had never needed assistance before. for two months in the fall of 2019. Indeed, over the next six to 12 months, The nonprofit shut its doors for the Unity anticipates that its services will first time in 103 years due to an unan- be utilized to capacity much like they ticipated economic downturn, and were during the Thomas Fire and both fresh produce and canned, jarred 15 full-time management and staff Montecito debris flow, if not more. and boxed staples with longer shelf employees were laid off while support The Shoppe – which as an essential lives, as well as masks and disinfectprograms were put on hold. service is able to stay open during ing wipes to keep Unity staff and the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Now, after returning in time for the the partial shutdown – is following public safe. is also experiencing a sharp increase holiday season, Unity is stepping up the most up-to-date guidelines for That’s where Kenny Loggins comes in those seeking its services. Since in an even bigger way than ever as sanitization and safety, and social dis- in. The septuagenarian singer-song- COVID-19 safety measures took the current COVID-19 crisis has forced tancing is being implemented not only writer, who has been involved with effect, the Foodbank has quadrupled area employers to make even more while people are waiting in line but Unity Shoppe for more than three the amount of food it normally pro massive layoffs. also inside the store, where staff mem- decades and created and participates vides to community members facing Laboratory Manager Carole Rollins tests wastewater, Recognizing a deep need for the bers wearing masks and gloves allow in the nonprofit’s annual Christmas hunger and food insecurity, at one confirming it is fully disinfected to kill pathogens and viruses. most basic of services, the Unity people, admitted alone or as a family, Unity event, has recorded PSAs to point earlier in the week distributing Shoppe has consolidated its offerings to choose by pointing at what they encourage donations. 83,000 pounds of food in a single to food distribution alone to meet an would like. “Unity is my baby,” Loggins – who day, a new record that is fourof times Since 1962, the Montecito Sanitary District has been safely collecting, treating, and disposing ever-increasing demand. The agenAccordingly, Unity anticipates that has been living on the Mesa ever since higher than normal. As part of its Montecito’s wastewater. The District’s certified laboratory and operators ensure the protection of the cy estimates it is serving more than it will go through larger quantities being displaced from his Montecito coronavirus response, the Foodbank threelocal times environment the number of families of food and other supplies than ever the home latest when thetesting January 9, 2018, debris hasand also provided 2,000 home delivby continuous monitoring using equipment technology. The that came in for services just in the before to keep up with the growing flow washed out the access bridge – eries to seniors in the last two weeks. District’s well‐maintained facilities and award winning staff serve the Montecito community 24 hours a middle of March, as daily layoffs con- demand. Donations from the public said over the phone on Monday. “I As with Unity, Foodbank is now protinueday, 7 days a week. If you have any questions call General Manager Diane Gabriel at 805‐969‐4200. and such vulnerable popula- are needed immediately to purchase know it works and all the things we viding food and groceries for thousay about it are true, which is why we sands in our community who have keep saying them. Right now, they’re never needed help before, including the best way to get food into people’s contractors, salespeople, construction homes who need it. Unity is always workers, waiters and waitresses, chefs there and has been for 30 years. The and cooks, childcare providers, bardoors are still open and people are tenders, hairstylists, barbers, drivers, showing up in more numbers than artists, craftspeople, and many others. For more information, visit our website at ever. But they need support so they At the same time, however, the nonwww.montsan.org can continue to help people with fresh profit has seen a rapid decline in food healthy food.” donations from many of its sources, so Unity Shoppe Food Distribution there is an increasing need for support. Services is located at 1401 Chapala Meanwhile the organization has wide Street, and is open 1-4 pm Monday- ly increased its distribution network, Friday. If you are in need of food and has a big need for more personnel or other essentials, call Unity’s main help. Twenty National Guard personnumber at 805-965-4122 for assistance. nel have joined the Foodbank for two To make monetary donations, visit weeks to help in its two new tempowww.unityshoppe.org or mail checks rary warehouses, assist at its SAFE “Flushable” and disinfectant wipes and similar products can clog the to 1209 State Street, Santa Barbara, Food Net distributions and deliver machinery in our treatment plant, clog your household pipes, and cause 93101. Donations of nonperishables food to seniors. Visit https://food a mainline backup or sewer overflow on your property. Please dispose can be dropped off at Unity’s side banksbc.org for information on where of all wipes and similar products in the trash. More information on this entrance: at 110 West Sola Street, 10 to get food, how to donate and where topic can be found here: https://casaweb.org/wipes/. am to 5 pm weekdays. to volunteer. •MJ

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Masks, masks and more masks

Fire Chief Kevin Taylor

what a hand stitch looked like, nobody else in her family practiced the art form and Sztuk is self-taught. “I went to a little bit of design school to get the gist of things,” she says. “Then I started going to Goodwill and taking things apart to see how things are constructed, so it’s been a natural learning experience for me.” Sztuk converted the garage of her craftsman-style house in Santa Barbara to a workspace where she has since built a solid business as a seamstress, performing all kinds of work from simple alterations to more complicated custom jobs while also raising two kids, a boy and girl who are now eight and five, respectively. “I was just going on a wing and a prayer,” she says. “I’ve been able to establish a great clientele and am not afraid of taking on any work, so if people call me and ask if I can do something, I always say yes.” When the coronavirus pandemic hit her radar, Sztuk and countless other seamstresses across the country took it upon themselves to begin making masks to help the public protect themselves from the disease. Although the masks are not designed to specifically protect wearers from the virus, they do have the effect of keeping people from touching their faces, particularly their noses and mouths, which greatly reduces the likelihood of infection. “We are like Rosie the Riveter,” Sztuk explains, referring to the famous World War 2-era poster urging women to work in factories to help speed up emergency wartime production. “There is a big need for masks and obviously we have a shortage of them for nurses and because of that, everyone who can sew is making masks for friends and family and for shelters, whoever needs them.” After a client gave one of Sztuk’s masks to well-known Montecito realtor Adam McKaig, her orders skyrocketed. “I guess he was my influencer,” Sztuk reasons. “People are still calling me for masks. I’ve made about 250 of them so far. I don’t have time to do anything other than sew them.” Sztuk says that until the pandemic passes, she will continue to make as many masks as possible. “This has given me a sense of purpose,” she says, adding that for every mask ordered she will make and donate another mask. “I mean this is what I do,” she concludes. “It feels good to be making things that people are going need.” To order masks, contact Sztuk at Stitch Witch Alterations, 805-363-2067; stitch-witch-alterations.business.site.

hazardous material spills. “Our non-essential employees who can work from home initiated telecommuting on that date,” Taylor says. “We also initiated social distancing, meaning we closed our fire station to the public, cancelled all our public meetings, and switched our board of director meetings to virtual from in-person.” So far, the biggest challenge in changing up the department’s routine involves the fire station itself. “It’s hard, because the fire station is a family-like environment and folks come and go every 24 hours.” So essential staff have been instructed to call in sick if they have any symptoms, while those who do show up for duty are first subjected to what Taylor calls a “very enhanced regimen” of decontamination. The department has also joined with the rest of Santa Barbara’s fire departments to purchase coronavirus-proof emergency supplies en masse from the county’s Public Health Department. “Public Health is the clearing house for scarce medical resources, Taylor explained. “Previously we would all make separate requests, which makes their job much more difficult. This coming together makes it easier for us to get what we need and share equipment amongst each other without bothering Public Health.” The good news, according to Taylor, is that Santa Barbara seems to be weathering the coronavirus pandemic much better than more densely populated areas of California. “We have not yet seen an increase in call volume in our community,” he observes. “Countywide we have actually seen a slight decrease in calls for service, but watching the news, we are all anticipating an uptick. But folks should know that we have been engaged with this for quite some time now and we’re well positioned for whatever happens next.”

A Coronavirus Update from Montecito Fire Department Chief Kevin Taylor

Based on the rush of emergency supply hoarding that has gone on for the past few weeks, it seems reasonable to suggest that most Montecito residents weren’t exactly prepared for the COVID-19 crisis when it first hit two weeks ago. Fortunately for us, the Montecito Fire Department (MFD) has been preparing for the event for the past three months. “Back in January, we started participating in planning calls with the county public health department once a week,” says Chief Kevin Taylor. “That allowed us to ramp up or preparations for a pandemic.” On March 12, about 20 minutes after California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state of emergency, the MFD issued orders to its staff to begin focusing only on what the agency calls “mission-essential functions,” meaning its ability to respond to public requests for response to fires, medical emergencies, and 2 – 9 April 2020

Pee, Poop and Paper Only, Please!

Eagle-eyed readers of this esteemed journal may have noticed the Montecito Sanitary District’s public service ads that have run in the paper the last two weeks urging residents not to flush wet wipes down the drain. “SAVE YOUR PIPES, DON’T FLUSH WIPES!” the announcement reads, informing customers that supposedly flushable disinfectant wipes can clog both household pipes and mainline backups as well as the machinery in the MSD’s sanitary plant. This public warning is serious business. When I took a tour of the facility a few months ago, I got a glance at the plant’s rotary grinders, which while capable of destroying organic material like sticks or roots, can easily be jammed by rags or wipes, which must be retrieved by hand, a process that is just as gross as it sounds. “We can usually handle the type of wipes that are truly biodegradable,” Diane Gabriel, MSD’s general manager, told me. “But with everyone now using all these sanitary wipes that are a lot tougher than the other kind, these are clogging the pumps and various valves we have.” According to Gabriel, the clogs and jams raise the risk of waste overflowing at the plant or spilling elsewhere along the line. “We don’t want an overflow,” she said. “We monitor it all remotely so when a pump starts lagging or running hot – taking more time to pump the same amount of wastewater – we know there is something wrong. We hope people can do their part by being conscious of what they are putting down the drain.” ON THE RECORD Page 394 Alex Alonzo, MSD’s operations and

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Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital. He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

The Death of an Electric Monopoly

or the first time in memory, there is momentum in California to usher in the clean, decentralized energy future that a growing number of Californians believe is necessary to combat climate change and improve community resiliency. It begins with reimagining how electric utilities conduct business. After the 2019 fire season, Public Safety Power Shutoffs resulted in power losses for 2.5 million customers. Ratepayers are appropriately angry, and politicians in Sacramento are starting to reflect that anger. The CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) made it abundantly clear that shutoffs will continue through the 2020s. That’s totally unacceptable. In the midst of PG&E’s bankruptcy proceeding and newfound

tant power plants. Under this mindset, the utilities expanded the distribution grids as well as the long-distance transmission system profiting enormously in the process. Unlike true monopolies that are unregulated and make as much profit as possible, IOUs are regulated by the State and the Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which means they are theoretically “controlled” in the amount and manner they are allowed to charge ratepayers. This is now the problem! IOUs get an automatic 11 percent return on investment for infrastructure investments, giving them a financial incentive to invest more in plants they own, regardless of whether those investments are counterproductive for society.

Each local community should be resilient against disasters and self-reliant to meet its needs, a goal that IOUs could be helping to facilitate rather than constantly blocking. urgency by legislators to prepare the state for the next fire season, the real question becomes: why is the subpar performance of the three Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) – San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and PG&E – acceptable? First, consider the currently failed utility business model which evolved during the 1970s and ‘80s based upon engineering assumptions from the beginning of the 20th century, used as the basis for expanding the electrical grid and the statewide transmission system. Though the development of a centralized power-grid may have made sense in the 1880s, that system developed by Nikola Tesla over the objections of Thomas Edison, institutionalized the power of the major utilities by allowing IOUs to become monopolies by controlling large, dis-

If infrastructure investments in electricity prioritized safety, all faulty long-line transmission systems which have repeatedly caused wildfires would have already been replaced. Here in Santa Barbara, as we described in our column last week, there are two high-voltage transmission lines that provide two-thirds of the energy we use every day. Since both lines run on the same towers, if either were to go down, both would be de-energized, cutting power to the entire region. It doesn’t help that the towers are in high risk fire, earthquake, and storm areas. Edison told us in 2012 and again in 2014 that we would lose one or more towers in the foreseeable future. Edison made filings at the CPUC notifying the State that they would not be legally liable for the electricity to be cut off when

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From Corporate to Community

CEOs Are Giving Up Their Salaries To Avoid Layoffs And Closures

s COVID-19 wreaks havoc on our economic system, some CEOs are forgoing their own salaries to protect workers from layoffs and store closures. Many key players in the airline industry, which has taken a particularly large hit during the outbreak, are sacrificing corporate income for worker well-being. The CEO of Delta, Ed Bastain, announced he will forgo his salary for six months; the company’s board members have elected to do the same. Alaska Air, United, and Allegiant are all implementing similar policies. Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson is giving up his salary for the rest of the year and has cut pay for senior management in half. Hyatt CEO, Mark Hoplamazian, and board chairman, Tom Pritzker, will forgo their salaries through May as well. Key nodes of the sharing economy, such as Lyft, Uber, and food delivery services have remained in high demand during the COVID-19 outbreak, but concern for worker health is also high. Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green are donating their salaries to support drivers and their health. While these senior pay cuts are a great start for worker relief, giving up a base salary most definitely does not leave these executives high and dry. Many reap far more income from other related company profits in addition to their salaries. Nevertheless, CEOs and other executives giving up their salaries for the well-being of their workers is an impactful short-term solution for saving critical jobs. It is also symbolic of the role of corporate leaders during crises.

This Closed Restaurant Is Turning Its Supplies Into Meals For Those In Need

When chef Andrew Wong closed the doors of his restaurant to slow the spread of COVID-19, he decided not to let his ingredients go to waste and started producing cook-at-home boxes to donate to at risk-populations and vulnerable individuals in need of food during the pandemic. His restaurant, A.Wong, holds a Michelin star for its classic Chinese dishes. He is partnering with local charities to bring his delicacies to those in need. The team is producing 50 to 100 boxes a day for volunteers to distribute to people in isolation and food banks and the homeless. “There are things in this world which are more important than profit and money, and if we go under, at least try and go under with a good heart,” he said. •MJ the towers came down. Yet since that filing, nothing has changed. Yes, there is a clear and ever-present danger to all of South Santa Barbara County. If the Coronavirus pandemic teaches us anything, it is the value of the government acting before there is a crisis. Santa Barbara County needs to learn from that lesson and must immediately address the crisis in our electrical supply system. IOUs should be focused on providing constant and effective service to customers, generated exclusively from renewable energy at a cost equal to or below current rates. When the focus is pleasing investors, the ratepayers end up shouldering the consequences, which is unacceptable. To reiterate last week’s main takeaway, the World Business Academy strongly believes that a decentralized grid, populated with community microgrids that are powered with renewable energy, must be the solution for the state. Each local community should be resilient against disasters and self-reliant to meet its needs, a goal that IOUs could be help-

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” – Sheryl Sandberg

ing to facilitate rather than constantly blocking. While there are many options to create this locally resilient energy future, perhaps the proposal being championed by San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and 23 other mayors to turn PG&E into a customer cooperative owned utility has the most promise. Backers say restructuring PG&E as a cooperative would give it access to lower-cost financing and allow it to avoid dividend and tax payments, making needed investments to its ancient infrastructure and providing transitional support to the construction of interconnected microgrids. Whether that plan works, or the CPUC otherwise takes control of the obstructive IOUs, we must start now on building the green, interconnected microgrids which will operate at far less cost than the present system. California must do its job to regulate the utilities by removing their conflict of interest and turning them into community partners to a green, resilient future. •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

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maintenance manager, couldn’t agree more. “Whenever anyone on our staff has to go down to clean out a clog, they have to put on all their personal protective equipment (PPE) gear: rubber gloves, goggles, and Tyvek suits,” he said, the latter item being the white hazardous protective suits you usually see in movies. “It’s a whole process,” he says. “We are really encouraging people to toss those wipes into the trash where they belong.” •MJ

Steven Morelos, an MSD collections systems operator, preparing to remove wipes from a valve

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Show a Little Local Love

Hey Summerland and beyond, time to show a little love to Summerland Beach Café. The café is open for take-out (8 am – 3 pm) and will deliver to Summerland! Their ever-popular Hamburger Tuesday is still on ($6.99/half price), so order burgers for the family, your neighbors, or someone who may be shut in alone. The café has been a popular Sunday breakfast spot for many after attending church. While you may be able attend church virtually, you can’t eat virtually nor can many restaurants survive on virtual customers. Check the full menu at www.summerlandbeachcafe.com. Call for take-out orders and help support this longtime Summerland institution and the hard-working new owner Pancho Lopez. (805) 969-1019.

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Closed in the Time of Corona The prayer flags still fly at the closedoff parking lot, shop, and gardens at Sacred Space in Summerland (photo by Leslie Westbrook)

s I waltzed through the mostly empty streets of Summerland this past Sunday, the cowboy ballad “The Cowboys Lament” (aka “Streets of Loredo”) came to mind:

“As I walked out on the streets of Laredo. As I walked out on Laredo one day, I spied a poor cowboy wrapped in white linen, Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay…”

I did spy two couples walking hand in hand, as well as two fellas perched atop a pile of firewood at Summerland Liquor (which remains open). Many places of business are shuttered, some with signs posted – The Nugget: Closed Until Further Notice. Summerland Presbyterian Church: sermons online. Field + Fort: Closed. A Sacred Space: beautiful, but closed. Rusty’s Pizza in the old Stacky’s: closed, but a new sign offers up hope. Only Tinker’s, Summerland Beach Café, and Red Kettle remain open, so far, for vittles. Summerland Liquor is also open. Carpinteria has many nearby restaurants that deliver and/or are open for pick up. Thario’s Kitchen on Santa Claus Lane is making terrific lasagna trays and daily specials and safe physical distancing pick-up from Thais and Mario who are trying to keep the doors open. Delgado’s, if you’re craving Mexican food, has pick-up and delivery, regular menu and family size portions including taco kits and soup combos. Siam Elephant, for delicious Thai cuisine, delivers. For a complete list, join the Carpinteria Chamber of Commerce’s Takeout and Delivery Options Facebook page.

Keepin’ it Sweet

Sweet Wheel Farms & Flowers just set up shop again in Summerland this week at 2285 Lillie Avenue in the lot across from the Summerland Beach Café. They too are offering free delivery in Summerland. The cart sells organic produce (posted daily on their website www.sweetwheelfarms. com), farm boxes, and homemade sourdough breads (plain and organic honey wheat orange) made in conjunction with Summerland’s Beach Cottage Confections. Call 805-770-3677 for next day delivery and/or more info. “Adam’s Angels” has grown to 50 Sweet Farms cart in Summerland (photo by Leslie volunteers, including a bread maker Person Ryan) and a psychologist. The bread baker is seeking a loaner breadmaking machine to double her output. Contact CarpBreadLove@gmail.com. Adam, who has been making daily Costco runs and is delivering everything from water to adult diapers to the housebound in need, reports a website is in the works for volunteers and recipients. In the meantime, call Adam McKaig (805) 452-6884.

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Cooking Through Corona

The buildings have emptied at 101 Innovation Place – the QAD campus atop Ortega Hill – but the staff of five and volunteers at ShelterBox, the global non-profit whose U.S. staff normally does their good deeds from the building that once housed the original Josten’s college ring manufacturing facility, are spreading a little recipe Cooking Through Corona Summerland particilove on their Facebook page. A chili pants and ShelterBox supporters, mom Deborah cookoff is in the works and you’re Liu and daughter Rae Fox. Rae is a volunteer with ShelterBox and attends Cate School. invited to enter: virtually. ShelterBox’s work of helping refugees around the globe is far from over, but USA President Kerri Murray and her team of supporters have come up with a “novel” idea in the meantime: Cooking in the time of Corona on their Facebook page. ShelterBox brings emergency supplies and shelter to those who have been displaced due to disaster and conflict across the world. Kerri reports: “It’s been ten years since the war in Syria started, and of the one million people that have been displaced in Syria, 80% are women and children.” Committed to continue to help throughout this pandemic, the organization has been nominated for two Nobel Prizes. ShelterBox has sheltered 250,000 families with not only tents, but solar lights and also important, stainless steel cooking equipment, which is what inspired the cooking videos. “The most frequent thing I hear is that the ShelterBox stainless steel cook pots, bowls and utensils provide a huge level of certainty and restores a sense of normalcy. Cooking and sharing a meal can connect families through a crisis,” notes Kerri, “Food is a great equalizer… that insight from the field led us to create the Facebook page to connect people through food!” ShelterBox’s “Cooking Through Corona” page’s first guest chef, Leslie Zemeckis, shared her secret recipe for Contagion Cupcakes, while Summerland mother/daughter team Deborah Liu and Rae Fox (a ShelterBox summer intern and a junior at Cate School) offer their recipes for Yaki Soba Noodles and Lentil and Squash Stew. “There have been lots of requests for a global isolation chili cookoff,” Kerri said, which will be launched soon. There are even prizes for contributors! John McGovern of Summerland says he’s ready to enter his chili recipe… so dust off your best recipes, turn on your video phones and share your fav recipes on the Cooking Through Corona Facebook page: facebook.com/cookingthroughcoro na. For more info on ShelterBox, go to shelterboxusa.org. The local chapter’s full-time paid staff of five is growing to ten, so there could be work opportunities for those displaced from their own jobs. ShelterBox also welcomes volunteers and utilizes college interns from Westmont, SBCC, and Cate School.

What Goes with Chili? Beer!

Island Brewing Company recently introduced same-day beer delivery for Summerland (and Carp) residents. Orders placed before 2 pm are delivered the same day between 4-7 pm, orders placed after 2 pm come the next day. All beer must be dropped off with an individual who can display legal ID of being 21+ years old, no porch drop-offs. There’s a $5 delivery fee, but for orders over $30, use code DELIVERY2020 at checkout for free delivery. Visit islandbrewingcom pany.com/delivery or call 805-745-8272 for more information.

A Final Thought

If you haven’t joined Facebook, this might be a good time to reconsider doing so.The platform is providing a vital lifeline and information platform for many – as well as some happy distractions and places to share valuable information from trustworthy sources. Just be sure to check the source! •MJ

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

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I Scream

he worst ice cream I ever had was in England, when my family had recently returned there from the U.S., just after World War II. As a special treat, my sister and I were taken by relatives to some kind of ice cream parlor. Whatever we had there came with a tasteless wafer. It was all terrible – and I’m sure there was no cream, or even milk, in the ice cream. But my family had been living in comparative luxury in America. These poor relations had been through seven years of hell – which was now prolonged into an apparently endless period of “austerity.” Rationing of candy did not end until eight years after the war was over. But it must be stated that, although English chocolate – still made under the names of three Quaker families Fry’s, Cadbury’s, and Rowntree’s – was often hard to get, and came in a very un-fancy wrapper, it remained very good, and was always better than Hershey’s.

Oddly enough, the best ice cream I ever had was in the Soviet Union. And this was not a chance incident. In the Soviet era, people used to say that there were just three reasons to go to Russia: the ballet, the circus, and the ice cream. How did this come about? Apparently, it was by government decree. In the early 1930s some government food board, which was responsible for regulating quality, had, for some reason, set very high standards for ice cream – such as the freshness of ingredients, and the absence of chemical additives. Of course, that all changed when the regime ended, and ice cream, among many other commodities, could now be imported from other countries. It all forces one to admit that, in certain respects, the authoritarian state has its advantages. But as far as ice cream and chocolate are concerned, here in Santa Barbara I feel that I happen to be living close to heaven. My tastes may not be what

some might consider highly refined. Both my choices are available in local branches of chain stores which have numerous widely spread branches. The ice cream is called De Luxe, and I get mine at a downtown supermarket named Ralphs. The chocolate, which comes in large bars weighing more than a pound, and is therefore called “Pound Plus,” is made in Belgium, but sold here in less-than-super-markets, called “Trader Joe’s,” catering to a more upscale clientele. It amazes me that people are willing to pay so much for such commodities in specialty shops, when products of equal or superior quality are available at their local market. Chocolate and ice cream are both so popular that it’s not surprising in how many different ways they have been combined – from the “Eskimo Pie,” which appeared in 1922, and made a fortune for its American inventor, Christian Kent Nelson, and the “Artik” on a stick, of which I consumed a great many in Israel in the summer of 1953, to the “Klondike” ice cream sandwich bars which still fill many freezers today. Some of these enjoyments consisted of vanilla ice cream, encased in a thin coating of solid chocolate. But the addition of mint flavoring has been found even further to enhance such delicacies, and my own current favorite, which

is called “mint chip,” consists of green mint-flavored ice cream, into which are mixed small pieces of dark solid chocolate. It happens that many of my most popular epigrams are on the subject of chocolate – perhaps because this was a topic on which, as G.K. Chesterton observed about cheese, “the poets have been mysteriously silent” (a deficiency which my friend David Peacock remedied in a prize-winning work he called “Cheesy Poem”). Allow me to share a few of my original encomiums with you: “If chocolate could teach, I would by now be very well-educated.” “I want you, happiness, and chocolate – but not necessarily in that order.” “Broken hearts heal slowly – but a speedy application of chocolate can often help stop the initial bleeding.” I did also write “What did people do for pleasure, before ice cream was invented?” – which reminds me of a lovable character who was surely invented by the ice cream industry – the Good Humor Man, who came around the neighborhood, driving a mobile ice cream store, and announcing his presence with a loud cheery chime. For all I know, you can now buy all kinds of ice cream online – but I doubt very much if they provide free samples. •MJ

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Building Resilience in Crisis by Mitchell Kriegman and Nicholas Schou

Budgeting for Disaster Allowed AHA! To Continue Mission

HA! equips teenagers, educators, and parents with social and emotional intelligence to dismantle apathy, prevent despair, and interrupt hate-based behavior. The organization prides itself on a program based on mindfulness, awareness, connection, empathy, and resilience. Resilience certainly is something we all need and can use in this time of crisis. The teenage years for many kids feels like a crisis, so paradoxically the youngest of us are no strangers to the feelings of worry, helplessness, and fear washing over all of us. Jennifer Freed, PhD. and Rendy Freedman, MFT, co-founded the nonprofit in 1999 in response to the Columbine High School massacre that shook the world of security, safety, and school life. AHA! stands for Attitude Harmony and Achievement. Together with a group of friends, they ran a summer program for local teens to develop relational skills through group process and the creative arts. That program has evolved into a powerhouse organization that has trained over 2,000 educators, taught over 25,000 students, and supported over 2,500 parents in their daily lives. There’s no question AHA! is rising to address kids and families’ concerns in this ever-evolving moment when resilience is what we’re all looking for.

Q. Can you explain how AHA! is addressing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic here in Santa Barbara? A. We really rallied in the face of the coronavirus and the request for everybody to shelter in place. Mental health is going to be the biggest struggle in our community right now, aside from physical distancing. We’ve renamed it physical distancing instead of social distancing because the last thing we need now is to be emotionally distant. People need connection more than ever. So we’re just operating with physical distancing rules but maintaining the closeness. How big is your group? There’s Rendy Freedman who cofounded our organization and me and 25 staff members. Unlike many nonprofits that we’ve heard of who have laid people off, we’re keeping everyone employed. Every single person is going to be paid what we promised them, at least through the summer. That’s impressive. We planned for a disaster. That’s the kind of planning we’ve done for 20 years. We’ve been here a long time

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The group’s Zoom-enhanced social solidarity program in practice

they are the only ones feeling as bad as they feel and as scared as they feel and as sad as they feel. We’re all in this together.

AHA!’s Dr. Jennifer Freed

Teens helping teens during a crisis

Hate is a luxury we don’t have right now. and we budgeted for disaster. The last thing that people need when they are social service providers already on shoestring salaries is to be laid off. And many, many of our colleagues in the social service sector have been given two weeks’ notice. So now we are keeping everybody employed and they are working harder than ever because they are helping through Zoom. We’ve got therapists on staff who were already seeing some of the teens and they’re continuing to see them on Zoom. We have people every single day responding to emails and phone calls, because if ever there was a time for social and emotional intelligence, it’s now. Again, the last thing we need is for people to feel socially isolated and alone emotionally. We need to all do things calmly instead of out of fear. We’re actually increasing our services versus decreasing them. So, what’s in the AHA! program now during this crisis? We operationalized all our afterschool groups on Zoom and we created the opportunity for junior high teens and high school teens that need support to contact us through our website to form new drop-in Zoom support groups. In addition, on our Instagram account, which is @aha_sb,

we are posting three to five educational and inspirational videos every day for parents, educators, teens, and children so that people can stay very connected to one another but also get little mini lessons throughout the day and reminders on self-care. We are still serving Carpinteria afterschool and also some of the junior high peacebuilder clubs by Zoom.

We might all be reverting to our teenage selves at this moment. Exactly, yes! Many of us are doing some very low level coping behaviors like binge watching TV, eating too much, not exercising. I think what AHA! is doing is asking everybody to be healthier than they’ve ever been psychologically and physically to see us all through this. Teens have a unique relationship to technology that others don’t have. Is that helping them right now? Yes, it certainly helps them in these Zoom groups. They’re pros. I think

We have to keep calming ourselves using every tool we’ve ever learned and stay centered and grateful instead of fearful and resentful.

How’s the staff holding up? When something like this happens, everybody goes to their reptilian brain more often than their logic brain. We have to keep calming ourselves using every tool we’ve ever learned and stay centered and grateful instead of fearful and resentful. We’re holding two support groups for our staff weekly because they’re on the front lines. We’re supporting them while they support the community. And that’s going very well. AHA! is constantly dealing with families and community; do you have a message beyond teens to all of us? I think the most important message I have for the community is how important it is to support the supporters. It’s really important that we have community support. The last thing that we need right now is people self-isolating while also thinking that

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

where it doesn’t help them is in their sedentary behavior. What absolutely everyone has to do is get out and do a lot of physical exercise in nature. Physical distancing, but to go outside so that they are not just machinebound their whole day. Are you still seeing social shaming and all of that negative behavior that happens during normal times? It’s actually gone way, way down. I think having a real emergency makes us reprioritize. Hate is a luxury we don’t have right now. People are all in survival mode. Other than the hoarding behavior and the selfish behavior that happens around the grocery store, I’ve seen a real reduction on hating in my feed. Also. I’ve been on a number of Zoom calls in the background with the teens and I’ve never seen such vulnerable sweetness in my life. The teens are reaching out to each other. 2 – 9 April 2020

They’re saying really beautiful things to one another. There’s a tenderness that’s really emerging. Are there lessons for adults from the teens and how they’re behaving that they could learn from? Yes, definitely. That’s where I would say go to our Instagram account, @ aha_sb. You’ll get the culture of AHA!, because all of our staff are making videos. I think adults should go there, too. They’ll see and feel what our culture really is and what the teens have been exposed to.

One of our teens said on Zoom, “I can’t believe we’re making history right now.” That’s the part that is very difficult to think about. There are many twenty-yearolds, thirty-year-olds who just can’t possibly sustain life in this kind of economy. You know, we spent how many billions and trillions bailing out the banks, it’s time to bail out the American people and that’s the investment that we need to make right now. We need to rebuild this generation with a commitment to serve everybody. We have to take the same kind of courage and boldness to bail out people on the brink of bankruptcy that we do with corporations. Since corporations are individuals and individuals are individuals now we need to say to all of these people that have lost their work: You will be personally bailed out for the next three months as long as this lasts, and then you can be on a repayment plan that’s quite generous like the banks get. Do you ever wonder about the world we’ve given our kids? We had time to grow. Now kids seem to live faster compressed lives with less understanding and less room. Whenever I hear anybody bashing kids, it’s like, what are you talking about? Absolutely. I think one of the things that’s incumbent on us to do now as adults is model how one gets through this. As one of our teens said on Zoom, “I can’t believe we’re making history right now.” They haven’t lived through the Spanish Flu or the Great Depression or Nazi Germany. They’re aware now that this is their big World War Two moment. It’s a war with a virus and an economy that’s collapsing, and they know the gravity of this. Many of our teens that we serve come from service-class families and many of them are just terrified because their parents have all lost their jobs and they have no idea how they’re going to be able to survive this. •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

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tomatically. Somewhere between 50% and as much as 86% of cases are asymptomatic and they are contagious during that phase. Every day there’s something that makes your head spin. Today it’s that if you’re asymptomatic, your breath still sheds virus which is one of the reasons for six feet distancing. Is that the case? Yes, it’s possible based on what we know. But it’s really important that the public understand the priorities. I keep coming back to two things: principles and priorities. We have to assume that everyone is infected. We have to assume that every surface is contaminated but because we do not have endless amounts of time and attention there are certain risk factors that are important to pay attention to and evidence based best practices. We don’t want people doing crazy stuff that will either be a waste of their time or just isn’t proven.

How to Take Care of Yourself

So, what do you consider highest priority best practices? I’ve outlined the basic hierarchy of what’s important to do and then what’s nice to do on flattenthecurve. com. Number one is stay home and wash your hands. Number two is don’t touch your face. Number three is disinfect, especially high touch surfaces, things like doorknobs, light switches, toilet handles, faucet handles. Number four is stay healthy and out of harm’s way. That’s a big one actually because the fewer people we have trying free-fall bungee jumping for the first time, the more capacity our health system has to treat people. Number five is protect yourself when you’re out of the house. So that means

not touching things that you don’t actually mean to touch like handrails and in grocery stores commit to buying, don’t randomly smear your fingers all over all things and look at the calorie count, just buy it and get out. What about delivered packages or your groceries when you bring them home? If you’re at risk and you want to be super safe, isolate packages three to nine days before unpacking. Put on your winter gloves, take that package, put it in a secure location, date the package and let it sit. This is a virus that has only been 136 days on this planet. This particular variant of the virus is completely brand new. That’s one reason it’s a problem. There’s a lot we don’t know right now. We know that it can survive up to three days under ideal conditions on hard surfaces and evidence from other coronaviruses suggest that what’s called fomite transmission is possible. [NOTE: “fomite transmission” refers to the transmission of infectious dis-

eases by objects] What that means is that it can survive prolonged periods on hair, skin cells and soft fibers. The longer you leave your packages, the safer they are. How can you be sure you’ve cleaned everything? You’ve got to protect yourself without spending eight hours a day in a lot of anxiety. Decontaminating things is really hard, and hard to do well if you’re not someone who’s been through that

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We’ve seen videos of how to unpack your groceries that have shown that the issue is the wrapping. Not the food. Exactly it is the wrapping and not the food, but people who aren’t accustomed to doing it well, can put themselves at unnecessary risk. If you buy six boxes of pasta, are you going to need all six boxes within three days? I have a grocery guide on the website that I put together. One hint is that when you are at the checkout, separate the things you know can sit from those that cannot and be lazy about it. Stuff the rest in a corner and deal with it when you absolutely must.

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training. So, keep it simple. Even something like getting your gloves off without, touching the outside of the glove requires training and practice. So, if you’re not comfortable doing that, if you’re not practiced, put on a pair of winter gloves that are easier to get on and off without touching the outside and just pop those in the washing machine after use. A normal wash and dry cycle will perfectly kill the virus.

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Can’t we use disinfectants and sterilizers on the package and somehow dump the internals of the package without touching the outside? I would just caution you that you should use that as a plan B, rather than a plan A. What about something simple like apples. Can you clean them with vinegar and water and a little bit of lemon? Yes. However, vinegar won’t cut it. It doesn’t have a high enough, acidity or alcohol content to actually break the lipid layer, the fat that protects the virus. But it’s pretty simple. You just scrub them, wash them in cool water with a little vegetable brush. Soap and water should only be used for foods that have a thick peel, like orange or bananas and everything should always be well rinsed. It’s way too complicated for something like fresh berries, lettuce, herbs, if they’ve been handpicked recently. Everything frozen like berries are fine because those were picked in time before the pandemic got going. What about riding your bike to the ocean for exercise or taking a walk? What about exercising outdoors at a safe distance? I absolutely encourage people to be outdoors as much as they can. That’s not to say they should be packed on beaches. But staying in nature is going to help keep us sane. Most people in Santa Barbara have very small houses. They can’t stay holed up in their

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houses and tiny little backyards or patios for weeks. It’s not sustainable. So yes, absolutely get out into nature. If you are not actually touching, is it zero risk? No, there is no such thing as zero risk. However, the risk that people go crazy, is higher if they are in their house for an extended period of time. This is not going to be over in a week and it’s not going to be over in two weeks. We have to really pace ourselves in order to do this well.

We don’t want people doing crazy stuff that will either be a waste of their time or just isn’t proven. What are the biggest misconceptions that are out there right now? That’s a good question. So, number one as I said in the beginning, is thinking I’m too young and healthy, I’m not at risk. Number two, it’s like the flu, it’s vastly more deadly. Number three would be, that this is overblown, there are no infections near me. The “Don’t Test, Don’t Tell” policy has given the public a false sense of security in the face of an already raging epidemic. Number four is the economy is more important. If a tsunami was coming towards your town, would you complain about the economic cost of evacuating? This outbreak is an invisible tsunami.

What About the Emotional Toll?

Some people are simply paralyzed and terrified by so much happening so quickly, they don’t know how to emotionally deal with it. For many people this is the first time that they’ve come to grips with their own mortality. People have different timelines for that. People should use this opportunity as an invitation to look at what’s really important to them. It’s important that people take personal responsibility for themselves and for their community to do everything. Don’t be a vector. Do you have any thoughts on the way the federal government has handled the crisis so far? We have fewer than 1% of the masks that we would need to do this. Everybody’s going to need these things. This should be nonpartisan. We have to think about the greater good. People should be helped on the basis of need, not the basis of greed. If we don’t use this opportunity to find higher ground with people across the aisle, we will lose this game for us and for our children. •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

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Calm Your Nerves

he looming threat of the coronavirus in our community has left everyone I know feeling agitated and anxious. To protect ourselves and our families, we need to fill the pantry, wash our hands, avoid doorknobs, and stop touching. Who knew we touched our faces so much? Add to this the downline repercussions of uncertain travel plans, a volatile stock market, cancelled events, limited social exposure, school closures, and a news stream full of alarming reports. It makes sense that we feel uptight. Given what we know about how stress impacts clear thinking and good rest, the best prep for these uncertain times may be learning how to calm your nerves. When your physiology is plugged in to thoughts of survival, it’s hard to let go and relax even when you’re exhausted and need a good night’s sleep. You know how this goes. Worry takes hold and won’t let go. Then, sleep ends up being fitful and spotty. When this happens even for one night, it affects your ability to show up responsibly, resiliently, and lovingly. Although you may want to settle down after a full, demanding, stress-filled day, your mind is buzzing, muscles tense, and physiology churning. Just telling your body to let go and relax adds to the problem. And, even when you fall asleep, you don’t stay asleep. In order to give yourself a break, you need to interrupt the pattern with some active, focused relaxation. Lots of people report good results when they set time aside for a soothing bath, meditation, or restorative yoga poses before bedtime. Recently, I’ve found that placing my hands on my belly and quieting my gut-brain does the trick. A bit of simplified science will help explain why this works for me. It all has to do with the vagus nerve which connects the brain to the abdomen. Among other things, this wandering nerve controls the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The PNS is the rest-digest counterpoint to the fight-or-flight sympathetic nervous system. In other words, any time you’re all worked up without a fight or flight reason, your PNS needs to step in and tell your brain to chill out. Deep breathing stimulates the vagus nerve activating a relaxation response in the PNS. This, in turn, shifts the physiology to reduce anxiety, stress, anger, and inflammation. Because of this direct gut-brain connection, it makes sense that focused belly breathing is a good strategy for calming your nerves.

Try this out for yourself:

• Thirty minutes before sleep, dim the lights and turn off the screens. Even better, put your iPhone in another room. • Once in bed, get comfortable with adequate pillow support and cozy covers. • Scan through your body, letting each muscle surrender to Gravity. Tell your body that the day is done and all is well. • Then, gently place your hands on your belly, one above the solar plexus, the other a bit lower. Feel how your abdomen moves with each inhale and exhale. Locate pockets of discomfort and direct your breath to dissipate the tension. • Breathing deeply and slowly, string three or four inhale-exhales together and then see if you can do more. Before you know it, you’ll be tucked into a restful sleep. Don’t be discouraged if your attention drifts away from your belly after just a couple of breaths. Once you discover that you’re off thinking, worrying, and planning again, just return to your body. In an over-stimulated world, simple body awareness takes practice. Notice how your focus is either centered on word thought or on body sensation. Never both at once. Because of this, belly breathing has the potential to calm both mind and nerves. And, if you awake with mind a-buzz and feeling wired, just take a few minutes to belly breathe and calm your nerves again. Over the next few weeks of community lock-down, it’s important to take measures to mitigate the stress. Instead of ramping up and letting your sympathetic nervous system run the show, set aside some time to destress and reset your equilibrium. Before bedtime is great. But, any transition time is an opportunity to practice – when you first wake up, between appointments, after work, or before dinner. Then, whatever you do next, you’ll be more relaxed. Given that our community has become all too familiar with life-altering emergencies, I don’t have to convince anyone that knowing how to calm your nerves is one of the most valuable skills in your tool kit. •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

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his a time that requires great forbearance and fortitude. We are all challenged to act out of our highest character and believe in the best in others. Emotional closeness is our best immunity, and so we all need to do whatever it takes to keep our hearts open – even as we face very real limits and boundaries. Our April birthday honoree is Bobby Shand! Bobby is one of the most kind, loving fathers, husbands, and friends on the planet. He is always available for great coaching and friendly advice… and he really knows how to have a good time! Starting in June, Bobby will be the new co-president of the AHA! board (with his good friend Rand Rosenberg). He will continue to advise companies in Montecito and around the world on advertising and marketing. Aries: You will be called upon to be a strong and capable support for others this month. You are at your finest when you use your remarkable strength to be resolute and reassuring. Spend time next to tall and awe-inspiring trees. At your core, you are that immense place of shelter for others. Taurus: In the midst of unprecedented change, you will be asked to be more flexible than usual and adjust your expectations. Music can play a strong role in keeping your mindset positive and productive. Take time to listen to people and lyrics that help you relax. Gemini: You will be asked to bring conversations to a higher vibration. Assist people in using words wisely; show them the power of gratitude and resilience. Play board games with your people to remember that small parties can be great parties, too. Cancer: Softening the edges for people now is your forte. You will be asked to embody the Divine Mother energy to help folks see the best possible outcomes of their current circumstances. Spend lots of time nourishing and soothing yourself in your heart cave, so that you can be a true balm for others who are frayed. Leo: Change is your true friend right now, although it may rub you the wrong way. Become a master of creative outlets for your delays or detours. This is a huge opportunity for you to redouble your efforts to be loving and considerate, and to trust that any new roads on which you find yourself are paved with gold hearts. Virgo: Your helpful and clear thinking has never been more in demand. This means you need to attend to your emotional and personal hygiene in a state much like prayer. Offer your cleansing routines as a petition to your most stellar nature. Others will rely on you to work strategies of conservation and keep a positive attitude. Libra: Your ability to be reasonable is much needed these days. Take extra time this month to balance your emotions with your sane perspective. You will be a safe haven of common sense for others. Your talent for making simple things gorgeous will help lift spirits. Scorpio: Transformation is your specialty. You are the Phoenix. Show folks what real emotional courage looks like by being the first one in your community to step to the front lines to support the vulnerable and the challenged. You gain strength by providing fearlessness for others. Sagittarius: For this time period, you have fire in your belly! This fire energizes you to reach out and help those who are struggling. Your preference for outer travel will be expressed through a deep investigation of your inner moral fiber and resilience. Capricorn: You are the great mountain climber; now, the heights of those peaks are more formidable than ever. Your great leadership abilities will be called into play. You will be rewarded highly if you ask all the teammates to help you with your goals. Aquarius: As a visionary, you can see that all of this chaos and reordering is for the sake of a noble and true reset. Focus on staying close to your own tenderness during this time. Let friends love your quirky moods and intuitions and take in the love that others have been storing up for you. Pisces: You can feel it all, but that doesn’t mean you have to take it all on. Your assignment is to rest and restore enough to be that kind, loving compassion that everyone needs right now – most especially you. Spend as much time as you can creating things as a way of keeping the energy moving. •MJ

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DUE DATE & TIME: APRIL 23, 2020 UNTIL 3:00P.M. SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT REGENERATIVE AIR SWEEPER The scope of work is to provide one Regenerative Air Sweeper in compliance with Advisory Circular 150_5210_24 and these contract provisions. Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. 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. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov 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 http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp. The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors. 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. Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained the Bid Documents. (1) Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity 1. The Offeror’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications” set forth herein. 2. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Timetables Goals for minority participation for each trade: 19.7% Goals for female participation in each trade:

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These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction. The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a) and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed. 3. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed. 4. As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is the City of Santa Barbara, California. (2) Civil Rights – Title VI Assurances The City of Santa Barbara, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders or offerors that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, [select disadvantaged business enterprises or airport concession disadvantaged business enterprises] will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. (3) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) A DBE goal of 2% has been established for this contract. The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53. The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

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The following provisions are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if given in full text: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Trade Restriction Certification (Reference: 49 USC § 50104; 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: 2 CFR § 200, Appendix II(D); 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Debarment and Suspension (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C); 2 CFR part 1200; and DOT Order 4200.5) 5) Lobbying and Influencing Federal Employees (Reference: 31 USC § 1352 – Byrd Anti-Lobbying Amendment; 2 CFR part 200, Appendix II(J); and 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) 6) Procurement of Recovered Materials (Reference: 2 CFR § 200.322; 40 CFR part 247; and Solid Waste Disposal Act) 7) Government-wide Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (Reference: 28 CFR 83.635) 8) Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (41 CFR Part 60-1.8) 9) Veteran’s Preference (49 USC Section 47112(c)) 10) Distracted Driving (Texting when Driving) (Executive Order 13513/ DOT Order 3902.10) (See Federal Provisions of the Contract Bid Documents for further details.) Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s). _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990 INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5833 DUE DATE & TIME: APRIL 22, 2020 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. DRYWALL, CARPENTRY & CEILING WORK AT CHASE PALM PARK CENTER Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. 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. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted. If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A Non-Mandatory pre-bid job inspection for prospective bidders by appointment will be used in an effort to dissuade new social associations and interactions. Information will also be provided through a video before walk through. The building will be made available to prospective bidder(s) by appointment. Appointments are available on April 9, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Chase Palm Park Center, located at 236 E Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara, CA, to provide the prospective bidder access to the building. This is to provide the person sufficient capacity to make an informed and accurate bid. All questions asked to City, shall be posted with answers on Planet Bids. Additional appointment days and times may be added as necessary. City will provide a pair of disposable gloves to each person entering the building. Email Michael Rubin to schedule appointment: MRubin@santabarbaraca.gov FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason 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, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. BONDING Bidder shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order, a cashier’s certified check, or bond payable to the order of the City, amounting to ten percent (10%) of the bid. Bonds must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Note: All bids must be accompanied by a copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. Only the original bid security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or delivered to the Purchasing Office in a sealed envelope and be received within (3) City business days of the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5. There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813. Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776. The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid. A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California General B contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein. CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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Published: April 1, 2020 Montecito Journal

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SPIRITUALITY (Cond from p. 27)

Juliet Rhode-Brown’s “Gentle Mindfulness” at 2 pm and Renee Golan’s “Mindfulness and Compassion” at 7 pm. Fridays at 9-10 am is Alexis Slutzky’s “Being with Grief and Uncertainty” and Weininger teams with her husband Michael Kearney for “Mindfulness, Compassion, and NatureConnection” on Sundays 10 am.   There are also new offerings for children and their caregivers, including Vivian Valentin and her kids presenting “Mindful Activities for Kids and Parents” on Tuesdays at 3 pm, and Ann-Marie Charest’s “Mindfulness for Parents & Children” on Thursdays 9 am. Just click on Weininger ’s Zoom room (https://zoom.us/j/5612731921) to access any of the sessions, and admission continues to be free.

Lucidity Likes the Fall

Episode nine of The Lucidity Festival, which was slated to take place April 10-12 at Live Oak Campground, has solidified new dates for its Regeneration Earththemed weekend: November 6-8. The aim is to keep things as close as possible to the spring selections, from music to workshops and more, although shifting schedules always create some changes. And of course if the COVID-19 crisis hasn’t passed yet, the organizers will have to re-think things again. In the meantime, we’re told to keep our eyes peeled online, as they are working on putting together a virtual festival offering during the original April dates. Visit https://lucidityfestival. com. The similarly themed SoulPlay festival – founder and CEO Romi Elan was a workshop presenter at last year’s Lucidity – has yet to pull the plug on its 2020 gathering slated for June 11-14. But the event that bills itself as “a summer camp, a personal growth intensive, and a fun celebratory weekend with your closest friends and family – or the people who you will soon refer to as SOUL family” got on the online bandwagon early. A daily “Start with Heart” virtual gathering, which began taking place at 9:30 am every morning on Zoom back in mid-March, is meant to be a way to connect, check in with each other and start the day in a heart-centered space. To participate, RSVP to the Facebook Event page at www.facebook.com/ events/236870064375908, then join the Zoom call at https://zoom. us/j/758975249 each morning. Or you can simply watch and comment in the Facebook Live Broadcast of each morning’s call on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/soulplayfestivals. No admission fee. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

MONTECITO JOURNAL’S THOM STEINBECK

CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST #2

e find writing to be the world’s best salve. Write a short story up to 250 words. It can be about anything, written in any style. What matters is your voice.

For this story use the opening prompt:

“ I could not believe those words came out of my mouth.” and continue from there.

Send your story by Sunday, April 11 to: letters@montecitojournal.net. We will publish the winning story and award the winning writer with a $125 gift certificate to a local restaurant of our choice for take-out food.

EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

know this community is filled with creative, talented people, many of whom are professional writers. But for even the most skilled, writing a good, svelte 250-word story, is no simple task. A handful of the stories were written by young children – and show great promise. Some of the stories moved me to tears. Many were inspiring. Some had great humor. Each of them, in some way, made me think. From now on, this new tradition, that I hope will stay with us long after we’ve forgotten the dreaded words “Covid-19,” will be called:

The Montecito Journal Thom Steinbeck Creative Writing Contest Because, like Thom, we believe that if you want to be a writer, and you write, then you are a writer. Judgements-be-damned! With so many worthy submissions, we have awarded four prizes: Congratulations to…

1st Place prize:

$125 gift certificate from Tre Lune Ristorante to Marc Cronin for his untitled story.

2nd Place prize:

$100 gift certificate from Oliver’s to JC O’Brien for his untitled story.

3rd Place prize:

$75 gift certificate from Oliver’s to Richard Renaldo for his untitled story.

4th Place prize:

$50 gift certificate from Pacific Health Foods to David Figueras for his story: “PEOPLE SITTING IN CARS.” Enjoy these stories on following page. This week’s new prompt is: “I could not believe those words came out of my mouth.” Please submit stories, titled and with a photo, by Sunday, April 11 2020 to letters@montecitojournal.net. In the meantime, stay safe. Wash your hands. Call a friend. And if you’re going stir crazy… write. •MJ

Laughing Matters

union boss walks in from the factory next door and is about to order a beer when he sees a guy at the far end of the bar wearing a TRUMP “Make America Great Again” cap with two beers sitting in front of him. The union boss doesn’t need to be an Einstein to know that this guy is a Republican, so he shouts over to the bartender so loudly that everyone can hear, “Drinks for everyone in here, bartender... but not for the Republican.” Soon after the drinks have been passed out, the Republican gives him a big smile, waves at him then says, “Thank you!” in an equally loud voice. This infuriates the union boss. After a few minutes, the union boss once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the Republican. As before, this doesn’t seem to bother the Republican. He nods and smiles, and again yells, “Thank you!” A few more minutes pass and the union boss orders another round of drinks for everyone except the Republican. Just as before, this STILL doesn’t seem to faze the Republican who continues smiling and again yells out, “Thank you!!” Frustrated that he can’t seem to get the guy angered, the union boss asks the bartender, “What is wrong with that Republican? I’ve ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but him, and all the dummy does is smile and thank me. Is he nuts...?” “Nope,” replies the bartender. “He owns the place.” Send us your best joke, we’ll decide if it’s funny. We can only print what we can print, so don’t blame us. Please send “jokes” to letters@ montecitojournal.net

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1ST PLACE by Marc Cronin

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ea culpa... when we booked this trip i should have mentioned the tickets were one way (non-refundable of course) and the destination was astray. retracing the steps of so many who’ve journeyed before us, then retracing our own steps as well, we created a circle. it became vicious. all adventures begin with a single step, so navigation is key. when the directions failed we turned to the landscape; when the landscape failed we turned to our souls; when our souls failed we turned to each other; when we failed each other we turned to ourselves. despite the darkness there were times of transcendence: brimstone and fire, lightening and thunder, and the magical and mystical auroras. these experiences were shared but exclusive. no signpost, but our way suddenly changed to a way. getting back was no problem, the return we both recognized. conventional wisdom holds that risk tolerance dwindles with age. caution to the wind our mantra, somehow the learning curve bends and all in becomes the new normal. that unmatched exhilaration provides the drive and drive creates the dreams, and dreams supply the illusions. illusions (being unreliable) require insurance, and the underwriter is faith. our desires oh so common. our needs generic. but our odds were just too long. no one gets anywhere without beating them sometime. fortune’s smile is truly rare and random, quixotic, and our cost/benefit so positive. as luck would have it, i never knew i could be so wrong. •MJ

2 – 9 April 2020

WINNERS OF THE MONTECITO JOURNAL

THOM STEINBECK CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST 2ND PLACE by JC O’Brien

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never thought I could be so wrong. I mean, don’t misunderstand me…. I have been wrong a number of times before. And that number is two. (1) ”I can handle that cuz I have a stomach of steel” and, 2) “That doesn’t look like herpes.”) But when it comes to family? I know my facts from my fake news. For example, I knew my brother’s marriage would not last two consecutive minor holidays. I also knew my mother’s “water bottle” contained a liquid that can be made into a hand sanitizer, long before she began meeting her friends weekly in the church basement. I have always been my family’s finder-of-missing-truths. A final infidelity. (“Dad, what’s that bruise on your neck?”) A desperate Nigerian Prince. (“Grandma, why are you only eating Ramen?”) A shopping problem. (“Honnnneyyy, you said you paid the utility bill this month, right?”) But aside from my wife’s aforementioned bout of consumeritis, I have been 100 percent confident that my adult life was safe. Predictable. One might even say…colorless. I am an attorney like my dad. A planner like my dad. A small-town person like my dad. I even have my dad’s uncomfortable sense of humor. I always chalked it up to the generations of Irish pain that fermented the strands of my DNA. That is until my wife gave me 23and Me as a Christmas gift. I was sure my dad WAS my dad. I never thought I could be so wrong. •MJ

3RD PLACE

by Richard Renaldo

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4TH PLACE by David Figueras

People Sitting In Cars

“I never knew I could be so wrong…” “Is this about Livi?” “Of course it’s about that.” “Oh, I think you knew.” “What do you mean by that?” “Knew that you could be so wrong, I think you knew.” “That’s ridiculous!” “I love when you act surprised by your own behavior.” “I don’t know anyone else who talks to their mother like this.” “You did... but she left.” “She was just sitting in her car…” “For four hours.” “Why does she do that?” “You could have gone out and talked to her.” “I just thought she was going to just sit out there like she does.” “And... now, she’s gone.” “ I just want to know that she’s ok or coming back or somewhere good and safe.” “She might. She has nowhere else to go.” 2 – 9 April 2020

never knew I could be so wrong because I am a wise guy, you know the type – always right. I have a lifetime of anticipating worse case scenarios. It’s in my nature to keep well stocked – always has been. That’s why I shrugged off the tp panic. I knew that I had several months’ supply locked in a closet at a short-term rental we operate. So when my wife Dee remarked that we were low on tp, I felt like a certain ‘50s western television character riding to the rescue, getting into my black and white pickup to drive downtown. It was a different ‘50s television sitcom character that returned home with the news that someone had nicked our supply. Dee put her hand to her mouth saying, “Oh, I left the closet door open because we were gone and I didn’t want the guests to run out.” No blame, no anger just a sick realization we were in trouble. Indeed, my first search was fruitless. Now, I have had a prejudice against big box stores and I never patronize them… never. So it was Dee who discovered when WalMart received shipments and showed up at 6 am so she could be one of the few to scarf a twenty roll package. She returned home triumphant… her victory, my loss. “How did you know?” I asked. She replied, “You have always said there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence.” •MJ

“It’s making me crazy.” “That’s a new development?” “Don’t be a smart ass.” “I’m sorry Mom... everything is just off right now, all of it.” “I just want her home.” “ Tell you what I’ll do... I’ll go down to the Friendly Market. She buys cigarettes there. She might be there just sitting in her car.” “I would be so happy if she is there. I can’t just sit and wait.” “Keep your phone close. I’ll call when I get there.” “ That would be great if she’s there... and Clyde, can you get a couple cans of peaches, if they have them.” “I’ll see what they have left.” “Thank you, Clyde.” “She’ll be there Mom, don’t you worry anymore.” •MJ

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MONTECITO JOURNAL

VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 14)

Cold Spring music teacher Sara DiSalvo teaches a violin lesson to students via Zoom

Home is to provide learning experiences and keep the learning from the school year going; it is not about maintaining an 8:30 am to 3:30 pm schedule like a normal school day. The 364 MUS students will start at 9 am with a class meeting, followed by a lesson at 9:30, and a short recess at 10 am to cut the screen time. There will be more lessons at 10:30 and 11 am, followed by lunch and a less structured afternoon. “We want them to read for 45 minutes following lunch, or get outside and do something fun,” Dr. Ranii said. Because school is technically closed, there is no attendance requirements, and no grades will be given for home assignments. “We understand that the parents and families are going to do what they are going to do, but we need to be flexible,” Dr. Ranii said. The school provided each student the option to take home a device, and were ready to provide wireless hotspots if a student or family did not have access to WIFI. Special needs students are still able to have counseling sessions online with an array of specialists and therapists. “We’re a full inclusion school, and we’ve got some students with significant disabilities,” Dr. Ranii said, adding that the school’s specialists have been working to modify their curriculum for special needs students. Those students at MUS who receive free and reduced school lunches are still being provided that service, via remote lunch service at a number of campuses in Santa Barbara. “We’re very thankful to Santa Barbara Unified School District for being our partner in this,” Dr. Ranii said, adding that SBUSD is the provider of hot lunches at the school during the typical school year.

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Dr. Ranii and Dr. Alzina both report that although school is canceled officially until the end of April, they are preparing for a scenario in which school will not resume until after summer. They are discussing how to best navigate graduations, end of school year plays, dances, and more. “We’re hopeful we can come back to campus in May, but if that can’t happen, we are having some tough conversations on how to navigate this new normal,” Dr. Ranii said.

Small Business Help

Last week, the Santa Barbara City Council voted unanimously to pass a moratorium on evictions for both residential and commercial tenants through the end of May; a similar moratorium was passed by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors as well, ensuring that residential and commercial tenants in unincorporated areas of the County are not faced with evictions if they are unable to pay their rents due to financial hardship related to the coronavirus crisis. Both moratorium ordinances explicitly state that the urgency ordinance does not relieve a tenant’s obligation to pay rent, nor do they restrict a landlord’s ability to recover rent due. “Through May 31, 2020, or until the Santa Barbara County local health emergency proclamation is terminated, whichever is earlier, the owner of residential or commercial real property shall not terminate a tenancy for failure to pay rent if the tenant demonstrates that the failure to pay rent is directly related to a substantial loss of income or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses associated with the coronavirus pandemic or any local, state,

or federal government response to the pandemic,” reads the urgency ordinance of the County. The tenant must provide written notice to the property owner that there has been a substantial loss of income from a job loss, layoff, or a reduction in number of compensable hours of work; that there has been a closure of the tenant’s store or business; there has been a need to miss work to care for home-bound school aged children, or a family member infected with the coronavirus; or substantial outof-pocket medical expenses related to the pandemic. Tenants in the City of Santa Barbara must show proof of financial hardship before the 20th of April and May, and City Council members decided against setting a deadline for tenants to payback missed rents. Instead, the Council agreed to encourage landlords and tenants to work together based on specific situations. The recently adopted CARES Act, which allocates $350 billion to small businesses to keep workers employed amid the pandemic and associated economic downturn, may be of big help to small businesses in Santa Barbara County. The emergency loans provision of the CARES Act, also known as the Paycheck Protection Program, lets small businesses borrow as much as $10 million with an interest rate no higher than 4%. These loans, backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA), may be forgiven as long as companies meet certain conditions, including maintaining or restoring average payroll. Locally, many commercial landlords are trying to ease the burden of the situation, deferring or forgiving rent, or offering a discount. “It’s very confusing for everyone,” said Coast Village Association board president Bob Ludwick, who is keeping tabs on both the business owners and property owners along Coast Village Road. “There is no playbook, but it is somewhat like a hurricane devastating the whole country. No one is exempt, no one is not impacted. No one,” he said. To learn more about the emergen cy loans, visit www.uschamber.com/ co/.

Highway Widening Moves Forward

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Caltrans has announced that the first phase of the highway widening from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara will begin the evening of Sunday, April 5. This phase of the project is called Highway 101: Carpinteria, and it will add a peak-period carpool lane to the freeway in each direction within the City of Carpinteria between Bailard Avenue and the southbound Highway 101 on-ramp at Santa

Claus Lane. The new lanes will tie into recently added third lanes to the south and upcoming projects to the north. “We are very pleased to be starting the Highway 101: Carpinteria project on the heels of the Highway 101: Linden and Casitas Pass project. Highway 101: Linden and Casitas Pass is finishing up new local road connections, bridges, bike lanes, and sidewalks on the local streets in Carpinteria. The widening of the new Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass Road Overcrossings will easily allow for carpool lanes to be built on U.S. 101 below these bridges,” said California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 5 Director Tim Gubbins. The project includes new bridges to be built over Franklin and Santa Monica Creeks. There will be freeway on- and off-ramp improvements at Santa Monica Road, Carpinteria Avenue, and Reynolds Avenue. Six new sound walls will be constructed to reduce freeway noise for neighbors. On local streets, there will be improvements to the intersections at Santa Monica Road and Via Real, Reynolds and Carpinteria Avenues, and Bailard Avenue and the freeway ramps. Highway 101: Carpinteria is one of the five segments that make up the Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project undertaken by Caltrans and SBCAG in cooperation with local agencies to add a new carpool lane in each direction between Carpinteria and Santa Barbara. The project will improve bridges, interchanges, on- and off-ramps, and add sound walls. The Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara project is forecasted to cost $700 million and funding has been awarded for the first three segments from SB1, state funds, and Measure A. Highway 101: Carpinteria is a $96 million construction and landscaping project. “This project is a significant step in addressing freeway traffic congestion that has increased over the last 30 years,” said Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) Executive Director Marjie Kirn. Drivers can expect to see initial safety fencing, safety barriers to shift lanes, and work to build up outside shoulders. Then lanes will be shifted and the first year of work will focus on the southbound side of U.S. 101. Construction of public works projects is an essential government service even during current health measures; work crews are working to ensure that these needed improvements are built while accommodating safe working conditions. For more information, visit www. SBROADS.com. •MJ 2 – 9 April 2020

On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

by Steven Libowitz

Fortunes Launches on Zoom

CSB’s Launch Pad program began in 2005 as a grand experiment to offer a high-tech lab for playwrights-in-residence, UCSB theater students, faculty, and guest artists to collaborate in developing a new play each year. The residency culminates in a fully realized Preview Production, when the play completes its journey from incubation to professional world premiere featuring a mix of student and professional actors. The brainchild of founding artistic director Risa Brainin, Launch Pad’s concept was unique in American theater, to have a fully realized production of a new play without the pressures of the commercial world. The play stays in previews throughout the run of the show, allowing the writer to continue revising as the piece evolves through performance. Over the years, the program has branched out a bit, most recently also offering Launch Pad Pop-Ups, smaller versions of the annual production that run as staged readings of new projects that have much briefer rehearsal and development periods and are performed just once with scripts in hand. Montecito resident Cheri Steinkellner’s Prima Materia – the famed comedy writer’s new mother-daughter comedy “about death, love, memory and making garbage into gold” – was the most recent recipient of the treatment, with a reading just last January. Now, in an effort to cope with COVID-19, Launch Pad is launching into another grand experiment, said Brainin, who was supposed to direct Fortunes, a new comedy play written by Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta, as a staged reading in mid-March but was thwarted when UCSB canceled classes. Instead, the piece is zipping over to Zoom, where Brainin will direct Launch Pad’s first-ever virtual staged reading on Thursday, April 2. “People across the country are streaming just about everything,” Brainin said on Monday. “I figured why not try doing it on Zoom and see what happens.” Brainin said she made that decision partly because of a desire not to have to let go of diving into Fortunes, which was written by Castellaneta – best-known for portraying the voice of Homer Simpson for decades – and his wife and frequent writing partner Deb Lacusta. “I’ve read a lot of their work, and been very interested in producing something, and I like this piece a lot,” Brainin explained. “What’s great about their writing is that there’s comedy but 2 – 9 April 2020

they’re also dealing with issues. That’s my favorite approach, to find comedy in tragedy and vice versa.” Fortunes features five people who have different connections, and a psychic who does readings upstairs in a little coffeehouse in Detroit, back in the 1980s. “I just love the characters, this group of people who have a little history together,” Brainin said. “They’re all struggling with what was happening back then in that era with the recession. And that gives it another angle at this crazy moment when we’re all struggling.” UCSB Theater professor Michael Bernard is joined by seven BFA acting program students – Sheila Correa, Harry Davis, Mateusz Kranz, Sara Neal, Harutun Simonian, Lana Spring, and Hailey Turner – in rounding out the cast that Brainin will have to direct only virtually, which seems like quite a task. “I’m wondering myself how that’s going to work,” she said with a laugh. “I’ve auditioned actors over video and done a Zoom call back where I might give them some direction on a scene and have them redo it. But that’s oneon-one, not a whole ensemble.” The tricky part, she said, is that the actors won’t be able to see each other as they work. “You can’t see the other person’s eyes, or rather not see them eye-toeye. So the communication is a little cringed. But at least they can hear each other clearly – I hope – and see your face so they can tell what you’re trying to express.” The upshot is that the experience at least for her and the actors is more like performing a radio play from a bygone era. “You really have to listen to each other to try to make the timing and connections work.” As for the audience? That’s another story. Brainin is still fiddling with the Zoom technology so that the event is a true conference call – albeit with the observers muted during the reading – rather than a one-way webinar. That’s because the writers still want to gauge the audience response and receive feedback as to how the play works, which, of course, is the original purpose of Launch Pad programs. So Brainin will be moderating a discussion and Q&A period after the reading ends. “There might be two people on there, or 50 – who knows?” she said. “It really is a grand experiment.” Even in advance of the first staged reading, however, Brainin is moving

forward with an online version of the student showcase at the end of the semester, exchanging the in-person performances for a special 15th anniversary event. She reached out to all 29 of the playwrights whose work were produced over Launch Pad’s span inviting them to create a monolog or a scene, or both, that can be performed on the Zoom format. “It doesn’t have to be set on Zoom itself, but you can’t have any compromises in adapting the play to a virtual reading. In other words, you can’t set two people in the same room, because you can’t actually do that on Zoom,” Brainin explained. The playwrights were given the coronavirus-connected prompt of Alone Together, and 17 playwrights, including Steinkellner, are participating. Six student directors and all of the student actors as well as select faculty members and some actors from community will have a hand in producing the submissions on Zoom in June. Details have yet to be announced as logistics are still being worked out. In the meantime, the COVID-created dash to streaming is affording an opportunity to catch Brainin’s most recent non-UCSB project: the Indiana Repertory Theater’s production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Brainin directed the show, which ran for 16 performances before shutting down for sheltering in place. The company wanted to preserve the production and make it available to those who already bought tickets, so they filmed it as a four-camera shoot, Brainin said. Visit https://tickets. irtlive.com/4684/4686 to get access. How did it turn out? “I don’t know,” Brainin admitted. “I haven’t seen it myself, because it seems scary to see my work on film without having had anything to do with it.” Hopefully Fortunes will prove more fortunate. (Launch Pad’s stage reading of Fortunes takes place 7 pm on Thursday, April 2, at https://ucsb.zoom. us/j/181140604.)

Classical Corner Confronts Coronavirus

The concerts everywhere are all canceled, at least for the remainder of the 2019-20 season, and on into the summer, but the classical music organizations are doing their level best to keep in touch and keep you entertained. Camerata Pacifica might be lead-

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ing the charge, as the chamber music ensemble is not only upgrading its online offerings of pre-existing pre-recorded concerts, several dozen in total, but Adrian Spence and associates are also offering some special curated events. The artistic director is building 60- to 75-minute programs from the Camerata video library to broadcast each Sunday. The Concert at Home event takes place at 10 am Sunday, April 5, on its YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/channel/ UC0oECgVms-HVED2tbLzYfkA) and will also be shown on Facebook Live (www.facebook.com/cameratasb) at 11.30 am. Likewise, CAMA is hoping to defray disappointment from having to cancel concerts in this disconcerting time by offering a snippet of what might have been in the first of the gutted shows with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Lahav Shani as conductor and piano soloist. Members of the orchestra have put together a charming stayat-home video of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” they’re sharing on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXT60rbBVk&utm, which clocks in at just under four minutes, while Shani’s introduction to Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, which he would have played in March, offers a six-minute dive into the piece at www.youtube. com/watch?v=-KGHEjRDqxM&utm. Opera Santa Barbara is upping the ante as it continues its operations remotely, staying connected through free streaming programming, including webcasts of past OSB productions and other original recorded content. Follow OSB on Facebook (www.face book.com/operasantabarbara) to enjoy 5 pm Tuesday streams of Daniel Catan’s Il Postino (The Postman) on April 7, Robert Ward’s The Crucible on April 14, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on April 21, with more to come. The Ojai Music Festival just announced cancellation of its 2020 event originally slated for June, while also launching efforts to stay connected with the festival community via such opportunities as sharing Festival concert archives released on its Facebook channel (www.facebook. com/events/1508420499322253) and website (www.ojaifestival.org/stayconnected-and-reminisce-with-us). The “Tune in Tuesday” events take place weekly at 6 pm and each broadcast features a complete concert program complemented by program notes by Christopher Hailey. The Santa Barbara Symphony is slightly behind the curve, but also plans to share free broadcasts of favorite performances from seasons past in addition to Spotify playlists, and moments with music and artistic director Nir Kabaretti, also over its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ SantaBarbaraSymphony) or online at www.thesymphony.org •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6)

there have been no coronavirus reports. “We’re staying at home other than short walks,” Vicki tells me. Horsing Around

David Sigman delays polo season kickoff

Peter Beuret waxes lyrical during corona crisis

Office, the San Ysidro Pharmacy, the Montecito Fire Department, Vons Pharmacy, and the American Riviera Bank, among others. To help ensure the health and safety of the community, enhanced precautions are being taken including limited contact and the allowance of only one person at the truck at a time. Pandemic Pentameter The elderly residents of Casa Dorinda, currently under lockdown because of the coronavirus, are waxing poetic! Longtime resident Linda Beuret says residents are watching movies and participating in exercise classes on Casa TV, while food is delivered to the doors of cottages and rooms. “Keeping six feet from anyone you pass is absolutely mandatory,” says Linda, who I see regularly at CAMA and SB Symphony performances. One resident has also started an e-mail chain of poetry about the current situation. Linda’s husband Peter has also joined in the effort, with his poem reading: “There once was a living man called Ignatz Semmelweis. His home was Vienna. His mind was precise. He was a good surgeon and he wondered why When surgeons did surgery the patients would die. Then Ignatz thought up a most wonderful trick, If you just washed your hands people wouldn’t get sick. They thought he was crazy. They called him a nut. But Ignatz turned out to be anything but. Now a hundred years later, or just a bit more, a global pandemic is outside our door. We’re keeping our distance. We’re

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scared half to death, We’re washing our hands more than Lady MacBeth. But thanks to old Ignatz, we’ll avoid the disease, So let’s have a round of appease, if you please. For keeping us healthy in our paradise: Put your two hands together for old Semmelweis.” Riskin it All

Vicki Riskin up for L.A. Times book award

Award-winning writer and producer Vicki Riskin, who wrote a delightful book about her parents, Oscar winning screenwriter Robert Riskin and King Kong actress Fay Wray, has been nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best biography, 2019. The awards, which were scheduled to be announced later this month, have now been postponed until October because of the pandemic. Vicki, 77, and her husband, multi Emmy award writer-producer David Rintels, are currently staying at their home in Martha’s Vineyard, where

The Santa Barbara Polo Club is delaying the start of its 109th season, which was scheduled to kick off on May 1, because of the coronavirus. Instead, the hotly anticipated initial equestrian event, the Folded Hills Pope Challenge, has been rescheduled for May 15, with the 12-goal schedule continuing through July 5. “The club is entirely at the mercy of the state of California and the coronavirus as much as anyone else,” says club manager David Sigman. “We will continue to monitor the situation and recognize some things are out of our control. In the horse world we are sometimes afflicted with outbreaks of infectious diseases such as strangles and EHV, so we are following a similar protocol in our decision making while the world is under quarantine.” Long may they rein... Keeping Their Distance Former TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, 66, is sleeping in separate houses from her longtime partner Stedman Graham, 69, at her Montecito estate. Oprah, who contracted pneumonia late last year, has announced on Instagram that Stedman is currently in quarantine in their guesthouse after he became a higher coronavirus risk after taking a number of flights on business. In the video Oprah, who has been with Stedman since 1986, told her 18.2 million Instagram followers: “Stedman is in the guest house. You all know I had CC late last year and you still hear the raspiness in my throat sometimes. “And I just got off antibiotics last week and so Stedman was late to the party. He didn’t drive from Chicago until Thursday and he was speaking in St. Louis on Saturday, and he’s been on planes.” Oprah added: “Social distancing

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

doesn’t mean you can go sleep in a bed with someone after you get off American Airlines. We cannot play those games. “I leave food on the doorstep... He’s happy to have me safe. We just take him dinner and we take him breakfast.” Food for thought, indeed. Live from Carp Carpinteria TV talk show host Conan O’Brien is broadcasting his popular TBS show from his home during the coronavirus pandemic. He will be back on air via iPhones and Skype as of April, while his staff remain home. “This will not be pretty, but feel free to laugh at our attempt,” he writes on Twitter. Conan, 56, is the first TV host to try to remotely mount a full broadcast from his home. “The quality of my work will not go down because technically that’s not possible,” he joked. Just in Time Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry fled Australia after 24 hours in lockdown at a Sydney hotel. The former Dos Pueblos High student, 35, abruptly cancelled all press interviews and caught a plane back to the U.S. to rejoin her British actor fiancé Orlando Bloom, who had also abruptly wrapped up filming of this new Amazon series Carnival Row in Prague, to meet President Trump’s new coronavirus travel restrictions. Hunkering Down Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow and her TV producer husband Brad Falchuk are obviously taking the coronavirus warnings to heart. The tony twosome were spotted at a farmers market in Los Angeles wearing large black face masks and blue disposable gloves. “It’s time for nesting, reading, cleaning out closets, doing something you’ve always wanted to do (write a book, learn an instrument, learn to code online, draw or paint), going through photos, cooking and reconnecting on a deeper level with the people you love,” says the Oscar winner. “We will get through this and I bet you our humanity will shine like never before.” Positive thoughts... Makes No Cents Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese is not exactly raking in the big bucks. John, who rose to fame as a cast member with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, has revealed a paltry royalty payment he received for narrating the film Winnie the Pooh, stating that one check totaled all of 2 – 9 April 2020

The Board and staff of The Granada Theatre look forward to welcoming the Santa Barbara community back into the theater as soon as we are able to open our doors. In the meantime, we wish safety and health to all our audience members and performing artists.

Richard Mineards displays meager check

20 cents. John, 80, has taken to Twitter to blast the low payments he banked for his voice work on the 2011 Disney movie, which had a budget of $29 million and made just $49 million worldwide at the box office. “In the difficult times the arrival of residuals boosts my morale. Today I received royalties from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. $0.20.” John also blasted the 2003 comedy series Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, writing: “Even better, I received $3.81.” It reminds me of a check I received when I was a regular on ABC’s The View with Barbara Walters talking about the Royal Family. A longtime member of SAG-AFTRA, I received a royalty check of 27 cents from Disney, which I had framed with TV’s Big Bucks! underneath. Nuptials Postponed Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, 31, is reportedly planning to postpone her May 29 wedding to real estate developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 36, stepson of an old prep school classmate, the late Christopher Shale. The ceremony in the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace, where Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, will have an extremely limited guest list, given the new coronavirus rules introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury, religious head of the Church of England. Beatrice, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is now going to have the nuptials in 2021 after a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by the Queen was also cancelled. Stay tuned... Rest in Peace, Kenny On a personal note, I mark the passing of singer Kenny Rogers at his home in Georgia at the age of 81. Rogers, who was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, used to entertain at a number of charity events in New York where I last saw him at 2 – 9 April 2020

Kenny Rogers R.I.P. (photo by John Mathew Smith)

the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation gala with the late Mary Tyler Moore at the Waldorf Astoria in 1997. Best known for hits including “Lucille,” “The Gambler,” and his duet “Islands in the Stream” with Dolly Parton, Rogers was a three-time Grammy winner, releasing 65 albums and selling more than 165 million records.

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