This Way for Change

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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

The pandemic created an obstacle for the Friendship Center, but its commitment to the well-being of seniors has superseded that, page 32

THIS WAY FOR CHANGE THE COAST VILLAGE ASSOCIATION IS CHOOSING TO TAKE DESTINY INTO ITS OWN HANDS TO HELP REVITALIZE COAST VILLAGE ROAD, FOCUSING ON MAKING IT A VISITOR AND LOCAL ATTRACTION (STORY BEGINS ON P. 6)

Financing Forever

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Rolle-ing with It

Rod Rolle is a photographer and musician, so he’s used the last year to continue to dive into passion projects, page 30

Replenishing the Nurse’s Station Westmont College offers a shot in the arm against a shortage of nurses with new Cottage Health partnership, page 44

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Inside This Issue 5 Editor’s Letter

High school began with wildfires and a debris flow for the Class of 2021, ending in a worldwide pandemic. So, yes, they’re ready for anything.

8 Village Beat

The Coast Village Association is looking to take destiny into its own hands with a new vision for Coast Village Road; meanwhile, changes coming to Butterfly Lane undercrossing

10 Letters to the Editor

Jim Buckley responds to Gwyn Lurie’s Editor’s Letter, while reactions to his original piece roll in

11 Community Voices

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Jeff Giordano urges: start making some noise about county cannabis ordinances — it’s never too late for change

12 In the Know

Some 12 weeks ago, $18.6 million was the obstacle in attempting to stave off development of 101 acres in the San Marcos Foothills. Now? Let’s just say the community has put their money where their mouth is.

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Inspired by history’s best artists, Chelsea Owens, a mother of two boys, brings her passion for expression to the area’s classrooms

16 On Entertainment

Opera Santa Barbara to put trio to the test — finally; meanwhile, Solvang will feature plenty of live action

18 Montecito Miscellany

Sydney Rae, 17, is making noise with the debut of her new single on Spotify; meanwhile another teen, Laura Flores, gets an invite from the Vice President

20 Seen Around Town

What’s behind Old Spanish Days’ La Primavera? Lynda Millner fills you in on the details, including its return this year.

22 PERSPECTIVES

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23 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant talks about learning how to go with the flow

24 Travel Buzz

Leslie A. Westbrook has the itch to travel and took a respite in Palm Springs, where she enjoyed exclusive reservations and a doggy bar

26 On Politics

Lou Cannon explains why the Census matters to the South Coast

28 Dear Montecito

Josh Chapman grew up in Montecito and now champions animals as a college freshman in Australia

30 Our Town

Rod Rolle has turned heads with his iconic photographs over the years, allowing him to stay involved with social issues he is attached to

31 Senior Portrait

Ron Glover is a man of the world — and he has the stories to prove it — and has found a home in Santa Barbara, which has proven to be transformative for the community

32 The Giving List

The pandemic created an obstacle for the Friendship Center, but its commitment to the well-being of seniors has superseded that

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Exciting news for bookworms just before summer: The Montecito Library will be expanding hours, although there are some rules

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44 Your Westmont

Westmont College offers a shot in the arm against a shortage of nurses with Cottage Health partnership

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Editor’s Letter

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hey say the most important quality a student can have is “grit.” You want grit? I’ll show you grit — the class of 2021 began its freshman year with the onset of the Thomas Fire, which turned into the subsequent Montecito debris flow causing hundreds of students and their families to evacuate their homes — some for months at a time. Homes were lost. Friends were lost. But life, for most of us, went on.

And if they thought their freshman year was exciting, their junior and senior years proved a formidable match bringing an unprecedented pandemic that forced students home to learn, depriving them of so many of the social and extra-curricular rites of passage that should have been theirs. And let’s not forget a mind-spinning political environment with a national racial reckoning on top. I need to nap just thinking about the Class of 2021’s high school years.

One of my favorite quotes comes from an unknown source, but I think about it a lot and I always hope that it’s true: “the most interesting lives are ones that make sense in retrospect.”

The marks left by these topsy- turvy years may not yet be clear, but my money is on a generation of young people who know how to soldier on through adversity, who understand that it’s not that you meet with obstacles, but how you overcome them that matters. A generation that doesn’t take things for granted, has great empathy for the plight of others and feels a profound responsibility to take care of this earth. Young people who will have a real story to tell about their years of living dangerously.

Here’s to the Class of 2021: To your amazing spirit. To your unstoppable energy. To your patience. Your adaptability. To your resilience. And yes, here’s to your Grit.

Congratulations on this most important achievement; and know that we will be here, rooting for you as you journey on through what will be, if that past is any indication, a most interesting and exciting future!

•MJ 3 – 10 June 2021

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Village Beat

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

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fter more than a year helping many of their business constituents navigate through catastrophic blows to business, the Board of Directors of the Coast Village Association has one primary goal for 2021: To form a Community Benefit Improvement District, or CBID, in order to take control of the street’s aesthetics, safety, and marketing ventures.

“We’re really enthusiastic about this, and hope the community, and property owners, will see how great this can be for Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle,” said board president Bob Ludwick, who, along with a dedicated committee, has been working on the CBID for more than a year.

This isn’t the first time a business-oriented group has created such an improvement district on the road,

“Laugh often, long, and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.” – George Carlin

which is technically within the city of Santa Barbara; the street improvements that still stand today, including the separate parking aisles with diagonal parking, the medians, and signage, were built in 1968 via an improvement assessment spearheaded by Michael Towbes and the Coast Village Road Improvement Association.

The road, once called Old Coast Highway, was transformed into an approachable and attractive business district through funds raised from property owners who agreed to assess their properties for an additional annual amount added to their property taxes. Back then it was estimated that there were about three million visitors a year to the street, compared to the 7.2 million counted in 2017.

“We want people to continue to

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arly on in the drive, I was thinking I should have brought my thermal underwear. And my gloves. Now I was thinking I should have upped my life insurance.

“There’s no one behind us. You don’t have to go too fast.”

“I’m doing 20 miles per hour,” Pat said, without turning her head. Her knuckles were colorless, and she was gripping the steering wheel so tightly I thought she might leave handprints that even Armor All Heavy Duty Cleanser couldn’t get rid of.

We were on our way to Yosemite National Park. The projected high temperature per my iPhone was 50 degrees. The low was 28. I should have brought heavier socks.

We took a wide, sweeping turn as we headed higher up a section of Route 120 that looked like was designed by a former jigsaw puzzle cutter and might lead to a Sherpa camp. We were on the outside lane, and I was on the sheer drop-off side.

Normally, driving from Santa Barbara, we would be entering Yosemite from Route 140, but this trip we were driving from Lodi, the Old Vine Zinfandel capital of California.

I could use a slug or two right about now. Though if I popped a cork, it might distract Pat and we could become airborne. Not sure how well a Honda CRV does flight-wise, but I’m guessing not all that great.

“Can you look at the GPS and see how long this section of the road lasts?” Pat asked.

“Why? Please tell me you are not thinking of turning around!”

A truck towing a large camper approached heading down the grade.

He was riding the yellow line. Pat moved over a little. I thought about praying but all I could remember was “Now I lay me down to sleep...” and “If I die before I wake...”

We had never been to Yosemite in the spring before. Usually, we go in the winter when the waterfalls are trickling. I wanted to get a photo of roaring, thunderous water, maybe even one of those rainbow effects, if everything didn’t ice over during the night.

Another driver approached in one of those really tall vans that don’t seem all that safe on level ground. It was rocking a bit. I swear the driver had his eyes closed. I leaned way forward to make sure Pat’s eyes were open. Yup. Wide-open, even bulging a bit.

“Electricity is really just organized lightning.” – George Carlin

“Can I get you anything? Water?

Fruit rollup? Forehead compress?”

“If we live, I want a very large cocktail from the Ahwahnee Hotel.”

I tried not to dwell on the word “if.”

I checked the GPS. The upcoming turns were not even “S” turns. They were “V” turns. Building this section of road must have been fun. I was sure if I looked over the edge long enough, I would see the rusting hulks of longlost graders and pavers.

“Only a few more minutes to Priest Station, where it looks like the road levels out and straightens,” I said in my most encouraging voice. I wondered briefly how many survivors of this part of Route 120 converted at Priest Station.

“Only a few more minutes to Priest Station, where it looks like the road levels out and straightens,” I said in my most encouraging voice. I wondered briefly how many survivors of this part of Route 120 converted at Priest Station.

Just before my entire body froze into one big clench, the road indeed got flatter and wider, and soon we were at the Westgate entrance kiosk.

We handed the ranger our Senior Citizen Lifetime National Park Passes.

“Lifetime” had taken on new meaning. There was a chalkboard on the outside of the kiosk with updates.

At the very top it said: Valley Floor Temperature 71 degrees.

“71! Seriously?” I knew I should have packed my shorts.

“Yup,” he said. “Odd weather. Two days from now we are expecting snow.

Then it will really warm up. Should be an interesting fire season, but I’ll be gone by then. You folks have a nice time.”

Descending into Yosemite Valley wasn’t quite as steep or twisty, but it did offer another challenge. “Pullout with views!” I shouted.

Pat whipped into the tiny parking lot and we both stood for the first time in hours. I looked at our faithful Honda CRV. It wasn’t even breathing hard. I felt like I should give it some oats or something. Instead, I took the first of more than 300 photos.

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“Cocktails,” said Pat. “Soon.” •MJ 3 – 10 June 2021

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An Enjoyable Retort

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 H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to letters@montecitojournal.net

A Vintage Jim Buckley Non-Apology Apology

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n last week’s issue, Gwyn Lurie’s “Editor’s Letter” decries what she calls “incendiary language” in my recent column, calling it a “mistake” to have even printed it in the first place. I re-read it and though found it somewhat provocative, I believe that at no time does it reach the incendiary stage (450 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Handbook of Physical and Mechanical Testing of Paper and Paperboard Volume 2; edited by Richard Mark).

My impression of what constitutes incendiary is probably different from Ms. Lurie’s, but even so, last week’s “My Take,” I believe, was a thoughtful article describing the political leanings of the two experts invited by a local group calling itself “Protecting Democracy Partners” to join them in a conversation about voter suppression.

When Republicans or others are accused of voter suppression for simply trying to guarantee the integrity of each vote by, for example, requiring some kind of Voter ID, well, I’m often “triggered” by such claims. Consequently, I felt compelled to point out that the two invitees — Marc Elias and Tiffany Muller — were partisan Democrats and that anyone considering joining in their conversation should be forewarned.

That’s all.

Apparently, there are some phrases — many phrases if one is honest — that are now considered “trigger language,” though I don’t really understand why “triggering” is a bad thing, let alone no longer allowed. I grew up in an era of free speech, without which positive outcomes such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Stonewall defiance that led to gay liberation, even slavery itself would have survived much longer if not for the right of newspapers to

present anti-slavery opinions.

I do believe it’s better if other points of view are presented in a community newspaper, and I’ll admit that my views are often 180 degrees the opposite of some of the other columnists in this paper. But that’s OK, right? I can be and have been snarky in some of my comments but put me down as an out-oftouch newspaperman who still lives in and relishes the era I grew up in.

No doubt, journalists and editors half my age would have a completely different reaction, but I honestly enjoy it when a waitress at Camarillo airport’s popular Waypoint Café asks me: “Is everything okay, hon?”

One more thing, at the risk of digging an even deeper hole for myself: “Mr. Buckley,” Gwyn’s Editor ’s Letter states, “mistook the challenge of healing our democracy with a competitive sport in which someone wins and someone else loses.”

Ah, isn’t that the point of an election?

Just asking.

That said, readers should know that I not only enjoy stirring the pot, but also love adding ingredients to the stew. Gwyn has proven to be an inspired and superbly competent shepherd of Montecito Journal, a paper I founded more than 25 years ago. So, in a personal aside to her, I suggest that allowing the sometimes snarky but respectful and always well-intentioned “My Take” to continue could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

It might even attract a different kind of readership to the paper.

Who knows?

James Buckley (Editor’s Note: While we left commenting on Letters to the Editor behind with the Jim Buckley era, I had to make this one exception to ask: Is it just me, or do Mr. Buckley’s pieces always get much better towards the end? ~ GL)

I enjoyed your Editor’s Letter regarding James Buckley’s “Opinion” piece and also the “counter” letter to Mr. Buckley that followed. Mr. Buckley likes to play hide-and-seek with the truth, futilely trying to camouflage his partisan bias with sarcasm and innuendo. I lived in Goleta for 32 years (1983-2015), so I’m very familiar with his writing style.

I also appreciated your comment about The New York Times, but you were too kind. The incident you mentioned is only one of many extremely poor errors in judgment by this once respected newspaper. Did they ever accept responsibility for these errors or try to correct their course? No! Keep up the good work!

Robert Baruch

Championing Civility

It was truly refreshing to read Members of Protecting Democracy Partners’ counter to a previously written Letter to the Editor by James Buckley. The Members demonstrated that political discourse can be done in a dignified and factual manner, without hurling insults to those holding opposing views. In this age of divisive polarization and pundits spewing forth disinformation and vitriol to their devoted and unquestioning audiences, it is heartening to be reminded that there are still those that are able to communicate with civility and provide fact-based information.

Kerin Friden

A Need for Change

We are all quite aware of Mr. Buckley’s opinions and grievances.

Can we please let some other people have his ink.

Lee Chiacos

Time for Action

More talk is pointless. As Santa Barbara County and city spend and waste more time and money each year, to address the homeless or ‘unhoused’ problem, the problem has grown in my 41 years here.

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Listening to Tuesday’s city hearing, I heard locals get shriller in their tearful sympathetic comments about homelessness, without voicing concerns for the greater public interests or safety.

Nor did these speakers offer to solve this growing problem.

Conversely, at a similar city hearing two years ago, I heard Richard Bertie, Bob Bryant, and other generous business and civic leaders offer up $100,000 each for starters to develop a village campground with hygiene facilities and electricity; a location where tents and tiny homes of 100-150 square feet could

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Community Voices County Enforcement or County Stunt?

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’m loving what I’m seeing on Coast Village Road as most of us pull ourselves from our cocoons — an inside table at Lucky’s, things really are getting “normal.” It’s a spring like no other and I can’t wait to become fully engaged in our community because, frankly, it needs as much help as we can provide.

As most know, I’m a reasonable cannabis guy, a live-and-let-live “raging centrist” who believes every industry should respect our community. Especially, our coastal zone, the gently rolling hills of our second district (cannabis will be grown there) and wine country which I love. I don’t mind that our $1.3B+ county makes just $20M (gross!) in tax revenue, while single growers are valued at $567M. No, I expect most pols are not business folks (or worse); so, yes, we got fleeced in a way no other county did.

I’m not sure if you saw it, but June’s Wine Spectator features us on the cover — not for our wine, but for how compared to Napa and Sonoma

by Jeff Giordano

we screwed it up (“disastrous”) by allowing 80-acre open pot farms. As the Grand Jury said, wine is 80% olfactory and these two industries can’t co-exist without deep oversight.

In Napa, cannabis is banned, but here there will be 1,761 acres of cannabis.

A new cannabis-twist came on May 21 when our supervisor-appointed County Counsel Michael Ghizzoni initiated his very first enforcement action against a greenhouse enclosed cannabis grower. A nuisance, as alleged in the complaint (21CV02021), is easy to define: “a serious threat to the general health, safety, and welfare of … residents and their peaceable and safe enjoyment of properties.”

We know about the odor, the volatile organic compounds, the vapor phase chemicals, the increased ground level ozone, and apparently so too does the county.

Concerning this second Cause of Action, the facts are simple: “The County … has received several com-

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

Marc Chytilo points at charts, held by Lisa Stratton, showcasing the Foothills Forever fundraising efforts meeting every deadline and goal to date, with only the finish line of June 9 remaining

Buying into Forever: Campaign to Preserve San Marcos Foothills Sets New Fundraising Standard

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t isn’t supposed to work this way.

Raising just under $18 million in 83 days is foolhardy, a pseudo pipe dream.

And Bob Bason would know a thing or two about lofty fundraising goals, having worked as a capital campaign consultant to charities and nonprofits all over the United States — including yeoman’s work at UCSB. But the Montecito resident has never seen something like the Foothills Forever campaign, one that’s looking to preserve 101 acres on the San Marcos West Mesa.

Even he admits that raising $18.6 million in just 1,992 hours, or 119,520 minutes, or 7,171,200 seconds is something that shouldn’t work on paper.

That’s $9,337 per hour; $155.62 per minute; $2.59 per second.

That’s why the heart of a community isn’t measured on paper.

“We’ve done a great job of protecting our front yard on the coast, now it’s time to take care of our backyard and preserve these wonderful spots,”

The campaign has been proactive in handing out marketing materials, helping lead to more than 5,000 different donations to the Foothills Forever cause

Bason said.

“This campaign is now the gold standard for how to get things done.”

On May 25, a couple dozen donors and advocates for the project gathered at a private residence to rally the troops once more — the campaign had eclipsed $12 million, but $6.6 million was still needed, with a June 1 deadline looming to appease the current landowner.

A day later, an angel donor made a $5 million donation, giving the anonymous “longtime businesswoman” the naming rights to the land.

Over Memorial Day Weekend?

Another $800,000-plus in donations.

On June 1, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to support the project with $2 million — essentially putting the campaign over the top, although there is a need to create an endowment fund for the needed upkeep of the area after the purchase.

“It was important for the County to show how important this project is,” said Gregg Hart, the Second District Supervisor. “This effort has truly been inspirational, and we needed to do our part to support it.”

The deadline for the final $700,000plus is now June 9 at 10 am, with donations of up to a total of $150,000 being matched.

At last week’s get-together, Marc Chytilo, on the Foothills Forever executive committee, addressed the gathering, raising his cap a couple of times — searching for another “rabbit to pull out of his hat.”

“And I’ll keep looking until we get

there,” Chytilo said.

A local since 1969, Bason has seen his fair share of preservation efforts, including the Douglas Family Preserve, Sterling Preserve at Ellwood, Veronica Meadows, and the Carpinteria Bluffs — all open spaces available to both wildlife and the community.

But, in his eyes, none of them faced the challenge that the Foothills Forever campaign has endured — not in timing, not in funds required, not in the stakes at hand.

Yet, more than 5,000 donations have been made to date.

“I would have never advised this approach before, but what other choice did we have?” Bason said.

“When you look back at the other projects, it’s obvious that this community cares deeply. You can’t ever underestimate that, because the second you think you’ve done all you can, this community will surprise you and go a step further.”

Donations are still needed in order to get to the original $20 million goal, and you can make a tax-deductible contribution via foothills forever.org.

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Montecito Moms

by Dalina Michaels

‘Inspire Through Teaching’: Chelsea Owens Brings Love of Art to Area’s Classrooms

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e typically have a lot of May gray this time of year— and Montecito mom Chelsea Owens spends plenty of time thinking in gray, Payne’s Gray to be exact.

As a skilled color chemist, Chelsea traces her earliest palette to the Mediterranean and Payne’s Gray’s ability to fuse with all colors.

So, it should come as no surprise that she chose to name her first born son Gray!

As an artist and mother, Chelsea is using her incredible talents to help bring art to children and adults, finding ways to bring more color to our community walls.

“My mission is to bring collaboration to both children and adults through art: creative interaction and experiential,” Chelsea said.

Chelsea moved to Montecito 11 years ago from northern Italy, but her love of art began as a child.

“My earliest memories are collaborative drawings with my father Tim Owens (a Santa Barbara local since the 1960s). I also incorporate sound into my work having been around him as a jazz producer for National Public Radio.”

Her creative vision was instantaneous: “When I was in third grade, I helped organize a group mural painting project with classmates to promote ‘Earth Awareness.’ I hope to instill this in all children, so that they can create a vibrant connection with their community.”

Chelsea moved to Santa Barbara in 2010 to raise her two sons, Gray (10) and Taj (7), while bringing love and passion for art to her children’s preschool, Bright Start. She taught children to radically explore through all mediums (Reggio Emilia-based methods) and facilitated a mural project depicting a double panorama landscape scene of Santa Barbara and all its beauty.

Over the past decade, Chelsea has been involved in the community: she has donated numerous paintings to the Montecito Union School fundraiser and other local academia and hosted a private art retreat to Planned Parenthood’s Birds & Bees Gala to a group of adults for a weekend of fine art training and creative exploration. Her artwork has been featured at Sullivan & Goss Gallery and several 1st Thursday Art Events in Santa Barbara. One can view her most recent article written in the Santa Barbara Sentinel’s “Creative Characters” section in the August/September 2020 edition.

Her path to Montecito is as colorful as a painter’s palette: After attending the Corcoran School of Art for figure drawing and, later, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she moved abroad to France to focus on painting.

“I fell in love with France; living in the land of all the master painters from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism. I went to Monet’s home and studios, gazed out of Van

Chelsea Owens with her sons, Gray and Taj

Gogh’s room to the fields in which he studied, and breathed Picasso. It was incredible and gave me such a sense of appreciation that subsequently helped me decide my focal path.”

After time abroad, Chelsea moved to California and immersed herself in the Bohemian art scene of San Francisco and dove into film production and digital design.

Through her extensive travels and exploring many creative mediums, she desires to encourage everyone of all ages to spread their creative wings and take risks, while relishing in the process of finding their inner landscape and voice.

“What I am most proud of in my artwork is to cut loose and not just strive for a masterpiece but instead savor the creative process,” Chelsea said. “My mission is to inspire this through teaching. I aspire people to think and create outside the limitations imposed on us by society.”

To that end, Chelsea offers personal classes for both kids and adults who are ready to explore their creative side.

Children got to be part of the creative process and helped to paint a mural at Bright Start Preschool in Santa Barbara

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“Just ‘cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean that the circus has left town.” – George Carlin

“Whether it is at a park or in your home, I encourage people to be bold and not limit oneself. I provide a university-level foundation influenced by the masters but aspire their purpose and inner-landscape to reveal itself. Explore your psychological narrative through any medium, incorporate sound, and let the creativity flow.”

Both of her boys are budding artists as well, which makes her proud.

“It’s amazing to watch their minds and souls experience the true nature and freedom of art. My goal of teaching is to help kids creatively express themselves, develop techniques and discipline, and respect the art studio etiquette.”

In addition to teaching and offering private classes, Chelsea is thrilled to establish the “805Muralists” group with the intention to paint murals in both public and private local venues.

“There is a great need to connect the entire 805 community throughout these difficult times. Santa Barbara and Montecito have so many walls that could be magnificent! My vision is to inspire the community to join in, pick up a paintbrush, and help create spaces that spark joy, conversation, and community,” Chelsea said.

She is hopeful that together we can build a creative infrastructure and merge all generations experientially through color and respect to our local history, present time, and future.

So, what does a perfect day look like in Montecito for Chelsea? “[It] would be to hike with my kids to the hot springs, take in the natural healing powers of the land and sulphuric waters, Chumash history, sing songs, and then collaboratively create with others who yearn to relish in the true nature of this land; whether representational or non.”

Chelsea’s artwork and portfolio can be viewed at www.chelseaowens.com, Etsy, Singulart, and Saatchi.

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by Steven Libowitz

OSB’s Spring Sing … and ‘Ring-ing’ in the Summer

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aybe simply due to the stubbornness and determination of Opera Santa Barbara’s Artistic & General Director Kostis Protopapas, the company didn’t shy away from maintaining its agreements with Chrisman Studio Artists singers, having them in residence in Santa Barbara for the 2020-21 season despite the pandemic shutting down all indoor events. Tenor Matthew Greenblatt, mezzo-soprano Max Potter, and soprano Brooklyn Snow had to perform pivots perhaps as difficult as projecting to the back of the balcony in filming streamed concerts, singing from OSB’s balcony on State Street, while also performing in bars and parks, as well as the rare private space as OSB negotiated the COVID restrictions and requirements.

Now the trio — who were deprived of the usual chances to join in the chorus of main stage productions at the Granada — are finally getting the chance to return to singing in front of a general audience live on stage with performances at 2:30 pm on June 5-6 at Center Stage Theater.

The reward for such persistence? The opportunity for the artists to command the stage for a solid 30 minutes each to present a dramatic work of their choosing. Greenblatt will present a rare performance of Charles Gounod’s Italian song cycle “Biondina,” evoking the Italian music of the composer’s young days in Rome, directed by Lillian Groag. Potter will perform love songs from Hector Berlioz’s song cycle “Les nuits d’été,” directed by Sara E. Widzer (who helmed OSB’s ambitious Carmen — A Live Drive-in Opera at Ventura’s Concerts in Your Car in early December the night before the last lockdown took effect). Snow will sing “At the Statue of Venus,” a musical scene composed by Jake Heggie with libretto by playwright Terrence McNally, directed by Layna Chianakas.

OSB principal pianist Timothy Accurso will accompany each of the singers on piano.

The public performance follows a recent preview evening at the Chrisman’s Ennisbrook home, while the shows serve as the culmination of a season of unusual, often virtual training opportunities, vocal coaching, and live showcases. Tickets are $28 and capacity is limited. Visit www.centerstagetheater.org for more information, protocols, and to purchase tickets.

Just three weeks later, Opera Santa Barbara will again step out way ahead of the reopening curve in becoming the first local performing arts organization to mount a full-scale production with Das Rheingold, the first opera of Richard Wagner’s famous Ring Cycle. OSB will be making its first foray into the Wagner canon with the under two-hour adaptation by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove, which features just 12 singers and 18 orchestral players — still a massive multiplier of anything attempted during the last 15 months.

Protopapas is directing a cast that includes the OSB debuts of bass-baritone Kyle Albertson and baritone Timothy Mix as Wotan and Alberich, as well as the return of company favorites mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen as Fricka, Anya Matanovich (The Crucible, 2019) as Freia, and Robert Norman as Loge. Snow and Potter are joined by Christina Pezzarossi to portray the playful Rheinmaidens, while Nathan Stark (The Barber of Seville, 2018), and Colin Ramsey (Madama Butterfly, 2019; La Bohème, 2018) are the scorned giants Fasolt and Fafner.

At the moment, however, all of the available tickets for the single show at the Lobero on June 27 have been snapped up by sponsors and VIP buyers, although a likely movement into the Yellow Tier, not to mention the further lifting of restrictions planned for June 15, will likely allow for many more members of the public in the audience. Look for a featured interview closer to show date.

Launch Pad’s Latest

UCSB’s Launch Pad program winds up its 2020-21 season with a virtually staged reading of Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night as part of its New Play Pop Up series. The story of Jay Jarrell (aka the “Blue Jay”), a once popular disc jockey from the freeform FM radio era of the late 1960s and early 1970s who is trying to navigate the more modern world of FM with its market-driven strict playlists and minimal talk. Relegated to the graveyard shift, Jarrell is forced to work with Max, an engineer who is determined to squeeze him into one-size-fits-all mold for DJs. Jay and his colleagues at the station struggle against the new realities, and the Blue Jay must ultimately make a difficult, but not unfamiliar, choice between hanging on to his career or preserving his artistic integrity, serving as a passionate reminder of the power of self-expression.

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Playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos is a Santa Barbara-based screenwriter, director, nonfiction author, writing teacher, and consultant whose credits include six short films, three of which she directed, all of which have played at multiple film festivals and earned awards. Her feature-length screenplays have been named as finalists or semi-finalists in various competitions including Story Pros, Creative World Awards, and New York City Screenplay Awards. As a playwright, her short- and full-length plays have been produced in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. Stamos, who is a regular workshop leader at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and has taught writing classes at SBCC’s Adult Ed program, also co-authored the book RenWomen: What Modern Renaissance Women Have to Teach Us About Living Rich, Fulfilling Lives.

The development of Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night has been dormant for a while as it had two readings in 2008, was a finalist in Writer’s Digest’s Stageplay Competition in 2010 and was workshopped at Pacific Resident Theatre in 2011. Irwin Appel, professor and chair of the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance, directs the student reading over Zoom at 5 pm on June 10. A Q&A session with Stamos, Appel and the cast follows. Visit https://launchpad. theaterdance.ucsb.edu.

‘Zoom Noir’ Zips Along

The Long Isolation, inspired by the COVID lockdown, was written, directed, and features Deb Lacusta and Dan Castellaneta — the married couple famed as writers and voice actors for The Simpsons (Dan has voiced Homer since the animated series’ start) — spoofs classic detective stories with a self-referential take on the potential murderous pitfalls of the pandemic. The concept was to have a classic noir tale collide with the remote technology and green screen of these socially distanced times in a deadpan homage to Lady and the Lake, with the Zoom-ified take of shooting the whole thing from private detective Marlowe Phillips’ point of view.

The play was performed by the Los Angeles improvisational comedy company, The Immediate Theater, whose members include alumni of The Second City, The Groundlings, and The Spolin Players. The directors recorded the individual performances on Zoom, then edited using visuals, a variety of virtual backgrounds, and clever editing that at one point has all the actors on screen in oval portraits at once and, toward the end, shows the action as silhouetted through a keyhole (remember those?) giving it both an era-appropriate flavor and a sense of being in on the action. There’s original music by Laura Hall of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame with a Chet Baker-like theme sung by Castellaneta and Julie Brown (“Earth Girls Are Easy”). All the elements go a long way toward making the fun and funny piece much easier on the eyes than a typical virtual production, a welcome relief from Zoom fatigue and one worth seeing even as we ease back into live theater.

The Long Isolation had its debut through Launch Pad last week, but the video of the show will remain available for viewing through June 11 at a link accessible at https://bit.ly/3hTH3yw.

Book Talk

The New York Times bestselling author Daniel James Brown’s 2013 nonfiction novel The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics is based on the efforts of the University of Washington rowing team — all of whom came from lower-middle-class families and had to struggle to earn their way through school during the depths of the Depression — to make it to the quadrennial games. A No. 1 New York Times bestseller that spent nearly three years on the list, the book is under development as a motion picture to be directed by George Clooney.

Now, eight years later, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II, Brown’s next historical novel, has just been published.

Based on the author’s extensive interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as extensive archival research, the book portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four such soldiers and their families, including three who volunteered for 442nd Regimental Combat Team and displayed fierce courage on the battlefields of France, Germany, and Italy, even as their relatives were forced to shutter the businesses, surrender their homes, and submit to life in internment camps back home. As he did in his previous books, Brown explores questions of what home means to us, what makes a team work, what it means to be a “real American,” and what citizens owe their country and vice versa.

Facing the Mountain has received strong reviews with the Wall Street Journal calling the book “propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers … a

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 14 years ago.

This Inside Joke is Headed for the Mainstream

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anta Barbara High Junior singer Sydney Rae is going global!

A self-taught musician who plays guitar, bass, and ukulele, says she has been singing since she could talk, naturally leading to the launch of her first original song “Inside Jokes” on Spotify, one of the world’s largest music streaming service providers, with more than 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million paying subscribers.

“People can listen internationally which is absolutely huge,” says Sydney.

The 17-year-old, who attended the summer program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston two years ago, is returning to the East Coast again this summer for a five-week program in performance, songwriting, and music composition.

She already has an impressive entertainment resume as a member of the MAD Academy, a “school within a school” at Santa Barbara High, as well as singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with Doobie Brother Michael McDonald and Glen Phillips at a Human Rights Watch dinner in 2018. The following year, at the same HRW event, she teamed with Montecito’s Kenny Loggins in a version of the late John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

Sydney also performed at Santa Barbara Middle School’s “Songfest” for three consecutive years and has joined forces with Nashville singer, songwriter, producer Trey Schafer for the three-minute, 18-second long “Inside Jokes.”

Local warbler and former Dos Pueblos High student Katy Perry may well be shaking in her Christian Louboutins!

New World Cash Meets Old World Living

Prominent financier Scott Casto, a co-founder of the Chicago-based investment firm Pondera Holdings, has paid $16.3 million for the overthe-top, amenity laden Italianate mansion, Villa Bencista.

The East Mountain Drive estate was formerly owned by producer-screen-

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Erik Davis hoists a Telly Award

executive director of TVSB. “The gold award is especially meaningful because of the importance of the 2020 census and the incredible results achieved in the city of Goleta.”

Goleta had a 76 percent Census completion rate, the highest in Santa Barbara County.

“TV Santa Barbara really captured the heart and soul of our community in this video and we are so proud of it,” enthused Kelly Hoover, the city’s community relations manager.

Money is No Object

Santa Barbara High’s Sydney Rae has released “Inside Jokes” on Spotify

writer Rob Allyn and his wife, Monica, who paid $13.7 million, and added $2.5 million worth of improvements before returning to their home state of Texas.

Casto and his wife, Janell, who have long owned a designer mansion in the bucolic Chicago suburb of Wheaton, was represented in our rarefied enclave’s purchase by Marsha Kotlyar of Berkshire Hathaway.

The sprawling four-acre estate was built in 2002 with a trio of structures totaling an expansive 12,200 square feet, including the new house, with six bedrooms and nine-and-a-half baths, and a couple of poolside guest houses.

The mansion offers 10,300 square feet of Old World-style living.

Telly Us More About It

TV Santa Barbara, the area’s community access center that operates channels 17 and 71, is the recipient of four 2021 Telly Awards, including the prestigious Gold Award for the production of “Make Goleta Count!”

Silver and bronze honors were also earned for video productions created in partnership with the Central Coast Division of the American Heart Association.

“It’s a great honor for TV Santa Barbara to be recognized for video excellence, especially during a year where video storytelling was more important than ever,” says Erik Davis,

Mason Morfit, a top financial honcho and former Microsoft board member, has splashed out $9.2 million — $2 million above the asking price — for the Montecito estate Monte Bello.

His newly acquired 7,749-squarefoot, six-bedroom, seven-bath home on .92 acres, was designed by noted architect Winsor Soule in 1917 near Butterfly Beach.

Morfit, CEO and chief financial officer of San Francisco-based ValueAct Capital, is probably best known to the public as the beau of Fast and Furious actress Jordana Brewster.

He and his ex-wife, Anna, continue to own a number of other homes, including another multi-million-dollar estate in our rarefied enclave, and properties in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Park City, and L.A.’s charming Los Feliz neighborhood.

Morfit was represented by Emily Kellenberger of Village Properties.

In the National Spotlight

Laura Flores, a Girls Inc. of Carpinteria member and high school senior, was one of 100 students across the U.S. invited to participate in a virtual graduation ceremony with Vice President Kamala Harris, a primetime special that aired on CNN. Laura was one of three Girls Inc. seniors — all Teen Advocacy Council members — to participate and represent their fellow members who are graduating from high school this year.

Laura was recently selected as a finalist for Junior Carpinterian of the Year and was recognized as 2020 Girls Inc. National Scholar. Ranked in the top 10 percent of her class, she gradu-

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” – George Carlin

Laura Flores participated in a virtual graduation ceremony featuring VP Kamala Harris

ated Carpinteria High last month with a 4.5 GPA and 25 units completed at Santa Barbara City College.

Brava!

The Wait is Almost Over

Ensemble Theatre Company’s New Vic theater is reopening to in-person audiences!

Beginning in October, ETC is planning a new season of five adventurous productions, including two musicals, the West Coast premiere of a gripping look at the intersection of racism and the police, a sequel to one of the company’s biggest hits, and a new production of a timeless comic thriller.

“We’re ecstatic that, at long last, we can finally reopen our doors to the public,” says Jonathan Fox, artistic director. “Rather than be cautious, we made a decision to return with an ambitious season. While we presented several performances online this past year, there’s truly no substitute for seeing theater live and in person.”

The season opener is Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical with a live on-stage band.

I can’t wait...

And the Winners Are . . .

Twelve outstanding musicians and vocal artists, ranging in age from 13 to 29, competed for scholarships amounting to more than $24,000 in the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation’s annual competition at the Music Academy of the West.

The finalists were selected from more than 25 applicants by Deborah Bertling, Kristine Pacheco-Bernt, Neil DiMaggio, David McKee, and Adrian Spence, founder of Camerata Pacifica.

Due to COVID restrictions the competition was held at Lehman Hall without an audience, other than judges Ani Aznavoorian, Paul Berkowitz, and Armen Guzelimian, as well as Bertling, the event host, and videographer David Bazemore.

The winners included Ching-Yun

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History in Motion: The Roots of La Primavera

by Lynda Millner

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Emcee and auctioneer Drew Wakefield with La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow and the OSD 2021 poster

a Primavera” means springtime and came from the annual season when hides and tallow trade ships arrived to do business in Santa Barbara — a big industry for many decades. The rancheros would join together for the cattle round-up and get together for a meal and a party with dancing and entertainment during those old Spanish Days in the 1800s.

In 1919, a group of prominent citizens met and organized La Primavera Association to begin a spring carnival.

It was to be historically correct as to the early period of California’s customs and that day to be known as La Primavera de California.

It was to be the last Thursday of April with a floral and costume parade, a play, a dance, and a costume ball. It turned out to be a bit longer as the festivities had not ended Thursday night. The next day there were horseback sports at Athletic Park. In the afternoon, horsemen in colorful outfits led a parade of school children dressed in white with long green garlands and bright streamers.

The flag which flies during Old Spanish Days (OSD) fiestas has its origin in that festival. The banner is red, white, and yellow with Saint Barbara’s tower in the corner. According to the local paper on June 3, 1923, it was officially adopted as the city festival flag.

The celebration was a great success, but the organization was deeply in debt because of the music, large staff, and costumes. They never held another.

The current La Primavera event (dinner and dance) which takes place

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today began more than 30 years ago as a means of raising money before fiesta. It was held in May at Earl Warren Showgrounds. Mrs. Bill Luton, whose husband was El Presidente in 1970, and her friends cooked some 800 filets for the guests who paid a whole $2 for the meal! Since then, La Primavera has been held at many venues around town including Casa de la Guerra, El Paseo and, my most memorable of all time, at Dos Pueblos beach complete with canoes and horses. This year’s location was the Carriage and Western Art Museum.

Fiesta 2021 will be held August 4-8, but various festivities go on throughout the year. Because of the pandemic there will be no parade or mercados, but still going are La Fiesta Pequeña, Las Noches de Ronda, Arts and Craft Show, and Rodeo. Between now and August more events will be announced.

La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow said, “This is a great moment for Fiesta as we continue to move out of the recent restrictions. For months, and even a full year, so many have worked so hard and in a creative way, to bring as much Fiesta to our community this year as possible. My theme is ‘Honoring Our Generations.’

Spirit of Fiesta, Ysabella Grace Yturralde, with the Junior Spirit, Savannah Hoover

We are all where we are because of those who came before us and the paths they paved. It is our duty to make sure we pave positive paths for future generations.”

Fiesta is run by a volunteer board of directors and as such is unique among festivals. With only one staff member, the OSD supervises operations, fundraising, and planning. Working with La Presidenta are Primero Vice Presidente Alex Castellanos, Segundo Vice Presidente and El Secretario David Bolton, Treasurer Casie Killgore, Division Chiefs Janice Howell (celebrations), Maria Cabrera (dance and entertainment), Gary MacDonald (pageantry), and the rest of the volunteer directors.

The mission of OSD, which start-

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.” – George Carlin

ed in 1924, is to honor and preserve Santa Barbara’s history, spirit, culture, heritage, and traditions of the OSD era through continuous education of the community; enhance community pride through public involvement; continue to be a vehicle that supports nonprofit participation in Fiesta activities. And, of course, economic goals for the city because of all the tourists it attracts.

In the early 1920s, there were three separate groups that came together: the arts community because of the newly reconstructed Lobero Theatre; the locals to preserve history; and the business community to draw visitors.

Ninety years later there are 19 official

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital. He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

40,000,000 People Fled: Choosing to Heal the Biosphere

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ast year 40,000,000 human beings were uprooted from their homes and became international refugees. You read that correctly. Forty million people. The vast majority of these people flooding other countries out of a desperate attempt to improve their lives to the point of achieving subsistence living were climate refugees. People driven from their ancestral lands by massive destructive forces unleashed mercilessly by “Mother Nature.” So much for the question of when climate change will begin to severely alter human behavior.

By all means, we should breathe in a moment of gratitude that the pandemic is coming to an end for all of us in the U.S. who are vaccinated. Unfortunately, 350 unvaccinated Americans died yesterday (an appalling number), and that will continue unabated until more get vaccinated. However, most of us can look forward to dinners on Coast Village Road and State Street with friends. We can look forward to our children and grandchildren going back to school. We can celebrate events in our lives with our relatives and friends without having to wear masks and we can give a solid hug where appropriate. And yet, a larger challenge than even the pandemic awaits us: climate change.

Everyone knows climate change is “real” who has lived through recent massive flooding or bizarre snow/ice conditions (we’re thinking of you here Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etc.); or the accelerated frequency and power of tornadoes all over the place; or the forest fires which have ravaged California.

It’s becoming clearer that the very future of human civilization, as we know it, is in question.

In addition to the tens of millions of climate refugees referenced above, the damage to our physical world is becoming so grave as to challenge the longterm financial stability of our insurance and re-insurance industries. Insured losses in 2020 topped $89 billion, the fifth-largest loss on record. This was up from $63 billion in 2019 (a jump of 41 percent in one year!), and 13 percent higher than the rolling ten-year annual average of $79 billion. In yet another portent of news to come, the most massive iceberg in recorded history, 70 times the size of Manhattan, just broke off from Antarctica because the temperature near the South Pole hit 65 degrees Fahrenheit this past week. How’s that for some polar melting?

“Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” were the famous words Astronaut Jack Swigert uttered when reporting that the explosive damage to the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Fortunately, the three astronauts were able to abort their moon landing to free up the lunar lander to become a “lifeboat” with enough oxygen for the crew to survive in their return to Earth. What a perfect metaphor for where we are as a species with regard to climate change. In some ways, you can think of the next eight-plus years of remaining survivable climate on this planet like the “lifeboat” that the lunar module was for the astronauts. That’s all the time we really have before the forces to reverse climate change will be so massive that the time and effort it will take to alter the devastating outcomes will be too great in every way.

Chapter four of Freedom from Mid-East Oil, a book I co-authored that the Academy published in 2007, is entitled Climate Change: Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos. Our goal 14 years ago was to provide humanity at least several decades to adapt our society and reduce carbon dioxide emissions down to a safe level.

Sadly, humanity squandered that opportunity. As a result, we now have a global level of carbon dioxide at 420 parts per million (ppm) — a long way from the 350 ppm we should have achieved by now to remain safe, and high enough that it has triggered massive worldwide releases of methane gas from permafrost and the deep oceans.

So, what did we think “chaos” meant back then? We listed “increased storm devastation, droughts, intense heat waves, species extinction, ocean acidification, and extinction of marine life” resulting in “massive migration of human species, global economic collapse, and intense civil unrest.” We didn’t pull any punches. We saw that individual nation-states were in great jeopardy and could literally collapse into a Middle Age-style battle among conflicting warlords — exactly what we’ve been increasingly seeing in Africa and parts of Asia. With an incredible sense of urgency, what can we do?

First off, let’s recognize that there is no problem ever described, including climate change, that cannot be fixed with our existing resources and existing

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Improving Food Banks:

Behavioral economics for healthier eating habits

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stimates indicate that the demand for food bank services in the United States surged by 55% during the pandemic.

People who rely on food pantries are disproportionately at risk for diet-related illnesses, and most report wanting to eat more fresh produce.

The charitable food system has the opportunity to promote healthy living by applying behavioral economics which uses “nudges” to encourage change.

Food pantries don’t rely on food distributors for revenue, which means that they aren’t obliged to promote certain brands over others. They can use behavioral economics to alter their layouts so that healthier food options are more prominently displayed.

Many pantries already use behavioral economics, and studies in Utah and New York have shown that people are more likely to pick up healthier food items in these situations. Last year, Healthy Eating Research published new guidelines for the healthfulness of food bank offerings. These guidelines are supported by the largest network of food banks in the U.S., Feeding America, and use a tiered system to rank the healthfulness of items.

Research has shown that when food ranking systems are in place, food pantry staff tend to order more nutritious food, and clients tend to leave with more healthy items in their bags than unhealthy.

Why Our Libraries Should Double as Food Banks

As the pandemic exacerbated food insecurity, many community centers like libraries, museums, and sports fields began doubling as food pantry sites.

University of North Carolina researcher Noah Lenstra pinpoints these centers of community and learning as the perfect spaces to address hunger.

During the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families program made it easier for libraries to receive funding for food provision. Some sent librarians to volunteer at food banks, others handed out food in their parking lots or via lending libraries.

Libraries already serve as resource centers for vulnerable members of the population. They offer reading materials, internet access, and a stable space for anyone in need. What’s more, people overwhelmingly feel safe and comfortable in libraries.

Expanding libraries to double as food banks is a great way to improve the accessibility of food services. These buildings are centrally located, regularly open, and almost always reachable by foot, bike, or public transportation.

Plus, visitors to the library donating books can easily make food donations as well.

•MJ technology if we simply have the collective will to do so. We need to believe we can and will conquer climate change, and we recently had some very good news on that front. The major automobile manufacturers are switching over to electric vehicles powered either with batteries or fuel cell propelled hydrogen. Buses, trucks, and even locomotives are now running on hydrogen. And, according to Fitch Solutions, the size of the global hydrogen market will grow from the current $129B in 2017 to $183B in 2023.

We also know that the Persian Gulf oil countries are all scrambling to create “green hydrogen” (hydrogen made using renewable resources) from desert sun to the point that Badr Al Olama, on behalf of the United Arab Emirates, on March 24 predicted there would be 530 million metric tons of hydrogen produced per annum by 2050, displacing 10.5 billion barrels of oil. He, and the monarchy in Saudi Arabia, have publicly declared that they believe Green Hydrogen is the commodity to sell on international markets to replace falling oil sales.

More good news: a court in the Netherlands just ordered the largest Dutch company, Royal Dutch Shell, to reduce by 45% their CO2 emissions worldwide by 2030! Even more powerfully, a dissident group of shareholders just took at least two board seats from Exxon Management because they were incapable or unwilling to adapt to climate change and are thereby jeopardizing Exxon’s future profits. That’s a great story: the largest oil company in the world losing control of its Board for failing to adapt to climate change.

If ExxonMobil and other Big Oil corporations aggressively began promoting alternative energy, it will accelerate the healing of our badly damaged biosphere before it is too late.

•MJ

“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin

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Brilliant Thoughts

Community Voices (Continued from page 11)

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Go With the Flow

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n one of my favorite movies, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the Commander of a U.S. Air Force base is so crazy that he not only orders an atomic attack on Russia, but he believes that Fluoridation is an enemy attempt to poison our “precious bodily fluids.”

Those fluids have been running through my mind long after the other Commie plots in it have dried up. I think first of Winston Churchill, becoming the British Prime Minister at one of the darkest times of the Second World War, telling his country that he had nothing to offer but blood, sweat, and tears. Actually, he was not offering, but requiring these metaphorical liquids, which of course have had meaning and impact, ever since there were human bodies and languages to celebrate their contents.

Blood, in this context, has significance only when it becomes visible, i.e., when it is “shed,” presumably in conflict. Some eighty years earlier than Churchill’s chilling but somehow rousing declaration, Otto Von Bismarck, a politically equivalent leader of what was then Prussia (twice in the next century to become Britain’s chief enemy) also used “blood” in a major speech to his country’s legislature. On that occasion he linked it, not with sweat and tears, but with the metal which (besides gold) probably has always had the greatest symbolic value – iron. What he said was, in effect, that the great questions of the day would be decided, not by speeches and majority decisions, but

by BLOOD AND IRON. And, indeed, it was only by a subsequent series of wars, under Bismarck’s leadership, that Germany became united and the strongest power in continental Europe.

Sweat — also known, in polite discourse, as perspiration – is of course symbolic of hard work — which used to be known as Labor, until that became a political term, giving a name to movements such as Britain’s Labor Party, and workers’ alliances such as the “American Federation of Labor.”

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the slogan erected at the entrance to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz: “ARBEIT MACHT FREI” meaning, “Work Sets You Free.”

As for tears, there seems to be no clear scientific agreement as to just what evolutionary purpose they serve. The liquid drops themselves, depending on circumstances, can be part of a whole complex of convulsive emotional expressions, many of them audible, including what we call sobbing, wailing, and bawling. Most of us have experienced some variations of these symptoms, starting with our very first moments in this world. We are virtually born crying — but then we have to learn how to laugh.

Traditionally, weeping has been associated more with women than with men – which makes historic instances of men in tears more notable. There is, for example, the story, attributed to Plutarch, that when Alexander the Great was shown the extent of his conquests, he wept, because there were no new worlds to conquer. I personally savor this (albeit somewhat dubious) story because it gave the title to the third book by a travel writer who inspired generations of young people (of whom I was one) to go out into the world seeking adventure. It was Richard Halliburton’s New Worlds to Conquer.

The Bible has some very moving passages concerning weeping, including the part in the story of Joseph who, after being sold into slavery by his brothers, encounters those same brothers seeking aid in Egypt years later, after he himself has risen to a powerful position there. He knows who they are, but they don’t recognize him. To avoid revealing his feelings, he has to go into a separate room, to weep privately.

But perhaps the most tear-jerking Biblical passage comes in Psalm 137 which is about the exile of the Hebrew people in Babylonia. It begins: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.” (“Zion,” was, of course, and still is, Jerusalem.)

But I’ve hardly space to inflict on you a discussion of saliva, mucus, and all our other “precious bodily fluids.” Let me just tell you that, in whatever form, sixty percent of the entire adult human body is water.

For now, that ought to wrap it up – or wring it out.

•MJ

plaints in the past two years concerning cannabis odor.”

So, if odor complaints can trigger a nuisance action — they can and/ or should — then why wait years for our first enforcement suit? And, more importantly, why this particular grower?

Sure, they don’t have an annual business license (which are county discretionary), but as it relates to the nuisance itself — they are no different than anyone else and, indeed, there are other grows with more complaints. And how about North County’s open grows? If this small, enclosed grow is a nuisance, then isn’t every open grow a nuisance as well?

Sorry, these are trick questions.

This county created an untenable ordinance, written by lobbyists and now they have a dilemma: If one grow is a nuisance, then the thousands of permits and hundreds of grows are together a countywide public nuisance.

This enforcement action is a stunt, plain and simple. The county will claim they are “enforcing” one acre at a time and other growers

will claim, “see, they are the bad ones.” But, sorry, once VOC’s move beyond their property line, they are all “bad.”

The county’s apparatchiks are hard at work spinning but don’t be fooled — this is a public nuisance, and they have a legal obligation to abate it. Get involved, write our CEO, Ms. Mona Miyasato, and start making some noise — it’s never too late for change.

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Travel Buzz

by Leslie A. Westbrook

A Lowell Thomas Award-winning travel reporter, Westbrook has been skipping around the globe since she took her first solo train ride from L.A.’s Union Station at age seven. Follow her on Facebook at Travel Gal (@WestbrookLeslieA) and @travelgal_dispatches on Instagram

Some Like it Hot! Water. Food. Sun. Art… Not Necessarily in That Order A travel dispatch from greater Palm Springs

A beautiful dinner was provided at the end of the San Andreas Fault Red Jeep Tour A delectable cocktail at Boozehounds

ity art available to purchase. What a joy to absorb great art again!

More obvious soaking was front and center in the mineral waters in funky Desert Hot Springs, as well as in resort swimming pools, where human interaction, once again, was as refreshing as the water.

The greater Palm Springs area is showing signs of recovery from the multiple pandemic lockdowns (Photos by Leslie A. Westbrook)

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recently fled the post-COVID couldn’t-wait-to-travel-againMay-gray blues for a five-day escape to the Coachella “sink.” It’s not really a valley (this is a misnomer), but a geological basin, I learned on a lively San Andreas Fault Red Jeep Tour.

I went to visit a few friends, have a little R&R with pool time, learn more about the area, and get into a little hot water, literally, not figuratively (I left that up to my traveling companion, but that’s another story!).

About a four-hour drive from our area (or book a quick charter flight, connecting flights out of SBA take just as long), it’s no secret that summer temperatures soar in the Coachella desert and that some do like it…

HOT! The thermometer hit 99 during the mid-May four-night escape, yet humans — whether local desert rats or visitors — have learned how to

adapt. Thank goodness for air conditioning, ceiling fans, cooling misters, and, most importantly, swimming pools.

The highlight of my trip – and there were many – had to do with soaking.

Soaking in the art, soaking in the sights, and soaking, of course, in water.

A visit to the lovely Palm Springs Art Museum is always de rigueur to “soak in” the fine art. I was excited to view two excellent exhibitions: transcendental paintings by Agnes Pelton (through September 6) that have a fascinating Santa Barbara connection, and a one-man show of activist artist Gerald Clarke (now replaced with Helen Lundeberg).

In Palm Desert, a visit to the impressive Heather James Gallery (time to visit their Montecito outpost!) also nurtured my soul with museum-qual-

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What Would Marilyn Think?

There’s been a lot of hubbub about a kitschy ginormous Marilyn Monroe statue being installed in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum (Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times rightfully slayed it; so did The Guardian in London); but her fate remains to be seen. The potential installation of the super controversial 26-foot statue is “up in the air” just like Marilyn’s skirt that exposes her panties to gawking tourists and potentially also to school children departing the fabulous Palm Springs Art Museum. One has to wonder what the Hollywood icon would think in today’s atmosphere of the #MeToo movement, or as my friend Divya in Connecticut (where the same statue appeared) noted, “Marilyn would be appalled. Especially as she aspired to be a poet and be accepted by the local literati.”

In other news, the sink is abuzz with Larry Ellison’s new project Sensei, a Four Seasons Resort scheduled to open sometime in 2022. Rumors abound about the “six-star” retreat that was just approved by Indian Wells City Council. Reports to come, on the former Porcupine Ranch which has a nefarious history, when I know more. They are looking for a GM.

“no rez” was necessary for lunch, the joys of unexpected travel discoveries prevailed. My friend searched for a “super charging” station; I ambled through downtown Riverside and discovered a killer Ensenada-style fish taco piled with guac for $4 at a hole-in-the-wall called Doña Timos La Cascada.

Back on the road, we landed at the historic and lovely La Quinta Resort & Club (a Waldorf Astoria Resort) by late afternoon. If you think “old school is cool” — and I do, then La Quinta Resort is hard to beat. It’s sort of the Santa Barbara Biltmore of the desert, with red-tiled roof cottages, great history, and a refined ambiance.

Despite a rowdy group of Floridian ex-military pals smoking cigars and drinking Budweiser beers at “our pool” (one of 44 on the resort – so no problem finding quieter ones), the spacious air-conditioned room was a welcome retreat from the heat.

A light supper of shared tapas at a popular little spot called Cork & Fork in La Quinta with great wines-by-theglass list and we were “in the zone.”

The next morning, my travel pal and I took a nice hike in “The Cove.”

I explored La Quinta’s grounds and decided a cottage or “villa” is definitely the way to go. Then, I spent the good part of the morning “all wet” in one of the many pools trading family “war stories” with a Pasadena couple who visit regularly, which made me seriously think about coming back and/or renting a place for a longer period of time. La Quinta villas are for sale as well as for three-day or longer rentals.

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Despite a doomed stop for Tesla charging and lunch at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside (founded by Montecito’s J’Amy Brown’s stepdad Frank Miller) due to the hotel operator telling me that on the drive in that

Our next stop, the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort and Spa, is very family friendly. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was at a Hawaiian resort, sans the beach. We stayed in

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On Politics

by Lou Cannon

Census 2020 Explained: Why Americans Moving South and West Matters

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o West, young man, and grow up with the country,” a newspaper editor proclaimed as the United States expanded westward in the 19th century.

That advice could be amended now to “South and West,” according to the latest findings of the U.S. Census Bureau, which in April issued its pandemic-delayed count of the nation’s population as required each ten years by the Constitution.

States are awarded seats in the House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College based on this count, and the 2020 Census was again a victory for the Sun Belt over the Rust Belt, continuing a decades-long trend.

All six states that will gain House seats are in the South or West, including Texas, the only state to gain two seats.

Colorado, North Carolina, Florida, and Oregon will each gain one seat.

Montana will also gain a House seat, its second, three decades after it lost that seat in a previous round of apportionment.

Except for California, which lost a seat for the first time, the seven states losing House seats are in the Midwest and East. They are Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Think participation in the Census doesn’t matter? Tell that to New Yorkers after the Empire State lost a House seat by 89 votes, the narrowest margin in modern times. The census put the 2020 population of New York at 20,215,75l.

Migration Matters

Overall, U.S. population in the decade from 2010 to 2020 grew from 308,745,538 to 331,449,281, a growth rate of 7.4 percent that is the lowest since the 1930s, the decade of the Great Depression.

Only three states — Illinois, Mississippi, and West Virginia — lost population during the decade. West Virginia lost the most, 3.2 percent.

Americans have been moving South and West in large numbers since World War II, and the 2020 Census shows this trend continuing. New York, which had been the nation’s most populous state since 1810, was passed by California in 1962.

In the 2020 Census, New York’s loss of a seat and Florida’s gain of a seat drops the Empire State behind the Sunshine State in congressional seats and electoral votes for the first time.

The states that lead in House seats after the 2020 Census are California 52, Texas 38, Florida 28, and New York 26.

California remains by far the nation’s most populous state, with a population of 39,538,223 in the 2020 census.

The Golden State lost a House seat because its growth during the decade — 6.13 percent — was less than the national growth rate. Some 22 states, most of them in the South or West, had growth rates exceeding California’s.

Texas cemented its position as the second-most populous state with a growth rate of 15.91 percent. Its population is 29,145,505.

Money Matters

The Census determines more than just U.S. House seats. It is also used to direct almost $880 billion in federal funding across over 300 federal programs, including Medicaid, Pell grants, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and highway construction. Census figures also determine how massive federal relief programs like the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act disperse their dollars.

With that in mind, beginning in 2017, states such as Illinois (2017 SB 100), Michigan (2018 SB 848), New York (2018 AB 9505), and New Jersey (AB 4208) passed bills to create complete count committees or commissions. Many others, including North Dakota and South Carolina, chose to do so via gubernatorial executive order.

Some states also dedicated massive amounts of money to their own state Census programs. California topped the list, allocating $90.3 million in 2018 (SB 840) and another $87 million in 2019 (AB 74).

Based on previous growth data, demographers had predicted that Texas would gain three seats and Florida two and that Arizona would gain a seat. Minnesota and Rhode Island, and perhaps Alabama, were on track to lose seats.

None of these forecasts came true. Arizona, Florida, and Texas may have fallen short of expectations because of an undercount of Hispanics, said former Attorney General Eric Holder and Arturo Vargas, chief executive officer of the educational fund of the National Association of Latino Elected and

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Appointed Officials.

The extent of any undercount won’t be known until the Census Bureau releases racial and ethnic data later this year, but the three states in question had census self-response rates below the national average of 67 percent.

Arizona and Florida were the only states that did not participate in a national campaign to boost census response. Texas launched a belated effort after the counting began.

In contrast, Minnesota had a census self-response rate of 75 percent and involved hundreds of organizations in a successful campaign to retain the Gopher State’s eight House seats.

“There was a lot of energy and excitement behind it,” Minnesota state demographer Susan Brower told The New York Times. “It was an army of census nerds.”

The Golden State lost a House seat because its growth during the decade — 6.13 percent — was less than the national growth rate. Some 22 states, most of them in the South or West, had growth rates exceeding California’s.

Redistricting Questions Remain

States are now waiting for the Census Bureau release of detailed demographic data on which they will base reapportionment of House and state legislative districts in 2021.

Historically, redistricting was done by state legislatures, in some states sharing power with the governor. But more than a score of states now utilize either bipartisan or nonpartisan commissions for redistricting purposes.

All redistricting could be blocked by a lawsuit filed by Alabama and joined by 16 other states that challenges a statistical method the Census Bureau used for the first time in an attempt to protect the privacy of participants in the 2020 census.

The method, known as “differential privacy,” adds intentional errors to the data to obscure any given individual’s identity while still providing what the Census Bureau claims is statistically valid information.

“It’s a statistical technique that is intended to protect people’s privacy” said Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo during a White House briefing. She said people can now have their private information hacked on social media through means “that technologically weren’t possible 10 years ago.”

The Alabama lawsuit that seeks to block what the Census Bureau is doing maintains that it is unconstitutional to create “false information by design.”

Differential privacy “would make accurate redistricting at the local level impossible,” violating the constitutional obligation that districts have equal populations and could harm long-running research on health and safety, the plaintiff’s brief contends.

A three-judge federal panel heard arguments on the lawsuit May 3. Because of time constraints any appeal could go directly to the Supreme Court.

A decision overturning differential privacy would complicate the redistricting process, especially for states that are gaining or losing House seats.

“While redistricting is never easy, the job is harder for gainers and losers because those states can’t just tweak existing maps and may instead start with a clean slate,” observes Wendy Underhill, director of elections and redistricting for the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL).

Republicans will hold an edge in the redistricting, as they did a decade ago.

As previously noted by State Net, Republicans control 30 legislatures compared to 18 for the Democrats and one (Minnesota) where control is divided between the two parties. Nebraska is a unicameral legislature.

Republicans control both the legislature and governorship in 23 states compared to 15 for the Democrats.

That could be ominous for the Democrats. The party in power in the White House has lost House seats in 19 of the last 21 midterm elections, and the average seat loss in those 19 cycles was 33 seats.

Republicans won 63 House seats in 2010, the first midterm election when Barack Obama was president. Democrats won 41 seats and regained control of the House in 2018, the midterm election when Donald Trump was president.

Republicans need to gain only five House seats in 2022 to get the majority.

According to the demographic site FiveThirtyEight, Republicans will control redrawing of 187 congressional districts in the next redistricting compared to 75 for the Democrats. Neither party will have an advantage in another 167 districts, and six districts won’t be redrawn because they are at-large districts covering an entire state.

With Democrats having such dim statistical prospects, it’s no wonder President Joe Biden is rushing to get his expansive legislative agenda enacted while he still has a narrow Democratic majority.

But the next midterm elections are a year and a half away, an eternity in politics.

As always in our democracy, voters will decide the outcome.

•MJ

“Don’t just teach your children to read… teach them to question everything that they read.” – George Carlin

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Travel Buzz (Cont from page 24)

The in-room mineral springs private tub at Azure, in Desert Hot Springs

The San Andreas Fault Red Jeep Tour provides plenty of unique experiences for the adventurer

a spacious villa, with a large private outdoor area with private jacuzzi and BBQ — perfect for balmy evenings and stargazing. Leave the kids at the water slide and new splash pad while you get pampered in the Agua Serena Spa that reopened recently.

The 30,000-square-foot spa is one of the largest in the valley. I enjoyed a phenomenal facial by Tsege who hails from Ethiopia, whose husband taught at USCB and remains an adjunct professor at the university.

In another SB moment, my Carpinteria optometrist Dr. Steven Kleen was staying next door at the Marriott with his wife and five kids that same week. He reported they had to wait 25 minutes in line to use the pool. Still, he said, they had a blast and were happy to escape to the desert sunshine.

Both resorts handled COVID travel re-entry thoughtfully and safely with spacious registration; masks required and worn by all staff; food to go or ordered and delivered outside rooms.

No room service yet folks, sorry!

jostled over hill and dale. I can’t quite get the image of the nudist landowner who, Jenny told us, visits his ranch on the land and mooned a pack of Jeep tourists and probably trespassers!

Nature and Nurture

Shopping and nature, the perfect combo, right? A Desert Adventures red jeep tour of the San Andreas fault “revealed” another Santa Barbara connection. Owner Kimberly Renée, former Santa Barbara/Goleta resident who took over the business from her mother, is a lovely hostess should you want to plan a magical wedding, family reunion, party, etc. here. The Metate Ranch, set within the 800-acre Indio Hills preserve, was completely re-done after a flash flood and now offers stunning views, bells and whistles for private soirees. This is a beautiful part of the “sink” that I’d never traversed and only admired from a distance over the decades. Our enthusiastic tour guide Jenny was well-informed and provided a customized design soundtrack and friendly banter as we 3 – 10 June 2021

Grown-up Fun

A casual, al fresco lunch on tony El Paseo shopping avenue (the Rodeo Drive of the desert) at Kitchen 86 was extremely pleasant thanks to the overhead shade and misters. You don’t have to spend a fortune for great pizzas or a super kale (yes!) Caesar salad. The homemade cannoli are stuffed with cream filling that Italian American restaurateur Joe Morano sources from his native New York.

A little retail therapy at The Body Deli, where the organic skin care and body products are so yummy you want to eat them! Coachella honey date scrub anyone? We also heard good things about boutique Rancho Relaxo in Rancho Mirage.

Montecito’s Chuck and Barbara Farish have a second home in the desert, and they have some favorite restaurants in the area.

“Wilma & Frieda’s for breakfast, French Corner Café for breakfast lunch or dinner, Il Corso for Italian, all located on El Paseo in Palm Desert.

All delicious and never disappoint!”

Barbara wrote me, “Our favorite restaurants in Palm Springs are Tac/ Quila, for modern Mexican and sister restaurant, The Farm. For fine dining, Le Vallauris.”

I also have enjoyed Copley’s on Palm Canyon (part of Cary Grant’s former pad), dining in the patio at Spencer’s and the huge Dutch baby pancakes at Elmer’s in Palm Springs.

There is fun to be had from dusk to dawn. An 8:30 am win at the roulette wheel at the Agua Caliente Resort Casino was followed by a delish Moroccanstyle breakfast at the Pink Cabana restaurant in snazzy Martyn Lawrence Bullard-designed Sands Hotel & Spa.

Palm Springs is pet-friendly, including at Boozehounds, where Hulk patiently awaits his meal

Miracle of miracles, my hot pink watermelon, jicama, and mint juice drink, the Instagrammable “Marrakesh Refresher,” bubbled to the beat of jazz tunes from the sound system.

Like a little bite (as in food) with your bark? I love how the owners and their team at Boozehounds democratically pamper four-legged besties and their human owners alike. Evening revelry abounds. Palm Springs artist/designer Ron Ysla brought his well-behaved and best friend Huck to meet us at Boozehounds. This recently opened super dog-friendly restaurant and bar not only treats pooches like royalty, but the human food is also spot on. I’m still dreaming about the burrata in a mushroom wasabi brodo with roasted okra, basil, toasted pepitas, and chive oil served with focaccia for dipping into the broth. Refreshing cocktails are served against a great design backdrop in a cavernous space with the outdoor “dog” patio spaces and an atrium with misters.

Palm Springs’ “hottest spot” of the moment is a small, hip restaurant called Bar Cecil in, like many places, a strip mall. Try and get a reservation. In August. You can’t. Book now if you’re coming for the season (which runs October to May). Our server Amanda was a delight — we went after dinner drinks after Boozehounds and ogled the bit-too-close-for-comfort crowd.

A local who dined there told me she thought the food was good, but portions small. I missed the $50 martini (Beluga Vodka, Alessio Vermouth, Deviled Egg with Caviar. Icey Ketel One Shot Vodka). Next time!

What’s “Hot” in Lodging

If you want to get into “hot water,” head to Desert Hot Springs. Sure, I love Two Bunch Palms as much as Al Capone and George Clooney, but the new Azure Palm Hot Springs Resort and Day Spa Oasis (which is so new the landscaping is still being put it) has a lot going for it and the place

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grows on you. The huge, heavenly (not stinky) mineral pool is open 24 hours, which is nice for star gazing.

The dedicated owner Maria Lease is adored by her staff (a number of defectors from Two Bunch Palms work here now). I had my feet massaged by the same person who gave George Clooney a massage at Two Bunch. (He talked a lot, too, apparently.)

Zen-like rooms are spacious, tastefully and minimally appointed, and blissfully have no TVs. You can book one with your very own concrete mineral soaking tub, which are awesome.

The gift shop is thoughtfully stocked with reasonably priced, tasteful ways to spend your casino winnings. There’s a salt room and an ice room should be open by the time you read this!

There are many reasons the desert has attracted desert rats, the Rat Pack, movie stars, and nature seekers, but my pop, who grew up in a small country town less than an hour away, used to refer to the area as “The Springs.” I wonder if he knew that a restorative visit to the desert can really put the “spring” back in one’s step? It sure did mine.

Plus, it sounds a lot better than saying, “I’m heading to the sink.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION Check out the “Check in, chill out” deals via the Greater Palm Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) at www.visitgreaterpalmsprings. com.

For Deals

There are lots of great summer deals in the “sink” during the “hot” season. For example: La Quinta Summer Experience package includes $40 daily spa credit per person (maximum two adults); $100 per stay resort credit for tennis/pickleball/dining, inclusive of an upgrade to a poolside casita and reduced resort charge from $35/day to $20/day). You must book by August 31, 2021, and stay by August 31, 2021. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

Josh Chapman: From Dolphin Whisperer to Vegan Animal Rights Activist

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aving grown up in a house on Miramar Beach, Josh Chapman has more than a few tales from his time in Santa Barbara. Between building forts from driftwood and playing dolphin whisperer with his friends, it would’ve been difficult not to develop an appreciation for the surrounding wildlife.

Today, Josh is a freshman at Griffith University in Brisbane, studying biochemistry and molecular biology.

Since moving to Australia six years ago, Josh has become a dedicated animal rights activist who hopes to educate others about issues of animal cruelty and ethical consumption. In particular, Josh was eager to return to his roots here in Montecito to talk about his relationship with veganism.

Dear Montecito,

I wanted to come on the column to talk about veganism. I think a lot

of people have a misconstrued idea of vegans and of what veganism is.

As I educate myself more about ethical consumption and how the animal products we purchase are linked to animal abuse and exploitation across a wide set of industries, I think it’s crucial to talk to other people about this.

I consider myself an animal lover, and I’m starting to do a lot of animal rights activism in Australia, where I live, but my involvement with veganism and animal rights actually started kind of randomly. I began learning about animal ethics online, especially from a YouTube star named Earthling Ed. You know how it goes, I ended up down a rabbit hole of videos about veganism, animal cruelty within livestock farms, you name it. I knew I had to make changes immediately. I sort of interrogated myself and realized I just had no logical argument to justify my actions. So, I stopped those

actions, and I replaced them with ethical ones.

The terminology can be kind of confusing to people. But it’s important to remember that veganism is very, very different from being a vegetarian.

Specifically, veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude as far as possible and practicable all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Basically, it’s about ethics, and currently a lot of people don’t understand this.

People worry about the transition being hard. If I’m honest, becoming vegan has barely affected my lifestyle.

Neither my food nor clothing has had to change that much because there are vegan substitutes for everything nowadays. I would actually say the hardest difference is how your friends and the people you meet will treat you when they find out you are a vegan.

Your family may offer blind support, but having friends who are also vegan is nice, even better, since they understand why you’ve become vegan.

To people who are thinking of making changes in their life, I’d say this: You might want to consider what you’re actually changing about your life. It’s the sort of thing where you need to think about the position you are taking and if you’d take that position for any other form of injustice.

Would you be alright supporting a company that used child labor, even if you don’t buy from there that often?

I don’t think most people would be OK minimizing their contribution to an injustice; they’d want to cut it out completely. I’d like to say veganism is important to me, because it’s very important to the animals, they don’t have a say, so I have to be a voice for them. And, as I said, I’m an animal lover, so I have to put my money

where my mouth is.

On a final note, for all the people that are only willing to make small changes, baby steps are for babies and cutting out animal products bit-by-bit isn’t a progression to ethical consumption, it’s an obstacle. It’s an excuse to keep contributing to something that causes animals unnecessary suffering.

I’m not trying to force people to be vegan; I can’t force people to do anything. I’m writing this to talk about the truth, and you deserve to see it for yourself. I urge you to educate yourself on what is going on in our animal livestock system.

Always, Joshua P.S. Parents of Montecito children, if you have recommendations on people to feature in “Dear Montecito” please contact me at stellajanepierce@gmail.com •MJ

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Our Town

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Arts In Lockdown #29:

Rod Rolle, Photographer and Musician

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od Rolle is both an esteemed professional news and public relations photographer and local jazz drummer with Tom Murray of 30 years in their duo, The Stiff Pickle Orchestra. His motto “Images with A Global View” is most accurate, currently an affiliate with SIPA USA, he has worked as a stringer for Getty Images, Associated Press and the now closed Gamma Liaison Picture Agency.

His images from Vandenburg’s SLC-6, the Grammys, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the California wildfires, the 1992 L.A. Riots to Michael Jackson standing on top a SUV outside the Santa Maria Courthouse in the Getty Images’ Pictures of the Year Collection, are in more than 250 publications in 36 countries. He has provided photographic services to UCSB’s Office of Public Affairs, Department of Black Studies Research, the MultiCultural Center, and MLK Santa Barbara.

In 2020, Rod was asked by Sarah York Rubin, the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, to create an exhibition of his historic photographs of Guadalupe. The show titled, Spirit of A Community, Documentary Photography

by Rod Rolle, will be at the SB County Engineering Building on or around June 15, or when county buildings are open to the public.

Born in Queens, New York, Rod moved to Santa Barbara in 1982, where he graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography with a degree in Industrial/Scientific Photography.

At Brooks, he and other Black students organized a series of exhibits: Black Styles, Black Spaces; a tribute exhibit to Martin Luther King, Jr., with Shirley Kennedy at the SB Eastside Library in 1986; and A Day in The Life of Santa Barbara’s Invisible Culture.

Rod taught photography and digital post-production at Santa Barbara City College, UCLA Bakersfield College Arts in Correction Program, and at UCSB’s Rec Center.

Rod and his wife, poet and activist Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, received a Certificate of Commendation from the City of Santa Barbara in recognition of their proactive commitment to social justice, authentic conversation, and community engagement.

Rod also writes poetry, giving us this from April 2021: “We are living in a time A time of the Transformative Event A time of the Human Metamorphosis A time when nature is reclaiming her Earth Peace and Love and Stay Safe”

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Rod Rolle (Portrait by Erica Urech)

Rod Rolle’s award-winning Getty Images photo of Michael Jackson on arraignment day in Santa Maria

The epic black and white photograph of the citizens of Guadalupe by Rod Rolle

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Senior Portrait

Ron fishing on a schooner in Hawaii

by Zach Rosen

Living Life to the Fullest:

Ron Glover Has Plenty of Stories to Tell

W

e all know those people who seemed to have lived five lives in their lifetime.

Listening to their stories, it can be hard to figure out how they fit all of those experiences into one life.

The local art and creative community have quite a few of these types but one in particular, Ron Glover, perennially comes to mind. I am lucky enough to call Ron a friend and have heard many, but never all, of his stories over the years.

From his time in the Sunburst community to going on a real-life underwater treasure hunt, even the five-hour interview we had for this article only briefly covered his range of experiences. Having camped with him each year at Burning Man, I once drove out there with him where he spent the 24-hour drive sharing stories. Although in his 70s, Ron is one of our camp’s biggest contributors, helping jumpstart projects and working on the camp build.

During our years together on the

Ron serves as president of the nonprofit art collaborative Fishbon and is one of four directors of the Lucidity Festival

Fishbon board, I got to personally see Ron provide his years of wisdom and experience to the organization. After our long interview, and getting to hear his many stories in order, I began to better understand how Ron has been able to fit so many lives into his life.

Ron was born in St. Louis, where he still has family. He moved to Indianapolis at a young age after his father, a management analyst for the government, had to choose whether to move there with his department.

As a person of color, he knew he was lucky to have such a secure job as a

civilian and moved the family to the new location.

With both African American, Native American, and a dash of Irish ancestry, as well as growing up in a predominantly Caucasian community, Ron had several powerful encounters with racism that shaped his outlook on life and treating others by the content of their character. He witnessed the impact of his association with a gang and had one experience where he was walking on the wrong side of town

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The Giving List

by Steven Libowitz

You’ve Got a Friend in Me: Friendship Center Finds a Way to Stay Connected

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he Friendship Center serves an often overlooked, but much-needed niche for the aging adult community — providing a daytime home away from home where the dependent seniors can take advantage of companionship and engaging activities. They also receive necessary supervision while their family caregivers receive respite and a much-needed break from the demands of caregiving so they can recharge or find more balance in their lives.

Which is partly why, pre-pandemic, the Friendship Center’s dual adult day care locations — at All Saints-by-theSea Episcopal Church in Montecito and on the grounds of Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Fairview Avenue in Goleta — were buzzing all day long, interacting with 800 seniors and their families with in-person programs designed to provide social interaction and stimulating activities to maintain brain health and stave off isolation that often follows declining health in advanced age.

There was music and games and nourishing meals and all sorts of “joy-sparking” things to do, a far more fun and cost-effective way to live out the golden years than at a long-term care facility away from family and familiar surroundings.

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Then came the COVID pandemic.

On March 16, 2020, all of a sudden, things came to a grinding halt. How do you pivot when your whole purpose and reason for existence is to provide an on-site place for interaction and connection?

It wasn’t easy, but Friendship Center came up with some innovative ways to bridge the distance and do its best to keep its members connected and engaged, if only virtually over the last 14-plus months.

“Our team is just so creative and sensitive to the needs of our members, so when the pandemic hit, we just knew we had to think outside of the box to find ways to keep our seniors safe and social and involved and engaged and give them continued purpose,” explained Heidi Holly, Friendship Center’s executive director of more than 35 years, building on her UCSB and Antioch University education.

“Our staff really rallied to come up with innovative ideas of how to use Zoom, do other virtual activities, and come up with other ways to interact.”

Just 10 days after the mandatory shelter-in-place orders went into effect, for example, Friendship Center’s Take Care Tote program launched, providing monthly deliv-

ery of Friendship Center’s signature comfort-food for homebound, isolated seniors that represented a lot more than just a day’s worth of sustenance.

Each round of deliveries is organized around a theme, with May’s “spring gardening” package featuring terra cotta pots, seed packets and mulch, plus straw Panama hats along with lip balm and sunscreen sets, all donated by local businesses or benefactors.

June’s Take Care Totes, centered around Father’s Day and Summer Solstice, will boast a variety of personal care products and fun items such as fidget spinners, mini-puzzles, and cards — not to give too much away to spoil the surprise.

“The totes represent joy and love (for the seniors) as they open the bags to see what activities, treats, and practical items are available to them this month,” said Kim Larsen, Friendship Center Family Services Manager.

“They really do make members feel the connection and compassion that Friendship Center is famous for.”

Meanwhile Friendship Center’s pandemic offerings online have ranged from art pages and word games, live Zoom classes and pre-recorded videos, and memory screenings and weekly phone check-ins. These are all a part of the nonprofit’s Community Connect Adult Program, which also assists caregivers in tech and other support to make sure seniors can access the programs online.

“Community Connect has been very popular, especially Bingo. Everybody

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loves Bingo,” Holly said. “Also, the chat room where the seniors can have the opportunity to play trivia or sing.”

Partway through the pandemic, Friendship Center also figured out how to do safe, socially distanced events on site via periodic drive-in programs at the Montecito center’s parking lot. An Easter-themed one found attendees greeted by staff decked out in rabbit ears passing out Easter baskets and directing seniors and their caregivers on how to engage in games, including Bingo and a version of “Name That Tune,” as well as a raffle.

The next drive-in takes place on our publication date, June 3, when the hour-long Festival of Flowers will feature live music, singing, dancing, bingo and more, plus a live comedy show featuring standup comic and workshop leader Carol Metcalf, who 3 – 10 June 2021

also happens to be Friendship Center’s veterans group support coordinator.

Members who attend will receive a special “goody bucket” filled with fun treats, face masks, head bands, flowers, and special surprises.

Such innovative outreach is among the reasons Friendship Center recently received the Caregiver Program of the Year from the Central Coast Commission for Senior Citizens in May; accolades that help buoy the spirits of the staff.

And while nobody is sure how long the pandemic protocols will preclude regular indoor activities, Friendship Center plans to continue many of the programs well past reopening to ensure that even its most vulnerable clientele get what they need, Holly said.

“We’re going to roll out a hybrid plan that uses both onsite and Zoom activities so those seniors who still want to be at home and shelter in place can still get activities from our virtual programming,” she said.

“With all of the regulations and the

state licensing it’s been a bit of a juggling act. And we want to make sure everybody feels safe and secure in our program.”

As of press time, no exact date had been set for Friendship Center to bring members back inside its locations.

“But I’m sure our members and caregivers will be heartened to hear that our reopening plan has been in the works for months,” Holly said.

Donations in both dollars and goods and services, such as delivering and helping to put together packages, are more than welcome, while the need for volunteers and returning to full staffing will arise as soon as the doors open.

Whenever it is, and whatever it looks like initially, reopening the Montecito center can’t come too soon for Holly.

“I really miss my tribe – the seniors and the family members, the caregivers, everyone,” she said. “My office window looks out to the courtyard and whenever I look up, I can always see the seniors out there having a

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that joy and that goodness and helping to keep people in their homes as long as possible. I miss it. I really miss seeing that every day.”

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Our Town (Continued from page 30) Here is our interview: Q. Talk a bit more about your upcoming solo exhibit for the SB County Arts Commission.

A. The famous L.A. muralist Judy Baca (The Great Wall of Los Angeles) was commissioned to do the Guadalupe Murals Project titled The Founders of Guadalupe around 1990, funded by the SB Arts Commission. In her research to do the work, she requested a documentary photographer to take photographs of everyday life in Guadalupe as references for the mural, as well as document her working on it. The SBC Parks Department asked me to do it, as I was their photographer. She charged me to produce a key photograph to tell the story of Guadalupe.

I suggested a group photo of all the citizens in the town. We planned it out and several hundred locals showed up.

That photograph was part of Judy’s “World Wall” exhibition in 1993 at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and subsequent exhibitions at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center and Betteravia Government Center in Santa Maria.

In 2020, the SB Arts Commissioner contacted me to do a retrospective of that project, using my photographs.

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year and are now figuring out a date for the opening. The photos will be on display both online and at the SB County Engineering Building downtown with Julia Rutherford Daly as curator. It will be bilingual.

Do you have any other projects in the mix?

I’ve been working with the Martin Luther King, Jr., Santa Barbara Committee (www.MLKSB.org) for years, and documenting their annual MLK Jr. Celebration. This year they held a virtual celebration. With my wife Sojourner, we produced a 20-minute video about the UCSB Eternal Flame Memorial gifted by the graduating class of 1968, meant to be a symbol of what that generation endured, civil rights unrest, for the black student community at UCSB and for peace.

The monument, one of two eternal flame monuments to MLK Jr in the world, has three plaques with quotes from MLK Jr, President John F. Kennedy, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. Over the years it had gone into disrepair and shut off due to issues of keeping it lit continually from a faulty gas line. For the film, we interviewed people who were a part of the initial memorial and others famil-

iar with its history. And I am working with Sparkle-Light Entertainment, Inc. on a commercial TV film project as a documentary photographer and producer. My band with Tom Murray, the Stiff Pickle Orchestra, is on hold since lockdown.

In your experience, how do the arts influence the human condition?

Art gives us the space to speak about the human condition in a universal language, like hieroglyphics reduce many languages to many universal symbols.

Who are your mentors in photography, music, life?

My mentors are my parents, Ezekiel and Marjorie Rolle, and my brother, Erroyl, and anyone who has shared a bit of knowledge with me during my life’s journey. In photography it’s Frank Silva, and I am inspired

by Gordon Parks of Life Magazine and James Augustus Van Der Zee, an American photographer known for his portraits of black New Yorkers and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In music, it’s Miles Davis and the musicians that played with him through the ‘50s and ‘70s, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, ‘60s-‘70s R&B, Lou Rawls, The Isley Brothers,

James Brown, Otis Redding, and Sly & the Family Stone.

What is your personal experience with diversity, equity, and inclusion?

We need to ask ourselves a very basic question, “Do I fear diversity, equity, and inclusion?” Those who are against diversity, equity, and inclusion come from fear. We should not fear diversity, equity, and inclusion because it’s the strength of our humanity.

How do you choose to give back or pay it forward?

I like random acts of kindness.

Seeing a person in need and treating them with an act of kindness because you would want them to treat someone in your family the same way.

What is your advice for your peers in photography and music?

Lesson learned from being an artist: There is always room for improvement. Be the best you can be in the moment. Study your craft and follow your passion.

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Library Mojo

Storywalks at parks around town so check the library calendar for details. Visit SBPLibrary.org for more.

by Kim Crail

Kim is the Branch Lead of the Montecito Library. Questions or comments? Contact her: kcrail@santabarbaraca.gov

Pandemic Progress:

Black Gold Resource Sharing Resumes

Montecito Library Increases Hours and Services

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ontecito Library will be open four days a week starting June 1. This date marks our biggest reopening level in over a year.

Our new hours will be: • Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 pm • Thursday 10 am - 4 pm Along with new hours will be a 30-minute per day maximum and new building capacity limits. The Community Hall will be available as a reading area where people can sit, spread out, charge up their devices, and access our public Wi-Fi. We will also have two public computers, a printer, and a copier.

Our four newspaper subscriptions are set to resume as well. Hooray!

Feel free to call if you have questions.

This is new for us, and we expect to adapt and evolve over time, under the direction of Library Administration.

Don that Mask, Though

The most important thing to know is that masks are still required for all patrons with the exception of individ-

uals under the age of two — this is the standard at all public library locations.

Many library users remain ineligible for vaccines and, much like schools, libraries need to safely provide services to everyone.

If you just don’t want to put a mask on, we can explain procedures for digital or homebound services over the phone so that you are able to access materials without having to come in.

Please call us if you would like to learn more at 805-969-5063.

Summer Reading Program

What do library and school staff have in common? We all look forward to summer! Summertime is when public libraries kick into overdrive, getting to interact with some of our most delightful patrons — children and teens.

For kids up to five years old, we have our “1,000 Books Before Kindergarten” program, encouraging quality time together to build the joy and love of reading for our youngest patrons.

It is with great excitement that I announce news that Black Gold will start sharing materials again starting on July Montecito Library patrons at Lower Manning Park Storywalk 1. For seasoned library For school-aged kids and teens, we users who have been missing this have two programs tailored for each service since the pandemic paused it age group which include choosing in March 2020, I am so happy to share a free book just for getting started. this news.

This year, Youth Services staff heard I should also probably explain that loud and clear that many families and our library is part of a consortium educators were sick of so much time that shares library materials with online. all of Santa Barbara and San Luis In response, we are offering a sum- Obispo counties’ libraries (and even mer program rich in outdoor expe- Blanchard Library in Santa Paula), riences, including our “Build a Bug greatly expanding access to books, Hotel” garden program outside the audiobooks, and movies. For avid Montecito Library on June 18 at 2 pm users of our physical collections, this for kids six to 106 years old. Supplies is a huge step back to normal. are provided and space is limited so On that chipper note, I’ll wish you register soon before it fills up. the best summer yet and happy readWe will also have a brand-new ing.

Library on the Go outreach van and See you at the library!

•MJ

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The Montecito Library has announced that it will be open four days per week, with limitations on hours per person

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Letters (Continued from page 10) be accommodated. With designated land, multiple local donors could gift a $3,000-5,000 tiny home to provide shelter and services at one location for an ‘unhorsed’ person, couple, or small family. The suggested location off Cathedral Oaks is land near county social services, mental health, vets’ services, and county fire.

The city and county failed to follow up on this exemplary offer that would have given homeless a safe, clean place to belong for everyone’s mutual benefits.

All taxpayers fund is talk.

Government talks and throws more dollars at employees and nonprofits to in turn talk to homeless while problems expand.

Taxpayers expect results starting with a designated space for Santa Barbara’s homeless.

Isn’t it the duty of our elected officials to follow through on offers; and then to hold the county and city managers accountable for making a village campground with tiny homes a reality? Are liability concerns what’s stopping this? Are we the next Venice?

Denice Spangler Adams

The Gallos spent the first night of their honeymoon at the Miramar in 1964

Returning to Where it all Started

I recently read Leslie Westbrook’s article on the Revere Room at the Miramar.

She mentioned memories of past visits.

Just wanted to share that we spent the first night of our honeymoon at the Miramar way back on June 6, 1964. I have photos of our stay. Our car parked in front of our ocean view room and a picture of the accommodations. After the year of COVID, and some medical issues, knee replacement, cataract surgeries and pending hip replacement, I decided to splurge and return to the Miramar once more. Unfortunately, we could not afford the ocean view accommodations, but we will at least be on the grounds. We are booked for June 6 -8. We are excited and looking forward

The Gallos will return to the Miramar to celebrate 57 years of marriage

to our fantasy 57th anniversary. Maybe if I start saving now, I can book the ocean view for our 60th.

Charlotte Gallo

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Saving a Life

From an early age, I was a girl whom out of circumstance found it necessary to be a responsible adult, completely independent, take care of my parent, and never ask for help. Such girls may walk gracefully in their strength; but they are not the princess in the tower. They are usually kind warriors, protectors, and cherish wisdom. How else can a girl navigate the world?

So, it overwhelms my soul when I am witness to the heroism of men and women... the extraordinary lengths of humanity given freely and without concern for self. I hear of these stories from across the globe, in remote places or cities, where life and death coexist minute by minute, second by second. I need to add my voice to the many who have expressed their gratitude and speak again of the incredible

“Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” – George Carlin

heroism here in Santa Barbara, this blessed and incomparably beautiful place.

So, here I lay with a broken leg, having just recovered from surgery and I wish to thank my heroes with all of my heart. I was not Ashley Judd, who tripped over a log and broke her leg in the Congo, at 4:30 am, searching for rare primates.

Nor was I Brooke Shields, who broke her leg on the last day of her personal training session, in the gym, while practicing balancing.

If this is beginning to sound like Edward Gorey’s Amalphgory, yes that is a personal favorite. I have the idiotic distinction of breaking my leg simply walking on a very slight incline, which was covered in fine gravel.

The punch line is that it was a beloved Montecito mountain trail, which I have actually run almost every day, over the past 18 years. I know every rock and blade of grass on that trail.

Of course, I was at first in denial, and tried to stand, but the pain would not let me stand. I dragged myself to the waterfall and plunged my leg into the water and within a few minutes the cold water was simply not enough to hide the pain.

Three hikers called 911 and sunset was approaching. I was at least 45 minutes up from the trailhead.

So, the timely arrival of the search-and-rescue team was a glorious site. The first wave of rescuers was a team of four men, who strapped me up and proceeded to carry me down the narrow, rocky mountain path, as if I were an Egyptian mummy. My view was of the sky darkening, and I could not stop apologizing to these men, nor thanking them. They were met halfway down by another team of men and one woman, and so I had eight brave souls navigating the steep and winding cliffside, protecting me from a fall, which would have finished me.

In my prone and helpless position, I could only compare the experience to author James Gray’s rendition of the Lost City of Z and actor Charlie Hunnam being carried thus by the South American shaman and natives to his destiny.

So, I prayed to God and thanked the God within each of these brave men, for rescuing me and taking me to my destiny. Please make no mistake, that the search-and-rescue team of Santa Barbara, Montecito Fire Department, and ambulance saved my life. My gratitude is immense. It is a debt of gratitude that I will find some positive way in which to repay... But, I will need a few weeks to walk again! Endless blessings!

Alicia St. John •MJ 3 – 10 June 2021

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Father Larry joining the dancing at La Primavera Past La Presidenta Denise Sanford and acting director of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum Dacia Harwood

Savannah Hoover and Spirit of Fiesta Ysabella Grace Yturralde dancing?

Ysabella is 16 and has been with Linda Vega for 11 years and is now studying with Maria Bermudelz. Ysabella was Junior Spirit in 2015. Savannah is now nine but began dancing when she was only three. At five she told her dance director, “next year I want to do a solo with a fan.” And she did.

2021 Saint Barbara Patricia Orena appears at all the festivities. Bolton and Cabrera thanked the sponsors

and Drew Wakefield ran the live auction while guests chowed down on a delicious Mexican buffet of chili rellenos with all the trimmings.

As La Presidenta reminded, “As the celebrations begin, let’s remember our past generations and continue to honor their legacy. I look forward to you and your family joining me in ‘Honoring Our Generations’ past, present, and future, through the spirit of dance, music, and our community traditions. Viva La Fiesta!”

•MJ

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El Segundo Vice Presidente David Bolton and La Primera Vice Presidenta Maria Cabrera thanking the sponsors of the celebration

OSD events and activities in 14 venues citywide.

As 100 costumed guests gathered in the courtyard of the Carriage Museum for La Primavera, Petlow unveiled this year’s poster and explained its conception.

“My inspiration began with a watercolor my mother, Sylvianna Johns, a New Mexico fine artist, painted many years ago of a Spanish dancer. My granddaughter, Nadia Mason, added colored pencil drawings of iconic Santa Barbara landmarks for the poster including the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, the Old Mission Santa Barbara and local artist Bud Bottoms’ Dolphin Family sculpture known as the Bicentennial Friendship Fountain at State Street and Cabrillo.

Additional artwork from El Pueblo Viejo was generously provided by local architect Steve Hausz. Graphic 3 – 10 June 2021

design was completed by Mateo Dovgin, a senior at Santa Barbara High and son of the 1998 Spirit of Fiesta, Adriana Rey Dovgin. A culmination of generations.”

Petlow’s choice of the Fiesta pin was inspired by El Presidente Mike Harling’s 1996 pin.

“The iconic silhouette of two dancers has always been one of the images of Fiesta that I have always loved.”

A special shout out went to Steve Lipman of Pincrafters for his many years of producing the Fiesta pin.

The party was attended by many past Presidentes, all in costumes from Spain, Mexico or the wild west. Father Larry not only gave the blessing but danced with some of the señoras and señoritas. With his booming voice, Josue Hernandez kept the energy going. And what would a Fiesta party be without Junior Spirit of Fiesta

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Senior Portrait (Cont. from page 31) and soon found himself surrounded by an angry mob looking to do him bodily harm. Luckily a kid from his art class was in the crowd and Ron locked eyes with him. He didn’t look away and eventually the kid spoke up and dispelled the crowd.

In high school, Ron found that in art class people were judged less by the color of their skin and more viewed by their enthusiasm for art. After graduating he decided to attend the Herron School of Art and Design at Indiana University before going to grad school at UMass Amherst where he received a TA scholarship for printmaking, giving him the ability to teach a drawing class.

Ron with his two daughters, Kyra and Chanté

developing natural food and markets.

While he remains loving of his time at Sunburst and proud of what they achieved, Ron had an experience or two that made him feel he was ready to leave the Sunburst community.

While those are stories for another time, he was the first person to be given the “red carpet treatment” with Ron leaving as a respected elder and the founder even giving him the money in his pockets. During his time at Sunburst, he had met a woman, Welmoet, that he shared a lot of interests with and had been seeing. When Ron was leaving, he told her she was her own woman and could go where she wanted, but Welmoet decided to go with Ron.

A Trek to Santa Barbara

One day at Amherst, Ron met a member of the living commune called Brotherhood of the Spirit. He decided to see the commune and was mesmerized by their lifestyle and how they were living off of the land. He became a regular visitor and was introduced to a whole range of new subjects such as astrology, eastern spirituality, and meditation. He even invited his art students out to experience the lifestyle and gain a broader view of art.

When Richard Nixon was elected president, Ron decided to go to Canada, heading north with his girlfriend at the time. After several jobs they soon found themselves living in an off-the-grid cabin. It was a lot of work with the winters spent continually chopping wood. After 18 months, he decided to leave the cabin and head down with a friend to Santa Barbara.

Ron had never heard of the area but a guy living there owed his friend money. Along the way they had many adventures, like meeting a proposed 14-year-old guru that ended up being borderline rude, as well as getting stuck in Santa Fe where he fell in love with the artsy town. They eventually made it down to Santa Barbara and got jobs working at a waterbed shop off of State Street.

While around town one day they both had chance encounters with Sunburst members who invited them up to the property. At the time they were calling themselves Brotherhood of the Sun, which sounded similar to the previous commune. Ron took it as a sign, and they decided to visit the property.

While there he met the founder and spiritual leader of Sunburst, who Ron had seen by chance back in town. He had made an impression on Ron then, mesmerized by his message, especially after his earlier experience with the young guru. They ended up staying the night and the next morning an unforeseen urgent moment sent him to their backcountry property, Lemuria, to help kid goats, which he had learned to do in Canada. Ron immediately fell

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A New Direction While at Sunburst, Ron spent a year in the backcountry helping shape the land

in love with the land and ended up staying in the backcountry for about a year, helping build structures and shape the land.

It was another urgent matter that brought Ron out of the backcountry. A guy drove up saying that they needed one more to help pick up a schooner that the founder had discovered. It was an adventure getting the over100-foot schooner back and when they returned, most of the crew jumped off and hurried back to their mainland comforts but Ron lingered back, amazed at the experience.

The founder came up to him and complimented him on his performance on the boat and interaction with the crew. When asked if he wanted to lead the boat crew, Ron quickly agreed and spent the following years overseeing their different schooners.

Learning as they went, Ron helped run four different schooners they owned, each time trading up in size and complexity.

Over his 10 or so years with Sunburst, and because Ron was considered one of the “founding members,” he got to witness their incredible growth and accomplishments in

Ron had been with Sunburst for about 10 years and was unsure what outside world they were stepping into. Luckily, he was soon offered to housesit the Berkeley Hills home of legendary blues musician Taj Mahal as he toured Europe. Ron had officiated his marriage at Sunburst, and they had quickly bonded, remaining friends to this day.

Around the time Taj was returning, Ron was contacted by the founder of the popular Windjammer Cruises of Hawaii, who had purchased one of the schooners Ron had helped refurbish and rebuild while at Sunburst.

Ron and Welmoet moved to Hawaii where they would spend the next 20 years. Ron was offered a job as Port Captain of Windjammer Cruises and was in charge of the four schooners in their fleet while they were in port.

Over the years he also worked as several other roles in the company, but eventually had an unfounded falling out with the owner.

Ron didn’t even leave the port that day before finding a job on another schooner which was contracted to do research with the United Nations in the South Pacific. The voyage would last eight months and turned out to be a trip of a lifetime, where he even encountered an erupting underwater volcano.

Upon returning, Ron and Welmoet

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough not to quit.” – George Carlin

decided to settle down, getting married in California where her parents lived, before heading back to Hawaii to start a family. During their time on the islands, Ron was involved with several other ventures like a dinner and inter-island cruise company, a print shop, being movie extras with Welmoet in Exit To Eden, and naturally, a treasure hunting voyage in the Marshall Islands. Over time they had two daughters, Kyra and Chanté, which they raised in the dream house on Maui. Ron and Welmoet began renting out their lower room as a bed and breakfast, one of the first on Maui to do so, and even began forming that into a successful new venture.

Eventually life happenings led to Ron and Welmoet growing apart.

When Ron sought the counsel of one of his Sunburst friends, they consulted their astral charts and said that the changes occurring were going to be happening for a long time. Ron took it as a message and decided to move back to the mainland where he returned to Santa Fe. He regularly flew out his daughters during this time, but soon more life happenings led to them all moving back to Santa Barbara, where they could more easily share and raise their daughters.

Ron was able to stay in a yurt on a Montecito estate belonging to a friend of a former Sunburst shipmate for several years before settling down in Santa Barbara. While in town he became connected with a wacky group of creatives that would meet every Wednesday to discuss and make art. This was the early making of Fishbon, the 501(c)3 nonprofit art collaborative that has been around since the early 2000s.

Over the years, Ron would become more ingrained with Fishbon, eventually serving on its board of directors and currently its president. Through his work with Fishbon he also became involved with the beginnings of the Lucidity Festival. He witnessed the soon-to-be festival founders coming together while working on the Burning Man project called the Walkabout Woods, that helped spark the idea for the festival.

Over the years he became more involved with the planning of Lucidity, first attending meetings as a Fishbon representative before becoming a full-time partner in the organization. Having helped get Fishbon permits for their events, Ron began helping Lucidity as the permits manager and county liaison.

Today, he is one of four directors of the festival, helping guide the organization with his years of experience. And with his collective wisdom from so many lives lived, both Lucidity and the community are lucky to have Ron around to share his many stories.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5905 DUE DATE & TIME: June 23, 2021 UNTIL 3:00P.M. LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE AT CATER TREATMENT PLANT Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 8, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., at the Cater Water Treatment Plant, located at 1150 San Roque Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason 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, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be provided.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage rate and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.).

Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

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

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C-27 Landscaping contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. _____________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rowan Boutique, 3817 Santa Claus LN, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Gina M Chadbourne, 1044 Bath Lane, Ventura, CA 93001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May

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14, 2021. 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).

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLNT PWRD MRKT LLC, 1046 Coast Village Rd Suite G, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. PLNT PWRD MRKT LLC, 1046 Coast Village Rd Suite G, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

Santa Barbara County on May 19, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001492.

Published May 26, June 2, 9, 16, 2021

• The Voice of the Village •

MONTECITO WATER DISTRICT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 2020 URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN and WATER SHORTAGE CONTINGENCY PLAN UPDATES TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021, 9:30 A.M. VIA TELECONFERENCE* Montecito Water District (District) is currently preparing updates to its Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and Water Shortage Contingency Plan in compliance with the California Urban Water Management Planning Act. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Montecito Water District (District) will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. via teleconference* to consider input regarding proposed updates to the UWMP and Water Shortage Contingency Plan.

The proposed updates to the UWMP and Water Shortage Contingency Plan are available for public review as of June 2, 2021 on the District web site at: www.montecitowater.com/doc/uwmp2020. If you are unable to access the information via this link, or need accommodations to review the document, please contact: Adam Kanold Montecito Water District 583 San Ysidro Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 akanold@montecitowater.com Phone: 805.969.2271 Comments can be provided to the contact above up until the date and time of the Public Hearing. * In accordance with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Orders issued in response to COVID-19, in person public participation at meetings is suspended and instead meetings are held telephonically and/or electronically.

Remote participation information can be found on the meeting agenda and will be posted at the above location, on the website www.montecitowater.com, and available by calling 805-969-2271.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jack May Therapy, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Capricorn Counseling Center, A Marriage & Family Therapy Corporation; Capricorn Counseling Center, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 17, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001452.

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Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001332.

Published May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2021

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

By Georges, 3793 Hope Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Georges Bitar, 3793 Hope Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 14, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001430.

Published May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOTO DESIGN; MOTO TATOO; MOTO Design Studio, 4467 La Paloma, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kimberly Mather Neill, 4467 La Paloma, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 26, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001194.

Published May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jack May Therapy, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Capricorn Counseling Center, A Marriage and Family Corporation, 1187 Coast Village Road Suite 1-360, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 7, 2021. 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Teeny Bikini, 19 East Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Christina Menchaca, 515 West Valerio, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 5, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001298.

Published May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2021

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bonilla Trucking, 4755 Garret St., Guadalupe, CA 93434. Victor Bonilla Cuellar, 4755 Garret St., Guadalupe, CA 93434. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 4, 2021.

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). FBN No. 2021-0001288.

Published May 12, 19, 26, June 2, 2021

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) page-turner” while Booklist termed it “a compelling and impressively redefining work” and suggesting that the book “should be read by all who are pondering the true meaning of patriotism.”

Brown will talk about Facing the Mountain in a Zoom conversation with Chaucer’s Books Events Coordinator Michael Takeuchi, who reports that “the book hits home for me as … one of my uncles was a medic in the 442nd during this time and was wounded in battle.” Tune in via Zoom at 6 pm on June 7 at https://zoom.us/j/95853561255.

Diving Deep

In its new, post-36th festival incarnation, SBIFF’s Film Talk series has expanded beyond merely taking a second look at shorts with the filmmaker to take on full-length features and documentaries. On top of that, executive director Roger Durling has added conducting the conversations to his list of responsibilities, now that the Cinema Society demands have scaled back in the post-Oscar period, when it seemed Durling was dishing with just about every director, star, and/or writer who made a movie worth seeing in 2020.

Case in point: this week’s chat with Mimi deGruy, the longtime Montecito documentary filmmaker who has produced innumerable hours of award-winning television for National Geographic, The BBC, and other broadcasters including CNN, Turner Broadcasting’s series Portrait of American and the PBS series The Infinite Voyage. DeGruy’s latest doc is her most personal, as Diving Deep: The Life and Times of Mike deGruy is an often meditative and moving portrait of her late husband, the pioneering ocean explorer, ocean cinematographer and charismatic ocean spokesperson.

Through family films and still footage along with clips of captivating underwater cinematography from many of Mike’s movies and never-before-seen footage, we get a visual vista into the man who brought unbridled joy and excitement to his work, humorously self-deprecating on-camera commentary, and, when necessary, anger in his activism as in his relentless pursuit of documenting the lingering effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The film is at once a stirring tribute, a call to action on behalf of the world’s oceans, and a family film, as Mike and Mimi’s adult children, Frances and Max, are frequently featured.

Diving Deep also boasts lots of accolades from Mike’s colleagues, including famed British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, National Geographic Explorer Sylvia Earle and Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron, for whom deGruy was shooting when a helicopter crash took his life in Australia in February 2012.

In interviews from when the movie made its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2019 SBIFF, as well as one when the film arrived on Amazon earlier this year, Mimi talked about the motivation behind the way it turned out, saying “Mike had a lot more to say, but he was cut short, and I wanted to do my best to imagine where he would’ve gone… It became a mission to get this out there, and hope people take Mike’s spirit and let it inform how they relate to the ocean… But it was also part of the grieving process for me, like I was continuing my conversation with him and that he was present while I worked on it. My relationship with him continues; it’s a very vibrant thing.”

Mimi deGruy gets together with Durling at 5:30 pm on June 3, over Zoom to discuss the Diving Deep doc and their collective memories of Mike, who was a longtime friend and partner of SBIFF. Register to join them online at https://sbiff.org/filmtalk. The film can currently be seen on Amazon Prime Rentals or iTunes and is well-worth watching even if you’re reading this after the event, which will also remain available on SBIFF’s YouTube site (www.youtube.com/user/officialSBIFF).

Film Talk Future

Next up in SBIFF’s weekly series are David Wasco and Sandy ReynoldsWasco, the husband-and-wife duo who are highly decorated production designers and art directors who are frequent collaborators with director Quentin Tarantino having designed Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), and Inglourious Basterds (2009). They also worked as production designer and set decorator, respectively, for La La Land (2016), winning the Academy Award among other accolades for their efforts. Visit https://sbiff.org/filmtalk for details and links.

Further Focus on Film: Hitchcock Haunts Historic Theater

Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre continues its cautious reopening by concentrating on themed weekend screenings of classic films. Next up: a tribute

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to Alfred Hitchcock through three of the most memorable movies from the ultimate master of suspense plus a fiction film about the director. The marathon begins on June 4, with Hitchcock, the 2012 biographical drama/romance directed by Sacha Gervasi and adapted from Stephen Rebello’s book.

The film — which was originally to be distributed by Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock’s The Montecito Picture Company in a deal with Paramount Pictures, the original distributor of Psycho — delves into the relationship between the director and his wife, Alma Reville, during the filming of that mother of a mystery in 1959. The great British stars Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren play the featured roles.

Saturday’s matinee brings Vertigo, the 1958 Jimmy Stewart-Kim Novak thriller that feels a bit like a California class as it was partially shot on location in San Francisco, the Big Basin Redwoods State Park, and Cypress Point on the 17-Mile Drive. At night, Psycho showers the audience with the kind of horror that kept people out of the bathtub for months and could probably still evoke some nightmares. The mini-fest closes, ahem, without a hitch, on Sunday night with my fave rave and another Jimmy Stewart starrer in Rear Window, the 1954 film about an injured, chair-bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has murdered his wife.

Maybe it’s a clever concept to engage us in the anxiety-inducing entertainment to allay our own potential nervousness at resuming regular activities.

Does it matter? Because seeing Hitchcock films on the big screen is always a treat, even if you have to don a mask of your own. Visit www.thealcazar.org for details, show times, tickets, and pandemic protocols.

Summer in Solvang

With the continued easing of pandemic restrictions, PCPA is returning after two summers to the Solvang Festival Theater, the charming outdoor amphitheater in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley village. The stars will be live on stage as well as visible in the sky above starting in mid-July, when PCPA debuts an original production geared toward being able to gather again in person. Together: A Musical Journey, written by Erik Stein, PCPA’s associate director and casting director with 20 years of experience at the repertory company, is a celebration in story and song that revels in the simple fact that life is better when we live it together.

Seven actors and a musician will take visitors on a musical journey that celebrates shared experiences over the past 15 months as well as PCPA’s Together: A Musical Journey is written by Erik “the stories that have yet to be told Stein and will debut on July 21

“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to have selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin

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— tales of the like-minded and adventures of those that dance to a different beat.” The concert-style show was created for PCPA’s audiences to rejoice as a community, and to relish being together again in the same space. Stein was inspired by an article he read about an experiment that showed that when people are in a room together sharing an experience, their hearts start to beat in the same rhythm.

“If our hearts can overcome differences and actually beat together, our brains should be able to as well. All of us in a room together sharing an experience is Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill is based on the life of truly essential,” he said in a press legendary singer Billie Holiday release.

The cast features Stein along with PCPA resident artists Kitty Balay, Andrew Philpot, Yusef Seevers, Emily Trask and George Walker, and guest artist Annali Fuchs-Wackowski, who also serves as director.

Together: A Musical Journey previews July 21-22, opens July 23 and continues Thursdays-Sundays through August 8.

PCPA’s second production for the summer is Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, the 1986 two-hander that takes place at the titular seedy bar in Philadelphia where the legendary singer Billie Holiday is giving one of her final performances. Guest artist Karole Foreman (who previously appeared in PCPA’s productions of Fences and Caroline, or Change) portrays Holiday, belting out more than a dozen of the jazz singer’s songs interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences in what amounts to a portrait of Holiday and her music that often reflected the challenging circumstances of her life.

Holiday’s accompanist in the show, Jimmy Powers, is played by guest artist Stephan Terry, who also serves as musical director of the production, which will be helmed by Wren T. Brown, a Los Angelesbased actor-producer-director who said he was inspired to be directing a show about “one of the most transcendent artists of the 20th century” in Holiday.

“Sixty years after her death, at a time in America when race, gender, and the opioid crisis are being discussed loudly on a daily basis, Billie Holiday’s life and career are a great example of what it means to not just survive but triumph in the face of lifelong abuse and struggle.”

Lady Day plays the Solvang Festival Theater August 19-September 5.

Tickets, which are priced at $35-$50 for all performances of both shows, go on sale on June 8. Visit www.pcpa.org or call (805) 922-8313.

Local Stages Lighting Up

Ensemble Theatre Company’s season doesn’t get going until October, due to the complications of planning post-pandemic professional theater for indoor seating in a small venue, and, perhaps not coincidentally, will also open with a tribute to a great American jazz singer. Tenderly, a musical about the great Rosemary Clooney, stars Linda Purl, with Broadway performer Jason Graae taking on multiple roles. For the holidays, ETC revisits Jane Austen in The Wickhams, the second installment of the Christmas at Pemberley trilogy. February 2022 brings Carmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein’s jazz-musical adaptation of Bizet’s masterpiece, followed in early spring by American Son, the still-timely play about the intersection of racism and the police. The season closes with the comic thriller Sleuth, with John Tufts — who appeared in this spring’s one-man livestreamed production of An Iliad — as part of the cast.

Subscriptions go on sale in the middle of the month. Visit www.etcsb. org for details, tickets, information about improvements to The New Vic to ensure audience safety.

Close on ETC’s heels, Broadway in Santa Barbara is also returning to town just down the street at the Granada Theatre as the American Theatre Guild has announced a four-show condensed season with a fifth “addon/swap-a-show” option. An Officer and a Gentleman plays November 9-10; Hairspray hits the stage November 30-December 1; Waitress arrives January 18-19; and Jersey Boys returns February 22-23, with a single night of The Simon and Garfunkel Story on January 5 serving as the add-on option. Tickets are on sale now through www.broadwaysantabarbara.com or www.granadasb.org.

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Miscellany (Continued from page 18) Ching-Yun Chen won in the adult instrumental category

Harry, 36, will join brother, William, 38, on July 1 for the unveiling of the bronze statue to their late mother, Princess Diana, at Kensington Palace on what would have been her 60th birthday.

An extremely sad state of affairs!

Even Simon Couldn’t Have Seen This Coming

American Idol winner turned TV talk show host Kelly Clarkson is to replace Montecito’s Ellen DeGeneres when she wraps up her long running Burbank-based TV show in fall 2022 after 19 years on air.

Clarkson’s show, currently in its second season, has become a ratings hit because of her winning personality, casual interview style, and high profile celebrity guests.

It was renewed last year through 2023.

Patricia Westley was a winner in the vocal competition

Noelle Hadsell won in the pianist category

Chen, a doctoral candidate in piano performance at UCSB, in the adult instrumental category; sopranos Patricia Westley and Naomi Merer in the vocal competition; pianists Noelle and Holly Hadsall, and guitarist Joseph Malvinni in the junior division instrumentalists; and soprano Olivia Barker, and pianists Grace Hu, Nathaniel Hadsall, Evelina McGary, and Zeyn and Rhyan Schweyk for honorable mention awards.

The Infighting Continues . . .

Prince Harry’s continuing criticism of his father, Prince Charles, 72, has obviously caused the next King of England considerable angst.

Look no further than a video message he just broadcast about his mother Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee next year from his country estate, Highgrove.

Throughout the year-long pandemic the video calls from homes in the Cotswolds and Royal Birkhall, his home on the Balmoral estate in Scotland, have had as a background an array of family photos, including several of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

But when the Prince of Wales launched a campaign to plant millions of trees to celebrate the jubilee there was only a single framed photo of himself with the Queen, Prince William and Prince George — the line of succession to the 1,000-year-old UK throne.

There is now even talk whether

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Notting Turns Out to be a Nothing

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is closing her London Goop store after it reportedly lost $1,546,000 in the wake of the pandemic.

The Oscar winner, 48, opened her shop in oh-so trendy Notting Hill in 2018, but it has been closed since October.

Paltrow founded Goop — which has an estimated worth of $250 million — in 2008.

The chain also has branches in New York, San Francisco, Brentwood, Sag Harbor on Long Island, and the Rosewood Miramar.

RIP, John Warner

On a personal note, I mark the passing of Virginia senator John Warner at the age of 94.

The former Navy secretary, probably best known as the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor from 1976 until divorcing in 1982, was the father-in-law to an old friend, Shannon Hamm, daughter of the late Minnesota beer magnate Ted Hamm.

The latter tied the knot in 2007 with John Warner IV, whose mother was Catherine Conover, daughter of art collecting philanthropist Paul Mellon, at the exclusive Florida enclave, the Jupiter Island Club, in Hobe Sound, where I used to be a frequent visitor, staying with Maldwin Drummond, the grandson of Chicago department store and newspaper tycoon Marshall Field.

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Village Beat (Continued from page 6) The Coast Village Association is working on a new Community Benefit Improvement District, or CBID, to bring local dollars to help beautify and promote the street and mitigate issues including traffic, pedestrian safety, and homelessness (Nick Masuda photo)

want to be on Coast Village Road, and this is how we get there,” said Ludwick, who has been the Association’s president since its resurrection five years ago.

Ludwick, along with CVA Vice President Rob Miller and board members Trey Pinner, Rick Lemmo, Francois DeJohn, and property owner Jeff Harding, have been pounding the pavement and speaking to property owners along the street the last several months, in an effort to gauge support of the project.

With the Santa Barbara City Council unanimously voting to approve an enabling ordinance related to moving forward with the CBID in March, there is now a two-step process to work through.

The first step is the initiation, which consists of a mail-in ballot of landlords agreeing to have a formal plan submitted to the city for consideration and a subsequent ballot to landlords circulated. The properties on the street are weighted according to parcel size, frontage length, and building size.

In order to meet the first threshold, 30% or more of the weighted votes need to agree to move to the “ballot stage” of the process. At the ballot stage, 50%+1 of the weighted ballots returned will establish the district. It’s expected the initiation ballot will be mailed mid-summer, and the official ballot in October.

“So far we have very strong support. We likely won’t be able to win over everyone, even though we truly believe every property will benefit significantly,” Ludwick said. “We believe we have more than the 30% support we need.”

A preliminary version of the CBID’s Management Plan for Coast Village outlines the expected assessments for each of Coast Village Road’s 94 property owners. The assessments range from a few hundred dollars to $17,000 per year, with the average falling around $1,800.

“In our mind this is doable, and the benefit that property owners and businesses will glean, is worth the money,” Ludwick said, adding that some property owners have said they will pay the extra tax, while some plan on passing it on in part or whole to their tenants. The Management Plan

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The City of Santa Barbara maintains the medians along the road, but has no extra funds for plantings and beautification; the medians have been barren for years (Nick Masuda photo)

will be reviewed and approved by the City Council and City Attorney before it is implemented.

If all goes as planned, and a CBID is approved, the funds will be used for much needed beautification of the road, including: • tree and vegetation maintenance; • maintenance of existing and new public spaces; • installation and maintenance of hanging plants; • planting flowers throughout the district; • personnel to manage the in-house or contracted maintenance and/or security teams; • regular sidewalk and gutter sweeping; • regular sidewalk steam cleaning; • enhanced trash emptying (over and above city services); • timely graffiti removal; • private security or case workers to respond to homelessness issues, aggressive panhandling, and mentally ill people behaving poorly in the public rights of way.

The CBID will also fund promotional events, banner programs, public art displays, branding and social media, website development, enhancement to the weekly Farmers’ Market, and other marketing tools to bring visitors and locals out to support local businesses. The area has been hit hard the last few years, with the Thomas Fire and Debris Flow closures, the

pandemic lockdown, and the steep increase in vehicular traffic caused by the closure of the freeway entrance at Hot Springs.

If the CBID is approved, the Coast Village Association Board will increase in size to accommodate more property owners, business owners, and community members, in order to manage the district. The assessment will be probationary for the first five years, and then lengthen to a 20-year term.

Since its resurrection five years ago, the Coast Village Association has worked to promote business along the street through social media campaigns and events, including the popular Taste of Coast Village in 2019 and the Virtual Cash Mob event at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown, in addition to annual holiday decorating contests, member mixers, and more.

The CVA’s Traffic and Safety Committee has been vital in working with the city on traffic mitigation measures, including adding planters to dissuade speeding down the parking aisles, adding stop signs and a lighted crosswalk to promote pedestrian safety, and being closely involved with the roundabout and freeway widening plans that will inevitably impact the road.

Ludwick describes the CBID as a way to ensure the continuance and extension of the CVA’s important work, which will greatly benefit the businesses as well as the property owners — and their property values — along the road.

“The city has limited resources to deploy on Coast Village for upkeep and improvement, other than occasional maintenance. By collectively contributing to this fund, all properties, businesses, visitors, and locals will benefit from enhanced operations and aesthetics,” Ludwick said, adding that there are over 200 similar business improvement districts in California, including Little Italy in San Diego, Redwood City in the Bay Area, and two districts similar to Coast Village Road in Santa Rosa. “It is the best way for commercial districts to exercise control over their aesthetics and operational destiny.”

For more information about the CVA, visit www.coastvillageroad.com.

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Butterfly Pedestrian Undercrossing Project

Earlier this week, the Montecito Association Land Use and Transportation Committee heard from Caltrans reps regarding a new project that will bring the pedestrian freeway undercrossing at Butterfly Lane up to ADA compliance. The project will begin in late fall of this year, through late spring 2022, and it will cause the closure of the northbound Highway 101 off-ramp at Hermosillo Road for two months.

Dave Emerson with Caltrans outlined the project for the committee, with it including reconstructing the stairs at both the north and south sides, installing ramps for wheelchair and mobility scooter access, reconstruction of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing on the south side of the freeway, and the addition of safety lighting on ramps, stairs, and inside the tunnel, as well as aesthetic details, wide sidewalks, handrailing, and signalization.

“The design will reflect the architectural style and design of the highway widening project,” Emerson said. The widening project through that area — Cabrillo Blvd, Hot Springs Road, Los Patos Way — which we will report on at greater length next week, is expected to begin in 2023.

Built in 1956, the undercrossing is a popular, well-used crossing for Montecito residents to access the beach on foot. It currently poses a physical barrier for disabled persons and those with limited mobility, as there are staircases on both sides of the under freeway tunnel. Emerson said the popular interior mural will not be altered or changed.

The undercrossing will be closed for about seven months to accommodate the construction. Pedestrian detours will be available on Olive Mill Road to Channel Drive or East Cabrillo Blvd to Channel Drive; both detours are roughly 1.25 miles long.

Vehicular traffic will be detoured to Olive Mill Road or Cabrillo Blvd, as the Hermosillo Road offramp will be closed for two months during the construction timeframe.

•MJ

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It’s a Match:

Montecito-Developed App Connects Hairdressers, Clients Around the World

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hen a local Santa Barbara hair stylist envisioned an ideal post-COVID world, he saw back-to-back appointments for flourishing small businesses like his own.

The pandemic proved disastrous for small businesses across the globe, many forced to lock their doors for months, missing out on street passersby or walk-ins that expanded clientele.

With the brewing return to normal life, Joel Mallet, CEO and founder of the new app Beauty Match by Centred, has found a way to give back to beauty and wellness professionals.

“Beauty Match by Centred aims to put beauty and fitness at the forefront of people’s minds whether at home or abroad,” Mallet said.

The app launched in early 2021 and will be available in 120 countries starting in June 2021.

Beauty Match is attempting to connect professionals to clients across the globe. According to the Beauty Match website, clients can browse appointments with experts working in hair, spa, nails, and makeup among various other wellness services.

Mallet’s humble roots as a salon owner on Coast Village Circle in

Montecito sparked his vision to intersect the beauty and tech industries.

The Beauty Match app connects on-the-go clients to beauty or wellness services based on their location and preferences.

The functionality is quite simple.

Beauty Match has no onboarding fee and features a customizable experience that matches clients to businesses like a dating app. Clients are encouraged to upload a selfie and their beauty routine, then request an appointment based on their location and desired service.

On the other end, salons and wellness studios are screened by the Beauty Match team to ensure quality of services, and then once approved, they define the services they offer.

“It’s almost like an art gallery of our favorite brands,” said Brian Chappon, founder of Centred Wellness, the father company of Beauty Match.

“One of our values at Centred is less is more. We didn’t want to overdo it with too many opportunities and too many options, and so for us it’s about quality and not quantity.”

The goal of Beauty Match is to increase customer confidence as they

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swipe through resumes and bios once they request a specific service in their area.

“Technically, it’s like a dating app for beauty services,” laughed Mallet, who said his initial inspiration for designing Beauty Match was when he noticed his clients in Montecito were constantly asking for service recommendations when they travel for events.

Unlike a blind date, this dating app analogy stresses the importance of finding the perfect match and managing expectations before the appointment has even been confirmed.

Supported by Centred, which already partners with Visa, MasterCard, DragonPass, and AMEX for wellness loyalty offerings, Chappon says he’s excited to include Beauty Match in Centred’s commitment to promote worldwide wellness.

“So, there was a match!” laughed the two tech app founders when asked about the Centred-Beauty Match partnership.

Chappon, who is a traveling expert, wanted a consumer-based entity of Centred in addition to his worldwide, private marketplace of partners and suppliers in the wellness sector.

Centred is expected to reach 100,000,000 members by 2022,

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according to Chappon, who said this audience enjoys Centred benefits through their credit card loyalty programs or employer. The Centred business-to-business strategy helps increase audience trafficking to the Beauty Match app.

Mallet and Chappon hope to leave their legacy on the beauty world by driving traffic to small businesses who were disproportionately affected by the COVID pandemic. They are passionate about increasing marketing and audience to independent contractors who lost out on a year of walk-in clients due to businesses being shut down. Their main commitment to small businesses is to keep Beauty Match by Centred free of fees.

“We’re going to create something where we don’t charge you anything, we just believe that our app is going to be so addictive that people are just going to use it and they’ll spend money in our marketplace,” said Chappon.

Allowing users to sign up for free and driving volume to small businesses has always been in Centred’s ethos, said Chappon. He adds that the company was built on the passion to drive wellness tourism to the developing world as well.

Though Beauty Match spans across cities internationally, Mallet’s visions were brought to life here in Montecito.

“People are always friendly and always helping you with everything.

It’s a great place to be,” said Mallet.

Although Beauty Match is the first beauty match-making app on the market, he partnered with local app creators to jumpstart his brand and perfect app functionality.

Beauty Match can be found in the Apple app store or Google Play. And if you’re looking for a blow dry in Montecito, you might be lucky enough to book an appointment with Mallet himself.

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The nursing program is a partnership with Cottage Health (Brad Elliott photo)

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

Westmont Creates Region’s Only Accelerated Nursing Program Randy Jones, director of campus planning, oversees the renovation of the first two floors of Westmont Downtown for the new nursing program (Brad Elliott photo)

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mid a global pandemic and dire nursing shortage, Westmont’s proposed Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) arrives just in time to meet a great need not only in the Santa Barbara community, but also in California.

The program, run in partnership with Cottage Health, received unanimous approval for its feasibility study from the California Board of Registered Nursing’s (BRN) Education Licensing Committee (ELC) in April and awaits further approvals. The program launches in spring 2022 pending approval from BRN. Students have already expressed interest in joining the first cohort of 24 students.

“We’ve all become acutely aware of the critical need for nurses,” says Gayle D. Beebe, Westmont’s presi-

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dent. “It’s not just a skilled practice, it’s a courageous one. We seek to graduate highly sought-after nurses who’ve benefited from the breadth of our liberal arts education and grown in all areas of their lives, developing key qualities such as compassion and empathy.”

According to a survey of current Westmont students enrolled in majors supporting medical careers, they’re pursuing the new nursing degree to provide quality and compassionate healthcare to those in need.

Westmont donors contributed nearly $10 million to purchase the Westmont Downtown building. Now undergoing renovation, the four-story building will continue to house the Westmont Downtown semester and new initiatives but will also house the new nursing program.

Ron Werft, president and CEO of Cottage Health, spoke at Commencement May 8 (Brad Elliott photo)

The college is renovating the first two floors of Westmont Downtown, 26 West Anapamu Street, which it purchased in December 2020. Construction will finish in July 2021 so state nursing officials can visit the state-of-the-art facility at a later date. The location, a mile from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, will provide students with easy access to their clinical rotations throughout the various nursing services at the hospital. Refurbishing the dedicated downtown facilities will create state-of-the-art simulation labs, a team-based learning environment, and progressive healthcare facilities to support a vibrant nursing program.

“Our vision for the program is strongly rooted in our liberal arts mission,” says Eileen McMahon McQuade, associate dean of the faculty and professor of biology. “Along with technical training in nursing skills, the curriculum will address significant philosophical, ethical, and social issues about public health and compassionate care, equip students with qualitative and quantitative research skills, and provide multiple opportunities for cross-cultural engagement and reflection.”

The nursing program will be grounded in Christian faith, keeping with Westmont’s approach to education.

“It will explore themes of service, ethics, and empathy and will embody Christ’s call to love one’s neighbor,” McQuade says. “Nurses from our program will be particularly prepared

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to love and serve every member of our community and treat all with the dignity and honor granted by God to all people.”

The ABSN allows someone with a baccalaureate degree to complete the intense education and clinical training to become a registered nurse within 15 months. The college plans to use a cohort-based model with 24 students per cohort, graduating two cohorts each year.

“Nursing is a gift from the heart, from those who care deeply for persons during the most vulnerable time of their life,” says Steve Fellows, a retired healthcare executive who leads the planning for the partnership between Westmont and Cottage.

“In addition to their amazing clinical skills, nurses have deep compassion for those in need. That’s why, for those of us who have been fortunate to have received care from a nurse, we consider them angels, because they are angels in the flesh, and we are all the better because of their desire to truly care for those in need and crisis.”

The strategic partnership with Cottage Health, a system of hospitals and clinics serving the Central Coast, will provide state-of-the-art clinical training for Westmont students.

“We’re excited to work with Cottage Health to launch our students in a meaningful career while also meeting a critical need in our community,” Beebe says. “This is a direct pipeline and pathway from education to career, and we’re so grateful for the opportunity to work with Cottage Hospital to place our students directly into a career path following the completion of their Westmont degree.”

McQuade says that the new partnership will only improve an already successful tradition.

“Westmont has already proven that it successfully prepares its graduates with 90 percent of applicants being accepted into medical school,” McQuade says. “I am equally confident that our graduates will make tremendous nurses. California and the rest of the world need nurses, and Westmont can provide the well-round-

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Your Westmont (Continued from page 44 44)) ed education and training those nurses need to flourish.”

The leadership team at Cottage Health is excited to partner with a university that has proven to be committed to the South Coast community — and beyond.

“Westmont is indeed a community treasure,” says Ron Werft, president and CEO of Cottage Health.

“Westmont looks at community needs and addresses them. We are very proud to partner with Westmont in this effort and look forward to Westmont nursing students walking the halls of Cottage next year for their clinical rotations and to having Westmont RN graduates joining us in our work. Your emphasis on admitting students who reflect the diversity of our community is in line with our work on addressing health care disparities particularly from vulnerable populations.”

George Mathen, who graduated from Westmont in 2020 and begins medical school this fall, says his rigorous liberal arts education has equipped him well for a career in medicine because it provided him with a toolset to think effectively and creatively across disciplines.

“Intertwine both of these factors — an interdisciplinary education and the formation of oneself — and it’s no wonder that we have such a high percentage of well-rounded, pre-health students

accepted into their desired professional school,” he says. “I’m grateful for such an education at Westmont as it has taught me to think broadly, to reserve judgement while collaborating alongside those with different perspectives, and most importantly, to envision creatively and meaningfully a life of human flourishing.”

The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, estimates a shortage of 44,000 California nurses by 2030. Westmont’s program was designed to directly meet the needs of this growing demand and

to respond to the looming healthcare shortage.

“We’re committed to building a robust scholarship program that will attract an exceptionally qualified and diverse student population,” says Reed Sheard, Westmont vice president for advancement and chief information officer. “Westmont is excited to think about how much better we’ll serve the greater Santa Barbara community through the graduates of this new program. This is a vision and project everyone wants to support and advance.”

Timely gifts from Dave and Anna Grotenhuis and Leslie Ridley-Tree, the

founder of Ridley-Tree Cancer Center at Sansum Clinic with Cottage Health, provided funding for Westmont to make the downtown building a permanent extension of the college in the heart of Santa Barbara.

Westmont continues to seek opportunities to serve the Santa Barbara community and meet its needs, and the new nursing program provides a direct and innovative way to respond to its future health and vitality.

The admissions team at Westmont is ready to receive inquiries and applications for the inaugural cohort for spring 2022. Prospective students can call 805-565-6200.

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296 LAS ENTRADAS DR, MONTECITO 6BD/11BA • $26,500,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

1086 CHANNEL DR, MONTECITO LOWER 3BD/2½BA • $23,500,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

945 LILAC DR, MONTECITO UPPER 5BD/7½BA • $17,495,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

985 PARK LN, MONTECITO UPPER 6BD/7BA • $12,875,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

2626 SYCAMORE CANYON RD, MONTECITO 5BD/5½BA • $11,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

663 LILAC DR, MONTECITO 5BD/9BA • $7,950,000 Cristal Clarke, 805.886.9378 LIC# 00968247

920 CAMINO VIEJO, MONTECITO 4BD/4½BA • $6,250,000 Daniel Encell, 805.565.4896 LIC# 00976141

513 CROCKER SPERRY DR, MONTECITO 4BD/5BA • $5,795,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

1170 HIGH RD, MONTECITO LOWER 3BD/3BA • $5,250,000 Bartron Real Estate Group, 805.563.4054 LIC# 01005021

2350 BELLA VISTA DR, MONTECITO UPPER 3BD/2½BA • $3,900,000 Rachael Douglas, 805.318.0900 LIC# 02024147

805 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO 10.67±acs • $2,375,000 Nancy Kogevinas, 805.450.6233 LIC# 01209514

1094 TORO CANYON RD, MONTECITO UPPER 45±acs • $850,000 Jody Neal / Kathy Strand Spieler, 805.252.9267 LIC# 01995725 / 00851281

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