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Women’s Economic Ventures breeds “a just and equitable society through the economic empowerment of women,” page 26

He’s Home Jack Cantin, lost in the Montecito Debris Flow, is found 42 months after his disappearance due to a community, led by his mother Kim, that refused to quit, story on p.5

A New Doc in Town

Dr. Alan Viglione launched his “practice within the practice” Montecito Concierge Medicine in June, page 12

Community Cleaners

Ramon and Noah Wang didn’t kick back this summer, instead the Santa Barbara High duo has focused on cleaning up our community, page 20

The Gala Returns

“Artwork that Comes to Life”: A look at the Profant Foundation’s Fiesta Finale Gala, an annual event dedicated to scholarship fundraising, page 16

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Inside This Issue 5 In the Know

The journey to finding Jack Cantin is a symbol of how beloved the young man was in Montecito

8 Letters to the Editor

An open letter to local businesses and well-meaning community members about the harm that feeding the homeless can have on current projects

9 Brilliant Thoughts

Barbara High duo has focused on cleaning up our community

22 Guest Opinion Knocking down the negative news bias

and choosing to see possibility in the face of crisis

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Slithering Snake Solutions: Snake venom is the special ingredient in new life-saving super glue

24 Seen Around Town

10 Music Academy of the West

Fiesta Ranchera returns as Old Spanish Days gears up for a busy couple of weeks; meanwhile, La Casa de Maria showcasing what’s next

12 Village Beat

Women’s Economic Ventures empowers by offering financial education and aid for those in need of a kickstart

Of idle pleasantrees — dissecting a handful of trees we use in everyday language Are you ready for some real-time competition? MAW is prepping for an interactive performance where you can play a part in the outcome.

Dr. Alan Viglione launched his “practice within the practice” — Montecito Concierge Medicine — in June

14 Montecito Miscellany

Lotusland and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art throwing big soirées? You best believe we were on the scene.

26 The Giving List

28 Notes from Abroad

James Buckley is spending some time on the road, with his first stop in Paris, where the pandemic is still impacting day-to-day life

29 On Entertainment

The Profant Foundation’s Fiesta Finale Gala is a night when “Artwork Comes to Life”

Zach Gill’s pre-pandemic life was one of going at a breakneck speed.

The pandemic changed that, and his free Lobero show will feature some new work.

Sharon Byrne of the Montecito Association breaks down the latest in home insurance as fires run rampant along the West Coast

From some pre-Fiesta Flamenco dancing to La Fiesta Pequeña returning to the mission, our calendar has an Old Spanish Days theme

16 Fiesta 2021

19 Montecito on the Move

20 Dear Montecito

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In the Know

by Nick Masuda

‘Jack Brought Us All Together’:

After 42 Months, Community Finds Its Lost Son

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A plaque honoring Jack Cantin, an Eagle Scout, is embedded in a bench outside the Upper Manning Park Scout House in Montecito (Photo by Nick Masuda)

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or roughly 1,225 days, Kim Cantin didn’t have answers.

A mother searching for her first born.

Her 17-year-old Eagle Scout was missing amid the catastrophic Montecito Debris Flow of January 9, 2018.

Other deceased were found. But not Jack, not her kind-hearted, gentle soul of a young man.

But in late May of this year, after an exhaustive 42-month search for the Santa Barbara High student through 110 acres in Montecito, a mother finally got her closure.

Jack had been found, just 1,000 feet away from his childhood home, with household items buried around him aiding in the process.

“All the hope. All the prayers. The determination, it helped us find a needle in the haystack,” Kim said while sitting on a bench dedicated to Jack Cantin founded Teens on the Scene at Santa Barbara Jack at Upper Manning Park’s Scout High, an outreach group that does city cleanups and aids the homeless House.

Her Jack, a proud Montecito Union School and Santa Barbara Junior High alum, can now physically be buried next to his father, Dave, who also passed that tragic night.

“They can finally be together,” Kim said. “He’s home.”

Much like Jack’s humble attitude and caring nature, Kim is hesitant to take the spotlight or credit, instead gushing about volunteers that helped her navigate creek beds; local contractors that used their own equipment to aid in the search; local law enforcement and firefighters that laid the ground work; specialty canines that came in from San Francisco to aid; and to Danielle Kurin, the assistant professor at UCSB’s Department of Anthropology, who ultimately gave Kim the hope to carry on with the search when she was ready to accept a sobering reality in late 2019.

This recovery wasn’t just important for Kim and the Cantin family — it was critical for the community.

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Kim Cantin considers this photo one of her favorites of Jack, as it shows off his tender heart, as even at a young age he refused to leave the side of an upset child, David. The two mothers have stayed in contact over the years.

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“Jack brought us all together.”

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With both Kim and her daughter, Lauren, initially dealing with major injuries — the latter becoming a ray of hope when she was rescued after hours submerged in the debris — the physical search for Jack had to be community based.

And help came in all forms, including Grant Dyruff, a longtime friend of both Dave and Jack through the work that they both had done with Troop 33, a Boy Scouts group resurrected under Dave’s guidance.

“We felt we owed both of them,” Dyruff said. “After all they had done for the entire troop, we wanted to give back however we could.”

Dyruff hadn’t spoken more than 50 words to Kim over the years. But that didn’t matter.

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Dyruff would become an outlet for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, with bags of the Cantins’ household items delivered to him. He’d spend hours drying paperwork, photos, anything that came in the bags.

Most of it would be jettisoned by Kim, but there were gems that Dyruff would come across.

That included sheets of Jack’s schoolwork — “one A after another A after another A,” Dyruff said — and plenty of photos that showcased the tight-knit nature of the Cantin family.

And that family dynamic aided in seeing Jack’s star rising quickly, as the teenager co-founded Teens on the Scene at SBHS, a community service group that did city cleanups and aided the homeless.

“I took a lot of pride in rescuing as much as I could, just in case it was a memory worth keeping,” Dyruff said. “You get to know a family as you are going through very personal things — and they are as good as it gets.”

In many ways, Kim was the director of the search, her ability to brush aside heartache to keep the focus on Jack was paramount — while her sense of humor created a Pied Piper effect, with everyone willing to follow in her footsteps.

“I would have dealt with it with anger, but she managed to find the hope and humor in it all,” Dyruff said. “How can you not follow a person like that?”

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Letters to the Editor

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Well-Meaning Handouts Not Aiding Homelessness Efforts

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he following is an open letter to the Coast Village Association and the property owners of the Country Mart and Starbucks strip: We need you to step up now and help your businesses and customers stop enabling homelessness. Help us solve it instead.

We are writing to you as Montecito residents and founding members of the Hands Across Montecito Outreach Project. We began outreach a year ago, after seeing a noticeable increase in encampments around Montecito and panhandling on Coast Village Road.

We started with 31 individuals living unsheltered in our area from our September 2020 survey. The goal of this project is to get people living unsheltered in Montecito into treatment, if needed, reunified with family, or into permanent housing when possible. We hired City Net, and the county and city followed us in doing the same. We aimed for “functional zero” for Montecito, where homelessness is rare, and turned around quickly.

Community support and involvement makes this project work. We raised significant funds, partnered with county agencies, Montecito Fire, and the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, and have committed Montecito volunteers that do outreach, clear camps, support the team, and help shepherd people indoors personally.

We have a big success to report, as we’re almost there! We’ve placed 11 individuals into permanent living situations, have four in hotels, and have seen several leave the area due to not wanting continual outreach. It’s a humanitarian project that works to create solutions for the individual’s unique needs while it also helps keep Montecito a thriving community.

This project is considered highly successful, and other communities are asking us how we did it.

However, we still have three difficult cases to go. It is these folks that you’re helping to keep on the street.

There are some changes we want to ask you to make that will make it easier for us to get these folks indoors.

These changes will also help with another rapidly emerging problem of increased traffic in the area by people who have “discovered” us.

Our community volunteers see individuals wander over from camps at the Bird Refuge, East Beach, and the Eastside. Vons in the Country Mart and the Starbucks are their go-to spots.

• Some threaten employees of these businesses, or disturb them with yelling, hanging around doorways, asking for food and panhandling.

• Some shoplift, particularly at Vons, because they know they won’t be prosecuted.

• Well-meaning citizens give them money, food and buy them drinks, but it causes the opposite effect the giver intended. Freebies encourage them to hang out and increases their length of stay. Sometimes, handouts invite particularly bad behavior when you don’t give them what they want.

There’s a network, and they share info about our community. We see a definite uptick in visits. It’s like a daily trick-or-treat here, and it’s from nice people who want to feel like they’re helping.

That creates big problems for the Hands Across Montecito outreach team. When someone is comfortable living outdoors and having their needs catered to by well-meaning passers-by, the outreach team can do little to convince the individual to come indoors and/or accept needed treatment.

Please know this: giving them money and food keeps them homeless. We know that’s not what people intended to do, but that’s the outcome of these little acts of generosity.

You have enormous power in this situation to help us make a difference, to change lives for the better. We are asking for your support in not giving food or money to these individuals.

To the CVA and landlords of these properties, we recommend the following: • Assert your private property rights. Both the Country Mart and Starbucks mall next door are private property, as are the parking lots. The property owners should hire security and exercise their right to refuse access to the property for individuals seeking to panhandle and shoplift on their property. You would be protecting your businesses’ employees and their customers. Anyone who has been told not to enter can then be prosecuted for trespassing. This is well within your rights, and SBPD will support you in enforcing your private property rights. However, they will not provide security for your private property any more than they will sit in the driveway of a home because you don’t want to install a burglar alarm. Protecting your private property is your responsibility.

• Signal via environmental cues.

Place a visible sign at all entrances that this is private property, property owners have the right to refuse access, and trespassers will be prosecuted. People can donate to Hands Across Montecito or one of the area shelters, but please do not give to panhandlers.

• The Coast Village Association should step up for a more active role in Hands Across Montecito. You’ve left it to the Montecito Association to provide outreach and services, yet it’s your business members that bears the brunt of impacts from homelessness.

The Montecito Association and Hands Across Montecito attend City Council meetings, Board of Supervisors hearings, the homeless outreach coordination calls happening across the city and county, and we ensure the camps get cleaned after we get inhabitants indoors. The Montecito Association’s Hands Across Montecito team have undertaken all the effort, while this area is your association’s jurisdiction.

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Without your support, the program will be less effective, and your businesses will continue to suffer. You’ve had a very strong partner in us. We’re asking you openly to please be that partner in return.

To keep Montecito the community we all love and to aid these individuals get the help they need, we’re asking for help from the community, the owners of Montecito Country Mart, Vons and Starbucks mall and the Coast Village Association for their assistance.

With everyone doing their part, Hands Across Montecito can be even more successful than it already is.

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man named Joyce Kilmer managed to publish five books and have five children before being killed in World War I. But he is remembered only for one imperishable poem, called “Trees,” which concludes with the modest words: “Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.”

True enough, I suppose, but people have been making trees, of various kinds, and making numerous things out of them, for a long time.

We could start with the family tree, which is of course a metaphor for all the closest human relationships, and their depiction in graphic terms.

Everybody has one and appears on somebody else’s. In fact, if you let the Science of Genealogy take you far enough back, we are all somewhere on everybody else’s family tree. And, with the guidance of other sciences, you can say that includes every creature that has ever lived — although of

course many of the branches stopped producing twigs at different times and for different reasons.

But let’s not get carried away here. For most practical purposes, it’s enough to know that practically all of us had a father and a mother — although even those vital statistics can be less clear-cut than might sometimes be wished.

But this takes us back to Kilmer’s lines about: “A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the Earth’s sweet-flowing breast” Which we might characterize as a kind of arboreal soft porn, along with Shakespeare’s merry recollections: “Under the Greenwood Tree, Who loves to lie with me. . .”

In case you’re wondering, there is no such species as a Greenwood tree. Nor is there, of course, any

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Think Fast: Real-time Competition, Digital Challenge on Tap for MAW

he Music Academy of the West morphed into a virtual institute by necessity because of the COVID pandemic last summer, employing its inventive MARLI program — Music Academy Remote Learning Institute — to maintain connection with its faculty and fellows from around the world via a variety of platforms on the Internet and the use of digital tools. Nearly everyone is back on the Miraflores campus in Montecito this year, but MAW wasn’t about to let its new knowledge wither on the vine. Indeed, an abundance of precaution resulted in the first week of the Summer Music Festival taking place remotely once again as the fellows isolated after arriving to complete testing for the virus and ensure the safety of themselves and others.

That time didn’t go to waste, of course. Indeed, besides having the fel-

Casey Molino Dunn, MAW’s vice president of innovation and program development

lows undergo remote rehearsals and coaching, MAW’s Innovation Institute, which pre-pandemic had already started arranging career development workshops and forward-thinking seminars covering business and communication skills, entrepreneurship, finances, technology and other related topics, amped up its activities to the tune of nearly 40 such speakers last summer.

This year, a range of industry leaders have been coming to town, mostly virtually, to continue to conduct inter-

active workshops on best practices for building rewarding and sustainable music careers.

The public will get to see highlights of this summer’s programs in a special streaming program available beginning August 8, as the inspiring discussions will be edited into a video capturing excerpts of the experiences from the fellows’ seminars with guest artists, entrepreneurs, and other leaders including the subject of the performing arts ecosystem, the future of classical music, and more.

But likely far more thrilling for the audience is the chance to not only witness a real-time competition, but also participate in the selection of winners via the chance to vote for favorites during the Fast Pitch Awards that take place at 5 pm on August 2. The fellow finalists will pitch their innovative entrepreneurial projects to both an online audience and a review panel in a “Shark Tank”-style event, hoping their endeavors encompassing artistic expression, audience development, education, community engagement, social justice, and technology impress the judges and viewers alike. The prizes include cash awards, additional business coaching, and investment by the Music Academy.

They’re also hard at work creating videos for MAW’s Digital Challenge, highlights of which will be shown vir-

tually on August 13.

The fellows were getting some further coaching even earlier this week, when soprano Lisette Oropesa succeeded The Concert Truck’s founders and artists Nick Luby and Susan Zhang and Fort Worth Opera’s Afton Battle in delivering dynamic ideas for the young musicians.

“It’s great timing because she’s going to talk about some of her digital projects right when our fellows are also coming up with their own digital ideas,” said Casey Molino Dunn, MAW’s vice president of innovation and program development. “The parallels let our fellows connect with what’s happening beyond Santa Barbara with what they’re doing here.”

The Fast Pitch program isn’t only about having the fellows think outside the box, Dunn said.

“We want them to come up with ideas that makes sense for what they want to change, and what they want to see, but also making sure that while reinventing the wheel they also have a sense that there’s already cars out there in the world.”

Determining how well the fellows have driven the white lines of that delicate balance are a distinguished panel of judges that include conductor Marin Alsop, who will lead the Academy

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ack in April, we reported on the opening of Turner Medical Arts on Coast Village Road, located at 1250 Coast Village Road, upstairs from Village Properties, The Warner Group, and Synergy Lending. Now, Dr. Duncan Turner has brought on a new internal medical doctor, Dr. Alan Viglione, who launched his “practice within the practice,” Montecito Concierge Medicine, in June.

“This is the wave of the future of medicine,” Dr. Viglione told us during an interview at the office earlier this week.

The doctor and his nurse, Mary Sidavanh, RN, bring a combination of classic Western medicine and Eastern influences into an integrated approach, offered in a boutique setting. Concierge medicine has gained popularity in the last decade, and offers patients a more individualized approach to healthcare. At Montecito Concierge Medicine, patients pay a monthly fee — and have access to the doctor and his expertise anytime they may need care or medical help.

“We are getting away from the 8 to 5 paradigm, and offering patients care in the comfort of their own homes,” Dr. Viglione said. “Instead of calling a busy doctor who may have thousands of patients, and waiting days to be seen, my patients have access to me via phone around the clock, and we usually can see them in the office or at their home within hours.”

After completing his studies at Boston College, UC Santa Barbara, and State University of New York, Dr. Viglione began his medical career in Orange County, at a busy medical practice where he felt he was not able to give patients the individual attention he wanted to give. He moved to Santa Barbara in 2020, joining a concierge medical practice that allowed him to refine his patient care; he

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Montecito Concierge Medicine has opened with Turner Medical Arts on Coast Village Road. Launched by Mary Sidavanh, RN, and Dr. Alan Viglione, the practice offers boutique medical care both in the office and at home.

decided to open his own practice after meeting Dr. Turner and realizing their approach to medicine was aligned.

“We want to redefine concierge medicine, offering an ultra-boutique experience for our patients. Our vision is to see a smaller number of patients, and give them incredible attention and individualized care.”

Each patient that joins the practice is offered an extensive physical exam, which includes body composition testing, cardiac risk testing, blood profiles that look for inflammation, toxin exposure, gut function, vitamin markers, and much more. “We aren’t just here to treat patients when they are ill. Our goal is to guide our patients to become healthier than they are now,” Dr. Viglione said. With information gleaned from the blood panels and physical exam, the doctor will suggest a regime of exercise, nutrition, anti-aging vitamin therapies, and more.

When a patient is ill, the doctor and nurse team provide home or office visits, and can conduct an extensive exam, sometimes preventing a visit to the emergency room. Sidavanh is

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 14 years ago.

‘Spectacular Showcase’: Lotusland Gala a Show of Luxury Caroline Thompson and Leslie Cunningham (Monie Photography)

Michael Hammer, who was unable to attend the Lotusland gala, with his showcase Ferrari (Photo by Priscilla)

John and Connie Pearcy entering the reception garden (Photo by Priscilla)

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illions of dollars’ worth of exotic horsepower was on display when Lotusland, the 37-acre paradise founded by the late Polish opera singer Ganna Walska, hosted its 26th annual gala, raising nearly $500,000.

The botanical bash, co-chaired by interior designer Caroline Thompson and David Jones, chair emerita Belle Hahn, and honorary chair Hania Tallmadge, had a decidedly split personality with the popular event being made into two separate beanos — an afternoon with wine, colorful bar concoctions, and eclectic comestibles, for 250 guests; and a glamorous dinner dotted around the luxuriant gardens with tablescape vignettes for a similar number.

The floral fête, dubbed Petal to the Metal, whose main sponsor was the Armand Hammer Foundation, featured 31 exquisite private collectible 1940-1980s cars from top Italian manufacturers, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Fiat, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo, all as polished as their owners and curated by Lotusland volunteers Ron Hein, Paul Hageman, and Andrew Tymkiw.

The masterpiece motors were exhibited on the sprawling estate’s Great Lawn as well as in front of the former Walska mansion, set against dramatic art installations by Los Angeles-based muralist Chris Wyrick, and sculptural

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Ginni Dreier, Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, and Maria and Robert Giamo (Photo by Priscilla)

Hania Tallmadge at the Lotusland gala (Monie Photography)

forms by Neal Feay and metal fabricator Alex Rasmussen.

“The entire event was a spectacular showcase, representing the best of Italian classic automobile design and fine art, set in one of the world’s most beautiful gardens,” gushed co-chair Caroline, owner of Cabana Home.

Among the floral flock checking out the unique Montecito location were executive director Rebecca Anderson, Thomas Rollerson, Dana Newquist,

Jim Semick, Belle Hahn, Jackie Schaffer, and Jennifer Smith enjoying the Lotusland affair (Photo by Priscilla)

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Sam Tyler, Connie Pearcy, Chuck and Margarita Lande, George Leis, Monte Wilson, Gregory Dahlen, Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, and Keith and Mary Hudson.

A blooming nice time was had by all.

ing his motives, given his incendiary interview with Montecito neighbor Oprah Winfrey.

The clarion call for the couple to lose their titles and no longer be styled royal highnesses gets louder across the Atlantic.

Stay tuned...

Where Art Thou?

Museum is Baaaaaaaack!

Santa Barbara Museum of Art is back in business!

As the venerable 60,000-squarefoot institution, a former Post Office, celebrates its 80th anniversary and its reopening on August 15 after the lengthy pandemic lockdown, not to mention a $50 million, six-year renovation expanding exhibition space enormously making it possible to show more of the 27,000 works from the permanent collection.

Newly created galleries dedicated to contemporary art, photography and new media, with new LED lighting, are gloriously on display.

Other work included seismic retrofitting, replacement of mechanical, air handling and climate control systems, replacement of aging roofs, improved ventilation, and the creation of new storage and conservation areas to safeguard the growing collection.

“We are thrilled once again to open our historic main entrance on State Street and welcome the community into a re-envisioned museum,” said Larry Feinberg, as the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz director and CEO addressed the 150 VIP guests at a sneak peek reception. “We can’t wait to share old favorites from the collection after years in storage and to present new exhibitions and installations that will help visitors understand the collection in a new light.”

Among the art lovers lucky enough to get an advance look were George Schoellkopf, Gerald Incandela, Henry and Gwen Baker, Peter and Linda Beuret, Edward and Sue Birch, John and Jill Bishop, Scott and Ella Brittingham, David and Anne Gersh, Allan Glaser, Gail Wasserman, Palmer and Joan Jackson, Bob and

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This colorful contemporary art has guest Christopher Brown viewing other fascinating works from another perspective (Photo by Priscilla)

Val Montgomery, Starr Siegele, Nicholas and Rosemary Mutton, and Beno and Kandy Luria-Budgor.

This Should be Interesting . . .

The news that Prince Harry, 36, has signed a four-book, multi-million-dollar mega deal with Penguin Random House, has landed like a lead balloon at Buckingham Palace.

The first book is due to be published next year which marks his grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, with an astounding 70 years on the British throne.

The timing could not be worse for the Royal Family, particularly for Harry’s beleaguered father, Prince Charles, who is trying to establish his credentials as the next monarch and his wife, Camilla’s, as the next queen.

In 1951, the Duke of Windsor also published a ghost-written memoir, A King’s Story, a year before his brother Bertie, who succeeded him as King George VI, died at Sandringham. But as a former monarch, his revelatory tome had infinitely more gravitas.

I can only wonder what the publishers are expecting for the reported contract worth more than $20 million.

Harry, who lives with wife Meghan Markle in Riven Rock, says: “I am writing this not as the prince I was born, but as the man I have become.”

Many at the Palace are questionLynn Cunningham with James Gleason looking over the encased teacup art (Photo by Priscilla)

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Julian Nott, the late Santa Barbara balloon and experimental test pilot, has been posthumously inducted into the Ballooning Hall of Fame at the National Balloon Museum in Indianola, Iowa.

The Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in sport and professional ballooning and is designed to highlight the achievements and recognize those individuals who have made exemplary contributions and development to the growth of hot air and gas ballooning.

The exclusive award has only been received by 43 balloon pilots, including publisher Malcolm Forbes, Steve Fossett, Don Piccard, and Maxie Anderson.

Julian, a fellow Brit and good friend, was known for his scientific approach to ballooning. In 1972, he piloted the first hot air balloon crossing of the Sahara. It was the start of an illustrious career resulting in 96 British world records and 79 international ones.

In 1979, using a pressurized cabin he designed to facilitate high-altitude flights, he broke the altitude record for piloted balloons, reaching more than 55,000 ft. The aircraft and related documents are permanently displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

He received innumerable prestigious awards, but one of his proudest achievements was to be the only balloon pilot ever elected to the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. In 2017, at age 72, he set his own world record for the highest tandem skydiving jump from 31,916 feet.

Two years ago, following a successful test flight and landing of an experimental pressurized high-altitude balloon over Warner Springs, his aircraft became unstable and crashed down a mountainside, with Julian dying days later from his injuries.

Let the ‘Hunt’ Begin

A Montecito property listing, represented by Riskin Partners Estate Group of Village Properties, has been selected as a finalist in the HGTV Ultimate House Hunt 2021.

The hunt is a month-long online promotion held on the cable network annually, showcasing extraordinary homes for sale in eight categories, including amazing kitchen, beachfront homes, countryside retreats, curb appeal, downtown dwellings, homes

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with a history, outdoor escapes, and waterside homes.

The popular awards generated more than 1.5 million votes last year, with consumers selecting their favorite among the featured listings.

The Village Properties listing at 1395 Oak Creek Canyon was selected in the outdoor escapes category. It was designed by local architect Peter Becker, international designer Rosie Feinberg, and built by Giffin and Crane.

The Italian-style property, Villa Bella Vista, features walls of glass and steel doors open to a south-facing loggia, pool terrace, and guest house, all with panoramic ocean and island views.

Consumers can tour the 66 homes selected as finalists by viewing photos galleries on HGTV.com/househunt before casting a vote for their favorite properties.

A New Chief ‘Keeper’

With more than 25 years of experience in ocean conservation, Ted Morton is Channelkeeper’s new executive director.

His experience spans programmatic work in fisheries management and water quality, operational leadership, and policy development at the federal level.

Morton holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Furman University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law. He grew up in Atlanta and has worked in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and New York.

RIP, Jackie

On a personal note, I remember Borscht Belt comic Jackie Mason, who has died in New York aged 93.

I would often meet him at Manhattan’s CBS TV studios on West 57th Street when I was gossip on The Joan Rivers Show, as well at the airport in Toronto where I would fly regularly to appear on CBC’s Dini Petty Show.

In the tradition of Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, Mason’s brand of comedy was biting and acerbic, helping him establish himself as a cultural touchstone for those who followed, including Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David.

An ordained rabbi, he was a regular on the Ed Sullivan Show and garnered a Tony and two Emmys.

An absolutely delightful mensch.

Sightings

Singer Jimmy Buffett at George’s Pet Boutique at Montecito Country Mart...

Oscar winner Kevin Costner noshing at The Nugget in Summerland... Oscar winner Jeff Bridges checking out the Mesa Cafe.

Pip! Pip! Be safe, and get vaccinated!

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Fiesta 2021

Lakshmi Basile will perform at the gala

by Nick Masuda

‘Artwork that Comes to Life’: A Look at the Profant Foundation’s Fiesta Finale Gala

have also promised a special surprise for loyal fans.

The Profant family is well-known for supporting arts in the community, starting nearly 100 years ago with involvement in various organizations, including the Community Arts Music Association (CAMA), the Music Academy of the West, and Old Spanish Days.

The Fiesta Finale Gala on August 8 will feature plenty of dancing

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fter 61 years, Gil Rosas will return to the El Paseo Restaurant on August 8 to recreate a photo made in 1960, helping the Profant Foundation host the Fiesta Finale Gala that has created hundreds of scholarships for artists of all ages over the past 21 years.

The gala, organized by Musette Profant, includes a gourmet meal (filet mignon enchiladas, gluten and dairyfree salmon, vegan-stuffed Portobello mushroom), a costume contest, and dancing under the stars at the historic restaurant in downtown Santa Barbara.

There will be plenty of distancing between tables to quell any health concerns, according to organizers.

The entertainment will include Lakshmi Basile, along with Ricardo Chavez and his troupe. Meanwhile, the Arthur Murray Dance Studio of Santa Barbara and Beverly Hills will bring six professional dancers to the event, while a singer, ballerina and the Martinez Brothers will also perform — with the latter’s father, Lorenzo, Sr., joining Rosas in the photo recreation.

The Santa Barbara Piano Brothers

The scholarships are made possible by gala fundraising, as well as ongoing community support.

The gala begins at 5:30 pm on August 8, with more information available at profantfoundation.org.

You can also make reservations via email at jeprofant@gmail.com or by calling 805-450-2001.

•MJ

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MAW (Continued from page 10) Chamber Orchestra in the final concert of the summer; Kelly Hall-Tompkins, one of New York City’s most in-demand violinists whose dynamic career spans solo, chamber, and orchestral performance; and Clive Chang, the Chief Strategy/ Innovation Officer for Lincoln Center who is also a member of MAW’s board.

The event on August 2 should be quite a dynamic one, as just about every aspect of what viewers and the panel see online will be live. Even though some of the pitches might be pre-recorded, the fellows will still have to interact live with the judges.

“They get grilled, so to speak, or asked questions by the panel about their project in real time” Dunn explained. “And the audience who attend the online event in real time get a vote, which helps inform the judge’s decision.”

Meaning you won’t be able to vote anyone off the island, but your input could propel a fellow toward not only achieving a goal but also innovating in ways that affect the classical music industry for years to come.

This Week @ MAW

THURSDAY, JULY 29 : There’s no reason to “Muhly” over whether to attend tonight’s X2 concert at Hahn Hall. Not only is it one of the first performances in the new faculty-fellows series for which tickets are still available, but the program features the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s “Crosswise,” which was commissioned by the Music Academy of the West. Muhly is a sought-after collaborator whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition and whose previous commissions include The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Tallis Scholars. Faculty pianist Conor Hanick will also play the composer’s aptly-named Teacher-Student and Move before collaborating with faculty percussion colleague Michael Werner fellows Anush Avetisyan (soprano) and Gerbrich Meijer (clarinet) for Christopher Cerrone’s “I Will Learn to Love a Person.” The concert closes with Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49,” performed by faculty pianist Jonathan Feldman and fellow violinist Wenqi Ke and cellist Marcie Kolacki. Come early for a free pop-up percussion performance at 6:45 pm outside of Hahn Hall. (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $55) FRIDAY, JULY 30 : This afternoon’s X2 concert is still slated as a streaming-only event, meaning it will be performed live at Hahn Hall with no audience in attendance. The event carries an official “French Focus” even though only Ravel’s “Introduction” and “Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet” emanates from France, at least on the announced program. Sandwiching the Ravel is “Four Poems” by Charles Martin Loeffler, the German-born American violinist and composer, and Stravinsky’s stirring “Octet for Wind Instruments” (5 pm; virtual; $10). On the other hand, tonight’s chamber music concert at Hahn Hall will have an audience to focus on the solo pianist fellows who are featured in every piece of the concert. The program for the evening will include Brahms’ “Trio in E-flat Major” (with Matthew Hakkarainen on violin and Logan Bryck on horn joining pianist Nan Ni), and Bartok’s “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion” percussion fellows collaborating with Alexander Lee Agate and Arthur Wang (7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $40).

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SATURDAY, JULY 31 Where would MAW be without the conductor Larry Rachleff? In addition to kicking off the fellow orchestral concert series for the 10th successive year, the irrepressible baton wielder is now stepping in to lead the Academy Chamber Orchestra again this weekend, filling in for Michael Tilson Thomas, who did conduct the ACO in his MAW debut at the Granada Theatre in mid-July but will not be on hand for tonight’s concert due to a shoulder injury, as his physicians have advised him to stop conducting for the rest of the summer to properly care for the issue. The personnel change has also altered the program as MTT’s composition “Street Song” is being replaced by Leonard Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide” as the opening piece. But the fellows-powered ensemble will still be playing Charles Ives’ evocative “Three Places in New England” as well as the Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” the as-American-as-apple-pie program anchor. The concert is presented by MAW in special appreciation of Santa Barbara County healthcare workers and Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons for their “tireless dedication to help the Santa Barbara community throughout the pandemic.”

(7:30 pm; Granada Theatre; $10 & $55) TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 : Pianist Conrad Tao, the only 2021 Mosher Guest Artist to play in person at Miraflores this summer, is one of the world’s most exciting up-and-coming pianists. Tao — a recipient of the prestigious Avery

Fisher Career Grant and named as a Gilmore Young Artist, which is awarded only every two years to highlight the most promising American pianists of the new generation — has appeared worldwide as both a pianist and composer, dual roles he’ll also be taking on here, as Tao will also be commissioned to create a new work for the winner of Wednesday’s Solo Piano Competition.

His recital at the intimate Hahn Hall on campus will include masterworks and modern compositions (although not his own) in John Adams’ “China Gates,” Jason Eckhardt’s “Echoes’ White Veil,” and Robert Schumann’s “Kreisleriana.”

(7:30 pm; Hahn Hall; $10 & $55) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 : The Music Academy’s new Duo Competition replaces the previous Concerto Competition, a coveted challenge in which the winner was awarded a place in front of his or her colleagues in the Academy Festival Orchestra to perform the winning piece with the backing of the full ensemble. In truth, though, the competition is like its predecessor, as the instrumentalists always competed via performing the pieces with the collaborative piano fellows. Except now they can expand the repertoire to all sorts of sonatas and other works, and the award is a cash prize for both musicians. After surviving preliminary rounds, the finalists perform live tonight at the Granada downtown, a venue nearly five times larger than Hahn Hall. (7:30 pm; Granada Theatre; $10 & $40) •MJ

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Montecito on the Move

by Sharon Byrne, Executive Director, Montecito Association

Volatility in Homeowners Insurance Market Continues Amid Another Unprecedented Fire Season

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ate hikes, non-renewals, and cancellations of homeowners insurance have been hot topics for the past three years, and Montecito’s issues on this front trend with problems statewide.

Here’s a quick recap:

2019

March: Montecito homeowners get notices of non-renewal. They struggle to find replacement policies, with price shocks — up to 10 times what they had been paying. At first, the community worries this is related to the Debris Flow.

April: The Montecito Association creates an Insurance Task Force. We map our members’ notices of non-renewal, and see they are occurring most heavily in the area above 192 – in Cal Fire’s Very High Risk of Severe Wildfire zone.

We contact then-Assemblymember Monique Limón and learn this is a massive statewide issue.

August: California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara meets with Montecito, brought here by Limón. He then: 1. Orders the California FAIR Plan limits to $3 million from $1.5 million; 2. Requires the FAIR Plan offer more comprehensive coverage; 3. Proposes legislation to force insurers to offer coverage in communities that are significantly “hardened” against wildfire risk. The bill dies in the legislature.

December: The Insurance Commissioner is sued by the FAIR Plan insurers to halt the coverage increase and more comprehensive coverage order.

2020

California has the worst wildfire season on record. Insurance company notices of non-renewal increase across the state.

2021

February: Lara proposes new rules that would require insurance companies to provide a consumer with their property’s wildfire risk score, which must recognize a consumer’s mitigation actions that could improve their rating, such as creating defensible space and fire-hardening, and must allow time for the consum29 July – 5 August 2021

er to reduce their score.

June: Lara states he doesn’t want California to continue building in high wildfire zones. The state can’t sustain resources and support for people to live in the High Wildfire zones. The story runs on the front page of The New York Times.

July: The Dixie Fire breaks out, potentially caused by PG&E. They committed last Friday to burying up to 10,000 miles of utility lines. We’d love to see SCE make the same commitment. Putting Montecito’s power lines underground has become an urgent matter. Neighborhoods, such as Periwinkle, who step up to do it, have to self-fund, and it’s prohibitively expensive. A potential undergrounding project on the table at 192 and Hot Springs, to be funded by the County, has not happened.

Last week: A California court ruled for the Insurance Commissioner in the Fair Plan lawsuit, so insurers will have to offer more than just fire coverage. Lara continues to negotiate with traditional insurance companies on a plan that would require them to sell coverage in fire-prone areas as long as those communities meet certain standards for safeguarding against wildfire risk. That includes “hardening” homes by retrofitting them with fire-resilient materials.

Worldwide, fires along the West Coast of the U.S., floods in China, Germany, and the Midwestern U.S. have caused insurers to update their risk models.

Some Montecitans have just received non-renewal notices. Smoke from massive western fires caused haze and hazardous breathing conditions in New York and Boston last week. We could potentially expect more cancellations of policies. Some members of the Montecito Association have had success procuring replacement policies at fairly competitive rates through Brown and Brown Insurance in Carpinteria.

Let us know if you’ve found success in securing replacement insurance, particularly if your home is above Highway 192.

Stay up to date on all things Montecito by joining the Montecito Association at montecitoassociation. org.

•MJ

Brilliant Thoughts (Continued from page 9) such botanical entity as a “Christmas tree.” And, whether “the tree-tops glisten,” at that time of year, in your part of the world (as described

by Irving Berlin), that same season would, for some reason, have us singing over and over again about a Pear tree, forever inhabited by a partridge.

Speaking of Pear trees, one is reminded not only of how many different types of pears there are, but of the fact that trees of some kind are the source of all our edible fruit. All fruits have seeds — from the giant closely packed pits of the Loquat (with which I’m very familiar, having such a tree in my garden) to the tiny, dispersed seeds of the Kiwi (which we associate with New Zealand, though it was only introduced there about 1900 from its native China).

And the seeds, whether edible or not, are not there for our benefit, or inconvenience, but are simply part of nature’s reproductive processes.

But equally irrelevant to nature’s interests, and important to ours, are the uses we make of the solid material derived from the trunks and branches — and even the roots — of various kinds of trees, a material we call, at different stages of its refinement, timber, lumber, or simply wood. Joyce Kilmer may have seen a tree (for some reason female) as looking “at God all day,” and lifting “her leafy arms to pray,” but, to the lumberjack, sawmill operator, or furniture salesman, her reveries count for little when there are objects to be

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Besides, there are so many trees in the world, so many forests and woodlands, that, even if our own species succeeds in burning and devastating vast areas, it will all come back, once humanity’s again out of the way.

After all, it wasn’t so long ago that, to most humans, the densely forested areas were fearsome places, as we are reminded by all the folktales concerning the dangers of being lost in the woods, and at the mercy of wolves and other wild animals. The history of the American frontier is basically a story of clearing away the trees, so that “pioneers” and “settlers” could plant crops, build cities, and push on Westward. (At the same time, Russian frontiersmen, involved in the same kinds of activities, were pushing east.)

Meanwhile, Joyce Kilmer insists on anthropomorphing and feminizing these rugged fellow dwellers of our troposphere, paying romantic tribute to: “A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair.”

To Kilmer, trees symbolized stability, but to me, they have meant freedom — at least as celebrated in my hippy version of “Home on the Range”: “Home, home in the trees, Where all people can do as they please, Where seldom is heard A middle-class word, And Reality’s just a disease.”

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Haffner

Trash Treated Like Treasure

by Local Brothers

The Wang brothers have picked up more than 600 pounds of trash

Ramon and Noah Wang

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oday, local superheroes pick up 600 pounds of trash — and how!

Sixteen-year-old brothers Ramon and Noah Wang are quickly becoming known in local circles for their tremendous cleanup efforts. The pair have dedicated their summer to keeping Santa Barbara green, and we couldn’t ask for better representatives as they prepare to step out into the wider world for college. This week, Ramon and Noah were kind enough to take a break from their litter-busting to stop by the column and tell us about their passions for reducing local pollution and their ambitions for the future.

Dear Montecito,

We are Ramon and Noah Wang.

As rising seniors of Santa Barbara High School, both of us have a passion to create a positive difference in this community. Over the past 47 days, we have dedicated hundreds

of hours to collect more than 600 pounds of trash — whether it be from neighborhoods, trails, or beaches. We joined the efforts of hundreds of other volunteers from the Channelkeeper’s Watershed Brigade, a local nonprofit organization with a pledge to limit pollution at its source and began our project on June 7, 2021.

We were born here in Santa Barbara as fraternal twins. For a short period of our childhood, we have also lived in Shenzhen, China. Our family moved back to America because of certain concerns and have been here since.

In elementary school, we were taught about the three Rs: “reduce, reuse, and recycle.” We were lucky enough to have teachers that emphasized environmentalism in their teachings.

We continue to hold these values throughout high school, but we also enjoy branching out to other interests. We became involved with the Computer Science Academy, the high school band, and found enjoyment in

arts like calligraphy and cartography.

No matter what we become involved in, we always strive to do our best in the field.

Many people ask us why we pick up trash. Since environmental issues have always been in the background of our lives, we now wish to directly contribute and help the Earth. Plus, it’s fun.

We get to see amazing views, talk to warmhearted people, and become more independent in our lives. Our favorite locations with the best sights are Inspiration Point, the Toro Ridge Trail overlooking Carpinteria, and the Coronado Butterfly Preserve in Goleta. In addition, we meet a lot of interesting people. For example, at Rincon Beach, we saw paragliders giving us encouragement from the skies. Also, we have received many kind donations from many people, who we are very grateful for.

Miramar Beach took four days to clean. We would arrive there in the early morning — around 9:30 am each day — and trek alongside a railroad path for a half-mile to enter the beach.

Upon arriving, we went to a trash hotspot that we had scouted a day before. It was an area behind a seawall that contained trash composed of beer

bottles, party cups, and an assortment of other colorful items. In some places, it was a few inches deep. As we were working, a few locals passing by told us how the area was the location of a major cleanup more than a year ago.

We realized that the pollution problem could only be solved through larger efforts by the community, as that is the only way to “limit pollution at its source.”

When we were finished, we faced the problem of having to haul 36 heavy bags back to the entrance.

Fortunately, we received aid from a group of college students partying at the beach, so it took only a few hours to transport the trash to the nearest dump. All efforts, no matter how small, are meaningful in the endeavor to help the Earth.

We plan on continuing our project throughout this summer, and well into the future. We hope that many people also consider joining our efforts so that substantial changes can be made for our Earth.

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Laguna St | Upper East $2,050,000

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State St | Upper East $1,480,000

Chapala St | Downtown SB $1,375,000

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Guest Opinion

by Amelia Buckley and Kristy Jansen

Knocking Down the Negative News Bias Choosing to see possibility in the face of crisis

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he old news mantra, “If it bleeds, it leads” has long steered traditional media outlets towards the violent, the negative, and the shocking. It’s hard to blame them when evidence repeatedly shows that negative news stories garner higher viewership, but it also begs the question: How does perceiving the world as largely negative affect how we interact within it?

A recent New York Times article clarifies this concept and confirms what we at The Optimist Daily already know: That mainstream media outlets, specifically U.S. media companies, carry a disproportionate negativity bias in the stories they report.

Looking at the coronavirus, Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, built a database of COVID-19 coverage from hundreds of news sources including CNN, Fox News, Politico, and The New York Times.

Then, he analyzed it using a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral, or negative.

Sacerdote’s research confirmed his suspicions. He found that about 87 percent of COVID-19 media coverage in national U.S. media last year was negative. In comparison, the share of negative coverage was 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media, and 64 percent in scientific journals.

Unpacking this issue, Sacerdote points out that while many prominent international media outlets, like the BBC, receive government funding, most U.S. news outlets rely solely on viewership numbers for financial viability, therefore they cater their content to what they know audiences will eat up: negativity.

Coming back to our COVID-19 example, overwhelmingly negative news not only left many people feeling hopeless and dejected about the pandemic, but it also failed to recognize the multitude of breakthroughs, discoveries, and efforts that arose to manage the current crisis and better equip us to deal with the next.

For example, while 87 percent of U.S. national news media coverage about the pandemic was negative, there were some neat solutions coming onto the scene.

Early in the pandemic, before we had vaccines, or even a full understanding of how this disease works, communities rallied together to support each other by filling lending libraries with essentials and offering financial resources to those in need. Community fridges also emerged as a strategy to fight food insecurity that will likely stick around even after the pandemic.

The city of Phoenix launched an entire food security program, called Feed Phoenix, which hired local restaurants to cook regionally sourced food for those in need, essentially creating a three-pronged symbiotic community support system.

The program buys wholesale produce from local farms and then hires restaurants, chefs, and caterers to turn it into meals for those in need. These meals are distributed to shelters, food banks, and refugee housing.

Feed Phoenix is being orchestrated by the nonprofit Local First Arizona, a coalition of 3,000 local businesses. So far, they have churned out 50,000 meals and helped keep 16 farms and nearly 45 restaurants and caterers afloat.

The pandemic has changed our everyday lives and prompted real breakthroughs in our understanding of community. Nowhere have these breakthroughs been more pronounced than in the field that gives us a clear path out of the pandemic: medicine and public health.

The development of mRNA vaccines, often skimmed over by mainstream media, is a truly revolutionary accomplishment in the field of medicine.

Katalin Karikó spent her entire life researching this medical technology and had her work ignored and underfunded for decades. During the pandemic, mRNA research finally got a chance to prove its value during what has been the fastest vaccine development and rollout process in human history.

Now, this same technology is being used to create vaccines for other diseases that mutate too quickly for traditional vaccine efficacy. Moderna is using this technique to develop a vaccine for HIV and Yale Medical School has released initial reports that mRNA could be used to create a more effective malaria vaccine.

With a heightened emphasis on health in society, other public health initiatives saw unexpected boosts as well. One million smokers in the UK kicked the habit during the pandemic and as more pregnant women worked from home, premature births plummeted. In one neonatal intensive care unit in Copenhagen, the rate of babies born before 28 weeks dropped by 90 percent,

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Slithering Snake Solutions

Snake venom is the special ingredient in new life-saving super glue

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f someone were to ask you to think of a life-saving substance, snake venom is probably low on the list, but scientists from the Universities of Manitoba, Shantou, and Western Ontario have discovered how this unlikely ingredient can save someone’s life.

The team produced a snake-venom-based “super glue” that can stop bleeding within seconds once activated with light. Quickly preventing bleeding is extremely important when dealing with a traumatic injury or surgery—even a few seconds can make a difference.

The active ingredient in the glue is batroxobin, a blood-clotting enzyme from the venom of lancehead snakes. To make the surgical glue, the scientists combined batroxobin with modified gelatin. The result is a substance that seals up quickly when exposed to bright light (even a smartphone flashlight would do the trick) and is “blood-resistant,” so it won’t be easily worn away.

So far, the super glue has been tested on lab rats and all injuries successfully sealed within 45 seconds, reducing blood loss by an impressive 78 percent.

Snakes assist scientists in studying areas affected by nuclear disasters

In 2011, a 15-meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, damaging three nuclear reactors in the process. The accident was rated a seven, which is the highest level on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.

Now, a decade later, scientists have partnered with snakes to measure radioactive contamination in the region. A team of researchers from the University of Georgia discovered that rat snakes native to the region are an effective bioindicator of residual radioactivity, which means they can reflect the health of their local ecosystem.

“Snakes are good indicators of environmental contamination because they spend a lot of time in and on soil,” says James Beasley, an advisor for the study. “They have small home ranges and are major predators in most ecosystems, and they’re often relatively long-lived species.”

Rat snakes only travel around 65 meters at a time, and seek shelter underground during winter months, allowing them to accumulate high levels of radionuclides, which can be used to determine varying levels of contamination in their habitat.

This makes them far better indicators of local contamination than other animal species in the area such as wild boars, songbirds, or the East Asian raccoon dog.

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For those who don’t regularly read The Optimist Daily, the sheer volume of pandemic innovations may be surprising. Amplifying solutions and recognizing the forward progress that accompanies the crises we face is critical for building a collective consciousness that not only sees solutions but fights to implement them and share them with others.

News media plays a major role in influencing our perception of the world.

Whether we realize it or not, it determines how we feel about the future and our sense of autonomy over building better prospects for our children and grandchildren. In “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities,” historian Rebecca Solnit elaborates on the radical nature of hope in the face of challenging times, and how in fact, it is often in the face of despair that hope becomes the most powerful collective force that brings humanity together to take productive, positive action in the aftermath of disaster. Solnit writes, “This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both.”

She is writing about natural disasters, and about the stories we tell ourselves about these moments of transformation. Do we descend into despair and give up, or do we rise to the moment and take action? The choice is ours.

The possibilities embedded in moments of crisis are just some of the many advancements that routinely go overlooked in our modern media landscape.

Join us in shifting the narrative.

•MJ

“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.” – Zora Neale Hurston

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Letters (Continued from page 8) Eltinge, Tracey Singh, Lanny Sherwin, Joanne Moran, Robert Kemp, Cecile Lyons, Noelle Newton, Kathryn Washburn, Debbie DuBois, R. Sickafoose, Montecito Residents and Hands Across Montecito Outreach Team volunteers

A Modest Hero

My wife Melanie and I were privileged to know Jeanne Thayer in the last decade of her life. She was an amazing woman who lived history as we now read about it.

One story she shared with us concerned her stint at the Air Transport Command in Washington, D.C., during World War II. Not surprisingly and as the war progressed, she came to be seen as an extremely competent and highly trusted associate by the chain of command (my interpretation… she was far too modest to say). In the waning years of the war as armies gathered on the English coast for the continental assault, there was a message intended for senior command that was considered too sensitive to be trusted to the wires. Jean was tasked to make a personal delivery.

The journey took the form of a B17 bomber flight from Washington to the English coast. Anyone who has ever been in a B17 knows it to be a war machine with machine guns lined inside a metal hulk and without pressurized air to create frigid like temperatures during flight. Privy accommodations were primitive with zero consideration for female passengers. Jeanne, being who she was, gritted through, completed the mission, returned home and shortly thereafter began a whole new life.

Somehow this story encapsulates one of her greatest attributes — a sense of service and giving back. Be it service to country, community, public institutions, museums, and family, she left enduring impressions and greater good wherever she went.

Richard De Schutter

Lingering Questions Over Water

Why is it that in a severe drought anyone here in Montecito can drill a well?

Why is it that these people can freely use the ground water that the rest of us rely partially on?

Why is it that our water company — Montecito Water — has nothing to do with wells nor, apparently does the Planning Commission?

Why is it that neighbors are not notified of proposed drilling which is very noisy?

Why is it that our County Supervisor does not return calls about this issue?

If anyone has answers to these questions, I would appreciate hearing them.

Mary Wagner 29 July – 5 August 2021

In Need of Robot Companions

Can someone please invent a “Doggie Robot Playmate” so you, the dog owner, can leave your angel at home and, whether outside or in, he or she can be engaged and entertained so that the incessant barking ceases. I live in a dog-friendly neighborhood where it seems I am virtually surrounded by cute canines exuding enthusiasm and friendship when approached with hand extended. But alas, there is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde effect that occurs whenever dear doggie hears the Amazon truck, or UPS or Domino’s pulls up, or the gardener making his weekly visit; and God forbid a walker should pass by with her own leashed dog or a siren should sound from the distance as an emergency vehicle makes its way closer.

I have tried courteous notes explaining my unhappiness with the sudden and often-times lengthy cacophony of sound that erupts early in the morning, noon, and night. The response is usually equally courteous but also bewildered as to how to correct the situation and also incredulous when told their dog becomes immediately quiet once the familiar sound of their vehicle returns to the premises. Sadly, the noise pollution re-starts after a few days.

Listen, I am willing to invest in this robot to jump start things! Be it a commanding cyborg, a carousing canine companion, or a rough-housing robot that can throw a fetch stick or even a dictatorial robot that can give a resounding command to pipe-down the pooch. In this way maybe, nondog owners and responsible, empathetic dog owners alike can enjoy some peace and quiet in their own home. Am I asking too much?

J. W. Burk

Fauci Coddles Younger Americans

Dr. Fauci says “we will try anything and everything” to get people vaccinated, like appealing to trusted confidants of the unvaccinated to reason with them. (PBS Nightly News, July 19, 2021) Interestingly, Fauci does not even go near suggesting actual enforcement of public health law, the only thing that has ever worked in the history of the world to end epidemics.

Our infectious disease expert knows that today’s young people in their 20s and 30s will do very little in their own health interests unless and until they are forced to, just like when they were teenagers.

But the mouthpiece of two administrations also knows that rule of law is politically unpopular today, so he sides with libertarians who think no

one should ever be required to do anything against their will.

Here’s the thing. Our Millennials and (Gen) Zers are happy to do whatever is required of them at work in order to get their paychecks, at pain of firing if they don’t. Why can’t government require them to get vaccinated in order to get their good citizenship paychecks, at pain of fine or lengthy community service if they don’t?

Kimball Shinkoskey

School System Reconstruction Needed

I’d like to comment on Craig Westover’s letter to the editor (Montecito Journal, July 22) in which he ends his letter by promoting school choice. I couldn’t agree more. School reform should be a No. 1 priority to every citizen as the future of this country relies on the new generations to lead it in an intelligent, ethical, and moral path.

Unfortunately, a good portion of our graduates are woefully uneducated with basic skills, let alone knowing how our government performs in a constitutional republic. There are the fortunate parents that can put their children in private schools, but the majority are unable to bear the burden of the cost. I think it would be a good move for those who would be interested in private schools, to exempt them from public school taxes. Also, the charter schools should be a priority.

With that being said, I believe the public school system is here to stay for better or for worse which leads me to address the question Mr. Westover wonders about as to what gives Mr. Handy (a commenter from a previous letter who promotes Critical Race Theory teaching) and me (who oppose the teaching) the right to impose our views on those who do not share them. My answer is, if not us, then who should speak? We are taxpayers.

Our money is funding this public school system. Thousands of parents across the country are enraged with the CRT program and do not want their kids participating in it.

The bottom line is that all citizens of this country are affected now and in the future by the caliber of graduates from our schools and it is frightening to see how many are illiterate in the basics, but worse still is the hatred that is being taught toward our country.

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I believe a massive reconstruction of our school system, which includes the abolition of the massive and extremely political teachers unions is a good start.

Monica Bond

A Case of Fact vs. Fiction

(In response to) letters of Monica Bond (July 8), Danute Handy (July 15), and Craig Westover (July 22).

Historical and systemic racism in our country are undeniable facts. Bond admits that it is a history of which we are all very much aware. So, what part of this history should be banned — or cancelled? Should the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) not be taught in schools? How many (or few) of us were taught about the Tulsa Race Massacre (1921) prior to its 100th anniversary? Should we ignore the plain truth that Donald Trump started the “birther” conspiracy, claiming that our first Black president was not born in the U.S., and therefore not eligible to hold that office? Hate crimes are on the rise against African Americans, Asians, Muslims, and Jews. This is what happens when we sugarcoat history. These acts are overtly racist; acknowledging this reality is not.

As Bond correctly states, some “measures have gone into effect (trying) to remedy these areas of our history” and we should all thank her for the Civics lesson. However, while some measures have succeeded, others have failed or are being reversed. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees equal protection of the laws. But were George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others afforded that “equal” protection? The 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, promised the right to vote to every U.S. citizen over the age of 18. Yet, these rights are being undone by state legislatures across the country at this very moment.

Critical Race Theory teaches history; the good, the bad, the ugly — and the uncomfortable. Trying to bury these uncomfortable truths under the guise of faux patriotism encourages and perpetuates racism and divisiveness.

Bond’s letter is a perfect example of the dire consequences of not teaching the complete and unabridged version of history in our schools. The “choice” is fact vs. fiction. Where do you stand?

Robert Baruch •MJ

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Seen Around Town

Fiesta Ranchera Returns

Laurie Leis (Boys & Girls Clubs), Montecito Bank and Trust president George Leis, and 1999 El Presidente Scott Burns at Fiesta Ranchera

by Lynda Millner

La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow, co-host Amanda De Lucia from the Goleta Valley Historical Society, and Viena Zeitler

F

iesta Ranchera in Goleta is back in a smaller way. Instead of 1,000 attendees, there were not more than 100, but that didn’t stop the celebrants. They were just happy to see friends and neighbors without masks — some for the first time in a year.

Stow House was the background for the fête, and it was co-hosted by Old Spanish Days (OSD) and the Goleta Valley Historical Society.

Tony Ybarra’s band kept up the spirit with their flamenco music. The Junior and Senior Spirits Savannah Hoover and Ysabella Yturralde, respectively, received proclamations

from Goleta mayor pro tem James Kyriaco before dancing for us. It’s amazing how young they start, like Ysabella at age three. The executive director of Stow House Amanda De Lucia said, “We saw a lot of young local talent displayed and it was magnificent.”

Also, dancing were two guys and two gals from the Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts Studio.

There were live dance performances at both Los Arroyos Mexican Restaurant and the Nugget Bar and Grill.

It reminded me of when I lived in Spain. Everyone wore flamenco

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dresses and traje cortos (Spanish style jackets and trousers) for fiesta no matter what age. And we danced in the streets. All of us knew the “street” dance.

There will be one Mercado during Fiesta this year instead of two, but we had good samples this evening with tons of guacamole, salsa, and ceviche.

David Bolton, second vice president for OSD, reminded us that the sponsors were Community West Bank and Bartlett, Pringle & Wolf. This year instead of the businesses being asked to donate food it was time to thank them.

One of the posters was auctioned off for a high bid of $1,000. La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow explained how various family members of different generations had contributed to the poster design. Her Fiesta theme is “Honoring Generations.” She continued, “We’re really excited to be able to bring Fiesta back to our Santa Barbara community

La Casa de Maria Making Progress

It was so inspiring to see La Casa de Maria and the property coming to life because it was one of the most damaged from the 2018 debris flow. It borders San Ysidro Ranch and there were nine buildings destroyed — all the dorms and retreat center facilities.

They were servicing 12,000 folks a year before the mudslide.

Director of La Casa de Maria and Center for Spiritual Renewal Cindy Faith Swain welcomed neighbors to a late afternoon gathering and pizza party to talk about the future. We sat in front of the estate house at tables decked out in crayon colors of red, blue, purple, green, and yellow. The estate house escaped the mud. We sipped and savored with sparkling wine and so many different pizzas from the pizza truck that it was hard to choose.

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by Steven Libowitz

Empowering Women Through Financial Education

“Our full mission is to breed a just and equitable society through the economic empowerment of women.”

— Irene Kelly

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omen’s Economic Ventures has been helping women start and run businesses for more than 30 years, helping in a variety of ways to many of the local shops and services that provide the fabric of our community. Indeed, the statistics of its success are staggering: Nearly 50 percent of clients do end up starting a business, and 93 percent of existing ones are still operating.

More than 50 percent of clients have increased their income, and nearly 85 percent have moved out of poverty, with the average increase in sales and owner’s draw doubling.

On average, each WEV-assisted business employs two workers in addition to the owner, essentially tripling the impact of the aid, and those businesses have generated an estimated $15 million in local tax revenue.

But it isn’t done by smoke and mirrors, or even something as strictly tangible as just handing over money to eager entrepreneurs.

Instead, WEV’s financial education programming supports local business owners by increasing their financial preparedness, including not only providing access to resources and capital but also helping to improve understanding and create confidence in dealing with money and balance sheets. Plus, the nonprofit helps to ratchet up resiliency and the ability to respond to unexpected events — something quite important in our turbulent times locally that have included fire, floods, and other natural disasters as well as the COVID pandemic.

In short, WEV helps small business owners feel financially empowered.

“Our full mission is to breed a just and equitable society through the economic empowerment of women,” noted Irene Kelly, WEV’s Financial Education and Community Engagement Manager, who assumed her position less than two years ago. “If we want to achieve that, financial education has to be at the core of what we do. We have to make sure that all of our clients have access to financial education that is high quality.”

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“Everything we do is to support financial education, financial literacy, and financial empowerment,” Kelly said.

That extends to every aspect of what the organization does, she said, as WEV takes on the role of becoming the support circle for entrepreneurs.

“Our advisory services, our loan program, and our training programs — in each of those sections there is a financial empowerment piece, because it’s important that a business owner has clarity when it comes to business finances. With loans, you need to understand what’s happening with your numbers before applying for capital, and of course in a training program, even just in developing a business plan, a big part of that is to think about your numbers.”

In WEV’s and Kelly’s vision, financial empowerment is largely about taking the fear out of money: talking about it, managing and understanding numbers, and even facing a business’ numbers.

“After what we just went through with the pandemic — and the Thomas Fire and Montecito Debris Flow before that — a lot of our clients experienced so much anxiety just looking at their bank statements,” Kelly said. “It’s like a board game. If you don’t know the rules of the game, how are you going to play the game successfully? That’s why these past two years financial education has been a priority for us so we can help level the playing field and help women have access to how the system works. We can help them answer such questions as, what do I need to know and what are those basics, so that they can customize those lessons to their own financial life.”

To accomplish those goals, WEV has adjusted its focus to meet the perceived need. Kelly’s hiring was one step — her position didn’t exist prior to her arrival.

And WEV is also allocating additional dollars to dialing up financial literacy and empowerment.

“What has changed is that now we are making that statement that financial education is a social justice issue,” she explained. “We’re prioritizing funding to start more courses directly impacting financial education. We have personal finance courses and QuickBooks courses where we can help people take advantage of software that can help them manage their books and understand their numbers better. What has changed in the past two years is just a deeper priority of funding for these particular courses.”

The goal is to have its clients understand their numbers and balance sheets so clearly that “you’re going to be able to convey those numbers to investors, to a bank, to a financial institution that you’re asking for a loan,” she said, also noting that the bookkeeping course is geared toward alleviating an area of stress for small business owners who are often spread thin.

“You have to wear a lot of hats and one very important one is the CFO. We recommend people to delegate when they can, but it’s important that you understand what’s happening in the business and the principles that they need to apply.”

Part of Kelly’s position is also to expand WEV’s offerings not only to its clients but to the community at large through its partners. Simple deductive reasoning made that happen, she said.

“We’re noticing that if our clients didn’t have access to financial education before coming to us, that means that most of our community hasn’t had it either. We see it as our duty. If we want to create a just and equitable society, we at WEV have a role to play here. So, we are partnering with other community organizations so that we can provide financial education for them and for their staff and for their teams.”

COVID and the fires and flood the two years earlier put all these issues into perspective for WEV, with the organization recognizing the urgent need for making small business owners more resilient.

“No business owners should be in the dark, especially in a place like Santa Barbara County, where we have to prepare for the unexpected,” Kelly said.

“You have to know how much wiggle room you have if something goes wrong, be aware of your emergency savings, and how much it costs to operate if no money is coming in. Knowing that gives you peace of mind that every business owner should have.”

Women’s Economic Ventures’ website is www.wevonline.org. Contact Kathy Odell, CEO at (805) 689-4739.

•MJ

“People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.” – Curtis Jackson

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In the Know (Continued from page 6)

The Cantins would also inherit an army of volunteers — mostly UCSB undergraduates — willing to spend countless hours researching, testing, monitoring, and innovating amid the Montecito terrain that is still very much in the midst of its healing process.

“I had students driving every day from Los Angeles to come and dig in the hot sun for eight hours and then drive home to Los Angeles,” Kurin said. “They put thousands of miles on their cars. Why? Because Jack was their age. They saw Kim, and they saw hope and resilience. They were inspired.

“One student told me, ‘If Jack were here, he’d be leading this team.’”

Kurin found an ideal mix of tenacity and science, with the former coming in the form of thousands upon thousands of manpower hours, the latter by utilizing lasers, soil tests, and habitat recreation in order to find the tiniest of clues.

The laser — or X-ray fluorescence — has the ability to break down the composition of anything it is pointed at, with Kurin explaining that if you pointed it at a chocolate chip cookie, it gives you a rundown of the ingredients. This proved fruitful as her team tested soil, allowing them to scale down the 110-plus acres into smaller pockets of higher interest.

The team also buried pig heads to see how the remains would decay and what could be found in the soil chemistry, a process that could also be utilized on human remains, again limiting the footprint of the search.

At every turn, the group of anthropologists were buoyed by small discoveries, with materials being found that could only be the product of a post-debris flow world.

Kim Cantin says that “a weight has been lifted” after 42 months of searching for her first born ended in successfully finding him (Photo by Nick Masuda)

Kim still finds levity when reflecting on what her SUV’s trunk looked like most days for the past three years — a shovel and boots were commonplace.

She remembers being at the store and being asked if she was burying something.

“Quite the opposite,” Kim quipped.

The wear and tear of the journey did begin to weigh heavily on Kim just before Thanksgiving in 2019, where she made a deal with herself: Either progress is made by the end of the holiday, or “I’m going to let go.”

It was around this time that a pair of conversations would change the course of the investigation forever — and bring Jack home.

“Little did I know, the help we needed was just 15 minutes down the road,” Kim said.

“All the hope. All the prayers. The determination, it helped us find a needle in the haystack.”

— Kim Cantin

‘If Jack were here, he’d be leading this team’

As Kim was coming to grips with potentially letting “God’s will” take over, she was discussing the case with a detective friend, going over every step that she, the volunteer rescue teams, and countless others had done to try and find Jack.

“You need a forensic anthropologist,” he would tell her.

“I didn’t even know that they existed,” Kim admitted.

Soon, a note was being sent off to Dr. Danielle Kurin at UCSB, a last-ditch effort to see if new eyes and ideas could spark the search.

Kim received a prompt reply.

“I can be in your living room as soon as tomorrow,” said Kurin, a forensic anthropologist that has worked in international disaster areas such as Peru.

Kim was in awe of what she would now have at her fingertips as Kurin readily took on the task of helping the community, and herself, find closure.

Kurin was just the latest expert from UCSB to volunteer to help Montecito heal from its January 2018 debris flow. She was following in the footsteps of massive contributions to debris flow science from UCSB’s hydrology, geology, and earth sciences departments.

Already having spent thousands to bring in technology and machinery from as far as Canada, Kim was stunned that similar equipment was sitting at UCSB the entire time.

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“I had students driving every day from Los Angeles to come and dig in the hot sun for eight hours and then drive home to Los Angeles. They put thousands of miles on their cars. Why? Because Jack was their age. They saw Kim, and they saw hope and resilience. They were inspired. One student told me, ‘If Jack [Cantin] were here, he’d be leading this team.’”

— Danielle Kurin

For Kurin, it was even more than that, as taking on a second full-time job became personal.

“What really struck me is that when a mother cries,” Kurin said. “That sound is the same in any language. I’ve worked with families who have had family members disappear.

“The idea of not knowing harms the human soul. And so, what we all wanted to do was to provide as much certainty as we could. For Kim. For this community.”

In just 18 months, Kurin and her crew succeeded in their quest, even if the initial communication of good news felt like any other day, with Kurin texting Kim, asking if she wanted an update on the day’s progress.

As Kim cooked one of Lauren’s favorite meals — a dish featuring chicken, artichokes, and chickpeas — she connected with Kurin.

“Kim, we found a bone,” Kim remembers Kurin telling her. “And we think it’s Jack.”

Kim almost didn’t know how to react.

“It was relief. It was almost disbelief,” Kim said. “I had been looking for so long. It almost felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.”

Yet, she couldn’t tell the world, as the bones still needed to be tested, a 45-day process that left Kim tight-lipped.

In that time, she also reflected on how proud she was of Jack, who somehow was still impacting the world, with both Kim and Kurin believing that the learnings from this search can be applied to other disasters around the world.

“What a legacy for Jack, to have pushed us to think about things differently,” Kim said.

Yet, his final act was seemingly for his mom.

At the site where Jack’s body was recovered, the surface area was tinged with arsenic, lead, and rusty iron — none of which are conducive to flourishing plant life.

But this particular spot was overtaken by Jack’s soul, manifested in a beautiful set of flowers.

“It was Jack’s remains that allowed them to grow,” Kurin said. “It was the perfect gift for his mother.

“A lasting memory that will allow her to heal.”

•MJ

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Notes from Abroad On The Road Again

By James Buckley

A plaque outside this elementary school says (in French), “In memory of the students of this school deported between 1942 and 1944 because they were Jewish, innocent victims of the barbarous Nazis and the government of Vichy. More than 1,200 children from the 11th arrondissement were exterminated in the death camps. Never forget.” The plaque was placed there only recently on January 24, 2004. There are remembrances of these kinds all over Paris.

The Euro 2020 soccer tournament crowds were no doubt part of the reason for the recent resurgence of COVID19 in France

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’m in Paris. And I arrived as soon as I could.

Yes, masks are required everywhere at the airport, but once inside the lounge and sitting at one’s own table, off comes the mask and in goes the American-style breakfast, excellent espresso coffee, and a glass of champagne to celebrate the start of a long trip. I left L.A. in the afternoon on the 11-hour nonstop to Paris on June 14 and arrived the following day, June 15, just six days after France opened to American travelers. And, you should know (thanks to my well-traveled son, Tim), we found a pretty sweet deal, as we purchased my ticket in February, just as COVID-19 was tearing through France and no one was traveling.

Allowing me, quite naturally, to fly business class at a steep discount.

So, if you are thinking of traveling

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So, go. Now! As for what to take, another piece of advice is: travel light. I’ll be gone for three months, yet I’m traveling with only my computer and one piece of carry-on luggage. I did forget to retrieve my belt from customs before boarding, but that just made my suitcase lighter. Congratulations to the man or woman who planned

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The fully reclinable seat was easy to maneuver, and a glass of excellent Laurent-Perrier champagne was quickly served before takeoff.

The flight began mid-afternoon and lunch service began not long after reaching cruising altitude — and what a lunch it was. The meal featured a tasting menu created by Michelinstarred chef Daniel Rose, chef/partner of Le Coucou in New York and chef/ owner of Chez La Vieille, La Bourse, and La Vie in Paris. OK, I read that and said to myself, “yeah, right.” But my skepticism was entirely misplaced.

This was the best airline meal I’ve ever had in any section, anywhere. Hands down. Not only could passengers choose from several excellent red and white wines (Pouilly-Fumé, Chablis, Margaux, etc.) chosen by Paolo Basso, voted “best sommelier of the world” in 2013, but we were also coddled with aperitifs before our meal and then digestifs such as cognac, Armagnac, pear brandy, Chartreuse, and very old Calvados afterwards. In the interest of journalism, I fully partook of the aged

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Calvados, a drink of which I am quite fond: the older the better.

But, but what about the meal? Ah yes, lunch. For starters there was a unique and absolutely delicious lobster salad, in a mélange of smoked pork fillet, marinated fennel, pear, and pecorino cheese. The main dish was a pan-fried tournedos (beef) with a red wine sauce flavored with coffee and spices. The other options were chicken fillet, chorizo and chili pepper emulsion, potato purée (mashed potatoes) with garlic and confit (pressed and cured) bell pepper, and pan-fried

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On Entertainment Packed to the Gill:

by Steven Libowitz

Zach Talks ALO, Going Solo, and Lobero

shot. It felt like we were back in college, and it was awesome. It was so sweet.

We were laughing the whole time. I just fell in with such good company with Jack and with my wife and so many of my friends from Isla Vista. I know that doesn’t happen to everybody when they go to college, so I try not to take it for granted.

You don’t live too far from Isla Vista where things first clicked for you. How does your time in IV resonate for you when you look back? Is it more, “I can’t believe I did that” or is some part of you still there?

There’s a part of me that’s always there. I will probably bring that part with me to the Lobero. There was a spirit of openness, the kind of thing where if you were playing music on the street corner, all of a sudden people joined in like the way some music festivals are in Northern California. I was lucky to be there when IV was still small enough that it felt like a tight-knit community.

You ended up making some interesting music during the pandemic. How did that come about?

Whenever things are hard psychologically or spiritually or mentally, my go-to is generally to be creative and try to channel it into something. That’s just the beautiful thing about music and art in general, where you are so into it that hours go by and suddenly you look up and wow, it’s time to go to bed. Maybe it was escapism, but I wrote a lot of songs. It was definitely a grieving period for things lost, but then also there was a sense of things being born, and some back and forth.

We’re told you’re going to draw from your solo catalog, ALO, and covers for the concert at the Lobero. What can we expect?

I’ve got a list of 20 songs which is too many, but for sure I’ll be doing the ones that are group songs with the other musicians. There are some pretty fun covers that I picked out. The thing is I’m so used to playing in Santa Barbara at SOhO where there aren’t any seats. But this is a theater so I don’t know if people will dance or if they’re even allowed to. I’m imagining a moment like at the end of Dirty Dancing where all of a sudden everybody is feeling it and they just get up and dance.

Zach Gill will play a free show at the Lobero Theatre on July 31

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ongtime Santa Barbara-based multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Zach Gill has led a multi-dimensional musical life even before meeting soon-to-be surf singer-songwriter superstar Jack Johnson in Isla Vista and then forming the Animal Liberation Orchestra (now ALO) with childhood friends. Over 20-plus years of moving between ALO’s annual “Tour D’Amours,” band recordings, sitting in and going on the road with Johnson, writing movie soundtracks, and putting out a handful of solo projects, Gill has barely had time to catch his breath.

The pandemic lockdown offered a welcomed opportunity to slow down, which Gill took advantage of, but he also used the time to shift gears just a bit into an unexpected, mostly instrumental foray that found him writing and recording a mostly instrumental album called Cocktail Yoga that came out last fall. The album featured what can most accurately be called sonic ecosystems that reflected the musical snippets created in his home studio near Ellwood Mesa merged with sounds recorded in nature.

This weekend, Gill emerges for his first live local gig since the lockdown in a free show at the Lobero Theatre offered by the venue as a welcome-back event featuring several other local musicians. He talked about his history and his intention for the four-hour show slated for July 31, that also features Spencer the Gardener, guitarist-composer (and arts scribe) Joe Woodard, and the local luminaries laden Tableaux Sonique, Brazilian New Bossa vocalist-guitarist Teka, and analog synth family trio Volt per Octaves.

Q. You’ve been playing with your ALO bandmates Steve Adams (who will be at the Lobero) and Dan Lebowitz since junior high. What keeps you guys working together?

A. I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I really love those guys. They’re such great musicians and it’s such a joy to get to grow up with people and see them grow into themselves. I probably wouldn’t have always told you that at every point in our relationship, but now it’s just so cool. It’s so good whenever we get together that it doesn’t matter what that magic thing is. Maybe it is just love and longevity — things get better with time. It’s intoxicating.

Does your connection with Jack Johnson also feel that way?

We haven’t known each other quite as long, but my god we just always clicked. Just the other day we were recording together, adding some tracks and a video to something by Matt Costa. I was playing keyboards, and Jack had his ukulele, and he put his iPhone camera so it was facing the mirror so it would pick both of us up, and we both had to stand in these weird ways to be in the 29 July – 5 August 2021

3Qs with Shorts Fest curator Lynn Holley

After three years and five festivals screening at SBCAST, Lynn Holley’s 3 Minute Film Festival is going back online for its ninth iteration, with all 31 selections culled from twice as many entries from a dozen countries being screened on its website beginning August 1. Dubbed “The best little boutique film festival on an international platform,” the fest is known for attracting some of the most diverse films imaginable from directors who accept the challenge of limiting themselves to creating something that runs under 180 seconds.

Holley, who also runs the International Fine Arts Film Festival, talked about selecting entries for the super-short categories that will screen online at www.3MinuteFilmFestival.com through September.

Q. How did you start the 3 Minute Film Festival?

A. I was at SBCAST trying to figure out how I could do more film festivals beyond the International Festival, and someone suggested making the films shorter. Everything in the world is three— the Rule of 3, three strikes you’re out, things like that. It’s very attractive to new filmmakers to have to make something that’s only three minutes long, whether in digital or film or whatever format they’re working in. You can actually complete your film without a big budget. On the other hand, it can be difficult because it’s like giving a speech — it’s harder to be short. But the truth is, some of the best ones we’ve had in the festival are actually one-minute long.

Given that we’ve been living with the pandemic for almost more than 15 months, is this festival reflective of our times?

The majority of things coming in are extremely contemporary, covering both COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement. The animation is also superb this year, and they’re coming from younger people for the most part, ones who are studying here at very fine film schools.

It’s hard to be anything other than direct with a super short film, I imagine. How, then, are the films adjudicated?

Well, I curate all of the films in terms of making the decision of what gets into the film festival as an official selection. The judges have free rein over their categories, but it’s getting a little bit more fine-tuned lately. For me, in both the animation and narrative categories, I’m looking at whether there’s a story that they’re telling and if they tell it well. The experimental category can be almost anything, so there’s different criteria. It’s more about if it’s entertaining and if there is any value to the filmmaking.

•MJ

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

THURSDAY, JULY 29 Pre-Fiesta Flamenco – Santa Barbara Historical Museum, whose Old Spanish Days Fiesta Poster Art Show and Project Fiesta history of the parade has been running all month, goes live almost a full week before Fiesta arrives. Tablao Museo is an intimate flamenco show under the stars featuring musicians and dancers from Santa Barbara to Spain who will share their passion for the traditional art form. Among the artists are Manuel Gutierrez, Gerardo Morales, Andres Vadin, Maria “LA Chacha” Bermudez, Timo Nuñez, Talia Ortega Vestal, and the local dance company Flamenco Santa Barbara. Guests will be welcomed to a reception boasting grilled-on-the-spot tacos and hosted margaritas and wine a full hour before the performance starts seducing the audience into being transported to Andalucía in the old country.

WHEN: 7-9 pm WHERE: 136 East De La Guerra Street COST: $50+ INFO: (805) 966-1601 or www.sbhistorical.org FRIDAY, JULY 30 Country Stars Come Out at Night – Surfer’s Point Live continues to swing back into post-COVID-restrictions action, following up last weekend’s Tequila & Taco Festival with a double bill of popular country artists. While Rodney Atkins’ first studio album, 2003’s Honesty, never rose above No. 50 on the country chart (although the title song reached No. 4 on the

singles chart), his next one, If You’re Going Through Hell, released three years later, quickly hit No. 1. The album spawned four successive No. 1 country hits with the first two — “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)” and “Watching You” — each spending four weeks at the top of the country music chart. Both were also ranked as the top country songs of 2006 and 2007, respectively. Headliner Scotty McCreery has enjoyed even quicker (and crossover) success, rising to fame after winning the 10th season of American Idol in 2011. “I Love You This Big,” his coronation song from the reality show, peaked just outside the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, but his debut album, Clear as Day, out just a few months later, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and soon also topped the allgenre Billboard 200. His most recent record, 2018’s Seasons Change, has continued his hot streak, topping the Country chart while making it to No. 7 on the Billboard 200. His fifth album, titled Same Truck, is set for release in September, so we imagine tonight’s concert at the beach-adjacent Seaside Park in Ventura will offer a sneak preview of much of the material.

WHEN: 5-10 pm WHERE: Surfer’s Point at Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $35, children 10 and under free INFO: www.surferspointlive.com Handmade Tasty Cakes at EOS – Anna Moss & the Nightshades, the New Orleans “bedroom pop” project

ONLINE ONLY Claypool & the Quartet – Country singer-songwriter Philip Claypool, who scored a few country hits with his debut album back in 1995, then had a 15-year hiatus between his second and third albums, has been a longtime friend of the Granada Theatre. He’s appeared more than once at the venue’s Upstairs at the G series of shows in the Founder’s Room. This past March, the Granada Theatre, which was marking the one-year anniversary of being closed to live audiences, hosted Claypool again, this time fronting the Campfire Quartet, a foursome he has been working with for the past few years. The singer, who Rolling Stone once described as having a voice of “leather and velvet,” and the classically trained musicians took to the venerable stage to showcase Claypool’s music in what the Granada is calling essentially a live rehearsal that featured unique arrangements of well-known popular songs and one of his own originals. The show can be seen on the Granada’s YouTube page at www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSU8nOO3gPg.

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by Steven Libowitz

THURSDAY, JULY 29 Narcissus for a Modern Age – A. Natasha Joukovsky’s debut novel The Portrait of a Mirror, out for less than two months, has already won rapturous praise from fellow authors and critics alike. Described as “a stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners,” the book follows two young and well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, “Mirror” has been called an “exquisitely self-reflexive debut (from) a sharp new voice in fiction” for details that parallel with some of the author’s own experiences as an English major who wound up working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before pivoting into management consulting. Vulture called the novel “Gossip Girl meets The Secret History,” and praised Joukovsky’s “ability to both skewer and sympathize with her characters (in a way that) would impress Edith Wharton herself.” Joukovsky will chat with Chaucer’s Books’ Greg Philson as part of the bookstore’s virtual series.

WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: https://zoom.us/j/94554206312 COST: Free INFO: (805) 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com of the leader of Handmade Moments, which offers up its own homey Ozark stew of jazz, old-time country, blues, soul, and more, returns to EOS Lounge for an outdoor show tonight.

Also on the bill: Cheyenne Skye & The Tasty Cakes, whose music has been called a dynamic sound inspired by such artists as Patsy Cline, Nina Simone, and Janis Joplin and ranging from soulful love ballads to energetic stomp-alongs producing a delicious blend of humor, romance, funk, and feel-good grooves.

WHEN: 5-10 pm WHERE: Lot 500 at EOS Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. COST: $10 INFO: www.eoslounge.com/#eosevents-section SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 Fiesta Reception Relocated – The annual La Recepción del Presidente, which heralds the official start of Fiesta, Santa Barbara’s famous weeklong Old Spanish Days celebration, has a new location for 2021. Instead of the Plaza del Sol at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, the event that celebrates both the festival and its new president of the year will take place at The Carriage and Western Art Museum, where many of the wonderful classic vehicles seen each year in the annual Fiesta Parade (which is one of the few Fiesta events not being held this year in deference to the pandemic) are stored. La Recepción starts with guests, who arrive decked out in

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colorful Fiesta attire, being personally greeted by the official receiving line for current La Presidenta Stephanie Petlow, plus her family members and other local dignitaries, before enjoying a Mexican buffet dinner and festive cocktails along with entertainment from local musicians and dancers including the Spirit and Junior Spirit of Fiesta who showcase their winning dances and more as one of the highlights of the event.

WHEN: 5-9 pm WHERE: 129 Castillo Street COST: $110 INFO: (805) 962-8101 or www.sbfiesta.org Bakersfield Blues in the Funk Zone – Rip Cat Records recording artist Jon English, better known as Orphan Jon, is a Bakersfield native who often tours with his band called The Abandoned. Earlier this year, English teamed up with Santa Barbara’s own Alastair Greene to not only produce but co-write most of the songs and serve as the guitarist on the recording of his new album, the yet-to-be-released follow-up to 2019’s Reckless Abandon. Now OJATA, as the group is known, is heading out on the road for its “Bakersfield Blues Tour,” bringing a new vibe, twist, and feel to his already fun-filled show that has been his stock in trade since first landing on the blues scene back in 2015. The show is rooted in the music of his hometown that takes its rightful place alongside the country genre “Bakersfield Sound” since the days of Buck Owens, offering 29 July – 5 August 2021

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 La Fiesta Pequeña – After a year where the Fiesta was drastically scaled back to the point where the Spirits of Fiesta were forced to dance only on the KEYT-TV patio, the traditional and wildly popular opening of Old Spanish Days Fiesta returns to its home on the steps of the Santa Barbara Mission. One of Santa Barbara’s most anticipated events of the year, La Fiesta Pequeña — whose name that translates to “small party” – is something of a misnomer as the spectacular is wildly popular, drawing thousands to the historic site and across the street in the great lawn in front of the rose garden. The night of traditional music and dancing in colorful costumes— including appearances by 2021 Junior Spirit Savannah Hoover and 2021 Spirit of Fiesta Ysabella Yturralde — kicks off festivities for the 97th annual celebration, which continues with myriad events (although no parades) through Sunday.

WHEN: 6:30 pm WHERE: Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St. COST: Free INFO: (805) 962-8101 or www.sbfiesta.org up English’s take on a style that is also endemic to the town. The tour features his longtime friend, mentor, fellow Rip Cat artist and Bakersfield’s own Bunky Spurling on guitar, with a rhythm section of Jason Blakely on drums and Ray Sadolsky on bass. Special guests are also promised, so perhaps we’ll see a cameo by the great guitarist Greene, who joined OJATA for a few dates last spring.

WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: Seven Bar & Kitchen, 224 Helena Ave. COST: Free INFO: (805) 845-0377 or www.sev ensb.com or https://orphanjon.com THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 Art Matters Lecture – The Santa Barbara Museum of Art won’t be participating in the first post-pandemic 1st Thursday today as its Grand Reopening Celebration to mark the museum’s 80th anniversary and unveiling the results of a six-year, $50 million renovation project doesn’t

take place until mid-month. But the museum is still staying in touch with the local art lover’s community via its Art Matters Lecture series albeit online for one more time. Bart J.C. Devolder, the Chief Conservator at the Princeton University Museum of Art, will present “Restoration/Revelation: The Conservation Treatment of the Ghent Altarpiece,” a discussion of the 1432 work by Jan and Hubert van Eyck.

Considered one of the most iconic works of western art as it embodies the birth of new skills and vision, the Ghent Altarpiece is still housed in Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, the site for which it was created. Devolder shares remarkable discoveries from the first and second phases of the ongoing conservation and restoration treatment by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage that turned the restoration into a revelation.

WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Zoom COST: Free INFO: (805) 963-4364 or https://tick ets.sbma.net •MJ

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 1st Thursday is Back!

Heeding the pleas of galleries and other gathering places on lower State Street, the Downtown Organization has decided to re-launch the popular monthly art-and-culture night for the first time in 17 months.

Participating galleries and art-related venues will once again vie for visitors via offering free access to visual and performing arts in a social environment, with many locations boasting art openings, artists receptions, live music, lectures, wine tastings, and/or hands-on activities for the thrilling three-hour window.

WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and side streets COST: Free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www.downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday 29 July – 5 August 2021

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Notice Inviting Bids HYDROELECTRIC PENSTOCK AIR BINDING MODIFICATIONS Bid No. 4040 1.

Bid Submission. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its Hydroelectric Penstock Air Binding Modifications Project (“Project”), by or before Wednesday, August 11, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to submit a Bid proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids, so plan accordingly.

The receiving time on the PlanetBids server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, hardcopy, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

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Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at Tunnel Trail, which is off Tunnel Road, in unincorporated Santa Barbara County, east of the City of Santa Barbara, and is described as follows: Demolish and remove existing concrete structure, 36-inch cast iron pipe, 20-inch ductile iron pipe, and 12-inch corrugated metal pipe; salvage 36inch and 30-inch valves; protect existing electrical infrastructure and tunnel arch; install approximately 12 LF of new 20-inch diameter ductile iron water main including fittings, and other appurtenances; reconnect 12-inch corrugated metal pipe; construct cast in place concrete bulkhead, pad, and curbs and; concrete rehabilitation of existing tunnel arch face and tunnel floor; and provide flow bypass if required by the City.

2.2 Time for Final Completion. The Project must be fully completed within 60 working days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about September 15, 2021, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

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Estimated Cost. The estimated construction cost is $170,000.

2.4 Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A bidders’ conference will be held on August 3, 2021, at 2:00 p.m., at the following location: the intersection of Tunnel Trail and Tunnel Road, near the intersection of Spyglass Ridge Road, Owl Ridge Road, Tunnel Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 for the purpose of acquainting all prospectivebidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The site is approximately a one-half mile uphill hike on a public access trail from the meeting point. Attendance at the bidders’ conference is mandatory.

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License and Registration Requirements.

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by Guy Dolev of the Planning Commission’s decision to approve a Coastal Development Permit for a 3,151-square-foot light industrial building with outdoor staging and storage area located at 2 S. Quarantina Street. The project site is a 1.26-acre vacant lot located at the southwest corner of Quinientos and S. Quarantina Streets, located in the Non-Appealable jurisdiction of the City’s coastal zone. The subject application (PLN2019-00585; CDP201900033) was filed on November 25, 2019.

If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing.

You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

In order to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being, the city council currently holds all meetings electronically. As a public health and safety precaution, the council chambers will not be open to the general public. Councilmembers and the public may participate electronically.

On Thursday, August 5, 2021, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, August 10 2021, including the public hearing to consider this appeal, will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor.

(SEAL)

3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager Published July 28, 2021 Montecito Journal

§ 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

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Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: http://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959 A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

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

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Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

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

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

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Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bonds, each for 100% of the Contract Price, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

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

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

11. Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders for more detailed information before submitting a Bid Proposal. The definitions provided in Article 1 of the General Conditions apply to all of the Contract Documents, as defined therein, including this Notice Inviting Bids.

By:

Date: _7 _/_ 1_ 9_ /2 _0 _21 William Hornung, CPM, General Services Manager

Publication Dates: 1) Wednesday, July 21, 2021

2) Wednesday, July 28, 2021

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Adorn by Alexandra Riley, 1050 Golf Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Adorn by Alexandra Riley, 1050 Golf Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 22, 2021. 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).

FBN No. 2021-0001827. Published July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KISMET Montecito, 1470 E Valley Rd, Suite J, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lindsay Eckardt, 4750 Calle Camarada, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2021. 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).

FBN No. 2021-0002053. Published July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as:

Tony’s Boat Wax and Detail, 132 Harbor Way Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Antonio Aguayo, 1461 S Jameson Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0002048. Published July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Imagine, 1470 East Valley Rd, STE X, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Imagine Artful Things, INC, 1470 East Valley Rd, STE X, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 7, 2021. 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).

FBN No. 2021-0001975. Published July 21, 28, August 4, 11, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elite Riviera International, 4675 Greenhill Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Jessy Lee, 4675 Greenhill

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

INVITATION FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5911 DUE DATE & TIME: SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. AUDIO DSP UPGRADE Scope of Work: City Council Chamber and David Gebhard Room DSP Audio Project Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

If further information is needed, contact Caroline Ortega, Senior Buyer at (805) 564-5351 or email: COrtega@santabarbaraca.gov A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 11, 2021 at 1:00 p.m., at City Hall located at 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting. All attendees are responsible for bringing, wearing a facemask on-site, following current CDC and Santa Barbara County Public Health social distancing guidelines.

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

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

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

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

Prevailing wage rates are available at http://www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/PWD/index.htm It is the duty of the contractor and subcontractors to employ registered apprentices and to comply with all aspects of Labor Code § 1777.5. There are penalties required for contractor’s/subcontractor’s failure to pay prevailing wages and for failure to employ apprentices, including forfeitures and debarment under Labor Code §§ 1775, 1776, 1777.1, 1777.7 and 1813.

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

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

A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of Section 4104 of the Public Contract Code, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently licensed to perform the work and registered pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5 without limitation or exception. It is not a violation of this section for an unlicensed contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Section 7029.1 of the Business and Professions Code or by Section 20103.5 of the Public Contract Code, provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

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

CERTIFICATIONS In accordance with California Public Contracting Code § 3300, the City requires the Contractor to possess a valid California C7 Low Voltage Systems contractor’s license at time the bids are opened and to continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

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

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Published: July 28, 2021 Montecito Journal

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Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2021. 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).

FBN No. 2021-0001889. Published July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fern and Fig Real Estate, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460. Sean Blackman, 2875 Baseline Avenue, Santa Ynez, CA 93460.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 1, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001934.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Trippers & Askers, 406 E. Haley Street #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Untidy Activity LLC, 1966 E. Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001776.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fiber-Seal of Santa Barbara, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Joseph J Del Bonis, 421 1/2 East Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 14, 2021.

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). FBN No. 2021-0001743.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 750MLS, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Stephane Colling, 1337 Virginia Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001783.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as:

Haigh Holdings, INC, 107 S Signal St, Ojai, CA 93023. Haigh Holdings, INC, 1187 Coast Village Rd – STE 1-284, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 16, 2021. 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). FBN No. 2021-0001775.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UPS Store 2342, 315 Meigs Rd Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Urban Urth LLC, 11955 Vara Place, Granada Hills, CA 91344. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 28, 2021.

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). FBN No. 2021-0001879.

Published July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV02659. To all interested parties: Petitioner Cecilie Stefanie Lande filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Cecilia Stefanie Lande. 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 22, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: September 17, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/28, 8/4, 8/11, 8/18 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 21CV02320. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sarakan Arulthasan filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Sarangan Arulthasan. 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 30, 2021 by Terri Chavez. Hearing date: August 20, 2021 at 10 am in Dept. 4, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28

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stone quarried from the creek. Sadly, Milley had to sell the estate because of the stock market crash of 1929.

In 1932, John de Blois Wack purchased and completed the house. It had nine fireplaces and was a classic beauty. Many grand events were held including a concert conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

In 1942, Wack sold the property to Mother Eucharia, Mother superior of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart in Los Angeles as a novitiate site for young women entering the order. In 1943, four sisters and 12 aspiring novices moved in.

The Casa will always have a special place in my heart because Don and I were married there almost 20 years ago. It will still be a while before it is open to the public again, but we look forward to the time when we can take a walk through that treasured land once more.

Donations are welcome to complete the renovation. They need millions. You can mail them to Cindy Faith Swain at 888 San Ysidro Lane, Montecito, California 93108.

•MJ

Director of the Immaculate Heart Community Kathleen Buczko, Stephanie Glatt Emerita, and Juliet Spohn Twomey

La Casa de Maria director Cindy Faith Swain

there to explain their plans for renovating the property. Mark Rios said, “We want to be inclusive, be modestly elegant, and yet simple with the building and landscaping.” Mark has had a second home in Montecito for 20 years, so he understands the community. There was going to be a cistern installed the next day. The architect Naseema Asif and landscape architect Elisabeth Weinstein spoke as well.

What is La Casa’s mission? “To serve as a peaceful sanctuary for groups and individuals as they renew purpose,

strengthen community, and increase their effectiveness in the world.”

La Casa is situated on 26 acres along the banks of the San Ysidro Creek.

The Center for Spiritual Renewal was founded in 1955 by the then Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for women entering sisterhood. Today it is a retreat center open to all faiths and disciplines dedicated to helping people reconnect and recharge physically, emotional, and spiritually.

The property history begins with the Chumash many moons ago. They

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By Pete Muller & Andrew White For each of the first five mini crosswords, one of the entries also serves as part of a five-word meta clue. The answer to the meta is a word or phrase (five letters or longer) hidden within the sixth mini crossword. The hidden meta answer starts in one of the squares and snakes through the grid vertically and horizontally from there (no diagonals!) without revisiting any squares.

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Emmanuelle de Beauregard was president of the jury of this year’s Concours International des Chocolats held in Paris Edith Gassion-Piaf (Madame Lamboukas) lies beneath here with her father, Alphonse Gassion, her second husband Theo Sarapo Lamboukas, and her daughter Marcelle (from her first husband), who died at the age of two.

snapper with a citrus sauce, sautéed zucchini, and potato. Dessert consisted of a small and delicate trio: raspberry cheesecake, chocolate square, and a morello cherry financier cake.

You would not have been happier had you been in one of Rose’s Parisian restaurants. How the cooks and the crew were able to put together such a

fine meal in an airplane is a mystery.

The flight was as smooth as a crossing could be, with perhaps two minutes — and only once — of “please fasten your seatbelts” because of some reported turbulence up ahead, which turned out to be non-existent. The seatbelt-fasten sign never went on again until we were preparing our descent into Charles de Gaulle.

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Nadia Sobral Do Amaral, left, and Anna Météyer represented the family-owned and run vintner (since 1860) Météyer Père & Fils (in the famous blue bottle) at this tasting at the offices of APE. Their vineyards are in Trélousur-Marne (about 35 kilometers from Reims and maybe 100 kilometers from Paris); it’s worth noting that this is one fine bottle of bubbly and would make for a special treat for a favorite oenophile.

date was lifted three days after my arrival, but masks are still required in virtually every indoor venue. The first soccer match between World Champion France and runner-up Germany in this year’s European Championship competition took place the second day after I arrived. These two teams are perennial rivals (think New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox), but this was just the first game of a lengthy elimination tournament, so there wasn’t much at stake. Yet, the Parisians went all out.

Every bar, brasserie, café, pizza joint, and restaurant had giant TV screen setups. Most everyone sat at tables and chairs outside — unmasked, of course.

Men and women wore the redwhite-and-blue colors of the French flag, and many (both sexes) painted their faces, too. When France scored its first (and only) goal, crowds all over Paris, and particularly in the neighborhood where I was staying just off Boulevard Beaumarchais, stood to sing a full-throated “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem. Maybe a little beer and wine helped, but it was a moving expression of a certain kind of patriotism. They were French; they were Parisians; they were outdoors and free again, and damned if their team didn’t win. Final score was 1-0 in favor of France.

Luckily, the French team lost early in the tournament so these scenes were not repeated much after their departure, and one could see what

the result of so much yelling and drinking was going to be: a resurgence of COVID-19. Sure enough, a couple weeks later caseloads began another rise and complete freedom from the scourge would have to wait.

Again.

Among my journalistic endeavors in Paris was attending a chocolate and champagne tasting at the offices of l’Association de la Presse Etrangere en France (APE). Emmanuelle de Beauregard, an expert on all things chocolate, who served as president of the jury of this year’s Concours International des Chocolats in Paris, officiated. She introduced us to chocolate from all over the globe, many from Africa and South America.

Argentina won the informal taste test.

Members of the Météyer Champagne clan were also on hand and supplied a memorable tasting of the kind of Champagne the family has been making for over 160 years.

Hotel de la Marine

The press corps was among the first to inspect the newly renovated Hotel de la Marine on Place de la Concorde not far from the Louvre.

The “Hotel” was a stopping off point for the rich and powerful who were in Paris to see the king, much like the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C., where visiting dignitaries stay.

Louis XV hired First Architect to the King, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, to design this building and another identical one (now the five-star Hôtel de Crillon) nearby, creating what was then the place Louis XV. Construction began in 1757 and both buildings were finished by 1774. The Hotel de la Marine underwent a complete restoration beginning in 2015 and it had just opened for inspection less than a week before I got here. It’s certainly worth a visit if you have some extra time in Paris. Right nearby, a brandnew La Samaritaine department store finally opened after nearly 15 years of renovation, and it looks nothing like its former 19th century self.

I’ll be back in a fortnight to report on a two-week intensive French language course in Sancerre, and a trip up the Rhone from Avignon (where a month-long arts & culture festival was taking place) to Lyon.

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In addition to their primary care services for patients over age 16, Sidavanh also offers IV infusion therapy for a host of different concerns ranging from fatigue to excess weight. From high dose Vitamin C to hydration therapy and antioxidant formulas, the infusion therapy is a relaxing way to rebalance the body, Sidavanh says.

Montecito Concierge Medicine is located within Turner Medical Arts, which offers treatment for a wide range of health concerns for both men and women. Dr. Turner has assembled a team of health professionals in the practice, including Dr. Joseph Chang, who once owned Montecito Aesthetic Institute on Coast Village Road. Dr. Chang specializes in aesthetic facial injections including Botox and fillers, and is also a highly-regarded ocular plastic surgeon, performing eyelid surgery at his alternate site in Bakersfield. Dr. Michael Giuffrida, a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and liposuction specialist is also with the team, after building a successful practice on the East Coast. Dr. Giuffrida specializes in body sculpting and breast augmentation. Other providers include Caitlin Bozek, RN, who is an expert in

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“We are thrilled to be expanding Turner Medical Arts by welcoming Dr. Viglione and Montecito Concierge Medicine. It’s a great fit for the services we are already providing,” Dr. Turner said.

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Countywide Contest Recognizes Beautiful, Water Efficient Gardens

The 2021 WaterWise Garden Recognition Contest recognizes beautiful, water-efficient residential gardens throughout Santa Barbara County. The Santa Barbara County Water Agency and participating local water providers encouraged residents to apply for the contest and enter into the running for an agency award and the countywide grand prize. A winner from each of the participating water provider’s service areas received an engraved sandstone sign to display in their gardens.

This year’s winners from Montecito Water District were Susan and Howard Silver of Summerland. The Silvers relocated from New Jersey into their Summerland home in 2012, and set to work redesigning both home and yard.

With the help of their landscaper, they removed the brush that made up much of the yard, revitalized the fruit trees, and added drought tolerant plants to create a beautiful garden that would be appropriate for our semi-arid climate.

They credit the success of the transfor-

mation to their landscape contractor, as well as advice from Mike Clark, Water Conservation Specialist of Montecito Water District, who helped educate the Silvers on water-wise practices. The yard is watered by a drip irrigation system, with occasional hand watering for the fruit trees. Howard says he enjoys being able to eat home-grown fruit from the trees as well as walking through the garden each morning, when he takes photos of the flowers and sends them to friends around the country.

The winning gardens displayed a wide variety of themes, plant palettes, and high-efficiency irrigation methods.

These home gardens demonstrate that water-wise gardens can be lush and colorful, attract wildlife, and are low maintenance. Many winners replaced their original lawns and now enjoy the added benefit of a lower water bill.

The WaterWise Garden Recognition Contest is a timely way to recognize residents who are doing their part to be water-wise while maintaining an aesthetic garden.

Residents throughout Santa Barbara County can visit www.WaterWiseSB. org to learn about the Garden Contest winners and information on waterwise gardening, efficient irrigation, DIY videos, and more.

Local Businesses Burglarized

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating four recent burglaries at local businesses where the suspects forced entry overnight and stole items. The first incident was Friday, July 23, 2021 in the 5800block of Hollister Avenue at Old Town Coffee. A suspect smashed a window to gain entry, stole various items from inside the business, and fled prior to deputies’ arrival.

Three additional businesses were burglarized in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 25, 2021. South Coast

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Deli and Choi’s Market, in the 100block of South Patterson Avenue, were both victims of burglary where the front glass doors were smashed, items taken, and suspects fled prior to deputies’ arrival around 3 am.

Less than an hour later, at around 3:45 am, Pierre Lafond in the 500-block of San Ysidro Road in Montecito was burglarized with very similar circumstances, where suspects smashed the front glass doors, stole items, and fled the area prior to deputies’ arrival.

Sheriff’s deputies have taken reports for each of these cases and have forwarded them to detectives for follow-up. While detectives review surveillance video and other evidence, they are treating these investigations as separate incidents until they can be linked to the same suspects. Detectives would like to encourage anyone with information about these burglaries to call the Criminal Investigations Bureau at (805) 681-4150. You can also call the anonymous tip line at (805) 681-4171, or submit information online at sbsheriff.org/home/anonymous-tip.

On Coast Village Road, Mad Dogs & Englishmen Bike Shop is reporting the theft of a $7,500 specialized electric bike, which was stolen last Friday at 2 pm. “As a small business new to Montecito, this is a major blow to us,” said the owners of the shop, who said they encountered a similar situation at their store in Monterey earlier this year.

In that instance the bike was found within 48 hours. “We have always been so laid back about people demoing our bikes. Our shop manager has over 20 years in the industry and he is beating himself up for this happening on his watch,” the owners wrote in a social media post.

If you have any information, please contact Officer Harrison at the Santa Barbara Police Department at 805-8972465. The shop is located at 1080 Coast Village Road.

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