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SB’s Kerri Murray, ShelterBoxUSA president, meets Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall, p. 6

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 39 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 45

’ROUND & ’ROUND WE GO If the County gets its way, Montecito will get TWO more roundabouts at highly traveled intersections in the coming years (story on p. 12)

Director’s Chair

James Darrah creates his own Italian world, circa 1900, to stage MAW’s Elixir of Love at the Granada, p. 24

Making History

Santa Barbara’s Public Library celebrates 100 years, thanks to Clarence Black and the Faulkner sisters, p. 32

Real Estate

Mark Hunt spotlights four beach properties, all in MUS District, priced from $1.295 to $4.050 million, p. 44

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

15th Annual Taste of the Vine & Auction

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On The Water Front

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard explores the depths of strategies for drought-proofing the South County water system; he focuses on recycled wastewater, groundwater, desalinated seawater, and sends a message to county supervisors Lawsuit against Matthew Kenney; SB Polo Club hat contest; royal treatment; Rob Lowe with sharks; Glow in the Park; Blondes vs. Brunettes; Richard Mineards birthday; MAW dedication to Robert Weinman; Ellen DeGeneres; and King Juan Carlos

August 26, 2017 2:00-3:00 p.m. VIP Reception 3:00-6:00 p.m. General admission Ocean View Event at QAD, Inc.

Journal readers who put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard include Larry Lambert, Bill Hurst, Harry Wilmott, Mike Stoker, Jeff Ross, Penelope Bianchi, Dan Seibert, and Jean von Wittenburg

10 This Week

MBAR meeting; Knit ‘N Needle; The New Yorker; Spanish group; artists sampler; picnic concert; treasure hunt; yoga on pier; author Steven Fuentes; MA Land Use; tech class at library; poetry club; VIEWPOINT at 10 West; Spanish speakers; prayer retreat; tea dance; Qi Gong class; art workshops; art classes; brain fitness; Story Time; Italian talk; and Carpinteria arts

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Costa Rica Tuscany Culinary Getaway Escape

Special Guest Charles Mattocks

Tide Guide

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

12 Village Beat

Celebrity Chef, Television Host

More on Montecito roundabouts; MERRAG news; Montecito Brow Studio; the Larsens’ Magic Castle Cabaret; and UCSB library archive

Special Performance Jackson Gillies 2016 Winner Santa Barbara Teen Star

14 Seen Around Town Dance to the music of DJ Zeke Silent and Live Auction Tickets on sale now! www.sansum.org/events/event-registration 805.682.7640 ext. 248

A benefit for William Sansum Diabetes Center

Lynda Millner chronicles the SB Maritime Museum’s “Shipmates”; Kardboard Kayak Race; and SB Historical Museum’s “In the Saddle”

17 Ernie’s World

Holiday daze: patriotic Ernie Witham has some brews while singin’ the blues at Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon

20 Our Town

In the second of a four-part series about candidates for Santa Barbara mayor, Joanne Calitri gets to know city councilwoman Cathy Murillo

21 Wildlife File

Kaitlin Lloyd of Wildlife Care Network gets in touch with nature – expounding on the onset of domoic acid in waters

22 Spirituality Matters

Self-love muse Yemaya Renuka Duby; Wendy Cooper’s Intuitive Life Meetup; Vocal Healing Journey at SBCC; Noell Grace workshop; poetry; and meditation

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Zero gravity: Ashleigh Brilliant is turned on and off again by the concept of the “Digital Revolution” while he dissects the variations of “on” and “off”

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32 The Way It Was

Hattie Beresford looks back at history in the making, chiefly at SB Public Library and Faulkner Memorial Gallery, civic promoter Clarence Black, and the Faulkner family

35 Fitness Front

It’s the wheel deal for Karen Robiscoe, who joins Velo Pro Cyclery’s Brian Szumski in discussing SB’s bike paths, lanes, and off-road trails

38 Legal Advertising 39 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

PCPA presents Newsies; museum wants you to “Get out of Town”; Fools in Carpinteria; Metalachi at Chumash; classic cars in the grove; Lobero hosts Sings Like Hell; SB Centre for Aerial Dance; Robinson Eikenberry tribute; and Fiesta

44 Real Estate

Mark Hunt surveys the housing scene and sets his sights on beach properties from Plaza De Sonadores to Seaview to Olive Mill to Miramar Beach

45 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising

Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales

47 Local Business Directory

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27 July – 3 August 2017

ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Drought-Proofing the Water System

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he drought may be temporarily in remission, but don’t expect federal or state help to bail out the State Water Project (SWP) before the next water crisis. That well is bone dry. The problem for the South Coast of Santa Barbara County water providers is that the majority of our water portfolio comes from SWP, including surface reservoirs such as Lake Cachuma, Jameson, and Gibraltar, and imported water, delivered by an increasingly expensive and unreliable SWP. What is needed to drought-proof the South Coast of Santa Barbara County is inspired leadership among our County supervisors to convince 11 water and sanitary districts on the South Coast to wean themselves off rain-dependent SWP by collectively developing and funding three new drought-proof water strategies: 1. Tap the potential of purified recycled wastewater on a regional basis.

2. Develop a regional groundwater banking plan, south of Lake Cachuma.

3. Produce and regionally share less expensive desalinated sea water.

Untapped Potential of Recycled Wastewater Every sanitary and water district on the South Coast is scrambling to solve its own recycled water problem. There is no coordination, and no appetite for shared regional facilities, which would provide the least expensive, most effective, plan for recycled water use. Instead, each district is clawing for its share of state funding.

A promising model has been proposed by the Carpinteria Sanitary District to inject some 1,100 AFY of treated wastewater, now being dumped into the Pacific Ocean, into the Carpinteria groundwater basins in need of recharge. Filtered through layers of rocks and sand, over four to six months, that wastewater can be safely retrieved and treated as potable water in times of drought for both agricultural and urban use.

According to Hillary Hauser, executive director of Heal the Ocean, California’s 43 Pacific Coast wastewater treatment facilities discharge approximately one billion gallons a day (1.3 million acre feet per year) of treated wastewater directly into the ocean. An added 312 million gallons per day is currently recycled for beneficial use.

From Goleta to Carpinteria, 11 million precious gallons per day of treated South Coast wastewater (more than 12,000 AFY – enough water to serve Montecito for three years) is still being dumped into the Pacific. This is environmentally irresponsible, and frankly, quite stupid considering today’s advanced recycling technology. In San Jose and Orange County, recycled water treated to the “gold standard” can be used as direct potable drinking water, once state laws catch up with advanced technology.

All five South Coast wastewater treatment facilities need to work together on the best and most efficient future use of wastewater to create a single unified plan for possible state and federal wastewater grants or loans. Decisions need to be made as to a common level of treatment (tertiary or direct potable, as used in Orange County and San Jose); the cost of interconnecting pipes and pumps for shared use and sale of excess wastewater between districts; and potential uses of recycled water (groundwater recharge, irrigation, water banking, et cetera).

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To reduce cost and increase reliability, South Coast water agencies need to develop shared, locally controlled, underground water storage banks south of Lake Cachuma to bank excess purchased state and other supplementary water, recycled wastewater, desalinated water and storm water. It is not unreasonable

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

A Few Questions (and Answers)

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Consistently ranked in the top 1 2% of agents nationwide, the Calcagno & Hamilton team has closed over $1 billion in local real estate markets.

n a recent issue (“The Divided United States of America,” MJ #23/28), Bob Hazard wrote that President Trump has “championed lower tax rates,” and that “all Americans share in common” a need for good roads.

A few questions: What specifically has President Trump done to lower tax rates? Did I miss the introduction of the bill to lower the business tax rate, which is currently the highest in the industrialized world? Did I miss the introduction of the bill to repatriate the roughly $2 trillion that American businesses are holding overseas because of this tax rate?

And if we need good roads, why did Mr. Hazard oppose the County Ballot Measure in 2014 that called for the County to maintain roads at their current level of condition? Is Mr. Hazard satisfied with the current condition of the county roads? How does he compare the condition of the roads today versus three years ago? Is Mr. Hazard pleased that he helped defeat

this ballot measure?

Larry Lambert Montecito (Mr. Hazard replies: The intent of my editorial was not to promote the Trump agenda, nor to widen the gap between “deplorables” and “snowflakes” in Montecito. My editorial was intended to reduce the political divide paralyzing this country. Two points: 1) The president has “championed,” but not yet enacted, tax reforms such as lowering business taxes from the highest in the world to the lowest in the world.

He believes reductions from 35% to 15% will help grow the economy, stimulate job creation, and return corporate profits from overseas. He also favors reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three, plus giving greater tax relief to middle-class working families.

2) I am puzzled by your allegation that I opposed the County Ballot Measure in 2014 to fund local road maintenance.

Do you have me mixed up with someone

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This Week in and around Montecito

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 Art Exhibit Nine artists show their dynamic perspective at this exhibit, called VIEWPOINT, at 10 West Gallery. Show is up through August 28; tonight is the reception.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Gallery, 10 West Anapamu Cost: free Info: 770-7711

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, JULY 27 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: alterations at All Saints, a sports court on Santa Rosa, a new home on Woodley Road, and additions on Ayala Lane, Summit Road, and Ramona Lane.

When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road FRIDAY, JULY 28 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The gathering is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

2nd Annual Funk Zone Studio Artists Sampler An exhibit featuring 20 artists with working studios and/or galleries in the Funk Zone.

Runs through September 10.

When: Reception today, 4 to 7 pm.

Interview with the artists hosted by Funk Zone Podcast’s Ted Mills and artist Brad Nack at 5 pm.

Where: MichaelKate Interiors and Art Gallery, 132 Santa Barbara Street Cost: free Info: 963-1411 Picnic Concert Enjoy your picnic in the beautiful atmosphere of the Academy’s Miraflores campus and then enter Hahn Hall for a magical evening as Academy Fellows share their talents in solos, duets, trios, quartets, and more. The opening performance will feature String Quartets from the Academy’s String Quartet Seminar.

Garden picnic tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Personalized reservation signs may be placed on picnic tables beginning at 10 am the day of the concert.

When: 5:30 pm for picnic, 7:30 pm concert Where: Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road Cost: $35 (ages 7-17 free admission) Info: www.musicacademy.org/picnic SATURDAY, JULY 29 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently

used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 965 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2

Free Tech Class at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful Book Signing at Tecolote Local author Steven Fuentes will sign functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. The Montecito his book, Saint Riviera. branch of the Santa Barbara Public When: 2 to 4 pm Library System offers a free workshop Where: Tecolote Book Shop, demonstrating various tips and tricks to 1470 E. Valley Road help users get more from their Apple Info: 969-4977 mobile devices. Everyone is invited to bring his or her iPad and iPhone along SUNDAY, JULY 30 with any questions. Users of all levels are welcome.

Yoga on the Pier When: 1 pm Join for a donation-based class Where: 1469 East Valley Road benefitting the Blondes vs. Brunettes Info: (805) 969-5063 game for the Alzheimer’s Association.

This great organization aims to spread THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 awareness and fund-raise for the debilitating disease. All of the proceeds Knit ‘N Needle from this class will go directly to the Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, organization. Please come with ample embroidery, and more) drop-in and time to park, bring a mat, and your meet-up for all ages at Montecito friends.

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When: 9 am When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 219 Stearns Wharf Where: 1469 East Valley Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5063 TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work Montecito Association Land Use of a different poet; poets selected by Committee group consensus and interest. New The Montecito Association members welcome. Today: Enid is committed to preserving, Osborn, poet laureate of Santa protecting, and enhancing the Barbara. semi-rural residential character When: 3:30 to 5 pm of Montecito; today the Land Where: Montecito Library, Use Committee meets to discuss 1469 East Valley Road upcoming projects.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road

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Self-Integration for Changing Times: An Exploration of Writing, Meditation, and Movement Living in a period of rapid change may make us feel that we are going over our own speed limit, leaving ourselves behind. Come find the still point within to settle the mind and allow the wisdom of your deeper spirit to spontaneously heal and integrate your overwrought system.

Combining meditation with writing and simple Qi Gong movement will help your imagination unearth and blend deeper dimensions of both your story and yourself. Writing prompts will focus on memoir and personal experience. Beginning and seasoned writers and meditators are welcome. Bring a notebook or laptop.

Kimberley Snow, Ph.D., and Jinny Webber, Ph.D., will co-lead. Kimberley is an author, leads dharma talks, and teaches meditation. Jinny is a novelist, playwright, and lecturer in literature.

Both lead writing groups.

When: tonight at 7:30 through Sunday 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: commuter, $395; resident, $295 Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Let by sister Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music. Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center.

No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

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When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free ONGOING Qi Gong Class with Yemaya Renuka Promotes organ and joint health, reduces stress and anxiety, aligns you with your purpose. Meet on Butterfly Beach, Western staircase side of Biltmore.

When: Tuesdays, 9 to 10 am, through August 29 Cost: donation Info: www.yourbelovedhealth.com MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: 969-0859 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

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Village Beat

Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

More Roundabout News

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t a packed Montecito Association Transportation Committee meeting on Tuesday, more than 30 members of the community came out to further discuss two roundabouts that are slated to be built in Montecito prior to the widening of the 101 freeway. The meeting mainly focused on the roundabout scheduled for San Ysidro Road and North Jameson, as many of the attendees were Hedgerow residents.

Public Works transportation deputy director Chris Sneddon told the crowd that the intersection at San Ysidro and North Jameson falls short on meeting the level of service required by the County. “Something needs to be done,” Sneddon said, adding that the project is in its infancy, with only preliminary studies yet conducted.

The current analysis, performed by Kittelson & Associates, outlines a number of alternatives for both sides of the San Ysidro Road (SYR) bridge, including roundabouts at both inter-

sections of San Ysidro (one near the Miramar and one at North Jameson), as well as alternatives showing various combinations of all-way stops, traffic lights, and roundabouts. “The preferred solution to keep traffic moving in that area is a roundabout on the north side, with stop controls at the south,” Sneddon explained.

As reported in last week’s edition (MJ #23/29) the SYR interchange, along with a roundabout at Olive Mill and Coast Village Road, and improvements to the Cabrillo Boulevard underpass, are being looked at as parallel projects to the 101 HOV project.

“We need to address the local roads that will be directly impacted by the freeway construction and widening,” Sneddon said. “If the wider freeway gets you to your off-ramp ten minutes faster, but then you are stuck for ten minutes getting through the intersection, that is a problem.”

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The roundabout being studied at San Ysidro Road and North Jameson was the topic of conversation at another neighborhood meeting earlier this week

lic meetings in the last three years, but members of the audience insisted they had not heard about the San Ysidro Road project until recently. “We are talking about this like it’s a done deal, and we are only just hearing about it!” said a Hedgerow resident. In March, SBCAG approved $850,000 in funding to move both roundabout plans forward, which Sneddon said would pay for more environmental and scoping studies, with the intention of having an environmental document released next summer.

Sneddon was quick to point out that Caltrans, not the County, will be the final decision-maker on the projects, as there is a good possibility that they will be funded by Caltrans. “There is no local funding for these projects,” said Transportation Committee member Ron Pulice, who said having Caltrans fund them as part of the highway widening is a way to improve traffic in our area. “What we are trying to do now is to make the traffic northbound doable during construction. There will be four years of immense chaos, and these roundabouts will help make that better,” he said, adding that the endeavors have been on the radar of the Transportation Committee for years.

The majority of the meeting attendees were not favorable to a roundabout at San Ysidro, saying it was out of character with Montecito’s bucolic community. One resident pointed out that the increase in traffic is likely contributed to the closing of the southbound freeway entrance at Hot Springs and Cabrillo Boulevard, with people using Coast Village Road and North Jameson to get on the freeway.

“Why are you looking at the traffic created by the closed entrance when you’re going to rebuild the entrance as part of the HOV lane project anyway?” she asked. Sneddon’s response: “We think these parallel projects should be done regardless, and before the 101 project is built.” A roundabout at Olive Mill and Coast Village Road

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seemed less contentious, with many in agreement that there is little choice for the awkward five-way intersection.

Darcel Elliott, the chief of staff for First District supervisor Das Williams, who was unable to attend the meeting, said that Williams believes the roundabouts are necessary and will work hard to garner public input on both design and lighting elements.

Sneddon added that more technical studies to determine if the SYR roundabout will fit within County and Caltrans right-of-way are necessary, and that aesthetics and design elements are even further down the line. “Those are all opportunities for residents to weigh in,” he said. He also said a roundabout at San Ysidro would be both pedestrian and bicycle friendly, similar in style to the newly built roundabout at Las Positas and Cliff Drive.

Other options for the intersection, including a traffic signal, would require a larger footprint and more concrete, making the area look more urban than a roundabout, Sneddon said. “A traffic signal would also increase delays,” he said. One potential change to make now: adding two stop signs on the south side of the San Ysidro bridge, to prevent cars that are attempting to turn left from the freeway exits from causing backup on the freeway. Sneddon said the County is looking into that possibility.

One item the County is not considering: the short northbound freeway entrance at San Ysidro and Posilipo Lane. “Caltrans is reviewing that as part of their Highway 101 rehab project,” Sneddon said. “They are looking into lengthening the onramp and merging lane as part of the widening project.”

“If you think that traffic is going to get better if we don’t build this, you’re wrong. With the construction of the freeway expansion, people are not going to wait the thirty minutes

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SBMM fan Pat Hinds, executive director Greg Gorga, and board president Gail Anikouchine at the all-hands reception

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Shipmates Exhibition The four SBMM artists: museum store assistant Taylor Moon, store manager Lydia Kaestner, marketing director Dennis Schuett, and deputy director and curator Emily Falke at the opening reception

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Taylor tells us, “That wake is the wave that spreads behind the boat

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Dennis uses computer graphics and imagined a mix of California, The Beach Boys and a remote location guided by a light used by mariners for 160 years. That would be Point Conception, which became the western gateway into the channel, a spiritual place for the Chumash, a home for keepers of a lighthouse lens, and a surfing mecca.

Emily had intriguing, small palette knife paintings or 12 “postage stamp” impression paintings that represent the vast and majestic maritime adventures experienced in the Santa Barbara Channel.

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There were many families participating, and up to four could help to build. They usually choose the smallest member to be in the race since weight is a factor. My neighbors, the Williams family, have been in the race seven times. They say, “We’ve learned a lot – not to make too many cuts, duct tape doesn’t always stick, and to do a lot of folding.” However, with all their expertise, they only came in third in their category – one of three depending on age. They have

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Karma marketing director Laura Lachman, Richard and Annette Caleel, and Robin and Robert Fell at the Karma lunch (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)

Her Royal Highness cutting a replica ShelterBox birthday cake to celebrate her 70th. She used the actual saw in ShelterBox tool kit.

Cornwall, a county dear to my heart, given I started my journalism career there on the weekly newspaper, The Falmouth Packet, named after the ships that plied their trade between Europe and the West Indies.

Kerri, who I first encountered when she was an executive with Direct Relief, met Camilla, while her husband was attending another engagement, in the official greeting line of five charity executives at the new headquarters and visitor center, which showcases ShelterBox’s humanitarian aid around the globe.

“Camilla was really lovely and had obviously done her homework,” Kerri tells me from England. “She teased me that I must be jet-lagged.

“She promised to come visit Santa Barbara with her husband at my invitation.

“She was so passionate in thanking the volunteers and staff for their service. She was in awe at the ways we are advancing shelter-based aid throughout the world from Syria to Cameroon. She stayed for more than an hour, officially unveiled the center, and cut a 70th birthday cake with a saw, which is actually used in our kits.

“Her personal secretary told me ShelterBox is one of her favorite charities she is involved with, and she enjoys raising awareness for it.”

Kerri said she was somewhat nervous about the encounter but had

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“We had security briefings starting weeks before and the official bomb-sniffing dog, Ollie, was with us all day before the visit. It was very special occasion for all of us.”

Raw Deal for Kenney?

As noted vegan chef Matthew Kenney prepares to open his new hotly awaited Coast Village Road eatery, Oliver’s, in partnership with cell phone tycoon Craig McCaw, a $1.4 million lawsuit for unpaid rent and reneging on an agreement not to open a competing eatery has been filed against him in Miami, Florida, I learn.

Kenney’s Miami landlord, Karla Dascal, took control of his restaurant, Plant Food and Wine, on July 1, but retained most of the staff. Her lawsuit involves payment on a five-year lease and $98,124 in sales taxes, plus attorneys fees and other expenses.

Yasmeen Lee, Kenney’s marketing manager, says: “Matthew has been very candid about the challenges he and the company have faced,” referring to his 2015 memoir Cooked Raw. “The brand continues to grow in a positive direction.”

Hopefully his new Montecito eatery, which is branded after McCaw’s middle name, like the Charles Dickens’s character Oliver Twist, will have customers asking for more!

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SB Polo first family Gloria and ambassador Glen Holden; “Jeep” Holden with honoree Elizabeth Skene, 103 (photo by Priscilla)

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Curtis Skene, son of the late top polo player Robert Skene, Charles Ward, and Karma VP Joost de Vries (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)

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27 July – 3 August 2017

Ernie’s World

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’m goin’ up the country, baby don’t you wanna go? I’m goin’ to some place where I’ve never been before…”

A guy with long gray hair and a beard I really wanted to prune yelled into my ear: “Man, it’s just like Woodstock all over again.”

“Were you there?” I yelled back.

He hesitated. “I think so.”

We were standing in front of the First Tech Federal Credit Union Blues Stage, one of four stages supplying endless blues at Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon, on the Fourth of July. Canned Heat was playing. The scent of marijuana wafted over us. We both took a sniff break, then shaggy beard said: “Woodstock was in New York, right?”

I wiggled my way closer to the stage.

I discovered the source of the cannabis cloud. It wasn’t a big fat Cheech and Chong-type joint, instead it was a “dry herb Matrix Vaporizer” that looked like something they used on Star Trek to subdue Vulcans. Probably cost more than pound of weed at Woodstock. Not

that I was there. I don’t think…

This was the final day of a five-day festival, and after 38 years and thousands of performances Canned Heat could still get people dancing and flashing peace signs, though a few folks, who have not gone deaf yet, sported ear plugs.

“I’m goin’ where the water tastes like wine. We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time…”

This being Portland, I wasn’t drinking wine, I was drinking a microbrew called Fresh Squeezed IPA that sported a pineapple on the label. Portland is famous for its microbrews and we tried them all (not possible).

We had started the day at the Portland Japanese Garden. Pat, me, my daughter Stacey, who was visiting from New Hampshire, and my cousin Janet, who has lived there for decades but had never been to the Japanese garden. Nor had she been to the blues festival. Or even downtown.

“I’ve been downtown plenty of times!” Janet said. That’s when her

iPhone chirped telling us how to get there.

The Japanese ambassador once proclaimed the Portland Japanese Garden “the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden in the world outside of Japan,” which gave the orchard some great copy for their brochures.

Portland is famous for its microbrews and we tried them all And it was amazing. There are gazillions of red Japanese Maples in Portland. In parks, in front of banks, in people’s front yards. Most people let them go shaggy like my friend at the blues festival. I so wanted to sneak out at night and trim a few, but I knew I couldn’t afford to get caught. We got a parking ticket at one point that cost $95. We also saw a sign that said the fine for littering was $6,450! Who knows what unlawful pruning costs?

In the Japanese garden, the maples looked like leafy igloos on one side but were pruned on the other side, so it was like looking into a tree cave. The sunlight coming through was almost hallucinogenic – to the

best of my recollection. With ponds, Zen gardens, beautiful meandering paths and a stunning view of Mount Hood, which can only be seen from, well, almost anywhere, it was a quietly spiritual experience.

Waterfront Park was a loud spiritual experience. “…I’m gonna leave this city, got to get away. All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can’t stay...”

Canned Heat ended their performance, and another band started playing almost immediately at the Brewery Stage, several hundred yards away. I wandered back to the shady spot where Pat, Janet, and Stacey were sitting. Janet and Stacey had matching face paintings. Stacey, who drinks mainly Michelob Ultra in New Hampshire, had a cup in each hand. “I love microbrewwerrrriees,” she said.

Janet had an ice cream in one hand and a tri-tip sandwich in the other. Pat smiled, pulled out her earplugs and said: “This is so cool!”

The music stopped at 10 pm and they set off fireworks from a barge in the Willamette River. “What are we doing tomorrow, cuz?” Janet asked.

“How about going to the Portland Art Museum?” Pat suggested.

“Great! I’ve never been.”

“Can we go to a microbrewwerrrriee for lunch?” Stacey asked.

The ‘60s were far out, but Portland is groovy to the max right now. •MJ

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) SBHM guest curators of the saddle show Tom Peterson and Bill Reynolds giving a members lecture

“On your mark, get set, go!”

won several times in the past, prizes and trophies.

Then it was race time – the first two were for youngsters called family fun and third was a “professional paddlers” heat. The entrants run into the water, get in their kayaks, and paddle out to a buoy and back again. That is, if the boat doesn’t get too soggy and sink. Of course, a good name helps such as Corrugator, Abandon Ship, or Will it Float?

Ironically, the Coast Guard didn’t fare too well when their boat came apart and sank. Greg reminded the crowd that it wasn’t a reflection of their duty to our country.

Thanks go to Hiroko Benko, who owns the Condor Express for being a sponsor. It’s one of her favorite things. As she says, “It’s so fun.”

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Blazing Saddles

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The guest curators Tom Peterson (who runs the Carriage & Western Art Museum) and Bill Reynolds (author, publisher, and leading authority on

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One view of the gallery decked out with saddles and parade clothes

the American West) were recently on hand to give us a lecture about this show. They assured us there are even more people at work today making bits and saddles than in the olden days.

On display were silver-trimmed saddles, one that cost about $400 when it was made and now would sell for $250,000. The value isn’t so much the silver as the workmanship and labor.

The saddles all show the evolution of the Western saddle. Bits, boots, and hats from the museum’s collection are being exhibited for the first time.

Susan Jensen, who also helped with the exhibition interviewed local stockmen, horse aficionados, and craftsmen. Also shown is some authentic

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attire of various periods, which influenced Western style from the ranch to Old Spanish Days parades.

Generous sponsors making all this possible are: The Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Los Adobes de los Rancheros, John C. Woodward, Heloise and Alexander Power, Carolyn and Leo Acquistapace, and Glen H. Mitchel, Jr. The Western exhibit will be here until September. The museum is located at 136 East De la Guerra. There’s also the recently opened permanent Edward Borein exhibition to see, and the Fernald Mansion is once again open for tours if you like to view restored Victorian mansions. Call (805) 966-1601 for information. •MJ

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The Montecito Association wishes to thank everyone who made our 2017 Village Fourth Parade and Celebration a huge success!

Event Committee: Trish Davis, Co-chair Mindy Denson, Co-chair Kathi King, Co-Chair David Breed Helen Buckley Jane Burkemper Bill Davis Chris Denson Michael Edwards Cindy Feinberg Dana Hansen Houghton Hyatt Alicia Lahti Dana Newquist Dick Nordlund Diane Pannkuk, honorary Connor Rehage Christy Venable John Venable Jean von Wittenburg Generous Donors: Charles Arnold The Babich Family Foundation Laura Bridley M.A. & R. J. Brillhart Hope Bryant Janet Cheetham Peter Clark The Coeta & Donald Barker Foundation Bridget Colleary Maj. Gen. Philip J. Conley, Jr. Anita & Daniel Eidelson Donald & Carole Eversoll Charles W. Fairbanks The Feinberg Family Dorothy & John Gardner Nicola & Cliff Ghersen Anne & John Gilchrist Linda & Fred Gluck

Vicky & Robert Hazard Josephine & Robin Hodge Jerome T. Kay Joanne B. Williamson Kelly Hope S. Kelly Connie & Richard Kennelly Jane & Tom Kern Kathi & Jeff King Elizabeth Kline Dr. Barbara Mathews Montecito Community Foundation Peter L. Morris Charlene Nagel Richard Nordlund Jean M. Perloff Susan Petrovich Karen & J. Carl Peus, M.D. Alan R. Porter Conner Rehage Susan & Chris Robles Regina & Richard Roney Michele Saltoun Robertson Short Sharol & Wayne Siemens Nina Terzian Judy & Dick Thielscher Lynn C. Carrie Towbes Anne Smith Towbes Susanne & Peter van Duinwyk Marlene & Robert Veloz Jean & Davis von Wittenburg Patty & Nick Weber Event Volunteers: Frank Abatemarco Boy Scout Troop #33 Patrick Braid Laura Bridley Bill Dalziel Mundo Diaz Arielle Feinberg

Jason Feinberg Friendship Center volunteers Cliff Ghersen Martha Gray Joanie Green Victoria Greene Isabel Kylie Linda Johnston Jerome T. Kay MERRAG Doug Norton Our Lady of Mt. Carmel volunteers Ann Picciuto Gehrke Chris Robles Susan Robles Geoff Rue Mary Sheldon Clare Swan Hannah Theurer Charles Ward Business Partners: Charlie Dorado and his hard working clean-up crew Chaz Sportswear Pierre LaFond, Montecito Wine Bistro Luna’s Jumps Jessica Miller, Feast & Fest MarBorg Montecito Journal Pacific Beverage Company Pacific Tree Santa Barbara County Parks Santa Barbara Ice Santa Barbara Winery Spark Creative Events The Tent Merchant Bryan Titus Trio Union Bank Valley Improvement Company

My most sincere gratitude to everyone who participated in, yet another, terrific Village 4th of July Parade and Celebration. Please consider joining the Montecito Association to support future events and preserve – Charlene Nagel and protect our semirural character of Montecito.”

President of the Montecito Association We invite you to stay connected to the Montecito Association, find us at www.montecitoassociation.org.

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Our Town

Santa Barbara City councilwoman Cathy Murillo, candidate for mayor

by Joanne A. Calitri

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our candidates have filed their due diligence campaign finance statements to run for the City of Santa Barbara’s 50th mayor: SB councilman Frank Hotchkiss, SB City councilwoman Cathy Murillo, former SB mayor and councilman Hal Conklin, and former Deckers Brands CEO Angel Martinez. Voting this year will be done via VOTE BY MAIL forms sent to all registered voters, as voted by city council on June 6, and as it’s “an off-season election,” they opted to not use voting at the polls.

The November 7 election will be for SB mayor, three of the six city council seats, and a sales tax increase slated for the general fund. Voting is October 9 through November 7. Procedure to be on the ballot for mayor: June 30 candidates submit their campaign financial statement to the SB City Clerk. July 17 candidates request from the clerk the nomination petition forms and

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Your position or no comment on the following topics for Santa Barbara: Budget stability and economic development?

Our city has a strong tax revenue base; right now however; our sales tax has flattened out, and we’re looking at a shortfall of about $2 million this cycle and $2.8 million next cycle. But by our charter we have to have a balanced budget, so we have a balanced budget looking ahead to the two-year budget in 2017 and 2018.

So, in essence you are saying we are stable?

Yes, and in going forward the mayor of the City of SB should be focused on economic development working with large employers, small employers, the university [UCSB] where there is an entrepreneurship program and the technology management program, City College has an entrepreneurship program as well [SBCC] – the Scheinfeld Center. I serve on the Women’s Economic Ventures Community Advisory Council – that’s small-business development, and I’m a member of the Round Table of the Economic Vitality Team of SB County, which is a county-wide collaboration focusing on economic development north and south. The city does not have an economic development department, but that’s what the mayor should be doing and that’s exactly my goal.

Business in particular to bring into Santa Barbara and the increasing vacancies on State Street and outlying areas, real income-producing jobs for citizens...?

Let me start with State Street: the nature of retail is changing, and the Downtown Organization, the city, the Chamber of Commerce and the downtown commercial property owners are now focusing on that.

How will we fill those empty store-

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fronts? My expertise will be bringing housing to State Street, and I believe that our architects and housing developers will enjoy that challenge – how do they take a storefront property or the Macy’s building and change it into housing? We can do it and it’ll bring foot traffic downtown, bring shoppers downtown, and also make a dent in the issues that we have with the street people downtown because you’ll have residents living downtown. To more specifically answer your question about business, countywide we have a strong oil and gas industry right now; we need to transition to renewable energy sources. I would look to UCSB and business incubators to develop those clean and green jobs for SB. As a city representative, I can only help facilitate that and make sure the city has reasonable regulations and business license fees, and to create the environment where businesses can thrive.

Data, technology, and AI [artificial intelligence]?

I have to admit this is not my area of expertise. I do trust that in terms of city operations that our staff are using the best technology for instance to run our de-sal plant, our sewage treatment plant, all of our water systems, the airport, of course – so trust them. In the context of job creation, again I would look to the university and other entities that know how to create jobs in those areas.

Infrastructure now and in five years?

The city of SB is addressing its infrastructure challenges by putting forth a sales-tax increase measure on the November ballot, that is a 1-cent increase... and it’ll go to paying for specifically to road maintenance and repair and building a new police headquarters, and other infrastruc-

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WILDLIFE FILE

Brown pelicans recovering at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network center

by Kaitlin Lloyd

Ms Lloyd is program director at the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network.

Domoic Acid Poisoning

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he beginning of 2017 has been an intense time for the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN), your local wildlife rehabilitation organization. Along with the common task of rehabbing of hundreds of baby songbirds and mammals at the organization during this time of year, the beginning of April coincided with the onset of a dramatic domoic acid (DA) occurrence in the waters of Southern California.

Domoic acid is a naturally occurring neurotoxin that is released during the springtime bloom of single-celled algae species. There is speculation as to what causes the variance in intensity of annual algal blooms responsible for DA poisoning. It is thought that seabed turbulence and the rise of nutrient-rich water create a perfect condition for Pseudo-nitzschia, the phytoplankton responsible for producing the neurotoxin. An unusually large amount of rainfall during winter months with runoff bringing excess nutrients to

the ocean could also be a contributing factor for this year’s extremely significant bloom.

Shellfish and small oceanic fish feed on the algae containing DA, which then accumulates in piscivorous marine mammals and birds that feed on these lower food-chain species. Due to the large quantities of fish and shellfish that pelagic birds consume, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network began to immediately be inundated with sick loons, grebes, terns, and murres that fell victim to the toxin from the algal bloom.

During April and May, the SBWCN took in more than 216 loons that were exhibiting neurological symptoms of DA poisoning including confusion, lethargy, seizures, head-bobbing or weaving, and foaming at the mouth.

The organization received hundreds of phone calls during this time concerning loons beaching themselves, a physical act that is only exhibited by pelagic birds if they are ill, injured, or emaciated.

On April 15, the organization took

in 47 loons on that day alone. When the SBWCN receives loons exhibiting DA traits, the first step that employees and volunteers take is to stabilize the bird. This includes intaking the animal, administering fluids, and closely observing the bird to limit the risk of illnesses such as refeeding syndrome.

After the SBWCN received hundreds of loons that had fallen victim to DA poisoning, late April brought along an increase in pelicans that were also showing symptoms of the neurotoxin. The SBWCN has rehabilitated 93 pelicans since the begin-

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ning of this year. In the entire year of 2016, only 49 pelicans were rehabilitated at the center.

In total, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network saw 344 pelicans and pelagic birds since the beginning of April and the onset of DA poisoning.

Sadly, many of the birds admitted to the center did not survive the neurotoxin. Only 126 lived long enough to be stabilized and eventually released or transferred to the International Bird Rescue in San Pedro for extended care. The last DA pelican treated at the SBWCN was successfully released on June 9.

•MJ

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

You Might Want to Check out Yemaya

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emaya Renuka Duby, who is also known as the Self-Love Muse, is a Rosen Method practitioner, nutrition and holistic health coach, yoga and dance instructor, and bodywork and massage instructor who is also the founder of Your Beloved Health. Her passion to inspire all to be fully embodied and free to express their true nature led her to create two healing centers – the first in Marin County in 1991, the second on the island of Kauai in 2001, and to travel the world offering somatic bodywork teachings, dance journeys, ritual performances, and healing retreats.

Yemaya just moved to Santa Barbara at the beginning of June, bringing 25 years of expertise in Holistic Health and Human Empowerment to our community. She weaves somatic wisdom, integrative nutrition, Vedic practices, ancient root hypnotherapy and movement, and is now fully embracing some of her longtime passions – food as medicine, plus finishing writing her first book, Loving Fierce, which she descries as an “empowerment and self-love map for women dressed as a juicy, romanced memoir.”

Yemaya is offering many of her services locally, including a 10-day Self-Love Cleanse, and “Bones of Freedom” somatic healing, but Montecito residents don’t have to travel far to get a taste of her work,

as she’s offering a donation-based Bagua-style Qi Gong class at Butterfly Beach from 9 to 10 am every Tuesday, on the sand by the stairs in front of Biltmore. Call Yemaya at (808) 6510558 or visit her website, www.your belovedhealth.com.

Callings in the Canyon

Wendy Cooper’s The Intuitive Life Meetup migrates from her Los Olivos office down to Montecito for a special event in Toro Canyon this Saturday, July 29. At “Working with the Archangels and the Highest Order of Spirit Guides”, Cooper will provide tools of how to receive guidance from angels and spirit guides – including your highest self – and how to move into the frequency of flow and love. She will also discuss energy medicine, vibrational medicine, and how vibrational frequency plays a part in manifesting desires, as well as provide tools for developing and using intuition for future practice. The event will be held outside at a private address that will be provided to those who RSVP to the Meetup.

The fee is $30. Visit www.meetup. com/The-Intuitive-Life.

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Vocal Toning for Healing

Speaking of vocal sound healing, Noell Grace – who created and co-leads the now twice-monthly SpiritSing gatherings at her Arden Light House home (and soon at Yoga Soup) – hosts one of her periodic vocal toning workshop from 3 to 5 pm this Sunday, July 30. The mid-summer sacred sound attunement explores the power of aligned group toning, as participants clarify, elevate, release, and allow the shakti current to move in, as and through you. Experience the healing bliss of the divinely aligned process activates the chakral portals

to open to receive source energy deep into the cells. To optimize the experience, wear loose, comfy clothing, and bring a water bottle to hydrate throughout the sound journey. The Arden Light House is located at 318 Arden Road. Admission is by a $20 love offering at the door. Visit www. noellgracesound.com.

Grace-ful Poetry

Mark Ruskin, whose latest book On Love’s Path ~ New Versions of Rumi, Kabir & Hafiz came out in late spring, will read selected poems at Arden Light House the following Saturday, August 5, from 3 to 5 pm. SpiritSings’s Noell Grace and Eje Lynn-Jacobs will accompany his offerings of his interpretations of the poems with music, followed by an abbreviated SpiritSings Sacred Songs of the One Heart group call-and-response singing to integrate the heart-opening words. Admission by a $10 love offering. Check next week’s issue for more on Ruskin and the new book.

Meditation and Movement in Montecito Writing meets up with meditation and movement in “Self Integration for Changing Times”, next weekend’s workshop at La Casa de Maria.

Co-leaders Kimberley Snow, Ph.D., and Jinny Webber, Ph.D., will help participants find the still point within to settle the mind and allow the wisdom of deeper spirit to spontaneously heal and integrate a system that might be overwrought from living in a period of rapid change.

Combining meditation with writing and simple Qi Gong movement can help your imagination unearth and blend deeper dimensions of both your story and yourself. The workshop’s writing prompts will focus on memoir and personal experience.

Beginning and seasoned writers and meditators are welcome.

Writing group leader Snow is an author who leads dharma talks and teaches meditation while Webber is a novelist, playwright, and lecturer in literature. The August 4-6 workshop cost $295. Visit www.lacasademaria. org.

•MJ

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Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

On and Off

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ithin living memory, there has been a vast technological change in our world – a change often referred to as “The Digital Revolution.” But I’m not sure how many of us understand what is meant by the word “digital” in this context. We know that our fingers and toes are called digits, and that in mathematics the first nine numbers and zero count as digits – but somewhat inconsistently, our toes, although there are just as many of them, got left out of the figuring.

The idea of zero as a number was hard for so-called Western Civilization to grasp. The ancient Greeks, followed by the Medieval theologians, got bogged down with the philosophical question of “How can nothing be something?” (Quite honestly, if I think about it too long, I find myself having the same problem.) But, along with the other numerals, it finally came to us from India via the Arabs – which is why we still refer to Arabic, as distinguished from Roman, numerals.

Most of us have hands with a thumb and four fingers (though Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck – not to mention all Seven Dwarfs, but not Snow White herself – have been happily getting along with only three for many years.) But, however we count our total supply of digits, we still know what “digital” means when it comes to clocks and watches and other devices with a numerical display. However, it may come as a surprise if I tell you that that is not what it means in computer-speak.

In fact, computers aren’t interested in your fingers at all (let alone your toes). As far as computers are concerned, there are only two digits: One and zero, which can also be said to signify ON and OFF – or Open and Closed, or, if you like, Yes and No. Way back in the early days of this technology, some genius discovered that, using nothing but ones and zeros, you could (with enough paper and enough patience) represent all other numbers, and practically anything else in the universe. Putting this together with the opening and closing of electrical circuits made possible everything that we now associate with computers. In this case, they used what is called a “Binary Code”, which means that it has only those two digits: one and zero. That was the true Digital Revolution.

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more techno-babble, they rather cleverly decided to call either member of this dazzling duo a “Bit” (compressing the words “Binary Digit.”) And it was somehow determined that a string of eight bits would be the most convenient for representing any text character. So, with equal inspiration, they came up with a sort of punningly appropriate name for this “bitten off” group of bits – they called it a BYTE. Quite possibly, you knew all this already – but the good news is that we have now just about reached the limit of my own knowledge and understanding of these matters. So let me now take you back to the “on” and “off,” with which we started. Of course, they both have many different meanings and uses – but, in everyday speech, as a general rule, it’s better to be ON than to be OFF. And “on” seems to have by far the more inspiring connotations.

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We need only think of Shakespeare’s Henry V crying “On! On! You noblest English!” or the valiant members of Tennyson’s Light Brigade charging “Half a league onward!” or the Salvation Army’s “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (with music by Arthur Sullivan – yes, the Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan.)

Then there are all the positive expressions, such as “on track,” “on the beam,” “on my honor,” “on the ball,” or simply “on top of the world.”

When it comes to “off,” however, I’m afraid you’ll be hard-put to find anything more inspirational than the Air Force anthem’s “Off we go, into the wild blue yonder.” Mostly, we’re bombarded with such negative thoughts, as “off limits,” “off-kilter,” “off-color,” not to mention “off her rocker,” or “Off with his head!” Perhaps the most positive “off” situations in which you might find yourself would be getting “off the hook,” or getting something “off your chest.”

I hope this discussion has interested you, and that you may have found some of my remarks ON target. But if, as we used to say in Hippie-Speak, you just don’t “digit,” then our only alternative is to call the whole thing OFF. •MJ

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Music Academy of the West Opera Director Focuses on Body of Work

and using it as a guide is the key.

by Steven Libowitz

James Darrah, in the director’s chair for Elixir of Love at the Granada (photo by Simona Kessler)

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ames Darrah, the young opera and theatrical stage director who is helming the Music Academy of the West’s (MAW) production of Donizetti’s Elixir of Love at the Granada Theatre on Thursday night and Saturday afternoon, already made a splash this summer with his minimally staged approach to OperaFest, MAW’s annual presentation of scenes from operatic works old and new. If his direction of Elixir elicits as much commitment to communication from the cast of Fellows who will tell the Italian bel canto tradition story of a love-struck Nemorino whose ruse may actually lead to a deeper relationship, we’re in for a real treat.

He talked about the opera, his approach, and more in early July, before meeting up with conductor Speranza Scappucci.

Q. How has it been so far working with the Fellows and faculty to develop Elixir?

Are the acting chops up to snuff?

A. There’s a huge spectrum of experience. Some have been on stage a lot, and for others it’s one of their first major performance opportunities. The goals are to find a way to craft some training and give them some vocab-

ulary that feels related to the work.

But (Elixir) is a lot of fun. It’s a perfect opera to do with young singers.

There’s a lot of dramatic challenges....

What was appealing about coming to MAW was the ability to re-shape a program from a dramatic training point of view. From the first week in class, we intentionally did the Opera Scenes program from almost nothing, because I’m interested in how bodies and space can tell story.

Can you say more about how you impart that concept to the vocalists?

A singer’s best instrument is their body and their ability to not have to rely on costumes and on the toys.

I like adding all those things and I love visual storytelling, but I’m also really intrigued by people’s ability to communicate in the most simple way. (OperaFest) was about telling a story physically, without a lot of stuff.

That makes them think about the bare minimum needed to effectively communicate. Anything you add on top of that becomes more powerful because you’re not relying on it, not hiding behind a costume or a prop, or standing on stage just belting things out.

Really, actively listening to the music

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What are you doing that is different or unusual in this production?

I don’t do typical productions.

We’ve created a world that is invented but based in reality. There’s a lot of 1900 in it. But there are also more expressionist and otherworldly references. People don’t go to the theater to see modern-day, un-extraordinary events. What we’ve done is find an invented 1900 in Italy. A time and place that has rules and functions as a society that never really existed. How that renders itself is what you search for in rehearsal. That emerges at the end of the process.

Are you going somewhat minimalist or full-out in the staging?

Neither. I don’t like to put shows in those categories. It’s not traditional; it’s more like me. I tend to be more minimal than most people. It looks like a visual landscape that feels like a lot of my other work. But the designers have responded to the piece itself and not just my ideas.

Is it too early to say what audiences might take away from your version of the opera?

It’s mostly fun. Maybe it might involve some thought about our own relationships. (Elixir) encourages us to be bold in life, with somebody finally having the gumption to go after what he wants. But it’s not overly deep. It’s just human and beautiful and a celebration of that. You want people to feel wrapped up in that aspect, what feels human, as they go on an exciting journey.

Climate Change and Chunks Form the Current of New Work Timo Andres has never been to Santa Barbara, not even on vacation.

The composer-pianist has performed for the Ojai Festival, back in 2014, when now-MAW faculty member Jeremy Denk was the music director. And his music already made an appearance earlier this summer on the Miraflores campus when the brass and percussion fellows played one of his pieces during the Brassfest on June 17.

But Andres will arrive with a whirlwind this weekend, when he first serves as a jurist for MAW’s inaugural solo piano competition on Saturday evening, July 29, for which he has agreed to write a commissioned piece for the winner to perform on tour.

Then on Tuesday, August 1, he’ll join fellow pianist Conor Hanick and percussionists Michael Werner and Daniel Druckman for the West Coast premiere of his work Tides and

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Currents, which will be the piece’s first performance since its debut last year in Miami, at the weekly Faculty Artist Series concert at the Lobero.

Andres talked about his work and more over the phone.

Q. Which came first, performing or composing?

A. I actually started both simultaneously. I always had an impulse to write, even before I had any proficiency on an instrument – or even a good idea how to read music – I was writing music down. Or at least trying to.

For me, they’re inseparable. One feeds into the other, and back and forth.

But they’re very different practices that require very different mindsets.

It can be a challenge to switch back and forth when I’m shuffling between them. Sometimes it’s helpful: if I’m feeling stuck with a piece I’m writing, I can go to the piano and play through some Janacek or Beethoven as a practice, and that can lead to breakthroughs.

You scored Tides and Currents for piano and percussion. Why? They’ve been a good match ever since Bartok invented the combination, and it’s become something of a classic. Piano is the most flexible instrument; you can hear harmony and get an approximation of what a full orchestra might sound like. And percussion is the most mutable of all instruments, because it encompasses hundreds of different ones. It can be almost anything you want, from timpani and snare drums to marimba, or any piece of junk you find on the street. Give it to percussionists and they’ll make it sound interesting.

You’ve written that you formed the piece out of “structured improvisation,” an unusual approach for you. What was the concept that led to that approach?

Improv is thrilling, but when you have two to three months to sit down and put notes together, you can premeditate, like writing a letter as opposed to talking on a phone. You can articulate ideas with more control.

That said, for this piece I wanted to have a feeling of large, uninterrupted chunks of music, a sense of flow, which lines up with improvisation.

Once I had decided on the underlying musical substructure governing the process, I did just want to manipulate the chunks with plasticity in a way I wouldn’t with a score.

But that was the generative stage.

It’s not at all what the piece ended up being. It’s not just a transcription. Still, it was through taking the blocks and moving them around and seeing them against each other in different way that I decided on the piece’s overall sound.

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Under ObamaCare, some people pay nothing even though they have income because their income doesn’t exceed certain thresholds mandated

by ObamaCare. Under a Single-Payer system, those thresholds would go away, leaving everyone’s income subject to the Medicare Payroll Tax. The bottom line is that a Single-Payer system would be a much fairer system than ObamaCare because, as I previously stated, everyone would be required to pay into it.

It is long overdue that the American people obtain a healthcare system that recognizes healthcare as a basic right to all individuals. The healthcare system we have now is basically designed to benefit the health insurance companies and big pharma first and the people second. This is because the politicians... and primarily the Republicans... are not only owned by them (just follow the money) but also have the unfortunate belief that less government is better under all circumstances. A little research into the cost and effectiveness of the countries that have government operated Universal Healthcare systems relative to the U.S. healthcare system should convince anyone with critical-thinking skills that, probably without exception, here in the U.S. we pay more and get less than they do.

Bill Hurst Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Funny how “the Republicans” are always blamed by Democrats and most members of the press for... well, pretty much everything that goes wrong. Because “the Republicans” try to introduce some sort of control on the cost of these “Health Care For All” plans, they are pilloried mercilessly for their efforts.

As for following the money: pretty much both the entire insurance and pharmaceutical industries got behind the ObamaCare effort, so I don’t know how “big pharma” et al is “owned” by Republicans.

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those needs have been addressed by government, and we can agree that Democrats are way more generous than Republicans on this score. But, they’ve all made a mess of it, whether Republican, Democrat, Independent, Socialist, or Communist, and have put a once prosperous and solvent nation (the U.S.A.) into hock to the current tune of $20,000,000,000,000. No one knows where this accelerating debt load will end, but it likely won’t end well.

For many (including me), having “skin in the game” is and should be a requirement for any and all such programs.

Without that, none of these proposed “solutions” will be viable. – J.B.)

Trump the Chump

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I’m sure you couldn’t quite understand that as president you have less control than you did as the head of your own company, especially if your own party is against you, but by now you should understand that fact and work around it.

Your public admonishment of attorney general Jeff Sessions is deplorable. You must work to solve your differences, especially with a valuable and trusted friend and not express your petulance for all the world to see. We know that you have all the ammunition in your possession to put Obama and the Clintons in jail and to hold Nuremberg-type trials against all the treasonous cabal.

If it doesn’t happen now, it will never happen and America will simply cease to exist.

Your time in office should be spent in restoring America to what it was always meant to be. You are going to go down in history as just another leader who couldn’t keep his promises. If Congress won’t work with

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you – and they definitely won’t – then you are going to have to make a plan to get the job done and carry it out efficiently. Excuses and crying in your beer about everything will make you just Trump the Chump. Everyone who swears to uphold the Constitution and deliberately breaks that promise is guilty of treason and should be held accountable.

You’ve somehow got to change this sick, rotten, and corrupt system now, or America is finished. Party politics doesn’t work anymore. The Constitution must always be the law of the land. Differences of opinion are fine, but nobody must be allowed to ignore or divert from the Constitution.

The country comes first. No judge should be politically appointed, and no judge should be allowed to violate the Constitution. Cut down government to its Constitutional mandate without equivocation.

I encourage a dialog with the people, but be stern, judicious, and believable in reports. Tell them the truth about the political corruption and power structure, and that no elected official is in office to serve the people anymore. Declare martial law if that is the only way to gain control and to punish the bad people in this country.

Call out the militia if necessary. Stop all of these time-wasting committee investigations that have never been anything but pseudo witch-hunts with no intended purpose except as political publicity stunts.

Punish the law-breakers with all the energy you possess. Make them feel the heat. Make them afraid to break the law. They’ve got too much time at their disposal and they use it to attack you. If you don’t fully understand there is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, then you are naïve. They don’t care which party is in power, because they still get all the perks they have bestowed upon themselves. The one thing they are afraid of is for the system to be restructured, and that means you will not be tolerated by any politician.

Make no more concessions to the party or individuals in order to make progress. It will be of little value to you in the end. Take charge by lawful means even if it means martial law.

Your supporters will applaud you, but take the power away from the cabal until morality and justice are restored.

The country is out of control from a lawful standpoint.

If you say the system ties your hands and that you are powerless, then resign and let the country go to hell, because that is where it is headed.

There will be no second chance, and your name will go into the history books in a way you never anticipated.

P.S: Why can’t the legal tax-paying citizen have the same health care program that all of Congress enjoys?

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Would it be too expensive?

Harry Wilmott Goleta (Editor’s note: Whoa. Easy there, Harry.

“Take charge by lawful means even if it means martial law”? “...until morality and justice are restored”? We understand your frustration, but what you and all of us are witnessing is a historical battle between the powers that be and a new and differently educated breed of power seekers. In the election of 1828, the Tennesseeborn president Andrew Jackson wrested power from the “cabal” that founded the country. He brought a group of outdoorsmen to the White House who had little in common with the genteel Virginians and prissy New Englanders who’d run the show for the previous 50 years.

President Trump has brought in non-politicians to upset the established order, and that doesn’t sit well with most of those who’d attained positions of power and prominence under the old system.

That’s what this is all about, but a call for “martial law,” we believe, is really the wrong way to go. We prefer your other suggestion: that of following the Constitution. It has its flaws, but it has mostly served us well. – J.B.)

Saving the Reagan Ranch

I am writing to report a very unfortunate situation involving the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.

After you read what has occurred, I hope you will be as outraged as me and call the supervisors involved to let them know you believe they have seriously defaulted on their responsibilities representing their constituents in their respective districts.

Here is what happened. Recently, the board of supervisors, with supervisors Steve Lavagnino and Peter Adam voting NO, adopted a Gaviota General Plan. Part of that plan places a conceptual public trail over various private property parcels. One of those parcels is the Reagan Ranch.

The Gaviota General Plan not only puts a trail right through the middle of the ranch, but it also provides arbitrary and unreasonable language in the plan only applicable to the Reagan Ranch and not applicable to any other property owner where the trail is conceptually designated. This language clearly puts the county in a more preferable position to extract a public trail from the Young America’s Foundation, which owns the Reagan Ranch, than it would be to extract a trail from any other property owner.

After the board voted to adopt this plan, the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), filed a lawsuit to challenge the County on the grounds that they violated CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act. In settlement discussions last month, representatives for YAF, including YAF’s 27 July – 3 August 2017

attorney Randy Fox, met with county representatives to discuss options for settlement. We argued that applying arbitrary language, only applicable to the YAF as a property owner, that was not applied to any other property owner, was patently unfair and unreasonable.

After lengthy discussions, to their credit, County counsel and the County Planning director, agreed with YAF that a reasonable solution would be for the county to initiate a general plan amendment regarding the Gaviota General Plan to eliminate the arbitrary language, so that the Young America’s Foundation would be treated like any other private property owner in which the public trail had conceptually been located. I commend both County counsel and the County Planning director for coming to this conclusion, which was acceptable to YAF to settle the lawsuit.

But the board of supervisors in closed session rejected this proposal to settle. While I do not know what was said in that closed session, supervisors Lavagnino and Adam have been supporters of the YAF and opponents to the Gaviota General Plan from the outset, so we can logically conclude that in closed session they voted to support the settlement.

That means supervisors Das Williams, Janet Wolf, and Joan Hartmann voted NO. That means they support arbitrary language applied to one property owner that no other private property owner has applied to them. That means they want the Reagan Ranch with a Coast Guard Communications Tower located within 10 feet of the public trail, and a commercial aviation VOR within a hundred yards of the public trail to have language applicable to their property to make it easier to extract a public trail than any other private property owner whose land is in the Gaviota General Plan.

That means they believe it is acceptable to treat a private property owner with the historic Reagan Ranch Western White House located on their property in a capricious and arbitrary manner in relationship to other private property owners. That means they are willing to waste taxpayer money (any two private parties with similar facts, whereby the lawyers are paid for out of their own pockets, would settle this in a second with what was proposed) on a lawsuit to argue that the Reagan Ranch and the property owner of the ranch should be treated differently than any other property owner.

So, those are the facts. As a former Santa Barbara County supervisor, I am appalled. Please let the supervisors involved in this mockery of justice know how you feel. Please call at least one supervisor, and hopefully two or all three, to let them know how disap-

pointed you are and that you strongly urge them to reconsider their position and accept the settlement offer that their own County counsel and County Planning director supported. Here are the numbers to call: supervisor Das Williams (805) 568-2186; supervisor Janet Wolf (805) 568-2192; supervisor Joan Hartmann (805) 568-2191.

Mike Stoker Santa Barbara

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

I thought it odd that the MJ failed to include any questions relevant to the mental illness/homeless dilemma in any of its questions to prospective mayoral candidate Frank Hotchkiss (Our Town, MJ #23/28). I didn’t miss the irony, though, of the question about a Sanctuary City. The failure of even a mention of the mentally ill/ homeless could only be construed, that the populace of Montecito doesn’t experience nor witness the ill effects of the ever-present M/H problem, so understandably, why address it? If a problem doesn’t exist, it isn’t happening, at least not here in Montecito.

Then again, it could be by design.

I’m not saying I’m not appreciative of the largess of Montecito’s college-based youth, bankrolled by their Montecito patrons, and their altruistic intentions. I’m speaking to the constant delivery system, set up week after week, year after year, only in Santa Barbara. Why don’t they explore establishing a program for the disenfranchised, time to time, say in Manning Park, or a local house of worship, for instance, instead of always schlepping up to Alameda Park, Pershing, in Santa Barbara.

I’m aware of their antiquated company line of ”We come to where the need is.” That’s standard translation for ”As long as we anchor in Santa Barbara, we won’t have the issue here.” Taking a line from the movie Field of Dreams – “If you build it, they will come” – I assure you, it would take little time, getting the word out, informing the rank and file of a new distribution center. Trust me, they’re very mobile. Many would relish not having to always stand in the same block-long lines. You could begin by spreading the word at the southbound off-ramp at Coast Village Road.

Jeff Ross Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We’re not sure we follow your line of reasoning, other than wishing to invite even more of the homeless to Montecito, but we commend Joanne Calitri, who conducted an astute interview and plans on interviewing all prospective candidates with the same questions she has already asked of Mr. Hotchkiss. – J.B.)

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Kudos for Dan & MJ

Thank you for the ever-wonderful newspaper of our heavenly town. The Montecito Journal is my favorite thing to read. And, I owe you an enormous thanks for publishing an article about Dan Siebert (Growing Green).

A few months ago, I was so desperate.

My garden was being ruined by the wrong gardeners. I can’t even remember everything about the article; all I knew was to email this guy and beg him to work for us! Which I did. And he does.

I truly care about our garden (it is a stretch to call it a “garden”; it is really more of a wildlife refuge).

It is a “Certified National Wildlife Federation Backyard Habitat”. When we built our house, we had had a lovely individual gardener (recommended by an old friend and longtime Montecito resident) who understood plants, knew hand-pruning, and wanted to learn about and nurture a garden. He loved our chickens, the wildlife, and the native landscape we planted 20 years ago on our vacant lot.

He knew about oak trees; he loved the whole point of it. We were so happy.

This is an endangered species.

Sadly, like all of us, he grew old, and retired. His nephew took over his jobs. An entirely different concept. A crew with a “mow, blow, and go” philosophy. I thought because we had no lawn, there’d be no mow, that there’d be no blower allowed (no blow), that we could work together. No. I tried.

He simply was from a different planet philosophically and didn’t like women telling him anything. We were not a match. I watched my beloved garden changing drastically. It was heartbreaking.

I was so sad and desperate. But then I read about Dan in the MJ. I emailed him, almost in tears, and begged him for an appointment. He made a difference in one week. No more “parking lot” mentality of trimming. We are back to loving and understanding plants again, and the garden (wild as it is) responded in one week. So easy to see. He charges the exact same that the “crew” did.

“Joyful” is putting it mildly! Thank you for the gift of Dan Siebert. He is a jewel. Montecito Journal scores again in my household! And his column in the MJ is wonderful and is a gift to all of us. Lucky to be living here! And lucky to have your wonderful publication.

Penelope Bianchi Montecito (Editor’s note: Dan is probably going to be quickly overwhelmed with the amount of business we’ve brought his way. I now use Dan, and my next-door neighbor has hired him to redesign her garden. I’ve given his name to another of my acquaintances, who has also asked him to help

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the club, which saw Justin Klentner’s Klentner Ranch team beating Santa Clara 12-6 as VIP guests were hosted to lunch by Karma.

They also staged a sunset soirée at Lucky’s 48 hours earlier, with three of the cars parked outside on Coast Village Road creating considerable public interest as guests, including Pat Nesbitt, Joost De Vries, Monte Wilson, Cat Pollon, Robert and Robin Fell, Gretchen Lieff, Charles Ward, David Sigman, Eric Phillips, Alicia St. John, John Thyne, and Laura Lachman milled inside.

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Klentner Ranch Polo team raising their win of the prized Robert Skene Trophy are polo team members Geronimo Obregon, Jesse Bray, Facundo Obregon, and Justin Klentner (photo by Priscilla)

10th year, of judging the hat contest from the torrent of tony tête toppers festooning the stands, with the winners of the three categories – largest, most creative, and most fanciful – being Lissa McGraw from Ventura with a frothy pink confection, 24-yearold Kasey Crook with an impressive fascinator, and Kathy Dowling, an avowed Santa Barbara millinery maven, who, like Kasey, bought her hat from the polo club’s boutique.

The tony triumvirate each received a bottle of champagne and vouchers for use at the club.

White with Bite Montecito actor Rob Lowe is on the hunt for adventure.

And the 53-year-old thespian recently enjoyed a “once in a lifetime” experience as he paddleboarded among sharks off our Eden by the Beach with his son Matthew Edward.

The popular star was thrilled to encounter not one but two “amazing Great White sharks” when he spoke to the syndicated TV show TMZ. The California native revealed though he’s “been in the ocean his whole life,” he had never crossed paths with the Great White until now.

“You just can’t believe your eyes.

They’re so powerful. You definitely don’t want to fall in!”

Rob, 53, described his ocean encounter as an “absolutely once in a lifetime experience.”

“I’m in the water all the time, fish-

ing, surfing. But I’ve never seen one.

I’ve certainly never been right on top of them on this kind of board.”

Describing the fearsome beast, the West Wing actor said: “One was big and one was a little smaller, but both of them were bigger than my board.”

Rob shared another video taken by his son, Matthew, 23, on Instagram that showed one of the majestic animals weaving through the clear waters.

He captioned the video: “Found him! A young Great White Shark.”

The actor and his sons, Matthew and John Owen, debut their new supernatural reality show The Lowe Files on A&E on Wednesday, August 2.

Oar-struck, indeed.

Way to Glow Inflation was very much on everyone’s mind when Doctors Without

Santa Barbara Doctors Without Walls president Paul Jaconette; executive director Maria Long; Bonnie and SBFD chief Pat McElroy (photo by Priscilla)

Walls, a 12-year-old nonprofit specializing in street medicine, hosted a launch party for its 4th annual Glow In The Park event on September 16.

The popular Elings Park bash, which features a number of colorfully tethered balloons, is expected to raise around $100,000 for the organization, which last year served 2,024 patients, a 44-percent increase.

Among the guests having a gas at the Squire Foundation headquarters, a four-acre estate owned by the late philanthropist Morris Squire, were Michael and Misty Hammer, Julian Nott, Santa Barbara Fire chief Pat

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Supporters Fred Kass, Katherine Bazylewicz of Cottage Health; Andrea and Mark Alfano (photo by Priscilla)

“The Bryan Titus Trio” entertaining band members and SBDWW dedicated red shirted volunteers are (first row) David Hopper, Matt Sumethasorn, Bobby Lok; (second row) Karen Villegas, Amanda McKenna, Joshua Wahba; and (third row) Chris Wonzer, Michael Baris, Bryan Titus, and Jon Ossman (photo by Priscilla)

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them. Dan, by the way, is a pretty good photographer too! – J.B.)

New Growth

Six weeks ago, this oak was infested with oak moths; today, it sports abundant new growth

I got a big surprise this morning: the tree I observed (Growing Green, MJ #23/29) that was infested with oak moths less than two months ago is leafing out. I didn’t see any of this new growth a week ago. From the first of June to now, about six weeks of infestation.

My advice remains: don’t spray; nature will take care of itself.

Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

Gardens Are for Living

Support the Montecito Association

Why I have, do, and will continue to support the Montecito Association (MA), our community protector and preserver: Years ago, while living in Los Angeles, but coming up here many times a year for weekend stays, one of those trips occurred on the Annual Beautification Day. What fun to see the colorful balloons, hear the music, watch the awards being given, and enjoy the good food provided by the firefighters, grocery, and Beautification Committee members. From then on, my husband, Davis, and I were “hooked.”

I learned how the Montecito Association, through much hard work by its devoted members, had kept our community from being overcome by major growth, street lights, and signs. Now, about 30 years later, I’ve been on the MA Board of Directors and Chair of Beautification many times, as well as active in MA activities such as the Village 4th.

I urge everyone to join, participate, and enjoy being involved in the Montecito Association.

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ture challenges. We have a lot of old buildings; it’s an old city with a lot of buildings under the Parks and Recreation Division, and we also have an aging sewer pipe system and water delivery system. And so we have been, since I’ve been on the council, setting aside money for that.

For instance, if there’s a surplus at the end of the year, half of that goes to infrastructure and capital projects, half of our utility users’ tax goes to infrastructure projects, and now we are looking to this sales-tax increase. Every city, every school district, every county has deferred maintenance, but now is the time for us to plan for that and put money aside.

Sanctuary city yes/no and public safety?

I believe the city of SB functions in a sanctuary way in that our police chief has made it clear that her police officers do not act as ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and that’s important because we want every one to trust our police.

If they’re a victim of a crime but if they’re undocumented, they can call the police for help, or to report a crime or to be a witness; however, if an undocumented person commits a crime, they must be processed through our criminal justice system.

Our school districts have declared their campuses safe for undocumented students. In the context of our economy here in SB, we do rely on a labor force of undocumented people and we need to be honest about that; we have jobs for people and they come here, and it’s our tourism industry, so it’s our restaurants, hotels, and construction activities.

We need to find a way to honor the work that those people do and have a safe and prosperous city.

Energy, environment, the drought, and U.S. Climate Mayors?

We needed to re-commission our desalination plant to have a secure independent water source for the city of SB. One of the challenges of that facility, however, is that it is energy-intensive. We’ve managed to reduce the amount of energy that we need to separate the salt from the water; we are putting solar power as part of the energy resource on it, but that’s a big challenge. What’s positive for us is that the city of SB has set the year 2030 as a goal to be 100% renewal-energy [efficient], city operations and everything that happens within the city limits. That’s going to be a challenge, but at least we’ve set a goal and we’re moving in that direction. We cannot deny global climate disruption, I certainly cannot deny it – and as mayor, I will be an active member of the U.S. Climate Mayors group and the activities they put forward.

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How would you be an active member of the U.S. Climate Mayors, and what would you bring back to the City of SB? Mayor [Helene] Schneider has already reconfirmed the city’s commitment to their efforts, and I would continue that. What I would say about these groups like the League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors is that the mayor first and foremost has to look out for her city, look inward, our infrastructure, our neighborhood safety, that our budget is balanced, that we support our business community. Second, I am responsible for having good relationships with the city of Goleta, the city of Carpinteria, every jurisdiction in the county. I have to have a statewide focus that would happen through the California League of Cities, and I have a responsibility to everyone in the nation, vulnerable populations – we’re talking about health care being taken away or Social Security, and those are positions I will be firm on, that we need access to health care, access to education. I’m very worried about public education and what might come down from the White House administration. Yes, I’ll take care of my city, but as mayor, I have a responsibility nationally and internationally. Climate change is a global issue, and that will be part of the work I do as the mayor of SB. Health Care and the opioid issue?

The California State legislature right now, they’re looking at how to put forward a single-payer system for the state of California. The first proposal wasn’t good enough for some people, particularly the question how the program would be paid for – that’s a great question. So I know, I have confidence that our state assembly and our state senate will tackle this problem and find a way for us to have single-payer health care. If we had single payer, that would help with our pension challenges as well, because right now the city of SB pays for medical care for our retirees. Our homeless situation – if the homeless, the street people in SB had access to mental health services, which are health, just basic dental, eye; if they were able to cure a rash or cut, sometimes homeless people get an abrasion and it turns into an infection cause they don’t have basic health care. So, if we had single-payer health care it would help a whole lot of problems that we have.

Explain how single-payer impacts the middle class versus the homeless.

That’s a great question. How single-payer helps someone in the middle class is because we sometimes have catastrophic illnesses. I know people who have cancer or some other major medical problem, and they can’t pay the deductible through private insurance, and they go bankrupt or

they lose their home. When you’re sick, you can’t work. We can look at what Canada does, and it’s a country that functions just fine with universal health care.

Culture and the arts?

We just went through Solstice Festival and the City does support financially Solstice, Old Spanish Days.

We have the Office of Culture and Arts and its collaboration with the county of SB, and we sponsor some First Thursday gallery exhibits, and I support all of that. Could we do more? I think so, I’m hearing from people that there are young artists in the city who need more opportunities.

And those are one of the finer things of life right, arts, our libraries.

Would you bring that into the public sector, and are there opportunities for local artists to do public art?

We need more public art, but that will take funding. I’ve been talking to people who are talking about raising private money for that. We were talking a minute ago about State Street, the empty store fronts. I’ve already talked to some art gallery owners who want to put fine art in the empty store front window so that it’s beautiful – it draws attention to the gallery, which might be three blocks away, but it’s also a way to beautify downtown.

I love the idea of murals and also training young people. The city of SB has the Arts Alliance Program, professional muralists training high school students how to do murals. They do them at the junior high schools and the high schools, and that would be a lovely public arts program.

Housing?

We have a housing crunch, and not enough housing for all the jobs that we have here, all the people who live here and work here. I serve on the Housing Task Force, which is a subcommittee of planning commissioners and city council members looking at our Average Unit-size Density Incentive Program, which is a dense housing program. For the first time in 40 years, we are having housing developers want to build apartment houses and rental units, and what we’re doing now is making sure the community gets enough benefits out of those developments. We’re looking at local preference for the tenants, [so] that whoever moves in is from the local area, working local jobs. We’ve added parking – people were concerned about the three-bedroom limits that only had one parking space – yes, they should have two parking spaces.

We’re very specific about where those housing units go, and they go through a rigorous design review process so that they look good, they’re designed well, and compact housing

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is an efficient use of space. And we’re working that out, we’re doing our best.

I also serve on the Affordable Housing Task Force – it’s a cities-county collaboration: Goleta, Carp, SB, so it’s South Coast mostly, and we’re always looking for ways to put affordable housing, so for low-income people on the ground. But we need housing for low-income people and medium-income people as well.

The press, as you’ve been both a reporter and politician, the responsibility of the press – is the press doing a good job? Is there a bias?

I believe the news media are an integral part of our nation’s democracy. The voting public, even the public who don’t pay attention to politics, need to have access to accurate information about their government. I respect the news outlets in the city of SB and the county. What people need to understand is that they need to be careful consumers of news. Every news outlet has an editorial direction or an editorial bias, so when you read a story, ask yourself, ‘How did this other newspaper report that?’ – and then compare the two. I do recommend people consume news, however, you have to stay on top of it. I used to be a public-access TV producer at TV-SB and really appreciated independent media. A lot of the national news sources are consolidated, right, its corporations – Time-Warner, Cox – and so they consolidate and those are fewer voices, so I encourage people to read as much as they can and absorb as much as they can, so they know what’s going on.

Social media – as a politician, how do you view the use of it, are you using it now, e.g. City of SB mayor tweets...?

I have a personal Facebook page, a campaign Facebook page, and I’m active with the Westside Community Group Facebook page – I’m the representative now. I don’t tweet. I have a Twitter account. I just feel like city issues are so complex that it’s hard to say it in that paragraph nugget that Twitter gives me. The city parks department has a Twitter and Facebook account for events used as a marketing tool. I have a website, CathyMurillo.com. A long time ago, the mayor had a radio show on one of the radio stations locally – I would be interested in restarting that. I pride myself on my accessibility. Anyone can come to city hall and ask me for an appointment; that’s a good thing for older people who might not appreciate Twitter, and I’m 56. I have friends my age who don’t do Facebook, so there have to be other ways for people to connect and I’m open to all of that.

[Next week: interview with Hal Conklin] •MJ 27 July – 3 August 2017

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The Way It Was

Before Carleton Monroe Winslow’s design for the tympanum was executed, Black arranged to have the allied flags placed above the main entrance of the new public library in 1918.

Photo is taken from the courtyard of the Presbyterian Church across the way. (Courtesy Santa Barbara Public Library)

by Hattie Beresford

Faulkner Gallery: Philanthropists

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his year, the Santa Barbara Public Library celebrates the centennial anniversary of the downtown library. Prominent Pittsburgh architect Henry Hornbostel created the design, and Francis W. Wilson, well-known local architect, prepared the working drawings. The dynamic Frances B. Linn, head librarian since 1906, was a driving force behind the construction of the larger, newer edifice.

Completed in 1917, the new library was built with funds from the sale of its former building, a grant from the Carnegie Corporation and donations from generous local benefactors.

The original library design included a wing for an art gallery, but money grew tight and the wing was abandoned in the final plans. It wasn’t until 1930 that an art wing was added.

The Faulkner Memorial Gallery became Santa Barbara’s first and only art museum, until 1941 when the post office next door became the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Clarence Black

One of the generous civic promoters who made the art gallery possible was Clarence A. Black. Black hailed from Detroit, where he was a founder of Cadillac Motor Company. He brought his family to Santa Barbara in 1912 and commissioned construction of a Mission-style home called El Cerrito on Santa Barbara’s Riviera. Black immediately threw himself into city endeavors, becoming the chairman of the new Bureau of Architects and director of the Chamber of Commerce in 1913.

Black’s wife was artist Mary Corning Winslow Black of the grand old Hudson River estate of Woodcliffe in Poughkeepsie, New York. Mary’s father was John Flack Winslow, owner of iron and steel works and financier of the Union’s famous ironclad ship, the Monitor. After graduation from an exclusive boarding school, Mary went on to study painting at the Art Students League in New York before continuing her art studies abroad.

After his arrival in 1912, Clarence Black supported many civic and cultural improvement projects in Santa Barbara Ms Beresford is a retired English and American history teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

Although Clarence was rather eclectic in his philanthropic endeavors, with an artist for a wife, he took a special interest in supporting the arts.

He was a patron of the California Art Club and sponsored three prizes in 1916. He purchased the Covarrubias adobe at 715 Santa Barbara Street as a clubhouse/art studio for local artists. He was president of the board of the Public Library from 1916-1918 and cleared the debt incurred by construction of the new library when other funding fell short, giving the deed to the city. In 1917, he purchased the parcel of land behind the post office and donated it to the library for the purpose of creating an art museum.

Clarence never saw his dream of an art gallery realized, however. He died in Santa Barbara in 1924. His widow moved permanently to Monterey into the Abrego Adobe she had purchased in 1921 as a seasonal home and studio.

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In the original rendering by architect Henry Hornbostel, the library had a wing for an art gallery. It was never built due to cost overruns.

(Courtesy Santa Barbara Public Library)

This pre-earthquake view of the library shows the towers of the Presbyterian Church in the foreground, the old County Courthouse with its domed cupola in the background, the ivy-covered walls and steeply pitched roofs of the old Hall of Records, and the new public library before the art gallery (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Later, she built an adjacent two-story, Monterey-style studio which is today on the National Register of Historic Places. (For more on Clarence Black, see Montecito Journal the magazine, winter/spring 2015-16.)

The Faulkner Sisters

The second generous patron of the art gallery was Mary Faulkner Gould.

In 1884, sisters Abby Louisa, Emily Francis, Anne Robbins, and Mary Elizabeth Faulkner visited Santa

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Postcard shows the new public library with a simple lawn for landscaping (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

Barbara for the first time. Upon their return to their hometown of Billerica, 41-year-old Mary Elizabeth married William Parker Gould, who was in the dry goods business. Santa Barbara had captured Mary’s heart, however, and at the end of 1889, William Parker Gould purchased 12.64 acres at the southwest corner of Hot Springs and Olive Mill roads. He immediately transferred title of the property to his wife. Their estate came to be called La Favorita.

The Faulkner sisters had an interesting lineage. The family’s presence in the new world dated from 1639 when Edmund Faulkner arrived from England. In 1692, his son Francis’s wife, Abigail Dane Faulkner, was accused of witchcraft. When she was examined before the magistrates, the accusing girls went into fits. When she rung her handkerchief, they writhed as though in pain. When she took a step back, they flew across the floor as though drawn by her. In the frenzy and hysteria of the day, with fear of spectral events at a fever pitch, she was quickly condemned to death.

But Abigail was pregnant, so she was imprisoned until her baby could be delivered, after which she would be hanged. Fourteen weeks later, the hysteria had died down and more reasonable heads prevailed. The magistrate, Sir William Phips, reprieved her. When her baby was born, she named him Ammi Ruhama Faulkner, after an Old Testament passage strangely construed to indicate “my people have mercy.”

When Mary’s sisters, including Abigail’s namesake Abby, also came to live in Santa Barbara, they purchased two parcels of land, one on each side of Sycamore Canyon Road and bordered on the south by Hot Springs Road. Perhaps thumbing their noses at Satanic superstition and practice, they named their lands Renklauf and Renklauf Hill, Faulkner spelled backwards.

The three spinster sisters lived for time on the property and at other times at the Arlington Hotel and the Upham Hotel. They even did a stint at Tanglewood (today’s Lotusland) after Ralph Kinton Stevens died and his widow opened her home to boarders.

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The Sanborn fire insurance map shows what lay on the block circa 1927 (Courtesy Santa Barbara Historical Museum)

the patio, and over the years replaced worn fabrics and had the furniture repainted so it would always look fresh. After the death of her husband in 1909, Mary sold La Favorita and lived alternately at the Upham and the Arlington hotels.

Incredibly, since she had inherited hundreds of shares of railroad stock and the Renklauf properties from her sister Anne, she was known to scrimp on heat and electricity to

Abby Louisa

Mary Gould outlived her older sisters; Emily died in 1897, Abby in 1900; and Anne in 1911. Their estate passed to Mary, who had been given written instructions regarding its disposal for public uses. The sisters had been generous benefactors of educational projects both in Billerica and Santa Barbara.

Their father, James Robbins Faulkner (1801-1877), ran the mills his father Francis (1760-1805) had established in Billerica. As they grew up, the daughters had taken an interest in the young female mill workers and their preschool children. They had long hoped for more opportunities for these youngsters. In 1897, the year that Emily died, the sisters funded a kindergarten in Union Hall in Billerica. In 1927, the Faulkner family donated the 1825 family homestead for use by the school.

In Santa Barbara, the spinster sisters had donated funds toward the fledgling kindergarten movement started

by Kate Douglas Wiggins in 1877.

Though Kate was long-gone from Santa Barbara by the time the sisters arrived in town, the Kindergarten Association, which formed in 1887, took up the task and in 1895, after years of rented facilities, they were able to erect a special open-air kindergarten building. In 1908, Anne Faulkner equipped a Sloyd room at the Anna S.C. Blake Memorial Building in honor of her sister Abby. (Sloyd edu-

The sale of the Renklauf estates of Abby, Anne, and Emily Faulkner, spinster sisters to Mary Faulkner Gould, financed the construction of the library’s art gallery (Courtesy Billerica Historical Society)

cation was based on teaching manual arts.)

For her part, Mary became involved with the public library. She had tremendous respect and admiration for Mrs. Linn and several times gave her blank checks so she could buy books or whatever she felt was needed. She provided furniture and awnings for

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Emily Francis

save money for her charities.

On September 13, 1928, the library trustees announced that Mrs. Mary F. Gould, who had created the Faulkner Memorial Foundation, had authorized the use of those funds to build an art gallery for the library. Plans and specifications and a call for designs and bids were to come out soon. The sale of Renklauf and Renklauf Hill provided the funds to build the addition to the library.

•MJ

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WATER FRONT (Continued from page 5) for each district to aspire to at least a five-year supply of banked water in the event of a prolonged drought.

Carpinteria and Goleta both have giant water basins that are recharged with water from the Los Padres National Forest that bypasses Montecito and the City of Santa Barbara. Goleta, which already has huge underground basins of its own, claims the water beneath the privately owned Slippery Rock Ranch, a basin reputed to be larger in capacity than the entire Lake Cachuma reservoir.

Both of our South Coast water bookends – Carpinteria and Goleta – offer enormous potential for regional water banking, with later withdrawals of banked potable water by program participants.

Reducing the Cost of Desalinated Seawater The cost of desalinated water needs to be cut dramatically to make it affordable as a practical part of each South Coast’s district water portfolio.

Regional desal is the ultimate reliable water insurance option in periods of extended drought.

The City of Santa Barbara deserves regional praise for building the original 7,500-acre-foot per year (AFY) desalination plant in the early 1990s in partnership with Montecito and Goleta at a shared cost of $34 million.

Wisely, the City kept its permits current while the plant was mothballed.

Less praiseworthy, but gutsy, has been the City’s decision to spend $75 million to rehab its original $34 million, 7,500 AF desal plant to produce less than half as much water (3,125 AFY) at more than double the original desal plant cost, with no financial participation or signed water purchase agreement from Montecito, Goleta, and/or potentially Carpinteria to share the cost.

The predictable result has been a near $3,000 per AF desal cost in a regional water marketplace where water can be readily purchased in the near future for less than $1,500 per acre foot. Desalination costs in California are not driven by technology, but by a labyrinth of regulations and environmental ideologies that drive up desal costs in California to the highest in the world.

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California, using the same technology contractors, costs $2,400 per AF in Carlsbad, and just under $3,000 per AF in a rehabbed plant in Santa Barbara.

The result is that a water customer, using 20 HCF (hundred cubic feet) units per month will pay about $300 a month for water service in the City of Santa Barbara, compared to $210 per month in Montecito or Goleta, and $180 per month in Carpinteria, according to City of Santa Barbara analysts.

Political leaders on the South Coast need to help reduce the cost of desalinated water to make it affordable to both city customers and other potential South Coast purchasers. Here’s how: 1) Convince Montecito, Carpinteria, and Goleta to sign water purchase agreements for desal water at a price-point of $1,500 to $2,000 per AFY. Begin by cutting $600 per AFY off the $3,000 AFY price tag by increasing the output capacity of the Santa Barbara desal facility from 3,125 AFY to at least 7,500 AFY, which reduces the cost of desalinated water by some $600 per AF through economies of scale.

2) Reduce desal energy costs by as much as $600 per AFY by convincing Southern California Edison to lower the cost of energy for desal. How? California electricity rates are 50% higher than the national average. Longterm, convert all desal plants to subsidized solar, wind or wave energy, with natural gas backup. The recent glut of solar energy in California forced the state to offer Arizona free energy. Even worse, California paid Arizona to take its excess electricity to avoid overloading its own power lines. If California can afford to give Tesla $3 billion in rebates to build electric-only cars, would it consider subsidizing desal energy costs to deliver affordable desal? Reduced desal energy costs could create a second $600 per AFY saving for both City water customers and potential regional buyers.

(3) The useful life of the Santa Barbara desal plant is at least 30 years. The City of Santa Barbara has arbitrarily decided to amortize the capital costs of desal over 20 years to match its state funding loan. With the stroke of an accounting pen, the City could chop off another $600 in desal costs to potential water purchasers by offering them a 30-year amortization on negotiated water sale agreements.

Combined, these three changes could drop desal costs from near $3,000 per AF to roughly the $1,500 to $2,000 per AF range.

Bold Action Required Importantly, we now have the technical know-how to become reliably rainfall-independent, if only we have the political will to break our current water and sanitary district mentality, and work together to build local water supplies at an affordable cost.

Now is the time for bold action to ensure South Coast water independence, rain or no rain. Das Williams, Janet Wolf, and Joan Hartmann need to step up and demand a strategically developed regional water plan, not for each individual district, but for the creation of a drought-free, rainfall-independent water system for the entire South Coast. Despite protests to the contrary, the grand jury got it right when its members correctly concluded that inadequate coordination in planning and conflicting priorities within the 11 individual water fiefdoms on the South Coast increases costs and stifles efficient cooperation.

In New York City, 9 million “Big Apple” residents, who can’t agree on anything, work together on water. In L.A., 11 million residents of the greater Los Angeles area share water. Certainly, it can’t be that hard to convince the mayors of the South Coast cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria; the South Coast water agencies (Goleta Water District, City of Santa Barbara, Hope Ranch Water District, Montecito Water District, and Carpinteria Valley Water District); and the five South Coast sanitary agencies (Goleta, City of Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, and Carpinteria) to work together collaboratively to develop more reliable water at the lowest possible cost.

Exchange agreements need to be negotiated with Santa Maria, Solvang, Buellton, Guadalupe, and North County farms and ranches and vineyards to ensure that they receive their share of reliable drought-proof water, probably from greater allocations of State water.

If we can create a 5- to 10-year plan to make the entire coastal region drought-free, independent of future rainfall at an affordable price, that plan can serve as a model for other coastal counties. The secret to drought-proofing the South Coast of Santa Barbara County depends upon successful County supervisor leadership to convince 11 separate water and sanitary districts on the South Coast, each with separate board agendas, to embrace these three new drought-proof water strategies.

•MJ

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

Ms Robiscoe is a certified fitness trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and conventionally published author of short fictions, essays, and poetry. Her chapbook: Word Mosaics, is available online at Fowlpox Press. E mail Karen at chickenscratch@cox.net, or visit http://charronschatter.com

Enduro Racing

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hether you cruise the beach at a leisurely clip, clock mileage on an advanced racer, or defy gravity on a mountain trail, bicycling has certainly evolved in the last few decades. I spoke with sales associate Brian Szumski of Velo Pro Cyclery in Goleta to get up to speed on what’s trending in the cycling world. “Road racing, cyclo-cross, and enduro racing are at the top of the list,” he says. Brian started enduro riding this past year and, he adds, “It just felt like home to me. It has a lot of the same aspects as motocross racing and mountain biking, sports I’ve been doing my whole life.”

So, what is enduro racing? Simply put, enduro mountain biking is a form of racing where the downhills are timed, the uphills are not, and the transfer stages traversing cross-country are neutral (untimed, they nevertheless must be completed within a time window). Originating in the French Alps in 2003, the sport has taken off in the last few years.

Favoring full-suspension carbon or aluminum bikes weighing in at 30 lbs., with steeply angled seat tubes to optimize pedaling and steeply angled head tubes to maximize downhilling, enduro competitions can be one- or two-day affairs, or last as long as a week, as in the case of the Pisgah Stage Race of North Carolina, or the Trans Provence in Embrun, France.

In some parts of Europe, full-face helmets are already mandatory, since face planting at 70 miles an hour is a real hazard of these rugged events.

“I’ve done the California Enduro Series to qualify for the Enduro World Series next year,” Brian said, admitting the closest call he’s had was blowing a rear shock in the first stage of a competition. “The World Series is held in multiple countries, including New Zealand, Italy, and Tasmania,” he says, adding that he has one more qualifier

coming up in Mammoth, “and the goal is to be on the first pick list.” Explaining that terms such as “chunky” refer to sections of the trail that are rocky and “getting pinned’ means riding your best over such terrain, it’s an adrenaline high for those that are daring.

Cyclo-Cross Cycling

Cyclo-cross cycling isn’t much tamer.

Since the early 1900s, this combination of off-road and on-road biking tests different kinds of limits. Riders must complete several laps over a snaking course in the two-mile range, dismounting their bikes frequently to carry them over intentional obstacles such as steep inclines, wooded terrain, mud, gravel, and sand. Originally known as steeple-chasing, the forced transitions known as “portage” are reminiscent of the sport’s origins, when the object of the race was simply to get to the next town first. With the ultimate destination often only landmarked by a church steeple, participants were allowed to cut through farm fields and jump fences to accomplish this goal.

Measured by laps rather than distance, a cyclo-cross competition can last anywhere from a half-hour to an hour, and is generally held in the fall and winter months. A cyclo-cross bike resembles a road bike, but closer inspection reveals features specific to multiple terrain riding. Fashioned from steel, carbon, or aluminum, the tire clearance of its frame is larger to allow continuous tire spin even when coated with mud and debris, while its geometric angles are more relaxed than a road racer, aiding a rider’s upright position, and increasing shock absorption when off-road.

Road Racing

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Hailing from Europe as so many bicycle races do, road racing started in 1868, and its first world championship was held in 1893. The bike’s sturdy frame is constructed of steel, titanium, aluminum, or carbon, and the drop handlebars are positioned lower than the saddle to optimize a rider’s aerodynamics.

The typical formation of pack riding also optimizes aerodynamics, with the lead rider taking the brunt of the wind while those behind draft.

Riding in the peloton (the common term for the pack) conserves almost 40% of the energy needed to pedal the bike, insuring the necessary reserves for that final burst at the finish line. It’s sometimes tricky to break free, though, since successful drafting hinges on closely tailing the front man—mere inches away, generally—and increases the likelihood of crashing, should the lead rider go down.

A risk cyclist Matthew Tague is all too familiar with. “Someone from behind you can take you out too, by overlapping your wheel. I’ve had many broken bones over the years, but they’re kind of badges of honor,” the stoic manager of Hazard’s Cyclesport at 110 Anacapa, who’s been road racing for about 10 years, reports. “The type of road racing I do,” he says,

“falls under the banner of ultra-distance, and it can last anywhere from twenty-four hours to fifty-two hours non-stop. There are actually races that go across the country and last a lot longer. For those that take racing seriously, it’s not just a sport, it’s a lifestyle.”

Matthew explains that a road racer’s life has to be structured so it can accommodate the goals one sets for oneself. “Recovery, nutrition – it’s all about what you do when you stop riding, so you recover properly, and you can go out and do it again, and perhaps better,” the New York transplant, who moved to Santa Barbara to pursue cycling more seriously, explains. He says road racing is “one of the best things you can do in terms of strengthening the cartilaginous and connective tissues, as well as improving aerobic capacity.” He points out too that the lack of impact to joints is a distinct advantage as one grows older.

“The road bike is a lot more conducive to the roads we have here in Santa Barbara, making it the best-selling genre of bikes.”

With local groups such as Echelon, Goleta Valley Cycling Club, and Santa Barbara Bike Moves available, it’s time to kick the bike into gear. For the novice and experienced rider alike, find out more about the first two at www.bike-santabarbara.org, and surf www.sbbikemoves.com to learn about the latter.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 28) Blue Star valet Paris Jackson with DWW guests Dawn Erickson, Rich Hovsepian, SBC Medical Reserve Corp volunteer coordinator, and valet Riley Scott (photo

by Priscilla)

McElroy, Fred Kass, Kayla Rosen, Maria Long, Paul Jaconette, Jon Stephen Hedges, Larry Gosselin, Mindy Denson, and Mark Alfano.

Hair We Go Again

Bre Czenczelewski, Team Brunette co-captain, evades Team Blonde players Megan Leiphardt and Gracie Boelsems (photo by Aaron Sawtelle)

Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Chapter CEO and executive director Rhonda Spiegel and Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative co-founder Gerd Jordano in front of fans (photo by Aaron Sawtelle)

Feli Rueff, Team Brunette co-captain, raises BvB SB trophy after Brunettes win 28-14 (photo by Aaron Sawtelle)

It was an event to dye for when the Alzheimer’s Association hosted its fourth annual Blondes versus Brunettes flag football game at Bishop Diego High School after three years at the Santa Barbara Polo Club.

The event, which attracted more than 1,000 spectators and in four years has raised more than $250,000 for the cause, featured the Blondes led by Kiersten Hess and co-captain Heather Moine, and the Brunettes, captained by Breanna Czenczelewski and her co-captain Feli Rueff.

“It’s always great fun to watch,” says Gerd Jordano, chair of the women’s auxiliary.

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The organization’s veep of development and communications, Mitchel Sloan, emceed the summer sizzler, which was won by Team Brunette 28 -14 and was expected to raise $100,000.

In California alone, there are half a million people living with Alzheimer’s, including more than 10,000 in Santa Barbara County.

An unforgettable afternoon.

Birth-daze A bundle of boffo bashes marked the 14th anniversary of my half-century, culminating with dinner at Lucky’s with Robert and Robin Fell when the whole eatery sang “Happy Birthday”.

Earlier in the week, local author Alicia St. John organized a sunset soirée at Pierre Lafond attended by Geonine Moriarty, Jane Burkemper, Susan St. John, and Jean von Wittenburg.

The icing on the proverbial cake came when perspicacious pianist Gil Rosas played “Happy Birthday” to me over the phone!

Instant Classics The Lobero Theatre was culturally gridlocked when the Music Academy of the West hosted a festive feast of Mendelssohn and Beethoven works, dedicated to Robert Weinman, now a board member of the Santa Barbara Symphony.

An Octet for Strings launched the entertaining concert wrapping with Septet in E-flat Major with violinist Edward Dusinberre, violist Geraldine Walther, cellist Andras Fejer, Richard Hawley on clarinet, bassoonist Benjamin Kamins, and Julie Landsman on horn.

Forty-eight hours later a string quartet recital enlivened the senses at Hahn Hall with a Jeremy Denk chamber concert with works by Haydn, Schumann and Mozart back at the Lobero wrapping the week.

On the Money TV talk-show queen Ellen DeGeneres is in the top ranking of the new Forbes list of small-screen celebrity earnings with a hefty $77 million.

Top of the list is 66-year-old Dr. Phil McGraw, who raked in an impressive $79 million from his TV talker.

Acerbic judge Judy Sheindlin made the list with $47 million in annual earnings from her popular syndicated courtroom reality show.

According to Forbes, annual income includes money from additional activities such as producing, on TV performances, endorsements, and merchandising.

Don Juan?

As dashing King Felipe of Spain and his wife, Queen Letizia, who visited our Eden by the Beach four years ago, wrap up their successful three-day state visit to London with Queen Elizabeth, a critical new book is published about his father, King Juan Carlos, who abdicated the throne in 2014, and his extraordinary sex life.

The revelatory tome by military historian and essayist Martinez Ingles claims the libidinous monarch had an astounding 5,000 lovers and is described as “the true story of an amoral king, unscrupulous, shameless, ambitious, authoritarian,

Robert and Robin Fell and Cat Pollon celebrate Richard’s 64th at Lucky’s

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authentic sexual predator who had thousands of sexual adventures,” The King of 5,000 Lovers even alludes to the late Princess Diana, as one of his former possible conquests when she and Prince Charles stayed with the Spanish royals at their palace in Majorca in 1986, a rumor I have known about for many years, but Diana always denied it, telling my friend and Daily Mail royal reporter Richard Kay that he was charming “but a little too attentive.”

Such claims are not particularly new, as five years ago a Spanish society writer claimed the merry monarch had bedded 1,500 women. But the new allegations, compiled by a retired high-ranking Spanish army officer, are staggering for the sheer details about the number of his conquests.

In one six-month period alone, the ex-king, who was in the Royal Box at Wimbledon when Spaniard Garbine Muguruza thrashed Venus Williams in the women’s final is said to have had 62 lovers, while, in what the book calls his “passionate period” between 1976 and 1994, Juan Carlos apparently slept with 2,154 women.

Even in the so-called winter period of 2005 to 2014, when he was aged between 67 and 76 and apparently slowing down, the book says he slept with 191 different lovers.

Ingles, also drawing on reports by spies for dictator General Francisco Franco, claims the former king, now 79, had 332 sexual relationships while at military academy “which is good for any actors specializing in porn films – four per week.”

The book labels Juan Carlos “an authentic royal stud” and a monarch “who might have left behind more than 20 of his own children.” He says the list of the ex-king’s best known lovers “represent the tip of a monumental sexual iceberg.”

According to Ingles, he took his first lover at 16 and was aged 66 when he took his last mistress, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, a voluptuous German-born divorceé whom he liked to refer to as his Prozac.

Casanova would be jealous.

Sightings: Actress Marsha Mason at the Montecito Coffee Shop...Former supermodel Cindy Crawford noshing at Ca’Dario...TV gadget guru Ron Popeil masticating at Lucky’s Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301.

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it takes to go a block on San Ysidro.

People are going to circumvent that by going through residential roads including Sinaloa, East Mountain, and Highway 192,” Sneddon said.

A tentative meeting at Montecito Planning Commission is scheduled for August 16, to discuss these parallel projects, and they will be on the agenda of the Montecito Association’s September board meeting.

vation and restoration, having brought back the Victorian Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica and the Variety Arts Center in downtown Los Angeles.

They also created Caesar’s Magical Empire in Las Vegas. The couple is looking at their new venture as a personal playhouse for their friends in Montecito and Santa Barbara.

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MERRAG News

As the Alamo and Whittier fires were burning around our area earlier this month, MERRAG (Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group) held a well-timed training class on Emergency Preparedness.

“Now is the time to prepare your ‘togo kit’ with all the necessary paperwork and irreplaceable items, which you can just pick up if you need to evacuate,” says MERRAG president Sue Ziliotto. “While preparing that kit for your family, there are other members of your family (for whom) you also need to prepare their own to-go kits: your family animal companions.”

MERRAG’s next training class will focus on Emergency Preparedness for Pets, and attendees will have the opportunity to learn how to make a disaster plan for pets. “Some Red Cross disaster shelters do not accept pets,” Ziliotto explained, adding that it is imperative to have a contingency plan in place. During this class, attendees will see an actual “to-go kit” filled with the necessary items, as well as a fully loaded first-aid kit.

Topics including pet stress, crating, designated caregivers, pet CPR, and other items will be covered on Thursday, August 10, at 10 am to noon at MFPD Station 1, 595 San Ysidro Road. For questions or more information, contact president Sue Ziliotto at 969-0409, or nacheech@verizon.net; or Joyce Reed at the MFPD, 969-2537, or jreed@montecitofire.com.

In Business: Montecito Brow Studio

With nearly a year in business behind her, Montecito Brow Studio owner Michelle Kass tells us business is booming at her quaint space on Middle Road, and attributes her success to loyal clientele, her talented staff, and word-of-mouth referral business. “It’s exceeded any expectations I may have had,” Kass told us recently during a visit to the studio, which is located at 116 Middle Road, just steps from Coast Village.

A brow aficionado since she was a teen, Kass grew up in Montecito and attended Montecito Union School.

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Montecito Brow Studio owner Michelle Kass (center) and her team, Jeana Gerritsen and Natalie Velasquez

and knew she wanted to learn from famous brow guru Anastasia Soare, who launched her beauty brand in 1997 after being endorsed by Oprah Winfrey. “I knew I wanted to learn techniques from the best of the best,” Kass said, explaining that her career began while working at an “Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Studio” counter at Nordstrom many years ago, when she got the chance to work with and learn from her mentor. Kass says she thrives on helping women create their perfect brows, showing her clients the perfect shape for their facial structure and features.

From Nordstrom, Kass went on to work for Salon Montecito on Coast Village, and after dreaming about opening her own space, found a charming retail building on Middle Road. “It was perfect, and I saw the potential here,” she said, adding that the building had dark walls, carpeting, and an office-like feel. “I set out to make it feel like a tranquil, spalike atmosphere, so clients can come in and really relax, even if it’s just for thirty minutes to get their brows done.”

With white walls, black trim, contemporary furniture, new lighting, and modern wood floors, the threeroom salon is peaceful and classy.

The salon offers brow waxing as well as other waxing services, and now offers sugaring, which Kass says is a different type of brow shaping that is not as common as waxing. “Some people like it better, so we wanted to give our clients the option,” she said.

The salon also offers microblading, a newer form of cosmetic tattooing, which uses extremely fine needles to

place ink in tiny strokes in the shape of eyebrow hair. “It looks natural and is great for those who have overtweezed or have naturally thin or light eyebrows,” Kass said.

Kass and her team, Natalie Velasquez and Jeana Gerritsen, serve clients Monday through Friday from 9 am to 6 pm, as well as every other Sunday. Montecito Brow Studio is located at 116 Middle Road, with convenient parking out front. For more information, and to book online, visit www.montecitobrowstudio.com.

The Larsens’ New Venture

by James Buckley

When former longtime Montecito residents Milt and Arlene Larsen (they now live on the Mesa) bought the former Café del Sol across from the Andrée Clark bird refuge in Baja Montecito, they weren’t quite sure what they would do with the property, but their plans included opening up a version of Hollywood’s Magic Castle, which Milt founded nearly 55 years ago.

That endeavor is now on its way to becoming a reality, and the couple plan to open The Magic Castle Cabaret as a private club, perhaps as early as January 2018. “It will not be a restaurant,” Milt informs us. “It will be modeled after centuries-old European Cabaret nightclubs and feature top magicians and variety entertainers.”

Milt says he wants to make the building look like a summer palace built by a phony Duchess that once existed on a lake in Northern Spain.

The Larsens have a history of reno-

The cutting of the grass reminds me of August practice. – Garth Brooks

UCSB has agreed to archive Milt Larsen’s extensive collection of variety show memorabilia and takes possession of the collection July 26

Over the past 60 years, Milt Larsen amassed an enormous library of books, periodicals, films, phonograph records, and manuscripts of variety stage and film memorabilia (Vaudeville). His desire to share his collection with the public led him to discover that the most advanced university for state-of-the-art preservation of history and the arts was the University of California in Santa Barbara.

The Milt and Arlene Variety Collection is now part of the Special Collections Department of the new multi-million-dollar library at UCSB. On July 26, his priceless 78-rpm recordings of more than 10,000 show-business personalities were scheduled to be moved from his studio in Hollywood to their new home at UCSB. Larsen will continue hosting his two radio shows based on the records (“Hear Them Again (for the first time)” on COX Cable channel 963 on Saturday from 7 to 8 pm, and “Hit Parade Cavalcade” from 8 to 9 pm), but the originals will be preserved for future generations to enjoy for posterity.

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3862

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Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3862 for the EL ESTERO DRAIN RESTORATION PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 P.M. Thursday, August 17, 2017 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, “EL ESTERO DRAIN RESTORATION PROJECT, Bid No. 3862.”

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: implementation of a remedial action plan and habitat restoration plan for a drainage channel located south of the El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The project scope of work includes: mobilization/site preparation; delineation and excavation of impacted soils; modification of east end of the drainage swale; construction of turtle access ramp; construction of permeable paver access road; provide underground autosampler conduits; completion of habitat restoration activities; provide temporary irrigation system; and site cleanup and demobilization. The Engineer’s estimate is $450,000.

There will be an optional Pre-Bid Conference scheduled for Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 1:00 P.M. in the Public Works Conference Room located at 630 Garden St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California Class A or C-27 Contractor’s license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. In addition, the prime or subcontractor performing excavation must possess the HAZ certification. The bidder shall be responsible for ensuring that workers handling hazardous materials have the appropriate HAZWOPER certifications.

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 Andrew Grubb, Project Engineer, 805-564-5404.

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 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.

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 10164 or 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations.

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.

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MUSIC ACADEMY (Continued from page 24)

Water is a theme running through the piece, of course.

Yeah, I knew I wanted to do something aquatic because it was written for a concert in Miami, and I’d just been reading about climate-change science for the area. It sounds terrible, but I couldn’t stop thinking that this place where I was going to play it would probably be under water in a few decades. Water is omnipresent in the way the city is laid out. It’s beautiful and placid, but eventually the ocean is going to swallow everything up. So, I had the idea of waves of music that start out placid but eventually envelop everything that comes into their path. Having a very short, detailed sound and then swallowing it up with resonance. Two pianos and a whole mass of percussion can create that.

Do you normally have visual associations or metaphors in mind when composing?

Not really. I tend to work very abstractly. I think I write music about music, as turned in and dry as that sounds. What I’m thinking about is architectural abstract structural questions, technical compositional games I can play with. After that, it’s a question of “Does it sound beautiful? Are there emotions suggested?” But it’s kind of random, almost happenstance. It comes from somewhere I’m not aware of. It’s very mysterious to me. My music is very emotional, and I feel a lot when I’m writing, but often they’re totally different than what you might expect. That’s fascinating, how music can simultaneously be so abstract and yet so piercing, getting to the heart of an emotion that you didn’t even know you were approaching.

What do you look for when judging a piano competition?

I have no experience with that. I only played just a few when I was a kid. It’s another world. But I do have strong opinions about piano playing. What I like is someone who is really engaging with musical ideas. Competitions can get too bogged down in technical execution. We can forget that actually being a musician is the higher goal.

That’s what makes my ears pick up, a beautifully executed phrase, a structural concept. I can also get on my soapbox about rhythmic clarity. When a pianist can use it in an expressive way, I really love it.

Do you have any ideas what direction the composition for the winner will take?

Will you collaborate?

I’ll have to wait and see who it ends up being. I won’t start writing until long after it’s over. It will be great to have the luxury of knowing a bit about them, as well as their playing....

It can really be everything from the

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Pianistcomposer Timo Andres multi-tasks in Santa Barbara

feeling they give you when they’re on stage, to the ideas their putting across in the music, down to the level of what they’re technically good at, or something they don’t like to do. It’s a nice challenge. Just the idea that it will get played a bunch out of the gate is pretty thrilling for me.

This Week at the Music Academy

Thursday, July 27: Nicholas Mann grew up surrounded by music and musicians, and began collaborating at an early age with such noted artists as Itzhak Perlman and Lynn Harrell (the latter is the cellist who just appeared this past Monday at Hahn Hall with a preview of a documentary about his life). That might have had something to do with the fact that his father is Robert Mann, the now 96-year old violinist, composer, and conductor who was a founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, serving as first violinist for more than half a century. Like his famous father – with whom he has performed more than 100 duo concerts over the years – Nicholas Mann is a violinist of similarly great renown, one who has performed extensively as a recitalist and soloist, including appearances in the Great Performers Series at Alice Tully Hall. The younger Mann also served as a founding member of a famed foursome, the Mendelssohn String Quartet, which lasted form 1979-2010.

Currently, he’s the chair of the String Department at Manhattan School of Music and also serves on the faculty of Juilliard School. It’s this teaching angle that Mann comes to MAW, where he’ll make his public debut leading the violin masterclass this afternoon (3:15 pm; Lehmann Hall; $10).... Also, the opera! (See above).

Friday, July 28: Today’s MERIT recital is the culmination of a twoweek program in which talented

musicians ages 11-18 receive lessons and coaching under the mentorship of MAW Fellows, who themselves are studying with the accomplished professionals who make up the MAW faculty and visiting artists. The payit-forward program comes to a close with today’s concert at high noon in Hahn Hall, probably the finest acoustic venue the youngsters will have played to date. It’s free!... This afternoon’s Sonata Recital is another debut in MAW’s festive 70th season, as the Collaborative Piano Fellows pair up with other instrumental Fellows to present an all-sonata program under the leadership of faculty artist Jonathan Feldman. This is when all of his coaching – as well as that of other faculty members – in the masterclasses all summer come to fruition for the general public with a smorgasbord of sonic sensations (3:30 pm; Hahn; $35).

Saturday, July 29: The reprise of Elixir of Love at the Granada this afternoon isn’t enough for a single Saturday for the academy in this spectacular celebratory season. So, make way for another new event: the Solo Piano Competition, which pits the eight talented instrumentalists whose category isn’t represented in the opera orchestra vying for the prizes. The stakes are sizable for the 5 pm event at Hahn Hall, as the winner not only receives The Luria Prize (a cash award) but also the opportunity to perform on a national tour in Steinway & Sons venues, when the pieces will include a new work to be composed by jurist Timo Andres specifically for the triumphant keyboardist (see Andres’s comments above).

Monday, July 31: As the fourth and final summer of the Music Academy’s innovative partnership with the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra will be presenting the largest classical music event in Santa Barbara’s history. More than 6,500 people are

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expected to attend tonight’s 70th Anniversary Community Concert at Santa Barbara City College’s La Playa Stadium that also represents the final performance of Alan Gilbert’s tenure as the Philharmonic’s music director.

The program begins with “Three Latin American Dances” by American composer Gabriela Lena Frank – who was also in attendance early in the summer for MAW’s inaugural Classical Evolution/Revolution Conference – performed by the Fellow-filled Academy Festival Orchestra conducted by Joshua Gersen. The piece is a nod to Santa Barbara’s annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta celebration, which begins on Wednesday. Then the Fellows will sit back and watch as the Gilbert-led Philharmonic plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, featuring superstar Music Academy alumna soprano Susanna Phillips (‘02,’03), alumna mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke (‘02), tenor Joe Kaiser, and bass Morris Robinson as soloists, plus the Los Angeles Master Chorale in the work’s iconic “Ode to Joy” segment.

The concert, sans intermission, closes with a fireworks display over the ocean. Gates open at 6 pm, the concert begins at 7:30 pm, and note that all of the non-Premiere Reserved ($100) tickets are general admission on the stadium’s bleachers. Feel free to bring seat cushions for stadium seats.

Tuesday, August 1: New York Phil week continues with masterclasses by symphony members serving as guests artists this week. Two of the five Philharmonic principal musicians participating trombonist – Joseph Alessi and percussionist Daniel Druckman – lead master classes today, at 1 pm in Weinman and 3:15 pm in Hahn, respectively. Admission is $10. Tonight, they’re joined by Fellow principals bassoonist Judith LeClair, cellist Carter Brey, and concertmaster (and MAW) alumnus Frank Huang (‘98,’99), plus soprano Phillips and the other two members of the N.Y. Philharmonic String Quartet for the weekly Festival Artist Series concert at the Lobero. The program includes a world premiere by Timo Andres (see above), plus works by Andre Previn, two Ralph Sauer-arranged pieces (by Albioni/Giazotto and Debussy), and a Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 (7:30 pm; Lobero; $42).

Wednesday, August 2: More masterclasses with Philharmonic principals: cellist Brey at 1 pm and bassoonist LeClair at 3:15 pm, both in Lehmann Hall. Tonight, the celebrated soprano and musical ambassador Renee Fleming makes her Academy debut leading a masterclass at Hahn Hall (7:30 pm; $20), prior to singing Strauss on Saturday at the Granada to close out the summer festival.

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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)

FRIDAY, JULY 28 Fools-ish Endeavor? – Plaza Playhouse Theater’s revival of Neil Simon’s Fools, a comic fable from the early 1980s that never quite notched a place among the playwright’s most popular works, represents the first local production of the 1880s-set play in memory. Stefan Wayne stars as schoolteacher Leon Tolchinsky, who has arrived in a small Ukrainian village that has been plagued with a 200-year-old curse that makes everyone dumb as dirt. He manages to fall in love with the beautiful Sophia (Eleanor Overby), who, when asked her favorite color, responds, “Yellow... because it doesn’t stick to your fingers as much.” Leon has a rival in Count Gregor, played by Alex Hawkins, who has the swagger of a Southern good ol’ boy and the pomposity of someone who knows he is important, but is too stupid to know much else. Leon also has to navigate life in the village, which includes a fish seller, a mail carrier, a magistrate, a butcher, and a forgetful shepherd, and has 24 hours to break the curse lest he, too, become an idiot. The scenario is directed by David Holmes, who retired a couple of years ago after three decades as head of the theater department at San Marcos High School (where he was replaced by Montecito-

raised Riley Berris). Among his credits are 33 plays, 32 musicals, and 29 talent shows, so if anyone can make sense of Simon’s shenanigans-filled work – which also features Deborah Cristobal, Bob Larson, Allan Stewart-Oaten, Maia Mook, Van Riker, and Claudia Kashin among the cast – Holmes is the man. WHEN: 8 pm Friday & Saturday and August 4-5, plus 2:30 pm Sunday and August 6 WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $15 general, $12 students & seniors INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com SATURDAY, JULY 29 Groovin’ in the Grove – The classic car and vintage travel-trailer show returns to Santa Barbara Elks Lodge #613 with a dozen different categories of competition that range from bests of Ford, GM, and Chevy to best truck, mopar, and the Roots of Rodding award. The free familyfriendly event offers visitors a chance to view more than 100 classic cars and hot rods along with private tours of 20 mid-century Vintage Travel Trailers and tow vehicles. Live music, available food, and a no-host bar complete the event, which helps support our local area veterans. Day-

THURSDAY, JULY 27 PCPA Strikes a Pose – Disney’s Newsies, The Musical is based on the 1992 movie about the historical newsboy strike of 1899 that shook the ivory towers occupied by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. It tells how a band of underdogs took on the most powerful names in New York, as the poor and orphaned teenagers, who sell newspapers for a penny a pop, are pushed to the limit when moguls Hearst and Pulitzer try to take away more of their meager profits. The downtrodden dealers from across the city take a stand and strike against the powerful publishers before their cause becomes even bigger when they realize they’re fighting for all the children working in unfair and unsafe conditions across the nation. The musical – which features music by multiple Oscar and Grammy winner Alan Menken, lyrics

by Jack Feldman, based on the book by Harvey Fierstein – was nominated for eight 2012 Tony Awards, winning for Best Score and Best Choreography, and played on Broadway from 2012-14, more than 1,000 performances in all, while the national tour that followed concluded just this past summer. Now, PCPA Theaterfest is bringing the show that features fabulous music, electrifying dance numbers with dazzling choreography, and a story that’s full of heart to Solvang, where it plays outdoors under the stars for a three-week run that, unlike its original Broadway production, can’t be extended. Veteran PCPA artist Micheal Jenkinson choreographs and directs, while the cast includes company resident artists Katie Wackowski, Matt Koenig, and Kitty Balay. WHEN: Previews tonight & tomorrow, opens Saturday, plays through August 20 WHERE: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, Solvang COST: $40.50 to $51.50, with discounts for students, children, seniors, and the preview performances INFO: 922-8313 or www.pcpa.org

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, JULY 28 Day-Tripping at SBMA – Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Atelier event tonight invites guests to “Get Out of Town” for a surreal summer vacation – even if only for a few hours.

Inspired by the exhibition You Are Going On A Trip: Modern and Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Atelier’s intimate and irreverent interactions with art and artists in the museum’s galleries gets even more surreal this evening, beginning with a bout of night croquet on the front steps facing State Street, where gawkers can see if you can get the ball through the wickets.

The madness and mayhem continue inside, where the offerings include the “Picasso Meets Warhol Pop Print Studio”, performances

by Helios Dance Theater, and a curated mix of music by DJ Garth Trinidad from KCRW. Passed hors d’oeuvres and specially created and curated signature cocktails from Fire & Ice Events completes the affair that takes the notion of travel and escape (mental or physical) to artistic extremes. Those who sign up for a new SBMA membership by this evening will receive free Atelier admission for tonight’s event.

WHEN: 5:30 to 8:30 pm WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: $30 general, $25 museum members INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

of registration for car owners ($40) begins at 6:30 am. WHEN: 9 am to 3 pm WHERE: 150 N. Kellogg Ave., Goleta COST: free INFO: www. groovininthegrove.org

Elegy for Eikenberry – Santa Barbara lost one of its brightest musical luminaries when Robinson Eikenberry died unexpectedly of a heart attack on July 4 at the age

of 47. Ever since he moved to town at age 14 – his father, Arthur, taught math at Crane Country School for six years before his own death back in 1986 – Eikenberry came into his own as a sound/recording engineer, working with a whole host of Santa Barbara –based singer-songwriters and other artists, famous and otherwise.

But his gifts extended beyond expertly capturing on tape (and later digital) the best sounds of his colleagues, as his warm, loving, and always upbeat personality also brought out artists’ own emotions and explorations, which he guided like a guru into stunning artistic achievements. Not surprisingly, they are paying tribute to Eikenberry with a couple of events today, beginning with an eight-hour celebration of his life at 10 am at The Meadow, 801 Cold Spring Road, followed by a concert dubbed “Fueled By Love” at the Lobero Theatre. Among the friends and clients who will perform their songs that Eikenberry recorded over his nearly three-decade career are Glen Phillips, Karla Bonoff, Alastair Greene, Matt Nathanson, Jesse Rhodes, Cory Sipper, Sean McCue (Summercamp), Susan Marie Reeves and her daughter Sierra, Sean Kennedy, Woodburning Project, Nicola Gordon, Jim Connolly, Danny Briere, Jen Baron, and others. Visit www.facebook.com/ robinsoneikenberryforever for updated info. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: free (a donation of $10 or more is encouraged to help cover the costs) $10 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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Taking Flight – Students of the Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Dance’s 2017 Summer Intensives program debut three collective works highlighting their creative exploration of contemporary movement, literally from the ground up. Working in apparatus duets that include aerial fabrics, single-point trapeze, and cotton corde, the advanced dancers will explore relational concepts (with the apparatus, with other dancers, and with themselves) and how they might influence physical aspirations and limitations. The 11 young artists offer the afternoon of “inspired flight at the intersection of athleticism and kinetic poetry” under the direction of Ninette Paloma with choreography

by Serra Benson, Naphtali Bollenbaugh, Amelie Funk, Rachna Hailey, Lydia Johnson, Kara Le, Lucia Metcalf, Olivia Powell, Eleanor Simon, Skyler Storm, and Emily Stratton.

WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $25 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org SUNDAY, JULY 30

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FRIDAY, JULY 28 Freaky Fiesta Preview – Who knew there was such a thing as combining heavy metal and mariachi music before Metalachi fused the two and landed a spot on 10th season of America’s Got Talent? Now the band comprising Veca de la Rockha, Pancho Rockafeller, El Cucuy, Ramon Holiday, Maximilian Sanchez, and Warren Moscow – who created their own genre by mixing the highly energetic sounds of heavy metal with the traditional Mexican folk music of mariachi – is coming to the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom just days before Santa Barbara’s annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta celebration. Does it work? Well, they didn’t win on the TV competition. Still, it will only cost you $10 to see them mash up the genres live. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 3400 East Highway 246, Santa Ynez COST: $10 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www. chumashcasino.com

Fiesta Firing up – Every year, La Recepción del Presidente unofficially inaugurates Fiesta week with an evening in the lovely al fresco site of Plaza del Sol at the DoubleTree Resort.

The event brings together the history of Old Spanish Days via presidents past, with nearly all of living former heads in attendance, with the burgeoning excitement of the Fiesta to come just days later. The official receiving line includes 2017 La Presidente Rhonda Henderson and her family, plus her “Fiesta family” including the Junior and Senior Spirits of Fiesta, and Vice Presidentes. Guests decked in their finest Fiesta attire will meditate on the 2017 theme of “Unity through Community” while enjoying a Mexican buffet with all the trimmings, dance

entertainment from the Spirits, and a performance by the two-time Grammy award winning all-female ensemble Mariachi Divas. Then, as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean across the street, dance the night away to a curated mix from DJ Hecktik. Be sure to check Fiesta’s official website, www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org, for up-to-date details on all the events slated for Wednesday through next Sunday, August 6, including Digs, the celebration at the zoo next Thursday, and the band/entertainment line-up at the two Mercados (De La Guerra and Del Norte). WHEN: 6 to 10 pm WHERE: 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $110 (in advance only) INFO: 9628101 or www.oldspanishdays-fiesta. org •MJ

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SATURDAY, JULY 29 THEATER LEAGUE Titan of the Telecaster – Grammy-nominated guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bill Kirchen was granted that tremendous Titan title by Guitar Player Magazine, the well-respected journal for ax-players around the world. Kirchin – who first came to fame for his trademark licks that drove the seminal Commander Cody classic “Hot Rod Lincoln” up the charts to the Top 10 – has long embraced a musical tradition that embraces rock ‘n’ roll, blues, and bluegrass, with a particular bent toward Texas-Western swing and California honky tonk. Sharing the stage for tonight’s Sings Like Hell concert is early SLH veteran Jimmie Dale Gilmore, who has been writing and playing songs that blend elements of folk, rock, country, blues, and bluegrass for more than half a century, singing them in a high Texas twang that is eerily compelling. Opening is his Lubbock-raised son, Colin, who has forged an affinity for fellow homeboy Buddy Holly along with Texan Townes Van Zandt, shaped by the influence of more aggressive British Isles bands The Clash and The Pogues, into an Americana pop rock sound that has won plenty of praise. The concert kicks off season No. 41, which means Sings Like Hell is entering its 21st year, which is about two decades longer than anyone might have thought the subscription series would survive when it began. The new six-show series features a meaningful mix of singersongwriters making SLH debuts along with some favorites from over the years, including a September date with Peter Case, who not only inaugurated the whole thing off back in 1996, he also lent the series its name, drawn from the title of a covers album from the former Plimsouls leader. Even more amazing: the subscription rate has gone up just $24 from its original price back in 1996. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $40 in advance, $45 day of show ($174 for the six-show series) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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DIRTY DANCING MON OCT 9 7:30PM TUE OCT 10 7:30PM SANTA BARBARA SYMPHONY

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7/12/17 10:54 AM MONTECITO JOURNAL

Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. 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.

In Montecito, Life’s A Beach

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ummertime in Montecito, to me, has always meant Hammonds Meadow, Miramar and Butterfly beaches, along with Coast Village Road, all bustling with a mix of residents and visitors day into evening. From weddings to birthday parties and sunset ocean walks, this is a special area. From family visits growing up to traditions with my daughter like a sunset beach gathering on the last day of summer with friends and families, the beach is where it’s at.

The beach area in Montecito consists mainly of the few streets from Butterfly Lane and Channel Drive to the west, to the multi-acre and oceanfront estates of Fernald Point to the east and those homes, hotels, churches, and services situated in between, on the ocean side of the 101 freeway. All homes within this area described (and properties featured today) are located within the Montecito Union School District.

To live near or on the beach, in a condo a block from the ocean or a home on the sand in Montecito, one can plan to spend from about $850,000 (for a one-bedroom “no ocean view” condo) to as much as $25 million or more for a larger home on the sand or an oceanfront estate on Channel Drive. Beachfront and even those homes located a block or so from the ocean are always in demand.

In addition to the free-standing homes in the area, condominium communities such as Bonnymede and Montecito Shores provide a country club lifestyle with tennis, swimming, clubhouses, beach access, and more, and are located across the street from the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel and the Coral Casino.

Just another block and across the freeway, one will find the fine shops, restaurants, and services on Coast Village Road.

So, grab your towel, your sunscreen, and get ready to spend the rest of the summer – and perhaps the rest of your life at the beach – in Montecito.

1308 Plaza De Sonadores: $1,295,000

This is a recently renovated one-bedroom, one-bathroom, ground-floor condominium in Montecito’s guard-gated and ocean-adjacent, Bonnymede community. This unit includes a private south-facing patio and is the lowest-priced condo in the complex at this moment.

Life here is enhanced by the amenities, which are covered under the $528 per month homeowner’s association fees, and go toward the maintenance of the common area tennis court, swimmers pool, and private beach with restrooms.

This unit was recently reduced in price and features natural oak and tile floors, an updated kitchen and bath, dual pane windows, and is available to be purchased fully furnished.

87 Seaview Drive: $1,935,000 This 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, topfloor condo is located within the Montecito Shores community.

This complex shares the 24-hour, guard-gated access with Bonnymede, and Montecito Shores also offers tennis, swimming pool and beach access, to sup-

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port the ocean-side country club lifestyle.

Underground parking with above-ground guest parking, pathways to stroll throughout the complex to the beach, and being near the shopping and services on Coast Village Road are additional selling points.

Being on the top floor, this unit offers higher ceilings and treetop views. Also, with a recent remodel, there is now a state-of-the-art air-conditioning unit with forced air heating. Association fees monthly on this unit are $1,100.

73 Olive Mill Road: $3,995,000

This landmark 5,000+ square-foot Tudor family estate (with pool) is just a short block in either direction from the restaurants and conveniences on Coast Village Road, and in the other direction, the Four Seasons Biltmore and Butterfly Beach.

This significant home comprises 6 bedrooms and 6.5 baths, along with guest quarters featuring 1 bedroom, a bathroom, and a living room, making this an interesting opportunity to create a family compound.

The open social rooms, reading nooks, patios, and landscaping surrounding the home create a comfortable, beachy, yet elegant environment.

1558 Miramar Beach: $4,050,000

This was recently reduced in price and is currently the only home officially on the market for sale on Miramar Beach. Located on the sand, with views up and down the beach and out to the Channel Islands. This 3-story custom home is designed so that natural light shines in, making good use of the high ceilings on all three floors with glass doors that open on all levels lending to wide-open views of the sea. The house’s two full modern kitchens come equipped with features such as a Bertazzoni stove and Miele dishwasher.

Teak and Brazilian hardwood flooring, teak wood cabinetry, plaster walls, recessed lighting, and radiant heated floors on each level are just some of the amenities.

••• For more information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with the listing agents, contact me directly at Mark@Villagesite.com or call/ text (805) 698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ • The Voice of the Village •

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Individual/group sessions. Specialized in CORRECTIVE EXERCISE – injury prevention and post surgery. House calls

TUTORING/CLASSES Guitar teacher (30 years of composing, performing, and teaching) and excellent communicator offers lessons to kids and adults (beginners welcome). Lessons are clear, engaging, effective and tailored to your learning style and musical preferences, be it pop, jazz, funk, disco, rock, metal,

$8 minimum

available.

Victoria Frost- CPT & CES 805-895-9227

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HEALTH & WELLNESS SERVICES Trained and certified instructor will teach you how to meditate to create peace and bliss in your life. Sandra 636-3089.

Learn to Meditate SB native, Tom G. O’Brien is a trained teacher with 25 years of experience. Graduate of Crane,Thacher & Wesleyan U. See Independent article on “Rupa Meditation” of 7/6/2017. Serenity is your birthright; meditation is the key. Local references. 805.453.8965 rupameditation@gmail.com LONG/SHORT TERM RENTALS Montecito Rental For rent a beautiful one-bedroom poolside furnished guest house on estate. Beautiful quiet setting.

Jay Dooreck (805) 455-2925 JDooreck@mac.com Solvang apt sublet 9/4 - 11/10 2/2 fully furnished maid service perfect getaway $1700/month email: audgraz70@gmail.com STORAGE SPACE AVAILABLE Remodeling? Need reasonable storage space?

Private & pristine, prime east side location.

225 square feet or 650 square feet.

Going rate $2.59 square foot you pay $1.50 square foot. Call Sierra Property Management 805-692-1520 ask for Nancy K REAL ESTATE SERVICES REVERSE MORTGAGE SERVICES Reverse Mortgage Specialist Conventional & Jumbo 805.770.5515 No mortgage payments as long as you live in your home!

Gayle Nagy Executive Loan Advisor gnagy@rpm-mtg.com NMLS #251258 RPM Mortgage, Inc. 319 E. Carrillo St., Ste 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 LendUSA, LLC dba RPM Mortgage NMLS #1938 - Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the CA Residential Mortgage Lending Act. | C-294 | Equal Housing Opportunity ESTATE SERVICES Live-In Available.

Estate caretaker, manager, companion.

(805) 636-4456 ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s

27 July – 3 August 2017

LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY (805) 565-1860 Voted #1 Best Pest & Termite Co.

BUSINESS CARDS FOR VOL 20#48, Dec 10, ’14

Kevin O’Connor, President (805) 687-6644 ● www.OConnorPest.com

Hydrex Written Warranty Merrick Construction Residential ● Commercial ● Industrial ● Agricultural Bill Vaughan Shine Blow Dry Just Good Doggies Musgrove(revised) Loving Pet Care in my Home Valori Fussell(revised) Lynch Construction $25 for play day Good Doggies $40 for overnight Carole (805) 452-7400 Pemberly carolebennett@cox.net Beautiful eyelash (change to Forever Beautiful Spa) Luis Esperanza Simon Hamilton Enroll Now Free Estimates ● Same Day Service, Monday-Saturday

Free Limited Termite Inspections ● Eco Smart Products

Licensed, Bonded & Insured

www.MontecitoVillage.com® Broker Specialist In Birnam Wood. Member Since 1985

www.BirnamWoodEstates.com BILL VAUGHAN 805.455.1609 BROKER/PRINCIPAL

CalBRE # 00660866

ART CLASSES 695-8850 Portico Gallery

1235 Coast Village Rd. • Convenient Parking Beg/Adv . Small Classes. Ages 8 -108

SCULPTURE RESTORATION & RESURFACING Indoor and Outdoor Stone, bronze or other Material Museum Quality Restoration References Available

JOANNE DUBY - FRANCINE KIRSCH 805 794 6618 - 805 636 7522 joanne@joanneduby.com

Friendship Center     

We Share the Care!

Adult Day Center Respite Care Brain Fitness Programs Caregiver Support Groups

Veterans Assistance In Montecito and Goleta

805.969.0859 friendshipcentersb.org

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-Efficient30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

WOODWORKING/REPAIRS Artisan Custom Woodworks. Repairs on doors, windows, furniture, kitchen cabinets.

Small jobs welcomed.

Ruben Silva 805-350 0857.

Contractor Lc#820521

27 July – 3 August 2017

License #421701581 #425801731

GARDEN CONSULTING LANDSCAPE INSPECTIONS Skilled troubleshooting Gardener training Landscape inspections for Escrow, Construction Certified Arborist & Professional Horticulturist (805)886-2424 www.tierrasage.com HANDYMAN/CONSTRUCTION S H Property and Repair Specializing in handyman services, flooring and remodels 805-315-6419 Mr. Fit-it Handyman. Specializing in structural wood repair, FREE wood

inspection for water or termites damage & all your home repair needs. Sam Campbell.

805- 455-6509.

DONATIONS NEEDED Santa Barbara Bird Sanctuary Menagerie 2340 Lillie Avenue Summerland CA 93067 (805) 969-1944 Donate to the Parrot Pantry!

At SB Bird Sanctuary, backyard farmer’s bounty is our birds best bowl of food! The flock goes bananas for your apples, oranges & other homegrown fruits & veggies.

Volunteers Do you have a special talent or skill? Do you need community service hours? The flock at SB Bird Sanctuary could always use some extra love and socialization. Call us and let’s talk about how you can help.

We’re not supposed to have a break in August if we haven’t passed the appropriations bills. – Dan Webster

(805) 969-1944 Over 25 Years in Montecito

Over 25 Years in Montecito

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LUCKY’S . . . for lunch • Smaller Plates and Starter Salads •

• Main Course Salads •

Iceberg Lettuce Wedge, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10. roquefort or thousand island dressing

Sliced Steak Salad, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27. arugula, radicchio, endive, sautéed onion

Arugula, Radicchio & Endive, reggiano, balsamic vinaigrette 12.

Caesar Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Farm Greens, balsamic vinaigrette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Jimmy the Greek Salad, french feta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.

Giant Shrimp Cocktail (3 pcs) or Crabmeat Cocktail . . . . . . . 18.

Grilled Artichoke, choice of sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Burrata, tomatoes, arugula, le sorrelle’s evoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.

French Onion Soup Gratinée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

Matzo Ball Soup or Today’s Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.

Seafood Louie, shrimp, crab, egg, romaine, tomato, . . . . . . . . . 29. cucumber, avocado

Lucky Chili, cheddar, onions, warm corn bread . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.

Fried Calamari, two sauces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.

• Sandwiches • Fries, Farm Greens or Caesar

Lucky Burger, choice of cheese, soft bun or kaiser . . . . . . . . $20.

Range Free Vegetarian Burger, choice of cheese, . . . . . . . . . . 20. soft bun or kaiser (burger patty is vegan) Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz., . . . . . . . . . 27. mushroom sauce Reuben Sandwich, corned beef, kraut & gruyère on rye . . . . . 20.

Meatball Sub, mozzarella, basil, D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Pulled Pork Sandwich, Carolina bbq sauce, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19. topped with slaw, D’Angelo Roll Chili Dog, onions, cheddar & kraut - all on the side . . . . . . . . 14.

Maine Lobster Roll, warm buttered D’Angelo roll . . . . . . . . . 26.

NOW SERVING LUNCH MONDAY THRU FRIDAY

Cobb Salad, roquefort dressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Chopped Salad, arugula, radicchio, shrimp, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18. prosciutto, beans, onions Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.

Old School Chinese Chicken Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.

Chilled Poached Salmon Salad of the day, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.

Lucky’s Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18. romaine, shrimp, bacon, green beans, avocado and roquefort

• Tacos and other Mains • Chicken, Swordfish or Steak Tacos, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22. beans, guacamole, salsa, tortillas Fried Chicken Breast, boneless & skinless, coleslaw and fries . 19.

Chicken Parmesan, San Marzano tomato sauce, . . . . . . . . . . .22. imported mozzarella, basil Salmon, blackened, grilled or steamed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22. lemon-caper butter sauce, sautéed spinach Sautéed Tofu, Japanese vinaigrette, green onions, shiitakes . . 18.

Sliced Prime NY Steak Frites, 7 oz., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29. red wine shallot or peppercorn cream sauce Smoked Scottish Salmon, Toasted Bialy or Bagel, . . . . . . . . . 20. cream cheese & condiments

• Sides • Skinny Onion Rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9.

Lucky’s Home Fries or Fried Sweet Potatoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

Lucky’s Half & Half . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10.

Herbie’s Potato Skins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

Sautéed Spinach or Sugar Snap Peas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.

Our Corkage Fee is $35 per 750ml bottle with a 2-bottle limit per table • 20% Gratuity added to parties of six or more