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SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

The Granada Theatre unveils a new plaza just weeks after a new, state-of-the-art sound system got its closeup, page 21

BLAST OFF IN BAJA

A 1,227-mile off-road race through the desert of Baja California doesn’t scare Montecito native Dan Chamlee. Instead, he embraces the challenge and rigors that are the Baja 1000, considered the most dangerous road race in North America, slated to kick off November 18. Story starts on page 8

‘We’re Fresh with New Ideas’

Meet the new Montecito Sanitary GM Bradley Rahrer, who is leading the charge on both critical projects and partnerships, as well as a fairly new staff, page 6

A Magical Night is Coming

The Montecito Association is making sure that the holiday spirit is alive and well with the Montecito Magical Nights Holiday Parade, page 11

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5 In the Know Arnold Schaffer is ecstatic to take over as the chair of the Sansum Clinic Board of Trustees, particularly because it comes at a time of great change 6 Village Beat Meet the new Montecito Sanitary GM Bradley Rahrer, who is leading the charge on both critical projects and partnerships, as well as a fairly new staff 8 Our Town A 1,227-mile race doesn’t scare Montecito native Dan Chamlee, he embraces the challenge of the Baja 1000, which is slated to kick off November 18 10 Letters to the Editor When it comes to the Democratic Party, it’s all about tactics 11 Montecito on the Move A parade is coming . . .

12 College Bound Procrastination? Let’s think about that tomorrow . . .

14 The Way it Was The Alisal Fire was a stark reminder that a fire — and the potential debris flow aftermath — can threaten critical South Coast history, most recently Arroyo Hondo and its extensive importance to our slice of heaven 16 On Entertainment Catching up with John Jorgenson, plus just who is Trixie Blue?

18 Montecito Miscellany From six-figure Rolls-Royces to mermaids, Richard Mineards had quite the week 20 Dear Montecito How Montecito impacted Hunter Brownell and his outlook on life 21 The Giving List The Granada Theatre will unveil a new plaza just weeks removed from a new, state-of-the-art sound system getting its closeup

22 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco Secession Revisited: Peace is always cheaper than war

22 The Optimist Daily Investing in infrastructure: U.S. infrastructure bill sets its sights on the end of drunk driving 23 Brilliant Thoughts Do you find yourself holding on to things? You’re not alone.

24 Seen Around Town From Domestic Violence Solutions to the Center for Successful Aging, Lynda Millner was all over town 27 Your Westmont The 17th annual Westmont Christmas Festival appears for the first time at Santa Barbara’s famed Granada Theatre, plus multiple sports teams headed for national championships 32 Veterans Day 2021 The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Santa Barbara VFW Post 1649 hosted hundreds at the Santa Barbara Cemetery to honor those who have served in the U.S. military, and we’ve got the pictures 34 Mini Meta Crossword Puzzles 36 Calendar of Events From King Bee’s 20th anniversary to Warren Miller Entertainment’s latest, a look at the week ahead . . .

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

Preparing for the Next 100 Years New Chair of Sansum Clinic Board Ready to Take on Competition

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rnold Schaffer is aware of the obstacles that Sansum Clinic faces as the last remaining independent not-for-profit medical clinic in the state of California.

The pandemic? It shut down or delayed outpatient surgeries and imaging centers — services that are needed not only for the community, but also to allow the clinic to operate.

Competition? The clinic has lost a handful of well-known doctors to competitors, most notably UCLA Health, which has moved into Montecito.

Yet, the Montecitan is downright giddy to take over as the chair of the Sansum Clinic Board of Trustees, having sat on the board since 2019, helping guide the nonprofit through the challenges of a global pandemic.

“We don’t know when it’s going to be back to normal, but it is getting back to normal. We’ve gotten amazing support from the community,” Schaffer told the Montecito Journal.

“We’re working strategically to lay out our future to be able to make sure that we’re around for another 100 years.”

Schaffer has more than 30 years of healthcare management experience at numerous hospitals and regional health systems, and is currently a Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal Healthcare Industry Group.

He also has plenty of fans throughout Sansum Clinic, including Kurt Ransohoff, the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of the nonprofit.

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“He has been a wise decision-maker during the difficulties of managing COVID-19. We can always rely on him to contribute generously to our team.”

Here are five quick questions with Schaffer as he dives headfirst into the new position.

Q. You moved here seven years ago; why did you get involved with Sansum Clinic?

A. There are a lot of ways you can give back to the community. I thought one of them would be in healthcare because that’s my area of expertise and joined the board of Sansum Clinic.

This is a very difficult time for medical groups, for doctors and for healthcare.

It always has been in hospitals, but it’s actually much harder for physicians now.

Can you expand on that? How has the playing field changed for independent physicians?

One of the reasons is because the economics around how physicians are paid has gotten so bad that some groups [of doctors] join someone else to form a fully integrated organization, usually hospitals, sometimes insurance companies. Now, the pharmaceutical companies are getting into that arena so it’s rather difficult for these independents to survive and that’s why I thought, “OK, let me see how I can help Sansum Clinic.”

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Village Beat

New Montecito Sanitary District General Manager Bradley Rahrer is working towards a plan for recycled water, among other improvements and advances to the District

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.

Meet the GM at Montecito Sanitary District

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he last five months have been busy for new Montecito Sanitary District General Manager Bradley Rahrer, who took the reins at the District in June of this year. Rahrer, who was hired after multiple interim managers came and went following the retirement of Diane Gabriel last year, hails from the city of Santa Barbara’s Public Works Department.

“I thought my career would be dealing with clean water for farming and irrigation rather than wastewater, but here I am!” Rahrer said during an interview earlier this week.

After graduating from Cal Poly with an undergraduate degree and two master’s degrees, Rahrer’s career in the water industry began in 2008 at a small irrigation district north of Davis, California. From there, he went on to work on larger water infrastructure projects at the Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Design and Construction office in Sacramento, eventually moving to Santa Barbara to continue working in the water industry and managing a team of 18.

During his 10 years with the city of Santa Barbara, Rahrer worked as a Project Engineer on Wastewater Capital Improvement Projects, supported the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant as the Operations and Maintenance Engineer, and managed a team responsible for the city’s network of sewer mains as the Wastewater Collection System Superintendent.

Rahrer’s arrival at the District comes after a proposed new Essential Services Building and associated improvements to the District campus have been put on the back burner indefinitely. The project, which is part of the District’s 2004

Master Plan, was to include a new 5,000-square-foot Essential Services building with a new 17-space parking lot, lighting and landscaping, multiple solar canopies, and a new recycled water treatment system, including a six-foot-high, 185-foot-long retaining wall to create a pad, a 60,000 gallon feed water tank, a 1,500-square-foot water treatment enclosure, a 130,000 gallon recycled water storage tank, and a 200-square-foot pump station, as well as demolition of the existing office building, existing solar canopies, and adjacent parking lot.

The new building was to replace the existing Essential Services building, which has long been considered undersized and has issues including mold, termites, asbestos, inadequate insulation, non-compliance with ADA requirements, and a leaking roof. The new building, which was controversial since its inception, was slated to be built on a different portion of the 6.3-acre campus, in order to abandon the access on Monte Cristo Lane and allow access on Channel Drive. The project cost was estimated between $4 million-$6 million.

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CORE International (Southern California Off Road Enthusiasts) is the sanctioning body for desert racing, featuring four Baja races annually, most noted is the Baja 1000, slated for November 18, 2021. More than 300 registered Pro and Sportsman class racers of all ages worldwide participate with cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles, and quads.

Our town’s top racers are 16-time Championship Class Seven Truck winner Dan Chamlee, The Factory Racing; racing legend Jimmy O’Neal with Jon Ortner Pro Moto 60; Derek Ausserbaurer Pro Moto Unlimited; and brothers Travis and Nathan Frohlich, Chris Gil, Jacob Hanberg, and Shon Hepler in the Pro Moto Limited all on Honda CRF450X motorcycles.

Racers are required to protect and preserve the Baja ecological environment along the technically challenging 1,227-mile route. There are three physical and 236 virtual mandatory check points, and 23 speed zones monitored by GPS. Driver safety, control, and navigation is required via the Anube Stella III system using GPS data and satellite communication. Moto and Quads start at 2 am and a 9 am start for cars, trucks, and quads by class with 30- to 60-second paced starts. Maximum allotted finish time is 50 hours.

You can watch it on ESPN’s World of X Games with legend racer Cameron Steele.

I sat down with Chamlee on the eve of his big race in Mexico: Q. How did you get into it?

A. This will be my 19th year doing the Baja 1000. Although I’m the first in my family to race trucks, my grandpa, Tom Newton, was the world champion in the California Outboard Motorboat Racing Series in the 1950s for 20 years and had his own outboard motor shop. He worked for the Montecito Water District since 1920 and was the caretaker for the Doulton Tunnels Water Treatment Plant till 1974. My mom went to Montecito Union School. Both parents went to Santa Barbara High School. My dad worked at my great grandpa’s shop, CD Reilly Machine Works on Salsipuedes Street, from 1930 to 1980.

My wife, Laurie, is from Carpinteria, and we have six kids who have each participated on our racing team, with grandchildren looking forward to it. My racing team, Factory Racing, is named after my business Factory Appliance, which my son is running now.

You build your own racing trucks?

Yes. My dad taught me how to weld when I was young, so I’ve been designing and fabricating cars for a long time. I design, engineer, and build the vehicle from scratch. It’s fun because when I race, I have both an engineering contest

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It’s a Matter of Questionable Tactics

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e may look at circumstances in our society and wonder how our leaders could be so inept as to let those happen.

Immigration chaos, the 2008 financial crisis and widening entitlements to name a few. Perusing the Democrat Party tactics initiated in the 1960s

by Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Piven can clear it up. These tactics are hidden as well as those of Saul Alinsky’s rules that have been practiced by the likes of the controversial Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Recently in the Virginia governor’s race, Democratic Party operatives admitted to posing as white supremacists supporting the Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin. Bad form, yet the means to their end does not matter to these types. Husband of Democrat congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and Democrat operative Bob Creamer, who visited the Obama White House multiple times, planted people to create violence at DJT rallies in 2016 and resigned from the HRC campaign when exposed. Alinksy is alive and well in our republic.

The Cloward and Piven strategy began with orchestrating a crisis in the welfare system to push it to failure and rebuild it with their socialist agenda of guaranteed income.

They used militant groups to make demands for “entitled” monies. NYC went from about 150,000 to 1.5 million on the welfare rolls between 1960 and 1970 and was bankrupt by 1975. Their next target was, and is, the electoral system. Activists flood voter rolls making it difficult to verify names. They also knew that the response to validate the rolls could be condemned as voter suppression.

Universal mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting all add to the mess and were taken advantage illegally during the COVID “crisis.” Barack

Obama cut his teeth working for the fraudulent community organization ACORN adept at the strategy to flood the voter rolls. If these tactics worked on entitlements and the electoral system, why not others?

The mortgage industry was a Cloward Piven target. Democrats in government overloaded the mortgage industry under the pretense of helping low-income nonwhites gain home ownership. The government was weaponized to force banks to loan to unqualified applicants under risk of strict regulations and hefty fines. The government sponsored entity Fannie Mae also lowered lending standards. Democrat party ACORN activists even occupied the House Banking Committee room to protest Republican attempts to scale back the malfeasance. Add a lack of regulation by government of mortgage-backed securities with their Wall Street cronies and the system crashed. Mission accomplished.

Is the contentious Joe Biden asleep while each month 200,000 aliens walk up to border agents and are then dispersed throughout the country? Even he isn’t that drowsy. It is deliberate. Recall before Democrats were calling to defund the police, they wanted to abolish immigration and customs enforcement. If a vast majority of these aliens historically vote Democrat, why wouldn’t these intellectuals who know better than you want more of them? Throw in giving them free services and health care and the better to break an institution in order to be built back better.

They know the courts are overextended and can’t properly function.

Along with sex trafficking and drugs brought over with an open border the anti-American and dangerous Democrat policy of sanctuary cities for illegal alien criminals is a detriment but it is what they want. We

can all YouTube every Democrat promoting a border wall until it became politically expedient for them to be against one. Remember, they do not care about the means to their end.

Those left of center Democrats who think they are voting for Jack Kennedy ought to research these characters running their party and operating behind the scenes. These elites do not want our institutions functioning in order to fulfill Barack Obama’s cry to fundamentally transform these United States and Joe Biden’s build back better. The never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste Democrats have no problem creating a crisis as a means to their ends. These people would have us believe the greatest force of freedom in history needs to be broken and built back better.

Watch Gov. Gavin Newsom speak of creating a more progressive agenda due to COVID and Jane Fonda calling it God’s gift to the left. With their hands on the federal branch and the Alinsky/Cloward/Piven Democrats in charge, they just might succeed.

Research Cloward and Piven strategy to see for yourself.

Mike Hornbuckle

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Miscast?

I find it astonishing that Nicole Kidman is playing Lucy in the upcoming movie, Being the Ricardos.

I just imagined Debra Messing in that role.

Debra has the comedy chops, as well as the look. But low and behold, Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman is playing Lucy. Yes, she is an acting treasure and is as close to as chameleon as any actress. On the other

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hand, Debra Messing is a natural at this type of comedy. To me the two best female comedian red heads are Lucy and Carol Burnett. Make that the two best female comedians ever! Debra is a distant third in the hair department.

Here’s where it gets interesting. Nicole Kidman was born a red head. To boot she was born in the U.S. Hawaii to be clear. I am looking forward so much to see how a legend like Lucy will be portrayed. I’m also hoping that Aaron Sorkin did not make the mistake of his lifetime. While we are at it, don’t even get me started about Javier Bardem playing Ricky.

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Get Ready for the First Annual Montecito Magical Nights Holiday Parade

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es, we’re going to do it: a nighttime holiday motor parade through Montecito on Saturday, December 4 at 5:30 pm. It’s been a tough few years for Montecito, and we could all use more light, love, and magic in our lives, particularly as we head into the time of year at the Winter Solstice when the nights are long, and we’re already feeling that with the time change, right? So, we’re going to roll a parade through the community for you that’s lit up like a power plant, is musical, and delivers a bunch of magic and holiday cheer all over the neighborhood.

But wait, it gets better: The Montecito Magic Elves are also planning to decorate the Hathaway Tree at Upper Manning that same day! (We know you have your calendar out now — write it down — December 4 at 4 pm in Upper Manning Park.)

Bring the kids, the dog, your family and friends, your most fun-loving self and squad, and let’s create a community tree for everyone. You’ll be done just in time with that community-building event to turn around and watch the First Montecito Magical Nights Holiday Parade depart from Lower Manning Park.

It will circle the neighborhood and end up in the Upper Village. More fun is coming: merchants and restaurants in the Upper Village will be so happy to see you, they’ll have treats to welcome you to visit with them and each other. You might find some holiday treats for loved ones there, too.

This is your invitation for a night of fun, family, friends, magic, and community to greet the holidays with joy, love, and connection. We welcome your sponsorship and your entries (we’re limited to 25 vehicles) and you can learn more at our website montecitoassociation.org. Two of our newer neighbors, who’ve been just darned good, solid community supporters since their high-profile arrival last summer, were the first to sponsor – thank you Harry and Meghan! We’re glad to have you in our community.

So, get ready, get your lights and jingle on, and come enjoy the tree decorating, holiday parade, and fun in the Village on December 4!

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t’s midnight on the night before my son’s college applications are due and we’re huddled in his room editing his supplemental essays for 12 different colleges. Did I mention I was also eating an entire chocolate cream pie? I thought we had started far enough in advance to get these done early, but no, I was wrong.

Thus, the pie. And the wine.

Did I mention the bottle of wine?

What’s a parent to do to help their student buckle down, get focused, and get through this tough, often grueling process?

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Teenagers are the masters of procrastination. Isn’t there a famous Mark Twain quote, “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow?” It’s a teenager’s motto — but really a motto for their approach to the college application process. Who could blame them?

Applying to college is incredibly stressful for both students and parents and it often leads to procrastination.

What’s a parent to do to help their student buckle down, get focused, and get through this tough, often grueling process?

First it helps to remember, that being a teenager these days can be difficult under the best of circumstances. Teens can often suffer from anxiety and depression during “normal” everyday life, without feeling the extra angst from having to get through the added pressure and intensity that comes with applying to college. It also helps to remember, that this is their journey, not ours. They are the ones searching for a “good fit” college, one that will make them happy where they can thrive and shine and make lasting friendships. Come fall, they will be the ones packing up and heading off to “find themselves” in a cramped dorm room sleeping through their 8 am Bio class with their red solo cup ducttaped to their hair.

So, how can we, as their Sherpas and protectors and their devoted cheerleaders, help them minimize their stress while also pushing them enough to fight through their typical tedium to get those applications done and in on time?

“I’m one stomach flu away from my goal weight.” — Emily Charlton

Here are several suggestions, beyond the tried-and-true pie and wine (though never underestimate the soothing effects of a big slice of lemon meringue for them and a case of Merlot for you): — Start early! Know your deadlines, make a master calendar, and plan ahead. This is the greatest stress reducer. (And it teaches them great skills for college!)

—Keep things in balance. It’s okay to push to help your kid through the process, but don’t push too hard. This line is different for every teen. Keep an eye on yours to make sure they’re sleeping, eating, socializing, and staying slightly annoyed at you. In other words, that they’re behaving normally.

— Stay organized. Help your student break large tasks into smaller tasks and put those tasks on lists.

Again, a great skill to learn for college and beyond.

— Be honest about the anxiety. Let your teen tell you which parts of the process make them anxious and support them through those parts.

— Stow your baggage. Your concern boils over into their concern.

Again, a gentle reminder that this is their journey to their “good fit” college. You may have loved your alma mater, but it may not be the right fit for your student. Take a step back and remind yourself, this is about them.

— Encourage reflection. The best applications are authentic reflections of your student. Allowing them to find what makes them special, what makes them who they are, will give them confidence, not just in their application but also in life.

— There’s a lid for every pot. There are more than 4,000 colleges in the U.S. There isn’t one perfect school.

Sometimes our kids need to be reminded of that. Frank Bruni wrote The New York Times bestseller, Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be with just this sentiment in mind. Take a few moments during this process to maybe peruse this book; it’s worth the read.

— You’re not alone. There’s a lot of help out there if you and your student want help with the college application process. Mentors 4 College offers free one-to-one mentoring for students and families – helping them navigate all that the college application process entails. Our co-founder even bakes a mean Key Lime pie.

Contact us for a free, trained mentor at mentors4college.org.

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

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Arroyo Hondo Preserve, a Historical Touchstone

bove the riparian corridor of Arroyo Hondo, a bleak Daliesque landscape reveals the aftermath of October’s Alisal Fire. Chaparral that hadn’t burned in too many years fed the wind-driven fire into the canyon from the east. Despite the grazing program of sheep and cattle on the hills flanking both sides of the lower canyon, the inferno advanced, spewing embers into sycamore, live oaks, and manzanita to threaten the historic Ortega adobe and the barn. Aggressive bulldozing by the fire department saved the structures but destroyed 12 years of restoration work.

Rains came, but gently, causing only minimal slides and mudflows, and sparking the rebirth of grasses and yucca. Nevertheless, the danger of a significant debris flow remains, for the upper canyon has been completely denuded, and water and debris must pass through a culvert in the highway. A recipe for potential disaster.

Arroyo Hondo Preserve is one of Santa Barbara’s most significant treasures.

The physical presence of historical and natural places in our community provides us with insight as well as spiritual and emotional understanding of our place in time. They foster a sense of belonging to the pageant of all that came before. Arroyo Hondo, whose parade of yesteryears began with the land and indigenous peoples, has progressed to the role of historical touchstone, thanks to meticulous preservation by the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, which owns and operates the Preserve.

Early Years

Arroyo Hondo’s human story begins with the Chumash, whose presence in various villages and camps along the Gaviota Coast was documented by Spanish explorers beginning in 1512, and whose presence is believed to reach

Aggressive bulldozing of trees and brush, seen here smoldering in the aftermath of their destruction, was required to save the Ortega adobe and the barn (Photo by John Warner)

back at least 5,000 years. When Spain began to colonize Alta California in 1769, José Francisco Ortega served as a scout for the Portola Expedition. He later became the first comandante of the Santa Barbara Presidio and grantee of a Spanish land grant named Nuestra Señora del Refugio. The grant gave him permission to graze stock but did not confer ownership of the land, which, according to Spanish law at the time, was being held for the indigenous peoples and belonged to them.

The Ortega family thrived on their enormous rancho partially because it became a center for the illegal trade with foreign nations and, later, to evade taxes and tariffs. The Ortega family was prospering in 1821 when Mexico achieved its independence.

With independence came a program of secularization that seized the vast mission lands and granted them to Mexican citizens. The Ortega family, which had been petitioning to make Nuestra Señora del Refugio a permanent grant for years, received one of the first Mexican Land grants in Santa Barbara County in 1834.

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On Entertainment

John Jorgenson will play SOhO as part of J2B2

by Steven Libowitz

Back to Bluegrass:

Jorgenson Coming to SOhO

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ohn Jorgenson has been playing a multitude of instruments since childhood, dating back to age eight, when he picked up the clarinet to go along with piano, which he’d been studying for four years to keep pace with his older sister in a family of musicians. Then it was guitar after hearing the Beatles, and bassoon because he wanted to audition for the all-state honor band and his junior high teacher told him it was the hardest instrument to play.

That competitive spirit has long since faded as his main motivation as a musician, but variety still provides the spice to his musical life six decades after Jorgenson first started playing even in his early days when he played simultaneously in three different bands at Disneyland in his 20s and also mastered mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, upright bass, bouzouki, and saxophone.

But Jorgenson is still best known for his guitar work in the Desert

Rose Band, the mid-1980s California country-rock band he co-founded with former Byrd/Flying Burrito Brother Chris Hillman and country-bluegrass stalwart Herb Pedersen. The Desert Rose Band defied the Nashville mainstream to score several country hits while Jorgenson captured the Academy of Country Music’s “Guitarist of the Year” award two years in a row.

Jorgenson was also the architect of the band’s winning sound.

“I had started playing with Chris in an acoustic format but the songs that he was starting to write sounded like they needed to have a full band, bass, and drums and pedal steel,” recalled Jorgenson. “I had a vision in my mind to combine the harmonies and bluegrass style of Bill Monroe with the classic British rock sounds like the Pretenders and mixing in classic California country and rockabilly. I campaigned for that idea, and he resisted until I recorded some demos of the songs, the way

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that I heard them in my head. It turned out to be a great mix.”

In the 1990s, Jorgenson took his guitar skills into a triple guitar threat trio called Hellecasters for a few years before Elton John tapped him to record and tour for six years, a period that also saw him work with everyone from Sting to Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand and Bonnie Raitt.

He also worked with bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album toward the tail end of the banjo master’s career, the same year he won one for Best Country

Instrumental with Montecito resident Brad Paisley. It was Scruggs’ death that prompted Jorgenson to form the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band, aka J2B2, with banjoist Pedersen as his main foil, once again finding a venue for his vision. The quartet quickly earned praise for its impeccable musicianship and innovate songs and stirring three-part harmonies.

“I just really missed playing bluegrass,” he explained about J2B2, which also features Mark Fain on

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

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

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My trusty shutterbug Priscilla and I were invited to O’Gara Coach in Westlake to test drive the new 591 horsepower auto with Swiss car

designer Mark Stehrenberger from Oxnard, who worked on an earlier edition of the car to make it more streamlined for a younger demographic.

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Experiencing Tough to Appreciate the Amazing

Hunter Brownell is fifth from the left in the bottom row

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s the world of computers and scientific technology leaps forward, the phrase “machine learning” becomes more buzz-y than ever. In layspeak, machine learning describes the collaboration between human and machine — we set parameters while letting the machine find patterns in the data. But as any good data scientist knows, we can set all the right parameters, use our best judgment, and still come to the wrong conclusion. This is true both of outcomes from hypothetical data sets and of our real-life experiences.

Today we’re hearing from Hunter Brownell, a current data science major at the University of San Diego. He is here to tell us what happens when our best judgment fails us and what we learn along the way.

Dear Montecito,

There are a lot of things that growing up in Montecito gave me. A phenomenal education, awesome friends, and most importantly, an optimistic outlook on life.

I am of the personal belief that to appreciate the finer things in life, we need to experience some of the tougher times too. Montecito’s very own Boy Scout Troop 33 made sure I walked away with many memories that I will have for the rest of my life. When I think of experiences I had while I was a student at Montecito Union elementary school, a highlight (or lowlight) that always plays

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in my head is the five-day backpacking trip I will never forget.

We had done a handful of shorter backpacking trips with our boy scout troop, and it seemed that after half a year or so that us boy scouts were ready for the pinnacle event: a 45-mile hike, taking place over five days.

None of us really had any idea what to expect going into this, but we all knew it would be hard. The weather forecast stated a very unlikely chance of rain on the first night, and a 0% chance on every other night. With the odds heavily in our favor, we made the decision to leave all unnecessary raingear, as it would have just added weight to our already heavy hiking packs. Blindly following our scout leaders, we embarked on the first day, a roughly 12-mile uphill hike.

Without any idea how much harder this day would become, we chugged along for mile after mile until the weather decided to turn south. The rain started, and we continued to hike for miles and miles, the pelting waterfall not stopping for hours. Being the 12- and 13-year-old boys we were, the complaining probably didn’t stop for hours either.

After what felt like an eternity, we finally arrived at our planned campsite, where we put our stuff down and realized it was now not only raining but hailing on us too. Our scout leaders set up a tarp so we could keep our bags dry, but now the task was to start a fire. Being from sunny Santa Barbara this is usually not a problem at all, but there were two factors severely holding us back now.

First off, the rain obviously soaked all the firewood around so without plentiful amounts of firewood, it became our job to scrounge the forest floor for twigs and sticks that had managed to escape the barrage of rain and hail God had sent down on us. The second problem is none of us had packed clothes that were nearly warm enough for that night, so we were all slowly being frozen to our cores, with not the faintest idea what to do about it.

With all of our minds blurred to absolute hell, we painstakingly found enough sticks to start a fire where we could cook our dinners and slowly dry more wood to be put into the fire. When this task was finally over, we realized the only way out from the frozen hell was to crowd under the tarp, mercifully designed to trap heat in the way space blankets do. Not too long after this did our scout leader Dave realize our fellow scout Adam was feeling a little worse than the rest of us. In fact, he was displaying early stages of hypothermia. His lips were starting to turn purple, and he was having trouble getting even basic sentences out.

Adam had gotten his down jacket soaked, which meant his main source of warmth was hardly doing anything at all for him. Thankfully, Adam had more clothes and after a little bit of hypothermia-induced resistance, Dave got him out of his soaking wet jackets and into clothes that were going to help him. Once the fire was made and we were all huddled together, staying warm the rest of the night wasn’t all that bad considering we weren’t freezing anymore and we were able to get some warm food into us, which helped tremendously. Never in my life will I take being warm for granted because not everyone gets to finish their night with a warm dinner and not all Adams have a Dave to save them.

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

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The Giving List

by Steven Libowitz

Granada, the Great The Granada Theatre will not only have the new-look Plaza Granada, but also features a new sound system

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t’s purely coincidence that this week’s Montecito Journal hits newsstands the same day the Granada Theatre officially unveils Plaza Granada, a new pathway to the theater and the historic arts district in downtown Santa Barbara with a private ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Plaza transforms the formerly barren parking lot behind the theater and the previously dark and often grungy pedestrian walkway to State Street into a safer, more accessible, and far more aesthetically pleasing space for both the public and those loading in for a show at the theater.

The Plaza is a publicly palpable example of philanthropy in action. It was the late longtime Granada supporter Michael Towbes who originally envisioned the Plaza’s upgrade many years ago as part of the theater’s original restoration. The long-awaited and meticulously planned $2 million project also features improved lighting and pavement upgrades, as well as

improvements to parking and drop-off facilities for buses and trucks utilizing the backstage entrance of the theater as well as a new performing arts-themed mural installation created by local Santa Barbara muralists Tracy Lee Stum and Sayak Mitra lining the walkway.

“The project was a real beast that took a dozen years to get done,” explained Palmer Jackson, Jr., the Granada’s executive chairman and a Montecito resident. “The walkway is great, and the rest of the project is also important because the buses would park there and there was no way for them to turn around, or plug in for power, or for trucks to load in easily – all things that are necessary for the big shows we have at the theater. Now there are two discrete parking areas for the buses and big upgrades to the pavement as well as the walkway and beautiful mural.”

Admittedly, pavement and parking spaces aren’t particularly glamorous. So, here’s another more exciting

example of how dollars donated to the Granada can make a big difference in the Santa Barbara cultural community.

Were it not for the original $70 million renovation to the building that was previously being used as a cutup movie triplex, there’s no way that Sara Miller McCune — another major contributor to the Granada — would have even considered bringing Kismet to town to celebrate her 80th birthday. That in turn would have deprived Santa Barbara of an experience that galvanized theater lovers with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a Broadway show created from the ground up exclusively for locals and featuring both the Santa Barbara Symphony and State Street Ballet, two of the Granada’s resident companies.

That it went off without a hitch even during the lingering COVID pandemic was a perfect demonstration of what the theater can accomplish.

“That was a very big deal,” Palmer said. “The fact that we pulled it off with a pretty lean staff was a triumph.

We had to furlough 25 people at the beginning of the pandemic, and we still don’t have as many people as we need.

I was pretty impressed by the show and everybody in the audience seemed to love it. It was a wonderful lift for everyone, a reminder of what we’re capable of and a celebration of being together again in a full theater.”

The thing is, Kismet might not have been so successful if it had taken place back on its original date of last February, as the October show was just the second presentation to feature the Granada’s new sound system, another behind-thescenes project that makes a big difference once the curtain comes up. The $1 million system was designed by producer/sound engineer Allen Sides, a veteran of more than half a century who has recorded more than 500 albums and won five Grammy Awards. Sides,

a part-time Santa Barbara resident who served on the Granada’s board, came to a show with Towbes a few years back and noticed the sound wasn’t as good as it could be.

“He proposed a custom-built speaker system for us that he would design and build using newer technology that increases clarity across the theater and actually provides true stereo sound, which our previous system couldn’t do,” Jackson explained.

Fast forward to the end of fundraising for that project, which was installed while the theater was dark for the pandemic and debuted just in time for mid-October’s production of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna from Opera Santa Barbara, another resident company at the Granada. A week later, every word and musical harmony of Kismet sounded crisp and clear from every one of the theater’s 1,500 seats due to the state-ofthe-art system.

“The average person definitely doesn’t know about that project, but it really makes a difference,” Jackson explained.

So clearly Kismet was, as Jackson put it, a “shot in the arm for the performing arts community.”

But why does that even matter?

For Jackson, the answer is pretty clear.

“The thriving arts community that we have in Santa Barbara is part of why people move here and want to live here. We have a way outsized quality of arts here for our size, and that attracts a lot of the more philanthropically oriented people. And in turn that just helps everybody because the people who give to the arts are also the ones who give to human services. It’s not a zero-sum game.”

Gifts to the Granada include one-time or monthly donations, planned giving, and donation of stock or equities. Visit www.granadasb.org/giving or call (805) 899-3000.

•MJ

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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

Secession Revisited

Peace is always cheaper than war

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obert Muller, the deceased Santa Barbara resident and globally known United Nations official who many of us admired, famously observed: “Use every letter you write, Every conversation you have, Every meeting you attend, To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams…”.

I was reminded of this wisdom as I pored over the numerous letters we received from our last two columns, which were about the strong suggestion made by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that the “red states” should secede. In fact, nothing we’ve published in 2020 or 2021 catalyzed as many letters as those two columns. The comments made were overall remarkably thoughtful and “solutions oriented” and today’s column is an attempt to address these smart questions.

The first set of questions combined to raise this issue: Should the analysis start from the assumption that there are two equal parties who are separating from each other? No, for two reasons: 1) This string of ideas originated specifically in response to what Ms. Greene asked of her fellow Republicans – that they decide to secede from the North. To the best of our knowledge, no Democrats have been making a similar request of their compatriots; and 2) the Republican party has vociferously complained that the last presidential election was “stolen,” that the Red States weren’t being given their rights by being held captive to a Federal system that Republicans have defined as unfriendly to their Confederacy leanings, and they were the ones brandishing Confederate flags as they stormed the Federal capital in continuation of a struggle which did not end at Appomattox in 1865.

The following facts are abundantly clear: a) The Confederacy never surrendered at Appomattox. What General Lee signed was a cessation of hostilities agreement solely for the Confederate army of Northern Virginia. Several other Confederate armies signed similar agreements over the ensuing 16 months; b) the Confederacy saw itself as a legitimate independent force that was permitted to defeat the noble cause of Reconstruction with violence, innumerable lynchings, and other violent acts against recently freed slaves com-

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bined with the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups. Meanwhile the Daughters of the Confederacy began erecting statues all over the South to their “war heroes” who led the rebellion against the Union; c) in this context, Jim Crow laws were specifically created to maintain white supremacy in opposition to Federal anti-segregation laws; and ultimately massive voter suppression laws were specifically created to disenfranchise voters of color. It took the Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s to finally overturn this blatant suppression, only to have it be resurrected just this year for the same purpose of limiting the right to vote; d) an active campaign began in the ‘70s with Ronald Reagan’s famous “Southern Strategy” to re-align the old Confederacy of southern states into a voting block that could take power back from the central government; and e) 26% of Republicans in a recent poll said they believed that armed insurrection was a legitimate way to protest the results of the last election.

So yes, Greene’s invitation to have the red states leave the Union should be placed in that historical context and be taken at face value: she’s asking her Republican folks to secede (Texas first followed by the other states). No one has ever seriously suggested that the old Union states would want to secede. In fact, as history eloquently portrays, for more than 150 years the “Unionists” have done everything in their power to keep the nation together.

The North has never wanted, or in the case of the Civil War, permitted, secession. Which is precisely why Greene is asking for her side to take the initiative.

Hence, our analysis proceeds from that premise to the larger question of “how” to do it in the most peaceful way. The other questions are about this “how.”

One reader thoughtfully asked, “How would debt be apportioned?”

Currently we track the national debt as a per person calculation. That seems to be the best idea to follow in this case: allocate the Federal debt to each state in proportion to their percentage of US population. State and local debts would remain unchanged.

The same reader asked: “How would tax revenues be apportioned during the five-year period?”

The same as currently, with no change until the end of the five years. This

Investing in infrastructure

U.S. infrastructure bill sets its sights on the end of drunk driving

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mong funding for increased bike paths, roadside green spaces, and improved roadways in the newly passed $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill is another critical safety measure. The Transportation Department has issued a new requirement for car companies in the bill: a mandate to develop tech solutions to end drunk driving.

Under the new government mandate, vehicle makers will have to invest in anti-drunk driving technologies such as road cameras that look for signs of drowsiness, loss of consciousness, or impairment in a driver’s actions and response times. Some automakers, like General Motors, BMW, and Nissan, are already beginning to implement driver safety technology in relation to drunk driving. If the vehicle detects significant signs of drowsiness or impairment, it will put on hazards and pull over to the side of the road.

In addition to drunk driving prevention measures, the infrastructure bill will also mandate rear-seat reminders to notify parents of a child potentially forgotten in the backseat.

Could ‘universal basic mobility’ end youth disconnection?

The concept of universal basic income (UBI) is being tested in cities around the world to explore how no-strings-attached payments can improve standards of living for vulnerable individuals. Now, some cities are looking beyond payments and embracing “universal basic mobility” as another strategy to empower marginalized workers while encouraging a green transportation future.

In Bakersfield, 100 young residents have been selected to take part in a year-long study to examine how free access to public transit, e-scooters, and e-bikes affects their lives and independence. Bakersfield has one of the highest rates of “youth disconnection” in the country, with 400,000 people between ages 18 and 24 neither in school nor working in 2019. A big issue in youth disconnection is the lack of public transportation to connect young adults with work and educational opportunities.

Bakersfield isn’t the only city exploring how mobility empowers residents.

In Oakland, 500 residents will receive $300 prepaid debit cards to be used for transit and shared mobility services. Pittsburgh is exploring a similar program with 50 young adults, and Los Angeles is focusing their grant-supported mobility efforts in South L.A. Increased worker mobility allows workers to get more out of their jobs by not having to spend hard-earned money on expensive transportation. •MJ would provide a continuing financial subsidy to the red states, for they as a group pay far less to the national treasury than they receive back from the Federal government. Since that is the system we’ve had for a very long time, there is no reason to change it until the separation is complete.

Another question: “Is (the) mechanism for those wishing to move from blue to red the same as the other way around?”

No, the blue states are not seceding, so there is no reason to provide for ease of mobility to the cessation states. If anyone wants to leave the blue states, they will be free to do so, but arranging that will require them to obtain red state financial support or to provide their own means of achieving it.

Several readers wanted clarification regarding the way lower income individuals and/or those without assets or the means to make the move, find a job, and successfully relocate would be assisted in making the transition from a red state to a blue one. As suggested in the last column, the financial respon-

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sibility to provide such assistance to those individuals would be borne by the Liquidity Transition Corporation (LTC) including the cost of unemployment compensation, retraining expenses, and suitable assistance to locate new housing in a comparable economic area to the state they left.

Rest assured that the entire cost of this secession proposal would be a tiny fraction of the cost of actual armed hostilities occurring. The blue states would obtain the “freedom” to provide an adequate social safety net for all citizens, more similar to places like Germany and Northern Europe, because it is more cost effective than preserving a system that fails to meet all of its citizens’ needs. Providing adequate support for those individuals who want to move north will prove acceptable and more economically viable. Secession would permit the North to test this theory and prove that it works. Not to mention this power of this absolute maxim: Peace is always far more economic than war.

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

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

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Holding On

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’ve long been aware that a potholder I use very frequently was provided, many years ago, free of charge, by a popular local politician, in connection with one of his campaigns for Congress. I couldn’t help being aware of this, since his name, with a brief political message, is emblazoned very prominently on it. He’s been out of the news so long, I didn’t even know if he was still alive, but I recently learned that he is, after a long and honorable career — so I thought it would be fun to write and tell him that I still have his potholder and am still using it. I thought that I must be the only person who could make that claim. He responded very quickly, but I was surprised when he told me that he keeps hearing the same sort of thing from other people.

This said a lot for the quality and durability of an object whose political value was supposedly quite ephemeral. But it made me start thinking about some of the other freely distributed objects I have retained, whose utility has outlasted their advertising value. One (of which fortunately I have several) is a plastic can lid, which is cleverly made, to fit cans of several different sizes, particularly, we must presume, cans of cat food, since the “advertiser” in this case, was an establishment of cat-doctors.

I know from experience how important just the sight of such a can, especially when it’s about to be opened, can be to any hungry domestic cat. In fact, once, when my wife was away on an extended trip, and had left me in charge of our own three cats, I was inspired to write special lyrics to Offenbach’s very appropriately named “Can-Can,” in celebration of this elaborate daily ritual.

The central part says: “Please open up the can-can, We hope that’s your plan-plan ‘Cause we want our sweetee meatee eatee treatee! . . .

We will eat it soon, without a spoon.”

And I must tell you about one other extremely practical item in this same category. It’s an oval-shaped plastic coin-purse, which has, and needs, no fastener, but which you open simply by squeezing from the ends. The source of this very handy device, which fits neatly in my pocket, was a lawyer friend, whose services I have fortunately never needed, since he specializes in “representing people injured on and off the job” — a fact nicely proclaimed on both sides, with his name and other details.

These three examples, with which I happen to have a personal connection, are, I’m sure, only a token selection of what must be a vast array of promotional items. But they also represent the best of their kind, in terms of utility and durability. Mugs get broken, or you acquire so many of them that most of them are put away, and their message is forgotten. Pens are good only so long as they write, and then get thrown out. Calendars last only for a year. Anything else on paper is soon trashed. Despite its evil reputation for not being biodegradable, plastic is the promoter’s prayer.

But it is not only to be given away for commercial purposes that items which have meaning beyond themselves are widely available. There is also a huge market in souvenirs, which people buy, carry away, and cherish, supposedly as reminders of the places where such objects were purchased. No place of any touristic importance would be complete without its souvenir shops. It seems to hardly matter that today perhaps most of the items bought there, were not made in the locality, or even in the country, which they purport to be a souvenir of.

It seems somewhat absurd to buy an object calling itself, say, “Souvenir of Seattle” which is clearly marked on the back “Made in China.”

I once satirized this phenomenon by publishing a postcard whose entire message consisted of the words, “Souvenir of this place.”

“Souvenir” comes from the French word for memory, and many of us keep our own box of mementos, a practice which has been celebrated in nostalgic songs with lines like, “These foolish things remind me of you,” and sad ones sighing: There’s nothing left for me Of days that used to be – They’re just a memory Among my souvenirs.

Or, as I asked in an epigram, “How can so many things I’ve no more use for still have so much meaning for me?”

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of doctors in the area. First, how big of a concern is it? Second, what will the organization do to make sure that the quality of treatment remains the same?

We’re very, very much focused on it. Yes, we had a couple of very good doctors that left, and we did replace them with equally good doctors. Fortunately, Santa Barbara is such an attractive place, that it helps to attract world-class doctors, and we’ve been able to do that. But it is a concern and it’s one that gets back to economics. For us, as a not-for-profit organization, we want to treat all kinds of illnesses, and the financial model is a simple one — we have care that pays for the care areas that don’t make money.

When newcomers come to the area, they go after the areas that make money, so it makes our job harder.

We’re very aware of it and we’re working diligently to mitigate it. We can’t change anyone else’s model, the tactics of coming into town and taking what makes a lot of money.

We live in a capitalistic world, and healthcare in the United States is generally market-based capitalism.

We just have to compete against that, because we’re not going to walk away from providing services that don’t make money.

Cottage Health announced it’d be opening an urgent care on Coast Village Road by the end of 2022; does Sansum have any intent to expand into Montecito?

I can’t say yes or no, but it’s not on our short-term radar. We serve a lot of people in Montecito, but putting up more brick-and-mortar, that is a big cost in healthcare, and that would drive our costs up. Right now, everyone’s willing to drive to us, we

are a relatively small town, so getting to our many sites is not difficult for people. But, again, if the market demands it, I can’t say we wouldn’t consider it down the road.

What is your goal as chair, and do you have a timeline?

My hope is that when I’m done being the chair, that we will have a clear, understandable, strict strategic and tactical plan to ensure that we’re financially stable and here to provide care for the community for the long term. And we are in a “as-soon-as-possible” scenario for now, so there’s no date out there for things to be accomplished. We need to do it quickly, but also set ourselves up well for the next 100 years.

Congrats are in Order

The Carpinteria High School boys’ water polo team won its first-ever CIF title with a 12-9 win over Burbank on Saturday afternoon, riding Asher Smith’s seven goals.

It’s the school’s second CIF title of the calendar year, as the Carpinteria boys’ swimming team also took home the championship in the spring.

Giving Hugs for Thanksgiving

Speaking of champions, the backto-back national champion Santa Barbara Foresters are hosting its annual Turkey Day Shootout, with fundraising proceeds going to Hugs for Cubs, the team’s nonprofit that aids children with cancer.

The golf tournament is slated for 11 am on November 24 at Glen Annie Golf Club.

Individuals and teams can sign up for the tournament here: sbfor esters.org.

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Board member Mark Juretic, executive director Jan Campbell, board president Michelle Piotrowski, and director of marketing Julia Black-DeVre at the DVS luncheon

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he Montecito Club was the venue for the 13th annual luncheon of Domestic Violence Solutions (DVS). The guests gathered around scattered tables and sofas on the lawn overlooking Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. As we sat sipping mimosas, it was hard to imagine the other lives we were here to honor.

Tucked in the program was a list of ten names of women and moms who had been killed in domestic violence deaths in Santa Barbara County in the recent past. Executive Director Jan Campbell told us, “It has been 20 months since we last gathered in person to celebrate our work and all those who collaborate with us to edu-

cate and to inform about the ‘silent epidemic’ that is domestic violence.”

Jan introduced the keynote speaker, Rickie Houston, who came all the way from North Carolina where he is a pastor of a church. But more importantly, he is an experienced trainer who has worked in various places around the world with his program, A Call to Men. He has worked for the U. S. Department of Justice Federal Domestic Violence Conference and international work in Liberia and Sierra Leone engaging men in the effort to end violence against women in West Africa. Rickie served in the U.S. Army from 1982-1988, training in Okinawa, Japan, and has done extensive work with professional athletes.

A Call to Men works to transform society by promoting healthy, respectful manhood and offering trainings and educational resources for companies, government agencies, schools, and community groups. To begin, it’s as simple as not using the phrase, “Boys and men don’t cry.”

And teaching respect for women.

DVS was founded in 1977 as a shelter service for women and it continues to be the county’s only full-service domestic violence agency providing 24-hour shelter services for victims and their children.

In 2020, DVS answered 4,118 calls, provided 5,755 safe nights of shelter, sheltered as many children as adult survivors and responded to 517 calls from law enforcement and emergency rooms at the survivor’s location.

Recognition should go to the event co-chairs Julia Black-DeVre and Jenni-Elise Ramirez. Remember, if you need support or want to give support, call (805) 964-5245.

Successful Aging Allison Marcillac, the executive director of Center for Successful Aging, opened her home to the group for a wine and bites gathering. This nonprofit is a busy place dedicated to helping Santa Barbara seniors in need. They provide services to homeless seniors, and are there for seniors with mental health needs. They deliver hot meals to hungry seniors, and they support family members who are caring for seniors. Wow! They do it by having ongoing support and guidance both individually and in groups. They have daily calls to seniors to check on their safety and well-being. There are referrals to reliable and affordable home care providers. There is a quarterly successful aging newspaper distributed citywide to over 100 locations. And there are hot meals provided to more

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On Entertainment (Continued from page 16 16)) bass and Patrick Sauber on acoustic guitar. “I knew Herb and I sing well together, we like each other’s songs, and we’ve been fans of each other since even before Desert Rose. There are so many places where we intersect, and we both have been sidemen to so many different people, so we know how to be supportive.”

J2B2, which played the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez as part of the Tales from the Tavern series earlier this fall, makes its local debut on November 21 at SOhO, just a halfhour drive from Jorgenson’s home in Ventura. And while most might consider bluegrass too limited of a genre to contain his diverse set of skills, Jorgenson doesn’t see it that way.

“I don’t feel restricted at all — in fact it’s more the opposite,” Jorgenson said, noting that the drummer-less format of bluegrass bands allows for multiple roles for the songs. “The mandolin and guitar become powerful rhythm instruments, really the whole ensemble which I really like being a part of. The harmonies are amazing, and there’s just so much energy. It’s never boring at all.”

Trixie Blue

Credit Crane Country Day School and music teacher Konrad Kono for honing Trixie Blue’s interest in 1980s pop music.

“I’ve been messing around with music forever,” explained Trixie, who drops her last name, Garnett, while making music. “I’ve always been playing instruments and singing, but it was Crane and Mr. Kono who really got me into doing stuff on stage, singing and learning to be crazy and loud on the ‘80s songs he taught us. That was my favorite part of going there.”

Props are also due to Detar Music, the boutique music studio that focuses on education, composition, recording, and production. Trixie joined Detar when she started ninth grade at San Marcos High on a mission to develop her singing and collaborate with other young artists. At 14, she was thrust into a starring role to cover for the lead singer of the Detar band SEVN at the Avocado Festival.

“It was a bunch of much older kids who were already established, so it was pretty cool,” Trixie recalled.

More intentional collaborations also happened quickly when Detar put together The Trixie Band, a five-piece outfit that played 1980s hits and alt rock songs at local festivals, which was followed by Superband, featuring three lead singers covering Jake Detarcreated arrangements for ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky” and the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” among other songs of the era at the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria on February 29, 2020.

That was just two weeks before con-

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The Trixie Band will play SOhO on November 22

cerns about COVID caused lockdowns in California and soon everywhere else. But the pandemic shutdown also provided the opportunity for Trixie to hunker down at home and focus on honing her skills and developing her songwriting.

“I’ve been messing around with music forever. I’ve always been playing instruments and singing, but it was Crane and Mr. Kono who really got me into doing stuff on stage, singing and learning to be crazy and loud on the ‘80s songs he taught us. That was my favorite part of going there.”

— Trixie “l started a few months into quarantine just doing piano lessons over FaceTime and that turned into Gus [Detar] teaching me how to write original stuff. I come in with an idea and some of the words, and the chords, but Gus puts it all together because he knows how to play every single instrument.”

As the pandemic closures continued into the summer, Trixie turned to woodshedding in the garage of her family’s home in San Roque, playing live for friends and neighbors every Sunday afternoon.

“I just plugged in and turned my amp up all the way and I was singing into a microphone,” she said. “It was pretty loud, so people didn’t even have to leave their houses to hear it, but they’d be walking their dogs and stop and listen for a while, and friends

would drop by. It was great.”

Fast forward about a year, and the result of all of that hard work is a new six-song EP of originals that can be heard on SoundCloud and will form the basis of Trixie’s full band debut at SOhO on Monday, November 22.

The half-dozen songs with such titles as “Broken,” “Blame,” “Mad,” and “Meant to Bleed” range from power ballads to crunchy 1980s-style rock with the vocals and her piano mixed way up. What links most of the lyrics is relationship struggles that has the now 17-year-old spitting venom and often dropping f-bombs on ex-friends and lovers.

“When I want to move on, if something has affected me badly, then I just try to write it out,” she explained.

“It’s kind of like writing a letter and burning it, but I don’t burn it, I make a song, just to express those feelings and get it out of the way but make it sound pretty in the process. They’re songs, so I’m over-exaggerating at times, but that doesn’t make the way I felt any less real. It’s just teenager stuff. There have been positive experiences, but the negative things stick because they impact you more. And I’m sure those feelings of distress and sadness were amplified by lockdown.

But screaming out my feelings helps.”

After the SOhO show, Trixie will turn her attention back toward the future and the music schools — including USC Thornton, Berklee, and CalArts — she’s applying to for next fall, with nary a liberal arts college among them.

“Music has always been fun, and I don’t want to do anything that’s not fun,” she said.

“Doing something that I enjoy forever like music, that’s the dream.”

Pop Notes: Acoustic Alchemy at SOhO

Acoustic music, or at least a surfeit of singer-songwriters, continues to show up at area venues this week beyond the J2B2 blast of bluegrass.

Ojai-based duo Smitty & Julija — featuring Smitty West, the principal pianist for the Ventura Jazz Orchestra and the founder of Ojai Songwriters Anonymous, and Julija Zonic, a Croatian-born singer-songwriter who was a well-known young television and stage singer in the pre-war former Yugoslavia, bring close vocal harmonies and sensual interpretations of songs from the catalogue of the late Leonard Cohen as heard on their CD To Leonard With Love, to SOhO on Thursday, November 18…

Also at SOhO at noon on Saturday, November 20, is a double CD release party by the title of “Don’t Not Do It.” Jena Douglas’ rock-influenced power ballads album Hook Your Chin to a Star traces the American story of Mamaw, Douglas’ grandmother, from the lus-

“Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” — Mortimer Brewster

cious green hills of Kentucky to the dry desert of Arizona, and then finally Santa Barbara’s scenic coastal ambiance. Sherie Davis’ My Heart Returns to Me is also a personal document unveiling universal themes of life and death, cosmic and practical, and light and dark. Both artists worked with Robinson Eikenberry, the late producer whose influence still resonates four years after his death – the double-negative phrase for the show at SOhO is one of Robinson’s quotes...

On Wednesday, November 24, the music club also hosts its annual free Hansen Family & Friends songfest, a public party being produced for the first time since 2019. Friends that often include some famous names offer a song or two before the evening closes with a set from the Hansen Family Band that morphs into great cover songs for dancing your way into Thanksgiving Day.

Focus on Film: Montecito at the Movies

The village is represented in the realm of film for three straight nights this week, starting with the next installment of SBIFF Film Talk on Thursday, November 18, a virtual conversation with Christopher Lloyd. The 60-year veteran thespian whose memorable big-screen debut came back in 1975 in the Oscarwinning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest also starred as Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown in the three Back to the Future films (all co-written and directed by fellow Montecito resident Robert Zemeckis) and played “Reverend” Jim Ignatowski on the hit TV series Taxi. Still active at 83, Lloyd next appears in The Tender Bar, the coming-of-age drama directed by George Clooney due for release next month. Register at https://sbiff.org/ filmtalk.

Reitman royalty reigns on Friday, November 19, opening night for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the long-awaited sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), the most successful films in the long career of comedy king (and Montecito resident) Ivan Reitman, who teamed up with the late fellow village resident Tom Pollock to form The Montecito Picture Company in 1998. Reitman produced Afterlife, which was directed by his partially village-raised son Jason, whose previous credits include Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), and Young Adult (2011). While not serving as the main stars, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts all reprised their roles for the new movie, which has already received a rave review from the New York Post. After four pandemic postponements, the film can be seen starting Friday at Fiesta 5.

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Your Westmont

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

Christmas Festival Makes Its Granada Premiere

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he 17th Annual Westmont Christmas Festival appears for the first time at Santa Barbara’s famed Granada Theatre on Saturday, December 4, at 7 pm and Sunday, December 5, at 3 pm. Tickets, which cost $20 each, go on sale Tuesday, November 23, at 5 pm at westmont. edu/festival.

Each year, the festival celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ through an inspiring presentation with a theme, a narrative, and Christmas music from around the world and throughout the centuries, deepening our understanding of this holy season. This year’s theme is Titus 2:11: “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all.”

“It emphasizes the offer of God’s saving grace to all people,” says Michael Shasberger, Westmont’s Adams professor of music and worship. “The theme recurs throughout the festival from the sonorous opening of Russian composer Pavel Chesnokov’s ‘Salvation is Created’ to narrations for the season, and the thrilling concluding setting of ‘O Holy Night.’”

The event features the Westmont Orchestra, conducted by Shasberger, the Westmont College Choir and Chamber Singers, conducted by Daniel Gee, and the Westmont Choral Union, conducted by Grey Brothers.

The performance will include stunning musical arrangements of favorite Christmas hymns and carols by Gary Fry, Tony Royse, J.A.C. Redford, and Robert Sterling, and Christmas classics from the music of J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and G.F. Handel. The festival features beautiful settings for a cappella choir, orchestra, and combined forces, including world and Santa Barbara premieres. Familiar carols and audience favorites, such as “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Joy to the World,” will be performed as well as newly beloved “Joy Has Dawned” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.

Shasberger, who retires in May 2022 following a stunning career, joined the Westmont faculty in fall 2005 and has recruited outstanding student musicians from around the world, added significant scholarships, expanded the orchestra, strengthened the vocal programs, and taken the Christmas Festival to new heights.

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Michael Shasberger conducts the Christmas Festival

Theatre Turns to Uplifting ‘Hope Songs’

The Westmont Festival Theatre offers uplifting songs of joy and love in “You Will Be Found: Hope Songs” November 19-20 at 7:30 pm in Porter Theatre. “We all could use a little hope right now,” says Mitchell Thomas, director of the event. Tickets to the all-ages fundraiser, which cost $15 for general admission, $10 for students, may be purchased at westmont.edu/ boxoffice. All proceeds will equally fund the annual spring Fringe Festival and CALM, a Santa Barbara County nonprofit that prevents and treats childhood trauma.

“Our 2021-2022 season is eclectic, embracing a broad range of styles, genres, periods, and forms,” Thomas says. “But we’ve leaned into plays and productions that embrace resilience, joy and transformation in choosing Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil as our mainstage play and ‘You Will Be Found: Hope Songs’ as a fall musical revue.

The material comes from musical theater, praise music, original songs, covers of rock and folk hits, and classic music from the 1930s and ‘40s.”

The event features 11 student performers and a special musical guest who will perform an original song. “‘You Will Be Found: Hope Songs’ was designed to be collaborative with performers bringing in ideas and pieces they were interested in, and we chose the program together,” Thomas says.

Masked audience members will be encouraged to sing along to the evening’s finale. “We are in a fragile space right now as a community and country,” Thomas says. “Audiences are

longing to be together again and to be moved and uplifted by music, ritual, and story. We want to meet audiences in a safe place where we recognize the challenges we’re all facing and intentionally make space and time for light, hope, and love. We hope audiences will be encouraged, entertained, and inspired by the performances.”

The theater will require evidence of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of show date. All patrons will be required to wear masks at all times when inside campus buildings. All performers will be unmasked for the performance and are taking part in approved, county-mandated vaccination and testing protocols for the performance.

Alive and Kicking into the National Tourney

For the third straight year, the Westmont women’s soccer team (101-5) will host an opening round of the NAIA National Championship Tournament on November 18 and 20 on Thorrington Field. The second-seeded Warriors will battle third-seeded Embry-Riddle (Arizona) on Thursday, November 18, at 1:30 pm. The top-seeded Southeastern (Florida) will play Marymount (California) on November 18 at 11 am. The opening round winners will play each other on Saturday,

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The Warriors, ranked No. 16 in the NAIA, won the GSAC Tournament Championship on November 13 in dramatic fashion after beating both The Master’s and Hope International in penalty-kick shootouts, following two overtime periods in each game.

The Westmont women’s volleyball team (20-10), which earned an at-large berth as runners up in the GSAC, will travel to Klamath Falls to play Oregon Tech (23-6) Saturday, November 20, for the first round of the NAIA National Tournament. The winner advances to the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa, for the finals of the NAIA National Tournament November 30-December 4. Under the direction of head coach Ruth McGolpin, the Warriors have advanced to the final site the last two years, falling in the National Championship match in 2019.

Both Westmont’s men’s and women’s cross-country teams will be going to the NAIA National Championships together for the first time since 2016.

The No. 9 women and No. 19 men both earned at-large berths to compete in nationals November 19 on the Fort Vancouver National Historic Championship Course in Vancouver, Washington.

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Artists Chris Chapman and her husband, John Iwerks, were preserve managers for Arroyo Hondo and lived in the Ortega Adobe, which, as seen here, provided inspiration for Chris’s brush (Courtesy Chris Chapman)

Over the years, Capitan José Francisco Ortega’s children and grandchildren began to occupy the various canyons of the family’s land grant. In 1842, brothers Pedro Regaldo and José Manuel Ortega, his great grandsons, built an adobe in Arroyo Hondo Canyon. Assisting them was Silverio Konoyo, a Chumash fisherman and member of the Brotherhood of the Tomol. Konoyo lived in a traditional brush hut between the Ortegas’ adobe and the beach.

In 1848, California was ceded to the United States after war with Mexico.

The peace treaty promised to honor the property deeds of the Californios, but conflicting claims, fraudulent claims, boundary disputes, and “Midnight” land grants by Governor Pico in 1846 caused the courts to get involved. In Santa Barbara County, 42 claims of vast acreage were confirmed. Seven, all but one of relatively small acreage, were either unclaimed or denied. Not the huge land grab most of us have been taught. Nevertheless, the legal costs of getting the grants confirmed caused financial hardships for the landowners, who were “land rich and cash poor.”

The Ortegas of Arroyo Hondo

In addition to the two adobes in the canyon, the Ortegas built a grist mill by the creek and the upper meadow. Here mules turned the wheel that ground corn and wheat grown on the rancho. (The ruins of this mill are protected and were miraculously saved from the Alisal Fire.) As the Ortega clan at Arroyo Hondo grew, a schoolhouse was built in the 1850s. It operated until the mid 1890s, at which time it became a tool shed. Later, chickens came to roost on the abandoned desks.

During the lawless days of Santa Barbara’s early American period, Arroyo Hondo became a favorite hideout for bandits, who used its steep canyon and rough mountains to escape the law. (Today, the “Outlaw Trail” is completely burned over, and banditos would be hard pressed to find a place to hide.) During the 1860s, plagued by drought and taxes, the Ortega family began selling off their land until only two small pieces remained, Tajiguas and Arroyo Hondo.

At Arroyo Hondo, Pedro kept the ranchero custom of hospitality alive. When P.J. Black of Huasna travelled to Santa Barbara during the 1860s, Don Pedro Ortega would offer him a meal and a bed for the night. Pedro also contributed supplies of food for the impoverished Don José, whose annual visit on a fine horse was accompanied by an old pack mule with capacious alforcas.

In 1861, the first stage line from San Francisco passed by Arroyo Hondo, and by 1863 the Ortega Adobe was serving as a stage stop and restaurant. As late as 1896, the newspaper was able to say, “The stage ride between Santa Barbara and Los Olivos is very pleasant and travel good. Good eating arrangements at Arroyo Hondo and Lompoc are found.”

In January 1889, Pedro Ortega sold Arroyo Hondo to Estanislaus S. Cordero, though he and other Ortegas remained on the ranch. Pedro died in 1892 and his son Hermógenes came to live in the main adobe to manage the property.

The Gaviota Coast is riddled with canyons draining the mountain waters into the sea. Stage and wagon traffic, and later automobile traffic, had to descend, cross creeks, and ascend the headlands time after time. To construct a rail line along the coast, the Southern Pacific Railroad had to build a series of trestles. During this time over a thousand men worked on the rail line, and Arroyo Hondo became a railroad camp, complete with saloon. When the 541foot steel trestle at Arroyo Hondo was finished on December 30, 1900, the line was complete.

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Chris Chapman’s watercolor of the road leading into the canyon (Courtesy Chris Chapman)

View of the road leading into the canyon after the fire shows the scorched sycamore trees and charred undergrowth. This venerable tree, depicted also in Chapman’s painting, will be evaluated for safety. (Photo by Hattie Beresford)

Hollisters

In 1908, Jennie Hollister Chamberlain Hale purchased the ranch from the Cordero family for a country getaway. Jennie was the daughter of William Wells Hollister, whose name is associated with many ranches throughout Santa Barbara County and beyond. She often took friends and family to the ranch in three touring cars, one of which was loaded with all the proper accoutrements for a fine picnic, complete with food, linen, china, silver, and servants to prepare it all. Of the other two autos, one was for her friends and the other for her dogs.

The same year that the coast route was completed, the first automobile made its appearance in Santa Barbara, and soon a movement for good roads in California led to the construction of the second state highway, Route 2, today’s Highway 101. By 1919, an arched concrete bridge spanned the width of the canyon, and the old automobile road through Arroyo Hondo was defunct. In 1949, the mouth of the canyon was shut off by an enormous earthen berm that carried the highway. It was equipped with a large culvert, and legend has it that Jack (John James Hollister, Jr.) demanded it be large enough for him to herd his cattle to other pasturages along the coast, all the while riding his horse and wearing his Stetson.

Through a variety of Hollister and Chamberlain owners, Ortegas continued to live at Arroyo Hondo. The last Ortega, Pedro’s nephew Vicente, continued living there until 1978.

Jack’s son, J.J. Hollister III, and his wife, Barbara, moved into the adobe in 1991, at which point a marvelous thing happened — J.J. persuaded the other owners of the ranch to sell to the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County in 2001.

By doing so, they preserved a living touchstone to our history, a legacy beyond price, a gift to future generations.

Under the auspices of the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County, Arroyo Hondo became a nature and history preserve that is open to the public, at no

In cooperation with Fish and Game and other agencies, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County worked to create a fish ladder in the culvert to allow the steelhead trout to return to the pools of Arroyo Hondo. Unfortunately, the culvert poses a real threat should there be a debris or mud flow. (Photo by Hattie Beresford)

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cost. They brought back the steelhead trout that had long disappeared due to the earthen highway berm. They worked to restore native habitat, created educational programs, hosted school children for nature walks, recruited a talented and dedicated group of volunteers and docents, and they built trails and picnic areas for all to enjoy. They filled the Ortega Adobe with works of art and historic documents and items. And then in March 2020, after the United States finally woke to the seriousness of COVID-19, Arroyo Hondo closed.

COVID and the Canyon and the Fire

As a frightened nation learned more about the disease, and protocols were put in place, Arroyo Hondo made the decision to provide a safe respite from “cabin fever” and social isolation. It reopened with clear COVID guidelines in place. Formerly reserved for docent-led school groups, Mondays and Wednesdays were now open to the public. Though reservations were required, they were free, and, best of all, the more than 800 acres of preserve were open to a maximum of 30 people at a time. Talk about safe “social distancing.” Even then, people were required to wear masks if they were with non-household members. People came from all over the state to find relief in nature at Arroyo Hondo. (It was glorious, and my husband and I took full advantage of the opportunity, signing up several times and always giving a much-needed donation.)

As COVID-19 restrictions eased with the advent of vaccines and lower case numbers, the Land Trust proceeded to plan for the Preserve’s 20th birthday.

School groups were invited back. It not being possible to have docent-led tours, the docents created a family self-guided tour. Things were looking up until the canyon burned in October.

The self-guided signposts are ash now, as are many of the sites described.

Work is underway to create a new tour, one which includes the role of fire in the Arroyo Hondo Preserve and which tracks and celebrates the rebirth and resilience of the natural world. Sally Isaacson, Arroyo Hondo Education and Volunteer Coordinator, is hoping a host of white mariposa lilies will play counterpoint to the charred earth, and she eagerly awaits surprises as native plants regenerate.

John Warner, Arroyo Hondo Preserve manager, sees an opportunity to learn more about the canyon’s response to fire. He hopes to bring in fire ecologists to implement a study using time lapse cameras to record regrowth in habitats and soil types. It is John, along with many volunteers, who works tirelessly to maintain and restore the beloved canyon.

Everyone’s main concern, however, has been for the animals. Melted night vision cameras have been replaced and are being monitored to detect the comings and goings of the denizens of Arroyo Hondo. So far deer, a bear, a ring tail, and tree squirrels have been spotted. Birds of prey seem to have weathered the fire storm, and hawks and peregrine falcons can be found perched in trees near the creek and soaring on the updrafts. In the creek, turtles have poked their heads out of the ash dusted pools.

Much work needs to be done. The Land Trust has hired a tree company to evaluate the safety of trees along the trails and several have been slated to be removed or cut back to a safe level. Damaged trees will be carefully observed for signs of regrowth. Trails need to be rebuilt, repairs must be made to water systems, equipment must be purchased to do the work, and money must be raised to make it all happen.

This photo is not from a display at the Museum of Natural History. After the fire, Sally Isaacson captured this incredible image of a juvenile hawk taking flight from the top of a sycamore tree near the barn. (Photo by Sally Isaacson)

For Arroyo Hondo and its devoted managers and volunteers, there is much from which to recover, but they look forward to the surprises and will overcome the challenges the near future will bring (Photo by John Warner)

Historic Fires in the Canyon

This is not the first time the canyon has burned. On September 17, 1889, a fire that broke out in the coastal range was described by a traveler headed for Los Olivos over Refugio Pass. “The drive over the mountain was grand,” he wrote.

“On all sides of us were mountain fires that looked like immense volcanoes sending forth streams of flames.”

By September 24, Miquel Burke of Gaviota, who had been fighting the fire and was less enthralled with its awful beauty, reported that all the rangeland on the coast side of the mountain was scorched and miles of fences had turned to ash.

The fire had spread so fast that horses, sheep, and cattle were unable to escape.

In September 1955, a fire broke out near the summit of Refugio Pass. Within hours it had consumed the desiccated ceanothus and manzanita and spread to both sides of the mountain between Gaviota and Goleta. The now all too familiar conditions of heavy, dry brush, heat and wind, and steep, inaccessible terrain kept the mountains aflame for 10 days. Sage exploded as temperatures approaching 1000 degrees generated their own winds and currents. Arroyo Hondo burned along with its neighboring canyons and ranches. Somehow, the main adobe survived, but the original barn was destroyed.

Arroyo Hondo recovered from the 1889 fire, and it recovered from the 1955 fire. It will recover from this one. Meredith Hendricks, executive director of the Land Trust says, “With a little time, some gentle rains, and thoughtful stewardship, Arroyo Hondo will come back to life.”

May soft rains bring on a miracle of rebirth, and the preserve add another purpose to its mission, that of educating the public about fire.

Since 1985 the Land Trust has helped conserve nearly 30,000 acres of farm and ranch land, wildlife habitat, and natural areas and places. To contact the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County to get more information on its projects or donate for “Giving Tuesday” go to www.sblandtrust.org.

•MJ Sources: Chris Chapman, who, together with her artist husband John Iwerks, was a preserve manager at Arroyo Hondo for many years, wrote a beautifully illustrated and well-researched history of the canyon rancho entitled Stories of Arroyo Hondo. Much of the history for this story comes from her book. Other sources include Santa Barbara Independent, “Refugio Fire September 6-15, 1955” by Ray Ford, 19 September 2009; Santa Maria Times, 20 February 1892; and interviews with John Warner, Sally Isaacson, and Katie Szabo — thanks for the tour!)

A view from the heights reveals the damage done to the watershed (Photo by John Warner)

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Veterans Day 2021

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n November 11, the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Santa Barbara VFW Post 1649 hosted hundreds at the Santa Barbara Cemetery to honor those who have served in the U.S. military.

The morning kicked off with a performance by the Gold Coast Pipe Band, with the likes of Pablo Paredes (Army), Lieutenant John W. Blankenship (Navy), Christina Sandstedt (Coast Guard), David Gonzales, Jerry Gray (Air Force), Rep. Salud Carbajal, Travis Buehner (Army), and Eric Kunak (Army) handling speaking duties, while the UCSB Reserve Officer Training Corps Color Guard (Surfrider Battalion), Howard Hudson and Bob Burtness, and the Santa Barbara Choral Society all performed.

If you’d like to make a donation to either organization, visit pcvf.org. •MJ

The Gold Coast Pipe Band wearing red Wallace Scottish uniforms with formal black jacket full dress military uniforms

The Santa Barbara Choral Society, led by music director JoAnne Wasserman, sang a medley of inspirational and patriotic songs as well as the songs of the armed forces Richard Atterman, 100, receiving a standing ovation from the attendees alongside Jose Ramirez

Randy Rowse, Rep. Salud Carbajal, JoAnne Wasserman, and John Blankenship

Christina Sandstedt leading the Pledge of Allegiance

Lynda Millner and her husband, Don Seth

Margaret and Phil Conran

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Eric Kunak, and his wife, Sarah Kunak

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Pablo Paredes welcoming participants and attendees with John Blankenship

While the Santa Barbara Choral Society performs, representatives from the respective services salute those in attendance

The UCSB Reserve Officer Training Corps Color Guard, Surfrider Battalion presenting the colors

David Gonzales sings the National Anthem

Hundreds attended the annual celebration of U.S. veterans

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Speaking with Pico

Violinist Vijay Gupta has been all about music since the early age of eight when he started performing.

At 11, he made his solo debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. He then went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biology and his master’s in music at Yale.

When Gupta joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he was the youngest violinist in the history of the orchestra, and he stayed for 12 years. But there was more to come.

For instance, a TED Talk called

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After the reception, they appeared at Campbell Hall.

Miller McCune Executive Director Celesta M. Billeci introduced the pair and they answered guests’ questions.

Sponsors were Dori Pierson Carter and Chris Carter, as well as Laura and Kevin O’Connor. It was done in association with the UCSB Department of Music. There’ll be more of the Pico series March 2 and May 13. For tickets, call (805) 893-3535.

“Music is Medicine, Music is Sanity.”

He was a founder of Street Symphony, which presents music to those living in shelters, clinics, and county jails. He is co-founder of Skid Row Arts Alliance and is as at home with the homeless as he is in a tux on a concert hall stage. His theme this evening was to be “The Healing Power of Music.”

There was a private reception at Mosher Alumni House hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures for the violinist and author and interviewer

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Chef Dario Furlati serving a four-course prix fixe dinner with specialities from Northern Italy as well as a traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings in Montecito, Santa Barbara and Goleta.

The Ca’Dario family wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving (gift cards available)

Leadership Team Unveiled

Plans are being laid out for Old Spanish Days to have a full and safe Fiesta in 2022. La Presidenta Maria Cabrera will lead the organization into its 98th year. She has been a community volunteer for many years.

Plans are being laid out for Old Spanish Days to have a full and safe Fiesta in 2022.

“As we come out of restrictions and a new changing community, we look forward to meeting with the mayor and city officials to plan the best possible festival for our community,” Cabrera said.

Everyone is hoping for a parade this year, with a new obstacle in the plethora of parklets on State Street.

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idente David Bolton, Segundo vice presidente Brian Schwabecher, treasurer Colin Hayward, and el secretario Fritz Olenberger to complete the executive committee. Other team leaders are division chiefs Janice Howell (celebrations), Patricia Orena (dance and entertainment), Casie Killgore (external relations), Marge Romero (mercados), and Tony Miller (Pageantry).

La Presidenta Maria Cabrera will lead the organization into its 98th year. She has been a community volunteer for many years.

Old Spanish Days is dedicated to honoring and preserving Santa Barbara’s history, spirit, culture, heritage, and traditions.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Fall Into Music — It’s that time of year again – for the first time in two years, that is – for UCSB’s various music department to showcase its ensembles for the general public in what has become an annual autumn treat. The first two entries feature Wind Ensemble “Carnival,” directed

by Paul Bambach, playing a program that includes Vaughan Williams’s Toccata Marziale, Frank Ticheli’s Sun Dance; Percy Grainger’s light-hearted “frippery” Molly on the Shore; Clifton Williams’ celebratory Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta”: Dvorák’s “Carnival Overture,” transcribed for band by Mark F. Walker; and Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, plus graduate assistant Madison Babovec conducting John Philip Sousa’s Liberty Bell March… Then the Middle East Ensemble, which has long been way ahead of the masses in embracing cultural diversity with respect and is still directed by founder Scott Marcus, ranges from all over the mid-east map for a program that features the ensemble’s dance company (led by Cris Basimah); two Umm Kulthum songs; a set of Armenian music and dance; a set of three songs and an instrumental composition in a 7-beat

rhythm; another piece in an 11-beat rhythm; a Sephardic song (Andrea Fishman, solo vocalist); and an Azerbaijani song (Javid John, solo vocalist). Five more shows round out the festivities after the Thanksgiving break.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB campus COST: $10 general; $7 seniors, military & students; free for children under 12 INFO: (805) 893-7194 or www.music.ucsb.edu FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Baroque & Beethovenian: Boom! — Lending a different flavor to Baroque after recent concerts from CAMA and the Santa Barbara Symphony, flute phenom Emi Ferguson makes her area debut in a Camerata Pacifica program of French and Italian baroque music that also features bassoonist William Short and harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon. We’ll hear a rare combination of Leonarda’s “Sonata Duodecima, Op.16. No.12;” Blavet’s “Sonata in G Major, Op. 2 Nº 1,” “L’Henriette”; Tartini’s “Flute Sonata in A Major,” and Rameau’s “Pieces de Clavecin en Concert, No.1 in C minor” before principal pianist Gilles Vonsattel closes out the concert with

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18-MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22 ‘Seagull’ at Seaside Campus — Arts activities continue unabated at UCSB with the opening of a third theater production in less than two weeks with The Seagull, Anton Chekhov’s subtext-heavy love letter to the theater itself. Set in the late 1800s on a Russian country estate where an eccentric theatrical family and those who love them compete to be the center of attention in a story replete with equal parts comedy and tragedy, UCSB’s production comes from a translation by Libby Appel, the former artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival whose son is longtime UCSB theater professor Irwin Appel. It’s directed by Risa Brainin, department chair and founder of theater incubator Launch Pad, who, not at all coincidentally, also helmed Stupid F---ing Bird, Aaron Posner’s witty, hilarious, and fourth-wall breaking deconstruction of Seagull in the scrumptious last offering from the scrappy, site-specific Elements Theatre Collective back in 2017. In Brainin’s hands, it’s likely the original will be equally compelling.

WHEN: 7 pm November 18; 2 & 7 pm, November 19; 1 & 7 pm November 20; 7 pm November 22 WHERE: UCSB Hatlen Theater COST: $17 general, $13 seniors, children & students in advance; $19/$15 day of INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 ‘Winter Starts Now’ — Last weekend’s local heat wave notwithstanding, the calendar says winter begins in less than a month. But for Warren Miller Entertainment, ski season begins way before that, hence the title of the 72nd annual ski and snowboard film from WME, and just the fourth since the legendary skier/ filmmaker’s death at 93. The movie chases winter’s favorite sport from coast to coast from Alaska’s Prince William Sound, where the only fresh tracks encountered belong to bears, to Maine’s community of craftsmen and women devoted to sliding on snow. The film encompasses kids with huge Olympic dreams to adaptive snow shredders who often leave even the most able athletes in the dust. Road trip with big mountain skiers Marcus Caston and Connery Lundin as they journey to the highest peak in America, the best-groomed trails at beloved resorts and to the mom and pops that have stood their ground throughout the ever-changing ski world. As always, attendees receive lift ticket discounts and other skiing related swag.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $22 in advance, $25 day of INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com Beethoven’s “Waldstein Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53.”

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $58 INFO: (805) 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20 King Bee’s 20th — Given the volatility of rock and roll bands, not to mention cover acts, especially those who didn’t start out playing together as teenagers, it’s something of a minor miracle that Santa Barbara ultra-versatile party band King Bee is marking their 20th anniversary as a band. Lead singer Rachel Thurston and the boys (bassist Doug Crane, drummer Billy Goodnick, guitarist Shawn Fabian, and keyboardist Joel Jamison), who have previously plied such venues as Dargan’s Irish Pub, the Uptown Lounge, and the Avocado Festival, celebrate the major milestone with a show at SOhO, another of their regular hangouts. As with all their gigs, it’s a slam dunk that the dancers from La Boheme will also be on hand to join in the fun of hearing hits from the Beatles to the Killers and beyond, seven decades in all.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” — Robin Williams

INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 ‘Whose Live?’ These Guys! – Three weeks ago, Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherman — two of the staples in the past and present cast of the long-running improv comedy TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? — canceled their planned performance at the Granada, due to low ticket sales, we’re told.

Tonight, we get a second chance to catch twice as many performers drawn from the current cast members of the EMMY-nominated TV show. Let’s do the math: the Lobero has just 40% of the Granada’s capacity, and twice as many actors means the improviser-to-audience ratio is five times larger, so you have five times as many chances as having them use your suggestions, or even you joining them onstage. So y’all better show up to see Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Joel Murray, and Ryan Stiles — the latter of whom has been on the TV show since it first launched across the pond — do extended versions of the games from Whose Line as well as all sorts of other stuff that doesn’t fit in the 22-minute broadcast version.

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $79 & $59 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com •MJ 18 – 25 November 2021

Make It a Holi-date!

Ring in the season with live music and cheer

She & Him

A Very She & Him Christmas Party Thu, Dec 2 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre Usher in the holiday season with the “old-school studiopop sensibility” (NPR) of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel as they celebrate the tenth anniversary of their album A Very She & Him Christmas.

My Bluegrass Heart Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton

Wed, Dec 15 / 8 PM / Arlington Theatre This unparalleled evening in support of Béla Fleck’s new album My Bluegrass Heart is a veritable Who’s Who of some of the greatest instrumentalists in bluegrass history.

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Arlington event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 963-4408

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ORDINANCE NO. 6033

ORDINANCE NO. 6034

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE SANTA BARBARA

SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT

MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING AND RENUMBERING

DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. THREE TO

CHAPTER 30.57, AS ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 5967,

LEASE AGREEMENT NO. 23,328 WITH WATERFRONT

TO

FOOD GROUP, LLC, REDUCING THE PREMISES AND

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The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

9, 2021.

9, 2021.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

California.

(Seal)

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 6034

ORDINANCE NO. 6033 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 26, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 9, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 17, 2021 Montecito Journal

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) ) ) ss. ) )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on October 26, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 9, 2021, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 17, 2021 Montecito Journal

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” — Tina Fey

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ORDINANCE NO. 6036

ORDINANCE NO. 6035

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 14.48 BY THE

SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE WATERFRONT

REPEAL OF SECTIONS 14.48.180 THROUGH 14.48.220,

DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH

INCLUSIVE, AND CHAPTER 22.04 BY THE ADDITION OF

WATERFRONT FOOD GROUP, LLC, DOING BUSINESS AS

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The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

9, 2021.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rocket 2691, 165 N. Fairview, Goleta, CA 93117. Apro, LLC, 4130 Cover Street, Long Beach, CA 90808.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 25, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0002973. Published November 17, 24, December 1, 8, 2021.

9, 2021.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

California.

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, (Seal)

California.

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 6036

ORDINANCE NO. 6035 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing

ordinance was introduced on October 12, 2021 and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held

ordinance was introduced on October 26, 2021 and adopted

on November 9, 2021, by the following roll call vote:

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

AYES:

on November 9, 2021, by the following roll call vote:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Cathy Murillo

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

NOES:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 10, 2021.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 10, 2021.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 17, 2021 Montecito Journal

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/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published November 17, 2021 Montecito Journal

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Source California Realty; Source Group Realty, 1286 University Ave, 516, San Diego, CA, 92103. Larry Tadlock, 1286 University Ave, 516, San Diego, CA, 92103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 15, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0003156. Published November 17, 24, December 1, 8, 2021.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Galavant, 316 W Anapamu St., #10, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Sophia L. Taylor, 316 W Anapamu St., #10, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Barrett R. Taylor, 316 W Anapamu St., #10, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 20, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0002954. Published November 10, 17, 24, December 1, 2021.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV04039. To all interested parties: Petitioner Hilary Suzanne Molina filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Hilary Suzanne Lyn. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 8, 2021 by Elizabeth Spann. Hearing date: December 17, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8 MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Village Beat (Continued from page 6) Community opposition to the project ranged from frustration over the spending of District funds, to questioning the need for such a building, to frustrations over rate increases. Many members of the community, including those on the MSD’s own Board of Directors, suggested that the District, rather than building a new Essential Services Building, spend funds renovating the existing buildings and focusing on a recycled water program. Rahrer tells us recent improvements to the existing buildings include a new roof as well as plans to fully update the electrical systems on the site.

“We’re working closely with Montecito Water District’s general manager Nick Turner, as well as their Board of Directors, to bring this project to fruition. The two Districts have been collaborative and supportive.”

— Bradley Rahrer Had the large project come to fruition, the layout would have allowed for 36,000 square feet of space to be utilized for a future water recycling facility. Now, the District, in collaboration with Montecito Water District, is considering multiple options for recycled water, some of which would need the space on the Monte Cristo campus, and some which would not. The two Districts have currently commissioned the third study related to recycled water, which is expected to be complete in mid-to-late 2022.

Consultants are looking into four potential water reuse projects: one would be for irrigation purposes only (non-potable use); one would be in partnership with Carpinteria Sanitary District and Carpinteria Water District, and would require sending wastewater to Carpinteria; a third option would be to partner with the city of Santa Barbara for direct potable reuse; the last option is to create a facility for direct potable reuse within the District.

“We’re working closely with Montecito Water District’s general manager Nick Turner, as well as their Board of Directors, to bring this project to fruition.

The two Districts have been collaborative and supportive,” Rahrer said.

A small pilot project on the MSD campus has been placed on standby, as the Board decides how to move forward.

“The project would give engineers more data on how to design a future water recycling plant, if we go in that direction,” Rahrer said.

In addition to progressing on a recycled water project, Rahrer says he is busy managing District infrastructure, including aging equipment and systems. One

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of the priorities of the Board is to convert septic systems in the District to sewer; there are roughly 330 parcels in the District that are run on septic. Rahrer also hopes to oversee a modernization of the management of the District.

“We’re lacking some of the modern processes and techniques that are available, some of which will predict infrastructure failure in order to extend useful life,” Rahrer said.

One example: installing “smart” manhole covers, which utilize ultrasonic sensors to detect problems in the sewer line.

Rahrer and his 18-person team are fairly new to the District, with longtime Operations Manager Alex Alonzo retiring earlier this year and Engineering Manager Carrie Poytress leaving the District for another job.

“Although the majority of the team is new, we’re fresh with new ideas, which I think is a good thing,” Rahrer said.

Current Board members include Board President Dorinne Lee Johnson, Vice President Woody Barrett, Secretary Dana Newquist, Treasurer Don Eversoll, and Director Gary Fuller.

“I’m excited to be here, and look forward to getting to know the Montecito community,” said Rahrer, who lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Erin, and young son.

The District continues to be closed to the public due to the pandemic. Trailers on the property are allowing for support staff to keep socially distanced. To learn more about MSD, visit www.montsan.org.

Lotusland Benefit

Ganna Walska Lotusland and the Lutah Maria Riggs Society are collaborating to screen the award-winning documentary, Lutah – A Passion for Architecture: A Life in Design, this Saturday, November 20, at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Lutah Maria Riggs is an integral part of Santa Barbara architectural history. Lotusland’s archives contain several drawings by Lutah for the George Washington Smith projects executed for the Gavit family in the mid-1920s.

With stunning footage of some of Santa Barbara’s most iconic structures and a rare glimpse of private homes, the film sheds light on true Santa Barbara treasures. A panel discussion will follow the screening, and will include celebrated architects Deming Isaacson, Marc Appleton, Anthony Grumbine, as well as Lutah Maria Riggs Society Historian Melinda Gandara and Lotusland Research Associate Rose Thomas. Proceeds benefit the Lotusland Pavilion Restoration Project; the pavilion was built by George Washington Smith.

A patron reception will be held at 5 pm with the screening at 6 pm and panel discussion at 7:15 pm. Tickets are $75 for patron reception and $35 for general admission. All guests are required to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the event. For more information, visit www. lobero.org.

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Far Flung Travel

Knee Deep

by Chuck Graham

A line shore crab

The eel grass at Elkhorn Slough

W

e walked gingerly across a teeming mudflat on a minus tide within Elkhorn Slough, located in Moss Landing and within Monterey Bay. As we glopped along the muddy banks of the slough, legions of line shore crabs scrambled into the shadows dramatically baring their pinchers in self-defense. The eel grass was exposed and laid across a huge swath of the second largest coastal estuary in California. The mud was gooey thick, and more than once I literally walked right out of my mud boots.

I was mucking it up out on the mudflat with Mark Silberstein, the long-time executive director of the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoration and education on the slough. Silberstein

has been at the helm since 1983, and after all this time he was still enthusiastic about the inner workings of Elkhorn Slough.

“Look here,” he said, after he turned over a shovelful of mud. “Look at all those rubberband worms.”

Silberstein began his career as an invertebrate biologist. When he took on the task of restoring Elkhorn Slough, one of the first places he lived on the slough was in a small shack overlooking the area right where we were slogging it out in the mud, just a few hundred feet east of a hyperkinetic Pacific Coast Highway 1.

“When I first moved here,” he continued, “there was no eel grass here at all.”

Silberstein and I continued along the banks of the slough enjoying our

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A southern sea otter

mudflat safari. Virtually every scoop of mud revealed vibrant life beneath the floor of Elkhorn Slough. There was the impressive ghost shrimp equipped with its Swiss Army Knife-like quiver of claws and pinchers. There were several sightings of the arrow goby.

Also dug up were gaper and bentnosed clams, and my favorite being a colorful species of sea hare found on a blade of eel grass. Its iridescent green blending in well against the eel grass densely draped across the wetland.

However, as much as we were finding, we were merely scratching the muddy surface. According to Wikipedia, “It has been estimated that 1 cubic foot of mud from the slough, roughly the size of a bucket, contains: 500 billion bacteria; 500 million diatoms, microscopic plant-like organisms; 50,000 protozoan, microscopic single-celled animals; 50,000 worms; 5,000 crustaceans, including crabs and shrimp; and 40 clams.”

With the minus tide there was lots of evidence of southern sea otter predation in the eel grass. At high tide the otters dive into the eel grass searching for food, mainly clams and crabs.

While on those dives to the muddy bottom, the otters dig these big pits foraging for food to satiate their voracious appetites. At minus tide the pits are revealed within the eel grass.

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It’s a graveyard of empty clam shells throughout the brilliant green eel grass. Elkhorn Slough possesses the highest concentration of southern sea otters in California.

The minus tide was also an opportunity for a throng of migrating shorebirds to probe the mudflats for food. Flocks of marbled godwits clustered in the eel grass busily sticking their entire beaks in the mud. Also feeding were willets, legions of western sandpipers, and occasionally a long-billed curlew. From above we heard the raspy calls of Caspian terns dive-bombing the main channel of the slough. Every so often a harbor seal lazily maneuvered into the shallows, along with a couple of kayakers, while squadrons of California brown pelicans skimmed just above the glassy surface of the slough. On cue an otter swam by on its back holding a clam firmly against its chest. Suddenly, I heard the crunching of the clam shell as the otter quickly snarfed down another meal.

With the minus tide there was lots of evidence of southern sea otter predation in the eel grass.

At high tide the otters dive into the eel grass searching for food, mainly clams and crabs.

As sunset approached, the incoming high tide began to trickle into the estuary. The shorebirds retreated to higher ground within the soft hues of pickleweed, and the invertebrates were once again concealed in their muddy domain. Otters were beginning to mill about in the shallows, the inner workings of Elkhorn Slough shifting with the ebb and flow of the tides.

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The roaring popularity of the 1883 period ranch show streaming on Paramount even eclipsed heavyweight favorites like 60 Minutes and NCIS Los Angeles, which had 7.5 million and 5.3 million, respectively.

The show, based in Montana but shot in Utah, is often compared to HBO’s Succession, having debuted in the same year — 2018 — and with both being family business dramas.

Costner, 66, who has a beach house on Padaro Lane in Carpinteria, just a tiara’s toss from Star Wars director George Lucas and TV talk show host Conan O’Brien, seems to have great success with depictions of the Old West, having garnered an Oscar in 1990 for Dances With Wolves, which he also produced and directed.

Sponsors from the American Riviera Bank are Andrew Chung, Jeff DeVine, Debby Deneault, and Rogelio Aguilar with Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Executive Director Greg Gorga standing behind (Photo by Priscilla)

A. Clevenger & Friends,” part of an underwater photography course he taught at Brooks Institute for 33 years.

The colorful show, which features 16 images on canvas, was scheduled to open in April last year, but was postponed because of the pandemic.

It will run through March 31 and also features photos from John Kelsey, Eryn M. Brydon, Liz Grady, and Chiara Salomoni.

Each summer, students in Clevenger’s class would spend several days living on a dive boat off the Channel Islands where they would work on their assignments with professional mermodels invited to join

the class to work on the vessel and with the students, creating portraits, visual stories, and conceptual images for their final class portfolios.

Young ladies from Save The Mermaids branches in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, featuring realistic silicon-molded and cloth-covered mono fin tails, posed with guests at the show’s opening bash.

Among those quaffing the specially concocted nautical drinks and noshing on vegetarian paella — no one wanted to be eating the mermaids’ maritime relatives! — were museum director Greg Gorga, Roger Chrisman, Luke Swetland, Bud and Sigrid Toye, Don

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Actor Kevin Costner’s non-woke TV show Yellowstone was the most watched show or movie in America last week with more than eight million viewers for the debut of season four.

Broadway is back with a bang at the Granada, courtesy of the American Theatre Guild.

With the musical version of An Officer and a Gentleman, based on the 1982 multi-Oscar winning film with Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett, Jr., the traveling version of the Great White Way hit our Eden by the Beach after its world premiere in Las Vegas.

The dazzling, energized show directed and co-authored by multi-Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan, starred Wes Williams as the budding U.S. Navy officer and jet pilot, accompanied by a score packed full of music from the ‘80s from Richard Marx, Steve Winwood, Pat Benatar,

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The Sanctuary at Loon Point, as the property is known, was a 14-year labor of love with five parcels slowly accumulated to make up 22 acres of grounds. The main house is a sprawling South of France-style villa.

Kovner, 75, has a net worth of $6.2 billion, according to Forbes.

Familiar Faces

Jackie Waddill retires after more than two decades with the Dream Foundation

Carly Simon, Rick Springfield, and the Grammy-winning single “Up Where We Belong,” originally sung

by Santa Barbara resident Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.

The company’s multi-season tour will visit more than 50 cities across the U.S. into 2022.

Audiences are certainly in for a gloriously choreographed treat.

A Standing O

Montecito-based hair care company, Olaplex, goes from strength to strength.

Founded in Santa Barbara using technology developed by UCSB chemists, the company went public in September, the same day its third fiscal quarter ended, with net sales of $161.6 million, a whopping increase of 81% compared to the third quarter last year.

Olaplex attributed the rise in sales to growth in distribution, driven by increased velocity with existing products, favorable response to new products, as well as the addition of new customers in the U.S. and internationally.

Dean and Darcy Christal of Santa Barbara founded the company in 2014. UCSB chemistry professor Craig Hawker and his former graduate student, Eric Pressly, developed the technology for the hair care products and are co-founders of the company.

For the fiscal year Olaplex, which has 82 full-time employees and an office address on Coast Village Road, is expecting net sales around $580 million to $588 million, according to CFO Eric Tiziani.

Hair-raising figures...

Well Done, Jackie

Jackie Waddill, who has served Dream Foundation recipients, their families, and the organization’s family of supporters for the last 23 years, has announced her retirement.

“In my career with the foundation I’ve seen the delight and pure joy a final dream can bring,” says Jackie.

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urgency of need and voices from those willing to help. Above all, I have witnessed the power of the human spirit.”

Over the course of her tenure, she served in a variety of roles including resource coordinator, volunteer network manager, programs manager, and today, donor relations manager.

But her unofficial title and that for which she is best known is “Director of Love.”

“Jackie is an incomparable and dedicated dream advocate,” says foundation chief executive Kisa Heyer. “She will always be remembered for the kindness and enthusiasm she showed our recipients and donors.”

That’s Rich

Not surprisingly, our rarefied enclave is ranked as the seventh richest zip code in the U.S.A. The 93108 Montecito postal area has a median house sales of $4,103,000, a hefty 40 percent year on year pricing jump.

PropertyShark, a major real estate data provider, ranks the Bay Area community of Atherton at number one for the fifth consecutive year, with a median figure of nearly $7.5 million and Boston at number two with $5.5 million.

Sagaponack on Long Island in New York, where I spent many a Hamptons summer, is at number three with $5,000,000, while Beverly Hills is ranked sixth with $4,125,000.

The Left Coast claimed six of the top 10 slots.

To Campbell Hall at UCSB when the popular Arts & Lectures program hosted Chinese pianist Yuja Wang and Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, its first live performance in the venue in two years.

The tony twosome, who I’ve been lucky enough to see perform a number of times, including the Granada and Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West, played to a sell-out crowd of 860 fans, as they performed works

by Bach (“Sonata No.3 in E major” and “Sonata No. 1 in B minor”), Busoni (“Sonata No. 2 in E minor”), and Shostakovich (“Sonata for violin and piano in G major”).

Kavakos, known for his virtuosity, musicianship, and the integrity of his playing, was on top form with his 1734 Willemotte Stradivarius, while Wang on keyboard played sublimely, dressed in a shimmering bright red silk gown wearing vertiginous Louboutin-style heels.

A captivating stage presence in innumerable ways.

Sorry, Sis

Thomas Markle has apologized to his half-sister, Meghan Markle, and husband, Prince Harry, for his correspondence three years ago to the Duke of Sussex warning him against marrying her.

Thomas, 55, described Meghan as “jaded, shallow, and conceited.”

But in a new episode of Big Brother VIP Australia, he revealed his harsh words “came from a very dark and hurt” part of his heart, and insisted he’s not “a very mean person.”

“She’s my sister and she’s my blood

... I love the hell out of her,” he said on air.

In his letter, Thomas wrote: “The last several years of my life, I have grown and learned a lot more of myself and I must say that what I did to you with that letter is quite possibly the biggest mistake of my life.”

Stay tuned...

Wheeling & Dealing

Singer Ariana Grande, who bought her Tudor-style home, The Porter House, in Montecito from TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for $6.8 million, has just sold her 11,000-square-foot contemporary home in the achingly trendy Bird streets in the Big Orange, for $14 million.

The house has four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, as well as a gym, sauna, and theater.

Grande, 28, has sold more than 85 million records worldwide.

Too ‘Woke’

Former Montecito funnyman John Cleese has blacklisted himself from a Cambridge Union event after the debating society banned a historian from performing an impression of Adolf Hitler.

John, 82, who famously impersonated the Nazi dictator in a Monty Python sketch, and again in Fawlty Towers, says he is “blacklisting himself” before someone else does.

The comedian, who studied at Cambridge, added: “I apologize to anyone at Cambridge who was hoping to talk with me, but, perhaps, some of you can find a venue where woke rules do not apply.”

Sightings

Actor Billy Baldwin at Lama Dog in the Funk Zone... Lost actor Josh Holloway noshing at Olio e Limone...

Transformers actress Megan Fox perusing the shelves at Costco.

Pip! Pip! Be safe, wear a mask when needed, and get vaccinated.

•MJ

Back on the Market

Hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner has re-listed his dramatic promontory estate in Carpinteria for $160 million.

On its ocean side, the property’s land concludes dramatically with more than half a mile of bluff overlooking the water.

Kovner, who founded CAM Capital, is sticking to his guns for the re-list.

He originally asked for $160 million in the summer and continues to do so as 2022 looms.

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Santa Barbara by the Glass

by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

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The team behind the Fess Parker portfolio, including the Napa Valley cabernets under the Addendum label: president Tim Snider, left, winemaker Blair Fox, and assistant winemaker Tyler Eck

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ome of the best Napa Valley cabernet I’ve had in a long time comes from right here in Santa Barbara.

The merits of Addendum, a highend boutique label launched by the Fess Parker Winery team in 2014, hinge on its fruit sources. Fact is that the Los Olivos-based winery has forged relationships with some of the premier cabernet sauvignon vineyards in the Napa Valley, widely considered one of the top places on the planet for growing the famous red Bordeaux grape. Stagecoach Vineyard in Napa’s Atlas Peak AVA, for example, which is characterized by volcanic and clay loam soils; they’ve earmarked two blocks of cab planted in 1998 for the Addendum project.

“Yes, we’ve definitely leaned on our relationships up in Napa,” says Fess Parker President Tim Snider.

“We’d been working with syrah from Stagecoach under our Epiphany label for seven years when we launched Addendum.”

Snider also admits to “a soft spot in my heart” for northern California wine country, a region he got to know well when we worked for E&J Gallo in the late 1990s. The Sonoma County native headed south for Fess Parker Winery in 1999.

Three other Napa-born cabs, all from the Rutherford AVA, are fea-

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tured in the Addendum portfolio.

Each wine gets its own vineyard-designate bottling each vintage, priced at $120. The winery also puts out a blend of all the vineyard sources — Addendum’s Napa Valley designation, priced at $90 — which is, for an entry level wine, spectacular.

Dusty and earthy, which is characteristic of any great Napa cab, but with a lusciousness and finesse that has become a calling card of winemaker Blair Fox and his team.

In fact, I asked Snider about the Santa Barbara influence on these wines. How are cabs that are born in Napa but finished in Santa Barbara unique and special?

“There’s something to be said about the way Blair and the team are so used to making site-specific pinot noirs and syrahs — wines that are very expressive of a sense of place,” he told me. “That is part of the DNA of the winemaking here in Santa Barbara in general, and that bleeds over to what we’re doing with Addendum.

“With pinots and syrahs, we keep fruit separate based on the vineyard.

We vinify everything the same way, but individually. We age everything separately. It’s similar from a programmatic standpoint here. Our winemakers are tuned in to finding the unique characteristics of different vineyards, and they’re stretch18 – 25 November 2021

Our Town (Continued from page 8) to prove my design is the best and the race to prove I’m a better driver than someone else. The truck is not a modified production vehicle; it’s built from scratch. Years ago, there was a frame requirement. Now we can do what we want in the design to make it better. I get to choose where to place the battery, fuel cell, spare tires, how far the engine is going to be moved forward or back, where the front suspension pivots, where the shock absorbers are and so on.

It takes a good part of the year to build and test it. The vehicle I am using for this year’s race I built about four years ago, and we are constantly making improvements.

What are your racing truck’s specs?

The engine is a 3.5-liter twin turbo EcoBoost out of a 2019 Ford Raptor with a beefed up six-speed transmission, the vehicle weighs a little over 5,000 pounds, with 40-inch BFG Kevlar reinforced race tires, and 30 inches of vertical wheel travel that can go through a four-foot-deep ditch at 95 mph.

Addendum enjoys its own elegant tasting space inside the Fess Parker winery. It’s expected to see its post-COVID reopening after the new year.

ing that to the Addendum cabernets and everything in the vineyards that influence these wines.”

Though muscular and meaty, as you would expect any really good cabernet from Napa to be, the Addendum wines do, indeed, deliver something more: freshness, balance, the retention of natural acidity.

They showcase nuance and elegance, and they are more restrained on extraction and tannic structure. That makes Addendum a great lineup of wines to age over time, but it makes them remarkably approachable and tasty right now, too. Standout bottles to stretch across the holiday table?

Absolutely.

In fact, the three vineyard-designate cabs are available as a holiday gift pack this year, featuring the 2016 and 2017 vintages and priced at $375 at fessparkerwineshop.com.

Interestingly, the Addendum grapes cover a lot of ground before they’re turned into wine. The night before harvest, the Fess Parker sends a temperature-controlled box truck up the coast. Grapes are picked early

Fess Parker’s Addendum brand features four cabernet sauvignon wines that are harvested in the Napa Valley but made at the company’s Los Olivos winery

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in the morning, placed into bins, loaded onto the truck, then driven back down, arriving in Los Olivos about six hours after they’re pulled off the vine.

“The fruit is pristine,” says Snider, “because it’s been enclosed and temperature-controlled, not exposed to the elements as it goes down the 101.”

The fruit is crushed and all the wine is made and then aged at the Fess Parker facility along Santa Barbara’s Foxen Canyon Trail.

Snider says that Addendum stays true to the vision of Fess Parker, the late actor-develop-entrepreneur who established his namesake winery in 1989, and who was Snider’s father-in-law. “He always told us to look for new opportunities and to not rest on our laurels,” Snider recalls. Indeed, Addendum offers something new and exciting for Fess Parker loyalists – club members and enthusiasts who have turned to the brand for premium syrah, pinot noir, and chardonnay for decades. And for fans of Napa cab who discover the Addendum wines, it opens the door to discovering all the other wines in the company’s varied portfolio, which also includes bubbly.

At the Fess Parker winery, the pandemic has put the Addendum tasting experience on hold for now. A stylish dedicated tasting space has been built inside the winery’s barrel room where guests can taste the current Addendum vintages — 2014 to 2018 — side by side; Snider expects it to be back open after the new year. Currently, guests can sip on Addendum as part of the winery’s enhanced tasting experiences, which require a reservation.

Addendum sees a production of just about 900 cases a year, most of that being the Napa Valley blend; fewer than 100 cases of the vineyard-designate bottlings are available each vintage.

Find out more at fessparker.com/ addendum.

•MJ

What are your driving techniques?

To finish first, first you must finish. A wise driver drives as slow as they can to win. I settle into a speed that gives me the miles per hour average speed to get a podium finish. My typical race speed is up to 100 mph, averaging 45 mph including stops and the slow technical sections.

If I drove my truck at the fastest speed the whole time over 1,200 miles in the roughest desert in the world, it is a recipe for breaking down. The first 50 miles of the race looks like a wrecking yard because people over-drive their vehicles.

I drive the entire race start to finish, switching navigators every few hundred miles. Our team follows on the highway sections in “chase” vehicles connected by radio and a GPS tracker to make necessary repairs with supplies and parts.

Who is on your team this year?

My wife Laurie; Kurt Kimball from Granny’s Garage Santa Barbara; John Lund of Montecito; our daughter, Jamie, with husband, Jeremy; my nephew, Shawn, a U.S. Navy parachuter; Chava and Felipe Anguiano from Martin Roofing Santa Barbara; and Amy Tate. We share chase vehicles with fellow racer Scott Brady.

What safety gear do you have in the truck?

We have a high strength steel roll cage, driver fire suit, gloves, helmets, intercom, radio, and GPS tracking. We have filtered fresh air into our helmets which has a skirt into the driving suit. BF Goodrich Tires will set up nine full-service pit stops where they fill our fuel cell, check the vehicle, and can change the tires in seconds. They also have welders and mechanics on standby.

What is the most interesting thing on the route?

We can be driving at night and see a distant campfire. As we drive by, it’s a little family cheering us on with their sombreros, who got to the middle of the desert on a burrow, which they tied to a nearby tree, or they might be driving a Honda Civic where most people would need a 4X4! The Mexican people support the racers, they love and appreciate us so much, and we love them back!

What about the “boobie traps”?

I’ve been doing this a lot of years, and I have a different perspective about boobie traps. There is a rare ditch or boulder boobie trap made where they want to see if they can make a driver crash. Most of the so-called boobie traps are built by locals who go on the racecourse, get out their shovels and try to build a harmless jump where they can see a driver fly off something. It ends up looking like a poorly built giant speed bump; however, motorcycles can get harmed.

What is your advice for new racers?

Find a good team and volunteer to help.

Who are your sponsors?

BFGoodrich Tires, King Off-Road Racing Shocks, Rod End Supply, Torco Race Fuels Full Throttle Battery, 4X4 sPod, and All Terrain Concepts. We are currently looking for some local sponsors as well for our race team, and we are happy to work with them on advertising and maybe being on our support team for a race.

•MJ 411: Contact the Chamlee racing team at laurie@thefactoryracing.com

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