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Happily ever after: Michael Hammer marries Misty Willard in Cayman Islands, p. 6
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 21 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 41 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45
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Step By Step
Dadiana owner Diane Meehan puts best feet forward at Dance Fever Studio and waltzes away with top prize, p.37
Happy 70th Birthday
Music Academy’s Summer Festival celebrates seven extraordinary decades of recitals, events, and live competitions, p.20
Goodbye, Chris
He was a terrific kid who, though knocked hard by a catastrophic illness, handled it with forbearance and grace, p.26
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Coming & Going
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Letters to the Editor
Scientist and skydiver Julian Nott breaks sky-high record; Diane Meehan chronicles the Emerald Ball; and artist Paul Day Michael Hammer’s wedding; Alicia St. John poses; meteorologist Meredith Garofalo; Caribbean-style party; Farmers and Merchants; Steve Martin on fatherhood; museum Costume Council lunch; Dream Foundation’s Summer Dream; Chairman’s Council gala; Bach by candlelight; Ryan Seacrest vs Katy Perry; Gwyneth Paltrow update; and climber Kevin Jorgeson What we have here isn’t a failure to communicate: instead, there’s copious correspondence from MJ readers including Helen Larsen, H.T. Bryan, Tim Scott, Art Thomas, Diane Graham, Matt McLaughlin, Steven Gilbar, and Diana Thorn
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Last day of school; Knit ‘N Needle; MBAR meeting; The New Yorker; MUS last day; Spanish group; free music; Harout Performance Company; Decrypting Russia; MUS Board; MA meets; Happiness & Meditation; Legos; Summerland yoga; tips for seniors; Sunset Sips; juggling at library; Susan St. John; and mindfulness retreat
Tide Guide
Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach
12 Village Beat
Vacation rentals banned, with exceptions; YMCA announces new project plans; and Montecito resident receives philanthropic award
13 Meet The Teacher
Sigrid Toye goes to the head of the class at Cold Spring School, courtesy of science instructor Jean Gradias, whose Second Grade Native Garden is in bloom
14 Seen Around Town
Lynda Millner chronicles the Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) Mother’s Day Luncheon; Casa Del Herrero barbecue; Adobe Houses book; and Heart Ball
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Steven Libowitz summarizes Music Academy of the West’s 2017 Summer Festival as part of MAW’s 70th year; Christopher O’Riley of NPR; Ojai Music Fest; and SB Master Chorale
21 Brilliant Thoughts
Fair’s fair: Ashleigh Brilliant expounds on playing the game of life as he cites history and The Bible, while ending his column on a poetic note
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22 Spirituality Matters
Steven Libowitz previews Dale Halaway’s Relationship ‘N You; Finding Love workshop; Noell Grace right at home; meditation with music; and Mark Nepo
23 Our Town
She got the beat: Joanne Calitri reviews Girls Rock SB’s 100 Women Strong plus Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience concert at Greek Theater Hollywood
26 In Passing
Personal recollections and tributes dedicated to Silvio Dante Di Loreto and Christopher Guadagnini, who recently passed away
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28 Your Westmont
“Out of Place” features local artists at the museum and youth summer camps fill up quickly
29 On Entertainment
Steven Libowitz asks questions about ETC’s presentation of Syncopation, and director Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill has all the answers
32 The Way It Was
Hattie Beresford dusts off her historic spotlight for Western artist (John) Edward Borein, whose work is showcased at SB Historical Museum’s Borein Gallery
38 Legal Advertising 41 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events
UCSB music; The Commodores at Chumash; Lobero hosts jazz concert; singer Penny Nichols; Harmony All-Stars; SB Public Library; Boston rocks the Bowl; Jon Mayer Quartet; and Marc McGinnes at Chaucer’s
45 Real Estate View
With summer on the horizon, Michael Phillips feels the heat, specifically the Montecito Heat Index score, down 10 percent from a year ago
Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising
Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
47 Local Business Directory
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Coming
A Record Jump
& Going Special to the Journal
The single-engine plane that took Julian Nott and his instructor up to nearly 32,000 feet, courtesy of Sky Dance Skydiving at Yolo County Airport in Davis, California
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any people have a skydive on their bucket list as a oncein-a-lifetime event. But for Julian Nott, scientist, engineer, and extreme sport balloonist, skydiving is just another part of his routine training. And oh, by the way, he frequently breaks a world record while he’s at it. On May 18, 2017, he did just that, breaking the World Altitude Record Civilian Tandem jump at 31,916 feet. Nott has broken 79 world records and 96 British records, all in ballooning. He has exceeded 55,000 feet in a hot-air balloon, and one of the craft
he designed was recently installed on permanent exhibition in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum at Dulles Airport. While his records span many classes – hot air, helium, super pressure, and combination balloons – and encompass altitude, distance, and time aloft, none are for skydiving, until now. In a recent routine, two-day training session in Davis, California, Nott and his colleagues worked with the team at Sky Dance Skydiving. A typical
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Well, Isle be Darned Michael Hammer tied the knot with fiancée, Misty Willard, in the Cayman Islands
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rt and car collecting Montecito philanthropist Michael Hammer tied the knot with his fiancée, Misty Willard, in a spur-of-the-moment ceremony in the Cayman Islands, I can exclusively reveal. “I was tired of being engaged, and we organized the wedding in less than a week,” Michael tells from the Caribbean island of Grand Cayman, where he lived in the ‘90s and brought up his two sons, actor Armie and financial expert Viktor, from his marriage to Dru Ann Mobley. “The wedding gown was made in less than a week by a local tailor, and the ceremony took place at the 18th century Pedro St. James Castle, with just ten friends attending, including Mark Alfano and David Smith from Montecito, and Alex Menzel from Brazil. We’ll have a bigger party when I get back to Montecito.” For Michael, 61, it is his second marriage and the first for Misty, who he has known for six years and formerly worked at the Biltmore and San Ysidro Ranch. The tony twosome got engaged in August last year, with Michael gifting her with a magnificent seven-and-a-half carat diamond ring, as I exclusively revealed in this illustrious organ. “We’ve been trying to arrange a wedding for ages, but with Armie’s
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Michael Hammer’s bride, Misty Willard, being whisked by helicopter to the Grand Cayman nuptials
High above the Caribbean as Michael Hammer and Misty Willard celebrate their wedding
filming schedule, it has been difficult, so I just decided to take the plunge. It has been a true Robinson Crusoe experience for all of us. “I’ve never been happier. My life is finally complete.”
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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net
Breaking the Bank
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ou and Jan Evans with your combined efforts (“Why California is Broke,” MJ #23/20) performed a major feat in research and publishing to get the lists of all the agencies that are sucking the taxpayers’ money out of their pockets. Congratulations on a difficult task performed well. Now, if the California governmental swamp is cleared, we will be a lot better off. Helen Larsen Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Ms Larsen is a broker with Helen Larsen Realty. We also note that Mr. Buckley had nothing to do with compiling the list and that Ms Evans merely forwarded it to me, though the list is indicative of what goes wrong when politicians grab control of the unsupervised public purse and squander taxpayer money. – J.B.)
Investigation Needed
The F.B.I. should investigate – provided one can have any real confidence in them when not investigating themselves as to national security leaks – all connections, that exist between: The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS, and the Russians, which may help to explain the Star Chamber journalism and reporting respecting president Donald Trump. It is journalism and reporting based upon innuendo, hearsay, conjecture, speculation, political opinion, sensationalism, and false narrative, with undisclosed identification of accusers and sources and non-identification of supportive factual evidence. It appears these media entities have a collective goal and desire, as do the Russians, to disrupt and destroy confidence in our government, with all their continuous daily negative Trump reporting of slanted, sensational, non-factual, gotcha news. It is suggested that in the name of factual supported news and reporting, and our nation’s future, that the aforementioned media, as well as their advertisers, be boycotted, as they are no longer acceptable to the interest and welfare of our nation and people. Their reporters and talking heads need to get real jobs, if they have the qualifications. H.T. Bryan Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The likelihood is that most people of a particular political persuasion have long ago quietly “boycotted”
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all the media outlets you highlight by never turning them on. – J.B.)
Lucky Us
President Trump promised to pick the best and brightest people to solve our problems. Among the portfolio of policy problems he wanted to solve are: brokering a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians; reimagining Veterans Affairs; reforming the criminal justice system; combating opioid abuse; reinventing the entire government to make it work like a business. Formidable goals that would challenge a host of experts. POTUS searched and searched among the best and brightest: Steve Doocy, Louie Gohmert, et al., and finally decided to give the whole lot to his 36-year-old son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has no experience with any of these issues. How lucky can we get? One of the first examples of Mr. Kushner’s judgment was his idea to establish a secret channel to the Kremlin, using the Russian Embassy diplomatic cryptographic gear to avoid detection by U.S. counter-intelligence, the same system used by Russian spies. He also caught the contagious amnesia of contact with the Russkies among Trump associates in neglecting to list his contacts with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, on his top-secret clearance form, a deception that can result in a term in federal prison. This scenario was rejected for a House of Cards episode as too fantastical. Tim Scott Montecito (Editor’s note: Perhaps Mr. Kushner would have been better off if he had just set up his own channel of information via a private server in his bathroom, a la Hillary Clinton? Oh, wait, he wasn’t secretary of state. – J.B.)
think is true, but he leaves out a very significant fact that mischaracterizes the program and causes confusion to your readers. The fact is that the ordinance states that the 250 units for the experiment are only those in the High Density (HD) Zones or Priority Overlay Zones. That means units that are mainly in the downtown core areas. He also goes on to mention that 1,282 units are proposed. While I don’t have any idea about the accuracy of that number, I am certain that there aren’t that many units being proposed in the HD and priority zones. And I am dubious about his claim that 18 projects are over 45 feet in height, since in the ABR and HLC hearings I have watched there has not seen a single one over 45 feet in height, which I think is a limit in the city charter. Perhaps Mr. Davis and your reporter could research the actual ordinance and print the real facts rather than getting people worked up over misinformation. Like Mark Twain is reported to have stated, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” Art Thomas Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I believe MJ and Kelly Mahan Herrick and Denice Adams
have supplied more solid information to the public about the AUD or ADU mandates than just about anybody in the area. – J.B.)
Copyright Traps
My husband is new to the area and enjoys his daily walks on and around the Coast Village Road neighborhood; we live close by on Mesa Road. Over the short time he’s been here, I think he’s traversed every street – there aren’t all that many – except one. On the map he carries in his back pocket (which is up-to-date), it shows Formosa Road intersecting High Road and Oriole Road (between Butterfly Lane and Middle Road). But in fact, there is no road there, only an old, unused-looking, locked gate as it joins Oriole Road, and an unmarked lane leading off High Road. We’ve gone online to check the latest-greatest Google maps and there too a Formosa Road appears, and alternatively it’s labeled Lane Drive. With your long time in the community and knowledge of local lore, do you know what happened to Formosa Road-Lane-Drive? Perhaps one of your readers will be able to solve the mystery and also know the “why” behind its interesting name, which
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AUD Misinformation
In a recent Village Beat column (MJ #23/22), there was a discussion about the city’s Average Unit Density program. I think that Erik Davis, who is quoted in the column, is misinformed about some aspects of that program. He states “The AUD ordinance was intended to be an experiment that ran for eight years, or created 250 units, whichever came first.” That I
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This Week in and around Montecito
THURSDAY, JUNE 15
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JUNE 8 Last Day of School Laguna Blanca Lower School and Cold Spring School students say goodbye for summer. MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker. When: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, JUNE 9 Last Day of School Montecito Union School celebrates the end of the school year. Speaking Spanish at 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, JUNE 10 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 Dance Performance Harout Performance Company presents: Possibilities, Dreams and Actions,” featuring many Montecito students. When: 2 and 8 pm Where: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo Cost: $30 in advance, $40 at the door Info: 963-0408 MONDAY, JUNE 12 Luncheon & Lecture Channel City Club presents Anton Barbashin and Olga Irisova, who will speak on: “Decrypting Russia Three Years after Crimea.” Russia has become a different country since it annexed Crimea three years ago. By breaching international law, its relations with the West are now fraught with tension. In a bid to reduce interdependence on Europe, Russia has touted its pivot to Asia and its Eurasian Economic Union, but success has been slow. Inside Russia, three years of economic stagnation have followed that historic takeover
Sunset Sips Guests can drink in the view – and local wine – at Sunset Sips, evening summer events held at the Santa Barbara Zoo’s scenic hilltop this summer. This year brings more local wineries, more live music, more tasty treats, and more art by local artists. New this year are “The Wine Down”, post-“Sips” talks by local food and wine experts. When: 5:30 to 8 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $30 Info: www.sbzoo.org of 2014. Within the government bureaucracy itself, power struggles are underway: new ideologies and new faces are jostling for prominence. The discussion will be based on the speakers’ analyses of these trends and more. It includes studies of anti-Americanism, Russia’s military doctrine and military modernization plans, migration, the increasing “weaponization” of history, and the government’s attempts to build a new “Crimean consensus” with Russian society, a reworked social contract emphasizing traditional values and a different understanding of human rights to that in the West and more. When: check-in begins at 11:30 am Where: Fess Parker Resort, Reagan Room Cost: $40 for members, $45 for non-members; reservations required Info: www.channelcityclub.org TUESDAY, JUNE 13 Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 8:30 to 11 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road
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Happiness & Meditation Happiness & Meditation will offer numerous tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness, and well-being. It is an interactive and experiential stress-buster session where participants will have the opportunity to experience energizing breathing technique and relaxing meditation; experience alertness and relaxation at the same time. No experience in breathing exercises or meditation is required. When: noon to 12:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Build with Legos Drop in and build a fun Lego creation using your imagination. Lego building fosters creativity and is a fun way to build on early literacy skills. All materials are provided and no experience is necessary. When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation THURSDAY, JUNE 15
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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 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JUNE 16 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, JUNE 17
Book Signing at Tecolote Susan St. John releases and signs her novel, Mad Mischief, the haunting tale of one woman’s adventure to the edge of her own sanity and an unforgettable testament of her indomitable spirit to survive. Featuring the beauty and primal power of Sub-Saharan Africa, Sarah embarks on an elite safari, unaware of the precarious entanglements that await her, setting the stage for a story of love, deceit, power, obsession and ultimately, escape and redemption. Event will include a brief reading by MJ columnist Richard Mineards. When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road RSVP: madmischiefmarketing@gmail. com SUNDAY, JUNE 18
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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.
Short-Term Rentals Banned, with Exceptions
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t a packed hearing on Tuesday, June 6, the Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors conceptually voted to ban Short Term Rentals (STRs) in most zones in the unincorporated areas of the County, including Montecito. After a staff presentation about different scenarios regarding the impact of STRs in the County, dozens of people spoke on both sides of the issue, including Montecito Land Use chair Cori Hayman, who reiterated the Association’s position of banning STRs completely in residential zones. The conceptual decision is also in alignment with both the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission and Montecito Planning Commission recommendations. According to staff from the County’s Long Range Planning Division, it’s estimated that Transiency Occupancy Tax (TOT) revenue from STRs is roughly $1.5M per year, and 26% of that is from STRs in Montecito, 24% is from Santa Ynez, and 14% is from Eastern Goleta Valley. The TOT tax does not include other significant income gleaned from increased tourism in the county, according to some of the public speakers in favor of regulation (not a ban) of STRs. Many speakers were from the wine industry in Santa Ynez and said that STRs are a vital part of their business, attracting tourists who wish to rent an entire home instead of a hotel room. Also speaking on behalf of STRs: vacation rental management company owners, explaining that if the County imposes a ban, the homes they manage will not turn into long-term rentals. “My clients are people who want to use their properties for their own vacations, and if banned, the rentals will switch to 30-day rentals so they may still use them,” said an owner of a local vacation rental company. Those in favor of a ban included several Montecito residents, who said transient use of homes in residential districts goes against the Montecito Community Plan. Sybil Rosen, who has led the charge against STRs in Montecito for the last five years, told the supervisors that transient use of properties is detrimental to the culture of Montecito. The supervisors voted 3-2 on a conceptual ban of STRs in residential zones, with Janet Wolf, Das Williams, and Joan Hartmann voting in favor of a ban, and Steve Lavagnino and Peter Adam voting against it. “To
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me, the overriding consideration over fiscal issues, neighborhood nuisance, zoning, and community and neighborhood feel, is housing availability,” said First District Supervisor Williams. “It is not my job to facilitate people owning second homes in this community. It is very much my job to make sure that people who work here might be able to afford a home here, and that current residents can stay in their homes,” he said. Supervisor Wolf agreed, saying lack of housing stock for long-term renters, who work in the county but have to commute every day, is a significant issue for her. Supervisor Lavagnino suggested creating a system to regulate vacation rentals rather than banning them, citing financial reasons and the County’s existing $40-million deficit. “We need a revenue stream to create enforcement,” he said, adding that he takes issue with the ban in relation to Measure B, which increased TOT from 10% to 12%. “It seems like a complete bait and switch, that we are going to kick just about the same amount of money out the back door. Why wouldn’t we be looking at someone to chase down the STRs that aren’t paying TOT instead of banning them?” he said. Supervisor Adam concurred, saying the County continually “lops off large chunks of tax revenue” through over- regulation. “I think this is just over the top,” he said. The supervisors settled on conceptually allowing homestays in most zones, including residential. With a 5-0 vote, the supervisors agreed this type of STR is more conducive to neighborhoods, as the owner (or a long-term tenant) must inhabit the same parcel at the same time as the transient occupant. “My priority is to allow people to stay in their homes, and if that means they have to short-term rent a portion of it to pay their mortgage, that’s my priority,” Supervisor Williams said. County staff will look at regulation of homestays, including whether they will require a conditional use permit or business license, rules about number of guests, safety standards, parking limitations, and what portion of their property can be rented (cabanas, pool houses, guest houses, et cetera). Those details will be discussed at a future hearing. The board also agreed to conceptually allow STRs in an historic overlay
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MEET THE TEACHER
Makayla Sears (left) and Fianna Peterson served as Sigrid’s Native Garden guides
by Sigrid Toye, Ph.D. Ms Toye is a former L.A. Unified School District teacher and has worked as an educational-behavior therapist in private practice since 1979.
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sunny morning in June couldn’t have been more perfect for a special group of creative youngsters at Cold Spring School. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for their Second Grade Native Garden, a project that had been months in planning, was about to take place. The garden was conceived and created by the students as part of the STEM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) curriculum of integrated learning. I had the honor of being invited by science teacher Jean Gradias, who spearheaded the project, along with a group of parents, Cold Spring students, and community partners. As I approached the garden, the children’s actual planning diagrams and charts were on display near an array of cookies in the shape of trees, birds, flowers, and butterflies; they were baked and beautifully decorated by Jean as special treats for those of us in attendance. As the parents and students gathered, second-grade teacher Johanna Thorpe and her assistant
Cold Spring science teacher Jean Gradias (left) and second-grade teacher Johanna Thorpe cut the ribbon
Susan Iwanaga brought their class to a place near a blazing red ribbon just waiting to be cut. Jean opened the ceremony with a
remark that summed up the entire occasion: “When you tell an eightyear-old ,’Yes’ – look what can happen! The level of community ownership and school pride,” she continued, “that we experience today reminds me of how awesome these kids are and how special Cold Spring School is. As a teacher and a parent, I am so grateful to be on this journey with you all.” Amid appreciative applause, Jean introduced the class and called upon individual students to share what they had learned during the months of planning. Hands went up and little
voices made comments such as, “I learned a lot about plants,” “We made a place for butterflies and birds,” “It was fun learning new stuff and digging around”, and one little girl said, “I learned that it was important to stick with it, ‘cause when you have a big project you have to start with the little things.” The most frequent comment from those small voices was that they learned to work as a team, to be flexible as they collaborated to complete a project in which they all took enormous pride.
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he 16th annual Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) Mother’s Day Luncheon kicked off at the Coral Casino La Pacifica Ballroom with 400 guests. VNHC always has a fun fashion show served with mimosas during the welcome reception. This year, our models were five families with three generations from each – guys, gals, and toddlers. K. frank and Nurture Cottage on Coast Village Road lent their clothes to the McCarthy-Frank family, DunhamKarr family, Matthews-Moorman family, Orzek-Freedman family and the Parker family. Walter Claudio styled the hair and makeup. Pamela Dillman Haskell was the commentator and her assistant was DD Howard Andrew Firestone, who took to the runway last to get bids for the live auction – a trip to New York to see Broadway’s Wicked or a Deer Valley, Utah, trip to a 5-bedroom mountain home. As we went inside for lunch, mention has to be made of the dining room, which had been draped in beige to show off the gorgeous centerpieces of mixed bouquets of pastel spring flowers done by the Hogue & Co. They have a special touch. The bou-
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VNHC Mother’s Day honoree Jane Habermann with husband Norm Ms Millner is the author of The Magic Makeover, Tricks for Looking Thinner, Younger and More Confident – Instantly. If you have an event that belongs in this column, you are invited to call Lynda at 969-6164.
quets were going to be delivered to past honored moms after the luncheon. The remembered mother was Leni Fe Bland and the honored mother Jane Habermann. Leni was almost 100 when she passed in 2014. She was beloved by all for her never-ending support of the arts. She was a big donor to the Granada and the New Victoria Hall. She helped found State Street Ballet, was a donor to CAMA, the symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, UCSB Arts & Lectures, and on and on. She was also involved in the Rescue Mission. She deserves all accolades. She used to say, “Everything you do for yourself, you take with you. Everything you do for others, you leave behind.” I met Jane when I first came to Santa Barbara in the ‘70s because we were both Gamma Phi Betas in the alum group. Since then, she has accom8 – 15 June 2017
plished so much including director emeritus of VNHC, past VNHC board chair, and Serenity House Campaign co-chair. She was the daughter of a country doctor in North Dakota and learned the value of home health care while accompanying her dad on house calls. We shouldn’t forget she was also a state champion barrel racer. Her mom was the first honored mother in 2002. Jane is a past board member of the Santa Barbara Foundation and an emeritus member of the SBCC foundation. She has amassed many awards along the way. Thank you, Jane, for all you do – and I’m proud to be called one of your pals. The Men’s Night that the late Peter Murphy founded to underwrite this luncheon still carries on in his name. Chris Toomey was this year’s host. It has raised nearly half a million dollars throughout the years. The invitation and program artwork was done by Victoria Hines, which set the tone for the floral bouquets in the banquet room. VNHC Foundation executive director Rick Keith spoke, as did passion speaker Angel Speier. She told of how VNHC helped her when her husband was dying and joked, “There was no serenity at Serenity House when my kids were visiting.” President and CEO Lynda Tanner was not only there, she bid and won in the live auction.
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Casa Del Herrero Barbecue
I’m sure George Steedman, who built Casa Del Herrero in the 1920s would be surprised to see the barbecue he built was still in use almost 100 years later. The estate is now open to the public for tours and has a corps of docents to give them. Each spring, we have a gathering using Steedman’s old barbecue to cook the sausages that he also served, and there’s red and white wine. He had a small winery underneath his workshop – just one of his many projects.
This year, Ann Wiltzius chaired the event helped by Lore Dobler, Carolyn Williams, and Jo Thompson. I always love the flowers on the picnic tables. The vases are large tomato cans, and the flowers grow somewhere on the 11 acres. Jessica Tade is the executive director just back from maternity leave. If you’d like a tour, call (805) 5655653. The Casa is located at 1387 East Valley Road near the upper village. All the family’s furnishings remain in place.
Adobe Houses
Kathryn Masson’s book Adobe Houses: Homes of Sun and Earth was the subject of a lecture at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM). Casa del Herrero docents who worked to put on a barbecue: Lore Dobler, Carolyn Williams, event chair Ann Wiltzius, and Jo Thompson
Dr. Jarrell Jackman wrote the book introduction. He is somewhat of an adobe expert, having been the director of the Presidio for 30 years, which yielded 100,000 adobe bricks for the restoration. The beautiful photographs were by David Glomb, and the prestigious New York book publisher was Rizzoli. What better place for the lecture than Covarrubias adobe at SBHM? Director of research Michael Redmon introduced Kathryn who told us, “There are eleven Santa Barbara adobes pictured in the book. The rest are in California.” She is an expert on California architecture and has written 10 books. She showed us slides and explained their origin. Jarrell told us that adobes actually began in Europe. When he went back to Slovakia to find where his grandfather lived, it was in an adobe. He also said they need another 100,000 bricks to finish the Presidio. He’s leaving that for the next generation. Then it was time for wine and yummy croissant sandwiches in the courtyard, with Kathryn signing her books for the guests. You’ll want to check out the new exhibit that just opened in May dedicated to Edward Borein, the famous
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district, most likely to be determined to be the coastal zone between Miramar Beach and Padaro Lane. Farmstays and homestays will be allowed in agricultural zones. Detailed ordinance language will be brought back to the board at a later date. Also to be discussed at a future hearing: the enforcement of the ban, which will not be in effect until September 2018, in order to accommodate existing reservations.
YMCA Unveils New Plans
At this month’s Montecito Association Land Use meeting, Montecito YMCA reps unveiled a new conceptual iteration of a Master Plan project, after nearly nine years of working on a plan to renovate, enhance, and expand the existing facilities on the 4.25-acre Santa Rosa Lane site. YMCA executive director Mike Yamasaki told the audience and the committee that the Montecito Y is celebrating its 60th anniversary and has been at its current location since 1966. He showed a brochure from the capital campaign undertaken by former executive director Phil Lyons in the 1960s, which outlined an expansion of facilities in the future. “Since 1966, we’ve been trying to realize a dream,
Montecito’s YMCA is in dire need of upgrading, according to reps; a new renovation plan was unveiled this week
which is to provide the Montecito community an outstanding facility that will serve the community for years to come,” Yamasaki said. “And yes, we’ve had to make some changes along the way.” Brian Banks of Siemens Planning told the committee that the new project reflects the key concerns of the 2013 Master Plan submittal, including mass, bulk, and scale of the buildings, parking and traffic impacts, increased
membership, and noise impact on neighbors. The main issue became the parking, with last year’s failure at the County Parks Commission, where reps could not come to a parking agreement with Manning Park for overflow parking. Now, the new project has 100 spaces parked on-site, with a 33% reduction of building square footage. To achieve
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Motor Running Montecito author Alicia St. John, who tootles around our rarefied enclave in her vintage MG sports car, has become a cover girl. She has landed on the front of Moss Motoring Magazine, featured with Santa Barbara legend Roy Miller and Moss Motors’s King of Tech, Kelvin Dodd. The cover and feature article highlights the comeback story of Alicia’s bright-red 1958 MGA competition racer, which was destroyed 10 years ago in Los Angeles in a violent act of arson. “I had owned and restored the car under the tutelage of Moss Motors co-founder Mike Goodman, since the age of 21,” says Alicia. “My car was neither a toy nor a hobby, and its absolute destruction was devastating to me. It was my identity. “My love of classic cars was inculcated by my dashing Irish father, who had built his own cars as a young man living in 1950s Manhattan.” The complete frame off restoration, which took a total of eight years, was blueprinted and spec’ed by California Showcase Classics and completed by her own hand. “My deepest gratitude goes to Roy Miller, founder of East West Motors, a 35-year judge, including 17 years at the Pebble Beach Concourse d’Elegance. Roy was the only mechanic who would allow me to work with him and, in the process, I found my strength.” Alicia recently drove her impeccably restored auto in the Boys and Girls Club 200 miles Rally 4 Kids, sponsored by local businesses including Pierre Lafond, Wendy Foster, and the San Ysidro Pharmacy. Currently Alicia, who was chairman of the Village 4th of July parade two years ago, is creating a mentorship program for the Boys and Girls Club. The “inspire” program is an interactive TedTalks for children, drawing on mentors from the community and at no cost to the club. “It is our responsibility to inspire
KEYT weather gal Meredith Garofalo moves on
the next generation. I live each day with that goal in mind.” You go, girl. Weather or Not KEYT-TV morning weathercaster Meredith Garofalo is moving on to lusher financial pastures, The bubbly meteorologist, who has been on TV Hill for three and a half years, is becoming on-air weather girl for the national network, WeatherNation, based in Denver, Colorado. The channel is dedicated 100 percent to weather and features leading and seasoned meteorologists. “As much as I will miss my Santa Barbara family and friends, this opportunity will allow me to provide coast-to-coast updates on a more frequent and comprehensive basis,” says Meredith. “I plan on bringing the same amount of personality and energy into my forecasts with my new team.” A certified broadcast meteorologist, who was founding weather girl of the Fox affiliate morning show, Meredith has also been an active part of our Eden by Beach winning the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation’s 2016 Dancing Under the Stars championship, being a top 12 finalist in the 2014 Star Voice competition, and helping a host of organizations including Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care, American Red
Cross, the Dream Foundation, and the American Heart Association. Her last day with KEYT is Friday, June 9. My mole with the martini tells me Meredith’s replacement will be Ventura reporter Kelsey Gerckens, whose fiancé Joe Buttitta is morning-show anchor. The dynamic duo, who live in Oxnard, won the CBS show The Amazing Race last year and are tying the knot in August. Big Deal Investment banker Tim Babich and his interior designer wife, Monica, opened their charming Montecito
estate, just a tiara’s toss from the San Ysidro Ranch, for a Caribbean-themed summer party for 200 guests. “This is the third year we have done this and, like Pinocchio’s nose, it’s growing and growing,” says Monica. “The first year, we had 80 invitees, last year 120 and now this.” As colorfully garbed guests swayed to the beat of a West Indian steel-drum band, cigar fans headed to the wigwam to puff on stogies and imbibe the eclectic collection of wine. Among the crowd were Tom and Heather Sturgess, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Neil and Jill Levinson, Laura
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Having fun and representing their childrens’ schools of Montecito Union, Crane and Marymount are Phillip and Tricia Pennesty, Sherri Ball, Jill Chase Knos; Joel Weiss, Crane head of school; Ashley Blevins, Konrad Cono, music teacher; Neil and Tina Wood, Dan Meisel, and Patrick McCoy (photo by Priscilla)
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Bigger and Better: MAW Turns 70
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he Music Academy of the West’s 2017 Summer Festival marks a major milestone – the 70th anniversary since its founding in 1947. From June 12 to August 5, the program brings to MAW’s Miraflores campus in Montecito nearly 140 Fellows (which is what MAW calls its students) from more than 20 states and 10 countries plus almost 70 faculty and guest artists for eight weeks of orchestral concerts, chamber music performances, a fully-produced opera, a series of recitals, several live competitions, special events, and scores of masterclasses. As might be expected to celebrate the anniversary, highlights abound, most notably the massive concert that climaxes the conclusion of MAW’s innovative partnership with the New York Philharmonic, on Monday, July 31, at SBCC’s beachside La Playa Stadium in what will be the largest classical music event in the city’s history. Led by Alan Gilbert in his final appearance as the Phil’s music director, the orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, featuring Music Academy alumni soprano
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“In MAW’s launching, there were incredible teachers and performers but also great composers in residence,” he said. “We’ve been integrating some of those back in the last five years. It’s important to not segregate the music of today from that of the past, but to put them right next to each other to give each of them context.” To that end, no fewer than 10 world or West Coast premieres are on tap this season, of which six are new MAW commissions. Among those are works by Mosher guest artist Matthew Aucoin, who made his MAW debut last summer to great acclaim, as well as alumni James Stephenson (‘88, ‘89,’91) and Joshua Roman (‘02), plus Conrad Tao, Jeremy Turner, Joseph Tompkins, and Caroline Shaw (of Roomful of Teeth, which played Hahn Hall in April). Also new this year is a Solo Piano Competition coinciding with MAW’s new designation as an All-Steinway institution denoting a permanent collection of 55 Steinway pianos on campus. An international jury including composer Timo Andres (who will also have a West Coast premiere this summer at MAW) and Steinway artist Helene Grimaud will determine the winner, who will receive a cash prize, coaching, and career advisement. The winning pianist will also be presented in a national tour performing recitals in Steinway venues across the country, with the program including the world premiere of a new work by Andres commissioned MAW. The roster of guest artists is an even more star-studded list than previous season. As pianist Jeremy Denk has signed on as a permanent faculty member, fellow pianist Stephen Hough visit MAW this summer as a Mosher guest artist, joining famed soprano Renée Fleming, countertenor David Daniels, and returning composer/conductor Aucoin. Alumni are also featured, as violinists Pamela Frank (‘83, 84) and cellists Robert deMaine (‘90) and Joshua Roman (‘02) are slated for appearances at MAW this summer.
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The Takács Quartet, who have had a longstanding relationship with MAW’s festival, now also officially joins the faculty this summer as its first String Quartet in Residence. The quartet perform an opening-night recital at Hahn Hall and returns later in the summer for the Festival Artists Series. Indeed, the first week of the festival is a whirlwind of activity above and beyond the usual frenzied schedule. Tuesday, June 13, is MAW’s annual Academy Open House, with free events all day long, including a masterclass with the Takács. June 14 brings the Voice Program Opening Night, while NPR’s From the Top with Christopher O’Riley records a podcast in tribute to MAW the next night (see feature below). Friday, June 16, marks the first of the popular Picnic Concerts, while the next day brings both the inaugural Community Chamber Concert at Santa Barbara Public Library, and the annual Brassfest in Hahn Hall, which features a Timo Andres premiere. As indicated above, MAW alumni are receiving extra attention this summer as part of the milestone festival, an intentional nod to MAW’s history of developing emerging professional artists. Even the annual opera, Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, features Speranza Scappucci (‘96) as conductor. Accordingly, the Academy is also inaugurating a new Enterprise Awards program meant to fund original ideas in artistic expression, audience development, education, and technology. All alumni are eligible to apply for awards of up to $20,000 per project by October 1. “Our Fellows are our most important ambassadors,” Posey explained. “The current Fellows are an average 23 years of age, but they’ll be leading the field for the next 50 years. We want to help support whatever ideas excite them.” Clearly, with the latest additions and ambitious new programs, it’s the audience who will be excited by the 2017 season. Get all the details about
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wo things we are taught at an early age are: (1) In all your dealings with others, try to be fair. (2) Don’t expect to be treated fairly, because Life, and the world in general, are unfair. What a cruel contradiction! Fairness is an ideal. The very word “fair” has many meanings, nearly all positive, connoting such values as personal beauty, fine weather, and impartiality. But mainly we associate fairness with justice, which has been a playground for philosophers for many centuries. Plato wrote a thick book called The Republic, attempting to define it. He concluded that justice is a condition in which everybody gets what he deserves. Fair enough – except for the question of who is going to decide what everyone deserves? But justice, in turn, has something to do with another can of worms called equality. Even if we don’t quibble about women not being mentioned, the hallowed doctrine that “All men are created equal” is patently untrue. And if you argue that it really means “equal before the law,” that concept in itself hardly makes much sense, even as an ideal, in a world where many laws change as soon as you cross a border. Nevertheless, the word “fair” has such a pleasant ring to it that it has become a byword in legislative terminology, particularly where relations between employers and employees are concerned. Thus, we have “Fair Labor Standards” and “Fair Labor Practices.” And if you ever see a group of workers with picket signs, the chances are that the word “unfair” will appear prominently in their language of protest. But what about all being fair in those two vast areas of Love and War? As far as war is concerned, despite that well-known adage (which can be traced back 500 years), there have been attempts to regulate some of its worst aspects even as long ago as Biblical times. In the Book of Deuteronomy, there are injunctions against needlessly destroying an enemy’s fruit trees, and requiring that peace be offered before laying a siege. But more recently, as wars have wreaked ever more havoc upon those formerly considered “not in the fight,” heroic attempts have been made to control some of the worst effects. Starting in 1864, a whole series 8 – 15 June 2017
of “Geneva Conventions,” signed by most countries of the world, has addressed the treatment of non-combatants, such as prisoners of war. And, beginning in 1899, another series of “Hague Conventions” has tried to regulate the actual conduct of warfare, such as the use of submarines and poison gas. Just how effective all these efforts have been is, of course, hard to quantify, but one can only suppose that, without them, things might have been even worse. But what about love? You will find no Geneva or Hague conventions attempting to venture into that territory. It seems that only religious or mystically oriented writers have been brave or foolish enough to offer their own Rules of Love (sometimes as if to emphasize their magic, the rules numbering exactly seven). But really, there can be no comparison with war. We all know that love is a game in which no prisoners are taken. Did I say “a game?” That brings us back to the world in which fairness actually has a place – so much so that, at least for us Brits, the expression “It’s just not cricket” still has some genuine meaning – more universally expressed in the idea of “Fair Play.” In the world of games, the expression “all’s fair” makes no sense. The whole idea of any game is that you agree in advance to follow the established rules. That may be one reason why the poem “Vitai Lampada” (“The Torch of Life”), by Henry Newbolt, written in 1892, is one of my favorites – though its values may seem quaint to many today. It starts with a cricket game at school, then extends the idea of “playing the game” to an actual battlefield in which a British regiment is surrounded by savages. So, to conclude today’s discussion of fairness, here’s the part of that poem about the battle: The sands of the desert are sodden red, Red with the wreck of a square that broke: The Gatling’s jammed, and the Colonel dead, And the Regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of Death has brimmed his banks, And England’s far, and Honor a name – But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: “Play Up! Play Up! and Play the •MJ Game!”
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he fourth in Dale Halaway’s five-seminar series Relationship ‘N You takes place this weekend, June 9-11, here in Santa Barbara. “Transforming the Shadow Side of Your Relationships” addresses such questions as “How balanced is your relationship with yourself?”, “What is the cost of sabotaging a relationship?”, and “How well do you know your shadow side?” with the aim of dramatically enriching romantic relationships, friendships, business connections, and other partnerships, including with money. Participants will discover what the shadow self is there to teach and be exposed to seven steps for healing the shadow side of our relationships and processes for healing. Coinciding with the seminar, Montecito-based producers/hosts Ragan and Alex Thomson, who frequently hold introductory evenings in their home, are preparing to announce the grand opening of their new offsite The Healing Hub, a gathering space for the transformational seminars, events, workshops, and classes that will also be available for rental for others to host events related to mind, body, and spirit wellness. Ragan also leads a Manifest Your Spiritual Partner Party later in the month on Saturday, June 24, from 6:30 to 9 pm. During the evening, she’ll share the story of how she and husband Alex manifested the “love of our greatest dreams,” as well as provide tools to help participants find their spiritual partner whether in love, business, or friendship by striving toward unblocking our obstacles. The couple also host and lead Meaningful Monday introductory sessions on several upcoming Monday evenings,
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including June 19, July 3, July 17, and August 7. Halaway returns to town to offer the next seminar, “How to Be the Real You in Relationships”, August 11-13. While it represents the fifth workshop in the series, all are invited to begin their journey with any of the five weekend. Call 453-7281 or visit www. joyticity.com/events.html for more information or to register for any of the seminars or other special events.
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Another avenue for approaching improving relationships is “Finding Love – An Exploration”, a mini-workshop sponsored by HAI (The Human Awareness Institute) that serves as an introduction to the work and philosophies of the organizations that has long presented ongoing weekend workshops. Attendees at the threehour, non-confrontational event held at a home in Santa Barbara will have the opportunity to experience emotional openness and heart-felt connections through finding more possibilities for life, discovering how to improve your relation-(relating)-ships, shed any false body image messages, and create emotional intimacy in a safe space with new communication tools. A HAI presenter leads a series of exercises that are designed to create the opportunity to expand your heart and connect to yourself and others in a new way that is similar to what happens during the weekends. The doors open for casual mingling at 6:30 pm on Saturday, June 10, and the program runs from 7 to 9:30 pm. Admission is free. Call Suzette A. Chafey at 452-2677 or Niki Schmid
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Shakti Toning
Noell Grace, the founder and lead songwriter-singer of SpiritSings, leads a vocal sound journey at her Arden Light House home this Sunday, June 11. The 3 to 5 pm event is an invitation to experience the blissfully transformative power of group toning via opening the chakras to free up blocked chi and get shakti moving. Vocal sound healer Grace will guide the journey inward using channeled as well as traditional sacred seed sounds, breath, and simple movement. The intentional group toning can activate and amplify the felt experience of shakti current as it vibrationally cleanses, illuminates, and restores the mind and body. Attendees are encouraged to wear non-binding clothing and to bring a one-quart water bottle, as hydrating throughout the journey greatly enhances the body’s ability to conduct energy and facilitate cellular cleansing. Admission is $20 at the door, but reservations are recommended. Visit www.noellgracesound.com for details.
Musical Meditation
Sunburst bubbles over with sound as sitarist Will Marsh and tabla player Daniel Paul off a special evening of Indian traditional music in the Sunburst Lodge at the intentional community and retreat center in Lompoc. Enjoy the inspiring music that can be traced back to the saints and sages of India’s pre-recorded history beginning at 7 pm on Tuesday, June 13. A free pre-concert “Meet and Greet” with chai tea and desserts begins at 6:15. Tickets are a $15 donation at the door. The week-long Living With Spirit: Experience Sunburst takes place June 18-25, and offers a chance to explore Sunburst’s holistic spiritual path of meditation and conscious living via living, working, meditating, learning, and having fun with other kindred souls amid 4,000 acres of natural beauty. The event includes daily morning
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and evening meditations, hands-on group work projects, yoga, meditation instruction, and discussions about conscious living to encourage integrating spirit into your work, your play, your meals, your meditation, and more. The week also includes participation in the June 23-25 Celebrate Life Retreat that has the theme “Tune in to Your Fire!” and features yoga, guided and silent meditations, sacred ceremony, meals, and community connection. A special Saturday session offers a chance to explore the fire element of Chinese medicine and how to harmonize body and mind with the influences of the summer, led by Erika Eddy, L.Ac., MSAOM, RYT. The weekend retreat costs $100 to $150 sliding-scale donation; the full week is $400 to $600. Sunburst’s ongoing Sunday meditations, which offer spirit-filled music, insightful talk, quiet meditation, and a delicious vegetarian brunch, take place weekly at 10:30 am. Upcoming themes include Conscious Speech: Compassionate Communication on June 11, God As Divine Father on June 18, and Practicing Perseverance on June 25. Sunburst is located at 7200 S. Highway 1 in Lompoc. For more details or to pre-register for the workshops, call 736-6528 or visit www. sunburst.org.
Nepo-tism in Montecito
Poet, teacher, storyteller, and philosopher Mark Nepo, who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for more than 30 years, returns to La Casa de Maria’s Center for Spiritual Renewal next weekend to present “The Way Under the Way: The Place of True Meaning”. Through poetry, story, journaling, and dialogue, Nepo will guide participants into conversation with their own gifts and their own wisdom in this retreat that centers on our connection to the depth of life, that place of true meeting which is always near, where we chance to discover our shared humanity and common thread of spirit. The program fee of $340 includes meals and tuition for the June 16-18 weekend. Register online at www.lacasademaria.org or call 969-5031. •MJ
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Top-tier MAW Fellows Perform for NPR
Just four days into the Music Academy of the West’s 2017 summer festival, Hahn Hall hosts an event that is sure to make a big splash in fulfilling two of MAW’s missions for the year: incorporating composers into the campus community and upping the ante in national exposure. NPR’s From the Top with host Christopher O’Riley, the long-running showcase for young musicians that is heard weekly locally on KUSC, will record a radio broadcast at 7:30 pm on Thursday, June 15, to be broadcast in the fall. The taping, the 336th in the series, will feature MAW fellows in their first week on campus performing a variety of works, including a world premiere by composer Conrad Tao, who turns 23 this Sunday. The artists will both play their pieces and share personal stories via live post-performance interviews on stage with O’Riley. He’ll also join many of them on piano in the recital. “I want them to play as exactly as they wish in the five or six minutes of their favorite music,” he said, explain-
Christopher O’Riley of NPR records a broadcast at MAW on Thursday, June 15
ing his role as accompanist. “It’s my job to make them feel as empowered and comfortable as possible. I’m happy to be at their beck and call and allow myself to respond to their musical sensibilities. It also teaches me a lot. It’s like dancing with four different musical partners on each show.” O’Riley will be the pianist for the premiere of Tao’s “Asymptotes” joining MAW fellows on viola and clarinet. “It’s frenetic and very entertaining – and challenging to put together,” O’Riley said of the new work, one of a very few commissioned by From the Top over the years. “(Tao) is a great showman and a great musician, so there are elements that will challenge the players and the audience as well
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as some that will invigorate them. It’s a very big deal.” Working with and promoting the young artists has become a mission for O’Riley, who is also an accomplished classical soloist and is known in pop music circles for his pianistic reinterpretations of music by Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Nirvana. “They labor away in obscurity while we (as a society) log a great deal of attention on young athletes,” he explained. “(But) music is a more laudable enterprise than sports, even if they don’t go into it professionally. It’s about giving yourself to a community toward an enterprise that is greater than the sum of its parts, just like sports. But it’s a lot easier to be inspired by that experience, and you’re a lot less likely to end up needing knee surgery.” Visit www.musicacademy.org/ from-the-top for tickets and more information.
Overview of Ojai
The Ojai Music Festival, which was also founded in 1947, has tapped the multifaceted composer and pianist Vijay Iyer as its music director for this year’s festival, which takes place this weekend, June 8-11, winding up just hours before the Music Academy of West gets underway on Monday morning. Long a haven for exploring the edges of classical music, Ojai this year stretches even those wide margins with Iyer, for whom eclectic doesn’t come close to describing his vision. Iyer, who has mostly plied the jazz genre to great acclaim, is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, Grammy nominee and Harvard professor whose career has spanned the sciences and humanities, as well as the arts. Indeed, Iyer has published everywhere from the Journal of Consciousness Studies to Wire magazine, and JazzTimes to The Best Writing on Mathematics. As with all Ojai music directors, Iyer has been empowered to build the festival according to his own vision, which means the field is wide open. The festival will focus, naturally, on many of Iyer’s own compositions, but also the work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the Chicago-based AfricanAmerican experimental music movement that began in the mid-1960s, most notably via a performance of George Lewis’s Afterword, An Opera on Friday night, as well as works by drummer-composer Tyshawn Sorey throughout the weekend. Iyer’s own new violin concerto “Trouble” receives its world premiere for the opening concert on Thursday, with the performance featuring Jennifer Koh and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. The violinist – well-
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known to local audiences for her Bach and Beyond and Bridge To Beethoven series that she brought to Hahn Hall via UCSB Arts & Lecture – would seem to be the perfect choice as her projects have often explored connections between eras. The all-Iyer opening concert also features the pianist as part of the ensemble for the American premiere of his “Emergence” and partnered with trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith on A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Steven Schick – himself a former Ojai Festival music director – who conducts both Thursday and Friday night’s main concerts indicated above, also wields the baton for Saturday night’s pairing of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with Iyer’s “Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi”, his multimedia response to the modern classic drawn from his native Indian tradition. Meanwhile, Koh’s Ojai debut will also include one of the Bach and Beyond shows for the free Late Night concert Friday night. The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) acts as sort-of house orchestra, appearing in nearly all of the larger performances while many of its members are offering solo recitals. Other notable artists include the Brentano Quartet and famed percussionist Zakir Hussain. The genre-busting, era-crossing weekend comes to a conclusion on Sunday night with Iyer’s own “Far From Over”, featuring his jazz sextet in a final nod to the notion that music transcends entertainment and even art to influence culture and affect communities – a resounding reaffirmation of Ojai’s principals as it enters its eighth decade. The festival’s website, www.ojaifestival.org, contains extensive information about each program, all of the artists, and full details on every event, as well as access to purchasing tickets.
Country-Pride Choral Concert
Santa Barbara Master Chorale goes patriotic on Sunday afternoon at the First United Methodist Church. Led by artistic director-conductor Steven R. Hodson, professor of music at Westmont College, the ensemble will present American Choral Medley featuring domestic works from 1840 to the present. The concert will include Sacred Harp Singing. a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in the South and was popular in the mid-19th century, as well as Morten Lauridsen’s Nocturnes, while guest organist Thomas Joyce will play Charles Ives’s Variations on America. Tickets are $22 general admission, $20 seniors and disabled, $12 college students, free for children in K-12. Call 682-6516 or visit www.sbmastercho rale.org. •MJ 8 – 15 June 2017
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An annual tradition during the Summer Festival, in which the Academy Brass and Percussion fellows take part. BrassFest features hallmarks of the brass repertoire from all genres. Small and large brass ensembles will perform. The program will feature a west coast premiere by guest composer Timo Andres. Mark H. Lawrence conducts.
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In Passing
Remembering Chris
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(1 September 1981 – 22 May 2017) ur beloved son Christopher died at home with his loving family, after 17 years of valiant fighting against scleroderma and its many serious complications. He attended Mt Carmel Elementary and Bishop Diego High School, went on to SBCC and UCSB, graduating in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He loved writing short stories, which he shared with friends and family. He had started a novel of historical fiction on the siege of Constantinople of 1453, which he never was able to complete. He loved travelling across the United States and Europe with his family and friends. He traveled to Italy with his brother Silvio in 2012, after he had his left hand amputated because of cancer. He especially enjoyed this trip because he was able to prove that he could function by himself. Christopher never gave up the battle to live, even though he was in constant pain. He never complained about his pain and suffering and would much rather have been at war with his illness and living than be at peace and gone. He will be remembered for his kind heart, always thinking of others first, his quick wit, and interesting conversation. He always was fun to be with even when life was a painful struggle. He is survived by his mother (Merle), father (Eustachio), brother (Silvio), and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. A funeral Mass was held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Montecito on May 31 at 10 am. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Scleroderma Foundation, 220 Montgomery St., Suite 484, San Francisco, CA 94104-3546 or ASAP, Overpass Road, Santa Barbara CA 93111. County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Transitional and Supportive Housing Ordinance Amendments Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Board of Supervisors Hearing Room 105 E. Anapamu St. 4th Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, the Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing to consider the adoption of zoning ordinance amendments to implement Program 2.8 of the 2015-2023 Housing Element Update. Program 2.8 directs the County to amend its zoning ordinances to be consistent with state law regarding the permitting of transitional and supportive housing. The proposed ordinance amendments will add definitions of transitional and supportive housing and allow transitional and supportive housing as residential uses, subject only to those restrictions that apply to other dwellings of the same type in the same zone. Adoption of the proposed ordinance amendments will require the following: An ordinance (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00001) amending Division 35.2, Montecito Zones and Allowable Land Uses, Division 35.4, Montecito Standards for Specific Land Uses, and Division 35.10, Glossary, of Section 35-2, the Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code. An ordinance (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00002) amending Article 35.2, Zones and Allowable Land Uses, Article 35.4, Standards for Specific Uses, and Article 35.11, Glossary, of Section 35-1, the County Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code. An ordinance (Case No. 17ORD-00000-00003) amending Division 2, Definitions, Division 4, Zoning Districts, and Division 7, General Regulations, of Article II, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the Santa Barbara County Code. A determination that the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15265. The proposed amendments, including a staff analysis, may be reviewed at the Clerk of the Board’s Office, 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, or at the Planning and Development Department, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, one week prior to the date of the public hearing. The Board of Supervisors hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. Please see the posted agenda, available at the Clerk of the Board of Supervisor’s website (http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/cob.sbc) on the Thursday prior to the hearing for a more specific time for this item. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Board of Supervisors. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support of or in opposition to the project. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the County Board of Supervisors, c/o Clerk of the Board, 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101.
Time evaporated, and I didn’t get a chance to read you that book, or have another rabbit lunch, or play that game of chess, or engage in one of our political discussions to solve the world’s problems. However, I’m deeply honored to be able to stand here and share some thoughts with you, your family, and friends. I know you’re here, watching and listening. You recognize the pain and emptiness we all feel because of your physical absence. It hurts…it hurts big. You also know that each person here carries many personal and cherished memories of you. One of my favorite memories happened when you, at the ripe old age of 11, along with James Abler and my son Michael, played for two seasons on the same little league team. One afternoon, coach Larry Abler and I decided that a some infield practice was necessary before a big game on Saturday. While I hit some “pop-ups” to various positions, Coach Abler, standing next to me, played “catcher” at home plate. He was “pep-talking” and yelling for everyone to throw the ball back to him immediately and as hard as they could. The purpose? To stop an imaginary runner from scoring. Chris, you had a tendency to catch the ball, then look in your mitt, make sure it’s there, pause before deciding, weighing the options, then tossing it. These “speed-drills” were specifically designed for you. While one fly ball was being fumbled around by our beloved “Keystone Cops” in right field, I hit another slow grounder that trickled foul about three-quarters down the third-base line. You were playing shortstop. One of the older “more experienced” boys was playing third base and he just ignored the foul. However, you came charging across the infield, grabbed that dead ball with a bare hand, bypassing your usual “glove-drama”, and hurled it hard toward home, just like Coach Abler had ordered. Coach was busy “multi-tasking”, giving commands, offering suggestions, and had reached down to grab an incoming ball from first base. He stood up and turned toward third, just in time to welcome your amazing fastball, squarely between the eyes, breaking his glasses. You started flailing your arms and yelling frantically, “Sorry... Sorry... Sorry!… I’m sorry coach! I’m sorry coach!!!…” and began running in to see what damage had been done. Coach Abler, without missing a beat, proudly held up his right thumb and said loudly, so the whole team could hear, “I’m okay… great hustle Chris!!…. I’m okay!…. nice throw!…just get back to shortstop! ” Then, as his nose started to bleed, Larry looked at me, said softly, “Well, Dale, I’m gonna have a couple black eyes tomorrow, but it looks like Chris is ready for the majors.” We laughed! There was something very focused and unique about the way you always attacked issues and challenges, fearlessly, and “head-on.” That afternoon, with singular purpose, you retrieved that ball, as if you alone were responsible for stopping the winning run, in the bottom of the 9th, of a World Series game. At the end of Little League season, each team had their obligatory pizza parlor “award ceremonies.” By unanimous vote, you received your team’s trophy for “Most Enthusiasm” both seasons. Those traits, that determination, your optimism, and spirit to challenge and conquer any obstacle, is what I loved and respected the most about you. Political correctness, group-think, gossip-mongering, rumor-spreading, or wishy-washy “mediocrity” were never features of your personality. Thank goodness. Soon after those innocent years, you began the fight of your life. You struggled valiantly, engaging a killer called scleroderma, hand-to-hand, in your own personal battle. Outwardly, your optimistic and enthusiastic demeanor was always genuine, palpable and contagious. Whether it was learning to play the bagpipe, graduat-
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best I can discover may be from the Latin-Portuguese for “beautiful.” Diane Graham Montecito (Editor’s note: “Formosa Road” is what is called a “copyright trap” and was very likely put there by the original map maker to make sure someone didn’t simply pick up his work and call it his own. By being able to show the non-existence of Formosa Road, the map maker would win his case. I do believe the map maker inserted another copyright trap elsewhere on the Santa Barbara City map but don’t remember if that is true or not. A letter to Cecil at The Straight Dope online reports the following: “Dear Cecil,” it reads, “Looking at a recent map of Madison, I noticed that it showed a friend’s house was located in a city park and didn’t show another park at all. So I called the map company [Badger Map, Wonder Lake, Illinois], and they were quite straightforward in pointing out that errors are intentionally introduced to protect the copyright on their maps.” There you have it. – J.B.)
Looking for Balance
The MJ, boy, it’s tough to take some weeks. I see another good many words from D.S. McCalmont (“American Salvation” MJ #23/22) about WWII but not a peep about the Soviet Union. I just walk away from this type of Anglophile history. And then the two publishers from downtown getting a free speech award from a virtual foreign agent (Coming & Going, MJ #23/22)? Oh, brother. If our daily did better at balanced news inclusion, it might have a chance of survival. Instead, it was never put in headlines, for example, that President Trump swallowed the Iran deal. Or, that the UK’s royals will not be attending any fanfare in Israel this November when the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration is marked. Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: My guess is that if one were to read accounts of World War II in Russian textbooks, there would be little about either the “non-aggression pact” with Hitler or the Normandy landings. 8 – 15 June 2017
So, sure, D-Day was and is a big deal for the Anglo- and America-centric historians. Why wouldn’t it be? As for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, well, if what you say is true, why would they attend? – J.B.)
Writers on Libraries
I am on the board of directors of the Friends of the SB Public Library. When it was announced that the library planned to celebrate the centennial to the central library with various events, the anthologist in me thought that the Friends could participate by publishing an anthology of writers celebrating libraries. The thought was that they would contribute a piece as a “donation” and all the proceeds would go to the SB Library System (always in need of funds). I thought if we had a “star attached to the project,” we would be more likely to get other writers to come on board. The most luminous literary “star” that I knew was fellow Montecito resident T. C. Boyle. I asked if he would pen a foreword, and he graciously agreed. So last November, I solicited all the local writers I could think of to contribute a piece, shamelessly mentioning, of course, that Boyle was “on board,” which may have encouraged the solicitees to join in and, perhaps, to do their very best. From a marketing point of view, it would be good to include some of the famous authors who reside in Santa Barbara. Two who came to mind were Montecitans Sue Grafton and Fannie Flagg. I did not know them and did not how to reach them, but my friend – and their friend and neighbor Susan Miles Gulbransen – did and said she would ask them if they would be interested. Happily, they agreed. (Susan, a literary light in her own right, also contributed an essay and was an enormous help in rounding up other writers in her very wide circle of friends). I also asked Pico Iyer and he agreed. After that, it snowballed and the book ended up with over 80 contributors. Most are local and include novelists, short-story writers, columnists, historians, English teachers, and poets, but I did get some previously published pieces from such
“out-of-towners” as Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, and Ray Bradbury, among others. I can honestly say that the book turned out better than I imagined, as all the writers acquitted themselves admirably. It came off the presses last week and is now available at Tecolote, Upstairs at Pierre Lafond, Chaucer’s, and The Book Den. Kick off the Central Library’s Centennial with a launch party for Library Book, an anthology of library memories from more than 80 local and national writers on Saturday, June 10, at 7:30 pm. Champagne, dessert, and readings by selected authors. $50 per person, includes a copy of the book, a 250-page volume edited by me with an intro by T.C. Boyle. To register and purchase tickets, online go to: tinyurl. com/1917-2017. You can also pay at the door with cash or check. Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 7. For questions, contact katie.szopa@gmail.com. If you cannot attend, then by all means join the contributing writers and other special guests for a no-host book launch party at Dargan’s Irish Pub on West Ortega Street on Wednesday, June 14, between 5 and 7 pm. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Steven Gilbar Santa Barbara
Survival at Stake
Recently, we have seen three separate terrorist attacks in England. Other countries in Europe have suffered the same fate. Why are these attacks by radical Islamic jihadists escalating throughout Europe? Simply put: an open-door policy allowing the mass migration of refugees from the Middle East who believe in Sharia law. The question of the day: will America learn from Europe’s mistakes? Will our politicians, citizens, judges, and churches take off the blinders and face this very real threat? President Trump understands this growing threat and has promised to eradicate it. However, he needs our help. And that starts with building a wall, allowing a temporary ban to seriously vet people from the seven Middle Eastern countries named by Obama, and acknowledging that CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are affiliated with radical jihadists. America, it is time to understand, confront and obliterate this threat, no matter how long it takes. This is about the survival of the Free World. Diana Thorn •MJ Carpinteria
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Local Artists are “Out Of Place” Cody Cammbell’s A House Divided (collage) won Second Honorable Mention
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uth Estévez, the director and curator of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles since 2012, juries Westmont’s annual exhibition featuring Tri-Country artists through June 24 in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Santa Barbara sculptor Joan Rosenberg-Dent won Best in Show
and the $1,000 Diane Dodds and David Reichert First Prize at the May 18 opening reception for “Out of Place,” which features 36 local artists. Ro Snell won First Honorable Mention, Cody Cammbell won Second Honorable Mention, Tom Pazderka won Third Honorable Mention, and Sonya Kotler was the Art Council Award winner. When a loved one is struggling with memory decline and can no longer safely reside at home, turn to a caring and trusted resource…Villa Alamar.
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soccer. In the following five weeks, an array of sports camps including archery/badminton, track and field, cheer, soccer, volleyball, baseball, tennis, and basketball will be attended by more than a thousand youngsters. Parents can register their children for half-day camps, which cost $200, or full-day camps that are $250 at www.westmont.edu/summercamps. Extended care is available until 3 pm for half-day camps. For more than 30 years, Westmont College Athletics has offered day camps for youth who want to practice and play sports in a safe and fun environment. Kids of all ages and skill levels work with college coaches and student-athletes as they learn. Our experienced coaches help youth grow skills and introduce sports to those just beginning. “We hope to introduce the youngest of our campers to sports, as well as meet our more advanced campers where they are at, providing them with instruction for continued growth and development,” says Jeff Azain, co-director and men’s basketball assistant coach. “Most of our collegiate athletic programs have had at least one Warrior come through our sports camps. The introduction to our programs, combined with a positive experience, has brought student-athletes back to Westmont nearly a decade later to participate in our collegiate programs.” Co-ed sports skills camps for 5-10 year olds will be June 19-23 and June 26-30. Girls soccer for ages 6-10 will be June 19-23. Co-ed basketball for 7-14 year-olds will be June 26-June 30 and July 10-14. Co-ed baseball for 7-13 year-olds is July 10-14. Co-ed volleyball for 7-13 year-olds will be July 3-7. Co-ed soccer for 6-13 year olds will be July 3-7. Co-ed archery/badminton for ages 7-14 will be July 10-14 and July 17-21. Co-ed tennis for ages 7-13 will be July 17-21 and July 24-28. Co-ed track and field for 5-13 yearolds will be July 17-21. Girls cheer and dance for 5-12 year-olds will be July •MJ 3-7 and July 24-28. 8 – 15 June 2017
On Entertainment by Steven Libowitz
Dance Me to the End of Love
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yncopation, Allan Knee’s fable about an unlikely romance between a meat packer and a seamstress in New York City’s Lower East Side in 1911, brings Ensemble Theatre Company’s (ETC) season to a close with its first collaboration with State Street Ballet (SSB). Directed by Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill and choreographed by SSB’s veteran dancemaker William Soleau, the production offers an optimistic opening to summer via a two-character study that blends dance and drama. Mancinelli-Cahill, who previously helmed a production of Syncopation at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in 2007, talked about connections – between the characters, with her choreographer, and with the story itself – over the phone earlier this week.
Q. You’ve directed this play before. What drew you to return to it? A. I have a personal connection to it in that it matches my own background. My grandfather was a Polish immigrant who was in the meat-packing industry and married above his station, as they say. I’m attracted to stories about American immigrants and their spirit, who made us what we are. So, I love the story both personally and as an artist…. I had a great time directing Syncopation before, but a play is very ephemeral, so I was happy to have a chance to revisit it. The play is the same, but I’m not. Which brings up the question of what new insights you might be bringing this time around? I love the story more now than when I first directed it. In our times right now, it’s more important than ever to remember we all came from somewhere. The time period when it takes place, 1911-13, isn’t often part of theater. But it’s when everything
Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.
changed because of Einstein and the development of assembly line, which happened within eight years of each other. If tech is outpacing our ability to adapt in our time, it was even more so then. Then as now, there were people who were excited for changes while others held on for dear life to the past. These two characters decide to come out of who they were supposed to be and end up finding each other. I understand the dancing is integral to the story, yet it changes with every production. Can you expand on that? The choreography is never the same because it depends so much on who the actors are. It’s not a cookie-cutter production. The script might literally say no more than “They do a long dance.” The music and dancing is all up to the creative team to decide, because the story is told through the dance. It’s fun, but it’s hard. And you need a good partner. How is it going with Bill Soleau? I didn’t know him until (ETC) put us together. But instantly I felt like we were kindred spirits. He really understood the play and that the dance the two characters do is how they fall in love. It’s not just scene-dancescene-dance – the dance is in the scene. So it takes a choreographer who understands theater. He started as an actor, so he really gets those aspects. The challenge in directing is the transitions, making sure they’re
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fluid, because the play never stops and every moment is choreographed and needs to flow into the next. The way we work together is making that easier. How does the play compare with Shall We Dance, the Japanese movie (and later American version) with similar themes? They are similar in that the guy who learns how to dance takes a step toward realizing himself through the dancing. But (playwright) Alan Knee focuses on turn-of-the-century America, and this play is very specific that way. He wrote the book to the Broadway musical Little Women and the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, which was made into the movie Finding Neverland, which are both about people fantasies that they try to turn into reality. One more movie reference: La La Land, because I’ve read reviews of the play that refer to the dancing as a metaphor for
dreams and flight and harmony. How does the play keep it more grounded? It’s about the journey of the characters, who are very real, not clichés. And it has a happy ending! The boy gets the girl. The people who belong together actually end up together despite how different they are. Because they have the energy that makes creativity possible. This is a wonderful story about the power of art to create. As a director and artistic director of a theater, this is what gets me up in the morning. (Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of Syncopation previews Thursday & Friday evenings, opens Saturday at 8 pm and continues with performances Wednesdays-Sundays through June 25 at The New Vic, 33 West Victoria Street. Tickets cost $55 to $70, with discounts for students, seniors, and previews. Call 965-5400, ext.109 or visit www.etcsb.org.) •MJ
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OUR TOWN (Continued from page 23) Girls Rock fundraiser vendor The Tribute Project. Modeling the couture collection are [from left] Colleen O’Brian, Nancy O’Connor, with designers Jules Allen and Danielle Stone
Girls Rock students Sofia Schuster and Kalista Weymouth post-performance at the fundraiser
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qués for clothing, accessories, and shoes made on the spot. Boutique catering was provided by Lori A. Stern. The event concluded with performances by girls at the school: Sofia Schuster, studying guitar at Girls Rock for five years, sang a song by Rhianna, and Kalista Weymouth played ukulele and sang. 411: www.girlsrocksb.org
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Jason Bonham, drummer prodigy son of John Bonham [Led Zeppelin], on U.S. tour with his band, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience [JBLZE] annually lands a performance sentimentally May 21 at the Greek Theatre Hollywood. Reflecting Jason’s mission for the band, to keep his father’s music alive, was noted in the many dads who brought their sons to the concert. Indeed, appreciation for the classic rock band covers a large demographic not limited to 1970s children. Close to a sell-out performance, and on the heels of their May 20 performance at the Doheny Blues Festival California, the band arrived upbeat, smiling, and dancing. Jason opened the gig with “Immigrant Song” bringing the guests dancing in the aisles on a warm spring evening. Set list hits were “Rock and Roll”, “Going To California” – only place on tour they do the song is here – “Since I’ve Been Loving You”, “When The Levee Breaks”, and “Kashmir” – a song Jason said his dad wrote, “As one can guess it’s difficult to write a song as a drummer, but dad sang it to Jimmy and thank God he got it. ‘Kashmir’ is one of the penultimate rock songs ever written.” New to the tour is “Living Loving Maid/She’s Just A Woman”, which Jason explained: “I heard it on the radio when we started the 2017 tour and I thought, why haven’t we done this before, so here it is!” Encore songs were “Communication Breakdown” and, per tradition,
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Jason Bonham, drummer son of John, in concert with the Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Experience on May 21 at Greek Theatre Hollywood
“Whole Lotta Love”. Added touches included some heartfelt song introductions by Jason and a continuous video behind him of footage from his childhood, John Bonham drumming, a zeppelin flying, and classic graphics to match the songs. Continuing to honor dads, lead guitarist Tony Catania, friend, and collaborator with Jason just shy of 30 years, proudly wore his jazz musician father’s WW II Army shirt. Coming with no fewer than 20 guitars, his perfection of the Led Zeppelin sound is profound. Word in the audience was keen appreciation of his musicianship, and sons in attendance studied his every technique in awe. Lead singer James Dylan was on point with vocal chops rivaling Robert Plant. Completing the band are L.A.’s Dorian Heartsong on bass and mandolin, and Alex Howland on keys and acoustic guitar blending in melody and classic bass riffs. Impeccable band instruments: Jason on rare DW [of Oxnard] stainless-steel drums with two floor toms, one timpani, Zildjian cymbals, bass drum with “Bonzo” symbol, and a Paiste gong to his right. Catania on a vintage sunburst Gibson Les Paul, a red double-neck SG Jimmy Page guitar, a Fender Classic Series ‘50s Telecaster in lacquer white, 1966 Fender Electric XII (Jaguar/Jazzmaster 12-string), and many more guitars through a stack of Marshall and Orange amps. Heartsong on a Fender classic jazz bass black with sunburst and tremolo, and a Fender FM-63SE “F” style acoustic electric mandolin through his own set of Vintage Late 1960s acoustic bass 360/361 guitar amps. Howland was on a double-keyboard setup of Nord Stage 2 and Yamaha S90ES. After a few “daze” rest, the band heads out for 61 more U.S. concerts •MJ June 2 through September 30. 8 – 15 June 2017
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And after months of planning, digging, and planting, the Cold Spring School Second Grade Native Garden was ready for its unveiling
It all started with this...
a chart. “See, this is how we planned the garden together. Everyone in my class helped to make these charts. And then we just worked in the garden a lot, on weekends too, until it was done… and that’s how we did it!” she added proudly.
The STEM Program
... followed by this
Elaborately decorated cookies were the rewards for a job well done
Accompanied by loud applause, the ribbon was then cut. An instant later, the garden was flooded with kids, teachers, and parents. My two personal tour guides from second grade, Fianna Peterson and Makayla Sears, ushered me through their garden. Makayla first took me to the display posters the kids had made and pointed to a chart full of post-it notes. “Okay... this is how we started and decided what we were going to do”, she explained. “We had all these questions so we wrote them down on these Post-It notes. Then we looked stuff up to get the answers.” “We learned all about plants from
around here,” Fianna added, “and figured out the right place to put them in our garden so they would grow.” Makayla jumped in excitedly, “Then we talked about how to get water to the plants. Can you see that drain from the roof?” I looked up and saw that water from the roof gutters was directed down into an area in the garden covered with rocks. “That water goes into a little creek in our garden, so we don’t waste it and the plants will have it to grow!” she beamed. Amazing, I thought to myself – why didn’t I think of something like that? Fianna then took me to the students’ landscaping plan displayed on
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If I weren’t impressed enough by the tour I’d received, Jean told me a little more about the STEM program. “This program,” she explained, “integrates all the academic disciplines and encourages creative thinking through communication and collaboration. And it’s totally student-centered. This program is project-based learning. We’re teaching kids to become creative innovators with a variety of skills that will help them build concepts.” Jean said that the second graders began the native garden process using their imaginations and completed it through research, planning, problem solving, and just plain hard work. “They envisioned a garden that would attract butterflies and hummingbirds… and look, here it is!” Important ingredients for the garden’s completion were its community partners. Chris Gilliland, a landscape architect at Common Ground, was a huge presence and a mentor during the entire process. From neighboring Westmont College, students came to
assist the children whenever they were needed. Other partnerships donated goods and services throughout the process. The credit goes to the kids who actually forged these community partnerships by creating this beautiful space on campus to be enjoyed by all, now and in the future. As I was preparing to leave, a second-grade parent introduced himself as my tour guide Fianna’s dad, Greg Peterson. With three kids at Cold Spring School (kindergarten and grades 2 and 4), he couldn’t have been more supportive of the STEM program and the things the students have accomplished as a result. “This amazing program begins in the early grades, not only in Fianna’s class, but in my other kids’ classes too. My kindergartner is learning about the world and the environment in which we live.” He added, “All my kids love learning science, especially one that they can experience in the world they know.” Talking with Greg was simply the confirmation of what I’d already discovered in the company of so many enthusiastic parents, teachers, and students: Cold Spring School, the science curriculum, and the second-grade Native Garden is an inspiration, and I was honored to have been invited to attend. There was no better way to spend a beautiful Santa Barbara Friday morn•MJ ing. Thank you to all!
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The Way It Was
Celebrating Edward Borein
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by Hattie Beresford
Borein etchings, like this one from 1922, give an accurate portrayal of life on the range
rom 1921 until 1945, Santa Barbara was privileged to be the home of one of America’s premier Western artists, (John) Edward Borein. On May 19, Santa Barbarans were privileged to view a superb collection of Borein’s work at the opening of the new Borein Gallery at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. To celebrate the opening, guests arrived in cowboy boots and Stetsons to two-step to the tunes of the Rawhides in the Spanish courtyard, belly up to the bar for some Cowboy Lemonade, and partake of a Western barbecue provided by Country Meat Market. Created by museum trustees Marlene and Warren Miller and sponsored by a host of generous benefactors, the idea of a gallery featuring Borein’s work had long been a dream for Marlene, proprietor of the former Arlington Gallery. In addition to Borein’s work owned by the museum, many collectors graciously loaned their paintings and etchings for the exhibit. The three rooms of the new gallery
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.
are painted a rich cocoa color that perfectly accentuates Borein’s work and simulates tones of natural adobe brick. Two portals feature traditional wooden lintels, reminiscent of so many historic adobes in Santa Barbara. In addition to the colorful paintings of vaquero, cowboy, and Indian life in the main sala, a smaller gallery is filled with Borein’s etchings and is accentuated by a printing press with examples of etched copper plates. Memorabilia from his home and studio is displayed in the third room, along with photographs of his life. A timeline creates the wainscoting that surrounds the room. A lamp he owned made of copper and abalone shells,
Marlene Miller takes over from the band to talk about the new gallery
designed by Arts and Crafts artisan Elizabeth Eaton Burton, is on display as are three miniature saddles Borein created.
Creation of an Artist
Edward Borein was born in San Leandro, California, in 1872, at a time when horses and wagons and shoe leather were the only modes of transportation in California. Cattle were driven to market from horseback, and the family was driven to church in a horse-drawn buggy. Ed was only five years old when he sketched two horses pulling a hearse. His doodling continued throughout his school years, and the proficiency of his marginalia soon outstripped that of his lessons. By age 12, Ed knew how to ride and rope and drive cattle. When he turned 18, he set off down the coast to find work as a cowboy. He returned home after a year with dozens of sketches, showing such promise that his mother sent him to art school in San Francisco. School was not for him,
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Bill Reynolds, Santa Barbara Historical Museum trustee, with Marlene Miller in the new Borein Gallery
Blackfoot Women in Western Canada (1932) reveals Borein’s mastery of watercolor
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Charles Lummis photographed Borein with Ethel and Helen Harmer posed in costume at the famous lintel portal of the Harmer Adobe. The new gallery showcases this famous costume. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
however, so he left and found work as a cowpuncher at Rancho Jesus María, a former Mexican land grant. Determined to become a working artist, he sent two drawings to Land of Sunshine editor, Charles Lummis, who snapped them up for $15. For the next several years, Borein traveled and worked in the Western states and made forays into Mexico to learn Spanish and the vaquero lifestyle. Over the years, he mastered the art of saddle making and lasso braiding. His drawings and monochrome paintings began appearing in national magazines like Harpers and Sunset and in ads for Stetson hats. By 1904, Borein had returned to the Bay area and began focusing solely on his career as an artist. In 1907, he moved to New York to be at the hub 8 – 15 June 2017
Detail from A Mexican Rurale on permanent loan by former Museum Trustee George Burtness
In 1921, Ed and Lucile Borein (center) arrived in Santa Barbara and took this studio at Harmer’s complex off De la Guerra Plaza (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)
Borein was soon painting Santa Barbara scenes such as this one called Gathering at the Mission, which might be based on the early “rides” of the Los Rancheros Visitadores, who once rode to the Santa Barbara Mission for a blessing before starting out on their annual trek
of the world of magazine and book illustration. There he took courses in etching and watercolor painting and developed his skills in those media. There, he also met and became lifelong friends with acclaimed Western artist Charlie Russell. After 14 years, he returned to California where, at age 48, he met and married his wife, Lucile Maxwell. The couple moved to Santa Barbara in 1921 and lived in a studio at artist Alexander Harmer’s complex centered around the Yorba-Abadie adobe on De la Guerra Plaza. Lucile wrote a friend about the move. “There is one very large room, a small kitchen, and Ed expects to build on another room for a bedroom. It will be rather small quarters, but I know we are going to get lots of fun out of it.” They stayed in the Harmer studio for over a year before Borein moved his studio across the street to the “El Patio” side of the Oreña Adobe,
just behind today’s James’s Main Fine Art at 27 East De la Guerra Street. In 1923, the Boreins built a home on the Mesa. Ed’s travels and studies in New Mexico inspired a Hopi-style home, which they named Casa Barranca. After the earthquake, Borein moved his studio to the end of the Street of Spain in Bernhard Hoffmann’s El Paseo. From there, he would continue to paint, etch, and draw his scenes of Western life. As an artist, Borein’s goal was authenticity; he refused to exaggerate or romanticize the West beyond what was real. “I will leave only an accurate picture of the West, nothing else but that. If anything isn’t authentic or just right, I won’t put it in any of my work,” he said. Upon his arrival in Santa Barbara, Borein had immediately become involved with the social and artistic life of his adopted town. He taught etching at the Santa Barbara School
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John Woodward, museum trustee and gallery patron with Cathy Cash standing in front of the printing press
of the Arts, helped organize the first parade for Old Spanish Days in 1924, and helped found Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1930. Borein died in 1945 and the NewsPress tribute to him said, “Humanity has no greater debts than those which mankind owes to the people who keep the record of man’s affairs clear, true, and – very importantly – interesting. A keeper of such records was Ed Borein, painter and etcher of the old West.”
A 72-year-old Dream Comes True
In 2007, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum hosted an exhibition of Borein’s work. In a Santa Barbara Independent article of November 8, 2007, Marlene Miller said that the opening of the exhibition also marked the launch of plans for the John
Edward Borein Gallery of Western Heritage, a project whose inception dated back to 1945, the year of the artist’s death. “Convinced by friends that her husband’s legacy warranted preservation,” wrote Marlene, “Lucile Borein donated numerous works of art and personal objects – including Borein’s own collection of the best impressions of his etchings – to the Historical Museum, which has continued to collect the artist’s works throughout the years.” Marlene hoped that a new, dedicated exhibition space would showcase the artist’s work and honor the national significance of his role in documenting the American West. Seven years later, the plans have born fruit due to Marlene and Warren Miller and a dedicated group of founders and patrons who deserve a hearty round of applause. Thanks to them, Santa Barbarans can now enjoy Borein’s interesting and beautiful historic records of the American West in a charming and innovative new gallery at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Founders include Sharon and David Bradford, Sheri and Jack Overall, Mary Louise Riley (in honor of Kenneth W. Riley), Anne and Michael Towbes, the Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, and Eleanor Van Cott. The Santa Barbara Historical Museum, located at 136 East De la Guerra Street is open TuesdaySaturday, 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday, noon to 5 pm, and on First Thursdays from 5 to 8 pm. •MJ
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) Sean Hecht, Laura Capps, Jenny Hecht, with their junior hosts, Nat and Eli Babich (photo by Priscilla)
Wendy Edmunds, Linda Melchiori, Paulette Posch, and Frank Tabar
Burton Capps, Cliff and Crystal Wyatt, Mike and Dalina Klan, Charles and Betsy Newman, Beno Budgor and Kandy Luria, Sean and Jenny Hecht, Rich and Luci Janssen, Ed and Kath Lavidge, David and Carolee Krieger, and Whitney and Tyler Duncan. On the Money California’s oldest continuously operating trust company, Farmers and Merchants, has opened its first Santa Barbara outpost. The nearly century-old, Long Beachbased company was founded by the Walker family, whose descendants Dan and Henry are regular players at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, where Dan, chairman of the board, was president before ceding the position to
Nancy Hunter (co-chair) Betsy Moller, Dody Small, and Joanie Zacher (photo by Sharon Bradford)
Jerry and Helene Beaver
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On Their Dressed Behavior Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s Costume Council held its second lunch, under the chairmanship of Cheryl Ziegler and Nancy Hunter, in the venerable institution’s courtyard with talks on The Flying A & Fashion with speakers, historian Neal Graffy and costume expert Kara McLeod, a professor at L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. The museum has more than 4,000 costumes from various decades in its vaults, including clothing from Santa Barbara’s prominent Mexican era families and couture gowns from Paris made in the late 1800s, which it wants to put on display after refurbishment and restoration, says board chair Sharon Bradford. The first major exhibition, under the
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council’s auspices, will be How the West Was Worn, scheduled for next year. “We are also hoping to broaden our collaboration with the fashion institute,” museum director Lynn Brittner tells me. Among the fashionistas flocking to the event were Beverley Jackson, Eleanor Van Cott, Judy Foreman,
Sally Enthoven, Melissa Devorak, and April Riessen (photo by Sharon Bradford)
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Joanie Jackson, Jann Jaffe, Betsey Moller, Francoise Park, Dody Waugh, Patty Weber, and Cici Williamson. Father of the Pride Erudite Montecito comedian Steve Martin thinks fatherhood at age 71 is “fantastic.” Steve, who welcomed a baby girl for the first time at age 67 in 2013 with his wife, Anne Stringfield, says he’d have been a “lousy father” if he’d had a child earlier. “I would have misplaced my attention of my career. I am very forthcoming with her, and it’s great. She’s giving me way more than I’m giving her.” Steve, who describes his life now as “a very happy one,” admits the journey, both personally and professionally, hasn’t been an easy one. He says performing in clubs was always stressful for him, and even recalling those memories makes him cringe to this day. Like a Dream All went swimmingly when the Dream Foundation hosted its third annual Summer Dream fashion show bash, which benefits youngsters aged 18 to 40, who make up 20 percent of the charity’s dreamers. A record 300 guests turned out at Bella Vista, the sprawling Summerland polo estate of hotel magnate Pat Nesbitt and his wife, Ursula, for the bustling beano chaired by Arlene Montesano, which featured synchronized swimming from the Aqualillies – who have appeared in Justin Bieber and Arianna Grande videos – and fashions from Catherine Gee, K. Frank, Calypso St. Barth, Miller’s Oath, Ugg, Rocha Swim, and Tropical Affair. Also featured were singer Gabe Reali and best-selling local authors Judi and Shari Zucker, the Double Energy Twins. KEYT-TV chief meteorologist Alan Rose emceed the boffo bash,
Arlene Montesano Summer Dream chair and Alan Rose, emcee and KEYT News Channel 3 chief meteorologist (photo by Lorraine A. DarConte)
Model wearing Miller’s Oath designs and designer Catherine Gee, director of the fashion show (photo by Lorraine A. DarConte)
Where the Heart is Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman is the latest celebrity to call Montecito home. The 35-year-old actress, who was also awarded a Golden Globe, has just splashed out $6.5 million for a stunning 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom property with sweeping Pacific views. The contemporary house, designed by Barton Meyers, sits on 10.4 acres and blends sleek steel, glass, and concrete.
Golden sponsor Belle Cohen with friends/guests (photo by Lorraine A. DarConte)
Synchronized swimmers the Aqualillies perform (photo by Lorraine A. DarConte)
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which raised around $50,000 for the coffers. Joining in the splashing sunset soirée were Christopher Lancashire, Kevin and Katie Frank, Charles Ward, Holly Murphy, Mara Abboud, Eric and Nina Phillips, Tom Parker, Nina Terzian, Brett Leigh-Dicks, Bilo Zarif, Justine Roddick, Kisa Heyer, Diana Starr Langley, Ali Ahlstrand, and Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught.
Cryin’ Ryan My story last week about former Dos Pueblos student Katy Perry raking in $25 million a year to be a judge on the ABC re-boot of the classic Fox show American Idol has not gone down well with the show’s former emcee Ryan Seacrest, now a co-host with Kelly Ripa on their eponymously named morning talk show. Seacrest, 42, is reportedly furious the Rise singer is set to earn more than he did, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. He started hosting the show when it launched in 2002, and while he supposedly earned around $10 million per season, it pales mightily in comparison to Katy’s new salary. And as their pay battle rages on, sources says Seacrest may not be returning to the popular series. “He was suddenly asking why he would come back for a 16th season at a salary much smaller that that
of a newcomer judge,” says Richard Rushfield, author of American Idol: The Untold Story. Another issue for Seacrest is the commute, with the new morning show taped in New York and American Idol recorded in Los Angeles. But the renowned host isn’t out just yet. “Ryan isn’t pleased with the protracted negotiations,” says one source. “But he’s hopeful a deal can be reached, given his affection for the show.” And the frequent-flyer mileage won’t be bad either. Bach and Forth First United Methodist Church was aglow with candlelight for the annual Bach concert by the West Coast Chamber Orchestra conducted by Westmont College professor Michael Shasberger and veteran Christopher Story. The delightful concert, which featured soprano soloist Nichole Dechaine, showcased a number of the German composer’s works, including Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 and My Heart Ever Faithful. Bach with bite. Park and Recreation The Elings Park Foundation threw its 26th annual Chairman’s Council party, co-chaired by Patty Bryant and Mike Warren, attracting 100 guests and raising around $150,000 for the 230-acre recreational area, built on a former city waste tip, which attracts 250,000 visitors annually. Executive director Michael Nelson, who describes the park as “Santa Barbara’s big back yard,” told guests at the Castagnola baseball complex that 32 years after its founding a lengthy list of repairs and improvements needed doing, including repairs to the playground, upgrading the bathrooms, and immediate attention to
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“I’m getting old, my back hurts! It’s depressing,” she laments.
At the Cappello picnic/Castagnola softball complex are Palmer Jackson, Will Beall, president, Elings Park Foundation; council members Barry Cappello, Bob Bryant, Marinella Baker, Richard Berti, and Mike Warren (photo by Priscilla)
Elings Park Foundation dignitaries attending Steve Katz, chairman; Virgil Elings, park’s namesake; Bruce Giffin, BOD; Carol Self, Patty Bryant, EP Council member; John Britton, BOD; Frank Hotchkiss, SB City councilmember; and Mike Nelson, EP council member (photo by Priscilla)
the entrance road, which he estimated would cost $1 million. “Elings Park is a powerful image of civic pride and engagement of which we should all be proud,” he said. “It encourages healthy lifestyles and offers all generations an opportunity to play or compete, while appreciating the natural beauty and open spaces of Santa Barbara.” Supporting the efforts were former mayor Marty Blum, Barry and Laurie Cappello, Catherine Remak, Will Beall, Palmer Jackson, Maria Long, David and Dianne Black, Bruce and Kelley Giffin, Bob Bryant, Geoff Green, and Frank Hotchkiss.
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Goop it up Montecito’s Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar at 26 and was hailed as Hollywood’s golden girl. She was the idolized daughter of a doting film director and dated a string of young heartthrob actors, including Brad Pitt, before settling down with rock Chris Martin and having a family. And then Paltrow reinvented herself as a luxury lifestyle and wellness guru with her GOOP brand, which is about to be turned into a Conde Nast quarterly glossy, as I chronicled here. But the 44-year-old actress insists
Hands Solo It was only a month ago that professional climber Kevin Jorgeson regaled guests at a Visit Santa Barbara lunch at the Coral Casino about his then-record, 19-day, vertigo-inducing climb of the 3,000 foot high Dawn Wall, part of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan granite monolith two years ago. But now that record has been well and truly smashed by native Californian Alex Honnold, 31, who did the daunting climb without a rope in under four hours at the weekend. The extraordinary feat was filmed for a National Geographic documentary, Solo, which showed him nimbly ascending the terrifying rock face, which is taller than the world’s highest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Honnold had little more than the clothes on his back and a small bag of chalk for his hands. An extraordinary feat!
Danna Britton, Roger Horton, Cathy Murillo, SB City councilmember; Joe Blum, former SB mayor Marty Blum, Lew Venegas, and EP councilmember Jan Weeks (photo by Priscilla)
none of it came easily, telling NET-APORTER’s The Edit: “I haven’t made one mistake that I haven’t used as a stepping stone to get somewhere else. I’m ruthless when it comes to using the hard things.” Those “hard things” included the death of her father Bruce Paltrow in 2002 at the age of 58, and her “conscious uncoupling” from Martin, father of their children Apple, 13, and Moses, 11, in 2016. Paltrow also confesses to feeling her age, having scaled back her workout routine which used to involve an hour of cardio and an hour of weights every day.
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Sightings: Former vice president Joe Biden with Oprah Winfrey at the Canary...Oscar winner Jeff Bridges at the Ty Lounge at the Biltmore...Oscar winner Michael Keaton checking out the crowd at Cava Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call •MJ 969-3301. 8 – 15 June 2017
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Getting ready to jump at 32,000 feet
Karina Smirnoff (left) of Dancing With The Stars and Emerald Ball winner Diane Meehan take it one step at a time at the Dance Fever Studio in Montecito
It may have just one 750hp Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34 engine, but the New Zealand-made PAC 750XL achieved the desired altitude in less than 20 minutes
The record-breaking civilian tandem team reached speeds of 188 mph on the way down
tandem jump for a bucket list is 14,000 feet, but as Nott regularly flies higher in a balloon he requested they jump from 30,000 feet. This is acceptable for someone such as Nott, who has been jumping all his adult life. During preparation, the crew mentioned that the current record for a civilian tandem jump was 30,500 feet. For someone like Nott, there was only one reaction. Could the plane go higher? When they touched the ground, Sky Dance delivered the delightful news that not only had they completed their annual training, but Nott and his colleagues had jumped from 31,916 feet, setting a new world record for a civilian tandem jump. Skydiving records are nothing new to Nott. In 2014, he designed the bal8 – 15 June 2017
loon system that took Alan Eustace to 135,900 feet to set the current world altitude, free-fall skydive record, and he was a consultant for the previous record set by a Red Bull skydiver. Nott says, “Skydiving for me is like going to the dentist. I do not enjoy it, but I know it’s good for me.” As for the jump: “A good parachute, if you know how to use it,” he says, “can save your life when all goes wrong flying experimental balloons.”
At the Emerald Ball
by Diane Meehan We all have different reasons for dancing, but one thing we have in common is the love we feel for dance. I dance to get away from my daily
life of business, clients, and family. Having always been physically active, starting ballet, tap, and jazz at the age of eight, I spent the summers playing competitive softball, always the “All-Star team MVP,” modeling, and intense training as a majorette. I opened my first salon business at an early age, and purchased Dadiana Salon in Montecito 20 years ago. As a salon owner, each day is filled with talking to and consulting with clients about their hair, makeup, and other life issues, managing people, selling my own “Natural Sulfate Free” Dadiana Hair Care line, Mineral Solutions Makeup line, and a small boutique of fine hair accessories. I have been doing this for more than 25 years; it is my life’s passion and I love it, but it is very consuming. I started taking ballroom lessons after a client gave me a gift certificate for a lesson. I always loved dancing and was excited to give it a try. I tried it and was hooked. I take lessons from an independent studio, Dance Fever Studio, in Montecito. Their instructors strongly believe in teaching their students the basic styles first but will help them to improve as quickly as possible. Dance Fever is a stone’s throw from the salon, so it makes it easy for me to pop down to my lessons and practice. Vasily is a strong technician, so when we started dancing together, I knew it would be a tough road because of the high expectations I had for myself. Ballroom Dance is a team sport, and you have to have the right partner and trust him or her. Added coaching helps too, especially female coaches who understand the female body and can explain woman-to-woman how the body should move. Dance Fever Studio had Karina Smirnoff from Dancing with the Stars visit the studio a few weeks ago, to give private lessons and group classes. Vasily and Anastasia, owners of Dance Fever Studio, know the frus-
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trations, disappointments, joy, and successes of the dance journey. As my dancing evolves, so does my mindset. I, like most people with careers, including business owners, have responsibility and stress to deal with each day, so knowing I will always be able to go to dance and let my heart, mind, and body go to a different place offers a refreshing change to my daily routine. I dance the Pro/Am 10 dance (Waltz, Tango, V Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, Cha Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, Jive). However, my goal for this past year was to be the Top California Goldrush Dancesport Gold Level Pro/Am Dancer of 2016-17. It consists of a number of Dancesport Competitions in the state of California and students come to compete from all over the world. With lots of “Blood, Sweat and Tears, I did it! I worked hard, stayed focused, and achieved my goal of winning the “Top Gold Goldrush Pro/ Am Dancesport Series”, Top Latin Emerald Ball student winner, and Top International Emerald Ball Pro/Am winner! My goal was achieved for now. Next, I am creating new dances, improving my technique, and setting my schedule and goals for next year. To be continued... bye for now.
A New Day
Fans of artist Paul Day will be pleased to learn he has a new hardbound book just released that covers the first 25 years of his sculpting output and is now ready and available. It features a foreword by His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, an essay by The (London) Times critic John Russell Taylor, and each copy is signed and dedicated by Mr. Day. Price is 135 pounds, which translates to about $160. It’s 280 color pages and weighs a hefty 2.125 kilograms. Go to www.pauldaysculpture.com for more info and to order. We get nothing from this; we simply are admirers of his work. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3710A
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3710A for the BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM-2ND CYCLE will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 20, 2017 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “BRIDGE PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM2ND CYCLE, Bid No. 3710A". The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Deck Treatment with High Molecular Weight Methacrylate (HMWM), Epoxy Crack Injection, Concrete Spall Repair, Bridge Rail Repair and Painting, Wooden Deck Replacement, and other maintenance at seven bridges in the City of Santa Barbara per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $245,000. Each bidder must have a Class A General Engineering Contractor license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Max Kashanian, Project Engineer, 805-564-5450. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. The Federal minimum wage rates for this project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in Appendix B of the specifications and are available from California Deparment of Transportation Internet web site at http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/oe/federal-wages/. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relates for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determinations otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors must pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5539 DUE DATE & TIME: June 21, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. LED Streetlights The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions shall be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED APPROVAL OF LEVEL 1 DEVELOPER FEES JUSTIFICATION REPORT AND ADOPTION OF LEVEL 1 DEVELOPER FEES
Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. Bidders are advised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report to Caltrans on DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This federalaid contract has a goal of 5 percent DBE participation. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 19991. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free hotline to report bid rigging activities. Use the hotline to report bid rigging, bidder collusion, and other fraudulent activities. The hotline number is (800) 424-9071. The service is available 24 hours 7 days a week and is confidential and anonymous.. The hotline is part of the DOT's effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: May 31, June 7 and 14, 2017 Montecito Journal
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crush Tasting Room & Kitchen, 432 E. Haley Street Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Crush Santa Barbara, LLC, 25 S. Salinas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 25, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001566. Published June 7, 14, 21, 28, 2017.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAM E STATE M E NT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KI N ECI, 140 Hot Springs Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Politis & Associates Physical Therapy, 133 E. De La Guerra St. #373, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 10, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FB N No. 2017-0001429. Published May 31, June 7, 14, 21, 2017.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Irvine Winkler Technologies; Santa Barbara Gift Shop – SBGIFTS.COM; SB50PLUS. COM, 3714 Lincolnwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Eileen Irvine-Winkler, 3714 Lincolnwood Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0001345. Published May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2017.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bulla Lulla Music; Producers Music Library; Chameleon Music Libraries; West Valley Music; East Valley Music, 1323 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jelinda Music Prod Inc, 1323 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 27, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2017-0001282. Published May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2017.
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Published: June 7, 2017 Montecito Journal
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Montecito Union School District intends to conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 9:20 a.m. at the auditorium, located at 385 San Ysidro Rd, Santa Barbara, California to consider input from the public and a resolution on the proposed adoption of level 1 developer fees on residential, commercial and industrial development. The updated fees are proposed to be levied at the K-12 rate of Error! Not a valid link.per square foot for residential construction and $0.56 per square foot for commercial / industrial construction, and would be levied for the purpose of funding the construction and reconstruction of school facilities. The fees would be levied pursuant Section 17620 of the Education Code and Section 65995 of the California Government Code. The Level 1 Developer Fee Justification Report, June 2017 for the proposed level 1 developer fees is on file in the District Office, and is available for public review. Members of the public are invited to provide comment at the Public Hearing, or, in writing, which is received on or before June 9, 2017. Any person challenging in court the decision made at the conclusion of the Public Hearing may be limited to raising only those issues raised at such hearing or in correspondence delivered to the school district prior to the close of such hearing. If you desire additional information concerning the above, please contact Virginia Alvarez, Chief Business Official as 805-969-3249 x420. MONTECITO UNION SCHOL DISTRICT Virginia Alvarez, Chief Business Official Published June 7, 2017
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mac Mechanic, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Techease Computer Solutions, LLC, 3433 State
Street, Ste E, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 12, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:
BID NO. 5530
BID NO. 5541
DUE DATE & TIME: July 11, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.
DUE DATE & TIME: June 27, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M.
Cater Valve and Actuator Replacement Project
Forklift, Aerial Lift, and Backhoe Rental and Maintenance
An OPTIONAL pre-bid meeting will be held on June 27, 2017 at 1:30 p.m., at Cater Treatment Plant, located at 1150 San Roque Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A - General Engineering Contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
__________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 7 & 14, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal
certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001457. Published May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2017.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Uncorked; Uncorked Santa Barbara, 1125 Calle Lagunitas, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Santa
The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 7, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO PROPOSERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed RFP’s will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Public Works Department located at 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly received for: RFP NO. 3878 DUE DATE & TIME: JUNE 21, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. OLIVE MILL ROAD AND SAN YSIDRO ROAD INTERCHANGE/INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS The City of Santa Barbara (City) and County of Santa Barbara Public Works Departments (County) are seeking responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP) from qualified consultants to perform engineering and environmental services for intersection improvements to the Olive Mill Road and San Ysidro Road Interchanges at US 101. Responses to the RFP must be submitted in accordance with the terms and conditions contained therein. The RFP is available digitally at the following location: https://rfp.cosbpw.net/Cons/RFPAdvProp.aspx There is no charge to view or download the RFP. Questions regarding the RFP should be directed to Brian D’Amour, City Engineer by calling (805) 897-2661. Proposers are hereby notified that any service contract issued as a result of this RFP may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5535A DUE DATE & TIME: June 27, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. FY17 Sewer Main Cleaning at El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Scope of work includes cleaning approximately clean approximately 42.5 miles of 6 inch and 8 inch, 6.3 miles of 10 inch – 18 inch, and 3.1 miles of 20 inch – 42 inch sanitary sewer mains. The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at
http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.
The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.
Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess either one of the current valid State of California General A, C36 Plumbing or C42 Sanitation System Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. Bidders are hereby notified that a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive.
The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 7, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal
_____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 7, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal
I was so naive as a kid, I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. – Johnny Carson
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SEEN (Continued from page 15) Kathryn Masson at the SBHM for her lecture and book signing, with Dr. Jarrell Jackman and photographer David Glomb
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Z & Z Consulting, 856 Ferrelo Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Yuan Linda Zhang, 856 Ferrelo Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Nan Zhou, 856 Ferrelo Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 18, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2017-0001155. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017.
western artist who lived in Santa Barbara. For information, call (805) 966-1601.
Heart Ball 2017
Let’s Have a Ball!” And we did at this 18th Heart Ball to benefit the American Heart Association (AHA). The weather was perfect for cocktails and canapés on the terrace while watching the sun set on the Pacific at the Coral Casino. The premier sponsor was the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation. They are holding onto tradition by sharing amuyich, which means reaching out to their neighbors and caring for their community. As we sat down for dinner, the event chair Denise Sanford shared, “I lost my grandfather at age 52 and then my father, having gone through a quadruple bypass at age 52. I also discovered a few years ago that my youngest son has a heart murmur.” That’s why she took on the job of chairing the ball. Her committee was Janice Bowie, Sarah Jaimes, and Erin Griffin. Board chair Renee Grubb told us about the kids Healthy Heart drawing contest again sponsored by the Chumash. By making children aware of their hearts, they can take control of them. First place went to Ashley and Valentina at Washington Elementary School 6th grade, second to Liliana at Peabody Charter School 4th grade, and third prize to Alexander at Westside Boys & Girl Club 4th grade. AHA board president Dr. Michael Shenoda told us, “One in 100 babies is born with a congenital heart defect. Not long ago, there were limited options. Now they lead better lives and live into adulthood. Heart dis-
AHA board president Dr. Michael Shenoda and wife Rania
AHA passion speaker 10-year-old Tristen Golden with his mom, Lindy Ashmore, dad Darrel Ashmore, and sister Elliot
ease remains the number-one cause of death in men and women.” There has been a 29-percent decline in the death rate because people are educated to exercise, not smoke, and reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure. Michael said, “Our goal is to reduce deaths by 20 percent and improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by the year 2020.” The passion speaker was an incredible 10-year-old named Tristen. AHA called him their superhero. He has had three open-heart surgeries and lives with half a heart, but he lives like any other kid his age. As he said, “There’s •MJ nothing that can stop me.”
AHA development chair Sarah James, board chair Renee Grubb, and event chair Denise Sanford
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Barbara Uncorked, LLC, 1125 Calle Lagunitas, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 17, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2017-0001505. Published May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2017.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05835, 345 Town Center West, Santa Maria, CA 93458-5076. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001347. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05776, 801 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria, CA 93013-2042. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001341. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05788, 35 South Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103-3305. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001343. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #06185, 616 Alamo Pintado Road, Solvang, CA 93463-2202. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years
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from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001353. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05790, 1976 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-1504. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001344. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05791, 199 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117-2304. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001346. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rite Aid #05836, 2405 South Broadway, Santa Maria, CA 934547817. Thrifty Payless, INC, 30 Hunter Lane, Camp Hill, PA 17011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 3, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001352. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Impact Family Office, 1224 Coast Village Circle, Suite 11, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Impact First Financial, LLC, 1224 Coast Village Circle, Suite 11, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 10, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0001425. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Musicology Santa Barbara, 1070 Fairway Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Allison Wanberg, 27602 Silver Creek Drive, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 11, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2017-0001437. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alice Brophy Fashion Stylist, 1410 Chino Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Alice Richardson, 1410 Chino Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 1, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Sheaff. FBN No. 2017-0001317. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Next Chapter SB Properties, 1482 East Valley Road #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Robert Pavloff, 1482 East Valley Road #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Gregory Pavloff, 1482 East Valley Road #300, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 29, 2016. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran, filed May 1, 2017. Original FBN No. 2016-0000594. Published May 17, 24, 31, June 7, 2017. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV01875. To all interested parties: Petitioners Domingo Ramirez and Zoraya Ivonne Pamela Elias filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Ronnie D. Ramirez to Ronnie Ramirez. 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 May 10, 2017 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: June 21, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 5/17, 5/24, 5/31, 6/7 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SECOND AMENDED PLANTIFF’S CLAIM AND ORDER TO GO TO SMALL CLAIMS COURT: CASE No. 16CV05629. Notice to Defendant David Willows: You have been sued by Plaintiff: Manual Teoyotl Vargas (DBA 805-Lath & Plastering). You and the plaintiff must go to court on July 6, 2017, at 1:30 pm in Department 3 at the Santa Barbara Superior Court, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you lose, the court can order that your wages, money, or property be taken to pay this claim. Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. The plaintiff claims the defendant owes $7,380 for work performed at 6693 Del Playa Drive in Goleta, CA. Filed May 18, 2017, by Sarah Sisto, Deputy Clerk. Published May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2017.
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ing from college, building bird houses, standing your ground on moral, political, and social issues, or writing fictional stories, you were unstoppable. (Okay some of your fiction work was a little weird… but that’s how literary boundaries are broken, then redefined, and that’s why some authors are never forgotten.) I was always inspired by your persistence, especially when it came to shunning so-called “conventional wisdom.” You were intense when investigating both sides of controversial topics and constantly dug deep for the truth, always asking questions. Most people are afraid to ask questions. Ultimately, you began digging in your heels in the face of ravaging and insurmountable odds, losing both hands and arms as you fought. You embodied the defiant, proud spirit of every doomed Scottish warrior portrayed in the movie Braveheart, as did William Wallace, more than 700 years ago. Some youngsters have life’s blessings guaranteed and dropped into their laps. They’re born to health, wealth, and privilege. Despite unlimited opportunities, they often reach chronological “adulthood” self-absorbed, spoiled, arrogant, and ungrateful. A rare handful, like yourself, are never given a chance to get out of the “starting block,” never granted the blessing of growing old, and never allowed to reach their full potential. We will always remember the humble, gifted, and funny gentle soul we were fortunate to have known. Your twisted sense of humor and I got along very well. Very well, indeed! Chris, you were never a superficial thinker or typical “anything.” How you mustered the strength, each day, to face the onslaught of a horrific disease no one had ever heard of was incredible. The way you faced those merciless obstacles, pain, and setbacks, which seemed to compound themselves daily, was quite remarkable. You were remarkable. In a world where complaints are multitude and rampant over-trivial things such as missed appointments, bounced checks, a flat tire, a lost cell phone, or spilled coffee on a new shirt, it’s easy to forget the real suffering others endure. Sometimes people even “stress” over having too many choices. That one has always baffled me. Our petty, daily “problems” are dwarfed by the monster you struggled against year after year, after grueling year. The life-script forced upon you was overwhelming, debilitating, and torturous. You were given no choices. The manner in which you lived that cruel script – with optimism, dignity, and defiance – never once complaining, helps me put everyday problems into perspective. Those old memories of you still provide inspiration, as I visualize a young shortstop, charging that foul ball and hurling it home. You, Christopher, were the bravest person I’ve every known. I’m very proud to have been your friend, occasional proofreader, literary critic, debate opponent, and assistant coach. We are numb with grief and miss you greatly. But, from the very beginning, we’ve known instinctively that you were always destined for the majors. – Dale Lowdermilk
Silvio Dante Di Loreto
(17 September 1925 – 17 March 2017) amily and friends of Silvio Di Loreto gathered at La Cumbre Country Club in May to honor his memory. Among them was longtime friend Frank Umanzio, who offered up these words: I am honored to be asked to say a few words about Silvio, a friend who I knew dearly for the past 40-plus years. “Silvio was truly Santa Barbara’s renaissance man for all seasons. It would be impossible for me to recap here in the time allotted and do justice to the many important ways Silvio contributed to our community. Suffice to say, he touched virtually every non-profit and community organization of substance in Santa Barbara. I personally worked with him on City College’s foundation board, the three Italian organizations in town, the community annual prayer breakfast to which he provided loyal and crucial financial support. Partners in Education to ensure that our local students were properly prepared to obtain the skills necessary for the local labor market, the rental housing mediation task force, which he helped create, and served on for 40 years. I loved to hear him talk about his experiences scuba diving in the South Pacific with Jean-Michel Cousteau, and he would kindly share his fantastic underwater photography. Silvio was a successful, energetic, and visionary businessman who achieved great success in his long career as a real estate entrepreneur, but he never missed an oppor-
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tunity to give back, and to live up to his motto of “people helping people.” While I suspect all of you are aware of his many endeavors and interests, I marvel that he found time to enjoy making soap, teaching the Bible to young children in the early morning at Shoreline Park, making pancakes for the Kiwanis, playing clarinet for the primetime band, and helping Columbus land at East Beach, and to celebrate the Italian Fiesta. I know he’s up in Heaven now, prevailing upon God to put him to work, making things better. Maybe he and Mary McDonald will still find time to play the clarinets for the angels’ choir. ••• Among the many friends and family members who also offered their remembrances, Bev Motter, who met Silvio 25 years ago at the annual Boot Club meeting and ended up sharing the television screen on a cooking show they did together back in the 1990s (a hilarious segment of which was shown during the memorial), added: He was a master of people skills. A true natural. [When I first met him] I didn’t know him as a businessman, but I did know that he was very successful and the people who worked and dealt with him loved and respected him. What more could you ask for? He was totally in love with life and he lived it to the fullest. A positive attitude always, which he made the cornerstone and an example in his life and leadership. He experienced life in the air, under the sea, and everywhere in between. He was joyful, funny, and I think most of us felt good about ourselves and life period after being with him. He never stopped learning or being curious... about everything. In his passion for cooking, he worked hard. We planned as best we could and had fun, plus we enjoyed the end product as well. How good could it get? His culture was very important to him; he had great pride in being an Italian. He considered being Italian-American as being the best of both worlds. In thinking about his personhood, I wish I could have met his parents because they instilled in him the qualities and values we certainly could use more of today. An intelligent, talented, humble, kind, and generous soul. I know I am a much better person for having known him. Silvio loved lemons. At his home, he was surrounded by them. If you visited his home, you never left without lemons. And so I chose a brief segment of one of the Intermezzo Italiano shows to share with you. •MJ It fits him to a tee. Information for Fri-Thu: June 9-15
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
ENDING THIS WEEK UCSB Music – The UCSB Jazz Combos kick off the final week of concerts featuring university ensembles and individual performances before the academic year comes to a close. The jazz groups will play under the direction of Jon Nathan at 4 pm Thursday, June 8, in Karl Geiringer Hall on campus…. The UCSB Music of India Ensemble, directed by Scott Marcus, who also runs the Middle East Ensemble, presents a concert of Indian classical music in the same venue later that same evening, at 7:30 pm. Marcus, ethnomusicology professor and chair of the Department of Music, founded the ensemble back in 1989…. In between, pianist Petra Peršolja offers her doctoral chamber recital at 6 pm over in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall. The program will include works by Beethoven, Schubert, Ravel, Wolf, and more, as Peršolja – a Slovenian-born pianist who holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from University of Hawaii – performs both solo and in collaboration with soprano Carol Tsai, baritone Tyler Reece, pianist Leslie Cain, and UCSB faculty violinist Dr. Ambroise Aubrun…. Friday evening brings the final concert of the year from the UCSB Gospel Choir, featuring traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African-American religious traditions. Victor Bell directs the 7:30 pm performance in Lehmann Hall…. UCSB then closes out the concert series with something brassy: the Maurice Faulkner Brass Quintet. Nick Mazuk (bass trombone),
Dylan Aguilera (trombone), Sara Aronson (horn), and David Nakazono, and Lily Apar (trumpet) will play Jack Gale’s arrangement of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite, Viktor Ewald’s Quintet No. 3, and March from Arthur Frackenpohl’s Quintet, among other works, at 6 pm Monday in Geiringer Hall. COST: All concerts are free except Music of India Ensemble and Gospel Choir, which cost $10 general, $5 non-UCSB students, free for children under 12 INFO: 893-2064 or www.music.ucsb. edu FRIDAY, JUNE 9 Penny for Her Songs – Central Coast-based singer-songwriter Penny Nichols has shared the stage with several icons of folk-rock and pop such as Jackson Browne, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt, and others. But around here, she’s even better known not only as a purveyor of solid songs, but also as one who is dedicated to inspiring others to create in their craft as the founder of Summersongs, a songwriter’s camp that now has two week-long events on the Central Coast, as well as one back East in upstate New York (not far from the Hudson, as it were). Nichols is facing a return of the breast cancer that was first diagnosed 12 years ago and a rousing roster of Cambridge Drive Concert Series regulars and some of our local folkies – many of whom honed their chops and/or taught at the camps – are coming together to play at a benefit concert to help with the expenses of a new treatment.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 9 Home is Where the Jazz is – Drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Larry Grenadier, keyboardist John Medeski, and guitarist John Scofield have teamed up to celebrate their musical histories with a new band named after the Hudson River Valley they each call home. DeJohnette, who turns 75 this summer, has served as a sideman to a huge swatch of jazz icons, including Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, John Abercrombie, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, and Montecito’s own Charles Lloyd, among others. Scofield’s list includes many of the same names, plus George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, and Pat Metheny, while Medeski is a veteran of New York’s 1990s avant-garde jazz scene who is best known as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood, and Grenadier has long served in Brad Mehldau’s Trio. Now they’ve come together to pay tribute to the music associated with the land by the river that runs from the Adirondacks to New York City, a collection that includes Bob Dylan (“Lay Lady Lay” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”, The Band (“Up on Cripple Creek”), and Woodstock Music Festivalassociated Joni Mitchell (“Woodstock”), and Jimi Hendrix (“Wait Until Tomorrow”). The quartet has recorded a self-titled album that is coming out this month to coincide with the tour, which also features original compositions inspired by the Valley and one another. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $50 & $60 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
Susan Marie Reeves, Ed Tree, Rebecca Troon, Dale LaDuke, Jo Nita Beede, David West, Severin Browne, Arturo Tello, Teresa Turdury, and Mike Mullins will be performing at tonight’s show, a real bang for the buck as tickets are set at the regular suggested donation of $12 with reservations and $15 without. But the organizers are more than happy to also accept whatever other donations you might feel inclined to offer. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Drive, Goleta INFO: 964-0436 or www.cambridgedrivechurch.org
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Commodores in Concert – Shake it down, shake it down, shake it down now, up at the Chumash Casino Resort tonight as the funk and soul favorites play their classic hits in concert. Back when Lionel Richie was still the founding lead singer, The Commodores’s long association with Motown began as a result of a tour opening for the Jackson 5 in 1971. The instrumental “Machine Gun” became the first of their Top 10 hits, and they later scored with “Just to Be Close to You”, “Easy”, Too Hot ta Trot”, “Three Times a Lady”, “Still”, “Endless Love”, “Nightshift”, and their biggest sensation, “Brickhouse”. William King and Walter “Clyde” Orange, still with the band more than 45 years after the Commodores commenced, lead the band at the casino’s concert hall tonight. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $40-$60 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www. chumashcasino.com
Harmony All-Stars – Jimmy McVay from Los Angeles and Caren Armstrong from the Bay Area join Trinity Backstage Acoustic Concert Series co-founding singer-songwriters Doug Clegg and Kate Wallace for one of the now-quarterly concert series’ most popular shows. The foursome will share the stage and a variety of songs, both cover tunes and originals from each of the artists – all with a focus on harmony singing, the concept worthy of the combo’s name. Coffee and treats available before the show and during intermission, if you need more sweetness beyond the combined voices. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street COST: $10 INFO: 962-1970 or www. trinitybackstage.com
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Mayer Jazz be Swinging – A weekend of downbeats with distinction concludes this afternoon at SOhO when the Santa Barbara Jazz Society presents the Jon Mayer Quartet featuring saxophonist Rickey Woodard. In his early days, pianist Mayer became a regular member of the thriving New York City music scene in the 1950s as he played with such notables as Kenny Dorham, Jackie McLean, and John Coltrane, and later the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Manhattan Transfer, and others. Now 79, Mayer remains an active jazz musician and teacher in Los Angeles. His band members are no slouches either, as Woodard spent seven years with Ray Charles and is a member of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, which has recorded with Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, John Pizzarelli, and Horace Silver, while drummer Roy McCurdy, who will also turn 80 in 2018, lists Cannonball Adderley’s Quintet, Betty Carter, and Sonny Rollins on his early resumé, and bassist Chris Connor was affiliated with trumpeter-vocalist Chet Baker. 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 fulltime students INFO: 962-7776/www. 8 – 15 June 2017
SATURDAY, JUNE 10 Central Branch Celebrates a Century – The Santa Barbara Public Library marks the 100th anniversary of the building of the landmark Central Library just off State Street with six months of events for families and adults, including local history talks, library tours, musical performances, children’s programs, and a big birthday bash on the actual anniversary day in August. Event No. 1 take place tonight, with a fundraiser hosted by the Friends of the Santa Barbara Public Library that also serves as a launch party for Library Book, an anthology of library memories in prose and poetry about the glory of libraries by local and national writers. More than 70 new pieces were commissioned for the book, whose contributors include Ray Bradbury, Fannie Flagg, Sue Grafton, Pico Iyer, Leon Litwack, and all the living Santa Barbara poets laureate. The 250-page volume was edited by local anthologist Steven Gilbar and contains an introduction by Montecito resident T. C. Boyle. Tonight’s party includes champagne, dessert, and readings by selected authors, plus a copy of the book. Meanwhile, the first of the free History Talks takes place from 3 to 4 pm this Sunday, June 11, in Faulkner Gallery, when Betsy Green discusses “The Library and the City, 1916 & 1917”. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: $50 INFO: 705-3422 or www.friends-sblibrary.org/
sohosb.com or 687-7123/www. sbjazz.org WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 Stilt-ed Speech – Marc McGinnes is a well-known environmental lawyer and UCSB lecturer, but he’s also something of a local legend as a stilt-walker who has perfected his art over 40 years of marching in Santa Barbara’s Summer Solstice Parade. McGinnes has penned a memoir, Rise Up: A Stilter’s Adventures in Higher Consciousness, a lighthearted and celebratory overview of stilting and the benefit of raising one’s perspective. McGinnes – who helped to create the Environmental Studies Program at UCSB and led the founding of the Community
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Environmental Council and the Environmental Defense Center – explains how a small investment in a pair of stilts can translate into a lifetime of fun and joy as he shares the lowdown on falling, equipment, accessories, and how to begin and continue stilting at any age. He also expresses the shift in consciousness that occurs while gliding above the fray, as he recounts his view from the head of the Solstice Parade since it began and describes how stilts took him to new heights in the classroom and the courtroom. Join the local hero in a book signing and fun evening of tales from on high. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: 682-6787 or www. chaucersbooks.com •MJ
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SUNDAY, JUNE 11 Beantown Beats – The arena rock band Boston was actually largely just one guy, guitarist and studio wizard Tom Scholz, who began writing songs while earning a master’s degree at MIT. Working in his own 12-track recording studio in the basement of his home, Scholz used machines of his own creation and singer Brad Delp to fashion some demos that later, with just a few overdubs, became the 1976 self-titled album that turned into one of the fastest-selling debut albums in history. The classic prog-rock record spawned three hit singles (“More Than a Feeling,” “Long Time,” and “Peace of Mind”) and was soon followed by 1978’s Don’t Look Back, which also topped the charts – the first two albums sold more than 25 million copies in all. But it was eight years before the appearance of Third Stage – which also hit No. 1 – and eight more until Walk On, which flopped, maybe due to the departure of Delp. The singer returned in time for Corporate America, which, not surprisingly, didn’t come out until 2002, again eight years after its predecessor. Boston’s sixth and most recent album, the more optimistically titled Love Life & Hope, was released in late 2013, and somehow still featured Delp’s vocals among its tracks, even though the singer had committed suicide back in 2007. Scholz, now 70, has a new lead singer (Tommy DeCarlo) for the band’s current tour, which promises the expected re-creation of the classic studio sound and all the popular songs, plus a stage set featuring lightning bolts and the interstellar “spaceship” of the past. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $45.50$105.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com
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Montecito resident Clare Kelly, a junior at Bishop Diego High School,
Montecito resident Clare Kelly wins philanthropic award
won the National Charity League of Santa Barbara’s Merci Award, which is given to one young woman (Ticktocker) who has contributed the greatest number of philanthropic hours over the past year. Clare received the award for volunteering at nine different local nonprofits for a total of 387 hours. “I volunteer because it’s fun and I love to help my community,” explained Clare upon winning the award. Clare spent her summer last year volunteering at various National Charity League partner philanthropies, including Safety Town, Junior Wheelchair camp, and Santa Barbara Ridley Tree Art Center. In addition, she spent a week at Girl Scout camp. “My favorite place to volunteer during the school year is the Dream Foundation’s Flower Empower on Saturday mornings and Boo at the Zoo, where I can dress up in a costume and act like a character,” said Clare. She says she was also excited to participate in the Operation Gratitude service project, and she made 82 survival bracelets with her mom, Michelle Kelly. She also volunteered every day during the recent iMadonnari Festival. Clare also earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Girl Scouts, two years ago for her work on hunger awareness for the •MJ Foodbank of Santa Barbara.
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Real Estate View Montecito Heat
by Michael Phillips
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he Montecito Heat Index is a measurement of market demand for Montecito single-family homes in five distinct price sectors. Although completed sales are the favored metric for market performance, such data is always a month or more old. Here we measure the present ratio of listings to those under contract and thus determine the current “heat” of the market. Since real estate activity fluctuates seasonally, today’s Heat Score is compared to a year ago today. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and uniformly deemed reliable. Today’s Heat score is 84; last year’s was 94, a minor decrease of 10.6 %. May’s score was 157. Looking at individual price sectors, the $1-2 million group, nearly always
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date by a stunning 600%. Overall, this feels like a market in transition. We have been experiencing a seller’s market for so long, it is difficult to recall anything else. Yet, sales are down 5% year over year, and the average and median sales prices are down 10 and 6 percent, respectively. Buyers, particularly those in the under $2M market, are growing tired of near 2006 top-of-the-market prices and a diminishing inventory of homes to consider and seem to be taking a break.
This theory works pretty well for all sectors except one. If today’s data continue going forward, the mega sellers may well be procuring more champagne. With a slowly growing inventory since the beginning of the year, buyers have more to look at and at the moment are stepping up. For this crowd, economic and geopolitical confidence outweighs interest rates and to an extent price, and given today’s numbers, they appear to be growing more confident. The highest price under contract is for 88 acres in Toro Canyon without a significant house, but with iconic mountain and ocean views, at $10,750,000. Another view property found a buyer for a 9-acre parcel on Ayala lane, originally part of a 70-acre estate known as El Mirador, for $9,450,000 including the original hacienda farmhouse built in 1917. •MJ
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a demand leader yet giving ground recently to the $2-3M group, scored a 28 matching last year’s score. The $2-3M group posted a strong response last month with a firstplace score of 50. This group has been typically just lagging behind lesser-price homes since the market started turning down 10 years ago. Today, it scores a 19, just short of last year’s 22. Last month, the $3-4M group nicely outperformed the prior year. Today it posts 13, compared to last year’s score of 22. And the $4-5M group, usually struggling for attention, posts our lowest score and a significant decrease from last year of 50%. The biggest surprise is the $5M and up mega estates. They scored a robust 14, outperforming last year on this
Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com
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$16,900,000 | 2692 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito | 7BD/8BA Mary Whitney | 805.689.0915
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