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Archie’s Final Days
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Guest Editorial
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Montecito Miscellany
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Letters to the Editor
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This Week in Montecito
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Tide Chart Village Beat
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Seen Around Town
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On Entertainment
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Discovering What Matters
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Our Town
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Your Westmont
Now that marijuana is legal in Montecito, Bob Hazard looks at the rules and regulations, taxation, and growth challenges of the budding industry CADA’s Amethyst Ball; SB Polo Club season nears; Jean-Michel Cousteau and Charles Vinick in Russia; Police Activities League gala; Angels Foster Care event; Unity Shoppe lunch; Biltmore fireworks; ribbon cutting at Rosewood Miramar; Oprah and Prince Harry team up; Choir of New College Oxford; Santa Barbara Symphony performs Requiem; Jennifer Koh reception; Legally Blonde: The Musical at Granada; Katy Perry’s possible residency; sightings
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A collection of communications from local residents David S. McCalmont, Brent Zepke, Yvonne Parsons, Cotty Chubb, Jack Martin, Larry Larsson, and Steve Decker A list of local events happening in and around town Sushi|Bar to open inside Montecito Inn; Montecito Association updates; steel ring net construction begins; news from MFPD; assistance needed from SBPD Property Crimes Unit Santa Barbara Maritime Museum annual gala; Planned Parenthood California Central Coast Birds and Bees Bash; Montecito Club reopens
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by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.
Will Montecito Go To Pot?
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rivate use of marijuana for recreational purposes is now legal for adults living in Montecito. Recreational use of marijuana for those 21 years and older was approved overwhelmingly by state’s voters in November 2016. The legal sale of adult-use cannabis projects at recreational dispensaries licensed by the California Bureau of Cannabis Control took effect on January 1, 2018. The law stipulated that local jurisdictions are permitted to regulate or prohibit commercial cannabis activities within their jurisdiction. Thus, the Cities of Santa Barbara (including Coast Village Road), Goleta, and Carpinteria have established their own rules for cultivation, distribution, and usage, while activities within Montecito are regulated by the County of Santa Barbara.
Where It Is Sold
On December 5, 2017, the Santa Barbara City Council adopted an ordinance to regulate and permit Commercial Cannabis Businesses in the City. In July 2018, the City ranked 14 applicants for recreational cannabis on a controversial point ranking system and awarded three commercial retail permits. They are: • Golden State Greens - Located at 3516 State Street • Farmacy SB, Inc. - Located at 128 West Mission Street • Coastal Dispensary, LLC - Located at 1019 Chapala Street When opened, consumers will get to choose between jars of marijuana buds with brand names like Train Wreck, Cookie Monster, Grape Ape, and Strawberry Cough. Pre-rolled joints sit beside vape pens, salves, tinctures, and incredible edibles that look like chocolate bars and gummy bears. Within the incorporated sections of Santa Barbara County, regulations provide as many as eight retail storefronts to be located in unincorporated portions of the county, with no more than two for each of the five supervisorial districts. The first adult-use recreational marijuana dispensary to open in the county was the Leaf Dispensary on January 18, 2019 in the City of Lompoc. As of last Friday, 27 applicants have applied for a county permit.
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Growing and Processing Rules
If you live in Montecito and are 21 or older, you can plant, cultivate, harvest, dry, and process up to six living cannabis plants in your private residence, or on the grounds of your residence. If you are growing cannabis, the plants must be in a locked space that is not visible to the public. Cities and counties may prohibit the outdoor cultivation of cannabis. It is against the law for you to use a volatile solvent for the manufacture of concentrated cannabis for your own personal use. If you are 18 or older and have either a current qualifying physician’s recommendation, a valid county-issued medical marijuana identification card, or are a primary caregiver, you can possess up to eight ounces of dried marijuana and grow up to six mature or 12 immature marijuana plants, unless the physician’s recommendation specifies a higher number.
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You can smoke or ingest marijuana anywhere in Montecito on private property. But you cannot use, smoke, eat, or vape marijuana in public places where it is illegal to smoke tobacco, or in places that have banned the use and possession of marijuana on their privately-owned properties. You cannot use marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, or youth center while children are present. Even though cannabis is legal under California law, you cannot consume or possess cannabis on federal lands like national parks, even if the park is in California because the cultivation, possession, sale, and use of marijuana is still
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Let the Games Begin
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he fields are impeccably groomed, the horses are ready, and the best of the best competitors are heading to our rarefied enclave for the hotly anticipated opening of the Santa Barbara Polo Club’s 108th season on May 5. The season at the Engel & Volkers stadium will feature an exhilarating summer of action-packed tournaments and events at one of the most prestigious equestrian venues on the Left Coast, culminating in the Silver Air Pacific Coast Open in September. It kicks off with the 12-goal series followed by the highly competitive 16-goal series in July and August, and there will be a series of youth polo tournaments throughout the summer to promote the sport to all ages. “With the Santa Ynez Mountains as our backdrop and the Pacific as our front door, the club really brings to life the polo lifestyle combined with a history that spans over a century,” says John Muse, president. “It’s going to be quite a season. “We have a record number of teams and players participating at every level. We are hosting the USPA Intra Circuit the last two weeks of June, with the six teams not only vying for the trophy, but $50,000 in prize money for the first time in the club’s history.” Club manager David Sigman gushes: “It’s going to be another incredible season of polo in paradise.” Having attended regularly for the past 11 years, who am I to disagree? Whale Jailbreak Santa Barbara ocean explorers JeanMichel Cousteau and Charles Vinick have been having a whale of a time in Russia. The dynamic duo visited the so-called
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“whale jail” near Vladivostok, where ten Orcas and 87 Belugas were languishing in icy sea pens. But a short week after making the trip the tony twosome signed an agreement that the whales would be freed from Srednyaya Bay after the formal invitation from Russia’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. On The Wave documentary filmmaker Harry Rabin also went on the expedition to document it. “It’s a major breakthrough,” says Heal The Ocean founder Hillary Hauser. “An unprecedented historic event with a hugely positive outcome.” PAL Party The Pacific had some competition when a sea of blue descended on the Coral Casino for the 20th annual Santa Barbara Police Activities League
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Good Times Rolling
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as anyone noticed that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is closing in on returning to its previous unprecedented high in the high 26s. When it sunk a few months ago to almost 22,000, the mainstream media was heralding the end of the “Trump Economy.” Now, there’s (almost) nothing in the way of happy reporting of this complete turnaround. Nineteen months until November 2020 is a long time in politics. Anything can happen, but I wouldn’t want to be a Democrat candidate in this Trump climate. It’s starting to look a lot like “1984” from where I’m sitting. Even the Democrat mayor of Los Angeles can’t help gushing over the good times in his neck of the woods, although he doesn’t say anything about Donald Trump as the main impetus for everyone’s good times. But Trump is the 800-pound gorilla lurking not far from these Democrats. The people are instinctively aware who the source of the good times is, and these Democrat leaders know the people know. Can’t be a Great Time for Democrats (right now). David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: One day soon, one of the network newscasts is going to break and say something positive about... if not President Trump... the economy and what business-tax reduction and de-regulation has done to free up both capital and people. The odds are something like 93 to 7 against it, but you should continue to hang on, as it does look pretty good for the president at the moment. – J.B.)
Shaken and Stirred
Carved in stone above the entrance to my law college was “Equal Justice Under Law,” which was understood to mean that similar actions by different people would be treated the same. There are, however, exceptions as will be discussed below. Prosecutor discretion: In 2008, after Sarah Palin was selected as the VP candidate, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a case against sitting Senator Stevens (R) of Alaska and timed the guilty jury verdict to swing the election to Begich (D), by 1600 votes, in a traditionally Republican state. During the trial the judge charged the DOJ with withholding evidence, entering false evidence and supporting perjury, and after the trial, assigned a special prosecutor to inves-
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tigate the six DOJ prosecutors. The DOJ apologized to the court and Eric Holder withdrew the indictment and the verdict based on serious prosecutor malfeasance, which was the government’s version of what would have been labeled malpractice in the private sector. Subsequently, the DOJ applied to the Ninth District Circuit Court to drop the indictments and convictions because of the same type of DOJ misconduct, by some of the same lawyers, in the prosecutions of Republicans Pete Kott and Vic Kohring. There were no similar examples against Democrats. None of the prosecutors was prosecuted. Power: The DOJ, being given the exclusive right to prosecute criminal charges on behalf of the federal government, carries with it an enhanced obligation to be fair. For example, shouldn’t lying to congress be treated the same as lying to the DOJ? Yet Flynn was charged with obstruction of justice for lying to the DOJ. Holder’s emails showed he lied to Congress on supplying automatic weapons to Mexican cartels in “Fast and Furious” but was not charged. Political impact: Begich remained senator, and besides casting the deciding vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), used senatorial prerogative to recommend Sharon Gleason be appointed a federal judge in Alaska, which was done by President Obama. Impact: Judge Gleason ruled that President Trump’s attempts to return areas permitted for drilling under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, was “unlawful” and a violation of the Act because only Congress could “add” areas for drilling. Of course Trump was not “adding” areas but only “restoring” areas approved by Congress but removed by then President Obama. There is a long-standing concept that the power to do something rests with the office and not the person. To deprive a president from being able to change the decision of another president implies that one president is more powerful than another one, which is a definition of prejudice. Future: Begich is no longer a senator, the ACA is still in place, as is Judge Gleason. The stone carving “Equal Justice Under Law” survived after being shaken during the remodeling of the college: hopefully its message will survive being shaken. Brent Zepke Santa Barbara
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Thank you for the adorable article on OsteoStrong Assistant Manager, Lauren Farewell, and her newborn daughter, Jada! Yvonne Parsons Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I’ve been going to OsteoStrong on Las Positas just off the Highway 101 exit for about five years, and my wife started going a little over a year ago. Just wanted to remind people that OsteoStrong offers a relatively inexpensive exercise procedure developed by the son of a NASA doctor whose job it was to help astronauts retain and/or regain bone mass after space travel. I fell into it because I wanted to hit the ball farther in my golf game, but many older folk, particularly women, swear to the efficacy of maintaining bone mass and helping them avoid or even reverse osteoporosis. It’s a good program with a good crew and, yes, it helped me hit the ball farther. – J.B.)
It’s astonishing to see evidence of x-ray vision at work in the Montecito Journal (MJ # 25/13). Guy Strickland, Diana and Don Thorn and the estimable David S. McCalmont have all seen through the brick wall that Attorney General Barr has erected around the report of Special Counselor Mueller. To the surprise of anyone who’s actually looked with human eyes at the evidence available in the public record (from the campaign chairman slipping a GRU asset polling information to the President’s confidante arranging timely Wikileaks and the President openly pardon-dangling to conceal the truth), they have deemed the Mueller investigation itself a crime. They are confident of the report’s contents, sight most definitely unseen, based on sketchy assurances from an AG hired for his belief that the President simply cannot obstruct justice by virtue of his position, the same AG who found legal rationale for G.H. W. Bush to pardon his convicted former staff and thus defuse his own criminal involvement in Iran/Contra. Let’s see how the picture looks through those miraculous eyes when the report can be seen by ordinary people, as it surely will. After all, if the report so evidently releases the president from any and all suspicion and reveals the investigation to have indeed been the legendary witch-hunt, why have we not seen even the executive summaries prepared by the Mueller prosecutors? Why hasn’t the AG asked the Chief Judge of the DC Circuit to allow the release of protected 6-E
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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Special Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed When: 1 pm (note day and time change) Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, APRIL 20 Easter at the Mart An Easter celebration at Montecito Country Mart; enjoy complimentary photos with the Easter Bunny, as well as baby chicks, bunnies, and pigs! When: noon to 3 pm Where: Montecito Country Mart, 1016 Coast Village Road Info: (805) 969-9664
Plug In: A Computer Education Series Class 1 of a new series at Montecito Library. The Internet just celebrated its 30th birthday, and it’s come a long way since dial-up. In Class 1, you’ll learn how to navigate the modern World Wide Web. Patrons are welcome to attend one class, some, or all three. When: 11 am to noon Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free Reefer Madness KopSun LLC will host a screening of Reefer Madness coupled with a short study on the propaganda film at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria. Perhaps America’s best-known propaganda film, Reefer Madness, was produced by the federal government in 1936 as a cautionary tale of the evils of marijuana and its inevitable addiction. The film mixes scare tactics, lurid details, and melodrama to tell the story of three drug dealers who introduce marijuana to innocent high schoolers. Wild parties, jazz music, and life shattering events unfold. The film is not rated, and its run time is 1
Beachside Easter Brunch at Caruso’s Celebrate Easter in style with the Beachside Easter Brunch at Caruso’s, located at the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort. Chef Massimo Falsini has prepared a four-course, prix fixe menu that combines coastal Californian cuisine with the finest flavors of Southern Italy. Guests can look forward to a reception on the terrace featuring a vodka and caviar bar, live oyster shucking, and Stephanie’s Sea Urchins followed by a robust roster of dishes. When: 11 am to 2 pm Where: 1759 South Jameson Lane Cost: $225 for adults and $110 for children 12 and under (excluding gratuity) Reservations: miramar.easterbrunch@rosewoodhotels.com hour, 8 minutes. The director is Louis Gasnier, and actors include Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, and Lillian Miles. When: 7 pm Where: 4916 Carpinteria Avenue Tickets: $15, available at www. thealcazar.org SUNDAY, APRIL 21 Easter Services El Montecito Presbyterian, 1455 East Valley Road, 10 am All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane, 8 & 10 am Montecito Covenant, 671 Cold Spring Road, 10 am Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1300 East Valley Road, 8 am, 9:30 am, 11 am, 12:30 pm TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Sunrise Suzy: Songs to Share A sing-a-long circle of collective folk songs, featuring Suzy Dobreski on Autoharp When: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 After School at Montecito Library Come play on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month; activities include tech toys, arts and crafts, Legos, and more. Children under the age of eight must have an adult present. When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Community Open House An open house at Montecito Hall, cohosted by the Friends of the Montecito Library, Montecito Association and History Committee. Celebrate spring and the newly constructed ramp! Get together with friends, neighbors, and mingle in the library. Light refreshments will be served. Extra parking is available at El Montecito Church next door. All are welcome. When: 4:30 to 6:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road THURSDAY, APRIL 25 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
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Artist Reception Silo118.com and Synergy One Lending on Coast Village Road host reception to meet artist Sol Hill and see his art; all are welcome, refreshments will be served When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm Where: Synergy One Lending, 1250 Coast Village Road FRIDAY, APRIL 26 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, APRIL 27 Fish Derby The Fish Derby is the major fundraiser for The Neal Taylor Nature at Cachuma Lake, which is a non-profit organization. This year’s Fishing Derby will again include prize categories for multiple types of fish such as crappie, bass, catfish, trout, and carp. The prize pool dollar amount has been increased this year, which means everyone has a chance to win great cash prizes, fishing gear, and more! Anglers of all ages are encouraged to enter. All anglers 16 years and older must have a fishing license, which may be purchased at the marina. Free arts and crafts activities will be offered to children Saturday afternoon of Derby weekend at the Nature Center, which will also host a special Books & Treasure sale on both Saturday and Sunday. When: 6 am today through noon tomorrow Where: Neal Taylor Nature Center, 2265 Hwy 154 Info: www.troutderby.org Earth Day Gathering Local authors Doyle Hollister, Cynthia Carbone Ward, Rick Sawyer, and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Laure-Anne Bosselaar will read and sign their newest books at Tecolote in the upper village. There will be music and refreshments. When: 1 to 3 pm; readings begin at 2 Where: the Village Green in front of Tecolote, 1470 East Valley Road ONGOING Fire Prevention Cleanup The Montecito Fire Protection District will conduct its annual neighborhood fire prevention cleanup program starting the week of February 25, 2019. The program is offered to residents in the community to reduce 18 – 25 April 2019
the volume of flammable vegetation in order to create a more defensible and survivable space around the property and to reduce the overall community threat from wildfire. The District’s Wildland Specialists offer property inspections to educate the residents on ways they can improve the defensible space around their home. Upcoming schedule: 4/8/19: Chelham, Dawlish, Stoddard, Cloydon Circle, and Paso Robles. 4/22/19: Upper Romero, Park Hill, Bella Vista, Park Lane West, Tollis, Winding Creek, and Buena Vista.
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Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.
Sushi|Bar to Open on Coast Village Road Sushi|Bar head sushi chef Lennon Lee (photo credit Jakob N. Layman)
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ushi|Bar, located inside the Montecito Inn, is the second location of Monarch owner Phillip Frankland Lee’s critically-acclaimed omakase restaurant. Omakase – a Japanese phrase that means “I’ll leave it up to you” – is a free-form, interpretive take on the traditional sushi counter experience; this new location will have a heavy emphasis on Santa
Barbara seafood, according to Lee. In June 2017, the original Sushi|Bar opened in Los Angeles and is currently ranked the #3 best sushi spot in the city by Time Out Los Angeles. This new 10-seat chef’s counter places patrons right in front of the action, with guests being able to select from two different tasting menus, a 17-course “full omakase” for $110/person, or an
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The space has been transformed with a honey oak bar featuring just ten seats (photo credit Jakob N. Layman)
Sushi|Bar will serve omakase-style sushi; this nigiri bite is Tai (Japanese sea bream) with chili ponzu, Italian sturgeon caviar, house made soy sauce, freshly grated wasabi, and scallions (photo credit Jakob N. Layman)
abbreviated 9-course “lite omakase” for $65/person. To start the evening, guests are encouraged to arrive before their selected seating and enjoy a welcome cocktail to ease their way into the menu, which includes Lee’s take on new wave nigiri and other delicacies from land and sea. The newest outlet replaces the former Chaplin’s Martini Bar, which closed earlier this year after replacing Frankland’s Crab & Co. According to Lee, the menu at Sushi|Bar will change often, and showcases the abundance of local seafood native to the area, including Santa Barbara sea urchin, spot prawns, and local halibut. In additional to sourcing local seafood, Chef Lee plans to continue working directly with his contacts at the World Famous Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo to source the best seasonal Japanese fish available, flown in fresh twice weekly. While the omakase menu will vary, Sushi|Bar includes dishes such as Santa Barbara Sea Urchin with freshly grated wasabi, lemon, house-made soy sauce, black truffle, and freeze-dried Uni; Premium Japanese Hamachi, brushed with sweet corn pudding, seasoned with sourdough bread crumbs, and finished with freshly grated wasabi root and house made soy sauce; and Roasted Bone Marrow from Watkins Ranch in Ojai, served over sushi rice and garnished with fresh wasabi and house soy. Pastry Chef/Owner Margarita Kallas-Lee ends the dinner service with her inventive dessert, a Ylang-Ylang Ice Cream Bonbon with matcha and black sesame. The restaurant space, which is located to the left of the Montecito Inn drive18 – 25 April 2019
way, is housed in a glowing amber room designed by Phillip Frankland Lee and Gabriel Wischmeier; the simple sushi bar is enveloped in honeyed oak and designed to invoke the feeling of traditional Japanese sushi bars found in the 1930s. Nightly dinners will be led by head sushi chef Lennon Lee, with a selection of drink pairings and Japanese beverages, including sake, beer and Japanese whiskey all curated by Scratch Restaurants Food and Beverage Director Gavin Humes. Sushi|Bar marks the third offering from Scratch Restaurants at the historic Montecito Inn, which also includes The Monarch and The Silver Bough. Scratch Restaurants began as a true garage startup by Phillip and Margarita, a husband and wife chef duo. Six years later, the family has now grown to three concepts in Encino (Scratch|Bar, Woodley Proper, Sushi|Bar). The restaurants of the brand share a common thread of unwavering creativity, a “from scratch” approach to hospitality, a deep love of the locale, and a dynamic hospitality team. Culinary accolades include S. Pellegrino’s “Young Chef 2015” finalist, Zagat’s “30 under 30,” a semi-finalist for Eater’s “Young Guns” 2016, Global Cuisine Award’s “Chef of the Year” 2018, and a coveted spot on Los Angeles Times’ “101 Restaurants We Love” list. For more information, please visit www.scratchrestaurants. com. Montecito’s Sushi|Bar is open every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday with seatings available at 6 pm, and 8 pm; Friday and Saturday evenings with seatings available at 5 pm, 7 pm, and 9 pm; and closed on Monday and Tuesday. Sushi|Bar is located inside the Montecito Inn at 1295 Coast Village Road.
companies,” said Sharon Byrne, the Executive Director of the MA. The ad hoc committee was formed at last week’s standing room only board meeting, where several residents voiced concern over staggering price increases on their insurance policies, as well as concern over the status of their properties on the Debris Flow Risk Map. The new committee is comprised of Byrne, MA board members Robert Kemp, Marshall Miller, Aimee Miller, Houghton Hyatt, Montecito Fire District’s Kevin Taylor, Montecito resident Patty Swenson, and Lisa Valencia from Supervisor Das Williams’ office. The first order of business is to gather info from Montecito residents who have had their policies canceled from their insurance companies; stay tuned to the Association’s website for the survey in the coming weeks. Once the info is gathered, a public forum will be held in the coming months, to give residents an opportunity to talk to public officials, get information, and voice concerns. The committee will also be facilitating a discussion regarding the Debris Flow Risk Map; it’s expected the map will be revised later this year to account for re-vegetation of the chaparral in our hillsides, and increased rainfall thresholds. The
Progress on the Ring Nets
Last week the construction on the first of six steel ring nets began in Montecito, with a helicopter delivering the components to San Ysidro canyon last Wednesday. Drilling work began on the anchors on Monday, according to Partnership for Resilient Communities Executive Director Pat McElroy. The project, which includes the installation of six Swiss-made steel ring nets in three canyons above Montecito, is being overseen by a biologist, geologist, and an engineer.
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Earlier this week, the Montecito Association’s new ad hoc committee met to discuss insurance woes and debris flow zones. “We heard from our members that they really feel a need for more information about getting and keeping insurance, as many of them are being hit with non-renewals from their insurance
committee is looking into how the new Swiss-made ring nets will affect the potential debris flow risk, as well as how a proposed new debris basin on Randall Road could also heavily affect the red zones. “We know the debris basin could have an incredibly positive impact on areas below it, including in the Hedgerow. We want those residents to know that they would directly benefit from the basin being built,” Byrne said. We’ll have more on the committee and its efforts in future editions. For more information, visit www.monte citoassociation.org.
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Former board member Pat Hinds showing she can do it at the SBMM USO
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SBMM executive director Greg Gorga with one of the fire flags up for auction
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hey were all there! Rosie the Riveter, movie stars, socialites, dancers, military, and medical personnel in the USO Hollywood Canteen aka the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM). This was their annual fundraising gala stepping back in time to the 1940s. The evening’s honorees were Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Santa Barbara Navy League. Sounds of the Andrew Sisters, Glen Miller, Woody
Herman, Johnny Mercer, and more could be heard. The cigarette girl was “selling” candy cigarettes. The SBMM gala is so popular they sold out with the Save the Date cards and never printed the invitations. Adding to the atmosphere were real military in uniform standing at attention at various posts. When you checked in, you received a dog tag and a card with an air raid warning. And there was one.
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We were all upstairs for the cocktail reception when it went off. Emcee John Palminteri had to announce that everyone go downstairs to the “air raid shelter” where we were also going to sit down for dinner. At our places was a Victory Garden (to table) menu of our dinner courses and a U.S. Department of Agriculture Ration Book. I remember we had one in the ‘40s but we also had a cow so we could make our own butter. Board president Wilson Quarre, executive director Greg Gorga, and committee
SBMM deputy director and curator Emily Falke “selling cigarettes”
co-chairs Cindy Makela and David Bolton reminded us, “The dollars raised will go to programs like the Spirit of Dana Point Tall Ship overnight program, marine science, love letters to the sea, family nights, kardboard kayak races, and science nights serving thousands of local students each year.” The evening was a reminder of the days when for 50 years Bob Hope thanked our troops. When we lived in Italy and Spain, he came to both military bases and put on a show. We all loved it. Because of the theme this year it was appropriate to honor two local nonprofits that serve our troops. The Navy League sponsors local ship visits and provides activities for visiting units
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nose and did his best impersonation of Groucho Marx and a sailor and a nurse (Cody and Patty Makela) recreated the famous kissing scene in Time’s Square, New York. Among the many to be thanked including the co-chairs were their committee: Gail Anikouchine, Will Cochran, Jr., William Cochran, Cynthia Anna Eriksson, Emily Falke, Pat Hinds, Craig Makela, Mimi Michaelis, Sabrina Papa, Lis Perry, and Rita Serotkin. You can call 805.962.8404 for SBMM information. It’s a happening place.
Birds and Bees Bash
Barbara Anderson, Cindy Makela, and Sabrina Papa with the sailors at the USO
Hazel Blankenship and John representing the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation
while in town. They support personnel in the Navy, Marine Corps, coast Guard and the U. S. Flag Merchant Marine. John W. Blankenship and
wife, Hazel, founded the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation in 2003. They honor all veterans of all wars. John also has an extensive collection of memorabilia and vehicles, which are displayed at various events throughout the year. The Memorial Day Service they put on each year at the Santa Barbara Cemetery is not to be missed. John Palminteri led the live auction and had folks sailing off to Costa Rica, or celebrating July 4 in the Museum’s crow’s nest, or having a private dinner in the Museum for 20 of your best friends. Amanda Squitieri serenaded us with songs of the war years like “Stormy Weather.” John put on a big
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast (PPCCC) held their Birds and Bees Bash at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort with
over 435 attendees. They hoped to raise $75,000. The three co-chairs: Cynthia Abulafia, Kristen KlingbeilWeis, and Wendy Wheeler Smith and their committee worked to make that happen. Geoff Green added his humor to the evening and the live auction. After a reception in the lobby, the group was seated in the ballroom at tables adorned with beautiful mixed colors of peonies. Before dinner, board chair Anne Schowe presented the guest of honor Dan Hone, PhD with the Jean K. Schuyler award. The ideals and values of Planned Parenthood were present in Dan’s home in San Francisco. His father was president of the Social Hygiene Education Association. They promoted sex edu-
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Brilliant Thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com
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n England it is, or used to be, a big event to turn 21. At my 21st birthday party I made place-cards with verses for each of the guests, who represented different eras in my young life. One was for a fellow-student at University College, London, where we were undergraduates, studying for what was called an Honors Degree in History. On her card, I wrote: Why we both took History Has always been a mystery. Truly, apart from the sheer fascination of the Past, there was little value in History as an academic major. You could of course become a teacher, a relatively poorly-paid profession at any level – but my own teachers at the College were, almost without exception, so dull and uninspiring that I had no desire to join their ranks. The other alternative was to be a Historian, writing books and articles which, in all likelihood, few people
would ever buy or read. As things turned out, during the next decade or so, I dipped my toe in both of those unattractive possibilities, with results which might be most kindly described as “meager.” My highest academic attainment as a teacher (if you don’t count the extremely unorthodox “floating university” on which I taught for two round-theworld semester voyages) was as an “Associate Professor of History” at a small Community College in Oregon, where a “free speech” controversy I stirred up soon resulted in my disgrace and dismissal (palliated somewhat only 40 years later by my being invited back to speak as a Guest of Honor). None of my students, to my knowledge, has ever benefited from any class-time spent with me. As for becoming a Historian, I did indeed write, and eventually publish (in 1989), one solid work of social History, about a subject which had interested me ever since I came to set-
tle in Southern California in the 1950s – the cultural impact of the “mass automobile” upon that region, which, in the 1920s, had been the first area in the world fully to experience it. The book was called The Great Car Craze, and its chief distinction (so far) has been to become required reading for one class for one term at one Southern California college. But studying History did have certain side benefits. It sharpened my awareness of how we get our information about the past, what sources are more, and less, trustworthy, and how biases inevitably enter into historical writing. It made me appreciate the writings of ancient “authorities,” like Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plutarch – even with all their faults and shortcomings. There were also more modern writers like Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) and those who made History, as well as wrote it, like Winston Churchill. But what can we really learn from History? I am forced to repeat the bitter comment, variously attributed, that “Nobody has ever learned anything from History – except that nobody has ever learned anything from History.” The classic example might be that of Hitler, who failed to learn from Napoleon that it’s a bad idea to invade Russia, especially in the winter – also that supply lines are critical, and the farther you go in, the
more vulnerable they become. History, like Geography, tends to be ethnocentric. I have a collection of world maps published in different countries, each map showing its own country right in the center. And what I learned from studying history in both English and American schools is that Americans tend to see their history as beginning around 1776, with the Revolution – but to the British, that is more or less where American history ends – because that is where America stops being British. Of course, American History is itself a separate field of study – and in fact I chose to major in it at London University. All my professors there were British – and I learned that one of the best biographies of Abraham Lincoln had been written by an Englishman – Lord Charnwood. Fortunately or otherwise, we get much of our historical information nowadays from movies and videos, which have to compress complicated subjects and years of events into a few hours of entertaining drama. But of course, most human experience does not lend itself to such treatment, and the patient historians who try to piece together what really happened must be content to see their careful work gather dust on library shelves. Nevertheless, the Past is still there, even if its true History will always be a mystery. •MJ3
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MAW’s Solo Piano Competition Winner Returns
Pianist Sophiko Simsive performs at Hahn Hall on Friday, April 26
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ophiko Simsive, who won the Music Academy of the West’s second annual Solo Piano Competition last summer, was a little bit shaken when she answered the phone on Monday afternoon. She’d just learned of the fire at Notre Dame, and had yet to come to terms with the ongoing devastation. That personal connection might seem a bit foreign for a native of Georgia, the former Soviet Republic, who has lived in the United States for half a dozen years. But it turns out that Paris is one of her favorite cities, one she visited frequently while spending the formative years of ages 15-21 in Amsterdam. “Those were crucial years, where I developed my identity as a person,” she explained. “Those memories are very fresh in my mind.” Simsive’s development on the piano began much earlier, at age three, when Sophiko’s piano teacher mother brought her only child to the studio while she gave lessons to pre-teen youngsters. “I would sit on her lap while she taught for hours,” Simsive recalled, adding that it’s only second-hand that she knows of her first time touching the keyboard. “The story goes that one day out of nowhere I went to the piano and played a Georgian lullaby that she’d been teaching for months, apparently flawlessly using both hands. That’s when she realized I was talented. But at first it was more of a game with us, our way of having fun.” Playing piano is still a lot of fun if a decidedly more serious endeavor for Simsive, who will return to the Miraflores campus on Saturday, April 27, to perform in the local segment of her four-city tour, part of her prize for conquering the competition at the 2019 Summer Festival. The recital program features Bach’s Italian Concerto, BWV 971, and Chopin’s Preludes, Op.28, as meaty appetizers before Simsive 18 – 25 April 2019
offers a world premiere performance of Elizabeth Ogonek’s Orpheus Suite (after Rilke). In her program notes, the composer, who created the four-movement piece for the pianist as part of the prize package, describes the work as “an extended rumination” on the four stanzas that comprise the final poem in Rainer Maria Rilke’s 55-poem cycle “Sonnets to Orpheus”. Ogonek – who often takes works or literature, art or
other forms as inspiration – writes that “the images, metaphors and concepts” exhibited in Rilke’s words are “reflected, refracted and transformed” in the piece. Simsive finishes up her master’s degree at Yale this spring before heading to New York to pursue a doctoral degree at Manhattan School of Music in the fall. She spoke over the phone from the New Haven campus. Q. How are you approaching Ogonek’s piece that was written for you? A. I had to brush up my knowledge of the poem because it had been a while. What I think is very cool about this set of four pieces is how much they contrast with each other. Vocal music in general has been a huge inspiration for me – the Schubert and Schumann song cycles are among the best pieces of music ever composed – so that she chose to write a piece inspired by poems was very special to me… Instead of interpreting the text,
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she’s portraying the mood, employing a lot of fascinating compositional techniques with lots of layers to the voicing. She uses a wide range of the keyboard, taking advantage of its diversity to coax out the voices… I think what she wanted to portray was a feeling of rhythms rather than being strictly in time. It’s its own character idea. So it’s not very easy to perform; I spent a lot of time counting and practicing to be able to execute it. Does it speak to you, resonate, or capture something about you? With all the layering of voices, it’s creating colors with extreme contrast. I’m fascinated by that myself, and she captured that quality perfectly in the first movement. And the second is extremely rhythmic and dance-like, very hard to play, which I asked her to do when we met in the summer… We have a lot of similar aesthetics in music. We like the same composers, and have similar priorities in music. We connected easily and there was a good chemistry. In general, how do you express yourself through the instrument and achieve the balance between your own interpretation and the composer’s intent? When I learn a new piece – and
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aul and Jane Orfalea recently had the honor to meet oneon-one with President Barack Obama to discuss possible future philanthropic partnerships. “He’s my favorite of all the Presidents,” says Paul. “He’s a real gentleman.” “We were both very impressed by his candor and commitment,” says Jane. “Everything we asked, he answered, and very frankly.” Obama told the Orfaleas that he is currently working on his biography, which he admitted is taking longer than he thought, because he is writing it himself. Also, the new Presidential Center in Chicago is close to breaking ground, plus he and Michelle have a foundation focused on empowering young leaders to change the world. “There is a huge disparity between wealthy and poor elementary schools in Santa Barbara County,” says Paul, who founded Kinko’s while he was a student. “Most people I talk with,” Paul adds, “aren’t aware that there is a 330% funding difference between the richest and poorest schools.” The per-student funding is as low as $8,500 at some schools, and climbs
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to $28,559 at others. “And these are all public – not private – schools”, adds Paul. “Unlike most Western countries, our public schools are not funded equally across the board.” Unfortunately, the problems don’t end there, since the at-home education and life skills experience also differ radically between rich and poor families. Santa Barbara Unified School District has the highest percentage of homeless kids in the state at 13%. Fifty-four percent of the students are on free and reduced lunch, an indica-
tor of living below the poverty threshold “People need to understand that it’s not just a problem for the kids and their immediate families,” says Jane. “It’s also a problem for everyone else in society. There’s a great expression: pay now or pay later.” The Audacious Foundation It’s this inequality that led Paul and Jane to create the Audacious Foundation, which adopts Title 1, low-income schools. “Our mission is to provide a complete learning experience for the whole child,” says Catherine Brozowski, Executive Director of Audacious Foundation and former VP of the Orfalea Foundation. “We begin,” she continues, “where academics end.” Audacious works directly with the schools because it’s the easiest way to access these underserved children. “The schools are at the front line,” adds Catherine. Audacious currently funds 30 non-academic programs in three categories: Healthy Habits, Nature-based learning, and Essential Life Skills; in total, there are nearly 5,000 kids. A big part of the Audacious model is no frills and low operating costs (it is run by two part-time co-workers) while partnering with like-minded “audacious” school principals and well-run charities. In the nature-based programs, partners such as Nature Track and Wilderness Youth Project get kids outside in nature. The average student only has four minutes a day of outdoor play, versus seven hours of screen time. Explore Ecology and LifeSource Landscape help with the 38 school gardens and edible forests across 11 districts. The food goes directly into the cafeterias and kids receive nutrition and garden education. “This exposure positively shapes food patterns and increases kids’ consumption of vegetables,” says Catherine. “Also, students who garden in school actually score higher on science tests.” Audacious sends Title 1 kids to CIMI and Astro Camps. “These are just givens in the higher-funded schools,” says Catherine. “But they’re not in the budget for Title 1 schools.”
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Audacious’ Healthy Habits program works with partners like Santa Barbara Bike Coalition and COAST. “Fifty percent of second graders in Title 1 schools don’t know how to ride a bike,” says Catherine. “And outdoor education increases science scores by 27% in at-risk kids.” Audacious believes every child needs to know how to swim; which is not only important to prevent drowning, but also increases fitness and confidence. “The majority of our students have never been in a pool and White “Easter combines the best of the present with the traditions of the past – like Cadbury cream eggs with hunting and gathering.” – Melanie
don’t know how to swim before this program,” says Catherine. “And a lot have never even been to the beach. “ “My favorite program is Orthodontia and Oral Health,” says Paul. Audacious has provided braces to 864 kids so far. “We work in partnership with top-rated orthodontists,” says Catherine. “At very discounted rates.” The program also enrolls the entire family in Denti-Cal, working with partners SB County Education Office and Children’s Oral Health Collaborative. “Teeth are the number one physical feature for why a kid is bulled,” says Catherine. “Studies show that people with ideal smiles are considered more intelligent and have a better chance of getting a job.” “My favorite program is Essential Life Skills,” says Jane. “When you’re a kid from a wealthy or a middle-class family, there are a whole bunch of things you learn at home with your parents that aren’t available to kids from poor families. Then when these kids get to college – if they get to college – they don’t feel like they fit in.”
Finance, Music, and Art Audacious works with fantastic partners such as Montecito Bank & Trust to teach financial literacy to kids. They learn the difference between “wants and needs” and Audacious gifts their first bank accounts at Montecito Bank & Trust, which is matched by a gift from MB&T if the student hasn’t used the funds in six months. “After a year, ninety percent of the students continue to save and grow their accounts,” says Catherine There are a lot of art and music opportunities in the Essential Life Skills program, such as Viva El Arte, Children’s Creative Project, SB Maritime Museum, and UCSB Arts & Lectures. Kids have dancing and drumming integrated into their classroom and the whole family has access to free tickets and world-class performances at many of the local museums and galleries. Working with The Key Class, Audacious hosts an annual dinner at MOXI and all the kids gets dressed up and learn etiquette and social skills. Marshalls generously funded clothes so they can be really dressed to the nine. Kids learn everything from handshakes to mock interviews. “The principals tell us that this class really helps kids to learn to respect their other classmates and it decreases bullying,” says Catherine. To know more, go to www. AudaciousFoundation.org or email Catherine@AudaciousFoundation. org. You can donate to any Audacious partner online or send a donation to any Title 1 school. “We really want to help close the life gap,” says Paul. •MJ 18 – 25 April 2019
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it’s changed a lot during the years, especially at Yale recently – I do some research about the composer, the politics, and country circumstances that might have inspired the composer. I do that before I even touch the piece to find out what he was wanting to say. And I learn it without listening to anyone else’s interpretation until I know it because I know that subconsciously I can’t help but get influenced by their ideas. I always tell a bit of a story internally to be clear for myself what I’m trying to say so it’s clear for the audience. I put adjectives, feeling, and characters to the piece to make it more convincing to myself so that it comes through to the audience.
Obviously that must have happened during the competition last summer. Did you know you nailed it at the time? No, I never have that feeling. I hated the moment I finished. I always do. I always think it went terribly and I’m surprised when there’s a good outcome. Maybe it’s an Eastern European devaluing of self, or at least not knowing that it was good. It’s very seldom that I play that I feel like it went well because I always think about things that could have been better. It doesn’t sound healthy but it helps me to work harder. And it’s enough that the audience enjoys it. Well then, how is it to come back to Hahn Hall, the site of your triumph, for the tour performance? It’s a wonderful hall. The audience is very attentive and focused, and you can feel that they are with you every second of the way. But it also comes with some nervousness and anxiety because it’s also where I was in a master class there where I was criticized in front of the audience. That’s a very vulnerable thing. But mostly it feels
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warm inside my heart when I think of Hahn Hall. I can’t wait to come back. I’m curious given that you started playing piano at such an early age whether you ever had thoughts of doing anything else? I had so many opportunities from early on, and I loved it, so it was just something that that was decided. But I did have an identity crisis in my early 20s. I grew up as child prodigy, always in front of orchestras where people would say, “Look at how young she is and she plays so well!” You can get arrogant that it will be that way forever. But when you are no longer a child, you have to work harder to stay on top and stay faithful to music. I struggled a little bit… But all that quickly resolved when I would go back to the piano itself, and I forget all my doubts of any kind when I’m on stage. Nothing else makes me feel this way. It’s worth all the compromises. I get to do my dream every day.
Marilyn Horne Song Competition Winners Recital
Also on the horizon before the opening of the Music Academy’s impressive eight-week 2019 Summer Music Festival in mid-June is the recital featuring the 2018 Marilyn Horne Song Competition Winners mezzo-soprano Kelsey Lauritano and pianist Andrew Sun at Hahn Hall on May 24. The singer joined the Oper Frankfurt studio last September two months after winning the competition, while the pianist served on the coaching staff at Manhattan School of Music before joining the Resident Artist Program at Minnesota Opera. In the conclu-
Last year’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition Winners Kelsey Lauritano and Andrew Sun
sion to their four-city tour, the pair will perform a program of Schubert’s Ganymed, Du Bist die Ruh,’ and Suleika I; Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles; Falla’s Seven Popular Spanish Songs; plus the world premiere of Without Music, composed by Ricky Ian Gordon for the competition winners. Lauritano has received raves for the first performance on the tour, with New York Classic Review lauding her “clear expressive intent behind every choice she makes… [singing] with perfect control, precisely modulating both pace and dynamics, without ever losing her conversational interpretative ease,” while ARS Raving Mad enthused, “Hers is the level of preparedness and easy technique that makes you forget about the singing. It actualizes and elevates the music and the poetry, and doesn’t boast in its depth and agility (though she has those qualities in spades).” Tickets to each concert are $10, free for ages 7-17 when accompanied by an adult. Call (805) 969-9797 or visit www.musicacademy.org.
Classical Corner: Betty’s Back
UCSB professor emeritus Betty Oberacker, a prodigy whose introduction to the piano also came at age three, is the centerpiece of the Santa Barbara Music Club’s penultimate concert before its annual scholarship award winners pair of concerts where she will also perform one of the works being played a week later at Hahn Hall by MAW’s Sophiko Simsive (see above). Oberacker, who has been artist-in-residence at 55 universities, conservatories, and music festivals worldwide and maintains an active performing and teaching schedule, will play two preludes and fugues from Bach’s famed The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, pairing the most polarizing tonalities of the 24 possible keys via the C major, BWV 870, and F-sharp minor, BWV 882, before taking on the composer’s Italian Concerto, BWV 971. Clarinetist David Singer then joins to conclude the program with Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120/1. “The Easter Bunny ate all of the carrots we left for him. What a pig.” – Steve Carell
As always, admission to the 3 pm concert on Saturday, April 20, at the Faulkner Gallery in the Santa Barbara Public Library, is free.
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In her new book The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques – a member of the Napoleonic Historical Society and Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture who also serves as a gallery docent at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles – explores a little-known facet of Napoleon’s Reign: his obsession with antiquity. Jaques talks about and signs copies of the engaging blend of biography, art, and cultural history that looks at Napoleon’s life through the prism of art and his fascination with Rome on Thursday, April 18, at Chaucer’s Books… That’s also where local hero environmentalist, activist, and author Marc McGinnes shares and signs his recently published book, In Love with Earth, on Monday, April 22. The memoir chronicles his ongoing work in the environmental movement that dates back to the aftermath of the devastating 1969 oil blowout and includes his involvement in the conference that presented the Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights, the first Earth Day celebrations, and the creation of the Environmental Defense Center, the Community Environmental Council, and the Environmental Studies program at UCSB. As National Poetry Month starts to come to a close, writer George Yatchisin celebrates the publication of his book The First Night We Thought the World Would End with a launch party at Café Ana at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, April 24. The evening will include readings from the book – which has garnered some early praise (“There’s a gathering feeling to this book; meditative and lyrical, his poems contemplate a range of wonders from the minutiae to the grand”) – plus new food and drink poems specifically written for the evening’s location.
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by Dr. Peter Brill
Dr. Brill can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog.com. His blog appears at www. dwmblog.com. Specializing in medicine, psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, nonprofits and business, he has served as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Wharton School of Business, consulted to more than 100 organizations, run workshops on adult development, and performed major research on the outcome of psychiatric treatment. He is the founder of Sustainable Change Alliance & co-author of Finding Your J Spot.
Dealing with Betrayal and Hurt
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. I have felt betrayed in my love life and also at work. Can you help me to get over these feelings of hurt? – Patricia in Goleta Thank you for your question, Patricia. It is an important question and a large topic. You have given me very few details of either situation, so I am going to have to write in general. I am not going to address betrayal at work in this column, but perhaps in another, as it is a broad topic and deserves one of its own. You have caused me to think deeply about my own life and the betrayals I have faced. Certainly, betrayal is very painful, and it can undermine trust and color our experiences for a lifetime. I am going to start by telling you a story about an experience I had in the past. I was doing an interview in the bar at the Montecito Wine Bistro for a radio show I had at that time. My producer and I moved indoors because the weather was becoming a problem. The woman I was interviewing was producing a play in Los Angeles for the first time in her life, and at the age of 72. While we were discussing her life, she mentioned that some of her friends felt betrayed by her because “you are always so busy.” She said: “I find that some of the women are succumbing
to being old. I feel embarrassed about pursuing other friendships, they are still my friends, but I tend to avoid them. I feel embarrassed because I’m doing a lot of stuff and they aren’t.” What people feel as betrayal can be as simple as that. It’s what came next that amazed me. One of the men in the bar had been listening to her life story and, when the word betrayal came up, he just lit up. “I’ve been betrayed,” he said. His reaction was so strong to the word that I was curious and invited him to join us. One of his close friends had betrayed him and he was still upset by it. Five others joined and story followed story around the bar with great intensity and speed. Half the stories were of friends and half of lovers that betrayed them. What made this experience so remarkable is that all this emerged spontaneously from a single word – betrayal – and that there was so much intense feeling involved in the telling. No one wanted to be denied in telling their story. Obviously, it is a very common experience to us all. But what is betrayal? The word betrayal implies a violation of trust. To have our trust violated by someone hurts and the deeper the friendship the deeper the potential hurt. Also, I understand that we all have hurts from the past that make us wary and the tendency is to run, not walk,
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to the nearest exit. But are all hurts betrayals? Let’s look at the definition of betrayal. According to Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of betray is “to lead astray; especially to seduce.” Additional definitions are: “to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty, an act of deliberate disloyalty,” like when your friend told other people all your secrets. It seemed to me that some of the stories were about hurt, not betrayal. Being hurt does not imply any intent or malice. Being betrayed does. People can be hurt by misunderstanding, miscommunication, thoughtless acts or other “innocent” differences. When people feel hurt, as with the friends of the lady doing the play because she is busier than they are, it is to feel hurt by someone having different needs than they do. People’s needs change all the time, from day to day, week to week, and year to year, and are heavily influenced by circumstances. To nurse hurt over someone else’s autonomy and needs is to set yourself up for disillusionment and disappointment. That perspective on life hardens your heart and leaves you with less friends and can result in isolation and bitterness. Romantic relationships have an enormous charge and early on are largely governed by a fantasy of who the other person is. Having said that, let’s take a common situation of betrayal. A man or woman choses someone to date and falls for them. They are highly sexually alluring and the ride is high. Then the person betrays them by dropping them or sleeping with another. This is a kind of painful betrayal that can cripple us. So, given all that, what should you do? 1. Enter trust slowly. . . Look before you jump. Hard to do when you fall in love quickly. 2. Let your intuition be your guide – many people, when I talked to them, had an intuitive sense that something wasn’t right but denied it. 3. When you feel betrayed ask yourself the following questions from
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If you have truly been betrayed, I am going to enumerate a three-step process to consider. Step 1: Forgive – Most people misunderstand forgiveness. They think it is letting the offending person off the hook. Staying angry and continuing to nurse hurt after some point is fruitless. It is the equivalent of punishing someone else by putting yourself in jail. Often the person is gone and doesn’t even know or often care what you are feeling. Draw the energy out of the experience by forgiving them and the world. That doesn’t mean that you would trust them again. Do yourself a favor and get over it. Step 2: Comprehend – Try to understand the bigger picture of what happened. See your part in the whole. Let’s say you are a man or a woman who chooses sexy partners with whom you have a great time in bed. However, these relationships are short lived because the partner leaves or is unfaithful. Often the most alluring partners don’t have the need to commit because there is always someone else around the corner. Your desire is fostering the choice of people that will betray you. Own it. Step 3: Choose Wisdom – Understand what you would have to give up and change to diminish future betrayals. Maybe you need to let go of some of the allure and passion, despite Hollywood’s fascination with it, and choose more kindness and ability to handle conflict and understand individual difference. A real relationship is based on friendship. Thank you, Patricia, for your email. I hope others will write more specifics. I welcome all questions and comments and can be reached at pbrill@dwmblog. com. •MJ SITE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
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Grand Jury evidence not implicated in other active prosecutions? Could the Attorney General of the United States be failing to protect his client? That’s us, by the way; we’re his client, we the people of the United States. I’m a Democrat and I acknowledge that Donald J. Trump is the President, so don’t play that card, Mr. Editor. He’s a tax dodge, a liar, a cheat, and a man awaiting felony charges if he’s not re-elected, but he’s my President, and I’ve got the most corrupt and regressive Administration in my lifetime to show for it. Cotty Chubb Montecito (Editor’s note: Mr. Mueller could have waited another year or two to finish his report, but he turned it in early, apparently because there really isn’t or wasn’t anything else to find. In any case, what’s the rush now to see the full un-redacted and hoped-for damaging report that your party insists the Attorney General deliver not today but yesterday or the day before? It’ll all come out well before November 2020, after which people will have much to ponder before they vote. Although you seem to know way more than anybody, including the new U.S. Attorney General, my suggestion to you is: switch to decaf and ease up on the reins; you really don’t need to go so fast. – J.B.)
Filling Up
Cachuma Lake, Santa Barbara’s and Montecito’s major water source is just about 80% full and looks like a lake again. Jack Martin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Jack Martin of Action Roofing is and has been the Santa Barbara area’s local weather guru for a number of years. We here at the Journal were only introduced to his daily weather forecast in January of this year, but now we read his daily reports religiously. Mr. Martin gets up at 4:30 am nearly every day to read weather reports from all over. He then digests what he has read from his myriad sources and puts out his own analysis around 6:30 every day. He’s very good and very, very accurate. While there isn’t really any weather to write about from,
say, April to October (though when and if the marine layer will appear or how strong the Santa Ana winds or sundowners will be can be important to beachgoers and sailboat captains), be sure to add Jack’s site for a daily briefing during the rainy season. I had at least three days of precipitation-free golf on empty courses because of his forecasting. Whereas others had predicted rain all day long, Jack described in minute detail when and where drops were likeliest to occur. He was almost always right and always more precise than any others, including NOAA, KEYT, and Weather Underground. E-mail him at: jack@aroofing.com and ask to be placed on his mailing list. You’ll be glad you did. – J.B.)
8) Like golf this is a game not a sport so it is not aerobic, but you do get in a lot of walking. If you desire only aerobic exercise, this is not for you. 9) It costs about $270 a year to join the McKenzie Park Lawn Bowling Club. 10) The greens are located at McKenzie Park, which is across the street from Santa Barbara Municipal Golf Course. If you would like to find out more about this outstanding little-known game please call me at 962-0375, or just show up for the open house which will include an introduction to lawn bowling, free lessons, and pizza. What could be easier? Larry Larsson Santa Barbara
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The Case For Cannabis
A special event is coming to Santa Barbara Saturday, May 4 that may change your life for the better. This is an open house from 10 am to 3 pm at the McKenzie Park Lawn Bowling Club that will introduce you to lawn bowling, and the many associated benefits. About 19 years ago a tennis buddy of mine introduced me to lawn bowling, and I agreed to check it out. I have since become an avid proponent of lawn bowling for the following reasons: 1) You do not have to set up games like in tennis and golf, but just show up at the greens at 9:30 am or 12 pm, and the game is set up for you. 2) It only takes about two hours to play a game, which for me is great for I still have time for my activities or other endeavors. 3) It is a very social game plus lots of fun with good competition. 4) Definitely a game of skill. 5) There are ongoing games just about every day of the week plus you can set up your own game. 6) At my age, my knees will only allow me to play tennis once in a while with the grandkids, and my shoulder won’t allow me to play beach volleyball. 7) For many years I was an avid golfer, but I have found I enjoy lawn bowling more and so I only play golf on a sporadic basis. Cachuma Lake is near 80% capacity and once again resembles the lake it was meant to be
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Cannabis is the most productive and helpful plant known to humanity. Up until the time politics removed society’s right to use hemp in the United States, its useful products were widely known. Hemp and its derivative products have been used by people going back 8,000 years or more. Out of the billions of life forms on this planet only an exceedingly small number have a close relationship with humans. Horses, cows, dogs, cats and a few others live closely with us, share our lives, and have provided us with great benefits over the thousands of years of our relationship. But what about plants? Trees for wood and cotton for clothes, certainly. Food grains that feed us, for sure. Herbs for medicines have been known to mankind for multiple millennia. However, there is only one plant that has, since prehistory, provided all these things and more. That is Cannabis Sativa, also known as Hemp. Hemp is the Cannabis plant with THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) levels below 0.3%. THC is the plant’s chemical compound that gives the intoxicating effect. Marijuana is the same Cannabis plant with THC levels above 0.3%. The federal government just fully re-legalized hemp production in the United States. Marijuana remains federally illegal, however, voters in 33 states wanted it legal either for medical use only or both recreationally and medically, as is the case in California. However, sadly, politics and greed removed hemp from our culture over 80 years ago. Hemp produces a superior paper over wood pulp, and, is more cost effective to produce. The same for cotton and its fiber. Hemp was an unwanted competitor to wood for paper, cotton for clothing and petrochemical industries. William Randolph Hearst owned
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vast timber holdings for paper production that relied on chemicals developed by the DuPont chemical company to process wood pulp into paper. He and others wanted hemp eliminated. Taxes placed on hemp were so burdensome that the plant’s cultivation was put out of business. Society has finally realized just how vacuous all that has been, and voting majorities want the plant back on our menu of useful contributors to a productive and healthy society. Hence the votes to legalize Cannabis sweeping our country. And, the recent federal vote to allow the cultivation of hemp. Columbus sailed to the New World using hemp canvas for sails and hemp rope for rigging. The colonists brought hemp seed to grow high protein food, along with fiber for rope, clothing and paper. The first two drafts of America’s Declaration of Independence were done on hemp paper. George Washington was an avid hemp farmer. Queen Victoria used Cannabis to reduce her monthly discomfort. Popular Mechanics, in a 1938 article on hemp, held that it can produce over 25,000 useful products. On the medical use side of Cannabis, cancer, epilepsy, asthma, insomnia, chronic pain, PTSD, Parkinson’s are all on a growing list of conditions that Cannabis can improve, and possibly cure. Ongoing research is rapidly growing. The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has called for Cannabis to be de-scheduled from the list of banned substances worldwide. It has been clearly debunked that Cannabis is a gateway drug to the use of highly addictive substances. To the contrary, surveys have shown that Cannabis use substantially lowers the use of opioids. A 2014 study by the American Medical Association (AMA) showed that in states that have legalized medical Cannabis use, death by opioid overdose has dropped an average of 25%. Now that Santa Barbara County has adopted its Cannabis cultivation ordinances, along with the federal legalization of hemp, and the coming federal legalization of Marijuana, our County is poised to be a national leader in all things Cannabis, from Industrial hemp farming, to medical Cannabis research and development, to, yes, recreational Cannabis products. The latter is going to be a cohort of the wine and beer industry, with tasting room and restaurant offerings of cannabis-infused products along with wine and beer selections. Cannabis and its many derivative products can be a wonderfully productive multibillion-dollar industry in our County. Education and understanding will allow it to happen. Steve Decker, CEO Santa Barbara Cannabis, LLC •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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Two entries in the Carsey-Wolf Center’s just-launching “New Waves” series serve as bookends for a screening of an early propaganda film about marijuana – with all three movies clocking in at more than 60 years old – in this week’s list of special screenings. First up is Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta, 1945), which began production only months after the end of the Nazi occupation of Rome and the arrival of Allied forces during the Italian campaign of World War II. Employing both professional actors and those new to film, the movie features a large cast of characters including children, landlords, clergy, military men, unwed mothers, cabaret girls, collaborators, resistance fighters, and subversives of all kinds, set against the backdrop of the city itself. UCSB Film and Media Studies professors Anna Brusutti and Cristina Venegas will discuss Rome, Open City’s stature as a harrowing piece of historical immediacy following the 7 pm screening on Thursday, April 18, at the Pollock Theatre on campus. The following Thursday, April 25, brings Hiroshima Mon Amour, the classic 1959 collaboration between
French New Wave director Alain Resnais and the novelist Marguerite Duras. Centering on a short, intense affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect, the movie takes place in the rebuilt Hiroshima, where the modernization can’t hide memories of the war and the surrounding traces of atomic mass destruction as past and present, trauma and erotic attraction, and the personal and the collective intermingle. University of Pittsburgh’s Lucy Fischer joins Carsey-Wolf Center director Patrice Petro for the post-screening discussion. In between comes an event centering on a screening of Reefer Madness, the 1936 propaganda film produced by the federal government as a cautionary tale of the “evils” of marijuana, including “inevitable” addiction. Innocent high school students are introduced to the drug in a movie that mixes scare tactics, lurid details, and melodramatic moments in an effort to dissuade the youth of America long before “Just Say No” became the rallying cry of the war on drugs. Perhaps even more interesting is that the screening, at 7 pm on Saturday, April 20, at The Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria, comes from KopSun LLC, a Carpinteria-based cannabis health and wellness company. •MJ
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Astronomy on Tap on Dark Matter, from left: Dr. Lina Necib, LCO Host Andy Howell, and Professor Justin I. Read
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Blackhole photograph by the Event Horizon Telescope Group released April 10, 2019
n April 10, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) scientists historically released the first image of a black hole they have taken using observations of the center of the galaxy M87, a massive galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. This black hole is located 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass 6.5-billion times larger than our sun. The EHT uses a technique called very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) which synchronizes eight ground-based radio telescope facilities around the world and exploits the rotation of our planet to form one huge, Earth-size telescope observing at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. VLBI allows the EHT to achieve an angular resolution of 20 micro-arcseconds – enough to read a newspaper in New York from a sidewalk café in Paris. Petabytes of raw data from the telescopes are combined by supercomputers hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory. The telescopes used are: The ALMA and APEX telescopes located on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert; APEX is currently the largest radio telescope in the world and at an elevation of 5,100 meters. The IRAM 30-meter telescope on Pico Veleta in the Spanish Sierra Nevada at an elevation of 2,850 meters; it is one of today’s largest and most sensitive radio telescopes for tracing millimeter waves. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Submillimeter Array Telescope located at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii at 4,207.3 m above sea 18 – 25 April 2019
level. The Sub-millimeter Telescope is at the Mount Graham International Observatory Arizona. The Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano, the world´s largest single-dish steerable millimeter-wavelength telescope for astronomical observations in the wavelength range of 0.85 – 4mm, is a binational project between Mexico and the United States of America and located on the summit of Volcán Sierra Negra Mexico at an altitude of 4,600 meters. The South Pole Telescope located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica 2.8 km above sea level. Leading the group is Sheperd Doeleman at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Event Horizon Telescope Black Hole Initiative Director and Assistant Director for Observation. His research focuses on studying super massive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. Confirming what they have is indeed a black hole, Paul T.P. Ho, EHT Board member and Director of the East Asian Observatory stated, “Once we were sure we had imaged the shadow, we could compare our observations to extensive computer models that include the physics of warped space, superheated matter, and strong magnetic fields. Many of the features of the observed image match our theoretical understanding surprisingly well. This makes us confident about the interpretation of our observations, including our estimation of the black hole’s mass.” The Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) April guest scientists, Dr.
Lina Necib, a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology, and Justin I. Read, professor of astrophysics and head of the physics department at the University of Surrey, UK gave brief presentations on their Dark Matter research at the monthly Astronomy on Tap SB hosted by LCO Staff Scientist Andy Howell. Lina presented dark matter direct detection, how this process depends on the velocity of the dark matter by tracking stars that have formed outside the Milky Way galaxy and were brought in with dark matter. She
used simulations to show how these stars trace their dark matter counterparts, and how the Gaia Telescope measures these types of stars. She contends, “Our Galaxy is largely cannibalistic, feeding on smaller galaxies. A new structure, called the Gaia Enceladus, emerged from the Milky Way. Although we do not detect dark matter directly, measuring its speed is helping in tuning our experiments to its detection.” Justin presented a general overview
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owners, entrepreneurs and community leaders as mentors for Westmont students. Alexander addressed key principles she’s learned from working in the media: Know who you are before the crisis moments hit so you hold true to your faith and values; do excellent work and earn a seat at the table; and find and create community. She says that when people of faith speak out in society, especially in technology and the media, they’ll make a greater impact. Following the luncheon, Alexander signed copies of her latest book, Faith in the Spotlight: Thriving in
Your Career While Staying True to Your Beliefs. Penny Jenkins, Anna Grotenhuis, and Andria Kahmann co-chair the Women’s Leadership Council and helped bring new women to the event. Attendees included Congresswoman Lois Capps, Anne Smith Towbes, Bob and Patty Bryant, former Westmont president Stan Gaede and his wife Judy, Gerd Jordano, Mary Beth Vogelzang, Kathy Clenet, Renee Curtis, Lynne Tahmisian, Barbara Biehl, and Roxanne Packham. The luncheon capped off March’s National Women’s History Month. •MJ
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illegal under federal law. It is also illegal to carry marijuana across state lines, even if you are traveling to another state where cannabis is legal.
Carpinteria Pot Capital
Proximity to Los Angeles (potentially the largest marijuana market in the world) has catapulted Santa Barbara County into issuing more cultivation licenses than any other county in California at this time. Of the approved growers in Santa Barbara County, 52 are clustered near the rustic beach town of Carpinteria, which some have dubbed “the Pot Growing Capital of California.” Cannabis cultivation lies mostly outside the city limits in the unincorporated area of the Carpinteria Valley under the jurisdiction of county planning and permitting. The City’s cannabis regulations, which do not allow for either cultivation or retail storefronts, have been adopted and will become effective in May. Carpinteria Valley greenhouses are capable of producing five to six harvests per year, whereas outdoor hoop-house farms produce one or two harvests per year, making greenhouses the growers of choice. Valley residents have complained about the smell of ripe buds permeating the air. This odor nuisance has been partially addressed by requiring greenhouse growers to install vapor mist odor control systems, but non-growers are still unhappy with the new smell in their community.
Smoking While Driving
Marijuana negatively affects reaction times, coordination, and concentration, so drivers and passengers are prohibited from smoking marijuana in moving vehicles, regardless of whether marijuana is prescribed for medicinal use. If you are suspected of being under the influence of marijuana while driving, a law enforcement officer can pull you over and conduct a sobriety test. Legally, marijuana DUIs are treated just like any other drug DUI. There is currently no reliable “breathalyzer” test for marijuana intoxication, which can occur for up to three hours after marijuana is consumed. Having an open container of marijuana in a vehicle while driving or riding in the passenger seat is against the law. If you have marijuana in a vehicle, it must be in an approved sealed package or container. Otherwise, it must be kept in the trunk of the vehicle, inaccessible to the driver and passengers.
Smoking at Work
Even though marijuana is legal under California law, employers have the right to prohibit employee use while on the job and to prohibit employees from working while under the influence of marijuana. Know your workplace cannabis policies.
As with diapers, it all depends. Supporters tout the value of marijuana in reducing chronic pain and nausea of chemotherapy and the treatment of Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, and glaucoma, but no one says that marijuana is completely harmless. Initially, pot users may experience instant gratification, but over time, apparently, they rely on increased dosage to obtain the same high. Marijuana affects the brain. The main ingredient, THC, enters the bloodstream and is carried to the brain where it reacts with the pleasure-seeking part of the brain to create a high euphoria: an intense feeling of happiness and excitement. Pot blurs reality and reduces inhibitions. Marijuana also affects the parts of the brain that control learning, memory, concentration, coordination, judgment, and time perception. Using marijuana on a sporadic basis may not pose excessive harm to a person. However, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, frequent use of marijuana can lead to the development of problem use, known as a marijuana use disorder, which takes the form of addiction in severe cases.
The telltale odor of marijuana, pungent even a hundred yards away, is unmistakable. More importantly, it’s the smell of new money for California politicians seeking to replenish government coffers. The state has defined 17 separate marijuana-related activities that require state, local, and coastal commission licenses, broadly divided into cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing, and retail sales. Every plant must be tagged and traced from farm to sale. Sellers of pot for recreational use must get an “A” license while sellers of marijuana for medical use must get a “M” license. State taxes on marijuana include:
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The train has left the station. California was the sixth state to introduce the sale of recreational marijuana – Alaska, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington paved the way. Ten states and the District of Columbia have approved recreational use; 23 others have approved marijuana for medical use with a doctor’s prescription. 36 states have given approval, if you include marijuana salves and lotions to treat pain or nausea. Only four states – Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota – do not allow the use of marijuana-based products in any form. In Colorado, there are currently 356 marijuana dispensaries, both recreational and medicinal, more than there are McDonald’s and Starbucks combined. Aspen has one drugstore and seven marijuana shops. In the four years since marijuana was legalized, Colorado – with a population of 5.7 million residents – has collected nearly a billion dollars ($968,998,534) in taxes, licenses, and fees from medical and recreational users and providers. California, with seven times the population of Colorado, could generate $7 billion for state and local governments in its first four years.
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• A state sales tax rate of 8.75%, plus locally imposed sales taxes • A 15% state excise tax • A cultivation tax of $9.75 per ounce of flower; $2.75 per ounce of trim • Local taxes, which are hard to track across more than 500 cities and counties each of which sets its own tax regulations The County of Santa Barbara adds its own local cut. As County Supervisor Das Williams noted in September 2017, “Let’s be honest: the largest potential for addressing our chronic county shortfall in the long run is tax revenue from marijuana.” On February 13, 2018, the County Board of Supervisors adopted Ordinance #5026, which mandates: Every person who engages in cannabis operations, including the cultivating, manufacturing, producing, processing, preparing, storing, providing, donating, selling, or distributing cannabis or cannabis products within the unincorporated area of the County shall pay to the County Treasurer-Tax Collector a tax on the gross receipts of each of their operation’s activities involving cannabis or cannabis products, computed as follows: • Nursery: 1% of gross receipts • Cultivation: 4% of gross receipts • Manufacturing: 3% of gross receipts • Distributor (excluding distributor transport only): 1 % of gross receipts • Retail: 6% of gross receipts • Microbusiness: 6% of gross receipts. These taxes shall be paid on transfers between each operation listed in subsections above, regardless of whether the activity is undertaken individually, collectively, or cooperatively, and regardless of whether the activity is for compensation or gratuitous use.
California is off to a slow start. The Golden State only generated some $300 million in state taxes and fees in 2018, its first year of commercial legalization. 75% of cities and counties in the state opted out of cannabis commerce. Legalization has been slowed by licensing restrictions, debates over regulation, and hamstrung by cities and towns that do not want cannabis businesses on their streets. The $300 million California collected in its first year of legal sales was below estimates, but far greater than other states that legalized marijuana in 2016. California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Maine voters all ended marijuana prohibition at the ballot box. Massachusetts may collect $60 million in its first year, which is ongoing. Nevada collected $69.8 million in its first year. Those are tiny fractions of California’s tax total, but our state is so much bigger.
Challenges to Growth
Now that California state, and especially localities, are taxing cannabis to death, will consumers continue to purchase pot in the illegal marketplace to avoid tax loads that can range up to 50% in some communities? If marijuana is legalized nationwide, will cigarette companies, stunned by sagging sales, add pot to their cigarettes to give smokers an added lift and boost flagging cigarette and cigar sales? Will marijuana continue to be a cash-only business with all of the potential criminal elements that engenders? Since marijuana is still illegal under federal government regulations, what can be done to develop safe banking and credit card relationships for marijuana businesses? Will state and local government find that the added costs of regulation, treatment centers, drug driving, domestic abuse and health related problems exceed the revenue collected? We are likely to have answers to those questions within the next decade. •MJ3
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Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 3933 1.
Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its HSIP PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ENHANCEMENTS (“Project”), by or before April 25, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., through PlanetBids or at its Purchasing Office located at 310 E Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is uploaded to PlanetBids or delivered to the Purchasing Office. The digital time stamp on PlanetBids or receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Bids that fail to upload to Planet Bids prior to the deadline will not be accepted. Bidders are encouraged to upload bids by 2:30 pm to Planet Bids.
2.
Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various intersections throughout the City of Santa Barbara. Major work (electrical and hardscape improvements) is at the following intersections: Alamar Avenue & State Street, Alamar Avenue & Puesta Del Sol, La Cumbre Road & Calle Cita, Willowglen Road midblock crossing, and Brenner Drive & Anza Drive. Project also includes minor work (signing & striping) at 11 other pedestrian crossing locations. The Project consists of constructing ADA access ramps, curb extensions, rectangular rapid flashing beacons, traffic signal infrastructure (including but not limited to poles, foundations, conduit, cabinet installation, intersection rewiring, pull boxes, signal head installation), intersection lighting, bio-retention basins, permeable pavers, storm drain drop inlet, signing & striping, complete and in place. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 75 working days from the effective date of the Notice to Proceed. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $640,000
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A & C10. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
4.
Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.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.
5.
Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
7.
Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
8.
Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.
9.
Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
10.
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 8% DBE participation.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
12.
Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 16, 2019 at 10:00 am, at the following location: State Street & Alamar Avenue intersection, for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is not mandatory.
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Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix B of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.
14.
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. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.
By: ___________________________________
Date: ________________
William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
2) April 17, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the application of Christine Pierron, Cearnal Collective, agent for Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara requesting designation of the proposed development at 115 West Anapamu Street as a Community Benefit Project, and allocation of 3,600 square feet of nonresidential floor area to the project from the Nonresidential Growth Management Program’s Community Priority Category. The proposed project involves construction of a new five-story, mixed-use building including 34 studio apartments for people with mental health issues and/or substance abuse disorders, and approximately 6,600 square feet of nonresidential floor area for a co-occurring disorders center to provide support services for people with mental health issues and/or substance abuse disorders. The project also proposes an integrated care clinic focused on serving people with mental illness, providing three medical exam rooms and three dental exam rooms. If you challenge the Council's action on the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990. On Thursday, April 25, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager April 12, 2019 Published April 17, 2019 Montecito Journal
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5727A DUE DATE & TIME: May 2, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Custodial Supplies for Airport Airline Terminal 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. _________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Published: April 17, 2019 Montecito Journal
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“Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.” – Garrison Keillor
18 – 25 April 2019
Notice Inviting Bids (REVISED) TUNNEL ROAD PUMP STATION REHABILITATION Bid No. 3935
1.
Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Tunnel Road Pump Station Rehabilitation Project (“Project”), by or before May 15th, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 East Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
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Project Information.
2.1
Location and Description. The Project is located at 1501 Tunnel Road, Santa Barbara, California, and is described as follows: Upgrades to Tunnel Road Pump Station including; three new vertical turbine pumps and pump cans; piping, valves, and accessories; electrical equipment including motor controls, service gear, conduit and wire, lighting, and accessories; site work including buried piping, paving, entrance gate installation; roof replacement; installation of City- furnished process control panel; painting and protective coatings; modifications to the existing hydropneumatic tank; and associated demolition. Upgrades to Tunnel Road Reservoir including; exterior painting of the reservoir, new inlet piping and accessories; new tank mixing system; associated electrical and instrumentation, and control items.
2.2
Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is 350 calendar days.
2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is $1,800,000. 3.
License and Registration Requirements.
3.1
License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): A.
3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4.
Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms, and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.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, California 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements.
6.1
General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.
6.2
Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no lessthan the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.
6.3
Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
8.
Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public ContractCode section 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 25th, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at the project site for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory.
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Specific Brands. Pursuant to referenced provision(s) of Public Contract Code section 3400(c), City has found that the following specific brands are required for the following particular material(s), product(s), thing(s), or service(s), and no substitutions will be considered or accepted:
Item:
Required brand:
Reference:
Ductile iron pipe fittings
Sigma Napco
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Tank mixing system
PAX
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Motor Controls/Starters/VFD’s
Rockwell
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Magnetic Flow Meters
PAX
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pump Motors
U.S. Motors
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Transfer Switch
ASCO
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Peristaltic Metering Pump
Watson Marlow
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Diaphragm Metering Pump
LMI
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Item:
Required brand:
Reference:
Fire Hydrant
James Jones
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pipe Joint Restraint
EBAA Iron
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pipe Saddles
James Jones
Section 3400 (c)(2)
Pressure Gauge
Rosemount
Section 3400 (c)(2)
By: William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
18 – 25 April 2019
Date:
2) April 17, 2019
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18)
Jeanne Fulkerson, Danielle McCaffery, Melanie Goddett, Arlene Geeb, Holly Carmody, Lena Beltran, and Megan Stall at the Angels Foster Care lunch (photo by Priscilla)
Angels Foster Care co-chairs Kate Barbieri and Lori Baur with co-emcee Catherine Remak (photo by Priscilla)
Monica Babich, Sarah Johnson, Cynthia Frohling, Shannon Neels, Heather and Aiden Westbrook in front (photo by Priscilla)
Solvang ranch of Horse Whisperer Monty Roberts. Among the tony throng were police chief Lori Luhnow, Peter Hilf, Janet Garufis, George Leis, district attorney Joyce Dudley, Ginni Dreier, Beverley Jackson, Lee Luria, Greg Huron, Mike and Nicole McGrew, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Ronnie Mellen, Bob Bryant, Jim and Pat Stretchberry, Craig and Laura Case, Jeff and Margo Barbakow, Beno and Kandy Budgor, Richard Auhll, and Bruce and Judy Anticouni. Angels Al Fresco A mélange of magnificent millinery swept over the impeccably manicured lawn of the Biltmore when Angels
Foster Care of Santa Barbara held its 8th annual lemon and blue-themed Al Fresco Afternoon on the Riviera. The 13-year-old charity, which has placed 252 babies and had 119 adoptions, had a record 250 guests helping raise around $100,000 for the cause. The Land Rover of Santa Barbarasponsored event co-chairs were Lori Baur and Katie Wisner Barbieri, while radio host Catherine Remak and News-Press scribe Erin Graffy emceed. The Lionheart Legacy Remembrance Award went to Eric and Sara Fernandez, the first of a new initiative dedicated to providing extra resources for the charity’s babies and toddlers with significant medical or developmental challenges. Among the amazons supporting the fab fête were Megan Orloff, Monica Babich, Karen Earp, Holly Murphy,
Ada Schultz, Tony Clumeck, and the Westbrooks – Aiden, Scott, and Heather (photo by Priscilla)
Hollye Jacobs, Gwen Stauffer, Nicole Iyer, Diana MacFarlane, Roxie Solakian, and founder Meichelle Arntz. Show of Appreciation Popular Santa Barbara charity, the Unity Shoppe, hosted an appreciation lunch for more than 100 senior volunteers at La Casa Nichita, the historic Mission Canyon home of veteran supporter Barbara Tellefson. “Last year was a very trying time for us,” Barbara tells me. “Disaster relief cost us more than $300,000, which severely depleted our funds, making us unable to pay some of the staff.” The 103-year-old charity helps 10,000 households and 20,000 people annually.
MISCELLANY Page 364 Angels Care Foster founder Meichelle Arntz, Brianna Aguilar, Erin Graffy, Taylor Fraker, Shannon Neels, and Megan Orloff (photo by Priscilla)
Annie Williams, Brittney Crooks, Eric and Sara Fernandez, Holly Murphy, and Cynthia Frohling (photo by Priscilla)
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Pollan on Psychedelics: A Spiritual Skeptic Meets Psilocybin
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ichael Pollan’s blockbuster books The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Botany of Desire, Food Rules, and Cooked have had major impact on the how people view food, gardening, and cooking. But his latest bestseller, How to Change Your Mind, which documents his investigation into the medical and scientific research in the world of psychedelic drugs as beneficial, surprised even himself as the veteran writer found himself serving as not just reporter, but also a subject who went on several “journeys” as part of the project. As Pollan was getting set to go on the road for a new book tour to promote the new paperback edition, he talked over the phone earlier this week about the spiritual aspect of psychedelics as gleaned from his own experiences, which will form the bulk of his talk at the Granada Theatre on Tuesday, April 23. “There was one particular trip that changed my understanding of what the word ‘spiritual’ means, and what the phenomenon is,” he explained. “One of the big takeaways of the book for me was that I misunderstood it completely.”
Q. Is it correct that when you started this project your intention was more about exploring the medical/psychiatric benefit? A. Yes. I got into it after hearing about the clinical trials that had helped people who had been given life-changing diagnosis, and were struggling with depression, anxiety, and fear. After a psilocybin experience in which they were guided by therapists, most of them had spiritual experiences where they completely transformed their fear of death. One of the reasons I decided to go on journeys of my own was that I wanted to understand how one trip could reset someone’s outlook on life. It seemed so implausible: Drugs don’t change people, or so I thought. But I also had a little bit of envy because I had never had a spiritual experience and was curious if I was even capable of one. What would it be like? And your journeys did have a spiritual effect? It was huge. I was very allergic to the term, because I assumed that it meant that you believe in the supernatural, which I very much didn’t. Philosophically I’m a materialist. I really believe that the laws of nature 18 – 25 April 2019
should be able to explain everything – molecules and matter and energy. I thought that to be spiritual was to be opposed to that idea. That it was ethereal. But I had an experience that completely reset my understanding of that idea. Not to give away what I’m going to talk about, but I had a profound experience of ego dissolution, where my sense of ego disappeared. That can be very scary – it’s a kind of death. But if you are prepared for it and feel very safe in your environment, which I did, it can be ecstatic. What happens when the ego melts away is that there is no wall between you and the larger world, whether that’s nature or other people… I realized that what happens when the ego shrinks is that the channel for connection opens up between you and the natural world, the universe, other people, music. That’s what a spiritual experience is – a strong, powerful connection, one that is overwhelming. So I came to the conclusion that I was wrong: the opposite of spiritual isn’t material, it’s egotistical. When we figure out ways to shut that voice up, what takes its place is connection with love, a sense of oneness with others and the larger world. That is a completely naturalistic understanding of reality. To have that sense of connection override the sense of separateness is actually a more scientifically defensible point of view. Whether from a spiritual or therapeutic point of view, drugs aren’t the only way to get there, right? I mean, just in the last 20 years or so there’s been several books like The Power of Now, The Untethered Soul, and The Presence Process, not to mention Eastern practices, for that matter. Sure. These insights aren’t news. Buddhists have been talking about them for a long time. But it’s hard for us to get there. You need a shock to the system. That can also come from fasting, a vision quest, daredevil sports that result in flow states, or meditation. In fact, one of the striking findings is that the MRI imaging of the brain on psychedelics looks exactly like that of a very experienced meditator while in meditation. The same parts of the brain are quieted. But those practices can take longer to get there. In a way this all seems like the magical thinking of waving a wand and all the
pain goes away. Is it really that easy? No, because it’s not just the pill. It’s the therapeutic approach. Unless you are prepared properly and guided during and after the experience, with someone helping you integrate what it meant, these are just drug experiences. A big part of it is feeling safe enough to let your ego go, which is a huge leap into the unknown, and then figuring out what things mean. It’s hard work. And the experiences themselves are not fun. There are moments when I was transported, but there was also lots of death imagery, and the work of reviewing my life, and figuring out what the images meant. But it can achieve a lot in a short amount of time. The perspective I gained on my ego – not the least of which was the shocking realization that I am not identical to my ego – is the kind of valuable work that happens long-term in psychotherapy. But all that happened in the course of an afternoon, so it is a shortcut. So it does hold great promise to revolutionize a field that’s in dire need of it. Have your own experiences changed your beliefs in God? In a way. I was an atheist. I heard that people emerge from these journey experiences with a sense that there is a transpersonal consciousness that exists around us as a kind of field. I thought that idea was ridiculous when I started. I now entertain it, which is a big shift for me. And I still can’t explain the point of view that arose after my ego subsided. It was a new eye. Where did that come from? Maybe my brain, but I’m not sure. Have you had any experience with psychedelics since completing the book? Do you meditate, or do anything else in that area now? I have started a meditation practice. But I haven’t done any journeys mostly because the drugs are illegal. The risks were worth it for the book, but that’s changed. The thing is, the benefits tend to fade over time. Some insights remain, but I don’t have the same glow, that feeling of being different. You go back to basics. So if they were legal, I can imagine having some kind of journey on my birthday every year.
‘Help’ for Healing
Megan Griswold, who has worked as a mountain instructor, a Five Element acupuncturist, a freelance reporter, an NPR “All Things Considered” commentator and an off-the grid interior designer, is now the author of a best-selling memoir. The Book of Help traces her lifelong quest for love, connection, and peace of mind in a narrative that spans four decades and six continents, from the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to Ivy League academia and the study of Eastern medicine. Griswold has trained and received certifications as a doula, shiatsu practitioner, yoga instructor, personal trainer and wilderness medicine, all of which are touched on in a book Kirkus Reviews loved, saying that “vicariously living [her quest for remedies] and healing from the scars of her youth and the tragedy of her divorce through her telling makes for a fascinating book… Soul-searching has never been more comprehensive.” Griswold’s book tour makes a stop at Chaucer’s at 7 pm on Wednesday, April 24.
Starved for Connection?
Although it’s only been online for a week and has yet to have its first gathering, the new Santa Barbara Connections Meetup has already attracted 30 members, even given that there is a four-question process prospective members must answer to join. The gathering will consist of games, exercises, and readings to help members learn to have better relationships, getting connected, and having fun in the process. The Connections Meetup is based on four simple principles of that include creating a Safe Container, practicing the Law of Attraction, employing Compassionate Communication including Active Listening, and Celebration, the latter concerning goals to achieve together that may not be possible alone. The first Meetup takes place 6-8 pm on Tuesday, April 23, at the Goleta Valley Library, 500 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta. Visit www.meetup.com/SantaBarbara-Connections-Meetup. •MJ
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Barbara Tellefson with Bob and JoAnne Russell, long-time Unity Shoppe supporters
CADA Honoree Peter Hilf with David and Wendy Laub, Terne Whipple, and Nick Zwick (photo by Priscilla)
Knitters, quilters, woodworkers, painters, and those assembling care packages were all represented at the boffo bash. For more information on the work of the non profit, check out www.uni tyshoppe.org. Sparks Flying Montecito residents near the Biltmore got an unexpected 10-minute fireworks show. The pyrotechnic display was organized by MetLife Insurance, whose executives had been staying at Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s tony beachside hostelry all week. “It was quite a display and entirely unexpected,” says my mole with the martini... Nashville Nights The Council on Alcoholism and Drugs Abuse’s 33rd annual Amethyst Ball at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara was a real gem! The bold-faced name-filled bash attracted nearly 360 glamorously garbed guests, many in Western outfits, and raised around $650,000 for 70-year-old CADA, which has an annual budget of $5.6 million serving more than 8,600 people with 23 programs for youth and adults. Event co-chairs Anne Towbes, Diana MacFarlane, Holly Murphy, Dana Mazzetti, Susan Neuman, and Betsy Turner reprised their frequent
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roles and pulled out all the stops to make the cavernous ballroom a neon Nashville Night to remember with Montecito event whiz Merryl Brown making it a true Tennessee wingding. After cocktails on the terrace, with “buskers” – American Idol contestant Jackson Gillies and talent contest winner Cailli Brill –, guests checked out the silent auction items featuring trips to Aspen, Colorado, Antigua, Utah, Cabo San Lucas, a stay at the Montage in Beverly Hills, and a week at rocker Eric Burdon’s home in Joshua Tree. The ubiquitous Andrew Firestone conducted the energized auction, which featured a $10,000 shopping spree at bling king Bob Bryant’s State Street emporium, a week’s stay in
Nashville Nights event chairs Anne Towbes, Betsy Turner, Dana Mazzetti, Holly Murphy, Diana MacFarlane, and Betsy Turner (photo by Priscilla)
Honorary co-chair Mireille Noone with Bill Nicholson, Wendy McCaw, Richard Cheetham, Sandi Nicholson, host Olivier Leclercq, Arthur von Wiesenberger, and Jelinda and Barry DeVorzon (photo by Priscilla)
Natalie Noone, CADA President/CEO Ed Stonefelt, Peter Hilf, and Bob Bryant (photo by Priscilla)
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$200 million development, when he was pulled over by police. He was asked for his driving license, but found it had expired, which meant that his car would have had to be impounded. After explaining the urgency of the situation, the officer allowed him to park his car and get a lift to the vital hearing, which gave the go ahead for the long awaited 161-room, 16-acre development on 495 ft. of Pacific Ocean frontage.
“Afterwards I went to the DMV and renewed my license immediately,” Rick explained, describing his battle to build the impressive property as “a twelve-year love affair.” Aimee Eyer-Delevett, rector of All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, gave an invocation, and dynamic duo Annie Bosko on guitar and Julia Lago on double bass sang “Miramar,” an original song by Maurice Gutierrez updated by Pacific Palisades musician Jimmy Dunne, after it was found in
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archives when the former hotel on the site was demolished. Among the heavenly throng witnessing the event and attending the bounteous reception at Caruso’s afterwards were William and Barbara Tomicki, Gretchen Lieff, Das Williams, Gina Carbajal, Thomas Rollerson, Judy Foreman, Hiroko Benko, Margarita Lande, Larry Feinberg, Karen Earp, Roberto van Geenen, Nina Terzian, Wayne and Sharol Siemens, Gregg Hart, Kate Kurlas, John Dickson, Dana Hansen, Sean Casey and Landon Clements of Bravo’s Southern Charm. Illuminated Impresses Ensemble Theatre Company debuted the fourth show of its 40th anniversary season, the southern California premiere of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, based on his New York Times best-selling novel and directed by Jonathan Fox. The play centers on the JewishAmerican writer, who travels to Ukraine to seek out the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He hires a young local tour guide, who takes him on a hilarious road trip in search of the woman’s village, Trachimbrod. Along the way they confront haunting memories as both their characters histories become entwined. Jeremy Kahn, in his ETC debut, is perfect for the role of Jonathan, as is Matt Wolpe, in his fifth show with the company, as the highly amusing translator with his sublimely butchered English. Award-winning Adrian Sparks, in the dual role of an irascible grandfather and historical relative is superb, with Anne Gee Byrd and Emily Goglia rounding out the cast. Kudos also goes to Francois-Pierre Couture for wonderful rural scenic design and Pablo Santiago for his very effective lighting. Mental Health Matters Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry, is partnering with TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey as co-creators and executive producers of a new mental health documentary
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series for Apple. Harry, 34, who is expecting his first child with wife, Meghan Markle, later this month, has spoken about battling “numerous breakdowns” while coming to terms with his mother Princess Diana’s death when he was just 12, and the cause will be close to his heart. The multi-part documentary series, which Oprah, 65, and the Duke of Sussex have been working on for several months, will focus on both mental illness and mental wellness, and aims to inspire viewers to have honest conversations about the challenges they face. “I am incredibly proud to be working alongside Oprah on this vital series, which we have been developing for several months,” says His Royal Highness. “I truly believe good mental health – mental fitness – is the key to powerful leadership, productive communities, and a purpose-driven self. It is a huge responsibility to get this right.” Montecito’s most famous resident was a guest at the couple’s wedding at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, last May and hosted Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, at her sprawling East Valley Road estate before the nuptials. Treble in Paradise Trinity Episcopal Church was soldout when the Choir of New College, Oxford, under director Robert Quinney, performed a glorious concert featuring works by William Walton, Thomas Tallis, and Tomas Luis de Victoria, among many others. The choral pieces were accompanied by impressive organ works performed by Charles Maxtone-Smith and Timothy Wakerell. The choir, first established in 1379, features 15 boy choristers and 13 adult clerks, who are professional singers or undergraduate members of the college. “To bring an English men-boy choir of such distinction to Santa Barbara is a rare opportunity for the community,” says Grey Brothers, Westmont College music professor and minister of choral and congregational music at
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er full name is Beverly Aho (though most know her as “Bev Aho”) and, for the past five years, she was the constant companion of the recently deceased Central Coast Wine Classic founder and aficionado of all things grape, Archie McLaren, who passed away February 20th of last year. She and Archie lived in Avila Beach and she was Archie’s lover, friend, soul mate, business partner, and as the end drew near (he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the fall of 2017), his personal and private caretaker and hospice tender. “I helped him through life. I was his executive assistant, and I helped him die,” Bev says matter-of-factly during our conversation after a small event in Archie’s honor at a private home in Santa Barbara. It was also a launch party for the publication of his biography: Archie McLaren, The Journey from Memphis Blues to the Central Coast Wine Revolution, put together by the Wine History Project of San Luis Obispo County. The book traces McLaren’s birth in Georgia and growing up in Memphis, Tennessee and features a touching Afterword written by Ms
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Archie McLaren and Bev Aho at a wine tasting in 2015; the two were inseparable in his last few years
Aho. The cover of the book sports a painting of McLaren by Archie’s longtime friend, artist James-Paul Brown. Bev tells me Archie was a poor kid who attended a private school on a scholarship and that the other kids – the rich kids – knew that and held it against him. But, Archie prospered, became Memphis’s public parks tennis champion and led his Memphis
University School tennis team. Though just 5’6” tall, he also became co-captain of the varsity basketball team. He was both an athlete and a scholar and attended Vanderbilt on a full tennis scholarship, which he lost
after the first year because of what he described as having become an “overthe-top party boy.” He did, however, earn his BA in 1964, and a juris doctorate at Memphis State by 1968. The book traces McLaren’s history, his friendship with legendary chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans, his first Ferrari (he owned five, though not all at once), his move to California, the launching of the Central Coast Classic, and, well, his storied life. Archie and Bev met in 2004, when the organization she was with then – Hospice of San Luis Obispo – was a recipient of a grant from the Central Coast Wine Classic, headed up by McLaren. “He was an elf,” Bev says. “He would walk into a room holding a purse [which she carries now] wearing a beret and the entire room would look and gravitate towards him. He called every man ‘Brother,’ and he had a way of making every man... and
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Archie and Bev (sitting in front) with his Central Coast Wine Classic staff, all wearing berets he had purchased for every staff member, on the patio of Archie’s “Rainbow House” in Avila Beach; McLaren, with his law degree, led the effort to renovate the downtown area of Avila Beach
woman... his friend. He made everyone feel like they were family.” But his health began to fade. “He had a stroke in 2006 that he covered very well,” Bev says. “It did not really affect him and within two weeks, he was perfectly normal. When he had his second stroke though, it was pretty devastating. The second stroke,” Bev explains, “knocked his complete sanity off, to the point where he said he didn’t want to live anymore. I wouldn’t let him see himself in a mirror and he asked why. I told him it was because his mouth was crooked and that one eye was drooping. “So, we shook on a deal: I told him to give me a month. In that month, we’re going to go to physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and if none of that works, I’ll drive you to Oregon, pull up residency and we’re going to get Jack Kevorkian in to help you die.” “You would do that?” he asked. “Dude, I just quit my job today; this is our job.” And, for the most part, the new regime did work and he went back to running the Central Coast Wine
Classic and other fundraising. However, Archie’s untreated prostate cancer had now metastasized to his bones. He wasn’t feeling good. He was living in Santa Barbara and he thought a gym instructor had caused him to do something that messed up his back. He and Bev went to several specialists and Archie would explain that something happened when this person put him on his chest on a ball. Archie believed the constant pain he was experiencing stemmed from that. At first doctors couldn’t find anything, but, eventually, they discovered the lesions. “They were everywhere,” Bev says. “They’d been hiding, but now they were on his ribs, his shoulders, the cancer was coming through his bones, bubbling out. There was no way to do anything about it. When we left the clinic, I realized this was now real. His brain didn’t let him hear it; all he heard was that he might have some cancer. I told him ‘No, Archie; it’s everywhere.’” That was in October 2017; Archie died less than four months later. “Archie was strong,” Bev continues, “but he wouldn’t let me talk about
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cancer; he’d cut me off. But, I’m hospice; I’m not afraid of death. I said, let’s figure out how we’re going to work all this. So, I talk with the cancer doctor and ask her to tell me what to do. How do we do end of life?” “Ethically, I can’t do it,” the doctor says. Bev told Archie they could move to Oregon. “I told him we were going to go on Toad’s Great Adventure. And we’d get him his treatment. “She [the doctor] leaves the office, says a few things to Archie, and as we walk out the door, she whispers, ‘Berkeley.’ “So, I said, “That’s my solution?” She says, ‘Yes, Berkeley has an End of Life.’” Bev found a website, contacted someone, and within twenty minutes got an email asking when they could leave. When they got up to Berkeley, they were asked if they wanted a doctor, “Or do you want to do it yourself?” Archie at first wanted the doctor to do it and decided he’d die on February 25 (2018), at 3:30 in the afternoon. But, as the pain required higher doses of morphine and Oxycontin, Archie realized he might not be able to think or decide clearly by the 25th, so called the doctor to see if he could come earlier. The doctor said he couldn’t. Archie then asked Bev if she thought she could handle it. She said she could; they told the doctor to “Mail it to us.” Archie then chose February 20, again at 3:30 in the afternoon. “The meds were mailed to me,” Bev says. “I opened ‘em up. Easy Peasy. “Queasy.” They warned her to be patient; that someone may want to die tomorrow and then change their mind. “Back it up an hour and a half. There are three pills: one is a relaxant, anti-anxiety, two are anti-nausea. One hour before, take those. In an hour, a vial of powder is poured and stirred in a glass filled with apple juice. Archie raises his glass in a toast, salutes everyone in the room and drinks his death.” In the room were Bev, Archie’s personal attorney, the attorney’s wife, a mutual friend, and a hospice nurse. “Berkeley told us to have hospice there because if we didn’t, the coroner comes in and asks what he took. Hospice takes the edge off,” Bev explains. “This is not pro or against,” she adds. “Hospice is just hospice; they’re just neutral. They stayed with me for seven hours.” The California End of Life Option Act became effective in June 2016. Archie was the first that anyone knows of to have chosen to take control of his death under those legal auspices and exercise that option in San Luis Obispo County.
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Bev says she has the hospice nurse to thank for telling her she needed to leave the room once Archie died. “You don’t want to see him going into the bag and seeing him zipped up,” the nurse said. “Archie left someone in place,” Bev recalls, “so that I wouldn’t have to be there in the room when they took him away.” And, thanks to the hospice nurse, Bev’s memories of Archie McLaren remain intact as the vital, brilliant, beret-wearing, purse-carrying, wine-loving and generous flirt he was in life.
Wings of Freedom
The B-17 “Flying Fortress” is just one of a half-dozen vintage WWII aircraft that will be on display and available for half-hour flights at the Santa Barbara Airport from April 17 through April 21
Over the years, I’ve had the good fortune to fly in a B-17 “Flying Fortress” from Santa Barbara Airport down over Montecito and back over the ocean because of my position as founder of Montecito Journal. I’ve also landed on and taken off from both the USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Abraham Lincoln. Those are thrilling experiences that cannot be forgotten and the upcoming “Wings of Freedom Tour” coming to Santa Barbara Airport beginning April 17 and running through April 21 is another opportunity for anyone with love and/or respect for the men who flew these planes into enemy territory and often landed them pockmarked with anti-aircraft fire, sometimes missing an engine or even a wing. You are invited out to the airport to view these beautiful World War II flying machines and a limited lucky few are also invited to fly in one. It’s not cheap ($450 for a half-hour turn in either a B-17 or B-24, different fees for other aircraft), but you’ll not only chalk up a thrill of a lifetime, you’ll also be donating to a great cause: that of preserving the living memory of the planes, the battles they fought, and the men that flew them. You’ll enter at the north end of the airport at 1501 Cook Place (Gate V32). A fee of $15 for adults and $5 for children under 12 will be charged for close-up viewing and to go inside the aircraft. For more information on flight and viewing times, call 978-5629182, 800-568-8924, or go online to: www.collingsfoundation.org or www. cfdn.org. 18 – 25 April 2019
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The 600-year-old Choir of New College, Oxford, excels (photo credit: Isaac Hernandez)
Trinity. “With its stunning visual and acoustical space, the church is the ideal venue for this kind of concert.” The delightful event was sponsored by Westmont, Trinity, CAMA and The American Guild of Organists...
out audience at St. Anthony’s Chapel, her second consecutive year, featuring works by Philip Glass, David Lang, Bryce Dessner, Andrew Norman, and
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Granada stage heaving with the Santa Barbara Symphony and 150 singers (photo by Zach Mendez)
Rousing Requiem The Granada stage was positively heaving when the Santa Barbara Symphony, accompanied by 150 singers from local choirs, performed a rousing concert of Verdi’s Requiem under conductor Nir Kabaretti. Featuring the Santa Barbara Choral Society, City College choirs, and the North County Chorus, I sat in at a rehearsal earlier in the week at the Music Academy of the West’s Lehmann Hall. The performance of the 90-minute 1874 work, written in memory of the composer’s friend, Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, combines the drama of opera, the thrill of outstanding symphonic writing, and an abundance of virtuosic solo moments with soprano Colleen Daly, mezzo soprano Krysty Swann, tenor Harold Meers, and bass Luca Dall’Amico. When the epic work was first performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall after its debut in Milan, the impresario hired 1,200 singers to accompany the extraordinary piece. Captivated by Koh UCSB Arts & Lectures supporters, Richard and Annette Caleel, opened the doors of their magnificent modern and tribal art filled Birnam Wood home for a reception for violinist Jennifer Koh, who later performed to a sold18 – 25 April 2019
Event hosts Richard and Annette Caleel with violinist Jennifer Koh and Irma and Morrie Jurkowitz (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)
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Kaija Saariaho. Koh, 42, a graduate of the Curtis Institute, has played with many of the world’s top orchestras, including the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics, the Baltimore and St. Louis symphonies, and the Czech Philharmonic. Among the cavalcade of music lovers were Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, NancyBell Coe, Tom Sturgess, George and Shari Isaac, Rich and Luci Janssen, Thomas Caleel, and Ray Winn. Raising the Bar It was a case of do or dye when Legally Blonde: The Musical, a production of the American Theatre Guild, hit the stage at the Granada. The entertaining show, based on a novel and 2001 film of the same name, chronicles the story of a young woman who enrolls at Harvard Law School in an effort to win her WASP beau back. Maris McCulley as Elle Woods plays her role well in the 19-scene show, with James Oblak as her elusive politically ambitious ex. Randel Wight’s set design is also most creative. Sights on Sin City Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry
spent the better part of last year performing across the world for more than 600,000 fans during her Witness: The Tour. Now the former Dos Pueblos High student seems to be getting ready to get back on stage after seeing the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, according to the local newspaper, the Review-Journal. The 34-year-old American Idol judge discussed “a possible residency” with the casino’s executives during a viewing of the venue last week. Katy’s spokesman had “no official comment.” Stay tuned... Sightings: Oscar winner Michael Douglas noshing at Olio e Limone... Rob Lowe and wife Sheryl Berkoff checking out the Rosewood Miramar... Oscar winner Michael Keaton picking up his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbarseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ3
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eatrice Brown (“Brownie”) Borden, author and wildlife photographer, died peacefully on March 25, 2019 at her home in Montecito, California. She was 98. Brownie traveled throughout the world with her late husband, noted naturalist, conservationistm and filmmaker Dick Borden (1910-1999), documenting a wide variety of birds and animals. Together, the Bordens contributed to many theatrical films, including Walt Disney’s True Life Adventures and MGM’s The Sandpiper. In addition, their work was featured on National Geographic Specials, The Wonderful World of Disney, Sesame Street, NOVA, Make A Wish, and many other television programs. Dick and Brownie appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today Show. They were the producers and on-camera hosts for their own television series, Wonders of the Wild, which was syndicated in the United States, Canada, and 21 other countries and on The Discovery Channel. Brownie volunteered for countless organizations and committees in the communities where she lived, including Greenwich, Connecticut; St. Paul, Minnesota; Concord, Massachusetts; Exuma, Bahamas; and Montecito. Most recently, she served on the board of directors of Direct Relief International in Santa Barbara and on various committees at the Casa Dorinda retirement community in Montecito. Brownie was dedicated to the education of young people. It was her fervent hope that man will preserve our earth’s remaining wilderness areas and their magnificent wild animals. With this in mind, she authored the children’s book, Wild Animals of Africa (Random House 1982), and Kishindo – An African Journal (Lulu Press 2005). Born March 9, 1921, Brownie was a daughter of Mary Allen and Lewis H. Brown, who was president and chairman of Johns-Manville from 1930 to 1951, founder and chairman of the American Enterprise Association (later the American Enterprise Institute), and co-founder and chairman of The Tax Foundation. She and her twin sister Mary (Griggs) made their debut in 1937. Brownie attended Rosemary Hall, Sweet Briar College and Stanford, married William H. Sweney, Jr. from St. Paul and later married Richard Borden. Brownie is survived by: her children and step-children, Jane Borden Chermayeff of Darien, Connecticut (formerly of Santa Fe, New Mexico); Betsy Borden Carlson of Santa Barbara; Spencer Borden of Concord, Massachusetts; Beatrice (“Sandy”) Knox Johnston of Nantucket, Massachusetts and Santa Barbara; Patricia Sweney du Pont of Guilford, Connecticut; Bill Sweney of Jackson, Wyoming; Michael Sweney Borden of Hollywood, California; and John Sweney of Houston, Texas; 15 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and special companion Royal Peterson. She wished to express her thanks to the caring staff at Casa Dorinda who supported her so compassionately in recent years. Donations in memory of Brownie Borden may be made to Direct Relief International at https://www.directrelief.org/ •MJ3
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Back by Popular Demand
David Sedaris
Paseo Nuevo Cinemas, Theater #3 $8 per film (except Obey Giant which is free) / $40 festival pass
Fri, May 3 / 7:30 PM Granada Theatre
Saturday, May 4
“Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” Chicago Tribune
11 AM 1 PM 3 PM 7 PM
Bauhaus Spirit Burden Kusama: Infinity Obey Giant FREE
Sunday, May 5
11 AM Kochuu &
Books will be available for purchase and signing
Event Sponsors: Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher
Curated by Bruce Heavin and Roman Baratiak
Great Expectations 1 PM Leaning Into the Wind 3 PM REM 7 PM Faces Places
Presented in association with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum and the UCSB Department of the History of Art & Architecture
(805) 893-3535 | www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu Corporate Season Sponsor:
18 – 25 April 2019
Granada event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 899-2222 | www.GranadaSB.org
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
ENDING THIS WEEK Wings of Freedom – Experience World War II history on the ground and in the air with this popular nationwide tour visiting Santa Barbara Airport. See original WWII warbirds up-close and personal with walk through tours of authentically restored interiors of the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator as well as viewing the B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk on the ramp. The tours are self-guided and reservations are not needed to view and/or board the special aircraft. For an even more exciting visit, take flight aboard one of the three available aircraft – the B-17, B-24 and B-24 – for an incredible flight experience or even experience flight training (no experience necessary) on the P-51 Mustang and P-40 Warhawk where you can actually take the controls and fly the famous fighters of WWII with an experienced instructor for either 30 minutes or 60 minutes. (Flights start at $400, flight training at $2,200; advance reservations required.) WHEN: 2-5 pm April 17, 10 am5 pm April 18-21 WHERE: North Ramp, 1501 Cook Place COST: $15 adults, $5 children 12 and under (World War II veterans admitted free) INFO: (978) 562-9182 or https://
www.collingsfoundation.org/event/ santa-barbara-ca/ FRIDAY, APRIL 19 E-S-C-A-P-E to the Bacara – “Visions of the Gaviota Coast,” the 7th Annual Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE) art sale to benefit Gaviota Coast Conservancy, once again takes over a portion of the gorgeous grounds at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara resort this weekend. Fine art landscape paintings of scenes of the magnificent Gaviota Coast by more than 150 local SCAPE artists will be available at the juried art exhibition, during which a sizeable portion of all sales benefits the nonprofit working to preserve one of the largest remaining unspoiled coastlines in Southern California. Live music, appetizers and local wines will be served up at the free reception that takes place tonight that also features a silent auction and a raffle for an overnight stay and spa treatment at the Bacara, while tomorrow afternoon’s activities also include a free screening of Gaviota: The End of Southern California, the recent locally produced documentary showing spectacular scenes of the area. WHEN: 2-8 pm today, 10 am5 pm tomorrow (reception 5-8 pm
THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Everything’s Cumming up Roses – You’d be hardpressed to find anyone more qualified to perform a cabaret show than Alan Cumming. The evidence? First, there’s his turn 20 years ago playing the Master of Ceremonies in Kander and Ebb’s masterpiece Cabaret on both Broadway and in the West End, where he won a Tony and just about every other award available in the process. More recently, he has toured the world with his own cabaret shows I Bought A Blue Car Today, which debuted at New York’s Lincoln Center followed by the Sydney Opera House, and Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs, which earned huge critical acclaim and sold out Carnegie Hall, the London Palladium, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in L.A. and the Kennedy Center. Over a long career, he’s performed with Jay Z and Liza with a Z; hosted the Tonys and been nominated for an Emmy for doing so; made back-to-back films with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls; played God, the Devil, Hitler, the Pope, a teleporting superhero, Hamlet, all the parts in Macbeth, General Batista of Cuba, a goat opposite Sean Connery, Dionysus, a smurf (twice), a James Bond baddie, and political spinmeister Eli Gold on seven seasons of The Good Wife, for which he received multiple Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG award nominations. He is also the author of five books including a No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir. He even switched on the lights of the Empire State Building. Now Cumming is touring his third cabaret show, the timely Legal Immigrant, which is a meditation on his 10 years as an American citizen and the experiences and change he has witnessed during his time living here. The set list includes songs made famous by female musical legends as diverse as Adele, Peggy Lee, Pink, Marlene Dietrich, and Edith Piaf and composers as diverse as Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, and Schubert. A hint of what it’s like to hang with the eclectic and charismatic Cumming comes in the show’s opening moments, which melds Walter Mark’s “The Singer,” Sondheim’s “Old Friends,” and “Not A Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along, and “Losing My Mind” from Follies into an American musical giant mash-up. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $45-$125 INFO: (805) 899-2222 / www. granadasb.org or (805) 893-3535 / www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
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FRIDAY, APRIL 19 Hot Up There – Nelly, the Grammy Award-winning St. Louis native rapper who created the unforgettable nightlife anthem “Hot in Herre,” comes to the area for the first time tonight courtesy of the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom. Nelly himself has been hot since his 2000 debut solo album, Country Grammar, which featured contributions from the St. Lunatics – his first musical group formed with high school friends when Nelly was in his early 20s – as well as the Teamsters, Lil Wayne, and Cedric the Entertainer. The album, which debuted at No.3 on the Billboard 200 album chart and climbed to the top spot soon after, also featured the songs “E.I.,” “Ride wit Me,” and “Batter Up.” His second album, Nellyville, was a far bigger hit, impressively holding the No. 1 spot on 10 different Billboard charts the week of its release. Along with “Hot in Herre,” the album’s top hits included singles “Air Force Ones,” “Work It,” which featured Justin Timberlake, and “Pimp Juice.” The hip-hop legend released five more albums over the intervening years leading up to a new one due later in 2019. He’ll perform hits and new tracks alike in his casino concert tonight. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom, 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $49-$79 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www. chumashcasino.com
today, movie screening 1 pm tomorrow) WHERE: The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, 8301 Hollister Ave. COST: free INFO: (805) 683-6631 or www.s-c-a-p-e.org Visit to Vienna – Camerata Pacifica’s next concert in its ambitious “Why Beethoven?” Project contains a quartet of pieces by four of the Austrian capital’s most beloved residents, traversing the city’s musical landscape from 1785 to 1886. Beethoven’s G Major String Trio, Op. 9 Nº. 1, the work of a young composer testing his writing perhaps in preparation for the Op. 18 String Quartets which would follow a few years later, is followed by Mozart’s G Minor Piano Quartet, K. 478, perhaps the first work for this instrumental combination, and one representing the master composer at the height of his powers. Violinist Paul Huang, violist Paul Coletti, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and pianist Warren Jones take on the evening’s major work. Post-intermission finds all except Jones returning for Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471, a single gentle movement that draws its character from that of Mozart and Haydn without any of the dramatic fire that was consuming the Beethoven of that time, or of the emergent Romantic movement represented by the program’s concluding work, Brahms’ Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. 100. A hundred and one years of veritable virtues from Vienna in a single evening. What more could you want? WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $56: INFO: 884-8410 or www. cameratapacifica.org
“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.” – Floyd W. Tomkins
FLOW into Experiment Weekend – A series of demonstration projects to re-energize lower State Street in downtown Santa Barbara – which has been suffering from a plethora of empty storefront spaces and diminished foot traffic – kicks off with a very bright idea. Literally. FLOW features a number of interactive light art installations at the free underpass (200-300 block) from The Arts Fund, located two blocks away in the Funk Zone. The installations will be accompanied by DJ music by Party Proper Productions, and the city’s electric shuttle will bring visitors to and from for free during the 7 pm to midnight event. B(Eats) on the Street, which takes place tomorrow, features live music, art activities, and food from downtown restaurants under the canopy of trees on State Street, where a pwedestrian promenade will be created for the day. The kids can paint large coloring book walls and do some chalk drawing on State Street, while adults can partake of the Paint and Sip wine garden before lighting installations will be featured in the evening hours. Alan Macy, Carlos Padilla, Marco Pinter, Tai Rodrig, Jonathan Smith, Ethan Turpin, and Tim Wood are among the artists featured over the weekend. Meanwhile, a new Pop-Up Showcase features local entrepreneurs filling some of the vacant spaces on the 400 block of State Street for one month beginning today with handcrafted items, including Luche Leash Co., Roots Footwear Huarache Sandals, Catherine Gee Women’s Clothing, Aroma Freedom Essential Oils, Montecito Candle Company, and Colibri Handmade Bags & Accessories. The event is an opportunity for the 18 – 25 April 2019
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 Dino-mite Fair – Kids of all ages are firing up for the fair – the annual Santa Barbara Fair & Expo at the Earl Warren Showgrounds that kicks off the season this year with a “Fun-O-Saurus” theme. The fiveday festival features music, illusions, dancing, magic, and more on the entertainment stages; Goats, chickens, alpacas, bunnies, and many other farm animals on display along with interactive displays highlighting agriculture in the livestock area; cooking contests, a huge variety vendors, and of course the Carnival Midway with more than 30 rides and attractions. Robocars, racing pigs, funnel cake, and other fair food are part of what makes the Showgrounds the place to be for families in mid-spring. WHEN: Today through Sunday, April 28 WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $4 and up INFO: 687-0766 or www. earlwarren.com/sbfair
community to learn and experience a new design for the State Street segment for one weekend only, and to offer thoughts and feedback. WHEN: 7-12 tonight, 12 noon to 10 pm tomorrow WHERE: Lower State Street COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaraca. gov/business/downtown/experiment_ weekend.asp SATURDAY, APRIL 20 Nachle Deewane 2019 - After several years at the Lobero, the national Indian cultural dance festival hosted annually by UCSB Dhadka steps up to the Granada Theatre, home of State Street Ballet, the Santa Barbara Symphony and CAMA’s International Series, among others, and perhaps the most prestigious venue in town, as befitting what has become the largest event produced by a UCSB student organization and one of the largest, most iconic cultural celebrations in Santa Barbara. The show features 10 of the best collegiate Bollywood and Bhangra teams in the country, including Stanford Bhangra, USC Zeher, Da Real Punjabiz, UCSD ZOR, Texas Bhangra, UCB Zahanat, Bruin Bhangra, UCSC Kahaani, Davis Bhangra Crew, and Penn State JaDhoom, many of whom have appeared on America’s Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance, and NFL halftime shows. Returning as featured guest celebrity artist this year is Arjun, the British Sri Lankan singersongwriter, record producer, and actor who has logged more than 400 million hits on YouTube. All show proceeds go
805.899.2222
GRANADASB.ORG U P C O M I N G
P E R F O R M A N C E S UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
ALAN CUMMING THU APR 18 8PM DHAKDAN
to the nonprofit Asha for Education. WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $15$58 INFO: (805) 899-2222 / www. granadasb.org or www.dhadkan.org/ show
NACHLE DEEWANE
SANTA BARBARA’S INDIAN DANCE FESTIVAL SAT APR 20 5:30PM
Buckles ‘n’ Brews – The fourth annual invitational beer festival is a Texas-sized dip into the sudsy stuff with a decidedly Western feel. More than 30 craft breweries will be pouring, including many of the bigger names plus Ballast Point, Five Threads, Founders, Three Weavers, M Special, Poseidon, SLO Brew, Lagunitas, Calidad Beer, Ladyface Ale, Enegren, Divine Science Brewing, Highwater Brewing, Santa Barbeerians, and Los Padres Brewing. For the wheatfree, Glutenberg offers a gluten-free beer. Also, Lucky Dogg Winery will be serving wine and cocktails. Two different bands will be performing this year, with both The Dusty Jugs and The Brambles providing music to imbibe by all afternoon at the Carriage and Western Art Museum, a site that’s about as rural as you can get in downtown Santa Barbara. For those who want to look right for the part with cowboy boots and hats, there will be prizes for best dressed. Mouth watering BBQ by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Barbara – the event’s beneficiary – will be available for purchase. Giddy up! WHEN: 12:30-4:30 pm (VIP early entrance at 11:30 am) WHERE: 129 Castillo Street COST: $45 general, $65 VIP INFO: (805) 448-7070 or https://bucklesandbrews.com/ •MJ3
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MICHAEL POLLAN TUE APR 23 7:30PM DHAKDAN
SILKROAD ENSEMBLE FRI APR 26 8PM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
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CULTURE, UNDERSTANDING, AND SURVIVAL SAT APR 27 7:30PM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
CHE MALAMBO WED MAY 1 7PM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Ichiban Japanese Restaurant/Sushi Bar
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Lunch: Monday through Saturday 11:30am - 2:30pm Dinner: Monday through Sunday: 5pm - 10pm 1812A Cliff Drive Santa Barbara CA 93109 (805)564-7653 Lunch Specials, Bendo boxes. Full Sushi bar, Tatami Seats. Fresh Fish Delivered all week. 18 – 25 April 2019
FRI MAY 3 7:30PM
Granada Theatre Concert Series & Film Series sponsored by 1214 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Donor parking provided by
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Notice Inviting Bids SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT PASSENGER BOARD BRIDGE NO. 3 Bid No. 3956; FAA AIP NO. 3-06-0235-055-2019 1. Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT PASSENGER BOARD BRIDGE NO. 3 PROJECT (“Project”), by or before Thursday May 9, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. 2. Project Information. 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:
Provide and install one Passenger Boarding Bridge.
2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 180 Calendar days. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $889,000. The basis of award will be on the lowest responsive and responsible bid amount. 2.4 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 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. 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: Goals for female participation in each trade:
19.7% 6.9%
These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor 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. 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. 1) As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, County of Santa Barbara, State of California. (2) Civil Rights – Title VI Assurance 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 enteEngineerises 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 EnteEngineerise (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)
The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business EnteEngineerise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) 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 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: 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). 3. License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): General Engineering A. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.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. 5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents. 6. Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. Wage rates and restrictions on working days and times shall meet all requirements of the Labor Code of the State of California for public contract and the Required Federal Contract Provisions, as detailed in the Project Specifications. All labor on this Project shall be paid not less than the greater of the minimum wage rates established by the U.S. Secretary of Labor (Federal Wage Rates), or by the State of California’s Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (State Wage Rates). 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. The bidder may contact the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), phone number (415) 703-4774 or www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/PWD/ (website), to obtain a schedule of the State general prevailing wages applicable to the location and work to be done. The Contractor and the Contractor’s subcontractors are responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 and 1777.6 of the Labor Code of the State of California regarding employment of apprentices. The State’s prevailing wage rate must be paid whenever higher than the federal rate for the same classification. This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4. 7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount. 8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300. 9. Subcontractor List. A. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 4100 through 4114 of the Public Contract Code of the State of California all bids shall be accompanied by a List of Subcontractors that the Bidder proposes to use who will perform work or labor or render service to the Bidder in excess of one-half of one percent of the Bidder’s total bid or $10,000, whichever is greater. The names, principal business address, license number, and portion of work that will be done by each subcontractor shall be submitted on the form, which is furnished in the Proposal Forms of this Contract Documents Book. B. Bidder shall be solely responsible to correct any errors in the listing of the California Contractor’s license number. C. A deadline of 24 hours after bid opening is established by which a bidder must submit corrected California Contractor’s license number information to the City. D. A bidder’s failure to submit corrected California Contractor’s license numbers will cause the bid to be non-responsive. E. If the Bidder fails to specify a subcontractor for any portion of the work to be performed under the Contract in excess of one-half of one percent of the Bidder’s total bid, the Bidder agrees to perform that portion itself. The successful bidder shall not, without the consent of City either: 1) Substitute any person, firm, or corporation as subcontractor in place of the subcontractor designated in the original bid; or 2) Permit any subcontractor to be assigned or transferred or allow it to be performed by anyone other than the original subcontractor listed in the bid. 10. OPTIONAL Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on April 30, 2019, at 9:00 a.m (PST), at the following location: Airport Administration Office, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is not mandatory; however, Bidders are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND. 11. Retention. Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is 5%. 12. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal. By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, General Services Manager
Date: ________________
Publication Dates: 1) April 17, 2019; 2) April 24, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
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“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Becker Studios Construction, 412 East Haley Street, Studio #3, CA 93101. Becker, INC., 412 East Haley Street, Studio #3, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 12, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0000887. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Coast Village Non Profit Center; Wine Country Dance, 841 Cheltenham Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Matthew B AKA Clint Orr, 841 Cheltenham Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN No. 2019-0000672. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IL Forno Bakery, 417 Pitzer Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. Joseph D. Bruzzese, 417 Pitzer Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 8, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2019-0000825. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:
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The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Wuttke Foundation; Wuttke Institute, INC; The Wuttke Institute of Neurotherapy; Wuttke Institute, 212 Cottage Grove Ave, Ste A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Wuttke Institute, INC, 212 Cottage Grove Ave, Ste A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 2019-0000667. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Gardens, 1187 Coast Village Rd 709, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Heal Us Naturally, 1187 Coast Village Rd 709, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 12, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2019-0000884. Published April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bella Vida Santa Barbara, 403 Orilla Del Mar #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Erin M. Schmidt, 403 Orilla Del Mar #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 25, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN No. 2019-0000703. Published April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2019.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rincon Strategies, 727 De La Guerra Plz, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Rincon LLC, 727 De La Guerra Plz, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 20, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 2019-0000657. Published March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solace Salon & Spa, 1819 Cliff Dr. Ste. E, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Brooke Cameron Merritt, 2567 Cobblecreek Ct, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362; Kelly Pam Merritt, 4445 La Paloma Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 14, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Sandra Rodriguez. FBN No. 2019-0000615. Published March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sparrow, 1345 Danielson Road #F, Montecito, CA 93108. Nexa Marketing, 1345 Danielson Road #F, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 21, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190000675. Published March 27, April 3, 10, 17, 2019.
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It’s expected that the anchor installation will take about 7-8 days, followed by the assembly and attachment of the ring net. While one crew finishes the San Ysidro Canyon net, crews will begin staging the next site at Cold Spring Canyon. The project is required to be finished by early June; McElroy said he believes it will be finished in May. The net project is expected to cost over $5M, and was permitted in December via emergency permits from the County of Santa Barbara, the Army Corps of Engineers, the CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, the California Water Quality Control Board, and authorization from private landowners. The Partnership is still seeking funding; visit www.partnershipsb. org for more information.
MFPD News
A helicopter drops supplies into the canyon at San Ysidro Creek, in order to build the first of six steel ring nets to be installed in Montecito
This week is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, and the Montecito Fire Protection District would like to acknowledge and thank their dispatchers for their dedication, hard work, and amazing skills. “They are the heroes behind the scene, processing emergent and non-emergent calls for service on a daily basis,” said MFPD
Communications Coordinator Jackie Jenkins. The Montecito F i re Communications Division (South Coast Dispatch) is staffed with three full-time Public Safety Dispatchers who are responsible for the receipt, documentation, and disposition of telephonic and radio calls for routine and emergency “9-1-1” situations for both the Montecito and CarpinteriaSummerland Fire Districts. The Dispatch Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. It is the responsibility of the Public Safety dispatcher to identify the nature of your call as quickly as possible and assist the caller in solving the problem. The Dispatcher is the critical link between the citizen and the firefighters, as they are responsible for obtaining information from the caller and transferring that information to the firefighters and emergency personnel. Because each incoming call is unique and can vary from requests for general information to reports of life threatening incidents, the Dispatcher must ask specific questions to accurately prioritize the call and assign it appropriately to emergency responders. “The faster this critical information is obtained determines how quickly firefighters are able to respond,” Jenkins added. Montecito Fire Protection District
is extremely proud of its Dispatchers, and recognizes the daily sacrifices they make to provide excellent service to the communities they serve.
SBPD Seeking Assistance & Information
The Santa Barbara Police Department Property Crimes Unit is currently investigating a series of ongoing residential burglaries that have occurred in the city of Santa Barbara on the border of Montecito. Detectives are currently looking for any surveillance video footage of suspicious subjects or vehicles for the following date(s) and location(s): April 12, 2019 between 11 am and 5 pm, and April 13, 2019 between 7 pm and 9:40 pm, specifically for the areas of Eucalyptus Hill Road, Alston Road, Cima Linda Lane, Owen Road, Coronada Circle, and Rametto Road. Each of the four burglaries that occurred in these areas involved the suspect(s) accessing the rear of the victim residence and breaking in by shattering a back sliding glass door, window, or French doors. Please contact Detective K. Lowry at (805) 8972326 or klowry@sbpd.com if you have any information or surveillance video related to these burglaries. •MJ
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Offered at $798,000
Kelly Mahan Herrick (805) 208-1451 Kelly@HomesInSantaBarbara.com www.HomesInSantaBarbara.com
18 – 25 April 2019
ORDINANCE NO. 5880
Notice Inviting Bids FY19B Water Main Replacement Project Bid No. 5704 1. Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its FY19B Water Main Replacement Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday May 22, 2019, at 3:00 PM., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. 2. Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the below streets, and is described as follows: Install new various sized ductile iron and PVC water main. Reconnect services and fire hydrants following acceptance of new line.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LICENSE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, AS LICENSOR, AND RAMETTO COMPANY, LLC, AS LICENSEE, FOR NINETEEN PARKING PERMITS IN PARKING LOTS 2 AND 9.
Location
From
To
Medio Rd
Garcia Rd
E. Canon Perdido
Medio Rd.
E. Carillo Rd.
Milpas St
E. Carrillo Rd.
E. Haley St.
E. Haley St
Milpas St.
APS
Cota St
N. Soledad St.
Casitas Rd.
provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter
E. Montecito St
E. Yanonali St.
N Canada St.
as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be
N. Canada St
E. Gutierrez
E. Montecito St.
obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,
Jennings Ave
N. Milpas St.
N. Nopal St
N. Nopal St.
E. Yanonali St.
E. Gutierrez
N. Milpas St.
E. Gutierrez
E. Haley St.
Castillo St
W. Haley
W. Cota
W. Haley St
Castillo St.
De la Vina St.
Fig Ave.
W. Haley St.
W. Cota St.
Oceano Ave.
Del Sol Ave.
cul-de-sac
Del Mar Ave
Barranca Ave.
La Marina Dr.
Las Ondas
Del Mar Ave.
San Miguel Ave.
Del Mar Ave
La Marina Dr.
Las Ondas
Ferrelo Rd.
Medio Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
Paseo Ferrelo
Ferrello Rd.
cul-de-sac
Ferrelo Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
-
Paseo Ferrelo
Ferrello Rd.
cul-de-sac
Ferrelo Rd.
Paseo Ferrelo
-
Treasure Dr.
Calle Real
Crescent Ave.
Treasure Dr.
Crescent Ave.
Tallant Rd.
Romaine Dr.
Calle Real
Calle Canon
El Caminito Rd.
W. Valerio St.
Elings Park
Calle Poniente
Cabrillo St.
Bath St.
State St.
East St
The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 9, 2019. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the
California. (Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5880 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on March 26, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 9, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:
Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo
Baldwin
NOES:
None
W. Valerio St.
ABSENT:
None
ABSTENTIONS:
None
2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 220 working days. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $5,000,000. 2.4 Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday April 24, 2019 at 1:30 PM, at the following location: David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 10, 2019.
3. License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions. 4. Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.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. 5. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 10, 2019.
/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor
6. Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
Published April 17, 2019 Montecito Journal
7. Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount. 8. Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300. 9. Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents. 10. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal. The amount of this contract will depend upon the budgetary funding available. By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, CPM, General Services Manager
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Date: ________________ Publication Dates: 1) April 10, 2019
2) April 17, 2019
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Real Estate
by Mark Ashton Hunt
Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.
Montecito’s $2- to $3-Million Sweet Spot
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here are many homes for sale right now in Montecito that very probably could not be replaced for the price sellers are asking. This means that existing homes are in some cases less expensive than if one were to buy the land and build. Additionally, some homes are historic in nature so you literally can’t recreate them. Of course, building a new home is a dream for many, but with so few available lots to build on and construction costs so high, it’s important to see what’s out there and how a property might work for you or could work for you with some changes or additions. One price point that accounts for many sales each year in Montecito is the $2- to $3-million range, where one can find a smaller home well done or a larger lot with upside potential and more. Once you go over $3 million, many new opportunities start showing up and I have included one new listing in that category as well. Ultimately, many buyers are simply looking for a home that suits their needs and wants, within their budget at whatever level that is. So if you are not ready to build your own home, here are five worth considering.
537 Periwinkle Lane: $2,195,000
Designed by the famed Moody Sisters and built in 1947, this 3- or 4-bedroom, 2-bath storybook ‘’Oak Tree Cottage’’ is a Montecito gem. Ideally located on Periwinkle Lane, the home is above East Valley Road and just a couple of blocks to Montecito’s upper village, San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito Union School, and just up the hill to our hiking trailheads. High-pitched ceilings, original details, and large picture windows look out over numerous patios and gardens Some original details include custom Dutch doors, wood floors with a unique herringbone pattern and a large hearth in the living room. Slump stonewalls in the main rooms and an attached office or 4th bedroom with its own entrance make this a unique and spacious Moody Sister design. Surrounded by oak trees and gardens, this architecturally relevant home on .29 acres is an interesting opportunity at this new price (the home was listed at over $2,600,000 last year).
657 Romero Canyon Road: $2,295,000
This updated single-level home was built in 1955, and is located within the Montecito Union School District; it is the least expensive, single-family non-condo, townhome, or PUD residence with a pool in the district at this moment. In addition, the home offers over 2,750 sq ft of living space, giving someone a 3-bedroom, 5-bath home with a pool for about $820 per square foot. The home not only includes three en-suite bedrooms and two powder rooms but the kitchen has been updated too. The Master Bedroom includes a private bathroom, walk-in closet, fireplace, and sliding glass doors leading to the pool and yard. The great room opens to a stone entertaining patio. Enjoy views of the Santa Ynez Mountain range and take a soak in the 7-person hot tub surrounded by tropical plantings and flowers. There is a separate structure originally built as a 2-car garage.
1060 Golf Road: $2,995,000
Situated on 1.28 gated acres near the end of a private cul de sac, this Bermuda Style Plantation House overlooks the Montecito Club and is located near many more-expensive properties. The home includes over 4,300 sq ft of living space,
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has some ocean views and was remodeled in 2012. There are two master suites, (one on each level), high ceilings, a cook’s kitchen, and marble, granite, and hardwood floors. The upstairs master suite features a his-and-hers bath, walk-in closet, and south-facing French doors to the deck (featuring glimpses of the ocean and islands). The first level master suite also has south-facing French doors, a gas fireplace, walk-in closet, and a bathroom (with Jacuzzi tub) that opens to a rear patio. The kitchen has 11’ ceilings, granite counter tops, and a wall of French doors that provide natural light. The living room has 14’ high ceilings, hardwood floors and four sets of French doors. Fine finish details of crown molding are found throughout. The gardens offer plenty of mature specimen trees and privacy all within the Cold Spring School District.
1582 Sinaloa Drive: $2,999,999
This home is located at the corner of Santa Rosa Lane in a desirable location and is just blocks from Miramar Beach, Montecito Union School, and the Upper Village in Montecito. The three-bedroom, threebath, single-level house has 2,800+/- sq ft of living space on a level .76 acre lot. The home was built in 1973 and has since been remodeled. The living/dining room with its high ceilings and the remodeled kitchen and family room all have an open, airy feel. The bedrooms feature comfortable dimensions with cathedral ceilings and lots of light; the bathrooms have all been redone. French doors lead to outdoor patios and the nice size yard with a gazebo, fruit trees, rose gardens, and level space to use as you wish. There is a twocar garage and room for guest parking on the street directly in front of the home.
974 Park Lane: $3,995,000
Behind private gates on 2.23 acres, this Park Lane compound offers dramatic ocean views in a very private setting. With a minimalist aesthetic and contemporary design, the main house, separate guesthouse, and artist studio each stand alone in dramatic contrast to the natural setting. The living spaces in the 2-bedroom, 2-bath main home include view terraces that offer ocean and island views. Floating stairs lead to a master suite that occupies the entire second floor and affords ocean views and sliding doors that open onto the view terrace. Shady pathways and carved stone borders lead to a pool terrace flanked by a guesthouse and artist studio. The guesthouse offers a sleek kitchenette, wide plank walnut flooring and a fireplace. The artist studio is drenched in natural light with skylights, soaring ceilings, and disappearing sliding doors allowing the landscaping and ocean backdrop to permeate the indoor-outdoor environment. This property on Park Lane is located just a few minute drive from the upper village and is within the Montecito Union School District. Listing alert: This was on the market for $5,500,000 two years ago. ••• For more information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text 805698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based. •MJ
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Brand New Beach Home - $2,495,000
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SEEN (Continued from page 15)
David Bolton with Jack Nicklaus after the Q & A at the Montecito Club Dr. Virginia Siegfried and honoree Dan Hone, PhD at the Planned Parenthood Bash
M AY 4 , 2 0 1 9 ROSEWOOD MIRAMAR BEACH , MONTECITO
A benefit for Pacific Pride Foundation programs and services, reaching 10,000 people each year. Sponsorships and tickets are selling fast. The Royal Ball will be sold out soon!
cation before there were any family planning clinics in the city. Dan joined the board of PPCCC in 1989 and served on it for 25 years in many leadership rolls. Dan also had an academic career in physics at UCSB recently retiring as deputy director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. He has been married for over 60 years and has three daughters. PPCCC president and CEO Jenna Tosh PhD spoke to the group telling us they serve five centers in the County which amounts to 58,000 visits a year. Dr. Virginia Siegfried also spoke. She has served as medical director for PPCCC for ten years. Before she was with Planned Parenthood in northern New England and three years as the affiliate’s staff physician for surgical services and family planning. She completed both her internship and residency in ObGyn from UCLA. She said, “Eighty-five percent of our work is ObGyn for women.” The Bash really was a bash. There was partying after hours, from 9 to midnight. For information about PPCCC call 805.722.1522.
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After living overlooking the Montecito Country Club for almost 20 years, and watching the construction of the new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course (we now have the 14th green in our view instead of the 13th) we were anxious to see people playing golf again. The course has been finished for a long time, waiting for
the rest of the newly named Montecito Club to be completed. We like having “our lawn” mowed by the golf course gang every day. We also have fond memories of the club, which Don joined in 1980 for $500. We were married there in 2001, had our reception in the great room and dinner in the dining room. As you know the Club recently reopened after a three-year renovation. Part of the celebration was a Q & A with Jack Nicklaus who designed the new course. Nationally known sportscaster Jim Gray was here to interview Jack. When he asked him about his phenomenal record, he replied, “I always tried to be the best I could be. To keep climbing the mountain.” “What did your record mean to you?” “I don’t think about it much. I always enjoyed golf but my priority was the family and kids.” He has five children and 22 grandkids. One of the kids called him, “a big dude.” Jack joked, “If I’d known Tiger Woods was coming along, I would have tried harder.” Nicklaus said, “Most people work all their life so they can retire and play golf. I played golf all my life so I could retire and work.” He was referring to him and his wife who work for their foundation to raise money for children’s hospitals. He says, “Saving lives is better than a four-foot putt.” He gets a big kick out of asking executives for a million dollars and getting it. Then it was time for the gallery to go outside to watch Jack hit a ceremonial tee shot with the ocean in the background. A stunning sight! •MJ
Jack Nicklaus doing his ceremonial tee shot to commemorate the new golf course
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“On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.” – Douglas Horton
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OUR TOWN (Continued from page 27) on dark matter, evidence for it, and why he thinks it is most likely a new particle. Using a wine glass and white paper with sketched black circles, he showed us how to simulate a gravitational lens that mimics the light-bending effects of dark matter. He said, “We now have evidence for ‘missing mass’ on all scales in the Universe, from the tiniest dwarf galaxies up to giant galaxy clusters. This mysterious “dark matter” appears to be almost completely invisible. It is most likely comprised of a weakly interacting massive particle that lies beyond the ‘Standard Model’ of particle physics. The race is now on to try to detect this particle in sensitive underground experiments, or to make some in high energy particle colliders like the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. While the idea of a near-invisible particle sounds crazy, in fact we already know of three such particles – the neutrinos.” My interview with Lina and Justin:
Q: If you had to explain your work in Dark Matter to Einstein and Newton, what would you discuss? Lina: If I had to explain my work to both of them, I would tell them that we used their theories of gravity to figure out there is a missing component of the matter in the universe that we call dark matter. My work focuses on determining the properties of dark matter by looking at stars that have accompanied dark matter when it merged into the Milky Way. My latest paper on the topic is called “Stellar Tracers of the Local Dark Matter Velocity Distribution in the Milky Way.” Justin: I use the gravitational theories of Einstein and Newton to map out the distribution of mass inside galaxies. Comparing this map with the mass we see in stars and gas, we find that much of the mass needed to explain the gravitational field appears to be invisible. This “missing mass” is what we call dark matter. By comparing our maps of the distribution of dark matter with models, we can make inferences about what dark matter is. In my most recent work, we measured the amount of dark matter in the centers of the tiniest galaxies in the Universe: dwarf galaxies. We found, remarkably, that dwarfs that had more star formation had less dark matter in their centers. We interpreted this as evidence that the process of star formation pushes dark matter out from the centers of dwarfs, as was predicted by a host of recent models. The mechanism that “pushes” the dark matter out is purely gravitational. I like to think that both Einstein and Newton would have found the effect, that we now call “dark matter heating,” quite elegant. What is it about dark matter that “mat18 – 25 April 2019
ters” to you and why? Justin: Dark matter is an enduring mystery. It makes up most of the mass of the Universe, yet we still do not know what it is. We have mounting evidence – including the work I discussed above – that dark matter comprises some new particle that lies beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The idea that dark matter is made up of a tiny near-invisible particle might sound crazy, but we already know of such particles in the Standard Model: neutrinos. Neutrinos are nearly invisible (you would need ~a light year’s worth of lead to have a 50/50 chance of stopping one), yet we know they exist. They have mass and therefore produce a gravitational field. But they cannot be *the* dark matter because they are too light. Moving at almost the speed of light, neutrinos could not remain bound to our Galaxy and could not, therefore, explain its missing mass. But something like a neutrino that is heavier would be perfect. These “weakly interacting massive particles” are what scientists worldwide are searching for. If we can find this particle, it will be transformative. It will help us understand how the Universe as a whole formed, and it will show us which direction particle physics needs to go next. Ultimately, it may help us unify our understanding of the forces of nature, bringing us closer to a “theory of everything.” Lina: I think it is an important question that is yet to be resolved. The fact that 84% of the matter in the universe is dark and we know nothing about it is challenging but exciting at the same time, and I am just dying to know what it is. Yes or no: Many experiments to directly detect and study dark matter particles are being actively undertaken, but none has yet succeeded. Lina: So far that is true, but we have to keep trying and open up the search parameter space by looking at direct detection experiments that target lower mass dark matter. Justin: Yes I agree with this. There are a plethora of experiments worldwide. Some have found hints for a dark matter particle, but there is – as of yet – no fully convincing “smoking gun” detection. We must keep looking!
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