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A FOND FAREWELL

Montecito’s Dallas Clark passes away at age 87; Peter Clark pays homage to her fulfilling and memorable life (story on p. 5)

Taking Flight

Wine Spectator gives San Ysidro Ranch top honors for Stonehouse’s program and 13,000-bottle cellar, p. 12

Bottoms Up

Beer aficionado Zach Rosen curates Anchors and Ales, on tap August 16 at SB Maritime Museum, p. 26

Tour De Four

Mark Hunt sizes up a quartet of Montecito Union School District homes priced from $3.7 to $7.9 million, p. 45 Dallas Clark in 1986, when she first moved to Montecito (photo courtesy of Peter Clark)

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Peter Clark pays tribute to the late Dallas Clark, a longtime and memorable Montecito resident Kenny Loggins and Kickstarter; polo TV reality show; Rob Lowe and Shark Week; Katy Perry on motherhood; hats off at SB Polo Club; Braille Auxiliary annual gala; Celebracion de los Dignitarios at the zoo; MAW’s rendition of Carmen; never say Neverland; Summer Festival at the Granada; Dunnellen Hall on the market

Letters to the Editor

Richard Nordlund on fracking and global warming; Montecito Village Grocery; Tom Mosby on water; Patrick Gregston calls out the Journal; climate change in the air; an anonymous reader and “concerned observer” sound off

11 This Week

MAW Summer Concert Series; Poetry Club; fiction master class; Teresa Mei Chuc book signing; computer coaching; fiction writers class; SBMM lecture; live music at Café Luna; MBAR meeting; cocktails and politics; MA meeting; MERRAG training; The New Yorker discussion; star gazing; Anchors and Ales

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

San Ysidro Ranch honored for wine program; save the date for 3rd annual Montecito Motor Classic; Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee discusses possible pathway; Liquor & Wine Grotto owners celebrate five years on Coast Village Road

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Lynda Millner at the plein air show; Union Bank’s Fiesta gala; Richard Mineards’s birthday; and SB Maritime Museum presents “Keepers of the Light”

21 Coup de Grace

Despite the drought, Grace Rachow surveys her neighborhood and gives it a green thumb “up” while supporting local farmers

26 Coming & Going

James Buckley raises a glass to beer aficionado Zach Rosen, who will oversee Anchors and Ales gala at SB Maritime Museum

28 On Entertainment

Solvang Festival Theater’s crowning event Monday; The Drowsy Chaperone at Rubicon Theatre; Broadway shows in SB; and Circle Bar B Dinner Theater closing

Music Academy of the West

Steve Libowitz listens to violinist William Shaub in more ways than one as part of NY Philharmonic training program

34 Your Westmont

A surprise exhibition features a newly acquired Tisi painting, and about 30 high school students finish an intensive summer program

36 Our Town

Joanne Calitri joins Howard School students at Rori’s Artisanal Creamery, where they all scream for ice cream

38 Legal Advertisements 41 Movie Showtimes 42 Calendar of Events

From the Ojai Playwrights to the Ventura Fair to Concerts in the Park, here’s a detailed datebook of the entertainment world

45 Real Estate

Mark Hunt peruses four noteworthy houses within the Montecito Union School District and recommends getting ’em while they’re hot properties

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ver the nearly 20 years Montecito Journal has been publishing, Montecito has lost a goodly number of its closest and most important friends, including but certainly not limited to Stewart and Katherine Abercrombie, Andy Granatelli, Anne Lowenkopf, Cork Millner, Fess Parker, Pierre Claeyssens, Paul Ridley-Tree, Eileen and Jonathan Winters, Michael Petlow, Fred Benko, Judith “Sammy” Case, Richard de Mille, Robert and Dorothy Mitchum, Harold Simmons, Mary French, William “Scott” Hedrick, Peter Murphy, David Myrick, Julia Child, Maria Churchill, Maria Herold, Vincent Mezzio, Carol “Tina” Coffin, Bernie Taran, Alexander von Wiesenberger, Mike deGruy, Jay Roach, Jane Russell, Larry Wilson, Jeff White, Paul Scott, Rowena “Doodie” Taylor, Helen Wilson, Madeleine “Madame” Roston, Jim Burkemper, Barnaby Conrad, Charles Schulz, Huguette Clark, Barbara Dobbins Ingram, Mathew Tomson, Mario Borgatello, Sr. and, well, I’m sure I’ve left out dozens of additional people who’ve passed on and were important to Montecito over the two decades, but this isn’t meant to be a complete list; it’s just a short reminder of time’s passage.

Another name we must now add to the above group that made Montecito such a wonderful place to live is Montecito stalwart, Dallas Clark, a longtime friend who passed away on July 27 at the age of 87. What follows is her husband, Peter Clark’s, remembrance of her vibrant presence.

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allas was born in New Braunfels, Texas, a town founded by her great-great grandfather in 1840. She was a daughter of the Republic of Texas. Her mother, Helen, raised nine children and lived to the age of 97. Her father, Elmo, had a general store during the Depression and served as sheriff of Comal County. He lived to be 95.

A worker since her teens at J.C. Penney (part-time), she had a gift of communication early in life and was an excellent listener, always interested in what people had to offer in a conversation. It was one of her finest traits.

After school in 1942, Dallas was hired to work at Randolph Field, a training site for thousands of pilots and crews Dallas Dorothy Arnold was an elegant and glamorous 18-year-old

of B-17 bombers; she was one of many local girls helping in the mobilization of the country after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There, she met Murray Ginsburg, who was undergoing navigation training; they became friends and a romance ensued, though at 16 she was too young to have physical relations. Murray said he would come back after his tour of duty and marry her, but he and the crew were shot down over the Bay of Biscay on only their second mission. She still had his wings that he gave her before he left.

After the war, Dallas and her closest younger sister, Isabelle, enrolled in nursing school in San Antonio, and Dallas worked over the next few years with surgeons in operating theaters.

In the mid-1950s, she decided to drive Dallas and Peter Clark

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“The bottom line is that there is no guarantee about success,” says Kenny. “If it wasn’t for the traditional major-label system, I certainly wouldn’t be here today. I’m grateful

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TO THE EDITOR

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

IPCC Favors Fracking

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read Linda Stewart-Oaten’s piece on “Clearing the Air” (MJ # 20/29).

Her opening paragraph tells how fracking contributes to global warming. President Obama, who claims to be the energy president, recently told us that replacing coal with clean-burning natural gas has helped us reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent. Fracking has produced an abundance of natural gas, and hundreds of former coalfired power plants have converted to natural gas and hundreds more are in the process of converting to natural gas. This has caused the most drastic reduction in CO2 emissions in the history of mankind.

Ms Stewart-Oaten challenges Montecito Journal and its readers to “look it up” in real scientific journals but then starts quoting from Los Angeles Times op-ed columns. I took up Ms Stewart-Oaten’s challenge to get my facts from “real scientific journals,” so I went to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website and read a few articles. Let me print the

first three paragraphs from one article, published August 1, 2014, which reads: “The world faces a looming energy problem. There’s not enough of it. It also faces a looming climate change problem. Too much of it. Could natural gas and fracking technology be part of the solution to both challenges?

“The answer to this question is especially relevant for developing countries. Nearly half the world’s population lacks reliable access to modern energy services and more than 20% of the global population – 1.4 billion people – remain without access to electricity, according to a recent UN Development Program (UNDP) report. Household air pollution from the use of biomass fuel is expected to cause more than 1.5 million deaths a year by 2030.

“Could natural gas, whose production is boosted by hydraulic fracturing, the process of drilling and injecting fluids into the ground at a high pressure to fracture shale rocks to

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release natural gas inside, be a bridge to greener economies and to new and more efficient energy technologies?”

The article goes on for many more pages and rehashes the pros and cons of fracking, but mentions two points I really haven’t thought about.

One, Russia is financing most of the anti-fracking groups in Europe and two, poorer nations will never be able to attain a higher standard of living without cheap available energy, which natural gas can provide.

There are many people in our community who use their time, efforts, and money to make life better for the poor and mistreated: Opportunity International, Direct Relief International, Human Rights Watch, and Habitat for Humanity, just to name a few. After reading the article, I agree with the UN Development Report that we should help develop cheap energy for use in these underdeveloped countries to help them create a better life. Why would we deny them anything less?

Richard Nordlund Montecito (Editor’s note: Excellent research, Mr. Nordlund! If it were simply a question of whether the Central Coast would be better off promoting tourism and downplaying the role of energy production, or vice versa, then we’d have an interesting discussion, because there is real merit on both sides of that argument. However, the anti-fracking crowd seems to be simply trying to scare the public into banning the process without considering the repercussions, both positive and negative. Thank you for your input. – J.B.)

The Village Grocery

Yes, I know it’s early yet. The changes in the Montecito Village Grocery store have only just started... early days... first the praise... the place is as neat as a pin... everything in its place, including fresh new windows.

This probably accounts for the number of shell-shocked regulars... wandering the aisles muttering “Where is the...?” and “Where have they put the...?” or “Where in the hell are the Garibaldis?” Sign posts would be helpful.

Thank goodness the glorious meat department with Tony is still operating in full gear. Some other treasures are still to be found. The staff, helpful as ever, point us in the right direction for the carts, now hidden away around the corner. True to their code of service, they even bring us one.

If I may, just a word of wisdom to the new owners... since I presume you are in this to make a profit... I refer you to the old show-biz maxim: know your audience and play to it – and you’ll never go broke!

Christina Allison Santa Barbara

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(Editor’s note: We also wish them well, and although the new owners have given us a prominent space up front near the cash registers, which we appreciate immensely, we sure miss our outdoor racks! – J.B.)

Thank You

Many thanks again to Joanne Calitri for a fine article about our event at the Santa Barbara Club (MJ # 20/28). The article was posted on the board at the club for all to see.

We plan a follow-up with Leslie James sometime in October. The Art Foundation has a good future, thanks to your efforts.

Best regards, Frank McGinity Santa Barbara

Indian Valley Water a No-Go

In response to the letter from Ken Donnell regarding the Indian Valley Community Services District water purchase opportunity (“Indian Valley Plea” MJ # 20/29), the Montecito Water District diligently investigated this possible water purchase. Water purchase opportunities and transfers statewide are governed by a clear set of rules and requirements established by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), which oversees and must approve all water transfers through the State Water Project.

After conferring with DWR, it was determined that the completion of this water purchase could not occur this year due to the seller not being able to comply with the required environmental filings, water rights authentication, and documentation by the seller that the transfer of water from its service area will not harm its agency or its customers.

This particular water transfer was also “north” of the Sacramento Delta and subject to carriage losses, which was estimated at a minimum of 35 percent meaning for each 100 acre-feet of water purchased, the buyer (the district) would receive at most 65 acrefeet. At that time, the district was also engaged in and committed to more reliable-deliverable water purchases, which it did complete and which have amounted to more than 2,000 acre-feet of water the district will have available for the new water year beginning October 1, 2014. The district did continue discussions with Indian Valley Community Services District and will keep channels open for possible water purchase opportunities in the future.

Tom Mosby Montecito Water District (Editor’s note: Thank you, Mr. Mosby, for keeping our readers informed and up to date with Montecito’s water situation.

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Taking MJ to Task

The current water situation demands we all look at the full range of options available, and Bob Hazard’s preference for desalinization (“On The Water Front” MJ # 20/29) begs a number of questions, given the Journal’s usual position on personal responsibility and aversion to collective solutions.

The clear personal action called for is to adapt our landscaping to what is appropriate to the geography of our community. That would mean no irrigation for other than food or commercial benefit. Alternatives to lawns that are visually appealing and can be played upon and enjoyed are many.

Implementing them will generate. as much economic activity and employment as lawn care does now.

Yet the Journal has not called upon Montecito residents to take these actions. Nor has it suggested that the community beautification awards value water conservation. I call on you to consider these options for response and give them the kind of inches of coverage that you have given to the collectivized publicly funded solution that Bob Hazard has advocated.

To his credit, he has mentioned some desal schemes that have been privately funded. Yet none have been suggested for local consideration.

Why are collective or socialized costs appropriate with water, yet not with virtually every other social issue considered in your pages?

And there has been little or no coverage of the issue and policies of private water systems and wells, which draw upon the water resource of the whole drainage area, a natural collective exploited by some. How many of each of these are there in the bounds of the MWD [Montecito Water District], for instance?

Another interesting aspect of issues that are in your pages is your failure to note, much less explore, the irony that the natural gas availability from the use of fracking technology has lowered carbon emissions dramatically in this country; a conundrum for environmentalists as well as the bane of coal producers whose complaints about political attacks against their industry ignore the facts about market pricing of energy. I think your are missing a real opportunity here!

Water and energy are fundamental yet complex aspects of our way of life.

Neither has been the result of individual innovation or technology alone.

Our needs now and in the future will not be served by ideologically driven policies. Rather pragmatic technical, economic and social inquiries, and transparent processes to arrive at solutions that will serve going forward need to be explored and debated. May your future issues give wider and fuller exposure on these issues.

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Patrick Gregston Montecito (Editor’s note: These pages are wide open for discussion, and letters such as yours are always welcome. We’re not sure what “ideologically driven policies” you may be referring to, but we really do try to approach issues from a non-ideological standpoint. If opposition to bullying by “climate change” alarmists or anti-fracking devotees is an ideology, then we plead guilty as charged. Even then, we still give those advocates space in this paper while trying to promote a continuing discussion of those issues. – J.B.)

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In response to David S. McCalmont’s letter “New IRS Power” (MJ # 20/27): A. President Obama’s father was a communist. What did you expect?

B. Obama’s turning some of our military bases into internment camps under the disguise of FEMA. Why would the BCB wire be inward and not outward? Hmm. C. Obama will declare Martial Law and not leave office.

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This Week in and around Montecito

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 Book Signing at Granada Books Enjoy wine and light snacks as you meet local author Teresa Mei Chuc and see her fascinating first full collection of poetry, as part of First Thursday in downtown Santa Barbara.

When: 5:30 to 8 pm Where: Granada Books, 1224 State Street Cost: free

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 Summer Concert Series Montecito’s Music Academy of the West presents a series of 60-minute concerts featuring MAW fellows When: 2 pm Where: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street Info: www.sbmuseart.org Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 Computer Coaching One-to-one coaching to improve your computer skills. Reserve a half-hour or onehour session with a volunteer computer coach to assist you in basic computer or Internet tasks. Learn to search the Internet, set up free email, apply for jobs online, and other skills.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue Info and appointments: 684-4314 Fiction Writers’ Class A Master Class for Fiction Writers looking

to fine-tune their manuscripts before sending out to agents will be held this weekend in Montecito. Led by publishing professional Mr. Shelly Lowenkopf and Ms Toni Lopopolo, the weekend intensive is limited to eight writers. This class is presented by the Pacific Institute for Professional Writing, a nonprofit educational organization.

Writers attending will walk away knowing how to attract a literary agent; how, and why to work with a professional editor; how to visualize potential readers; how to think the way agents and editors think; how to think like a professional author; and much more. Writers must email the first five pages and a short synopsis of their manuscripts before acceptance into the workshop.

When: this evening through Sunday, August 10, at 4:30 pm Where: a private home in Montecito Cost: $325 Info: (215) 353-1151 or lopopolobooks@aol.com SBMM Lecture Ralph Collier, chair of the Shark Research Committee, and Peter Howorth, director of Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center, present a lecture: “Shark Attacks on Boats, People, Dogs, and Seals.”

What should you do if a shark takes a fancy to your boat? Yes, this really does happen: boats have been attacked by sharks. Find out why this happens and much more as Collier, the West Coast’s leading authority on shark attacks, explores various theories on why sharks attack everything from surfboards

Public Viewing of the Stars Westmont’s powerful Keck Telescope will be the focus of attention for Central Coast stargazers beginning at about 8:30 pm. The observatory opens its doors to the public every third Friday of the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, whose members bring their own telescopes to Westmont for the public to gaze through. The viewing lasts for several hours.

Westmont students and faculty use the 24-inch reflector telescope to conduct astronomical research. The Keck Telescope is housed in the observatory between Russell Carr Field and the track and field/soccer complex. Free parking is available near the baseball field. When: 8:30 pm Where: 955 La Paz Road Cost: free Info: 565-6051 to boats, and from crab trap floats to people.

Discover from Howorth how attacks on marine mammals can serve as canaries in the coalmines, warning people of shark hazards, and what is being done about it.

When: 7 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: $15 for members, $20 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org

MONDAY, AUGUST 11 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Cocktails & Conservatives Complimentary appetizers and Happy Hourpriced drinks will be available at an informal gathering for those wishing to share thoughtprovoking ideas with conservatives who are Republican, Democrat, or Independent.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 MERRAG Meeting and Training A network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event.

The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month: radio carrier training and van training When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 Anchors and Ales Santa Barbara Maritime Museum hosts Anchors and Ales: A Beer Tasting Experience. This boutique beer festival will offer guests a chance to taste nautically inspired beers from a dozen different craft breweries as they explore the museum and learn about beer. Tickets include a commemorative glass, unlimited tastings, and food pairings. Proceeds from the event will go to benefit the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.

Anchors and Ales is being curated by beer writer and certified Cicerone (beer sommelier) Zach Rosen. The different brews being served will examine the relationship between beer, water, and the sea, including some beers that even use the ocean as an ingredient. Guests will get to sample the beers while exploring traditional brewing techniques and learning about the role of beer in maritime history. Guests will also learn about water as a beer ingredient and breweries’ efforts toward sustainability and water conservation.

The event is sponsored by the Hutton Parker Foundation and Montecito Journal.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: Save $15 if you register by Friday, August 8: ($35) $50 for SBMM members; ($50) $65 for non-members Register: www.sbmm.org •MJ

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San Ysidro Ranch’s wine director Mike Trupiano in the property’s meticulously maintained wine cellar; the wine program was recently awarded top honors by Wine Spectator magazine.

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his month, Wine Spectator released its 2014 Annual Restaurant Guide, which announced the winners of the magazine’s annual wine awards. San Ysidro Ranch’s (SYR) Stonehouse has been named a Grand Award Winner, joining just 73 restaurants worldwide that hold the prestigious honor. “We are thrilled,” said SYR wine director Mike Trupiano, who has carefully revamped the 2,100-label wine list since his arrival at the hotel in 2012.

The Grand Award is Wine Spectator’s top honor. The Ranch joins five other new winners of the Grand Award this year; the other 68 restaurants are repeat winners. Winning is no small feat: a restaurant’s wine program is scrutinized with both a surprise and planned inspection. Wine Spectator

editors evaluate a restaurant based not just on its wine list, but by the ambiance at the eatery, staff knowledge, how well the wine pairs with the menu, the organization of the wine cellar, and wine inventory. The Ranch has earned the publication’s Award of Excellence for the last 10 years, with the likes of several other Montecito and Santa Barbara restaurants. The Wine Cask in Santa Barbara is the only other local eatery to have earned the Grand Award, which was over a decade ago, according to Trupiano.

When Trupiano arrived at San Ysidro Ranch after managing the wine program at the Bacara for five years, he set out to revamp the wine list, which is shared by both the

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he gardens of Casa del Herrero were the setting for their annual art show and certainly a plein air artist’s haven. And indeed it was, with 14 artists displaying their work with the George Washington Smith mansion for a backdrop. One could imagine owners Carrie and George Steedman hosting just such an event back in the 1920s, at the height of Spanish Colonial Revival when they built their estate.

One hundred and fifty guests strolled the grounds, ladies in hats or with parasols, sipping St. Germain cocktails (a popular drink in the 1920s made of elderberry flower blossoms), eating tea sandwiches, sliders, and crab cakes and listening to the flamenco guitar of Chris Fossek. Chris and I reminisced about our adventures in Valencia, Spain. His mom, Priscilla Fossek, was one of the new artists in this year’s show. Co-chairs Jane Dailey and Carolyn Williams carefully choreographed the colors and layout utilizing both side and back

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Featured artists were Meredith Brooks Abbott, Whitney Brooks Abbott, Chris Chapman, Nancy Davidson, James Dow, Priscilla Fossek, Rick Garcia, Wyllis Heaton, Ray Hunter, John Iwerks, Ann Sanders, Richard Schloss, Frank Serrano, and Ralph Waterhouse.

Many had painted scenes of the Casa besides their regular works.

When Jim Dow was exhibiting recently for a Phoenix House fundraiser, mayor Helene Schneider chose his painting of Mission Creek Dam for an award and I took his picture.

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Murry McTigue and wife/artist Whitney Brooks Abbott with her mom/artist, Meredith Brooks Abbott, and her husband, Duncan Abbott, at the Casa show

Helene had chosen it because we need water and there was water in the creek. Jim and Chana Jackson bought the painting at the Casa, which is now a National Historic Landmark – as are the Courthouse and the Mission.

Half of the proceeds from the art sales will help to maintain the Casa, which is open for docent-led tours. As executive director Molly Barker said, “Everything changes, but we try to keep it the same as caretakers of the estate.”

Old Spanish Days Fiesta Union Bank got into the Fiesta spirit with its third annual party at the charming Community Partners Center, the adobe at 15 E. Carrillo Street. There were colorful pots of red, yellow, and orange flowers everywhere and authentic Mexican cuisine being cooked and served in the courtyard and inside by Los Arroyos – a feast of fresh-made tacos in all flavors, tacquitas, grilled shrimp, and tons of

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Managing director George Leis welcomed the crowd, reminding us, “Union Bank is celebrating 150 years, and Fiesta is celebrating its 90th anniversary.” He also told us that Union Bank is the sponsor of Erin Graffy’s newly published book about Old Spanish Days. More big news is that Santa Barbara will have a carriage and horse accompaniment in the 2015 Pasadena Rose parade. Our first invitation since 1947.

The adobe’s boardroom was filled with Fiesta memorabilia collected by Marc Martinez. He had one display of all the fiesta pins. He told me, “I am missing only five.” Anybody out there with pins?

Some of the dignitaries attending were Leticia Aguilar, Vince Caballero, Chris deVries, Rick Boller, Lynda Tanner, Rick Block, Rob Pearson, Greg Gorga, Cass Stimson, Father Larry Gosselin, and, of course, El Presidente Dennis Rickard. Viva la Fiesta!

Birthday Festivities

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Birthday hostess Trish Davis and husband Bill

one, and 60 more came to wish him well. Gretchen Lieff and her husband, Robert, held the soirée at their estate Las Suenos with Cat Pollon, Beverley Jackson, and Trish Davis assisting.

Some of those meeting and greeting were mayor Helene Schneider, Tab Hunter, Allan Glaser, Diane and Fred Sidon, Gerald Sawyer, Jean von Wittenberg, Hope Kelly, Charles Ward, Rickey Orman Gaspar, Corinna Gordon, Robyn Geddes and Carolyn Amory. Canapés were passed with the tiniest bite-size hamburgers and the largest shrimp, which we devoured.

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The former Brat Packer – still fit at 50 – straddles two leashed sharks as a blonde mermaid clutches his calf for the ad.

On it, the five-time Golden Globe nominee “makes it rain” gore after flinging fish parts from his chum bucket to lure meat-eating predators.

Rob’s bait immediately erupts a feeding frenzy as computer-generated Great Whites and Hammerheads leap from the ocean to feast.

Looking like something from Sharknado, the comedic spot concludes with him doing his beat blue steel and uttering the catchphrase, “So sharky.”

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Bringing up Baby Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has had her fair share of romances and headed down the aisle once already, but the former Dos Pueblos student says she is not going to let being single stop her from being a mother.

The 29-year-old has revealed her “five-year plan” and that includes the possible pitter patter of little feet.

Starring on the latest cover of Rolling Stone, Katy told the music mag that she hopes to have a baby in any way possible.

But the Teenage Dream star says she will not be getting pregnant for a few years yet.

“I want to be doing that in the right time and that’s not in the next two years, you know. Maybe it’s in a five-year plan, but I need to be able to focus 100 percent of my attention on it.”

Katy, who just sang at the White House for the third time honoring the 46th anniversary of the Special Olympics, says she would have to put her touring commitments on hold to focus on being a mother.

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While Katy is currently single – having briefly dated musician Diplo after splitting with longtime boyfriend John Mayer – she says she does not necessarily need to have someone of the opposite sex on her arm for this to happen, mentioning her friends Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who had their children via surrogate.

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It’s 2014! We are living in the future.

We don’t need anything. I don’t think I’ll have to, but we’ll see. I’m not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn’t present himself.”

Finding time for dating is tough, says Katy, with the singer currently on her Prism tour.

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It’s like I’m a Kobe beef cow.”

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Stonehouse and Plow & Angel. He removed 1,500 wines from the 1,600label list, and added 2,000 more. “It’s pretty extensive,” he told us during a tour of the 13,000-bottle underground cellar, which was excavated during a remodel about 10 years ago. The cellar, which is mapped and bar coded, is kept at a cool 52 degrees; Trupiano spends hours organizing, stocking, and taking inventory of the massive collection. The list features local Santa Barbara wines (pinots are a best seller), as well as wines from around the world, including high-end burgundy and champagne. The top end of the list? A 2009 bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, listed at $12,500.

The Stonehouse, situated in a rustic 19th-century citrus packing house, has been serving food since 1893, when the Ranch opened, according to Trupiano. The award-winning restaurant is known for its ambiance, outdoor dining area, and regional cuisine, featuring produce and herbs from the Ranch’s grounds. Both the Stonehouse and Plow & Angel, located downstairs, are a big draw for local diners, and Trupiano says that has been the best thing about his job. “Connecting with local residents and building those relationships is something I’ve really enjoyed about being here,” he said.

The annual awards issue of Wine Spectator is on stands through August.

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Montecito Motor Classic

Entries are now being accepted for the 3rd Annual Montecito Motor Classic, a car show held on Coast Village Road, scheduled for Sunday, September 21. The show benefits two non-profits: the Santa Barbara Police Activities League (PAL) serving at-risk teens, and the Santa Barbara Police Foundation, supporting officers injured in the line of duty or facing catastrophic illness. Early Bird classic car, truck, and motorcycle registrations are being accepted through September 2, with late registrations through September 8. The show is expected to fill up well before the deadlines, with no registration accepted the day of the event.

Event co-chairs Dolores Johnson and Dana Newquist have teamed up for the second year, along with an enthusiastic committee of 30 members.

“We expect that over one-hundred fifty distinctive cars will be featured in eleven categories this year,” says Newquist, who spoke with us earlier this week. The event is free and open to the public, and it’s expected that 4,000 people will attend the show. This year features cars from Michael Hammer’s

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collection, along with the most rare and unique cars of Montecito, some of which can be seen during the weekly Cars & Coffee events on Sundays. A new museum class with cars from the Peterson Museum, Mullen Museum, and the Murphy Museum will showcase celebrity-owned cars, while classic motorcycles prior to 1975 in the pre-war, post-war and road categories are also invited to register.

The Montecito Motor Classic will feature the presentation of five Special Trophies, including The Armand Hammer Foundation Trophy, chosen and presented by Michael A. Hammer. The Best in Show, Score Sports Trophy, Community Spirit Trophy, and the Mayor’s Trophy are designed by Seth Hammond, local racing luminary. Judging will be led

by Roy Miller, Pebble Beach judge and head judge at the Palos Verdes Concourse. The show will also feature presentations of First and Second Place Trophies categories including Best American, Best Foreign, Best Sport, Best Race, Best Hot Rod, Best Preservation, Most Elegant, Best Classic, Best Custom, Motorcycles, and Best Mustang. Trophy Sponsors will have the honor of presenting their trophy in the winner’s circle.

For kids, the “Future Car Designers and Model Car Building Competition” will be held at noon during the Motor Classic. The Armand Hammer Foundation and the Show Committee are inviting 50 boys and girls (age 8-17) from area youth serving organizations to participate in the model car building competition. Participating organizations include PAL, United Boys and Girls Clubs Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, Montecito YMCA, New Life Church Santa Barbara, and The Ranch Church in Los Olivos.

The event is scheduled from 8 am to 3 pm along Coast Village Road; portions of the road will be closed to accommodate the show. A weekend of festivities is also planned for the weekend of the show, and we’ll have more information about those in the coming weeks. For more information about the Montecito Motor Classic, to register before the Early Bird Deadline of September 2, or to become a sponsor, contact Sara Spataro, PAL executive director at sara@sbpal.org or register visit www.sbpal.org.

Montecito Association Land Use Committee

Members of developer Rick Caruso’s Miramar team were in front of the Montecito Association (MA) Land Use Committee on Tuesday, updating the committee members on a redesign of the resort project, which was publicly announced two weeks ago. “It’s a more gracious, logical, and

Caruso Affiliated’s Matt Middlebrook and Rick Lemmo were in front of the Montecito Association’s Land Use Committee earlier this week, briefing the group on planned revisions to the hotel and resort project

beautiful design,” said manager of development Evan Krenzien.

The redesign, which was submitted to the county last week and is being treated as a revision to the currently approved plan, is the third design of the project. Caruso was granted approval of the first version of the project in December 2008; a smaller, scaled-back version of the hotel and resort was approved in 2011. The new plan features fewer guestrooms (170 instead of 186), no underground parking (there will be 441 above ground spots on site), and a rearranged main building. The project plans for 27 oceanfront guest rooms and suites, including a freestanding 3,800-squarefoot presidential suite.

An oceanfront restaurant has been added to the plans, in addition to a more casual beach bar on the boardwalk fronting the beach. Those eateries, along with a restaurant in the main building, still add up to 258 seats, the same number as before.

The number of employees remains the same (102), as well as four employee housing units on site.

“Our intent architecturally is to break the massing down from the larger buildings,” said project architect Marc Appleton, who has been brought on for the revision. Specific materials and colors on the cottages and buildings have yet to be developed; the project is expected to be seen my MBAR later this month.

“We want it to be a great destination resort for our guests, but we also want it to be a place for locals,” said executive vice president of development Matt Middlebrook, who said he is confident financing will not be an issue.

The Land Use Committee discussed initial concerns with parking, as well as potential issues with a future Highway 101 expansion project, which could include rebuilding the southbound San Ysidro Road freeway entrance.

The committee will meet next week to dive deeper into the proposed revisions, and the Miramar team will be in front of the MA board of directors next Tuesday, August 12. For a more thorough report on the Miramar updates, check out last week’s MJ cover story (# 20/29).

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Also at the Land Use Committee, Montecito resident Ned Quackenbush has approached the Montecito Association to ask about the possibility of building a pedestrian pathway near Butterfly Beach on Channel Drive, from where the path ends in front of the Biltmore to the stairs at Butterfly Beach. MA executive director Victoria Greene reported that two efforts to build such a pathway had taken place in the 1990s and in 2004, but both times the potential plans were halted due to funding and neighbor discord.

“I just feel as it gets more and more crowded, it would be an ideal place to add a walkway, and ease the danger I see everyday,” Quackenbush said. The Land Use Committee voiced positive comments about the idea, but suggested more neighbors get on board before approaching the county about the idea. “It’s a multi-year project,” said Montecito Planning commissioner J’Amy Brown, who was in attendance at the meeting.

The full board of the Montecito Association will meet next Tuesday, August 12.

Liquor & Wine Grotto Celebrates 5 Years

Jason Herrick and Brian Brunello, owners of Coast Village Road’s Liquor & Wine Grotto, celebrated five years of ownership earlier this week, on August 4. The Grotto has been in existence in Montecito for 38 years.

“Business has improved steadily since we took over the shop,” says Brunello, who credits the mostly local clientele for the Grotto’s continued success. “They’re worldly, and we serve a world of wine,” he continued.

Herrick and Brunello, who have known each other since high school, have spent the last five years updating the store’s inventory, and helping customers get their hands on rare and unique liquor and wines. “We’ve built relationships with a lot of local vendors, which helps,” Herrick says.

They’ve also focused on customer service, and much of their business is from repeat customers and from word of mouth. Delivery, a perk offered

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Coup De Grace

LETTERS (Continued from page 9)

by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow says it really is possible to have fun kicking a California drought in the butt.

Take That, You Dumb Ole Drought

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’d been conserving water over the spring months this year, but when summer hit, it was clear we wouldn’t get a drought-busting deluge at the end of our not-so-rainy season. My husband and I decided to see how much more we could cut back on our water usage… especially since we’d heard water rates were going up a lot.

Over the past dozen years, we’ve been shrinking our lawn every year.

Grass is great in parks and wherever kids like to run and play, but to my mind, there are a lot more interesting ways to enhance the suburban landscape.

I’m not against lawns… I just hate mowing and edging. Even though I’m seriously into middle age, I still take care of my own landscaping, and I’ve done so since I got mad at our gardener and fired him in 1989.

We have quite a few trees and shrubs that seem to get along well on minimal water, if they have to, and I’ve always been in love with succulents and rocks. These fascinating plants need just a little water, and rocks are happy with none at all. Rock gardens are not great for croquet, but if one is dying for sticky wickets, one can always walk a block to the park.

Around our neighborhood there’s a varied response to the drought. Some have opted for brilliantly executed xeriscaping. Others with a wait-andsee attitude have allowed their lawns to go brown for now.

One neighbor got a truckload of free mulch and dumped it on his grass.

He plopped in some drought-tolerant plants here and there. It looks okay and better than another conservation-conscious homeowner who opted for laying down plastic and covering it with dyed-green gravel. That’s not such a great look, but maybe it’s better than dead grass.

A few have ignored the drought entirely. Their lawns are as green as Ireland. They water in the sneaky hours before dawn. I know this because our dogs like an early-morning walk. Our terriers bark at the ticktick-tick of the sprinklers. So much for stealth.

One neighbor sheepishly confessed she couldn’t reprogram her automatic irrigation system. I predict she’ll be calling an expert in when her next water bill shows up.

I’d replaced our backyard lawn with a veggie garden, which took just as much water as grass, but at least it produced excellent edible produce.

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This year, I decided to skip the veggies due to the drought. I figured that for one summer, I could support the local farmers and give up the pleasure of a sun-warm tomato directly off the vine.

That meant that Montecito Journal columnist Jim Alexander would win this year’s tomato-growing contest by default. It was a tough decision, but I sacrificed my yen for competition for the greater good of humanity. Or rather, I wanted to be able to pay both the mortgage and the water bill.

My husband and I gave up long, luxurious showers. My husband turns off the water while he lathers up. I keep the water running, but I move fast. We have a bucket to collect the warm-up water, and that goes to the fruit trees.

Our roses have never looked better. Apparently, they love dish soap.

This past month, we’ve been washing dishes in a pan and dumping the water, on the rose bushes. I learned this trick from my thrifty grandmother who used dishwater on the gorgeous flowers around her kitchen door.

Our roses have never looked better.

Apparently, they love dish soap.

It might sound crazy carrying all these buckets around. However, it’s a great Zen exercise, and it’s a surprisingly effective physical workout as well. My husband carries most of the buckets, because he’s an exercise nut. I have to say he’s never looked so good. Shoulders, pecs, wow! Who needs to go to the gym in the middle of a drought?

Our water bill finally came. This same billing period last year, we’d used 22 HCF (hundred cubic-feet).

No one knows what an HCF is, but presumably it’s quite a few buckets of water. This billing period, this year… drum roll, please… we’re down to six HCF. I bragged about this drastic reduction to Alexander while he gloated over one of his sun-warmed tomatoes.

“That’s great,” he said. “But when the next stage of the drought is called, they’re going to make you reduce your six HFC by another 20 percent, or you’ll get a fine.”

“Bring it on,” I said. “And if it really comes to that, we can always adopt •MJ the yellow-mellow plan.”

reads the Journal get up every day worrying about how the poor are picking their pockets? It appears that way to me, from the Letters to the Editor that you print. Someone recently wrote in complaining about City College taxes. Really! He cares so little about the kids whose first avenue is a local junior college education, that he would begrudge their attendance, which would benefit all of us.

According to your writers, they are upset because the pathways aren’t rural enough, the medians aren’t landscaped well enough, the fencing and new housing are too high, cellphone antennae aren’t pretty enough, the YMCA doesn’t need remodeling, the shopping center might be too sophisticated, and there aren’t enough eucalyptus trees.

A couple of people even wrote in, complaining about tipping when they went out to eat. It seems to me, that if you have enough money to eat out, then you have enough money to pay the total freight. Otherwise, stay home, cook your own food, wash your dishes, and don’t antagonize the restaurateur and wait staff.

I would think that the privileged people who live in your rarefied enclave (your words, not mine) would wake up every day thankful that they have beautiful air to breathe, lovely homes to live in, and enough money to have a mortgage of, say, $16,000 a month (including taxes and insurance). The astonishing part of that amount is that it is more than the yearly salary of a minimum-wage worker, which is about $15,000.

We are the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have universal healthcare. Kids from Central American countries are swarming

into the U.S., but I don’t see tens of thousands of Canadians invading from the north for our great healthcare. I’ve talked to some Canadians and they don’t understand what all the fuss is about.

Switzerland has a private healthcare system with private insurance.

However, the insurance and drug companies aren’t allowed to game the system. Our healthcare costs are 17 percent of the GDP [gross domestic product]. No other country pays more than 12 percent. And, they generally have lower birth mortality rates and longer life spans. A child can’t choose his parents, the country where he’s born, or if he is born healthy, ill, or disabled. Why should the accident of his birth make his parents be subjected to poverty, if they have inadequate insurance or no insurance?

I’m beginning to feel that the Christian empathy of yore has escaped this generation on the Right.

What happened to “the least of us,” “my brother’s keeper,” “turn the other cheek”?

By the way, the Right’s favorite author, Ayn Rand, who espoused rational self-interest and eschewed social services, ended up taking Social Security and Medicare at the end of her life. So much for Ms Rand having the courage of her convictions.

I don’t expect to see my letter in your paper, but I’ll still be reading, because I’m always intrigued by how the other half lives.

A Concerned Observer (Editor’s note: If you really see the world and our “rarified enclave” – Richard Mineards’s words, not ours – this way, why would you not want to put your name on your letter? What can you possibly be afraid of? – J.B.) •MJ

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Melissa Oakland, a self-confessed L.A. fashionista, wore the most colorful creation. “I like wearing them to events like this, as well as occasions at the Hollywood Bowl. They add panache.”

For the second consecutive year, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel students Hudson and Grayson Macleod carried off the children’s prize, with Hudson, celebrating his eighth birthday, wearing a colorful birthday cake hat made by his mother, Andra, wife of financial executive Ron Macleod...

Polo en Provence The Braille Auxiliary of Santa Barbara celebrated the 31st anniversary of its annual fundraiser with a Polo en Provence lunch at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, which attracted more than 150 guests and was expected to raise more than $80,000 for the cause.

The boffo bash, co-chaired by Janet Lew and Mary Romo, included a truncated polo match between Jeep Holden’s Gehache team and theatrical producer Jonathan Burrow’s Can-Can players, given his new show of the same name is heading to Broadway next year. In a closely played game, Gehache beat Can-Can, 5-4.

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5) Dallas Clark (second from left) took up tennis in the 1950s and competed on the Riviera Tennis Club team

to San Francisco and start a new life, still working with surgeons. She was hired by a national medical company, Bauer & Black, as a sales representative for the seven western states, where she flourished. Isabelle joined AGA and became a flight attendant with American Airlines.

Dallas met her husband, Edward Wenner, at a medical conference. He had founded a baby formula company in the midst of the post-war baby boom. Business doubled and tripled, and they relocated to Orange County and bought a bottling plant to serve more than 100 hospitals in California.

During this time, Dallas took up tennis, which became a lifelong passion, and she became an excellent player, eventually joining the Riviera Country Club in West L.A. and playing on teams that traveled to tournaments including Dallas at age 16, here with aviator Murray Ginsburg, who was killed on his second bombing Guadalajara. mission During her marriage, she helped raise three teenagers: Jann, Kate, and Merlyn, who all went on to significant achievements.

In the mid-1960s, Ed and Dallas spent four years in St. Louis, where he worked for Monsanto after they sold the baby formula business to the Carnation Company. In 1967, she became an investor in the magazine, Rolling Stone, founded by her stepson, Jann Wenner, of whom she was very proud.

In 1969, Ed and Dallas moved to Brentwood, California, and began investing in real estate partnerships, including mobile home parks in Arizona and “3rd St.” in Santa Monica. This proved to be very successful and enabled them to travel and spend time in Park City, Utah, in the family compound, where Dallas took on skiing as a challenge and became quite proficient.

She and Ed separated in 1980, and in 1983, we (I was then known and performing as Chet DeMilo) met in Palm Springs and quickly became inseparable. We were married in 1986. In 1988, I was contracted to play at the El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara for a year. At this time, Dallas’s ex-husband, Ed, was stricken by cancer and she spent several months caring for him in Los Angeles, coming back to spend weekends with me. After Ed died, we moved to Montecito permanently. In 1991, we bought Andrea’s Harborside Restaurant at West Beach and worked together for a decade. Many people still remember her chatting with customers at their tables and her radiant and caring personality shining through.

In the late 1980s, I began touring around the world, performing concerts in Russia, Australia, and China, and also as conductor-pianist for Jane Russell, which I did for 15 years until her death in 2011. Dallas went on many of these tours and was a constant and loyal supporter in every way. These were her golden years, and she had earned them.

Among her many endeavors in Santa Barbara and Montecito: 1. Founded the Butterfly Beach Association; 2. Founded the Beachside Merchants Association; 7 – 14 August 2014

3. Served on the Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau; 4. Served on the Montecito Association (11 years) and was not afraid to shake things up; 5. Served on the Montecito Foundation (10 years); 6. Co-produced (with me) the Santa Barbara International Jazz Festivals, coaxing Dave Brubeck to make his first public appearance in Santa Barbara (1998) and Tito Puente (1999) among many other top jazz artists; 7. She was also at the forefront in the effort for Montecito Cityhood in the middle 1990s.

8. She heartily enjoyed spending time with her husband, her niece, Laura, and her family, enjoying watching her grand-nephews, Luke and Jack, as they grew up.

She really loved Montecito, first on Fairway Road, where we lived for 15 years, then building our Butterfly Beach house, on which she was really handson, and the last seven years at our residence in Birnam Wood.

In 2010, Dallas was seriously injured in a car accident, which led to the detection of cancer. She tried hard to come back, but sadly passed away on July 27 with me, Laura, her caregiver and friend Rita Greyson, and the wonderful hospice nurse around her at home.

In her honor, flags were lowered at both Birnam Wood and the Coral Casino.

Dallas was a strong, kind, and supportive woman. She was not afraid to stand up to a challenge and live with the courage of her convictions. Anybody that knew her was aware of these qualities. She left a large legacy in our area, and •MJ we are all the better for her life spent here with us.

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Anchors and Ales

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s Anchors and Ales overseer Zach Rosen is an enthusiastic beer expert and teacher, and was the youngest-ever Certified Beer Cicerone

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ach Rosen is The Beer Guy; he not only writes a regular column called The Beer Guy in our brother publication, the Santa Barbara Sentinel, but Zach, a certified Cicerone (beer sommelier) knows as much about the history – or as he would put it, the stories – of beer as anyone.

So, luckily for us, Zach is in charge of organizing and overseeing the upcoming “Anchors and Ales” event, sponsored by Montecito Journal, the Hutton Parker Foundation, and Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, at the Museum on Saturday, August 16 (from 5 to 8 pm). Early-bird pricing through Monday, August 11, is $35 for maritime members, $50 for non-members. Afterward, the price goes to $50 for members and $65 for everyone else, at the door. The price includes food pairings put together by talented home brewer Augusto Caudillo, the chef who did the food pairings on last month’s Hoptopia beer event; the menu has not been finalized as of press time, but both Firestone Walker’s Double Barrel Ale and Union Jack will

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be paired. Attendees also get to keep their commemorative glasses. Please call (805) 962-8404, ext 115, or register online at: sbmm.org for tickets and/or more information.

Zach is calling the event a “brewtique festival,” because, as he says while we settle into a couple of chairs in the dining room of the Dutch Garden for a short interview, “I don’t want thousands of people,” explaining that he just wants “a small, more intimate environment for a beer festival, rather than throngs of people and big lines.”

The Anchors and Ales “brewtique festival” is a curated event in which Zach has personally invited each brewer and specifically requested certain beers. A dozen breweries will be represented and “about twenty beers will be served,” he says.

Yo, Ho, Ho

The connection between beer and the Maritime Museum, while not readily apparent at first glance, actually makes a lot of sense. Beer was the liquid that helped quench the thirst of every sailor and every passenger on board every sailing vessel that undertook a lengthy sea voyage. “[Fresh] water would only last so long,” Zach explains, “and then it would go bad.

Beer was your main form of hydration after that.” So, Anchors and Ales is all about the interaction between water and beer, and the Maritime Museum, it turns out, is the perfect venue.

As for those “stories” of beer, they include details from Mourt’s Relation, written by Edward Winslow and William Bradford, both of whom had made the Atlantic crossing onboard the Mayflower. The tract’s full title is: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning

and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England, and it was originally published in London in 1622 by George Mourt.

“The famous beer passage out of it,” relates Zach, “was that while they were going up and down the coast trying to find a good place to land, the ship’s captain warned his passengers, ‘Look, you guys have spent so much time [in search of a landing spot] that we are running out of beer and we need enough beer to get back.’ So, the pilgrims were let off near Plymouth Rock, which ‘was good enough.

We’re leaving you here,’ the captain is reported as having said to them.”

The story of India Pale Ale, fondly known as IPA, is also worth a history lesson or two. “They put more hops and alcohol in it,” Zach says, “which [made it last longer] and helped the sailors make it to India.”

The female home-brewing “Hop Tarts” will be serving their Saison (a Franco-Belgian beer) created in conjunction with the festival. The Hop Tarts – Laura Sanchez, who writes for Edible; Kady Fleckenstein, media manager for Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co.; and Sandy Harrison, co-owner of Valley Brewers – brewed the Saison in conjunction with Pure Order Brewing Company, and they’ll be serving the beer and interacting with attendees. All the other brewers will also be there to talk about their beer, such as Dan Reyes of CARP (Carpinteria and Rincon Point) home brewers, who has collaborated with Zach to create a robust porter with kelp (which came out of a marine biologist’s lab at UCSB).

More Beer Stories

“The difference between ale and beer is the presence of hops. The difference between ale and lager,” Zach notes, “is the kind of yeast we use.”

He then explains that hops is a weed, closely akin to marijuana; it is part of the cannabis family, and is an excellent preservative with “a strong anti-bacterial component.” Hops are a perennial vine that grows in England, “but Santa Barbara gets a little too sunny for hops,” he says. Pure Order Brewery, however, grows hops on its land. Oregon/Washington is the U.S.’s major hop-growing region, though “someone is experimenting growing hops in Santa Ynez Valley,” Zach reports, noting too that “In the height of the growing season, [hops] can grow up to a foot a day.”

A little entertainment is also on tap (if you’ll excuse the expression), including a glassware demonstration, a can-versus-bottle demonstration, and special beer tastings, “but,” says Zach, “there’ll be no beer pong, no ‘Ninety-Eight Bottles Of Beer On The Wall’ singing, it’s more about inter-

• The Voice of the Village •

A dozen brewers will be on hand for Anchors and Ales at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum on Saturday August 16; Kelpie (in photo) is brewed and bottled in Scotland, but local brewers have concocted similar brews for the event

acting with the museum. That is your entertainment.”

He did confess, however, that there would be “a low-budget, cheesy blackand-white film that was shot at Point Conception in the lighthouse” shown.

“It’ll be silent with music in the background,” he says, adding that though it is a bit “cheesy,” it’s also great fun.

The Beer Necessities

Zach calls himself “a fourth-generation writer,” and points out that his grandmother, Betty Evans, was a cookbook author and food authority.

Her books were illustrated by his grandfather, Gordon, a Montmartretrained Impressionist painter and sculptor, and the published recipes were replete with history and personal stories.

Zach’s uncle and aunt, Bob and Suzanne Evans, are longtime Santa Barbara residents and original Funk Zone artists. Bob is an artist, photographer, inventor, and designer, and together they run three companies in Santa Barbara: Force Fins, Gas Pods, and Fine Fabrics. His sister, Evelyn, went to UCSB to study organic chemistry and is now a doctor in organic chemistry working in the nanotech industry on smart glass technology.

Zach began studying absinthe, Impressionism, and the Belle Époque era in Paris and about a year after he began those studies, he says he “smelled a Stone IPA (India Pale Ale)” while visiting his sister at UCSB, which led him to study beer, which led him to found a UCSB beer club – The Beer Necessities – that was shut down by campus officials after its one and only member meeting.

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CPA Theaterfest’s 50th anniversary features a full weekend of activities for returning alumni of the Central Coast’s most important repertory company. Scores of PCPA veterans are due in for the weekend of activities that range from social to educational, but a star-studded gala Monday, August 11, is the crowning event.

A full 17 of the company’s former actors and directors are gathering Monday night for a single night of performances, reminiscing, and revelry at the beautiful outdoor Solvang Festival Theater. These are just a few of them: Deborah May, who was one of the great leading ladies at PCPA before moving on to such TV series as ER, The Golden Girls, Days of our Lives, The Larry Sanders Show, Malcolm in the Middle, and The West Wing, as well as several film roles and Romantic Comedy and Once in a Lifetime on Broadway.

Harry Groener, who played Will Parker in PCPA’s first production of Oklahoma! (coincidentally again on stage in Solvang this month), and went on to earn a Tony nomination for the same role in a Broadway revival, as well as Tony nods for Sunday in the Park with George and Crazy for You. Randall Myler, who co-authored and directed Hank Williams: Lost Highway for PCPA that went on to receive an Obie Award in New York and was Tony-nominated for writing the musical It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues.

Gregory Itzen, who spent two years at PCPA before earning a Tony nod for The Kentucky Cycle and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards for Waiting for Godot, The Homecoming, and The Birthday Party. He’s also been nominated for an Emmy for his role as President Charles Logan in 24 and appeared on Star Trek, Firefly, The Pretender, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Boston Legal, and many more.

Also, Montecito’s own Brad Hall, who made his mark at PCPA as a singer, dancer, and actor in such shows as West Side Story, Inherit the Wind, and Gypsy before going on to Hollywood to create and/or direct TV series The Single Guy, Brooklyn Bridge, Watching Ellie, and Frasier – not to mention his stint on Saturday Night Live.

Brad Carroll, who wrote the music for Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical and recently played Koko in PCPA’s Hot Mikado, serves as music director. We haven’t received a full rundown of the evening’s schedule, but the alumni are expected to perform on stage before participating in a roundtable discussion about how PCPA helped them

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From Political Intern to Philharmonic Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts and entertainment for more than 30 years; he has contributed to the Montecito Journal for more than ten years.

kick-start their careers.

The 8 pm party/performance is open to the public. Tickets cost $75, or $150 for premium seats, which also includes pre-show champagne reception at 6:30 pm, meet-and-greet with performers, and intermission hospitality. Call 922-8313 or visit www. pcpa.org.

Sleepy kids

More than 25 area youth performers comprise the cast for Rubicon’s Summer Youth Program’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone. Back in the fall of 2012, Santa Barbara High School put on a memorable production of the show that isn’t shy about its love of musicals – albeit with plenty of frivolity. The show-within-show framing device finds a diehard musical theater fan playing his favorite cast album, when the musical suddenly and literally bursts to life in his living room.

He becomes a part of the action that will keep you laughing and singing along.

Rubicon’s resident director Brian McDonald, who appeared in the national tours of Miss Saigon and Forever Plaid, helms the family-friendly fare for a long weekend only.

There’s a free dress rehearsal at 7 pm Tuesday before the show officially opens at 7 pm Wednesday, August 13 Chaperone plays 2 & 7 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday, and 2 & 8 pm Saturday at Rubicon Theatre at 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for children 12 & under in advance; $5 more at the door. Call 6672900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org.

Broadway in Santa Barbara

The organization that brings touring companies to the Granada – which incidentally included The Drowsy Chaperone in its local debut during the 2011-12 season – is largely going back to basics for its 2014-15 season. We’ll see Camelot on January 20-21, Guys and Dolls February 17-18, and Chicago April 7-8, with a special one-shot of a more modern classic, Stomp, slated for February 9. Series subscriptions

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o hear violinist William Shaub tell it, last week’s auditions for one of 10 coveted spots in the New York Philharmonic upcoming training program as part of the orchestra’s just-launched partnership with the Music Academy of the West (MAW) was a truly grueling affair. Much more so, even, than the mid-summer concerto competition.

“We chose three pieces – a Romantic concerto, a Mozart concerto, and any solo piece by Bach – plus eight orchestral excerpts we all had to play,” he recalled on Monday afternoon, just three days after hearing he’d been selected. “It was a lot of work. We had to jump from one style to another with the same level of concentration and precision. It demanded quite a lot of preparation.”

Then again, Shaub, though he’s just 21, is already used to the stress of tense situations – and not only in a musical environment. At 16, he served as an intern in the office of former Ohio congressman John Boccieri, one of the Democrats who voted against the Affordable Care Act in 2009 before casting one of the decided votes to ensure the narrow passage of the landmark healthcare legislation in March 2010. Shaub was able to witness firsthand all the machinations and debate that went into the historic period.

“That was an incredible experience,” he recalled. “It was very, very close.”

On the other hand, he didn’t have quite the personal stake in that triumph as he did in vying to be among the chosen 10 out of the 68 academy instrumentalist fellows who auditioned for the NY Phil positions. But he had a strategy.

“After getting to know (the fellows) at the festival (these last seven weeks), the bottom line is everyone is extremely talented and quite experienced,” he explained. “So just practicing these pieces on a technocratic level, and making sure everything was perfect in terms of precision wasn’t enough,”

he explained. “That wasn’t the end of the (rehearsal) process. My goal was to have the ability to not only compete with the best but also have an artistic vision for each piece.”

If that sounds like a lot of work while also coping with the normally full MAW schedule, the potential rewards were surely quite a carrot – akin to winning a young player’s classical music lottery. The 10 chosen fellows will take part in an all-expenses-paid, 10-day musical and educational immersion with the Philharmonic in New York City beginning January 3, including performing four times as full-fledged members of the orchestra during a week of subscription concerts conducted by music director Alan Gilbert. The musicians will train with, observe, and perform side-by-side with members of the Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, plus have opportunities for one-onone meetings with Gilbert, practicing chamber music, meeting with the administration, and doing some mock auditions.

The actual trip to New York isn’t a huge deal for Shaub, who is about to enter his final year as an undergraduate at the city’s Juilliard, where he studies with Cho-Liang Lin and Masao Kawasaki. But even though he’s already worked with Gilbert, who directs the orchestra program at Juilliard, Shaub said he isn’t going to take anything for granted.

“I might benefit a little bit from knowing how he conducts and his style. But I think I should go in as if I didn’t know anything at all, and just get the full experience. I really plan to immerse myself in what it means to perform with such a professional ensemble. The New York Philharmonic musicians are universally respected around the word. So I want to get everything I can from the program. The best way to (do that) is just be a sponge, and focus on what everybody else is doing. In my sec-

have been available for a while, and individual tickets go on sale Monday, August 18, at www.theaterleague. com and www.granadasb.org, or via phone at 899-2222, or at the Granada box office.

a converted barn are not renewing the lease. Owners Susie and David Couch are searching for an alternate site, but so far nothing has been found. So make sure to get out there and enjoy at least one more final scrumptious barbecue dinner with all the fixin’s and a well-crafted play before the (metaphorical) curtain comes down for a final time in late October. Enchanted April runs through September 7, and Boeing Boeing takes over September 19 to October 27. Call 967-1962 or visit www.circlebarbtheatre.com.

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On a sadder note, we heard not long before press time that Circle Bar B Dinner Theater will be closing at the end of the year, as the owners of the ranch where the shows are staged in

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Yet you can still partake of just about everything MAW has to offer, including appearances by all of the summer’s fellows, in events ranging from two chamber music concerts, to eight master classes, to the vocal fellows singing pop, to the final Academy Festival Orchestra performance of the year.

Fine fellows line up as part of the NY Philharmonic’s training program

tion, for example, I want to get a feel for how they sound, how to match them, and how to blend. I’m really excited to learn how that happens in a professional orchestra.”

The training should come in handy, because joining an orchestra – in fact, leading one as a concertmaster – is among his main career goals as a musician, Shaub said.

“I really enjoy orchestra leadership.

I liked having that responsibility of artistic input. I take a lot of pride in the section and like to work as a team.”

Shaub said that leading an orchestral section is not unlike the experience he had in the congressman’s office, where the goals were similar even if the constituents weren’t.

“It’s all about community-building,” he said. “That’s what I want to focus on in life in general. In a lot of ways, to me, you can use an orchestra to build a greater community. The same things that apply in social service, and politics, work for any institution, especially an orchestra, where there are lots of different experiences and backgrounds that need to come together for a common goal.”

Shaub has received a lot of help this summer in that endeavor via MAW’s new String Leadership program, including participating in weekly master classes. He also earned the opportunity to serve as the concertmaster for the fellows’ Academy Festival Orchestra on Concerto Night at the Granada two weeks ago. And just as he did with rehearsing for the NY Phil auditions, the violinist spent a lot of time in preparation for that role.

“I had the soloists over to my dorm room and listened to the concertos with their scores, so I could understand their visions for the pieces,” he recalled. “I wanted to go into the rehearsals (with the orchestra) already knowing what they wanted to do onstage. I told them, ‘You go out and play whatever you want to play, and I’ll do what I can to make you feel comfortable.’”

The faculty members have also noticed Shaub’s talent for creating collaboration. He said he received quite a few accolades from Glenn Dicterow, 7 – 14 August 2014

the 35-year veteran concertmaster of the NY Phil who just retired in June, as well as Martin Chalifour, who serves in the same role with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“I was told I provide good energy, and give off that vitality from the front while not coming in early,” he said. “I got a lot of cueing insights about how to do that while also having spontaneous energy. But I also found out I wasn’t doing pizzicato cues very well.

You have to have patience for when you play while also letting the others know when to start.”

Obviously, winning the recent audition and leading the orchestra for Concert Night are the two biggest highlights from this summer, his first at MAW, Shaub said. But the rewards go way beyond specific achievements, he added.

“This is a festival where you get much more than even what you put in. The people are incredible, the administration is amazing, and everyone is so supportive. If you want to do chamber music, the very best chamber musicians are here. If you want to be concertmaster, same thing. You can go to lunch with Mr. Chalifour and ask a lot of good questions, and get answers you can’t get anywhere else. It’s what you make of it.”

Shaub will serve as concertmaster one more time for Friday’s string leadership master class, when he’ll perform the solo from Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life). He’ll be in the orchestra for Saturday’s final symphony concert (see details below). Then he’ll head back to Juilliard for another semester before January rolls around and he gets to reunite with the other nine winners at the NY Phil: Douglas Aliano (bass), Anthony Bellino (trumpet), Matthew Cohen (viola), Sean Krissman (clarinet), Simon Michal (violin), Charlie Rosmarin (percussion), Michael Severance (bassoon), Genevieve Tabby (cello), and Jennifer Zhou (flute).

“I can’t wait,” he said.

This week at MAW

The end is here. Just three days remain in the 2014 Summer Festival.

Thursday, August 7: The final Downtown Community Concert takes place at the intimate Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. It’s just 60 minutes long, timed perfectly for a late lunch hour, and as the closing concert of the year, we’re likely to hear the fellows going full-stop on whatever pieces they haven’t had a chance to previously perform. Fair warning: get there early; the free tickets never make it all the way to the 2 pm curtain.... For today’s final Collaborative Piano master class, faculty member Jonathan Feldman eschews the coaching and commentary in favor of performances from each of the summer’s eight supremely-talented keyboardists. In fact, he’ll even serve as page-turner for the pianists’ scores (3:15 pm; Lehmann Hall; $12/$13).... Tonight’s annual Cabaret shows off the lighter side of the 23 vocal fellows, who just sang their guts out for the three-hour production of Carmen at the Granada last weekend. Montecito’s own iconic television star Carol Burnett returns for a third year as creative director of the annual fundraiser gala that benefits MAW’s full-scholarship program.

The fiery redhead teams up with the Academy’s legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne for inimitable coaching sessions on the art of musical comedy with the young vocalists, while Gerald Sternbach – whose extensive performance credits include serving as an award-winning music director as well as an accompanist for Burnett, Julie Andrews, and Kelsey Grammer, among others – is back for a sixth season overseeing the revue-style production. The gala begins with cocktails followed by a gourmet dinner, before dessert is served as the voice fellows perform an array of popular music spanning jazz, Broadway, pop, and even the stray classical art song or aria. Don’t forget to visit the silent auction area for special gifts and vacations (6 pm; DoubleTree Resort; $300-$1,000; call 695-7918 for info and tickets).

Friday, August 8: There are free final master classes in clarinet with faculty artists Richie Hawley (Lehmann) and trumpet with Joseph Burgstaller (Weinman Hall), both at 1 pm, and horn with Julie Landsman (Lehmann) at 3:15, but the main attractions are competing special events in the later time slot. The annual Solo Piano Studio

After dinner, rest a while; after supper, walk a mile. – Arabic proverb

Presentation finds the eight solo piano fellows in a final performance, offering their interpretations on work drawn from the typical classical repertoire and far more obscure, lovingly and entertainingly introduced by their faculty mentor, Jerome Lowenthal, still irrepressible at 82 (3:15 pm; Hahn; $15). Meanwhile, the violin fellows get the best of both coasts in the closing string leadership master class, as just-retired New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow teams up with Los Angeles Philharmonic concertmaster Martin Chalifour in coaching the string players on working together in service to the music and the conductor’s vision (3:15 pm; Weinman; $12/$13).... Tonight’s final Picnic Concert, like all of the others all summer, features the instrumental fellows performing chamber music in a variety of settings, from solo to sizable ensemble. And like all the other Picnic Concerts for the last few summers, it’s also sold out (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall.)

Saturday, August 9: We’ve already heard from Thomas Adès, the brilliant British pianist, conductor, and composer who The New Yorker hailed as among “the most imposing figures in contemporary music.” That was just two weeks ago, when New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert conducted a chamber-sized version of the Academy Festival Orchestra in a historic concert at the Lobero, with Adès’ “Chamber Symphony” on the program. But that was merely a performance of some early music from a teenage Adès; tonight, we get the man himself. Over the ensuing years, Adès has conducted some of the world’s greatest orchestras (LA & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and the Boston, London & BBC symphonies, to name just a few), played piano in chamber concerts under the auspices of the Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and won a 2014 Grammy for conducting a recording of the Metropolitan Opera’s premiere of his 2004 work The Tempest in a new production by Robert Lepage that received raves world-round. Now, he turns his attention to MAW’s exceedingly talented Academy Festival Orchestra for an ambitious program featuring Stravinsky’s “Petrushka” (1947 version), Ives’ “Variations on America, Four Sea Interludes” from Britten’s Peter Grimes, and his own composition, “Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra”.

The thunderous applause that will undoubtedly ensue at the end of the concert will likely go on for a while, expressing appreciation not only for what will likely be an astounding performance, but also as our way of saying “thank you” to the MAW fellows, faculty, and administration for a •MJ remarkable summer festival.

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SEEN (Continued from page 16) John Woodward, curator Emily Falke and speaker Willard Thompson at his “Wives & Daughters: Keepers of the Light” lecture at the SBMM

Host Robert Lieff with birthday “boy” Richard Mineards and hostess Gretchen Lieff

seated on a “throne” with a kingly hat placed on his head, while Gil Rosas played the grand piano with Cat singing her rendition of “Honey Bun” from South Pacific. Gretchen told us, “Richard was born in the same hospital as Princess Diana.” That must give one some measure of fame! Or did that lead to his future career?

Prior to coming here, he covered the royal family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, then moved to New York to write for various magazines and had regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN. Jim Buckley joked, “Thank goodness, he doesn’t charge us by the word.” Priscilla read a proclamation whereby he was called the master of the pun.

Richard responded to the entire hoopla by saying he was very happy being here seven years, having written some 300 columns. “I think the Voice of the Village is a bit louder – and I love to write the word, exclusively.”

The birthday cake had a stellar photo of Richard replicated in the icing, which was promptly cut and eaten. Happy birthday, Richard, my friend, and I still wish I had thought to write “a tiara’s toss.”

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Keepers of the Light

A wine and cheese reception preceded one of the ongoing lectures at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM), “Wives & Daughters: Keepers of the Light.” Willard Thompson gave the lecture to the packed house about the women who tended the lights on the California coast from 1856 to the start of the 20th century. Betsy Green made a surprise appearance in a costume of the era and gave her perspective of the Victorian ladies. She charmed us all.

Willard and Betsy explained that many of the women got the job because something had happened to their husbands or fathers. Some exceptions were a socialite and a successful naturalist. There was also an admiral’s daughter and a helpless eyewitness to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Julia F. Williams protected ships coming and going from Santa

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Betsy Green portraying wives and daughters for the “Keepers of the Light” SBMM talk

Barbara for 40 years. It must have been tough for the keepers to get up at midnight every night to check and see if the fires were still burning.

Betsy told us, “In those days, 15 to 20 percent of the women worked.

Today it is 80 percent. A spinster back then was one who did thread on a spinning wheel.” The connotation has changed considerably.

Willard is on the SBMM board and is the author of Keepers of the Light, The History of the Point Conception Lighthouse and other books.

SBMM executive director Greg Gorga thanked his small staff who wear many hats, especially complimenting Emily Falke in her role as curator, saying, “The museum looks the best ever.” This is the 14th anniversary of SBMM and its new board president is Hank Mitchell. Other new members are Chuck Wilson, Francie Lufkin and Don Bartlemess.

Greg reminded us of the “Sea of Suds” event Saturday, August 16, from 5 to 8 p.m. It will be a beer-tasting experience with a dozen breweries. Check it out. There are also maritime films shown in the Munger Theater in the museum all day long. Call 962-8404, ext. 115, for a showtime schedule. Or visit www.sbmm.org.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 22)

Junior Spirit of Fiesta Natalie Mowers, Cas Stimson, George Leis, El Presidente Dennis Rickard, and Spirit of Fiesta Talia Ortega Vestal (photo by Priscilla)

Polo Club guests Gilles Amsallem, international opera singer Summer Watson, patron Leigh Brecheen, Griffin Dellaverson, Jessica Rich, and Wesley Ru (photo by Priscilla)

included Pat Andersons, Jean von Wittenburg, Jo Thompson, Palmer Jackson, Meg and Nick DiNapoli, Glen and Gloria Holden, Paige Beard, and Teddie and Sarah Vedder.

Wild Night The party animals were out in force when one of Fiesta’s most popular events, Celebracion de los Dignitarios, was held at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Between 1,500 and 2,000 tuned out for the hilltop hoopla – co-chaired

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er seduced by Carmen’s wiles and Thomas Cannon as the glamorous toreador, were well-chosen for their roles.

Marilyn, who dubbed the voice of Dorothy Dandridge in the film Carmen Jones and made her mark singing the role under the baton of Leonard Bernstein at the Met in New York in 1973, did an excellent job as Hunter’s vocal coach at the Miraflores campus, where she has headed the voice program for 17 years.

No wonder both shows were sellouts. It was a Carmen-dable performance...

Deborah and Mark Danielson at the annual Fiesta bash (photo by Priscilla)

Among the throng checking out the colorful scene were mayor Helene Schneider, sheriff Bill Brown, Colin and Sharon Friem Wallace, Salud Carbajal, Bilo Zarif, and Thomas Caleel...

Carmen Captivates The Music Academy of the West’s production of Georges Bizet’s popular opera Carmen at the Granada, presented in honor of legendary mezzo soprano Marilyn Horne’s 80th birthday, was a cracker!

Baltimore native Briana Hunter, playing the exotic lead role in the show, which took place in 19th-century California among soldiers, smugglers and settlers, was magnificent in the production, which celebrated the 90th anniversary of Fiesta.

Conductor James Gaffigan was in fine form, as were State Street Ballet

Briana Hunter shines in Music Academy’s Carmen

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The 55-seat restaurant, one of five locations for the group, including Newport Beach, Santa Monica, Dallas and Yountville in the Napa Valley, will boast a center island bar and a display kitchen, with eight tables inside and six outside on the patio.

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Farewell to Neverland The late Michael Jackson’s 2,680acre Neverland Ranch is to be sold.

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

Museum Acquires Nativity Painting

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he Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art is showing off its recent acquisitions, including a painting by Benvenuto Tisi. The unannounced exhibition features works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, and Mary Cassatt. The museum is not keeping regular hours during the summer, so please call (805) 565-6162 to make an appointment.

The work by Tisi, also known as Il Garofalo, is a promised gift to Westmont by Michael Huffington in honor of Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree, valued at about a half-million dollars.

Tisi was an Italian Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied in Rome with Giulio Romano (1499-1546) and Raphael (1483-1520), and was a contemporary of Titian (1485-1576). Known for his paintings

of religious subjects and mythological themes, Tisi worked through the 1550s. His career ended with the onset of blindness before his death in 1559.

Westmont is exhibiting the work “La Nativité” from the mid-16th century. Nativity scenes depicting Christ’s birth have long been an important subject of Christian art, and the first recorded depiction dates back to the second century.

“Garofalo’s painting is typical of an iconography that first appeared in Europe during the late 14th century,” says Judy L. Larson, Askew professor of art history and director of the museum. “In this style of representation, the Virgin Mary is not depicted as recovering from childbirth; rather, she kneels before the Christ Child in adoration, who is not placed in a

Chris Rupp, collections manager of the Westmont Museum, carefully uncrates Tisi’s “La Nativité”

manger, but reclines contentedly on a pile of straw. The inclusion of angels is another iconographic development originating in the Renaissance.”

The museum, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, opens a new season Aug. 28 - Sept. 11 with its annual show “5x5: Celebrating Five Years.” More than 500 five-inchsquare works of art will be available for viewing and purchase through an online auction, with proceeds benefiting the museum.

Summer Scholars Get Jump on College

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About 30 high school students completed three weeks of intensive classes with professors Carmel Saad and Christian Hoeckley as part of Westmont Summer Scholars. In its fourth year, the program offers students an opportunity to experience a Christian liberal arts education at Westmont before they start college.

The students, from eight different states, including Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, and Colorado, enrolled in one of two courses, General Psychology with Saad or Philosophical Perspectives on Truth and Value with Hoeckley.

The seven high school graduates have committed to attend Westmont in the fall, while the remainder will return to finish their final year of high school with Westmont as a top choice for 2015.

The students earned college credits and also enjoyed extra-curricular activities, such as sailing the Santa Barbara coast and visiting the Getty Museum and Griffith Park, where they enjoyed a theatrical production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

“On the whole, this group was incredibly capable academically and possessed an even greater eagerness for learning,” says Hoeckley, professor of philosophy and director of Gaede Institute for Liberal Arts. “They were remarkably good to one another, forming a close-knit community in which everyone felt supported.”

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Dr. Carmel Saad speaks at the Summer Scholar graduation

“One of things that we do so well at Westmont is get the students in close proximity to the faculty,” president Gayle D. Beebe said at the July 3 graduation. “The greatest joy in life and the greatest understanding of life comes as we begin to invest our lives in other people.”

“Knowing I can succeed gives me confidence for college,” says Alison Judy, a high school senior from Denver. “I loved the interactive, seminar-style learning. This was the deciding factor for me. I said yes to Westmont.”

“I learned to find my identity, make better choices and develop trust,” says Caanan Gassmann, a high school senior from Winterset, Iowa. “I’m now excited for college.”

“Summer Scholars really eased some nerves I had about moving to a new campus with new people,” says La Habra’s Kendall Songer, who is attending Westmont in the fall. “I feel much more prepared for a college class, and I grew closer to God even in •MJ just three weeks.”

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Our Town

Representing her winning team, Howard School student Emily Ehlers shares the ice cream flavor invented for Rori’s Artisanal Creamery with headmaster Joel Reed

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Howard Students Create Ice Cream Flavor

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he Howard School students teamed with Rori Trovato, owner of Rori’s Artisanal Creamery to have a new learning experience, by inventing a flavor of ice cream currently being featured at all Rori’s locations through August, with 30 percent of the proceeds going to the school.

Howard School headmaster Joel Reed said, “I love how collaboration made learning so real to the children.

They were able to see first-hand how

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the various lessons we cover in class – from math to nutrition to communication and problem solving – could be applied in a real-world situation.”

The story began with a suggestion

by Rori’s son, Roman, who attends the school. He noted that each month, his mom’s creamery does an 805 flavor to highlight a local artisanal company and makes an ice cream with a product to promote a small business.

Roman asked his mom, “Hey, why not do it with the school students – how about they invent a new ice cream flavor, and the sales can benefit the school?” Rori loved the idea and asked Reed about collaborating.

It proved to be a new flavor in teaching tools for educators.

Rori said, “I wanted to educate the kids on flavor balance and the importance of wholesome, organic ice creams. The Howard School already has an organic lunch program, as well as a strong emphasis on nutrition and good health throughout their science program. We wanted to allow the children to explore their creativity, as well as help develop marketing and business skills in a really fun way.”

Reed agreed: “Rori’s Creamery

reflects the values around food that we stress with our children. Part of the philosophy of The Howard School is to teach to the whole child, and healthy lifestyle decisions are among the most important skills that we can give a child. This is especially important when the children are young and willing to try different foods. Our hot lunch program is a parent-driven, organic, and locally sourced (when possible) program. We use the lunch program to teach children about new and exciting healthy foods. We incorporate health and nutrition in the science curriculum in several of our grades, and have a daily physical education program to teach the benefits of regular exercise and fitness.”

Rori made a teaching plan for all the students that included teaching a flavor-balancing class to each grade, letting them mix and taste ingredients like fresh lemon, sea salt, and bittersweet chocolate, while teaching them how to “round out” a flavor, along with experiencing taste combinations and the role that quality ingredients plays in the integrity of a final product.

Following that, grades paired up to create their own flavor and made field trips to the ice cream factory.

The 5th and 6th graders paired to make a sorbet, Orange Pomegranate with Chocolate Shavings. When the flavors were ready for tasting, the school held a contest with a panel of local judges, chef James Sly of Sly’s Restaurant, chef Michael Blackwell of Montecito Country Club, Arthur von Wiesenberger of Santa Barbara News-Press, councilman for the City of Carpinteria Greg Carty, and Reed.

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‘The third and fourth graders won with their Chai Tea Latte flavor, made of chai created from fresh ginger, star anise, cardamom, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla beans heated with Strauss Creamery cream, steeped overnight and blended with bittersweet tempered chocolate. Speaking for her classmates, Emily Ehlers, who is going into fourth grade, commented, “We had to think about how other people would taste our ice cream and how the ice cream would feel in your mouth. We decided to use shaved chocolate instead of chips, because it would feel softer and smoother. It tasted better than I thought.”

From an educational perspective, Reed summed it up: “This was a fantastic exercise for all of the children.

They learned about every phase of the ice cream business. It was much more than having the children vote for their favorite flavor. Rori taught them about flavor profiles and encouraged them to think like business owners who are trying to come up with a flavor that would be unique and appealing.”

Rori was so pleased with the experience herself that she mentioned to me during our interview she would like to do this with each school in the Montecito area and throughout Santa Barbara. “It’s ice cream and it can bring a community together.” www.thehowardschool.org and www.rorisartisanalcreamery.com The Howard School, founded in 1912 with Mrs. Hannah Howard’s morning lessons for six students, is now a private non-profit school. The curriculum is based on the Carden Method®, a comprehensive developmental approach that offers a classical education and emphasizes interrelated learning, as well as character development. In addition to traditional subjects such as mathematics, language arts, science, history, and geography, the method focuses on cultural programs in art, music, and French. The Howard School’s core principles of reason, respect, and responsibility are integrated into the curriculum and serve to cultivate the character, strengths, and interests of each individual child.

•MJ 7 – 14 August 2014

MISCELLANY (Continued from page 33)

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It comes after the singer’s children were involved in a restoration project last year to restore the Los Olivos estate, formerly known as the Sycamore Valley Ranch, to its former glory after it fell into disrepair.

RadarOnline.com says the property is worth around $30 million, but insiders believe it could fetch as much as $60 million because of its provenance.

“We are saddened at the prospect of the sale of Neverland, which under the agreement negotiated during Michael’s lifetime, Colony has the right to sell,” says family members.

“We hope and trust that any new owners will respect the historical importance and special nature of this wonderful property.”

Watch this space...

Summer Festival Sizzles

The 28-room, 22,000-square-foot house on a 40-acre Round Hill Road estate on the highest point in Fairfield County, with distant views of Long Island Sound, used to belong to Indian-born Ravi Tikoo, who owned the world’s largest oil tanker, the 1,242-foot-long Globtik Tokyo.

A race horse owner, he invited me to a bash at his palatial property – which boasted two swimming pools – for the birthday party of his son, with the teenager receiving an impressive Lamborghini wrapped in a big red bow.

Tikoo, an anglophile who sold his London home in Hampstead, Kenstead Hall, to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, decided on a whim he wanted to play cricket after tea.

Given no New York store stocked the right gear, calls were made to Lillywhites, a major sports retailer in London, and British Airways flew the equipment over on the Concorde – Tikoo was a regular passenger – to Kennedy Airport, and his chauffeured Rolls Royce picked it up so the match could go on as scheduled for the birthday guests.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3718 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3718 for the HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) DE LA VINA AT ARRELLAGA TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, August 28, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) DE LA VINA AT ARRELLAGA TRAFFIC SIGNAL PROJECT, Bid No. 3718".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: installation of new signal and streetlight poles, pedestrian signal indicators with countdown heads, traffic control equipment, electrical connections, conduits, and conductors; retrofit of existing access ramps with truncated domes; coordination with utility companies; traffic control; public notification, etc.

The work includes, but is not limited to, mobilization, bonds, insurance, surveying and incidentals per the project plans and specifications.

The Engineer’s estimate is $100,000. Each bidder must have a Class A and C10 license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Ashleigh Shue, Project Engineer, 805-897-2507.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are advised that this project is a Federal-Aid Construction project and the Contractor shall agree to all requirements, conditions, and provisions set forth in the specification book issued for bidding purposes entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Attention is directed to Appendix C of the “Proposal and Contract” specification book for federal requirements and conditions, as well as documents required to be submitted with this proposal request. This project is subject to the “Buy America” provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 as amended by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage requirements in the specification book entitled “Proposal and Contract.” Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of the “Proposal and Contract” specification books. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes “helper” (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and Subcontractors, the Contractor and Subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal Minimum wage rate which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides a toll-free “hotline” service to report bid rigging activities. Bid rigging activities can be reported Mondays through Fridays, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, Telephone No. 1-800-424-9071. Anyone with knowledge of possible bid rigging, bidder collusion, or other fraudulent activities should use the “hotline” to report these activities. The “hotline” is part of the DOT’s continuing effort to identify and investigate highway construction contract fraud and abuse and is operated under the direction of the DOT Inspector General. All information will be treated confidentially and caller anonymity will be respected.

Bidders are hereby advised that there is a goal specified for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) for this contract of 6%.

Bidders must meet this goal or demonstrate that adequate good faith efforts to meet this goal have been made as outlined in Appendix C, Section 2-1.02.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: August 6, 13 and 20, 2014 Montecito Journal

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• The Voice of the Village •

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5345 DUE DATE & TIME: August 25, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Elevator Maintenance Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C11 - Elevator Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Strategically Yours, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Ronald L Zell, 3500 Hadley Way, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Deborah Sanchez. FBN No. 2014-0002212.

Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sanger Swysen & Dunkle, 125 East De La Guerra Ste 102. Robert M Sanger, 203 Vester, Ste D, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2014. This statement expires

Published: August 6, 2014 Montecito Journal

five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002057. Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Superior Landscaping and Property Maintenance, 4637 Tajo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Cody Sell, 4637 Tajo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002054. Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014.

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once the duo took over the shop, is also very popular. The Grotto guys say what sets them apart is a constantly changing knowledge base, as well as being familiar with every bottle of wine they sell. “We taste everything that comes into this store,” Brunello said.

The original Wine Grotto opened in 1976, and in addition to stocking wine and liquor, former owners Jess Pagliassotti and Ingela Orbell carried convenience store items and boasted a full-service deli from the larger space (at one time the space currently occupied by Allora by Laura was part of the shop). The shop was downsized five years before the current owners took over, and just last week the building was repainted and the iconic Dutch door was refin-

ished – a mini facelift for the fiveyear mark.

In addition to carrying hundreds of popular local and world wines at competitive prices, Herrick and Brunello specialize in hard-to-find liquors, spirits, and beers. Rare, highend wines are located in a temperature-controlled cellar in the back of the store. The shop also offers mixers, glasses, decanters, and wine paraphernalia. They also provide beverage service for special events, company parties, and weddings.

The Liquor and Wine Grotto is located at 1271 Coast Village Road.

The store is open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm, Sundays 10 am to 6 pm. Call (805) 969-5939 or visit www.MontecitoVino.com for more information.

•MJ

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PUBLIC NOTICES

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3690

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3690 for the LA COLINA FORCEMAIN No. 2 project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “LA COLINA FORCEMAIN No. 2, Bid No. 3690".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: furnish and install an approximate total of 3,290 feet of 8-inch HDPE sewer force main in accordance with the plans and specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $715,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at the LA COLINA LIFT STATION, at the CORNER OF LA COLINA ROAD AND PESETAS LANE. The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Bradley Rahrer, Project Engineer, 805-560-7531.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA _ William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: July 30 and August 6, 2014 Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5344 DUE DATE & TIME: August 26, 2014 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Airport Landscape Maintenance A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 13, 2014 at 9:00 a.m., at the Airport Administration Conference Room, located at 601 Firestone Rd., Goleta, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or

by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

ORDINANCE NO. 5662 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS FOR EMERGENCY SHELTERS AS A PERMITTED USE IN THE C-M ZONE. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on July 29, 2014.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal)

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

In the event of a conflict between Santa Barbara Living Wage and the California Department of Industrial Relations Prevailing Wage Rates, Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two rates.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-27 Landscape Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Central Processing; Coast Village Mortgage; Coast Village Financial; Coast Village Realty; Coast Village Home Loans; Coast Village Realty & Loan, 1211 Coast Village Road #12, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jeffrey Millman

Published: August 6, 2014 Montecito Journal

Schlossberg, 1559 San Leandro Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 4, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk

• THE VOICE OF THE VILLAGE •

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5662 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on July 22, 2014, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on July 29, 2014, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco; Frank Hotchkiss, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Bendy White, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

Councilmember Cathy Murillo

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on July 30, 2014.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on July 30, 2014.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

(SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002271. Published August 6, 13, 20, 27, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): All Radiator Company, 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

93105. All Radiator Company, INC., 3820 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2014. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original FBN No. 20130000536. Original filing date:

7 – 14 August 2014

PUBLIC NOTICES

February 15, 2013. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oasis Realty, 55 Hitchcock Way, Suite 206, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Gordon V Elconin, 1220 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0002116. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Craftoday; Nonprofit Scout; Nonprofit Teacher, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Mary Monique Littlejohn, 19 Arroyo Vista Drive, Goleta, CA 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0002153. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zee Zed Zed, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Suzanne C. Eldredge, 1747 Grand Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0001979. Published July 30, August 6, 13, 20, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: B&L Painting, 116 N. Nopal St #3, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Jesse Benenati, 15 Las Alturas Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103. Perry Benanati, 265 Pacos Street, Ventura, CA 93001. Mark Lentini, 308 Santa Monica Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 8, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN No. 2014-0001984. Published July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 2014.

7 – 14 August 2014

Metropolitan Theatres - The Indepentdent adsource@e 93101. Savvy Real Estate filed with the County Clerk interested parties: Petitioners described about must file a p.objection 888.737.2812 (3.833”) 6.25” FICTITIOUS 2col BUSINESS Solutions,x INC, 14 West Valerio of Santa Barbara County on Susan Robinson and Jason written that included NAME STATEMENT: The Street #A, Santa Barbara, CA June 18, 2014. This statement Robinson filed a petition with the reasons for the objection Ad is/are insertion date: Friday, August following person(s) doing 93101. This statement was filed expires five years 8-12, from the 2014 Superior Court of California, at least two court days before business as: Forest Farm with the County Clerk of Santa date it was filed in the Office County of Santa Barbara, the matter is scheduled to be Music & Art,Ad PO Box 5816, Barbara County on June 25, of the County Clerk. I herebyAugust for a decree changing at name heard and must caind_met appear at the creation/delivery date: Wednesday, 6, 2014 6:48:31 AM Santa Barbara, CA 93150.

Dorothy Darr, 1008 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0002011. Published July 23, 30, August 6, 13, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Twelve Hour Baby, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Carissa Stutzman, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Joshua Stutzman, 7281 Butte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN No. 2014-0001923. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIPEI, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. Ling Star Technology LLC, 6174 Manzanillo Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0001972. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DJD Investments, 201 W. Main Street, Santa Maria, CA 93458. Cleotilde Campoverde, 125 Rosemary Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Mary Quakenbush. FBN No. 2014-0001995. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Skyline Property Management, 14 West Valerio Street #A, Santa Barbara, CA

2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2014-0001879. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kieran Publishing, 776 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Erin Graffy, 776 Palermo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2014-0001836. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Anastasia Arts, 1187 Coast Village Road #1434, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Anastasia Nelson, 1187 Coast Village Road #1-434, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN No. 2014-0001876. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pacwest Blooms, 1358 Cramer Circle, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

Suzanne B. Schneider, 1358 Cramer Circle, Carpinteria, CA 93013. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2014-0001974. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1 Stop Pool Pros 29, 130 South Patterson #1627, Santa Barbara, CA 93116. Jeffrey R. Kirchmaier, 1709 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was

certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Gabriel Cabello. FBN No. 2014-0001799. Published July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 2014.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1467576. To all

from Summer Faye Young Robinson to Summer Marie Young Robinson. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes

hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 27, 2014, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 27, 2014 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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

ENDING THIS WEEK Ojai Playwrights Conference – The annual gathering considered one of most acclaimed new play developmental programs in the country brings playwrights from all backgrounds together for an intensive two-week, in-residence workshop.

The process come to a close with the Summer New Works Festival, which winds up this weekend with several more new play workshops and a couple of special events. Friday brings Chankethya Chey’s My Mother and I and Stew & Heidi Rodewald’s two zero zero one three to the Zalk Theater (7 & 9 pm; $25). Saturday offers the OPC Youth Workshop Performance directed by Kim Maxwell (10 am); Nick Gandiello’s Sunrise Highway (1 pm); Robert Askins’s Permission (5 pm); and Mike Daisey’s Our Man in Havana (7:30 pm). Sunday’s festival-closing offerings include new play workshops of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land (12 noon) and Hasty Pudding (3 pm) – by Bill Cain, author of Equivocation, which received raves and turned a lot of heads at UCSB’s production last spring; it’s among five plays he developed at OPC. The conference closes with the Intersection event An Audience with MEOW MEOW (6:30 pm), featuring the “kamikaze cabaret” artist Meow Meow. Patrons can also dine with OPC playwrights, actors, directors, and other company members during the Dinner al Fresco on the picturesque grounds of Besant Hill School in upper Ojai (August 9 & 10; $17). WHERE:

Zalk Theater at Besant Hill School, 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai COST: $25 each INFO: 640-0400 or www.ojaiplays.org ONGOING Concerts in the Park – Recovered from Fiesta yet? Can we get back to the family fare at Chase Palm Park now?

Alrighty then. The season’s penultimate show tonight (August 7) is the annual Summer of Rock! concert, featuring a quartet of local hard-rockin’ youth bands – Voice of Reason, Bi-Polar Bears, Bad Jack, and Galvanized Souls – doing roughly half-hour sets.

Sure you won’t know most of the tunes, but the weather, the vibe, and location are all the same – so come on out and support these talented kids! Next week (Thursday, August 14): Country Nation closes out the summer with a country and country-rock concert featuring lots of faves and classics for you to two-step (or swing) the summer away. WHEN: 6-8:30 pm WHERE: 323 East Cabrillo Boulevard COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaraca. gov/gov/depts/parksrec/recreation/ events/parkrec/concerts.asp

EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

ONGOING Summer Cinema – UCSB Arts & Lecture’s summer film series focuses on silent comedy for 2014, boasting features and shorter films starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. There are two venues each week: indoors at Campbell Hall on campus at UCSB each Wednesday at 7:30 pm, and Fridays at 8:30 pm under the glorious night sky open air at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, where pianist/composer Michael Mortilla provides live improvised musical accompaniment most weeks. Friday downtown: The Navigator and One Week, starring the incomparable Keaton. The former features hilarity on the high seas as a pampered young millionaire (Keaton) faces romantic foibles on an ocean liner in a classic that boasts some of Keaton’s most elaborate and entertaining gags, plus sea creatures, spies, and cannibals. The short One Week – which could have been a sequel – find a newlywed couple receiving a build-it-yourself house kit as a wedding present and attempting to accomplish the feat in one week. Mortilla provides the musical soundtrack for both. Wednesday and next Friday (August 15): Speedy, featuring Lloyd as a baseball fanatic who can barely hold down a steady job because he’s so obsessed in the actor’s final silent film, which features glorious footage of New York in its heyday, from Coney Island to Yankee Stadium, plus an unforgettable cameo by Babe Ruth. More information and the film schedule online at www.artsandlectures. sa.ucsb.edu/Films.aspx

bring a picnic and enjoy dinner while you grooving – or just listening – to Music at the Ranch – Want one of our fine assortment of Santa more local music? It’s a smaller and Barbara-based bands (as opposed appreciably mellower crowd that to the out-of-area acts at Chase Palm comes out each Tuesday to the Stow House in Goleta for the weekly concert Park). Here, you’re actually allowed to imbibe alcohol (legally); in fact, series held smack dab in suburbia wine and beverages are available for at the restored house and gorgeous grounds of Rancho La Patera. The sweet purchase on site, as are tasty barbecue victuals from Georgia’s Smokehouse sound of music permeates the garden food truck. And if the music doesn’t suit setting, where guests are invited to you, a long leisurely stroll around Lake Carneros will soothe the soul. (Tuesday, August 12): The Les Rose Trio, ENDING THIS WEEK featuring the saxophonist/clarinetist who also composes and arranges jazz Ventura Fair – ‘Nuff said in last week’s standards such as “All of Me”, “Fly issue about all the other goings-on at the Me to the Moon”, “In The Mood”, “It biggest fair within reasonable driving Had to be You”, and “One O’Clock distance from our little berg, but there’s Jump”. Coming August 19: The season a few highlights on the entertainment comes to a close with “Flamenco calendar worthy of additional mention.

Latino” guitarist Tony Ybarra, a Country music star Jake Owen – who had three Top 20 hits on the Santa Barbara native whose genreBillboard country chart from his 2006 debut Startin’ with Me and three more bending music has been described as from 2009’s Easy Does It before finally hitting No. 1 with the title track from “Paco de Lucia meets Sergio Mendez 2011’s Barefoot Blue Jean Night – hits the grandstand at the fairgrounds on with the freedom of Chick Corea and Thursday night on tour behind his just-released fourth album, Days of Gold, Pat Metheny”. WHEN: 5:30-7:30 pm and its number-one country hit “Beachin’”.... Original Creedence Clearwater WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Revival bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford – sans singerGoleta COST: free INFO: 681-7216 or songwriter-guitarist John Fogerty, of course – form the nucleus of Creedence www.stowhouse.com/events Clearwater Revisited, which plays all the old hits and some newer stuff at the fair Friday night....The 11-day extravaganza closes with four shows of THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 the PRCA Rodeo, a reprise of last weekend’s competition at the Earl Warren Showgrounds during Fiesta. WHEN: 7:30 pm (PRCA Rodeo 2 & 7 pm 1st Thursday – Fiesta 2014 has Saturday-Sunday) WHERE: 10 W. Harbor Boulevard, Ventura COST: INFO: come and gone, but that doesn’t 648-3376 or www.venturacountyfair.org mean you can’t relive Old Spanish

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• The Voice of the Village •

Days here in Santa Barbara, even during our monthly art-and-culture escapade. “Project Fiesta! – Building a Complete History of Old Spanish Days”, on view at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, features vintage posters, artwork, restored costumes, artifacts, and historical photographs documenting the pageantry, fashion and traditions of our city’s most cherished cultural festival.

What’s more, you can be part of the show: Anastasia & Vasily, winners of the International Dance Championships and owners of “Dance Fever Studios”, will be here to perform and give impromptu Latin dance lessons.... Celebrate history of a different sort at Gallery 27 at Brooks Institute, which exhibits the work of four alumni photographers, each a unique study of relationships.

Greg Cooper uses the vast channels of the web to funnel his experience of loss and longing.

Matt Perko shows portraits of his autistic son and the bond between them. Ellen Webber’s “Our Lady” explores the ubiquitous statues of Mother Mary around Boston to depict a motherly connection both longed for and abandoned. Brian Wilson’s documents his place in the Marine community.... Elsewhere: Santa Barbara native Danae Michele Liecht, who studied art in 7 – 14 August 2014

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 Wags n’ Whiskers – The largest adoption festival on California’s Central Coast features adoptable dogs, cats, and bunnies from 30 shelters and rescue groups, along with booths manned by local pet service providers and animal welfare groups. Events include a show with So Cal’s famous Disc Dogs, Flyball with Santa Barbara Supersonic, several police dogs in action, agility demonstrations with Goleta Valley Dog Club – and a bunny training demo and cat and dog training “tip” stations, both new this year.

Project PetSafe will also be on site to offer a low-cost vaccine clinic for dogs from 9 am to 1 pm. Non-pet activities include face painting and more fun stuff for kids, a silent auction with anything from pet products to spa, wine and travel packages to a TaylorMade custom golf set, and food and wine tasting, plus lots of musical and other entertainment throughout the day.

WHEN: 11 am-4 pm WHERE: Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: www.care4paws.org/wagsnwhiskers.html Paris and Florence and eventually designed a line of silk clothing and handmade velvet and straw hats, including some modeled by actress Helena Bonham Carter and featured in Vogue. Her new passion for crochet and felting is on display at Santa Barbara Arts.... ZFolio Gallery has Danielle & Stephen Blade, whose art-glass sculptures incorporate natural elements such as bone, wood, vine, and rock formations.... On the performing/ participatory arts scene: Two-time L.A. Music Award-winning singersongwriter Jamie Green plays on Marshalls Patio, Morganfield Burnett and John Marks do the blues thing at Paseo Nuevo Center Court, Pat Hackney and Robert Brown of Mission Canyon sing at the Sojourner Café, and Friendship Center’s Family Services Director Kristen (Kai) Hoye, MSW, leads short sessions of qi-gong and brain teasers. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www. santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday

K.C. at the Bat – Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight. Well, at least two out of three are available when KC and the Sunshine Band celebrate 40 years in music at the Chumash Casino Resort (for the third, you’ll like have to book a room). Hialeah, Florida’s greatest claim to fame (outside of their Jai Alai frontons) scored a ton of disco hits in the 1970s, including “That’s the Way (I Like It)”, “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty”, “I’m Your Boogie Man”, “Keep It Comin’ Love”, “Give It Up”, “Please Don’t Go”, and “Get Down Tonight”. By 1980 and the onset of new wave and other musical styles, KC & co had run their course, and attempts to modify their sound proved fruitless. But you can still hear the classics all over movies from (and about) the era – and at the Samala Showroom, where namesake Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey still delivers the disco inductions. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $35-$55 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www. chumashcasino.com •MJ

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Is Resistance Futile? – Microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights propel Resistance, the documentary film story of antibiotic resistance, starting from the mass production of the drugs 70 years ago to the rise of so-called superbugs in the 21st century. Sponsored by the ongoing Superbugs program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), today’s events brings together researchers from the medical, biological, and physical sciences to delve into the mechanisms and dynamics of drug resistance. A panel discussion with Superbugs scientists and the filmmaker Michael Graziano precede the screening, with a Q&A to follow. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria Street COST: free (reservations recommended INFO: 893-6363 or www.kitp.ucsb.edu/resistance-rsvp 7 – 14 August 2014

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Real Estate

by Mark Hunt El Bosque Road – $4,925,000

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter, Sareena, a student at SBHS. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

New Listings in Montecito Union School District

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here is a serious divide in the Montecito Real Estate market right now. As many who live and work in the area know, Montecito is basically broken up into real estate referred areas based on school districts.

There are the Montecito Union School District and the Cold Spring School District. There are also homes in the Montecito 93108 ZIP code that are in the Cleveland School District (much of West Montecito) and other homes that are in the Summerland-Carpinteria School District (much of East Montecito).

While recent activity has been brisk in the Montecito Union School District, with numerous homes selling this past week in their first days on the market (and homes selling off-market to private buyers), many well-priced and great homes for sale in other areas are having trouble finding buyers. Some would say it’s the school districts themselves that are the draw, but I am feeling that it is also the fact that buyers are drawn to being close to town… town meaning either the upper or lower villages of Montecito.

Meanwhile, in the outlying areas of East and West Montecito, things have been slower to move. You decide why, but in the end it is creating two situations that I see every day: Those looking for a good bargain close to town are priced out of purchases, or simply miss the boat as new listings can sell same day or in the first week.

Homes for sale in East and West Montecito are not moving as quickly and are, in fact, well-priced in many cases, offering buyers great opportunities if they are willing to drive a few minutes to get to stores and shops.

It seems the price of walking to dinner or to get a cup of coffee is going up considerably.

There are a few new listings in Montecito this past week or so that I really like, all are in the Montecito Union School District, and all offer either close proximity to a beach or upper or lower villages. My advice: if you are looking for a substantial home close to town, get them while they are hot.

Santa Rosa Lane – $3,775,000

This home is fresh on the market and offers five bedrooms and five bathrooms all on one level. This Hedgerow home is on one acre and includes a pool, outdoor barbecue, and close proximity to Montecito Union School, Miramar Beach, and rests just a few long blocks to either the upper or lower villages. Spacious rooms in this lovely home all flow to a garden setting. Other features in this new listing include an open kitchen-family room, den-library, and play attic. Expansive outdoor entertainment spaces include specimen trees, cut stone garden walls, organic vegetable garden, and three-car garage.

This Spanish-style hacienda home with classic presidio floor plan is located just a few doors down from San Ysidro Ranch and the lovely Casa De Maria compound. Features include four bedrooms plus a den, with three suites on the main level, master bedroom upstairs with balcony and mountain views. There is a private, separate two-level guest-pool house with fireplace and full bath on each level, overlooking the pool, pergola, and gardens.

East Valley Road – $6,395,000

This French-style estate is hidden on a private lane near the upper village. Never before on the market and designed by celebrity architect Robert Shachtman, this elegant villa sits on 1.49 acres boasting nearly 7,000 square-feet of living space with five bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and walk-in closets, an additional live-in staff wing, a family recreation room with a full wet bar, a separate office-study, a chef’s kitchen complete with Thermador professional appliances and butler’s (walk-in storage) pantries, five inviting stone masonry fireplaces, a private well to service the landscaping, a finished third-floor attic, and more. The home has been featured in Romantic Homes magazine, and has been used as a location for countless films, movies, commercials, fashion, and photo shoots.

East Mountain Drive – $7,950,000

Set on a knoll at the top of Montecito’s golden quadrangle with dramatic ocean and island views, this stunning home was designed by Paul Gray of Warner & Gray, with landscaping

by Isabelle Greene, both nationally known. The immaculate home features three bedrooms and three baths, plus a two-room guest quarters. Fabulous ocean views, huge windows, and high ceilings are hard to resist. The open floor plan and large entertaining decks take advantage of the sunny Santa Barbara climate.

Main level has the kitchen, dining, living, and master bedroom. An elevator and stairs go to the lower level with two bedrooms, office, wine room, and media/-family room. Off the kitchen upstairs over the garage is a two-room apartment with kitchenette and a private deck. Additional “green” features include solar hot water and electrical, and an internationally recognized drought-tolerant garden with plants requiring little or no watering and very little maintenance (as advertised).

For more information on these properties or to find another, please contact your realtor, or if you are not working with someone, please feel free to call, text, or email me directly: Mark (805) 698-2174 or Mark@villagesite.com. For more best buy listings, see my website www.MontecitoBestBuys.com.

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SUNDAY AUGUST 10

If you have a 93108 open house scheduled, please send us your free directory listing to realestate@montecitojournal.net

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Tim Dahl Joseph Boudre Tim Dahl Tim Dahl Amie & Kara Strickland Barbara Neary Michelle Cook Bill Vaughan Bill Vaughan Brian King Daniela Johnson Wilson Quarre John Holland Sheela Hunt Brooke Ebner Andrew Petlow Sina Omidi Paul Hurst

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ITEMS FOR SALE Vintage clothing, shoes, accessories.

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ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods. I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (upcycling) at its best! Thanks so much! Evelyn email me at pods.nespresso@gmail.com http://pods-nespresso.com/

HEALTH SERVICES Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle.

Individual/group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available.

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podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases.

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Eating Disorder Therapy Get Help now for Bulimia, Anorexia, and Disordered Eating.

For information call 1 800 560 8518.

Adolescent & Adult Programs La Ventana Treatment Programs Santa Barbara 601 E. Arrellaga # 101, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Dr. Jacques Charles Aesthetics & Wellness

Not a Quitter?

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Everyone has a story. If you would like to preserve your past, pass along your hopes and dreams, and provide inspiration for younger generations, allow me to attend while you reminisce. Together we will create a written account that will become a cherished legacy for your family.

Lisa O’Reilly, Personal Historian, 684-6514 FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR • 453-2067

TUTORING SERVICES PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif. Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now accepting enthusiastic children and/or adults. Call us at 684-4626.

In-home piano instruction. Rebekah (805) 453-9703.

BA, MA Music graduate MTAC recitals.

COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away.

Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott.

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Experienced CAREGIVER available. Light housekeeping, gardening, cooking, errands & personal care. Please call 452-5593 Skilled professional caregiver/companion available now. Live in/out. Excellent refs.

Josie 805 886-8517 or email josie.eulin@gmail.com

SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs,

$8 minimum

House & Pet Service. Responsible.

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Promoting FirstRate Health & Wellness!

Chiropractic Care/Massage/ Aesthetics & Skin care/ Electrolysis/ Nutritional & Lifestyle Counseling. House calls and late hours available.

(805) 965-6992 Website: DrJacquesCharles.com

HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES

Interested in purchasing a really nice home in the area but aren’t a millionaire? Same here. One possible solution is to pool your resources with one or more investors. For more info, contact me at jw@WelshFoundation.org

POSITION WANTED Property-Care Needs? Do you need a caretaker or property manager? Expert Land Steward is avail now. View résumé at http://landcare.ojaidigital.net

THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market! Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale Service Efficient-30yrs experience.

Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

REAL ESTATE SERVICES Nancy Hussey Realtor ® “Year In Year Out... Quietly, Persistently, Confidentially, Closing More Transactions Than Over 1,000 Other SB Realtors!”

805-4523052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#01383773 www.NancyHussey.com MONTECITO REAL ESTATE FOR SALE www.montecitohouses.info 60 yrs. exp.

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Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night.

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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY RainMan Voted

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Termite Inspection 24hr turn around upon request.

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GARDENING/LANDSCAPING GARDEN HEALER/MAINTENANCE, ALSO ESTATE RESTORATION. STEVE BRAMBACH 805 722-7429

Perdido St., SB CA 93101; adrp@verizon.net. A 501C3 Charity.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

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Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center employs the power of the horse to enhance the capabilities of children and adults with special needs in Santa Barbara. Join our volunteer team and make a difference in someone’s life.

To lean more, visit www.heartsriding.org 964-1519.

Help restore Afghanistan’s technical infrastructure by building health care clinics and training orphans to work in them.

WWW.ADRPINC.org website, or call Dr. Rolfe at 805-963-2329. Local Hero Award 2013 Independent. ADRP, 31 E. Canon

Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity share the history of President Reagan and his “Western White

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For more information visit www. usmilitaryhonors.org, email carlvwade@gmail.com, or call 805-667-7909.”

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