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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

While many other nonprofits had to cut back, the Pacific Pride Foundation expanded during the pandemic, page 32

The Rumor Mill

Scuttlebutt is beginning to pick up a bit as rumors are swirling that our Royal resident, Prince Harry, is practicing polo locally, page 18

Coming & Going

Cava is saying goodbye to Coast Village Road, while the Randall Road Debris Basin is making significant progress toward yearend goals, page 6

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he Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation is celebrating National Childhood Cancer Awareness with the return of a fundraising staple — its Gold Ribbon Luncheon. (Story starts on page 28)

Out of Water?

Where exactly does Montecito’s water come from and is there enough in the plan to maintain the needs of the area? Bob Hazard explores, page 8

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5 Editor’s Letter Juggling schedules can be quite the obstacle, but not impossible. And we are practicing what we preach in the shadows of demanding transparency from the county. 6 Village Beat Cava on Coast Village Road is closing, while the Randall Road Debris Basin is making significant progress 8 On Water Will Montecito run out of water? Here’s a look at where it all comes from. 10 Letters to the Editor Why not demand change to other cannabis meetings, too? Plus, joy over the new-look Arts and Crafts Show on Cabrillo Boulevard. 11 Community Voices His dog off the leash, a run-in with a fellow dog-walker gave Steve Uhler some perspective 12 Hot Topics It’s time to prepare for disasters — and it goes beyond fire 14 Montecito on the Move To those visiting our rarefied enclave, there’s no reason to be rude — either on the roads or in local dining establishments 16 On Entertainment Willie Watson finds his voice after taking a daring turn in his career 18 Montecito Miscellany Is that a certain Royal that has been spotted on the polo pitch?! The rumors are swirling. 20 Dear Montecito The pandemic has provided Jules Bartling an opportunity to explore her artistic side, paying homage to her grandmother 22 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco The “Methane Accelerator”: Climate Change is Moving Past the Tipping Point The Optimist Daily Carbon Capture & Climate Careers: Orca is the world’s biggest plant built to transform CO2 into rock

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Editor’s Letter by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Timing is Indeed Everything

cheduling is never easy where busy people are concerned. It’s less easy when you throw stubborn or otherwise motivated people into the mix. We’ve covered this with the county’s scheduling of an important meeting on Yom Kippur regarding a permit for a cannabis dispensary on Santa Claus Lane. A meeting which has since been rescheduled (kind of, as the revised timing could still interfere with the holiday, but let’s hope not). In all this however, apparently, we missed the fact that Santa Claus Lane is not the only dispensary being discussed at this Subdivision Development Review Committee meeting that has been wrongly or insensitively scheduled on this important holiday. One reader believes that we purposely did not mention another dispensary also on the docket for that day, this one in Goleta, so as not to offend “John Price and his political allies in Santa Barbara.” Let me assure you, this paper is both an equal opportunity offender and defender. There was no discrimination intended, and no pass given for John Price’s Goleta or any other community’s dispensary.

The Montecito Journal has decided to cancel our live City Council Candidate Debates scheduled for September 30, as they interfere with another important event that was scheduled first — Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s event “Politics, Sex, and Cocktails.”

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And while we’re on the subject of the need for flexibility and sensitivity in the scheduling of events, the Montecito Journal is walking the walk and has decided to cancel our live City Council Candidate Debates scheduled for September 30, as they interfere with another important event that was scheduled first — Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s event “Politics, Sex, and Cocktails.” We will instead be meeting with each candidate for the 4th and the 6th District City Council seats to decide whether we will make endorsements in these races. We will record these conversations and share them through the Morning MoJo newsletter and online for your viewing. We hope you will attend our Mayoral Debate that will take place, as planned, on Wednesday, September 29, at 7 pm via Zoom. Make sure to get registered at montecitojournal.net/debates. And now, I need to go find myself a properly permitted dispensary. •MJ

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Village Beat

Cava Restaurant & Bar will close this week after 24 years in business on Coast Village Road

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

Cava on Coast Village Road to Close

fter 24 years of serving up elevated, authentic Mexican food on Coast Village Road, Cava Restaurant & Bar closed its doors on Wednesday, September 15. “It’s certainly sad to see this wonderful chapter close, but we are absolutely making the right call,” said owner Carlos Lopez-Hollis. “There is virtue in decisiveness with a difficult but correct decision and we are absolutely making the correct decision.” Lopez-Hollis tells us recent events including the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow, quickly followed by the COVID-19 pandemic, all took a toll on the business. A recent rent increase and ongoing issues with the building played a hand in the decision in the close. “We are very proud of our team for staying the course through such trying times. It is gratifying to end Cava’s long run on a positive note, with heads held high, as we do right by

employees, customers, and vendors alike. We realize this is incredibly rare in our industry and we feel fortunate to be doing so,” Lopez-Hollis wrote in a press release last week. The Lopez-Hollis family has deep roots in both the Montecito and Santa Barbara community, opening the popular Carlitos Café y Cantina on State Street across from the Arlington in the late ‘70s, followed by Cava in 1997 in Montecito, in what was then considered Montecito’s sleepy Lower Village. Carlos became managing partner of Cava back in 2004, before he and his wife, Amanda, purchased the business from the family in 2011. They also opened a Santa Ynez Valley outpost, Dos Carlitos Restaurant & Tequila Bar, in 2009, and that eatery continues to be a culinary destination in the heart of downtown Santa Ynez. “We hope our loyal patrons will continue to enjoy the same deli-

cious Mexican cuisine and signature Margaritas at our sibling restaurants. You will undoubtedly see many of the familiar smiling faces from Cava’s beloved staff at one of our other locations,” Lopez-Hollis said.

Montecito Association Meets

At this month’s Montecito Association Board Meeting, the board heard from Jon Frye of Santa Barbara County Flood Control, who gave a photographic update on the Randall Road Debris Basin, which began construction in May. Following the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow in 2018, the debris basin project was proposed along Randall

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Road in Montecito by private interests, mainly resident Curtis Skene, along with the general support of affected property owners in the area. The project received approval by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in August 2020 and a $13.5 million grant from FEMA in November 2020. The cost included acquiring six private properties on Randall Road and one on East Valley Road. V Lopez Jr. & Sons are serving as the contractor on the project. The estimated project cost of $15.5 to $17.5 million is funded by FEMA ($13.5 million) and local flood control money.

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On Water

by Bob Hazard

Editor’s Note: This is a five-part series on water, with topics such as whether Montecito will run out of water, desalination, committing to green living, and water independence

Will Montecito Run Out of Water?

s of mid-September, 50 out of the 58 California counties are reporting either “extreme” or “exceptional” drought status. Montecito falls into the “extreme drought” category. While Montecito’s water supply appears secure for the next three years, all bets are off if continued drought becomes the new norm, or if Montecito Water District (MWD) customers are unable to reduce current demand for water by 20% through conservation. California’s previous six-year drought, labeled as “the worst drought in 450 years,” began in December 2011 and ended in March 2017. In 2019, California was officially declared drought-free except for a small pocket of “abnormally dry” conditions in Southern California. Sadly, the last two years have brought a new drought threat to Montecito and 88% of the state. The MWD Board of Directors and its management team have shown commendable foresight in securing an

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improved water supply portfolio that includes innovative sources of water that are not dependent on unpredictable rainfall; specifically, the Water Supply Agreement with the city of Santa Barbara and a new underground water storage banking program. MWD’s responsibility is “to provide an adequate and reliable supply of high-quality water to the residents of Montecito and Summerland, at the most reasonable cost.”

How Much Water Does MWD Need in a Year?

MWD has some 4,620 active metered customers in its service area, which includes both Montecito and Summerland. Metered water sales have varied over the last decade. From 2010 to 2015, in the early years of the last extended drought, water sales for MWD averaged just more than 4,800 acre-feet per year (AFY).

The Cachuma Reservoir, MWD’s principal water supply, contains only 51% of its full storage capacity (Photo by Mike Eliason)

From 2015 to 2020, water sales fell to an average of 3,600 AFY with water allocations, mandatory rationing, rationing penalties and the digging of more private wells being credited with the reduction. In the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2021, metered water sales jumped to 4,575 AFY, a 25% increase over the prior year’s use. Water sales in 2021-22 are forecasted at 3,815 AFY, consistent with the past three-year-average sales, but down from the 2020-21 sales level. MWD urges increased voluntary conservation of 20% in fiscal year 2022, to both reduce demand and to remain in compliance with standards set by the State Water Resources Control Board and the nine California Regional Water Quality Control Boards. Failure to

meet these standards can result in MWD’s loss of federal and state loans, grants, and other forms of assistance

How Will MWD Produce Enough Water to Sell?

In 2021-22, MWD anticipates water production of at least 4,500 AFY. Where will that water come from?

Lake Cachuma Reservoir (50% of Supply)

Lake Cachuma, MWD’s principal water supply, received only minimal inflow during the 2020-2021 winter. Currently, the Cachuma Reservoir

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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

Why Not Move All the Dates?

t’s distressing that in 2021, five years after Prop 64, that we have individuals pushing the same fear mongering about cannabis we all learned growing up with Reefer Madness. Today it’s Jana Zimmer and the writers of the Montecito Journal, along with a small number of neighbors in Carpinteria allege that the County of Santa Barbara is preventing them from speaking during a preliminary development review board, because it was scheduled on Yom Kippur. Never mind that the applicants for a cannabis permit in Carpinteria are longtime residents, business owners, and advocates for youth, who have owned that property for decades. They also received hundreds of signatures (nearly 450 of them) in support of their proposed dispensary in Carpinteria. Now, Ms. Zimmer and the small number of business owners there want to see this list of names and use it for what purposes? In response, the county has chosen to move this hearing to September 15, an act which will prejudice the applicant considering there are still two dispensary applicants with a hearing on September 16, 2021, which is still on Yom Kippur. When you realize that John Price is the owner of one of those dispensaries, you see why the County chose not to move his hearing. Why does John Price receive preferential treatment? The political contributions and sway John Price wields in Santa Barbara County is well-documented. In fact, his application for a cannabis permit includes letters of support from City Council members, Board of Supervisors, and law enforcement, all of whom have received assistance from John Price and his companies.

The county will tell you they can’t consider those letters because it was not part of the review process, but their scores were far below the competing applicant in Goleta. The county should treat the applicants the same. The county needs to move John Price’s application for a dispensary to the same meeting in which they have moved the Carpinteria dispensary. Show the people that fairness dictates behavior, that fear mongering and politics have no place in this debate. Eric Young

Giving a Free Pass?

In the age of Trump and wild conspiracy theories, it’s hard to imagine a worse example of editorial journalism than the sad work by your board when printing Ms. Zimmer’s article of September 3. Ms. Zimmer’s article, apparently with the full backing of the Montecito Journal and Nick Masuda, misrepresents and alleges that Jewish people can’t have their voices heard during a meeting of the Subdivision Development Review Committee because it’s scheduled on a Yom Kippur. Does that mean the other dispensaries on the SDRC Agenda for the 16th have a special exemption? Or do you not want to offend the well-connected John Price and his political allies in Santa Barbara County? There is discrimination to be found for sure. The Carpinteria dispensary finds itself the target of prejudicial and unjustified treatment, while John Price’s Goleta dispensary is quietly given a pass. Jesse Franco

Now’s the time to just start keeping it in your pants and treating young women like human beings, rather than as some temporary receptacle for your you know what. It’s really easy to just take care of that later, when you’re by yourself. Or maybe we can start legislating and mandating reversible vasectomy. There I said it. So glad I finally hit menopause. LeeAnn Morgan

Some Comments About Bob Hazard’s First Article in MJ’s “On Water” Series: 1. Regarding Mr. Hazard’s identification of California’s “serious water shortage problem” and major droughts since 1900, there is another way of looking at the problem, at least for Santa Barbara County: According to a recent communication to me from Shawn Johnson, Senior Hydrologist at the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department, Water Resources Division: Flood Control District, Water-Year 2021 was much drier than normal, at 48% of normal (countywide). It’s been a predominantly dry 10-year period, with only two of the past 10 years reporting above normal rainfall. To put the most recent decade in perspective... the “10-Year Moving Average Rainfall” is at or near the lowest levels on record (since 1900). Focusing just on drought years does not capture the most recent decade in true perspective for Santa Barbara County. Perhaps the county’s most recent “10-Year Moving Average Rainfall” is the most important data to be considered as opposed to drought years, especially in light of recent climate change. Time will tell if the moving average does not improve or continues to fall. 2. With regard to Mr. Hazard’s comments about the Montecito Water District’s (MWD) last year allotment of State Water Project water reduced to 5% and next year’s

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allotment anticipated to be zero, perhaps it would be better to identify all of the water that will be received by MWD in both years through the State Water Project, as a result of previous year water exchanges fortuitously arranged by MWD. 3. With regard to Mr. Hazard’s discussion of reduced deliveries by the Colorado River Project, it should be noted that no amount of water was ever “promised.” Mother Nature decides whether or not water is available. Both the State Water Project and the Colorado River Project were designed to deliver a certain capacity of water, if available.

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olly’s a grand pooch – astute, alert, intuitively obedient. So, I immediately took umbrage when we found ourselves confronted by a masked stranger over the simple act of taking an afternoon stroll together. The two of us often take walks around the cliffs overlooking Coal Oil Point. It’s a safe, bucolic, and familiar environment, and I often let Molly loose from her leash there, secure in the knowledge that she never strays from my sight and stays within 30 feet of her safety zone. I like to think we’re both prudent and responsible citizens. We’re both vaccinated – me for COVID, she for rabies. It was a fine, late-summer day to be free — the salt-and-kelp scented breeze rising from the high tide below us, angel-hair clouds shifting shape in the endless blue sky above. As Molly was preoccupied tracking the scent of a squirrel in the brush, a woman approached from the opposite direction on the trail, her lower face obscured by a protective facemask, and a huge, fluffy brown poodle parading elegantly in front of her, tugging on a fashionable leash. We converged within the verboten social distance of six feet from each other, Molly trotting obliviously onward in front, scanning the trees intent on her squirrel patrol, unfazed by the passing poodle three times her size. The woman attached to the other end of her dog’s leash tugged it tauter than a tightrope. I couldn’t see the hidden grimace obscured beneath the stranger’s facemask, but I could track her angry eyes glaring at me. As we passed each other, she spoke in my direction. “Your dog is supposed to be leashed,” she decreed in an imperious tone. Then, lowering her voice to a muffled stage-whisper, adding, “Some people just don’t care about others’ safety.” The hackles on the back of my neck immediately stood at attention, and I readied myself to return verbal fire. Experts may differ, but I’m an alum of the School of Unleashed Obedience training. I took umbrage at her remark. This is America, and stupid as it may seem to others – and perhaps even eventually ourselves – we have the personal freedom of choice to break with protocol – and sometimes law – to follow our beliefs. In the end, we all select which doctrines we choose to follow and which we deviate from. We all “make exceptions” to our little laws. I chose to break the mandate of having Molly on-leash, all in the “patriotic” spirit of safe-guarding my precious personal freedom to be an ass and her right to pee where she pleases. Opening my mouth to respond to the stranger’s chastisement, I suddenly realized something: The lady was masked, but I wasn’t. In my haste to walk Molly, I had inadvertently left my now fairly skanky facemask in the car, a half-mile behind us. Perhaps the woman’s remark about my “not caring about others’ safety” was directed at my mask-less face and not my leash-less dog? Epiphanies are where you find them, and this one struck me like a karmic thunderbolt. I instantly realized I had no ammunition for any argument over

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he serenity of the South Coast provides a sense of security that the next major disaster is unlikely to happen here. Yet, we only need to look a few pages back in our local history to know the potential for disaster in our quaint community is significant. Preparedness is a formidable and proactive defense to our potential for disaster and Montecito Fire is here to help you prepare for any emergency our community may face. September is National Preparedness Month, a month dedicated to encouraging everyone to consider and prepare for local disaster risks and emergencies. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s 2021 theme for National Preparedness Month is “Prepare to Protect. Preparing for disaster is protecting everyone you love.” The theme resonates with Montecito Fire’s mission statement that “We exist to provide a professional and timely response to the needs of the community in preparation for, during, and in recovery from emergencies.” If you are a regular reader of “Hot Topics,” you know the Ready! Set! Go! guide is an important tool for wildfire preparedness on the South Coast. Many in our community have taken great initiative to clear defensible space, harden their homes, and develop well-thought-out evacuation plans. However, wildfire is not the only disaster our community could face. Floods, debris flows, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hazardous materials incidents are also potential risks we must prepare for as a community. Fortunately, if you are well-prepared for a future wildfire, you will be in a good position to respond to any other possible disaster.

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Protecting your home is vital to overall preparedness. In the “Ready” section of Ready! Set! Go!, you will find information on how to prepare your home so that it has the best chance of survival during a wildfire. In preparation for a future earthquake, look around your home for risks. Secure heavy items like furniture that may tip and any wall-hanging objects that could fall and injure someone.

Prepare Your Plan

The “Set!” step of Ready! Set! Go! outlines how to develop your emergency plan. Your emergency plan for wildfire may be applied to most disaster risk scenarios.

Build Your Go-Kit

The first part of any emergency plan is to build an emergency supply kit. A “go-kit” has all the basic, essential items for survival. Plus, consider your family’s unique needs in the event of being evacuated or sheltered in place for multiple days. The items within your kit should be protected from the elements in airtight, plastic bags. While it may be tempting to take as much as a possible with you, try to limit your supply kit to one or two easy-to-carry containers such as plastic bins or a duffel bag.

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A (Tough) Love Letter to Out-of-Towners

couple of months ago, we published a column with the intent to educate newcomers to our community on being a good neighbor, adapting to the Montecito lifestyle, and respecting what makes this community such a wonderful place to live. Part of that “wonderful” are the businesses and local staff that help keep our restaurants lively, our shops on trend, and our community pleasant. Call it fallout from the height of tourist season in a pandemic, if you will, but there is a growing, disturbing sentiment about incidents we are witnessing where workers are treated, well… abominably. One hesitates to use a word so strongly pejorative, but for our little slice of paradise, if the shoe fits … Two weeks ago, a friend really wanted to do Sunday brunch at a popular, locally-owned destination, complete with an amazing staff. We arrived to a 45-minute wait line down the block. The staff has always had a good system in place where you get a number in line, and that number identifies your assigned table when you complete your order. Simple. Friendly. Low fuss. It was hot. It was over-crowded. I

was hangry — a combination of hungry and angry — but willing to endure. My friend’s mom passed away a few years back, and this lovely local eatery was her mom’s beloved brunch spot. My friend was missing her mom, so brunch was a way to honor and reconnect with her. The young girls in front of me were absorbed in TikTok on their phones, standing as an inward-facing circle, so they missed it when people behind us decided to cut the line in front of them. I directed the girls to close the gap and please face forward. Oh, and mask up — you’re going indoors now. Another couple behind us decided the much shorter to-go queue was their route to jump the line. I decided to intervene. I went up to them, clearly tourists, and asked what they were doing. They said, “Oh, we already have a table,” a lie, since the queuing system required that one get through the ordering line to get that table. A staffer going by overheard me as I fumed loudly about the situation and he said, “I will handle this.” And he did! He informed the couple they

had to get back in the long queue or leave the restaurant. They tried to bribe him. He refused the bribe. That guy deserves a hug, a raise, and a big tip, but it’s the pandemic, so we’ll skip the hug. We love that he handled this so professionally, but are disgusted to learn this is now a regular occurrence, and that our always-friendly staff has to sharpen their elbows. Who believes they have the right to come here, disrespect our local workers and fellow patrons, and queuejump, just because they feel like it? Where is that ever considered the right way to behave? A great Montecito neighbor was appalled to witness terrible treatment of staff at another elegant top eatery long haunted by locals. Large parties turn up, without reservations, and then explode in anger when they can’t “just be accommodated” at the drop of a hat. They act as though they’re doing us all a favor, gracing us with their insulting and disparaging tactics. In Montecito, people don’t care how much money you do, or don’t, have. But we do care about how you treat our residents, our businesses, and each other. We see it in new aggressive driving patterns, too. Stop signs and speed limits are not just suggestions. They’re the law. A friend of mine has a sign in her

gym at home: “You are not special.” Sometimes, and especially recently, we think it would make a great t-shirt. An over-developed sense of entitlement is a narcissistic personality trait. Inflicting your sense of entitlement on locals who don’t know you, and have no obligation to you, is not humanitarian. Montecito and Santa Barbara have been through a lot together as a community, now on our third disaster in four years, this time a global pandemic. We know how to build community, and we have a terrific one! In a disaster, you’re only as good as your neighbor who decides to help you. Or the worker that pulls you out of the earthquake rubble. Disaster is indiscriminate in its choice of victims. It’s the great leveling force, utterly indifferent to how rich or important you think you are. Think about that for a second before you go vitriolic on our local people, whether they’re your neighbors, or staff at our local businesses, whom we very much appreciate and support. These are people we know personally and care about. There’s an old saying that’s very appropriate: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Maybe try that as your first move. We stand by and for our locals. And we are grateful for them, each and every day. •MJ

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Ex-OCMS Member Something to Crow About

t takes a lot of guts to walk away from a successful band you co-founded, but for Willie Watson, 13 years with the Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) were enough. “There were some differences about our musical direction,” Watson said, somewhat diplomatically explaining his 2011 departure from the popular alternative country/Americana band that helped jumpstart the current folk revival. “It’s the classic band conflict that you always hear about and that just happens. It was time to move on.” But it wasn’t OCMS moving away from the old school sound that had led Doc Watson to champion the group that forced Watson’s hand — it was an overall decline in song choices, Watson admitted. “It didn’t matter whether it was going to be rootsy or traditional versus modern. It was just the music itself. The songs just weren’t speaking to me anymore.” Not that Watson had much of a backup plan in place before he pushed the exit button. “Being on my own was a huge change,” he recalled. “I realized I needed to get myself out there pretty quickly before people thought I had disappeared off the face of the earth. So figured I’d write some songs because I was always pretty good at co-writing with the band.” Problem was, the highly critical Watson didn’t like his own solo-composed songs very much either. “I was really frustrated and very unhappy with the stuff I came up with, and I think it was because I thought that as a solo artist you had to be a singer-songwriter, someone who writes their own material. Or at least that’s the expectation, ever since Bob Dylan (expletive) that up for us.” That’s when OCMS producer and longtime friend Dave Rawlings stepped in and let some steam out of the pressure cooker. After Rawlings and his 30-year partner Gillian Welch attended a couple of Watson’s solo shows, he told Watson to stop writing. “He said, ‘You shouldn’t even be trying to write if it’s stressing you out that much’’’ Watson said. “‘Just focus on singing the hell out of songs like ‘Midnight Special.; If there’s anybody that can get up on stage and get away with doing that, it’s you. That’s what you’re made for.’” Thus, was born Willie Watson the Folk Singer, which is not only his pro-

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Willie Watson plays at SOhO on Sunday, September 19 (Photo by Cory Piehowicz)

fession, but also the title of his two solo albums, Vol. 1 in 2014, and Vol. 2 three years later. Not only have the records pleased their maker, they’ve also been a hit with critics and fans throughout the land who thrill to Watson’s distinctive vocals, tasty guitar and banjo licks, and song selection that runs from gospel to railroad songs, Delta blues, fiddle tunes, and Appalachian traditions. Over the two discs Watson wails on Utah Phillips’ “Rock Salt & Nails,” Gus Cannon’s “Bring It With You When You Come,” Clarence Ashley’s work song “Walking Boss,” Charley Jordan’s “Keep It Clean,” and a whole host of traditional from “John Henry” and “Gallow’s Pole,” the latter of which Led Zeppelin recorded on their first album, to the decidedly off-center “Kitty Puss,” and, of course, “Midnight Special.” “It’s a little bit of mixing the new and the old, and not being afraid to play the known,” said Watson, whose research runs to his dad’s old collection of 78s and beyond. “I don’t prove how knowledgeable I am about the history of folk songs by only playing obscure ones. Just because something was recorded in 1927 doesn’t make it good.” He sings the — pardon the pun — cover off all of them. But don’t ask him to explain what has him decide to record a song. “Oh, man, that’s a big question. It’s much easier for me just to list the ones I like or tell you why ‘Midnight

Special’ is amazing. Good words and good chords, lots of characters you care about or a simple point of view, I guess. I don’t know how else to describe it. Maybe it just comes down to taste.” That’s something Watson has in spades. Even in who he was influenced by as a singer going back to the pre-OCMS days. “A lot of times during a show I’m thinking about Little Richard,” he said. “And there’s Neil Young and Lead Belly and Dylan. I know I don’t sound like any of them, but I’m not trying to anymore, like I did in the early OCMS days when I wanted to sound like an old man living in the mountains. Over the years, I started to understand what I actually sound like, too.” That self-assurance and authenticity has also brought attention from Hollywood, as filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen cast Watson as a young gunslinger in the first episode of 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, who croons Rawlings’ and Welch’s “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” after having knocked off the title character. Kind of like an Old Crow finding a place in the world as a folk singer. Willie Watson performs at SOhO in the first concert of the new Santa Barbara Acoustic Music series on Sunday, September 19. Call (805) 96227776 or visit www.sohosb.com.

‘People are Strange’? It’s an ‘Unwritten’ Rule

On the surface it’s hard to imagine the pairing of the musical entertainers for Saturday’s One805 Live!, a benefit for the nonprofit that put together the massive Kick Ash Bash back in spring 2018. After all, Robby Krieger and Natasha Bedingfield don’t have a lot in common. Krieger, the guitarist and co-songwriter best known from the Doors, is 75 years old; Bedingfield is still in her 30s. Krieger is quintessentially American, an anchor in the pioneering 1960s rock band, while Bedingfield is British through-and-through, with a fan base across the pond that embraces her every move. On the other hand, both embrace philanthropic causes, which is the whole point of the event, which raises funds for One805’s prepare-equip-support ethos of aiding Santa Barbara’s first responders in keeping us and them safe. The end-of-summer celebration takes place in a private garden at the Winn-Twining estate in Montecito, with gourmet food and fun and even a Firefighter Cook-off, which almost seems like a contradiction in terms, although appropriate considering the Doors’ breakthrough hit was “Light My Fire”. The event is sold out, but you can

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Revel in the Autumn Equinox

Unlike some arts organizations in town, Santa Barbara Revels didn’t recycle videos from its archives or abandon its audience altogether during the total public event shutdown phase of the pandemic. In fact, the 14-year-old organization dedicated to honoring a diverse range of cultural traditions by blending music, dance, and storytelling put out more programming than in a typical year, albeit exclusively virtually. That included producing the annual Christmas Revels show as a one-hour video recorded largely live with proper distancing protocols at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, as well as the May Day Celebration and Pub Sing, plus its first-ever Summer Solstice entry, all of which can still be viewed on the Revels Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/ user8958466. “Our Christmas show was the closest of all the companies to being a theatrical version, as we were able to pull off that was costumed and recorded live to give a true sense of the show,” Artistic Director Susan Keller said. “People who saw it really appreciated our efforts.” But now it’s finally time for people and performers to once again get together in public in person with the organization offering a live gathering for its Autumn Equinox concert this Tuesday, September 21, at the University Club. “There’s nothing like having a live audience, because so much of Revels is that interaction, getting everyone involved,” Keller said. “It’s the very heart and soul of Revels and really what it’s all about.” Or as Revels’ longtime motto puts it: “Join us and be joyous.” The first foray back to the way it was is the annual event meant to preview the upcoming holiday production. Only this year it also reprises music that was heard at the Lobero four years ago, as An Early California Celebration of the Winter Solstice — with an original script penned by Keller to mark Revels’ 10th anniversary in 2017 — was only seen by half of its intended audience as half of the shows were canceled when the Thomas Fire threatened to encroach upon the town. The hook for the show is the novel Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., written after a twoyear sea voyage starting in 1834, which included some time in Santa Barbara where he attended a high-society wedding. The Spanish-influenced music of the era is what he might have heard during the time.

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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.

Prince Perfecting Polo Prowess Authors Marylove Thralls and Caterina (Kay) Lemke introducing La Mia Pazza Famiglia and signing for guests (Photo by Priscilla)

as Caterina Maida as a youngster, has worked primarily in oil expression, with her work being featured in exhibits in Santa Fe and the University of Minnesota. She was also the co-owner of the Pollock Fine Art Gallery in Summerland. The 104-page book is packed with family photos and recipes from Lemke’s homeland. A fun “autobiography” told with droll wit and an eye for the ironic. Turning out for the boffo bash were Kostis Protopapas, Kate Rees, Larry Williams, Barry and Pam Enticknap, Polly Clement, Nancy Golden, Christina McKean, and Nina Dunbar. Prince Harry is a well-regarded polo player and might be honing his skills at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club

n accomplished polo player, Prince Harry has been honing his mallet skills “stick and balling” at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, I can exclusively reveal. The Duke of Sussex, 37, who lives with his wife, Meghan Markle, at Riven Rock, just a short gallop from the Carpinteria equestrian facility, is following in the stirrup-steps of his older brother, Prince William, 39, who played a round-robin tournament on the hallowed Holden Field when he attended the club’s centennial celebrations 10 years ago with his new wife, Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. Nacho Figueras — Harry’s good friend, Argentinian ace, and Ralph Lauren Polo model — is also a regular at the club with his photographer wife Delfina, and last month played in the annual Sentebale Polo Cup tournament at the Aspen Valley Club in Colorado, with Harry flying in and out on a 20-seater $60 million Gulfstream jet owned by Wellington, Florida-based telecommunications tycoon Marc Ganzi, whose wife, Melissa, is one of the few female high goal patrons in the sport, according to the London Sun. “Harry has always been the more accomplished player of the two brothers and could have been a professional,” a friend tells me. “He obviously wants to keep up

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the skills from his days playing at the Guards Club at Windsor and Cowdray Park, and now has one of the best polo clubs on the West Coast in his backyard. “I’m sure that in the near future he’ll be playing in matches at the club, not just practicing there.” Harry’s visits have been very low key with a just a few security men trailing in a black Range Rover in attendance with Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, presumably on a borrowed polo pony, honing his talents. Club manager David Sigman had no comment.

All About the Famiglia

Everybody was in the right aria when Opera Santa Barbara’s Marylove Thralls hosted a sunset soirée to launch an entertaining new book, La Mia Pazza Famiglia by Kay Lemke. The dynamic duo met when Lemke, who hails from a small community, San Fior di Sopra, north of Venice, volunteered to help the opera and the pair would take daily walks together on Hendry’s Beach, with Kay regaling Marylove with the quirky characters she grew up with and the provincial customs that were part of her early life before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota. As an artist, Lemke, who was known

Dropping Millions . . .

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has just added yet another property to his burgeoning real estate portfolio. The new property is a four-bedroom, 6,400-square-foot pad in Manhattan’s oh-so trendy NoHo — north of Houston — with an additional 2,500 square feet of terrace with sweeping views of the New York City skyline. Schmidt, 66, who is worth about $20 billion according to Forbes, has been on a considerable bi-coastal buying spree of late, having bought the late hotel magnate Barron Hilton’s Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, estate for $61.5 million. Last year he also bought Solana, the 11-acre Montecito estate of Bill and Sandi Nicholson, for $30.8 million. The 22,000-square-foot home was once the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, a think tank attended by President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Henry Kissinger.

Surf’s Up!

To the historic Lobero Theatre for the first time in two years to take a trip back in time to see Jan & Dean’s Beach Party, featuring Dean Torrence, 81, who together with his late partner Jan Berry, who died in 2004, pioneered the

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California sound with hits like “Little Old Lady from Pasadena” and 1963’s “Surf City,” the first surf song to hit the Billboard 100, which earned them an impressive 14 gold records. The delightful locale, founded in 1873 and the state’s oldest continuously operating theater, was more than half full with suitably masked and vaccination “passport” carrying fans, who were urged to “ditch their walkers and dance in the aisles” by Torrence. The two-hour concert featured the duo’s hits as well as those of the Beach Boys with the six-man group made up of current and former singers and players of the Brian Wilson Band and The Beach Boys. It gave everyone good vibrations!

Dynastic Debut

TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey debuted 35 years ago this week. A former news anchor in Nashville and Baltimore, Oprah relocated to the Windy City in 1984 to host the failing AM Chicago. Her candor and compassion caused ratings to rocket, and she was invited to sign a production deal and rename the series in 1986. The same year, Oprah founded her TV production company, Harpo Productions. By retaining ownership of her show — and securing a major stake in her syndicator — she became one of America’s wealthiest women, with her media conglomerate including a magazine and a TV network. At the end of her 25-year run, the program was being broadcast in 150 countries and spun off innumerable other shows from regular contributors, including Dr. Phil McGraw, chef Rachael Ray, surgeon Mehmet Oz, and financial adviser Suze Orman. I also appeared on the show flying in from my Manhattan home to talk about the Royal Family with other guests including Lord Piers Wedgwood, whose ancestor found-

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I’ve always loved theatre. I’ve loved it as long as I can remember, likely starting at five years old, and it was always the thing I loved to fill my days with the most. The pandemic has been a strange time for all of us, and for me and my friends in the performing arts space, this time has been a special mixture of a lot of things. Anxiety and dread even, that our careers, which rely so heavily on in-person activities, hang in the balance. Self-discovery and a surge, or sometimes vacuum, of purpose. For those of us who started the journey so young, like I did, the pandemic has felt like our path might be trailing into nowhere, at least a little bit. After all, I saw theatre being my career, and suddenly, it was simply not the same. My passion for performing arts launched me into college, culminating in a BFA in musical theatre from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. Theatre will always be my first love, but no matter how much you love something, every once in a while, you need a break from it... and that’s where drawing came in. Once I got to college, I found myself needing more and more escape from the theatre world and very naturally gravitated toward charcoal sketching. I took a class in sketching once when I was younger and really enjoyed it but never would have thought to pursue it. Certainly, it couldn’t compete with my love for performing arts. Even so, I’d grown up with a strong role model in visual arts. My grandmother was an incredible painter and growing up watching her paint is one of my favorite childhood memories. I

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jules Bartling attended the Berklee College of Music

never thought I would love drawing as much as I do now, but I suppose my ideation of her and a passion for the arts must go hand in hand. It wasn’t until I came home to California to quarantine at the start of the pandemic that I really began leaning into my interest in charcoal sketching. Theatre was no longer accessible, so I found something else, and in a strange way, fell in love with it, almost on accident. What ends up on the paper is always a surprise to me. I start out with pretty strict outlines and ideas, but after a certain point, all of that is thrown to the wind in a sense, which is always the part I have the most fun with. I draw, erase, redraw, and erase again a million times until whatever I’m working on lands somewhere I’m happy with. Everyone has their own process, but this is what I do to find my footing. This dip into corona-time has of course been scary for artists everywhere, but it has also provided breathing room for a type of self-discovery. Truthfully, I’m not sure I have entirely developed my style yet, but I’m thankful for the time I’ve had to become more familiar with this new medium. At the end of the day, this is something that started out as a release that was purely for me. Learning more about something I truthfully know little about but love very deeply. It has been an incredibly exciting experience and it will continue to make me much more confident in sharing my art with the outside world. Feel free to visit my website julesa bartling.com to learn more about my art. Best, Jules •MJ Did you grow up in Montecito? I’d love to hear from you at stellajanepierce@gmail. com! 16 – 23 September 2021

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by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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

The “Methane Accelerator”

Climate Change is Moving Past the Tipping Point

he latest August 2021 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identifies methane as one of the worst greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. This IPCC report is one of many signs that climate change is accelerating, and already producing considerably graver impacts than has been forecasted by all the leading scientific consensus bodies analyzing the issue, except the World Busines Academy which has been actively trumpeting the accelerating effects of climate change for 15 years, and of the connection to methane for more than a decade. The methane work culminated in the publication of the Academy’s breakthrough “White Paper” entitled the “Methane Accelerator” in June 2019. How grave is climate change? Bloomberg Green writes that “Federal officials ordered the first-ever water cuts on the Colorado River system that sustains 40 million people, the latest blow from a decades-long drought across the U.S. West that has shrunk reservoirs to historic lows, devastated farms, and set the stage for deadly forest fires.” In fact, the water level at Lake Powell has dropped to only 3,551 feet above sea level, or just 32 percent of capacity. Similarly, at Lake Mead, it has declined to 1,068 feet above sea level, or 35 percent of capacity. This has already resulted in water use reductions in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Even more dramatic is the fact that both reservoirs are close to a point once considered unthinkable — where the flow is so small that hydropower dams are forced to shut. Lake Powell’s Glen Canyon Dam, for example, can’t generate electricity if the water level drops below 3,491 feet. That will predictably happen in less than a year.

Middle East Running Out of Water

This concern is not limited to the western U.S. A recent CNN news piece confirms that these problems are familiar in many parts of the Middle East – where water is simply running out – and some parts of the region are already “becoming uninhabitable.” This CNN analysis states that “The region has witnessed persistent drought and temperatures so high that they are barely fit for human life. Add climate change to water mismanagement and overuse, and projections for

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the future of water here are grim.” Unfortunately, the situation is even more grave in Africa.

ICPP’s Belated Focus on Methane

Significantly, the IPCC’s belated focus on methane explains the organization’s consistent historical failure to accurately assess the severity of climate change impacts, which cannot be explained by traditional models that focus almost exclusively on carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Going forward, future work must account for all contributory factors to fully appreciate the urgency of requisite actions that will be far more extreme than those adopted in the Paris Climate Agreement to avoid otherwise catastrophic consequences. In fact, the catastrophic consequences have already begun as is well understood by the victims of fires in the West and floods in an area that stretches from New Orleans to New York. In its research over the last decade the Academy reviewed the same data as other leading climate researchers (plus an ongoing analysis of ice core samples), but then went on to include the effects of methane in its climate change forecasts. That is the major reason the Academy has more accurately predicted the severity and speed of climate change events than the IPCC itself. Fortunately, as of two years ago many leading climate scientists began to consider methane’s cumulative effects as part of future climate change predictions. Get ready to be jolted: that new attention to methane means the public will be hearing that climate change is a) much more severe than previously thought, and b) that it is accelerating at a geometric (as opposed to an arithmetic) rate. It turns out that massive amounts of methane are being released from ocean marine hydrates, and these are rapidly accelerating, and from the thawing permafrost due to atmospheric and ocean warming. The released methane is the “X Factor” in climate change, independently functioning as a powerful accelerant of greater atmospheric heating, faster ice melt, more severe weather disturbances, ocean acidification, and rising seas. The Academy refers to this Vicious Feedback Loop as the “Methane Accelerator.”

Carbon Capture & Climate Careers

Orca is the world’s biggest plant built to transform CO2 into rock

o meet the challenge of climate change, we must curb our carbon emissions drastically. Fortunately, ‘Orca’ is helping us reverse some of the emissions we’ve already created. It’s the world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into solid rock. The plant is named after the Icelandic word “orka” which means “energy,” and is made up of four units, each made up of two metal boxes resembling shipping containers. Switzerland’s Climeworks and Iceland’s Carbfix collaborated to construct the powerful plant which, according to the companies, can suck 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air annually. The plant uses fans to pull air into a collector, which has a filter inside. When the filter is filled with CO2, the collector closes, and the temperature is raised to release the CO2 from the material so that the highly concentrated gas can be gathered. The concentrated CO2 is then mixed with water before being injected at a depth of 1,000 meters into basalt rock, where it is mineralized.

For Gen Z, Climate Careers are the Clear Path to Success

For many Gen Z students contemplating their future careers, the answer is clear: addressing the climate crisis. Multiple surveys have found that overwhelming numbers of students and professionals under 25 are pursuing environmental-related degrees and careers. This shift in career aspirations reflects the heightened sense of climate awareness among Gen Z and even Gen Alpha. A 2021 Pew Research survey found that 76% of Gen Z individuals cite climate change as one of their biggest societal concerns. Colleges are matching this strong student interest with initiatives like the University of Southern California’s Sustainability Across the Curriculum program which aims to teach students from all disciplines how their majors intersect with sustainability and the environment. Christopher Schlottmann, the global curriculum coordinator at New York University’s environmental studies program explains to The Guardian that the long-standing perception that environmental careers don’t pay well is also changing. “There’s a general reputation that if you do good for the world, nobody’s going to pay you to do it. I don’t think that’s that accurate,” he says. “If you understand how climate change works, then a bank should actually really want to talk to you because they want to hedge their risk.” •MJ The above referenced Methane Accelerator report describes the snowball effect, whereby increased atmospheric and oceanic warming causes the release of methane from vast undersea worldwide deposits, which in turn produces greater warming that results in the release of even more methane. A hardcopy of the Methane Accelerator White Paper is available for free from the Academy, complete with its compelling logic, graphical data, and startling conclusions. The Methane Accelerator: (i) describes why the methane phenomenon exists; (ii) provides irrefutable scientific references that support this assessment; and (iii) suggests the imminent catastrophic consequences from failing to consider the Methane Accelerator in making future forecasts, planning appropriate remedial actions, and estimating the time available to fund appropriate remedial actions. In its most disturbing finding, the Academy concludes that, when the cumulative effects from the Methane Accelerator are fully considered, mankind is likely to have already passed the “tipping point” where merely reducing

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

CO2 emissions, even to zero, will not be sufficient to curtail the catastrophic effects of climate change. Geologic records from two prior extinction events that respectively resulted in a mass extinction of deepsea organisms and in killing over 93% of all life forms on Earth, show compelling evidence linking these events to a rapid escape of methane from marine hydrate reservoirs on continental slopes. As ocean temperatures have risen over the past several decades, we have begun to see a dramatic increase in methane releases at increasing rates seeping into the atmosphere from hydrate reservoirs. Accelerating methane releases are accelerating the effects of climate change so we can better predict how bad it will become, and how fast. That’s helpful. And, be aware that a spontaneous “trigger” of a massive methane release could occur once again at any time resulting in another global mass extinction event. We simply must “wake up’ to this threat immediately so we can begin to address a responsible geoengineering solution that would prevent such a catastrophe. “Fore warned is fore armed.” •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

Brilliant Thoughts

Community Voices (Continued from page 11)

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

Risen Again?

ecently, when writing elsewhere about some apparently endless troubles, I concluded with the words “How long, O Lord, how long?” I didn’t realize, until somebody informed me, that I was quoting the Bible, where that expression appears several times. I only remembered it from the last line of George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan (first performed in 1923, three years after Joan of Arc was canonized as a saint, and 600 years after she was burned at the stake on charges of witchcraft and heresy). In the last scene of that play, a sort of fantasy sequence, Shaw has Joan’s spirit learn of her Sainthood, and suggest hopefully that, as a Saint, she might then “rise from the dead, and come back as a living woman.” At this, all the people who have been praising and supporting her in that final scene somehow find excuses to melt away – including even the Papal representative, in his modern diplomatic attire, saying, “The possibility of your resurrection was not contemplated in the recent proceedings for your canonization. I must return to Rome for fresh instructions.” It is this which prompts Joan to utter those last poignant words: “O God that madest this beautiful Earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?” That play was one of the “required readings” for the final examination at my London high school (then still called a Grammar School) — to qualify for the next step up the ladder: admission to a university. The only other one of those readings I remember was Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair — of which, strangely, it is also the very last words which linger in my mind: “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied? – Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.” But Shaw’s rather caustic view of humanity and sainthood reminded me of one of my favorite poetic passages, from “The Garden of Proserpine,” by Algernon Charles Swinburne, which expresses the feeling of those who’ve left behind all human passions, and accept the destiny of total oblivion: From too much love of living, From Hope and Fear set free, 16 – 23 September 2021

We thank, with brief thanksgiving, Whatever gods may be, That no life lives forever, That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. (I learned that, not at school, but from Judith, one of the very few “girlfriends” I ever had, who, besides poetry, also taught me some songs, because we both liked singing. In return, I taught her to drive – which seemed a fair exchange of gifts. She had a fine voice, and I wasn’t surprised, some years later, to learn that she had become a Rabbi.) But what is all this about resurrection anyway? American Southerners — the only Anglo-Saxon “nation” which has ever suffered permanent defeat — used to be (perhaps many still are) fond of saying that “The South Will Rise Again.” Be that as it may, there are many people who, for religious or other reasons, cannot accept the idea of irretrievably losing their own lives — even though, by the time that point is reached, they may have very little life left to lose. I’m not sure how they grapple with what becomes of other creatures’ lives — not only those as dear to them as their own pets (my wife had her cats cremated, and we had a whole row of individual labeled boxes containing their ashes) — but even down to the microbes and bacteria. Are they also in line for resurrection? Some prefer to think of “immortality” in terms of what they leave behind, such as whatever good they may have done, including of course any children they’ve produced (assuming those offspring prove to be a source of pride). Nothing of that nature which gives anyone harmless comfort in facing death will get any argument from me. If anything, I’m envious. But, in any case, we are surrounded by symbols of rebirth – the sun, in its rising and setting; the constantly recurring seasons; our own uncanny diurnal experience of sleeping and waking. Aren’t those signals enough to justify an expectation that this life will lead on into another? I can offer only my own somewhat Rabbinical thought, for what it’s worth, that: “We don’t come from Nothing, and return to Nothing – We come from Everything, and return to Everything.” •MJ

leashes — or masks, for that matter. Was there really any significant difference between my choosing not to wear a facemask and my choosing not to leash my dog? In my mind, both were merely small gestures of civility extended to strangers, a personal choice hardly worth confrontation over. Suddenly I felt embarrassed, exposed, and a little contrite. In that awkward moment I couldn’t, for the life of me, differentiate between the mandate for leashes on dogs and the mandate for masks on people. As of this writing, we have a seemingly amorphous mandate encouraging citizens to wear masks in most circumstances while out in public, but let’s face it: The window for mandating masks is shattered and shuttered at this late point. We’re a dysfunctional consortium in post-pandemic flux. Similar conflicting paradigms pepper our country, dividing otherwise rational and compassionate people like oil and water. It all seems to come down to that volatile powder-keg of American pride, freedom of personal choice.

We live in tempest times; tempers run short; nerves are frayed. Would it really have been that much of a compromise to my core beliefs to leash my dog — or to wear a mask — even if the sole result was nothing more than setting my fellow human being a little more at ease? And the outcome could be much larger than that. A safer dog.

Walking on, I flashed back to an earlier episode when Molly was still a frisky young pup. We’d been out walking when suddenly a large German Shepherd — collared but leash-free — galumphed out of nowhere, pummeling into Molly armed with nothing but good intentions and a wagging tail. Poor Molly was so taken aback she pulled at her leash, nipping with puppy-sharp teeth at her much larger counterpart, who promptly – and understandably – retreated into the foliage. Both parties emerged slightly traumatized but unharmed. But it could easily have turned ugly and could have all been prevented if two parties coming from opposite directions had erred on the side of safety and courtesy. I learned that day that one dog’s right to stroll around free from a leash ended where another dog’s leash began. Turning back to retrieve my mask, I resolved that if I crossed paths with that lady and her tethered poodle again, I would extend the small and painless courtesy of donning my facemask, attaching Molly to her leash, and apologizing for my inconsiderate behavior. Perhaps I’d even thank the woman for pointing my mistake out to me. But the opportunity did not present itself; the lady and her canine had moved on to other pastures. My chance to make amends passed, gone forever like the squirrels that Molly never caught, the discarded facemasks that litter our streets and sidewalks, and the countless small wrongs in my life it would have cost me nothing to have righted. We live in tempest times; tempers run short; nerves are frayed. Would it really have been that much of a compromise to my core beliefs to leash my dog — or to wear a mask — even if the sole result was nothing more than setting my fellow human being a little more at ease? And the outcome could be much larger than that. A safer dog. One less trip to the vet. One less death from COVID-19 or its insidious progeny, Delta. A hundred more lives saved by a vaccine. Perhaps even a thousand fewer deaths from our peculiarly American me-first, don’t-tread-on-me privileged mindsets. Leashing my dog? OK. Cover my nose and mouth when I venture outside or in a crowd? Fine by me. •MJ

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tion is growing and old territories are reestablished, it’s getting increasingly more challenging to track their whereabouts. Condors average around 150 miles per day in the air. “It’s a sign of their recovery that they are expanding,” said Arianna Punzalan, supervisory wildlife biologist for the USFWS, who has worked with condors since 2012. “It’s a good thing and a bad thing because how do we continue to monitor these birds?” Nestled within the transverse ranges, between the Carrizo Plain National Monument and the Sespe Wilderness, Bitter Creek NWF is a haven and another launching pad for releasing endangered California Condors.

by Chuck Graham

Bitter Creek Chronicles: California Condors Put on a Show

Orchard Draw

Bitter Creek is one of five active areas in which you can experience the California Condor in the wild

here wasn’t much going on at the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge (NWF). I was laying in the grassy, rolling hills of this California Condor sanctuary, and I was waiting for something to stir. It was mid-afternoon and thermal updrafts were just beginning to waft skyward when a solitary condor rose above the refuge like a fighter jet off an aircraft carrier. I sat straight up, holding my 300mm lens in my lap, thoroughly thrilled to see North America’s largest flying land bird soaring above, and quickly joined by another condor. They circled overhead making several passes, their pinkish/orange heads standing out against their impressive velvety black

nine-foot-plus wingspans, their wingtips extending outward like giant fingers on an outstretched hand. Over the years, release sites like Bitter Creek have expanded throughout the condor’s historic range. There are currently five other sites besides Bitter Creek that serve as sanctuaries and release stations. Those include nearby Hopper Mountain, Ventana Wilderness along the Big Sur Coast, Pinnacles National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Baja California. The wild population is augmented with captive-bred birds. Their flight pens help garner condor behavior. The recovery program has been doing this since the early 1990s. And although the wild popula-

After walking beneath an old, green-leafed apple orchard on what was then part of the Hudson Ranch, we hiked a short distance north to an exposed ridgeline overlooking the open book-shaped Orchard Draw on Bitter Creek. The narrow, nondescript canyon was choked in scrubby chaparral, but at the bottom of the draw was a gritty sandstone monolith. For a good 30 minutes there wasn’t any activity, and then finally there was some movement. The sandstone rock outcropping possessed a few gritty cavities and emerging from the shadows of a shadowy alcove was an adult male condor, known as Condor 328. There was one egg in the cave and the doting parents swap out on parenting duties, which means they share responsibilities on incubating their egg. The female is known as Condor 216. They’ve been together for 10 years. Condors produce a chick every other year. The chick fledges after six months in the cave nest. Condors are monogamous, and if the pair survives,

The inside of a holding cage that houses the California Condor for both releases, as well as health checks

they will return to the same nest site to give it another go. Currently, there are 300 California condors in the wild. “I got super lucky and saw the egg the day after it was laid,” said Laura McMahon, wildlife biologist for the USFWS. “It’s pretty easy spotting a nest when a condor is standing in front of it.”

Pit Trap

California condors are Ice Age birds. Fossil records indicate they once soared all over North America. However, as megafauna died off, so too did the condor’s range. Fast forward to the 1800s, their range had shrunk to the point where California became their last stronghold, but it was shrinking quickly. Predators were killed off, either shot or poisoned. Egg collecting and selling condor feathers were common practices. By the 1980s there were only 22 condors left in the wild. It was now or

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Westmont donors Celeste and Dr. Robert White

the semester-long program in capital and social entrepreneurship. The new facility will provide space for several programmatic initiatives that will extend the college’s reach and impact in ways that benefit the local community. Celeste, a 1976 Westmont graduate and current board member, and Robert have been involved in the college since her time as a student. “I’m so grateful for Celeste’s service as a board member,” Beebe says. “She demonstrates her deep and abiding loyalty and commitment to the college in numerous ways. For example, all four of their children attended Westmont. In addition, Robert has been a great partner with Celeste in embracing all things Westmont. Together they have given generously and cared deeply about the college’s life and mission.”

Westmont Ranked Among the Nation’s Best

Recent college and university annual rankings continue to affirm Westmont as one of the top Christian liberal arts colleges in the nation. Payscale’s 2021 Best Universities and Colleges by Salary Potential shows that mid-career Westmont alumni, including those with a graduate degree, earn a median income of $127,700 after more than 10 years in the workforce. This places Westmont in the top 7% nationally among all four-year bachelor’s degree institutions with the highest

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Westmont donors Ed and Mollie Miller

ith great appreciation, Westmont announces two major gifts totaling more than $15 million, the two largest cash gifts in college history. In late August, Westmont received $8.2 million from Ed and Mollie Miller, the largest single gift ever. It supports the Paul Raymond Miller Scholarship Endowment, named in honor of Ed’s father and originally established 35 years ago when their daughter, Barbara, enrolled at Westmont. In the intervening 35 years, this scholarship has supported hundreds of students who depend on financial aid to attend Westmont. In addition, Ed served on Westmont’s Board of Trustees for 17 years. “I loved working with Ed when he was a board member, and Mollie is a delightful human being,” says Westmont President Gayle D. Beebe. “Ed is a straight shooter. You never have to guess where he’s coming from or how he’s thinking through a situation. Both are highly principled people of faith, and their priorities in life shine through in this gift.” Earlier in August, Westmont received a $7.25 million gift from Celeste and Dr. Robert White, the second-largest single donation to the college. This gift has funded the purchase of 29 West Anapamu Street, a four-story building in downtown Santa Barbara directly across the street from the Westmont Downtown Center at 26 West Anapamu Streeet. Together, these two facilities provide nearly 30,000 square feet for several downtown programs, including the new nursing program in partnership with Cottage Health as well as

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hen my kid was 10 months old, I walked into my neighborhood bank and asked to speak to my banker, “Roge.” No “r” on the end of that, just “Roge.” I asked “Roge” how much money I would need to save to send this pipsqueak to college in 17 years. “Roge” started banging away at his calculator. Eventually he looked up at me and said matter-of-factly: $250,000. I gasped. How could that be? The baby had said nothing of wanting to go to medical school or an Ivy, or really anything other than “blalalagalala”… because frankly he couldn’t talk. How could that need $250,000 for college? Then I believe I blacked out. Here’s what I learned that day: college is expensive. And “Roge’s” real name was Doug. The real lesson? Nothing is what it seems to be on the surface. Including the cost of college. Like the cost of a new car or a plane flight — everybody pays a different price for the same college. That’s why it pays to understand some basics about financial aid. So, grab a pen and paper because the powers that be designed this stuff to be confusing. If you’re confused, you tend to give up. And if you give up, you leave money on the table. Here’s how it works: Every college has a sticker price that mostly nobody pays. Begs the question why have that sticker price in the first place, but I’m not in charge... If I was in charge, that would change. Also, if I were in charge, no hipster guy would ever be allowed to bring their guitar to a party — unless it was Eric Clapton. But I digress. There’s this sticker price, but there’s also a bunch of financial aid options that reduce that sticker price down to a “net” price, which is what the student/family ultimately pays. The details: — COA or “Cost of Attendance.” The sticker price. COA includes tuition, fees, room and board, supplies, and travel. — FAFSA or “Free Application for Federal Student Aid.” The first step in applying for most financial aid, it’s an online form that comes out October 1 of your student’s senior year. No matter how much money you make or have squirreled away beneath your mattress, fill it out. You won’t know how much money a college, the federal, or a state government may give you, until you fill this

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out. If your student isn’t yet a senior and you want to get an early estimate of what kind of aid may be available to you, check out the FAFSA4Caster: www.fafsa.ed.gov/spa/fafsa4c/#/ landing. (Don’t forget to explore state aid. California families, check out CalGrants: www.csac.ca/gov) — EFC or “Expected Family Contribution.” This is the number the FAFSA spits out. The government and, ultimately, the colleges use this number to determine how much they think you can afford to contribute to your kid’s education. — CSS PROFILE: If you’re applying to private liberal arts schools, which may give you more money than state public schools, you could also be asked to fill out this online form. — TYPES OF FINANCIAL AID: There are different types of aid. Gift aid (scholarships and grants) is aid you don’t pay back. Manna from heaven. Loans are money you pay back with interest. Work/study is usually an opportunity for the student to get a campus job – though this opportunity is never guaranteed. Gift aid can be “need-based” (calculated using income and assets) or merit based (“earned” by academics, sports, or other talents). If your student has a strong academic profile, it pays to look for schools (that give merit aid) where they are in the top 25%. Got a student oboe player? That’s a talent. — NET PRICE CALCULATOR: Every college website has a Net Price Calculator. Enter a small amount of information and get an estimate of what that college might offer you in financial aid if your student were to be accepted there. — APPEALS: If your student is accepted into a school and offered a financial aid package below what you were hoping for, you can “appeal.” Generally, appeals need to be for strong reasons, such as your financial situation changed since you filled out the FAFSA (which can happen, since the FAFSA asks for “prior prior” year financials). There is a lot more information regarding aid. In the end, colleges need to be a good fit, academically, socially, and financially. Visit our website (www.mentors4college.org) to sign up for a free mentor. We use all the consonants in our names, and we can help. •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

On Water (Continued from page 8)

contains only 51% of its full storage capacity, or some 98,545 AF. Completed in 1953, the Cachuma Project is owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). Like other California surface reservoirs, Cachuma’s water supply is subject to major evaporation losses, massive silting that reduces reservoir capacity and environmental releases required for fish protection. Cachuma also suffers from undersized pipes and inadequate intake pump capacity to accommodate the flow of state water and purchased supplemental water into Lake Cachuma. MWD anticipates receiving some 50% of its water supply needs for the 2021-22 fiscal year but will only know for sure when USBR releases its Cachuma allocations in October.

WSA or Desalination With the City of Santa Barbara: (17% of Supply) On July 21, 2020, after four years of intense negotiations, MWD signed a 50-year agreement with the city of Santa Barbara for delivery of 1,430 AFY of potable water (or about 35% of MWD’s annual water supply needs), irrespective of rainfall conditions. The agreement was made possible by the city’s renovated desalination facility, which opened in March 2017 at a production capacity of 3,125, roughly one-third of its permitted capacity of 10,000 AFY. Water deliveries to MWD will begin on January 1, 2022, as do MWD payments of approximately $3,200 per acre foot.

Jameson Reservoir (17%)

District-owned Jameson Lake received less than 200 AF of inflow during the 2020-2021 water year. At the end of July, MWD had some 3,323 AF of water stored in Jameson, only 68% of its current capacity of 4,848 AF. Due to years of silting, the storage capacity of Jameson has been reduced to 70% of its original capacity of nearly 7,000 AF. Environmental restrictions and the cost of trucking dredged silt prohibit economical dredging of Jameson to restore its original capacity. Deliveries from Jameson Lake are projected to provide approximately 17% of MWD’s water supply in 2021-2022.

Doulton Tunnel (5%)

Doulton is a 2.3-mile-long tunnel through the Santa Ynez Mountains connecting Jameson Lake and MWD’s service area. MWD receives tunnel intrusion water (groundwater) along with water delivered from Jameson Lake through the Doulton Tunnel for treatment. The intrusion rate has historically 16 – 23 September 2021

varied widely but can range from 1,000 AFY down to the low hundreds. Due to the ongoing severe drought conditions, deliveries from Doulton Tunnel are projected to provide only 5% of MWD’s water supply in 2021-2022.

Montecito Groundwater Basin (11%)

MWD owns a total of 12 active groundwater wells, of which six produce potable water and six produce non-potable water. After reducing pumping since late 2019 to allow for basin recovery, it is anticipated that deliveries from MWD groundwater wells will provide 11% of MWD’s water supply in 2021-22.

State Water Project (0%)

The California Department of Water Resources has promised MWD an annual allocation of 3,300 AFY of state water, or 73% of the 4,500 AF needed by MWD each year. Unfortunately, promises made are not the same as promises kept. For the 2020-21 drought year, SWP delivered only 165 AF to MWD, or 5% of its 3,300 AF allocation. This year, SWP delivery is projected to fall to zero because of the lack of snowfall and rain in the High Sierras. MWD, under its SWP agreements, pays the state a fixed payment, regardless of whether it receives no water, or its full allotment of 3,300 AFY. MWD, through its Joint Power Authority (JPA), paid the state in FY 2020-21 some $7.7 million for conveyance and treatment, representing 47% of MWD’s total expenses of $16.3 million. In return, MWD received only 165 AF of state water. This means MWD and its customers paid a whopping $46,700 per AF for SWP water. Worse, for the current fiscal year, MWD budgeted another $7.6 million in JPA expense for what is expected to be zero AF of SWP water. Paying a twoyear total of $15.4 million to receive 165 AF, or $93,300 per AF, is a tough burden for MWD. To be fair, SWP does provide a deliv-

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ery system for water that MWD stores in the Semitropic Water Bank, supplemental purchases of water from agricultural districts or other water sellers, and transfers of water between districts.

In addition, MWD has an additional 1,487 AF of carryover water stored in Lake Cachuma, plus another 203 AF of SWP water stored in the San Luis Reservoir in reserve.

active private wells in the MontecitoSummerland service area, but no one knows for sure the number of wells, or the quality of water, or the flow rates. The disaster scenario for Montecito would be to have Montecito’s inadequate groundwater aquifers run dry, leaving private well owners without water. If too many straws are inserted into Montecito’s distressed aquifers by private well owners, and the aquifers run dry, or flow rates decline, MWD would be asked to fill the gap.

Banked Water Supplies

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Carryover Water

The MWD Board and management team have banked an additional 2,000 AF of water in the Semitropic Groundwater Banking & Exchange Program with a right to withdraw up to 1,500 AFY a year. The concept is for MWD to pay Semitropic for the underground storage of excess water deposited in wet years to be withdrawn in drought years as emergency water.

Purchase Supplemental Water

In past years, MWD has relied on water purchased by MWD from other districts or agricultural users who have excess water to sell. That water is less available in drought years. Nevertheless, MWD hopes to negotiate a two-year agreement with an agricultural landowner for an option to purchase 2,000 AFY of supplemental water at a cost not to exceed $1,500 per AF. This water would be delivered and stored underground in the Semitropic Groundwater Bank to provide added water insurance.

Could Montecito’s Private Wells Run Dry?

As MWD water prices have risen and calls for conservation have grown louder, larger Montecito users have turned to drilling more and deeper private wells to draw water from Montecito’s limited aquifers. The Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) estimates that there could be some 450

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Voluntary Conservation Cut

On August 5, 2021, MWD reported that 75% of its residential single-family customers, which use more than 80% of MWD’s water supply, reported a 25% annual increase in use. In response, MWD called on its customers to voluntarily reduce overall water use by 20%.

Conclusion

There are two ways to solve California’s water problem — increase supply through affordable technology or decrease demand through conservation. Success will require a combination of both. As deliveries of water from the State Water Project become more unreliable, MWD, its partner agencies and the state need to find environmentally sensitive and affordable ways to produce and deliver reliable water that is not dependent on rainfall. •MJ EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS

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ach September, Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation (TBCF) invites the community to join it in recognizing National Childhood Cancer Awareness month through its much-cherished Gold Ribbon Luncheon. After multiple cancellations last year, TBCF has announced a smaller luncheon event, to take place under a tent at the Hilton Santa Barbara’s Plaza Del Sol on Wednesday, October 13, at 11 am. The Gold Ribbon Luncheon’s emcee will be Santa Barbara’s own Andrew Firestone, who has hosted this event three times and is a guest favorite. The event will feature a delicious lunch, as well as a robust Live Auction including a week’s stay at a Four Seasons’ private villa in Costa Rica and platinum passes to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, among other items. A Premier Silent Auction will include luxury goods from Gucci and Tous, a yellow diamond pendant by Daniel Gibbings, weekend getaways and excursions, library wines, pieces of fine art and a host of local small business gift cards. General Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at TBCF office and at the event for $25 each, or 5 for $100. General Raffle items include a Beverly Hills getaway at The Peninsula Hotel, a case of Melville wine, and a glamping getaway in a beautifully updated vintage Argosy Airstream. This year a very limited number of Premier raffle tickets will be sold for $100 each for a trip to St. Maarten. The past year demonstrated that big adversity requires big dreams, and this year TBCF is asking the community to not just support the fam-

ilies they serve, but to also “Dream Big” with them in an effort to take families from Surviving to Thriving. Sharing his inspirational message of resilience, hope, and dreaming big will be FOX NFL Sunday’s host Curt Menefee, notable sportscaster, athlete and author whose book Losing Isn’t Everything provides a thought-provoking look at what the experience of adversity can teach us about competition, life, and the human spirit.

TCFB aims to serve 200 families this year, with 55 of those families applying for financial aid to help them with their non-medical expenses. The beloved foundation, which advocates for families living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties that have a child with cancer by providing financial, educational, and emotional support, will celebrate 20 years in 2022. To mark the occasion, the organization will begin a capital campaign for a major building project, spurred by seed funding by a donor in 2019. “This person wanted us to start thinking about investing in ourselves as an organization, and it was the catalyst to start having these bigger conversations of ‘let’s dream bigger,’” said Senior Development Director Brittany Avila Wazny. Very much in the preliminary,

exploratory phase, the big dream is to build a pediatric cancer resource center, a place for families to gather for resources, respite, and to access the services of other pediatric cancer-aligned nonprofits. “Ideally we are looking to be closer to the hospital; a space not just for our offices but somewhere we can host our families when they need us the most,” said Wazny. TCBF is currently hosting focus groups with past and current families about their needs and gaps in service, and what would be the most beneficial to families enduring pediatric cancer. “We’ve heard from many parents that sometimes a routine check-up at the hospital leads to a longer stay, and they may be stuck there with no extra clothing, no way to do laundry, nowhere to shower,” Wazny said. “If we could have a place for them;

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ttention all stargazing scientists and students, sharpen your galactic pencils to apply for the first equity grant in astrophysics to work with the Rubin Observatory’s LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and Time) Project newly constructed 8.4meter Simonyi Survey 3-mirror telescope and 3-billion-pixel solid state detector digital camera. The camera records time-evolution 6-color images for both still and motion pictures of our galaxy, producing approximately 20 terabytes of data daily to be processed and stored. Proposal guidelines to apply for the one year $20,000 individual and $30,000 team grants are online now, where you can sign up for grant webinars September 8 and 9, with applications due in late September. This equity grant is due to the intrepid efforts of Rachel Street, a PhD in Astrophysics at the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) in Goleta, home of the first global network of robotic telescopes operating around the clock. Through her LCO research on microlensing, she is collaborating with the Rubin LSST project. She suggested a Kickstarter one-year grant program that is inclusive, removing all barriers to eligible scientists worldwide, focusing on the hot areas of research: Transients and Variable Stars Science, Solar System Science, Science within our Milky Way, and the local environment around our galaxy. The Heising-Simons Foundation is funding the grant. Here is our interview with Street with the latest details to apply and more: Q: How is the grant application and equity focus set up? A: I am the Program Officer for the grant. Proposal guidelines for grant applicants are on the website and the entire science community is invited to propose a project that meets those guidelines. I am putting together a Resource Allocation Committee of eight to 10 scientists with expertise in Rubin science collabs and experience advocating for equity in science and science collaborations to make sure that everyone can maximize their contributions and that the resources are allocated fairly and impactfully. They will select the grantees. Our goal with this program is to level the playing field. We are reaching out to the American Astronomical Association, the National Society of Black Physicists, and organi-

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rachel Street, a Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) astrophysicist, in front of a 1-Meter Autonomous Telescope prototype. It is designed, built, and deployed by LCO operating as a global network of telescopes. (Photo courtesy LCO)

zations in Africa, Europe, and other countries. The grant includes four elements, of which the Kickstarter grants program is the largest. The other elements provide funding to cover the costs of publishing work by science collaboration members, providing access to computing facilities and training, and to online meeting services which will enable us to host workshops aimed at fostering collaborations between scientists. Who is eligible for the grant? Our grants program is unusual in that we encourage proposals by early career researchers, be they students or post-docs as well as staff members. We are not setting specific distribution areas or criteria because barriers to participation can take many forms. Instead, when people apply, they will have the opportunity to describe the science they wish to accomplish, and how the funding will make a difference to their team and wider community. Our review team will consider both the scientific excellence and the wider impacts of the proposed projects in selecting recipients for the funds. What are the September 8 and 9 workshops about? Our hope is that members of the three participating science collaborations and potential collaborators will use it to brainstorm ideas for projects centered around the preparatory science in each field. This will give everyone an idea of what work is planned and how to get involved, which I hope will help to build connections for researchers who may be new to the project. •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

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Taking Pride in Their Continued Impact

The Pacific Pride Festival attracts plenty of youth to a safe space to express themselves

or many nonprofits in Santa Barbara and around the nation, the height of the COVID pandemic was a time to retrench, perhaps scale back operations or even temporarily close their doors. Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF), on the other hand, not only kept nearly all its services available, but also expanded some of its programs in response to the pandemic’s outsized impact on the LGBTQ+ community. “We were essential, and we stayed open, and we shifted how we were functioning. We’re constantly pivoting to address the corners of our community that are most underserved,” said Kristin Flickinger, PPF’s executive director, who started in the position in July 2020, four months into the pandemic. “COVID is certainly one of those places.” PPF’s for decades has stood at the forefront of local nonprofits for its efforts in advocacy and education with such popular offerings as its Proud Youth Program, Proud Older Adults groups, and counseling services and such wildly successful events as Pacific Pride Festival, Royal Ball, and PROUD Prom (which this year brought two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Lil Nas X and SAG Award-nominated actress and writer Hari Nef virtually to town). But COVID also brought a need for greater outreach efforts as the community suffered from the pandemic’s non-viral problems. PPF had to shut down its in-person HIV clinic due to health and safety concerns – the organization is already working to hire more staff to restart the program – but more than redoubled its focus elsewhere, Flickinger said. “There’s a huge need in opioid response, as people are turning to self-medication because of all of the issues that come along with the pandemic,” she said. “That included our syringe exchange program — the only one in the county.

Last year we took almost a quarter of a million syringes off the street and out of our communities.” The rampant drug use also resulted in a need for Narcan, the overdose reversing drug, which PPF also distributed throughout the south and north county. “We make it available to folks and we teach them how to use it,” Flickinger said. “Over the first 12-month period of the pandemic, we saw 249 reported reversals through our program alone. So, we know we’re saving lives.” Those efforts required redistribution of PPF’s personnel, Flickinger said, noting that fundraising, operations, and development staff were out on the front lines distributing Narcan and doing needle exchanges to meet the increased need. PPF also stepped up its counseling services as the community cried out for help during the peak of the COVID crisis, reflecting the fact that while Pacific Pride Foundation’s support services for the LGBTQ+ community have always been critical, the pandemic increased the urgency to offer such services as peer support, mentorship and counseling. Indeed, one study showed that 74% of LGBTQ+ people say that stress from the pandemic has had a negative impact on their mental health compared to only 49% of those who don’t identify as LGBTQ+, with increased stigma and discrimination related to sexual orientation/gender identity among the reasons. “So, we’re continuing to expand our counseling program to help combat the worse outcomes for people in the community, where the impact has been nothing short of staggering,” Flickinger said. “Over the next 12 to 15 months, we’re planning to double the programs, double the number of people we’re serving, and also double the number of clinicians we’re training. So not only are we serving people with mental health needs, but we’re also training the next generation of mental health care professionals to be culturally competent and provide LGBTQ+ specific and HIV-impacted services.” All that takes money, of course. So, naturally, PPF has also adjusted its own fundraising efforts in light of lessons learned in the pandemic, including its ongoing Partners in Pride program which just this week wound up a matching grant campaign. The program encompasses supporters who sign up as major donors to the tune of $2,500 or more per month or as little as $10, the monthly source of funding helping to protect against uncertainty, safeguard programs, and ensure consistent provision of services. “All are welcome. It doesn’t matter at what level,” Development Director Tyson Halseth said. “Everyone has a role to play.” For example, $25 per month helps to provide six months of support for one youngster in the Proud Youth program, while $50 might remove more than 7,000 used syringes from the community. “Partners in Pride has been around for a while, but it wasn’t an area that we’ve ever put a lot of focus and emphasis on,” explained Jackie VanLingen, PPF’s development and events program manager. “Through the pandemic, we’ve learned how we need to sustain the organization a little bit better, preparing for whatever tomorrow brings. So, we’ve put some steam and power behind it because it can help us budget better when we know how much income is coming in every year.” The community support makes a huge difference to Pride, which has been around for nearly half a century. “Being a Partner in Pride means being part of a community that is dedicated to ensuring a vibrant, thriving, and visible LGBTQ+ community,” Flickinger said. “It’s our community that has gotten us to where we are now, and we want to make sure that our community takes us the next 45 years.” Visit Pacific Pride Foundation at www.pacificpridefoundation.org. Call Kristin Flickinger (805) 963-3636 x109 or Tyson Halseth at (805) 963-3636 x110. •MJ

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TBCF (Continued from page 28) “Oftentimes one parent will have to give up their job to attend doctors’ appointments and provide care for their sick child,” Wazny said. “The financial toll can be overwhelming.”

“This person wanted us to start thinking about investing in ourselves as an organization, and it was the catalyst to start having these bigger conversations of ‘let’s dream bigger.’” — Brittany Avila Wazny This year ’s luncheon will once again honor those who have staunchly supported TBCF throughout the years. This year’s Heart of Gold Award honorees are Nikki and Larame Greene and family, who

have actively participated in TBCF’s programs, from volunteering at Family Fun events, to delivering meals, to assembling bikes for surprise Christmas presents to kids in the hospital. Additionally, Lacy and Michael Taylor and family will be presented with the Pay it Forward Award. The Taylors were recipients of TBCF’s funding and services after their son Wyatt was diagnosed with cancer, and since then have been actively involved in promoting TBCF’s mission. Andrew and Giana Mill er are current recipients of TBCF’s programs and services, and will share the story of their five year old son Henry’s cancer journey. Henry is in the final months of a three-year treatment plan for Leukemia, and his family is eager to watch him thrive as he enters kindergarten. TCBF would like to thank the dedicated committee organizing this event, which includes co-chairs Eileen Dill and Brigitte Welty, and vice-chair Adriana Mezic. Additional committee members include Sarai Anderson, Carolyn Shepard Baham, Kristi Bordeaux,

The TBCF provides financial and emotional support to aid families that have children fighting cancer

Kasia Brand, Ruth Cavaletto, Matt Fish, Donna Barranco-Fisher, Jamie Hansen, Sheela Hunt, Isabelle Inveen, Kerry Kelly, Terre and Gary Lapman, Sharon Martin, April Norman, Hal Price, Jodi Wilson Price, Carly Sedlak, Nora Scheinberg, Angelina Speier, Jenni

Tasca, Peter Trent, and Stacy West. The Gold Ribbon Luncheon will be limited to 250 people, and proof of vaccinaction will be required to attend. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.TeddyBearCancerFoundation. org. •MJ

2021 Puzzle 9: “Odd Men Out” Solution The September MMMM challenged solvers to find an alternative rock band. The title, “Odd Men Out,” suggests what to do to solve the meta. Removing the odd-numbered letters from each of the four 12-letter theme entries gives four new six-letter words, as follows: SANDBOARDERS → ADORES UPHILL BATTLE → PILATE STUBBORNNESS → T-BONES AMBIENT NOISE → MINNIE For this last one, eagle-eyed solvers may have noticed that MICKEY is in the grid. Is there a connection? Yes! [Famous Disney mouse] can clue both MICKEY and MINNIE, and there are three other pairs that work this way as well. But first, take note that the clues for the 12-letter themers each have a parenthetical number at the end: (1) in the clue for AMBIENT NOISE, (2) for UPHILL BATTLE, (3) for STUBBORNNESS, and (4) for SANDBOARDERS. Let’s arrange them in this order to make the next step easier: [Famous Disney mouse] clues MICKEY and could also clue MINNIE, [Bad actor in the Bible] clues USURER and could also clue PILATE, [Some cuts of beef] clues SHANKS and could also clue T-BONES, and [Loves to death] clues EATS UP and could also clue ADORES. The first letters of these “alternative” six-letter words spells out M-U-S-E, or Muse, an alternative rock band and this month’s meta answer. I originally titled this puzzle “Alternative Rock,” without a suggestion to omit odd letters, but in the end decided that might have been just a little too hard. How’d you do this month? Pete always does a cover version related to the meta answer (usually with his band, the Kindred Souls). You can watch the video and see this month’s full write-up here: https://pmxwords.com/sept2021solution

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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Far Flung Travel (Continued from page 24)

would grab it. Stories of black widows and rattlesnakes visiting the pit trap while the two biologists hid beneath were part of Pit Trap lore, but anything to save these exemplary birds.

“If we remove lead from the environment condors can be self-sustaining,” said Punzalan. Getting the Lead Out “Change is hard, but lead is Besides habitat loss, the biggest challenge for the survival of the California more of a challenge. Partners are Condor is use of lead bullets in their There are alternatives out invaluable about getting the word habitat. there for hunters to use, but change out. Hopefully in my lifetime the can be slow. Condors are scavengers. They are condor will be delisted.” the cleaners of the forest. With incredThe two biologists dug a shallow grave partially burying themselves with organic debris and a stillborn calf carcass lying across the top. Sometimes the two would conceal themselves from sunrise to sunset, waiting patiently for one of the last remaining condors to land on top of them. All they would have with them was some food, water, and a pee bottle. When a condor would land, they

Bitter Creek is an ideal location for the California Condor, who are scavengers

never for these iconic raptors. Captive breeding was the only option, so an aggressive plan was put in motion to save these impressive scavengers. There was one thing that stood out on the barren knoll overlooking the southwest portion of Bitter Creek.

It was an old horse carcass lying amongst some vibrant California poppies. It marked the site of an ambitious effort to capture the last remaining California condors. Wildlife biologists Peter Bloom and Dave Clendenen created their pit trap in 1987.

Mini Meta

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. PUZZLE #1 1

S P U R S

M O N E T

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OWNED

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Across 1 Antlered deer 5 Thank God it's Frida! 6 Statement at a poker table 7 Pickpocket or cattle rustler, e.g. 8 No sweat

Down 1 Baron Cohen of both "Borat" films 2 Neighbors of Malaysians and Laotians 3 Where to find laundry lines and feral cats, maybe 4 Letter between Foxtrot and Hotel in the NATO alphabet 5 What should never be no-strings-attached?

Down 1 "___ bleu!" 2 NCAA women's basketball powerhouse 3 Spooky 4 Exam for an aspiring J.D. 5 Application that might help with debugging?

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Down 1 Round of shots 2 Word before ring and dome 3 "___ année!" (Henri's "Happy New Year!") 4 First lady's garden? 5 2012 hit album for Taylor Swift

META PUZZLE 5

Across 1 Spanish wine that was first legally recognized in 1102 6 "Sounds like SUCH a good time ..." 7 Real head-turner 8 One named Gwaihir helped save Frodo from Mount Doom 9 Big expense for many weddings

M A R A

Across 1 Neither tipsy nor turnt 6 Jumper cable target 7 Queued (up) 8 Gold-medal skier Lindsey 9 Basic bit of binary

Down 1 Native Bajan or Dominican, maybe 2 San Antonio landmark 3 "As above, so ___" 4 Basic knitting stitch 5 Magilla Gorilla or Mojo Jojo, for example

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PUZZLE #4 1

Across 1 WNBA legend Bird who played for 2-Down 4 Like Converses and corsets 6 "Big win for me!" 7 Schwarzenegger, for short 8 2020 Christopher Nolan thriller

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Across 1 Rideshare alternative 4 Part of IPA 5 Pertaining to hearing 6 Top-notch 7 Joint used to jostle or jab

ible eyesight condors locate carcasses and feed mightily. Lead fragments are soft and break down easily within the condor’s food source. However, lead fragments get in the condors’ bloodstream attacking their nervous system. “If we remove lead from the environment condors can be self-sustaining,” said Punzalan. “Change is hard, but lead is more of a challenge. Partners are invaluable about getting the word out. Hopefully in my lifetime the condor will be delisted.” •MJ

4 6

Down 1 In judicial garb 2 "Rumor has it ..." 3 21, say 4 Certain e-cigs 5 Kicks in

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Down 1 Target of some bombs? 2 Drew in 3 "___ by any other name ..." 4 Extremely light wood 6 Ride for Calvin and Hobbes

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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)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Bounty from Babcock — Babcock Winery, the Santa Ynez Valley vintner known for its highly prized varietals including Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon, is hosting a Vintage Market and Wine Affair at its family-owned hillside vineyard. Montecito-based Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura put forth festive and nostalgic sets of music from the 1970s and 1980s to serve as the soundtrack for guests to explore the eccentrically furnished tasting room packed with vintage vinyl for sale, clothing, jewelry and accessories, furniture, homewares, and other treasures. Los Angeles-based artist William Brun, known for his allegorical modernist portrait drawings and paintings, will perform a live art demo in the space where several of his pieces are always on exhibit, while a special commemorative poster along

with Brun art on t-shirts will also be available for purchase. Valle Fresh chef Conrad Gonzales will prepare handcrafted tacos trios made with oak barbecued beef tri-tip, smoked chicken thigh and charred broccolini with local mushrooms, while the locally grown sides include onion and garlic heirloom pinquito beans and sweet corn, heirloom tomatoes, farro, and feta salad. WHERE: Babcock Winery, 5175 E Hwy 246 COST: Free admission; Babcock members pay $28 for lunch, tastings of new releases and a glass of wine, while non-members pay $22 for lunch, and $15-$18 for wine tastings INFO: (805) 736-1455 ext. 104. www.babcockwinery.com Seven-Year Hitch — With its new show Local Treasures, the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara re-visits 30 of the artists who have exhibited at its gallery over the past seven years, a time that has seen the space continue

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16-THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Bowled Over — Concerns over COVID and cautions in booking big concert tours with so much uncertainty gave the Santa Barbara Bowl a very late start to its season. But now the venerable venue that has the largest capacity in the county seems to be making up for lost time. The wowwhat-a-week launches with the multi-hyphenate John Legend, whose realm ranges from his own chart-topping singles and platinum albums that have earned almost a dozen Grammy Awards to collaborating vocally with everyone from Jay-Z to Alicia Keys, playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything Is Everything,” and co-writing the Academy Award-winning song “Glory” from the film Selma. He took home a Tony Award for co-producing Jitney on Broadway, portrayed Jesus Christ in the TV adaptation of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, earning an Emmy Award nomination and winning for producing the show. That made him the first Black man and second youngest EGOT ever, with Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards on his shelf. Tonight’s concert is part of a tour to promote his latest album, Bigger Love, which was recorded just before the pandemic and released 15 months ago… The Los Angeles-bred sister trio Haim, who blend a few genres into their own harmony-laded pop sound, step up to the Bowl (their first show in town was on the streets in the Funk Zone) on Friday, September 17, followed the next night by Trevor Noah, the South African comedian who boasts a zillion streaming specials but is best known as the guy who succeeded Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, where he straddles commentary and humor with wit and intelligence… The week winds down with another musician whose breadth and ambition seem boundless: Gary Clark, Jr., who has spent the last decade expanding upon being seen as the savior of America’s great electric blues-rock tradition into amalgams of funk, hip-hop, and more, without losing a scintilla of authenticity. Clark took another leap forward with his politically charged 2019 album This Land, which even earned Grammy’s attention. WHEN: Varies WHERE: Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: Varies INFO: (805) 962-4711 or www.sbbowl.com

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Chaucer’s Choices — Humans know more about the moon’s surface than about the ocean. That’s one of the things that motivated late Montecito filmmaker-environmentalist Mike deGruy to dive deep into exploring and documenting the depths of our own bonny blue and bodies of water around the world. It’s also part of what drives German marine biologist Frauke Bagusche, the author of the new book The Blue Wonder: Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights from the Ocean. Bagusche, who is also a diver — what marine biologist isn’t? — and lecturer on such subjects as plastic pollution and overfishing of the oceans, draws on her own research and scientific discoveries to revel in playful prose and photographs about such tidbits as deep-sea reefs that glitter like glass, an octopus that imitates more than 15 other animals, fish that converse with each other by singing loudly and others that clean their own teeth, plus the secret behind why the sea glows at night… Jaime Cortez is a graphic novelist, visual artist, writer and teacher who has historically used art and humor to explore such subjects as sexuality, social justice, HIV/AIDS, and Chicano identity. Gordo, his first collection of short stories, is set in a migrant worker camp near Watsonville in the 1970s, where the author applies his angle to scenes from Steinbeck Country, re-defining for our era the questions of who belongs to America and how they are treated. Both authors will chat virtually with Chaucer’s staff as part of the bookstore’s series. WHEN: Bagusche, 12 pm, September 19; Cortez, 7 pm, September 21 WHERE: Bagusche: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82528032215; Cortez: https:// us06web.zoom.us/j/82093290992 COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com/event to expand its focus beyond watercolor paintings by local architects of Santa Barbara buildings. The salon-style show boasts an abstract print by Tony Askew, a collage by Dug Uyesaka, and plein air paintings by Libby Smith and Nina Ward complemented by a surreal box construction by Michael Long and a geometric structure in styrene by Marilyn Helsenrott-Hochhauser. Among other pairings, a weaving by Minga Opazo and a screen print by Claudia Borfiga intermingle with photographs by Sara Yerkes, Jeffrey Sipress, Pat McGinnis, and Matt Straka. While the exhibit opens today, the AFSB Gallery invites the artists for a closing reception, which takes place November 12, which makes sense, as viewers have had a chance to digest the works, not just the hors d’oeuvres. WHEN: Today through November 12 WHERE: AFSB Gallery at the Acheson House, 229 E. Victoria St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 965-6307 or www.afsb.org THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Latin Jazz with a Twist — For a sleepy little oceanside town, Santa Barbara sure does harbor some hauntingly

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

good musicians. Case in point tonight: Luis Muñoz, the Costa Rica-born, UCSB-educated drummer, percussionist, singer, composer, and arranger whose career dates back almost five decades. While he debuted as a recording artist 33 years ago with CBS, most of his recent albums have been self-released and star a wide array of local heroes, including UCSB percussionist and ensemble leader John Nathan, mandolinist/pedal steel guitarist Bill Flores, alto saxist David Binney, gospel-trained R&B singer Lois Mahalia, and classical-meets-jazz guitarist Chris Judge. Muñoz’s main squeeze these days is a trio that features the ubiquitous bassist-composer-producer Randy Tico and guitarist Dan Zimmerman, who studied both classical guitar at UCSB and jazz at Berklee College of Music and played in both Evil Farmer and Conga Punks. Pre-COVID you could catch the trio at venues as tiny as brewery courtyards — part of what makes the Santa Barbara music scene so special. Tonight, they’re back on the big stage at SOhO, which recently reopened. WHEN: 7:30 pm, September 23 WHERE: SOhO COST: $15 INFO: sohosb.com •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

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Construction on this project is expected to finish by the end of the year. Frye explained that he has been working with FEMA regarding updated maps that will take into account the improved basin network in Montecito; those maps will not be completed for another 30 months. Also at the Association meeting, representatives from local Community Choice Energy companies presented an update on upcoming enrollments for Montecito residents. Central Coast Community Energy and Santa Barbara Clean Energy are Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) programs which can purchase electricity on behalf of residents and businesses, in place of investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison. Over the last decade, local governments in more than 200 towns, cities, and counties throughout the state have chosen to participate in CCA to meet climate action goals, provide residents and businesses with more energy options, ensure local transparency and accountability, and drive economic development. There are currently 23 operational CCA programs in California serving more than 11 million customers, and with many more in progress, those numbers are set to grow. Over 40,000 customers in Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, and unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County are slated to be enrolled this year. In Montecito, Central Coast Community Energy will soon be sourcing energy instead of SCE, while SCE will still be responsible for delivering energy, maintaining utility lines, and billing customers. Automatic enrollment for this change will begin in October. Oswaldo Martinez with Central Coast Community Energy (CCCE) explained that CCA programs allow greater consumer choice, local control, and accountability; it’s a tool to help communities reach their climate and economic goals, and transition to a cleaner, more efficient energy supply. “Revenues are reinvested in the community, not distributed to shareholders,” he explained. Customers will also be able to utilize energy incentive programs such as solar and “Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

storage for resilience, low-income solar, EV vehicle and infrastructure incentives, feed-in-tariff, net energy metering (NEM), energy efficiency, demand response, and more. Customers will be enrolled in the program automatically, and can disenroll if they choose. Customers will automatically be enrolled in the 100% carbon-free energy program, which will cost $3-$5 more per month than their current SCE bill. There will be an option to downgrade to a 50% carbon-free energy program which is the same cost as Edison’s electricity cost. Martinez emphasized that the energy acquisition charge shown on monthly bills is not in addition to SCE acquisition charges; it is in lieu of them. “You are not being double billed,” he said. CCCE’s goal is to reach 60% clean and renewable energy by 2025 and 100% by 2030. For more information, visit www.3Cenergy.org. During community reports, Santa Barbara Sheriff Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi shared the crime statistics for the last month in Montecito, which included multiple bear sightings in upper Montecito; DUIs at Butterfly Lane, Coast Village Road, Fairway Road, La Vereda at North Jameson, and several others; hub cabs stolen on Hot Springs; a dog bite on Butterfly Lane; mail theft on East Mountain; an online vehicle scam on Hot Springs; and several thefts from mailboxes throughout Montecito. Lieutenant Arnoldi reported that a new Sheriff deputy, with a specialty in DUIs, has increased patrols in the area, leading to a greater number of DUIs in the last month. Montecito Union School’s Anthony Ranii reported that work begins this week on a large solar structure that is being built at the school’s Nature Lab. It will ultimately provide electricity for the entire campus. Next year, work will begin on much-needed infrastructure updates for the older buildings on campus, which will require temporary classrooms during the 12-18 month construction period. “It’s a big undertaking but it’s necessary,” he said. The next Montecito Association Board Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 12. •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

Your Westmont (Continued from page 26 26)) Westmont has purchased 29 West Anapamu Street, a four-story building in downtown Santa Barbara

ranking among all members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). Westmont remains in the top tier of National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2022 U.S. News and World Report rankings tied at No. 114. Westmont improved its percentage of classes under 20, and under 50. Westmont’s Student Excellence Score, which includes SAT/ACT standardized tests and high school class standing, jumped 13 points from last year. Westmont is No. 186 in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings of more than 800 colleges and universities. Westmont has gained 78 spots in the WSJ rankings since they began in 2017. Westmont is also No. 66 in their Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States 2021 ranking. Westmont is No. 2 in Niche’s 2022 Best Colleges with No Application Fee in California.

Accomplished New Professors Join Faculty

Four new tenure-track professors have joined Westmont’s faculty this fall: Ben Carlson (physics), Dan Jensen (engineering), Gewnhi Park (psychology), and Alastair Su (history). Carlson joins the Westmont physics department from University of Pittsburgh, where he was a Samuel Langley postdoctoral fellow. He works on the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, and has technical expertise on hadronic jet and missing transverse momentum triggers. He enjoys involving his students in his research, which focuses on dark matter and the subatomic particle Higgs boson. He earned a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Jensen joins the college as director of engineering to prepare adaptive engineers committed to blending science, engineering and the arts. A senior fellow at the International 16 – 23 September 2021

Design Center at Singapore University of Technology and Design and MIT, he spent 21 years teaching engineering mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The new engineering program blends courses in engineering, physics, mathematics and chemistry. He earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Park examines how the body and mind interact and influence different cognitive and emotional processes and social interaction. Her research has examined the interaction between the brain and heart and how the cardiac vagal tone indicates how well the brain functions. She incorporates those findings into other self-regulatory systems, cognitive processing, and emotional processing. Park earned a doctorate in cognitive psychology from Ohio State University.

These two facilities provide nearly 30,000 square feet for several downtown programs, including the new nursing program in partnership with Cottage Health as well as the semester-long program in capital and social entrepreneurship. Su teaches U.S. history and is completing his first book about America and the opium trade in the 19th century. He says his overarching goal is supporting students as they navigate what it means to be both a Christian and a citizen of the United States. He graduated from Harvard before earning a doctorate in history from Stanford University. •MJ

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ed the pottery empire, an old friend Prince Egon von Furstenberg, and his ex-wife, fashion designer Diane, and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, mother of Dynasty actress Catherine Oxenberg. Still a precious memory.

Hoop Dreams

Cruzar la Cara de la Luna is set for October 1 and 3 at the Granada Theatre

Brad Daugherty

Five-time NBA All-Star and NASCAR team owner Brad Daugherty has been named the Dream Foundation’s first Ambassador of Sports. Daugherty will serve alongside current foundation ambassadors Priscilla Presley, a board member of the CKX Corporation, and actor, producer, and director Rob Lowe. He will work closely with the foundation’s staff and board to fulfill sport-specific dream requests and raise awareness of the charity’s mission, which has fulfilled more than 32,000 dreams since being founded in 1994. “To spend a few precious moments with people during such a difficult time is a real blessing,” says Daugherty.

Quite the Deal

Opera Santa Barbara has come up with a most novel way to sell tickets to fans after the pandemic lockdown. Artistic director Kostis Protopapas has announced that a limited number of tickets for this season’s productions

will be available to patrons on a nameyour-own-price-basis. The name of this new initiative, made possible by a grant by the Walter and Holly Thomson Foundation, and Bank of America, is “You Decide!” “This means that any concertgoer who finds the published prices too high is invited to make their own decision on how much to pay,” says Protopapas. “Producing opera with professional singers, orchestra, and stagehands is very expensive and tickets typically cover less than fifty per cent of the cost. Still, we want our performances to be accessible to everyone, and trust patrons to choose their own price knowing that every dollar goes towards supporting vibrant, live, Santa Barbara-made music theater.” Opera SB opens its ambitious new season with the premiere of the celebrated Mariachi opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, on October 1 and 3 at the Granada Theatre, the first production at the historic venue since November 2019.

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On a personal note, I remember Willard Scott, former Today show weatherman, who has died aged 87 at his farm in Virginia. I first met the garrulous, toupee wearing, larger than life character at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 1996 when I was an anchor

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Practice How to React

Next, practice your evacuation routes and establish your family’s communication plan. The actions you must take in the “Go!” phase will vary based on the type of disaster. In the event of a wildfire, early and immediate evacuation is the best possible response to protect yourself and your loved ones. If potential severe flooding or debris flow is forecast by local weather authorities, evacuate early, just as you would in a wildfire. Seeking shelter outside of the affected area before the weather event is predicted to occur is the surest way to stay safe. If you become trapped in your home during a flood or debris flow, move to higher ground or a higher floor of the house. The sudden nature of an earthquake does not allow for the chance to evacuate to a safer location. Rather, we must look for security in our immediate vicinity. Practice “Drop, Cover, and Hold On” in your home and workplace. The Great California ShakeOut on October 21 is a perfect opportunity to practice and test your reaction skills in an earthquake. Find information at www.shakeout.org/california/index. html. After an earthquake, the South Coast could be at risk of a tsunami. Like wildfire situations, early and immediate evacuation ahead of a tsunami risk is key. The safest location is somewhere at higher elevation and far inland. Any serious natural disaster may also lead to hazardous materials situations, such as an explosion or gas leak. To protect your family, you may want to add plastic sheeting and duct tape to your emergency supply kit to seal off windows and doors while sheltering in place.

Be Informed

In any disaster scenario, maintaining situational awareness is crucial to safety and survival. Listen to directions from local authorities, follow news media, make sure your phone or email is set up to receive emergency alerts through ReadySBC.org, and be in touch with your neighbors and loved ones. Resiliency is most effective as a community-wide effort and in Montecito, we are grateful to serve residents who take this commitment to heart.

Be Involved

Members of the Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group, better known as MERRAG (pronounced like “mirage”), have been spreading the message of preparedness this month. You may have seen them at 16 – 23 September 2021

the Upper Village Green last week distributing preparedness brochures and Ready! Set! Go! guides. MERRAG volunteers take preparedness to the next level, serving as resolute community leaders who offer guidance to neighbors and support first responder agencies before, during, and after emergencies. By attending MERRAG community trainings and becoming involved as a volunteer, you will increase your awareness of risk potential on the South Coast and become well-prepared to respond to any disaster. Montecito Fire is thankful for our partnership with MERRAG and the volunteers’ dedication to promoting preparedness and resiliency in our community. Find more information at MERRAG.org.

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The Take-Away

As we hit the midway mark of September, ask yourself these questions and take action to answer them by month’s end: — Are we enrolled in emergency alerts? — What is our shelter plan? — What are our evacuation routes? —W hat is our communication plan? —D o we need to update our emergency kit? Remember the theme: “Prepare to protect. Preparing for disaster is protecting everyone you love.”

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— Water (one gallon per person per day for several days, for drinking and sanitation) — Food (at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food) — Medications — Radio — Flashlight — First-aid kit — Food, water & medications for pets — Extra batteries — Whistle — N-95, surgical &/or cloth masks — Extra clothing & sturdy shoes — Plastic sheeting and duct tape (to shelter in place) — Moist towelettes, garbage bags, and plastic ties (for personal sanitation) — Wrench or pliers (to turn off utilities) — Manual can opener (for food) — Local maps — Cell phone with chargers and a backup battery — Important documents – make copies & secure them in a password-protected digital space — Any other essential items your family may need while evacuated or sheltering in place for several days •MJ

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) Lindsey Appleyard’s series “She was Real” can be viewed September 25-26 at SBCAST

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The Equinox concert expands the era to encompass nearly three centuries of Mexican and Spanish musical traditions from the New World, all curated by Revels music director Erin McKibben, who will sing and play flute and lead the ensemble featuring violinists Kristine Pacheco-Bernt and Marie Hebert, cellist Kathryn Mendenhall, harpist Rebekah Scogin, singer-guitarist Josh Jenkins, and guitarist Luis Moreno. The selections include the popular song “La Paloma,” “El Vito” complete with audience participation, and Manuel de Zumaya’s Mexican Baroque Cantata. “That’s more a classical-oriented piece, but it was played at the Mission, so it fits,” McKibben said. “But mostly we’ll be doing the Early California songs, which is a really nice concept to hear on the patio [at the University Club], because that’s where this music was played at that time. And it’s all very Santa Barbara oriented.” Moreno will also offer an introductory lecture on the music of the era to put things in perspective for the audience. Which, of course, is the Revels’ way. (Santa Barbara Revels’ Autumn Equinox concert takes place at 7 pm September 21 at the University Club’s Sola Patio, 1332 Santa Barbara St. Tickets, which include a glass of wine, cost $30 in advance, $35 at the concert. Visit www.santabarbararevels.org.)

CAST of Characters

Your faithful correspondent finds collaborations compelling, whether between artists in various genres or among cooperating venues. Both are in play with the current showcase series at Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology (SBCAST), where three of its Artists in Residence are staging weekend exhibits of installation art, design, multimedia projects, and performances. The series kicked off last weekend with Meighann A.

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Helene’s “Rusted Roots” installation of works that feature cold-casted organic matter in iron, bronze, and copper that was accompanied by Adam Potter Scott’s “The Automatic Orchestra,” which generates music in real-time based on input of human heart rates. This weekend brings the opening of Maria Constanza Ferreira’s “Into the Crystal Hourglass” involving immersive and interactive installations, experimental films and soundscapes, an exhibit that represents the culmination of the artist’s two-year experiment with time and light and the self-generative structures of synthetic crystals and the body’s relationship to nature and technology. Lindsey Appleyard’s series “She was Real,” which will be on view September 25-26, serves as a tribute to her mother and employs stained glass, metal work, photography, video manipulation, and more to examine the body vs. the spirit and questions about death and living. Both exhibits have receptions from 6:30-8:30 pm on their respective Saturdays, and reopen for viewing from 1-5 pm the following Sunday. All three of the artists and some of their pieces from the exhibitions migrate over to SOhO for an after-hours reception this Saturday, September 18, starting at 10 pm, when Ben Betts, Sandy Hawkins, and DJ Jamen will provide the entertainment. Visit https://sbcast.org.

Book Smart

Chaucer’s is to be congratulated for its generous supply of virtual author chats that have taken place all through the COVID crisis, helping people to connect over the love of letters even if only online. (This week’s entries can be found in the Calendar of Events on page 36.) Ditto for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, who just last weekend hosted Montecito’s own maven of dry 16 – 23 September 2021

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those fun-raisers, as the benefit event annually brings in around $300,000, a significant percentage of Planned Parenthood’s budget. For those who want first crack at the titles, a special opening-night “preview” takes place on Thursday evening, September 16, with a $25 admission fee and the “joy” of jostling re-sellers and other collectors. Otherwise, admission is free for the full span of the sale, September 17-26. Call (805) 722-1517 or visit www.ppc ccbooksale.com.

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We’ll leave it up to the listener to decide if the new CD from Mike Dawson & The Smokin Kills lives up to its title. But we can tell you that the guy fronting the band is the real deal: Dawson is the former longtime DJ, music director, and producer at KTYD, Santa Barbara’s classic rock radio station back in the days before streaming and Sirius. My brief time at KTYD (as an ad rep of all things) pre-dates Dawson’s but everyone in town who paid any attention to rock ‘n’ roll sure was aware of him as it’s safe to say he was the hardest working man in show biz this side of John Palminteri. Dawson departed for Los Angeles 15 years ago, but has frequently showed up on stage at SOhO, the upstairs restaurant/music club he used to frequent — in every sense of the word — during his Santa Barbara stint, when he would check out concerts several times a week, making connections like crazy. That same raw energy comes through on Hero, a down-anddirty Bakersfield-style country-rock record powered by Dawson’s whiskey-soaked vocals. The title is an homage to the Waylon Jennings song, no accident as Smokin Kills bassist-producer Ted Russell Kamp has been a member of Waylon’s son Shooter Jennings’ band for 15 years. Dawson and the band descend on SOhO for a CD-release party this Thursday, September 16. •MJ

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Montecito importer is commemorating Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death with the launch of a limited-edition wine. The 2018 “Ruth” Special Edition Roussanne is an organic white wine produced in France. It’ll officially become available on September 18, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the passing of the revered Supreme Court justice. Justice Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993, when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the second woman ever to hold the post, until she died last year at the age of 87. Her accomplishments spawned a series of creative projects spotlighting her legacy, including the documentary Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, directed by Oscarwinning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock. Through rare footage and intimate interviews, “the film dramatizes a confluence of factors — personal, psychological, social, and political – that

impacted the course of her work and life,” says the movie’s press release. “The film is designed as an immersive experience through the direct words of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a professor, advocate, Judge, and Justice; the use of evocative animation and intimate illustrations to visualize complex constitutional cases.” When Frank Caterinicchio watched the film, which was released early this year and is currently streaming through apps like Starz, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video, he was inspired. “It’s a really inspirational film,” he tells me, as we sit in the backyard of his Montecito home to sip the 2018 Ruth. “And there’s also this connection she had with France.” Indeed, as the back label of the new wine points out, “Her French phrases in landmark cases endeared her there, as did her parasailing in the south of France.” (When Justice Ginsburg used the words, “faute de mieux,” or “for

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lack of a better alternative,” in a 2016 Supreme Court opinion that struck down a Texas abortion law, searches for the phrase on Merriam-Webster spiked 495,000%.) Caterinicchio, a formal political consultant, launched his wine import business, Provencal Collective, in 2019, after a trip to France. With headquarters at his Montecito home and a sizable cellar in Goleta, he is the sole American importer of various boutique French producers of rare, high-end organic wines. The Ruth documentary inspired him to partner with the film’s creative team to launch a wine to help amplify its reach and to honor Ginsburg’s “commitment to advancing justice and equality,” says Caterinicchio. Only 225 cases of the commemorative bottles, with a label that reproduces the movie’s poster, were produced. The 2018 “Ruth” Special Edition Roussanne comes from winemaker James Wood at Domaine Vintur, a small, independent, 30-acre producer near Avignon, in France’s southern Rhone Valley. Grapes here are grown organically — no herbicides and no pesticides – and hand-picked before the wines are processed naturally, without added sulphites. The “Ruth” wine features a beautiful golden color, intense aromas of lemon curd and lychee fruit and flavors of green apple with subtle notes of caramel. Hints of spice emerge as the wine warms in the glass. And the mouthfeel is silky, with a lean, clean finish. It retails for $49, with proceeds earmarked for various charities that Ginsburg championed. The wine’s official release will take place this Saturday at a private affair in Washington, D.C. It’ll include a virtual tasting with the winemaker, Wood, along with a screening of excerpts from the Ruth documentary. For more information, including dibs on the “Ruth” Roussanne, go to provencalcollective.com. •MJ 16 – 23 September 2021

Drought is a growing concern across the state, including in Montecito

4. With regard to “moving forward” with “technological solutions,” MWD by partnering with the city of Santa Barbara has tapped into a major technological solution, namely desalinated water. In conjunction with available groundwater, available water captured by dams on the Santa Ynez River, available State Water Project water both delivered and stored for future exchange and use, and eventually purified wastewater above and beyond reclaimed non-potable

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and crafts into two sections. When you get right down to it, I think you would all agree that the craftspeople are artists as well, creating their own, original work. Our community appreciates the tireless work by people like Marilyn Dannehower, Deborah Healy, Marilyn Loperfido, and others, as well as Roger Perry and the Parks and Recreation Department, also the city council, including our mayor, Cathy Murillo, for doing the right thing. Jason Bryan did an outstanding job holding everything together, especially through a pandemic. Now, with Santa Barbara having a whole new look, what with the pre-COVID remodeling of the bridge and sidewalks and the recent integration of arts and crafts, you absolutely must see the entire show, or you might just miss something special. The Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show has always been a great addition to Santa Barbara’s tourism, for over 50 years. So, come and see for yourself. Get out of the house and bring your family and “out of town” guests. If you haven’t been, now is the time to experience one of Santa Barbara’s greatest jewels, with great art, photos, and unique crafts, from jewelry to pottery, to leather belts and clothing. Jim Koorey •MJ

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