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LETTERS, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 42

THE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS

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It’s been up for a while, but this Wednesday, May 22, the living masterpiece will be dedicated, p. 45

OVER 80,000 PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY NINE DIFFERENT PHOTOGRAPHERS HIDDEN AWAY IN THE SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ARCHIVES TELL THE STORY OF SANTA BARBARA FROM ITS DAYS AS A WILD WEST REDOUBT AT THE EDGE OF AN UNTAMED CONTINENT TO THE HONEYMOON HIDEAWAY OF JACK AND JACKIE KENNEDY AT SAN YSIDRO RANCH (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 26)

El Montecito Early School

Suzy Dobreski heads up ElMo’s kindergarten readiness Early School program, stressing math, music, phonics, and art, p. 32

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

On the Water Front

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard explores creative ideas to attain water security and independence for the South Central Coast SB Polo season starts; State Street Ballet wraps season; CAMA hosts Mischa and Lily Maisky; classical trio at Granada; Girls Inc. Scholarship event; Trevor Engelson weds at Rosewood; SB Symphony season ends; Roar & Pour event; Oprah shops for wedding gown; SBCC’s Spring Forward gala; Girls Rock beach party; Karen Jenkins’s Century Club ride; Montecito Rotary Club awards scholarships; Ensemble Theatre Company’s upcoming season; Katy Perry’s Met gala costume; Clement von Franckenstein passes; sightings A collection of communications from local residents Christopher Keate, Don Gragg, Dan Seibert, Diana Thorn, Brent Zepke, and Nathan Hoyt

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A list of local events happening in and around town

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Southern California Edison gives presentation on Vegetation Management program; updates at Montecito Country Mart; new walking path on North Jameson Lane breaks ground; San Ysidro Pharmacy burglarized

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Robin Lloyd talks about Cuba at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum; “Rum Running, Sailors & Prohibition” exhibit; Montecito Bank & Trust Lunch & Learn MClub event; Cecilia Fund holds “Earl Grey & Chardonnay” event to celebrate 127th year

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22 Legal Advertising 23 Brilliant Thoughts

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26 Celebrating History

Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s latest exhibition “Great Photographers in Santa Barbara History”

32 Meet the Teacher

Suzy Dobreski gets children ready for kindergarten as director of El Montecito Early School

33 Spirituality Matters

Celebrating the life of Barbara Marx Hubbard at Unity of SB; Sheng Zhen workshops; Peace Party Meditation Meetup

34 On Entertainment

CAMA’s centennial celebration at Sunken Garden; Camerata Pacifica’s season closes; classical performances around town; Speaking of Stories ends; Conspiracy of Beards sings at SOhO; blues acts

40 School Stuff

Crane Country Day School’s 90th anniversary celebration

42 Calendar of Events

Amgen Tour Stage 5 finish line festival; Quilts, Cigarettes & Dirt exhibition opening reception; Funk Zone Art Walk; Golden Boys at Chumash; Goldroom plays Canary; Art Museum Day; Dave Tull returns to town; Downtown LIVE Art & Wine Tour

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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.

Water Security from the Santa Barbara Channel

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ast week’s editorial identified the five top concerns facing the residents of Montecito as (1) Safety and Security from future fire, flood, and earthquake; (2) Rebuilding Public and Private Infrastructure; (3) Protecting and Preserving the Semi-Rural Character of Montecito; (4) Traffic Gridlock in Montecito; and (5) Water Security and Water Independence from future drought.

Identifying challenges is the easy part. Finding, funding, and fulfilling creative solutions is the hard part, especially in Santa Barbara County with limited government capital funding and operating resource options. The big problem with big ideas is that they come with big price tags that necessitate either big tax increases, homeowner assessments, service rate increases, bonds, federal and state grants, or public philanthropy to install ring nets to lessen rockslides, restore the Montecito trails, or remove “private” mud.

Innovative ideas have to pass at least four high hurdles in Santa Barbara County: Is the creative idea technically feasible? How much will it cost and who will pay for it? Is the idea acceptable to the environmental community? What will be the political cost to leaders who champion any particular idea?

Over the next few weeks, I hope to explore possible solutions to each of the big five challenges, but today let’s explore “Creative Idea #1”: Freedom from Drought – Water Security and Water Independence for the South Central Coast.

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The total cost of the SWP system, including construction costs, administration, interest, operating and maintenance costs, are paid by the 29 urban and agricultural water purveyors that receive State water. If big users in Los Angeles and San Diego migrate to less expensive alternatives, water would become more expensive for remaining recipients along the Central Coast.

SWP, which was designed to serve 25 million residents, is now being asked to provide water to California’s 40 million residents. As a result, SWP water has been overpromised and underdelivered. Water deliveries to the Central Coast have averaged 36% of promised allocations since the completion of the project. DWR promised that the Coastal Branch would assure 97% reliability in water deliveries to Santa Barbara.

SWP water is becoming much more expensive. Fixed allocation costs keep rising.

Participating districts depend on SWP as a plumbing system for the conveyance of purchased water. Pipes and pumps to fill Lake Cachuma are undersized and inadequate. Reservoirs are filling with silt and cannot be dredged. Stored water faces mandatory spills. Fish releases and protection of the San Joaquin kit fox, the Shasta salamander and the red-legged frog, take precedence over delivering more water.

Individual districts, seeking to reduce their dependency on SWP water, have embraced high-cost desalination efforts in Santa Barbara and contentious and uncoordinated recycling efforts by various water and sanitary districts. The result has been groundwater overdrafts, cutbacks in water usage, increases in water rates, bone-dry reservoirs and challenges to find local storage. More help is needed.

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Kari Markowitz in the Rolls Royce with Dan Walker, Tara Gray, and Charles Ward (photo

by Priscilla)

by Richard Mineards

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

Polo Season Sizzles Right Out of the Gate

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ith news that Prince Harry, wife Meghan, and newly-born son, Archie, might possibly be purchasing a second home in Los Angeles, the rumor mill has been running at full throttle.

The polo-playing Duke of Sussex participates regularly with Santa Barbara Polo Club player, Nacho Figueras, the Argentinian Ralph Lauren Polo model, who competes on the fashion tycoon’s Black Watch team, and it is hoped Queen Elizabeth’s 34-year-old grandson, should he move to the Left Coast in due course, as reported by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sun, will become a regular on the impeccably manicured fields of the Carpinteria club.

Jim and Elizabeth Mannoia and Haley and Hal Conklin with Teresa Kuskey Nowak (photo

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Harry’s brother, Prince William, and wife, Kate, were guests at the equestrian paradise when the club celebrated its centenary eight years ago, an event I covered for NBC. A friend of the Duchess of Sussex, whose mother Doria Ragland lives in the Big Orange, says: “She loves the city, the lifestyle, and the climate.

Ultimately, she’s a California girl and can breathe easier there. Hollywood is in her DNA.” The club’s 108th season kicked off last week with the 12-goal Folded Hills Pope Challenge pitting local banker Henry Walker’s FMB Too! against Grant Palmer’s Antelope

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was flabbergasted to read last week’s letters to the editor wherein you proposed increased CO2 to warm an ice age on the heels of an international report detailing the pending destruction of millions of species of land animals and sea life.

Ice ages occur because of wobbling of the earth’s axis on the 10,000-year scale not 200 years as we are seeing with this latest warming trend. CO2 is toxic to humans at large concentrations (see Apollo Thirteen) but is very dilute in the atmosphere. This means changes of mean ppm levels from 300 to 400 ppm are very large for this gas and almost 100% correlated with global warming. We are headed for 500 ppm fast with disastrous results and I am not just talking about rising sea levels. Mass extinctions of the Biosphere will impact every facet of human existing including food and water supplies around the Globe.

The dreaded two degrees Celsius rise in Global warming will occur much sooner than 2100 as predicted by some estimates. The rise in CO2 is in a hockey stick phase and most estimates do not consider the continued increase in CO2 emissions from around the world including the United States. Coal fired plants produce about the same amount of CO2 per watt as natural gas. They also produce much more unsavory products such as sulfur dioxide (acid rain) and combustion waste products when compared with gas powered generation of electricity. The coal fired plants also cause pollution to land and water including mercury contamination.

China and India are still rapidly developing new coal fired energy, but any replacement to natural gas would still produce excessive CO2 and methane pollution. Even a layman can see the undeniable rise in temperature and correlation with CO2 levels. Deniers claim of increased solar output and other red herring arguments have been completely disproven. The other fact is that 2 degrees Celsius is an arbitrary number and climate change is already occurring at the current level of temperature increase. When an ice cube melts the temperature of both the water and ice remains constant for the ice at the freezing point. There is an energy input that is consumed to change the ice into water and is very large (i.e. global warming). This means an observed increase in temperature of even a small fraction of a degree above freezing from surrounding water, or air

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will cause the ice to melt. This explains why the Arctic ice has nearly disappeared in the last few summers and explains the retreat of the great glaciers around the globe.

Christopher Keate MSEE Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: What can I say? I’m just not as pessimistic as you. Oh, and being in the newspaper business, I don’t believe everything I read. Also, I’d like to suggest you change the pejorative term you use for those who don’t agree with you from “deniers” to “skeptics,” as virtually every human on this particular planet believes and therefore doesn’t “deny” that climate does indeed change, all the time. Many, however, are skeptical that handing over hundreds of billions of dollars to ThirdWorld countries with no accountability (via the Paris Climate Agreement) will help improve the environment one iota.

And, many – including scientists, physicists, and the like – aren’t quite sure of the correlation between CO2 and warming at the current low levels, and are suggesting that with a Maunder Minimum settling into place on our sun, a cooling trend could be in the works. Now, if a self-managed non-governmental organization has a plan to go into a country or area to alleviate environmental damage, we’re 100% on board for that. – J.B.)

One Stroke Wonder

Montecito Club member Kevin Hart with the ball he hit to make the very first hole-in-one on the Club’s new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course

Kevin Hart, a longtime Montecito Club member and Montecito resident hit what is at this point the only hole-in-one made so far on the new Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course. I thought you might want to share with your readers.

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This Week in and around Montecito

TUESDAY, MAY 21 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

(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 16 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, MAY 17 CALM Antiques Show Antique and vintage show and sale benefitting CALM – Child Abuse Listening Mediation. CALM has helped thousands of children and families heal and prevent trauma, thereby breaking the cycle of generational family abuse.

The show features antiques, vintage, jewelry, home décor, collectibles, and decorative arts.

When: today through Sunday, May 19; Friday/Saturday 11-6, Sunday 11-4 Where: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real Info: www.calmantiqueshows.com Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, MAY 18 Plug In: A Computer Education Series Class 3 of a new series at Montecito Library. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram – Class 3 will focus on why social media

is important and how it’s changed the way we communicate. Patrons are welcome to attend one class, some or all three.

When: 11 am to noon Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: First United Methodist Church, Garden and Anapamu streets Cost: free Book Reading The Reverend Jerry Anderson will be reading excerpts from his recently published historical memoir, Ordained by Angels, A Memoir of an AIDS Chaplain at All Saints-By-TheSea Episcopal Church. Ordained by Angels tells the stunning tale of one man’s foray into healing during one of the 20th century’s most devastating health crises. The Reverend Anderson oversaw two AIDS ministries and connected dignitaries to the issue that rallied a national response to the crisis. The author will be reading and answering questions. Refreshments will be served.

When: 10 am to noon Where: 83 Eucalyptus Lane in Montecito SUNDAY, MAY 19 CAMA’s 100th Birthday Bash Community Arts Music Association

(CAMA) of Santa Barbara will celebrate its centennial season with a free community “100th Birthday Bash” at the County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. Sponsored by SAGE Publishing, the Elaine F. Stepanek Foundation, and the City of Santa Barbara, the event will feature musical presentations by Opera Santa Barbara, the Music Academy of the West’s Sing! children’s chorus program, the Westmont College Music Department, UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Music, and members of the Santa Barbara Symphony.

Participating restaurants and caterers will include Bibi Ji, Black Sheep Restaurant, Ca’ Dario Ristorante, Finch & Fork, Le Sorelle, Michael’s Catering, Pete Clements Catering, Olio e Limone, Opal Restaurant & Bar, and Via Maestra 42. Participating wineries will include Alma Rosa Winery, Babcock Winery, Brander Vineyard, Cebada Wine, Grassini Family Vineyards, Grimm’s Bluff, Lumen Wines, Pali Wine Co., Presqu’ile Winery, and Santa Barbara Winery.

Chocolats du CaliBressan is the official chocolatier of the CAMA centennial.

Although the event is free, community members are asked to RSVP online at www.camasb.org/camas-100thbirthday-bash.

When: 1 to 4 pm Where: 1100 Anacapa Street Info: www.camasb.org

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Rumi Poetry Study Group The beauty of the language and imagery of Rumi’s poetry is like a spring breeze, bringing the essence of love, wisdom, and comfort to our hearts. Join for a lively and heartfelt study of Rumi’s poetry with Dr. Fariba Enteshari, the founder and executive director of Rumi Educational Center. Through her years of teaching Rumi to a wide variety of students, she has researched the beneficial and healing effects of Rumi’s poetry on the lives of her students. Born in Iran, she is fluent in Rumi’s native language and culture, allowing her to share with you the original melody and cadences of his language.

Her diverse background will help the participants draw from many cultural and religious traditions, while developing their own personal voice for growth.

When: 2 to 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $20 donation Info: rumieducationalcenter.org Family Picnic The Santa Barbara Republican Club will hold a good ol’ fashioned, family picnic at Lion’s Park in Carpinteria.

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by Lion’s members will be the main menu, but everyone should bring their bats and balls, lawn chairs, and horseshoes to enjoy a day in the park.

The speakers will be Tom Widroe, Chair of the County Republican; Joe Armendariz, Executive Director of the Taxpayers Association, Congressional District; Greg Gandrud, Treasurer of the California Republican Party; and Michael Woody, candidate for the 24th Congressional District.

The public is welcome to the picnic, but reservations are requested When: noon to 3 pm Where: 6197 Casitas Pass Road Cost: $10 Info: 684-3858 16 – 23 May 2019

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 After School at Montecito Library Come play on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month; activities include tech toys, arts and crafts, Legos, and more. Children under the age of eight must have an adult present.

When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road THURSDAY, MAY 23 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, MAY 25 Memorial Weekend Marketplace Beautify your home and garden while supporting the work of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History at their Memorial Weekend Marketplace on the beautiful museum grounds.

This month’s marketplace includes the annual plant and flower sale featuring exotic orchids, thousands of beautiful cut flowers, and garden and houseplants donated by dozens of local Carpinteria nurseries.

The market also features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, live music, and bargains on vintage goods of every description including furniture, jewelry, clothing, books, household items, tools, toys, and more. Over 60 vendors will fill the museum courtyard and grounds for this popular fund-raising event.

Tax-deductible donations of used items for the museum’s rummage tables are accepted any time prior to the day of the market and are greatly appreciated. Admission is free.

When: 8 am to 3 pm Where: 956 Maple Avenue Info: 684-3112 ONGOING Fire Prevention Cleanup The Montecito Fire Protection 16 – 23 May 2019

District will conduct its annual neighborhood fire prevention cleanup program starting the week of February 25, 2019. The program is offered to residents in the community to reduce the volume of flammable vegetation in order to create a more defensible and survivable space around the property and to reduce the overall community threat from wildfire.

The District’s Wildland Specialists offer property inspections to educate the residents on ways they can improve the defensible space around their home.

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When: Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859 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.

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

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t this month’s Montecito Association meeting, Rondie Guthrie, Matt Sadler, and Mark Freeman from Southern California Edison gave a presentation on Edison’s Vegetation Management program in Santa Barbara and Montecito.

New abnormal wildfire conditions have changed SCE vegetation management practices to protect public safety, and the Public Utilities Commission and California Governor’s office have been making changes to guidelines to enhance fire safety. As part of this, Edison has rolled out new tree pruning standards, which requires 12 feet of clearance from lines in high fire areas. Tree removal will be recommended for fast growing trees that cannot maintain compliance for 12 months, as well as dead, dying, or diseased trees, and trees that cannot be pruned in accordance with new standards. The removal is necessary to comply with the law and to ensure public safety; Edison will remove/ discard old trees and replace with new trees at no cost to the customer. Tree trimming is on an annual cycle, with the area above Highway 192 trimmed in March, and the rest of Montecito during the summer and fall months.

Crews trim roughly 4,500 trees per year in Montecito. Sadler announced a logical initiative: Right Tree Right Place, a reminder for homeowners planting trees to not plant then underneath the lines or near electrical poles.

Guthrie reported that SCE continues to consider undergrounding of lines, which is not without issues. “It’s harder to identify issues in the system if it’s underground, and outages could be longer,” she said. Undergrounding is also very expensive, costing $3M per mile. An upcoming project is in the works to underground lines at Hot Springs and East Valley Road, near Our Lady of Mount Carmel church.

Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell and Montecito Trails Foundation president Ashlee Mayfield gave a report on the new walking path being built on North Jameson and Olive Mill Road; see below for more information.

During Community Reports, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi reminded the board and audience to utilize the alarm systems on their homes, even if leaving for only a few minutes. “You’ve spent the money on installing them, it’s imperative that you use them,” he

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said, responding to a concern about an increase in break-ins in the area.

Montecito Fire’s Kevin Taylor reported that this week’s “late May” rainstorm is not expected to reach debris flow limits. Cold Spring School superintendent Amy Alzina reported that the school is investing in enhancing the security of the school, with the addition of a key fob system, a crisis app that alerts all teachers of a threat on campus, and the addition of blinds to classroom windows.

Lisa Valencia Sherratt from Das Williams’ office reported that the office is working on setting up a visit from California’s Insurance Commissioner to discuss the rebuilding as well as the red zone in Montecito. Williams’ office is also making progress with the traffic app Waze, working on developers of the app to not reroute traffic through neighborhoods, especially those in recovery from the debris flow. Upcoming road closure: 960 East Mountain Road near the Cold Spring Trailhead will be closed May 13 through June 24. Crews will be forcing rocks down the slope towards the road before installing a net to prevent future rockslides. Pedestrians, hikers, and bikers should avoid the work zone and hikers along the Hot Springs Trail should not descend down onto Cold Spring Trail.

MA board member Linnea Pattillo is stepping down from the board and her treasurer role as she is moving out of the community.

The next Montecito Association meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 11.

Montecito Country Mart News

Montecito Country Mart has welcomed several new stores and eateries recently, including Caffe Luxxe, an artisanal coffee roaster from Los Angeles. Located in a portion of the space formerly occupied by Xanadu Bakery, the roasting company features Northern Italian-style espresso drinks, coffee, and various pastries.

Hosting a grand opening last Saturday, May 11, the location is the sixth outpost for the company, which is owned by Mark Wain and Gary Chau; the first location in west Los Angeles opened in 2006. “Montecito exudes a sense of approachable luxury, which is exactly the sentiment behind why we started Caffe Luxxe: 16 – 23 May 2019

Caffe Luxxe has opened in Montecito Country Mart, offering an array of artisanal coffee drinks (photo by Alicia Cho)

to offer the highest quality espresso and coffee, with a friendly, genuine attitude,” said Wain.

To celebrate the grand opening, Caffe Luxxe has released a new limited-edition coffee named the “Montecito Blend,” that is “inspired by the well-balanced, crisp climate of the Central Coast’s rolling hills and the neighborhood’s serene and welcoming atmosphere.” A blend of natural and washed-processed coffees sustainably sourced from Guatemala and Brazil – from farms Caffe Luxxe has fostered close relationships with over the years – the coffee is hand-roasted in small

batches at Caffe Luxxe’s Il Laboratorio roasting facility, which delivers freshly roasted coffee to all Caffe Luxxe locations on a weekly basis for optimum freshness. Its roasting team places emphasis on maintaining genuine relationships with farmers, sourcing coffee directly whenever possible and paying above-market prices to ensure fair labor practices and quality product. The Montecito Blend is available for purchase in-store at Caffe Luxxe Montecito, and online. The shop is currently open every day, 7 am to 5

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This historical novel is set at the height of the American Civil War. Havana was one of the most important foreign ports for the Confederacy because it was filled with blockade-runners, spies, and slave traders that supplied the South. The lead character gets involved in the murder of George Backhouse, which happened in 1855 and was real though never solved.

Robin’s talk was illustrated with period paintings, lithographs, and photographs that show old Havana.

I’ve been to Cuba twice and its still beautiful but hard to see what’s happened to all the beautiful villas and clubs since the Castro regime. The

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WILDLIFE FILE

by Claire Garvais and Emily Komessar both ladies are with Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network

Spring and Summer Tree Care and Wildlife Safety

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t’s Baby Season! Hundreds of owlets, squirrels, woodpeckers, and hummingbirds are nice and cozy in nests of all shapes and sizes throughout Santa Barbara County. Some of these babies will fall prey to forces of nature; they may fall out of their nests early or be harassed by natural predators. Unfortunately, the safety of many of these babies will be compromised due to a simple yearly practice: tree trimming.

Not all nests are obvious arrays of twigs and leaves; some animals, such as woodpeckers and fox squirrels, are cavity nesters, meaning they nest in holes in trees. Hummingbirds design their tiny nests to fit eggs the size of jelly beans. Dozens of other songbird species make a concerted effort to camouflage their nests from predators (and humans).

All these nests can be very hard to spot, and are easily knocked down by trimming accouterments. Even if the nest is not affected, mothers will

Acorn Woodpecker illustration (by Emily Komessar)

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network suggests you not trim trees during spring and/or summer; it is often difficult to ascertain what may be living there at that time (illustration by Emily Komessar)

often flee from their nests due to the buzz of chainsaws, leaving behind

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orphaned baby birds and mammals.

For these reasons, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network advises citizens of Santa Barbara County to only trim trees between September 1st and January 1st.

However, we understand that tree trimming practices can be important for tree health and public safety, and is sometimes unavoidable in spring and summer. In these situations, we would recommend making sure there are no nesting animals in the tree(s) you wish to be trimmed. Here’s how to tell if there may be a nest nearby: Birds flying back and forth repeatedly. Adults may be gathering nesting material, such as small twigs, feathers, or animal fur. They may also be gathering food, such as bugs or berries.

Watch where they fly. If they are flying back and forth to one location, this is likely a nesting area.

Animals entering holes in trees.

Cavity nests can be the most difficult to observe. If you see woodpeckers or fox squirrels entering a tree cavity, try

to look into the cavity with a mirror on a stick to see whether there’s a nest. Be slow and proceed with caution: you never know what may jump out!

Aggressive defenders. Parents guard their nests closely. If you see birds getting into scuffles, chances are there is a nest nearby.

Listen for baby bird peeps.

If you do find a nest, and still believe it necessary to get your tree(s) trimmed due to safety reasons, we recommend you or your arborist call us at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network for advice on how to handle the process. You can reach our helpline at (805) 681-1080. We are happy to help and we understand the nuances of this issue.

Disturbing nests can also yield legal ramifications. Under Fish and Game Code §3503, “it is unlawful to take, possess, or needlessly destroy the nest or eggs of any bird” unless the Fish and Game Code or its implementing regulations provide otherwise. For more information on permit requirements for human activity that can affect birds, please visit https:// www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/ Environmental-Review. To report violations of these regulations, like people illegally taking birds and wildlife, call the CalTIP hotline 1-888-334-2258, or see https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/ enforcement/caltip.

Your diligence and care will help save baby wild lives and help us all live in harmony with our wild neighbors.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Gerard Ells, Nigel Gallimore, and Brian Fagan, receiving champagne service from the SB Polo & Racquet club general manager David Sigman (photo

by Priscilla)

Eric Lowell, Angeli Antoine, Mimi Frank, Maria Lujan Classen, Gene McKnight, and Dan Walker (photo

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Modern Masters State Street Ballet wrapped its 24th season with its fourth annual Modern Masters performance at the New Vic, including seven energized works by seven choreographers.

The entertaining show also featured Eisenhower Dance Detroit and Visceral Dance Chicago, alongside familiar names such as Cecily Stewart and Autumn Eckman, as well as new works by Arianna Hartanov, Nick Pupillo, and Joshua Manculich.

The show kicked off with the world premiere of As We Have Always, a creatively choreographed 12-member piece by Laurie Eisenhower, wrapping with (CON)VERSION by Kassandra Taylor Newberry, which premiered at a Modern Masters show three years ago and has lost none of its creative sparkle.

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Like Father, Like Daughter CAMA – Community Arts Music Association – concluded its centennial season at the Lobero with a wonderful concert by father-daughter twosome, Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky and his Paris-born pianist daughter Lily, as part of its Masterseries.

The dynamic duo, who were last here in 2016, played an outstanding selection of works by Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and Marcello, concluding the sold-out concert with works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.

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news producer. He reminds us that colonial Havana was flush with sugar wealth. And still was when I lived in Louisiana at the time, Castro came into power. We knew sugar baron families who had to leave everything and come to the United States.

Lloyd even had a seafaring ancestor, Captain Elisha Ely Morgan, who spent 30 years at sea with more than 100 voyages across the Atlantic. Robin and his wife live in Maryland, but she is from Santa Barbara so they’d like to return here.

Board president Wilson Quarre reminded us that the SBMM has been named one of the top ten maritime museums in the United States.

Go have a look at 113 Harbor Way, Suite 190 by Chuck’s Waterfront Grill restaurant.

Rum Running, Sailors & Prohibition

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum also just opened its newest exhibit “Rum Running, Sailors & Prohibition” which covers more than 400 years of history and connects Santa Barbara to those times. Why Santa Barbara? Because we have more coastline than any other county in the United States including the Channel Islands. A perfect place to deliver ille-

SBMM executive director Greg Gorga with the rum speaker Bailey Pryor

American Riviera Bank COO Joanne Funari, Bailey Pryor, and Communications Outreach Officer Debby Deneault at the rum running event at SBMM

gal booze during prohibition.

There was a VIP reception for the exhibit, which was sponsored by American Riviera Bank and had what else, but rum tasting. With us was Bailey Pryor, who is founder and CEO of The Real McCoy Rum. The name comes from a pioneer rumrunner Bill McCoy. In 1920 he was first to fill his boat with rum in the Caribbean, sail up the East Coast and act as a floating liquor store – legally – as he stayed three miles offshore in international waters. He also lived by his own code of honor and never adulterated his product, as did other rumrunners. Hence the name “The Real McCoy.” Bailey is a documentary filmmaker, has won five Emmys, and been nominated for many more. He gave the audience a most amusing and factual talk on the 13 years of Prohibition.

People never stopped drinking and the Feds could never keep up. There weren’t enough of them and their boats and cars were inferior.

Erin Graffy with her historical background contributed greatly to the exhibit saying, “The bad guys outnumbered the good.” Beaches that made for good drop spots were Rincon, Carpinteria, Hendry’s, Hope Ranch, Ellwood, and Loon Point. Next time you go to the beach, envision a

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Notice Inviting Bids CITY WAYFINDING SIGNAGE PROGRAM PHASE 2 Bid No. 3958

ORDINANCE NO. 5883

1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its City Wayfinding Signage Program Phase 2 (“Project”), by or before May 22, 2019, at 3:00 p.m. through PlanetBids. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is uploaded to PlanetBids on time. The digital time stamp on PlanetBids will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Paper copies of bids at the Purchasing Office will not be accepted.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 10.52 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING BICYCLES.

2.

Project Information.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on May 7, 2019.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at various locations within the CITY WAYFINDING SIGNAGE PROGRAM PHASE 2 in Santa Barbara, CA. It includes 132 new pedestrian and vehicular signs (see Part D – Page 129 and Project Location Plans included in the bid documents) and is described as follows: The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to install City Wayfinding Signage at various sites throughout the City. The scope of work generally includes mobilization, bonds, insurance, permits, traffic control, sign fabrication, removal and installation as shown on the plans, public notices, incidentals, and completing the work as specified in these Special Provisions, City Standards, and Project Plans & Specifications.

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

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is 150 working days from the effective date of Notice to Proceed.

(Seal)

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $320,000.

3.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. Each bidder must have a Class C – 45 Fabricator License to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

5.

6.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

) ) ) ss. ) )

was introduced on April 30, 2019, and was adopted by the

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

11.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of five percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

10.

ORDINANCE NO. 5883

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 7, 2019, by the following roll call vote:

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 8, 2019.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 8, 2019.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

By: ___________________________________ General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) May 8, 2016

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Date: ________________

2) May 15, 2019

Published May 15, 2019 Montecito Journal

END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Village Properties; Village Properties Realtors; Village Properties Referral Company, 1250 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Village Properties, INC., 1250 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 9, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of

the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 20190001125. Published May 15, 22, 29, June 5, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Villa Serena Apartments, 323 W. Lolita Lane, Santa Maria, CA 93458. 323 Lolita Lane LLC, 20720 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300 Woodland Hills, CA 91364.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2019. This statement expires

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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 Kathy Gonzales. FBN No. 2019-0000903. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lofts at West Cook, 511 West Cook Street, Santa Maria, CA 93458. 511 West Cook Street LLC, 20720 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300 Woodland Hills, CA 91364.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Kathy Gonzales. FBN No. 2019-0000904. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Palm Villas, 616 West Cook Street, Attn: Leasing Office,

Santa Maria, CA 93458. 616 West Cook Street LLC, 20720 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 300 Woodland Hills, CA 91364. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 2019.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Kathy Gonzales. FBN No. 2019-0000904. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019.

FICTITIOUS

“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” - Earl Wilson

BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Architectural Design; Santa Barbara Dirtt Installers, 25 E De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Santa Barbara Builders INC, 25 E De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 29, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E.

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

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rom those marooned by Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” to Coleridge’s becalmed “Ancient Mariner” (“as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean”) to the imperiled baby rocking in the tree-top, to the tornado which blew Dorothy from Kansas to Oz – the wind, or lack of it, has wound its way through our culture in any number of ways. Capturing the power of moving air was of course the chief means of navigation for millennia, and led to great refinements in the rigging and setting of masts, spars, ropes, and sails. But even on the fastest sailing ships (before the Panama Canal) it took over 100 days to get from New York to San Francisco.

But travel was, of course, not the only way of utilizing the power of wind. I myself have seen, in modern Tibet, the ancient practice, still employed, of “winnowing” grain, i.e. separating the seed from the inedible husk or “chaff,” by throwing it into the air and letting the wind blow away the chaff, which is lighter than the seed.

Gilbert and Sullivan made metaphorical reference to this technique in their Yeomen of the Guard, when the Jester sings: Oh, winnow all my folly, folly, folly, and you’ll find A grain or two of truth among the chaff.

But the seed, in that form, was still too hard to chew. It had to be “milled,” or crushed to a powder, in some way, usually between heavy stones. But the stones had to be turned by some means – and here again the use of wind was one of the options (besides human or animal power, or the power of flowing water) – hence the picturesque “wind-mills,” whose scattered vestiges are still to be found here and there, though of course now superseded by modern high-tech devices, turning wind-power directly into electricity.

But wind could also determine the course of battles, e.g. by deflecting the path of arrows, or, more recently, the drift of poison gas. And even today, with all our equipment and knowledge, there is no way of preventing wind-storms from toppling trees, downing power-lines, and sometimes causing a general disruption of normal human activity, for weeks, or even months.

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tions and movements of that invisible mixture of gases called “air” – the prediction of whose behavior over the past century, while with much improved observations and apparatus, is still (as we’ve all learned through sometimes bitter experience) far from an exact science. And it is, of course, the wind which brings us numerous varieties of water, in such forms as rain and snow, to say nothing of clouds, fog, and sheer humidity.

Yet, as far as I know, although mariners, and many others, might pray for a favorable wind, and although “meteorology” may almost rhyme with “theology,” there is no religion actually based on a worship of the wind. Nevertheless, this familiar, but still very strange, phenomenon, has been a crucial element in countless creations and events. I need only mention the Wright Brothers, who chose the windiest place they could find – the sea-coast of North Carolina at Kitty Hawk – to try out their flying machine, which indeed, at that early stage, depended on the onrush of air to give it the “lift” it needed to get off the ground.

But wind is also a notorious thief, of personal items like hats and scarves – even of possibly important papers, sometimes never found again – at least, not by the original owners. This has led poets to see it metaphorically as an obliterator of the past.

It was in fact this single line from an otherwise undistinguished 1891 work by the English poet, Ernest Dowson, which many years later, gave an American writer the title for her hugely successful novel, published in 1936:

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Margaret Mitchell had originally intended to call her epic “Another Day,” but the Dowson expression seemed to capture the poignancy she had tried to depict, of an entire civilization destroyed and lost forever by the ravages of Civil War. The dazzling success of Gone with the Wind so monopolized her life that she never wrote another book. She died in her hometown, Atlanta, in 1949, at the age of 48, after being struck by a car on Peachtree Street. There’s no telling what further contributions she might have made to the literature of our age.

Those possibilities, sadly, are now, too, gone with the wind.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 13)

Also now open at the Mart: Coco Cabana, a boutique swim and leisure wear shop. Started in 2018 by Heather Fort, the shop began as an online destination for women and men’s swimwear, clothing, accessories, and home goods. The tropical chic space at Montecito Country Mart offers a smaller selection of what’s available online, as well as some merchandise that is not listed on the site. For more information, visit www.ilovecococabana.com.

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Next door, local pastry chef Elizabeth Colling is opening Merci Montecito as a permanent fixture in the Mart; the shop was a pop-up a few years back (Merci To Go), offering farmers’ market salads, sandwiches, and dinner entrees for takeout at the 168-ft space now occupied by The Bakery. The new space is expected to open in the coming weeks; we’ll have more on the eatery and the opening in next week’s edition.

Last Friday, May 10, the Bucket Brigade, as well as reps from Montecito Community Foundation, Montecito Trails Foundation, Montecito Association, and First District Supervisor Das Williams, marked the groundbreaking on a new walking path on North Jameson Lane between Olive Mill Road and San Ysidro Road, with plans to add a longer path along the east side of Olive Mill, from North Jameson to Casa Dorinda. “If we’re going to go to the trouble of cleaning this area up after the disaster, how can we leave it better than it was before?”

Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell said about the walking path in the North Jameson area, which was hard hit by the debris flow.

The project is a County-led road

A new walking path along North Jameson Lane is being built; it is expected to be finished in June

enhancement project following the 1/9 debris flow last year; County Public Works is adding a curb on North Jameson and Olive Mill, to be followed by the construction of a 48” wide decomposed granite path, all located in the public right of way.

Because the path is considered a trail, and will be maintained by the Montecito Trails Foundation, it will not require ramps, unlike the pathway that meanders along San Ysidro Road.

“The goal is to keep the semi-rural look of Montecito while connect-

ing several walking trails so people can walk from the upper and lower villages, to Montecito Union School, and the beach, without safety being a concern,” said MTF president Ashlee Mayfield.

The project, which is being overseen by the Bucket Brigade and MTF, is slated to cost $300,000 to complete, with Montecito Community Foundation giving $36K, earmarked for the Jameson portion of the project.

Montecito Trails Foundation has also pledged $10,000. The Jameson portion of the project is currently underway, utilizing $50K in workforce labor through a Workforce Development Board grant. Twenty-four unemployed workers are being paid by the grant to work on the project for the next several weeks. Other sponsors include Montecito Association, Giffin Rental, Santa Barbara Garden Club, and Steve Hanson Landscaping.

To donate to the project, visit www. sbbucketbrigade.org.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5885 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 26 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER 26.40 TO REQUIRE ONE-YEAR LEASE OFFERS TO RESIDENTIAL TENANTS The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on May 7, 2019.

Celebrating History

by Hattie Beresford

Great Photographers in Santa Barbara

Old Spanish Days El Presidente Sam Stanwood served as Santa Barbara County Supervisor for more than 25 years (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5885 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 30, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 7, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

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

NOES:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

Councilmember Jason Dominguez

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

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hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on May 8, 2019.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 8, 2019.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published May 15, 2019 Montecito Journal

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n four separate occasions over the past 40 years, my husband and I have evacuated due to wildfire. Each time, the first possessions that are packed in the car are our family photos.

More important than art, electronics, books (well, maybe), or clothing, are the images of the important people, times, and events in our lives. I suspect we’re not alone in this hierarchy.

Just so, photographs of the people, buildings, landscapes, and events in our community document our collective local history. They preserve our culture and reveal the way things were, once upon a time, in Santa Barbara. This urge to record Santa Barbara on film led more than seventy photographers to operate in Santa Barbara between 1860 and 1930 alone. The

Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s latest exhibition, “Great Photographers in Santa Barbara History,” features nine historic image-makers whose works have been preserved in the museum’s collection of over 80,000 photos.

H. Edgerton and Florence McAllister worked in Santa Barbara for thirty years starting in the mid 1930s. They were known for evocative and stunning portraits of Santa Barbara luminaries, including the various El Presidentes for Old Spanish Days.

Besides a lovely image of Prima Signor, the owner of the much-missed Mom’s Italian Village, portraits of former County Supervisor Sam Stanwood and Palomino breeder and Fiesta parade impresario Dwight Murphy depict the men in their most elegant

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Entitled “The End of the Day,” the photo demonstrates Karl Obert’s mastery of his craft (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum) Hal Boucher captured the joy and love between Senator John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy at the San Ysidro Guest Ranch during their honeymoon in 1953 (Courtesy Hal Boucher) 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.

Fiesta finery.

German-born Karl Obert came to Santa Barbara in 1926 and began documenting its landscape and Ranchero events. A photograph of a slouched mounted man and his dog plodding along a dusty trail away from the camera evokes the mood of its title, “Day’s End.” Obert also captured the jubilant energy of a Ranchero stagecoach briskly trotting along the trail as dramatic clouds gather in the background.

I. N. Cook came to Santa Barbara

in the 1880s. His photographs reveal Santa Barbara in the guise of the Wild West town it once was. N.H. Reed, to whom Cook sold his business (complete with glass negatives) in the late 1890s, documented local events and produced postcards. Reed’s postcards were enormously popular, and he documented scenes of the Floral Festivals, the Santa Barbara Mission, rose bushes, and, as his advertisements proclaimed, “Views of Everything of Interest.”

Others represented by the exhibition include Hayward and Muzzall, who specialized in stereopticons and brought the world of Santa Barbara into three-dimensional focus. Their image of Castle Rock, which once stood where the breakwater stands today, shows with great clarity the obstruction it created to transportation. Edwin Rick began working in

Santa Barbara as a photographer in 1915 and became famous for selling postcards of the results of the Santa Barbara earthquake. His image of the honeycombed Hotel Californian portrays the dramatic consequences of the quake. Josef Muench, who became world-renowned for his images of the American Southwest, spent time photographing Santa Barbara in the mid1930s.

Carolyn and Edwin Gledhill, for whom the library at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum is named, created photographs of true artistic beauty. A portrait created by the Gledhills was de rigueur for Santa Barbara’s prominent men and women. Another who raised historic documentation to aesthetic realms was James Walter Collinge, who was nearly blind and deaf. Some believed his poor sight caused him to focus on form and shape in a more artistic manner.

Dramatic clouds accentuate the action of a stage trip during a Ranchero Ride (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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Hal Boucher’s seven-decade career as a photographer has created hundreds of photographs of visiting and resident celebrities. Hal worked as a staff photographer for the News-Press for many years before becoming the official photographer for the Biltmore.

His image of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy on their honeymoon at the San Ysidro Guest Ranch in 1953 radiates with joy and love.

Currently, the museum is engaged in a major project to preserve and protect the nearly 10,000 glass plates created

by Cook and Reed, given to the museum by the Gledhill family. The images are also being scanned and hundreds of them can be found online at www. sbhistorical.org or streaming at the exhibition. The project is sponsored by the Schwemm Family Foundation, which, together with museum trustees Sharon and David Bradford and John C. Woodward, has also sponsored the exhibition.

•MJ

Old Spanish Days El Presidente Sam Stanwood served as Santa Barbara County Supervisor for more than 25 years (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

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Driving Through Syria

On January 29, 2018 I followed Penny Bianchi down East Valley Lane to her devastated property. For the previous year I had been working as the gardener for her and her husband, Adam. It was a dream come true, about an acre of gardens, surrounded on two sides by the Ennisbrook Nature Preserve. As I drove down the lane there was destruction in every direction. I thought I would be out of a job for at least six months. But, as luck would have it, I was hired the next week by the insurance company to supervise the debris excavation.

In October of 2017, Penny had asked me to buy some California poppy seeds and spread them on her property. She asked me to go to S&S Wholesale Seed Company in Carpinteria. The smallest order they sell is eight pounds!

I ended up spreading about 7 and 3/4 of a pound. Ben at S&S said the pounds of unused seeds would keep for another year. By this time last year, Penny’s gardens had been cleared of the mud and debris and she brought in Margie Grace, of Grace Landscape & Design, to restore her designs from fifteen years ago. By July Margie was finished and I was back at my favorite activity: gardening in Montecito.

Three or four times a week, the drive down East Valley Lane from East Valley Road was, as Penny puts it, like “driving through Syria.” But, even though nearly every home was either destroyed or demolished, I had a thought in the back of my mind: the seven pounds of California poppy seeds in a bag in my garage. I had a vision in my mind of drifts of poppies along the road and in the Ennisbrook preserve. From previous experience casting poppy seeds, I knew the seeds

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Penny Bianchi (center) with granddaughter Penelope “Poppy” Brittingham (right) and her Stanford classmate, Clara

germinate best in loose soil in a sunny location. The Ennisbrook preserve would be a perfect location, with the two feet of dried mud that covered it.

But that idea ended when all the fallen trees and limbs were ground up and the wood chips spread everywhere.

Last October, in between watching every newscast for the chance of rain, I walked up and down Penny’s street, casting seeds. Anywhere I saw bare soil I threw some seeds. The Bucket Brigade had excavated around all the trees and tossed seeds into many of those. During November and December I repeated this, from the bridge across San Ysidro Creek all the way up to East Valley Road. I mentioned my seed casting to Penny and Adam just before Christmas and Adam shared a remarkable story. He said his grandfather had rounded Cape Horn around the turn of the century. Upon entering San Francisco Bay, he saw the hillsides above Sausalito covered with 16 – 23 May 2019

poppies. It made such an impression on him that when he founded the first commercial chicken farm west of the Mississippi, he named the company, “Poppy Foods.” And the logo was the California poppy.

To finish this story, last month I saw some drifts of poppies were blooming.

I mentioned it to Penny and I said, “We should call them Penny’s poppies.” She loved that and said, “My granddaughter is named Poppy, and she’s coming down for spring break.”

I suggested we take a photo.

The areas on East Valley Lane still resemble a war zone, but last December when I told Penny my plan she sent me back to S&S Seeds for another eight pounds of poppy seeds.

I’ll be spreading those in about seven months.

Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

Rigging the 2020 Election

The Democrat Party is on the way toward rigging the 2020 presidential election. Recently, California joined a group of Democrat-run states that are restricting which candidates may be listed on the presidential election. It is a flagrant attempt to keep Donald Trump off the 2020 ballot.

In the resent past, the California Senate approved a bill to require candidates appearing on the presidential ballot, including President Trump, to release five years’ worth of income tax returns. This radical bill is a form of nullification of federal law, is unconstitutional, and would disenfranchise a portion of California voters. Furthermore, the bill in combination with another unconstitutional measure passed by the California legislature, would deny Trump the presidency, as well as any other Republican candidate a national election victory. Even Governor Jerry Brown said a similar bill in 2017 was unconstitutional.

Why is this law unconstitutional? States may not create new requirements for federal office. The Constitution’s authors created a federal government, independent of the states. They wrote up qualifications for the House, Senate and presidency. These were federal offices that would be governed by the federal Constitution. This was affirmed in 1995 court case of U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton. States retain many powers after the enactment of the Constitution, but they do not get to usurp the powers of the federal government.

And what about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) that is also unconstitutional, but which was passed by California and 13 other states? “The plan is that 16 – 23 May 2019

each state that joins the agreement would require its presidential electors to obey the results of the national popular vote, not the results in their own state. The NPVIC would come into effect when states representing a majority of electoral voters pass the idea into law.”

Why are California and other states pushing these two laws? Because it would make it impossible for Donald Trump to win re-election.

Diana Thorn Carpinteria

The Greater Fool

The “Greater Fool Theory” in economics and investing is where the valuation of something is not determined by its intrinsic value but by the “value” the seller can convince someone else it is worth.

Is this theory applicable to politics?

The background is that recent presidents, like Obama, Bush, and Clinton, have previously either been a senator or governor, as have many of the unsuccessful party nominees, like Gore, Kerry, Romney, and the “other” Clinton.

With this background, entering the 2016 election year this pattern continued with the leading Democrats being Clinton and Sanders.

In early 2016, of the 17 Republican

candidates, the leading 14 were active or former senators Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Paul, and Santorum, or active or former governors Bush, Christie, Kasich, Perry, Huckabee, Walker, Pataki, Jindal, and Gilmore.

Starting with 15th place, the odds of “passing” the 14 traditional candidates would not even make an odds board in Las Vegas. Even the accomplishments of brain surgeon Carson, or business executive Fiorina, enhanced by their uniqueness in race or gender, would not keep them from being relegated to the footnotes. The 17th candidate, real estate developer-reality television star Donald J. Trump, white male, was so far behind that opponents and media felt confident enough to repeatedly make him the brunt of jokes.

When Trump asserted that he might have been spied upon, the hue and cry of the media was: Why would anyone waste time spying on Trump?

But that was then. Now the question is: how many more than two branches of the presidential administration spied on candidate and President Trump? Or who was the Greater Fool: the former presidential administration for “only” spying on the lowest rated of the 17 candidates, or those who believe “only” Trump was spied on?

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Senators Paul and Rubio questioning whether they were being spied on, and the origin of the previously not publicized issues about Perry and Christie, which accusations, after their candidacy were eliminated, went to the same graveyard as those against Judge Moore.

The next few months may illustrate the use in politics of the Greater Fool Theory.

Brent Zepke Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You do bring up an interesting point: Why would anyone spy on Trump so early, unless he was just one of many campaigners being spied upon... oops, we mean “surveilled”... by the Obama-Clinton camp, just in case Open Primaries, ballot harvesting, and/ or DMV voter registration hadn’t made it easy enough to ensure a positive election outcome. Insurance Policy perhaps? – J.B.)

On Speechifying

Kudos to the MJ for Molly Leikin’s informative article on speech writing (“On Speech,” MJ # 25/16). Reading it, I learned something from your publication, which should really be called Homes & Parties & Eateries.

Bravo.

Nathan Hoyt Santa Barbara •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) Girls Inc. speaker 5th grader Fiona, CEO Barbara Ben-Horin, 10th grader Roz, and Tracy Jenkins (photo by Priscilla)

Wedding Bells at Rosewood Meghan Markle’s ex-husband, Hollywood producer Trevor Engelson, 42, tied the knot with his 31-year-old fiancée Tracey Kurland at the Rosewood Miramar at the weekend.

It is almost a year to the day that

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Scholarship Soirée Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara raised almost $300,000 when 150

guests attended the organization’s 34th annual scholarship event at the Goleta Valley & Teen Center, with Emmy-winning KEYT-TV anchor Beth Farnsworth as guest host, leading a lively panel discussion with current and former members about the lasting impact of their experience.

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at the fun fête, co-chaired by Stina Hans, Caroline Thompson, Sarah Stokes, and Carrie Lundquist, were Ginni Dreier, Helene Schneider, Bill and Lois Rosen, Steve and Amber Ortiz, Gregg Hart, Paige Beard, Barbara Ben-Horin, MaryAnne Contreras, Geoff Green, Richard and Andrea Hutton, and Diana Villanueva.

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The Biltmore-catered bash in the cavernous gymnasium was preceded by cocktails on the terrace and an entertaining performance by youngsters in the facility’s theater.

Girls Inc. awarded $477,233 in financial assistance in the form of sliding scale scholarships and sibling discounts last year, enabling 461 girls to attend after-school and CAMP IGNITE summer programs.

Among the gaggle of girlie groupies

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” - T.S. Eliot

USC graduate Engelson’s ex-wife walked down the aisle at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, to marry Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, Prince Harry, 34, becoming Duchess of Sussex.

Engelson proposed to Kurland, a nutritionist, last June on a tour of California wine country.

His previous marriage to the Suits actress lasted from September, 2011, to August, 2013, after they wed during a four-day affair in Ochos Rios, Jamaica, 16 – 23 May 2019

after dating for six years and getting engaged in 2010.

Classical Culmination Santa Barbara Symphony said au revoir to its 65th season at the Granada with a concert under veteran conductor Nir Kabaretti with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.

The late local Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein’s Songs of Love and Loathing, which the symphony premiered in 1989, was admirably sung by mezzo-soprano Leann Sandel-Pantaleo.

The concert concluded with Dvorak’s euphoric Symphony No. 8.

Love Thy Neigh-bor Santa Barbara equestrian Karen Jenkins, 80, riding her quarter horse gelding Homer, who was celebrating his 20th birthday, made history in a Century Club ride at the Earl Warren Showgrounds.

The rare event is designed for horse and rider who achieve the combined age of 100.

Karen, the wife of Jedlicka’s Saddlery owner, Si Jenkins, has been a lifelong rider and a member of the local Sage Hens riding group for half a century.

The Century Club, sponsored by the U.S. Dressage Foundation, promotes

the classic art of dressage, which I would see regularly when covering the Royal Family at the Badminton and Burleigh horse trials.

Homer has the distinction of being one of two Jenkins family horses to be featured on the 2013 official Fiesta poster.

Going to the Chapel TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey shut down the Saks department store in Beverly Hills to shop for a wedding dress.

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El Montecito Early School’s Director

El Montecito Early School Director Suzy Dobreski and her mom, JoAnn Conty, have taken part in Montecito’s Village Fourth Parade & Celebration over the years

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n a beautiful sunny Saturday, Suzy Dobreski and I met on the deck of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. It was one of those “see-forever” days, and as she was kind enough to spend a few hours of her weekend with me, we decided a location with an ocean view might be the ideal place. Sitting in the shade of the overhang, I learned that this was one of the busiest times in the school’s calendar, with its annual fundraiser just a few days away, a huge event involving the entire staff and great many parent volunteers. The flurry of the fundraiser was followed by the yearly all-school Easter Parade with all of its preparations, after which the holiday weekend began with the celebration of Good Friday and Passover.

“This is a very busy time of year for our school, keeps everyone occupied but results in tons of fun for everyone, parents and kids alike,” explains Dobreski. “A quiet weekend is a perfect time for talking a little about El

Montecito Early School (EMES), its history and our mission.”

Known at the time as El Montecito Nursery School, the school was founded in 1958 under the auspices of El Montecito Presbyterian Church and served what was primarily an agrarian community. With a legacy that had its beginnings with the founding of El Montecito Presbyterian Church in 1887 and its move in 1888 to its present East Valley Road location, over the years the “typical country church” was rebuilt and expanded to accommodate its growing ministries. A Christian Education Building was erected in 1957, which eventually housed the early pre-school that continued to evolve and grow over the years.

In the year 2008, a reinvigorated pre-school program called the Early School was established for both children and their parents to learn and play together. Dobreski and a dedicated staff are committed to providing loving care for their students as they

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continue to uphold the original values and ideals of the founders. “In today’s modern world, the very same service is needed, but with teachers who are on the cusp,” she says, “of the changing world. Meika McCrindle, our assistant director, and I work together as a team to support our staff in implementing the curriculum, caring for our children, and expanding our mission into the greater community.”

The strong sense of commitment Dobreski feels regarding her work as director of EMES she attributes to the influence of her mother, whom she describes as “a deep woman of faith, strong, silent, dependable, and loyal.”

Lessons learned from her mother have been a source of wisdom and strength for Dobreski. As a child, her mother would sing a song called “Whispering Hope,” written in 1868 by Septimus Winter that she’d learned from her own mother and grandmother. The song speaks to the ever-present silver lining that serves as a guide throughout life. “That song, my mother’s voice, and the philosophy behind it has been my beacon,” she says.

From Puerto Rico to Minnesota

The youngest of three children, Suzy was born in Puerto Rico where she spent her very early years. Her father had established a successful business there during the 1950s. When she was four years old, her father died leaving the responsibility of raising the children and assuming control of her husband’s business on the shoulders of her mother. “The loss of my father was a huge milestone in my life and in the lives of my family… everything changed. My stalwart mother carried on running the business and caring for the three of us, and eventually made the decision to move to the U.S. mainland, finally to settle in Minnesota, where she was born.”

It was after the eldest daughter’s acceptance to Westmont College that the family discovered Santa Barbara.

On a visit to the college they fell in love with the Santa Barbara area and in 1980, packed up and moved from wintery Minnesota to sunny California. Dobreski first attended Santa Barbara Christian School and graduated from San Marcos High School. Following in the footsteps of her sister, she attended Westmont College where she earned a degree in sociology. Dobreski’s work with young children began by establishing a day care center for working mothers.

As her interest in young children grew and deepened, she chose to return to school to earn a credential in Early Childhood Education. The ECE credential became the first step in a journey that led her to El Montecito Early School, first as a teacher for almost a decade, and now as its Director.

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? “ – Jean Kerr

Last year, El Montecito Early School celebrated its 60th year, and provided a time to reflect upon EMES’s progress and present accomplishments as well as an opportunity to envisioning plans for the future. EMES has a broad range of responsibilities serving young children during the impressionable years from two to five years old. “Our school prides itself in caring for each child individually based on their developmental and educational needs,” notes Dobreski, “the most important aspect being a ‘hands-on’ approach. Most kids come to us in pull-ups and we are their first impression of the world outside of home.” The three-year program offers Kindergarten readiness, which includes math, phonics, art, music, and bible, as well as an outdoor program on the newly renovated playground area. “Thanks to the generosity of our parents,” she says, “the kids can learn and play outside, enjoy the beauty of the area, along with the good smells coming from Via Vai’s Italian kitchen.”

Looking toward the future, Dobreski sees El Montecito Early School as a continuing resource. Extending and broadening the existing outreach programs is her goal. “Raising children in today’s world isn’t easy and creating an atmosphere of community within the school that’s all inclusive for both parents and children is essential.

Although our school has a Christian mission we love families that come to us just the way they are.”

Looking Ahead

Dobreski’s view for the future includes having EMES become a place where parents and children can be connected to the appropriate resource within the greater community. The present Tuesday Talks, a parent education program, is an example. Topics include: parenting in the digital age, fostering reading at home, marriage and the family, and the importance of gratitude. Dobreski believes that EMES is a vital part of the process of raising children. “We do have,” she boasts, a stellar “reputation for getting children ready for kindergarten.”

Dobreski continues to share her mother’s positive outlook and takes her autoharp into the classroom, the recording studio, and other venues, to convey the message that was passed down musically through the generations to her. As we parted company on that beautiful day with a view of the harbor, the Channel Islands and a gentle breeze from the sea, I was treated to a lovely afternoon while learning about the good work being done in one of the longest established pre-schools in our community. For further information about El Montecito Early School’s programs do not hesitate to visit: https:// elmopres.org/earlyschool.

•MJ 16 – 23 May 2019

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Healing Hub for Hubbard

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lthough she spent the final few years of her life at Loveland Ranch in Sunrise, Colorado, Barbara Marx Hubbard – the futurist and author dubbed by Deepak Chopra as “The voice of conscious evolution” who passed away on April 10 at age 80 – spent a decade and a half in Santa Barbara beginning just before the turning of the new millennium. Hubbard’s history includes publishing one of the first newsletters on evolutionary transformation called The Center Letter in collaboration with Abraham H. Maslow, founder of Humanistic Psychology, back in the 1960s, and working closely with Dr. Jonas Salk as an original contributor to the Salk Institute. In the 1970s she co-founded The Committee for the Future in Washington, D.C., which developed the New Worlds Educational and Training Center based on her work.

But it was here that Hubbard co-created the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, a new developmental path to the next stage of human evolution, one that has as its goal the awakening of the spiritual, social, and scientific potential of humanity, in harmony with nature, for the highest good of all life. The work – which encompasses several different media and much more – served as her mission for much of the rest of her life.

The local Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution community, sparked by a Mind & Supermind lecture in 1999, met weekly in town for many years, and remnants of it still continue to get together to effect change and spiritual/global growth. This weekend, many of those who were touched by Hubbard’s life and work are coming together for a Commemoration at Unity of Santa Barbara (227 East Arrellaga Street). The event is being organized by Ani Ahavah, who herself moved to Santa Barbara to work directly with Hubbard in 2005 after spending six years working remotely, including transcribing Hubbard’s talks and inspiring speeches.

“I knew within the first few pages of reading after someone gave me her book Revelation more than 20 years ago that she and I had the same belief about this generation being a very spiritual one primed to make a big difference in the world,” Ahavah said last weekend.

“After I met her at a conference in Palm Springs, I said to her ‘I can serve God best by serving you.’”

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Hubbard as a personal assistant as well as in other positions at the Foundation, and also turned an Oakland workshop into a DVD series.

In 2008, Ahavah created Love Grid at Ayni Gallery, which ran from 201016 as a monthly community hub for extending Hubbard’s work locally.

“I wanted to have a place for the community to continue as the people around her were evolving in their own lives. We met as part of the result of Barbara inseminating people with the meme of conscious evolution. She was the inspiration.”

The Commemoration on Friday, May 17 – which Ahavah said she created via “an energetic transmission in my heart and soul that my memorial (to her) is to be a launch pad” – begins at 7 pm with music followed by an opportunity for those who worked with Hubbard and others to share how they were touched by her, and express gratitude and appreciation. A 15-minute video that serves as “a celebration about her messages” will then be screened before the event moved into the “activation” phase. “This is where we begin about how we pass the torch,” Ahavah said.

“There will be some dialog, and showing clips of Barbara where she says, ‘I am at the tip of the tipping point.’

We’ll play off of that.” The evening closes with a “cosmic cellular meditation” from Sudama Mark Kennedy and another song.

“Visitors will also be able to add their names to a signup list of people interested in gather again to continue with what wants to happen,” Ahavah said. “An unfolding that’s launching.

We’re the universal humans that she awakened, and it’s up to us now. The people who will come are the ones who are attracted to fully expressing themselves in all their amazing potential.” For more information, call Ahavah at (805) 450-2238 or email her at ani@iamuniverse.com.

Master of Meditation

Sheng Zhen Meditation has been enjoying a period of growth in Santa Barbara recently, what with three teachers offering regular and ongoing classes, workshops, and practice sessions. Sheng Zhen, which means Unconditional Love, is a comprehensive system of health and healing that helps people understand the power of love through moving and still meditation that can apply to real life beyond the practice itself.

Peace Party Debuts

Although it sounds like a new political organization that might challenge the two-party system with a more pacifist approach, Peace Party is actually a new Santa Barbara Meetup that employs mindfulness meditation to cultivate inner peace and loving kindness. Based on the Dalai Lama’s words that “Changing the world for the better begins with individuals creating inner peace within themselves,” the new group welcomes both new and experienced meditators to weekly hour-long gatherings that begin with a small talk on peace followed by guided mindfulness and loving kindness meditations. Taking another wise cue that time in nature can be healing in itself, the Peace Party Meditation Meetup gathers in Ambassador Park, the strip of green directly across Cabrillo Boulevard from West Beach, at 205 West Mason Street. The first meeting takes place at 11:30 am Saturday, May 18, and continues at the same time every week. Attendees are encouraged to bring a mat, chair, or cushion to sit or lay on. Visit www.meetup.com/ Peace-Party-Meditation.

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by Li Junfeng following a career as head coach of the renowned Beijing Wushu Team (where he led the full contact martial arts team to 12 consecutive undefeated seasons and once coached a young Jet Li) and as a star in the martial arts movie industry in China. He founded the International Sheng Zhen Society to spread the practice wide and far and has since taught the meditation in more than 30 countries across six continents. Master Li, who serves on the board of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong and the Qigong Science Research Association of China, has lived in the U.S. for 17 years, and has spent time here in Santa Barbara over the years.

The 80-year-old Li Junfeng arrived back in town last weekend for a series of mini-workshops and classes, each focusing on a different aspect of Sheng Zhen. The final three events – all of which are practices in Heaven Earth Heart Mantra, a seated form of the meditation – take place this week, with a two-hour class at 5:30 pm on Saturday May 18, and 75-minute sessions at 4:30 pm on Monday and Wednesday, May 20 and 22. All of the classes will be held at Leslie Sack Dance Studio, 20 West Calle Laureles in midtown, and carry a suggested donation of $20 each. For more information, visit www.shengzhensb.org/ shengzhenclasses-om or call (805) 729-4449 to reach Bryce Lupoli, who teaches Sheng Zhen Healing Stage One on Thursdays and Awakening the Soul on Saturdays weekly at the Santa Barbara Sheng Zhen Center, 222 East Canon Perdido Street, Suite 306.

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On Entertainment Party of the Century

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wo years ago, when Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) first contemplated how to cap its 100th anniversary season with a free community event, the first thought was to book a big name. There have been scores of classical music stars that have graced Santa Barbara stages over the past century since the arts organization launched in 1919, many of the more recent ones still perform regularly.

But then CAMA had a better idea: Go big and go local.

“CAMA is the oldest arts organization in town. We wanted to honor both our history and that there is a rich cultural landscape in Santa Barbara that didn’t happen by accident,” explained Deborah Bertling, the veteran singer and actress who serves as first vice-president of CAMA’s board of directors as well as chair of its Centennial Celebration Committee.

“It was designed to be that way, and we were the forerunners.”

Indeed, CAMA originally came together to bring the Los Angeles Philharmonic to town – the esteemed ensemble celebrates its own Santa Barbara centennial of at least annual concerts here next season – and quickly broadened its mission to bringing live performances by other world-renowned orchestras and classical artists as well as fostering focused music education programs for local citizens.

Why not let the other Santa Barbara classical organizations that have sprung up during CAMA’s tenure that has survived wars, drought, fires, economic challenges, and many other changes get in on the fun?

So CAMA invited most of its sister classical music outfits, and received quick confirmation from five: Music Academy of the West’s SING! Program, the music department at Westmont and UCSB, the

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Santa Barbara Symphony, and Opera Santa Barbara.

“CAMA has always been about fostering and nurturing the excellence in the arts, with a goal of having the local talent be elevated by hearing the great musicians from around the world,” Bertling said. “Now, we’re coming full circle in showcasing the other groups in town, who are doing an outstanding job of keeping the core of classical music in our community.”

Each of the groups will offer 20-minute sets during CAMA’s 100th Birthday Bash at the Courthouse Sunken Garden from 1-4 pm on Sunday afternoon, May 19. Among the collective works to be performed are the “Preacher on the pier” movement from Bramwell Tovey’s “Santa Barbara Sonata,” which was commissioned by the Music Academy for the Canadian Brass several years ago, performed by a brass quintet from the Symphony; the Finale of Dvorak’s famous String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 (“American”) by a Young Artists String Quartet from UCSB; Eric Ewazen’s “Pastorale for Flute, French Horn, and Piano” by members of Westmont’s Sonos5winds; Rebecca Sugar’s “Here Comes a Thought” from Steven Universe by MAW’s SING!; and a surefire crowd-pleasing Opera Santa Barbara choral version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the afternoon’s closing number.

But the music is only a piece of the fun. Food and drink from local restau-

rants and caterers and wineries are also on the menu, all of which will be served for free, with up to 1,000 small portion tastes from each establishment available during the celebration.

“The idea was, ‘Let’s have a massive party in the middle of town – a big celebration, a giant party for everyone!’”

Bertling said. “That means cake and champagne, and lots of food.”

The food purveyors include Bibi Ji, Black Sheep Restaurant, Ca’Dario Ristorante, Finch & Fork, Le Sorelle, Michael’s Catering, Pete Clements Catering, Olio e Limone, Opal Restaurant & Bar, and Via Maestra 42, while Alma Rosa, Babcock, Brander Vineyard, Cebada Wine, Grassini Family Vineyards, Grimm’s Bluff, Lumen Wines, Pali Wine Co., Presqu’ile, and Santa Barbara Winery comprise the participating wineries.

A mid-program champagne toast will feature short remarks before the music resumes.

“We want everyone – longtime supporters of CAMA and those who aren’t even sure who we are – to come and enjoy,” Bertling said. “It’s great even if people who are downtown on Sunday afternoon just wander over after hearing the music. We want everybody to know how happy we are to have been around for one hundred years.”

Even as the Birthday Bash brings the official centennial season to a close, CAMA will continue with the celebration for its 2019-20 season, officially dubbed “The Royal Anniversary” in reference to a visit from London’s Royal Philharmonic in January, and the CAMA debut of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra cello soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason – who played at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding exactly a year before Sunday’s Sunken Garden

celebration.

“It’s true, we’re getting two years worth of mileage out of our Centennial,” Bertling said. “But one hundred years is a big deal.”

Camerata Closer

Speaking of classical arts organizations marking milestones with two years worth of notable notes, Camerata Pacifica concludes the first season of “Why Beethoven?” at Hahn Hall on Friday night, May 17. The program features three songs by the composer (The Kiss, Dear Maid, WoO 153, Nº.9; The Return to Ulster, WoO 152 Nº.1; and The Pulse of an Irishman, WoO 154, Nº.4) and Brahms’ Four Serious Songs Op. 121 performed by baritone Andrew Garland and pianist Tamara Sanikidze sandwiched around the Calder Quartet’s take on one of Beethoven’s late String Quartet, the B-flat Major, Op. 130.

Tereza Stanislav, the Assistant Concertmaster for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (coming to CAMA next season), serves as guest second violinist with the Calder for the night.

Classical Corner

Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces performs a pair of “Cathedral Classics” concerts May 18-19 at St. Anthony’s Chapel, closing out its 25th anniversary season… Earlier that same Saturday afternoon, the Santa Barbara Music Club presents the first of two free concerts featuring winners of the 2019 Scholarship Awards at First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu Street. The second one is at the same site two weeks later on Saturday, June 1… Also at Hahn Hall: Music Academy of the West’s encore Met: Quire of Voyces performs at St. Anthony’s Chapel Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19

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Live in HD screening of Dialogues des Carmelites, Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom in the French Revolution, at 2 pm, Sunday, May 19.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the opera featuring 2005 MAW alumna mezzo-soprano (and upcoming 2019 Summer Festival Mosher guest artist) Isabel Leonard in the starring role of Blanche alongside an impressive ensemble that also includes legendary Finnish soprano Karita Mattila.

Speaking of Stories Exits Stage Left

Santa Barbara’s storytelling series Speaking of Stories comes to a close this week after 25 years of presenting actors reading short stories for live audiences. The series has fallen victim to the times, a casualty of having an aging and dwindling audience whose replacements lack both the attention spans and appreciation for works of literature.

But before the series calls it quits, some of its most popular performers, including Montecito author T.C. Boyle – who will read his recent “Walk Between the Raindrops,” his fictional short story sparked by last year’s Montecito debris flow that appeared in the New Yorker in July – are giving it one last go. Also appearing Sunday afternoon and Monday evening, May 19-20 at Center Stage Theater are famed actors and longtime SOS contributors Joe Spano, who will bring Benjamin Percy’s “Refresh, Refresh” to life, and Ovation Award-winner Faline England, who starred opposite Spano in Rubicon Theatre Company’s production of Heisenberg earlier this year, who takes on Rick Bass’ “The Blue Tree.” Then there’s one more entry, from Saral Burdette.

Who? “You look at those other three names, and then there’s me, the least likely person to be reading at the final performance,” Burdette said earlier this week. Indeed, the Ojai resident’s only acting experience prior to SOS came decades ago at SBCC, and she works as a celebrant, someone who officiates at wedding, funeral, and other ritual occasions.

But if you look closer, Burdette’s participation makes a lot of sense. It was at SBCC that she met director Maggie Mixell, the Montecito res-

ident who had just taken over the reins at Speaking of Stories and was looking for authors. After taking on Amy Bloom’s “Silver Water,” Burdette wrote her own stories when she returned to read five more times over the series’ duration, becoming one of the first performers to read their own works. And as Speaking of Stories ends the current format in favor of its increasingly popular The Moth-style evenings of personal stories – there were 60 different true first-person accounts performed this last season alone – Burdette would seem the perfect veteran to enable the transition.

Especially since her entry is titled “Speaking of Stories.”

“It’s about my experience with Maggie over the years going back to that first time which felt like such an honor,” Burdette explained. “She and the series have taught me about sacred reading, how it gets richer and more rewarding over time… I learned how to write a story that’s connected to an audience, not a song and dance thing, when you tell the truth, and how to be vulnerable as a reader. Each time taught me something new.”

When Burdette heard that SOS was coming to a close, she submitted a piece for one of the Personal Stories events only to have Mixell suggest they save it for the finale. Burdette was thrilled. “I mostly just wanted Maggie to know how much she’s mattered to me. I wanted to say something about what it’s like to be believed in, how much it takes to get an amateur like me on the stage, and how much a great director changes the stories, helps you to unpack them.

“Both the stories and I always end up different.”

4Q’s with Cohen Choir Director

The idea of Conspiracy of Beards – the Bay Area-based all-male choir that sings its own original, a cappella arrangements of Leonard Cohen songs – was conceived of in a dream by a co-founder’s brother. San Francisco performance artist Peter Kadyk even journaled about the dream, which came complete with the choir’s name, before he passed away in 2003. His brother Patrick and their friend Daryl Henline, who has a degree in vocal performance, gathered a small group

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Dressed in suits and ties, Conspiracy of Beards performs arrangements that draw on everything from barbershop and doo-wop to jazz and Gregorian chant, all intended to capture both the emotion and humor of Cohen’s literate songs. Henline, who still directs the choir, discussed CoB – which makes its Santa Barbara debut 6 pm Sunday, May 19, at SOhO – over the phone on his way to the weekly San Francisco rehearsal last Monday night.

Q. Why a choir devoted solely to Leonard Cohen?

A. He’s like your friend, one who opens the conversational door to places you might not go otherwise. In a friendly, considerate way, he asks what matters and why? How do you sit with your relationship to being?

And unlike most musical artist, he grew old still writing new music. He didn’t just stand on old songs like “Chelsea Hotel”, “Suzanne” and “I’m Your Man” but created a new body of work about a being a much older man and then one who was dying. It’s a really beautiful body of work, full of intimacy, about the arc of life and the aging process.

It all seems ironic as Cohen had a very gravelly voice, almost a growl, whereas choirs are usually all about vocal beauty.

It wasn’t always pretty how he sang, but the truth is we aren’t either.

We don’t sound like your typical choir. I just wanted the choir to get to the place where the men mean what they’re singing and explore the meaning of the words. So much of it is a question.

Did Cohen himself ever hear the choir?

No, but pretty early on I wrote him a letter about what we were doing because it felt important to reach out and thank him. I said we are dining out in your trousers, but it came from a place of deeply honoring his work

and that he didn’t have to worry about our zealous devotion turning into stalking. He wrote back and sent us all lapel pins and other stuff.

Whenever we played in New York his sister and a number of his writing partners and colleagues would come, but he never did.

So do you have to sport facial hair to be a member of the choir? That’s like the opposite of the New York Yankees’ policy.

Being part of Conspiracy of Beards makes every man think they have to grow a beard. And we all have at some point along the way, at least as much as we can grow one. But (to allude to a Cohen song) beards are like raincoats – you don’t need them all year round. And as one of our former members once said, “The beard is in the heart.”

Blues Bonanza: Cray, Castro & Carvan

Santa Barbara may no longer be the blues mecca it was during the 1980s and early 1990s, when the clubs were crowded with people clamoring to hear bands boasting original tunes. But for two consecutive nights this weekend, and another one on Monday, locals have a chance to hear some of the best contemporary blues axmen and singers in venues just a few blocks away downtown. Robert Cray, the 40-year veteran with five Grammy awards, membership in the Blues Hall of Fame, and the Americana Lifetime Achievement award to his credit, kicks off the 12-bar bashes with yet another appearance at the Lobero on Friday, May 17. The following evening, Tommy Castro comes back to town for his first visit in almost a decade at the Carrillo Recreation Center via the Santa Barbara Blues Society. Although the searing guitarist and soulful singer has yet to pocket a Grammy, he has taken home half a dozen Blues Music Awards; guitarist Nick Moss and harmonica player Dennis Gruenling serve as special guests for his two sets following an opening one from Tim Buley. Finally, shuffle on down State Street to the Red Piano, where Carvin Jones, who Guitarist Magazine named “One of the top 50 blues guitarists of all time,” rips it up on Monday night.

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our rarefied enclave’s most famous resident is getting hitched to her longtime beau Stedman Graham, the bridal gown was for one of her students at her South African girls leadership academy outside Johannesburg, which opened in 2007.

Oprah, 65, took the budding brideto-be and two other students, graduates from the first class, to dinner at Spago, Wolfgang Puck’s eatery just a tiara’s toss away, before heading up to the Wilshire Boulevard emporium for the private shopping spree.

In an Instagram post Oprah said she’s known the girls since they were 12 or 13 attending her school and was looking for the perfect dress, with the future bride seen holding a $10,000 gown from Berta.

Goleta Red Distilling Company’s Michael Craig, Shira and Chris Minerd, and Laura Craig (photo by Priscilla)

Gala sponsors Dave Potter of Potek Winery and wife Stephanie Dotson, SBCC Art Professor (photo

by Nell Campbell)

McDonald joining the college’s New World Jazz Ensemble for an exhilarating performance.

The fab fest, co-chaired by Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz, Sara Miller McCune, and Lee Luria, was held in the cavernous sports pavilion, decorated in silver and grey, with blue uplighting, by Montecito events whiz Merryl Brown.

Among the host of supporters were Kandy Luria-Budgor, Madeleine Jacobson, Robyn Freedman, Maryan Schall, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Monique Limon, Frank and Leslie Schipper, Kerri Murray, Kerilee Gore, John and Christie Glanville, Ashley and Kyle Hollister, Darrell and Kristin Becker, Earl and Leslie Armstrong, Scott and Rachel Vincent, and Howard and Susan Silver.

A Wild Night

Joanne Funari, Carlos Plascencia, and Rhonda Henderson at the Santa Barbara Zoo (photo by Priscilla)

Eve Mitchell and Sean Checketts pass out their Hippy Pop gourmet vegan popcorn to Paul Carlson and Linda Vasquez (photo by Priscilla)

Dan Crotty and Roy Coleman with BABE representatives Kristina Morrison and Sherri Daneshvari flanking Joe Lambert (photo by Priscilla)

It was clearly a mane event when Santa Barbara Zoo hosted its fifth annual Roar & Pour, a sell-out attracting 1,500 oenophiles and gourmands, raising around $100,000 for the popular menagerie.

Some 300 of the party animals splashed out for VIP tickets, allowing

them early entrance to the fun fête, avoiding the crowds and giving them access to reserve wines provided by 48 vendors from Santa Maria, Los Olivos, Paso Robles, and Santa Barbara, accompanied by creative comestibles from Rincon Catering.

A roaring success to be sure...

Spring has Sprung Social gridlock reigned when City College hosted its inaugural Spring Forward! gala, with 300 guests raising more than $400,000 for the work of the college’s foundation, headed by the ubiquitous Geoff Green.

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“A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don’t later fray.” – Marcia Carrington

Rock Out The amazons ruled when Girls Rock, which helps youngsters through music and arts appreciation, threw a third annual beach bash at the rustic Carpinteria home of music entrepreneur Marla McNally Phillips and her husband Lee. Our Eden by the Beach is home to the largest Girls Rock program in the world, says president Kerri Murray, who is also president of ShelterBox USA. “It has served more than 4,000 girls in our community. We use music, art, and creative expression as the tools to help girls find their inner voice.”

As the 150 guests, who helped raise around $250,000 for scholarships, SBCC Foundation CEO Geoff Green with gala co-chairs Robyn Freedman, Kandy LuriaBudgor, and Madeleine Jacobson (photo

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Girls Rock Executive Director Jen Baron with Teen Star 2019 Sofia Schuster and her mother Kerri Murray, Girls Rock President (photo by Priscilla)

Melinda Manon, Jessica Mikayla Adams, Derek Edwards, Kristen Newton, Sharon Kempher, and Marla Phillips at the Girls Rock beach bash (photo by Priscilla)

CJ Affiliate President Waleed Al-Atraqchi (second from right) with Girls Rock CEO Jen Baron (far right) and others celebrating their partnering contribution of $75,000 (photo by Priscilla)

quaffed Foley wines and Revel tequilas, while noshing on pizzas from Lucca’s truck, Kerri’s 15-year-old daughter, Sofia Schuster, a Crane School student and Teen Star 2019 winner, who was born with paralyzed vocal chords, entertained with American Idol contestant Jackson Gillies and Sophie Rose, and several other Girls Rock program participants.

The Youth Leadership Award went to Maya Klanfer.

Each year since its founding in 2001, Girls Rock SB has given away more than $150,000 in scholarship aid to local youth.

Among the Pacific wave of supporters were Anne Towbes, Leslie Zemeckis, David Duron, Anais Pellegrini, Melinda Manos, Lucy Harrington, Niki Sandoval, John Abraham, Kristi Newton, Peter Melnick, Charles Ward, Nancy O’Connor, Tricia Rascon, Alexandra 16 – 23 May 2019

Platt, Deanna Caballero, and Scott and Ella Brittingham.

Rotary Club Scholarships Montecito Rotary Club has awarded ten $1,250 scholarships to high-performing City College vocational and career technology students.

“For more than 25 years, the club has made scholarships available, with the total amount of support provided during this time exceeding $120,000,” says club foundation president, the aptly named Cathy Cash.

“The club membership believes in the mission of City College to educate and provide opportunity to students seeking lucrative and engaging careers in a variety of technical fields.”

Nominations came from college faculty members.

Sizzling Season Ensemble Theatre Company’s 41st season promises to be a cracker!

Rotary Club of Montecito members, SBCC faculty, SBCC Foundation staff, and 2019 student scholarship recipients (photo by Nell Campbell)

“We’re excited to present an eclectic season ranging from the classics to plays that are contemporary and timely, including two thrillers – one

by Shakespeare –, two musicals, and an hilarious and touching adaptation of a family holiday story,” says artistic director Jonathan Fox. The New Vic season kicks off in October with the Bard’s Measure for Measure, one of his most beguiling plays, followed by It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, perfect for the Christmas season.

Other productions in the mix include Emma: The Musical, based on Jane Austen’s novel, the West Coast premiere of the drama American Son, and Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical.

It’s Lit Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry literally lit up the pink carpet at the Metropolitan Museum’s celebrity gridlocked Costume Institute gala in New York.

The 34-year-old former Dos Pueblos High student dressed as a chandelier for the occasion, swanning about in a Moschino ensemble covered in Swarovski crystals.

Her wacky outfit featured two tiers of lightbulb flames around her waistline, plus another one encircling her lofty headpiece.

At the Gucci after-party, following the $35,000 a ticket event, Katy switched outfits and dressed up as giant hamburger with a toothpick hat.

According to reports, she fell on her buns during the bash and had to be helped off the floor.

Remembering Clement On a personal note, I mark the passing of a longtime friend, Baron Clement von Franckenstein, son of the former Austrian ambassador to the Court of St. James, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 74.

I first met Clement in the late 70s when we both vied for voiceover work, given our English accents, and at one time he changed his name for acting purposes to St. George after the English patron saint.

Clem, as he was known by friends, was chosen because of his real name

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by Mel Brooks to be in his 1974 Young Frankenstein and appeared in innumerable films, including The American President with Michael Douglas.

He was proud to be an Old Etonian, the same school princes William and Harry attended, and served as a lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with the current Duke of Kent, grandson of King George V. A vibrant individual, he was also a frequent visitor to the Santa Barbara Polo Club. An immensely witty and entertaining raconteur, he will be much missed by his many friends, including Lord Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, the Los Angeles based brother of the Marquess of Reading, and artist Damian Elwes, brother of actor Cary Elwes, and TV producer Cassian Elwes.

Sightings: Actress Sandra Bullock quaffing a libation or two at the Rosewood Miramar ’s bustling beachside bar... Oscar winner Natalie Portman and family shopping at the Public Market... Singer John Legend checking out Whole Foods Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing times for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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PROPOSAL: MIRAMAR BEACH HOA STEP/WALKWAY/FENCE PROJECT ADDRESS: 1542 MIRAMAR BEACH DRIVE B, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 ST 1 SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on April 30, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on May 7, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

DATE OF NOTICE: 5/15/2019 PERMIT NUMBER: 19CDH-00000-00008 APPLICATION FILED: 2/19/2019 009-345-026, 009-345-050 ZONING: 7-R-1 PROJECT AREA: 0.04 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Applicant: Thomas Hashbarger Proposed Project: Propose replacement of an existing fence, new steps and new walkway to existing single family dwellings.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 19CDH-00000-00008 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by apropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after the appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

on May 8, 2019.

CHALLENGES: If you challenge the project 19CDH-00000-00008 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written correspondence to the Planning and Development Department.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on May 8, 2019.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Jessica Madamba. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.sbcountyplanning.org/forms/PermitAppHndt/AppsForms.cfm ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.sbcountyplanning.org/permitting/

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Published May 15, 2019 Montecito Journal

Published May 15, 2019 Montecito Journal

Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 2019-0001015. Published May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Insulation; Top Foam, 3463 State St. #238, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Mitch Cokeley, 1301 N First Place, Lompoc, CA 93436.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 10, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify

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

by Kathy Gonzales. FBN No. 2019-0000850. Published April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Island Geographic, 2018 Gillespie Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Kristiana Lisa Winger, 2018 Gillespie Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2019. This statement

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

by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2019-0000814. Published April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 2019.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 19CV01382.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Jillian Cassidy Finstuen filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Jillian Julia Athey. 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 8, 2019 by Terri

Chavez.

Hearing date: June 5, 2019 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 19CV01629. To all interested parties: Petitioner Wayne Douglas Golden filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Wayne Douglass Goldwyn. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show

“There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.” – Orson Welles

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 8, 2019

by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: June 12, 2019 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15

16 – 23 May 2019

Notice Inviting Bids Santa Barbara Airport Security System Rehabiitation Bid No. 3957 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Santa Barbara Airport Security System Rehabilitation Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, June 13, 2019, at 3:00 p.m.., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Santa Barbara Airport and is described as follows: Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) is undertaking a project to upgrade access control and video surveillance systems throughout the facility, with a primary focus on required software and hardware upgrades to support existing, outdated systems which have reached end of useful life.

Additionally, support systems throughout the facility, including infrastructure cabling and local area network (LAN) upgrades are included as part of this project. All components to be included as specified within the project’s drawings and specifications.

Alternate Bids: Alternate 1 – New Cameras (as identified in Project Plan Set) Alternate 2 – Terminal Camera Replacements (as identified in Project Plan Set) Alternate 3 – Biometric Card Readers (as identified in Project Plan Set) Alternate 4 – Virtual Server Environement and Network Monitoring System (as identified in Specification 272100 and 283300) 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 180 calendar days for completion from NTP. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: Base Bid: $1,223,000 Alternatives: $309,000 2.4 Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor(s) will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents.

(1)

Notice Of Requirement For Affirmative Action To Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity

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

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

6.9%

These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a) and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 604. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed.

1)

As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, County of Santa Barbara, State of California.

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

(3) Disadvantaged Business EnteEngineerise (DBE) A DBE Goal of 2% has been established for this contract.

The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53.

The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business EnteEngineerise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) Written statement from Bidder or Offeror that attests their commitment to use the DBE firm(s) listed under (1) to meet the Owner’s project goal; and If Bidder or Offeror cannot meet the advertised project DBE goal, evidence of good faith efforts undertaken by the Bidder or Offeror as described in appendix A to 49 CFR part 26.

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

Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s).

3.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for either of the the following classification(s): C-7 – Low Voltage Systems Contractor, or C-10- Electrical Contractor.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The specifications (volume 1), bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) considered to be non-sensitive security information may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. All sensitive security information (plans and volume 2 specifications) require completion of the non-disclosure agreement attached to this Notice Inviting Bids and returned directly to Santa Barbara Airport to obtain said documents.

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School Stuff

Meredith and Duncan Abbott with Murray McTigue and his wife, local artist Whitney Abbott ‘86

by Ann Pieramici Crane photos by Teresa Pietsch

Crane Celebrates 90 Years Joel Weiss (current Head of School) with the three former living Heads of School: Cheryl Hamilton, Selden Edwards, and Doris Cottam

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rane Country Day School’s strong sense of community was palpable at the aptly named “Crane Coming Home” 90th anniversary celebration, which felt like a huge family gathering on the school’s beautifully transformed fields. Those in attendance included current and past teachers, four Heads of School, parents and alumni of all generations, and even one alumnus who graduated in the class of 1940.

“This is by far the largest event we’ve ever hosted and the energy is off the charts,” said Joel Weiss as he welcomed 450 guests to Crane’s reunion gala on Saturday, May 4. Weiss, Crane’s longest serving headmaster of nearly 20 years, paid tribute to those who came before him, including all three living former Heads of School.

Selden Edwards (1979-1989) witnessed perhaps the most challenging time in Crane’s history, managing to pull the school out of a dramatic decline and hiring promising young teachers who have become Crane legends (nine of his hires were still working at Crane as recently as 2012).

Dr. Cheryl Hamilton (1989-1994) was Crane’s first female head of school and she was praised for creating faculty sabbaticals, teacher grants, and the peaceful partners program addressing social-emotional development, all of which still exist today. Doris Cottam (1994-2000) was recognized for expanding the Upper School and opening the Norman F. Sprague science buildings.

“We made due in the old days,” joked Hamilton, “But the facility improvements today clearly mark the greatest change to the school and enable optimal instruction.”

In fact, the changes to the school’s physical campus have been most dramatic under the leadership of Weiss, who is credited with creating the engineering and design center, a new kindergarten cottage, expanded Lower

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Crane’s Debbie Williams (Director of Development) and Dan McCaslin (retired Crane teacher and local author)

School and new Upper School classrooms, and a state-of-the-art library and arts center. Despite the significant campus improvements, the best parts of Crane are the things that haven’t changed, at least according to most in attendance.

“The community focus stands out as one of the school’s greatest strengths,” said Hamilton. “Big kids look out for the younger students and there’s no hierarchal distinction between faculty and staff.”

The parents are also integral to the familial fold. It was Anne Perkins, wife of a Crane alumnus, parent of three Crane grads, and a former teacher who created the school’s first and still operative parents group, known as Parents For Crane (PFC). “The most rewarding part for me is seeing all of these students from the ‘70s and ‘80s who hold such deeply fond memories of their elementary school,” said Perkins. Many of those affectionate memories are due to the relationships students shared with teachers.

Sally Hall, now in her 90s, taught 5th grade in the 1950s and was thrilled to visit her old classroom. “It looks a lot better now,” she laughed. “But it’s still there!” Sally got more than a class full of pupils at Crane. It’s where she

It’s all in the family: Dee Baker with her three daughters who are all Crane graduates: Jenie Baker ‘75, Carrie Baker Corey ‘83, and Mia Baker Kessler ‘84

met her husband, the late Reverend George Hall of All Saints-By-The-Sea. George was active as a Crane trustee in the early years when he met the young Sally McKinstry and fell in love. The two married and had six children. Sally attended the gala with her daughters Julie and Frannie, who were students at Crane along with their brother James and sister Virginia.

“It’s a magical place,” commented Marianne Sprague, who had five children graduate from Crane and now has a first-grade grandson attending. Both Marianne and her late husband, Norman, served as Crane Board Presidents and key donors. The fields were renamed in Norm’s honor when he passed away two years ago.

“The soul of the school is the same, and the lessons and friendships that students get here stay with them for life,” added Sprague.

Crane has such a profound impact for many that they return to the school to ensure that their kids receive the same experience they had growing up. Whitney Abbott ’86 is now the parent to three young children with her two eldest attending Crane. She was also a former art teacher and her oil painting of the charming campus represented the visual image for the “Crane Coming Home” celebration.

The original painting sold during the live auction for $10,000.

There were live and silent auctions in addition to a paddle raise to renovate the school’s theater. Performing arts has been integral to the Crane curriculum for nine decades. Several students who got their start on the Crane stage returned to share their talents at the gala with musical performances

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from - or how you feel. There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee.” – Gabriel Bá

by George Quirin ’73, Sofia Schuster ’18, Alexander Fell ’15, Arwyn Drew ’17, Lily Eakin ’09, Makena Shlens ’17, Bryce Lupoli ’06, and a comedy act by Josh Duvendeck ’00.

The fully packed weekend of revelries kicked off Friday, May 3 with a decades alumni and past parent family celebration on campus with 275 in attendance, including Crane’s oldest living alumnus, Kellam de Forest.

“This weekend represents the culmination of three years of planning,” said Debbie Williams, Director of Development. Williams also happens to be Crane’s longest-tenured employee having served in nearly every capacity of the school including parent, teacher, admissions director, and acting school head, since she started 42 years ago. Williams worked with former teacher and author Dan McCaslin on a historical book commemorating Crane’s rich history and thanks to an anonymous sponsor, all guests received a copy.

The spring benefit committee included Kelly Bilek, Kasia Brand, Mandy Gogong, Amy Phillips, Jennifer Siemens, Jen Abed, Jenny Hecht, Shari Liu, Sarah Muzzy, Karen Wintringham, Marcy Easter Eliassen, Hannah Gimbel, and Dal Pozzo. Top sponsors included Lisa and George Hagerman, Jill and Neil Levinson, Dick Wolf, Andrea DeRosso and Mark Alfano, Marianne Sprague and Allan Rogers, Leslie and Robert Zemeckis, Richard Banks, Kasia and Barry Brand, Ella and Scott Brittingham, Sarah and Ryan Muzzy, Tiffany Pelletier and Howard Shiebler, Kyra and Anthony Rogers, and Melissa and Tobin White. •MJ 16 – 23 May 2019

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rum drop instead of a beach umbrella.

You have six months to view this fascinating walk back in time.

Lunch & Learn

Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc were the subject of discussion at the Montecito Bank & Trust Lunch & Learn MClub event with author Victoria Shorr. She has a book called, Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning. She calls it creative non-fiction. One of the blurbs reads, “I finished Victoria’s book last night and was absolutely enthralled – the last pages had me sitting bolt upright in bed completely oblivious to anything but Joan of Arc’s last moments. I’ve never read anything like this book.”

From Jessica Hindman, who wrote Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir.

The book tells three stories we thought we knew, but didn’t. They are novelistic biographies telling stories of pivotal moments in the lives of these women. Jane Austen was left penniless after her brother inherited it all. She eventually received a marriage proposal from a wealthy man whom she didn’t love. Did she or didn’t she?

A pregnant Mary Godwin eloped with Percy Shelley at age 16. Eight years later her husband was out to sea.

She had lost four babies to miscarriage

or early death. Then she received a letter. Did Shelley return or did he not?

Joan of Arc’s saints told her she’d be saved from fire, but it is now the morning of her execution. The English have ordered her to wear a dress instead of the pants she had defiantly worn for years. Does she or doesn’t she?

Victoria’s first novel, Backlands, was named one of Booklist’s top-ten first novels of 2015. She’s proud to have co founded the Pine Ridge Girls’ School in South Dakota, a college prep school for girls on a Native American reservation. They were having 12-yearold girls committing suicide. There have been none since the school was formed.

The MClub will have Captain Karen Kahn May 28 to speak. She is one of the first females hired as a pilot by a major airline. For more information, call Maria McCall at 805.564.7362.

Cecilia Fund co-presidents Marion Schoneberger and Susan Johnson

The Cecilia Fund

The Cecilia Fund is the oldest philanthropic organization in Santa Barbara having been chartered in 1892. It was then called the St. Cecilia Club because she is the patron saint of music and the ladies had a small orchestra. They used their music to give concerts to raise money to assist patients at the new Cottage Hospital.

Natalie Myerson, Montecito Bank and Trust chairman/CEO Janet Garufis, and Arlyn Goldsby at the MClub event

Maureen White, speaker Victoria Shorr, and her husband John Perkins at the MClub luncheon

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Cecilia Fund members Sigrid Toye, Mary Ellen McCammon, and Sallie Coughlin at their tea

Emcee for the Cecilia Fund tea Ernesto Paredes, honoree Mary Solis, and speaker Zane Stull

Today there is no orchestra but their only purpose is to help low income residents pay critical medical or dental bills. Cecilia pays the provider directly and many times are able to get a discount. They are still an all volunteer organization with no paid staff. Referrals for help come through social workers, healthcare providers, and medical and dental providers.

To celebrate their 127th year, the Cecilia Fund held an afternoon of “Earl Grey & Chardonnay” at the Santa Barbara Club. The emcee was Ernesto Paredes, who is executive director of Easy Lift Transportation.

Then we heard from the co-presidents Susan Johnson and Marion Schoneberger describing what

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the group does. Like Maria whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver. She had chest paints and was left with an $1,800 medical bill. She was also caring for her granddaughter.

Cecilia Fund helped out. The Fund always has more requests than they can meet. They average 100 requests totaling almost $300,000 annually.

Zane Stull is suffering from a hereditary blindness disease. He spoke to us about being a recipient of the Cecilia Fund’s largess and how much his new devices have bettered his life. If you’d like to donate you can do it online at www.ceciliafund.org or mail a check to The Cecilia Fund, P.O. Box 92213, Santa Barbara, CA 93190.

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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)

THURSDAY, MAY 16 Views and Velocity – The Amgen Tour of California hasn’t started or stopped in Santa Barbara for a couple of years, but that doesn’t mean the important bicycle race that is just a tier or two below Le Tour de France skips our community altogether. Stage 5 is a hilly trek that begins and ends in two iconic beach towns – Pismo and Ventura – the latter just about our neighbor. In between, the peloton tours the best of Santa Barbara County in a 138-mile journey through undulating hills and nearly 10,000 feet in overall elevation gain before a last-minute short but steep climb within the last three miles. After hitting the county line, the path passes through Guadalupe, Nipomo, Orcutt, Los Olivos, and Santa Ynez before racing down the San Marcos Pass via Hwy. 154 all the way to Foothill Road.

That’s where the course turns left and continues meandering through the Montecito foothills – streaking past the pink walls of Lotusland and by historic estates – and past picturesque Toro Canyon, then almost halfway to Ojai via Casitas Pass before heading downhill toward Ventura and the ending just steps from the ocean. The finish line is where the daily festival takes place, with tons of sponsor booths, food, and gear available at the site on the edge of the Ventura Fairgrounds. Most of the riders, many of whom compete on

the grueling international circuit, will be in attendance – including those awarded the yellow (for overall leader) and other jerseys – before heading off for a good night’s sleep before the start of Stage 6, the penultimate day, just before 12 noon all the way down in Ontario. WHEN: 10 am stage start time, estimated finish for the first riders at 3:43 pm WHERE: see online map for full stage course COST: free INFO: www.amgentourofcalifornia. com/route-2019/mens-stage-5may-16-2019 Quilts, Cigarettes & Dirt – Exhibition titles, like rock and roll band names, are opportunities for witty and wonderful examples of personal expression. This new show from artist and prolific filmmaker James Benning is subtitled Portraits of America, a nod to Benning’s 40plus years exploring the film medium, engaging with history, memory, and documentary traditions, often encompassing a rigorous treatment of the American landscape and its people. Following tonight’s opening reception at the Museum of Contemporary Art featuring tunes

by DJ Val-Mar Records, interactive art activities, and drinks on the terrace, the exhibit will host a series of additional activities connected to Benning, who pioneered the notion of “figurative narrative” via films that explore notions of time and perception and their relationship to space, and

FRIDAY, MAY 17 Golden Boys – Baby Boomers will be doing a lot of reminiscing tonight at the Chumash Casino, taking a collective trip down memory lane with former teen stars-nowseptuagenarians Frankie Avalon (age 79), Bobby Rydell (77) and Fabian (76), three of the most popular teen idols from the late 1950s and early ’60s. The showcase spotlights each of the performers and their greatest hits individually, including Fabian’s “Turn Me Loose,” “Tiger,” and “I’m A Man”; Avalon’s “Venus,” “De De Dinah,” and “Bobby Sox to Stockings”; and Rydell’s “Volare,” “Wild One,” and “Kissin’ Time.” The three stars also combine their talents on several songs as well as perform a tribute to their late contemporaries Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Rick Nelson and Bill Haley. The “Golden Boys” have been touring as a trio and made countless television appearances including a PBS special that introduced their music to new generations, but it’s still their peers who largely populate their shows, meaning there should be a lot of open slot machines in the joint from 8-10 pm tonight. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom, 3400 Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $38-$69 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com

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by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, MAY 18 Bell Curve – Local art museums are celebrating the 10th Annual Art Museum Day offering free admission and special programming at several locations around the area. Participating institutions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, joining more than 150 similar institutions across the country. Each museum has special events or offers, led by SBMA’s “Ensemble: A Day of All Possible Music,” celebrating the opening of “Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble,” and featuring the artist and special guests activating the sculptural instrument in the exhibition, a handmade carillon. All are invited to drop in to see avant-garde musicians, new age practitioners, traditional performers, and an experimental rock drummer collectively create music on the device created specifically for the exhibition comprised of raw timber and handmade bells that functions as a communal bell-ringing instrument.

Employing a method of making music that blends collective listening with lively communal rituals and meditation practice, Ensemble offers a fun, experiential space to look, listen and engage. Other activities include interactive family guides featuring musical scores and recipes, bell-inspired art activities in the Family Resource Center, pop-up musical moments, and refreshments. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free INFO: (805) 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

approach the concept of place from autobiographical, cultural, political and historical viewpoints. Benning’s latest film Readers – which confronts viewers with four long takes of four individuals silently reading a book of their selection for nearly 30 minutes each – will be screened from 3-5 pm this Sunday, May 19, while Benning himself will be on hand to speak about the works on view followed by an additional screening of Readers at 5:30 pm next Thursday, May 23. Twenty Cigarettes, which finds Benning improvising on the canon of Andy Warhol’s screen tests by leaving each of his 20 friendssubjects alone with the camera using the cigarette as a device to distract from the inherently self-conscious action of being filmed, will be shown next Sunday, May 26. Other films featured in “James Benning: Quilts, Cigarettes & Dirt (Portraits of America)” will be screened at multiple Santa Barbara venues throughout the duration of the exhibition. Visit www. mcasantabarbara.org/upcomingevents for dates and times. WHEN: Reception 5-8 pm tonight; exhibit through July 14 WHERE: 653 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the shopping center (Chapala St. entrance) COST: free INFO: (805) 966-5373 or www. mcasantabarbara.org FRIDAY, MAY 17 Funk Zone Art Walk – The Long Game, an exhibition of sculpture, installation, textile, and printmaking

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that embodies the concept that choices we make today can connect to intentional desired outcomes, has its opening reception tonight at The Arts Fund Gallery (205-C Santa Barbara St.), where curator Charles Donelan mounted the flipside show “Unintended Consequences” where the artists’ work incorporated chance and flux in response to a rapidly changing world. The Long Game will feature work by Claudia Borfiga, Inga Guzyte, Barbara Parmet, and Blakeney Sanford. You can also get a sneak preview of The Arts Fund’s Teen Arts Mentorship Program “Self-Expression Through Painting” class at Studio One Eleven (111- Santa Barbara St.)… The monthly walkabout in the sea adjacent neighborhood, started five years ago to highlight the area’s vibrant artistic community and support local businesses, also features “Motility” at MichaelKate Interiors and Art Gallery (132 Santa Barbara St.), with new work from its former curator, Brad Nack, as well as pieces by Tom Post, Rick Doehring, and Douglas DaFoe… A collection of local artists will be showing and selling their work in the taproom at Topa Topa Brewing Co. (120 Santa Barbara St.) where Nyrus will spin music all evening…. “Psyche & the 4th Estate” is the latest interactive art experience at Funk Factory (208 Gray Ave.), just across the street from “One Famous Hole,” featuring new visual and audio works by One Famous Hole, at Gone Gallery, 16 – 23 May 2019

SATURDAY, MAY 18 Skins and Songs – Dave Tull has long had some pretty decent “day jobs” serving as drummer for a number of famous singers and instrumentalists, including his current gig keeping the beat for Barbra Streisand since 2016, including on her latest CD and Netflix special Barbra – The Music… The Mem’ries… The Magic!... Before that, he toured for a decade as drummer and lead vocalist for Chuck Mangione, played the skins on four of Michael Bublé’s CDs, and toured and recorded two CDs with Maynard Ferguson from 1987-91. But over the last 10 years he’s also stepped out and built a reputation as a gifted jazz singer and songwriter, with lots of appearance with his trio at jazz festivals and clubs. It’s in that role that Tull returns to the Santa Barbara for the Jazz Society’s monthly show at SOhO, where his beat-keeping skills will be on display along with his tunes, which are written in the American songbook style and often infused with humor, as indicated by the titles of his two CDs as a leader: 2010’s I Just Want To Get Paid! and last year’s Texting and Driving. Hopefully, you won’t be engaged in the latter activity on your way to the downtown music club for the afternoon affair. WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 general, $15 SBJS members, $7 members who are local professional jazz musicians or full-time students INFO: 9627776 / www.sohosb.com or 687-7123 / www.sbjazz.org

and “Mixed Messages,” with single works by new manager Ruth Ellen Hoag & Friends (including abstract artist Peggy Ferris) to celebrate the GraySpace Gallery’s reopening (both at 219 Gray Ave.)... Also on the 15 gallery slate is “The Hear of Montecito,” a show with special meaning for the village, featuring Paula Re’s Reflections on the 2018 Montecito Debris Flows at The Blue Door (4 E. Yanonali St.) WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: The Funk Zone, loosely bordered by State Street, Cabrillo Blvd., Garden Street, and the 101 COST: free INFO: www.artsfundsb. org/blog/may-17-funk-zone-art-walkfree-community-event SATURDAY, MAY 18 Goldroom at the Top – It’s no accident that West of the West, the full-length debut from Josh Legg, the L.A.-based songwriter-producer who goes by Goldroom, bends the boundaries of electronic music to

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WATER FRONT (Continued from page 5) and up to $69 billion for the total project cost, threatens to bankrupt DWR and its 29 water customers. The project would not produce one drop of new water.

In the 1990s, DWR oversaw the construction of the Coastal Branch of the California Aqueduct designed to improve the water security of Santa Barbara and surrounding environs at an estimated cost of $270 million. Construction costs alone were $595 million; expenditures for our Coastal Branch are anticipated to reach $1.76 billion by 2035.

Senator Hannah- Beth Jackson; State Assemblymember Monique Limon and Congressman Salud Carbajal – all openly pro-environment and anti-oil and natural gas drilling – to meet with senior Chevron and Exxon-Mobil oil and natural gas officials who own drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel.

Include leaders from the environmental community and notable private business leaders who are world-class engineers and infrastructure builders with ties to our community such as Steve Bechtel (Bechtel Corporation), Ken Stinson (Kiewit Corp), and Jim Dehlsen (Aquantis).

Thinking Outside-the-Box: A New Solution

Water Factory Funding

Precipitation does not fall where and when we need water. Shipping water from Northern California to Southern California is an antiquated solution.

Montecito enjoys the world’s biggest reservoir in the world, the Pacific Ocean, right on our front doorstep. It is larger than all the world’s land masses combined. The Pacific Ocean was built by nature at no cost to ratepayers.

Conversely, any new reservoir built today in California today could cost a billion dollars, at minimum.

The Pacific Ocean covers 60 million square miles (30% of the Earth’s surface) with an average depth of 1,300 feet and contains almost 2 trillion acre-feet (1,973,000,000,000 AF) of water. It is constantly being replenished. Unlike oil or natural gas, water is constantly recycled through evaporation, rainfall, fog, rivers, groundwater storage, and extraction.

Turning Oil into Water: Off-Shore Water Factories

All fossil fuel production in the Santa Barbara Channel has long been contentious. Platform Holly, just two miles off Haskell’s Beach, joins six other oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel to be permanently shut down and removed. The decommissioning cost to oil companies is estimated at $500 million, or more, per platform.

Four options are being considered: (1) Remove the platforms and their sub-structures completely at an enormous cost per platform; (2) Convert the platforms to marine biology labs to nurture 45 species of fish and hundreds of thousands of endangered invertebrates; (3) Reconfigure the platforms for alternative energy production (wind, wave or solar); or (4) Create artificial reefs for the marine life by retaining that portion of the platform that is below the ocean’s surface.

Platform Holly’s drilling wells are to be capped at an initial cost of $350 million, with the work to be completed no earlier than 2021. Before shutting down operations in 2015, Holly’s 30 wells on its one-acre platform, descended more than 200 feet before piercing the ocean’s floor. They then spidered-out nearly 10,000 feet in all directions, to extract a mixture of both water and natural gas.

Creating an Off-Shore Water Factory

Is it possible for south county leadership – Supervisors Das Williams, Gregg Hart, Joan Hartman, Peter Adam, and Steve Lavagnino (Chair); State 5.

Water Factory funding could be provided by drilling companies, already facing billions of dollars in decommissioning costs. Retain the platforms by converting them into giant water factories and Marine Biology Labs that use existing drills to extract sub-ocean floor water. Pass the extracted water through underseas reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to remove salt and other impurities and deliver desalinated water through existing pipelines to urban users along the California Coast. There are no adverse environmental effects from a water spill. Eliminate our current dependency on the State Water System. In a gesture of nobility, coastal cities could cede or sell all their State Water (and its associated costs) to inland cities and inland agricultural interests who need it more.

To attract oil and gas company interest, government might promise a slowdown in the shutdown of natural gas well production, reducing decommissioning costs, offering fast-track permitting for Water Factories, promoting low-cost energy (wind, wave, solar, or natural gas), freedom from environmental lawsuits, state and county government support and Coastal Commission approval for approved plans to turn oil into water. The challenge would be to produce and deliver desalinated water to south coast users for free, or at a maximum cost of $2,000 per acre-foot (which is still twice the cost of desalinated water in Israel).

Water Factories could be owned by oil companies, or government, or public/ private partnerships, or private contractors such as Poseidon/IDE, which might be willing to sell desalinated water at a fixed contracted low-price per acre foot.

Could community environmentalists accept the formation of Water Factories on former oil platforms? Could oil companies accept the capital and operating costs of Water Factories in lieu of platform decommissioning costs, or in return for extended leases to extract natural gas?

Are off-shore Water Factories an idea that excites courageous political leaders to initiate exploratory talks between platform owners and/or potential water makers, business leaders and the environmental community to end Central Coast drought worries forever and bring water security to residents at a more affordable cost to ratepayers without one dime of public investment? As Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson has said, “Encouraging dialogue is what we need to move beyond the old way of doing things.” Is this an issue for Das Williams to pursue in order to polish his credentials as an innovative and effective dealmaker? Let me know what you think. Email me at bobhazard@gmail.com. •MJ

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

6.4 Application of Rate: Bidder must pay the higher rate if there is a conflict between the federal and state rate for a trade.

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

11.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at the Santa Barbara Airport Administration Office located at 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, at 10:00 a.m. for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

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Minimum Qualifications. Only bids from qualified bidders will be accepted. Minimum qualification forms are contained within and must be submitted with bid response. Following are the minimum qualifications for this project: a.

Security Contractor must provide documentation as part of the bid response to indicate a minimum of two (2) security project’s worth of experience within the last five (5) years in Commercial Airports in the USA.

b.

Security Contractor must be certified at the highest level by the software manufacturer of the system being proposed by the Security Contractor. Proof of such certifications must be included with bid response documents.

c.

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Security Contractor must have all of the necessary licenses to install security equipment required by authorities having jurisdiction. Contractor must provide proof of current licensure as part of the bid response.

Requirements for Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This project contains Sensitive Security Information (SSI). SSI is information that, if publicly released, would be detrimental to transportation security, as defined by Federal Regulation 49 C.F.R. Part 1520. To receive conditional access to project SSI, the bidder is required to read, agree to, sign, and notarize the Santa Barbara Airport NonDisclosure Agreement (NDA) available in the Public Bid Documents. The signed, notarized NDA shall be submitted to Airport Administration via mail at 601 Firestone Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93117, or via email at kreed@santabarbaraca.gov. Upon receipt of a notarized, approved NDA, the Airport will provide password protected SSI project documents to the individual responsible for SSI documents security and privacy. The password provided for SSI documents will be unique to each approved NDA. The bidder signing the NDA is responsible for ensuring all terms of the NDA are met. At the completion of the project, all SSI documents must be returned to the Airport or otherwise destroyed by shredding or permanent deletion as appropriate.

By: ___________________________________

Date: ________________

William Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) May 15, 2019 Montecito Journal

2) May 22, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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attempted burglary being investigated at Kaiser Pharmacy in the City of Oxnard. In the event that the suspect(s) could be headed to Santa Barbara County, Sheriff’s Coastal Patrol Bureau deputies conducted a check of pharmacies in the area.

No suspicious activity was noticed at any of the pharmacies, including the San Ysidro Pharmacy located in the 1400 block of East Valley Road in Montecito.

At approximately 5:30 am, Sheriff’s deputies received a call of a burglary in progress at the San Ysidro Pharmacy.

When deputies arrived, they noticed that the front glass door to the business was shattered. Additional deputies arrived along with officers from the California Highway Patrol and Santa Barbara Police Department. A perimeter was secured and the inside of the business was searched. No one was inside. The pharmacy owner confirmed that several prescription medications had been stolen.

The investigation reveals that there are three suspects associated with this crime. The men were all wearing hoodies and were last seen driving away in a white Honda or Nissan sedan. The case is under investigation.

Anyone with information that could assist investigators is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Criminal Investigations Division at 805-681-4150. To leave an anonymous tip, please call 805-6814171 or online at www.sbsheriff.org/ home/anonymous-tip/.

Chief Lori Lunhow, along with many first responders and political officials. After David Gonzalez sings the National Anthem, there’ll be a color guard, an invocation, and recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, the 1187 CVR eateries (Renaud’s, The Juice Ranch, Ca’Dario, Scoop, and Khao Kaeng) will serve lunch to all those invited (but, sorry, not the public).

There are two smaller flags still available (3 ft x 5 ft) and they run $2,000, completely tax-deductible if you want one, call 805-969-0695. In any case, we’ll see you at the dedication ceremony on May 22.

•MJ

The flag, created and designed by retired firefighter John Carrillo, is on display at 1187 Coast Village Road, day and night

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Dedicating the Flag

It’s a U.S. flag that measures seven feet by nine feet, was designed by retired firefighter John Carrillo, and is composed of fire hoses and couplings that were actually used fighting the Thomas Fire. A separate display case holds another smaller length of fire hose containing the signatures of every firefighter involved in fighting the blaze, the largest ever in California at the time. You can view them both in the corner window at 1187 Coast Village Road.

The flag was installed on the oneyear anniversary of extinguishing the blaze and has since not only been enshrined in its own shadow box, but also lit up at night. Another flag of the same size is on display (and permanently installed) at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

It was announced during a short meeting recently at Renaud’s on Coast Village Road with 1187 CVR co-owner (along with Richard Rosin) Hank Hurst and John and Hazel Blankenship that a dedication of the flag is planned for Wednesday, May 22, beginning at 11 am. Invitees include Montecito Fire Department Chief Chip Hickman, Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara City Police 16 – 23 May 2019

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(805) 969-1944 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED K-PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes. For more information info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415.

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LUCKY’S . . . for lunch • Smaller Plates and Starter Salads •

• Main Course Salads •

Iceberg Lettuce Wedge ....................................................................10 roquefort or thousand island dressing

Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz................................................................... 27 arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion

Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette.... 12 Caesar Salad..................................................................................... 12 Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette................................................. 12 Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta ............................................... 12 Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs)........................................................ 18 Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce.................................................. 12 Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, evoo....................................................15 French Onion Soup Gratinée ......................................................... 12 Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup ..................................................10 Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread............................14

Seafood Louie ....................................................................................32 two shrimp, 4 oz. crab, egg, romaine, tomato ,cucumber, avocado

Fried Calamari, two sauces ............................................................. 12 Lucky Meatballs, tomato sauce, grilled ciabatta...........................15

Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing .......................................................20 Chopped Salad ...................................................................................18 arugula, radicchio, shrimp, prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad................................................... 27 Old School Chinese Chicken Salad ................................................20 Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day .....................................22 Lucky’s Salad .................................................................................... 19 romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort

• Sandwiches • Fries, Farm Greens or Caesar

• Tacos and other Mains •

Lucky Burger, choice of cheese, soft bun or kaiser ...................... 20 Vegetarian Burger, choice of cheese .............................................. 20 soft bun or kaiser (burger patty is vegan)

Chicken, Swordfish or Steak Tacos .................................................22 beans, guacamole, salsa, tortillas

Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. .......................27 mushroom sauce

Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries ...... 19 Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce ............................22 imported mozzarella, basil

Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye ............. 20

Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed ...........................................22 lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach

Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side ....................14 Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll ..................... 29

Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes ..........18 Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz. ...............................................29 red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel .........................20 cream cheese & condiments

Grilled Chicken Breast Club on a Soft Bun ................................ 20 bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado

• Sides • Skinny Onion Rings or Herbie’s Potato Skins ................................9 Lucky’s Home Fries or Fried Sweet Potatoes ..................................9 Lucky’s Half & Half .......................................................................... 10 Sautéed Spinach or Sugar Snap Peas ...............................................9

Our Corkage Fee is $35 per 750ml bottle with a 2-bottle limit per table • 20% Gratuity added to parties of six or more