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MARKING A DECADE Grinding Gridlock

Unless something providential occurs, Coast Village Road will be in lockdown from 3 pm to 6 pm daily for the foreseeable future, p. 5

Just Ask J’Amy

Parking in Montecito a problem? Not to worry, says J’Amy, all those private “No Parking” signs are illegal; you can safely park there, p. 16

“WE TASTE EVERY WINE THAT WE CARRY,” SAYS LIQUOR & WINE GROTTO CO-OWNER BRIAN BRUNELLO, WHOSE COAST VILLAGE ROAD SHOP, CO-OWNED BY LONGTIME FRIEND JASON HERRICK, CELEBRATES 10 SUCCESSFUL YEARS THIS MONTH (STORY ON P. 12)

Cold Mountain Bluegrass

Music Academy of the West Composer-in-Residence Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain opera readies its West Coast premiere, p. 21

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard addresses Montecito’s traffic woes

Lotusland’s Memoirs of a Garden gala; Justin Klentner hosts polo party; Palm Beach mansion on market; Polo Club’s annual hat contest; Montecito Bank & Trust’s annual Fiesta party; Michael Douglas sells New York estate; United Way of Santa Barbara County’s Fun in the Sun students visit MAW; Steve Oney signs book; polo reception at Farmers & Merchants Bank; MAW concerts; Ellen DeGeneres sells another house; Oprah Winfrey second most admired women in world; Meghan Markle, potential column writer; Marylou Whitney passes; sightings A collection of communications from readers Ann Louise Bardach, Hillary Hauser, William G. Lockwood, Jean Von Wittenburg, Gene Tyburn, Dale Lowdermilk, and Steve King

10 This Week in Montecito

A list of local events happening in and around town

Tide Chart 12 Village Beat Photography by Spenser Bruce

Dream. Design. Build. Live.

Coast Village Road’s Liquor & Wine Grotto celebrates a decade; Sheffield Drive interchange discussed at Montecito Board of Architectural Review; Matthew Kowallis named Rotarian of the Year; Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office announces new Community Resource Deputy for City of Carpinteria

14 Seen Around Town

Santa Barbara Historical Museum hosts La Fiesta Del Museo; MClub Lunch & Learn heads to Golden Inn & Village

16 Just Ask J’Amy

J’Amy Brown answers questions about local parking rules

Kimpton Canary’s Finch & Fork launches Cocktails for a Cause

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21 Music Academy of the West

West Coast premiere of Cold Mountain; this week’s summer festival schedule of events

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant has inspiring words for Journal readers

Ernie and Pat continue exploring Ketchikan, Alaska, this time by local bus

24 Ernie’s World

26 Legal Advertising 31 Spirituality Matters

Body-Mind Centering Association conference at UCSB; New Earth Star Tribe fest; Jeffrey J. Kripal presentation at Pacifica; Ragan Thomson hosts manifestation workshop

36 Our Town

Harry and The Potters play SB Public Library

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

Gridlock Grips Montecito

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t is August, and the living in Montecito is easy… or at least it should be.

Gone are May Gray and June Gloom; in their place are sunny skies, a beautiful blue-green ocean and mild temperatures. For the first time in seven years, we have adequate water with no prospect of mandatory rationing. Happiness prevails. Not even the two-day closure of the on- and off-ramps at the 101 Hot Springs interchange to remove the homeless encampments enshrined in the shrubbery can disturb our summertime serenity.

Threat to Our Community Character For those of us not traveling, a single irritant continues to jar. One day last week at 3:30 pm, a driver stood outside his car in the middle of Coast Village Road (CVR), door open, peering ahead trying to discover why some 200 cars, vans and trucks on CVR were bumper-to-bumper all the way from the Old Coast Highway Traffic Circle to the Montecito Inn. There was no accident: just gridlock, an everyday community aggravation for CVR and its surrounding environs. The message transmitted to Montecito customers is to stay away from Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle, between 3 pm and 6 pm, seven days a week, all summer.

Montecito may have to grit its collective teeth for another 10 years due to the closure of the southbound on-ramp to the 101 at Cabrillo Boulevard. Rob Dayton, Santa Barbara City Transportation Planning Manager and other traffic planners, insisted that closing the southbound entry ramp to the 101 at Cabrillo Boulevard during the Milpas to Hot Springs widening in 2012 would have little traffic impact on CVR. Their opinion was that vehicles leaving the hotels and beaches of Santa Barbara could easily be diverted by signage to enter the 101 at

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by Belle Hahn, Setenay Osman, and Nati Smith, was an elaborate celebration of the long-awaited reopening of the iconic Japanese Garden after a two-and-a-half-year, $6 million renovation.

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ob Hazard in his recent column (“Election Intrigue in Montecito,” MJ # 25/29) described me as “a noted investigative reporter [and] an anti-cannabis crusader,” which is not exactly the case.

Like the majority of those in Santa Barbara County, I voted for Prop 64 (and, in my case even Das Williams).

Then we learned quite belatedly that Williams’ grand plan was establishing Santa Barbara County as the global capital for the industrial production of marijuana, with its very own “Cannabis Czar.”

Bob Hazard, whom I consider a well-intentioned friend, names supporters of Santa Barbara School Board VP Laura Capps, but did so without confirming directly with them for this column.

He points out Capps’ backer Sara Miller McCune, but omits Williams’ major donor, Peter Sperling, the cannabis champion who backed Prop 64. He also left out a supporter of Das Williams: himself. According to a recent article in the Santa Barbara Independent, the Montecito Water Board Director Ken Coates has criticized his proposal of a community services district as “a poor man’s cityhood...” Hazard’s premise in all this is helping Das get a win of some sort that will help him get reelected. If that is the case, it is something Bob Hazard needs to disclose when he enumerates the candidates’ supporters.

Again, the issue here is the industrial cultivation of marijuana on an unprecedented scale. In Humboldt County, a grower must have 1,120 acres to cultivate just eight acres. In most of SB County, you can grow hundreds, if not thousands, of acres of marijuana, which has a horrific stink and is even more water-intensive crop than almonds. Think about just that in our drought-stricken region.

Then think about the recent comments of one major avocado grower to the Carpinteria City Council, who said that the negative impacts of marijuana are so significant, that if changes are not forthcoming, “we won’t be having an Avocado Festival next year.”

Think about the devastating damage done to our wine industry and vintners, or to tourists who may not want to go to beaches reeking of skunk, or Carpinteria’s schools and the folks living anywhere from Shepherd’s Mesa to Foothill to Padaro Lane-Sand Point who smell it inside their homes and several of our schools.

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” – Charles Lamb

How would Montecito feel about that? Well, if and when the pot growers ramp up into growing millions of adult female plants, don’t be surprised if the odors waft right out of the greenhouse vents (twice daily) and hover over the upper village and Coast Village Road.

What has happened in Santa Barbara can only be described as a Cannabis Coup, as documented by an LA Times’ in-depth investigation and some terrific local reporting.

So yes, folks are pissed at having to spend millions of dollars on attorneys, appeals and their precious time, to fight this piece of legislative idiocy and the billion-dollar-Cannabis Lobby, which evidently works hand-in-glove with Sups. Williams and Lavagnino.

Many of us in the Carpinteria Valley, in Santa Ynez, and parts of all five districts have faced the uncertainty of whether to sell our homes and move away because of the odors and respiratory issues that now abound.

So no, we are not crusaders, but yes, we would like to continue to live here.

Ann Louise Bardach Carpinteria

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Re: Bob Hazard’s article (as referenced above): May we please advise one and all that Hillary Hauser, synonymous with Heal the Ocean, does not endorse (including public “support” of) political candidates?

Thank you, Hillary Hauser Carpinteria

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As they evolved, plants such as poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and marijuana, developed toxic and malodorous chemical compounds in their foliage, including hydrogen cyanide and nitrous oxide, to deter animals and insects from foraging on them.

That’s why the marijuana plantations that have sprouted up in Carpinteria smell so bad. Passing motorists can’t help but notice the pungent odors wafting across the freeway.

Now that “recreational marijuana” is legal here in California, it might serve a purpose to remember that Osama bin Laden and all nineteen of his 9/11 skyjackers were born and raised to matu-

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This Week in and around Montecito

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, AUGUST 1

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3

Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

The Art of Manifesting Did you know that you are constantly manifesting things into your life?

Through your thoughts, words, and actions you are creating your own reality. The question is, are you doing it consciously or unconsciously? Are you creating what your heart desires, or more of what you do not want?

Join Ragan Thomson to learn how to master the art of manifesting and consciously create what your heart desires, whether that is: relationships, abundance, success, or vitality. During this three-hour long workshop, Ragan Thomson will guide you to: understand how manifestation works, learn the steps and techniques of manifestation, visualize what you want and make your intentions clear, recognize the beliefs, behaviors, and mental barriers that are blocking you, work on getting rid of sabotaging thoughts, accept that, whatever you want, it can be yours, and consciously create your own reality.

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When: 4 to 7 pm Where: Thomson Sanctuary in Montecito; address given after ticket purchase Cost: $55 per person, second ticket is 50% off if you bring a friend Info: www.RaganThomson.com/about

Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest.

New members welcome. This month the Montecito Library Poetry Club hosts the esteemed Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Nationally recognized Belgian-American poet Bosselaar has published four collections of original poetry, including Small Gods of Grief, winner of the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry, and translated a large body of poetic works from French, Dutch and Flemish.

Bosselaar has held teaching positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Emerson College and UCSB. She currently serves as the 8th Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (2019-2021).

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Wizard of Oz. When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free

TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects

Santa Barbara Horticultural Society This annual Horticultural Society event features commercial growers and retailers, and is designed to inspire about what’s available for fall planting, which may include hot, new plants or trusted oldies that deserve another look. This year speakers are John Koegler from San Marcos Growers and Bruce Reed from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Gathering on a regular basis since 1880, the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on the corner of Foothill and La Cumbre Road. Visitors are always welcome. The program includes a free plant exchange, refreshments and a plant raffle.

Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society meeting is open to the public.

When: 7 pm Where: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 909 N La Cumbre Road, Santa Barbara 93110 Info: www.sbchs.org When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road 25th Annual Sadako Peace Day In honor of Sadako, the young Japanese girl diagnosed with leukemia after exposure to the Hiroshima atomic bomb at the age of two, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation hosts this special event. There will be music, poetry, and reflection to remember the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and all innocent victims of war. The event is held outside and is free and open to the public.

When: 6 pm Where: Magnolia Lawn at Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road Cost: free and open to the public THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu

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Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Movie Night at the Mart Every Friday evening throughout the summer, Montecito Country Mart hosts a kid-friendly movie in their center courtyard. Tonight’s film: Wall-E. When: 6 pm Where: 1016 Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Cost: free SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 Free Fishing Workshop Dry land class on the lawn at the Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake. All equipment is provided to kids and parents; participants must be 7 to 15 years old and their parents.

Registration is required and enrollment is limited to 50 anglers.

When: 8:45 am Where: Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake, 2265 Highway 154 Info: Julie@clnaturecenter.org or call the hotline, (805) 693-8381 Montecito Library Book Club Join for a lively discussion of this

– Marcel Proust “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

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month’s title. Check the library for current title; new members always welcome. The August selection is My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

When: 11 am to 12 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

When: 4 to 6 pm Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way Cost: $40 (SBMM Members), $50 (Non-members) Info: Please RSVP and Register at sbmm.org or call (805) 456-8747

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11

MONDAYS Meditation in Movement Nurture your heart, soul, body, and mind with yoga teacher Dawn O’Bar who teaches every Monday at Montecito Covenant Church; childcare provided When: 8:45 am to 9:45 am Where: 671 Cold Spring Road Cost: donations accepted Contact: anna@mcchurch.org

Rum-Raiser In celebration of SBMM’s Rum Running, Sailors & Prohibition exhibit, the Maritime Museum is excited to announce a special “Rum-Raiser.”

The Rum-Raiser will feature rum drinks and tastings by Real McCoy Rum, Black Bart Navy Rum, and Goleta Red Distilling Company on SBMM’s scenic harbor-front patio.

Food tastings will feature Chuck’s Waterfront Grill, Spices N Rice and more. Beer and wine will also be available.

Rum Running, Sailors & Prohibition, which runs through October 20, 2019, tells the story of rum, the part it played in the rich history of sea-going men and its connection to Santa Barbara. Covering more than 400 years, the exhibit illustrates the New World’s first distilled spirit, from its origins on 17th-century Caribbean sugar cane plantations to the role of slavery.

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Village Beat S a n ta B a r b a r a Av i at i on

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by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

Liquor & Wine Grotto Celebrates 10 years Brian Brunello and Jason Herrick mark 10 years of ownership at the Liquor & Wine Grotto

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oast Village Road’s Liquor & Wine Grotto owners Jason Herrick and Brian Brunello will mark 10 years of ownership this Saturday, August 3. While the store has been in existence since 1976, Herrick and Brunello have spent the last ten years perfecting the shop, and forming connections with loyal clientele. “We appreciate them more than they know,” Brunello said, crediting the store’s success in part to repeat local customers.

The shop has been in existence since 1976, originally owned by Ingela and Jess Pagliassotti, who passed away in October 2018. The original Wine Grotto carried convenience store items and boasted a full service deli from a larger space, which once included the corner space now occupied by Allora

by Laura. The shop was downsized five years before the current owners took over, and the Grotto guys have carefully selected an array of wine, spirits, liquor, and beer, drawing both local and tourist clientele.

Brunello says the last ten years have brought changes to the wine and liquor industry as well as changes to customer demand. For example, the advent of craft cocktails and a growing crop of small batch bourbon, whiskey, and tequila have the guys carrying an ever-evolving array of specialty liquor. With those offerings come relationships, and Herrick and Brunello pride themselves on working closely with many vendors to stock the store with the right products; if a customer is looking for something that they don’t carry, they will hunt for it and if possible, special order it.

In addition to carrying hundreds of competitively priced, mainstream wine labels, the duo also hand selects local wines, increasing their selection and setting themselves apart from other stores. “It’s a big part of who we are, and we taste every wine that we carry,” Brunello said. There is also a large selection of French and

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Seen Around Town

La Fiesta Del Museo

by Lynda Millner

Riley Harwood, La Presidenta Barbara Carroll, and deputy director of SBHM Dacia Harwood at the Fiesta party

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We entered through the front door and trekked through the galleries, one being all Fiesta costumes, men, women and children’s. Then to the check-in table being greeted all the way by señoritas in costume and then margaritas in the Covarrubias adobe courtyard. The adobe is the second

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Valenuela was there to dance for us.

And there is always an interesting silent auction.

The Museum Courtyard never looked better all done in jewel tones, with roses and candles on both harvest and round tables. Bordering the main courtyard were Moorish lanterns. More entertainment with Grupo de Danza Folklorica Quetzalcoatl (folk dancing couples) who looked stunning in all white matching outfits.

Spirit of Fiesta Sophia Cordero was also there to perform.

Erin Graffy de Garcia was the historian host who told us about the various families who led our town in olden times with live models showing us shawls and combs. All the while we ate with gusto. I didn’t have to choose between salmon or steak. We had surf and turf. The final flamenco dancing was with Manuel Gutierrez, Jose Cortes, Andres Vadin, Gerardo Morales, and Timo Nunez.

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so there needs to be a live auction and it was lively. Four lucky folks will be in the Fiesta parade and have tickets for all the events including next year’s SBHM party. There was a bronze by Edward Borein posthumously cast from his clay model. Especially special was the private party for up to 50 guests at the Museum. The paddle raise was for the Museum’s greatest need: the Collections Environmental (HVAC) Project. Underneath the Museum is the huge collection of items (80,000 to 100,000) preserved by them including the last stop light from State Street and Highway 101. The temperature control is vital and needs renovating.

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JUST ASK J’AMY

by J’Amy Brown

A 25-year resident of Montecito, J’Amy Brown served as Chair/Commissioner of the Montecito Planning Commission, Commissioner, County Historic Landmark Commission, President of the Montecito Association and 20-year Captain of the Middle Road Area Neighborhood Watch. She has written extensively about Montecito for the Montecito Journal, the Independent, Edhat and The News-Press. She says, when it comes to Montecito, she gamely accepts the mantle of “Know it All” because, in fact, she probably has seen or done it all. She wants your questions: Contact: j.amy.brown@att.net

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A. Montecito makes jockeying for pavement and parking rights one of our prime sports. With uniform precision and plenty of jeering, we formidably challenge each other for bragging rights in the categories of most steals, most walks, and most strike outs!

To make matters even more muddled, we have our own local rules and a slew of referees with different opinions – meaning there’s plenty of confusion to go around! To help sort out Montecito’s peculiar parking puzzle, here are some tips: CURB APPEAL: First of all, you may have wondered why most of Montecito’s streets have no curbs. In 1995, The Montecito Community Plan was adopted with the goal of retaining as much of Montecito’s semi-rural character as possible. To that end, it was determined Montecito’s roadways should reflect the village’s ties to our agrarian history – a time when horse trails and footpaths connected neighbors.

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appealing streets have become a touchstone of our community character and one of our most admired assets. However, for the uninitiated, these narrow lanes without curbs can cause tummy-flipping anxiety about the legality and sensibility of leaving one’s car barely off the road or mashed up against a private hedge.

TRICKY BUT PERMISSIBLE: Even though many Montecito roads are narrow, Highway Private sign violation – county has been after this home- Patrol Officer Jonathan Gutierrez owner for over a year! said, unless otherwise officially regulated, parallel parking on most of Montecito’s public roadsides is legal.

“It depends on where you are, but if there is no red curb and no sign saying ‘No Parking’ and you can safely park, then vehicle parking is permitted.” He recommended parking as far off pavement as possible, and, of course, you must adhere to all legal distance regulations, steering clear of fire hydrants, driveways, cross walks and bus lanes.

Gutierrez cautioned to leave enough room so that vehicles can still navigate unobstructed passage on the road. “If you block a road so emergency vehicles cannot get through, you will be towed!” Gutierrez warned. “When you park in Montecito you have to use your mind.”

NO RESERVED PARKING: Parking spaces in front of private residences cannot be reserved or designated “No Parking” by private owners. Unless officially posted, parking spaces on Montecito’s public roads are available for any member of the public to use anytime. Private “No Parking” signs are prohibited and may be disregarded. Out-of-compliance private parking signs can be reported to County Public Works, 805-568-3000.

ROCK ‘N ROLL: Using roadside rocks or boulders adjacent to the public road pavement is generally not permitted – even if you believe you own the land to the middle of the street. A “road right of way” gives local jurisdictions public

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access over private property to allow for a community’s transportation needs.

To place anything structural in the road right of way, such as landscaping, walls, fences, driveways or gates, you’ll need the county’s permission via an “encroachment permit.” Santa Barbara County Public Works Road Encroachment policies require an edge-of-road clear zone, meaning there must be an unobstructed flat area beyond the edge of pavement. That means, before installation, fixed objects like rocks, walls, trees, landscaping or fences generally require an encroachment permit.

The encroachment policies state any fixed objects must be set back at least seven feet (25 MPH roads) to 10 feet (25 to 35MPH roads). In Montecito specifically, the Public Works policies say landscaping of any kind is not allowed in the clear zone unless pedestrian facilities are provided – which is how we get our footpaths! The full policies are available at https://www.countyofsb.org/ pwd/frontage.sbc. Eric Pearson is Public Works Roads Construction & Permits Manager. He can be reached at 805-568-3000. It is a good idea to read and understand these policies before you “rock and roll” or you may find yourself, yep, between a rock and a hard place!

CONSTRUCTION PARKING: Construction projects draw a lot of parking complaints. Most projects that go through the county’s permit process require all construction parking be on site. Some smaller “over-the-counter” projects do not have this stipulation, but if you see abundant construction parking on the street near a building project, you can call the county permit hotline at 805-5683558 and request an investigation.

Under any circumstances, if construction parking is blocking a street to less than one lane, meaning emergency vehicles cannot pass through, then Montecito Fire Protection District said they will take appropriate action to make sure the road is passable – pronto! Their non-emergency number is 805969-7762.

TIME LIMITS: Be aware a vehicle parked for over 72 hours in the same spot might be subject to towing. If you see a vehicle parked for a long period of time on the side of the road, alert the Highway Patrol. They will chalk a tire and attempt to reach the owner. If the vehicle, and this goes for boats, trailers and campers, does not reposition for 72 hours, it will be designated “abandoned” and subject to towing. However, if the tire moves even an inch, the vehicle will not be deemed abandoned and it will be allowed to remain on the roadside.

Highway Patrol non-emergency number: 805-967-1234.

MIRAMAR ALTERNATIVE: Speaking of public parking, neighbors are reporting that big-rigs have taken to using the San Ysidro 101 Northbound off ramp for an overnight snooze and rest stop. While it’s cheaper than booking into the closest hotel – the new Miramar – nearby residents are complaining about the all-night-long noise of the ever-running diesel engines and the commercial look of 18-wheelers ungracefully gracing Montecito’s “gateway entry.”

The Highway Patrol is aware of the situation and is monitoring it. They may eventually post no parking signs on the freeway if the practice proliferates.

IT TAKES A VILLAGE: As you can see, there are plenty of rules and regulations to address parking and its infractions. But, it can’t be only about regulations. Parking on Montecito’s semi-rural streets really only works if we work together as a community in a semi-rural civil manner, meaning we need to talk to each other to find solutions. As residents we need to make sure there is unencumbered public parking near our properties and we need to avoid barriers that try to privatize public spaces or inhibit parking or pedestrian flow. As Officer Gutierrez noted, when you park in Montecito you have to use your head. For community betterment, we also need to park our good neighbor hats on our well-used heads as well!

•MJ

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SANTA BARBARA IN A GLASS

Bar team at Finch and Fork, from left: George Piperis, me, restaurant manager Josh Blumenthal, and Food & Beverage Director Bryan LaFontaine

by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

Every Sip Helps

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hirsty? May I suggest the “Storm Cellar” at Finch & Fork?

After all, every sip helps!

The mixology team at the popular restaurant and bar at Santa Barbara’s Kimpton Canary Hotel launched a unique charity drive this summer – Cocktails for a Cause. A new mixed drink is introduced each month and proceeds from the sale of each order – shaken or stirred – are earmarked for a different non-profit. When they asked to team up with me for the month of August, I jumped at the chance, and I let my taste buds lead the way.

A cocktail novice myself, my contribution was to suggest that a local wine be a main ingredient in the cocktail.

Wine as a mixed drink ingredient can be challenging – the powerful flavors of big red wines, especially, can clash against popular spirits like vodka and bourbon. So Finch & Fork’s lead mixologist, George Piperis, went white, with the 2018 Storm Sauvignon Blanc,

Bar Manager of Finch and Fork, George Piperis

right off the Finch & Fork wine list.

The wine has merit on its own. Santa Barbara County’s 2018 vintage was cool, so the sauvignon blanc grapes, which were sourced from three vine-

yards in different corners of the Santa Ynez Valley, “saw a long hang time and a lot of acid retention, so it’s made in a style that’s fresh,” says winemaker Ernest Storm.

Piperis agrees. “It has a dry, crisp character,” he tells me last week from behind the bar as he concocts what he’s calling the Storm Cellar, a tip of the barman’s hat to the winemaker.

Combined with equal parts gin, along with ginger, lemon juice and soda water, and served on ice, the sauvignon blanc helps create a spritzy, bright, refreshing cocktail. A raspberry liquor floater adds a spark of color and a touch of sweetness that elevates the drink’s zesty pop. The Storm Cellar is super easy to sip, downright delicious and perfect on any August night. It’ll sell for the month of August, and for August only, for $14.

Also among my duties: to select August’s charity, which gave me a chance to spotlight the wonderful work of the Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation. The philanthropic arm of the Santa Barbara County Vintners Association has represented the vast majority of our area’s vintners in donating to myriad local causes. The Foundation was classified as a nonprofit organization in 2000 and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars through high school and college scholarships and to altruistic groups like the Foodbank of Santa Barbara

County, People Helping People and the Santa Barbara Foundation. Its biggest gifts go to Direct Relief, with a focus on the well-known international aid group’s local projects; thanks to their spectacular biennial Santa Barbara Wine Auction, it’s raised more than $5 million for the Goletabased group, including the more than $900,000 it reeled in last year. Find out more about the Foundation’s work at sbvf.org.

“It doesn’t matter how much wine we make or sell, it’s more about whatever we can do for others,” says Jessica Gasca, Foundation president and winemaker behind the Story of Soil label. “People in the wine business are generous and they want to give back.”

One dollar from the sale of every Storm Cellar will go to the Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation. Any thirst concerns during the month of August, then, should be taken directly to the Finch & Fork in downtown Santa Barbara, at 31 West Carrillo Street. The bar is open all day from 7 am for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and hosts Happy Hour every weekday from 4-7 pm. Check out the predominantly local wine list and the whimsical lineup of cocktails at fin chandforkrestaurant.com.

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Cheers!

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Composer Jennifer Higdon; Cold Mountain makes its West Coast premiere at the Granada Friday, August 2, and Sunday August 4

by Steven Libowitz

Mounting an Operatic Mountain: MAW’s West Coast Premiere

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or its 2019 opera presentation, Music Academy of the West is providing the vocal and instrumental fellows the chance to take on a very modern work that has only had a handful of previous productions.

Cold Mountain – the 2014 saga from the prolific composer Jennifer Higdon – is adapted from Charles Frazier’s epic Civil War tale of conflict, romance, loss, and yearning, an emotionally raw story that has previously succeeded as both a novel and a major film.

Inman is a wounded Confederate soldier who, gutted even worse by the horrors of war, deserts the army to make his way back to his beloved Ada. He risks the journey home to the North Carolina region despite the dangers to return to his love, a Southern lady of privilege now suffering her own indignities and devastation. Higdon, who is serving as MAW’s composer-in-residence for the

final week of the season, has been lauded for her sensitive and regionally authentic approach to the material. She talked about Cold Mountain and more over the phone from her home in Philadelphia – where the opera became the third biggest-selling production in Opera Philadelphia’s history.

Q. Can I first ask how you got into classical music, coming from a family that didn’t indulge, and how you became a composer?

A. My mom had gotten a used flute at a pawn shop, and I taught myself to play, and joined the high school marching band. It was such a great experience that I decided I wanted to major in music. But I didn’t know anything at that point, which was probably a good thing.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

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As such, it’d be safe to presume that they all intoxicated themselves at social gatherings and/or simply to satisfy their addiction.

The result: Almost three thousand innocent American men, women, and children, were reduced to grease spots beneath hundreds of tons of smoldering steel and concrete at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. So much for pharmaceutical side effects.

And such is the magnitude of the tragedy that is now perpetrated on untold millions of our unsuspecting young people by those who are profiting thereby, as well as by the irresponsible government officials who are giving them license to do so in order to collect the tsunami of marijuana tax revenues. Toxic collusion, if you will.

All of their fingerprints will hereafter be left on the tombstones of those who meet their fate in marijuana-related traffic accidents and other such mishaps.

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Why has no one curtailed the arbitrary and unhealthy practice of Caltrans at East Valley Road next to the partially constructed Parra Grande bridge on a two-acre parcel? Caltrans has for over one year stockpiled contaminated dirt from mudslides into an enormous two-story high uncovered mess, right next to the creek bed.

When the wind blows, this filth blows around and many residents have had serious medical emergencies of ear, nose, and throat, due to Caltrans’ unhealthy behavior. Not to mention the decline of property values in the area due to this eyesore.

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Shore to Ship

Thank you for the excellent article in the new Montecito Journal glossy edition (Summer/Fall 2019). It sure made me want to travel by ship again, and great areas to visit!

Jean Von Wittenburg Montecito

A Public Service

Homeowners with property next to the roads and streets should cut back their foliage, as cars and trucks are having to drive too close to the center strip because those plants stick out too far on the road, putting everyone in danger.

And, cut back hard, as the growth this year is really tremendous.

Gene Tyburn Montecito

In the “Scary Stats” letter of the last issue (MJ # 25/29) the writer complains that “…few people take the time to fact check statements that contradict common sense or consensus science…”

Shall I presume that “consensus-science” is a reference to Galileo’s discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter? His radical observations flew in the face of the heliocentric theory that Earth was the center of the universe and it nearly cost him his life. Using the phrase “consensus-science” to explain uncontrollable, transient, sun-driven temperature changes over our planet’s surface is like a lynch mob exercising its rights as a “pure democracy”. It all makes sense, unless you are the object of their “common sense”.

It was the US Forest Service (not climate deniers) who removed the Glacier National Park (GNP) signs that incorrectly predicted the disappearance of the Grinnell and Jackson Glacier by 2020.

Many scientists agree that the temperature of our third rock may be increasing, however, more than 31,000 experts, including 79 university and 79 NASA astronomers, are signatories of the PetitionProject.org who agree that “…humans are not responsible…” for the change. More importantly, that we are not capable of implementing policies or tactics (short of a nuclear winter) which will influence global temperatures.

The “Scary Stats” writer proclaimed that 18 of the warmest years on record have occurred within the past nineteen years. For this statistic to be

valid, every location (and politician) on earth should have been part of the survey. Instead of using a “garbagein-garbage-out” chart from NASA supposedly depicting “satellite data” showing global temperatures from 800,000 years ago, readers might want to visit www.phys.org/news/2018-11climate-scientists-wrong.html.

If we are going to cite specific locations like “…Van Nuys reaching 117 degrees last year…”, let’s remember that the hottest temperatures every recorded were not in the past five years, but on July 10, 1913 (134 ºF: Death Valley, CA), Sep 13, 1922 (Azizya, Libya) and that around 2 pm on June 17, 1859 a Coastal Survey vessel just offshore from Goleta Beach recorded a temperature of 133 ºF. For the interesting timeline on how data from the original East Anglia College Global Warming was altered, Google climategate2.0.

Our planet’s radiative energy balance has teeter-tottered for millions (not thousands) of years, long before flatulent cows, satellites (launched by toxic fuming rockets), or electric cars (powered by coal/petro/nuke power plants). According to the USGS, there are about 1,500 active volcanoes worldwide, only 500 of which have erupted in recorded history. On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens injected heat-trapping (or reflecting) ash, noxious gas and aerosols into the atmosphere that eventually circled the globe. In 1815, the eruption of Mt. Tambora, caused the summer of 1816 to be cancelled in Europe and North America. China, India and other countries refuse to control their own industrial emissions, plastics, toxins and volcanoes, so why is America held solely responsible for global pollutions? It seems to be easier to blame homo sapiens for everything instead of admitting that there are things (hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanoes), which are beyond mortal control.

Instead of trying to throw spit wads at the battleship called Mother Nature, maybe we could begin researching ways to extinguish the Pacific Ring of Fire, slow down plate tectonics and develop gigantic corks to plug volcanoes. Should 33,000 scientists be identified as “climate-deniers” and be forced to wear yellow arm patches, or be subject to public humiliation because they disagree with a politically driven hoax? I wonder what Galileo would say about these scary stats?

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: I don’t know if we can go along on this ride with you, Dale. If one looks at Earth from space, the really thin veneer of our “atmosphere” is striking. It’s not difficult to see how nine billion – and growing, daily... – humans continuing to make a mess of things could negatively affect that wispy layer of protection. While we agree it has become a

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

“religion” for many and that not all the facts are in, we really do need to pay more attention. – J.B.)

The Sky is Falling

Henry Louis Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Tony Heller exposes the fraud behind climate change and global warming on his website realclimatescience.com: “In 1998,” he reports, “NASA showed 1934 as the hottest year on record in the U.S., and declining temperatures for the rest of the century. They have since rewritten the data to eliminate the post-1930s cooling. 1998 was recorded as one-degree Fahrenheit cooler than 1934, and now it is warmer...”

At realclimatescience.com, Mr. Heller provides scores of proofs of fraud and deception, including charts, maps, videos, historical articles and photographs which expose the myths of record heat/cold, vanishing glaciers & polar ice caps, record tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires, sea level rise, etc.

On July 21, 2019 Mr. Heller debunked the latest heat wave hysteria promulgated by the Union of Concerned Scientists, National Geographic, et al.

“The likelihood of hot July weather in the Midwest has plummeted since the 1930s, with all recent years being among the coolest on record.” His attendant graphs, charts, and historical articles elaborate: https://realclimatescience.com/2019/07/quantifying-heatwave-hysteria/ Lest you believe Mr. Heller is a one-off kook, here are a few more (among thousands) reputable skeptics: Patrick Moore (Greenpeace), John Coleman (Weather Channel), Joe Bastardi (Meteorologist), Anthony Watts (WattsUpWithThat), John R. Christy (Professor of Atmospheric Science University of Alabama), Judith A. Curry (Climatologist at Georgia Institute of Technology), Richard S. Lindzen (1983-2013 Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T.)) and Bill GrayR.I.P. (PhD William Gray formerly Colorado State U).

Because of their contrarian views, most of them have suffered the wrath and fury of the alarmist community.

Google their names and mixed with truths you’ll find extreme bias and sophistry posted by devout believers and/or the misinformed.

Climate Change has become a pseudo-religion embraced by zealots.

Some have theorized that with the decline of religion, humanity’s need for a “cause” has fallen upon the environment and climate change. Either you’re a well-received believer or a despicable heretic, worthy of stoning.

Steve King Carpinteria •MJ 1 – 8 August 2019

Brilliant Thoughts

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by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara since 1973. No children.

Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000.

Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Inspiration

I

nspiration is a very positive word and concept in our culture. Nobody doesn’t want to be inspired. The word, in its origin, conveys a “breathing in” – but not so much of sucking air into your own lungs (though that is never a bad idea) as of being breathed into by some benevolent power which makes you feel better, and motivates you to do good things, especially creative things.

Those who wait for inspiration before acting often have a long – perhaps interminable – wait ahead of them. But sometimes it comes like the proverbial flash of lightning, or the cartoonist’s light-bulb suddenly illuminating a balloon emanating from the mind. I myself once wrote that “The true artist waits for the right moment – But the right moment never waits for anybody.” Indeed, the very phenomenon of creativity is, to say the least, erratic, and there are skeptics who mistrust the whole idea, offering instead their version of the process, with cynical remarks about “ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.”

Most writings which are supposed to be “inspiring” or “consoling” leave me cold – but I do personally find comfort, if not always actual motivation, in certain poems, of which one of my favorites has always been Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life.” Probably one of its most memorable images is that of our leaving “footprints on the sands of time” to hearten those who come after us. Never mind that I think he was confusing two notions here – the story of the marooned Robinson Crusoe coming upon footprints in the sand of the island of which he had until then thought he was the only inhabitant – and the “sands of time” as represented by the sand trickling through the narrow waist of an hour-glass, whose whole purpose is of course to mark the passage of time.

Another poem in which, like many millions of others, I have found inspiration, is Kipling’s “If,” which, though often satirized, can be fairly characterized as a prescription for ideal manhood. Its very first lines have often reverberated in many situations of my own life: I f you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs, and blaming it on

you – If you can trust yourself, when all men doubt you, 1 – 8 August 2019

et make allowance for their doubting Y too. . .

But words alone, even if uttered aloud in eloquent tones, are not always enough to inspire. Some people are affected more deeply by the silent majesty of a sunrise, or the mysterious beauty of a starry night, by animals and plants, and other wonders of the natural world. Some derive inspiration from the miracles of Science and the endless possibilities of Technology.

Some of us, at least occasionally, feel inspired by our own dreams. And what can be more inspiring than the emotions arising from true love, or close friendship, especially in time of need? In this connection, there is no more meaningful communication than a warm handclasp, an encouraging smile, or a pat on the back.

The supreme source of inspiration for many people is their religious faith. I am sorry to say I never felt very inspired by the Jewish religion, in which I was brought up. But some of the Christian hymns I learned at school performed that role for me as movingly as anything ever could.

One, in particular, still echoes in my mind as a model of its type. Written

by Isaac Watts in 1719, with lofty music by William Croft, it celebrates a God who is timeless, but still has time to care for us. Its first stanza says: O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Protector from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.

If I need a God at all, that’s the kind I want to have!

Finally, I might as well confess that I myself am guilty of having occasionally written lines which others consider inspirational. Some examples, for what they’re worth: Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Life is no joke – that’s why we’ve got to keep laughing at it.

You’re never a total failure while someone believes in you – even if the only someone is you.

Hold on to what’s necessary – Let go of what’s not – And, when in doubt, let go.

The only way to improve: Keep making yourself attempt things which at first you can’t do.

We’ll never get everything done today – That’s why there’s a tomorrow.

•MJ

5-MONTH

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA MONTECITO BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CASE NUMBER:

7/24/19

19BAR-00000-00106

DATE OF HEARING:

July 11, 2019

MEETING BEGINS:

1:00 P.M.

LOCATION:

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ENGINEERING BUILDING ROOM 17, 123 EAST ANAPAMU STREET SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

SUBJECT:

Highway 101 Widening (Segments 4B/4C) The Representatives of the following item should be in attendance at this MBAR Meeting by 1:00 P. M.

Request of Erinn Silva, agent for David Emerson (Caltrans) to consider Case No. 19BAR-0000000106 for Conceptual Review of a Highway 101: Carpinteria to Santa Barbara Project, Segments 4B and 4C (combined). The proposed project will require approximately 161,134 cubic yards of cut and approximately 106,918 cubic yards of fill. The project is located on Highway 101 between post miles 4.6 and 9.2, from the City of Carpinteria to approximately 0.3 miles north of the Sheffield Drive Interchange in Santa Barbara County, First Supervisorial District.

Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Santa Barbara County Montecito Board of Architectural Review, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101 (Attn: Hearing Support).

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. For further information, please contact the planner Nicole Lieu at (805) 884-8068 or via email at nlieu@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or the MBAR Secretary, Sharon Foster at (805) 568-2026 or via email at sfoster@co.santa-barbara.ca.us If you challenge the project 19BAR-00000-00106 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Architectural Review Board prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements.

The order of the agenda is subject to change, please contact Hearing Support prior to the meeting for any additional changes.

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Ernie’s World

MUSIC ACADEMY (Continued from page 21)

I was a performance major, which meant I had to learn everything from the bottom up – repertoire, theory, ear training – all the things most musicians have already gone through before college. It was quite a steep curve. I was always catching up. I have to admit, it wasn’t until I won the Pulitzer Prize that I felt like I actually did. Plus, people started returning my phone calls.

How did you transition into composing?

My flute teacher had me write something for flute and piano. It was a dorky little two-minute piece called “Night Creatures.” But there was something about writing itself that tremendously appealed to me. I just kept doing it even after the assignment was over, while I was also studying performance even though I knew I would switch for grad school. I think it was in my blood: My dad was an artist who worked at home, so creating things seemed very normal to me. I kept playing for years as a professional, and only stopped when I got too busy with commissions. There’s a real difference between creating something from nothing and playing someone else’s work. They’re very different mental and emotional experiences.

What’s your process for composing? Do you hear the music in your head, or follow some sort of technique? What is the mix between inspiration and perspiration?

Because I write four to six hours every day, it’s a combination.

Sometimes I do hear a lot in my head, but even when I don’t, I have to move the music forward because I work on commission. I feel like I have to at least write the next 15 seconds. So often it’s the fact of sitting down to work that brings the inspiration. Of course, it depends on the piece. Sometimes I

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take wild leaps. But since I work every day, I seem to get more visits from the inspiration fairy… I don’t look back. I don’t let [thoughts] catch up with me.

I just keep the pencil moving across the page. I don’t ever end a day without putting something on the page, even if I erase it all the next day. Part of composing is taking what starts as a mediocre idea and making it special.

Where it comes from is mysterious.

No one can explain it. There’s one duet in Cold Mountain that came in one day; those normally take two weeks to write. I have no idea why that happened. I can tell you that when I got to the end of composing Cold Mountain I thought, “Good grief, that’s a lot of music! Where did all that come from?”

Why did you choose the novel for your first opera?

It definitely was the location, the landscape. I know the places, I recognize these people. And the idea of writing with an Appalachian sound, even put fiddling and bluegrass in the score – wouldn’t that be cool? But it was also the story. Lordy, I spent five years of searching, went through hundreds of novels, studying tons of operas, and I realized that love and death are just huge for opera. Those are the big themes in the novel. But you have to care about the characters, you have to live with them – feel their emotions, good or bad. Cold Mountain just resonated. I could tell by the third page that I’d found it – literately a gut instinct. Creating music that is different for each character, showing who they are and also evoking in the audience the emotions you are thinking as a composer, it’s an interesting challenge. But if it’s a story you don’t like, you are in trouble.

MUSIC ACADEMY Page 304

by Ernie Witham

Read more exciting adventures in Ernie’s World the Book and A Year in the Life of a “Working” Writer. Both available at amazon.com or erniesworld.com.

Ravens, Eagles, Totems, and Salmon Spit

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ice bracelet,” Pat said to the Native bus driver.

“My cousin made it.

For my moiety. I am an eagle. My wife is a raven.”

“My wife is a Sheppard,” I said.

“Sometimes that makes me feel sheepish.”

He did not laugh. Neither did my wife. Or anyone else on the bus.

He went on to say his Native name was Earth Shaker and his wife was Thunder Woman. I thought of another clever wife rejoinder, but figured I might need a new nest to reside in if I used it, so I quickly took my seat.

We were on the Silver Line, a bus you can ride all day in Ketchikan, Alaska, for five bucks. It was taking us to Totem Bight State Historical Park. However, we only went a few blocks before the driver pulled over and opened the door. A Native woman thundered aboard and said: “You forgot your phone – again.” Earth Shaker seemed shaken.

Riding the local bus is a great way to see the rural areas and to observe some of its citizens. One young man was complaining how the bus was 20 minutes late the day before. Then when we stopped at the local Walmart, he jumped out ran in and got a can of soda, while we waited.

Our next stop was near two tiny buildings that housed a combo dog grooming service, coffee shop and tropical fish store. The tropical fish were probably wondering where they made a wrong turn and what happened to all the snorkelers.

After a few more stops we arrived at a pullout. “The bus comes once an hour. Be back here on time or you will have to wait an additional hour for the next one.”

“Or longer,” the young man said, slurping his Walmart soda.

Located a short walk through a rainforest, Totem Bight is a model Native village. Started in 1938, it features 14 Tlingit and Haida totem poles that have been salvaged from old villages that were abandoned when Natives moved to the city for work. Some have been recreated from new cedar logs using traditional methods. Totem Bight also features a community clanhouse.

Clanhouses accommodated 30 to 50, who lived on a planked platform surrounding a central fire pit. To preserve peace, someone of raven lineage had to marry an eagle and visa-versa.

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow T. Wilson

Children were raised by their uncles and aunts. So even if you were an eagle bachelor uncle, you might have had the pleasure of raising a fledgling or two.

The opening of the clanhouse is short and narrow, so you have to crawl in and out. This served several purposes. A bear, looking for a warm meal, would have to enter head first, so clan members could poke him with spears until he decided berries might be safer.

Also, if a member of a different clan was looking for a new wife while the men were out hunting, his head could be whacked by cooking utensils until the mood passed.

If a member of a different clan was looking for a new wife while the men were out hunting, his head could be whacked by cooking utensils until the mood passed.

Totems included ravens, eagles, bear, deer, wolves, salmon, halibut and more and each told a story, related at a potlatch (raising ceremony). One oddity on some poles: they are topped

by Abraham Lincoln. When natives decided they wanted to include a white man on their totems, his was the only printed image they had to go by.

It was a three-quarter-length image, so on the totems, Lincoln is always really short!

After lunch in Ketchikan at the New York Café which had nothing to do with New York, we found the Silver Line bus stop again but… it was late.

A local woman told us the schedule changes constantly. When it finally arrived, we headed for Saxman, another totem village. Ketchikan has the largest collection of totems in Alaska.

There, a guy with a weird mustache wearing a conductor shirt was telling a group about totem decoration, so we listened in. We found out that women painted the totems. They made paint from iron ore and silicate, mixing it by chewing salmon eggs wrapped in cedar and forcing the liquid part through their teeth like a strainer.

They were probably really glad when Dutch Boy Paints moved to town.

Someone yelled “The Silver Line!” and we all ran for the bus.

•MJ 1 – 8 August 2019

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Notice Inviting Bids Bid No. 3957A 1.

Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 3957A shall be received to furnish and deliver all services and materials for the Santa Barbara Airport Security System Rehabilitation Project per the attached terms, conditions and specifications. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., Thursday, August 8, 2019. At this date and time all bids received will be electronically opened and posted.

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It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

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Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Santa Barbara Airport, and is described as follows: Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) is undertaking a project to upgrade access control and video surveillance systems throughout the facility, with a primary focus on required software and hardware upgrades to support existing, outdated systems which have reached end of useful life. Additionally, support systems throughout the facility, including infrastructure cabling and local area network (LAN) upgrades are included as part of this project. All components to be included as specified within the project’s drawings and specifications.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 180 calendar days for completion from NTP. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: Base Bid: $1,685,200 2.4 Federally Funded Project. The majority of this project is funded under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP). Contractor(s) will be required to comply with specific federal contract provisions as listed herein and contained in the Bid Documents.

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The Offeror’s or Bidder’s attention is called to the “Equal Opportunity Clause” and the “Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications” set forth herein.

The goals and timetables for minority and female participation, expressed in percentage terms for the Contractor’s aggregate workforce in each trade on all construction work in the covered area, are as follows: Timetables Goals for minority participation for each trade: Goals for female participation in each trade:

19.7% 6.9%

These goals are applicable to all of the Contractor’s construction work (whether or not it is Federal or federally assisted) performed in the covered area. If the Contractor performs construction work in a geographical area located outside of the covered area, it shall apply the goals established for such geographical area where the work is actually performed. With regard to this second area, the Contractor also is subject to the goals for both its federally involved and non-federally involved construction.

The Contractor’s compliance with the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4 shall be based on its implementation of the Equal Opportunity Clause, specific affirmative action obligations required by the specifications set forth in 41 CFR 60-4.3(a) and its efforts to meet the goals. The hours of minority and female employment and training must be substantially uniform throughout the length of the contract, and in each trade, and the Contractor shall make a good faith effort to employ minorities and women evenly on each of its projects. The transfer of minority or female employees or trainees from Contractor to Contractor or from project to project for the sole purpose of meeting the Contractor’s goals shall be a violation of the contract, the Executive Order and the regulations in 41 CFR Part 60-4. Compliance with the goals will be measured against the total work hours performed.

The Contractor shall provide written notification to the Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within 10 working days of award of any construction subcontract in excess of $10,000 at any tier for construction work under the contract resulting from this solicitation. The notification shall list the name, address, and telephone number of the subcontractor; employer identification number of the subcontractor; estimated dollar amount of the subcontract; estimated starting and completion dates of the subcontract; and the geographical area in which the subcontract is to be performed.

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As used in this notice and in the contract resulting from this solicitation, the “covered area” is City of Santa Barbara, City of Goleta, County of Santa Barbara, State of California.

(2) Civil Rights – Title VI Assurance The CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 USC §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders or offerors that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award.

(3) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) A DBE Goal of 2% has been established for this contract.

The Owner’s award of this contract is conditioned upon Bidder or Offeror satisfying the good faith effort requirements of 49 CFR §26.53.

The successful Bidder or Offeror must provide written confirmation of participation from each of the DBE firms the Bidder or Offeror lists in its commitment within five days after bid opening.

1) The names and addresses of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) firms that will participate in the contract; 2) A description of the work that each DBE firm will perform; 3) The dollar amount of the participation of each DBE firm listed under (1) 4) Written statement from Bidder or Offeror that attests their commitment to use the DBE firm(s) listed under (1) to meet the Owner’s project goal; and 5) If Bidder or Offeror cannot meet the advertised project DBE goal, evidence of good faith efforts undertaken by the Bidder or Offeror as described in appendix A to 49 CFR part 26.

(4) Federal Provisions The following provisions are incorporated herein by reference with the same force and effect as if given in full text: 1) Buy American Preference (Reference: 49 USC § 50101) 2) Trade Restriction Certification (Reference: 49 USC § 50104; 49 CFR part 30) 3) Davis Bacon Act (Reference: 2 CFR § 200, Appendix II(D); 29 CFR Part 5) 4) Debarment and Suspension (Reference: 2 CFR part 180 (Subpart C); 2 CFR part 1200; and DOT Order 4200.5) 5) Lobbying and Influencing Federal Employees (Reference: 31 USC § 1352 – Byrd Anti-Lobbying Amendment; 2 CFR part 200, Appendix II(J); and 49 CFR part 20, Appendix A) 6) Procurement of Recovered Materials (Reference: 2 CFR § 200.322; 40 CFR part 247; and Solid Waste Disposal Act) 7) Government-wide Requirements for Drug-free Workplace (Reference: 28 CFR 83.635) 8) Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (41 CFR Part 60-1.8) 9) Veteran’s Preference (49 USC Section 47112(c)) 10) Distracted Driving (Texting when Driving) (Executive Order 13513/ DOT Order 3902.10) (See Federal Provisions of the Contract Bid Documents for further details.)

Successful Bidder/Contractor will be required to insert applicable federal contract provisions in all subcontracts and shall be responsible for compliance by subcontractor(s).

4.

License and Registration Requirements.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for either of the following classification(s): C-7 – Low Voltage Systems Contractor, or C-10- Electrical Contractor.

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

5.

Contract Documents. The specifications (volume 1), bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) considered to be non-sensitive security information may be downloaded from City’s website at: planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155. All sensitive security information (plans and volume 2 specifications) require completion of the non-disclosure agreement attached to this Notice Inviting Bids and returned directly to Santa Barbara Airport to obtain said documents.

6.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

7.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

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“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Final Blend Wine Company, 3160 Glengary Rd., Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Final Blend Wine Company, LLC, 3160 Glengary Rd., Santa Ynez, CA 93460.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 20190001758. Published July 31, August 7, 14, 21, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Daily Chore Assistant, 2839 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Carlos Guzman, 2839 Foothill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original

statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 20190001652. Published July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JZ Window Cleaning, 609 North Z Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. Christina Zermeno, 609 North Z Street, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 24, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 20190001522. Published July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summerland Builders, 2440 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067. Martin Jarchow, 2440 Lillie Avenue, Summerland, CA 93067.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on

July 8, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Sandra Rodriguez. FBN No. 20190001628. Published July 17, 24, 31, August 7, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spa Escape, 3022A De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Yolanda Rosenthal, 859 N. Patterson Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 26, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2019-0001555. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INSEASONHARVEST, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Bar-

bara, CA 93101. Jessica Ann McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Sirwan McAlvain, 1419 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 11, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2019-0001403. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mercantile Row Shopping Center, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robert Palmer, 1587 Las Canoas Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990 INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5774 DUE DATE & TIME: AUGUST 20, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M. SMALL HAND TOOLS & SUPPLIES FOR CENTRAL WAREHOUSE INVENTORY City of Santa Barbara Central Warehouse is seeking a vendor to provide miscellaneous small hand tools & supplies for inventory on an as-needed basis.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time.

The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

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

________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M.

Published: July 31, 2019 Montecito Journal

6.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

8.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

9.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

10.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

11.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

12.

Bidders’ Conference. No bidders’ conference will be held for this bid as a bidders conference was previously held on May 29, 2019 for bid 3957.

13.

Minimum Qualifications. Only bids from qualified bidders will be accepted. Minimum qualification forms are contained within and must be submitted with bid response. Following are the minimum qualifications for this project: a.

Security Contractor must provide documentation as part of the bid response to indicate a minimum of two (2) security project’s worth of experience within the last five (5) years in Commercial Airports in the USA.

b.

Security Contractor must be certified at the highest level by the software manufacturer of the system being proposed by the Security Contractor. Proof of such certifications must be included with bid response documents.

c.

14.

Security Contractor must have all of the necessary licenses to install security equipment required by authorities having jurisdiction. Contractor must provide proof of current licensure as part of the bid response.

Requirements for Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This project contains Sensitive Security Information (SSI). SSI is information that, if publicly released, would be detrimental to transportation security, as defined by Federal Regulation 49 C.F.R. Part 1520. To receive conditional access to project SSI, the bidder is required to read, agree to, sign, and notarize the Santa Barbara Airport Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) available in the Public Bid Documents. The signed, notarized NDA shall be submitted to Airport Administration via mail at 601 Firestone Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93117, or via email at kreed@santabarbaraca.gov. Upon receipt of a notarized, approved NDA, the Airport will provide password protected SSI project documents to the individual responsible for SSI documents security and privacy.

The password provided for SSI documents will be unique to each approved NDA. The bidder signing the NDA is responsible for ensuring all terms of the NDA are met. At the completion of the project, all SSI documents must be returned to the Airport or otherwise destroyed by shredding or permanent deletion as appropriate.

By: ___________________________________ Date: ________________ William Hornung, General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) July 24, 2019 Montecito Journal

2) July 31, 2019 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) Thomassine Richards, Sotheby’s vice president of Impressionist and Modern Art August O. Uribe, and Lily Hahn (photos by Bob Craig)

Actress Jennifer Tilly (photos by Bob Craig)

Leslie Ridley-Tree and David Lacy (photos by Bob Craig)

Visitors also got try the signature cocktail, The Fujian, a cooling and refreshing concoction of hibiscus tea, vodka and sake, while being entertained by the Santa Barbara Symphony String Quartet, classical Japanese dancer Nancy Teramura Hayata, and opera singing by soprano Julie Davies, and mezzo soprano Molly Clemenz, accompanied by pianist Pascal Salomon.

At the Duo-catered dinner on the Main Lawn, with entertainment

by Ojai O’Daiko and the Yukiko Matsuyama Trio, gavel guru August Uribe, head of the Impressionist and

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Actress January Jones (photos by Bob Craig)

modern art department at Sotheby’s, auctioned off a portrait session with acclaimed illustrator David Downton, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair, a wine dinner for eight with aficionado John Tilson and accommodations at the Belmond El Encanto, a five-daystay at New York’s charming Lowell Hotel, a bespoke dinner for ten in the new Japanese Garden, and an eightday Umbrian stay near Assisi.

Among the gaggle of gardening gurus were Leslie Ridley-Tree, David Lacy, Sandi Nicholson, Anne Towbes, John and Connie Pearcy, Bryan and Lisa Babcock, Barbara Ben-Horin, Hiroko and Akiko Benko, Adam and Penny Bianchi, Ed and Sue Birch, Miles Hartfeld and Gretchen Lieff, Ginni Dreier, Robert and Chris Emmons, Janet Garufis, George and Laurie Leis, Nancy Gifford, Tipper Gore and Bill Allen, Doug and Marni Margerum, Monique Lhuillier, Anne Luther, Mark and Alixe Mattingly, Paul and Jane Orfalea, Sybil Rosen, Jim and Heather Rosenfield, Bui Simon, Jennifer Smith Hale, Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, Randy and Roxy Solakian, Terry and Pam Valeski, James and Patricia Stretchberry, Steve and Caroline Thompson, Sigrid Toye, and Chris Toomey.

Polo Party Polo patron Justin Klentner and his interior designer wife Amanda Masters opened the doors of Klentner Ranch, their sprawling Carpinteria estate, for a 160-guest Summer Social fundraiser for the Polo Training Center of Santa Barbara, which was expected to raise around $100,000 to support

Luke Klentner, host Justin Klentner, Bobbie Bennett, Kelly Greyson, and Jake Klentner (photo by Priscilla)

Chuck Lande, Jeep Holden, Daniel Walker, and John Muse at the Polo Training Center of Santa Barbara fundraiser (photo by Priscilla)

activities and upgrade the facility’s training arena, including lighting for nighttime activities.

The tony twosome also underwrote

the cost of the event, which included a giant barbecue of ribs, chicken and tri-tip, downed with wine, margaritas, and mojitos.

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”

– Oscar Wilde

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Club president John Muse’s family foundation donated $25,000 to the center, with $10,000 from Gary and Sally Magness of Beverly Hills, and $8,000 from the Holden family, including polo patriarch and former U.S. ambassador to Jamaica, Glen Holden.

Banker Henry Walker emceed the boffo bash with guests including Morten and Lisa Wengler, Jeep and Sharon Holden, Jake and Luke Klentner, John and Linda Muse, Andrew and Amza Bossom, Charlie Walker, Ben Soleimani, Chris and Mindy Denson, Chuck and Margarita Lande, Mike and Claudia Uretz, Charles Ward, Katie Turpin, Paige Beard, Nigel Gallimore, Rhys

Williams, Mary Ann Norbom, and Linda Walker.

Palm Beach Palace One of Palm Beach’s most magnificent mansions, where I used to have cocktails with an old friend film producer Nick Simunek, who died five years ago aged 76, is now up for grabs for a hefty $135 million.

Nick, a former member of the Coldstream Guards, was married to Tony Award-winning theater producer Terry Allen Kramer, who lived in opulent splendor at La Follia, a 37,000 sq.ft. 13-bedroom palace built on five acres in 1995 between the Atlantic and the Intra Coastal waterway, with 210

feet of ocean frontage.

Terry, who died in May in New York aged 85, was known for her lavish bashes, particularly at Thanksgiving, with guests including George Hamilton, Jerry Hall, Denise Rich, Joan Collins, and Ivana Trump.

The property is being sold by Douglas Elliman.

Haute Hats It was a record turnout when the Santa Barbara Polo Club held its annual Belmond El Encanto Robert Skene Trophy final between undefeated BenSoleimani.com, last year’s runners up, and banker Henry Walker’s FMB Too!

Henry tied the game with only a few minutes of the hotly contested 16-goal match remaining.

Just as overtime loomed, Felipe Marquez ran the ball down the field shooting a long pass to teammate Santi Wulff, who scored the goal to narrowly win 12-11.

I also had the onerous task for the eleventh consecutive year of judging the hat contest from the mélange of magnificent millinery on display in the brimming stands.

The winners were Linda Ross of Beverly Hills for the most colorful tête topper, with a polka dot chiffon

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I’ve read that you were haunted by the opera the same way many others were deeply affected by the book or the movie.

Oh, yeah. It took me 28 months to write, and those characters lived in my head the whole time, even in my sleep. I was so emotionally invested – feeling love, happy, fearful, relieved – the characters have still never gone away completely. (Now I understand) this is how people go mad. When a character was dying, I was nauseous the whole time writing it. And when the opera ends, I had two weeks of literally weeping while I was writing.

Even now, as I sit through hearing it, I come a little bit unglued.

But it was worth it: I wanted the audience to feel what I felt and now I get to see that happening for other people as they watch the opera. It’s magical. The other day, someone was riding past me on his bicycle, and he turned around and came back, stopped me on the street and asked if he could give me a hug because he was so moved by Cold Mountain. It just doesn’t get any better than that.

What are your thoughts about an educational institute rather than a professional company mounting the West Coast premiere of Cold Mountain?

I absolutely love it! Young singers originally did the workshopping of the opera while I was working on it (at Curtis in her hometown of Philadelphia). They were phenomenal. Young performers these days are so amazing, so good, and I’ve already met some of the singers at other institutes and programs, and they’re really wonderful. I made a few small changes, a few adjustments in the vocal parts where requested to fit the specific sings, small things in the orchestra for the staging and action.

That’s standard with a new opera. I think it’s going to be great!

nate something larger and striking in ourselves, our choices, our beliefs and our own shortcomings.”

Diving Deep with Director Darrah

(Cold Mountain is performed Friday night and Sunday afternoon at the Granada. See below for details.)

Putting on the West Coast premiere of Cold Mountain marks an ambitious milestone in the Music Academy of the West’s opera program, a fact not lost on stage director James Darrah, newly appointed this year as MAW’s Vocal Institute Director. “Jennifer [Higdon’s] ideas are exciting… and the score [is] a rich experience for the fellows,” he said in an email interview earlier this summer. “The opera has tons of roles, challenging music, and gives the fellows really exciting scenes to dig into.”

Cold Mountain also gives Darrah the opportunity to dig deep into the emotions of the characters, planning the staging and the action to explore movements and motivations as much as the music. “My goal is to activate some of the dreamspace – some of the dark surrealism of the piece as it lives in war-time memory. There’s a big oscillation between violence and rather sobering reality and fiction/ memory that’s intriguing.”

And the director is also taking pains to link the Civil War time period – where a country was divided against itself – to today’s social and global climate. “That weighed heavily on choosing the piece, too,” he said. “The content definitely also already resonates with the fellows: to have conversations about this period of US history but also find a way to actually craft those into a meaningful theatrical experience. I keep asking our creative team and the cast [to consider]: ‘Why do you want to tell this story?’ It can’t be just a love story based on a famous novel based on mythology set during the US Civil War. We have a responsibility to illumi-

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To say that double bassist Edgar Meyer thrives on musical challenge would be like suggesting Edmund Hillary had a passing interest in exploration. In addition to the genre-hopping between classical and bluegrass music that blend the bow and finger-picking favored by the multiple-award winning musician, Meyer also almost always chooses difficult pieces for his solo concerts. His MAW recital on Thursday, August 1, is no exception, as he’ll open his program with Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.

“It’s as much like a keyboard piece as a string piece and that is one of the most difficult things to do on the bass,” Meyer explained in the portions of an email interview that arrived too late for last week’s column.

“Achieving the clarity that helps make these pieces apparent is almost going against the nature of the instrument.

Bass is dark and cloudy. Its voice is more natural when playing primal or elemental music. However, that is part of what I love about playing the Bach.

It forces me to not give in to the natural tendencies of the instrument, and helps bring balance to [my] playing.”

Meyer will follow the Bach burner with a selection of his own compositions played solo at Hahn Hall, the pieces as yet unannounced but drawn from a period spanning the last 20 years. “I try to present as varied a look as is possible with my limited output: Some long, some short, some more serious, some more light hearted, etc.,” he said. “[But] I wish more of them were easier to play.”

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Friday, August 2: It’s August – the hottest month of summer. What a perfect time for an opera called Cold Mountain! The title, of course, refers to the North Carolina hills, where passionately heated Civil War drama and romance takes place. We’ll be seeing it in far more hospitable conditions of the comfort of the air-conditioned Granada Theatre, 7:30 pm tonight and 2:30 pm on Sunday. See above for much more, including interviews with composer Jennifer Higdon and stage director James Darrah (Granada; $10-$100).

Monday, August 5: It’s the beginning of the end. The last week of MAW’s summer is here, but there’s still time to attend a masterclass in just about every category this week, beginning today with collaborative piano (2 pm;

Lehmann; $10)... The afternoon also boasts the Solo Piano Finale, a daytime concert wherein the eight fellows get one final chance to show off their skills and performing personalities sans support from the staff (4:30 pm; Hahn; $35)... Tonight’s special concert also features fellows, the three winning pairs of instrumentalists and collaborative pianists in MAW’s inaugural Duo Competition – violinists Jennifer Ahn and Neilson Chen, trombonists Kevin Carlson and Heejung Ju, and clarinetists Roy Park and Heejung Ju – who will claim their prizes, a $1,000 cash award plus performing in recital at 7:30 pm in Hahn Hall ($35).

Tuesday, August 6: It’s your last chance for masterclasses in flute (1 pm), percussion, viola and oboe (all 3:15 pm), with both the former and latter boasting just the second appearances of faculty members Eugene Izotov (oboe) and Jim Walker (flute)… Tonight, the Lobero hosts its final event of MAW ‘19, the closing Festival Artists Series concert of the season. Anchored by Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 (with Robert McDonald piano; Glenn Dicterow and Kathleen Winkler, violins; Karen Dreyfus, viola; and David Geber, cello) the concert also features Koechlins Four Petite Pieces (Richie Hawley, clarinet, and Julie Landsman, horn), Dvořák’s Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74, (Winkler and fellow Marin Osawa, violins, and Cynthia Phelps viola), and composer-in-residence Jennifer Higdon’s Dark Wood (Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Geber cello, Benjamin Kamins, bassoon, and Margaret McDonald, piano). (7:30 pm; $46).

Wednesday, August 7: Say goodbye to masterclasses in cello and horn (1 pm), and bassoon and double bass (3:15 pm), as well as vocals, the latter being the one and only official public teaching appearance of the divine mezzo-soprano diva and longtime MAW faculty member Marilyn Horne, who is now Honorary Voice Program Director (3:15 pm)... Also, a special Faculty Artists Recital brings four pairings of the professions in sonatas and such, plus a vocal trio. Higdon’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano are performed by Richie Hawley and Conor Hanick, while Paul Merkelo and Natasha Kislenko take on her Songs for Trumpet and Piano. Nico Abondolo, double bass, and Jonathan Feldman, piano, play Bottesini’s Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento” and Respighi’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor connects Winkler and McDonald before two works by Brahms close out the night: Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91, sung by countertenor Logan Tanner, with violist Phelps and pianist Martin Katz, and the Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100, performed by Dicterow and Feldman (7:30 pm; Hahn; $35).

•MJ

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Spirituality Matters

by Steven Libowitz

We are pleased to announce that

“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.

Body-Mind Centering Association Conference

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rooke smiley (lowercase is intentional) was born and raised in Los Olivos but has spent the better part of the last decade overseas as a professional dancer and researcher. smiley has danced with the “rebellious” Michael Clark Company in London as well as with Fabulous Beast in Ireland, where she helped reimagine “Rites of Spring” among other works.

She has conducted improvisation and movement research with residencies in France, Ireland, and New York, including solo performances. She employed her background in earth architecture and indigenous justice via staging dances at Standing Rock, and she’s also a graduate of California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (CalEarth) with experience in building earth domes and other structures. (Her newest work, “Permission to Heal,” a life-sized adobe Venus of Willendorf, was fashioned from mud from the Montecito debris flows and exhibited on State Street as part of the 2018 State of the Art Gallery Exhibition.)

But it wasn’t until about five years ago when she came across a BodyMind Centering workshop with founder Bonnie Bambridge Cohen, randomly, through some colleagues at UCSB where she now teaches, that all of her interests and pursuits came together in a meaningful and enlightening fashion that has deeply influenced her life and relationships.

“It changed everything for me,” smiley said. “It brought together what was happening on a cellular level with what happens on an environmental, outside level. It brought internal and external together in a very empowering way.”

Less than two years ago, smiley graduated from the BMC Somatic Movement Educator program and is currently training as a therapist and practitioner. Next week, she’s hosting the 34th annual Body-Mind Centering Association conference being held at UCSB. Body-Mind Centering brings together practitioners of movement practice (yoga, dance, athletics, martial arts, etc.), therapeutic fields (medicine, occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychotherapy, child development, etc.), and the expressive arts (visual arts, music, etc.), with programs and courses for professional development and/or personal growth. Officially, it’s a highly experiential, somat1 – 8 August 2019

brooke smiley, host of this year’s Body-Mind Centering Association conference (photo by Peter Aguilar)

ic approach to embodiment, movement and consciousness developed by Cohen over the last several decades, to promote the conscious embodiment of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, embryological and developmental principles, utilizing guided movement, intentional touch, voice, expressive arts, and a developing awareness of the play of conscious attention, or mind.

“BMC offers a space of learning from the body as a way of discovering more choices in the mind,” smiley explained. “It encompasses learning through movement, studying the body systems on a cellular level, learning our developmental movement patterns, and experiencing our anatomy by embodying it and considering movement as a source of consciousness. It’s a dialogue; not a place of arrival. It brings me into my nature, into who I am and the memories I hold, and gives me space to enter into new choices and re-patterning.”

For the 2019 conference, which takes place August 7-10, with a pre-conference event on August 6-7, and Bonnie Bambridge Cohen’s post-conference workshop August 10-11, smiley chose the theme of “Self and Other.”

“I landed on that because it’s something worth bringing into focus on a community level as I notice boundaries between people,” she said. “It’s about meeting Other as self – whether Other is another person, the Earth, a region, a country. It’s time to bring value to our differences and acknowledge the health in our interdependence.”

Local practitioners, students and the merely curious are invited to join visitors from around the world in attending the conference on the UCSB

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Italian wines, which the guys say has boosted their sales considerably. Rare, high-end wines are located in a temperature-controlled cellar in the back of the store.

Herrick and Brunello, who have known each other since high school, have put a large focus on customer service, helping customers get their hands on rare and unique liquor and wines, and offering delivery. Herrick has worked in the industry for over 30 years, and Brunello is a certified sommelier and wine geek, even planting his own grape vines in the large wine barrel planters in front of the shop. The original planters were washed away during the 1/9 debris flow last year; the guys took the opportunity to spruce up the outside of the shop, the Dutch front door of which has become a sort of landmark on Coast Village Road.

The shop also offers mixers, glasses, decanters, and wine paraphernalia.

They also provide beverage service for special events, company parties and weddings. “We want people to know we are still here, business is good, and we look forward to continuing our customers enjoy their favorite wines and cocktails,” Herrick said.

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

The store is open Monday through

Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, Sundays 10 am to 5 pm. Call 805-969-5939 or visit www.MontecitoVino.com for more information.

Sheffield Interchange Discussed at MBAR

Earlier this month, SBCAG and Caltrans representatives were in front of the Montecito Board of Architectural Review for conceptual review of the rebuild of the Sheffield Drive interchange, which is part of the larger project of widening Highway 101 from Carpinteria to the City of Santa Barbara.

MBAR members first saw conceptual plans back in November of last year; the plans seen on July 11 showed an overview of the design of the bridge, railing, columns, paving, retaining walls, sound walls, and landscaping. The project will remove the left-hand exit and entrance on the southbound side of the freeway, and reconfigure the bridge to allow for the traditional right-hand exit and entrance; the bridge will also allow for the widening of the freeway to three lanes in both directions.

The design team on the project explained that when the bridge was originally built in the 1950s, it was not built to be aesthetically pleasing.

Spirit of Community

Enjoy covered Fiesta Parade Seating at the best spot to watch the parade!

Photos: Old Spanish Days Fiesta/ Fritz Olenberger Photography

General Tent Seating - $20 Deluxe Tent Seating includes 2019 poster and commemorate pin, a flower, a bottle of water, a snack and gift - $40 Grandstand Seating includes reserved parking, water and a hospitality station - $50

Friday, August 2 at 12 noon Along Cabrillo Boulevard (Between Bath and State Sts.)

Tickets: www.sbfiesta.org

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The new project will have design elements found in nearby Spanish-style buildings, with muted colors, decorative accents, and appropriate landscaping. The design is intended to retain the ocean vistas from the freeway, while adding skyline palm trees and other landscaping on the exterior borders of the lanes; the median landscaping, including the iconic cypress trees as one approaches Montecito, is slated for removal to accommodate the third lanes.

Members of MBAR voiced concern over the landscaping and the visual impact to the “entrance to Montecito.”

“It’s lipstick on a pig,” said MBAR member John Watson. “I think it’s a nice shade of lipstick, and it’s well applied, but it’s still lipstick on a pig.

What we’re getting is, left to right, solid concrete,” he said. Member Sam Maphis agreed, voicing concern over the use of palm trees instead of cypress and eucalyptus trees.

Kellam de Forest, whose father Lockwood de Forest was the landscape architect on what used to be known as the Montecito Parkway, wrote in a letter to MBAR that in 1927, Montecito resident John Jameson led a crusade to raise funds to buy land contiguous to the highway in order to assist the State in creating California’s first scenic parkway using planted center dividers and landscaped edges, including frontage roads, where all billboards and commercial structures were banned. “The Montecito Parkway became a model for cities from coast to coast, and was the genesis of California’s freeway system. The segment between San Ysidro and Olive Mill roads was completed by 1937. After the hiatus of World War II, the parkway was extended to Sheffield Drive in 1949, to form one of the most beautiful approaches to a city found anywhere,” de Forest wrote in his letter.

“Kindly make sure that the proposed widened highway retains its parkway ambiance and is adequately screened with plant material,” he wrote. “Remember its historic roots.”

Fred Luna with SBCAG told the board that there is flexibility in the design and landscaping choices, and that the design team plans to be back to MBAR in August, at which point revised renderings will be presented.

Rotarian of the Year

Matthew Kowallis has been named Rotarian of the Year for the Rotary Club of Montecito, as announced during the club’s step-down dinner last month. An active member of the club since 2017 and a Rotarian since 2010, part of his contributions to the club included planning the club’s six local service projects over the past year as well as chairing the club’s Montecito Rubber Duck Race. The

Matthew Kowallis has been named Rotarian of the Year for the Rotary Club of Montecito

aquatic themed fundraiser has helped raise over $16,000 over the past two years.

In addition to the Rotary Club of Montecito, Matthew volunteers at the Carpinteria Valley Little League as well as the Montecito Friendship Center. He graduated from Denison University with a degree in Athletic Training and received his master’s degree from Canisius College in Sports Administration. Matthew and his fiancée, Rebekah, currently reside in Carpinteria.

Formed in 1954, the purpose of the Rotary Club of Montecito organization is to support efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs.

For more information on the Rotary Club of Montecito, call (805) 962-2382.

New Community Resource Deputy in Carpinteria The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is has announced a new Community Resource Deputy for the City of Carpinteria: Senior Deputy James Carovano was selected to fill the position and has been on the job since July 1, 2019. Senior Deputy Carovano is a five-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and is currently assigned to the Coastal Patrol Bureau. He is a military veteran, having served with the United States Coast Guard and was previously employed as a Federal Law Enforcement Officer assigned to Yosemite National Park.

Sr. Deputy Carovano is a certified Field Training Officer and has completed several courses that will assist him in his new role. His tasks will include patrolling various parts of the City of Carpinteria on foot as well as on bicycle, in addition to availing himself to local schools to provide the necessary relationship between students, staff, and parents with local law enforcement.

Sr. Deputy Carovano says he is very much looking forward to taking the restored position of Community Resource Deputy for the City of Carpinteria to new heights and enhancing the relationship between the community and law enforcement.

The City of Carpinteria contracts with the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement services.

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down.” — Oprah Winfrey “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks

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Just 72 hours later the theater was packed for the Festival Artists Series, featuring works by Heinichen, and a fascinating performance by bass flutist Claire Chase playing works by Felipe Lara and Olga Neuwirth, the latter Magic Flu-idity featuring Conor Hanick on typewriter.

The innovative program concluded with Schubert’s String Quartet in C Major with the Takacs fab four.

A concert to write home about...

Carole Thompson, Linda Ross, Peter Collin, Bill Tomicki, Charles and Barbara De L’Arbre, Fred and Colleen Huther, Rob Roche, and Brooke Zingarelli at the Belmond El Encanto Robert Skene Trophy final (photo by Priscilla)

Charles Ward and club jeweler Tara Gray (photo

by Priscilla)

Janet Patton and her pet, Connie (photo by Priscilla)

Presenting the Robert Skene Trophy are Curtis Skene, Robin Kris Krikelie, Rui Reis, Colleen Huther, and Rob Roche (photo by Priscilla)

Winning for the Most Colorful Hat is Linda Ross of Beverly Hills, Most Creative is 9-year-old Bianca Peterson, and the Largest is author Deborah Richards (photo by Priscilla)

hat with violet features, and English author Deborah Richards for the largest creation with feathers and bows purchased from the club’s boutique,

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both of whom received bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne.

The most creative hat, complete with a polo pony atop and matching

umbrella, was nine-year-old Bianca Peterson, a student at Ellwood School in Goleta, who received a bottle of Martinelli apple juice, given her tender years.

It was also a very in-tents occasion given the five-star Riviera hostelry and manager Colleen Huther hosted a champagne lunch from Pure Joy Catering for more than 140 guests, including William Tomicki, Charles de L’Arbre, Mindy Denson, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Arlene Montesano, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Diana Starr-Langley, Charles Ward, Joan Tapper, John Thyne, Tom Reed, and Natalie Bovee.

A cracker of an afternoon…

Magnificent MAW The Lobero was the place to be as the Music Academy of the West’s 72nd annual summer festival approaches its conclusion.

The Academy Chamber Orchestra, under conductor Thomas Ades, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano, played works by Ravel and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, with mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce, tenor Ryan Hurley, and baritone Samuel Kidd.

Another Flip Montecito TV talk show host and serial real estate flipper Ellen DeGeneres had just listed a ten-acre, three-bedroom, three-bathroom 6,000 sq.ft. Santa Barbara property for $7.95 million.

The Toro Canyon house, with a lagoon-inspired pool and waterfall, was built in 1917 and has been fully renovated.

Riskin Partners is handling the sale.

Women at the Top TV entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey is one of the world’s most admired women, according to a new survey.

Montecito’s most famous resident is ranked Number Two, with former First Lady Michelle Obama topping the list, with actress-activist Angelina Jolie at Number Three and Queen Elizabeth at Number Four, according to YouGov. Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates is Number One on the men’s list, his fifth consecutive year, with former President Barack Obama at Number Two, the Dalai Lama at Number Eight, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Number 10.

More than 42,000 people were polled in 41 countries...

Royal Writer?

Prince Harry’s wife, former actress Meghan Markle, is in discussions with my former New York Magazine colleague Anna Wintour, to write a regular column on her charity work for Conde Nast’s fashion bible Vogue.

The column will run in both British and American Vogue.

“She’ll be a contributing editor on a few fabulous stories about causes near and dear to her, and it may become a regular column,” says one source.

Both Buckingham Palace and Conde Nast have declined to comment, but I now hear the Duchess of Sussex will be guest editor for Vogue’s bumper September issue.

Fiesta Season is Here Montecito Bank & Trust’s main State Street branch suffered major social gridlock when it hosted its third annual Fiesta party for more than 300 traditionally garbed guests.

Quaffing magnificent margaritas and noshing on traditional fare from Los

– Arthur Brisbane “A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”

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George Leis, La Presidenta Barbara Carroll, Janet Garufis, and guitarist Chris Fossek (photo by Priscilla)

Dana Newquist celebrates with Spirit of Fiesta dancers

Arroyos, partygoers were entertained

by Chris Fossek playing classical guitar, with flamenco dancing from Junior Spirit of Fiesta Paloma Valenzuela and Spirit of Fiesta Sophia Cordero.

Among the partygoers were Jonathan Fox, Roger Durling, George Leis, Janet Garufis, Mark Danielson, Larry Gosselin, Gregg Hart, Brian Hill, Kevin Marvin, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Stephanie Petlow, Lynda Tanner, Anne Towbes, and Michael Baker.

Selling New York Former Montecito actor Michael Douglas continues to whittle down his property portfolio.

Having recently put his homes in Majorca and Bermuda on the market, as I have chronicled in this illustrious organ, the 74-year-old Oscar winner is selling his New York estate for $15 million to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt.

Michael, son of Montecito acting legend Kirk Douglas, bought the eight-bedroom, 18-bathroom Westchester property in 2014 for $11.25 million.

It was built in 1895 and sits on more than 13 acres in the ritzy commuter enclave, Michael’s three-acre Bermuda estate went on the market in June for $10.6 1 – 8 August 2019

Galley of Fighters, Creators, Actors, and Desperadoes, with a bijou bash at Tecolote, the tony tome temple in the upper village.

The work features 20 profiles of men written during Oney’s 40-plus years as a magazine journalist, including actor Harrison Ford, tortured rocker Gregg Allman, and Heisman Trophy footballer Herschel Walker.

The stories originally appeared in such glossies as GQ, Playboy, Esquire, Time, The New York Times, and Los Angeles magazines.

Harvard graduate Oney’s first book, And the Dead Shall Rise, an examination of the Leo Frank lynching, won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for best work on the nation’s legal system, and the National Jewish Book Award for history.

Bank Bash

Her death came just two weeks before an official induction ceremony at the Racing Hall of Fame as Pillar of the Turf, an honor reserved for thoroughbred racing’s greats.

At one time the Whitneys had seven homes, including a horse farm in Kentucky, a New York townhouse, a villa in France, a 51,000-acre camp in the Adirondacks and a home in the then-faded Victorian Age resort town of Saratoga Springs.

Marylou, a longtime winter resident of Palm Beach, Florida, lost no time in revitalizing the historic community, founding the National Museum of Dance, which is named for the couple, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the Saratoga Hospital, the Saratoga YMCA, and numerous race-season charity events for which she served as chairwoman.

But it was as a horsewoman that she shone, having as much expertise

million and his sprawling Spanish 10-bedroom home on 250 acres for $32.38 million.

Chords for the Kids School students had to face the music at the Music Academy of the West.

More than 300 youngsters from United Way of Santa Barbara County’s Fun in the Sun scheme attended a concert at Hahn Hall as part of the Up Close and Musical program, now in its eighth year.

The fun event, a collaboration between Janet Garufis, chairman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust, and Scott Reed, President and CEO of the academy, featured pupils from Carpinteria Middle School, Harding, Franklin, El Camino and Solvang as they participated in musically themed outdoor activities, including interaction with world-class musicians and their instruments.

The concert, Percussion is Everywhere!, featuring faculty artists and Michael Werner, principal percussionist of the Seattle Symphony, was a high-octane interactive experience for the youngsters, many experiencing their first-ever concert.

Man’s World Author Steve Oney launched his latest book, A Man’s World: A

Richard and Annette Caleel, Nolan Nicholson, Wiley Uretz and guitarist Doug Giordani at Farmers & Merchants Bank (photo by Priscilla)

Having won polo’s 55-year-old America Cup three times in the last four years, it seems appropriate that former Santa Barbara Polo Club president and banker Dan Walker should now be sponsoring the three-week annual 16-goal tournament that runs through August 11.

To mark the occasion, he hosted a bustling reception at his Farmers & Merchants Bank branch, just a tiara’s toss from State Street, for 60 guests, including Nolan Nicholson, Tara Gray, Charles Ward, Katie Turpin, Richard and Annette Caleel, Rhys Williams, Mindy Denson, David Sigman, and Wiley Uretz.

Rest in Peace On a personal note, I mark the passing of the irrepressible horsewoman Marylou Whitney at her home in Saratoga, New York, aged 93.

I would often see the widow of Cornelius “Sonny” Vanderbilt Whitney in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot, with then husband John Hendrickson, who she was married to for nearly 22 years.

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on equestrian bloodlines as Queen Elizabeth, and becoming the only woman to breed and own a Kentucky Oaks winner in 2003. She was also elected to the Jockey Club in 2011.

One of thoroughbred racing’s greatest ambassadors and a unique and gracious individual.

Sightings: Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman noshing at Pane e Vino... Oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau checking out Intermezzo... Rosewood Miramar owner Rick Caruso, with his entourage, sashaying down Coast Village Road Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist.

Contact her at: artraks@yahoo.com

Harry and The Potters 2019 Library Tour Hits SB

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illennial Massachusettsborn brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge, the Harry and The Potters band, arrived at the Santa Barbara Public Library on Saturday, July 27, on their whirlwind U.S. Summer Tour, and part of the library’s annual Harry Potter birthday celebrations for literacy. The band’s gigs are at all major libraries and clubs, and the next stop is the Troubadour in L.A. They are given credit as being one of the first wizard-rock bands, with a less than a humble start – their on-the-spot performance to six friends in their backyard summer of 2002, with seven songs they made up an hour before.

The lyrics of the songs were based on the first four Harry Potter books (1998 – 2002), referencing the troubles of adolescence.

The fact that Potterdom took hold and created many subcults of Harry worshipers, clothes, eye glasses, impersonators, movies and increased

Joe and Paul DeGeorge, of Harry and The Potters, perform at the main library in our town as part of their summer tour

the popularity of reading in suburban households, the band decided to quit their day jobs, and did popups. They took an intentioned flight

Finalization of Board of Trustees Appointment – Leslie Kneafsey

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE At the June 3, 2019 Board meeting, it was announced that Cold Spring School District Board Member Kathy Davidson would resign from the Board effective immediately for personal reasons. Applications were received from three qualified individuals seeking to fill the position until the next regularly scheduled election in November 2020.

On July 16, 2019 the Governing Board held a meeting to interview prospective Board members. Leslie Kneafsey was appointed to fill the vacancy created by Ms. Davidson.

Leslie Kneafsey took her Oath of Office at the July 16, 2019 Board meeting regular session.

Unless a petition calling for a special election, containing sufficient number of signatures, is filed with the county superintendent of schools within thirty (30) days of the date of the appointment, the appointment shall become effective. If a petition is filed, the county superintendent of schools has thirty (30) days in which to verify the signatures. If the petition is determined to be legal, the provisional appointment is terminated and the county superintendent of schools shall call a special election to be conducted no later than the 130th day after the determination (California Education Code §5091).

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on Harry’s broomstick of subsequent books and movies, and released their punk performance art music with gigs at libraries, bars and top venues like the Cavern Club Liverpool. They were masters at involving the audience to participate in the song, much like a comic convention, and are said to inspire other “wizard-rock” bands.

In 2005, they partnered with Andrew Slack, Seth Reibstein, and Sarah Newberry to form The Harry Potter Alliance non-profit organization based in political activism and literacy, and also formed the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club – an extended play syndicate – and appeared in the documentary films, We Are Wizards and Wizard Rockumentary. And yes, somewhere in the mix, they were contacted by Warner Brothers to cease all copyright infringements. The DeGeorges say they reached a “gentleman’s agreement.” A percentage of the proceeds from gigs and merch are donated.

Lumos, their first album in 13 years, was released this year with a Kickstarter to cover the cost. The songs follow the plot of Deathly Hallows (published in 2007), the 7th book in the Potter series. On the LP are musicians Brad Mehlenbacher, the drummer and guitarist for the wizard rock-band Draco and the Malfoys, and anti-folk singer Kimya Dawson in a duet with Paul on the song, “Where’s Ron?” The music uses twists of saxophone on “Hermione’s Army” and honky-tonk on “Gone Campin,” but pretty much stays in pace with their other releases, a band who’s likely heroes range from the Foo Fighters to the songs “The Taste Of Ink” by The Used and “Swing, Swing” by The AllAmerican Rejects.

My interview with Paul and Joe DeGeorge: Q. Why tour libraries?

A. Public libraries are one of the few institutions in late capitalism that provide free access to resources and knowledge to all people. The utopian vision of the library is something to celebrate and support. By doing our performances in libraries, people are able to come to a place dedicated to housing and preserving the media of our culture. I can’t think of a better place for people to come celebrate the stories they love in the form of a rock and roll show.

You started as a Potter cult-band...

There is a lot of responsibility to interpreting the character and story of Harry Potter. These stories are a cultural touchstone for many and we are thoughtful about how we should represent the boy wizard as a rock and roll band. The stories have some deep themes of social justice running through them, and we try to amplify those with our performance.

Hermione starts S.P.E.W., an ambi-

tious labor organizing movement, and later on Harry, Hermione, and others do the work of founding what is essentially a student union called Dumbledore’s Army to advocate for a better learning environment. The Order of the Phoenix is focused on curtailing the rise of neo-fascist Death Eaters and their supremacy ideals that infiltrate institutions like the Ministry of Magic. These stories are inspirational for activists, and for those engaged in collective action. I think part of our responsibility in interpreting these stories is to highlight what Harry is going through during the second rise of Voldemort in ways that parallel real-world issues of justice and access to resources and privilege.

The band’s favorite song lyric?

We have a new song called “Hermione’s Army” that attempts to illustrate the activist spirit of Hermione. The chorus is “She is hoping to do some good in this world,” and is inspired by something she says to the Minister of Magic when he suggests she pursue a career working for the established power structures. But one of the verses is, “Just because it’s that way doesn’t mean it should stay / She’s got the vision and the brains to make a change / The world may not be ready for Elvish welfare but she’s not waiting for the world she’s gonna push it there!”

Did you meet Joanne Rowling (aka J. K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith)?

We never met Rowling. Paul visited her garage once and left her a trophy of a witch riding a broomstick that said, “To the World’s Greatest Witch, J.K. Rowling, with love from Harry and the Potters.” She wrote us a very nice thank you email. If you get an email from her, it says Owl Post for the sender.

Music you listen to?

We’ve been inspired by They Might be Giants, and are listening to their discography in the van. Dawn Riddle, who is on tour with us, is in a new band called Hot Gum. Neil Fridd, on tour with us doing special effects, has a project called Terror Pigeon that is sensational. One of my favorite bands is iji. In the van we’ve been listening to an italo disco tape, Rush, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Neil Ciceriga’s mashups known as Mouth Sounds, Dear Nora, Mega Bog, Bruce Springsteen, Fugazi, Priests, Bad Moves. We’re really into Plantasia now.

What interview question do you want to ask your fans?

What is making the world better for everyone?

•MJ

“A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.” — John Tillotson

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campus, the heart of which consists of nine different breakout sessions, each with up to six simultaneous workshops or discussions led by dozens of BMCA professionals and others, plus evening performances and opening and closing circles. Among the titles of the topics are “Body Tales: Sound and Movement Storytelling,” “Spiraling: Journey to Connectedness through Somatic Improvisation,” “Boundaries, Connection, and the Movement of Relationship,” “Witnessing your Self,” “Voicing the Bones, Blood, and Glands,” “Inner Skin,” and ”Haptic Encounters: Embodying Reciprocity,” to name just a few. The conference’s theme of Self and Other also forms the basis for many of the other workshops and seminars, in such areas as time, touch and yoga, among others. smiley is teaching a workshop called “Relaxed Animals,” which is about the Moro Reflex, an involuntary primitive reaction to a perceived threat that can show up in our adult bodies with physical and psychological effects, such as anxiety, heightened state of awareness, hyperactivity, and low self-esteem in response to stress, fear or discomfort. “I want to hold space for all the stages and I’ll be bringing tools to integrate and resolve the primitive reflex.”

Other than the times she’s booked, though, “I’m going to have a hard time myself choosing what to go to,” smiley admitted. “But,” she added, “you can’t go wrong with any of them.”

For details, the full schedule, registration and more, visit https://bmcas sociation.org/conferences/2019-bmca-conference.

The NEST Fest Debuts

The New Earth Star Tribe, a new Santa Barbara collective nonprofit that seeks to both gather healers and artists in the community to connect with each other and co-create events, goes public this weekend via a one-day mini-festival. Think of NEST Fest, which takes place 2-10 pm on Saturday, August 3, at the new Community Healing House at 402 East Valerio Street, as something on the continuum between Lucidity Festival and the monthly Conscious 1 – 8 August 2019

Networking gatherings with speakers, healers, and vendor booths that was held at Unity in 2017-18.

“We all share a similar vision,” explained Alisa Deen, a Santa Barbara native yoga teacher and coach who formed New Earth Star Tribe with business coach John Reason and relationship and empowerment coach Sky O’Connor. “NEST Fest is a mini-festival where we’re creating a festival feel like at Lucidity, with the same sort of transformative, connectedness you might experience there. But we’re bringing it into our own neighborhood, at a private community house where we live.”

Deen said NEST Fest will also serve as a gathering place for practitioners to network and provide an experience of their offerings. “It’s a place for business to cross promote, and for people to connect beyond the event itself.”

To that end, there will be two full stages of activities with live music and much more. The Central Outdoor Stage will host a “Wet & Wild” Ecstatic Dance with DJ Baldemar, featuring sprinklers and other water devices to add a different dimension to the free-form dancing. That environment will also feature the official opening circle to set intentions, plus acro yoga, a silent disco dance (in which the participants wear headphones that pipe the beats simultaneously to each dancer), a Primal Play with Ka Luna Ki Ato. Events taking place inside at the Sound & Movement Temple include Heart-Centered Kundalini and Breathwork with Peter Stephan, Taste of Tantra with Jenny Bee and Jacqueline Pleasure Initiatrix, Yoga Embodiment with Alisa Deen with Lisa Osborn from YoungLiving Essential oils, NVC & Empathic Communications Play Shot with Catherine Cooley, The Science of Miracle healing with Dr. Stephen Ezra West, Galactivation Sound Healing Journey with Ka Luna, Gabi and Alisa, Third Eye Lions Gate Activ8tion with Anya, and Crown Chackra Initiation and Channeling with Gabi.

Other offerings include a tea lounge that also serves cacao and other elixirs with pillows and couches “where people can just hang out,” Deen said, plus a “squish lounge” for couples and oth-

ers to spend time together connecting physically, including cuddling.

The practitioners and performers at this first event are members of the founders’ community, including the weekly Dance Tribe ecstatic dance and other healing arts. “It’s people we know and then based on work on mouth,” Deen said.

Scheduling the inaugural summer event for Fiesta weekend was no accident, she said. “It’s alcohol-free, because we have the goal of providing a new wave of house parties to allow deeper connections, a free and safe-haven space to express yourself openly without needing to use alcohol. It’s more about wellness, and mindfulness and self-expression.

We’re wanting to draw people who want to cultivate a healthy community around them and have support as we learn more about ourselves and be with those who love to express themselves.”

Admission is by suggested donation of $20, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will go back to the movement to secure the venue space and share with the artists. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/431750044343010 or www. eventbrite.com/e/nest-fest-summer2019-tickets-65197468383.

‘The Flip’ at Pacifica

A “flip,” writes Jeffrey J. Kripal, the chair of the Philosophy and Religious Thought Department at Rice University, is “a reversal of perspective,” “a new real,” often born of an extreme, life-changing experience. It’s also the title of Kripal’s ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars. Combining accounts of rationalists’ spiritual awakenings and consciousness exploration by philosophers, neuroscientists and mystics within a framework of the history of science and religion may signal a path to mending our fractured world.

Dr. Kripal, who is also the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur and previously taught at Harvard Divinity School, is the author of eight books, including The Flip, based on the program.

Kripal will be offering a two-hour introduction to the program, subtitled “Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge,” 7-9 pm this Saturday, August 3, at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Ladera Campus.

Admission is by donation ($25 suggested, any amount accepted). Dr. Kripal is also a featured presenter at Pacifica’s upcoming Trauma Studies Certificate Program, which takes place over four weekends from September to next May. Call (805) 969-3626 or visit www.pacifica.edu.

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Mastering Manifesting in Montecito

The stunning Thomson Sanctuary on East Valley Road in Montecito is the site for a three-hour workshop for people to learn how to master the art of manifesting in order to consciously create what your heart desires, in any area, from relationships to abundance, success, and vitality. The 4-7 pm event on Saturday, August 3, is based on the concept that humans are constantly manifesting things through thoughts, words, and actions, already creating their own realities, but it isn’t always clear what’s conscious or unconscious. Are you creating what your heart desires, or more of what you do not want?

Guided by Ragan Thomson, the Montecito-based spiritual coach, healer and divine facilitator, the Mastering the Art of Manifesting workshop will help participants understand how manifestation works, learn the steps and techniques of manifestation, visualize what you want and make your intentions clear, recognize the beliefs, behaviors, and mental barriers that are blocking you, work on reducing sabotaging thoughts, fully accept that whatever you want can be yours, and consciously create your own reality. Admission is $55, with discounts available for multiple enrollees. Visit https://raganthomson.com/ the-art-of-manifesting for details and registration.

•MJ

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA - GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

ORDINANCE NO. 5890

INVITATION FOR BIDS

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 30.150 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO INCLUSIONARY HOUSING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AVERAGE UNIT-SIZE DENSITY INCENTIVE PROGRAM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5773

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on July 23,

DUE DATE & TIME: AUGUST 16, 2019 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

2019.

VEGETATIVE FUELS MANAGEMENT AT VARIOUS PARK SITES Scope of Work: The City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department is seeking a 4 person crew+ Certified Tree Worker/ Supervisor to perform vegetative fuels management in 13 open space parks.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time.

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 7, 2019 at 8:00 a.m., at the Parks Maintenance Conference Room, located at 402 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

BONDING In accordance with Civil Code § 9550, if the bid exceeds $25,000.00, the Successful Bidder shall furnish within ten (10) consecutive calendar days after written Notice of Award, a Payment Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount of the bid.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations. If there is a difference between the City’s Living Wage and Prevailing Wage rates for similar classifications of labor, the contractor and his subcontractors shall pay no less than the highest wage rate.

PREVAILING WAGE, APPRENTICES, PENALTIES, & CERTIFIED PAYROLL In accordance with the provisions of Labor Code § 1773.2, the Contractor is responsible for determining the correct prevailing wage rates. However, the City will provide wage information for projects subject to Federal Davis Bacon requirements. The Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rates of wages and employer payments for health, welfare, vacation, pensions and similar purposes applicable, which is on file in the State of California Office of Industrial Relations. The contractor shall post a copy of these prevailing wage rates at the site of the project. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded and its subcontractors hired to pay not less than the said prevailing rates of wages to all workers employed by him in the execution of the contract (Labor Code § 1770 et seq.). Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5.

(Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5889 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on July 16, 2019, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on July 23, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

Under Labor Code § 1776, contractors and subcontractors are required to keep accurate payroll records. The prime contractor is responsible for submittal of their payrolls and those of their subcontractors as one package. Payroll records shall be certified and made available for inspection at all reasonable hours at the principal office of the contractor/subcontractor pursuant to Labor Code § 1776.

The contractor and all subcontractors under the direct contractor shall furnish certified payroll records directly to the Labor Compliance Unit and to the department named in the Purchase Order/Contract at least monthly, and within ten (10) days of any request from any request from the City or the Labor Commissioner in accordance with Section 16461 of the California Code of Regulations. Payroll records shall be furnished in a format prescribed by section 16401 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, with use of the current version of DIR's “Public Works Payroll Reporting Form” (A-1-131) and “Statement of Employer Payments” (DLSE Form PW26) constituting presumptive compliance with this requirement, provided the forms are filled out accurately and completely. In lieu of paper forms, the Compliance Monitoring Unit may provide for and require the electronic submission of certified payroll reports. The provisions of Article 2 and 3, Division 2, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, State of California, are made by this reference a part of this quotation or bid.

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.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on July 24, 2019.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on July 24, 2019.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published July 31, 2019 Montecito Journal

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

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C61 Limited Specialty/D49 Tree Service or C27 Landscaping contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. ______________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

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Published: 7/31/19 Montecito Journal

by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-0001638. Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Castaway’s

By Paula, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Paula Goldman, 515 San Onofre, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller

filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 5, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Thomas Brian. FBN No. 2019-0001616.

Published July 10, 17, 24, 31, 2019.

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO:

ORDINANCE NO. 5889

WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT THAT MAY BE APPEALED TO THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSSION AND APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A FOURTH AMENDMENT TO LEASE AGREEMENT NO. 200846 BETWEEN THE CITY AND MERCURY AIR CENTER SANTA BARBARA, INC. DBA ATLANTIC AVIATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION

This may affect your property. Please read.

Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Coastal Development Permit by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is subject to appeal to the California Coastal Commission following final action by Santa Barbara County and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve or deny the application. However, in compliance with California Coastal Act Section 30624.9, the Director has determined that this project qualifies as minor development and therefore intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Sean Stewart at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at sestewart@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Coastal Development Permit to the Montecito Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors and ultimately the California Coastal Commission.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on July 23, 2019.

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

(Seal)

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Coastal Development Permit. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Coastal Development Permit is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Sean Stewart at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at sestewart@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or by phone at (805) 568-2517.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

PROPOSAL: CARTY – POOL AND AIR CONDITIONING

ORDINANCE NO. 5889

PROJECT ADDRESS: 172 SANTA ELENA LN, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108 1

ST

SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT

THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED IN THE COASTAL ZONE DATE OF NOTICE: 7/31/2019 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 8/21/2019 PERMIT NUMBER: 19CDH-00000-00017

APPLICATION FILED: 4/23/2019

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

009-181-017 ZONING: 20-R-1

was introduced on July 16, 2019, and was adopted by the

PROJECT AREA: 0.77

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

APPLICANT: CARTY, THOMAS CHADWICK

July 23, 2019, by the following roll call vote:

PROPOSED PROJECT: The project is for a Coastal Development Permit to allow demolition of an unpermitted 960 square foot concrete basketball court and 90 square foot concrete pad and the construction of a 23’ x 33’ pool and 1,200 square feet of associated concrete hardscaping. Pool equip would be located on a new 8’ x 2.5’ concrete pad. A 4’ x 4’ concrete pad would also be constructed for the installation of an A/C system. Grading would include 20 cubic yards of excavation and 20 cubic yards of export. No trees are proposed for removal. The parcel would continue to be served by the Montecito Water District, the Montecito Sanitary District, and the Montecito Fire Protection District. Access would continue to be provided off of Santa Elena Lane. The property is a 0.77-acre parcel zoned 20-R-1 and shown as Assessor's Parcel Number 009-181-017, located at 172 Santa Elena Lane in the Montecito Community Plan Area, 1st Supervisorial District APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Coastal Development Permit 19CDH-00000-00017 may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the 10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Coastal Development Permit. To qualify as an "aggrieved person" the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on July 24, 2019.

This Coastal Development Permit may be appealed to the California Coastal Commission after an appellant has exhausted all local appeals, therefore a fee is not required to file an appeal.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Sean Stewart. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from: http://www.countyofsb.org/uploadedFiles/plndev/Content/Permitting/AppealSubReqAPP.pdf

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on July 24, 2019.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/permitting/planningprocess.sbc

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

Board of Architectural Review agendas may be viewed online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/home.sbc Published July 31, 2019

Published July 31, 2019 Montecito Journal

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rial culture, we connect people of all backgrounds to historically important ideas, people, and objects.”

Then it was time for the dance floor instead of the stage. Elements Band was there for our dancing pleasure.

The honorary chair for the evening was Sharon Bradford. The deputy director is Dacia Harwood.

It always amazes me that when my family and I moved back to the United States from Andalucia, Spain to Santa Barbara, that we were right in the middle of Spanish traditions unique in the whole country. We had the costumes and even a horse. Every year all the good memories of our life there return, and we get to make new ones. Viva la Fiesta!

MClub director Maria McCall with Rona Barrett and Dana Newquist

phone operator introduced her to one of the managers. He asked her to start an Eddie Fisher fan club. Long story short – she did and ended up with members all over the world. She doesn’t know where this introverted little girl got the nerve, but she did.

This gutsy girl led a life of great glamour on TV for 38 years but she thinks, “This level of life is my best.”

Then we traveled to Lompoc with Dana Newquist leading the way. He is a member of the American Antique Automobile Club of America. He took us to his good friend Donald Nichols’ private home and museum. As Donald said, “It’s not really a museum. We live here among our stuff.” He and his wife could

Lunch & Learn in Santa Ynez

Montecito Bank & Trust (MClub) Lunch & Learn gang traveled to Santa Ynez Valley to meet with the former and pioneer pop news pundit Rona Barrett at her Golden Inn & Village.

Rona’s life changed when she left Hollywood and came to the Valley to have a lavender farm. Her father came too, and she became his caregiver. The day he didn’t recognize her, she knew she needed to do something and so began the Rona Barrett Foundation.

Twelve years later with much “blood, sweat, and tears,” the bricks and mortar became a reality. It’s a lovely yellow and white building on 7 ½ acres called The Golden Inn & Village, the first affordable senior housing in the Valley.

The first day that folks could apply there were 900 applications for 80 spaces. The County Housing Authority handles that part. The tenants pay 30% of whatever income they have – usually between $800 and $1,000.

Except for rent there are no expenses.

There is even a free beauty shop. As Rona said, “I get loved so much that I don’t come every day.” The Planning Commission says, “This project is one of the best projects the County has seen in years…”

Planning and development is now underway for the Golden Inn & Village’s Phase II: construction of 60 affordable and critically needed

Trattoria Grappolo’s private party room

Assisted Living and Memory Care units. At present there are no federal programs to help with the prohibitive costs. Rona envisions scholarship-funded/below market rate Phase II units as a “what works” model, to be replicated across the nation.

The busload of us had a tour of the facility and Rona passed out individually signed copies of her book, Gray Matters. Then we were off to Trattoria Grappolo in their private air conditioned (It was 100 degrees out) party room surrounded by cases of wine for a family style lunch. My son was born in Napoli (Naples), so I always have nostalgia with Italian food. This was authentic and deelicious. My favorite was the Rollino Veneto (rolled pizza with smoked

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mozzarella and radicchio).

During lunch I asked Rona how she began her career as a pop reporter on television. She told me she was born with a disability and couldn’t lift her leg. Her mother took her to many doctors who finally diagnosed a rare form of muscular dystrophy.

As a result of her disability she was bullied in school and couldn’t participate in all the activities. She and her mom went to the Catskills one summer when she was about 11. She saw this cute boy singer and became infatuated. Back home she saw him on TV. It was Eddie Fisher.

Rona was determined to meet him.

She was only 13 and couldn’t go up stairs but somehow she managed the New York subway and went to the office of Eddie’s managers. The tele-

open up an antique store any minute.

Everywhere you looked was memorabilia, 50 years worth. The highlight was his car collection. I especially liked the 1918 Hudson. Plenty of room for big hats. Remember bumper cars – there was one of those too.

Donald was with NASA for 23 years and was a big part of transferring NASA space shuttle systems from Kennedy Space Center to the Air Force at Vandenberg. He did much more and was the recipient of a Kennedy Space Center Commendation, NASA Sustained Superior Performance Award and NASA Exceptional Service Medal.

The MClub is under the direction of Maria McCall at the Montecito Bank & Trust. For information call 805.564.7362.

•MJ

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 McBride Groomed for Hits – Martina McBride has come a long way since she sold souvenirs at Garth Brooks concerts during her early days in Nashville, which led to the country star offering her a slot as his opening act once she had a recording contract. That 1992 debut, the apparently mistitled The Time Has Come, as it sold poorly despite her original neo-traditionalist country style, gave way to The Way That I Am, which evinced a pop-country crossover sound that scored huge hits and led to comparisons to Shania Twain and Faith Hill. McBride has also been called the “Celine Dion of Country Music” in recognition of her soprano singing

range, rare for Nashville, that has spawned eight studio albums and two compilations that were certified Gold or Platinum, and total sales of more than 14 million albums. McBride has won more than half a dozen “Female Vocalist of the Year” awards from the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music and been nominated for Grammys 14 times, well deserved for a largely self-penned catalog of songs with a big message rather than Nashville’s frequent blather.

McBride makes a rare visit to the area at the Ventura Fair tonight, a perfect venue for her fans. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Seaside Park, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $12 general admission INFO: (805) 648-3376 or www.venturacountyfair.org

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 1st Thursday – This month’s art-culture-andwine walk – back after skipping July as it fell on Independence Day – coincides with Fiesta, but only two locations take note of the annual Old Spanish Days celebration. Those would be SBIFF’S Santa Barbara Filmmaker Screening Series (1330 State Street), which presents Casey McGarry’s 2018 short film Cascarón, which offers a brief look into the lives of four Hispanic families in Santa Barbara who carry on the folk art tradition of making cascarones (confetti eggs) for Fiesta. Also Te Amo Estate & Fine Jewelry (811 State Street, Suite G; 805-845-7558), which celebrates its three-year anniversary with live mariachi (of which, we imagine, will be plentiful all over the streets), plus wine and art by Laurie Sanders… But there are several openings and receptions for those willing to mingle with the early evening revelers on State Street. Get a jump on next month’s annual Santa Barbara Studio Artists Tour via a preview of some pieces at Santa Barbara Fine Art (1324 State St., Suite J, 805-845-4270), which showcases landscape, contemporary, and figurative painting, as well as sculpture and assemblage from each of the 35-plus exhibiting members… Enjoy the opening of “Bloom Projects: Brian Rochefort, Absorption by the Sun” with an art party at Curated Cocktails | Summer Nights with KCRW at the Museum of Contemporary Art (653 Paseo Nuevo Terrace, 805-966-5373), which features after-hours museum access, signature cocktails, interactive art-making and an exclusive live set by KCRW DJ Dan Wilcox… “Stardust & Satisfaction: Art & Music,” the fifth exhibition at Glenn Dallas Gallery (927 State St.), features art about music, musicians and festival culture – from Bowie and beyond. Music, wine and interactive surprises are in store… Colette Cosentino Atelier + Gallery (11 W. Anapamu St., 805-570-9863) opens “21 Colors,” pairing seascapes and landscapes from Amber O’Neill with expressive abstracts by her son Andrew O’Neill in his first art exhibition. Meanwhile, Cosentino herself is the featured artist at Youth Interactive (1219 State St., 805-617-6421) where the quarter century Santa Barbara veteran will display some of her artwork aimed at invoking a sense of calm, a retreat, a dream state, far away from all that is hectic in the outside world… “Dog Days of Summer”, at SlingShot Gallery (220 W. Canon Perdido St., 805-770-3878), is a heartwarming, eclectic and humorous dog-themed exhibition featuring Daisy Rodriguez’s “GO GO DOG.” Free treats for both humans and dogs. Woof, woof!... On the performance art front, the Squire Foundation and the Santa Barbara Public Market (38 W. Victoria St.) hosts improv readings from the Short Edition – Short Story Dispenser currently on exhibit, which offers stories under five minutes of duration with the touch of a button.... Patrick Melroy and Friends collectively create music on the handmade carillon featured in the “Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble” exhibit at Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State St., 805-963-4364), which also has its regular art making activities in the Family Resource Center. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www.downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday

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by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Viva Comedy – Whether by planning or coincidence, Alex Reymundo has chosen Fiesta Thursday for his show at the Lobero, a double-bill headlined by the comedian and tequila impresario who emerged on the national scene on The Original Latin Kings of Comedy alongside Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin, and George Lopez. Reymundo, whose one-hour specials Red-Nexican and Hick-Spanic have aired on Showtime, Comedy Central and Netflix, brings his blend of commentary about Hispanic culture and his wife’s “hillbilly” history. Opening is Phil Medina, the California comic whose career began just 10 years ago when he was asked to be the host of a local comedy show, which led within a year to gigs at L.A. comedy clubs the Ice House, the Laugh Factory, and The Hollywood Improv. VIP tickets include a reception featuring the Reymundo’s Number JUAN small batch, hand-crafted, award-winning tequila. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $31 ($80 VIP) INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 Blurred Lines – We can only imagine that Robin Thicke’s head would spin faster than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist if he had to listen to let alone try to keep up with Headless Household meets Lucinda Lane concert tonight at the Mercury Lounge.

Dubbed the “alt-Viva La-ing” show blends two of arts scribe Joe Woodard’s genre-defying groups – his oldest, the self-described “hopelessly eclectic” Household, with his latest, the “indiebossajazztwang” duo-turnedband Lucinda Lane that he originally formed with singer Nicole Lvoff. The Merc madness features Dick Dunlap, piano; Randy Tico, bass; and Tom Lackner, drums, along with Woodard, guitar and vocals, Lvoff and Liz Barnitz (Spencer’s sister) on vocals, plus special guests that are in flux. Both bands are in recording stages, so expect lots of new material along with some faves. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Avenue, Goleta COST: $5 INFO: (805) 967-0907 or www.householdink.com/headless.htm SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 Boogie Wonderland – Saturday Night Live-style hustle might be a bit of a challenge in the Grandstand Arena at the Ventura County Fair, but even if you’re just dancing in your seat, the 1970s disco-era triple-bill tonight will get you feeling beat crazy. On tap are the Ohio Players, whose hits include “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster,” are the official headliners, but the openers offer plenty of Studio 54-era staples of their own. The Emotions’ single “Best Of My Love” spent five weeks at No. 1 in 1977 and earned a Grammy,

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while their collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fire on “Boogie Wonderland” two years later reached No. 6. ‘Seventy-seven was also the year that Evelyn “Champagne” King got dancers checking themselves out in myriad mirror balls via her massive disco single “Shame.” Which is what it would be if you miss this show. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Seaside Park, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $12 general admission INFO: (805) 648-3376 or www.venturacountyfair.org TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 ‘Truly’ a Star – Nearly 100 million records sold can’t be wrong: Lionel Richie is surely one of the most successful soft rockers in history. Moving from serving in the late 1960s as a member of the funk and soul band The Commodores, whose “Brick House” might be the all-time top cover song for funk bands, Richie coaxed the group toward more romantic ballads with “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” and “Still” before departing to launch a solo career in the early ‘80s. An instant hitmaker, Richie scored with “Truly,” “You Are,” and “My Love” from his debut, while the follow-up, Can’t Slow Down, was even bigger, and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. The singer was also the co-songwriter of the “We Are the World” benefit song sensation, and while the hits and the albums have actually slowed down considerably over the decades, the now 70-year-old singer is out on tour again, including a mid-summer date at the Santa Barbara Bowl, with no opener required. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $50.50-$280.50 INFO: (805) 9627411 or www.sbbowl.com 1 – 8 August 2019

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 Come to her Concert – Melissa Etheridge, who plays at Seaside Park tonight, is one of the few artists at the fair still making new music worth hearing. The Grammy and Oscarwinning 30-year-veteran singer-songwriter-guitarist’s big gritty voice and slashing guitar work made “I’m the Only One” and “Come to My Window” into big hits that are still classic rock radio staples, and kept her breakthrough fourth album, Yes I Am, on Billboard’s 200 Albums chart for nearly three years. Etheridge, a longtime gay and environmental activist who is also a breast cancer survivor, released her 15th studio recording just this past April, an album that has her sounding as raspy and rousing as ever with a veteran’s artistry. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Seaside Park, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $12 general admission INFO: (805) 648-3376 or www. venturacountyfair.org

Over and Over – Tommy James and the Shondells’ reverb-laden “Crimson and Clover” was rivaled only by The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s “Incense and Peppermints” for truly spaced out psychedelic lyrics and sounds that somehow became a hit song. More than half a century later, both bands are apparently still at it: The Santa Barbara-connect Clock played at a one-shot fest at Live Oak last summer, while the James gang shows up at the VCF’s Grandstand. Unlike the Strawberry boys, the Shondells also scored more hits, including the equally out there ““Crystal Blue Persuasion” plus the more traditional rock songs “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Mirage,” “Mony Mony,” “Sweet Cherry Wine,” and “Hanky Panky” (co-written by future Montecito resident Jeff Barry), all of which hit Billboard’s Top 10.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 All in the ‘Family’ – The 2010 Broadway musical-comedy The Addams Family is one of those adaptations of a vintage TV series that actually works, likely because it’s based as much on the classic Addams’ cartoon characters than the “idiot box” entry. Plus, rather than recycling old episodes or stories, the show centers around Wednesday, the Addams princess of darkness who is all grown up and has fallen in love with a smart young man so sweet you can’t imagine him not fleeing in horror upon being greeted by Lurch when the Addams hosts a dinner for the young lovers and their parents. Turns out the in-laws might even be stranger, leading to all sorts of fun – and fun music – as the families test each other out and freak out the kids before eventually finding commonality. Will the weirdness play in the outdoor amphitheater? Sure, Itt will! WHEN: Opens 8 pm tonight, plays Tuesdays-Sundays through August 25 WHERE: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, Solvang COST: $38.50 - $49.50 INFO: 922-8313 or www.pcpa.org

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 Get Happy!! – While both Elvis Costello and Blondie first burst on the scene back in the 1970s, only the opener can be considered an oldies act, as the Deborah Harry-led Blondie – which still sports two other original members in guitarist Clem Burke and drummer Chris Stein – have only released a handful of albums since the early 1980s. Then again, their early string of hits – “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” “One Way or Another,” and “The Tide Is High” – made the band seem like multiple groups as they successfully traversed disco, pop, reggae, punk and early rap. On the other hand, Costello, who was originally misclassified with the early British punk and new wave movement, has put out 30-plus studio albums that cover multiple angles on pop and other genres over the last 40 years, and remains as vital an artist as ever. WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: 1122 N. Milpas St. COST: $39.50-$184.50 INFO: (805) 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com •MJ

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AGING IN HIGH HEELS

by Beverlye Hyman Fead

Ms Fead moved from Beverly Hills to Malibu and then Montecito in 1985. She is married to retired music exec Bob Fead; between them they have four children, five grandchildren, and a dog named Sophia Loren. Beverlye is the author of I Can Do this; Living with Cancer, Nana, What’s Cancer and the blog www.aginginhighheels.com, and book Aging In High Heels. She has also produced a documentary: Stage Four, Living with Cancer.

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D

ano (as he is affectionately known) was born June 5, 1932 at home in the small farming town of Washington Courthouse, Ohio. His mother, Hazel, was 32 years old and his sister Alice was 10 when Dano was born.

In 1935, at the age of three, he and his mother, father, and sister moved from Ohio to the San Fernando Valley, California, where they rented a house in Sherman Oaks.

In California, Dano’s mother worked as a waitress and his dad drove a laundry truck for very little pay; after three years in California they packed up the car, with their newly acquired German Shepherd, Vickie, and headed back to Ohio, where Dano’s grandfather owned a house in Leesburg. After they moved, his parents got a divorce, uncommon during the 1930s and tough for the kids.

His mother was an independent woman and a year later, Dano, his sister, and mother moved from Leesburg to Columbus, Ohio. He no longer had a father, but 17-year-old Alice became his second mom.

Once in Columbus, and at the age of seven, he sold newspapers on the street corner for three cents a copy, keeping one cent for each copy sold.

On a good day he could make enough to afford a hot dog for a nickel and a 7-Up for another nickel. On a really good day he could not only eat and drink but go to a movie too (another five cents). One year later he got his own paper route, which made him eligible to own a bicycle. It was during World War II and bikes were rationed. One way to get a bike was to have a job that required the use of one. In this way he was able to buy a Schwinn.

Back to California

In 1941, when he was nine years old, Alice decided to move to California and asked him if he wanted to join her. His mother agreed to the plan and said she would try and join them within a year. So, the two of them packed their things and a few days later were in downtown Los Angeles, where his sister rented a studio apartment (flop house) on the third floor of an old building.

Within a year their mother joined them. She and his mother both got jobs in Burbank at Lockheed Aircraft.

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With two solid incomes and the need for more room, their family left downtown Los Angeles and moved to a guesthouse in Sherman Oaks.

About a year later after moving once more he started junior high school in Van Nuys. It was there, at age twelve, he became a Boy Scout.

His Scout leader, Cecil, instilled strong values and became something of a father figure to him.

When he was a senior at Van Nuys High School he moved in with Roger Dittmann, a friend he had met in the Boy Scouts when they were both twelve. Roger’s stepfather, Herman “Fish” Salmon, was an engineering test pilot for Lockheed.

Fish and Roger both loved flying and airplanes, and it was these two who instilled Dano’s love for flying.

He had no money, so he traded his old LaSalle (worth about $50), for a motorcycle and then traded the motorcycle for flying lessons.

Life in Santa Barbara

When Roger started school at UCSB, which was still at the old Riviera campus, Dano came up to visit. At the end of the visit he decided to stay. Roger was living with two friends who were happy to have another roommate so the four of them shared a $40/month rental on Salsipuedes Street, each paying $10/ month.

Here is where all that early entrepreneurship began to pay off. He and Roger learned that UCSB was mov-

ing near Isla Vista to an ex-military facility in Goleta and they thought it would be a good idea to buy some land there as an investment. He found a couple acres for sale at ten cents a square foot, zoned for student housing. He and Roger each put up $1,000 as the down payment. At the time he had no money, so he borrowed against his car, a 1949 Mercury convertible. He and Roger paid the $30/ month mortgage, alternating months.

Many years later Dano built a sorority house on the property.

Shortly after, Roger introduced Suzanne, a fellow student at UCSB, to Dano. They were married in 1953.

She is the mother of his children.

Although not married to each other any longer, they remain good friends.

They moved back to the San Fernando Valley where he found work as a surveyor’s assistant and immediately got an apartment in Northridge for $50/month. In 1954 they bought a duplex in Northridge.

The total price was $13,500. There was a $1,000 down payment, a first trust deed, a second trust deed, and a third trust deed – which the real estate broker took as his commission.

Talk about leveraged buying!

For the next few years he worked for a surveying company. He was out of town all week. This was not a good job for newlyweds so after a bit he quit and became a carpenter on schools and tract houses. He became the foreman on a Harris and Frank commercial building. During this time, he got his Real Estate Salesman license as well as a General Contractor’s license. With the money they saved, they bought a lot in Northridge, built a spec house and sold it at a profit. It was the first of many.

In 1956 their son, Steve, was born followed by twins Stacey and Tracy in 1958. By 1959 he and Suzanne agreed they didn’t want to raise their children in an area with smog, so they packed up and moved into a rental in Isla Vista.

By the time he got to Santa Barbara he was determined to become successful in the real estate business.

Silvio De Loreto, who owned Sunset Realty, hired Dano. He worked for Silvio for a few years and in 1961 opened his own office called “Dan B. Wright Realtors.” Six months after opening they were number one in sales, according to MLS. In 1964, he purchased some land on the Westside and built a 25-unit apartment building, which he still owns today. In 1969, he closed his real estate office and became a real estate investor and refinancer.

Making Movies

In the late 1960s he enrolled at UCLA Film School. As part of the

course he made a student film called Rapids of the Colorado, which featured a Sierra Club trip down the Colorado River. The film was picked up by a distributor and became something of a commercial success. Since he was also an avid skier, he wanted to make a ski movie, which led to work with Warren Miller on ski films as the cinematographer on his films. When Bruce Brown began working on a feature release about motorcycles, featuring Steve McQueen, he went to work behind the camera on that film.

In 1970 his last film project was Run With The Wind, a film he produced and directed about Transpac, a yacht race from Los Angeles to Honolulu.

The film opened in 1970 at the Lobero Theatre and played at many theaters.

Remarkably, it also made the cover of TV Guide.

Aviation has been a life-long interest of his, since those early days in Van Nuys. Over his lifetime he has owned numerous aircraft, and three helicopters. He still has one helicopter and one airplane. A few years ago, he received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot award given for achieving 50 years of continuous flying with a perfect safety record. It is the highest award given by the FAA. He also has competed in competition aerobatics and was the California State Sportsman champion in 1983. The same year he earned second place in the Aerobatic Nationals at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, flying his Pitts 2 Special. He also raced at the Reno Air Races for seven years in an experimental airplane that he helped build.

Never Too Old

In celebration of his 50th birthday, he jumped out of an airplane with a group of about 13 friends and family members. Recently he and his friend, Wayne Siemens, raced his Tesla 3 Performance at Laguna Seca and Willow Springs racetrack. In celebration of his 87th birthday, he rode his bicycle 87 kilometers, which is a follow-up to the 80 miles he rode on his 80th birthday, and the 60 miles he rode on his 60th birthday. He is hoping to make a 90-mile bike trip on his 90th birthday. Or at least 90 kilometers…

Today, at 87, he lives in Montecito with his girlfriend, Shirley, her 15-year-old son, Ryan, and their Labradoodle, Leo. His first wife Suzanne and their three children all live in Santa Barbara, as do two of his seven grandchildren. He still regularly plays tennis at Knowlwood Tennis Club and with the Montecito Mafia Tennis Group, a group of guys he has played with since the group formed.

“I’m lucky,” he said, “you’re never too old to have a happy childhood. I have many old and dear friends, and a happy family. I love them all.” •MJ

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the Milpas interchange, rather than rerouting to Coast Village Road to enter the southbound 101 at Olive Mill Road.

The result of this miscalculation is that Montecito residents will do everything they can to avoid CVR and the 101 during “rush” hours, so instead they clog Hot Springs Road from Vons to Sycamore Canyon to Olive Mill, Summit, Middle, Olive Mill, and East Valley roads, along with Cabrillo Boulevard, Old Coast Highway, North Jameson Lane, San Ysidro Road, and Sheffield Drive: in other words, most of the connectors through Montecito.

Local congestion has arrived. Waze and similar GPS routing systems are instructing 101 travelers to reroute through our village, destroying our most precious asset, our so-called “semi-rural lifestyle.”

Is Relief Just a Few Years Away?

Caltrans traffic counts, called AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) for the 101 through Montecito currently range from 70,000 to 94,000 cars, trucks and vans per day. The bad news is that regardless of what we do, traffic counts are projected to rise from the current high of 94,000 vehicles per day to 140,000 cars, trucks and vans by 2040. That represents a nearly 50% increase in traffic in the next 20 years, whether we widen or not. Without the 101 widening, Caltrans engineers project the current stop-and-go gridlock will expand to 11 hours per day by 2040, instead of the current six hours today during the morning and evening commutes.

Why the added traffic load on the 101? Population growth in Santa Barbara County is projected to increase 23% by 2040. At the same time, interregional long distance commuting due to the high cost of local housing is expected to exacerbate the current traffic loads.

When the widening of 101 is finally finished, hopefully by 2030, or a year or two earlier, much of the gain in lane capacity will have been negated by higher traffic counts. Theoretically, adding a third lane in each direction should add a 33% traffic capacity, but the assignment of an HOV designation to the new lane will restrict usage to carpools, buses and emergency vehicles during commute hours.

Longer Term Traffic Outlook Three other factors create unfortunate consequences. After the completion of the 101 widening, Caltrans plans no major new construction projects on this portion of the 101 for the following 75 years, except for maintenance. This means we had better get this right the first time – the right divider median, the right lane widths, the right interchanges, the right overpasses, the right entry and exit ramps, the right traffic flow, the right inside and outside shoulder widths; the right parallel projects, the right local improvements, the right visual impact, the right aesthetics, because significant additional funding is not on the way.

The City and its transportation planners will control the widening process at the Carrillo Boulevard and the Olive Mill interchanges; county planning will control the widening projects at San Ysidro and Sheffield. Montecito controls nothing. Its only voting voice is through its 1st District Supervisor who also represents Carpinteria, Summerland, the City of Santa Barbara and Cuyama.

Fred Luna, Engineer for SBCAG, calls the Montecito right-of-way “the most constricted project I have ever worked on.” Not only will a tight corridor in Montecito elongate construction time for this portion of the widening, it will also restrict ramp improvements and traffic flow. Montecito will be penalized by a two-foot center concrete median divider; minimal inside shoulder widths for road maintenance, trash collection, accidents, disabled vehicles, or traffic safety stops; and very limited landscaping options. In Montecito, the right-of-way is so narrow that no further lane additions are possible without future private property acquisitions, utilizing unpopular and expensive eminent domain techniques.

The second disturbing factor is that Caltrans does not have any plan to add a third major North-South highway project to supplement the I-5 and the 101 coastal corridor to carry interstate traffic from Tijuana, Mexico to the northern California border and beyond. The bullet train debacle and the Governor’s inherited Twin Tunnel proposal for water have sucked all the energy out of big statewide capital projects. It does not help now that federal funding for California is politically under attack.

The third factor is that the idea of “a lane and a train” has morphed into mostly “A Lane for Our Domain.” The Union Pacific freight railroad, privately owned, allows limited runs of the once-a-day Amtrak Coast Starlight and the more frequent Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. When the debris flow closed the 101 for weeks in January 2018, a massive effort was made to switch commuters to train. Schedules were revamped and local buses and bicycles were added to rail stations to help attract commuters. The result was a daily average of 105 dedicated train riders – merely a pinprick on the tens of thousands of cars per day now traveling the 101 through Montecito.

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is that the work force in Santa Barbara and Montecito demands its cars and service trucks to accommodate flexible work schedules.

The Promise and Reality The program known as “101 in Motion” approved in 2006 made a promise to develop, fund and construct long-term solutions to the growing congestion problem along 16 miles of the 101 corridor from the Milpas intersection in Santa Barbara to Mussel Shoals. The 101 in Motion team worked for over two years to develop a package of solutions that garnered broad-based community support.

The five component parts were: 1) Add a carpool HOV lane in both directions and commuter rail from Camarillo to Goleta ($626 million); 2) Facilitate transit and carpool use, especially bus service ($62 million); 3) Manage commuter demand by creating van pool incentives, carpooling, encourage telecommuting, promote flextime, vary parking rates ($27 million); 4) Install meters at selected ramps and provide commuter information displays ($28 million); 5) Improve the 101 North of Milpas to assuage the City of Santa Barbara ($90 million). The total cost of the program was to be $833 million in 2006 dollars.

Benefits Promised in 2006 In 2006, the 101 in Motion program made the following promises for 2030.

Completion of the project would: 1) Keep the duration of congestion on Highway 101 to only one to two hours per day, rather than from early morning to eight at night, which would be the case if nothing were done; 2) Shave 15-20 minutes off of the commute time from Carpinteria to downtown Santa Barbara via either the freeway or commuter rail; 3) Reduce traffic on local streets in neighborhoods that parallel Highway 101; 4) Eliminate a total of 16,500 person hours of delay each day; 5) Significantly reduce the accident potential along Highway 101 by providing much smoother flow; 6) Increase modal choices that will give commuters increased alternatives to driving alone and result in 3,800 fewer single occupant vehicle trips on Highway 101 each day; 7) Allow for continued economic prosperity in the South Coast, that otherwise would be stymied by the extreme levels of congestion in the corridor; and 8) Relative contributions of the individual elements in reducing congestion south of Milpas were pegged at HOV lanes 64%; commuter rail 18%; operational improvements 9%; and demand management 9%.

How many of these promises will be kept in 2030 when the widening project is completed? Right now, the prospects are not rosy, but the professional team in place and the availability of fresh funding offer hope and cheer that despite the hurdles to Montecito, many self-inflicted by our own poor decisions, the current plan is far superior to the triple options of doing nothing, blaming Caltrans or advocating further delay.

Next week, we’ll examine who the players are that will make the decisions for the widening of the 101 as to project funding, construction schedules, engineering, permitting, design review and the construction of both the mainline freeway and its parallel projects?

We’ll deal with what role, if any, Montecito will play in these decisions, and how Montecito can mitigate the pain as the widening moves slowly from Carpinteria northward to Santa Claus Lane, through Summerland to the Sheffield interchange and then through the most constricted and difficult slog of all from the Sheffield interchange to San Ysidro, from San Ysidro to Olive Mill, and from Olive Mill to Cabrillo Boulevard/Hot Springs and on to Sycamore Creek. We’ll also examine why Montecito has been penalized by being the last stretch of roadway to be widened in this decades-long Caltrans project.

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Mary Scott owner 805-316-1560 mary@pamperpetsb.com • pet-sitting • pet visits • overnights • pet transport • adminstration of meds, etc.

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woman with an MBA who created an award-winning Italian restaurant and catering business who also worked for years as an executive at Expedia and Hilton Worldwide. 805 869 9864.

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TOP QUALITY CONSTRUCTION, REMODELING, FINISH CARPENTRY AND REPAIRS Jozé Fadigas

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Quiet Professional with Local References Seeks Homestay Living Arrangement Well established long-time resident of Santa Barbara, bonded and with impeccable references available to provide live-in groundskeeping/handyman repair, errands, personal security, and driving.

Will pay rent up to $2,000/mth.

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Do you need an onsite property manager/caretaker?

Call Lydonna Walker 925-997-8267 SB Area 1 – 8 August 2019

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Volunteers Do you have a special talent or skill?

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$3,995,000 | 974 Park Ln, Montecito | 2BD/2BA Angela Moloney | 805.451.1553

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