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SB Polo Club’s Judith Baker goes paragliding to commemorate 75th birthday, p. 6

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

SAVING THE TRAILS MONTECITO TRAILS FOUNDATION SEEKS FUNDING AND VOLUNTEERS TO HELP REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCT SEVERELY DAMAGED TRAILS IN THE FRONT COUNTRY (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 12)

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Jerry Dunn Jr. traverses Arizona’s tourism treasure from Red Rock to Broken Arrow Trail, p. 24

OperaFest vignettes staged beyond Hahn Hall’s walls as part of MAW’s ultra-modern program, p. 30

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That’s a relief: Bob Hazard breaks down the details of FEMA’s Interim Flood Map, which the SB County Board of Supervisors recently approved

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SB Polo Club’s Judith Baker; Rob Lowe’s home; Eden by the Beach bash; MAW’s Season 71; SY Valley polo classic; Fiesta Ranchero gala; Todd Purdum’s book; Oprah and Apple; and Gwyneth’s next marriage

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Letters to the Editor

An assortment of missives from MJ readers including Suzanne Duffy, David McCalmont, Marv Bauer, Dale Lowdermilk, and Lidia Zinchenko

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Live Dive; movie night; fishermen’s market; book signings; Metamorphographs; tea dance; MA Land Use; holiday firemen’s gala; Family Fun Day; Independence Day bash; MBAR meeting; poetry; fun run at zoo; family weekends; brain fitness; art; bereavement; and story time; yoga; Italian discourse; Carp arts; and dance

Tide Guide 12 Village Beat

Montecito Trails Foundation and Bucket Brigade; and National Disaster Search Dog Foundation procures funding

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner reports on the Boys and Girls Club; Spirit of Entrepreneurship; and Community Action Commission Champions dinner

16 Aging in High Heels

Beverlye Hyman Fead shines a light on French-speaking Bill Benjamin, whose 92 years don’t prevent him from playing tennis and traversing Europe

20 On Law

As part of an ongoing series, attorney Steven Blum gets down to brass tacks about rules for insurers – and dissects eight circumstances that could develop

22 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz chronicles Crystal Stokes and her Yoga Soup workshop; Breathwork & Energy Healing; Jim Dreaver; and additional meetups

23 Brilliant Thoughts

When it comes to moving pictures and movies, Ashleigh Brilliant is focused on silent films, talkies, his childhood, and the “Suspension of disbelief ”

24 The Curious Traveler

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Stars in his eyes: Jerry Dunn Jr. ventures south by southwest to Arizona’s town of Sedona, home to red rocks, Broken Arrow Trail, and Chicken Point overlook

28 Celebrating History

Hattie Beresford opens the door to SB Historical Museum’s June 7 opening celebration of the 95th Old Spanish Days Fiesta’s new edition, Project Fiesta

29 Real Estate View

At the onset of summer, Michael Phillips feels the Montecito Heat, whose latest score registers at 99, much higher than last year’s at the same time period

30 MAW 2018

The Music Academy of the West’s OperaFest’s modern program; Classical Evolution/ Revolution Conference; alumni update; and upcoming events

33 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Sudama Mark Kennedy about his musical background and career, which brings him to SOhO on Sunday, July 1

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Guest Editorial

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

Addressing the FEMA-Created Mess

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ast week, the SB County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted unanimously to adopt the FEMA Interim Flood Map in an effort to expedite and control the rebuilding process in Montecito. As chair of the BOS, supervisor Das Williams noted, “I can’t say I’m comfortable with the option of the Interim Flood Recovery map, but the map, although seriously flawed, needs to be officially adopted by the County.”

Accelerated Adoption

The much-awaited FEMA Flood map was initially released to the public on June 11. Three days later, it was explained at a hastily called, County Office Building presentation. Even though a packed house of Montecito residents shared grave concerns and a sense of confusion, the map was officially adopted by the BOS three working days later.

Many in Montecito urged the BOS to authorize the use of the FEMA Flood Recovery Map by case managers as a useful tool in processing “Like-for-Like” rebuilds but to withhold official endorsement of the map for 60 days until the new map’s accuracy and consistency could be evaluated.

Advocates for restraint included Cori Hayman, chair of Montecito Association (MA) Land Use Committee; Jack Overall, former Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) commissioner; Susan Keller, current MPC commissioner and former MA Land Use chair, J’Amy Brown, former MPC commissioner and MA chair; and Darlene Bierig, former MA Land Use chair. Unfortunately, neither the MPC nor MA had time to call an emergency meeting to bring the issue of the unintended consequences of immediate adoption to unwary Montecito homeowners.

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“The idea originally came about when the polo medic was flying above the club one afternoon, and I jokingly asked if I could fly into my birthday party,” explains Judith. “He said, ‘Sure, let’s make it happen.’”

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TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite H, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

A “Job” for Everyone

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hile catching up on some MJ reading, I thought it important to comment on J.B.’s “Editor’s note” at the end of Mr. [Dale] Lowdermilk’s letter (“Drinking the California Kool-Aid,” MJ #24/23), in which J.B. wrote: “Mr. Sanders’s brilliant economic plan to give every U.S. resident $15,000 a year for doing... nothing.”

Excuse me, but where on Earth is this asserted?!

I just spent some Google search time and in no way found anything remotely asserting this. I find it irresponsible as a paper’s editor to state any such in particular when supposed “fact” cannot be easily supported.

What has been said from Mr. Sanders’s side is the simple observation that a person working 40 hours a week at the current (pre $15/hour rate, I’m supposing) would earn $15,000. Him making note that this is poverty level. www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/starvation-wages among other links, articles, interviews wherein this is relayed. Not that the economic plan is that every citizen should be given that sum, for doing nothing.

Unless you can clearly cite that assertion from some reputable source.

Wow. And I’m not necessarily a Sanders follower, just someone who wants the truth, and who wants the name-calling and the partisan BS to stop.

Suzanne Duffy San Luis Obispo/Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Thank you for your letter. Senator Sanders has absolutely drunk the Soviet Union Kool-Aid, and while he hasn’t specifically suggested “giving” everyone $15,000 a year, he is about to propose a plan that would more than double that (this from The Washington Post): “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will announce a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and health-care benefits to every American worker “who wants or needs one,” embracing the kind of large-scale government works project that Democrats have shied away from in recent decades.

“Sanders’s jobs guarantee would fund hundreds of projects throughout the United States aimed at addressing priorities such as infrastructure, care giving, the environment, education, and other goals. Under the job guarantee, every American would be entitled to a job under one of these projects or receive job training

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to be able to do so, according to an early draft of the proposal.

“A representative from Sanders’s office said they had not yet done a cost estimate for the plan or decided how it would be funded, saying they were still crafting the proposal.

“Sanders joins two other rumored 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who have expressed support for the idea of a jobs guarantee. The push reflects a leftward move in the party’s economic policy, away from president Barack Obama’s use of public-private partnerships or government incentives to reshape private markets and toward an unambiguous embrace of direct government intervention.”

Now, excuse me if I extrapolate, but a “guaranteed” $15-per-hour job would cost the government (that means you, sad taxpayer) $600 per week, or $31,200 per year, and that doesn’t include the cost of healthcare, which also comes with that “guarantee.” Since it is already virtually impossible to fire a government employee (they are more likely to die on the job than lose their job), each one of these designated $15-per-hour “employees” will not really have to perform or do anything to receive this taxpayer-funded bonanza. And, even if – after years of effort – you actually get to fire that person, since he is “guaranteed” and “entitled” to a job with the government, what then?

I don’t know if you can call this “partisan BS,” but it’s certainly a plan many of us could not and would not ever get behind. – J.B.)

Just A Quiet Dinner

All of life is now politicized. You can’t go out and spend $75 for dinner at a fine restaurant without first declaring your politics. If you don’t pass the owner’s litmus test, you’ll be refused service.

These left-wingers are breaking down the rules of etiquette and civility, as well as trampling on the humble, time-honored dictum that the customer is always right... ...For what? To embarrass and humiliate people who otherwise think well enough of your business to patronize it and embellish your bottom line.

How crazy and insane is that?

Actions of this nature are tearing and ripping holes in the fabric of society. A simple commercial act of dining in public is now an adventure in partisan politics.

Of course, this only works if you’re white, Christian, Republican, and

straight. It’s perfectly all right to discriminate against these “oppressors” of “minorities.”

A Gay Christian Republican (and there are many of them) could scream “Gay discrimination!” and probably have his/her complaint (at least) heard.

Here’s how you can fight back.

If you see that prominent right-wingers are refused service in the upscale restaurant in which you’ve been seated and are dining (a la presidential press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders), inform the owner/general manager through your server that your party is immediately vacating the premises and you are refusing to pay the bill.

All’s fair in love and war, and this is war.

Naturally, left-wing restaurateurs hope that as the word circulates they are making a stand for revolutionary politics with their business, like-minded leftists will flock to their eatery.

The problem is that sword dons two edges.

It gives motivation and great incentive for conservatives and right-wingers to avoid your restaurant like the plague.

I don’t choose the battles, folks, or the battlefields.

Confederate general George Pickett didn’t wake up the morning of July 3, 1863, and plan on engaging the

Union forces somewhere other than Gettysburg. “I don’t like Gettysburg.

It’s not favorable to us. Let’s take on General Meade in Maryland, not Pennsylvania.”

I get up before dawn, and respond and react to the overnight foolishness and irrationality of my adversaries.

Not to respond and react? Well, that leads to the political obscurity inhabited by the Bush clan. By the way, George, George, and Jeb – how’s that policy of “remaining presidential” working out for ya?

None of these public gambits chosen by the left are going to work, if the right mobilizes to resist them, for the simple reason there are more right-wingers than left-wingers across the fruited plain.

I will take note where my local (far-left) Democrat congressman dines when he’s in town, and will not only refuse to patronize said establishment, but also tell anyone and everyone who may listen that he/she also shouldn’t go there.

Hey, I’m not the one who made up these new rules of engagement.

Maybe restaurateurs interested in profits as well as good old-fashioned American civility should place signs in their front windows saying they gladly welcome people of all political persuasions as paying customers.

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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JUNE 28 Live Dive Become immersed in the world below the ocean’s surface. Watch and interact with scuba divers as they explore our local coastal ecosystems under Stearns Wharf and beyond. Free and open to the public.

When: 11 am Where: Sea Center – Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 211 Stearns Wharf FRIDAY, JUNE 29 Movie Night at Montecito Country Mart Come see your friends and neighbors for a classic film every Friday in the courtyard at Montecito Country Mart; tonight’s movie: Winnie the Pooh When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road Info: www.montecitocountrymart.com SATURDAY, JUNE 30 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Maritime Museum. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine.

When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat Book Signing at Tecolote Nicole Sault and Helen Drachkovitch will sign Celebramos/ We Celebrate, Six Traditions from Mexico. Everyone loves piñatas, but where did they come from? And what

about Mariachis, Day of the Dead, and Posadas? In this book, explore six Mexican traditions to discover how they came about.

When: 3 to 4 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Book Signing at Montecito Country Mart Shiva Rose signs her new book, Whole Beauty: Daily Rituals and Natural Recipes for Lifelong Beauty and Wellness, at Kendall Conrad in Montecito Country Mart. Please join for cocktails, conversation, and dinner.

When: 5 to 7 pm Where: 1024 Coast Village Road RSVP: mail@kendallconraddesign.com SUNDAY, JULY 1 Artist Talk Patricia Houghton Clarke and Stuart Carey present their twoperson show, Metamorphographs II, at Patricia Clark Studio; tonight is a discussion of the works.

When: 1 pm Where: 410 Palm Avenue A, Carpinteria Info: (805) 452-7739 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music.

Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The dance is held on the first Sunday

Family Fun Run at the Zoo The Santa Barbara Zoo has teamed up with the Jenny Schatzle Program for the first-ever “Run Wild for Conservation” fun run for families. A one-mile, noncompetitive run is open to all ages, including walkers and parents pushing strollers, and the route goes through behind the scenes areas not usually open to the public. Proceeds benefit the zoo’s education and field conservation programs, and the run is followed by a special conservation day: “Your Zoo, Your Planet: Saving Species.”

When: 9 am; check-in at 7:30 pm Where: Santa Barbara Zoo, 500 Ninos Drive Cost: $25 adults ($10 SB Zoo members), $15 children ($5 zoo members); Includes run, admission, zoo train ride, rock wall climb, and more Info: www.sbzoo.org of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free TUESDAY, JULY 3 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Village Fourth Firemen’s Breakfast, Parade & Celebration Starting at Upper Manning Park, the annual Village Fourth is a celebration of country and community. Food, music, and other festivities will take place at Lower Manning Park.

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Baked goods, hamburgers, hot dogs, and barbecued chicken will be sold for a nominal fee between 11:30 to 4:30 pm.

When: 11 to 5 pm Where: 150 N. Kellogg Ave., Santa Barbara Info: 964-6858 Independence Day Extravaganza There is no better vantage point to celebrate Independence Day than from the El Encanto. Join for a delightful all-American affair featuring classic summertime bites, lawn games, allday live music, and uninterrupted views of the firework display. Chef Denizot will be behind the grill,

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barbecuing fresh-caught Santa Barbara swordfish, marinated hanger steak, and Niman Ranch sticky babyback pork ribs. A bountiful buffet will feature accompaniments delight, from corn on the cob to smoked baconwrapped potatoes – along with a pleasing variety of sweets and treats.

Where: 800 Alvarado Place Cost: $105 per person; children 12 and under are $45 Reservations & Info: 770-3530 THURSDAY, JULY 5 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. This month’s focus is William Shakespeare’s sonnets.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JULY 6 Movie Night at Montecito Country Mart See your friends and neighbors along with a classic film every Friday in the courtyard at Montecito Country Mart; tonight’s film: Mary Poppins When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road Info: www.montecitocountrymart.com ONGOING Family Fun Weekends at Montecito Country Mart Saturday includes pony rides and face painting 10 am to 1 pm; a petting zoo from 1 to 4 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm. Sunday includes kids arts and crafts from noon to 3 pm; ice cream at Rori’s from 1 to 4 pm.

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When: Mondays, 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50 (includes lunch) Info: 969-0859 28 June – 5 July 2018

VNHC Bereavement Class – Writing to Heal A workshop using writing to heal the heart. No writing experience required.

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When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

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

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market.

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

Montecito Trails Foundation Trail signs recovered by the Bucket Brigade’s Jeff Clark from the debris flow in the Ennisbrook Trail area; they will be restored and reused

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or more than 50 years, Montecito Trails Foundation (MTF) has overseen the maintenance of Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria trails, making them a safe, reliable place for community members to explore both the foothills and “low land” trails. Following the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudflow, the group of volunteers realized the scope of their work had drastically changed, and now the organization is seeking financial assistance from the community.

“We’re a bunch of locals who volunteer to oversee the trails,” said longtime board member Ben Wiener.

“Things obviously changed dramatically, overnight,” he said, adding that the group was previously focused on maintaining the 90 miles of trails – all located below East Camino Cielo –

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during the drought, and helping to acquire more trails as part of the network. “We went into rebuild mode: repairing and reconstructing damaged areas, subject to decisions by the County and the Forest Service,” he said.

New board member Ashlee Mayfield tells us the trail system in Montecito is complicated: traversing City, County, and Los Padres Forest boundaries often just within the first mile of a trail. “We are whole-heartily indebted to the way all the agencies are dedicated to working together to help Montecito rebuild, from the beaches all the way up to our mountains,” she said. MTF has been included in talks with County Parks & Recreation director Jill Zachary, Pancho Smith,

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Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblywoman Monique Limon presented a joint resolution honoring BGC’s 80 years in the community accepted by senior vice president of Field Services John Miller. He told the audience, “We served 1,700 kids last year.” Monique mentioned that she went to the BGC growing up.

Hannah-Beth knows that “The best way to keeps kids out of trouble, is to keep them busy.” That’s what BGC does.

Emcees were Janet Garufis and Andrew Firestone. Andrew did his usual at coaxing the bids for the live auction: a package deal to see The Voice on NBC, the fire station hosting a dinner for 10, or an electric bike from Story Bikes (you don’t have to pedal). There was a paddle raise, and Janet presented a video and telling us how a group of firemen way back when started BGC for 6 to 18 year olds.

BGC engages with club membership at only $40 a year or 16 cents a day, which includes a snack and dinner. Every kid has a place to go after school. They empower through transformative programs including one-on-one tutoring, teen leadership programs, art and computer classes, plus sports. They elevate by giving

If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare

The Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort (formerly The Fess Parker) was the venue for the 2018 Spirit of Entrepreneurship (SOE) Awards. An exciting event for the 33 finalists, all women, being judged in 11 categories with three finalists in each. The SOE Foundation is to support entrepreneurship at all levels in our area and to give financial support and education of high school and college student entrepreneurs.

The evening began in the Rotunda, with some of the students at tables to explain their ideas while guests sipped cocktails and listened. The ones who have won the New Venture Challenge, a one-day business pitch competition put on by the Scheinfeld Center of Entrepreneurship at SBCC, are awarded financial support in the form of seed capital and scholarships.

Since 2011, the Foundation has raised more then $67,000 for the winners.

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AGING IN HIGH HEELS

by Beverlye Hyman Fead

Ms Fead moved from Beverly Hills to Malibu and then Montecito in 1985. She is married to retired music exec Bob Fead; between them they have four children, five grandchildren, and a dog named Sophia Loren. Beverlye is the author of I Can Do this; Living with Cancer, Nana, What’s Cancer and the blog www.aginginhighheels.com, and book Aging In High Heels. She has also produced a documentary: Stage Four, Living with Cancer.

A Man for All Seasons

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moved to Montecito because of a house.

I was living in Malibu and looking for a new start. On a visit to Montecito, I saw this charming little gardener’s cottage that had been part of a large estate. A friend owned the cottage and wanted to sell it, and I fell in love with it. It was a tiny house with a wonderful patio and a gorgeous lawn dipping down into a fabulous arbor dripping with flowers, and ending up at a purple flowered tennis court. There was only one problem.

Being new in town, I knew no one who may have joined me to play on that court.

That’s where Bill Benjamin comes in. I went to the tennis shop on Coast Village Road and asked if they could find me some players. I told them I was a B player (really a B-minus) and my then boyfriend, now husband, was a B-plus (that part was true) – and they sent me Bill, Peter Murphy, and

92-year-old Bill Benjamin plays tennis, spends at least six weeks of the year in Europe, mostly France (he speaks fluent French), and is on the lookout for a blonde travel companion

Sharol Siemens. All three became lifelong friends. We had years where we played tennis all weekend and then

Bill, Bob, and Peter would start cooking giant tri-tips, chickens, or ribs. It was glorious. The Tennis Mafia was born at our house.

But enough of this; let’s get into Bill’s story.

Bill was born in Providence, Kentucky, in 1925. He was raised with some practical skills but also a love of reading, merchandising, and folk dancing.

At the age of 18, Bill joined the Army and was placed in training at Fort Benning Georgia as a communications specialist. He was called overseas and joined the 242 Infantry Regiment, where he fought against Germany. In April 1945, in a battle near Mundling, Germany, Benjamin earned the Bronze Star for “meritorious action” while serving as a forward scout for his unit. In July of that same year, he was dispatched to Vienna, Austria, where he was promoted to staff sergeant.

After the Army came the University of Kentucky, but he remained in the reserve as a second lieutenant. He graduated with a B.A. in English and journalism. While temporarily employed

by Reynolds Metal Company, He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. He served two years in Stuttgart, Germany, as editor of the 7th Army Journal, the U.S. Army newspaper in Europe.

His path was set.

While passing through New York on his way home, he ran into Curtis Benjamin, his uncle, who was then president of the McGraw Hill Book Company. His uncle persuaded Bill to join McGraw, which he did as a sales representative covering the U.S. northwest colleges and universities.

He was given three years of editorial training and was then promoted to science editor in New York City and worked in the college department .

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Benjamin’s book venture was successful, and he eventually sold his interests to Pearson in 1971. It was time for Bill to live his dream , which he did. He moved to France, where he stayed for eight years. Bill came home, fluent in French, with a love and appreciation of French food and a thirst for travel that has not yet been quenched.

Returning to the U.S., Bill started immediately on a long line of entrepreneurial ventures, the most successful of which – First Call (investment Banking Research) – was acquired by Thompson Reuters and was recently valued at $450 million.

To say he has been and is a success is an understatement, but what is really outstanding about Bill is his curiosity about everything. He continues to play tennis (men’s doubles) three days a week, travels to Europe for at least six weeks a year, starts new businesses, reads everything, and is quite a ladies’ man (I think it’s because he can still drive at night).

He enjoys life in every way, which means finding new and interesting places to eat. That’s his pleasure. We know, because we have traveled with him to his beloved France several times. He continues to amaze us with his knowledge of the country and his boundless energy.

We all want to be Bill when we grow up. Did I mention that this friend of ours is going to be 93 this November?

Well, he is.

Bill’s advice concerning aging: 1) Ignore aging; 2) stay busy; and 3) keep looking for your next blonde travel companion!

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6)

Ladies polo champion Judith Baker celebrates her 75th (photos by David Lominska)

riding since the age of three, took off from the hallowed Holden Field, after a few instructions, all intact except for Judith’s left shoe.

“We flew for about 30 minutes 3,000 feet above Carpinteria, Summerland, and Montecito. The view from above was astoundingly incredible. After making a fly past of the club, we landed back on the field where I was greeted by my friends and a glass of champagne, which commenced the party!”

Judith, who moved to America in 1966, competed in Virginia, Florida, and California, and also represented her country in Holland and Germany, winning the ladies’ championship.

She also started the Winston arena polo club in Anaheim and since then

Judith Baker flying high on her 75th birthday with Chris Grantham. View from her GoPro at Santa Barbara Polo Club

has had a successful career training polo ponies.

As for her paragliding experience, Judith adds: “It was extraordinarily exhilarating. I felt very safe.

Everybody, whatever age, should try it.”

Lowe on the Go Actor Rob Lowe and his jewelry designer wife, Sheryl, are selling their 3.4-acre Montecito home for $47 million.

The tony twosome have listed the 10,000-sq.-ft, 20-room property with uber realtor Suzanne Perkins of Sotheby’s Realty.

They built their dream home, Oakview, just a tiara’s toss from Oprah Winfrey in 2005, even bringing in a feng-shui master to create the

Rob and Sheryl Lowe’s estate is currently listed with Suzanne Perkins for $47 million (photo courtesy Sotheby’s Realty)

perfect flow of energy.

The main part of the house boasts 6 bedrooms, a formal dining room, a wine cellar, a film screening room, and a piano bar.

The guest house features 2 bedrooms with its own kitchenette. There is also a 800-sq.-ft. pool house with one more bedroom, a kitchen, and a tennis court.

Beach Bash It was an evening of good libations when Visit Santa Barbara hosted its second annual sold-out official drink of our Eden by the Beach contest at the historic El Paseo restaurant.

Out of 25 entrants, five establishments were chosen to compete in the finals, with the winner being the Four Seasons with its Biltmore Fuerte, a heady concoction of Cutler’s artisan bourbon, organic lemon juice, strawberry purée, Thomas wildfire smoke-infused honey, honeycomb, and lavender flowers, made by the Ty Lounge’s South African mixologist Samantha Graham.

Other restaurants in the mix included the Finch and Fork at the Canary, the Funk Zone’s Loquita, and the Santa Barbara Brewing Company.

The People’s Choice award went to Santo Mezcal for its Riviera Hermosa, a mix of bourbon, sage, thyme, infused

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Receiving the People’s Choice Award is Santo Mezcal restaurant’s Riviera Hermosa as their mixologists Sean Sepulveda and Oscar Pereyra mix the ingredients. (photo by Priscilla)

Announcing the Official Drink of Santa Barbara is Travelzoo’s senior editor Gabe Saglie, commentator; and the winning team of the Four Seasons The Biltmore’s Fuerte Cocktail from Samatha Graham, mixologist and assisting in receiving their award are Tyler Ondatje, Armando Cabral, Ty Lounge manager; Karen Earp, hotel manager; sponsors Visit Santa Barbara president and CEO Kathy Janega-Dykes; and Noelle Buben, director of Marketing & Events (photo by Priscilla)

Visit Santa Barbara timing team are Noelle Buben, Paulina Wine, Angelica Rameriez (photo by Priscilla)

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by Steven A. Blum Steven A. Blum received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and has practiced real estate litigation, specializing in landslides, over the past 30 years in law firms big and small. He lives in Montecito and his website is www.cal-landslidelaw. com. He is a partner of Blum Collins LLP.

Rules for Insurers – Because Insurance isn’t So Sure

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n the wake of the Montecito Mudslide, most property owners first turned to their insurance companies for funds, and most of the insurers have responded well. A few have not, and some others are still trying to figure out how to handle the claims. In some cases, insurance adjusters from other states have landed in California to “help.”

Usually it takes months (which have now passed) for homeowners to realize that an insurer is not acting fairly or (gasp!) trying to short-change them.

And even if insurers pay out all the policy benefits (money) that they owe to homeowners, there is sometimes not enough to fully compensate for the loss. In other words, you might be underinsured.

This week, I’ll dispense with the legal theories and offer a quick practical guide to some of the insurance issues you might face.

Issue 1. Not enough insurance under the policy you bought. Your most likely

remedy is to file an inverse condemnation lawsuit against Edison. Inverse condemnation, which I’ve discussed in earlier articles, is a legal theory that entitles the property owner to “just compensation” under the California and United States Constitutions when government or a utility like Edison damages or “takes” private property for a public use. It’s the flip side of eminent domain: if the public takes your property, then the public needs to pay. It is a simple socialization of your loss. The lawsuits are underway (although there’s still time to file), and the Santa Barbara County Superior Court has transferred all the pending lawsuits against Edison to the Los Angeles County Superior Court (a few blocks from my office on Wilshire Boulevard).

Issue 2. Uninformed out-of-state insurance adjusters. The insurance commissioner authorized non-California licensed claims adjusters to adjust claims in disaster areas if they con-

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form to the California Insurance Code and other insurance laws. But some of the out-of-staters are in unfamiliar territory and need to be educated. For example, various adjusters have told homeowners who suffered a total loss that they had only six or 12 months to collect full replacement cost to rebuild.

But they are wrong. Under California law, no insurance policy may have a time limit of fewer than 12 months to rebuild and collect replacement cost.

And after a State of Emergency, this time period can be no fewer than 24 months. See Insurance Code section 2051.5(b)(1).

Issue 3. Time limit to collect “Additional Living Expenses”. Your time limit after a State of Emergency (Government Code section 8558) for additional living expenses is generally 24 months.

Insurance Code section 2051.5(b)(2).

Issue 4. Rebuilding in current location or replacing in a new location. As a general matter, homeowners may use their replacement cost insurance coverage to (1) rebuild at the current location, (2) rebuild on a new location, or (3) purchase an already built home at a new location. If you suffered a total loss of your home, no insurance policy can limit or deny you payment of the replacement cost if you decide to rebuild or replace somewhere else.

You are entitled to the “extended” or “guaranteed” portion of your replacement cost insurance even if you rebuild or replace elsewhere. Insurance Code section 2051.5(c).

Issue 5. Adjusters playing “musical chairs.” If the insurance company assigns new adjusters to be primarily responsible for your claim, the insurer must provide you with a written status report that includes a summary of any decisions or actions related to the disposition of your claim, including the amount of losses and the retention of design of construction professionals. This is important because insurers tend to hire experts (structural engineers and contractors) who know who is buttering their bread – meaning they have a bias for the insurer to lowball your compensation – and you’ll need to keep on top of their activities.

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Issue 6. Cancellation of insurance after total loss of your home. The insurer cannot cancel coverage while the primary insured structure (usually the main house) is being rebuilt, with some exceptions contained in Insurance Code section 676. The insurer cannot use the fact that the primary insured structure is in damaged condition as the sole basis for a decision to cancel the policy. Insurance Code section 675.

Issue 7. Adjustment of policy limits on renewal. If you haven’t completed reconstruction of the primary insured structure by the time of policy renewal, the insurer must adjust the limits and coverages, write an additional policy, or attach an endorsement to the policy that reflects the change, if any, to your exposure to loss. Insurance Code section 675.1(a).

Issue 8. Non-renewal after a declared disaster. With a few exceptions, the insurance company is required to offer, at least once, to renew the insurance policy if the total loss to the primary insured structure was caused by a disaster that wasn’t at least partly your fault.

This last issue is a significant concern. What happens when you’ve rebuilt your home and your insurer won’t give you insurance? It can affect your ability to get a mortgage or sell your home. Who would buy an uninsurable home? That would significantly reduce the value of your property, and who is going to pay for that? Hint: Thomas Alva ___________.

Answer: See Issue 1, above.

Finally, California law holds insurers to a high standard and while some have acted admirably, others are not shy about trying to shirk their obligations. If you have problems with your insurer, it might pay to have a lawyer write some letters for you. And if that doesn’t work, the courts exist to help you.

This is the 11th in a series of articles about legal issues arising out of the Montecito Mudslides. To read the other articles, go to MontecitoJournal.net or my own website, cal-landslidelaw.com, or email me at blum@blumcollins.com. •MJ

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Spirituality Matters

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

Healer Stokes Fires of Self-awareness and Relationships

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early everyone has a relationship they’d like to, ahem, adjust, perhaps wrangling with a romantic partner, sorting out sibling situations, still feeling frustration over family foibles, or maybe handling conflict with a co-worker.

But transforming relationships starts with making changes in ourselves, says Crystal Stokes, who has offered transpersonal/spiritual psychology and coaching in Santa Barbara since moving here three years ago. Locals can get a taste of what that’s all about in a one-hour workshop this Saturday, June 30, at 2 pm at Yoga Soup.

Creating Authentic Relationships draws from tools founded in cognitive behavioral psychology, as well as personality typing to aid in shifting the energy in relationships toward agency, acceptance, and authenticity.

“People come into a workshop with a relationship in mind, but we always start with ourselves,” Stokes said earlier this week over the phone from Vancouver, B.C., where she was on a personal retreat following a weekend workshop. “For some people, that’s source/spirit/God – depending on your belief system. But what does that really mean? How do you define that authenticity? Normally, we do that by saying what it’s not: ways we’re living that are not authentic, by putting up a mask, defending ourselves, or acting in ways to please others. That creates a sense of restriction and tightness, with something that’s not right.”

But the exploration doesn’t stop with the intellectual definitions, Stokes said. “There’s also your relationship to your body, as in yoga. Is it an object that you beat into submission or something you are always trying to fix? Or are you one with it as a manifestation of your reality?”

The workshop begins from source within the body and moves outward, Stokes said, first to relationships to others, whether those who are currently close or in the past, including lovers, to the community and the world at large.

It sounds like a lot for one hour, but Stokes has a method to the madness which begins with a guided meditation, followed by a series of prompts, questions she will lead the group through. “It may just be for ourselves, or if there’s time we may share the replies, but either way they take you on a journey from what is not working to what you want to have, to how to

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which is one of the things we will talk about. It’s not something you just do once. But we’re going for more than an awakening. You want to not only have the ‘a-ha’ realization, but also get ready to take charge. I’m like a catalyst, one who gets people hungry to connect with their own desire again.”

(Admission to Creating Authentic Relationships with Crystal Stokes is $10 in advance, or $15 on Saturday.

Visit www.yogasoup.com.)

Going Green: a Breath of Healing

Yoga Soup’s on: Crystal Stokes presents a workshop Saturday, June 30

make it a reality. So when you leave, you have an action plan in mind of ways to start building an authentic relationship.

Still, cramming all of that into one hour might seem next to impossible, and indeed it helps if participants undergo a version of the Enneagram personality test on her website (www. crystalstokes.com/enneagram-test) before coming to the workshop, which was adapted from the Stanford Inventory by David Daniels, who was Stokes’s teacher and mentor when she studied in Palo Alto.

“Knowing the common challenges, dominant ways of experiencing life, the primary emotions – all of that colors how we relate to ourselves and others,” she explained. “The Enneagram also helps with being present, mindfulness. If you don’t live in the moment yourself, experiencing what’s happening, it’s hard to connect. How can you create intimacy with someone else in a way that’s authentic and substantial if you’re not present yourself? That’s partially why I like doing this work in yoga studios.”

Meanwhile, of course, the work itself is never-ending.

“It’s really just getting the ball rolling,” said Stokes, who in her private practice synthesizes Eastern and Western elements from transpersonal psychology, functional fitness, holistic nutrition, Eastern health and philosophy, wildlife conservation, meditation, and mindfulnesss. “It’s a long journey,

Center of the Heart’s Center for Spiritual Living’s Breathwork & Energy Healing Group gets together form 2 to 4 pm on Saturday, June 30, when Heather Green and Satya Colombo co-lead a healing workshop to provide the tools and inspiration to “keep shining bright and strong through the times ahead” in these times of great shift in consciousness on Earth. In sacred circle, attendees will be guided lovingly through Energy Healing and Breathwork practices who weave together and illuminate teachings to strengthen and support people navigating the complexities of modern living. The Breathwork practice is an ancient high technology for healing, awakening the soul, and releasing stuck energy and emotions.

Practiced while laying down and set to an inspiring soundtrack, the gentle two-stage Pranayama breathing meditation is easy to integrate into daily life and offers palpable effects on mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

The practice can help dissolve stress, anxiety, and overwhelm; clear your mind and calm your emotions; result in deeper sleep, reduced pain, and overall improved health and vitality; and revitalize your connection with your spirit, self, and Universal Life Force.

Los Osos-based Green, of Teal Healing, is an intuitive, animal communicator, and energy healer for humans and animals, who is the author of For the Love of Horses: An Animal Communicator’s Guide to Helping Our Horses and Healing Our Lives. Colombo is a healer, teacher, and intuitive adviser to artists and innovators whose work and life purpose involves cultivating a greater connection to the magic of the Infinite.

Admission is $35 in advance, or $40 at the door. Bring a pillow and blanket to get cozy, and pen and paper if you wish to take notes. Info and reservations at www.meetup.com/Centerof-the-Heart-Santa-Barbara-UC-forSpiritual-Living.

Mantra for Mindfulness

Awakened Presence is the title for the next gathering hosted by Jim

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. – Aldous Huxley

Dreaver, a Santa Barbara-based nonduality teacher and practitioner who is also the author of End Your Story, Begin Your Life and the new book We are Beautiful as We Are: Mastering the Shift from Ego into our True Power.

The meeting, slated for 7 to 8:45 pm on Monday, July 2, at a private home on Verde Vista Drive in Santa Barbara, has as its centerpiece focusing on the mantra “Only now is real, everything else comes and goes…” that Dreaver employs to shift into the space of awakened presence, where the heart is open, the mind clear, and self-doubt and suffering end. In that space, which Dreaver calls “true meditation,” participants examine where they are not yet free, where they still get emotionally triggered or caught up in our ego “I,” the “story-teller” with its judgmental and limiting thoughts, beliefs, and “stories.” The shift is realizing that those things come and go while the pure awareness watching our ego is always here.

Dreaver maintains that most anyone using the “practice” can awaken within a year or less. For more details, visit www.jimdreaver.com, or call Dreaver at (310) 916-4037. Phone 5634904 for reservations and directions to Monday’s meeting. Admission is by donation, all are welcome.

More MeetUps

Wendy Cooper’s Intuitive Arts of Santa Barbara’s next gathering is a group reading during which Cooper will lead participants in a meditation to prepare for receiving and giving an intuitive reading. She will then perform an intuitive reading for those present, and give each an opportunity to provide intuitive feedback for one another. The 10 to 11:30 am MeetUp on Saturday, June 30, takes place at Unity of Santa Barbara’s Bride’s Room at 227 E Arrellaga St., and costs $30.

Details at www.meetup.com/TheIntuitive-Life/.

Amber York’s monthly Santa Barbara Cuddle Connection MeetUp gets together at 7 pm Saturday, June 30, at Santa Barbara Body Therapy Institute, 516 N. Quarantina St. The Platonic Touch therapist, who offers also healing bodywork and facials, kicks things off with a series of ice breakers, greetings, and a meditation before presenting safety guidelines for emotional, physical, and psychic security that includes demonstrations and exercises. Then the skills are implemented within everyone’s individual comfort zones as participants engage in (or refrain from) platonic touch with one another. Admission is $20. Event repeats every last Saturday of the month. Info and optional RSVP at www.meetup.com/Cuddle-andConnection-Santa-Barbara.

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

On the Movie

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ne of the things I’m glad to have learned in high school physics was the explanation of why movies “move.” The fact is that those projected pictures don’t really move at all.

But, if your eye sees a number of still pictures in rapid sequence, and each one is only slightly different from the preceding one, your brain somehow “blends” them together, creating the illusion of a single picture that is moving. This peculiarity is called “Persistence of Vision.” It is really a defect in our optical apparatus, making us unable to process images separately, if they appear for too short a time. But in this case, it’s a convenient defect.

Movies have now existed for more than a century. But for the first 30 years, they were all “silent.” This has always seemed strange to me, because sound recording actually pre-dated movies by about 20 years. But things don’t always happen as you expect they should. Thomas Edison himself, when he wrote down all the things he thought his new “phonograph” might be used for, didn’t even put “entertainment” on the list!

I’ve also been puzzled by the fact that, in the whole long era of silent movies, apparently nobody ever thought of inserting “subtitles,” at the bottom of the screen, the way we now still often do in translating foreign-language films. Instead, for every piece of dialogue, they had to interrupt the action, and insert the text on an otherwise blank screen.

I was born in 1933, when “talkies” were still only about five years old, and “Technicolor” did not begin to appear in major movies until five years later. “Animation” had been progressing for many years, but I myself came along just in time for the first movie I was taken to see (at age 5) to be the world’s first full-length film to have sound, color, and animation.

It was, of course, Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Movies were a big part of my childhood in Washington, D.C., where – every Saturday – having attended Sabbath synagogue services in the morning, I would walk up to the Sheridan Theater on Georgia Avenue and pay my 17 cents to see whatever was showing. It was always a single feature, and you had no choice. (Once, my mother, wanting to find out what was playing, called and asked, “What 28 June – 5 July 2018

are you featuring this week? There was a pause, and then the answer came back, “Two cans of sardines for 15 cents.” There also happened to be a Sheridan Delicatessen – and she had dialed the wrong Sheridan!)

That is a true story, which became part of our family lore. But, speaking of truth, there is another somewhat mystifying aspect of movies, which also applies to most other forms of drama. How can we enjoy and somehow believe what we know isn’t true?

How can we accept stories, which we know are fictitious, being presented by people whom we know are only “actors” – especially when we may already have seen the same person pretending to be entirely different people in other movies?

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Once again, the experts – this time the psychologists – have an answer for us. They call this phenomenon “Suspension of disbelief.” Some part of our brain is ready to go along with what some other part knows can’t be factual, as long as there seems to be no real danger in the situation. We can even let the magician saw a woman in half, if we’re confident that “It’s all part of the act.”

But there is one other thing which sets the movies apart from all other forms of art and business – and that is the enormous scale upon which any major production operates. Never before in history has any single creative endeavor involved so many people with so many different talents, plus so much investment of time, money, and effort. I myself was once lucky enough to get a small glimpse of this process when, as a teenager, I was, among some scores of boys from several London schools, fortunate enough to be an extra for a few days in a production of the British film The Browning Version, which was set in an English public school.

That whole experience was a revelation to me. I saw how much labor – and how much fakery – often went into the shooting of a single scene.

From then on, I understood why Hollywood has for many years been called “The Dream Factory.”

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L’auberge de Sedona: Creekside cottage

by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr.

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Sedona Day and Night Sedona: Cathedral Creek

L’auberge de Sedona: Dining by the creek

By Day

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h, Jerry!” my wife called out. “Your manly pink jeep has arrived!”

I was standing outside our hotel as Pink Jeep Tours guide Kellie Linafelter drove up and welcomed me aboard her bubble-gum-colored conveyance.

Soon our group of eight was rolling out of Sedona to explore the stunning red rock country that rises in cliffs and spires all around this Arizona town.

When we reached the Broken Arrow Trail, Kellie shoved the jeep into 4WD and we headed uphill. (The rough route isn’t named for Old West history but for a Jimmy Stewart movie filmed here in 1950.)

Bouncing and lurching up the rocky track, our jeep appeared to be full of bobblehead dolls. “So, Kellie,” I joked, “is your husband a chiropractor? This must be good for the family business.”

We threaded among Arizona junipers and prickly pear cactuses, gaping in wonder at the sandstone sphinxes, temples, and castles around us.

We hopped out at Submarine Rock, named for its elongated shape. (It seems every large formation in Sedona has a fanciful name: Camel Head, Coffee Pot Rock, Twin Nuns, Sugarloaf.)

As we walked up onto Submarine Rock, I discovered that sandstone is like sandpaper; it grips your shoes, making the climb easier. On the flat top, Kellie pointed out a seam where the rock has shifted five inches along a fault line. “It doesn’t have a name,” she said. “It’s nobody’s fault.” (Insert groan.)

Around us lay an ocean of red rock.

In fact, this whole area was once covered by an ancient sea. Over time, its sediments and layers of strand and shoreline fused into sandstone.

“You’re standing on an ancient beach,” said Kellie. “In Arizona!”

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Next, our jeep jounced up to Chicken Point overlook, where the view took in Bell Rock, a hunkering red butte and one of the area’s vortexes – supposed to be spots of heightened spiritual and metaphysical energy. In Sedona, you can arrange a vortex tour, stock up on mystic healing crystals, hit the New Age Superstore (“World-Famous Psychics!”), or have your aura cleansed.

Meanwhile, back on terra firma, Kellie pointed out a feature on the cliff face high above us: the White Line of Sedona. An almost indiscernible route across a sheer rock wall, with a drop of hundreds of feet, it is possibly the world’s most dangerous bike ride. The White Line wouldn’t even qualify as a ledge, but only a suggestion in the rock.

In 2015, Polish downhill champion Michal Kollbeck rode the White Line.

Somehow, he then turned his bike around on the precipitous stone face and pedaled the return trip. “The key was to block out the scary thoughts,” Kollbeck reflected afterward, “so I just focused on the trail and not on the terrifying space around me.”

Merely looking at the White Line made my palms sweaty.

To finish up our jeep tour, we embarked on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride down a virtual staircase of rocks.

Tilt! At the bottom, we left rock and dirt behind and suddenly reached the smooth pavement of a suburban Sedona neighborhood. “Civilization!”

I cried. “Paved road!” shouted a fellow passenger.

Kellie looked around. “I know,” she said, “I don’t like it either!”

Rest Break

When visiting a tourist town that’s thronged with, well, tourists, you need a game plan. Mine is simple:

Do things that take you away from the crowds, like a jeep tour. For your hotel, choose a sanctuary in a beautiful setting.

After a bit of strategic study, Merry and I had picked L’Auberge de Sedona, a hideaway set on the leafy banks of Oak Creek just below town.

On arrival, we checked out our cottage – a large, airy room with comfy armchairs, a king-size spindle bed, and a real fireplace. Then we plopped down on our own private deck overlooking on the creek. With cottonwoods and sycamores surrounding us, it was like living in a tree house.

For dinners and breakfasts, we walked along the creek to the inn’s restaurant while ducks scooted by on the gentle current. We ate with sunlight sparkling on the water and streaming through the leaves of cottonwoods, turning them into little pieces of bright stained glass.

A sanctuary, indeed.

By Night

“It looks like a powdered donut in the sky,” said the disembodied voice of our star guide in the darkness. “Or a smoke ring. Check it out.”

“Whoa!” exclaimed a woman in our small group, peering through a telescope at the Ring Nebula – actually a star that collapsed long ago and puffed out a halo of glowing gas.

Nebulas, planets, and twinkling galaxies are always out there in the night sky, but few people see them anymore. The glare of city lights washes out the heavens, obliterating even the Milky Way, our own star-spangled home galaxy.

If you’d like to reconnect with the cosmos, Sedona is a great place. It is an official International Dark Sky Community, treating light pollution

Where words leave off, music begins. – Heinrich Heine

as an environmental issue like air and water pollution – something devoutly to prevent.

To take advantage of Sedona’s ideal conditions – dark skies, high altitude, and 300 clear, dry nights a year – we’d signed up for a stargazing tour. The telescope our guide brought along was able to gather 4,000 times as much light as the human eye. Not to go all Carl Sagan on you, but it opened a world of wonders tallied in the “billions and billions.”

Stretching across the inverted bowl of the sky was the Milky Way, the galaxy that contains our solar system.

We earthlings see it on edge as a band of brilliant light, dazzling and beautiful, with as many as 400 billion stars.

(Not to mention a possible 100 billion planets.)

As we zoomed in on star clusters and constellations, I realized that a telescope is a time machine: It shows things as they were, not as they are.

Focused on our nearest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, I was seeing light beams that took 2.5 million years to travel here. (And that’s racing at 671 million miles per hour, the speed of light.) I was actually witnessing what this spiral galaxy looked like when mastodons walked the Earth and early humans struggled to survive.

Viewing the Andromeda Galaxy was like getting a postcard from 2.5 million years ago.

Gazing at stars sparks a sense of wonder in just about anybody – a good thing in this jaded age, when people spend far more time staring at their smartphones than at the world around them. Looking up at the vast heavens makes us ask big questions: Who are we? What is time? What lies out there in the vastness of space?

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less stars above – make good places to look for answers.

Compass Points

GETTING THERE: Sedona is a twohour, 114-mile drive northeast of Phoenix.

VISITOR INFORMATION: Sedona Chamber of Commerce: www. visitsedona.com, (800) 288-7336 or (928) 282-7722. Elevation 4,326 feet.

Temperatures 55 to 95 degrees F, with spring and fall most moderate.

Where to Stay

L’Auberge de Sedona (877-346-0425, www.lauberge.com) Luxury inn focused on romance (150 weddings a year), nature, and food. Be sure to book a cottage on the creek; the setting is everything. Fine dining at Cress features locally sourced meats and vegetables, artistically presented. Etch serves drinks and all three meals beneath a canopy of sycamores (breakfast tip: sweet bread-pudding toast with maple syrup, caramelized bananas, and cranberries). Organic spa L’Apothecary, besides the usual treatments, offers Japanese “Forest Bathing” and sound healing. Rates $300 to $1,800.

What to Do

Pink Jeep Tours (www.pinkjeep tourssedona.com, 800-873-3662) Scenic off-road trips through the red rock country; I took the three-hour combined Scenic Rim and Broken Arrow tours.

Sedona Star Gazing (www.evening skytours.com, 928-853-9778) For best viewing, avoid times around the full moon.

Metaphysical/spiritual pursuits Sedona has more than 120 spiritual shops and vortex tours; for information: www.sedonaspiritual.com.

According to the tourism bureau, vortexes are “enhanced energy locations that facilitate prayer, meditation, healing, and self-exploration.”

Other: Sedona has 80 art galleries and 100 hiking and biking trails.

Fun Facts

John Wayne, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Depp all made movies in the area. German Dada artist Max Ernst once lived in Sedona. The town has the world’s only McDonald’s with turquoise arches (golden ones were thought to clash with the natural landscape). Frequent visitor Walt Disney named his theme park’s Thunder Mountain ride after a butte in Sedona.

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

Now that the FEMA flood map has been officially adopted, Montecito residents need to examine their options for individually accepting or collectively challenging the new designations. It is important for each homeowner to study the map and understand the financial consequences and potential added costs that can be inflicted on unwary residents without their knowledge or understanding.

Expansion of the High-Hazard Zone

Of the 3,500 homes in Montecito, more than 3,000 of them were fortunate enough to receive little or no damage from either the Thomas Fire or the January Debris Flow. However, the new FEMA Flood Recovery map has reclassified nearly half of all Montecito homes as being located inside a new “high-hazard” flood zone—twice the size of high-hazard designations on previous maps.

According to Tom Fayram, deputy director of county public works, “We are drastically increasing the areas that we are identifying as high-hazard flood risk.”

What this means is that any Montecito homeowner within the newly designated high-hazard flood area who wants to rebuild at any time in the future will be required to raise their first floor level to at least two feet above the flood level shown on the new FEMA map. Raising your home will require rebuilding your home on stilts, or packing mud under your foundation, or installing concrete caissons to raise your home, or a mix of all three.

Most newly designated high-hazard homeowners in Montecito with undamaged homes have no idea they have been reclassified to high-hazard flood status. Informed residents need to look at both the new FEMA flood map and the existing California Geographical Survey maps that measure debris flows to distinguish between the two. Montecito endured a debris flow on January 9, not a flood. The difference is flood damage comes from water flows that can cover a wider range, whereas mud and debris flows are much more concentrated and cover a smaller area.

There are serious real-world financial implications for any Montecito home that is reclassified to “high-hazard,” including a dramatic escalation in rebuilding costs, a potential reduction in home resale value and higher homeowner and flood insurance rates. The half of Montecito, reclassified to “high-hazard” will have to disclose its high-hazard liability to prospective buyers when owners try to sell their home.

Future Homeowner Insurance Implications

County officials insist that the new FEMA flood map will have no effect on future homeowner or flood insurance rates. Permanent flood insurance rate maps, known as a FEMA FIRM maps will not be completed for four to five years, but it is misleading to say that the new FEMA flood map will have no effect on private homeowner property values or new flood insurance rates.

The base data collected for the FEMA flood map will be used in developing the FEMA FIRM maps.

The insurance companies are not stupid. They are studying the new FEMA flood map, just like the rest us. Carriers have been stunned by the high cost of rebuilding in Montecito and substantial losses on

existing policies.

Insurance companies are well aware of the possibility of more rock-mud-debris flows next winter with the potential for more claims and greater losses. Any home inside the newly defined high-hazard area (nearly 50% of all the homes in Montecito) may be asked to add flood insurance to their homeowners’ insurance policies.

Recovery of Lost Property Tax Revenue

Many in Montecito fear that the county is anxious to have damaged properties rebuilt as quickly as possible to recover lowered property tax assessments in Montecito. Two percent of county taxpayers reside in Montecito, but Montecito accounts for approximately 17% of the County’s tax base.

According to North County 5th District County supervisor Steve Lavagnino, “Ninety percent of Santa Barbara County revenue comes from property taxes and, of course, Montecito is our Golden Goose.”

Das Williams responds: “Do you really think I am so callous and dark a soul as to worry about money more than people in this situation? Many of these properties only have another 18 months of insurance. We are in a race against time for their economic survival.”

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could experience six inches of flooding.

What does this mean? If the clubhouse were to rebuild, one end of the clubhouse over the dining room and kitchen would have to be rebuilt with its foundation raised up to 12 feet higher than it is now; the middle of the club would be okay at its present height; and the right-hand portion of the clubhouse would need to have its historic foundation raised at least 2½ feet above its current elevation. Since the entire clubhouse is at the same ground elevation, the only conclusion is that the FEMA map needs more vetting.

Modeling Errors Systemic and Pervasive

No one knows for sure whether those abnormalities are insignificant or substantial. We do know that a UCSB scientist calls the modeling errors systemic and pervasive. We also know that Tom Fayram was informed by FEMA that it has no budget to redo the map or correct significant errors.

Later, he added, “If the county finds significant issues with the FEMA flood map, we can try to compel the agency to make revisions.” All affected Montecito residents need a clear pathway for appeal following the county’s official adoption of the map in its current form.

The Bottom Line

Tom Bollay spoke on behalf of the Montecito community at last week’s BOS meeting. He testified that of the 147 homes above East Valley that were destroyed or heavily damaged, six of which included fatalities, only seven residences are shown to be at moderate risk or higher on the new FEMA Flood Recovery map, meaning flood surface flows of one foot or greater in depth.

Here is another inconsistency. Click on the new map and enter the address of the historic Birnam Wood golf clubhouse, built by Chinese stonemasons in 1894 as a Crocker-Sperry citrus packing plant.

The 124-year-old clubhouse sits on level ground at 220 feet above sea level. On previous maps, the Birnam Wood clubhouse has always been designated as being outside the high-hazard zone. It suffered no flood damage on January 9. The new FEMA map shows a mapping anomaly: a mysterious dark blue lake appears atop the sloped roof of the clubhouse, indicating that one end of the clubhouse could be underwater by up to 10 feet in case of flood. The center of the clubhouse is designated as outside the high-hazard designation, but the other end of the clubhouse is back in the high-hazard area and

Official adoption of the FEMA flood map by the county BOS will have unforeseen consequences on Montecito and its homeowners. Although adoption of the map is a fait accompli, the emotional trauma of rebuilding in any area officially labeled an “extreme danger” is mindboggling, coupled with the risk of a second potential debris flow occurring while you are rebuilding.

Finding a proper pathway for Montecito residents to file for modifications to their new high-hazard designations, as well as finding reasonable solutions for efficient and safe rebuilding compatible with neighbors’ concerns will be a challenge. Some residents will decide to wait and not rebuild for five years; others will move on, leaving an abandoned lot; still others will rebuild at higher elevations, angering neighbors with lower home elevations.

Already, like-for-like rebuilding will bypass the Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) scrutiny. County planning and its caseworkers from North and South County will make the rebuilding decisions to restore Montecito. Hopefully, it will all work out, but one unfortunate certainty is that Montecito residents will have little say in what we see as an arbitrary rebuilding process. We need to change that.

•MJ

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Pop music tells you everything is okay, while rock music tells you it’s not okay but you can change it. – Bono

LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

Sadly, it’s come down to this.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Yes, it indeed has “come down to this,” but “this” isn’t new. Tactics such as these have been used for decades, though it is still sad. It wouldn’t be a bad idea, however, for restaurateurs to post in their windows who is welcome and who isn’t. Or, if that breaks certain “inclusivity” rules, how about simply stating one’s political persuasion in a great big sign above the door? A “Make America Great Again” or “We’re With Her” sign could immediately separate a business’s customers and save a lot of angst and aggravation for everyone. – J.B.)

Loves Lowenthal

To those who were there at this concert, “Congratulations”. To those who were not, you missed a genius at work. I have some piano training but am not a qualified critic. However, I know what I like and so did the soldout audience who gave Mr. Jerome Lowenthal several standing ovations.

I happened to see him walking with one other man after the concert and was able to personally express my admiration. I will always remember that moment.

Marv Bauer Summerland (Editor’s note: Just another excellent concert brought to you by Montecito’s famed Music Academy of the West! – J.B.)

Going with What Works

In response to four planes being hijacked on 9/11, we armed pilots and air marshals. Democrats opposed this.

There has not been a single hijacking since, and not one passenger has been shot.

After mass school shootings, Democrats refuse to arm teachers and security guards, citing the same fears they did when pilots were armed. The same fears that never materialized after more than a decade of armed pilots.

So, who really wants to protect our kids? #WeKnowWhatWorks Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara

Know Your Kids

NRA – this three-letter combination has been the cause of a never-ending controversy. The sound of these three letters inspires some and drives others insane. The NRA is again at the center of attention and there is obviously a reason for it. Well, actually and sadly a few reasons: America’s recent mass shootings. Liberals across the board are screaming that guns must be banned. To me, that makes as much sense as banning cars because drunk drivers kill people. I believe that for all the reasonable people, it might make sense to dig a bit deeper.

Americans own a lot of guns, but we are not alone here. A few other civilized countries, such as Switzerland, have extremely pro-gun legislation and roughly half of that nation owns guns. But have you ever heard about mass shooting or any mass gun murders in that tranquil European country? Target shooting, rather than human killing, is a national sport there, as well as in other pro-gun countries.

So, what is the problem with the USA? Why do so many kids suddenly set out to kill other kids, and adults spray bullets at crowds of people? I clearly see two main problems: lack of basic morals and meager home education. Let’s look at the roots of the trouble that start in the family. These days, being a parent has very little to do with one-on-one parenting. All the “gadgets of pleasure” (iPads, iPhones, computers, video games) that modern society has allow parents to just leave the kids to deal one-on-one with the fancy device in their hands.

Leaving kids alone is now a “new normal”. And that would be somehow okay if it would affect only a short time here and there, but just look around! You see kids staring at the screens all the time everywhere and you can only imagine what they do at home. Guess what, sometimes kids get frustrated, confused, lost, bullied, or simply lonely. And there is no better solution to this than a heart-toheart conversation with their parents.

I would draw your attention to the plural form of the word “parent”

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because this, to my mind, is very important. About 99 percent of all mass shooters were from a family with a single parent. Sadly, most of the parents these days cannot or simply don’t want to handle this “problem” and hardly ever sit and talk to their kids and guide them through what’s important and literally vital for them.

There is nothing more important than the strong bond between a child and his family, and there is nothing more important than the home itself coupled with that bonding. Home – the place we all are looking for, the place that is comforting us and giving us the feeling of safety and foundation. Does this “shelter of peace” exist in modern America? Let’s go back to my previous thought: a kid is upset, introverted, does not want to talk? Easy solution! Call the doctor, to whom the kid is just a number and a chart. For the kid this is the moment where the connection with mom and dad is severed.

Doctors follow their protocols, which in the U.S. in most cases leads to the drugstore. Have you known that they prescribe mind-altering drugs to kids about three years of age? If your child is simply rowdy and rambunctious, they can diagnose him with ADD and set him up on drugs while he can barely speak. Now, lonely and drugged, the kid has more emotional problems that he ever had before and now is a “ticking bomb” that needs just a tiny spark to blow up.

It is not hard to find that spark.

American society is overloaded with sparks. I am a mother of five, and it’s scary to observe the degradation that modern kids without healthy parents’ supervision are going through beginning at about the age of five. All cartoons made for kids after the age of five do not correlate with normal kids’ health and attitude. All characters move hysterically fast, they talk fast (when do they have time to think?

And why do they act like this in the first place?), they yell, scream, and act like psychos under the influence chopping off heads and murdering each other by the pound every few seconds.

Any normal person with a balanced nervous system will find such cartoon characters extremely unhealthy. So, what do the kids do with those cartoons? They copy them, they project them on their own lives. Fast, “crazy,” no-time-to-think-lonely-drugged kid is getting a PlayStation for his big birthday! Guess what will happen next? Violence from those “cool” games continues to contribute to the still fragile brain of the little one, exasperates, and blows up in real-life violence.

Unfortunately, that’s not the end of this story. There is TV, where guns are for “cool gangsters” not for “cool cops.” Imagine if TV banned guns

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as means of aggression and showed them only as means of protection for five to seven years! I am sure that would help the kids understand the real purpose of a weapon. There are also music videos where “cool” rappers show their power with violence and shortcuts to wealth and pleasure through primitive narratives. It is almost impossible to describe the mix of feelings that a young mind would go through at such an age alone and under pressure of all the poisonous crap spilling out of TV, movies, and video games.

Add to that poor parenting, indifferent, underfunded, and politicized schools where they teach about transgender problems but often omit basic morals and manners, and you get the perfect petri dish for violent insanity. Frustrated and shocked, overwhelmed with hidden emotions and extra doses of mind-altering drugs and sugar from his fifth can of Coke, he goes to school where reality hits this child in the face: his imaginary world and twisted self-awareness are not compatible with the daily routine.

This kid needs to put up with the others, deal with the school and new social problems by himself with no support from the parents whom he “lost” a while ago.

Where should he run? What should he do? That’s where that one little spark can ignite the time bomb.

Whether it is rebellion against life by the rules of reality or simply rejection by parents to get him another video game, the kid crosses the line. He gets his gun and shoots. He might kill himself, but that would be a scream into a pillow (do you know how big gun violence is in the USA in the form of suicides?) and he wants to be noticed.

Finally, everybody will notice him: parents, his school pals, that girl who did not reply to his love letter...

I remember attending a TED speech given by a mother of one U.S. mass shooter. She was standing in front of a big audience, crying. She told the listeners that she had no idea her son was like this, that he would be able to kill and be such a monster. And I am sure she was not lying. She simply did not know her son.

Knowing your kids is a key to a happy future; knowing your kids gives you a huge chance to predict or stop the catastrophic events that drag America down; knowing your kids is simply being a parent.

Guns are not the problem. Guns are just one class of weapons, and in the hands of a mentally unstable person even a golf club or a car can become an assault weapon. So, let’s focus on our families, schools, morals, and other basic building blocks of a healthy society that we still can preserve and protect.

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Celebrating History

Project Fiesta 2018

by Hattie Beresford

The new exhibit invites guests to watch 1935’s La Fiesta de Santa Barbara from chairs and tables of the original El Paseo Restaurant

Santa Barbara Historical Museum trustee John Woodward talks about the early days of Old Spanish Days (Photo

by Fritz Olenberger)

In a swirl of ruffles, 2018 Spirit of Fiesta Jesalyn Contreras-McCollum performs for the opening of the new Project Fiesta exhibit at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (Photo by Fritz Olenberger)

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he Santa Barbara Historical Museum welcomed the upcoming 95th Old Spanish Days Fiesta with the opening celebration of a new edition of Project Fiesta on June 7, in the museum courtyard. On hand to greet attendees were representatives from the museum and Old Spanish Days including Museum trustee Bill Reynolds and interim executive director Michael Redmon, along with La Presidenta Denise Sanford and Fiesta 1st vice-president Barbara Carroll.

Gilbert Raya was busy making tacos, 2018 Spirit of Fiesta Jesalyn ContrerasMcCollum delighted the crowd with her fandango, and refreshments featured traditional margaritas.

In its fourth year of production, Project Fiesta features some fascinating new elements. Festive streamers invite visitors to sit in historic chairs from the original El Paseo restaurant at tables that display original menus. The show for the evening on the “El Paseo stage” is the 1935 Technicolor movie La Fiesta de Santa Barbara, which includes such iconic stars as Judy Garland, Leo Carrillo, and Lana Turner. A bit corny for today’s tastes, the movie represents a

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

The La Primavera seal accompanied all correspondence from the organization, including the 1920 letter informing their guarantors that La Primavera Association was $10,000 in arrears and they’d have to pay up

A gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Park to the museum, Alexander Harmer’s Guitar Player depicts the popular musical instrument of early California and contains a pentimento. This work joins other historic paintings in the exhibit.

slice of America’s past interpretations of Old Spanish Days.

Also represented this year are the historic antecedents of the 1924 Fiesta.

These include artifacts and photos from the 1886 Mission Centennial celebration, the Floral Festivals of 1892-1896 (themselves inspired by the 1891 celebration for the visit of president Benjamin Harrison), and La Primavera, the 1920 attempt to establish an annual Spanish festival in Santa Barbara.

Besides the screen showing La Fiesta de Santa Barbara, there is a screen scrolling clips from the original Old Spanish Days Parade of 1924, which include the anachronistic 1542 landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.

Sailing his caravel around Castle Rock

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song. – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

“Cabrillo” landed by dory on West Beach near Plaza del Mar, where he was welcomed by a tribe of Kiwanis.

Cabrillo, of course, never landed in Santa Barbara having sailed right by, though he is believed to be buried on one of the Channel Islands. And what the heck Detroit Indians were doing in Santa Barbara at the time is a complete mystery!

For that first Fiesta, it was decided to have a Queen selected by vote of the resident population. In a fierce contest that buried the five contest judges with ballots, Madalynne Romero emerged victorious and was crowned Queen of Fiesta. Her photo, and that of her closest runners-up, Hortensia Richardson and Marie Baron, are displayed in the new exhibit. They joined the parade in a special Queen float that also carried the erstwhile Cabrillo.

This year’s exhibit is sponsored by Museum trustees John C. Woodward, Marlene and Warren Miller, and Eleanor Van Cott, TVSB, and Old Spanish Days.

Activities connected to the exhibit included a walking tour of public art by Erin Graffy on June 23; an upcoming First Thursday screening of “Cascaron” and after-hours dance party with salsa band Mescal Martini on Thursday, July 5; a History Happy Hour on the topic of Fiesta by Ms Graffy on Wednesday, July 25; and a talk on Santa Barbara’s historic parades and festivities by Neal Graffy on September 20. Visit the museum website at www.sbhistorical.org for more detailed information.

•MJ 28 June – 5 July 2018

Real Estate View

Montecito Heat Index

by Michael Phillips

How Hot is Today’s Market?

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more, 325% , in fact.

The high-end $5M and up estate properties scored a dismal 3, well shy of last year’s score of 18. This sector retreated post-January 9, and today there are 26% fewer of these estates properties on the market than this date last year.

We have all talked about the December/January events much more than we have wanted to do so.

Yet the impact of those events upon property values remains a significant concern. The good news, should we call it that, is recovery is happening and we will soon see the first of new building permits on properties that still today makes one want to turn away.

Yet our housing market is still as stunned as we are and in spite of a

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he Montecito Heat Index identifies demand for Montecito single-family homes in five price sectors. By measuring buyer demand, (signed contracts) rather than sales (closed escrows), we create a forward-looking indicator of both market strength and direction rather than sold data that are typically a month or more old. And since real estate activity fluctuates seasonally, today’s Heat score is compared to this date last year. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and uniformly deemed reliable.

How “hot” is today’s market? The total Heat score is 99, far above last year’s score of 60.

Looking at the adjacent chart, the $1-2-million group is our demand leader with a score of 31, outperforming the $3-4M group by just one, and the other sectors by considerably more. It notably outperformed last year by a sizable 287.6% with 49% fewer properties for sale in the sector.

Buyers also liked the $2-3M and the $4-5M sectors more than they did last year and for the $4-5M group a lot

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significant increase in signed contracts compared to this date last year, total year-over-year data are bleak: active listings down 18%, listings under contract down 30%, listings sold down 36%, and our median

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sales price down 14% to $2,485,000.

In fact, our only bright spot is condominiums, which we don’t talk about enough. Sold numbers are up 12% and the median sales price is up an extraordinary 43% to $1,675,000. •MJ

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Music Academy of the West Making a Scene: New MO for MAW Opera Event

Los Angelesbased director and designer James Darrah

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ome Saturday and Monday, opera will be busting out all over the place at Miraflores.

Rather than staging OperaFest – nee Opera Scenes – in its entirety in the cozy confines of Hahn Hall, where the Music Academy of the West (MAW) vocal Fellows are normally accompanied only by a single pianist, vignettes will be “staged” all around the picturesque seaside campus of the Music Academy of the West.

During the event’s first half, small scenes, arias, and ensembles will be performed in unusual locations in and around the summer festival’s main building, including the gardens and other outdoor spaces. And it will be the audience’s job to move from location to location to take in the offerings.

But that’s not the only difference with this year’s OperaFest. James Darrah – the ambitious Los Angelesbased director and designer who has taken both theater and opera down unexpected new avenues, including installations, and who helmed the acclaimed world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s operatic adaptation of Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves for Opera Philadelphia and the Prototype Festival in New York two years ago before directing a full-scale production of The Elixir of Love for MAW last summer – has come up with an ultra-modern program, including the Love scene and duet from Act One of Waves, plus the final scene, Ma’s aria, end, from Mazzoli’s Proving Up, her

latest work, with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, which is being heard for the first time on the West Coast after its world premiere this past January at the Kennedy Center.

Also on tap are the otherworldly Floats The Roving Nebula scene from Ellen Reid’s Hopscotch, which was originally performed by the experimental opera company the Industry in cars on the streets of L.A. and will take place in a special outdoor setting here too. Reid will be in residence with the MAW Fellows for the event, a boon since her piece is performed with only multiple speakers and electronics and voice – with no piano or orchestra accompaniment.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Dove’s oneact opera L’Atra Euridice (The Other Euridice) will be performed in full over the course of the evening with special instrumental Fellow guests, as will the entire one-act opera A Hand of Bridge

by Samuel Barber. Rounding out the pre-intermission set is the Act Two excerpt “Jamais d’amour je ne jouirai” from Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour D’Loin.

Not coincidentally, several were written in the 2000s by composers who are still alive, and four of the works are by women. Sara Widzer and Darrah are splitting up directing duties for the evening’s initial offerings.

Following the “Opera Takeover” that comprises Act I of the annual offering, OperaFest returns to a more traditional venue back at Hahn Hall for a new fully staged production (directed and

designed by Peabody Southwell) of Leonard Bernstein’s jazz-infused oneact opera, Trouble in Tahiti, in its entirety as part of the centennial celebration of the famed American composer and conductor. But there’s even a twist in that presentation as the singers will be accompanied by small instrumental ensemble conducted by KitchenerWaterloo Symphony music director Edwin Outwater, rather than a single pianist.

Pretty exciting stuff. Even better news, as of press time, tickets were still available for both the 2 pm performance on Saturday, June 30, and the 7 pm show on Monday, July 2. But note: while the audience will experience a wide range of narratives and compositions over the course of the first hour, there will be separate groups, each of which is guaranteed a unique and slightly varied experience. So, you might want to attend both shows.

Meanwhile, hopefully Darrah is saving something enticing for later as the adventurous director will stick around to stage MAW’s annual operatic cen-

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The second annual Music Academy of the West Classical Evolution/ Revolution Conference, which took place at Hahn Hall last Friday, June 22, was a resounding success, with increased attendance and lots of fascinating panels that including speakers from such organizations as the U.S. Dept. of State, Disney, Sonos, NPR, Americans For the Arts, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London’s Southbank Centre, and many more covering a wide variety of topics and issues facing classical musicians and executives today.

But if you decided not to take a day off from work to indulge in the talkfest, fear not: the event streamed live on MAW’s Facebook page (www.face book.com/MusicAcademyoftheWest) and is still available for viewing at your leisure. There weren’t any Jerry Springer-style chair-throwing incidents, but the panels offered lots of food for thought and grist for the artist’s mill.

Where Have All the Alumni Gone?

Not all that long ago, repeaters formed a sizable percentage of the Fellow population, and it wasn’t unusual for more than one violinist or pianist to run up against MAW’s three-summer limitation of festival participation. No more. There’s been a decline in alumni attendance over the past few years, reaching what appears to be a new low this summer, with by our count only 24 of 120 Fellows, or 20 percent, representing returnees,

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terpiece, a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, with the Fellowspowered Academy Festival Orchestra led by James Conlon, the Grammy Award-winning music director of Los Angeles Opera, who will be making his own exciting festival debut with the new production at the Granada on August 3 & 5.

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and just a handful are back for a third go-round.

Is this indicative of an extra effort toward exclusivity? A conscious choice to cut back on alumni to let others ambitious and talented young musicians sample the program? A determined decision to find fresh blood?

Nope. None of the above. At least not according to Patrick Posey, MAW’s vice president for Artistic Planning and Educational Programs.

Asked about the numbers via email, Posey had a simple response: “They all got jobs!”

The cryptic remark wasn’t even tongue-in-cheek, but more a reality check about the ever-increasing quality of the Fellows who matriculate each summer to what has become one of the nation’s, if not the world’s, most coveted warm-weather festival.

Further proof showed up just this past Monday when word came that current Fellow (and 2017 alumni) William Welter just won the principal oboe position at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Welter was one of the MAW/New York Philharmonic partnership Zarin Mehta Fellows earlier this year and has been studying recently with faculty artist Eugene Izotov, who formerly held the same position in Chicago, and, coincidentally, is featured in this week’s season-opening Music Academy Festival Artist Series concert at the Lobero (more details below).

Saturday, June 30: Prefer your chamber music downtown? No problem. MAW’s Community Chamber Concerts at Santa Barbara Public Library consist of similar repertoire to their cousin, the Picnic Concert. And while tickets are no longer offered on a first-come, first-served basis, they’re also available either online or at the door, and still for free. The season’s first show takes place 1 pm today at the Faulkner Gallery.... OperaFest (see above)... AFO there! Yes, it’s time for MAW’s first Academy Festival Orchestra concert of the summer, once again conducted by the great teacher Larry Rachleff, who has been handling the first time out for the Fellows for seemingly forever (in actuality about a decade). We’ll be

shocked if you’re not surprised at how tight and professional the players sound after knowing each other for less than two weeks. The program? Oh, yeah. That’s not too shabby either: Berlioz’ Le Corsaire, Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” (Granada Theater; 7:30 pm; $10 to $100).

Tuesday, July 3: Don’t blame Eugene Izotov if he skips the July 4 parties and fireworks displays on Wednesday. After all, the oboist is doing double duty during the second Music Academy Festival Artist Series concert at the Lobero tonight, performing in both Poulenc’s concert-opening Trio for Oboe, Bassoon,

and Piano and closing out the concert with Serenade for Winds, No. 11, as Fellows are paired with faculty members to round out the octet for Mozart’s beauty. On the other hand, Izotov might have it easy compared to Nico Abondolo, who is once again taking on Tom Johnson’s aptly named “Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass”, a work that requires self-referential talking while performing the absurdly challenging passages, a work that Abondolo likes to play at MAW, he once told me, about once a decade. (Has it really been that long?) It’s truly a wonder to witness.

Also on the program: The Pendericki Clarinet Quartet, with guest violinist Martin Beaver joining regular faculty artists (7:30 pm; $10 to $46).

•MJ

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This Week at the Music Academy Thursday, June 28: Mark H. Lawrence, the former principal trombone of the San Francisco Symphony for 34 years, curates and conducts MAW’s annual BrassFest, featuring hallmarks of the brass repertoire a variety of genres played by small and large ensembles, some including percussion. The program spans the centuries from Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba to two of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, to Street Song by Michael Tilson Thomas and Bruce Broughton’s Music from Silverado.

Also of note: selections from Carl Nielsen’s Aladdin Suite (Hahn Hall; 7:30 pm; $10 to $25).

Friday, June 29: Picnic Concerts – the evening hodgepodge of chamber music offerings performed by fellow ensembles or soloists – have perennially been so popular that it was next to impossible to secure single tickets for an event after the season started.

No longer, apparently. At press time, we counted about two dozen ducats still for sale for tonight’s event online, so snap ‘em up, pack up the picnic basket for dining al fresco on campus, and get ready to marvel as the Fellows share their talents in solos, duets, trios, quartets, and more (Hahn Hall; 7:30 pm; $10 to $40).

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Left to Right, Bottom Row: Karissa Fields, Reese OLeary, Lily Solano, Eliana Gans, Camille Cheng, Lauren Cantin, Sofia Tognotti, Natalie Scharin, Sascha Rose-Smith, Sadie Leventhal, Reina Williams, Jack Lawrence.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) Runners on the Romero trail prior to the debris flow.

Montecito Trails Foundation is doing all they can to restore our local trails for runners, hikers, bikers, and equestrians.

Ray Ford’s mini excavator on the Romero Jeepway

from the U.S. Forest Service, and Brian Yanez, deputy director of Santa Barbara County Parks. “Having reps from all three agencies, as well as multiple trail groups, in one room together has been invaluable,” Mayfield said.

MTF has recently brought on three new board members: Mayfield, Paddy McMahon, and Tony Morris, who are helping the nonprofit to regroup and rebuild the trail system. They join 10 other board members, led by president Kevin Snow, who has served the MTF for 35 years. The Trail Committee includes a runner (Mayfield), a mountain biker (Hans Van Koppen), and an equestrian (Jane Murray) , who make

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The mudflow exposed a stone bench at the creek crossing on San Ysidro Catway

it their mission to traverse the trails daily to report issues and prioritize repairs. “Together we bring a multiuse perspective to everything we do,” Mayfield said.

“The trails are seen as an integral part of our recovery,” she added, estimating that there are thousands of people on the trails at any given time. In addition to the trails being significantly damaged, signage and trailhead kiosks were also affected.

The group has already repaired many of the “low land” trails, with the help of the Bucket Brigade, Santa Barbara Land Trust, and Ennisbrook Association. Work has also begun on the Romero Jeepway, which will be followed by the Romero Single Track, Girard, McMenemy, Buena Vista, and Hot Springs.

Although MTF had a “rainy day fund” for emergency repairs, they have a need for a larger budget to fund the hundreds of thousands – potentially millions – of dollars necessary to repair the trails. “We are not subsidized by the government; we depend on local donations and the

good will of the community,” Wiener said. Rerouting in some of the upper trails will be necessary, requiring engineering, surveys, and easements. “It’s a complicated process that will take a lot of time and money,” Wiener said.

While the City and County continue to attempt to secure grants from FEMA to help with the rebuilding, MTF is dedicated to keeping the lower trails open and reopening the upper trails one section at a time.

Early rumors of “angel donors” stepping up to help fund the work of the MTF during this time have not come to fruition. The group is seeking community members who would like to donate funds, host events, and help fundraise. “We are trail lovers, not experts at raising money,” Wiener said. The group’s largest fundraiser of the year, the annual barbecue in September, will need to be relocated as the Montecito Valley Ranch was affected by the mudflow.

For those looking to help volunteer, this Saturday, June 30, the MTF is hosting a Trails Recovery Day; volunteers will help restore the McMenemy,

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Old Pueblo, Bud Girard, and Saddle Rock trails, and others. All skill levels are welcome; lunch will be provided at Manning Park. Jobs are not limited to actual work on the trails, as help is needed with set-up, breakdown, and lunch. To RSVP and for more information, call Steve Biddle at 564-5436.

To join the MTF, and to stay up-todate on the trail closures, visit www. montecitotrailsfoundation.info.

Casa Dorinda to Open New Entrance Bridge

This Thursday, Casa Dorinda will mark the opening of its new entrance bridge at the intersection of Olive Mill and Hot Springs roads. The bridge, which arches over Montecito Creek and serves as both the entry and exit to the 48-acre community, marks the completion of the first major milestone in the facility’s most recent expansion project.

The Bliss Expansion Project, which was approved by the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) in 2016 after many community meetings, will add healthcare and housing, amenities, new recreation areas, and restored oak woodlands to the campus. The project will build 22 new 2-bedroom apartments over the next three years; the expansion project is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

Casa Dorinda’s historic southern exit bridge, which was significantly damaged in the January mudslide, was demolished after County staff in 2016 estimated that the bridge would degrade structurally over the next two decades. The MPC had originally asked Casa Dorinda for a focused Environmental Impact Report on the demolition of the bridge, after hearing conflicting testimony from experts.

Casa appealed that decision to the Board of Supervisors; their appeal was granted and a mitigated negative declaration was used for the project.

To mark the gratitude of Casa Dorinda residents for the harrowing

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On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.

by Steven Libowitz

Shifting Shapes (and Sounds) with Sudama at SOhO

S

udama Mark Kennedy doesn’t talk a whole lot about his past, but his background includes the fact that his father, a career diplomat who had posts in Yemen, Beirut, Lebanon, and elsewhere, was one of the hostages who became famous in the Iran-Contra Crisis back in 1979.

By then, Sudama was already traveling and following spiritual teachers, studying Siddha meditation, Huna healing, shiatsu, Indian philosophy, and yoga – all by the mid-1980s – and took his interest in mystical literature and Indian music to UCSB to earn a master’s degree in religious studies.

Kennedy has been in town ever since, and all of those influences show up in his music, one way or another, but never as much as on his brandnew CD. Shape Shifting Jaguar, which will be officially released on Sunday, July 1, will also be celebrated with a live concert at SOhO that same Sunday evening. The album, one of a few in his catalog under his own name rather than Dreamtime Continuum – the erstwhile band he led for two

SOhO hosts Sudama Mark Kennedy on Sunday, July 1

decades – is a wondrous collection of a dozen original compositions.

Taken as a whole, it’s a joyous journey through the subconscious’s interaction with the world, but the individual tracks run the gamut of styles from reggae and calypso to blues and funk to flamenco, Indian, and much more, including spoken word poetry.

Among the supporting musicians are Dreamtime players and many others, including Montecito sitar player Montino Bourbon, village-raised kirtan-reggae artist Joss Jaffe, plus Steve and Jill Miles, Eje LynnJacobs, Ali Baba from Mali, Rebecca Kleinmann, Philippo Franchini,

Chris Thomas, and Piyata Penedo, not to mention Kennedy’s cat, Nunu, whose purring in B-flat was turned into a raga.

Sudama talked about the album’s solar and lunar sides, an extrovert/ introvert full-chakra experience that includes such concepts as mammalian brain energy, “what to do in a world of confusion,” “awakening with closed eyes,” and much more. It all comes to life this weekend, when most of the musicians will be on hand at SOhO for the special show, and Daniela Riva will be offering a mystical dance with her exotic troupe during the opening segments.

Q. What was the genesis of the project?

A. Joss Jaffe and I have been wanting to write a song together for years.

We did “Just Being Me”, the reggae one. And we realized oh, this is really good. We need to have a whole CD. I had all these old Dreamtime songs, ones that were more like jams that we’d play in the second set, more like band-organized jams, with so many

possibilities of directions we could go in. Seven of the tracks on the album are from that time frame of the last five or six years, things that evolved with the musicians as I worked on them. I refined them in the studio to turn them into something more concrete.

The album was mystically designed to cover the full 12 chakras – there are actually 12 if you count the ones over the head and in the feet and hands. It’s also the number of clock points, a very holistic bandwidth. So, the album is designed to extend the chakras in order.

The theme is about healing?

Yeah, but what is healing? It’s intention plus frequency. Anything can be healing. Dreamtime was always be a healing intention. The first half I’d play didgeridoo to take the audience into mystical places and then get increasingly dynamic as the show went on, with more structured improv at the end. People would come in depressed and leave feeling ecstatic.

The album is the reverse order, so we’re doing it backwards live. On the CD, you get to feel the throb and then get even more open to the mystical sounds after being satisfied by the first half. Most people want that oomph right off the bat. But we’re starting at dinner time, so we’re doing it the other way around.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 32) The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation was awarded $18,000 from the United Way of Santa Barbara County. The organization had two veteran Canine Disaster Search teams ready in the area prior to the debris flow on January 9.

The former exit to Casa Dorinda was damaged in the January 9 debris flow

Crews put finishing touches on the new entry and exit bridge, which will be officially unveiled to the community on Thursday, June 28

Search Dog Foundation Receives Funding

Among the heroes braving the Montecito mudslides in January were 18 teams from the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF), the group’s largest single deployment since Hurricane Katrina.

Based in Santa Paula, SDF had two

veteran Canine Disaster Search Teams ready and waiting in the area prior to the slide, allowing them to get straight to work. Although it costs $20,000 to recruit, train, and provide care for each canine, SDF provides the service free of charge. And because it receives no government funding, SDF relies on community support. Recognizing the stellar service and work, United Way of Santa Barbara County’s LongTerm Recovery Committee awarded SDF $18,000 through the United Way Thomas Fire and Flood Fund. It is one of 18 community organizations to receive initial funding from the fund.

“The funding that came from United Way of Santa Barbara County was wonderful because it allows us to continue training the next genera-

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efforts of Montecito Fire Protection District firefighters during the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow, a Montecito Fire truck will be the first vehicle to cross the bridge at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday. Additionally, Casa Dorinda announced it will be donating $10,000 to the MFPD.

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“This funding allows us to pull more dogs from the shelter and put them out there to save lives.”

The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation is one of 18 community organizations to receive initial funding from the United Way Thomas Fire and Flood Fund serving those affected in both Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. To date, more than $1.8 million has been allocated to Santa Barbara County’s affected families and the organizations serving them.

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For more information about recipient agencies, please visit www.unit edwaysb.org/thomas-recovery. For more information about the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, go to www.searchdogfoundation.org/ •MJ.

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In Business

by Jon Vreeland

Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir, The Taste of Cigarettes, will be published May 22, 2018, with Vine Leaves Press. Vreeland is married to artist Alycia Vreeland and is a father of two beautiful daughters who live in Huntington Beach, where he is from.

A Song Just for You Your Love in Song has many package deals and options.

You can reach (right) Selden Cummings at (805) 245-9699 and Richard Lonsbury at (805) 680-8733.

Their website is www. loveinsong.com.

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t doesn’t matter how big or how small a wedding actually is: as soon as the bride and groom are permitted to kiss, they still walk away married with one marriage license for two people. However, this does not propose the ostracization of romanticism; when it comes to getting married, nothing is too amorous for a pair of hopeful newlyweds.

And when people marry, music – often a specific song – is used to serenade the event with a symbolic melody to remember for the rest of

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their lives. That’s precisely the reason two Santa Barbara musicians and acoustic duo Selden Cummings, 26, and Richard Lonsbury, 28, created a unique business called Your Love in Song, a company that will write a authentic and personalized song, “tailor-made” specifically for the bride and/or groom, or whomever the person(s) intended.

The professionals metamorphose your unique romantic history into the song you never heard before, eliminating the dedicated love songs writ-

ten for nobody in particular. The duo thinks those songs in no way compare to a song written using the couple’s story – when and where they met, how he or she proposed, even inside jokes – or whatever details the bride or groom wants to share and express through custom melody and lyrics.

After the duo write lyrics and chords to the client’s liking, the song is recorded in a professional studio at “radio quality” and then downloaded, burned, mastered in any form of technology so the song remains accessible at any place any time. “When someone purchases our service, they are hiring professional musicians to create a customized, radio-quality ballad,” says the sole owners of Your Love in Song.

The client may also request the song be performed at the wedding or any other festivity that may be fitting. The acoustic duo also says if the client only needs help writing the music, or maybe just the lyrics, and wants to sing or play the tune as well, Selden and Richard always enjoy working with patrons and new talent. The song is not finished until the client is 100-percent satisfied with the overall experience of solidification of his or her personal serenade.

For Selden, music has been a talent for as long as he can remember. He went to San Marcos High, then spent a couple of years at Santa Barbara City College before attending UC Berkley

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as an English major, winning multiple awards in creative writing and poetry.

Selden sings, plays the guitar, beats the drums, surfs, and his favorite place to travel has been Spain, where he ran with the bulls last summer.

Richard is also a lifelong Santa Barbaran who attended Santa Barbara City College. However, from 2007 to 2009, he attended the American Music and Dramatic Academy in New York, where he learned to use his deep baritone-style voice in a broader set of ranges to accommodate various genres of music. He has a wife and two kids, and has performed on the stage, music, and drama, for more than a decade and a half.

The two have written songs together ever since they met while acting in The Dino Show at the Santa Barbara Zoo in 2012, a spectacle specifically for kids that requires outgoing talented people to keep the young ones entertained.

They sing everything from modern and classic rock, jazz, opera, soft rock, and rap if the client so desires. Their flexibility to alter and experiment to totally satisfy the vision of this experience during the client’s ultimate romance is what Your Love in Song is all about.

“We write heartfelt songs and implement fresh and fun ideas to ensure the bride and groom have the best experience possible when getting married,” says Selden.

•MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) blood orange, lemon juice, aromatic bitters, activated charcoal with sugar and cayenne pepper, a float of pinot noir, and a garnish of dried blood oranges and thyme.

Wine writer and Travelzoo editor Gabe Saglie emceed the contest, which gave the participants three minutes to set up and seven minutes to perfect their cocktails, before being judged by wine author and columnist Michael Cervin, Geneva Ives, author and publisher, Matt Kettmann, senior editor at the Independent, Alvaro Rojas, owner of the Alcazar Tapas Bar, last year’s winner, and local event planner Gina Andrews.

The Biltmore, which recently re-opened after the devastating mudslides, has the exclusive rights to sell the 2018 Official Drink of Santa Barbara at Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s tony hostelry throughout the year.

Hungary Heart Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West has been the place to be after the charming Miraflores campus launched its 71st annual summer festival featuring more than 200 events over the next eight weeks.

The Takacs Quartet – violinists Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes, violist Geraldine Walther, and cellist Andras Fejer – kicked

Andrew Firestone with event co-chairs Nancy EklundHunsicker and Mila Hart (photo

by Lindsey Drewes Photography) The Takacs Quartet kick off the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival

off the musical feast with works by Mozart and Dvorak, with the entertaining concert wrapping with Dohnanyi’s piano quintet No. 1 in C Minor, with the addition of keyboardist Natasha Kislenko.

Just 24 hours later, New York-based pianist Jerome Lowenthal, a teacher at Manhattan’s Juilliard School, attending his 49th summer festival, showed off his extensive talents, with academy fellows performing three days later in one of the popular picnic concerts.

How lucky we are.

Helping Hands Santa Barbara Polo Club patron Tom Barrack hosted the 7th annual Santa Ynez Valley polo classic at his sprawling Piocho Ranch, raising around $60,000 for the 26-year-old local charity People Helping People, which has a two million dollar annual budget and serves nearly 4,000 clients.

The victorious Piocho team at the Santa Ynez Valley Polo Classic with players Nacho Figueras, Matt Ladin, T.J. Barrack, and patron Tom Barrack (photo

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Coach Company, who had a number of their exquisite models on show.

Highlight of the day was the match between Piocho, captained by billionaire Barrack, owner of Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch, with Ralph Lauren Polo model Nacho Figueras – whose former model wife, Delfina, participated in the amazons match – and Wildhorse Studios, sponsored by John Benitz, with Santa Barbara club players Memo Gracida, Joel Baker, and Jesse Bray.

Piocho won the entertaining game 5-3.

I was then asked to present the prizes to the hat contest winners, chosen by co-chairs Nancy EklundHunsicker and Mila Hart, with the Best Hat award going to The Woman in Red actress Kelly LeBrock.

Among those turning out for the boffo fête were Andrew Firestone, Charles Ward, Gina Tolleson, Jon and Martha Bull, Ron Macleod, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Morten and Lisa Wengler, Justin Fareed, Beverley Jackson, Kari Lloyd-Markowitz, Monty Roberts, and James Lindenberg. $50K is on the Money Fiesta Ranchera celebrated its 11th anniversary with a sold-out bash for 900 guests at the 146-year-old Rancho La Patera and Stow House in Goleta, raising around $50,000 split equally between Old Spanish Days and the 51-year-old Goleta Valley Historical Society.

The colorful gala, co-chaired by Alex Castellanos, director of the 94-year-old Old Spanish Days, and Dacia Harwood featured 32 eateries, wineries, and beer brewers,

Newly engaged Joel Ungar and Mary Smith looking at Anna’s Marketplace Bakery for that cake with Kelly Jensen, 2007 OSD PP, Jeff Dell, and Llisa Boelter of AMB (photo by Priscilla)

Old Spanish Days 2018 Junior Spirit Georgey Taupin and her mother, Heather Taupin, ready for her Fiesta Ranchera performance. (photo by Priscilla)

Los Arroyos, loyal supporter of OSD; Serving are Irvin Miguel, Areli Miguel, Roy Antunez to Ruth and Peter Georgi, 1990 OSD PP (photo by Priscilla)

Jesalyn McCollum, Old Spanish Days Spirit of Fiesta; preparing for her spirited dance performance at the Stow House Historical Museum (photo by Priscilla)

St. Barbara’s attendant Irene Robles; La Presidenta Denise Sanford; portraying St. Barbara is Anne Petersen of Native Daughter of the Golden West, parlor 126; and Amanda De Lucia, hostess and executive director GVHS Rancho Patera and Stow House (photo by Priscilla)

Sponsors and friends of Old Spanish Days are Montecito Bank and Trust, Hearts, Botanic Gardens, and Cox Cable representatives Alan Acosta, MBT; Pamme Mickelson, (Hearts); Steve Windhager, Botanic Gardens; Maria McCall, MBT; George Leis, MBT president & COO; Kirsten McLaughlin, Cox VP Marketing; Andy Rodriquez, MBT; and Carlos Cordero (photo by Priscilla)

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and showcased the Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta, Jesalyn McCollum, 17, and Georgey Taupin, 10-yearold daughter of famed Elton John lyricist Bernie Taupin, who danced flamenco with a Spanish band from Los Angeles.

“To think we started just over a decade ago with just 200 people attending,” says Alex. “We just keep growing and growing.”

A glorious evening.

One for the Books It was some enchanted evening in the upper village when Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum launched his new well-researched, 386-page book Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution with a bibliophile bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5837

ORDINANCE NO. 5838

ORDINANCE NO. 5839

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA CONSENTING TO THE ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION OF A CITY OF SANTA BARBARA LOAN AGREEMENT, DEED OF TRUST AND AFFORDABILITY CONTROL COVENANT FROM PHOENIX OF SANTA BARBARA, A CALIFORNIA NON PROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION TO PATHPOINT, A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION AND AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE SUCH DOCUMENTS AS NECESSARY.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A LOAN AGREEMENT, DEED OF TRUST AND AFFORDABILITY COVENANT WITH 813 EAST CARRILLO STREET, L.P. AND AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE SUCH AGREEMENT AS NECESSARY.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2018 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 19, 2018.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 19, 2018.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 19, 2018.

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

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ORDINANCE NO. 5838 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

ORDINANCE NO. 5839 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on June 12, 2018, and was adopted by the

was introduced on June 12, 2018, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June

was introduced on June 12, 2018, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

19, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

June 19, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

June 19, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 20, 2018.

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

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 20, 2018.

on June 20, 2018. /s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 20, 2018.

June 20, 2018.

June 20, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Published June 27, 2018 Montecito Journal

Published June 27, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amador Matchmaking, 1805 E. Cabrillo BLVD., STE C, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Santa Barbara Matchmaking, LLC, 1 N. Calle Cesar Chavez STE 102, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 1, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jaysinghe. FBN No. 2018-0001611. Published June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The SB Assistant, PO Box 293, Summerland, CA 93067. Heather Hart, 4979 San Marcos Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June

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21, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0001811. Published June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 74 Systems; Schoolofbookkeeping. com, 1187 Coast Village Road

STE 575, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. 74 Degrees, LLC 1187 Coast Village Road STE 575, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 8, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0001679. Published June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 2018.

My ambition was to live like music. – Mary Gaitskill

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published June 27, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) has (have) abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Harlequins Theatrical Supply, 17 W. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Peter F. Mahar, 109 N. Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Sara H. Mahar, 109 N. Nopal Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was originally filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 19, 2014. 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 Jazmin Murphy, filed May 31, 2018. Original FBN No. 2016-0000487. Published June 20, 27, July 4, 11, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Movegreen Franchising, 1811 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Movegreen Franchising, INC., 1811 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of

28 June – 5 July 2018

ORDINANCE NO. 5840 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADDING CHAPTER 10.53 TO THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE IN ITS ENTIRETY REGARDING THE OPERATION OF SHARED MOBILITY SERVICES The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 19, 2018.

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

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5661 DUE DATE & TIME: July 18, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Asphalt Tack Coating Scope of Work to include bonds, insurance, labor, materials, equipment, supervision and appurtenances necessary to apply tack coat to existing pavement surfaces at areas within the City of Santa Barbara city limits.

A pre-bid meeting will not be held.

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5840 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 19, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on June 20, 2018.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 20, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published June 27, 2017 Montecito Journal

Santa Barbara County on June 7, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0001668. Published June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ariza Construction, 936 Mission

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Canyon Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Alpine Lake Homes, Inc., 15841 Woodbridge Lane, Truckee, CA 96161. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 17, 2018. 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. 2018-0001482.

Published June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 2018.

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

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

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

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

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California A-General Engineering – OR -- C-32 Parking and Highway Improvement contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5662 DUE DATE & TIME: July 17, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Traffic Control for Asphalt Repair Projects Scope of Work to include bonds, insurance, labor, materials, equipment, supervision and appurtenances necessary to provide Traffic Control for Asphalt repair jobs and projects.

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

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

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

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

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C31 Construction Zone Traffic Control contractor’s license. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year 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. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be required.

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

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

Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year 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. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be required.

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

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

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

_________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: June 27, 2018 General Services Manager

Published June 27, 2018 Montecito Journal

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“It took me three years to write,” says Todd. “There was a lot of research in New York and Washington, so there was also quite a bit of traveling.”

The tome is a fascinating history of the collaboration of two giants who took musical theater to new heights with works such as Oklahoma! – which just celebrated its 75th anniversary – Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound Of Music.

There are also a number of local connections with Harrigan Logan, daughter of Josh Logan, who co-wrote South Pacific with the dynamic duo, living in Summerland, and Peter Melnick, Rodgers’s composer grandson residing in our rarefied enclave.

Tech Mate Montecito’s most famous resident, Oprah Winfrey, already runs her own cable network, acts in blockbuster films, has a hefty stake in Weight Watchers and is a contributor to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes.

If that wasn’t enough, she has now inked a multi-year contract to develop content for Apple.

“Together, Winfrey and Apple will create original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world,” says Apple, which will be using the deal to take on Netflix and Amazon, according to industry insiders.

Oprah, 64, just extended her deal with OWN through 2025, its parent company Discovery Communications announced in December.

The talk-show titan’s deal with Apple is the latest round in the battle for talent among the technology giants. Just last month, Netflix enlisted former president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, to produce content for the streaming giant.

Apple has previously signed production deals with Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and NBA star Kevin Durant.

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The letter to President Joko “Jokouri” Widodo said if Indonesia joined other Asian nations that have already banned the cruel trade, it would be “celebrated globally” and end a stain on the country’s reputation.

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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 28 Listening at the Library – Summer Storytellers, which takes place at the Santa Barbara central library this afternoon – lets kids learn how to be storytellers. The mini version of the library’s innovative Reading Ambassador program that is offered at camps, after-school programs, and classrooms throughout Santa Barbara teaches children to use pictures to inform their reading and read with expression, and it encourages them to share their reading with younger family members or children in their community. Registration is required for the 2 to 3 pm workshop that is best suited for grades 2-5.... Also, Alan “Spirit Hawk” Salazar – who shared Native American songs and stories using traditional storytelling at the Carpinteria Library and the Central location earlier this week – comes to the Eastside Library at 4 pm this Saturday, June 30, after a visit to the Buellton Library at 12:30 pm. Free.

INFO: 564-5641 or www.SBPLibrary. org SATURDAY, JUNE 30 Natural Yummies at Museum – The Santa Barbara Wine + Food Festival – they added the “Food” part a couple of years ago after realizing that the eats were every bit as enticing as the vino – has become one of the area’s most popular sip-and-savor soirées over its long history. Taking place along the oak-lined creek that runs through the grounds of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the event draws not only raves from attendees but also earns accolades from the winemakers who man the booths lining the meandering path in the woods. “This is the most beautiful

tasting, the most beautiful setting that I do anywhere in the country, no question about that,” says Jim Clendenen of Au Bon Climat, whose winery is just one of several dozen serving at the festival, which draws many exclusive vintners. There are also many entries serving entrees you won’t see anywhere else among the three-dozen-plus restaurant and food purveyors offering samples. Perhaps fasting for a day or two before is the wise choice. Net proceeds from the Wine Festival supports the museum and associated Santa Barbara Sea Center’s nature and science education for adults and children. WHEN: 2 to 5 pm (VIP entry at 1 pm) WHERE: 2559 Puesta Del Sol Road COST: $75 to $150 INFO: 682-4711 or www. sbnature.org Funk and Fury – Trek on out to Old Town Goleta for a terrific triplethreat bill of rock, pop, and protest songs at the Mercury Lounge tonight.

Killer Kaya, the Santa Barbara six-piece psychedelic and funk outfit named after a rather large house cat, has a 1960s era psychedelic sound with funk and soul elements. Locals My Dallas Teens draw upon many musical styles, from the quintessential roots of rock and roll, to the garage and paisley San Francisco sounds of ‘60s, with the sonic mayhem of feedback from the ‘90s and the modern underground scene. Julian Porte of Levitation Room is a musician and activist whose YouTube sensation “The Ballad of Kelly Thomas” tells the story of the homeless man who was beaten to death by six officers of the Fullerton Police Dept. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Avenue, Goleta COST: $8 INFO: 967-0907 or https://www. facebook.com/Mercuryloungeotg

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 Tapia on Tap – It was five years ago that Roberto Tapia, one of the most popular performers in the Mexican Regional music genre, first played at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom in a sold-out show five years ago. The native of San Diego moved to Sinaloa, Mexico, when he was a young boy and later enrolled in a prestigious music school at 11 before making his professional debut in Tijuana at 17. By 2002, Tapia had vaulted to superstardom via his winning combination of Latin rhythms with touches of hip-hop and electronica, and along the way his performances incorporated everything from romantic ballads to controversial corridos. Tapia also weaves fast-paced, high-energy songs into his concerts, which have helped him secure a loyal following among fans. His most recent album, 2017’s Esto Es Sólo El Comienzo, earned Tapia critical acclaim for a mix of banda anthems and soulful norteño ballads. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $45 to $65 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino.com

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by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 You and Barry McGee – San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee embraces improvisation as a guiding principle in his work, finding a balance between chaos and a meticulous attention to detail.

Constellations and groupings of drawings and sculptures are juxtaposed against found objects, ephemera, and collected works by other artists, while the artist’s multi-layered imagery is born out of elements of the urban experience, including issues of identity, homelessness, and pointed critiques on consumerism and commercialism. SB Mid Summer Intensive – a solo exhibition featuring a sprawling installation of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects – that opens today at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara – like past shows that have been marked by the artist’s immersive environments and responsiveness to their geographic and social contexts, will reflect its surrounding environment and the particular histories of the region, including references to Santa Barbara’s past and cultural oddities such as the Reagan Ranch Center. WHEN: Opening reception 6 to 8 tonight; exhibition on view through October 14 WHERE: Paseo Nuevo shopping center Upper Arts Terrace (across from Center Stage Theater), 653 Paseo Nuevo COST: INFO: 966-5373 or www.mcasantabarbara.org

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Brassy Independence Day – Cielo Foundation’s annual free patriotic concert at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens is eschewing the classical symphony orchestra in favor of more metallic music. The Crown City Brass Quintet, the quarter-century old Los Angeles ensemble and a veteran of the Ventura Chamber Music Festival and other major concerts both near and far, is coming to town to set the stage for the forthcoming fireworks show in a set that draws heavily from the marches of John Philip Sousa with ample other Americana from George M. Cohan, Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, and more. The Quintet features trumpeter Robert Frear, who has performed as Principal Trumpet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra among others, plus his wife and fellow trumpeter Mary Fenton Frear, French hornist Sarah Bach, trombonist Andrew Mallow, and tuba player Norman Pearson. While perched on lawn chairs or sprawled on blankets on the Sunken Gardens’s glorious downtown lawn, the audience will hear Sousa’s “Armed Forces Salute”, “The Washington Post”, and “Stars and Stripes Forever”, plus three songs from centennial birthday boy Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story (arranged by Jack Gale), “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” arranged by Bill Holcombe, Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl, and much more, before the concert concludes with Rob Frear’s own arrangement of “America the

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things. – Tom Waits

Beautiful”. Don’t forget the sunscreen, water, and umbrellas, and then get ready to march down to the waterfront for the celebration and fireworks.

WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: Anapamu at Anacapa streets COST: free INFO: www.cielosb.org July Joy with the Elks – Santa Barbara Elks Lodge annual 4th of July “Family Fun Day” is a patriotic community gathering open to the public for free. More than 5,000 residents are expected to attend the event, which is being held in conjunction with thousands of Elks’ lodges around the United States in honor of our nation’s Independence Day. The day promises fun for the whole family, with face painting, a Jumping Box, and numerous crafts and games for the children, along with Bingo, a raffle, and music for adults, with plenty of prizes awaiting the lucky winners. A silent and live auction featuring a large variety of items take place throughout the day, with a raffle drawing slated for 4:30 pm in the Grove, with payouts totaling $3,000, plus prizes donated by local businesses and Elk members.

Hungry? Baked goods, hamburgers, hot dogs, barbecued chicken, root beer floats, snow cones, and popcorn will be sold for a nominal fee between 11:30 am and 4:30 pm.

All the money raised at the Major Project Booth goes directly to helping local children with disabilities, including in-home therapy for children with physical, vision, or speech impediments. WHEN: 11 am to 5 pm WHERE: 150 N Kellogg Ave., Goleta COST: free INFO: 895-6040 or www.sbelks613.org 28 June – 5 July 2018

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Goleta Fireworks – The super celebration in the suburbs features activities for all ages including the challenge of scaling UCSB’s climbing wall, plus the usual traditional contests, sack races, face painting, mini Ferris wheel, games for kids over 10 including corn hole, and the ever popular hula hoop contest. The popular family event sponsored by Goleta Rotary Clubs has entertainment from emcee Catherine Remak of K-LITE, DJ Qu1z0, and Santa Barbara funk party band Area 51, while among the food items available are everything from hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and soda combos to barbecue brisket, pulled pork, ribs, Mac ‘n’ Cheese, pizza by the slice, tacos, burritos and quesadillas, personal size Bundt cakes, Kona Ice, and more. Don’t forget the lawn chairs or blankets, and coolers and backpacks are okay (but no alcohol allowed). Fireworks start at 9 pm sharp. WHEN: 5 to 9:30 pm WHERE: Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Road, Goleta COST: $10 INFO: 968-2773 or http://goletafireworks.org

Celebrating at the Stow House – The historic Rancho La Patera & Stow House hosts their annual OldFashioned 4th of July Celebration featuring fun for the family and activities for the community to enjoy, including live music, hayrides, pony rides, barbecue, various games and races, local artists, engine show, classic cars, museum tours, and more. Some of the finest acoustic bands in the land make merry music on the lovely grounds, including The Nombres, Honeysuckle Possums, The Rawhides, and Salt Martians.

Parents can purchase a “Fun Pass” for $5, which provides children with a punch card with activities to choose from including temporary tattoos, face painting, games, hayrides, and more.

WHEN: 11 am to 4 pm WHERE: 304 N Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: INFO: 681-7216 or www. goletahistory.org Funk Zone Fourth – Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. and other Acme Hospitality properties are hosting a neighborhood July 4th BBQ Celebration, which will find The Lark parking lot transformed into a community party. The celebration showcases Nicholas Priedite, The Lark’s Head Bartender and resident barbecue expert, who will grill his signature barbecue brisket and pork ribs for the crowd while Les Marchands contributes grilled corn, and there’s also pasta salad from Helena Avenue

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Fabulous 4th at the Waterfront – Santa Barbara’s official celebration is the biggest and longest of the offerings in the area, as the music and festivities get underway even before the clock strikes noon. Bands begin performing on Stearns Wharf at 11 am and on West Beach at 12 pm, but that’s just the beginning of the massive celebration that features favorite food vendors, face painting, dancing (including appearances by Solstice fave La Boheme) and much more, ending with the spectacular fireworks display that lights up the harbor and the city for a full 20 minute show that is simulcast on 92.9 KjEE and choreographed to classic and current fun and patriotic tunes. WHEN: 11 am to 9:30 pm WHERE: Stearns Wharf and West Beach by the Santa Barbara Waterfront COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/ depts/waterfront/events/july4.asp •MJ

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Rock the Rooftop – Finch & Fork and the Canary Hotel celebrate the 4th of July with Rock the Rooftop, an open-air party full of bites, sips and views. Join in on the fun by soaking up the sun (or commiserating about June Gloom lingering late) and the Santa Barbara views with cocktails including boozy slushies and apps such as a slider bar with beef, fried chicken, and pork creations.

DJ Proper will be providing the beats above the town, though you won’t be able to linger long enough to watch the fireworks from up above, as the event ends at 8 pm.

But that’s enough time to amble down State Street to Stearns Wharf to watch ‘em up close. WHEN: 4 to 8 pm WHERE: 31 W Carrillo St. COST: $30, including slider bar (but not drinks) INFO: 879-9100 or www.

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CAC new executive director Pat Keelean with former director Fran Forman, who won a Champion award

provide for those who would not otherwise have health care coverage.

Introducing the Champions were Jim Raggio, Bob Freeman, and Guy Walker. David Bolton was master of ceremonies. Upon arrival, we had a wine reception outdoors on the terrace and then went into the ballroom for dinner and awards.

CAC works through its 22 health and human service programs, including Head Start, Healthy Senior Lunch, Weatherization Assistance, Family & Youth Services, and 211 Santa Barbara.

They serve more than 10,000 people throughout the County each year and employ 400 health education and social service workers, and are one of the County’s largest employers.

CAC executive director Pat Keelean wanted us to know the top event spon-

CEO of CenCal and board chair of CAC Bob Freeman with Dan Herlinger, board chair of CenCal at the awards banquet in Solvang

The Spirit of Entrepreneurship winners for 2018

shelter on the West Side helping get kids off the street, especially girls.

She started what would become the first HeadStart program in the United States. A special lady, indeed.

It was announced that SOE would now become part of WEV (Women’s Economic Ventures) who have been changing the face of business since 1991. They do that through business training, loans, and consulting. To know more, call (805) 965-6073.

Community Action Champions Brian King with Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, the 2018 Rock Star Life Achievement award recipient for the Spirit of Entrepreneurship fête

impartial six judges had 75 applications, spending many hours choosing the finalists and winners.

One winner that was easy to choose was the 2018 Rock Star: Life Achievement Award recipient Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, who is both a leading philanthropist and a businesswoman. “Not enough people know that Lady Ridley-Tree is the CEO of Pacific Air Industries plus Air-Cert, Inc., a company founded by her late husband, Paul, in 1959,” says Cathy Feldman, board chair/CEO of the SOE Foundation. “Leslie commutes to their headquarters in Chatsworth every week to supervise the business, even though she is in her 90s. Her business is an airplane parts distributor and repair shop. They maintain an up-to-date inventory for airline companies and delivery services such as FedEx around the world.

I remember when Leslie told me, “I used to tell Paul he had to go to work to earn more money, so we can give it away.” Many years ago, she lived in New York and ran a

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The Community Action Commission (CAC) of Santa Barbara County just held their 13th annual CAC Champions dinner in Solvang at the Corque Hotel. Until recently, I was not aware of this nonprofit and all they do. But during the mudslide, they were my lifeline when I called 211. I always got a real person on the line and could ask if we were supposed to evacuate. Since we were right on the border, I never knew. They could zero-in on their computer maps to our house and tell exactly. Little did I know that was part of CAC. Once a year, CAC honors those champions of youth, families, and seniors in our County. This year, one of the stars was Fran Forman, the newly retired executive director of CAC. She worked tirelessly on behalf of children, teens, families, and seniors to promote their education, job skills, physical/emotional well-being, and economic security in an effort to stabilize their lives.

Another champion was Dr. Kevin Walthers, who is superintendent/ president of Allan Hancock College.

He has built relationships with the community and created innovative fundraising programs. Under his leadership, the college launched The

President of Hancock College Dr. Kevin Walthers with Guy R. Walker, president of the AHC Foundation board and chair of the Promise campaign for the college

Hancock Promise, which allows students who graduate from high schools in Santa Maria, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, and Cuyama to receive their first year of tuition and fees for free.

The third star was CenCal Health (CCH), which gave a generous matching gift allowing this year’s event to raise more than $100,000 to support the Healthy Senior Lunch program of CAC in our County. CCH began from a small local health plan to the largest health insurer in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. They

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein

sors were CenCal Health, Rabobank, Athur Gallagher, BB&H Benefit Designs, Chumash Foundation, and Deckers. “Tonight, we are all partners in the quest to ensure our seniors remain healthy and independent – that makes each one of you a champion as well.”

You can dial 211 to find health and human services for postpartum depression, health care, counseling, food assistance, housing, and much more. For more information, check out www.cacsb.com.

•MJ 28 June – 5 July 2018

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