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Thomas Hampson returns to his musical roots June 23 at Hahn Hall recital, p. 26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, P.8 • ON THE WATER FRONT, P.5 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P.33
THE DAYS THAT WERE Hattie Beresford and Judy Pearce remember the Borgatellos, their friends, and early Montecito. (Story begins on p.18)
Montecito Miscellany
Field of dreams: Youth Ensemble Theatre’s Cole Evers, 13, to sing National Anthem at Cubs game, p.6
Fighting Fire
Aerial Firefighting Foundation seeks to bring helicopter and heliport closer to Montecito, p.12
Hats Off
Joanne Calitri shines light on Leading from Within program and its 17 Fellow graduates, p.24
Cover photo: (from left) Laura, Ida, Mario, Augusta, and Charles circa 1923 at the family home on Cota Lane (courtesy David Borgatello) (Helicopter image: Brocken Inaglory)
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21st Annual Village Fourth Parade Monday July 4th 10:30 a.m. start parade position at Upper Manning Park Parade Director: Conner Rehage Name of entry: __________________________________ Contact person: __________________________________ Phone: ______________ Email: _____________________ Description of entry: _______________________________ Choose a theme from one of the categories listed below. __Historic __ Original __ Musical __ Humorous __ Community Spirit Please return entry form with a $15.00 entry fee, cash or check by mail to: Montecito Association, P.O. Box 5278, Santa Barbara, CA 93150 or deliver to 1469 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. For questions: email info@montecitoassociation.org or call: (805)969 2026.
Parade entry forms must be received no later than June 28th, 2016. The Entrant agrees to indemnify, defend & hold harmless the Montecito Community Foundation & the Montecito Association & sponsors of the event against any & all claims arising from personal injury, loss or property damage, resulting from the Entrant’s participation in the event. Furthermore, the Entrant agrees to refrain from throwing candy, confetti or water balloons along the parade route. No business advertisements or political signs are to be displayed. All entrants are subject to approval.
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5 On the Water Front Bob Hazard dips his toes in the topic of a desalination agreement and explores how much water Montecito needs, how much the City offers, and financial details 6 Montecito Miscellany Student Cole Evers; Four Seasons renovation; Lotusland’s global status; Dream Foundation gala; Fallen Angels; Beverley Jackson in bed; Stiletto exhibit; Jurkowitz host gala; Fund for Santa Barbara 8 Letters to the Editor Larry Bond, politically speaking; Holly Murphy, with gratitude; and Dale Lowdermilk on taxes 10 This Week Knit and crochet; Style Your Sanctuary; Summer Backyard Concert; Sunset Sips; speaking French; Art at MichaelKate reception; Kirtan at library; meditation interventions; Summer Solstice party; Mindfulness Meditation; MBAR meeting; Ukulele Jim; author Kathie Deviny; Peter Doran lecture; The New Yorker; Cub Scout Day Camp; Mary Penney Hershey at Chaucer’s; and MFPD chipping schedule 12 Village Beat Aerial Firefighting Foundation to hold a town hall meeting; Montecito Association meets about homeowners’ property corrections; and update on Miramar site 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner goes to court for the King of Spain Award; Youth and Family Services YMCA; and memories with Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation 18 The Way It Was Hattie Beresford pays tribute to Ida Borgatello, who passed away this month, with whom she met as part of a luncheon with a half-dozen elderly residents two years ago 22 Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 24 Our Town Joanne Calitri shines her spotlight on the Leading from Within program and its 17 Fellows who graduated in downtown SB 26 MAW 2016 Steven Libowitz talks with baritone Thomas Hampson before his return to Miraflores 27 On Entertainment Steven Libowitz chronicles the Live Oak Music Festival and interviews James McMurtry 32 Legal Advertising 33 Brilliant Thoughts When it comes to personal or patriotic sacrifice, Ashleigh Brilliant digs deep and points out he’d rather think about marmalade than death in the name of martyrdom 34 Calendar of Events Smooth E at Third Window Brewing; PCPA Theaterfest’s The Glass Menagerie; SB Zoo; Inspire Dance SB; Hillman and Pedersen in Carp; Johnny Irion and Sings Like Hell; Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance; and State Street Ballet 37 Open House Guide 38 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 39 Local Business Directory
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ON THE WATER FRONT
by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club
Should Montecito Sign Desalination Agreement with Santa Barbara?
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verybody knows by now that Hillary Clinton is possibly/ probably the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. I say possibly because there is still a flicker of hope that the FBI and the Justice Department will ignore the obvious intimidation emanating from the White House and do the right thing and recommend the Justice Department indict her. I say probably because the thought of a Trump win in November is sending all the nasty “rank and vile” people who have many skeletons in their closets, and the thought of the great American gravy train coming to an end, into convulsions. The first thing Hillary did on winning the nomination was set up meetings with Elizabeth Warren (she’s the one that makes Nancy Pelosi look intelligent), and the CEO of the country’s baby butcher racket, Cecile Richards. Elizabeth Warren is on the short list for the Democrat vice-presidential nomination, whether the nominee be Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. She’s expected to roll out Elizabeth as attack dog in a blistering speech about Donald Trump. The advance release on some of her planned comments appear to be loaded with some real doozies. Warren reportedly plans to call Trump a “nasty, loud, thin-skinned fraud,” who is guilty of “racism” in his attack on a federal judge. Senator Warren will no doubt completely ignore the fact that what Democrat Justice Sonia Sotomayor said was a hundred times more racist than what Trump said. Here’s her quote: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” And, “Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences... our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” (Nothing racist there, right?) She is also expected to call Trump a “thin-skinned-fraud, “but Warren herself is hardly the right messenger for calling someone a “thin-skinned fraud” for using “racism.” She is the one who fraudulently claimed Native American ancestry to further her career in leftist academia. Instead of being held accountable, she won election to the U.S. Senate. But that’s deep-blue Massachusetts
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for you; after all, the state kept re-electing Ted Kennedy. The powers that be have certainly kept us guessing in this horse race. For a while it seemed as though they were favoring Trump, but now it seems as though they are favoring Hillary again. Maybe she’s had a talk at the highest levels of government and warned them if I go you go, and with the war drums starting up again, they’ve decided to put lipstick on the pig and push her over the finish line. Only time will tell. Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Time will indeed be the deciding factor in this election year. There is no way I could ever bring myself to vote for someone as deeply corrupt as Hillary Clinton, yet, every time I begin touting the strengths of Donald Trump he comes out with a ridiculous-stupid-juvenile statement via Twitter that is, let’s just say, less than “presidential.” I’m sticking with him, but I do wish he’d let go of his Twitter account and begin convincing his skeptics that he has the temperament to be not only the U.S.’s CEO, but its commander-in-chief as well. – J.B.)
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Speaking of Taxes
As founder of NOTSAFE, I sent the following “suggestions” to your predecessor, the Montecito Life; they published it (slightly edited by MJ) in its entirety in their March 28, 1985 edition: Each year since 1913 bureaucrats have modified, simplified(?), homogenized, and brutalized taxpayers with revisions and regulations only a corporate tax lawyer could understand. This year, more people than ever are confused over the so-called “flat-tax” plans and changes in IRS procedures. In the interest of fairness and safety, our organization (NOTSAFE) would like to offer some “tax plans” that are genuinely simple (and flat!). Smart Tax: This plan would tax an individual based upon his/her IQ score. Obviously, intelligent people tend to earn more money during their lifetime and are probably taking advantage of “stupid” people. Every five years, all taxpayers would
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At almost every non-profit event in Santa Barbara, you will see Richard Mineards and Priscilla doing what they do best: writing and photographing Santa Barbara’s events for all of us to remember. I have known Richard and Priscilla for years and while their guest appearances at these events seem effortless, it’s not an easy job, to say the least. I remember both of them had to cover five events on the same night, and I was amazed that they could accomplish so much in one evening. I would like to acknowledge their hard work in our community, and their tireless efforts to cover all of Santa Barbara’s major events. It’s through Richard’s column and Priscilla’s lens that we learn about all the good works achieved in our town. Thank you so much for always being at the right place at the right time. The enthusiastic reports from Richard, and Priscilla’s event photos, are what we all look forward to each week in the Montecito Journal. Thank you Richard, Priscilla, and the Montecito Journal for all of your support and dedication to the non-
be re-tested. This plan would either balance the nation’s debt in 15 years or confirm that (as Congress has suspected for decades) we are a nation of idiots. Those with no brain waves would be exempt. Dumb Tax: Laziness, non-productivity, and “deliberate ignorance” (i.e., smart people intentionally cheating on their IQ test) damage everyone. To solve this problem and to encourage everyone to stay in college, a Dumb Tax of 30% would be placed upon those who are unable to solve a simple quadratic equation or re-wire an IBM computer. Fat Tax: Healthy people are less of a burden to society than sick people. To discourage overeating and poor physical condition, those unable to run three miles in less than 15 minutes would be fined (taxed) $500 each year. Senior citizens would only have to run two miles in less than 11 minutes, but could be encouraged to do better with electro-probe stimulation at test time. Those who are grossly overweight would be sent to sweat farms for aversion therapy and colonics. Brat Tax: Many years ago, to encourage population growth, Congress allowed deductions for children. Times shave changed, and so must our tax laws. Instead of “rewarding” parents for having
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kids, a $1,000 tax should be imposed, at birth, for each child, followed by a $500 “reminder” tax each year. This would have a cold-shower-effect (CSE) upon those planning large families. Money extracted using the Brat Tax could be used only for diaper research, overpopulation, and social awareness programs. Tramp Tax: To solve the problem of homelessness in America, homeowners can deduct up 25% of their gross income when they “adopt” transients, bag-ladies, and/or the unemployed. Wealthy landlords who refuse to participate in this humanitarian program could face public humiliation, late-night telephone calls, and imposition of the dreaded Tramp Tax, amounting to 100% of everything they own or earn. This tax has been described as “brutal” by many of its opponents but is deemed necessary by government experts. A secondary feature of the Tramp Tax would apply to churches, religious, and non-profit organizations. Failure to open their pews, doors, kitchens, and restrooms to the disadvantaged would result in loss of exempt status. Voluntary compliance with this tax will be mandatory. Pre-death Tax: Financial advantages can be gained by paying your death tax in advance; otherwise, your heirs will be facing the dreaded quadruple penalty of the PostDeath-Tax (4XPDT). The pre-death tax uses a simple formula: take your present age, multiply it by 75 (average life expectancy), divide by 39,445,920 (number of minutes in a lifetime), and add that to the calculated mass of our Milky Way Galaxy. (We’re lucky, as some galaxies are even more expensive!) The resulting number (times $2) equals the tax due prior to demise. Obviously, the sooner you pay, the younger you’ll be and the more money your relatives will save. Moon Tax: Scientists agree that the number of hours spent each year in moonlight is directly proportional to the number of babies born each year out of wedlock, except for those in the 60-to-75 age group. The Massachusetts legislature has tax revisions that include the declaration of “…underground income.” The law states that residents must
declare “…all income you receive in the form of money, goods, and services. Examples include: income from bartering or swapping transactions, side commissions, kickbacks, illegal activities (such as stealing, drugs etc.), cash skimming by proprietors and tradesmen, gambling, prizes, awards, and moonlighting.” These requirements by an elected body are truly remarkable examples of “tax evolution” and ingenuity which must be duplicated at all levels of government. Stay away from moonbeams and moonlighting… or else! Pro Tax: Don’t worry, doctors and lawyers, this one is not for you. Instead, this tax plan is designed for movie and sports professionals who are paid exorbitant salaries. Something must be done to help equalize and subsidize the “less fortunate” (a.k.a. less talented) members of these professions. All contracts for film stars and professional athletes must include a “50% clause” which will guarantee “lesser” members of the team, crew or cast receive an equal one-half share of the superstar’s yearly income, including any residuals from video fitness tapes, best-selling books, lecture fees, Lotto winnings, or “lucky” stock market investments. Tax Tax: Economist have proven that if you did not borrow any money to meet your “patriotic” obligations, you probably were not adequately taxed and a special assessment may be required. If you cannot document (to within 25¢) all expenditures for the past 10 years, a Penalty-Tax Tax of $10,000 (or two years in prison) will be levied. Eventually, everyone will realize the Tax Tax will capture even more greedy “tax slackers” than the Tramp Tax, and the world will be a better place. Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You certainly were prescient way back when, but perhaps you should update your tax plan to take into account the realities of the 21st century and include, for example a House-Flip Tax, a Minority-Majority Tax, a MeatEater Tax, a Carbon Tax Tax, a HighCholesterol Tax, Couch-Potato Tax, and, well, you’ll have better ideas. We eagerly await your update. – J.B.) •MJ
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June through September. This year brings more local wineries, more live music, more tasty treats, and more art by local artists. New this year are “The Wine Down,” post-“Sips” talks by local food and wine experts. When: 5:30 to 8 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $30 Info: www.sbzoo.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 17 French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their French language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome. When: 2 to 3 pm
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n an effort to help save lives and properties, the Aerial Firefighting Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing the destruction caused by wildfires, will hold a town hall meeting later this month at Montecito Hall. The nonprofit’s president, local architect Lawrence Thompson, founded the organization in 2011, three years after his home was saved from burning in the Tea Fire. “I owe the County’s fire helicopters a great deal for saving fifty years of architectural drawings and several collections of photos and books from a hundred foot wall of flames,” Thompson says. “One drop by a County Fire helicopter extinguished the fire next to my home on the Riviera, and what was saved was priceless.” Thompson says that blaze, and the subsequent Jesusita Fire, inspired him to get involved in bringing fire helicopter service closer to Montecito and Santa Barbara, as the County has judiciously located their helicopter base
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in the center of the county, in Santa Ynez; this location requires more than 30 minutes for the operation to reach Santa Barbara’s Mission. “Arriving on the fire scene as soon as possible is key to controlling or stopping a blaze before wind can spread the flames and their potent embers,” Thompson said. “This raises the question: ‘Why don’t we have a fire helicopter service right here to save over twenty minutes of response time?’” Working in conjunction with retired County Fire chief Mike Dyer, personnel from County Fire and CalFire, and proposed helicopter contractor IES, Thompson has a proposal for saving time in attacking fires, especially in the foothills and brush land where ground fire response is not feasible. The short-term plan includes keeping a Bell 212 helicopter at the City’s airport, with crews on duty day and night during the fire season, ready to lift off for the fire within four min-
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n impressive invitation arrived inviting us to a private decoration ceremony in the Mural Room of the Courthouse awarded by King Felipe VI of Spain to Dr. Jarrell C. Jackman. It was to be presented by ambassador Javier Vallaure, the Honorable Consul General of Spain. Jarrell, or Jerry as his friends call him, was to receive the Commander Medallion of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. The Royal Order dates back to 1815, created to recognize outstanding service and contributions to Spain. Anything Spanish is close to my heart, having lived in that country near Sevilla for seven years. I also own a document signed by that venerable matriarch, Queen Isabella. After all, she sold her jewels to sponsor Christopher Columbus and his voyage, when no one else would. The California Missions Foundation and the Courthouse Legacy Foundation of Santa Barbara sponsored the ceremony and reception. Pomp and circumstance reigned as the drums of the Presidio solda-
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dos rolled and the ceremony began. Executive director of the California Missions Foundation David Bolton welcomed everyone, saying, “This is for a man who loves history, and we’re in the historical Mural Room.” Both the Spanish anthem and ours were played. Father John Yanek gave the invocation. Son-in-law Dana Longo read the proclamation in Spanish, and Jerry’s daughter Renee read it in English. Wife Michelle was watching from the front row. After the ambassador placed the ribbon and medal-
lion around Jerry’s neck (it was a tad tight, adding some levity to the solemn occasion) our own tenor Eduardo Villa sang “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha. A goosebump moment! Jerry had innumerable people to thank, including artist Jean Davis Terrell, a 6th-generation De La Guerra and Carrillo who individually handcrafted a tile for all the guests. Then it was time to celebrate with wine and passed tapas on the Courthouse balcony. King Felipe visited Santa Barbara twice when he was
still a prince. I shook his hand and told him, “I was in Spain when your dad became King.” Perhaps we can get him back again someday. Meantime, as Jerry said that Saint Juniper Serra commanded, Adalante!
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Honorable Memories
If you want Memorial Day to be truly memorable, just go to the Santa Barbara Cemetery at 10 in the morning for a stirring ceremony put on by Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation (PCVF). About 800 of us gathered on the hillside amid 4,500 small flags on each veteran’s grave and many large flags lining the cemetery roads. Before the program, bagpipes and drum corps played.
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BGen Frederick Lopez. USMCR (Retired) welcomed everyone, followed by the Posting of the Colors with sailors from the naval base Ventura County. There was a Pledge of Allegiance, the National Anthem sung by David Gonzales and invocation by Jerry Gray. The keynote speaker was from Vandenberg Lt. Col Ryan J. Novotny, squadron commander of the 30th Civil Engineer group. He called it “a bittersweet day. We are free to enjoy all the summer events because of a few who gave their lives. Ours is an all-volunteer Army.” As President Reagan said, “Freedom is not bought cheaply.” Megan Wilson sang Amazing Grace and the wreaths were presented in honor of the Army, Air Force, Navy, coastguard and marines. The Santa Barbara choral society directed by JoAnne Wasserman sang America the Beautiful. Then came the most emotional part with a flyover of four vintage planes, first in a diamond formation and then with the “missing-man” formation where one plane flies off, and there are only three. And then “Taps” was played. All this to honor the 1.8 million who have given their lives since 1775. Memorial Day celebrations only began after the Civil War May 30, 1868. Gen. John Logan declared, “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land.” The South never acknowl-
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edged the day until after World War I. The PCVF headed up by Lt. John Blankenship, USN organized the ceremony. As John said, “It was Pierre’s wish that service people are ‘never forgotten,’” because he never forgot how the Americans rescued his family and him at age 10 at the end of World War I in Belgium. He was six when it began and he had starved. It was indeed a day of remembrance. Memorial Day is just one of many things the foundation does. The next event is a free concert in the Courthouse Sunken Garden on Monday, July 4. If you’d like to be part of the PCVF, call (805) 259 4394. •MJ
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The Way It Was
Ladies who lunched (from left) Winni Bennett, Augusta Borgatello, Ida Borgatello, Laura Borgatello, and Judy (Guitteau) Pearce
by Hattie Beresford
Lunch with the Girls
Note to readers: I had just finished writing this article about a lunch I attended two years ago with six longtime area residents, when I received word that Ida Borgatello had passed. It had been a special day for me, being invited to break bread with six respected elders, of whom Ida was one. Their life stories and their strength of character made a lasting impression, and I share the story of this day as a sort of tribute to them all. The Montecito Journal extends their heartfelt condolences to the Borgatello family for the losses they have suffered this year. (from left) Ida, Augusta, Mario, Charles, and Laura circa 1920 (Courtesy David Borgatello)
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he customary daisy tucked behind her ear, Judy Pearce picked me up in her historic sedan one morning two years ago and took me to lunch with five other local
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passion for the way it was in Santa Barbara and Montecito has remained unabated all these years, and her enthusiastic willingness to share her memories and stories has enriched this column many times. In fact, in the early days of the Montecito Journal, Judy herself wrote a column called “Montecito Scrapbook,” based on personal reminiscences and oral histories of life in Montecito. She knew and knows everybody. That day, we first drove to Winni Bennett’s adobe home. Greeted by Winni and her daughter Maria, we sat down for a chat about Winni’s incredible house. Winni’s husband, Bob, had loved Mexico and was determined that upon their marriage shortly after WWII, they would build an adobe home. From scratch! Winni’s story was recently documented in the Spring-Summer 2015 edition of Montecito Magazine. I feel honored to have met her and Maria and to have heard a portion of their story firsthand. Taking Winni with us, our next stop was Florence Dunn’s home in Mission Canyon. Florence was also a long-
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I was there to gather information about the Montecito Home Club, but, as such gatherings tend to go, the conversation flowed like an unruly cascade of a mountain stream, bouncing from rock to rock and slipping merrily into a variety of channels. All started well. The Borgatello sisters, whose brothers had formed Channel Disposal and MarBorg, remembered the Home Club well. “Too bad they did away with it,” said Ida. All throughout their school years at Montecito Union, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, the sisters would go to the Home Club in the afternoons. “For the holidays and Christmas, they always had a Christmas tree and always had gifts, and we did the usual things you do for Christmas, like singing carols,” said Ida. “And
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for Halloween, that was another party. We used to bob for apples and had caramel corn.” Laura remembered that the housemother, who lived upstairs, was named Mrs. Barrett, and that there were all sorts of activities. There was also a bowling alley inside the clubhouse and badminton and volleyball courts outside. Bounding smoothly to the next topic, Ida added, “We had dances at the Montecito Hall just about every Saturday.” At that time, the Hall was one big room and included a kitchen and dressing room and a stage. Judy remembers that Mt. Carmel School used to have their fundraising dinners there as well as the Christmas play. “The Santa Barbara Riding Club held their monthly potluck dinners at the Hall, too,” recalled Judy. Tumbling into a sharp groove of nostalgia, Ida said, “They were good days, without having cars. People’ll ask, how’d you get places – well, you walked. That was no problem. In those days, too, you didn’t have the number of cars we have now. You can hardly believe it!” Steering the topic into another conversational pool, Augusta remarked, “We’d sit there on the wall on Hot Springs Road and wait until Mr. McCormick came by.” Stanley McCormick, heir to the International Harvester fortune, owned the Riven Rock estate and suffered from a severe form of schizophrenia. “We wanted to see what kind of a man he was,” said Ida. “Two men
sat on either side of him. There were three brothers who took care of him, and one drove and the others were nurses.” Augusta said, “We were very friendly with the nurses, Margery Bailey and Margaret Keats.” “One day,” said Ida, “he was coming down the stairway and Margaret was coming by, and he took a blow at her. He didn’t hurt her, but she gave that up and went to work in the kitchen with the dietician. She was afraid to take care of him anymore.”
Slipping and Sliding through the Years
“My father came to Montecito because my mother had a brother here,” said Ida. “He was a chauffeur for some people, the Ryersons, I think. So my father was hired on as a gardener. He died during the flu epidemic of 1918, so she raised us.” Her father, Secundo Borgatello fell victim to the Spanish flu pandemic in mid-December, after the City had reopened the schools and theaters, eliminated restrictions on gatherings, and lifted quarantines and the mandatory wearing of masks in time for the holiday season. The upswing in new cases caused them to replace the restrictions in January. Judy Pearce says that Josephine Marcellina, his wife, was hospitalized with the flu as well, but she survived. Judy’s mother told her that Marcellina emerged from the hospital
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The conversation briefly gathered itself into a pool when Florence announced that lunch was ready and we had moved to the table to squeeze into our seats, before the talk roared on. “I remember my first date with a very handsome young man,” said
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Laura, “and we squeezed through the restaurant like this. I went ahead and I took every plate and glass with me. I was so embarrassed. Plates fell and silverware, and the waiter had to pick it all up and take it away. “Ah,” I said, “he didn’t abide by the two-second rule. My husband likes to believe that if something drops on the floor, if you pick it up within two seconds, everything is fine.” Judy added, “My grandmother used to cook for Mrs. Ernest Thayer, and something would drop on the floor and she’d pick it up and say, ‘Oh, well, what she don’t know won’t hurt her.’” “Once, Julia Child was on her show and cooking Thanksgiving dinner,” continued Judy, “and she took the turkey out of the oven and it fell on the floor, and this is live, so she picked it up, looked right at the camera and said, ‘Your guests will never know.’” “One story my mother told me was about a woman who was a cook in Montecito,” said Judy, “and the family for whom she worked made her stay and cook on Christmas day. Now, Mother always said that when she took a job she told them, ‘I don’t work Christmas. Expect me to work Christmas, don’t even give me the job.’ But this employer demanded that the cook stay and work. And what they’d given her for a Christmas present was a new uniform. So she stuffed the turkey with it! She set the turkey on the table and walked out the back door.” Amid howls of laughter, our conversation had arrived at its destination, and we turned our attention to the spread before us. It was a very moving day, and I’m saddened to know that as I write, now four of these lovely women have left us in the intervening two years. I hope they knew how much I enjoyed this time with them and how blessed I feel for having met them. Florence Dunn passed in May 2015, Winni Bennett in December 2015, and Laura Borgatello in January 2016 at age 100, and on June 1, Ida Borgatello left us as well. Mille grazie, anziani rispettati. Requiescant in pace. •MJ 16 – 23 June 2016
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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 10) Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Opening Reception Art at MichaelKate presents UNTETHERED: Five Abstract Artists, featuring local artists Pat Calonne, Peggy Ferris, Madeline Garrett, Julie Young, and Michele Zuzalek. Curated by Jan Ziegler. Opening reception tonight. When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 132 Santa Barbara Street Manta Lounge An evening of Kirtan at Montecito Library. When: 7 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Cost: $7 Info: 969-5063 Meditation Interventions for the Addiction Process Learn simple, pragmatic approaches to addressing addiction and addictionrelated issues. The meditations will focus on patterns of relapse: addressing the self-critical inner voice and developing a healthy sense of self. This retreat will address addictions to substances and behaviors, using both abstinence and harm-reduction models. It is ideal for people new to meditation, or for people who have a practice and are interested in using meditation to deal with addiction. Led by George Haas, who began his path with a period of lightweight spiritual seeking (and heavyduty drug and alcohol use). In 1978, he began a serious exploration of the 11th step of the 12-step tradition. In 1992, George began sitting Vipassana and is now a senior facilitator with Vipassana Support International. When: Friday, June 17, at 7:30 pm through Sunday, June 19, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: resident $365, commuter $265 Info: www.lacasademaria.org
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 Summer Solstice Party Montecito Country Mart hosts its annual Summer Solstice Party with lots of family fun, food, refreshments, and shopping deals. Where: 1016 Coast Village Road
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SUNDAY, JUNE 19 Mindfulness Meditation A half-day retreat with guided meditations from Radhule Weininger, M.D., PhD. All levels welcome. When: 2:30 to 6 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031
Style Your Sanctuary Menelli Trading Company hosts the global launch of the Sacred Wall Jewelry collection by Couture designer Amy Michelson. When: 5 pm Where: 1080 Coast Village Road Info: décor@amymichelson.com
MONDAY, JUNE 20 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. When: 2 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Ukulele Jim Gather around, kids! Ukulele Jim delivers toe-tappin’ fun for the whole family. Ages 2 to 92 will enjoy singing along to classic children’s favorites and delightful original songs in this whimsical performance. When: 10: 30 to 11:30 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 Book Reading Local author Kathie Deviny will read from her new cozy-style mystery, Death in the Memorial Garden. When: 7:15 to 8:30 pm Where: All Saints Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane Info: 969-4771
how Samuel and Deterding beat the world’s richest man at his own game. A riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuel’s rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding’s conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller’s monopoly. The beginning of the 20th century is a time when vast fortunes were made and lost. Taking readers through the rough and tumble of East London’s streets, the twilight turmoil of czarist Russia, to the halls of the British Parliament, and right down Broadway in New York City. When: check-in begins at 11:30 am Where: Fess Parker Resort, Reagan Room Cost: $40 for members, $45 for nonmembers; reservations required Info: www.channelcityclub.org Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting. When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker. When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road
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Luncheon & Lecture Channel City Club presents Peter B. Doran, vice president of Research Center for European Policy Analysis, who will speak about his book Breaking Rockefeller. In his lecture, Doran offers a richly detailed, fresh perspective on
Cub Scout Day Camp Learn about plant ID, water conservation, Native American heritage and much more, while touring the forest-like Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Also, take part in activities including archery, photography, and hiking.
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When: today, 8 am to 3 pm and tomorrow, June 25, 9 am to 3 pm Where: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road Cost: $84 for Boy Scouts, $116 for firsttime scouts, includes registration Info: peter.mcclintock@scouting.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 26 Book Signing at Chaucer’s Mary Penney Hershey is a thirdgeneration native Californian and the author of fiction for kids and young adults. Mary’s first novel, My Big Sister is so Bossy She Says You Can’t Read this Book, was selected as a Book of the Week in The Washington Post Kid’s Post. Ms Hershey says that writing for children is the fulfillment of a life’s dream, and beats her other dream of being locked in a Ben & Jerry’s factory for a three-day weekend. She credits a band of grammar-compulsive nuns, generous mentors, and the luck of the Irish for her success in publication. Hershey holds a master’s degree in counseling & guidance from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and is a certified personal coach. When she is not composing lengthy book titles, she works for the Department of Veteran Affairs as an administrative officer. She can be found trailing her bliss all over Santa Barbara, where she lives. When: 2 pm Where: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State Street Info: 682-6787
ONGOING Montecito Fire Protection District’s Fire Prevention Chipping Schedule Week of June 20: Sierra Vista, Nicholas, Ridge View, Canyon View, Sycamore Vista, Calle Elegante, Calle Hermosa, Crest View, Ranchito Vista Vines, grass, palms, succulents, and other small trimmings can be put in dumpsters that have been donated by MarBorg Industries. The dumpsters are placed at pre-identified locations within the participating neighborhoods during the week of the project. Participants are asked to stack larger shrub and tree limb materials at the edge of the nearest passable access road for free chipping. For more information, call 565-8018. •MJ
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A helicopter similar to this style is being proposed for use as an additional firefighting measure during wild land fires (photo by Alan K. Radecki)
utes of notification from the County Sheriff’s dispatch and the State’s alert system. A truck loaded with helicopter fuel and more than 1,000 gallons of water will be available to proceed toward the fire area and allow refueling on a truck mounted platform, with rotor blades still turning – an operation not allowed at the airport and thus saving precious minutes before returning the shorter distance to the fire. “This idea is not new with large farming operations, however, but is new regarding fire helicopter operations,” Thompson says, adding that the truck mounted platform would require approvals from the FAA and CalFire. The long-term plan is to build a heliport closer to Santa Barbara and Montecito, and Thompson says he is in negotiation with four suitable properties. “This will create the most time-effective location for the area overall, north of the area between Santa Barbara and Montecito. Several locations are being developed, which can allow the launch site to move quickly to the west or east to create more support during fire events closer to these sites,” he said. According to Thompson, the Bell 212 helicopter will allow firefighters to be airlifted into the fire area if authorized by County Fire, and County Fire chief Eric Peterson has issued a letter in support of the project and has followed up with helpful operational information. Because the County does not have the resources to fund the project, funding will come from private sources. The nonprofit is seeking to raise
$1.85 million to provide service for the remainder of this year, and $2.4 million to provide service for six months of high fire season next year. Thompson uses the statistic that 1,100 homes on the south coast have been destroyed by fire in the last 50 years, which is an average of 22 homes per year. “If we could save even half these homes, a $2.4 million cost per year seems quite reasonable,” he said. One individual has pledged $250,000 each of four years if matched by other donations on the same basis, and the project is supported in concept by The Riviera and Montecito Property Owners Associations, First District supervisor Salud Carbajal, Goleta councilman and former fireman Michael Bennett, and County Fire. The town hall forum to further discuss this idea will be held on Thursday, June 30, at 7 pm, at 1469 East Valley Road. Attending will be CalFire’s Aviation director, former fire marshal Don Oaks, and the proposed Operation director David Baskett of IES. The meeting will end with questions from, and answers to, the audience. For more information, Thompson can be reached at 962-2236 or email medesign@verizon.net.
Montecito Association Meets
At a special Montecito Association (MA) board of directors meeting on June 9, Montecito Fire chief Chip Hickman reported that hazard abatement notices have already been sent to homeowners, letting residents know if there are corrections required on
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which are coming up on July 4. We’ll have much more on the Village Fourth in upcoming editions. The next Montecito Association meeting is Tuesday, July 12.
Miramar Making Progress
According to Evan Krenzien, vice president of development for Caruso Affiliated, crews have begun importing dirt onto the 16-acre Miramar site; an official groundbreaking ceremony is expected in the coming weeks. Scheduled to open for business in the summer of 2018, the Miramar project entails 200,000 square feet of development on the now vacant site, including a main building with a ballroom and conference facilities, a screening room, children’s center, back-of-house areas, meeting rooms, and a spa, as well as a beach club, two pools, two restaurants, and a beach bar, 168 guest rooms, and new landscaping, a sound wall, and four employee dwellings. The project also includes abandonment of the northsouth segment of Miramar Avenue and relocation of a private access easement. The hotel will be managed by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, as the hotelier ’s third property in California. •MJ EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS
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continues to be a generous supporter of the programs and mission of Leading From Within. The 18-month leadership education dedicates itself to the importance of training young leaders to be better volunteers, donors, and board members to effectively engage themselves in issues and organizations important to them and to our Santa Barbara County communities. Instructors for the program are Carrie Randolph, Leading From Within executive director, and Jim Morouse, Leading From Within board member and Santa Barbara Foundation chairman, Board of Trustees. Jim gave the Commencement Speech at the graduation and his words resounded clearly to both the grads and attendees, “Every day, we have a choice. My wish for this wonderful cohort of leaders follows this mantra: where some people choose indifference, I choose compassion,
where some people choose partisanship, I choose leadership, and where some people choose isolation, I choose community. Fellows come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. They become part of the dynamic network of social change leaders making our communities a better place to live for everyone. Over the past nine months, the Fellows have been exposed to local experts, reviewed best practices on a national level and have had interaction with specialists and coaches in their project areas. The Katherine Harvey Fellow 2016 graduates are: Brianna Aguilar, executive assistant & Financial Literacy coordinator Montecito Bank & Trust; Brennan de Raad, VP of Finance, Legal & HR ShipHawk; David Duron, National Sales manager of Toad&Co.; Nadra Ehrman, community manager of The Towbes Group; Ryan Emmons founder and CEO Waiakea Springs, Inc.; Heather Hawley interim communications director All Saints ByThe-Sea; Kiah Jordan principal Jordan Advisors; Jessica McLernon, manager, Business Services and Special Projects County of Santa Barbara; Maritza Mejia-Wilson assistant director, Orientation and Parent Programs UCSB; Dawn Mitcham CPA, CFO Pacific Capital Resources, LLC; Jorge Morales wealth advisor Montecito Bank & Trust; Ashley Newman Consultant Perfect Plan; Nohemy Ornelas, vice president, Student Services Allan Hancock College; Sujana Patel global digital marketing specialist, Sonos; Danielle QuinonesOrtega, assistant director, Leadership Development & First-Year Programs at UC Santa Barbara; Molly Seguel director of admissions, Marymount School; and Tracy York, senior product engineer, HG Data. •MJ
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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.
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Baritone Returns to His Musical Roots
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merican lyric baritone Thomas Hampson has performed worldwide in major opera houses and music halls, played scores of iconic roles, and delivered recitals that captivate for his creatively constructed programs explore connections between eras and approaches. He’s an expert both in German Romantic song and tunes from our own country where his “Song of America” collaboration with the Library of Congress has proven extraordinarily popular and important. The fact that Hampson studied as a teenager here at the Music Academy of the West (MAW) has never been lost on the singer. Hampson makes his latest return to Miraflores early in the new summer festival, where he’ll perform in recital in Hahn Hall with pianist Tamara Sanikidze on Wednesday night, June 23 (7:30 pm; $55) and teach the vocal masterclass at the same venue two days later (3:15 pm; $20). Excerpts from a much longer interview conducted via phone from Austria and email/digital recording from San Francisco: Q. How did you come to be an opera singer? You were already late into your teens when the idea came up, right? A. I was passionate about music, and had been encouraged to develop it, but mine wasn’t a musical family. I’d been studying political science in Spokane, Washington, with a very different trajectory to my life. My (music) teacher there had studied at the Music Academy with Lotte Lehmann, who was my idol. It was that first summer there that was a significant, life-changing experience. I’d never been around kids my age with more talent and ambition than I had. I was a total Pygmalion. It was truly unbelievable to me. The work I did that summer and as hard as I did – to get the Lotte Lehmann leader award and the encouragement and invitation to return the next summer – it was huge for me. It opened up a kind of permission to actually find out what this musical classical operatic world was about. From that point on, it became more and more of a passion. So in some ways my voice discovered me. It really did work like that. And honest to God, it started in Santa Barbara. You were back here a few years ago as a Distinguished Alumnus. How have the changes on campus struck you?
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ing, but once I’m finally out there, I’m inviting everyone to come into my world. So I feel more in my zone once I’m out on stage. I was terrified when I was 23 years old at MAW singing for Martial Singher. It was an incredible challenge and made me dig deeper than I’ve ever dug before. What got me through was that my preparation, my sense of discipline – self-preservation if you will – was on par. That’s the first thing any teacher worth their salt wants from a young singer. Whatever I wasn’t able to do and what perspective I didn’t have, I made up with enormous amounts of passion and enthusiasm and willingness to take instruction.
Baritone and former MAW student Thomas Hampson returns to Miraflores
Anytime you walk around an alma mater, things are just different. I remember being petrified in certain rooms. It’s hallowed and the memories are still there for me. I remember walking into Lehmann Hall and feeling the presence of this grand lady. The first time I sang on stage there, I was absolutely terrified. Maybe I’m not quite so scared anymore. But it’s a very special place. Do you still get nervous before performances? I do. Everyone does. It’s part of life. You need to respect the public arena. Actual nervousness is usually only if I don’t feel I have had enough time to prepare... I think one of the reasons young artists are preoccupied with stage fright is because they go out on stage thinking they are there to prove themselves, or to garner approval from the audience. The assumption is the great public with a capital P knows more about what you’re doing than you do. If you go out with that kind of energy of singing at an audience or trying to convince them of something, you probably will be very nervous. (For me), those last 10 minutes before I step on stage are very nerve-wrack-
When I’ve attended MAW masterclasses, the coaches always seem to tell the singers to imagine what the composer and/or lyric writer was feeling, his intent, the situation of their lives, and the moment. How much do you still do that for yourself? That’s the alpha and omega of singing. It’s not about me. It’s always about what I’m singing (whether) opera or song. It’s one of the reasons why recitals are less popular these days. We’ve become distracted by celebrity. It’s a difficult environment to invite people to concentrate on their own existence, their own landscape of their life. And that’s what recital is about. When I teach, I enjoy getting young colleagues to focus on this triangle of effort between understanding what it is and in minute detail how it’s constructed, and the physicality, the athleticism which is underestimated by the public what it takes to actually sing classical music. There are rules you need to pay attention to, and it’s directly related to the soul of the piece you sing. The job is to keep those things in play with each other. I’m struck by this concept of inviting the audience to focus on their own existence. How do you achieve that? What I’m saying is I’m not trying to present you with something. I’m making a context of music and poetry audible. I’m there to make this world of thought, tone, and word audible. All I can do is that. I want the public to take that journey with me, give them as many inroads as possible, be the door to their experience. If we make the world of poetry in the language called music realizable, people will find
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roads into a deeper understanding of themselves. It’s inevitable. That’s the beauty and wonder of the repertoire. How do you know you’ve succeeded in a concert, both for you and the audience? I can’t know that. I can only measure my relationship to what I can do. I can sometimes be very unhappy with myself and yet know that the evening was a success. I want the audience to be enlivened in their own imagination because of what they’re hearing – not that I’m singing it. The content as a moment of reflection of who we are as human beings is the overriding worthiness of anything we do in classical music. That’s the whole point. If what I’ve sung has opened up connections and possibilities, if there’s a quiet in the hall, a few seconds held in silence after a piece is over because people are moved, those are special moments. Your recital here is being billed as a tribute to the faculty: Lotte Lehmann, Martial Singher, Marilyn Horne. It’s my personal tribute to three most important singer-pedagogues of the history in my lifetime at the academy. I also wanted to reflect the different centers of gravity of these three major personalities, the German, French, and American, and examine the universality of repertoire in an educational experience. I do know these songs very well and I love them. In a masterclass, how do you find the balance between teaching the student and entertaining the audience? I’m not very focused on the audience. I try not to get too direct in communicating with them (because) classes are more interesting when the public feels like observers of a work session. They get to participate in what it is we do as artists working with each other in a learning situation. My concentration is really on the student. There is the old adage of we teach best what we need to learn most: how does teaching help you in your singing and approach to music? I always feel that I sing better having been teaching simply because all of us, regardless of our experience, must pay attention to basics. Keeping your thoughts as simple as possible, and having articulated either as student or teacher, how you approach a work, is very healthy. It definitely benefits me. For more information and tickets, call 969-8787 or visit www.musicacademy. org. •MJ 16 – 23 June 2016
On Entertainment by Steven Libowitz
McMurtry’s Resolve Strong as Oak
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he Live Oak Music Festival seems to be returning to its roots as a haven for singer-songwriters and such this year. Sure, there are the brass bands and guitar, and some world music ensembles sprinkled in the schedule for this year ’s festival, which takes place over Father ’s Day weekend up at the campground near Lake Cachuma. But the slate is dominated by the likes of Jay Farrar – the old Uncle Tupelo bandmate of Wilco mastermind Jeff Tweedy – out on the road celebrating the 20th anniversary of his band Son Volt. There’s Sarah Jarosz, the young Texas singer-songwriter who already has four albums to her name, as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album; Oakland’s quirky harmony-hero T Sisters; and the Santa Barbara born and bred Rainbow Girls; with Wynonna Judd, the country superstar always as respected as much for her songs as anything else, serving as curtain closer on Sunday night.
Still, none might represent the genre like James McMurtry. His set even comes smack in the middle of the festival, early evening on Saturday, the table setter for a night of raucous music and dancing. The 54-year-old son of the the famous author Larry (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain) talked while he was on the road driving from St. Louis to Kansas City, part of the seemingly endless tour he has been on for the past two decades or so. Indeed, our talk was paused twice while he consulted the map to find the right exits. Here are brief excerpts: Q. How was it to be raised in a literary environment? A. I didn’t read. My father learned to write prose form being a voracious reader, but I didn’t care anything about the printed page. He made his living mostly as a creative writing teacher, because his novels didn’t yet sell enough. So I read out-
door magazines and gun magazines. Even now, I read maybe one novel a year. Sometimes I skip a year. You do share something of a spare style and lack of sentimentality with him. Yeah, we have a similar knack for details. I heard him tell a lot of stories orally. He was one of the last generation that would finish supper and go out on the porch and sit around and talk about dead people and other stories. I’d hear him talk and notice the things that he focused on, and maybe I focus on similar things. I’m sure some of it rubbed off. So much of what your dad wrote was influenced by Texas. Do you feel the same pull? Anywhere I go is an influence. I get a lot of the songs just from what I see through the windshield on the road. Case in point might be “South Dakota” on the new record. I’ve barely been there, but we drive all around the plains, and up and down. Seems like in most of these little towns there’s a banner strung up, “Welcome home” to somebody from the war. Because there’s more people than jobs. When I write, I just have a few
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lines and a melody come up, then I wonder who might have said those words. I didn’t start out to write a song about a soldier. But that’s what came out of the detail about what we see. You seem to be taken with themes of despair around the failure of the American dream. Why does that resonate for you? It’s the human condition. We age and life doesn’t turn out as we expected. But sometimes it’s pretty good anyway. Even if the characters are despairing, there’s a resilience within. They’re not going away. I’m not overtly political, but I do try to weave social commentary. I try to remind people every now and then about what’s going on. I don’t get too far into the right and wrong because I don’t know. Nobody knows. But there has got to be a discussion. (The Live Oak Music Festival takes place Friday, June 17, through Sunday at Live Oak Camp, 4600 Highway 154. Tickets cost $65 for a day pass to $130 for the full weekend, with discounts for children. A full schedule and lots of information about camping and other activities is available online. Call 7813030 or visit www.liveoakfest.org.) •MJ
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) al sports team for this honor and, aside from a few postcards confirming receipt of his submission, we had no luck. “But, just last week, we got a call from a very kind woman in the Windy City who said there had been a cancellation and would Cole like to sing the National Anthem at Wrigley Field on July 18. Cole confirmed immediately and will be performing for the largest audience of his career.” Last fall, Janet asked the youngster to join an equally talented group of singers to record “Sorridi Amore Vai” from the film Life is Beautiful on Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s album Cinema. Cole learned the song in both Spanish and Italian and was featured singing both melody and harmony when the album was recorded at EastWest Studios in Hollywood in the same room the late Michael Jackson recorded Thriller, Elvis Presley filmed his 1968 comeback special, and Frank Sinatra sang “My Way” and “New York, New York”. Cole’s group was then asked by multi Grammy Award-winner David Foster to sing live with the blind songmeister at the Dolby Theater, just a tiara’s toss away, for the taping of the Thirteen Great Performances TV special on PBS. Besides working with Foster and Bocelli, Cole was able to meet several
presenters, including John Travolta, Andy Garcia, and Nicole Scherzinger. Cole, who I last wrote about in this illustrious organ two years ago, has now completed 30 auditions and call backs for Broadway shows in New York. “He trains very hard with very demanding coaches in Manhattan and is now called to audition with a very select group of extremely talented boys,” says Scott. “He has made it to the ‘final two’ several times, and it’s always fun to hear your agent say ‘Whatever you do, don’t leave town!’” No matter what happens on the Great White Way, Cole’s confidence and ability impresses all who see him. On a single day last December, he had second auditions for both The King and I – working with 2015 Tony Award best actress winner Kelli O’Hara – and the lead child role in School of Rock. His times were only 45 minutes apart, meaning that in less than an hour, Cole performed as a proper 1860s British schoolboy living in Siam and then dashed 11 blocks into a crowded music store in Times Square for a quick warmup on lead guitar and drums, while donning a leather jacket and coolly aced his audition on borrowed equipment accompanied by a live rock band. Cole, whose ever-encouraging mother, Monique, died in February
after a valiant six-year battle with breast cancer, has taken a break from New York and Los Angeles casting. but recently shot Nerris Nassiri’s movie Charlie and the Baker, about an orphan boy who meets a recent widower, with both reconciling losses through empathy and the magical power of music, beating out dozens of other applicants, with Nassiri describing him as “a director’s dream.” The independent film is being screened in L.A. this summer and submitted for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Clearly, a seventh-grader destined for the big time. Seasons Change Montecito hotelier Ty Warner is hitting the roof! The Beanie Baby billionaire, who owns the San Ysidro Ranch and the Biltmore, is undertaking a major renovation of the ornately decorated ceilings at the Four Seasons property across from Butterfly Beach. “We started on the project more than one year ago to apply period specific stenciled patterns on many of the existing ceilings throughout the common areas,” says the tony hostelry’s publicist, Daniel Howard. “This work has been continually worked on by a team of artisans for the past 12 months, in many cases including multiple crews with overlapping schedules, working 24 hours a day.” Work is now nearing completion this month in the sprawling lobby, following renovation in the Ty Lounge for three months, and last fall the areas around the Bella Vista restaurant were completed. “Design inspiration came from the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, several Reginald Johnson residential estates, a few notable structures in Europe, and even the owner’s home in Montecito, a Venetian-inspired estate,” says Daniel. “Ownership created the final design colors and patterns in collaboration with Darin Ward and his team of craftsmen and include dozens of patterns, contrasting colors, and 24-carat gold leaf detailing. All finishes are presented glazed and treated to create
Newly restored ceiling in the Biltmore lobby
the timeless, antique quality of a finish applied over 100 years prior.” Several million dollars have been spent so far with more to follow as other areas, such as banquet rooms and exterior wood elements, get the artisans treatment starting this fall. Year of the Lotus Lotusland, the 37-acre gardening oasis founded by opera singer Ganna Walska with more than 3,000 plants from around the globe, is officially one of the top ten gardens in the world. Top horticulturist Christopher Bailes, a judge at London’s esteemed Chelsea Flower Show, which took place last month with most of the Royal Family, including Queen Elizabeth in attendance, has written up his Top 10 list in the venerable Daily Telegraph with Lotusland a creditable fourth in the rankings after the Singapore Botanical Gardens, the Pukeiti Gardens in Taranaki, New Zealand, and Giverny in France, home of the late impressionist artist Monet, who regularly painted the lilies in his Japanese-inspired water garden. “A fantasy of remarkable set pieces of design and planting quite unlike any other garden,” Bailes gushes about Lotusland. “The living architecture of palms and succulents is juxtaposed with exotic hard landscaping using a remarkable range of materials from volcanic scoria to green glass diamonds and abalone shells. It is theatrical both in intent and in execution.” Other gardens picked for the list are the Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, Tresco Abbey Gardens in the
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Isles of Scilly, U.K., Great Dixter in Sussex, England, Mount Stewart in Northern Ireland, and the Royal Horticultural Society Gardens in Torrington, Devon, England. Gwen Stauffer, Lotusland’s executive director, describes the ranking as “an extraordinary distinction.” “As the first of only two North American gardens to make the list, we are honored to be placed among some of the world’s greatest public gardens. “Lotusland’s vision is to be renowned internationally and treasured locally. We want every Santa Barbara resident to experience this amazing botanical treasure, and we thank all who help us steward the garden for this community, as well as the world.” Dream Team
featured designs by Catherine Gee, Jenni Kayne, and Miller’s Oath, while singer-songwriter Cody Lovaas entertained on guitar. Invitees noshed on fare from the Wildwood Kitchen and quaffed libations from the Potek Winery and the Third Window Brewery, with sweets from Cali Dolce Gourmet Desserts and cookies from the Himovitz familly. Among those turning out for the fashion and fun were Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Chris Lancashire, Kenny and Elizabeth Slaught, Justine Roddick, Luke Ebbin, Alan and Anne Sides, Eric and Nina Philips, Craig Springer, Heather Hambleton, Danielle Rocha, Mara Abboud, Bilo Zarif, Ricardo Calderon, Tanya Thicke, and Ali Ahlstrand. Blue Star Parking donated its services. 2nd Summer Dream Runway Fashion Show committee team: Heather Hambleton; Jacques Habra; Kisa Heyer, CEO Dream Foundation; and chair Arlene Montesano with displayed Tesla cars in background (photo by Priscilla)
Dream Foundation hosted its second annual sold-out Summer Dream and fashion show at The Mill, our tony town’s new artisan marketplace on East Haley, with 250 Fashionistas helping raise $30,000 for the popular non-profit, which will benefit terminally ill adults aged 18 to 40, which make up 20 percent of those wanting dreams fulfilled. Emceed by KEYT-TV’s chief meteorologist Alan Rose, the fashion fest, chaired by Arlene Montesano,
Rising Angels To mark the end of its current critically acclaimed season, the Ensemble Theatre Company staged Noel Coward’s comedy Fallen Angels, written when he was only 26 and the first production by the urbane Englishman in nearly two decades with the tony troupe. The 1920s-style New Vic production, directed by Andrew Barnicle with striking costume design by Dianne K. Graebner, stars Paige Lindsey White
Top center is Santa Barbara designer, model, and event sponsor Catherine Gee in her studio surrounded by Runway Models (photo by Priscilla)
Comfortably inside the prized 18th-century Wedding Bed is Petra with her father, Paul Schurch, and Beverley Jackson (photo by Priscilla)
J. Paul Boehmer, Julie Granata, and Paige Lindsey White (photo by David Bazemore)
and Julie Granata, with Joseph Fuqua and Matthew Floyd Miller as their respective golf-playing passionless husbands, and J. Paul Boehmer as the amorous French former lover. But Mary-Pat Green is a standout as the cigarette-smoking, piano-playing maid while the wives get increasingly drunk as the day progresses and their husbands are off playing the links in Chichester, a lengthy drive from their London flat. This heavenly and delightfully risqué production, which has attracted many larger-than-life comic actresses over time, including Tallulah Bankhead, Hermione Gingold, Hermione Baddeley, and Nancy Walker, hits the romantic nail firmly on the head with a script as sparkling as the champagne the gals are imbibing. It also marks the 10th anniversary of the talented Jonathan Fox as Ensemble’s executive artistic director. Congratulations all round. Strange Bedfellows Society doyenne Beverley Jackson and I have been in bed together many times during my nine years in our
rarefied enclave. But before this news causes vexatious ripples at the Valley Club, I would explain the bed in question, an 18th-century model from Shanghai, has been used as her dining room in her Montecito home by the beach for more than three decades. Now the ornate piece of furniture, which, even after 11 visits to China, Beverley ended picking up at a Summerland antiques shop, is being dismantled, appropriately enough by the same man, Paul Schurch, who erected it more than 30 years ago. “Everybody has joined me in the bed,” laughs Beverley. “Julia Child, Kirk and Anne Douglas, bold-faced names galore.” But it seems that age has now caught up with the octogenarian socialite’s dinner guests, with many having had new knees and hips that make negotiating dinner in the bed, which, if rumor is true, used to grace a Chinese whorehouse, quite a trial, and it is being dismantled. To mark the occasion, Beverley, dressed in a full-length, green, silk Chinese tunic with a faux giant pearl necklace, hosted a farewell bash for the piece of fascinating furniture for more than 100 guests, including my Journal colleague Erin Graffy, who recited an ode to the bed which would have made John Keats proud. “It’s very sad, but needs must,” laments Beverley, as she sashayed round her home chatting to the invited throng, including Richard and Annette Caleel, Jamie and Marcia Constance, Michael and Ceil
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The City also invested in the State Water program. How Much Water Does Montecito Need? MWD currently delivers almost 4,000 acre feet per year (AFY) to its roughly 4,500 Montecito and Summerland metered customers. That’s down from water sales in pre-rationing days of 6,000 to 6,800 AFY. With its recent purchase of 5,000 AF of imported water from the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency (AVEK), MWD has enough water at present demand rates to service its customers through the 2nd or 3rd quarter of 2019, according to Nick Turner, MWD general manager. How Much Water Has the City Offered? Current permits for the City desal plant allow for the production of up to 10,000 AFY of desalinated water. The reactivated plant, scheduled to open this November, will operate at a production capacity of only 3,125 AFY, or 31% of its allowable 10,000 AFY. The City of Santa Barbara is offering MWD a “take-or-pay” opportunity to buy 1,250 AF of water every year for the next 20 years. Take or pay means MWD must pay, even if it takes no water. The 1,250 AFY of City water
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sold to MWD would supply a reliable 31% of the 4,000 AFY supply need for MWD, rain or no rain. What Will be the Cost of Desalinated Water? The proposed agreement with the City of Santa Barbara would obligate MWD to pay the City of Santa Barbara for a still-to-be-negotiated cost per AF. Without partnership or decision rights, the amortized capital costs and the ongoing maintenance and operating costs will be converted into a negotiated price per AF. Last year, the City estimated that the annual amortized cost of capital for the desal plant, plus annual maintenance and operating costs, would be roughly $2,400 per AF for City ratepayers. City water officials have promised the City’s mayor and city council that Montecito will not be offered a subsidized price less than what city customers pay for desal water. How Will the Negotiated Price Be Calculated? The City argues that the production capacity of its desal plant will be 3,125 AF per year. Therefore, if Montecito wants 1,250 AFY, or 40% of that 3,125 AFY capacity, it should pay 40% of the cost of reactivating and operating the desal plant, or the equivalent of $22 million of the $55 million invested by the City. Where Will the City Water Sold to Montecito Come from? The City holds the winning hand. The City may obtain the water sold to MWD from any source of its choice. This year, for example, the City could meet its commitment to MWD via its own purchase of 4,000 AF of imported supplemental water from the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency (AVEK) at $250 per AF. They could then sell 1,250 AF of their 4,000 AF of AVEK water to MWD for $2,400 an AF, or nearly 10 times its procurement cost. The City would make a tidy profit
of $2,150 per AF, or close to $3 million per year. If repeated in wet or normal rainfall years, the City would generate a profit of $60 million over the 20-year life of the agreement, or a recovery of nearly 100% of its capital costs for the desal plant. Montecito would still not be a partner, nor have any voice in any plant expansion, or other future desal decisions. What Other Costs Would MWD Pay? The City’s proposal to MWD mandates that MWD pay 100% of the cost of a pipe and pump system to deliver desal outflow up to the South Coast pipeline that connects Lake Cachuma to South Coast cities. The still-to-be-negotiated cost of conveyance has been estimated to be as low as $6 to $7 million, or as high as $14 to $20 million, according to MWD board president Dick Shaikewitz. Once the trench on city property to lay the pipeline is dug, the City wants the right to install its own pipeline in the same trench for its own future use, while MWD pays 100% of the trenching expense. What is the Term of a “Take It or Pay” Agreement with the City? The City suggests a 20-year agreement with an MWD payment guarantee that includes recourse to its ratepayers if MWD defaults. Deliveries would start two years after signing the agreement. MWD favors a 20-year initial term, with renewable options for as long as the plant is operable. MWD suggests a delivery need for 800 AFY starting in November 2017, going to the full 1,250 AF in November 2018, with an option to increase supply to 2,500 AF per year, if needed. Will Modular Expansion of the Desal Plant Lower Per AF Costs? City permits allow for the expansion of the desal plant from its initial 3,125 AF production capacity up to 10,000 AF. The initial 3,125 AFY capacity utilizes three trains of
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reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, each capable of filtering 1,250 AF of desalinated seawater into potable drinking water. Expanding the plant by another 1,250 AFY requires only the addition of a fourth train of membranes. Therefore, MWD can legitimately argue that the real added cost to the City to service Montecito’s needs is only the cost of one additional train module, and that MWD should be charged that cost alone. Modular expansion can be repeated in increments of 1,250 AF per train to take the plant up to a capacity of 10,000 AFY, if needed. A larger capacity plant lowers the per AFY cost, a benefit to both MWD and City customers. For example, expanding the plant to 7,500 AFY capacity drops the estimated cost of desal water from a projected $2,400 AFY to a much more reasonable and affordable $1,500 AFY for all participants. Unfortunately, all that future cost reduction benefit flows to the City with none to Montecito, another consequence of surrendering MWD’s former partnership position. MWD Use of Water Obtained from the City The much more expensive desal water would be the first water used by MWD ratepayers because MWD pays for the water whether it takes it or not. This differs from the City’s choice, where much more expensive desal water is their last choice to be used in the case of a prolonged and serious drought. How Would a City Desal Agreement Affect Montecito Ratepayers? While the deal with the City is still being negotiated, the only certainty is that consultants and lawyers will get richer and ratepayers will get poorer. The conceptual framework for a deal is in place. It is not unreasonable to speculate that water rates in Montecito may again have to be raised substantially to pay for the new desal arrangement with the City. Alternatives to a City Desal Purchase If MWD is unable to cut a cost-effective deal with the City of Santa Barbara, there are several fallbacks. Director Newman mentioned three: cut a deal with Montecito Sanitary to use 750 AF of recycled wastewater for irrigation; cut a deal with the Central Coast Water Authority to buy more excess State Water from districts such as AVEK; and buy imported water from rice farmers and bank it outside the district.
Friday’s special board meeting was a request from Josh Haggmark, Water Resources manager for the City of Santa Barbara, who attended the meeting to field board and audience questions. To continue negotiations with the City, which have been ongoing for almost a year, the City requires payment from MWD in the amount of $193,594 as “pay-to-play” money to reimburse the City for the added time and expenses the City incurs related to meetings with MWD’s two board
representatives and its team of advisors and consultants. The final “payto-play” bill for City reimbursements could go to $600,000 or higher, reports board president Shaikewitz. An MWD board motion to approve the initial roughly $200,000 expense passed 5 to 0. This sum will be added to the nearly $1 million in MWD expenditures for consultant’s and attorney’s fees paid-to-date to study desal options. Negotiations for terms and conditions for a Water Supply Agreement (WSA)
with the City are expected to take at least an additional three to five months to resolve. Desalinated water is the ultimate backstop for long-term water security in the event of severe and extended drought to preserve and protect Montecito’s $9.5 billion investment in residential real estate, so some kind of agreement must be reached, and as indicated above, the sooner a resolution is found the less money MWD and its ratepayers will have to put out. •MJ
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5430
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5430 for the WASTEWATER MAIN REHABILITATION AND POINT REPAIRS FY16 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, June 30, 2016, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Wastewater Main Rehabilitation and Point Repairs FY16, Bid No. 5430". The work generally includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a sewer main rehabilitation and repair project. The work includes and is not limited to the repair of damaged sanitary sewer main pipelines utilizing traditional open trench excavation methods (point repairs); trenchless repair methods (spot lining and top hats); rehabilitate 6-inch, 8-inch, 14-inch, and 15-inch diameter sanitary sewer main pipelines utilizing cured-in-place pipe liner (CIPP), folded and formed PVC pipe liner, and/or spiral-would pipe liner methods; perform pre-rehabilitation and pre-repair sewer main cleaning; pre- and post-rehabilitation and repair CCTV inspections per PACP standards, as outlined in the project contract documents, complete and in place. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, and traffic control. The Engineer’s estimate is $700,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for 10 am on Wednesday June 22, 2016 at 630 Garden Street, Public Works Main Conference Room. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at 46TSantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard46T. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Philip Maldonado, Supervising Engineer, 805-564-5486. In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: 46TSantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard46T. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. January 1, 2016: The call for bids and contract documents must include the following information: •
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No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)]. No contractor or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded on or after April 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.
The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simple Pleasures Salon and Spa, 446 Alisal Road, Suite #B, Solvang, CA 93463. Michael Leonard White, 7670 SW Spruce Street #B, Tigard, OR 97223. Nanette Marie White, 7670 SW Spruce Street #B, Tigard, OR 97223. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 18, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Marlene Ashcorn. FBN No. 2016-0001468. Published June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): SBB Gourmet Catering; SBB Gourmet Catering Group; SBBGCG; SBB Catering, 1917 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. SBBBQ, LLC, 1917 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 1, 2013. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler, filed June 7, 2016. Original FBN No. 2013-0003337. Published June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Earth & Sky; Earth & Sky Nature School, 277 Oak Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Juliette Lefevre, 277 Oak Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 12, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001412. Published June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zip Kleen, 1998 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Soon Sik Tansen, 142 Loureyro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 6, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E.
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Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001665. Published June 15, 22, 29, July 6, 2016.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0001589. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Club Natale Management Company, 351 Rosemead Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. T.J. Natale, 351 Rosemead Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 31, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0001588. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Godinez Photography, 3905 State St. Suite 7-402, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Braulio Godinez, 3905 State St. Suite 7-402, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Laura Godinez, 3905 State St. Suite 7-402, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2016-0001637. Published June 8, 15, 22, 29, 2016.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Top Notch Recordings; Track Martians Music Group, 545 El Bosque Road Unit H, Montecito, CA 93108. Eddie C. Jones Jr., 11109 Otsego Apt 304, North Hollywood, CA, 91601. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 31, 2016. 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.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M.W.P. CO.; Marko Enterprises, 1221 State Street #90859, Santa Barbara, CA 93190. Mark R. Swearingen, 1700 E. Thompson Blvd #F-670, Ventura, CA 93001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 16, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5462 DUE DATE & TIME: July 7, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Hidden Valley Neighborhood Street Light Maintenance & Repair Scope of Work requires troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and replacement, of existing street lighting circuitry including, but not limited to: underground conduit, circuit wiring, metering equipment, trenching, and street light repair. A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 23, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., at Hidden Valley neighborhood, meet at the corner of Modoc Road and Ferrara Way, by Providence School, 3723 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara, CA. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C10 Electrical Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 15, 2016 General Services Manager Montecito Journal
that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001449. Published May 25, June 1, 8, 15, 2016. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Girl Gang Production, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Ashley Chanel White, 550 N. La Cumbre, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 20, 2016. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001489. Published May 25, June 1, 8, 15, 2016. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02252. To all interested parties: Petitioner Zachary David Fisher filed a petition with Superior Court of California,
County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Zachary David Impossible. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 7, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 3, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02141. To all interested parties: Petitioner Salatiel Abrajan Chavez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sally Abrajan. The
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5463 DUE DATE & TIME: July 6, 2016 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Landscape Maintenance at Cater Treatment Plant A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 29, 2016 at 9:00 a.m., at Cater Water Treatment Plant, located at 1150 San Roque Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. In the event of a conflict between Santa Barbara Living Wage and the California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Rates, Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two classification rates. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.
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Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 23, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: July 27, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02325. To all interested parties: Petitioner Alexis Renee Zamora filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Gia Renee Belivier. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court
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at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 7, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 10, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/15, 6/22, 6/29, 7/6 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01976. To all interested parties: Petitioner Melissa Alexa Valtri Silver filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Melissa Alexa Vanara . The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of
name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 20, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: July 13, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 6/29 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV01990. To all interested parties: Petitioner Tina Benevento filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Summer McGinnis. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 9, 2016 by Jessica Vega. Hearing date: July 20, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02025. To all interested parties: Petitioners Fabiana Velarde and Aaron Velarde filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Fabiana Regina Camargo Docarmo Velarde and Aaron Henrique Camargo Docarmo Halseth Velarde to Fabiana Regina Carmo Velarde and Aaron Henrique Carmo Velarde. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed May 20, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: July 20, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22 PETITION FOR FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL Citation to Parent: The People of the State of California, To Alfredo Cuevas: By order of the Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara, you are hereby advised that you may appear in Dept. 1 of the court on July 6, 2016, at 10:30 am at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, then and there to show cause, if you have any, why Maricela Eliphleth Cuevas Llamas should not be declared free from your custody and control for the purpose of freeing her for placement for adoption. At the beginning of the proceeding the court will consider whether or not the interests of Maricela Eliphleth Cuevas Llamas require the appointment of counsel. If the court finds that her interests do require protection, the court will appoint counsel to represent her, whether or not she is able to afford counsel. Maricela Eliphleth Cuevas Llamas will not be present in court unless she so requests or the court so orders. If you appear without counsel and are unable to afford counsel, the court must appoint counsel for you, unless you knowingly and intelligently waive the right to represent both you and your child Maricela Eliphleth Cuevas Llamas. If the court appoints counsel for you, at the end of the proceeding, the court will hold a hearing to determine the amount, if any, that you will be required to reimburse the county for the services of your appointed counsel. The court may continue the proceeding for not more than 30 days as necessary to appoint counsel and to enable counsel to become acquainted with the case. Filed June 3, 2016, by Denyse Avila. Published 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 6/29.
Brilliant Thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Martyrs and Marmalade
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ho wants to be a martyr? Strangely, it has lately become a popular ambition. The only condition is that your suffering must be in a worthy cause. Who decides what is truly worthy? Traditionally, your best guide is your religion – but some religions are much keener than others on the whole idea of martyrdom. However, if your God is not one who wants you to die for him, that role has in more recent times largely been taken over by the nation-state. All over the Earth, there are revered cemeteries of those who died for their country while fighting against other people who were willing to die for theirs. To make it more bizarre, the country you are fighting for may not yet even exist – as has sadly been the case, for example, in our own Revolutionary and Civil Wars. And a twist yet more grotesque has only recently been put on the story, with the idea that taking your own life in a cause is less worthy unless you take with you the lives of as many innocent people as possible. Let’s be honest about this: wouldn’t any sane person prefer to think about marmalade, or something else sweet and pleasant, rather than have thoughts and desires of being tormented and extinguished for the sake of some political or social ideal? Why then has martyrdom become such an attractive option? Because once you accept its basic premise (which is no harder than accepting those of believers in a flat Earth, or in Perpetual Motion machines), all else follows quite logically. Thanks to modern conveniently transported and readily detonated explosives, you get a quick, easy death, accompanied by plaudits and praise from your cohorts, plus promises of benefits to your family. and most appealing of all, advancement of your sacred cause, together with guaranteed rewards in the next world. How could anyone seriously compare this with such momentary self-indulgences as marmalade? Incidentally, I always thought there was some relationship between the name “Marmalade” and illness at sea, partly because of the similarity of “mar” to the word for “sea” in several languages, but also because I had heard somewhere that the original confection derived from a shipload of oranges which arrived in Scotland
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in such poor condition that they could not be sold as fruit, and some enterprising culinary genius turned them instead into a kind of until-then unheard of orange jam. Inspired by this story, one cannot help recalling the metaphorical advice that if Nature serves you lemons, your best bet is to make lemonade. Unfortunately, as I later discovered, this pleasant theory does not hold etymological water – which gives us no choice but to return to the subject of martyrdom. My own favorite martyr is Saint Sebastian, who is commonly depicted as being transfixed with numerous arrows, which apparently were of Roman origin. But I like him mainly because of the lovely town on the northern coast of Spain which is named after him, San Sebastian. My parents spent their honeymoon there in 1932, and though the Spanish Civil War didn’t start until several years later, apparently things were already so shaky there politically that when their blissful night was shattered by what they thought was gunfire, they feared it had already broken out. It turned out to be only fireworks. The only other story I remember hearing about my parents’ honeymoon was that, when passing through Paris, they found themselves unable to communicate with their taxi driver. My father’s French was apparently inadequate, but when my mother saw the driver’s name, she tried her own second language – Yiddish – and was immediately understood. If we must get back to the phenomenon of martyrdom, which in modern times appears to have become highly organized, I can think of no more striking example than the Japanese Kamikaze squadrons of what were literally flying bombs, whose pilots died in the holy cause of defending their country and Emperor. But I prefer to leave you with a much more positive image – that of organizations which are today devoted to saving people’s lives by preventing suicides. On San Francisco’s beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, which over the years has been the scene of numerous suicide attempts, most of them successful, there is now a telephone connected with a “hotline.” The sign beside the phone includes the words. “THERE IS HOPE – MAKE THE CALL.” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
THURSDAY, JUNE 16 Circus Minimus – Circus Vargas, a California creation, is a fairly small family operation, where every member of the Nelson & Katya Quiroga clan performs and/or is involved in the day-to-day operations of the traditional traveling single-tent circus, a dying breed in the face of ever-increasing European circus arts. Circus Vargas heads over to the Earl Warren Showgrounds this week for their annual visit, this time sporting “iLUMINOUS”, its updated high-energy extravaganza, that “illuminates the wonders of modern life and the imagination of children.” As always the program features a variety of death-defying stunts, flying aerialists, exhilarating acrobats, and uproarious clowns under a music-filled blue and yellow Big Top. And the activities aren’t confined to the actual performance, as children (of all ages) can create their own magic during an interactive pre-show experience on site 45 minutes before showtime, and meet and take pictures with the performers afterward. WHEN: Today through Monday, 11 shows total WHERE: Showgrounds, 3400 N. Calle Real COST: $15-$70 INFO: (877) 468-3861 or www. circusvargas.com Glass Slippers – PCPA Theaterfest kicks off its 2015 season at the Solvang Festival Theater with The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’s autobiographical four-character memory play that took the playwright from obscurity to fame. Considered one of the most important American dramas of the 20th century, Menagerie follows
Amanda, the faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. She frequently reminds them of her “idyllic” youth and the scores of suitors who once pursued her. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother’s nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. The shy and anxious Laura also lives in her illusions surrounded by her glass menagerie and old phonograph records. Veteran PCPA resident artist Kitty Balay, who stars as the overbearing Amanda, received raves when the play opened for a run indoors in Santa Maria back in the early spring. But it’s doubtful a transfer to the gorgeous outdoor amphitheater in Solvang will offer much respite from the tension. Menagerie also stars Sierra Wells as Laura, Matt Koenig as Tom, and Jordan Stidham as Jim, the gentleman caller. Also coming to Solvang this summer: Shrek The Musical (June 30July 31), Sense and Sensibility (August 5-21), and In the Heights (August 26-September 11). WHEN: plays nightly except Monday June 16 - 26 WHERE: COST: $38.50 - $49.50 INFO: 922-8313 or www.pcpa.org Inspire Patriotism – Inspire Dance Santa Barbara presents its first annual June recital with the theme Stars and Stripes Forever! Dancers ages 3-18 plus will perform short pieces of their work and progress from the past year, with the show carrying to a costume theme related to Independence Day. The 40-minute performance will feature excerpts of the musical theater performance of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. WHEN: 6:30 pm
THURSDAY, JUNE 16 Naughty Night – Eric Schwartz, better known as Smooth-E, is a self-described “unassuming nerd” who show is filled with musical comedy, physical antics, multicultural satire, and social commentary. Schwartz has made appearances on The Tonight Show, Showtime, Comics Unleashed, BET, and many more, while YouTube recently named him one of their prestigious NextUp Creators. Come hear his stand-up, songs, and characters with an act Forbes.com called “a minor industry in pop music parodies” and enjoy comedy, craft beer, and food at one of the newer breweries in town. Presented by No Indoor Voices. WHEN: 7-9 pm WHERE: Third Window Brewing Co., 406 E Haley St #3 COST: free INFO: nightout.com/events/musical-comedy-by-eric-schwartz/tickets#. V15l1vkrJhE
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THURSDAY, JUNE 16 Sunset Sips – The Santa Barbara Zoo’s monthly summertime happy hour events is when guests can drink in the view, as well as local wine from the zoo’s scenic hilltop as day comes to a close. New this year are more local wineries, more live music, more tasty treats, and more art by local artists – plus “The Wine Down,” post-”Sips” talks by local food and wine experts. In addition to tastings of wine, beer, hard cider, and sparkling wines, each evening also includes appetizers, live music, a mini art exhibit by a local artist, plus a giraffe feeding, Zoo Train ride (and yes, drinks are allowed), and GO VINO commemorative glass. Couches and a lounge-like setting on the zoo’s scenic hilltop provide a comfortable place to enjoy the libations and panoramic views of the ocean, mountains, and city. Tonight: Barefoot Wine, Cebada Wines, and DV8 Cellars pour the wine; the music is provided by Bamblume, while the zoo’s animals created the artwork on view that will be available for sale, with all proceeds benefiting the zoo. Nicholas Wigle of Super Bee Rescue discusses beekeeping and offers tastings of honey mead from 7:30 to 8 pm. Think of the four warm-weather events (also July 21, August 18, and September 15) as mini-Zoo Brew or Roar & Pour Wine Festivals, some of the most popular annual events at the habitat overlooking East Beach. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm WHERE: 300 Ninos Way COST: $30 INFO: www.sbzoo.org
WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $15 INFO: 963-0408 or www. CenterStageTheater.org SATURDAY, JUNE 18 Uplifting Music, with Hart – Johnny Irion fronted a South Carolina melodic psych band long before he teamed up musically and romantically with third generation folk family heir Sarah Lee Guthrie in the late 1990s. After a few achingly gorgeous and eventually ambitious folk-Americana albums together, the two have recently had a go at separating folk and rock, and while Guthrie went off to tour with famous father Arlo (including a recent gig at the Lobero), Irion assembled U.S. Elevator, an all-male band of friends, including Tim Bluhm of Mother Hips as producer, and several local rock players. The batch of songs on the band’s debut album make no bones about their influences, which cover the gamut of classic rock from Cheap Trick to Neil Young to The Beatles – plus several references to Montecito, where Irion and Guthrie took up part-time residence a couple of years back. The songs walk that wonderful line between familiar and refreshing, and Irion is always a wonder to behold on stage, especially given the kind of room to roam he’ll have back at the Lobero for this Sings Like Hell (SLH) show. Openers Berkley Hart – comprising
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Kerrville New Folk Songwriter Award winner Jeff Berkley and singersongwriter Calman Hart – are a duo that carry a lot more gravitas (and humor) than you’d expect from just two folks, as their songs are delivered with heavenly harmony, masterful musicianship, and surehanded showmanship. The concerts closes out SLH season 38, marking 19 years worth of shows. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $25 & $35 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and preconcert private reception) INFO: 9630761 or www.lobero.com Everybody Dance Day – State Street Ballet kicks off a its new series of events in eight California cities over the next two months that serve as community-building, dance style samplers. Starting at noon, professional dancers and teachers offer classes in a wide variety of different styles of dance for the participants to try. There will also be free food and activities for kids before the day culminates in a free performance by State Street Ballet dancers, followed by a facilitated bilingual talk-back about the performance and the day. All of the events are held in accessible community spaces and are free to the public as part of the State Street’s goal to engage community members of all ages in the arts, specifically in dance, to promote healthy self-expression, positive self-esteem, and to help 16 – 23 June 2016
SATURDAY, JUNE 18 Half a Century of Musical Camaraderie – Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen have been playing music together on and off since meeting in Los Angeles during the early folk and bluegrass movement in the early 1960s. Hillman, who has long been based in Ojai, exchanged the mandolin for the electric bass as being recruited to join a new band, The Byrds – which got him inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years ago. By the late 1960s, Hillman joined Gram Parsons to form The Flying Burrito Brothers, now looked upon as the forerunners of the alternative country-rock style, before playing a part in Manassas and then Souther–Hillman–Furay in the late 1970s. Meanwhile, Pedersen continued his career in bluegrass, working with the legendary Flatt and Scruggs, and doing hundreds of sessions as a bassist and singer. In the early 1980s, Hillman and Pedersen reunited to create the Desert Rose Band, which scored a slew of No. 1 country singles before scaling back to an acoustic duo a decade later. Their latest record, At Edward’s Barn, continues their longrunning love for the music they discovered – and helped create – all those decades ago. Tonight, the duo and Hillman’s other current project, The Agape Trio, appear acoustically at the Plaza Playhouse Theater in a benefit for St. Nicholas National Shrine at World Trade Center, honoring the Greek Orthodox Church that was the only house of worship destroyed during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Proceeds from the concerts, presented by Santa Barbara’s Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, will support the construction of the shrine at Ground Zero in New York City. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $50 general admission, $75 VIP (includes reserved premium seating, a reception at the theater prior to the performance featuring a meet-and-greet with Hillman & Pedersen, and a complementary glass of wine with light appetizers) INFO: 684-6380 or www. onestowatchproductions.com/event/chris-hillman-herb-pedersen
community members connect in new ways. Participating dancers/instructors include award-winning choreographer Edgar Zendejas and master teacher Royce Zackery of New York City, as well as company dancers Deise Mendonca (Brazil), Mauricio Vera
(Chile), Thomas Fant (Virginia), and Cecily Stewart (Santa Barbara), the company’s outreach coordinator. WHEN: 11 am-6 pm WHERE: The United Boys and Girls Club, 602 W. Anapamu Street COST: free INFO: www.facebook.com/ •MJ
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Twisted Broadway – Expect an extra toetapping, high-flying program of song and dance when Rubicon Theatre Company presents dynamic duo Beverly & Kirby Ward in Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, the fourth show in the limited series at the Ventura Theater. The talented husbandand-wife twosome’s credits include first runs and revivals on Broadway, London, multiple National Tours, and concerts with numerous symphony orchestras. The current show spotlights familiar tunes from the American songbook along with some more obscure numbers, each re-imagined and performed with a twist. Case in point: Beverly (whose national tour resumé includes Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney and Anne Miller) will perform “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” in a steamy style à la “Fever,” while Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive,” is doused in a funk rhythm as a tap number from Kirby, who received a Best Actor Olivier Award nomination for the premiere of Crazy For You in London. Other song selections include “(You) Got What I Need,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Ya’ Got Trouble,” “Isn’t This a Lovely Day?” “Boy Wanted,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” “S’Wonderful,” “There Once Was a Man,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Gimme Gimme,” “Night and Day,” “When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Singin’ In The Rain,” “Picture of the World,” and “One.” Pianist Michael Walter accompanies. The Wards last appeared together at Rubicon in She Loves Me, with Beverly starring as Ilona, and Kirby directing. WHEN: 2 & 8 pm today, 2 pm tomorrow WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $69.50 INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 29) Kate Clavin, Rosemary Gebhart won Honorable Mention, and Tony Askew received the Juror’s Choice (not pictured, Michael Long for Best in Show) (photo by Priscilla) Ron and Andra Macleod with their children Grayson and Hudson between Beverley’s famous collection of Chinese Shoes (photo by Priscilla)
Pulitzer, Madison Richardson, and Toni Simon, Alison Hansen, Wendy Foster, Guy and Patty de Gramont, and Ron and Andra MacLeod. Something is Afoot There was a lot of sole-searching going on at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club when Susan Tibbles curated Stiletto, a shoe-oriented 60 piece art exhibition, part of the monthly 2nd Fridays at SBTC, which has now been running for seven years. “It is a very diverse show, open to interpretation,” says Susan. “It is a fun, sexy thing.” The cobblery creations were judged by Maiza Hixson, chief curator of collections at the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, who awarded the Best in Show prize to Michael Long,
and the Juror’s Choice Award to Tony Askew. Rosemary Gebhart and Kate Clavin merited honorable mentions and received bottles of champagne as their prizes. A most heeling experience. Four-legged Friends The Montecito home of Morrie and Irma Jurkowitz went to the dogs at the weekend when the tony twosome hosted a fund-raising bash for the Diana Basehart Foundation, a fouryear-old charity which supplements elderly and financially challenged pet owners who cannot afford their veterinary bills. Since its founding by Diana in 2012,
Shoe art participant Cynthia Martin with Maiza Hixson, visual arts coordinator/ curator of collections Santa Barbara County Arts Commission as the Juror and Susan Tibbles, curator and director (photo by Priscilla) Lynne Shaw and Morrie Jurkowitz (photo by Lynne Shaw)
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Diana Basehart and Irma Jurkowitz (photo by Lynne Shaw)
more than 700 pet owners have been given assistance in keeping their cats and dogs healthy and alive. “Without our help, many of the animal would have probably ending up being put to sleep,” says Diana, widow of the late actor Richard Basehart. “It is really keeping families together. Losing a pet is devastating to many people.” Among the guests supporting the worthy cause, which raised around $25,000, were Tipper Gore, Harry and Judi Weisbart, Nancy Koppelman, Ginny Vanocur, Marcia Constance, Victoria Hines, Kristi Newton, Carole Ridding, Larry Larson, Richard and
SB Council member Jason Dominquez of District One; Mahil Senathirajah, board member; Pastor Bill, MLK; Cherie Topper with SCAN (Impacts of rezoning Agricultural lands to Residential Designation); Lynn Carlisle, Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center; and Marcos Vargas, The Fund for Santa Barbara executive director (photo by Priscilla)
Annette Caleel, Penny Bianchi, and KEYT-TV newsman John Palminteri. All for Fund The Fund for Santa Barbara hosted its annual spring grant awards party at the Lobero Theatre Courtyard, with $190,000 going to 17 recipients, including the Alternatives to Violence Project, the William James Association, and the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County from Marcos Vargas, executive director. In the last 36 years, the fund has awarded more than $5 million to more than 1,000 community projects. In addi-
tion, the organization provides free technical assistance in the areas of fundraising, community organizing, strategic planning, and effective use of media to more than 300 projects annually. Guests, noshing on food by Brenda Simon of the Secret Ingredient, while listening to live music from Tony Ybarra, included co-chairs Wendy Sims-Moten and Elsa Velasco, Anna DiStefano, Ted Rhodes, Elena Richardson, Gary Clark, Nancy Weiss, Lawanda Lyons-Pruitt, Joyce Howerton, and Sheila Davidson. Sightings: Good Morning America
Hillary Blackerby (for Das Williams) presenting to Carolee Krieger, representing California Water Impact Network (photo by Priscilla)
co-anchor Robin Roberts lunching at Tydes with Jeff and Hollye Jacobs...Actress Jessica Simpson at the Biltmore...Bo Derek lunching with Geonine Moriarty at Tre Lune Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ
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