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Ace of aces: tennis icon Jimmy Connors earns 3rd hole-in-one at Montecito Country Club, P. 6

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

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On Canvas

Annual Carpinteria and Summerland Artists Studio Tour to exhibit its wares May 9-10, p. 24

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A New Generation

They’re hard rockers, but False Puppet’s early musical stimulus was former folksinger “Grandpa Fred” Benko, p. 27

Woman’s Intuition

Psychic and author Pamala Oslie hosts “Quantum Leap” workshop May 16-17 at Fess Parker, p. 29

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On the Water Front

Bob Hazard reviews the details of the Montecito Association Water Committee’s proposal for water independence, listing five recommendations and drawing a conclusion

Montecito Miscellany

Jimmy Connors on the links; Ellen DeGeneres and Matt Lauer; Oprah calls renowned Baltimore mother; Dylan Douglas finds religion; Amy Penn’s book about Elaine Kaufman; Davy Jones Equine Memorial Foundation; Michael Pollan at the Granada; One Hundred Committee luncheon; CASA gala; SB Polo Club starts 104th year; Angels Foster Care; Dorrance Dance Company at Granada; Police Activities League party; Teddy Bear Cancer Masked Affair; Robert F. Kennedy in Goleta; New Orford String Quartet; Hannah-Beth Jackson sounds off; and the royal baby

Letters to the Editor

Tom Kress has a word; Christina Allison on water; Larry Bond about conspiracies and the CIA; Bill Dalziel on Rosetta’s Pond again; Gene Sinser writes about saving water; and professor Akbar Montaser on religion and politics

11 This Week

Food drive at MUS; Knitting and crocheting; poetry club; spring art show; wellness retreat; Sedgwick Reserve Hike; artist reception; book signing; Roar & Pour Wine Festival; Cocktails & Conservatives; MA meeting; Flower Empower luncheon; The New Yorker discussion; excursion tour; Work & Garden Weekend; wildlife presentation; SB Music Club; Coalition Against Gun Violence anniversary; Neighborhood Clean-up Fire Prevention; brain fitness; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; Story Time; Italian conversation; Farmers Market; and Cars & Coffee

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Montecito Association reviews more Verizon plans; Summerland Beach Cafe tries new watersaving tactic; Amgen Tour to cause closing of local streets; 33 local artists open their studios this weekend; and teens “Sing it Out” in Goleta

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner chronicles El Presidio’s 223rd birthday bash; Mardi Gras magic at the Mad Hatter luncheon; and Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care’s annual PHorum

21 Your Westmont

The New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks at Commencement on May 9; orchestra performs in L.A.; and students present research

22 At The Wheel

Randy Lioz and his girlfriend take advantage of the gas in their veins with a staycation at Santa Barbara Autocamp, where Ryan Miller provided a tour and insight

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26 Our Town

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. visits USC to speak about the environment, energy, free markets, and democracy – and Joanne Calitri was there; she also interviews Pamala Oslie about the likes of quantum physics

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27 Coming & Going

James Buckley reflects on the life and legacy of whale-watching forerunner Fred Benko, whose bequest includes the Condor Express and inspiration behind the band False Puppet; 2014 Teen Star winner Mary-Grace Langhorne and MARYGRACE; and high school theatrics

31 Coup de Grace

Grace Rachow is all about coffee and Camelot, specifically the latest Santa Barbara Writers Conference, slated for June 7-12

36 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz catches up with opera singer Michelle Bradley; musician Cristina Pato’s solo act at Campbell Hall; choreographer Edgar Zendejas

38 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

SB Arts and Crafts Show turns 50; Michael McDonald and REO Speedwagon among concerts at Chumash; California Honeydrops at SOhO; Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops; Bloody Poetry and UCSB; Foodie fork-off and park party; Quire of Voyces chime in; Mariachi for Mother’s Day; Carp & Summerland Artists Studio Tour; and the sound of German music

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Creating Water Independence

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ast week, the new Montecito Association Water Committee, chaired by MA president Cindy Feinberg, convened to develop an agenda of responsibilities, including identifying and promoting sources of water that are independent of rainfall; supporting solutions that can deliver reliable water at an affordable cost per acre-foot based on engineering design; and promoting solutions that are financially feasible, environmentally friendly, and meet strict health and human safety standards.

Specific recommendations coming out of the meeting included:

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1) Involve the residents of Montecito in the decision-making process.

Work with Montecito Water District (MWD) in its mission to “provide an adequate and reliable supply of high-quality water to the residents of Montecito at the most reasonable cost.” Work with the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) in its mission to “preserve the natural environment through the collection, treatment, and disposal (re-use) of wastewater in the most cost-effective way possible.”

The MA Water Committee will encourage community cooperation in the generation of new ideas; it will build community consensus for ideas that deliver water at an affordable cost; and it will favor community-driven solutions that shorten approval times by breaking bureaucratic and legislative logjams.

2) Focus on long-term, drought-proof additions to our water supply portfolio which are independent of current or future rainfall.

Continued conservation efforts to responsibly reduce Montecito water usage, especially for outdoor landscaping.

Reuse of wastewater, possibly treated to a “gold standard” for use in landscaping, or for a safe recharge of depleted aquifers, or for direct potable use at such time as California law allows.

Desalination of seawater, either in partnership with other communities like Santa Barbara, or on a stand-alone basis, or through the formation of a private or private-public partnership. The challenge is to engineer realistic design specs and cost estimates per acre-foot to be used for comparative purposes.

Explore better management of groundwater supplies, including the potential for deep well extraction.

Evaluate the cost and benefits of the State Water Project, including the sale of both Montecito’s State Water assets and obligations.

Address water quality, water quantity, and environmental concerns in all proposed solutions.

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Support a team of experienced volunteer community financial professionals who have offered to work with the MWD business manager and representatives from the County Auditor’s Office to conduct a forensic financial audit of MWD and its five-year Financial Plan. The objective would be to help MWD develop a more sustainable business model, including positive cash flows, growth of capital reserves, restructuring the balance sheet , and revenue enhancement opportunities, cost savings, and reductions in overhead.

4) Development and design of a Cost Per Acre Foot Engineering Model for a combination Wastewater/Desalination Facility.

In an effort to provide a credible second opinion and as an alternative to current consultant conceptual design proposals, the Montecito Water Committee supports a credible community gift from a group of Montecito residents for a 30-percent engineering design for an advanced recycling facility and desalination facility, co-located on the existing Montecito Sanitary site, producing reliable sources of new water, independent of rainfall, at a blended cost of $2,000 per acre-feet, including design, build, operating, financing, and maintenance costs.

5) Solicit state and county “Water Emergency Status” for Montecito

Support efforts to encourage county, state, and regulatory officials to endorse fast-track emergency permitting in Montecito. Examples of successful fast-tracking include the Cambria 2014 desalination facility, designed, built, and opened in nine months, and the City of Santa Barbara desal plant, built jointly with Montecito and Goleta in 1991. Both were built and opened on a test basis. Permanent permits were received later, saving years of time and multi-millions of dollars in legal and permitting costs.

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t has been quite a year for former Number-One tennis player Jimmy Connors, who has been blazing a trail golfing at the Montecito Country Club.

The 62-year-old former racketeer, who won eight Grand Slam singles titles, including five U.S. Opens, two Wimbledons, and one Australian Open, hit consecutive holes-in-one in consecutive weeks in April last year.

Now, just a year later, Jimmy has scored his third hole-in-one on the club’s fifth 189-yard fairway, having previously aced the 153-yard 14th and the 171-yard 17th, all par three holes.

“It’s pretty extraordinary and has never happened in the eighteen years I have been here,” says club pro Scott Johnson. “But for a man who works as hard at his game as Jimmy, he deserves it. It’s miraculous.”

Jimmy, a longtime resident of our rarefied enclave, has a single-digit handicap and plays the lush course, with its sweeping views of the Pacific, regularly.

“There’s only one hole left for him to conquer and that’s the eighth, which is 108 yards,” adds Scott.

But Jimmy has still got quite a way to go to beat the club’s record holder, retired nonagenarian urologist Ernie Blakey, who has amassed a record of 18 holes-in-one on the links.

“He always likes to boast he’s had more holes in one than grandchildren!” laughs Scott.

Given the club has 400 members and it is normal practice for the golfer hitting the hole-in-one to buy drinks for everyone, Jimmy wasn’t too much

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out of pocket.

“Members can buy insurance for a nominal five dollars to cover such possibilities,” adds Scott.

No Kidding For the past few months, as I’ve recounted here, TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and NBC Today anchor Matt Lauer have been feuding.

However, the ongoing video war between the two 57-year-old hosts appears to have come to an end.

With one final joke – involving a naked, dancing Lauer – the daytime stars made up and even raised some money for charity.

“In the spirit of the Daytime Emmys, Ellen and I are here to announce that we are officially ending our prank war,” Lauer explained in a video at

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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

Calumniation, Anyone?

daily thinking, and those thoughts unwanted can become a lighter load to bear.

Oh, and one more thing: why did the Easter egg hide? Because it was a little chicken. Humor, like meditation and the fine arts, I’m thinking, is also medicinal.

Grace and comfort, to your health, Tom Kress Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you for your handwritten letter. You sent me scurrying to my dictionary with your headline, having never heard of or seen the word “calumniation.” Its meaning, to others that may not know, is “false accusation.”

– J.B.)

Water Use Down According to the latest statistics, we are doing well in reducing our water consumption. Bravi!

In addition to keeping a basin in the kitchen sink, I use paper plates for snacks and salads. Mine, of course, are gold-embossed with the family crest.

I am, however, careful not to kick the bucket as I exit the shower.

Christina Allison Montecito (Editor’s note: We don’t want you to “kick the bucket,” in, out, or anywhere near the shower... or anywhere else for that matter. Let’s be careful out there. – J.B.)

CIA Conspiracy?

“Rectory Hall Painting” (48” x 48”) acrylic on shaped gessoed Masonite by Tom Kress (1993)

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don’t drink from Mrs. Earth’s fountain of life, preferring to drink at the spring that supplies the fountain, which is sort of the way I see religions and theological worlds as to what they intend. I’m glad my generation studies many cultures and theologies outside of Western beliefs.

At the church where I was baptized, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Roman Catholicism stayed the clearest theology to me while the well-respected others seemed foreign with the different cultures, languages, etc., that also had to be learned.

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church book, published in 1992 by Saint John Paul II, the three forms of Roman Catholic prayer are defined in Sections 2700 to 2724: Vocal, Meditational, and Contemplative. Meditation is a key element in all theologies and has been for thousands of Mrs. Earth’s annual rotations. Thanks to our generation (in which I had no choice about inclusion: oy!), which chose to learn from other theologies, spirituality in daily life seems to flow like a fountain in fuller meaning.

Meditation has been of great benefit for me in past times and currently and especially in these “periods of terrible

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darkness” as mentioned by pastor monsignor Stephen Downes in his recent letter to the editor of your fine Montecito Journal (“For Shame” MJ #21/14).

The enclosed painting is visual meditation that I designed for the Church Office at the Rectory’s front door entrance vestibule room when I also designed the Rectory Office addition in 1988, which was fully permitted with building permits issued. Both the painting and the architecture of this addition are of the “Golden Means Proportions,” as named by Leonardo da Vinci, based upon the Fibonacci numbers. Both the painting and the architecture marry these two fine arts through this use of the ancient system of proportion, as does the 1936 design of the Reredo (altar wall) of the church nave. The painting can be seen by ringing the office front doorbell or by sneaking a peek through the tiny front-door window.

It’ll probably take more generations than ours to come out of this current “terrible darkness” of our times.

The seven historic fine arts can, like meditation, help de-vilify the other sometimes combative letters to your editors, and will help improve our

The following should raise a few eyebrows among your readers.

On April 23, Abel Danger.net reported that a group of minutemen watching the Mexican border for illegal entrants and drug traffickers, have proceeded to make a citizen’s arrest

of two men in an SUV, carrying 1,300 pounds of cocaine. The volunteers were completely astonished when the two arrestees pulled out CIA ID cards and explained they were actually carrying the drug as part of their duties and that the cargo belonged to the Central Intelligence Agency.

The incident took place last night, in the desert, near the Texas city of El Paso. A group of seven minutemen saw a large black SUV drive rapidly across the border. They chased the vehicle in their own trucks and achieved to immobilize it after a chase of more than 15 miles.

The vigilantes arrested the two men on board and called the border patrol, who proceeded to search the vehicle.

They discovered dozens of packages of cocaine, totaling an incredible 618.4 kilograms (1363 pounds).

The search of the vehicle revealed 36 packages of cocaine, all marked with the symbol of the Sinaloa Cartel, representing a black scorpion.

The two men claim to be CIA operatives based in Mexico and explained that the drug was actually part of an operation of the agency. They presented identity cards that seem to validate their claim, but the CIA spokesperson, Dean Boyd, has officially denied any link between the organization and the two men.

“The CIA doesn’t take part in drug-smuggling operations at the U.S.-Mexican border” said M. Boyd.

“I do not know, for now, if the men are actually affiliated to the agency in any way, but I can tell you the cocaine doesn’t belong to the CIA.” Both the border patrol officers and minutemen seem unconvinced, however, and many of them seem to believe that the Secret Service agency

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is hiding something. The U.S. custom services have even announced a thorough investigation to try and verify the two men’s story.

“Both of them had valid accreditations and a receipt for their cargo,” says Shawn Francis Miller, spokesman of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the El Paso sector.

“What drug dealer in his right mind, demands a receipt for 1,300 pounds of cocaine? There is really something strange about these guys, and we believe the CIA possibly knows more than what it is ready to admit.”

The custom services have confirmed that the two men, who can’t be identified due to the Intelligence Identities and Protection Act of 1982, did carry valid CIA identifications and that the vehicle was indeed registered as a service vehicle of the organization.

The two men remain under the custody of the custom services at the moment and are still being interrogated in a facility near El Paso. They are facing charges of possessing, trafficking, and importing illegal drugs, and could face other criminal charges once the investigation is over.

Both the FBI and the DEA have announced that they would collaborate with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on this case, which has already attracted a lot of attention in southern Texas.” And also in California, I might add.

Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’ve tried to verify whether the tale you tell us in your letter has some basis in fact or is completely fictitious but have had no luck or success in tracking down its veracity. Our guess, however, is that this is fiction, but hey, it makes for good reading, so thanks for sending it along. – J.B.)

News from Rosetta’s Pond We were grokking with our friend on the swing, when a present time problem surfaced. His idea is to sell his personal paintings, sketches, and sculpture to help pay for the water that keeps us alive through the dry seasons. Our water level has begun to drop, which increases the temperature. He turned his hose on for a couple hours last night, which cooled us down and had the sump pump cleaned, so we are starting to feel hungry again. His contact for a studio visit is billdalziel@yahoo.com.

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On Saving Water

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installed behind the water meter. It controls under what pressure your incoming water line is.

I recently realized that the higher the pressure, the more water flows through the faucet in the sink, shower, hoses etc. It will also reduce the flow through your landscaping watering system. Most of the water we consume is used in landscaping, as we have learned. In addition, reduced pressure may also prevent underground leaks, which can be difficult to locate.

By reducing the water pressure, you can conservatively save 10 to 15 percent or more on your monthly water bill. I have done it, and it has not affected washing the dishes, showering, laundry, etc. and watering the ground.

Try it, you’ll like it.

Gene Sinser Montecito (Editor’s note: We’ve forwarded this along to Mike Clark at Montecito Water District; we await his response. – J.B.)

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Mr. Scot O’Malley’s letter to the editor (“The ‘Deal’ With Iran” MJ #21/14) contains several glaring errors about the “Deal,” historical facts about Iran, and President Obama to note a few.

Mr. O’Malley admits he does not understand why P + 1 “want to reach an agreement at all” with Iran. The reasons are simple.

The finest tactic to solve any problem is to consider its source. Where the agony of the soul is at stake, the president must offer a warning to the nation telling the truth, come what may. This is an epic duty. The president certainly is aware of the good news and bad news in the Middle East. Mr. O’Malley not so much.

In foreign policy, the president finally recognized the United States government would fail in dealing with Iran if the bankrupt policies of prior Administrations are exercised.

Those policies were designed by the usual the “advisors” representing Wall Street and Military Industrial Complex. Wars are beneficial for the cited parasites. They win at the cost of our blood and treasures. They massacre children, women, senior citizens, and innocent bystanders, and ruin everything built since the annals of time.

There are three main existential threats to the United States, and they not Iran or so-called “radical” Islam.

The vital question: Can the president mend our eternal, deific and economic trials in time to better the lives of all Americans, particularly the 100 million poor and new poor, and by extension, world citizens? Each fleeting day, the president staunchest

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, MAY 15

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860)

SATURDAY, MAY 9 Book Signing at Tecolote Peg Ivy will sign her new Southern-style cookbook, A Dash of Southern. Appetizers will be served.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977; www.pegilicious.com

THURSDAY, MAY 7 Food Drive at MUS To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank, donations can be left in the school’s parking lot in the morning during drop-off.

Items needed include baby food, cereal, pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and canned goods.

Where: 385 San Ysidro Road 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 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. Tonight: Ralph Waldo Emerson.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, MAY 8 Spring Art Show The Samarkand’s Annual Spring Art Show will showcase approximately 100 works of art created by Samarkand resident and staff artists, both professional and amateur, May 8-10. A variety of media will be represented, including watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, textiles, photography, pen and ink, digital

art, sculpture, collage, ceramics, plant/ garden, needlework, and jewelry.

When: today, 10 am to 5:30 pm, and tomorrow May 9, and Sunday, May 10, 10 am to 3 pm Where: 2550 Treasure Drive Cost: free and open to the public Info: Pam Bigelow, 569-8506 Wellness Retreat Share Mother’s Day weekend with motherdaughter team Katherine and Taran Collis. Held at the Center for Spiritual Renewal, this retreat offers contemplative practices for body, mind, and spirit. Enjoy farm-to-table cuisine, yoga, Tai Chi, and meditation. Katherine oversees the Center for Spiritual Renewal; and Taran is La Casa’s yoga teacher.

When: 5:30 pm through Sunday, May 10, noon Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $390 for resident, $290 for commuter Info: www.lacasademaria.org

SATURDAY, MAY 9 Sedgwick Reserve Hike The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and nature activities open to the public each fall on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick panoramas, plants, and animals or birds will be conducted, with hiking levels of Easy, Moderate, or Strenuous. These hikes are approximately two to three hours each

Excursion Tour The Estrella Warbird Museum in Paso Robles features a unique mixture of displays: WWII to current military aircraft, many types of weaponry, land combat vehicles, antique autos, and worldrecord-setting racing cars. In 1942, this site was an airfield for training flight cadets of the US Army Air Corps. Channel City Club hosts a tour of the museum, led by Ken Richardson (former president of Hughes Aircraft Company), outlining the museum’s history and content, and Mike Cleary (SB Antique Auto Club following careers at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, and Hughes Helicopters) describing the race-car and old auto collections.

At Estrella, two of the museum’s founders, Gary Corippo (former U.S. Marine) and George Marrett (Vietnam A-1 SkyRaider pilot), will lead a tour, followed by detailed discussions of air-to-air combat by Ed Cobleigh (Vietnam F-4 Phantom pilot), WWII jet-fighter experiences by Hal Bauer (former Luftwaffe pilot), and Vietnam search and rescue ventures by George Marrett. Lunch will be provided.

When: Santa Barbara Airbus will depart Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort at 8 am Where: Meet in the parking lot near the tennis courts off Cesar Chavez Road at 7:45 am Cost: $50 per person Info: info@channelcityclub.org and are followed by the opportunity to picnic with your own lunch at the reserve.

In addition to the hikes, other activities such as a tour of the newly renovated old barn, the new observatory, the pond, and the new Tipton House, as well as a set-up for painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce ball court are all planned for those who don’t want to hike and would like to just enjoy the reserve attractions while the hikes are being conducted. Reservations required.

In inclement weather, the hikes will be cancelled.

When: 8:30 am Cost: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or family suggested donation Info and RSVP: Sedgwick@lifesci.ucsb.edu

as they sample wines from the Central Coast, enjoy zookeeper talks and animal encounters, and dine on tasty offerings from food trucks or a pre-ordered picnic basket.

More than 20 wineries from the Central Coast are pouring samples at “Roar & Pour”.

Several of the region’s most popular food trucks will be parked at the zoo’s hilltop and offering food and treats for sale. Picnic baskets by Rincon Catering are available by advance purchase only at www.sbzoo.org.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $60 Tickets: www.sbzoo.org/roar-and-pour/

Artists Reception Porch presents a reception for the Tuesday Figures Artists, a group art show in conjunction with the ninth annual Carpinteria & Summerland Artists Studio Tour. Participating artists include Jamee Aubrey, Pamela Hill Enticknap, Olivia Erschen, Priscilla Fossek, Pamela Larsson-Toscher, John Rowbottam, Bob Sponsel, and Beth Westen.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane Info: 684-0300

Cocktails & Conservatives Cocktails and Conservatives will be held at the Endless Summer Restaurant.

Independents, Republicans, and Democrats are invited to share conversations while enjoying beverages and complimentary appetizers.

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way, #180 RSVP: 699-6756

Roar & Pour Wine Festival The animals stay out late, and the wine is sure to flow at the Santa Barbara Zoo’s inaugural “Roar & Pour” Wine Festival.

Guests can stroll through the scenic zoo

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TUESDAY, MAY 12 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito. Tonight there will be a presentation from Tony Harris, the SBCAG consultant on highway 101. Mr. Harris, a former Caltrans director and top engineer will outline his recommendations for the northern section of the 101 widening from Padaro Lane to the Santa Barbara City line.

Independent consultants will be taking a second look at Cabrillo/Hot Springs, Olive Mill, San Ysidro, and Sheffield intersections, which were not adequately covered in the current plan. The public is invited to hear Mr. Harris’s presentation.

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ontecito Association’s Land Use Committee heard from Verizon Wireless agent Jay Higgins on Tuesday, reviewing Verizon’s plans to install 16 antennae on the top of Voskuyl Library.

The project is a conditional use permit application, and will be in front of Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) on Wednesday, May 20.

Last week, Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) moved the general plans for the project forward to MPC; after MPC gives approval, Higgins will be back in front of MBAR to determine the style and color of the screening wall and specific dimensions.

Higgins told the Land Use Committee that Verizon has been working with Westmont for the last 10 years to provide better cellular coverage on campus. “There are several dead spots in the area, demand

has picked up, and there is a lack of service,” Higgins said, adding that students and faculty have complained about the lack of service for years.

“This is an appropriate location,” he said.

There is already other equipment on top of Voskuyl Library, including a generator, radio cabinets, and related equipment, as well as an existing parapet screening wall. The Verizon project would add 16, six-foot-high antennae on the northwest, northeast, and southwest corners of the rooftop, as well as related equipment closer to the center of the roof. The project includes increasing the length of the parapet walls by eight feet, in an effort to screen the antennae, though one section of antennae would rise about 12 inches above the wall, Higgins explained.

One member of the public shared his concern with aesthetics, saying that

his property’s windows look directly onto the roof of the library, more so since the Tea Fire burned many trees in the area. “There is already so much equipment on top of that roof that we have to look at,” said Ryan Neely, a direct neighbor to the campus. “It’s too bad an architect is not designing it to be compatible with the building and neighborhood,” Land Use member Tom Bollay said.

One of the Land Use Committee members asked about the effect of radio frequency (RF) emissions on students studying in the library, to which Higgins said the RF emissions are well under FCC regulations, and that the antennas emit radio waves outward, not down. Westmont reps say the project will greatly enhance phone service for Verizon customers and emergency management agencies on campus, and they are happy with the location of the project. Higgins says Verizon will conduct post-installation testing of the project.

The Land Use Committee voted to send a letter asking Montecito Planning Commission to take into account the views from above the project by visiting Mountain Drive.

MPC will hear the project on May 20.

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Summerland Beach Café owner Jeff Melnik with the VOSS water bottles he now serves instead of free tap water

Summerland Beach Café owner Jeff Melnik has taken governor Jerry Brown’s Executive Order B-29-15 seriously, making it his mission to decrease water usage at his popular eatery on Lillie Avenue. “This all stemmed from our effort to do our part during the drought, and I’m hoping others will see what we are doing, and do their part, too,” Melnik told us earlier this week.

As a way to decrease water usage by 25 percent, which was mandated

by Governor Brown earlier this year, Melnik stopped serving tap water to customers more than a month ago.

“We don’t have major landscaping, we didn’t want to stop mopping the floors… there weren’t a ton of options for us,” he said.

Instead, Melnik offers customers a 12.7-oz glass bottle of cold VOSS water, at a charge of $1 per bottle. He tells us the majority of customers have had a positive reaction to the effort, while a few people have complained about paying for something that was once free. “If I could afford to do this and not charge for it, I would,” Melnik said, adding that the bottles cost him more than a dollar each.

But the added cost is worthwhile, as the restaurant has managed to save 1,500 gallons per week over the course of the program. “It’s had a hugely positive effect on water savings,” Melnik said. In addition to the savings from not serving water, residual savings have racked up from the decrease in water glass washing, and the decrease in ice production and usage. “We used to run out of ice every day. Now we can actually turn off the ice machine for up to three days in a row!” Melnik

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his was an evening that will linger long in the memories of the 90 of us who were lucky enough to attend the swank 223rd birthday party of the founding of El Presidio, now El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park on Canon Perdido Street. One of the soldados present in costume was a ninth-generation Santa Barbaran Russell Clay Ruiz, whose ancestor had been a soldier in our Presidio.

Pearl Chase led the founding of the Trust for Historic Preservation in 1963.

It is because of this group that the Presidio is being reconstructed along with the completed Casa de la Guerra where Jose de la Guerra lived with his family. As executive director Jarrell Jackman said, “We have made 100,000 adobe bricks and we will make more.”

The grounds were alive with the sound of music, flags flying, and period costumes. Guests mixed and mingled during cocktail hour with Spanish hors d’oeuvres passed by folk dancers in colorful skirts and tops.

Then it was time for the red carpet treatment. As we filed into the chapel for a four-course dinner by Montecito Country Club chef Michael Blackwell and David Reardon, our arrival was announced to the whole room. Rather like being “Queen for a Day.” The candlelight dinner table setting was magnificent with more than 600 candles burning, many in four-foot high silver candelabras. The guy responsible for all that candlelight and much more was dinner chair David Bolton.

Board president Terease Chin welcomed all and thanked the 13 board members present, plus the many sponsors like Hutton Parker, Montecito Bank & Trust, and Hollister & Brace.

Craig Makela led the paddle raise and auction. He struck gold with a donation of $25,000 from John Poucher. If matched there would be $25,000 more

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and it was. The evening netted about $100,000, which goes a long way to helping with their current campaign.

As we left after my favorite Spanish dessert, flan, we were given a gorgeous coffee-table book titled Mission Memoirs, mission note cards and a diary of William E. P. Hartnell, who was Visitador General of the Missions of Alta California in 1839 and 1840.

Some of those “royal” guests were Jerry and Helene Beaver, Janet Garufis, Roger Durling and Dan Launpach, Missy and Patrick De Young, Mary Louise Days, Bob and Susan Tuler, Jo Beth Van Gelderen, and Lois Erburu.

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This dinner was followed the next day with two more events calling the whole weekend the Rancho Roundup.

There was music, dancing, the presentation of this year’s Saint Barbara, a re-creation of the city’s founding day ceremony first held April 21, 1782, and much more.

The two Rancho Roundup co-chairs who deserve a million kudos are Keith Mautino and Debby Aceves. What a way to celebrate Santa Barbara’s birthday! As Flavia says, “Sweet memories are woven from the good times.”

Mardi Gras Magic The Mad Hatter luncheon has been the signature event for Transition House Auxiliary for 18 years. This year was no exception, as they took over the Bacara Resort’s ballroom for a huge silent auction and lunch.

All guests got into the Mardi Gras spirit with hats – the most creative, the most beautiful, and the most humorous. There were feathers, beads, and masks everywhere. Carrie Kilpatric carried off the most beautiful award from judge Gail Shannon.

Lana Marmé gave Laura Applefield the most creative prize, and Debbie Snyder’s was the most humorous, according to judge Arlene Larsen.

What would Mardi Gras be without music New Orleans-style? Montecito Jazz Project and Gil Rosas took care of that. Gil began his 65-year career in grade school at McKinley and Goleta Elementary schools. He was the youngest person in the U.S. to hold the position of musical director

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Emcee Andrew Firestone who is always so well prepared told us, “Transition House has served approximately 400 people each year, with 60 percent being children belonging to families that need a second chance.

Seventy-five percent of them found homes because of Transition House and many found jobs.”

The auxiliary assists and augments these supportive services and works to heighten community awareness of the needs of families in crises. If you call the offices at 966-9668 and ask for the number of the current auxiliary membership chair, she will give you information regarding how you can help.

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the beginning of the awards ceremony, not far from Ellen’s studio at Warner Bros. in bustling Burbank.

Although both pranksters promised the feud had ended, the pledge was immediately broken when the video showed Lauer ripping off his suit.

Underneath, viewers got a glimpse of toned abs, lacy underwear, and stockings held up by garters.

Even his nipples were adorned with tasseled pasties.

It was, of course, not really Lauer’s body that immediately began shimmying in the video, but the effect was quite impressive.

“Matt, please! This is a dignified celebration,” Montecito resident Ellen protested with mock concern. “Oh my God, pull it together!”

The video was more than just a silly joke, as Lauer and Ellen soon revealed that he had promised to donate $1,000 of his own money to charity every time an Emmy winner thanked him in a speech that night.

“Remember, if you win, please pick me! “ the network anchor begged with one final shake of the tassels.

Many of the celebrities took him up on his offer through the rest of the night.

Entertainment Tonight host Nancy O’Dell even upped the ante by thanking Lauer three separate times during her acceptance speech for Outstanding Entertainment News Program.

The feud between Ellen and Lauer began with a rather odd video shown on her show in which he supposedly showed his love for the film Fifty Shades of Grey.

Ping pong balls, billboards, and more got in on the continuous war in the ensuing weeks.

Mother’s Daze The Baltimore mother filmed dragging her teenage son home from a riot has told how she was stunned when Montecito’s most famous resident TV mogul Oprah Winfrey called up to congratulate her.

Toya Graham, 42, was hailed as

“Mom of the Year” after being caught on camera clobbering her 16-year-old son, Michael, pulling off his ski mask and chasing him during the violence.

But the single mother was almost lost for words when the talk-show legend called her up at home to offer support.

“My oldest daughter was actually on the phone,” says Graham. “She was like, ‘Ma, Oprah wants to talk to you,’ and I couldn’t hear exactly everything she was saying because I was like, ‘Oh, my God! Oh my God!’ “She actually took the time out to give me a call, just to say, ‘I understand why you did what you did.’ She talked about how she understands as a parent, as single mom, what I was faced up against,” she told the TV show Inside Edition.

“I just wanted to thank her for taking the opportunity to call me, because I don’t feel like a hero or anything like that. I just love my son,” she concluded.

She told a show on CBS that she “just lost it” when she saw her son at the riots carrying a rock and walking toward police officers.

“I recognized those baggy sweatpants and we made eye contact. I was saying “How dare you do this?”

“He’s my only son and at the end of the day, I don’t want him to be Freddie Gray,” the man whose death in police custody led to the metropolitan mayhem.

“Is he a perfect boy? No, he’s not.

But he’s mine.”

Keepin’ the Faith Actor Michael Douglas has revealed that his son’s newfound interest in Judaism has brought religion back into his life.

The Oscar winning star, who used to live in our rarefied enclave with then wife Diandra, said that Dylan – his son with Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones –had “brought a lot of spirituality into our household” after he asked to have a Bah Mitzvah.

As a result, Michael, 70, son of 98-year-old acting legend Kirk

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Douglas, another Montecito resident, has rediscovered his faith late in life and was recently awarded the Genesis Prize, often referred to as the Jewish Nobel Prize.

In an NBC interview, Michael said his father, who is Jewish, was “over the moon” that Dylan, 14, wanted to embrace his faith and “couldn’t believe it.”

Michael recently revealed in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, as I recounted here, that Dylan, wearing a gold Star of David neck chain, had experienced anti-Semitism for the first time after a man insulted him while they were on a family holiday together.

“The irony is my father is Jewish, my mother is Protestant. And I married Catherine, who is Catholic.

“With our son just from going to school and meeting a couple of Jewish friends, on weekends he would go over to their house and they would have a Friday night Sadr.

“Six months later, he said, ‘I want to have a Bah Mitzvah.’ We were touched. Not to say, Kirk was over the moon. He couldn’t believe it.

“So we did it, we’re extremely proud of it. As a result, he’s brought a lot of spirituality into our household.”

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It was also noted for its Oscar night, where visiting Hollywood stars and other bold faced names congregated to watch the Academy Awards ceremony.

As well as a big body, Elaine also had a big heart, and it is nice to see an old Manhattan friend, Amy Penn, who I met when she was assistant to diminutive New York Post society columnist, Eugenia Sheppard, has now immortalized her in a charming new book Elaine’s: The Rise of One of New York’s Most Legendary Restaurants from Those Who Were There.

The book features an entertaining foreword by nonagenarian columnist Liz Smith, who I’ve known since she wrote for the New York Daily News in 1978 when I was gossip columnist on Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine, as well as amusing anecdotes from a number of old friends, including Richard Johnson, who headed the New York Post’s Page Six column for many years, Greek scribe Taki Theodoracopoulos and snapperazzi legend Ron Galella, the bane of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’s life.

Amy, who used to be a member of the Santa Barbara Polo Club, has evoked a lot of fond memories of a wonderful time past.

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Linda Jones ex-wife of the late Monkee, Davy Jones with his favorite horse, Zar, a rescue after a life on the racetrack

After reading my story about the forthcoming auction at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday, May 16, of the late Monkee Davy Jones’s memorabilia, his Santa Barbara-based first wife, Linda, calls.

Linda, who moved to our Eden by the Beach from L.A. in 1974 with the couple’s two daughters, Talia and Sarah, tells me of a foundation the girls set up after Davy, a keen equestrian, died at the age of 66 after a heart attack in Stuart, Florida, in 2012.

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Start Spreadin’ the News New York restaurateur Elaine Kaufman was larger than life.

Her eponymous eatery at 88th Street and Second Avenue didn’t have the best food, but it certainly had the most glittering crowd.

The bustling boite, which opened in 1963 and closed after Elaine’s death at 81 from a pulmonary disorder in 2010, was packed nightly with prominent New Yorkers, including Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Mario Puzo, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Sally Quinn, Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, as well as stars such as Clint Eastwood, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Luciano Pavarotti, Elaine Stritch, and Eli Wallach.

Very often, when I was working for the ABC show Prime Time Live, she would allow correspondent Judd 7 – 14 May 2015

When my mother had to have dinner for eight, she’d make enough for 16 and only serve half. – Gracie Allen

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 11) When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 Flower Empower Luncheon Dream Foundation – the only national dream-granting organization for adults and their families battling life-threatening illness – will hold its 5th Annual Flower Empower Luncheon in Summerland.

Net proceeds from the event are vital to supporting the volunteer-driven program.

Flower Empower delivers locally grown flowers, fresh-baked cookies, gourmet chocolates, and cards made by young volunteers to anyone from Goleta to Ventura in need of cheer. Two days a week, roughly 15 volunteers gather at designated locations to assemble bouquets with flowers donated by a dozen local growers and distributors.

In 2014, Flower Empower delivered, on average, 150 bouquets each week and since its inception, 20 years ago, 10s of thousands. The program receives no federal or state funding, relying solely on corporate and individual contributions and grants.

Dream Foundation hopes to raise awareness and its impact with its fifth annual luncheon.

When: 11 am to 2 pm Where: an exclusive oceanfront meadow in Summerland Info: Stefani@dreamfoundation.org

THURSDAY, MAY 14 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 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 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, MAY 15 Work & Garden Weekend Join La Casa de Maria staff for an inexpensive weekend helping to tend the gardens and orchards. Share in the community of working, gardening, and praying together. All are welcome.

The weekend is hosted by La Casa staff.

When: 7:30 pm through Sunday, May 17, 1 pm Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $60 resident, $30 commuter Info: www.lacasademaria.org

SATURDAY, MAY 16 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

SATURDAY, MAY 16 Wildlife Presentation A presentation of native wildlife, Saving Wildlife International, will be hosted by Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake. Experts will show off the animals at close range and explain their habits and habitats. Families are encouraged to bring folding chairs or a blanket to this free event on the lawn at the center. Please do not bring pets.

When: 11 am to noon Where: 2265 Highway 154 at Cachuma Lake County Park Cost: a park entry fee of $10 will be charged at the gate Info: www.clnaturecenter.org When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free

SUNDAY, MAY 17 Anniversary Celebration The Coalition Against Gun Violence (CAGV) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the Santa Barbara Club. This unique event is intended to honor community members who have significantly contributed to CAVG’s many accomplishments and to honor individuals, past and present, in our community who significantly contributed to those successes.

Among the honorees will be elected and unelected officials, founding members, and other community organizers and activists.

The celebratory format will include comments from honorees interspersed with libations, delectables, and music along with a silent auction. All proceeds will go toward the second annual gun buyback, which will be organized by the Coalition Against Gun Violence and the Santa Barbara Police Department on June 13.

When: 3 to 5:30 pm Where: 1105 Chapala Street Info: www.sbcoalition.org

ONGOING Neighborhood Clean-Up Fire Prevention Schedule May 11 through May 15: Sierra Vista Road, Nicholas Lane, Ridge View Road, Canon View Road, Sycamore Vista Road, Calle Elegante, Calle Hermosa, Crest View Lane, and Ranchito Vista Road Brain Fitness for Successful Aging A 6-week program hosted by Friendship Center to rewire and strengthen the brain while combating stress.

When: Wednesdays, May 6 through June 10, 10 am to 12:30 pm Where: All Saints-by-the-Sea, 86 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $150 Reservations: 969-0859

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500

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MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 THURSDAYS 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 Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road 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

7 – 14 May 2015

Your Westmont

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

Columnist Brooks to Speak at Commencement

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avid Brooks, columnist for The New York Times and political analyst on PBS NewsHour, will speak at Westmont’s Commencement ceremony, Saturday, May 9, at 9:30 am on Carr Field.

President Gayle D. Beebe presents the Westmont Medal in honor of all the local organizations that serve our community by assisting individuals and families facing enormous financial and personal challenges every day of their lives. Rolf Geyling, president of the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, will be recognized for his strategic and effective leadership of the Rescue Mission and will accept the award.

Commencement is free and open to the public, but no parking is available on campus. Guests must park their cars at Santa Barbara City College and use Westmont’s free shuttle service to campus, arriving at SBCC no later than 9 am.

A total of 310 students will participate in Commencement. A third of the students (104) will graduate with honors, 21 summa cum laude (at least a 3.90 GPA), 36 magna cum laude (3.75- 3.89 GPA), and 47 cum laude (3.50-3.74 GPA). Golden Warriors, who graduated in 1965, will march in the procession and celebrate their 50th reunion.

“David Brooks offers insightful observations of American life and intelligent political analysis,” Beebe says.

“His current book, The Social Animal, creatively explains the importance of neuroscience and sociology in understanding our country’s future. I’m thrilled to welcome him to Westmont as our Commencement speaker.”

His has also written the books On Paradise Drive and Bobos in Paradise, which was a New York Times bestseller.

Brooks, a graduate of the University of Chicago, has taught at Duke University and teaches a global affairs course on humility at Yale University.

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is a ministry of Christian people bringing physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual resources to all who struggle with homelessness and addiction. Since its founding in 1965, the Rescue Mission has grown into an organization that provides immediate help in the form of food and shelter 365 nights a year to those with nowhere else to go and lasting hope in a 12-month residential recovery program for men and women desiring to break free from cycles of addiction, poverty, homelessness and crime.

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ty that seeks to serve people in need,” says President Beebe. “Our students learn so much from vibrant non-profit organizations that strengthen and enrich our community and embody the spirit of Santa Barbara. Volunteer work and internships with these agencies help prepare students to make a difference in the world.”

Geyling became president of the Rescue Mission in 2007. Previously, he worked as director of development at Fuller Theological Seminary and an online instructor in its Master of Arts in Global Leadership program. Before that, he ministered in South Central Los Angeles for 10 years with World Impact.

He graduated with a degree in urban studies from Stanford University and earned a master of divinity from Fuller.

Previous Westmont Medal recipients have included Edward and Suzanne Birch, Chad and Ginni Dreier, Walter and Darlene Hansen, Harold and Annette Simmons, and Michael Towbes.

The graduating class includes three Monroe scholars: Katie Fedor of Stockton, Calif., Peter Matthews of Lombard, Ill., and Sophia Meulenberg of Sandpoint, Idaho, who were awarded full-tuition scholarships.

Orchestra Performs in L.A. before Italy The Westmont Orchestra performs twice in the Los Angeles area before traveling to Italy from May 12-23.

The Spring Orchestra Concert, which features pieces by Verdi, Vivaldi and Puccini. Concerts in the Los Angeles region and in Italy are free of charge.

For concerts tickets cost $10; students are admitted free.

“The program will include selections from Franz Josef Haydn’s Nelson Mass with choir and orchestra, choral selections of contemporary American composers and orchestral selections including Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, music from the film score for Gladiator and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2,” says Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship, who conducts the orchestra.

(The Liszt piano concert, which was featured in the orchestra’s February concert, will not be performed again in Santa Barbara, but will be added to some of the tour programs.)

The performances feature solos by soprano Emmalee Wetzel, pianist Aaron Wilk, and bassoonist Paul Mori, who conducts chamber ensembles and coaches the wind and brass

sections for the orchestra.

The Westmont Choir joins the orchestra Sunday, May 10, at 7:30 pm at Saint Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church, 6410 Palos Verdes Drive South and Monday, May 11, at 7 pm in West Valley Christian Church, 22450 Sherman Way in West Hills. Admission is free to both concerts, but donations will be welcomed to offset travel expenses for the 120 student musicians.

“This is a rare opportunity to hear the sparkling sounds of the Westmont Orchestra and Choir on tour together in the Los Angeles area,” Shasberger says.

Sixty-two student musicians, faculty, and staff travel to Italy from Los Angeles on May 12. The orchestra performs in Rome, Florence, Cremona and Venice, before returning to the U.S. on May 23.

For more information, call the Westmont Music Department at (805) 565-6040.

Symposium Highlights Student Research Forty-four Westmont students and an alumnus displayed 30 research projects April 22 in Winter Hall. The 19th annual Westmont College Student Research Symposium celebrated the noteworthy accomplishments of students and their work from the divisions of the humanities, social sciences, and the natural

and behavioral sciences.

Westmont professors encourage students to experience the life of a scholar by engaging in research, often including students in their own work. “Faculty in the Natural and Behavioral Sciences, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences are very interested in involving students in meaningful research and scholarship projects as an important component in their preparation for graduate school and career,” says Warren Rogers, Westmont professor of physics.

Many of the projects represented technical work in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, kinesiology, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. This year’s projects included: “Virtual Water and State Sovereignty: How the U.S. Relationship with China and Mexico Show a Need for Change,” “Bacterial Communities and Chemical Environments of Coastal Marsh Halophyte Leaf Surfaces,” “Nuclear Physics: Isotope Separation of Exotic Neutron-Rich Nuclei,” “Testing Theories of Brain Fatigue and Ego Depletion: a physiological approach using EEG,” and “Masculinity in the Christian Subculture: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Masculinity in Christian Romance Novels.”

Heidi Henes-Van Bergen, chemistry assistant, synthesized the research materials into booklets.

•MJ

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At The Wheel

The lounge area was spacious enough for six and converts to another bed

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. You can regularly find him at Cars and Coffee with his Porsche 911 or Speedster replica.

The Car-Themed Staycation The campsite comes complete with beach cruisers, Adirondack chairs, and a grill

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’ve certainly waxed affectionate on these pages for the strong automotive culture in these parts. Santa Barbara has not only plenty of car people, but also plenty of businesses catering to this crowd.

Recently my girlfriend, Liz, and I had the pleasure of enjoying all the elements of the perfect Santa Barbara area car-themed vacation. She’s got

some gas in her veins, too, so she was the perfect partner for a vehicular-inspired adventure. Because we live here, we were able to take our time about it and space it out in a leisurely manner. But if you were to string together these activities into a single weekend or mid-week respite, it would make for a nice, full staycation.

Let’s start with accommodations,

We put bananas and salmon in our faces

since this definitely involves a forward-thinking plan. We’d heard about the Santa Barbara Autocamp, a hotel consisting of five Airstreams, and

were excited to try it, but it took some time for them to squeeze us in because of the property’s popularity. If you want a weekend stay that includes a Saturday, you’re probably out of luck for a while.

But since you happen to live in the Santa Barbara area, you should take advantage of your flexibility, and grab a night or two mid-week. It’s a totally unique experience that will light up your Instagram profile with likes.

We also got a chance to chat with Ryan Miller, VP of Marketing and Innovation at Mesa Lane Partners, the property owner. He gave us a little insight into Autocamp’s past, present, and future.

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The camp has been around continuously for 93 years

establishment in 1922. While the hotel has only been around since 2012, the trailer park itself has been there continuously for 93 years. There were some vacancies when Mesa Lane bought it, so the developer’s innovative minds decided to consolidate those and create a novel tourist experience.

The Autocamp harkens back to the early age of highway vacationing, even before the Eisenhower system lent newly prosperous Americans the ultimate sense of freedom. The Santa Barbara-Ventura route was actually the first segment of Highway 1, and there were many businesses that popped up in the Midtown area, where the Autocamp resides, to cater to the new set of automotive tourists.

In recent years, the zone has experienced a bit of a revival, somewhat anchored by Trader Joe’s.

“There’s actually this great business and community culture that’s here,” says Miller, citing the restaurants and coffee joints that make it a “walkable” area. It might have been a bit more difficult for guests there a few years ago, but the new development, plus Autocamp’s provision of beach cruiser bikes for its guests, makes exploration of the area a pleasure.

We stayed in unit 3, a 26-foot Airstream Overlander from 1959. It contained a comfy full bed on one end, with a convertible bed helping to bookend the central kitchen and bath.

It was a charming space that proved more comfortable than expected.

We enjoyed the patio with some friends early in the evening, with its Adirondack chairs, though there were only two, so it was good that we brought some camping chairs. It was easy to be lazy and not use the electric grill out there, since there are good eateries nearby. We did sushi at Edomasa, and enjoyed the leisurely pace dictated by its late closing time.

By the time we got back, it was a bit too chilly to hang outside, but even with six people we were comfortable inside. Don’t worry about bringing your own wine glasses, since there are plenty inside, which are cool enough that you’ll be glad you can buy them.

Some helpful tips: it’s a bit tight inside the bathroom, so the TP roll is hidden inside a cabinet. And if you’re a bit confounded about where to find the light switch in there, check 7 – 14 May 2015

under the counter. Finally, if you flip a switch and nothing happens, wait another second or two, since it might be the very cool LED light strip that makes for some great ambiance inside; there’s a bit of a delay there.

You’ll also find a card that entitles you to free mimosas at Our Daily Bread the next morning. We crossed the street to redeem, and while our breakfast was yummy, they didn’t seem to have much interest in following through on those mimosas. After much effort, we finally received them well after our meal was gone.

If you’re lucky enough to snag a Saturday night at Autocamp, the best place to continue the auto-themed jaunt the next morning is Santa Barbara Cars and Coffee, in Montecito. We’ll have a deeper look into the event’s history in a later issue, but suffice to say it’s been bringing together the area’s car-crazy since 2010.

You’ll see a variety of automotive sculpture, from true antiques like a Model T to highly valuable classic Ferraris with racing pedigree, to modern exotics with goose-bump-inducing exhaust notes.

After your cup overfloweth with visions of gorgeous cars, you can find a great place for brunch. Jeannine’s is always a favorite, especially its Bananas Foster French Toast, but if you’re looking to stick with the auto theme we recommend The Shop Café on Milpas, which encourages you to “Get your fix.”

Hit the brakes when you see J’s Tires at De La Guerra, since The Shop still bears this outdated sign. While they’re attached to a service shop, J’s has been gone for years (he still owns the property). It’s a walk-up counter, and on the weekends there will be a line, but it’s worth the wait.

We talked to Scott Manser, one of the owners, and he told us about the evolution of the establishment.

While it was originally slated to be a coffee joint – Manser definitely gives off a hipster vibe – it morphed into a “foodie hub” with the help of chef John Pettitt.

It’s paid off, with our last brunch there focusing on dishes featuring their house-made bread, thick and toasted to a perfect crisp. The Bananas-InYo-Face paired it with bananas, local honey, and their own almond butter, coming together to offer a delicious combo that Manser calls a “sleeper” favorite.

He’s a car guy as well, and we chatted a bit about the ’64 Ford Truck that he fixed up with the help of the adjoining garage. It was his daily driver, though, and it couldn’t keep up with his regular commute from Summerland. His friend later confirmed that the rig had been a “death trap.”

Manser also talked about future

plans for The Shop, which includes a dinner shift – they hope in a couple weeks – and a line of kitchen odds and ends, which could include things like that scrumptious almond butter and “tools for the kitchen,” which are pretty much what you’d think.

When you’re done at The Shop, you can hop across the street to Milpas Motors to check out their eclectic lineup of pre-owned metal. While we were there, we spied the typical sort of classics, along with more esoteric pieces, such as ‘80s Toyota Land Cruisers – both kitted out and stock – and a Nissan Nismo Juke.

Whether you have a car-crazy relative in town for a visit or you just want to experience all the autodom Santa Barbara has to offer, this trip should give you all the oil-soaked joy you could hope for.

Visit autocamp.com/sb to book an Airstream trailer stay. Our thanks to Santa Barbara Autocamp for the complimentary night. Go to sbcarscoffee.com for the Cars and Coffee schedule. Visit The Shop Café at shopcafesb.com. Check out Milpas Motors at milpasmotors.com.

If you have a story about a special car or piece of car culture in the local area, email Randy at rlioz11@gmail. com. Or follow him on Instagram @ •MJ rlioz.

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said. The restaurant sees an average of 300 customers per day, serving both breakfast and lunch seven days a week.

Last week, a representative from VOSS came to the café to meet with Melnik and his staff, to hear about the program and its success. According to Melnik, VOSS is a carbon-neutral company, meaning the company leaves no carbon footprint during every stage of producing the product. “It was important for me to offer glass bottles instead of plastic, and to choose a company which is committed to the environment,” he said, adding that the café goes through 30-35 cases of the water each week. The bottles are 100-percent recyclable, including the cap. “We hope our customers recycle them if they take them home. If they leave them on the table, we will recycle them,” Melnik added.

The café, which Melnik has owned for 23 of its 33 years in business, uses water from Montecito Water District, which has already helped customers surpass the 25-percent mandatory reduction through Ordinance 92 (water conservation measures) and Ordinance 93 (water rationing). Melnik plans to meet with the district board to discuss his water bottle program, in hopes that others will follow suit.

“Everyone needs to do their part,” he said.

For more about Summerland Beach

Café, visit www.summerlandbeach cafe.com. It is located at 2294 Lillie Avenue.

Upcoming Road Closures Next week, several local roads will be affected when the Amgen Tour of California, America’s largest and most prestigious professional cycling race, comes through Santa Barbara and Montecito.

The race is from May 10 through May 17, with local closures occurring on Thursday, May 14, during Stage 5 of the race. The California Highway Patrol will accompany the race and the Santa Barbara Police Department will facilitate road closures along the route within the City of Santa Barbara.

According to SBPD, every effort will be made to minimize the impact on residents, businesses, and traffic.

The following road closures may impact local travel. Cabrillo Boulevard between Garden Street and Calle Cesar Chavez, the start location, will be closed from 6 pm on Wednesday, May 13, to 5 pm on Thursday, May 14.

Temporary road closures will occur on Cabrillo Boulevard from the start location at Calle Cesar Chavez to Hot Springs Road from 11:30 am to 12:15 pm on Thursday, May 14. The closures may impact traffic on surrounding streets.

Additional information for residents and business owners on the route: oncoming traffic will be stopped approximately 20 minutes before the race. Traffic going in the same direction as the race will be allowed until the race approaches; all driveways exiting onto the course will be closed as the race passes. Traffic will be allowed to cross the course until the race is approaching, and emergency vehicles will not be affected by road closures. According to race officials, residents should remain patient when driving in the area of the event, and everyone should drive cautiously and at reduced speeds.

Additional details may be found at www.santabarbaraca.com/santabar bara-tourofcalifornia.

Studio Tour in Summerland & Carpinteria

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The annual Carpinteria and Summerland Artists Studio Tour presented by Village Properties takes place for the ninth consecutive year this Mother’s Day weekend, May 9 and 10, from 10 am to 5 pm. This event features 33 artist studios in Carpinteria and Summerland, which will be open for public touring.

According to tour rep Leigh-Anne Anderson, the Artists Studio Tour • The Voice of the Village •

“Barn Shadow,” an oil painting by local artist Whitney Abbott, will be on display during the annual Carpinteria and Summerland Artists Studio Tour this weekend

is a unique opportunity to see and buy the work of established artists, as well as emerging talent who live in the Summerland and Carpinteria Valley. The work on display will feature a wide variety of media and styles, and is displayed and sold by artists directly in their homes and studios. “Many artists have live demos and works in progress, so attendees will be able to see the art being created and get a feel for the process from concept to completion,” Anderson said.

Some of this year’s highlights include new works by renowned local artist, Ginny Speirs, who is wellknown for her paintings of local flora and fauna, and will be showcasing her new series of paintings on Saturday and Sunday at Hummingbird, a local boutique on Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria. Painter Whitney Abbott’s rustic and eclectic studio is another one on the tour; Abbott is best known for her interior and landscape oil paintings. She comes from a family of artists: her mother is well-known oil painter Meredith Abbott and her brother is Robert.

Another stop on the tour is Miri Mara’s ceramic studio. Roman born, Mara moved to the United States in 2000; he builds ceramics by hand and develops a limited amount of each design. His studio was recently featured in Elle Décor with large steel windows and display of whitewashed salvaged timber.

In conjunction with the weekend’s activities, there is a Studio Tour Art Show at the Carpinteria Arts Center through May 12. Most of the participating studios will exhibit one or two pieces in this show.

For a full list of participating artists, visit the Carpinteria Arts Center website at www.artscarp.org or on facebook.com/astcarpinteria. A small percentage of art sales will benefit CVAC’s missions to promote, support our local artists in their studios and galleries, Bellas Artes program, Art by the Sea kids camp, Art in Public Places, Flicks film club, and more.

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Porgy and Bess Local teens will “Sing It Out” at a fundraiser for AHA! this Saturday in Goleta

this year’s ninth Annual Artist Studo Tour,” Anderson added.

The event is free and open to the community. A map and Art Studio Directory will be available both online at www.artscarp.org and from the Carpinteria Arts Center.

Local Teens “Sing It Out!” A dozen teenagers will take the stage one by one to sing rock-and-roll cover songs on Saturday, May 9, for “Sing it Out!”, an inspiring program of AHA!, a non-profit organization that fosters social and emotional intelligence in adolescents. Now in its 11th year, the event takes place at the Deckers Brands’ Rotunda in Goleta.

Rock musician Tina Schlieske and her band, The Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura, will back up the teens, many of whom have never sung in public before. According to organizers, the teens have been practicing for months to overcome fears and individual challenges. Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider will sing with the group to show her support.

AHA! serves teens and families year-round with both in-school and

after-school programs; its main purpose is to teach social and emotional intelligence through a highly creative and participatory curriculum where everyone feels understood and has a sense of purpose and belonging. AHA!’s experiential curriculum guides teens to set goals, celebrate diversity, and combat bullying. All programs are funded by donations.

Deckers Brand Showcase, at the event site, is offering a special shopping experience for those attending Sing It Out! on May 9. Attendees for Sing It Out! will receive a 20-percent discount on their purchases of the following Deckers Brands: UGG Australia, Teva, Sanuk, Ahnu, HOKA ONE ONE, Tsubo, & MOZO. In addition, Deckers will donate 20 percent of the purchase proceeds to benefit AHA! Tickets for Sing It Out! are $25 for adults and $10 for students under the age of 18. Taco truck fare, wines donated by Babcock Winery & Vineyards, and a signature cocktail will be available for purchase.

To buy tickets, visit ahasb.org/singit-out/. The event will be held at 6601 Hollister Avenue in Goleta.

•MJ

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Thank You Lewis!

20 YEARS OF SERVING MONTECITO

Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners wants to recognize Lewis Ross for being such a positive champion, serving clients in the Montecito community as your dedicated concierge. For 20 years (and not a single sick day), Lewis has been a fixture in Montecito in the iconic Ablitt’s van, picking up and delivering your dry cleaning, laundry, and specialty orders. On the eve of your retirement Lewis, we and the 700 clients you serve, most of whom have become friends over the past 2 decades of your service, wanted to thank you.

Enjoy your celebratory trip to Europe this June to pursue your passion for the outdoors, trekking in the alps and the Pyrenees. As an environmentalist you’ve covered 300,000 miles in Montecito over the last 20 years, saving your clients from driving over 2 million miles back and forth to Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners.

As is the mother, so is her daughter. – Ezekiel

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RFK Jr. Speaks His Mind at USC Shawn Roads, USC student and executive director of the Environmental Student Assembly Program Board and his committee with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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obert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK, Jr.) was invited to the University of Southern California (USC) to speak about energy, economic vitality, free markets, and democracy. I reported on RFK, Jr. when he spoke at the Lobero Theatre in 2005 to help raise funding for PAAC (Pesticide Awareness and Alternative Coalition) for our city parks with Estelle Foster, the executive director of PAAC. It provided the necessary funding to keep our city parks pesticide-free for our kids and all who enjoy the parks.

For the USC talk, he was invited by Daria Yudacufski, executive director, USC Visions and Voices on behalf of USC president C. L. Max Nikias. Daria received her graduate degree from UCSB while working with Zaveeni Kahn-Marcus director of UCSB’s MutliCultural Center.

The publicly invited talk was mostly geared for USC students, with many non-students attending who were from diverse cultural, political. and demographic backgrounds There was a subtle excitement on campus among attendees walking into the sold-out event at USC’s hallmark reception hall, Town and Gown.

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RFK, Jr. was introduced by Daria: “There may be no greater task for us as human beings than to preserve the future of the planet on which we live... in California, we are experiencing a severe drought. Access to water is going to require the best of human ingenuity and effort. Tonight, we have the immense honor of hearing from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a resolute and experienced defender of the environment who will talk about our environmental legacies and how we can help preserve this planet for future generations. He was named one of Time magazine’s Heroes for the Planet for helping Riverkeeper lead the fight to restore the Hudson River.

The New York City watershed agreement, which Kennedy negotiated, is considered an international model in consensus negotiations and sustainable development.”

Overall, Robert provided an informative lecture and a sense of humor, which relieved some of the tension regarding his candid views backed with hard scientific facts and humanitarian concerns. Robert said, “An investment in the environment is an investment in our infrastructure.

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He has shared how we must explain to children that the fish caught on a camping trip can’t be used for dinner due to the pollution in the rivers and lakes: “Every fresh-water fish contains mercury, with children losing 1 percent IQ annually due to contaminated fish (CDC), the Appalachian Mountain area lakes, rivers, and streams and the entire state of West Virginia’s water have been contaminated from coal harvesting and production. Iceland, Sweden, and Brazil decarbonized and had an increase in their economy; new entrepreneurs in renewal resources come in and revitalize it.”

He talked about the various energy resources from oil to coal, wind and solar, their true market value, present conditions and examples of alternative energy being utilized in the U.S. He pointed out that California leads in energy efficiency, the Rosenfeld Effect, and uses more than 50-percent less energy per capita than any other state (California 6,000 kilowatt hours per capita; rest of the U.S. 14,000). In addition, the suppliers reward users based on how much is conserved. He said that Texas, Montana, and North Dakota combined have enough wind power to generate efficient energy on a national grid that can supply easily all of the U.S. and Canada. The farmers in North Dakota make approximately $800/acre for corn; however, they can make $3,200/acre harnessing wind energy and still farm corn.

Kennedy pointed out the larger issue is building a national grid to feed the energy into and access, as our current grid is “archaic at 300 miles tops in its range.” A new national grid for both wind and solar is lagging behind legislation. In other commentary, he pointed out the stark reality that if every American truly paid for gasoline at the pump without government subsidies to the oil companies, it would be closer to $12-$15.00 per gallon, “Taxes and subsidies pay for

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oil spills, military to guard the wells and other hidden expenditures. Until recently, we were borrowing a billion dollars a day mainly from nations that don’t share our values in order to import a billion dollars worth of oil…

We were, in essence, funding both sides of the war. With current infrastructure, the marketplace tilts away from renewable energies, despite the fact that solar is still safer and cheaper than natural gas or oil.”

Robert stated that the problem with environmentalists is that they are afraid of the marketplace, “I would say it’s time to embrace it. A true free market eliminates waste, properly values our resources and raises the quality of life for every one. If one person cheats the market place, it takes away from every one. Capitalism is ok when harnessed with a social purpose; it’s ok to get rich serving the public interest, not by causing environmental hazards. Serving the public interest is the same as serving your shareholders and society.”

During the Q and A, he fielded a question about our drought issues.

Kennedy replied that he had not researched it enough to make a full commentary – however, he has no problem with whomever is contracting to use aquifers to provide drinking water, as long as the corporation has made an agreement with the state, or Native Americans who may own the water being used, to be in environmental compliance and using the resources to generate local wealth and jobs. Should the corporation deplete the natural resource and exploit it for their own profit, damage the environment, or use it for unethical purposes, it’s a violation.

He concluded, “I don’t believe we have to reduce our quality of life to have a rational free market, to stop the use of carbon, or to divorce ourselves from a fuel that is destroying our planet. What we need to do is change the laws to rationalize the marketplace, so we reward the most efficient energy produced. One of the biggest canards is blaming individuals for their own choices (using a cell phone or the car they drive). That is not the issue, the issue is what’s happening on Capitol Hill, and that’s what you need to pay attention to and how it’s destroying local democracy on every level.

“This is not the first time the United States has faced the problem of corporate control of our government, and it’s not a party issue; the flood of corporate money infects both parties.

We lost our democracy during the Steel Age. It was stopped by president Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), who re-established our democracy by enforcing anti-trust laws, stopping child labor, endorsing the gold stan-

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CHIHUAHUA (Mix) “Hombre” about 9 years old.

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any of us leave money, assets, perhaps even gratitude upon shuffling off our mortal coil. Others leave a bequest of written words or celluloid remembrances. Some leave little or nothing.

And then there are those whose beneficence leaves a legacy so powerful it transcends time and generations. Such is what Condor Express whale-watching pioneer Fred Benko, who died two years ago this March, has left behind.

Not only did he instill the love of the ocean and its creatures grand and small into tens of thousands of visitors and their children over the years as captain of first the Condor and then the Condor Express, but he also inspired his own children and grandchildren with the music he played.

Before he became a whale-watching pioneer, Benko’s great aspiration was to be a folksinger. To that end, he played up and down the East Coast for beer and pocket change, eventually performing in some of the best establishments in New York and Washington, D.C., at one time introducing Joan Baez to a crowd at Georgetown’s Cellar Door.

Although long-retired from the entertainment world, he continued to play and sing – with the Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, church choirs, fundraisers – culminating every year in a Christmas family get-together during which he would entertain his son, Matt (co-owner with his mother, Pat, of The Chicken Ranch), and Matt’s and his wife Denise’s two sons, Brennan and Tyler, along with Fred’s daughter Dody, wife Hiroko, and others with his guitar and a medley of folk songs.

Grandson Brennan remembers going to the Benkos’ home beginning when he was five or six years old (he’s 18 now). “Fred would bust out his guitar on Christmas Eve and sing some of his old folk songs,” Brennan recalls. “He had a good voice; totally reminded me of Johnny Cash. My 7 – 14 May 2015

dad,” he recounts, “would serenade us with some of those songs that he learned from ‘Grandpa Fred.’ His music wasn’t tangible,” he continues, “but it was audible. Like a family heirloom.”

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That “family heirloom” has turned into a three-man band called False Puppet. Brennan is the drummer, big brother Tyler plays guitar and is lead singer, and (Eric) Channing Peake, whose great-grandfather is famed artist Channing Peake, plays bass guitar and does backup vocals. False Puppet has a young, growing, and enthusiastic local fan base.

Brennan is a sometime model (he’s been in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and models for Wilhelmina LA), Channing works in a clothing store in Montecito, and Tyler attends Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles but puts his time in at The Chicken Ranch

We last saw him Saturday, March 28 evening, as he was going full speed chasing behind a black animal across the canyon near my home, towards Montecito. When he did not return, we thought they might have run off on a honeymoon. Next morning at the crack of dawn we began the search 24/7 through every means, neighborhood, humane society, animal searches, numerous posters.

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supporters, I included, believe our nation is in much greater peril. If the president remains silent, or if the president eases his guards, he will be liable before the nation and the world.

We are a part of this world. Miseries in Middle East and North Africa are agonies here.

The president gradually understood the United States has been an immoral superpower, particularly after president Franklin Roosevelt. For instance, the U.S. hands are stained by the blood of nearly eight million deceased in Afghanistan, Iraq Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Southeast Asia, South America, and Vietnam to name a few.

If the president aspires for equity at home and abroad, then he must capture its divine. Injustice whenever is a promise to universal dominion wherever. Reform and revolution, for instance, stopping the absurd policy of spying by this and the prior administrations, and standing against bigoted allies in Middle East, surely offer promise of justice, freedom, peace, and wealth.

The president must speak to the nation revealing the truth: The present disarray is in Middle East and North Africa and the suffering at home and Middle East are due to irrational Israeli regime, and its foul occupation of Palestinian land and our utter support for Israel. The Israel’s adamant position will finally lead to its demise, bizarrely with our aid! This is unsolicited and unwelcomed, but both Israeli and the American government are liable for this outcome.

Jews have been exposed to bias and malice over history except in the era of Cyrus The Great (Circa 576-530 B.C.) when the Persians governed three continents.

My birthtown in Iran, the majestic city of Esfahan, was built by Cyrus The Great just to shelter the Jews!

Cyrus released Jews in Jerusalem and permitted them to rebuild their Temple 2,500 years ago. For this reason, Cyrus is mentioned 23 times in Hebrew Bible as the benefactor, deliverer of the Jews, and the King of the Jews.

The world is aware of ruling of history and the fate of the Nazi Germany. What does Mr. O’Malley and friends think will transpire to a country that since 2001 has slayed 1,455,590 Iraqis, traumatized half the population of Iraq for a generation, attacked seven Moslem nations, killed between 18,000 and 20,000 Afghan civilians, slayed an estimate of 220,000 Syrians (based on United Nation Report dated 15 January 2015) due to the insolvent foreign policy of American governments?

What occurs to a “reputed democratic” country that its warriors partake wittingly slaying Afghan civil-

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ians for sport, with some soldiers keeping body parts of their preys, counting a skull, as keepsakes? What occurs to a nation whose officers commit the revolting crimes of torture that transpired at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq? What jells to a nation whose military personnel’s commit the cruelty of CIA interrogators at Gitmo using rectal feedings, against to the norms and morals of the US army?

The judgment day is incoming, for example, by ISIS terrorists and future executioners million times eviler.

There exists no tactic to get out of the current mess unless the U.S. government speaks the truth. The souls of those murdered are weeping for justice. They will surely achieve justice sooner or later. The president is aware of these realities. Mr. O’Malley is not!

As watchman, the president must warn the nation of the coming crumbling. Vitally, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah are not the threats to this country! They are victims of cruelty by Israel and our governments, including the current administration, deceived by Israel leaders. During the past 250 years, Iran has not attacked any country. It has only defended itself when, for example, Iraq attacked Iran after the 1979 Revolution. In contrast during the last 60 years, Israel has assaulted six Arab nations to occupy the land of Palestinians.

Relatedly, Muslims are not a menace to this nation and are not controlled by Iran! Surely, a very slim margin worldwide backs violent jihad because they have lost trust in Israel and its patron, the U.S. They will be nastier in future if our government stays on its old ways. A nuclear deal with Iran increases the number of our friends and reduces number of our foes. Yet, apparently, Mr. O’Malley is oblivious of the reality.

Neither the president nor Congress can rout the foes they decline to define. The peril of Apartheid Israel is well known. Yet, Mr. O’Malley apparently has not read outstanding books by President Carter or the writings of the late president Nelson Mandela. Israel has no reservation to slay 1.57 billion Muslims or the entire world based on repeated dreadful statements of its key leaders since Israel acquired nuclear weapons with the aid of western powers: the U.S., France, Germany, Britain, and even Norway. Again, Mr. O’Malley must read a few history books!

Historians, American and Israeli, are aware Israel’s nuclear-weapons venture could never have gotten off the ground without massive contributions from France. Amusingly, France has taken the strictest line on anti proliferation when it came to Iran, but it aided in laying the foun-

dation of Israel’s nuclear weapons program! Mr. O’Malley is reminded nearly 2,500 French citizens lived in the 1950s in Israel doing work on Israeli nuclear weapons under a dense mask of secrecy. In this path, the U.S. has been a naive sucker and later a hesitant partner.

Unfortunately, political spine is in scarcity in the Washington. No politician desires to deal with nuclear Israel for dread of opening a box containing nearly all ills of Middle East.

The president most solid cohorts recognize this silence has become a burden for the U.S. all the way up to the president. The president’s fear, along with former presidents, has been the revelation could compromise the foundation of the Israeli-U.S. understanding. Yet, the president and our nation must remember Israel now has up to 400 atomic and hydrogen nuclear arms. Relatedly, Israel has the facility to hurl them via aircraft, long-range missiles, and submarines.

Even if its military is wrecked, Israel can use its nuclear arms in an instant strike.

Israel has applied its nuclear arms to bully Arabs for further territorial gains via coercions. Israel has bulled even Russia and the U.S. with the so-called Samson Option threats.

The daring Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, has alleged Israel has the tools and the skill to bomb any city in the world. In 1973’s Yom Kippur War, prime minister Golda Meir sanctioned a nuclear alert, readying 13 atomic bombs for missiles and aircrafts. Israeli Ambassador Simha Dinitz warned “very serious conclusions” if there was not an instant airlift of supplies by the U.S. This drove President Nixon to send airlifts of top military supplies to Israel!

Form 1973, the Samson Option has been exploited to bully the Soviet Union/Russia from intervening militarily on the side of Arab nations.

Evidently an Israeli nuclear attack on Russia by our “ally” would lead Russia sending countless nuclear weapons toward us and the U.S. acting in kind! This is total insanity!

As to Iran, the Israeli prime minister has constantly claimed Iran must stop its belligerence in the Middle East. Again, this is when Iran has not assaulted or occupied another state in final 250 years. In contrast, Israel has started no less than six wars in 60 years. The PM also has suggested expanding the range of the negotiations to comprise puffed-up claims that Iran will never stop its nuclear weapon program. The president must remind the liar the former administration declined Iran’s “grand bargain” proposal in 2003!

All Israeli prime ministers have been telling the world “Iran will have a nuclear weapon by next year” for

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more than 20 years!

The whole humankind persists a possible prey of a horrific Israeli strategy as long as our political and military leaders are reluctant to modify the fearful U.S. policy of support for Israel’s Samson Option, an experience developed without or contrary to United Nation regulations.

Washington claims Israel is an ally.

The president most loyal backers, I included, have no quarrel with this privilege. In fact, I believe supporting Israel, not the Apartheid Israel, is duty of any principled being. Similarly, Iran and the rest of the world do not mind this friendship as long as Israel returns to the borders prior to the 1967 war. Yet, friends don’t let friends drive drunk, cut their noses, jump over a cliff, or commit suicide.

The Israeli friends here, Mr. O’Malley included, all governments round the globe, and moral Jews must tell Israel it must end governing eyeless and heartless. Else, Israeli will surely commit hara-kiri and in the process will annihilate humanity.

Israel has a headship crisis. It has passed from a group of founders who “promised” legality, buoyancy, justice, exercised power, and made decisions. The recent leaders are a group of younger jesters, with the prime minister as its vilest example.

They are talented, “clever” but not intelligent. The PM lacks the skill and courage to unit Jews in his country aiming to live in harmony with Palestinians of all faiths and colors on the basis equal parity. Israel needs a diplomat! True leaders can surely rise to trials. When Haaretz pooled last December, it found 54 percent of Israelis think that the prime minister should not remain in office, proving the PM is a “leader” with no foresight but he wins elections breaking promises with no shame!

To prevent the ensuing ruin of the country, our government must return to the original national security policy of the U.S. in evading foreign muddles.

We must start following the words of the United States Constitution.

Finally, I am not a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim. I was born and nourished in Iran and received my graduate degree in the United States. Yet, I accept no duality being an Iranian or an American. I understood the two worlds as one, and I work for world peace.

From the noble 13th century Persian Sufi Poet Rumi: “I go to a synagogue, church, and mosque, and I see the same spirit and the same altar.”

Respectfully, Akbar Montaser Professor (1981-2012) The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (Editor’s note: Kudos to any reader •MJ who’s gotten this far! – J.B.) 7 – 14 May 2015

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People may ask, after they attend the workshop, how long will it take before they can actually see a change in their lives or a shift in their understanding?

In the workshop, we are going to be doing experiments and practicing the theories together. The ability to comprehend these new concepts and actualize these new abilities varies with each person. Some people will grasp this immediately; others may take longer to shift because the concepts are so new and counter-intuitive. Just as it probably took people a long time to believe the Earth was round, it can take awhile for new beliefs and paradigms to be accepted and incorporated into everyday life.

dard, establishing protective tariffs, and lowering taxes. He conserved land for future generations and established the National Forest Service and our National Parks. In 1907, he called for legislation to ban corporate contributions for political purposes (The Tillman Act of 1907). The Supreme Court changed the law in 2010, leaving us with a corporate control over politicians, the candidate with the most money wins, which is what our Founding Fathers came to this country from Europe to get away from.

“I am going to remain optimistic.

We’ve been here before and made a change for the betterment of Americans and its economy, the aspirations of our children, and our place in the world.”

Oslie Quantum Leap Workshop

From The View to our town, Pamala Oslie is hosting a weekend workshop at the Fess Parker DoubleTree on May 16-17, and seats are filling up fast!

Pam is a respected author, consultant, radio-show host, professional psychic intuitive, and aura expert, who has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, TEDx, American Riviera, The Dr. Oz Show, The View, The Ricki Lake Show, Coast to Coast with George Noory, Hallmark’s Better TV, radio shows, and featured in many national magazines.

Pam is also called upon to help locate downed planes, missing persons, and other types of rescue.

With a graduate degree from Westmont College, she has researched and tested many theories of quantum physics and related scientific theories, and now understands how this advanced knowledge can help people radically change their lives and achieve their goals. Known and supported by many local clients in our town and around the world, Pam was asked to present a hands-on, experiential workshop where attendees can explore and experience these theories with her in person. As we interviewed Pam a year ago about her book, Infinite You: A Journey to Your Greater Self and Beyond (Our Town, MJ issue #20-10, March 13, 2014) followed by her TV guest appearance on The View, here are the highlights of our interview this week that describe her upcoming workshop:

Q. How did your two-day workshop “Quantum Leap” come about after your book?

A. I wrote the book to explain in layman’s terms what quantum physics is revealing about us and the nature of reality, and how we can apply that information to our lives.

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Pam Oslie is putting the finishing touches on her weekend workshop set for May 16-17

ing what he was explaining, how profound that principle is, and how it applies and affects our everyday world. The theories in quantum physics are so dramatically life-altering that sources, like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, say, “The transition from classical to quantum physics marks a genuine revolution in our understanding of the physical world.” Quantum physics is radically changing our definition and understanding of physical reality. This is the new frontier, described decades ago by Nobel Prize winners in physics Werner Karl Heisenberg, Max Planck and Erwin Schrödinger.

They declared that consciousness is at the core of reality. Planck is known for stating, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.” After the book came out, people kept asking me to have an experiential workshop because they were reading the book and wanted to know how to apply it.

What can quantum physics teach us beyond what we already know?

Quantum physics reveals that there is more to us than what we have been trained to believe, and that we can’t count on our five physical senses to give us an accurate view of reality.

Our senses tell us the sun comes up and goes around us, that the Earth isn’t moving, that the airplane in the sky is smaller than it actually is, and things like that. So we can’t count on just our five physical senses to give us a true picture of reality. Quantum physics expands our minds as to what’s possible. Our technology is leading us to a new understanding of what is possible; the Internet, cell phones, and social media all exemplify non-local mind and entanglement, and show how we can connect instantly. We have smart phones, computers, and satellites because of quantum physics. These involve waves of information, just as consciousness does. Our technology is leading us to a greater understanding of what we are capable of doing; our “minds” are way more complex and advanced than any technology we have created

Who would you recommend the workshop to, current clients here in Montecito, local scientists, researchers, students at UCSB, et al?

Right now, I have people of all ages and all interests attending, from junior high students to people in their 60s and 70s. Anyone can attend. This workshop is actually for anyone who feels there is more to life, people who feel that they are working too hard to achieve their goals, people who are interested in consciousness and quantum physics, those who are willing to explore outside the box and anyone who is willing to look at life from a different perspective and expand the views they already hold. It’s not “Woo woo” or some fantasy topic, it’s grounded in science.

Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

thus far. Many of our greatest and most accomplished scientists, athletes, and musicians already think outside the box. Tiger Woods says he practices the power of his mind through visualization; he visualizes his golf ball going into the hole. Physicists Stephen Hawking and David Deutsch believe that they have evidence parallel universes are real; there are way more dimensions to reality. Hopefully people are willing to examine what they believe and not just stay stuck in what they think they know. I say, argue for your limitations and they’re yours.

The way transformation happens, and has happened throughout history, is brave explorers and mavericks are the ones who break through old thinking and reveal what’s possible. This workshop is for those mavericks and brave explorers.

Is there any redux that this mode of being can be used in a way that is negative?

(Laughing) We already use our thinking and our natural powers against ourselves; we’re just not conscious of it. Not using our true, advanced powers and abilities, or being afraid of them, is what limits us. It’s old thinking. Einstein said you cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it in the first place. What I’ve noticed is, these are actually natural powers and abilities we all have. Developing a higher degree of expanded consciousness and understanding increases our level of trust, love, joy, freedom, and compassion so we can create our best and most amazing life.

411: Pamala Oslie workshop, May 16 and 17, Fess Parker DoubleTree Register online: www.auracolors. com/event/quantum-leap •MJ (805) 687-6604

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SEEN (Continued from page 16) Beverly Zaleski, Diane Meehan, and Bonnie Rand look stunning at the Mad Hatter’s luncheon

Invitation chair Diane White, Transition House Auxiliary president Wendy Clapp, event chair Florence Michel, and treasurer Anna Ylvisaker

Carrie Kilpatric in her “most beautiful” winning hat

The “most creative” hat on Laura Applefield

gram. There are also literacy and tech programs and teen programs.”

Sorry to say I didn’t win the grandprize raffle of dining at six of our finest restaurants, or the week-long cruise, or the $1,500 shopping spree at Nordstrom or the two nights at the El Encanto, but four happy folks did.

Save your hats for next year. See you then!

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reception in the Rotunda for about 350 folks interested in health care.

Inside in the Reagan room, the program began with the Community Partners in Excellence award being presented to Carole Dodero, N.P., and Anne White, D.O. They are the Sansum Clinic Rehabilitation & Extended Care health care provider team and recognized as leaders in their field. Their lectures and health education positively impact the aging population in Santa Barbara.

The duo gives outstanding service in providing primary care to residents of skilled nursing facilities throughout the area. They also offer rehabilitation, custodial and end-of-life expertise with caring and compassion. Some of the thoughts expressed: “With Anne White, you’ll think you met an angel, and Carol kept the department running for years.”

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President and CEO of VNHC Lynda Tanner thanked her board chaired by Herb Geary, R.N. with Neil Levinson, Esq. as secretary, and Mary Pritchard, CPA as treasurer.

Lynda was also the panel host and moderator. Her panel ran the gamut of local health care, starting with CEO & chief medical officer at Sansum Clinic, Kurt N. Ransohoff, M.D.; CEO of CenCal Health, Bob Freeman; medical director of research and wellness at the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara with Sansum Clinic, Fred Kass, M.D.; executive vice president and COO of Cottage Health System, Steven Fellows; and medical director of VNHC and president of Santa Barbara Preferred Health Partners, Michael Bordofsky, M.D. VNHC has been around since 1908 and annually helps more than 15,000 people maintain health and independence, recover from an illness or surgery, and transition at end of life with dignity and comfort. Since no one is turned away, VNHC provides more than $2 million in charity benefits every year. What a treasure. As they say, “There when you need us most.”

The forum was free. You only needed to make reservations. If you’d like to give back, call Rick Keith, foundation executive director, at 690-6290. To volunteer your services, call Arlene Stepputat at 690-6274. The Santa Barbara number for services is 9655555.

•MJ 7 – 14 May 2015

Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow is addicted to coffee… and to helping out at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, June 7-12, at the Santa Barbara Hyatt. Please join us. www.sbwriters.com/conference/schedule.html

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n some cases, Camelot lasts considerably longer than one brief shining moment. For example, for the 43rd year, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference (SBWC) will reconvene June 7.

For those of us who’ve been drawn to SBWC for many years in a row, we often think of ourselves as returning to a Camelot-like realm every June.

The original idea behind the conference was to create a place for writers to set aside everyday, creativity-crushing reality and enter a magical realm of workshops in the craft of writing.

This week of writing workshops is also my excuse to drink gallons of coffee and become outrageously sleep-deprived in order to summon my own writing muse.

Morning workshops begin at the decent hour of 9 am, but panels, speakers, and pirate workshops continue through the day and into the wee hours. This routine lasts for six days straight.

This might sound a bit insane, and it is, but it’s amazing what adrenaline and sleep deprivation can do to awaken the creative spirit.

This king’s feast of learning and writing inspiration began in 1972 as a brilliant concept by founders Barnaby and Mary Conrad.

That year, Conrad convinced an assortment of name writers – Ray Bradbury, Budd Schulberg, Clifton Fadiman, and Alex Haley – to join the original 37 students and four workshop leaders for that first Santa Barbara Writers Conference at Cate School in Carpinteria.

In 1975, the SBWC moved to the Miramar Hotel in Montecito, and for the next 25 years, it was a true Camelot for an extended family of writers from around the world.

Year after year, famous writers found the funky blue-roofed hotel by the sea a most congenial spot. Eudora Welty, Jonathan Winters, James Ellroy, Gore Vidal, James Michener, William F. Buckley Jr., Fannie Flagg, and Sue Grafton are just a few among a long list of well-known authors who’ve been speakers at the SBWC. Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz, became a fixture at the conference beginning in 1975 and then for the rest of his life.

The name Schulz came up again a few decades later when Schulz’s son, Monte, novelist and longtime SBWC workshop leader, became the current owner of the SBWC. And Conrad’s son, Barnaby Conrad III, recently 7 – 14 May 2015

joined the conference family as a workshop leader, too.

I’d love to have space to mention all the authors who’ve graced SBWC with wisdom over the decades, but suffice it to say, there’ve been a lot. If you’re a reader, it’s likely you’ve read works by many of them. Regardless of the namedropping one could do with this long list, the doors have always been open to both beginning and experienced writers. The only prerequisite for attendees is the willingness to learn how to make their writing better.

The blue roofs of the Miramar faded away when the hotel closed in 2000.

The SBWC moved to the Westmont campus for a few years, and then to the DoubleTree resort for a few more. Now it’s found a home at the Santa Barbara Hyatt.

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This June will mark my 23rd year at SBWC, but I’m just a piker compared to some other veterans. Sid Stebel was at the original 1972 gathering and has only missed one year when he was working on the movie Picnic at Hanging Rock.

He returned the next year and has been with the conference ever since. He leads a popular fiction workshop.

As a beginning writer at SBWC, I learned to craft better stories in various workshops. Quite a few attendees over the years have gone on to great success as authors. And quite a few others have felt that we want give back to the conference that taught us distant moons ago.

We’ve formed a cadre of volunteers who work hard during the conference week to provide 200 attendees with the kind of learning experience we had, when we were first students at the conference. Our payoff is seeing new writers master their craft. And we enjoy the sense of family and camaraderie that is always a part of this conference.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19) “It helps take care of 14 rescue horses he accumulated,” says Linda, who amicably divorced the TV star in 1975.

“He had become a jockey during the years after the Monkees, which was a lifelong dream, and rode several of his own horses in races, even winning a few of them. He never sold his retired racehorses, choosing instead to care for them in addition to several other horses he rescued who were destined for the knacker man.”

The Davy Jones Equine Memorial Foundation is funded by his many fans, with the motto Keep Calm and Ride On. The website is djemf.com.

Spreading Pollan

kale braised in olive oil and wild rice pilaf.

Among those noshing au natural were Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Doug and Marnie Margerum, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Thomas and Blue Caleel, Robert Weinman, Kurt Ransohoff, and Celesta Billeci.

Food for thought, indeed.

Let’s Hear It for the Girls It couldn’t have been a more perfect day when Girls Inc.’s One Hundred Committee hosted its 30th annual scholarship lunch at the Santa Barbara aerie of Chad and Ginni Dreier, just a tiara’s toss from KEYT’s TV studios.

The Biltmore-catered event, chaired

by Leslie Cane Schneiderman,

A court-appointed Special Advocates Team at the helm: Terreyl Bunn, Arlene and Milt Larsen, Marge Kozaki, Pat Aptaker, CASA past president Janet Garufis, auctioneer Andrew Firestone, Vicki Edwards, Shari Guifoyle, Jenade Scott, and Teresa Sat (photo by Priscilla)

At the Casa By The Sea pre-dinner reception are co-chairs Jennifer Smithwick and Robyn Parker, with guitarist Chris Fossek, dancer,Theresa Kuskey-Nowak, and sponsor Kenny Kahn from the Santa Ynez band of Chumash Indians (photo by Priscilla)

(From left): Nancy Ransohoff, speaker Michael Pollan, Leslie Ridley-Tree and Kurt Ransohoff at the Granada dinner (photo by Kimberley Citro)

For the past 25 years Berkeley-based Michael Pollan has been writing New York Times best-selling books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect – food, agriculture, health and the environment One particular tome The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the 10 best books of 2006 by both the Times and The Washington Post.

A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, Michael, who was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2010, made his fourth visit to our tony town to appear at the Granada, part of the UCSB popular Arts & Lectures series, and give his fascinating take on life.

Before his talk, major supporters gathered in the McCune Founders Room for dinner prepared by chef Michael Hutchings, which included organic breast of chicken with Tuscan

attracted 260 guests and raised around $200,000 for the nonprofit that helps 1,200 girls annually.

Last year, $220,000 was handed out in scholarships.

Guest speaker was entrepreneur and philanthropist Priscilla Presley, fetchingly attired in a Pucci dress, while Amber Ortiz conducted the auction, which included a trip to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, a Pebble Beach getaway and a dinner for 10 in the private dining room at Trattoria Mollie.

Basking in the sunshine were Hiroko Benko, Victoria Hines, Kristi Newton, Carole Ridding, Jelinda DeVorzon, Mireille Noone, Sandi Nicholson, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Sheryl Lowe, Thomas Rollerson, Diana MacFarlane, Genevieve Reitman, Eva Guerrand-Hermes, Bui Simon, Melinda Mars, Caroline Thompson,

(From left): Lynda Weinman, speaker Michael Pollan and Bruce Heavin (photo by Kimberley Citro)

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Gathered at the Impulse Advanced Communications table are Dave Clark, Impulse president; Sabrina Papa, showing a Depeche Mode-signed guitar, Ari Garcia and Jasmine Brant (seated), Lee Carlander and David Magid, with Tony Papa, president of the CASA board (photo by Priscilla)

Doreen Ladin, and Jennifer Smith Hale.

The night before, John and Connie Pearcy hosted an intimate cocktail soiree at their Montecito home, with guests including Nina Terzian, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Tom and Eileeen Mielko, and Tom and Kathy Dunlap.

Foster Funds A record 260 guests turned out for CASA’s (Court Appointed Special Advocates) nautical-style gala at the Bacara raising around $175,000 for the charity, which advocates for foster youth.

The boffo bash, co-chaired by Robyn Parker and Jennifer Smithwick, was emceed by the ubiquitous Andrew Firestone.

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Tony Papa, president of the CASA board; Kim Colby Davis, CASA executive director; and guest speaker Francine Kelly of the Children’s Council for CASA (photo by Priscilla)

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Auction prizes included a cruise on the 60-foot yacht Zaca, the second largest sailing vessel in the marina, a stay in Lake Tahoe, a VIP visit to Ellen DeGeneres’s TV talk-show studio in Burbank, a trip to New Orleans, a stay at the Four Seasons in Costa Rica, a five-day stay at a Fairmont hotel or resort in the U.S. or Canada, and Depeche Mode souvenirs, including a signed guitar, donated by Martin and Kerilee Gore, raised a whopping $61,000.

Todd Venture wielded the gavel.

Checking out the bustling party were Janet Garufis, Sabrina Papa, Judy Egenolf, Milt and Arlene Larsen, Patty Santiago, Tom and Christina Frisina, Kim Davis, Hildy Medina, Pat Aptaker, Jennifer Burnett, Pati Kern, Kristin Kirby, Mer James, and Marisa Demourkas...

Feeling Sporty Santa Barbara Polo Club kicked off its 104th year in grand style when fans packed the stands to watch what promises to be one of the most colorful seasons ever.

Under new president, Texan tycoon John Muse, 17 teams involving 70 international players and more

SBP&RC trustee Chuck and Margarita Lande, Monique Rodriguez, event coordinator, with Bilo Zarif (photo by Priscilla)

Trustees Justin Klentner and Wesley Ru (photo by Priscilla)

than 380 high-priced ponies, will be involved in the Sunday games, with Gulfstream Aerospace, the world’s premier business jet company, as title sponsor for the Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open, the biggest polo competition on the Left Coast – not to mention one of the biggest trophies in the sport at nearly six feet high.

It is the company’s first major sponsorship in the U.S., says Charles Ward, Texan head of promotion at the

SBP&RC Alison Hansen, event director; on the club’s sun deck with actress/model Kelly Dowdle, polo player Jonathan Burrows, and model/actress Shannon Decker (photo by Priscilla)

Angie Antwan of Maserati USA perched against a 2015 Gran Turismo Convertible Maserati with Kerry Lloyd Markowitz, Kristen Springer, Craig Springer at the driver’s door, and Paige Hope of Maserati North America, with Charles Ward, Idea Works, Inc. managing partner and a 2015 Grand Turismo Maserati (photo by Priscilla)

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Having fun are Mindy and Chris Denson, Rick Sears, polo referee; player Paige Beard and Victoria Firestone (photo by Priscilla)

lush Carpinteria facility.

As I’ve already noted, Italian car marker Maserati has also chosen the club as the only U.S. stop on the Maserati 20-goal polo tour in September, and owners of the luxury autos are being given complimentary tickets through dealerships. The newest models will also be on display every Sunday, as they were this past weekend.

“This newest group of sponsors far exceeds any prior year by a wide margin,” says Charles, who spends his summers in Montecito.

I also hear that dashing Nacho Figueras, the Ralph Lauren Polo model who has visited Santa Barbara a number of times and is a frequent co-player with Prince Harry on the East Coast, may well be a major regular later in the season playing for bil-

lionaire Tom Barrack’s team, Piocho Ranch, named after his 1,200-acre spread in Santa Ynez.

Tom, who founded Colony Capital, also famously bought the late Michael Jackson’s 3,000-acre Neverland ranch.

A sizzling season, indeed...

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

The charity, which is on target to place its 200th baby in a home in nine years, had 220 guests, helping raise around $80,000 for the cause, founded

by Meichelle Arntz.

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Angels Foster Care Baby Balloons waiting to be placed by co-chairs Shannon Neels, Marsha Kotlyar, with Meichelle Arntz, founder and director of Angels Foster Care, and Stephanie Smillie (photo by Priscilla)

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. – Lin Yutang

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 33)

Before the gathering at the Four Seasons Biltmore are co-emcee Ali Azarvan, Kristy Marks, Saks fashion commentator with Santa Barbara Saks GM Tracey Greene, supporter Susan McMillan, and co-emcee Tom Adams (photo by Priscilla)

At the refreshment lawn cart are “Friends of Angels” Sue Bickett, Karen Earp Biltmore manager, with Jennifer and Sean Hecht (photo by Priscilla)

Nancy Casey, Roxie Solakian, MB&T president and CEO Janet Garufis, and Suzie Schomer shown with their baby balloons (photo by Priscilla)

Events co-chairs were Stephanie Smillie, Shannon Neels, and Marsha Kotlyar, who also received the Volunteer of the Year award.

Ali Azarvan and Tom Adams emceed the bash, while the 12-yearold Sangham Foundation, run by Sean and Jenny Hecht, was also honored.

Guests supporting the non-profit event, which featured a Saks Fifth Avenue fashion show, included Alixe Mattingly, Janet Garufis, Holly Murphy, Eileen Mielko, Kathleen Cooper, Diana MacFarlane, Tiffany Jaeger, Shannon Decker, and Nancy Kogevinas.

Dancing the Night Away UCSB Arts & Lectures held its last event of the current dance season with the New York-based Dorrance Dance

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Company at the Granada.

The eight entertaining troupe members, under founder Michelle Dorrance, accompanied by five talented instrumentalists, brought the art of tap dancing to a whole new level during the frenetic hour-long intermission free show The Blues Project.

The performance came about through Dorrance, who also performed in the show STOMP for four years and studied under Savion Glover, working with acoustic guitarist Toshi Reagon on a project called Celebrate the Great Women of Blues and Jazz.

Two musical standouts were violinist Juliette Jones who joined the dancers on stage and drummer Allisson Miller, who gave Ringo Starr a run for his money.

A wonderful end to a great season...

Brian Kerr, PAL program officer; Ginni Dreier, friend of PAL: John Van Donge, board president; honorees Patricia and James “Jim” Stretchberry (photo by Priscilla)

SBPD sergeant Mike McGrew, with Friends of PAL Bob Bryant, Leatrice “Lee” Luria, and SBPD chief Cam Sanchez (photo by Priscilla)

Child’s Play Montecito Country Club was packed for the 12th annual Police Activities League “Putting Kids First” party, which attracted 215 guests and raised around $200,000.

The 16-year-old charity honored minister James Stretchberry and his wife, Patricia, while David and Helene Winters and Randy and Amy Clark co-chaired the bustling bash, and president John Van Donge played auctioneer, with items including a day in the life of a police sniper, an epicurean barbecue for 100, a shopping spree at Bryant & Sons, a day with the SWAT team and K9 units, and a cruise on Charlie Munger’s Channel Cat. Silent auction items included a

Tiffany Atlas watch and a black-andwhite photo of 1965’s match between Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali, signed by The Greatest.

Guests included Chad and Ginni Dreier, Lee Luria, Scott Reed, police chief Cam Sanchez, Janet Garufis, Dana Newquist, Keith Berry, Richard Auhll, Ralph Iannelli, Kent Wojciechoski, and Michelle Hillman Meyering.

Grin and Bear It The only masked character missing when the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation hosted A Masked Affair at the Santa Barbara Club was the Lone Ranger.

The event, formerly known as Saks & The City, brought in 200 guests,

(Front row) Brandon Salgado, Cristian Martinez; (back) Michelle Meyerling, PAL development coordinator; Cindy Marin, Kent “Wojo” Wojciechoski, Citlalin Lopez, Pablo Macias, and Miguelangel Solis (photo

by Priscilla)

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Dashing auctioneer John Palmiteri, with co-chairs Julie Ringler and Betty Noling (photo by Priscilla)

Admiring the Tiffiany jewelry are Larry Larson, Martha Smidjen, PAL leader Richard Auhll, and Chelsea Valenzuela of Tiffany and Co. (photo by Priscilla)

raising $150,000 for the charity.

Donna Barranco Fisher, chaired the facial fete, while auction prizes included a surf package with former world champion surfer Shaun Tomson, a backyard party at the home of rocker Kenny Loggins, a VIP visit for two to the Ellen DeGeneres talk show in Burbank, and a diamond ring from Montecito bling king Daniel Gibbings.

Checking out the garden gala were Stan and Betty Hatch, Billy Baldwin, David Edelman, KEYT anchor-reporter John Palminteri, Michael and Lacy Taylor, Holly Pepper, Makayna Chater, Vanessa Decker, Monique Montgomery, and Cynthia Murphy.

Keynote Kennedy

Keynote speaker Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines, with Kira Redmond, Channel Keepers executive director; Frankie and Angel Martinez, president and chairman Deckers sponsor (photo by Priscilla)

Stately Charlotte The announcement on Saturday that Prince Willliam and his wife, Kate, were now parents of a new princess, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, would have come as no surprise to readers of this illustrious organ.

My column, which came out a full three days before the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth in the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, stated the baby would be “a girl, I am reliably informed.”

Talk about a womb with a view!

On their way to the silent auction tables are Amanda Lee, Jennifer “Jenny” Hecht, and Cate Stoll (photo by Priscilla)

Award-winning author Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was the keynote speaker at the Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s 15th annual Blue Water Ball in the Deckers’ rotunda in Goleta, co-chaired

by Betty Noling and Julie Ringler.

Kennedy is the founder and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, which has spawned a network of more than 240 local waterkeeper organizations protecting two million square miles of watersheds across the globe.

“Over the past year, we’ve succeeded in compelling some of the south coast’s worst polluters to clean up and worked successfully with public agencies and other stakeholders to enforce and strengthen policies to protect our waterways and aquatic habitats,” says 7 – 14 May 2015

certainly on the rampage against the NFL when she spoke at the seventh annual Rape Crisis Center’s Chocolate de Vine event at the Rincon Beach Club in Carpinteria.

“I am quite appalled at the National Football League and the example it sets to younger people, by seeming to take no action when top players are accused of rape,” she blasted. ‘They seem to even reward them by making them top picks!”

Around $40,000 was raised for the Santa Barbara charity with 225 guests, including district attorney Joyce Dudley, Larry Crandell, KEYT weather girl Meredith Garofalo, and Elsa Granados, checking out the wares from 11 chocolatiers and nine vintners, and the auctioneer Alice Williams selling off a week in Fiji and a trip to Disneyland.

One of our tony town’s sweeter events.

Enjoying the evening out for an important cause are Ivana and Andrew Firestone with Laura Capps and her husband, Bill Burton (photo by Priscilla)

Tim Brady, closing the museum’s current concert series.

The seven-year-old foursome, a revival and continuation of the defunct Orford Quartet, consists of violinists Andrew Wan and Jonathon Crow, cellist Brian Manker, and violist Eric Nowlin.

Haydn’s Quartet in G Major kicked off the concert followed by electric guitar player Brady’s thoroughly contemporary “Journal.”

Strings Attached Beethoven’s quartet in A minor Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium was packed wrapped the event.

The perfect musical sandwich... when Canada’s New Orford String Quartet performed a thoroughOut of Bounds ly entertaining program of Haydn, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson was Beethoven, and Canadian composer

executive director Kira Redmond.

More than 240 guests helped raise in excess of $120,000 for the charity, and guests flowing in included emcee, the ubiquitous John Palminteri, Andrew and Ivana Firestone, Laura Capps, Lila Trachtenberg, Lauren Tarkeshian, Chandler and Daphne Williamson, Jim and Ann Collins, and Tom and Nancy Aossey.

A mother always has to think twice: once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren

Sightings: Actress Dyan Cannon and Jennifer Grant, her daughter by the late actor Cary Grant, shopping at the Garden Market on Santa Claus Lane...Singer Neil Young with Willie Nelson’s sons, Lukas and Micah, at the SLO Brewing Company...Carol Burnett noshing at the Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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On Entertainment Singer Infuses Opera with Bluegrass Blood

by Steven Libowitz

M

ichelle Bradley might be one of the most unlikely American opera singers in modern times. The soprano is from Versailles, Kentucky, a small town of fewer than 9,000 people not too far from Lexington. That larger city doesn’t have an opera house, or rather it does, but it doesn’t actually show opera – upcoming events include Menopause the Musical and a Beatles tribute band.

“I come from background where I didn’t know what an opera was before I got to college,” Bradley said last week over the phone. “I’d never even heard of it, let alone heard one performed. There’s not a lot of folks that know much about opera where I’m from.”

It was only after heading off to college – the first in her family to do so – on the advice of her high school social studies teacher that Bradley discovered opera through her music teacher, who gave her a copy of Turandot to listen to. But even after earning degrees at Kentucky State and Bowling Green State universities, Bradley was unable to find full-time work as a professional in opera. Although she’d had some good roles and placed highly in some competitions, she still supplemented her position in the chorus at Houston Grand Opera teaching music in elementary school for four years, before resigning 15 months ago to focus on her singing.

“I decided I had to take a chance,” she explained. “I wanted to go full force and if it didn’t work out, well, I could always go back to teaching or

Michelle Bradley and Michael Gaertner perform together at Hahn Hall

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.

work at a church. I didn’t ever want to be one of those people who said I could’ve or should’ve tried for my dream but had settled for a job. My parents had instilled in me to go all the way and don’t quit, and I’ve been living it out.”

Wise move.

Bradley was accepted into the Music Academy of the West’s vocal program last summer, and late last July won the Marilyn Horne Song Competition.

Next Thursday, Bradley returns to Hahn Hall, the site of that victory, to perform in recital with vocal piano winner Michael Gaertner (who is currently resident pianist at Shreveport Opera) in the first date of a three-city tour that also visits Dallas and New York City. What’s more, on the day we talked, she’d just found out that she’d earned a highly coveted spot in the Lindemann Young Artists development program at the Metropolitan Opera, a prestigious training ground that aims to launch major careers.

“There was no way I would’ve even tried for the (Met program) if I hadn’t won at the Music Academy,” said Bradley, who went by her first name, Tammy, until Horne told her to switch

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The Hahn Hall stage, not to mention the Met, is a far cry from Bradley’s beginnings, where she started singing as a small child – but not in public.

“I was a really shy kid,” she explained. “I’d sing in the closet every day after school, but I was too afraid to do it in front of people.”

Later, she joined the church choir – her family is rather religious – and found it right for her voice, but never thought beyond those familiar walls.

“I knew I wasn’t a pop singer and I can’t dance. So what was I going to do?”

It wasn’t until her first voice teacher in college played her an album from American soprano Leontyne Price that she found her calling.

“He let me borrow it, and I still haven’t given it back to him,” Bradley said with a small laugh. “I walked around campus listening to it through headphones all the time, thinking

‘This is what my voice is supposed to do. This fits me. That sounds right for me.’ I just fell in love with the music.

It’s where my voice belongs.”

Bradley’s first operatic role was the lead character in Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, which she said helped her emerge from her shell. “She says what’s on her mind, and isn’t shy at all. So I had to find that part of myself. From then on, I’ve brought a lot more of myself to my singing.

I don’t want to just stand there and make a beautiful sound, but instead put myself into the words and the text and show people what I’m thinking in my mind as I’m singing. It doesn’t scare me anymore to be vulnerable. I tell myself I have something special to offer people. It psyches me up to think that way.”

Bradley doesn’t need much of a pep talk to prepare for her return to Hahn Hall when she’ll repeat and expand upon some of her winning repertoire from the competition. The program includes several pieces by Strauss; Beethoven’s Ah! Perfido; Bachelet’s “Chère nuit” plus French works by Faure and Poulenc; H.T. Burleigh’s “Five Songs of Laurence Hope” and

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ORDINANCE NO. 5684

ORDINANCE NO. 5685

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.60 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY REVISING SECTION 10.60.015, ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAIN PORTIONS OF LAS POSITAS ROAD, CLIFF DRIVE, CABRILLO BOULEVARD, BATH STREET, CALLE REAL, CASTILLO STREET, CHAPALA STREET, MILPAS STREET, SALINAS STREET, STATE STREET, AND VALERIO STREET

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.20 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY REVISING SECTIONS 10.20.020 AND 10.20.025 PERTAINING TO SPEED ZONING ADJACENT TO CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUNDS, AND ADDING SECTION 10.20.040 PERTAINING TO EXTENDED SPEED ZONING NEAR SCHOOLS The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on April 28, 2015.

held on April 28, 2015.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

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,

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.

California.

(Seal) (Seal)

/s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/_____________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5685

ORDINANCE NO. 5684 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 21, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 28, 2015, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Pro Tempore Gregg Hart

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Mayor Helene Schneider

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 29, 2015.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 21, 2015, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on April 28, 2015, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Pro Tempore Gregg Hart

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Mayor Helene Schneider

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on April 29, 2015. /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 29, 2015.

/s/ Gregg Hart Mayor Pro Tempore

Published May 6, 2015 Montecito Journal

Published May 6, 2015 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rincon Publishing, 1419 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Willard Thompson, 1419

East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 23, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2015-0001342.

Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GraySpace Gallery, 219 Gray Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Charlene Koonce Broudy, 12140 Old Walnut Road, Ojai, CA 93023. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 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 renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District and the levying and collection of assessments to fund the cost of wildland fire suppression services within the District for Fiscal Year 2015-16.

On May 5, 2015, the City Council adopted a Resolution of Intention, declaring its intention to hold this hearing (hereinafter referred to as the "Assessment Hearing") and to consider renewal of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District. All interested or affected property owners will be afforded the opportunity to be heard by the City Council at the Assessment Hearing. 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.

The total cost of the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District is estimated to be $252,046 for Fiscal Year 2015-16.

This cost results in a proposed assessment rate of $76.27 per single-family equivalent benefit unit in the Foothill Zone and $94.57 in the Extreme Foothill Zone for Fiscal Year 2015-16. Parcels located within the assessment area are assessed based upon their receipt of special benefits from the services over and above general benefits conferred on real property or to the public at large. The Assessments include a provision for an annual increase equal to the change in the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area Consumer Price Index (CPI), not to exceed 4% (four percent) per year without a further vote or balloting process. The total allowable CPI adjustment for 2015-16 is 0.72%, and the rates have been adjusted accordingly.

An Engineer's Report for the Wildland Fire Suppression Assessment District has been prepared and was preliminarily approved by the City Council on May 5, 2015. The Council will consider final approval of the report during the Assessment Hearing. The report is available for review in the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, De la Guerra Plaza, and at the City of Santa Barbara Fire Department located at 925 Chapala Street.

On Thursday, May 14, 2015, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturdays at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.santabarbaraca.gov: Point to Government, point to City Hall, and click on Mayor & City Council; point to City Council Meetings and click on City Council Meeting Videos, and then click on the Video link for the meeting date.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 564-5305 or inquire at the City Clerk's Office on the day of the meeting. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases.

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on April 29, 2015.

/s/ Gregg Hart Mayor Pro Tempore

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Grato SB, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Ashley Chanel White, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0001188.

Published May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2015.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015-16

County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2015-0001255. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NextHome Decker Realty, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. Steven Decker, 988 Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 14, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0001207.

(SEAL)

Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager May 6, 2015

Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lookout Co., 318 Ennisbrook Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lauren Iglesias, 318 Ennisbrook Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2015-0001119. Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Larry’s Small Engine Repair, 916

• The Voice of the Village •

N. Broadway Suite D, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Larry Bui, 1115 River Birch Ct., Santa Maria, CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Mayra Andrade. FBN No. 2015-0001263.

Published April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Camp Chit Chat; S.B. Scottish Rite Properties; Santa Barbara Scottish Rite Properties, 16 East Carrillo St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Scottish Rite Properties of Santa Barbara, INC., 16 East Carrillo St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement

was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 9, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2015-0001169. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gentle Dental Santa Barbara, 330 State Street Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Cox Dental Corporation, 9800 S. La Cienega Blvd., Suite 800, Inglewood, CA 90301. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 31, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 36) “Give Me Jesus”; and the gospel classic “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands”.

“The first thing Marilyn Horne told me in choosing repertoire was to pick something I knew and like, so doing the ones from the competition, but also some things I’ve been working on with my voice teacher in Houston,” Bradley said. “Strauss resonates with me. It feels like he wrote those compositions for me. I have a natural affinity for them. I’m also excited about Faure’s ‘Notre Amour’, because it’s a love song that’s light and happy. With my voice, I mostly do heavy and dark things, very serious stuff. It’s exciting to take a break. The spirituals are what I grew up with. My parents helped me establish my faith. I want people to know that private part about me and my background. It’s a way for me to introduce myself because it’s part of who I am, and helped shaped my voice.”

With her meteoric rise over the last 15 months, it seems that introductions might soon take care of themselves.

Bagpipin’ Pato Goes Solo in SB Back in 1999, Cristina Pato became the first female player of the Galician bagpipe (known as the Gaita) to release a solo album, which helped make her a pop star in her native land of Spain. But she moved to New York to earn an advanced degree and explore other opportunities in music, which led to her blending the gaita with jazz and Latin rhythms in a career that has brought her as both a performing musician and a cultural exchange educator.

Pato, who played at UCSB a couple of years ago as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, returns to

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Campbell Hall for her Santa Barbara solo debut on Wednesday night, May 13. Pato will be accompanied by her Migrations Band, who are fluent in jazz and folkloric music, just as her new album, Latina, is released.

She talked over the phone about her career and music.

On bagpipes in jazz: “It’s more of a mental challenge than a musical one.

Almost every instrument has been a part of jazz, from the saxophone to the vibraphone to drums. So why is there a limitation? The bagpipes doesn’t have the full chromatic system, but neither does drums. So it’s really just another way of exploring.”

On her new album: “It’s all based in one rhythm of 6/8, because if there’s one way to define all the Latina music in the world, that’s what it would be.”

On returning to Santa Barbara for a short residency: “I’m very excited not only for the show but also being able to spend a few days working with the students collaborating with the Spanish, world music and ethnomusicology departments. That’s the most meaningful part of my work. I was raised as a classical pianist, and came to the U.S. to get a doctorate. So, I believe in the power of arts education.

I travel for performing, but when I can also teach that makes the performance more meaningful, because I know the community better and know I’m making a bigger impact. I learn from those experiences and use that in the way I play the show.”

On thriving in the male-dominated world of the bagpipes: “Back home it was that way until the 1970s, but now it’s about 50-50. But it’s disappointing that 16 years after I released my first solo album, there aren’t really any more (women making bag-

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My mom is my hero. – Tim McGraw

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3777 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3777 for the On-Call Sewer Main Point Repairs FY16 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, May 28, 2015 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “OnCall Sewer Main Point Repairs FY16” Bid No. 3777”.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to repair and replace damaged sewer pipelines and manholes utilizing open trench excavation methods and slip-lining per these specifications. Currently, the City has 5 sewer pipelines and 1 sewer cleanout that are in immediate need for repair and 2 sewer mains that are in need of slip-lining. Additional sewer pipelines and manholes that require repair are expected over the next year, as the City continues its annual sanitary sewer CCTV program. The City intends to use this purchase order contract to perform “on-call” construction services for these repairs through June 2016. The quantity of the contingency bid items are an estimate only for the purpose of bid comparison. The actual quantity of these items of work may vary substantially from the estimated amount. The Engineer’s estimate is $390,000.

Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday May 14, 2015 at 2:00 P.M at 630 Garden Street.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Kevin Thompson, Project Engineer, 805-897-1908.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED May 6 and May 13, 2015 Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID NO. 5391

BID NO. 5387A

DUE DATE & TIME: May 21, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: May 20 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Audio/Visual Equipment and Installation at the Library/Faulkner Gallery

Wood Repair at Airport Building #252

Scope of Work to furnish and install audio/visual capabilities in the Library/Faulkner Gallery that will include new ceiling speakers, a new projector, connection of new equipment to the existing assisted hearing loop system, and up to four new wireless microphones or lavalieres.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 14, 2015 at 9:00 a.m., at the Library/Faulkner Gallery, 40 E Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C7 Low Voltage Systems or a C10 Electrical Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein.

Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

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

_________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2015-0001054. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gentle Dental Service Corporation, 330 State Street Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Interdent Service Corporation, 9800 S. La Cienega Blvd., Suite 800, Inglewood, CA 90301. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 1, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

Published: May 6, 2015 Montecito Journal FBN No. 2015-0001066. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Timeless Cruising, 4048 Via Zorro #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Claudia Kapp, 4048 Via Zorro #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 8, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN No. 2015-0001144. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following

• The Voice of the Village •

Scope of Work to consists of carpentry and related repairs including ADA barrier removal to the restaurant facility formally known as the Elephant Bar and Grill.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 13, 2015 at 9:00 a.m., at the Elephant Bar Facility, located at 521 Norman Firestone Rd., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California General B Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

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

Published: May 6, 2015 Montecito Journal

person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Estate Management; Montecito Estate Management, 3672 San Gabriel Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Michael Clark, 3672 San Gabriel Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2015-0001161. Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Braulio Guillermo Godinez, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Laura Brittany Godinez, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0001183.

Published April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805Photographer; PictureSB, 16 East Mission Street, Unit C,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500562. To all interested parties: Petitioner Alondra Moreno filed a petition with Superior Court of

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

BID NO. 5393

BID NO. 5392

DUE DATE & TIME: May 20, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: May 26, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Removal of Weeds and Horticultural Work at Various City Parks

Fiberglass for Marina 1 Waterline

California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Andrea Beatrice Read to Andrea Beatrice Vicars. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Hearing date: June 10, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6

petition without a hearing. Filed April 9, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION: CASE No. 1470046. Plaintiff Oscar D. Zapata v. Defendant Alberto Garcia Perez. Upon reading and filing evidence consisting of a declaration as proved in Section 415.50 CCP by Oscar D. Zapata, and it satisfactorily appearing therefrom that the defendant Alberto Garcia Perez cannot be served with reasonable diligence in any other manner specified in Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and it also appearing from the verified complaint or petition, that a good cause of action exists in this action in favor of the plaintiff, petitioner, or citee therein and against the defendant, respondent, or citee and that said defendant, respondent, or citee is a necessary and proper party to the action or that the party to be served has or claims an interest in, real or personal property in this state that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of the relief demanded in the action consists wholly or in part in excluding such party from any interest in such property, now, on motion of the plaintiff. The small complaint or petition, which is for $2,400, was filed on 12-19-2014.

A copy of the summons or citation and the complaint or petition could not be served via alternate methods.

Filed December 19, 2014, by Rita Pitts, Deputy Clerk. Published April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 2015.

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Scope of Work is to hula hoe weeds and perform general horticultural work at various City Parks.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess either of the above-mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed to be qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

If there is a difference between the prevailing wage and living wage rates, bidder shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

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California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Alondra Silvia Capuchino. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 24, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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petition without a hearing. Filed April 9, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 24, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500071. To all interested parties: Petitioner Anthony Lopez Olvera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Anthony Herman Lopez Olvera. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 24, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1500353. To all interested parties: Petitioner Marleny X. Sanchez Bahena filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Landon Yampier Abundez Sanchez to Landon Ulises Abundez 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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 9, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 3, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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drastically curtailed the seating FRIDAY, MAY 8 capacity at the Samala Showroom by Beachfront Bash – Santa Barbara about half, making the venue a much Arts and Crafts Show is turning 50 more intimate space of fewer than 650 A Drop of Chocolate – Tonight’s concert out this spring, a half-a-century of local seats. But that also means shows sell at UCSB Campbell Hall was originally billed as artisans lining the beachfront along out a lot quicker. Such is the case with a Carolina Chocolate Drops gig. But the Cabrillo Boulevard every Sunday both of this week’s entries: Michael dynamic front woman Rhiannon Giddens has displaying and selling their colorful McDonald, the on-and-off again local recently branched out into solo territory, having wares to tourists and residents alike. singer-songwriter (Montecito, Santa just released her debut solo CD, Tomorrow Is The milestone is being marked Ynez) who was a big-time hit makers My Turn, produced by the legendary T Bone with a month-long art exhibition at both with the Doobie Brothers (“Taking Burnett. But fear not – we’re getting more the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center, It to the Streets”) and as a solo act than a solo drop. Giddens will actually play located in the heart of the section of (“I Keep Forgetting”, “What a Fool with an expanded version of the Carolina the boulevard filled with artists that Believes”), plays Friday night, May 8.

Chocolate Drops, including the full band plus an acoustic stand-up bassist stretches from Stearns Wharf to Calle REO Speedwagon, superstars of the and drummer. So, expect to hear songs from the new record plus plenty Cesar Chavez, as well as a special 1980s who scored a monster hit with of the patented Drop stuff that pays homage to the old-timey music of the anniversary weekend with shows “Keep On Lovin’ You”, rev up the old Carolinas’ southern Piedmont region with a brashness and upbeat energy on both Saturday and Sunday, and engine for a trip down memory lane of an emo rocker, plus such wild and wooly covers as CCD’s version of Blu a free concert for the community next Thursday, May 14. WHEN: 8 Cantrell’s “Hit ‘Em Up Style”. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall featuring longtime favorite Spencer pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, COST: $25-$40 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu the Gardener. The show’s concept 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) is based on European sidewalk art traces how their poetic cries for social and Blush will be serving). Promoters or www.chumashcasino.com shows and the Jardin del Arte in justice and artistic insurrection are are promising a healthy dose of the Mexico City. In Santa Barbara’s shadowed by the potentially haunting area’s best restaurants and chefs, plus version, more than 175 area artisans FRIDAY, MAY 8 consequences of their indulgences. plenty of beer, wine and cocktails, a show up each Sunday to sell their Director Jeff Mills of the Department live performance by Tropicool and handmade arts and crafts each week, Bloody Poetry – Howard of Theater/Dance at UCSB draws more fun and games. The eateries giving visitors have the opportunity to Brenton’s Bloody Poetry, written parallels between that Romantic era compete in a friendly face-off to win ask the artists about their work. The in the 1980s of Margaret Thatcher, votes from the guests as each vendors and the rebellious movements of the show is one of the longest-running chronicles the tumultuous relationships prepares one delectable forkful of 20th century. Viewing them as an continuous, non-juried arts festivals between three British literary a culinary treat aiming for both earlier version of punk rockers, he’s in the world. WHEN: Exhibition now revolutionaries of the early 19th originality and quality. Guests simply decided to place the characters in through Monday, May 25; reception century – Mary Shelley, her husband, grab a fork and get to tasting; voting 5-8 pm Friday, May 8; Concert 1-3 Percy Shelley, and Lord George Byron. London in the late 1970s and make is encouraged but entirely optional. them look like rock stars. “Byron was pm Sunday, May 17 WHERE: Cabrillo It’s set in Switzerland, England, and Tickets include one tasting from each certainly the rock star of his time, Pavilion Arts Center, 1118 East Italy from 1816-22, when the poets participating vendor, though you and I think seeing the living poets Cabrillo Boulevard; concert at Chase lives and work intertwined, covering can purchase more samples of your in this context will make us consider Palm Park lawn behind the Chase Palm from Byron’s and Percy Shelley’s first favorites. And you get to keep the their work in a whole new way and Park Center COST: free INFO: www. meeting and the inception of Mary yellow fork. A portion of the proceeds discover that it is indeed still visceral, SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ArtsAndCrafts Shelley’s novel Frankenstein to Percy will benefit the Arts Mentorship Shelley’s tragic death, a period during still dangerous, still bloody,” Mills Program. WHEN: 1 pm WHERE: explains in a press release. A cast of Concerts at the Chumash – The which the three exiled writers live, Ocean side of Chase Palm Park (near just six actors – many veterans of the current renovations of the gaming love, and write together in a utopian Stearns Wharf) COST: $40 INFO: UCSB main stage – take on the work space at the resort casino has frenzy of hedonistic excess. The play www.crownthetown.com/fork-fest/ with a naturalistic approach, a new direction for the normally visceral, Seaside Studio Tour – Not to physically-focused director. WHEN: THURSDAY, MAY 7 be confused with Santa Barbara’s 8 tonight and May 12-16, 2 pm tomorrow and May 16-17 WHERE: annual self-guided weekend of touring UCSB Performing Arts Theater artists’ studios, which takes place A Drop of Honey – The OaklandCOST: $17 general, $13 students & around Labor Day weekend, the based California Honeydrops have seniors INFO: 893-7221 or www. annual Carpinteria & Summerland created one of the most propulsive party theaterdance.ucsb.edu Artists Studio Tour is a smaller and mixes on the California club circuit by more intimate affair. Now in its ninth bridging Bay Area R&B with Southern year, the event features artists in the SATURDAY, MAY 9 soul and New Orleans second-line street two seaside cities throwing open music. But the band’s sound has even their studios and galleries for public Fork It – There are a plethora of more distinctly American roots grounded visits and discussion with the artists food-and-wine tasting events on the by the upbringing of singer-songwriter about their work and methods. Tour Santa Barbara calendar once the Lech Wierzynski, a Polish immigrant center is the Carpinteria Arts Center, weather heats us, but few skew as who grew up listening to his dad’s which created the event and also young and hip as the Fork Fest, which collection that ranged from Louis Armstrong to Sam Cooke. Wierzynski, hosts an accompanying Artists Studio hit the Funk Zone with gusto last year who also plays trumpet, makes the whole thing come off as cohesive with Tour Group Show through Tuesday, in its first go-round, then migrated the Honeydrops, who formed as a busking band with just a drummer May 12. Among the 33 participants, over the Chase Palm Park for a rerun and saxophonist before adding piano and keyboards, electric bass, and nearly all in Carpinteria, are some in early fall.

The third installment of additional percussion. Now, when they play SOhO – where they’re returning well-known artists including Terry the “foodie fork-off and park party” is for a special two-night stand – people find it nearly impossible to sit still.

Duddridge, Pamela Enticknap, back at Chase and is taking the highly WHEN: 8:30 tonight, 9 pm tomorrow WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, Whitney Brooks Abbott, Stuart unusual tack of not even releasing the upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 in advance, $18 at door on Thursday; Cary, Ted Rhodes, Joseph Sacks, restaurant list in advance (though they $17/$20 on Friday INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com did sneak-peek that Enterprise Fish Co. and Chris Baker. And unlike the

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Quire of Voyces – Santa Barbara’s premier a cappella ensemble closes its 21st season this weekend with Songs of Remembrance, a concert featuring two rarely performed masterpieces of High Renaissance polyphony sung in the remarkably reverberant space at St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy. Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Officium Defunctorum, was written as a memorial for the Holy Roman Empress Maria of Austria, mother of 16 children, including two Holy Roman Emperors, three Archdukes of Austria, and two queens. Maria was Victoria’s patron, and he served as her personal chaplain in the convent where she spent her final years. The two shared a deep spiritual, even mystical faith, and Officium Defunctorum, the important composer’s final published work, gives voice to the inexpressible yearning of the soul and is said to soothe, elevate, and ennoble the listener. Also on the program is Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus, which has become one of the world’s most beloved choral pieces. The piece is arranged for two spatially separated choirs (a full-choir quintet and solo quartet) – and area of excellence for Quire of Voyces, which often performs preview in the atrium of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The work features a soprano soloist’s repeated leaps to a haunting, yet angelic, high C. According to legend, Miserere Mei, Deus was so revered that the Vatican prohibited it from being written down or performed outside its walls, though it the veil of secrecy was lifted when it was published in 1790, more than 125 years after it was composed. WHEN: 7 tonight, 3 pm tomorrow WHERE: 2300 Garden Street COST: $20 general, $15 seniors & students INFO: 965-5935 or www.quireofvoyces.org Santa Barbara weekend, admission is free. WHEN: 10 am – 5 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Arts Center, 855 Linden Ave. (map available online) COST: free INFO: 684-7789 or www. carpinteriaartscenter.org MONDAY, MAY 11 German Greats – Violinist Christian Tetzlaff has wowed CAMA audiences at the Lobero three times in recent years, most recently in a 2013 solo recital that had one reviewer raving about the musician’s “incredibly precise and expressive playing… at the sonic limits of the instrument.” Now he’s back again with pianist and countryman Lars

Vogt, considered one of the leading soloists and chamber musicians of his generation, for a program largely filled with German and Austrian composers. Mozart’s Sonata No.32 in B-flat Major, K.454, kicks off the concert, followed by a Tetzlaff favorite Béla Bartók, whose solo violin sonata he played two years ago in the same space; here’s it’s the composer’s Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, Sz.75, BB84. Post-intermission brings Anton Webern’s Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.7, before the concert closes with Brahms’ Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido Street COST: $39 & $49 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com •MJ

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Passion 8000: Dream of a Lifetime Mariachi for Mother’s Day – Girls Inc. of Carpinteria takes note of Mom’s special day for its 8th annual Mariachi Encuentro event hosting the two-time Grammy Awardwinning Mariachi Divas, an ethnically diverse, all-female ensemble – a rarity in the male-dominated genre. The Los Angeles-based Mariachi Divas – who have recorded 10 albums since forming back in 1999 – have forged an unusual sound stemming from the region’s emphasis on ethnic fusion and multiculturalism, and are led by trumpet player Cindy Shea. The band’s all-female lineup and its artistic and commercial success serves as symbolic representation of Girls Inc.’s Strong, Smart, and Bold mission – and they’re a lot of fun.

Beyond the music, the benefit features an evening of authentic food and cultural celebration. Proceeds from the event will help fund Girls Inc. of Carpinteria’s programs and scholarships for young women and girls in the community. WHEN: 5-9:30 pm WHERE: 5315 Foothill Road, Carpinteria COST: $40-$60 INFO: 684-6364 or www.girlsinc-carp.org 7 – 14 May 2015

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COMING & GOING (Continued from page 27) when he comes home to visit. All three were born and raised in Santa Barbara and attended Peabody, SBJH, and SBHS. The band was officially formed in 2009, “but we’ve been jamming together since elementary school,” says Tyler. Sam Adams was their third-grade homeroom teacher at Peabody, and he taught Tyler and Channing guitar after class. They ended up forming a guitar trio with their friend, Jonathan Lampkin, and the three of them performed in front of the school. Brennan took up drums at the age of eight (“I didn’t want to do guitar ‘cause I didn’t want to do what my older brother did, so I did drums,” he says), taking lessons at Mike’s Drum Shop.

When Matt saw that his sons were serious about making melodies, he built a music room in the back yard instead of a planned swimming pool.

“It’s not totally soundproof,” says Brennan, “but it’s pretty quiet. That’s pretty much a big part of where we came from.”

False Puppet has headlined during Fiesta at De La Guerra Plaza, and has played the Avocado Festival in Carpinteria. They’ve played at SOhO, Velvet Jones, the Savoy, and even Whiskey Richards on a Thursday night when they were freshmen or sophomores in high school. “Our time slot was at midnight to one am,” recalls Tyler. “We had a blast, but our moms were not happy about it,” he says with a laugh.

In order to make ends meet, the three sell their CDs wherever they play. They also sell tee-shirts and stickers (they call it “merch”). They can usually count on “a couple hundred dollars a month from iTunes”; they also receive a portion of revenue from ticket sales, all of which goes right into gas money and buying more merch for their online site.

The Warped Tour

The band will play half an hour every day during the 13 dates they have scheduled for this year’s Warped Tour. “With thirty minutes, you don’t have a lot of room to work with, so you’ve got to hit [the audience] pretty hard right off the bat,” says Brennan.

The Warped Tour is an increasingly popular national touring concert festival. “We’ve got to get there ourselves (‘There’s no Warpmobile!’),” adds Tyler. The bigger bands get a bus, but False Puppet has a crowded 15-passenger Ford van they bought from another band (Gardens & Villa) for $6,000. They ripped the last two rows out, put beds there instead, and say, “We’re ready to go.”

The driving will be relentless, as their portion of the tour begins in Cuyahoga Falls, outside Cleveland, Ohio, and goes on to Detroit, Chicago,

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(from left) Pam Brandon, Dave Jenkins, Claudia Lapin, Joe Lambert, and Mary-Grace Langhorne gather for dinner after the first public screening of their documentary, MARYGRACE

Shakopee (Minnesota), Maryland Heights (Missouri), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Noblesville (Indiana), Bonner Springs (Kansas), Salt Lake City, Denver, San Diego, up to Portland (Oregon), and terminating at the White River Amphitheater in Auburn, Washington.

That van, they say, “is going to smell sweet by the end of the tour.”

In case you were wondering, the “bigger bands” include groups such as Pierce The Veil, Never Shout Never, and Black Veil Brides. In the past, the Warped Tour has featured Katy Perry, Eminem, Green Day, Liquid 82, and others. “It’s a lot like Coachella,” Brennan explains, “in the sense that you’ll have eight stages with different bands playing on them all at once, and you’ve got 20,000 kids. One stage may have fifty people in the audience, another may have a thousand. There might be days when we’re playing on this tour and we’re playing for ten; on another day we may play for five hundred. It’s totally random.”

To listen to False Puppet, you are invited to visit the band’s website: falsepuppet.com.

Mary-Grace, The Documentary She enjoyed a sustained applause when 2014 Teen Star winner MaryGrace Langhorne appeared before a small crowd of perhaps 80 who’d been invited to view MARYGRACE, the 14-minute documentary that had just been shown publicly for the first time at the University Club in downtown Santa Barbara. “I want to thank you guys,” she began, “for the wonderful work by everyone.” Mary-Grace also acknowledged that she wouldn’t be there “if it weren’t for Teen Star,” Joe Lambert’s Santa Barbara-based yearly staged search for young talent. This screening was just a week before the Teen Star 2015 competition, won by Sydney Shalhoob, was set to take place at the Granada. Mary-Grace had become paralyzed by a negative reaction she’d had to a medication and had been in a wheelchair for the better

this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). Inexplicably, however, the powerful and moving 14-minute documentary, which takes place in Santa Barbara and Goleta, was turned down by the powers that be at SBIFF. If they hadn’t rushed to have the film ready for the Santa Barbara festival, we have learned, they would not have finished in time to enter MARYGRACE into the Cannes Film Festival.

The SBIFF folks probably have some explaining to do. In the meantime, you can watch the trailer at: dajen. com/marygrace.

Mary-Grace Langhorne, accompanied on piano by SBCC music major Jack Kessel, serenades a packed University Club after the screening

Just some of the actors in Crazy For You (remember, these are high school students!) beautifully directed by newcomer Riley Berris (photo credit: Brad Elliott Photography)

part of a year. Doctors had advised her and her parents that she may never walk again.

Mary-Grace won that 2014 competition and pledged to return the following year (2015) and to walk onstage to congratulate the 2015 winner. The big news is that the documentary MARYGRACE, recounting MaryGrace’s ordeal, is about to unspool at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival as part of the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase there.

The short film is directed by Pam Brandon and produced by Claudia Lapin, Pam Brandon, and Dave Jenkins.

The curious and serendipitous thing about the timing of MARYGRACE is that the producers struggled to get the film done in time to enter it into

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Crazy For You (and Me, Too) No doubt about it: the best entertainment in Santa Barbara (and Goleta) happens at high schools across the area. We enjoyed Legally Blonde on April 25 along with a full house at Dos Pueblos High School on its final night. Last weekend, we were treated to Crazy For You at San Marcos High School Theater. Directed by Riley Berris, it was a spirited and boisterous revelation. Singing, Dancing (tap dancing, even!), and carousing on stage were a talented group of high schoolers who produced smiles and cries of joy (and a standing ovation) from the audience. It’s playing again this weekend, and we urge you to buy a ticket. You will enjoy yourself. •MJ 7 – 14 May 2015

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Cristina Pato returns to UCSB on Wednesday, May 13 (photo by Erin Baiano)

pipe records) either. Society needs to change about that. Gender shouldn’t matter in playing bagpipes. If you’re good, you’re good. It is wonderful to see how many young girls are following in my footsteps. But we need to empower them to become professional musicians. It’s not just about the numbers.”

Seasons Change for Zendejas Mexican-born, Montreal-based choreographer Edgar Zendejas knew he wanted to create a dance work to Max Richter’s The Four Seasons the first time he heard the recomposition of Vivaldi’s classic.

“When I started listening to this version, I had all these feelings,” Zendejas said. “I started missing my country.

I thought about old relationships. I found myself wanting new ones. The music just transported me to so many places. I wanted to explore the idea of seasons as something inside of us rather than about the weather.”

What he didn’t expect was for the music to take him back to Santa Barbara, where Zendejas had previously visited State Street Ballet (SSB).

But director Rodney Gustafson was searching for a vehicle for a planned collaboration between his company

and the Santa Barbara Dance Theater (SBDT), which surprisingly had never worked together before, along with Detroit’s Eisenhower Dance, which had memorably collaborated with SSB on a Motown program a few years ago.

The result looks to have some powerhouse potential, if last week’s sneak preview of Saturday, May 9, performance at the Granada is any indication. There are some beautifully lyrical moments in duos and trios blending with strong lifts, spins, and other muscular movements as well as larger ensemble work, as all 21 dancers among the three companies show up on stage together for many moments.

That larger ensemble was a change in plans for Zendejas.

“It would have been easier but more obvious to have each company take one of the seasons alone before coming together for the final section, but it was much more interesting to have them work together,” he explained.

“We became a family. If you don’t know who is in which company, you won’t be able to tell on stage.”

While the choreography officially belongs to Zendejas, he said he worked in close collaboration with the dancers.

“We did exercises to explore emotions through movements, and I found what they came up with to be very interesting. They moved me emotionally in the studio. Those feelings show up in the piece. I gave them my vocabulary and feelings, and used theirs too to build the whole thing.

Sometimes their vocabulary was more precise than my own to express what I wanted to say.

“There’s a lot going on. There are 21 dancers, with 21 personalities, pasts, memories. I used whatever they brought.”

Before The Four Seasons debuts post-intermission, each of the companies performs separately in the evening’s first half. State Street premieres

Canvas, a new work by choreographer William Soleau inspired by paintings by Mark Rothko and the music of Santa Barbara flamenco guitarist Chris Fossek, who will perform live on stage. Eisenhower brings Between Shadow and Soul, which was created as part of a unique larger work that paired choreographers and lighting designers. SBDT will perform director Christopher Pilafian’s Smolder, a chamber work based on the color crimson.

Stick-in’ it on 1st Thursday

The best plan for the monthly artand-culture self-tour of galleries and other establishments along and near lower State Street in downtown Santa Barbara on the first Thursday of every month is to have no play at all – just wander and see what strikes your fancy. But there’s one highlight in May’s offerings you’d be remiss to miss. Emmett Chapman, the inventor of the Stick (often called the Chapman Stick), which revolutionized the electric guitar for two-handed melodic playing, will be in the galleries at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art playing canonical pieces by Impressionist composers, including Debussy and Ravel, with an eye (and ear?) toward the ongoing exhibition, “Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from The Armand Hammer Foundation”. Meanwhile, a flash mob from The Dance Network plans to kick off its series of performances throughout 1st Thursday’s 5-8 pm run time, starting at the corner of State and Anapamu streets, just outside the museum’s doors.

Focus on Film Pollock Theater out on the UCSB campus has a couple of different screening events on successive nights this week. On Wednesday,

May 13 ,Merchants of Doubt, which kicks off the Sustainability Science Communication Conference on campus beginning the next morning, was inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. The film is a satirically comical look at the largely uncontested world of pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities but in reality are paid to spread confusion about public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to climate change. A panel discussion with Jennifer Ouellette, science blogger for Scientific American, and Ronald E. Rice, Arthur N. Rupe professor in the Social Effects of Mass Media and the chair of communication department follows the screening. Free admission.

On Thursday, the science gets even weirder as TV’s Lost executive producer/director Jack Bender presents screenings of two episodes from the first season of the supernatural sensation – “The Walkabout” and “Exodus: Part 1”, the season finale. Bender conducts a Q&A afterward, followed by a “Dharma Initiative”-themed reception in the lobby. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students). Reservations and details at www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock.

Finally, tickets were still available as of this writing for “Reel Comedy with Mel Brooks”, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ gala fundraiser for its educational outreach programs at the Montecito Country Club on May 12. Brooks – a rare EGOT artist (meaning he’s won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award) – is the legendary actor, producer, and director with a career that dates back to writing for Your Show of Shows and co-creating Get Smart, though he’s probably best-known for the iconic comedies Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and The Producers. He’ll perform a rare evening of stand-up comedy, featuring both jokes and amusing anecdotes, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

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