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The pandemic provided an additional challenge for the homeless, but PATH and its partnerships made sure that they were taken care of, page 32

A Retreat’s Revival La Casa de Maria saw its 26-acre retreat property destroyed in the 2018 debris flow; so it called a timeout to get the rebuild right, setting it up for a triumphant return in the not-too-distant future (story begins on page 8)

Parklets Promise

Coast Village Road restaurants have seen success with the outdoor parklets approved by SB City Council — and they’ll remain until at least March, page 6

It’s Kismet

Sara Miller McCune has been inspired by Broadway’s production of Kismet for decades — so she’s bringing it to Santa Barbara, page 24

So Long, Charles

Charles Ward might have only lived on the South Coast for 18 years, but his impact on this area will be felt for generations to come, page 18

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5 Montecito on the Move New to the area? Welcome to our neighborhood, where we take pride in keeping it fabulous.

6 Village Beat The pandemic-driven parklets along Coast Village are here to stay until at least March; new aquarium store opens in Upper Village 8 In the Know La Casa de Maria initially thought it’d reopen in months after the debris flow. Years later, it is finally ready to put an ambitious plan into action.

10 Letters to the Editor Madam Mayor, SB City Council — leave the parklets alone, you have bigger issues to tap into says one concerned resident 11 Brilliant Thoughts There is an art to complaining, and it’s marked with an untold history 14 Montecito Best Buys If you’ve got some serious cash to put down, there are a handful of eight-figure homes that could meet your fancy 16 On Entertainment Opera Santa Barbara doesn’t do anything slowly, and it will jump back into live shows with a production that it has never attempted 18 Montecito Miscellany Charles Ward quickly became a local legend as he brought innovation and big thinking to the South Coast, particularly the polo fields 20 Dear Montecito A year later, Meredith Urschel checks in with her hometown to talk about some concrete changes in her life 22 PERSPECTIVES

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land could be our best conservation initiative yet 24 Kismet Bringing Broadway to Santa Barbara has been a dream, and one that Sara Miller McCune will fulfill later this year 26 In Memoriam Honoring the lives of Charles Ward and Rosemary Phyllis Looney 27 Local News SBCC lands $20 million donation, acting as the single-largest gift in the school’s history 28 Our Town Coming out of the pandemic, Wildling Museum is collaborating with SBC Trails Council and Healthy People Healthy Trails 32 The Giving List The pandemic provided an additional challenge for the homeless, but PATH and its partnerships made sure that they were taken care of 34 Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles 35 Spirituality Matters Are you struggling with re-entry with pandemic restrictions lifted? Hospice of Santa Barbara is hosting a Town Hall, because you’re not alone.

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Montecito on the Move

By Sharon Byrne and Megan Orloff, Montecito Association

Just Moved in? Welcome to Montecito!

Please Help Us Keep It Fabulous.

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ontecito is having its moment.

In the past year, many people bought homes here and either moved in, or began spending time here while also residing elsewhere.

Welcome to our little piece of paradise!

It’s a fabulous community, a wonderful place to live. No doubt you’ve discovered its magic and charm, but please allow us to introduce you more fully to this community we share.

Montecito didn’t happen by chance.

It has been curated and preserved by its residents for decades. There is a culture, a local understated flavor that makes it special. We invite you to become part of that local charm, by embracing community traditions, values and aesthetics. You’ll find there’s a reason people have been here for decades, and why they care about it so much.

Montecito is gorgeous. We all love the ocean views, mountains, clear air, beautiful vistas, and scenic drives.

We love our hiking trails, parks, and beaches. The outdoor life here is stunning; we try to keep urban infrastructure down, and rural quality-of-life high. Please help us preserve the views and vistas by keeping your trees trimmed and avoiding constructing things that block your neighbor’s view. We do an annual neighborhood cleanup after Halloween, and everyone gets in on it! We hope you’ll join us this year!

We like the sounds of nature here.

You hear frogs in the creeks, the wind in the trees, and other sounds of nature. It’s soothing to your soul, and that’s more than just marketing.

There’s evidence that being around trees elevates your immune system.

So please don’t cut your trees down unless diseased. California oaks in particular are a fire-resistant, hearty breed that provide homes to our birds and small wild animals.

Similarly, we don’t like noise pollution. Please be mindful, if you have gatherings, amplified music here gets … very amplified by the topography.

You can really upset your neighbors’ (near and far) right to peace and quiet with loud music. Our noise curfew is 10 pm, Sunday through Thursday, and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Similarly, if you’re doing construction, the permitted hours are 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday only.

People keep livestock here, from horses to chickens to bunny rabbits. Their sounds are also part of the charm of a semi-rural community.

Night sky is a real thing here. We like seeing it, and all the stars. There’s a reason we don’t have streetlights.

The air is clearer here, so you can see more of the Milky Way. Outdoor lighting must be hooded, not directed towards another residence or street; it should be kept to what’s necessary for safety and placed low and tastefully so everyone can continue enjoying evenings under the stars.

Montecito is friendly, but respects privacy. Please feel free to get to know your neighbors — and offer to be a great one! We wave to one another at the Montecito Village Grocery or Vons.

We are grateful for our super-responsive firefighters and Sherriff’s team.

We smile as we walk by our neighbors on walks. We pet each other’s dogs on leash. We’re friendly and courteous.

Try working things out with your neighbor, rather than reporting them, they may have no idea you’re frustrated. And, when you’re planning construction, let them know, surprising them doesn’t usually go well!

Montecito contains wonderful people who have fought hard, and still fight, to protect this community. Montecitans serve on planning review boards, the water and sanitary district, fire and school boards, and on ours at the Montecito Association.

Montecitans do homeless outreach, and recently funded the Hands Across Montecito project to help move people indoors. Montecitans produce a Fourth of July Parade, and have our

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Both Coast & Olive and Lucky’s utilize parklets, normally packed later in the day and on weekends (Photo by Nick Masuda)

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t a hearing on Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council considered modifying aesthetic guidelines related to the outdoor dining in the public right-of-way on State Street, and on parklets in other areas of the city, including Coast Village Road. Many in the community were under the impression that the meeting was to consider removal of the parklets, which was inaccurate.

“I think some misinformation got out that the city was trying to remove all the parklets from State Street and that’s not accurate,” said Mayor Cathy Murillo at the beginning of the meeting.

Parking Programs Supervisor Sarah Clark explained to the City Council that the parklets and outdoor dining program were constructed very quickly in response to the pandemic, and the program was only expected to last a few months. The Emergency Economic Recovery Ordinance that was adopted in May 2020 allowed for restaurants to add outdoor parking without licensing requirements, as a tool to allow businesses to survive when they weren’t able to open indoors. That ordinance has been extended through March 8, 2022, allowing the parklets and outdoor dining to remain for the next eight months, despite the official reopening of California on June 15.

Members of the community have raised concerns about accessibility for those with disabilities, impact to surrounding businesses, emergency access, and cohesive aesthetics, and city staff brought the issues to City Council to discuss some possible changes to guidelines to address some of the concerns. Since the approval of the emergency ordinance, travel on sidewalks is more difficult, and some

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Parton

retail businesses say the outdoor dining and parklets have made their businesses less visible. On Coast Village Road, the parklets have utilized 27 parking spots and outdoor dining has been added on sidewalks, which has caused increased parking and pedestrian accessibility.

City staff recommended not allowing construction of new parklets and increased aesthetic guidelines for existing parklets, including no overhead elements like lighting and roofs, appropriate patio furniture rather than plastic furniture or interior tables and chairs utilized outdoors, and the prohibition of certain materials. It was also recommended that restaurants along State Street clear the sidewalks to accommodate accessibility guidelines.

“The large majority of the parklets are non-compliant with the current guidelines,” Clark said.

Over a dozen members of the public spoke at the meeting, including restaurant owners, community members, and residents with disabilities, all with varying opinions about the parklets and outdoor dining.

One thing was for certain: The vast majority of public commenters were in favor of enforcing ADA guidelines, which includes clearing the sidewalks along State Street and other areas of the city unless a restaurant has previous license to have tables on the sidewalks.

“To the restaurateurs: the disabled community can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. If you embrace our civil right to come enjoy your restaurant, you won’t have any resistance from us in this process. Do the right thing! The city of Santa Barbara

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

Reflect. Restore. And Revival is Coming.

La Casa de Maria has stayed dormant since the Montecito Debris Flow, choosing to learn more about the land before redeveloping.

More than three years later, it has a plan and a potential reopening date.

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indy Faith Swain peeks through a chain-linked fence that was once completely unnecessary, as separation from San Ysidro Creek neighbors came in the form of a natural lushness that provided serenity for the retreat-goers at La Casa de Maria.

Now one can hear the conversations of builders across that creek as homes are still being erected more than three years removed from the devastating Montecito Debris Flow.

A few football fields away, there’s the sound of dump trucks as the Randall Road Debris Basin is built — also providing new ocean views for La Casa after multiple buildings on the 26-acre lot were destroyed by massive boulders, some of which remain.

“It took about 18 minutes to wipe out 50 years of work that we’ve done on this property,” said Swain, La Casa’s director.

It all acts as a reminder: La Casa doesn’t want to experience this again, so instead of rushing to reopen its doors, it has chosen to visit with

experts across multiple scientific fields to rebuild properly and appropriately.

Hence why its doors along San Ysidro Lane have remained closed, with just three full-time employees remaining. There were roughly 35 prior to the debris flow.

But there might be a finish line in sight — fundraising and county approvals not withstanding — as La Casa officials are readying themselves With the Randall Road Debris Basin being constructed in the background, La Casa de Maria still has plenty of remnants from the Montecito Debris Flow of 2018 (Photo by Nick Masuda) for a potential 2023 reopening.

That’s a far cry from thinking it This specific area hadn’t been stud- and began $20 million in remediacould do so by Fall 2018. ied, so those answers weren’t readily tion, meanwhile learning what work “At the time, we were like, ‘We’re available. That meant calling a tim- needed to be done to avoid massive back in the fall.’ Right. I think we eout, working with researchers and destruction on its property moving were naive; we had this attitude that, attaining those answers. forward, hoping to never relive hav‘We’ve been here for decades, we can And the answers were sobering, ing to evacuate some 120 people in the get this done. It’s easy, right? How with the area having gone through matter of hours. bad could it be?’” explained Kathleen this type of debris flow every 50 to 60 And now Buczko and Swain have Buczko, the executive director of years, somewhat out of sight because identified a deadline of September the Immaculate Heart Community, there hadn’t been much development to get their rebuilding plans to the which provides La Casa de Maria the last time around. That forced La County, knowing that there will be programming.

Casa’s hands, pushing it to look at the back-and-forth that will last through But some key questions arose though: land as a long-term project instead of the end of the year, not to mention Could a debris flow happen again? a series of short-term fixes.

And how often has it happened?

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Letters to the Editor

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

Don’t Bother Talking Parklets, State has a Plan Anyways

Coast Village Road features a handful of parklets, all utilized consistently, particularly on weekends (Photo by Nick Masuda)

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ayor and Councilmembers, You have an agenda item coming up June 22, agenda item No. 16, that could remove parklets in July, or impose onerous modifications on them.

Please avoid doing this. It is the most business unfriendly thing you could do right now.

Thanks to the quick actions of Anthony Wagner, and the blessing of the state, restaurants saved themselves, and you, from their bankruptcy and permanent closure by expanding into the street. BEST thing you ever did. Restaurants shoved out money they didn’t have to build structures, install lighting and outdoor heaters, just to stay alive. The parklets are immensely popular and have created a terrific new vibe in areas much in need of revitalizing.

Please be smart right now and let a good thing stand. Your business community has been hit by three mega disasters in three years: the Thomas Fire, then the biggest wildfire in California history, which

killed pretty much all restaurant business December 2017, the very time they count on; the Debris Flow that shut down the tourism industry and stranded workers who needed to use the 101; and now the COVID pandemic.

Surely you can find it within your hearts to extend some grace to those who’ve had it rather hard the past three years.

You need to think with disaster recovery heads. First rule: do whatever you can to minimize economic disruption, meaning especially DO NOT disrupt recovery when it’s underway.

Reopening has propelled labor rate increases due to a lack of workers — a very good thing for long low-paid workers here. It’s kept businesses going that send you sales tax revenues — a good thing. It’s crowding the streets so they’re less liable to being taken over by people experiencing homelessness colonizing public sidewalks — a good thing. You have a robust recovery trying to happen — you should get out of the way and let it run.

Don’t waste your time on parklets right now. You should be focusing your attention on the homeless explosion, fire season, the health of your community, and truly important issues. Just like your discussions on FAR for State Street and various housing developments, the state intends to override you anyway with this year’s housing legislation. They’re going to do the same thing re: parklets.

Senate Bill 314, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, just passed the Senate and will likely clear the Assembly next month, as it has an urgency clause.

Don’t waste your time on parklets right now. You should be focusing your attention on the homeless explosion, fire season, the health of your community, and truly important issues.

The state intends to give businesses a year extension on parklets and alcohol licenses to keep serving outdoors, dating from when the COVID emergency order lifts (it hasn’t yet).

The bill also makes it simpler for bars and restaurants to share their spaces with pop-ups, with each other, and with non-alcohol-serving businesses — which allows a retail area to be shared by multiple entities, lowering costs for all, with continued alcohol service from the licensee.

So, whatever you’re planning to do, the state has bigger plans, and theirs will override yours.

You can read the text of SB314 here: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/ faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_ id=202120220SB314 Kind regards, Sharon Byrne

Not So Fast on Mission Creek Bridge

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Barbara Mission — is at stake. The bridge was originally built in 1891 and acquired its current configuration in 1930. It is an intrinsic landmark to our larger area.

There is no reason to demolish this bridge. The Mission Canyon Road corridor is safe. City officials have repeatedly testified before elected and appointed bodies that other thoroughfares in the city have significantly more traffic issues.

In fact, the proposed Mission Canyon Bridge demolition plan would make Mission Canyon Road less safe. By smoothing curves, it would speed traffic up and resulting accidents would

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The History of Complaining

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any large businesses have or used to have “Complaint Departments,” where a specially trained employee deals soothingly with dissatisfied customers.

To my knowledge, there is never a corresponding “Compliments Department.” The only approach I’ve ever seen to that idea has been an occasional jar labelled “TIPS.” In this online age, it can be much more frustrating and less soothing trying to get satisfaction from a series of nameless, faceless machines, before you have the doubtful pleasure of speaking in real time to a live human being.

A friend I asked for ideas about complaints apparently had no difficulty in coming up with a random list of her own, including: “Trying to avoid smokers; screaming children in a restaurant; renting a hotel room that isn’t clean; people talking loudly in the library; friends who betray your trust; people who don’t know when to applaud at the symphony; people who blatantly lie; and people who eat out of their basket at the grocery store.”

But apart from faulty merchandise, and people’s inconsiderate behavior, what really is there that a fair-minded person can legitimately complain about? Of course, there are the current atmospheric conditions, about which we have the remark, commonly attributed to Mark Twain, that “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Little was it dreamed, when that bon mot was uttered, that a time would come when large numbers of people would seriously be trying to do something about the weather.

Some of us, with more on our minds than the weather, resort to God’s Complaint Department, through the special channel known as prayer.

However, that traffic is generally oneway. In political terms, we have what’s known as “the right to petition,” as guaranteed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – and in many other countries. But all it means is that you have the right to complain, without being punished for complaining.

It doesn’t guarantee that your complaint will be considered seriously, much less that anything will be done about it.

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ment known as Magna Carta, which was an agreement between King John and his Barons and the Church, and really had very little to do with the Common People. The closest it came was Item 39, which, in effect, gave to all “free men” the right to justice and a fair trial. However, that excluded most of the population, who were not at that time considered free, but were unfree peasants, or “villeins,” whose only resort to justice was through the courts of their own lords.

However, that was a starting point for a long series of events and enactments which has led Britain to a point at which it is now the Monarch who, while monarchy still endures, has virtually no rights at all. It seems ironical (and, to me, as a born Brit, somewhat sad) that this whole process of petitioning for redress of grievances, broke down in that critical period in the 18th Century when the British colonists in America had plenty of reasonable complaints, and tried repeatedly to get them fairly considered by a King and Parliament 3,000 miles away, but eventually felt they had no recourse but to revolt.

Meanwhile, in another part of Western Civilization, someone else was finding it impossible to deal with alleged injustices of established authority merely by complaining, even though he chose to do it in a very public way — in this case, by nailing a list of grievances to the door of a major church. The man was a monk named Martin Luther. The church was in the town of Wittenberg in Germany.

The year was 1517 and the issue was some practices, then common, of the Catholic Church, regarding what was, in effect, the purchasing of forgiveness. And the ultimate result was a cataclysmic social and religious movement which we now know as the Protestant Reformation.

Whether you call it protesting, objecting, complaining, or demonstrating, this long, honorable tradition has continued to our own day. And sometimes it works — occasionally, even without bloodshed. Leaders do listen (or depart). Policies do change.

Squeaky wheels do get the grease.

But, in closing, let’s also give credit to the people who know when NOT to complain — who, rather than rock the boat, are (in the words of our own Declaration of Independence) “disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable.”

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Montecito Best Buys

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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The $20s… Million, That Is

n addition to more than double normal sales volume for the past 15 months, there have been more sales over $20 million in the past year or so than at any other time in history. Sales in the $20s have happened in the past, and a very few have sold at more than $20,000,000 in previous years (Oprah’s spread; a home on East Mountain around 2006 at the height of that market; a few on East Mountain Drive from time to time; Padaro Lane nearby, etc.) but this year you needed a tally sheet (Google it, young readers), to keep track of the highest end sales in Montecito.

Many of the sales in the past year have been “off market,” meaning not in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) which lets all agents (and Realtor. com, Zillow, others) see the listings. Off-market sales can result from a variety of actions, including: an agent contacting an owner on behalf of a buyer for any reason, even an earnest buyer driving by a home and saying to their agent, “I want that one, call the owner, see if they want to sell,” or an agent finds a buyer for an expired listing and puts a deal together.

In recent times, it can be parties that know each other (the Celeb Circle in Montecito, for instance).

Stats in the overall market through June 18, 2021, show that closed escrows are still high in numbers, new listings are few and far between, and often selling with multiple offers. An interesting statistic popping up the past few weeks is that pending properties (those going under contract) are down from previous months. This may speak toward a slowing of closings going into July and August unless off-market sales make up for the slowing in pending listings.

One thing is certain, if there were more homes on the market in the 93108, there would be more sales, as many homes still see multiple offers, leaving anxious and often frustrated buyers still looking for their piece of paradise.

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On Entertainment A Time For Reinvention

Opera Santa Barbara will present a twohour adaptation of Das Rheingold on June 27

by Steven Libowitz

Opera Santa Barbara won’t ease back into action, instead taking on a first-time production of Das Rheingold at the Lobero Theatre

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nyone who thought Opera Santa Barbara might ease its reentry into live indoor operas with something out of the standard repertoire clearly doesn’t know Kostis Protopapas very well. OSB’s artistic and general director has been pushing the envelope for years, and the 15 months of shutdowns during the pandemic didn’t dampen his spirit as Protopapas tried everything from singers on its State Street office balcony to a holiday variety show at the Lobero to two productions at the Ventura Fairgrounds as part of the Concerts in Your Car series.

Now with the restrictions lifted, Protopapas and crew are returning triumphantly to the Lobero with Santa Barbara’s first staging of an under two-hour adaptation of Das Rheingold, the first opera of Richard Wagner’s famous Ring Cycle. Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove’s 1990 re-telling condenses the massive work into a 110-minute battle between gods, giants, and dwarfs, who struggle for the possession of a golden ring that bestows universal power on its bearer.

The “pocket-sized miracle” has been praised by critics as “ear opening” and “imaginatively fresh,” with a plot that unfolds with a pace more characteristic of film and an orchestral reduction that rings true to the essence if not the scope of the original score.

Late last week, the ebullient Protopapas shared his take on the piece and OSB’s production, which will be performed only once, at 2:30 pm on June 27. Visit www.operasb.org for tickets and safety protocols.

Q. This is your first time conducting Wagner. Why now? And why is Das Rheingold the right piece for OSB’s re-emergence?

A. Well, it’s been on my list for a long time. I saw this adaptation a few years ago, and I thought that it would be a great fit for us because it made it possible for smaller companies to produce Wagner, which is usually reserved for the largest of the large companies. It makes the material more accessible as it’s less than two hours, which is shorter than a lot of movies. With how it was condensed, the plot moves faster, and the whole story becomes more entertaining, more understandable, more relatable.

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Kostis Protopapas is Opera Santa Barbara’s artistic and general director

for a piece where we can ease both the performers and the audience back into producing and attending the opera.

We wanted to reopen with a first, something we haven’t done before because reopening is an opportunity for us to reinvent ourselves. This is not about going back to where we were before; it’s about defining the next chapter of OSB. There’s also the symbolism of the final scene of Das Rheingold, the beautiful music with the “Entry of the Gods into Valhalla.”

This is the only Ring opera that has an optimistic ending, which fell into place with where my head is at (with reopening).

What is your relationship with Wagner’s work in terms of your own desire, how you react, how you experience his operas? And how have the rehearsals affected that?

Like a lot of people, I saw Wagner with a lot of apprehension. It’s the length, the scope and scale, and the fact that only the biggest opera companies do it. There’s sort of a mystique about the work; the experts have a lot of different opinions. I hail from Southern Europe, and I more readily relate to the Italian and French opera. I love contemporary opera as well, but I came to Wagner with some trepidation, but there’s definitely something that has always spoken to me. And I love the music. I have often just sat down at the piano and played the operas, and it really sounds good.

This music does come with a lot of baggage, or there’s a lot behind it.

So, you’re cautious, you don’t really know what to expect. But as soon as we went into rehearsal, I just turned to what I always do, which is read the music from left to right, listen to the singers and the director, and try to tell a story with the great music that you just trust. And I’m now feeling very comfortable with it.

This is the perfect time because coming back indoors, we’re looking for a piece where we can ease both the performers and the audience back into producing and attending the opera

What’s lost in this truncated adaptation?

They have managed to evoke all the color and spirit of the music. But with a chamber orchestra, you don’t get the massive volume and glory of a 100-piece ensemble. And you’re not getting the Star Wars or Cecil B DeMille elements of the huge productions; it might not evoke as much of a Lord of the Rings feel. But the intimacy, the immediacy, the accessibility of the material takes place of scope and scale. If you want to experience this music and the characters up close and personal, this is what we have to offer.

Speaking of the director, you’re working once again with Crystal Manich, who also staged Il Postino in March 2020, OSB’s last indoor production and the last event at the Lobero before the pandemic closures.

She is a superb craftsman and really

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knows how to tell a story creatively, directly and efficiently, cutting right to the chase without doing crazy stuff. Singers love to work with her.

I always trust her to create a great concept for a production because she seems to relate with audiences. It turns out that the abridged versions of all four Ring operas was her first job out of college as an assistant stage manager. So, she goes way back to this material and on Day 1, she knew it a lot better than I do.

I’m intrigued by the ’80s rock costuming.

We want to make sure that the story is sufficiently mythical and fantastical but also relatable. In the ’80s there was the over-the-top element in clothes and hair and behaviors, which seemed to fit. It’s also a time that for (most opera lovers) we can look back very fondly at our years as a teenager or young adult. The ’80s costumes make the show very amusing and visually appealing, and it’s easy to identify the characters. You can’t argue with the ’80s.

Your cast is a blend of those making their debuts and a bunch of OSB veterans.

What went into those decisions?

Here’s the thing: right now, casting is easy because, unfortunately, there’s very little work out there for the singers, so you get whoever you want. For the critical roles, (bass-baritone) Kyle Albertson is a very good friend, and he had a triumphant last-minute debut as Wotan with the Dallas Symphony a couple of years ago. It’d be safe to say that he is probably in line to be one of the great American Wotans. The other important role is Alberich, which is very difficult because it’s comical, it’s tragic, and it’s very much an acting part as much as it is a singing part.

And I had (baritone) Timothy Mix on

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

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

With Charles in Charge, Polo Community Soared into New Territory

allowing the crew to advance and win the prestigious yacht race in Western Australia.

The state of Hawaii appointed him head of economic development after the successful campaign, which included a victory celebration at the White House and a ticker tape parade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

Charles, who was also an accomplished triathlete, worked for the Carpinteria club for 18 years and his was the first company to bring private jet travel to polo in the U.S., generating millions for the Santa Barbara and other polo clubs, with lucrative partnerships with Bombardier, Gulfstream, Maserati, Ferrari, and Silver Air to name a few.

For Charles, every day presented an opportunity to live the good life, and he left this world having savored every minute of his

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Charles Ward as President George Washington with Richard as King George III in the village’s annual 4th of July parade

n a deeply personal note, I remember Charles Ward, the longtime Texan publicist and promoter for the Santa Barbara Polo Club, who left us for more heavenly pastures at the age of 80 in his hometown of Dallas.

We first met in 2007 when I moved to our rarefied enclave from Hancock Park in Los Angeles to be a local columnist and broadcaster and we soon

Charles living it up in style on a private jet

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became firm friends.

Charles, a former TV anchor that beat CBS network anchor Dan Rather to an exclusive interview with President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 at just 24, founded his company, Idea Works Inc. in 1980 and soon set sail for the Left Coast after winning a contract to organize the San Diego Yacht Club’s America’s Cup campaign. He raised $16 million for Stars & Stripes,

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Let’s Make More Deals

Prince Harry, 36, and wife, Meghan Markle, 39, are reportedly planning to hire American singer-songwriter Nicole Scherzinger’s consultant to land them more lucrative deals.

Ollie Ayling, 30, who worked with Scherzinger, 42, for seven years and helped the X Factor judge land several high-priced contracts, including a Muller yogurt campaign thought to be worth $14 million.

As well as exclusive contracts, Ayling helped her land roles in the Disney films Moana and Ralph Breaks the Internet.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex already have multi-million-dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify.

Stay tuned...

A Birthday Bonanza

Flags at the club’s hallowed Holden Field are being flown at half-staff in his memory and on August 15 the first match of the Pacific Coast Open season will be renamed the Charles Ward Polo Classic, when I will also be judging the club’s annual hat contest for the 14th year, which was always one of Charles’s favorite occasions.

For Charles, every day presented an opportunity to live the good life, and he left this world having savored every minute of his.

At the Gallop!

The Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club is back, with the 110-year-old Carpinteria equestrian paradise opening its gates for the first time in more than a year in May to members only, with the general public now welcome with the lifting of pandemic restrictions by Governor Gavin Newsom.

“It has been quite a year and we want to thank our amazing community in Santa Barbara for all the support,” says club manager David Sigman.

The total reopening couldn’t come at a more opportune time with the highlight of the season, the Pacific Coast Open, the biggest event on the Left Coast, starting in August and the high goal season launching next month.

The 16-goal season launches July 9-18 — the 18th anniversary of my half century — with the Robert Skene Trophy followed by the Farmers & Merchants Bank USPA Silver Cup from July 23 through August 8.

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La Boheme director Teresa Kuskey Nowak (left) with KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri and Rochelle Mirabello (Photo by Gilbert Cruz)

Teresa Kuskey Nowak’s deliciously decadent La Boheme Dance Company, who were attired in Versailles 18th century Marie Antoinette costumes at the Santa Barbara Polo Club earlier this month, were back at the picturesque locale for the birthdays of ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri and former Cottage Hospital orthopedic nurse Rochelle Mirabello.

As guests feasted on cake and champagne, the colorful entertainers performed a DecaDance with club member Mary Stark providing decorations and eats.

It was a very in-tents occasion.

Pink Drops Some Serious Green

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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ummer is here and so is Dear Montecito’s one-year anniversary.

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Since speaking to us last, the Montecito Union School alumna and concrete enthusiast has made steady progress in the world of civil engineering and in her position at the Clark Construction Group. With projects such as the new Air Force One Hangar under her belt, Meredith gives us a glimpse at her new responsibilities within the company and her personal connection to new construction projects.

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Hello again! When we last spoke nearly a year ago, I had spent a little more than a year on the construction management team of the new Air Force One Hangar with Clark Construction’s subsidiary, Clark Concrete, in the Washington, D.C., area. Since then, a lot has changed in my career. I helped to finish a research building at the University of Maryland, I worked on the startup team for two new buildings on the campus of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and I transferred to Clark Concrete’s estimating department.

Shortly after writing my last letter to, you, Montecito, I was sent to work on the closeout team at IDEA Factory, a modern-looking concrete research building on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

During the closeout process, our primary goal was to get all the remaining miscellaneous work done on the building while we still had consistent manpower onsite. Closeout requires a lot of communication and coordi-

Meredith Urschel has just joined Clark Construction Group’s new women’s leadership group as a national board member

nation to be done properly. During the height of the pandemic, manpower fluctuated daily when there were infection scares or employees simply didn’t feel comfortable coming into work. Our superintendent kept a careful eye on manpower numbers and made sure to communicate with those who were not feeling well. Despite the challenges, we were able to work efficiently and complete most of the remaining work at the University of Maryland in a reasonable amount of time.

My full-time role at the Walter Reed job began in late 2020 and coincided with the 2020 winter holidays. My bosses allowed me to work from home for a month during this time period, and it was great to be back in Montecito! I got to do a few puzzles with my family, go hiking several times, walk on the beach, eat quality Mexican food and, of course, go to Blenders. During this time, in addition to taking on some of the early project submittals for my new role at Walter Reed, I used AutoCAD and the 3D

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

Celebrating Indigenous Stewardship

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

“Forgive them Father, For They Know Not…” A Goodbye to Patriarchy

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his column is being written on Father’s Day — as the humorist Jim Gaffigan observed, “the government mandated day of paternal gratitude.” By now, everything conventional that needs to be written already has been. What motivates this column is to look behind the conventional nostrums of the day to the more basic, the more archetypal, the deeper regions of what it means to be a “father” as opposed to merely being a sperm donor.

There are many legitimate reasons for all of us, not just feminists, to be woefully depressed by what the “patriarchy” has done to our civilization. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the word means “a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line.” It goes on to explain that patriarchy is essentially “a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.” Yes, patriarchy from the Greek root literally means “the rule of the father” or “chief.” So, sorry to break it to you fellas on Father’s Day, but if you think the world is messed up (and it is), it appears that we males of the species are to blame. And not just white males in Western societies.

Many scholars believe that patriarchy began at least 4,000 years BCE as hunter-gatherer societies were supplanted by less gender-equal farming cultures.

With the onset of the Hebrew religion, the role of women was excluded from the “god-humanity covenant.” In China, Confucianism refined the patriarchy and assigned inferior roles to women, which was then formally adopted as a religion by the Han Dynasty 2,200 years ago. Add to that, the totally male hierarchy of the Catholic Church and top it off by noting that the Muslim world, since the time of Mohammed, has taken the concept of societal male dominance even further for the last 1,400 years. That’s a lot of tiers in human cultures across the ages experiencing what patriarchy has wrought. Why all this reflection on patriarchy on Father’s Day? Why particularly, when today’s title is a scriptural reference to the final words of Jesus on the Cross?

Like every person reading this who honestly looks around, civilization is not in a good place and the biosphere is even worse off. With so little time to adequately respond to civilization’s destruction brought on by climate change, it is critical we understand how we got here so we can change course. That “understanding” must begin with an acknowledgement that it is the patriarchy that has brought us to this point and that only a full inclusion of all persons, regardless of gender, will be required to pull together as equals for us to save humanity as we currently know it. That would start by releasing the flawed notion that masculinity and femininity are mere byproducts of human hormones or genitalia.

It isn’t an accident that humans decided they could “subdue” nature, thereby creating the current conditions where the biosphere is so overheated that 40,000,000 people were refugees last year — most of them climate refugees. It isn’t an accident that we are suffering from intolerable heat waves, unrelenting tornadoes, constant flooding on a biblical scale, and watching as the ice mass at the North Pole melts into the sea even while the South Pole is calving 1,600-squaremile icebergs, larger than the state of Rhode Island. It’s also no accident that the forces of totalitarianism are politically ascendant as nation states become buffeted by the waves of immigrants, democracies fail to put a higher value on political integrity than expediency, and that we have built a military-industrial complex globally that feeds the incessant wars we suffer from.

What is the answer to all this woe?

It is time to end the patriarchy, knowing that the most admired of men are those who have developed a strong inner feminine aspect of themselves to balance the inner masculine they already embody — even if they didn’t fully realize it. In a similar vein, women who have a highly developed feminine aspect are always more effective when they can balance this with cultivating their inner masculine. Why is this important?

Many wonderful aspects of masculinity can best be embraced by recognizing that our feminine side provides us with the desire to nurture as well as conquer.

Those aspects of masculinity that inspire men to lay down their lives for their loved ones in battle or in a civilian crisis is something to respect. It is a genuine desire to serve that motivates “the brave man” to “do the right thing.” Embedded in this highest aspect of the masculine is the desire to protect and to nurture.

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Returning Indigenous land could be our best conservation initiative yet

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ight years ago, the Australian government bought 19 farm properties throughout the Lower Murrumbidgee Valley with the intention of restoring the wetlands to their former glory. After reviewing proposals, the land was granted to the tribal council of the Nari Nari, who have rewilded the valley, removed old irrigation infrastructure, and encouraged the return of native species like golden perch and southern bell frogs.

This example of conservation and restoration is one of many in a growing environmental strategy called Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). The concept is rooted in the idea that the most efficient and ethical way to conserve and revitalize land is by returning it to its original Indigenous stewards.

In Montana, where the U.S. government seized 18,000 acres from the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, federal and state agencies have worked to preserve native bison populations, but herds are often mismanaged. Now, the land is being returned to the tribes with the understanding that Native American communities have the necessary Indigenous wisdom to cultivate not only a healthy bison population, but a healthier ecosystem as a whole.

So far, Salish and Kootenai management has been highly effective. They have created the nation’s first tribal wilderness area, the Mission Mountain Wilderness Area, and close off large portions of it throughout the year to allow grizzly bear populations to live and feed in peace.

A recent study published in PNAS found that using Indigenous fire regime is the most effective way to prevent devastating wildfires in New Mexico, while another from the University of British Columbia found that Indigenousmanaged lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada were richer in vertebrate species.

In California, the Esselen Tribe is bringing back the California Condor in Big Sur, and the Yurok Tribe is protecting miles of vital salmon spawning sites along the Klamath River.

In addition to environmental conservation, granting land back to Indigenous communities serves as a small form of reparations for communities who have been oppressed and killed at the hands of colonists.

“The total acreage would not quite make up for the General Allotment Act, which robbed us of 90 million acres, but it would ensure that we have unfettered access to our tribal homelands,” David Treuer writes in an article for The Atlantic. “To be entrusted with the stewardship of America’s most precious landscape would be a deeply meaningful form of restitution.”

•MJ Like the proverbial Yin & Yang, those forces of dualism depicting how seemingly opposite forces are complementary and interconnected, our masculine energies are best deployed when merged with our inner feminine. From this place we become interdependent with each other, and the natural world we left so long ago when patriarchy first took over. It’s time we healed that divide of male and female so that, as a revitalized “whole” humanity, we can apply ourselves to rebuilding the “nest” we were so graciously provided when humans arose on the earth.

What better day than Father’s Day to trumpet the effectiveness we will achieve when we take the best aspects of what it means to be a father, and consciously cultivate them. Let’s celebrate how a balanced masculine-feminine energy can restore peace to our relationships, stability to our communities, regeneration of the biosphere, and liberation for the “starving masses yearning to be free.”

Being a father is ultimately about lovingly taking responsibility. First, for ourselves. Second, for our families. Third, for our societies. Fourth, for the biosphere. And lastly, for the generations yet unborn who can be saved from making the same terrible mistakes as prior generations.

Yes, we men should be “forgiven” for what we’ve done, as we didn’t really intend for the incredible damage that patriarchy has wrought. We “didn’t know” what we were doing. And we can also thank men for all the good they have done with the best of fatherly intentions in shepherding our human tribe down through the ages. Since we know the difference between the harm that has been done and all the good as well, we are now free to become wholistic masculine-feminine fathers who feel responsibility in our bones connected to the love that is in our hearts. Happy Father’s Day! •MJ

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Dear Montecito (Continued from page 20)

Letters (Continued from page 10) become more serious.

With respect to retaining authenticity and the historic bridge, it simply is not possible to remove every stone on the existing bridge, redesign the bridge, place some of the old stones on the new bridge, and say the historic bridge has been preserved.

The new bridge would be 47 percent wider than the existing bridge.

The stone parapet walls flanking the new bridge would be 75 percent higher. Existing attached historic stone walls would be breached and moved. Sycamore trees in Mission Creek and along Mission Canyon Road would be cut down.

There is no reason to spend as much as $15 million or more to demolish an important, functioning, historic bridge and replace it with a new bridge that would be less safe.

Please support efforts to save the historic Mission Creek Bridge!

Lanny Ebenstein Ph.D., Chair, Coalition to Preserve Mission Canyon

What the Heck

Over 50,000 people have signed a petition not to let Jeff Bezos back into Earth after his 11-minute flight into space.

As Jerry Seinfeld might say, “Who are these people?”

As I do not know anyone who signed this petition (or at least I don’t think so) let me take a shot at why.

Jealousy, hate, anti-capitalists, or some sort of attempt at humor.

Billionaires are people, too.

Visionaries are people as well.

Once we go down the road of deciding what kind of people do not belong on the planet we have lost our way.

I for one have zero desire to go into space.

I love this planet and love to look into space and nobody should be able to petition me not to.

Steven Marko

A Lack of Leadership at Fault

Today our politicians are crowing loudly about 55% of targeted Americans being partially vaccinated, and maybe 45% being fully vaccinated, as if these numbers are the equivalent of summiting Everest.

Am I missing something here? At school, getting it 50% right would earn a student a grade of F. I get that most people don’t trust the government and most never learned much science in school. But these social failures are the fault of leadership.

The founding fathers were clear about what was needed for real political leadership: knowledge, experience, and virtue (selfless personality).

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The founders wanted leaders who had knowledge of political science, and particularly the difference between republicanism (“democracy”) and elected monarchy.

The founders wanted leaders who entered local public service and stayed there in a variety of capacities for a long time.

The founders wanted people who did not care for fame, fortune, or control, but merely the opportunity to educate others, serve the majority, and preserve the rights of the minority.

Is there one such politician serving anywhere in the United States today?

Sincerely, Kimball Shinkoskey

Convenient Concern?

Via Los Santos is a long winding street in the west of Santa Barbara near the Goleta boundary. It is in close proximity to San Antonio Canyon Park, which, as a Google search reveals, has many popular and extensive trails.

Via Los Santos is considerably wider than Riven Rock Road. In most places by five feet or more.

Nevertheless, as anyone who has driven there will readily observe, the same white lines prohibiting parking on either side of the road, now exist on Riven Rock Road, are clearly in evidence.

So, the obvious question to be posed to Mr. Hartwig, who happens to live on that road that prohibits parking, where is his concern for wilderness access when it’s a little closer to home? Was there a public hearing with community input before Mr. Hartwig and his neighbors were able to get officials to prohibit parking in front of their houses?

In short, I respectfully suggest to Mr. Hartwig, that if he wishes to enjoy the great outdoors in the “Los Padres National Park” a/k/a Los Padres National Forest, he look no further than down his road, rather than driving miles to park his vehicle in front of someone’s house all day in Montecito.

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modeling program, Tekla, to model the majority of the second building that will be built on the campus.

Learning how to build a structure virtually as a set of constructible objects has been invaluable.

As it happens, my dad was born at the hospital now known as Walter Reed, so I enjoyed being on the campus and knowing that there is a family connection. My grandfather, William Urschel, who had a urology practice in Santa Barbara, was stationed at Bethesda Naval during his time in the Navy. One of the coolest things I got to do while modeling the Walter Reed job was to look at plans from the main hospital building’s original design and construction. It’s interesting to be able to read plans from the mid-1900s, when so much has changed in the field of design technology in the last century.

When the opportunity arose a couple of months ago to start a new position in the office headquarters in Clark Concrete’s estimating department, I decided to take a step out of my comfort zone to try something new, although I didn’t know much about what the position entailed.

The new role has given me many new responsibilities. I now help with the bidding and acquisition of new jobs for the company. The bulk of what I do in the estimating position is perform quantity takeoffs.

I use a takeoff software while reading through the building’s design documents to come up with a concrete quantity per level per type of object (slabs, columns, walls, etc.) along with all of the formwork and accessories that go into each concrete pour. After I’ve performed my takeoff, I enter all my quantities into a different estimating software, where I can make an educated guess as to

the speed at which our work crews will be building each object on each floor. I work with local subcontractors to price their work on the job, then enter all my data into a spreadsheet, and send it off to my superiors to be checked and sent out.

I’m still training to do this process semi-independently, but I’ve already been able to contribute to the potential acquisition of several jobs with the guidance and oversight of my more senior colleagues, which has been such a rewarding experience.

Who knows, maybe the next time that you readers come out to D.C. and see a Clark job, I’ll have been partially responsible for its being awarded to my company!

This year has obviously moved very quickly, and things will continue to pick up as we return to normal.

In addition to the new responsibilities I have in my job, I’ve also just joined Clark’s new women’s leadership group as a national board member with the role of Membership Chair for Clark’s subsidiaries. I’ll be working alongside a team of women to host regular events and keep our members engaged. My specific role will be to represent all the women and allies that work for Clark’s subsidiary companies all over the country (such as Clark Concrete) at the national level. I hope to be able to develop personal connections with these women and be the catalyst for any changes that they want to see within the industry. I am excited to see where this new phase of my career takes me!

Feel free to reach out to me at mer edith.urschel@clarkconcretellc.com if you’d like to chat about Cornell, Clark, or the Civil Engineering world.

Yours, Meredith •MJ

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It’s Kismet

Kismet was performed at Lincoln Center in 1965

by Sara Miller McCune Editor’s Note: This is the first of a monthly series that will dive into the live production of Kismet, with both the Santa Barbara Symphony and State Street Ballet working alongside Broadway producers and actors at the Granada Theatre in October.

A Love for Broadway, and Bringing it Home to Santa Barbara

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rowing up in New York during the 1950s turned me into a lover of Broadway theatre — especially musicals. By the age of 18 I’d been fortunate enough to see wonderful productions of West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and close to a hundred other musicals, dramas, and comedies.

I next fell in love with live ballet performance and saw the first performances brought to New York (in the early 1960s) by producer Sol Hurok of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet. I had by then also seen many wonderful performances staged by the great choreographer George Balanchine who had founded and co-presided over the New York City Ballet. I still remember seeing my first ballet — which starred Maria Tallchief dancing the lead role in Stravinsky’s Firebird (before she

retired in 1966).

My very favorite musical turned out to be Kismet, which opened on Broadway in 1953 and won a Tony award in 1954 for Best Musical. It played in the London’s West End in 1955, at the Lincoln Center in 1965, and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1985. The MGM movie made of Kismet in 1955 was in some ways also wonderful — especially the music and dances! But I also felt the movie version was a bit “over the top.”

Kismet’s main theme is the entwinement of love and faith — to some extent that faith will determine with whom you fall in love. It is also a story that reminds me in many ways of the tales of the Arabian Nights and other places from far away and long ago. There are two pairs of lovers — young and mature. The sense

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Kismet is both complex and extraordinarily simple.

For most of the last decade I have had a burning desire to see Kismet once again live and on stage. Its musical themes were derived from the great Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince Igor. Over the

decades, the music and the words often played themselves in my head and seemed as if they were calling out to me with a special message. I missed the songs and the splendor — the music and the magic! I missed the cheerful witty songs, the dynamic action and dance, as well as the sheer splendor of the music and the magic on the stage!

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In Memoriam

Charles Ward December 27, 1940 - June 15, 2021

& Stripes, and the crew won the prestigious yacht race in Fremantle, Western Australia. After orchestrating a victory celebration at the White House, and a ticker tape parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the state of Hawaii appointed him head of economic development; his small firm beat out the likes of Ogilvy & Mather and raised $10.5 million in just 90 days.

When he moved back to the mainland, to Dallas, Ward founded Idea Works Global. He continued to raise sponsorship dollars and create experiential events for sports that included regional, national and international polo, Indy car racing, the NFL Super Bowl, and many others. The clients for whom he built strategic alliances, marketing opportunities, partnerships and more included Santa Barbara Polo, Bombardier Aerospace, Maserati, Belmond El Encanto, Gulfstream Aerospace, Ferrari, and Silver Air. In his long, full and remarkable life, Charles Ward accumulated more than 50 years of luxury-related marketing initiatives and partnerships for some of the world’s most prestigious brands. He was a visionary who could see possibilities that others couldn’t imagine. An avid swimmer and accomplished triathlete, it’s ironic — but not surprising — that Ward excelled at marketing sports about which he had little knowledge. He was blessed with a positive attitude and inner power he jokingly referred to as “The Force.”

A private celebration of life will be held in Santa Barbara at a date yet to be determined. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida would be especially meaningful. Please contact the museum at 561-969-3210 for information.

Rosemary Phyllis Looney 1926-2021

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harles Lowell Ward, Jr., passed away peacefully on June 15, 2021, from complications of heart disease. The Houston native was preceded in death by parents Judy and Charles Ward, Sr., as well as brother Jeffrey S. Ward, Sr. He leaves behind nephew, Jeffrey S. Ward, Jr., grandnephews Tyler, Mason and Braden, and longtime business ally, friend and caregiver, Katie Turpin.

Married once to Cathy Carrington Ward, he had no children, but enjoyed a much- beloved “family” of friends and business associates from across the globe. Of special importance, philanthropist Carolyn Farb, whom he spoke with daily, and writer Donna Scoggins, a frequent behind-the-scenes collaborator.

Prior to reaching the pinnacle of success in matters of luxury marketing, Ward entered the world of communications and journalism before getting a degree in either. He attended the University of Colorado, where he admits to graduating in “ski bum,” before enrolling at the University of Texas Austin where he began studying journalism. Always one to shoot for the stars and blessed with good looks and a warm speaking voice, Ward talked his way into a job at a radio broadcast station—and then on air as a weekend news anchor for Channel 7.

His status rose when he beat Dan Rather by nabbing an exclusive interview with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the lobby of the Driskill Hotel in 1964. He was just 24 years old.

Ward founded Media Communications a few years later; with offices in Austin and Houston, it became the first A.A.A.A. advertising agency in the area and was named one of the top five creative agencies in Texas. The firm was responsible for creating many statewide marketing programs, including the “Drive Friendly” campaign. Ward also worked on behalf of many high-profile clients, including restaurateur Lance McFaddin. During this time, he was chosen as a “Bachelor of the Month” by Cosmopolitan magazine, and his status as a man about town was solidified.

Ward moved to La Jolla in 1985 after winning a contract to organize the San Diego Yacht Club America’s Cup campaign. He raised $16 million for Stars

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t is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Rosemary Phyllis Looney after a brief illness. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, on December 20, 1926, and passed at home in Carpinteria on June 8, 2021.

She is survived by her daughters Sharyn Plunkett (Richard) and Sheryl Ford of Carpinteria, and Cynthia Saunders (Carl) of Milton, Massachusetts; granddaughter Kerri Haer (Andy) of Brunswick, Maine; grandson Shawn Saunders (Amy) of Westwood, Massachusetts; three great granddaughters, two nieces and a nephew, all of Massachusetts. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Bernard (Bernie), her parents Rose and Johnnie Madigan, and her sister Gloria Norton.

Rosemary loved her family, friends and all the pets she had during her lifetime. She truly loved every part of her life. Rosemary was very much involved in her children’s lives; she was a Brownie and Girl Scout leader and travelled with the children on their CYO trips. She was an avid reader and loved playing Scrabble, Bridge and Mahjong. She was physically active and enjoyed hiking in the beautiful mountains of Vermont, horseback riding, tennis, and golf, as well as being a skeet shooter, avid walker, and cross-country skier. Rosemary spent most of her life on the East Coast working as a nurse before moving to the Santa Barbara area in 2000.

Bernie and Rosemary travelled the country by RV and trekked to Ireland to visit both sides of their families in Cork County. Rosemary took trips to Spain, Portugal, Australia, and Tasmania with her best friend in California, Rosemary Hester.

Rosemary was a devout Catholic and loved attending Mass with her daughters. She volunteered at HELP in Carpinteria, an organization that assists residents with transportation to doctors’ appointments and errands, as a dispatcher.

Services will be held in Massachusetts at a future date. Donations in her memory would be welcome at The Braille Institute of Santa Barbara or a charitable organization of your choice.

•MJ

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Montecito on the Move (Continued from page 5)

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A Gift to the Community:

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SBCC Foundation Receives $20 Million Donation

t was recently announced that Santa Barbara City College and the SBCC Foundation will receive a $20 million donation from MacKenzie Scott. This gift is one of 276 donations to universities and community colleges that total to $2.7 billion and marks the largest gift in the 112-year history of SBCC. The donation was made directly to the SBCC Foundation, which will help oversee how the funds are used.

“Gifts like this are gifts within gifts.

Because not only is it a very large gift, especially in the context of community colleges, but it’s also a completely unrestricted gift, and it’s an unsolicited gift,” said Geoff Green, CEO of the SBCC Foundation.

With no time limits placed on the gift as well, the foundation has a moment to determine how to best use this gift for SBCC, and ultimately, the community.

The Santa Barbara Foundation was established in 1976 and for the past 45 years has been supporting the growth of SBCC. Today, it is the largest community college foundation in California and in the top 10 largest in the nation out of 900. Geoff notes that the Foundation works with, and in support of, SBCC but is an independent organization with a separate staff.

There are several benefits to having a foundation for an institution.

Universities and colleges often have more restrictions in decision-making and even limits on how they can spend funds. For example, public institutions are legally restricted from investing public funds; however, a foundation, as a separate entity, can establish an investment portfolio that helps with the long-term growth of a fund. This recent gift increases the SBCC Foundation’s total assets from $70 million to $90 million. Although this may seem significant, it is also relatively small when compared to the foundations of four-year universities, or the Ivy League, which have billions of dollars in their foundations.

Green views this gift not as the last one, but one of the first for the college. This donation is part of a bigger trend among philanthropists who have started to recognize the impact that these two-year institutions have on their communities. This donation is coming at an ideal time, as SBCC has long been facing some challenges.

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Enrollment at community colleges often has a reciprocal relationship with unemployment. SBCC had peak enrollment during the last recession from 2008 to 2010 but enrollment has been on a 10-year decline since then, yet the size of the institution has not changed. Of course, the pandemic added its own set of challenges and further exacerbated the decline in enrollment. The three federal aid packages released during the pandemic did an increasingly better job at supporting community colleges and has helped SBCC get its budget in the black for the next few years.

However, these were one-time relief funds and do not necessarily provide long-term solutions that SBCC is looking for. With this most recent gift, the SBCC Foundation can begin that work.

“Gifts like this are gifts within gifts. Because not only is it a very large gift, especially in the context of community colleges, but it’s also a completely unrestricted gift, and it’s an unsolicited gift.”

— Geoff Green, CEO of the SBCC Foundation

Now the Foundation and college administrators will have meetings to strategize how this gift can have the biggest impact.

“I think of student supports. I think of programs. I think of new innovations and teaching modes. I think of capital projects. For me, that’s kind of the universe of possible uses for the money,” Green said.

Green believes the funds could help endow the range of award-winning programs that SBCC has established over the years. From their Transitions Program that helps individuals exiting the criminal justice system enter SBCC, or the school’s SPARC program that aids single parents, these different programs support a wide range of community

own history committee to keep the history of the area alive for future generations. We have a Community Plan that provides Montecito’s aesthetic foundation. Our people are involved in state legislation, and federal government. We have been through three mega-disasters in a row: the Thomas Fire, the Debris Flow, and the COVID pandemic. We’ve dealt with drought, been evacuated repeatedly, and have learned to have a “Go Bag” packed by our door. We’ve distributed emergency backpacks and pandemic kits to our community. We have a tight information network that updates everyone on the key things we all need to know to navigate this new world we’ve been thrust into.

We’re so much stronger now, having pulled together as a community that faced massive challenges. We’ve worked with government at all levels to make this place safer and more resilient while retaining our cherished semi-rural character. Our community is very cohesive and organized. We know we have something truly special here!

Please get involved, be part of keeping us safe, protected, and vibrant.

Be a great neighbor by respecting what makes this community so special and help us to keep it that way. We welcome your involvement — email info@montecitoassociation.org. We hope you’ll become a member of the Montecito Association, and come to feel like a key part of this very special community, too. members. Currently these programs are supported by the Foundation but establishing endowments for them could ensure that these programs continue to thrive.

One of the issues that became very apparent throughout the pandemic was the greater societal needs that students face. SBCC had to help support its students in new ways during this time — and not just helping provide ready access to health care, but also the technical accessibility to education.

As learning moved online, it became apparent that not everyone had access to computers, internet, or even just a quiet place to work. The future of learning will likely be a hybrid of online and in-person, and Green says funds could be used to make sure that their students are equipped with the basic resources they need.

“Community colleges meet students where they’re at and that is a really unusual thing in higher education. We are absolutely built to meet students wherever they’re at,” Green said. “They could be the valedictorian and they just need some opportunities and few supports, or they could be someone who never thought they’d ever make it to college, and everything in between.”

Over the years, the Foundation will sometimes be approached by a teacher with an innovative idea for a

new program or teaching concept. As good as some of these ideas can be, there often is not enough resources to fund them. This unrestricted gift could be used to help support some of these experimental programs.

There is also a natural inkling to suggest that some of the funds are used to increase teacher wages, particularly in the shadows of a school year that was more challenging than usual. But Green notes that while this is a critical issue, these specific changes should occur through institutional policy changes and not necessarily from a donation.

While the campus is known for its beauty, Green notes that many buildings on the campus could use an update, with some of the funds potentially earmarked to aid that quest. Capital projects are a little more complicated, also requiring a bond, which SBCC has had mixed success with. They can also be very expensive, but Green notes that an extra $20 million can help a building project go from an ordinary one to an extraordinary one with state-ofthe-art technologies and materials.

Green believes this gift “was given because of a generation of good work” and whatever the SBCC and the Foundation decides to do with the gift, it will continue in that same vain.

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by Joanne A. Calitri

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Wildling Museum Collab with SBC Trails Council & Healthy People Healthy Trails

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he Wildling Museum’s Valley Oak Gallery current exhibit, “Art from the Trail: Exploring the Natural Beauty of Santa Barbara County,” is a collaboration of Stacey Otte-Demangate (Director of the Wildling Museum), Margaret Weiss (Health Education Director, Sansum Clinic, Steering Committee for Healthy People Healthy Trails SB) and Mark Wilkinson (Executive Director of SBC Trails Council).

To get locals involved, they are hosting a weekend artist meet-teach-greet at the museum on June 26 and 27 from 11 am to 2 pm with artists Libby Smith and Kevin Gleason.

Trails depicted in the art represent Santa Ynez Valley, the Carpinteria Bluffs, Lake Los Carneros, Ellwood Mesa, La Purisima State Historic Park, Lake Cachuma, Santa Maria, and

Lompoc Valley.

“For this exhibit, Mark gave us the list of trails for the artists to paint to ensure the entire county is represented,” Otte-Demangate said. “The selection committee was myself, Mark, Margaret, Lauren Sharp (Wildling Museum Assistant Director) and artist Holli Harmon (Wildling Exhibition Committee Chair).

“Some trails are well-known, others less so. I learned about the Burton Mesa trail in Lompoc through a painting in the show, explored it last month and was really inspired by the many gorgeous manzanita trees I found, similar to the ones in the exhibit painting. The works are for sale with a price range of $275 to $1,500.”

With the arts out of lockdown, I viewed the exhibit in person. Four of the 27 artists in the show were at the

From left: Artists John Iwerks, Susan Belloni, Libby Smith, and Kevin Gleason with Wildling Museum Director Stacey Otte-Demangate, at their exhibit, “Art from the Trail: Exploring the Natural Beauty of Santa Barbara County” (Photo by Joanne A Calitri)

gallery: Smith, Gleason, John Iwerks, and Susan Belloni.

Smith’s two 8-by-10s, oil-onpanel works, “Lake Los Caneros”

(Stowhouse Property) and “La Purisima Trail” clearly exemplify her

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It’s Kismet (Continued from page 24)

So, a few years ago I decided that I would bring Broadway to Santa Barbara with a live and beautifully staged production of this wonderful show with the leading roles played by Broadway talent, and with the music provided by Santa Barbara Symphony (which has become better and better over the last 30 years) and newly choreographed dances performed by our very own, and much beloved, State Street Ballet, which celebrated its 25th anniversary shortly before the COVID pandemic put live performances out of our lives in early 2020.

I discussed this idea with a friend of mine, Broadway producer Ken Davenport (who has won two Tony Awards) and he agreed to sign on as executive producer. Ken encouraged me to recruit Broadway director Lonny Price who has worked with some of my favorite Broadway musical stars, including Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, Patti LuPone, Emma Thompson, and Glenn Close.

Lonny and I had dinner at the Russian Tea Room in New York a year and a half ago and he was just as excited as I was. But we agreed that some of the dialog would need to be updated — as the script was more than 60 years old, and many things have changed during those decades.

At that dinner we decided to go

ahead and plan to have this production launched to celebrate my 80th birthday in February 2021.

This milestone birthday was both wonderful and surreal for me. For one thing, I truly believed for most of the last two decades that I would be incredibly lucky to celebrate even a 75th birthday. My father ’s family was riddled with cancer. Both my dad and his father died of this disease, two of his three brothers had serious bouts of cancer toward the end of their lives, and I had survived two serious cancer surgeries starting two years after being widowed and then moving to Santa Barbara in 1992. But I kept my mind focused on what I could do each year — work, philanthropy (both requiring a lot of travel), staying in touch with close friends and family members. Taking things a year at a time for the most part.

When I finally passed my 75th birthday and celebrated my company’s 50th anniversary with events in Santa Barbara, New York, London, and New Delhi, I realized that I should perhaps visualize what I had for so long considered an “impossible dream” (thinking of yet another favorite musical — Man of La Mancha and its central character Don Quixote as envisioned

by Miguel Cervantes).

I knew that of all my favorite musicals, Kismet was both wonderful and yet rarely performed — but I wanted to share its beautiful melodies and witty lyrics, its colorful and splendid costumes, its amazing opportunities for active and beautiful dances. And I believed that our own symphony and ballet companies could showcase their amazing strengths to us — especially if they could have the advantage of input from a great director and the five leading roles played by strong, experienced Broadway talent.

When COVID came along, I self-isolated early (fearing the outcome, especially with personal concerns relating to my age and upper-respiratory issues). I believed that this was going to be a protracted period with many people negatively affected throughout our community, our nation, and the world. What followed was far worse than I had originally expected!

As the founder of an educational publishing company with slightly more than 1,400 employees throughout the world (with our largest cohorts in the U.S., U.K., and India) I have been amazed by what we were able to do for and with our employees and a terrific management team.

At the same time, I was horrified by the numbers of people who were seri-

“It’s Like Banking With Friends”

ously ill, hospitalized, and the death rates that kept climbing — and still are in various places, including India.

It also seems that the poorest people everywhere were getting the worse end of the stick: Often doing the toughest and most necessary jobs while not receiving the care, protective equipment needed, and still all too often not being paid even as they were obviously in harm’s way. Where was the social justice that we all need in times of crisis?

Of course, our plans for Kismet had to be rescheduled. But by then, all our lives were being rescheduled – so that was a given. I decided to celebrate my birthday in a longer, but mostly more muted way. I have scarcely been away from my home except (in recent months) for medical appointments. Like over 95% of our employees, I am working from home.

My 80th birthday is being celebrated during the entire year of 2021, rather than just February. And we moved our production forward to October 21-24 of this year at the Granada Theatre as a treat for myself, my friends, and my community — as we emerge (somewhat shell-shocked) from the pandemic and begin to create the “new normal” of whatever changes will follow with work, education, and how we live our lives in a post-COVID period.

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PATH has utilized partnerships with County Public Health, Cottage Health, County Behavioral Wellness, CityNet, County Probation, Home for Good, and AmeriCorps to help the homeless during the pandemic

by Steven Libowitz

Finding a Compassionate PATH

Nonprofit has Increased Homelessness Outreach Through Partnerships

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he COVID pandemic was surely a challenge for just about everyone in Santa Barbara and all around the world, but some communities were harder hit than others. Not so much here in the city or Montecito but consider what it must have been like to go through the 15 months of lockdowns, surges and protocols as someone who is homeless, even, or maybe especially, those at one of the shelters around town, where close confines could have caused quite a crisis.

“It was definitely a challenge to keep people not only safe, healthy, and cared for while implementing all of the COVID protocols in an interim housing facility,” said Tessa Madden Storms, PATH’s Santa Barbara regional director and its senior director of philanthropy, media, and marketing.

“We were lucky that we had the space to physically distance, so we didn’t have to dramatically reduce

our capacity and could practice safe social distancing even during nighttime hours in the sleeping quarters.

But we stopped taking new intakes at all for the better part of last year to protect folks and keep them safe and well.”

Indeed, Madden Storms said PATH — or People Assisting the Homeless — was “really proud of ourselves” because the organization had one or two positive cases the entire time before the surge in December and January, proving, she said, that the nonprofit was able to handle the crisis, due partly to its partnerships with other organizations in Santa Barbara. Among those are County Public Health, Cottage Health, County Behavioral Wellness, CityNet, County Probation, Home for Good, and AmeriCorps. And when the numbers increased, innovative ideas such as finding motel room space for the COVID-positive to serve out their

quarantine, a program PATH helped run for the better part of a year.

“What the pandemic really showed us is the resilience of our staff and the importance of community partnerships,” Madden Storms said. “All of the providers in town and across the county came to the table in new and more consistent ways than ever before to collaborate on addressing the huge social and health concern for this highly vulnerable population that we serve. It really defined how our community adjusts, both internally

within our walls and in problem-solving for those who were at such high risk living on the street.”

But PATH has been gearing up its forward-thinking solutions well before the COVID crisis, Madden Storms said.

“These are solutions that providers like us have been advocating for, for years. It was interesting that it took a global pandemic for some of them to come into place, but it was really

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Our Town (Continued from page 28) ability to balance a focal point using light and weight with a landscape.

She taught painting and drawing for 31 years at SBCC and seven years at the SBCC School of Extended Learning. She shared, “Los Carneros means ‘the rams,’ we can only guess that this area was used for grazing sheep many years ago. On this particular morning, I was in the park with two painter friends. We were looking for a place to paint out of the fog and decided on Los Carneros. We hoped to catch a bit of sun, shadow, and some color in the spring mustard that was just starting to bloom, captured in the work.”

Belloni is a SCAPE artist, using acrylics on a sheet of 22-by-29 Arches etching paper, which she cut out a 16-by-20 section, framed and titled it, “La Patera Entrance to Los Carneros.”

The acrylics on etching paper yielded a washed look, still holding points of high contrast. She said, “On a clear summer day, I found the composi-

tion and color I liked at Lake Los Carneros consisting of a peachy-buff dirt trail, dark shadows in the trees and our beautiful lavender blue Santa Ynez Mountain range with its distinctive sandstone outcroppings. I hiked over the Montecito end of the mountains, from the Biltmore Hotel up Hot Springs Trail, past Montecito Park and down the other side to camp out, and paint.”

Circling over to Iwerks dreamy yet constructed 10-by-18 watercolor painting titled “Ellwood Mesa Path,” he told me he paints with his 140-pound Arches watercolor paper pad on his lap the entire time, rarely up-ticking the work when he gets home. The best appreciation of his work is to go across the room for viewing where it, as all great watercolors do, immerses one into a new depth perception. A teacher of Art and the Environment at SBCC Adult Ed and a member of the OAK Group Santa Ynez, he said, “I am inspired by the trails at Ellwood

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they are more likely to be active. Being in nature, whether it is on the beach, in the mountains, at a city park, or in your own backyard, has the added benefit of improving mood,” Weiss said. “From the Carpinteria Bluffs to the Santa Maria River, the art features places to enjoy nature and many are close to home.”

“We are delighted with the new exhibit because it celebrates the value and importance of trail access to nature,” Wilkinson added.

“Collaborating with the Wildling Museum has resulted in an innovative way to encourage more people to get outdoors all across the county.”

Indeed, let’s get out in nature and over to the show to support local artists and our trails.

•MJ 411: www.wildlingmuseum.org, (805) 686-8315 https://sbtrails.org https://healthypeoplehealthytrails.org

Last Week’s Solution:

By Pete Muller & Andrew White For each of the first five mini crosswords, one of the entries also serves as part of a five-word meta clue. The answer to the meta is a word or phrase (five letters or longer) hidden within the sixth mini crossword. The hidden meta answer starts in one of the squares and snakes through the grid vertically and horizontally from there (no diagonals!) without revisiting any squares.

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Mesa for the wind-swept coastal trees bending from the salt air of the sea, a far-reaching grassland cover, and that it is contiguous with the Devereaux dunes and salt marsh. The underlying geology tells its own story of marine deposition, uplift, compression, and erosion.”

Gleason has two 8-by-16 oil on fine linen, titled “The Ellwood Bluffs” and “Lake Los Carneros,” giving a large nod to his love of Japanese style painting, and I would add, in a Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin post-impressionist mode. An art teacher at Dos Pueblos High School, he said, “There’s nothing I love more than exploring a new trail or discovering the way the light and seasons are coloring a familiar one. Painting outdoors allows me to really slow down and observe a place intimately and to try to capture the moment in shapes of color.”

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz

Town Hall Will Aid Those Struggling with Post-Pandemic Re-entry

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alifornia and much of the country reopening have been met with rejoicing by many people, but not everybody is completely comfortable with jumping right back into their old lives.

That’s the impetus behind Hospice of Santa Barbara’s “Navigating Re-entry” Town Hall, an online forum featuring a half-dozen community leaders discussing the fears, anxiety, and issues people are dealing with in the wake of the sudden end of pandemic protocols.

The event, which takes place at 6 pm on Tuesday, June 29, is part of HSB’s Illuminate Speaker Series, which began last summer when the nonprofit that offers patient care services for people struggling with life-threatening illness as well as grief counseling for children and adults, contemplated the impact the COVID crisis was having on the community.

“There was a lot of anxiety with our clients because nobody knew what was coming next, and people had that

Charles Caldwell, Hospice of Santa Barbara’s director of strategic advancement

deeper sense of things that were normal, whatever that is, had shifted in a powerful way,” explained Charles Caldwell, Hospice’s director of strategic advancement, who developed the series. “Dealing with the mortality of the virus fit within our overall approach towards the psychosocial and spiritual well-being of people when they approach the topic of death.”

The series has presented a wealth of nationally known speakers beginning with Frank Ostaseski and Joan Halifax

through Daniel Goleman, who spoke about “Emotional Intelligence in the Challenging Times of a Pandemic” earlier this week, with a special focus on practical advice and tips for “people to use to help them move through this journey in a thoughtful, compassionate, and poignant way,” Caldwell said.

Some speakers have drawn as many as 1,000 viewers from across the country and around the world, the robust response a testament to the hunger for healing, he said.

Now, with reopening having arrived in mid-June, the June 29 panel will address the varying response evoked by the lifting of all restrictions, and how to deal with the range of emotions that have emerged, from joy and relief to anxiety and survivor’s guilt.

“People are really at a loss about what the return to normal looks like when they have been shell shocked while other people seem to be acting like nothing happened,” said Caldwell, who holds an M.A. in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. “It’s not only about continued anxiety about COVID. It’s just a weird, strange time where the basic premises about how you approach the world have altered. There’s no rule book to go by.”

Indeed, Caldwell himself is among those who found “value” from the pandemic as the lockdown allowed him to

be a stay-at-home dad for most of the first year of his son’s life, something he said never would have happened if he were working at the office. Others are fearful of once again dealing with FOMO (fear of missing out) as reopening also means a return of competing demands on our time, as addressed by a recent New York Magazine cover story.

Caldwell says the panel will talk about such questions as “How do we come back into the world?” to “How do I feel safe if nobody is wearing a mask?” to “Was the pandemic all bad?” to “How do I just start hugging everyone again after 15 months?” and, finally, to “How do we take into the next stage of our lives some of the gold that came along with the dross?”

“Part of the purpose of the panel is to help people see that there are others who are feeling the same things they are, identifying and normalizing whatever they are experiencing,” he said.

“You’re not strange for feeling the way you do. But it’s also to have compassion for people who have a different point of view.”

Which is why the panel is composed of local experts from a variety of fields and disciplines. Kristen Rohm is Hospice’s spiritual care coordinator while Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan

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CALENDAR 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)

FRIDAY, JUNE 25 Goss Goes ‘Organic’ — For its big summer show, Sullivan Goss opens an expansive and enveloping exhibition of modern and contemporary art made from clay, wood, fiber (textile), paper and meta, media typically associated more with craft but used instead as vehicles for abstract imagery and/or conceptual practice by the assembled artists, who number nearly two dozen in all. The 50-works-plus ORGANIC, we’re told, doesn’t present a school or a theory so much as a zeitgeist, boasting biomorphic shapes while irregular, hand-formed or natural textures predominate. A special local focus comes via the ceramic artists, as Nathan Hayden teaches at SBCC, Chris Rupp teaches at Westmont and Lynda Weinman, Patrick Hall, and Linda and James Haggerty all operating out of the new Clay Studio in Goleta. With COVID protocols a thing of the past, there are no restrictions on spending time and thoughts with the pieces in the downtown gallery.

WHEN: 10 am to 5:30 pm daily, today

through Aug. 23 WHERE: 11 East Anapamu St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 730-1460 or www.sullivangoss.com SUNDAY, JUNE 27 Shopping for ‘Furniture’ in Ojai — No theater company has been further ahead of the field in returning to live stage performances in front of an audience than Ojai ACT, based at the Ojai Art Center. It was six weeks ago that the company first presented a reprise of the acclaimed Rubicon/Namba Arts/ Ojai ACT productions of The Belle of Amherst with Ojai actor and choreographer Anna Kotula as Emily Dickensen, albeit with vastly limited seating. Now the restrictions are gone for its production of A.R. Gurney’s Family Furniture, a 2013 work which the late playwright described as “exploring the struggles of a younger generation to define and assert itself against the established values of its elders.” Gurney, best known for his oft-produced two-hander Love Letters, set Furniture in a summer community,

THURSDAY, JUNE 24 In the ‘Heights’ — Author George J. Sánchez’s new book takes a different view of the country’s cross-cultural future that lies beyond the multicultural myth of America as the “great melting pot” which perhaps defined diversity as ethnically distinct urban districts — Little Italy, Koreatown, etc.

— built up over generations while occupying spaces that excluded one another. In Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, Sánchez explores how the neighborhood thrives as a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval, detailing the experiences of its residents from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the “Red Scare” and issues with Latino migrants and Mexican American residents. Sánchez relates how through each period the residents of Boyle Heights maintained solidarity across racial and ethnic lines, acting as a “unified polyglot community” even as their tribulations have become more explicitly racial in nature, and perhaps serving as a blueprint for a way forward in a time when racial solidarity and civic resistance have never been in greater need. Reviewers have been warm, with Josefina López, writer of Real Women Have Curves and the Founding Artistic Director of the Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, saying Sánchez’s research “inspired me to take pride in my community and to see the value of my barrio and recognize the historical context of our fight against gentrification.” Meanwhile, Héctor Tobar, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Down Dark and The Last Great Road Bum, called the book “a moving, intimate, sweeping, and intellectually rigorous account ... an essential new addition to the canon of California history.” Sánchez, professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at USC and the 2020–2021 President of the Organization for American Historians, will discuss Boyle Heights in a Chaucer’s Virtual Event on June 24.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/93270921953 COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, JUNE 26 Summer Solstice on State Street — OK, let’s be perfectly clear: the Summer Solstice Celebration folks haven’t suddenly performed a reverse pandemic pivot and made the decision to hold the ambitiously artistic and wildly creative live parade up the city’s downtown drag in recognition of the longest day of the year. Nope, once again the parade is a “virtual” one, put together by the TV Santa Barbara crew which has been filming many of Santa Barbara’s community groups, dance troupes, drum ensembles, and other organizations and individuals doing their Solstice thing centered on this year’s theme of Bloom. But now that the virus-dampening restrictions are in the rear-view mirror, we can gather in person to watch the premiere of the film in its expanded 2021 virtual version at the Arlington Theatre this morning. Folks should feel free to don a Solstice costume (maskless or not, your choice), perhaps paint your face, dress in your most summery garb, and meet up with the Solstice Virtual Parade participants and team for the free screening. What’s more, in lieu of the annual parade-following festival at Alameda Park, the resident artists and other creatives who make the magic happen will be gathering in the Solstice After Bloom Party at the Community Arts Workshop tonight, and some regular folks can also take part in the live music, a no-host bar, an encore background screening of the virtual parade plus its community parade companion piece, plus a gallery of all the artwork created by the students in Solstice’s trio of Blooming Art Classes.

WHEN: Virtual parade premiere 10-11:30 am; party 5-9 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St.; Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden St. COST: Parade viewing free; After Bloom Party $20, which includes a complimentary beer INFO: (805) 965-3396 or www.solsticeparade.com one of his favorite locations to dive into challenging the manners and mores of the social milieu of his own upbringing.

The New York Times called the piece a “tender, sepia-toned play about a traumatic passage in the lives of a tight-knit, well-bred clan,” while another reviewer said that while it “seems to advocate forgiveness and understanding in dealing with life’s challenges, the play ultimately reveals itself as a commentary on how we maintain the status quo by hiding secrets and ignoring truths about ourselves and those we love.”

Benjamin Wilson, Buddy Wilds, KiSea Katikka, Ashley Osler, and Amber Shea Hodge star in Ojai ACT’s production, which is directed by Tom Eubanks.

WHEN: Weekends tonight through July 18 WHERE: Ojai Art Center, 113 S Montgomery St, Ojai, CA 93023 COST: $20 general, $18 seniors, $10 under 25 INFO: (805) 640-8797 or https://ojaiact.org MONDAY, JUNE 28 ‘Cruising Through the Teens’ — Santa Barbara self-published author

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

Jerry Schaefer’s new book finds an 80-year-old man writing for teenagers, with the suggestion that those formative years can be both difficult and joyful. In the book, subtitled Easier Than It Seems, Schaefer covers typical teen topics such as a lack of self-esteem, worrying about others’ opinions and feeling left out, while also addressing such new challenges as cyberbullying and smartphone addiction. Help comes from teens learning to find and listen to their inner voice, advice — which also applies to adults — that the author readily admits came from experts in the selfgrowth field: “If I hadn’t come across Eckhart Tolle and The Power of Now, I don’t know what I would have done.” Schaefer is also an avid dancer and a member of World Dance for Humanity, the Santa Barbara community of dancers and donors working to bring hope and help to people in need across the globe. Schaefer will talk about both with local yoga instructor Dawn O’Bar tonight in a Chaucer’s Virtual Event.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/95855146900 COST: Free 24 June – 1 July 2021

TUESDAY, JUNE 29 Novelist’s Daring Debut — Chaucer’s Books Events Coordinator Michael Takeuchi has found himself thrilled but also flummoxed about how to categorize Tom Lin’s debut novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu. “A Far Eastern Western?” he posits in a press release, while the official publicity materials call the book “at once a thriller, a romance, and a story of one man’s quest for redemption in the face of a distinctly American brutality.” Kidnapping, a clairvoyant, and a California crime syndicate are all a part of the plot that winds its way to an explosive and unexpected finale. Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn, which Edward Norton spent 20 years adapting into a film that was released in 2019, is a fan, raving, “The atmosphere of Cormac McCarthy’s West, or that of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, gives way to the phantasmagorical shades of Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney’s The Circus of Dr. Lao, and Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love. Yet The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu has a velocity and perspective all its own and is a fierce new version of the Westward Dream.” Lin, a PhD candidate at UC Davis, shares his take with Takeuchi over Zoom tonight.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/99603271057 COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com THURSDAY, JULY 1 SBIFF Film Talk — Festival director Roger Durling will Zoom in on Alanna Brown, writer-director of the 2021 film Trees of Peace, a fictionalized take on the four women from different backgrounds and beliefs who found themselves trapped and hiding during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi

in Rwanda. Brown’s film about their fight for survival defying the odds in uniting the women in an unbreakable sisterhood claimed both SBIFF’s ADL Stand Up Award and Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema when it premiered at the beachside drive-in last April.

WHEN: 5:30 pm WHERE: Link provided upon registration COST: Free INFO: (805) 963-0023 or https://sbiff.org/filmtalk

THURSDAY, JULY 1 Movies Under the Stars in Your Cars — Although there’s something sad about skipping showing vintage films over the summer at the Sunken Gardens at the Santa Barbara Courthouse for a second consecutive year, it also feels disingenuous to disparage dipping into favorite flicks out at a drive-in for a few more months. So, a warm welcome to UCSB Arts & Lectures’ full series of free movies out at the West Wind of films from the 1980s and 1990s, when the drive-in was long past its prime, but at least a few of them were still open. “Be Excellent & Party On” is the theme for the Throwback Thursday slate that starts tonight with Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming masterpiece (and four-time Oscar winner) E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial, the fun and adventurous story of an alien creature left behind when his UFO departs and the 10-year-old boy who befriends him.

Reese’s Pieces is still reaping the rewards of M&Ms turning down the chance to be the snack that lures the critter inside — and so can you via the chance to re-live nearly 39-year-old memories once again on the big screen. Next up: a double feature of the 1984 swashbuckling family adventure classic The Goonies with Rob Reiner’s still remarkably resonant Stand By Me, the 1986 coming-of-age odyssey of self-discovery as a group of friends search for a missing teenager in a small Oregon town, which somehow straddles the line between suspense of humor while shattering the heart (July 8). Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for food trucks, concessions, and entertainment.

WHEN: 8:30 pm (gates open at 7 pm) WHERE: West Wind Drive-In, 907 S Kellogg Ave., Goleta COST: Free INFO: (805) 893-3535 or https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu 24 June – 1 July 2021

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) hold for La Traviata, which had been postponed twice, so we’re trying this and he’s really terrific. Almost everybody else are people who are close to OSB. Can we return to the concept of reinventing OSB? What’s the plan?

Our industry was due for a lot of changes before 2020 anyway, because there were a lot of things that weren’t working. At OSB, we were locked into the model of doing three main stage operas, at the same places and at the same time, a cycle that wasn’t flexible. But with (the pandemic) forcing us to take into account a lot of unknowns and move quickly, we’re seeing it as an artistic opportunity to explore some repertoire that wouldn’t have fit the model and challenge some of the basic assumptions of scope, scale and frequency.

Which is why next season has four much smaller operas that are new to Santa Barbara before we close with La Traviata. (OSB is expected to announce the details of the 2021-22 season this week. Visit www.oper asb.org.)

Classical Corner: MAW Tickets Go on Sale

The Music Academy of the West is welcoming more than 100 fellows and 65 teaching artists this week on its oceanside campus known as Miraflores. While private coaching and rehearsals begin on June 28, the following Monday, July 5, brings the launch of a full slate of 70 live events open to the public. The concerts, master classes, and more with audiences take place at the campus venues of Hahn Hall and Lehmann Hall, as well as at the majestic Granada Theatre downtown, where four chamber orchestra performances serve as highlights of the first MAW concerts and classes conducted in town since August 2019.

Most events will be 60-75 minutes with no intermission, while several

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will also be recorded and streamed online free of charge, offering access to locals and music lovers around the world. Tickets for individual events as well as several series go on sale at 10 am on June 25. Visit www.musicacademy.org or call 805969-8787 and check my column each week for the season for interviews, highlights, and more.

Pop Notes: Jackson Back in Action

It still boggles the mind that Jackson Browne composed “These Days,” his searing song about loss, contemplation, and regret, as a 16-year-old way back in the mid1960s. These days, Browne, now 72 and an early survivor of COVID, is gearing up for a tour to celebrate his new studio album, out July 23, with a title, Downhill From Everywhere, that seems to indicate a wizened perspective.

Browne, who spent part of some of his early formative singer-songwriter years in a beach house in Montecito and still owns a place out at Hollister Ranch, will be heading back to the Santa Barbara Bowl, one of the singer-songwriter’s favorite venues in all the land, for a concert on September 5. (He’ll also be appearing at the Vina Robles Amphitheatre in Paso Robles on September 8.) Advance tickets for the Santa Barbara show go on sale on June 24, at 10 am, 23 hours before you can buy them on the Bowl’s website, www.sbbowl.org.

Meanwhile, if you’re aching to attend one of Browne’s concerts with fellow septuagenarian James Taylor (he turned 73 in March), Chicago’s United Center would welcome you to the Windy City on July 29. The ’70s singer-songwriter slice-of-heaven show also winds up its schedule with a pair of Southern California concerts, in Anaheim on October 30 and San Diego on November 1.

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Salcido has a perspective from the point of view of parents and their children. Suzanne Grimmesey, division chief of programs at Santa Barbara County, Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health, has the psychological perspective as the leader of the community wellness team, while Yoga Soup founder Eddie Ellner is a somatic practitioner with a long-standing interest in the lessons of death and dying. KLITE’s morning show host Catherine Remak serves as the people’s point person.

The Zoom Town Hall audience will have a chance to pose questions that will be funneled to the panel through moderator Caldwell.

“When people hear the different questions and the different answers from the speakers, hopefully they really get that we’re all in this together,” he said. “We have to act with kindness and compassion to each other.”

Register for Hospice of Santa Barbara’s Navigating Re-entry Town Hall at hospiceofsb.org.

Bodhi Path’s Potluck in the Park

Bodhi Path Buddhist Center of Santa Barbara is emerging from online-only offerings to host its first in-person event of 2021 right here in Montecito. Members and friends are invited to bring some vegetarian food to share or just arrive in good cheer to bask in the glow of being with real, live, three-dimensional humans. There’s no formal presentation, although it’s likely you’ll be

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able to also mingle with local resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips, the lay dharma teacher, researcher, educator, author, and social entrepreneur who serves as an authorized teacher at the Kagyu School of Vajrayana Buddhism. His secular work focuses on the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for school children, educational, and business leaders around the world. The gathering is slated for 5-7:30 pm on Thursday, July 1, at picnic area “A2” in Manning Park.

Bodhi Path SB’s teaching and meditation schedule will once again be available in-person as the center throws open the doors at its downtown location starting on July 7, while continuing to also stream all its programs online at www.bpsbonline.com.

In the meantime, there is a Zoom-only Dawa-led evening on how meditating on the nature of Buddha, aka the awakened teacher principle, can be a shortcut to discovering and realizing our own potential, slated for 7-9 pm Thursday, June 24. Visit www. bodhipath.org/sb.

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SANTA BARBARA GOLF CLUB NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received for:

INVITATION FOR BIDS

BID: Bunker Construction Project

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5905A

DUE DATE & TIME: 07/02/2021 UNTIL 5:00 P.M.

DUE DATE & TIME: July 13, 2021 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the Santa Barbara Golf Club and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained through email by contacting Santa Barbara Golf Club at 559-312-6270 or tthompson@courceco.com The Santa Barbara Golf Club has been contracted to run the City of Santa Barbara’s municipal golf course and is required to use all City of Santa Barbara purchasing guidelines. Those guidelines are available at the following City website: www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp or by contacting the Purchasing Office at (805) 564-5349.

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.

LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE AT CATER TREATMENT PLANT Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on June 30, 2021 at 9:00 a.m., at the Cater Water Treatment Plant, located at 1150 San Roque Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Pre-bid meeting is OPTIONAL for those who attended the original pre-bid meeting on June 8, 2021. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

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

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

Published: 06/23/2021 Montecito Journal

ORDINANCE NO. 6007 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH TESLA, INC. TO OPERATE 19 ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS IN LOT 10 (ORTEGA GARAGE)

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on June 15, 2021.

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

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6007 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on June 8, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on June 15, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, 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 16, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on June 16, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published June 22, 2021 Montecito Journal

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

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

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

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

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Inspired Being, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067. Linda Dam, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067; Chelsea Rothert, 2962 Iroquois Dr., Thompson’s Station, TN, 37179. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001653.

Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JC Electric; JCE 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John Curulla, 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 17, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original state-

ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001795.

Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ceylon International Film Festival, 64 S Patterson Ave, 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Ceylon International Film Festival Foundation, 64 S Patterson Ave, 204, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001763.

Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brunello Cucinelli, 1759 South Jameson Lane, Montecito, CA 93108. Brunello Cucinelli USA Inc., 466 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, NY 10502. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa

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Barbara County on June 1, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001618. Published June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV01722. To all interested parties: Petitioner Anna Rezhko filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Atlas Oleksandrivna Rezhko.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 1, 2021 by Terri

Chavez. Hearing date: July 13, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 3, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV01965. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sophia Suzanne Gerthoffer filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Peach Diamond Gerthoffer. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Filed June 3, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: July 23, 2021 at 10 am in Dept.

4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30

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In the Know (Continued from page 8)

The Giving List (Continued from page 32)

Retreaters at La Casa de Maria couldn’t see across San Ysidro Creek prior to the debris flow, but the creek bed grew by more than double, with plenty of natural lushness lost

PATH has provided temporary and permanent home options, while also working with local motels and hotels for housing during the pandemic

positive that the community has been investing more and getting more creative with the roles that each of us can play in getting people off the streets, out of the shelter system, and into their own permanent homes.”

PATH’s multi-pronged approach is itself somewhat innovative as rather than just providing temporary shelter the local organization includes: the Interim Housing facility at what used to be called Casa Esperanza before its merger with PATH; a Rapid Re-Housing for those suffering temporary homelessness; a Permanent Supportive Housing program; and Employment Services to help individuals experiencing homelessness find and retain employment, while also working toward long-term housing, health, and stability goals. It’s all in service of PATH’s mission to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities by providing housing, person-centered supportive services, and community engagement.

Madden Storms believes the problem can be solved, noting that the local homeless population numbers approximately 2,000. It’s too many, of course, but it’s also possible for the community to get really close to functional zero of ending homelessness.

Madden Storms reiterated that PATH can’t make that happen on its own. But, she said, “the most special thing about the Santa Barbara community is that we have an incredible group of people who advocate and support and champion the work that we do like our ambassadors. It’s uniquely special because we have really only been in the community for six years. To have that support is really second to none.”

And now that the pandemic is largely behind us — although full-time mask-wearing and other restrictions remain in place at PATH’s Cacique Street facility — there’s the hope that the fading threat and warmer weather doesn’t result in the community forgetting about people who are still

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very much in need, Madden Storms said. On the theory that nobody is truly housing-resistant, PATH is adding an outreach specialist to its local team.

“What’s at the core of our model and our approach is this concept of meeting people where they’re at” — Tessa Madden Storms, PATH’s Santa Barbara Regional Director

“It requires a personal connection,” she explained. “What’s at the core of our model and our approach is this concept of meeting people where they’re at. The outreach specialist is really going to help us connect with people who are actively living on the streets, those neighbors who are homeless, meet them, engage with them, and understand them and start to build relationships.

“And not only with the individuals experiencing homelessness in our neighborhood, but also the businesses and community at large to connect the communities.”

The goal is to reach even the most intractable of the street dwellers and make large strides toward accomplishing PATH’s mission, Madden Storms said.

“It might take a couple of weeks or a month, or it might take a number of months to a year, but that constant engagement, communication, and relationship-building could result in someone being willing to come into PATH or another facility. That’s what starts them on their journey home.”

•MJ For more information, visit: epath.org or call (805) 884-8481.

$75 million in needed fundraising. If all goes according to plan, breaking ground should begin by the outset of 2022 — if not earlier.

With the outdoors taking on new importance throughout the pandemic, Buczko and Swain know that once La Casa starts taking reservations, the 10,000-12,000 people it served annually before the debris flow might grow exponentially.

“People who know us, absolutely love it,” Swain said. “And we believe that audience will grow once people experience what we are going to become.”

On June 24, all the work will take an official step forward, as La Casa’s partnership with the California Wildlife Conservation Board finally comes to fruition, some four years after La Casa had received a near million-dollar grant from the board to aid in the preservation of the steelhead trout that are prevalent in San Ysidro Creek, as well as kickstarting a project that will build an underground cistern to collect and store run-off and rainwater for landscaping and the facility’s certified organic orchard.

Both Buczko and Swain point to partners such as the CWCB as the buoys that keep La Casa committed to its new vision.

“We believe in what we can do here, what it was and what it will be,” Buczko said. “And when our partners also believe in it, well that tells us that we aren’t alone.”

Rattlesnakes Rearing Their Heads; SBWCN Has Some Tips

It wasn’t a message that any neighbor wants to see on the NextDoor app: “Rattlesnakes Galore. We found FOUR RATTLESNAKES on our property TODAY! My nerves are shot!!!

Also saw a bear last week. It’s a jungle out there, neighbors. Please keep a watchful eye out everywhere you step and be really careful with your pets and especially your children. We have had four snake bites to three different pets over the years. They all

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survived by spending a fortune on antivenom and vets. I recently took my dog to a rattlesnake aversion class and I’m not so sure it worked.”

It got better: “Another one on my driveway this morning. FIVE in 30 hours. I’m heading to the city for a few days with the dog and the rest of my family are not allowed to go outside.”

It’s the season where the likes of rattlesnakes and other wildlife are out perusing our rarefied enclave, so it’s probably time to freshen up on what can be done to protect domesticated animals from those that ride on the wild side.

Julia Parker, the director of operations at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, and her team have some tips to keep dogs, and wildlife, safe: • Sign up your dog for a rattlesnake aversion class; • Keep your dog on a leash; • If there’s a rattlesnake in your backyard, keep your pets inside and call Animal Control; • If you encounter a rattlesnake outside (on a trail, etc.), don’t make any sudden movement. Keep calm and slowly and quietly back away from the snake.

• If your dog is bitten by a snake, take it to the vet immediately.

Here are a handful of other tips when it comes to dogs and wildlife: • Keeping dogs on a leash not only protects your dog from harm, but also keeps wild animals safe. Offleash dogs are at increased risk of encountering threats like mountain lions or coyotes. In addition, SBWCN receives hundreds of animals each year (cormorants, baby bunnies, etc.) that are caught by dogs.

• Avoid using rat poison. Not only can it poison other animals in the food chain by mistake (like owls and foxes), but it can also poison your own pets.

• Be wary of wood piles and sheds in your backyard; they provide opportunistic shelter, shade, and nesting sites for wildlife (like rattlesnakes).

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Miscellany (Continued from page 18) four-bedroom oceanfront Malibu property formerly owned by crooner Barry Manilow, paying $200,000 more than the asking price.

Manilow sold the home in the Malibu Colony gated community in 2012 for $5.5 million and it has since had a number of owners and undergone extensive renovations.

The house also has a two-car garage with guest accommodations above.

Pink and husband, Carey Hart, also own a $12.5 million ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, with about 18 acres of vineyard, which they bought in 2013.

Take That, Bad Reviewers

Meghan Markle’s new children’s book, The Bench, received bad reviews on both sides of the Atlantic when it debuted, barely ranking on Amazon’s Top 40.

But now the book, which explores “the special bond between father and son,” is No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list for children’s picture books.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, says the book shows “another side of masculinity” in a message to her readers after it became a New York Times hit.

“I’m encouraged to see that its universal themes of love, representation, and inclusivity are resonating with communities everywhere,” says Meghan on the Archewell website.

“In many ways, pursuing a more

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compassionate and equitable world begins with these core values.”

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No, Mom, I Won’t Watch Your Movie

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that, rather surprisingly, her daughter Apple, 17, has never seen any of her films.

The 48-year-old Oscar winner told TV host Jill Martin when asked her kids favorite movies of hers: “My kids have never seen me in a movie!

“I mean, I think my 15-year-old son Moses may have seen the Iron Man series, but I don’t think my daughter has seen me in a movie.

“She says she likes me here like how she knows me and it’s weird when I’m on screen.”

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Sightings

Comedian Steve Martin noshing at Ca’Dario on Coast Village Road...

TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres shopping at Montecito Country Mart...

Warbler Katy Perry, actor fiancé Orlando Bloom, and daughter Daisy Dove frolicking around Venice, Italy.

My trusty shutterbug, Priscilla, mislaid her camera bag at the Santa Barbara Polo Club. If found, please return to the Montecito Journal office on Coast Village Circle.

Pip! Pip! Be safe and get vaccinated.

•MJ

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Village Beat (Continued from page 6) has given you a wonderful gift, and you are using it to trample on the civil rights of others. It’s unacceptable,” said public commenter Nick Koonce.

“I would really like to enjoy downtown, and not feel like I have to struggle,” said another public commenter with visual impairment.

“I want us to get out of the way as best we can and allow our businesses to recover,” said councilmember Meagan Harmon.

“I’m not in favor of anybody having to take anything down,” stated councilmember Kristen Sneddon. “The one place we can’t experiment with is ADA compliance. It’s inexcusable.

We can still promote businesses being open, but we need to clear the sidewalks. We really want downtown to be for everyone.”

The Council ultimately agreed to not adopt staff recommendations, except for accessibility.

“It’s just not the time to put more financial burdens on these businesses,” said councilmember Eric Friedman.

Ultimately the Council agreed to the clearing of the sidewalks of non-licensed tables and chairs, the enforcement of all ADA guidelines, and agreed to not impose changes to the already existing enclosures and parklets. “Things will have to be stan-

dardized eventually,” said Murillo, “but not right now, so close to the end of the pandemic.”

We’ll have much more on the parklets in future editions.

Aquatic Jewels Opens in Upper Village

A new aquarium store has opened in the Upper Village, in the space formerly occupied by Stationery Collection. Aquatic Jewels is owned by longtime aquarium enthusiast Dottie Allen and her business partner Mark Amescua, who opened the shop in late April.

“We’ve always wanted to open a shop here in Montecito, and when this space became available, we felt it would be an ideal location,” Amescua told us earlier this week during a visit to the tranquil shop, which is bathed in special blue light to keep the fish and coral thriving.

Amescua and Allen worked together for 13 years before going into business together at Aquatic Jewels.

“Basically, I spent all my money in her store, and then came to work for her,” Amescua said about Allen, who has owned several aquarium stores in the past, including one in Ventura (Aquatic Reef Designs) and one on De La Vina Street in Santa Barbara

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(Aquatic Gardens) that she owned from 1991-2002.

The duo explained that many such shops have gone out of business in recent years, due in part to a ban on the sale of fish and coral from Indonesia, which has since been lifted.

“A lot of the stores just couldn’t make it through the ban, as they had very little for customers to choose from. A lot of them switched from a brick and mortar to offering tank service only,” Amescua said.

Without a store in the immediate area, the business partners felt it was a particularly good time to open up shop.

“People who have ever had saltwater tanks often cannot go without them,” Allen said, saying that the hobby is addicting to many people, thanks to the tranquility of keeping a tank as well as the relationships formed with the fish. “They can live 15 to 20 years, easily. People often form relationships with their fish, much like a pet,” she said.

Tanks are popular in both residential homes and offices, including waiting rooms for doctors and dentists — “It’s really relaxing for people to watch a fish tank while they wait. It’s better than watching a TV!” Amescua said.

The shop is full service, offering corals, fish, foods, tanks, and various supplies, as well as assistance for tank building and a full maintenance service.

“Anything that has to do with your aquarium, we can take care of it,” Amescua said, saying that customers often come in and want to build a tank from scratch.

“That’s what we love to do,” he said.

“With the technology today, anybody can keep a tank and keep corals

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“It’s a really special and rewarding thing,” she said.

Much of the product offered in the store is sourced from wholesalers, many of whom offer fish that are aqua-cultured or born and raised in aquariums rather than being sourced from the sea.

“It’s a sustainable way to source the fish, so the oceans are not being depleted,” Amescua said. The store boasts 13 display tanks, ranging from five gallons to 500 gallons. The majority of the contents of the tanks are for sale and can be taken home immediately.

“People love to browse and see what they are buying, and make sure it’s healthy and beautiful,” said Allen.

Those that frequent the Upper Village may recognize Allen from her nearby business, Reflections, which opened right before the pandemic started. Reflections is owned by Allen and her business partner Carole Shafran, who sell their handmade seashell art in the quaint store located between Wells Fargo and Montecito Village Grocery. The shop also carries a plethora of shells and corals, some of which is over 300 years old and extremely rare.

Aquatic Jewels is located at 1470 East Valley Road Unit K, next to Glamour House and Bissell Clinic.

The showroom is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through Sundays from 11 am to 5 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, Allen and Amescua are out in the field servicing tanks in Montecito, Santa Barbara, and beyond. For more information, visit www.aquaticjewelssb.com. •MJ

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Best Buys (Continued from page 14) 1395 Oak Creek Canyon Road – $21,500,000

This home on Hot Springs Road features a babbling stream and swimming pond The ocean views define this property on Oak Creek Canyon Road

Sweeping ocean views define the horizon at one of Montecito’s finest estates.

Created over the course of five years by renowned architect Peter Becker, international designer Rosie Feinberg, and the incredible build team at Giffin and Crane, this residence captures the authentic spirit of an Italian Villa and combines the work of old-world artisans with the conveniences of modern technology in an A-plus location, resting above the Golden Quadrangle of Montecito.

The mostly one-level floor plan features gracious formal rooms, an elegant kitchen and lounge, library, wine room, and the ethereal primary suite. Walls of glass and steel doors open to a south-facing loggia, pool terrace, and guest house, all overlooking beautiful ocean and island panoramas.

and executed with intention, delivering a true experience in residential design.

Outside, gardens overflow with exotic plants and lush lawns leading past a babbling stream into a swimming pond, overlooking a bocce court, pickle-ball court, fire pit, lush lawns, and olive orchard.

296 Las Entradas Drive – $26,500,000

1086 Channel Drive – $23,500,000

Sitting on more than 15,000 square feet, this home on Las Entradas has 360-degree ocean views

Floor-to-ceiling windows provide spectacular views from this home on Channel Drive

Nestled behind a gated entry, resting above Montecito’s renowned Butterfly Beach, here is a breathtaking representation of mid-century modern architecture. The home was influenced by the works of renowned modernist architect Richard Neutra. The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom residence features floor-to-ceiling windows and additional clerestory windows above, capitalizing on the coastal views visible from every room and making the views the focal point “as art” from within the home. A wraparound balcony promotes indoor/outdoor living.

This home is situated on an approximately .49-acre lot, with low-maintenance grounds. Set amongst other significant estates, homes on Channel Drive are near to the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel and close to the restaurants and shopping on Coast Village Road.

Drawing inspiration from around the globe, this architectural and spiritual estate is a display of international influences and has a storied history. The home named Villa de la Vista went through an extensive renovation in 2012 and with the focus and architectural ingenuity of Thomas Bollay, the prominent residence was brought back to life.

The nearly 15,000-square-foot compound sits on a mostly level, 2.9-acre promontory within the exclusive Ennisbrook community, offering a 360-degree bird’s eye view out to the Pacific Ocean, coastline, and mountains. Complete with a pool, one-bedroom guest house, tennis pavilion, office building, rose gardens, and thoughtful garden spaces, this estate embraces visitors on a grand scale. The six-bedroom main residence features a meditation room, home theater, wine cellar, bar, recording room, private gym, and sauna.

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848 Hot Springs Road – $24,850,000

Pushing the boundaries of high style and luxury living, this estate is a bold vision and a study on flair and architectural detail. Villa Tragara rests on a 2.45acre site in one of Montecito’s best locations at East Mountain Drive and Hot Springs Road near many other significant estates.

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NOSH TOWN IN THE KITCHEN WITH ART SEVTAP

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s foodies return to dine-in service, one local eatery is commanding attention with its authentic and flavorful approach to Spanish-Mediterranean cuisine and robust wine selections.

Sevtap Winery is a new tasting room in the Presidio that lures food and wine lovers on its breezy umbrella-shaded patio or inside, a naturally lit and airy dining room. It comes courtesy of winemaker Art Sevtap, who serves freshly baked breads and tapas with his wines.

The recently relocated Santa Barbara resident enjoyed a colorful career as a deep-sea diver, line cook/baker, cab driver, and wine tour operator before trying his hand at wine making. He ran a popular wine tasting room in Solvang for more than a decade before quietly opening an outpost in the historic El Centro Building at 23 East Canon Perdido Street.

These days you’ll find Sevtap in the kitchen, slicing just-baked bread or busily adding white wine to a pot of steamed mussels. His workstation is filled with canisters of spices such as cumin, smoked paprika, and coriander. There are also bouquets of fresh herbs: mint, thyme, basil, rosemary, and sage.

Taking a leap from winemaker to chef wasn’t a stretch. Sevtap worked at Emeril Lagasse in New Orleans, where he started out as a line cook before moving into the baking program. Sevtap uses the skills he learned there to manage his time in the kitchen.

“At Emeril’s I learned how to think like a chef and work efficiently,” he said.

“I can still hear the printer churning out tickets. There were two rows of tickets

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lined up, and you were always six, seven, eight behind.”

Sevtap takes it all in stride, particularly his approach to rustic cooking. His breads are baked fresh every morning, with each golden loaf having its own wholesome and earthy flavor. The breads he bakes and serves here are also served at other local eateries.

The chef/winemaker offers three types of breads: pain de campagne ($9); Jewish rye with caraway seeds ($9.50); and kalamata olive with rosemary bread ($10). All can be paired with various cheeses and meats. The cheese platter ($21) features gruyere, made with whole cow’s milk and aged for six months, and Laura Chenel “Chef’s Chevre,” a light and tangy spreadable Brie de France The spicy, smokey and fruity flavor of Calabrian chili is highlighted in Sevtap’s fried turnip dish cow’s milk cheese.

While the ambrosial cheeses melt in your mouth, consider the savory meats: El Cerro Jamon Serrano, produced in Spain’s Teruel mountain region, is cured for 18 months; Chorizo Iberico, is made with coarsely chopped pork and pork fat, seasoned with garlic, pimenton (smoked paprika) and salt; and Prosciutto di Parma, a razor-thin sliced Italian ham that has been crafted with painstaking care since Roman times. The meat platter ($29) is served with brie, gruyere, and Chef’s Chevre.

The menu is inspired not just by Spanish culinary tradition but is also influenced by Sevtap’s Turkish heritage. The Turkish-inspired clay pot shrimp with chorizo is cooked in an herb-tomato sauce and served with roasted goat cheese on top. The crab cakes — made with delicious blue crab — are New Orleans fare served with a remoulade sauce ($9).

For the crab cakes, Sevtap says he only uses a smidgen of Dijon and mayo to keep it light and not overpower the flavor of the fresh seafood. The remoulade is a mixture of Dijon, mayo, Tabasco, and Worcestershire sauce. Sevtap grills octopus and serves it on a bed of arugula, dressed in a Calabrian chili vinaigrette. The chilled gazpacho andaluz ($10) and the roasted beet salad with white truffle basil vinaigrette, chevre and mixed greens are perfect for a summer lunch on the patio.

The Calabrian chili — with its combination of spicy, salty, smokey, and even fruity taste — makes an unexpected appearance in another summer offering.

The fried turnip dish, with Calabrian chili sauce and chives ($12), is a menu standout. Sevtap said it came together accidentally when his parsnip delivery arrived with turnips.

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“I shaved it and tasted it and didn’t know what to do with it at first. I added flour and egg and fried it.”

The result is a crispy turnip and chive ball served in a pool of green habanero and Calabrian chili sauce with lemon. Thinly sliced flour tortilla chips are served on the side.

Sevtap uses smoky chorizo for a Galician-style mussels and white wine summer appetizer ($14). The mussels and chorizo simmer in a savory broth made with Albariño, shallots, parsley, garlic compound butter, raw garlic and lemon zest. The aromatic butter and citrusy broth are so irresistible you will be compelled to push your bowl of empty shells aside and finish it with a spoon.

All his dishes pair perfectly with his wines, ranging from white Rhone blends and Rieslings to red blends of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Petit Verdot.

Sevtap hopes the future will present him the opportunity to buy his own vineyard. But for now, the skilled négociant partners with a handful of winemakers from Santa Ynez including Martian, Vogelzang, and La Presa vineyards to create his wine selections. Tastings include five wine selections. White wine tastings are $15 and red wine tastings are $20.

Sevtap Winery is located at 23 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara. Open from 11 am to 8 pm, Wednesday-Sunday; wine tastings from 11 am to 4 pm.

Closed Monday-Tuesday. Visit sevtapwinery.com for more information.

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