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Aesthetics Montecito’s HOCATT (Hyperthermic Ozone & Carbonic Acid Transdermal Therapy) is like a sauna on steroids, p. 20
ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRAGIC 1/9 DEBRIS FLOW THAT TOOK THE LIVES OF 23 PEOPLE, INCLUDING SCOUTMASTER DAVE CANTIN AND HIS EAGLE SCOUT SON JACK, MONTECITO’S TROOP 33 CARRIES ON THEIR LEGACY, (STORY ON PAGE 32)
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Living with Grace
Grace Fisher was an active musician and dancer until a rare spine disease almost derailed her budding career. Now the UCSB student’s life is the focus of a new film, Amazing Grace, p. 35
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial
The Montecito Journal has some unusual New Year’s resolutions
6 Montecito Miscellany
New Year’s Day with gardening guru George Schoellkopf and international artist Gerald Incandela; chamber music at the Lobero; ShelterBox wins an anonymous benefactor; plus celebrity sightings
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Notable events include a Laguna Blanca open house, a medicine wheel ceremony and free music from Kaleidoscope
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Readers complain about the scent of cannabis and the state of politics while celebrating Lutah Maria Riggs and the Journal’s own Lynda Millner
12 Village Beat
Gas Company seeks to install nine new poles in Montecito; marking the second anniversary of debris flow; real estate news; Dr. Jennifer Freed releases newest book
14 Seen Around Town
Strolling on State Street, touring Casa del Herrero, and being a Courthouse docent
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20 Fitness Front
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23 Bob Hazard
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What’s wrong with California – hint: politics are involved – and what can it learn from Utah?
24 Your Westmont
True to our communities, always!
Welcoming a new campus safety chief, guiding teens in faith and career, and honoring a champion swimmer
26 Spirituality Matters
Steven Libowitz chats with Why Religion? author Elaine Pagels and finds consciousness expansion at SBCC’s School of Extended Learning
27 Brilliant Thoughts
Remembering the art and words of Prince Valiant
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Ernie Witham on past and present New Year’s resolutions
32 On the Record
Two years ago, Dave and Jack Cantin perished in the 1/9 debris flow. They’re remembered by Boy Scout Troop 33, which is stronger than ever.
35 On Entertainment
A new film celebrates the accomplishments of the amazing Grace Fisher while Santa Barbara prepares itself for SBIFF
42 Calendar of Events
‘Haven’ At Acheson House; Motor City Memories at the Rubicon; SOhO welcomes Alberto Lombardi; Aussie-American standup Jim Jefferies at the Arlington; Richard Louv talks kids and nature; pianist Emanuel Ax at the Lobero; and John Proulx at the Miramar Hotel’s Minor Bar and SOhO
46 Classified Advertising
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Editorial by Gwyn Lurie Gwyn Lurie chaired the MUS School Board and co-chairs the Santa Barbara Human Rights Watch Committee. As a screenwriter, Gwyn penned The Music Never Stopped starring JK Simmons (Sundance Opening Selection, 2010), Nine Lives starring Kevin Spacey (2016), and screenplays for nearly every major movie studio. Gwyn worked for ABC Network News in New York upon completion of her studies at UCLA, where she served as student body president, and Oxford University, where she attended graduate school as a Newton-Tatum Scholar. Gwyn is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the Montecito Journal Media Group.
Resolving to be More
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he second week of January has always been important to me because by this time I have broken all my New Year’s resolutions so I can get back to the serious business of enjoying pasta. Someone needs to support Montecito’s myriad of northern Italian restaurants, so I nominate myself. Typically, the third week of January is the time of year I start locating the next milestone on the calendar when I’ll actually start that diet: right after Chinese New Year, or right after Valentine’s, or right after Presidents’ Day – you know the drill. Of course, not all my (broken) resolutions concern diet and exercise. Like most people (according to Google), I historically also pledge to: spend more time with friends and family, meet new people, try something different, learn a new language, laugh more, give back more, improve my appearance, get organized, and work on any relationships in disrepair. Oh yeah, and “achieve more balance,” whatever that means. But this year I’m trying something different. Which is to make no New Year’s resolutions for myself whatsoever. Rather, my resolutions for 2020 are for the Montecito Journal. Fortunately, I have an incredible staff and an exceptional investor group to help me execute these and keep me honest. Here are our resolutions where the Montecito Journal is already making headway: LOSING WEIGHT, as I mentioned, is one of those perennially annoying
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by Richard Mineards
Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 12 years ago.
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Will it matter in 30 years? It‘s not easy projecting yourself in the future. But one day, you‘ll be in it. Which is why, from day one, we help make sure you‘re ready throughout your life. That way, you have the confidence to pursue what matters most today, tomorrow and for generations to come. Talk to me today, with an eye on tomorrow. For some of life’s questions, you’re not alone. Together we can find an answer.
s usual, tout le monde was at the New Year’s Day lunch thrown by affable gardening guru George Schoellkopf and international artist Gerald Incandela at their magnificent Summerland aerie. The tony twosome, who fly between their estates here and Washington, Connecticut, kicked off 2020 in splendiferous style with free-flowing Bordeaux and Moet champagne, beef brisket that took three days to prepare in the baronial kitchen, English trifle – a particular favorite –, tiramisu, and persimmon pudding. It was quite the turnout with Robyn Geddes, Cat Pollon, Beverley Jackson, Sharon Bradford, Tom and Linda Cole, Allan Glaser, Chapin
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Richard Mineards and New Year’s Day lunch co-host Gerald Incandela (photo by Beverley Jackson)
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This Week in and around Montecito
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Raising Our Light A community-wide remembrance ceremony on the second anniversary of the 1/9 Debris Flow will be held at Murchison Gym at Westmont College. The program will be shown live
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail newseditor@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JANUARY 9
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10
Tech Help Sessions Reserve a 30-minute session with library staff for help with basic computer skills (email or internet), downloadable library materials, and the Black Gold App When: 10 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Appointments: (805) 969-5063
Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1 pm to 2:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063
Happy Winter Sale Elevate your style with 40% to 75% savings on fall and winter collections. Choose from showcased mix of modern and luxurious fashion. When: 10 am to 6 pm Where: Allora by Laura, 1269 Coast Village Road Info: 563-2425; allorabylaura.com Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a remodel on San Ysidro Lane; addition, garage, carport on Rockbridge; new home on San Ysidro Lane; a new home and garage on Oak Road; and design details for the San Ysidro Roundabout, among other agenda items When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu
Tech Help Sessions Reserve a 30-minute session with library staff for help with basic computer skills (email or internet), downloadable library materials, and the Black Gold App When: 3 pm to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Appointments: (805) 969-5063 SATURDAY JANUARY 11 INTERACT Theatre School The school is launching a new term of classes, casting rehearsals, and performances of a new musical, Broadway or Bust, to be performed by InterAct students age 6-16 on March 14. Set in Santa Barbara, this is a story of high school students trying to save a community theater from closure. When: 10am Where: Garden Street Academy, Santa Barbara Info: http://www.interacttheatreschool. com or call (805) 869 2348 Laguna Blanca Open House Laguna Blanca School welcomes local families to experience the robust and vibrant academic life that draws its energy from the close and collaborative
at www.CSBTV20/youtube. When: Program at 6:30 pm and reception at 7 pm Where: 955 La Paz Road Info: text ROL2020 to 555888 dynamic between faculty and students – the hallmarks of a Laguna Blanca education for over 85 years. Students and their families are invited to check out the school’s Grades 5-12 curriculum in action: meet and ask questions of teachers, administrators, students and current parents; learn about Laguna’s co-curricular offerings and robust college counseling offerings, leadership opportunities, and athletics; and enjoy a Q&A with a student panel. An open house for the Lower School Campus is scheduled for mid-January. When: 9:30 am to noon Where: Hope Ranch campus, 4125 Paloma Drive Registration: www.lagunablanca.org/open Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this month’s title; new members always welcome. The January selection is The River: A Novel by Peter Heller. When: 11 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensemble and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: First United Methodist Church,
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Garden and Anapamu streets Admission: Free SUNDAY, JANUARY 12 Armchair Travel Lecture India’s palaces, forts, temples, and tombs are on every tourist itinerary and in every guidebook. But the country’s magnificent subterranean Stepwells remain largely unknown both within and outside the country. These unique water-harvesting structures proliferated throughout the subcontinent for over a millennium but eventually faded into oblivion by the 19th century. Journalist Victoria Lautman has spent years documenting hundreds of the subterranean structures through articles and photographs, and her landmark book, The Vanishing Stepwells of India, was published in 2017 (Merrell Publishers, London). In this lecture, Victoria will trace the fascinating history, variety, and current state of India’s least-known edifices. When: 3 pm Where: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street Info: (805) 963-4364 Medicine Wheel Abby Isadora Haydon will lead the ceremony where you will be smudged and purified, an opening prayer and sing Native American songs to all the directions. You may also share your personal prayers or prayers for yourself or others at that time by standing in the appropriate direction. These prayers may be silent or said aloud. Then there will be a closing prayer. When: Noon Where: Center of the Heart, 487 North Turnpike Road, Goleta; 928-451-0890 Donation: $10
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Enough is Enough
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onversation following Mt. Carmel’s school Christmas program, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Carpinteria, should have been about the adorable children and plans for the holidays. Instead, it instantly moved to concern about the near contact-high adults and children alike were experiencing that night in the Church. The odor of cannabis in the parking lot between St. Joseph’s School and the Church was even more overwhelming. Those of us living in Montecito have largely been spared the reality of the impact of cannabis production in Carpinteria. Obligated to breathe the air, however, it becomes clear just how seriously the growing of marijuana compromises the quality of life for those living in Carpinteria. Experiencing the heavy odor of pot on the campus of St. Joseph’s School, first hand, was a powerful wake-up call. The shared shock and dismay of many attending the event quickly turned to
politics. It rapidly became the consensus that, given her willingness to resist the influence of cannabis industry-related campaign funding, we would be working for the election of Laura Capps. The residents of Carpinteria, especially the children, require Laura’s good judgment and protection. D.C. McGuire Montecito
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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.
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t the Montecito Association Land Use Committee meeting on Tuesday, January 7, representatives from Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) outlined draft amendments to the Montecito Land Use & Development Code related to a proposal to install advanced gas meters throughout the Montecito community. Advanced gas meters, which are often referred to as smart meters, transmit gas usage directly to SoCalGas, eliminating the need for meter readers on foot to manually monitor usage. In order for the meters to transmit the information, SoCalGas must also install Data Collection Units (DCUs) throughout the community, which transmit the readings back to the gas company. Currently SoCalGas is proposing to install nine of these units in
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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
Southern California Gas Company is proposing a project to add nine Data Collection Units throughout Montecito, which may be located on new utility poles
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beethoven’s “eroica” january 18 + 19, 2020 Nir Kabaretti, C O N D U C T O R Sivan Silver & Gil Garburg, P I A N O Michael Torke: Ash Brahms arr. Richard Dünser: Concerto for Piano, Four Hands and Strings (after Brahms Op. 25) California Premiere! Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, “Eroica”
Israeli pianists Sivan Silver and Gil Garburg have thrilled audiences and critics alike with their unique and contemporary arrangements. The duo will perform a special arrangement for piano four-hands and strings based on Johannes Brahms’ G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 2, and close the evening with Beethoven’s intensely emotional Symphony No. 3 “Eroica.” Selection Sponsors: JoAnne Ando | Hans Koellner & Karin Jacobson | Dr. Robert W. Weinman
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Vivian Alexander, Lotusland director of marketing Bob Craig, and Vickie Craig at the 1129 art exhibit of their mural
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t was First Thursday and Christmas month. No wonder there were so many people strolling State Street. I began at the big G, the Granada Theatre, with an unusual art exhibit on the fifth floor hosted by Raymond James Associates Management Company. Their invitation touted beautiful views, art, food, and people. The elevator coming up and going down was filled to the brim with art fans as were the offices. The five featured artists were Rosemarie Gebhart, Beverley Jackson, Kara Crisp, Susan Tibbles, and Tony Askew. To add to the joy of the season, guests brought a toy for the Toys for Tots Box. After a brief chat with Beverley I headed across the street to 1129 State Street. Lotusland had taken over the courtyard for a unique exhibition and sale from artist Colette Cosentino, work that she did for Lotusland. It was a mural that surrounded the Japanese Garden during its renovation. The Garden is now finished and the panels are available for purchase. They average about $3,000 a piece. According to PR guy Bob Craig after this event any remaining art may be viewed and purchased at Lotusland.org/murals. All sales benefit Lotusland. Special thanks go to Armada Wine & Beer Merchant and Draughtsmen Aleworks and to Buena Onda for their delicious empanadas.
Casa Docent Christmas Celebration
Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith) is a National Historic Landmark in Montecito near upper village. George and Carrie Steedman came to Santa Barbara in the early ‘20s from St. Louis with George’s brother. His brother was diabetic and needed insulin. The only place in the whole United States to get it at that time was Santa Barbara from Dr. Sansum. They rented a house across from Mount Carmel church and fell in love
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with the area. Going down the street they bought eleven acres and built a house designed by architect George Washington Smith that is still preserved. I was talking with grandson Albert Hinckley and he feels, “It is one of the most important houses in the United States.” The home and gardens are open to the public for docent led tours at Christmas time and on Wednesday and Saturdays at 10 am and 2 pm. Call 805.565.5653 for reservations. The cadre of docents are organized by Nicole LaViola under the direction of executive director Jessica Tade. I’ve been part of this special group of tour guides for almost 20 years and still
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Spirituality Matters
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Elaine Pagels sits down with Pico Iyer on Thursday, January 9 at Campbell Hall (photo by Barbara Conviser)
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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Anne Fuchs and Tim Street-Porter enjoy the New Year’s Day lunch (photo by Gerald Incandela and Mia Sweeney)
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Fitness Front by Michelle Ebbin Michelle Ebbin is a renowned wellness/massage expert, and the author of four books. She appears regularly in the media to discuss the benefits of natural therapies and healthy living. She lives in Montecito with her husband, Luke, and three boys.
A New Year, New Decade, New You
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appy New Year friends! If you’re one of the 70% of optimistic resolution-makers who vowed to lose weight, exercise more, and be healthier in 2020, or if you’ve ever dreamed of stepping into a futuristic machine that could transform your body inside and out, I have something new and exciting for you. For years, I’ve traveled far and wide to try new wellness products and now there’s something available in our neck of the woods that can help you power up your wellness and self-care routine. This miracle machine, offered at Aesthetics Montecito, is called the HOCATT, which stands for “Hyperthermic Ozone & Carbonic Acid Transdermal Therapy.” According to its website, HOCATT combines nine powerful technologies into one ergonomically designed system to help detox your body, improve circulation, boost energy, and strengthen your immune sys-
tem. A 30-minute session can burn up to 600 calories, relieve chronic pain and inflammation, speed healing, and simply make you feel better. According to owner Jeanette Baer, “It’s called a shotgun effect, as all of the modalities work synergistically to support the other one, affecting the body more profoundly. The benefits are not only looking good, but feeling good too!” With over 100 different programmable settings to help relieve problems such as arthritis, headaches, back pain and more, you can customize each session for your specific conditions. For me, that was anxiety, exhaustion, and immune system stimulation, as everyone in my family was going down with the flu. So how does it work? I’ve described it to friends as an “infrared sauna on crack.” Here’s what happens: Wrapped in a towel, you step into this pod-like contraption and sit on a bench with your feet on two metal
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She told the paper, “Drawing has always appealed to me … and I am ambitious to complete a college course in architecture … The part I took in the contest has been invaluable to me in many ways … not the least of which has been the development of self-reliance which each day’s work has strengthened.” (Daily News & Independent, August 13, 1917) Betsy J. Green Santa Barbara
Loving Lynda
I am writing in praise of reporter Lynda Millner and her column Seen Around Town. Lynda is such a wonderful representative for the Montecito Journal at every event she attends. Always professional, with well-researched descriptions of local events and personal travels, Lynda’s columns are a pleasure to read. Maria McCall Montecito Bank & Trust
A Dangerous Game
Every day, there are articles and advertisements about marijuana in our local papers and magazines. The drug is being promoted for medical, recreational, and economic reasons. However, has anyone considered the devastating affect marijuana has on teens and young adults? According to Joseph Garbely, chief medical officer for the Caron Foundation, we now see “on a regular basis young people with marijuana-induced psychosis. Ages 18-26. At Caron, the number of patients who were admitted with a primary diagnosis of cannabis use disorder increased more than 22% from 2014 to 2019. In those five years, people admitted to treatment for marijuana addiction rose from more than 27%
of Caron’s total admissions to nearly 40%. Also, Independent Blue Cross has seen claims for cannabis use disorder rise between 2012 - 2018, 180%. Including a 100% claim rise for patients 19 to 25. Is marijuana more dangerous today? “The nature of what’s being consumed has changed dramatically,” said Itai Danovitch, an American Society of Addiction Medicine fellow and psychiatry Chairman at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The concentration is stronger and cannabis is being used in vaping. The marijuana of today is not the “reefer of the Woodstock” generation. How does the drug affect young people? Terri L. Randall, medical Director of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Substance Use Disorder Clinic, said young patients can experience anxiety and detachment from reality from cannabis use, and the damage done to their brains is a real concern. According to the American Medical Association, there is evidence that people who start using cannabis as teenagers risk suffering from impaired memory, attention, and cognitive function that may not improve. Citizens of Santa Barbara, it is time to get real. It is time to get informed about the dangers of cannabis to our young people. Our children are our future. Diana Thorn Carpinteria
Hope is Not the Answer
What do we expect? With our taxes, our businesses, our lives? How do we equate what has happened to our beautiful state? How do we understand the loss of what we grew up with and expected to always be here? How do we explain these tents on the street to our
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children? We always had it here, we always had the land, the ocean, the air, the sky. And then, what happened? Who took it away? Who said we weren’t good enough to take care of it? Who decided to give it away? Who decided to let it fall apart, to go to ruin and decay? Who said we have to tolerate disease and decay and all the filth? What governor is this that lets this happen and then blames our President? Who is this crazy person that thinks he will win when he has done such harm to all of us? These homeless and mentally ill and displaced people can be moved to safe places in the desert and then rehabilitated. This is the only way. We can’t tolerate them living on the street and creating disasters. With compassion we can deal with them and not let them ruin us and our businesses and lives. If we don’t deal with them and let them know they can’t just come and sit on our streets, more will come and more and more… We are seeing this now. If the word is out maybe they will stop coming and stop ruining our state. Only care and moving them out will help. It is unfortunate we have let it get to this point. We have seen the ruin of San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles. We just avoid these places and hope it stops. Hoping is not the answer. We must save our State of California and all we know it to be. Chris Frisina
The Case for Civics
Do young students have a constitutional right to an adequate public education to prepare them for civic life? Such a question may be decided in a U.S. District Court which will soon be crammed with high school teenagers. The students are objecting to leaving high school without key skills and knowledge to exercise basic civic responsibilities as voting or jury duty. The question goes to the heart of the relationship between education, participatory democracy and the “distinctiveness” of the American Experiment as laid down by the Founding Fathers: •It acknowledged that certain individual rights are natural and self-evident. •It recognized human imperfection
and that a tendency to abuse power is ever present in the human heart. •It restrained those in power through a written Constitution which carefully divided, balanced, and separated the powers of government and then intricately knitted them back together again through a system of checks and balances. •It left all powers with the people, except those which, by their consent, the people delegated to government – and then made provision for their withdrawing that power, if it was abused. Civic classes in high school are almost non-existent, some may be offered at some schools as advanced classes but “Civic Education” is not currently required. An important corollary to civic education is the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion in complex texts, and to be taught English well enough to qualify to serve on a jury. Few public schools offer related activities like debates, student newspapers w/ editorials and opinion sections that are the training grounds for civic life. Such activities are often seen at wealthy school districts but seldom at public. Public schools need to provide an equitable experience where kids get what they need, namely, to know how to participate in a democracy. If these public-school kids win the lawsuit, it will give all youth in the U.S a federal constitutional right to instruction in theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship. But should not this be done in our schools anyway without making a Federal case out of it? John Burk Santa Barbara
Hard to Explain
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.” Thomas Jefferson. Why does the U.S. have a military presence in Iraq and Kenya where Americans were recently killed? Why does the U.S. have troops at risk in 150 other countries around the world? “Peacekeeping,” you say; I ask where is the peace? “National defense,” you say; I ask why not at home? Fellow American, how would you like another country having a military presence in the U.S.? Steve King Carpinteria •MJ
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alifornia has been reliably blue for most of the last 20 years and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. At the state level, Democrats control the Governorship (Gavin Newsom), the Lieutenant Governor (Eleni Kounalakis), the Attorney General (Xavier Becerra), and the Secretary of State (Alex Padilla). They have attained a super majority in the State Assembly with 61 Democrats to only 18 Republicans and a super majority in the California Senate of 29 Democrats to only 11 Republicans. At the national level, both of California’s Senators are true blue (Senior Senator Dianne Feinstein and Junior Senator Kamala Harris). In the U.S. House of Representatives, California sends 46 elected Democrats and only seven Republicans to Washington. At the local level, there is hardly a whiff of difference in the political positions of Democrats Das Williams, Gregg Hart, and Joan Hartmann, who together represent a 3-2 majority on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. The GOP has become irrelevant and almost invisible. 79.1% of eligible voters are now registered to vote in California, up sharply from the 72.7% registration rate in the year before the 2016 presidential election. Of the 19.9 million registered voters, Democrats boast 43.1% of the electorate. Registered Republican voters have declined from 28% of the electorate in 2015 to only 23.6% today. Registered Independent share of voters in California has climbed from 23.6% in 2015 to 28.3%, today, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Any hope for a Republican win in California is whimsical.
Running California Well
The party in power advocates that illegal border crossings should be decriminalized; corporate taxes and taxes on well-to-do individuals should be increased; healthcare should be free; student loans should be forgiven; the Supreme Court should be populated with more liberals; the electoral college should be abolished; capitalism is evil; charter schools should be disallowed; and the theft of goods with a value of less than $950 should be a misdemeanor rather than a felony that carries jail time. Progressives believe that the present economy needs to be scrapped and replaced with a “Green New Deal” at a 10-year cost of $52 to $92 trillion. The current U.S. Social Security System, which is approaching bankruptcy, now consumes 24% of the federal budget, or $945 billion dollars per year. The “Green New Deal” would be five to nine times more expensive than Social Security. “Medicare for All,” at a price tag of $31 to $34 trillion over the next 10 years, is seen as an affordable replacement for ObamaCare. “Medicare for All” would be three times more expensive than Social Security. Can these new programs be supported without raising taxes on middle wage earners? No other state is plagued with as many power failures and resulting blackouts. Rather than take responsibility, elected leaders in California blame the state’s highly regulated PG&E and Southern California Edison, which have admitted responsibility for 2,133 wildfires started between 2015-18 due to faulty utility equipment. Many suggest government-run utility companies are the most viable option.
Questions for California’s Elected Leadership
Why are California state and local elected leaders avoiding the unfunded public pension problem, and lifetime healthcare costs of public employees, when they know that these costs are unsustainable? Can nibbling at the edges be described as emboldened, enlightened leadership? Why does California rank last (50 out of 50) as the worst state in which to do business according to the nation’s CEOs? Why is California’s homelessness rate the nation’s highest? The Dems insist they are not to blame for the rampant homelessness in California or the lack of affordable housing. 129,972 Californians experienced homelessness in 2018, up 14% since 2014. California leads the nation in both the highest number of homeless residents and the highest proportion of unsheltered homeless at 69%. Are rising housing costs causing the poor to abandon homes to sleep in cars or join the homeless? Why is the median California home now priced two and a half times higher 9 – 16 January 2020
than the median national average? Why is homeownership in California at its lowest rate since WWII? Why are California home rental rates among the highest in the nation? Why are California’s elected leaders at both the state and local levels not focusing on job creation and making it less expensive to live here? Why does California have the highest gasoline prices in the nation, but the worst road conditions and trash littered highways? Why is regular gasoline priced at $4.00 a gallon in Montecito while in equally environmentally conscious Colorado, regular gas sells for $2.14 – a full $1.86 per gallon cheaper? Why does electricity cost double in California compared to what consumers pay in Oregon?
What Can California Learn from Other States?
In early December, the Wall Street Journal reported that Utah has discovered a deceptively simple secret to success: Adopt policies that make it affordable to live there for residents and make every effort to encourage business development and job creation. Utah has a low, flat-rate state income tax of 4.95%. Neighboring states Nevada and Wyoming have no state income tax. The California state income tax is progressive – up to 12.3% with households reporting incomes over $1 million being assessed an additional 1%. The average sales rate tax in Utah is 6.76%. The sales tax rate in California is the nation’s highest at a minimum rate of 7.25%. Utah is a right-to-work state, meaning workers can’t be compelled to join a union or pay union dues. In California, workers in union represented companies and government are forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment. 27 states now have right to work laws freeing employees from compulsory union dues. Utah ranks #3 in Infrastructure, #5 in Fiscal Stability, and # 24 in Opportunity according to U.S. News and World Report’s list of “The Best States in 2019.” California ranks #23 in Infrastructure, #42 in Fiscal Stability, and #49 in Opportunity. Utah public school spending of $7, 207 per pupil is worse than California’s $9,417 per pupil, but its high school graduation rate of 85.2% is slightly higher than California’s 83%. Utah’s 8th grade NAEP test scores in reading proficiency at 38.0% outrank California at 28.4%. Similarly, 8th grade math proficiency scores in Utah of 37.9% outrank California at 28.4%. Utah is among the first states in the nation to begin erasing unsustainable public pension liabilities by shifting state employees to a defined contribution pension system which allows the state to apply more funding to road construction and maintenance, better schools, affordable healthcare and low-income housing. Utah has a long tradition of being frugal on how it spends tax dollars. It holds its elective leaders accountable for overspending and padded budgets to reward political cronies. Best of all, Utah ranks #1 for equality of incomes according to the latest census bureau data. Median incomes are up and poverty is down thanks to Utah’s booming economy and strong job creation. California ranks near the bottom – #46 out of 50 states in income inequality.
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Is it possible to ask our blue elected leaders to sometimes act in little ways more like Utah? •MJ
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(December 2017) and the Montecito debris flow (January 9, 2018). “He is a winsome, dedicated, knowledgeable servant of the college whose dedication to the community has been on display since his first days here,” says Tom Beveridge, director of physical plant. Boyd takes over for Tom Bauer, who served at his alma mater for 45 years.
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“Tom is not retiring but will continue on in a part-time role,” Beveridge says. “We will take advantage of his expertise in several important and complex campus safety areas.” Boyd has worked to secure grants and other funding toward the installation of additional security cameras on campus. “It’s nice to have complete coverage across campus as well as in parking lots for the safety of students,” Boyd says. The campus has increased and improved signage and hired additional staff instead of contract workers to cover overnight shifts. “Campus safety is always trying to be more visible and approachable,” Boyd says. “We are here to help students, and by having Westmont employees working at night, we are more able to reach out to them, have personal conversations and development friendships.” While living in Iowa, Boyd also served as a youth pastor overseeing a territory that included Wyoming and Nebraska. “It’s wonderful to be in a Christian setting where the students have a strong biblical understanding and response to the Gospel,” he says. “Being around them and worshipping together in chapel increases my faith.” Boyd lives in Ventura with his wife, Karen, who works with Santa Barbara County Fire, and two sons William IV (16) and Nathan (12).
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Theological Seminary, ministry professionals, and business and nonprofit leaders to investigate where God might be calling them. The program is open for rising high school sophomores through graduating seniors at one of three Trailhead residency sessions: June 14-June 20, June 21-June 27 or June 28-July 4, 2020.
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Talk Examines Guiding Teen Faith, Career
Andrea Gurney, Westmont professor of psychology, explores how pastors, teachers, and parents can best support adolescents as they discover God’s place for them at the fourth annual Conversation on Youth and Vocation Friday, January 10, 8:30 am-1 pm in Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. The event, sponsored by Westmont’s Trailhead program, is free and open to the public. “Adolescence is a pivotal formation period, when young people are learning about their strengths and interests, exploring the world’s possibilities, and integrating the many complex inputs – from family, school, media, friends, and faith communities – that tell young people who they might be,” Gurney says. Gurney’s most recent book, Reimagining Your Love Story: Biblical and Psychological Practices for Healthy Relationships, examines how we acquire and live into – or out of – the narratives that shape our lives. Gurney, who earned a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in counseling psychology at Northeastern University, is a practicing therapist for individuals, couples, and families. At Trailhead, a one-week summer residency and yearlong mentorship program, high school students join faculty from Westmont and Fuller
On January 4, Westmont swimmer Allison Gonzalez, the only senior on the Warriors’ inaugural team, earned the Chris Knorr Leadership Award, recognizing her commitment and leadership. The award and swim meet are named after a former California Lutheran swimmer who died of brain cancer in 2013 before he graduated. “Allison is a consistent ray of sunshine – always positive, always supporting her team and giving of herself,” says Westmont head coach Jill Jones Lin. “She is our inspirational swimmer. She is a leader who is committed to this team and cares about her teammates.” Earlier at the Chris Knorr Invitational at CLU, Gonzalez competed in the mile (1650 yard) freestyle, finishing ninth (20:55.90), 17th in the 100-yard freestyle (1:01.27), 17th in the 200-yard individual medley relay (2:33.06) and in two relays. “I’m not just swimming for myself, I’m swimming for my team,” Gonzalez said. “It really hits me in the relays – I’m competing against everyone else, so my team has an advantage. Even in the individual races, I’m thinking about where I can score points for the team.” •MJ 9 – 16 January 2020
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the perspective of her own life-shattering losses, embracing suffering as an opportunity to connect with others and the unknown. Pagels spent close to an hour on a recent Saturday afternoon talking about the book, religion, spirituality, history, academia, and her interviewer’s own complicated relationship with the nexus of science and spirituality, all with a palpable passion that, to these ears, helps explain her popularity and success. Below are admittedly extremely curtailed excerpts from that discussion to preview her Conversation with Pico Iyer evening at Campbell Hall on Thursday, January 9. Q. Why was now the right time to write Why Religion?, a more personal book rather than the scholarly works? A. Back when my son and husband died, I couldn’t have written it because I couldn’t even think about it or let myself feel. But at a certain point, the things you can’t deal with, or might have buried so you can just keep going, keep moving catches up with you, and you deal with it or you don’t have a full life. So I had to go into it and explore and let it be part of everything. You can’t parcel experiences that are traumatic. But Why Religion? is more about that question people ask me all the time. I wanted to answer it. I also wonder why religion is still around in the 21st century. And of course there’s no simple answer. One of the things is that it’s part of the way people process experiences. Most people think religions are about belief. But they’re more about spirituality and connection and having a way to be with your experiences… What had got me through very tough times was that sense of being connected with people – human beings are essentially social.
Has that worked? Do those experiences have less of a painful impact in your life now? Yes, but I wouldn’t have written the book only for therapy, or at least not have published it. Nobody needs another grief memoir. I wanted to write about getting through things we think we can’t. And also how the study of religion plays out – I felt it was a kind of yoga for me. These are classic stories – Job or Jesus – because they speak to people in very powerful ways about real life experiences. So they had value for me in terms of thinking and struggling with my own losses. And when you write about something it puts it in a different relationship with you. Weaving your personal story into history seems like a challenge for an accomplished academic. How did you find your way in?
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It was hard because of the emotional issues that it kept bringing up. But I really wasn’t used to writing that way so it was very challenging for me, and doing it well is harder. That’s why it took about seven years to complete. It was hard all the way through, but it was necessary. You’ve been honored over and over again, including the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Fellowships in three consecutive years, and the presidential honor just a couple of years ago. How are you impacted by the honors and getting recognized? I love the word recognized because it means that people know who you are – not in a fame way, but that they understand you. The awards gave me a lot of time, but recognition is also a vote of confidence. Doing creative work is tough; you could fail. So it was very encouraging to have this unexpected attention. What can we expect from your evening with Pico Iyer? He asked me to come speak but I told him I can’t just lecture about this stuff. It could only be a conversation. I love talking with him. So we’re just going to continue our conversations that began when he was at Princeton last year. We have no idea what we’re going to talk about. It’ll be fun finding out.
Expanding Consciousness at SEL
There is a healthy selection of 14 classes under the Spirituality section in the new SBCC School of Extended Learning catalog of courses, 11 of which are being offered for the first time. Among the choices are SEL regulars David Cumes, who leads “Dreams and How Spirit Guides Script Them” and “The Spiritual Power of Music” as one-day offerings, and James Kwako, who teaches “How to Use Your Dreams for Healing” and “Healing from the Loss of a Loved One.” Other intriguing new titles include “Get Guidance from Your Higher Self,” “Exploring Metaphysical Dimensions,” “The Dao of Joyful Transformation through Quantum Physics,” and “Spirituality and Activating Energy”. Fees for the one-day classes range from $19-$38. But there are also free alternatives listed in the tuition-free “Self-Management” section. NonViolent Communications practitioner Rodger Sorrow leads both beginning and intermediate sections in “Nature and Self-Healing,” featuring short walks of varying difficulty with a pause for a teaching/meditation break in the middle. Explore self-discovery and self-healing techniques, nutrition, and stress management techniques. Sorrow also teaches “Essence
of Compassionate Communications” more directly employing the NVC techniques developed by Marshall Rosenberg who was a frequent visitor to SBCC during the days the program was known as Adult Ed. Longtime SEL teacher Spencer Sherman once again offers “Consciousness, Science and the Nature of Being,” investigating current thought in the physical and social sciences as they relate to spirituality and enhance our understanding of ourselves. Dana Drobney’s “How Meditation Helps - Mindfulness in Everyday Life” employs meditation as a practice to help older adults and others accept the challenges and joys of aging with courage and clarity. The experiential course features practicing a range of meditation techniques that encourage health and well-being. All experience levels are welcome. Terri Cooper’s “Honing the Intuitive Edge” aims to strengthen and expand the skill of intuition to build rapport and confidence that comes from full attunement. Other titles in the tuition-free “Self-Management” section of the Spring catalog include “Adventures in Self-Esteem”, “How to Communicate Simply, Lovingly and Effectively” and “Ten Ways to Be Happier.” Most of the ongoing classes get underway during the week starting January 13, while the one-day workshops are sprinkled throughout the season, which runs through May 9. Application and registration are required even for the free classes, and can be completed in person at the Wake Campus at 300 North Turnpike Road or Schott Campus at 310 West Padre Street, or you can register online at www.sbcc.edu/ExtendedLearning, where you can also find complete course descriptions.
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The SB Psychedelic Integration Circle serves as a place to discuss experiences with entheogens, psychedelics, and plant medicines as well as explore insights and get information to understand how the plants can guide, change, or transform. The circle of support is to integrate via group and individual work to discuss and explore experiences with altered states of consciousness in order to grow and heal. The next meeting, set for 7-9 pm on Monday, January 13, will include a talking circle and possibly other activities such as intention setting, meditation, and music (www.meetup.com/SB-PsychedelicIntegration-Circle)... DJ Deva Dawn provides the beats and musical waves for this week’s Santa Barbara Ecstatic Dance Co-op event slated for 7 pm on Friday, January 10, at Divinitree Yoga, 25 East De La Guerra Street. Details, connect to the community, get news, give suggestions and see the future schedule on the Co-op’s Facebook page, www.facebook. com/groups/348680169122789… Divinitree itself hosts a full weekend of free yoga classes from nearly all of the downtown studio’s teachers and covering most of its regular offerings on January 11-12. Visit www. divinitreesantabarbara.com/discover-divinitree… Crown of Eternity’s Mike Tamburo orchestrates his way through 40-plus overtone rich instruments including gongs, bells, hammered dulcimer and tuned metal instruments in a Sound Meditation & Conscious Listening evening at Yoga Soup 7-9 pm on Friday, January 10 aimed to induce both sonic bliss and a deep and lasting vibrational rejuvenation for body and soul. •MJ
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The Evolution of My Resolutions
Words and Pictures
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may be the only kid on my block who can recite from memory the first words of the very first “Prince Valiant” comic. Actually, the term “comic” is totally inappropriate here, because “Prince Valiant” was very different from all the other features of that genre. For one thing, there were no balloons coming out of characters’ mouths. The story was told as a narrative, with captions at the bottom of each panel. It was set in a vaguely pre-Medieval time period, identified as “The Days of King Arthur,” and the very careful artwork gave a sense of historical authenticity. This epic was created by Hal Foster, who actually drew it from 1937 to 1971. In my Washington D.C. childhood, I was a great reader and accumulator of comic books, about 30 of which I somehow still have. One of them is the first published collection of “Prince Valiant.” But I myself can’t even read it, or any of the others, now, because they were sealed in plastic bags as delicate rarities by a dealer to whom I once took them for appraisal. Actually, the value of the “Prince Valiant” turned out to be less than I expected, because it had apparently been part of a large printing, and many other copies have survived. But comic books and strips, and the big Sunday pages (which was where “Prince Valiant” was to be found), affected my life in various ways. In one regard, they could be educational, e.g. as a source of new words. One word I learned was “rendezvous” – but, since I never heard it spoken, and didn’t know, until years later, that it was not English but French, I always pronounced it to myself phonetically. Another word was “mandate.” I came across it in a “Mutt & Jeff” strip which punningly confused it with the idea of a girl having a “man-date.” Again, it took years before I got straightened out about this. There were, however, some comic books which took this educational idea more seriously. One was one called “True Comics” (which sounds like an oxymoron) and was based on actual current and historical events. (Since this was wartime, many of the stories concerned our fighting men. The issue I saved had on its cover a portrayal of General Douglas MacArthur.) Another of these “edu9 – 16 January 2020
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cational” publications was “Classic Comics,” where I first encountered Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. It has been a long journey for humankind from the days of cave painting to those of the modern “graphic novel.” But stories have no doubt been told with pictures many millennia before there were written words to accompany them. The pictures themselves sometimes evolved into a kind of writing, such as the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Pictorial material has of course played a major part in the development of various religions, whose followers were often illiterate, but could understand pictures. That was one of the functions, in Christian churches, of many stained-glass windows, which often depicted scenes from the Bible. But an outstanding exception to this trend has been Islam, whose banning of depictions of Mohammed has, over time, been extended to generally forbidding all images of people, or even of animals – which is why Moslem art tends to feature highly elaborate decorative designs. But the true marriage of pictures with words had to wait until a substantial portion of the people were literate. Even as recently as the era of silent movies, the captions did not appear on the screen at the same time as the action (as we are now accustomed to seeing as “sub-titles” with foreign films) but were shown separately. This (as could often be heard in many theaters) gave a chance, to those who could read, to say the words aloud for the benefit of those who couldn’t. In the world of print – beginning in the nineteenth century, in such publications as the English “Punch” magazine – there came the development of single-panel, usually humorous, “cartoons.” In these, there used to be much emphasis on the quality of the art – but today, where they survive at all – as in the New Yorker magazine, cartoons seem to have degenerated to roughly sketched “ideas.” To round off this discussion of words and pictures, since I never told you those vivid opening words of “Prince Valiant” which have stayed with me all these years, here they are: “ Down to the coast, riding hard, comes the King of Thule, hotly pursued by his merciless enemies.” •MJ
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made my first New Year’s resolution when I was five years old. I promised myself that if I passed kindergarten I would try much harder in first grade. I knew I was flunking nap because I was worried once I dozed off that Tommy kid with the devious freckles would crayon my cheeks red again and give me a mustache. I was also failing milk time since I got caught putting chocolate syrup in mine – and in the cute redhead girl’s milk too. “Everyone passes kindergarten,” the teacher assured me. “Now please stop eating all our paste.” A few years later I swore I would practice my clarinet every day in the new year if they would just let me sit by the cute blonde girl during grade school band practice. “Sorry,” the band instructor told me. “But the squeaking noises you make mean you have to sit near the drums.” “I’m actually sitting behind the drums.” “Right. Now class… one and two and three…” At age 11, I swore in the new year that I would eat, sleep, and live baseball if I could just make a Little League team and play centerfield so I could impress the cute brunette girl who kept the stats for the league. “Congratulations,” the coach of the Laconia Rotary Club team told me that spring. “It was either you or the short kid with the runny nose and bifocals, so we chose you.” “Wow! Should I head out to centerfield now?” “Actually, we are going to put you on first base. You’re tall enough to make a good target for the infielders to aim at. Try to pay attention. We have limited icepacks.” In high school I got my first real job and swore in the new year that I would be the best bag boy the IGA grocery store had ever seen if only I could work at Sharon’s register, the cutest cashier in the world. “Sorry. Sharon has sensitive feet and the cans of peas you keep dropping on them isn’t helping. We’re going to have you in the stockroom breaking down cardboard boxes.” “For how long?” “Until you retire.” The ‘70s are somewhat of a blur as far as resolutions go. I know I made the annual plea that I not get arrested in the new year so I didn’t have to spend time with blondes, redheads and brunettes named Spike, Dregs,
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and Cruncher. I’m sure I resolved every year to give up smoking and other stuff to achieve this. And because January is in the winter in New Hampshire, I always resolved to do anything if I could just be warmer. Then, somehow, I ended up in Santa Barbara, which in my wildest dreams I couldn’t even imagine happening. I got a job. “Do I have to work in the stockroom?” “No, you can work out here in production with the rest of us.” “Wow!” This time I kept my resolution to quit smoking things that were bad for me. And followed through on my resolution to go back to school. “Hello. Brooks Institute. How may I help you?” “I want to be a rich photographer with a bevy of female models and ride around in Ferraris.”
I know I made the annual plea that I not get arrested in the new year so I didn’t have to spend time with blondes, redheads and brunettes named Spike, Dregs, and Cruncher.
“Right. Please hold.” But after lighting and photographing more mannequin heads than I knew existed in the world, I resolved to take another tact. “Santa Barbara City College, Journalism Department. How may I help you?” “I want to be a famous writer and buy a Montecito estate with 200 bedrooms. And a hot tub.” Click. That brings us to 2020. I’m happily married to a gal way cuter than the one in my grade school band. I have a huge, fun-loving family. I get to write this column and be part of the local writing community. I travel a lot and take copious amounts of photos. Somehow, I’m still healthy. And I never did go to jail for anything. So I’ve been trying to come up with a New Year’s resolution for 2020. Maybe I’ll take up the clarinet again. “Hello. Santa Barbara Symphony. How can I help you?” “Do you happen to have an extra seat behind percussion?” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL
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Our Changing Climate: A Global Movement of Reform Sat, Feb 29 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $10 / $5 UCSB students and youth (18 & under) Bill McKibben is leading the movement against human-induced climate change. He is the author of The End of Nature, a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide grassroots climate change movement, and the author of the new book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Run Itself Out?
David Wallace-Wells Surviving the World: Making the Best of a Burdened Planet Thu, Mar 5 / 7:30 PM / The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $20 / $10 UCSB students Author of the bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells explores the meaning of climate change – not only what it is doing to the planet but how it shapes our politics, our culture and our emotional lives.
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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Carolers singing at the La Cumbre Country Club Christmas luncheon
Casa del Herrero executive director Jessica Tade with Steedman grandson Albert Hinckley at the docent party
Carol Parsons with her husband docent Larry at the Christmas docent buffet Provisional docent instructor Dannise Parker with hospitality chair Nick Sebastian and Courthouse docent president Patti Schrader
Laura and Stuart Wilson and Hal Altman and Liz Rosedale at the Casa docent fête
love what we do. The staff gives us a delicious buffet party a few days after the fundraising Christmas gala. Some of those attending were Susanne McEwen, Bruce Emmens, Jane Defnet, Pat Saley, Liz Rosedale, Sally Green, Hal Altman, Pat Sheppard, and Duke McPherson. Jessica read a poem she had written saying thank you to all the volunteers who make the Casa come alive. This year had an extra sparkle with the publication of a book, The Steedman Silver, by Robert Sweeney and photos by Matt Walla. George Steedman was not only a businessman but a silversmith having created about one hundred items in 13 years. It is now on display for visitors to see. You’ll all come!
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The Santa Barbara Courthouse docents are beginning a new training class in January 2020. They need many to keep up with a busy schedule – Monday through Friday at 10:30 am and 2 pm and Saturday and Sundays at 2 pm. Meantime we all gathered at
the La Cumbre Country Club for a festive holiday lunch buffet. Since I will be one of the provisionals I attended to meet and greet a new group of folks to me. Dannise Parker will be our instructor. She has done it for four years and has a passion for her job. President Patti Schrader addressed the group, both new and current docents. She introduced Marie Mackie who has been a docent for 23 years. She has manned the information booth two days a week for all that time, some 8,000 hours. The joke is, “What is the question most often asked? Answer, “Where is the bathroom?” The group gave her a crystal paperweight appropriately engraved. Nick Sebastian was there in his Santa hat as hospitality chair to check people in. He would tell you that our Courthouse is one of the most beautiful government buildings in the United States. I can’t wait to learn all the history. The training is 30 hours. I can’t believe I’ve never been on a docent tour myself though I have written about the Legacy group many times. See you at the Courthouse. •MJ
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Nicholas Schou
Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger, his writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and other fine publications. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net.
Scouts’ Honor Jack, Kim and Lauren Cantin Jack and David Cantin at Camp Chawanakee
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David Cantin captaining Cub Scout Pack 108
wo years ago this week, at approximately 3:30 am on the morning of January 9, 2018, a massive rainstorm unleashed a series of lethal debris flows that swept through Montecito, killing 23 people and leaving scores more injured and homeless. Two victims were never recovered, including Jack Cantin, whose father, David, also died in the mudslides. Left behind were David’s wife, Kim, and their teenage daughter Lauren. When he died, David was a volunteer Scoutmaster with Troop 33, which, with some eight decades of history to its name, ranks as one of the two oldest Boy Scout troops in Santa
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Barbara. He’d taken over Troop 33 years earlier when Jack, a Montecito Union School eighth grader, graduated from the Cub Scouts and wanted to keep earning badges. At the time of his death, Jack, 17, then attending Santa Barbara High School, had just recently been promoted to Eagle Scout. Earning that final badge is something that, on average, only two to four percent of Scouts manage to do nationwide. Yet when Jack joined the Scouts and his dad took over Troop 33, ten other kids, all of whom were one year younger than Jack, followed him into the group. Now, eight of those young men have already been
promoted to Eagle Scout in a recent service at Our Lady at Mount Carmel, and the other two are just weeks away from doing the same.
Saving Troop 33
According to members of Troop 33 and their parents, the accomplishment is a testament to the impact the Cantins had on the group and the leadership they provided. In fact, they say, before the family came along, Troop 33’s membership roll was so low it was in danger of disappearing altogether. Grant Dyruff, whose son Nicholas is a member of Troop 33, said that his son and several other Cub Scouts moved into the troop a year after Jack. “Most of them were friends or knew each other, and Jack had already been in the Scouts and was like a mentor,” Dyruff says. “And Dave was the Scoutmaster for all these kids when they became Boy Scouts.” At the time, Troop 33 only had a few members, including Jack. One of the Scout mothers, Jamie Ruffing, was intent on keeping the program alive, as was another parent, Telford Work, a theology professor at Westmont College. “It was dwindling quite a bit,” says Dyruff. “Then Jamie came along and resurrected everything, and Dave and Telford helped put the Scouts back together, and then it began thriving because we had a whole new batch of Scouts.” Work joined the Boy Scouts in 2006 and became an assistant Scout leader two years later. “Starting in 2011, our troop size was so small we ended
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up meeting with another troop in Carpinteria. But then we hear about a new Cub Scout Pack, 108, which had a bunch of boys two years out from bridging to the Scouts, and the pack leader of 108 was Dave Cantin.” After a July 4th parade along San Ysidro Road, Work and Cantin headed over to Manning Park and talked about the idea of merging Cantin’s graduating Cub Scouts into Troop 33. “Dave loved the idea of bringing his son over and relaunching the Troop,” Work recalls. “He did an extraordinary job leading that cub pack. And when Jack bridged over to the Boy Scouts at age 11, Dave came along on some of our trips and learned the distinctive tradition of our troop. We like backpacking with light gear and it usually it takes a while to learn that culture, but Dave and Jack jumped right in.”
Making Eagle
A year after the Cantins joined Troop 33, 10 other Montecito Union School students who were part of Cantin’s Cub Scout Pack 108 followed suit. Now, some eight years later, all ten of those Scouts are still in Troop 33. “All ten have stayed in,” Work confirms. “Eight have become Eagle Scouts and the other two are just a month away. It’s pretty extraordinary, given how few scouts make Eagle nationally. It shows the bonding the boys had when Dave was cubmaster and scoutmaster.” In the wake of the 1/9 debris flow,
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Montecito; six in the inland zone and three in the Coastal Zone. The DCUs are pole mounted; either co-located on existing light poles or on a pole installed specifically for the DCU. If an existing light pole is not available, units would be installed on a new concrete, wood, or steel pole, with a computer box, antenna, and solar panel for power. “If we are not using an existing pole, then we need to provide power to the unit, so we would install a small solar panel,” said SoCalGas local district manager Timothy Mahoney. The solar panel would be 30 inches by 24 inches, and the newly installed poles could be as high as 30 feet. “The Montecito community is extremely sensitive to aesthetics and power poles. It’s imperative that you minimize the impact to aesthetics by minimizing the number of poles that you install,” said committee member Peter van Duinwyk. Reps from SoCalGas said they are willing to work with the community to find commercial locations, if possible, in which to install the poles, and use types of poles that best fit into the existing environment. Other areas in the county have already moved to the advanced gas meters, including the City of Santa Barbara and Goleta. SoCalGas has
installed 4,500 of the DCUs throughout their territory, from Fresno to the Inland Empire. SoCalGas reports that moving from analog meters to advanced gas meters will help the company and customers detect abnormal gas usage and improve air quality. Customers will be able to access usage information via an app or website. The new meter uses the existing equipment on private property, with the addition of a new faceplate that is battery operated. The meter records a reading each day for a very brief moment, utilizing two AA batteries for less than two minutes per year, according to Mahoney. The unit does not communicate with other meters or appliances in the home, and Mahoney said it will still be imperative for customers to be on the lookout for the smell or sound of leaking gas. Mahoney said that studies show that Radio Frequency (RF) emissions from the updated units are far less than everyday items including laptops, cell phones, wireless routers, baby monitors, and microwaves. The project has been seen by Montecito Board of Architectural Review, and will be seen by the Montecito Planning Commission and Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in the coming months.
Marking the Anniversary of 1/9
This Thursday, January 9, marks the two-year anniversary of the historic debris flow that killed 23 people and destroyed or damaged over 500 homes in Montecito. To mark the anniversary, a team of community organizations has collaborated to host Raising Our Light: A Night of Remembrance, Community, and Hope at Westmont College. The first annual Raising Our Light event took place last January 9, drawing 2,200 people who took a candlelit walk from Lower Manning Park to All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. This year’s event is at Westmont’s Murchison Gym, and will feature readings, music, and a reception to remember the lives lost and acknowledge how far the community has come. “We know the anniversary is important. January 9, 2018 devastated our community, and there is still a lot of pain in our hearts as we approach the end of our second year of recovery. The community response to 1/9 brought us together in new ways to help and support one another and this event is an important step in the healing process,” said Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell, who helped plan the event. “The intent is to remember what we
have lost, but to also continue growing the sense of connectedness that came out of navigating the disaster and recovery,” said Sharon Byrne, Executive Director of the Montecito Association. “We want to keep building that sense of community in Montecito.” Since the disaster, dozens of community organizations have stepped up to see the community through the various phases of recovery, placing a significant emphasis on creating resiliency in Montecito. With new steel ring nets in place in our local canyons thanks to The Partnership for Resilient Communities, a new debris basin at Randall Road is on the fast track to being built thanks to the County of Santa Barbara, FEMA, and private residents, and increased disaster preparation by both public and private entities, Montecito has become the blueprint on how to increase resiliency following a natural disaster. On the rebuilding side, County staff has made contact with over 450 homeowners whose homes were affected, and over 300 homes have been repaired or rebuilt. All road and bridge repair throughout Montecito is now complete, and 2019 also brought the reopening of San Ysidro Ranch after 15 months of closure following
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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 33) the disaster, which damaged more than half of the historic property’s buildings as well as the gardens. La Casa de Maria continues to rebuild, as its Board of Trustees and staff are working to fund and design a new retreat center in order to reopen as soon as possible. In the coming year, we can expect to see a greater push for disaster preparedness and resiliency at the hyper-local level, with the help of MERRAG as well as the Bucket Brigade, which is launching a new program to connect neighbors to become more resilient as a neighborhood. The Raising Our Light event is at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 9, at Westmont. For parking and shuttle information, contact the Montecito Association at 969-2026.
Real Estate News
In what was 2019’s largest residential real estate transaction in Santa Barbara County, filmmaker George Lucas closed escrow on a two-acre property adjacent to his existing property on Padaro Lane in December. The $28M off-market deal was sold by listing agent Susan Pate of Compass, with SB Brokers’ Troy Hoidal rep-
resenting the buyer, according to the Santa Barbara County Multiple Listing Service. The beachfront property includes four structures: a Cape Cod-style home, a guesthouse, “tree house,” and a barn-type structure, which are very different than the ultra-modern home that Lucas owns next door. That property was sold in 2010 for $19,500,000, and includes 1.7acres of beach frontage. The sale comes second to the largest land deal of the year; Las Veras Ranch – 1,800 of oceanfront land located on the Gaviota Coast – closed escrow for $70M. Purchased by Charlie Munger, the land was gifted to UCSB. In Montecito and Carpinteria, there were 10 sales over $15M, including a $27M property on East Valley Road, a $24M sale on Sand Point, three sales on Padaro Lane for $23M, $18M, and $17M, a sale on Edgecliff Lane for $17.8M, a sale on Cima Del Mundo for $17.5M, and a sale on Hot Springs Road for $15.5M. This is a significant change from the previous year; in 2018 there were just three sales in Montecito/ Carpinteria over $15M. We’ll have a more extensive breakdown of 2019’s real estate market in Montecito in an upcoming edition.
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Montecito resident Dr. Jennifer Freed has released her 9th book, titled Use Your Planets Wisely: Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology. The book, which is available locally and online, is the culmination of over 30 years of Dr. Freed’s work, in which she teaches how a person’s astrology can set the tone for how they function in relationships and within their community. “This book and method turns astrology into a way to understand yourself in a greater capacity, and understand what gifts you have to share with your community,” Dr. Freed said during a recent interview, adding that the idea for the book came from a student and colleague who asked Freed to publish her teachings in order to benefit more people. “This book will never be outdated, and it takes you step-bystep through the process of up-scaling your life,” she said. In Use Your Planets Wisely, Dr. Freed introduces readers to psychological astrology as a way to dive deep into understanding oneself and others in a profound and life-changing way. The book gives instructions on how readers can obtain their birth chart, determining all of their planetary placements and rising signs. The book is then organized by planet, and describes the three stages of psychological and cosmic development: primitive, adaptive, and evolving. There are also exercises on how to reach one’s highest potential. By using this information, according to Freed, readers can expand their self-knowledge significantly. “The knowledge in this book will give you a far more complete picture of your psychological and emotional blueprint,” she said. In addition to her work locally as
Dr. Jennifer Freed has released her 9th book, Use Your Planets Wisely: Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology
the co-founder and director of AHA!, Dr. Freed is a nationally recognized expert, author, speaker, and consultant on a variety of subjects including parenting, bullying, and parent/child relationships, and more. She is also an internationally certified Psychological Astrologer and has consulted thousands of clients in Montecito, Santa Barbara, and across the world. She is a regular contributor to lifestyle brand goop and the go-to astrologer for goop’s health summits; later this week she is featured on the goop podcast discussing her new book. Dr. Freed will sign her new book at The Shopkeepers in the Funk Zone on Sunday, January 12, at 5 pm. Freed will also begin writing a column in Montecito Journal beginning in March. The column, called Astrology Grounded in Psychology, will touch on many of the topics from her book. For more information, visit www.jen niferfreed.com. •MJ
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minutes later, she couldn’t walk and, later, she was diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), an extremely rare – Fisher was just the 101st case – polio-like disease that appears without apparent cause and has no cure. Suddenly, the peppy young adult who had played Martha Cratchit in a production of A Christmas Carol at the Granada on her 11th birthday, danced as a pixie for the Historical Museum Christmas Party at 14, and
was singing and playing guitar for the firefighters Christmas party the night before she got sick, was confined to immobility in a hospital bed. The once fiercely independent teenager who was, in her own words from a blog post, “becoming the captain of my own ship,” was unable to move any part of her body below her neck. Over time, Fisher has been able to leave the hospital and now spends her waking hours in a wheelchair, and is able to speak and eat solid food. But it’s only through the use of a mouth stick that she’s able to navigate. But the Grace Fisher story isn’t a tragedy. Instead, the now 22-year-old Gracie – which is what everybody calls her – has not only accepted her circumstances but adapted her aptitude to the circumstance of her continued paralysis. She uses the mouth stick to not only turn her wheelchair, but also compose music on a keyboard with special software programs, and also create artwork. The 22-year-old is now a junior at UCSB, majoring in
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Jack and students at Cleveland Elementary School
David helping Jack finish his Eagle Scout project at Cleveland Elementary School
Troop 33 was devastated to learn that both Jack and Dave Cantin had perished in the disaster. Although Dave’s body was located, Jack was never found, just a Troop 33 shirt retrieved from a creek that has now been preserved as a teddy bear. “When we heard the news, it felt like we really should gather,” Work says. “The Scout House and Manning Park were inaccessible, but Montecito Covenant Church opened for us.” Troop 33 gathered in a circle and shared stories about the Cantins, grieving together.” A few weeks later, everyone gathered again for a memorial service at the Santa Barbara Mission, followed by a wake at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. “For a couple of hours, people told stories,” Work recalls. “It was really amazing to see fifteenyear-old boys getting up and sharing their memories of Dave and Jack in a crowded room full of people.” The commemorations continued with a flagpole dedication ceremony at Santa Barbara Middle School and an event dedicating benches to the duo outside the Scout House at Manning Park.
Scoutmaster Telford Work, Eagle Scouts Mac Sales, Nicholas Dyruff, and Jack Lufkin Jack’s Troop 33 shirt, found in the wake of the 1/9 debris flow
Remembering the Cantins
The role the Cantins played in keeping Troop 33 together both in life and thereafter lives on in the memories of those who knew them, says Grant Bennett. “Jack was one of my best friends in high school,” Bennett says.
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& Cheese stayed open to feed first responders,” says Kim Cantin. “They became a fabric of the community by stepping in when help was needed. In the wake of the tragedy, shop owner Patrick Braid began dedicating coffee blends to victims, and asked Kim for permission to name a blend after her late husband and son. “He asked me what beach Jack and Dave liked, and I said, ‘Miramar,’” Kim explains. “I remembered that when Jack had one of his first crushes, he packed lunch for a picnic and took her to this beach, and Dave would always go there for peace and tranquility. It’s a really symbolic sentiment that those lost are never forgotten, and to me, as a mom, that’s beautiful.” A community-wide remembrance ceremony for Dave and Jack Cantin and the 21 other victims of the 1/9 debris flow will be held on its second anniversary, Thursday, January 9, at Murchison Gym at Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road. The program begins at 6:30 pm and is followed by a reception at 7 pm. For more information, text ROL2020 to 555888.•MJ 9 – 16 January 2020
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ater. Grace and her family along with Montgomery and other filmmakers will be on hand for a Q&A following the screenings.)
Santa Barbara’s Time to get SBIFF-y
Amazing Grace premieres on Thursday, January 16, at the Lobero Theatre
Grace Fisher was diagnosed with the rare disease on her 17th birthday
family, of course. It’s the kind of tale that can bring a jaded journalist to tears – especially being in her presence, which can only be described as, yes, graceful. “I’ve always been inherently happy,” Gracie explained when we talked at her family home last weekend. “I can’t be mad – no one caused this. It was just this unexplainable thing that happened… I used my body in so many ways and was so physically active (before). Now the biggest thing that’s been enhanced is the ability to sit still and work on art or music. My ability to use time in a different manner.” Fisher’s transformational story
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comes to the big screen next week, as the one-hour documentary Amazing Grace, directed by Emmy Awardwinner Lynn Montgomery in her first theatrical film, has its world premiere during the 35th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Montgomery is an old family friend – her daughter Hannah is a close friend who was actually at Grace’s party when she got sick – and her relationship with the Fishers makes Amazing Grace a wonderful balance of inspiring documentary and family film, the latter largely because of access. “Making the movie was very organic. They are an open book, very trans-
parent,” said Montgomery, who shot some scenes in the Fisher home with her iPhone. “They wanted the whole story to be told in all its different layers. There was never any time they said, I don’t want you to film this.” Still, the film doesn’t focus on the tragic circumstances, save for a few moments of watching Grace’s trach tube get changed, instead focusing on Fisher’s accomplishments, including a visit from the Montecito-raised, Oscar-winning film composer Justin Hurwitz, who marveled at Grace’s compositional skill, and a climaxing performance of Fisher’s “Waltz of the Waves” at SBHS in December 2018. “We wanted it to celebrate Gracie’s journey, serve as a story of triumph, and offer hope and encouragement,” Montgomery explained. “We want people to ask themselves, ‘What do I want to have a better attitude about?’ ‘Who do I want to bring joy to today?’ Gracie’s current journey is what’s inspirational.” As for Fisher herself, who starred in innumerable home movies – scenes of her playing her guitar, dancing and larking about with her family and friends are shown in the film – as well as on local stages, making the documentary was an exciting adventure. “I always loved theater and being on stage and performing,” she said. “You never want something bad to happen to you and have to showcase your life out of a place of loss, but it came at a time when I already accepted everything and felt I was in a good place. And I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.” Then, Fisher came out with one more line that left a lump in the throat. “I wish I had more negative things to say because it might make for a better story. But this is just how it is.” (Amazing Grace has its world premiere at 7 pm on Thursday, January 16, at the Lobero Theatre, and a second screening at 1:20 pm on Friday, January 17, at the Fiesta Five the-
“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.” – Oprah Winfrey
SBIFF 35 arrives on Wednesday, January 15 for an 11-day run that will screen 47 world premieres and 71 U.S. premieres from 50 different countries among more than two hundred total movies as well as present tributes with many of the year’s top actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and other artisans – including a whole bunch of movie stars and others who just won Golden Globe Awards earlier this week – plus panel discussions and free community education and outreach programs. From The Songpoet, a deep-diving biopic of the once-soaring, now under-the-radar singer-songwriter Eric Anderson (more on that next week) to the American indie comedy Attorneys at Love starring Peter Krause, SBIFF will once again span the globe as well as just about every crevice of cinematic splendor at nearly every film venue downtown. Roll out the red carpet and roll up your sleeves to immerse yourself in the pleasures of SBIFF for the wildly fun, entertaining and educational 11-day ride. Visit www.sbiff. org for all things festival-related.
Further Focus on Film With SBIFF set to start on January 15, other film-related programs are getting in their last licks before the deluge of films and stars arrive. Serving as a backdrop to an earlier era when our Eden-by-the-Sea was the center of movieland, historian Neal Graffy will explore the American Film Company, better known as the Flying A, that made Santa Barbara the center of the movie world back in 1912 in a pair of talks on Thursday. Graffy will discuss how the Chicago-based company that was best known for its “Cowboy Films” settled in Santa Barbara and within a year had built one of the most impressive studios on the coast. The studio expanded to become one of Santa Barbara’s largest employers and attracted some of the industry’s top directors, actors, and writers, while the area’s historic adobes, mansions, beaches and mountain peaks became backdrops for the cameras of the Flying A, which cranked out over 1,000 westerns, dramas, and comedies projecting visions of Santa Barbara on theater screens around the world. Yet, before their tenth anniversary they were headed for bankruptcy and by 1921 were gone. Graffy will explore the studio’s legacy which continues to influence the movies and television shows of today during the two presentations at 5:30 and 7:30 pm 9 – 16 January 2020
at Santa Barbara Historical Museum. It will be a beautiful day out at UCSB when Noah Harpster, the screenwriter and executive producer of the Mister Rogers’ biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, joins Pollock Theater moderator Matt Ryan for a post-screening discussion of the 2019 film based on the true story of Fred Rogers’ and journalist Tom Junod’s unlikely friendship and a timely tale of kindness triumphing over cynicism (2 pm; Saturday, January 11; free).
Notice Inviting Bids: BID NO. 5807 CABLE BARRIER REPAIR AT CITY PARKING LOT GARAGES 2 & 10 1.
The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its CABLE BARRIER REPAIR AT CITY PARKING LOT GARAGES 2 & 10 Project (“Project”), by or before JANUARY 30, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.
Books, Authors, and Lectures
The Santa Barbara Public Library’s Local Author Day aims to both offer advice to aspiring authors and opportunities for seasoned published writers to connect via a free one-day seminar at the Faulkner Gallery on Saturday, January 11. Local authors – including MJ columnist Mitchell Kriegman (Being Audrey Hepburn) – will speak about the craft of writing followed by a panel discussion on getting your books into the hands of readers, with opportunities to ask questions about marketing, finding an agent, and working with an editor. The 9 am to 2 pm event ends with time for networking and a local author book sale. UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Katharine Hayhoe, a 2019 United Nations Champion of the Earth, in a free timely talk titled “Science in a Fact-Free World” at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, January 11, at Campbell Hall. An atmospheric scientist and the lead author for the U.S. National Climate Assessments under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations who also hosts and produces the PBS Digital Series Global Weirding: Climate, Politics and Religion, Hayhoe strives to understand what climate change means for people and the natural environment and bridge the gap between science and religion.
Brains and Behavior
Chaucer’s Books hosts a book launch and signing for UCSB Presidential Chair Dr. Scott Grafton, who is also the director of the UCSB Brain Imaging Center, to share his new book Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and Mind Guide Each Other through Life, at 7 pm on Tuesday, January 14. Grounded in personal experience in a manner that recalls works by Oliver Sacks, the book offers a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage, or choose note to, in all manner of physical action, viewed through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience.
If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. 2.
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Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Lot 2 – Canon Perdido Garage, 914 Chapala St., and Lot 10 – Ortega Garage, 621 Anacapa St., in the City of Santa Barbara, and is described as follows: to re-tension existing and install vehicle cable rail crash barriers on interior face of garage openings. New cable rails will be constructed per the Project Plans. 2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 45 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about February 2020 but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding. 2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $175,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A NONMANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on January 16, 2020 at 9:00 a.m., beginning at Lot 2, Canon Perdido Garage, 914 Chapala St and then proceeding to Lot 10, Ortega Garage, 621 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite.
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License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): AGENERAL ENGINEERING LICENSE. 3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions
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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959
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Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that within ten days after City issues the Notice of Award, the successful bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and any other submittals required by the Contract Documents and as specified in the Notice of Award.
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Prevailing Wage Requirements. 6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code § 1771.4.
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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount, as further specified in the Contract Documents.
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Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code § 22300.
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Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price.
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Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.
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Retention Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is five (5) percent.
A Play on Birds
In what is essentially an aviary one-man show, A Play on Birds features global birder and photographer Dr. Aaron Budgor in a delightful exploration of bird senses at 6 pm on Friday, January 10, at New Vic Theatre. Billed as “A sensory journey through the avian world,” the evening finds Dr. Budgor soaring in words and pictures talking about how birds use all of their senses – the same five as human’s – as well as adaptive behaviors to survive in the wild. Dr. Budgor, who has travelled the world to photograph more than 3,000 different species, will draw from his photo library and knowledge to share stories of adaptation, migration, and the impact of climate change on the birds in your backyard and beyond. The event is presented by and benefits the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, which recently opened its new permanent location following damage from the local fires. •MJ
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$27.4 billion. Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who has a number of homes in our Eden by the Beach, is ranked 14 with $59.3 billion, while Google honcho Eric Schmidt, who bought TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’s Montecito estate, is ranked at 89 with $15.6 billion. Star Wars mogul George Lucas, who has a beach house in Carpinteria, is at 207 with $8.24 billion, with Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, a frequent visitor to our rarefied enclave when his NFL team is training in Oxnard, ranked 315 with $6.13 billion.
Prince Edward, for whom he threw bers of the Royal Family, including a party at his Upper Eastside townPrince Charles and Camilla, and house in Manhattan ten years ago. Queen Elizabeth’s youngest son I well remember his 60th birth-
Geoffrey Bradfield chronicles half a century of glitz and glamor
It’s a Glamourous Life An old New York friend, international interior designer Geoffrey Bradfield, sends me his latest hefty 288-page tome Stage Set, which chronicles in lavish detail the past 50 years of his glamorous life. Geoffrey details his unlikely ascendance from a farm in a remote South African province to a glittering career that has earned him worldwide recognition as “The Billionaires’ Designer” after working for the legendary Jay Spectre in the ‘70s. As well as being a superb designer, Geoffrey is also an impeccable host, with myriad photos of him with the rich and famous, including mem-
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day bash when I flew in from Los Angeles. Geoffrey took over the 26-room mansion formerly owned by Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, with staff dressed in Mozart-mode, bewigged and carrying candelabras, as we walked up the magnificent marble staircase with the likes of Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne, Andrew and Jill Roosevelt, and Michael and Tara Rockefeller. Breakfast was served at 1 am and the festivities continued well until the morning hours. Recent projects include a 200,000 sq. ft. Asian chateau brimming with Chinese antiquities, a penthouse palace floating above Jerusalem, and extravagantly scaled residences in London, Jakarta and Silicon Valley. Prepare to be mightily impressed. Troubled Waters Oscar winner Michael Douglas’s son, Cameron, 41, has spoken up about his struggles with cocaine and heroin dependency, which started when he was a young teenager. The grandson of legendary Montecito actor, Kirk Douglas, 103, tells Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson he used to sell crystal meth and was eventually arrested in 2009, ending up in prison for heroin possession and conspiracy to distribute
“Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.” – Oprah Winfrey
drugs. “I felt lonely and uncomfortable in my own skin and drugs soothed that for me,” says Cameron. “It allowed a connection to a peer group.” He says he now feels he has a purpose in life and is continuing to pursue a career in acting. Dame Newton-John My congratulations to singer Olivia Newton-John who has been named a Dame, the female equivalent of a knight, in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year’s honors list. Olivia, 71, a longtime resident of the Santa Ynez Valley – she put her 12 -acre horse ranch up for sale for $5.4 million in May, 2019 – receives the honor for her singing and acting, and her charitable work supporting cancer research. The four-time Grammy winner, who is battling breast cancer for the third time, is best known for co-starring in Grease with John Travolta. She was born in Cambridge, England, where I used a toil as a district chief reporter on the Evening News, and I remember her well from her early career when she was a regular on British singer Cliff Richard’s weekly BBC TV show in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Remembering Frank
Frank Caulfield R.I.P. (photo: www.kleinerperkins.com)
Venture capitalist Frank Caulfield, who lived on the late racing tycoon Andy Granatelli’s Sycamore Canyon Road estate, has died at the age of 80. Caulfield, co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers in 1972, famously rented out his home in 2011 for the overblown $10 million wedding of reality TV star Kim Kardashian to basketball star Kris Humphries, which I covered for CNN, with a huge mobile broadcast truck parked on Coast Village Road. The marriage lasted 72 days! 9 – 16 January 2020
Mental Health Matters Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has been reflecting on her past battles with depression. The singer, 35, says she is helped by her British fiancé Orlando Bloom in an interview with Vogue India. Reflecting on a particularly tough period between 2017 and 2018, the former Dos Pueblos High student admits she struggled to even get out of bed. “In the past I’d been able to overcome it, but this time something happened that made me fall down too many flights of stairs. I had to really go on a mental health journey.” Katy also discusses her “spirited journey” with the Lord of the Rings actor, saying they bring out the best in each other by pulling out the “poison.” It was all Yellow TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey reveals she and CBS Morning Show co-anchor Gayle King have a blooming good relationship. Montecito’s most famous resident had yellow flowers specially flown in from Holland for a dinner party she hosted for King, a lifelong friend since 1976 when they met as young journalists in Baltimore. “Gayle’s favorite color is yellow, so we’re gonna yellow up the place,” Oprah revealed in an Instagram post. “Tulips, narcissus, daffodils, all the spring flowers in the middle of winter. That’s what’s so fantastic.” Rest in Peace On a personal note, I send my condolences to Santa Barbara Polo Club patriarch and former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica, Glen Holden, who suffered a double tragedy over Christmas. His charming wife, Gloria, to whom he’d been married for nearly 70 years after meeting as high school sweethearts, died at their ranch in Oregon surrounded by family. Just 24 hours later their eldest daughter, Georgie, died of a massive heart attack. Life can be so unfair... Sightings: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom skiing in Aspen... Reese Witherspoon checking out Merci Montecito... Film score composer Alan Silvestri noshing at Olio e Limone
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 ‘Haven’ at Acheson House – For The Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara’s unique new exhibition, members of the Santa Barbara Printmakers who live in and around Santa Barbara and beyond were invited to create 10” x 10” prints inspired by the theme of “Haven,” with each artist interpreting the word in their own personal way. Among the results are images of Central Coast landscapes, private homes, other places of safety, other spaces and structures, and even abstractions. Santa Barbara artists Claudia Borfiga and Meagan Stirling developed the exhibition concept in collaboration with the Architectural Foundation and were joined by architect/architecture historian Jeremy White in jurying the exhibition which consists of pieces made with techniques including intaglio, relief, screen printing and monoprint. All the prints are unframed and priced affordably. Proceeds from the exhibition are distributed to the artists as well as to the Architectural Foundation to support their community programs for all ages. WHEN: Opening reception 5-7 pm tonight; exhibit continues through March 5 WHERE: Architectural Foundation’s Art Gallery, 229 E. Victoria St. (in the historic Acheson House on the corner of Garden) COST: free INFO: (805) 965-6307 or www.afsb.org Motor City Memories – Although the combination of urban R&B and soul that emanated from Detroit back in the 1960s had its heyday in that long ago decade, Motown music still has major appeal among audiences of all ages. Indeed, from its initial run at New York’s Westchester Broadway Theatre through two multi-year runs in Las Vegas and an ongoing five-year National Tour, the musical revue known as Forever Motown has thrived as a premier Motown celebration across the country. The Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, which at the end of 2019 just finished an extended run of Plaid Tidings, another oldies-filled show that serves as a holiday update of Forever Plaid, RTC now drops the word “Plaid” instead to bring the Motown musical. Already featuring former members of the early girl group The Marvelettes (“Please Mr. Postman,” which was the label’s first No. 1 hit), now two additional original Motown legends are joining the group of nine singers and a five-piece band for the critically-acclaimed Ventura run of Forever Motown: Glenn Leonard from
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The Temptations and G.C. Cameron, the original lead singer of The Spinners. The show features many of your favorite Motown hits within a Four Tops medley, tributes to Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lionel Ritchie, The Spinners, The Temptations and more. Among the massive hits evoking memories that will emanate from the stage are “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Baby, I Need Your Lovin’,” “Sugar Pie (Honey Bunch),” “Grapevine,” “Tracks of My Tears,” “Please Mr. Postman,” “Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing,” and “Get Ready.” Just as Motown packed in hit after hit back to back in the ‘60s, RTC is cramming seven shows into a single weekend at its Ventura theater. But you’ll have to do your dancing outside or down in the hallway during intermission. WHEN: Today through Sunday WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $69 INFO: (8050 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 Stand up from Down Under – Jim Jefferies, the Australian-American stand-up comedian, political commentator, actor, and writer, first received attention in an unusual way. He was attacked on stage while performing at the Manchester Comedy Store, and footage of the incident was incorporated into his act and later seen on his 2008 DVD, Contraband. After touring and performing on some internet specials and creating a popular podcast, Jefferies created and starred in the American FX sitcom Legit (2013-2014) and Comedy Central’s late-night comedy The Jim Jefferies Show – in which his goal was to “shake up the humdrum formula of the political late-night show by tackling the news of the day with no-bulls**t candor, piercing insight and a uniquely Aussie viewpoint.” Its three-year run came to a close last November, with Jefferies having reportedly signed a first-look deal with Comedy Central for TV content development, along with NBC, on a multi-camera pilot with him as the star. Jefferies’ mini Southern California four-show leg of his “Oblivious” tour concludes tonight at the Arlington Theatre here in Santa Barbara. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1317 State St. COST: $39-$85 INFO: (805) 9634408/www.thearlingtontheatre.com or www.axs.com/venues/2330 Premiere at the Club – Today’s Santa Barbara Music Club concert
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 12 Touchdown with Lombardi – Italian virtuoso guitarist Alberto Lombardi is among an ever-growing field of internationally renowned acoustic solo fingerstyle players who also trade in other genres. But too many have received plaudits from the likes not only of Tommy Emmanuel, the fingerstyle hero who played UCSB’s Campbell Hall in December, who told Lombardi that his music “sounds beautiful and your playing and arrangements are very powerful,” but also famed producer/guitarist Nile Rodgers (Chic, Diana Ross, etc.), who said your “...record is killin’! such great musicianship!”, and rock producer/engineer Bob Clearmountain (Springsteen, Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams), who exclaimed “wow this is such a beautiful piece of music; you must be a very big star in Italy.” Lombardi’s acoustic performances are comprised of elaborate arrangements of classics both of the Italian and international tradition, incorporating fingerpicking, flatpicking and some looping and singing, plus original songs and compositions. Check it out for yourself when Lombardi comes to Santa Barbara as part of SOhO’s Listening Room series. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $20 INFO: (805) 9627776 or www.sohosb.com
not only features performances by some of the organization’s most accomplished members, but also the world premiere of Katherine Saxon’s “Forgotten Memories” played by flutist Suzanne Duffy and pianist Kacey Link. Saxon, who earned her PhD in Music from UCSB, is working on a science fiction opera called The Cradle of Dreams; she also directs the Santa Barbara Treble Clef Chorus, the choir at the Carpinteria Community Church, and a local community early music ensemble. The composer addresses the concepts of memory is fallible, imprecise and changeable, through using “creative forms of remembering and misremembering (to have the) piece reflect on ideas of roots, family, loss, and how, even in the absence of memories, we imagine stories to tell us who we are.” Duffy and Link will also play Dohnányi’s Aria, Op. 48, No. 1 – his last opus number, which virtuoso flutist Ellie Baker called “a billowing and passionate little piece brimming with romance and longing” – and the “Cantabile et Presto” by Georges Enescu. Music Club president Eric Valinsky then sits down at the piano to play his Sonata No. 5, “Harsher Landscapes,” followed by fellow pianist Neil Di Maggio’s interpretation of the Johannes Brahms Rhapsody in E-flat, Op. 119, No 4. The program concludes with flutist Andrea Di Maggio joining Neil for a performance of Carl
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Reinecke’s Ballade for flute and piano. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 East Anapamu (at Garden) COST: free INFO: www. sbmusicclub.org ‘Children in Nature’ – World-renowned author Richard Louv joins local leaders to explore the issue of reconnecting our children to nature at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s eighth annual Conservation Symposium. “Children in Nature - Prescription for a Healthy Planet” will dig into how nature connection makes kids happier, healthier, and smarter and what our community can do to develop deeper connections between children and nature in our schools, at home and in the world. The aim is to combat the trend where, due to electronic devices and other distractions, children today are in nature less frequently than ever before, and they are suffering for the lack, with results including increased incidence of obesity, depression, attention disorders, and a dampening of creativity. Without that connection to nature, we are also losing the next generation of conservationists. Louv, the author of Last Child in the Woods and the just released “Our Wild Calling,” will also receive Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Award, which is given to a global trailblazer in conservation. The annual symposium, established in 2012, is designed to address topics that 9 – 16 January 2020
MONDAY, JANUARY 13 No Ax to Grind – Few American pianists are as accomplished as Emanuel Ax, who between 198696 received five Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance for his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Isaac Stern, and Richard Stoltzman. Ax has also twice been recognized for his solo work, winning the Grammys for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) in 1995 and 2004. Ax’s all-Beethoven recital in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth departs from most classical organization’s approach in focusing on both widely and lesser known masterpieces of the iconic master’s large piano canon. Audience’s at Ax’s recital – presented by CAMA’s Masterseries’ first concert of intimate performances for 2020 – will be treated to his inimical interpretations of Beethoven’s Bagatelle No.25 in A minor (WoO 59, Bia 515), “Für Elise”; Piano Sonata in A major, Op.2, No.2; Six Variations on an original theme in F major, Op.34’ Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.2, No.1; Five variations on “Rule, Britannia!,” WoO 79; and Piano Sonata in C major, Op.2, No.3. WHEN: x pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $$ INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.org/events/cama-emanuel-ax/
are critical to environmental conservation in our region, as well as nationally and internationally. In addition to Louv, the symposium – which will be held offsite – will feature regional nature connection leaders discussing various topics, including Dan Fontaine, Wilderness Youth Project and Marlen Limon, Franklin Elementary School (“Where Nature and the Classroom Meet”); Fernando Gomez, Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (“How Nature Changed My Life”); Mark Wilkinson, SB County Trails (“Healthy Children, Healthy Planet”); Laurie Bostick Cammon, Pediatrician (“Prescribing Nature for Individual and Community Health”); Bridget Lewin, Andy Lanes, and Paulina Somosa, UCSB Environmental Studies (“Developing Ecological Literacy Through Educational Community Connections”); Scot Pipkin, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Chris Lortie, NCEAS (“Exploration and the Power of Nature for Cognitive growth: Daily Practices and Tools”); and Jennifer Adams, Latino Outdoors (“Engaging the Latino Community in the Outdoors and the Importance of Empowering Leadership Within our Community”). WHEN: 10 am-4 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara County Education Office, 4400 Cathedral Oaks Road COST: $50 general, $20 students INFO: (805) 682-4726 or www.sbbg.org
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resolutions. So at the Journal, we’ve decided to go the other way. We’re looking forward to gaining weight. We will be working toward adding more pages, adding more contributors, and adding more voices from our already strong community choir. Our next resolution is to ACHIEVE MORE BALANCE. Balance between hanging on to the old and embracing some new. As we give the Montecito Journal a little face lift, we strive to hang on to what it is about our paper we love. We will try to strike that delicate balance between discussing serious matters, but not taking ourselves too seriously. And we are working to achieve balance between continuing to embrace our beloved physical newspaper and adding a digital site to the mix for things that don’t work so well in print – like up-to-the-minute emergency information, archiving past issues, podcasts, and other creative exploration. We pledge to SPEND MORE TIME WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY and MEET NEW PEOPLE. Through our growing content and MJ-sponsored events, we will strive to bring together more of us more often. And not just our immediate Montecito family, but our extended local family – Summerland, Carpinteria, and Santa Barbara. And, we’re thinking a lot about GIVING BACK. I’m always quick to tell people that there are more nonprofits per capita in Santa Barbara County than anywhere else in the country. I’m proud of that. But at the Montecito Journal we’re thinking about how we can give back more. Part of that will involve covering more deeply the impressive work that’s being done by so many of these local nonprofits. As we observe the two-year anniversary of our town’s calamitous debris flow, and all the remarkable work our locals have done to make sure we are never that unprepared again, let’s take a moment to once again recognize some of our greatest local grassroots efforts: The Project for Resilient Communities (TPRC), the Bucket Brigade, 805 Strong, Partners in Community Renewal, The Montecito Community Foundation, Montecito Trails Foundation, the Recovery Store, to name a few. I am thankful and proud to live in a place where public service is a top priority for so many. For me the most daunting of all resolutions is: GET MORE EXERCISE. So here’s a new twist: at the Montecito Journal we want to exercise our right as Montecito residents to be heard by our elected officials, and to have a stronger voice in our county’s governance. Which leads me to our upcoming County Supervisor candidate’s debate on January 27th at the Music Academy between our 1st District incumbent County Supervisor Das Williams and challenger School Board member Laura Capps. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I think we – and our local leaders – need to focus on this year. I’m thinking about how best to decommission the oil rigs off our coast and what we can do with them that will push the environmental needle in the right direction. And who’ll pay for it all? And, of course, I’m always thinking about how we can become a more resilient and energy independent community. Not to mention our growing traffic issues, which relates, of course, to the 101 widening and the multiple proposed traffic circles. And then there’s cannabis – hard to ignore that issue if you ever drive on the 101 between Carp and Santa Barbara and even harder to find creative answers to the kids’ constant question: “What’s that smell?” “A skunk” only works so many times. As with other disrupter industries, how can we impress upon our electeds the need to work out, in advance, appropriate government regs so the cannabis industry must ask for permission, rather than forgiveness? I’m thinking about ground water supply, and how it will be affected by the growers because marijuana is so thirsty. Should our water supply and cannabis issues be, no pun intended, rolled into one? If the growers are going to place additional demands on our water supply, then should they bear more of the burden for finding a long-term water solution? In any case, we need groundwater regulation, and an intelligent assessment of the benefits (or not) of desal. And can we please talk about our need for more safe walking ways? Thank you, Bucket Brigade for your work on North Jameson! Finally, at the fore of my mind for 2020, is WORKING ON A HIGHLY CORODED RELATIONSHIP. And by that, I mean the toxic relationship we all seem to have with PG&E. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal “Wired To Fail (12/28/19)” recounts in gruesome detail how PG&E equipment has been respon-
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sible for 1,732 equipment fires – yes, you read that correctly – between 2015 and 2018 alone. Apparently, a lot of this equipment was improperly installed from the get-go. We need strong leadership to put PG&E’s feet to the actual and figurative fire! And while we’re at it, let’s finally talk seriously about undergrounding more of our critical infrastructure!
So What’s on Your Mind for 2020?
What are your local priorities? Please write to us about the issues you care about. And please send us questions that you want asked at the January 27th Debate at Hahn Hall between Das Williams and Laura Capps. It is so important that we have a good relationship with our 1st district County Supervisor, and that that official understands what we care about. In 2020 let’s exercise our right as residents to be understood and to be heard. A lot to mull, but let’s not forget the importance of LAUGHING MORE and HAVING FUN. That’s one of my favorite New Year’s resolutions. To that end, I’d like to introduce our all new LAUGHING MATTERS Column. Please send us your favorite jokes, with or without attribution (only a little discretion necessary). I will lead off with one of my favorite jokes located right after the end of this column. I hope it makes you smile. They say hindsight is always 20/20 – and here we are in 2020. Perhaps this is the year hindsight and foresight finally meet! Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. Gwyn Lurie •MJ
Laughing Matters
Would you pay 1,000 bucks for a Talking Dog?
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young man finds an ad in the paper for a talking dog for $1,000. He’s intrigued and decides to go to see for it himself. He goes to the address listed in the ad and knocks on the door. An older man opens the door and directs the visitor toward the back of the apartment where, he says, “Charlie,” the dog, is watching television. The young man enters the room where, sure enough, Charlie, a terrier mix, is sitting in front of a large screen tv watching the “BBC World News Service.” Charlie notices the young man and says: “Have a seat, I’ll be with you in a moment.” Already stunned, the young man sinks onto a nearby chair. A commercial comes on and Charlie turns: “How can I help you?” “I’ve never met a talking dog before. Tell me about yourself,” the man said. “Well… I was born in New York City and I began my career as a rescue dog during 911. I rescued a number of first responders and tenants in the World Trade Center. But I have to admit still suffer some PTSD and COPD from breathing in all the toxins. So I left New York and I went to Northern Europe where I worked as a drug sniffing dog at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. That wasn’t the best. I don’t know the language and I’m not a big fan of that type of food, I’m a vegetarian, so I came back to the States and landed a job as a platoon leader for the leading seeing eye dog programs in Louisville, Kentucky. I was decorated multiple times.” By this point the young man is understandably flabbergasted. “Excuse me a moment,” said the young man, hurrying to the room where the owner waited. “What do you think?” asked the owner. “What do I think? I think that dog is amazing. I just don’t understand why he’s only a 1,000 bucks?” The older man looked around, as if making sure no one was listening. Then, leaning in toward the younger man he whispers… “Because… that dog… is a f****ing liar.” Send us your best joke, we’ll decide if it’s funny. We can only print what we can print, so don’t blame us. Please send “jokes” to letters@montecitojournal.net
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