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Genius at Work
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30 Years in the Making
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Guest Editorial
Bob Hazard breaks down 1st District County Supervisor race between Das Williams and Laura Capps
6 Montecito Miscellany
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8 Letters to the Editor
A collection of communications from readers Robert Bolt, Harry Kolb, Nancy Earle, Thomas Van Stein, Matt McLaughlin, and Les Conrad
10 This Week in Montecito
A list of local events happening in and around town
Sharon Byrne addresses homelessness in Montecito
Tide Chart 11 Association Agenda 12 Village Beat
Caltrans clears out homeless encampment at Hot Springs exit; Coast Village Circle paving project; Crown Castle facilities in front of Montecito Planning Commission for approval; Montecito Creek Bridge reconstruction continues; Haven Salon now carries Zenagen
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“The World of da Vinci” Exhibit in Simi Valley; Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s Kardboard Kayak Races
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Double bassist Edgar Meyer master class and performance; this week’s summer festival events
20 Santa Barbara in a Glass
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32 Coming & Going
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36 Far Flung Travel
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42 Calendar of Events
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by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.
Election Intrigue in Montecito
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Who Will be Favored to Win?
The Capps camp reportedly includes a number of high-profile Democratic supporters including Sara Miller McCune, businesswoman and philanthropist, chair of SAGE Publications and founder of the non-profit Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy. She is joined in her support by noted investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach, who has been an anti-cannabis crusader in criticizing Das Williams’ role in making the County of Santa Barbara the “Marijuana Capital of the World” for its cannabis cultivation and its distinctive odor of “buds-in-bloom” in Carpinteria. According to Bardach, other notable Capps supporters include Susan Rose, Kristen Sneddon, Janet Wolf, Marsha Croninger, and Hillary Hauser. Capps supporters point to a recent private “viability” poll of 403 likely voters in the 1st District which found that 32% of potential voters favored Capps, 24% favored Williams, but 44% of those surveyed remain undecided. The poll also found that Capps is less well-known than Williams; women favor Capps by 38% to 24% while men are statistically tied at 24% each; and the intensity
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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 12 years ago.
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nfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation circulating on the web and social media on political and scientific issues, and few people take the time to fact-check statements that contradict common sense or consensus science. In a recent letter to Montecito Journal, using sign removals and research conducted by a PhD in Sociology, claimed that the glaciers in Glacier National Park were actually increasing. According to the United States Geological Service website, “In Glacier National Park, some effects of global climate change are strikingly clear. Glacier recession is underway, and many glaciers have already disappeared. The retreat of these small alpine glaciers reflects changes in recent climate, as glaciers respond to altered temperature and precipitation. “It has been estimated that there were approximately 150 glaciers present in 1850, and most glaciers were still present in 1910, when the park was established. In 2010, we consider there to be only 25 glaciers larger than 25 acres remaining in GNP.” It is also a fact that 18 of the 19 warmest years on record for the planet have occurred since 2000, with the five warmest years on record happening during the past five years. In May, near the entrance to the Arctic Ocean in northwest Russia, the temperature surged to 84 degrees Fahrenheit, 30 degrees above normal. In June, Greenland saw temperatures soar up to 40 degrees above normal. Meanwhile, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eclipsed 415 parts per million for the first time in human history, and in the last 800,000 years. Given that our planet is our only home, it would be wise to stop adding heat-trapping gases to our atmosphere. Some say that CO2 is good for plant growth. However, one summer of 130-degree weather will kill all food crops. Last year, Van Nuys reached 117 degrees in July. Robert Bolt Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: If your quote that “18 of the 19 warmest years on record for the planet have occurred since 2000,” is accurate, then every year since 2000 has been the warmest year ever. This is something we’ve never read or heard of before, but, what the heck, it is getting warmer... – J.B.)
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commissioned mural honors pioneer flyer Earl Ovington, and Santa Barbara’s rich legacy and contribution to Aviation History. It was unveiled in the Santa Barbara Funk Zone, and will hang for three years at 22 Anacapa Street. Thomas Van Stein Santa Barbara
Leave it to Fido
I always enjoy Hattie Beresford’s articles on Montecito history. Always wonderfully done. Please tell Hattie that while I had Ravenscroft listed a few years ago, research showed that Ayala Lane was named after Peggy Ravenscroft’s (Marguerite [Peggy] Doe Rogers Courtney Ravenscroft) road master, Juan Ayala. That would be a good historical article: estates left in wills to favorite animals and pets. Harry Kolb Senior Estate Agent Sotheby’s International Realty
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This Week in and around Montecito
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JULY 25 Garden Storytime at Upper Manning Park Come out to play at Upper Manning Park! Library staff will lead outdoor storytime and crafts. Explore Ecology staff will provide hands-on environmental education lessons focusing on nature and nutrition. Enjoy the beautiful setting and play structure with friends, old and new. Get some fresh air and join in the Montecito Library’s Summer Reading Program. When: 10:30 am Where: Upper Manning Park off San Ysidro Road Info: 969-5063 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a garage conversion on Wyant; an addition and remodel on Sycamore Road; a cabana and covered porch on Calle Elegante; an addition on Butterfly Lane; a new home and garage on Humphrey Road, and several other agenda items. When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JULY 26 Heather Taylor Home at Poppy Marché Featuring beautiful table settings and
home goods inspired by Heather’s world travels. Meet the designer Heather Taylor and enjoy light bites courtesy of Merci, and rosé will be served. Heather Taylor’s business is based in the heart of Los Angeles and you can visit her retail store housed in a beautiful 1931 building, where customers can purchase items retail as well as rent her linen designs for events. When: 1 to 5 pm Where: Poppy Marché at Montecito Country Mart, 1014 Coast Village Road, Suite E Info: (805) 845-4026 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Babe the Gallant Pig. When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free SATURDAY, JULY 27 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more. When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 Book Signing at Tecolote A Man’s World is a collection of twen-
ty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Oney realized early in his career that he was interested in how men face challenges and cope with success and failure, seeing in their struggles something of his own. Written over a forty-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, TIME, Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, the stories, many prizewinning, bring to life the famous (Harrison Ford), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the tortured (Gregg Allman), and the unknown (Chris Leon, a twenty-year-old Marine Corps corporal killed in the Iraq war). When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road Info: 969-4977 TUESDAY, JULY 30 Children’s Concert at the Library Nathalia puts on an amazing bilingual educational concert at Montecito Library. Originally from Colombia, Nathalia studied Music Therapy at the Berklee College of Music. Her experience as a music therapist and early childhood music teacher inspired her to use music as a tool for teaching her own children Spanish. In doing so, she had inadvertently written songs that would later become her debut children’s album. From rock to cumbia, jazz to reggaeton, her songs are produced in a number of different musical styles and written with the whole family in mind. When: 10:30 to 11:30 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 Financial Roundtable The topic for discussion: Does investing in stocks for income make sense? Moderator Robert Bronfman, MD, is a retired Certified Financial Planner, and will lecture and then answer questions concerning financial planning. The aim of the roundtable is to learn from other’s experiences.
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When: 5 to 6 pm Where: Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street Info: (805) 845-9125 THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Wizard of Oz. When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 The Art of Manifesting Did you know that you are constantly manifesting things into your life? Through your thoughts, words, and actions you are creating your own reality. The question is, are you doing it consciously or unconsciously? Are you creating what your heart desires, or more of what you do not want? Join Ragan Thomson to learn how to master the art of manifesting and consciously creating what your heart desires, whether that is: relationships, abundance, success, or vitality. During this three-hour long workshop, Ragan Thomson will guide you to: understand how manifestation works, learn the steps and techniques of manifestation, visualize what you want and make your intentions clear, recognize the beliefs, behaviors, and mental barriers that are blocking you, work on getting rid of sabotaging thoughts, accept that, whatever you want, it can be yours, and consciously create your own reality. Ragan Thomson is a spiritual coach, healer, and divine facilitator. When: 4 pm to 7 pm Where: Thomson Sanctuary in Montecito; address given after ticket purchase Cost: $55 per person, second ticket is 50% off if you bring a friend Info: www.RaganThomson.com/about •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
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Homelessness in Montecito
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California is home to 15% of the US population, and 25% of the nation’s homeless. I suspect these women are here because it’s safer for them to sleep where homeless men aren’t. It’s been my experience that helping people come indoors is a very difficult endeavor. There are usually multiple issues, such as lack of ID, substance use or mental disorder, health issues, background checks, and other difficulties to surmount. Caltrans will do a large encampment clean-out the week of July 22 at Hot Springs. Expect to see a lot of movement in the area afterwards. A vacant lot across from El Montecito Church looks to be hosting an on-andoff encampment. I am trying to reach that property owner to clear it, but this is the kind of problem that crops up if a community isn’t really on top of this issue. A security firm came to our office this week to alert us that one of their clients caught a homeless individual on their camera wandering up and down Hot Springs at night, near the site of a recent break in. Lest you be tempted to think this is just a local issue, both Los Angeles and San Francisco reported spikes in their recent homeless counts. California is home to 15% of the US population, and 25% of the nation’s homeless. It is 25 July – 1 August 2019
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2. Please do not give money to panhandlers. You will likely find they are heading to the nearest liquor store with your donation. This is not helping them or the community. 3. United Way coordinates a countywide program called Home For Good that can connect homeless individuals with resources. You can call them at 805-450-3558 to make a referral. If you can provide a name, description, and location where you see the individual, it will greatly assist Home For Good with finding them. 4. As a community, we need to be alert and responsive on this issue. There are services and help available, and it’s not humane to allow someone to destroy themselves in our community. Some people will accept help and come indoors, but some will not, and with those, we need to be consistent in letting them know that we don’t accept poor behaviors in our community. I have found that consistent, concerted outreach connects those who want resources, but also discourages folks who prefer to remain unfettered in their activities from continuing to stay in the area. •MJ
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arlier this week drivers may have been caught in heavy traffic in lower Montecito, as Caltrans crews closed the Hot Springs exit at Highway 101 in order to clear out a long-term homeless encampment located under the freeway bridges. The massive encampment had not been cleared in over three years. The Coast Village Association, the Montecito Association, and the City of Santa Barbara have been working together to enlist Caltrans to clear the encampment; signs were posted in the encampment last week that the clean up would take place. According to MA executive director Sharon Byrne, who helped organize the clean up and participated in recent “homeless counts” earlier this year, over 70 homeless were in the encampment back in January with approximately 40-50 there in June; it’s estimated that over five tons of trash and debris
was removed by crews this week. Byrne added that the clean up of the encampment may increase the presence of homeless on Coast Village and in surrounding areas, as well as in the upper village. At a recent presentation from the Santa Barbara Police Department to the board of the Coast Village Association, the police encouraged everyone and anyone to call and report any activity or person that is contributing to the blight, whether in loud, unstable behavior, trespassing, encampment, or uninvited use of private property. The non-emergency phone number for the SB Police is 805-897-2300. Police officers and detectives managing this population out in the field urge people to call if they feel threatened or intimidated. “Such calls may not result in immediate attention and response to a specific incident; frankly, such calls are so prolific throughout the community that
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The Hot Springs Road exit was closed earlier this week in order for Caltrans crews to clean out a homeless encampment under the freeway bridges (photo courtesy Sharon Byrne)
the thin resources of the SBPD rarely have the bandwidth to respond quickly,” said Bob Ludwick, president of the Coast Village Association. “But the log of such calls is vitally important to decision-makers and the policies they implement to deal with ‘the homeless problem.’” Also on the radar of the Coast Village Association, Coast Village Road merchants, and Montecito residents living near the lower village: an upcoming paving project on Coast Village Circle, which is expected to last about two months. The project is in response to the 1/9 debris flow, which caused major damage to the roadway on Coast Village Circle due to flooding and the presence of heavy equipment. The project will replace the base and pavement layers of the road, as well as damaged curbs. New curb will be installed to improve drainage flow, and the parking stalls will be repaved and restriped. The CVA’s Traffic Committee has been working with the City of Santa Barbara to improve the traffic condi-
tions on Coast Village Circle, as part of the repaving project. Derrick Bailey, the City’s Principal Transportation Engineer, reports that the parking spots on the east side of Coast Village Circle (near the Chevron Station) will be eliminated in order to allow for better traffic flow. The stripe that separates the lanes on Coast Village Circle will also be removed, as this is proven to slow traffic down, according to Bailey. “One of our biggest issues is that people speed down Coast Village Circle while avoiding traffic back-ups on Coast Village Road, and it’s quite dangerous considering there are many pedestrians in the area walking to and from their vehicles,” said Thorn Robertson, chair of the CVA Traffic Committee. The project was slated to begin in late August, but at the request of the CVA, the work has been delayed until after Labor Day in an effort to avoid compounding the already heavy summer traffic on Coast Village
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digitally restored, (life size) reproductions of The Mona Lisa, Vitruvian Man, The Last Supper and Lady with an Ermine. He is among the most influential artists in history. He symbolizes the Renaissance age and was one of the most intelligent people ever to have lived. While you’re there you could join the five million visitors since the President Reagan Library opened in 1991 and check out this 100-acre site. President Reagan referred to it as the “shining city on a hill.” There are 100,000 square feet in 24 different galleries. My favorites are the full-sized replica of the Oval Office and boarding the actual Air Force One, which served President Reagan and six other presidents. Since Reagan loved the West his Oval Office had earthy colors, western art and a collection of bronze saddles, not to mention the jar of jellybeans. Air Force One carried Reagan to 26 countries and 46 states. It always surprises me how plain the interior of the plane is. Nothing fancy at all. There is also a replica of the White House Rose Garden and one of the first major pieces of the Berlin Wall to
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Music Academy of the West by Steven Libowitz
Bass Instincts: My oh Meyer
Double bassist Edgar Meyer teaches a master class on Wednesday, July 31, and performs at Hahn Hall on August 1 (photo by Jim McGuire)
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ive-time Grammy Award winner and 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Award recipient double bassist Edgar Meyer negotiates a rarely traveled road as a star in both the classical music and bluegrass worlds, where he works as both a performer and a composer. Hailed
dryly by The New Yorker as “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” Meyer enjoys a vast and varied audience who would probably never cross paths in any other method. As a solo classical bassist, Meyer has collaborated with Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma,
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Thursday, July 25: The Chase is off. MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow/ Avery Fisher Prize winning flutist Claire Chase caps off a whirlwind (pun intended) three days that found her performing two commissioned solo works at the Lobero on Tuesday night after teaching the flute master class and appearing at MAW’s annual Clev/Rev Conference earlier that day. Her Mosher Guest Artist recital tonight turns MAW’s usual approach on its ear, as her solo stuff happened on Tuesday, and this concert at the more intimate Hahn Hall will feature Chase collaborating with four MAW fellows, including four violinists, plus a cellist, violist and double bassist. More than 60 tickets remained for the recital at this writing, so there’s still a chance to hear Chase blow (pun intended, again) you away with her artistry and personal magnetism. (7:30 pm; $35). Friday, July 26: Earlier this summer, the first Picnic Concert of the season focused solely on string quartets, as four ensembles comprised of fellows
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played movements from the repertoire on a Friday night. This afternoon serves as an update at the String Quartet Seminar fellows try to again delight the audience in a showcase of the pieces they have been rehearsing, with coaching from the Takács Quartet and faculty artists. The program will be available at the venue, but it’s sure to be a stirring presentation of repertoire from the heart of chamber music (3:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $15)... The double-dose of fellows furnishing music continues tonight with Picnic Concert No. 5 with an exciting program beginning with Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, with Shenae Anderson and Yaxin Tan on violins, Jinn Shinn on cello, Elliot Wuu on piano, and faculty member Karen Dreyfus on viola. Prokofiev’s Quintet in G Minor, Op. 39, features violinist Linda Lee and violist Esther Kim, plus three more fellows to be announced, while Dvorak’s Miniatures trio for two violins and viola, Op. 75a, teams violinists Mariko Shimasaki and Liuwenji Vicky Wang with violist Ye Jin Goo (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $40). Saturday, July 27: MAW’s original program for today was blank, a rare Saturday during the summer with no events. But if you already made plans for a beach day, think again (unless they’re at Butterfly, just steps away from the Miraflores campus). MAW’s brand new Duo Competition has claimed the afternoon slot, with the final round of the event that has, at least temporarily, taken the place of MAW’s Concerto Competition, although it employs the same format. Instrumentalists and collaborative pianists face off for the opportunity to win a performance in Hahn Hall nine days later. The finalists – two violinists, two violists, a clarinetist, trombonist, bassoonist, horn player, and tuba player – will be judged by esteemed MAW teaching and guest artists Margaret Batjer, Phillippa Cole, and Joanne Pearce Martin. The winners’ recital takes place Monday night, August 5 (2 pm; Hahn Hall; $25). Tuesday, July 30: Brahms Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 – with violinist Kathleen Winkler, cellist David Geber, and pianist Jonathan Feldman – anchors tonight’s MAW Festival Artists Series recital. But first, in another example of MAW’s well-rounded programming, we’ll hear Poulenc’s “Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone,” with faculty trombonist Ralph Sauer joined by two yet to be named academy fellows, plus Mozart’s Oboe Quartet, with Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida joined by violinist Pamela Frank, violist Cynthia Phelps, and fellow Marcie Kolacki on cello (7:30 pm; Lobero Theatre; $46). •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
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tonight.” Fortunately the bustling bash, chaired by Sharon Bradford, was expected to raise just that, with record sponsorship and attendance. Ventura gavel guru Jules Eubanks conducted an auction, with items including a VIP Old Spanish Days experience in the museum’s carriage in El Desfile Historico next month, a rare bronze and etching by Edward Borein, and the chance to host La Fiesta Pequena for 50 guests in the museum’s courtyard, with Omni Catering and Bella Vista Designs. Entertainment included Junior Spirit of Fiesta Paloma Valenuela and Spirit of Fiesta Sophia Cordero, and flamenco dancers including Timo Nunez, Manuel Gutierrez, Jose Cortes, Andres Vadin, and Gerardo Morales. Sam Adams accompanied on guitar. Among the flurry of fiesta fans were Rogers and Debby Aceves, David Bolton, David Bradford, Bob and George Burtness, Larry Gosselin, Riley Harwood, Lynn and Colleen Kirst, Frank McGinity, Michael and Marie Profant, Eleanor Van Cott, and Thomas Van Stein. Hair Wars It was an event to dye for when the Alzheimer’s Association hosted its sixth annual Blondes versus Brunettes flag football game at the Garden Street Academy. The popular sports fest, which attracted more than 600 spectators and in past years has raised more than $450,000 for the cause, featured the Blondes led by Natalie Ford and Sarah Hilliard, and the Brunettes captained by Leanne Ledbetter and Liz Zuniga.
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Into the Wild Santa Barbara’s 31-year-old Wildlife Care Network hosted a sunset soirée to launch a capital campaign to raise $5 million to build the Central Coast’s only wildlife hospital between Morro Bay and Los Angeles. Already $500,000 has been donated to the organization, which has a $600,000 annual budget, and has so far rescued 2,920 animals this year, including 61 in just one day in June. The beastly bash also served as my 66th birthday celebration, as the 50 guests sang Happy Birthday and, for good measure, For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow, before I dashed off to the Rosewood Miramar for a beach barbe-
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loved: it’s bouncy but elegant, with wonderful flavors of red berries and dark cherries. Its fruit source – various vineyards in the celebrated Sta. Rita Hills growing region between Buellton and Lompoc, including the famous Sanford & Benedict Vineyard – speaks to its pedigree. At $30, this is an awesome pinot noir value. A lot of us may not be ready to put together a Christmas wine shopping list just yet. But if you are, you won’t go wrong by stuffing your stocking with any of these wines. If nothing else, kudos to the Parker marketing team for getting us to think about Christmas in the middle of July! This was a fresh reminder, of course, that Fess Parker Winery is in the throes of a major milestone this year: its 30th anniversary. In a young wine region like Santa Barbara – a viticultural area that began to show promise on a world scale only in the mid- to late 1970s – three successful decades is a big deal. It makes you a pioneer, of sorts. And there’s no denying the Parkers’ special story, one defined by myriad business successes and one fueled by a multigenerational vision. “The original motivation for buying the ranch was the fact it was a gorgeous piece of property, and its proximity to Santa Barbara,” Ashley Parker-Snider told me recently. She was speaking about late 1987, when her dad, Disney TV Icon Fess Parker, bought a 714-acre estate along Foxen Canyon Road. The Texas native had already become a household name, thanks to his uber-successful portrayals in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood of American heroes Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. Various projects for Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. had made Mr. Parker one of Hollywood’s original celebrities by the time he moved his family to Hope Ranch in the late 70s. He’d purchase a 23-acre resort along Cabrillo Boulevard in 1986 – it’s the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort today, owned 50-50 between the Parker family and Hilton Hotels, which manages it – and the Santa Ynez Valley ranch the following year.
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Winemaking from grapes off the estate was a fun family experiment at first, a new frontier. “It started out very organically,” Ashley recalls, “and then it definitely picked up steam.” The first decade would be defined by plenty of experimentation, several hits and several misses. The wine program would come into focus and be far more refined by the year 2000, when E&J Gallo alum Tim Snider, now company president and Ashley’s husband, and winemaker Blair Fox had joined the team. Ashley and brother Eli took on relevant roles from the get-go – they’ve always been hands-on with winemaking, vineyard sourcing and marketing. And their own children’s involvement makes the wide range of Fess Parker projects – known collectively at FESPAR – a solid three-generation enterprise. Today, that’s a powerhouse project that includes hotels in Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley, the celebrated Bear & Star Restaurant in Los Olivos, and a thriving ranch and cattle business. The winery produces close to 70,000 cases a year through a portfolio of several labels, including the eponymous Fess Parker, the Epiphany line of Rhone wines, the Addendum series of Napa-based cabernet sauvignons and the Fesstivity bubblies. The accolades that the Parker wines earn – 90+ point reviews from all the top wine publications and rave reviews from consumers near and far – make their impact on the world’s growing appreciation of Santa Barbara County wines undeniable. And that’s 30 years well spent, and spent well. August presents three ways to join the Fess Parker Winery pearl anniversary celebration: the weekend of August 16 and 17 includes a Celebration of Rodney’s Vineyard ($100), a 30th Anniversary Retrospective Tasting ($80) and a Movie Night ($20) screening of Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, starring Fess Parker, with proceeds benefitting the Old Yeller Ranch Rescue for dogs. All events take place at the Santa Ynez Valley ranch. For tickets, visit www.fessparker.com/events. •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
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Notice Inviting Bids JIMENO ROAD RETAINING WALL REPAIR PROJECT Bid No. 5768 1.
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Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its Jimeno Road Retaining Wall Repair Project (“Project”), by or before August 1, 2019, at 3:00 p.m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted. Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at 904 Jimeno Road, Santa Barbara, CA. The Project will require removal and reconstruction of 40 feet of the existing stacked sandstone wall, excavation of subgrade, install 4” perforated PVC subdrain, backfill with well graded granular wall rock or pervious concrete, and replacement of the stacked sandstone wall. Mortor stones together, placing mortor on the back half of each stone to limit the amount of visible mortor on the exposed face. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 25 Working Days 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $115,000.
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A – General Engineering Contractor 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.
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Disadvantaged Business Enterprises and Small Businesses. The City of Santa Barbara affirms that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises and small businesses will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation.
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Bidders are advertised that, as required by federal law, the State has established a statewide overall Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal. This Agency federal-aid contract is considered to be part of the statewide overall DBE goal. The Agency is required to report DBE participation for all federal-aid contracts each year so that attainment efforts may be evaluated. This Agency federal-aid contract has a goal of 13% DBE/Small Business participation. Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents. Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.
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Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A mandatory bidders’ conference will be held on July 25, 2019 at 10:00a.m. at the following location: 904 Jimeno Road for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders conference will be disqualified from bidding.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
By: ___________________________________
Date: ________________
Bill Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) July 17, 2019
2) July 24, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Daily Chore Assistant, 2839 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Carlos Guzman, 2839 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-
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0001652. Published July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JZ Window Cleaning, 609 North Z Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. Christina Zermeno, 609 North Z Street, Lompoc,
CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 24, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E.
Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0001522. Published July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summerland Builders, 2440 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067. Martin Jarchow, 2440 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 8, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Sandra Rodriguez. FBN No. 2019-0001628. Published July 17, 24, 31, August 7, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spa Escape, 3022A De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Yolanda Rosenthal, 859 N. Patterson Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 26, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2019-0001555. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSEASONHARVEST, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Jessica Ann McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Sirwan McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 11, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2019-0001403. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mercantile Row Shopping Center, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robert Palmer,
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1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-0001638. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Castaway’s By Paula, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Paula Goldman, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 5, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-0001616. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coach, 808A State Street 1st Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Tapestry, INC. Which Will Do Business in California as Coach Leatherware California, INC., 10 Hudson Yards, 19th Floor, New York, NY, 10001. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 10, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0001392. Published July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All for Real, 2346 Del Sur, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Jon Jackson, 2346 Del Sur, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 4, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2019-0001330. Published July 3, 10, 17, 24, 2019.
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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)
by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Ink
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ome may find it hard to believe, but there was a time in living memory when most writing depended on liquid ink. If you had a good pen, good paper, and good ink, writing by hand could provide a certain satisfaction which you can’t obtain with a ball-point, let alone with any kind of typewriter or computer. Depending on the pressure you applied, you could vary the thickness of your lines. And there was a certain joy in the smoothness and finesse with which you could transfer your thoughts into a visible medium. Today it’s only for hobbyists, and for a few professionals, that the pleasures of “calligraphy” are reserved. But there were also risks and troubles. This is the dark side of ink. Being a liquid, it often did not dry immediately, and could thus be easily smudged. There was, however, a remedy – a special kind of thick, absorbent paper, called “blotting paper,” which you pressed carefully over your text. Or, if the written sheet was relatively small, and the blotter large, you could reverse the process, turn the written sheet over and press it on the blotter. Often the surface of your desk would be largely covered with blotting paper in a special holder, so that, in common speech, the term “blotter” came to be equivalent to “desk,” as in the still often used expression “Police Blotter.” But criminals – or anyone else with secrets – had to be careful here – because blotting paper retained a mirror-image of whatever you had written, and would therefore be one of the first things detectives would seek to inspect when looking for clues to the crime. (It was also, of course, this feature which kept the manufacturers of blotting paper in business, because the paper eventually became “full” and no longer so absorbent, and consequently had to be replaced.) Ink was also a perilous substance, especially if it was made to be “indelible.” It usually came in bottles of various sizes – and a spilled bottle of ink – or even a leaky fountain pen – depending on what surface or fabric was affected, could be truly disastrous. There was of course also the danger of accidentally drinking the ink – leading to such grim witticisms as: 25 July – 1 August 2019
Woman: “Oh Doctor, what shall I do? My baby has swallowed a whole bottle of ink!” Doctor: “Calm yourself, Madam. I’m afraid you’ll just have to use a pencil.” The fountain pen itself, which, in the nineteenth century, developed into a device affordable by the masses, was considered a great advance over previous writing instruments, whether they were made of feathers or with metal “nibs,” since it provided to the user the wonderful convenience of no longer having constantly to be dipping and re-dipping the pen-point into the ink supply. But, in a strange way, spilled ink came to have a life of its own – not just through the random drippings of certain modern “artists,” but, perhaps more significantly, in the field of Psychology, through an association which will forever evoke the name of Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922.) This Swiss psychologist turned what had been a children’s game into one of the most widely used tests of its kind in the world. If you drop a little ink onto one half of a piece of paper, then fold the other half over it and press, what you get is a big splotch, which appears to be a “pattern,” because its two sides are perfectly symmetrical. It is of course not intended to be at all representational – but very often people see images, just as they do in clouds and other natural objects. But the advantage of the ink blots is that they can be reproduced and standardized in terms of the reactions they produce. So, the “Rorschach Test” was developed, consisting of a certain number of particular ink blots, which have been shown to so many people that psychologists can tell (or think they can) what categories to put their patients in, depending on their specific reactions. You might think that, with Rorschach, “Ink Spots” had come about as far as they could go. But you would be forgetting about a musical group who, for obvious racial reasons, took that name in 1934, and whose distinctive style, for the next 20 years, brought them international acclaim, climaxing in their 1989 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Today, of course, we still have ink – but it’s a powder, which we call “toner.” No more blots or spots. •MJ
and adding to the quality of life for children in Santa Barbara County for the last 11 years. We have three great women teachers and musicians that are in a band called Sound Of The Sun. They will be teaching our Youth Rock Camp music program from August 5th to August 9th. It’s a fourhour day (noon to 4 pm) and features lessons on learning to play music in a group setting, live performances, song writing, studio recording, and even some history of rock and roll. And, the kids will put on a show at the end of the week. Sign your children up now and enhance their life, build self-esteem and have fun! Call me for more information at 805-252-0562 No experience necessary. We’d love to have you join us. Nancy Earle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Ms Earle is Executive Director and Founder of JAMS (Jasmine’s Alternative Music School). MJ supports and encourages kids and parents of all ages to take advantage of Nancy’s enthusiasm and expertise – J.B.)
Sad Story
I think the wheels might be popping off when it comes to Trump. Instead of saying the American Constitution is uniquely Anglo and superior to all
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others, he told an American where she could go. And, it seems, Trump is using support for Israel as a measure of citizenship. Seriously, sad to see. Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara
Tie Him Down
Is President Donald Trump a modern day Gulliver? Has he traveled to the insulated world of Washington, D.C., where his critics, like the Lilliputians, are so unfamiliar and fearful of this giant that they must tie him down? Are they too small to comprehend his great plans for our country? Before becoming president, Donald Trump was an exceptionally powerful businessman, an international builder, and a man who had furnished opportunities and employment to thousands. Is it any wonder then, that as president, his policies are moving toward better trade agreements with foreign competitors, a rebirth of our nation’s manufacturing industries, and record employment for all Americans? Now, as this Gulliver moves our nation forward, the Lilliputians can only snap at his heels. Les Conrad Goleta •MJ
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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12) It is estimated that five tons of trash and debris was located in the encampment, which was a destination for dozens of homeless people (photo courtesy Sharon Byrne)
debris flow in January of 2018. Most of the bridge construction has been completed with further road and creek restoration work ongoing. Barricades and locked gates will continue to secure the Montecito Creek location with detours available via local roads. Emergency responders will maintain access to this locked area for public safety. The bridge is expected to re-open in September. For more information on this project and for traffic updates on other Caltrans projects in Santa Barbara County, residents may call the District 5 Public Affairs Office at (805) 5493237.
Crown Castle at MPC Road. The work will begin the week of September 9, in order for the project to be completed before the funding deadline set by FEMA. The work will be broken down into five phases to minimize traffic and parking impacts; each phase will take approximately eight working days, and will be open to traffic after the completion of each phase. Phase 1 is near the Chevron Station, with Phase 5 being the far eastern section of Coast Village Circle. At the completion of all phases, the contractor will need to add the finishing paving material for the entire road
which will take about a week, then striping will follow shortly after.
Montecito Creek Bridge Update
Caltrans is continuing work to rebuild the Montecito Creek Bridge, which was damaged in the Montecito
Last week two Crown Castle small cell telecommunications facilities were in front of the Montecito Planning Commission for approval. The two facilities are part of a larger 6-cell project, which will improve cellular capacity for AT&T, according to Crown Castle reps. The project has been in the works since 2017, and includes sites at 1071
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Alston Road, 206 Middle Road, 277 San Ysidro, 75 Eucalyptus Lane, 1915 San Leandro Lane, and 2023 East Valley Road. Each project includes adding a small antenna on an existing utility pole, as well as an equipment box mounted on the side of the pole. Crown Castle has been working with MBAR over the last few months ensuring the facilities are compatible with the community. Last week’s hearing included the sites on Alston Road (between Hot Springs and Glenview Road) and at East Valley Road (between Olive Road and Lilac Drive). Both sites include attaching equipment to existing power poles, as well as radiofrequency signage. The projects comply with FCC regulations, with a Radio Frequency Report concluding the maximum RF exposure from each facility would be .7% (East Valley Road) and .6% (Alston Road) of the FCC public exposure limit at ground level. Part of the conditions of approval requires verification of the project’s actual RF emissions within 30 days after installation, as well as every five years after. Crown Castle engineering manager Geri Freeman explained to the commissioners that even though the projects before them are to enhance the 4G cellular technology infrastructure, the next generation, 5G, has progressed along with technological devices over the last 50 years. She explained that 1G was for calls from older phones, and 2G was for sending text messages. In 2002, the technology was upgraded to 3G, which was for devices other than traditional cell phones such as Blackberries, and 4G came on the scene in 2010, which is for smart phones. “5G technology will provide more data speed, latency, and connections, enable everyone to use their devices,” Freeman said. Federal law significantly limits local government in regulating such projects; the MPC is limited to considering aesthetics as a basis in which to deny such a project. The aesthetic conditions must be applied from existing, published, and objective aesthetic standards, according to County counsel. Several commissioners voiced concern over the increasing number of such projects in our area, which would add to visual blight in the community. With new 5G technology on the horizon, more cell facilities will be required to build the infrastructure. “My concern is with the aesthetics of our community. We see the proliferation that is coming with the new generation of equipment,” said Chair Charles Newman. Because the Commission was limited in their ability to deny the projects, both projects were approved as presented by staff. An additional condition was added to the motions, which
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Spirituality Matters by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.
What the World Needs Now
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he Shopkeepers – the Funk Zone boutique that describes itself as ”Curious Goods for Curious People” and offers an inviting tag line of “We hope you visit and shop often, stay as long as you like, and leave feeling better than when you arrived” – hosts an evening of enriching conversation, book signing and networking to make the world a better place. “What the World Needs Now: A Convo on Fierce Listening & Loving,” which takes place 2-4 pm this Sunday, July 28, features Shopkeepers co-founder and Waxing Poetic founder Patti Pagliei in a “Shop Talk” conversation about how we can navigate and turn our heartbreak into making a powerful difference in our families, communities and in the world. Paglieli will moderate a discussion between Jennifer Pastiloff, the highly acclaimed author of the new profoundly candid memoir On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, which was just published last month, and Bridget Fonger, author of Superhero of Love: Heal Your Broken Heart & Then Go Save the World, which came out in January. The event hosts are Michelle Ebbin, a wellness expert, inventor, media personality and author of The Touch Remedy, and Ellen Bain, a yoga teacher, former Division I ath-
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lete and owner of Peak Power Yoga Wellness in Ojai. A limited number of special Waxing Poetic jewelry pieces designed for each author’s book will be available for purchase, while part of the proceeds from the event will go to Together Rising, whose mission is to “Transform collective heartbreak into effective action”; the nonprofit has been on the front lines working with the border children emergency. Shopkeepers is located at 137 Anacapa Street, Suite A, in the Funk Zone. Details on the event are online at www.facebook.com/ events/502426276965264/. Call (805) 883-3132 or visit www.theshopkeep ers-sb.com
Evolutionary Playground
Former Montecito, now Ojaibased authors and workshop leaders Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks’ next weekend retreat is subtitled “New Paths to Change for Uncertain Times,” both a timely and timeless concept that suggests people can benefit from letting go of trying to fit into an existing model that keeps generating struggle. The workshop updates the Hendricks’ introductory seminar Essentials, which focused on the skills to shift easily with body intelligence tools, to explore the possibility of living primarily in an evo-
lutionary cycle of presencing, connecting and playing through collaboration and harmony. Evolutionary Playground focuses on co-creation and resonance to expand solutions and fashion new ways of living in this time of accelerated change. The program is meant to correct the imbalance where humans grapple with knowing too much about things over which they have little to no control and knowing less and less about areas where we do have control, including our bodies, experiences and choices. Welcoming rests in the heart of improvisation – saying yes to what is happening, what you are feeling, what you notice. When you welcome and include, you create a context where everything is fuel for aliveness and where each moment arises from turning toward, accepting, choosing and taking actions from your essence. The three-day seminar takes place July 28-30 at the Ojai Valley Women’s Club. Call (805) 319-6802 or visit https://hendricks.com/event
Tonglen with Tenzing
Tenzing Wangpo, a highly trained scholar who was enrolled in a monastery when he was seven years old and is still shy of 30, will give his first teaching at the Santa Barbara BodhiPath Center next Thursday, August 1. Tonglen, also known as “giving and taking,” the principal practice of Mind Training that awakens our compassion and connects us to the spaciousness of our being. In the practice, one visualizes taking in the suffering of oneself and of others on while breathing in, and giving recognition, compassion and relief to all sentient beings on the out-breath. Tonglen functions to reduce selfish attachment and develop and expand loving-kindness and “bodhicitta,” among other results. Admission by donation to the 7-9 pm event. The following weekend, SaturdaySunday August 3-4, Khenpo Tsering will continue his teaching series on “The Way of the Bodhisattva” by Shantideva, focusing on Chapter 4, “Carefulness.” Admission is $40 for each 9 am to 1 pm session, or $70 for both. Santa Barbara BodhiPath Center Resident Teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips returns the following Thursday, August 8, to launch a new five-week course, “Discover the Five Wisdoms,” which introduces participants to the transformative power of seeing things as they are, offering a way out of being trapped in limiting belief, unskillful behaviors and emotional bias, where the liberating wisdom of Buddha nature can seem inaccessible. BodhiPath is located at 102 West Mission Street. Call (805) 284-2704 or visit www.bodhipath.org/sb.
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Soup’s On
Next up at Yoga Soup: a return of the workshop “Embracing Your Demons” with Suzanne Marlow, M.A.,LMFT and Hannah Fries, LA.C, who employ meditation, visualization, creative psychosomatic processing and acupuncture to impart and integrate transforming your relationship with your demons from one of resistance to one of curiosity, understanding, and cooperation. (2-4 pm Saturday, July 27; $35 in advance, $40 day-of)... Cristy Candler’s Vibrational Harmonic Alignment is a healing sound immersion for relaxation that offers gentle yoga stretches and movement to facilitate opening the body for receptivity, followed by gemstone-infused alchemy crystal singing bowls to orchestrate a harmonic resonance for optimal well being and relaxation. Essential oil aromatherapy is included. (6-7:15 pm Saturday, July 27; $25 in advance, $30 day-of)... The Embodiment Alchemy Retreat takes place off campus at a private home in Santa Barbara, where singer-songwriter and facilitator Elisa Rose leads a day of deep nourishment, embodied exploration and creative opening. Nervous systems will be calmed via restorative practices and tools to listen to our body’s wisdom, while participants will also open their voices to experience the innate healing power of expressing through sound. There will be moments of silence and stillness to rest within and moments of full body celebration, including dancing, drawing and writing. All ages and abilities are welcome. (10 am to 6 pm Sunday, July 28; $130). Yoga Soup is located at 28 Parker Way. Info at (805) 965-8811 or www.yogasoup.com/category/ events.
Reiki Weekend
Darren Marc leads a deep dive into reiki – the ancient Japanese method of healing that uses energy to balance the body and mind – with fullday workshops on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s Level 1 class and attunement prepares participants to utilize reiki for self-healing and healing others, while Sunday’s Level 2 seminar introduces reiki symbols that allow the practitioner to connect more deeply to the universal energy, as well as draw on the qualities that the symbols represent. The workshops take place 11 am to 6 pm at Marc’s home near Oak Park. Marc, who is also a singer-songwriter who periodically leads Kirtans and other chant events, is a Reiki Master who has been practicing for nearly 20 years. Visit www.awaken withdarren.com. •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
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and media coverage of the marijuana issue currently benefits Capps. Williams’ supporters would answer that Das is very good at winning elections. He enjoys overwhelming Latino/Hispanic support in the City of Santa Barbara. He does well in the City of Carpinteria, but not as well in the Carpinteria Valley or Montecito. Williams is strongly supported by unions and environmentalists and he has the endorsement of the Democratic Party. This upcoming election could have enormous consequences for shaping Montecito’s future. As usual, with both candidates sufficiently liberal, the race will come down to message, money and organization. Both candidates will be hampered by a Santa Barbara County government that is essentially broke due to crushing retiree pension and healthcare costs. In 2018, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury investigated complaints about the nine principal public pension systems in Santa Barbara County, including the eight cities funded by CalPERS and the County of Santa Barbara. The County of Santa Barbara Employee Retirement System (SBCERS), is not part of the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) risk pool. Back in 1999, county pension costs, or payments to the Santa Barbara County Employee’s Retirement System, accounted for less than 10% of payroll. Today according to the Grand Jury Report, pension contributions to the county’s SBCERS system have risen to 49% of payroll. Still, the County’s unfunded liability over its Market Value Assets was reported to be $585.7 million. Both candidates claim they will address this problem, despite their strong support from public service unions. According to Mona Miyasato, Chief Executive Officer for the County of Santa Barbara, in her executive summary of the 2019-2020 budget negotiations, “Major capital improvement projects requiring County General Fund support have been unfunded for several years. Deferred maintenance remains a significant issue for capital renewal needs of roads and parks.” To solve its problems successfully Montecito will have to propose innovative and ingenious solutions.
The Case for Montecito
Some suggest that the $100+ million that Montecito residents and businesses contribute in property taxes is inadequate. Miyasato dismisses that notion with her observation that, “While the Montecito community constitutes about one-quarter of one percent of the total land in the county, it generates approximately 17% of the property tax base and 62% of the transient occupancy [hotel] tax to the County’s General Fund. The financial impacts of Montecito’s tax contributions have a significant effect on services provided throughout the county.” For once, with a contested election, Montecito might have some relevance to County leaders with its high voter turnout and its ability to raise political capital. Both candidates will be courting Montecito voters and supporters. The time has never been better for Montecito to seize a significant role from the county in strategically planning Montecito’s future, along with reasonable and appropriate county funding allocations. Whether the issue is reducing local gridlock while widening the 101; funding the unsustainable fixed costs of water; funding our ring nets, debris basins, Montecito Trails and library; developing regional solutions for secure local water supplies, recycling wastewater, managing our groundwater, lowering the cost of desalination, or creating a community service district to gain a stronger local voice to deal with issues such as, for example, the undergrounding of the ugly hodgepodge of wires, poles, boxes, and cell towers that serve to uglify our otherwise beautiful community, this could be a unique opportunity to come together on a set of solutions. Montecito, with its plethora of part-time residents and world travelers, needs to focus on selected solutions, stop chattering and complaining, develop serious proposals that include realistic funding, and offer fiscally-responsible suggestions to county government as to what it is that this community wants. No solution can be addressed in isolation. No solution can be developed in a single silo. Montecito has no government representation other than our elected County Supervisor leader. It is imperative that we design a plan for our future survival, develop priorities, identify funding sources for what needs to be done, and work in partnership with not only our own District Supervisor, but with all five supervisors, to do what needs to be done to protect and preserve Montecito’s famed semi-rural lifestyle and the life safety of its residents. Realistic solutions require brains and disciplines. This election at least offers a choice of partners. In my business career, the most important lesson learned was that of the decisions you make in life, the most important are the partners you choose. Both candidates have traditional Democratic political beliefs regarding education spending, expansion of government, homelessness, access to healthcare, sanctuary, environmental issues, public service unions. It’s up to us, then, to figure out which one can best help Montecito move forward successfully. 25 July – 1 August 2019
The Case for Capps
Laura Capps is the daughter of long-time U.S. Congresswoman Lois Capps who served for 19 years before retiring in 2016 at the age of 78. She was replaced by former 1st County Supervisor, Salud Carbajal, after she had won nine consecutive elections. The senior Ms Capps succeeded her husband, Congressman Walter Capps, following his sudden death from a heart attack at Dulles Airport in 1997 after serving only seven months of his first term. Daughter Laura Capps, now in her mid-40s, after graduating from UC Berkeley, landed an internship at the White House, and was hired as full-time assistant to George Stephanopoulos. Her office was right next to the Oval Office. She was a speechwriter for President Clinton, a communications director for John Kerry’s presidential campaign, and a Communications Director for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She now runs her own public affairs consulting practice called Mission Partners in Santa Barbara, supporting state and national non-profits. She also spearheads a coalition to help kids get free healthy meals in the summer and is also an elected member of the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board. In addition to her work on national boards, she has been involved locally on the boards of the Santa Barbara County Commission for Women, the Community Environmental Council, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and the Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County.
The Case for Williams
Das Williams grew up in Santa Barbara County and attended local schools, including Santa Barbara City College, UC Berkeley and UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management where he graduated with a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences and Management in 2005. While in graduate school at Bren, Das successfully ran for the Santa Barbara City Council in 2002 and spent the next seven years serving the City of Santa Barbara as a councilmember. He spearheaded the effort to require 30% of the city’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2011. In 2010, Williams was elected to the State Assembly representing the 37th District, where he championed measures to reduce California’s dependence on fossil fuels and protect groundwater resources. During his six-year tenure in the Assembly, he authored legislation to reduce the state’s dependence on fossil fuels by increasing the renewable energy goal to 50% by 2030. He also served on the Higher Education Committee focused on a dedicated reserve source for higher education. In 2016, Williams was elected as 1st District Supervisor on the County Board of Supervisors, replacing Salud Carbajal who was elected to the U.S. Congress. Das has provided leadership in obtaining state and federal funding during the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow that rocked our county. Additionally, he has worked diligently to develop clean energy locally and to protect vital public services such as libraries.
Democratic Party Endorsement
On July 7, 2016 Democratic Party of Santa Barbara County Chair Gail Teton-Landis announced the Democratic Party endorsement of Das Williams for 1st District County Supervisor. The endorsement read, “We are proud to endorse Supervisor Williams’ re-election campaign. Throughout his career, he has exhibited strong environmental leadership, support for working people, and sought solutions for mental health and homelessness issues. He has demonstrated a commitment to public service.” Williams joins Supervisor Joan Hartmann as an endorsed Democratic candidate for the Board of Supervisors. The Democratic Party will also consider making an endorsement for Fourth District County Supervisor. Let the race begin. •MJ EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS
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On Entertainment Viva La Presidenta!
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ou’d be hard-pressed to find a more bubbly and enthusiastic supporter of Old Spanish Days Fiesta than Barbara Carroll, a Santa Barbara native who serves as a litigation attorney for a prestigious local firm when she’s not busy shouting “Viva La Fiesta!” for the better part of a week in mid-summer. Which is good news because Carroll is this year’s La Presidenta for the annual event that celebrates the history, customs and traditions of the Spanish, Mexican and Native American settlers that have contributed to the area’s rich cultural heritage. Although Carroll’s tenure began last October, the action amps up in intensity this Sunday, July 28, as the annual La Recepción del Presidente kicks off Fiesta week. The evening in the beautiful outdoor Plaza del Sol at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort unites Fiesta history with the new year’s events that begin just three days later with Fiesta Pequeña at the Mission, and the opening of the Mercados and more. Guests decked out in Fiesta attire are greeted by
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Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than 10 years.
an official receiving line headed by Carroll and her family, as well as the extended Fiesta family that features the Spirits of Fiesta, Saint Barbara and various Vice Presidentes. A hearty Mexican buffet is followed by entertainment from the 2019 Spirit Sophia Cordero and Junior Spirit Paloma Valenzuela and others before sunset marks a segue to dancing the night away under the stars. We caught up with the charming and loquacious Carroll for a brief chat as she was on her way out the door to attend yet another preliminary party, one she said she couldn’t be late to, because, ahem, she was the guest of honor.
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Q. How did you first get involved with Fiesta? A. I started volunteering in 1986 when my aunt Betty asked me to help her as a parade announcer. I joined the board 20 years later and have been on it ever since. But I was also a flower girl in 1978, so I guess that was my gateway experience with Old Spanish Days. What’s it like to finally be La Presidenta? Actually, it’s super fun! It’s a lot of work, to be clear, but it’s also very, very fun. I get to be “Santa Barbarafamous” for a few weeks. People in this city love Fiesta, despite what you might hear about those who want to leave town during the festival. The truth is, this community loves itself some Fiesta. So when people find out I’m Presidente they get very excited. I’m invited to all sorts of different events, I’m going to all these companies for their private parties, not to mention all of the OSD official events. Plus, I get to be in the parade! That’s awesome! Your theme for this year is “Spirit of Community.” What does that mean to you? I chose it because I’ve been volunteering for Fiesta forever. When you are behind the scenes, you get to see how many thousands of people contribute hundreds of hours to make it happen. When you realize how so many different aspects come together for the festival, it just feels like Fiesta is the heart and soul of Santa Barbara. We’re the last festival of the season, and the biggest, and in my opinion it brings the entire community together. And everybody has their own special Fiesta memory. What’s yours? My best memories are being at the
Fiesta parade with my family. My dad would take us every year, to a spot on Castillo Street back when the route was different. He’d buy us Icees and we’d watch all the horses go by. It was fantastic! This Sunday is your big reception. Are you ready? It’s not just for me, but for all of the former Presidentes and everybody on the board. There are past Presidents who are around to give advice and mentor the new ones. They whisper in your ear as you’re moving up, and as the year progresses they let you know what’s coming up and what you need to think about, the things you need to take hold of because it’s going to be a memory that lasts a lifetime… But oh yeah, I’m very ready. I’ve got an awesome dress! Outside of Sunday, what are you most looking forward to? That’s easy. The parade. I’m riding in it for the first time in my life. I learned to ride a horse especially for it. I’m super excited about it! (La Recepción del Presidente takes place 5 to 10 pm on Sunday, July 28, at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard. Tickets cost $125. For more details about the event and everything Old Spanish Days Fiesta, visit https:// oldspanishdays-fiesta.org or call (805) 962-8101.)
Heading South for a “Fair” Shake The Ventura County Fair – which sports a 2019 theme of “A Country Fair with Ocean Air” that takes note of
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Story and photos by Lynn P. Kirst
Remembering Audrey Griffin
The following article was originally published in the Montecito Journal in 2009, in celebration of Audrey Griffin’s induction into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Audrey passed away unexpectedly on Friday, July 12, 2019, leaving behind countless grieving friends and family members. One of the most beloved personalities of the Santa Barbara County equestrian community, Audrey literally died with her boots on, just as she wanted. This article is reprinted in her memory. At a 1957 performance of the “Flying Valkyries” in Phoenix, Arizona, young Audrey O’Brien demonstrated her Roman riding atop four jumping horses (photo courtesy of Audrey O’Brien Griffin)
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ere’s a trick question: What do the following women have in common? Sacagawea (Shoshone Indian scout who guided the 1802-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition), Annie Oakley (crack shot who starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show), Patsy Cline (country singer who died tragically young in a plane crash), Dale Evans (“Happy Trails to You” composer and wife of Roy Rogers), Willa Cather (Nebraska author considered one of America’s literary lionesses), Georgia O’Keefe (iconic artist who personified the stark New Mexican landscape through her paintings), Sandra Day O’Connor (Supreme Court Justice), and Audrey O’Brien Griffin (Santa Ynez resident). What these distinguished females have in common is that they are among a select group of 190 women who have been inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame since its establishment in 1975. But wait. Sacagawea a cowgirl? Willa Cather? Sandra Day O’Connor? How can that be? And why Audrey O’Brien Griffin? The answer is found in the mission
A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails
statement of the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, which “honors and celebrates women, past and present, whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience, and independence that helped shape the American West, and fosters an appreciation of the ideals and spirit of self-reliance they inspire.”
Legacy of Legends
Located in Fort Worth, Texas, the purpose of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame is to preserve the history and impact of western women. Not just rodeo champions, but artists, entertainers, pioneers, ranchers, trailblazers and writers. For those who know Audrey Griffin, she fits right in with this august group.
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Audrey O’Brien Griffin still excels at all aspects of western riding, as she demonstrates by roping a steer (photo courtesy of Audrey O’Brien Griffin)
Audrey was born in Santa Monica, and grew up in the Los Angeles area. She was a typical horse-crazy girl, with a huge crush on her cowboy hero, Roy Rogers. At the October, 2008 induction luncheon, Audrey revealed that while growing up, she kept an 8x10 glossy of Roy hanging over her bed, and every night she would kiss his photo before turning out the lights. She got a big laugh when she admitted in her acceptance speech that she had literally “kissed his lips right off.” (Something she never told Roy when she actually met him later in life.) Although Audrey never owned a horse until she was fifty years of age, the turning point in her life came when she was eleven. That was when her father took her riding at Sunset Ranch in Culver City, and it was there that she learned how to make her horse habit (almost) pay for itself. During her teenage years, Audrey spent most of her spare time at the Ranch, helping with barn chores and learning about horses and riding. “In the late 1940s we would get one dollar for harnessing the team and one dollar per hayride,” remembers Audrey. “On a good day we could make seven dollars.” Sunset Ranch had a half-mile track, and it was there that Audrey and her friends would practice Roman riding (standing on the back of a horse). It was this skill that was to bring her opportunity and fame.
The Flying Valkyries
In 1950, unbeknownst to Audrey, a troupe of “Roman riders” was
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stranded in Palm Springs. Actually the “troupe” consisted of an elderly couple who traveled with seven white horses and the two girls who rode them. They would hire additional girl riders at each location, augmenting their traveling show with local talent. The white horses were purchased by a woman named Lois Hall, who worked up some new acts that featured her 13-year-old daughter, Sydney. Within a few months, the newly revamped “Flying Valkyries” were ready to hit the road. They performed in a variety of venues that included Madison Square Garden, and with headliners such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. In 1956, one of the Flying Valkyries by the name of Mary Stetler visited the Sunset Ranch. She told Audrey the group was in search of an additional girl rider who would be willing to travel all over the United States and Canada. By this time Audrey had graduated from Venice High School, completed her first year at Santa Monica City College, and had been working as a messenger girl at MetroGoldwyn-Mayer studio for six months (where her father was also employed). Although excited about the idea of joining the show, the now 19-year-old Audrey doubted her parents would let her go. “For the next two days my family discussed morals, integrity, opportunity, education, the chance of a lifetime and a dream come true. Lois Hall, the woman who owned the specialty act, arrived at my door and promised my mom she would be a good chaperone and see that I attended Mass every Sunday, so down the road I went. Two weeks later I performed at my first rodeo in Charles, Louisiana,” recalled Audrey. Within twenty-four hours of joining the Flying Valkyries, Audrey had earned the nickname “Prunie,” since she was from California. (Is there anyone left today who first thinks of prunes when they think of California?). “Rodeo champion Jim Shoulders was less complimentary, jokingly calling the group “The Flying Vultures,” remembers Audrey, who is still close friends with Jim’s widow, Sharon Shoulders. Audrey’s skill as a rider was augmented by her bravery. In the “Crossfire Jump” one woman on three
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Sharon Camarillo (left), a barrel racing champion who was inducted in 2002, presents Audrey O’Brien Griffin with her induction award at the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame (photo courtesy of National Cowgirl Hall of Fame)
horses raced in one direction and jumped a hurdle simultaneously with another rider going in the opposite direction (also standing atop three galloping horses). In another breathtaking act, Audrey stood atop the “wheeler” horse of a six-up hitch, executing figure-eights between barrels before driving and jumping all six horses over a high hurdle on both sides of the arena, followed by a highspeed exit. Audrey has kept thorough and up-to-date scrapbooks of her career, and perusing them reveals of font of information and humorous anecdotes. A 1957 article from the Oklahoma City Times states: “One Valkyrie jumps five horses Roman style over a double jump. Miss
O’Brien confides that the only mishap in this spectacular jump has been split riding pants.” Another snippet from a 1956 newspaper in Yoakum, Texas: “Audrey O’Brien, who has what Dan Coates calls an Italian name, is a stellar performer at water skiing, swimming and diving, when not flying those white horses in a rodeo arena.” One blurry but memorable photo in her collection documents Audrey competing in bareback bronc riding at the 1956 All-Girl Rodeo in Fort Stockton, Texas. “I rode two broncs, placing fourth overall,” remembers Audrey. “I stayed on the whole eight seconds, and the pick-up man took me off both times.” In 1958, The Flying Valkyries trav-
eled to Europe as part of the largest Wild West show seen there since Buffalo Bill’s extravaganza fifty years before. They performed for two months at the World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium, in a special DuPont-built, air-inflated building seating 10,000 people. “It was the biggest cowboy and Indian venture in Europe in half a century. The show cost five hundred thousand dollars to open, and was financed by American investors,” said Audrey. The co-producers included Gene Autry, Amon Carter, Bob Hope, George Murphy and Red Skelton. In addition to dozens of cowboys and cowgirls, the show featured 230 head of stock and fifty Oglala Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. By 1960, Audrey had retired from the Flying Valkyries and married her first husband, Dick Campbell. They reared their five daughters (Melinda, Maureen, Molly, Megan and Maggie) in Santa Monica, as the Campbell family owned five clothing stores in Los Angeles. Audrey’s riding slowed during those years, as the family’s main interest was sailing. When Audrey finally bought her first horse, she was back in the saddle for good. In 1991 she moved to the Santa Ynez Valley with her second
husband, dentist Gary Griffin. Ever since Gary’s death in 2000, there has hardly been a day that Audrey hasn’t ridden a horse, whether on the trail, or helping out at local cattle ranches with sorting, roping, calf branding or team penning. Of the four Flying Valkyries still alive, Audrey is close to two of them, Mary Stetler and Ida Volquartsen. Audrey’s blue eyes still twinkle brightly, especially as she recounts the excitement of being inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Sixty friends and family members accompanied her to the Texas-sized ceremony, including all five of her daughters. The ballroom was filled with elaborately decorated tables, each in a different western theme donated by local designers. Ironically, one of the tables assigned to Audrey’s entourage featured a Dale Evans theme. When Audrey was called to the podium, a silver medal on a red, white and blue ribbon was draped around her neck, and she was presented with a commemorative pair of black and blue cowboy boots. “Is that to acknowledge all the bruises you’ve received over the years?” I jokingly inquired. “I never thought of that,” laughed Audrey. “But I’m still getting bruises!” •MJ
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special demonstration took place recently on the steps of the building at 1187 Coast Village Road. On hand to demonstrate the abilities of a 36”x18”x10” Vantage tactical robot developed and produced by Transcend Tactical Vantage Robot – was Juan Camarena, a SWAT Lieutenant and Commander of the Isla Vista Foot Patrol Station. The robot can turn on a dime, needs no specialized training to operate its law-enforcement functions, such as climbing stairs in search of bad dudes and assorted perps via its night-vision Pan tilt zoom camera, automatic IR lights, FLIR camera for identifying heat signatures, and a two-way audio system. It provides over 100 pounds carrying capacity and a long-life battery. Oh, and the Vantage robot is made right here in the good old USA. Even more spectacular is that the robot will never need additional training, will work overtime anytime, will not demand vacation pay, and perhaps best of all, in many instances, can and will replace a man, woman, or police dog in attending to some of the most dangerous but often required
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demands of law-enforcement officers. Two Montecito stalwarts – Wayne Siemens and Hank Hurst – met with Lt. Camarena to discuss the purchase of the little guy and the effort was approved by Sheriff Bill Brown, who was also in attendance. The demonstration was held for 25 or so people who’d been invited to participate and perhaps donate money to the cause. The robot used was an older one, but the new one the Sheriff’s Department wants to purchase “has extra features – camera and audio – and can climb stairs better,” Wayne says during a short conversation. As for the reasons to buy a robot, “This thing may have a life span of eight to ten years,” he notes, “and if someone is not wounded over that period of time, it will have been well worth the money.” E-mail invitations went out about two weeks before, asking that participants come to Khao Kaeng at 1187 Coast Village Road. “We had hors d’oeuvres, wine, and Julie Kellner went into the empty space under UPS to play ‘hostage,’” Wayne recounts. “This robot can drill through steel,” he continues. “It’s a formidable
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The $30,000 robot is maneuvered and directed by a law-enforcement officer and demonstrated by Jacqueline Bui, out of harm’s way
SWAT Lt. Juan Camarena helps demonstrate FLIR’s Transcend Tactical Vantage Robot at 1187 Coast Village Road (photo credit: Brenda Blalock)
machine and it can force itself into spaces where others couldn’t.” Wayne says he’s never seen one of these in live action, “but they have communication with an operating officer outside. He (or she) can tell it what to do, verbally, such as taking a wide-angle shot of the interior. It is not armed,” he notes sagely, “so it is not going to take anybody out... It’s a machine designed to protect law enforcement as well as any other people involved in an incident.” “It’s a $30,000 machine and a great little addition to the arsenal,” we are told and FLIR (based in Goleta) is selling it to SB County Sheriff’s Department for $20,160. At the end of the demonstration, during which the robot climbed a
lengthy set of stairs and entered the front door of the space where the hostage was being held, it used its camera to pinpoint the location of Ms Kellner and her tormentor and saved the day. After which, Wayne reports, “We told the Sheriff’s Department that they should consider it purchased.” The Santa Barbara Special Enforcement Team Support Foundation seeks to raise additional funds to help fund more highly specialized equipment for the Special Enforcement Team and the Sheriff’s Department. If you or someone you know would like to donate or help raise money for the continuing effort, you are invited to call 805-686-1002 or email sbsetsfi2010@gmail.com for more information.
Howard’s Writing Award The Profant Foundation announced that writer Howard Jay Smith would be a recipient of what has been dubbed the “James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award”: it comes with a $2,000
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Jamie Nash speaks at a special Washington, D.C. Executive Order signing event Howard Jay Smith (seen here on the far right with his wife Tricia on deck with friends during a wintry sea cruise) wins the Profant Foundation James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award
cash grant. Mr. Smith has recently published a piece in the Beethoven Journal about the Beethoven and Mozart collections at the Lobkowicz Palace Museum in Prague, the Czech Republic. “That journey,” he tells us, “was part of my ongoing research for a novel-in-progress, Meeting Mozart in Venice, Vienna & Prague, which is the follow-on to my 2016 novel, Beethoven in Love; Opus 139,” he tells us. The award will be announced at this year’s Fiesta Finale on Sunday, August 4 at El Paseo restaurant. Other award recipients are Angela Borda (Community Service Award), Robert Cassidy (the Dorothy Artaud Award), Marc Sucher (Patricia Crosby Hinds Award), Taj Vaccarella (Rose Award), and Vibiana Pizano Smith (Paul Michael Toomey Award). Profant Scholarships are made available through community support and proceeds from the Fiesta Finale annual gala, this year being underwritten by Mimi Michaelis and Susan Petrovich. Tenor Marco Antonio Labastida, known for his rendition of Granada, has been added to the program which will feature artwork that “comes to life,” not only with posed actors, but also with dancers and musicians. Dancers Kristen and Serge Chmelnitzki, owners of the local Arthur Murray Dance Studio, will be featured and Ricardo Chavez and his company will again bring fiery Flamenco to the stage. Included is a lavish dinner, a costume contest, and dancing under the stars. I do believe there are some spaces remaining, but you should contact mprofant@aol. com, to confirm. Tickets are $225 per person or a booth (for four) at $1,000.
A Man’s World
President Trump turns to chat with Jamie Nash, her husband, Andrew Nash, and one-year-old Hudson during signing ceremony
Author Steve Oney will be dropping by Tecolote Book Shop in the upper village to celebrate the publication of his new anthology, A Man’s World: A Galley of Fighters, Creators, Actors, and Desperadoes. The reading and discussion will begin at 4 pm on Saturday, July 27. The book, we are told, features twenty profiles of men written during Oney’s 40-plus years as a magazine journalist. The subjects include the famous (Harrison Ford), the outrageous (Andrew Breitbart), the brilliant (Robert Penn Warren), the legendary (Herschel Walker), and the tortured (Gregg Allman). The stories originally appeared in such publications as Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Time, The New York Times Magazine, and Los Angeles. At Tecolote, Oney will discuss the
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stories behind the stories. He will also take questions. Light refreshments will be provided. Oney’s first book, And the Dead Shall Rise, an examination of the Leo Frank lynching, won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for best work on the nation’s legal system and the National Jewish Book Award for history.
Hudson’s Journey
During this year’s Village Fourth, I ran into Jamie and Andrew Nash and their beautiful son, Hudson Joseph William Nash. Hudson was born “with significant damage to both his kidneys due to a blockage to his urethra while he was developing in utero,” Jamie tells me as we enjoy the after-parade festivities in Manning Park. “Hudson’s kidneys do not function well enough to adequately support his body,” she adds, noting that “the damage is irreversible and will require him to go on peritoneal dialysis within the coming months and receive a kidney transplant within the next one to two years.” Jamie and her family attended an event in Washington, D.C., the following week, at which she was invited to speak about her situation with Hudson and where President Trump signed an executive order overhauling the kidney transplant and dialysis market. Melania Trump, along with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar were on hand for the signing. “It was such an exciting day,” Jamie says, “and it would be won-
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derful to run something in Montecito Journal to build awareness in the local community around kidney disease, transplantation, and Hudson’s story.” She and her husband are hopeful they’ll find a living donor transplant, but even if they do, he will most likely require additional stints of dialysis and multiple transplants later in life. Hudson has three options: a living kidney donation (which will give him 15 to 20 years of kidney function), a transplant from someone who has died, and almost daily ongoing dialysis the rest of his life. Hudson will most likely start dialysis in the next few months. A living donation could allow Hudson to avoid staying on dialysis for too long, which in turn will greatly improve his long-term health and quality of life. “ By sharing this information,” she says, “we hope to increase awareness and find someone who might be willing to consider being a living donor for Hudson. “Our goal is to get his message out to as many people as possible,” Jamie says. “We’ve heard amazing stories of people stepping forward who have never met the person they are donating to. Human kindness at its best and we would be forever grateful. Words cannot even begin to describe what it would mean to our family.” If you think you would be interested in being a Living Donor for Hudson, or simply would like to learn more, please follow Hudson’s Facebook page and send him a message via: www.Facebook.com/ AKidneyForHudson. •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
SEEN (Continued from page 14) Mark Gross and Mary Jean Vignone from the bus trip
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If you want to have some fun and laughs, go to West Beach when the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) hold its annual Kardboard
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be brought out of Germany. It is the site of President Reagan’s and Mrs. Reagan’s Memorial. In President Reagan’s farewell address to the nation on January 11, 1989 he said, “Once you begin a great movement, there’s no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead we changed the world.” Presidential Libraries are not libraries in the usual sense. They are archives and museums, preserving the written record and physical history of our presidents. They have been described
Cub Scout pack 11 (two groups, two boats) and their first time at the kayak races
as “classrooms of Democracy” that belong to the American people. President Roosevelt raised private funds and built a library, which he gave to the U.S. government for operation through the National Archives. In 1955 this process became law when the U.S congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act. According to President Reagan’s wishes, his Foundation and Institute receives no government funds and relies solely on private donations. It
Kayak Races. This 17th year 32 teams entered the competition (three divisions of family fun and one division of the paddling pros (adult).
Each team could have up to four people helping to build the kayak. They were given two sheets of cardboard, one roll of duct tape, a permanent marker, a utility knife, a yardstick and just one hour to construct a functioning kayak. Then they are ready to race. Besides a boat that won’t sink, you need a person who knows how to paddle. As SBMM executive director Greg Gorga says, “We challenge you to participate in a battle of wits, creativity, design and courage!” And the races and the fun began. Some of the racers were back again and others were here for the first time. Eight-year-old Saige Tappeiner won first in her heat for the second year in “Great White.” Jasmin Tappeiner who is eleven was first in the second heat in “Something’s Fishy.” “Team Barbie” had twelveyear-old Bodhi Carlson in first. Paddling pro Kathleen Spinelli in “T. O. Torpedoes” up from Thousand Oaks took home the trophy for adults. It was a good year. Some years no adults finished. The Condor Express, owned by Hiroko Benko, sponsored the race. There was support from Sambo’s Restaurant and Nothing Bundt Cakes, the Santa Barbara Sailing Center, Channel Islands Outfitters and the United States Coast Guard. The SBMM has been around for 20 years sharing the history of the Santa Barbara Channel with more than 40,000 visitors annually and particularly with our youth. SBMM likes to say, “You can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.” For information call 805.456.8747. •MJ
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Far Flung Travel
by Chuck Graham
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or an hour straight I’d been up to my knees in wind-groomed sand dunes, but finally my barefoot trek had reached an apex. To the north was the breathtakingly artistic Guadalupe – Nipomo Sand Dunes National Wildlife Refuge and to the south were the wave-battered cliffs at Point Sal, where currents never rest, swirling and eddying westward. It’s encouraging knowing there’s still some stunning, ruggedly roadless, inaccessible coastline left in Santa Barbara County. Most, if not all, of its rugged beauty is in the county’s northern reaches where a good, 10-mile, out-and-back hike and even a more challenging paddling trip is required to soak in its utterly gritty grandeur. We’re talking about the largest intact coastal dune complex south of San Francisco, where a graveyard of sunbleached driftwood and gnarled kelp lay partially buried along its ever-changing beaches before reaching the wave-swept marine terraces of Mussel Rock. The raw beauty of the dunes hasn’t
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gone unnoticed by Hollywood either. Its craggy, furrowed allure has attracted big screen makers to its foamy shorelines for decades. These steep, 500-foot-tall dunes – the tallest on the entire West Coast – make for a brilliant backdrop tailor-made for motion pictures. The original Ten Commandments was filmed here in 1923, and its movie set is still buried somewhere beneath those perpetually shifting sands. More recently though, epic scenes from Hidalgo and Sideways in 2004, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End in 2007, have been filmed here. There are many benefits to what awaits within those pristine, fish hook-shaped dunes. This one of a kind coastal landscape houses 1,400 species of flora and fauna! Wildlife abounds here, and although the critters are a little shy, their tracks zigzag across the dunes revealing a heightened frenzy of nocturnal activity, prey and predator emerging from the dense, tick-infested coastal sage scrub. Everything from dune beetles, hardy western snowy plovers and opportunistic peregrine
falcons to stealthy mountain lions and bobcats rely on the diversified habitat in this unique corner of the county. It appears as if many of the inhabitants share the same dense housing of silver lupine and coreopsis, their detailed
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tracks circle the entire perimeter of the native flora at the bottom of the dune troughs. Just south of the dunes and Mussel Rock is a long, deserted beach that leads to the pummeled, weather-beaten bluffs of Point Sal. Beware while crossing the spring to revel in the remote seaside bliss. During my last stroll through that narrow, riparian lifeline, I picked 19 ticks off me before my toes touched the sand. Towering cliffs keep the beach shaded until midday. Heaving, disorganized waves crash along the shoreline and a throng of sea and shorebirds frolic without pause along this exposed natural wonder. There’s no denying that Point Sal is epic, and 200 yards offshore is Lion Rock. Guano-covered in seabird goo, it’s also a gnarly haul-out site for raucous California sea lions. Beyond the NWF and Point Sal, on the far side is Vandenberg Air Force Base. A self-sufficient, seafaring kayaker would be required to hug that scabrous coastline, but that’s another story. •MJ
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Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 3957A 1.
Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 3957A shall be received to furnish and deliver all services and materials for the Santa Barbara Airport Security System Rehabilitation Project per the attached terms, conditions and specifications. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, August 8, 2019. At this date and time all bids received will be electronically opened and posted.
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It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.
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Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Santa Barbara Airport, and is described as follows: Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) is undertaking a project to upgrade access control and video surveillance systems throughout the facility, with a primary focus on required software and hardware upgrades to support existing, outdated systems which have reached end of useful life. Additionally, support systems throughout the facility, including infrastructure cabling and local area network (LAN) upgrades are included as part of this project. All components to be included as specified within the project’s drawings and specifications. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 180 calendar days for completion from NTP. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: Base Bid: $1,685,200 2.4 Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor(s) will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents. (1)
Notice Of Requirement For Affirmative Action To Ensure Equal Employment Opportunity
The Offeror’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications” set forth herein. The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Timetables Goals for minority participation for each trade: Goals for female participation in each trade:
19.7% 6.9%
These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction. The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a) and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed. The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed. 1)
As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, County of Santa Barbara, State of California.
(2) Civil Rights – Title VI Assurance The CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders or offerors that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. (3) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) A DBE Goal of 2% has been established for this contract. The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53. The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening. 1) The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; 2) A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; 3) The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) 4) Written statement from Bidder or Offeror that attests their commitment to use the DBE firm(s) listed under (1) to meet the Owner’s project goal; and 5) If Bidder or Offeror cannot meet the advertised project DBE goal, evidence of good faith efforts undertaken by the Bidder or Offeror as described in appendix A to 49 CFR part 26. (4) Federal Provisions The following provisions are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if given in full text: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Trade Restriction Certification (Reference: 49 USC § 50104; 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: 2 CFR § 200, Appendix II(D); 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Debarment and Suspension (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C); 2 CFR part 1200; and DOT Order 4200.5) 5) Lobbying and Influencing Federal Employees (Reference: 31 USC § 1352 – Byrd Anti-Lobbying Amendment; 2 CFR part 200, Appendix II(J); and 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) 6) Procurement of Recovered Materials (Reference: 2 CFR § 200.322; 40 CFR part 247; and Solid Waste Disposal Act) 7) Government-wide Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (Reference: 28 CFR 83.635) 8) Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (41 CFR Part 60-1.8) 9) Veteran’s Preference (49 USC Section 47112(c)) 10) Distracted Driving (Texting when Driving) (Executive Order 13513/ DOT Order 3902.10) (See Federal Provisions of the Contract Bid Documents for further details.) Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s). 4.
License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for either of the following classification(s): C-7 – Low Voltage Systems Contractor, or C-10- Electrical Contractor. 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.
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Contract Documents. The specifications (volume 1), bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) considered to be non-sensitive security information may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. All sensitive security information (plans and volume 2 specifications) require completion of the non-disclosure agreement attached to this Notice Inviting Bids and returned directly to Santa Barbara Airport to obtain said documents.
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.
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“If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali
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its prime location abutting the Pacific Ocean in Ventura – returns July 31 for its 144th year featuring a dozen days of entertainment, exhibits and all sorts of other excitement. Just about everything you can see or hear is free with basic fair admission, which runs just $12 for adults, and $9 for children and seniors. Leaving everything else aside – competitions, endless animal exhibitions, horse races, contests, 4H club displays, horticulture and all – that’s a steal just for the acts appearing daily as part of the Grandstand Arena concerts, which kick off with Styx on Opening Night, Wednesday, July 31. The lineup also includes country star Martina McBride (August 1), rock icon Melissa Etheridge (August 2), a disco-era triple-bill with The Ohio Players and special guests The Emotions and Evelyn “Champagne” King (August 3), X Ambassadors (August 5), ‘60s pop hitmakers Tommy James and the Shondells (August 6), country duo Brothers Osborne (August 6), Daughtry (August 7), George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ “Good to be Bad Tour – 45 Years of Rock” (August 8), and 1990s rock band Collective Soul (August 9). The arena also hosts Rodeo Days at the fair on closing weekend, Saturday, August 11, and Sunday, August 12, with two shows each day featuring P.R.C.A. Pro Rodeo action and adventure. But the music-making isn’t confined to the big touring acts in the Grandstand Arena, as nearly 20 acts local to Ventura County also appear on various stages throughout the fair, including Beatles tribute band Sgt. Pepper; Oxnard’s Caliente 805, who play “Old Skool, Funk” and ‘70s R&B, Latin and jazz; Rockabilly revivalists Hard Six; the
female-fronted classic rock cover band MisUnderstood; Zepp Heads, Ventura’s Led Zeppelin-loving ensemble; The Unforgettables Big Band, Thousand Oaks’s three-decade veteran 17-piece group that offers arrangements of songs by the biggest names in music from the 1930s to the present day; Ventura’s quarter-century old Main Street Jazz, which provides an energetic interpretation of contemporary standards in Dixieland style; and Moorpark country singer-songwriter Paige Peel, who has composed more than 300 country songs, including “Our Home,” written in the aftermath of the Borderline shooting. Meanwhile, the massive Midway, open for a full 12 hours daily for thrill-seekers addicted to spinning, zipping, bobbing, falling and whirling rides, has some new carnival rides, including the intriguingly named Insomniac and HyperLoop, which spins riders up to 70 feet above the ground in a giant pendulum that loops all the way around, a full 360 degrees. The daringly adventurous of a different sort might be drawn to some of the new offerings in the food court at the fair. The new fare includes deep fried loaded chili cheese bacon tater tots (I can feel my heart palpitating just thinking about ‘em), Deep Fried Philly cheese steak fries, and heartburn-inducing ChurroLocos, consisting of corn churritos stuffed with pickled pork rinds, finely diced jicama, crisp cucumber, Japanese peanuts, clamato, chamoy, and special chili sauce and finished with a fresh squeeze of lime. The Fairgrounds are just a 25-minute ride from Montecito, far closer and more temperate than either the Santa Barbara County Fair in Santa Maria or the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles. Get
all the details of the Ventura County Fair – including full daily schedule and entertainment lineup – online at www.venturacountyfair.org or call (805) 648-3376.
BASSH After Hours
It’s been some time since the choreographers’ showcase known as BASSH – which has mounted a riveting annual show for nearly 20 years in town – produced one of its smaller, more risqué evenings called “After Hours” at a downtown nightclub. The dearth and delay have been due to scheduling conflicts, producer Derrick Curtis tells us. But now the evening of burlesque, Latin and cabaret dance entertainment, featuring a cornucopia of choreographers’ edgier ideas, is back with all new performances of works that are fun, sexy, “too hot” for the annual spring production, yet still tasteful, at a club where you can move around the space and get as close as you dare. Proceeds support the traditional revue’s 20th anniversary, BASSH 2020, set for next March at the New Vic Theatre. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Matrix Nightclub & Lounge, 409 State St. COST: $10 INFO: (805) 957-4111 or www.sbassh.com/news
The Sporting Life
Reigning in the rain capital: Jeremy Casebeer, the Santa Barbara-raised 30-year-old son of the late local insurance legend and beach volleyball stalwart Chris Casebeer, won his first AVP beach tournament in late June in Seattle. To claim the title, Casebeer and his new partner Chaim Schalk, a 2016 Olympian for Canada, took down No. 1 seed Taylor Crabbe and Jake Gibb as well as the Santa Barbaraconnected team of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena (both lived here or
in Ventura in previous years). It took six full years for Casebeer to capture a title as a pro on the top tour for beach volleyball in the U.S., and the team immediately took off for Europe for the FIVB World Championships. But now they’re back stateside for the next AVP event this weekend in Hermosa Beach, Casebeer’s adopted hometown post-college, where the duo will play in one of the most prestigious tournaments of the year from July 26-28, one that is topped locally only by the granddaddy of them all, the Manhattan Beach Open, slated for August 16-18. Cheer on the locals onsite or online via Amazon Prime’s live streaming. Visit https://avp.com for details.
Polo Particulars
High goal season at the Santa Barbara Polo Club is already in full throng, with four 12-goal tournaments as well as the 16-goal opener, the Belmond El Encanto Robert Skene Trophy, already in the rearview mirror. But two of the biggest events of the season take place over the next five weeks, starting with the Farmers & Merchants Bank USPA America Cup, slated for July 26-August 11, followed by the prestigious Silver Air USPA Pacific Coast Open, running August 15-September 1. Tournament games take place on Fridays and Sundays, with all the accoutrements available on the weekend dates. If you’re a sports lover, or just a fan of the annual horse-filled Fiesta Parade, but have never made it down to Summerland to see some of the finest polo ponies (and players) in the land put through their paces, you owe it to yourself to spend a day in the sunshine savoring the sights, sounds and excitement of a top-flight polo match. Visit www. sbpolo.com. •MJ
6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4. 8.
Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.
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Yours truly with Ariana Katovich
French owner Kinka Usher, a director of TV commercials, who has filmed spots for Nike, Taco Bell and Pepsi, says he was inspired by a childhood visit to Spain, where was impressed by a Ferrari Dino sports car and the Alhambra, which was built primarily between 1238 and 1358. He bought the 2.4-acre site a decade ago and spent two years and multi millions building the property, importing all the floors from Europe and a $400,000 large swimming pond. The impressive compound includes a 11,500 sq.ft. main house with Attendees enjoy barbecue at the Food From The Heart thank-you bash (photo by Priscilla) Alhambrainspired estate up for grabs (photo by Marc Angeles)
cue thrown by owner Rick Caruso for his Montecito neighbors. Among the 50 animal lovers quaffing wine donated by Gretchen Lieff and John and Connie Pearcy, and noshing on the eclectic canapés, were Tipper Gore, Penny Bianchi, Gail Kvistad, Anne Towbes, Arlene Montesano, John Palminteri, Kristi Newton, Bob and Beverlye Fead, Beno and Kandy Budgor, Marie Larkin, and Michael and Kimberly Hayes. Fit for a King An elaborate Montecito chateau inspired by the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain is up for sale for $35 million. The custom-built estate has Moorish, Spanish and Italianate architecture, with tall arches and mosaics.
two master suites, and an attached one-bedroom guest house. There is also a 16-seat covered pergola for outdoor dining. Usher, who also owns a villa in Capri, Italy, wants to spend more time in Europe. Billy Rose at The Agency in Beverly Hills is handling the listing. Grilling Out Food From The Heart, a Santa Barbara charity which serves 160 elderly clients a week using 60 volunteers, hosted a thank-you bash at the Pilgrim Terrace senior living facility to mark its 25th anniversary. With an annual budget of just $270,000 and hydroponic vegetables grown on 120 produce towers by the Pilgrim Terrace Foundation, more
Rosenblatt, Bill and Jean Howard, Carmen Ortiz, Dave Gonzalez, Lynda Fairly, and Renate Dill.
Eric and Kelly Onnen with Javier Quezada, Community West Bank’s vice president (photo by Priscilla)
than 60,000 people are helped annually, with food prepared by Aaron Casale at Trinity Lutheran Church. The bustling barbecue bash for 170 guests in brilliant sunshine, co-chaired by founder Evelyn Jacob, Kelly Onnen and executive director Steven Sharpe, was cooked by Manny Ayala and underwritten by Community West Bank, with wine from the Gold Medal Wine Club and beer from the Draughtsmen Aleworks in Goleta. Among the hydroponic hoard were Gregg Hart, Sheila Lodge, Budd and Jeanne Carr, Eric Onnen, Mindy
Fountain of Youth Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has revealed her secrets to good health – and it involves something distinctly unpleasant. The 34-year-old former Dos Pueblos High student says she practices panea karma to combat the effects of “getting older.” “I’m kind of into these types of things, like health and healing places, and self betterment places,” she told an Australian radio show. “Especially as you get older and you have longer hangovers you realize the cells in your body are dying. I did this thing, panea karma. It’s basically ayurvedic eating and cleansing. You do a lot of enemas.” Ayurvedic eating involves consuming whole or minimally processed foods and practicing “mindful eating.” “You feel more energy,” says Katy. “It gets all the c--p out of you, every pun intended.” Suite Life Sleeping with Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner doesn’t come cheap! The Biltmore, the tony 22-acre hostelry, has just opened its newest suite, the 4,000 sq.ft. Ty Warner Villa, fea-
Food from the Heart’s Steven Sharpe, Evelyn Jacob, and Kelly Onnen (photo by Priscilla)
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Ty Warner Villa opens at the Biltmore (photo by Peter Malinowski)
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” – George Santayana
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turing a 180-degree view of Butterfly Beach and the Channel Islands. Outfitted with the latest technology, two outdoor entertaining terraces and 12ft x 15ft. plunge pool, a dual couples Dornbracht shower with a frameless glass wall that leads to a 150 sq.ft. outdoor jungle rain shower and a oneof-a-kind bathtub carved from a single piece of French limestone. The suite, which is accessed by its own camera monitored private driveway, also features butler service, complimentary car washing, pedicab transportation around the estate, and access to the members-only Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club. In addition, villa guests are offered select tee times at the newly Jack Nicklaus-renovated Montecito Club course. Rates start at $12,500 a night... Aloha and Thank You Montecito TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey paid a visit to the Maui Humane Society to thank the organization for evacuating animals during the recent devastating wildfires. Oprah, 64, signed photos for surprised fans and personally thanked volunteers in the wake of the inferno, which burned more than 9,000 acres of land. The media powerhouse resides parttime on the Hawaiian island, having
purchased a 163-acre property which sits on the slopes of Mount Haleakala, estimated to be worth upwards of $35 million. Oprah also gave permission to use a private road on the property in order to evacuate residents and visitors trapped by the inferno. You go girl... Fourth Time’s the Charm It took four tries, but former Montecito funnyman John Cleese, 79, says he “finally got it right” when he married British jewelry designer Jennifer Wade, 47, on the Caribbean island of Mustique in 2012. The former Monty Python star says he still only feels 43 despite his 80th birthday fast approaching. In an interview on British TV, he says he highly recommends marriage “if you can find a wife you really like.” John’s first marriage was to Fawlty Towers co-star Connie Booth in 1968 before tying the knot with American actress Barbara Trentham in 1981 until divorcing in 1990. Two years later he got hitched to American psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger, but the pair went on to divorce in 2008. Like a Bat out of Hell It’s not a case of bats in the belfry, but bats at Balmoral that are causing
problems for Queen Elizabeth at her 50,000 acre Scottish estate. Her Majesty, 93, who has been visiting the Aberdeenshire retreat built by Queen Victoria since she was a child, has protected Pipistrelle bats nesting in the castle’s ballroom. While the monarch reportedly used to catch them herself with a net before releasing them, she is now said to watch her many staff capture them. An old friend, royal author Adam Helliker, says staffers would love to eradicate the bats because they “defecate everywhere,” but are not allowed to because they are a protected species. “I’m told the Queen shouts encouragement, but now just observes the proceedings,” he reports. “It’s more of a show put on by her staff to stop them getting bored stiff.” Gone but not Forgotten On a personal note, it is hard to believe it was 20 years ago that John Kennedy Jr., 38, and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, 33, were killed in a tragic air accident over Martha’s Vineyard. I was in the Hamptons that fateful day at a friend’s beach house in Amagansett celebrating my 46th birthday. I was in my bedroom looking forward to a champagne picnic on the beach to mark the occasion, but when I entered the living room everyone
was glued to CNN as the news network covered the unfolding tragedy. Many of the U.S. Coastguard vessels searching for the downed single engined Piper Saratoga were also from the Long Island area, which made it all the more poignant. I would often see affable John in New York’s Central Park biking or playing frisbee with friends, and a longtime acquaintance, the late KK Auchincloss, had the penthouse above Jackie Kennedy Onassis at 1040 Fifth Avenue, opposite the Metropolitan Museum. To what might have been, even two decades on. A memorable day for all the wrong reasons. Sightings: Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten at the Rosewood Miramar... District attorney Joyce Dudley getting her coiffure teased at Supercuts on State Street… Carol Burnett noshing at Lucky’s Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sittings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@ver izon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 805-969-3301 •MJ
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C ALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
ENDING THIS WEEK Survival of the Fittest – Ventura’s new Beacon Theater Company makes its debut with Joe Penhall’s scathing comedy, Blue/Orange, an incendiary British tale of race, madness, and a Darwinian power struggle. Set in a London psychiatric hospital, the play is about an enigmatic patient who claims to be the son of an African dictator, a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. The inaugural offering marks a rare stateside production of the 2000 work that claimed the 2001 Olivier Award for Best New Play but has mostly been produced only in England, where it was adapted into a TV film a few years later. Tom Eubanks directs the cast featuring Brian Robert Harris, Emmanuel Odaibo, and Brian Kolb at NAMBA, located in the heart of downtown Ventura. WHEN: Friday & Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm; ends July 28 WHERE: NAMBA, 47 S. Oak Street, Ventura COST: $22 INFO: (805) 233-6965 or www.beacontheatercompany.com FRIDAY, JULY 26 Girls got Game – Molly Newman’s
1988 play Shooting Stars takes place around Christmas in 1962, when a fictional touring women’s basketball team that gives the play its name is preparing to face off against a local men’s team in a pre-Title IX America for an exhibition “game.” Offering more of slapstick with a taste of sex rather than hardcourt heroics, the girls in shorts work Harlem Globetrotter-style tricks before a tragedy brings the team to a crossroads. Keeping with the tried-and-true silly shenanigans that have kept them working, or play the men straight-up, with no tricks and no shtick? Both the Los Angeles Times and New York Times gave the piece mediocre reviews 30 years ago, noting that the provocative before-itstime idea actually plays the storytelling game according to formulaic ground rules, with characters that conform to stereotypes. And perhaps that is to be expected, as Newman – who was nominated for Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Book (Musical) for Quilters in 1985, soon went on to a career as a television writer and producer best known for work on The Larry Sanders Show, Frasier, Murphy Brown and Brothers & Sisters. Still, the L.A. paper did call Shooting Stars “tidy and fun,
ONGOING Groovin’ in the Grass – All three uberpopular outdoor warm weather series are in full throttle now that we’ve hit mid-summer. Concerts in the Park, the granddaddy of them all, draws throngs to the waterfront-adjacent Chase Palm Park’s great lawn from 6-8:30 pm on Thursday evenings. This week (July 25) perennial favorites Captain Cardiac & the Coronaries schmaltz up the best of ‘50s and early ‘60s rock and roll, with the obligatory trip by all the band members (save for the drummer) through the crowd, and the gotcha “Hokey Pokey” intro to the handsin-the-air-like-you-don’t-care encore of “Shout.” (Maybe they’ll surprise us with a different coda this year.) Next week: You’ll have to chase your al fresco dancing dreams elsewhere – perhaps downtown – as the park is dark in deference to Old Spanish Days Fiesta. Info: www.santabarbaraca.gov or 805-5645418... Music at the Ranch, which gets down every Tuesday from 5:30-7:30 pm over at the Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, gets ready for Fiesta with Santa Barbara native flamenco-Latino guitarist Tony Ybarra and friends on July 30. Info at http://goletahistory.org/music-at-the-ranch or 805-681-7216… Finally, on the film front, UCSB A&L’s summer soirée series forays back 60-plus years to “Those Fabulous Fifties!!” with screenings of classic films of the decade every Friday after sunset at the County Courthouse Sunken Gardens. This week (July 26): starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (who later teamed up for The Odd Couple) as male musicians masquerade as women to elude a mob hit as they flee the state and befriend a beautiful singer (Marilyn Monroe) leading to further complications. (Bonus: Downtown Santa Barbara has launched Rock Around the Block, a pop-up music series at various locations on State Street, with live music being performed 5-8 pm every Friday to serve as a preliminary event [or coast on the coattails] of the Summer Movie Series). Details at https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or 805- 893-3535.
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THURSDAY, JULY 25 Kiwi Combo – New Zealand fourpiece The Beths channel their longtime friendship into high-energy guitar pop that recalls the best of the 1960s with a smart, decidedly modern acerbic lyrical bite. On the band’s 2018 full-length album debut, Future Me Hates Me, lead singer and primary songwriter Elizabeth Stokes explores complex topics such as being newly alone and the self-defeating anticipation of impending regret, albeit as ecstatic vocal harmonies bubble up. The members of The Beths studied jazz at university, resulting in a toolkit of deft instrumental chops and trickedout arrangements that operate on a level rarely found in guitar-pop. After venturing beyond Australia and New Zealand to tour the U.S. and Europe last year, The Beths are back stateside still promoting the album that earned high praise from the likes of NPR and Pitchfork, with the second single “Happy Unhappy” named “Song of the Summer” by Rolling Stone Magazine. Girl Friday and Ariel View open the show. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com
a nice, pleasant ride” from an author who “sets up the characters clearly, with bright personalities and individual stories, and it’s easy to like them, their banter, and their own views of themselves and their futures.” The play gets a rare local production via the Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria with a largely local cast for a two-weekend run. WHEN: 7:30 pm tonight & tomorrow and August 2 & 3, plus 3 pm Sunday and August 4 WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $15 general, $12 students & seniors INFO: (805) 6846380 or www.thealcazar.org SATURDAY, JULY 27 Autos Abound – Used to be teenagers would race down Main Street USA to show off their muscle machines and other automobile-related prowess. Today, though, things are a bit more stately, as the classic cars are instead showcased in events that just so happen to fall on the same day, whether due to a crowded calendar or a desire for competition that hasn’t ebbed. The 19th Annual Woodies at the Beach boasts the “Best of the Best” Woody Wagons from all over the western United States, gathering on the west lawn of Santa Barbara City College overlooking the blue Pacific Ocean – and likely a gaggle of surfers at Leadbetter Beach who probably brought their boards to the beach via SUV rather than the classic wagons. All are invited to enjoy the artistry and craftsmanship that made the Woody a legend, and perhaps bring a picnic or purchase a tasty bite from the award-winning gourmet food
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” – Socrates
truck HEAT Culinary. Raffles, a Silent Auction and the sales of event t-shirts and other stuff supports local charities. WHEN: 9 am-3 pm WHERE: 721 Cliff Dr. COST: free INFO: 661-6196386 or email rick@larrabureframing. com…. Meanwhile, Groovin’ in the Grove, The Santa Barbara Elks Lodge No 613’s annual Classic Car and Travel Trailer Show, takes place simultaneously out in Goleta. Vintage cars, travel trailers, antique/specialty motorcycles, and classic military vehicles including a Hughes helicopter from the Vietnam era will all be on display (and juried). Other activities include the local band Ernie & The Emperors offering rock oldies classics of their own, while the eats feature BBQ Tri-Tip sandwiches and the output of the Chili Cook Off. Proceeds benefit our local veterans. WHEN: 9 am-3 pm WHERE: 150 North Kellogg Ave. COST: free INFO: (805) 452-0376 / (805) 8956040 or www.groovininthegrove.org SUNDAY, JULY 28 Hail Hallie – Hallie: First Lady of American Theater, tells the fascinating story of female pioneer of American theater Hallie Flanagan, who served as head of the Federal Theater Project for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. The play, by Santa Barbara author Claudia Hoag McGarry, weaves through the personal struggles, professional triumphs and difficult political circumstances Flanagan endured throughout her illustrious career marked by a campaign for equality, and offers a glimpse into both the woman and the icon that is Hallie Flanagan. The new work receives two 25 July – 1 August 2019
FRIDAY, JULY 26 Hanging Huff – “The Stories We Tell Ourselves” is the title for Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery’s first solo exhibition of Nathan Huff, an assistant professor of art at Montecito’s Westmont College for the past six years who quickly became known as one of the most exciting young artists in town when he moved here in 2013. The show will feature a diverse selection of sculptures and paintings, including a monumental 14-foot tall scroll painting that stretches from floor to ceiling plus an installation that will occupy the gallery’s front window space. Huff’s distinctive vision features a range of recurring objects, icons and visual metaphors, and an expressive use of color in dreamscapes that suggest a deeply personal and often mysterious significance. WHEN: Opens tonight, reception during 1st Thursday on August 1; exhibit on display through September 24 WHERE: 11 East Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: (805) 730-1460 OR www.sullivangoss.com
staged readings this afternoon at the Alhecama Theatre, one of the city’s most historic theatrical sites. WHEN: 3 & 6 pm WHERE: Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. (215-A E. Canon Perdido St.) COST: $10 INFO: (805) 698-3775 or www.sbthp.org MONDAY, JULY 29 Chums at Chaucer’s – Chaucer’s Bookstore hosts two authors of literary fiction who also happen to be literary writing friends and mentors to one another. Eldonna Edward’s Clover Blue, set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy’s search for identity that is part coming-ofage tale, part mystery, as it tenderly explores an unconventional, but no less complex family that resonates with our deep-rooted yearning for home. Anna Quinn’s The Night Child is a debut novel that examines the impact of traumatic childhood experiences
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and the fragile line between past and present, an intimate story of resilience, hope and the capacity of the mind, body and spirit to save itself despite all odds. Quinn, who is also the owner of The Writers’ Workshoppe and Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, Washington, and Edwards, a popular writing instructor, keynote speaker and former creative journaling facilitator, will share moments and sign their new books together… Tomorrow night, the bookstore hosts journalist, biographer and memoirist Mark Arax as he talks about The Dreamt Land – Chasing Water and Dust across California, a sweeping, engrossing history of his native California focused on the state’s use, overuse and shocking mismanagement of water. The book prompted Rolling Stone to dub the Central Valley native “a Steinbeck for the 21st century.” WHEN: All events at 7 pm WHERE: 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www. chaucersbooks.com •MJ
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LOS GRANDES DEL AYER SAT SEP 21 7PM RICHTER ENTERTAINMENT
ROY ORBISON & BUDDY HOLLY: THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DREAM TOUR THU SEP 26 7:30PM
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Submerged in Summerland – “Summer Fix,” Carpinteria portrait artist Benjamin Anderson’s new solo show at Person Ryan Gallery, brings a fresh perspective to iconic American imagery as the exhibition features large-scale, realistic renditions of racecars, pickup trucks and cars suspended in water. Utterly powerless in a state of tranquil dysfunction, each object is at the mercy of gravity, undulating peacefully in a dazzling web of refracted sunlight. The show features Anderson exploring expressing the movement and rhythm of water in painting, including “Swim,” a series of female swimmers languishing like mermaids beneath the currents, and “Cannonballers,” portraying swimmers as nothing but energetic, quasi-abstract shapes, a mysterious blur of color awash in azure sea. A portion of sales will be donated to local nonprofit Ocean Futures Society, founded by famed oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau. WHEN: Opening reception 5:30-7:30 pm tonight, exhibit through September 4 WHERE: Person Ryan Gallery, 2346B Lillie Ave. Summerland COST: free INFO: (805) 7703677 or www.personryangallery.com
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Pre-concert lecture with moderator Will McClintock, composer Jim Stephenson, and NCEAS Director Ben Halpern
by Joanne A. Calitri
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‘Cocoon’ World Premiere
evolved was fairly organic. I explained to Jim what we do at NCEAS, how our scientific teams operate and how I perceived them being similar to how chamber orchestras work, but the rest was up to Jim to explore and discover, and for the scientists to have a chance to see how a composer’s creative process works.
Backstage at Hahn Hall with composer Jim Stephenson (center) and Music Academy of the West fellows in his ensemble Emma Carleton, Alexander Lee Agate, Anne Pinkerton, Roy Park, Ethan Shrier, Anya Garipoli, and David Yongsoo Yoon
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he “Cocoon” world premiere arrived in a sold-out concert on July 19 at the Music Academy of the West (MAW) Hahn Hall, as part of the MAW Fellows “Picnic Concert Series.” The guest artist composition titled “Cocoon,” by Jim Stephenson, is a trifecta Artist in Resident project which started July 2018 incorporating science, music, and art. It is sponsored by the UCSB National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with Ben Halpern, PhD, UCSB marine scientist, and executive director of the MAW and the Morris Squire Foundation (MSF). Stephenson, currently a Chicagobased music composer and conductor, is an alumnus of MAW, which he attended in 1988 and 1991 as a trumpet fellow. He joined MAW at the 2018 Summer School and Festival as a composer-in-residence with support from the MSF. Ashley Hollister, MSF Executive Director, said, “Jim’s music was composed in part at the Squire Foundation’s baby-grand piano, and we are thrilled to see this very special work come to fruition. Squire is very proud to work with these two incredible local institutions, the Music Academy of the West and NCEAS, both of which are leading examples of world-class music programming and innovative scientific research. Our arts-music-science collaboration concurs with Getty Trust President Jim Cuno’s statement, ‘What we today recognize as art and science sprang from the same origins – a shared desire to explore and explain the universe in all its dazzling diversity.’ And we couldn’t agree more.” The MAW event started with Ben and Jim’s pre-concert lecture, moderated by scientist-musician Will McClintock, PhD. Jim explained the piece has three core movements, the opening where all the instruments are
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talking at once like the scientists sitting around a table, then each musician plays a solo leading into the finale where all join, similar to what he said he observed at NCEAS. The concert program commenced with the classical Schubert Quintet in A Major, D. 667, “The Trout”; followed by Wonju Lee “Yeon” a traditional Korean piano and mezzo soprano work; and the lively Strauss’s “Till Eulenspiegel – einmal anders!” arranged by Hasenohrl. All the musicians were impeccable and on point. Following intermission, Stephenson conducted his 13-minute composition “Cocoon,” by a seven musician ensemble of Emma Carleton violin, Alexander Lee Agate piano, Anne Pinkerton oboe, Roy Park clarinet, Ethan Shrier trombone, Anya Garipoli harp, and David Yongsoo Yoon percussion and tombak. Here is an interesting ensemble of instruments that performed equally well together and soloing, regardless of intentional scripted dissonance. The opening movement was a wall of sound high tonal range oriental fantasy themed movie, which abruptly dropped off into a brief silence as Yoon was switching from his kit to the tombak. His was a drum solo McClintock composed and sent to Stephenson. Being a middle eastern instrument, we were expecting the traditional model of Issam Houshan percussion, but the piece held onto single zoning repetitive patterns. Yoon’s technique is clean and perfected nonetheless. The piano solo was lively and full like a version of Aaron Copland’s “The Young Pioneers,” and only briefly touching a not full jazz bent with a flat key change. The clarinet, oboe and trombone solos were in synch and very trad. The violinist provided a commanding low-key melodic solo, bringing in the harp, which was too quickly
At the “Cocoon” premiere with its composer Jim Stephenson, and from left, Aaron Clark and Paul Merkelo
rejoined by the entire ensemble for the finale. Though playing as a group, each instrument played full force in their own world, brought into a full monty faux-ending, stopped and then onto the “big-bang” up-volume ending, of which there were no tympanic drums, but the trombonist filled the roll well. In sum, though not at the level of Mason Bates “Mothership” or Angelica Negron’s award winning progressive composition, “Bubblegum Grass Peppermint Field,” it proved to be a progressive out-of-the-box work for the composer and the scientist. The concert finished with the moody fantasy trio Schumann’s, “Fantasiestücke, Op.73” and the varied dance melodies of Bartók’s “Contrasts.” Keynote attendees at the concert were Aaron Clark, CFP, AAMS Founder & President Monarch Wealth Strategies and member of the MAW Compeer Committee, and Paul Merkelo, Chair Trumpet with the Montreal Orchestra and teacher at the MAW. I interviewed Ben and Jim briefly: Q. Ben, NCEAS initiated Jim’s residency? A. Yes, the idea was hatched at NCEAS because a friend of mine and resident at NCEAS – Will McClintock – has known Jim for a while and also has connections with folks at MAW, where Jim has had a professional relationship. It seemed like an exciting and natural fit to see if NCEAS and MAW could co-sponsor Jim’s residency with The Squire Foundation who also partners with the NCEAS’s artist in residence program. How did the NCEAS scientists become involved in Jim’s work? Jim’s residency was structured to allow for a lot of one-on-one interactions between him and the resident scientists. How that happened and
Jim, how and why were the instruments chosen for the composition? The instruments chosen were based on the interviews of the scientists I conducted last summer. The instruments were either played by a scientist during their childhood, or I thought the instrument would best represent their personality, so the Tombak – Will McClintock; Clarinet – Ben Halpern; Piano – Halley Froehlick; Oboe – Geoff Willard; Trombone – Casey O’Hara; Violin – Jenny Siefert; and Harp – Grace Goldberg. Jim, talk about science and music and this piece. The idea of synthesis and collaboration, very similar to chamber music: having an idea, and someone else commenting on it, and a new idea forming – this is very similar to how musical rehearsals and performances work. “Cocoon” travels through many keys. It begins and ends in G minor, I suppose. But the work is not formal in that respect. It goes where it needs to go. 411: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, or NCEAS, is a research center affiliated with UC Santa Barbara that conducts transformational science to inform solutions that will allow people and nature to thrive. It accelerates discoveries by enabling interdisciplinary collaborations and the synthesis of data and ideas that shed light on the big picture of complex environmental challenges. www.nceas.ucsb.edu Founded in 1947, The Music Academy of the West advances the development of 21st-century, classically trained musicians and cultivates discerning, appreciative, and adventurous audiences. Its world-renowned eight-week Summer Festival features nearly 200 events. Programs comprise voice, vocal piano, collaborative piano, instrumental, and solo piano. In 2018, the Academy launched a four-year partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra, focusing on education and performance on both sides of the Atlantic. www.musicacademy.org •MJ 25 July – 1 August 2019
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