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SB’s ex-first lady Marty Blum’s autobiography, Madame Mayor, is hot off the press, p. 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, P. 8 • ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 26 • SPIRITUALITY, P. 34

WONDER WHY IT’S WEEDS AND DIRT?

Pinnacle Piano Performance

Concerto Competition winner Anna Han highlights Festival Orchestra closing concert, p.27

On the Fitness Front

Anne Brichet is athletic, French, and has brought Wave Walking to Santa Barbara, p.28

“There is no funding” for the Coast Village Road median, Santa Barbara Parks Manager Santos Escobar says; he is, however, “open to suggestions” (story on page 12)

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On the Water Front

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Letters to the Editor

Montecito Water District general manager Nick Turner supplies an update about water supply, desalination, monthly allocations and conservation Marty Blum joins the club; Oprah on screen?; Heidi Montag’s money woes; Katy gets political; Gwyneth and Goop; shutterbug Carlos Eric Lopez; MAW’s final week; SB Symphony appoints Kathryn Martin; Safari Sundowner; Lotusland Gods and Goddesses; La Recepcion del Presidente kickoff; and hat contest

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Julian Nott weighs in on Olympics security; Dick Shaikewitz responds to Bob Hazard; Dale Lowdermilk up in arms; Larry Bond takes Hillary to task; Richard Slade praises Richard Mineards; Sharon Robinson on editorials; Ned Quackenbush on Channel Drive; Claudia Hoag McGarry gives thanks; and Ernest Salomon rips reporters

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Viva la Fiesta!; knit and crochet; magic show; ice cream social; Mission Treasures; West Gallery reception; Solarize SB; Carp artists; tea dance; MBAR meeting; Summer Film Series; MA meeting; Katherine Smith May leads workshop; STEAM program; poetry club; SBMM lecture; The New Yorker; Trails ‘n’ Tails; Surf ‘n’ Suds fest; Mission Treasures tour; MAW festival; art classes; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Story Time; Pilates; art classes

Tide Guide

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

12 Village Beat

Coast Village Road median upkeep; For Paws Salon’s seven years; oak tree removal; Friendship Center update; and Pearl Chase elects board officers

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner attends the SB Historical Museum’s Fiesta party; Yacht Club hosts Charity Regatta for VNHC; Sonic Sea at the Maritime Museum; and Alpha Resource Center

20 Grape Explorations © Photos courtey of Salomon/christoffershoots (top) Teva (right) Patagonia/Burr (bottom)

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Hana-Lee Sedgwick previews the Central Coast Wine Classic, which kicks off August 10 in SLO before settling in Santa Barbara on August 12-14

23 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham and wife Pat venture to the country’s newest national park, Pinnacles in Soledad

24 Our Town

Joanne Calitri gives credit for Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums

26 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant does it by the book(s), analyzing the meaning of “hate” and the concept of a “hate crime” – a term that recalls George Orwell’s 1984

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Steven Libowitz gets in tune with pianist Anna Han, who performs with AFO on Saturday

28 Fitness Front

Karen Robiscoe rides the waves – or “walks” on water – with instructor Anne Brichet for all the exercise one needs

30 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz sets the scene for On the Verge Summer Repertory Company; In the Heights; Sense & Sensibility; Ojai Playwrights Conference; Kait Dunton in Solvang; and Hesu Whitten at Simpatico Pilates

34 Weekly Spirituality

Steven Libowitz chronicles free events at La Casa de Maria and the Center for Spiritual Renewal; Hansavedas Sangha sessions; meditation at Unity Chapel; and Yoga Soup

36 Your Westmont

Four notable professors join the faculty this fall, and the museum opens with beloved local artist Dug Uyesaka

38 Legal Advertising 39 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

Old Spanish Days; movies at UCSB and Courthouse; Ventura County Fair; concerts at SB Bowl; 1st Thursday, including Fiesta; Shawn McMaster library tour; Eef Barzelay among Hound Dog House; and Glen Phillips at SOhO

45 Real Estate

Mark Hunt surveys the marketing scene and pinpoints four houses up for grabs, each with price tags less than $3 million

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On the Water Front

by Nick Turner

Montecito Water District general manager

Water Supply and Desal Update

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lthough northern California received significant amounts of rain this past winter, the ongoing exceptional drought, now in its fifth year, continues to plague the South Coast. Cachuma and Jameson lakes, which historically have provided over half the District’s annual water supplies (about 4,500 acre-feet) are nearly empty. Currently, these two local sources are providing a combined total of just under 300 acre-feet per year (AFY), less than 10% of the historical deliveries.

In addition, the District has much less groundwater than neighboring communities and, without rain, the limited groundwater supply will continue to diminish. Currently, the District has maximized its groundwater pumping capacity at about 500 AFY, approximately double its historical average. The District’s annual local water supply, which on average has provided about 5,000 AFY, currently totals about 800 AFY, an 84% reduction in local supplies.

To replace diminishing local water supplies, the District continues to secure supplemental water. The District has just about completed the purchase of 5,000 acre-feet of supplemental water from Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency (AVEK). This, along with past purchases of supplemental water, imported annual Table A (State) water at 60% allocation (1980 AF), and the District’s limited portfolio of local supplies, means the District has enough water to meet its current customer water-use levels into late 2019, even if the drought continues.

In addition to the supplemental water purchase opportunity with AVEK, the District is currently looking at other water purchase opportunities that can extend the District’s water supplies further into the future, adding long-term water supply reliability and security.

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anta Barbara’s former first lady Marty Blum has joined the book club!

Marty, who was mayor of our tony town for eight years from 2002 to 2010, has just received the first hardcopies of her autobiography Madame Mayor, with the subtitle Lessons Learned from Elected Office.

The titillating 191-page, 17-chapter tome took two years to come to fruition with the editing talents of local writer David Petry, but Marty, a Purdue University graduate, admits it wasn’t easy.

“I served six years on the city council before becoming mayor, but I did not keep a journal during that time. I tried to, but soon gave up because of lack of time.

“But when I received the first copies of the new book last week from Outskirtspress, the publishers, I was delighted. It is such a relief completing the big project. Plus it looks beautiful!

“Writing does not come naturally to me, so I had to discipline myself each day to write something. I started with a detailed outline, which took nine months. When I started writing the draft, it took over three years to write the first draft.

“It was such a huge project for me.

I have to grown to respect and admire professional writers who crank out great books, especially local authors I have met like Fannie Flagg and Sue Grafton.”

Marty, a former attorney, is now getting to grips with marketing the book, which is available on Amazon

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and Kindle. She is also arranging book signings at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village, and Chaucer’s, Mahri Kerley’s lively literary lair off State Street, next month.

She has now caught the literary bug and her physician husband, Joe, is encouraging her to write another book about running for office.

“But first, I have a project of writing profiles of my relatives, interesting vignettes that I remember about them from my children,” adds Marty.

Winfrey’s Wrinkle Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey is ready for her next close-up.

Montecito’s most famous resident is in final negotiations to star in Disney’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time to be directed by Ava DuVernay.

The 62-year-old media mogul and DuVernay previously collaborated on Selma, about Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic march, which Oprah produced as well as starred in.

Disney is adapting the classic fantasy novel by the late author Madeleine L’Engle with a script by fantasy and Oscar-winning Frozen writer and co-director Jennifer Lee. Deadline.com says Amy Adams and Kevin Hart are also circling the project, which tells the story of a young girl whose government scientist father has gone missing after working on a mysterious project.

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Shaikewitz Fires Back

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he following views are solely mine, and not necessarily those of the Montecito Water District (MWD) Board of Directors.

First, I want to thank Tim Buckley for airing my clarifications two weeks ago in a guest editorial for what I considered to be errors made previously

by Bob Hazard, MJ’s associate editor.

Last week’s editorial was, in my opinion, again rife with errors and inaccuracies. I’m concerned because his [bio] as associate editor, coupled with being a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club may, to some extent, indicate that what he writes is credible.

When the MWD first started analyzing acquiring its own desal facility in 2014, Mr. Hazard urged the district to contact General Electric because GE could provide desal units in about three months for around $5 million dollars, and that’s all MWD needed. In fact, GE only wanted to sell equipment but have nothing to do with engineering, permitting, piping, or running the facility. Mr. Hazard was off by about

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Another example of misinformation was when he urged the Montecito Association to oppose MWD’s adoption of an emergency surcharge. It’s my understanding that he was responsible for the two-page MJ ad that opposed the surcharge and urged customers to write letters in opposition.

Further, that he may have personally paid for all or a part of the ad. Had his opposition been successful, MWD would not have had the funds to purchase needed supplemental water, and in all likelihood, would have had to put a moratorium on all outside landscape watering.

In last week’s MJ Guest Editorial, Hazard wrote that the City of Santa Barbara has weathered this five-year drought without declaring a water emergency, rationing, imposing penalties, or an emergency surcharge (implying MWD’s customers had to endure all of the above). According to Mr. Hazard, “… the City now sits in the catbird seat, dictating both the amount of water and price to MWD.” The City had, in fact, declared a water emergency and the (AE) further neglected to show the comparative cost of water to customers of both agencies (1 HCF = 748 gal.).

SB’s rates: Current/Proposed: 0 to 4 HCF: $4.20/$4.89; Next 12: $8.51/$12.97; Over 16: $18.59/$24.27.

MWD’s rates: Current/Proposed: 0 to 25 HCF: $5.03/$5.40; 26 to 60: $5.57/$5.98; 61 to 120: $6.57/$7.06; 121 & over: $7.91/$8.50.

As an example, MWD customers with the $3.45/HCF surcharge currently pay $212 for 25 HCF of water; while City customers pay $286 for the same amount of water.

At a recent MWD meeting attended by Mr. Hazard, it was explained that not-for-profit governmental agencies such as MWD and Santa Barbara, when requested to provide agency services would require that administrative costs be paid by the applicant

up front. The City estimated that it will cost them $527,897 for engineering and legal expenses to determine the feasibility and cost of providing desal water to MWD. The City’s current contracts to build and operate its desal plant will have to be reanalyzed and renegotiated. In order to better estimate future costs and whether the project makes economic sense, MWD has requested to initially have only a portion of the study done. Mr. Hazard finds fault with this cautious approach and worries that Santa Barbara may “pull the plug” on negotiations.

Mr. Hazard also comments that after spending nearly a million dollars for consultants and legal fees, MWD is “stalled” in its negotiations with the City. Another error. Both staffs have never stopped working to reach an agreement. Mr. Hazard had been a big advocate for MWD to have its own desal facility. Funds have been spent to determine the economics of MWD desal versus an agreement with the City. Now, he seems to find fault both when we follow his urging, and when we don’t.

In his guest editorial, he used terms such as “Frustrated by lack of progress in desal negotiations…”, and “It is a sad day for Montecito, when City of Santa Barbara Public Works officials are so discouraged over the year-long foot dragging by MWD…”, and “One can only conclude that the City has low expectations that a satisfactory desal agreement with MWD can be concluded….”

I’ve attended many meetings that have press coverage. When I later read an article about that covered meeting, sometimes it is accurate, and sometimes I question if we were both at the same meeting. Unfortunately, I often wonder whether the associate editor and I were at the same meeting.

I encourage everyone to attend MWD meetings, so that you’ll hear the un-editorialized facts.

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Unlike other opinion writers, all my editorials are sent a day in advance to entities I mention, to solicit comments, identify errors, or prevent misconceptions.

Over the past four years, Montecito Water District (MWD) senior executives Tom Mosby and Nick Turner have appreciated that professional courtesy and offered hundreds of suggestions, clarifications, and corrections that have led to modifications and improvements of the final editorial copy.

Last week’s editorial (“City to Decide Montecito’s Desal Future” MJ #22/30) was no exception. Pre-publication drafts were submitted to Nick Turner at MWD, with permission to solicit board input, and to Josh Haggmark, director of Public Works at the City of Santa Barbara. Mr. Haggmark responded by both phone and e-mail to suggest minor modifications, which were incorporated. Nick Turner’s editorial in this issue is an excellent example of adding clarity and understanding to the current water crisis.

You raise a number of issues, dating back three or more years, having nothing to do with desal negotiations with the City. Your letter includes a potpourri of old chestnuts, dating back to March 2015.

You say that my opposition to the emergency water surcharge would have denied funding to purchase imported water, leading to a moratorium on all outside landscaping. What you failed to mention is that the district had already raised water rates a year earlier by a whopping 55% over five years. You forgot that it was the Montecito Association Board of Directors, not me, who voted unanimously to email its membership and run an ad in the MJ, asking MWD to produce a strategic plan, assessing MWD supply and demand outlook for the next five years, as required by state law, before implementing additional rate increases. It is now the middle of 2016. A 2010 plan was never prepared or sent to the state. The plan required to be submitted in 2015 is still being looked at.

You compare water rates in Santa Barbara with water rates in Montecito, an issue not addressed in my editorial.

Conveniently, you left out the fact that City rates already include funding for the City’s $55 million investment in their wholly owned reactivated desal facility.

Unlike the City, MWD has not a penny built into its rate structure for a desal solution or a treated wastewater solution.

You allege that I said, “GE could provide desal units in three months for around $5 million.” That charge deserves at least four “Pinocchios.” First, it has no relevance to my editorial dealing with year-long desal negotiations with the City.

Secondly, I assume you are referring to a discussion we had with Tom Mosby outside the boardroom three years ago, during which I and others suggested the option of using vendors who wanted to be desal plant suppliers, such as GE or IDE, to help the district reach a 30% design level

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

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

VIVA LA FIESTA!

Mariachi Mexicanisimo returns to the Los Arroyos patio on Coast Village Road in celebration of Fiesta festivities.

When: August 3 through August 7, 6 to 9:30 pm Wed-Sat, 5:30 to 9 pm Sun Where: 1280 Coast Village Road Reservations Recommended: 969-9059 THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Shawn McMaster Magic Show for Families The Santa Barbara Public Library System presents a magician unlike any other. No magic words or cheesy-looking props – instead, Shawn McMaster offers a high-energy, interactive show filled with astonishment and hilarity for the whole family. This wonderful magic show will be presented at all branches of the Santa Barbara Public Library System and is best for children ages 5 and up.

When: 4 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Ice Cream Social Free ice cream after Shawn McMaster’s Magic Show When: 5 to 5:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

Mission Treasures Tour A tour to learn about the Mission’s architecture, artwork, and some of its greatest treasures in areas not normally open to the public. All proceeds support the Mission and SB Archive-Library.

When: 2:30 to 4 pm Where: 2201 Laguna Street Cost: $20 per person; no children under 12 Opening Reception Exhibiting in August at 10 West Gallery: Diane Giles, Henry Rasmussen, Joan Rosenberg-Dent, Pat McGinnis, Marlene Struss, Iben G. Vestergaard, Sophie MJ Cooper, and Laurie MacMillan.

The gallery has a new show every month with a rotating roster of Santa Barbara artists working in a variety of media.

Receptions take place monthly during the 1st Thursday Art Walk.

When: 5 to 8 pm Where: 10 West Anapamu Street Solarize Santa Barbara A workshop to teach interested attendees the benefit and cost of going solar.

When: 6 pm Where: Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Avenue Info: www.solarizesantabarbara.org

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 Carpinteria Artists Marketplace The event will be held in the courtyard of the Carpinteria Arts Center. Join in to celebrate the arts through music and handcrafted art pieces for sale by local artists. Come meet featured artist Crystal Hollis. The band Americana Cats will add to the event with their interpretive style of cover songs and originals performed with a bit of their special “Louisiana hot sauce.”

When: 10 am to 4 pm

Build with Legos: STEAM Program The Montecito Library will be offering a Build with Legos monthly program to be held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Build with Legos is a STEAM program, which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. Drop in and build a fun Lego creation using your imagination. Lego building fosters creativity and is a fun way to build on early literacy skills. All materials are provided and no experience is necessary.

When: 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Pre-registration is requested: (805) 969-5063 Where: 855 Linden Avenue Info: www.carpinteriaartscenter.org

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

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

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center. No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free

MONDAY, 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: 2 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Summer Film Series The Granada Theatre is pleased to present the next installment of films in The Granada Theatre Summer Film Series

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screening August 8-10. Movie-goers can look forward to experiencing comedy classic Caddyshack, Mel Brooks’s Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and animated sensation Monsters vs. Aliens on The Granada Theatre’s state-of-the-art digital cinema system! Tonight is the Caddyshack screening.

When: 7 pm Where: The Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street Cost: $10 to $20 Info & Tickets: 899-2222

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito.

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

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 Writing Your Life from Journal to Memoir The Montecito Library presents Writing Your Life from Journal to Memoir. The workshop will be taught by Katherine Smith May. May is a professor emeritus with 30 years of teaching experience. She teaches the Art of Storytelling and Memoir Writing in Phoenix. This is a three-part class suitable for all levels of writing experience. Bring a journal for writing, best memories of your childhood, family, home, best friends, and other precious moments to be remembered.

Participants will enjoy delving into their wealth of memory to learn and practice the craft of writing a memoir. Pre-registration is requested by calling (805) 969-5063.

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Lecture at SBMM Kathryn Mussallem, an exhibiting photographer, printmaker, and illustrator, will show images and video while telling stories of how she captured the subjects from her ongoing five-year documentary project on the U.S. Navy, which includes (but is not limited to) sailor tattoos. Her work has been published and exhibited in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and France and in group exhibitions in New York, Minneapolis, Saint Remy, Leiden, London, and Vancouver.

When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for SBMM members and $10 for non-members Info: www.sbmm.org Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 Trails ‘n’ Tails at Botanic Garden Bring your dog to the annual Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Trails ‘n’ Tails celebration and get in free. Leashed dogs are always welcome at the garden, but in honor of National Dog Day there’s a big party to celebrate canine friends. Each leashed dog gets one person in for free! Dog-centric activities will include a pet costume parade, pet photo booth, dog caricature drawings, and more.

When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: 1212 Mission Canyon Road Info: www.sbbg.org Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Festival The fourth annual Trek Bikes of Ventura Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Festival takes place on at the Carpinteria State Beach. The “Beer Festival with a Surf Twist” was voted the number-8 Beer Festival in all of the U.S.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 Mission Treasures Tour A tour to learn about the Mission’s architecture, artwork, and some of its greatest treasures in areas not normally open to the public. All proceeds support the Mission and SB Archive-Library.

When: 12:30 to 2 pm Where: 2201 Laguna Street Cost: $20 per person; no children under 12

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ONGOING Music Academy of the West Summer Festival The Music Academy of the West presents more than 200 classical music events in Santa Barbara, including masterclasses, orchestra and chamber concerts, recitals, and opera.

Artists include 140 Fellows from 24 states and 11 countries selected through auditions to participate. 70 faculty and guest artists from the world’s best orchestras, opera companies, conservatories, and universities reside in our community to teach and perform during the festival. Tickets start at $10 every week for every event, and 7-17s are always free.

The festival runs through Saturday, August 6. To learn more and for tickets, visit musicacademy.org.

MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

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

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ast week City of Santa Barbara Parks Department crews were on Coast Village Road clearing weeds from the parking medians. A few weeks ago, we received a letter from reader Diane Graham, who made note that the lack of median landscaping on Coast Village is unattractive. “I’m well aware that Coast Village Road is part of the City of Santa Barbara, but I’d be hard-pressed to find public property areas downtown that are as neglected and ugly as the median island that runs down the center of our lower village business district. It’s embarrassing and certainly not representative of the ‘tony enclave’ and ‘Eden by the Sea’ of which your Mr. Mineards waxes so poetically each week,” she wrote.

“Lack of water cannot be the only reason for the dirt and weeds; plenty of other cities have solved the low-water landscape challenge in creative and attractive ways.”

We reached out to Parks manager Santos Escobar, who told us the Coast Village Road medians are maintained on a weekly basis, under contract by the City of Santa Barbara Parks Division. “The landscaping is predominately ornamental turf grasses with healthy and maintained trees growing within each median,” Escobar told us.

Unfortunately, a future landscape plan for the medians is not in the works; with the fifth year of this historic drought, irrigation to the turf was ceased on April 1, 2015, when governor Jerry Brown issued an Executive Order prohibiting irrigation with potable water of ornamental turf in public street medians. “The City Parks Division is responsible for all parkway and road medians within the City limits, and although we are

A newly trimmed median on Coast Village Road.

While there is currently no funding for future landscaping plans, the City Parks department is working hard to keep the median trees alive and thriving during the drought.

open to suggestions related to the future redesign and drought-tolerant planting plans, there is currently no funding to complete a project of this magnitude,” Escobar said.

Two years ago, the Parks Department took over the maintenance of the medians (and the Coast Village Road roundabout) from the Public Works Department. The Parks Department, which operates on a tight budget, is responsible for more than 125 islands,

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Jason Fiedtkou, owner of For Paws Salon, marks seven years in business on Coast Village Road

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In Business: For Paws Salon

This month marks seven years in business for For Paws Salon, Coast Village Road’s animal grooming destination, which draws clients from Santa Ynez to Los Angeles and everywhere in between. “I am very fortunate to have the clientele I have,” said owner Jason Fiedtkou, who told us he recently renewed his lease on his Montecito location, which is located on the backside of Olive Mill Plaza.

For Paws Salon in Montecito is the second salon location for Fiedtkou; he opened the original San Roque location 13 years ago. He also opened a third location in San Francisco, which was open for more than two years before he decided to close it in order to focus on the Santa Barbara stores. “Although I loved being in the big city atmosphere, I realized that I wasn’t making the types of connections and friendships with my clients that I do here in SB,” he said. Both Santa Barbara area salons continue to thrive, with Fiedtkou’s staff grooming 15 dogs and cats at the Montecito location on an average day.

In addition to local residents,

Fiedtkou says he does a lot of business for tourists who are just passing through and are repeat customers. “I’ve been lucky to have people remember us and make it a point to stop in while they’re passing through town,” he said.

The salons offer a full menu of grooming services, from nail clipping and filing, flea and tick treatments, basic washing and haircuts, skunk removal, oral care, and more. On the second Friday of the month, he contracts with local veterinarian dental hygienists to offer supervised full dental cleanings at both locations, and Fiedtkou also does overnight care, mobile hair cutting, and more.

With a new lease signed, Fiedtkou hopes to expand on his successes, which includes offering an expanded retail section at the stores, as well as potentially opening up a doggy day care center in the near future. “I love dogs and studying animal behavior, and my ultimate goal is to open a place where people can drop off their pets in safe, supportive environment,” he said. “I want to send them home happier than they were when they arrived and more socialized.”

The Montecito location is open Tuesday through Saturday, 8 am to 4:30 pm. For more information on the

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

La Fiesta Del Museo Flower girls Madeline Ferries, Maxine Nocker, Riley Peterson, and Julianna Forry with SBHM fiesta chair Sharon Bradford

El Presidente J.C. Gordon and wife Jamie with past presidente Herb Barthels and wife Mareva

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anta Barbara Historical Museum (SBHM) puts on one of the best fiesta parties of the season and this year didn’t disappoint. It was a sell-out crowd of 300, and the museum has never looked more beautiful.

It began at the entrance with chair Sharon Bradford and flower girls in Mexican costumes greeting all the guests. As we went into the gallery, there was a stunning display of costumes from bygone days. Some of the mannequins were “showing off” in a carriage. Keith Mautino showed me

his mother’s dress from 1949 when she was St. Barbara. This show is called Project Fiesta! 2016. Don’t miss it.

As we entered the courtyard, it was a picture in black lace and red. The drinks and tapas were served in the adobe courtyard, with the cocktail tables draped in colorful Mexican striped cloths. Costumes are encouraged and guests complied with a variety of authentic Spanish, Mexican, or Western duds. Margaritas were the drink of the day along with home-

followed wherever the Spanish settled. John and Jewels Eubanks led the auction. Among the items: a circa 1920 handmade silk shawl up for bids with a value of $1,500. You could visit Reagan’s western white house or have a private party at the museum for 40 guests. Elements band closed the fiesta fête with dancing. Viva la Fiesta!

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St. Barbara Christine Herrera in front of part of the new SBHM exhibit

David Bolton, SBHM executive director Lynn Brittner, and Gonzalo Sarmiento at the fiesta fete

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made tortillas for tacos. There were performances by Junior Spirit of Fiesta Sarah Naretto, Francisco Espinosa Folklorico, and Mariachi de la Olas Santa Barbara.

Then it was time for a sit-down dinner with more performances.

This time by Spirit of Fiesta Alexis Simentales and Timo Nunez doing flamenco. Executive director Lynn Brittner reminded us that SBHM is 80 years old. President Sharon Bradford introduced the board and the honorary chairs Joanna Kerns and Marc Appleton. Eleanor Van Cott was the premier sponsor among many. El President J. C. Gordon noted, “The SBHM is one of the jewels of Santa Barbara.”

David Bolton gave us the history of shawls and mantillas, which began in China in 600 B.C. They were introduced to Spain in the 1500s and

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The Santa Barbara Yacht Club hosted a cocktail party to kick off the September 10 Charity Regatta to benefit Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC). In the last decade, the Regatta has raised more than $1 million to help VNHC and its 12,000 patients and families. The club and VNHC have both been around for about 100 years.

Commodore Bob Young told the group, “This year we are honoring our veterans.” He also thanked the event chair Francie Lufkin and her committee: rear commodore John Koontz, Brooke Atkins, Sharon Ewins, Shari Builfoyle, Lailan McGrath, Easter Moorman, Sabrina Mulac, Lil Nelson, Sabrina Papa, Robyn Parker, Suesan Pawlitski, Judy Rawles, Sigrid Toye, Craig Wilberg, and Gail Young.

The program featured that special voice of David Gonzales singing the “Star Spangled Banner” and ending with “God Bless America.” President/ CEO of VNHC Lynda Tanner introduced their new mission video.

Reflections and honoring our veterans was done by veteran volunteer Brian Smith, who told us that one out of four hospice patients are veterans.

Also speaking was the wife, Jean, of past commodore and veteran Homer Smith. She wished the crowd “Fair winds and following seas.”

The September 10 Regatta is open to everyone – a chance to enjoy the private Yacht Club. It begins at noon with a champagne and hors d’oeuvres

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Alfa Research board member Bob Walsmith, Slingshot art rep Sue Dumm, Alpha CFO Cory Sherman, co-chairs Gloria Montano and Magda Arroyo, and sponsor James Adelman aboard the Channel Cat SBYC commodore Bob Young, committee chair Francie Lufkin, VNHC executive director Rick Keith, and president/CEO Lynda Tanner at the Club reception

actually speak different languages and even have their own individual voices much like we humans.

The oil industry uses powerful blasts to prospect for oil and studies have shown it can silence whales.

Also, high-intensity naval sonars are known to cause whales to strand.

And the data goes on and on.

When asked in the Q&A, “How do we get our kids involved?” JeanMichel retorted, “Get them wet.” He wanted parents to do like his father, Jacques Cousteau, and “throw” them in – not literally. But get them interested. A good place to start is the SBMM, according to executive director Greg Gorga. See you at the harbor.

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More than 100 friends and supporters of Alpha Resource Center (ARC) boarded the Channel Cat for a festive sunset cruise with plenty of margaritas and Mexican food. The co-chairs were Gloria Montano and Magda Arroyo.

Dressed in sarongs, they greeted everyone and passed out leis to add to the color. A bit of Hawaii in Mexico! I always love seeing the ship’s officer decked out in their white uniforms.

The catamaran was courtesy of the Channel Cat Charter. Most of the food was from El Zarape with some from Los Arroyos. The tequila was Fuego and the wine from Brander. The premier

VNHC board member Brian Smith, speaker Jean Smith, and singer David Gonzales

reception, then the sail, which you can watch from members’ boats and ending the day with a barbecue. Tickets available online at www.vnhcsb.org/ regatta. See you there!

Sonic Sea

Some 200 folks gathered at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) for wine and tapas and to watch a 60-minute documentary film titled Sonic Sea that demonstrated how the noisy ocean is affecting whales and other marine life. That would be industrial freighters, ships, and military operations that create a cacophony of sound that grows greater with the years as traffic increases. If sound overpowers us, we can leave or turn it off. Sadly for sea life, they have nowhere to go. Sometimes the whales do beach themselves trying to escape.

The award-winning movie is narrated by Rachel McAdams and features Sting and also ocean experts Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Paul Spong, Dr. Christopher Clark, and our own Jean-Michel Cousteau. Jean-Michel was there in person along with the co-director of the film, Daniel Hinerfeld. He is with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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He told me, “Sonic Sea has been on the Discovery Channel, won awards, and we’re trying to get it into schools so that the next generation will understand.”

Whales, dolphins, and shrimp use sound to communicate, navigate, feed, and breed. Ninety-eight percent of all the goods in the world are sent by ship. When the ocean becomes too noisy, the sea-life can no longer communicate. They can’t hear one another. I was fascinated to learn that whales in different parts of the world

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underwriter was Banc of California, and more sponsors were the Rudi Schulte Foundation, Kelly and Heather Clenet, 805 Live photography, and Santa Barbara Selfies. Peter Clark, a longtime supporter of ARC, was there.

Alpha Resource Center empowers individuals with developmental disabilities, supports families, and fosters a community that values the contribution of all people. One of the places where they mingle is their art studio and gallery at 220 W. Canon Perdido.

It is here that they create their works and put them up for sale. Check it out.

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her, her young brother, and a schoolmate to other dimensions and planets in the quest to find her dad.

In addition to finalizing the film’s adult leads, Disney is also currently casting the three child parts, with an open casting call in Boston, Massachusetts, at the weekend.

Shooting is slated for later this year at a yet-to-be-determined location.

Money for Nothin’ They used to make $2 million a year appearing on the MTV reality series The Hills and showing up at glitzy Hollywood events.

But after years of overspending on frivolous things such as $3,000 bottles of wine, $15,000 Hermès purses, and $10,000 crystals, Santa Barbara-based Spencer Pratt, 32, and his wife, Heidi Montag, 29, have whittled away their fortune, which is estimated to have been more than $10 million.

The twosome tell People they now very much regret pretending to be high rollers.

“We were keeping up with the

Joneses, but we were going up against Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes,” laments Spencer, “We should have stayed in our reality TV lane.”

Other splurges included a full staff of bodyguards charging $15,000 for an evening out.

The couple, who tied the knot in 2009, would also go for expensive dinners at places such as Wolfgang Puck’s Cut in Beverly Hills.

And then there was Pratt’s crystal collection. He owned hundreds of pieces and tells the celebrity glossy he thinks he spent $1 million on his hobby.

There was also Montag’s penchant for designer clothing. She loved Hermès purses and diamond jewelry, spending at least $1 million on the habit.

“I was kind of playing house,” she says. “I felt like I was someone I wasn’t. We had business managers who told us to stop spending, but we acted like we knew what we were doing.”

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went broke, but it to believed to be just after 2010.

They now live rent-free in the Santa Barbara vacation home owned by Spencer’s parents.

“I was feeling so alone and defeated,” adds Montag. “Everyone else on our cast had houses, and we had nothing to show for what we’d done.

I was like, the haters were right! It was sad.”

But the twosome have found a way to make money, even if it’s not the six-figure salaries they used to get.

“We make most of our income from reality shows,” says Montag, among them Celebrity Big Brother in the U.K. and Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.

“We’re doing fine. Each show is like an audition for the next. Life is short.

And what matters is being happy with family and marriage and with personal progress. We’re in a really good place.”

But, unlike six years ago, they are now good at keeping an eye on their spending.

“We haven’t been out to a fancy dinner since our anniversary,” says Pratt. “If Heidi’s not cooking, we’re eating tacos.”

His sister, Stephanie, 30, is also a reality TV star, appearing on Made in Chelsea.

Picture This Montecito photographer Carlos Eric Lopez prefers life behind the lens rather dealing with those in front of it.

Carlos, who is studying for his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at Brooks Institute began his career at Next Model Management and swiftly moved into the fashion industry as an editor at Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue.

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Central Coast Wine Classic Comes to SB

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here’s no shortage of oenophiles in our area, so we’re lucky we live in a place that celebrates wine on the regular. Wine dinners, wine festivals, and wine educational experiences are not only common, but we have some of the best right here in Santa Barbara. This year, we can add one more event to the list, as the 31st annual Central Coast Wine Classic descends on Santa Barbara for the first time ever, bringing with it an array of educational, exclusive wine involvements.

Kicking off Wednesday, August 10,

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in San Luis Obispo where it originated and has been held every year, the Wine Classic then moves its way down the coast to Santa Barbara on August 12-14. Founder and chairman Archie McClaren, whose vision for the Central Coast Wine Classic has made it one of the most revered and intimate Wine Classics in the nation, has spent years honing the best tastings, tours, and wine experiences for this event. His passion for wine and immersion in the wine world is matched only by his generosity for the arts nonprofits on the Central Coast.

In fact, the Wine Classic Foundation has gifted an astonishing $2.5 million since 2004 to 125 organizations.

As this is the first California wine event spanning two counties, events will take place in a whopping 18 different venues throughout the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara areas. Sure, you can spring for the five-course wine pairing dinner at Hearst Castle or head to Pismo for a wine dinner with Justin Vineyards, but with so many events taking place closer to home, it’ll be hard to venture out of Santa Barbara!

A few events to highlight in the Santa Barbara area include a Santa Rita Hills vineyard tour and tasting with Richard Sanford of Alma Rosa Winery, and the Pinot Noir Symposium at the Santa Barbara Inn. Hosted by Patrick Will, attendees will taste wine from nine pinot producers, including Au Bon Climat, Longoria, Mount Eden, and Pisoni vineyards.

Friday offerings also include several dinners, such as the Winemaker Dinner with Fred Brander and Bob Lindquist, which takes place inside the Mural Room of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, as well as the Rare Wine Dinner at the Santa

Barbara Club, featuring sought-after and hard-to-find wines such as the 1983 Chateau Margaux and the 2001 Chateau d’Yquem.

Saturday brings an equally great line-up of events, including the Vintage Champagne and Caviar Symposium at the Nesbitt Polo Estate in Summerland. Vintage Brut, Blanc de Blancs and more from bubbly producer Roederer will have you feeling the phrase “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams” firsthand!

The Central Coast Wine Classic’s cornerstone event, the Rare and Fine Wine and Lifestyle Auction Luncheon, kicks off Saturday, August 13, at 10 am with an auction preview and automobile display. Then from noon to 5 pm, guests will revel in the silent auction, live auction, and luncheon prepared and presented by chef Rick Manson and the Hitching Post II’s chef Frank Ostini. High-end items up for auction include McLaren’s own 1987 Ferrari Gemballa Testarossa – only one of three ever made – and a 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Z51.

Other auction items include fine art, rare wine, exotic trips, and unique wine experiences, such as a culinary and fine-wine excursion through France’s most famous regions.

Luncheons, wine tastings, tours, winemaker dinners, and barrel tastings will ensure there is something for every type of wine enthusiast.

And, with 18 events in total ranging from $75 to $1,250, there is something for every budget. No tickets will be issued at the events, so all attendees are required to pre-register for each one. Be sure to sign up before this amazing weekend of educational and once-in-a-lifetime experiences sells out!

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As a former CEO turned editor for the MJ, I have made it my responsibility to regularly attend MWD Board meetings, report opportunities and missteps, and become an informed advocate for MWD customers, rather than a cheerleader for an entrenched board, 80% of whom have served for 10 to 25 years.

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religious persuasion, visiting the enormous statue of Christ the Redeemer at sunset is a very moving experience.

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Dale Nails It

Olympics Security

I’ve just returned from a month in Brazil. I was there as an advisor to Bruno Avena and his partner, Leonardo Nogueira, at their company ALTAVE. Their company’s aerostats, the small balloon shown here, will fly at 650 feet above all four venues of the Rio Olympics. The aerostats carry the most modern cameras and will help prevent terrorism and criminal activity. This is the first wide-area, persistent surveillance aerostat ever developed for civilian application.

This is not my first involvement in Olympics security. Fuji – and other blimps I helped design – flew over every Olympics Game from Los Angeles in 1984 to Athens in 2004.

And you thought they were just to advertise! All these blimps carry powerful cameras to help with security.

The ALTAVE aerostats will do the same job but at a fraction of the cost, and they will fly around the clock.

I first met Bruno when he was doing an MSc degree at Caltech. The fact that he was accepted says a great deal about his ability. I met him through the mentorship program I am involved with at Cal Tech. I am so proud of Bruno and his team; they have done an outstanding job. ALTAVE has developed a complete system, not just a balloon. I am very impressed by this up-and-coming organization.

They are full of ideas but, unlike many startups, they don’t let the ideas run away with themselves – they are extremely focused.

When working with any government bureaucracy around the world, there is always down time to “hurry up and wait.” As it was my first trip

These security balloons will fly over every site 24 hours of every day during the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, thanks to Bruno Avena and Leonardo Nogueira of ALTAVE and, of course, a little advice from Santa Barbara-based, world-class balloonist Julian Nott

to Brazil, I was able to take advantage of the waiting time and see a little of the sights. I had heard how dangerous and difficult it was to travel in Brazil.

But I must say I had no problems and have nothing but good things to say about Brazil, though I wouldn’t recommend it be anyone’s first trip out of the States.

I have travelled a great all of my life and have spent a good deal of time in India and other developing countries. If you do plan on a trip to Brazil, I would suggest that you seek advice and stay clear of the dangerous areas, particularly in Rio. You must see Dr. Mary-Louise Scully at Sansum to get the right vaccinations and on no account drink the water! Attending a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto by Nicolas Koeckert, one of the world’s great violinists, in the middle of the Brazilian jungle, was directly taken from the movie Fitzcarraldo. And no matter what your

For anyone thinking of purchasing and converting the DeWalt nail gun into a Construction Assault Weapon (CAW), here are some helpful tips: You’ll attract less attention if you purchase one the CAW’s lesser-known cousins such as the popular (but equally dangerous) staple gun, the caulk gun (CIA’s favorite weapon), paint-guns (a.k.a. sprayers), and squirt guns, which are “gateway” weapons for young hoodlums. Controversial cap guns (now thankfully banned in NYC) could soon also be outlawed in California, and we should all feel much safer... right?

Let’s give serious consideration to the licensing and professional training for anyone using a glue-gun, engaging in paint-ball activities (a.k.a. pre-terrorist training) and the old-fashioned but painful “spud-gun”. Seldom mentioned in the mainstream media are the risks of heart attack-strokePTSD and permanent numbness when encountering a police-deployed

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Scanning platforms collect real-time visual images of every area at the Olympics site in Brazil and are fed to landbased operators via the ALTAVE balloons

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DeWalt’s latest nail gun has Mr. Lowdermilk dreaming of a gun-free world

stun-Taser gun. Don’t be deceived by the seemingly “innocent” Nerf guns used to shoot Styrofoam darts and/or ping-pong balls at innocent children who are only seeking “safe spaces” on college campuses.

Speaking of innocent children, isn’t it time to restrict movies, videos, and playground games that glamorize the use of guns, violence, sharp objects, or unfair competition? Did you know that Dirty Harry was responsible for a 20% spike in Smith & Wesson gun sales in 1971 and the James Bond movies dramatically increase sales of Walther semi-automatic pistols? How many young men joined the Navy after watching Top Gun dreaming, and falsely misled by recruiters, that they would become as popular as Tom Cruise? When will this “glorification” of violence-victory-heroism stop?

Hollywood must take responsibility for brainwashing thousands of fans into thinking that guns and heroes are one and the same. Celebrities, rappers, and big-entertainment types are just as guilty as big pharma, big-oil, and big-Wall-Street.

Last, and certainly least, is the dreaded “finger gun” which, if pointed at a cop or kindergarten classmates, can result in jail time or suspension. On the 6 o’clock news, you’ll likely hear the term “Felony Intimidation” used more frequently than “radical Islamic terrorist.” Flipping someone the “bird” is considered more polite than pointing an index finger. Do a Google search for “man arrested for pointing finger”... or “six-year-old suspended from kinder garten for air-gunning classmate.” You will be shocked.

It’s time to change our “gun-culture” madness and let superior, highly intelligent experts (a.k.a. government

officials) take control over everything and anything that might be used to inflict pain, fear, or injury. We must do it for the children... and the elderly... and minorities... and disabled... and the poor... and the uneducated... and the unemployed... and (fill in the blank_____________).

Until then, everyone should shelter in place and wait for further instructions.

Cautiously, Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Mr. Lowdermilk is founder of notsafe.org)

It’s Finally Over

The Democrat National Convention has come and gone, and we’ve found out at least two things we probably knew all along: 1) That when it comes to lying and obfuscating the truth, Hillary Clinton doesn’t take a back seat to anyone; and 2) Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now have proof that the entire Democrat leadership is rotten to the core. But this doesn’t bother Clinton, as she immediately hired the ringleader Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be her campaign manager.

Hillary’s speech was so electrifying that even her husband, Bill, chose to snooze through it. The one statement she made regarding gun control that has left many of us scratching our heads was: “I’m not here to repeal the Second Amendment. I’m not here to take away your guns.” She elaborated further on her comments: “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place.” Who exactly are these some-

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However, the District’s ability to deliver this water on a monthly basis is limited.

The District’s supplemental and imported Table A water supplies stored in San Luis Reservoir all must be pumped through the State Water Project (SWP) Coastal Branch pipeline into Lake Cachuma before delivery to its customers.

The Coastal Branch pipeline is shared by all participants in the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA). The District’s ability to deliver water through this pipeline is limited by its SWP Table A full allocation of 3,300 AFY. Opportunities to deliver additional supplemental water above 3,300 AFY only arise when one of the participating agency is not utilizing its full allocated pipeline capacity. As the drought continues, these opportunities become less and less likely.

CCWA, the joint powers authority overseeing the operation of this Coastal Branch pipeline, has investigated and recently implemented a project that increases the delivery capacity to Lake Cachuma by approximately 6%. This capacity increase will be shared among the South Coast agencies. CCWA also considered the replacement of this 7.5-mile-long pipeline, but due to high costs and permitting/environmental requirements, it has been determined to be infeasible at this time. Even with this limitation on deliveries to Lake Cachuma, the District has enough supplemental water to meet its customers’ water supply needs at current levels (approx. 3,900 AFY) into mid-2019. Increasing customer deliveries above 3,900 AFY would require improvement of the local water supplies.

In an effort to bolster the District’s local water supply, the District is continuing its negotiations with the City of Santa Barbara for the regional use of the City’s desalination facility. The District has also formed a Recycled Water Ad Hoc Committee to determine the feasibility of recycled water use for landscape purposes to offset the use of potable water.

Update on Desalination

As previously reported, the District is currently in negotiations with the City of Santa Barbara regarding regional use of the City’s desalination facility. These negotiations are ongoing, and both the City and District understand that defining a long-term commitment for the regional use of the City’s desalinated facility must be done in a manner that is fair and equitable to both agencies and their rate payers.

In May 2016 after many months of negotiations and agreeing in concept to many of the terms and conditions of a Water Supply Agreement (WSA), the City requested that the District enter into an interim funding agreement whereby the District would fund its share of the work to be performed by the City and/or its consultants which has been determined to be necessary to reach full agreement on a WSA. The proposed work includes 1) legal services necessary to develop a draft WSA, 2) legal and consultant costs associated with negotiating with the facility contractor the costs of expanding the desalination facility from 3,125 to 4,375 AFY, 3) hydraulic modeling of the delivery of desalinated water to the District, 4) City’s engineering and planning staff costs and 5) the design/permitting/ environmental of a conveyance system to move the desalinated water to the District. Of the proposed work included in the interim funding agreement, the design/permitting/environmental of the conveyance system is the costliest, making up more than 60% of the total cost ($527,897).

Understanding the complexities of developing a WSA, the District has requested the City consider a phased approach that will lead to defining certain critical terms and conditions, including the cost-share components of a WSA prior to funding with the costliest portion of the work, the Conveyance System.

Phase 1 work, which includes Items 1 thru 4, is projected to cost the District $193,594. Upon completion of Items 1 thru 4, the District’s board of directors would then consider moving forward with the expenditure of the remaining $334,303 that would define the conveyance system needed for the delivery of desalinated water to the District. According to City Staff, the District’s proposed interim funding agreement phased approach will be presented to the Santa Barbara City Council for approval at the City’s Tuesday, August 9, council meeting for review and approval.

The path to participation in the regional use of the City’s desalination facility is one that must be carefully navigated, as its impacts to rates and charges could be significant for the District for many years.

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Even with the District having relied on the soon-to-be-depleted Lake Cachuma and Jameson Lake for 75% of annual water supply, the monthly customer allocation program implemented in 2014 and the resulting conservation efforts of the community have led to a water supply condition today that will continue to provide water into 2019. With current allocations in place, more than 90% of the District’s single-family residential customers are using water that is below their monthly apportionment. It is this extraordinary conservation effort that enables the continued delivery of water to customers at the current monthly allocations without reductions.

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atch your head,” Charlie yelled back to me.

“What?” I asked, as I hit my head on a boulder the size of a Winnebago. A few choice words came to mind, but I kept them to myself.

My grandson would learn them when he started high school in the fall. I didn’t want the credit for that part of his education. Besides, yelling could spook the bats.

“Bats!” My wife said from behind.

“I’ll meet you back at the car.”

The car was parked at the Chaparral Trailhead parking lot, where we had watched other hikers putting large plastic bottles of cold water into their backpacks, being careful not to smash their abundant lunches or disturb their professional first-aid kits.

I had filled an old Gatorade bottle I found in the trunk in the men’s room sink and carefully put it into the side pocket of my camera bag. I debated whether to pack some gum

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and breath mints for snacking, but decided the extra weight might slow us down.

“I think the bats are mostly sleeping,” I reassured Pat, while keeping an eye overhead and tucking my hair up under my hat.

We were not exactly expecting to hike anywhere. We were just here to check out the country’s newest National Park, Pinnacles, located just 12 miles off the 101 in Soledad, California. We had passed the sign a bazillion times driving through the Salinas Valley on our way to the Bay Area. This time we were kid-sitting for a week, so we thought we should do something adventurous with Charlie.

“Just a short walk to Balconies Cave from the parking lot,” the ranger in the West Entrance visitors center told us. “The entire loop trail is only twopoint-seven miles.”

“Less than three miles,” Pat had

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said. “That’s not bad.”

Did I mention it was well over 80 degrees outside? And that we had decided to go the Pinnacles first, then have lunch after we checked it out?

Pinnacles, which looks totally different than the landscape around it, is part of an ancient volcanic field and is not far from the Andreas earthquake fault. It features towering monoliths, steep-walled canyons and caves created when huge boulders fell into the narrow gorges forming intermittent ceilings.

“Another low one,” Charlie yelled.

“Ouch! &%$**%$#&!”

“What was that?”

“Nothing,” I yelled back. “Just an old high school chant.”

Another feature of Pinnacles are the soaring condors, which can weigh 20 pounds and have a wingspan of more than nine feet. I told the ranger in the visitors center that we had seen a condor sitting on a cliff on Route One in Big Sur. “Our condors have interbred with those condors,” he told us. “All remaining condors in the wild have ankle bracelets, so we can keep track of them.”

“Do you suppose they have condor conversations about ‘Your place or mine?’”

The ranger wasn’t sure, but suggested if I saw one I might ask it.

The park is the home of many reptiles, including the once-endangered red-legged frog, birds, mammals, and 400 species of bees, the largest diversity in North America. I’m not sure how you can tell one bee from another.

Maybe they too have tiny tags around their ankles. Or maybe each one gives off a different buzz.

“You hear buzzing?” Pat asked.

“Only in my head from whacking it against the boulders.”

We came to a tight squeeze. Charlie, who’s tall and thin, wiggled through with no problem. I sucked in my gut, glad for the moment we had missed lunch. “Oomph.” Beyond that was a huge boulder that was only a few feet off the light-challenged cave floor.

Charlie slipped through, then held out his iPhone with the flashlight on.

“You can make it,” he said.

“Urrggghhh. Oomph.” Plop!

We had come to the end of the cave.

That meant we had hiked six-tenths of a mile. It was either keep going for another two miles, or go back the way we came.

“I’m going back this way,” said Pat from the other side of the low boulder and squeeze rock. “It’s the shortest route to lunch.”

I got down on my stomach. “How about exciting movies for the rest of the week?”

“Cool,” Charlie said.

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The AAM, a 45-year-old program, promotes practices that enable museum leaders to make informed decisions, allocate resources wisely, and remain financially and ethically accountable to provide the best possible service to the public. Accreditations have been granted to more than 1,000 of the nation’s estimated 35,000 museums.

Fulltime visionary of the AAM accreditation is MCASB Board of Trustees president Jacquelyn KleinBrown, who said, “Since our 2013 Strategic Plan, when we changed our name and mission [from the Contemporary Arts Forum to the MCASB], the MCASB has been working to achieve the goal of Museum Accreditation, and we are proud to be one of only 55 museums in the state of California to be recognized in this way. The MCASB has met the highest museum standards, and our accreditation opens doors for exhibitions in our museum that are traveling throughout the country, as well as have our exhibitions travel to other museums worldwide. We owe this achievement to the staff, volunteers, supporters, and board members who work tirelessly to bring the arts to our community and who uphold a standard of excellence.”

MCASB executive director Miki Garcia, “In the last 10 years, this institution has experienced tremendous growth and success thanks to the efforts of a committed staff and visionary board of trustees. Accreditation is an important milestone for this organization, signaling a bright future and we are thrilled to be acknowledged in this way by our peers.”

Ms. Klein-Brown also announced

The MCASB VIPs posed in front of an Assume Vivid Astro Focus painting, courtesy of Laurie Recodon. [front row seated, from left] Cindy Bermant, Robert Giaimo, board president Jacquelyn Klein-Brown, executive director Miki Garcia, R. Bruce McFadden, Jr., Debby Peterson, and Lea Sindija; [2nd row, from left]: treasurer Mary Lynn Harms-Romo, Laura Macker Johnston, development director Frederick Janka, secretary Laurie Recordon, Nancy Gifford, Jenn Kennedy, and co-vice president Georgene Vairo.

[Not pictured: co-vice president Josh Blumer, Mary Blair, Lesley Cunningham, Donna Barranco Fisher, Simon Livingston, Eileen Rasmussen, and Nancy O’Connor]

news of her new board of trustee members: Cindy Bermant, Mary Blair, Roberto Giaimo, R. Bruce McFadden, Jr., Nancy O’Connor, Debby Peterson, and Lea Sindija.

At their July meeting, the board and MCASB VIPs took time for a Montecito Journal photograph and quick commentary from some of the new trustees: Bermant, “MCASB reaches out on local, national, and international levels, using art as a medium, we explore ideas, commonalities, and differences in a way that words sometimes do not succeed.”

Giaimo said, “MCASB has the ability and desire to educate and make one aware what contemporary art has to offer; they truly want to share their passion. As a board member, I hope to use my interest in contemporary art and background in advertising and marketing to help grow the museum.”

McFadden Jr. added, “I see MCASB as a catalyst not just for the visual arts, but for an intelligent, creative expression of culture, education and enlightenment for the Santa Barbara region and beyond.”

Said Peterson, “My vision for MCASB is to see it recognized as a world-class contemporary art museum that consistently brings innovative and exciting contemporary art and art programming to Santa Barbara.” And Sindija said, “I believe we will fill the void of culturally relevant, contemporary art exhibits in the region by becoming the destination for showcasing art that acts as a catalyst for thought-provoking change, inspiration, education, community strengthening as well as artistic enjoyment, and as a new board member, I am eager to grow awareness about the museum’s exhibits and events. I look forward to helping create diverse, unconventional fundraising opportunities, hosting visiting artists, and deepening community relationships by involving new demographics.”

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opening reception for the exhibit by world recognized avaf [assume vivid astro focus] group titled, “Avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods”. The avaf exhibit is in part a retrospective of their 10-year history and includes documentary pictures of past installations, performances, details of wallpapers, and screenshots of seminal video works. The main selection of works are out of the ordinary range of art seen in our town and encourage a new view by pushing boundaries in even the most avant-garde among us.

A range of mixed media, including printed rugs mixed with hanging fabric, theatrical backdrops, and wall coverings transform the entire museum into an experience where visitors are invited to interact with the space by laying on the ground, listening to or playing music, rearranging elements, and creating their own performances using the provided materials and environment. Created

by Eli Sudbrack in 2001 and joined by Christophe Hamaide-Pierson in 2005, avaf’s collaborative work incorporates motifs from popular culture, fine art, and ancient civilizations.

Showing at the same time in the Bloom Project room is artist Khvay Samnang of the Sa Sa Bassac gallery based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: “Prompted by instinct, hearsay, direct experience, and media sources, Samnang follows stories that he believes require intervention. He has often addressed the impacts of colonialism and globalization on Cambodia, in an artistic practice that spans performance, photography, video, installation, and sculpture.”

Congratulations to the MCASB on its AAM accreditation and its continued mission to cultivate extraordinary contemporary art in our town and the world.

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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 with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Great Hate

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t was only as recently as the 1980s that the concept of a “Hate Crime” entered our public discourse and legal lexicon. Ironically, that term is uncomfortably reminiscent of the language called Newspeak, which George Orwell featured so prominently in his dystopian novel 1984, which is also set in that decade of the 1980s (still far in the future when the book was written). In fact, “Hate Crime” seems to have been anticipated by Orwell’s “Thoughtcrime,” the acting out of forbidden ideas, resulting from the mental process of “crimethink.”

Uneasy as it may make us feel, what today we call “Hate Crime” is only a little more bizarre than Orwell’s concept. But he was much more explicit in depicting the uses of hate as a means of social control. There were the daily telecasts of “Two Minutes of Hate,” which all party members were required to watch – and this ritual was pushed to the limit in an annual festival called Hate Week.

In the novel, hatred is directed by the party against its alleged enemies, which in a way was at least more coherent than today’s omnibus outbursts against a whole range of targets, turning on its head the much-lauded ideal of “diversity.” As more than one stand-up comic has put it, “I’m an equal-opportunity racist – I hate everybody.”

But there have been real times and places at which hatred of the designated enemy has indeed been exalted into something approaching a mania.

Our own Anglo-American mindset seems generally to have gone only so far as grotesque mockery and ridicule of the foe. But when it came to the Japanese in World War II, there was clearly a strong element of racial hatred (no doubt much intensified

by Pearl Harbor). Otherwise, how do we account for the fact that U.S. citizens of Japanese extraction were interned during World War II, while those stemming from our other chief enemies, Germany and Italy, generally remained free throughout the war?

In World War I, the Germans had the slogan “Gott strafe England!” (“May God Punish England!”), and they actually had the popular “Hymn of Hate Against England.” Much less was heard of this opus in World War II, however, perhaps because it happened to have been written by a Jew – a German-Jewish poet named Ernst

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he end isn’t just near – it’s here. Another stunning summer stuffed with too many magical musical moments to mention comes to a close with a final weekend of events. The good news? The Music Academy of the West’s 2017 summer festival is just 44 weeks away.

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The so-called “hate crimes” which we hear most about today, however, are not committed in war, and are not openly sanctioned by any organization wishing to retain any kind of public respectability. Rather, they are acts of malcontents, expressing various kinds of frustration and rage, which make it convenient to target some particular group outside the social mainstream. There have always been “hate crimes,” but that kind of legal classification gives the perpetrators a stigma (if you will pardon that expression), which they have never had before.

It may very well be that the malefactors (usually young and ignorant) who are guilty of painting swastikas on synagogues, vandalizing abortion clinics, or assaulting homosexuals, don’t even think of their acts as crimes, let alone “hate crimes” – but the public at large now has a new weapon with which to castigate those who try to put their “crimethink “ into something more than words. Here indeed, America has its own special dilemma, because the intermediate stage between “think” and “act” is “speak” – but “freedom of speech” is a long-cherished American right.

In any case, hatred has its nuances.

When I spent three months of my life gathering signatures for a local campaign to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in Santa Barbara, the comment I most commonly heard was “I hate those things!” But signing the petition was probably as far as most such haters would ever let their hatred carry them.

To wrap this up: you hear enough about the world’s Great Lovers – but what about the Great Haters? For me, two immediately come to mind: one was the ancient Roman statesman, Cato the Elder, who hated (and feared) the city of Carthage so much that he never ended a speech, no matter what the subject, by saying “Carthage must be destroyed!” (Which it was.)

Then there’s that unforgettable creation of Herman Melville, Captain Ahab, who so hates the white whale named Moby Dick, which had taken his leg, that he spends the entire novel trying to find that beast and destroy him.

But, just to keep things in cheery perspective, remember that – though many people hate rain – nobody hates rainbows.

•MJ

Thursday, August 4: The annual Marilyn Horne Song Competition moves to the final week – meaning post-opera production – for the first time in its history, a tenure that has seen future Metropolitan Opera stars Evan Hughes, Isabel Leonard and Nadine Sierra among others who have claimed first place. The fierce competition finds singers and pianists striving for the Regina Roney Cash Prize of $3,000 each, plus recitals in concert halls on both the East and West coasts, professional photos, and consultation with 21C Media Group music career experts in New York City. The mezzo-soprano diva turned pedagog Horne leads the jury panel of master teachers and opera administrators who will evaluate the competitors on technique, poise, diction, and much more as they deliver three art songs, at least one of which must be sung in English. There are three separate sessions at 3:15, 5:30, and 8 pm, all at Hahn Hall, with admission of $15 each, or $40 for all three.... Also, three final masterclass sessions, in collaborative piano with Jonathan Feldman (1 pm; Weinman Hall; $13), viola with Cynthia Phelps (3:15 pm; Lehmann Hall; $13), and flute with Timothy Day (3:15 pm; Weinman; free).

Friday, August 5: Three more masterclass opportunities, the final ones of the year, encompass clarinet with Richie Hawley (1 pm; Lehmann; free), trumpet with Paul Merkolo (1 pm; Weinman; free), and horn with Julie Landsman (3:15; Weinman; free). Mid-afternoon also brings the solo piano presentation, which finds all of the young artist Fellows performing in various combos and settings (four hand, duo piano, et cetera) in what is usually a lighthearted and special two-hour show (3:15 pm; Hahn; $30)...

Lastly, there’s the final Picnic Concert of the summer, in which Academy instrumental Fellows perform chamber music or recital pieces they’ve been practicing and polishing in rehearsals, lessons, and masterclasses (7:30 pm; Hahn; $35).

Saturday, August 6: Say sayonara to the season as conductor James Gaffigan, the American-born chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland who also makes recurring appearances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera, leads the Academy Festival Orchestra through Sean Shepard’s Magiya before spinning the tale of the Arabian Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade sandwiched around Solo Piano Concerto Competition winner Anna Han’s performance of Brahms’s first piano concerto (see page 27 for an interview with Han). The festival finale begins at 7:30 pm at the Granada ($10-$60).

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Music Academy of the West Fingers on the Future but Mindful of the Past

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ack when Anna Han was a toddler in the not-exactly-musical-Mecca of Mesa, Arizona, it would have been hard to imagine she’d grow up to become this year’s Concerto Competition winner in piano, with the reward of playing the first movement of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Academy Festival Orchestra in the season-closing concert on Saturday August 6, under the baton of James Gaffigan.

“My parents aren’t musicians, and they never even had the chance to have contact with classical music when they were growing up,” Han explained a few days after claiming the competition back in July. “But they just enrolled me in lots of activities when I was young, including piano, which I started at 4, and that was the one that really clicked.” So much so that Han stayed with the same private teacher she began working with a year later, at age 5, right up until heading off to college at the prestigious Juilliard School. “I was very lucky to find such a wonderful teacher at an early age, so it’s been a very smooth flow.”

But winning competitions is old hat for Han, now 20, who also was the first-prize winner the 2012 New York International Piano Competition, the 2011 New Orleans International Piano Competition for Young Artists, and the 2011 IIYM International Piano Competition. She headed West to Montecito for the 2016 Music Academy summer festival upon the recommendation of friends who had reported good experiences over previous seasons, and for the chance to study one-on-one with longtime MAW piano faculty member Jerome Lowenthal.

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Keys, please: pianist Anna Han performs Saturday (photo by Phil Channing)

“He’s been a central force here for so long, and he’s always been a teacher I respect a great deal,” Han said. “But I don’t get to see him all that much at school. Knowing he’d be here, with all those guest artists, I figured it was an incredible opportunity... I didn’t know it was going to be this good when I came here, and I was already very excited.”

Indeed, winning the concerto competition was only one achievement this summer, as she explained in our interview.

Q. Other than winning, what have been some of the highlights of your summer?

A. I’ve had a wonderful time. There were some things I knew coming in, the lineup of guest artist, and how many concerts we would perform.

But what I didn’t expect was the sense of community around the academy, both among the people studying at the school and especially in the surrounding community. I remember going to my first masterclass ever, and, like usual, it was a couple of fellow students and maybe some parents and that’s it. But here, it was nearly sold-out. I’d never seen anything like that. And the people

come back and make personal contact with you and often attend all the performances, so it feels like a very supportive environment. It gives you hope for the future of music.

How’s that?

As someone who is trying to be an artist, I always ask myself, “Why am I doing this? What use does it have for the world?” You can get into a negative mindset, thinking everything you do is very narcissistic. I have the privilege of going on stage in front of people asking them to listen while I share something I personally like. To know that it actually makes a difference, that there are people who feel the same way about music that I do – that has this transformative power – is very rewarding.

You are no stranger to winning competitions. What’s the secret to performing well under pressure?

Apply to a lot and try your best, and every now and then you get lucky.

As far as performing under pressure, I don’t feel a lot of stress, because I love to do it so much. One of the main things I enjoy about being a musician is the energy of giving a live performance. You practice and ideally run it through with some peers and teachers you trust, maybe record it and play it back to yourself, which is difficult because I’m my own worst critic. Then when you go on stage, you just let go of everything you’ve been working on and just play and capture the magic of the moment. Remind yourself that the artist you are needs to come out. That’s what people care about, not whether you miss a note or two or don’t hit as crescendo the right way. Most of my best performances were when I stopped trying to control everything and just trusted my preparation.

Would you talk about the Brahms, how it speaks to you and your approach?

Very simply, it’s one of my favorite pieces of music. The more I listen to it, the more I discover. It’s interesting

how things worked out this summer because I’m also doing three different Brahms chamber groups, which I didn’t plan out at all. I’ve recently grown to really love German Romantic music. It’s challenging for me as a young person, because it’s easy for me to be expressive in a very liberal way, but with this music you have to be simple and express things in a straightforward way. There’s no hiding. You’re exposed in playing music that requires such control. That was the challenge for me in this piece... I’m also looking forward to working with (James Gaffigan). The goal is for us to present the meaning of the music as it relates to both of us. It’s absolutely thrilling to play it with the orchestra.

I’ve heard all of their concerts, and they’re incredible musicians as well as great human beings.

You performed the Brahms piano quartet No. 3 in the masterclass with Leon Fleischer. What did you take away from that experience?

I am always inspired by how serious he is about music. He really commits his life to finding the meaning behind every note. We spent the entire class going through just the first two phrases, but in great detail. Having that attention to detail and commitment to the music is something that I hope to take away. As a solo pianist, I have a complete bird’s-eye view of the pieces I play, but with chamber music, I can never hear the piece cohesively, because the instruments face the other way. And I have to figure out what role I have at any given moment with the other instruments and parts, and then on top of that we have to blend our personalities and our vision. It’s tricky.

Going forward, what are your plans?

I want to continue performing as much as I can. I’m interested in teaching and coaching, basically just living a life in music. You can’t really plan life out when it comes to music. All of it sounds good to me. I just want to be playing as much as I can.

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

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

Walking the Waves

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cean sports. What do they encompass exactly? Surfing.

Water skiing. Paddle boarding, snorkeling, and SCUBA perhaps.

In every case, those activities generally require expensive equipment and a body ready to withstand more than a little tumbling around when the board, skis, or flippers find the business end of a crashing wave. And all are arguably sports for the young; what about the mid-lifers among us not quite land locked yet but reluctant to take the dive into these activities’ briny deep? Is there middle ground?

There is.

Just ask head instructor of Wave Walking classes Anne Brichet. A delightfully French import to our American Riviera, Anne has brought a sport that’s all the rage in France to California’s shores. Maybe “shore break” is a better term, since walking through the waves takes place in the ankle snappers and hip smackers, right where the water meets the beach.

“I love the mid-point aspect of wave walking,” Anne says. “You’re neither fully submerged nor completely dry.

Not part of the water – but not part of the land, either. You forget all your worries in this middle world, and all of a sudden, you’re viewing things differently. It’s not a sport,” she continues, “for people in their twenties, but when you start to get some pains a little later in life, it’s marvelous just to walk in the ocean, to get in the neg-

Walking the waves is a great way to experience low-impact cardiovascular exertion, suggests Anne Brichet (with backpack), a longtime wave walker

Anne Brichet invites all and sundry to join her in an hour-and-a-half wave walk at East Beach and Leadbetter Beach every Monday and Wednesday

ative ions.”

Ms Brichet claims that once a person tries wave walking, they’ll want to do it again. Anne’s relaxed, postclass demeanor lends credence to that claim, and my own novice participation convinces me as much. A veteran wave-walking leader, and life-long water baby, she adds that she and her entire family have guided folks in their pursuit of fitness through water resistance for years. “It’s good for the metabolism,” she adds, “and very good for the posture.”

Taking a jaunt in the waves requires little more from would-be walkers than a bathing suit, and motivation,

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since Anne has a wide selection of fulllength wetsuits, booties, and gloves on hand to ensure even the easily chilled stay comfortably warm. “The booties hold your ankles, and help you feel secure when you walk, the wetsuits reassure you that you won’t get cold, and the gloves are essential to the arm work we do,” she says, referring to the webbed structure of the gloves that best resemble ducks’ feet. “Wave walking,” she notes, “builds a special relationship between you and your body. The range of exercises makes you decide how you’re going to work with the currents at play.”

She’s right.

Through personal experience, I found myself flexing everything from leg muscles, to upper body, to stabilizing core muscles, as we walked through a range of modalities that include walking forward, backward, side-to-side, squats, running, and more. The arms weren’t idle, either, as Anne alternately instructed the class through a variety of circles and crawl strokes to bring total body fitness into the equation.

There’s more to walking in waves than just exercise.

“It mixes meditation with socializing in a most unique way,” Anne explains. “Maybe you come to class feeling a little down, but by the time you leave, you’re up. You feel this euphoria, and at the same time, you have people to share it with.” She goes

on to say she keeps classes intentionally small – no more than eight per group – in order to oversee each participant walking the mile-and-a-half distance diligently.

“I feel very relaxed,” walker Claus Gilles says in agreement, fairly beaming with bonhomie. “It’s the first time I ever did it, and it was a good surprise,” he adds. His partner, Lhoste Anais, is similarly refreshed. “The workout felt soft and deep. No impact at all, but I can tell I’ve worked hard.”

Suzanne Richiardone, a documentary producer for Animal Planet, PBS, and other notable networks, is just as pleased – for different reasons. “I have a back injury,” she reports, “so I can’t do high-impact cardiovascular work otherwise. It’s a great workout that doesn’t tax the body and a very enjoyable way to meet people. I feel rejuvenated.”

If you are seeking rejuvenation, walking the waves with like-minded people may be your ticket to a little extemporaneous euphoria.

Anne’s class meets at 11 am at East Beach or Leadbetter every Monday and Wednesday. Email info@walk thewave.net and be sure to cyber surf Walk the Wave’s website to read more about Anne’s mission statement. That’s a dot net, naturally, not a dot com – or better still, contact Ms Brichet directly via phone, at (310) 701-5101.

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On Entertainment

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

by Steven Libowitz

All for One, On the Verge on Stage

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n the Verge” was the name for the annual teen choreographers’ showcase sponsored by the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance for many years before the umbrella organization shifted to a different direction for that genre of arts.

Now, it’s the title for the On the Verge Summer Repertory Company, a theatrical program that brings actors, directors, writers, and crew together for an intense period of just under a month to create a thriving but temporary theatrical community producing premieres of works primarily created by female and LGBTQ writers. Season 2 of its annual summer festival begins Friday, August 5, and runs through Saturday, August 13, and will present four works, including the world premiere of These Walls by Olivia Khoshatefeh, Central Coast premieres of I’m Alive You Bastards and I Always Will Be by Roxie Perkins, and From White Plains by Michael Perlman, and a staged reading of Jason & Julia by Jenny Rachel Weiner.

Executive artistic director Kate Bergstrom, a Santa Barbara native who created the company last summer just before departing to pursue a master’s in a prestigious theater program at Brown University, has not only tapped into the vast pool of local creatives but also brought quite a few back with her from new connections back East.

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Island), and Los Angeles, as well as the PCPA crowd in Santa Maria,” she said recently. “We’re harvesting a crop of actors, writers, directors of all ages and experience to build the Santa Barbara community as an arts hub.”

To that end, On the Verge has also found a single space to workshop and produce all the plays this summer, as opposed to the multiple locations utilized last year. The Community Arts Workshop is serving as home base for the festival. “Last year, we learned so much about how we work with alternative spaces and how to best to focus our energies. Now, this year, having one space to do everything has let us think about bringing the words to life in performance quality with the actors as the primary source of the words.

We’re focusing how we can both stay in the playwright’s voice while illuminating it in ways she didn’t expect.”

Given the edginess of most of the material, the words will definitely matter more than anything. Bergstrom will direct These Walls find “professional cuddler” Marcy, who spends her life comforting others with the power of touch, seeking her own solace by taking refuge at a quiet museum exhibit where she meets an artist trying to find the root of connection who challenges her sense of relationship.

“There are really deep, meaningful undertones about what it means to experience pain and violence and get over it through touch, and what it means to be really present with another human being,” explained Bergstrom, who ran the drama department at Laguna Blanca and headed up Stripped Scripts before returning to school. “It’s a gorgeous, simple play about the many forms presence can take.”

She also directs I’m Alive..., which tells the story of Lang and Jak – young girls growing up in the desert – and their codependent relationship. .Events ensue that throw the pair into a wild descent that rips apart the elaborate myths they’ve constructed in

order to survive.

“It’s a mix of the movie Blue is the Warmest Color and something like (crime drama) The Place Beyond the Pines with violence, love, and rebellion. But it’s also very surreal like a Thomas Pynchon novel,” she said.

“It’s going to be a lot of fun for us because we’re staging it both outdoors and indoors.”

In From White Plains, directed by Josiah Davis, a friend from Brown, an emotional Academy Awards acceptance speech finds the star publicly denouncing the high school bully he believes drove his gay best friend to suicide, inspiring the screenplay for the award-winning film. “It’s a story about forgiveness that we’re doing in a small, claustrophobic space with projections. It’s poignant but also incredibly funny, like Harvey Milk meets a quick a witty David Mamet play,” Bergstrom said.

OTV returnee Jessica (Hambright) Ballonoff directs Jason & Julia, which is told through a series of snapshots exploring a millennial relationship, capturing young love through poetry, hyper-naturalism, and a snowstorm.

“It’s a déjà vu story about first love and what it means to go through joy and heartbreak,” said Bergstrom.

Several Montecito actors are involved in the productions, including Allison Lewis Towbes (Michael’s granddaughter), who studied at the Royal Academy, and Riley Berris, the village-raised theater major who now runs San Marcos High’s theater program.

If Santa Barbara seems like an unlikely location for a Williamstownlike repertory festival, given its small size and location only 90 miles from Hollywood and the L.A. theater district, Bergstrom said the community’s enthusiasm and talent level exceeds the demographics.

“We have the space and intellect and joy and sense of revelry, in both the natural world and the city vibe. That’s conducive to making art and building, cushioning, and nurturing creativity.

There’s a network of young and older artists who have so much to teach each other and exchange ideas about how theater is evolving. It’s great to take a break from whatever they think their normal lives are to be present, thinking about theater for almost a month.

“What is a more beautiful place to invite people to come and breathe into their work they will eventually share nationally than Santa Barbara?”

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On the Verge performs plays in repertory August 9-14 at The Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street. Admission is by donation at the door, or $5 for online reservation. For details, play dates and times, and reservations, visit www. onthevergefest.org.)

Heights in Lights

Jenikka Francine Nunag and Jesse Graham play love interests Vanessa and Usnavi, respectively, in the summer youth production of the Tony Awardwinning musical In the Heights

Elsewhere in theater, Rubicon’s summer youth intensive presents the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights, directed by Brian McDonald, from August 5 to 13. The 2008 show features music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor-composer-lyricist of Broadway’s current sensation Hamilton. An eightpiece orchestra with musical direction by Santa Barbara stalwart John Enrico Douglas accompanies the young actors on the story about home, and change is set in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, “where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.”

For more information, call 667-2900 or visit www.rubicontheatre.org.

Making Sense

PCPA’s mid-summer production is Sense and Sensibility, the journey of two sisters discovering the balance between rationalism and romanticism while finding their way to personal power and a real understanding of what love truly means. Jane Austen’s romantic comedy, adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan, plays at the Solvang Festival Theater from August 5 to 21.

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Mrs. Dashwood, Matt Koenig as Edward Ferrars, Polly Firestone Walker as Mrs. Ferrars, Kitty Balay as Mrs. Jennings, and Andrew Philpot as Colonel Brandon. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are played

by Shae Palic and Sierra Wells.

Call 922-8313 or visit www.pcpa.org for tickets and more information.

Playing in Ojai

The 19th season of the Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC), the highly acclaimed new play developmental program, brings new works by eight playwrights (Robert Askins, Jon Robin Baitz, Aziza Barnes, Bekah Brunstetter, David Jacobi, Kudzai Sevenzo, Kristina Wong, and Martin Zimmerman) to the mountain village, including two special events – “Across the Divide” and a reading of new musical about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Across the Divide is also the theme for the 2016 OPC, which aims to address polarizing issues and deeper divisions caused by racism, patriarchy, born-again theology, sexual identity, political demagoguery, gun violence, reality-TV culture, and civil rights in an effort to “create a community of understanding in a troubled world.”

The festival takes place August 7-14.

For details and reservations, visit www.ojaiplays.org.

KAIT Mongering

Los Angeles based composer-pianist Kait Dunton’s electro-acoustic group trioKAIT offers a fresh perspective to the classic jazz piano trio, calling on wide-ranging influences and Dunton’s innovative compositions to create a refreshingly modern take on instrumental music. Maybe that’s due

to years of both gigging and studying – Dunton holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she studied under pianist Alan Pasqua and composer Vince Mendoza. The trio’s eponymous album, released last July, was the most-added new jazz album on the JazzWeek charts and remained in the Top 20 for weeks and the Huffington Post included trioKAIT in their list of “The Best Jazz for 2015”. Now, we get to hear them “In the Garden Under the Oaks” as part of Solvang Festival Theater’s 2015 Sunday Jazz & Beyond series, 3 pm this Sunday, August 7, at Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, Solvang. Tickets cost $30. Call 686-1789 or visit www.solvangfestivaltheater.org/showinfo.

Bite the Bulletproof

Montecito-based chiropractor/healer Hesu Whitten presents “Healthiest Coffee? It’s NOT ‘Bulletproof!” at 6 pm this Thursday, August 4, at Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, Suite I. Quoting a 2015 study that shows 59 percent of Americans have at least a daily cup of coffee, Whitten wants us to be aware of the type of coffee we’re drinking, as evidence suggests that some coffees are much healthier than others.

Chemical fertilizers – at the rate of 250 pounds per acre – are sprayed on nonorganic coffee, he notes, while organic coffees are prone to mycotoxins. Ponder this: what if there was a brand of organic coffee, free of mycotoxins, that has the pH value of distilled water, and has nearly double the amount of antioxidants of goji berries? Whitten invites all to learn more, have a cup, and find out what kind of coffee this is.

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fashion spread in Santa Barbara Magazine’s 40th anniversary issue.

“They gave me creative control to book my own talent, and I chose my stylist friend, Jamie Schneider, to work on the whole shoot. The editorial was a mixture of dear friends.”

Carlos has also shot musician Tyga for Dujour Magazine, Nicole Richie’s clothing line company, and, a particular highlight, when he flew to London to photograph friends, Nicky Hilton Rothschild and husband, James, for their wedding last summer.

Carlos is recently back from the Tuscan city of Florence, photographing models for his burgeoning portfolio.

Zoom with a view, indeed.

Gwyneth’s Goop What will Goop be without the ever-present hand of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, our rarefied enclave’s newest celebrity resident?

The Oscar winner has decided to distance herself from the brand, telling a crowd at Chicago’s Sage Summit she feels her name could hold Goop back.

“My dream is that one day no one would remember that I have anything to do with it,” says Paltrow, the daughter of actress Blythe Danner.

“How can I separate myself from the brand? I think it’s going to be more its own brand.”

A friend says: “That’s not to say she isn’t fully committed and as excited as ever to build the company to that point.”

Stay tuned.

Czech Mates As the Music Academy of the West’s 69th annual summer festival moves into its final week, Czech composer Bedrich Smetana’s 19th-century, three-act comedic opera The Bartered Bridge was center stage at the Granada under conductor Matthew Aucoin and director David Paul, in his fifth summer at the Miraflores campus.

The colorful and entertaining production, which featured dancers from the State Street Ballet, followed last year’s Cinderella and 2014’s Carmen.

It was last produced by the academy in 1989.

Both scenic designer Charles Corcoran and costume designer Peiyi Wong did excellent jobs with a talented cast, including Brittany Nickell, Matthew Reardon, Ted Pickell, Andrew Dwan, Ricardo Garcia, and Emily Lezin, under voice program director Marilyn Horne.

The two weekend performances were dedicated to Michael and Anne Towbes, and Seymour and Shirley Lehrer.

Earlier in the week at the academy’s Hahn Hall, it was time for Haydn, Brahms, and Schubert to shine in a

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which guests encountered iconic characters from Greek and Roman mythology, among them Artemis, Bacchus – wearing a headdress of grape expectations – Apollo, Aphrodite, Zeus, Hermes, the first version of he-mail, a selection of tree nymphs, whose bark was definitely worse than their bite, and even four narcissists, making a splash admiring their reflections in the Lotus Water Garden.

In keeping with the theme, executive director Gwen Stauffer described the weather as “hot as Hades.”

Eliza Osborne put her gavel to good use auctioning off a Feast for the Gods, an instant wine cellar, antique coral bracelets from founder Ganna Walska’s jewelry collection and a oneof-a-kind 22 karat gold and diamond ancient Greek medallion pendant from Coast Village Road bling king Daniel Gibbings.

Among those quaffing the Summerland and Margerum wines while digging into the duo catered dinner on the main lawn were Allen and Anne Sides, Sara Miller McCune, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Randy and Roxanne Solakian, Doug and Marni Margerum, Penny Bianchi, Victoria Hines, Paul and Jane Orfalea, Palmer and Susan Jackson, Christopher Toomey, Corinna Gordon, Tim and Monica Babich, and Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman.

David Paul directed The Bartered Bride at Granada

delightful Chamberfest concert with a heavenly host of wonderful performers, including pianists Warren Jones and Yijia Wang, violists Erin Pitt and Richard O’Neill, violinists Kevin Chen, Kathleen Winkler, Rebecca Reale, and Gabriela Mariel PenaKim, and cellists David Geber, Max Oppeltz, and Songhee Lee. A superb evening.

Perry Gets Political Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry brought her British actor boyfriend Orlando Bloom to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention last week.

The former Dos Pueblos High student and Lord of the Rings star were seen together at the political extravaganza, where Perry performed.

Following her performance, the lovebirds were caught on camera watching intently as Hillary Clinton delivered her address to accept the nomination of president.

The songstress was still clad in the skintight, sequined Michael Kors gown she wore on stage.

The twosome were first linked at a Golden Globes after--party. Besides Philadelphia, stops on their romance tour since then include Hawaii, Cannes, and New York.

Orchestral Maneuvers As Santa Barbara Symphony director David Pratt prepares to return to the antipodes after two years in our Eden by the Beach to take over as director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane, as I exclusively revealed here, a new interim executive director, Santa Barbara-born Kathryn Martin, has been appointed as of this week.

Kathryn, a classically trained violist, is a leadership and transition specialist, beginning her illustrious 25-yearplus career as artistic administrator of the San Diego Symphony. She was later named managing director of the La Jolla Music Society.

As vice president of Arts Consulting

Kathryn Martin, SB Symphony’s new interim executive director

Group from 2003 to 2015, Kathryn worked for more than 100 arts and cultural organizations, and served as interim executive director on numerous occasions.

Most recently, she served as interim president and CEO of the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin, and as interim executive director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas.

A frequent author and guest speaker, Kathryn is a resident of San Diego and serves on the board of directors for the Association of California Symphony Orchestras.

“I can’t wait to experience the performances!” she gushes.

Gods in the Garden Lotusland, the 37-acre Montecito estate that is one of the world’s most famous gardens, was even more heavenly when it threw its annual gala with the theme Gods & Goddesses, attracting a sellout crowd of 500 creatively garbed guests and raising $600,000 for the organization’s many programs.

The exotic bash, chaired by Jennie Grube, Crystal Wyatt, Belle Hahn Cohen, and Rachel Wryan, during

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Wild Life Montecito realtors Peggy Wiley and Wilson Quarre opened the doors of their ocean view aerie for a Safari Sundowner joint 65th birthday bash with 130 jungle-jamming guests and myriad animal decorations donated

by Santa Barbara Zoo, of which Peggy is a board member.

The theme was appropriate, given the peripatetic pair enjoy nothing more than jetting off on safari, having included Namibia, Botswana, and Kenya as destinations in recent years.

“Anything to do with animals, I’m

Bob Williams, Miyako and Bernie Storrh, Carolyn Williams, with chef Pete Clements serving his panna flatbread, and African zatar spiced skewered filet from Clements Catering (photo by Priscilla)

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OSD Diamond sponsor Union Bank table hosts El Presidente JC Gordon and Prima Dama Jamie surrounded by Father Larry Gosselin, Christine Garvey, Colleen and Vince Caballero, John Corby, Maria McCall, Marcia and Tom Reed, Debra Papageorge and Dirk Brandts (photo by Priscilla)

Hiroko Benko, hosts Wilson Quarre and Peggy Wiley; Kia McInerny, Gary Kuist, Mark and Deborah Danielson (photo by Priscilla)

Safari zebra observing Stacey and Luke Swetland, Pat Hinds, Mimi Rogers, Starr Siegele, and Larry Feinberg (photo by Priscilla)

Arriving are Brian King, Leslie RIdleyTree, Rich and Tracy Pfautch Block (photo

by Priscilla)

Kia McInerny and Lynn Kirst ready to show Christine Dahl’s creative cake to Safari guests (photo by Priscilla)

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hooked!” laughed Peggy, as she navigated around the terrace tables decorated in myriad wild animal prints, which were also sported by a number of creative guests, including the Journal’s bridle correspondent Lynn Kirst.

Others getting into the safari scene, while quaffing South African wines and noshing on copious canapés, were Leslie Ridley-Tree, zoo honcho Rich Block, Hiroko Benko, Natural History Museum chief Luke Swetland, Bob and Val Montgomery, Pat Hinds, Brian King, Caroline Thompson, Dream Foundation founder Thomas Rollerson – dashingly attired in a cheetah print robe – and art museum executive Larry Feinberg and wife, Starr Siegele.

Party animals all.

“Alegrias” is beautifully performed by Santa Barbara’s Old Spanish Days “Spirit of Fiesta” Alexis Simentales; Misuda Cohen, Daniela Zermeno doing the “Palmas”; singing is Jesus Montoya; Jose Tanaka playing guitar and Samuel Flores, percussion (photo by Priscilla)

The Immaculate Recepcion The rotunda at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree was socially gridlocked when the sold-out La Recepcion del Presidente kicked off the popular annual fiesta week with 575 colorfully costumed guests welcomed by El Presidente J.C. Gordon.

KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri acted as host and former spirits and junior spirits entertained en masse.

Among those at the bustling bash were Cas Stimson, David Bolton, Denise Sanford, Jim Wilcox, Joe and Marty Blum, mayor Helene Schneider, Peter and Gerd Jordano, Craig Case, Donna Long, Larry Gosselin, Justin Fareed, Jean-Michel Cousteau, and KEYT anchor Beth Farnsworth.

A Tip of the Cap In celebration of the Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open, the biggest tournament on the Left Coast, the Santa Barbara Polo Club is throwing another hat contest, with yours truly as judge on Sunday, August 14.

Dig out your toniest tête toppers and get ready for your close-ups.

And, of course, turbans will be de rigueur this week when the 18-yearold Maharaja of Jaipur and his team play on Saturday at 2 pm against a club team of Jonathan Burrows, Joseph Stuart, Marcos Llambias and Pat Nesbitt, accompanied by a packed social scheduled hosted by Glen

In school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. – Ronda Rousey

Prominently in front of the coastal water are Santa Barbara’s Old Spanish Days first family, Prima Dama Jamie; Avianna, Olivia, and El Presidente JC Gordon (photo by Priscilla)

Enjoying the popularity of El Presidente at the Fess Parker’s DoubleTree resort are Nancy Marr and El Desfile Historical honorary grand marshal Jean-Michel Cousteau (photo by Priscilla)

and Gloria Holden, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Richard and Annette Caleel, and Beverley Jackson.

Sightings: Don Johnson and wife, Kelley Phleger, noshing at Trattoria Mollie...Mireille Noone and daughter Natalie, visiting from Nashville, at Pierre Lafond...Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres masticating at Lucky’s Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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

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Spirituality Matters

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

Freedom of Mind, Free of Cost

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wo free events, plus a deep dive into writing from a meditation-induced state, highlight the week’s offerings at La Casa de Maria and the Center for Spiritual Renewal.

“Writing Yourself Home: Integrating Meditation with Creativity” – co-led

by Kimberley Snow, PhD, and Jinny Webber, PhD – takes place this weekend. The workshop delves into combining meditation with the writing process, a formula that can increase creativity, bypass blockages, and deepen insight. The retreat workshop focuses on memoir and personal history, but the techniques presented can also be applied to fiction, poetry, and plays. Participants will experience writing to prompts, teachings, small group discussions, and optional sharing, as well as meditations designed to cultivate focus and open the heartmind.

Both beginning and seasoned writers and meditators of all levels are welcome. Bring a notebook or laptop.

Snow is an author who leads dharma talks and teaches meditation, while Webber is a novelist, playwright, and lecturer in literature; both also lead writing groups.

The workshop takes place beginning at 7:30 pm Friday and ends at 1 pm on Sunday. The fee is $295, or $100 more if you want to stay on site in residence.

Tuesday, August 9, brings La Casa’s 22nd annual Sadako Peace Day Ceremony, slated to coincide with the 71st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Held in the beautiful Sadako Peace Garden, the event covers the sharing of music, poetry, and reflections as we continue to work for peace in our time and in our world. Co-sponsored with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. The free event takes place from 6 to 7 pm.

La Casa’s monthly Wednesday Retreat Day takes place on Wednesday, August 10, and features The Hieroglyph of the Human Soul: Archetypal Foundations in

Fiesta Finale Sunday, August 7 El Paseo Restaurant Join us as once again we “bring art to life” and a tableau of musicians and dancers comes alive! Enjoy fabulous cuisine, lively music and dancing - all while raising funds for scholarships.

Art. Co-led by Dr. Matthew Bennett and Leigh McCloskey, the retreat encompasses a guided tour of archetypal representations of personality through art, a mythic and psychological journey toward emotional completeness. Through visual and lecture presentations referencing ancient mythological narratives, group discussion, and meaningful interaction with Leigh’s evocative paintings, the day will provide a map of human emotional experience. Dr. Bennett is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and lecturer in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Pacifica Graduate Institute. McCloskey is an author, actor, artist, and visual philosopher who writes and lectures extensively on holographic art and visual philosophy. The event takes place 9:30 am to 3:30 pm and admission is free, though donations are appreciated. Lunch is available for $14 with advance registration.

La Case de Maria is located at 800 El Bosque Road in Montecito. Call 969-5031 or visit www.lacasademaria. org.

Guiding Light

The next in a periodic series of guided meditation sessions from Hansavedas Sangha takes place Saturday at 6 pm at Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 East Arrellaga St. All are invited to experience wisdom teachings, pranayama breath-work, mantra chanting, devotional singing, blessings (darshan), and blissful meditation. The fellowship and guided meditation will be led by Himalayan monk His Holiness Swami Vidyadhishananda. Entrance is free. For details and to register, visit www.meetup.com/hansave das/events/232923824.

Silence is Golden

Also at the same location, the ongoing Meditation Practice at Unity Chapel continues every Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 6:30 to 8 am, when all are welcome to join host Ken Cohen to the practice of zazen or any other form of silent sitting.

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Soup’s on

Yoga Soup is the venue for Music of the Doshas this Saturday night from 8 to 10 pm. The event features an intimate recital of music and spoken word for healing, meditation, and well-being based on the ayurvedic energetics of the three doshas. Learn about each dosha – vata, pitta, and kapha – and then feel and experience them with music, sounds, and words. Presenters include composer and oud player Yuval Ron; Kenneth Goff playing gongs, harmonium, and djembe; and Vaidya Khabir Southwick, a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist (CCS), Master Herbalist (MH), and Naturopath.

Ron is a world-renowned musician, composer, educator, peace activist, and record producer who composed the music for the Oscarwinning film West Bank Story. He has performed for the Dalai Lama and collaborated with the Sufi leader Pir Zia Inayat Khan, master musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Zen Buddhist priest and visual artist Hirokazu Kosaka, and neuroscientists Mark Robert Waldman and Andrew Newburg. Check out his music and more online at www. yuvalronmusic.com, watch a clip of Music of the Doshas at www.youtube.com, see a concert film of the Seven Pillars Inter-faith Concert by Yuval Ron Ensemble and guests at www.vimeo.com/84613445, and/or learn more about Ron’s new book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom at www.TheOracleInstitute. org/DivineAttunement.

Admission is $20 in advance or $25 day of/at the door. Yoga Soup is located at 28 Parker Way behind Santa Barbara Coffee Roasters. Call 965-8811 or visit www.yogasoup. com.

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Your Westmont

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

Notable Professors Join Faculty

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our distinguished tenure-track professors join Westmont’s faculty this fall: Elizabeth Gardner (communication studies), Carmen McCain (English), Jonathan Mitchell (physics), and Serah Shani (anthropology).

Gardner, a graduate of Houghton College, earned a master’s and doctorate at the University of Maryland, where she has also taught several classes in public speaking, rhetorical theory, argumentation, and oral communication. In 2014, she received the National Communication Association’s Bensen-Campbell Dissertation Research Award. She has been the managing director of the oral communication program at the University of Maryland since 2013.

During the spring of 2015, Gardner consulted for the American Studies Program in Washington, D.C., which she attended as an undergraduate.

Her current research focuses on social change and the rhetorical construction of childhood. Her dissertation examined the use of argument in the child labor reform movement of the early 1900s.

McCain, a former senior lecturer in the English department and the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Kwara State University in Nigeria, will develop Westmont’s Anglophone literature curriculum, especially the literature of the “global south,” which includes Africa, Latin America, and developing Asia including the Middle East.

McCain graduated from Messiah College and completed a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the Department of African Languages and Literature.

Her current research focuses on postcolonial literature, film, and popular culture in Africa. She has a special interest in Nigerian Hausa-language cinema and the translation of Hausa texts into English. At Kwara State, she led the new Centre for Nollywood Studies, an institute devoted to analyzing Nigerian film. Carmen has been exploring responses in literature, film, and music to the Boko Haram insurgency. She also worked with her brother, Dan, on a movie title Nowhere to Run, which examined environmental degradation in Nigeria due to climate change and reckless oil production.

Mitchell ’00, a Westmont alumnus who earned a master’s degree and doctorate in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago,

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was a tenured professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA. He has been an Einstein Fellow and a W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. His primary research interest is understanding planetary phenomena, including surface-atmosphere interactions on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. He is also interested in super-rotating atmospheres, tidal interactions of synchronous satellites, and Earth’s paleoclimate. Jonathan has been the recipient of grants from NASA and has served on a NASA review panel.

Shani, who earned a doctorate from Columbia University, was a visiting professor at Eastern University. She holds three master’s degrees: sociology of health and medicine from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, international and transcultural studies from Columbia, and anthropology and education from Columbia. A native of Kenya, she completed her undergraduate degree at Daystar University, concentrating on community development and music. She speaks five languages: English, Swahili, Maasai, Kisii, and Kikuyu. She is conducting research on African-immigrant parents and schooling in the United States, focusing on Ghanaians in New York City, which will be the subject of a forthcoming book from the University of Minnesota Press.

Shani has lectured and taught at Yale, Southern Connecticut State, Cornell, and Columbia. Her presentations have explored many topics, including Islam, parenting, African diaspora, and water, sanitation, and health concerns. “My research interests lie broadly in exploring the social life of cities,” she says, “and more particularly the informal and innovative strategies by which different ethnic and racial urban residents claim their rights to the city. My current research looks at urban migration, transnational movements, identities, and the sociocultural economic adaptation for recent African immigrants to the United States.”

Exhibit Features Uyesaka’s Long Story Short

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum opens the fall season with a diverse collection of art objects and images by third generation Japanese-American Dug Uyesaka October 20 to January

Dug Uyesaka’s “Smoke”

Dug Uyesaka’s “Guided by Voices II”

14 in the museum. A free, opening reception for Dug Uyesaka: Long Story Short is Thursday, October 20, from 4 to 6 pm in the museum.

Uyesaka enrolled at UC Santa Barbara in 1975 and was mentored by art faculty William Dole, Howard Fenton, Bob Thomas, and Richard Ross.

“He is such an integral part of Santa Barbara’s art scene,” says Judy Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor of art history and museum director.

“He is a UCSB art graduate; a frequent exhibitor at art exhibitions around town; and an art teacher at Laguna Blanca School. Our mid-career retrospective of Dug’s work will showcase his amazing oeuvre — from prints to paintings and drawings, from collage to assemblage.”

Uyesaka was born after World War II, but recalls stories of his immigrant Japanese grandparents who were interned in Arizona and Arkansas. As a baby-boomer, he was influenced by the popular culture of the 1960s, especially television and comics.

“Dug often uses humor to snag the attention of the viewer,” Larson says.

“But once we are drawn in, the deeper meanings and messages of his works captivate our attention. The works are simple and clean, yet thoughtful and provocative.”

“Uyesaka embraces change in all of its forms in a variety of media, but principally through the juxtaposition of found objects in sculpture,” says art critic Charles Donelan. “Uyesaka grasps and preserves images of transition.”

“Uyesaka is beloved in Santa Barbara,” says former Westmont art

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Dug Uyesaka’s “Untitled, No. 1 of 8” is drypoint on plexiglass

professor Tony Askew. “This exhibition will be recognition of him as an educator, artist, and community friend.”

The exhibition is sponsored by Michael and Nancy Gifford and Dana White with support from Susan E. Bower, Diane Dodds, and David Reichert, Amanda McIntyre, Nyla and Henry Rasmussen, Dennis and Susan Savage, Marie Schoeff, Dane Goodman, Bob and Chris Emmons, Frank and Josephine Tripi, Middleton and Carol Squier, Ronald and Terry Foil, Perri V. Harcourt, Brandon and Karishma Gattis, Clay Tedeschi, and Susan Jørgensen and Alice Gillaroo.

Beginning August 31, the museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holidays. For more information, please visit www.westmontmu seum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162.

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Oak Tree Removal on East Valley Road

Last week, we received a tip from a reader who was concerned that several oak trees located in a protected oak grove on the eastern portion of East Valley Road were being cut down. We found out that the tree removal is currently under investigation by the County of Santa Barbara’s Zoning Enforcement Department, who have sent a letter to the property owner to determine if the removal, which was not permitted, required a permit.

The area in question is considered an environmentally sensitive habitat, according to planner Petra Leyva, who told us a site visit to determine exactly what is going on is in the works in the coming weeks. “We need to coordinate with the property owner in order to access the property,” she said.

“There are some instances when oaks can be cut down if they are dead or if they are in defensible space, and that is what we are trying to determine,” Leyva said.

Once additional information becomes available, we’ll have more about it in an upcoming edition.

Friendship Center Updates

takes place in the center’s courtyard.

“We want the community to know we are here, and to learn about what services we offer,” Sutton said. Programs include “Connections”, for those in early stages of memory loss, and “Brain Fitness for Successful Aging”, a six-week series open to anyone in the community wanting to take proactive steps to keep their memory and brain functions sharp. The center also offers one-day lectures and workshops, including an upcoming “Money Matters” evening (September 29) that aims to help older adults and their families learn about available resources and how to navigate legal and financial issues through the aging process.

Last week the center, which is a nonprofit run by a dedicated staff and governed by a board of directors, welcomed new and returning board members for the next year. They include Lynda Fairly, who has served on many non-profit boards, including CADA, PathPoint, Catholic Charities, and the Center for Successful Aging.

She currently serves on the boards of Parkinson’s Association, MOXI, and the Carpinteria Arts Center.

Dana VanderMey rejoins Friendship Center’s Board of Directors after serving from 2009-15, holding the offices of secretary, vice president, and in 2014-15, president.

The 2016-17 executive officers are Kathy Marden, president, Pat Forgey, vice president, Pamela Vander Heide, secretary, Jacqueline Duran, chief financial officer, and Sue Adams, member-at-large. “Without their volunteer service, we could not do what we do on a daily basis,” said Sutton.

For more information, visit www. friendshipcentersb.org.

Newly elected Pearl Chase Society Board president Steve Dowty

Erik Davis, Pearl Chase Society’s newly elected board VP

serves as division chief of External Relations & Public Relations chair for Old Spanish Days. Erik is the board member most involved with the Society’s public relations and Internet presence.

During the annual meeting, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum executive director Greg Gorga gave an entertaining slide presentation, “Tragedy at Honda: The Largest Naval Disaster During Peacetime in US History,” after board members discussed the society’s ongoing efforts, as well as its recent Historic Homes Tour, which

took place in Montecito and Santa Barbara in May. Re-elected to the board of directors were former mayor Marty Blum, Steve Crozier, Kellam de Forest, Dale Francisco, Patricia Mitchell, and Kitty Peri. Newly elected to the board was Christine Hoehner.

The Pearl Chase Society is an all-volunteer, not-for-profit conservancy dedicated to preserving Santa Barbara’s historic architecture, landscapes, and cultural heritage. For more information, visit www.pearl chasesociety.org.

•MJ

Pearl Chase Society Elects New Board Officers

Lynda Fairly, Friendship Center’s newest board member

This year marks 40 years in business for Friendship Center, Montecito’s nonprofit, adult day care center on Eucalyptus Lane. In addition to adult day services for aging and dependent grown-ups with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease, the Center provides a variety of activity-based programs that are open to anyone in the community, according to development coordinator Justine Sutton.

On Friday, August 12, anyone interested in learning more about the center can attend a Lunch & Learn with executive director Heidi Holly that 4 – 11 August 2016

The Pearl Chase Society, formed in the 1990s to preserve its namesake’s vision for historic Santa Barbara, recently elected new board members and officers during its annual board meeting in July, which took place at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.

Elected president was Steve Dowty, principal architect with KBZ Architects, Inc., where he has received local and statewide awards for architectural design. Steve was a member of the Hope Ranch Homeowners Association Board of Architectural Review for more than 10 years and will be leading the society’s effort in support of the Franceschi House. He recently served as the society’s vice president.

Erik Davis, senior director of Marketing and Communications for Pacifica Graduate Institute, was elected board vice president. He also The smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. – Garth Brooks

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for:

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There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

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.

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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chris Grant, PT; SB Home PT, 498 Cool Brook Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. Santa Barbara Home Physical Therapy, PC, 498 Cool Brook Lane, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 22, 2016. 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 Alejandro Torres. FBN No. 2016-0002140. Published August 3, 10, 17, 24, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPC Kitchen, 907 Roble Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Johnny Weber, 907 Roble Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2016. 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. 2016-0002103. Published August 3, 10, 17, 24, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Container Concepts, 2027 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. RLF Innovations, LLC, 2027 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 14, 2016. 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

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statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2016-0002062. Published August 3, 10, 17, 24, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IwellaInternational Wellness Association, PO Box 5263, Montecito, CA 93150. Miro Tinka, 269 1/2 Oak Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 20, 2016. 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. FBN No. 2016-0002118. Published July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 99 Spa, 5733 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117.

Yin Shu Cui, 5733 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 5, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001973. Published July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Animal Farm; Jumper Away, 432 Por La Mar Dr. #9, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Chad Sands, 432 Por La Mar Dr. #9, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 12, 2016. This statement expires

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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. 2016-0002043. Published July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPC Kitchen, 907 Roble Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Johnny Weber, 907 Roble Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2016. 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. 2016-0002103. Published July 27, August 3, 10, 17, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A & A RX Orthotics, 545 El Bosque Road Unit H, Montecito CA 93108.

Dream Up Tomorrow, 545 El Bosque Road Unit H, Montecito CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 12, 2016. 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. 2016-0002034. Published July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shinrin Yoku Walks, 234 Ocean View Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013. Julie Loretta Hall, 234 Ocean View

Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 6, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001974. Published July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Feminist Party, 388 Bell Street, Los Alamos, CA 93440. Sonja Magdevski, 535 Perkins St. Apt A, Los Alamos, CA 93440.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001994. Published July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hilton Garden Inn Santa Barbara/Goleta, 6878 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117. Goleta HHG Hotel, LLC, 105 Decker Court, Suite 500, Irving, TX 75062.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 22, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001849. Published July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2016.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Riviera Press, 1011 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Jude Bijou, 1011 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 11, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0002028. Published July 20, 27, August 3, 10, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission Group Architects, 1230 ‘H’ Coast Village Cir, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Richard E. Johnson, 1230 ‘H’ Coast Village Cir, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 27, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001907. Published July 13, 20, 27, August 3, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02999. To all interested parties: Petitioner Bruce Eric Hahn filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Harley Hahn. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed July 15, 2016 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: September 21, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 7/27, 8/3, 8/10, 8/17

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cali Girl Cooking, 2626A Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Robin Marie Terry, 2626A Calle Real, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2016. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2016-0001918. Published July 13, 20, 27, August 3, 2016.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02490. To all interested parties: Petitioner Stephany Valladares filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Miguel Angel Rios to Miguel Angel Valladares. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 17, 2016 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 10, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 7/13, 7/20, 7/27, 8/3

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02994. To all interested parties: Petitioner Marc Aldo Philip Iacobucci filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Marc Philip Aldo. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed July 15, 2016 by Narzralli Baksh. Hearing date: September 21, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 8/3, 8/10, 8/17, 8/24

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 16CV02463. To all interested parties: Petitioner Alexandra Barton Spurr filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Alexandra Barton Summers. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed June 21, 2016

by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 31, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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ones who “shouldn’t have a gun”?

Is she referring to the over-drugged loonies that go off the deep end occasionally, or the cops who are increasing their kill ratio at an alarming rate?

It’s no secret that Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is anti-gun. Back in the 1990s, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, instituted an assault weapons ban, and Hillary will likely do the same if she assumes office. However, as we know, Americans are passionate about their Second Amendment rights. More and more states are adopting Constitutional Carry, and even Washington, D.C. – a place that’s notoriously anti-gun – is fighting back against unconstitutional gun laws. So the question for liberals becomes: how do we get the public to support anti-gun measures? Easy, says Clinton delegate Mary Bayer. You just trick them: “If your goal is an outright gun ban, you need to use terms such as ‘common sense gun legislation’ to fool the public.”

Democrats use “moderate” language when it comes to guns to obscure their true purpose, which is a complete elimination of the Second Amendment. “You have to take that sort of moderate ‘We just want to have common sense legislation so our children are safe!’” Bayer told the reporter, adding, “You say [crap] like that, and then people will buy into it. Bayer also admitted Hillary “for sure” would support banning guns and said the only way to actualize that goal would be to “get Democrats in office.” Bayer made her shocking admission to an undercover Project Veritas reporter at the Democratic National Convention.

Benjamin Franklin famously observed, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Only absolute fools would give up their weapons. Before the advent of firearms during the EnglishFrench wars, the French would cut the fingers off of the English archers, essentially disarming them and just let them go, as they knew they were no longer a threat.

Remember, it was Bill Clinton’s administration that gave us Waco, where the FBI slaughtered 85 American women and children to “save” them; there are sources that claim Hillary was the impetus behind the massacre. If you’re asking is Donald Trump going to be any better? I have absolutely no idea, but it’s hard to see how he could be any worse.

Larry Bond Santa Barbara

Highlight of the Week

Thank you for the Montecito Journal and especially reporter Richard Mineards. His writing is just superb, and he has such a special knack of 4 – 11 August 2016

description. His coverage of the crew of the Condor Express is especially appreciated. Always complimentary and accommodating. Your publication is a highlight of the week, and I always look forward to Richard’s column.

Thank you, Richard Slade Santa Barbara

Editorial Re-Think in Order

I happened on an important discussion by the teacher Jane Elliott. Ms Elliott teaches a class on race to all who will attend.

Recently, she made some profound statements on Facebook. She said, “African-Americans are discriminated against before they leave their homes.”

I then read the article written by associate editor Bob Hazard (“The War On Law Enforcement” MJ #22/29).

I realized after reading Mr. Hazard’s piece that I am being discriminated against, just like Ms Elliott describes.

I would like Mr. Hazard to make an apology to every African-American person in Santa Barbara County. I am asking for an apology for the following reasons: 1) I am an African-American resident of Santa Barbara; 2) I am a woman; 3) My father is a product of a single-parent home; 4) My father was present in my life until his death in 2012 (at age 80); 5) My parents raised six children in Santa Barbara County; 6) All their children are high school grads; 7) None of their children got pregnant or got someone pregnant out of wedlock; 8) None of their children take or sell drugs, sex, or any paraphernalia; 9) Two of their sons are veterans; 10) I am a U.S. Navy veteran; 11) Their first daughter became the first African-American female sheriff in Santa Barbara County during the 1970s; 12) None of their children are “hopeless and in a cycle of violence”; 13) None of their children received an inferior education; all received Department of Defense (DOD) education, three to four Air Force bases; 14) None of their grandchildren receive welfare payments for food, housing, or medicine; 15) All their grandchildren have their fathers in their lives; 16) After my mother died (in 1988), our family suffered, but did not break down; 17) My dad remarried and assisted his new wife in getting her minor children to adulthood; 18) None of their children have

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criminal records; none were involved in gangs growing up; 19) Two of their children have multiple degrees; and 20) One would like to start her own business as an artist of many genres (that’s me!).

Mr. Hazard’s editorial is either a call to arms directly or it is an indirect notvery-well-thought-out insult to those African-Americans who do not fit the description Mr. Hazard deemed necessary to substantiate his “claims.”

In this day and times, words have tremendous weight. In fact, it has been said, that “It is not what people do that starts war, it is what people say...”

If it is Mr. Hazard’s intent to start his own race war, editorials such as he posted can do it. Is it the AfricanAmericans who live in our county responsible for the officers who were slain recently?

Am I responsible for Ms Kalyn Chapman James’s comment? Do you really believe she speaks for all the BLM (Black Lives Matter) protestors?

Someone said, you cannot under-

My professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have toward the people they create things for. – Eric Carle

stand BLM or systemic police racism in African-American communities because you are not an AfricanAmerican.

Instead of understanding, you choose to bring out stats and percentages, as if those numbers justify the human condition. How can “all solutions begin with an agreement on facts,” when all your facts are not credible?

Your editorial is biased, and the public did not need your anger thrust at them in this way. For the sake of civility in our region, please retract, rethink, and most of all re-editorialize yourself.

Sharon Robinson Santa Barbara (Bob Hazard responds: Thank you for your thoughtful letter. Your positive support system has obviously helped you and your family to succeed in a set of accomplishments achieved not by the color of your skin, but through the content of your character. Even you must condemn a black shooter ambushing five white (and some-

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times black or Hispanic) police officers, especially when they are actively engaged in protecting the right of Black Lives Matter protesters to exercise their right of free speech. Your call for legitimate black rage over systematic police racism in Afro-American communities was also noted by both of us.

My suggestion that urban ghettos in Detroit, Chicago, Newark, Baltimore, or South L.A. with high rates of crime and violence against other blacks may be related to the unfortunate increase in fatherless families in the black inner-city communities, is not a sufficient reason to label me as a racist who insults AfroAmericans; a man who is an incendiary hate-monger who wants to start a race war, and as a man who needs to apologize to every African-American in Santa Barbara County.

You are right. White fear of being branded as a racist stops positive efforts to identify and solve the real problems of inner city poverty – too much violence, higher crime rates, excessive teenage unemployment, sub-standard schools, excessive drug use, and demoralized youth. More money has not solved these problems.

Surely shooting innocent law enforcement officers is not a sensible solution, nor is greater police brutality.

I long for the day when there are no more hyphenated Americans: no native-Americans, no African-Americans, just Americans. Meanwhile, solving problems

always begins by recognizing unpleasant realities, and then doing something about them.)

Not “Half” but “Twice”

The article entitled “Channel Drive Appeal Granted” (Village Beat, MJ #22/30) stated that the second story of the new proposed dwelling was half the size of the existing second story.

In fact, the proposed second story is twice the size of what exists, and will further block mountain views from Channel Drive.

The artful photographs presented by the appellants did not show accurately what was voted on by the board in granting the appeal. I wonder how many of the board had actually seen the proposed project site.

I understand an appeal to the Coastal Commission will be filed.

Ned Quackenbush Montecito

Going to Carp

Thanks for having Steven Libowitz give me a call about my reading production last weekend and for the great article. He did a fantastic piece on my show Kiddo and Patty Hearst, as it sold out both at 2 and almost did at 6 pm!

It will now be a full play production in Carpinteria in 2017, and others have

called me.

People loved the nostalgia, the music, and how much they could relate to a teen coming of age in the ‘70s.

Claudia Hoag McGarry Santa Barbara

Stating the Facts

Most of the press has again twisted what Trump said about Hillary’s emails. He said: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’ll be able to find the 30,000 missing emails.”

Fact: Hillary claimed the deleted 32,000 emails were of a personal nature and had no national security value! She dumped them for her own “security” reasons.

Fact: The server the emails were on no longer exists. It cannot be hacked.

It ain’t there no more.

Fact: Trump said nothing about hacking any server, anywhere. He simply stated that he hoped Russia could find the missing “personal” deleted emails. Nothing more, nothing less.

Fact: Had any American as high up in government done what Hillary did by placing our present and future national security at risk on a private and insecure personal server, they would have gone to prison.

Much of what so-called “journalists” write today belongs on the

Editorial page. It is certainly not factual news. They should be ashamed of themselves for making editorial comments and opinions and turning them into “facts.”

Hillary has not had a press conference in over eight months. Now, she has something to hide.

FBI director Comey said yesterday: Islamic terrorism is the “greatest threat to the physical safety of Americans today.”

You all saw the entire convention and you were there. Every speaker, including President Obama and probably Hillary, have apparently never even heard of Islamic terrorism. They never mentioned it. It doesn’t exist.

Also, according to Director Comey, as to Islamic terrorism in our country, in so many words: We ain’t seen nothin’ yet! The dark terrorism future the press condemns Trump for talking about is echoed by Comey. Is he also a doomsayer?

I have been on air for over 20 years and if I twisted the facts that way, I would have been forced off the air long ago!

Most “reporters,” unless they can report honestly, need to find another line of work.

Ernest Salomon Santa Barbara •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)

ENDING THIS WEEK Fiesta – Santa Barbara’s annual Old Spanish Days celebration hits the heart of the five-day festival with a wide swath of events. At the ever-popular Mercado de la Guerra, you can stroll through a colorful Mexican market in the plaza across from City Hall to feast on Spanish and MexicanAmerican foods, shop for crafts and souvenirs, and enjoy live entertainment with dance performers all day and music in the early evening, including La Boheme and Heart and Soul on Thursday, Teen Star singers & dancers and The New Vibe on Friday, and Martinez Brothers and The L.A. Impromptu Orchestra on Saturday night. It’s more family-oriented fun at Mercado Del Norte in Mackenzie Park at the corner of State Street and Las Positas Street, where a mini-carnival keeps the kids entertained while all can groove to the likes of The Academy and RedFish on Thursday, The Caverns, Spencer The Gardener, La Boheme and Area 51 on Friday night, and Cornerstone, Upbeat, La Boheme, and Anthony Prieto on Saturday; Paseo Nuevo as they celebrate Old Spanish Day’s Fiesta with Flamenco dance performances and live music in Center Court all week long. Also,

Las Noches de Ronda, “Nights of Gaiety” is held in the famous Sunken Gardens of the beautiful Santa Barbara County Courthouse, with a full slate of dancers, singers, and more every evening ThursdaySaturday. That’s also the site for Sunday’s 50th annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta Concert under the Great Arch at 4 pm following West Coast Ballet’s performance on the Sunken Gardens’ Noches de Ronda stage at 3:30. Christopher Story VI and Dr. Michael Shasberger will conduct the West Coast Symphony Orchestra in a program of orchestral music with a Spanish flair including RimskyKorsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol; Pirates of the Caribbean; Suites No.’s 1 and 2 from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, including Les Toréadors and Dance Bohème; and the Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2.

And that’s just the free events! Be sure to check the website for rodeo, dignatarios, VIP parade viewing and more, plus up-todate schedules at all locations. INFO: 9628101 or www.sbfiesta.org

ONGOING Ventura County Fair – We don’t have the space here to detail all the activities at the massive, 11-day seaside fair less than

ONGOING Bogie & Bacall – Alas, we’ll have to do without the great Hollywood lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall this Friday at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden, as the site is given over to Fiesta this week. But the super stars of the golden age of movies return next week, beginning Wednesday with Dark Passage, in which Bogie as Vincent Parry, who has been falsely accused of killing his wife, escapes from prison to seek the true culprit and finds a surprising ally in Bacall’s Irene Jansen, a stranger who bravely takes in the mystery man. Danger closes in as Vincent uncovers the shocking secrets behind his wife’s murder. The film was hailed by critics for its inventive use of subjective camera techniques by which the viewer sees the action through the protagonist’s eyes, a method taken to the nth degree is this year’s Son of Saul, the harrowing World War II film that captured the 2016 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Enjoy Dark Passage indoors on Wednesday, or wait till Friday (August 12) when you can sit close by on your blanket and chairs at the Courthouse, and hush up during the good stuff. Films in the series screen Wednesdays at 7:30 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall, and Fridays at 8:30 pm, outdoors in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden. Courthouse filmgoers are encouraged to bring blankets, low-back beach chairs (not to exceed 34 inches in height), and a picnic dinner – but don’t start setting up on the lawn until noon. Next up: Key Largo, pairing the two stars as an embittered war veteran and the wife of his deceased war buddy, a study of the simmering tensions between characters. INFO: 893-3535 or www.

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by Steven Libowitz

ONGOING Bowled Over – It’s singer-songwriter/roots rock at its finest at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Thursday, starring headliner Ryan Adams & The Shining, the prolific multiple Grammy nominee who somehow hasn’t released an album in nearly a whole calendar year. Also on the bill: Nice As F*#k, a post-punk trio featuring the great Jenny Lewis with Erika Forster and Tennessee Thomas.... It’s been nearly 25 years since the super-fun pop band Weezer first hit the stage at L.A.’s Troubadour. A quarter-century later, Rivers Cuomo still keeps coming up with the breezy songs “that make us happy.”

Meanwhile, Panic at the Disco has enjoyed surefire success over the last decade, including seeing their Frank Sinatra-inspired new album, Death of a Bachelor, debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts earlier this year. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness opens Friday’s show.... Saturday brings the 21st annual Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival, timed to coincide with Fiesta and recalling the Bowl’s origins as the first site for Old Spanish Days festivities. The concert features Aida Cueva, Lila Downs, Mariachi Sol de Mexico, Mariachi Reyna de los Angeles, and Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlan. WHEN: 7 pm Thursday, 6 pm Friday, 5:30 pm Saturday WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $40-$64 Thursday, $47.50 to $74.50 Friday, $40-$90 Saturday INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com 25 miles from our quaint village – this year sporting the apt theme “A Country Fair with Ocean Air” – but it’s worth the drive just for the entertainment alone, included in the price of admission. Thursday, August 4, brings Styx to the grandstand stage, followed by Old Dominion, the 2016 Academy of Country Music New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year on Friday, Third Eye Blind on Saturday, UB40 on Monday, a two-fer of America and Patti LaBelle on Tuesday, and Chris Young on Wednesday, rounding out the first week. Next Thursday, August 11, brings Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, followed by Trace Adkins on Friday, and the P.R.C.A. Rodeo on Saturday and Sunday. Details, schedules, tickets, and more info online at www.venturacountyfair. org/fair/schedule.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 1st Thursday – If the offerings seem a little thin for August’s entry of the Downtown Organization’s monthly art and more self-guided tour, that’s because it comes smack-dab in the middle of Fiesta, so a lot of folks will be consumed

by Old Spanish Days celebrations. Fiesta also shows up in 1st Thursday, what with Channing Peake Gallery’s Campos de Ensueños that features photography by artists Ricardo Palavecino and Antonio Arredondo Juarez in an exhibition focuses on the life of the

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California Mixteco community, while Voice (formerly CASA magazine) takes note of Fiesta Azul, as Old Spanish Days celebrates Santa Barbara’s historic relationship to the ocean this year with a multimedia exhibit by local artists plus live music, refreshments, and more.

SBCAST hosts Los Angeles artist Gino Perez, with paintings on tarp outside and inside; plus paintings by Santa Barbara artist Pedro de la Cruz, while Abolishish Blandness continues with Fishes and Crows and “Running for Office”. And don’t miss SBCAST’s A Healthy Pour boasting a fun and exciting range of Fiesta Drinks sold for $5 each or $20 for a “drink all that you want” wristband, so you can sample and imbibe such offerings as homemade margaritas including from scratch triple sec/Grand Marnier, sweet and sour and infused tequila plus custom salt, which is soaked in tequila and baked in the oven with the rind from limes and lemons; Pear & Mint vodka that has been fermenting for over a month and is now about 100 proof; and tequila infused tangerines with a homemade sweet and sour.

Elsewhere, Sullivan Goss – An American Gallery opens its second solo exhibition for the realist artist Frank Kirk, a master storyteller who paints scenes from mysterious and ambiguous narratives.

Kirk’s title painting, The House Across the Street, sets the stage of ambiguity for the rest of the exhibition; two well-

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4

Valley Road COST: free INFO: 969-5063 dressed figures stand on either side of a made bed, caught in an apparently fraught moment, emblematic of his works that are voyeuristic, often nocturnal, and steeped in emotional ambivalence.

Over at Gallery 113 in La Arcada Court, members of the Santa Barbara Art Association are noted with Artist of the Month LeeAnne Dollison’s show called SQUARE, her format of choice inspired by her childhood Kodak Instamatic camera. Underground Hair Artists presents Chris Foley’s photographic exhibit at The Gallery inside their salon, where refreshments will be served. On the pure entertainment front, The Ruben Lee Dalton Band plays poetic original rock with roots through the decades on Marshalls Patio. Viva la 1st Thursday!

WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.com/ about/1st-thursday

Presto! Cold Comfort – Shawn McMaster winds up his tour of the Santa Barbara Public Library System with a final free show at the Montecito branch, where the “magician unlike any other” eschews magic words and cheesy-looking props to instead offer a high-energy, interactive one-hour show filled with astonishment and hilarity for the whole family. Stay for the Ice Cream Social, a sweet, cold and creamy way to celebrate the end of another highly successful Summer Reading Program. WHEN: Magic at 4 pm, Ice Cream Social at 5 pm WHERE: 1469 E.

MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV'S SCHEHERAZADE SAT AUG 6 7:30PM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7 Eef’s Pitch – Indie-pop singer-songwriter Eef Barzelay was the front man of the 1990s band Clem Snide, giving the group not only its quirky name but also its compellingly melodic alt-country sound. Now a solo artist, Barzelay has appeared in town before, playing what Rolling Stone magazine called “afterhours music that makes you laugh while tugging at your heartstrings” or what another writer termed “Lou Reed singing Buddy Holly songs.” Now, the singular artist with a wry sense of humor brings his gifts to his most intimate Santa Barbara show yet, a living room set as part of the Hound Dog House Concerts. Come early for the optional potluck dinner. WHEN: 6:30 pm dinner, 8 pm show WHERE: Address sent to those who reserve seats online COST: $21 INFO: www. hounddoghouseconcerts.com •MJ

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AND THE BAND PLAYED ON

Swallowing Sprockets – Glen Phillips, the longtime Montecitodwelling singer-songwriter who made his bones as a teenager fronting the 1990s pop band Toad the Wet Sprocket, has a new album on its way.

Swallowed by the New – perhaps the most personally incisive and heartfelt of Phillips’ albums – won’t be officially released until October 7, but we’ve already heard previews of a few cuts live when Phillips performed as a special guest at SOhO several months back, and then got sneaks of a lot more when he did one of his periodic gigs at the venue in April. It’s a good bet that tonight we’ll hear even more from the new disc, a self-described “breakup album” written in early spring 2015 during his separation from wife Laurel, who he met at age 18. Also expect a solid smattering of personal favorites from his extensive catalog of solo albums and discs by Toad, who are also out on tour this summer, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their major label debut Fear, which spawned the Top 20 hits “All I Want” and “Walk on the Ocean” and sparked Toad’s ascension.

Opening is the central Switzerland and New York City-based indie-folk duo Famous October, comprised of Sarah Bowman of The Bowmans and Reme Coal Burrell, who combine vocal harmonies with cello and guitar, blending Americana and modern folk with underlying classical arrangements. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. His family goes back nearly 100 years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.

Montecito School Districts Under $2.5 million

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n Montecito, where the median home price is somewhere just north of $3 million currently (according to recent evaluations), it can be difficult to find a single-family residence in one of the Montecito school districts, for under $2.5 million.

That said, with a couple of recent price reductions, here are four homes worth taking a look at if you are determined to be in one of the Montecito school districts and don’t want to (or can’t) spend more than $2.5 million. But hurry, this price range offers very little inventory and school starts soon, so…

1781 San Leandro Lane: $2,485,000 (reduced from $2,895,000)

Located at the end of a private Montecito Lane, this 4-bedroom, 3-and-1/2-bath newly remodeled home sits on nearly 1/2 acre of landscaped grounds and is adjacent to the Crane Country Day School.

The open floor plan with formal living room and dining area make the home feel larger than the advertised 2,478 sq ft of living space. The Calcutta marble kitchen opens to the dining area, as well as the spacious family room.

French doors access the backyard and garden terraces.

The upstairs master suite features a Calcutta marble bath, cozy sitting room, fireplace, large walk-in closet and private balcony overlooking the gardens, mature oaks and mountain views. This home is located in the Montecito Union School District.

1520 Lingate Lane: $2,390,000 (reduced from $2,749,000) Experience the history of Montecito in this Spanish Revival home (originally built in 1922), set on a premier lane in Montecito’s Hedgerow area. Designed

by Mary Craig, and restored top to bottom by the current owners, all the original appeal has been retained with high beamed ceilings, plaster walls, three fireplaces, and oak floors.

Improvements include foundation, roof, electrical, plumbing upgrades, plus remodeled kitchen and baths. Balconies and French doors open onto a verdant garden with specimen plants, fruit trees, and secret garden hideaways.

There are cameo vistas to trees or mountains across red-tiled roofs from every room, plus a second-level veranda. In the main casa there are two bedrooms, remodeled kitchen and baths, and a formal dining room. A detached studio offers a fireplace, bath, and French doors onto a brick veranda. Located in the Montecito Union School District, the house is convenient to both the upper and lower villages and Miramar Beach.

164 Olive Mill Road: $2,380,000 (Reduced from $2,595,000)

This contemporary home is also in the Montecito Union School District and just a couple of blocks from Butterfly Beach. There are 3 bedrooms & 2.5 bathrooms in just under 2,500 sq ft of living space; the home offers a separate media room, office-studio or 4th bedroom, and 2-car garage with additional storage.

This home has been upgraded inside and out by Interior Design & Build Firm, Brown Design Group. The living room and open floor plan flows nicely to the backyard, which includes an entertainment deck and landscaped yard, equipped with outdoor shower, bocce court, chicken coop, and herb and veggie beds.

1994 Sycamore Canyon Road: $1,848,848 (was $1,965,000)

This home is located in the Cold Spring School District and is nestled among oak trees on .8 acres, offering privacy and more than 2,800 sq ft of living area.

Features include French doors, 9 skylights, maple floors, formal dining room with garden views, and a spacious master bedroom suite with an outdoor built-in spa. From the driveway, an 80-ft deck leads to the entrance of the home, and there is a mother-inlaw studio and a detached guest cottage as well.

Off-street parking for guests, and the size of home for the price per square foot, make this an interesting opportunity.

••• For more information on any of these properties or if you would like me to arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. For more Best Buys, visit my site www.MontecitoBestBuys. com from which this article is based.

•MJ

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

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$8,950,000 | 1711 E Valley Rd, Montecito | 5BD/7BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

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$37,500,000 | 1104 Channel Dr, Montecito | 5BD/6½BA Phyllis & Morgan Noble | 805.451.2126

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$17,200,000 | 1127 Hill Rd, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Phyllis & Morgan Noble | 805.451.2126

$13,500,000 | 1084 Golf Rd, Montecito | 8BD/10BA Bartron Group Real Estate | 805.563.4054/805.455.1909

$13,500,000 | 3319 Padaro Ln, Carpinteria | 3BD/3½BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663

$10,500,000 | 1174 Glenview Rd, Montecito | 5BD/6BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$4,100,000 | 1970 Monte Alegre Dr, Carpinteria | 10± acs (assr) Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$3,500,000 | 4711 Foothill Rd, Carpinteria | 10± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242

$3,495,000 | 3977 Roblar Ave, Santa Ynez | 4BD/6BA Tim Dahl | 805.886.2211

$2,500,000 | 10199 Suey Creek Rd, Santa Maria | 394± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242

$2,495,000 | 7390 Shepard Mesa Rd, Carpinteria | 4BA/4BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$2,350,000 | 2800 Gypsy Canyon Rd, Lompoc | 143± acs (assr) Kerry Mormann | 805.689.3242

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