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Bob Haldeman’s widow, Jo, pens revealing memoir about Watergate, p. 6

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P.35 • MOVIE GUIDE, P.33 • OPEN HOUSES, P.53

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New Leadership at CSS

Cold Spring School Board hires Adams Elementary’s Dr. Amy Alzina superintendent and principal, p.12

Rally for Real

One hundred drivers and navigators, along with another 200 supporters, say “adieu” to 2017’s successful overnighter, p.40

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On The Water Front

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard wades in about the cost of a desalination plant, affordable water, price comparisons, and how to reduce regulatory expenses

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KAI LINZ TRUNK SHOW

Jo Haldeman talks Watergate; Alan Lin on Jeopardy; Kirk Douglas’s book; Gwyneth goop; UCSB Arts & Lectures; Downton Abbey movie; Direct Relief Women’s gala; African Women Rising; Chocolate de Vine; SB Dance Theater; Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation; John Cleese’s new show; Katy Perry’s home; Oprah therapy Communiqués abound from Dana Newquist, Ben Burned, Leslie Nelson, Thomas Van Stein, Diana and Don Thorn, J.W. Burk, Albert Mercado, Geonine Moriarty, Denice Adams, and Thomas Cole

10 This Week

MBAR meeting; Knit ‘N Needle; The New Yorker; Spanish group; Shawne Mitchell; Artists Studio Tour; Mother’s Day tea; Marshall Watson at Tecolote; photographer Will Pierce art; Niki Lunn; Channel City Club; MUS board; MPC meeting; Basket Weavers; Summerland yoga; SB Music Club; Boys & Girls Club; Quire of Voyces; beekeeping at La Casa; MFPD prevention chipping slate; art classes; brain fitness; Story Time; Pilates; talking Italian; Carpinteria art; farmers market; Cars & Coffee; and French language

Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

Cold Spring School announces new superintendent; Montecito Association meets; suspects sought in Coast Village Road burglaries; and Crane School hosts annual auction and gala

13 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz chronicles pianist Alessio Bax; symphonic sounds and orchestral maneuvers; cellist Zuill Bailey; SB Strings concert; Dramatic Women on stage; New Works Lab; Q&A with Lynsey Addario; State Street Ballet; and films in focus

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner tracks down the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s Little Heroes breakfast; Garden Club of SB; and Music at MOXI

16 The Way It Was

Blazing saddles: Hattie Beresford keeps her eyes on the SB Historical Museum’s Western showcase In the Saddle and looks back at California art

22 Your Westmont

Musicians sweep local scholarship competition; choir tours Italy and Austria; and the college mourns the passing of a Ugandan alumnus

26 Montecito Insider

Planned Parenthood observes its 100th year with a “Birds and Bees Bash” that raises $450,000

28 On The Arts

MAW hosts pianists Yuja Wang, Musical America Artist of the Year, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, who join forces to perform at a gala Sunday, May 21

30 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews the Nonviolent Communication conference; Five Elements workshop with Rae Johnson; and Sacred Space & Feng Shui at La Casa de Maria

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33 Movie Guide 35 Coup De Grace

Rough(age) and tumble: Grace Rachow weighs in on the benefits of celery and carrots, the latter of which are the way to her husband’s heart

Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant opens his eyes to the unconscious activities of sleeping, dreaming, and – by way of a popular bedtime prayer – dying “before I wake”

40 Coming & Going

James Buckley details the maiden overnight Rally4Kids fundraiser for United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara, including its victorious “Roads Scholars”

43 Our Town

Joanne Calitri looks behind the Lobero curtain at SB Dance Theater artistic director Christopher Pilafian’s Now/Ever/More and additional compositions

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Sigrid Toye goes to the head of the class with UCSB alumna Jean Gradias, Cold Spring School’s science teacher who oversees an integrated learning program

50 Calendar of Events

Peter Yorn at Velvet Jones; UCSB museum welcomes art; EDC tgif!; Poor Man’s Whiskey at SOhO; Earl Warren hosts Antique Arts; Isla Vista Juggling Festival; Beth Amine; It’s About Time exhibit; Mariachi in Carp; Seaside Studio tour; and Der Rosenkavalier at MAW

53 Real Estate View

The Santa Barbara housing market is scorching, with a “heat” score 28 percent higher than a year ago. Michael Phillips crunches the numbers.

Open House Directory 54 Classified Advertising

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

55 Local Business Directory

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ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Lowering the Cost of Desalinated Water

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he City of Santa Barbara will set a milestone with the opening of its Charles E. Meyer desalination plant, designed initially to produce 3,125 acre feet per year (AFY) of potable water, plucked from the adjoining and inexhaustible Pacific Ocean reservoir, which contains onethird of the world’s water supply. The City’s output of 3,125 AFY of desalinated water is nearly equivalent to the amount of water that the Montecito Water District (MWD) will use this year. For the City, the newly opened desal plant will provide a reliable, drought-free, locally controlled source for 30% of Santa Barbara’s water needs.

Congratulations to the City of Santa Barbara

Josh Haggmark, Santa Barbara’s manager of Water Resources, his staff, the city council, and an engaged public, are all to be commended for their four-year fight to rehab the mothballed $34-million 1991 desal facility that was jointly paid for by the City, Goleta Water District (GWD), and MWD ratepayers. The actual rehab cost of the new desal facility, pegged in June 2015 at $53 million, has since soared to $70 million. Wisely, the City preserved the precious permits to desalinate 10,000 AFY of water, taking the long-term view.

The City also secured 20-year, 1.6% State Revolving Fund (SRF) financing to pay the $70-million capital costs and are pursuing lower energy fees. The City has already incorporated desal costs into City water rates.

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he intrigues of the White House during the Watergate years were vividly brought to light by Santa Barbara resident, Jo Haldeman, whose late husband, Bob, was president Richard Nixon’s chief of staff and spent 18 months in prison in Lompoc for his part in the 1972 break-in scandal.

Jo, 88, gave an insight into that infamous period when she read from her fascinating new book, In The Shadow of the White House: A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years 19681978 at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village.

“It took me 22 years to write,” says Jo, who has lived in our Eden by the Beach for more than 30 years, of the insightful, poignant, and guileless memoir of a momentous 10 years, with trips on Air Force One, stays at Camp David and innumerable intimate memories of the White House.

“I didn’t keep diaries, so much of its gleaned from letters I wrote to family members at the time, which was like keeping a diary. Bob died in 1993 and, reluctantly, it was left to me to provide that legacy. It was daunting because the scrapbooks didn’t tell the full story.

“I first wrote it in longhand and then amended it as I went along on a laptop, devoting myself full time.

I did readings to family and friends along the way. It is my story of a turbulent time.”

Hope Ranch resident Jo’s husband, who resigned his job in 1973 and was charged the following year with a 55-day trial, was literally The Woman Behind the Man and her account is truly compelling.

A must-read.

Double Jeopardy!

Santa Barbara software engineer Alan Lin is $123,600 richer after a six day winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.

And he could add to his newfound wealth in the fall when he will be appearing on the popular show’s Tournament of Champions, which is taped at the Sony Studios in Culver City, and could earn him another $250,000 if he’s victorious.

Alan, 25, who works at Green Hills Software downtown, taped the shows

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Jo Haldeman reveals all about Watergate years at the White House

Alan Lin with Alex Trebek, the host of Jeopardy!

in January and was sworn to secrecy until the programs aired last week.

“We did them all in just two days,” says Alan, a graduate of Caltech in Pasadena. “It was exhausting.

Fortunately, I had enough clothes with me to change between tapings.”

Questions pertaining to arts and literature, his strongpoints, came up often, while he considers movies his weakest subject.

Alan, who moved to our tony town five years after graduating, is planning to spend his Jeopardy! loot on an apartment but is waiting until later in the year to see how he does in the champions tournament.

He says he is now getting recognized and was even handed a business card by a savvy local realtor who thought he might be in the market for a property.

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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

A Neal Graffy Lecture

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hen David Myrick authored his trust in 1991, he knew that one day his massive collection of artifacts, letters, maps, books, pictures, microfiche, newspapers, and financial papers on most of America’s Fortune companies (Annual Reports) would be gifted to the Montecito Foundation. After sorting, hundreds of boxes were gifted to museums outside our demographic, and to family. The collection was pared down to 472 boxes, all pertaining to Montecito and surrounding areas.

The collection was offered to the Montecito Foundation, as prescribed, but the Foundation had no provision for the storage and maintenance of such. Trustee Scott Allen, nephew of David, directed that the archive be given to the newly formed MHA (Montecito Historical Archive).

I have been a friend of David for 25 years. We lunched almost every week. When David became ill at Casa Dorinda, I visited every day on the way home from work. I often discussed his desire for the disposition of his belongings after passing.

David dictated a letter from his hospital bed that expressed his desire to have a non-profit organized so that he could fund such and use his archive via the nonprofit to secure other archives. David knew there was no room, funds, or means to raise funds, without formation of a nonprofit.

Obeying David’s request, I started the paperwork for Montecito Historical Archive in October 2011.

All fees were paid and recognition of receipt from the IRS was made mid 2012 with confirmation mid-2013.

He left $10,000 to the Foundation for History Committee projects and $15,000 for the formation of the nonprofit.

In addition to the above, David had written Book III of Montecito. It was in manuscript form and needed proofreading, picture collating, and setup for print. He gave me the assignment to follow through with this important project. Upon completion, sale of Montecito Book III would be used for fund raising.

The Montecito Historical Archive has a 10-member board of directors, along with several volunteers and advisors. We have enjoyed the space provided us in the lower level of El Montecito Presbyterian Church.

With our board, advisors, and volunteers, we will be sorting, digitizing,

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and cataloging the 472 banker boxes of historical materials left us by David F. Myrick. We will also be finalizing the manuscript for Montecito Book III. The MHA with board member historians Neal Graffy and Erin Graffy will host a series of lectures at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, sponsored by Montecito Historical Archives, El Montecito Presbyterian Church and Montecito Journal. The very first free lecture – open to the public – will take place at El Montecito Presbyterian Church meeting hall on East Valley Road, Wednesday, May 17, beginning at 6:30 pm.

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Prevention is a Cure

Not being a scientist, I also don’t know how accurate Mr. [Atom] Bergstrom’s information is (“More About Cancer,” MJ #23/17) and will repeat my previous words that I think prevention is possibly the best “cure,” but also mention that cancers can form in perfectly healthy people.

Regarding taking flaxseed, I had in mind the ground seed, not oil. The oil is also far from the only thing known to become carcinogenic upon being exposed to prolonged, high heat. Think of how blackened and carbon-like plain old meat can become...

I’ve seen instructions in Reader’s Digest’s Back To Basics telling how to make paint from blackened potatoes.

Per lousy M.D.s, I’ve had three, plus a college roommate who should’ve been locked away, with his rich M.D. dad the reason for his “problem.” The one whose own staff believes he is incompetent is still in town with his practice. Another I saw had patients die under his care, then developed a drinking problem, then went on to become an Ivy League university professor.

I could go on for quite a bit, but will, instead, remind the readers of this missive of part of an obit I read in which the deceased was quoted as saying part of his life’s philosophy for happiness was avoiding as many medical and legal types as possible.

Ben Burned Montecito

It’s All About Time

Time (which does not exist in my reality) runs most people’s lives with its heavy gravitational pull, causing

early aging and deterioration which cannot be halted by a magical pill or expensive skin cream to erase the wrinkles and worries that plague mankind daily.

Time does not tick at the same rate everywhere throughout the universe.

In outer space, a clock actually ticks much slower than on Earth. Ergo, our Satellite Navigational Systems only work because the U.S. military makes corrective adjustments to the satellite clocks every single day.

Most people assume we live in a 3-dimensional world. Would it surprise you to learn we live in a four-dimensional world – three dimensions of space and one dimension of time?

This 4th dimension of time is so interwoven with the other three dimensions of space that physicists have only one name for the entire package: space-time. (I was aware of this even as a young teenager living in Boston).

I’d like to recommend a fun and painless way of grasping this knowledge by suggesting viewing the classic and delightful H.G. Wells movie shown frequently on TCM (Channel 69): The Time Machine. Please be most attentive, especially at the beginning, during the dinner scene, where the guests discuss all four dimensions briefly and accurately. H.G. Wells, the author of this book and many others of this ilk was a visionary and a genius who predicted the unfolding of World War Two as the gullible British folk danced obliviously away, as the writing was literally displayed on the wall with newspaper warnings that Europe was already massively arming itself.

On the National Geographic channel, I cordially invite all MJ readers to view the fabulous new weekly series

Genius, based upon Albert Einstein’s life, times, and achievements. I am thrilled that Ron Howard has put together such a masterpiece of work.

No wonder Steve Jobs, before he died, requested that the same biographer this series is written by (Walter Isaacson), write his story too. Genius can be seen and recorded on Tuesdays at 9 pm.

Some favorite quotes from the series include: “Understanding time is essential to understanding relativity;” “Past-present-future is but a stubborn illusion. Time is not absolute”; “Everything is connected. Nature isn’t a product of God; nature is God”; “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”; and my most favorite of these gems: “The universal truth is that human perception is frightfully narrow. We believe we see the whole, when in fact we only see a fraction.”

Viva Einstein!

Leslie Nelson Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you, Mr. Nelson.

We have already been beguiled by Genius, and by the remarkable portrayal of Mr. Einstein by Geoffrey Rush, along with riveting performances by Samantha Colley as Mileva Maric and the delicious Shannon Tarbet as Marie Winteler, and so many other terrific performances. Additionally, who could possibly resist a program that features the sex life of Earth’s pre-eminent 20th-century scientist, as well as a cast of characters that includes everyone from Franz Kafka, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck to Joseph Goebbels and emperor Franz Joseph? – J.B.)

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SATURDAY, MAY 13

Westmont’s Siloam Quartet Spring Concert The Siloam Quartet features Madison Martin, Emily McClean, Sarah Shasberger and Rebecca Shasberger When: 7 pm Where: Westmont’s Deane Chapel, 955 La Paz Cost: Free Info: 565-6040

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, MAY 11 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

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

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 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

FRIDAY, MAY 12 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The assembly is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 to 2:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Sacred Space & Feng Shui Shawne Mitchell presents an informative retreat day workshop at La Casa de Maria.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm

Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $95, includes lunch Info: www.lacasademaria.org Mother’s Day Tea One of Lotusland’s most popular events is celebrating Mother’s Day – the Saturday before Mother’s Day – by touring the garden, enjoying tea and refreshments on the pavilion patio. The tours are docentled or members may explore the garden on their own. This is the perfect treat for someone special in your life!

When: 1:30 pm Cost: Tickets are $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers, and $30 for children ages 3 to 12 Reservations: Advance reservations are required and may be made by calling (805) 969-9990 Book Signing at Tecolote Marshall Watson will sign his new book, The Art of Elegance; Classic Interiors. Known for his meticulously researched, European-inspired style, Watson creates interiors that are rich in texture, detail, and simple luxuries.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Art Opening Carpinteria’s Porch features fine art photographer Will Pierce’s latest installation, “Soul of the Sea”, from May 1 to June 31. You are invited to join Pierce for a special reception and viewing today.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane

SUNDAY, MAY 14 Art Event Contemporary artist Niki Lunn invites the community to attend a one-day special event at the Santa Barbara Winery in the Funk Zone on Mother’s Day. Her abstract expressionist paintings feature vibrant

textures and colors depicting the Santa Barbara landscape and beyond. Light, color, and design combine playfully on the canvas, giving the viewer a sense of happiness, while also a feeling of wonder at our ongoing personal interaction with nature. The venue of the Santa Barbara winery Barrel Room provides a unique backdrop for this special event, a perfect place to indulge Mom on her special day.

Mention the artist by name and receive special artist pricing for your wine tasting.

When: 11 am to 4 pm Where: Santa Barbara Winery, 202 Anacapa Street Cost: free Special MUS School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 Montecito Planning Commission Meeting MPC ensures that applicants adhere to certain ordinances and policies and that issues raised by interested parties are addressed.

When: 9 am Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Basket Weavers Group The Basket Weavers Group is a place to connect with other basket weavers. Bring

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your own project or start a new one. Beginner and all levels are welcomed.

Basic materials are provided. Someone is available to help you get started and to learn different techniques. Please join for a lively afternoon.

When: 2:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Community Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: Free Info: 969-3786 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work.

When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation

THURSDAY, MAY 18 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, MAY 19 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

SATURDAY, MAY 20 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,

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and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free Carpinteria Auction The Boys & Girls Club of Carpinteria host its 50th annual auction; a fun-filled event with food, auction items, and community celebration. All members of the community are welcomed to come and enjoy the multitude of different donated items in this year’s auction, and help be a part of raising funds for the repair of the Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club’s roof.

The roof was damaged during the recent rains, and the need for a replacement is immediate and necessary for the location to stay open. Part of the proceeds from this annual event will go to this project and be directly involved in helping the Carpinteria Boys & Girls Club remain open.

When: 5 to 9 pm Where: 4849 Foothill Road Info: www.unitedbg.org/events

SUNDAY, MAY 21 Intermediate Beekeeping If you have previously completed a beginner beekeeping class or have basic beekeeping knowledge, continue to hone your skills. You will gain more knowledge through presentations, discussion of seasonal issues, honey extraction, and field inspection of La Casa’s hives. Please bring your own protective gear if possible.

Paul Cronshaw, president of the Santa Barbara Beekeeper’s Association, has more than 40 years of beekeeping experience. Paul tends the La Casa apiary.

When: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $95, includes lunch Registration: www.lacasademaria.org

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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: 969-0859 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

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

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

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

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 291-1957

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

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

French Conversation Every Sunday at Pierre Lafond in Montecito, look for a small group in the shade and join for casual conversation (and lunch if you’d like).

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ready to retire just yet!” she said.

With an almost entirely new school board installed in November, plans for a new administrative and classroom building are on hold, as the new board is being tasked with determining how to fund the project, which would do away with the portable classrooms on campus.

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

Cold Spring School Announces New Superintendent

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t their board meeting on Monday, May 8, the Cold Spring School Board voted in their new superintendent/principal, Dr. Amy Alzina. “We were very impressed with Amy and we feel lucky to have her at our school,” said board president Jennifer Miller.

Dr. Alzina has been the principal at Adams Elementary in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) for eight years and is credited for having a significant impact on the school’s increased test scores and parent involvement. “This is an incredible opportunity for me,” Alzina told parents in the audience.

“I look forward to meeting all of your kids!” she added.

Beginning her career in 1999, Dr. Alzina taught P.E., kindergarten, first grade, and fifth grade at Santa Barbara Community Academy, an alternative, year-round school on Santa Barbara’s

Westside. She then went on to become the principal of that school for three years before transferring to Adams.

She also held the title of interim assistant superintendent for SBUSD in 2014, and holds seats on several local educational boards and organizations.

“Transferring to Cold Spring was an easy decision for me,” Alzina said, crediting the school’s “incredible students, collaborative school board, outstanding teachers and staff, and supportive and involved parents.” Alzina went on to say: “It is my heart’s desire to continue the trajectory of putting students first. I look forward to meeting you all and watching your kids grow.”

Dr. Alzina will begin her new position on July 10; former superintendent/principal Dr. Tricia Price’s official end date is July 1, but as of last week, it was announced that Dr. Price would spend the remainder of the

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Montecito Association Meets Dr. Amy Alzina has been hired as the superintendent/principal of Cold Spring School. Dr. Alzina has spent the last eight years as the principal of Adams School in Santa Barbara.

school year on administrative leave.

An interim superintendent and transition facilitator from Oxnard Unified School District has been brought on to oversee the last month of school.

Dr. Price announced in December that she would not be returning to the school following the conclusion of the 2016-17 school year, after serving six years in the role. Prior to coming to Cold Spring, Dr. Price taught for 23 years in area schools, including Crane Country Day School and Montecito Union, and was principal of three schools in the Carpinteria Unified School District: Aliso, Summerland, and Carpinteria Family School.

During Price’s tenure at Cold Spring, the school has been recognized as a California Distinguished School and a Gold Ribbon school. Cold Spring has consistently been ranked among the highest-achieving schools in the state. A STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) program has been added to a rich curriculum, and progress has been made on plans to replace portable buildings on campus with a permanent structure. “I am proud of what has been accomplished at the school in the last six years, and I will deeply miss the students,” Price told us earlier this week. Dr. Price says she intends on continuing her role in the school system, potentially helping other districts during transitions as needed. “I’m not

At this month’s Montecito Association (MA) Board of Directors meeting, Rick Lemmo from Caruso Affiliated Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort gave an update on the hotel and resort project. “The good news is, we’ve caught up on most of the rain days we lost,” Lemmo said, adding that information regarding the Miramar Beach Club membership will be available early this summer. “The buildings will be framed in the next four to six weeks,” Lemmo said. The hotel is expected to open in the summer of 2018.

The Association Board of Directors took a moment to thank both local public school superintendents, Dr. Tricia Price of Cold Spring School and Tammy Murphy of Montecito Union School. Both women are departing from their respective posts at the end of this academic year. Dr. Price told the board members that she has enjoyed working with them over the last six years, and Murphy also thanked the board for their commitment to the community, and their support of her during her tenure at MUS. “Certainly, it hasn’t always been easy, but it has been rewarding,” she said. Murphy has taken a position at the Dubai American Academy in the United Arab Emirates; she will move this summer. MUS’s new superintendent will be announced later this week.

On Tuesday, June 6, the Board of Supervisors will revisit the issue of Short Term Rentals (STRs) in the County. At that hearing, County staff is expected to present findings to the board regarding STRs

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talian pianist Alessio Bax returns to perform with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) at the Lobero on Tuesday night, May 16.

That would normally be pretty big news in itself, given that Bax, a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, is an in-demand soloist boasting appearances with more than 100 orchestras, including the London and Royal philharmonics and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle, plus innumerable chamber concerts at Lincoln Center.

But Tuesday date with Bax performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor and also featuring Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 represents not only the closing concert of the SBCO, but quite possibly the final concert in the ensemble’s nearly 40-year history, as SBCO has announced that, due to a precarious financial position, operations are being suspended for 90 days after the show.

The orchestra’s history dates back to 1978 when UCSB conducting student Jeffrey Evans founded the ensemble as a vehicle to play the kind of small ensemble music that was then missing in town. Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama took over just five years later, while he was still serving as principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where he was later appointed assistant conductor under André Previn).

Ohyama built the orchestra into a highly respected ensemble that regularly draws soloists and guest conductors far above its pay scale and audience size.

All of which means, the music is not the issue, said SBCO board chairman Joe Campanelli, who first joined the board in its first year of operations, when the first concert was at a coffee shop.

“To hear the kind of quality of what we have, you’d have to go to Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York, but the SBCO offers that level of performance here in our own backyard,” Campanelli said. “But we haven’t done a good job promoting that quality, because we’ve focused on the product and not the marketing. The fact is that these musicians, (most of whom come up studio work and ensembles in Los Angeles), come because they love the music and working with Maestro Ohyama. When they’re here, it’s not just another gig where they’re just playing along and turning the pages.

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what to come play with him.”

Ohyama – whose 35-year tenure is unheard of in smaller classical music ensembles, which normally finds its leader moving on after five to seven years on average – is fully committed, too, Campanelli said. “He told me, ‘I’ll conduct here until I can’t hold a baton anymore.’”

The problem, Campanelli explained, has been a lack of a comprehensive business plan or master plan to face the future. And the recent loss of new executive director Kevin Marvin, who left for the symphony barely two years after arriving at SBCO, didn’t help matters. In order to not only save next year’s series of concerts – all of which have been planned and fully programmed – and also secure a stable future, the SBCO needs to raise $200,000 per year for the next three years, as well as a $6 million endowment. “Otherwise, you just keep repeating history.”

The three-month suspension that is being positioned as an opportunity to gauge how the community values the venerable institution in the classical music scene in Santa Barbara – which admittedly has a densely packed calendar for such a small audience base – will give the board time to have its task force meet with a consultant to

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

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Co-chairs of the TBCF luncheon, Emilee Garfield and Adriana Mezic, on either side of executive director Lindsey Leonard

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TBCF inspirational speakers Shaun Tomson and Gina Miles

t was the third annual Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF) “Little Heroes” breakfast at The Fess Parker. It is named in honor of children who experience a battle against cancer that no child should ever have to endure. They are our heroes!

Executive director Lindsey Leonard told us, “There have been 1,808 individuals awarded a total of $1.7 mil-

lion in financial assistant since our beginning in 2002.” Nikki Katz was the founder. The families are given financial, educational, and emotional support in the form of rent, utilities, and car payments. There are support groups as well, so families can focus on the most important thing – their children.

The two inspirational speakers

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were indeed just that! The first was Gina Miles, an equestrian Olympic Individual Silver Medal winner in 2008. Besides racking up an impressive list of horsy titles, she operates a full-service equestrian business in Ms Millner is the author of The Magic Makeover, Tricks for Looking Thinner, Younger and More Confident – Instantly. If you have an event that belongs in this column, you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164.

San Luis Obispo offering training to all ages. Before that, she found time to graduate cum laude from Cal Poly, get married, and have two children.

She came from a non-horse family but wanted nothing but a horse since she was teeny. Finally, her folks bought her a pony for $150. Not exactly the way to start a jumping career, which is what she really wanted to do. She joked, “I read books in those days to teach myself how to jump.”

This was the same scenario I went through with my daughter, only she never went to the Olympics. When her dad and I would borrow her horse

to ride in the Spanish feria, she would pretend she didn’t know us. We had great costumes but poor form.

Former world surfing champion Shaun Tomson walks the walk. Besides surfing, he has co-founded, managed, and sold two multi-million-dollar clothing brands. He has developed a 12-step program for achieving your goals and lectures around the world to schools, universities, and corporations.

His book is titled The Code – The Power of “I Will.” As Shaun says, “What you will, you will become.”

The breakfast was co-chaired by Emilee Garfield and Adriana Mezic, who should be happy with several hundred attending and donating to TBCF. Table sponsors were Heather Ayer, Donna Barranco Fisher, David Edelman, Matt Fish, Emilee Garfield, J. Paul Gignac, Kimberley Green, Wells Hughes, Mark Hunt, Lindsey Leonard, Ambia McLaughlin, Adriana Mezic, Bibi Moezzi, Becca Solodon, Michael Taylor, Leifur Thordarson, Gillian Valentine, and Maria Wilson. For more information, call Shelby Thomas, special events director, at (805) 962-7466.

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The Way It Was

In the Saddle

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IPad screens activate three videos describing the life of the buckaroos, vaqueros, and Los Visitadores, all told in their own words.

In the Saddle is curated by Tom Peterson, vice-president and curator of the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum; Bill Reynolds, publisher, historian, and museum trustee; and Susan Jensen, who together with Paul Singer, is a filmmaker and owner of J & S Productions.

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A Brief History of a California Art Susan Jenson and Paul Singer of J & S Productions, Western documentary filmmakers who created the videos for the exhibit

Santa Barbara Historical Museum director Lynn Brittner listens to exhibit curators Bill Reynolds and Tom Peterson at the opening of In the Saddle

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he artistry of Santa Barbara’s equestrian roots is celebrated in an exceptionally fascinating and beautiful Western exhibit called In the Saddle, which opened at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum on April 19. The stories behind the 27 exquisite saddles reveal the aesthetics of Santa Barbara’s ranching history.

Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

Detail of Selin Carrillo’s bridle

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From silver-trimmed parade saddles to simpler working saddles, the application of leather tooling, stamping, and carving shows the care and pride that cowboys have for their gear.

Best of all, the saddles are displayed amidst the paintings of noted Western artists such as Carl Oscar Borg, Edward Borein, Nicholas Firfires, and Alexander Harmer, whose paintings depict historic scenes of riders on the range.

Braided rawhide reins and ornamental bridles reveal another aspect of the decorative work prized by vaqueros. One of the most historic of these is the bridle and reins belonging to Selin Carrillo, who drove the last Wells Fargo stage over San Marcos Pass in 1901. (Stage service stopped that year due to the Southern Pacific Railroad’s completion of the Coast Line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.)

Large screens looping video of cowboys astride their horses has the effect of placing the visitor among the pack, enjoying the gentle, rocking pace of the herd. The creak of the saddle mingles with the sounds of hooves and soft whinnies, and the comforting aroma of leather com• The Voice of the Village •

The art of decorating leather with carved and stamped designs is believed to have originated among the Moors of North Africa and brought to Spain in the 8th century. After the Christian Reconquest of Spain, completed in 1492, the custom was brought to the New World along with the non-indigenous horse.

Some 300 years later, when the Portola expedition of 1769 arrived in Alta California, they were followed fairly soon by a host of missionaries, soldiers, and settlers who brought the art of leather tooling with them.

The exhibit displays a saddle used by a Soldado de Cuero. Although it lacks ornamental embellishments, it does show the typical saddle used for long-distance travel by the very first settlers.

Mexico’s independence from Spain, achieved in 1821, allowed the more prominent Spanish (now Mexican) citizens of California to acquire vast land grants, giving rise to the ranchero culture and an increased desire for ornamentation. These unique saddles not only were an expression of personal style but also an identifier of ownership.

By the turn of the 20th century, a saddle shop in Santa Barbara displayed a saddle once owned by Don José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega.

Known as “El Capitan” for his service as commandante of the Presidio, Don José and the De la Guerra family remained influential citizens of Santa Barbara well into the American period.

A 1904 article by Arthur Inkersley in The Craftsman describes Inkersley’s visit to that saddlery. “[Don José’s] saddle,” he writes, “was made in Mexico and has a curious pommel of rawhide, stretched over a wooden foundation, representing a grotesque human head with the ears set abnormally high. The open lips show two rows of white teeth, and the hair was originally represented by silver threads, which have disappeared; as have also the silver ornaments of the cantle.

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iniscences with his 98-year-old wife, Anne, both long time residents of our rarefied enclave.

The collection reveals Anne had been aware of the Spartacus star’s philandering over their 63 years of matrimony, but “understood it was unrealistic to expect total fidelity in a marriage.”

Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter and A Lifetime in Hollywood was released last week, and People magazine marked the occasion by running quotes from its pages.

Kirk, father to actor Michael Douglas, 72, “never tried to hide his dalliances from me,” says Germanborn Anne, who attributes his laissez-faire outlook on the matter to her being European.

The actor, who also starred in the 1952 classic The Bad And The Beautiful, was previously married from 1943 until 1951 to actress Diana Dill, mother to Michael and producer son Joel Douglas.

When he met Anne in Paris, he was struck that “this self-possessed beauty was very different from the women I had been involved within Hollywood since Diana left me.”

In the book, he notes Anne “wasn’t neurotic like Gene Tierney, who always insisted I arrive for our nocturnal ‘date’ by climbing the tree outside her bedroom window.”

Offering up another bit of gossip, he adds: “She wasn’t reckless like my much-married oil heiress, Irene Wrightsman, whom I found in bed with Sydney Chaplin when I came back home early from the studio.”

Kirk had been engaged to Italian actress Pier Angeli when he’d met Anne, who was working in Paris on the publicity for his 1953 Anatole Litvak-directed film Act of Love.

Anne and Kirk married in 1954 and had two sons – 61-year-old producer Peter Douglas and actor Eric Douglas, who died at 46 of an accidental overdose in 2004.

Kirk’s movie bedfellows were legion – from Joan Crawford to Rita Hayworth to Marlene Dietrich, et al – as he divulges in his kiss-and-tell memoir The Ragman’s Son. In their new joint book, Anne writes: “Kirk secured my permission before including stories of his trysts in his 1988 autobiography and noted: “I’m sure his candor helped him make the book a major bestseller.”

They’ve Got Your Bach A tony triumvirate of world class musicians – prolific cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Edgar Meyer, and Grammy Award-winning mandolin wizard Chris Thile – teamed up at the Granada to raise monies for UCSB’s Arts & Lectures education and out-

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The hour-long concert, sponsored

by Montecito philanthropist Leslie Ridley-Tree, was a glorious program of back-to-back Bach with the 1,500 seat theater packed for the occasion.

Ma, who has won 18 Grammies and made more than 100 albums, like the other virtuosi, has recorded the German composer individually.

Afterward, VIP supporters, who paid $1,000 a ticket, returned to the McCune Founders Room, where a pre-concert reception had been held, for a dinner with the performers.

Among the too too tony throng were Henry and Dilling Yang, Thomas and Annette Caleel, Bruce Heavin, Mark Whitehurst, Gail Arnold, Celesta Billeci, Dan and Meg Burnham, Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, Tim and Monica Babich, Sara Miller McCune, Anne Towbes, Robert and Christine Emmons, Tom and Heather Sturgess, and Brooks and Kate Firestone.

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Actress Lesley Nicol, 63, who now lives in Sherman Oaks after getting her Green Card to work in the U.S., tells me that she and the other actors in the popular British period drama, have been asked to leave certain dates available for filming.

Lesley, who played the aristocratic Crawley family’s cook, Beryl Patmore, for 52 episodes from 2010 to 2015, was with me on a whale-watching trip on Hiroko Benko’s popular jet powered vessel, the Condor Express.

“We haven’t received scripts yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing everyone again,” says Lesley. “I’ve missed them.”

Olive Branch Jeffrey and Michelle Branch opened the gates of their charming Hope Ranch estate for Direct Relief Women’s 7th annual Mother’s Day celebration, which garnered around

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Honoree the reverend Rick Frechette, surrounded by the event co-chairs Dana Seltzer, Marisa Grimes, and Kim Thomas showing gratitude for “this extraordinary humanitarian” (photo by Priscilla)

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Hayley Jessup Firestone, Direct Relief former director of major gifts, with Carrie Tighe and David Pringle (photo by Priscilla)

$150,000 to help midwives on the impoverished Caribbean island of Haiti.

Over the past seven years, the amazons have raised more than $1 million to help the charity, with the first event being held at the Montecito home of Tom and Carrie Cusack in 2011.

Since its inception, the group has enabled more than 34,000 safe births, raising much needed funds to provide midwives with Direct Relief kits, which include 59 essential items a midwife needs.

Maryann Norbom, Bitsy Becton Bacon, Stan Hatch, and Hayley Firestone Jessup.

Elizabeth Toro, with the reverend Rick Frechette, M.D. (photo by Priscilla) Ann Smith with Andrew Firestone, fundraiser, and Hayley Firestone Jessup, who received in absentia for Mari Mitchell, Direct Relief’s “Woman of the Year” (photo by Priscilla)

America’s Goat Talent Goats were in abundance when African Women Rising, a northern Uganda charity, held a Goat Fest with 150 guests at a rustic Cold Springs Road estate.

“It is not so much about raising money, as drawing attention to the ten year old organization,” said Linda Cole, founder, who visits the country three or four times a year.

“It’s about giving these women living in very impoverished surroundings a livelihood. We work with 4,500 women.”

Ashley Bevins, Oat Bakery owners Lou and Louise Fontana, with volunteer Michelle Mukasa and Susan Moe, provide tastings of their varietal breads (photo by Priscilla)

The summer soiree, co-chaired by Kim Thomas, Marisa Grimes, and Dana Seltzer, attracted 286 guests, raising $100,000 for the non-profit, which was addressed by Rick Frechette of the St. Luke Foundation for Haiti, who had to catch a redeye back to the Caribbean island just hours later for the opening a new 93-bed hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Supporting the cause were Andrew Firestone, Caroline Thompson, Teresa McWilliams, Monica Babich,

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in the fest while a trip to Las Vegas, a sailboat cruise for six, and a high-performance racing class in Rosamund were auctioned off by city council member Gregg Hart while fellow councilor Cathy Murillo emceed and Hannah-Beth Jackson spoke.

One of our tony town’s sweeter events.

With her bead collection after 20 years of living in Africa, Linda Cole shares the wealth allowing Ayla, volunteers Cella Deprima, Jenna Ober, and Luna Webster, with Melia and Ivy, make their bracelets and necklaces (photo by Priscilla)

Go for Baroque Santa Barbara Dance Theater’s artistic director Christopher Pilafian played Alfred Hitchcock in a new program NOW/EVER/MORE at the Lobero with the debut of his baroquethemed work Chamber Fantasy.

The amusing ironic and spirited piece, worthy of a Victoria’s Secret commercial, featured a soprano singing the work of George Frederic

Handel, while Pilafian, dressed as a gentleman of the period, made two cameo appearances on stage while female dancers – Nikki Pfeiffer, Nicole Powell, and Miche Wong – cavorted in their lingerie.

Christopher also reprised his work Mystique, an homage to women who have influenced his life and work.

The entertaining six-piece performance featured two guest choreographers, Andrea Giselle Schermoly with Hers, highlighting facets of individuality and humanity, and David Maurice with Were It Not for Shadows.

Maurice also did a highly energized solo work, Liminal Red, which was much appreciated by the audience.

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Young Nigerian and Nubian goats were on display, much to the delight of the youngsters present, who noshed on Lou and Louise Fontana’s Oat Bakery bread, which sells at the Montecito Country Mart, and ice cream donated by McConnell’s.

Fruit of the Vine The Rape Crisis Center threw its ninth annual Chocolate de Vine event at the Greek Orthodox Church attracting 200 oenophiles and chocoholics, raising around $40,000 for the worthy cause.

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Westmont Mourns Loss of Alumnus

Your Westmont

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

Musicians Sweep PASF Competition

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estmont student musicians swept the top three instrumental honors April 30 at the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation (PASF) finals. Junior Erik Fauss (viola) won first place ($5,000), senior Lalia Mangione (violin) won second place, and junior Tim Beccue (cello) won third place.

“In their early 20s, these were the youngest competitors in the finals,” says Michael Shasberger, Westmont Adams professor of music and worship. “The rest of the competitors were master’s degree and doctoral students at UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, and other top graduate programs.”

Fauss of Santa Rosa was a finalist in the Westmont Music Guild Competition in 2014. Fauss, who was born in Germany, is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lambda national honors societies. He performed Allegro Moderto from “Viola Concerto” by Bela Bartok.

Mangione from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has worked with nearly every music program in Santa Barbara.

Violinist Lalia Mangione earned 2nd place

Erik Fauss won 1st-place honors

In 2016, she won third place with PASF. In 2013, she won Westmont’s Music Guild Competition. She graduates as the Outstanding Senior in Music and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. She performed Tzigane by Maurice Ravel.

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Beccue of Westlake Village won the Music Guild Competition in 2014.

In 2015, he won PASF Honorable Mention. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. He played Pezzo Capriccioso, Op. 62 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

In 2015, Westmont instrumentalists won first (Aaron Wilk, piano), second (Rebecca Shasberger, cello) and fourth (Lalia Mangione, violin).

Established in 1982, the PASF provides financial support to music students studying in the Santa Barbara area who demonstrate strong professional potential.

Choir Tour Visits Italy, Austria

The Westmont College Choir and Chamber Singers visited Ventura and Los Angeles before flying to Northern Italy and Austria for nearly two weeks. The tour to Northern Italy and Austria on May 9-22 features performances at Santa Maria dell’Incoronata Church in Naples, Chiesa di San Fermo Maggiore in Verona, San Moisè Church in Venice, Aviano Air Base, Saint Peter’s Church and Holy Trinity Lutheran in Vienna, and Müllner Church in Salzburg.

The performances feature a diverse repertoire of classic, contemporary, sacred, and secular music, including folk songs, spirituals, and vocal jazz.

The college choir, under the direction of Michael Shasberger, will perform works by American composers such as Jake Runestad, Emma Lou Diemer, Nancy Wertsch, and Elliot Levine with a sprinkling of works

by Mendelssohn, Lotti, Mozart, and other timeless masters. The Chamber Singers, directed by Grey Brothers, will present music of America, Italy, and Austria to celebrate the locations on their tour.

In the past, the choir has toured Lithuania and Russia, England and Scotland, Guatemala and Costa Rica, the Southwest, and the Pacific Northwest

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Davies Kabogoza ’16 spoke to incoming Westmont students in August

The Westmont community mourns the loss of alumnus Davies Kabogoza ’16, who died April 29 while stand-up paddle boarding in the Santa Barbara Harbor. The 30-year-old from Uganda earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and worked as a physical therapy aide at Hayashida Physical Therapy.

“The entire Westmont family is grief-stricken in the loss of Davies,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “He was a wonderful part of our community and had just graduated this past year. He returned to campus this fall to tell his story of perseverance and tenacity in overcoming almost impossible odds to come to America and to attend and graduate from Westmont.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

Kabogoza played on the Westmont men’s soccer team in 2013 and 2015, and he spoke at Westmont’s Orientation in August.

His inspiring story of coming to Santa Barbara has been well-documented in news stories and blogs.

In Uganda, Kabogoza joined the Sports Outreach Institute when he was 18, where he met Westmont alumna Vicky Harbison ’78, a Santa Barbara teacher and founder of Turn the Page Uganda, which brings books to students and teachers in northern Uganda. She and her husband, Jeff, arranged to have Kabogoza flown to the U.S., and he began attending classes and playing soccer at Santa Barbara City College in 2012.

He was a fashion model for Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, and Emporio Armani, coached soccer at Laguna Blanca School, and served as media planner for Turn the Page Uganda. He regularly attended Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara. •MJ 11 – 18 May 2017

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Yet Another Jingle from Dingle

I met a Buckley here in Dingle, Ireland. An artist who traveled up from here to show her work at the festival.

It’s been a fantastic trip, people in Dingle are so friendly; they are truly soulmates to Santa Barbarans. While here, I thought I would catch Bud Bottoms’s dolphin statue up on the latest from back home. It was a pleasurable reunion!

Thomas Van Stein Santa Barbara

Department). April’s growth was broad-based and included increases in leisure and hospitality, healthcare, social assistance, business, finance, and mining.

Going forward, though there is much more work to be done in relation to our economy, there are early signs of a possible economic rebound.

Let’s hope it continues.

Don and Diana Thorn Carpinteria (Editor’s note: The Trump presidency has already made an enormous difference in outlook for most working Americans.

– J.B.) Gathered around Fungi, the Bud Bottoms’s dolphin in Dingle, Ireland are a group of Santa Barbarians that includes artist Thomas Van Stein (second from left) and Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider (third from right), all of whom are, we believe, having way too much fun

(Editor’s note: Meeting a Buckley in Ireland is no biggie. In fact, there is an entire town cluttered with Buckleys: Buckley’s Market, Buckley’s Apothecary, Buckley’s Barber Shop, et cetera. While there are English Buckleys, the reason for that is that some took the ferry from Dun Laoghaire (pronounced Dun Larry), Ireland, to Liverpool, England, to find work. – J.B.)

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Recent reports give a clue. Job creation in the U.S. bounced back from a disappointing March report (79,000), with non-farm payrolls growing by 211,000, while the unemployment rate fell a 10th of a point to 4.4 percent, a 10-year low (Labor

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Fairness Versus Equality

Many in the general public and especially in our college communities seem to have much concern about economic inequality. This was a theme Vermont senator Bernie Sanders emphasized and that had a sympathetic ear within the scholarly community. However, when people ponder in depth the ideal distribution of wealth in a country, they actually come to realize they prefer unequal societies, despite appearances to the contrary.

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unfairness. The Nature Human Behavior Journal found that apparently we are not natural-born socialists. Drawing from cross-cultural research, lab studies, and experiments with young children, a preponderance of evidence points to the fact that humans naturally favor fair distributions, not equal ones, and that when fairness and equality conflict, people prefer fair inequality over unfair equality.

Yet, some rage against inequality as such, insisting that there is something fundamentally wrong with a world where some have so much more than others. They are actually confused about what they really want, which is justice and fairness, not equality.

Rather think about when it is unjust to treat people the same; are not factors such as boldness, hard work, luck, talent, skill, or need, ample reasons for dissimilarity or inequality?

Teachers constantly deal with these factors when grading students. It is a discriminating moment, indeed.

That is not to say that extreme economic inequality isn’t troubling, I think it is. But, the cause of this indignation is not that people see inequality as inherently wrong; it is that they see it as a result of unfairness. For example, getting rich by inventing or making something is fine; getting rich by stealing is not.

Something to keep in mind to sharpen political discourse with the scholars among us as you casually mention how important that degree is in this competitive and unequal world.

J.W. Burk Santa Barbara

Education, Not Immigration

When John Kennedy, a Catholic, was campaigning for president, he was asked if he was going to consult or listen to the pope before making his decisions. He responded that as a president he would avoid mixing politics and religion and would not impose any of his preconceived agendas, religious or otherwise. The game of public officials applying personal agendas beyond the scope of their responsibilities seems to be a play that is finding its way into all kinds of political activities, and the Santa Barbara Board of Education has recently provided a stark example.

The board, with many new members, has formulated its own federal policy to create a sanctuary zone for immigration policies, rather than assuring their customers they will do everything possible to improve the poor condition of public education in our county and state. This resolution was approved notwithstanding the fact that some of the members had not yet served even a full day in their new positions. It preceded any announce-

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ment from the federal government, so they are proposing to solve an imaginary problem beyond the scope of their jurisdiction. In other words, the members of the board of education are assuming their new jobs with preconceived biases and prejudices and applying their own agenda to a public task.

Board members must realize they were not elected to an agency responsible for immigration policy but rather to an agency responsible for public education. Therefore, they should focus on the problems they might be able to solve. Otherwise, they should resign and seek employment at an agency responsible for immigration.

One has to realize that personal agendas are to a large degree responsible for the dismal state of public education in this state and county. During my schools days, the public school system in California was among the top in the country, and most of my generation went straight from high school to prestigious universities.

Today, California public education has fallen to the bottom nine in the nation.

What are the main differences between now and then? The caliber of teachers today is probably as good as or better than it was at that time; the teachers are better prepared and have many outstanding teaching aids, computers, and other electronic devices.

There is no comparison between facilities then and now; in general, facilities today are modern, air-conditioned, with good sport fields. So what has created this precipitous decline in education?

First, the role of the board of education has changed, and, second, the shift to teaching of multiculturalism versus a common culture as stated on the great seal of the United States, namely: E Pluribus Unum. Years ago, we had a significant level of diversity, but there was an emphasis on achieving cultural unity. There were generally two-parent families who supported the goal of a unique American culture, E Pluribus Unum, and also parents instilled in their children respect for teachers and education.

The boards of education in those days would follow state and federal laws.

Today, the board of education is openly saying that it will disobey laws and mandates from the government, which is cryptically transmitting a message to the students that it is okay to disrespect and disobey their teachers, parents, and elders. The directives created by the board have certainly increased the gap between teachers and students.

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not the development of government policies. They should remember that the last time a school board tried to disobey federal mandates was during the J.F. Kennedy Administration. The attorney general Robert Kennedy sent the National Guard into Alabama and the issue was resolved in a short time.

The initiative of The Santa Barbara Board of Education has the potential of losing large amount of funds from the federal government. Perhaps they do not care because they can just float new school bonds to try to remedy the situation. The people of Santa Barbara should be tired of the continual series of bonds used to salvage this organization. Maybe the board is just being used as a springboard to future government positions, as recently happened when a former board member transitioned to the state legislature.

Unless this board concentrates on its mandated duties and shows some positive results, one has to ask whether this is a board of education or a board of immigration.

Albert Mercado Santa Barbara

Thanks to Richard

I would like to give thanks to Montecito Journal columnist Richard Mineards, not only for his great coverage of our community, but for his kindness to the homeless. Many people do not know that our Richard yearly volunteers, throughout the various holiday seasons, to serve the homeless at Transition House. You will find him cheerfully donating his time to our homeless community, raising their spirits and our perception of philanthropy. I find this a rare and beautiful contribution.

Sincerely, Geonine Moriarty Montecito

ADU Deed Restrictions Follow-up There is no mention of any allowed deed restrictions on detached or attached Accessory Dwelling Units [ADUs] of 501 to 1,200 sq ft. The only recordation of a deed resale restriction referenced as allowed in the California law in the Community Housing & Development Memorandum of 12/2016 is for Junior ADUs of less than 500 square feet contained within the four walls of the owner’s primary residence: “The restrictions (on JADUs) shall be binding upon any successor in ownership of the property and lack of compliance with this provision may result in legal action against the property owner, including revocation of any right to maintain a junior accessory dwelling unit on the 11 – 18 May 2017

property. “ Actual language for Junior ADUs: (3) Require the recordation of a deed restriction, which shall run with the land, shall be filed with the permitting agency, and shall include both of the following: (A) A prohibition on the sale of the junior accessory dwelling unit separate from the sale of the single-family residence, including a statement that the deed restriction may be enforced against future purchasers.

(1) “Junior accessory dwelling unit” means a unit that is no more than 500 square feet in size and contained entirely within an existing single-family structure. A junior accessory dwelling unit may include separate sanitation facilities, or may share sanitation facilities with the existing structure.

B) Deed Restriction: Prior to obtaining a building permit for a junior accessory dwelling unit, a deed restriction, approved by the City Attorney, shall be recorded with the County Recorder’s office, which shall include the pertinent restrictions and limitations of a junior accessory dwelling unit identified in this Section. Said deed restriction shall run with the land, and shall be binding upon any future owners, heirs, or assigns. A copy of the recorded deed restriction shall be filed with the department stating that: 1) The junior accessory dwelling unit shall not be sold separately from the primary dwelling unit; 2) The junior accessory dwelling unit is restricted to the maximum size allowed per the development standards; 3) The junior accessory dwelling unit shall be considered legal only so long as either the primary residence, or the accessory dwelling unit, is occupied by the owner of record of the property, except when the home is owned by an agency such as a land trust or housing organization in an effort to create affordable housing; 4) The restrictions shall be binding upon any successor in ownership of the property, and lack of compliance with this provision may result in legal action against the property owner, including revocation of any right to maintain a junior accessory dwelling unit on the property.

Denice S. Adams Montecito (Editor’s note: Thank you, Ms Adams, for these clarifications and qualifications required by government entities. These indicate how fearful bureaucrats are of loosening their reins of power and how stingy they can be when forced to relinquish some of that control. Legalizing existing rental units sounds like a terrific idea until one gets to the fine print

and homeowners realize that they would not only be giving up a certain amount of freedom, but receiving permission to build such a unit would also hinder any future sale of the property. Let’s be careful out there, folks. – J.B.)

Welfare Beats Work

Santa Barbara County unemployment is now at 5.2%. The county budget is $40 million in the red every year because county pensions were not funded, and now county doesn’t know what to cut, and the county spends $164 million per year on welfare going to 33% of county population.

Working these three facts in with U.S. census numbers for the county, we find many people are getting welfare who are not working. Some would think welfare should only go to people who can’t work, are disabled, or otherwise incapacitated, but not in our county. For reasons unknown, welfare is now available for anyone with a pulse, and even that may be up for debate.

U.S. Census numbers show county population is 446,170 persons with a working population of 146,504. If 33% are on welfare, that means 147,236 persons are on county welfare; thus we have more people on county welfare than people working.

Clearly, a county that is one-third on welfare and one-third employed, and a county that can’t pay its own pension costs (which are impaled upon the taxpayers), is in trouble. Clearly, the county should do something different financially. Rather than just raise taxes, I recommend the following: 1) Divide all pension investments and give pensioners a prorated, apportioned, and legal one-time payout. This will allow enriched pensioners to manage their own retirements. Pensioners will better invest their own money, and county doesn’t belong in the investment business.

2) Remove county welfare from anyone who is not a citizen and is not disabled. Welfare cannot be a permanent way of life. County cannot be paying welfare to more people than work and claim it’s a reasonable expense.

Something has got to give here and I stand with taxpayers, not dubious welfare recipients. County supervisors have a choice, and we’ll have to live with it. Will they trade our tax money for votes?

Thomas M. Cole Montecito (Editor’s note: Aah, the short answer is, yes, of course they’ll trade your tax money for votes. What’s the downside to them? – J.B.) •MJ

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“Along the Central Coast, we are experiencing a groundswell of support like nothing we have ever seen,” said Jenna Tosh, president & CEO of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast, which provides high-quality, affordable reproductive care to 35,000 women and men each

year at five health centers in San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Thousand Oaks.

This year’s event, which took place at the Bacara Resort & Spa, started with an outdoor cocktail reception and continued with a sit-down dinner in the ballroom. For the first time, the event also featured an “After Hours” party from 9 pm until midnight that attracted another 100 people, most of

whom were in their 20s and 30s, and featured dancing and Craze, a wellknown DJ from Miami.

Since last November’s election, the local Planned Parenthood has gained 3,000 new donors, 6,000 people have signed up to be online supporters, and 350 people have become new volunteers.

The Birds and Bees Bash raised $450,000 for Planned Parenthood, a portion of which will go toward a “Fight Back Fund,” which will be used to protect and defend Planned Parenthood’s work and to ensure that the health clinics continue to stay open, even if threatened federal funding cuts take place. The account was started with a $1.6 million leadership gift from Judy and Jack Staplemann.

At the bash, guests were able to text a financial gift, which raised $110,000 in about 15 minutes, which was matched by a $100,000 offering by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin.

“The success of the bash is a powerful reminder that Planned Parenthood has been around for one hundred years, and [we] will continue to keep our doors open for the people who need us.

No matter what,” said Tosh.

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Kristin McWilliams, Dorothy Largay, and Sharon Hughes

Charlotte Brownlee, Planned Parenthood board member Leslie Bhutani, and Anne and Matt Hall were involved in the planning of the gala to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood

John Lewis and Carrie Towbes and Kristen KlingbeilWeis and Karl Weis were sponsors of the Planned Parenthood “Birds and Bees Bash” last weekend

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water sources that are affordable, reliable, and drought-free to reduce their dependence upon imported water from surface reservoirs, Table A State Water from Northern California, and supplementary purchases of imported water.

The goal is to replace rainfall-dependent water with more reliable, rain-free, locally controlled sources such as underground water banks, recharged and banked in periods of rainfall for withdrawal in periods of drought; efficient recycled wastewater reuse; and, of course, desalinated water at a competitive cost.

investors. Poseidon’s investors have factored an 8% return on equity into the price of water.

Carlsbad does not have access to the attractive 1.6% state revolving fund financing enjoyed by Santa Barbara. Poseidon was also required to absorb the expense of building 66 acres of wetlands to offset the so-called environment impacts of its plant. At the end of its 30-year contract with Poseidon, the San Diego Water Authority, which purchases water at a pre-defined cost from Poseidon, has the right to buy the Carlsbad plant for $1.

The Problem for the City and for MWD

How Can the Cost be Reduced?

Santa Barbara hopes it can recover 40% of its desal capital expenses by negotiating a Water Supply Agreement with MWD that offers 1,250 AFY of water from any source of the City’s choosing, at a price MWD estimates to be $3,518 per AF at the plant’s current production capacity. This “take or pay” commitment means MWD would pay the City $88 million over the next 20 years. Without MWD participation, City ratepayers will be forced to repay 100% of the desal capital costs that have risen from $55 million in July 2015 to $70 million today.

Desal water, promised to City users at $2,336 per AF in July 2015, is now expected to cost more.

Desal Comparisons

In 2008, Israel teetered on the edge of a water catastrophe. A decade-long drought and overdraft of groundwater had reduced the freshwater Sea of Galilee to a point where irreversible seawater intrusion threatened to turn that water source into a dead zone. Driven by necessity, Israel embraced engineering, technology, and political leadership to transform a perennially parched desert into a lush, green paradise.

Once one of the driest countries on Earth, Israel now produces 500,000 AF of desalinated water per year, meeting 50% of Israel’s water needs. The country has learned to squeeze more out of a drop of water than any country on Earth through a combination of desalination and recycling 80% of its wastewater, the highest recycle rate in the world. After opening its Ashkelon desal plant in 2005, its Hadera plant in 2009, and its Sorek plant in 2013, Israel now has more water than it needs and has started selling excess water to its neighbors.

It is interesting to compare the cost of the Israeli Sorek desalination plant with the Carlsbad, California, desalination plant that opened in December 2016 to serve San Diego County water districts. The same company designed both plants: Israeli-based IDE Technologies. The Sorek plant produces more than three times as much water as the Carlsbad facility (165 million gallons per day versus 50 million gallons per day), yet cost only half as much to build ($500 million compared to $1 billion).

Sorek produces desal water at $860 per AF. The smaller Carlsbad facility produces water for the San Diego Water Authority and its contracted water districts at a cost ranging from $2,131 to $2,367 per AF, depending upon the amount of water each district purchases annually.

The City of Santa Barbara, which also contracted with IDE Technologies to design and operate its own even smaller Santa Barbara plant, wants to charge MWD $3,518 per AF, including an unknown conveyance cost, estimated at $642 per acre foot. There is something wrong here.

Desal Costs in California

The traditional response is that everything costs more in California. The second response is that, of course, Carlsbad’s desal costs are much lower because they produce 50 million gallons of desalinated water per day, while Santa Barbara will produce just three million gallons per day. The cost difference is still shocking. The Carlsbad project was developed, financed, and constructed at no expense and no risk to local water agencies or any other governmental entity by privately owned Poseidon Resources and its

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Is there a pathway to help the City reduce its own desal costs down to the $2,000 to the $2,200 per AF range to make desal water more affordable to City customers and to prospective water purchasers such as Montecito, Carpinteria, and Goleta? Cost cutting is never easy, especially if it involves commitment from elected representatives at the County and in Sacramento.

If the City could take its desal plant from a production capacity of 3,125 AFY to 7,500 AFY through the sale of desal water to neighbors, that could carve $700 off the cost per AF through economies of scale. O&M (Operations and Maintenance) costs of a whopping $1,326 per AF, mostly for high-priced California energy, could be reduced by energy subsidies or carbon credits. If capital costs were amortized over 30 or 40 years, instead of 20, cost per AF could be reduced.

Best of all, would be to have at least $35 million of the $70 million in capital costs be funded by a state or federal grant, as part of the president’s infrastructure improvement program for highways, bridges, airports, and water projects.

Rather than building new reservoirs or dredging old ones, use grants to make desal affordable for coastal communities.

Reduce Regulatory Costs

The big difference in costs between building and operating a desal plant in Israel and California is a regulatory mindset that inflates the cost of doing business in this state. The Israeli Sorek plant cost $500 million and took two years to build; the Carlsbad desal plant, originally pegged at a price of $250 million in 2004, came in at a cost of a billion dollars and took 14 years to build after complying with state and local regulators.

The high cost of desalination in California is significantly manmade, driven by bad public policy. The political leadership in Santa Barbara County and Sacramento, as well as the environmental community, needs to demand affordable desal at the lowest possible cost. They need to embrace desal as a more reliable and environmentally friendly water source than an overpromised State Water Program. Ending the man-made California regulatory and permitting web of obstruction would greatly lower the cost of desal per AF. Elected leaders and consumers need to understand that desal works if it can be priced at no more than $2,000 to $2,200 per AF. There are more than 18,000 desal plants now operating around the world; it is hard to find one that sells its water at $3,518 per AF. A vigorous and affordable desal program along the 1,100-mile California Coast at a competitive price has the huge advantage of allowing overpromised State Water to be directed to inland agriculture areas, where it is needed more to save the state’s 74,600 farmers.

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ho are you wearing?”

That’s a query normally posed to actresses arriving on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, not aimed at classical pianists. But it wouldn’t be out of place at all right here in Montecito when the Music Academy of the West (MAW) welcomes 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year Yuja Wang and Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame member Jean-Yves Thibaudet, two pianists offering their first-ever duo performance in the academy’s spectacular gala on Sunday, May 21.

The pair of pianists are rightly respected for their astounding musical accomplishments, but they also draw attention for their performing presence and taste for stylish flair unparalleled in the classical music world. Wang, in particular, has been quoted as saying, “If the music is beautiful and sensual, why not dress to fit?” and was just recently described by The Guardian as “an elfin, spiky-haired fashionista courted by Armani and Rolex, who has a zany wit and delights in appearing before concert audiences in itsy bitsy dresses and five-inch heels.”

Meanwhile, Thibaudet is always also

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nattily dressed for his performances.

Guests at the celebration will have the chance to show off their black-tie and cocktail attire, as they will be the ones walking the red carpet for the glamorous gala. Co-chaired by Hyon Chough and MAW board member Maurice Singer, the event has been aptly named Steinway Style to celebrate the Music Academy’s new AllSteinway status in its milestone 70th season, as well as the launch of the 2017 Summer School and Festival. All proceeds from the event will benefit the academy’s full-scholarship program that brings 140 Fellows from across the country and around the world to study with world-class faculty and guest artists at the Montecito institute during the eight-week festival that begins in June.

Gala patrons will enjoy an elegant evening that begins with a cocktail reception before the concert and ends with an al fresco dinner in the courtyard outside Hahn Hall on the academy’s charming Miraflores campus. Of course, it is what’s happening inside the theater that represents the main attraction: a rare perfor-

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Mexican art leather, as it was called at that time, and boasted silver corners.

By 1900, the business of creating items using tooled leather and silver items was booming.

In the Saddle focuses on the original purpose of this art form, for nowhere is there a more intricate and appealing canvas upon which to work hand-tooling and silver than the Western saddle.

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The Saddles

Among the saddles on display is the “Sunburst Saddle” created by the Visalia Stock Saddle Company for John J. (Jack) Mitchell, the Chicago industrialist credited with founding Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1930. John had purchased a ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, which he called the Juan y Lolita after himself and his wife, Lolita Armour, of the Chicago meat-packing family. His ranch became an early venue for the Annual Ride of the club, which intended to preserve the customs of Santa Barbara’s ranching past.

“The Presidential Saddle” is a working saddle created by J.M. Carpriola Company to be used by president Ronald Reagan at Rancho del Cielo off Refugio Canyon Road. President Reagan gave the saddle to his friend and security service agent, John Barletta, who loaned it for the exhibition.

Versions of traditional intertwined floral motifs decorate many of the saddles. A 1951 working saddle from Jedlicka’s Saddlery, a Santa Barbara institution since 1932, however, is carved and tooled with an acorn and leaf design appropriate to Santa Barbara County.

Dwight Murphy, civic promoter who worked tirelessly to preserve East Boulevard and the Bird Refuge as public park space, owned several parade saddles. Murphy owned Rancho San Fernando Rey along Paradise Road in the Santa Ynez Valley where he bred palomino horses, saving the color from extinction.

The hand-tooling and carving on his

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“The saddle formerly had a leather covering called the mochilla. This was thrown over the saddle and had two openings through which the pommel and cantle projected; the proper curve to the seat being obtained by lacing. The mochilla reached for some distance to both the front and the rear of the saddle, and almost down to the ankles of the rider. This large surface of leather afforded a great space for decoration, and was ornamented profusely with embroidery in gold, silver, and colored silk; the spaces left having a design stamped and carved on them.” (Whether this saddle survived another hundred years is unknown to me.)

Inkersley noted that the instruments used for stamping and embossing leather at that time comprised a small slab of marble, a spoke from a cartwheel, and a variety of steel tools of different shapes. “The work,” he wrote, “has the air of being easy, but requires an accurate eye, confidence, and steady hand, as a false stoke cannot be corrected.”

Traditionally, only saddles, bridles, bands for sombreros, and waist belts were embellished with this carving and stamping. That all changed in1883 when Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria of England, visited Santa Barbara. On a walk about the town, she noticed a beautiful hand-tooled saddle in a shop along the way. Entranced by the artwork but reluctant to carry a large Western saddle on her U.S. tour, she asked if stamped leather ornamentation could be applied to smaller items.

When the craftsman agreed, she ordered several portfolios and ladies’ belts. Princess Louise left at the end of the week, but an idea had been born.

Soon collar boxes, cuff boxes, purses, pocketbooks, card cases, cigar cases, and other items were being created from stamped leather. These items became popular with tourists, and a whole new industry was created.

Inkersley reported that when president Benjamin Harrison visited Santa Barbara in 1891, he was given a photo album filled with scenes from Southern California. It was bound in

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This hand-tooled leather photo album using a traditional intertwined floral and leaf design belonged to Joel Reminton Fithian, whose Carpinteria ranch was originally called Rancho Miramar.

Created circa 1895, the album is not on display in the exhibit but is an example of the uses to which leather ornamentation was put after the visit of Princess Louise.

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Spirituality Matters

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

Communication as a Path to Connection

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n the surface, it might seem that a conference in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is more about tools and talking than a spiritual practice. On the other hand, if connection with self and others is a powerful spiritual path, NVC – with its powerful self-awareness base and commitment to accountability – goes a long way toward creating that opportunity.

“It’s made a huge difference in connections and relationships for me,” said conference creator Rodger Sorrow.

“There’s an intention to co-create solutions that work for everybody, a sharing of resources and power – a much bigger commitment than just a simple communication process.”

For Sorrow, who studied with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg and has been a certified trainer for The Center for Nonviolent Communication since 2001, NVC has been a main spiritual practice. And this weekend’s 10th annual NVC conference is a chance to share that experience as part of a deep dive with his home community of Santa Barbara.

“My work with this process has been a calling for decades,” Sorrow explained earlier this week, noting that Rosenberg’s still-popular books refer to the concept of “needs,” which he describes as “loving divine energy.” “What he calls universal needs – honesty, peace, connection, community, freedom, full self-expression – those are the same words that I would use to describe source energy. It’s a life force that’s non-tangible, with no beginning, no end, flowing through all of us, and it only wants us to thrive. If that’s not a spiritual practice, I don’t know what is.”

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a spiritual practice is through the information provided by understanding our emotions, Sorrow said. “We all arrived on the planet with this built-in internal guidance system that lets me know whether my thoughts, deeds and words – and those of others – are in alignment with source energy or not. It’s constantly letting me know through my feelings. If I’m feeling happy, delighted, warm, and fuzzy satisfied, et cetera, then what I’m experiencing is in alignment and congruence with source energy. And there’s sadness, fear, and those kinds of feelings, when I’m not experiencing this energy in the fullness.”

Participants in this weekend’s NVC conference will have a chance to experience both their emotions and try out lots of tools via dozens of breakout sessions over the Friday-Sunday gathering that cover a wide variety of topics, from how to perform a basic “check-in” and freeing yourself from limiting self-beliefs to addressing specific situations in seminars entitled “Parenting with Compassion”, “Let’s Talk Sex”, “Creating a Life Affirming Relationship with Money”, “Creative Workshop for Singers, Dancers, and Artists” and even a modern-sounding sequence of sessions for trainers titled “Toolkit for Facilitators, Coaches & Change Agents”. Others will take a look at forgiveness, anger, empathy, and apologizing. Michael Dillo, one of 10 workshop leaders, even addresses the connection directly with his “The Spirituality of NVC” session.

Other synergistic sessions include Sylvia Haskvitz’s “NVC and the Enneagram”.

What they all have in common is a hands-on approach, Sorrow said.

“They’re all designed to be very interactive. There are lots of exercises that allow people to use the information or skill being presented and apply it to their own situation immediately.”

Sorrow – who also leads two Hiking Santa Barbara courses for SBCC’s

Center for Lifelong Learning (formerly Adult Ed) which offer stories, discussions, and short meditations during a midpoint break during the 150-minute journeys – hopes this year’s conference will also lead to a revival of his weekly NVC practice groups in town, which have been dormant for a few months.

“I hope we can continue to grow the local NVC community,” he said. “This work is powerful and valuable.”

The 10th annual NVC conference takes place 7 to 9 pm Friday, May 12, and 9 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday, at the Wake Center, 300 N Turnpike Road. Admission is $75 for the full weekend. For more details, workshop schedule, instructor bios, and registration, as well as information on Sorrow’s hiking classes and more, visit Sorrow’s website at www. chooseconnection.squarespace.com/ nvc-conference.

Moving on through

Rae Johnson, Ph.D., RSW, RSMT, chair of the Somatic Studies specialization in the Depth Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, is the developer of Elemental Movement and the author of a book by the same name. This week, she’s offering a three-day workshop on the movement-centered practice based on the Five Elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether – primary symbols in many alchemical traditions. Using the elements as a framework and as a set of symbolic tools, Elemental Movement employs movement as the primary vehicle for a wide range of personal and relational explorations.

On a physical level, the elements provide a map for exploring different body systems and movement qualities.

On a psychological level, the elements represent different aspects of the self that can be accessed and expressed through movement, as the practice echoes the psychological process of individuation through active imagination expressed as movement. The improvisational movement structures also provide an outlet for creative and emotional expression. On a spiritual level, Elemental Movement serves as a form of moving meditation, drawing on the capacity of certain types of ritualized movement to transform ordinary states of consciousness into

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Home Harmony is Elemental

The Five Elements are also at play in a one-day workshop at La Casa de Maria this weekend. Shawne Mitchell, who has an M.A. in consciousness studies, is an expert in Feng Shui with a focus on bridging conscious living with a spiritual lifestyle. The author of several books on the subject, including Home Sanctuaries, Creating Home Sanctuaries, Simple Feng Shui, and Exploring Feng Shui, Mitchell has done private work in the area for such well-known people as Sharon Stone, Louise Hay, and Tara Guber (wife of filmmaker Peter Guber) yoga house.

On Saturday, she’s offering one of her periodic Sacred Space & Feng Shui workshops at La Casa de Maria, where she also serves as marketing and volunteer coordinator. The day will be an exploration of the psychological and spiritual elements of your home, as participants will learn how these elements affect your spirit, health, and well-being. Through the basic principles of Sacred Space and Feng Shui attendees will see how to use conscious self-awareness and intuitive home psychology processes to balance the life-force of chi, and explore the template known as the Bagua to create a harmonious, healing, and spiritually enhanced home environment aligned with, and supportive of, your personal Soul-Self.

While it might sound complicated, the workshop is geared both for beginners and for those interested in discovering deeper insights. The 9:30 am to 5:30 pm seminar on Saturday, May 13, costs $95 and includes lunch. Register online at www.lacasademaria.org or call 969-5031. For more about Mitchell, visit www.SoulStyle.com.

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 13) consider solutions from securing the financial aid to merging with another arts organization.

Campanelli said the SBCO is raring to go with new initiatives, adventurous programs, and ambitious plans if the financials work out. “We’re poised right now that if community-supported, we’d do some astounding stuff.”

A full house on Tuesday for “Schumann Squared” would be a strong start to demonstrating community commitment, Campanelli said.

“It’s the community’s turn to step up and provide the resources, so we know that the community doesn’t want to lose us and will ensure that this asset stays around for at least another generation.”

But if not, there’s no reason to mope, he said. “Either way, whether we go on or are completing our mission, it will be something to celebrate.”

Classical Corner

Surrounding the Chamber Orchestra by size on both sides, the week also brings three chamber music concerts and two young artist performances, plus the season-closing concert by the Santa Barbara Symphony featuring a multi-year Music Academy alumnus returning to town.

The innovative young string quartet Brooklyn Rider – familiar to Santa Barbara audiences via their participation in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble – re-team with fellow Silk Road colleague Kayhan Kalhor, the world’s pre-eminent master of the kamancheh (four-stringed upright Persian fiddle), for a concert exploring common ground between Persian folk and modern minimalism at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on May 11.

Camerata Pacifica concludes its subscription season at Hahn Hall on Friday evening with three popular works from the chamber music repertoire, including Haydn’s Trio in G Major, Hob. XV: 15, Mozart’s String Quintet in G Minor, K., and Dohnányi’s Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 1, written when he was in his teens. Most of the Cam Pac principals will be on hand for the concert, including violist Richard O’Neill and pianist Warren Jones, who return next month as faculty artists for the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival.

Also on Friday night, Ventura Music Festival’s free “Rising Stars” concert offers a mix of young choral, classical, and jazz performers, including the 15-member Ventura College Chamber Singers under the direction of Brent Wilson performing contemporary classic choral pieces, 2017 Student Jazz Competition winner Angelo Velasquez with his trio playing jazz standards, and three classical pianists: 17-year-old Jerod Frederick; David

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Fraley, 20, who just completed his junior year at Pepperdine University double majoring in music and mathematics (both have been concerto soloists with the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic); and Yale student Benjamin Krasner, 20, who has won numerable competitions. The 8 pm concert takes place at First United Methodist Church, 1338 E Santa Clara St., Ventura. No tickets required.

Bailey is Back

Cellist Zuill Bailey, who attended the Music Academy of the West (MAW) as a Fellow for four separate summers between 1989 and 1995 before the imposition of the current maximum of three seasons, has also long been associated with the Santa Barbara Symphony dating back to his first performance just three years after his final MAW season. That was in 1998, almost a decade before Nir Kabaretti took over as music (and later artistic) director, but Bailey has worked with the maestro elsewhere over the years, including just last January in Florida and, closer to home, with the San Luis Obispo Symphony last year.

Bailey, who has played the premier venues across the country and collaborated with several musical luminaries and legends (Leon Fleisher, the Juilliard String Quartet), solos on Saint-Saëns’s dramatic first Cello Concerto this Saturday night and Sunday afternoon for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s final pair of concerts of the season. The Paris-themed program also features Mozart’s Symphony No. 31 Paris, Liszt’s Les Preludes, and George Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

Strings, Yings, and Things

Santa Barbara Strings presents its annual Spring Concert featuring its age-specific Toccata, Sinfonietta, and Vivace String Orchestras plus the Fiddle and Mandolin Ensemble on Sunday, May 14, at the First Presbyterian Church. The Sinfonietta ensemble will perform traditional American music, works by Purcell, Handel, and Böhm, and a Concerto for String Orchestra by Telemann. Vivace musicians will perform the Oboe Concerto in D Minor by Marcello with soloist Trey Farrell, Simple Symphony

by Britten, “Summer” from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi with violin soloist Junia Work (a senior at Providence School in Santa Barbara) and Concerto Grosso in F Minor, Op. 6, No. 4 by Handel. Visit www.santabarbaras trings.org for details.

The Ying Quartet, formed in 1988 by siblings from Illinois who were studying at the University of Rochester’s

Eastman School of Music and now serve as quartet-in-residence at their alma mater, balance between the confines of the classical world, having performed in such concert halls as Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, and the desire to be a meaningful part of everyday life as they perform in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, and juvenile prisons. Naturally, their repertoire and recordings reflect that diversity, as they’ve been nominated for Grammys for documenting Tchaikovsky Quartets, as well as a collaboration with Billy Childs Chamber Jazz Ensemble. Music Academy alumnus Frank Huang served as first violinist Timothy Yang’s first replacement in 2009; that sole non-Ying chair is now occupied by Robin Scott. The ensemble’s program at Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s intimate Mary Craig Auditorium on Tuesday, May 16, runs the spectrum from Mozart’s Quartet in G Major, K. 387 to Billy Childs’s Awakening and Dvorak’s Quartet in A-flat Major, Op.105. Details at www. sbma.net.

Making a Stand for Women in Theater

Santa Barbara thespian Ellen K. Anderson’s Dramatic Women has been around town for more than 20 years, presenting a production or two every year or so, almost always at Center Stage Theater. The loose company came about because “things were pretty bleak for women in regional theater back then, both with roles and having a play produced, though it’s a little bit better now,” she said. The concept was to “give women who wanted to experiment a place to do it.”

Under Dramatic Women’s auspices, there have been full evening-length works and periodic forays into short pieces as well, also the impetus for the provocatively titled One Night Stands, which runs weekends May 12-20 at Center Stage. The evening consists of seven “very quick plays” by six Santa Barbara playwrights – including Anderson, Angelica Diaz, EmmaJane Huerta, Annie Torsiglieri, Jon Vreeland, and Maggie Yates – plus one by Stacie Burrows and Shannon Noel of Mommy Tonk, who are based in L.A. but have connections to Santa Barbara.

How did Anderson find the authors?

It was simple.

“I just looked around in my life for the smartest, most interesting people I know who I thought could write a play,” she explained. “I sent out eight letters offering them the chance, saying you have two months to get it done. I just made the offer. Six did it.”

When the plays arrived, Anderson followed the same process for secur-

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ing directors, asking SBCC and UCSB programs for suggestions from among their students, in addition to others in the community. “I just tried to match them up. Do you like this play? Do you want to direct it? Can you? Then they hunted down the actors themselves.”

The directors include Huerta, who helms her own piece, plus Kathy Arevalo, Yassi Jahanmir, Natalie Kellogg, Katie Walker, Kate Williams, and Josie Osegueda while among those performing are Corey Monk, Sydney Poynton, Alex Coleman, Alison Coutts, Alec Fitton, Kyle Fitton, Katrina Cleave, Annabell Walker, Nicolas Cristallo, Ivana Cruz, Crystal Groel, Jo Krukowski, Alesha Claveria, Taylor Gannon, Brittany Harter, and playwrights Huerta, plus Mommy Tonk’s Burrows and Noel.

As is her wont, Anderson didn’t dictate subject matter, tone, approach, or any other aspect of the plays other than they run an average of 10 or 11 minutes. “I didn’t tell them what to write. And we’re just producing what they wrote, because it’s a chance to not be controlled by anyone else. You can be yourself as actor, a playwright, and director.”

Hence, as might be expected, the plays cover a wide range of themes and topics, from a gritty peek at celebrity to grave robber shenanigans, and from sisters torn asunder by separation to a wacky bedtime story.

Anderson’s own contribution, Afraid of Big Words, is her first work “about anyone real,” she said. “A friend died a few years ago, and she was young and brilliant, the most amazing woman I’ve ever known.

This play was written sort of about my relationship with her.”

The whole One Night Stand project is a big experiment, Anderson said.

“We just did a run-through last weekend, and it appears to be working. But you never know.”

Judge for yourself starting Friday night. Tickets and info at 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org.

Literary Lab

Shorter new plays by emerging writers are also the impetus for UCSB Department of Theater’s season-closing New Works Lab. The production is split into two programs, each with two original UCSB student-written plays exploring various subjects, takes place at the intimate Performing Arts Theater on campus.

Gang Sines, written by Malique Guinn and directed by Rebecca Wear, and The Last Video Game, written and directed by Tristan Newcomb – both of which highlight aspirations of fame and fortune with games as the vehicle – comprise Program A, which will be presented May 11, 19, and 20 at 8 pm, 11 – 18 May 2017

4 Q’s with a Fearless Photog

Famed photojournalist Lynsey Addario, who documents humanitarian crises, war, and other conflicts for National Geographic, Time, and The New York Times among others, has been kidnapped twice – in Iraq in 2004 and Libya in 2011. After those harrowing experiences, writing a personal memoir, which is a lot longer than photo captions and might be daunting to most of us, was akin to a piece of cake, even if she had to face revealing her innermost thoughts and issues brought up by her relationship and family.

“My feeling was that I have spent so many years documenting people’s most intimate moments, how dare I be hypocritical and not be willing to talk about myself?” she explained.

The MacArthur “Genius Award” fellow whose recent work includes covering Syrian refugees, and the ISIS push into Iraq, will show samples of her work and discuss her new book, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, on Saturday afternoon, May 13, at UCSB’s Campbell Hall.

Q. What do you think ties together the war zones and other places you have documented?

A. Nothing and no place is what you think it is from the outside. In a lot of these war zones, life goes on in a different part of the town. What you’re seeing as a viewer is a very focused cross section. But there are areas where the market is thriving, kids are going to school. It’s not just an Armageddon scene. My perception is always so different from 11 – 18 May 2017

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the typical photographer. I want to show it all. I want to show what you don’t normally see in the pictures.

It’s important to always ask yourself that… I love dissolving misconceptions. There are surprising stories everywhere.

How do you get your job done when you know any picture you take might be the last thing you do?

It’s because I’m so focused, it takes away from the fact that my life is in danger. It’s not that I’m not scared. But because I’m so driven and believe in it so thoroughly, I’m able to just keep working. It’s a lot harder, though, now that I have a family.

How did you survive being kidnapped? I think I’d just freeze up and panic and get shot.

You are underestimating the power of the mind. We have a survival mechanism, instincts when confronted about what to do. The two times I’ve been kidnapped, I got into this freakishly Zen mental state where I knew I needed to focus and just get through the next two seconds. You just keep doing that.

So how does it feel to have a movie made of your memoir, with Jennifer Lawrence playing you and Steven Spielberg directing?

It’s really flattering. I’m very lucky.

Not only is she an incredible actress, but she’s also cool and fun and very genuine... It’s not a documentary, so I know there will be some fiction in there to fit a life into two hours.

But it’s Spielberg, and Hollywood has the ability to reach a much bigger audience than journalism can.

So, it’s an incredible opportunity to get these stories out to a lot more people. Having Jennifer Lawrence activate people about Darfur and Afghanistan is amazing. It’s not about me.

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and May 13 and 21 at 2 pm. Gang Sines takes place in a small town, and, as the title suggests, focuses on a mathlete’s attempt to solve a renowned equation for the $500,000 reward, with an old bully as an obstacle. Video Game focuses on the remembrance of a young hopeful game designer, whose tragic death might bring everlasting fame and renown.

The effects of exploiting the human vulnerability and damaged souls connect the two pieces in Program B, which will be presented May 12, 13, 18, and 20 at 8 pm. The Couch, by Andalusia Kear and directed by Tyler X Koontz, visits a young couple struggling with the internal battle of being perfect, happy, and loving as they tear at and mend their relationship.

Miriam Dance’s In His Hands, directed by Sian Harden, follows a young girl who begins to question the church where she was raised, as the congregation puts their faith in a man calling himself the apostle of God.

State Street Ballet (SSB) made its first foray to the New Vic Theatre for last year ’s highly regarded production Women’s Work, which focused on pieces by and/or about women. The company is returning to the more intimate venue located just a block away from its home at the Granada this Saturday night and Sunday afternoon for more innovative repertory with Modern Masters, an eclectic mix of contemporary movement pieces aimed at redefining the language of ballet.

SSB’s frequent collaborator William Soleau, who has choreographed 80 works across the globe after a career as a dancer, is among the contributors, offering a new piece called Sonnets of Love and Death. Santa Barbara native Cecily Stewart, an SSB dancer and the company’s outreach coordinator and founder of Library Dances, also has a new work, and the show will feature pieces by Gina Patterson (from Jackson Hole, Wyoming), Kevin Jenkins (Boston).

On Saturday night, dance photographer Rose Eichenbaum offers a mixed-media presentation on the eve of the publication of her new book, The Dancer Within, celebrating her close association with State

Street Ballet over the past 20 years, while on Sunday the audience can meet the choreographers in person and ask questions after the show.

Tickets cost $17 and $38. Info at 9655400 or www.statestreetballet.com.

Focus on Film

Santa Barbara resident Lynn Montgomery’s Don’t Sell My Guitars, a short documentary about a country musician’s final request to his wife which premiered at SBIFF 2017, screens 6:30 pm Friday at the Bacara Theatre in Goleta. Admission is free, and there’s complimentary wine and cheese in the lobby beginning at 5 pm.... The Granada’s “Movies That Matter with Hal Conklin” film series continues 7 pm Monday with Concussion, which stars Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered the relationship between football-related concussions and brain damage. Dr. Stephen Kaminski, medical director of Trauma Services at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital; Melissa Grunt, CPNP, Concussion Clinic nurse practitioner, Cottage Children’s Medical Center; and Laura Capps, Santa Barbara Unified School District Board member, join Conklin for a pre-screening discussion of sports-related head trauma in schools. Tickets are $10 to $20.

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Coup De Grace

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says that peace of mind comes from careful observation of all the available evidence, as well as a good supply of one’s favorite snack foods.

Death by Celery

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’ve always thought of celery and carrots as weight-loss foods, especially celery, because a carrot has 40 calories while a stalk of celery only 7.

In fact, I’ve heard celery has negative calories because it takes more energy to chew and digest it than it contains.

Whether or not this is fake news, it’s still true that a person who wants a snack can crunch through quite a few celery stalks without doing much damage to his or her waistline.

Once, an overly enthusiastic dieter ate such a huge amount of celery that she died. The exact cause of this unsubstantiated death might have been malnutrition, utter boredom, or maybe general digestive distress brought on by consuming so much fiber at once.

Granted, this death by celery was likely fake news.

but how are we to know? There’s not enough ice cream in the world to make this situation entertaining.

There are charts circulating the Internet to help people know which publications to read to support their particular political beliefs. It seems true enough that people would rather read what they already believe as opposed to seeking the facts.

The fashion is to be ultra-liberal or ultra-conservative and wear it proudly while shouting down the other side, at least from the relative safety of Facebook or Twitter.

The one good thing that has come out of all this chaos is utter creativity in the placards people have carried at rallies and protest marches held in recent months. There’s a lot of humor in those signs, and I think laughing is

If one can’t laugh, next best thing is to snack There once was a time when such sensational stories were neatly packaged by tabloid rags. If one picked up a gossipy publication in the line at the grocery store, there was absolutely no expectation that the stories therein were true.

The goal was to be titillated by the fake news articles, while consuming an entire tub of chocolate mocha chip and contemplating all the celery it would take to erase the effects of the binge.

Reading trash journalism didn’t cause too much damage, as long as one balanced it with some serious news from legit sources. And even the effects of pigging out on ice cream could be mitigated with better eating habits and a reasonable exercise plan.

Now, it seems everything is fake news or an infomercial about the seven foods you must never eat again if you want to rid yourself of belly fat. I’ve never been able to find the answer to what those seven foods are, but there are plenty of click-bait headlines promising the answers if you sign up for the newsletter and sit through the webinar.

Intermixed with all the crazy stories about magic cures and how hideous old celebrities look now, there are endless articles that seem real about politics, worldwide terrorism, and imminent nuclear holocaust. And every serious story ranges from somewhat biased to outright fake.

We blame Facebook. We accuse politicians. We have evidence it’s Russia or maybe a damaged ozone layer.

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a big help toward surviving whatever it is to come.

Oddly enough, this brings me back to celery and carrots. If one can’t laugh, next best thing is to snack when one is nervous and confused.

Although there are a lot of fattening foods to nibble, I have the dream I can regain the figure I had at 12, so I feast on celery. Given the turmoil around the world, I might accidently overdose like that woman mentioned above who died from consuming too much celery.

My husband likes carrots, and he eats an alarming amount of them, too.

I don’t know why he hasn’t turned orange. The extra calories they contain over celery haven’t shown up on his annoyingly slim build.

Recently, I noticed him eating a stalk of celery.

“Trying to take off a few pounds?”

I asked with a slightly snarky tone, because in our house the battle of the bulge is mine alone.

Intent on chewing, he didn’t answer.

It occurred to me he’d simply run out of carrots, and that he had no choice but to nosh on celery.

I looked in the refrigerator. There was one lonely carrot left in the bag.

“Why don’t you eat this one?” I asked.

“Saving it for an emergency,” he said.

In these trying times, an emergency tub of mocha chocolate chip wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

And that’s the truth.

•MJ

Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Perchance to Sleep

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top me if you’ve heard this one: A little broom asks her mother, “Mommy, where did I come from?” – to which Mother Broom replies with a blush (or a brush?), “Your father and I swept together.”

“Sleeping together” is, of course, only one of many euphemisms for the act of “sexual intercourse” – which is itself a kind of euphemism for an activity for which our language seems to have no one word not considered vulgar.

But the act of sleeping, in and of itself, carries no such stigma. In fact, my family – and I suppose many others – had a joke to the effect that my sister and I were always good, well-behaved children – when we were asleep.

Of all the mysteries with which life confronts us, sleep comes pretty near the top of the list. One thing I know about it is that a surprising variety of other creatures are also subject to it. Another is that the phenomenon of Rapid Eye Movements (“REM”) during sleep, and their coinciding with periods of dreaming, was discovered only as recently as the 1950s, and that one of the pioneers in this field was a Stanford professor with the unfortunate name of Dement.

But the whole subject is still bathed in mystery. Why is it necessary to spend one-third of our time on Earth in this unconscious state, when life is already so short? Apart from any restorative benefit, it would seem to be a useless non-activity – though some companies sell equipment for supposedly “learning while you sleep,” consisting mainly of recorded lessons and pillow-earphones.

Why does sleep so ominously seem to be a foretaste of death? Why are there so many kinds and levels of sleep, from light naps to deep trances and comas? And what on earth are dreams?

Then consider the strange literature of sleep. I’m not sure how many of us are still familiar with that rather gloomy little bedtime prayer which children used to be taught: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

This, of course, pre-supposes a belief in the Lord and in the Soul. But the prominence given here to Death seems

Honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out. – Samuel Scoville Jr.

somewhat peculiar. Children didn’t usually die in their sleep – although older adults often did – and still do.

Moreover, I would hazard a guess that dying in one’s sleep might even now be considered by many, or even most, people one of the more preferable ways to depart this life. The only disadvantage I personally can see (apart from any possible effects upon other people) is that, unless you know in advance that it’s going to happen, there is no guarantee of any sense of satisfaction afterwards, in having escaped from life so easily.

The whole subject is still bathed in mystery

But we need not dig so deeply to find connections between infancy, sleep, and mortality. Consider the words of what is still one of our most popular lullabies. If we are to take it literally, it is about a baby falling out of a tree – with results which, though unstated, could only be catastrophic. (Just how the infant got up in the tree in the first place –and in its cradle! – almost defies rational speculation.) Yes, I know there are theories and interpretations about the metaphorical or historical meaning of all this. But the interesting thing is that, when we sing the song today to lull a child to sleep, we don’t even think about all those somber connotations and implications. .

Nor do our nursery rhymes in general give the non-act of sleeping a good press. In “Little Boy Blue”, for example, the somnolent hero’s only claim to fame is that, instead of blowing his horn (as an alarm?) he’s been found asleep on the job (in a convenient haystack), while the cows and sheep in his charge have, through his neglect, been ruining the crops.

Turning to fairy tales, the picture there can be even more “Grimm” with, for example, the doomed “Babes In The Woods”, who are abandoned in the forest and left to die, and obligingly do so, by going to sleep, under a cover of leaves. And there are Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, for both of whom their sleep is a malevolently induced trance.

I would probably afflict you with more of these musings, if I weren’t getting so sleepy…

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That’s the Spirit A record 300 guests descended on the Coral Casino for the fourth annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship Foundation Awards, emceed by Lynda Weinman, founder of lynda.com.

The sold-out event recognized the contributions of outstanding women entrepreneurs to the economy in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, working with the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship at City College, providing prizes in the form of seed money and scholarships, as well as an engraved Tiffany crystal award.

Eleven winners were chosen out of 33 finalists in an eclectic variety of categories.

Local hotelier Pamela Webber, 86, owner of the Santa Barbara Hotel Group which operates five hostelries, including the Pepper Tree Inn and The Lavender Inn, with a total of 367 room and 225 employees, won the organization’s Rock Star: Life Achievement Award.

She was also the first female member of the city’s chamber of commerce.

Supporters turning out for the boffo bash included Gene Sinser, Das Williams, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Bruce Heavin, Hiroko Benko, Mary Beth Larkin, Roger Durling, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Janet Garufis, Renee Grubb, Joyce Shaar, Barbara Ben-Horin, Theresa Borgatello, Barry

and Norris Goss, Julie Samson, and Caroline MacDougall.

Garden of Edith He vowed never to work for the BBC again, but former Montecito funnyman John Cleese is finally returning to the British broadcaster for his first sitcom since Fawlty Towers.

The 77-year-old Monty Python actor will star in Edith, playing the lovelorn ex-boyfriend of Alison Steadman, who will take the title role.

The series is expected to air later this year, nearly four decades after Fawlty Towers ended in 1979.

“These are the most enjoyable scripts I’ve seen in the last one hundred years,” gushes John about his new project.

“It will also be nice to work with Alison again since we joined forces in the series Clockwise all that time ago.”

But the move is a dramatic volte-face for the comedian, who has made no secret of his disdain for the BBC over the years.

Three years ago, John branded the London-based network’s comedy an “awful lot of crap” run by executives who “haven’t actually written comedy or directed it and yet they think they understand comedy.”

And a year later, he made it abundantly clear his feelings hadn’t changed.

“There’s no way I want to work in

TV, especially at the BBC. I have a nasty feeling a large proportion of the commissioning editors have no idea what they’re doing,” he said in an interview.

Some of his ill feeling may have come from the fact that the BBC nearly tuned down Fawlty Towers, which went on to become one of the most successful comedies in history.

A BBC script editor who looked at John’s submission in 1974 wrote it off as a “collection of clichés and stock characters which I can’t see being anything but a disaster.”

House it Going?

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has just snapped up an impressive mansion in Beverly Hills.

The house has five bedrooms and five-and-a-half bathrooms, covering 2,815 sq. ft. and is tucked away in a gated community.

The 32-year-old former Dos Pueblos High student paid just less than $19 million for the property, which was not officially on the market, according to the TV website TMZ. The two-story 1959 home on 1.13 acres last sold for $9.2 million in 2007.

Neighbors include Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Ritchie, Nicole Kidman, and Adele.

Talk is Cheap Montecito’s most famous resident, Oprah Winfrey, says her Chicagobased TV talk show was her “greatest therapy.”

The 63-year-old star has never sought one-to-one counseling with a professional, but doesn’t think she needed to, as she heard so much expert advice and cautionary tales from the guests on her program over the years.

‘I have never gone to a therapist, ever,” she tells People magazine. “But I had so many therapists sitting in the chair across from me, I just sort of took it in. The Oprah Winfrey Show was my great therapy.

“It was the greatest teaching. It was the greatest classroom and it was my greatest therapy. I came out of it a

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better human being, having listened to everybody’s stories and was like ‘I don’t want to go down that road. I saw what happened to that lady.’

“I’ve done a great deal of healing sitting on that chair. I really did. I healed myself. I have done a lot of work on myself in that chair. That was one of the great benefits of the show.”

Oprah, who bore son at 14 and lost him a few weeks later, doesn’t think she missed out on being a parent because she’s a mother figure to the 172 girls at the Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa.

“Love knows no boundaries. It doesn’t matter if a child came from your womb or if you found that person at age two, 10, or 20. If the love is real, the caring is pure and it comes from a good space – it works.”

In Memoriam On a personal note, I remember Paul Lamberton, a true patriot.

Octogenarian Paul was a key figure in our Eden by the Beach’s Spirit of ‘76 Foundation and the annual July 4 parade on State Street, which celebrated its 50th anniversary five years ago.

Bachelor Paul, who lived in Buena Vista, would also drape a giant Stars and Stripes - 30’ by 60’ - on the side of the Lobero Theater annually to mark the occasion.

A great character.

Sightings: Kevin and Christine Costner noshing at Somerset, the chic new eatery on East Anapamu....

Singer-songwriter Brad Paisley dining at Ca’Dario...TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi checking out the Stonehouse Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

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invites you to

This magical event will benefit the Unity Shoppe in their 100th Anniversary Year of community service

Saturday, May 13th, 2017 • University Club Be part of something very unique and special in Santa Barbara.

Eight Magicians who perform regularly at the Magic Castle will be performing at the Magic Mansion, commonly known as the University Club from 7 pm to 11 pm. Wander around the Mansion experiencing the different styles of magic. In between shows, join your friends in Nipper’s Lounge for heavy apps, cocktails, desserts and music.

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Lou Serrano is a frequent performer at the worldfamous Magic Castle in Hollywood. His list of celebrity clientele includes Johnny Depp, Martin Short, Reba McEntire, and Jennifer Aniston. He and his wife, Dee Dee, specialize in entertaining at high-end social events, and their experience has helped create magical, memorable, and successful events worldwide.

The award-winning, highly sought-after John George is a master entertainer who deftly engages audiences with hilarious jokes and friendly banter while dazzling them with his dexterity and technical skill in illusions and sleight-of-hand magic. John performs at exclusive venues such as the world-famous Magic Castle in Los Angeles.

Joe Skilton is an award-winning Los Angeles magician. Joe has appeared on Spike TV, TLC, and the primetime TV series “Masters of Illusion.” He’s also appeared in commercials and TV series in Germany, Europe, and Japan.

Joe has been a full-time professional for the last eight years, and a performing member of the Magic Castle for ten.

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Steve is a performer and Silver Medal Winner for Strolling Magic at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood. Steve says, “I’ve been lucky enough to be able to perform magic almost nightly for over 20 years from New York to Los Angeles. I love what I do and I believe that magic is all around us so when I put on a show, it has to feel like true magic to me as well as my audience.”

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Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet

mance, perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the two pianists performing an impressive away of works, including solo pieces, piano duos, and at least one work for four hands. On the program are the piano duos by Brahms, (Hungarian Dances), Milhaud (Scaramouche) and Lutoslawski (Variations on a Theme

by Paganini). For Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Suite), Wang and Thibaudet will perform together on the Music Academy’s new Steinway Hamburg model D concert grand piano, which was personally select-

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ed by faculty artist Jeremy Denk at the Steinway factory in Germany this past December. The piano will be permanently placed in residence at Hahn Hall.

“The All-Steinway designation is a big deal because of what it says about our training program,” explained Scott Reed, MAW’s president and CEO. “Just as the buildings and facilities are important, it’s the same with the instruments. As a top program, by putting the best in front of our Fellows we’re sending the message that we’re giving them

Yuja Wang, Musical America Artist of the Year (photo by Kirk Edwards)

the tool to be as successful as possible and helping to groom them for the great concert halls and festivals where they will also find Steinways.

Also, it sends a message to potential faculty and guest artists that we’re an organization that’s serious and wants to work with the best.”

With its new designation, MAW becomes one of just 192 all-Steinway music schools worldwide, said Gavin English, Steinway’s head of California sales, who has been working with the academy for more than six years to complete the conversion of all of the pianos on campus, which number more than 55 in the permanent collection and another dozen for the residence halls. “They’re joining some of the prestigious schools like Oberlin Conservatory and Curtis School of Music. It demonstrates quite a commitment to excellence.”

Adding to the Steinway partnership, a new Solo Piano Competition will be launched during the Music Academy’s already impressive 2017 Summer Festival that features the return of the New York Philharmonic for a concert at SBCC’s La Playa Stadium, the biggest classical concert in Santa Barbara history. The competition winner will be awarded not only a cash prize but the opportunity to go on tour, performing recitals in Steinway & Sons venues nationally.

Meanwhile, the gala event represents a return to Hahn Hall for both Thibaudet and Wang, the for-

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mer having performed and taught master classes as a visiting artist during the festival the past two summers, while Wang made her Santa Barbara debut at the venue back in 2009 under the auspices of UCSB Arts & Lectures. She was a rising artist at the time, and the 350-seat hall was barely half-full. But a return visit the following year sold out, and since then the Beijing-born pianist has performed in the most venerable venues across the land, as well as on three more concerts in town, including two additional recitals (the latest was last May at the Granada) sandwiched around playing the Gershwin concerto with the London Symphony at the Granada in May 2016. The gala represents her first visit to the Music Academy.

“We’ve been taking for a long time about how to get her here and introduce her to our program,” Reed said.

“We know she’d fall in love and want to come back in a bigger capacity. It just happened that the timing worked, and she liked the idea, the crazy notion that these two pianists perform together, and took it as a challenge. Working together in an intimate setting was very appealing to them. It’s the ultimate connection with an audience.”

Either artist could sell out the Hollywood Bowl or Carnegie Hall on his or her own, Reed noted. “To have them together at Hahn or in our gala is an overload of the senses, because they are a beautiful spectacle on stage. They’re extraordinary and flashy and exciting, with energy that shoots off the stage. We got our dream duo.”

As for their outfits? Neither artist is revealing their wardrobe choices in advance, but “I’m sure it will be very stylish, from their shoes to their clothes to the top of their heads,” said English, who will be on hand at the gala. “Classical music is rarely this exciting.”

“I’m sure it will be spectacular,” echoed Reed. “They’re good friends, and I’m hoping that they decide to challenge each other both on the piano and with the fashion, making a statement. It’s perfect for our gala.”

Gala tables and tickets are now available for purchase, with tables set at $10,000, $25,000, and $50,000, and individual tickets at $1,000. Table sponsors along with their guests at the $25,000 level and above will also receive an exclusive invitation to the home of co-chair Hyon Chough to experience an intimate recital performed by faculty artist Jeremy Denk.

For table sponsorships and more information, contact Lauren Beattie by email at lbeattie@musicacademy. org, by phone at 695-7917, or visit musicacademy.org/steinway.

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You’re Invited! PUBLIC H The inviting entrance to In the Saddle, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s latest exhibit

A detail from the cantle of Dwight Murphy’s parade saddle reveals exquisite silverwork embellishments

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A saddle made by Jedlicka’s Saddlery in 1951 uses the acorn and oak leaf motif

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saddles depict his passions, and the silver work is exquisite.

The designs and great beauty of the saddles and related Western accoutrements displayed at the museum’s latest exhibit are a genuine feast for the senses. Be warned, however, the show

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his year ’s first-ever overnight Rally4Kids fundraiser for United Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara was limited to 50 cars and 100 participants (a driver and a navigator in each vehicle).

Speed and size were immaterial, as the quest for a holy grail consisted of travel trivia questions, various feats of “skill,” and a time trial at the racetrack behind the Santa Maria Central Coast Jet Center. The team that racked up the most points would be declared the winners.

This year’s “Roads Scholars,” which were Tim and Lisa Couch. James and Priya Darnsborough came in 2nd and Amil Carcia and Melissa Gough were 3rd. All were awarded handsome trophies for their efforts.

Bringing up the rear, so to speak, were the “directionally challenged” teams of Frank and Pam Cox and Eloy Ortega and Brendan Searls.

Day One

The rally covered more than 300 miles and went from the Santa Barbara Polo Club to Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort in Avila Beach, via Route 33 behind Ojai

by James Buckley all photos by Priscilla

(where a massive rockslide held up many of the participants for up to an hour on the first day) and included a stop at Lake Casitas, where bean bags were launched via a giant slingshot in the direction of various numbered boxes, to the Santa Barbara Pistachio Company in Maricopa, where pistachios of every flavor and description were tasted and shared, to the racetrack in Santa Maria, to a wine tasting at Talley Vineyards in Arroyo Grande and finally to Sycamore Mineral Springs, where we showered, hot-tubbed (every room and suite comes equipped with its own mineral-springs-fed hot tub), partied, and dined before retiring to comfortable suites for a quiet night of blissful sleep.

Day Two

A leisurely visit to the remarkably reconstructed town of Avila Beach, where participants were required to count the number of palm trees between two streets, along with adding up the number of fish depicted on a nearby mural. Afterward, at our own pace, we were to proceed south to the Lompoc Boys & Girls

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Club via some rather... let’s call them “unclear”... driving directions. In any case, all arrived safely for more challenges, including a little “hockey” and a nefarious game of “Mike Says,” in which pretty much everyone lost to Boys & Girls Club director Michael Baker’s shenanigans, though with smiles and laughter.

The Cars

Autos included a number of Shelbys, an Aston Martin, a Corvette, a couple Mercedes including an SLS Gullwing AMG, four Ferraris, a Lamborghini, MG, VW, Audi, two Minis, no fewer than 14 Porsches, a smattering of other vehicles, and a 1954 Studebaker Commander with the biggest engine of all, driven by

last year’s winner, Chris Eberz, and Cindy Nelson.

The Party

All the drivers, navigators, and United Boys & Girls Club supporters (nearly 300 total) gathered at the Polo Club for an outdoor party, featuring a live auction emceed by Andrew Firestone, the music of four young and talented women with violins (Bella Strings), a young lady reclining in a large Champagne glass pouring, yes, Champagne, a couple of nightmare-inducing walking (on stilts) green bushes – and well, it turned out to be quite a weekend.

We look forward already to next year’s Rally4Kids.

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La Presidente Rhonda Ledson Henderson and the Old Spanish Days Board of Directors invite you to experience

“ An Evening in Spain” at the 93rd Annual kick off of Fiesta, La Primavera

Saturday, May 20th, 2017, 6:30 pm

Carriage and Western Art Museum 129 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara

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• Authentic Spanish food and wine • • Official unveiling of the 2017 Fiesta Pin and Poster • Celebration of “Unity Through Community” with a spectacular Flamenco show by Alda Escárcega, Laura Garcia, Heidy Juarez, MariaElena Lopez, Linda Vega, Daniela Zermeño, Alexandra Freres, Marisa Leon Haro, Sabrina Ibarra, Erika Martin Del Campo, Alina Rey and Alexis Simentales Music accompaniment: Jesus Montoya, Gerado Morales, Gabriel Osuno and Jose Tanaka

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Artistic director Christopher Pilafian with artist Mary Heebner and the dancers of Santa Barbara Dance Theater post-performance at Lobero Theatre

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anta Barbara Dance Theater [SBDT] Artistic Director Christopher Pilafian’s sixth season performance titled Now/Ever/ More, at the Lobero Theatre May 4 and 5 proved to uphold his broader vision in contemporary dance and challenge the nature of dance as medium of expression in nonlinear choreography, stage, and costume minimalism, the use of original art projections by Mary Heebner and that of original music scores.

The strongest compositions in all aspects of dance were Pilafian’s Mystique and David Maurice’s Were it Not for Shadows.

Mystique performed by nine dancers in a painterly flow with original music and video panels of Heebner’s art clearly showed the use of company to create a singular line without losing dynamic presence, a canon perfected.

One appreciated the dancers’ dedication to performance in their beautifully rendered clarity of line in solo, duo, trio, and ensemble throughout the piece. Considering the costuming of full-length sheer panels of painted fabric in the front and back of each dancer’s body, the ease with which they executed the complex movements was an art form in itself.

In Were it Not for Shadows, we find Maurice using beat and counterpoint to define the accumulation used in its four movements, as well as playful tension in dynamic usage of extremes in space, time, weight, and flow in relation to differential stage lighting and use of extreme music variations to using no music forcing the viewer and the dancers to converse purely on 11 – 18 May 2017

movements alone. Dancers in muted colored oversized shirts and pants showing only their heads, necks, lower arms, hands, legs, and feet, draw the focus of expression there.

The first movement, Waiting Room, went from solos to mirrored solos to five counter-mirrors, with the dancers constrained into five rectangular spaces defined by as many singular stage lights horizontally across the stage. Movements 2 and 3 became chaotic struggles using spastic and contractual movements – a Laban effort technique, with the third movement done in silence, using various levels of overhead track lighting. The fourth movement ebbed back to the first with a vector caveat stage left: as the dancers completed their mirrored solos in the lighted rectangular boxes, one dancer would become part of a still-life family portrait in the far-left box. The piece concluded with all five dancers posed therein.

Mentions go to the compositions with their key strength: Hers for phrasing, Liminal Red for cathartic shock value, Chamber Fantasy for baroque burlesque-ish beauty, and Cante Flamenco for arch-point rhythm.

Congratulations to Pilafian, his guest choreographers David Maurice, Andréa Giselle Schermoly, and Jane Dudley; dancers David Maurice, Nikki Pfeiffer, Nicole Powell, Christina Sanchez, Robin Wilson, Miche Wong, and Ryan Yamaguchi and dance apprentices Briana Markovich, Patricia Martin, Tara McAninch, Nicole Nistal, and Amanda Tran; and composer Will Thomas.

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Coast Village Burglaries

Cold Spring School superintendent Dr. Tricia Price and Montecito Union School superintendent Tammy Murphy were thanked at this month’s MA board meeting

and present data on alternatives other than a complete ban on STRs. “We’ve had a consistent position recommending there be a complete ban on STRs,” said MA executive director Victoria Greene. The MA board voted to reiterate that position in a letter to the BOS, which reads that Montecito has the largest number of illegal short-term rentals in the County, and asks the board of supervisors to adopt ordinances that clarify that STRs are not permitted in residential zones.

The letter also suggests that if the board wishes to allow “homestays” (in which the property owner stays on the site during the rental term), or allow STRs in certain areas (such as Miramar Beach where there is historic STR use), that they separate these classifications and deal with them at a later date.

Greene said that the board and the Land Use Committee will revisit some old topics that have been discussed in the past, including a walking path on Channel Drive between the Biltmore and the Butterfly Beach steps. “We want to move forward with outreach to the neighborhood to see if neighbors are interested, before reaching out to the County,” Greene said.

Another project being discussed: pedestrian safety improvements in the upper village, by way of a flashing speed-reading sign. The Land Use Committee will continue to pursue the sign with private funding, after the Montecito Community Foundation rejected a grant request for the sign last year.

The Montecito Association is currently conducting a community survey to gather information about membership and the impact of the Association. Members of the community are encouraged to visit www. surveymonkey.com/r/montecitoas sociation for a brief survey.

The next Montecito Association meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 13, at 4 pm.

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Last week, the Santa Barbara Police Department Property Crimes Division sent out a media alert and community-wide news release regarding a series of commercial burglaries that occurred in the 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Road on April 27.

The SBPD is using video surveillance from several business locations on the street to solicit help from the community in identifying the suspects.

In the majority of the burglaries, forced entry is made when the suspects pried open the entry door and/ or used a sledgehammer to break open a ground-level window. In all but one incident, upon gaining access into the location, the suspect(s) directed their attention to the cash register or nearby cash envelopes. Videos released to the media show two of the suspects committing multiple burglaries at a shopping center in the 1100 block of Coast Village Road, as well as at Montecito Country Mart. There were also several still photographs, which capture three additional suspects, including two males, and a female, who are all wanted in connection to the burglaries.

The Santa Barbara Police Department Property Crimes Division is continuing to work with local business owners to gather surveillance video related to these and additional burglaries that happened earlier this year on the 1200 block of Coast Village. At this point in the investigation, it is believed the burglaries are all related.

Bob Ludwick, president of the newly resurged Coast Village Association (CVA), said the crimes are unacceptable in our community, and that the CVA will make deterrence, prevention, and prosecution of such property crime a high priority.

“We are grateful for the resources that are deployed here, even as we seem to be under attack from opportunistic thieves from around the southland,” Ludwick said, referring to another burglary on the road that occurred on April 7. In that incident, six men, all suspected gang members, were arrested in connection with multiple LA-area and Santa Barbra burglaries. “The CVA is committed to helping all our businesses, visitors, and residents thrive in this important Santa Barbara neighborhood. And that commitment includes urging the police and district attorney’s office to vigorously investigate and prosecute these property crimes. We welcome the partnership with law enforcement to protect and enhance Coast Village,” Ludwick said.

If you have any information related to these crimes, please call Detective DeBlauw at (805)-897-2327.

Surveillance footage shows several young people committing a series of crimes along Coast Village Road

Gala co-chair Sarah Muzzy, with Crane head of school Joel Weiss, director of development Debbie Williams, and fellow co-chair Hannah Gimbel Dal Pozzo (photo credit Teresa Pietsch)

Crane School’s Spring Gala & Auction

This past Saturday, more than 240 parents, staff, teachers, and friends put on their country finest for Crane Country Day School’s annual Spring Gala and Auction. Themed “Crane Country Nights”, the festivities took full advantage of the school’s new Oak Tree Quad, which along with the Design and Engineering Center, are the most recent additions to the Crane campus. The sprawling oak in the center of the quad offered the perfect backdrop to display the silent-auction items being offered.

Crane parents and gala co-chairs Hannah Gimbel Dal Pozzo and Sarah Muzzy set out to plan an elegant country event, transforming the Crane campus with hay-strewn pathways, serape-draped hay sofas, white linen and burlap dressed round dinner tables, candles, and iron lanterns, and roaming miniature horses.

After dinner, guests bid on a number of live-auction items, including an overnight voyage for six to the Channel Islands on an 80-foot yacht; a “Pick Your Paradise” trip to either

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Italy, Bali, or Africa; and a two-week stay in Aspen. However, the piece de resistance auction “item” that had students talking all week came with four (make that eight) legs: two “Puppy Packages,” each with a 12-week-old yellow lab, brought the highest bids of the night.

“Part of what makes our families and their children so enthusiastic about this school is our emphasis on experiential learning,” said head of school Joel Weiss. “That said, everything that happens here begins with our excellent teachers, each of whom brings something unique to their classroom.”

“I’m always touched by how much people love this place,” added Debbie Williams, Crane’s director of development, commenting on the evening’s success, “and I’m always grateful for the support they show for the school.”

Later in the evening, guests kicked up their heels on the dance floor, returned to the gaming tables, or lounged with friends amid the hay bales, many sharing tales of their children’s Crane adventures.

For more information, visit www. craneschool.org.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3689

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3781A

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3689 for the LOT 5 LANDSCAPE/ HARDSCAPE/ ACCESSIBILITY AND VICTORIA STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, May 18, 2017 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, “LOT 5 LANDSCAPE/ HARDSCAPE/ ACCESSIBILITY AND VICTORIA STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, Bid No. 3689".

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3781A for the Montecito Street Bridge Replacement and Pedestrian Improvements Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, May 25, 2017 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, “Montecito Street Bridge Replacement and Pedestrian Improvements Project, Bid No. 3781A.”

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to install and deliver a fully functional kiosk and site improvements project. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, concrete construction, kiosk installation, conduit installation, roadway construction, irrigation systems installation, plant installation and establishment. The Engineer’s estimate is $260,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at 1220 Chapala 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 Laura Yanez, Project Engineer, 805-897-2615.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

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.

Please note Contractor shall coordinate with Sentry for the appropriate delivery date for the kiosk. Contractor shall complete all foundation work prior to delivery of the kiosk. Storage of the kiosk will not be permitted on site. All costs for coordination for delivery and installation of the kiosk shall be included in the scope of this project.

The work generally consists of the removal and replacement of the Montecito (Yanonali) Street Bridge over Sycamore Creek with sidewalks on Montecito Street, and sidewalks and retaining walls on Salinas Street. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant, and equipment necessary to complete and deliver the finished bridge replacement / pedestrian improvements project per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $3,300,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

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 Andrew Grubb P.E., Project Engineer; (805) 564-5404.

There will be a non-mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 8:30 A.M. at the Project Site at the intersection of Montecito and Yanonali Streets in Santa Barbara.

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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

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

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED May 3 and May 10, 2017 Montecito Journal

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PUBLISHED: MAY 10, 2017 Montecito Journal

____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M.

• The Voice of the Village •

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5538 DUE DATE & TIME: June 7, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Painting and Floor Coating at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Scope of Work for Floor Painting and Coating to areas that have started delaminating.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on May 23, 2017 at 11:00 a.m., in front of El Estero Administration Building, located at 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

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

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

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

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 C33 Painting and Decorating 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.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

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. Published: May 10, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5535 DUE DATE & TIME: May 31, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. FY17 Sewer Main Cleaning at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Scope of work includes cleaning approximately 29 miles of 6 inch and 8 inch, 6 miles of 10 inch – 18 inch, and 3.1 miles of 20 inch – 42 inch sanitary sewer mains.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

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

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

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

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 “A” 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.

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.

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. Published: May 10, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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City of Santa Barbara Invitation – Notice to Consultants Request for Qualifications RFQ Number: 3853A May 10, 2017 REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES FOR THE MISSION CANYON BRIDGE SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS PROJECT The City of Santa Barbara has received approval from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for a federal-aid Highway Bridge Program (HBP) project titled Mission Canyon Bridge Safety Enhancements Project.

The City of Santa Barbara, Public Works Department is requesting Statement of Qualifications (SOQ’s) from qualified consulting firms to provide Engineering Design Services in compliance with all applicable requirements under the FHWA-HBP. Copies of the detailed Request for Qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard or by contacting Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer at (805) 564-5404 or AGrubb@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

SOQ’s will be received in the Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. Thursday, June 8, 2017.

Mailing Address: City of Santa Barbara General Services Division – Purchasing P.O. Box 1990 Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990 Physical Address for hand delivery and express mail: City of Santa Barbara General Services Division – Purchasing 310 E. Ortega Street Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990 It is the responsibility of the respondent to see that any submitted SOQ’s shall have sufficient time to be received by the Purchasing Office prior to the submittal date and time. At that time, SOQ’s will not be opened; there will be only a public acknowledgment of all proposals received. SOQ’s received after the closing date and time will be returned to the respondent unopened.

The receiving time in the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of the SOQ’s. SOQ’s will not be accepted by telephone, e-mail or facsimile machine. Four (4) wet-signed copies of the SOQ must be submitted. __________________________ William Hornung, CPM General Services Manager PUBLISHED: May 10 and 17, 2017 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Events By Emily, 5948 Casitas Pass Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Emily Catherine Ulrich, 3950 Via Real Apt 126, Carpinteria, CA 93103.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001014.

Published May 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Keeper of the Books, 5266 Hollister Ave #212, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Granfort Bookkeeping Services, LLC, 5266 Hollister Ave #212, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 26, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland,

County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001256.

Published May 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dave’s Auto Repair, 132 S. Milpas, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. David Reynoso, 7830 Day Dr., Goleta, CA 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania ParedesSadler. FBN No. 2017-0001159.

Published May 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Starks Fitness, 2136 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Jerad Starks, 2136 Red Rose Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 27, 2017. 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

For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. – Thomas Malory

statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2017-0000940. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blissful Boutiques, 6263 Aberdeen Ave, Goleta, CA 93117. LMG Vendor Events LLC, 6263 Aberdeen Ave, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 7, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0001067. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Miramar Sportswear; Miramar Sportswear Research & Development, 5930 Via Real St #2, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

Stephen Kass, 5930 Via Real St #2, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 11, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0001101. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAYSCIENCE, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 356, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

RETZKEDIN LLC, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 356, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 24, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0001220. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jenny Hoffman Designs, 132 Garden Street, STE 2B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Koncept 1, INC., 132 Garden Street, STE 2B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 13, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001123. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLOTPINS; SWAYSMART MEDIA, PO Box 50035, Santa Barbara, CA 93150.

Brooklyn West Films LLC, 216 Mohawk Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 6, 2017.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001056. Published April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2017.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01623. To all interested parties: Petitioners Carola OlivaOlson and Jaime Matera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Luna Matera to Luna Matera-Oliva. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 17, 2017

by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: May 24, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01470. To all interested parties: Petitioner Monica Cervantes-Gonzalez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of children from Dante Garcia and Duncan GarciaCervantes to Dante Cervantes and Duncan Cervantes, respectively. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed April 11, 2017

by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: May 31, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/26, 5/3, 5/10, 5/17 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS: CASE No. 16CV05062. Notice to Defendant: Steven Schoepp: You have been sued by Plaintiff: Edward Bauer. You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a response at the court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your legal response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center, your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements, you may want to contact an attorney right away. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services. You can locate these non-profit groups online at www.lawhelpcalifornia.org, or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Name and address of the court: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 931211107. Filed November 9, 2016,

by Sarah Sisto, Deputy Clerk.

Published May 3, 10, 17, 24, 2017.

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CAMA Women’s Board member Patti Ottoboni with Pamela Van der Heide, who was co-chair of the auction at the MOXI event

Betsy Coates and Mary Alice Tudor in front of the team effort at the flower show

Star Power

The Garden Club of Santa Barbara is a non-profit volunteer group dedicated to encouraging the knowledge and enjoyment of gardening, the art of floral design, the protection of our environment and native plants, the preservation of the historic and horticultural richness of our community, and the active support of our civic projects. The club was founded in 1916 and is affiliated with the Garden Club of America.

Every two or three years, they have a flower show that’s free to the public and for its enjoyment and edification.

They recently took over the estate house of the Music Academy of the West as a backdrop for their beautiful creations. Prior to the opening, there was a private preview party complete with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres. The show’s theme was “Star Power” and was on view for two days.

A few of those at the reception were Daryl Banta, Judy and Leon Bartholomew, Betsy and Ken Coates, Mimi deGruy, Victoria Dillon, Susan Fuhrer, Betsy Gates, Joan and Palmer Jackson, Susanne McEwen, Sally and John Nordstrom, Karen Peus, and Harriet Pitman.

Organizing this grand undertaking were co-chairs Jocelyne Meeker and Cheryl Miller. President Susanne Tobey leads the group year ‘round.

There was a myriad of categories including floral design, horticulture, photography, and botanical jewelry.

Fascinating to me since I’m a shoe freak, is that the shoes were made out of plant material. Not to wear, just to look at.

Since I’m a docent, I have the privilege of looking at the Garden Club’s work as they come every week to the Casa del Herrero and make flower arrangements for all the rooms. They add a warm touch to the tours of that

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One of the winners in the Garden Club show

estate. The Garden Club also helps in the herb garden and with the refurbishment of the orchard.

Other community projects are supplying funds for continuing ecology programs at more than 30 schools, renovation of the Japanese garden in Lotusland, planting within the Healing Garden in the new cancer center, and the list goes on. Thanks, ladies, for all the beauty you create for us to enjoy.

CAMA board members Lois Kroc, Sue Adams, Judy Writer, and president Catherine Leffler at the MOXI

The giant guitar one can play at MOXI

Music at MOXI

Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) Women’s Board invited everyone to “Music at Moxi”. That’s the latest hot spot in town—The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation or MOXI. It is Barry Berkus’s final architectural creation, which houses many interactive exhibits meant to invent, imagine, and inspire. It’s a great place for kids of all ages and especially school-age children.

Guests were encouraged to explore this latest jewel in our town while enjoying wine, music, hors d’oeuvres, a fabulous live auction, and a stellar view from the third-floor rooftop.

Also on the rooftop was the Santa Barbara Strings Honors Quartet: Zani Cassidy, Talia Honikman, Moonman Whitehead, and Junia

Work. Auctioneer Gail Rappaport had us all laughing with her wit while people raised paddles to spend time in Carmel or Canada for a culinary experience, or more cooking in Tuscany. President of the board Bob Montgomery and wife Val offered up their home for a catered dinner with master chef Michael Hutchings.

As Women’s board president Catherine Leffler told us, “We don’t have to go to London or all over the world. CAMA brings the best classi-

• The Voice of the Village •

cal orchestras and soloists here to the Granada Theatre.” This will be their 99th year. The Women’s Board was founded in 1951. They meet monthly to organize fundraisers to support the concert series and CAMA’s Music Matters, which is a docent-led music appreciation program in our schools.

It’s so important the kids learn an appreciation of classical music.

For information, call concert and publicity manager Justin RizzoWeaver at (805) 966-4324, x105. •MJ 11 – 18 May 2017

MEET THE TEACHER

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

Science is Golden at Cold Spring School After some serious shovel work by the second-graders and a little help from others, the area is now ready for planting their Native Garden Project

W

hen we first met, Jean Gradias was on the outside patio at the Coffee Bean on Coast Village Road creating a lesson plan for her science program. When I asked about it, she explained that the purpose and philosophy behind the science program at Cold Spring School “is a response to the direction the world is moving,” that Cold Spring is teaching kids to become “creative innovators” and to have a variety of skills.

“Our program,” she says, “is a visionary step and an exciting challenge,” and adds that she is drawn to this type of teaching because she had mentors who encouraged her to find creative solutions using a combination of skills.

A California girl from Marin County, Jean attended Terra Linda High School. She no doubt decided upon a teaching career because of early positive influences, such as, for example, her high school English teacher, Patrick Skinner, who she says was her “greatest academic influence,” calling him “a totally frank and honest person who pushed his students to find their own voice and be real.”

Jean recalls that Mr. Skinner “had a healthy respect for writing proficiently, was a stickler for grammar and proper sentence structure, and he hated ‘fluff’. It drove me nuts at the time,” she laughs, “but I learned to write.” It wasn’t, however, only sentence formation that inspired Jean; he apparently also gave her the confidence to hold her own and communicate effectively, while being aware of others’ perspectives.

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ence that prepared her to embrace Mr. Skinner’s wise words. She laughs, “Funny you should ask ... yes, there was another huge influence: my mother. My mom is the greatest example of courage ever. She’s weathered many storms, taken big leaps in her work as owner of a media company, as well as in her personal life,” Jean exclaims.

“Even today,” she continues, “I send her my papers to review as an outside source. I value her feedback and advice.”

Jean was well prepared to attend UCSB after high school. “Santa Barbara had all the things I loved in Marin: the mountains, a smaller town surrounded by the natural world, but by the beach.” Jean graduated from UCSB as an English major and went on to earn her teaching credentials and a master’s degree. During her time there, she grew to love the area not only for UCSB but for the relaxed culture here. “It didn’t hurt,” she adds, “that I met my future husband, Mat, a native Santa Barbarian, and discovered that our path forward would be together.”

After they both graduated, Mat worked as an architect while she completed the master’s program. Degrees in hand, a move away seemed promising to the couple, who were looking for a city that offered both employment and nearby fly-fishing. “Portland, Oregon, was the spot with the closest streams, so I found a job teaching and Mat left his firm in Carpinteria to relocate with me,” Jean recounts.

Back to Santa Barbara

After two years, however, they decided to return home. “An opportunity at Mat’s former job with Andy

Cold Spring science teacher Jean Gradias

Second-graders hard at work prepping the ground for Cold Spring School’s new garden

Neumann Architecture had opened up, and I applied to the Council on Alcohol and Drug Addiction (CADA) as a Youth Services specialist based at Carpinteria Middle School.” Jean explains, “It wasn’t an easy job. I ran classes, helped struggling kids and provided support, [it was] the kind of job that required a multitude of hats and a lot of energy but was an important learning experience.”

The next year, 2004, her opportunity arrived. A friend from grad school who worked at Cold Spring School told her about a potential vacancy; she jumped at the chance, applied for the position, and was accepted.

Although a sixth-grade teacher for 11 years, in 2015 Jean chose to take on a new and unexpected responsibility. She applied for a job as a Science TOSA (Teacher on Special Assignment), a 50-percent position: mornings in sixth grade and afternoons in science. The TOSA program is designed to help schools transition to the new science standards implemented by the state of California, so Jean conducted in-service classes for teachers and taught demo lessons

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for one year.

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, the school board and Dr. Tricia Price decided to expand Jean’s science position to full time, which called for adding the STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) program of integrative studies.

An example of STEAM is the 2nd-grade Native Garden Project currently being conducted. “It began,” Jean says, “during a habitat walk when the kids noticed a barren spot that stood in sharp contrast to everything else on campus.” After some discussion, they decided as a group to create a more beautiful space, a garden with plants that would attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Realizing this would require education as to the type of plants needed, Dr. Amanda Sparkman from Westmont College was invited to speak to the class about plants native to our area. The children then took a “needs assessment” within the school community to find out what others wished to include in their project. Chris Gilliland, a landscape architect at Common Ground, and Alex Bereda, director of the school garden program at Explore Ecology, came to help them develop a final plan to present to the school board for approval.

Jean laughs, “It was the cutest thing ever to see those second-graders in front of the board introducing their project. So brave... like, I’m young, I have a voice, and I can make a difference.” The board approved the project and a successful crowd-funding phase has just ended. “They look forward to breaking ground before the end of the school year,” Jean adds. “The second-graders are also presenting at the Santa Barbara County Office of Education at the Showcase for Innovation and Deeper Learning. I’m so proud of them.”

Jean notes too that she’s learning right along with her students and is in a doctoral program at the Fielding Institute. “The purpose is for me to know more about this science program’s effect on teachers and teaching practices. My dissertation,” she says, “will explore how ‘Projectbased Learning’ such as ours supports the way science is taught in the classroom.”

Just as I was about to pose another question, my dog, who I’d brought along with me and whose patience was wearing thin, reminded me he was still there and ready to go. So with a laugh and a warm hug, Jean and I parted.

Walking back to my car, I wondered where Jean Gradias and the integrated learning program was when I was in school.

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

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Art by the Sea – Activities amp up for a brief moment as the academic year winds down out at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB. Tonight, Lorcan O’Herlihy discusses “Amplified Urbanism,” a term that relates to LOHA’s design methodology, which is rooted in creating fluid interaction between public and private spaces, emphasizing social and civic connections, and harnessing existing ecological and infrastructural patterns. The term is also the title of O’Herlihy’s recently released book, which highlights how these tenets have been successfully implemented by LOHA and may be used by others to cultivate vibrant communities. The free event begins with a reception at AD&A’s Jewel Box at 5:15 pm before the 6 pm lecture at the Faculty Club. The Master of Fine Arts graduate exhibition, titled “Past is Prologue”, a reference to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, opens on Saturday, May 13, and features works that reflect a strikingly diverse collection of approaches and interests realized in an equally broad range of methods and media, from the six UCSB graduate students about to conclude their studies. As per the title, it is curated as the edited product of the research they are concluding, a current snapshot of where they now stand, and possibly a glimpse of their future. The artists’ reception is slated for 5:30 to 7:30 pm next Friday, May 19. WHERE: UCSB campus, across from parking structure 22 INFO: 893-2951 OR www. museum.ucsb.edu

Hey 19 – The Environmental Defense Center’s (EDC) tgif! events have long been one of the hottest happy hour of the summer season, as the popular gatherings bring together EDC clients, members, and partner groups along with community leaders, government representatives, and lots of like-minded, Earth-friendly folks from all over town. Guests enjoy tasty appetizers prepared by sponsors, sip on local wines or beers, and listen to some of Santa Barbara’s bands that range from singer-songwriters to Americana and jazz. One of the attractions is that some 200 to 300 people congregate in the spacious enough courtyard at EDC’s downtown headquarters, and you always see someone you know, as well as meet new people. But there will only be three such opportunities this year as EDC has planned some other events for the missing months. So, if you don’t make it tonight, you’ll only have July 14 and September 8 to do the happy hour hobnob, and – new this year – if you don’t buy your tickets in advance, it’ll cost you $5 more at the door. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 pm WHERE: 906 Garden St. COST: $15 in advance, $20 at the door INFO: 963-1622 or www.environmentaldefensecenter.org/tgif

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Whiskey Wanders Home – Poor Man’s Whiskey (PMW) came together when the band members were all students at UCSB, and fortunately the foursome doesn’t forget where they came from.

Despite playing festivals all over the land, Whiskey always wends its way back to

THURSDAY, MAY 11 Yorn’s Yarns – Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn entered into the recording biz in what might be called a backward manner, as he got his big break by providing the score to Me, Myself & Irene, a 2000 film by the Farrelly Brothers, which also used one of his own songs on the soundtrack.

“Strange Condition” was released as a single and did well enough that he was able to make a record of his own songs; the debut album, Musicforthemorningafter, filled with upbeat pop-rock and infectious melodies, eventually went gold. Yorn played nearly all of the instruments on the album, a trait he’s continued to employ throughout his career.

But success has not always been easy to find. Last year’s ArrangingTime was Yorn’s first album since 2010 – although he formed The Olms, a duo with J.D. King in the interim. But the new disc reunited him with R. Walt Vincent, who had produced his debut, and came out on Capitol, about as major as labels come. Whether it signifies a rebirth or a reconfiguring, Yorn has broadened his tonal palette, as well as his mood to include the melancholy, perhaps the inevitable result of the passage of 15 years. Hear the new songs in an old format when Yorn returns for a solo acoustic show, his first Santa Barbara appearance since The Olms played SOhO back in December 2013. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Velvet Jones, 423 State St. COST: $35 INFO: 965-8676 or www.velvet-jones.com

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Look! Up in the Air. It’s… – The Isla Vista Juggling Festival (IVJF) has moved around aplenty both in calendar and location in its 40-year history, though never very far from its titular home. When it moved from its original home in IV’s Anisq’Oyo’ Park, the festival took up residence at UCSB, for years in Robb Gym, then finally at the Rec Center in 2015-16. But now the IVJF has returned home – both to its original date of Mother’s Day Weekend – and to Isla Vista, landing in People’s Park, adjacent to Anisq’Oyo’.

The outdoor location, while subject to the whimsy of weather conditions, allows for more freedom in addition to night juggling (fire aglow props will abound). As always. jugglers, unicyclists, clowns, magicians, and other such entertainers will show up their talents all weekend long, either working on solo skills or perfect passing techniques or other intricate team patterns – which are both impressive and mesmerizing to watch. The general public is encouraged to participate, as there is no skill necessary to watch, of course, while beginners and those interested in learning to juggle almost always find someone willing to give them a few pointers (and maybe even lend them some clubs or balls to toss). Saturday night’s professional show remains in Isla Vista Theater – which is just across the street, so there’s no reason to pack up and leave much before show time – and features the best, many of which do the juggling thing for a living.

Comedy juggler Jeffrey Daymont serves as emcee. Proceeds benefit the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center. WHEN: Open juggling and workshops 6 to 11 pm today, 10 am to 6 pm tomorrow, and 10 am to 5 pm Sunday; public show 7:30 to 10 pm tomorrow COST: festival is free; show: $15 general, $8 seniors, students, and kids INFO: www.sbjuggle.org

Santa Barbara whenever they’re out on tour. Josh Brough (banjo, keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Jason BeardGuitar (mandolin), George Smeltz (drum, vocals), and David Noble (guitar, vocals), who now live in Northern California, are known as outlaw music bards as they bring together bluegrass/ old time music, southern rock, and old school jam with lots of witty words, creating a turn-on-a-dime outfit that can zig from story-telling originals to cleverly crafted covers. Add PMW’w zany onstage shenanigans, and all in all it’s a “High-Octane Hootenanny” that makes for a foot-stompin’ good time. WHEN: 9:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $14 in advance, $17 at the door INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com Antique Arts Show – CALM’s Antiques Decorative Arts & Vintage Show attracts more than 80 of the West’s finest dealers, who bring a wide array of merchandise for shoppers with a wide range of budgets. The dealers offer an assortment of period furniture, garden artifacts, decorative accessories, paintings, silver/ silver matching, glassware, china, jewelry, porcelain, rugs/rug restoration and tapestries, vintage clothing/ accessories, items of American Folk Art, and more. This weekend’s show has a couple of extra advantages, however,

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as Saturday coincides with the Santa Barbara Gift Show and Sale, which will be held in the adjacent Warren Hall from 10 am to 6 pm and also benefits Child Abuse Listening Mediation, the Santa Barbara nonprofit that specializes in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Artwork, jewelry, clothing, accessories, handbags, and giftware are among the items available.

On Sunday, all women get in for free in celebration of Mother’s Day. WHEN: 11 am to 6 pm Friday & Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm Sunday WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $6 general, $5 seniors INFO: 898-9715 or www.calmantiqueshow.com.

Belly up to the Bar – Beth Amine, who teaches her Joy of Movement to seniors and others and belly dancing to anyone who’s interested, has also been emceeing recent shows for BASSH, the showcase of local dance studios and instructors. So, it’s not too shocking that her next belly dance showcase at the Wildcat is blurring the lines between styles and incorporating some of the ensembles who have performed at BASSH Cabaret nights. Amine will be joined at downtown nightclub by BASSH’s most ubiquitous dancer Hector Sanchez, plus Harmony and Seventh Dimension, Miss Thing, Alexandra King, Blue Moon Haven, Daisy Dances, Kara

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SATURDAY, MAY 13 Multiple Mariachis – Mariachi Garibaldi de Jamie “El Pollo” Cuellar, which began back in 1994 as one of the first youth mariachis to arise in Bakersfield, headlines the ninth annual Mariachi Encuentro event, a fundraiser for Girls Inc. of Carpinteria. Mexican folk dance company Ballet Folklorico de Los Angeles is also performing at the mini-fest that features dinner with authentic Mexican food, accompanied by Grupo Bella, an L.A.-based all-female ensemble that uses mariachi instrumentation to perform different styles of Latin music. Proceeds help fund programs and scholarships at Girls, Inc. WHEN: 5:15 pm WHERE: 5315 Foothill Road, Carpintera COST: $60 reserved seating, $40 bleachers INFO: 684-6364 or www.girlsinc-carp.org/events/ mariachi-encuentro Stewart, Laura Johnson, Vanessa, and others encompassing burlesque, Latin dancing, and drag. Seems like she’s, pardon the pun, shaking things up.

WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 pm WHERE: 15 W. Ortega St. COST: $7 INFO: 962-7970 or www.wildcatlounge.com

where notions of time travel, memory, and déjà vu boggle the mind. WHEN: Opening reception 5 to 7 tonight; exhibit continues through June 21 WHERE: 229 E. Victoria St. (in the historic Acheson House on the corner of Garden) COST: free INFO: 965-6307 or www.afsb.org

Watch out for New Exhibition – The Architectural Foundation’s new show, It’s About Time: A Kinetic Installation on the Illusive Nature of Time by Santa Barbarabased conceptual artist R.T. Livingston, is meant to be a visual metaphor demonstrating how our perception of time, with its accordion-like expansion and contraction, is constantly changing while systematically going around in circles. Together with video and sound, It’s About Time consists of about 80 4” x 4” battery-powered clocks with the words “time is a manmade Illusion” handwritten on each. Several layers of iridescent paint partially obscure the writing, which creates movement through the play of light. The uniformity of the square clocks creates a structural matrix in which each clock runs at its own pace, not unlike the movement of our own lives. But the installation isn’t just for watching. At least not tonight during the opening reception, when everyone is invited to wear a watch with hands – in order to compare time’s uneven path and note how Earth and clock move in sync, giving us a poetic connection to the cosmos and the space-time continuum

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Seaside Studio Tour – Considering that the number of residents of Carpinteria comprise just a small percentage of Santa Barbara’s population, it’s astonishing that fully 30 artists are participating in the city’s Studio Artists Tour, which celebrates its 11th year over Mother’s Day Weekend.

Members of the public are invited to visit local artists in their studios and galleries throughout Carpinteria (plus a few in Summerland), where the various painters, sculptors, photographers, ceramic artists in a variety of genres and styles will take you through their work and the spaces where they create it. What’s more, over half of the studios are clustered around downtown Carpinteria, so you can conduct your own walking tour without having to get back in the car, and even drop by the beach for lunch or a dip in the ocean.

Better yet, it’s free. WHEN: 10 am to 5 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Carpinteria Arts Center, 855 Linden Ave., serves as central location COST: free INFO: 6847789 or www.carpinteriaartscenter.org/ calendar/8015-artist-s-studio-tour-ast •MJ

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Renee’s Rose – The Metropolitan Opera’s first new production since 1969 of Strauss’s romantic masterpiece Der Rosenkavalier stars Renée Fleming in a final turn in one of her signature roles as the Marschallin in today’s presentation of The Met: Live in HD. Fleming, who sang at UCSB just 15 months ago, appears opposite Elna Garana as Octavian, the impulsive young title character, and a cast that also includes Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs, Erin Morley as Sophie, Markus Brück as Faninal, and Matthew Polenzani as the Italian Singer. Sebastian Weigle conducts, and Robert Carsen, whose most recent Met production was the hit 2013 staging of Falstaff, directs. WHEN: 9:30 am (repeats 2 pm on Sunday, May 28) WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $28 INFO: 969-8787 or www.musicacademy.org

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11 – 18 May 2017

Real Estate View Montecito Heat Index

by Michael Phillips

T

he Montecito Heat Index is a snapshot of market demand for Montecito single family homes in five distinct price sectors. Although completed sales are most often the metric for market performance, such data trails by typically 30 days and recently often much longer. By examining the present ratio of listings to those under contract, we can determine the “heat” of the market. And since real estate activity fluctuates monthly if not weekly, today’s Heat score is compared to a year ago today.

All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and are uniformly deemed reliable.

How “hot” is the market? Today’s score is 136, a respectful 28% above this date last year. Most in demand is the $2-3M group. With a big score of 45, this group outperformed last year by 95.6%.

The second-favorite price sector is the $3-$4M group. For too many months to count, demand has been strongest below $3M. Last year’s score was 17. Today’s score of 39 is a surprise and a significant change from recent past. The typical favorite $1-2M sector today has the fewest homes for sale and is third in demand of the five sectors measured. Last year, this group scored about the same at 33. My investor clients were pushing everyone around here not too long ago and are on the sidelines waiting for the

next correction.

The $4-5M sector is struggling, scoring 44.4% below last year while the high-end, $5M-and-above homes did about the same as a year ago. Both sectors inventory has increased over last year.

All in all, our market is less strong than last year. The number of sales are down by $13%, which means sellers so far this year have put $59.9M less in their pockets. Our average price is down 10% to $3,582,000 and our median price is down a notable 16%. And not surprisingly, the time necessary to find the right buyer has increased by 37% to 111 days. Yet given our present Heat score, these number should improve as these pending transactions move into the sold category. In any event, sellers, and particularly the high-end, are clearly losing their grip on the market as we enter the spring selling season.

Interesting that these less than vibrant numbers are not quite shared by our neighbors. Well, yes – Hope Ranch’s median sales price is down

50%, yet its total number of sales is up a stunning 220%. And Carp/ Summerland sales are up 113% and their median is up 20%. For some reason, we seem to be suffering the most.

One answer might be that buyers don’t want to pay the big money for the grand house quite as eagerly as they have in the past. Given the geopolitical uncertainty at hand, caution is understandable. Uncertainty is risky. And should the Trump plan be adopted, The National Association of Realtors argue that it would effectively nullify the current benefits of

homeownership, which will have the most impact on the lower end market.

All that being said – and I don’t want to make things worse – yet who among us isn’t thinking, “That could be me sitting there enjoying a cold glass of chardonnay”? Yes, this wonderful contemporary on Mariposa Lane built by the talented Giffin and Crane group has been sold out from under us after just 50 days on the market for an even $16 million, $100,000 above asking. Well, maybe next time we should move faster.

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93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

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Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner.

He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

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$5,450,000 | 560 Meadow Wood Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$2,650,000 | 1933 Mission Ridge Rd, Riviera | 3BD/4BA Marsha Kotlyar & Michele White | 805.565.4014

$16,900,000 | 2692 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito | 7BD/8BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915

$8,750,000 | 1711 E Valley Rd, Montecito | 5BD/6½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$6,600,000 | 730 Lilac Dr, Montecito | 5BD/4½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$6,395,000 | 3611 Padaro Ln, Carpinteria | 2BD/3BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663

$5,995,000 | 4099 Creciente Dr, Hope Ranch | 4BD/4BA Bartron Real Estate Group | 805.563.4054

$5,995,000 | 700 Riven Rock Rd, Montecito | 2.49± acs (assr) Calcagno & Hamilton | 805.565.4000

$3,795,000 | 4066 Sonriente Road, Santa Barbara | 4BD/4½BA Marsha Kotlyar & Michele White | 805.565.4014

$3,195,000 | 129 W Mountain Dr, El Cielito/Las Canoas | 4BD/3½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$3,000,000 | 7804 Stanley Park Rd, Carpinteria | 75± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242

$2,995,000 | 1701 E Valley Rd, Montecito | 3BD/2½BA + 1BD/1BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$2,695,000 | 1414 La Vereda Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$2,395,000 | 500 Via Hierba, Hope Ranch | 3BD/2BA Team Scarborough | 805.331.1465

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