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“She held every person she ever met with unconditional positive regard,” and Jeanne Thayer wouldn’t have it any other way, story on page 21

The Cycle Continues

The return-to-campus rules, or lack thereof, have resulted in yet another SBCC president resigning, this one after only 18 months, page 5

“I went with the idea of living a surfer life, but I learned the beauty of the work,” and such was the life of Steven Berg, story on page 20

A Tale of Two Directions

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5 In the Know Another year, another SBCC president resignation; longtime private school re-brands; the whales are putting on a show; and Santa Barbara prepping for new baby 6 Village Beat After a prolonged run in the Upper Village, the beloved Glamour House is closing its doors 8 Music Academy of the West Returning to the stage is emotional for violist Richard O’Neill, and he can’t wait to pour his heart out 10 Letters to the Editor Our history and culture on State Street is being tarnished by the quest to please restaurants 11 Brilliant Thoughts Order in the court! Experiences on both sides of the law.

12 Local News Raab Writing Fellows develop writing skills as a form of personal discovery 14 Montecito Best Buys If you’re in the market for a home under $4 million, take a look at these gems 18 Montecito Miscellany What a bash! The annual Music Academy of the West gala brought 300 music aficionados and supporters to Miraflores.

20 In Memoriam The life of Steven Berg was one highlighted by giving back to the community, as well as a man that was in touch with his own soul 21 In Passing Jeanne Thayer traveled the world early in life, giving her an appreciation for the arts wherever she went 22 PERSPECTIVES

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22 The Optimist Daily Health and Hearing: This novel hearing aid works like a contact lens for the ears 24 Seen Around Town The Lobero Theatre is an architectural jewel, and the Lobero Associates are still serving it quite well 28 The Way it Was A look at the Viva Community Chorus and its impact on what we now know as La Primavera 32 The Giving List United Way of Santa Barbara County has found itself adapting as the area’s needs have changed dramatically 33 On Entertainment

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by Nick Masuda

Out Goes Another SBCC President; In Comes New Identity for Private School

he seemingly revolving chair that is the top job at Santa Barbara City College is turning over yet again — the latest presidential resignation a partial byproduct of ongoing disagreements over COVID protocols as the school sets to reopen August 23.

In an abrupt announcement after a Board of Trustees special meeting on July 12, Dr. Utpal Goswami, president and superintendent since January 2020, sent a note to staff indicating that he was stepping down — joining Anthony Beebe (resigned 2019) as the second college president to abruptly resign from that post in the past three years.

“From my perspective, I have been a president whose presence has been primarily ‘virtual’ — having spent more than 85% of my tenure here in remote operations,” a portion of Goswami’s note read. “We did not get to interact on a personal level and get to know each other. It has been an unusual experience for all of us—but not unlike many of the unusual experiences we had over that last year.”

According to multiple BOT members, a lack of communication and Goswami’s lack of decisiveness contributed to multiple rifts in the shared governance of the iconic and topranked campus.

These schisms came to a head after the BOT voted down — by a 4-3 margin — a mandate that all staff, faculty, and students be vaccinated before returning to campus.

A lack of involvement by governing bodies representing both faculty and students ultimately led to a closed session meeting on July 12 that led to Goswami’s resignation.

“There’s been a real breakdown in the shared governance process,” said Kate Parker, the BOT’s vice president and Area 7 representative. “I would say SBCC has been kind of limping along. And that’s been visible for some time.”

Jonathan Abboud, the BOT’s Area 6 representative, was more direct in his criticism of Goswami’s decisions over his 18-month term. He first pointed to a closed-session recommendation for a trio of layoffs, with Abboud indicating that bad information was fed to the BOT by the school’s administration, led by Goswami, that ultimately led to the board approving the layoffs.

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Dr. Utpal K. Goswami resigned as SBCC’s president and superintendent on July 12

outspoken about the administration’s efforts to be inclusive over the school’s COVID protocols.

“The planning for return to campus was not adequate,” Abboud said. “I felt that there was a lot of inaction, a lot of bad decisions.”

Abboud attempted to get the BOT aligned to approve the mandated vaccinations to return to campus, but came up one vote short, despite calls for amendments to appease everyone.

As a result, the current return-toschool plan approved by the BOT is now based on the honor system, with those that aren’t vaccinated having to self-disclose to their instructor upon attending in-person classes.

This is a process that many faculty members are uncomfortable with for myriad reasons including an invasion of their students’ privacy, as well as the logistics of setting up classrooms so that those that need to be masked and socially distanced are accommodated.

Kristen Sneddon, an SBCC professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, says the lack of direction from the top creates issues downstream — issues that are completely avoidable if all parties have a seat at the same table.

“When you continuously seem to have this infighting at the top, that really impacts the staff and students,” said Sneddon, who is also Montecito’s representative on the Santa Barbara City Council.

Sneddon pointed to logistical questions of who would be forced to quarantine if a student becomes ill, or if unvaccinated students would be the only ones notified, not to mention the lingering issue of whether professors would have to have alternative lesson

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Village Beat

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

Glamour House to Close

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ne of Montecito’s longest running businesses, Glamour House, will close at the end of the month. Owner Ann Picciuto calls the closure of the intimate apparel store a “happy ending and a new beginning.” She and her husband, Rick Gehrke, sat down with us earlier this week.

Picciuto took over the long-standing Upper Village fixture in 2003; the shop has been located next to the post office since 1965. After 18 years, Picciuto says it’s time to retire — well, semi-retire — and the store will close its doors.

“I will deeply miss all of my customers and our interactions,” she said, adding that the friendships she has built have kept her going the last 18 years.

“What goes on in Glamour House stays in Glamour House!” she laughed, saying that the store has offered a rare camaraderie.

Glamour House owner Ann Picciuto and husband, Rick Gehrke, will close the longstanding Upper Village fixture in late July

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Music Academy of the West

by Steven Libowitz

‘Everything I was Involved in Just Disappeared’ Violist Richard O’Neill Relishes Being Back on Stage

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ife since March 2020 has been a whirlwind of activity and emotion for violist Richard O’Neill.

Like everyone else, he was deeply affected by the pandemic, as precautions shut down all the arts worldwide — “All my concerts, solo projects, summer festivals, and everything I was involved in just disappeared, like they’d been written on one of those white dry erase boards,” is how he colorfully put it earlier this week.

But O’Neill also experienced a jumble of other feelings over the period that encompassed joy as he reached new heights in acclaim, including winning his first Grammy Award — for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Performance, no less — this last winter (although that recording also had its dark moments), started a new coveted position in the Takács Quartet, and received the Music Academy of the West’s Distinguished Alumni award just last Saturday.

On the downside, though, he never had a chance to say goodbye to Santa Barbara’s chamber music ensemble

Camerata Pacifica after more than a decade as the principal violist, while, due to the Takács’ residency in Boulder, Colorado, he also had palpable proximity to another tragedy — O’Neill had just departed the King Soopers supermarket shopping center only 10 minutes before the shooting that left 10 people dead last March began.

O’Neill’s and the Takács’ residency at MAW this summer continues with a quartet master class this week leading to the String Quartet Showcase on July 20, the Takács Quartet’s recital that features Brahms’ “String Sextet, Op. 18,” side-by-side with two fellows, plus Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden quartet,” and O’Neill’s viola master class on July 27. The violist talked about MAW and the changes in his life over the phone earlier this week.

Q. What stands out for you in emerging from the pandemic?

A. Zoom presentations were very intimate and a total savior, but there’s nothing like walking into a hall and

The Takács Quartet will teach a quartet master class this week

seeing all the people. You can’t replicate that experience of all that energy – it’s a magical, wonderful thing. So, when I got to play in Korea last year after only two months of lockdown, I couldn’t keep it together. I lost it at the end of the concert and started crying and I felt a little embarrassed.

But being able to play for people again was just such an emotional thing.

Can you talk about your experiences in joining the Takács last year?

It’s been a dream to get into a quartet ever since my days as a fellow at MAW

during my formative years when I was encouraged by several professors to take the more risky route, the solo and chamber music route, and not to settle for the more traditional, secure career for a violist with a principal job in an orchestra. I’ve been listening to the Takács since I was a child, and they’re one of the world’s great string quartets of all time, an institution that has lasted 46 years. They have a direction, and their Beethoven recordings won a Grammy. I actually

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Letters to the Editor

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

Get Your Priorities Straight

To the Mayor, City Council Members: 4th of July my family and I took a walk down upper State Street in Santa Barbara. As we walked, we had concerns about the planning by the city to provide a safe sidewalk. We also wondered if there would ever be another parade down State Street.

The heritage of the city is at stake here. We have conformity in our architecture to celebrate Spanish heritage. Fiesta parades are part of our heritage. They are a big tourist draw and a city tradition. Everybody comes to State Street to participate. The children’s parade is family friendly. Are we losing city traditions because of restaurants? I am a Santa Barbara native born during the Depression.

I remember parades since about the age of 4 or 5. I am now 87 years old.

The parade is about who we are.

Equestrian, bands and floats are seen up close. How are you going to have a Fiesta or Solstice parade winding through parklets and planters? The historical value of the city is being compromised.

I am just about blind, and I couldn’t navigate down the sidewalk on State Street in a straight line. Ordinances keep everything consistent. That’s why our architecture is consistent.

Local citizens’ rights should be placed before local restaurants. Sidewalks and streets belong to the people. We pay taxes and a disabled person has a difficult time getting to where they need to go in the middle of a block.

How does a disabled person get to the theatre?

It is unwieldly to block off a main artery and to limit the parking. Please limit the promenade to a temporary time frame and consider a Fiesta parade route. Old Spanish Days is our heritage.

Nancy Minton Daughter of Santa Barbara

Why Isn’t Education More Critical?

Monica Bond believes our schools teach accurate history so there is no need for Critical Race Theory?

Well let’s see how that works out in real time?

Kayleigh McEnany, former President Trump’s press secretary said on FOX News “liberal haters always get the facts wrong. All our Founding Fathers were against slavery. And recognized as evil.” McEnany was educated at Georgetown University, and has law degree from Harvard. Somewhere along the line nobody informed her that 41 of our 56 Founding Fathers owned slaves, and Washington and Jefferson together owned 917 slaves.

Civil War was truly about slavery. And the Confederacy lost. But there are about 1,500 monuments for Confederate heroes. Just this week the statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from main square of Charlottesville, Virginia. What are we going to do with monuments honoring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved in Stone Mountain outside Atlanta! And if you visit Mount Rushmore, check monuments nearby for Crazy Horse. You might find out who killed Crazy Horse and why!

We celebrate the arrival of the Mayflower in 1620, the establishment of a colony, honor first settlers and rejoice friendly greetings by native population. Then all of a sudden we read about Project 1619, the arrival of the first slave ship! The Mayflower was really not the great seminal event, and Thanksgiving not an accurate description of history of settlements.

While no school, K–12, teaches Critical Race Theory, Republican state legislators in red states proposed dozens of bills designed to control American understanding of the past.

As of now, five states passed laws restricting what can be discussed in classrooms. The emphasis in all those

laws are not facts, but how it makes their white constituents feel.

Danute Handy

Gas Leaf Blowers: Disrupting Our Lives

One of the definitions of a rule is the normal or customary state of things.

Wow. Let me try to break this down.

The rule and law states that there are no gas-powered leaf blowers allowed in the city of Santa Barbara and that smoking is not permitted in public. I know that you’re thanking me for the laugh.

It is a joke.

Secondhand smoke can irritate the lungs and cause respiratory problems and breathing difficulties.

Gas leaf blowers produce hundreds of times more hazardous pollutants than cars.

The average gas blower measures 70-75 dB. We, other than passing useless legislation, have accepted these actions as normal.

More and more people are working, reading, writing, teaching, being mediative or just listening to music or following the news in our abodes.

Gas leaf blowers, in my opinion, can and do disrupt our daily lives.

Secondhand smoke is a bit less of a problem. As many Europeans are not around it has been markedly better. I empathize with apartment and condo dwellers with a smoker in close proximity of their unit. I lived above a chain smoker and had to move as a result as I felt like I was the one smoking.

Also, the fumes from the pot farms are ruining people’s freedom to clean air.

Again normal.

I guess the only way I can break this down is to use sports metaphors.

People have to keep the ball moving down the field.

It’s nice to go for the third-round knockdown but sometimes it takes 15 rounds.

It’s great to score a lot of runs in the first inning but there are still eight more innings to play.

It’s great to win a set in tennis but there are more sets to be played.

It’s great to have a 20-point lead in

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the first quarter but there are three more left.

The best we can do is keep moving in the right direction.

One more rule that we should rarely ever break is the golden one.

Gas leaf blowers, smoking when it hurts others, and ruining someone’s space with pot farm smells (especially by schools) is not consistent with the golden rule.

When in doubt do onto others as you would do onto yourself.

Unless of course you enjoy not treating yourself with respect and then keep it to yourself or reach out for help.

Steve Marko Santa Barbara •MJ

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Order in Court

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’ve only been in court twice in my life, and the first time, in 1956, resulted in a jail sentence. I was 21, recently immigrated from England, and eager for new American experiences. Driving my first car, I had received a ticket for going over an occupied pedestrian crossing. (Since then, I’ve mostly been a pedestrian, and was once actually hit by a car, and seriously hurt, while crossing a street. So, I’m now quite aware of how well I deserved that ticket.)

The proceedings in the crowded Traffic Court were very brief. I had decided to take whatever punishment was coming to me, so offered no defense. I received what was probably the standard penalty for my misdeed — $10 or two days.

I chose the two days — and was carted off to what was then Lincoln Heights Jail, ready for an interesting 48 hours in a world entirely new to me. (The building is still there but hasn’t been a jail since 1965.)

What I didn’t realize, however, was that, by the laws governing prison sentences, any part of a day of your sentence was counted as a whole day. So, although I didn’t arrive until early evening, I was due for release at any time past midnight. Nevertheless, the regulations required that I had to go through the whole lengthy process of being booked in. This included surrendering all personal property, which was carefully itemized and filed.

Then, just a few hours later, it was the whole procedure in reverse. This left me very little time to get to know any of my fellow prisoners, of whom there were many, all of us crowded into a single large cell, which was known as a “tank.” It seemed that most of them were in for public intoxication.

Although I got free transportation to the jail, there was none upon getting out — so I had to walk the long way back to my car through the deserted streets of a very early morning Los Angeles.

My second, and, so far, last, courtroom appearance, was not until 23 years later, in 1979, and this time I was not the miscreant but the injured party — or so I claimed to be. It was a case of alleged copyright infringement. A company which made what were called T-shirt transfers had been copying and selling several of 15 – 22 July 2021

my original epigrams, without any payment, permission, or acknowledgement. Although I had been carefully copyrighting my work, many people, apparently including these defendants, did not believe you could legally claim property in sayings as short as 17 words or less.

This was the first time that claim was being put to the test.

Unlike the Traffic Court, this large Federal Courtroom was practically empty. My wife, our lawyer, and I were there for our side. On the other side were two defendants and their lawyer. The only others present were the Judge and a court reporter, to record the stemwinding oratory of the occasion.

When I was called to the witness box, I was nervous. But I remember only one question from the judge which surprised me. My first book had opened with a (naturally complimentary) quote from the well-known critic, Clifton Fadiman — and the Judge asked me, “Did you pay him?”

Of course, I was happy to be able to answer with a very strong, “No!” How much effect this may have had on his decision I have no idea, but after retiring to his chambers for what seemed an agonizingly long time, he returned with a decision that my copyrights were “valid, subsisting, and enforceable,” and awarded me damages, fees, and costs totaling $18,000. Somewhat unexpectedly, this was not appealed, and was eventually paid in full.

Apart from these instances, most of my knowledge about courtrooms comes from movies. Outstanding in my memory are Inherit the Wind, about the so-called Tennessee Evolution Trial, and My Cousin Vinny. Neither film shows Southern justice in a very favorable light.

But for sheer entertainment, my vote goes to Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Trial by Jury, which is about “breach of promise,” a form of scandalous behavior we don’t hear about much anymore, although it’s still on the books in some jurisdictions. Gilbert (once a lawyer himself) has everybody sympathizing with the beautiful plaintiff, Angelina, and considering the defendant, Edwin, a scoundrel. After hearing both sides, the Judge dismisses the jury, and terminates the proceedings by announcing that “I will marry her myself!”

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by Zach Rosen

Diana Raab is the namesake behind the Raab Writing Fellows program

Raab Writing Fellows Develop Writing Skills as a Form of Personal Discovery

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riting is oftentimes a multidisciplinary creative process, combining the mechanics of English with one’s understanding of the subject matter. Since 2017, the Raab Writing Fellows Program at UCSB has been giving students the opportunity to express their range of interests and explore the multidisciplinary skills that writing requires.

Supported by author and educator Diana Raab, each year brings together a group of about 20 students in a yearlong seminar where they work together and independently on their individual writing projects. The program provides them with a $750 stipend and connects students with a mentoring professor that can help guide their process.

This year the program consisted of

20 students with the writing fellows and participating professors recently meeting on Zoom to present and share the range of projects produced this year. The evening was led by Ljiljana Coklin, Raab Writing Fellows program director, and Diana Raab was

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in attendance. Throughout the night each student discussed their work, reflections, and all of them included their appreciation and gratitude for the opportunity and experience.

While last year’s presentations had to be held digitally, the program this year was hosted remotely, with students never meeting in person. Besides this obvious change, there were several other improvements made to the program, including the first intern program with seven editing and three media interns helping the students with their work.

One of the most notable changes this year was the introduction of four different groups. Although their subjects were greatly varied, these groups of four to six students were working in similar writing forms and could problem solve and learn from one another.

The Academic Writing group incorporated the practices of traditional academic writing: reading research papers, performing interviews, and studying primary sources and archival news articles to draw their own conclusions on a subject. Katherine Swartz and her presentation, “Twenty Years Too Many: The Evolution of Practices and Purposes in the War in Afghanistan,” analyzed the historical progression, impact, and effectiveness of the war in Afghanistan.

The Creative Writing group emphasized their role as storytellers, even giving their presentations in a game-like fashion. Each of these projects brought light to different issues through the lens of fiction. Raveen Sivashanker with his novella, “Pilgrims,” looks at such issues as social status, language, and disability through a story of an Indian-American man born with a deformed tongue and his journey to India for a medical solution. Sabrina (Wanchen) Li wrote her novella, “Fish Hook without a Barb,” about her own experience getting tele-scammed as an international Chinese student.

The Multimedia Group all incorporated writing into broader writing formats like the interactive website “Stories from the Southern Border” by Lance Cortez that examined the 2018 migrant caravan and the conditions and stories along the U.S. Southern border. Gabriela Andrade produced a website and digital zine, “Fieldworker Stories Untold,” that investigated and shared the individual stories of fieldworkers and their families.

While many of the projects were inspired from personal experiences and interests, the Personal Writing group’s various works were all more intimate reflections, creating works that were influenced by their own lives. Lukas Aeschlimann wrote “Larry-Made,” a series of short stories and essays examining the life and loss of his father.

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by Mark Ashton Hunt

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Montecito Market Movement and a Few Best Buys to Boot

n pre-COVID times, one could buy a very nice home with 2,000 – 3,000 square feet of living space on a larger lot (over half-acre) or in a prime spot or beach area, for around $2 to $2.5 million. I can point to dozens of closed comps just two years ago, that illustrate how these $3.5 - $3.9 million dollar homes featured here below, might have been listed closer to $2.5 million just before COVID hit.

But what drove prices up so quickly? Most would say a lack of housing inventory, sprinkled with COVID work from home, and then there is the fact that prior to COVID, Montecito offered a lot for the buck when compared to Beverly Hills, San Francisco, and Malibu for instance. That said, with the 15-30% jump in prices since 2019, Montecito prices are now much more in line with those other luxury, world class destinations — but here you get land and well, you get Montecito.

While this update may not be news for locals who track the market, it is worth discussing, as some stats indicate we may be in a market transition, a moment where available housing for sale in Montecito is increasing (albeit slightly), while homes selling and going into escrow are slowing for the first time in a year or more.

For a quick June wrap-up, we had approximately 23+/- homes close escrow in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in June 2021. This is down considerably from last year. Is this slowdown in home sales due to the lack of inventory or is the market finally slowing down? If we keep seeing a few homes in most of the under $10 million price ranges selling each month, that likely indicates a solid market (22+/- or more sales per month).

That said, I’d like to see what the number of sales would be if indeed we had 15 homes in every price range for buyers to choose from like during normal

times. Also of note, many homes are still commanding top dollar, but homes that require a remodel are sometimes taking longer to sell in general, especially in the more than $4 million market.

For a quick June wrap-up, we had approximately 23+/- homes close escrow in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in June 2021.

This is down considerably from last year.

The COVID buyers rush indeed diminished the available housing inventory in a matter of months, down to just a few listings in each price range. However, since July 1, we have seen several properties hit the market in many price ranges. So, if you have been looking in the $3s (million, that is), here are four for you to consider, all newer to market in the last few weeks and perhaps still on the market by the time you read this.

564 Santa Angela Lane – $3,595,000

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his Mediterranean home is nestled above East Valley Road on a cul-de-sac near the Upper Village shops and restaurants and is just blocks to Montecito Union School. The two-story hacienda-style home is situated on approximately half-acre (0.459) and features a great room with large windows and wood floors. There are six bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, which is a high bed and bath count for a home in the Montecito Union School District priced under $4 million.

There are mountain views from numerous vantage points on the property, which also features colorful landscaping, covered terrace, numerous fruit trees, two-car garage and the yard that offers room for a pool. This home has been

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1567 Ramona Lane 1101 Alston Road 525 Las Fuentes Drive 475 Crocker Sperry Drive * 2148 Piedras Drive 680 San Ysidro Road 4625 Via Carretas 1777 San Leandro Lane 502 Picacho Lane 950 Andante Road 3628 San Remo Drive 546 San Ysidro Road B* 546 San Ysidro Road B 1220 Coast Village Road

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

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

Return to Miraflores: A Site to be Seen

Jason and Jennifer Cherveny with gala honorees Warren and Mary Lynn Staley (Photo by Phil Channing) David Lacy, Leslie Ridley-Tree, and Paul Guido at the Music Academy of the West gala (Photo by Phil Channing)

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iraflores, the charming 10-acre estate that has been the Montecito home of the Music Academy of the West since 1951, was the site of major social gridlock when it hosted its annual gala with a sell-out crowd of more than 300, raising nearly $450,000 for funding and scholarships.

The boffo bash, “Return to Miraflores,” was co-chaired by former board member Michele Brustin, board member Stephanie Shuman, and Fred Shuman, and dedicated, along with the summer festival, to Mary Lynn and Warren Staley, in recognition of their philanthropic and volunteer leadership on behalf of the MAW.

“This is almost surreal,” declared Jonathan Bishop, the popular institution’s chief advancement officer.

“Many of the ladies here say they’re having problems getting used to their high heels again after a season of virtual performances and social distancing!”

Faculty piano artists Jeremy Denk and Conor Hanick performed together for the first time with “Hallelujah Junction” by John Adams, while international tenor Ben Bliss, accompanied by Nino Sanikidze on keyboard, performed Lensky’s “Aria” from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and “Dalla sua pace” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, as well as a more mod-

Ann Edmonston, Robin Rickershauser, Pat Yzurdiaga, Linda Lansford, Lisa Yzurdiaga, and Mark Yzurdiaga (Photo by Phil Channing)

ern take on “Maria” from Steven Spielberg’s much anticipated remake of West Side Story.

Completing the entertaining program was the Tákacs Quartet with Brahms’ string quartet “No. 3 in B-flat major” and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “5 Fantasiestücke,” which featured three-time international Grammy nominee Richard O’Neill, former principal violist for Adrian Spence’s Camerata Pacifica, who joined the talented group last year.

Richard, who attended MAW in 1998 and 1999 and was awarded a Grammy last year for Best Classical

Instrumental Solo, received the Distinguished Alumni Award. Among the impressive list of locales, he has performed at are New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Disney Hall in Los Angeles, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Among the tony throng turning out for the bountiful beano were Al and Toni Amorteguy, Peter and Linda Beuret, MAW president Scott Reed, Richard and Annette Caleel, Janet Garufis, Leslie Ridley-Tree and David Lacy, Mary Dorra, Robert and

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Michele Brustin, Scott Reed, and Stephanie Shuman (Photo by Phil Channing)

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In Memoriam

by Ann Louise Bardach

The Saint of Montecito: The Life of Steven Berg

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ou sensed straight away that he was more than a nice guy; something other than a rail-thin, tall soul in a plaid shirt and jeans, looking to lend a hand. Though Steven Berg, who passed away on May 31, worked hard to convince you that he was just a regular gruff Joe, it was a tough sell.

If you lived in Santa Barbara, you likely met Steven — on his postal routes, serving meals at Transition House, or surfing the outer breaks of local beaches. If you were one of the thousands of annual visitors to the Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple in Montecito, you saw him every evening at 6 pm, vespers sitting on the floor in the back of the exquisite Lutah Riggs-designed temple. Once the arati chanting concluded, he perched himself against the rear westward pillar, carved from a 1940s Northwest telephone pole, and sat until closing time.

At Sunday lectures, he was the doorman who welcomed every visitor to the temple.

“Come in,” he would exclaim, quiet-

Steven Berg served the Santa Barbara community in many ways, including a postal route and as a volunteer at the Transition House

ly laughing, “everything here is free!”

When needed, he was the bouncer to those with the mistaken idea that the bucolic 35-acre grounds were ideal for a concert, a yoga studio, or just the place to tie one on and get lit.

Since 1982, Steven lived in a small apartment on the lower level of the Pavilion on the upper temple grounds. If you happened to peer into his window in the morning, you would have seen him sitting crosslegged, ramrod straight, eyes closed for hours. He passed a portion of every day studying the Bhagavad Gita. For half a century.

Although he declined to take formal vows as a monk (“I’m too independent,” he would protest), he was a monk. Indeed, in the view of some qualified to know, he may well have been a saint.

The facts of his life did not signal such an outcome. Born and raised in San Francisco to an Irish-Norwegian family, Steven attended Santa Barbara City College in 1964 for two years, briefly married, then hightailed it to Hawaii to live on a leaky boat.

His original ambition was to find and surf waves that appeared to touch the heavens. Indeed, he surfed until recently, when cancer sapped his strength, and he could no longer push off his board to stand.

In 1968, he spied a notice in a local Honolulu paper for a talk on Hindu philosophy at the YMCA. The speaker was Swami Vividishananda, a swami in the Ramakrishna Order created by Vivekananda, the revered monk who introduced meditation to

the West in 1893.

“I was completely enthralled,” Steven recalled, from minute one.

The swami urged Steven to work in the Vedanta Center in Seattle. Despite some misgivings about foregoing surfing, Steven stayed in Seattle for four years. He also graduated from the University of Washington with a master’s degree in art history and remained an avid student of painting, museums, and all manner and variety of flowers throughout his life.

Surfing returned to his life in 1974 when he gleefully transferred to the Vedanta Center in Fiji. For the next eight years, he lived at the Fiji ashram and taught at Vivekananda High School. At the same time, he became an accomplished beekeeper for the center, selling the honey to buy books and uniforms for his students.

“I went with the idea of living a surfer life, but I learned the beauty of the work,” he said, then quietly adding with characteristic understatement, “which stayed with me.”

A military coup forced him to leave Fiji and in 1982 he re-settled in Santa Barbara knowing of its jewel-like Vedanta Center on Ladera Lane — and its superb beaches. He also took a job at the Post Office, delivering mail for decades.

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In Passing

by Jack Thayer

Editor’s note: Portions of this remembrance are taken from a 2019/2020 cover story in the Montecito Journal Magazine about Jeanne Thayer’s life, also written

by Jack Thayer, her grandson.

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Jeanne Thayer was a lover of the arts, including time dedicated to the Music Academy of the West

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eanne Thayer never felt comfortable on a pedestal, ever since she was a young girl, too tall and lanky to feel like she belonged at the center of attention. Modesty followed her like a shadow, from her self-perceived awkwardness of youth into the awareness of her own privilege as a young adult. She lived a remarkable life and it took 90 years of reflective thought and emotional processing to get her to admit that.

Jeanne Cooley Greeley Thayer, an actress and longtime philanthropist that made an impact on both the arts scene along the South Coast and in New York City, passed away on July 6, 2021, at the age of 103.

Jeanne’s life wove together three long generations of American history, ultimately spilling into a fourth.

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the age of empires and the dawn of a globalized modern era. The Ottoman Empire still existed as a world power.

During her childhood, she would get a chance to explore many cultures, as her family finally enjoyed peace after a terrible war. Jeanne’s father, Kenton Cooley, was conscripted into U.S. Army service and remained as a career officer after the end of the war.

The military would relocate Kenton often and his family would move with him, allowing them to lead an abnormally adventurous lifestyle.

In 1924, Kenton Cooley sailed his family to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where, as a first lieutenant, he reported to Schofield Barracks, a sizeable military base near Honolulu.

Hawaii proved placid, the family’s time there a blissful combination of

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco

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

So Many Words, So Little Action!

It’s time for Corporate America to step up its game

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s almost everyone in the U.S. is now aware, Georgia’s Republican legislators passed legislation to: a) actively suppress voter turnout, making it significantly harder for minorities to vote by adding new vote-bymail identification requirements, limiting drop boxes, and an assortment of other measures designed to resuscitate “Jim Crow” voting in the state; and, b) provide the state Republican party with the right to choose who won an election (including who would receive Georgia’s Electoral College votes in the next Presidential election). It was a shocking rejection of democracy after the cleanest election, “most secure in modern history” according to Trump’s own chief of data security. Clearly, it signaled a very dark day for our republic and foreshadows the likelihood that one party, clearly a minority party, would seek to control election outcomes at the state and federal levels indefinitely into the future. That sounds a lot like an autocratic dictatorship, not a democratic republic.

Several Atlanta-based companies, including Delta Air Lines Inc. and CocaCola Co., lodged public opposition to the legislation and meekly requested that the Georgia legislature cease from its anti-democratic path. The legislature ignored them, and neither Delta nor Coca-Cola took any action whatsoever to reverse what they publicly opposed. So many words. So little action. Is it possible that both companies are afraid to take a stand on an issue that is vitally linked to our government and our way of life? The power Delta and Coca-Cola wield in Georgia is enormous. If they chose to use it, no doubt a significant component of the business community would have followed their lead.

Why the inaction? Most likely it is because both companies are unable to see that a failure to arrest this slide into autocracy will ultimately cripple the Georgia economy, and if Georgia successfully combines with other states to change the control of the Senate, the House, and the Presidency, it will certainly cripple the entire U.S. economy. Why is that so?

As I’ve written here before, Milton Friedman’s dictum that the only purpose of a corporation was to make profits for its shareholders dominated business ethos starting in the 1970s. It has taken about 50 years for the American business community to realize how insane this was. Today, the cream of business leadership acknowledges that an economy doesn’t magically float freely above the society from which it emerges. The two are inextricably bound up with each other, and when instability threatens the political realm, the economy is also threatened. (Other than weapons and bomb suppliers, no Syrian companies are making money in the war-torn wasteland that Syria has become.) And so, the Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, and all other thoughtful business institutions have begun to repudiate Friedman’s flawed “shareholders only” form of capitalism in favor of a new doctrine: “Stakeholder Capitalism.”

Stakeholder Capitalism espouses the belief that the most successful companies, in economic as well as social terms, are those that value relationships with all their stakeholders. The “stakeholders” are understood to be the shareholders as well as the employees, vendors, customers, and the communities the business serves. That comprehensive worldview of the role of business in society makes for greater profits and a healthier society, which in turn leads to greater business success over the long term.

A more recent example of active voter suppression measures being enacted by a Republican controlled legislature is occurring in the state of Texas, even as we write. After thoroughly debating the issue, more than 50 companies came out against the voter suppression measures the Texas legislature was attempting to pass. Those companies, including Microsoft Corp., Unilever PLC, and American Airlines Group Inc., signed a letter opposing “any changes that would restrict eligible voters’ access to the ballot” in Texas, days ahead of an expected vote in the state legislature on a voting bill. The statement began with these profound words: “We believe the growth of free enterprise is directly related to the freedom of its citizens. Freedom is preserved in our democracy when we hold free and fair elections that protect the fundamental rights of all Texans… We believe the right to vote is sacred. When more people participate in our democratic process, we will all prosper… By supporting a stronger trustworthy democracy, we will elevate our economy.”

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Health and Hearing

This novel hearing aid works like a contact lens for the ears

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lthough hearing aids can be helpful at improving auditory sensations in people with hearing problems, most of these devices use a tiny speaker that channels sound down the ear canal — this often means that the technology tends to amplify all sounds, including gusts of wind that may blow into the ear. The “alpha” hearing aid, on the other hand, works differently — and reportedly better — with the speaker sitting directly against the wearer’s eardrum.

The device, described as a “hearing contact lens,” is manufactured by German startup Virbosonic. It consists of two main components, one of which sits on the outside of the ear and the other one is internal.

The external part of the setup is a battery-equipped signal-processing module that is worn behind the ear. It is hard-wired to the smaller part of the device which sits inside the ear canal. That component is in turn connected to the piezoelectric micro-loudspeaker, which is placed against the eardrum.

When the system’s microphone picks up external noises, they’re relayed to that tiny speaker, which vibrates the eardrum accordingly. According to Vibrosonic, because the transmitted sounds don’t have to go through an air gap within the ear canal, there’s less room for distortion and less interference with wind noise blowing into the ear.

Research Shows Breathing Exercise Aids Blood Pressure

A study from the Journal of American Heart Association found that a strategic five-minute breathing exercise is as effective as medication or exercise for lowering blood pressure.

Called Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training, or IMST, the breathing exercise requires breathing through a device that restricts your inhale, prompting you to breathe more forcefully. The technique was initially developed to strengthen lung capacity for patients with asthma and other respiratory challenges.

During the study, 18 adults with elevated blood pressure breathed through an IMST device for five minutes, six days a week.

After six weeks, the researchers found that IMST breathing reduced the group’s systolic blood pressure by an average of nine points. They also had a 45 percent increase in vascular endothelial function, the arteries’ ability to expand when necessary. Lead study author Daniel Craighead, Ph.D. said, “We found not only is [high resistance IMST] more time-efficient than traditional exercise programs, but the benefits may also be longer-lasting.” •MJ Yes, a free society works better for the economy. Every capable business leader knows that, as the 50 companies who signed the Texas statement all fully comprehend. The key element is a democratic system in a free society.

That is what distinguishes the form of “capital markets economy” we enjoy from the disaster which is the Russian “command and control” economy.

It is not a coincidence that Russia has been looted for more than a generation by a system of oligarchs who split their state-sponsored wealth with Putin personally. The economy is in shambles, barely supported by very high oil prices that will inevitably come down even as production levels begin to reduce. Russia’s economy, never a big one (smaller than Italy!), is heading for a dramatic decrease in activity. The U.S. economy, on the other hand, hosts many of the largest, most powerful, most dynamic, most innovative companies in the world. The autocratic Russian system is a mess that will only get worse even as Putin tightens his control over Russia (as Trump clearly desires to do here) and attempts to hold off the inevitable decline. That decline will be our fate as well if we are foolish enough to succumb to a despotic autocracy managed by Trump as its cult leader.

Well, American business understands the connection between a healthy democracy and a healthy economy. It is enlightened self-interest that propels Delta, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Unilever, American Airlines, and all the others to speak out against the tyranny now metastasizing in Republican legislatures of at least eight states. They all know we are headed for a bad economic fall if we allow our vibrant democracy to fall. This is not altruism on their part.

This is hardcore reality. If we lose our democracy, we’ll lose the society that has created all those millionaires and billionaires.

There have been so many words. Now, let’s ask corporate America to back those words up with action. For their own economic survival — if the call to patriotism isn’t motive enough.

•MJ

“Every bad decision I’ve made has been based on money.” - Eddie Murphy

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auditioned for the position back in 2004, but it wasn’t yet to be. Now I’m just so excited to dedicate my time to learning that repertoire with the same people always together and rehearsing, exploring some of the greatest music ever written, even though I’ll have to do an even bigger juggling act with the solo work.

I imagine it would be hard to sum up your time with Camerata, but I have to ask.

I was supposed to give my last concerts in May 2020, but they got canceled of course, so I hope people don’t think I just disappeared… What to say about Camerata? First, (founder) Adrian Spence is really one of our community pioneers, who built the ensemble from the ground up. Some of my dearest friends and favorite collaborators are here. I keep asking (violinist) Ani Aznavoorian to play with me at other places because I miss her so much. Camerata, too. Hahn Hall is like my home away from home. It’s really special and I’m going to miss the concerts here very much.

How was it to receive MAW’s Distinguished Alumni Award last weekend?

It’s been a year of really dark surprises and then some sublime happy ones, too. The Grammy was very unexpected. And the MAW award, I think of all those who received it before me — Burt Bacharach, Marilyn Horne, Thomas Hampson, Cynthia Phelps — my dear beloved colleague and the principal in the New York Philharmonic — my teacher Donald McInnes … It’s just like a Who’s Who list of people who are pioneers and institutions. So, as I said in my acceptance speech, I feel like I have never left the Music Academy.

I’m like a 42-year-old fellow. I’m still learning and I’m still listening and I’m still trying to evolve every day. To think of all the musical giants that have walked those grounds … It’s really staggering what MAW and the community have accomplished as far as keeping musical excellence alive in the world. So, this award is really such an honor, and it means everything to me.

What does winning the Grammy represent for you?

This was my third nomination, but a violist has only won one time before (in this category), so when my

name was announced, I was floored, completely speechless… Having the recording academy honor you is special because it’s recognition from your peers, not some secret board. The composer of the concerto wrote it in 2001 when we were both living in Manhattan and I think 9/11 really altered the course of the piece, so it’s really quite dark in some places, but it has a hopeful absolution. It’s a wonderful nod for the viola, which is important because to this day, the viola still has a stigma as an orchestral instrument only. I really have tried my best by premiering lots of pieces and playing anything that’s good. But I think things are finally changing.

This Week@MAW

THURSDAY, JULY 15: A virtual virtuoso performance, Steven Isserlis, the widely acclaimed cellist who boasts a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, author, and broadcaster, is the first of this year’s Mosher Guest Artists to perform, albeit via video projection on campus. Isserlis, who gives most of his concerts on the 1726 Marquis de Corberon (Nelsova) Stradivarius, will play Bach’s “Solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major” and Bloch’s “Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello.” He’ll also be joined by pianist Sophia Rahman, who has recorded concertos with the Scottish Ensemble and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales among others and made 30 chamber music discs, for Dvorak’s “Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75.” (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $40) FRIDAY, JULY 16: This X2 recital features works by two of the most popular composers in classical music, plus a reading of a brand-new piece. Carlos Simon’s “Warmth from Other Suns,” which will be performed by a string quartet composed of faculty cellist Alan Stepansky with three fellows, was inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s similarly titled book about the mass exodus of African Americans leaving the rural South to seek homes in the urban West, Midwest, and Northeast between 1916 and 1970. Other commissions for Simon, a recipient for the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, which recognizes extraordinary classical Black and Latinx musicians, have come from the

New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra, among others.

His 2018 string quartet, Elegy, honoring the lives of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, recently performed at the Kennedy Center. Mozart’s “String Quintet in C Minor “(with faculty cellist David Geber) and Beethoven’s “Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 ‘Ghost’” (with faculty violinist Martin Beaver) round out the program. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; sold out) SATURDAY, JULY 17: Michael Tilson Thomas — founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, which is in the fourth year of a historic partnership with MAW — makes his long-awaited, in-person Music Academy debut.

The esteemed conductor-composer leads the fellows-powered Academy Chamber Orchestra on a rich program anchored by Brahms’ “Serenade No. 2,” with Mississippi-born composer William Grant Still’s “Patterns” and Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” serving as the meaty appetizers. (7:30 pm; Granada; $10 & $55) SUNDAY, JULY 18: This streaming-only recital for the X2 program features two works each featuring two faculty members side-by-side with instrumental fellows. Violinist Jorja Fleezanis and horn player Julie Landsman sit with a fellow violist, bassist, bassoonist and horn player for Mozart’s “Divertimento No. 7 in D Major” followed by husband-andwife faculty violinist Glenn Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus joined by fellows Emma Lee on cello and León Bernsdorf on piano for Dvořák’s “Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb Major.”

The concert takes place live at Hahn Hall but is only available via livestream online as part of MAW’s hybrid season. (5 pm; $10) MONDAY, JULY 19: The complete program for this all-fellows chamber concert in Hahn Hall — perhaps think of it as a picnic concert sans the picnic — has yet to be announced. But the fellows’ fare will include Gershwin’s rarely heard “Three Preludes for Trombone Quartet” and Janáček’s

“Mládí,” scored for six wind players.

(7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10) TUESDAY, JULY 20: The works being played by the 12 string fellows who comprise this year’s String Quartet Seminar are still to be determined, but the honing movements are under the guidance of the in-residence Takács Quartet and faculty and visiting teaching artists. With that sort of coaching, it would be naive to expect anything short of a scintillating show. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; sold out) WEDNESDAY, JULY 21: The first of only two Vocal Institute master classes is led by Daniela Candillari, the conductor whose recent and upcoming debuts include Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” with the Metropolitan Opera and “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and leading the New Works, Bold Voices Lab with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Operatic Encore with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Candillari has a strong interest in contemporary work in many different genres, as evidenced by her leading the world premiere of Stefania de Kenessey’s opera Bonfire of the Vanities at Museo del Barrio in New York and workshopping Rachel Peters’ and Royce Vavrek’s opera Wild Beast of the Bungalow at the Center for Contemporary Opera. To coach the fellows in the master class, Candillari will be taking a brief break from her main work this summer at MAW conducting the Vocal Institute’s upcoming multimedia piece, “Online: 21c Liederabend, op. MAW, Part I,” for singers and instrumentalists co-directed by Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini. (3:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10) ... Two-time Grammy Award-winning MAW alumna mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke (‘02) — who is sought after by the world’s leading orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles for her versatile repertoire and commitment to new music — is joined by pianist Kirill Kuzmin in an exclusive video screening recital from the Mosher Guest Artist. Debussy’s “Les chansons de Bilitis,” Berlioz’ “La Mort d’Ophèlie,” Rossini’s “Giovanna d’Arco,” “Three Selections from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson” by Copland, and Kamala Sankeram’s 2020 work “Listen” comprise the program. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $40) •MJ

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by Lynda Millner

An Architectural Jewel: Lobero Associates Still Serving the Theatre

Danielle McCaffery, director of marketing Cecilia Martini-Muth, Annie Williams, assistant director of development Sylvie Monsivais, and director of development Brandon Mowery

Lobero Associates president Mindy Denson, concessions manager Betsy Craig, sponsor Ruth Ann Bowe, Lobero executive director David Asbell, and administration director Marianne Clark at the Lobero luncheon

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elcome home!” exclaimed Lobero Associates President Mindy Denson as the group gathered for the first time since the pandemic. We were sitting under the new sail ceiling in the courtyard — a gift from the Associates to the Lobero Theatre. The sun and shade danced above us while a nice breeze flowed throughout. It’s a welcome change from the closed tent, if the weather cooperates.

The Lobero staff was also included in the luncheon. Lobero executive director David Asbell told us, “We used to say the Lobero was California’s oldest continuously operating theater, and no one ever argued the point. After some research we learned we’re the fourth oldest theater in the whole United States.”

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It was founded in 1873 and rebuilt in 1924, coinciding with the new festival Fiesta, or Old Spanish Days. It is recognized as an architectural jewel in both the city and state — a landmark. More than 70,000 people were attending events annually before the pandemic. There are many special anniversaries coming.

The Associates exist to aid the theater financially with whatever they

Associate treasurer Joan Crossland, house manager Rick Villa, marketing and communications Anne Wilde, and controller Don McGreevy

are needing. Through the years they have created the courtyard behind the theater and added the tent, donated a grand piano, helped renovate the women’s restroom, and much more.

They are noted for the “Hats Off” Luncheon and their Christmas Tea. They have managed to keep donations coming despite the shutdown.

The entire arts community benefits from the work of these ladies. Thank you for all you do.

Sculpture at the Casa

For the first time in its history, Casa del Herrero has a sculpture exhibition placed throughout the estate’s historic gardens called “Symbiotic — Seven Contemporary Sculptors at Historic Casa del Herrero.” It began July 7 and will be on display until November 24, 2021.

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In Memoriam (Continued from page 20) “Every inch of the Santa Barbara property, all 35 acres, has been touched by Steven,” says Pravrajika Vrajaprana, the resident scholar (and lilting soprano) of the Montecito center. That would include clearing brush, planting thousands of bulbs and wildflowers, beekeeping, bear chasing, rattlesnake excavating, and planting Matilija poppies all the to the top of Ladera Lane. When each monk, nun, and devotee passed away, she said, “Steven reverently paddled out into the Pacific and carefully laid their ashes with prasad flowers.”

Steven’s first bout with melanoma was in the mid-‘80s, likely from years of Fiji sun. He swatted away each recurring episode, even one that afflicted the top of his head near the brain. He carried on with his schedule of duties, study, and meditation, fully confident in his doctors, Sansum’s

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In Passing (Continued from page 21) Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, and, most of all, the path he had taken.

A year or so ago, he started immunotherapy with initial success but began to decline earlier this year. Through it all, he never complained nor pined for a longer life or asked for another outcome.

“Whatever you do,” he instructed me emphatically in April, “don’t pray for me to get well or to live any longer.

Really, I’ve had a good life.”

His oncologist was baffled, telling him, “I wish I could bottle whatever you have, because 99% of my patients say, ‘Why me?’”

“When I moved here, I took a vow.

Whenever anyone asked me to do something, I’d say yes. I wouldn’t ask why or what. I’d just say yes.”

— Steven Berg While working as a postman, Steven would often take the elderly who could no longer drive to the bank or on errands during his lunch hour. His last postal route was in a hard-scrabble neighborhood. Many of the families on his route had a member who was in a gang or a parent who was in jail. Some of the children were achingly lonely or in trouble or barely saw an absentee parent. He would bring them small gifts. And he would sign them up for catalogues and travel brochures so they would receive mail of their own and see the beauty and wonder in a world unknown to them.

For 32 years, he volunteered at Transition House, serving meals then sitting down with those without homes or money, offering care and attention. What made him remarkable was that Steven expected nothing in return. Indeed, he wanted nothing in return — the linchpin of karma yoga for aspirants. Steven, however, evinced no visible effort.

“We have no doubt that he has attained the goal he sought for so long,” said Vrajaprana, his friend of 32 years, conferring on him the highest achievement for a Vedantin.

His method was seemingly simple: “When I moved here, I took a vow.

Whenever anyone asked me to do something, I’d say yes. I wouldn’t ask why or what. I’d just say yes.”

Steven is survived by a brother, Kevin Berg. There will be a memorial service and lunch for Steven on July 17, 2021 at the Santa Barbara Vedanta Society on Ladera Lane in Montecito. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Vedanta Society of Southern California, 1946 Vedanta Place, Hollywood, CA 90068.

•MJ

exploration and creativity. Jeanne’s parents considered Hawaii to be a safe place for the children to explore on their own. Jeanne and her sister, Kathleen, along with a childhood friend, would often travel to an orchard in the coastal village of Wahiawa, where they would lie beneath the trees and eat guavas in the shade.

Jeanne witnessed the landing of the first trans-Pacific flight, flown from Oakland, California, and landing on a field transformed into a makeshift airstrip in Hawaii. She recalled how her father woke her in the middle of the night so that they could go watch the plane land.

He explained to her how important this event would be in the history of aviation. Jeanne never forgot that moment. Mostly, she remembered Hawaii as her first taste of a culture other than her own, and how this rich experience gifted her with a sense of wonder at such an early age.

Military life rotated the Cooleys back to the United States but allowed Kenton some time to give his children a solid taste of genuine Americana, to see the seemingly endless swath of land that stretched between the two coastlines. At a time before paved highways, they drove over 2,000 miles across the country on dirt roads toward Columbus, Ohio. The car could only travel around 40 miles per hour, and Jeanne recalled that theirs was often the only vehicle in sight. They had to carry extra gas and water given the general lack of reliable filling stations. They were on their own in the middle of the empty West. Jeanne remembered how often they would have to mend their tires due to the bumpiness of the road; Kenton would patch the tires himself with a kit he had purchased before the trip.

unsupervised, as they had been in Hawaii, playing with the neighborhood children and exploring the city.

While political conflict escalated in Europe, Jeanne continued living a relatively carefree life, pursuing her interests and exploring new places.

In 1936, she convinced her parents to let her move to New York City to pursue an acting career. She had just graduated high school and her father wanted her to attend college.

He yielded to his daughter’s desires and sent her to New York. Kenton agreed to support Jeanne for the first three months, but, if she failed to find a steady job by then, she would be sent back to finish college.

“She held every person she ever met with unconditional positive regard. She had the grace of a ballerina and the mind of a scholar.”

Wanderlust Ensues

During Jeanne’s early adolescent years, the U.S. Army transferred Kenton Cooley and his family to Paris. Jeanne considered herself fortunate to be living abroad during this time. It was the late 1920s, after all, and the United States economy was rapidly slipping into a Great Depression. Europe remained mostly immune from the economic disparities ravaging the United States. Paris was flush with life and prosperity and Jeanne, who became deeply enamored with French culture, paid little mind to what her parents were doing.

In Paris, Jeanne found a world suddenly available to her. She picked up the language and learned her way around the streets. She and her sister would spend a lot of time

“Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.” - Eddie Murphy

Jeanne Thayer led a life that touched Hawaii, New York City, the Philippines, France, and Montecito

— Kate O’Shaughnessy

This is how Jeanne came to find herself alone in New York City at the tender age of 17. She initially found a job as a department store model.

Back then, if a patron was interested in a garment, a store employee would model the garment on request.

Admittedly, this was not exactly the line of work Jeanne was interested in doing. Thankfully, however, her sympathetic boss afforded Jeanne extended lunch breaks during which she could visit local casting directors in hopes of landing a role in one of the local shows — which she did, including a role on The Woman.

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Jeanne posing in front of a traditional dwelling in Hawaii, circa 1925

She would eventually meet her first husband, Horace Greeley, an officer at West Point, a man that she fell deeply in love with, who led his unit in World War II.

Impacted by War

Jeanne served as an analyst for the Informational Intelligence Unit of the Air Transport Command in Washington, D.C., before mourning the death of Horace, killed as a prisoner of war in Bataan.

Jeanne spent years in a cramped building with no heat in the winter, nor air-conditioning in the summer. Life changed drastically during the war. Washington, D.C. flooded with people waiting to be deployed.

A visceral sense of urgency and fear fueled their work; people slept fleetingly and lived together communally.

They pooled what little resources they had in order to enjoy rare moments of peace and happiness, while the specter of war loomed just beyond the horizon.

The carefree life Jeanne had experienced as a child, and which had been fostered by her parents, was over. But her exposure to the depravity of war, the death of culture, and the glorification of destruction brought about by it, fueled Jeanne’s desire to perpetuate the arts, to seek beauty, and to never forget the inherent innocence and nobility of the human spirit.

A Familiar Life Returns

Before she became a grieving widow, Jeanne had encountered Walter Thayer as a civilian conducting business in London, utilizing military planes to transport urgent reports to and from Europe. Jeanne would ensure that their pilots delivered his parcels and letters, transported unofficially aboard warplanes heading to London from Washington, D.C. After the end of the war, Walter courted Jeanne, enticing her with an invitation to dinner at an upscale restaurant, to which he offered to escort her in his privately-owned automobile. It didn’t hurt his case that gasoline was still 15 – 22 July 2021

being rationed.

Walter wanted to start a law firm in New York, and Jeanne was ecstatic over the idea. She still had many old connections from her acting days before she’d met Horace. Walter was well connected, too. With some help, he started a firm that quickly proved to be a success, complete with partners and clients whose names read like a roster of the city’s most respected and influential people. Jeanne cherished Walter as a man incapable of dissimulation, a genuine champion for the truth, a character whose evident traits explained both his professional success and long-lasting relationships with friends and partners in New York and Washington, D.C. Jeanne and Walter had three children. With two young girls and a baby boy, they moved out to the country, where, in Rye, New York, they found more space and a peaceful place for the children to grow. It was the first period of calm she had enjoyed since her childhood in Hawaii. Yet, while she appreciated the family-oriented opportunities offered by suburban life, Jeanne always longed for the city.

She shared a deep connection with New York. It was part of her sense of identity. When the children reached their teens and began going off to boarding school, Jeanne and Walter moved back to the Big Apple.

Regaining the lifestyle she had lived before moving to Rye, Jeanne frequented lectures at the Museum of Modern Art every Saturday, including those by her favorite speaker, Claude Marks, who she described as having an encyclopedic knowledge of art and history. Jeanne was back in her element, learning more about the topics that had once inspired her and, of course, making many new friends along the way. Walter was on the board of the Museum of Modern Art and Jeanne would volunteer there as often as possible. She also became one of three women on the Board of Trustees for the State University of New York.

She was also a member of the Westchester Council of the Arts, the Council at the College of Purchase,

Jeanne holding Jack in front of the Santa Barbara Biltmore in 1997

and, later, a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York. Two fellowships are given in her honor, in fine and performing arts, both of which are still awarded to graduating students at SUNY. Beyond her service to academia, Jeanne remained committed to other organizations of the arts, participating on the boards of the New York City Ballet, Sleepy Hollow Restorations (now Historic Hudson Valley), and was a Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, with which she served on many committees, including the International Council. Jeanne was also the first woman to give the commencement address at Attica Correctional Facility as a trustee with SUNY.

A New Home

When Walter passed away in 1989, Jeanne took his place on the Board of Trustees for the Museum of Modern Art. She remained in New York for five years after his death before deciding to leave New York City in favor for a quiet corner in Southern California, the chosen home of her son, Tom. Montecito would provide a new style of life away from the bustle of New York. Jeanne found the 1994

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move to be bittersweet, appreciating the quiet beauty of Montecito while still missing the vivaciousness of New York City. Still, she quickly became involved in groups and organizations that brought her the same pleasure, being a part of the things that mattered to her. Most notably, she contributed often to Lotusland, the Santa Barbara Symphony, and the Music Academy of the West.

From New York to California, between galleries and gardens, Jeanne sought beauty and found it often. She continued to share that beauty with those around her. She was a treasure and inspiration to friends and family alike. She was caring and dedicated as a wife and mother. She imparted her love for the arts, travel, and the importance of education to all her children and grandchildren.

In the words of her granddaughter, Kate O’Shaughnessy, “She held every person she ever met with unconditional positive regard. She had the grace of a ballerina and the mind of a scholar.”

Jeanne is survived by her children Tom Thayer, Gail Reagan, Susan Noble, and Ann Thayer, 10 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

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The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Viva Community Chorus and La Primavera

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n 1919, Santa Barbarans had learned to work together for the war effort, and the time was ripe for a new era to begin, one that would start with the formation of a community chorus and blossom into a cultural renaissance.

The community chorus idea had been borne of the idealism of the Progressive Era and strove to bring about a democratic music that would bind people of all classes together with unified purpose and spirit.

Probably the greatest visionary advocating a new era in which cultivated American music would be produced and available to all, was composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist Arthur Farwell.

In 1913, Farwell had teamed up with Harry Barnhart, a choral director known for charismatic song leading, and the principles of the Community Chorus movement were born. They believed that the primary goal of such a chorus was for the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual unification of a community, so the artistic quality of

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Charles Fletcher Lummis had engaged Arthur Farwell to score some 450 Spanish songs he had collected on wax cylinders in 1904-05. In 1923, 14 of these were published in a songbook illustrated by local artist Edward Borein.

(Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Arthur Farwell Comes to Santa Barbara Arthur Farwell in 1921 (University of Rochester)

the chorus was of lesser importance.

All people, not just those schooled in music, could sing and experience the transcending power of communal spirit.

Between 1910 and 1920, the population of Santa Barbara had nearly doubled to 20,000 residents. Among that increase was a large cadre of talented, cultured people of means who had succumbed to the beauty of Santa Barbara’s natural environment and salubrious climate and had been charmed by its historic Spanish past.

With the end of World War I, it was time to rebuild cherished institutions, and increasingly, it was the influence of these newcomers who were to usher in a new Golden Age of Culture in Santa Barbara.

In late September 1919, The Morning Press announced that Arthur Farwell, a composer, poet, conductor of community choruses, pageant organizer and director, was coming to speak at the Recreation Center. He had been invited by a group of civic-minded citizens, led by nationally known poet, playwright, and suffragist Marion Craig Wentworth, to create a community chorus for Santa Barbara.

Upon hearing of his impending arrival, society editor Jessie Mary Bryant recalled a conversation she had once had with David Mannes, the violin virtuoso. Mannes had said that only a common love of beauty would bring about universal peace; laws and agreements between men and diplomatic activity would not help us attain it.

“He meant,” said Bryant, “all thing lovely: music, drama, pageantry, painting, sculpture, the beauties of nature, the fineness of mankind, the love of loveliness itself.”

Farwell promised to get the ball rolling on this premise.

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The new bandstand at Plaza del Mar was the site of the Community Chorus concerts. On this Sunday, an orchestra accompanied the singing. (University of Rochester)

As the Community Chorus moved forward, the preservation of Spanish music became an important element.

The December concert broke all records for attendance, and the chorus had grown to 500 strong voices.

The Morning Press reported, “To think that several hundred people, many of them without musical knowledge, could be brought together and welded into a chorus that would reach such magnitude seems almost incomprehensible.”

Three-thousand people joined in and were entertained by Spanish songs, Christmas carols and the heavier works of Handel, Haydn, Wagner, and Gounod. With the Community Chorus well on its way, Farwell’s prediction that people singing together would lead to orchestration to support and accompany them, which would then lead to the presentation of beautiful community forms of spectacle and drama, came to pass.

At the Recreation Center meeting, Farwell said that song was the origin and foundation of all other music.

“Through the community chorus, many pageants, entertainments and patriotic gatherings can be arranged to furnish Santa Barbara with the best of musical numbers and instill in the people a love of art, such as no other method can do,” said Farwell.

The University of California at Berkeley had hired Farwell to direct their music programs, but he planned to come to Santa Barbara once a week to establish the community chorus.

Week after week the number of participants in the Community Chorus grew. At the second meeting, Farwell showed those who didn’t consider themselves singers that with a little instruction they could make real music. By November, the press reported that the musical people in Santa Barbara were all agog over Farwell’s

Also in September 1919, business and civic leaders in Santa Barbara decided to create an annual festival based on Santa Barbara’s historic Spanish past. They hoped such a festival would bring thousands of people to town on an annual basis. They called it La Primavera. Wallace Rice, author and playwright, was hired to write the masque (pageant), Samuel J. Hume, director of the Greek Theater at U.C. Berkeley, served as director, and Farwell was director of music.

It was to be a community event and hundreds of locals were recruited to take on roles for the telling of Santa Barbara’s history. Irving Pichel, actor and assistant to Hume at Berkeley, was hired to play the narrator.

Music for the masque was collected

by Laurence Adler, music director and choirmaster of the Deane School in Montecito. Like Farwell and Charles

successful leadership of the community chorus. By the end of November, the Community Chorus was ready to give a public program at Plaza del Mar. Some 2,000 people gathered at Plaza del Mar that Sunday. Song sheets were circulated, and everyone was urged to take part. “Those who had come merely to listen,” reported the newspaper, “found themselves drawn-in irresistibly to the current of the music.”

As Christmas approached, the chorus continued to swell in size. For their Christmas program on December 28 at Plaza del Mar, an orchestra of 30 musicians from Los Angeles was to play. The program included a section devoted to Spanish-Californian songs, for which Farwell had created special orchestration. The press claimed this would be the first time such songs were to be included in such a concert anywhere in America.

Thousands attended the outdoor concerts in the park. The Ambassador Hotel (formerly the Potter) can be seen in the background. (University of Rochester)

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Preparations for La Primavera

La Primavera Association incorporated in October 1919.

Its goal was to create an annual event that would bring thousands of visitors to Santa Barbara to support local businesses. James B. Rickard became president of the organization and would continue his support of cultural and economic development over many years. (Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

F. Lummis in Los Angeles, Adler had been collecting early Californian, Indian, and Spanish music, much of which was composed in Santa Barbara.

A newcomer from Lake Forest, Illinois, Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, novelist and biographer, said that the quaint old Spanish music learned from old time Spanish residents and recorded for use in the play would be a means of preserving some of the sweetest of Spanish ballads. Chatfield-Taylor was a great cultural promoter and had brought Wallace Rice to Santa Barbara.

As plans progressed, there was an excitement in the air, and several community members were urging a movement to create a community theatre and art center to bring together all aspects of the arts.

The site selected for the spectacle was in a draw between Canon Perdido and De la Guerra streets, just

An early photo of Block 171, bordered by Garden, De la Guerra, Laguna, and Canon Perdido streets. The outdoor theater for the La Primavera masque was set up in a draw on this block. Today, Laguna Cottages for Seniors occupies the site.

(Courtesy John Woodward)

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A wooden stage was built against a rise in Block 171.

The Riviera and the Santa Ynez Mountains framed the action below.

The scene shows Primavera and her Months dancing.

On the far right, screened from the audience, sits the 100-member chorus recruited for the performance.

(University of Rochester)

Well-known author and playwright of celebratory pageants, Wallace Rice, was brought to Santa Barbara by Hobart Chatfield-Taylor and coached on the history of Santa Barbara by local authors Chatfield-Taylor, Victor Mapes, and Salisbury Field. (Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

beyond Neighborhood House (the old Arellanes Adobe) and north of Garden Street. Four-thousand seats were installed in the swale in front of the 80-foot stage built against the rising hillside.

Viva La Primavera

When April 28, 1920, finally arrived, weeks of promotion had done their work. The following day’s headline blared, “PAGEANT MASQUE LA PRIMAVERA SHATTERS ALL PRECEDENTS IN SANTA BARBARA CELEBRATIONS.” Record-breaking crowds attended the two performances, which opened with a prologue

by El Barbareño (Irving Pichel), who intoned, “Sweet ladies, genial gentlemen; this day glittereth like a jewel brightly placed. So come we hither to call back the Past when smiling nature at her kindliest ruled this newer Eden.

Such ancient things ye’ll see; but chiefly amidst our birds and flowers and butterflies, bright Primavera, spirit of this place, forever young, with blossomy dancing months (of May).”

The parade of history begins when Primavera says, “I hear the footfalls on my foam-laced strand of newer fates.”

These fates come in the form of the explorers Cabrillo and Vizcaino and then the missionaries who brought Christianity to the Chumash people.

When an ancient pagan idol is thrown out, it returns as a duende, a corrupting trickster who causes strife throughout the years.

In Act II, Spain yields to Mexico, and in Act III Mexico yields to the United States. Throughout both acts, singing, music and dancing predominate. The well-known Santa Barbara story of the lost canon (Canon Perdido Street) is portrayed. And wouldn’t you know it, it was the duende who made those boys steal that American canon.

The play, such as it was, ended with the commandante’s daughter marrying the American officer who had collected the 500 (Quinentos Street) pesos penalty for the theft.

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The cast of the Months included the daughters of many historic families, including Helen and Ethel Harmer, daughters of Felicidad Abadie and artist Alexander Harmer, whose brush preserved the stories and history of the Spanish past.

(University of Rochester)

At this point the play is essentially over and the Spanish dances of El Son, La Jota and La Contradanza lead to a grand finale danced by the entire cast to the singing of the choristers and the music of the orchestra. As the actors and dancers leave the stage, the American flag is raised, and everyone stands to sing the “Star Spangled Banner.”

An elated Santa Barbara heaped praise on the spectacle performance, which was a rousing success.

Unfortunately, it was a financial failure. In June, the organization sent out letters to its guarantors saying they had a deficiency of $10,000 and that each investor needed to pay his share.

Though La Primavera organization stayed around for a few more years,

they were never able to launch such a spectacle again.

At the beginning of December 1920, there was another disappointment for Santa Barbara; Arthur Farwell announced his resignation from the direction of the Community Chorus due to lack of support and the lure of work elsewhere. Nevertheless, La Primavera and the Community Chorus had lasting impacts on Santa Barbara by leading directly to the establishment of the Community Arts Association and ushering in a golden age of culture. (A complete history of the development of the Community Arts Association will be found in a future Noticias, the publication of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.)

•MJ Sources: Contemporary newspapers; Stoner, Thomas. “‘The New Gospel of Music’: Arthur Farwell’s Vision of Democratic Music in America.”

American Music, vol. 9, no. 2, 1991, pp. 183–208. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/ stable/3051816. Accessed 3 June 2021; La Primavera by Wallace Rice; Special thanks to Gail E. Lowther, Special Collections Assistant, Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, for photos.)

The main performance of La Primavera occurred at night and was illuminated by special lighting effects. This scene from Act I portrays the coming of the missionaries and the conversion to Christianity of the native people. The friars were played by students of St. Anthony’s Seminary, the Chumash peoples were played by students from the High School, and the Months on the right, made up mostly of the daughters of the old Spanish families, are invisible to the other actors. (University of Rochester)

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The Giving List

by Steven Libowitz

Changing Course:

United Way Alters Path to Help Serve More

be one key element that we focused on going forward, because we realized we played a key role when it came to individual assistance and the ability to build collaborative efforts from scratch.”

Having the agency forced to examine its response to the fire and flood proved fortuitous in retrospect, Ortiz said.

Namely, the COVID crisis and the ongoing fallout from the pandemic.

United Way, along with its major partners in the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Hutton Parker Foundation, were able to “quickly rebuild the collaborative and use that template we employed during the Thomas Fire to react very quickly to the pandemic,” Ortiz said, explaining that the infrastructure was established even before there were any cases of COVID found in Santa Barbara.

To be sure, disaster response was always an element in United Way’s work, but it had mostly been on a smaller scale and primarily in the area of fundraising, with the organization collecting the funds to distribute to other agencies who would coordinate the assistance.

“But the landscape of nonprofits has changed and many of those entities that were here and had a strong presence locally have become regional in focus,” Ortiz explained. “Since we had that experience locally already, we extended from simply being a fundraiser to also building the collaboratives that would respond in times of crisis.”

“ Our skillset, our ability is really coordination of bringing the best assets of our community together. That’s our key strength.”

— Steve Ortiz

United Way of Santa Barbara County has expanded how it aids the community, going beyond financial and educational assistance

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or a relatively large and well-established nonprofit organization in our community, United Way of Santa Barbara County over the last few years has demonstrated the ability to respond quickly to current circumstances — not so much as an about face or even a course correction, but more of an adapting to changing needs to meet its core mission. Until recently, that mission mostly meant leading programs and partnerships to improve school readiness and academic achievement, while offering financial empowerment.

The adjustments began with the Thomas Fire and Montecito Debris Flow in late 2017-early 2018.

“It was the first time we had a disaster of that magnitude that really forced us to look at what systems worked and what didn’t,” explained Executive Director Steve Ortiz. “We realized we needed to look internally in terms of having to build the structure of collaborative effort between nonprofits, government, corporate entities, and philanthropists all coming together to address those kinds of crises. It moved our organization to continue its focus on education and financial ability, while recognizing that response and recovery needed to

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United Way’s pandemic programs dwarfed any of its previous disaster efforts to the tune of nearly $27 million raised or managed for COVID response to support the community while more than 3,150 individuals and families have received funding to stay housed, meet basic needs and recover from lost wages.

Helping the community cope with COVID has not come at the expense of its longstanding commitment to providing academic support to students.

Ortiz stressed that the disaster response effort goes hand-in-hand with its original programmatic objectives of increasing school readiness and ensuring financial strength for families.

“The beauty of our community is that we’ve had enough support from both the government and all of the philanthropic entities to allow us to grow our infrastructure,” he said. “That means increasing staff, materials, and systems to be able to continue doing what has been our core in education and financial stability while adding a new, large-scale disaster recovery component without really missing a beat. We’ve expanded our efforts, but we haven’t lost our energy and the other areas.”

In fact, Ortiz noted, United Way of SBC has actually expanded its efforts in education in the past year as part of its pandemic response.

“Many more students are in need than usual after losing a year and a half of school,” he said. “We developed a unique program, through our partnership with the school district, to add more educational hours before school, after school, and during summer for kids so that more students are served, where the school districts just don’t have the capacity to do so on their own.”

This adjusted approach to assistance and focus for the agency has been formalized in United Way of SBC’s updated mission statement, as well as its new three-year strategic plan for 2021-23, while the just-published Impact Report spotlights what the nonprofit has accomplished and the nitty gritty of the aid provided.

The new strategic plan “represents a doubling down of our efforts in education and financial empowerment and adding this robust infrastructure for our community to respond to disasters now and in the future,” Ortiz said.

“Our skillset, our ability is really coordination of bringing the best assets of our community together. That’s our key strength. And it includes having the strength to say no to some organizations, because you can have too many players to work effectively. We’re just good at coordinating. We’ve had the infrastructure to both intake funding and redistribute funding as well. Now we have that ability to do that on a small scale and expand to a large scale when needed.”

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

To the Garvin! New Revue Puts SBCC Theatre Group Back on Stage

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f SBCC Theatre Group’s welcome back production at the Garvin Theatre this weekend evokes a feeling of deja vu, that might be because the show, now titled Here We Go Again! A Musical Revue is something of an update of one SBCC offered last fall. But while Looking Back, Looking Forward was made inside its sparkling, barely decade-old Garvin Theatre last October, pandemic protocols prevented any interaction between the performers, and the show itself — which already consisted of selections from past and planned future shows at SBCCTG — was filmed without an audience and only available for viewing via streaming.

“Between us, I’ve been calling it ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward 3.0,’”

director Katie Laris said. “It’s the third different version, because we kept trying to do it outside in person, but that wasn’t possible. Now that we can finally have it in the Garvin, some of the actors have moved back to L.A. or just got really busy going back to work.”

But whatever was lost in the transition has been more than made up for by an expansion of the cast and the addition of dancers now that restrictions have been removed. A total of 22 performers will be on stage when the Garvin welcomes audiences for the first time in 16 months for four shows July 15 to 18.

“We’re much more joyous and hopeful in this iteration,” Laris said. “We’re doing it with a lot of fun energy and dancing and we’re all in a much better

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mood than we were a year ago when we first got started.”

To that end, even if some of the same musicals are represented in both versions of the revue — Rent, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, Oklahoma, and Waitress — to name a few, several of the specific songs have changed.

“Last time, in October (before the election), when we were worried about the world, we started with ‘Willkommen’ from Cabaret, which has a very bleak feeling and alludes to the rise of fascism,” Laris explained. “We ended with ‘Seasons of Love’ from Rent, which is about the AIDS pandemic.”

This summer, though, everyone involved is feeling much more optimistic and hopeful, Laris said. “So, we’re starting with ‘Comedy Tonight’ from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and ending with ‘We Go Together’ from Grease.”

The revue also employs a framing device that casts Tiffany Story and Paul Canter as “theatre group super fans” who have won a trivia competition and have come to the Garvin to serve as pseudo-emcees in celebration

of the company’s 75th anniversary, which actually does take place this season, Laris said.

Evincing the new upbeat bent, selections include “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady, “You’re the Top” (Anything Goes), “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” (Oklahoma), and “The Tango Maureen,” perhaps the lightest song from Rent. David Potter, who is celebrating 50 years at SBCC, provides the musical direction while UCSB’s dance professor Christina McCarthy created the choreography.

“David and Christina and some of the people in the cast have invested in theater for so long and we were really missing not being together on stage or in the audience and watching something play out for the first time together. When we came into our space to rehearse for the first time, everybody was in tears,” Laris said. “I don’t know if other people feel the way we do, so I don’t know if it’ll feel like that for the audience when they see the show. But I believe people do need this community art form, which is so transformative, especially now.”

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Links. Dr. MacKenzie, considered by many to be the greatest international golf architect in the history of the game, designed such notable courses as Augusta National in Georgia (home of the Masters Tournament, which began in 1934), Cypress Point Club, and Pasatiempo (both in the Monterey area), and The Valley Club of Montecito. Then, there is Lahinch in Ireland, Royal Melbourne in Australia, and Titirangi in New Zealand, among others.

The eBook concludes with the 1934 image of Dr. MacKenzie’s funeral with his casket in the backyard of his home on the 6th hole at Pasatiempo with his neighbors and friends paying their last respects. You can order your copy through www.loonhill.com or www. julianpgraham.com.

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uring the years 1928 and 1929, Dr. Alister MacKenzie headed up the design and construction of the Cypress Point Club, as well as The Valley Club of Montecito, five years before his final masterpiece: Augusta National, upon which he collaborated with golf-world legend Bobby Jones. Anyone who has been in the men’s locker room at the Cypress Point Club since 2016 (and who hasn’t, really?), would recognize many of the photos on the walls of that illustrious club, as Montecito resident Barbara Briggs-Anderson supplied them all. She is curator of the Julian P. Graham Historical Photographic Collection in Pebble Beach, with an archive of 26,000-plus images and has over 3,000-plus of those images on her website www.julianpgraham.com or www.loonhill.com.

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Frank Hotchkiss (Yale 1964) is out to change Yale policy

it was headed in the wrong direction.

(Yale) had adopted a negative view of the college’s past, as well as America’s history, while not celebrating the great things that both had done (including three recent U.S. presidents from Yale).”

Other alumni felt the same and sought to provide input into Yale’s policies. Two months ago, Yale summarily said, “No, we don’t want your input,” and eliminated the sole independent alumni candidate for Yale’s governing body, the Yale Corporation Board. “That was the last straw,” he says, adding “and one that has been echoed at major universities nationwide. Elite academic arrogance would be the nice way to call it.”

So, he’s out to change things. He and others have begun a GoFundMe campaign to purchase a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal “to bring attention,” he writes, “to Yale’s haughty treatment of its alumni.”

Nearly $10,000 has been raised and many donations — to Frank’s surprise — are not even from Yale alumni. Their goal is $18,000, and

Tab Hunter recounted on his home webpage before he passed away that even during the time he was making movies, he “showed hunters and jumpers, judged, and also gave riding clinics”

Deacon Buckley skis with the Flying Ace All-Stars team

Hotchkiss asks that you “take a look at the campaign page (GoFundMe Yale Alumni Election Test) and join it if you like.”

Deacon Skis with the Team

There they are in full ski gear, the Flying Ace All Stars, in front of the practice jumps at the Olympic facility in Park City, Utah, where Olympic hopefuls practice during the summer months. The young man without a helmet in the front row is 10-yearold Deacon Buckley, grandson of Montecito Journal founder James Buckley. Deacon is too young to make

the team but is an all-star in his own right, having garnered four gold medals and having garnered regional and national slopestyle skiing championships in his age group. Many Flying Ace All Stars are heading for the 2021/22 Winter Olympics in Russia this winter. Deacon is too young to compete at that level but does have his eyes on the 2029/30 Winter Olympics in… TBD.

Rooting for Tab

Montecito real-estate maven and equestrian supporter Teresa McWilliams is heading up the effort to not only save the Earl

Warren Showgrounds, but she’s also spearheading a movement to honor the late Tab Hunter, a longtime Montecito resident and the ultimate horseman; he owned and rode a horse for most of his life, even while becoming the biggest star in Hollywood in the 1950s and ‘60s, and especially here in Montecito.

McWilliams is hoping to raise $500,000 in the lead up to the Santa Barbara National. She qualified that in order to raise this money from the friends and fans of Hunter, the money would have to be used to purchase the naming of an arena after him. State rules require a majority of the Board quorum to approve this requirement, but she’s been having trouble putting a quorum together.

She now has the support of Equine Evac and hopes that her goal will finally become a reality.

•MJ

2021 Puzzle 7: “Make It Count” Solution July’s MMMM, “Make It Count,” challenged solvers to find a musical movement.

The puzzle’s title was essential to figuring out the meta. Nine different symmetrically located grid entries contain a word that is one letter away from the number ONE, TWO, …, NINE. For example, DEATH THROE has THROE, which is one letter away from THREE. The full set is shown below: IRON ORE IWO JIMA DEATH THROE TOUR BUS GIVE OFF SIR DUKE SEVER TIES DRESS RIGHT PLUMB LINE

Taking the nine replaced letters, in counting order, yields R-I-O-T-G-R-R-R-L, or Riot Grrrl, the early-’90s feminist hardcore punk movement, and this month’s meta answer.

Pete always does a cover version related to the meta answer (usually with his band, the Kindred Souls). You can watch the video and see this month’s full write-up here: https://pmxwords.com/july2021solution/ 15 – 22 July 2021

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CALENDAR OF Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)

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THURSDAY, JULY 15

Finishing ‘Furniture’ in Ojai – No sooner had the COVID restrictions come to a close than Ojai ACT, the little-company-that-could based at the Ojai Art Center, launched its production of A.R. Gurney’s Family Furniture, a 2013 work which the late playwright described as “exploring the struggles of a younger generation to define and assert itself against the established values of its elders.” Gurney, best known for his oft-produced two-hander Love Letters, set Furniture in a summer community, one of his favorite locations to dive into challenging the manners and mores of the social milieu of his own upbringing — and perfect for our warmer weather in July. When Furniture opened in New York, the Times called the piece a “tender, sepia-toned play about a traumatic passage in the lives of a tight-knit, wellbred clan,” while another reviewer said that while it “seems to advocate forgiveness and understanding in dealing with life’s challenges, the play ultimately reveals itself as a commentary on how we maintain the status quo by hiding secrets and ignoring truths about ourselves and those we love.”

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

WHEN: July 16 (7:30 pm), July 17 (7:30 pm), July 18 (2 pm) WHERE: Ojai Arts Center COST: $20 general, $18 seniors, $10 under 25 INFO: (805) 640-8797 or https://ojaiact.org

SBIFF Film Talk – This week, Santa Barbara Film Festival director Roger Durling dishes with veteran local actor-director Perry Lang, whose career has spanned more than four decades. Lang has acted in numerous films plus 70 hours of television, including Steven Spielberg’s 1941 and John Sayles’s Sunshine State, and Eight Men Out, plus episodes of M*A*S*H and A Rumor Of War, among others. Lang has also directed episodes of such long-running TV series including NYPD Blue, ER, Alias, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Weeds, the latter starring his sister-in-law Mary Louise Parker. He also created, wrote, and directed Blue Belle, the award-winning 2010 web series starring Tessa Thompson. Lang’s newest feature, An Interview with God, is a 2018 drama starring David Strathairn. Next week: a meeting with Montecito veteran actor-director Tim Matheson who starred in Animal House, The West Wing, and, most recently, the 2019-21 series Virgin River (July 22).

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

FRIDAY, JULY 16 Summer Youth Theatre Under the Stars – Rubicon Theatre Company is producing a return to live performances after a summer of virtual-only shows in 2020 with an eclectic season of three Youth Theatre

ENDING THIS WEEK Big Top is Back – Circus Vargas’ 2021 production “Mr. V’s Big Top Dream!” is a semi-biographical show honoring circus impresario Clifford E. Vargas, who founded the company that bears his name in 1969.

Described as an eccentric entrepreneur and visionary, it’s said that Vargas’ ideas and passions drove him to become creator, director, producer, and promoter of everything his imagination could conjure up under one big tent.

The current show traces the tale of the young Vargas as he scours the globe in search of the most amazing circus artists he can find. Guests will meet a colorful cast of characters that Vargas encountered along his journey while also witnessing the culmination of his life’s work in the new production that is designed to captivate and astound children of all ages with acrobats, daredevils, aerialists, clowns, and more.

WHEN: Performances daily through July 19 WHERE: Earl Warren Showgrounds, 3400 Calle Real COST: $18-$70 INFO: (877) 468-3861 or www.circusvargas.comg

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by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, JULY 15 Mid-Air Masterpiece – Just when you thought it was safe to go back to flying… First-time novelist T. J. Newman worked at Changing Hands Bookstore in her native Phoenix before the sky beckoned. She became a flight attendant who worked for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 until earlier this year. But words had not truly lost their appeal, and Newman wrote much of her own book, Falling, in mid-air, putting pen to paper on cross-country red-eye flights while her passengers were asleep. The thriller is, yes, set on an airplane, and its instant success has been a vertigo-inducing ascent for the author, who sold the publishing rights as part of a two-book, seven-figure deal, then climbed even higher when Universal Pictures snapped up the film rights for another million-dollar plus offer. Critics have soared in their praise for the book, in which a pilot of a hijacked plane must choose between saving his passengers or his family. The Los Angeles Times lauded how “At every turn, Newman cranks the tension in unexpected ways that still satisfy the thriller lust (while) her insider’s knowledge comes through in details that not only bolster the book’s credibility but also catalyze the plot.” More succinctly, fellow crime novelist called Flying “Stunning and relentless — Jaws at 35,000 feet.” Newman comes back down to earth to talk about Falling today as part of Chaucer’s Virtual Chat series.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/95855146900 COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

productions, albeit held off-site with performances at the outdoor amphitheater at Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai. After opening last weekend with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the program operating under the direction of multi-hyphenate award-winner Kirby Ward shifts from Shakespeare to the musical adaptation of an animated classic. Shrek the Musical is a hilarious and joyous version of the film about a big green ogre who ventures out of his comfort zone to discover that inner beauty matters much more than surface appearances. Directed and choreographed

by Cheryl Baxter-Ratcliff and George Baxter-Ratcliff with musical direction by Billy Thompson, Shrek features more than a dozen young actors-singers aged 18-21 who have been enthusiastically participating in RTC’s Education and Outreach program normally held at the theater in Ventura’s Downtown Cultural District.

Villanova Prep’s theater is outdoors on a grassy hillside in Ojai with no designated seating, so guests are encouraged to bring a picnic blanket or a low-backed chair to spread out on the campus. The series closes August 12-15 with Les Misérables, the epic musical masterpiece set just after the French Revolution that tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption — themes that would seem to suffice for emerging from 15 months of lockdown.

WHEN: 8 pm tonight-Sunday, July 16-18 WHERE: Villanova Preparatory School, 12096 N. Ventura Avenue, Ojai

“I’ve always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.” - Eddie Murphy

COST: $15 adults; $10 children INFO: (805) 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

SATURDAY, JULY 17 ‘Show Ponies’ at Center Stage – UCSB Initiative for New & Reimagined Work and Center Stage Theater — which teamed up last month just two days after the pausing of pandemic protocols for the four-day live and video-fied “RE: Emerge Dance Festival” at the black box venue — are at it again. Show Ponies, curated by Noah Lashly, an artistic associate at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, is a collection of monologues and short stories from a diverse group of young voices including Agyeiwaa Asante, Lily Brown, Nora Crawford, Edwin Alexis Gomez, Audrey Kuo, Michelle Shocked, Alice Tuan, Gideon Jeph Wabvuta, Abraham Zapata Jr., and Lashly himself. The one-night-only performance serves as the next post-pandemic step in the Initiative whose mission is “to encourage and support new and reimagined works while nurturing the next generation of playwrights, directors, choreographers, designers, administrators, and performers.”

WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Chapala St., upstairs in Paseo Nuevo COST: $15 INFO: (805) 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org

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SATURDAY, JULY 17 Alcazar Rises Concert Series – Sixteen months since COVID cut off the Carpinteria theater from serving its seaside community, the venerable venue is licking its lips in anticipation of once again hosting live music on the historic stage. The Alcazar Rises Concert Series kicks off with local favorites South on Linden whose lead vocalist Trish Remley digs deep to help recreate the band’s up-tempo, classic rock covers. The concert is also serving as a tribute to the band’s original drummer Kevin Silk for his contributions to the community in celebration of his retirement as assistant to the City Manager of Carpinteria. Rock on, Silk and SOL! WHEN: 7-10 pm WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $20 INFO: (805) 684-6380 or www.thealcazar.org Uptown Buzz – Santa Barbara’s fun-loving cover group King Bee has been polishing up its party band pop hits in anticipation of “Coming Out Into The World Again,” its first post-lockdown public gig in almost a year and a half. For those unfamiliar with the boffo band led by charismatic lead singer Rachel Thurston, we’ll let you get a sense of King Bee’s good time vibes from her post on Facebook: “Woohoo! We’ll be back at the Uptown Lounge with three jam-packed, high-energy dance sets curated for all of our beloved fans drawing from some of the biggest dance hits from seven decades of rock n’ roll! There’s no cover charge! We highly recommend getting there early as we anticipate a packed house.” Thurston — an uptown girl herself who also knows how to get down and dirty on stage backed by the all-male band — also suggests showing up with an appetite, name-checking the full bar and stiff cocktails and “scrumptious menu including all of your favorite comfort foods with a gourmet twist.” We might add that Uptown also boasts a dozen beers on tap, 18 flat-screen TVs, two pool tables, and a large back patio in case a dose of fresh air seems like a good idea.

WHEN: 7-10 pm WHERE: 3126 State St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 845-8800 or www.uptownlounge805.com

SUNDAY, JULY 18 ‘Freedom to Flow’ – Center Stage Theater presents a cirque-style experience that boasts aerial arts such as lyra and silks, dance styles including contemporary and burlesque, and flow arts performances featuring hula hoopers, jugglers, and more.

Music and drinks on the patio kick off both the afternoon and evening performances, which are emceed by Kyle West and feature performances by Delaney Baril, Caroline Byrne, Katelyn Carano/KitCat, Stefani Henderson/Kittyhawk, Jessie Hutchison & Kyle Moore/Electric Jugglers, Kaycee Jannino, Jessie Kat/Alliance Of Gaia, Jasmine Kemp/SB Rollers, Abigail Lindsey, Zami Maria/Pyrokitten, Daisy Mohrman, Cori Ochoa, Rachyl Pines, Miche Renee/Miche Moonflower, Faeryn Rose & Bradley Holzer/ AmpliFire, Sam Tobey/Flowmayhem, and Harmony Valera/Seventh Dimension Dance.

WHEN: 4 & 7 pm (live music and drinks begin at 3 & 6 pm) WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Chapala St., upstairs in Paseo Nuevo COST: $25 in advance/$30 at the door, with a $5 discount for students and members of the military ($50 patron tickets include one drink coupon and a tax-deductible donation to the theater) INFO: (805) 963-0408 or www.centerstagetheater.org •MJ

SUNDAY, JULY 18 Making a Bea-line for the Canary – Santa Barbara’s Pacific Pride Foundation celebrates the Summer of Pride with the return of its treasured series Sunset @ the Canary. The events take place tonight, August 25, and September 22 on the rooftop of the Kimpton Canary Hotel downtown just a block off State Street which sports a spectacular view of the Santa Barbara skyline and mountains/beaches. DJ Darla Bea, winner of the Independent’s “Best Event DJ in Santa Barbara” five years in a row, is back to serve up the beats for boogying to the setting sun, and admission is free for the local LGBTQ+ community and allies. (Darla Bea is also spinning the sounds for UCSB A&L’s summer film series, “Movies Under the Stars in Your Cars” with a special ‘80s and ‘90s Throwback Thursdays Spotify Music Mix out at the West Wind Drive-In every Thursday night.)

WHEN: 6-8 pm WHERE: 31 W. Carrillo St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 884-0300 or www.canarysantabarbara.com 15 – 22 July 2021

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Village Beat (Continued from page 6) accounting and her master’s degree in business to keep the store afloat through fire, mudslides, and a pandemic.

“I was committed to not leaving the community in the middle of these atrocities,” she said. “But now it’s time to move on.”

The couple says they plan to do some traveling later this year, and Picciuto will continue to run her website, www.shopglamourhouse.com, selling elegant, fine, and timeless nightwear to her loyal following.

“It is time to begin a new chapter and pivot our company to take advantage of the times and opportunities of today,” she said, adding that it was the pandemic that prompted her to take the shop online, and she’s spent the last year cultivating the online platform. She will also travel to visit her vendors in Italy and Spain, gathering lines that are not easily found elsewhere, which her customers have come to expect.

The shop will close late July, and come Fall, a new lingerie shop called KISMET will open, catering to a slightly younger demographic. As the new retailer in the Glamour House location, Lindsey Eckardt will bring her fresh take to the Montecito establishment. Equipped with a diverse business background in fashion and beauty, Lindsey says she is eager to apply her passion and vision and to the reimagined space. We’ll have more on the new store as the opening draws near.

“During the past 18 years, we at Glamour House have had the honor and pleasure of cultivating longstanding relationships, creating personal shopping experiences, and befriending our many local clients and clients from around this country. We would like to thank each and every one of you for your support and patronage throughout the years,” Picciuto said.

Visit www.shopglamourhouse.com or keep in contact with Ann via email: ann@shopglamourhouse.com.

All Saints-by-the-Sea Reopens

After an extensive 2.5-year remodel project coupled with a complete shutdown due to the COVID pandemic, All Saints-by-the-Sea Church in Montecito reopened last weekend, welcoming dozens of parishioners eager to reconnect with one another.

“It was a true homecoming,” said Reverend Aimee Eyer-Delevett.

In 2012, engineering consultants advised leadership that the church’s iconic bell tower would not survive a significant earthquake, and that the oldest section of the sanctuary had significant foundation issues. The rebuilding of the 121-year-old tower was granted an emergency permit

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Construction at All Saintsby-the-Sea is now complete, after 2.5 years of renovation to address foundation and accessibility issues at the historic Montecito church

in 2016, and crews painstakingly removed and numbered each stone to be able to replace it in the same location after installing multiple concrete and steel caissons to anchor the tower.

Eyer-Delevett tells us that 97% of the original stones were re-used.

Construction on a larger remodel project began in April 2019, and included seismically strengthening the Sanctuary; adding a new foundation under the western half of the Sanctuary; making the altar and choir areas accessible to all parishioners, including those with mobility challenges; replacing the failing pipe organ with a world class digital organ; improving lighting and acoustics; building a Memorial Chapel with columbarium niches and memorial plaques; refurbishing, cleaning, and restoring the pews and the stained glass windows; and bolstering the church’s financial reserves to maintain the facilities.

Eyer-Delevett explained that prior to her arrival at All Saints, the church had endeavored to create a columbarium for over two decades.

“The congregation had long desired to have a columbarium where we can lay our beloved departed’s ashes to rest, but faced neighborhood opposition,” Eyer-Delevett said.

Neighbors agreed to the facility once it was decided that the columbarium would be fully contained within the Sanctuary building, only open during business hours, and available only for parishioners and their family members for interment.

“People live out the whole of their lives in church. They are often baptized as babies; they are nourished week in and week out through worship and sacrament; their marriages are blessed in church. To be able to also provide a place within our Sanctuary where Christians can be laid in their final resting place completes the story,” she said.

The project also served to remodel the building so that every entrance is accessible by wheelchair, a lift was installed at the Chancel to ensure all parishioners can access the altar, and technology was improved so that the hearing impaired are able to hear the service.

“The building now reflects the spirit and intention that all are welcome.

Spiritually, emotionally, and physically, everyone in this community is welcome to All Saints,” she said.

The total project cost approximately $11.1 million, which was raised by 250 families and friends of All Saints.

“A project like this can only happen when a group of people come together to make what seems impossible, possible. Now we can serve the people for the next 120 years,” EyerDelevett said.

General contractors on the project included R.J. Spann on the Bell Tower and Armstrong Associations on the Sanctuary. The architect was Montecito’s Bob Easton. Jeff Conway consulted on the Capital Campaign.

For more information, visit www.all saintsbythesea.org/sanctuary-preser vation. All Saints-by-the-Sea is located at 83 Eucalyptus Lane in Montecito.

Montecito Club’s Sports Complex Latest

Last Thursday, after more than four hours of discussion, the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission voted unanimously to give Montecito Club owner Ty Warner and disgruntled neighbor Angelo Mozilo two months to cooperate enough to conduct a noise study at the Club’s “Sports Complex,” which was built on the property’s upper lawn without the benefit of permits. The Sports Complex includes a children’s sliding hill, three athletic hard courts, sand volleyball court, turf soccer field, a batting cage (which is in the location of previously approved golf hitting bays), grading, rock retaining walls, and related signage, landscaping, and hardscaping. Club reps were also in front of the Commission for approval of a new 1,100-square-foot golf simulator facility located between the tennis courts, tennis building, cart storage building, and clubhouse.

Mozilo, who is being represented by attorney Barry Cappello, had filed a temporary restraining order earlier this month, forcing all activity at the complex to cease. In a letter to the Commission, Cappello called the Sports Complex “grossly inap-

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propriate” and less than 100 feet from Mozilo’s property. Mozilo has complained about insufficient setbacks of the Complex and noise impacts.

The Planning Commission approved the redesign of the Club and golf course in 2009, which included improvements to the entirety of the golf course as well as a remodel to the clubhouse including a renovated pool complex with a family pool and lap pools, new locker rooms and lounges, new fitness rooms, an improved dining venue, renovations to the kitchen, and more. Exterior improvements included a new member event lawn, a new golf cart storage building, updated parking lots, a new upper maintenance facility, and extensive landscaping. More than 100 members of the Montecito Club sent letters of support to the Commission last week, urging them to approve the as-built Sports Complex.

Reps for the Club told the Commission that the Club is sensitive to noise impacts to the neighboring community, and that they require that members use only club-provided bats, balls, and pickleball paddles, which are made from noise abating materials. Before the restraining order, the Complex was open from 9 am to 7 pm or sunset (whichever occurs first). An associated City Staff report asserts that noise levels from the facility will not exceed standards, and that no lighting is proposed at the facility. There are also no proposed changes to membership levels, parking, or other operational aspects of the Club. The golf simulator and associated equipment are proposed to be screened within a building; staff found the project to be compatible with the approved development of the property.

The Commission agreed to an objective of monitoring the noise from the Sports Complex and analyzing compatibility with the surrounding residential neighborhood. In addition, the motion included a requirement that the Club analyze potential alternative locations for the Sports Complex, particularly the batting cages. The Club is also required to increase signage related to the requirement of utilizing only the noise mitigating equipment at the Complex, and a hotline with an easily found phone number must be set up to field complaints.

“Fairness is very important here.

That is regardless of who owns the property, how large the property is, and the uses of the property,” said chair Deborah Schwartz.

“Today’s hearing is very disconcerting for me. With all due respect to the applicant’s team members here today, I don’t really think there are any justifications or excuses that are acceptable. But I’m trying to find my way through this,” Schwartz said prior to voting in agreement with the noise monitoring plan.

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MONTECITO WATER DISTRICT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021, 9:30 A.M. VIA TELECONFERENCE*

NOTICE OF PENDING ACTION BY DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO AMEND A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT DATE OF THIS NOTICE: July 9, 2021 CASE NUMBER: 21AMD-00000-00006 PROJECT NAME: Westmont College Conditions of Approval Amendment PROJECT APPLICANT: Westmont College

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Directors of the Montecito Water District (District) to be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at 9:30 A.M. the Board will hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of a resolution to continue an existing Water Availability Charge for the purpose of main replacement and enlargement. A written report, detailing the description of each parcel of real property and the amount of the charge for each parcel for the year, is on file and available for public review at Montecito Water District’s Office located at 583 San Ysidro Road. For information on a specific parcel’s acreage and proposed fee, owner may call 805.969.2271or email info@montecitowater.com.

The District is proposing to continue the existing charge as it was established in July 1996 and with such exceptions as have previously been granted by the Board, with no increase in the charge or change in the methodology by which it is calculated. The District will continue to collect such charge on the tax rolls, as in previous years.

At the Public Hearing on July 27, 2021 oral and written presentations may be made concerning said written report and proposed fees by anyone affected by said fees. The Board of Directors will also hear and consider objections and protests to the application of the fee. Any objection or protest must be presented to the District on or before the close of the July 27, 2021 Public Hearing or be precluded from consideration for the 2021-2022 tax year. *The public meeting will be conducted by telephonic and electronic means in accordance with Executive Orders N-25-20, N29-20, and N-08-21 by the Governor of the State of California.

Remote participation information will be available on the meeting agenda posted at 583 San Ysidro Road, Montecito, CA 93108, on the website www.montecitowater.com, and by calling 805-9692271. ### Run, MJ Public/legal notices section, July 7 & 14, 2021

PROJECT ADDRESS: 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBER: APNs 013-080-007, -005, -004, 013-090-004, -041, 013-050-018, 013-060-004, -005, and 006 ZONE: 1-E-1 and 2-E-1 APPLICATION FILED: June 18, 2021 DATE OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR ACTION: On or after July 12, 2021 the Director of the Planning and Development Department intends to approve this Amendment to a Conditional Use Permit for the development described below, based upon the ability to make all of the required findings and subject to the attached terms and conditions.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed project is an Amendment to a previously approved Conditional Use Permit, Case No. 14RVP-00000-00091, in compliance with Section 35.474.040.D (Changes to an Approved Project) of the Montecito Land Use and Development Code. The applicant is requesting to amend the approved Conditional Use Permit to allow a temporary increase in the maximum allowable enrollment from 1,235 to 1,305 students studying at the Montecito Westmont College campus for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years to accommodate students that cannot be in off-campus study abroad programs due to the COVID19 pandemic. The additional students can be accommodated in on-campus housing and permitted to live off-campus in accordance with the conditions of the approved Conditional Use Permit. No new structures or development are proposed as part of this Amendment. All other conditions of the Conditional Use Permit will remain in full effect, including the maximum cumulative average enrollment of students (1,200). Limitations placed on the project to ensure policy consistency and neighborhood compatibility, such as maximum average daily trips on Cold Springs Road, will remain in effect. As the requested changes are limited to a temporary increase in the maximum enrollment (2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic school years only), Westmont College will continue to operate in compliance with all conditions of approval not altered by this Amendment.

PUBLIC COMMENT: A public hearing will not be held on this matter. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to submit written testimony in support or opposition to the proposed project, 21AMD-00000-00006. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, or wbrown@countyofsb.org, Attention: Willow Brown, for Travis Seawards, Deputy Director, Planning and Development. Letters should be received in the office of the Planning and Development Department 24 hours prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. For further information please contact Willow Brown at 805-568-2040 or wbrown@countyofsb.org.

MATERIAL REVIEW: Staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at the Planning and Development Department a week prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. Please contact Willow Brown at 805-568-2040 or wbrown@countyofsb.org for access to this information.

APPEAL PERIOD ENDS: July 23, 2021 This final approval may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant, owner, or any aggrieved person adversely affected by such decision. The appeal must be filed in writing and submitted with the appropriate appeal fees to the Planning and Development Department either at 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, prior to 5:00 p.m. on July 22, 2021.

CHALLENGES: If you challenge the project 21AMD-00000-00006 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written correspondence to the Planning and Development Department.

Published July 14, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elite Riviera International, 4675 Greenhill Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Jessy Lee, 4675 Greenhill Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001889.

Published July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fern and Fig Real Estate, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Sean Blackman, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 1, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001934. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Trippers & Askers, 406 E. Haley Street #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Untidy Activity LLC, 1966 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001776. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fiber-Seal of Santa Barbara, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Joseph J Del Bonis, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-

0001743. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 750MLS, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Stephane Colling, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001783. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haigh Holdings, INC, 107 S Signal St, Ojai, CA 93023. Haigh Holdings, INC, 1187 Coast Village Rd – STE 1-284, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001775. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UPS Store 2342, 315 Meigs Rd Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Urban Urth LLC, 11955 Vara Place, Granada Hills, CA 91344. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 20210001879. Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Riskin Partners, 1250 Coast Village Rd. Suite A, Santa Barbara CA 93108. Dina Landi, 525 Periwinkle Ln, Santa Barbara CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 17, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001784.

Published June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Price, Postel & Parma LLP, 200 E. Carrillo Street, Suite 400, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Douglas D. Rossi, 49 Canyon Acres, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Craig Parton, 33 Langlo Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Cylde (Chip) E. Wullbrandt, 1950 Still Meadow Road, Ballard, CA 93463. Christopher Haskell, 105 La Vista Grande, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Timothy E. Metzinger, 5770 Leeds Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. Todd Amspoker, 247 Morada Lane, Santa Barbara CA 93105. Mark Manion, 26 La Flecha Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Melissa Fassett, 1157 Edgemound Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Ian M. Fisher, 1354 Rialto Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Shereef Moharram, 602 Calle Rinconada, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Kristen M.R. Blabey, 6955 Cathedral Oaks Road, Goleta, CA 93117. Shannon D. Boyd, 1132 Highland Road, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2021.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001753.

Published June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Janitorial Services, 232 West De La Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Manuel Dorado Arroyo, 232 West De La Guerra St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 21, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001820.

Published June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Inspired Being, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067. Linda Dam, 2421 Shelby Street, Unit A, Summerland, CA 93067; Chelsea Rothert, 2962 Iroquois Dr., Thompson’s Station, TN, 37179. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 3, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office

of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001653.

Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JC Electric; JCE 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. John Curulla, 303 W Arrellaga St. Apt 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 17, 2021. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2021-0001795.

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

Published June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV02320. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sarakan Arulthasan filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sarangan Arulthasan.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 30, 2021 by Terri Chavez.

Hearing date: August 20, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28

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Best Buys (Continued from page 14)

under the same ownership since the 1960s and is available now for a new owner to enjoy.

804 Rametto Lane – $3,850,000

Additional features include vaulted wood ceilings, five fireplaces, a formal dining room and wood floors. This parcel offers numerous stone patios, outdoor fireplace, two-car garage, gated courtyard, meandering stone paths, and a detached studio with a full bath. The home is situated in the lower foothills, near some of Montecito’s best hiking trails and just a few blocks to Cold Spring School.

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his primarily single-level home features four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and showcases ocean and island views from nearly every room.

The convenient location above the Montecito Club provides quick access to Montecito’s Upper and Lower Villages, the beaches, and to downtown Santa Barbara.

The residence was designed in the French Regency architectural style with a Mansard roof and designer’s portico entrance. An expansive terrace runs the length of the house with a hillside view of the Pacific Ocean. Three of the four bedrooms, including the primary suite, reside on the main floor, while a guest suite with fireplace, balcony and landscaped ocean views occupies the upstairs.

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estled under magical oaks and sycamores down a secluded shared driveway, this home boasts three bedrooms plus den and three bathrooms with approximately 3,587 square feet of living space across a usable acre. An open floor plan with warm interiors and many doors and windows welcomes an abundance of light.

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his single-level, Ranch-style property offers 3,375 square feet of living space in the main residence and lower-level apartment, near many significant estate properties in Montecito. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home has tall ceilings, wide hallways, hardwood floors, two fireplaces, and an updated primary bathroom.

The 1.31-acre property with stone wall, green hedging and the gated entry, together provide privacy and room to roam. Meander through the gardens on the brick and stone pathways that lead to several outdoor seating areas or head into the hills on a nearby hiking trail.

Additionally, there is a stone wine cellar, a workshop, a two-car attached garage and guest parking, all within the Cold Spring School District.

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Miscellany (Continued from page 18) MAW Clarinet Faculty Artist Richie Hawley, his wife Jennifer Hawley, and Scott Reed (Photo by Phil Channing)

“Love and love to the love of my life.”

The tony twosome met while both studying at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, working in a comedy troupe together on campus.

They went on together to star on Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1984 and guest starred alongside each other on two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The duo also shares two sons together, Henry, 28, and Charles, 24.

That’s a Wrap!

Carpinteria TV talk show host Conan O’Brien is going to pot!

The 58-year-old Harvard graduate puffed on a joint with comedian-filmmaker guest Seth Rogen, 39, who suggested he should “Get high!” when his TBS late night show ended after nearly 30 years.

“I would suggest — this is going to be hilariously on-brand — try sucking a lot of weed for a long time,” Rogen laughed when O’Brien asked him how he should spend his free time.

Last year, O’Brien, who owns a beach house on Padaro Lane near Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Star Wars mogul George Lucas, announced he was wrapping his popular show and moving on to other projects.

Rowe-ing in a New Direction

Richard and Annette Caleel with the recently engaged Hyon Chough and Maurice Singer (Photo by Phil Channing)

Robin Fell, Margo Feinberg, Brooks and Kate Firestone, Anne Towbes, Brian and Patti Herman, Luke and Stacey Swetland, Robert Weinman, Richard and Marilyn Mazess, Frank and Nancy McGinity, Seymour and Shirley Lehrer, and Alan and Elissa Stepansky.

Well, That Was Awkward

It was to be hoped Prince Harry might reconcile with his older brother, Prince William, when they both unveiled a statue of their late mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 60th birthday at Kensington Palace in London.

But the obvious froideur between the two was, sadly, glaringly obvious as the Duke of Sussex, 36, arrived just 28 minutes before the ceremony in the Sunken Garden and left just 20 minutes after the unveiling after quaffing a glass of champagne.

The ceremony, which included Diana’s brother, Charles Earl Spencer, and her sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, whose husband was Queen Elizabeth’s private secretary, 15 – 22 July 2021

was only broadcast after it was over and Harry was leaving, having spent barely ten minutes with the Duke of Cambridge, 39.

There were no speeches and Harry, who flew back to our rarefied enclave over the weekend, appeared to be the more relaxed of the dynamic royal duo.

He is not expected to wing to London again for at least a year with his wife, Meghan Markle, to celebrate the Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, marking an astonishing 70 years on the British throne.

I have no doubt Diana would have been absolutely horrified at the current situation with her sons.

Former attorney turned successful financial management analyst Matt Rowe has been elected chair of the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Rowe, who began his two-year term last week, earned a law degree at the city’s Monash University and later immigrated to New York, where he transitioned from law into wealth

management.

A resident of our Eden by the Beach for 13 years, he joined the local office of financial services giant Raymond James last year.

Five years ago, he became a foundation board member, and serves on the board of the Santa Barbara Family YMCA, where he was board chair, the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute.

In 2019, he was awarded the Golden Triangle of Distinguished Service Award by the Channel Islands YMCA. Rowe succeeds Christie Glanville, who will remain on the board. She will also join the foundation’s past presidents council.

Someone Call The Police

Musician and composer Stewart Copeland, 69, a former band member of The Police, is our rarefied enclave’s latest celebrity resident.

He just splashed out $4.75 million for a 1928 Spanish-style three-bedroom, three-bathroom estate, Casita de Mariposa, near Butterfly Beach, which was marketed as a 2,367-square-foot fixer-upper.

The Police, which included singer Sting, released five albums and sold more than 100 million records worldwide. The group’s last album, Synchronicity, reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 charts.

Sightings

Warbler Katy Perry in Prague while fiancé Orlando Bloom films his Carnival Row series.... Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson noshing at the Honor Bar... Singer Beyoncé shopping at the Paseo Nuevo Pip! Pip! Be safe and get vaccinated.

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Montecito actress Julia LouisDreyfus is celebrating a milestone in her marriage.

The 60-year-old Seinfeld star, who fought a valiant battle with breast cancer, has posted a tribute to her husband, actor and writer Brad Hall, 63, after 34 years of wedded bliss.

“Thirty-four years in, keeping our heads above water,” says the Veep star.

Matt Rowe, new chair of Santa Barbara’s Scholarship Foundation (Photo credit: Isaac Hernandez)

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In the Know (Continued from page 5) plans for those who do have to quarantine. “(Goswami) was very indecisive; we couldn’t get simple questions like when something was going to happen answered,” Sneddon said.

Whether or not that will change anytime soon is up in the air, with the BOT naming Dr. Kathleen Scott as acting superintendent and president until they can meet to name an interim replacement.

While the process hasn’t officially been kicked off by the BOT, Parker does anticipate that another nationwide search for Goswami’s permanent replacement will be imminent — and would welcome the opportunity to look at a local candidate.

“We’re always willing to look locally; we didn’t have any local applicants the last go round. But, you know, we love to have local applicants, it certainly does make a difference, I think, when there’s a connection — a longterm connection — to the community,” Parker said.

Marymount To Become “The Riviera Ridge School”

Christina Broderick has been receiving plenty of congratulatory calls from her predecessors at Marymount Santa Barbara — er, The Riviera Ridge School (RRS).

After years of discussion, the K-8 private school on Santa Barbara’s Riviera — which serves roughly 20-25 students from Montecito per year — has a new brand for the 2021-22 school year, one that is more reflective of the school’s inclusive vision.

“Our brand name has changed, (but) our identity and experience and love for our community has not, it’s exactly what we’ve always been,” said Broderick, the Head of School. “To be

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The humpback whale smacked its tail on the water in a five-minute, impromptu show as the Condor Express trailed it through portions of the Channel (Photo by Nick Masuda)

Christina Broderick is the Head of School at Riviera Ridge School (Courtesy photo)

at a small school, and really dive into the learning process, focusing on academic excellence and ethical responsibility, and when we always say dot, dot, dot . . .

“And, most importantly, be a good person.”

The new brand is a product of the full seven-year accreditation that RRS received from the California Association of Independent Schools in 2018, with the Board of Trustees and the school’s administration developing a 10-year strategic plan.

The first job? A new brand that put a priority on diversity, equity, and inclusion — something that “Marymount” as a name did not reflect, with it being affiliated with the global network of Religious of Sacred Heart of Mary schools.

At the school for four years, Broderick was intrigued by a program called Kaleidoscope, a product of the relationship that RRS struck with UCSB’s Religious Studies department.

It’s within this program that the lens changes from a singular vertical to one that embraces different religious and cultural belief systems.

It also studies and promotes ethical and moral systems that aid students throughout their RRS journey.

“I didn’t get that until I was in high school, or even college,” Broderick said.

The school was founded by nuns and has been in operation since 1938, but Broderick pointed to the school’s commitment to social and emotional learning, as well as DEIJB — or Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging — as reasons why the school re-branding was overdue.

“We will carry the lovely traditions forward,” Broderick said. “These changes will help us be more emotionally intelligent, as well as academically present for our kids and for our families.”

outfit that takes daily trips into the Santa Barbara Channel to give locals and tourists a glimpse at nearly every species of whale, as well as dolphins, seals, and sea lions.

On this particular Saturday, there were seven humpbacks, thousands of dolphins, and dozens of sea lions that seemingly waved as the boat gently rolled by.

And it has been commonplace for the crew to have days like this, utilizing the opportunity to teach passengers more about marine life, while also giving throngs an up-close-and-personal view of a juvenile humpback splash party for what felt like a good five minutes.

Whether the humpback was being playful or telling the crew to get lost was open for interpretation, but it made for quite the scene.

Benko and her team utilized the pandemic to bring the Express up to standards — even though they didn’t have to do it until 2022. A new low-emission engine was installed, taking the boat out of the water for a few months, but “we should be good for the next 20 years now,” Benko said.

The boat is already well-known for its wildlife-friendly approach, with modern technology allowing waterjets and a hydrofoil wing to propel the catamaran — meaning that dolphins and whales will approach the boat, out of harm’s way and looking to play.

Even after decades in the whale-watching business (the original Condor was among the first to do these trips on the West Coast), Benko still marvels at how the Santa Barbara Channel provides an ecosystem and

climate that allows the likes of humpbacks, blues, minkes, orcas, and gray whales to share the same habitat.

This makes Santa Barbara a worldwide destination for whale watchers — ultimately benefitting the local economy due to the tourists it attracts.

“We live in a very special place,” Benko said. “And the world knows it.”

Oh, Baby!

So, who’s throwing the baby shower?

The Santa Barbara Zoo announced that Ajax, a female Amur leopard, is pregnant — the first time for the critically endangered species in more than 20 years for the Zoo. As the most endangered of all big cats, the conservation efforts are critical, so this news sent positive shockwaves around the Zoo community.

“Breeding Amur leopards is complicated and challenging, and our team has worked really hard to help Ajax get pregnant,” said Dr. Julie Barnes, vice president of animal care and health at the zoo.

This is the first pregnancy for Ajax, while the fourth litter for Kasha, the male amur leopard that arrived in March 2020 with breeding as a primary goal.

The gestation time is roughly 90-100 days.

“Big cat births can have unpredictable outcomes, especially with first time mothers. Providing her with an appropriate denning area and undisturbed time to bond with her cubs is an important part of this process,” Barnes said.

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Ajax, one of the Santa Barbara Zoo’s two Amur leopards, is pregnant

Whale of a Show

“I’ve never seen it like this. Business has never been better.”

That’s quite the statement from Hiroko Benko, the CEO of the Condor Express, the booming whale-watching “Your request is not unlike your lower intestine, stinky and loaded with danger.” – Jim Carrey

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family members ever lived in the home) Carrie and George Fox Steedman were extremely passionate about their new residence with great emphasis on the gardens. Much of the Casa remains frozen in time today which gives it its historic status, but the exhibit gives a connection between two disparate concepts, contemporary and historic.

Casa board president Karen Jones Clark says, “It is really quite compel-

ling to view contemporary works of art against the backdrop of the historic estate. The Casa’s beautiful gardens have become outdoor museum spaces in which to contemplate the fascinating sculptures in the exhibition.”

Those artists participating are Isaac Anguiano, Béla Bácsi, Robert J. Emmons, Pattie Porter Firestone, Victoria Hendler, Joan RosenbergDent, and Lynda Weinman.

The ceramics garden, 3D printed ceramic and ceramic flowers

Executive director of the Casa Jessica Tade

Painted steel, “Leaves of Grass”

“While historic, the Casa remains alive with the creative legacy of the original owners,” said Casa executive director Jessica Tade. “Through this exhibition, we are collaborating with local artists while continuing to make good on our desire to support the continued vibrancy of the arts in our community.”

Lead sponsors are Karen and Stephen Clark, Marc Normand Gelinas Interior Design, and Francis Morrow. Tickets can be purchased by calling 805-565-5653. The artists are being very generous and donating a percentage of sales to the Casa. If

you’ve never been on a Casa tour, now’s the time. If you have, you’ll enjoy the temporary new and different look of the gardens.

The Casa is located at 1387 East Valley Road in Montecito and is routinely open for public tours with a docent. The house is filled with the original furnishings from the 1920s which date back to the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. It is one of four National Historic Monuments in Santa Barbara that includes the Courthouse, the Mission, and the Rafael Gonzalez House. As a long-time docent, I know you’ll enjoy your visit.

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by Christina Favuzzi

Thank you, Montecito

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hank you to everyone who cut back overgrown vegetation to make your community safer from future wildfires.

Thank you for hauling your branches and brush to the curb, for welcoming our chipping crews to your neighborhood and for taking initiative to protect your home ahead of fire season.

Now in its 22nd year, Montecito Fire’s Neighborhood Fire Prevention Program was another success and a significant step toward community resiliency in the face of wildfire.

Our community’s participation in this simple yet highly effective program, year after year, has put Montecito on the map as a leader nationwide in community wildfire protection.

The Montecito Fire Department, and

specifically our Prevention Bureau, is grateful to every resident who set aside time from their busy lives to prioritize defensible space. Our department’s two Wildland Fire Specialists, Maeve Juarez and Nic Elmquist, organize, facilitate, and oversee the program each year but say it would not be a success without the community’s involvement and support.

“This program doesn’t happen overnight, and it isn’t something we could do ourselves,” Elmquist said.

“It’s truly a communitywide effort by our residents.”

“We are so thankful to the community for participating and being the model for the rest of the residents in their neighborhood,” said Maeve Juarez.

The effort is commonly referred to as the Neighborhood Chipping Program.

More than 260 residences utilized the free chipping services

Over the past few months, you perhaps noticed roll-off dumpsters filled to the brim with yard clippings and piles of brush at the end of driveways or heard our chipping crew shredding tree limbs into wood chips.

The Neighborhood Chipping Program is a fire prevention project focused on strategically reducing vegetation along roadways and around private properties most at risk of severe wildfire impacts.

Our goal is to assist community members in establishing defensible space around their home to decrease the odds of suffering property damage during a wildfire. Additionally, a buffer of defensible space facilitates safer evacuation corridors for everyone in an emergency. It also allows better ingress for firefighting equipment to access and protect homes.

The Chipping Program is a free service for residents, funded by the

Montecito Fire Department’s annual Wildland Fire Prevention budget and the California Climate Investments Fire Prevention Grant Program.

Last summer, Montecito Fire was selected to receive three years of funding through the state grant, aimed at investing in projects that reduce risk of wildland fires to communities, while maximizing carbon sequestration in healthy wildland habitats. The department was successful in receiving the grant funding due in large part to the tremendous community support for the Neighborhood Chipping Program.

We also appreciate the sweat-equity many of our residents put in to make this program a success! Our motto is: You cut it. We chip it.

With consistent hot and dry weather, the 2021 Neighborhood Chipping Program has concluded for the season. Through the program, excess

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vegetation was cleared, and defensible space was created at over 100 more homes in the community this year than last year!

The 10-week program began in late February, running every other week through the end of June.

We added another neighborhood to the program in 2021. Elmquist said the residents of the School House Road neighborhood took initiative to make their slice of Montecito safer.

“This program doesn’t happen overnight, and it isn’t something we could do ourselves. It’s truly a communitywide effort by our residents.”

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“We are always looking for areas to expand our program and the School House neighborhood expressed interest in chipping,” Elmquist said. “We were excited to provide them with our chipping service this year and will continue to going forward.”

Across the 10 neighborhoods where we conducted the program, a total of 260 properties participated in chipping.

Doug Large and his wife, Laurie, knew their Pepper Lane residence needed some serious grooming in order to survive a future wildfire.

“Our home is ringed by trees and there was basically a jungle in the backyard which gave us very little defensible space,” Large said.

He wasn’t sure where or how to begin with the daunting task of trimming back his overgrown yard when he saw a sign, literally.

“The beauty was, we were walking and we happened to see the Chipping Program sign so I called Maeve at the Fire Department and she told me all about this amazing program,” Large said. “They came out, took care of the defensible space for us, rented a dumpster for us so we would have a place to put all the debris and it was just fantastic. We’re very happy with the work.”

On a personal note, the Chipping Program is an outstanding opportunity for us to get to know wonderful people like Doug and Laurie and connect with our community.

“I love this program so much because we get the chance to meet everyone and build meaningful relationships with our community members,” Juarez said. “My hope is, they always feel comfortable calling the fire department for help or to report something.”

Juarez said many of her interactions with residents turn into opportunities to provide other recommendations for the homeowners to further protect and harden their home against wildfire.

We want to thank our chipping contractor Eco Tree Works for devoting 50 days of hard work to chip 240 tons of vegetation and haul away 70 tons to the local chip recycling center. Also, we are very thankful to Marborg for partnering with Montecito Fire again this year. Marborg provided roll-off dumpsters at designated locations throughout the community for residents to dispose of vegetation unsuited for the chipper such as palm fronds, succulents, vines, grasses, and leaves.

Once again, Montecito Fire would like to extend our gratitude to all participants who made the 2021 Neighborhood Fire Prevention Project a great success! This community collaboration is helping to create a more fire adaptive Montecito while continuing to increase the resiliency of our adjacent wildfire landscapes.

If you wish to have a chipping day for your neighborhood in 2022, please contact one of the Wildland Fire Specialists, Elmquist or Juarez, at 805-969-7762.

2021 Chipping by the Numbers

Chipping program participants: 260 residences Service areas: 10 neighborhoods, all within the Very High Fire Severity Zone Passes through the community: Chipping crews spent approximately 5 days in each neighborhood Project duration: 10 weeks from Feb. 22 to June 30 Fuels reduction: 240 tons of woody biomass were chipped and 70 tons of vegetation were hauled away in rolloff dumpsters •MJ

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Local News (Continued from page 12) The Raab Writing Fellows program is unique in that it has a multidisciplinary approach and students come from a variety of majors and inspirations. Chloe Le chose to blend her interest in the legal field and social inequality in her research paper, “The Injustice in Justice: Discrimination Against Minority Women in the Legal Field.” Many of the projects focused on an intersection of ethnicity and personal history.

Samantha Abajian, a film student, produced “Curling Back to Your Roots: Profiles of Curly Hair Journeys” that was inspired by her own history with curly hair and documents others’ stories in a multimedia display of personal statements and photographic portraits. Several of the projects highlighted the discussion around gender and sexuality in our society, including “A New Place,” a series of personal essays by Jaymes Johnson that explore his personal history and themes of black, queer, and spiritual identity.

“Screeving Queens: Polari, Performance, and Concealment” by Amelia Rodriguez brought a linguistic perspective to the Polari community, a community of working-class queer men in England. Michelle Politiski wrote “In the Den: Essays on BDSM & Queer Healing” about the restorative process of BDSM and non-monogamy.

One fellow, Mikolaj Godzik, even chose his topic on the environment with “Living in the Anthropocene: The Unforeseen Consequences of Human Actions” seeking to simplify the discussion around environmental changes through visual communication.

Several of the projects centered on the issues of race, ethnicity, and nationality both locally and abroad such as “Race and Racism: Multigenerational Perspectives of an African Immigrant Family in America” by Gabriel Desalegne, or Connie Yoon’s “The Model Minority Mirror: Who’s Looking Back at You?” that looks at the harmful impact of the “model minority myth” among Asian Americans.

The multidisciplinary approach to the projects means that many of the projects incorporate different writing styles and forms of media. Each year the writing fellows’ projects have ranged from traditional writing forms like research papers and essays to broader writing projects including novellas, zines, and websites. Many of the projects were in more familiar formats of writing, such as the series of short stories, “The Language of Dreams,” by Preetha Swaminathan, or the novel, An Ocean Apart, by Vivian Walman-Randall, that centered around a female pirate character.

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“The Lady Who Came with Me: An Exploration into the Gendered Rhetoric of Immigration” is an investigative research project by Rebecca Bogdanovic. The essay followed the path of her great-grandmother and explored the relationship with a lady she met along her journey to the States, both remaining in contact over their lifetime. Lindsey Gumaer created an interactive video game, “Connected,” that explored the “complicated and sometimes dangerous relationship many people have with their smartphones.” Nickita Gupta constructed an interactive website, “The American Dream Project,” that profiles six different immigrants’ stories, as well as detailing her own family history.

The multidisciplinary approach to the projects means that many of the projects incorporate different writing styles and forms of media. Each year the writing fellows’ projects have ranged from traditional writing forms like research papers and essays to broader writing projects including novellas, zines, and websites.

As each group presented on Zoom, they shared their reflections on the Raab Writing Fellows program and the experience they had. Although there are always advantages to working in the same room, some discussed the benefits of a digital work environment, mentioning that it made interviews more accessible and groups able to meet more fluidly, not having to coordinate a physical meeting place. This also made it easier for students to participate in online events and present their work, with several projects being accepted to different symposiums and conferences.

Ryan Rising presented one of his poems from his collection, “Prison Traumatic Stress Disorder,” at the REEL Loud Films & Art Festival. He ended the evening of Raab Writing Fellows presentations with a moving reading of one of his poems he wrote during his participation in the 2014 hunger strikes at New Folsom State Prison. From intricate investigative papers to impactful personal stories, these diverse range of projects places writing within the realm of multidisciplinary arts that it belongs to.

Visit raabwritingfellows.com to see the students’ projects and a series of reflection videos about their process.

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