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THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.10 • SEEN AROUND TOWN, P.14 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P.50

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MONTECITO WATER Oh Gianni, Oh Gianni, Oh!

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 On The Water Front Bob Hazard surveys Montecito’s water crisis and serves up suggestions to solve the problem as he asks and answers questions about desal, recycling, and conservation 6 Montecito Miscellany Riviera Robotics team; Beverley Jackson reaches out; author Kia McInerny; Eric Schmidt’s change of plans; Angels Foster Care; ETC’s Bad News; Krista Tippett honored; Las Varas Ranch; Opera SB at the Granada; author Michelle Ebbin; An Evening in White In The Hamptons; “A” cruiser; and farewell to Prince 8 Letters to the Editor Bob Latham wants to be shown the money; Cheryl Tomchin on water; Jim Powell writes about watershed woes; anonymous reader sounds off about burger flipping; Rooster Bradford crows about climate change; Mike Wilson replies about Poltroon; and Cotty Chubb writes again on climate change 10 This Week Gale McNeeley at library; The New Yorker; MA Water Committee; Barrett Conference for Women; Carp Home & Garden Tour; free music; Evening of Kirtan; SB Mission treasures; MBAR meeting; Meditation Mondays; MUS meeting; MA Land Use; SB Dance Theater; knit and crochet; poetry group; Sunio Ueda art exhibit; Samarkand Spring show; Bead Elements & Design; candidates forum; and May Madness

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 13 Village Beat Kelly Mahan chronicles Edison power surge; Gaspar Jewelers closing up shop soon; update about Friends of Montecito Library; Home & Garden Tour in Carp; and MUS carnival 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner visits the SB Museum of Art to observe Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist works; SB Womens Club’s 86th fashion show; and SB Rescue Mission donor luncheon 20 Garden Gossip According to Lisa Cullen, Rose Story Farm owner Danielle Hahn isn’t merely a rose by any other name, but one of the few “Great Rosarians of the World” 23 Fitness Front Why ask Y? Karen Robiscoe explains in her maiden column about exercise, with suggestions from A(quatics) to Z(umba) at the Montecito Family YMCA. 24 Benefits of the Week Steven Libowitz provides coverage on the 2016 Walk to Cure Arthritis – Central Coast and other walking events; Amethyst Ball at Bacara; SB Beach Ball; and Hope & Laughter 25 Your Westmont Two Westmont seniors earn prestigious Fulbright Scholarships; art exhibit features 17 graduating art majors

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28 Rally4Kids Randy Lioz gets his hands greasy while checking under the hoods of cars and interviewing participants involved with the 3rd Annual fundraiser for the United Boys & Girls Club of SB County 30 Water Update Nick Turner provides a succinct update on details and negotiations involving MWD’s potential deal – which boils down to desalinated water sales – with the City of Santa Barbara 31 Association Agenda Aaron Budgor and Ted Urschel of Montecito Association take a close look at politics and local representatives such as Salud Carbajal, whose post is up for grabs 32 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz converses with Joshua Beamish, founder of dance troupe MOVE: the company; Jacquelyn De Longe on Expressing Motherhood; Title and Deed; Elayna Newport discusses Capitol Steps; spiritual music; classical concerts; and The Price is Right Live!

44 At The Wheel Oui, monsieur: Randy Lioz returns to the driver’s seat and brushes up on French when checking under the Art Deco hoods of automobiles at the Mullin Automotive Museum

Impact Investing Peter Brill sought purpose and passion; he expounds on capitalism, investing, microloans, small business and how to learn more at a May 20 conference 46 Legal Advertising 49 Brilliant Thoughts Ashley Brilliant gets literal, cracking open the book on coal, poker, and Poor Billy’s British creator, Harry Graham

Movie Guide 50 Calendar of Events Poor Man’s Whiskey at SOhO; Jojo Abot at UCSB; Granada hosts Shen Yun; Monsieur Periné at Marjorie Luke; Tess Kriegman and VADA; Pentatonix in the Bowl; Arlington welcomes David Sedaris; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Jewish Festival in Oak Park; Santa Barbara Revels 52 Real Estate Mark Ashton Hunt takes a tour of four homes – from San Ysidro to Santa Rosa lanes – on the market at reduced prices

Open House Guide 54 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 55 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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ON THE WATER FRONT

Building

by Bob Hazard

How to Solve the Montecito Water Crisis

Peace of

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Through five years of drought, one truth stands above all the rest – 4,184 Montecito homeowners have a collective investment of $9.5 billion in residential real estate, representing the bulk of many residents’ invested capital wealth.

Without an adequate and reliable supply of water, that real estate investment loses a great deal of its value. That’s a concern for every one of us.

If you think the drought crisis can’t get any worse, a joint study by Cornell University, the University of Arizona, and U.S. Geological Survey scientists forecasts an 80% chance of a 10-year mega-drought for the entire southwestern United States.

How Much Water Does Montecito Need?

The entire State of California uses 88 million acre-feet (AF) of water per year.

Half of this water is used for environmental purposes – untamed rivers in northern California, wetlands, and stream releases. That portion of the state’s water is off the table and untouchable. That leaves 44 million AF of usable water of which 80% (35 million AF) is reserved for agriculture. That leaves 20% (9 million AF) for urban use.

Prior to rationing in 2014, Montecito residents used 6,800 AF per year.

Last year, with rationing, the Montecito Water District (MWD) sold less than 3,500 AF. When compared with overall state water consumption, MWD’s annual use of somewhere between 3,500 and 6,800 AF is nothing more than a rounding error, an inconsequential drop in the bucket, and an easily solvable problem.

What Should MWD Do Now?

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Where’s the Money?

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ome local media would have us think that, if not with water, the MWD (Montecito Water District) is flush with money. They report that “to date, records show, the district (MWD) has collected $7.4 million in penalties, mostly from owners of single-family homes. The penalties, in turn, have paid the $4.1-million cost of supplemental California aqueduct water imported by the district to make ends meet.”

Okay, so far. With Montecito’s conservation efforts and the resultant loss of revenue, the District tells us it must raise rates “to make ends meet.” So where’s the $3.3 mil? I know the desalt deal is going to be a substantial expenditure, but it seems there’s more to the story. Help me out.

Bob Latham Montecito (Editor’s note: Bob Hazard’s column beginning on our editorial page (5) should help clarify Montecito’s water situation.

– J.B.)

Watch the Water

The effects of the drought are alarming, and yet what I notice more and more is the disparity of the haves and have-nots between those who paid for wells and those who pay for water. It’s our shared aquifer, regardless of drilling or not.

Many residents reside elsewhere with properties enjoyed by maintenance crews far more often than actual owners. How lush and green the property compared to surrounding areas. If walking, you can hear water features gushing (evaporating) with no one home to admire. Owners who plant drought-tolerant species are mindful of how much/little water is consumed as we get fined if over our allotment.

Be aware of when and how often the sprinkler system goes on. Water at night. Think of the needs of the whole community. So many trees are dying surrounded by lush grounds.

Cheryl Tomchin Montecito

Watershed Woes

The drought forces upon us all an awareness that we inhabit a watershed. Our conversations about this have ranged from expressing frustration about unanticipated change, to consideration of possible solutions, to exchanges of opinion about cli-

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mate change. Historically, the Great (and now withering) American West has nourished a) maverick and rugged individualism, and b) utopian communalism: those who seek to do whatever the hell they want, and those who are given to cooperation.

Most simply put: we have become aware that we are a variety of psyches inhabiting a watershed. Yet, to take intelligent action, we need to think and act together, from well-informed positions.

My aim in this note is to enrich this conversation by providing a list of resources written by those who have thought long and deep about what it means to inhabit a watershed, all of them available on the web: 1) Thinking Like A Watershed, Jack Loeffler 2) The Politics of Ethnopoetics, Gary Snyder 3) earthship.com/Systems 4) earthship.com/Systems/water 5) www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/0619-97/book1.htm 6) Smokey the Bear Sutra, Gary Snyder Most cordially yours, Jim Powell Montecito

Flip Those Burgers, Private!

Low military pay was not mentioned in President Obama’s January State Of The Union speech. Just increasing the minimum wage was.

Hamburgers or minimum wage, for those fast-food employees striking for $15 an hour. Let’s do some math. At $15 an hour, Johnny Fry Boy would make $31,200 annually.

An E1 (private) in the military makes $18,378. An E5 (sergeant) with eight years of service only makes $35,067 annually. So you’re telling me, Ms McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as those kids getting shot at, deploying for months in hostile environments, and putting their collective asses on the line every day, protecting you?

Here’s the deal, Baconator: you are working in a job designed for a kid in high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas and hanging out with his equally goofy high school pals. If you have chosen this as your life-long profession, you have failed. If you don’t want minimum wage, don’t have minimum skills. If you can read this, thank a teacher. Because it’s in English, thank

a veteran.

(Editor’s note: A reader received this missive via the Internet and believed it was worthy of re-printing; we agree. – J.B.)

Crying out Loud

Let me add this observation to your ongoing discussion on climate change. The strong belief in manmade global climate change is found only in the world of liberals. It is a blind belief bordering on an emotional breakdown. If you took them by the hand and walked them back through the history of the globe, they would not believe. Liberals will not believe that which is contrary to their emotional demands. Call it a lack of common sense and you would be correct. Common sense is the other half of total intellect. IQ is the other. Just as one may be deficient in one, he or she may be deficient in the other, or in both at the same time. We are currently in an ice age. An Ice age is further divided into periods of glacial severity. The globe is coming out of one of the periods as we speak. In all of the globe’s history, it has been cold, which has caused great die-offs and mass extinctions. Never once was it heat. Tell this to a true liberal and they will not listen – or if they do, they will cry.

Rooster Bradford Ventura (Editor’s note: We don’t know about a new “ice age,” but consider this: there are now well over seven billion humans on planet Earth, all of whom drink water and eat food. Many drive vehicles, fly airplanes, take buses and trains, go on vacations, and enjoy a myriad of other activities that in some way or other affect their immediate surroundings. The amount of water, for example, being sucked out of the ground in the semi-arid western states of Arizona, Nevada, and especially California, has easily quadrupled over the past few decades. The Colorado River has been used as a giant hose, at which its endpoint spigot – California (and Mexico!)

– has been reduced to a trickle. Is there anyone who does not believe that such use, even overuse, of these once bountiful environmental attributes affects the climate along its path and beyond?

Is there anyone who doesn’t question the environmental impact of thousands of airplanes spewing their exhaust in Earth’s lower stratosphere every single day of the year, every year? Planes using the shorter polar route affect a lowered stratosphere and may have much to do with the reported loss of arctic ice.

Can anyone argue that the growth of cities into megacities hasn’t changed climes in and around such urban sprawl?

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, MAY 6

(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 28 Show at Montecito Library Gale McNeeley brings his oneman show celebrating the comic genius of author Don Marquis to the Santa Barbara libraries. Don’t miss this performance full of wit, wisdom, and philosophy. The characters speak, dance, and sing the words of Marquis, bringing back great memories for Archy lovers and introducing others to Marquis’s word magic.

When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: free to the public Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Montecito Association Water Committee Meeting Typically held the last Friday of each month, meetings are open for the public to attend, as the committee discusses ongoing issues with water and the drought. Today the committee will be hearing a presentation regarding the Montecito Sanitary District’s NPDES report – the annual account summarizing data as it relates to effluent and influent by their lab and pretreatment manager, Carole Rollins. Following will be Q&A regarding local concerns about the quality of treated wastewater going into the ocean.

When: 9 am Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-2026

16th Annual Barrett Conference for Women This women’s retreat will explore how we can transform our lives, work, relationships, and world, in ways that empower and promote well-being; using a change-model developed out of two decades of research on consciousness transformation. Led

by Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., who is president emeritus and a senior fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Living, and Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine.

When: Friday, April 29, 7:30 pm through Sunday, May 1, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $295-$396 Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, APRIL 30 Annual Carpinteria Home & Garden Tour Carpinteria Beautiful’s Home and Garden Tour features five homes and gardens. Organizers anticipate the full splendor of spring flowers and budding trees to help showcase the unique lineup of inspiring homes.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and plan to spend the day in one of the few remaining quaint oceanside communities.

When: 11 am Cost: $30 per ticket Info: caklink64@gmail.com 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

Samarkand Spring Art Show The annual show will feature more than 150 pieces of two- and threedimensional art created by both seasoned professional artists and those new to the creative expression. A rich variety of media will be represented, including watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, photography, pen and ink, pencil sketches, charcoal, and sculpture.

All artists live or work at The Samarkand, a senior living community in Santa Barbara.

When: today through Monday, May 9, 10 am to 5 pm Where: 2550 Treasure Drive Cost: admission is free Info: www.TheSamarkand.org

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 An Evening of Kirtan Kirtan is a group experience of call and response chanting to rhythmic melodies; a type of meditative song.

Vegan refreshments served.

When: 7 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $7 Info: mantraloungesb@gmail.com

Meditation Mondays Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore hosts a meditation group the first Monday of the month, a complimentary event for locals. This month’s affair is hosted by local resident Nancy Seagal, a hypnotherapist and corporate wellness expert, who will guide participants in a one-hour meditation.

When: meet by The Spa at 5:45 pm Where: 1260 Channel Drive

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Mission Treasures A tour to learn about the Mission’s architecture, artwork, and some of its greatest treasures in areas not normally open to the public. All proceeds support the Mission and SB ArchiveLibrary.

When: 12:30 to 2 pm Where: 2201 Laguna Street Cost: $20 per person; no children under 12

Special Montecito Union School Board Meeting The Facilities Committee will meet for a study session to discuss campus upgrades.

When: 8:45 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

MONDAY, MAY 2 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the

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Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 Santa Barbara Dance Theater Continuing the celebration of the company’s 40th Anniversary Season, SBDT, directed by Christopher Pilafian, hosts international choreographer Josh Beamish in a premiere performance at the Lobero Theatre. Mr. Beamish, fresh from a project with the Royal Ballet in London, will create a new work for SBDT based on his observations of the impact of

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drought in the world.

SBDT’s dancers will also perform A Jointed Affair by Emily Schoen.

Ms Schoen is known to local dance audiences as a member of Keigwin + Company. The program will also include director Pilafian’s hit of the company’s winter season, Strange Attractor, with an original score by L.A. film composer Ryan Beveridge.

Other surprises are in store.

When: today and tomorrow, May 5, both at 7:30 pm Where: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido Cost: $21-$54 Tickets: www.lobero.com

THURSDAY, MAY 5 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Art Exhibition Reception “De-Coherence: A Revisualization of Color and Space,” an exhibit by Sunio Ueda; opening reception tonight.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery East, 40 East Anapamu Street Info: ueda_5963@hotmail.com

FRIDAY, MAY 6 Bead Elements & Design Show The Bead Elements and Design Show will be returning to Fess Parker DoubleTree Santa Barbara, with handcrafted jewelry, artistic beads, one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories, jewelry supplies, and vintage items. The show offers 80 hands-on workshops in handcrafts such as jewelry making, glass fusing, mixed media, enameling, soldering, wirework, metalwork, beadwork, art clay, leatherwork, bronze, art glass, freeform weave, and pearl knotting.

Workshops offered daily.

When: May 6-8, 10 am to 6 pm Where: 633 East Cabrillo Blvd.

Cost: admission is $10, which includes all three days and parking Info: www.beadelements.com Candidates Forum Montecito Association hosts 1st District 28 April – 5 May 2016

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When: 4:30 pm Where: MUS Auditorium, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-2026

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ast week, we reported on a recent wind event that occurred on April 15, which caused a power outage affecting many Montecito residents. Since then, dozens of Montecito residents have reported the surge caused permanent damage to household appliances. “We heard a loud boom, and then smelled smoke,” said one Miramar Avenue resident. “When the lights came back on, we realized that all of our appliances were no longer working,” she went on to explain.

Several other neighbors report the same issue: appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, TVs, washing machines, dryers, and others were no longer functional after the surge.

“We are all waiting for electricians to come out and assess the damage. This could cost us tens of thousands of dollars,” the resident told us. According to Edison, the outage occurred at 11:24 pm on April 15 and impacted 1,436 customers. All but 151 of those customers had power returned shortly after the outage; the rest had power restored by 9:40 the next evening.

“The outage was due to high winds reaching up to 60 miles per hour,” said Edison’s media relations rep, Susan Cox. Overhead equipment near Hot Springs Road and School House Road was affected, which caused the outage.

When asked about the surge and the resulting damage to appliances, Edison reps were unable to answer our questions about liability. Instead, we received a generic reply regarding how to file a claim: “If a customer wishes to file a claim as a result of this outage, they should contact Southern California Edison at 800-655-4555 or visit www.sce.com/claims. Generally, Southern California Edison is responsible for losses that occur due to SCE’s negligence. However, in many instances, SCE is NOT responsible for power outages, voltage fluctuations, food loss, or property damage that occur due to forces outside its control, such as earthquakes and weather-related conditions including wind, rain, fog, lightning, or extreme heat.”

Many of those affected reached out to First District supervisor Salud Carbajal, who also reached out to Edison and received the same generic email that we did. Supervisor Carbajal then sent a letter directly to Edison’s president, Pedro Pizarro. “Two transformer fires led to such a tremendous surge that several fire alarms were activated due to smoke and char 28 April – 5 May 2016

being emitted from electrical sockets,” Carbajal wrote. “One constituent reported that there was work done on one of the transformers on or near Miramar Avenue earlier that day, and they raised questions as to the result of that work.”

Supervisor Carbajal also referred to the seven structure fire responses made by Montecito Fire Protection District on April 15, all a direct result of the transformer issues. “Montecito has a history of destructive fires going back decades, so it was very fortunate that this incident did not result in contributing to a large-scale fire amidst the high wind conditions,” Carbajal writes. He went on to ask Pizarro what specific factors contributed to the surge, and what actions Edison is planning to take that will proactively improve the electric grid to prevent such occurrences during future weather patterns. “The system is antiquated,” said Carbajal rep Eric Friedman, who told us the supervisor wants to get to the bottom of the issue.

We’ll do a follow up on this story if/when Mr. Pizarro responds to Supervisor Carbajal. In the meantime, for residents affected by the transformer fires, call (800) 655-4555 or visit www.sce.com/claims to file a claim to Edison.

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indu, Jain, and Buddhist art from the Indian subcontinent will be the focus at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) from now until August 28. The museum is celebrating its 75th anniversary and hence a show drawn largely from its own art holdings and augmented by private loans. There are about 160 diverse objects created over the past 2,000 years made for temples, home worship, festivals, and roadside shrines.

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subcontinent today refers to India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. On display is everything from painted temple hangings to portable pictures for pilgrims, stone sculptures, processional bronzes, and wooden chariots.

The members-only opening reception is always exciting. CEO Larry

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the shop, while Dominique helped out behind the scenes.

At the end of 2013, Art announced he was closing the store, and had a going-out-of-business-sale. The response from the community was overwhelming, and the girls decided to reopen the business a few weeks later, taking on the task of keeping the shop in the family. They modernized the store and changed some of its offerings, while still keeping the same family-owned atmosphere and many of the product lines Art’s customers had come to expect. Now, it’s time to move on, Katie told us earlier this week.

Shoppers can expect deep discounts on the store’s remaining pieces; a liquidation sale is currently underway and the closure date is still unclear.

The store is located at 1213 Coast Village Road.

Friends of Montecito Library Update

In October of last year, we ran a cover story (“Jewel in the Crown,” MJ #21/43) on the efforts of the Friends of the Montecito Library (FOML), which, earlier in the year, focused its fundraising strategy on building its endowment, in an effort to allow the library to remain open.

At that time, the Friends’ goal was to raise $1.4 million over the next three years, bringing their then $600,000 endowment to $2 million by July 2018.

The Montecito Library receives 1/3 of its funding from Santa Barbara County, 1/3 from reserves which are funds that were donated to the Montecito Library but controlled by the County, and 1/3 from donations from FOML. Because Montecito is unincorporated, there is no City funding for the library. The funding from FOML helps pay for the five part-time librarians, the books, computers, the summer reading program, and various other programs and talks that are free to library patrons. Because it’s expected that donations controlled by the county will run out in the next

couple of years, FOML will eventually need to provide more than 1/3 of the library’s funding.

According to FOML board members, the endowment campaign is off to a good start, with $100,000 already raised, and more than 100 names added to the Friends’ list of donors since last year. That means there is $1.3 million to go, which will be put in a conservative portfolio of stocks and bonds, according to Friends’ board members. Eventually, FOML hopes to have enough funding to reopen the library on Mondays (it’s currently closed Sundays and Mondays, with a half day on Saturday).

The board encourages the members of the FOML and other library patrons to continue supporting the library through donations, estate planning, word of mouth, and volunteering. The Montecito library is one of the most visited in the County, with 50,000 patron visits per year.

For more information, visit www. montecitolibraryfriends.org.

Carpinteria Homes Tour

This Saturday, April 30, marks the 19th annual Home & Garden Tour hosted by Carpinteria Beautiful.

Hundreds of tour goers are expected to turn out for the popular event, always held on the last Saturday of April. The self-guided excursion will take guests to five homes and gardens that showcase the unique character of Carpinteria, according to Carla Mager, one of the affair’s organizers.

“It truly is a ‘slice of Carpinteria,’” Mager said.

The tour includes five very different homes, including “Our Little Gem”, a custom-designed manufactured household that exemplifies the charm of living in a small space, according to tour chairwoman Donnie Nair. “I have been on the tour committee since the very beginning, and we have had some amazing homes on our tour, but

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been working several hours a day, seven days a week on their project using a local barn.

Kally Zheng, 17, who is off to Stanford in the fall to study computer science and product design, teamed with Graham Wren and Amy Dixon to launch the team last October after the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy retired its accomplished group, the only one in our Eden by the Beach.

“It is a huge challenge to take on, but we’re up for it,” says Kally confidently. “The old team was made up of seniors, but our new team comprises all ages.

“We want to be all inclusive and, hopefully, as time progresses students from other high schools in the area will get involved, so there is more variety.”

But attending the world championship doesn’t come cheap, with a $5,000 entry fee, airline tickets for the team and, of course, accommodations.

“I think it is around $45,000 in total, and most of that has been raised from donations from companies in the Goleta Business Park, as well as $25,000 from philanthropist Virgil Elings, after whom the local park is named.

“Students were shocked and disappointed when Dos Pueblos pulled the plug on the engineering academy,” adds Kally, “We always wanted to get to the world championship, and no one wanted to miss this opportunity.

“We are competing against 28 other teams in all from across the nation, including Utah, Idaho, Arizona, and other students from California, but the real work is done by the team collectively designing a durable robot, as well as fabricating it as fast as possible.

“The scouting team gives us information on the competition so we can play the game to our advantage.”

Stay tuned.

Jackson Reaction My story on Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry’s Los Angeles court victory over an order of nuns for the $14.5 million purchase of a handsome estate in the tony enclave of Los Feliz, just a tiara’s toss from the Griffith Observatory, prompted a response from former News-Press society scribe Beverley Jackson.

The property had formerly belonged to Catholic philanthropist Daniel Donahue and his wife, Bernadine, who gave the sprawling estate to the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary when she died in 1968.

The tony twosome used to be residents in our rarefied enclave, living on Sycamore Canyon Road, which became the home of auto tycoon Andy Granatelli and his wife, Dolly, and latterly venture capitalist Frank Caulfield, who infamously let out the property for the short-lived and over-hyped marriage of TV reality star Kim Kardashian and basketball pro Kris Humphries.

“Daniel had a chapel and a room for a collection of rare vestments for the priest who came daily to say Mass,” says Beverley. “I knew Bernadine as a young girl, and she devoted her life to helping others.

“They started the Daniel Murphy Foundation together. Daniel was chairman and they gave millions to charity, particularly Catholic causes. He gave $25 million for the building of the new cathedral in Los Angeles.

“Many honors were bestowed on them both, and Pope John XXIII made her a countess. She was the kindest woman I’ve ever known and Daniel the funniest. He made me roar with laughter.”

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Author Kia McInerny launches first of three new books

Three of a Kia It’s a busy year for Santa Barbara author Kia McInerny, who has three books set for publication.

The former attorney threw a bijou bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the upper village, to celebrate the launch of her thriller Bond Hunter, which involved research in Basel, Switzerland, Frankfurt, Germany, and New York.

“It’s about German bearer bonds that were issued in the 1930s with billions of dollars in gold at stake,” says Kia. “A wonderful game of international hide-and-seek.”

The other two novels, both coming out later this year, are Max in Filmland, a stylish tale of misadventure in 1970s Euro-Hollywood, and Murder in Malibu, a contemporary mystery.

“I wrote them early on and they are now all seeing the light of day,” she explains.

Exercise in Futility Google mogul Eric Schmidt, who lives on TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres’s former estate near Lotusland, has just pulled the plug on a deal to financially back a planned 25,204-square-foot gym at the former Forbes magazine building in Manhattan.

The pumped-up plan for Peak Performance on two floors of the lower Fifth Avenue property, near Washington Square, fell flat earlier this month when Schmidt ended his

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involvement.

“A lot of people at Google were big customers, as well as Eric,” one source told the New York Post’s Page Six. “Due to construction and other related issues, the project became no longer economically feasible.”

Schmidt, 60, valued at $10.2 billion

by Forbes, was not the sole investor in the scheme, but was the primary financier.

The planned location was 15 minutes walk from Google’s New York offices in Chelsea.

Breath of Fresco Air A mélange of magnificent millinery was out in force when Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara held its fifth annual Al Fresco Afternoon on the Riviera on the impeccably manicured lawn at the Biltmore.

The charity, which has placed nearly 200 children in 10 years, had a record 240 guests, helping raise more than $80,000 for the cause.

Event co-chairs were founder Meichelle Arntz and Leanne Schlinger, while my Journal colleague Erin Graffy and radio host Catherine Remak emceed the boffo bash.

The Foundation Award went to the Hutton Parker Foundation, picked up

by Pam Lewis and Robyn and Sue Parker, while Volunteer of the Year went to Shelley Fogg, who has adopted three children.

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Despite all the fame and international attention, Danielle is very approachable and willing to impart her downto-earth advice to anyone who asks about growing great roses. With the season opening right around the corner, I wondered how we could use her vast knowledge in our own gardens.

I caught up with Danielle on her way back from San Francisco, where she supplied roses and gave a presentation at the De Young Museum’s Bouquets to Art exhibit gala.

Q. Has the drought affected your approach to growing roses?

A. The drought hasn’t changed anything about our approach to growing roses. Water has been precious and expensive since we began. But, actually, roses are quite drought-resistant and don’t need as much water as people Rose Story Farm has become a desirable location for couples looking for a unique and picturesque venue at which to say their wedding vows; rental cabins on the property add to the site’s desirability

been featured in Martha Stewart magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Veranda, California Style magazine, and others.

The 15-acre organic Rose Story Farm in Carpinteria was founded more than 25 years ago and is an anomaly in the commercial rose industry. In an age when most cut flowers are being imported from massive automated greenhouses in Asia and South America, Rose Story Farm is literally a breath of fresh air. Specializing in Old World and pre-1950 American roses, Rose Story Farm grows its 30,000 roses outdoors, using no chemicals or pesticides and no machinery.

Danielle and Bill sell freshly cut roses to local outlets like Pierre Lafond and ship all over the continental United States. They provide Rose Garden Design and Installation services, floral arrangement design and have a retail nursery where you can buy some of the 120 varieties you see on the farm.

Rose Story Farm’s picturesque setting makes it a perfect location for a wedding or special event, and they have renovated cottages on the property to house overnight guests. An overnight stay at Rose Story Farm sounds like heaven on Earth to me.

But the highlight of the season is the farm tour. A two-hour, docentled walk through the most beautiful gardens imaginable culminates in an al fresco luncheon complete with rose-petal iced tea, lemonade, and

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think. We water our roses once a week.

The secret is to water long and slow.

What advice do you have for readers who have roses in their home gardens?

Roses don’t like “wet feet,” so good drainage is most important. Roses are heavy feeders. We feed ours every 3-4 weeks using a liquid food that moves through the irrigation system. The food we use is a special formula made exclusively for Rose Story Farm, comprised of fish emulsion and bat guano.

But any good, organic food will do the trick. Mulch is vital, but you should only use compost. We lay 3-4 inches of compost under and around the roses and replenish it every year. At the end of the year, it has broken down into the soil, and so over time the soil gets better and better. Compost feeds the soil, keeps the moisture in, and protects the roots of your roses.

Thank you, Danielle and congratulations on your success.

You are welcome, Lisa. See you on the farm.

Rose Story Farm opened the new season of tours on April 14. They take place every Thursday and Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm, through November. Tour reservations are required and can be made by calling (805) 566-4885, by email info@rosestoryfarm.com or on the website www.rosestoryfarm.com.

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Power of Art The

As Joan Davidson walks through the galleries of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, she sees many familiar paintings.

“I have an emotional attachment to some of the works in the Museum because they were donated by my parents,” says Davidson, who serves as co-chair of the Campaign for SBMA. “I grew up with them sitting over my shoulder at a desk or over my bed or in the living room and there they are on the wall here now. “ For Davidson, the campaign represents an important new chapter in the life of the Museum. “The facility is in great need of repair and at the end of the campaign, more gallery space and community space will be available for everyone in the region,” she says.

We are asking those who believe in the power of art to invest in our renovation and expansion efforts. You can go to campaign.sbma.net to make a gift and learn about the campaign.

Vajrabhairava Embracing Consort (detail), East Tibetan, late 17th century. Gilded and painted bronze. SBMA, Museum purchase with the John and Peggy Maximus Fund.

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WATER (Continued from page 5)

“Future Water Demand and Water Supply Options.” The Bachman report was blunt in its conclusions: “Lake Cachuma will go dry in periods of extended drought. MWD water supplies are limited and based on a hydrologic lack of groundwater reserves. To ensure that MWD can meet customer demand in the future, the district needs to secure the amount of water that will be available in the future through its varied portfolio of water supplies.

MWD must increase its supply reliability to meet customer demand during dry periods by banking of supplies in a combination of surface reservoirs and groundwater storage projects. Without better planning, district customers will suffer shortfalls of supply during dry years.”

It is now time to heed the Bachman report. MWD, under new GM Nick Turner, is building a more robust and diversified water portfolio. His plan is to bank greater emergency supplies, a strategy that most other water districts in California have already adopted.

MWD needs to buy and bank more water in the San Luis Reservoir, Lake Cachuma, or best of all, in underground aquifers where evaporation losses are non-existent. In addition, MWD needs to carefully re-evaluate adding the only two sources of water that are totally independent of rainfall to its portfolio: desalinated water and reuse of recycled water.

Desalinated Water

Recently, it was inaccurately reported that Santa Barbara and Montecito had reached an agreement concerning desal. MWD has not entered into a purchase agreement for desalinated water with the City of Santa Barbara. What has happened is that after six months of negotiations, the City has released the terms of its latest offer, breaking the veil of secrecy that has prevented this community from evaluating desal as a viable option.

From 1987-1992, the Goleta Water District, the City of Santa Barbara, and MWD were partners in funding and operating a regional desalination plant.

MWD abandoned its ownership position in 1992 when it elected not to pay its fair share of minimal standby maintenance costs. Now we are faced with the unenviable option of buying 1,250 AF per year at a cost of at least $3 million per year, or $2,400 per AF, not as a partner, but as a take it-or-pay-anyway commitment for the next 20 years.

Negotiations with the City cannot be finalized before the completion of MWD’s latest Cost of Service Study, slated for release by the end of summer, but if a “fair deal” can be negotiated, MWD should get back into the desal game with a minimal purchase of 1,250 AF or less of desalinated water as the ultimate insurance package. It will be expensive, but not as expensive as running out of water, if no other option can be found.

Take Another Look at Wastewater Recycling/Re-use

It is environmentally irresponsible for this community that uses 80% of its potable water for landscaping to discharge 600,000 gallons a day (750 AF per year) of treated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean off Butterfly Beach.

MWD and Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) need to work together to recycle wastewater to the “gold standard” for use either in landscaping, or for injecting into groundwater in this community or in neighboring communities with an exchange agreement, or mixing it with brine to dilute desalination outflows, or even drinking it, at such time as California law allows.

The best long-term solution would be for Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria, to jointly seek state funding for a regional recycling solution. Stop jurisdictional turf battles between sanitary districts and water districts by creating community service districts to replace the current individual fiefdoms.

Between Montecito Sanitary and Summerland Sanitary, MWD could gain access to nearly 1,000 AF of recycled wastewater treated to a potable standard, but lacking a conveyance system to deliver it to major users as landscaping water.

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Commit to Continued Water Conservation

Water conservation is an environmental obligation. Governor Brown has called for California communities to reduce use of water by 25% from 2013 levels. Our community is at a near 50% saving level, arguably the highest in the state. At the same time, the environmental community needs to acknowledge that there is no way that this community can conserve or ration its way to water independence.

MWD has strengthened its water portfolio. Montecito is not doomed to a browner future. According to the Montecito Community Plan, we can “Preserve the special, semi-rural residential quality of the community” and “Preserve the extensive landscaping and ‘garden’ atmosphere of much of the community.”

If MWD needs 6,800 AF per year, conservation could contribute 25% of that, leaving a new community demand of some 5,100 AF.

Where Will Montecito Water Come From?

Montecito GM Nick Turner has a plan. Lake Cachuma and Jameson reservoirs historically have provided more than 4,000 AF of our needed 6,800 AF. Now they are both approaching “dead pool” status and desperately need rainfall and stream recharge.

Local groundwater from MWD wells used to provide 700 AF per year; now, we can expect only 500 AF. The other local source is Doulton Tunnel, which formerly generated 400 AF, but now can only be counted on for 150 AF per year.

So here is the good news: to put more water into Cachuma, the State is increasing its State Water allocation to south coast cities to 60% rather than 20%, meaning MWD will get 2,000 AF of State Water beginning in June, thanks to an above-average rainfall and snowpack in northern California. That is 1,200 AF more than last year. In addition, MWD starts the new water year beginning July 1 with a carryover reserve of some 5,100 AF of water stored in Cachuma and the San Luis Reservoir.

Best of all, the California Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA) has negotiated a purchase of 10,000 AF of water from the Antelope Valley/East Kern Water (AVEK) District, which will not need its increased State Water Allotment.

MWD will take 5,000 AF, the City of Santa Barbara is in for 4,000 AF, and Carpinteria Valley is in for 1,000 AF. The price is an attractive $250 per AF, with a 10-year obligation to pay back 50% of the water transferred. The MWD Board has instructed Turner and CCWA to seek similar deals to bank even more water for Montecito.

Water Outlook Recap

For the coming year, MWD could have 5,000 AF from the AVEK supplemental water purchase, 5,100 AF of carryover water, 2,000 AF of State Water, and 500 AF of groundwater. Yes, there are conveyance capacity restrictions in moving State and purchased water into Cachuma that need to be addressed by CCWA and the Cachuma Operations & Maintenance Board (COMB), but Turner, an accomplished engineer, is a major asset in resolving these issues.

According to Turner, MWD has sufficient water to last until the third quarter of 2017. The purchase of 5,000 AF of AVEK water this month, has extended that date to August 2019. A successful purchase agreement with the City for desal water could add another year, and a new wastewater solution could add another 750 AF, pushing the deadline to early 2020 or later, depending on rainfall in the next four years.

End Rationing Now

MWD is the only water purveyor in California (out of 1,260 providers) that is funding its water portfolio by imposing both financially punitive rationing penalties and drought surcharges. MWD alone mandates water allocations based on lot size, charging penalty fees of $35 and $45 for each unit of overage, regardless of annual or quarterly savings. Is it fair that 550 to 1,000 fortunate customers with private wells enjoy the same MWD allocations as those without wells?

The dubious reward for MWD consumers for record-shattering conservation savings, is that our district has more than doubled its rates to pay for the delivery of half as much water. Penalty fees and drought surcharges now generate more revenues for MWD than water sales, an anomaly that is unnatural, somewhat deceptive, and price punitive to ratepayers.

The right solution is to let a conservation-conscious marketplace determine community usage without rationing, the strategy adopted by every other water district in California. Retaining rationing penalties to boost revenues with no associated costs is immoral and unnecessary. Good management practices and board actions can resolve both water supply issues and conveyance problems to the benefit of Montecito ratepayers.

•MJ

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

(from left): Lauren Macioce, John Pasini, Alison Cox, Esteban Ortiz, Jane Noyes, and Rosa Nolan stand ready to put you through their moves at the Montecito Y

Ms Robiscoe is a certified fitness trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and conventionally published author of short fictions, essays, and poetry. Her chapbook: Word Mosaics, is available online at Fowlpox Press. E mail Karen at chickenscratch@cox.net, or visit http://charronschatter.com

Spelling Out Y-M-C-A

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confess, entering any YMCA makes me want to hit the dance floor and shape letters with my arms. It’s an activity, curiously enough, that isn’t out of the question at Montecito’s YMCA. To find out why that is, and offering as it does everything from Aquatics to Zumba, I dropped by the Health and Wellness club nestled among eucalyptus and oak trees on Santa Rosa Lane.

After a week of high winds and rain (my visit took place during one of March’s “El Niño” rains), it was still disappointing to find the outside TRX station (a suspension bodyweight exercise born in the Navy SEALs) closed due to storm damage, so I revised my workout plan and headed directly to the multi-purpose room for a Zumba class. Despite instructor John Pasini’s decree that “as long as you keep moving, there’s no wrong way to do this,” I picked a spot in back to stay out of the way of those who really knew how to move. A Zumba class is not your mother’s aerobics class, and after an hour of grooving, grape-vining, high-kicking, and swinging my arms into covert letters, I knew – really knew – that I had just been involved in some serious exercise.

A former ski instructor and onetime lifeguard, John explains, “The important thing to remember is to have fun. You watch the feet, and eventually you get it, and when you do, your face lights up, and you’re

having a blast.” A statement I can vouch for; even my two left feet didn’t deter me from enjoying the evocative movements based in Latin dance. The upbeat music and John’s vitality are key, too.

The “Aha” Moment

It was a no-brainer to attend a restorative yoga class the following day. I had cramps in muscles I didn’t know I had, but after a session led by Christina Perry, I was rejuvenated, certain I’d felt that moment she described. “When students feel a physical, mental, or emotional shift,” she says, “it’s the ‘Aha!’ moment.”

Christina says her most rewarding work is with students who battle major physical challenges. “The fact they make it to their mat and move without pain for an hour is incredible,” she marvels.

The circuit training room with iso-lateral nautilus machines is a standout attraction, but the two cardio rooms and outdoor weight training station seem underequipped; there is an explanation. Executive director Mike Yamasaki says he has been waiting on permits for seven years to start renovation. “When we do [finally receive the permits],” he promises, “the outside exercise stations will be moved to a projected second level of the YMCA, and the sports court will be enclosed.”

The Asset Class

Commercial real estate investor and Y member Jon Martin suggests the reason for the delay is that “People don’t want to see the roof of the sports court from San Ysidro Road. Neighbors worry the renovation will bring more people into the neighborhood, as well, drawing travelers that wouldn’t otherwise stop off the freeway. This intersection is a tough intersection already: you’ve got a narrow bridge, you’ve got the school, and you’ve got the Y. It’s a pain in the neck—everybody recognizes that – but there has to be some balance.”

As a fellow TRX enthusiast, I feel his pain. We’d both been sidelined from that outdoor activity due to weather, and swimming in the outdoor pool wasn’t an option I cared to dip into,

either. There were a few die-hard runners taking laps on the .1-mile track encompassing the court, and I applauded their efforts – from a comfortably dry distance.

The Montecito Family YMCA offers individual, family, and senior rates for membership, and complimentary training sessions at sign-up. Their community outreach includes work with Pathpoint, the Braille Institute, and Alpha Resource Center, to name a few, while their family programs feature camps for kids, childcare, afterschool care, and date nights, too.

Even so, I’d say Montecito Y’s biggest assets are the class instructors, who are not only skilled at what they do but also create and foster a warm and welcoming environment in which to exercise.

All in all, it is fun to play at the YMCA. •MJ

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Benefits of the Week

by Steven Libowitz “Benefits of the Week” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area fundraisers approximately 10 days to three weeks ahead of the event. Unusual themes and galas with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Walk it Off

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nly in Santa Barbara do you not only get your choice of fund-raising walks on the same Saturday morning, they both take place within shouting distance of each other, either down at the beach or up on the cliffs above the shoreline.

And then two more the following weekend, also catty-corner to each other. Fun in the sun!

The 2016 Walk to Cure Arthritis - Central Coast takes place on Saturday, April 30, at Santa Barbara City College’s West Campus, 967 Cliff Drive. It’s part of a nationwide signature event supporting the nonprofit’s mission to conquer arthritis by spreading awareness and raising money for research aimed at finding a cure. The event features a three-mile and one-mile course, and there will be plenty of other activities for the entire family, as well as information about arthritis on site on the gorgeous lawn overlooking Leadbetter Beach and the Santa Barbara Harbor. Pet

owners are even encouraged to bring their dogs. Registration opens at 8 am, the Opening Ceremony is at 9, and the walk begins at 9:30, which is also when the three-hour festival featuring a Health Expo, Food & Drinks, Kids’ Zone and Entertainment takes place.

Call 563-4685 or visit www.walktocu rearthritis.org.

Beginning just a half hour later down in front of Leadbetter Beach itself is Walk MS: Santa Barbara 2016, which gets a move on at 10 am (registration at 8 am, opening ceremonies at 9:30). As with the Arthritis Walk, there’s also both a 1K Family Fun Route or a still-not-too-strenuous 5k Route. Both are 100-percent accessible and offer snacks and water at stationary rest stops. Even at this late date, you can still enter the event, and self-fund your walk or get pledges for donations from friends, family, and co-workers. You can even form a team to take on the route together. Once you reach the finish line, enjoy enter-

tainment at the festival with food, music, team booths, fun giveaways from the event sponsors, and more.

All the money raised helps fund critical research and programs and services for people affected by Multiple Sclerosis. Get all the details, entry forms, and more information online at main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/ Walk/CALWalkEvents?pg=entry&fr_ id=27629.

The following weekend, Mental Wellness Center kicks off its own fundraising walk on Friday, May 6, starting in the late afternoon when the sun hits that special angle, lighting up the palm trees and reflecting off the water. The 5th annual Walk for Mental Wellness, begins at 5 pm at the East Beach Bathhouse, 1118 E. Cabrillo Boulevard, and is timed to coincide with Mental Health Month.

The 5K Sunset Beach Walk generate funds to help the private, non-profit organization provide recovery, education, and family services to adults and families in Santa Barbara affected by mental illness. It’s definitely not too late to join ‘em. Individuals and teams can register online at www.mhainsb. donorpages.com/Walk2016 or by calling 884-8440, or just show up between 4-5 to register on site. All participants are invited to stick around for dinner and live entertainment that starts at 6:30 pm. The registration fee is $50 for general participants and $20 for students, and includes a free event T-shirt, dinner provided by East Beach Grill, and live music by Upstream, a reggae and Caribbean music band, and Aiga, a four-piece ukulele band.

Back at Leadbetter the following morning, it’s the first annual Santa Barbara Birth Center 5K Run/Walk and Wellness Fair. All are invited to run, walk, toddle, crawl, or waddle – as befits your age and mood – in celebration of Mother’s Day and “all of you awesome mamas out there.”

Pre-race yoga begins at 9:30 am with the race itself commencing a half hour later. Post-race food and beverages will be available alongside family activities such as face painting, Mother’s Day gift-making, yoga, massage, and much more. Fund benefit The Birth Center, which provides a comfortable, family-friendly environment where women are attended by the same midwives throughout their pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum, assuring continuity of care. For details, call 770-3700 or visit www. sbbirthcenter.org.

Rock the Bacara

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do or your most creative rock n’ roll attire for this “rock meets black-tie event” that features a “Backstage at the Bacara” VIP reception, a fabulous silent auction, exquisite dinner from Bacara’s chef, and a brief live auction and program, followed by the now Santa Barbara-based British progressive rock king’s live show. The nearly 60-year-old CADA is the largest organization in the county for the prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse, serving more than 12,000 youth and adults over the years. Tickets for the April 30 Amethyst Ball cost $300 and up. Call 722-1306 or visit www. cadasb.org.

Cat’s Beach Ball

Organic Soup Kitchen’s second annual Santa Barbara Beach Ball once again teams up with celebrity chef Cat Cora for an explosion of organic foods, cold brew coffee, beer, and Mamma Chia Organic drinks, plus a whole host of activities on the sand.

Jenny Schatzle leads a fun workout for all ages, plus indulge your inner child in beach games and contests for everyone, cheer on your favorites in the firemen-versus-policemen tugof-war, and soothe your adult with gifts and trips at the silent auction.

Admission to the 10 am – 2 pm event on April 30 is just $10, or $20 per family. Details at www.organicsoupkitch en.org/sb-beach-ball-2016.

The Best Medicine

Montecito’s own late comedy hero, Jonathan Winters, is the namesake of the Inaugural Jonathan Awards, a new gala event from Crescend Health, the nonprofit formerly known as Phoenix of Santa Barbara. Hope & Laughter, The Inaugural Jonathan Awards, celebrates the famous humorist’s legacy of turning his significant psychiatric challenges into a triumphant life by honoring three local mental health advocates at the event, which takes place 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 11, in the Riviera Ballroom at the El Encanto Hotel. Philanthropist Lillian Lovelace; mental health advocate Suzanne Riordan, executive director of Families Act!; and Dr. Zev Nathan, community psychiatrist, are the honorees for the inaugural event, which also features an auction that will include pieces of artwork created by Jonathan Winters donated by his daughter, Lucinda.

Tickets are $150. Crescend Health provides residential and outpatient services to rehabilitate and provide care to adults diagnosed with psychiatric and addictive disorders, with a focus on encouraging clients to participate in their own treatment and recovery.

Call 965-3434, x130, email apolan@ crescendhealth.org or visit www.cre scendhealth.org.

•MJ 28 April – 5 May 2016

Your Westmont

by Scott Craig (photos by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships

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wo Westmont seniors, Aria Hamann and Jarrett Catlin, both Monroe scholars, have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships to conduct research and teach English outside the U.S. next year.

Hamann will conduct hydrology research at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She will be working with Dutch professor Boris van Breukelen to undertake an independent research project to Westmont seniors and Monroe scholars Aria Hamann and Jarrett simulate Managed Aquifer Catlin earn Fulbright Scholarships Recharge (MAR). MAR is a promising supply is crucial. Previous research method of securing a consistent fresh- has already established the immense water supply for subsequent recovery potential of MAR, but complex suror environmental benefits. The result face and groundwater interactions are of the project will be to create efficient still poorly understood. I hope my and accurate computer models of project will help enable some longMAR, allowing for greater complexity term water solutions.” and flexibility in simulations.

Catlin, who serves as an assistant Hamann has been accepted to the with the Westmont in Istanbul Program, Harvard School of Engineering and has been awarded a Fulbright English Applied Science doctoral program, Teaching Assistantship in Turkey. He which she hopes to defer until fall is waiting on the specific location of 2017 to continue hydrology research his assignment in the country. in the Netherlands.

Catlin, a political science major “I applied for the Fulbright because with a minor in mathematics, studof the combination of research and ied abroad in 2014 with Westmont cross-cultural experience,” says in Istanbul. “I wanted to learn more Hamann, who was unable to study about the Middle East, particularly the abroad at Westmont due to her dou- Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he says, ble-major. “I am craving the fresh “and I really admired and trusted the insights that come when spending couple who led the trip, Jim Wright time in a new culture. and Heather Keaney. It changed me in “I developed the Fulbright project so many ways, and is the cornerstone/ as a response to a societal need. Since backbone of my college experience. water resources are often overexploit- It led me to change my major from ed, polluted, and at risk due to many mathematics to political science, to factors including climate change, develop some of my close friendships securing a consistent fresh water at Westmont, and to meet two of my

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Art Majors are Primed for Final Show

Seventeen graduating art majors are displaying their capstone art projects through May 7 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. “We always look forward to the graduating seniors’ art exhibition,” says Judy Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor of art history and museum director.

“This year, we have a variety of media from furniture to fashion; photography to painting; and sculpture to printmaking. With 17 graduates this year, it’s a full show with many innovative works to enjoy.”

This year ’s senior show, Primed,

includes Molly Beans of Boulder, Colorado; Esther Bent of San Juan Capistrano; Emma Doremus of Fort Worth, Texas; Betsy Freeman of Englewood, Colorado; Kailie Grinder of Honolulu; Aria Hamann of Grants Pass, Oregon; Alexandra Kutcher of Tigard, Oregon; Angela Lowe of Irvine; Alexis Jean Moore of Concord; Brian Mull of Newport Beach; Allie Reilly of New Braunfels, Texas; Fernanda Rivera of Poza Rica, Mexico; Frances Rozhko of Santa Barbara; Claire Vance of Newport Beach; Max Vincent of Carpinteria; Wendy Waldrop of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Taylor Williams of Winter Springs, Florida.

“It is a delight to watch these art majors investigate themes that reflect their personal journeys and diverse perspectives, and to see their robust production of art work that embody these ideas,” says Nathan Huff, associate professor of art at Westmont.

The exhibition is sponsored

by Francie and Ken Jewesson. The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holidays. For more information, please visit www. westmontmuseum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162.

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Today an inspirational meeting will be held for community members, featuring county leaders in foster care, as will a panel of youth and resource families as they address the current state of foster care in SB County.

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Fine Art Exhibit “Four Fauves in California” Corridan Gallery present “Four Fauves in California”, an Exhibit of Fine Art by James-Paul Brown, Ken Christensen, Kathleen Elsey, and Sarah Carr. Curated by William Fedderson, this show includes works by these accomplished artists in the inspiring Fauvist Style, rarely seen in Santa Barbara.

When: show runs May 3 through June 18; opening reception today, 4 to 7 pm Where: 125 N. Milpas Street Info: 966-7939

SUNDAY, MAY 8 Mindfulness Meditation A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D. All levels welcome.

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When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

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

FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road

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

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

SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

When: 8 to 10 am Where: Every Sunday in the upper village, except the last Sunday of the month, when the show moves to its original home, close to 1187 Coast Village Road.

Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com •MJ

THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for

Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com

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Rally4Kids

by Randy Lioz Randy is an automotive enthusiast with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Originally hailing from New York, he came to Santa Barbara by way of Detroit to work for an automotive forecasting company. He now works for Kelley Blue Book in Irvine, but visits Santa Barbara whenever he gets the chance.

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wo years ago, 30-some cars participated in the first Rally4Kids; last year, there were 50. This year, more than 70 cars – classics, sports cars, racers, muscle cars, fancy cars, and everything in-between – have signed up for the 3rd Annual

Rally4Kids, a fundraiser for the United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara County.

One of the vehicles, being driven by Steve Hughes, may draw the attention not only of car lovers, but of cinephiles as well: it’s a little scamp called

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the Alfa Romeo Spider, aka Duetto.

This is a car made famous by the movie The Graduate, starring a freshfaced Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock memorably drives his 1966 Alfa down from Berkeley to Santa Barbara to intercept Elaine Robinson’s wedding, running out of gas along the way.

Fun fact: Hoffman drives through the Gaviota Tunnel on his drive down, where we hear the engine echoing off the walls. This was actually the northbound tunnel, since there is no southbound tunnel along the Gaviota Pass. There is, of course, no Vernon Avenue exit here in town, nor an Allan Street where the church was located, so best of luck replicating this famous journey.

But you can see what is essentially an identical car if you say “hello” to Steve at the rally. Hughes’s Alfa is a 1967 model; it has different mirrors, but the other details are the same, down to the color. I talked to Hughes about the car and the movie, and he had some other interesting tidbits to share.

“You know why they used that car

in the movie?” he asks, and answers, “Because Dustin Hoffman’s uncle was the Alfa importer.” This was a stroke of luck for the brand, because it put Alfa on the map in the U.S. and would ultimately sustain sales of the Spider model through four generations to more than 100,000 units.

A Drive and a Party

While Hughes has only owned this car for a couple of years, it’s not his first Alfa Romeo. He had a 1957 Giulietta, which he says “was really nice but it was original paint, and we figured it was too valuable to drive in rallies. “And also,” he adds somewhat ruefully, “every time we drove it, it broke down.”

Hughes then offered to let me drive the car, so I eagerly headed back up to Santa Barbara and took him up on it. It was a rainy day, but a window of time opened up for my friend Jason Austin and I to take a quick run around Mission Canyon, just as the sun was peeking out.

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er’s seat when the chance suddenly presents itself. It’s something that a modern-day Mazda MX-5 Miata is celebrated for as well.

Hughes has been in the car business for 30 years, since moving to the U.S. from England. It was one of the classic stories of coming over on vacation and deciding this is where he should be.

“I don’t know, I just came and never went home.”

Hughes will be at the Rally with his wife, Micheline, and we talked a bit about what the event means to them.

“Well, we were surprised how important it is, what a good charity Boys & Girls Club is. It really does

great work,” he said. “It’s nice when you do something and it goes locally.”

While there are tons of great activities for the kids, including sports, arts & crafts, and even a fully functional recording studio run by nonprofit Notes for Notes, one of the most impactful programs involves serving hot dinners to kids who otherwise might often go hungry.

The drive will again kick off at software company QAD in Summerland.

Last year’s route was beautiful and fun, with a great lunch stop at Calamigos Ranch near Malibu, and no doubt the rally masters will again guide drivers and their navigators on a great adventure.

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a 4-night villa stay in one of 17 cities worldwide through Exclusive Resorts; Caribbean and Mediterranean cruises aboard a SeaDream mega-yacht; two nights for a big group at the Sunstone Winery Estate; and VIP tickets to any Beach Boys show in the country, which includes backstage passes.

As of press deadline, there were still a few spots left if you have a car you’d like to drive and want to get in on the action. For information, visit rally 4kids.org or contact Kristi Newton at (805) 681-1315.

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Water Update

LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

by Nick Turner

Update on MWD/City of Santa Barbara Potential Water Sales Pact

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n response to recent publicity concerning the Montecito Water District (District) and the City of Santa Barbara (City) reaching a deal on a desalinated water sales agreement with the City, the District would like to clarify that our two agencies are still in negotiations on the terms and conditions that are expected to lead to a draft agreement.

At the City’s Water Commission meeting held on April 21, the commissioners received an update from City staff on the status of the ongoing negotiations with the District regarding the regional use of the City’s desalination facility. It was reported that the District and City are in general alignment as to the basic terms of a potential water sales agreement, which would include the purchase of 1,250 acre-feet of water per year by the District.

There remains significant work that must be completed before an agreement would be ready for consideration for approval by the District Board of Directors and City Council, with a tentative target completion date of October 2016.

Adding desalinated water to the District’s water supply has raised concerns in the community about how the purchase of desalinated water will affect water rates. Be assured that these concerns are also shared by the District, as we are determined to keep the costs as reasonable as possible should the District and the City come to alignment on all terms of a final agreement.

In the coming months, the District’s Board of Directors will be hosting community workshops not only to better explain the benefits and associated costs with desalinated water, but more importantly to hear the concerns of the community. Ultimately, the final decision as to whether the District will participate in a water purchase agreement with the City rests with District’s customers. As previously reported, the District is in the midst of a Cost of Service study which will consider the inclusion of costs associated with the purchase of desalinated water from the City.

For updates on the District’s potential participation in the regional use of the City’s desalination facility, visit the District’s website at www.montecitowater. com.

•MJ

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MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT Notice of Vacancy and Provisional Appointment

A vacancy on the Governing Board of the Montecito Union School District was created on February 22, 2016 due to the resignation of Mr. Les Mayfield.

In accordance with Education Code section 5091, Mrs. Kate Murphy was provisionally appointed to the Governing Board on April 11, 2016.

Unless a petition calling for a special election, containing a sufficient number of signatures is filed with the county superintendent of schools within thirty days of the date of the appointment, the appointment shall become effective. If a petition is filed, the county superintendent of schools has thirty days in which to verify the signatures. If the petition is determined to be legal, the provisional appointment is terminated and the county superintendent of schools shall call a special election to be conducted no later than the 130th day after the determination (EC§ 5091).

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I could go on, but environmental degradation is taking place rapidly worldwide.

Raising money to squelch deforestation in the Amazon basin and other areas, protecting and replenishing nearly exhausted fisheries in lakes, rivers, and especially oceans, and other projects are called for now. It would be a wiser use of whatever funds nations are likely to squander via a carbon tax collected by the U.N. and funneled to kleptocrats in second- and thirdworld countries. Those carbon taxes will also come in handy in paying a new and expanding universal bureaucracy replete with thousands of well-paid apparatchiks from those same kleptocracies.

Call me a “denier” or whatever you wish, but I for one don’t want to expedite the growth of yet another burdensome regulatory body, especially a supranational one with the power to control every breath I take. I don’t deny that too many humans are causing great stress upon this planet’s sustainability, but I am yet to be convinced that atmospheric carbon dioxide is the culprit it’s made out to be. – J.B.)

Accelerating Data

Thanks to Cotty Chubb for his response to the opinions of Anonymous Poltroon. I personally view climate change through a similar lens. In my reading of current research, I find compelling evidence that human activities (primarily the burning of fossil fuels) are having a significant impact on Earth’s climate, at both a global and a local scale. As a recent grandparent, I’m motivated to stay as informed as possible on the issue. It has the potential to change the planet for many generations to come.

With that as background, I’m reluctantly wading into the Poltroon debate.

For reasons that escape me, it seems to have veered into sarcasm and unrelated talking points. In an effort to avoid that side trip and hopefully refocus the discussion toward most relevant and current data, I’ll limit my comments to just one central climate-related claim made by Ms Poltroon in her rebuttal to Mr. Chubb’s letter. That has to do with global annual average temperature.

After an unnecessary “didn’t get the memo” intro, Ms Poltroon says that “Earth has not warmed for 18 to 26 years, depending on which measurement you use.” This is a false statement. Presumably, it refers to the so-called “pause” in global warming that occurred over the past 10 to 15 years. First point to make is that this pause wasn’t a return to the pre-industrial cycle of modest swings in annual average temperature. It was instead a slowdown in the rate of accelerated temperature increases that kicked off in the latter half of the 20th century. To be clear, even during the “pause,” the Earth was still warming

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– just at a slower pace.

More importantly, a likely cause for that slowdown in the warming trend has been recently identified, and it is temporary. It has been linked to the naturally occurring oscillations in ocean surface temperature that cycle up and down over several decades.

Note that that these multi-decadal oscillations are separate from the higher frequency El Niño and La Niña events that have been so much in the news of late.

Earth’s oceans are primary heat sinks. They have a huge influence on global climate and temperatures.

During the “pause,” the Pacific Ocean (by far the planet’s largest) was in the cooling phase of its multi-decadal temperature oscillation. That cooling phase is now on the wane, with the projected result that it will swing to the opposite impact. Instead of slowing the rate of global warming, the Pacific multi-decadal oscillation (in surface temperature) will have an accelerating influence.

For those wishing to review the actual refereed literature, this result was reported in the February 27, 2015, issue of Science. The paper title is “Why the Pacific is cool”.

The interested reader is also encouraged to note that 2015 was the hottest year measured to date in a climate record that goes back to 1880. This observation is validated by multiple international and government agencies, each using slightly different measurement and statistical methods. Just behind 2015 is 2014, and according to the same researchers, the first three months of 2016 have all exceeded their 2015 counterparts.

Just like weather itself, climate change research is highly dynamic.

New data is being published at an accelerating pace. In dismissively refuting Mr. Chubb’s claim that the Earth is heating up, it’s Ms Poltroon who is citing outdated information.

Mike Wilson Santa Barbara

Deny No More

Concerns about global climate change cannot be dismissed as leftwing sheep bleating. This is business and science recognizing a profound threat. Please don’t continue to give space to foolish, dangerous climate-change-denying friends.

Please use your newspaper to advocate for change in the management of our energy resources, change long postponed and the more costly and radical for the delay.

We live in a coastal paradise. Will our children’s children recognize what we are squandering? Will they forgive us?

Cotty Chubb Montecito •MJ 28 April – 5 May 2016

Association Agenda

by Aaron Budgor and Ted Urschel

“Estate ownership Simplified”

Montecito Matters

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n a rather unique presidential election year, many of us are focused on national politics. As interesting as the national field may be, many of the factors that affect our daily lives and our community are a result of local and county governance. The Montecito Association has, through our interactions with local government, acted as the community’s voice to preserve and protect the special semi-rural residential character of Montecito for the past 68 years.

Who governs Montecito and who represents your interests? Our local government consists of a hodgepodge of elected bodies and government agencies, and it is difficult for our community members as individuals to have a meaningful impact on these organizations. This is where the Montecito Association comes in. We at the Montecito Association serve an important function as a liaison between the community and local government, and an advocate for the residents of Montecito.

Montecito is an unincorporated area within the County of Santa Barbara. The County is governed by a five-person board of supervisors. Montecito is part of the First District, an area spanning Carpinteria, Summerland, Mission Canyon, Cuyama, and the eastern portion of the City of Santa Barbara. Our currently elected representative is supervisor Salud Carbajal.

The Montecito Association meets with Supervisor Carbajal regularly to discuss issues of interest to Montecito. He and his staff are responsive to the Association’s input and supportive when we appear before the County Board of Supervisors to represent the community. Supervisor Carbajal says: “The Montecito Association provides a strong and essential voice on a wide range of issues that impact our unique community. I value the partnership and advocacy that the Association provides on matters of importance to Montecito and Santa Barbara County as a whole.”

Santa Barbara County government is responsible for a variety of issues and services, including land use planning, provision of police services, road maintenance and improvement, flood control, parks, public health and social services. The board of supervisors controls many of the purse strings and sets the priorities for these services. For Montecito, most design review and land use decisions are delegated to the Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) and the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC). The Montecito Association monitors and engages with these decision-making bodies on behalf of the community to ensure factors such as neighborhood compatibility, historical importance, and consistency with the Montecito Community Plan are addressed.

Other governance issues fall into different buckets. There are a handful of service districts serving Montecito. Fire, water, and sewer are provided by the Montecito Fire Protection District, the Montecito Water District, and the Montecito Sanitary District, respectively. Our public elementary schools consist of two separate one-district school districts, Montecito Union and Cold Spring, and our public secondary school district is the Santa Barbara Unified School District. State highways are the responsibility of Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol enforces the traffic code in Montecito.

The Montecito Association coordinates with all of these agencies to address issues of interest to the residents of Montecito.

We have had numerous successes on your behalf – on issues as diverse as the Highway 101 project, the Miramar project, and short-term rentals. While you might not agree with us on every issue, we consistently work to protect the residential character of our community and advocate for our neighborhoods and our homeowners.

Local government matters. Supervisor Carbajal will be stepping down from the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors after this year. Two candidates, Jennifer Christensen and Das Williams, are vying for his seat.

We invite you to the Montecito Association’s First District Supervisorial Candidates Forum, on Friday, May 6, 4:30 pm at Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road, to learn about how these candidates would govern Montecito. Both will discuss their positions regarding community-based decision-making – to include land use, transportation, and water security – and how these impact Montecito.

The Montecito Association works hard on your behalf to maintain our gem in the Central Coast. We want to hear your voice – especially on critical issues.

We count on you to build Association membership and act as ambassador to your friends and neighbors to encourage them to join as well. Please feel free to contact me at budgora@netscape.net, membership chair Michele Saltoun, m.neely11@verizon.net, or Land Use chair Cori Hayman at corihayman@cox. net if you have any questions.

•MJ 28 April – 5 May 2016

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

SBDT Salts Away New Work

Joshua Beamish, founder of troupe MOVE, celebrates SB Dance Theater’s 40th anniversary (photo by Alex Brinson)

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oshua Beamish was just 17 when he founded the modern dance troupe MOVE: the company, in Vancouver, about a decade ago. He has since gone on to work with some of the most famous companies and dancers in several genres, including a recent high-profile collaboration with New York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan in “Restless Creature”. Now Beamish is not only choreographing a new piece for Santa Barbara Dance Theater’s (SBDT) 40th anniversary season, but also reprising a solo work he recently premiered in New York at SBDT’s May 4-5 concerts at the Lobero.

SBDT’s dancers will also perform “A Jointed Affair” by Emily Schoen, a member of Keigwin + Company that was in residence with DANCEworks Santa Barbara in 2010, and SBDT director Christopher Pilafian’s “Strange Attractor”, which premiered last winter.

Beamish talked about his work over the phone early this week.

Q. You’re creating a new work that’s about the impact of drought in the world.

How is that coming along?

A. It’s the first work I’ve ever made in California, so I wanted to look at something that’s happening here.

The drought is a real thing. What I found interesting was that as the temperature rises, the water levels also rise, but most of the new water is salt water, which we can’t drink.

That duality brought up the idea that we’re drowning in salt. But “Salt” also has the sense of how people are antagonizing each other, and how as resources run out and we’re forced to re-examine how to move forward in interpersonal relationships as a society.

How does that show up in the piece?

There’s a sharpness and an aggressive quality to a lot of the movement.

But there’s also a real vulnerability, as

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especially in the second movement.

These two pieces are wildly different.

It will be interesting for audiences to see these two aspects of my work side by side.

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

in a duet where the people have lost their ability to communicate with each other. It feels like we’re living in the most divided crazy times in history.

But we have to figure out a way as people to continue to function and work together and understand each other. That interests me much more than dehydrating dancers during the performance.

Has your relationship to the issue changed as you work through the piece?

It’s still so early in the process, and it’s hard to talk about a work now because I often don’t know what I’m making until it’s done. I’m just now in the excitement of seeing the dancers grow and change and building a relationship with them, and learning how I can best communicate what I need to find the best within them and bring it out. No matter what dance I’m making, it always filters down to the relationships between me and the dancers, on every level from psychological to movement. If the work speaks to global or universal themes, that’s an afterthought, a residue. It’s not what I feel as I’m making it.

Can you fill us in on the solo piece you will be performing?

It’s like an abstract self-portrait set to a Bach concerto. The music is very playful and flirtatious. So it’s been about creating a characterization through a physical vocabulary that reflects how the music plays with the listener. It’s lighter than most of what I’ve (created for) myself in the past, but it hints at deeper longings,

You just came from working with the Royal Ballet. How is it to veer between traditional and modern dance for you?

When I was over there, I had a moment of personal choreographic crisis, this weird feeling because I’d always felt like I was trying to push the envelope to make dance more creative than standard ballet. There were parts of Giselle that are the closest thing to classical ballet I’ve ever done. I had to come to terms with the fact that it’s in me, and it’s not any less valuable than movement I’m inventing. I’m starting to own the full range of my choreographic voice. I’m most satisfied when I find dancers who fully inhabit the pathways of my movement and are able to take risks.

Whether that’s a ballet or contemporary dancer, or a 50-year-old veteran, or a 9-year-old kid doesn’t matter. It’s what they’re giving back to the work.

More Dance

Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s “Ballet in Bloom” blends classical and contemporary ballet via new choreography from Valerie Huston, Aimee Lopez, and Denise Rinaldi, plus the timeless classic Pas De Quatre. The UCSB Freshman Dance Company, the Montecito School of Ballet, and the SBFB Young Performers serve as special-guest performers for the onenight-only show Saturday, April 30 at Center Stage Theater.

Mother Knows Best

It was not surprising that Jacquelyn De Longe had to cut short our interview last weekend when her call-waiting kept going off, an indication that her son’s first piano recital was about to start. Motherhood has its obligations, after all. But De Longe has also found a professional outlet for that role, as a writer and storyteller in

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Jacquelyn De Longe, producer of Expressing Motherhood, takes Center Stage

Expressing Motherhood, an ongoing The Moth-like show that offers ordinary people a chance to share their stories about maternity on stage.

De Longe first connected to Expressing Motherhood as a performer while she was still living in Los Angeles a few years ago. It turns out, her sister’s neighbor was one of the creators of the show. “I’d never acted or performed in any way and wasn’t even interested,” De Longe said, recalling the book club gathering where they met. “I’d always felt awkward. But she thought I’d be great because I had these really funny stories about parenthood. I’d find the comedy in it and talk in a self-deprecating manner. So, she invited me to write it up and send it in.”

De Longe found herself cast in three different productions of the show, spinning her tales about raising her children alongside fellow mothers and in front of appreciative audiences. “It was an amazing group of women who just got up and told our stories. I felt a real sense of community that I didn’t realize existed before. Before that, it had just been the ‘Mommy & Me’ thing, where nobody talked about the challenges, and that we’re real people outside of parenthood.”

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“We have young parents, older parents, an author talking about her own elderly mother, a couple of women taking about their older children passing through teenage years to young adults,” she said. “It’s not at all just toddlers, breast-feeding, and diaper changing. It’s a much bigger arc all about parenthood as a whole. It’s something grandparents and even men can relate to.”

De Longe didn’t cast herself this time around because of fear of overload, but did reveal that her tales “tend to gravitate toward stories that are taboo or at least uncomfortable, and I’m not that careful with what I say. But every time I tell them, someone comes up and thanks me for sharing it because it’s happened to them, too.”

It’s the camaraderie that has given the show its longevity, De Longe said.

“Everybody leaves feeling more connected and appreciative of their own role or their parents’. It’s a real community-building event. Motherhood is an experience that has touched all of us.”

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MacFarlane, Alexis Mattingly, and Mary Jane Baumgartner.

Not So Bad Despite the anti-Semitic tones of its title, the Ensemble Theatre Company’s latest New Vic production, Bad Jews, directed by Jonathan Fox, is an amusing comedic show by playwright Joshua Harmon.

The two hour intermission-free play centers on a cramped studio apartment on Manhattan’s Upper Westside, nicely evoked by scenic designer Charlie Corcoran, and the ballistic interaction between relatives over a Jewish artifact left by a grandfather, including a self-righteous Vassar student wonderfully played by Eden Malyn, and her cousin, the equally adept Adam Silver, who is supposedly staying the night with his shiksa (non-Jewish) girlfriend naively played

by Stephanie Burden.

Cory Kahane, as owner of the diminutive pad, rounds out the talented quartet.

In due course, Jonathan is taking the production to the English Theatre in Frankfurt which should be an interesting scenario, given German treatment of Jews in history.

But, as for the play, which runs through Sunday, much credit where it’s due.

Casa for Krista It was only appropriate when UCSB Arts & Lectures had a reception for Campbell Hall speaker, Peabody Award-winning NPR broadcaster, and National Humanities medalist Krista Tippett, that it should have been at the Center for Spiritual Renewal at

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Tippett, 55, whose show On Being is distributed to more than 400 radio stations nationally, was publicizing her latest book, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, in which she distills conversations she’s had with visionary scientists, theologians, poets, activists, and many others.

The event was moderated by the equally erudite British-born novelist Pico Iyer, who was educated at Eton – the Thames-side school near Windsor attended by princes William and Harry – Oxford and Harvard, who I last met at a fortunately fatwa-free bash for controversial author Salman Rushdie at the George Washington Smith estate of Robert and Gretchen Lieff.

Among those turning out for the party, hosted by Nancy Koppelman and Judy Anticouni, were Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Larry Koppelman, Celesta Billeci, Philip and Carolyn Wyatt, Robert and Siri Marshall, and Nancy McGrath.

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Fenton Lamb, stage director, is to be congratulated, as are the principals, soprano Maria Kanyova as Sister Angelica and bass baritone Stefano de Peppo in the lead role in Gianni Schicchi, who starred in Rossini’s The

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office last week, but the co-founder of the ex-Congressional staffers’ comedy troupe was still sounding chipper.

“I can’t be in a bad mood, because it’s a really great time to be in the political satire business,” she said.

“The only question is how to choose the best ones among the many gaffs that happen almost every day.”

It’s been a few years since Cap Steps last played the Lobero, but what better time for the return of the venerable political parodists – who got their start at a real Congressional office Christmas party way back more than three decades ago – than the crazy current climate of the presidential primary season a month before Californians head to the polls?

Newport won’t be at the Santa Barbara show on Monday night at the Lobero, though Cap Step members with more than a quarter-century of experience are on the bill. But she still maintains at least a hand in every song and skit they’ll be performing.

She gave us the skinny on the current show and the Cap Steps’ just-released latest album, What To Expect When You’re Electing.

Q. The country is more polarized now than ever, even more than during the Bush years. Does the idea of making fun of things that people are taking so seriously ever enter into the formula?

A. We’ve always said that what’s bad for the country is good for the Capitol Steps. (Laughs). Maybe at some point what’s bad for the country is just bad – I don’t know if we’ll ever get to that point. Right now, it seems pretty funny, because it’s still abstract that one of these people will actually win. Who knows? Maybe there will be a brokered convention, and somebody we never thought of will make it through.

How have you kept it going for 35 years?

Yeah, you’d think someday we’d run out of material because someday these politicians are going to be competent and actually solve some problems. But that hasn’t happened.

But things are always changing. We started the primary season with 17 Republican candidates. We couldn’t write a song about all 17, so we also did “76 Unknowns” (to the tune of The Music Man’s “76 Trombones”), our attempt to get the Lindsay Grahams and Martin O’Malleys into the show.

We did have separate Christy and Jeb songs and we loved them, so when they dropped out, that made us very sad.

Your songs are so ephemeral. Does it seem like as soon as you write a song, it’s out of date?

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from their new CD, Kundalini Morning Chants at Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 E. Arrellaga St. on Saturday, April 30 (7:30; $20) and return to play for Unity’s Sunday services.

Unity also hosts GuruGanesha Band’s 2016 Tour – Taking Mantra Music to New Heights – on Sunday evening, playing an “inspired new style of world-groovy mantra rock.”

Medicine Dance comes to Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Way, on Saturday afternoon, offering a continuously flowing stream of mindful movement, with a balance between guidance from the instructor and personal improvisation, in a three-hour dance class/workshop that features partner work and mindful touch, physical contact, and witnessing, in addition to the more personal practice of letting our body guide your movement. Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 at the door.

Political parodists Capitol Steps come to the Lobero on May 2

to happen with Trump. Way back last June, we wrote our first one, put it in our July 4 show and figured it would last two weeks or so before he got bored. We didn’t think he was serious. So sometimes, songs last longer than you’d think. Now we’ve got him in the show on many songs. Bernie’s very funny, too. He’s like that old man shouting, “Why is my VCR still blinking 12:00?” We’ve got his dream, “If There Were No Rich Men” (“If I Were a Rich Man”).

Our newest about Trump is “Trump Acres” (“Green Acres”), because the White House isn’t classy enough for him. So he’s going to bring in solid-gold toilet seats, huge marble desks the size of dump trucks. Stuff like that. And of course, Hillary gives us a chance to bring Bill back, which we just love! Hillary vs. Jeb would have been great, because then we could have brought back George W, too. Unfortunately, we had to get rid of “He’s Ready, He’s My Brother” (“He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother”), which was one of the saddest things we ever had to give up.

It seems like you’ve got a million of the puns and plays on words ready to go. What’s the process of songwriting for you?

You figure out the joke about the person, the main one – for Bernie, it’s railing against the rich. And being that he’s the first serious Jewish presidential candidate, it was perfect for Fiddler on the Roof. One of the fastest turnarounds was the new pope, who has been a lot of fun. When the white smoke came out and we found out he was elected, all we knew was that he was from Argentina. So we used “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”, because where else would we use it?

And we had it on the show the same

night. Now with all his controversial things since then, we keep updating it and it still works.

What’s the newest song in the repertoire?

It’s about what we heard was the most Googled phrase during the primaries: “How do I move to Canada?” So now our show closer is “O, Canada”... can we come live with you?” And we’ve got one on super-delegates to the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, but that may be moot before we even get to California. We had one about the FBI getting into the (terrorist’s) iPhone through the back door (“Looking Out My Backdoor”). Hillary’s latest is “Deleter of the Facts” (“Leader of the Pack”).

I know you don’t like to talk about your own politics, but do you have a favorite this year?

I’ve always said I’m an extreme moderate. But I guess I’m a Hillary person, because I’ve always dreamed of playing the president on stage. And she’s the only woman running.

Spiritual Matters in Music

It’s a weekend full of kirtan, chanting, and otherwise spiritual music, including two separate performances by Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda.

The pair are joined by the Saraswati Dream Band for an evening of “Kitronica” – electronica dance music combined with live Sanskrit/Indian mantra chanting – at a special Dance Tribe’s session on the last Friday of the month show at Gustavson Dance Studio (8:30 pm; $15). They also perform a mystical evening of celestial melodies and sacred mantras drawn

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The Westmont College Orchestra’s annual Concerto Concert, highlighting student soloists, takes place on campus on Thursday in town at First Presbyterian Church on Friday. Michael Shasberger conducts the concert featuring pianist Kennedy Hahn (Saint Saens’ Piano Concerto Movement No. 2), flutist Jessica Kozachuk (Faure’s “Fantasie” for Flute and Chamber Orchestra), soprano Meredith Mueller (Giacomo Meyerbeer ’s “Nobles Seigneurs Salut!” from “Les Huguenots”), violist Samantha Wilson (William Walton’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra movement No. 2 “Vivo, e molto preciso”), and pianist Aaron Wilk (Beethoven’s “Rondo” for Orchestra and Piano) serving as soloists.

Renée Fleming is the host for Elektra, Strauss’s blazing tragedy about an ancient Greek princess hellbent on revenge, in the final opera production by the legendary director Patrice Chéreau. The Met’s Live in HD presentation – which screens Saturday morning at Hahn Hall and the Arlington Theatre – is conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with a cast headed by Nina Stemme in her Met debut, Adrianne Pieczonka, Eric Owens, Waltraud Meier, and Burkhard Ulrich, the latter two making their Met debuts.

SB Music Club’s Saturday afternoon freebie at the Faulkner Gallery opens with pianist Marian Drandell Gilbert playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826, and Bartok’s From the Diary of a Fly, from “Mikrokosmos Vol. VI”, followed by soprano Takako Wakita and pianist Betty Oberacker performing “Songs

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Arriving for the performance of “OSB Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi” are A.C. Moore and Dolly Granatelli, with Donna and sheriff Bill Brown (photo by Priscilla)

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and Elaine Kendall, Roger and Sarah Chrisman, Dolly Granatelli, sheriff Bill Brown, Geoffrey and Joan Rutkowski, company director Steven Sharpe, president Sandy Urquhart, Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp, and Kate Firestone.

Leaving Las Varas One of the largest properties in our rarefied enclave, with two miles of ocean frontage, has just come on the market for $108 million.

Las Varas Ranch in Goleta encompasses about 1,800 acres and has a Spanish-style main house with unobstructed views of the Pacific, says owner Anita “Topsy” Doheny, whose late husband, Timothy, combined two adjacent parcels to create the ranch in the 1960s.

Timothy, who died in 2009, was the grandson of oil tycoon Edward Laurence Doheny.

The property, according to The Wall Street Journal, also includes a manager’s home from the early 1900s, several staff houses, two arenas, and various ranch buildings.

An owner could apply to build additional homes on the property, but development potential is limited.

In 2005, the Dohenys applied to Santa Barbara County for lot line adjustments and reconfiguration of the property to allow for more homes to be built near the ocean.

The application, which drew fierce opposition from local residents and conservationists who said it could pave the way for residential development, was denied in September.

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drive to the ranch from her home in Los Angeles is growing more taxing.

“Emotionally, I’m very attached to the property, but it’s getting to be too much.” She wants to find a buyer “like my husband, who would love it for what it is.”

The sale is being dealt with by Kerry Mormann of Berkshire Hathaway and Anthony Punnett of Douglas Elliman.

Human Touch The chemistry was palpable at the Alchemy Arts Café when more than 120 friends turned out to help celebrate the launch of Montecito author Michelle Ebbin’s latest tome, The Touch Remedy: Hands-On Solutions to De-Stress Your Life.

Michelle, a Columbia University graduate, has made six award-winning massage DVDs and created a number of original massage products.

“I’m amazed so many people turned up,” says the former ballet dancer and mother of three sons.

“I don’t think anyone declined!”

A portion of the book proceeds went to the City of Hope cancer organization. Well-wishers included Justine Roddick, Valerie Rice, Christina Rottman, Robin Snider, Monica Epstein, Sherry Villaneuva, and Daryl Stegall.

Michelle is now working on her next book project.

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SBMA Asian art curator Susan Tai with guest curator Pratapaditya Pal

Feinberg told us, “This is the first exhibition in North America to present the diverse art of India’s native religions and in the context of devotional practices.”

In addition, there was something special going on in the Ludington Court – a 26-feet-long inflatable sculpture called Paranirvana (Self-Portrait) done by Lewis deSoto. It was based on the 12th-century Buddha at Gal Vihara in Sri Lanka. In keeping with the Hindu philosophy (prevalent in yoga), it “breathes in” each morning when the industrial fan is plugged in and “breathes out” when turned off at night.

I went into Ludington Court to take a picture of the Buddha, but there was a man in front of it wiping it off. I asked him to move away and he obliged. I took my picture. Later with my PR gal’s help, we went to get the artist’s photo. You guessed it: the man I asked to move was Lewis. I said, “You didn’t tell me you were the artist.” He replied, “You didn’t ask!”

I should have known. The face of the Buddha is a self-portrait.

Elisabeth Atkins curator of Asian art at the museum is Susan Tai. Nearly seven years in the works, Tai garnered the help of guest curator Pratapaditya Pal, who is the Indian art expert of the United States.

Some SBMA members enjoying libations and bites on the front entrance to the museum were Susan Bowey, Mary Dorra, Lorna Hedges, Narendra and Rita Parson, Helene Segal and George Konstantinow, Clay Tedeschi, Natalia and Michael Howe, Julie Joyce curator of contemporary art, Starr Siegele, Marlena and Tony Handler, and Rosalind Amorteguy Fendon.

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86th Fashion Show

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SBWC models: Laurie Foster, Judy Shough, Claudia Alphin, Jane Gorbet, Pat Hooser, and Terry Fountain

Michele Malony and then sat back with Natasha Boutique and owner Natasha Airisto commentating about her fashions.

Six member models strutted their stuff: Claudia Alphin, Laurie Foster, Terry Fountain, Jane Gorbet, Pat Hooser, and Judy Shough with fashion show chair Sue Ziliotto telling us a bit of personal history about each. At the grand piano was Fredrik Rosvall.

Others working to make it a memorable afternoon were ways and means chair Louise Russell, committee members Maria Parisotto, Suzy Pelovsky, and Rita Zandona. A shout-out to president CeCe Hozman-Hugunin.

Thanks also go to John Ziliotto and Rockwood staff Sue Graff and Marty Betancourt.

Historically, the SBWC was founded in 1892 to advance cultural development of its members. They met in various homes. In 1908, they built their clubhouse at 1419 Anacapa Street, known today as the Dolores Center.

In 1925, they sold the property to the Catholic Church and met in the Lobero.

In 1927, the Rockwood Inn burned to the ground with a loss of $60,000.

The rooms had been $15 per week and the American plan for eating was $5 per day. Such a deal! When the SBWC club president and her husband were driving by the fire site, she thought the property perfect for her club. They put $1,000 down until she could talk to her board members. They approved the plan and the clubhouse opened in 1928.

In 1924, the club was having growing pains so they hired the original architect Joseph Plunkett, who also designed the Arlington Theatre.

He added the garden room, flower

employed for decades. We have a 93-percent employment rate upon graduation.” There have been 679 graduates since 1997 and 43 in 2015.

This couldn’t be done without the donor support.

Rolf told us that SBRM is the only emergency shelter in our area. Last year, they served 145,078 meals and gave safe overnight accommodations to 54,239. There were also 177 recovery program residents and 75 outpatient treatment clients.

Then John Beck told us his personal story starting at age six, when his alcoholic father was holding his mother up by her neck and hitting her in the stomach. John thought he was going to kill her and ran choking down the hall to his sister. At age 12, he began to drink. At 16, he was using crack, by 18 it was heroin, which his aunt and uncle died from. His best friend and he had a gun, and the friend accidentally shot himself in the head and died right beside John.

John blamed God but finally stopped using, got married, had two

John Beck (center) with his boys, Bryan and Billy, at the SBRM luncheon

room, storage room, and remodeled the kitchen. Mrs. Sam Stanwood gave the club the adjoining property, which is now the parking lot.

SBWC’s guest book is full of celebrity guest speaker names such as Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ray Bradbury, and Vincent Price. For club membership today, call Nanci Elliott at 683-5373. For club rentals, the number is 682-4546.

Celebrating Partnership “No one else wanted me except the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission (SBRM),” said John Beck at the recent donor appreciation luncheon given by the SBRM at the First Presbyterian Church hall.

Board member Ed Wimberly, 10-year board chair Karl Willig, and president Rolf Geyling welcomed some 200 folks to the seventh annual thank-you luncheon. The men expressed how they couldn’t maintain the $2-million-plus budget without these donations. Karl explained, “Many of our graduates haven’t been

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children, then divorced. More crack and heroin and prison for three years.

In his cell, he finally found God. Then his wife began using drugs again, so the boys were with the grandparents.

The happy ending is, John graduated from SBRM in 2013 and has sole custody of his boys. After 25 years of addiction, they live as a family in Goleta, and John is going to college and working at SBCC. He certainly deserved the standing ovation he received. The boys were with him.

Trish Geyling closed the program by playing the guitar and singing “Amazing Grace”. Women’s auxiliary president Andrea Preiser ended with a prayer. The SBRM vision statement is: We envision people who are experiencing the love of God, Becoming healthy, Living as productive citizens, Rebuilding relationships, and Leading others to recovery.

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From Around the World,” featuring works by Dvorák, Grieg, and others, and closing with the traditional folksong Sakura (Cherry Blossoms, Theme and Variations on the Sakura Melody), arranged by Michio Miyagi, joined by the Koto Players, who play traditional Japanese instruments. The program concludes with the spirited Six Bagatelles by György Ligeti, performed by the Sonos Montecito Woodwind Quintet.

The 2nd annual Schubertiade takes place at the intimate Stewart Hall, on the Music Academy of the West campus, at the same time on Saturday afternoon (3 pm). Pianists Christopher Davis, Robert Hale, and Allen Bishop are joined by tenor Bryan Lane for a program of Schubert’s Impromptu, D. 899 No. 3, and Fantasie for Piano 4 Hands, D 94, and Debussy’s Six Epigraphs antiques, L. 131 and other works. The chamber music and pastries event is a fundraiser for the Mental Wellness Center and the Parkinson’s Association.

Timothy Chooi, who just performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Santa Barbara Symphony in April, returns to the area with his older brother, Nikki, for a Chamber On The Mountain recital in Ojai on Sunday afternoon. The Chooi Brothers are joined by pianist Robert Koenig at the Logan House for a program of works by Prokofiev, Ravel, Saint-Saens, and Sarasate, plus a fiery encore of Monti’s Czardas for two violins.

Finally, Yuja Wang, the gifted still young (29) Chinese pianist who previously performed two solo recitals at Hahn Hall, brings her deep musical insight, brilliant technique, and charismatic stage presence to the Granada, where she’ll play Brahms’s Ballades, op. 10, nos. 1 and 2; Schumann’s Kreisleriana, op. 16; and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) on Monday evening in a UCSB A&L concert.

4Qs with the Host of Price is Right Live!

The incredibly popular shopping game show first hit the road for what was supposed to be a one-off, fourshow stand in Reno back in 2004. But fans wanted more, and now The Price is Right Live! has been touring for five straight years and is headed to the Arlington Theatre for one show only on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 pm We caught up with host Todd Newton, who began doing his version of Bob Barker on those original Reno dates.

Q. Were you a big The Price is Right fan before you got the gig?

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of the game-show mountain. It’s been a part of our culture for more than 40 years. Who didn’t spend all of our sick days with Bob Barker? Or find yourself whistling the theme song throughout the day? So now, I just love being the host and getting to share the moment when someone wins a nice bunch of cash, or a new kitchen appliance, or even a car.

How does the touring show differ from what we see on TV? Not much at all. We’ve got all the great games: Cliffhangers, Plinko, the Big Wheel. But we don’t have to keep to a strict one-hour time period. So, we can get even more favorites in our show. We choose all of our contestants at random and get more people on stage. Other than that, the authenticity of the show is our number-one priority. We just try to deliver what people want.

Your best moments from the tour?

I’m 6’3” and 220 pounds. But I’ve been picked up, spun around, tackled, and kissed more than anyone. Just the other night, a guy who couldn’t have been more than 5’ 2” picked me up and carried me halfway across the stage, and the audience loved it. I can always see that look in a contestant’s eye when they’re planning something like that, and I’m usually happy to let them do it because it makes them so happy.

Were you ever a contestant on a game show?

I won on Hollywood Squares, so that was great, and I also won a trip to Puerto Vallarta on The Dating Game, but with a young lady who clearly didn’t want to go with me. So, we just took the cash.

•MJ

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$350,000 for major building improvements at the school.

Nikki Greene and Pam Sanchez were auction-chairs when auctioneer Jo Graham sold off 15 lots, including a weekend in Solvang, a seven-day private jet trip to Las Vegas, a week in a choice of several resorts in Mexico, a helicopter weekend in West Hollywood at the London Hotel, and gold jewelry from Silverhorn, the Coast Village Road bling emporium.

Among those noshing on the braised chicken Provencal, apple pie, and crème brulée from Pure Joy Catering were Peter Hilf, Susan Jordano, Andrew and Kim Busch, David Borgatello, Jennifer Smith Hale, Peter Douglas, Kirk and CeCe Borchardt, and Deborah Bettencourt.

Blue Star Parking, which donated their services, did a wonderful job dealing with the gathered throng.

From A to Sea A striking submarine-inspired cruiser, A, owned by Russian industrialist Andrey Melnichenko, which has visited our tony town a number of times, has reportedly gone on the market for a not inconsiderable $300 million.

The 44-year-old oligarch, who made his billions in banking, energy, and mining, is replacing it with his grander, $450-million, 468-foot sailing yacht

A, which I wrote about in this illustrious organ last year. It accommodates 20 guests and has a crew of 54.

With three swimming pools, including one with a glass floor, luxurious cabins, and an unconventional design that has proven to be somewhat controversial, the 390-foot motor yacht A is one of the 25 largest super-yachts in the world.

Both vessels were designed by Frenchman Philippe Starck.

Belarus-born Melnichenko, who tours the world with his wife, Aleksandra, a former model and pop star from Serbia, also owns a customized Boeing 737 private jet, a villa on the French Riviera, a New York penthouse, and a sprawling estate near Ascot, England.

His new eight-deck mega-yacht has masts that are nearly 330 feet tall, plus an underwater observation room.

Easy to spot when it eventually moors here, as it will undoubtedly will.

Fond Farewell On a personal note, I remember the Fuchsia Funkster, Prince, who has died at the all-too-early age of 57.

I vividly remember meeting the 5’2” Minneapolis rocker when the late artist Andy Warhol, who was a near neighbor on Manhattan’s East 66th Street, taped him performing for his

for the film Purple Rain, when he did the original soundtrack.

An eccentric but thoroughly talented performer, who will be much missed by his fans.

Sightings: Actress Julia Roberts and husband, Danny Moder, noshing at Opal....Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow lunching at the Alchemy Arts Cafe...Wisconsin governor Scott Walker sashaying on State Street Pip! Pip! Prince, rest in peace (photo by Yves Lorson)

eponymous TV channel at the Ritz in New York in 1980.

The flamboyant singer went on to sell more than 100 million records, winning seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar in 1984

Readers with tips, sightings, and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon,net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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At the Wheel The French Collection

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by Randy Lioz

1930 Bugatti Type 46 Cabriolet

ure, you’ve been to a few automotive museums. You love the Petersen and its diverse collection of hundreds of cars in more than 100,000 square feet, plus its semi-exclusive basement vault.

This is not that kind of museum.

In fact, this may be unlike any other

car museum in the country. The Mullin Automotive Museum, established in 2010, is borne of one man’s passion for a specific subset of cars. The good news is, it’s a spectacular subset.

Peter Mullin’s collection consists largely of French automobiles from the Art Deco period of the 1920s and

IMPACT INVESTING

by Dr. Peter Brill M.D.

Finding Passion and Purpose

I

“retired” early. I began an exploration of this gift of time I had been given and had given to myself.

How could I use it wisely? I wanted to study how people did well in this new, largely unexplored stage of life, which I later called the Third Age. What I discovered was that people in this stage of life, beyond wanting good health, desire, passion, purpose, and joy or happiness. When I spoke to groups, I asked them if they had passion and purpose in their lives.

Ten to 20 percent had passion and 20 to 30 percent had purpose. Studies suggest that having these, along with happiness, extends life some seven to eight years. Interestingly, the same yearnings and percentages seem to apply, possibly even more strongly, to people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, even if they were working.

To skip ahead in the story, it was not an easy task to help people find passion and purpose. For those who weren’t working, it largely led into volunteerism and philanthropy. They could have bucket lists that created a sense of adventure or making up for what they had missed, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. But real purpose comes from a deeper connection to something larger than self-gratification and, to a certain

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extent, so does passion. I served on boards and committees of nonprofits, gave money, joined spiritual organizations and, with my background in organizations, even served on the executive committee of two organizations dedicated to helping nonprofits.

My search for passion and purpose was frustrated by how little my talents were used, how little difference I could make, and how these organizations were often crippled by how much time and effort was spent just trying to raise enough money to survive. I left the world of nonprofits discouraged. And it didn’t look much better in the for-profit world. Studies showed that between 80 to 90 percent of working people feel alienated from their work. No wonder young people also felt the yearning. I had all but given up.

Conscious Capitalism

Then, through a circuitous route, I discovered the field of impact investing. But before I tell you more about why that opened the door for me to passion and purpose, I want to talk about fundamental exchange.

Way back at the dawn of agriculture, one farmer had too many eggs and another had too many potatoes. They

‘30s, though the museum is actually about more than just cars. The interior décor of the Mullin reflects the aesthetic of this glamorous age, with even the elevator festooned in period-reflective ornamentation – though the building happens to be fully modern, with solar roof panels and a LEED Gold certification.

And the collection even includes period art and furniture, plus a bar reclaimed from 1920s-era Chicago, so you can imagine the barkeep sliding an illicit cocktail across it toward Al Capone himself.

This commitment to the many aspects of the era led Autoweek magazine to rate the Mullin as one of the top five automotive museums in the country in 2012.

The museum unveiled its Cars & Carriages exhibit two weeks ago, highlighting the transition between horse power and “horsepower,” including a celebration of the commonality between the two eras that stems from the coach-building tradition of early automobiles. The very same craftsmen who assembled horse-drawn coaches before motorization lent their workmanship and styling touch to the new

“horseless carriages.”

In light of this occasion, I headed down to Oxnard with my friend Jason Austin, a Santa Barbara-area farrier (he gives horses their fancy footwear), for a tour of the museum led by head docent Warner Hall.

Hall started with a little background on Mullin and his collection. While there are only around 50 cars on display in the building, Peter Mullin’s assemblage comprises more than 150 cars, many stashed in various storage facilities around the county. He also chairs the board of directors at the Petersen, so Mullin – the man—is one of the leaders of the community of enthusiasts who strive to protect the world’s automotive heritage.

This extensive collection allows for some great variety, even within the narrow category that he has embraced, so Hall says that whenever he’s away from the museum for any period of time, he always looks around for “what’s left and what’s new,” after regular collection rotations.

The first car that he chose to highlight is the oldest motorcar in the Mullin collection, a 1902 Panhard & Levassor Type B1, which Hall called

exchanged some eggs for some potatoes, and both were better off. As long as the “spirit” of that exchange is free and fair, the world is a better place for both. If someone grows oranges and corners the market, and no one can get vitamin C without an unfair exchange, it still is commerce; but, it no longer carries that same “spirit.” Goodness is goodness and exploitation is exploitation. They don’t feel the same – and greed and exploitation certainly don’t provide purpose through meaning, and the passion they bring also carries a kind of darkness.

Impact investing consciously and deliberately wires, in a real way, the desire to do social good with the fair exchange. The old saying is: give a person a fish and he or she eats tonight, teach them to fish and they will eat every night. Well, help transform the fishing industry and lots of people will eat, and the ecology of the world will improve.

That is impact investing.

Elevar went one level up from the poorest of the poor. They created a fund to start banks that make loans to people to pay for tuition and to buy homes, streamlined the process so the rates could be cut significantly on the loans, and created successful banks all over India and Mexico. The repayment rate was very high and the banks made money, proving to other banks that this was a viable, new market.

To date, some 300 million loans have been made, and the market has been transformed. The money finds its way down from the poor to the poorest because they hire them and buy their products. No government or pure philanthropic program, to my knowledge, has been this successful.

All the while, investors in the fund make 18 to 20% IRR.

Microloans and Small Banks

Elevar Equity is a good example. We all know about microloans. Money is lent in small amounts to poor people who can start little businesses and mostly repay the money. The problem is that the small amounts to the very poorest of the poor don’t commonly work to alter the path of their lives. It raises them somewhat, but soon many settle back to where they were before. At least that is what the studies seem to show.

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Be a Part of It

I have spent a year and a half studying and investing in impact investing.

I am excited, because I see an open door to doing good, finding purpose, working with amazing people, all while creating passion in my life. You can play almost any role you want when doing impact investing: from board member to mentor, doing the due diligence to training CEOs. I finally was participating in a field that was truly creating significant change.

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“the Start of the Art.” This car, and its “Système Panhard”, provided a new formula for automotive layout, with the front-mounted engine driving the rear wheels. It also had a steering wheel rather than a tiller, and a pedal and gear level layout that would make it much more familiar to modern drivers than other cars of its age.

This particular car was restored about a quarter-century ago, and it won the prestigious Charles A. Chayne Trophy at Pebble Beach last year, which celebrates vehicles with the most advanced engineering for their particular era.

Hall pointed out many of the other cars in the collection from various historic French brands, such as Voisin, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago, and HispanoSuiza (this one doesn’t sound French, but the company started producing its most extravagant models in Paris in the early 1900s). Many of the most valuable models, however, hail from that most storied Italian-cum-French brand, Bugatti.

In fact, Mullin has a great relationship with the Bugatti family, says Hall.

The company itself is, of course, now under the control of the Volkswagen empire, but the family are still stewards of their own legacy.

That legacy extends beyond cars, with the Bugatti clan originally making its name in the art world. Ettore Bugatti’s father, Carlo, was a prominent designer of furniture, jewelry, and even musical instruments. The museum has on display many pieces from Carlo’s workshop, including some furniture with captivating inlay work. It also has some sculpture from Ettore’s brother Rembrandt Bugatti.

That artistic family tradition drove Ettore to incorporate into his cars some of the most beautiful design in the automotive world, and the marque is still celebrated for its stunning aesthetics.

One of these stunners that Hall pointed out was the Type 46 Cabriolet, ornamented with such detail that even its powerplant is adorned with an 28 April – 5 May 2016

engine scraping technique that, he says, required “a bazillion hours” of work, despite being a relatively invisible part of the design.

This car is a great example of Mullin and his wife, Merle, not only restoring their cars to full glory, but also customizing them with flourishes that, while not original, are in keeping with the type of design work that would have been executed in their heyday.

The couple had the T46 upholstered with a custom woven deerskin that complements the wood-festooned dash beautifully.

And the Mullins will go to extremes sometimes to realize their design vision on a car. Hall even recounted a story of Mullin buying an entire herd of buffalo to be able to upholster one of his Hispano-Suizas with the rare hide.

Some of the more stunning sights in the museum are cars for which the word “patina” is a vast understatement. Tucked into the rear of the hall is a row of unrestored cars from the Schlumpf reserve collection, a haul of vehicles seized by the French government from a couple of bankrupt textile magnate brothers.

Around the corner sits “The Lady in the Lake”, a 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia that had resided at the bottom of an Italian lake for 75 years. Much of the car had melted away by the time it was raised, but when they drilled into the engine to ensure there wasn’t water sloshing around inside, they found a crankcase full of the original oil, said Hall.

I could fill countless more pages with the wonders that abound at the Mullin, but instead I advise you to check it out yourself. Although make sure you plan ahead. The museum is open only two Saturdays per month, and you must buy tickets ahead of time. The tickets are $15 – with various discounts available – and the views are priceless.

Visit mullinautomotivemuseum.com for schedule information and to buy tickets.

•MJ

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ORDINANCE NO. 5744

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE THE LAND PURCHASE AGREEMENT, ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS, AND GRANT DEED FOR THE SALE OF CERTAIN CITY EXCESS LAND, LOCATED AT 221 WEST COTA STREET, TO SARINTHA BELL IN THE AMOUNT OF $701,550

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE THE LAND PURCHASE AGREEMENT, ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS, AND GRANT DEED FOR THE SALE OF CERTAIN CITY EXCESS LAND, LOCATED AT 230 WEST COTA STREET, TO ASHLEY NICOLE MINES AND BRAD TRAVIS MOORE IN THE AMOUNT OF $736,032

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 19, 2016.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on April 19, 2016.

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

/s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager

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Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 19, 2016, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 20, 2016. /s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 20, 2016.

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was introduced on April 12, 2016, and was adopted by the

was introduced on April 12, 2016, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

April 19, 2016, by the following roll call vote:

April 19, 2016, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

ABSENT:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

on April 20, 2016.

on April 20, 2016. /s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Matthew Fore Acting City Clerk Services Manager

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I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 20, 2016.

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Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

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April 20, 2016. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

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original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20160001112. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JCS Estates, 4791 8th St. #1, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

John Starks, 4791 8th St. #1, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk

of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20160001148. Published April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are

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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, May 10, 2016, 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 appeal filed by Pete Dal Bello, and the appeal filed by Jarrett Gorin on behalf of Natasha Todorovic and Santos Guzman, of the Planning Commission’s denial at a public hearing on March 17, 2016 of the appeal filed by Pete Dal Bello of the Staff Hearing Officer’s approval of an application for a Medical Marijuana Storefront Collective Dispensary located at 118 North Milpas Street. The project includes operations and security plans, interior floor plan improvements, and minor exterior alterations and landscaping for the existing commercial building. The discretionary application required for this project is a Storefront Collective Dispensary Permit (SBMC §28.80.030). The Environmental Analyst has determined that the project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15301(a).

If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Planning Commission's decision 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, May 5, 2016, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov/CAP. 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.

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 P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Published April 27, 2016 Montecito Journal

doing business as: W-3 International Realty, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Robert Pavloff, 1482 E. Valley Rd #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 17, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20160000843. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as:

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Sequel Salon, 1187 Coast Village Road #3A, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Fabian Hernandez, 4531 Oak Glen Driven #C, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2016. 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. 20160001037. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Honey B, 209 W.

Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Katie Belanger, 209 W. Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 7, 2016.

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 Tania Paredes Sadler. FBN No. 20160001046. Published April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Memorial Services; SB Memorial Services, 315 Meigs Road Suite A392, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. SB Memorial Services, LLC, 315 Meigs Road Suite A392, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 10, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2016-0000748. Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goodland Signs, 375 Pine Ave #20, Goleta, CA 93117.

Paul Strickland, 716 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2016. 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0000951. Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Adama, 2304 Shelby Street, Summerland, CA 93067.

Diana Arrieta, 2304 Shelby Street, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 9, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that

this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20160000726.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexthome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463.

Steven Corl Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 30, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 20160000964.

Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nexthome Preferred Properties, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463.

Decker Realty, INC, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 29, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2016-0000963. Published April 6, 13, 20, 27, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01409.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Nery Reyes filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Benji Adrian Lopez to Benji Adrian Sanchez. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition

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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 13, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Isaiah Klein filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Isaiah Mbira Ram Klein to Yitzhak Bira Vanara. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 5, 2016 by Terri Chavez.

Hearing date: June 1, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01350.

To all interested parties: Petitioners Elizabeth Foscue and Bryan Boyd filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing names from Elizabeth Ellen Foscue to Elizabeth Ellen FoscueBoyd and Bryan Frederick Boyd to Bryan Frederick Foscue-Boyd and name of child from Caroline Mary Foscue Boyd to Caroline Mary Foscue-Boyd. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely

filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 12, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 15, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01309.

To all interested parties: Petitioners Jane Ann Gonzalez and Alfredo Gonzalez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Peter Daniel Gonzalez to Peter Daniel Humpreys.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed April 6, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: May 25, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV00954.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Mohammed Azam filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Abraham Mohammed Azam. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Hearing date: May 18, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 16)

A 1921 Spanish farmhouse is on the 19th annual Home & Garden Tour, hosted by Carpinteria Beautiful. The event is Saturday, April 30, from 11 am to 5 pm.

what is becoming clearer to me is that Carpinterians focus less on square footage and more on ‘living’ spaces,” she explained.

Also on tour: on Church Lane, a mid-century modern home that isn’t limited by its location in a beach community. “It makes a bold style statement that is fresh and exciting, with clean lines, innovative materials, a wall of windows, and soaring ceiling heights. It’s furnished with pops of lively colors,” Mager said. “This house is a true showstopper.” The home is set to be featured in an upcoming edition of DWELL magazine.

Two homes with historic roots are on the tour: a remodeled 1926 Spanishstyle house and a fully restored 1921 Spanish farmhouse, which are both close to downtown. Both original Joe Hendy houses, the homes are credited with setting the tone and influencing the charming style of building for the

Carpinteria Valley in the early 1920s.

While the 1926 Spanish-style home has been updated and expanded, many architectural features, such as arched entryways and custom builtins remain, and the current owners, avid fine antique collectors, display their treasures throughout the interior and exterior of the house. The 1921 farmhouse is set on a 2.5-acre property, featuring an abundance of mature trees and more than150 avocado trees.

It is at this home that cookies and lemonade will be served, and musician Rick Reeves will provide entertainment.

Lastly, a Shepard Mesa home will provide guests with expansive views of the Carpinteria foothills and peeks of the ocean. The 3,500-sq-ft, multi-level home was built in the mid-1980s and has recently been redone with Japanese-inspired décor. “Guests will be inspired by the homeowners’ use of space in a non-traditional way that enhances their Carpinteria lifestyle,” Mager said.

Ticket holders are encouraged to create their own journey and experience, with the day-long event giving plenty of time to also explore downtown shops and restaurants, many of which will be offering special deals to ticket holders.

Carpinteria Beautiful is a non-profit organization and donations are

tax-deductible. All proceeds benefit Carpinteria Beautiful’s many community enhancement projects throughout the year.

Tickets for the tour cost $30 and include a map of the homes and their descriptions. The tour is 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 30. To purchase tickets or to learn more about the tour, please visit the Carpinteria Beautiful website: www.carpinteriabeautiful. org.

Montecito Union Carnival

Last weekend’s MUS carnival went off without a hitch: hundreds of kids and their parents turned out for a sunny day of old-fashioned fun with rides, activities, bounce houses, a

bake sale, raffle prizes, entertainment, and much more. Numbers are still being calculated, but it’s expected that around $50,000 was raised for the many programs that MUS PTA helps fund.

•MJ

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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

Poor Billy

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oday’s offering is a lesson in literature. We are going to consider a classic poem by a forgotten author named Harry Graham. Here it is, in its entirety: Billy, in one of his nice new sashes Fell into the fire, and was burned to ashes.

Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven’t the heart to poke poor Billy.

It may surprise you to know that this tasteless gem appeared as long ago as 1901 (in a book called Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes – showing that “Dark humor” is no new phenomenon.) But then, how long is it since little boys (or little girls, for that matter) actually wore sashes?

The sash appears in this poem, presumably only so that “sashes” might provide a rhyme for “ashes.”

But, since we are lamenting his dreadful fate, poor Billy’s garb recalls that of the world-famous dancer Isadora Duncan, whose own demise was caused by a long sash or scarf she was wearing about her neck, which somehow became entangled in a wheel of the motor car in which she was riding. I learned about this bizarre 1927 accident while doing research for my book on the social effects of the automobile, The Great Car Craze. I found that cars could and did kill and injure people in many strange ways. (Hand-cranking of the Model T, for example, led to many broken wrists.) But Isadora’s was a rare case of “auto-strangulation.”

And it didn’t surprise me to learn that the author of this epic was English – because I have my own memories of domestic life in what Shakespeare called “this other Eden,” where in most houses the only heating even in the coldest weather was provided by something, usually coal, which you burned in a “fireplace.” Older people, or those who live in old houses, may know all about it, but this whole concept must seem strange to many today, especially here in California, where a fireplace may still be incorporated into newer houses, mainly for its decorative effect.

But even in the years after World War II, which was when my family returned to England, after having 28 April – 5 May 2016

spent the war years comfortably on this side of the Atlantic, home-heating over there was always a major subject of conversation. And coal – yes, actual lumps of that black dirty stuff, which you will find it hard to locate even a piece of today in Santa Barbara – was delivered to your house in large loads, which then had to be stored, often outside in “coal-sheds,” from which you, often shiveringly, carried it in “coal scuttles” to your fireplace as needed. There was indeed a whole coal culture, which, with the comfort and fascination of glowing coals, did indeed have its cheery side (as attested by Dickens and many other writers of that era) but, of course, also had its dangers.

Which brings us back to poor Billy.

Although there were “screens” and various other protective devices, an open fire in the family living-space was always a serious hazard, particularly with the presence of small children. But I wonder how many of today’s children (or even adults) would understand that last line about “poking” Billy – or have ever seen an actual poker. This device was a stiff metal rod, which you used to “poke” the pieces of coal (or wood) in your fire to alter their positions, and get them to burn better and give off more heat.

A poker was only one of a whole set of implements with which any decent fireplace was equipped.

These included a bellows (to “fan the flames”), tongs, and little brooms and shovels (since, when the fire was out, the ashes still had to be dealt with).

You may wonder if the fireplace poker we are discussing had anything to do with the game of poker.

I would love to be able to say that the card game was originally played around a fire, and that the holder of the losing hand became the “Poker,” who had the job of poking the fire to keep it going. But I almost haven’t the heart to tell you that there is no connection at all between the two words.

However, if it’s any consolation, you may like to know that Poor Billy’s creator, Harry Graham, did have one child of his own, a daughter named Virginia, who must have been carefully protected from all fires and other mishaps, since she lived to be 83.

•MJ

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Reviving a Culture – Shen Yun, the New York City-based ensemble that performs classical Chinese dance, ethnic and folk dance, and story-based dance, with orchestral accompaniment on both Chinese and Western instruments, is back at the Granada just two years after making its Santa Barbara debut at the same venue. The troupe was founded 10 years ago by practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline to revive Chinese culture that dates back 5,000 years but has come under attack by the Chinese Communist Party government. The current show aims to take the audience back to when China was known as “the Land of the Divine”, a place of heroes and sages, dragons and phoenixes, emperors and immortals. Shen Yun uses colorful costumes, elaborately and meticulously staged numbers, and lots of narration to recreate the spirit of this “lost civilization,” creating what many have called both a stunning visual and emotional experience.

These three shows in Santa Barbara close out the current tour of California and the West. WHEN: 8 tonight, 2 & 7:30 pm tomorrow WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $60-$150 INFO: 899-2222/www. granadasb.org or (800) 880-0188/ www.shenyunperformingarts.org/ santa-barbara

Periné Colombian Pop – Tess Shows It All to You – Tess Kriegman is a graduating senior and Visual Arts & Design Academy (VADA) student at Santa Barbara High School who will be attending Pratt Institute in the fall. But before she heads on down the road, Kriegman – who is the daughter of Santa Barbara writer Mitchell Kriegman of Clarissa Explains it All for You fame – is enjoying the first solo exhibition by a teenage artist hosted by Art From Scrap Gallery. Self Surveillance, described by show curator Kai Tepper as “a collective narrative on the introspective human experience,” delineates Krieger’s maturity as an artist, which Tepper said is “reflected in the content of her work as she explores topics of sexuality, identity, and loss of innocence in ways that are viscerally raw and vulnerable.”

Even while still in high school, Tess has completed a number of art mentorships, internships, and collegelevel work study programs, including the Arts Fund’s Teen Arts Mentorship, San Francisco Arts Institute’s Summer Art Program, and Life Drawing with Bob Mask, as well as serving as studio assistant to many artists. Tonight’s opening/reception of Self Surveillance coincides with VADA’s own Spring Art Show at the Community Arts Workshop located a block away. Kriegman and many other talented young artists will be showing their work in the

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Hootenanny Hangover – It was more than 15 years ago that the members of the band now known as Poor Man’s Whiskey (PMW) first started playing together as students at UCSB. A decade-and-a-half later and now based in Northern California, the outlaw music bards continue their outsized ways, offering a “High-Octane Hootenanny” in clubs and on theater and festival stages across the land. PMW’s fusion of bluegrass and old-time country music with southern rock, some swing, a bit of funk, an even some prog-rock chord changes, plus a decided jam band ethos results in a foot-stompin’ good time that makes their stage concerts a lot more lively than their albums. Not that the records aren’t worthy; PMW’s seven studio albums include 2009’s cleverly titled Dark Side of the Moonshine, a double-disc set featuring original music, as well as their inimitable bluegrass interpretation of the classic Pink Floyd album), plus the earlier efforts Roadside Attraction (2005), Train to California (2003), and Hunnerd Proof (2002).

Whiskey Under the Bridge, which came out last year, is the latest collection, but forget all that and go see ‘em live tonight at SOhO, just 10 miles or so from where it all began. WHEN: 9:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $13 in advance, $17 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Go Go to Jojo – Ghanaian afrobeat and jazz singer-songwriter Jojo Abot has been described with a variety of adjectives that don’t always go together: hypnotic, sultry, vulnerable, and empowering. But that just might be because Abot’s oeuvre – which comprises an experimental blend of electronica, Afrobeat, jazz, neo-soul, house, and reggae – is delivered with raw emotion at the heart of the four-track project that centers on a woman’s right to choose and comes from the generational ties that bind the women in her family together. Abot makes her Santa Barbara debut in the intimate MultiCultural Center Theater at UCSB. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: University Center Room 1504 COST: $15 general, $5 UCSB students and children under 12 INFO: 893-2064 or www.mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/events

annual exhibition at 631 Garden Street during the same hours (www. vadasbhs.org.) WHEN: Opening reception 5-8 tonight; exhibit continues through Friday, May 13 WHERE: Art From Scrap Gallery, 302 E. Cota St. COST: free INFO: 884-0459 or www. exploreecology.org/art-from-scrapsanta-barbara.php SUNDAY, MAY 1 Raconteur Returns – Humor writer/radio personality David Sedaris’s visits to the Arlington under the aegis of UCSB Arts & Lectures are as regular as clockwork – you could set your podcast by them. By now, the evenings with the diminutive “literary rock star” have become the stuff of legend – excerpts from Sedaris’s bestselling books abut snippets of not-yet-published writing and other anecdotes, all delivered with his sardonic wit intact. The satire and other forms of incisive social critiques seem to enthrall listeners in person even more than the tales do over the radio, where Sedaris is a fixture on the show This American Life. As always, stick around after the show for his book signing, which has become something of a saga in itself (some fans have found themselves the subjects of later stories). WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $25-$45 INFO: 8933535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. edu or 963-4408/www.ticketmaster. com/venue/73731 Get Your Phil – CAMA’s annual concert featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic – which was the first orchestra ever to play the series in Santa Barbara and has returned every year since nearly a century ago – is an afternoon affair this time around. Guest conducting is

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the young Czech maestro Jakub Hruša who is former music director and chief conductor of the Prague Philharmonia, chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony, and a regular guest conductor of the world’s leading orchestras. Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, no stranger to Santa Barbara through his frequent recitals, appearances as a soloist, and guest faculty slots at the Music Academy of the West’s Summer Festival, is the soloist for Edvard Grieg’s Concerto in A minor, Op.16. (The French pianist known for his profound artistry, poetic musicality, and dazzling technical prowess returns to the same venue as an MAW Mosher Guest Artist to play two special Academy Festival Orchestra Community Concerts at the Granada Theatre on Independence Day weekend, when he’ll perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue). The Grieg concerto is sandwiched by Mussorgsky’s St. John’s Night on Bald Mountain (original version, 1867) and, appropriately for Hruša’s baton, Czech composer Janácek’s Taras Bulba. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $38-$108 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org (CAMA: www. camasb.org) Jewish Festival – Oy! There’s so much going on at the first ethnic festival of the year at Oak Park you could just plotz! Live music by Avi Vaknin, who appeared in the film Rock in the Red Zone, plus Kalinka, popular Santa Barbara cantor Mark Childs, Ventura’s Klezmer Band, and many more. La Colina Jr. High’s Outburst Theatre performing excerpts from Hello My Baby! written by Montecito’s Cherie Steinkellner.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 29 Monsieur Periné, who won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist of 2015 (and were nominated for a 2016 Grammy in the “Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative” category) are coming to Santa Barbara for a series of free family events closing out ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! current season.

Monsieur Periné joyous, original “suin a la colombiana” melds the French swing of the 1930s with traditional Latin rhythms and classic songs, as the exuberant artists utilize traditional Colombian instruments such as the charango and bandoneon to play bolero, tango, and sambas blended with jazz, pop, and Latin “canciones,” The group has also attracted attention for their fantastic costumes, which combine European elegance with Latino folklore, including iconic representations of Mexican culture, all designed

by Alejandra Rivas. Their Santa Barbara debut represents the final performance of the 10th anniversary season for ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! that was created in 2006 to bring no-cost performances and educational events to key under-served neighborhoods. The usual appearances at Isla Vista School on Friday, Guadalupe City Hall on Saturday, and the Marjorie Luke on Sunday, are augmented by a special concert on the Santa Barbara Museum of Arts front steps on Sunday afternoon (2:15 to 3 pm). The museum is also providing materials and instructions on making your own art inspired by the work of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García, currently on view in Highlights of the Permanent Collection, one hour before each show, and, as always, stay after the performances for reception with the artists. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Jr. High, 721 E. Cota Street (see website for other shows) COST: free INFO: 884-4087 x7 or www.luketheatre.org/ viva-el-arte

folk dancing. Judaica and other craft vendors. Activities for the kids in their own special area. Community info booths. Food from Sababa It’s All Good Catering, Nimita’s Cuisine Organic Shalom Menu, and others, plus beer, wine, and water. Even valet parking, new this year. And admission, as always, is totally free.

Such a deal! WHEN: 11 am to 4 pm WHERE: Oak Park, 502 W. Alamar Ave. COST: free INFO: www. jewishsantabarbara.org/festival It’s May. It’s May. The Lovely Month of May – Santa Barbara Revels 8th annual celebration of the spring holiday features all of the

Revels regulars, from singalongs with Revels Songleader, Adam Phillips, to performances by the Solstice Singers, the Pacific Sword Company, the Revels Dancers, plus special guest musicians. Join in the fun with the seasonal dances anyone can learn, and visitors will also be able to make their own flower garlands and nosegays and weave ribbons as you circle ‘round the may pole. It’s truly the time to revel in Revels’ slogan: “Join us and be joyous!” WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: De la Guerra Place at Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center (across from the Paseo Nuevo Cinemas) COST: free INFO: 565-9357 or www. santabarbararevels.org •MJ

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Scaling Vocal Heights – Two-time Grammy winning a cappella group Pentatonix formed just five years ago, and immediately got famous by winning the third season of The Sing-Off that same year. Although Epic dropped them right after the show, Pentatonix created its own YouTube channel and kept growing their fan base, which now stands far north of 10 million subscribers. A number of EPs and studio albums preceded the release of their eponymous album on RCA last year, which shot straight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The success of the quintet – which consists of four men and one female singer – has given hope and faith to those who love vocal music, as the new album branches further into original material than ever before, blessed as always with tight harmonies, plenty of riffing, and extensive use of percussion and beatboxing. The Grammys, though, came in the last two years, for “Daft Punk” and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”. Pentatonix makes its Santa Barbara debut at the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight, with folk-pop husband-and-wife pair Us The Duo, who were featured in the movie The Book Of Life and on Oprah’s The Life You Want Weekend Tour. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $44.50-$64.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

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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.

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ometimes, in an up market especially, sellers may list their home higher than perhaps it can fetch in the market, just to see if they can get their price. In an up market, that sometimes works, and sellers see great returns.

In a down market, a home that starts out overpriced can “chase the market down” trying to sell.

That said, there is also a period of leveling off, and that may be where we are right now. Big rebounds in the market since 2010 have brought most homes back to the 2005-06 price range. As I track the Montecito market, I have had a number of homes on my best buys list at higher prices than their current asking price. Some of these homes have not sold, even after a price reduction, making them even better buys.

Here are four homes that were on my “best buys” list at a higher price and all have had at least one price reduction, indicating a seller’s interest in selling, not just testing the market.

764 San Ysidro Lane: $10,700,000

This estate on a prime 2.3+ acre lot near the San Ysidro Ranch is advertised as “Hamptons in Montecito”. This important compound offers a 5-bedroom, 7.5-bath main house, a 2-bedroom guest house, pool cabana, pool, cottage, and a motor court for guest parking. Magical woodlands, lush gardens, a putting green and mountain views provide privacy and opulence in a prime upper village location.

This home is in the Montecito Union School District and has been reduced in price from more than $12,950,000 to the current asking price.

975 Mariposa Lane: $4,495,000

Impressive ocean views add to the value of this renovated contemporary home. Hickory wood floors sprawl throughout the open floor plan, as over-sized windows frame remarkable views of Montecito and the surrounding areas. Situated on a full acre, this residence features four renovated and

spacious bedrooms, along with 3.5 baths.

This home is across the street from a Spanish estate that sold a year or so ago for more than $12,000,000, and the home directly across the street is in escrow with an asking price of more than $15,000,000. Mariposa Lane is located in the Montecito Union School District, and this home has seen a couple of price reductions from its original asking price of $5,495,000.

1423 East Mountain Drive: $4,395,000

This Mediterranean-style home is tucked down a private lane and features ocean, island, and mountain views on 1.18 gated acres. French doors throughout open to a private garden with a sparkling pool and spa, mature hedges, and a side yard with batting cages.

There are a total of 5 bedrooms, 4 full and one half bath, a formal office with built-in cabinets, a formal dining room-family room, updated kitchen with breakfast nook, downstairs bedroom with en-suite bathroom, and separate entrance for guests. This home is in the Montecito Union School District and has been reduced from the original list price of $4,695,000.

266 Santa Rosa Lane: $3,395,000

This light-filled home offers privacy and the indoor/outdoor Santa Barbara lifestyle. There are 3 bedrooms, 3 full and one half baths, along with a pool, entertainment terrace, and gardens that frame substantial mountain views.

Located in the Montecito Union School District in the Hedgerow area, just a few blocks to schools, the beach, and the upper village, this Brian Cearnal contemporary designed home sits on a level acre and seemed well-valued even when priced closer to $4,000,000 (more than 3,600 square feet, pool, et cetera). With its recent price reduction, it deserves close scrutiny.

•MJ For more information on any of these properties or if you would like me to arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. For more Best Buys, visit my site www.MontecitoBestBuys. com from which this article is based.

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$7,450,000 | 3551 Padaro Ln, Carpinteria | 5BD/4BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663

$3,495,000 | 1520 San Leandro Ln, Montecito | 4BD/3½BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465

$9,000,000 | 1735 Glen Oaks Dr, Montecito | 8BD/12BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$7,750,000 | 1530 Mimosa Ln, Montecito | 6BD/6BA Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000

$5,995,000 | 835 San Ysidro Ln, Montecito | 4BD/5BA Hamilton/Simmons | 805.284.8835

$5,250,000 | 1919 Las Tunas Rd, Riviera | 4BD/3½BA Havlik/Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$4,795,000 | 791 W Park Ln, Montecito | 4BD/6BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$4,395,000 | 1423 E Mountain Dr, Montecito | 4BD/5BA Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000

$2,995,000 | 1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd, Montecito | 6± acs (assr) Marsha Kotlyar | 805.565.4014

$2,950,000 | 4 Sunrise Hill Ln, Montecito | 4± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242

$2,895,000 | 125 W Mountain Dr, Montecito | 3BD/4BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$2,595,000 | 164 Olive Mill Rd, Montecito | 3BD/2BA Josiah Hamilton | 805.284.8835

$2,495,000 | 335 Calle Hermoso, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$2,495,000 | 729 Woodland Dr, Montecito | 3BD/3BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

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